Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 31, Number 25, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1883 — Page 7

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNEsbA if. JULY 25 1883.

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IST STDHKT BHTSAOHT. Erin, oar conn try: oar d?ar one! Saaüer our days irrow. and sadder; er a promise before IJlee, Hardly record behind. Y.vtt a j earn inn for greatness, Kver a crying for freedom, Kver a failure on failure: Ty children, untrue, disunited; Blind mea leading blind. Oh. for a leader to lead us; O God, for a leader to lead in! To teach uii our strength and our weakness, To tell all the world we are true, Oh. tbat one rose op among us Who saould be as the voice of the. Erin! The cry for which we have waited. The cry that haa never been ottered " A leader to show us our trouble. And meet it, and carry us through. But never Pie true one arises; Ooly false leaders, self seekers, i-hwim the world ail our folly. All that is wort in an, weakest; Always the ielJi;h a- d little. Never the true and the atrouz. Branding us unco the nations As one wDich has beileied tu birthright; Yellinr for rights wieh re no rights, Learinz unsroken our wroog. a O, (trees Isle In the ocean. Laud of the soldier who fears not: Land of the warm-hearted comrade, Laad of the true-hearted maid! Fought have our fathers how nobly! Joy tiure has been In the old time; &ongs in the past. In thy sunshine None can sidsi uow. iu the shade! Ail our hearts' gladness is darkened, Heavy itame lies upon ns. iaht : We have not hin? to fight for. LUhonored we are. and dismayed. We hear our own false ones belie us; V'e bear how the Knglish mi.judjje us; We Lear their pity and biame. But we know tüe tire of our spirit, And we know that we are nibunderstandea. We are proud, and despite a' 1 the pity, And yet wo have no voice to speak with. And needs must abide in our shame. Kot so ia olden time. Erin, Once thou wert famed among Nations Fcr piety, honor acd learning. Peace, and good will unto men. Holy men came from alar cJ. Lived tranquil Uvea in toy shelter. And among turbuent Nations Thou sentcsl glad tidings again. But bow we are fallen are fallen! ll9Coid and tumult and murder. Clamor and impotent ravings. Are the voices we give to the world. We are slaves to our own meanest passions, The tla cf mad license is brandished. The i!ag of old Freedom is furled. Because of our love of our country. Became we are simple and trustful. Because our hearts aoon may be tired, .vo twice be the shame upon those Who knew it made Erin the- watchword To make us unworthy of Erin, To acad us to murder and madness, Aua make us our own hardest foes. ' And because of our lore of our country, Hecause we are simple and trustful. Because our hearts noon miy be fiied. 0 Uod that a leader would rise To fpeak for our desolate country To snow us the way we may serve her. To wipe oat our shame and dishonor. And open our enemy's eyes! The Spectator. TUE lOUXU ENGINEER. A Mother's Story. "The young m&n you met at the gate, eir? Yea, that is my ion my boy Jack. 'Ycu noticed tte eears on his face, eir, and thought, may be, that they spoiled feituraa meant to be handsomer 'Ah, air! that was because you did not know! Why, these red marks make him more beautiful to me now thn when, a baby in my arms, with yellow curls and laughing e es and a ekin like a rose-leaf, the the people hurrying in and out of the trains would turn to look and s teile at him, and pra:ae him to each other, speaking low, miy be, but net too low for a mother's quick, proud ears to heart Fcr we lived ia & little home cloe by the station, and when I heard the whistle of his father's train, I ued to snatch the boy from his Cradle, or off the floor where he sat with his little playthings, aal run down to the farther end cf the long depot, where the engine always halted, to get the smile and loving vcrd that my heart lived on all hy. vNot the least bit afraid was the bby of all the whutling and clinging of bells, the greaai-g cf the wheels and puffing of the steam. lie would laugh and spring so in my arms that I could Ecarcely hold him, till his father would reach down sometimes and lift him into the engineer's cab and khs him for ore precious minute and then toaa him dewn to me again. 'When he grow & little older ho was never plajing horse or soldiers, like tho other little fellows around; it was always a iaiiroad train that he wa3 driving. All the smcothest strips out of billeta of kindling wocd went to bui Id tracks over the kitchon floor, hither and hither, crossing ani recrofsicg each other. 'Don't move my switch, mother dear?' he used to cry out to me. 'You'll wreck my train for surer ''So 1 had to go softly about my work, with scarce a place sometimes to set my foo t. And all the chairs in the house would be ranged for car, the big rocker, with the tea-bell tied to its back, for the engine; and there he would sit perched up by the hour tegcther, making believe attend the valves and shculkg to the fireman. "I shall never forget the first time his father tock him to ride on the engiae. Jack had t egged over and over to go, bat his father alwaya bade him wait till he was older. So I had said," ' 'Don't tease father an more, Jack dear,' acd like the true little heart he was, he had not said another word about for a muter of eii month or mere. 'i'ut that day tuch a wuhful look came into his face, and he pulled himself up tail ard straight, and said qiite foflly, hi) voica trete bhcg a little, 'Fainer, do you think I am grown encugh now?' 'Lcokirg at him I saw two tear in his pretty eyes. I think his father saw thetn, too, fcr he turned to me in a hurry, and said he: We meet the up. train at Lauzton.Marr. and "Will Brown will bring the little chap V ÜB- BUl EbJBigUt, A IUU llUSi uu jrvit ssyi '"What could I say but yesT At suppertime he wa3 back aaia, but he could not oat. Iiis ejes were like stara, and there was a hot, red ipot cn each cheek, so that I feared he would be ill. And I had thought he would never be done talking, but now he said icirca word. What wai it like, Jackie?' I aikad him. 'O mother! ho said, 'it wasnt like anything!' He fat for a minute thinking, then he said, 'Unless it was like that you read laei ounaay. And what was that, Jack? I aik4, for The wings I bad quite forgotten. 'Don't you know, mother? of the wind 1' That was not his la t ride on the engine by many times for, as he grew older, his father would take him often, on Saturdays or other half-holidays. lie was perfectly trusty and obedient. 1 believe he would have his right hand cnt off sooner than have meddled with anything: bathe knew every valve and screw and gauge, and watched every turn of his father s hand acd learned the signals all along the line, so that my husband said to me more than once, " I brieve in my heart, Mary, that if I should be struck dead on the engine. Jack cculd run her throuzh without a break! 'He ws in ichovl and learning fast, but

