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so akin, except on yearly contracts, when half-yearly
ayments in advance will be required.
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i ecolid page, 15couts per line each insertion. broth.:
f sig inserted for less than $4.
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more than - tivellnes ; and 511 c ents for a notice of Civet
i nes or less.
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tree ; but all obituary notices will he charge 10 cm+
per line.
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iness Cards.
I 11. BATINIELD .Er.
Batchelder & Johnson,
‘l3qmaztouvrs of .Alonuments, Tombstones, Table
roph, colinteru, &c. (ill and see. Shop, We n at.,
opp,site ijk)%l iSdrY Wel/al-WM, Pa.—lnlY 3,18 w.
A. Redfield,
COHNEY AN) COUNSELLOn AT LAW.—CollOct
,,rw, pr , noptly atteutlod. to.—Blossburg,lioga coon•
t. • I'.•on'a., Apr. 1, 187'2-11m.
0: H. g6rEttour,
A ITOitBEY AT LAW, Tiygn, Pa. All business en
iLk,A.Al to hut care will eetzewe pTowpt utteutiou.-
1.0. I, 1871.
Geo. \V. I%lerriek, •
I'OP.NLY A.T LAW.—Well born, Va. OfliCe Ott
131'n:a Block:, Main street, second Boor,
11411 14010 Am rATon
Mitchell Cameron,
A r iogISTYB AT LAW, Claim ainl Insurance Agents.
in Converse & %+, nliatns brick block, over
Coil% erne k Oegood's store, Wellsboro, Pa.—Jan. 1,
William A. Stone,
roItNEY AT LAW, over C. B. Kelley's Dry Good
store, Wright St. Bailey's Block on Main street.
NrelkbOro, J 311,1, 1812.
Josiah Emery,
ATTORNEY A.T opposite Court Ilouse,
No I Panty e Block, Williamsport, Pa. All business
promptly attendAto.—Jau. I, 1e.12.
Strang,
ATTORNEY AT LAW A: 13.1i3TRICT ATTORNEY.—
gill
e . D. Niles, Esq., Wellsboro, Pa.-Jai. 1, '72
C. N. Dartt,
UENTNT.—ToCth made with the NEW IMPEOVEMENT.
\\u-b 41V(' better satisfaction then any thing else
ni (Mice in Wright Is; Bailey's Block. Wells-
Oct 16, 1571..
J. B. Niles,
A r tom:EY LAW.—Will attend promptly to bus
inooo otrto,tl t,, his care in the counties of Tioga
1 , 44u0r. oih4 a on the Avenue.—Welieboro, Pa.,
Jan.],
Jno. IV: Adams,
A t Itd:NEY Al IA \V, Mananeld, 'lioga county, Pa
prtmipty attended to.--Jatt. 1, 1872.
C. L. Peck,
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A I W.:. 1.1 AT L IW. And:dins prolaptly collected
r L.• ‘s ,C, t% B. tinuttt, linoxydle,7L'ioga Co:, Pa.
C. B. Kelly.
CroLgzery, China and Marisa ware, Table Cut
Plated Ware. Also Table and House Fur
holow; (foola.--W:ellsboro. Pa., Sept. /7, 1872,
Jno. W. Guernsey,
rwiLNEV AT LAW.—AII business entrusted to him
m be promptly Attled W.—Office tat door south
•,: Mia & m Parr's tore, Tioga, Tioga county, Pa.
lam I, H 72.
Armstrong Linn,
Arrtatsus AT LAW, Williamsport, Pa
Wu. 11 AInIsTRONO• I
SAMUEL LINN.
Win: B. Smith,
PENSION ATTORNEY, Aounty and Insurance Agent.
CemmualLatfous sent to the abate address will re
cure prompt attention. Taws moderate.—Knox
ville, Pa. Jan. 1, 1872.
Barnes Sr. Roy,
JOB PRINTERS.—AII kinds of Job Printing done on
short notice, and in the beet manner. 01:Becht Bow•
en k Cone's Mock, 2d. floor.--Jeu. 1, 1812.
S abinsville House.
Tioga Co , Fa.—Beau liro's. Proprietors
Ti/1 . 1 house has been thoroughly renovated and is
iv. , i ui good condition to aeinunidate the travelno
pubh: in a superior manner.—Jan. 1, 1873.
D. Bacon, M. D.,
PtaiktlNN AND SURGEON—May be found at his
Dail•., Ist door East of Miss Todd's—? Min street.
will attend promptly; to all calla.—Wallaboro, Pa.,
Lin. 1, 1812.
Seeley, Coats Se Co.,
BANKER:J. Ki oxville. trioga , Co.. ra.—Receive money
( t, dept,tit, discount notes, and Hell drafts on Now
I City. Collet Ilona promptly made.
tittvi.vv, Okada. V INV. CRANDALL,
llu 1, Ix;2. DA YID COATS, Knoxville
D. H. Belcher,
M kNl'r tCTITREIt and Dottier In Tin, Stoves, Copper
Shirt Iron Waro. Job work proniptly attended
i trot door below A. D. Eastman.—. March 11,
1 3 etroleum House,
0, 10 . Qloyr, PrivrietC2r.--600d ac
‘r both matt and 'beast. Charges rea
, qkable, and good ;Mention ON en t" gliests.
1311. 1, Pi 72.
W. W. Burley,
NIANUI'A ,- 11 , 1t1.1t 01. all et) les of light and heavy
Carria,es. I'm nage:3 kept coostdr.tly nu hand. All
Work wart:anted. Coen.u. CAMS and 13ufralf) Streets.
11. , 1 ilk. N. 1" 0r.1,.r4 left. althC 13? Helley,
\‘',ll I: It. Burley, Chatham, will reeeivc
--Wile 187:1.-1,11)0R.
M. L. Sticklin, Ag't.,
in enliiin , t art , of all whielt will to
I I,tttet than Ow lowl qt. Ile itoitea all to take
I af Lie goothl Itt , natt put% IntAing elf:any/ten,-
111111‘,..16 , 1).11 It's Wagon :3110p,
R. t Main Feb 25, I!7.1-1v.
M. Yale& Co.
manufacturing several brands of choice Cigars
NN 111 2s , II at pro..cs eammt but please
u4e Lunn; but the' bCst
Yara 'robaCCOs \Vu. ucako our owu
(hot rcasou call warrant 1.11101. we
If—, g1..11,r31 nssorthwut of good chewing ami
tt., ktit_t Slinfrs. eltsy th
t, t,,t .t r y. whol,
ati.l 1,4111.
fo-±.l •
Jahn A..ndersott,
r , I , EALEIC 1N IIAIIDWARE
" 01. k,t..‘,:t. Ti;liruniztgi,
". • 17 , v1, Imittil . nit , Dt..4, Carting.
