Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 29, Number 15, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1881 — Page 6
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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 20, 1881.
DATS OF YOUTH.
O for the trau ting Says of youth, rVben the pure Heart knew no ku!1 When the soul wu a limpid well of truth; Lit bj an Angel's smile 1 O lor the fcarl-M eye that looked Oa the dimpled waveV calm flow, Vor turned wuh dewy lids from the thought . 01 lt.e dead who slept below 1 O for the dreams the radiant dreams That nm floaling Irom above. When Earth seemed a glorious Eden-land, And my heart the throne of Love When the very breeze whist perfumed breath Toyed with the whispering leaves Seemed the echoed sweep of Augel-wings . That came with dewy eve6' O for the love the holy loveThat came down like a dove to its nest. And nestled down, with a low, tweet song. And folded plumes. In my breast ! How could I dream that. Prometheu-llke, I yielded a banquet rare. That ever grew for the cruel claws And sanguine beaa to tear 7 O for the faith the earnest faith Ol the soul that trusted in (iod! Tho the heart and brow were convulsed with pain, I bent low to His chastening rod. O for the pure, unquestioning faith That turned from the shadow of strife, And lilted above the cloudi ol doubt A pure, unseltish life! Yonth, and Love, aud nope have passed Beyond that mystic sea That ever break with a voiceless wail On the shores of Eternity! And shadowy, vague and undefined As clouds that incumber the West, The tanprled web of my life apjiears O for the grave'a cold rest! Chicago Tribune. AUNT 'CIXIU'S RASCH. Seribner's Monthly. There was plenty of game in the neighborhood of Aunt 'Cinda'a Ranch, as we have leen told; but our informant had neglected to state that it waa also one of the dreariest places on earth. Far as the eye could reach in every direction lay only prairie, prairie, prairie treeless and flat, with short, trivial grass, and over the face of it all, that indescribable, tawny blur, peculiar to the outlying Kansas plains. The little level river in front of the ranch had no banks, and flowed sluggishly; the ranch iUelf wiis a four-roomed cabin of melancholy adobe, Hanked by a stone corral, in which were awkward racks and troughs for horses. The interest and excitement of our chases after antelopes, jack-rabbits, and occasionally a wandering buflalo. seved to kill time for us during tho day, but when ovening came, and we returned to the ranch, tired out and thinking of home, the sense of exile became almost painful. The fact the ranch was a stage station, whero a brief halt was made for supper, alone redeemed it from utter desolation, for this gave us our sole glimpses of the distant world, in the faces and conversation of the passengers with now and then a stray newspaper. We used to stand watching the slow and gor geous sunset with a pretty pretense of admiration, when, in reality, our thoughts were bent upon catching sight of the first curl of dust that should denote the approaching stage. The passengers were not always either attractive or communicative, but all the same we hailed thetn warmly; and when they left the horizon seemed swiftly to widen, and the stars to creep further upward in the high, inhospitable sky. It was at such empty times that we turned forlornly to our associates of the ranch to the landlady, Aunt 'Cinda McMillan, and the swarthy Mexican and h"n wife, who were in her service. The resource was an unprofitable one at first; but gradually we found Aunt 'Cinda to bo a character worth knowing, and you may be sure we left no artifice untried to win from her all she had to tell. She was robust, strong featured.and about forty-five years old ; there were streaks of pray in her heavy black hair, a few wrinkles in her cheeks; her eyes had an alert and seeking look, such as you see in the eyes of persons who live much alone. Sometime0,, when she grew animated, and a fleeting smile came to her aid, wo could believe that in her girlish days she had lacked but little say merely a change of mouth to make her pretty. But it waa her story, and net herself, that mainly held our attention and encouraged our inquiries ; indeed, she usually appeared, when recounting the strange incidents of her history to be talking of some one eke, sj free from vanity was she, and so candid. She had been reared, we learned, in the Boone's Lick country, in Missouri, and thero nad Aaron McMillan known and wooed her. The memory of her courtship waa very vivid to her, and she dwelt upon it with lingering fondness. "Aaron wasn't the purtiest man in the world, by long odds," she would say; Mhe was light complected and had sandy beard, and freckles; but he was jest as good as ever they make 'em. I disremember how 'twas that he first begun kcepin' company with me. Ther' was likelier gals than me in the settlement; Lucy "Walker, for one, that sung alto and played onto the melodeon; and Samanthy Pettis, that had money in her own right, an' sech little taperin foet, an' she liked to show 'em. too. But Aaron an' me, we both tuk a shine t' each other, an' he didn't 'pear's if he keered a button for any o' the balance of 'em 'Cindy,' he used to say, 'some gala is purty an' high-steppin', an' some is handy about bakin' an' weavin' an' sech, an' some is peart in 1 arnm'; but it's the average aa counts, 'Cindy.' I'll never forgit that, not if I live a thousan' years. 