Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1893 — Page 10

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THE INDIANA STATU SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY 15. 180'5-TWEVLE PAQE3.

COL CARPENTER'S REVENGE.

Y The colonel and tha cap'n nevr bad been very good frionda. They diHered in pol it ten, you know. Tbo colonel waa republican to hit backbone, as all hit family Lad ben before biin, an the cap'n was a red-Lot democrat. Lively times they bad when 'lection day come round ; you'd thought the futur' o' tLe nation 'pended on the way the tote went in that one town. The year they was put up again' one another for representative was a regular caution I reckon 'twaa done as much for the fun o' the fiht aa anythin', an' if that was what folks wanted they bad their wish. But the cap'n come off the best man, an' the colonel chalked it down on the score he had again' Lim, an' rowed he'd be even with him some day. That wad just aftor the ice-house buainods bad made matters kinder personal 'tween 'em. There waa a jood deal o' hard feelin' 'boat that ice bouse, an' you couldn't wonder. It belonged to a dozen o' tbo men o' the town; but ad it stood oa the colonel's ground, Le had a big share o' the management an 'eponsibility, an' it was a business that paid him well. They 'all made money out of it from the lirst. The situation, you eoe, was so uncommon tine, not a quarter of a mile from the mouth o' J luck river, whero it empties into tLe Connecticut, an' the channel up close to the dock, ho the Invest schooners could sail up an' petthoir supplied. Well, ail went on prosperous as could be an' would V been preßperin' still if Cap'n Zekiel Cary hadn't got it into his bead 'twould be a pood thing to consolidate with a New York company. They didn't all acree with him, an' Col. Carpenter stood out azainst it to the lagt, tut the cai.'n he owned a eood deal o' stock, an' some o' the party he overpersuaded, an' some he jua bore down, without tali in' the trouble to persuade 'em at all, an' one way'n another he carried his p'int an' 'twas doce. I can't uo over all the particulars now, but it didn't tako the city company lone to settle 'em, an' the old ice houso was shut up with a law upon it that tr.ey couldn't never open another there without tho consent o' the men in 'ew York. 'Tvua pretty mean piece o' work all round, an' so they felt it, an' the cap'n au' colonel had it betwo'U 'em hot an' heavy. The cap'n eaid 'twas just an' error in judgment; he hadn't nennt to lose by it; an' the colonel up an' told him he jruessed his losees wa'n't heavy euough to hurt him, which waj the same as say n' he'd been dhonobt, an' w a'n't hardly fair. 'Tain't never beet to 'eu.su folks up an' down till you've got your proofs iu your j ockt. Iiut us I was savin', the rolonal . What was he colonel of? Why, in the militia to bfl sure, when he was a younj roan, an the cap'n eoniroanded a sIood 'fore he waa married ; then ho Hold out an' went into the dry goads business. But, as I was aayin'. the years went by, an' epite o' the colonel's spirit, the cap'n'a emt alwajs 'peared to be keu' up the beat, till ne night younir Josiah Cary went home with l'olly Carpenter from eineiu'-echool, m' the colonel tea 'em through the winder iayin' good-night at the gate. Then he knew he'd got a chance at last to score one. He didn't say nothin', but the next inornia l'olly was started oil" to hoardm' school, an' she never knew, then nor afterward, that ehe owed her eidicatiou to young Joaiah. 'T was precious little eddication Josiah could get himself, an' it made hint feel bad, too; he'd set Ida hnort on goin' to college, but his father wouldn't hear on't. The deegtrick school hed be'n good enough for him, and ha guessed 'twould do for hi son. lie wa'n't goin' to raise up no children o' his with huh-flyin' notions -that waa a cut at the colonel an' l'olly an' he pinned Josiah down ou the farm an' kep him there. It the cap'n had anv other children to look to, I reckon Josiah would broke away; but he was all thery w&3. and I 'pope he had kind of a sense o' duty, tor be buckled to an' did his bet. an' farmin' in Connecticut means plenty o' hard work an' precious little time for foolin' if voo're goin' to make it pay; but the cap'n he seemed to prosper ia whatever he undertook. The colonel hain't had no luck since the ice housu went to smash, lie iot a power o' money there, aa' wanton nigh as much over the 'lections, an' he wa'nt one that would ever get ahead much fariuin' without 8omethin outside to help alonr. Tie worked Lard enough, but he had dreadful poor luck an & large fa:iilv dependin' oa him four children 'sides I'ollv, a'.I of 'em girls, an' a married daughter whose husband had b'en out o' health ever einco the took him. He meant well, hut ho never did nothin', an' they had three small children ; so, takin' it ail together, it cost the colonel a good deal to live. II. 'Twas in the middle o' November when Tolly come home. She'd be'n off ail cum- j mer viaitin some friends, an I reckon the difference must 'a' be'n kinder hard on her at first; but the pitched right m an' went to work. There was plenty she could do to help Ler mother, but it made her feel bad to see her father look so tired an' down in the mouth. It weighed on her mind that he'd epent eo much on her when he n' the fari.ily was bavin' ruich a hard time to get along, hho felt she'd got to make it up to 'em somehow. The only one she wouldn't do for was her Pinter's husband; she had no patience with him, fcr it 'peared to her if he'd take more exercise an leas medicine 'twould be'n better for him an' all the rest. Hut ehe didn't dare tell nobody but her mother how she it It 'bout him, an' the colonel's wife only sighed. "If you want to f.et married, child," eez she, ''you must take such a hu.band as the Lord sends you, an' than make the best of him. f-uesn didn't do aa well as we'd