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THE IJ0TK1NE JUTII.
BY ADELINE 3. WrKi.
HO P E SSOR
Botkine, of the
University of
California, was
sitting on bin
front eteps at
Berkeley in the
morning of n
Hultry July
tlay. He was
tlelightetlly
watcliinp: the
efforts of his pet
. L toad to capture
a very large
angleworm, rind his enjoyment was
enhanced Vy the fact that his beauti
ful German wife, who usually declined
to interest herself in auything which
she even wuspected of a connection
with science, was heated beside him,
giving eager little pressures to his
hand and uttering a pleased exclama
tion, in her pretty foreign accent,
whenever the toad made an extra
effort.
The fact was that she, while cutting
roses, had been the one to see the be
ginning of the contest, and felt the
proper pride of a discoverer. The
toad had been sitting still, looking its
if carved by a Japanese artist, and
giving no sign that it saw anything.
The worm gave a little wriggle as it
began to come out of the ground, when,
quick as a Hash, the toad made a leap
and seized the end of the worm in its
mouth.
Then began a tug-of-war. Every
time that the toad gave a pull, the
worm drew back. But the toad was
not to be discouraged. It jerked and
jerked until it fairly stood on its hind
legs. Still, it could not dislodge the
worm.
At this interesting point a train
whistled.
"Why, Selma !" said the professor,
"there is the train already. I had
quite forgotten that I must go the city
to-day. Where is my hat?"'
"Do wait an instant, dear; just see
what that toad is doing," she ans
wered, holding him back.
lie glanced down and saw the toad
twisting its leg about until the worm
was wrapped twice around it, then the
toad gave a hop, and out came the
worm.
This Lad been too fascinating a
spectacle to the unwary professor,
lie dashed into the house and back
again, kissed his wife, and, with a
regretful glance at her rippling hair,
and soft blue eyes, started off.
Sud lenly he rushed back.
"Why, dear," he cried, "I forgot to
tell vou that that Mr. Smith, the Ca
nadian, who wrote
bacteria, will be here
to stay a day or two.
the paper on
this afternoon
He may
come i
before I am back.
She clasped her hands in mock
despair. "But what shall I do with
him?" she wailed; "you know lean
not talk science and pollywogs !"
"Oh, don't, be alarmed. He isn't
so very dried up. Just let him have a
good soaking in a bath-tub. Then he
will come out perfectly human and
happy. He's an Englishman, you
know," and the professor, with a
laughing glance at his little wife's rue
ful expression, threw dignity and his
coat-tails to the winds as he madly ran
down the street, "looking lik- a great
black bird of prey," as Mrs. Botkine
laughingly remarked to herself.
But she grew sober as she thought
how ruthlessly science and scientists
seemed to dog her unwilling footsteps.
Her husband certainly loved her, but
he had a way of becoming utterly
absorbed in his studies, and then burst
ing into her reflections with remarks
which sounded positively ghoulish.
Ho had appeared only yesterday in her
own private sanctum carrying a "hor
rid suake" by the tail, and, although
ho had not yet reached the pitch of
Professor Agassiz who was said to
have consigned infant serpents, for
safe-keeping over night, to his wife's
boots she did not know where his en
thusiasm might lead.
"I'm half afraid to go to sleep," she
had roguishly said to him one night.
"I'm afraid that your deepest interest
even in me is only scientitic, and I be
lieve you are capable of cutting me
open to see what queer thing there is
in my heart that I love such a bookish
old bear with."
"Now here was this Canadian com
ing ! And how was she to be properly
interested in his old bacteria and not
disgrace her husband by betraying her
ignorance on the subject?" she asked
herself.
Manifestly, he must take a bath, and
everything possible must be done to
make that bath-room attractive, so that
he should stay there as long as possi
ble. She went upstairs, and with her
own dimpled hands get down a new
cake of perfumed soap. Sho eyed it
critically. Perhaps his severe scien
tific mind would be disgusted with
euch effeminate Inxury. Perhaps
who knew? he might discover even
in it the presence of bacteria ! She
had heard it said that a man with a
theory finds examples of its truth in
everything about him. Never mind!
Sho would place beside it a cake of
white castiic and ono of tar soap.
Then, whatever his tasteF, he must be
pleased. She put the alcohol and a
cologne bottle within easy reach ; got
out smooth, and rough towels and a
bath-blanket ; saw vhat the shower
bath worked ; and with a sigh of relief,
went down 6tairs to impress the cook
that during the entire afternoon there
must be plenty of hot water in the
boiler.
Suddenly e happy though stmck
her ; she w?nt into her husband's stu dy
ani brought out every book on bac
teriology that she could find. These
the ranged on a shelf at the foot of
the bath-tub. Standing out a little
leyonl the others, as if but just
shove I in, was Mr. Smith's own pam
phlet on "Bacteria." She ras sure
of the vanity of authors. He would
at least take this down to see if any
passages .were marked, and might be
lured into the perusal of some other
book 3.
Mrs. Botkine pinned on tbe wall
some colored illustrations of various
forms of bacteria, and then surveyed
the effect with the calm satisfaction of
a general who foresees the success of
his manoeuvres. She nighed regret
fully that she could not bring herself
to introduce into the room a few sam
ples of the "germ culture" that her
husband wa carrying on, but she felt
that she must draw tte line at living
germs.
She smiled again. To be sure, Mr.
Smith might think her husband rather
eccentric in pursuing his studies in
this room, but he would certainly feel
that he had found a congenial spirit
in a man who could not tear himself
away from his beloved bacteria even
in his bath.
She had done all she could. With
this virtuous feeling she was able to
go about her occupations for the day,
and in the afternoon even banished
the thought of her expected guest
enough to take a quiet nap.
She was awakened by a knock at her
door, and the maid handed her a card
bearing the seemingly innocent in
scription, "Mr. Worthingtou Smith."
