Bloomington Progress, Volume 5, Number 43, Bloomington, Monroe County, 21 February 1872 — Page 1

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HOOFLAND'S GERMAN BITTERS, HOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC, HOOFLAND'S FODOPHYLUN PILL, HOOFLAND'S GREEK OIL

Hoofland's

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German .Bitters,

"3$ A Etttera without Alcohol or Spirits of y kind. Is different from all others. It is composed of tho pure juicos or vital principal op Hoots, Herbs, and Barks (or aa medicinally termed, extracts), the worthless or inert por ions of the ingredients not being used. Therefore, in one bottle of this Bitters there is contained aa much medicinal virtue as will be found in several gallons of ordinary mixtures, iho Boots, etc, used in this Bitters are grown in Germany, their Tital principles extracted in that country by a scientific Chemist and forwarded to the manufactory in this city, where they are compounded and bottled. Containing no sptritnonsing redients, this Bitters is free from the objections urged against all others, no desire for stimulants can be indue id from their use, they cannot make drunkards, and cannot, under any circumstances, hare any but a beneficial effect.

Hoofland's German Tonic

Was compounded for those not inclined to oxtreme bitters, and is intended for use in cases when some alcoholic iitimulent is required in connection with the Tanio properties of the Bitters. Each bottle of the Tome contains one bottle of the Bittors, combined with pure Santa Cbdz Bum, and flavored in such a manner that the extreme bitterness of th i Bitters is overcome, forming a preparation highly agreeable and pleasant to the palate, and containing the medicinal virtues of the Bitters. The price of the Tonic is 91.50 per bottle, which many persons think too high. Thoy must take into consideration that th stimulant used is guaranteed to be of a pi-ro quality. A poor article could be furnished at a cheaper price, but is it not better to pity a little more and have a good article? A medicinal preparation should contain none but the best ingredients, and they who expect to obtain a heap compound will most certainly be cheated. They are the Greatest Known Remedies For LIYEB COMPLAINT, DYSPEPSIA, NERVOUS DEBILITY, JAUNDICE, DISEASE OF THE KIDNEYS, ERUPTIONS OF THE SKIN, and all diseaseoa arisinjfrom a disordered Liver, Stomach, or IMPURITY OF THE BLOOD. Bead the following symptoms Constipation, Flatulence, Inward Piles, Fullness of Blood to the Head, Acidity of the Stomach, Nausea, Heart-burn, Disgust fot Food, Fullness or Weight in the Btomach, Sour Eructations, Sinking or Fluttering at the Fit of the Stomach, Swimming of the Head. Hurried cr Difficult Breathing, Fluttering at the Hear:, Choking or Suffocating Sonsationa when in a Lying Posture, Dimness of Vision, Dots or Webs before the Sight, Dull Pain in the Head, Dificieney of Perspiration. Yellowness of the Skin and Eyes, Fain in the Side, Back, Cheat, Limbs, Ac, Sudden Flushes of Heat, Burning in the Flash, Constant Imaginings of Evil, and Great Depression of Spirits. AU these indicate Disease of thelivoror Digestive Organs combined with impure blood. The use of the Bitters or Tonic will soon cause the above symptoms to disappear, and the patient will become well and healthy.

Dr. Hoofland's Greek Oil,

lilglitnlnt; Core for All Kinds or Fnlns Mid Aats.

Applied Er-rrRKAiAT. It vr'.I' curt all kinds of Pain and Aches, snob as Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Toothache, Chilblains Sprains, Bruises, Frost Bites, Headaches, Pains in the Back and Lsins, Pains in the Joints or limbs, Stings of Insects, Bingworms, etc Takes Ihtsbkaxx.t. It will cnrn KMy

Complaints. Backaches, Sick Headache, Colic, Dysentery, Diarrhoea, Cholera Infantum, Cholera Morbus, Cramps and Pains in the Stomach, Fever and Ague, Coughs, Colds, Asthma, to. Dr. Hoofland's Podophyllin, OH SUBSTITUTE FOIt mBKCOKir PIU.. TWO PILL8 A DOSE. I The moat powerful, yet innocent, Vegetabhi CatKartiu known. It is not necessary to take a handful of these Pills to produce the desired effact ; two of them act quickly and powerfully, cleansing the liver, Stomach, and Bowels of all imparities. The principal ingredient is Podophyllin, or the Alcoholic Extract of Handrakc.whish is by many times more Powerful, Acting, and Searching, than the Mandrake itself. Its peculiar action is upon the Liver, cleaning it speedily from all obstructions, with all the power of Mercury, yet free from the injurious results attached to the use of that mineral. For all diseases, in which the use of a cathartic is indicated, these Pills will give entire satisfaction in every ease. They nex er fail. In cases of liver Complaint, DyBpopsia, and extreme Costiveness, Dr. Hoofland's German BUtera or Tome should be used in emnectia with the Fills. The tonie effect of the Bitters or Tonio builds up the system. The Bitters or Tonic purifies the Blood, strengthens the nerves, regulates the liver, and give strength, energy, and vigor. Keep your Bowels active with the Pills, and tone up the system with Bitters or Tonic, and no disease cam retain Us hold, or over assail you. These medicines are sold by all Druggists and dea era in medicines everywhere. B collect that it is Da. Hoorumi s Gxbmas BsMzmsa, that are so universally used and highly recommended ; and do not allow the Druggist to induce you to take anything else that he may say is just as good, because he , makes a larger profit on it. These Iierocdiei will be sent by Express to any locality, upon

application to the PRINCIPAL OFFICE, at

the GEBMAN MEDICINE STORE, 631 ARCH

STREET, PHILADELPHIA.

CJLsVS. M. BVAW, Proprietor,

Formerly C. X. JACKSON 0.

These Semedies are for Sale by Druggie,

Storekeepers, and Medicine Dealer: everywhite Oiroujhout the United States, Canada, SnihAmmi, mitke Wee InaMt.

Established A. I)., 1835.

A. Hepubllcaii Paper, Devoted to the Advancement of the Local Interests of Monroe County.

BLOOM1NGTON, INDIANA, YVEDNESDY, FEBRUARY 21, 1872.

New Series VOL.V.--NO. 43.