1. `titi 110:4, ttllll- , NC . Turk. t Ilild Tttiolt
' ll Pl.`l. Wltii
Pqmp , —w,11 , 11 and iron—tln.lnst 'Afanufac
, It , ahse tlt Tin, awl Isheet-inn
111 Till .111.1 trim. .111 work warrafit
tit 1, 1-1;3
11 ELLSBOIOI Iltfl'EL,
ci)lt MAIN NT. A. THE 'AVENUE.
P.U.SPORO, PA
/B. B. HOLLIDAY, Proprietor.
11,14 1, ,t, 11, W e ll 10,,,d 4 ,- d, and Is in good condition
N a,. elite tlts trat'oliup , public. TII proprietor
!l"1` re no pains to make it a first-class house. All
b + • ,•ta:.•e. arry.o and depart from this Louse.
_froo
at dant con all trains. Bober and industrious tiost
' tu attendance_
Nhr,l, IS, 187.1.-U.
JUST Itl CEIVEII;
A VERY LARGE STOCK OF BEAVER, BROAD.
A cum', cASsOJERE, VESTINGS, AND TRIM
-3111 whieh I will soil very cheap FOR , CASE. 1,1
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11.,ct, beg aßiorttur,qa of Goods ever brought to
l i , boro, of various styles. Please call and lock
theta erex
Suits, Overcoats, and Repairing done with
, uglatch and as cheap as the cheapest
GEORGE WAGNER,
CraltOn Street.
Wellsboro. Pa.
JILL 118724 7
RAILWAY TIME TABLES.
Blogsburg & Coriiing & Tioga U. U.
Time Table N0..32.
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DEPART PEON 00ERTRO. ARRIVE AT DLOSEODILO. '
No. 1 800 a. m. No, 1 10 46 a. m.
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7 35 p. ra. 3 102,0 p. m.
220 p. m, 15..... 6 ' 25 p. 10.
DEPART TORII Btossvcract. • ARRIVE AT 0011HINO.
No .... 246 p, m. No. ..... 85p. mi
705 m..; 4. ......
Nq. 8 720 a. m. No. 8.... 11 as a. mi
A. H. GORTON, Sap't B. & 0. R. R.
L..H. SHATTIION, Supt Tioga R. R.
Corning, Cowanespue and Anirini
TAKES &ITEM MONDAY, MAY 26th. MS.
NORTH. &SOUTH.
18 6 4 STATIONS. I 3 15,
p.m. p.m. u.m
160 3 4019 15 Ar. Corning, Dep. 715 736 345
12,35 257 808 - Lawrenceville. 820 837 501
12 17 248 759 Dep. Dunning. 829 840.6 19
1212 244 755 •Lathrop, 883 860 011
a m. ,
11 47 233 746 Tioga Village, 842 8 59' 688
11 27 2 23 730 *Hammond, 852 909 656
30 *Hill's Creek,
11 07 2 13 726 _ Holliday, 902 919 6 12
10 55 2 07.4 18 Middlebury. 909 925 622
10 45 2 02' 7 12 Nilea Valley, 915 932 628
10 24 164 '1 03 Stokesdale, 9 22. 941 644
10 15 1 45,6 55 Dep. Welleboro, Ar. 033 950 656
1 27 *Round Top, 9 47
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1 1,2 *Summit, 10 07
12 50 Antrim, 10 311
*Flag Stations. A.ll. GORTON, Sopt.
F. A. 30111480 N
N. IN. GLASSMIRE & CO.,
WOULD resnectfully Inform the 'people of Wells
born and vicinity that they have opened a store
neat door to C. W. Sears'a Itoot and Shoo store, where
they intend to keep on baud a first-class stork of
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VD bp RR RR
P 1) DD RRRR
PU DD RR RR YY
DD DD RR RR YY
DD DD RR RR YY
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BOOTS AND SHOES,
HATS AND CAPS,
__Wood and Willow Ware,
T Al' D.W AR, E
We call your attention to our lino 'of atomics, as
wo intend to givo this our utmost care
SUGAR, Coffee A.
Ex. C.
6l Medium,
Best M. Prints .
Mosline,
Best Japan Tea,
" Gun Powder Tea . . 1.25
" Young Hyson " from 50tp1.00
Black Tea . 1.00
WE WILL HERE SAY
that wo intend to let NO PERSON OR PERSONS UN
DERSELL us on the above and many other articles
too numerous to mention.
r1"1i77420 VLSI ft
REMEMBER THE PLACE.
April 22, 1873-3 mos. N. M. OLASSMIRE & CO
General Insurance Agency,
Life, Pire, and Accidental.
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Alemania, of Cleveland. Ohio ) ,435.03<3.4.1
New York Life and Fire Ins. CO 21;000,000
Royal Ins. Co., of Liyerpool ........ ..... 10,515,501
Lancashire, of Maneheater, Capital,- 10,000,000
Ins. Co., of North America, Pa . $3,050,635 60
Franklin Fire,lna. Co. of Phila. Pa ' 2,087,452 26
Republic Ins. Co. of N. Y., Capital, $750,000
Niagara Fire Ins. Co. of N. Y ........1,000,000
Farmers Mut. Fire Ins. Co. York Pa ...... .. .909,889 15
Phcenix Mut. Life Ins. Co. of Hartford Ct.. 5,081,970 50
Penn's Cattle Ins. Co. of Pottsville 600,000 00
JIM. 1, 1877
Total
Insurance promptly effected by mail or otherwise,
on al] kinds of Property. All losses promptly adjusted
and paid at my Wilco.
All communications promptly attended to—Office on
Mill Street 2d door from Main st., Knoxville Pa.
WM. B. SMITH
Agent.
Jan. 1. 1873-U.
General Insurance Agency,
Jr: U. &J. D. CAMPBELL
A RE issuing policies in the following Companies
A
against firo and lightning in Tioge and Poter
counties :
QUEEN, ... ..Assets, $10,000,000.00
CONTINENT 4of New York, ...... —2,509,526.27
HANOVER, of New York 083,881.00
GERMAN AMERICAN, New York.. ...1,272,000.00
WYOMING, of Wilkesbarre, Pa 21908,42
WILLIAMSPORT; of Wm'sport 113,000.00
All business promptly attended to by mail or other
wise. Losses adjusted and paid at our office.
Nelson, Dee. 10, 1872-Iy.
LOOKS L OK
DRUGS, MEDICINES,
PATENT MEDICINES,
Paints, Oils, Glass, Putty,
Brusllds, Tr usse's, • Supporttfrs, (1d Surgi
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DOI:SE& CA T7'LE PC T 1 DERS,
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Liquors, Eicoteli Ales, Cigars, Tobacco, Saufl, kc., kc
P=EW
Groceries, Sugars, Teas,
CANNED AND DRIED FRUIT,
slim. Lead Powder and Cape, Lampe. Chinmeye
lips, Labitoe. &e. fie
BLANK & MISCELLANEOUS
All School Books in use, 'Envelopes. Stationery, Bill
and Cap. "Paper: Initial paper, tdemorandtuns, large
and small nirlionaries.l.epil paper, School Cards and
['inners, Ink. Writih Irluld. - Vhess and llaelierimmou
Boards. Picture 'Frames, Cords aild Tassels, Mirrors,
Albums, Paper Collars 'and Cuffs, Croquette, Base
Balls, parlor games, at wholesale and ['Will.
