Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 August 1885 — Page 5

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THE WOMAN QUESTION.

B* GBAOE QKKESWOOD.

No! I wouldn't domane mceelf, Bridget,, Like you, in disputin' wid men— ..,# Would I fly in the face of the blessed

Apostlee, and Father Mag inn?—

It isn't the talent I'm wan tin'— SOTO my father, bold Michael McCrary, Made a beautiful spache and confeeeion,

When they hung him in ould Tipperary.

So, Bridget Muldoon, hold yer talkin' About "Women's Bights," and all that— jure, all the rights I want is one right

To be a good helpmate to Pat.

vbr he's a good husband,

and

niver

I jays on me the weight of his hand, Except when he's far gone in liquor, And I nag him, you'll please understand.

True for ye, I've one eye in monrnto' That's because I disputed his right To take and Sjiend all my weeks earn in s,

At Mulligan's wake Sunday night.

But it's seldom when I're done a washin' He'll ask for more'n half o' the pay And he'll toss me my share wid a smile, dear,

That's like a swate mornin' in May.

Now, where,

run

catvintionB,

Will be Patrick's home comforts and joysr Who'll claneup his brogans for Sunday, Or patch up his old corduroys

If wa take to the poll night and momin', Our delicate charms will all flee The dew will be brushed fro. Ae rose, dear,

The down from the

pache—don't

you seer

We'll soon take to shillalahs and shindies, When we get to fie sovereign electors, And turn all our Asbands' hearts from us

Then what will we do for protectors?

We'll have to be crowners and judges, And euch like ould malefactors— Or they'll make common councilmen of us

Then where will be our characters

Oh, Bridget, God save us from votin'l For sure as the blessed

Bun

rolls

We'll land in the State house and congress. Then what will become of our souls?

WOMEN Of WAY.

BY MRS. IDA A. HARPER.

After Many Years.

For a number ot years a peculiar document has awaited the decision of congress: "The memorial of Anna Ella Carroll, asking national recognition and reward for services rendered the United States during the war between the states." This document was referred to the committee on military affairs, which after examining amass of evidence, reported in favor of the bill. A few weeks ago the court of claims decided that "the country owes to Miss. Carroll a large and honest compensation, both in money and honors, for her service in the national crisis. .Miss Carroll belonged to one of the old aristocratic families in Maryland, but upon thJ breaking out of the war she immediately took sides with the Union, freed her slaves, declined compensation and largely through her influenee over Governor Hicks, was Maryland prevented from seceding. She prepared a number of powerful papers, among them a reply to the speech of Senator Breckenridge delivered during the July session of congress. A large edition of this was circulated by the war department as a war 'measure.

The principal claim of Miss Carroll, however, is that she, alone, was the author of the plan of operations by the Union army overcame which the confederacy!

At the be

ginning of the war the great questionas to whether the union could be saved cepended upon the power of the govern menttoopen up the Mississippi nvei and deliver a fatal blow upon the hteart the confederacy through the aid of the gunboat fleet. Before the expedition started

President Lincoln became convinced that it 'ouldbeafaUure and abandoned it. Miss Carroll then presented her plan, which was to divert the army up the Tennessee river, thence southward into northern Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, to the seat of confederate power. This plan waa submitted to the war department and was finally adopted as the basis of the war operation.

Miss CarwJXs claim to being the author »nd oST ^r of this plan is supported by sucl?9 £ejght of testimony that it is indisputable At the opening congress,

snitaWy compen

sated, and in the future she will be the "Joan of Arc of America. Meanwhile, a ^rof .c«.urLh„p«»«d

Miss Carroll has grown old andbr, in in health. For a long time ..„ she has b*. 'n compelled to depend upon I

.u^antv of friends while waiting for worthy of note that, \jje offering and the charity ol

Wal

J.ric Adam, b, f=» of Mog »MOsrf

jle I ennnotshare in Dr.TiJinage

»«»'^£'h£

any

jservc •there Kali m&icuvo nor cuse whatever for a family- Thaqp poker room or a shop, no opportunity

squander lus was not any staying out nights Jit owls and bats

spend, f.-

money to particular with no society bther night ha' roundings he wa ful unto his wife, insi

PARC

'writings ler cf

He had not even

Sid pleasure of lying to her occasion-. "-ue

rfl./lor.b.

