Daily Wabash Express, Volume 19, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 November 1869 — Page 3

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INCOMPATIBLE.

BY A. W. H. HOWARD.

Tom and I were absolutely certain that we should never quarrel after we were married. We knew very well that some married people did quarrel sadly, and that almost all differed more than was entirely comfortable: this knowledge forewarned us, and, after discussing the subject thoroughly, we felt that we were forearmed as well as forewarned.

Tom admitted that he had beared such words pass between his father and mother as he should be very sorry to think would ever pass between us, but he said it was entirely unnecessary ever to have any difference amounting to a quarrel. Of course, people who had as positive temperaments as we both had could not agree entirely and at once, but a little concession would smooth away all difficulties and for his part, he should always be hap py to make any concessions which I should demand.

I thought Tom talked very well, and* immediately assured him that so far I was concerned he never would have to make any concessions at all upon which he declared, with a most impassioned kiss, that my will should aiways be Jiis law.

I thought over this conversation, which took place just a week before we were married, by myself, after Tom had gone, and I must say he seemed a rare treasure to me for I could not recall another man among my acquaintances who was givento making concessions to the women of his household.

There was my father. Of course I loved fathervery much, but grown-up daughters are not always entirely blind to their fathers' peculiarities, and it did seem to inc that he took delight in ploughing through and uprooting all mother's tastes and fancies.

Mother was English and of the Episcopal Church, and always wanted to observe Christmas, but father never would hear to it, because his ancestors came over in the "May Flower." He was proud of the grim Puritan record of the first Christmas in this country: "And so no man rested at all that duy," It was, in his eyes, a glorious protest against princely and prelatical tyranny and I agreed with father and kindled with enthusiasm when he talked of the beginnings of Congregationalism, and of the grand days when Milton was its poet and Cromwell its hero yet, for all this, I thought it was hard and bigoted in father not to let mother keep her own festival. So, when we children grew up, we brought about a sort of compromise. At Thanksgiving, which father celebrated with great zeal, w6 trimmed the house with evergreens and holly till it was like a bower we had blazing wood-fires in every room, and added roast beef to the feast hitherto sacred to turkey anp cliick-cn-pic. The plum-pudding being adapted to both festivals, was not displaced and when mother said, with a gratified loook, that it seemed qnite English, we were triumphant. We felt that we had gained a_great victory for her, and that we had got the better of father without hurtingliini. Father was an editor—a very influential man, generous in his way, especially kind to all young writers, and very chivalric toward all women in his office and at his writing-desk, but he did rage around most uncomfortably at home.

Mother said his literary life affected his nervous system, and so took particular pains to make his home cores light. I did not quite approve of mother's course: I thought it would do father good if would she occasionally pay him back in his own coin but she never'did, and never seemed to care about hi? being

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good terms, as he was, with a great many pretty women but sister Mary and I, who thought married people, in order to be happy, must be thinking of each other every moment, ftsed to get quite jealous for her. "Mother," said sister Mary on one occasion, "do you like to have father write to that pretty Mrs. Colburn quite so much as he does?" "I don't know as he writes to her any more than she writes to him," replied mother, indifferently. ".But, mother," said I, taking up the strain, "do you like to hate- Aither write so much to pretty woman, any way?" "Girls," said mother, "I like anything that diverts your father^ and if these pretty women take up his attention, do, for mercey's sake, let them write." '\H11t, mother," persisted Mary, "if you were to die, and father should take it into his head to marry Mrs. Colburn, what should we do? Maggie and 1 should perfectly hate her. I almost know she could catch father if she wanted.to, and of course she would, for father is handsome." "Well,"1 said mother, laughing, "in that ca«e I hope Mrs. Colburn will stop writing, and take particular pains to see that the steak is never overdone, and that the water is always boiling the instant your father wants to shave. And now, children," said she, with a look that made us feel as if we wore bibs and drank milk out of little cups, "I never want to hear a woi\i of this nonsense again. Your father and 1 are old enough to take care of ourselves and you too and she left us with an angry Hash in her eye which father's most dyspeptic grumblings never called forth.

That very afternoon father was brought in senseless, after having been dragged half a mile bv his horse: mother's agony was fearful, and it \va~ terrible to see father's handsome face to pale and rigid.

Then consciousness came back, and he stretched out his arms to mother, exclaiming, "Oh, Mary, I thought of you as long as I could think of anything and they wept together, and murmured words of deeper tenderness than young lovers ever dream of. ijister Mary and I ran away to cry together. "Oh, Maggie," said she, with a blubbering voice, "it is his nervous system, and he doet love mother af er all and how she loves him! and what foots we were to think lie cared a solitary straw for that Mrs. Colburn!"

I remembered this scene in father's favor, but it was pleasant to think that Tom would not only love me as well as father did mother, but Would always be comfortable at home, which father certainly was not, even after this accident.

Then my brothers passed in review. Mother, Mary and I made all the concessions to them. They always hurried and worried us and once, when Henry was going to Boston to spend the Fourth of July, he nearly brought the house down about our ears because his shirt bosom was not nicely ironed as if in a Boston crowd anybody would notice his shirt bosom—or him, either, for that matter. But sister Mary, who, in the illness of our laundress, was responsible for the ironing, said Henry acted as if his shirt bosom were to be the- principal piece in the fireworks. Brother Edgar was no better. He hurried Mary so about a picnic on this same Fourth of Juiv that she went with a boot on one foot and a slipper on the other and they were so early .that when Henry drove hack to get the other boot, he met the first express-wagon with its load of provisions, and Mary had the whole grove to herself while she finished her toilette.

With such experiences in the past, it was not strange that this conversation with Tom about quarreling and conceding was especially delightful to me, and made mv future look uncommonly bright.

