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SUMMER IN CROWDED NEW YORK.

In the alleyway of tenement in New
York baby nestled in the arms of a young
girl. Its face was covered with red spots
which the doctor said were due to deficient
nutrition. In the top of No.-a child was
sprawled out on bed too weak to brush
lway the flies which assailed it. A climb
1ver the roof took the doctor into No.
baby was convulsed with cough. The
loctor put his ear to its heart and after
critical examination said it had touch Of
bronchitis. Like dead child little ont
lay among the bed-clothing in the front
room ON the same floor. Its hands were
thrown over its head and it moved uneasily.
On the top floor of the same tenement
child had been sick for eight days and no
doctor had been called to see it,
Sewing machines rattle from morning until
night in towering tenement at No. IL Es
sex street. Hundreds of Poles We in the
building and earn living by making cloth
ing. They work, cook, cat and sleep in the
same rooms, which are far from clearly,
The children pant in the confined rooms
md pine for want of attention. In ONE
room four men bent over the work ON theiI
machines, two women took irons from the
fire and pressed the finished clothing, while
children cried on the floor. The men, wo-
men and children were sallow, and heat
from the stove made the atmosphere sicken-
ing. The people toiled INCREASINGLY for the
pittance which they earned to keep body
md soul together, and had no tins TO find
out the business of the intruders Nor did
they look up when accosted. On an uppe,
door a wrinkled bag crooned over crying
child. A woman sat on the ledge on the
roof of No.-rocking child in her arms.
A little wind was stirring there and it was
grateful to the little one. Below was
stone paved court, upon which stagnant
water stood in pools. A boy who had lost
ais feet drew his.ssef over the roof in boxes
lifted to his legs below the knees. 1.-The
Chinese have got bad smell in their place
down below" said he, 4" but this house Is
all rightly. Y. Timea.
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INA NEW YORK RESTAURANT.

The high, hot noon has come. The " din
ner dishes" are ready. It is even before
the stroke of IL. But the hungry crowd
are rushing in and not an empty seat is Wis.,
ible. Rattle and chatter, rush and bawl,
slop and spill, smash and crash. Ros
bif ros pork ros veal ros mutton plum
pud glass er milk Tables all full, elbow
to elbow, eating, chatting, grumbling.
Walters perspiring hurried and grabbed in
manner, jostle each other. Man from the
country finds seat at last. Waiter at his
elbow wants to know what he'll have. Man
from the country deliberately opens the bill
of fare. Proceeds to study. Unfortunate.
Waiter impatient flies off. Wont secure
another attendant for half en- hour. Hun
cry man who has ordered twenty minutes
ago glares savagely Mt every attendant.
Patience all gone, temper ditto, and stom-
ach gnawing Such man is mad. Wait
ers pass him by indifferently as he halls each
one. They are used to such cases. The
noon dinner hour at the down town restau-
rant is the hour of every man and every
waiter for himself. There sits an angry
man, who fixed his month" ere entering
FOR some dish, prompted by capricious APP
petite. Ordered it. Encounters remark
from waiter, "All out.' 1t seems to him
as if that black man took malicious delight
in so informing him. They are always
out of everything exactly when want it,
is his internal remark. As regards temper
1.ax tho
shop is out of the next dish he order.
Your waiter forgets half your orders.
You are particular to have your coffee or
tea served with your lunch. If your thus
particular that wretch won't bring it with
the dish, and you may wait till your meal is
quite over ere he does bring it. Here you
learn why plates are made of stone china and
coffee cups have rims half an inch thick.
Here @sthetically thin ware must give place
to the haste that slams dishes down on the
table and bangs ware together in the wash
.ub. Here is eating done in the hortest
possible time, stomachs loaded without pro-
per stowage and dyspepsia turned out to
order. Here mastication goes ON at the
double quick. repose is unknown, and the
man who deliberates as to what ke'll have
gets nothing. Eat and don't scrutinize your
food too closely and Danish reflection and
imagination, eat and be thankful. Eat and
scheme, eat and plan, bolt and worry as to
the afternoons WORK, for life is short, time
pressing, and day in this great city gives
one hardly time to turn round in. The
havoc made ON pies mark their mouthfuls
of great size; hear the loud, sharp walters
cries. One hundred and fifty mouths are
here opening and shutting at the rate Of
fifty revolutions to the minute. See theif
jaws now fall and raise see them glare with
hungry eyes The Graphic
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ON LAKE HURON.


