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\.•'••.^••j^'.a^^-'. -• -^ftjT|-ij ; ^;ir •i* m -r••--!*:•« VOL.; 3—NO; 7. FQRT COVINGTON, N.Y., THURSDAY,\ JULY 14, 1887. PRICE FIVF CENTS. i-n.t:ral Business Directory. LEGAL CARDS.- M ton ATT C. ATTORNEY r, Fort Coving- X. Y. itMKJK&'DU- ~2i Noire l>;wm.- an J. 8. Awm-. tul i.HW,' A RrHlBAUUloO*. jY CLu^i Adv.,,-u!os fct-n^t, Montreal.—AI-Wu B.\LJ>, M.A..H,i:.L., l'rmossur Crini JkleliiiJ ._ klMiLcai-i D- Mct'ottMirK, L'JIAKI.W A. l>rn,DS, U.A.. B.C.L.— Mr. Mt- CormirU ' ;ll attcn-J the <\>uru in Bcauhar- noi-i, r5t. Martin\'.' sn-i [Iuntm£<ion, and give ep^'J*' aiten*.ioa to !L<* l.ist.ru-i. Mr. Duclus wiit i'i.'ilow ike Courts in and givp social attention to thu Districts of St. llyacintUe and B^Iiord. Accounts for collection may b> iil-jJ----<*d iu the flria. Moutreal, or M. >S. [AMES 1 PHYS1CIAX i-5. •»<*•• ;.: 1 office, .vi:i«Tou, ST. Y . AND Win- Sclcctcd Poetry. THE CANDIDATE. \ Father, who travels tho road so late V* •' Hush, my child, 'tis the candidate: Kit PX,%mplH of human vowi— Karly he comes nml late he goes. He greets the wnmrn \rith courtly grace, lie kisses the baby's dirty fner 11° i!f^ ] * lo xhe ff '\ Cf * th e farmer at work^ He bon-5 tbe merchant,\he bores The clerk, The blacksmith, wliile his nnyii rrnjr-S H*> gr^ei*. ai»d ibis- is-tltf sorcfe h* siug# r \ Howdy, howdy, howdy-do? How is your wile, ant] how are you? Ah ! it fits my flat as \no other can. The horny hand or the workingman.\ \ Husband, w*io is that man at the gate?\ \ Hush, my love, 'tis the candidate,\ \ Husband, why e.nrt ho work )ike you ?*' •' My dear, ghpncyur a ir,a,n Isiinwn, -ter hand at making bread.\ 4 Then make it,\ brightly interrupt- d Gr=»oe* Eh ?\ said Aunt Defbby. There's a nice little store to lei on Bay street,\ went oq Grace, \ for $10 a month. ^ Bnt'I-h**ven't got $10 a month/ HAIR DRESSER- B ENJAMIN FKENTH. BARBER AND ;..ir Dresser, Water street, Fort Covlug-- N.Y. MISCELLANEOUS. 'B. BLOODr DKALEK IN' GROCERIES, FRUIT, PROVISIDSS Produce, &.c- f &,c-. Corner cLateau^ay <fc Water Sts. Ft)KT COVINGTOX, XX . July 26th, i.ssd. 3\. Q. CL, WATCHMAKER, At G. H. Niokelson's Drug Store FT. CO* l\GT0\, N. Y. Fine Watches a Specialty. CENTRAL VERMONT B. R. O. ic L. C. DIVISION No cash at home, no credit in town ; Too ntupid to preach and too proud to beg, Too timid to rob and too lazy to dig, Then over his horse his legs he flings, And to the dear p»x>ple this song he uiags: \ L'owdy, howdy, hewdy-do ? How is your wife, and how are yon ? Ah ! it flts my nst ua no other can,, Tho horney hand of the workingman.\ Brothers, who labor early and late, Aslt these things of the candidate : # What's his record ? how does he stand At home, no matter aJbout his haud, Be it hard or soft, so it be not prooe To c'lusri over money not hi* <m u. Has he in view no thieving plan? I*; he honest and e»pabl<»?—h« is our man. Cheer such a one till the welkin rings, Join in the chorus when thus he sings : •' Howdy, howdy, howdy-do? TTow i* your wife, and hovr are \you\? Ah ! it nts my fist as no other can The horny hand of the workingman.\ Selected Miscellany. 0 N'AND AFTER SUNDAY, JUNE 5, J??7, and until further notice, trains v?iii leave Brushton as follows:— GorK<J EAST. \\—. 7.32 A.M.— EXPKES.S, for stations on O. & L. C. R.R., connecting at Ronses Point with C. V.It.R. for^t. Albans, BarlSngtou,Portland and all points ei.<t, arrivirjg at Eoston at 7. :S P.M. ; Portland 8.QQ P.SC Connecting at Mooert Junction, with D. <fc H. C. Co. for Pittsburgh, arrive at lO.iS.A.-H. f.4(t P.iL—MA?L. stopping at all stations on O. &• L. C. R.Ii., connecting at gpuses Point with *h--ep:n» car train for points on D.