be'n glad to have her, but we'd ought to be thankful ehe didn't do no worse. Horace ain't a drinkin' man and his morals is good; you'd ought to 'member all that when you feel put-out with him." l'olly didn't mean to be wicked, but she couldn't help savin' if the Lord was 'sponsible for all the husbands in the world, he'd showed pretty poor judgment in some cae-3. Iier mother was dreadful shocked. "Don't let me hear no more such talk as that, roily Carpenter," eez ehe. "He send crosses an' trials where they're seeded, an' whatever shape they come in you've to consecrate 'em to the end they was meant for, en' work out your own salvation with fear an' tremblin'." "All right," sez l'olly; "if I get a husband like Susan'a I'll consecrate him to bis end without loss o' time, an' work out my own salvation with none o' bis help aa' company." JoeiahM be'n lookin forward to Polly's corriin' home ever since she went away. He wa'n't one who went 'bout much with tba young folka in the place. but he'd kinder kep' his mind fixed on her, an' Boon's he hsard she was back be begun to study how he was goin' to get a chance to meet her. lie hadn't made up his mind bow 'twas to be managed, when he got his opportunity ens day quite unexpected l r. He'd be'n up on Hickory bill workin with Lis men, Rot tin' out railroad ties in'

Tost cord wood, an' as he was late 'boot goin home to his dinner, ho was takin' a short cut through the colonel's woods, when all to once ho heard a groat chatterin' an' laughin' ahead of him, an' he comes upon a whole crowd o' children creepiu' around through the underbrush like a (lock o' partridges. They was after wintarirren berries, an' Tolly was with 'ein, sit'.in' on a Jog with her lap full, tyin' 'em op into bunches an' droppin' 'em into a basket. She looked up kinder, sca'ed when she heard Josiah crashin' through the bunbes. Then she see who 'twas an' smiled. Tolly had a dreadful pretty smile. It laughed in her eyes and dimpled in her cheeks. You couldn't see it without wantin' to kiss her. "Oh, it's you!" sez she. Hut Josiah didn't answer for full a minute. He knew he was done for lor good an' nil. "How do you do?" sez Tolly, holdin out her hand to him. "We're gettin' wintergreen to send up to the town hall to nicht to be sold for the benefit of the heattien." An' Josiah sat down beside her on the log an' wondered how he'd stood it all thee years waltin' for her to come homo. 'Twas gettin' on toward 4 o'clock, an' the afternoon sun slanted through the trees, an' the dry leaves ru-tled thick at their feet. Every once in a while one of the little girls would run uo with a fresh handful o' leaves to pile in l'oliy's lap. an' Joshua forgot all 'bout his dinner an' his supper as well whib they talked au' talked. "I hope you'll rome to see me," sez Tolly when she bid him good-by. "1 know so fow folks in the town." An' then, all to once, Josiah 'membered the colonel. "Til come if you an' your father'U let me." sez he. "I have asked you," sez Tolly, an' then she 'membered the cap'n. "Have you had any quarrel with my father?" sez she. "I? Oh, no," sez Josiah, meetin' her eyes straight an' fair. "There's no reason why 1 shouldn't come that 1 know of." Tody was real clever with her pencil, an' she was drawin' pictured that evenin' to 'muse tho children. She did Franky playin' with his cat, an' their mother knittni' in tho corner, an' Susan's husband takin' a bowl of honeeet tea. An' tlien she did Cap'n Cary as she had Eeen him the day afore trvin' to scramble onto his horse, trout o' tho poetotlice. Thecoionol laughed till he cried ovbr that. Then the children went off to bed, an' l'olly still sat at the table working ovor her papers. "Who' re you (loin's now'.'" sez the colonel, comin' up behind her. "You can't boat that last ?" Tolly iooked up with a little start, but she give him that picture as she had the others, an' her father took it an' looked at it wiltiout a word. 'Twas full as jood as any o' the rest, but there wasn't nothin' tunny 'bout it. 'Twas only Josiah in his flannel shirt an' fsit hat, his axe in his band, his face turned as if he was listenin'. "Wn met him up in the woods toil ay." sez Tol y, as the colonel didn't speak. "Whe-i 1 naked him to call he said he'd Uke to if you had no objection." "What objection should I have?" eez the colonel, layin' down the picture. "He'd wel! enough, far'd ever I heard. Not one to set the great river afire, but ho may be honesfer'n Lis father if he ain't so smart.'' "II is honest," fgz Tolly, touchin' up the picture with her pencil. The coionel lookei round an' see the rest o' the family was cone V bed. Then he leaned hack in his chair for a talk. He'd never hail murli to her afore 'bout the trouble 'tween him an' the cap'n, but I reckon he thought a mutter-f stood ehe might's well know some o' the ins an' outs of it. I don't doubt he meant to tell her the story truthful an' unbiased, but bis wrongs had bo'n growtn' on him all these years. He'd had a hard time an' he'd got it kinder fixed in his mind that the cap'n was 'sponsible for the whole on't. Well, l'oilv she was dreadfui fond o' her father, an' she listened an' listened, her cheeks growin' redder an' her eyes shinin' with a tire that would scorched his enemies we!l if they'd be'n there handy. "I ain't got nothin' in particular against Josiah, if you lik him, :an want him to come J here," the colonel finished up; "but 1 thought you'd better know how matters etood 'tween the families." Jodiah'.-i picture had bo'n lyin' on the table all this time. Teared as if his eyes was on Tolly, waitin' to see how she'd decide. She picked uo the picture while the colonel was speakin' and tore it across from one end to t'other. "I gness we don't want nothin' to do with none of 'em." she said, an' then she Hung her arms 'round her father's neck an' fairly smothered him with kisses. Joaiah didn't wait long 'bout payin' hU call, an' he had a tall: with his father 'lore he started. His mother was dead I don't know's I toiil you. The cap'n was siltin' 'foro the ro with his paper when Josiah come in. "So you're oil" for the evenin', hey ?" 