Sho was filled with a nervous fear,
and her heart beat fast as she walked
down the stairs. She lingered outside
the drawing-room as long as she dared,
and then, putting her trust in the
bath-room, walked in and -greeted her
visitor with a smile of timid welcome.
He did not look at all alarming.
She was surprised to see that he was
young, darkly haudsome, and dressed
with more regard to fashion than the
scientific mind generally deigns to be
stow. He saw her timid air and blonde
beauty with evident admiration.
After the first polite commonplaces,
Mr. Smith smilingly observed "Pro
fessor Botkine's recent researches
have been of such interest to scien
rific men that they must lay him open
to a great deal of persecution from in
quiring admirers, but "
"Oh, not at all," she answered,
rather incoherently; "or, rather, I
should say, he likes to lie persecuted
that is" (with some confusion) "he
will be delighted to find you here when
he returns. In the meantime, I hope
that you will let me look after you."
Mr. Smith thought that ho should
like nothing better, but contented
himself with remarking :
"Thank you, very much. Perhaps
you would be so kind as to explain to
inc a few thiug3 I should like to know
about Professor Botkine's theories on
bacteria."
He was surprised to see a deep flush
and a look of distress come over her
face, and, before she could answer, he
hastened to add : "But I fear that I
am trespassing on your time. Pray,
do not let me incommode you. I have
some uncut pamphlets in my satchel
here, and will look them over as I
wait," and he looked down embar
rassed. A furtive feeling of relief crept for
a moment into her eyes. Then the
thought that she could not be guilty
of ruch inhospitality as leaving her
guest to shift for himself forced itself
upon her. But here he was, plunging
into science the very first thing and
turning shy besides. Oh, she must
send him off to that bath ! It seemed
rather awkward, but she nerved her
self to the effort.
"No, Mr. Smith," she said, gayly,
' 'I am sure that I could not tell you
anything on the subject, and I can
not think of leaving you here alone.
You must let me make you comfort
able. I know that after your journey
you would like a bath."
He looked amazed and then em
barrassed. "Thank you, very much, Mrs. Bot
kine," he stammered, "but I do not
care at all for a bath. I shall do very
well here, and "
"No, no!" she said, nervously; "I
Snow that you are only afraid that
there is no hot water on such a warm
day, and you do not wish to give
trouble."
He put out his hand and tried to in
terrupt her, but sho shook her head
and went on rapidly :
"It is all ready. Everything is in
the bath room, and I will ring for
James to show you up."
Ho looked thunderstruck at her in
sistence. "But, I assure yon, Mrs. Botkine,"
he exclaimed, "it is not at all worth
while. I"
"Not another word, it yon please,
Mr. Smith. You will really annoy
me if you refuse."
She thought to herself that he little
knew how more than annoyed sie wa
at the thought of his possible ques
tions. As the man-servant appeared,
she said :
"James, take this gentleman's
satchel to the guest chamber and show
him to the bath-room."
Mr. Smith endeavored to hang back
e.nd say something, but Mrs. Botkine
smilingly waved her hand toward the j
stairs and walked into another room.
She had looked alternately vexed and
triumphant.
As ho followed James, Mr. Smith
remarked to himself that before this
experience he would have vowed that
she was too pretty to be eccentric.
He had no wish to bathe, but fearing
to vex her, meekly proceeded to per
form his ablntjvns.
She, meantime, was vastly relieved.
She smiled to herself at the thought
of how unwilling he had seemed to
give tbo slightest trouble.
"I suppose he thought we Ameri
cans never had any decent facilities
for a bath," she reflected. Then:
"Ho really is remarkably good-look-iag,
for a scientist. If I had not
known what he was, I should have
thought he was just a nice young fel
low and rashly tried to get on with
him. Oh, if George had not tcld me
in time !" She shuddered as she
thought of her eecape.
'I suppose he will be dried-up look
ing before long. He is a -whited-ser
pulchre kind of man now. I could
not see the slightest sign of baldnes3
in him, but his seething intellect is
bound to cook his hair off in a few
years. Even George is a wee bit
bald. But how delightful that Mr.
Smith did not fathom my ignorance."
She was so elated that she went to
the piano and sang for a half-hour.
She was startled by hearing some
one come rashing into the room be
hind her. She wheeled on the stool
and encountered tho gaze of Mr.
Smith, who stood before her, looking
decidedly uneasy.
"I beg pardon for interrupting you,
Mrs. Bodkine," he said; "but I wish
to thank you for your kindness and to
make my adieux.'
"Why, Mr. Smith" she began,
but he waved his hand apologetically
and confined :
"I am very sorry not to hare found
Professor Botkine, but perhaps 1 can
come again. There is just time for mo
to catch the five o'clock train. "
It was her turn to be astonished.
She opened her lips to Bpeak, but ho
went on, nervously :
"Pray forgive my leaving yon so
abruptly. Thank you very much.
Good afternoon," and, bowing x,ro"
foundly, he was gone.
For a moment she felt stunned.
Then a flood of questions poured
through her mind. Was the man in
sane? Or what had she done to offend
him? What would her husband say?
What was there in science to turn an
apparently "nice" young man into
such a distraught savage?
"Ah! recommend me to a plain,
commonplace man- who has not bacilli
on the brain I" she sighed.
The rest of the day seemed endless,
but at last she descried Professor
Botkine, and with him a rather desic
cated and "dug-up"-looking man.
"Oh, dear!" she moaned; "there is
another scientist, I know to look at
him. What will he do, I wonder?
Dissect my cat, or say that he cannot
dine with us because he never eats
anything but bacteria?"
"Here we are at last," said the pro
fessor; "I found our frien I on tho
train. He had mistaken the traiu and
gone to Alameda. Mr. Smith, let me
present you to Mrs. Botkine."
She welcomed her guest cordially,
but the minute she was alone with her
husband, she seized him by the lapels
of his coat.
