Decatur Democrat, Volume 24, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 30 December 1880 — Page 1

HE Official Paper of Adam- < 'utility. ta. X-'lsx/y "Wm.i.n.xxiai, T-'ropri ctoi’, Terms: One lloi.i.ar ajid Fifty Ct NTs Per Yeah.

.J. T. BAILEY, ATTY AT LAW <J- J. I’., DECATUR, I.< DIANA. B ill I*, i tier in Adams and adjoining Counties. Collections a specialty. v24a2‘M S. G. RALSTON,” PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, GENEVA, INDIANA. Office over Harrod's Furniture Store Professional culls promptly attended to al all hours 25jy70tf s. I*. Stevens. Jn. n., Physician and Surgeon, PLEASANT MILLS, IND. Ollioe in (Rpbeirt’s Building, where he will ho when not professionally e.naprlftl. A. G. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DKCATUR, INDIANA. Office in Hanston's Block, up-stairs Will abend to all professional calls promptly, night or day. Charges rcabouahle. He.*l dence on north side of Monroe street, 4th houao east oi Hart s Mill. 25jy7\h.f u h 4!.! !-"N v.. h Him t . K.CMbtar I). SrvhABAKtR, Vice Pnm’t. THEADAMSCOUNTYBANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank is now open for the transaction of a general banking business. W» buy and sell Town, Township and Ctuntv Orders. 2djy79tf *• T.raaNrs. s. a. iimVm France if Hooper, ATTORNEY'S AT LAW, I>ECaT('K, INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining Bounties. Collections a specialty. Iheds, mei and other instruments of writing ra-iik* with icatnesß and dispatch. Wil) buy and sell rent estate and pay faxes. Fees rta&nable. Office owr Slones hardware •tort?, east side Second Street. Sloct'O P. 0. SH ACKLEY, House, Sign, and Carriage Painter, And Paper Hanger. ' Graining, Calsorainlng, Whitewashing, etc. Prices to suit the times. Sixteen year? 3 in Adams county. Give me t all aud save money. Shop on southeast corner of Jefferson and Second streets. Deoutur, Ind., Aug. 5, 1879. Bp.ug7u PETERSON FiIUfI’M AN?~ ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DECATUR, INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining counties. Especial attention given to collections and titles to real estate. Are Notaries Public and draw deeds and mortgages Real estate bought, sold and rented on ieaterms. Office, rooms 1 and 2, I. O. 0. F. building. 25jy"9tf

Frank Leslie's Weekly. The only Democratic Illustrated Newspaper published—will be sent postpaid, for five weeks (until end of campaign) for thirty cents. Agents wanted in every town. Send thirty cents for five weeks’ subscription or six cents in postage stamps for sample copy and illustrated catalogue. Clubs of four will be sent for,five wcek,s for fl. Address Frank Leslie Publish ing Co., 15 Dey street New York. JOHN SHIREY, A LT C TIO N I I K Tl, Wiebes to say to the people of Decatur sfR vicinity that he is now the only professional auctioneer in the county and that Ke jrtll at all times be ready to attend to ealls in his line of pusinesa. Thirty-five .expeiuvce will enable him to give ■Rtisfaetion beyond a doubt to all whoemrloy him. will he very le Orders left at the law office of Fia*nce & Hotuair will recei\e prompt attention. tyVwii JOHN SHIREY. NO HUE TO TEALHERS. is ; iven rjwit then will b B pfi»lic QXnsflkn/Ukrti of U»achcrv at the ofof the t’*buity on the j |ROt of e»*fh n»nth. Apji£it**n)F fbr litvxiHr HHist pniseot “the proper {*•*»- cj i rf#w‘Rte, or other satisfactory evi- ■ vpp<! nsneal clia««u?ter,” and to lw , must dh>* a g<*»d emunination in ov. Writing .Vritiune Me, Grammar. Phvtio Rgy. :rtid nitirory f? Ui'4ted State* G. W. A. LUf’KEY, June 18,1879 County BBp t. Great chance Io make mon \dl wr Lib^aey. We ncek a person in •*«iy town to take su;«c*Uiiions for the L cheapest un i best i lust rated fami . h pubuoatioß in the world Any one can fefieftut a successful agent. Six elegu.nl wur«S<jf art given free 10 fubacribers. The price ni bo low that almost everybody snbaei'ibea. Gue agent reports taking 120 sub•erihers in a day. 1 lady r« port? nxnking •nr s2<iU clear profit in ten doys. All who male money fast. You onn devote <ll ywu time to the hn*»ine(»-» or only your •gave time. You ruol not be .«wuy from® home t-wi nigl r. (Jou rr.’i •’ it aS well as •diers Pull Uratdion* and terms freo. Elegant ;x»d expwoHve untfit fi’-v. U you want piefilnble work gifnd us your addiese at dncr. It ecu’- notliing try *h° No one who < ngage.- (ails t o make great pay Addirubs Geukbk Stinson Co., PorthuMi. Maine. ‘J2jy Br. J. B. tMmpwou’n Rperifle Medielnc. Dr. J. B. Simpson’s Specific kedietue is B positive curs for Spermatoi-rbes. luipo< en ey, Weakness and all diseases resuhing from Self-Abuse, as Nervous Debility, IrriteMlity, Mental Anxiety, Languor, Lassltede, Deprsssion of Spirits, aud functional ißrangemoßts es lhe nervous system generBUy, Pains in Back or Si de, Loss of nirmory FMmtture eld Bsronn. arena Bgß and diseas . m M tbM Im4 t. ■il* 5 t/AA h«»i.4y »q<i g i Ml «arlj crave f v S • xa. Baiter bow shat er»*«l »be system may be fro® rxerviiF of any kind a ihort of Wia nadwiua will iraiore the loat funiliom mJ piMure health and bnppin<*« wh-re ksforn tn d«cpon<lenoy and gloom The BpMllic Madioiae >• being uled with won flarfnl aweeaa. ParapMrta »*ni fra« to »11. Wri« foa Wcm *ud get full parlioulara. Prine, Bpecl»o,>l per partag*, or 8 parttQM tor J 4. Will be een‘ by mail oa r»*>p< es aeaey. AddreM all ord we. J S 81MPS0S S MEWCINK CO. ■•e 4<M and 19b Maia al , Bnttale W. Y. Mr* Sold in beeatur by UoRWIN & ■OLttfVilij. Mn.n.7Vyl