6ez he, lookin' up. "I'm goin' to see Tolly Carpenter," sez Jo-iiah. The cap'n leaned back in his chair an' put bo'.h hands in his pockets. "Serious intentions in that direction?" sez he. 'I want her for mv wife," eez Josiah. "Have vou anv objections to mv marrvin'?" "None," sez the cap'n. "The sooner the better. Have you any reason to s'pose you can get Tolly Carpenter?" "No," eez Josiah, "but I'm goin' to try." The cap'n 'peared tobemightly tickled. "Uo ahead," eez he. üet her if you can. She's a prettv girl, an' I've be'n told she's smart. It's time we had a wornon in the house. The colonel will say it's the meanest trick we've played him yetl"ac' the cap'n chuckled. "Have we ever plaved him any tricks?" eez Josiah. lookin' at his father. "lie thinks we have," sez the capn', "so it 'mounts to the same thing, fur's his feelin's are concerned. You won't get his daughter without a sharp fight for her. If 'twas me, I shouldn't be 'fraid but I'd come out pn top, but you you take a little too rauch after your mother, Josiah." The colonel come to the door when Josiah knocked, an' showed him into the sittin' room civil enough. All the family was there 'cept I'oily. an' he sent (iusty, one o' bufan's children, to look for her. Gusty wa'n't gone but a minute. Aunt Tolly was puttin the baby to sleep, r-he said, an' shook her head at her not to epeak for fear o' wakiu' him. Josiah had a vision o' l'olly in the juiet room overhead, singin' to the baby in her arms, an' lie lost the drift o' the colonel's remarks, an' he answered he didn't know what to his questions. The colonel waited fifteen minutes or so. then ho guessed the baby must be 'sleep by that time, an' sent Gusty out again, (in-ty come back. "Aunt Todv's mankin' bread up for tomorrow," says she. "I)id you tell her who was here?" sez the colonel. "Yes," sez Gusty; "she says she must be 'scused." Josiah found his father up waitin' for him when he got home. "Well, what luck?" he ca led, 'fore his son wss fairly inside the door; "you didn't 6iar very late!" Josiah knew be might's will tell him

all 'bout it fust as last, little as he felt like talkin'. So he walked in an' got it over in the fewest words he could, while tho cap'n sat an' littenod, strokin' his black beard. "Well," soz he, lookin' at Joaiah kinder curious, "what you goin' to do 'bout it?" "I'm goin' to try'n see her," sez Josiah, "an' find out whether she's pleasin' herself or her father." "If you find out 'twas her father are you goiu' to be beat by him?" sez the cap'n. "No," eez Josiah. "If you find out she was suitin' herself are you goin' to be beat Ly her?" "I shouldn't trouble a girl to serve me like that but once," soz Jdsiah. "Hun," sez the cao'n, "that's where you differ from me. I asked your mother fourteen times, an' sh liked anotnerman better inter tho bargain, but the waid yes in tho end. It all 'ponds on whether you want 'em enough to take the trouble." it's not that," sez Josiah, "but I couldn't torment a girl into bavin' mo! I shan't give in till I've seen her once more ; if she teds me theu she don't want nothin' to do with me, that'll settle it." "You're a modest feller," sez the cap'n, "expectin a girl to fall head an' ears in love with you, seein' you once, in your every-day clothes ! How does she know whether she likes you or not? 'Course the colonel's goin' to head you of!" if he can you knew that when you started. If you ain't man enough to hold on for your rights, the sooner you throw up your hand the better." So Josiah laid in wait for a chance to sue Tolly, but day after day went by without bis gettin' it. She was too busy to homo to ruu round the country much, an thinks likely she kep' cloear'n she really need tu 'bout that time. III. The weather was growin' colJer'n colder. It had got well 'long into December an' everybody was gettin' ready for snow. It began at lat, 'bout noon one day. Josiah was choppin' up in tho woods as usual. He hadn't seen nothin' o' Tolly ail this while, an' the world 'peared to him to be a lonesome place that offered precious little compensation to folks that tried to live in it. He hadn't noticed the snow much till he started for home, an' 'twas comin' pretty fast by that time. He took the short cut through the colonel's wood lot, as ho'd done ever since the afternoon he met Tolly there, but tho log where they sat was white with snow, an' tho wind whistled in the tops o' the tall trews, an' shivered through the dry loaves hangin' on the young oak bushes, an' the prospect wa'n't nowa s cheerin'. 'Twas worse still when he come out o' the woods, for the storm was sweepin' 'cross the bills with nothin' to break its force, an' the snow was real deep already. The wind wa rollin' it up into drifts like tho waves o' the sea. Joeiah was lookin' 'bout when all to once he flee somebody was ahead of him. 