Tom and I hr^d known each other for years., and had*had an "understanding'' for a long time, I ha^J^n jftwav^lJ

summer, only coming home in season for this Thanksgiving-Christmas sort of festival of whicn

have upoken.

I wore white] alpaca, trimmed with acarlet velvet, and hoUy berrieg in my hair. I danced constantly, and I never felt in finer spirits, for Tom was there, more devoted to me than ever, and I knew I was looking my best. At last some one called for vocal music, which made pause in the dancing. (This dancing wjts another point which we had carried for mother against father, but I will say for father that when he found he could not help it, heubmitted with a good grace.) Feeling a little chilly, I threw a scarlet shawl over my shoulders. I think this shawl brought Tom to terms, for as I came into the room his eyes met mine with a light kindling in them which made my "cljpeks the color of my shawl. In an instant he had crossed the room and had drawn me into the library, used that night for a cloak-room, and in fifteen minutes we were engaged. I remembered the time, for as we crossed the hall I looked at our tall clock wreathed 'in evergreen, and it struck ten: I was in a delirium of excited feeling, longing to be alone with Tom, yet fearing it was all a happy dream, when sister Mary called me to come and give 'one last look at "the sapper-table. (The supper-table at a time like this!) .Coming out, the tall clock came again exactly in my line of vision, and it was quarter-past ten only fifteen minutes, and yet an age of bliss! To this day the sight of a tall clock with the hands at quarterpast ten makes all the chords of memory thrill. "The table looks beautifully, I am sure, said I, in a dazed kind of way after we got into the dining-room. "You and Tom are engaged," replied

Man*, closing the H5or ana holding the handle. "Oh, Mary!" said I. "Well, you are," said Mary. "Tom looked, when you came out together, as if he never had seen a woman in all his life that look always means love and kissing. So now, Maggie, if you don't contradict it in one second, I shall tell everybody, and we shall make one job of the supper and the congratulations."

Oh, Mary," said I again, but I could not contradict it and Mary was as good as her word. The congratulations only ended with the last good-bye that night.

I was just twenty years old—a pronounced brunette, very slender, with what people called a graceful figure, and hands and feet that all the men praised and all the women envied. Tom was twenty-six, with chc-tnut hair, which curled thickly all over his handsome head and I must confess that when the sun shone fairly upon these beautiful curls they had a suggestion of red about them he had fiery hazel eyes, and of course the impetuous, dashing temperament which goes with such hair and eyes'—a splendid temperament for a lover, whatever it may be for a husband. Everybody said we were a very stylish couple, and that there was no reason why we should not be very happy-

We were married on New Year's day, my outfit for a winter in New York being turned into a trousseau when Tom declared he could not and would not wait and, as we had known each other so long, there really seemed to be no cause for delay.

We were to go to Boston to live, and when some one condoled with mother oa the separation, she replied, cheerfully 'Oh I think it is better for young married people to be by themselves—for the first year, at least so we were sent forth with a cheerful "good-bye" and "God bless you," and the old life was ended and the new one begun.

Tom and I were happier in our own fresh, tasteful and even elegant home than we had ever imagined we could be but after a little time we found that we differed very decidedly upon some points, and I was surprised to see that if Tom had not forgotten his old doctrine of concession, he often ventured to ignore it.

I wanted to go to a Congregational church, but Tom declared for Episcopacy. I could not find my place in the PrayerBook, nor did I know when to rise nor when to sit. An Episcopal service was a severe experience, and Tom's readiness and apparent devotion were quite exasperating to me.

Then Tom was to scientific, and I was not: he wanted to go scientific lectures, which I detested while I wanted to go to literary and patriotic courses, which he absurdly called "sensational." He dragged me through one course upon astronomy, which was a sad penance to me, but never complaindd till he to me, but I never complained till he brought out a tremendous book upon The Origin of the Stars, which he wanted me to read when" he was down town. I dare say it would have been a most excellent hook for me, for "Twinkle, twinkle little star:

How I wonder what you are, Up above the world so high. Like a diamond in tbesky!"

was all I knew about astronomy but, unfortunately, it was all 1 wished to kno.v so I openly rebelled against The Origin of the Stars.

Then of chemistry, which was another pet science with Tom, I only knew that my old chemistry at school used to tell about oxwgen, hydrogen and nitrogen and I had a vague idea that some of these were healthy and some were not. Tom to be sure, went with me to my favorite lectures, but they seemed about as hard for him to bear as lus were for me.

At length I thought I would talk with Tom about it, and if need be, remind him that my will was to be his law. So one afternoon, as we were crossing the Common to call on Mrs. Foster, Tom's aunt by marrige, I said: "Tom, you don't like to go to niy lectures." It was a mild afternoon, and both Tom and I were as genial as the weather, for I had a new hat, and looked very well in it, and Tom had just told me so. "Oh ye3, Maggie," replied Tom, gallantly, "I like to go anywhere with you." "No, Tom, you do not," I replied "and I feel it." "I certainly do, Maggie," responded Tom. "No, Tom, you do not, and I should like it better if you admitted it." "I do, I say," said Tom, in an irritated tone. "Can't you believe me?" "Oh, Tom," said I, "you are positively cross." "Well, you needn't give me the lie, then," replied, he savagely. "Oh, Tom!" I exclaimed, cut to the heart, "I never thought—I never meant to say such a thing." "Well, you said it plainly enough," retorted Tom, contemptously. "Now Come in and see if you can be as civil to Mrs. Foster as you are to me," "Oh, Tom," I replied, "let us go home: I can't go in—I shall die if I do.' "We'll see if you will," said Tom, pulling me into the parlor, where I burst into lears at once, and sobbed as if my heart would break. "What is the matter?" said Mrs. Foster, deluging me with cologne and almost choking me with salts.

