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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, WEDN ESDAY,' OCTOBER 7. 1835.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS. an mmimrt newspaper. fvxun» srarr attzsikwii Kxcxrr »c»dat rr JOHN H. HOLLIDAY * CO, Tvs Vtr* »ai.t>rxo, -Vo. » W. Wamxjwkw tr. ilBlwwl at tbs at laOsnspotH I»L, M Mcood-cJaa mttcf.l

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Editorial

TtLEPNOKS CALL*. ia ..673 | Butlnew office .

WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER V IMS.

fllCH licence will benefit every tax-payer* Law and order art absolutely eaaential to tbe peace and proeperity of a community. Whatever the talopn* are made to pay for their bnainew, by ao mnch will tbe taxpayer be relieved. Tasman who own* a bouse and find* it hard work to pgy taxes on it, can keep ^noney in his pocket by voting to have tbe saloon* taxed. THE aimple question i»: Should business that coat* the tax-payer directly at least $52,000 a yaax be made to pay a share of tbe expense, or shall tbe whole be levied upon tbe homes and property of the people? We haven't beard from Messrs. Caylor and Benjamin whether they will vote to raiaa the saloon licenie or not. It they refuse to take a stand on this question, they can not expact tbe people who favor it to vote for them. Tie performance of the Veiled Prophets at Bt, Louis last night did not meet with rnoeh favor, the »»bjecta illustrated—incidents from the '‘Arabian Nights”—failing to awake any anthusiasm. This sort of foolery ■asms to be going out of fashion all around. Peaci oan be Jkept in Montreal only by 4ha military and attacks upon it are not infrequent. It seema strange that people should resort to bloedabad jjeprevaat just and necessary precautions against a dreaded diaease. Wa do not believe such a thing (•uld happen in any American city. The proposal to e«nd orators over to Ireland doan’t aaat with favor among the oratorg and other leaden. John Boyle O’ltcillcy, Congressman P. A. Collins and James Mooney, among others, disapprove of it, and Alexandvr SuUivan tersely remarks that tbo Irish people weed funds not oratory.

WMMear/ to cut down the salaries of tbe toac ucnt and stmt the graded schools In tiielr a-cocimod*-lions Yet there could be derived from a itoenw fee of S100 at least tl.000 * year. The mtoon* of the city ere directly responsible for a municipal expense to excess of that amount, which is now paid by taxing the property of all citiseui. The *tloon* should be computed to help cany the load.—[Terre Hants Esprem. The argument, that ia good in Terre Haute

la just aa good hare.

We publish to-day an able and thoughtful •ommuuieation trom an earnest democrat whoso party fealty can not, be questioned, but who aeas in the present municipal contest » great danger looming up. He demonatrates thia moat effectively, and wa do not believe his argument can he answered. All democrats who hope for their party and wish it perpetuated, should give hie views careful cooiideratiou at least. If the democracy proposes to make an an alliance with the liquor traffic against the enforcement of just and reasonable law« .which that party bas been instrumental largely in adopting, its doom can be read easily. The political contest in Baltimore which will probably decide whether Mr. Gorman •ball be re-elected senator ja. deepened in interest by the withdrawal of Mayor Latrobe a* a candidate for re-election. He was one of the Gorman faction and until a few week* since was thought to have no practical opposition. But a large number of democrats refused to support him and nominated Judge Brown, aa old and prominent citizen, for the office. The republicans have united in hh support and tbe regular faction now trie* to weaken the movement by witb4rawiag Latrobe and probably substituting a merchant named Hodges who has heretofore opposed “the ring." It is a shrewd move and iray b« successful, but if it is not Mr. Gorman stands an axcellent chance of ending his earner as a senator. The Philadelphia News observed its first anniversary under the present management, by issuing on Saturday a large and extraordinarily well-filled number. A year ago the paper bad but seven thousand circulation and faa in a dying condition. Now it baa over thirty thousand and is the beet read afternoon paper in the eRy. This wonderful improvement ia due to tact, enterprise and ability, and the managers have good reason to be proud of it The SC Lon is Chronicle has pat on a new dress and otherwise improved itself and takas pleasure in reviewing its proeperows condition. Tbo Chicago Bun, the new daily which, like Minerva, sprang Into being in foil maturity, seems to u tak^ right hold.” It is a marvel of excelknee and cheapness. In no previous year has the American press taken such stride* at improvement, especially in typographical ippearancto-^^^^^^^

French Election.