'Twas a queer lookiu' ligger for a minute he couldn't tell whether 'twas a man or a woman, for it had a long coat down to its hoe!s on' a red piaid shawl over its shoulders, an' a green an' yaller worsted comforter wound round its bead an' neck, ant 'twas eittin' ou tho low stone vr.ll emptyin' the snow 'out of its overshoes, an groanin' a.s if 'twas in terrible sutlerin'. "Horace Comstock!"' Hez Josiah, for it turned its head as he come up, an' he see 'twss Susan's husband ; "what you here for?" Bez ho. "Tain't for no wish o' mine, you'd better believe !" sez Horace standin' up an' puttin' on his mittens; "I reckon my liie's more consequence 'n a llock of eheep, but you coubin't make Tolly Carpenter think so. You wouldn't e'pose nobody'd send a dog abroad in such weather, let alone draggin' cut a fe ler creetur! Tut that girl ain't got no more feelin' than a stone wall." "Is she here with you now ?" eez Josiah. "O, laws, yes! she's up on the bills somewhere. I toid her I wa'n't goin' no further, I'd climbed 's high's I could O, what au awful storm I'm freezin' to death!" an' he groaned an' beat his hands together tiil 'twas painful to hear him. Josiah etood lookin' down at him with his hands in his coat pockets. "Where's the colonel?" eez he. "Laid up in bed with a cold as I shall be tomorrer. He ain't be'n out for a week, an' if i'oily'd done aa she'd oughter an' hired a man to look out for thing, we'd be'n all right. Hut no, she must up an' say she can 'tend to everything with my help, an' she's be'n havin' me out in all weathers, glad of a chance to torment me. O, massy me! If her siater'd be'n like her, Td never married inter that family, I can tell you!" "You'd better go home," eez Joeiah; "I'll look out for the eheep." "Will you really?" eez Horace, eo pleeased he couldn't hardly believe his ears; "well, now, I always said the Cary'a wa'n't so black a they was painted !" but he didn't Io90 no time in gettin' oil 'fore Josiah could change his mind, though if h'd only known he needn't be'n worried. Josiah wa'n't long in hndin' Tolly. He knew the sheltered places where the sheep would go, and he heard her callin' just 'fore ho got to her. "Horace! Horace! come here quick! There's three little lambs here an' I can't carry 'em all." The sheep was huddled together close under a ledge, an' l'olly was standin' in the midst ot 'em, with one o' tho lambs in her arms, a cloud o' snow whirlin' off the rock over her head, an' a big drift curlin at her feet. She didn't look cold an' eulTerin'. The piakest roaea you ever see would no more'n matched her cheeks, an' her eyes was all the brighter for the storm, but she didn't look pleased when she pee Josiah. "I was callin Horace," sez she ; "did you see him." "Yes," eez Josiah, "I met him a minute ago; he's gone home." Tolly's face lengthened out at that considerably, I can tell you. "Gone home!" sez she. "Why, how " an' then she stopped kinder sudden. "Til help you with the eheep," eez Josiah. Tut Tolly had drawn herself up as stiff as the colonel. "Thank you, I don't need to trouble you; I sha.ll manage somehow," sez she. "You won' be troublin' me, an' you can't possibly manage by yourself,""sez Josiah. lie didn't ask her no more questions; be jet picked up the Inmbs. She wanted to carry one of "em, but he wouldn't let her, an' fctarted the sheep off down the hill. There wa'n't do time to lose if they was goin' to get 'em home that night, an' he, thanked his stars he'd happened to come that way an' I guess she did, too, in her heart. Time the sheep was in the yard, an the bars put up behind 'em twas dark, an' Tody was so tired she could hardly stand. She knew she ought to say something to Josiah, for what she'd 'a' done without bis help she didn't know. Tut she hesitated an hesitated an' couldn't seem to find words to begin with, while the storm w hirled round an' round 'em. shuttin' 'em in, ns if there wasn't nobody but them two in the world. Tolly was leanin' 'gainst tho bars with one hand on the top rail. "I I ouifbt to thank you," eez she. Josiah put Ids hand over the little red mitten an' squeezed it up tight. "I don't want any thanks," sez he; "if I could take care of you a? I'd like to " Then he broke off short. "Go in an' get warm an' rested," sez he, "an' eepd out your eiiter's husband; I'll help

him do the chores tonight. I want to have a talk with him. He ought to be man enough to do 'em by himself." Tolly looked up to him kinder doubtful. She was vexed with herself afterward to think she had give iu to him an' did as he told her, but I reckon she was too tired to stand disputin. She never knew what he said to Susan's husband, but his areyments 'peared to have weight to 'em, for though Horace moaned an' groaned, an' tied himself up in every shawl there was in the house, he did the chores reg'lar's clock work, an' Tolly didn't have to go out no more. The colonel was sick all winter, an' his family had a pretty hard time, but 'twould be'n worse still "if they couldn't have 'pended on Horace. Tor not only did he do the reg'lar chores, as I told you, an' never forget the kindlin'-wood, but he brought in tho eggs night after night, witliout bavin' to be minded, sometimes mauy's two dozen at a time tbey never had known their hens to lay so well durin' the winter season an' more'n once lie brought in a pair o' fat chickens, all dressed an' ready for dinner he 'prised 'em every day in the week, dorn' something they hadn't 'apectud of him. Susan worried herself most to death over him, fearing he was goin' to die, an' Miss Carpenter was all the time p'intin' out to Toily how 'twa'n't safe to judjje folks. Uvea Tolly herself betrun to think p'aps she hadn't done him justice. Josiah didn't come to the bouse no more. Tolly kinder wondered 'bout that, he'd bo'n so friendly, but she s'posod ho thought it hadn't paid. IV. Well, as I was savin', 'twas spring 'foro the colonel was able to get out, an' Tolly was a happy girl when he was 'bout again, it bad be'n a great relief to him to know Horace was doin' bo well, an' when he'd be'n all round an' seen things really was lookin' as they should, he praised him up to the ekies, an' Tolly really was 'shamed o' herself, that she couldn't feel no more confidence in him. She was thinkin' it over one afternoon, when she was up in the btore-room gettin' a pen o' dried apples. The store-room was the only place in the house that looked down on to the barn-yard, an' while she was thinkin' l'olly went to the winder to see if Horace wad doin' his chores. Ah I said, she'd distrusted him all along, but 'twas a shock to her when ho see Josiah ws milkin'. There couldn't be no mistake 'bout it, for 'twas light enough to seo, an' his broad shoulders an' grayielt hat didn't bear no resemblance to Horace in his shawls an' comforters, l'o'.ly