Nothing," said Tom, "only Maggie has got very much excited." Now, every man knows that telling a woman she is excited is the most intensely aggravating thing he can do. "'Excited!'" I screamed. "He says I told him he lied, and I never thought of such a thing, and he knows it!" "There it is again," said Tom, sarcastically, without any regard for my distress.

Poor Mrs. Foster looked greatly troubled. "You mnst try to bear with each other," was all she had time to say when callers were announced, and Tom seized me and dragged me out out through the back palor. "Nqw, Tom," said I, calmlv,for the fresh air revived me and I had cried off some of my emotion, "'do you call this 'conees-. sion?" "Concession!', replied he, as if he had never heard of the word before. "Well, no—not exactly." "Well," said I, "don't you -Remember that you told me you should always be glad to "make concessions, and that my will should always b« your law "No," .said Tom, stoutly, "I do not and if I ever said such a silly thing, I should desire to forget it. Everybody* knows that it is a woman's -place to yield, and every true woman finas her highest pleasure in doing so and then he oegan a little whispering whistling of "Yankee Doodle," which he kept up all the way home, as if determined to show all the contempt he could for me.

For aught I could see, Tom was becoming as baa as my. father and brothers, and this, too, when "fie had explicitly, and of his own accord, promised to concede. It was only four months—four little months —since that promise, sealed with that impassioned kiss, and now I was expected to find my highest pleasure in submitting to his will.

One thing was certain: Tom had told a lie, whether I had "given" it to him him or not. If he would tell a lie about one thing, why not about another—why not about evervthi

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were over, for it was plain I never could trust Tom as I had done. I had entirely forgotten that I had told him, with equal sincerity at the time that he never would have to make any concessions to me, and that it was this lamb-like sentiment which had called forth his final declaration and kiss. I thought we should have a wretched time after this walk, which began so pleasantly and ended so sadly, but diversion came from an unexpected source.

Esther Flanders and her. brother Philip came in to pass the evening: I liked Esther very much, but her brother I had never seen before. He was a most. captivating man. "Captivating" is just the word to describe him. He took one's judgement, taste and fancy by storm: such line manners, such rare culture, such delicate tact I had never seen united in one person, and although Tom and I were in such a miserable state, he succeded in calling us out wonderfully. I was conscious that I had never talked so well, nor had I ever sung and played better than I did with this magnetic stranger to turn the leaves for me.

Tom was pleased with his evident but

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he was quite proud of me, for Philip Flanders was the most fastidious and critical man he knew, and that he especially admired a woman who talked well, and I certainly did. I was not much gratified by Tom's praises, for I could not understand how he could so soon get over our storm of the afternoon: he seemed to have done so, however, and never alluded to it again but it rankled in my mind, and with every difference—we had them pretty often now—a sense of my wrongs in this matter of ^concession flared up afresh. But I forgot my jyrongs when with Philip Flanders and, indeed in his presence I forgot everything but music, culture and the gifted man who sang so well, and for me, alone, for he was often in of an evening and it so happened that his calls came on Tom's club evenings rather more frequently than at 'any other time. It was very pleasant, and I did not always tell Tom when, he had been with me: I did not want to tell him everything, as at first, and by degrees I found myself thinking quite as much of Philip Flanders and his sympathy in any emergency as of'Tom.

One evening, when Tom and I had exchanged some unusually hard words—as hard, I fancied, as those which he told me, at the time of the concession proposal, he had heard pas3 between his father and mother—Tom strode out through the front parlor, exclaiming angrily, "Don't try sulking with me—I am not the fellow to stand it," just as Philip Flanders entered the back parlor noiselessly, to find me sobbing almost hysterically. I was sure he had heard Tom's last words: how much more I could not tell.

It would take a very high principled man—which Philip Flaneurs was not—of thirty-five( Phillip's age),or of fifty-five, or ofsixty-five, or indeed of any age to which man ever attains, to find a young and pretty woman in such a plight and not wish to console her with mere tenderness than would be altogether prudent. Philip soon drew all my misery from me, and then said, in his most thrilling tones, holding my eves meanwhile with his own fixed and magnetic gaze: "How strange that we should both be so wretched—you with your husband and I alone! I have seen this from the first: you and your husband are not well matched: he does not understand the requirements of your nature. Yoii are reallyincompatible." "What can I do?" I cried, for I had not defined the case so clearly in my own mind. "Do! Nay, poor child," replied he, slowly and pitingly, "I will help you bear your burden: perhaps lean lighten it a little. I have

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wife, nor do I wish for

one now. We will be more than friends. Is it a compact?" he asked persuasively. I felt entirely powerless, and at that instant he pressed a burning kiss upon my

A strange feeling of exhilaration, which I mistook for happiness, came with this kiss, and I thought my troubles were over but when Tom came home that night, all hearty, a'nd clubby, and smoky, 1 felt a remorseful aversion to him which Iliad never known before, and which was farther from happiness than the hardest quarrel would have been.

It seems to me that the next few weeks were passed in a sort of Belirum when not directly Under Philip's influence, I was constantly wondering what father and mother and Mary and Henry and Edgar would think of all this, If they could only understand it, they would not blame me, for Philip placed the subject before me in the most sophistical light but, somehow or other, 1 always felt that they never could be made to understand it: so I was glad they did not know it, and 1 had aVague wish that the old quarrelsome days we did not quarrel now—with Tom were back, and that I had never heard of Philip Flanders.

