Indianapolis Leader, Volume 2, Number 38, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 April 1881 — Page 3

THE JESSAMINE VINE.

The dream is sweet that this loved vine, Of which I tin to ihoc. The tfid of love hii emblem made For high anl low Oune; TbataU who mriilK love and woo, In evening's mellow time. Will both be true if tliey but swear Ueueath the jrssnuiue vine. Oh lovely jess:imiie vine. Bright leave-. unl giileii bells How many a taleol" love ami truth Thy matehlesö beauty ttll! All nlht the fragrant incense floats As rich a lover' Uhs. Anil in thy royal irokk'ii 1-Ils The sweetest temime lies. Tjv lovintr tendrils fondly cling About the snirdv pi ie, And so d i arm tln.se who love Around each other twine. Oh, royal jessamine vine, Bright leaves and imMcii bellsHow many a tale of love and truth Thy matchless beauty tells! Beneath the loved an 1 hallowed vine. No doubt, no fear uiie; No aching hearts are evei known, Sor grief, nur weeding eyes. For troth once plighted there Where love bird build their nests, WlU ever true and faithful prove; mil ever constant rest. Oh, btuhful je-samine vine. Bright leaves and golden bells How m iuy a t.-dj ot love and truth Thy matchless beauty tells! And Southern maidens fair still list lo love-tales whispered there. And gallant Southern lovers trust Their blushing '-ladies fair:" And still the bright, gl.id stars do shineStill bkx-m the golden bells: Still hearts grow true beu.ath this vine, Juttas tradition tell. Oh. lovely jessamine vine, Biight leaves and golden hells How m-Miy a ule of deathless love Thy matchless beauty tells! There 1 an old superstition in the South that all We that i-. plighted beneath this vine will be prosperous aud happy, and the lovers be true to aa othur. A DARK DAY. Hetty LcckwooJ sat at the open window a bit biket ot unearned stockings by her side, a new wpy of the Ladies Magazine on the table close by, while within reach a bright butterfly hovered about a newly opened honoysueklo growing against the window. The spring brei-za " breathed balmily into tho apartmeiit, filling her senses with a delicate dreaminess, and her eyes wandered wistfully out beyond the shaded willow street to the green "fields and budding willows bordering the sparkling river. On a morning such as this who could endure Vj stay in doors? Who could endure to eit quietly down and darn stockings? A girlish voice aroused Iletty. Looking from the window she saw Susie Lake leaning ou the little front garden gate. 'Oh, Hetty, do come and walk with, mo down to Aunt Ellen's. The morning is lovely, and I have something to tell you " "I am at'ru; 1 I can't, Su?ie. It is Saturday, you know, and I am sewing and watching baby a-leep, while mother is in the kitchen." "Then I will have to tell you now, I suppose." ""She came clos under the window, and said, with a mischievous smile: "Whom do you think I saw just now, Httty?" I don't know who. The new minister?" "No, indeed; somebody very different from that fat, red faced, old codger," returned Susie, irreverently. "Oh, Susie, but who wa3 it?" 'Now, it wa; Mr. Walter Hayes. Now ain't you surprised?" A vivid Wush dyed Iletty's fair face. She made no reply, and Sjcie continued: 'His employer, Mr. Mitchell, sent him front Philadelphia to C , and a3 this wasa't much out of the way of his houfe, they gave him leave to fctop here for a dav or two, so he told mo when I met him j ist now. He arrived only an hour ag , in the stage from Cox's Station, and that is how I came to see him before you did. Hetty," she added, laughingly. dhe p-issed on, leaving Hetty with flushed cheeks and brightened eye. No wonder. For more than a year pa-t the thought of Walter Hayes had been the brightest fp.-t of her life. One year ago ho had stoo l at that same littlo green garden gate, in the moonlight, bidding her good-bye before going away to the great city to seek his fortune. She remembered the warm, lingering clasp of his. hand, and how he had said to her, in a voice that was low and trembling;: You must not forget m?, Hetty. I shall always think of you, Hetty, and when I come back " And just then her mother had come on the porch and called her in out of the damp air, and so he had left her relucian ly. IJut now he had como back and she would sec him to-day. 1 do declare, Hetty," exclaimed her mother, bursting into the room, flashed with her pie-baking, "you are the luziet girl I ever saw. Hern you've been upward of an hour darning one pair of f tockingsl What have you been about? Di earning away your time as usual, no doubt, and with all the children's Sunday clothes to look over and lay out lor to-morrow, beside the Saturday's chores.'' iletty penitently resumed her work; but she was very glad when toward sunset, it was all done, and she had leisure to run up to her own httlo room, and never in her life had she