'It's the average as counts'; I can al'most hear him sayin' that now. lie used to. come to see me every ether Sunday, rain or shine, an' when ther' was a moon, he'd take me to meetin', over to the Chapel, four mile away. The Campbelhtes an' Methodis used to have union zneetin's there, an' revivals, an, shoutin'. Aaron's folks was Campbellites, an' he leant that way, and mine waa Baptist . But we didn't never artry about religion. Bless Tou, no." Then she would detail to us. bit by bit, the current of their closer talks together, as they rode homeward from Church, or sat upon the porch behind the mcrning-glories. It ceuld hardly be called love-making. Aunt 'Cinda herself termed it "sparking" and even that sounded too hectic for an intercourse that had in it apparently so little of passion so small a cnance of heart-break. But perhaps beneath that calm susface, beyond grasp of expression, had throbbed a wealth of reverent and tender preference that waa worth everything else in lira these simple, undemonstrative natures so frequently shame the best of love's examples with their unguessed and quiet power. Certainly this humble woman, no longer young, and living over again that far-off dream, still kept her faith and made a royal comfort of it. And yet, bo far as we could ascertain, her matter-of-fact Aaron lad but once in all their courtship ventured to kits her. "I'll never forget it, not to my dyin' day," she said. It was of a Sunday night, the last Sunday in September, out by the gate, as be waa goin' away.Q We'd been a talkin of things as furrin as could be to parkin,' an' all of a sudden, like' if be'd been possessed, he put his face close up to inine, and I declare to gracious, I couldn't V been more su'prised if he'd 'a' bit me. Land sakes, Aaron 1 I screamed. An' the next minute I snickered right out. I couldn't help it for seein' how flustered he was, an' kind of ondecided. I vow, 1 b'lieve he thought he'd miffed me. But he hadn't. Lordy, Lordy' it comes back to me jest like iwa only yiaterday." Then she dropped her bead and her fla
yers twitched at her apron aa she added in a deprecating tone: You 'uns'll think I'm soft, I expect; but I can't help it. I can't forget some things." The tears in her eyes said as much, and more. They were married in time, we came to know, and went to housekeeping; but they were poor; they had to rent land; bad luck followed their planting, and finally Aaron determined to ge West with the Santa Fe freighters, many of whom, once as poor as himself, had been known to return from that mysterious region with money enough to buy well-improved farms in the Boone's Lick country. 'l didn't cross him about it," said Aunt 'Cinda; "He was aller dreadful sot in his ways, an' could'nt be coaxed ag'in' the grain. That was his weak spot; everybody has one, you know. It was a'most too much for nie to 6ee him start off on sech a journey, but I made myself think it woul turn out for the beet; an' I knowed he'd come tack." Two years passed, however, and he did not return, nor did she hear aught from him.
except that he had duly reached bant re. A third year, almost, dragged away without sight or tidings of him; and then she resolved to move out into Kanals, along the route he had taken "so's to be nighcr to him," she told us, "an' meet him as he come home." And so she had been pushing on from place to place, through hardship and danger, by the great trail across the plans, until now she could see, on a clear day, the outlines of the mountains that she knew he must pass over on his way eastward. She had supported herself by cooking and washing for the freighter, and caring for the si;k who fell in her way, and at length had contrived, after years of "scrimpin aa' dickerin'," as she described it, to secure this iso lated ranch, where she dispensed ho meals at a dollar each, including soda biscuits and the accompaniment of a real tablecloth. And here she waited, watchful and patient, for the truant husband. "He's 6ure to come," she would say, ''and I can't miss him; 'twould n t su'prise me to have him drop in any day." She scanned the faces of the alighting passengers from the stage every evening with habitual eagerness, and yet a trifle timidly, as if doubttul about the kind of reception he would give her; indeed, ßhe said once: "I dunno but it'll ril J him to meet up with me so sudden away out here, an' him a-thmkin' I'm in Missouri; maybe I hadn't orter 'a' come." Kvery day some special dish was cooked as he had been wont to prefer it; the beet bed, in a room by itself, was kept always vacant for him; regularly, each afternoon, she would unloose, her abundant hair and gather it into a long, thick braid, after the obsolete fashion of her girlhood, and tic it with a scrap of ribbon because M Aaron liked it better that way." The fact that she had received but one letter from him in all the leng years did not seem so unaccountable after she informed us that owing to early neglect he was "onhandy with the pen," and generally had his writing done by proxy. In strict truth he probably could not write a word. But he knows figgers just as nat'ral as kin be," she hastened to plead for him, "an' 1 never seed the steer or hog 'at he couldn't guess the hett of nigh onto a few pound; an, nobody could ever beat 'im a cipherin' out corn in the crib." She refused also to confess a mo ment's uneasiness aa to his personal safety; both his absence and his silence failed to dis concert her. "lie kin take keer of hisself anywheres," she declared with evident pride, and if he's done got hurt or made way with, I d have some warn in of it in a dream or somethin'. But I ain't had's much as a sign in the coffee-eroun's to make me afeard. Of course he'll come back. What in the world would he etay away for?" It was idle to dispute such trust, even si lently. Not only that, it ws impossible to avoid sharing it, and soon it became as much our habit as it was hers, to look from day to day for the coming of the absent husband. So minutely did she talk of him that we believed we should recognize him at sight; in fact we felt so sure of this, and expectation came to be so fidgety with us, that often when the weather waa fair, we would stroll out for miles on our ponies to meet the stage and get an earlier glance at the occupants, hopTng thus to spy Aaron, and gallop back to Aunt 'Cinda with the good news of his approach. Such was 'our