took her pan o' dried apples down stairs an' eet 'e.n on the kitchen tablo. Then she went through the house very quiet an' out by the side door, not to 'tract 'tention. Then eho run to the hack o' the barnyard an' climod over tho wall, an' so round the corner o' the stables an' up behind Josiah. "Good evenin'," sez he, lookin' up as if 'twas all a matter, o' course, but l'olly couldn't wait for manners. "You've be'n doin' this ever since you helped mo get the eheep homo last winter," eez she, breathless with runnin' so fast, an' tremblin' all over, she was eo excited. Josiah set the pail o' milk up on the wall very careful an' then he come back an' fitood lookin' down at her, "It wasn't fair," sez l'olly, "to deceive us into takin' favors you knew we wouldn't accept! How dared you do it!" "You haven't accepted anything," eez Josiah, "your brother-in-law'a 'sponsible for ad I've done.'' "You didn't do it for him!" sez Tolly, an' then she colored uo as red as fire an' wondered how she come to be such a fool as to say that. Tut Josiah didn't take no advantage, only he looked down at her. an' ho had dreadful pretty bluueyes, honest and true, an' they sent a queer pain through l'oliy's heart 'fore the knew if. "I did it for your father," sez he. "Though I don't expect you to believe me, I've always liked him. 1 did it for you, because I couldu?t take care of you nor help you in any other way. Tut "if 1 was to tell you I liked you, you'd laugh in my face or else be angrier 'n you are row." "You mustn't come here any more!" sez Tolly in a great hurry, her breath comin' quicker 'n quicker. I know I'm sure you mean to be kind, but we can't take favors " "Suppose you grant one, then, for a change."' eez Josiah, an' l'olly locked as if she was scared, but he went on, "You know you can't 'peud on your eistor's husband. If you send nie off, an' if your father eees you doin' such work, he'll start out an' do it for you, when he'd ought to be takin' care o' himself in tho houne. Tor his sake, I reckon you'd better leave things as they are." "Oh, I can't," Bez I'oliv.her color comin' an' goin'. "He wouldn't like me to I must do the work tome way without hh knownin'." Josiah was wishin' he could pick her up in his arms as he had the lambs that night, an' carry her off where he could take care of her, an' protect her from everything that hurt an' troubled her, but he only said : "There's one other way lean do. Y'onr brother-in-law's asleep now up on the hay. I'll go ar.d see if I can scare him into bracin' up for a while. I can tell him the colonel has 'fpicions o' what's be'n goin' on." "Tell him if the coloaol finds out, he'll kill him V sez Tolly. "Oh, if you can do that, I will be 'bliged to you." Josiah laughed in a sad kind of way to himself, an' l'olly said good-night in a hurry, an' ran oil fast as Ehe could, fear Horace should wake up an' see her. Sho never noticed the colonel, who'd be'n etaudin' by the bars all this time in the shauder o' the house. He'd followed on after l'olly when she went out the i ie door, thinkin' ho'd go with her for a little walk; but when he come up to the bars an' see who was there, he stopped not that he was an underhand kind o' man, but when a daughter o' his talked to a Cary he wanted to bo round. He didn't have much to say that evenin'. He was thinkin' an' thinkin' to himself. "The boy looks like his mother," eez be. "If 'twa'n't for the cap'n "J He waited till all the rest was gone off to bed, for that was the time he always took for his talks with Tolly; then sez he, "Have you ever noticed young Joeiah Cary?" quite Budden. as ehe was lightin' his pipe for him. an' it pretty near cost him his evenin' smoke, for Tolly give a dreadful guilty start, an' down went the pipe an' the terbaccer all over the floor. "Oh," sez Tolly, and dropped on her knees to pick it up. "Why, of course I've seen him, father," lookin' into the bowl o' the pipe to be ture 'twas empty 'fore fche gave it back to him. "He 'pears to me to be the Hkeliest young man in the place," sez the colonel ; "I didn't know but I'd prejudiced you 'gainst him by what I told you when you first come home, but he ain't 'sooueible for bis father's actions. He'd ought to be'n my 6on by rights, 'stead o' tho tar.'n's." The colonel took his pipe out o' Tolly's hand an' filled ii himself this tini i. He didn't say any more tili he'd got it lighted an' drawin' well. Then be leaned back in his chair an' watched her sweep up the hearth. "The cap'n always felt that havin' a son gave him a kind of advantage ovor tue an' my girls," sez the coloDeU "I reckon you could even up the difference now, Tolly, if you was a mind to." "Well." sez tho cap'n next night when he ice Josiah hadn't been off any where as

usual, "your job's up. id it? Discharged with a reprimand, eh? Just as I expected. You'd ought to took a little more after me if you was goin' to get ahead of the colouel." Ho didn't say no more, but be got on his horse the next mornin' an' rode over to the Carpenters. 'Twas a reg'lar March day, the sun shinin' an' the wind blowin' the dust up in c!ou!s. The colonel was 'lone in the front room, sittin' by tho winder in the sun. Ho see the cap'n coinia' through the gate an' he let him in himself . "Why, how do you do, colonel!" sez the cap'n, bustlin' in. "I'm glad to seo you round again. You've been havin' a real siege of it, I guess." "I'm better, thank ye," sez the colonel, verv stately. "What can 1 do for you, Cap'n Cary?" "Well, noihin' for me in person," sez the cap'n. takin' tho chair pointed out to him. "I come to vou this mornin," colonel, as man to man. We've had our differences in years past, au' we've fought 'em out. I don't see's wo need to bear grudges towards one 'nother no longer. I ain't got no ill will to you, or I shouldn't be nere " "It's very handsome of you," sez tho colonel in his civile! tone ; "be eo good as to mention your