HENRY T. KEUBOLD'S OOIKPOUHD FLUID Extract Catawba GRAPE PILLS Component Part Fluid Fx.. 'act Jihubarb and Fluid Extract Catawba Cfrape Juice.

For. li rat Rim atxts, ,i attsdice, bilious AWH0TION8, SICK OK NERVOUS HEAD ACHE, COSTtVENESS, Etc.. l'tT.ELY VEGETABLE, CONTAINING NO MI.KCUltY, JUNIUIALS, OR DELIITEKIOUS BHUiJS.

TlMWi PilLs ra tho moat (leHsrhtfuilT pleasant

P rgitive, nnporsdiaKCJiatoroil,stt)Ut,ruag itt3i4,etc. There :s nothing more acceptable for the fitouwch.

TUey ff ve ton, ana cauce neuner nounoa nor prip-

pal aa. They are composed oi ine w! xmtreai-

mtz. After a fow days' use of tbom, such an in vigor t in of tho ontlre system takes place as to appear miraculous to tho wcik and enervated, whether arising from imErudeii-e or disease. H. T. Helrabold'a Compound Fluid Extrnct Catawba Grape Pills aro not sugar-ooated, from tho fact that sugar-coated Pills do not diasolvo, tut pass througti the stomach wthou: dissolving, ooiisequently do not produce tho data od effort. THE CATAWBA. GRAPE PILLS, be-

inf pleasant. In taste and oci-ir, do not nffwsnitate

tht ir lning sugar-coaUjd, IP.ICE F1YTY CENTS

HIEUST&Y T. RBXiKEBOLD'S, Fluid Extract Sarsaparilla WilL-readlly exterminate from the system Bcrcrfula, Sj phll a, Fever Sores, Dicers, Sore Eyes, Sore Legs, Sore Mouth, Sore Head, Bronchitis. Skin Diseases, Bait Rheum, Cankers, Running from the Ear, White Syelli gs. Tumors, Cancerous Affections, Nodes, Kl-ket, tflandular Swellings, Nigbt Sweats, Bash, Tetter Bomora of ail kinds, Chronic Rheumatism, Dysre'iaia, and all diseases thi.t hare bean established in the system fur years.

BEI SG PREPARED EXTRESSL7 FOB THE MOVE COMPLAINTS, ITS BLOOD-PURIFYING PROPiatTIES ARE GREATER THAN ANY OTHER MSEP.IRATION OK SAUSAI'ABEU.a. IT GIVES the 00mplexion a clear and healthy colo!, and restores '1'he patient to a stat;i of health and purity, foi'. pvrifyin3 th3 blood, removing all chronic constitutional diseases arls.i g from an impure state of the bloot), and the only reliable and effectual known remedy for the cure of pains and swellin 3 of the bones, ulcerations of the throat and legs, blotohes, pimples on the face, erysifelas and alsscaly f.rup. tionj1 of the skin. and beautifying the comp.uexion. price $1,5(1 per bottle ,.

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ECDXfRT T. BEJMC20U'S CONCESTR.4TED FLUID EXTRACT BUCHU, THE GREAT DIURETIC, has cured every case of DIAJSETES In which it has been gitvn. IRRITATION OF THE NECK OF TEE BLADDER AND INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS, ULCERATION OF THE KIDNEYS AND BLADDER, RETENTION OF URINE, DISEASES OF THE PROSTRATE GLAND, STONI, IX THE BLADDER, CALCULUS, Gl.AVEL, BRICK-DUST DEPOSIT, AND MUCOUS OH MILKY DISCHARGES. AN D FOR ENFEEBLED AND DELI CAT E COXBT'tTU nONBOF BOTH SEX fc".S, ATTE N DED WITH THE FOLLOWING 8YMITOMB: ISDIS1MSITION TO E;ERTION, LOSS OI' POWER, LOSS OF MEMO 3 Y, DIFFICULTY OI' BREATHING, WEAK HEEVl'-a, TREMBLING, H3RROR OF DISEASE, Wi.KE:rCXNESS, DIMNESS of vision, pain in THE BACK, HOT HANDS, FLUSHING OF THE BODY, DRYNESS OF THE I5KTN, ERUPTION ON THE FACE, PALLID COUNTENANCE, UNIVERSAL LiJSSITTJDE OF THE MUSCULAR SYSTEM, ETO. Used by persons from the ages of eighteen to tw,"nty.fiYe, and from thirtj-five to fifty-five or In the (In line or chung cflifv ; after confinement or labor ptifts ; bed-wettics in children.

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ItrXMEOLD'S EXTRACT BTJCHU IS DIURETIC AND BLOOD PURIFYING. AND CUBES ALL DISEASES ARISING FROM HABITS OF DISSIPATION AND EXCESSES AND IMPRUDENCES IN LIFE, IMPUI ITIE8 OF THE BLOOD, ETC., SUPERSEDING OPAIBAIN AFFECTIONS FOR WHICH IT IS U8KD, AND SYPHILITIC AFFECTIONS JN TIl:ESIl DISEASED USED IN CONHECTION WITH HELMiiOLD'a ROSE WASH. LADIES. IN MANY AFFECTIONS PECULIAR TO LADIES, THE EXTRACT BUCHU IS t NEQUALLED BY ANY OT HER REMEDY A3 IN CHLOROSIS OR RETENTION. IRREGULARITY, PAIN FULNESS OR SUPPRESSION OP CUSTOMARY EVACUATIONS. UI.CEI:aTET OH 8CHIBE.UH STATE OF TH1? UTERUS, LEUCORRIKEA OR WHITES, 8TEBILI TY, A D FOR ALL COMPLAINTS INCIDENT TO TF.E HEX, WHETHER AIIISIKG FROM INDIS CBET10N03 1IABIT8 OF DISSIPATION. IT IS PRESCRIBED EXTENSIVELY BY THE MOST EMINENT PHYSICIANS AND MIDWIVES FOR efei:bled AND DELICATE CONSTITUTIONS, OF BOTH SEXES AND ALL AGES (ATTENDED WITH ANT OJf Till. iBOVJS DISJCABE8 OR SYMP

TOMS.)