&Fi. . C. Co.'s R.R. Arriving at Trey 2!25 A.M., Albany 2.55 A.M.. New York 8.00 A.M. At ST. Albans-wiiij sleeping car via Central Vt. 11.R. for Troy, Albany and New York, ar- rive 5.00 A.M. ; also all points east. Arrive itl Boston 7.45; Springfield 7.03 A.M. and Cherububco local train— , aad wett 4.G5 p.m.. OOiXG WEST. 10.02 A.M.—MAIL, stopping at all stations. Arrive at Ogdensburg 11.00 A.M. Connect- ing at Norwood with R.,W.<tO.R.R., at Og- den*bur*c with G.T.R. for all points west, and with St. L. & O. Railway. 9.5l P.M.—EXPUESS, for stations on O. & L. C. R.R. Arrive at Norwood 11.47 P.M., OZ- densburg 12^15 A.M. Connecting with G. T. Railway for all points west-. p&- Tickets to ail points east and vrest on »ale at Ticket Office. S. W. CUMMING3, J. W. HOB VRT, Qen. P»ss. Agt. President. J. C. JAME.SOX. Agent, Goes east 10.45 HOME, WATERTDWN & OGOE.ISBURG R.R. Time Table in effect May ISth, 1S87. T RAINS LEAVE MASSES\.* SPRINGS for points East, South and. Wet«t. I Rjj arrives DeKalbJunc. 8.45 a.m.; n.lll. Oijdensbure, 9.00 a.m. ; Phila- delphia, i>.5H a.m.; Clayton, 1©.25 a.m. ; Uiroartrtt p.m. • artbany, 5.00 p.m.; York, 9.uO p.m. p arrives Watertowu ound the house, and I ain't' strong- nough for regular hii*©d help. Yoar I l l I g g p I was 1 advised her to op*n this business, und she did, and she 1 * doing well; and ghe b»k68 the moat delioiona bread and pies you ever ate, BO,\ with % saucy twinkle under her eyelashtw, •\ if you know of any customers, will you please frebly interrupted Aunt Debby. u 141 Wnd tt* to you,\ #j*id \ out of the wages I have saved. And jiere's a pretty bedroom at the back >f the shop and a clean, dry basement under it, where j*uu can bake your bread. I know, for the »if>ter of the ludy where I board in looking for dres*- frjnre and I heard her ng about it\ *• Do you mean to open a bnkery ?*' -'id the bewildered Aunt Debby. '• Not exactly th-it,\ explained Graee. But if Mrs. Howitt or Mr.». Taybr, or sjny of the ladies around here, couid ijet real home-made bread, such as you make, do you suppose they would put up with what they get at the b;>ker shops? And you could easily get up a reputation on your raisin cakes, and recommend our firm ?'' To bo sure I shall,\ he ^aD»wered.' in the same spirit. '•• And I atn ?ery glad Miss Craxall, to see that you are iot ashamed of being a working girl.-- park, on Market street, near Fourth, Shortly after that he wrote M I am*now in the this cit; a AUNT DEBBY'S SHOP, \ Sh^'s an old darling,\ snid Grace Craxall, \ and I'm goin^ to help her fill I cm, I've got a beautiful recipe for chocolate eclairs, and on Friday evening I am going therft to make up all that I can, so that the rehool children w»ll buy them on Saturday [ know how to make cinnamon appli tart?, too, and lemon drops and cocoa. out halls.\ ' Grace, I do -believe you hare taken leave of your senses,\ said Medora May. \ One would think it was dis- grace enough for Aunt Dtborah—oui own mother's sister—to open a horrii little huckster's *hop, without our mixing ourselves up in the affair.\ 1 But Annt Debby must live, you know, 1 ' said Grace, who was perched, kitten-fashion, on the window-sill, { feeding the canaryVith bits of pnaik-' ling white sugar. ' ; And Cousin Nixon couldn't keep her any longer, and her eyes are not strong enough for fine needlework, and her education has not fitted her to be a teacher, and her poor old rheumatic bones keep her from goin£ behind a counter or enter- ing n factory. I suppose you wouldn't he willing to have her come and live with you?\ \ I! cried Medora. \ Do you sup- pose I want to proclaim to the whole town thnt 1 have each a dilapidated old relative as that ?