3ft"*£

to be his wife, «r one-half as much salary if she did not happen to hav^ that honor.

No, I cannot waste much sentiment on Adam. I have more respect and admiration for that noble soul who resists the manifold temptations of the present day who walks with uplifted head and eagle eye securely past the pitfalls at his feet who despises the enticements of screen doors and ceder trees in tubs who scorns to knock the chips off the widows'shoulder who leaves the wax in his ears and goes home to his own Penelope. This is the man that a Talmage shonld eulogize and a sinful, world admire. By the way, what is "this man's name? It seems to have been left out of the city directory.

The press dispatches inform us that, "Mrs. Mark Pattison, the fiancee of Sir Charles Dilke, is in India on pleasure tour. On hearing of the scandal with which the name of her intended husband is connected, she immediately telegraphed Sir Charles to "announce their engagement publicly." There area great many fools yet living and a woman's name should head the list. What object could Mrs. Pattison have in wishing her name associated with that of Sir Charles Dilke just at present? A man of mature years and sound mind seduces a relative and the wife of a friend, and immediately from the other side of the globe a woman, supposed to be respectable, desires the world to know that she is engaged to be married to this man!

Such cases are common. Thousands of women have ofiered themselves up as sacrifices on the altar of what they called heroism, but which is oniy sentimentalism. Not long ago, in this city, a pretty, virtuous girl married a man who was badly involved morally and financially. When a friend delicately hinted her surprise, she replied: "He was in trouble and needed me. I clung to him because all the world foisook him." Poor, silly creature! When a man becomes either a moral or financial bankrupt there is nothing he needs less than a wife' and when the whole world forsakes a man girl may be reasonably sure there is sufficient cause ior it and she should* hesitate before she throws herself into the breach. If a man loses wealth or health in an honorable manner there may be a certain heroism in a girl's marrying him in spite of his misf-^pnes, although she will probably be mure of a hindrance than a help. But for a woman to marry a man who has become involved in a scandal, simply to exhibit her devotion is the worst kind of suicide. She shows to the world that she has no regard for morality, and that she is willing to join her fate to that of a man who sets no value upon virtue. Such a man is not even capable of appreciating her sacrifice and such marriages result only in wretchedness and remorse. A man who has no more respect for the woman to whom he is betrothed than to engage in scandalous practices of whatever nature is not fit to be a husband, and the girl who marries him Bigns the death warrant to future happiness. Such girls would deserve no sympathy whatever only that they are usually young and ibnocent, actuated by good motives and ignorant of the real nature of the crimes they condone.

With reference to the death of General Grant the Woman's Journal says: 'Of tLe honors paid the illustrious solW, the highest of all is scarcely noted. was the first, and, so far, the only pVident of*the United States ever nommaLi and elected on a woman suffrage

Elat]^m.

legfc

'Grant, Wilson and Woman

ufifr:

in 1? was the platform 'The rt^iblican party is mindful of its obligating

the loyal women of

America fc their noble devotion to the cause of fj0m their admission to wider fields Carefulness is viewed with satisfaction, «V the honest demands -of any class of citing for additional rights should be treate^.^

respectful

consid

eration." Two membere the first graduating class of the GirMrMjjggjoj^ school, n-' dianapolitjViary and Jnlia Harrison Moore, at\jjejthe Harvard examinations for wc Cincinnati, in June last, and Jpw" received from Harvard college ce^fej^eg equivalent to the certificates of

£gi0n

tech- passing in.the -prescri^

the wonderful unwinding ot leg «vnil themselvesof the privilege substituting adv? lUSl in liinie IV. fe. j*-—fv neriiTand a splendid monument. was much interested rcceily in a

granted to

boys. They are ttt -L Indiana girls

a^nd

these ex art X^ons.

aHd

it is

French th

avail them to girls, of and Gerull Greek in, Homer jtatinel.

man for Greek,J) courses, which en op, and Herodotus, indiai

Women vastly outnui where in Massachusetts prisons. Ontbelst dayO were 4,389 convicts in I 3,586 were men. iueo.

clubs nor ra*s nor base I "b^[Sew election return?,no ex- I telegram. man to neglect his Hamilton JVilcoxs (Went frp

carceration

was not a saloon or faro table or a policy lor him to I in fact, no

Vn everyt\ in her iber there of whom irfluous1

Yors li^e,

(1P RarthflUk statue, becauh °f 3of New York s^J

country would bristle witn,j \y

ostites wo Id be set up, 0

I built, until eac\ man taAc

From force of sur-loice

represent a man

»ip temptation tell his I Democrat.