business. "I'm comin' to the p'int," sez tho cap'n. "My son has a hankerin' after your daughter. My business i to a?k you if you're willin' to 1st bygones be byones. I don't portend I ain't heard how you've thought I overreached you. I've be'n told that you're waitin' to get your revenge on mo. You've got your chanco now, if you choose to take it, or will you give it .up, colonel, and let the young folks be happy if they can?" Soz the colonel, "I'm going to have my revenge." "Then there's no mere to be said," sez the cap'n, gettin' up. "Your girl won't listen to Josiah without your leave." The colonel's gray head was turned away; he was lookin' outo' the winder. "My little Toliy !"eez he to himself; then ho turned back and waved his hand towards the cap'n. "Sit down," sez he, "an' listen. There ain't no use in talkin 'taut setllin' the differences 'tween you an' me without evenin' up the matter square. I don't expect you to understand me. We're n.en of a diirerent stamp. If I'd been in your shoes today comin' an' askin' for a favor o' you, 'twould hurt me moro'n any trick you could played me, do your'cuteit! An' if you'd granted the favor I believe on my srul, Td ehot you 'fore I'd took it! I measure my revenge bv my standard, not by yours. I don't let myself down to your level. Your son has my free consent to speak to my daughter, whicfi clears od a few obligations he's been layin' me under this winter, an' settles up my account with you." "W.eli." 6ez the cap'n that night when he was talkin' it over with Jot-iah, "I own I come pretty near tellin' him if I wa'n't on his level, I could manage to reach up high enough to hit him, but I kep' my temper. If he was wiilin' to do the equaro thing by you I wa'n't goin' to spile your chances. He's ot a cur'us mind au' I kinder humored him. I told him his coals o' fire was ecorchin' nie brown, an' if ho hadn't no objections, I'd like to kinder eaee 'em up a little. That old ico house business had be'n weighin'on my mind all these years, keepin' me 'wake nights, an' if so bo he'd give- his consent, an' the rest o' the comp'uy 'd go in, I'd put up a saw-mill on the old foundation an' resk but 'twould pay as well as ever the ice did. 'Twas full as good a place for one business ad 'other, lie didn't commit himself 'bout it, but I see he thought weel o' the plan, so I guess peace is declared, aa' it's left for you an' l'olly to cement it solid. I reckon we're on top, as usual," saz the capt'n, kinder doubtful, stirrin' the lire. "Tut there's no denyin' that, 'cordin' to his way o' lookin' at it, the colonel had his revenge." DIVING NINETV-FIVE FEET.

Straight Downward Header of Thomas lturiiH at the London Aqunrium. London's latest thrill is derived from the feat of a man who dives down ninetyfive feet from the roof of the Westminster aquarium into a narrow and comparatively shallow tank of water set in the floor of the building. The exploit calls for an astounding combination of nerve and skill, and is far more noteworthy than any of tfie bridge-jumping acts which have been so tiresomely frequent of late years. The diver is Thomas Burns, who has acquired considerable notoriety as a diver from bridges and aa an expert swimmer, and not a little fame from his having saved no fewer than thirty-two lives durtug his career. He is a sturdily built man somo twenty-six years of ape. Ho Mrs frequently dived from bridges over a hundred feet high into rivers, but his dive at the acquariutn is a very difficult affair. lie stands on a tiny platform suspended among the iron girders of the roof, ninety-five feet above the floor, and 6ees below him, instead of a bror.d, deep river, a mass of liarinp, bawihlerinq; lights, a sea of upturned faces, and ia the wooden floor of tlie ttu'o what eeems from the height to be a mere blot the tank which he must pui lenly land in. The tank is IS fet long. S feet wide and 7 feet deep. The diver actually dives, takes a header and does not drop feet foremost, after the mancnr of the bridge jumpers. The msrvelous precision required to land in t!ii tank is easily appreciated, as is also the fate that would befall him should he miss his mark. Turns is hohded up to his aerial perch by means f a ropo and pulley. Tho spectators can barely discern him through tii at distance of perpendicular space. They seo him peer over tho platform edpe, then they tjao his toed project over, he crouches down, end then he glides otr the pla'forni head foremost, and comes plunging down with etillly outstretched arms, and hands meeting in front of hitn in regular "header" fashion. Tut when little more than half way down his feet fail over hia back toward his head, he turns almost completely over, and be foro the murmur of excitement and horror that is the usual accompaniment to the dive has voiced itself ho strikes the water with his shoulders and back with a prodigious thud. He skims just under the surface of the water, seeming barely to enter it, and comes up face upward. He scarcely breathes hard after the tremendous exploit, and goes oil immediately to give an exhibition of fancy swimming in another part of the building. The wonderful skill, the superb pluck, and tho unmistakable element of danger involved io the feat, together with the not remote prospect of a horrible catastrophe, bring crowds to behold this latest sensation. The Vf ry liest J'eople. IN. Y. l'res. Husband "Have you completed your list of persons to be invited to the reception?" ( Wife "Yes." Husband "You have invited only the best people?" Wife "The very best." Husband (examining the list) "And these are all?" Wife "All, excepting the two detectives, who are to be here incog to see that nothing is stolen." A Cinch, iruck.l Telle "I'll bet you a kiw against a box of gloves that crinoliue cannot be introduced." . Jack "That's not a fair wager. If I bhould win I couldn't get near enough to you to collect my bet."

HIS INEXORABLE GREED.

