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J3L00MINGT0N, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1883.

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BT UBS. A. B. FKRBO. . ' ' "Well. Bessie, the new teacher is going to board with us this summer," said Farmer Mapleton, as he listed two brimming pails of milk and set them on the kitcWn table- "I saw him down at Bhelby this afternoon, and ha engaged bnatd at $3 a week. He seemed awful anxious about the family, some-

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so, father!" aaked-ihe rl ad-

aa Bessie, deftlv slrDoinir the

shining pans from ber aim into a row alongside of the milk pails. Qh, he wanted to know how many there were in the family; and, when I v, told him only myself and wile and one little girl, he pat on a mighty satisfied look, and asked if the little girl was o!d eooagh to go to school." "And what did yon tell him?"' again queried 'the damsel, with ait amused look, as she lifted one of the nails and

poured the rich, foamy fluid slowly into thehniWBtrainer.

"Oh, yes, I said, she is old enough to

, go to school, but X don t think we shall send her this summer, as her mother fcefsrs to teach her at home. A. clear, ringing, silvery laugh foltowed this speech, and Bessie took up '" the empty pails and strainer and went oat to the kitchen pomp. Beasje Mapleton, Mr. Mapleton'g little girl, as be always called her, was in - ' I reaSty a magnificent specimen of wom- ' ' ankind. She was folly fire feet eight inches in heisht. with massive shonl-

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l ;-qpaa wauwiuiT-ruiiunni uus, simpeir

arms and hands and a well-turned foot She had ahro a imlAndirl head of wainr.-

iwd-lbirown hair, matched by a pair' of

is eyes, witn these, a clear, y complexion, deepening on the

to a pale rose, foil, red bps, and i. dimpled chin, combined to

IR8)ijpiT pleasing exterior. In pomt of intelligence Miss Mapleton was far above the ordinary lS-year-cW .eormtry girL She had graduated with signal honors at a ladies' board-"aag-aehooV and had now come home, as she said, to add. to her other accompltahments good stock of common sense. As her mother ebanced to be withoot a domestic she, of her own aceordrproposed to take that share of the labor nsnally performed by the hired girl, and thus learn the mysteries of hoosekeeping.

She had proved herself an apt pnpu,

ira mmuus apDieauoesiiip,

Mapleton, who rather prided her-

.xaeir oaner excellent hoosekeeping . . kbiHtioe, decided that Bessie conld do

almoat as weU as she conld herself. V : How, Mr. Mapleton had not meant to

; deeeire Edgar Fterpont when he spoke H'; sf to littte girl He had fallen" into a 'ifimf- of -calling her so in her early 'ft eud before she had developed into

c . ' .:Mr present grand proportions, and he ; atfll kept it np. There is no denying f ! ? tim fact that be was somewhat prond of her mfgnifioent form and comely '' ': '" ' features, -and,when he saw how qnickly A : she young schoolmaster snapped up the gv MwitMitinnsl bait, he was -fain to let '"i .''r. -the matter pass withont frrrthpr enm-

laadletthefihithfU.AnDon him

xjuiiajD orapi, fagpnanermg eyes. a bring np tlr comito-mea.

father," sakt IJessie as she rose from - - . the supper table the night Mr. Pieri pent was expecHed to p his appear-

by the very demon of mischief. In

rain she shook her stick and hallooed;

in rain she ran frantically to and fro, All her efforts seemed rather to in

crease their playfulness than to inspire

tneni wim sap leeiinga ol xeapeet and obedience

At last she stopped in the middle ol the field, panting for breath, with flashed feces disheveled hair and angry-

looKing eyes ; and, uttering an exclamation expressive of strong disghst, she threw down her Stick and was tetnrn-

imr toward home: waen sue suddenlv

oecame aware qi a masculine presence, Jl II ' ;T. Il' 1 uja ii

ana aeep, ricn voice asicea; snail J help rb nuas?' ( , . Looking up, She saw a broad-shoul

dered specimen, bf the, genua homo

rapidly ftpproaching, with an amused expreasien iii his bine eyes and certain

rwitchrngs of the mnscles of his month,

showing a strong inclination to lacgh.

But at sight of the flushed face and

tired eyes, this tall, merry-looking stranger became suddenly tender and respectful; and, while Bessie grew hot

and uncomfortable and painfnuv con

scious of her demoralized condition, he

remained cool and self-possessed, and.

taking up her discarded weapon, he proceeded after those refractory bovines m a way that evidently meant business. But, as though perfectly aware of a

superior presence, to IJossie mapleton's utter disgust, those cows formed quietly into line and marched as demurely toward home as if that wild, wicked frolic had never been thought of. As they followed the cows along over the green, crocus-dotted sward, the young stranger conversed in an easy.

off-hand way, which under ordinary

circumstances would have put Miss Bessie entirely at her ease. But she

was too keenly alive to the fact that her dress was torn by an unlucky con

tact wiiii a tnorn-Dush, her collar

awry, and that her back hair had es

caped the legitimate confinement of

c mb and hair-pins and hung in great, coffee-colored masses about her neck and throat.

"Where does Mr. Mapleton live?" he

asked, abruptly, when the cows were safe in the lane, and the bars replaced. Tm the new teacher, Mr. Pierpont, at your service," with a low bow, "and I'm going to board with them this summer." "Bight up there, " answered Bessie, indicating the house with a nod, and smiling m spite of her chagrin. "These are Mr. Mapleton's cows." He regarded her curiously a moment. "And you are?"