Wallets, port monies, combs, pins ,and needles,
scissors, shears; knives, violin striuks, bird cages.
A great variety of pipes, dells, inkstands, measure
tapes, ruleP,.
Fishing Tackle, test troutflies, lines, hooks,
Special attention pal to this line in the season.
TOILET AND A = I4CY ARTICLES.
ACiiNTS FOR A ERICAN STEAM SAFES.
VILLAGE LOTS ter sae in the central part of the Boro
March 23, '73-tf. HASTINGS Ar. COLES.
For Bale or .Dent.
TTI C
OM AND L corner of Pearl
,atrect and Av
enne. Also i gale, seven villag lota pear the
Academy. Apply t ELIN.ETI/108A/tD. .
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Grit 0 CLUMLEO,4II
CROCKERY. DRUGS. SC
WLieh they will sell Cheap for Cash
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KNOXVILLE., TIOGA CO., PA
ASSETS OVER *55,000,000.
Agssris oa Comvexma.
NELSOr, TIOGA CO., PA
HASTINGS & COLES
FOR
Artist's Goods in Great Variety
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NOTIONS.
baskets and rods
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L. P. Tar Mat. W. P. •DIGORit. J. W. VAN VAT-N.2I;IMM
TRUMAN & CO.,
New Firm, New Goods,
BOTTOM PRICES.
PRRIG& SUMMED
Groops
a.m. p.m. p.m.
FOREIGN & DOMESTIC,
afalics' Pros 6tobs,
ALAPACAS, POPLINS, CAM
BRIGS, FRENCH: JACON
ETS, (MG A.ll I DIES,
PEQUAS, VER
SAILES,
BLACK 4. COLOit'ED SILKS,
Beautiful Summer Shawls,
YANKEE IVOTIONS,
BOOTSgSHOES,
Ready-Made plothing,
FreSh Groceries,
Best White A Sugar, 12 1 1. cents
r MTTTTTTTTTTI"IT
at very law prices. We keep the beat 50 cent Tea in
A large
Opera IIlouse; Mock.
hiay 6, 1873
We have Shed the Shanty !
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$65,431,4M 91
1' L BALDWIN&CO
And now have but time to Bay 0 our Woods and
customers that we have good
BARGAINS
0 to'r Elegaul New SI Ore
11KSIRABLE GIIOIIS
Call and you will know how it is yonree iveb
Oct 15,1672
WELLSBORO, TIOGA CO., PA., TUESDAY, JUNE 17, , 1873.
NEW STORE, 1
A largo stock of
Ootifillitlui of
All styles, colors and pattorns,
-ALSO
HATS f CAPS,
and plenty of cloth to make more
d 1 largo and cholco stock of 1
WFT.TABOBO
Call and see us.
TRUAIAN A; CO
T/OGtL. PA
- FOR THEM
le filled fill: of
at the lowest prim,/ to t' round
T. L. BALDWIN & CO
The Guest.
lle ennui uubid; I know not whence,
This woudrouu guest, uukuctrut.Tiorei
All snout and uusbeil he came
Within my door.
lie gently Igeaie u,y, life-long pain,
lio charms the frequent tears away,
And all - my grief from mo begnifee-
And atilt will stay.
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Sweet thonghto arise and eager climb,
Like birda that sing, in upper air,
The song that close to Beaven'a high gate.?
Becomes a prayer.
Yet half I &Artie tender wiles;
0, tardy Love, too late delayed!
My coward heart shrinks back in doubt,
And hides, afraid,
And fain would trust, but questions etlll
.Too late delayed! Apo long forlorn I
Can night so darksoute break so soon
To such fair morn ?
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Not for pale brows And faded hair.
0, Love do thy red roses blow;
Take back thy crown, 1 weeping cry—
' Ile doth not go;
Hut lingers still and lingers yet,
And bears him in such winning %fee,
Such holy benedictions shine
In his dear eyes,
I can but trust, I can but list
The winged hopes that softly sing;
Canceled at last wino ancient wrong,
And Love IE king.
My Narrow Escape.
I never told anybody how very, rem pear
I was to death that night, just a year ago;
but as I can now look back and calmly re
call each thought, each word, each act, I
think I will writ,e4t down as a warning to
all who may find themselves cir
cumstanced, hoping with All my heart that
the number may be few.
In the first place, my name is Frederick
Putnam. I am, and have been for the last
ten years, the foreman and bookkeeper of
the large lumbering establishment of \Yin.
Winston & Co., and hope to be for another
decade, unless something, better turns up.
Mr.• Winston Is the resident partner • and
manager of the manufacturing part of the
business. The other members of the firm,
of which there are two, live in the city, at
the foot of the lake, and attend to the sales
of lumber, which wel3end them by vessels.
This is by far the largest share of what
the mill cuts, although the amount of our
sales directly from the 'dill to supply the
country west of us is quite large. .
Well, ono cold December evening just as
I was preparing for home I heard footsteps
on the creaking snow outside, and preSently
the office door flew open as though some one
in haste had given it a push, admitting a
tall, stout, wellAressed man with a small
traveling bag in one hand mind ti shawl over
ono arm.
I was alone, Mr. Winston having gone to
the house some half an hour before, locking
the safe, in which we kept our books and
papers, and taking the key with him, as
usual.
I had already cldsed the damper to the
stove, put on my overcoat, and was just in
the act of turning down the lamp—but of
course I waited.
"Gtood-evening, sir," said the man, bus
tling up to the stove and kicking the damp
er open with his right foot. Has Win
ston gone to the house?"
I answered that he had.
"When? I was afraid of it.'
lie drew out his watch—a ye y fine one? ,
I thought.
"I shall not have time to go up," he said;
"the train is due in fifteen minutes."
" Is there anything; I can do?" I asked.
" I wanted to leave some money with
Winston. 1 intended to stop in town a day
or two, but I have just got a dispatch' that
calls me home."
"What name, air?"
" Afiderson, of Andersonville."
I knew him then, thoughl had seen him
but once before. He had been one of our
best western customers. I say had been for
the reason'that during the past year his pay
ments had not been so prompt. In fact, he
was considerably behind, and Winston had
that very day told me to write. him and
"punch Lim up a little," as he expressed it.
The letter WC.. •1•,... Asa- alt,
myierront
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ott can leave the money with me, sir,
and I will give you a receipt. , '
He seemed to hesitate, which nettled me
somewhat. I have never blamed anybody
since, however.
kery.
"How much is my bill, he asked, eying
me sharply.