At length I broke down in a nervous fever, and after the crisis was past, as I lay weak and helpless, I overheard the doctor say to Tom. "Your wife is in a very poor way: she must have change.^£She must go into the country, or I cannot answer fort he consequences." "You don't think it is anything serious?" said Torn in a husky voice, which made me almost love him again. "I can't say: I hope not, I am sure but I thought it was my duty to tell you this. much,' said the doctor in a business-like way, as he left the room.

Tom opened the door softly and bent over me .for a moment, theli kissed me very lightly, lest he should wuko me, and crept out of the room

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sighed very heavily, or else he tried to suppress a sob. Tom, whom I had never seen cry—could it be that he loved mc, after all, just as father did mother?.I buried my face in the bed-clothes and prayed I might die and be through with it all, for there was Philip Flanders with his strange power o'ver me, which I knew I never could resist. I did not die, however. Youth and a good constitution triumphed, and in a vervshorttime I was pronounced fit for the country. I did not see Philip Flanders, and Tom was very tender with me: happiness seemed to be creeping back and when Tom said I should go to Aunt Abigail's, as I begged, instead of home, I kissed him gratefully, and felt a content stealing over rnc.

The last summer of my bright,care-free girlhood was passed away back among the hills, with uncle Cyrus and Aunt Abigail: the very thought of it was peace Even now I sometimes think it was the happiest summer of my life: I had never been disappointed there: my ideals were all glorious heroes, who never came down from their pedestals. Life before me looked like one grand triumphal march: my ohly care for the.futurc was to wonder, as girls will, what strong arm I should lean upon, and what manly tread would" keep time to the music of my lighter step. tfnele Cyrus and Aunt Abigail were the rarest old couple in the world. Their love had reached its Indian summer, but it was not mournful, like that of the year: it did not suggest decay and death, but' a world where such love must 'bloom over again in freshness and immortal youth. It had ripened slowly, I knew now, though I thought then it had always been thus peaceful, for Uncle Cyrus' once tawnybrown hair was like snow, and only a few threads of dark in the silver of Aunt Abigril's told of the wealth of black hair which framed her beantifull face when she came a bride to the old homestead.

Aunt Abigail was a "Friend" by birth and training, and when that non-resisting sect threatened to "read her out of meeting" because her whole soul turned in love to Uncle Cyrus, whose family had been "Congrcgationalists" for generations, her temperament and her training met in a hand-to-hand conflict. Temperament won the victorv, as it generally does in such cases so she laid a-ide her drab, and brightened the bridal white of her wed-ding-hat with a bit of scarlet verbena, and sat in the choir with Uncle Cyras the Sunday after they were married. She said "thee" but once after that time, and it was years and years after, when Uncle Cyrus told her, with a ghastly face, that Cousin George was dead—dead at Gettysburg. "Thee can't mean it, Cyrus," came in a shriek from her ashy lips, and she sank senseless at his feet Poor Aunt Abigail! all the hope ofheryonth, coming hack through the old familiar phrase to resist the shock, was powerless Before the terrible truth. We thought her heart was broken, but after the first sharp agony was over she was her own ftrong self again and when ihey brought crape and bombazine, she exclaimed, "Shall I put on garments of moulding because my son has been 'promoted on the field?'""" and she put them away with a face like that of an angel. Their grief "was to sacred for sadness: if full of-heart-brcak, it was also ftill of hope: boisterous mirth might be subdued, but no innocent enjoyment was ever checked by their prepense.

The faith of the aged cotiple created a

serene atmosphere around them which I. weak and morbid as I had become, longed for with an inexpressible longing .so when Tom placed me comfortably in the cars, for he could notgotwithme, giving the conductor enough charges to betray the fact of his being a very young husband, and I leaned languidly back, a sehce of the tranquil cheerfulness to which.

I was

hastening filled my soul, arid the thotlght of Philip Landers seemed fading like the memory ofa bad dream.

A caressing touch aroused me, and he, my evil genius, was beside me. "Alone for such a journey, in such a state!" he said, softly."

I had been very ill, and was weak and morbid, as I have said, and before .my journey was half completed I had an agonized conviction tbat I was a wretched, almost deserted wifej and that he was indeed my "more than friend." He adroitly left at a station a few miles from Uncle Cyrus', regardless of the fact that I was more lonely and in a much worse state than he found me but I did not think of this at the lime.

The next morning, after _a sleepless

night, I thought I would tell Uncle Cyrus and Aunt Abigail my sad story. They :h

respectful admiration of me, and told njg, with a half attempt.at reconciliation, that were always charitable to motives: they -r

iTi— might understand me. If they did not.

and the worst came to the worst— though of what that worst would be I had only a vague notion—there was my "more than friend" to whom I could appeal, and who would stand by me to the last. So after prayers, I told them, as well as 1 could, .that I had found that my marriage was a great mistake that I was wretched and wanted to die that I had but one friend, Philip Flanders (and I painted him in glowing colors) that he had understood me from the beginning and that he said Tom and I were "really incompatible." "Most men," said Aunt Abigail, with quiet but stinging satire, "hate a lively sense of the wrongs of other men's wives." "Incompatible!" cried Uncle Cyrus, looking at me over his glasses and turninj very red in the face: "Drat the man! wonder what your aunt would have done if some fool had told her we were incom patible before we had been married six months?"

Now "drat" was the strongest oath Uncle Cyrus ever used. It was well understood in the family that it bore no more dangerous relation to a regular "damn" than a single sneeze doe? to a three weeks' influenza yet for all t^iis, whenever he used it, Aunt Abigail always felt that the interests t)f religion and morality required her to say "Why, Cyrus!" when Uncle Cyrus, with a .slightly crestfallen air, would reply, "well and there the matter woul(f"&nd for that time. But on this occasion she did not reprove him, but looked as if she would have borne the stronger word had he chosen to use it.