"What joke have you been playing
on me?" she demanded; "who is this
Mr. Smith?"
The professor looked astonished.
"Why, my dear, there is no joke.
This is the Mr. Smith that I told you
I was expecting this afternoon. What
is the matter?"
"Matter!" she cried; "who is tho
Mr. Smith that came here this after
noon with a satchel, and asked about
your theories?"
"Why, we met him at the station.
He had a few specimens to show me.
He is the son of my friend, Commo
dore Smith, of San Francisco. He
had just run over for a short call."
"A short call!" she echoed again ;
"what will he think of me? I sent him
upstairs to take that bath!" Argonaut.
SCIENTIFIC AM) INDUSTRIAL.
The proposed Hoboken (N. J.)
Bridge will have a single span of 5850
feet the longest in the world.
The greatest depth recorded of
Lake Michigan is 870 feet, or about
one-sixth of a mile. The mean depth
is about 325 feet, or one-sixteenth of
a mile.
The flea is covered with armored
plates very hard and overlapping each
other. Each is set with spikes, and
bends in conformity with the move
ments of the body.
The largest engine is at Priedens
ville, Penn. ; its driving wheels are
thirty-five feet in diameter, the cyl
inder is 110 inches, and it raises 17,
500 gallons of water per minute.
A new process of rain making was
recently brought before the Academie
des Sciences, Paris, by M. Baudoin.
His theory is that electricity main
tains the water in clouds in a state of
small drops, and that if the electricity
be discharged the water will come
down.
An instrument has been invented
for sounding the depths of the sea
without using a lead line. A sinker
is dropped containing a cartridge,
which explodes on touching the bot
tom ; the report is registered in a
microphone apparatus and the depth
reckoned by the time at which the ex
plosion occurred.
The air brakes on railroads are being
built with a view to their use on trains
of 100 cars. The plant on each train
is being built so that it can be used in
such a way as to bring the speed down
from eighty to thirty miles per hour
within five seconds. Great power has
to be used, and every part of the
apparatus has to be perfect to stand
the strain.
Dr. Hughes, of Meriden, has re
ceived a letter from R. W. Sawyer, of
Nassau, New Providence, one of the
Bahama Islands, telling of the finding
of a pink pearl in a conch shell there
that is the finest ever brought to
light. This pearl is nearly as large as
a pigeon's egg F.nd of the same shape,
having no flaw or blemish, and of per
fect color and marking. It was sold
to the local agent of a Paris house for
over $2000, the largest price, it is
believed, received for a pearl at the
Nassau conch fisheries.
At the recent meet ing of the chemical
section of the British Association for
the Advancement of Science the arti
ficiai diamonds that have been made
by M. Moissans, of Paris, were ex
hibited and awakened much interest.
These, as yet, are of hardly sufficient
size to be marketable, but there ap
pears to be no longer doubt that this
and the cost are but questions of
technical detail, and that another de
cade at most will suffice to reduce
diamonds to the vulgar level of the
amethyst or the Bhine stone.
Game is increasing in "southeast
Missouri, although the forest area is
decreasing every year. Panthers are
common in the counties bordering the
Mississippi, and a large black beas
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was seen no iar aoove airo recenuy.
REV. DR. TALMA.GE.
THE BROOKIiYX DIVIXK'S SUN
DAY SKRMON.
Subject: "Shortened Lives.'
Text : "The rihltout in Men hotj Vom
the evil in cotmp. Isaiah lvii., i.
We have written for the last time at the
haJ of our letters and business documents
the figures 1893. With this day clows the
year. In January last we celebrate! Its
birth. To-day we attend its obsequies. An
other twolve months have been out out of
our earthly continuance, and it is a time
for absorbing reflection.
We all spend much time in paneeyric of '
longevity. We consider it a rnat thing to
live to be an oetogenirian. If any one dies
in youth, we say, "Whit a pity!' Dr.
Muhlenberg in old age said that the hymn
written In early life by his own hand no
more expressed his sentiment when it said
I would not Hve alwar.
I one be pleasantly eiren instanced, he
nevrr wiints to go. William Cullen Bryant,
the great poet, at eighty-two years of age,
stao ling in my house in a festal group read
ing "Thanatopsts" without spectacles, was
just as anxious to live as when at eighteen
years, of age he Wrote the immortal threnody.
Cato feared at eighty years of age that he
would not live to learn Greek. Monaldesco
at 115 years, writing the history of his time,
feared a collapse. Theophrastus writing a
book at ninety years of age was anxious to
live to complete it. Tburlow Weed at about
eighty-six ywars of age found life as great a
desirability as when he snuffed out his first
politician.
Albert Barnes, so well prepared for the
next World, at seventy said he would rather
stay here. So it is all the way down. I sup
pose that the last time Methuselah was out
of doors in a storm he was afraid Of getting
his feet wet lest it shorten his days. Indeed
T some time ago preached a sermon on the
blessings of longevity, but in this, the last
ln of 1893, and when many are filled with
sadness at tbe thought that another chapter
of their life is closing, and that thevhave
3fi5 days less to live, I propose to preach to
you about the advantages of an abbreviated
earthly existence.
If I were an agnostic, I would say a man
is blessed in proportion to the nnmlier of
years ho can stay on literra flrma," because
after that lie falls off the docks, and if he Is
ever picked out of the depths it is only to be
set up in some morgue of the universe to see
if anybody will claim him. If I thought God
made mau only to last forty or fifty or 100
years, and then ho was to go into annihila
tion, I would say his chief business ought to
be to keep alive and even in good weather to
be very cautious, and to carry an umbrella
and take overshoes and life preservers and
bronze armor and weapons of defense) lest he
fall offiDto nothingness and obliteration.
But, my friends, you are not agnostics.
You believo in immortality and the eternal
residence of the righteous in heaven, and
therefore I first remark tnat an abbreviated
earthly existence is to be desired, and is a
blessing because it makes one's life work
very compact.