HOW A NEW YORKER STARVED HIMSELF TO LAY UP GOLD. Dying at the Age of Savrnty und Leaving a Fortune of 81.10,000 to Charity A Spendthrift In Youth aud a Mlirr In After Life. The miser, William Gillies, who died suddenly on March 4 while standing in line at the paying teller's window at the Kast Tiver bank, and who astonished the Howard mission and home for little wanderers, '200 l ifth-ave. ; the American missionary society, 1US Tilble house; the American tract society and the American bible society, by bequeathing to them most of a fortune of JloO.OU) which be had amassed, and which only one or two persons knew he possessed, so meanly had be carried himself in diess and living, was a most remarkable character. Those who knew him, says tbo New York iW, declare that there was not in New Yoric a man eo cursed with an inexorable greed for money, to obtain which he inoulped in the most heartless cruelty and lived in parsimonious wretchedness. (iillies was seventy years old whon be died. His manner of living in bis youth, it is related, was diametricallr the opposite of that of his old age. Tefore thirty ho was a jolly good fellow, who drse.i well and spent his money freely. He was born in Tngland of a Scotch father and an English mother, people in moderate circumstances. They came to this country when their son was ten years old. When thirty years old (iillies began his determination to save his money. lie opened his account in the Bowery savings bank, where he soon accumulated quite a sum of money. He was a journeyman sail-maker by trade, plying this business until he was fifty years old, And earning per day. Living was cheap in those days, good board and rooms being plenty at .'i.ol) per week on Tleecker-st., then a fashionable thoroughfare. Gillies lived there. (Iillies first financial venture was to become the possessor of lire insuraoce stock which then paid 10 per cent, dividends annually. It was then that his passion for money firet began to manifest itself to those who were about him. It is said that when he used to hear the tire bells he would jump out of his bed and anxiously wonder whether his company had any risks iu the fire, invariably going out to "investigate if it wcrs before midnight. At the breakfast table his fellow-guests, who knew of his habit, used to tease him by suddenly telling him that two blocks lo.dbeen burned that night. When Cre stock no longer paid so well he sold it and bought bonds. He then began to be be a usurer. He lent his money to his employers or his fellow-workmen, getting 5 Der cent, a month. Woe to the man who fell into his clutches in this manner. He followed his victim like a cat a mouse. He would get a man to give his note, watch him until he was in acorner, aud then compel him to give a bill of sale of all his effects and rent his business place from Gillies at an enormoua rental, until the usurer had possessed himself ot every dollar the man had. In this way he ruined almost every man he came into contact with. His la.st victim was Samuel Hall of 10 Cedar-et., who died of a broken heart, it was said, in consequence. Those who knew Cjillies say the richer he grow the more miserly he became. During the draft riots in 1SC3 Gillies was forced to furnish a substitute. Ho later got back the money which he had paid, but he never forgave the government for causing hi;n to spend the money in the first instance. He would walk the streets cursing Tresident Lincoln and oil the other republicans. For the last twenty years no one knew where he lived. Hia invariable answer to any inquiry respecting his address was: "You can always find mo at Yermilyea's between 1 and 2 o'clock, and at Hall's, 10 Cedar-st., at 4 o'clock." He never could be found after that. It is said that he ued to sit in Madison equaro in summer and m Cooper institute in winter, until 10 o'clock at niht. His eating was after an astonishingly frnial manner. When he died a Tark liow restaurant ticket was found in hie pocket gauged and punched to the extent of lc, c and Dc on each occasion that tho ticket was used. He dressed extremely miserably. In buying a pair of ehoes he would say: "(Jive me the thickest soles you have got for the racney" $1.50. When the shoes became worn he would sew them up with wire many a time. The lant waistcoat he had was worn thirteen years by him ; it had five fronts put in it and four backs. He would buy only paper collars, and ho wore each one a whole week, then turned it inside out and wore it another week. He never wore a whito 6hirt. He boasted also that the colored handkerchief he ueed cost but 5 cents, and that he had used it four year, and without washing. It was his custom, if he could lend money at a usurious interest, to go to one of the big trust companies and with his gilt-edged securities borrow money at 2 per cent., then lend this out with an enormous interest, his bonds meanwhile drawing interest. He never would indulge in real estate investments, fearing com one would thus get a hold on him and Bue him. "I only want that kind of property which can be turned into money in an hour," he was wont to say. One who knew of his wealth once asked him bow he would dispose of it. "Ieave it for educational purposes," was his reply. "Well, you will want to be decently boried. any way?" was next asked. "Bury me in a pork barrel and dump me off the dock," was the laconic reply. Another ene sailed him if ho had no relatives to whom he might leave hia money. His answer was: "If I thought I had a relative who would get mv money, I would burn it up." That some money was left to religious institutions surprised those who knew him well very much. A friend says he never attended church, and was opposed ts any person disposed to be religious; especially opposed was he to clergymen, classifying them all as skins, frauds and