out of h&urs he was always studying over

books about machinery and steam. Such an odd child as he was, with thoughts far beyond his years I Sometimes, sitting here by myself, I go over in my mind the strange things he used to say to me in those days. I remember that one evening he had been reading for a leng time in some book that he had got out of the public library; butby-an-by he stepped and leaned his head on his hand, looking into the coals. All at once: 44 'Mother said he, 'ian't it a wonderful thing that God could trust men with it?' "With what, Jack?' " '"With the steam the powar in it, I meant It was a long time before He did. But when the right time came, and somebody listened, then he told. "'U mother I'. said he, with his eyes shining, 'what must it have been to be James Watt, and to listen to tuch a secret as that?' "In a minute he spoke again. V 'And it's never aafe to forg9t to listen, became we can't know when Ue might speak, or what there might be to hear!' "I could not answer him for a choking in my throat, but I laid down my knitting and put my arm around him: and he looked up into my face with something in his ejes that I never forgot. "We were getting on well then. The little houze and garden were almost paid for, and we thought that nowhere in the world were happier people than we, or a brighter, cosier home. My husband and 1 were always talking o! this and that to be dene for Jack as soon as the last payment should be made. But before the money was due my husband came heme cick one day. "Don't be frightened Mary," he avd, "I t hall be bttter to-morrow." Eut he only gTew worse next day. It waa lung fever that he hai, and for many da j s we thought he must die. Yet he rallied after a time though he kept his hacking ccugb and eat up and moved about the house, and at last thought himself strong enough to take hu place again. But that was too much, for at the end of the first week he come home and fell fainting on the threshold. "It's of no use, Mary," he said, after he came to himself. "I can't run the engine, and if I could, it isat right for peopio's lives to be trusted to auch weak hands as ruinel" "He never did any regular work after that though he lived lor a year." 'Consumption is a terrible disease, sir I To tee one that you would give your heart's blood to save slipping, slipping away before ycur eyes, and you helpless to hold him back by so much as a hair's breadth from the black gulf of death; ah, sir I I trpst you have sever learned how hard it jsl "Young aa he was, Jack was my stay and comfort through that dark time. My poor husband had matten in his mind that he longed to speak to me about but I alwaya put him off, for I could not bear to listen to an j this g like his going away from us.