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n. T. HELMB0IJT8 E31TEACT BUCtTTJ

CIBE4 DISEASES ARISINCt FROM IMPRUDEN

CES, HABITS OF DISSIPATION, ETC.,

In I1 tbeir stages, at little oxense, little or no changa in ctiet, noinoonYenience,Wilnexpoaure, It caiie a ;'recuent tinaire, and giea strength to Urinate, th!rely removine Obstructions, Preventing and Cxi riii j j Strictures of tho Urethra, Allaying Pain and Inanimation, ao frequent in this class ox diseases, an 1 expelling all Poiitonoos matter. Tionsands rvho have been tbo victims of incompo-

tett parsons, and who have ;?aid heavy fcita to ! cured in ft abort time, have found Ihoy hire been deceived, and that the " Poison ' has, ty tho nso of

pownni nnneents,'' oeen anea np in tne svs-

teni, 'io break out in a more aggravated form, and pei ha 58 after Marrlspo.

Uat JSKLMBOLP'H JS1TKACT iSLvtlU lor all

Affoctious and DiH?a8ee o:' the Urinary Organs, wliRtber existing lu Mal or Fflmale, from whatever cause originating, ar.d no mi-tter of how long standing. PRICK, ONB DOIaIAP. AND FIFTY CENTS PER JJOTTLE.

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HllNBY T. HELMSOLD'fi IMPEOVED ROSE

WASH

eaxnet be nrpaued as a FACE WASH, WQ,I will be foim tbe only specific remedy iu every species of crTANEQIIfl AFFECTION. It speedily eradicate FIMILEKtWoTS, SCORBUTIC DRYNESS, INDU

RATIONS of the CUTANEOUS MEMBRANE, etc., dlFpe. 9 REDNESS liml IN-. iPI.i i ISrHMSWTlOli, HIVES, RASH, MOT I PATCHES, DRYNESS OF Bt'JAL? OR SKIN, FROST BITES, and all pur

poses for wnicn SALVES or OINTMENTS are used; reiitoi es tbe skin to a stnto of purity anu aoftursp, and visurea continued bcaltUy action to the tisnue of its Teasels, on which dep u0.s the agreeable clearneits and vivacity of conn legion so mucb sought and admired. But however valuable as a remedy for existing defocta of the skin, H. T. Helmlxild'e Rcsc Wash baa long aaslained its principal claim to unbounded patronage.by possessing qiiabtles wliicb render it a TOILET APPENDA GE of tbe moet Buperla-tiv-3 and Congenial character, combining In an elegant f ormula those promini 'it requisites, SAFETY

and X r FlUAt I tne mvanimu nrcoinpmim'in ui Its us as ft preaervative and Rt fresher of the Oomplrzinn. It Is an ovcellant IjOtion for diseases of a Syphilitic Nature, and as an Injection for diaeisee of tbe Urinary Organs, arising from habits of dissipation, uaod In connection with the EXTRACTS

Bt CHU, SARSAPARILLA AND CATAWBA BKAl'K PEiXS, in such diseases as ;-ccoic.mended cannot bo sin -pissed, PRICE, ONE DOLJJ.R PER BOTTLE.

PRINTING! THE PROCRES8 Job Printing Office ! Worth Bide Public Square. With tr 7rw, ,AVir Presne, and (ntirelv Xew Jo-(-. riil of i-ll kinds, is prepirpd to do Printiup In a style equal to tho best ir. the country, rarticnlar attention phi & to COMMERCIAL PRINTING, Iiicluding r ill Heads, Hand Bills, Trotter Heads, Nota lieads, Olrc ulara, Cards, Posters, &r. Fine printing a sponaHy, Orders from a distauco will receive prompt attention.

ORCHARD HOUSE!

8. M. Orchard & Sons. PROPRIETORS.

Opposite the Depot, Bloomington, Intl.

t3f Ao 1 'aim uitt b4 spared to accommodati (he traveling p iblie. nIYionmThotel !

L. !. McKILNNEY, P:?.OPRI32TOR, BLOOMINGTON, IND., EAST OF THE PUBLIC SQUARE.

Thiii Hoti 1 Is large and commodious, first-class In all its appo: atments, desirably located, and is quiet and comfoi :ablc Charges moderate.

DUNN & CO., GENERAL Produce, Commission an:; forwabdinq merchants.

Wholesale and Retail Grocers, And dea ers In Nails, Eanhawa and Lake Salt, White Fish, 4c, BLOOMINGTON. IND.

J. W. EABRYMAN' DEALERS IN Choice Family Groceries! Quo jnswjure and nTottona.

tx? The t ighest price paid for country produof

KortlMMt Corner of Public Square, BLOOM INQTON. - INDIANA.

Hare Patience. A yout i ontl maid, ore winter night, Wer sitting in the corner; His nn:ue, we're told, was Joshua White, And icrs was Patience Warner. fot mi eh the pretty maiden said Befice the yountr man sitting : Her ch ;eks were flushed a rosy red, Her t yes bent on her knitting. K'orco!ild h.- ucs what thoughts of him Were to her boaom flockine;. As her fair fmeers, swift and slim. Flew round and round the stocking. While. :is for Joshua, bashful youth, His w ords crew few and fewer : Thougl. all the time, to tell the truth. His c lair edged nearer to her. Meanti me the ball of yarn gave out, She loit so fast and steady. And he- must give his aid, no doubt. To get another ready. He hel i the skin : of course tho thread Qot tunelcd. snarled and twisted : " Have Patienco!" cried the artless maid, To hi :n who her assisted. Good chance was that for tongue-tied chcrl, tt To shorten all palover ; " Hiive patience !" cried he, " (' 'arest girl 1 And may I really have her ?" The tlcid was done, ao more that night. Click id needles in the cornet : And 9b i is Mrs. Joshua White That nce was Patience Warner.