\ \ I would take her quick enough,\ pjtid Grace, \ if I didn't board with Mrs. Howitt, and share the Httle up- stairs back roonx-with. the two child- ren. Just, wait till I marry some rich Vied crullers and New England pntup- le in pieg. Now oouldn't you ?\ The old lady brightened up a little. <4 1 u#ed to be pretty good at cook- tn£.\W£sbe. \ And if-yoo think h could support myseif\—-—- ^ I am sure of it !\ oried cheerful Grace. \And I'll go there with you this very day-io look at the place, and will engage it for three months on trial. And I oan paint you a sign to put over your door, * Home-made Bread by .Mrs. Deborah May !'• And I'll hem you spme curtains and arrange the t-hcivea in the low wiudow i I aN Of cou!\8e I am not,\ said Grace, y I be ?\ ' l'ut yoar cousin Medora is.'* Grace gave a little shrug of her shoulder?. •» •« Very likely,\ said she, \ Medora and I differ in many thir.gs.\ Mr. Valance bejaght a pound of caramels and went away. \ She is a beauty,\ he said to him- self. \ And she is a senaible beauty into the bargain; One of those rare creatures in our country a thoroughly well balanced girl.\ He must have been very well pleas- ed with his purchase, for he came ag.tin the next evening, ju*t in time to walk home with Grace Craxall. And they talked over Aunt Deborah's affairs, and concluded, as flour was low just then. it would be a favorable op- portunity for the old lady to lay in her winter stock through Mr, Valance, who was acquainted with one of thfl great ^ T Yor£ grain merchant*. of my family and find our four little prattler's, who olin£ about the knees of their grandpapa, afford me great pleas- «ir#. I am gurrounded by my friends •nd have a good daughter and son-io law to take oare of me. - 1 have got into my niche, a very good house, ffhich I built twenty-four yearg ago terdam, intimate iriencb and pirt wners in enormous ioterepts with tha Barings, As it nevtr ruin? but ji^»->urs t he Boihschilds followed with a !-imi:u» •ffer, bat tx> take £2,000.000, or *lfV 000,000. Lord Asbburtoo had veai •f the loan. He thought he knew a ood thing when besliw it. The ft:hop and out of which I have been kept ever since by employments. Franklia 4*ad &r small printing-pross Bet up in one of the upper floors of the house, with which he amused himself many an hour by hit experiments. But- 1b bu?y a life was not destined to be prolonged in quietness, fte n^»d been settled but a short time when bNiJjfe light went out on Saturday, April 17, 1790, when he was nearly ei<ih<y-,fivo. Three days later now nearly a hundred ^^ his remains were conveyed y Friends' Buryin2-Ground and placed besido those of his wife and the thin stone slab laid over them, Thoru was mourning throughout this and other lands. Twenty thousand peo- ple crowded the streets a«ound that old yiog-ground on the day of the fun- your But yon i 10.05 a.iu.; Rot i.4o p.m. ; Rocli 12.15 a, in. arrives 1.45 p.m. C, 4.50 p.ni. Buffalo, 3.30 P.M. IkKalb Jun e 5.05 p.m. ; Ogdenshurg, 8.10. ; p. m.; Utica, 10.0Q p.ia..; Aiimny. 2.00 a. m.; New York, 7.00 sum ; Boston, '9.35 a. T». ; arrives Water town, (J.55 p.m.; KHIIP, 9-50 p.m.; Syracuse, 10.10 p. in.; oawcfeo, f>.:ji> p.m.; leave Oswvgo, 7.00 a.rn. ; arriitgJltH^Ji^ster. 10.05 a.nl. ; Su«p. Bii'lftfi, 1.05 p.m.; Niagara Falls, 1 15 p.m. ;'Buffalo, 3.05 p.m. ALKKI'I'NG CAftrt ar« run between Ot«i>K»>iCKU and NKW YUUK K-avinK uur.4 1.20 p.m., Uaily (Suuduys fxefr Arrive Now York 7.0V a. m passengers int? Mastftia Spring* 3.45 p.m. can Hleephis Car at IkKalb June without ing lhe train. S}w« can be rf!>^rv«<l applyini: to the Company's Agents. Kor time tables, information and through tlckoU to point* Ka*t, West and South appJy ti>U. A. Movrltt, L»«pot Ticket Agent,M*ssena Springs, N. Y. 1L M. BHITTOK, THEQ. BUTTER£IKLI\ Ueu'l. Manager. tiVMt'l PsiiiKc'npcr AgU man,\ she added, with a saucy lifting of her auburn brows, then see if I don't furnish up a stately bby \ apartment for Aunt Debb !