Some men go to business at 7 o'ciooK in
tho morning and return at 7 in the evening.
Others go at 8 o'clock and return at 12.
Others go at 10 and return at 4. I have
friends who are ten hours a day in business,
others who are five hours, others who are
one hour. They all do their work well
they do their entire work, and then they re
turn. Which position do you think the
most desirable? You say, other things being
equal, the man who is the shortest time de
tained in business and who can return home
the quickest is the most blessed.
Now, my friends, why not carry that good
sense into the subject ef transference from
this world? If a person die in childhood, he
gets through his work at 9 o'clock in tho
morning. If he die at forty-live years of age,
he gets through his work at 12 o'clock noon.
If ho die at seventy years of age, ho gets
through his work at 5 o'clock in the after
noon. If ho die at ninety, he has to toil all
the way on up to 11 o'clock at night. The
sooner we get throu our work the better.
The harvest all in barrack orbarn, the farmer
does not sit down in the stubble field, but,
shouldering his scythe and taking his pitcher
from under a tree, he makes a straight line
for the old homestead. All we want to be
anxious about is to get our work done and
well done ; the quicker the better.
Again, there is ablessinginan abbreviated
earthly existence in the fact that moral dis
aster might come upon the man if he tarried
longer. A man who had been prominent in
churches, and who had been admired for his
generosity and kindness everywhere, for for
gery was sent to State prison for fifteen years.
Twenty years before there wa3 no more prob
ability of that man's committing a commercial
dishonesty than that you will commit com
mercial dishonesty. The number of men who
fall into ruin between fifty and seventy years
of age is simply appalling. If they had died
thirty years before, it would have been better
for them and better for their families. The
shorter the voyage the less chance for a cy
clone. There is a wrong theory abroad that if
one's youth be right, his old age will be
right. You might as well say there is noth
ing wanting for a ship's safety except to get
it fully launched on the Atlantic Osean. I
have sometimes asked those who were school
mates or college mates of some great de
frauder : 'Vhat kind of a boy was he?
What kind of a young man was he?" and
they have said . "Why, he was a splendid
fellow. I had no idea he could ever go into
euch an outrage." The fact is the great
temptation of life sometimes comes far on in
midlife or in old age.
The flvat time I crossed the Atlantic O jean
It was as smooth as a millpond, and I
thought the sea captains and voyagers had
slandered the old ocean, and I wrote home
an essay for a magazine on "The Smile of
the Sea," but I never afterward could have
written that thing, for before we got home
we got a terrible shaking up. The first voy
age of life may be very smooth ; the last may
be a eurocly;on Many who start life in
great prosperity do not end it ia prosperity.
The great pressure of temptation comes
sometimes in this direction : At about forty
five vears of age a man's nervous system
changes, and some one tells him he must
take stimulants to keep himself up until the
stimulants keep him down, or a man has
been going along for thirty or forty years in
unsuccessful business, and here is an open
ing where by one dishonored action he can
lift himself and his family from all financial
embarrassment. He attempts to leap the
chasm, and ho falls into it.
Then it is in after life that the great temp
tation of success com "S. If a man makes a
fortune before thirty years of age, be gener
ally loses it before forty. The solid and the
permanent fortunes for the most part do not
come to their climax until midlife or in obi
age. The most of the bank president have
white hair. Many of those who have been
largely successful have been full of arro
gance or worldliness in old age. They may
not have lost their integrity, but they have
become so worldly and so selfish under the
influence of large success that it is evident
to everybody that their success has been a
temporal calamity and eternal damage.
Concerning many people it may be said it
seems as if it would have been better if thev
could have embarked from this life at twen
ty or thirty years of age. Do you know the
reason why the vast majority of people die
before thirty-five? It is because they have
not the moral endurance for that which ia
beyond the thirty, and a merciful God will
not allow them to be put to the fearful strain.
Again, there is a blessing in an abbrevi
ated earthly existence in the fact that one
is the sooner taken off the defensive. As soon
as one is old enough to take care of himself,
he is put on his guard. Bolts on the door to
keep out the robbers. fireproof safes to
keep oft the flames. Life insurance and fire
insurance against accidents. Receipts lest
you have to pay a debt twice. Lifeboat
against shipwreck. Westinghouse airbresk
against railroad collision. There are many
ready to overreach you and take all you have.
Defense against cold, defense against heat,
defense against sickness, defense against the
world's abuse, defense all the way down to
the (rrave, and even the tombstone sometimes
is not a a sufficient barricade.
If a soldier who has been on guard, shiver
ing and stung with the cold, pacing up and
down the parapet with shouldered musket, is
glad when someone comes to relieve guard
and he can go inside the fortress, ought not
that man to shout for joy who can put down
his weapon of earthly defense and go into the
king's castle? Who is the mor fortunate,
the soldier who has to stand guard twelve
hours, or the man who has to stand guard
six hours? We have common sense about
everything but religion, common sense about
everything but transference from this world.
Again, there is a blessing in an abbrevi
ated earthly existence in the fact that one es
capes so m&iy bereavements. The longer
we live the mere attachments and the more
kindred, the rr ore chords to lc wounde I or
rasped or sundered. If a mau live ou to
seventy cr eighty years of ag. how many
graves are cleft at his feet? In that lonn
reach of time father an t mother go. brothers
and sisters go. children go, gran Ichildreu
go, personal friends outside the family circle
whom they had loved with a love like that of
David and Jonathan.
Besides that, some men have a natural
trepidation about dissolution, and ever and
anon during forty or fifty or sixty 3-eaM this
horror of their dissolution shudders through
soul and body. Now, suppose the lad goes
at sixteen years of age. He escapes fifty
funerals, fifty caskets, fifty obsequies, fifty
awful wrenchings of the heart. It is hard
enough for us to boar their departure, but is
it not easier for us to bear their departure
than for them to stay and bet.r fifty de
partures? Shall we not, by the grace of Go 1.
rouse ourselves into a generosity of bereave
ment which will praeti.villy sty. "It is hard
enough for me to go through this bereave
ment, but how glad I am that he will never
have to go through it !"