gray suit, quakerislily wlmso haste would not abide thf tr slow saunter; and as she ptissed the.n she looked fit Shirley, with the faintest of quizzical smiles hovering about her mouth. I' struck him witli n sudden spnse of hav in! made a fool cf himself ; and he watched tho ulij-ht figure till it disappeared in the one little diy-goods store of the village. She came out with a smf.ll package in her hand, as Shirlev wm twirline ft

avenue. She tended her kitcher fire like a vestal virpin ; and the marvillous products of serins which came from it were thinps to remember, and to aggravate one's wi:r with, through life. Shirley's last vf stipe of unbelief ir the general worthleesnesi of young and pretty women vanished when his father's death brought out all the tenderness of Mis? Tempv's heart. Her

sympathy and her preserves did for him what her locio would never have

walking-stick of twisted bamboo in his ( accomplished ; r.nd ho went to colkge a

Full and explicit directions accompany the modi dnes. Kriieneo of tho most rcsronsble and reliable character rarnished on application with hundreds of thousands of living witncsar.s, and upward of 30,0 0

unioitcuea certinciites una recommendatory leticrs, mc.nj of which are from the highest sources, including cninent Physicians, Ckrgymen, Statf omen, etc. The jiroprletor has never rt sorted to their publlraticn ;i the newspapers; he c.s not do this from tho f a.:t that hla articles rank as S.snclar l lrcr'rations, and .o not need to bo propped up by certlncatcs. SCeiiry T. Helxnbold's Qenuino Preparations. Del Ivercd to any address. Soc ire from oljservation X8TABU8HED UPWAlt : OF TWENTY YEARS. Sold y Druggists everywhere. Address letters for information, in conlidence to HISNlff T. HELMBOLD, Druggist and Chemist. Only Depot: H, T. HEI.MHOLD'8 Drug and Ohemice.l Varehoueo, No,. R91 J(rrudvav, Kcw York, or to H. T. HELMBOLB'S Melicjl Depot 104 South Tenth 8i:-o; . Pbiladeljihin, Pa. .BIT WARE OF COTJNTEEITSITS. Ab for HXNBY T. UlXlfBOLS'B I TAKE NO OTHEB.

BOHtBAT SHIRLEY'S CUBE. ,; I am called a man hater," said the pretty lecturer, with a shake of her short cu.-ls in the face of her audience ; "but th't, my friends, depends upon the man." It seemed but a small firework. " an inconsiderable quiddity," to

c'ili forth such a tempest of applause ;

anct iauguter. It would have fallen dead as a door nail from the lips of an ancient bloomer, who had grown old in the pioneer work of Woman's Rights ; it was the archness, the curls, the tout ensemble of preitine.is, of this champion who had come in at the eleventh hour, that lid it. It, was possible to conceive of one or two rien, at least, beini; interested in the question of her love or hatred. " Wh n the crowd poured out of the hall, t,nd parted into innumerable little group tnd dots, like a drop of quicksilver spilled on the ground, two young men fatntered away, arm in arm, with that air of ineffable superiority to the rest ol'l;ie world peculim- t college students in the senior year .- they are demigods to the freshman clss, and they have yei to learn that the outsido world is not ike unto it. " Is that woman out of her sphere, or not?" itaid Lenox to Bombay Shirley, his fanr .iar spirit. " Thai, depends on how long a fence

you wout put round a woman s sphere. She is at least out of mischief when ilie is lecturing from a platform ; and her -lecture has the vi rtue of homoeopathic pills if it does no gcod, it doss no harm either." " I am sure I thought ln-r nrjipriient a pood one. I had hopes of your conversion." " Her argument I My boy, the possessive ieininine pronoun can never go before t hat word. S!i stole it bodily from some man who favors the cause.

and trimmed it so deep with ft fringe of

Jit r own flippancies, that you mistook it for herB."

' At least, she's pretty ; she might reduce your confounded stoicism thioiipt your eyes." "I aomit the prctthies, and regret the bra ns which made her take up oratory, instead of flirtation. When she leans forward with that arch look which seems it assure every man in her audience t! tt he U not the one she haves, it may be better iso than in a moonlight stroll with half a dozen by turns." "Tel me tho truth, Bomb, liaveyou never known a woman whom you though you could trust ?" Xo' er. Who am I that I should pretend to greater wisdom than Solo

mon " When you fall in love may there to see !" "Thtit will never barmen. 1

possibly marry late in life, as thone old

HommiT did, when their r.mpnor Metelle. leminded them that marriage, I owevi ". p..iinful, whs sliil ,'i duty," I l-:te .v not what possessed Shirley to '' ;: ..v. r ).! Iioulut r at that precise .!."!! -r h' . high dUeourse, Oloe upon Uif!iii wiis a younu jjirl, in ti light

hand, and, havini a giraffe-like habit of

carrying bis head high in air, a if looking over an invisible wall, ho knocked the parcel out of iier hand. lie picked it up and held it out to l.er without a word. S'le received it with an in init-

esnual nw ot thanks, ar.d a smu.e 01 fTiniv

iiinutiu recognition, wnicn tiruug:ii. a blush to Shirley's face. (These chestnut-haired peopli alwaj'S Idush so easily.) " A tableau for deaf and dumb asylum I" said Lenox. " Yon must own you have seen one woman who refrained from epsaking when she hail a fair chance." " Do you know who she is ?" asked Shirley, his curios. ty getting the upper hand of his wisdom. " I am sorry I don't, as it is the first time yon ever asked the question." Shirley caught I imself watching the gray dress out of sight, and came back to his old way of thinking with a mental jerk. " What right had the gi?) to smile at me in that superior way?" he said, provoked by the memory of ii. ''The right of the s:rongest, my man; shs was far more at ea.,e than you were." This was as true as it was disagreeable : and Shirley chewed the bitter cud of it in silence till he reached his room. A woman-hatei is made, not born. Tho leaning of tho natural heart of man is to place the ot her sex only a little lower than the angels ; and, when this order of things is -overBed, ho has either been ruthlessly j lted, or the twig was bent early by a firm hand. Bombay Shirley was a woman-hater of the most aggressive kind. He not only cherished unreasonable contempt on his own part, but tried to convert his friends to the same way of thinking ; and yet, " the pity of it, Iago 1" for he had everything pertaining; to the outer man, which would c raw and hold illogical feminine regard. He might have been a young viking (if the ordinary notion of a viking was a true one) with the ' knotted column ol bis throat The massive square of his heroic breast." He was like Saul among other men, taller by a head, ani looked taller than he was, by reason of a great, mop of chestnut hair, which could not have curled tighter if he had wound it up in papers every night of his life. It actually made one feel warm on a frosty morning, to look at Shirley's hair as he went to "prayers." He had suffered agonies with it in trying to take out the curl it looked so womanish, till there came that welcome fashion of cropping the manly bead into the semblance of a baboon's ; then his soul had rest. He had never be'3n " disappointed," as the phrase is, an ! yet there was a woman at the bottom of his cynicism, as there is ;it the bottom of most mischief. The blame lay at the door of Miss Temperance Strong, the only woman with whom Shirley had any acquaintance ; yet she was that one good woman of a thousand whom Solomon might have found "counting one by one," if she had lived in his day, and he had nit shut his eyes to nil but g ddy Egyptians and the fair Moabilish woman. Her price was far above rub es ; so far, indeed, that no man had ever offered anythiiip approaching to it; and she had continued Miss Strong for more than threescore years. fShe always told her age as the first interview, so as to guard against the suspicion of wishing to hide it. But to begin at the beginning. Bombay Shirley was born at sea, and cost his mother her life; but being a lusty, hard-listed baby from the first, bound to thrive on hard bread and water if

