Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 3 October 1891 — Page 2

ONB ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sysitm effectually, dispels colds, head--Mies and fevers and cures habitual tonstipation. Syrup of Figs is the jnly remedy of its kind ever prorkiced, pleasing to the taste and acceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known.

Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c And SI bottles by all leading druggists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will procure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute.

CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO SAN .-RANCISCO. CAL. LOUISVILLE. XY HEIV YORK. N

BEECHAM'S PILLS

(THE SREAT EN01HH REMEDY.) Cure

BILIOUS and Nervous ILLS, 25cts. a Box.

of DRUcnt-rs

MEETINGS,

Under this ht»:ul will bo puUis lu-d of or' tlirue iltiyn notices of mwUtuM of all 'kiu-ls of societies. lxjctil nofrires. contA a line.

SOCIETY—P.O.S,

of A.—WjisUinyton Camp,

No. ti. meets evi-ry Tm.*s»lnv evening in tlie V!»oonl\ Hloek. on southeat corner of Main tiiul Washinvrton Mrotus. The Uw 1 iJi'^rce will U* worki*] on theevenlnir'o: 5 .SAM 1 SVMMKS.CM.

Presl^ont.

K. W, LEKCH. Ueeonllujr j-ViTftary.

FOR TRADE.

"tier this lien.l busing notices or nil kimls will lie inserted in tlie rule nf two .•.•tits line ii (lay. Otsli in advance, pleu-e.

WANTED -HELP.

Notices tinker tills liemt Irw for'three(lays.

WANTED-SITUATIONS.

Notices under tills lit«i.l free for tliri-o day.11 tliut «l«M-s ii «t '!»»t In- wot i*01111* uirnin.

LOST,

Notices under thh head will tie vuMNherf rrif for three days. If that Is not sullielent. eome tiptln.

LOST-About,

two month? airo sotno Kind

ii lend borrowed our four \vl,eelel Move tniek. now lived lhern not. only for our

UK* but ihe ue of our friends. Let kind friend who borrowed them return them ut once and oblige

Z.\CK MAHOUNF.Y TVSOX.

FOUND.

Notices under this head free for three thij's.

FOU.VJ)-A

FOlt

pair of irlasses. Owner can ob

tain them by describing nroperts*.

APPIV

at this otlice. nW

FOR RENT.

Notiro? under thlsheal one cent- a lino a iViy- J'1*111 t» a lino. Nothing less than 10 »*ents taken. Cash in advance, please.

YVANTKD.-Tcrent about a six room eotta^ewltMn pi|uare.s of court, house. Address A. at JIUHNAL »flice.

Noiiee.s under this head one cent a lino a day. rjpht• wonls to a »»ue. Nothlmr less than 10 com* luken. Cash in advance, please.

FOHSALlv—(ienth?

horse for family, har

ness and .buckboard cheap, Inquire at tlu.sotliee. lw

rOU

SAI.K—A family horse aud buggy. Will be sold eheap. llarrle I'ontlous. lo-i

rOU

SALE OK TKADK.-A horse, bupiry and harness. 10-8 CIIAS. HOST.

SA LE.-A one and a half «iory frame dwellltiK house of Mx rooms. »e acre or land well set In rrult. House new. In good neighborhood, on public road. Immediately adjoining the city. Will besold at a bargain, lull early. HKi w. WUIC.HT.

FOlt

SALK—A good, almost new buggy, harness, and sun umbruUtt at a bargain Also aeooklng stove Jind base burner. Inquire ut l)0r» west Wnbu-sh avenue.

FOlt

A. 11. Ct NMNOHAM.

SA LE-A grxnl house of sl.\ rooms, with cistoru and water works. Tor

le cheap.

Muhlscll It will pay you to come and see Enquire at 005 south U'alnut, th rd house *outli of railroad. Also very good work bench and two ludtl- rs.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Notices under tills head otic rem 11 linen day. l-.iitht word.- to 11 llmi. NotimiK i,.ss |an 10 cenl* taken. Cash In advance, please.