So I reason with myself, and so you will
And it helpful to reason with yourselves.
David lost his son. Though David was king,
he lay on the earth mourning and inconso
lable for some time. At this distance of time,
whichdo you really think was the one to be
congratulated, the short lived child or tho
long lived father? Had Davied died as early
as that child, he would in the first plao have
that particular bereavement, then he would
have escaped the worst bereavement of Al
salom, his recreant son and the pursuit of
the Philistines, and tho fatigues of his mili
tary campaign, and the jealousy of Saul, anil
the perfidy of Ahithophel, and the curse of
Shimel, and the destruction of his family at
Ziklag, and, above all, he would have es
caped the two groat calamities of life, the
great sins of uncleauness and murder. David
lived to be of vast use to the church and the
world, but so far as his own happiness was
concerned, does it not seem to you that it
would have been better for him to have gone
early?
Now, this, my friends, explains some
things that to you have been inexplicable.
This shows you why when Go 1 takes iittte
children from a household he is very apt to
take the brightest, the most genial, the most
sympathetic, the most taleuted. Why? It is
because that kind of nature suffers the most
when it does suffer and is most liable to
temptation. God saw the tempest sweeping
up from tho Caribbean, and He put tho deli
cate craft into the first harbor. "Taken away
from the evil to come."
Again, my friends, there is a blessing in an
abbreviated earthly existence in the fact that
it puts one sooner in the centre of thing?.
All astronomers, infidel as well as Christian,
agree in believing that the universe swings
around some great centre. Any one who has
studied the earth and studied the hoavens
knows that God's favorite figure in geom
etry is a circle. When God put forth His
hand to create the universe, He did not
strike that hand at right angles, but He
waved it in a circle, and kept on waving it
in a circle until systems an l constellations
and galaxies and all worlds too'c '.hat mo
tion. Our planet swinging around tho sun,
other planets swinging around other suns,
but somewhere a great hub around which
the great wheel of tho universe turns. Now,
that centre is heaven. That is the capital of
the universe. That is tte great metropolis
of Immensity.
Now, does net our common sense leau'i us
that in matters of study it is better for us to
move out from the centre toward the circum
ference, where our world is? We are like
those who study the American continent
while standing on the Atlantic beach. The
way to study tho continent is to cross it or
go to the heart of it. Our standpoint in this
world is defective. We are at the wrong end
of the telescope. The best way to study a
piece of machinery is not to stand ou the
doorstep and try to look in, but to go in with
tho engineer and take our place right amid
the saws and cylinders. We wear our eyes
out and our brain out from the fact that we
are studying under such great disadvantage.
Millions of dollars for observatories to
study things about the moon, about the sun.
about the rings of Saturn, about transits and
occupations and eclipses, simply because out
studio, our observatory, is poorly situated.
We are down in thecellar trying to study the
palace of the universe, wbiie our departed
Christian friends have gone up stairs amid
the skylights to study.
Now, when one can sooner g?t to the
centre of things, is he not to be congratu
lated? Who wants to be always in tho fresh
man class? We study God in this world by
tho Biblical photograph of Him, but we all
know we can in live minutes of interview
with a friend get more accurate idea of hi id
than we can by studying him litty year?
through pictures o! words. The little child
that died last night to-day knows more ol
God than all Andover. and all Princeton, and
all New Brunswick, and all Edinburgh, and
all the theological institutions in Christen
dom. Is it not bettor to go up to the very
headquarters of knowledge?
Does not our common sense teach us that
it is better to be at the centre than to be
clear out on the rim of the wheel, holding
nervously fast to the tire lest we be sud
denly hurled into light and t-ternal felicity?
Through all kinds of optical instruments
trying to peer in through the cracks and tho
keyholes of heaven afraid that both doors
of the celestial mansion will be swung wide
open before our entranced vision rushing
about the apothecary shops of this world,
wondering if this is good for rheumatism,
and that is good for neuralgia and some
thing else is good for a bad cough, lest we
be suddenly ushered into a land of everlast
ing health, where tht inhabitant never says,
"lam sick."
What fools we all are to prefer the cir
cumference to the centre ! What a drci-iful
thing it would be if we should be suddenly
ushered from this wir.try world into tbe
May time orchards of r.eaven, and it our
pauperism of sin and sorrow should be sud
denly broken up by a presentation of an
emperor's castle, surrounded by parks with
springing fountains and paths up and down
which angels of God wt.lk two au 1 two.
We stick to the world as though we pre
ferred cold drizzle to warm habitation, dis
cord to cantata, sackcloth to royal purple
as though we preferred a piano with four 01
five keys out of tune to an instrument fully
attuned as though earth and .eaven had
exchanged apparel and earth had taken ou
bridal array and heaveu had gone into deep
mourning, all its waters stagnant, all it?
harps broken, all chalices cracked at the dry
wells, .all the lawns sloping to the rivet
plowed with graves, with dead angels tin d
the furrow. Oh, I want lo break up my own
infatuation, and I want to break up your in
fatuation for this world. I tell you if we are
ready, and if our work is done, the soone'
we go the better, and if there are blessings
in longevity, I want you to know right weli
there are also blessings in- au abbreviated
eart hly ex istence.
If the spirit ot this sermon is tru, now
consoled you ought to feel about member of
your families that went early. "Taken from
the evil to come," this book says. What a
fortunate escape they bad ! How giad we
ought to feel that they will n"ver have to g-
through the struggles which we have had to
go through. They had just time enough to
get out of the cradle an I run up the spris:
time hilfe of this world and see how it Iookvl,
and then they started for a better stopping
place. They were like ships that put in at
St. Helena, staying there long enough to M
passengers go up and see the barracks of
Napoleon's captivity and then hoist sail for
the port of their own native land. They only
took this world "in transitu." It is hard for
us. but it is blessed for them.