thought, our talk, as we entered leisurely along the trail one quiet evening, and, rounding a curve, came meeting a single queer, covered wagon, drawn by oxen, and creaking piteously. Inside tho vehicle lay a man, with pallid face and long, straggling whiskers, who raisedhimself on his elbow to salute us, and then tank down again with an expression of pain; near his side slept a baby; the wife and mother sat in front, on a tilting seat, guiding the "critters' with a well-worn Mexican goad. It was a novel sight, and provoked at once both curiosity and sympathy. e lorgot about the stage, we forgot about Aaron; and when the baby awoke presently, and put its tiny fists to its cheeks and gazed at us in shy, debating wonder as if trying to identify us witn something seen in its jut vanished dream we almost ceased to realize the great, farstretching and empty periphery of desert, a child was such a godsend there. "Yes " said the woman as we wheeled about, and rode beside the wagon, with our ponies reined in to suit the alow gait of the oxen, "Yes, I think she is a tolerable nice baby, mvself. We call her Cutie, but her name's Adeline, same's mine. He named her" indicating the pale and silent father. whose thin fingers clutched the child's frock protectingly. 'Has your husband been sick long?" "Mor'n a month." the man answered. 'But I'm pickin'ap now. I aintnigh so porely as 1 was back in the valley. Ii 1 could only get shut o' these rheumatiz, I'd be all right. It's the rheumatiz more'n any thing else." ''It's the mountain fever," remarked the woman, in a kindly whisper; and then, speaking aloud and cheerily, MYes, he's doin' splendid now," she continued, "an don't need nothin' but to keep quiet, 'lesa it mought be wild cherry bitters, if we had 'em. Why, two weeks ago he was jest plain skin and bones. His own mother wouldn't 'a' knowed him." "I seed my ahadder on the grass one day," the man called out, with a grim chuckle, "an' it skeert me," He did not speak again, except in an undertone to the restless child, during the hour or more that we plodded along together; but the woman was talkative, and we gleaned from her, by easy degrees, that they had been living in New Mexico, and were now on their wav back 'to God's Country,'' east of the plafns, "everlastin'ly put out," as she expressed it, ''with the greazers, an' their lazy, triflin', eood-for-nothin' ways." She bad lost one husband there, shot by the sneakin' Apache," and married another, and there Cutie had been born; and they milked goaU there and tied pigs to stakes, and had no society and no rain; and so on and so on. '"Its jest too ornery to talk about," she exclaimed, and then went on talking about it faster than ever; and only our arrival at the ranch cut short her fluent and sneering disclosures. At sight of us Aunt Cinda came hurrying forward. " For pity's sake!'' she said, and waited to be told what it all meant. We repeated briefly what facta we had gathered concerning the travelers, not omitting the baby, and laying some stress upen the man's illness. . . "A sick man?-- answered Aunt 'Cuida,
Fetch him right in. An' the baby, too, 'aa the woman all of 'em," she insisted, and turned to lead the way, murmuring to herself in a pleased manner, "Goodness gracious, a baby I" The sick man rose with a sudden effort, and sat upright. The dusk had thickened and the stars were coming out, and the path to the door of the cabin, along which he cast a yearning look, waa beginning to lose itself in the proximate and dusty cage brush. M I guess I'd better stay in the wagoi," he observed ; 44 the'll be too many of us." And then, glancing skyward, It. a-goin to be a purty night," he added, and dropped back urx n his pallet. Aunt 'Cinda hesitated, listened, faced about, and slowly returned. The mother had just climbed down from her uncertain seat and was holding the baby in her arms while she clumsily adjusted her skirts. With a soliciting gesture, but without speaking. Aunt 'Cinda took the) child, and, stepping aside, turned its little surprised face to the stars and gazed upon it fixedly wishing it were hers, we imagined. "You cunnin
little darlin'," she said, directly, and handel it back in the same peculiar, impulsive manner. Then she moved forward a few short paces, and stood, with bowed head, very close to the wagon. The sick man must have heard her, for immediately, almost, be was sitting up again, leaning out over the wagon-side. Her face, as she luted it, touched his; there was a fluttering instant's pause; she grasped bis band: '-If you ain't Aaron McMillan, ycu re his gtOftl ' We hastened to them. She bad an arm about his neck, now, and bis head was upon her shoulder. In the star-light, he looked to be sleeping. "Don t yju know me, Aaron? ' she said, fervently; "oh, don t you know me! ' 1 be man opened his eyes with a curious start, and regarded her as ono amazed: They told me you was dead 'Cindy." Hespjke slowly, in a choked and wavering lone, and made a motion as if to lie down aeain. "But I ain't dead, Aaron," urged Aunt 'Cinda, tightening her hold upon him, and stroking his temples; fcI ain't dead; don't you see? I'm right here by you, an' a-holdin' your han. I come away out here to meet you, Aaron. Aint you glad to see me? It's been bo long. Don't be mad at me, Aaron, don't. I couldn't stan' it to stay there, wher' ev'ry step I took I got lonesomer an' lonesomer, an it peared to me's if you got furder end furder ofi". But I knowed you'd come back; and sometimes, aron, sometimes "Stop, 'Cindy, stop I" he interposed, with startling abruptness. 