This omission and this look nearly broke my heart, and exclaiming vehemently, "Everybody is against me!" I rushed away to my room, cried myself to sleep, and awoke' feeling indescribably better and very hungry.

Oh how hungry I was! But after such a tragic demonstration, how could I go down stairs and ask for something to eat? If I could only see Hannah from the window, I could get her to smuggle a nice lunch into my room but no Hannah was to be seen, and the question seemed to be between pride and starvation, when I heard Aunt Abigail stepping cautiously oxer the stairs. That slow, steady step foreboded a lecture, and Aunt Abigail would make thorough work with me, I knew but to meet it when I was so hungry did 83em hard. Then the dot swung open, the fragrance of coffee filled the room, and there stood Aunt Abigail holding a salver containing the most delicious lunch—one of her own-fashinoned china cups, my childish admiration, from the corner cup-board, for the coffee, two ham sandwiches and a single tart of homemade, flaky paste filled with clear, quivering currant jelly. "Oh, Aunt Abigail!" exclaimed I, gratefully, with a watering mouth. "Yofir uncle thought," said she, moving a little stand nearer the bed and placing the salver on it, .'"that you would like some of his ham: he cured it himself and I sat up and ate the ham that had been "cured" by the man who had just "dratted" my "more than friend," and felt better for it—better, in fact, than I ever had for anything that my "more than friend" had ever said or done, and Iibegan to gain mentally as physically from that day.

Tom wrote constantly, telling me hot to write to him till I was able, but that he was so very lonely he must write to me. "A very good letter for a cold-blooded monster to write," said Aunt Abigait one morning, as I read her passages from my last.

I had just come, "as fresh as a rose'," Uncle Cyrus said, from a long country drive through old roads, winding, as old roads will, here to a ferry and there to a mill and Aunt Abigail, seeing I was able to bear it, began to talk with mc about my troubles. She laughed heartily over the concession story, and told me I was only learning what all wives must—the difference between a lover and a husband. Then she told about the differences of. opinion and feeling which she and Uncle Cyrus had when they were first married —how she used to cry and wish she was back in the Friends' meeting-house, with her little brab bonnet on, and no Uncle Cyrus anywhere. Then grandfather came to see them. He was an old man—older than Uncle Cyrus is now—with a manner of gentle yet statly courtesy. Aunt Abigail thought he must have seen that she was not quite happy, for he took great pains to praise everything she did, especially when "Uncle Cyrus was near to hear him: he used to read in the Bible to her: Saint John was his favorite apostle. He liked him, he said, because lie was not born gentle, but had become so through his faith for he was one of those who were called "sons of thunder a'nd Aunt Abigail said grandfather's keen blue eye and high instep made her think his experience might have been like that of John so she liked to hear him read and talk of him, but she thought the words, "Little children, love one another," were pretty sure to get into'every reading. 'One afternoon, when he was reading from his favorite John, a lady who was present said, "Well, after all, 1 like Paul better: John got to be a little too gentle. Now Paul," said she, "knew peeple must quarrel sometimes, for he said, 'If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all §icn.' Then grandfather said that passage had been very much perverted, because people did not know how to place the emphasis properly and when the lady looked surprised, he said the right emphasis was Oil the word "you"—'"as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men and he said it if were read in that way it would be a perfect rule for all newly-married people. Aunt Abigail said she often thought of it after that conversation, and it was curious to see how frequently it prevented the retort that was springing to her lips. Then, when grandfather went away, she watched him through the blinds with tearful eyes, for she loved the kindly? old man who had strengthened and consoled her And she heard him say to Uncle Cyrus, "You have a better wife, Cyrus, "than I ever' thought you would get: see that you are kind to her, for she has given up a great deal for you."

Uncle Cyrus did not say anything then, but they were happier from that time and the day after grandfather's funeral— for he did not live long: Aunt Abigail never saw him again—he told her those very words, not dreaming that she had head them before, and that they had been among her choicest treasures since the bright autumn day when grandfather kissed and blessed her for the last time. I could not help thinking that grannfather's consolation was not much like that of my "more than friend and with this thought a sudden conviction that it was a great deal better swept through my mind with the refreshing effect ofa cool even'ng breeze after a sultry day and for the first time I felt like writing to Tom.

My letter -brought back a most loverlike espistle, by return of mail, to say he would be with me in a week.

Aunt Abigail said it was the sentiment of love Which carried people through courtship, but they must depend upofi the principle of love to carry them through marriage. It often seemed as if this ttttimeiit of love had been killed by the antagonism of the earlier periods of married life but if the principle were developed by unswerving truth and loyalty to each other, under whatever .temptation to the contrary, the sentiment wonld in time re-* vive again, and the love and life would be transfigured.

I was greatly comforted by my talks with Aunt Abigail: they gave me hope for the future, and I resolved to be as intensely loyal to Tom as any one could desire. We did not talk much about Philip Flanders, for I felt neither Aunt Abigail nor Uncle Cyrus did him justice. I knew he had not done right: he ought not to have kissed me, and I never would let

fahn again. I should talk frankly with him about it all, and tell him that I now saw I had been more to blame than Tom and that wje had become very happy. He hod meant tiJJ be kind to me:. he was wretched and lonely and, after, all, his only fault was that he had to much heart. It would be hard and cruel to give him up: every, man. peeked a strnpg matronly friend, and twould "be—4ie was thirty-five and twenty—one to him.

But of all these resolutions I said not a word to Aunt Abigail, nor yet to Uncle Cyrus, as 1 did not wish to encounter another "drat."