And if the sp-'rit of this sermon is true, then
we ought not to go around sighing and
groaning because another year has gone.
But we ought to go down on one knee by the
milestone and see the letters and thank God
that we are 365 miles nearer home. We ought
not to go around with morbid feelings about
our health or about anticipated demis. We
ought to be living, not according to that old
maxim which I used so hear in my boyhood,
that you must live as though every day were
the last ; you must live as though you were
to live forever, for you will. Do not b ner
vous lest you have to move out of a shanty
into an Alhambra.
One Christmas morning one of my neigh
bore, an old &ea captain, died, Alter life had
departed, his fae wn illuminated m thoTJz'j
h- were just goinif inti brxr. Tb"
was he bad already gon through the Xnr
rows." In th adjoining rwn wer the
Christmas presents wnitini; for his diitrfi"
tion. Long ago. .n night, when lie hi I
narmwiy e,p'sl with his ship from twin?
run down by a gre.-tt ivxsn stamer. h" h.il
made bis peace with God. and a kinder
neighbor or a better man you wouM not find
this side of heaven. Without a moment's
warning the pilot of the heavenly harbor had
met him just o!T the lightship.
Tho captain oftea tilkd to mo of the
goodness of God. and esp-viallv of a time
when he was alotit to go iu New York h.tr
ror with his ship frnm Ltverjool. and he wa
suddenly itupre:wnd that lt ouht put
back to sea. Under th protect of the crew
and tinder their very thnvtt, he put tack t-
sea, fearing at th same tlmo he wa lonir.g
his mind, for it di I -em so uunvi-mniMo
that when they could get into harr that
night they should put back to sea. But they
put la-k to sea. and the captain s tld to hi-t
mate, "You will call mo at 10 o'clock at
night."
At 12 o'clock at night the captain was
aroused and said : "What does this menu? I
thought I told vou lo call inn at 10 o'cl.H-k.
and here it is 12" ' Why," said the. mate,
"1 did call you nt 10 o'clock, and you ot up
looked arou,n 1 and told me to keep right on
this same cours- for two hours, and then to
call you at 12 o clock." Sail the captain:
"Is it possible? I have no remembrance of
that."
At 1? o'clock tho enptain went on de-V. an I
through the rift of the cloud th moonlight
fell upon the sea and showM him a shin
wreck with 100 struggling passenger". H"
helped them off. Had he tteen any curlier
or any later at that point of Ihe sea he would
have leen of no service to thus drowning
people. On IwrtrJ the captain's vessel they
began to baud together nsfo whatthevshi tild
pay for the rescue and what they should pay
for the provisions. "Ah," says the captain,
"my lads, you cttn't pay m anything. All I
have on board i yours. I foel too greatly
honored of God iu having s-;ved you to take
any pay." Just like him. He never got any
pay except that of his own applauding con
science. Oh, that the old sea captain's God might
be my God and yours. Amid the stormy se:i
of this life may we have always some one as
tenderly to take care ot usastne captnin
took care of the drowning crew and the
passengers. And may we come iulo the
harbor with as liitle physical pain ntid with
as bright a hope as he had, and If it should
happen to be a Christmas morning when the
presents are being distributed and we are
celebrating the birth of Him who catn to
save our shipwrecked world, all the better,
for what gr.mder, brighter Christ mus present
could we have than heaven?
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Hemit Gkokub is on a led wn tour.
SuXAToa Davik 1!. 1 1 11. r, is fifty years old.
Tuk King of Italy eats only one meal a day.
Senator Voouheks is au Ohio man, aged
sixty-six years.
Qceex Victoria has a military guar. I ol
fifty men and three oflicer.
Thirtf.es nephews and nieces of the hit
General Lilly, who was unmarried. wlllhav
his $2,000,000 estate divided among tlH-ni.
It is said of Judge Kra-icis Marion Cox, of
Macon County, Missouri, who died recently,
that he cared for and educated eighteen
orphans.
John Hill, of Derby, Kngland. is thought
to be the oldest living Odd I'ellow lie is
nearly ninety-one year old and was Initiated
In the order in lWi.
Grand Dckk Ernest of Hesse is to marry
Triucess Victoria, eldest dau.'htrr of tin
Duke of Edinburgh, in April. Both ur
grandchildren of Quceu Victoria aud first
cousins.
Victoria ScH0Ki.r11r.it. who s(:irl'd the
anti-slavery movement which led to the en
franchisement of the Africans in the I' reach
colonies, has just died in Paris, aged eighty
eight year:?.
Lawrexck GitoM.rvn, of Washington, the
Socialist writer, is going to lecture in Kan
sas. He thinks the lb-id is rip:' for the or
ganization of a new political party, the corner
etono of which will be Socialism.
The class of 1S27 in th Yale Medical
School has become extinct by the death of
Dr. Henry Bronson. Dr. William Woodruff,
elassof lS2(i, and Dr. Nelson Isham, class of
1828, are the oldest living graduate: of the
school.
Miss Alicf. FLETonKR. the ethnologist, re
ceived 48 a day from the Goyerii'iicnt as n
special agent of the Indian bureau while
making the allotment of lauds for Indian
tribes. This is the highest salary I'u le S.im
has ever paid any of his daughter-'.
General Jose M. II kkn anhk.. who re
sided recently in New York, but who is a
revolutionist, a patriot and a candidate for
the Presidency of Venezuela, has been prom
inent in half a dozen revolutions. He ha
seen the inside of more prisons than any
other distinguished man iu South America.
United States Sknator-ki.ki i Thomas l.