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Stop i iial < oiigh. If you are suii< ring wi< h a cough, cold tWdh.nm, hroi rliiiis. hay ever, « uistmipiion loss <d voice, tickling in the ihiOul, er any ifTecliofi of ihr throat ot lungs, use Dr. Kititrs New Discovery for consumption This is die great remedy that is caiisirg so much excitement by its wonderful cure* curing thousands of hopeless cases. Ov< i one million bottles of Dr. King's New Di.ooviTy have been ufiol within Uic 1 st year, and have given perfect satisfaction in e\orv instance. We can unh esit .tingly say that llus is really the only wire cure for (hi oat and lun ' affections, and can cheerfully KDonunena it to all. Call ai»<l get a trial IntUe for ten ccnta or a reguhw size DOR WLN & ROUi’HOVBK, Decatur. fnd. 4

CENTS I’o JAN. >. Tins C I. i ca g o Weekly News will be sent, poMpahi. from date to Jan. Ist next, for iOcents. This 1 trial mi»»m rlpt on will etinbte reKders tu become MFipi si's red with | the i be; inctruI roll!ah weJkjy Di the I S. hub pendent 1c folltirn. xll Die news, cot f ix-1 mi.> ik el reports, ' sU completed sb rlet 1 In evci y imdv. A favorite family paj »r. Send IO rente (silver) >it one* nu<l got It until Jan. 1. lb;8I. MleVeu ii'a! siibj.. rii>llons for f I <O. Regular 1 Hee Is Ya <rs. a j tui. Address FublUher Weeßly News, Chicago, 111,

.i niscortry. Fot die ap&ly cure of Consumption and nJ! diwfiHf’S that lend to it, such as stubborn C. rgbS. neglected Cold‘s. Bronchitis, flay Fever, Asthma, pain in die side and chest, dry hacking cough, tickling in the throat, Hoarseness, Sore Throat, and all chronic or lingering diseases of the throat and lungs, 10*. King a New Discovery has no ennni ami ha« established for itself a world-wide reputation. Many leading physicians recommend and use it in their practice. The formula form which it is jnepared is highly recommended by all medical journals. The clergy and tltf? press have complimented it in the most ginwitgx terms. Go to your druggist and get a trial Dottie for ten cts., oi a regular for SL For sale by Dorwdn & Holthouso. TE NE’.V C MEDICINE 4 ’itris® THERE »*> Uu greutei Bluod Frqduoer aud Lik-rUt> F’«:d and UtWf , ulac Uuin MAI. I Blirhßb, pn-piu-rd fruni I u<er ’ ineutvd .Hull, llops, aud Quiuiue. Tiw> few! Im- bony and tliv I nun, < uricli kLu blood. goHdirk till KJII6V. Uirtleu the lUUHckft, qiu- t th<* n»rk«,( hM*i tto Bind. p. tfd <U)i«Uou, nguiat. the slonuu.li ;uut ►• "ds, cltn*-th'-liber and kldurjb, aodvitaUze vtth lU’U ■!* exury fluid of the Imml> V»uar<* <A taitUitb.us Ainllarlv r ;*w< i. L-< k fur th. ('outouny’K.-Mtfna-ture «Inch plainly <m the lulmu <>i ev< rv boi- : U<-. Sold everywhere. MALT Bril Ebb i u., Ikbta.u. SUaB. 24- 4.