We finally run away from all signs of the
shore, and are at last alone with the lake.
The heavens are clear all around, with scat
tered bright clouds here and there that seem
like varied designs inglasswork blown white
upon the transparent sky, and the only
darkness to be seen is the long, lazy ropes
of smoke that sluggishly pay themselves
out from our stacks and carelessly coil
themselves down in oddly conyoluted shapes
along the horizon. A mirage having moth.
.ng else to elongate, seems to lift the water
itself, until, as you look carelessly seward
in any direction you cannot tell sea from
sky.
We seem to be at the bottom Of an i'm
mense liquid basin trying to sail up hill,
and the impression that the immense wheel
Is going to screw us right through the wall
Of this weird magic doesn't cease its delu-
lions. Away ahead of us, the sun, getting
ready for bed, seems to be raking out her
dres, for directly beneath her, it appears to
Se, ON some unseen shore, there is CLEAN
on the water that grows and grows until il
rounds upward into a huge mound thai
Flows red like the glare of molten iron; and
As it grows higher and higher there stretches
put toward our ship frightening cone of
light, as if to burn our course upon the wa
ters through the darkness that is soon TO
tall. Presently it touches our PROV and
Tie flying spray sparkles in the golden CLEAN.
The sun sinks lower and lower, the fires
have been raked, the mound of glowing
GOALS has disappeared, the cone itself has
1windled to a line of burning wire along
which there now sweeps a bright expiring
fash, as if in pulling down the blinds the
dear old sun were wiring US good night !"
and the day is gone, and we are alone with
the night. She, two, pulls her diamond
dotted curtains down around us, and we are
alone with the Infinite. Correspondence Bos.
ton Transcript.
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MISCELLANY.
srxry-rivE NILES AN HOUR.
Fast Trial Trip of Locomotive In the
Wesr.

The Shaw pulled out with 1870 pounds OF
steam and sneaked out over the drawbridges
and through the outskirts of Milwaukee
with kind of " oh-just-look-at-me motion
that suggested schoolboy's innocent run
for melon patch. Word had been passed
to Mr.. Lockwood's engineer and to Mr..
HILL Of the Northwestern, that the first test
might be made on the ten-mile run between
ST. Francis and the county line. At st.
Francis the Shaw suddenly gathered herself
up, and with q low, deep snort, shot by the
little station house like fash. Her every
movement was watched with the keenest
interest by the railway officials. There was
nothing of that jerking humping, vibrator,
motion other engines have, but the ina
shinery worked smooth and regular. But
for the roar of the wheels on the rails her
movement would hive been as noiseless as
TINT of the finest stationary engine. A
moment or two and Professor Dudley looked
at his dynograph. " She is running pretty
sharp now" he said, in his quiet way.
How much ?" asked Nj. Laying. "Sixty.
one miles an hour" said the professor Mr.
Laying looked satisfied, but Mr.. Dudley
motioned to the engineer to let her out.
Herald man, who was of the party, sat il
the front window and watched the furious
steed as 1t shook itself and seemed like
living thing to reach out for rein and bit.
Down at the side the cranks on the drivers
were going in perfect whirl--so fast the
eye could not begin to follow them-and
the great driying-wheels spun like buzz
saws.
How fast ~ said Mr.. Lockwood.
The last mile in fifty-four seconds. We
are running now at sixty-four miles ali
hour" said the professor. The next mik
was made in ffty-fve seconds, and the five
miles out from ST. Francis was covered in
tour minutes and forty-fve seconds. An
other very fast run was made from Lake
Forest to Highland Park, and that distance
was covered at the rate of sixty-fve miles an
hour, one mile of it being covered in exact
ly ffty-one seconds, or sixty-eight miles an
hour.
During that run the Herald man sat
pcfCucu up III tlie cuD VI tle engine anu bne
sensation of being hurled over the ground
at that speed was terrific Fences along
the road seemed devoid of posts and the
rails looked like continuous blurr. A
gang Of track-rerairers were close to the
track rs the train shot by. The reporter
had just time to see one knocked over by
he atmospheric force created by the rush
ing engine and the others bracing them
selves against it. At little station called
Hollywood some ladies stood on the plat.
form-a mere glance, in which not even
the color of their dresses could be distin-
guished-and they were gone. A few rods
farther on dog came bounding out. He
gave one faint bark, barely heard when he
got caught in the atmospheric swirl and
went rolling over and over, heels over head.
The grass along the road was laid fiat by
the rush and even trees swayed as the
mons.rons force hurled by. At Evanston
the special overlook regular train and
from that point on there was no unusual
speed. Chicago Herald.
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COINS MADE OF woor.
Ingenious Manner in Which n Bank Was
Bolstered into Public Confidence.