The day that Tom was to coiat was as perfect as June could make it. Uncle Cyrua took me to the statiod in liis old country wagon, with itB high green "settle," for I wanted Tom to see it and take hisjj first drive in it. The station was thronged, for it was now the middle of Ae month, and crowds of city people were coming up for the remainder of the season. We gathered at the end of the platform to catch the' first glimpse of the train, which was when it came around a sharp bend in the road:then it disappeared, and we could not see it again till it was just at the station. The train was late, and I began to fear an accident.

What if I never should see Tom again? Such t&ings had happened to otherswhy hot to me? The thought brought a sharper pang than I had ever known but no—all was right. "There it isl" cried the people and we watched it make the curve. A bright qloud caught my eye—it was just sunset—and at that instant there came a sound of agony from the crowd, and I saw the cars dash off the the steep embankment, turn over and over, and plunge into the river below.

My Tom was there, I had only written to him once, and now I never could write to him again? Everything reeled around me. There, was a terrible hush for a moinent, then a sound of mad riding then I recognized the voice of the stationagent. He seemed to be screaming in my ears: 'They can't save a soul: we never had such a smash-up on this road." Then two men took hold of me, very gently, to carry me into the station. "Poor thing!" said one, his voice soun ding far away: "had she any friends in the train?" "Her husband," replied Uncle Cyrus, and his voice trembled, though it was so far away I could haadly catch the sound —"only married six months." Then all was blank. When I came to myself, it seemed to be midnight: a single lamp was burning on the table in the "Ladies' Koom," where I was, and the station was as still as the grave. I thought, with a. shudder, that all the people were at the river. Then I felt hot tears raining on mj face, ank knew that some one was sobbing over me. "Aullt Abigail," said I, feebly, "I am glad I wrote to Tomand his own dear

voice replied. Mag| uld

Oh, Maggie, Maggie! never should see you again.

I thought I

Then Tom told how- he frasin the front passenger car, the only one that was saved. The curve was so sharp that he ^looked back as he felt a strange jar, and saw the two back cars plunge oft: then he knew there was no hope. "I learned what prayer meant in that second, Maggie," said Tom, reverently.

Then he took me in his arms and carried me out: he would not let Uncle Cyrus help him. and I could not yet stand and Totti took his first ride, after all, in the old wagon with the high green settle. It was only eight o'clock when we got home, though it had seemed so much like mitnight to me.

That night, as I awoke Tom for the fortieth time, to make sure that he was really by my side, and not a mangled corpse among the whirling waters and sharp rocks of the river, I said, softly. "Tom, I will go to the Episcopal church, and I will make a business of learning to find my place in the PrayerBook." 'Oh, Maggie," saidjTom, "I have taken a pew in your church—I forgot to tell you: this terrible shock put everything out of my heaad. When I thought it was over with me, I hoped you would find it out, and know I wanted to please you." "Oh, Tom," said I, beginning to cry, "you always wanted to please me and I privately resolved to take The Origin of the Stars "by the horns," as father used tosay", and learn everything about oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen as soon as we got home. "Don't cry so, Maggie," said Tom, "you'll be getting hysterical next. Now Twill tell you some home-news that will surprise you and make you laugh: Philip Tlanders is engaged."

I was surprised, though I did not laugh. If ever anybody "saw stars," I did then, but I knew their "origin" without going to Tom's book for it. "Engaged!" said I, with an unnatural airiness in my tone: "to whom, pray?" "Guess," said Tom—"some one that you know."

I could think of no one but Lizzy Plummer, and I would not guess her, for "never could oear her, because she could wear a boot half a size and a glove sf quarter of a size smaller than I could so

gave it up. •'Mrs. Harriet Monroe," said Tom, with great solemnity. "Why, Tom!" I crii 1, sitting up in bed—"she is fortv-five, at least, and so fat!" "Yes,!' said Tom, pulling me back, and she has a 'fat' puree, which is all Flanders cares for: they have been engaged for a £ear, and have only waited to secure some property which was to come to her at this time. TLey will-be married and go abroad at one."

A year! Then he. was engaged to her before and after he became my "lonely," wretched" "more than friend !"^-all the time that he was singing with me and admiring my slender, willowy figure, and she so fat He whose only fault had been that he had too much heart—whole misfortune and misery had been that he had met me too late —was going to marry an oldish widow for money.

Well, he had secured a strong matronly friend: I was glad, I was sure, or at least ought to be. If my proposed occupation as gone, I should be at liberty to devote myself to Tom with a clear conscience, or at'least as clear as it could be under the circumstances. "Do you kbow, Maggie," said Tom, "that James Roberts once tried to make me jealous of von and Flanders?" "Of me?" said I, faintly. "Yes," replied lie. "Koberts came to me one day and said, 'Tom, isn't Flanders at your house a good deal?' •Yes,' said I, 'he is a help to Maggie about her musjf.' 'I thought he was there pretty often,' returned Eoberts, 'for I have hapDened in several times when you have jeen at the club, and always found Flanders. He is a confounded flirt, and if I had a young and pretty wife, I would not trust him with her. I would stay at home from the club and take care of her.''" "Is he a flirt ?"2I interrupted. "Oh yes," replied Tom—"particularly with married women. Eoberts said he had made untold misery in a great many families. His 'dodge' was to make each woman believe that he was lonely, wretched and dying for sympathy, but that he should never marry, because he had not met her till it waa too late."

Oli, 'wasn't I glad that I had never kissed Philip, and that his one. passionate kiss had been a complete surprise to me?

Tom went on- 'I am much obliged to you, Eoberts,' said I, when he had said all he had to say, "but I do not choose to give up my cluli, and lean trust my little .wife with any man.' "And so y'on can, Tom—so yon cau!" I cried, in a sudden gush of remorseful tenderness. "I always hated James Eoberts: I wish he was dead." -j "Oh, he m,eant well enough,1' said Tom, drowsily, "only in thiscasehemade an ass of himself and he saw that I thought so."