pETITION TO SELL REALESTATE. The State of Indiana, Adams county, Ss. Notice is hereby given that David U.rck, administratrix of the estate of Abtolom McCurdy, deceased, has filed his petition to sell the real estate of the decedent, his personal estate being insufficient to pay his debts; and that said petition will be beard at the next teim, 1880, of the Adams circuit court of said county. Witness my hand and the seal of said court, this 7th day of December, 1880 N BLACKBURN. Ctcrk. Decatur, lud., Dec.Vth, 1880. n l 6 w l Trance & Hooper ati’ys Ilan hood; Eost, Restored! Just published, a new edition of DR. CULVER If ELL’S CELEBRATED EASY on Hie ftfdtcaZ cur/ (without medicine) of Spermatorrhoea or Seminal Weakness, Involuu* tnry Seminal Losses, linporency, Mental anti Physical Incapacity, Impediments to Marriage, etc.; also, < Onsumpliou, Epilepsy and Elis, induced by self-indulgence or sexual extravagance, <Sic. The celebrated author, in this admirable Essay, clearly demonstrates, from a thirtyyears’ successful practice, that the alarm ■ ing consequence of self abuse may be radically cured without the dangerous use of internal medicine or the application of the knife; pointing «»ut h mode of cure at once simple, certain, nud effectual, by means of which every sufferer, no matter what his condition may Le may cure himself cheaply, privately, and radically Lecture should be in the hands of every youth and every man in the land Sent under sial, in u plain envelope, tv any address, post-paid, on receipt of six cts. or two postage stamps Tlir CulverwclJ As edit'd ( <»•» 41 Ann St., Sew York, N. Y., Post Offic Box 4586. [2Cfebßoyl] DRESSMAKING! — Notice i» hereby piven to the Indies of Decatur »n>l vicinity that I have ojieneil n Dreneniaking Shop in Decatur, au.l am pre p>re<l to CUT AND MAKE OR < UT AND FIT Ladies' and Children's Dresses In the latest New York and Parisian styles I do my cutting by the celebrated PERFECT-FITTING MODEL Mi«l Mn the 'tnlji on* in the aity so rloinjr : eevoral yonrs praotirnl »s;«rieiici' | I piMVntee exlitfMUion in fcni,h »r-l every I Inetuev’e, un>l I ooi4l»*v ftiUcit ‘here of your patronage. CHARGTS? REAtfON- | VUIJi Shop on 2nd Street, over onter & itoillloune'M Shoe Store. MRS. X. E. FRISTOE j April 2,1880, i

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TTII do Ic-ln g;. HISKEY &SP A NGLEE ■4 ;• ■ •■• ■■■■" ■ j ■‘ . ■ UNDERTAKERS Opposite Adams County Bank, Call the attention of the public generally to a large and comblrte line of BURIAL CASKETS AND COFFINS, And to the fact that ♦hey are using the Mt L ANTI-SEPTIC FLUID, For Embalming, Mummifying, Disinfect ing and Purfum'ng the flesh of the dead, and of Preserving the Features in a natural state. A flue line of SIJIROUDS Are also kept on hand. In addition to their undertaking establishment they have the largest and most complete stock of FDfflim Ever offered to the people of Adams County. Dot't purchase one dollar’s worth of Furniture before examining their stock and prices. HISKEY & SPANCLEH. Decatur, Ina., Sept. 9, 'BO ly. (■ray’** S|M-<ili<- fft-dicine.