humbugs." Tut if (iillies wanted a mean fnneral he did not get it. It cost $000, the coffin alone costing $200. Said one who superintended the fuueral: "I suppose if (iillies knew of the expense he would rise from his grave. We put on bis dead body the finest clothes he ever had." Giilies is described as havingbeen about live feet nine inches tall, Bharp teatured, with a prominent nose and cold, calculating blue-gray eyes, perfectly devoid of expression. He was, however, very intelligent and was a first-rate arithmetician. Iti for n Frnftt. fi-trect A Smith' tool News.l Little Tick "I'm goin down to aunty's tomorrow, if mamma will let me." Little Dot "What do you want to go Jhere for?" Little Dick "Aunty said in her letter that her bouse was so full of rats aud mica that cake wasn't safe anywhere." ItelieTed of Worry. Street 4 Smith's Good hcwO Adorer (feeling his way) "I-sr suppose your sister does not like toy coming here eo oben, does she?" Little Brother (confidentislly) "Oh, you needn't worry about sister. She can endure 'most anybody." . ,

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It Wat til lirst mud l Uta Only PAIN REMEDY Tint lntfiBlly the etcruclatioij j.aia. allaf Iet!atnalioo aud oare CuniiAxtUn, wLatber of tüe Lung's, Stomach, UowU or oiuer gland or or.-aae. .Ahmmot , 111. Pr. Hadwart I bae med your H-alf K.liol Pill aud Harse;ariil!an Ueeoleat, aud tum tiiat tiiaf sre tUe atandard reuiudlea ol the wurld. Xdo; otrt when ail others fail. Aug. IU, luL FKED M. McCUSEUY. iN'uHKtL, IL Dr. Radwar: I hsrs uiel j oar mudioinei lor 11 rrsri, sod hart cnrel all d.aai I hare err tnatid. I hare eared cue whoa olber do-ri htl fiTD p aa bnpeleve. I bate tba bnl sujaaaa wlib lot' am ma I rj rbeumatiam. Marths. 1HJ1. Milt 3. . SJUELU 1NTL.UN ALLY, a half to a toatpouaf ul la halft tumbler of i c will, in a fw uiinnoi, oar Oainp, S-anm, Bur Storuaeh, Xau. Yumitin, Heartburn, Ner utnexv iS.eeplea.M-.. äiok U a 1arhr, Marrliea, Colic, i iatuleocy, and ail Internal 1 am. Malaria in Its Various Forms Cured and Prevented. There Ii not a remedial agent ia tbe world that will euro (ever sod s'ie aud all ullitr mal riou, billon and other term, aided t UAWWAY 8 1'ILLs, oqulckly m BaDWA Y'S HLlUY K-LILK. A Haar lira for Wvor aad Aga. ßllWAY'8 HEADY ItELIEF la a iura oure veil aa a preroutlr of fiTer an 1 Aji, Ur it I remedy tor J eante that w.ll eur tbia diioii irotlItTrly, and eoabl. pereow to lire la tbe wjnt . diatrict, iree lroia attack a. Tbia ia b.tiar tbaa to kton of (jus csrst, qsialsa, otiiogoga-i, ei. II haa eared tbeuaaoda. Tweatf dr ,i DiWutl1I. In a glaaa of water, aakea tbe Oral tfilag ge ting out ol bed la the luornln. will proi-ol tb fettn Iron attack. Uus 9ioot bottle will eure aa otire family, and bae aouj-b left lostJi) til kllll of pain Ibat aeejr aroable 700, wither Troia aeolleat or dlieasa. 50c per Bottle. Fold by Prufgists. HEADWAY'S ill Sarsapariiiian Resolvent. The Oreat Blood Parlfler, For the lore of Chronic üisem Chronic Kbeumat am, orif:!a, Harkla- Dry O.ifb. tanceroui AtTeetlon, U.eedlnirof tae Lnn.ii, VTim fiwelltntf. Tum r. Iii? l:sca Uronofiiti. otoniy doea the Sarsaparille Keleiit eaoel all remedial agents In the care ol Cürusio, SaroUloae, CoiiKtltutlonal and 8am iHaaMue, but ia tbaoal posit.ro cure for KIÜNEV AND ELAÜDER COMPLAINTS. Gravel, D.abMe, Ir't.iy, Slotig9 of Water. Iaeon tinenoe ot L'riuo, Bright' O.saa-e, Alb iminarla, and in all esee wb.ru there are brick-dual depoaiie, er the water u Ibiok, cloudy, mixed witb auosvaaoe like tho wbue oZ aa e,', or throadi lia wane ail k. or thcrs U tutirbid, dark, h.i.ou appoa'aoea, aal wbiu bone dust depoilts, and when thore i a prickling-, barning a?nar.tion when paastng tbe watr, aal pain is the email of tha back and aion ths Umi. Kidney Trouble. Atiieii, Ol Pear Mr: I tWht I would writs you aud tell vou what wonderful work your Mmaparllliaa BeBlmt haa du for me. Sn w. es ato 1 coul 1 not moTe without the rrealest j am with d.wiuie ot the k: infy. I hare tried ertry kind ol uuuurnt anl diUrrent niodicinn, and had rar doctor to precr;be; bat nothin did aay g..od until I tri d jour Hj'.olrenU 1 took tlir-e Lotties (and jnt eeul lor three more). Your llls are a 1-sf od. I ho rojrniueodd them to orer a hundrr.l omon. who all say th r found them to he ho r-t 11 that they srer took. M i'.S. TOM P. XKi'IN. TUM UAKDiX. Yrd MaateE. Athen, M. A C Depot. Kidney lteturninjr to a IleaKhyntt e. Kidway A Co. tieutluien: lam ow laitin ths fifth bottle of your Hint ent and I aiu rcxiTinj great benefit irom It whea all i!nr medicines loil.-d. and my Kldrera aro returning V s healthy condition, and would recommend it l a. I tuucrinj from an- d;soae whaterer Irom their Kidneya. H.pectiully Tour.,, n uTJ . Pialttmouth, N.b. ' Ulubetea. Pr. 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Siek IlfaJach, Foul Stomach, Biliounei, will b avoided, as ths food that it eatea contribute its ncuria! lug propertiea lor the aupport ol the natural wmte of tue body. eVOberre tae following eyraptomi wilt 04 from diaje of th d.geitivo oraat: ComUpstioa, inward piles, tallneea of blood in tha boat, aoidity of tbe alomaob, naaaea, heartburn. iliisiiHu fool, fullnxii or wewnt of the eioniac , J'ir eructation. aiokiBg or flutteriog of ths heart, o!iokio oreaJ. eating ennsatione when in a lying pture, dimnen olviaion, dote or webe before tbe eight, lever anl dull rain in ths hesl, dsiciency of penpiratioa, yedowneee of the ekln and eyaa, sain in th ti le, chet, lirabeaad auddea Auabea of heat, burning ia hAflfew dotea of RaDWAY'3 FILLS will f res ths yitem of all tbs above named rUtordera. l'rice 25c per Box. Sold br all Druggists. Pit KADWAY A CO.. No. S2 Warren t , New York, will mall Ik) ok ot AJvice oa application. lie bare to Oct "Jtaawaj'a.

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