Then Tom gave me one kiss more and we went to sleep and that was the last of our "incompatibility," though we still have some pretty sharp differences and I suppose we shall so long as Tom is a san--dy-complexioned man,with rednish-brown hair and fiery hazel eyes, while I have jet-black hair,-and eyes which do not wait for long provocation before they flash.

Perhaps, when the hair is white, and the eyes are dim and look through spectacles, if we should live together so long —and God grant we may!—an Indian summer with bright tints indeed, but soft haze andjjuiet light, will come to us, as it has toLnele Cyrus andAuntJAbigaiL— Lippeneotbs Magazine.

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We expect our own noble chief, Major General George H. Thomas, to be present as presiding officer.

Comrades of all the other Union armies are cordially invited to come and participate in our good time.

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Many years of severe and thorough practical trial have demonstrated beyond the aeradventnre ofa donbt the £tet that the medicines

Srake

repared by me and known as Schenck't ManPills, Schenck's Seaieeed Tonic, and Schenek's Pulmonic Syrup, have proved extraordinarily successful in the care of diseases of the Pulmonary organs, or what is usually termed Consumption..

I am folly aware that there are many persons whose prejudices rule them so completely that "proofs strong as Holy Writ" would fail to convince them of the efficiency of my remedies and that there arc others who, un7 der no circumstances, conld be prevailed upon to admit their merits, simply because such an admission would prove detrimental to their particular personal interests.

Fortunately for the welfare of mankind, these doubting people form a comparatively small portion of tho community at large. They are to be found here and there, but, comar»d with the great mass of tho world's popuation, their numbers are so small that I dismiss 4hem, and address myself to those who are willing to listen to tho dictates of reason, and who are disposed to admit the strong logic of well-cstah fished facts.

We are told almost daily that Consumption, the scourge of the American people, is incurable that a "man whose lungs are diseased, must be given over to die that he must abandon hope, and that the arrangement of his temporal as well as spiritual affairs should claim his earliest attention. If there were not facts as undeniable as that the sun will shine in a clear heaven at mid-day, to controvert these random and, not "unfreijuently, harmful assertions, I should feel unwilling to take up the gage of battle against them.but, fortified with results—^fact*—which neither theory nor me?e assertion can overturn, I propose to prove that Consumption can b« cured, and that the medicines I prepare—the Mandrake Pillr, Seaweed Tonic and Pulmonic Syrup —will, if used in strict accordance with tho directions, in a majority of cases effect that whiee the faculty pronounces impossible— they will cure Consumption.

An ounce of solid fact is worth a ponnd of theory. Let me, therefore, present the faots connected with my own individual experience. Many years ago I was a confirmed consumptive, and, like thousands of other unfortunates, was given np to die. Eminent physicians pronounced my case a hopeless one, and told me that if I had any preparations to make for the final solemn event, that I had better make them speedily. I believed thisjnst as confidently as did the persons who thus affectionately informed me that my days were numbered and that my recovery was impossible. Still, tho desire to live lingered in my bosom. I was young, and clung to life with the same tenacity that young men and old men too, ordinarily dc. I did not feel willing to abandon hepe as long as a single vestage of it remained. I had full faith in the sad information conveyed to me by my physicians, but still there was a lingering belief that something could bo done, though I knew not in what direction to seek for the much desired relief.

It was at this gloomy and eventful peridd of my history that I first learned of the roots and herbs from which my remedies for this dreaded disease are now prepared. I procured and used them and, to the utter amazement of all—physicians, friends and neighbors—began to improve. My entire system commenced to undergo a complete renovation. Expectoration, which formerly had been difficult and painful, now bccamo comparatively easy. I threw off daily large quantities of offensive yellow matter.' At the same time my long-lost appetite returned. I ate freely of such food as was palatable mo, and which was at the same time, nutritious and wholesome. Expectoration became less copious and less offensive exhausting nifrht sweats ceased the racking and harassing cough abatee the fever broke the pain departed flesh planted itjelf on my sadly wasted frame, ana with flesh camosnd full health From a more skeleton I bccamo a stout, strong, robust man* and I have, maintained both strength and flesh to this day. I weigh two hundred and thirty-five pounds I am blest with an appetite vouchsafed to but few men, while my digestive organs are amply equal to all tho requirements of a hoalthful condition of my system.

Now, be it remembered, all these wonderful changes were wrought by the use of the medicines I pfoparer-Mandrake Pills. Seaweed Tonio and Pulmonic Syrup. A cure, seemingly so miraculous, naturally created astonishment in the minds of those who knew mo. I was literally besieged on all sides. I had visitors daily who besought me to give them tho remedies which had wrought the wonderful restoration and had wrested mo from the very jaws of death* Letters were received by scores, importuning me to impart the socrot and inform the writers where the specifics for consumption could bo obtained. Others, who were too weak to travel, not satisfied with writing, sent for arid ctnisnlted me in regard t© their cases. To all these applications I responded as I was able. ..

I had fully regained my health, and gratitude for the happy result prompted mp to turn my attention to the science ofmedieme, with the h«pe of thereby being able to be ot service to my suffering fellow-creatures. I devoted myself closely to my studic., and more especially to that branch of them relatingto the terrible disease from which I had suffered so long and so much. I investigated it in all its fearful phases, in order to assure myself that my case was not an exceptional one. The closer my investigations the more satisfactory were myiconclusions, I folt convinced that tens of thousands of my fellowcreatures wore not its desperate and apparently hopeless as mine had been, and I argued frnm this that remedies which had proven so effective with mc would prove equally so with others. I prepared my medicine, in a pleasant and attractive form, and announced them to tho world. The results aro well known. Thousands of sufferingmen, women and children, who were on their way to the grave, have been cured, and are to-day living evidences of the fact that Consumption can be cured and I think I may say, without arrogating to myself any more than is justly my due, that I have had as much experience in the treatment of consumption as any other person in the country, ana that my success has been wfltoderfully great.