"Miss Mapleton," with a profound

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"I don't think you'd, better, Bess..

said Mr- Mapleton, 4eakly. ?"That

yoring schoolmaster -nlfght 'come while you're gone. You'd oe rather ashamed

jto-Jbo caught driving np the cows, wouldnlt you?" . "Hot a bit of H. father " and aeizrrur

themeagatand downtne larBendr

: a clear, npplins; stream of

which fairly made the olA orchard

mb melody.

was Bessie Mapleton's

after these cows turn

evening, perhaps no one bat

'ill ever know. It might be

thai, knowing the half-mile walk would brighten her eyes and deepen the color in her cheeks, she desired to avail her-t-JIl' ef its advantages as she was one of Sj" TV f .1 i 1

Ja?ar a.w wuuwa wjju sstb m xvxu own 'f 'limift for all the so-called cosmetics of f .. the day. Or it might be that the chord ' of romance which vibrated strongly tlTrongb her being prompted tlie act .. Certain it ia that she had taken more '"-P tliaa the usual amount of care with her ; tofiet, which, ough simple and entirely in keeping with her avocation '. as' a farmer's daughter, was neat and

tasteful. And certain it is, too, that, if

she bad the least idea of getting np a romance on her own private account.

she succeeded beyond her most santtine expectation. . She had reached the lower end of the zawtnre, and after, as it seemed to her, a vastly unnrcensary amount of coaxing, Imlkwring and throwing of clubs, she had at last succeeded in getting the eows into line, and fairly on their homeward way. She was eonmtulating herself on ber success, when, presto! Juno, a mp8cenV' 4ry ear-old, dipped her horns to the ground, and with a sniff and a snort and a sudden lifting of the heels went cantering away across the fields, with Brindle and Pink and Brownie and Blossom rushingpell-mell after her in such a wild fashion, that

'-Mias Mapleton stood aghast at the

Mllli -joer nraa uiongnc was 10 go to . the house and send her father after

them, Then ahe remembered that she had volunteered to bring them up, and jibe ms do it ia some way.

ntUMnng her oats over iter

m, t aloeg atkk in her hand.

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"Ah! indeed. Mr. Mapleton's niece,

perhaps." "No; Mr. Mapleton's daughter." "I think I understood Mr. Mapleton to say he had but one daughter, and that was a little girl." "Well, he always calls me his little girl," she said, looking up with a comically-counterfeited shyness; and then, as all the grotesqneness of the situation burst upon her mind, she gve vent to a long, low, hearty laugh. It was contagious. Mr. Pierpont laughed too, albeit there was a disappointed look in hi handsome, blue eyes, which was not lost upon observing Bessie, and at which that young lady naturally enough felt a little piqued. "Never mind, Bessie," she said to herself, "Mr. Pierpont doesn't seem to care for our company. I really don't

wonder at reconsidering our dilapidated appearance this evening, but we will take care not to -inflict ourselves upon

mm more tnan is necessary. " At the irate they met Mr. Mapleton.

He stopped to exchange greetings with the ronna? teacher, while Bessia ran

quickly into the house and upstairs to her room, and did not make her ap

pearance again that evening. At the breakfast-table she was cool and stately, and acknowledged Mr. Pierpont's presence by a very slight inclination of her handsome head. For some reason unknown to the writer, Mr. Edgar Pierpont had decided that young ladies as a class were somewhat of a nuisance, and he had been particnlaxly anxious, in selecting his summer boarding place, to avoid contact with thee, as he thought, superfluous attachments to the human

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Whether it was some unfortunate love affair, which bad assisted Mr. Pierpont to this decision is immaterial, so long as the fact remains that he had voted them altogether unnecessary to his happiness. "Vain, silly things," he was wont to say; "hollow-hearted flirts, whose only idea of life is to angle for the attentions of the opposite sex, and eventually to marry a rich man. Bat if he had the least idea that Bessie Mapleton was going to angle for his attentions, or try to get up the least bit of a flirtation, he reckoned without his host, for she was as sublimely oblivions to his presence, except when particularly addressed by hrm, as if he had been at the antipodes. And always her replies were sharp and pointed and sometimes so sarcastic that good Mrs. Mapleson wondered what had come over her usually amiable and pleasant daughter. Before he was hardly aware of it, Edgar Pierpont found his interest aroused. He saw that this girl was different from other girls of his acquaintance, and he resolved to study her. Watching her from day to day as shn performed her homely duties, and seeing how quiet and helpful and womanly she was, how kind and pleasant to her father and mother, how gentle and affable to casual visitors, he could not help wishing she would be just a little more sociable with himself. But, do what he might, she met his advances with icy indifference. The more he sought her side, the more persistently she avoided him. At length, much to his chagrin, he found himself actually becoming infatuated by the willful beauty. And when he attempted to break the meshes of the net in which he had been caught, he was powerless to do so. He had to acknowledge himself irrevocably lost, hopelessly, desperately in love. He believed, too, that Miss Bessie was

not altogether unaware of his sentiments toward her, and he sometime fancied he was not so obnoxious to her as

beseemed to be. Watching her closely he had seen swift opflashing of the brown eyes, filled with soft and tender

light, followed ur snaaen waves of crimson over neck and brow as they drooped quickly again under his search

ing gaze. And, indeed, Bessie had found her

self m a predicament she had not anticmated, for one day there come to her a moment of supreme revelation in Which she saw into the dnnth nf her

own heart, and she knew that she loved

Jnerpont -with all the atrenarth

rfSar woinaBry nature. But, with that

which ic inherent

she ouicklv

decided to covet tip all traces of her love, and not by word or sign to betray the fact that her heart had gone but unasked to anjr living maih for? never under velvet or satin robes beat a prouder heart than throbbed under' Bessie

Mapleton's gingham wrapper: . It wanted a week yet to the close of tho school terni. Unconscidusly to herself there had come intd Bessie's wide, brown byes an anxious express ions. Her manner was distraught and her temper fitful and Uneven, at) muc'h sd, that her mother had several times anxitiusly inquired if she' were ill. . . "Nd, pmother. . I'm ntft ill, and I wish you, wouldn't keep worrying about me; itll , the time," she, had answered peevishly on one of these . occasions, trad Mrs. Miiplcton had wondered .nWe than ever what change had come over the spirit of her daughter's dreams,-' but if she surmised anything of the truth she wisely kept it to herself. "I believe Edgar Pierpont loves me, and that he would tell me so if I gave him the least chance," Bessie said to herself over and over again. And yet, strange as it may seem, she placed every possible barrier between herself and such a declaration. And Edgar? He had vainly sought for an opportunity to see hef aloud. He knew she purposely kept out tit hid way, and he was debating with himself Whether to go away and make nt) mention of the love that Was devouring his heart like a consuming fire, or to ask her for a private interview, knowing' she could not well refuse him this, and learn his fate from her own lips. It was at this juncture of affairs that Mr. Mapleton asked Bessie one evemns

at the supper-table if she could bring up the cows, saying that he had to go some distance to see a neighbor and it would be quite late before he should

get back.

iidirar Pierpont heard with devout

thankfuness, and eagerly awaited her answer.