V^ANTKIl-MO |cr month mid expense* f«r Uklim tin J.stoHiiv v--"-k A.l.lros,- I'roH'iitvc Niirwrli^, flrnovii Nuw ork. 1-t

II'-D.— For two or lour hours a iliiv room, limishi.'il of elm!,* iwi.l a ml.Ip to A^iVrIr"*"!1 '. IV"1".1 ",'ks m-niKm-n. ''Ulliortl. French twu licr south(»reen street.

AN rEI)~-A few boarders wanted at Kl^ Bouth (ireen street. lo«."

FOll

MtAOE—.Vk'e, elea*i, fre-h stock of groter es, with a good trade, to fad.* for !'ir,V\i .! l»r°IH'r,.V. in» («ry located In thri\ Ing railroad town in this countv Most of nijihons for dls|Kjslngof it. |'or particulars eallal this otlice. tnv.dce at«.ut M.'Jun

TRULY

Our Priees are as reasonanie as any betorethe public, consistent, with .good work. See us lie fore placing an order for your monuments* Itiistlc Work a Specially,

MOW A HI) IIAHNKTT, ^niWfordKvUlo. Indiana,

corner Market und C*reen street.

I'm-Snln.

Unfiling IIOUBC nf rooms, collar fitnblo, chickon hotisn. 12-100 neros of lnnd adjoining Orawfordsvillc- on tho Grooncastlo road, l'or ]artiimlarn cniniroof ^[oKitiBoy. Frankfort,1 nd,. or M. 1). \S Into, Crnwfordsvillo.

Xotlcc.

Notice is hereby given that the imUj rooms connected with our bart er shops will hereafter bo closed on Sunday from this ditto on. JOE FOSHKK,

MCCAMI' & AII.MH'ritoNd

Sept. 28,1891.

DAILY JOURNAL.

PRINTED EVERY WEEK DAY AFTERNOON,

By T. H. B. McCAIN.

Entered at tne Postollbts at Crawfords ville Indiana, as setond-elass matter.

THE DA 1LY .10UHNAL,

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Send ixtsial note or monoy order.

SATURDAY, OCT. 3. 1891.

This Date in History—Oct, 3,

1500—lilclmrd Boylo, famous Earl of Cork, born. 1G30—Mites Stantlish, soldier ami hero of Now

England romance, died in Duxbury, Muss.: born 15SI. NSO— Kobcrt Barclay, cclcbrntfd Scotch Quaker and author of "Barclay's Apology," died born ltVKj Charles II wiu so impressed with his ability that he made his estate of

Ury a freo barony ho left a liirRu family, and many of Ins descendants Uvo in the United States. 1031—Date of tho treaty of Limerick, ijnaranteeinu to tho Catholics of Ireland "such rights as they enjoyed in the reign of

Charles II itssubseiiueut violation catised a century and a half of religious and civil turmoils. 1SOO--tieonjo Bancroft, the historian, born. 1

Mi—Confederate assault on Coriuth. Miss., two dtiys of desperate fighting, often hand to hand Confederates repulsed, after losliiu nbout one-fifth their entire forco. ISO?—Ellas Howe, Inventor of the sewing machine, died In Brooklyn born 1S10. ISOO—Germany guaranteed tho coasting trade on tho east of Africa for 4,000,1X10 marks, paid to the sultan of Zanzibar.

Di'itixa the month of September the public debt was reduced §15,286,420.

THE Northwest Indiana Conference on the question of admitting women ns delegates to tho General Conference is not to be found in the rear of the procession. The vote was taken yesterday and decided in the affirmative, standing 72 in favor to 47 against. The Conference is to be congratulated for the progressioe stand it hne taken on the question of doing justice to women.

IN a lengthy review of tho work to be dono by the Northwest Indiana conference the South Bond 'Tribune says: "One of tho most difficult questions for tho Bishop to decide will be who are to be the presiding eldors for the coming year? It is well known that Dr. Beck of this city, closes his term of service as presiding elder of the Lal'orte district this year. It would seem as though the •six years' limit for a presiding elder's term is too short in Dr. Beck's case, for he is a model officer, and would remain for many years longer at his present work were it not for the inexorable law. lie is not alone, however, in being obliged to change, for Lrs. Geo of tho Groeneastlo district, and Cissel of the Lafayette district, have reached the limit of their terms, and it* is thought that still another elder will go out. The result is that not only tho woods, lmt the streets, alleys, lanes and lobbies are full of candidates. As Methodist preachers are supposed to be models of modesty this condition of things shows, that on account or the difficulties of a presiding elder's work, how extrenu ly willing our good brethren are to take up the cross and be sacrificed.''