TRADE MARK . lu. GbkaX TRADE MARK En G LTSII B ldy 411 unfnib m3 K /BSS|Sjty ing cure for jcrainal weak net's, SperinajßMW Uirrheu. I leiicy,*itn*l (EFBRE TASiMO. ' ! MIER TAKING, h.iiuw as a consequence o! Self-abuse; as loss rs mc&ory, Universal Lassitude, Pain in the Back, Dininces of Vision, Premature ('ld Age, and many otb er diseases that lead to Insanity, Consump* tion and a grave. particular in our pn.mphlei, wldch we deetre to send free by mail to every one. The Specific Medicine is sold by all druggists at $1 per package, or 6 pack ages for $5, or will be sent free by mail on receipt of the money by addressing THE GRAY MEDICINE CO., No. 10 Mechanics Block, Detroit, Mich. Itucklen*» Arnica Salve. The R( c t Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Tetter, Chapped Hunds, Chilblains, Corns, and all kinds of Skin Eruptions. This salve is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction in every rase, or money refunded Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Dorw’in A- Holthouse. HEALTH Dr. E. C WBbT’s Nerve and brain Treatment: a specific tor Hysteria, Dizzin« ss, Convulsions. Nervous Headache, Menial Depression, Loss of Memory, Sp rmatot*rh(B», Impotency, Ibaoluntary Emissions, self-abuse, or over indulgence, which leads io misery, decay and death One box will ciue rre. nt cases. Each box contains one month’s treatment. One dollar a box, or six boxes for fivedolbi’s; sent by mail preli.id on receipt of pr.ee. We guarantee six | boxes tu cure any case Wi h each order rp crivid by us for six boxes, accompanied fet.h fl', *lwlb»rß, we will send iho purchaser our written gu.iraiJee to return the money if the treatment 'bus not (fleet a cure. Guarantees issued cnly when treatment is ' ordered direct from us. Address or call on ; Dorwin & Holtbouse Druggists Dvcatui Ind. Gms. O’ KT CJ *T siru now before the public es \ u c.i' make money ♦’.isterat wurk to us than -.t nythingelse. t’apita] nd requir’d. We will Mr.’t you. Ji’Zaday and upwards made ar home l-,y she industrious. Mm, w*.mcn, oys and girls wanted I everywhere to work for ns. Now is the time. You can devote your whole time to Uic work, or only your spare moments No other busivess will pay you nearly as well No out willing to work can fail to make enormous pay by engaging at onoc. Costly ’ outfit ami terms free. A great opportunity for making money easilj and honor hly. Address Trlk & Co., Augusta, Maine. 22jy SI,OOO Forfeit. Having the utmost confidence in its su* I periority over all oi rs, and after thous--1 ands of tests ot the most complicated and severest cases we could find, we feel justb tied in ofleringto tcifeitOn Thoueaud Doi lare for aiijr cati oi coughs, col ls s< u throat, ’.r.Pr-tnsa, bcartenrss, brencbiiUL in its early stages, whoopins cough, »-nd all dise.iHCs ot the throat iitia cungs, except Asthma, for which we only I claim iehif, that we can’t cure with West s 1 Syrup, win u taken according to dij I'CiJons Sample bottles 25 and 50 cei.twj Urge IwWiles one dollar. Genuine WTaf • only in blue Sold by all or I ttfil by t -.'-.jKV'ws on receipt of price. JOHN i C W tfT &. (».. sole j«opr»eb}<s, 181 aud ’ IHfi W Madison St . Chifougn. 18. ‘Jibber? •; wvTdc tu year own town. ssoi<» V&wrtak R»i*rt«r, it you 11 wTut a at wtiivji reiVDes of e: ita»i t»e3 G.LD make p»y afi the »urv wrlu* fi)t p*tUCigars ft> 11 i & Co. Portland, Maim*. jy*?2

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, DEC. 30, 1880.