J!Lte»ia«»« •»'Ad"! CV^diately,

went down on the hc ^rvigs

^aimf/«hewome arelcgally .! ^ew York were goveraeempathy for Colonel Cookerly. AlwUhont* ti'ieir consent, as women ar^

ad to put on I argument. extravagance .t from that I The talk

total

llgh the

Vuments ht to a overn

making the la^.

Tisks

,tue to oldi's ournal. bificant

showing

1g|

rWoman

how t0

vote.

characterise

^%tAPunishmeDt I not want to ,.w that is no

a^?^_^rUth

»wed her only I squarely «ld1,fig"re_S®0rPthem, the wo-1 and many

she happened I penses and all he gets

ilPllPPMPP

n»n wonld rise np before him a perfect angel of sense in expenditure and make him blush.—[San Francisco Chronicle.

In reply to the criticisms upon the triv ial or pet names often boorne by your ladies in college lists, Colonel T. W. Harginson has examined the Harvard university catalogue and there in the official list ot the sterner sex he found nearly forty of the familiar nicknames which are thought so preposterous in a woman's col-

xi.

At the New Orleans exposition the women made an extensive show. Those who declare that the female mind cannot invent anything but an excuse have been a little staggered in their faith. The women's department of_ the 8P*8' show displayed as many as ninety different machines and devices, patented and unpatented, that took their origin in the brain of woman.—[New Orleans Picay une.

YIGO IN WAR TIMES.

A Series of Articles on Ylgo County in the War.

NO. VII.

On the evening of the 20th of October, 1861, an incident occurred in Terre Haute which agitated the city. It was the mobbing cf the Journal office. That paper was edited by Colonel G. F. Cookerly, a strong democrat. There is no need of explaining the position of the democratic party in regard to the war. Sinfce the democratic meeting on the 17 th of August the feeling ran high. The Journal advocatedjpeace measures. When the cannons were belching on both sides the Journal, like other democratic papers, was in favor of peace. Being the democratic organ of western Indiana, the paper was compelled to advocate democratic principles. No sane man ever doubted Colonel Cookerly's loyalty. In his writings he was sarcastic and to the point. The soldiers in Camp Vigo looked upon everything democratic as being in sympathy with the south. The Forty-third was in camp at Camp Vigo. On the evening mentioned the colonel was out of the city, the lieutenant colonel was down town spending the evening with lady friends, and the major was asleep. The boys were having everything their cwn way. Several of the soldiers had been down town the evening before, and one of their number was knocked down stairs at a bawdy house. Soon after dark, on the evening of the 20th, several hundred men of the Forty-third formed in line and marched toward the city. When they started they had no idea of attacking the Journal office their mission was to "clean out" the bawdy houses. On the way to the city some one proposed an attack on the Journal office, and a halt was ordered. was put to vote and unanimously carried. The streets leading to the Journal office were guarded, and then a squad entered. The printers left their cases, finding urgent business in the alley. The colonel was not in. Everything movable was thrown from the windows. The "cases" were emptied on the sidewalk. Every "font" of type was "pied." When they came to the press it was found too heavy to be thrown out, and it was.broken and mined. After completing this they went to the houses of loose character, drove the women out of doors, demolished furniture, breaking a few heads. They carried their work on for about two hours, and then marched back to camp. The next day the town was in an uproar. A meeting of citizens was held at the Court house the evening following the mobbing of the office, composed of citizens of both parties. Mr. Joseph H. Blake was made secretary. After some remarks by Messrs. W. K. Edwards and S. H. Potter, deploring the occurence, on motion of Mr. J. B. Edmunds the chair appointed a committee of seven, who were to appoint a committee whose duty it should be to inquire into the outrages committed, and ^endeavor to bring the perpetrators to justice. The chair appointed Messrs. Edmunds, Beauchamp, Farrington, H. Ross, J. L. Tolbert, C. Gilbert and S. Connor, who retired for consultation. While the committee was absent Messrs. Cookerly and Thompson addressed 1he meeting in favor of preserving law and order in the city. The committee returned and proposed the names of the following gentlemen to act as the committee of inquiry: C. Gilbert, J. D. Early, L. G. Warren, John H. O'Boyle, John K. Cunningham, W. B. Tuell, Colonel E. W. Thompson, Wm. Mack and W. H. Stewart. A motion was adopted that all research and inquiry possible be made to learn {he names of the perpetrators. After a lapse of six or eight days another meeting was held and strong resolutions adopted condemning the affair. One clause of the resolutions declared in the belief of Colonel Cookerly's loyalty. Another set forth the colonel's lonj^reaidence in the city and his worth as a citizen. As for the attack on the hcuses, the soldiers were informed that the citizens would attend to their own morals, and would depend on the civil law to clear the city of them. The resolutions But"if l&osed with a short resolution expressing