THE United States constimo twothirds of all the tin plates made in the world. Tho manufacture of this is conlined to a small district of Great Britain. and is under control of less than one hundred men. Is it to bo wondered that, these men, rolling in wealth extorted from the steadily augmenting demand from this country, should look with displeasure upon that feature of out- tariff which proposes to extend towards tin plato making by our people the same opportunity that was given for rail rolling, tho manufacture of cutlery, nails and the long list of equally necessary articles that are now made by homo labor and sold as cheaply hero as ativwhoro else? Of course, they object to the enforcement of such a law, just as vehomently as their attorneys in Con gross objected to its enactment. And tho vigor of their opposition is now,as then, intensified by tho growing certainty that, onco given opportunity for foothold,and reasonable assurance of being allowed to hold the market without handicap of the acknowledged difference between wages hero and abroad, American enterprise will repeat in tin plate manufacture tho history of so many other industries in which tho scepter of monopoly has boen wrenched from control of thoso who onco fondly dreamed that Britain was to remain tho workshop of tho world, aud that her capitalists wore to retain the privilege of naming prices to suit their own notions of monojmlislic profits.

A lloonto Wives.

Having used "Mother's Friend" would not bo without it. It is a boo to wives who know thev have to pass through the painful ordeal of childbirth Mils. C. Mi'.r.noiiiiNE, Iowa. Write the Bradfield Regulator Co,, Atlantn, Ga., for further particulars. Sold by Nye & Co., Crawfordsville. Ind.

Gold watch given away on Saturday night at bankrupt store.* Guesses ifroo.8

Make a guess on tho gold watch to bo '1_ 'Saturday night at 213 east Main street.

September Ice Iltlln

Tc- bills for September are now duo and will be presented Tor paymont at ONCO-

WM. MAIITIN & Sox.

If pooplo would take tho advice of Nye .t Co., tho druggists, they nover would start on a journey without a bottle of Chamborlain's Colic, Cholera and liarh(ea^ Hemody. It can always bo deiKtndod upon and is pletisant to tuko.

Adventures of Tad.

CHAl'TKU

Mr. Blossom's lips were tijrhlly compressed. ns lie

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from the llying

team to the distant village lights for, though the sorrel mare was doing her best, it was very ex ident that she was bejri lining to lie "winded whilo Brown l'ete, driven at a less rate of speed at the beginning of the journey, seemed nearly as fresh as ever. "You'd better [uill up, Kdwards I'm hound to have you," called Mr. Blossom, in a strong, clear voice, that rose above the rattling wheels. "First catch your hare," shouted a mocking voice, as the speaker, whose plumed hat hail dropped off, turned on the seat and looked back, lie had snatched the reins from Joe's hands at the lirst indications of pursuit, and was plying the whip unmercifully, while Joe. in a seeming agony of terror at discovering the dangerous character of his passenger, had dropped into tho bottom of tin' buggy.

But Joe was no coward, and was quick-witted withal. As lie heard tho detective's shouted remark anil his unpleasant companion's reply, he hesitated one brief second, and then, reaching up, seized the right-hand reign in both hands pulling on it with all Ilia .strength.

Of course, the inevitable result followed. Brown l'ete swerved wildly to the right—the forward wheel turned under the buggy-bottom, and "cramped," which caused tho buggy itself to turn over—with such surpris-

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"Gl'MK THE SACIIK.r,!" l'ANTKIl TAD. ing suddenness that Joe went llying into a small duck puddle by the roadside, while Edwards—skirts, cloak and all—sailed impetuously over a fence, and landed in a tield beyond it.

Mr. Blossom, with a joyous exclamation, began to pull iqi the sorrel mare —no easy task, I can assure 3-011.