'You don't know what a nx 1 m in. But she did know had we not told her, 1 could she not see? that he was verv ill, and weak, and nervous; and he seemed to guess her th night, for in the next breath he said, I dont mean the sickness: and then,. pointing a finger in the direction of the mother and child, he added: "Ihat s my baby, yonder, 'Cindy." He waited for her to reply; he looked up into her face imploringly; but she said not. a word. Surely she had heard him; did she not understand? He waited a moment longer. Then he glanced again at her face, again pointed to the mother and child, and suddenly, with woe-begone but blunt and cruel force, exclaimed: "Cindy, I I've got another wife!" She did not scream, poor woman, nor faint nor stir. The vciceof the child broke the stillness, at length, with a quick, impatient call, like the chirp of a hungry bird. And then Aunt Linda carefully released her arm from about his neck, and turned her head away, and hid her face with her hands, and sobbed: 'Oh, Aaron, Aaron, Aaron!" The sight was not one for strange or ac cidental eye, and we retired, my companion and I, to a respectable distance. What more was said, we could not know; but tney conversed there together for several minutes, the three of them not angrily nor loudly, but very ean e.tly and two or three times we detected the shrill voice of the child s mother above the others, as if in special en treaty. Our hearts involuntarily went out to Aunt 'Cinda; and yet there was the shrinking mother with ber baby; and there was the sorely beset and help:e-s Aaron, also. The stars glittered sharply but coldly; the advancing night made the landscape sin ister and spectr L We did not notice the sick man get out or the wagon; but presently he came moving teward us. On either side of him walked one of the women supporting him and Aunt 'Cinda carried the child. It was a group that Millet would have liked to paint; it seemed a blended part of the grotesque and fluctuating shadows. Their talk had ceased. Their thoughts we could not catch, ot course. But as they drew nigh us, they halted; and, in an anxious, coaxing tone, Aaron said: "Remember, though, that one or t'other cf you must go on with me to-morrow." Lbe women gave their assent, we inferred, for he added, as if in answer, "That's bracin'." Then they resumed their way in silence again, and slowly; and looking after them, we saw them reach the cabin and enter at the open door just aa the stage came rattling up, an hour late, crowded with passengers. The supper was delayed that night, but the quality made ample amends. We had never before seen Aunt 'Cinda's table so invitingly spread, particularly as to canned fruit 8 and unsuspecting tumblers ot jelly and preserves; and there was buttered toast, too, and lumps of old-time loaf-sugar for the coffee. One guest said the feast was good enough for a wedding at which .Aunt 'Cinda colored and sighed forlornly, and they all laughed. Ah, thev did not guess how that suggestive word wounded her! But Aaron was not to be seen nor the woman with the baby; they had eaten by themselves before we were called, as was proper, and were waiting for Aunt 'Cinda in ' the extry room, as she had named it, the room so long sacredly kept for Aaron's coming. And so the mcrritment around the table went on unchecked. The guests were blameless, to be sure; nevertheless their jokes and aughter were exasperating; their very pres enco had the effect of an intrusion. We felt a supreme relief, I know, when it was over at last, and the stage had departed, and the secret was safe; and then we ventured to inquire after tho sick man, and to tender our services, should be need or desire them. "He's weaker'n he lets on," Aunt 'Cinda inforniod us, "an ho don't 'near to have no appetite. I felt so sorry for him, a-tryin' so Lard to eat when he couldn't. It was sech a nioo iuppor, be said. I could 'a' cried to see him a-lookin' so wishin' at them pickled tomatuses like I used to make 'cm back yonder, lie is Aaron, you know;" and she turned from us rather abrubtly, we thought, and left the room. We lit our pipes, and sauntered out to look after our ponies. It had grown much darker. We could not toe the shallow, crawling river. Tho wagon still 6tood by the road tide, the loosed cover flapping like some great fateful wing; the oxen were grazing contentedly a few rods away. From the far-off mystery of space of vagueness, came an echo of a coyote's spiteful challenge. The daily yellow of the stone corral was subdued to the tone of ancient and crumbling ruins; for a mon enl, we felt as if we ought to find mo6S and vines there, uur ponies lay reclined upon the trodden feeding-ground, and did not so much as prick op an ear when we talked to them and patted them, with accustomed familiarity, la
vain we tried to chat of pleasant things, of
other scenes. The solitude would not be disturbed; and somehow, the smoke from our pipes, instead of floating upward, waa wafted back into our faces and confused our sieht When we returned to the cabin, finally, we were surprised, though not displeased. to learn that Aaron wa to share our sleeping-room. They had kindled a blaze for him in the b:g are-place, and bad made him a generous couch of blaakets, clean and white with astonishing sheets and pillow slips, that were full of deep creases, and must have been a long time folded. That bed looked more like home tban anything we had seen for months, albeit there was no bedstead. He evidently felt out of place and embarassed in it; he would have rested better, we fancied, had they given him less of aoflneea and daintiness, and brought him his frontiersman's saddle, with the sheepskin top for a pillow; a droll hint of the kind came over his face, and gave it a downcast expression. We aimed to avoid con versation with him, knowing how fatigued, unstrung, and in ned of sleep he was; but he talked in spite of us, and regardless whether we responded or not. Indeed he seemed morbidly resolute to tell us of him self and his affairs not as one reaching out for pity, but rather as one offering an expla nation. e could not but listen. I was a fool," he said, frankly, "but I meant right, an' what a man means ort'o be sot down for him. It wasn't my fault 'at I didn't git along down ther among the greas ers. Jjuck was ag'in' me from the very jump. Sometimes I axed myself if maybe it wasn't a jedgment onto me; an may be it was maybe it was. I was crazy to git rich you understand." And he paused to indulge a mocking smile. 