"Certainly, father." she said, blush

ing furiously as she thought of her

former experience, i ll try." Til go with her and help her, Mr. Mapleton."

Bessie opened her bps to decline the

proffered assistance, but, as she met for

an instant those calm blue eyes across

the table, the masterful spirit which shone out through them compelled her to be silent.

Down through the old orchard, where

the red-cheeked apples swung low upon

the heavily-laden branches: past the

Then whoii the milk had been Strained and set away hi tile Wide, cool pantry; and tlie lamps had been lightud

harid-iri-haud .before' Mr; and, Mfcv Ma-

pletoiii, and JSdgar Pierpont asked of thni tlieir ttaughteVtn niasr'iage "Yes, yes, ybu may hare her;" exclaimed Mr Haprfct-Otiyr'ftirlg up in- fC sort of nervous flutterj''fenilipn c'an'f . take hor away.. . Yim..muqt .CQiue "hero to ljve; I'm getting old, anyway, and I lieed some one to help hip to see to things .about the farm; Are you willing to do this?" .. "More thaii willing, Mr. Mapleton." "That settles it then, and may you be happy together, as happy as Mother Mapleton and I have always been, is best wish I can giye you." Chicago LeSget:

Parisian Beggars. There is not a block in any street nor a court-yard, square or carrefour in Paris that is not the property of beggars, writes a correspondent from Paris. Some will come every day beforo the rising of the snn to occupy tho same relation, and there to remain until night and gaslight comes to give an artificial hie to the city. Then they fill the principal boulevards until after the theaters aitd operas are closed that is to say, until after midn-'ght. Othei-j have their days, even their hour.-", to visit certain streets, and they are cunning eriongh not to interfere with each other in making these unwelcome calls to the nobility and bourgeoise of Paris. To be a successful beggar, one must have some visible infirmifrr or imped

iment to gaining a living; consequently, all Paris beggars are either crippled,

blind, maimed cr suneruig from

WATERY GBAVES

Frightful fate of a Pleasure Party Near

Baltimore.

j$udtiil CtoliapsS tf Mbtteii Fier

While CrotvUett by U Gay Throndi

Hear!

Eighty People DrownedHeart

rending ooenes;

teaamttlei rapidly follow upon the heels' Of each ofaier this year. The latest horror occurred at the North Point Tivoll, a reor4 near Baltimore. About 03 members of a Catholic excursion party crowded upon the pier, wheaTttho structure gave way and

more than half the number were precdpl-

ated Into the water. Of these about eight wero taken out dead. Tho following' a count of the calamity is taken from the

graphic accounts printed in the Chicago

bus sore or cancer affliction, which is not infrequently assumed or imitated with no small degree of skill and to our special loathing. A good many of those whose infirmities are not of the most

repulsive character do not beg outright. They pretend to sell pencils, pins, knives, flowers; they play on handorgans and other musical instruments invented to torture the public, go from house to hodse singing heaven help me, but I should have sa;d howling! some sort of an air which those Johnny Crapeaus call musical. Each beggar has his (or her) traditions, his especial manner of exhibiting his claims on charity in fact, the usual mise-en-scene

of the profession.

For instance, the

blind by far tho most numerous, im-

we ueayuy-xaueu cnes; P portant and wealthy coi-poration among corn fields, whose wide, green leaves beggars-almit invariably mainand yellow tassels rustled m the even- tain . -fid immorarai;tv. a itrifica-

around the brow of the

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mg freeze; arounu ne orow oi wie wbirjh cstends even to the dog or hill, irhnrn than- fpt at pvamt hIati ..... . ... .. . 13

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blossoms, and down to the spring, where a rustic seat had been fixed up under some spreading oaks, they went.

Me bad not spoken a word since they

started. Bessie would have chosen to

go down the lane directly to the past

ure, but by some secret power he had

gained over her within the last halfhour, he compelled obedience to his

unspoken wishes. Now he broke the

silence :

"Sit down here, Bessie. I've got some

thing want to say to you." She flashed up a little smile of defiance, but she had met her master.

She sat down. He remained standing. "Mias Mapleton," he began, "for

more than a week I have been seeking an opiwrtunity to see you atone. But

you have purposely avoided me. I felt

that I could not go away from here without telling you what is in my heart. But before I say more I want to ask you a question, and I want you to give me a truthful, straightforward answer. Will you? . "Do you doubt my veracity, Mr.

Pierpont?" she asked, with a sudden

assumption of dignity. "If I answer

yeu at all I uhall probably tell you the

trutn.

-very well, then," quietly ignoring

tne renection contained in ner speech, "It is this : What have I ever done to make you dislike me so much?9 A spasm of pain swept for one instant over her expressive features. "What makes you think I dislike you ?" "You have never given me any reasons to think otherwise. Prom our first acquaintance you have seemed to consider me as entirely unworthy of your notice. Perhaps it was this which first attracted my attention, and set me to watching you. Observing from day to day your sweet, helpful, womanly life, I have learned to love you, and oh 1 Bessie, I would like to know what I have done that was wrong, that I may, if possible, atone for my fault, and try to win your love in return." "I want to ask you a question," the said suddenly, looking up with an arch smile. "A dozen, if you like." "One will do. I think, butl want you to give me a truthful, straightforward answer. Will you?" "Ill try to," smiling in spite of Ids earnestness. "Weren't you very much disappointed when you found out that Mr. Mapleton's little girl was a full-grown young woman?" "I I I " he stammered, reddening painfully under her mocking soi utiny. "No prevarication, if you please." "Well then, I may as well make a clean breast of it, and admit that I n aa disappointed, and, furthermore, that I hod at that time a very poor opinion of girls in general. I considered them as silly and selfish, and " "Entirely unworthy of your notice." "Perhaps that is not putting it too strongly, he admitted, wincing a little. "But, Bes-sie, my love for yon las taught me a higher forni of faith, anc'l a nobler creed. Having made my confession, am I not entitled to your forgiveness, and an answer to my question?" "To my forgiveness, yes," extending her hand with charming frankness. "I did not agree to answer your question ?" "Ion will at least tell me, Bessie, if I can ever hope to win your love?" "No, Edgar," with sudden sweet seriousness. "You cannot hope to win my love, for it is yours already. I have a long time known that my heart was yours. I think I have loved you ever since you came to my assistance that evening, when I was so tired and discouraged. But I was piqued at your indifference to my girlish charms," she added, naively, "and I resolved to nav

you off in your own coin. I have discharged the debt. I am free."