And Tad, who, despite his excitement, had never taken his 03*09 from the one object of pursuit, tittered a cry for, before the bugg3" came to a full -top, he saw Kdwards gathering himself up and starting in a ridiculous run across the tield. "He slut n't get away!" cried Tad, whose nerves, wrought tip to the highest pitch, would have ventured an3* thing to save the prize, so nearly within their grasp. Before the words had left his lips. Tad had slipped over the back of the buggy, scaled the fence like a squirrel and was following close at Edwards' heels, while Mr. Blossom's nimble feet were gaining the fence itself. Like most boys, vd was a ood runner, wnnc rJawartls, encumijerea hy the clinging skirts, made very indifferent progress, even though holding them as high as he could! And in another moment Tad had seized tho end of tho long circular, which was streaming out behind like black wings. "Gi'me the sachel!" panted Tad, and with the words the cloak-clasp parted —Tad fell 011 the back of his head, holding the fur-lined circular in his hand, while Edwards plunged forward —caught his foot in the front breadths of Mrs. Mason's best black silk, and went down on his nose in a highl3* undignified manner.

When Tad regained his foot, Mr. Blossom was rather humorous]}* regarding a very shame-faced individual attired in a torn and mud-stained black silk dress, which entirely failed to conceal a pair of very masculine boots and trousers. Mr. Edwards' wrists were adorned with steel handcuffs, and his features wore such a downcast look that Tad's tender heart was touched. "If he'll only give the rest, of the things up, hadn't you better let him go, Mr. Blossom?" suggested Tad, in alow tone but the detective shook his head. "He wanted in Boston, for something more serious than stealing," said Air. Blossom, gravely. And then he handed Tad the recovered sachel, together with Mrs. Mason's jewelry, which he had taken from Edwards' pocket with professional dexterity. "If there's any reward offered for all this, you've earned your share of It.," the detective remarked and then the three made their way back in comparative silence.

Joe had fished himself from the duck puddle, unharnessed Brown Pete from the overturned vehicle, which was not badly damaged, and when the singular trio regained him in the road, he was scraping himself with a stick, while the two horses, earcfulh* blanketed, stood, with drooping heads and recking sides, by the roadside. "Well, by gracious! this beats nil the rides ever I took!" said Joe, as ten minutes later, with Tad at his side, he drove slowly toward Bixport, while tho detective followed close behind, with his captive. "Me, too!" returned Tad, who was holding the recovered sachel very tightly. "Won't folk's eyes stick out, though, when they come to hear all about it, to-morrow!" and Tad replied that lie rather guessed so, anil then, opening his heart, lie told his companion tho whole story, from beginning to end, at which recital, as the stories say, Joe's astonishment can better he imagined than described.

Bixport was in a wild state of ferment when they arrived. The story of the robber}*, with some marvelous embellishments had spread like wildfiro.

A real criminal and an actual detective in their midst! No ono, after tliis, would ever dare to call Bixport "a little, sleepy, onu-liorsu Uiwu," such

having been the reproach once cast upon it by a resident of Middleboro. Leaving Joe explaining to the wondering crowd that had assembled before Potter's, their joint share in the exciting incidents of the evening. Tad, hugging the sachel under one arm, while across the other was thrown the (circular cloak, hurried, with jo}*ous steps, hack to Miss Smith's.