44 But I meant all the time to go back," he continued, " only I wanted to get ahead first. It would V groun me in an inch 'o my life to V had 'em a-naggin' me all over Boone's Lick about comin' borne dead broke after all my fine talk about gittin' rich. So I jist hel' on, an' kep'a sayin to myself, 'Ole man, play your ban' out, trumps or no trumps. Did I think much about 'Cindy? Well, I rather calkilale my head was full of her. That was the pizenest part of it." He hesitated a moment, reflectively, and then, " She don't know how much I hankered for her," he said undor bis breath. "Ill never git done despisin myself. though," he resumed, ' for not sendin letters to her. But I wasn't a-doin' a bit o' good, an' I thought what was the use o' worryin' her? I d orter a' sent the letters anyhow; it would 'a' been money in my pocket. I was a-reckonin I mought start bact any day a'most. An' I did go back jest as soon's ever I got heeled. It was a wood contract, out to the fort, at sot me up; it fetched me a round thousan' dollars. I didn't stop to send no letter nor nothin' to 'Cindy then. I jes nat rally got up and got. A company o cavalry was goin' across to Fort Smith on t'other trail, you under stand an' I went with 'em. an' saved a week by iL An' when I struck Boone's Lick, whar was , Cindy? Sot out for Kansas five year' ago that harvest, they told me, 'lowin' to come back afore cold wea.her .n' she'd never been heern tell of eence." He went on to relato, with moving artlesenees, how he searched for her, all over the settled portions of Kansas and throujrh the border Counties of Missouri, making inquiry at every house he passed, of every person he met, without once reaching the faint est clue to her whereabouts. "I was clean beat," he declared; "I couldn't make it out. It was like 's if I was tost on the prairie, of a dark night, in the snow. She must be dead, they said." This last sentence wag uttered in a solemn, tremulous tone, as if, after all, he still half believed she was in her grave. It did not take him long to tell the rest; how he returned to New Meiico ''out o' conceit with ev'rylhing," as he phrased it and married a sreond wife, and ot most of his money in sheep, and had the baby born to him, and tried farming a bit, and herded cattle "long 'with the greasers." and fell into a lingering illness, and at last resolved to gather his few remaining effects together, and go back to Missouri again. "One or t'other of 'em will go on with me in the mornin , ' he Eaid, in an aosent and weary way. and then was silent. We remained sitting by his bedside fully an hour; we feared he might awake and feel hurt at not finding some one to talk to. Bit he slept on so quietly and restfully that it seemed useless to wait any longer, and we retired. Our bunk was but acrcss the room from his, and we could easily hear if he called, we said to ourselves, and we would be up very early. It was then 10 o'clock. The fire had dwindled to a handful of waning coals. We tucked our blankets closely about us, and dreamed of home. All at once it might have been but a minute afterward, for all we know; in reality it waa almost daylight we were aroused by shuffling feet and an intense whispering. We leaped out of bed, with revolvers drawn and cocked. A single glance revealed the situation. Thero were the two women bending over Aaron with a bottle and spoons, and a cup of water, a ad a camphorized handkerchief; and he was moaning and tossing with agony. He had grown desperately worse during the night, and his complaining had not disturbed us. But Aunt 'Cinda had heard him, in the next room; perhaps she was awake and listening. She looked up, white and appealing, before we could speak; we understood only too well what 6ho thought. Adeline chaffed the poor fellow's chill hand vigorously, and did not heed us. After a time, with 6uch scant relief as we could cive him, he became quiet (except for his heavy and labored breathing), and we watched him keenly, hoping he would sleep again. But shortly be was convulsed with recurring pain, and called for water. Aunt 'Cinda put the cup to his mouth. Ilia eyes mothers; and he said to her, in a strange, relinquishing voice: "They told mo you was dca 1, 'Cindy." Then his cramped limbs relaxed, and be lay still, and we thought he breathed with less difficulty. When he moved again, presently, it was to put out his hand in doubtful gioping. "l'oor Adoline!'' he said. We drew nearer, on our knees, like persons at prayer. His quivering lips shaped afew words more: 'He good," wo heard him weakly mutter, 'be cood to tho baby." The room became momently lighter; the last of the shadows that had lurked all night in the corners vanished one by one; a crim son flush slowly . overspread the window. The sun was rising. Ho had gone on alone in the morning. A fashionable lady in New Orleans has the credit of originating and cirrying out successful! v the novel freak of giving a party at which ti.-Hue-papcr dresses only should bo worn. I he imported t.ssue papers come in all tho dclicato shades, and in very brilliant and vivid enes. All of the invited guests at once recognized the idea as a happy one, and in their zeal made the result such a complete success that even the originator was astonished. In truth the dresses conjured out of this soft, gauzy material are extremely beautiful. The great variety of colors is practically Inexhaustible, so that every combinatton and etlectlsposeiDie. inen me pa per can be made to imitate almost any kind of trimming, laces, fringes, puffs and ruffles, and all of the indescribable trimmings that can I e produced. by ingenious fingen). It -