\ ^ \ Don't talk nonsense,\ said M idora, acidly, \ It's very likely, isn't it, that a fnctory girl like you is going to marry a rich man ?\ Grace Craxall laushed merrily. All through life she and -her cou-in, Me- dora May, had agreed to differ on most points. Grace, seeing no other career before her, had, on the death of her last surviving parent, cheerfully entered a fnctory, while Medora, tak- ing her stand on tho platform of a false gentility, had done fine sewing and silk embroidery on the sly to sup- port herself, putting on all the airs of a ynun^ lady of fashion the while And now Auut Deborah May, to the infinite disgust of her aristocratically inclined niece, had actually opened O BTAINKD, AND ALL OTHER ^»UK1IUH»H in th*} I'.SL Patent OfflcA atten- ded to for MODKKATK PKKsJ. Our ofn>e i* oppowil*' the V.&. PofcrntOfflce, and we can obtain Patent* in Ivan time than th«>M< romoto from Washington. ilvmi MoUtl or Urauing. W« advlM M to patentability frrrufi'lm'rgc; auU w« make no charoc tint ran «•<• obtain l*atmt. We refer, here, to the Po8t.iui»Mer,t!ie8upt.. of Motitfy Ordtr 1)1 v., and to offlclal* of the IT.s. Patent Ofllco. For oln*ular,a4vice,tormt And references to acinal elleaU in yaur owu «tate or county, writ© to C. A, SNOW A CO,., Ol>p. 1'»VVJU Oflivv, SSwUluf COB. D.C. ille low-windowed shop in a shady ii^t just out of tho main thnrouah fare/kid, as Medora dertpairingly ex pressed it, * 4 i^one into ti-adu T For Aunt Dubby, in her bewildered loneliness, had «J ireely known what t do till Grace Craxull came to the rescu^ with her hopeful courage and straight-\ forward common sense. \I'm so helpleM,\ «gncd the poor old lady, u that I ii?el r>m«timei it would bo better if I wcro dead.\ 'Now, Aunt Debby, that doetn't most wish I was going to be ^hop-girl,\ **e added merrily. ' I can hei-p you in the evening, know!\. Grace Crtxall's prophecies proved correct. Auot Debby'u deliei' ous home made b>-e )d, whiter tbun powdered litlics, sweet as ambrosia, soon acquired a reputation, snd the old lady could scarcely bake it fast enough. Pcoplo came half a dozen blocks to buy the yellow pumpkin pie* and deMcious apple tart'*. Children brought their hoarded pennies to in- vest in chocolate sweetmeats, vanilla caramels and cream cakes with puffy hells and delicious centres of sweet- iess. The little money-drawer grew ,t with cotng and Aunt Debbj's dim yes £T«w bright and hopeful nerain. And one day Mr. Herbert Valanee, walking by with Medoia May; stopped and looked in. ** Lsn-'t that your cousin Grace,\ said be, ** behind fhe counter ?\ Medora*tumed crimson with Toxa- on. ; \ My consin GneeT' *he said. nHeed, We are not in trade.\ What posa liberate falsehood Medora could not afterwards have told, Partlytthe stiag of false^shame, partly a disinclinntion for Mr. Herbert Valance to know that her relatives were, to use her expres- sion, \not ladies and gentlemen.\ Mr. Valance looked up at the sign over the door. \ Tho name is May,\ he remarked indifferently. \ Yes,\ said Medora, angry at her- self for blushing so deeply, * k but no relation to us.\ Mr. V*lanoe thought over H e mat* ;r. He aftenrarSa met 5f iss Mat at H party given by a friend, where pretty Grace Craxall was sJso present. He had Uken rather a fancy to the bright blue eyes and delicate blonde beauty of the former. His home was solitary eno.ugh, now that his sisters had all married and gone away, and perhaps a man might find * less uttraotivt And graceful wife than Medora May. But he could not be mistaken, ha thought in Grace OaxaH's identity. And so the next evening, about the same time, he sauntered into tho shop. GtHoe was behind the -daintily olean Httle counter, taking some nowly naadr* maple oaramri* off th« pan. She looked up with a smile. Only a few weeks bad elapaed when Medora May was electrified to learn that \\ev cousin Grace was engaged. ** To gome master baker or journey- man coo feet ioner, I suppose,\ she said contemptuously. \No said Graee with eyes roguish- ly sparkling, 41 to Mr.Herbert Vnlance.