A* grave as arc the changes in the political aspect of France, we can not think that they portend or will promote the return of monarchy to the power from which it bos base ao often displaced. A coalition af the radicals of the Clcmencean echool with the royalists and imperialists of the CniMajpuc order Is hardly more hntaral than the "anion

of the torfes and the Irish nationalists in England, or a combi nation of the liquor years,

eagne apd the prohibitionists in this country utd ettr own city. YyE.ao .perverse are the epemtiowe of hnm— pasaioas and piqlndieea, "hat exactly thee* moat inconceivable *f ^■^MTiatLats art either pnetianUy

or well on the way The axtsamiat* and conser-

vatives of Franc* may unite to overture* the moderate republican ministry, as the prohibitionists may unite with tbe saloon men to defeat Mr. Denny and assure the unre**rained domination of ihelsqaor they profess to dreed and resist, but neither union can be permanent, nor can either be made long or fully effective against the common »en*e and interests of the country. The actuating oaoss of tbs revulsion against the republican government of France is no doubt the failure of the colonising and conquering experiment* of Madagascar and Tonquia. la ataay parts of the country there ia mourning in many houses for the dead who perished miserably in futile efforts to establish an unjust domination in for off lands, and with the lamentations very saraiv goes ant a bitter hostility to the puny and the policy that caused them. Premier Ferry’s juatifteation of the Tonqutn expedition was enough to set any honorable national feeling against it. His argument was the importance of diffusing civilization in the darkened lands of the East, and tbe right of civiliiation as it exists in the West, to assume this office of “grand high missionary.” No allowance of tbe rights of the natives to their own country sad government was made. And, in fact, a lull recognition of such rights would have kept the French out of the Tonquin war, iU humiliating reveries and heavy expenses. The party of the policy producing these results could hardly hope to escape popular condemnation. It bas come even more heavily than any ona expected. But the spirit of it has no sympathy with tbe often-expelled monarchical idea. Tbe present ministry will be beaten and displaced, but no combination of CTemenceau and Cassagnac can act with any efficiency very long. Like the famous or infamous coalition of Fox and Lord North, it will go to pieces by its own weight, and tbe probable result will be a restoration of moderate republicanism to power in the next general election. The French are often accused of being fickle, but we can’t think that there ia any serious instability in their adhesion to the republican against the monarchical sys-

tem. ' The Reminiscences of 1851.

At tbe reunion ot the surviving members oi the Legislature of lfiol-2 there lay upon tbe table of the president, Hon. Wm. H. English, who has collected them at great labor, a pile of biographies of members of that body and of the Constitutional Convention, who have passed away. What to do with them was really the only question the meeting had to consider, for Mr. English announced that he should e’efray the expenses of both reunions, and ihould not allow anybody to help.. Thus it came that one of the most annoying questions that usually come up in maetings or conventions of this class— the money to pay expenses—was out of the way. To collect these biographies of tbe legislators of the last generation, who made the Constitution and provided for the revision o^the laws, and leave them to the diyt and mioe oi the State House vaults—when we get them—would be liute better than leaving them uu written. So President English suggested that they ehould first be published in some paper or other, and that from the game type copies for. a book form should be made and a volume issued at so cheap a rate tlmt everybody could own it. With these could be combined the proceedings and speeches of the two reunions, the whole making such a colleotion of historical material of the State, and especially of its legislation, os The News has several times suggested should be made. A committee of five was ordered to be appointed to consider the matter and arrange, if possible, some mode of carrying oat tbe president’s suggestion. The Legislature of 1851-2 was more discussed during its existence than any that had ever preceded it, or probably any since, and the snlyects of comment, advene and otherwlS, were mainly the “Carr Code” and Kossuth. A revision of the statutes was ordered, and ibree commissioners appointed to make it. George W. Carr, president of the Constitutional Convention, Walter March, of Delaware, and, we believe, Dr. Foster, of Monroe, soon replaced by Lucien Barbour, of this city, then the law partner of Qovernor Porter, The whigs made a ;reat deal of fun of this Board of Revision. Mr. Carr was no lawyer, though one of the most experienced legislators in the State, and the idea of putting him at the head of a board which ought to be made wholly of lawyers of erudition and experience, as t&ey held, was absurd. So by way of derision they christened the re-

vision of 1853 lbs “Carr Code.”