office was a complete wreck,

,'aper was soon published again. The bis raised a purse, and the colonel's %as soon in a better condition than fetkThere was much uneasiness for

Vther outbreak. General G. K. colonel of the Forty-third, following card:

VIGO, October 26, 1861. Terre'Haxttc: that there are fears among of T$rre Haute that an \nade by the Forty-third ns and property, 1 the citizens that ther with the officers ig a conference with tation in saying my

Jped, which are diviolation of the -C?yn the army.

^aSTHSLS, xr .VInd. VoL became

CoKi

During th^ evident to thing must b^" of those who had enV^'

because the male

.. U... 1 is only accepted^truthbecau

man keeps the ledgers

haa

It isn't

THE CRUEL WHEELS.

Michael Dailey, a Tramp,. Attempts to Board a Vandalia Train, Falls Beneath the Wheels, Receiving Frightful Injury.

THK EXPRESS. TEBKE HAUTE, SITNtAY, AUGUST 16.1885.

the promise that they would be carhd for if the husband and father enlisted. The following notice was published:

The undersigned, a oommittee appointed to solicit donations, in each or previsions, for the relief of families, where the husband and father is absent and in the service of the nountry, desire to giTe notice that they have procured a room of Messrs. J. and H. Boss {free of charge) as a place of deposit, and now in behalf of those families 4o solicit from all who feel an interest in the' cause of our oommon country a donation of such articles as they Mb spare out of their great abundance toward supplying their wants during the fall and winter..

The committee jvonld suggest the following articles as most needed, and will be nuwf thankfully received: Potatoes, corn meal, flour, wood, coal, dried fruit, butter and eggs. Many other articles might be named, but the above are the moat essential, and are often procured in mid-winter only at high prices Those who wish to donate will please call on either James Hook, 8. H. Potter or D. W. MinRhall, who will receive them at the place of deposit.

JAMES HOOK, I ,„8. H. POTTEB, Committee, B. MOKKEN,

October, 24, 1861. The response to the appeal was generous. The committee soon had ill the provisions it could well handle, and the prospects were that those who had husbands, fathers and sons in the war would be well fed during the winter.

The month of October passed without much stirring war news. The government was concentrating forces, and preparing for a long struggle. It began to dawn upon the people that the war would be long and bitter. Fears were entertained that England would interfere and break the blockade of the southern posts to release the large amount of cotton. November opened with the battle of Belmouth on the 6th. Troops from Terre Haute were engaged, and the people naturally felt a great interest. The newspapers were easterly read, and every scrap of news eagerly devoured. At this battle the name of Grant is brought prominently before the people. A scrap from a special to the Chicago Tribune says

Generals Grant'and McClernand conducted themselves with great gallantry. General Grant had two horses shot under him. General McClernand's horse was also twice badly wounded.

A special dispatch to^ the Cincinnati Commercial says that Grant expected a victory. He is also criticised.