takea such pain3 with her appearance as now. How anxiously she listened for the expected ring at the front door. How tumultously her heart beat when at length it came, and how heavy it sank whe:: old Deacon Brown stalked in to discuss some Church matters with her father. Then the began to look at the clock and her heart grew fainter and fainter as she saw it traveling slowly around to 8 o'clock. In Itiverside they kept early hours, and when, at a quarter of 9, Deacon Brown took leave, Iletty also rose, and lighting her bedroom candle, went slowly and sadly up stairs. When, next morning, she came down, hr mother remarked, as she buried herself about the breakfast table: Hetty, Walter Hayes was here last night." Oh, mother!" There was something almost pathetic in the look and tone, but Irs. Lock wood was too busy with the steaming coffee pot to perceive it. "He came here just as you had gone up stairs," she continued. "lie asked lor you, but it was so late I thought it hardly worth while to call vou back airain. Ho had been seeing Miss Mitchell home to her aunt's that Pniladelphia girl, you know, and I didn't know, until he mentioned it, that she was a niece of his employer, Mr. Mitchell. He is certainly improved. To my mind there is nothing like city life for giving gple what they call stylo now. '.Make ddie's milk toast whilst I pour ut the coffee." "I think," observed Mr. Lock wood, a3 he took his place at the table and cut into the cold corn beef j 'I think I heard Harry Tunstall say yesterday that younjr Haves was paying attention to Miss Mitchell. She's a handsome girl, and her father's got money. If Walter marries her e will do well don't bolt your food like that, cut it properly, sir, before eating." Hetty turned suddenly si 2k at heart. She said nothing, but she could not swallow her breakfast, and her mother presently remarked on her pale looks: u Don't you feel well, child? I noticed that you were fideety lst night. You're feverish I doubt, with the spring weather." Hetty was glad that her mother p rmitted her to go to her room and lie down. There was never a fire in her room, but she drew the bed-clothes over her head and wished that she could thus f taut herself out from the whole world. She felt forlorn and miserable. All her sweet fooliih dream of love seemed rudely stricken at a blow. Walter had ceased to care for her. He bad been

won from her by that handsome, etylish girl from Philadelphia; and Hetty hid her face in the pillow and almost wished that she could die. Her mother sent for her to come down to dinner. There was, f ao said, no use in ßtayibtr u; stairs in the cold, and the child would

te better by the fire, with some nice, warm soup. In there all tho afternoon Hetty sat, while her father and the boys vent to Church mkI her mother read ' Baxter's Rise and Progress '! and sang dismal hymns to the baby. 'tlet, ' said Bill, npon his return from Church, "I saw your old beau, Mr. Walt Hayes, at Church with Miss Mitchell, and he shook bands with me and asked how the family was. She's a real swell, I tell you and if you don't shine up some she'll cut you out." William don t let mo hear anv more such slang talk from you," said his mother, reprovingly. And Hetty," said her little sister, as 6be carefully drew off and folded her gloves. heard Kate Hayes telling Mrs. Green that Walter and Mi-s Mitchell were troinjr back to-morrow to Philadelphia, and Mrs. Green f aid she supposed that was one reason of his coming to liiverside, that he might travel home with her.'' Hetty lo.-t all heart and hope at this. She longed for sympathy to lay her head on her mother s knee ar d t-ll her all. But Mrs. Lockwood, though she really loved her chil dren, was not one of those gentle and sym pathetic mothers to whom their children thus turn; and Hetty went again to her lonely room, and wrapping herselt in ashawl, seated heiself at the window and looked listlessly out. A few people were passing. She hardly noticed them, until she suddenly met a pair of brown eyes; and she drew baek with burning cheeks and a beating heart as Walter Hayes passed. How handsome he lookedl and as her mother had observed, how improved in appearance. And she what could he think of her, sitting there pale and forlorn looking with, with her hair all dis ordered about her fac)? He might come this evening, perhaps, and yet she hardly wished it now. It only be painful to see him. Still, she dressed herself and went down stairs, though her head was throbbing and she felt really ill. And all the evening she waited and watched, and Walter never came, and she knew tha. he did not care to see her. dav. And so ended the long, drearv Next morning Hetty arose feverish and ill. But she busied herself about the house hold work; and when her mother, observing only that sho was dull and languid, re marked that she needed a walk, and