The Kossuth episode assumed very nearly a party gspect, tha whig* opposing and tbe democrats, led by Governor Wright aa enthusiastic Hungarian, advocating the proposition to invite the Magyar chief te be the guest of the Slate. Colonel R. N, Hudson, of Terre Haute, in his speech gave a vivid account of tha principal debate on the subject, in which Joseph G. Marshall, tbe best brained Hooeisr that evtr lived, and George G. Dunn, the wittiest and moat eloquent ot tha whigs, led the argument against the proposition, and Henry 9ecre*t, of Putnam, as level-beaded and aenu as either of his antagonists, led the democracy. It ia to be regretted that he did not include an account qf tha public meeting ia tbe hall of tbe House, when John Lyle King, whose speech and diary of tbe seasion formed the most entertaining features of the meeting lost night, made a speech in ijavor of the invitation, though a whig and representing Jefferson coanty, of which Mr, Marshall was senator. Tha speaker of tha House, John W. Davis, of Sullivan—he subsequently resigned and Mr, English w^s elected—w : ho was Prepdeot Polk’s Minister to China— also spoke, as did Wm. J. Brown, of this city, then editor of the Sentinel. The visit of Ko«auth and the demonstration over It here, are they not written in tha chronicle* of the city, with the grumbling at the liquor bill and tha dislike of his boorish suite? The mpat troublesome leature of the gffeir to ih« democracy was tha quarrel of the Irish with the party over its aetkm teaching the invitation. To this Irish remotstrance Bon. James B. Ryan, late Treasurer of State, gave voioe through the Journal, and Dr. Barney Mullen, afterward colonel of tha Irish regiment, in the Democratic State Convention that re-nominated Governor Wright. It wa ■ chiefly memorable as tbe first “kick” of the foreign allies of tbe democracy against the

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How the Baby Grows. (THE CHILDiEN’s Of I SION.)

Nobody sees the beby grew. Baby dear with the htuxhii Who <-aiae to our house

■use a y-.-ar stgo.

Loosing ever so wrtnkk-d and wise:

on King

Bm evejy day of tbe heppr year He has taken upon Him nom*- beauty hew. And as for growing. Why. this i* clear. He's never had anything etee to do. Grandmamma says “When he's asleep. Than it i* that tbe baby grow*. - ' Ckiee to tbe crib we often creep To watch, but we don't think grandma kuow*.

id hBbrow

Never a fringe of the golden hair

Clustering soft around Lengthen* the iea« Wb And yet U is growing

lea*: white we are there.

the wonder, how?

Teacher talk* of chemical thing*

Which into l

And i “Otic

And into the ninny summer day* Or into the winter evening* cold

r-ner taiss ot cnetnieai ininghich into e secret of life combine, i mother listening, wiftly sing*. ».iod. be good to ini* boy of n)ine: ,,

summer dsy« evening* cold

sof ner joyful pn nd hfcn her fond

lie weaves the notei While closely arou:

also

arm* fold.

Nobody see* the baby grow. But over his rosy nttie face

But over his rosy mile race

he prettiest ripples of laughter flow. The dancing dimple* merrily cha<e, The tiny feet are learning to walk. The rounded lip* are growing strong. The lisping tongue is learning to talk.

As cheerily pas* the days along.

; to our thought ia clear:

Nobody can explain it all.

But one thing t

God. who sees If a *7»am>w fall, Sent our beautiful baby here. And mother cares tor him, day and night— ’Ti* easy enough when she love* him so— And God. whenever she puts out the light, Just look- tu and mak ‘« him grow. —'Margaret E. Sangster.

“SCRAPS.”

Davenport, la., was named after Ira Davenport's father. Bweden has become the fashionable hunt-ing-ground of Europe. A rich man’s son at Harvard ha* spent $15,000 fitting up his college rooms. The latest theory in veterinary science is that shying in horses is caused by nearsightedness. i General Prentiss is now employed as the lecturer at the panorama of the battle of Shiloh at Chicago. A sweet potato weighing 27 J pounds and a squash of 1951 pounds are among the latest productions of San Diego county, California. • It is stated on good authority that an average ol about one clerk per year in the Bureau of Statistics is driven to insanity by the work of the bureau. / Tbe smallest book in the world is half the size of a postage stamp, and is an edition of the sacred book of the Sikh*,belonging to the tJrl of Dufferin. Lord Duflerin has been presented by an Indian Rajah with a young elephant, trained to cut books and 'magazines with his tusks, which are filed thin as paper knives for the

purpose.