On the 14th of November the Fortythird, which was still in camp at Camp Vigo, by the request of the lady friends of the officers, gave an exhibition diill and march around town. The Express of the 15th said:

Notwithstanding the inclement weather and the bad condition of the streets, the parade of the Forty-third regiment cafie off yesterdafr. The display was a very handsome one, and attracted an immense crowd of our citizens to the sidewalk and windows. The soldiers made a very fine appearance in their handsome 'and comfortable uniforms, and marched. through the streets in admirable order. The material of the Forty-third is equal to any regiment we have seen in the state. Colonel Steely, Lieutenant Colonel McLean and Major Farrow, in full uniform, bore themselves in true coldier-like manner. Colonel Steele especially has the bearing of a true militafy. man, and has devoted himself with most commendable energy to the duty of filling up the regiment, and seenring for them the very best equipments. The battalion drill and dress parade, on the commen north of the general passenger station, is represented to us as being very creditable. JThe admirable drill of this regiment is almost entirely due to the untiring efforts of Lieutenant Colonel McLean.

The Express, Ootober 22.—The sick and convalescent in the hospital at Camp Vigo wish to express their thanks for the nice jellies, fruits, etc., brought there by the kind and charitable ladies of Terre Haute, especially Mrs. Usher, Mrs. Deming, Mrs. Freeman and Mrs. Hunley and Miss Branson and Miss Baily, of the Female college. It is to be hoped that such visits of kindness and mercy, so cheering to the sick soldier, will not be discontinued by the patriotic ladies of Terre Hante.

Yesterday morning at 11:30 o'clock as Vandalia freight train No. 18, eastward bound, was pulling away from the Sixteenth street crossing, a sudden and terrific shriek was heard and simultaneously a man was seen lying partially across the rail and under the slowly moving cars. The engineer was at once signaled and the train brought to a

-stop.

Thereupon

the unfortunate man, by a superhuman effort, rolled himself from under the Cars and to the side of the track, where he writhed in intense agony. Several yard men hastened to his assistance, raised him carefully and conveyed him to the office. At no time was the man unconscious, but frequent muscular contractions and distortions of his countenance indicated that he was sufiering fearfully. Upon an examination being made, it was found that the bones of the right leg between the knee and the ankle were broken and crushed for nearly their entire length, sharp fragments in places glistening where they pierced thef flesh, which was badly mangled and lacerated. The patrol wagon was summoned, and the man conveyed to the hospital, where Dr. Link is attending to him. When last heard ffom, there was but little chance of saving the injured limb. The man proves to be one Michael Dailey, an Ausuian bv birth, who just arrived in Terre Haute "this morning, having come from Harrisbung, Macon county, 111. He was endeavoring to get to B^zil, where, as a practical miner, he expected employment in tie

to secure

the coal mines. His

little supply of money had become exhausted and he was attempting, as he claims, for the first time in his life, to "beat his way." He a very large man, weighing perhaps 198 or 200 pounds. He possesses strong "nerve," as was evinced yesterday morning by his efforts to assist the officers in moving nim. Dailey said he was "not a tramp," ana was "ashamed to have been found stealing a ride."

At 12:30 o'clock Dailey's leg was amputated about two and one-half inches above the knee. The unfortunate man is said to be resting quietly under theinflu encc of opiates.

Arrested for Drunkenness. Peter Johnson, 21,'and Mable O'Brien, 17, were arrested Friday night at the National fceer garden for drunkenness. Mable was in the act of falling off the eeat when the garden policeman, George Yost, told them they most leave. They created so much disturbance that it was fonnd necessary to arrest them. They were fined $1 and costs each by Justice Goldman.

[For the Express.] ONE FAIR DAY.

When, like the blomoming of a bod, the east Oped slowly from pale pink to roseate hoe, Turning to redder glowaa light increased And, as the loft wind lapped the early dew, Blending the mist of night with blushing day When earth and sky lay tended? oareet By wavee of sea-scents Mown from wind-tocDod spray.

I looked and said, "The d^wn is beet."

And when the same rich color filled heaven's space With deeper lines in crimson billowy gleams When pale clouds frightened, silently gave plaeo To burnished grid's meridian beams That broke in shivered rays on roof and spire, Then swept exultingly o'er ocean's breast, lake the victory of a grand desire,

I looked and said, "The neon is beet."