\ \1—don't-believe—it said Me- dora. growing red then pale. *' But it's reaily so, r said Grace. •' And we are to bo married in three months. And Aunt Dcbby is to come and live with me an soon, as she oan d is pose of her business to adfantsge, And, dear Medora, I hope you will often come and visit me, too.\ Medora May did not amwer. She could aut. But in her secret heart she realised how infinitely more suc- cessful in life's lists had been Grace's tn», frsnk honesty than her own sub- tle and detious course. Like many another, however, the lesson had come to her too late. [>art thereof, at par. Three day* ihere- ifter 'the same propositliin cqo»e Irona he great firm oi the Bones, at Am. great firms followed the lead of the Baringiy the rest is history. Whe» it was too late tho New York banker would gladly have come into the syndic cate, but they were not needed. Tho loa^s of the goverojent fro?n 1846 to 1848 amounting to nearly §40,000,000, were handled by Corooran &_Riggs who at one step went to the front and wefecthe clients and friends of the Rothsthild^ and Hopes and Baring?, who\ were tha world's princes of finance. eral, and as the simple cortege passe* over the few squares between the house and the greve bells throughout the elty tolled arjd' the minute guns bomne< [ denominations, the Supreme Exeou tive Council of the State, of which Eranklin was president ; the state Ass. embly. Judges of the Supreme Court, members of the bar, the officials of the city, printers and their workmen, the Philosophical Society, the Collet of DINING WITH QUEEN VICTORIA, A lady who ha<* been visiting. at Windsor Castle telte me that at dinner it is not etiquette to address the moa. arch unless direotly spoken to by her. The meal over, however, the visitor ottoe again finds his wa^ to the Grand ~ corridor, and here the queen says fare- well as she goes to her own private room.*. It is an experience to diue at the f)astlft. and the silver and ohina • „ will strike the observer on the brat visit as being hiagnifioent, especially the former. But dining at, Windsor i? so thoroughly formal that it is not enjoy* able. As a~critie onoe said of Milton that the perusal of \Paradise Lost\ should be kept for high d^ys and Pby«<icans, the ftudentg and Faculty (festivals, because it was \iike feasting of the Philadelphia College and many • off gold plate/' so magnificent and iui- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S GRAVE. A PhiUdelohia correspondent of the New York World has hpen visiting the grave of B njamin Franklin in that citr. He says: The bare, blank wtll§ of a Tery old bnryirig eronnd are frowned down nron by the towering structures of manufac- d bd ht d d h y g ture and badness that surround and hem other civic organisations attended the funeral. The pall-bearers were Gov. Thos. Miffio, Chief Justioe McKean, Tho?. Wiiiing, President of the Bank of North America; Mayor Samuel Powell, Wm. Bingham and David Rittcnhouse. Following the deattrmnd burial of Franklin came honors and eu- logiums from every where. In Congress, Madison offered a resolution which said: Benjirain Franklin was a citizen whose native genius was not more an ornament to human nature than bis various exertions of it have been precious to science. •• Friends of Liberty * in France erected a mausoleum, but Franklin's anhonored grave rests amid the turmoil and confusion of a great, busy city. pressive did it seem ; H>, I think, m were placed in the confessional would many of the monarch's gue&ts express themselves. My lady informant as- - suros me that the solemnity of the dinner is utterly opposed to anything Hkegayetyor even ease ol manner. To dine with her majesty is a thins to do once or twice ia a lifetime.