+" You see," said man on the wharf,
I'm carpenter, and when landed in
San Francisco opened shop and did bet
ter than some buckles in the mines die
mostly fine jobs, such as fitting up saloons
cabinet work and making gambling truck
The last queer things, tell you, full OF
ricks to cheat tho greenies.
One day got an order for lot OF
wooden adobes. sAdobes were gold pieces
of the value of $50 each, and the man who
gave the order--the played-out secretary
now hauling up tom-cod yonder wanted
1000. smelled a rat, but kept mum, aa
secrecy was the keystone of half my trade
set my lathe to work in room carefully
locked and in due time had the contract
filed. Now 1 want you 10 gild these
slugs,' said the secretary, and send them
down TO Adams & Co.'s Office about the
time the mail steamer gets in. Keep dark
md send in your BILL did Old Noise
90 me have one of his gldcrs and he did
ne work in good style. But for the weight
you would never have taken those slugs
ioi hhytninB put tne slhoD-pure hfucie.
In the drawers they mnde fine display
looking what they were intended to repre-.
sent $3.50, 900 in gold. l boxed them up,
sent them to Adams IL Co.'s under cover of
night and read i'll the papers next morning
of tl.s arrival of $50,00O in 'adobes,' con-
signed to the banking house of--well, you
know the place on Montgomery street, near
Clay. As for.the name, that's nothing its
as dead as the bank, its president and its
board of directors. | smiled but said
nothing. The addition of those 1000
slugs helped the concern amazingly.
It was only three months old, but il stood
on its legs at once. | took some pride In
the affair myself, as was the creator of its
financial support. "--San Francisco Buk
letjn.
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A TEST OF LOVE.

About eight or ten years ago, DR.. Town,
of Rollin, Mich, was called to attend q
poor girl, who lay very sick with fever.
She seemed to have strong desire to live
through her sickness, which was long and
tedious, and fraught with various complica-
tons. She was always glad to have the
doctor visit her, and always seemed anxious
lest he should get tired and weary of her
care, as she knew that she could not recon-
pense him, and realized that the doctor had
20 ride quite distance over very bad roads
and in bad weather. After several weeks
in bed, she got so she could sit up, but she
needed medicine and care for long time
She frequently remarked that if she lived
she had strong hopes TINT some day she
would be able to pay him for his services
md kindness to her. The doctor, however,
like all physicians, got used to that story,
and gave no heed to it, and as Is common
in such cases, he made but little account on
his books Of the services rendered. After
two years the poor girl, who was still weak,
moved North, and as the years passed by
he doctor lost pretty much all recollec-
lions of her, and had even forgotten be,
lame. a
A few months ago he received letter
from q young man in the northern part Of
the State, asking him if he remembered
certain girl, giving the name, whom he had
treated several years before through u long
sickness, and asking him to please forward
his bill to the address of the writer. The
latter further stated that the writer had
married that girl, and that their marriage
had but one stipulation, and that was the
payment of the doctors bill referred to.
The letter further stated that no deductions
should be made, for he considered TINT lie
had first-rate bargain, and he was glad Of
the chance TO settle debt that Ind so long
harassed the mind of one whom he was now
proud to claim MS his wife. After some re-
lection it occurred to the doctor who the
wife of the writer must be, and TO the best
Of his recollection he made out his bill and
sent it on. just four days later he received
another letter containing q check for $50,
the amount of the bill he had forwarded.
A little further inquiry elected The fact that
the lady in the case" had had several
offers Of marriage, but oil suitors previous
to this one had found their ardor consider.
ably dampened when she placed the stipu.
lated embargo before them. But she Ind
stuck to her text, until time had carried her
we'll into the verge of "old maidenhood
before her ideal man arrived.
She xvna worthy IF ei,rh n midland To
was worthy of such wife. And the doc
tor was worthy Of his hire" Adrian
Times.
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Mr.. Gould Give. a Plain Pointer.

"Mr. Gould, would You kindly give me
pointer in this stage of the market ?"
asked clerical-looking individual Of that
gentleman in New street yesterday. Ger
tainly," was the prompt reply. "Ahi
thanks, indeed. shall take 1t with a most
grateful heart. What is it, Mr.. Gould p
Keep your money" and the modern
Croesus turned on his heel.--Neso York
xornfng Journal
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roo commonplace.