"Only to be bound again by a firmer

contract," he exclaimed, as he bent over and placed upon her lips the seal of their betrothal.

Together in the early twilight they followed home the cows again, and while Brindle ;d Brownie and Blossom and Pink and Juno walked quietly audi contentedly along the lane, these young j people talked together of their f uture and laid wise and sagacious plans for the days to come. 1

Another distinguished feature

of this blind nuisance is that he rarely addresses any verbal appeal to the passer-by, but he is very careful that his placard shall speak for him, and on this signboard lie sometimes takes flights into the realms of poesy that are really startling. Often this" card appeals to tho reader's sympathy by mentioning the name of the department or province from which tho beggar has come.

papers: In noint of honor and fatality combined.

no catastrophe has ever been written in the annals of Baltimore that will compare with the awful loss of life in the night-covered waters of the Patapsco at Tivoll last evening. A crowd of pleasure-seekers, weary after the sports ,f the day, were gathered 6h the wharf as tha barge that was to lieu them to their homes approached No thought tf danger was in their minda, With Ecarcd a monteit's warning:, thS structure kave way, and tie immense mass ox hdmailtty was plunged hiw the waters, where the" darkness shut them out of 6i;jhfc. Ih hundreds of homes las nijrht

anxious wives, husbands ahd parunts were awaiting M arrival of the excursionists, and the anxiety became intense as the small hours of he morning Came oil At 8:H0 o'clock the targe reached Henderson's wharf, bringing tt awful tale of woe, and freighted with the forms of twenty-eight

drowned men. women, ana cmiaren. rne

hide- I anxiety of tie purents gave plaoe to horror

ana griei, ana me rxusaua ox iiuihusb; grew wild with terror. . Almost half oi the excursionists passed the night artiund the blazing fires on the shore, where tiuMe' Who had been rescued from the wares werS seeking to dry their dripping' clotbinr. ThS scenes oil ind grounds during tie night were iiidoecriuable: and awful The noisy cries of children and the hoarse shouts of men and the niercinsr notes of Brief of the women were

as nothing to the terrible silence of the four hours that preceded the dawn, when nothing was heard but an occasional dull moan or the call of one ol those who were watching by the shore foi the bodies of the dead From what Could be gleaned froni the r&-

marKs oi individual witnesses oi ine eemble accident ii ahrxars that the disaster oo-

ourred a very few minutes after 10:30 o'clock. The wharf did not break; the piles spread The crowd stood ih a bunch m the center of the whan which was but poorly supported underneath by logs and consau quently the jarring of the barge when she struck the wharf gave the shock wiico caused the piles to spread and let down tho center of the wharf with its crowd of living beings Into the water. The planks were ol course unable (o support the heavy weight

and so snapped short atf, thus giving rise to

t me supposition tnat tnev naa oroken. i Thehev. W. E. Sterr, pastor of Corpus ! Christi Soman Catholic Church, was an cyS i witness of the disaster, and gives a graphic i account of it "There is a long wharf at ! 1'ivoli," eald he, 'running out from (he : Bhore perhaps 1,030 feet Near the shore ! end there are large gates, which are gener- ! ally closed upon the arrival of the boats. Last night a number of persons, fatigued.

ana aesirmg to ontain advantageous positions on the boat, strolled out upon the wharf before tho arrival of the barge, sd

Beecher on Lincoln. "I think that Lincoln was to a remarkable degree both a statesman and a politician ; that he based his views of expediency on great principles, but that in execution expedient objects hi

was as shrewd and keen a politician as j fellow, they were safer on the outside. a . . . T auvwtla anaaA linar unrA l,ia tnallriws

ever was m Washington, tie had a broad sympathy for human nature and he understood it very well. He was as devoid of personal ambition and selfishness as any man of whom we have a record in our history. He was a man who wanted to do that which was right and best for this whole nation, South and North, and was willing to go as near to the edge of doubtful expediency as a man could go and not go over the precipice; but he saved himself." "Whatever its effect upon the country, don't you think that his death and its manner and at the time was a great thing for him in history ?"

"xes, sir. x tiunk that lus comn was more than the Presidential chair. It

certainly gave to the whole of his career

the influence of a land of political saintship." "Do you believe he would have carried out a different policy from that of Johnson?" "I know that at the time that thing3 were drawing to a consummation ho had in an inchoate form the very policy that Johnson undertook to carry out under ' a change of circumstances. I know it, because the Cleveland letter that I wTote was the result of conferences with Gov. Andrew and President Lincoln, just preceding Lincoln's death, as to what were to be the nextcoming steps after the breaking down of the rebellion, and at that time, under the circumstances, it seemed to me that they had, on the whole, very wise views. It may be said almost in a sentence what their policy was. It was to say to the leading public men of the South: Gentlemen, you took your section ont of the Union; you must bring it back. We hold you responsible. We will give you all the power necessary to do it Slavery is gone, and, as you went out with these men who have been defeated, now you must come back and we will trust you." Intemiew with Beecher, in the Kew York Herald.

A Bear's Paw In Hot Beam I was pleased with an anecdote about a party of young men who once went hunting up a California ravine. At night they sat around their fire watching the boiling of a mess of beans, when a bear suddenly joined the circle, whipped the cover of the pot, and, without so much as by your leave, thrust his paw into the seething supper. Hearing with pain and astonishment, he as quickly drew it out again, and throwing the hot beans into tho young men's faces, lumbered off growling into the darknors. What the young mon did for supper I never heard. Cor. Xew York Tribune.