But when, redolent with roeee' tears, there fell Delicious gnsts of noiseleea late-eprangbreeie When mellowed light touched sea and pearly shell, With softest cameo tints from swaying seas As, kissed by placid surf the low snn sank Like one bright drop of blood, into the west, Thro' lipe of night, in purple shadows drank,

I said, "The eve is happiest." —[IDA MAT DAVIS.

FROM A FENCE CORNER.

[The story below was written by Grace Tavlor, the 14-year-old daughter of our fellow townsman, Dr. H. W. Taylor, and this week in the Current.—ED. •BESS.]

Kitty .ran to the front door, rustling fier starched and ironed white dress as she ran, for the twentieth, time, on that hot July morning.. She Had, probably, heard the sound of wheels on the gravelroad that made a gray streak through the green and yellow fields, and straight past her f&ther's front paling-fence. "There! It ain't him this time, neither! When does he expect a-body to start to a pic-nic? After it's all over? guess that's it! Tom Mason and £11 Jones Why, they've come three times as fat as Ike has toicome! It's too bad! I oughtn't to put up with it." "O, Kit! Ain't you goin'? "Looks like I ain't! I don't think I have any use for a pic-nic to-day." Kit is really vexed and angry enough to cry. "Come with us, Kit," said Ell, generously. "Like to have you along, anyhow." ','Yes. Plenty of room for you," said Tom, a little awkwardly but goodnaturedly, too. "I've a great mind to! I really believe will. It would serve him about right! You must make people more careful of their word, if you want them to and she broke off as she climbed skillfully into the huggy only finishing with a compression of her lips, that spoke of sudden and awful resolution. "Now drive on whenever you're ready," continued Kitty, looking back in time to see a black horse that she knew very well, and a buggy in which sat a large, very young-looking man, whom she knew very well, too. "There's Ike, now," said Tom, grinning.

Lemmy drive on before he comesvup. It'll be too good." "I don't "know, that it would be exactly right, either. Maybe we'd better wait a little—only a minute," said Kitty, half relenting as she pulled at her brown frizzes with her slender fingers. Ike apprehending the situation drove coolly alongside. "Howdy do, Tom! Howdy, Ejlen!" then only a slight nod for Kitty. "Going to the pic-nic, I see. Be lots there, I hear. See Em Carter this morning, EU? I'm going around for her," and Ike pulled his straw hat down over his. eyes, gave his black horse a cut that astonished him wonderfully, and went flying down a little grassy lane to the left of where I sat whittling onHhe top of a rail of the fence, and where I had a fair view of Kitty's brown eves stretched wide open in stare after the black horse. Then I heard three laughs—two hearty and natural and enjoying, and one not so much so—not half so much so, if I knew anything about it. And' I think I do! I should think I ought to!

Then away went Tom and the girls— one on either side and laughing still. And btill the same way—one hearty and natural as you please. And the other! Aha! the other! I think I'll hobble over to the pic-nic grounds myself! I don't care lor yonng folks' company! But—

Here goes Mister Ike and Miss Em Carter! Em don't look s.o bad in pink! Looks really pretty I Now suppose this little disagreement should end in a permanent one. I wonder if Kitty?— Kitty always, thought, the world and all of me! I wonder, now! Wouldn't that be funny? Wouldn't that be too funny? Yes, I'll go over!

There! Look at that, for fun! Did you ever! Fifty couples of young folks standing or walking round as still as mice nearly! They've gone off into little knots of two four or six! Not to exceed six! About the stiffest looking lot of young folks that a man of 'fifty ever saw! Ha! These five are buckled together! Playing croquet! "Won't you take this mallet Miss Martin?" Oho! She's got to be Miss Martin, has she, Isaac! How about plain, confidential Kit, now? "Oh, no! thank you, Mr. Davis, much prefer to look on. Croquet doesn't interest me much!" Well, well, Kitty! How you did miss it! You couldn't fool anybody that way! I know what you're thinking! O! how you'd like to hate him! And 0! you know you will hate him the longest day he lives! Thp awful, awful mean wretch ip treat you that way!

And Iket Let's see what,Mr. Ike thinks!" "All right! Thought I'd askyon anyways No harm in that! Here, Miss Em! Here's your ball! Lemmy show you how to make that stroke!"