Bursting impetuously into the sit-ting-room, where sat the little conipany, to which Mr. Mason, who liatl gloomily returned from an unsuccessful search for a deputy sheriff, had joined himself. Tad tossed the longlost sachel into the lap of Mr. Atlierton, therein* causing him to drop tlie paper lie had been perusing upsidedown, and, with it, his dignified reserve to such an extent, that he exclaimed "Gracious goodness," for which he at one.o apologized, as his trembling fingers applied the little key to tho kep-liole while Tail, with his politest bow, presented astonished Mrs. Mason with her recovered jeweliw and tho fur-lined circular. "The dress was all mud, and stri/hUcd from to]) to bottom, or I'd brought that, too," he added, as Mrs. Mason, with an exclamation of delight, received her recovered property: while her husband gazed at smiling Tad in a dazed sort of way, and whistled softly to himself, as one whoso feelings were too deep for adequate expression. "Tad, you're a—a jewel!" said Miss Smith, energetically and very much to Tad's astonishment, but to his secret gratification, the maiden lady imprinted a sounding kiss upon his blushing cheek, while Captain Flagg shook hands with him vigorously, with a muttered reference to chaiuin' up a child iu the way he'd ought to go, so's when he's old he won't go to str.-uin' off. Polly said nothing in words, but rejoicing sparkled in her eyes, and praise was apparent in her beaming smiles. With the list in one hand Mr. Atherton was rapidly running over the contents of the alligator skin sachel. "Gold star pendant, solitaire drops, diamond ring, bracelet and papers— 11111—3*es, every thing seems to be here," lie said, with a look of intense satisfaction, as, dropping the list into the mouth of Hie hag, whirl) he carefully relocked, the dignified gentleman regarded the company with something like affability. "Regarding the matter of—or—reward," continued Mr. Atherton. drawing a bulky note-case from his pocket, and glancing benlgnantly at Tail, who stood in awkward silence, whilo all present looked on expectantly, "I feel pleased to be able to bestow it upon so —a—worthy a—or—youth as the one to whom it. rightly belongs," selecting as I10 spoke some crisp bank-notes from their receptacle, and placing them on tho light stand "and," with a gracious inclination of his head to Miss Smith, "I 111:13* venture to prophesy that, if he heeds the teachings of the estimable lad}* whose acquaintance I have been fortunate enough to make in this unexpected manner, I10 will eventually rise to—er—a position of—of—it may be Presidential honor—who knows?"

And satisfied that he had said about the correct thing." Mr. Atherton gathered up his belongings, and,' recognizing the remainder of tlie interested party by a comprehensive .bow, took his departure for the hotel with great inward exultation and as he left earh* 011 the following morning, he thus passes out of my stoiy.

The Flaggs. in a high state of pleasurable excitement—all talking very fast—united iu congratulating Tad so warmly on his good fortune that it was soiuo liuli! time boforo they left Miss Smith's house for their own home. Then Mr. Mason and his wife must perforce hear the strange adventures of the alligatorskiu sachel, from the very beginning, and receive from his lips a true and unembellished account of tho pursuit and capture of the wily Edwards, from whom had been so successfully recovered the fur-lined cloak, which had played its part in tho story, to all of which tln listened with expressions of unfeigned interest and wonder. "It did me a good turn once," concluded Tad, I11 reference to the article in question "now I've done ti one." And lie steadfastly refused to listen to the gentleman's proffer of a money reward, to Miss Smith's secret satisfaction, till Mr. Mason, with a great show of affected indignation, tossed a bill on tho table, beside the others, and told Tad to take it and give it to foreign missions or to tho soldiers' monument fund—110 didn't care which, or, if he thought better of it, he might put it in tho savings-bank.—As for himself the money might lie there forever —Ac wouldn't touch it again. And, summoning Mrs. Mason, who, in her gratitude gave Tad a hearty good-night kiss, her husband went to his room, and banged the door behind him very hard, as though he were angry. "Well, Tad," said Miss Smith, putting on her ghisses and glancing at tho pile of bills 011 the table, "this has been one of tho days, hasn't it? Fivo hundred aud—fifty dollars!" she exclaimed, taking up tho bill left by Mr. Mason. "Well, well!" "It's too much, every way," returned Tad, who hardly knew whether he was 011 his head or. his heels. "Tain't too much," snapped Miss Smith. "That Atherton man, who ftc's as though his spine was froze stiff, .orter give you an even thousnnd hiseolf. Look at them di'munds—sixtyfive hundred dollars w'ith and you riskin' your life to captor' 'em back from that bloodthirsty bu'glarl" "I wish, then, you'd take tho money, and put it Boniewheros in tho lianls where yours is," finally said Tad, who already was beginning to realize what the French call "tho embarrassment of riches." "May bo that would ho host," returned Miss Smith, thoughtfully "butI must give you some sort of a writing to show for it, in ease any thing happens to me." "Oh, dear!" sighed Tad, "what should I do if any thing did happen to you, I'd never find anybody else in tho whole world I should like to work for as I do for 3-ou." Miss Smith was strangely moved by this simple appeal, but she had, as she expressed it, "broko down," once that evening, and didu't

propose to again. So she made 110 repl3*. but busied herself iu getting out writing materials rat her lo Tad's disappointment, for he had almost dared to hope for some little manifestation of the tenderness that he knew lay under Miss Smith's crusty exterior.