KATHLEEN’S LOVE-STO-RY. BY THE Al THOR OF ‘-THE MOI'ERN SIR LAVNCI LOT." CHAPTER XV. ‘ This is no tituo to remember wrongs, ’ she said. ‘‘l don’t want to remember them. I think we had better forgive each other till the childreh get well, Mr. Seymour." But as she spoke great, hot tears leaped into her eyes, and stood there, and he saw them. Just the pebble in the pool, but the ripples were circling toward the shore. For the last week the girl had been suffering through her whole being in her battle with herself and her reawakened pain, but the stern necessity for self control forced her to be strong where she might otherwise have been weak. She found no time to ask herself questions, and sometimes she was almost thankful for it. From the evening that he brought Clara up stairs in his arms, Carl Seymour gave her no chance to forget his presence in the house. Every day he was in the sick-room, sometimes bringing fruit, sometimes a few flowers ; but whatever his errand, always leaving behind'him someUiing of comfort, or hope or rest for the sick nurse. Every action was quietly, almost coldly done ; but, after a day or so, Kate began to notice, and was not sorry for the evidence, that actual warfare was over. At any rate, she said to herself, it was sympathy, and just then sympathy, even from an enemy would have been acceptable. Once, as he passed through the room he laid a bunch of white flowers upon the table at her side. ‘‘They will refresh you,” he said eooly, and then went on , for they were just such flowers as she had thrust aside when John Crozier came to Newport. She went to smooth Clara’s pillow with a half sob rising in her throat, and suffocating her. ‘‘lf Mrs Armadale would come home," she would say to herself. "If Mrs. Armadale would only come I” And at last she made up her mind that when the trouble was over, she would try her fortune at some far-away place, where there was at least no ghosts to haunt her. But, in spite of everything, just what good had been hidden and smothered in her worldliness showed itself in these days. There was no time to act and diplomatize—no t : me to feel bitter. What nothing else on earth could have done the two weeks of unromantic labor did —made these two enemies forget the fierce smart of self-contempt and old regret. They were drawn together because they could not possibly have kept apart. Because she was compelled to rely upon him and trust to his assistance. Kate learned to shut her eyes calmly to everything that could have made a compulsory intercourse unpleasant. Because she must rely upou him, and he upon her, and perhaps for ether reasons, Carl forgot his wrongs. Still it was nearly two weeks before anything of the truth reached the surface. Lt way late one evening, ami as she sat by the fire, with baby on a pillow on her lap, Carl found himself watching her aud wondering. He was try- ! ing to call to mind the Circe with the dangerous eyes and scarlet cheeks, who had laughed at Tom Griffith ; the Circe who had coldly used her fascinations and her beauty because it pleased her to outdo other women. It was not easy to place the two side by side aud call them by one name, they seemed so far apart. Would she live the same life again il fortune turned the chances toward her? Would she amuse herself with the human bagatelle board, as she had done before and forg t everything else? Just now, as the firelight struck on the glitter of her bent head. ' and dam ed over the shadows of her i black dress, it showed her dreaming eyes full of wistfulness, and the old cold, graceful scorn swept away. She did not know at first that he was I looking at her, she was so full of thought, but in a few minutes some magnetic influence made her turn to ward him quickly aud meeting his eyes she colored, hardly knowing why. Just ' as swiftly as she looked up she looked down again. She bad grown afraid of herself lately, and did not care to trust her face to scrutiny. Then there was a long silence, such a long silence in fact, that she thought its stillness would force her to speak. lie had come into the nursery to look at the children, and he was leaning his elbow upon the and i gazing down at her. What was he thinking of ? she asked herself, impa- j ■ tiently. What was he going to say ? I She felt as if she was waiting for ; . something. And so she was, unconsciously, it appeared, for suddenly he drew some- j i thing from his pocket, aud held it out 1

to her without speaking a word Iler first glance at it made her start, and then the red glowed ami deepened up on her skin until the cheeks and forehead burned hot. It was a slender gold chain. The firelight glittered on it as it was suspended from his hand, and a little onyx cross hung to it—a little gothic cross, tipped with gold. The ripples were very near the shore then. She hardly knew what to say, and an exclamation broke forth almost unconsciously. "You kept it ?’’ she said. He bent his head. “It dropped from your neck and caught upon my coat when you fell. I kept it because—Well, it was yours, and you wore it at Newport, Kate." How near the ripples were. She took it from bis outstretched hand, her cun trembling in spite of herself, and in spite of herself again, another question leaped out. “Was it because I wore it at Newport that you kept it ? ’ “Yefl," be said, with a faint echo of bitterness in his voice. “It is not so easy to forget, you see.” Proud man as he was, bitter and cruel, and harsh as he had been, her tender eyes and tender voice touched his inmost soul, and completely shook its strength. I said before that once conquered this man was conquered wholly and if you, my reader, could have seen the haughty pallor of his face, you would have acknowledged that I spoke truly. She held the chain for a moment looking at it, and then she extended it to him again. “I will not take it from you if you would like to keep it. Wc have both ; said hard words to each other, Mr. [ Seymour, but we have been friends for j a week now, and I, for one, am not inclined to break the truce. She smiled up into his face as she said it, and tried to speak carelessly ; but it was a hatd struggle that helped her to maintain her self-possession. “Do you mean this ?’’ he asked her. “She bent her head still holding out the chain with the Circe's smile.

“Why not ?” He took it and began to wind it round his fingers. “You are a true woman,” he said, “and so are wise. I am a true mau, and so not wise. Since you have been here, I have said things to you which I had better left unsaid. Try to forget them." And ho turned on his heel and went out of the room without another word. If her position had seemed hard to her before it seemed harder to her now. Woman-like, she would have gone along smoothly without a passing hint of the undercurrent ; but he with exasperating masculine pertinacity, must need touch the half healed wounds, perhaps feeling some aggrandizement in his own pain. Blame him if you like —call him a weak fool ; I have only one thing to say —he loved her. If you are a mau, and have some time loved a woman, you will understand how he might act madly ; if you are a woman aud have ever loved, you will forgive him for it. Carl went to his room that night not to sleep, but to hold that glitteringohain upon his finger, and look at it, to sneer at himself and call himself hard names, aud then to ponder over the pretty picture he had left beh'nd him in the nursery.