That's badly ilse, too, Isaac! Not the stroke! That was well_ enough! But that attempt at lofty indifference. Why wonld yon raise your_ eyebrows high enough to look over Kit's broad white hat, and at the same time, keep your fat eyelids down so you couldn't look higher than about a yard this side of Kit's little shoes! And why will you go on whistling that way! Don't you know little lonesome, aimless whistle of that sort betrays a felldw, flatly? You'll know it some of these times!

But, Em! Really Em is so quiet and so ladylike! Who'd a thought it? "Won't you play in my place, a little while, Kitty she says, offering the mallet atfter an hour or so. "I want to go and get a pitcher of water. I'm^so thirsty." Now when she does a thing like that she's—well, she's angelic! But Kitty is the most bewitching prqtty little

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creature! Um! hum! Fifty! Nothing like trying, anyhow! "No! no! Em. I'm determined to go and bring the water myself. I'll be the little water boy, like the men have when ther work the roads or thrash."

Kit, you missed it again! Too gay with that laugh! Too nimble with that skipping around after the pitcher! All the same to Ike, though! You fooled him! Couldn't fool me that way, Kit! Eh! h«h! heh! heh-eh! Old man's mighty Bmart! See Ike's under-lip! And hear him whistle! What will yonng fellow be such a fool for? Em sees it, too, and laughs so slyly! And upon my word, I believe she winked at me! She knows I know! Eh! heh! heh! heh! heh-eh!

Kit over the fence already! I believe I'll trot along and. catch up with her! While she's mad is—well, as good a time as any. Hello! Ike after her, too! W?ll, I'll take my perch on the fence and •whittle!" "Miss Martin!"

O, no, Ikey! She won't hear that! ry it ajrain! "Miss Kitty! Oh, Kit! Oh, Kit!" Now see her look round up into the sky! She's a sly one! "Kit! May I go with you?"

Of course, Isaac! Go right along! I would! I wouldn't stop to bawl that way! "I shouldn't tBSkk you'd want to go! You're so interested in that game of croanet! I don't see how you can leave it!"

Now see what a scornful despair and hopeless disgust on Ike's face. "Shoot the croquet!"

Such a laugh from Kitty! A little high-keyed and not mellow enough! Some hysterica in it! I know by my first wife! She always "What made you start off with Mason instead of waiting for me?"

He's attacking! Aha! She.shrinks a little! "Because you hadn't—that is I didn't

Kitty! Kitty! What a mess you're making of it! Now don't! "You s»w me coming didn't you?"

I see you coming now! So close you'll be right against her with another step. "Not till we started. Then what made you go on after Em? I half think you wanted Em at first. And kept back so I'd start! So you did."

So you did, Ike! Prove it by me, here on the fence! So you did, Ike! Own up! "Didn't expect me to go by myself, did you? Wish I had though. What made you get in there with Tom and—— 'I was so mad at you for not coming. I'd beerf dressed ana waiting two hours now! I was so mad. And I hate Em Carter, so I do." "Nothing wrong with Em," said Ike, with a grin. Aha! he's going to tease her a little! "Why didn't you stay there with her? didnt want you!" O, Kit, what a dreadful big story! "Are you real mad at her, Kit?" "Ye—es—I am! So I am now! Boo-hoo-oo-oo!" What a lugubrious little wail! Kit! Where's your handkerchief That'll spoil your pretty brown eyes and flatten out your frizzes! Don't 1 "I was mad, too, Kit! Gimme the pitcher! Less go here by the fence and sit down in the shade a little bit! Won't you "I wish I was dead, so I do! I wish I was downed in the well when you'd Tome sifter the water, and find me! Boo-oo-oo-oo!" "O, don't Kit! I like you. I'll never do that way again. Please don't!" And Ike dives down nnder the wide rim of Kitty's white straw hat and—stays there so long that I get nervous up here on the fence. Um! hum! Fifty! I wish—! I think I'd "I believe you like her ..the .best, so I do—oo—oo—oo! And I'll go away, so I will! I wish I'd fall in the well! I wish oo—oo—oo!" O, Kit, do you feel so badly? Or are you very histerecky, like my first "I won't let -nothing hurt you, Kit. I ought to be punished. And I have been. I feel awful mean, Kit! Please be good!" Now he dives again! And, here they go down on the grass in a little white and black stack, capped by Kit's widerimmed straw hat. If that were only me! O, if that were only me! But soft! Here comes—Em in her pink! And such a radiant smile! Now with her finger to her lips that way she's really beautiful! And how saucy! How "piquant as'she shakes her finger and her head both at me! "Careful! Careful!" I say, shaking my finger warningly. "0, you sly scamp!" says Em to me all in a glow of delight and coming up so close that when she leans against the fence to look through, she always leans against me. Leans against' me, thinking no more of it than if she were leening against that old gray-winkled fencestake there! Caring no more! Caring less! Caring less, if that could be. "Give me your hand, Em. and let me help you upon the fence wnere you can see them. They're reconciled. And it's a beautiful sight—as far as you can see for the hat. I wish she'd take it off!" "Now don't let me fall off here," Em says in such a delightful way and squeezing up against me as if I were the old fence stake on the other side, and holding on to my hand as she might hold on to the fence stake. "Isn't it lovely! Don't you wish it vas you, now? I know you like her! You needn't deny it! You can't fool me, sir! I know you're dead in love with her youreelf. But why didn't you speak up? Maybe she'd