I answered promptly, for I had struck the
balance not more than half an hour before;
" Eleven thousand seven hundred and +
fifty dollars and twenty-three cents."
"Humph! less than I supposed. Write
out a receipt for that amount."
He left the' stove and came and looked
over rny'shoulder while I wrote.
"It is , all right, Mr. Putnam. I know
•ou now. You've been with Winston a
or% time. I can tell your signature any
where." He drew from an inside pocket a
large black wallet, very . round find full, and
counting out eleven different piles of bank
notes, he told me to run them over. It was
a short and easy task, for each pile contain
ed just ten one hundred „loner bills.
The balance was in fiv..s, tens, and twen
ties, and it took more time to count them;
but at last we got it, so that both were sat
isfied.
At this moment we heard the 'whistle for
the station.. Anderson sprung for his trav
eling bag, and giving me a hasty hand
shake, was off on the run.
I closed the door, and counted the money
again. Finding it all right, I wrapped a
piece of newspaper around it and slipped
it into my overcoat pocket.
I did ngt feel quite easy to have so much
money about me, but as Winston's house
was at least a mile distant, I concluded to
keep it until morning, wheti4-pould depo'sit
it in the bank.
I closed the damper again, drew on my
gloves, took the office key from the nail just
over the door, and stepped up to put out the
light. As I did so I saw a piece of paper
on the floor, which on picking it up I dis
covered was the receipt I wrote for Mr.,An
derson. Ile had dropped it in his hurry. I
put iCin my pocket, and thought no more
about it, only that I would mail it.to him,—
I would have done it then, but as the last
mail for that day had gone out on the train
which took Mr. Anderson, I could do it
just as well in the morning. Then, too, I
was in something 'of 'a hurry that night, for
I had an lappointment; and I may as well
state here that it was with a young lady
who, I hoped, would ?be my wife before
many months.
I hastened to my boarding place, ate my
supper, and then went over to Mr. Warner's,
wearing the overcoat with the money in it,
as I did not feel easy about leaving it in my
room. Carrie was at home, of course, as
she was expecting time, and leaving my coat
and hat iii the hall, I went into the parlor.
I do not think a repetition of our conver-
sation would be very interesting, so I will
pass it, merely remarking that nothing oc
curred to disturb me until I arose to take
my leave.
Carrie went into the entry for my coat
and liat, that 1 ntight put them on by the
warm tire, but lie came back with only my
hut._,
Why, Fred, you certainly did not yen
lure out on such a night as this without al
overcoat r'
"No coat!" 1 exclaimed, in a &Zed sor
of a way—for the thought of the atone}
Hashing upon me so suddenly had almos
stunned 1110. •
The next moment I tore past her like a
madman—as I was. The coat was gone!
Then I was unnerved. I grasped at the
stair rail, and caught it Just in time to sup
pint myself. Carrie came running out, her
face pale with alarm.
"Oh, Fred! are you sick? Let me call
mother and the doctor! You are as white
as a sheet!"
" No, no, Carrie!" I entreated. " There
I aw better now." '
And I was better. I was strong all at
once—desperately strong. And what bro't
about this change? That simple receipt
which I ‘ bad in my pocket. Anderson bad
nothing to shoal that the money had .been
paid; and was not my unaided word as
good as his?
I was foolish enough to believe that I
could brave it through; and I grew confi
dent and quite easy at once.
" There, Carrie, I am much better now.
The room was too warm, I guess. • So some
sneaking_tbief has dodged in and titolen my
coat? . Well r let it go. It was an old one,
and - now have a better , one.
"But was there nothing in the potkets?"
asked Carrie. -
It is (strange - how suspigious" guilt will
make us. I really 'thought that Carrie sus
.peeted me, and an angry reply was on the
end !of my tongue. I suppressed it, Imi . y l
ever, and uttered a falsehood instead.
Nothing ,of consequence, Carrie. A ,
;gopil,pair of gloves and some other trifling
notions."
"1 am 'glad it, is no worse; Fred. Now,
if you will wait just a moment, 1 will 'get
you one of father's coats to Wear home."
Thus equipped, I left her.
You may guess that my • sluinberA that
night were not very sound nor very refresh
ing. I never passed a more miserable night,.
and in the lumping my haggard looks were
the subject of remark.
"Why, Fred, you look as though you
had met a legion of ghostn last . night!" said
Winston. '`What is the matter?
"I had a bad night of it," I answered,
with a sickly smile.
"And you'll have another if you're not
careful. -You had better keep quiet to-day.
By-the-by, did you write to Anderson?"
I do not know how I managed to reply,
for the question set me to shivering from
head to foot, and I was so weak that I could
scarcely sit in my chair.
I must have answered in the affirmative,
however, for he said:
" Then we may look for something from
him to-morrow or next day."
Immediately after he added:
"Why, Fred, you'shiver as though you
had the ague, and you are sweating like a
butcher!, You're sick, man! Come jump,
into my cutter, and I'll take you home."
I was glad of the chance to get away, anld
reaching my room, I locked myself in. •
Winston sent a doctor around, but I re
fused to see him. .Then Winston came
himself, but I would not open the door.—
Then toylandlatly came, then some of my
fellow boarders; but I turned them all away.
Ali l those were terrible hours that I pass
ed, and the night coming on brought me no
relief. Can you not guess what I was med
itating? Coward that I was, 1 had at last
resolved upon self-destruction. •
- 1 commenced my preparations with the
same calmness and deliberation that I would
have used in the most common transaction.
I wrote a short explanation for Carrie,
:an
other for Mr. Winston, a third for my poor
mother; and I sealed them all. In a fourth
envelope I inclosed the receipt to Mr. An
derson.
All this accomplished, I went to my see-
Mary and took out the weapon of death.—
It was simply a revolver, small and insig
nificant enough in appearance, but ,all-suffl
cient.
Having examined the cartridges, to make
sure that there would be no failure, I sat
down before the fire to gather courage,
It may be interesting to know =that no
courage came to me; for the desperation—
the growing fear of life—l can in no wise
call by that name. It was, simply coward-,
ice. Yet, whatever you may term it, it was
all•sutficient for the time.' It nerved my
arm, and lifting the revolver, I placed its
cold, death•dealing muzzle against my fore
head.
In another second I should have been life•
less; but just as my finger began° to press
the trigger there came a tap on my door.
It startled me, and hastily concealing my
weapon, I called out that I could admit no
one. •
" Not pie, Fred?"
I knew Carrie's voice, and a yearning to
look on her loved face got the mastery of
me. Quietly slipping the tell-tale letters,:
which I had left on the table, i into my pock
et, I opened the door.
"Oh, Fred, you are real sick!" exclaimed
Carrie the moment the light, fell On my face.
" Why - did you not send for me? Aren't
you better?"
" Woh - se," I answered, huskily;
Carrie—good heaven's!"—
As I uttered this exclamation I started
back, and then forward; and then—l hardly
know what—for, hanging across carrie's
arm, was my overcoat I
Recovering from my astonishment, I
eafrkedpAtikrent MokadthPailiZAWS
seven hundred and ply dollars and twenty
three cents!