nothing else served, he eame to the turning-point of jacket and trousers on shipboard. Capt. f Shirley professed to scorn all learning that could n tt be at once applied to a practical use : and the most contemptuous thing he could say of a botched piece of work was, that it looked us if it had been done by a " collegian." No onu familiar with sailor-nature (which does not entirely come under the head of human nature, but

' Suffers a sea-change.

Into something rich ani strange.

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felt any surprise that he had set his heart or his son's going to college. In selecting a preparatory school, he passed over all those academies formerly as plenty us blackberries in Nsw England, where boys and girh were educated togethe r (" eourting schools," he called

them), and settled hirr, in the family of

a solemn old minister. Two or three motherless boys and Miss Temperance made up the family. I don't know whether she liked Bombay any better for hs.ving taken his first step off Madagascar, and spoken his first word near Cape Horn ; but he seemed to bring into her life the fresh-ne.-s of the trade-winds, a breezy flavor that she had never felt before. He had known r.o other woma n ; and bis affection, slightly tempered with awe, was deeply grateful to her. As for Miss Tempera iceshe. reminded

him of a ship's figure 1 ead, carved out

ol neart ot oak, that .tad breasted nil weather till its first good looks are battered out of all shape rf comeliness, (the had bowels of compassion for all

the weaknesses that boy flesh is heir to, her heart would have held the fifty

sons ot mam ; but ail women were faithless as Helen in her eyes, or would be if they had opportunity. She looked upon young girls, and heir was, with

eves of such fierce oondcinnntion, that

not one had ever darkened her doors in Shirley's time. In the nature of things, Miss Temperance must once have been

a girl herself ; but she could never have

been ' of girls, girlish. Shirlev cherished a certain bashful

worshir for all women n his boyhood

He had lived among sai lors in cabin and forecastle; he had touched pitch, but he had not been defiled j the most aban

doned vretch among them had held up

to the boy only tho true sailor-ideal of

womanhood, which never fails him, though he may not havo seen the sem

blance of it since he 1 ft his mother's

knee.

i t was Miss lempera ice who set in

order before him the depths of deceit of

which the ginsh mind m capable. The shortest way to the marly heart may or may no;, lie through the stomach : Miss l'empernce certainly oommanded that

I be

may

confirmed woman-hater. He avoided

boarding in any house where there ere daughters, and iad serious thoughts of taking a room and providing for himself, when he was placed opposite to his landlady's niece, but the neice pro ring Knly a temporary, as Susan Nipper would say, he staid. He passed by the windows of two tioarding-schools, many times a day, as if he were walking an invisible tight rope ; and his philippics were terrible against those who suffered their souls to be moved by curtain signals, or the shaking ot: a handkerchief. He is willing to make oath to this day, that he passed through his four yaars in college' without speaking to any woman under fili.y. He invited only Miss Temperance to his last commencement, and introduced her to his friend Lenox, with an alFectionate solicitude that he should know at least one woman " capable of a syllogism," "You would take more interest in me, I doubt," sail Mi:is Strong, " if he had said ' capable of a bigamy.' " ,; To be sure," Eaid Lenox, " and so would Shirley, if. he only knew it and then that wicked boy went about asking other spirits worse than himself if they had seen ti e Vale of Tempe, in which Bombay Shirley had been brought up. "There' your little girl in gray," said Lenox to Shirley, at the President's reception on the rame clay. "Where?" saii Shirley, deigning actually to look about him, " I don't see her."

"She's speaking to Miss Strong this

minute. Her govn looks as if it were woven of white sinok.3, and fits aa if it had grown on her."

" I am no judge ol muslins,' stud

Shirley.

The next instant Miss Strong sei2ed

his arm. " I've seen ,i ghost, or some

thing worse," sbe said. "Don't eay

anything, just go home with me now.

I ve staid long encugb. '

' it rains," aaid Suirley. " Yon must

wait till eleven, and the carriage will come for you."

1 m neither sugar nor salt, to be

melted by rain ; and I would go out on the thirty-ninth day of the deluge, before I would see that face again."

She marched resolutely bacK to h?r

hotel through the sloppy street; and at intervals tinouuh the night he hea-d

her heavy step, pacing up and down her room. But in the morning Rhe presented him tie name sturdy old figure-head to kiss, and gave no word of

explanation.

" 1 believe the sight or so many Highly girls has mnde me dizzy. I nt

actually light-head ad," said Miss Temper;! nee when they reached her own

door. "I haven't felt like this since I had mv fever."

I did not know you ever had such

a thing," said Shirley.

' It was long before your time, when was young," said Miss Temperance,

making a dive at her tea-kettle and

missing it. Her motions were aa erratic as those of the u dilapidated cousin,"

in "Bleak House; sind Shirley was

forced to make the tea hi.nself.

Afterward she fell into a heavy sleeo,

and Shirley covered her with his travel -

ling shawl when he went up stairs tor

the night. When he came down to breakfast she still lay on the sofa,

scowling fearfully in her efforts to sup

press the moans which her pain wrung from her.

Tell me what to do and I'll do it,

for I havn't the least idea," said Shirley,

hanging over her with the true manh

helplessness.

" I've got a stroKe, J doubt, or maybt'

it's only rheumatism

" 1 had better go tor the doctor, any

how."

" No, indeed. I hain't so tired of

life as that, nor I wen't have any neighbors coming in to spy out the land. There's plenty of cold meat and bread.