— * can Register. d wa] , 8 RTe free s |ante ^ b Tne n g p y who died from old asre years ago. Birds come and rear their wide-mouthed families in this cool oasis in the great desert of throbbing citv street*. One old man, bent and wrinkled, takes an occasional walkj^er the scarcely dis- eernable, grass grown paths, and his are the* only feet that tread this silent city of tht dead. That graveyard was made long yenrs ago and the noisy city h*s grown all about it, crowding it and jostltog it,but never - en reaching beyond its walls From sun-up to midnight there is a coi$t*nt hurrying of wagons and cars and humsn bein^g by this necropolis. Yet that grnted opening has seldom a A FINANCIAL STQRT. THI NEGOTIATION OP OSI OF THE KAJILXBST LOANS OF TH* UNITED STATES, A few day3 sinoe Mr. Corcoran, the celebrated hanker ofJ^ashingiQiU^^ELj riterTwitlTparalysis, and his illness gives an especial interest to^the almost unknown story of the negotia- tion of -one of our earliest national loans, and the sudden success of the banking firm of Corcoran & Rfegs- The firm was but two years old when the Mcxioaq war began. The debt of the United States I hen was $15,550,000. The urgent and immediate require- ments of the goverment made it necessary to put upon the market a lo%n of $10,000,000, followed by another for the same amount, at 5 per cent.. NO POISON IN CANDY, < How about thecm3y children eat ? I remember the seisure of tons upon tona two years ago.\ \ Yes! and that settled it. That candy was colored with poisonous me- tallic colors, and the loss was so heavy to the manufacturers that they gave right up. They not only organised aa ' a nti -adulteration society—there are only fifteen or twenty cf them ia tbs city that-amount to anything—but com- pelled every outsider to come in and join them and to sign a sworn pledge to make only pure and harmless candy. y?. Once catoh some n a great while wo little manufacturer p on a side street coloring his candy with chromate of lead, but the great mass of candy is harmless sugar. I haven't heard if there has bren any falling off in infant mortality on that account, though there ousht to be. v — Dr. Cyrus Edson in Herald of Health. HE STAJD IN THE ifr. Frank Ration, editor of tha ! Chicago Mail, frequently spend* she. sound a bit cheerfully. liko you/' said Grace, But what am I to do ?\ said Aunt Deborah. • • What can you do ?\ said Crrao». 11 I don't know as I «m good for aoythiog,\ etuii the old lady, with « quiet tear or two, except to b«lp Good evening, Mr. Valance,\ said So.\ he thought, \ T Wasn't mis- taken after all. And the little blue* eyed seraph is mortal enough to tell a fatohood, in spite of her angelio ap- pearance.\ Bat he looked serenely at Graee. <> I didn't know you were in trade,\ said he. than a low rate of interest. a government loan of m I month at the lifth Avenue hotel. lo.. can 7! rati0l} _0a V jbe_jsiisaked why he you? Weil,\ retorted Graee, << I am my allot Deborah's shop girl at present. I nlwaytoom« hereto the evoniojrs to help her, heea«M,\ the added, with a sweet shade of •ertow* n«u coming over her free. \ auot was old and poor and she didn't know how to maintain herself in independence; und, oofortonately, my wagts at the factory §re cot ewwgh ftr Mk> So visitor, thouarh There lies wfHrtora few feet of it the dust of a man who«e pro- found