You have beard about, and perhaps seen,
the singular capers of a madman, or the
wild antics of those crazed with rum, or the
grotesque dancing of savages. Well, judg
ing from what Carrie told me, and from the
appearance of my apartment after it was
all over, I am led to believe that, were it
possible to concentrate the three above men
tioned species of demons into one, their ca
pering and dancing *ould appear tame in
comparison with mine that night.
But I cooled down after awhile, and just
in. time to save Carrie's bead a thump from
the chair or the washstand, which I had se
lected as partners in my crazy waltz.
Then I asked for an explanation.
the simplest thing imaginable. I do not
know why I had not thought of it before.
It was iimply a blunder of Carrie's father.
He had mistaken my coat for his own, and
worn it down town, never dreaming that a
small fortune was lying idly in the pocket..
Well, I didn't have the brain fever over
the affair, but I was the next door to it. I
madt.ta clean breast of the -whole thing ex-'
cepting my attempt, or rather my resolve,
at self-destruction. No one ever guessed
that part of it, and I tell it today for the
first time.
I sent Mr. Anderson his receipt, handed
over the money to Mr. Winston, and went
right on with my duties, a wiser and a bet
ter man, I hope. And to-morrow, GoA
willing, I shall lead Carrie to-the altar.—
Chimney Corner.
Your Mother-in-Law's Bedstead
It is a little singular why ;your wife's
mother will persist in sleeping on a cord
bedstead. But she does. You don't think
so much of this until you are called upon to
put it up, which event generally takes place
in the evening. The bedstead has been
cleaned in the afternoon, and having been
soaked through with hot water, is nowi ready
for potting up. Your wife holds - the lamp
and takes charge of the conversation. The
rope has been several, times under water in
the cleaning, and having swollen to a diam
eter greater than the holes in the rails, has
also got into a tit of coiling up into myste
rious and very intricate forms. You at:first
wonder at this, • but pretty soon Wonder
eereies to be a Virtue, and you then scold.—
The thread wh'elt had been wound around,
the end of the rope to facilitate its intro
duction into tb boles has . come oft; and you
I
have to roll it up again. Then, after you
have pulled it through eight holes, your wife
makes the discovery that you have started
wrong. The way that rope conies out of
those holes again makes your wife get closer
to the dirk. Then you try again, and get
it tangled in your legs. ,
• By this time you notice that this is the
smallest bedroom in the house, and you call
the attention of yonr i wife to the fact by ob
serving, " Why on earth don't you open the.
door? Do you want to smother MeY She
opens the door, and yOu strut again, and she
helps you with the lamp First she puts it
on the wrong side of the rail, then she moves
it so the heat comes up from.-the chimney
and scorches your nose, lust as you need
it the roost you lose sight of it entirely, and
tinning around, hind her examining the wall
to see how that man has put on rite white
wash. This excites you, and brings out the
perspiration in greater profusion, and you
declare you will kick the bedstead out doors
if she doesn't come'around With that light.
Then she comes around. Finally the cord
is laid all right, and you -proceed to execute
the very delicate job of tightening•it. ! The
lower ropes are first walked over. 'ThiS is
done by stepping on the first one - and • sink
•
hag it down, while hanging to the headboard
with the clutch of 'death, Then 'you step
with the other foot bn the next line, spring
that down, lose your balance, grab for the
headboard, miss it, and
.come down in a
heap. This is repeated more or less times
across the length of the bed, tthe only vari
ety being the new places you bruise. .
The top cords are tightened in - another
way, and you now proceed to' that. You
first put one foot on each rail,which spreads
you some, and as you do It the frightful
thought strikes'you that if 'one of those feet
should slip over nothing'-on 'earth would
prevent you from being split'tbrough to the
chin. Then you pull up the first rope until
your eyes see' to be on the Point of roll
ing out - of their sockets, 'add the blood in
your veins fairly groans; .andfon 'being con=
vinced that you„ - can't *pun' it any further
without • crippling yourself for life, you
catch hold'of the. next rope and draw that .
up,,and grunt. Then you move alongto
the next and pull that up, and grunt again:
Just as you have got to the middle and com
mence to think you aro about through, even
if your joints will neverset again as they.
did. before, you some way or other miss the
conneOlon ' and find that you have to go
back told dolt all over.
Hero you pause for a few minutes of orac•
ular ' refreshment, and then carefully and
slowly work your way back. You don't
jump down and walk back, because you are.
afraid to spread out in that way again. You
sort of waddle back, working the way inch
by inch, and with consummate patience.—
A man thus stretched across a bedstead
never becomes so excited as to lose his pres
ence of mind. It would be instant death
to him if -he did. Then lie goes over it
again, waddling and pulling, groaning and
grunting, while his wife moves around with
the lamp and tells him ib take it easy, and
not scratch the bedstead any more than he
can help, and that • she. can't tell which
creaks the most, he or the bedstead. And
after he gets through she has the audacity
to ask him to bring in the feather beds.
In the dead of night that man will steal
up to that room and look at that bedstead,
and swear.—Danbury Nem
General Canby's Wife.
The following tribute to General Canby'.
wife is published in the Indianapolis (Ind.,
Journal:
"More than thirtyyears ago, in the little
town of Crawfordsville, Indiana, there was
a merry, old-fashioned wedding, and Capt...
E. B. S. Canby and Louisa Hawkins were
married. Both were young, the bride was
beautiful, gifted with a reed-like grace of
movement, and . a rich arid exquisite/voice
that still haunts my ear with the echo of its
remembered music. The old people shook
their heads thai;o3ight, and said she was too
tender for a soldier's wife; it would not do
for her to brave the hardships and dangers
of the new countries. His calm, earnest
way of loving her wdn her whole soul, and
throughout the shifting changes of alt this
tract Of years she has gone with him, and
where he was there' has been her home—her
very home. Along the lonely frontier, at
desolate outposts, in Florida, in New Mexi
co, in California, even on the, rough edge of
the battle, that gentle, delicate woman has
hovered near her husband, and the banner
over her head was love.
"In the fruitless march to Utah under
Buchanan's administration her tent was
Pitched among the mountains where the
troops wintered. And I recollect a letter
written to kindred at home describing their
camp, and how gladly she ate the wild gar
lic as a preventive to scurvy, when it started
under the melting snows of a late-coming
spring,
" What the husband gained in moral bight
by the companionship of th 4 Christian wife,
how much-he owed to her, and we through
him, has not been recognized. His inherit
ed
tendency to gloom was charmed away, in
that serene and gracious presende. There
was healing •in the wings of the guaidian
spirit, and, thro4gh her ceaseless vigilince - ,-
whatever ,coulc) harrass and - annoy was
smoothed rom pefore him as by the unseen
agency ofl
faify l hands. Partly to this un
failing care is due that even poise, of brain
which kept his, judgment so finely balanced
that, as has been said of Washington in ac
tion, 'he nev r ailed to observe all that was
possible, a at the same time to bound his
aspiratio s by that which was possible.'