You can camp out on that, and 1 shall

be well enough to-m arrow."

It was one more proof to Shirley of the substratum of manliness in Miss

Strong's character that so soon as she

wib ill Bhe became peevish and exacting. Mo3t women tn be ill gracefully

it is their normal condition but Miss

Temperance knew the thing only by name. Shirley half lifted and half dragged her to her bed 8s she would not be carried, and could i:.ot walk. He did not venture to leave the house, and at noon hi.? patient thought she could take some tea and toast. Shirley had made tea before, and having made it and placed the tea-pot on the hearth out of harm's way, ho addressed himself tc the toast., which, afte : repeated failures, was at last a success. " Do you call that t cup of tea?" said

Miss Temper mce scornfully. " It's cold aa a stepmother's bre ith." Hot water made it too weak, and an other brewing had to be made with in finite care. " You were gone lc ng enough to burn John Rogers instead af this toast," she said when he presented it. And these were the last conscio.is words that Shirley heard her speak for many days and n'ghts. She began to talk cf things that Shirley had never heard of called on Ar thur, and made lover-like entreaties to him not to forsake her. He sat patiently by her side, kissing her horny hands when he saw that it soothed h'sr for o moment; and when at last she fell into a doze, as the twilight began to fall, he escaped into the pnilor to think what he could possibly do next. He dared not leave her long enough aloue to gc lor a doctor; and for a long time he watched the rain bef t sullenly against tho window, hopeless of seeing any one pass through the lane on which Miss Strong's house faced. Hope had nearly died within him when the slight figure of a w. ni'in, cased from head to foot in a water-proof suit, battled round tho corner, and dropped a heavy carpet-bag on the rtoor-f.tep while she scrutinized the house. Shirley rushed to the door and opened it noiselessly. "Madam, I beg that you will eome in, if only for u moment. You cannot think how great a ch irity it would be." " Certainly I will come in ; I havo been traveling all dnj for that express purpose, if this is Miss Strong's house;" and the girl leaned lorward to pierci the floora which enveloped Shit ley, who waited for no more words, but lifted

her, hag and all, into the little hall and abut the door. " Miss Strong is very ill and wander.ng in her mind, and I am wholly alone with her. You could not bo more welcome if you were an angel out of heaven," said Shirley, in the extremity of his delight and relief. He found her hand somehow in the dark, and shook it as heartily as if she had been Lenox. "I thank you," said the girl simply. "' Miss Strong is my cousin, and, if you will bo so good as to bring a light for a moment, I will take off my cloak." Shirley found a candle, with a light heart; the clear, low voice of the newcomer seemed to create a new atmosphere in the h" use. She met him in the parlor, and he'd out her hand again, frankly, to be shaken. " I know you now," she sid. " I saw you with Mi-a Temperance at the commencement." She had taken off the water-proof disguise, and stood before Shirley the identical "girl in gray." ' This is my cousin's room, I suppose," sho went on, with a smile which might mean confusion to Shirley, in the memory of their first meeting, or might not. She gave him no time to decide, but pushed open the door and stood with him boside the bed Where Mhs Temperance lav moaning in her sleep. ": These are h er bureau and wardrobe, of course. She must be undressed first of all, and while I do that you may make a good fire in the kitchen and I will come to you there." " Now you may go for the doctor," said the girl in gray, coming into the kitchen with no more bustle than if she hEid spent her life there. Shirley went joyfully, feeling that he must be entertaining an angel unawares. The fever would ran its course was the doctor's verdict. Good nursing was all the patient needed for a few days. " All I" though I Shirley, as he measured Ijis great stren ;th with the intelligent weakness of the " girl in gray," who instinctively did the right thing at the

right time. " I must look for some ono to help you," he said when they were again alone. " Thank you, but there will be no need. Sickness is my strong point." " I begin to think I have no strong point, unless it is Greek verbs." She gave a mellow little laugh. " If you are turning meek you must be hungry-" " I believe I have eaten nothing today." " I thought so. You shall show me the pantry and I will see what there is for our supper, for I am hungry too." Shirley wondered at himself that he could eat so heartily in that presence, but hunger and the good example of the girl in gray were too many for him. "My name is Rachel Gordon," she said as soon as he thought of it. " My mother urns first cousin to the Gordons. There w;is some ' unpleasantness ' between tbem while she lived, but she was deeply anxious that i Bhould win over Miss Teraperanoe if possible." Shirley was immediately convinced that she' could win over anybody to anything, but, having no practice in complimenU, he remained silent and stared at her unmercifully. Rachel kept him busy all the evening with bringing in wood for the night and making all sorts of slight changes for Miss Strong's comfort. " Now I have no more need of you," she said at last. " I will bid you good night, a.nd if I need anything before morning I will-go upstairs and knock at every door till I find yours. " But but " stammered Shirley, who had fully made up his mind to share a night's vigil with her. "I know no such word." You must need rest, and I am much stronger than you are." " The last clause is self-evident, but you don' I know so well how to use your Own strength," said Rachel, opening Miss Strong's door. " But but" persisted Shirley, utteily at a loss for the proper phrases for such an emergency. "That must bo one of your Greek verbs, you are bo fond of it. Good night, and I will See you in the morning." She disappears, and Shirley was routed in his first campaign. He was certain that he should not close his eyes ; but exhausted nature overcame him, and the small hours were growing large again when he stole down stairs, and was guided to the bed-room by a dim light within. He meant only to look at the invalid, but his eyes were caught before they reached Mies Strong. Rachel itud been sitting by the bed, and, laying her head where the least motion of the sick woman would wake her, she had fallen asleep. Shirley thought (after he came to the thinking point) that he had never seen anything so lovely in all his days. Rachel had put on a white wrapper with a long cape to it, and. for com tort's sake, had taken the pins out of her hair. This light brown hair rippled round the small ear and Bt rayed over the dresti, and finally lay on the floor in a soft, wealthy way that was bewildering to Shirley, who had never before seen a woman's hair- her " glory." A passionate longing seized him to touch it once, to see if it felt like his own stubborn curls. Rachel's face was too earnest to be pretty. She had more of the "romiince of your stone ideal" than those " ripe and real " women whom Byron preferred. Her best feature was a straight nose, which, as Miss Bronte,