desired her to carry a jar of butter tj old Mrs. Simpson, she made no objections. The day was pleasant, and tying a pink-lined hood about her face, Iletty set otf alone ou her walk. It was rather a long distance that she had to go out of the village and across a field, and then by a lonely pathway lying along the foot of a hill. Mrs. Simpson kept her some time talking, and it was late when the girl ?et out on her return. Slowly retracing the little pathway, Hetty paused at the stile which led into the open lleld. It was pleasant there. The sun shed a golden light over the beech bows, and a breath of springtime fragrance floated on the air. Somehow Iletty felt soothed as she stood resting on tho stile, and looked dreamily at the white clouds overhead. An approaching footstep startled her. Turning, she saw a man's figure coming along the pathway. Her heart gave a great throb and then seemed to stand still. He came straight toward her, his hand extended, bis lip sailing, his eyes looking straight into her own. Hetty!" Sie looked up at him, half in hop, half in doubt, and the color came and went on her face. 'Hetty, I have wanted so much to see you' She could not mistake the sincerity of his tone, or the look of the brown eyes, and she answcre4 simply and naively: I thought you had forgotten me." Forgotten you?" She could not have told how it happened; but somehow she found herself seated on the step of the stile with Walter beside her, and her cheek close ah! very close to hi3, whilst all the world around seemed transformed into a strange beauty and glory. Such miracles docs a moment sometimes work in our lives. As they walked slowlyo homeward together he told her that on thing and another had prevented his seeing her among the rest, Bill having told him confidently at the Church that she was too sick to come down stairs that day a statement which ho had unfortunately credited, and when this morning ho had called and learned from her mother whero she had gone, he lost no time ia following. 'But, Walter," sail Hetty hesitatingly, ''do you know 1 heard something about you and Miss Mitchell?" He laughed. "Miss Mitchell is to be married shortly, Hetty, to our junior partner. She has been very kind to me, and so has her uncle, my employer. Indeed, Hetty, I wanted to tell you of my good fortune and prospects, and to ak you, darling, if, when " And tho wor.ls which had been for a wliolo year delayed were spoken, and Iletty wondered, as she came in sight of her home, whether thU could be the same world that it had been on that dark, dark day, yesterday. Irreverent Hob. Colonel Bob Ingersoll lectured in New Yoik the other night. Among other sharp things, he said: I -vas once in the company of some Baptist ministers. I don't know how I vergot, there, and they asked my opinion as to baptism. I said that with soap I regarded it as an excellent institution. If you tell ire what a man's religion is, I'll tell you what is the hih water maik of his intellect just how many be carries to the pound. When a man thinks he has found it all out he is orthodox. The man in a dug-out is orthodox. Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy is a coffin. Heresy is h banner; orthodoxy is the shroud. Heresy givfs a new idea a warm and welcome placo by the firesido of his heart. Orthodoxy regards the new idea as a tramp, and keeps bul!-dogs in front of the house to frighten off every new idea that comes alonir." lieferring to the lowest form of skull that had ever been found, he said that it was probably found in Delaware. ' There has not beena patented improvement on the devil for G.OuO years," said the lec.urer. I'll tell you what causes bronchitis among mini-ters. If you talk solemnly when you don't feel it, that's bronchiti. Did you ever hear fiat an auctioneer had it? I call it parsonitis. Laughter. This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim foryourstlt. Keep your mind open to the influence of nature. Kcceive new thoughts with hospitality. The religionist of to-day wants the ship of his soul to lie at the wharf of orthodoxy and rot in the sun. He delighlm to hear the sails of old opinions flap against the masts of old creeds. Ho loves to see tho joints and the sides open and gape in the sun, and it is a kind of bliss for him to repeat, Dj not disturb my opinion.' As far as I am concerned I wish to take my chances with the wind and wave and star. And I had rather go down in the glory and grandeur of the storm than to rot in any orthod ox harbor whatever." The force brirsjinf; in of example. Scene: Nurse a small bov icrvinrr) to his ioot;i-r.j iurse. rieasem. ise m. isn't Master Tommy to go to bed now? Tommy: No, ma, I don't want tc! We're all playing at Parliament in tho nuriery. and we've arranged to have an all-night sitting, and I'm in charge of the bill. Boohool

OUB HOME COLUMN.