"Nothing could exceed the knightly ten
derness, the courtly deference. of his man
ner to her. Ile early learned—as sooner or
later all must learn—that 'a little love is
much better than fame; and those who
knew him merely as the silent, inflexible of
ficer, could not guess how the loveliness of
her life wa blended with his, and' filled it
with, an undersong of wonderful sweetness.
"It is pleasant in this age of individuality
and self-assertion to find a woman like her
of whom I write, wholms never considered
the question of rights, is content-to-vesther.
ambition in another, and he simply a wife.
.....- ......,-,,, iivm like. the lilies who toil not,
but has ever been an auti,,,, —....,,, ~.„...1.,„
mindful of others, forgetful of nothing but
self. Her household was directed with a
wise and elegant thrift, more abundant than
any _ waste; tin.d once when the General
laughingly cbmplained of being kept on
short allowance, she surprised him with a
sum saved from his pay sufficient for the
purchase of a farm in Missouri. This, too,
was forothers. In Richmond she made ur
enemies love her, and in New Orleans l said,
' I can hardly keep anything, th6re issticli
suffering about us.' How many she has
warmed and cheered and comforted ` - only
the recording angel has written.
" During their first married years her early
beauty Sprang up anew at their feet, and a
little girl's earcssing. , \schatter filled their
house with music; but the Divine friend of
children took th3•young child in His arms,
even as he took 1)16 child of old, and has
kept her safely hobsed in Heaven—safe from
sickness, from 'the battle, from the tempta
tion, from the weight of years. Immortal
ity would be a cheat if with the dust died
our affections.' When the everlasting doors
were lifted, and the hero, crowned and
anointed, went up to see the King in His
beauty, there was his little girl. Perhaps
I no more ft child,
' But a fair maiden in her Father's mansion.
Clothed with celestial grace.'
"This true husband and wife may yet have
their quiet evening together,) God's love
will take her to his side again, the sunset
will lie fair, and at evening tinije ' there shall
be light.
" I write of Mrs. Canby in the past, be
cause the light of her life i)gone out, and
she lies sorely smitten, ye ruing for rest
near the-sunny hill-slope t , which she is
r li
drawn by such strong and su the ties:
" This is Memorial Day, a d our soldiers'
graves are green and glorious. The spot
where her heart with her hero lies buried
" but—
It wa l s
is rich with perfume, heaped 'with blossoms
and verdure, and there with reverent hand
I lay this little leaf. Like Ophelia's rose
mwrv, 'lt's for remembrance.'
"May 80, 1873. 8. E. WALLACE:"
Thiers, Burke, and Sumner.-
The following comparison of three grey
orators, written by Dr. Shelton Mackenzie
appears in the Washington Sunday ehroni
cde :
"In February, 1871, Adolphe Tillers was
made President, of the French Republic by
a vote of the National Assembly. It can
not be truthfully denied that he was well
adapted, probably beet adapted, for that gr'eat
office. lie was nearly seventy-four years
old; he had no son in whose favor he might
have been likely to go in' for establishing
a new dynasty. , Ile was a great writer, an
astute politician, an experienced and liberal
statesman, a man ,of high personalcharac
ter, well and favorably regarded by foreign
governments, and, to crown all, (most un
fortunately, as it has turned out,) a very clo,
quent, as well n 8 a thoroughly well-informed
speaker. Of such a man in Ireland it wo'd
have been familiarly and flatteringly said,
He has the gift of the ,gab,' 'Folks who
possess that gift are generally too fond - of
parading it.
"There was the great Edmund Burke,
Who used to speak so much and so long,
though he also spoke very well, on whose
rising to address the House of-Commons,
honorable members, rather than listen to
the `linked sweetness long drawn out' of
his mellifluous brogue, would rush en masse
to 'Bellamy's, (the official restaurant of the
.
House,) the ,great but irrepressible
orator to spout to empty benches. Hence
Burke obtained, the parliamentary nickname
of The Dinner Bell.' Members hurried
out to avoid being bored by his long ha
rangues about everything and nothing. At
the risk of having my opinion challenged,
I am not afraid ofd saying, that in Parlia
ment Burke must 'have been a terrible bore.
•Of him it might be , said that, like. Hope, Le
perpetual Springs.' S fond of hearing his
otvn voice was - he, that I e would speak ppm
almost every subject, a d speak briefly up
on very few. In general learning and the
other attainments of the highly cultivated
publicist,, though net_
with his personal ex
perience in and observation of foreign coun
tries, Edmund Burke, of a century past, it
England,' Edmund Burke may have been
almost upon a level with our own brilliant
and sound Charles Sumner, but he wasted
himself by perpetual speech-making, where
as Charles 'Sumner properly. reserves his
great powers of thought and knowledge,
reason and expression; for great occasions.
- 4 ` When Burke arose in the Home, the
rush of members to the doors proved that
the title of ' the dinner bell' had been prop
eriybestowed. - When it is expected that
Sumner may speak in the Senate, the galle:,
ries are crowded - by, I may say,- thousands
of listeners. The corridors aro thronged;
and the floor of the Senate, chamber is
' thronged also. Sumner does not make WM
' self common by speech-Making, ' de omni
bus rebus,' but when he does speak it IS
with effect. 'What man living,. what enemy
---if, so noble s man has &Quailone enemy
—has gyer:said, ' Rather a du t
l , long-wind
ed speech! from Senator Sum err NOno,
because Senator Sumner is never dull. His
oratory does not come slowly `through the
filtering recesses of lore and of thought,'
but is an affluent and spontaneous fountain,'
ever clear, sparkling, and refreshing.