It was daylight before Kate left her seat at the fire where she had sat dreaming. Toward morning Johnny fell asleep, and baby seemed better, and at aunt Dorcas decisive command Kate relinquished her post and lay down. She passed the mirror as she j went to the couch, and caught a glimpse of herself. She shrugged her | shoulders a little at the white face and shadowy eyes. Her belt-ribbon had actually grown loose, and she fancied she saw faint hues round her mouth. What had brought them there? Anxiety. aud perhaps, something else. Well I it could not last forever; and alter this was all over she could go away and make up her mind to sei tie down into a middle-aged woman. “There are women who live such lives,' she said. “Ah, me I I suppose 1 have done with the rest, hut I can't quite reconcile it with the Circe. ; Whose fault is it, though ?’’ She ask'ed h'Tself Ute question, sharply, and then us sharply turned away and went | to the couch and lay d >wn. burning her face in lhe cushions The doctor came again early in the i morning, and after looking at his patients, announced a decided improvement. “What is the matter with you?" he asked, turning to Kate. “If you were any one else, I should say you had been crying all night like a baby.” She shook her head with a faint * imile.

“But I am not any one else,” she said, "and I don’t cry —often. 1 am only tired.” But, shall 1 tell you, reader, tha: there was a little hypocrisy iu her quiet face,; for if she had not cried like a baby, at least she had lain awake with an uncomfortable throb in her throat, and hot tears starling now and then to her eyes, because the little cross, glittering in the firelight, and the haughty, cynical face seemed to taunt her so. “Try to forget them,” he had said, and in saying it, had brought back everything of remembrance "If Mrs. Armadale would only come home,” she said to herself, and that day her wish was realized. She hardly knew why. but toward evening she beean to feel somewhat more hopeful. The children seemed quieter, and, for one thing, Mr. Seymour had kept his room and she had regained her composure, and she found herself looking back over the three weeks as something which was almost a thing of the past. It was four o’clock, and she had just taken her place by Johnny, when one of the servants came to the door looking not a little flurried. ■ If you please, ” she began and then stopped. Kato looked up as she fed Johnny with a spoonful of jelly. “What is the matter?” She was not easily frightened, and spoke quite composedly. "There’s a carriage coming up the drive, ma’am,” said the girl, “and we think mebbe it’s Mrs. Armadale.” Kate laid her glass and spoon down, it must be confessed, with a sudden leap of the heart. What if they had not received any of the telegrams or letters, and were coming home to meet the news as a shock.

j ‘‘Lie down Johnny," she said, and left the room, and went down stairs just in time to meet Carl coming out of the parlor. “They are coming,’ he said, anxious ly. “I wonder if they received our letters ?” “I shall meet them at the door,” said Kate, decidedly. “If Mrs. Armadale does not know I think 1 can best tell her myself.” But she was spared the task, for in three minutes the carriage had stopped. and poor little Mrs. Armadale almost burst from it, her pretty young j face perfectly deathly. “Oh, Kate I” she said, in a little : storm of self-reproaching sobs. “Oh, Kate I we never knew till Wednesday, on our way back from New Orleans, when we had an old telegram from Augusta, and —tell me the worst.” “It’s not so very bad,” said Kate, following her, for she was actually on her way to the nursery before she had finished speaking. “They had the fever only in a mild form, and baby was very much weakened. I don’t think there is any danger now.” But Barbara had rushed into the sick-room and was bending over the cradle, trying in vain to choke back her sobs as she lifted her little one in her arms. “I —I can’t help it,” she .said to Kate. “Oh, my poor little babies I” And then she was k ssing Johnny and crying softly over him, and patting , Clara’s pillow and petting her, and talking to Kate all at once. “What should I have done without you ?” she > j said. “How caul thank you ? Audi oh I my best, patient dear, look at your I . pale cheeks I” After her excitement was quieted I' somewhat, she insisted on wrapping Kate in a soft shawl, and making her I lie down on a sofa to rest. To tell the truth, now that the burden of responsibility was taken from > her, this before uuoonquered Kate be- I gan to feel tired, and when she was j fairly ensconced outlie sofa fell asleep and slept with most unheroic souudI uess. It was late when she awakened, and by the light of the. fire she saw Barbara sitting by her in the rocking chair, i rocking to and fro, and evidently waiting impatiently for her awakening. “I am glad you have finished your , sleep.” she said. “1 am so impatient to talk everything over. Kate, what j did you think when you got All's let- I ter? I always told him it would turn out so. It is like a romance, only there was so little mystery about it. I They say Mr. Davcnanl was killed on ■ the spot. He had llways been a fast I m in. you know —” Miss Davenant sat up in her lounge j with a little extra color on Iler cheeks, ■ i and not a I’ttle extra beating at her ' I heart. What did all this mean ? “I bog your pardon, Mrs. Armadale,” I she said ; "but 1 don't understand. 1 never received any letter-from Mr. Armadale. I never ” Barbara broke in upon her. “You don't understand," she echoed “You never received a letter ? AH i wrote to you the day we left Waahitig- ' ton."