He Thought It. IVus a Dummy. As Dave Pulsiver came down State strest yesterday, he met an old friend who looked very much broken up. "Why, hello, old boy," said Dave, "what on earth is the matter with you ?" "Made a mistake." "Why, how so?" "I went into that dress-shop over thcro and I leaned my arm on somethin' I thought it was a dummy-woman, but it wasn't, and when she bit off that left ear you see gone I thought I would faint. " Ch k'ago Check. On the tombstone of a drowned boy, in Missouri, was inscribed the following accusation against his companions at the lime of the accident: "Killed by Philander Finley and Mart Beggs." They brought a lib. 1 suit, aud got a verdict of $800.

that at the timo she earns in sight thcro were probably between 200 ana 300 persons on the wharf between the gates. I, myself, together with some few others, had gained the extreme end of the wharf beyond the boat-gate where the barge made fast. Meanwhile both gates had been closed, and the keeper of the one toward myself and the boat-gate would not allow anyone to pass, evidently thinking, poor

una

people near the boat were just walking over

me gang-plank wnen inearu a crasn uenu.a ma, and saw a dark hole in the wharf and a mass of human beings struggling in the water beneath, while others on the wharf wero pushing and jostling each other in frantic endeavor to reach a place of safety. Hen and women were shrieking and yelling and children crying, while from the dark abyss below the mott heart-rending cries were heard, only to end in gurgling sounds as the helpless beings succumbed to the cruel waters. Then ensued a scene of indescribable confusion. Stools, piles of Slant everything available, were thrown ito the water in the midst of the struggling mass, until it became evident that some who might be saved from death by drowning would become victims of the heedlessness of those who, with the best intentions, bat very poor judgment, were casting the heavy articles into the water. I, myself, stepped on a parallel wharf, on which there is a small track, and made my way back In the scene of the disaster. I endeavored to calm the tumult, but as well might I have tried tq stop the earth from revolving on its axis. Those who were safe had suddenly conceived the Idea chat the boat was unsafe, and refused to go -on board. I reasoned and persuaded, but only a few followed my advice. I told them that their friends in the city, as soon as they learned of tho accident, would mourn them as among the victims, but my efforts proved fruitless, and when we did start? for Baltimore, more than half were left down there." In meantime, efforts to resoue the drowning persons were being made by a few brave young men, and quite a number of ladles and others, who were well-nigh dead, had been brought up and lay dripping on the wharf. When the Cockade City arrived on her second trip, alwub 9 this morning, she brought with her thirty-live additional bodies, and tho remainder of the excursionists who had remained over night at Tirol! searching for their friends. Many were crying bitterly, while the haggaid, tear-begrimed factor the others showed the Intense suffering they had undergone, All had lost friends or relatives, many of them more thau one. There were parents leading children, sobbing as if their heart would break. As soon as the barge arrived, at U o'clock, the bodies were hurried Into an empty building on Henderson's wharf, and laid out on the floor, awaiting identification, which was not long coming, as none of the bodies had been in the water long euough to suffer any disfiguration, and were conseqently easily recognizable. The news of the accident had brought to the scene nearly every one who hod friends on tho excursitn. .Every few minutes, ns tho crowd pasted slowly in and out of the room viewing the bodies a pieroing shriek and ejaculation of "Oh, my God would announce that some unfortunate one had been recognized Young girls and strong men sobbed and cried like children. Many men and women wero hurrying from one person to another, asking if such and such person had been found The bodies already brought to this city number sixty-six It is now thought that the loss may reach 10& The picnto grounds where the terrible, calamity occurred Is on a small bay about two Wiles from North Point lighthouse. It was formerly known as Holly Grove, was first fitted up about fifteen, years ago, and wo3 the most popular ro oit at that time and for sereralyears afterward The Coroner held an inquest, and at the conclusion of tho testimony the jury rendered the following: We tho jury iind that Louisa Swearer and the others cams to their deaths by drown

ing by the breaking ot tho bridge at Tivoll on the night of July SS, and tbatthe authorities of the place did not use proper care and precaution to prevent the occurrence.

DEATH FOR HIS DARING-

BIti THINGS. Ah oak tree growin? on a ranch near Woodland. CaX. was sold the other day for tH), the purchaser to out it down and remove it H. M. Bbuce cut a spruce tree in Stowe, Vt , which made three logs twelvo fee t in length and measured 1,400 oubio feet, the butt log containing over 500. Ih a irarden at Hnwllnir ftrmm Kv it

bush that bears a large deep red rose, with two perfect small roses in the center which nro miniature copies of the big one.

An okra bush has been irrown lntliaclulf

hammock, the Waldo (Fla) Adeertaer de

clares, which bore more than three busiels of okra Tfae stalk measured thirteen Inches in oiroumf erenoe.

Capt, Webb, the Famous Swimmer, Ingulfed in Niagara. Sucked Into the Kaging Whirlpool While Attempting? to Swim the Rapids.

tHE GARFIELD NOMINATION.

Interview With Wharton Barker, the Man Who Suggested It. Correspondence Between tiarfUM and Barker.

(fluffafo (Iii Y.) Telegram,! in 1861 the little steamer Moid of the Hist with tbree persons oh board, rah the rapids df the Nfagafa plated through the' whirlpool itself, and glided into the quiet Water b. yond. Of the three on board two" survived the trip, the only persons who ever went through this fearful channel alive. On July 23 Capt Went.; Without other means of safety tjuul jmbwti had provided him, attempted to swim through the war of waters but failed His body has hot yet been found Fox threoquarters of k ratio' below ths Suspension Bridge. runs the' whirlpool, the wildest, most tumultuous, a'icl dAnge'rods portion of the river. The ftreinohao'its jpo'Wr er of the current cannot bo realized, wept! could not attempt to swim it it was simply" a question of endurance, whether he could live In the tumultuous waies. Ho was rushed onward with resistless force, and perished in his mad attempt No effort was mado to advertise the undertaking beyond sending circulars to the newspapers. Not at dozen people in the Falls knew that the effort was to bo made. There Was no advertising dodge about it 1 ho great swimmer was cohuoent that he cou'd make the trip ih safety. He carefully 'looked over the ground but he had failed to realize the immensity ot the undertaking, and so deliberately commuted suicide. Capt Webb arrived in Buffalo last night, ahd stopped at the' GenesCcf. His corning was unheralded, arid the' fact tit W& being here was known to but few. Seen by a to porter last nighty he said he would surely make the attempt Nothtihr but a desird for notoriety moved him.- Last June he proposed to swim the rapids, and tried to get the railroads and hotels to make It an object 1 hey refused, but the papers kept talking about it, so he determined to make'the tiial. No one accompanied him save his English manager, Mr. Kyle, Capt Webb did not leave for the falls until noon. Arrived at Niagara he proceeded at bne'e to the Clifton House, where several reporters and other Were In waiting. He chatted pleasantly and expressed great confidence in his power. The hour fixed was 4 o'clock, and about 3 the crowd badC hint good by and hastened to i ecure good positions for viewing the ioolhardy experiment At no point could a view ot the' whole length of the rapids be had At a few minutes before 4 o'clock Webb appeared at the foot Of the bank on the Canadian side, where a skiff was in Waiting with the veteran guide, Jack Conway, at the oars He entered the boat and was pulled into the stream. The Captain was entirely nude save for a small breech clout Conway pulled as far down as the Maid Of the Mist landing, but did not dare to proceed further. "All right, said the Captain, "this will do us," . 1 don't expect ever to see you again," said Conway. "0 yes you will," was the pleasant reply. "You don't know me. I am au Englishman" After a few more words Capt Webb stood hp in the bow of the boat and dived head fist into the water. Then began the great struggle for life It was just 4:20 when the Captain entered the water. A few vigorous strokes and he was fairly in the rapids, going breast on, his form a mere speck, as seen from the great bluff above. He went like an arrow shot from a bow. Tfae first great wave he struck he went under, but fat a second appeared way beyond. His efforts to strike out in swimming i'orm were weaker than an infant's against the seething waters Tho great waves seethed over him occasionally, but he always teemed ready to meet them. His great che3t wai boldly pushed forward, and occasionally half of tho magnificent phvsique of the reckless adventurer was lifted from the water, but he bravely kept his position through it all and seemed perfectly colnnrl nt. hnmo Tn si aAArtnrl mnra fella