" "All this is episodal, though somewhat:
apropos of the oratory of M. Thiers. But
ere 1 return to the main subject let me ex 4
press a second opinion,•which may startle
some of my readers. It, is that we of the
present time are almost, ignorant of what
the eloquence, or rather the oratory, of Ed
mund Burke really was. Some one may
say, ' Have 'we not several volumes of
Burke's pUblished speeches to judge by?'—t
Yes, but' his published' arel not his spoken
speeches. A century ago, when Burke waS
in his prime, one of the mouthpieces of the,
Whig party, the discussions in the English
Parliament were so very wretchedly and
imperfectly reported that when a member
of either house made what he considered a
crack speech, he published it in a pamph---
let. Burke was always issuing these speech
pamphlets, and must have been a profitable
customer to the printer. His speeches, thus
given to the public, were not what he had
actually delivered. He composed orations,
based upon what he really said, and he coil ,
rectal these compositions over and ove
again, until he hed;polished them down iut
their present shape. I have been told till
more than once by aged persons who ha
heard Burke speak during the excitement of
the French Revolution, in 1789-1792, and
scarcely could recognize the spoken speech
in the printed pamphlet. It is the «whor,
not the orator, whom we meet' in the copi
ous Volumes called, ' Speeches of the Right
Hon. Edmund Burke.' lie was neither the
first nor the last of l3ritish orators who thus
manipultited their speeches. A friend of
mine who had a fancy for autograph col
lecting showed me Canning's famous speech
in which he said of the recognition of the
South American Republics, ' I called the
New World into existence to redress the ,
balance of the Old,' ' in which were bound
up with the pamphlet, as finally published, a
series of sixteen different proof sheets, so
covered with Canning's corrections and ad
ditions that, at last, the whole printed mat
ter had to be re-copied by a careful clerk in
the Foreign Office, and given as new " copy'
to the troubled compositors. In that same
collection', as I well remerhher, was also a
pamphlet speech by Williamilluskisson, an
early English free-trader, . and orce of the
most lumbering and heavy speakers I ever
heard, of which six successive ' proofs' and
' revises' had been made. Even Mr. Glad
stone considerably alters and recasts, when
he publishes them separately, his most suc
cessful parliamentary orations."
The Woman's Life Insurance Company.
IWith more or less of that mystery so dear
to the feminine heart, it is announced in va
rious qaarters that certain wealthy and, ex
cept in this connection, well known ladies
of New York, are about to organize on a
scale of magnificence only comparable Wirt
Saratoga - trunk fully equipped for if season
at the watering places, a mammoth life in
surance company, It is proposed to stirrt
on a large capital fully paid tip'; the stock
holders being exelusively female; the direct
ors, officers, medical examiners, and agents
likewlise to be female, and the insurance of
female lives to be made a specialty; altho'
if a member of the inferior sex shall insist
Upon taking a policy his application will not
be rejected because of his s xual misfor
tune.
The idea is a novel one, but lot impracti
cable. We see no reason why women can
not transact the business of life insurance
a., ii,ii .t 7 —e[,. -.eii, j - ha.cs vlr ego ..• vs.-1. -1.,1........,
it as the average president and director al
ready, and though what these latter do not
know is Aat the ladies will most need to
knw, they are quick to learn, and will soon
acquire it. As for agents, if the ladies will
only be discreet enough to choose good-look
ing ones, what a revolution they will make
in the business! The common taunt flung
at the life'solicitor now is his " cheek."—
But when that cheek shall be plump, and
fresh, and soft, and rosy, who will be unap
preciative enough to say there is too much
of it? What will become of those placards
that hang in so many business places say
ing, "No life insurance agents, wanted
here"? Down they must come at the ap
proach of the dainty damsel who 'represents
the Woman's Life Insurance Company.
It.fB a confounded bore to be talked at by
the hour by a man concerning sOlemn du
ties, rates of preinium, and all that sort of
thing; but when a pretty Woman - shall do
the talking it will be quite another thing.—
She can make the Carlisle tables as interest
ing as a dime novel. The susceptible bach
elor or the bereaved widower can't put her
off, as he does the masculine solicitor,' with
the plea that he "has no one dependent
upon him," for she will answer at ~oneg,
with an air so innocent and yet suggeStive,
I" Why donl you get Somebody, then?" Ink
the confusion incident tol the propounding
of such a conundrum that bachelor or wid
ower will be very likely teosay, " write - me
up." - ,
Bill it will never do to send the good
-1 tilting girls, to. insure tt c ladies. fhey
N ould get to mentally co nparing dresses,
complexions, ages, etc., and while outwardly
all would lie smiles 'and politeness, _each
would inwardly resolve that the other was
" dowdyish," or " brazen;" or a " painted
thing," or something else objectionable, and
the company would receive no addition to
its premium income. Better' employ men
for this purpose, or else a special detail of
scraggy, spectacled, and venerable females.
Will the new company advertise in the
insurance journals? Shall we have to puff
the officers and agents? Ilow would:this
sort of thing de? `
Mrs. ---, , the able and 'acemplished
president, is a lbeautiful widow, ova whose
blonde head Scarce twenty-live summers
have - lightly frOwn, and has hail a large and
instructive experience as a life underwriter.
She wears a delicate (size 1) gaiter, and has
a well turned ankle and rare executive abil
ity, wllich she exhibits in the discharge of
her
with
duties. Thoroughly familiar
with all the details of the grand business
system which She 4o well administers, she
disposes the gi'aceful drapery of her camel's
hair shawl stunt her superb shoulders in a
manner never 'ilirpasseil in the annals of life
insurance. A rich eivs , ,fp7rin silk dross,
without other iniortnnent than live flounces
around the slot t and $'..,000 worth of l'a-
lenciennes lace ppon the Allll5l and sleeves,
attests lier eNquisite taste and the financial
standing of the company. She carefully
superintends the investinellt of the coin pa- 1
ny's funds iulthe best •approved securities,
and wearAJnilY her own hair, which is abun
'dant and beautiful as the IreSSCS of Venus.
She has tit% rare faculty of fully control
ling, witliqut ever ollending, her large force
of subordinates, and *of making the most
perfect of toilettes without the aid of cos
metics ~yanci• adventitious aids to beauty.
We cat' but pteiliet for the company a fu
ture as brilliant as are the dark soulfuLe,yes
of its lovely president."
When the company ii fully organized and
in operation,•if an insurioule journalist shall
think that his paper: is not being patronized
as its merits deserve, he will prepare an ar
ticle speaking of " the Venerable president,
who for:the past forty years," , etc. ; the "able,
but skinny, vice president, who so adroitly
conceals the furrows made by long years of
devotion td 'business," etc.; the " painstak
ing and bard-working secretary, who is too
hOnest top - idthe assets of the company,
but pads tiler bosom instead," and send the
proof arrd ltO the othiie—if appreciation
or Lisle rnalistie merits' is not forthwith
shown ban order for a page "act," then
WIC know nothing of feminine human nit•
n
- lure.—T e Iferald, Chicago.
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Don't, inveo, all your money in lottery
tickets. Give some other man a chance for
a prize.
Don't imagine that the Lord will call a
first-class preacher to a church paying a sec
ond-class salary. lie doesn't treat his chil
dren so shabbily.
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USEFUL AND SUGGEOUVR,
Condoned •
Large orders for the above have re
this country from China and Japan, g u t ulVe
demand seems sometimes to exceed the abil
ity of our few factories teesupply. As one
of the. curiosities in the occasional cameo/
trade, brought about by steam navigates,
we observe an importation announced of
condensed milk into this country from /*e
land. • This lot come first across the Athut
tie, crosses our continent, and thence aoroes
the Pacific to Chins, to fill ap an ordf.r.-*—
This country ought to supply enough lkilk
for our own consumption, and the rest of
the world, if wanted.
jA correspondent sends the above aYp
Which, he wys, appeared recently in a lewd
paper without eledit, and he desires to - kuotir '
whether the statement- is truo, and if so,
" Wihether condensed milk maitufactere
does not offer a more profitable line 6r dairy
inolian butter or cheese ?"