Just then, and not till then, did something of remembrance flash across Kate s mind. M hat about the envelope she had laid aside in her anxiety? She got up find want to the mantlepiece. Yes, there it was jast as she had left it, without breaking the seal. She did not sit down, she stood up just where she was, and tore it open and glanced at the signature, “Alfred Armadale,” and then she read the letter through. 11 hen she had finished she looked up at Barbara, blood in her cheeks rising redly, a great flash of something in her eyes. At last! at last 1 Fortune had turned the tables once more. Iler father's brother who had never even seen her, had died from a fall from a horse; died without children and without a will ; and she was his heir. Oddly enough, the thought that rose highest in the tumult of her mind was the most commonplace of thoughts. She was not to be a middle-aged governess after all, she was not to grow old and bitter and faded, over music-lessons and French grammars. Mercenary, this, of course, but permit me to say it was very natural. If she wished now she might go away from this terrible galling and humiliation, and, perhaps, forget it all. “I never read this letter before," she said io Barbara. “I was so anxious that I laid it down and forgot it. I don’t know what to say, I can hardly believe it is true. My uncle was so angry with pa for wronging ma that he would never even sec me.” Barbara got up ouietly and went to her, and kissed her on both cheeks. “I hope it will make you happy, my dear,” she said. “I must congratulate you, but I can not congratulate myself. I shall lose my friend, my governess.” Twice in four wars had Fate flung a golden grape it Kate Davenant’s hands. The first time it had only added fresh bitter: ess to her lot, this second time it 1:1 only brought her relief not happin «s. Mr. Davenant was dead—killed by a fall from a wild, unmanageable horse; and whether she deserved it, or not, Miss Davenant was an heiress, again representing substantially twenty thousand a year and two establishments. There was no excitement in her manner as she sat by Mr. Armadale, at the table in the library that night, and entered into the particulars of her business. Her face was quite calm and business like, and while she listened to his statements and replied to his inquiries, she was playing with a penholder, and smiling now and then faintiy. Mr. Armadale had heard all of the points of the case, and only some few legal formalities must be gone through before she could take possesion. It was ten o’clock before their work was finished, and then the gentleman congratulated her warmly. Seymour had been sitting with them reading, and as his brother-in law spoke he glanced up quickly and looked at Miss Davenant.

She was standing by the table rest- « ing one hand upon it, and toying with the pen-holder, her downeast eyes a r little thoughtful. The bright lamp- 1 light was concentrated upon her, and I v showed the white-browed patrician face ■ z and Clytie head poised half haughtily, t. half carelessly. Iler long, black dress r made her look white and slender with t its sombre heaviness, the great waves j of ! umislted hair were twisted in a ■ ] massive knot on the slim, shapely i . neck, and there wt« a deep scarlet j spot on either cheek. She was a beautiful woman, as much the Circe as ever 1 she was a beautiful picture, and the touching tenderness f her smile made her dazzling. “Does money mak-. people happy? ’i she asked, lifting he soft eyes. “If | it does you know I can be happy, for i i 1 can buy twenty thousand dollars : worth of happiness < very year. But i then if it don’t, I might only be a rieh , heiress after all, in spite of jour kind ; j wish—and the thousands. ' She only spoke half seriously, but [ ' ! when she ended her voice shook a lit- j tie in the face of her smiles, and • j there was a touch of truth in the I almost imperceptible tremor of her red i lower-lip. that filled the man with a ' mad longing to go to her and wind bis ' ‘ arm around her waist, and quench the ! ' pride in her proud face with kisses 1 that should force her heart to speak : ' truly. But men don’t do these things i you know, but be could only look at > her longer, wondering if her sweet I eyes iiad made a madman of him. | She came to the fire when she had done with Mr Armadale, and stood . upon the hearth resting her arched j foot on the fender in her favorite sash- ‘ ion, and smiling upon him with the Circe’s witchery. She was fiee now you see no longer a dependent or menial. perhaps, after a month's time, they wight never meet again—and, besides,