Martin, of Virginia, never smoked ordraii'
intoxicating liquors. He is forty-six year-,
old, short, thick set, an 1 dosnt look uulik"
Thomas B. Kee l, lie is an able lawyer. n 1
is in the employ of the legal department
the Chesapeake anl Ohio Kiilroad Co 11
pan v.
Within the large house in Washington o -cupied
by Archbishop S.itolll there is riot u
woman to be seen. All the servants are
men, speaking Italian, and only his inter
preter talks English. S-itolli has but one
fad, and that is a fondness for birds. In al
most every room of the house there is a
cage of birds, and the whole residence
ueemslike a mammoth aviary.
Secretary Jarno, of the t'ornan legation
at Washington, is an anient student of tie
English language. He takes his lessons iu
the most practical way, learning about
things he has to ban lie each day in the af
fairs of the household. Nt long ago h
had his English tea'-her rr ake him out a list
of groceries and housol old titenilH, with
their average price, which he now uses as u
check upon the storekeeper?, who, as a rale,
endeavor to get the lit of him.
The Outlook for Winter Wheat.
A To'eio (Ohio) drm has received replies
fiom S34 grain dealers and millers in Ohio,
Indiana. Illino's, Michigan, Kansas and
Missouri. The replies cover every important
wheat cemty in thosi States, which raise
150. 003. CC0 to 250,000.000 bushels annually,
or a'jout two thirls of the winter wheat crop
o! the United States.
Each of the States reports a smaller acre
age sown to winter wheat this fall than the
amount sown in 1892. Michigan shows tbe
largest falling off. nearly twenty-five per
cent. Missouri has about one-flfth less)
Illinois, about one-ighth less. Kunsaa,
Ohio and Indiana each shows about one
Sixteenth decrease. The acreage harvested
this year was reduced by a larger amount
tbau usual being winter-killed. The crop
goti into winter in good condition. Some
regions .say it was a little dry for the late
gown. Ohio reports the best and a favorable
mart. Indiana snows nearly as weil. fol
lowed closely by Kansas and Michigan,
wnile Misouri and Illinois have cured
oniy a fair or an average start. Mix hundred
an ftlnrty-flve report tee prospect exclent,
J.J'i j jod. 1014 fair. 388 poor, and only 75
aay the cron his an extremely poor stat.
Thi reports show that about tbree-ijfhths
of the 1893 wheat crop, which was a short
one. .till remains in the hands of farmers,
dealers and interior millers in six Ktatea.
Oaio. as usual, has the largest reserves,
equtil to about half of the last crop. Half of
the reports sy the reserves are about the
same as s year ago. Kansas and Missouri
have only enough to supply their local
mills until next harvest. Ohio and Indiana
have a fair surplus for shipment. More
poor wheat has been fed to animals than
usual.
California's Largest Irrigating Flume.
Tbe largest Irrigating flume in California
has just been ewl4ad. It is In Fresno
County, and is nij i miles long, extend
ing from Stevenson Creek, at an elevation of
500 feet, to Covis. twelve miles from Fresno,
at an elevation of 400 feet. It will carry
S00 cubic feet of water per second, and will
bring 40,000 acres of new land under cultiva
tion. Many million feet of lumber wlU aUo
be floated down annually.
THE LABOR WORLD.
Ft. t.ori bos loo.noo idle.
Teiam tiniotvi will form a Stat '. lr.
Sv Kgiitnui't Chinese have a u-.iioii.
rtTTsat'Sd has created w--rk f-r .Vnv.
LA.Boaf.Kff get ninety cent a dny in Lon
don. Federation or Lie tn lecturers g"t f t:t
Week.
Tint American Hallway Union h.-v '."O.ootl
rtienilers.
Boston M acmin isrs' Us to ha abot:hJ
the color line.
Whihisu ( W. Va. gltswork'' Will e!V
lish a co-operative union.
PmiAnrLrHiA hrieUnycr hnve i'.v ImM t
oln the International Union.
Toi.tim Ohiol Mrikitig pwiid'T- will or
ganise It eo-operittlve eompsuy.
FlTr hundred mm nre l i l employed ott
a new co;tl tin I st Belt, M miMui.
Dr.Nvr.R (Col.) union plumt r urn fined
t for atnokint nonunion cli;r.
HMi.sr.t t IVnn. U'l"f tv "truck
against a cut to fort; -five cent a duv.
Two carload ot men looking f 'r work ar
rived at Cold ubifi, Texus. on on" dnv re
cently. BosrotNs inot thV ctt .-. i - otilv lit
be employe-1 in the cre-ilort of the j ul.li.t
library.
The wage of the ll.rer In the f ene
Mead ( Penn. ) Steel Works r" to n rcttivl
ten per cent.
Washington flnd. railroad s'lop hn-1-
ft from ten to thirteen cents nil hour. They
work nine hours dally.
Gi!it.sin Pittsburg bolt nn I nut fctorie-
who formerly were pnid tlti a v,v,k no get
t4 and $5 for tbe hauic llor.
Danhi rt (Conn.) eounul-i b tve pur
chafed eighteen acres of tluibcr lands and
the striking hat workers will be given work
on th ) laud.
M hk than sixty labor orginlr.atio.n had
Christmas and New Year eriterf aliitt'enf s In
lv.2-:(, but in I'WM. on necoutit of the hard
tunes no hucIi entertainments were held.
A Tacoma (Wash. man lont a ult for
flo.(MK) damages against the lroii'n.'MerV
Union. He claimed that he h id Imii out of
work three years because he was not a mem
ber of the Union.
The New York I."tfer C irriers soe(attou
bus issued au appeal for fifty cent mil.-rip-tlons
from all letter carriers to rals the f r,mi
needed to complete the payment for thw
btatuo of S. S. Cox. which cost 10,000.
AN eight-toot ledge of slher and gobr
quart, assaying tl'd In silver and 27 la
gold per ton IlilM been discovered , th
heart of the city of Tacoma, Wash., by a
woikmau dlgi'ing a cellar.