gays, will giv; a clear look m any face. Hers bore marks of trial and hard earned rest, but its purity struck Shirley with awe. He never knew how long be leaned against the door-post, gazing with his bouI in his eyes at the sleeping girl. Ho learned her by heart in that look, as if she had been a lesson, from the little purple sprig on her white gown to the blue veins in her forehead. He saw a woman for the first tiniv-, and he never Baw another with the same eyes. From that moment the current of his eager soul set only on her; a rage of covetousness possessed him ; she was the one thing needful to round his life ; it must have been for her that his heart had waited through his youth. He drew back at last with an inward wrench, in the fear that she might wake and find him spying on her solitude. He

went into tho cold kitchen, and there

Rachel found him, sitting bolt upright on the old-fashioned settle. " You have not been sitting here all night, I hope," she said. " No," said Shirley, with a look of repentance that he had not done so, and o have been worthv of a little scolding on her part. She had twisted up all her wandering hair into a loose knot, but it lid not alter the picture whioh was newly hung for all time in Shirley's memory. He longed to tell her somebow that she must use him in every

possible way to save h ;r own strength, but the right words wew slow in coming. " Miss Gordon " he began more than once. "That name sounds odd to me," she said. " I have never been anybody but Rachel. My mother belonged to the Society of Friends, and though she never made me quite a Quakeress, I grew to love their siotplicitier'. You may call me Rachel, if you like." Shirley only bowed, and aet about making the kitchen fire. To call her Rachel was no comfort; it seemed to put her farther away from him, when their acquaintance did not warrant it; but he now recognized the Quaker element in her face, the pure quietness which so often looks out of those gray booqeta, . v " Whitest thonjfhts in whitest dress, Candid meanings but express Mind of quiet Quakeress." Three or four days went by on wings while these two young people kept house together and waited for Miss Strong's fever to Bpend itself. It soon dawned upon Shirley that he must have fallen in love with this plain girl. Nothing but the old, old love could so transfigure mere living and breathing in her sight. It struck him with a certain impatience that no man had ever found words t lat would do it perfect justice. To all it is, at first, something new under the sun. He hid it closely from Rachel, how. ever, and grew more ceremonious and dull. Rachel looked at him sometimes with the quizzical smile which the first words she had ever hea -d him speak had provoked. She sat by the bed side one day, while Shirley stood in his fivorite position, holding up the door post. Saddenly Miss Temperance raise i her head from the pillow and stared wildly from one to the other. "Arthur, you lore herP she almost screamed ; " I see it in your eyes. You never looked at me like that. Rachel has weand you away from me 1" A flush rose to Rachel's pale cheek, and Shirley hailed it with a big heart

throb. Then he tnec to soothe Miss Temperance with all the fond words he could think of. " Have you any idea why she calls me Arthur?" Shirley asked Rachel when he Baw her alone. "Yes," said Rachel, with the flash again in her cheek. "Don't tell me if it r ains you." "You may as well know it. Miss Strong was engaged to Arthur Gordon, my father, and, while she was fill with a fever like this, my mother came to take care of her and won away her lover. I believe, at least I hope, she bad no idea of what she was doing, till Miss Strong saw the change in his feelings and released him. My father thought Bhe did not mind it, and had never really cared for him, but my mother knew better how strong-minded worn sn suffer. While my father lived they were all n apparently good terms (that teas part of Miss Temperance's pride), but as scon as he died she forbade my mother to come into her sight, and I dread her becoming conscious again, lest she will transfer the enmity to me." " She could never do that," said Shirley, eagerly, " Why not?" "Because " stammeied Shirley. "That is a woman's reason.' " Arthur ! Arthur I" screamed Miss Temperance from the btid-roora. "Don't be making love to Rashel iu my very hearing. Come in hero, both of you." They obeyed her efleiitJy. " Now, Arthur, look tit me. Can you lay your hand on that shifty heart of yours and say to me in truth sad soberness that you are not in love with Ra chel?" Shirley hesitated, He forge t that it it was not in his own name that she

adjured him. He thought only of his devouring love for this second RacheL " That's enough,'7 said Miss Temperance, fulling back pale and trembling. Before either could speak to her the wild look was gone "rom her face. " Shirley, boy, what was I say lag to you. I will take the broth new, if it is burnt : you did the best you could." Rachel had slipped njiseleaily out of her sight. " You have been in this bed a whole week," said Shirley, kissing her thin cheek, though he felt his heart sink within him at the prospect of Rachel being driven away by Miss Strong's hatred of her mother. " Who has taken care of me T I have had an uncomfortable notion of a ghost hovering about me foi Rachel's death was in the paper I saw it with my own eyes." "Rachel's daughter has been liere since the first day. You would have died but for her." "I wish I had, rather than have been kept alive by one of that treacherous brood. Rachel's daughter, a thin, colorless girl, with eyes deep as wella, who would not do any harm for conscience's sake, but will take your life ir herquiet way, smiling faintly at everybody all the while." "Rachel's daughter hue done nothing worse than to keep yur liouse and nurse you night and diy for a week," said Shirley severely. M O Shirley, my boy, son of my old agel'" cried Miss Temperance in an agonized tone. " I havo lost you. Arthur said those very woids of her mother. You have grown to love her." " Yes, I have," burnt out Shirley, with the foroeof a torrent breaking bounds. " She is the one woman of all the world to me, and none shall say an ill word of her in my hearing." " Mr. Shirley, vou am beside yourself," said Rachel, se zing his arm. "Think of her weakneus. rould you kill her with hard words? I am going away at once, Miss Strong, snd I will never come again until you send for me. I hope you will do me the justice to be1 ie ve there has been no love-making over your sick-bed. This is tbe first word or sign that Mr. Shirley has given of his love for me." She went out quickly, and Shirley's quick ear heard her mount the stairs. He gave the quieting dtangh'ito hie patient which had been left for her to take when she returned to co lsciousness. When Rachel eame down Shirley met her in the hall. She was again " the girl in grey," with her bag in her hand.

" If yoa go away I go with you," saia Shirley desperately.

" No." said Rachel, your place is

here. If we belong to each other we

shall meet again." " If I" repeated Shirley contemptuously.