Ex-Minister and ex-Congressman Kasson. of Ion a, is engaged in writing a diplomatic history of the War of the Rebellion which will establish the exact relations which European powers occupied toward the Con-

federacy.

Melbourne is cited as proof that the star of empire lias taken a trip to the Southward. The first house there was put' u;i in 1635, and now there is a handsome city with fine parks and public institutions and 300,000 inhabitants. , Not many years ago John Huntington was an oil ladler, working at day .wages. He is now one of the largest stockholders in the Standard Oil Company, and Cleveland people estimate his wealth at more than five

million dollars.

Mr. Sims, the dramatist, has successfully undergone a very dangerous operation for the removal of a cancer from his upper jaw. A part of the jaw itseif had to be cut away. Mr. Sims underwent the ordeal with the as-

sistance of chloroform.

A Difficulty—Captain de Vere Jones: I

often wonder, as you Americans seem just as fond of titles as we are, why you don’t start an aristocracy of your own? Colonel van

Trorap, U. S.: Well, you see, they’d all have to be dukes to begin with!—[Punch. Ovelset from the Omnibus: Judge, to

pocket thiefess—You acknowledge, then, that you the portmonnaie of the lady out of her pocket taken have. Why did you it?

tt^^hCoL 0 v 1 Jizh W ^lf t0 hJ e if Grogan’s invitation the people for miles Madame enough money with herself nad had in ‘ rove neRr , he Some of the quserest names hail fro® the house to make merry. Wan The child in his Basque Provinces offepain. Two officials in f arm! , he went about welcoming each fresh

GROGAN’S DISAPPI XTMKXT. BY HON. MARK L. DeMOTTE. lOopyrlalited. 1*87. by 8. ». SfcClare—AH Klcbts Rem r. <xl. t Amos Grogan was a man of “sperriL” He not only claimed it for himself, but his neighbors conceded it to him. In the vocabulary of that region “sperrit” was a very comprehensive word. It meant a combination of the industry, judgment, physical strength and endurance necessary to success, with * personal courage that punished an insult to one’s self or family with a blow or a bullet, %$ its character might demand. He was a “man of his word” in the full tense of the term. The estimate the neighbors put upon his integrity was well voiced by’Squire Crawley on one occasion. At a merry-making where “applejack” and “peach” had flowed so freely that the blood of some of the young men had warmed to the fighting point, pistol shots had been exchanged, and a serious wound inflicted. The matter was of sufficient dignity to bring the prosecuting attorney up from Griggaville, the county seat, to look alter the interests of the Commonwealth. ^ The ’Squire thought that the prisoner had been a little more profuse with powder and le&d than the circumstances justified, and he otdered him to give security in the sum of three hundred dollars tor his appearance at the next term of the Circuit Court. A moment of silence followed the announcement of the judgment, which Grogan broke by He’ll be thar, ’Squire.” “All right,” said the the ’Squire, “Cote’s adjourned.” “But, your Honor,” said the prosecutor, “the prisoner must give bond for ins appear-

ance.”

“Grogan said he’d be thar, an’ he’ll be thar,” added the ’Squire. “I don’t know how it is down at Griggsville, but up ’yer Grogan’s word’s as good as his bond. Cote’s adjourned.” The quieter portion of the people sometimes criticised him a little because of his fondness for horse racing, bowery dancing, and like amusements, but they Went no farther with ite than Eider Browder, of the Coon Creek Baptist Church, who said: “Grogan’s a good man, a mighty straight forward one, but he’s leetle too fond uv hilargy fur a Baptist.” At the time the events we propose to speak of were transpiring, Grogan was very proud of two things, “The Bowl” and a boy baby. “Tbar ain’t another sich a spot in Kaintucky as The Bowl,” he Mas in the habit of saying, “an wen you’ve said that air, you’ve said all, fur Kaintucky is the ge-yarden of

the world.”

“The Bowl” as it was known, far and wide, was the home Grogan’s “sjairrit” had made for himself and family in the Cumberland range,, in Southeastern Kentucky, a good day’s journey northward from the famous Cumberland Gap. It was indeed a beautiful spot. On the southeast, Browning's Ridge, or as it was familiarly called, “Ole Brownie.” rose up abruptly many hundred feet. For a mile it presented a front almost os straight as it ihe huge rocks of which it was composed bad been laid by

a skilltul mason.