A Bird's House. I found a little bird's house to-day. Round and brown and as soft as silk ; H was built in the prettiest, cuuuingest way, When the trees were as white as milk With apple-blossoms do you remember. Or have you forgotteu iu chill December? This was the way: there were straws end sticks. And the father-bird found them one by oue; And his wise little wife knew the vay to fix The coziest little home under the sun, Out of straws and sticks and mud and ela y : And she built the whole ou a summer's day. Then four tiny eggs filled the soft-lined nest; And patiently brooding in sun and storm. She cuddlea them close 'ncath her loving breast And her wings so downy aud S"ft and warm: Then four little birds, with a "chip, ch;p, chee!" J bteppea out 01 tneir ivory nousc 10 see What this wonderful, about With its wiud-rocked sunny old world was cradles, and leaves anC songIt wai quite a big world, too, they hdd no doubt. And once they could lly they would not be Ions In rinding out jut what its sie miht be. This was the story the nest told me. tue Awake. It an Away From School. Wile Awake. 'There's a crust on the ? wamp,"whis-pered Willie Bates to Jonathan Gray, as they to Jonathan uray, as stood side by side at tho blackboard, doing sums in fractions, ''One-half of one-eighth is one fourth, an' one-half of one-fourth is one-half. The crust is thick onough to carry an ox-cart, xou could shoe a mile ;o the beach-tree, an vour sled 11 car re double." "If a boy has one-fourth of a dollar, and oranges are one-fiftieth of a dollar apiece, how many oranges can he buy?" asked Miss Uramhall of Jonathan. If a boy has one-half cf a dollar," spoke up Jonathan in a very niti voice, "an' oranges are live cents apiece, ho can go on like lightnine cn the crust if he's got my sled." All the scholars laughed, but Mhs Bramhall, who was verv strict, rapped on her desk with her big hickory ruler, and said, severely. 'Come up to the desk, Jonathan.'' V ery much surprised, he obeyed directly. "Did you answer me as well as you could?" she demanded, looking at him through her spectacles. Jonathan. "Sit down there, then." And sho pointed with her ruler at a square block, on which was painted in great black letters, "dunce."' j Jonathan was at once utterly wretched. He dropped down upon the ignominious seat, resolving that if he ever did grow up he would thrash Miss B ramhall, or a schoolma'am just like her, within an inch of her life; and his excitement made his face lock so that Martha Miller, the telltale of the school, cried, shrilly, "Jonathan Gray's making faces at you, teacher V Miss Bramhall, though a strict disciplinarian, shrank from striking a child's tender flesh; so, fter turning her ruler over twice and coughing gently, the bade Jonathan sit on the ''iirl's side," between Martha Miller and Betsev Graham. Now, if there was anything worse than tho dunce-block it was sitting with the girls; and Jonathan, instei.d of obeying, sat still and said stubbornly and dietincily, won't!" "You won't? ' "No, ma'am, I won't!' rep.-ated Jonathan. There was nothing possible after this challenge but the severest measure; and, after a short but sharp feruling, he was placed by force between the two girls, who amused themselves till noon by bestowing stinging pinches on his arms and le;s. Willy Bates was wailing when Jonathan came slowly down stairs after a lecture from Mi Bramhall,, and the two boys walked a few steps in silence. "I won't stand it!" cried Jonathan, explosively. "Neither'd I,'' said Willy, with an intense sympathy. ''Let's run away, an' tell her our folks hez company." 