A radiant smile made Rachel's face

beautiful for an instant. Shirley became

somehow possessed of loth her hands

and drew her toward bim with a sort

of awful wonder at his own boldness

but the dropping of the bag roused Miss

Temperance.

" Shirley, where are yoa T' she called querulously. And Shirley obeysd the call, carrying Rachel's last words in his heart for hi s only solace : "When Miss Temperance can endure the sight of me I will come again."

What a dull, homely old room that sitting-room was, to be sure, when Shirley could gc back to it, for he found no Rachel thete. and he had no clew to her destination. He spent the evening in searching for a nurse for Miss Temperance. The bustling, good-natured neighbor wbo finally ' took Rachel's place in the house was a thorn in the flesh of both of them. Shirley endured his wretched uncertainly till Miss Strong waa able to sit in her arm-chair and knit a little protest He was walking nervously up and down the room, a? his father used to walk the deck, wbe nhe met her wistful eyes. "My boy," she said gently. " It's of no use staying here," he said, bending his cheek down to hers. " If you can spare me now I'll make thai

visit to Lennox."

"You are going to Eachel?" " I wish I were, but I have no idea

where she is."

" Did she give you no address ?" "No." " She must be either mor or less than

a woman to hear you say yoa loved her

and yet go away without giving you a chance to say it again."

" fine said ene would come bacK when

you were willing to receive her."

"l doubt she s more like Arthur

than that wiihy-washy mother of her's. Is she pretty, Shirley?" " I don't snjw; I never thought of It," sAid Shirley, beginning to walk up

ana aown again. Miss Temperance raised her eyebrows till they were nearly lost in her hair : but she said no more of Rachel, ana made no o ejection to Shirley going away next day. He was no sooner gone, however; than she drew a little slip of paper from her knitting basket, and, after studying a long time, knitting all the while, sfc.o wrote a letter to RacheL The latter had written her Sddress and stuck it on Miss Strong's knitting needles, knowing that she would soon find it in that spot, while it would be safe from Shirley. On the third day Rachel walked quiedy into the familiar sitting room and offered her hand to Mies Temperance, who g'ared at it over her spectacles as if it. aad been a new kind of lizard, but took it nevertheless. " I sent for yoa to ask a question or two. Do yen like Bombay Shirley ?" "Yes." " Do you mean to marry bim ?'' "Yes, if he asks me." "With or without my consent?" "Yes." " One thing more. Do you think your mother did right in enticing your father away from me?" Rachel's face, which, had been smiling brightly to all the otaer question, crimsoned painfully. " My mother suffered deeply. It is hot for me to blame her. Her last words were an entreaty to you to forgive her." " Yoa are no beauty yourself, Rachel, and if some other woman stole Shirley away from you could you forgive her?" "Perhaps not; but if she were in her grave I think I might possibly like his children: only because they were his." " You may as well take off your things and stay awhile," said M Temperance, with a sudden change in her every-day manner. "I will," eaid Rachel, simply. And, with no more words, these two women adopted each other. Shirley soon came home, because he found all oth er places equally irksome. Miss Tempeiance greeted him warmly, and kept his attention till she heard Rachel's door open above. "Oh! I sent for the girl, Shirley. I forgot to mention it before." "What girl? You doc't mean Rachel?" "Of coarse I mean RacheL Who else?" Miss Temperance took refugs in hsr kitchen before Rachel dawned upon Shirley's glad eyes. When she opened the door again, with a great bustle, to call them to din ner Rachel was saying : "But, Mr. Shirley, yoa have scaroely known me fourteen days yet. You take too much for granted." "The sevn last days have been as long as the seven 'ast years to Jacob when he waited for that other RacheL" Rachel laughed merrily. "O, Mr. Shirley I you have certainly seen the ghott of Metellue." u She's sitting at least three feet away

from that foolish boy," thought Miss Temperance. "She begins as she can hold out ; aitd, after all, she's Arthur's daughter. It might be worse."

Tws Kinds of Treat. A story of James H. Beard, the artist.

illustrating his quickness of repartee, is located at the old Broadway House, Cincinnati, where the better elass of gentlemen were wont to congregate. It

seems that. U'son one occasion the Broad

way was visited by a party of young bucks from Louisville, who had in

herited the traditional dislike of Cincinnati and her customs. As a large nartv of Cincinnati gentlemen were

seated in the saloon engaged in conversation, one of the Louisville visitors attracted everybody's attention by vociferating to his friends, " come, gentlemen, let's laave a Cincinnati treat." Thereupon each member started up to

the bar, and calling lor a drink, each

paid his own score, and then laughed merrily at the supposed insult they had conveyed. Beard saw their intent, and

turning to mi companions, said, "come,

boys, let' have a Louisville treat."

They obeyed, and emptied their glasses, when Beard winked "loudly" at the barkeeper, and said, "charge it." The laugh turned against (he Louisville party.

Small-pel as Financial Agent. A new way to collect old debts was

illustrated the other day by a health

officer not a thousand miles from Cohoes. Delinquent debtor was button

holed by health officer and treated to a condensed statement of the public health, particular stress being placed on

the prevalence of small-pox aad a passing mention made of a particular case

which health omcer naa just ten. Debtor began to get uneasy and remembered an engagement. Health officer mentioned his " little bill," at the same time stating; that he was often obliged to purchase taedicine, Ac., for the smallpox patient under his charge, and

ready money was very mucu neeuea. Debtor hastily pulled out bis wallet nassed a bank note to the officer, ana

exclaiming, " I must go, never mind the change now, Doctor; I'll see yoa some

other time," leit tne aootor penecuy satisfied with his experiment.

Curious Post Ofllee Case. Rather a curious post office case haa

just, occurred in Paris. It is a rule in

f ranco to deliver registered letters omy to the pei -son to whom they are address

ed. A postman who aad noh a letter

for a married lady would not give it to her husbiand on demand. That personage insisted that, as it was from a man known to be too intimate with his better half, he could legally claim it, and the postman still declining to deliver it, he brought the matter to a crisis by knocking him down and thus securing the document. The Tribunal decided that the hutiband was right, he producing the letter confirming bis suspicions ; that the post office .officials ought not to lend theniMlreatoafc adulterous oorrosjondecoe ; must Mty damages and coett ; and that a htl)kdhas the right to claim his wife' otmspowl-enee.