wisdom and humanity moved the whole civilized world. Over the city there are mills and printing nhone^and factories and found- ries bearing his name, while all over the State and the country there are towns and townships and counties also beanos: his name. Yet there He his bones downr in the heart of this big city, wtfh arteries throbbing with the work and pleasure of men; beneath a thin stone slab, whioh .grows greener and thinner year by ye*r, obscui*ed by the Hghest snows .of winter, the earliest grasses of summer and the first fail of autumn leaves. A singular end of a marvelous man! I looked through the bars. With much craning of my neck and much prising of my free acrainat tho bars I m«de, out the fast fading inscription in the thin marble slab: ~~~ J BENJAMIN • I ! AND • j \1 DKBOBAH FRAJfKUS. | Benjamin Franklin, after many years •pent abroad enlightening OKO, gaining fMth wisdom and laurels, earae home to live in quiet retirement with hit son- io4aw, Colonel Richard Baohe, at the old xaMmmm, which tlood m a Urge erest was a finanoial feat that the great bankers of that epoch in the United States dared not venture. Robert J. Walker, ot Mismsipi secretary of the treasury. A,t a period when the capital of a young and grow- ing nation was pretty well ab-orbed in improvements, he realiied that it would be better to eo into the open market sad obwin~his money as an individual would. He went there.~~The W;»?h- ineton finn of Corcoran &^Ri«gs de- ke h fl l ineton finn of Con g cided to tak the flrat loan of $10,000,- 0x>0 flit, with tho privilegei>f tha firet offer of any other that might be tender^ ed. The second, for the same amount, >oon followed. At \\first there were difficulties. The great Quaker bankers of New York and Philadelphia, such asJosiah Maey & JSons, would have none of the loan, because the moopy was to bo use-i in making war. They were men of peaoe. But there was a demand. Trustees with money to in- vest for minor heirs took some of the hoods, and there was a fair home demand, when something occurred to change the entire affair, Lord A^bbur- t»>n, of the banking-house of Baring Brother*, was then in this country negotiating a treaty with Daniel Web ster. He waa deeply impressed with the reeoutees of the country, One day Messrs Ooreoran & Rig^a were astonished beyond measure to receive a letter from\ the London. hou*e of Barings offeriog to take £1.000,000 wortfc of Unite* States }m&, or any did not parade; \Parade?\ ho- «*ked. tho fire flashed from 4i is tjes. -Why. C have had enough marcliicg. The war sa! - fied me for all time to come. I will niircu \a much le>6 join a ujiiitary orgauiz-ition. Thut kind uf gUtttr and outward *bow may have an, effect upon the hoi polioi but n^t upon me. 1 went iuto the war when I was 16, and carrie-i a 'iiu^kei. I was willing to m»wh then. One d^y an officer, whom 1 knew, asked uio if I did not desire to do staff duty. I asked him if that meant I wts to be- come an orderlv. Ho answered yts. I told him that I had rather be a private p ai»y tUy and carry my musket than mlerly'to hold the horses for a lot of fficcrs. 1 continue in the ranks.— Stw Tori WorU. * * * Sht^purd's Condition Powders are a tonic—utving strength, they alter the morbid state of auy organ atui the blood if :.ffotfd by the germa of oont«gk»us or infectious diseases. A trial of a single package of Sheprds Con, dition Powders, will convince the mosi skeptical that they are all that is claim* ed for th*in. Sold in Ft Coviugtou Center by Henry & Ordway, general merchants. To most children, the bare su<rge$tiGn of a do^e of c;tstor oil is nauseating, h lii o d When physic is necessary for the onea. use Ayers Cathartic Pil>». Ayer are sate and thdn. ta take. Thoy