vo-agerwas lost to view behind a protect-1 many elements la our favor that haTS rarely

rPhildJpW Telegram. The publication ot the borsoy disclosures In the New York Sua has brought to the front Mr. Wharton Barker, of Philadelphia, During a brief interview, Mr. Barker admitted that the management of the Garfield campaign at Chicago, before and after tin convention Of June, 1880, was wholly lei hi hands "The Oft-repeated charges, he added, "that the lato President Garfield was not true to the Hour John Sherman I kSOw tnfeo' absolutely false. But as I some day propose, to write a history of the movement which led to Garfield's semination and election, I can to-day only produce a copy of connected memoranda prepared by me eighteen months ago, but never published'' . The memoranda referred to corr-prise" a batch of correspondence, forming a complete' narrative of the oven's that occurred JjrioiF ttf June, lSSOrThese indicate almost conclusively' that the movement to bring Gen. Garfield to thl frtfnt as the Republican candidate for the Presidency had its origin in Philadelphia, and was brought about at the suggestion and through the infiuSOceof Wharton Barker. The movement first manifested itself as early as Hay, 1879, m th editorial columns ot the Ptnri Mmily, a periodical controlled by Barker. It was not until Dei 29, 1879, howevft, that Mr. Barker uirectly opened the question of Gen- Garfield's possible candidacy. On that date he addressed a Jletter to the General himself and after a personal conference with him early in January, 1 880. active steps were taken for immediate organisation. Under date of Feb. a, It), Mr. Barker wrote to Gen, Garfield, stating among other things: Thd opposition to von her a year or two since was very' great, under the belief that you were a free-trader; but ymir letter to me called out by a short trims in the Pcnn Monthly, giving reasons why Gen. Grant would not do, and why you would do, has changed the opposition into rapport In a word, that letter of yours, stating how you became a member f the Cobden Club, In my hands, and those Ot sueh men as I saw fit to place It, has worked the efeange." Mr. Barker, on April 19, addresSM a Jetter to the late President, in which he asid: "At my oflice. this morning, I had a conference with the Hon. Wayne MacVeagh and Mr. James McManei, which I believe will result in a public declaration on the part of Mr. McManeW the whole Philadelphia delegation and Of msiry country delegates to the Chicago Convention. Tins mote, I am quite sure, will end the Grant increment toe country orer, and so far will be great fain. The move will at first aid Mr. Blaine ut I be'ieve I understand how to move so ss to kill him, and at the Chicago Convention I hope tho nomination will go as we want to have it" In reply to this. Gea Garfield said: "It ia becoming every day more apparent that the friend? of the leading Presidential candidates are becoming embittered against each other, to such to extent that whichever of tho three may be nominated there would be much hostility of feeling In the conduct of the campaign. It will be most unfortunate if-we go into the campaign handicapped by the animosities ot the leading politicians." On May 10 Mr. XcManes received this note from Mr. Barker: "I want to see you before noon, if possible. Tou can. moke a move in Illinois that will without doubt destroy Grant's chances, and make your voice almost supreme at Chicago, June 2. Please let me know when I can see you. I shall be at my oflice all day. On July 17. after the Chicago Convention, Gen. Garfield wrote as follows to Mr. Barker: "More than a month has now passed since the Chicago nominations, and on the whole I think things are looking as well as we can expect, in view of the great disappointment many of our friends felt in failing to receive their choice. I think, however, that the

party is settling down, to earnest work, with

INDIANA STATE MfrfSL

log bank, o the mad journey went on

eatery torougn me upper .rapuur. He passed then through the lower onea (There the wares dash higher, the water is confined in a narrower space, and the trip is in every way more perilous. How far he went alfc'C no one will ever know. He was Seen by many while pasclng through this awful sea, but ere then ho may have been dead, His body was borne onward, now rising above, now sinking beneath, the white-capped wares. It was Been to enter the whirlpool. The life of the Captain was gone, and not eren his body has yet been found The maelstrom sometimes gives op Its dead in a day, sometimes it holds them in its embrace a week, until all semblance of a human being is crashed out in the revolving waters. Capt Webb looked upon it as a pleasant undertaking. Those who saw him start looked upon it as certain death. raoMWDANCE.

Disgusting Scenes Witnessed at the Rosebud Indian Agency. Shocking Torturing Endured by tho Stoical Savages.