Turning the lamp up a little higher. Miss Smith sat down to write, and, after considerable mental effort, succeeded in drawing up the following receipt: "llixport, .Tune 1ST—. "This ccrttflci that I ltlmila A. Smith havo this dav heceivi'il tlve hundred and tlfly dollars. To oe ueposiiou with my Money in Middleboro Hank. Tho same $."». dols being tho property or* "What is your whole name, child," asked Miss Smith, suspending her pen over the paper after writing the word "of." "Thaddeus Thorne, muni," replied Tad.

II7 «.'" exclaimed MissSniith, droping the pen. "Thaddeus Thorne," repeated Tad, a little louder. "Oh, Lord!" said Miss Smith, and stared at Tad so wildly that lie almost feared the events of the day had affected her brain a very little: "What was your mother's name?" Miss Smith again asked, in a curiously repressed tone. "Margarita Consuelo Smith." Tad returned a little hesitatingly, for it had a rather romantic sound, and lie feared she might laugh at it. "Any relations living?" inquired Miss Smith, iu the same constrained manner.

Tad shook his head. :•,••• "I suppose I've got an Aunt Rliotla somewhere," he said, slowly, "but she was mad at mother for marrying father, and inner wrote her or any thing, and mother never said much about her" "Oh, Tad!—Tad!" cried Miss Smith, throwing up her arms, "God knows 1 didn't mean to be cruel—it was my hateful pi oud ^piriteduess did it, and

Stepping into the entry, she called "Who's there, and what do you want?" "It's mc—Joe Whitney!—1 want to sco Tad a minute," piped a well-known voice, through tho key-hole.

Miss Smith uttered an exclamation of disgust. "Well, I'm. going to bed—you can let him in for a few minutes, Tad, though I don't see, for the life of me, how Deacon Whitney and his wife can reconcile it to their conscience to let that Joe go trapsin' about at this time o' night," said Tad's aunt, shortly. But she kissed her nephew vcr3' tenderly, despite her acid tones, and hurried away lest Joe's observing eyes should sco the marks of her recent emotion on her face.

Tad drew back tho bolt, and opened the door. I here stood Joe, dressed in his Sunday clothes, with a small bundle slung over his shoulder, after the manner of a dramatic sailor about leaving homo for a sea-voyage. "Come out hero, Tad," whispered Joe nnd, too much astonished to speak, Tad followed his friend out 011 tho moonlit piazza. "I come to say good-bye—I'm going to run awa3*," said Joe, in a voice intended to be very firm and brave, but which had a suspicious shake in it, its he involuntarily glanced back at tho farm-house a little further down tho street, bathed in the soft splendors of tho moonbeams. "Going to run away!" repeated Tad, in tones of the utmost astonishment. "What for?" "Well," was the reluctant answer, "there area good many reasons. I'm tired of being thrashed so much, for one thing," said Joe, squirming around i.itlier uneasily, as though lie lotiini sitting 011 the edge of the piazza uncomfortable, "and I'm tired of farm work, too. Besides," he added, boldly, "I want to be a defective—Mr. Blossom said he bet I'd make a real smart ono." "Then, bine-bye, ymCIl be goin' off," continued Joe, mournfully, as Tad stared at, his friend in consternation too deep for words, "and you're the only follow 1 ever cared any thing for, anyway." "No, indeed, I won't!" eagerly exclaimed Tad "I'm going to stay hero and grow up—Miss Smith's my own Aunt Rhody, that I never saw—we only found it out by accident." And Tad related all, with which our reader is familiar, to Joe's open-mouthed amazement.

A little silence fell upon them both ns Tad related his story. The crickets chirped in tlit grass and there was a distant chorous of frog music from tho neighboring swamp. "Joe," said Tad, gently, "what do you s'po.se your mother would do without her boy?"

