Dilatory Payment

- ■ . -An old farmer ia tho vicinity of Augusta, Msiine, sonio twenty years ago, at'ter concluding a " trade" for a large bill of goods with an Augusta dealer in furuiturc, as he was nliDiit to drive off, hailod tho funiitnre dealer with, " If yer will throw in a looking-glass, I bill bring yer down a barrel of nice apples." Tho minor was " thrown in " and this was the last soen of tho farmer, mitil a föw days since, when an agod farmer bsoked his " apple cart" up to the sidewalk opposite the furniture store, now ocupiod by sons of tho fornier ownor, opcned the door, and shouted : "Here's yer applos !" The surprise of the sons was groat, but the father, who was present, remeinbered the circumstances of tho trade and'hoartily greeted his old ncquaintance, who, aftor a lapse of twenty years, had not forgottcn his promise. - Kenncbec Jour. ui fc n . Tho earnings of the Kansas Paciflo Tailway for September and Octobor show an increaso of $112,000 over the same inontlis last ycar. Up to November Ist, 134,481 hoaclof cattle wero transported b er the road eastward, being 2,000 more tliAi the entire number last vear. Seventy-fire thoxisand allitioual hcad will he crrie-l to Kansas City for packing, and lor tho Bastera markets.