'I shan't tell her nothing. I'll jes go off, an' have this afternoon myself." "So'll I an we'll slide. Whero'lt we meet?" And the two boys put their heads together and beforo they separated it was agreed that they should meet at the beech tree immediately after dinner. But dinner was lato that day at the parsonage. Elder Dobbs irom Manayunk was thero with Mrs. Dobbs, and it was plump 1 ociocK wnen iney sai aown at table. ''You shall have an excuse. Jonathan." said his mamma, when she noticed that he fidgeted about and looked at the clock. "You are sorarely tardy, Miss Bramhall will forgive you this time." ' A nne boy, ma'am," said fat Mr. Dobbs in a sonorous voice, and bowing toward Mrs. Gray. "He must be well brought up ma'am, he has scircely spoken since he came in. A silent boy is a rare sight these degenerate days." Jonathan felt as if were burning up; and o add to bis discomfort his pupa locked at him smilingly and said in a droll voice, "I'm afraid Jonathan is sick." He did, indeed, feel verv uncomfortable till he was again in the street and running toward the swamp with his sled ' Arrow" at his heels. The old beech tie ) stood just below the summit of a steep hill, at whose base stretched the swamp which was several miles in extent, and was no v hidden beneath five feet of snow. Only one house was in sight, and that was a very tiny one on the eastern side of the swamp, along which wound a road seldom traveled. As far as the eye could see the snow was covered with a glittering crust, and it looked as though they were goinsrto have an "awfully splendid time," as Willy said. 'The's a way of steering by the rops," said Willy, argumentativ Jly, äs he sat down on the Arrow, and stretched his legs, warmly cased in red stockings, on the curved ends of tho runners. The uirls do it an' so does Jim Grange" " You can't ever do it," said Jonathan. " Don't you see, you just hold on by the ropes an' that's all you can do that's as much as Jim Grange an' tho nirls know." How can you tell till you try it?" persisted Willy. " I ain't a goin' to try it though," said Jonathan doggedly. But you can." In no very good humor "Jcnathan drew the sled back a few steps, and then, after starting it, got on behind, gathered up his feet, and left the management to Willy. But the science of ''steering by the ropes'" provea to oe as uiincuit lor him as Jonathan had foreboded. Presently he pulled the sled half way around, though it was going at a h'slu rate of speed, and Jonathan, in hurried" attempting to place himself to steer, tumbled off. Uunbalanced, and pulled this way and that, tho''Arrov"now went bumping sideways a few rods, and then, hitting a slight roughness in the crust, upset, throwing the new-fangled stcrer on his head. "What do you s-'pose made the sled act so?" Willy asked, 3 they toiled up the hill. "'Cause yourtteerin' was reg'lar fool steerin'," said Jonathan, crojsly. Well," Willy said, rubbing his bruised head, which was already purple, "you wa'nt hurt none." "Wasn't I? Didn't 1 set down so quick I saw sparks of fire big as lloman candles? You'll steer reg'lar after this, or not at all." A little of their ill-temper passed off", when again at tho top of tho hill they surveyed the white expanse. "I guess I'll steer this time," said Jonathan. Tho ''Arrow" now darted down tho hill, and swiftly across the swamp it whs tho perfection of coasting when suddenly tho sled and both boys plunged into a wide deep ditch that had been cut Etraijjht through the swamp la'.e in tho fall, so late that tho bovs knew nothing about it. Both pairs of redstockinged legs were stuck iu black ooze and water up to their knees. The fled lay bottom side up in the ditch, one end plowed deep into the mud. With forlorn 'ohs!" and "ughsl" the boys pulled themselves up the bank. "I'll tell you what let's do," said Jonath in,