Let the reader remember that teese are not mere fancied statements. They are positive, living facts, of which I am the living evidence, There is an old adage wnichsays, "What has been done may be "done. I have been completely cured of Consumption by the remedies I now offerto the public. Thousands of others have testified to similar happy results from their Use, and thousands of ythers still might be benefited as I have been, could they but be prevailed upon to try the virtue of The Mandrake PiUs, Seaweed Tonic and Pulmonic Hyrup. All that is necessary t#' convince the most skeptical of their merits is

Full directions accompany each of the medicines, so that it is not absolutely necessary that patients should see me personally unless they desire to have their lungs examined. For this purpose I am personally at my Principal Office, No. 15 North- Sixth street, corner of Commerce, Every Saturday.

Advice given without charge but for a thorough examination with the Kespirometer tho price is five dollars.

Price of tho Pulmonic Syrup and Seaweed Tonie, each 81 50 per bottle, or $7 50 a. half dozen. Mandrake Pills, 35 cents per box. dwtojanl5 J. ff. SCHENCK, M. D.

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Bryan's Life Invigorator, OR LIFE REJUVENATING ELIXIR, For all Derangements of the Urinary Organs lis gives 5

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This medicine has been tested for many years, and it is warranted a certain

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SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. If-you cannot procure it send a staiement our case, and enclose.the money to xixvi'AN & CO., 61 Cedar street. New \ork, and it will bo sent you. On rccoipt of F-ive Dollars, a bottle nearly equal to seven small will be sent to any express office in the United States, charges paid. Private circulars, sen on application, enclose stamp. deol9eodwly

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Young Men, thccxporienco of years has demonstrated the fact that roliance may be placed in tho efficacy of 14 DR. BELL'S SPECIFIC, For the speedy and permanent cure of seminal Weakness, the result of Youthful Indiscretion, which neglected, ruins tho happiness, and unfits tho sufferer for business, social society, or marriage. They can bo used without detection or interference with business pursuits.

fl DR. WHITTIER/H

A REGULAR GRADUATE OF MEDICINE, as Diploma at office will show, has been longer engaged in tho treatmont Of Venoreral Seyual and Privaee Diseases than any other Physician in St. Louis.

Syphitlia, Gonorrhea, Gleet, Stricture, Orchitis, Hern island Ruiiture, all Uninary diseases, Syphilitic or Mercurial Affections of the Throat, Skin or Bones, are treated with unparalleled success.

Spermatorrhea, Soxual Debility and Impotency, as the result of self-abuse in youth, sexual excess in mature years or other causes, and which produce some of the following effects, as Nocturnal Emissions, Blotches, Debility, Dizziness, Dimnes of sight. Confusion of Ideas, Dvil Forbodinas, Aversion to Society of Females, Loss of Memory and Sexual Power,and rendering Marriage improper, arc permanently cured.

The Doctor's opportunities in hospital and private practice are unsurpassed in St. Louis or or any other city. BacK files of St. Louis mpers prove that ho has been located there onger by years than any other so advertising. Tho establishment, library, labratory and appointments, aro. unrivalled in the West, unrivallod anywhere. Ago, with experiences can be relied upon, and the Doctor can refer to many physicians throughout the country. In past success and present position ho stands without a competitor. THE WRITINGS OF A PHYSICIAN WHOSE

REPUTATION IS UNION-WIDE, ARE WORTH READING. Doctor Whitticr publishes a Medical Pamfhet relating to Venereal Diseases and the disastrous and varied consequences of selfabuse, that will be sent to any address in a scaled envelope for' two stamps. It contains full symptom lists that will enable those affected to determine tho nature of their complaint and give a written statement of their case that will answer almost as well for the purpose of treatment as a personal interview but whore it is convenient the Doctor honld bo consulted personally. Those laving friends that may require advice, can supply them with this valuable work sending their address, with stamp. Thus you can assist the unfortunates without their knowing their benofactor. Certainly no subject is of more importance than purity of blood and perfect manhood.

It is self-evident that a physician who confines himself exclusively to the study of a cortain class of diseases and treats thousands of cases every year, must acquire greater skill in that specialty than onty general iractice. Many physicians, recognizing this 'act. introduce patients to tho Doctor after

A.„, Dl ading his Medical Pamphlet. Communisk A friendly talk will

cations confidential cost you nothing. No. 617 St. Charlos street, St. Louis, Mo. Hours, 9

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How Lost! How Restored Just Published, in a sealed envelope. Priced cents A LECTURE ON THE NATURAL TREATMENT.and Radical Cure of Spermatorrhoea, or Seminal Weakness, Involuntary Emissions*. Sexual Debility, and Impediments to Afarriaii»

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"Green Book," &c. 'A Boon to Thonsands of Nnflorer*." Sent under seal, in a plain envelopo, to anyfr address, pout paid, on receipt of six conts.orl two postage stamps, to CHAS- J. C. KLINE^, ,•%

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merchant tailor,

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SURGEON ASD MECHANICAL

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Successor to Dr. D. M. WELD, No. 157Maitf-,! St. National Block, Terre Haute, Ind. m30dtf h.

JYN. C. O. LINCOLN, The Oldest Established Dentist

IN TERRE HAUTE,"

OmcB—On Sixth Street, between Main and Ohio, one door south of National Houso. Having had upwards of eighteen years' experience in Dentistry, he is confident that ho can give satisfaction in all cases. jy20dly

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