CBosebud Agency (Dakota) Telegram to Chicago Times. The annual sun dance of the Sioux Indians occurred this afternoon at the camp near this agency, about 1,000 Indiana being, present from all parts of the reservation and a number of white visitors. The sun dance is a very ancient custom among the Indians,' but which has been growing less severe lately. If an Indian's child or relative be sick during the year, or if ho desires success in some undertaking he may vow that if the child recovers or the scheme succeeds he will dance or give some of his flesh to the Great Spirit at the next sun dance. The ceremony of cutting the pole for the center of the dancing circle was performed Saturday afternoon, Herplpe, a niece of Btanding Bear, wielding the ax, and the charge on the prostrate treo was made by over 1,000 young bucks on ponies. On Saturday the brush inclosure was built, and that evening fifteen Indians entered and commenced their long dance, having been fasting four days. This afternoon the voluntary torture commenced, three men offering themselves. The medicine -man fierformed the operation. He made wo vertical incisions on each breast with a sharp knife, and passing a stick under the lifted flesh fastened the end to rope depending from the pole. Tho dancers then worked until they freed themselves by violently breaking the flesh. Follow-a-Womsn broke loose in fire minutes, Lives-in-tho-Air after ton minutes' exertion, but Poor-Dca:

remained tied up for half an hour before he could tear out the thongs from both breasts. They then all rejoined tho dance. Several buoks had small pieces of fiesh out from their arms, the amount often bolng lessened by their squaws offering their arms for part of tho Uwa The wholo was a dread

ful exhibition of physical endurance and

savage barbarity. At a ocioos: tne dance ceased, the participants hating jumped up and down, blowing their whistles, for fifty hours, without food or water part of the time, in the burning heat of the sun. Some were so completely exhausted as to dance on with their eyes closed, their bodies in

spasm, 'l his is probably tne tastumetnese

cruoiues wui oe permiccea, as a strong enorii is being made by the Government to stop the sun dance Orders come to Agents McGillicuddv and Wright this rear to prevent

its occurrence, but in was impossible.

worked in harmony. It will be a close f truggle, and we have a fight ing chanoe to

win. we wui neea au tne wnsuom ana oif ort of our best men to make it successful." On Oct 17, Gen. Garfield wrote again, ""Kext to defeat, the most dangerous thing is partial victory. The victory in Ohio and Indiana was not partial in so tar as those States were concerned, but it can only be utilized by pushing the enemy at every contested point Now is the favorable moment to ask for further exertiion, and I hope you will not relax any of the fine energy you have displayed hitherto until the contest is ended Gea Garfield again wrote to Mr. Barker, on Jan. 4, 1881. as follows: "Xours of the 1st insfe received I note what you say in reference to the Senatorial conflict now pending in Pennsylvania. Any intimation or pretense from any quarter that I Have taken part is without the least foundation, The veiy essence of good government requires tne free action of the people' and their representatives in their election of Representatives and Senators. The visit of Senator Cameron here had no reference to that subjeet If I am quoted by any one as having expressed any purBose to interfere, he has done me wrong, lease tell me to what you allude when you say 'dangerous promise have been made with seeming authority? ' " Mr. Barker wrote on Jan. 10: "In answer to vour question, 1 have to inform you that Senator Cameron, on his return from Mentor, began taking an active part in the Senatorial campaign. It was then given out that he had been called to Mentor, that It was a matter of choice for him whether be accepted for himself or one of his friends a seat in your Cabinet: that voters need aspect nothing from Washington for themselves and their friends, for the old distribution of patronage was to be revived, unless they gave their votes for the Cameron nominee. " The last letter of the batch is from Gea Garfield, on Jan. 13, 1881. In tins he Bays: "The report to which you refer is absolutely without foundation The gentleman named come here of his own accord on business not at all connected with either of the topics to which the report referred I am quite confident he could not have authorized any such report The cause of sound politics everywhere requires the utmost freedom of action in regard to the ohoioe ot persons to hold office, whether to be Senators or members of the Cabinet "

GLEAMlJiGS.

OUR MUSEUM OF CURIOSITIES.

Una Maut Tanner, of Walton county, Go,, wove seven yards of cloth in one day,' mado it into two shins, and wont to tea at a neighbor's five miles away, Mrs. Arthuk Forte, of Wrlghtsvllle, Go., has a hen and partrfdgo sitting on the same nest The partridge in as gentle as the lion and has seventeen eggs, while the hen has only eleven. Da P. P. Hoixoway, of Snmpter, Ga.has a pair of woolen gloves made by his sister from wool cut from the horse he rode during tho war. The horse is now -7 years old, and, the doctor says, is quite wooly. Angela Cabdelu, of Nevada, a native of Italy and as years old, claims to be the strongest man in the world He places the middle finger of his right hand under the foot of a person weighing iXiO pounds and lifts him to a tK four feet high,

Dekvkb newsboys furnish 00 fish-worms tor "5 cents. Arrta a married life of sixty-seven years. Amelia Sanford, of MillcdgevUle, Ga, died recently at the ago of 88. Her husband la a TJs-rn. within three days of his death, Francis Tusaw, of Fisher's Landing. N. X, was working in the field. He was 104 years old. These are two natural curiosities iu the vicinity of TunbrMge, Vt, a kitten with forty toes and four separate ears, and a chicken with four perfect legs. Alabama, sends to the Louisville exhibition a cypress board which measures three inohes thick, tour feet eight and one-half inches wide, and seventeen feet long. In Padncab, Ky., two English sparrows tried to drown each other in a street gutter. The struggle was a long and desperate one, finally one got the head of the other under water, and kept it there until life was extinct A Westebs lady has just been sent to M Insane asylum because she thinks she bsm. a bird singing inside of her. The New York Commercial Adetrtixtr suggests: "She Is probably afflicted, like this city, with sparrows They ore very troublesome and hard to got rid ot" Newton, Iowa, has a 3-pound baby, and Ralph Robinson, of tho Journal, describes it bs follows: "It is perfectly formed, bright, and apparently perfectly healthy. But so little! Its legs ove mailer than tho third finger of tbo hand; o moderate-sized fingerring will easily pass over its wrist, and lt hands remind ono more of the feet of a bird than anything we can think of." A Rochester, lobin has built Its nest on the main frame of engine No. 840 of the New York Ceutral railroad, between the left for. ward drlving-spriug hanger and a crossbrace. Tho engine runs daily between Rochester and Be Witt The bird kept faithfully at work, as olronuistauoes permitted, and, having completed the nest, she now cooupiea it, even when the enghM isruniuug, moeaaV". Y.)Sornl.