The power which had thrown it there had broken the various strata in a series of steps, each crowned by a luxuriant growth ot timber presenting the appearance of a giant stairway carpeted with green. Opposite this the mountain curved northward in horse-shoe form, the sides sloping upward tor nearly a mile to an overhanging ledge ot rocks. The whole resembling the half of a broken bowl, hence its name. Tiie semicircle that formed the bottom contained a hundred acres of comparatively level land; the sloping sides, three hundred more, to the clearing and cultivation of which Grogan had devoted his life. It was the largest and most valuable farm within a

radius of twenty miles.

In the center'ef the bottom of The Bowl was a large two-story hewed log house, with I accompanying orchards and outbuildings, where Grogan lived and dispensed a hospitality unusual, even lor that hospitable country. Of the boy baby he was especially proud. His first birthday had arrivea, and tnere was a barbecue at Tne Bowl in honor of it. At

The life of a seal seek ia about eight

I took oae botUe of Athiopborua and M cured me of my suffering* from neuralgia.. I am now enjoying perfect health, and am thankful to tbe AUilophoro* Company for their great remedy for

neuralgia and rheumatism. • Fouxa IWBfijtxr, Towaada, 111.

the "Treasury Department at Madrid, who claim Basque descent, call themselves respectively Don Emfanio Mirurzururdundua y Zeugotide and Don Juan Xepomuceno de

B u risuagona ts t orecagooeaccocoha.

An article in an exchange is headed “Why President Cleveland Didn’t Fish on Sunday.” We haven’t read it, but suppose it was because be spaded up half an acre of ground without finding a single worm. We have frequently been in the same aggravating predicament. 1*. S.—On a week day.—[Nor-

ristown Herald.

The earl teat known allusion to Shakspeare in any American publication was in the New England Courant, published in Boston, July 2, 1722. The paper was edited by James Franklin, und occasionally bis brother Ben contributed to its columns, although at first surreptitiously. The allusion to the great dramatist was contained ih a list of authora whose works were commended

to the student.

Out of a total area of 36,955,2-10 acres of land in Florida only 17,103,182 acres appear on the tax books ot the State, less limit onehalf tbe are* of the State. It is estimated that the lakes, rivers and other bodies of water not assessed, cover a total area ot 2,241,640 acres, and that there are yet remaining in the southern extremity of the State about 3,000,000 acres that have not

been surveyed.

The richest man in Philadelphia is said to be Isaiah Y'. YVilliamsou, estimated as worth $26,000,000. He began with a small dry goods store; and then amassed a fortune in the jobbing business, which he increased mostly by fortunate investments. He is the largest stockholder of tbe Pennsylvania Road. lie is a little, old man, who lives alone in a room above a store on a little street, and his personal expenses have never exceeded two dollars a day. He elves large sums in charity, $50,000 in a lump occasionally, but is very unostentatious. The following story is told of James R. Randall, editor of the Augusta Chronicle: He attended one day a oolored church in tbe country, and had in his pocket * silver halfdollar, just the lore book to Augusta: At the conclusion of his sermon the minister ordered a collection for his benefit. “Of cowrie,” said he, “I a’pecte every pusson to give somethin’; but I’stold dat Mr. Thomas, up de land yonder, had some turkeys stole Friday night. I don’t want any mau who had a ban’ in stealin’ deni turkeys to put any money in de plate.” When tbe plate reached Mr. Randall not a.man had refused to contribute, and the preacher’* eyea were on him. His half-dollar, accordingly, went into the plate. ^ “Thinness is a physical characteristic of Americans. I account for this because of the fact that they or* in a new country to whose climate thev hav* not become used. Even the descendants of people who came to America two hundred years ago are not fully acclimated. This ut true, it matter* not to what aountry people way remove. Natural history has demonstrated that at least three hundred yean are required to acclimati/e a nation that has token up its abode in a new country. Now, as thinness is a characteristic uf Americans, they ought to use whatever will make them fat and they ought not to use what will keep them lean. The habit of chewing gum causes certain juices which aid *hgesupn to Row freely, unmixed with any injurious sabetanc*. The habit of chewing tobacco also causes these juices to flow freely, but the tobacco chewer either expels them from his mouth or swallows them mixed, with tbe poisonous juice, of the weed. I see you have your note book out; just dot down this fact Twenty years ago the rule was that Southern women were thin and delicate; it is not the rule now. Southern women ore not physical] v equaled in all North America. Any physician who is as well informed as be ought to be will tell you that this is true. This change is due to the habit of chawing guns. You may smile, you may even laugh,If you pleam, but I am telling yoa a plain feet. As to Southern men, they are as thin and gaunt as they ever were, and , so they wiR remain until they cease to chew tobacco and begin to ehew gam.”—[(Southern Physician.