The fence-stake is such a good strong old stake to lean against, or I should have tumbled off with the impact of the thought that rushed from Em's clinging hands and Em's expectant and mischievous blue eyes, all over me! "What if I say I've.just found out that I like you? That it's, you I'm dead in love with, Em?" "Then why didn't you follow me, instead of me following you like I've been doing for a whole year, nearlv? "You Following me "Didn't I follow you here7

Suppose I kiss you, Lm?" I say, bracing myself against the friendly fencestake, and if I remember rightly, getting my arm delightfully round the pink dress. "Would it be the kiss you want?" "If you mean for good and all." "I mean for good and all!" "Well, I guess you may!" And then I dive! Coming up after—I haven't the least idea how long I say: "Is it the one you want? Are you sure?" "It's the very one I want! Then I dive again, and come, up only at the sound of ribald laughter from the grass on the other side ot the fence. "You're a sly old coon! Got her on the fence, have you

And Em, always ready with an answer, put her hand on my shoulder quite proudly and says, laughing: "No! We've decided! It's all settled! I think there's nobody really on the fence but one or both of you." Then Ike langhs till you could have heard him a mile. "We aint on any fence either. Didn't that scheme work out. Em? Oh, didn't it?" And Ike would have rolled on the grass it Kit hadn't held bim up with both arms. Held him up there right before my eyes, and I didn't care a bit! In fact I was glad of it. "What scheme?" I ask, hearing them all laugh uproariously and having a faint suspicion of Em's sincerity beginning to dffwn on me. "I brought Em a purpose to catch you! Yon aint naif as smart as you thought you was!"

I turn toward Em with horror, and

leaning heavily and limply against the stake. Then I hear Em say, "Yes he is. You're the one I fooled! I wanted him all the time. I wouldn't have anybody else in the whole world!" Hearing and suddenly realizing this, I dived under that blessed wide rimmed straw hat 1 And looking out slyly froip under it, I perceive, with much satisfaction, that Ike has also dived and the two have resumed their former semblance to a iittle white and-black stack capped with the wide-rimmed straw-hat, thaV behold, blissfully, from the corner of the fence. GRACE TAYMB.

TALE OF THE KENNEBEC ?,

The Dismal Swamp Story Outdone-Find-lng an Old Toper After a Year at the Bottom of a River, Upright on His •Qorse, With His Jug of Bum Behind

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Hallowell Correspondence Portland Argus. The father day a genius loci, a veritable old inhabitant, chnck full of old stories and old traditions, and, also, I regret to say, of bad whisky, told me an anecdote of the olden times that pleased me immensely. It seems that before the railroads, the so-called Black Route and the road to Farmington, were put through, Hallowell was a great trading and shipping center. Fa*

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At any rate he never turned up at home, and nothing more was heard of him for some time. The next summer a boat load of boys rowing across Liberty pond, looking down into the clear depths, saw the old fellow sitting on his horse on the bottom. The news was taken to the village, a party set out for the spot, a rope was dropped over the horse's head, and the pair hauled to the surface. "And," says the old inhabitant, his eyes glistening and filled with a great wistfulness, "the whisky is all right."

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