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The dresses were made short, of course, e'se tneir iraiity would soon have made them perishable, for even miulins will not stand the contact with boot heels that a trail necessitates. A Bint to th Grumblers. 1 Apples of Gold. 1 "What a noisy world this is!" croaked an old frog, art he squatted on the margin of the pond. "Do you hear those geese, how they scream and hiss? What do they do it for?" ' Ob, just to amuse themselves," answered a little field-mouse. "Presently we shall have tLe owls hooting. What is that for?" "It's the music they like beet." said the moue. "And those grasshoppers; they can't go home without grinding aud chirping. 'hy do they do that?" yh, they are so happy they can't help it," said the mmu "You find excuses for all. I believe you don't understand music, to you like the niaeous noises t 'Well, my friend, to be honest with you," said the mouse, "I don't greatly admire any of them; but they are all sweet in my ears compared with the constant croaking of a frog." A style to dress to be in fashion this spring is called "robe espagnole.'' It consists of black lace flounces placed in a certain way over colored or black duchess satin. The same style will also bo made all in white. In the back on the upper part of the skirt is an enormous moire antique or satin bow. The bow is in the color of the under part of the skirt. For evening wear the waists are low in the neck, with lace over the neck. This kind of dress will doubtless meet with much favor, as it will be too costly to be generally adopted, and will consequently not become common. It is also a change from the draperies so much abused of late. Ivorv mav be dved bv anv of the ordiJ nary methods employed for dveine woolen goodä. INDORSED BY PHYSICIANS, CLERGYMEN. AND THE AFFLICTED EVERYWHERE. THE GREATEST MEDICAL TRIUMPH OF THE AGE. SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVER. Loss of appe tite,Nau3ca,bowels contire, Patn in thellead.witha düU sensation in fhe back part, Jain under the shoulderblade. fullness afterjating, with adisin"clinätion to exertionofboriy or jmindi I r ri t a b i 1 it vo f t e m p e r , Low" spirits. Lo s ofemory, with ä feeling of navlhiTnegIected some duty.reariness. Dizziness I'luttering of th"li eart. Dot before the eyes. Yellow skfn, eadache, Hestlesaness at night, highly colored Urine. IF THESE WARNINGS ARE TOnEEDED, SERIOUS DISEASES WILL SOON BE DEVELOPED. TU ITS FILLS are especial) y adapt ed to such , one dne effect ucharhange of feeling as to astoninh the Miirerer. Ther tnrn .4 ppeMt. and ranie th boOr to Take on rirali. thus lh (lymem Is nourished. and by tliWrToule.trtlonon the DltcMllTrMrtanii, Kcular Mtool are prodiiriKt. I'rlrg a ryiit-i. a.Hprry Stit.T. TUTT'S HAIR DYE, Gray IfAlRorWitiSKPRs chang-Vl to a O lossy Hi.ai-k by a sinel application of this Dyk. It impart a natural color, not Instantaneously. ulJ bjlrueKiaU,or wot bjr rxprras on receipt of SI. Office, 33 Murray St., New York. CDr. TtTra MUrAL mt TluM. t.r-ra.tlwi 4 h rrAil KmwIoU will bo (HH mm .pltmUw.JSl Only Vegetable Compound thai acts directly upon the Liver, and cures Liver Complaints, Jaundice, Biliousness, Malaria, Costiveness, Headache. It assists digestion, strengthens the system, regulates the bowels, purifies the blood. A Book sent free. Dr. Sanford, 162 Broadway, N.Y. . FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. .',"(- liUlJiHUUUilUIlllilli Uli Uli TO AGENTHi GOODS UNSOLD RETURNED. If you are out of employment and want to start in a business you can make from $3 to $10 a day clear, and take no risk of loss, we will send you on receipt of $11, goods that will sell readily in a few days for $25. If the agent fails to sell these goods in four days, they can return all unsold to us, and we will return them their money. Can anything be fairer? We take all risk of loss, and the egent gets started In a business that will be permanent, and pay from $1,000 to $3,000 a year. Ladies can do as well as men. We want an Agentin every County. F ull particulars free. Address U. S. MANUFACTURING CO., 118 Smithfield Street, Pittsburg, Pa. Baker, IIord Sc IlEXDKfCKV Attorneys for pimnun. STATK OP 1XDIAXA, Marion County, br: In the Superior Court of Marlon County, in the State of Indiana. No. 27.:WU. Koom No. 1. Jonathan KdwanK trustee, vs. Jofin V. Bradkhaw, Hardin Purrlsh, the Kurdette Orcan Company, of Krie, I'a.; the Smith Oivan Company, of lSoxton, Man.; James W. Yandesetal. Complaint lor foreclosure of mortgage on real estate. He it known that, on the 21th day of Peeember, 1S-S0. the above named plaintiff, by his attorneys, filed In the office of the Clerk of ihe Superior Court of Marion County, In thestatc of Irdlana.hls t-om-plaint nuninHt the aliove named defendant), and the said pliintifT having ulo tiled In mid Superior Court. In own Court, on the 1 Ith day lof April, 181, the afhdavitof a competent pcrn, showing that taid defendants, Hardin l arrisli. the Uur. dette Organ Company, of Krie, Fa. : the Smith Orcan Company, of Himion, Mass., and James W. Yandes, are not residents of the State of Indiana, and are neceary parties to the complaint in said muse, which Is an .rtion In relation to real estate nituate in the County of Marion and State of Indlaua; and w hereas said plaintiff having hy lndoraement on aii complaint required said deicnaant to appear in saia court and annweror demur thereto, on the 6th day of June, 1881. Now. therefore, hy order of wild Court, said defendant, laut above named, are herebv notified of the tiling aud pendeucy of mid complaint against them, and that unless they appear aud answer or demur thereto at the railing of said cause, on the 6uh day of June, 18H1. the same being the first Judicial day of a term of said Court, to be begun ana neia at me court House, in we city of Indl ananolift. on the first Mondav In June IHM said complaint, and the matters and things therein contained and alleged, will be heard and de termined in their absence. . DA.N1Ü it, EANSDE1L, Clerk.