after a moment's reflection. "Let's wash

these stockings. All we ve got to do is to rub them up and down in our hands, I've seen our Hannah do it lots of times." They scrambled down to a spot where there seemed to be a little pool, and pulling oil their stockings, broke the ice and dipped them in the dirty water, lheir teeth chat tered, their Ucger3 and toes were blue in fact they were the most desolate little boys you ever saw. But a pair of bright black eyes had been watching th -m from the tiny house by tho read; and presently, while they were rub bing their freezh g stockings, a very small old lady in a big green hood trimmed with gray fur, and a gray blanket shawl curious ly crossed in front and knotted up behind, and a bundle that looked like boots in her arms, came trotting around the hill down to th swamp. "Whyeel' she cried, in a shrill but pleasant voice, '! never saw the beat! Two boys a-washin' th.ir own stockin's! Hop rii.Fut up and get into these boots you kin keep 'em on by a-holdiir to the straps Couie over to the house and I'll dry your things, i'oor dears, you was a-havin such fun! I know who you be, well 'nough tho Ministers boy and tho Deacons boy! That's right, fetch the sled. I'll drv you up nice and give you something to take two such bovs sua n't have a bad tune arter all the Minister boy and the Deacon's boy!; The old ladv'a kitchen was very small The groat cook-stove nearly filled it; but it was a charming room to tho benumbed lads; and when she opened the oven doors and set a smooth maple stick wnhm it so they could rest their feet in the heat, and gave them each a cup of tea made mostly of milk and susrar, and set a plate of cookies on the table beside them, they whispered to each other tht it was like a place one reads about After washing the stockings carefully and hanging them before the fire, and settine their shoes to steattf on the wide stovehearth, the old lady sat down in a funny lemon-colored rockmg-chair, whose narrow head-piece reached at least a foot above her cap, and began knitting busily on a striped mitten. 'Now, bovs, you and I both know 'tain't Saturday," she said. "What other day of the week is it that school don't keep" Atter a moment s silence, in which the boys exchanged glances, Jonathan said. "School does keep. Does koc-p? echoed the old lady. '! thought so. It must be you don't go to school! Too bad! Don't your folks want you learned?" "We do go," Jonathan said, faintly. "Then you do go?" and the old lady be gan counting stitches for the thumb. 4One, two, three, four, five I kinder thought mebbe vou did. It 6orter"come to me you aid. And you ain t to school to-day because "" "We runned away," said Willy abruptly. "Ah, runncd away !" said the old lady, calmly going on with her knitting, and not manifesting the least surprise. "I thought mebbe you had. I eez to myself when I saw you slidin', sez I, Jemima Blake, them b vs hes run away, true's you're livin'I They'll need tendin' to 'fore long mind nowl' i I sot tho tei-kettle right on.and stirred the firo to get a-bilin'. ' "D d you think we'd run into that ditch?" cried Jonathan, in some excitement. "No, I dunnoas I did just that. Still I knew the ditch was there." Just then there was a confused jingling of bells at the door; and after much brushing and stamping, who should walk in but Rev. 31 r. Gray and Ilev. Mr. Dobbs! "I'vo brought an old friend to see you, Mrs. Blake,'' cried tho Minister. I hopo y.u're well what!" And be stopped short at the sight of the two boys back of the stove. ' ''My father licked me," said Willy, ruefully, ns he and Jonathan wero plodding along to school next morning, "So'd mine! an' mamma gave me the awf ules' stuff, hot as fire, to take!" growled Jonathan. 