A BOTTEB-nrsB iacsory m vsaoaaans ,a

out from 80,000 to 90,000 dlstMS par day. A rare at Fowler destroyed tae Fowler Bank building, Jacob Smith's and seta, brick buildings and a trairM bufldrng, . Osa of the three new ineaneaayrdias to bo erected ia Indiana will be plaesd omt U Coffin farm Ot S00 acres near Biehmos!! A Tmczmnw young woman arisl afstl. becoming displeased with her mother least , morphine, and is to a critical cei(Uotiv ' j. a. rsmtaaaiAK ft Co., one of UseeMes tailoring houses- la Fort Wayne, are ia. solvent Liabilities, 15,000; assets, I0,Hjt Frank Hendebsok, while riding one horse and driving another, was klUediI1ittnf . near Lafayette, Every "hone laSsst!, . body was broke. . . "tK4f AHHanaof Allen county stepped with, his bare foot on the horn of a catijah. The foot Is badly swollen from ttu poison, and mar have to be amputated. A Vracsanns street-car was atsflsd by soiue ' little boys with a coors of rotten eggs, and the ear and the ' clothes of th driver and two lady passengers were int. tered with the nauwmting stuff,' ' " Mains Sd.vxes, the 15-year-oid dangfater of James B. Silvers, a well-to-do farmer living three and a half miles aorthwest of . . Bidgevttle, eommtted suicide by nangiag herself with a rope to the rafters of the wagon shed. No cause is assigned for the act Wnxtm Heath left Lafayette at the outbreak of the war, a men stripling, and'haa never since been heard from until recently, when he sent notice that ha would appear and claim his share of 35,000 in the family property. His aged father died last yeat Euoehe SronoaoK, toe gardener who killed W. H. Lawson, at Hasettoa, by clubbing him on the head la May, i etui aed the other day and gave himself up to toe authorities. Hiris lodged In jaO at Prhweton, where he wm remain until lus trial. WmxE A. D. Ogborn was assisting to starting a self-binder on a farm north ot Hew -Castle, he had one hand caught by ther needle, which passed through, tearing oat part of the leaders, and then his arm was broken by the discharge arm, or lever ot tho binder. ; A horse and cow belonging to the widow of Jacob Smith, near Nebraska, Jeaniags county, were eating from the same mangsi . when attention was attracted by the -peculiar actions of the cow. Further search developed the fact that toe now' s tongas had been bitten entfraJy off by the bars. ,. Ths woodohuok scalps taken fa at La- . grange were as numerous as usual. Ik number taken in on one day and paid for -were 1,574. Up to this time over 6,900 have been paid for, causing an outlay ot $1390, a sum largely la excess of the amount reserved for that purpose -, SaMomv Hmraroaa, who asmfalniilwl Dr., W. F. Hornbrook ia his office at Union, Pike' county, attempted to commit snioide to jefl at Petersburg by cutting his throat with a

; knife. A guard was placed with Hemrnger , who went to sleep. Hennlnger stole the

guard's knife and cut his throat He is no dead yet, but his condition is daiateroua, and death may yet relieve him from toe vengeance of toe law. ; Dobino aa exciting game ot base-ball in Indianapolis, a small army of nrchlr whose Indiscretion was superinduced by their nn- . requited love of the national spdrteadpav--ored to take TMsaessloa of a houfa crdsv to witness toe game from its '. Taey. enjoyed it for a short time, whea toey wee startled by the appearance of the landlady,' , who fired a double-barreled aho&gun over' their heads for the purpose of routing them out, and in which she succeeded Ix the Indianapolis Ckmunal Court, Qaorge Branson, colored, alias Bev. HenryChevts," ; was sent north for two yearn for stealings

ne wing-machine, of which ha obtained

session by promise ot buying, and

shipped It to Springfield, Ohio, together with some furniture which he ootsjaed similarly. Branson, who Hoinwttines preaches, had arranged a scheme tor obtaining much lucre, but. got kissed, off in ma first play.. Tub suit of JohnH. HcTtaaiels, of lnfhanapolis, against the Wabash railway (for personal damages incurred some vera.agX to which AO got Judgment tn toe Watted States Circuit Court on April S, 1880, for 15,000, and which, on appeal, went to toe Suponae Court of the United States, where $T was aformed, was settled recently by tos railway company, Mr. McDaniels' attorneys re

ceipting for 17,000, toe damages ad oosta

having- swelled It to that figure. Tan porter of a parlor oar on-toe OUo'aad Mississippi road handed a baskettoaa expressman to Indianapolis, with a request to . dehverft TheezpreMamaAtoosP-m to the hotel and carelessly set It down aadweat to to his dinner. Presently a squaU ws heard from his basket An investigation -developed a healthy colored infant hid .away. The basket was addressed to aweU-to-do-firmer, who is a single man. No explanations were given. --r"" Tax quarterly report ot the State House Commissioners has been submitted to-' Urn Governor. Very little work has -been done on the now buildings since toe date tit the last report, March SI, and the expenditures for the three months Just closed wen only 9,353; total to date, 791,117. The board . has ordered changes in the wood-woxk en. tailing an additional expense of about 40,. 000. These changes have been agreed to by the present contractors, who as yet have signified no Intention ot abandoning toe construction ot the building. A btboik of lightning which struck one of the Indianapolis Exposition buildings per formed a very singular feat After going through the roof it struck a water tank, passing through eight feet of water1 and knocking a hole In the bottom of the tank large enough to let all toe water out From the tank the streak pursued Its way downward through toe buUding, leaving very plain marks, and lauding safely in toe ground. Just how toe Ugh tiling went through eight feet ot water, wtOwmt losing much or any of its rltality, lan pxohtamwhtoh might, even for ascrentist, be hard to solve The damage done . to the building amounts to about 100. A most astounding and infamous attempt was made to poison a whole family neat Mitchell. Mr. Solomon Boas was at the home of her son, Mr.' Charles Lewis, two miles northeast of Mitchell The family consistel , of Mrs Boss, Charles Lewis, William Lewi, ! and two little boys. One afternoon, they were absent from home, and during' that . time some one entered toe house.nd spread poison supposed to be strychnia upoa' the cold victuals left la the safetothe kttoh. en. On returning home and sitting down at the supper table Mrs, Boss ate some of -toe-'.

potatoes, which immediately threw few-tato:

convulsions. The others at the pM

ply tasted the poisoned fond

extreme bitterness of it,

No definite ekwtj

totned...