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Kaier, IIord i IlEvnKirKS, Atterneys for Plaintiff. STATE OF INDIANA. Marion County, ss: In the Superior Court of Marion County, in the State of Indiana. No. 27,00. in Room No. 1. Complaint to foreclose mortgage in real estate. Jonathan Edwards. Trustee, vs. John AV. BradKhaw, Hardin Parrish. The Eurdette Organ Company, of Erie, Penn.; The Smith Urgun Comi.uny, of Boston. Mass.; James W. Yandesetal. Be It known, that on the 2öth day of February, ISM. the above named plaintiff, hy his attorneys, filed In the ofbee of the Oitk of the Superior Court of Marion County. In the State of Indiana, his complaint aKnint the above mimed defendants: and said plaiiuift havtnealfofi d in open tknirt of said Superior Court, on the 11th day of April, l.vsl, the affidavit of a competent person, showing that said defendants, Hardin Parriib, The Bnrdette OrKan Company, of Ene. Penn.; The Smith Oijran Company, of Boston, Mass.. and James V. Yandes aie not residents of the State of Indiana, and are necessary parties to the complaint in said cause, which is an action in relation to real estate situate iu the County of Marion, and State of Indiana: and w hereas said plaintiff having by indorsement on said complaint required said defendants to appearin said Court and answer or demur thereto on the 6th day of J une, Now, therefore, by order of said Court, ssid defendants last above named i re hereby notified of the tiling and pendeney of said complaint against them, and that unless thev appear and answer or demur thereto, at the calling of said cause on thfith day of June, ISM, the same being the fint Judicial day of a term of said Court, to De ooirun and held at the Court House in the city of Indianapolis, on the first Monday in June. lsl. said complaint and the matters and thinw therein con tained and alleged, will be heard and determined in their absence. DAN. M. RANSDELL, aprl;t-:w Clerk. Ckopset &. Cooper, Attorneys for Plaintiff. STATE OF INDIANA, Marion County, w: In the Superior Court of Marion County, in the State of Indiana. No. 27.722. Room No. 3. Complalat for foreclosure of mortgage on real estate. Smith II. Myers vs. Francis M. Ramsey et al. Be It known that on the 2fith day of March, ISM. the above named plaintiff, bv hia attorneys, hied in the ofllceof the Clerk of the Superior Court of Marion County, in the State of Indiana, his complaint against the above named defendant and others, and the said plaintiff having also, on Maren M, 1881, filed in sali Clerk's office the affidavit of a competent person, showing that said, defendant. Manderville Ramsey, is not a resident of the State of Indiana; that "he is a nece-ary party to the above entitled action, which action is in relation to real estate, for the foreclosure of a mortgage thereon. Now. therefore, bv order of uid fYmrt Iii it. fendant last above named is hereby notified of the filing and pendency of said complaint against him. ana that unless he appears and answers oi demurs thereto at the calling ol said cause ou th 6th day of June. 181. the same beirie th first Judicial day of a term of said Court, to bf beguu and held at the Court House in the city ol Indianapolis, on the first Monday in June, lsjl. said complaint and the matters ana things therein contained and alleged will be heard aud determined In his absence. DANIEL M. RANSDELL, Clerk. mch6-3w ' Baker, IIord & IIevdricks, Attorneys lor Plaintiff. STATE OF INDIANA, Marion County, m. In the Suieilor Court of Marion County, in the State ot Indiana. No 2fi.S37, in Room No. . Com plaint to foreclose mortgage on real estate. Jonathan Ed-vards. Trustee, vs. John Carlisle. Priscilla Holmes Drake, Samuel P. St) eng. Sam uel Miner et al. Be it known, that on the 2Sth dav of Mav. 1S.S0 the atove named plaintiff, by his attorneys, filed in the office of the Clerk of tho Superior Court of Marion County, in the State of indiaa. his complaint agnlust the above named defendants, and the said plaintiff having also tiled in open Court of said t-uoerior Court, on the 9th day oi April, issi, the afhdavitof a comietent person, showing that said defendants,--priscilla Holmes Drake, Samuel I. Stroinr. aiKl Samuel Miller, are not residents of the State of Indiana, and are nec essary parties defendant to the complaint in said cause, which is an action in relation to real estate situate in the County of Marlon, and State of Iu dlana: and whereas said plaintiff having byl dorsement on said complaint required said I fendanta to appear In said Court aud answer demur thereto, on the 6th day of June, 1&1 Now. therefore, by order of said Court, said defendants last above named are hereby notified of the tiling and pendency of said complaint against them. and that unlcsa they appear and answer or demi r thereto, at the calling of said cause, on the 6th dav of June, lKSl, the same M ing the first judicial day of a term of said t'ouft, to be In-gun and held at the Court House in the city of IndianupolU. on the first Monday in June. 1!. said complaint and the matters and things there in contained and alleged will be heard and determined in their absence. DANIEL M. RANSDELL. apr!3-w3w Clerk. "VTOTICE Is hereby given to the citizens of IN th(Slxteenth (16th) Ward. In the city of Indianapolis. Center