'I H'po-e Mis3 Bramhall '11 lick u?, too," pursued Willy. ''I'll bet she will. Papa went to see her last night, an' she knows everything we did. Jes' wait till I'm big an' I'll la.fi to see anybody touch me with a stick." But Miss Bramhall never mentioned their abrence; and when at recess she gave them each three mint-stick, and two sour balls, they both asked her pardon, and declared they would never run away again, '-hop to-die-drop-down-dead 1" The Obedient Boy. i S. S. Advocate.J I read a very pretty story the other day about a littlo boy who was sailing a boat with a playmate a good deal larger than be was. Tho boat hud sailed a pood way out into the pond, and the big boy faid, Go in, Jim, and get her. It isn't overVyour ankle?, and I've been in after her every titre." "I darn't," said Jim. "I'll carry her all the way home for you, but I can't go in therp; pbo told me not to." Who is she?" "My mother," said Jim, softly. "Your mother? Why, I thought she was dead," Faid the big boy. That was before ehe died, Eddie and I used to come here and sail boats, and she never Jet us come unless we had etnngs enough to haul in with. I am not afraidyou Know 1 m not only ehe didn t want mo to, anI I can't do it." Wm3 not that a beautiful spirit that made little Jim obedient tc his mother even after sho wa3 dead? A Very Plain Hint. Gcoreo lloöke, one of the founders of Irish Quakeri-m, while riding to Limerick, to woo a fair udo,fell in with another rider, bent on tho fame errand. Hw emotions on learnins that he had a rival were mch "that one after ancther the buttons of his waistcoat burt open." Though ho lost his button?, it is satUfHctory to know that he won his bride. Quaker love affairs have given rise to many amusing stories. Thus a wellknown gentleman of the past generation a'ldres-Fed an heireps on behalf of hia friend: 'Friend J. II ," Faid the pretty and wealthy Qaakeress, "thy friend hm no chance, but if thee ask for theeself thee might." The hint was gladly taken. SOCIETY DIRECTORY. Slnnonlc. GETn?r.MANE Const ANPKRT. K. T., No. 9. Itepniar communication second Tne.day of each month; ball in Jn'lati's Block, opposite Court Hons. E M. Jones, Recorder. II. A. ROGAN, E. C. Alpha Chapter No. 23. RepHar communication r-t Tuesilav In each month; hall In Jurith'a Block. Ciias. E. Dai let, Secretary. E. M. JONES, II. P. LnriitN Conrt. Usiom Court No. 1. Regnlar commnnication first and third Monday evenlugs of each mouth; hall in JndahV IUm k. MUS. CORNELIA T0WN3ENP, M. A. M. Mas. üarh Ilxar, Secretary. Lr.An Court No. 11. Regular commnnication spcond and fourth Monday of each month; hall in Jodah's Block. MART JAMES, M. A. M. iALLtR Gallitox, Secretary. Independent Sons or Honor. LcrQK No. 2. Regular commnnication first Monday night of each mouth; littll in Griffith's Block. TIJOS. KUDU, President. Johh Prestow, Secretary. Lopok No. 1.). Repnlar commnnication first TaesJay Light of each mon'h; hall in Griffith's Block. JOHN WILSON, President, Mb. Walker, Secretary. Independent anglifer of Honor. Lodge No. 2. Regnlar Commnnication first Wednesday night of each month; hall in Griffith's Block. ELLKN SPAULDING, President. Ed. Ellis, Secretary. Sonn and Dnnchter of Morn in p. Rejrnlar commnnication first and third Wednesday evenings of each month; at American hall. MRS. ELLEN ROBERTS, President. II. 0. UxauM, Secretary.

United Slftters of Friendship. St. Mart' Temple. RegnUr communication flnt Monday eyening of each month; hall N. E. cornar Meridian aud Washington stree 1 MAßT J ARNES, W. P. H AT7IB Francis. Secretary. Western Stae Temple, No. 11. Regnlar comma nlcalfon 1st and 3d Wednesdays of eacli month. MUS. EMMA MIITCHKLIi. Worthy Princess. Mrs. IIattie Stafford, Secretary.