We have no reliable information in regard
to any resent orders for condensed milk
from China or Japan. There vis a rumor,
about a year ago, of a consideiqfble demand
for condensed milk, in Chin; and .that a
large quantity had lien ordered from the -
American factories, belt we have 'Been no .
statement coming directly, from the manu
facturers or from those engaged, in i the•sale
of this article to the effect that Ru ed orders
have been received.
_slt was am:maimed re
cently, in some of the New York daily pa
pers, that condensed milk of English man
ufacture
was in the New York market, and
was offered in competition with that - from
the American factories. The price waanot
stated, and we hear of no redaction In the
rates for the American' product. It is un
fortunate that items like that at the head of
this article should not be credited to the
proper source, since it prevents persons
from referring 'to the author of such state
ments and obtaining full information thereof.
There is nothing, irnprobable,however,in the
statement that conderised-rnilk has been or
dered from China and Japan. It is manu
factured and put up so as to keep for long•
periods without deterioration, and can be
safely shipped to those countries. Indeed,
it is largely used for ship stores, and Is found
to keep sound during long voyages to differ
ent parts of the world. When we consid
er the scarcity of milk in China and Japan
on account of the high cost of keeping an
imals to supply this fluid; and again, that
milk put up in a condensed form is peculi
arly well suited to the wants and Materiel
the people of these countries, we might reel
soaably suppose that a large trade in the ar
ticle could be established, even if it had not
already been inaugurated{{
Condensed milk , as now manufactured
and sold, yields by far more profit than can
be realized from a like quantity of milk
when made into butter or cheese. There iti
no branch of dairying that yields so large
returns tie this, and we have 'no doubt the
business 'Oil 1, in tine, be largely extended.
Some difficulties, however, are now pa the
way of those who desireto enter upon its
ImanufactureJ In, the fir*. place, the ma- .
ebinery required to fit upl r a condensing ea
tablishment is expensive. Then there is a
scarcity of skilled operatives, since the fac--
tories-in operation, "having a good thing,"
do not care to impart their knowledge to
others, or allow competent managers to en
gage with new parties. The present !eate
ries have a mutual interest in sales and are
combined together, and hence any new par
ties in the business 'must make their own
way in the markets as hest they can. We
should be glad to see more maaufactories
and a much larger consumption og condone
.kd milk than now obtains; bui )thiere are
toine risks to be considered by thqsb
dosing to enter upon the business, as will be
een from the points we have enumerated.—
Rupal New Yorker.
Stirring the soil during the growing sea
son cannot be done too often, provided it is
not wet enough to pack. As an antidote to
droughts it is unrivaled. A man who can
stir the soil every day about his pleas and
tref.R. o,ln viri 11 ti I Is• (1067 al drought. The
operation seems, to create moisture * or, at
least to attract itl both from the subsbil and
atmosphere. The weeds of course hbve 110
chance under such a system, and the mois
ture they would require and take goes to a
purpose "where it will do most good."—
Horse culture is the cheapest mode, but in
gardens too small for horse culture, hand
culture must be depended on. The differ
ence in ellect between frequent and occa
sional stirring will astonish those who have
not before observed it. An, instance was
in print some time ago which will illustratb
it, though, as_ a fact, it may be mythical.
Two neighbors with suiell patches of corn
got up a friendly rivalry as to which should
grew the most per acre, and put up a small
wager. One of them determining to /cave
nothing undone in the way of culture and
weed fighting, hoed his patch once a week
regularly. Ile was, after a little while, a
good deal surpri4ed to notice that his corn
was falling behind, although he never saw
his neighbor at work. The latter now, and
naturally enough, asked the fprmer "how
he did it," volunteering the statement at the
same time that .he "hoed his corn every
week until it had tasseled out." The success- ~
ful growpf replied: " I hoed mine every'
Morningl. before you got out of doors l"--1',
There AthJ, / further need of explanation:
The man •ho has plenty
. of muscle and
time, andl 'I the or no money to expend on
fertiliAers, N ill-End that frequent stirrin of
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the soil, will go a long way to supply the
absence of fertilizers. In fact, culture with
out manure is worth much more than ma, ,
nurc without culture. When both can be
directly applied it is advisable,•but when a
choice must be made; I shall always choose
Culture.—N. Y. (Avner.
Take a strong rope, and fasten it to a
beam overhead ; to the lower end of the rope
attach a stick three ,feet long, convenient to
grasp. with the hands. The rope should be
fastened. to the center of the stick; which
should bang six or eight inches above the
head Let a person grasp the stick with the
hands two or three feet apart and swing
very moderately at first—perhaps only bear
the weight, if very weak—and gradtially in
crease, as the muscles gain strength from the
exercise, unlit it may be used from three to
live times daily. The connection -of the
arms with the hody, with the exception of
the clavicle with the breast-bo u e, being a
nuiscular attachment to the ribs,' the effect
of this exercise is to elevate the ribs atud en
large the chest; and as nature allows no'
vacuum, the lungs expand to fill the cavity,'
increasing the .volume of air, the natural
purifier of Iblood, and 'Preventing the con
gest hie or the deposit of tuberenlous matter.
We have prescribed the above for all eases
of hemoriliage of the lungs and threatened
consumption for thirty-live years, and have
been able ao increase the measure of the
trout two to, four_ inches within a few
' months, and with good resplts. But espec
ially as a preventive we would recommend
this exercise. Let those who love to live
cultivate a well-formed,' capacious chest.—
The student, the merchant, the sedentary,
the 'yeting of both sexes—ay, all—should
have a swing on which to stretch themselves
daily. We are cerlain.that if this were to
be practiced by the rising generation in a.
dress allowing a free and full development
of the body, many would' be saved from
consamptlon. Independently of its benefi
cial results, the exercise is an exceedingly
pleasant one, end as the apparatus e 0.09-
very little, therirfieed be no difficulty about
any one (mim i ng ' i t who to. —Dto
Lewis, ift To-Day.
ADi Ew, WA Y OBTAINING FLoutt.—A
revolution is likely soon to take place in the
process of rlour•nutking. The grain is crush
ell ily numerous little trip-hammers, attach
e,' ic. the proper machinery, to produce the
rrsult desired.. The new machinery is very
cheap, does up its work in a thorough man
uPr. The !lour produced, it said to baler
superior to that obtained by grinding. A.
pounding mill, costing $lOOO, will ,prodUed
as much limir every day as an old-fashioned
mill costing fssooo. The new mill is very
\\,lien a hammer is out of order,
it can be replaced for a few cents. For four
thousand years millers lntve produced flour
by grinding , the grain with • stories. The
new idea gives a new departure. ' What te•
sults it will produce in this country remain
to be seen. -
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Stirring the Soil
Expanding the Chest,