Township, Marion County. In diana. that we. Hugh Burns and C. Con well, male Inhabitants of said Ward, over the age of twentyoue vears. will apply to the Board of County Commissioners of said County at their next meeting, for a license to sell for one year, pirituous, vinous and malt liquor, in a less quantity than a quart at a time, with the privilege of allowing the same to be dnink on our premises. The precise location of the premises whereon we desire to sell said liquors, 1 described as follows: Lot No, 12, square ", and known as No. 1W) South Illinois streer. In the city of Indianapolis, Center Township. Marion County. Indiana, HL'UH BURNS fc C. CONWKLL. NERVOUS DEBILITY HUMPHR Indiscretion, Iii Vital Weakness and Prostration from over-work or nrl nromntlT Been In use 20 years, C I. h most success- O All TOO SICK Ol AI IITAUO? 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RICORD'8 VITAL RESTORATIVE has been scrutinized and indorsed bv the Academy of Medicine in Paris aa an infallible specific for the above; contains no phosphorus, cantharides or other poison; is purely Vegetable, producing no reaction, and is permanent in effect; ia a sugar-coated pill, and can be had of Levessor & Co.. 10 bis Richelieu. Paris, France; or of DR. tf. BROWN SIGESMOND. Proprietors. Address 40World Building. New York. None genuine without the 6ignatre of 8. B. Figesmoud on side of each box. Box of 100 1111s, ti; of to. $10: sent ty mail upon receipt of price. Sold bv all dnicsista. CERTIFICATE. Paris. Jnlv IS, 'ls.73. 19 Hue d la Paix. Outof 349 patients treated. 65 were cured within 30 days. 115 In six weeks. 150 between two and three months, 2 between five and six months, 1 is nine months. DR. M. PERIGORD. Medicln de la Hopitai Charity. Notice Is hereby given that T. A. Smith, of St. Louis, and R. L. De Lisser. of New York, are nolonger authorized to actaa agent for Ri cord's Vital Restorative. CAUTION. A former agent of mine In New York is now advertising a spurious imitation of" the celebrated Dr. Ricord's Vital Restorative, under the assumed name of Dr. Ricord's Restorative Pills, to deceive the public. The testimonials of Drs. R, Blanchard. C. Chevalier. M. Perigord. Raspail. Liebig and Sir Thompson are copied from my circulars. The genuine Ricord's Vital Restorative can be had oi Levassor A Co., 10 bis Rue Richelieu. Paris; 40 World Building. New York, and at all wholesale and retail Druirglsts all over the world. 8. BROWN SIGESMOND. M. D., Gmeral Agent for the ü S. and South America. Send stamp for Descriptive Circular. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned., administrator of the estate of George Legate, deceased, will sell at private sale, bv virtue of an order of the Marion Civil Circuit Court, the following described real estate, situate in Marion County, State of Indiana: The undivided twothirds parts of the following described part of lot two (2), lu square twenty-seven (27), in the city of Indianapolis, to wit: Bccinning on the east line of said lot two t2). ten (10) feet south of the northeast corner thereof; thence west one hundred and rinety-five (195) feet; thence south fifty Iß) feet; thence east one hundred and ninety-five (19S) feet: thence north fifty (50) feet to the plaev beginning. Applicatiou of purchafrs wjv be. received by me. at Edinburg, Ind.. or at ne law office of Byfield A Howland. 5 skI 7 Hub'mrd's Block, Indianapolis, until 30Ui day ot April, 1L TERM3 or SALE: One-fourth cash, ne-fourth hi six months, onefourth in twelve months, and one-fourth in eighteen months from date of sale, the purrha"., to cive his notes for the deferred payments, w ita 6 per cent. Interest, attorney'! fees, aud waiving valuation and appraisement laws. JOHN A. THOMPSON. mar!6-w4w Administrator. NOTICE. Notice Is herebv given that the underlined guardian of Claude Legate, minor, will sell at private sale the following dcMTibed real eitatesituatein Marion County, state of Indiana, to-wit: The undivided one-third iart of the following described part of lot two (J), in square twentyseven (27), In the city of Indianapolis, to-wit: Beginning on the east line of said lot two (2). tfn (10) feet so nth of the northeast irner there: thence west one hundred and ninety-five (19f) feet; thence south fifiy (5 fett: them east ose hundred and ninety-live (l'J") feet: thence nortl fifty (50) fet to the place of lx'Kinnir.g. ' Application of purchasers will t-e received at the law oiiice of Byfield & Howland, Nos. b and 1 Hubbard's Block until the 30Xtt day of April, 1SU. Terms, one-fourth cash, one fourth in six. onefourth In twelve and one-fourth In eighteen months from date of fale, the purchaser giving notes at 6 per cent. Interest and attorney fees, waiving valuation and appraisement laws, secured by mortgage on the propcrtv. SAMUEL CUT SINGER, Guardian. Indianapolis. Ind., March 14. 1S1. marl6-4w 0 lo LAtiy . .wir c.ci-- ..1- , v vI have a pomtive Munljr for Ihn ahn. l:rur ? bja Its use tnotutandsof eeol LHiti.Ujii1 and oi k Standina; harn been cured. Indent, so tmnr (bL fith in it efficacy. Hint Iwfll a.n t TWO BOTTLL. FKER.tntmthnr itnor wtlh a VAXUABLL TRKATIsr. on lh to aor anfferrr. fWwe Kitt ad P. U. ai. Ureas Vli. J. A. bLOCU. IU fvarl bU 3ew kotfc
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