I she could afford it. , had bought her that right, at least. “Won't you congratulate mo, Mr. jSeymnur?” she ad.rd. -Or do you | think I am a better nurse than heir- | ess ? I want to hear you say you are ■ dad for my sake,” hich must 1 congratulate you i upon first he said. “Your happiness, ! your riches, or both at once ?" (7b 4* CtHtiHtif.'l.) Sefton’* Hone*. Quite a sensation was produced in town on Sunday afternoon by the announcement that the skeleton of the long missing Win. H. Sefton had been found in a piece of woods about one and ene-half miles from town in a direction a little north of west. In order to call the attention of our readers to the particulars of his mysterious disappearance, we publish the following from the files of the Register of April 26th, 1878: “Lagrange was thrown into a state of intense excitement on Monday evening by the mysterious disappearance of Mr. \\ illiam H. Sefton, a young rnan who recently came to this village from Ohio, and bought out the blacksmithing business of ins uncle, T. 11. Sefton. The circumstances of this strange case are as follows: Mr. Sefton had been ailing for a few days and on Monday was taken with a chill which was followed toward evening by a fever. While the fever was on. about five o’clock, he left the house telling the women that he was going to the shop to pay one of the hands some money. But instead of going there he proceeded to the railroad track, and started off at a brisk pace toward Lima. His actions were so strange as to attract the attention of T. 11. Sefton’s son who followed him some distance trying to overtake him, but as soon as the sick man (who had probably become temporarily insane on account of the fever) discovered that he was being followed started off on a lively run and was soon out of sight, and up to this writing no track or trace of the missing man has been found, although large scouting parties of our citizens have scoured the country in all directions for miles around. Where he has gone, or what fate has befallen him is a subject of great anxiety. Wm. H. Sefton the missing man, is thirty years old; six feet in height, and slim in stature ; blue eyes, dark complexion, black hair and wears a mustache.”

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The particulars of the finding of the remains of the unfortunate Sefton arc as follows-: On Sunday James Devenbaugh who works for Christian Miller, took his trap and shovel and went out into a piece of woods known as the Ken-nedy-Price woods, to hunt for mink After penetrating into the woods some distance he tracked a mink into a thicket of brambles and underbrush, and while examining the spot discovered a whitened bone which upon examination proved to be a human skull. As may well be imagined, Devenbaugh was considerably alarmed by the sudden and unexpected discovery, and as soon as his trepidation passed away he commenced a further investigation of the place. The ground being covered with snow he struck his shovel on what appeared to be a small mound, and it bounded up in a suspicious manner. By removing the snow the garments of a man were brought to view, and which contained his bones. This was about all that Devenbaugh could stand there, alone, and picking up a bunch of keys on the ring of which was a seal bearing the name of Wm. H. Sefton, he returned and gave the alarm. The intelligence that the supposed remains of Wm. H. Sefton had been found was immediately conveyed to town, and to Thomas 11. Sefton, who in company with quite a large number of our citilens repaired to the place, gathered up the remains which were c.-niposed of nothing save the bones of the man, as the body had entirely decomposed, and placed them in a coffin that had been ; provided, and brought then to town where they were left in the undertak- ; ing establishment of Miller & Lutz, to uwait the orders of his relatives in Ohio. That these bones are those of Wm. 11. Sefton there is not a particle of doubt. The seal on the ring of keys bearing his name, his clothing, all of which were easily recognized, a leather pocket book familiar to T. 11. Sefton, of whom he obtained it, all confirm in : the strongest terms his identity. The terrible experience of his sad fate will I ever remain a profound secret to all 1 those who are mortal. All that is i known of the terrible scenes of his ■ passing away is, that burning with fever. and crazed with an overdose of powerful medicine, he rushed from home and friends and in his delerium laid down and died in the deep woods with no one but his God and the forest trees looking down upon him as the work of dissolution went on. It is well that the pall of the invisible is drawn between this scene and his friends. A coroner’s inquest was held simply to establish a record of the identity of the deceased, with the following verdict: “I, John B. Rowe, coroner of Lagrauge county on the 19th, day of December, 1880, after hearing the evidence and examining the body, do find that the ! deceased came to his death by causes unknown. Physicians, Druggists, Dealers, Con guttlers, unite in testimony that Biney hart's Worm Losenges are the greati, t est discovery of the sge. no. 38 2w.