That wits touching a tender spot. Joe loved his mother better than any thing or anybody in tho wide world, and Joe was the very apple of her eye. Tho boy drew his sleeve across his face,

DKAK MADAM:

AUNT RITODA.

then, the first thing I heard, Margie— my own sister!—was dead, and it was too late!—too late!" And drawing the bewildered boy's fresh face against her own thin sallow features, wet with remorseful tears. Miss Smith told him that she was tho Aunt Rhoda whom I10 had never known, and that henceforth, please God, he should bo to her as an own son. "And now. Tad," said his aunt, after the long talk that ensued, "it's nigh twelve o'clock, nnd time }*ou was in bed long ago, after such a" "Rat-tat-tat!" went the knocker. "It nover rains but it .pours," remarked Miss Smith, lighting a candle, "and I wonder what's coming now.'"

while the visions of lieing a detective were entirely nbsem eil hy some nulilesnnie tears. '•('nine, old fellow." continued Tad, throwing liw arm ahout his friend's neck. "_\oul\tiow you don*t mean it. Why. il Would jusl ahout kill your folks lo have yon j^o oil' this way Jtnd then what, would I do, if you should run away?" "I— guess I won't go, after all," said .Joe, brokenly, and the determination cheered him wonderfully. I11 live minutes he was chuckling over the incidents of Edward's capture, and the conversation became general. "Hut I tell yon, Joe,"' 'l ad remarked, as he rose to his feet, "seems to me I ve been getting considerable inor'11 my share of good things, for one day— live hundred and fifty dollars, and Aunt lvhoda into the bargain." "It hasn't been such a bad day all round, when you come to think of it," responded Joe, with his customary grin. "There was Mr. Atherton got his sachel. Mis. Mason her cloak and things, Cap'n and Mis' I'lagg has got soniethin' to talk about, Miss .Smith got hysterics, Mr. ISIossom got Edwards, Edwards got caught, aml'l," said Joe, as a line .summing up, "got a ride—ten dollars from Mr. IJlossom for upsetting a buggy—and a jolly good lickin' for drivin' a stable-team, when I'd been told not to."

And Joe, with a lightened heart and a friendly nod, stole back to the shelter of the paternal roof, reaching his chamber in safety while Tad sought his own little room, where, with a verv full heart, lie knelt by his bedside and thanked the (iood Father of all mercies for the wonderful way iu which He had directed his boyish steps. Then Tad undressed and went to bed, just, as the tall clock down-stairs struck twelve, aud thus ended the day of so many wonderful events.

Thus, too, my simple story is virtually ended—with the future of its characters 1 have nothing now to do. At the present time—

Tad Thorne is an active, growing boy, of good principles and industrious habits, a capital scholar, and a source of constant comfort and companionship to—

Miss Hhoda.Smith,who seems to havo grown ten years younger since the events of which I have been writing. She has formally adopted Tad, and Ts more proud of him even than is—

Captain Klagg, who looks upon himself—to use his own words—as "the insterinent, under Providence, which was the means of interduein' Tad to his Aunt Hhody." Ife has, at the earnest request of his wife and adopted daughter, abandoned his perilous calling, and turned over the command of the coastcr.jlo Ephraiin—now Cau'u Small.

Polly Flagg is growing up into ono of the nicest girls I ever knew. That she has never "been able to discover any thing further as to her parentage gives her 110 uneasiness—in fact, she gives it little thought, being a healthy, sensible young miss, with 110 romantic fancies as to "mysterious birthrights" and the like. She is trying to live so that iu the fullness of God's time she shall meet her own angel mother, who so long ago was laid under the daisies which nod above tho grceu mounds in l$!xpoi-t church-yard. Meanwhile, her love for good Mrs. I'lagg and the Captain grows even stronger as 1 he days go 011 while they, on their part, know no difference between Polly and a child of their own flesh and blood. And that Polly and Tad are tho best of friends goes without saying, while they seem to exercise a sort of joint proprietorship in Bounce, who glows bigger, more ailectionate, knowing and gruff-voiced every week, whilo—

Joe Whitney is really getting to bo more tractablo and less mischievous and since the deacon discovered somehow that his son came very near forsaking the paternal roof, it is said I10 is not nearly as sovoro with him, particu

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Thus my little amateur drama of inJldcnts in real life has drawn to arioso. And now with the principal .-H'tors, ivho hand in hand step before the footlights, let me make my own I row to an imaginary audience for their "kiml indulgence," and, stepping hack, allow the curtain to fall upon the linal act of

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