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IS? C. C, C. & X. B. W. This Train Leaves Indianapolis s Follows; 4.1 K A r TRAIN arrives Muncle, 6:22 a. m. .! fA. ill. Union. 7:25 a. m.; Sidney, 8:45 a m.; Bellfountaioe, 9:28 a. m.; Crestline, 11:47 a. m. Arrive at Cleveland at 2:2 p. m.; Buffalo 7:50 p. m. Niagara Falls, 9M p. m.; Binghampton, 4:35 a. m. Rochester, 11:03 a. m.; Albany 6:10 a. m., arriving at New York City at 1:30 a, m. and Boston at 2:25 p. m. SEVEN HOURS In Advance of Other Routes fiTbis train has Palace. Drawing Room and Sleeping Ceach from Indianapolis to New York with oat change. Fare alwajs the same as by longer and slower routes. Baggage checked through to destination. t?JA P "II Train arrives at Crestline 4:10 a. t.yj I ill m.; Pittsburg, 12:15 a. m.; Cleveland, 7:10a. m.; Buffalo, 11:10 p. m.; Niagara Falls, 3:50p.m.; Biaghanipton, II: p. m.; Rochester. 4:H5 p. m.; Albauy, I2:4ia m.; arrive at New York City 6:45 a. m. and Boston 9:20 a. m. Honrs quicker than all other lines. This train has elegant Palace Sleenins- Coaehea from Indianapolis to Cleveland, and from Cleveland to sew xork City and Boston without chance. At Sid. ney close oonnectious are made for Toledo and De troitand 11 points in Canada. Columbus Route, VIA DAYTON AND SPRINGFIELD. n.Kf A M Train arrives at Mnncie 2:23 p. lOV) A' ill- m.; Union 3:15 p. m.; Dayton 5:5a p. w; Springfield 7:15 p. m.; Columbus 9:15 p m The only line running through Parlor Cnnchoa from Indianapolis to Columbus, where direct connection are made with the Baltimore ft Ohio Railroad. This train con neos at Mnncie with the For. Wayne, Mnncie A- Cincinnati Railway for Ft. Wim and Detroit. XWSee that yonr ticket reads by the . J. SMITH, J.W.CAMPBELL, C. O. T. A. Pass. Aot. ee Line. GALE, PT. nsnol'a. Cleveland. O. Indianapolis VIA RUSHVILLE, CONN ERSVILLE, LIBERTY and HAMILTON. Train D11y, Between Indianapolis & Cincinnati. hl Bundars Eic J "Connections made for all Dotnts. East and West of Cincinnati and Indianapolis. Sau l, ptkvensoit. L. Williams, Gen. Manager. Oen. Ticket Agt. Indpl's Peru & Chicago Ry. rPTTT flüT? Arn rnTXDATTriTT TJnnrpT CHICAGO äüää'"" run a;ur, noauHiivn. LC III II ijirifl gansport, Wabash. JL VJllJtLl UU DETROIT cnd P,nt' ia MicW"'th AKD THE Direct connections made in Chicago with the trunk lines for all northwestern summer resorts and prin cipal points In the northwest and far west. Woodruff Sleeping and Parlor Coaches rnn between Indianapolis and Chicago, via okomo and Indiana, polls and Michigan City. Train leaving Indianapolis at 8:50 A. M. arrives at Chicago at 6.50 p. m., ; Ft. Wayne, 150 r. M.; Lo RHtisport, 1: Op. m.; South Bend, 6:21 r. at. ; Toledo, t:25 p. m. ; Detroi, 8:15 p. M. Train leaving Indianapolis at 12:50 p. m. arrives at Frankfort, 4:5t p. m.; Wabash, 6:13 p. .; Ft. Wayne ::rp. m. Toledo, I": 18 p .; Cleveland, 1:45 a.m. Buffalo, 7:35 a. M. ; New York City, 10 p. at. Trsin letving Indianapolis at r:2 p. if ., arrires at Lofrnnsiort at 11:02 p. m.; Valparaiso 4:20 a. m. ; South Bend, 2 2) a.m.; Mishawaka, 2:35 a. m ; Elkhart 3 a m ; Ka'atnazoo 7:30a.m.; Grand Bapids 10 A.M.; Chicago 8:05 a. M. Train learing Indianapolis at 11:00 p. . (dally) arrives at Chicago via Kokomo, at 7:05 a. m.; Fort Wayne, ft:2 a. m. ; Toledo, tiUl.s.; Cleveland, 2:20 p. m. ; Detroit, 1:30 p. m. SSAsk for tickets via I., P. k 0. Railway. Reliable Information given by V. T. MALOTT. C. H. ROCKWELL, Gen'l Manager. Gen'l Pass, and T'k't Agt 101 East Wasbin too Street. M H o

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