A wailing orator says, " Dark is the night
that settles down upon Ireland" Well
quite likely. We wouldn't cross tho ocean
to see anything so commonplace as that.
But when you hear of bright, sunshiny
night settling down upon Ireland call us up
u it's midnight and well sit up all night 10
look at it.--Barlingt9n Ha,okeye
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NY NelKnper,a ssaraen.

MY Neignp0r's ssaruen.
In the bound OF mine own enclosure
The flowers are fair to see;
But the rose In my neighbours garden
Is fairer than all TO me.
SO white and slender and stately,
So gemmed with sparkling dew,
This rose that blooms for another,
Is the sweetest ever that grew.
My heart to its grace and beauty
Goes forth as to shrine;
And sigh TO its mystical fragrance
If 1t were only mine ~
And yet II not my neighbor,
But l, in fee and thrall,
Held all that marvellous glory
On the other side OF the wall.
/ might, perhaps, grow weary
or its royal pomp and grace,
And love with my love some daisy
With shy, upllfted face,
For since the gates OF Eden
Were shut on Adam and Eve,
The flowers we have are never
SO sweet as the flowers we leave
And rich within my garden
Though many flower might be,
The rose that bloomed for another
Might seem the best to me.
--Mdr0dy'ef Sdngsiei'
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POETRY.



Beneath cross. beyond the town,
Before shrine for SORROWS made,
Three simple maidens knelt them down,
And from their hearts devoutly pray'd.
One, dreaming OF created things
The purple sea, the perfect sky,
Bright, happy birds, with painted wings
Glad buds that bloom before they die.
The waving woods-the scented air
Chung to her heart, and through her signs
Was heard the gentle maiden's pray'r.
sob give me beauty for my prizel"
A hidden furnace seemed TO glow
Within the second maiden's breast;
She heard the stirring trumpet blow,
She saw the warriors plume and crest.
Ambition dazzled in her eyes
That LIES reward--a deathless name;
Then from her heart came stified cries:
SIT may live, oh give me famel'
The third fair maiden knelt apart,
Her eyes--a heaven star'd with tears,
Her white arms folded on her heart,
She faced o mystery VI years.
A sudden rapture seemed to lift
Her very soul to heayn above;
Be mine,n she prayed, 4" this priceless gift:
Let me be loved by one love u
Boston Confer.
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AIiyiunI,nunuure.

''Pa, ii English dead language?'
" Why 10, my son; English is the moa
living of all languages Well, pa. I'm
glad to know that I've heard 80 often about
English having been murdered. Linguistic
Leestg
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c.. n. Dc G. III. SKILLMAN,
AttOrneys-at-Law,

SOUTHEAST COR. BRIDGE AND UNION SITS,
LAMBERTvILLE, N, J.
Collections and all legal business Entrusted to
our care will receive prompt and faithful atten-
ton.
G. A. SKILLMAN, G.. II. SKILLMAN,
C6snsellor-at- Lar -4h0Tney-dt-Ldtc.
July 2, 1879. -
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ANNNElpENOE GAME.
AIR. u.nd, Tor the Time Beiug, Loses ai'
scnscs

SCuAcs.
Mr., Head, an unsophiSticatcd citizen
hNiirg from Grccnyillc, was taken mat the
Union depot Friday by three "sharps,'
who played the confidence game ON him,
Tho police kept the matter quiet, hoping
to catch the trio, but they
failed to do so. Two OF them boarded the
train with him at Wcatherlord, and they
told him "ghost" story about Their going
into the grocery business at Grecnville, and
about their shipping their goods via Dallas
to that point, On their arrival here
the bogus railroad agent rushed up to them
and broke the narrowing news that their
goods had been stopped here because tho
full charges had not been paid ON them.
one of the "sharps" whipped out n
check, at the same time Affecting u he very
indignant, which called for 81 rs and
asked MIR. Head to loan him what he could
on II until no could got 10 Green
vile, aud Mr.. Head, losing his
~, d senses in the generosity of his heart
gave the william 1870, all he had but \ few
dollars, They scnt on ostcnsibly TO pay
the bill, and that was tho last Mr.
Head saw of them, Yesterday morning,
HEsAip had tho following special iron
Neslhelloru, anu " may no thNt the par
ties In limbo are the Same who swindltt
AIR, Head, The telegram roads.
WrNrngssoRp, Jan l9.-ISpccial J.
Three men, Rose Lumtord T. i, Chalk
aud William Armstrong, made violent ~
sault last evening on William Hrndon
knocking him down aud rcbbing HIM q
about 300, hcrndon recognized the mcr
and they now languish IN jail The mono!
has not beenfound, though Herndon Is "
positive asto the Identity OF the three rob
lhers
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PERSONAL.