Forty Ohloans. of the new religion litem n
us bnlsh, are going to Tift on. 1 in. , soon t
raise fruit 011 it fifty-acre tract there.
THE MARKETS.
Late Wholesale Prices of Count r;
Produce Quoted In New York.
1 HKANH AT t'FA.
Teans Marrow, 193. choice - f-t ti V)
Medium. 193, choice 1 7a fn I 0
Pea, IH93, choice I 75 fn
Bed kidney, 1H9S. choice .. 2 :i fn 2 t
White Kldnev, l93. choice "l in 2 2"
Plack turtle soup. 1S9 C .. 2 1" 2 1'
Lima, Cat.. 193 t' W li . 1 " 1 "
Green peas.bbls. V Lush (' I 20
JifTTEB.
Creamery -State, best 2.1 M 2V,
State, common to good ''" 24
Western, llrsts 2J V-'ii
Western, seconds 22 ft'
Western. thirds 20 fr 21
State dairy -h. f., tubs and
pails, extras. ... . - 2" f'
If. f., tubs an I pails, firsts 22 (a 2C,
11. f.. tubs and pails, second' V" ( 21
Welsh tubs, best lines 2! (" 24
Welsh tubs, seconds '" fa- 21
Welsh tubs, thir ls
Western lin. creamery, first e.. 2" 22
W. Im. creamery, heconds. 17 (a I
W. Int. creamery, third. "
Western Factory, freih. llrMn. 17!.'n 1
W. Factory, fresh, Kecondi'. I'l 1"
W. Factory, thirds ... 15 ( V ,
r ut ynr.
State Full cream, large. faney r i
Full cream, large, choice II or 11',
Full cream, good to prime. l"','r 1",
State Factory--Part nkl ns.
choice '.' '
Part skims, fair to good.. ' 7
Part skims, common 4 f
Full skims 2 " :J
r.oos.
State and Penn Frh
Western Frewh, best -
Limed - H' ','
KRrtTK AND BF.ERir.H Mlt.sir
Apples King. bbl . "" In .VI
Greening, V bbl.. 4 00 f 7"i
Baldwin. V bbl I'fl f"
Pears, Sheldon. Boston r bbl 3 0') (m 3 '"
Grapes, Catawba. V basket.. H fit- 13
Con -ord. V basket
Cranberries. Cape Cod. V bbl 3 "0 fn r, T
Jersey. V crate 12") fa 1 l'i"
HOPS.
.State 1893, choice. V ft 22 d 22,
1S93, common tj prirne. .. . 1; fn 21
1H'J2, choice 19
192. eom-jfion to prime.... T, Ol IS
Old odds ! : 12
HAY A N li STRAW.
Hay -Good to choice V 100 tb ' K,
Clover mixed t'-0 fn (;."
Straw Long rye
Short rye 40 fa fi
tlYK Pofl.TUT.
Fowls Jersey State, penn. - Oi 11
Western. V lb 10 Vi 11
Spring chickens, local, V ft. ft 9
Western. V M. V '
HooMcra, old, V ttt 7
Turkeys, V- fb : to 1"
Ducks--N. J., N. Y., Penn.,
Y pair f-0 to 90
Western, f pair '-0 Cn m
Geese, Vetern, t pair 1 12 fn I .VI
Pigeons, f? pair 20 fa) 3-1
DRESSED I'ori.TKY 1'T.Y I A' K!.
Turkeys. V lb 12 fa 13
Chickens, Phlla, H J '
State A Penn.. ' !h to 10
Western, V th 7 ftf 9
Fowls St. and Wet, V tb ... 7 Go '-)
Ducks Western. V H w M
Near by, fancy. V tb . . . . 12 fa II
Geese Near by Md., y rt .. 11 fa' 11
Squabe Dark V doz 1 V) fn 2 00
White, ?doz 2 75 f& 3 00
TE4KTARI.M.
Potatoes Stat". V 10 lbs. .. . 1 2" r 2 00
Jersey, V bbl 1 .V to 1 75
L. I., in bulk, V bbl 2 00 fa 2 25
Cabbage, VI 00 3 "0 fa f, 00
Onions St. A West.. V bbl . 1 .50 to 1 ( 2
Eastern, red, bbl . 1 00 fa) 1 75
Eastern, whft. V bbl ... 2 SO , 3 75
L. I. A Jersey, yellow, Y" bbl 1 50 fa 1 '2
Squash, marro'w.'V bbl 150 fa 2 0l
Hubbard, IU bbl 1 75 fa) 2 00
Carrots, V bbl . . 1 00 fa)
Turnips, Russia, T bbl 70 fa h
White, V bbl 60 fq) m
Celery. L. I., f doz. bunches 1 00 r l 50
Cauliflowers, "tp bbl 1 o0 fa. S 00
Sweet potatoes, So. Jersey . . 2 09 fa I 75
Vincland, V bbl ... 250 fm 4 09
Parsnips V bbl 1 00 fw
Spinach, Norfolk, f bbl . . . 1 00 to 1 25
GRAIN. ETC.
Flour Winter Patents 3 23 to 3 40
Spring Patents 3 Hi fa 1 00
Wheat, No. 2 Bod wySa)
May yto --
Corn-No. 2 UKto
Oat No. 2 White (? 85
Mixed Western 34 (a) 35
Rye btatw to
BarleyUngraded Western 52 to C4
Seed Clover, V 100 11 75 ft
Timothy, V 100 4 25 to, 5 00
Lard City Steam (4 1'i
LITE BTOCE.
Becve, city dreiwed fi;' 0
Mlljh Cow, com. to good.... (&
Calve. City dreane l to) 12
CouDtry dreesed B to 10
Sheep, i 100 rtia 2 75 (a) 3 62
Lamb. V 400 lbs 4 75 fS 5 25
Hogs Live, j 100 IU 5 40 to) 0 00
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