arms he went about welcoming each tresh

arrival,

“This is the son an’ arr,” he would say. “I’m gittin’him acquainted with his neighbors. He’s goia’ to be owner an’ perprietor uv The Bowl some day. He’s a boy uv sperrit too, I tell you. Hit cropped out on him afore he wuz .three months ole.’ Yes sir, he's a boy uv sperrit.” “Y’ou folks as has lots uv boys orit to be proud uv ’em, an’ I’m sho’ you air, but hit dou’t stand to natur’ that you kin be quite as proud as I am uv this’n. Thar ain’t none uv you fixed os I am. Y’ou hain’t got sich a passei uv gals as 1 have, you know. “fiome uv you has knowed me and Martby ever seuce we come 'yer an’ commenced to cler up The Bowl. Marthy, the oldest, you know, named fur her mother, come the fust yer. Then Hanner Ann, then 'food, then Car’line, then Becky, an’ then Gin, only a leetle mor’a a yer apart. Wen I seed Gin, I says,‘Good Lord-a-uiighty Marthy, how many mo'gals is thar to be?’ She jis flared right up fur she’s!* woman uv sperrit, mind 1 tell you, an’ says she ‘Git along with you, ef you don’t want the gals I do, an’ 1 don’t want no complainin’ nuther, fur I hain’t tbe savin’ whether they shell be gals ur boys, no more

nur you.'

“Lord bless you, I did want 'em though. They wuz as welcome as unn-gels, but I kinder honed arter a son an' arr, you know. Then come Mary Jane, then Bet, then Side, an’ then Mandy, an’ thar ain’t finer gals in Kaintucky, if they air mine. Then they stopjied a cornin’ for seven yers. Long afore the seven yers wuz up I’d done give up all hope *v a son an arr, an’ while I thought the good Lord bed used us rather shabby, I 'spected mebbe he might know more about what wuz best fur us than I did myselt. “A yer ago to-day this leetle feller come, bless bis heart, an' I reckon you'll b’lieve me

He’s come fur us to lean on wen we git old. 1 “I say to her, Marthy. says I, I’ll sell tbe

colt to-mon

pie. and the number in attendance increased anna ally. Grogan was often forced to apologize for the absence or the puny appearance of the boy. “The po’ little fellow ain’t well to-day. He's sick most ail the time. Hit's a great disappinttnent to me an’ Marthy that he’s turnin' oot weakly. He’s the oolvest boy uv Teven children an’ hit’s a disappintment.” By tbe time the tenth anniversary arrived but little was said of or attention paid to the “son an’ arr” by the guests at The Delight. Withoat thought ot disrespect to child or parents, the people began to speak of him as Die “disappinttnent,” until outside of his own family he was known by no other name. Amy, as he was called at home, was the pupil of his mother until he was thirteen years old. A three-month* school was taught in the neighborhood during the winter months. Grogan insisted the boy should attend. It would give him “sperrit” to be with children of his own age. Almost every evening Amy came home in tears, with long stories ot rough treatment from his school fellows. “Ef any man abuses you,” said Grogan, “I’ll tend to him, but as to the boys an’ gals, ef you can’t gin ’em as good as they send, you’ll have to bar it.” At sixteen he was a pale-faced, mild-eyed, effeminate boy, no larger than the ordinary ten-year-old of the neighborhood. The master said he had accomplished all he could in that school, and the mother proposed sending him away. "I said he should hcv all the schoolin’ he’d take. Hit wuz right wen I said it, an’ hit’s right now. Hit’s a pity he’a so weakly. Hit’s tuck all the sperrit out’n him. He cries if you pint your finger at him. He’s our baby, Marthy, an’ hit ’pears like he’s never goin’ to be anything else. I don’t like the idy uf hi.s gpiu’ whar we can’t nusa him and keer fur him. As a baby he’s tuck right a holt uv me. As a son—an’—arr. he’s—ah he’s purty weakly. Folks kind 'o 'spects, you know, to lean on a son an’ arr. The idy uv you or me a leanin’ on Amy; hit ah, hit won’t do. Hit ain’t his fault, nnr yourn, nur mine, but hit’s all the same a disappinttnent.” His mother took him to Indiana and placed him at school. With the exception of a few weeks’ vacation each year he remained at school five years, and in his twenty-first year returned home, graduated, a big word for that neighborhood. He was a tall, slender, pale, beardless young man of scholarly appearance and habits. As to his physical appearance, Grogan put it forcibly when he said: “He looks Tike a tater vine growed up in the shade." His father gave him a handsome horse, saddle and bridle, also a gun, with the injunction that he should spend the time until The Delight in getting some meat on his bones and some color in his face** after that he should be of age and could do as he pleased. Amy gladly availed himself of the leisure. He was without congenial companionship, and spent most ol his time on horseback and climbing about the mountains. When inquiries were mad%a* to “who the fine-dressed young feller on the black boss” was, or “who wuz that a settin’ way up on Rocky Pint with a book?” the answer would be “Hit wuz Grogan’s disappinttnent, I reckon, a moonin’ round.” [TO BK CONCIXPED TO-MORROW.] WHENEVER AND WHEREVER Diseases of a choleric type prevail, or there is cause to apprehend a visit from them, the system should be toned, regulated and reinforced by a course of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Perfect digestion and a regular habit of body are the best .safeguards against such maladies, and both are secured by this inestimable tonic and alterative. The Bitters, are also extremely serviceable in remedying such disorders. If promptly taken in bilious cholic, diarrhea and cholera morbus the disease is usually frustrated. In diarrhea cases it Is only necessary to restore the tone of t he relaxed bowels, and this is one of the specific eflects of this medicine. Wind on the stomach, heartburn, biliousness, nausea, headache nud other symptoms of disturbance in the gastric and hepatic regions are also speedily relieved by this excellent remedy. As a fatnil v medicine it is invaluable, since it promptly and completely remedies those ailments which are of most frequent occurrence.