- - p,,.n /. ~,
j. y, Thomas iawy" w '''"''
the Windsor
W II, hMohell, oil Alaoa"a' ""S"'S' !"
tho 81. George -
]. II. Wadlcieh, OF tho Missouri racine
road, is In the city,
Colonel !. w. Robertson, of Austin, Ia u
yuesl AT tho Windsor.
n s,,,l, and uiic. of Atlanta, are
.n AZ =, ' nv" a. Il" George,
w.. swain and wife. of tho Houston
r,"nN w. y, Georre'
ros', " " W" "" ,',,,, c,,olr,.,,
o, W. HYDE, represwsn, nmso, N'"'-''
stove houe', W Nv WV " , n,
Or, A, I, DAVIS tvtwrnsu S's'''""' avn
n business uip 10 Wi"s i"'"''
John Pearson, representing wcltknowh
drug firm Of 81. Louis, in the CITY,
DR.. Schulz lci, last evening for Gaines
Vile and Fort Worth, to be absent Tor sew
cral days.
WIN / Duffy. business agent Fay Tenn
n,c,nn onera Company, made tho HERALD q
rleasant cali.
~ II Patterson, of Holly Grove, Arkan
..s Ia. accented tbr pssi,ion OF clerk with
H. sconsin ~ III. Patterson,
"'' '"'" mn m,
Mr.. r. W. Tompson' lrY msull cohnne,
70 mis- home by Illness, ami MS many nlenu
arHaE la ~ N
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proceeded to form definite organization
Captain j Leonard resigned ~ u member Of
the committee and MIR. l. knopny was
chosen IN his place, The following officers
were elected, Messrs, Jules Schneider,
presidents A, Sanger, first yicc'p president;
| ], II, Adoue, second yicc.prcSideut; A, Els
onlohr, secretary; l., NJ, kuephy, treasurer
On motion ot Mr., H. kucpty
= committee OF three was appointed on the
location oi hall, aud II is TO have full power
| to act.
The committee consists of of Mir l.. Cos.
lin, chairman, and Mcssrs, Adouc and
Mcisterhans, Tho following committees
were appointed; On the plan Tor the hal
-Mossis kucptly, Meistehaus and Car,pr.
Committee on guarantee mnd-Mcssrs
Tompkins, Adouc and Goslin, Commute on
musc--Mr, Meis,crhans was authorized Il
select professionals rs conferecs. Commit
tee on advertising, Mcssrs Gnsllnand Stone
Committee on ,ransportation-Mcss
Sanger, X V. rompkins, l., kncphyaud ]
Schneider,
Provided nil arrangements can DO complc
ted, Il IL proposed to give the sWngcrcst II
May, commencing on the 18th and continu
Ing five days
Make your old things locke like new h,
using the Diamond Dyes, and you will b,
happy, Any of the fashionable colcrs Tor l
ppnts
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ulo,nc. Sweet Homo,

A we'll provided home is the dearest
place on earth, and those who will not pro.
vide for their own homes are unworthy OF
praise, Home manu- actures have the ilrst
claim on public patronage, aud A, Fox Is
the experienced manufacturer, aud the
only one IN the state OF Texas who makes
all kinds orplaiu and fancy candies at New
York prices Cali ut the place, SSi Maiu
street, aud take u view of the goods and
learn prices before purchasing elsewhere
Mrs. :, Il, Fox, who has been in the bust
ness since 1857, is always IN attendance ant
will give the lowest prices, Don't FORGE
the place, SSi Main street, where is to b,
found the best stock In all the west.
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Owing TO the embarrassing circumstances
Of the car works they were compelled To
forfeit, and rclinqnsh their contract for the
erection Of this building The Guards,
however, will not quietly surrender their
enterprise, but will .pcrseyere until their
purposes are accomplished and Dallas moi
only have q tlnc ymorv but aspacious hall
The citizens admire and appreciate the ari,
Of the boys aud will assist them. Lumber
has been optered aud work will commence
nj apgp
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Captain ], q, Arnold; city marshal, hO,
In his possession very pleasant looking
little boy, abou, seven years old, who was
found at the Union depot. The boy says
his mother put him oil OF lhe train at the
depot, and told Tim she would come back
after him, hut her evident intention was Il
abandon him. Tho boy says he wants u
home. Any reliable family wanting To
adopt q spr'ghtly boy had better call TO sec
Mr.. Arnold
on,cer Ed Cornwall says the small boy
euuivocates, and that he Is the son vt th,
lame street bcRgar seen upon of streets,