TO ROLLER SKATERS AND KINKS. The Henley Skate still on top. large reduction in prices. Can an atlord to have a pair ot Club Skates at the new prices. See the now Monarch pattern, that beats them all. Rollers and repairs at low priues. Ki nks supplied at factory rate*. Skate sachqls at reduced prices. See us before yoa buy. Hu.debra.si> <k Fugate, 35 South Meridian street.

larthy. says

wan oolt to-morrer, an’ be’* the beet uv the three-yer-ole’e, an’ put the money out at interest lur our son on’ arr. Mor’p that yit, says I. Every yer I’ll sell a hoes, ur leastways a critter of some kind an’put the money out fur him. Mor’a that yit, saye I, it the good Lord lets me an’ the boy live, I’ll give a barbecue on his birthday tell he’s twenty-

one.

“This is tha fust one frien’s. That there yer ole’ a wastin' thar is jam up—no better beef no whar. Hit’s fur you, and hit’ll be done to a turn by noon. Y'ou know whar the bar’U is. The furdest one’s whisky; the kag in the middle’s peach. Thar’s a tub uv honey by it. They’re both six yer ole. The other’s applejack. Hit’s a yer older. Hit’s all fust rate. I made it myself. Thor’s eidsr thar fur the women folks an’ the children. Drink to the boy yer to Grogan's delight; that he’ll make a better man than his nap. “I’m goin’ to give my-boy a better chance than I had. I never had no schoolin’, you know. Marthy’a the scholar uv the fambly. She’s trum Ole Virginny an’ wus two yers to a reglar bo’den school. She’ll larn'him at fust, an’ then he may go to the college ef he wants to.” Ths dinner waa followed by dancing and other * ports, and was heartily enjoyed. As they were going Grogan extended a general invitation for the next year. “Remember hit’s the £8th uv September. Ef it comes on Sunday you’re invited fur Sunday. Everybody’s welcome ’cept a Bramlett, an’ they wouldn’t come ef I wn* to ask ’em, an’ I’m not goin’ to ask ’em.” Thia annual birthday festival became known as Grogan's Delight. It wa* aa much an institution In the neighborhood as Fourth o’ July or Christmas. If one wanted to fix the time ef on event and said “hit was a week afore” or “hit wnx two weeks arter Ths Delight,” it was designated with sufficient accuracy for tha average inhabitant. As time passed the boy did not develop as fast as tbe proud lather wished. The truth was that betyrqcn the measles, mumps, chieken-pox and ague the little fellow had a hard struggle to five at all,: The Delight, however, grew more popular among'the pee-

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