"liut at last, the very day before the end cme, aa I sat by his bei holding his hand in mine, he said, very gantly but firmly: "Mary, wife, I think you must let me r-pa&k to you tc-,Jay!" ''1 fell to crying as if my heart would break, and he drew a pitiful eigh that went I ke a sword through my breast; yot I could not stop the sob;?. Then Jack rote up from the little etool where he had sat so quietly that I had almost forgotten that he was ' there, and cams and touched m?. 'Mother, dear mother P' he said; and as I locked I saw his face perfectly white, but there were no tears in his eyai. Mother!' he said again, 'please go away for a little while. 1 can hear what father wants to say.' "You will thir.k me cowardly, sir. bt I did as the child bade me. 1 lefi the door ajar, and I could hear my husband's weak voice, though I could not understand tho words, and then ray brave bov's answers. Clear and low ; cot a break or tremble In the sweet voice. Acd at last Jack said: 'Ilth&t all, dear father?' and Yee, I will be sure te remember it every word!' 'Alter it rcaa all oyer and we tai time to look about us, we found some debts left and very little money. It was a hard thing for me, that had had for to long a strong, loving arm between mo and every care, to have to think and plan how to make ends meet, when I could not even start evenly at the beginning. But Jack came to my help egain. " 'Father said that you were never to work hard, dear mother, because you were not strong, but that I must take care of you some way. He thought you could lot two or three rccrcs to ledgers may be, and that the best tbiDg for me just now would be to get a trainboy's place. lie said the men on our road would be sure to give ma a chanca for his take. "I do not know that I had smiled before since his father died, but when I heard him say 'our road,' in that little proud tone he had, 1 caught him to my heart and laug tied and cried together. "And I spoke to Mr. Withers about it only yesterday,' he went on, 'and he said that Tom Gray is going to leave and I can have his ctance and begin next week, if I iike. What do you say, dear mother?' "O JackP 1 said, 'how can 1 get through the long, lonesome days without you? And if anything should happen to you. l should die! Don't mother P' he said, gently, for the tears were in my eyes again. Bat I would net heed him. "And you to give up your school I I cried. And all our plans for you to come to caught!' "Father thought of that, too," he ans wered. ' But he laid the whole world bblongel to the man tbat was faithfnl and true. And 1 promised him. You can trmt me, motherr" 'Trust him? Ah, yes I he had strack the light chord at last, and I lifted my head and dried my tears. Whatever unseen dangers I might fear for my bov would be of the body, cot of the soul, 'Faithful and true!" I thanked God and took courage. It was wonderful how he succeeded with the bocks and papers atd the other things he sold, lhere wai something in him that male him a favorite with every body. I have bean told by more than one that the sight of his 'rank, handgeme face wai like sunshine, and tbat people bought of him whether they wanted anything or not. "Well, the years went by and he grew up working his way from one position to aa other, on the road trusted everywhere. He was my own boy still, though he was so tall and streng, with his bright chestnut curls turned chestnut brown, and a silken fringe shading the lips that kept their old, loving khses for me alone. It waa not very long that he had hal the !)lace of engineer, which he had wanted ao eng. He had a day off, and was doing some little things for me about the house and garcen, when one of the depot nnli came running up the path calling for him. "Mr. Harding wants you instantly, Jack!' cried the man. The Jersey express ahould have left the depot five minutes ago, and the engineer haa just fallen down in a fit. CJirtis and Fitch are both off on leave, and Mr. Harding aays there's nobody left but you that he'll trust with the train." "II'' cried Jack, in a maze. "The Jsrsey express ! And I never drove anything but a freight train! Well! well!" cried the man, impatiently,

'don't step to argue I Uvde s is or Jar

nd here's a minute and a half gone already!" ''Jack seemed to come to himself at that. He darted one smile at me, and was off like a shot, drawing on his coat as he ru. Ia leu time than I take in telling it, I hetrd the aignal of the outgoing train and knew that my boy waa trusted with the task that used to be given only to the most intelligent aid careful men of the service. 'They brought him back to me that n'uht, sir, and laid him on his father's bed; and, by piece-meal, then and afterward, 1 ljarnui what had happened that day. "The train starting out so late, they were fcrced to make up time somewhere on the line. So, on that long, straight stretch of track through the valley, they were makiag sixty miles an hour. Tho train fairly fUw. Jack could feel the air strike his face like a sharp wind, though it was a balmy spring day. "Then an awful thing happened! The great connecting-red of the driving-wheel on the right of the engine broke. Jack aeemed to live ail his life over in that one terrible instant when he saw the end of tho rod awing cpward. It struck the cab under him and dashed it into a thousand pieces, and he knew no more till a horrible agony awoke him where he had fallen senseless on the engine. 'Burned and almost blind, wUh the flash scalded and torn from his hands, he remembered his engine, with its open throttle, leaping cn to certain destruction. He seamed to see the parsengers inside the long train, as so many times in the old days when he called the morning papers through the cars. "He knew how they looked and what thsy were doing the men reading, smoking,talk. ir got the elections, the price of gram, or how Stocka went up last week; women, with crowing, dimpled babies in their armi; little children crowding to the windows, vainly trying to count the whizzing telegraph poles; jourg, happy couples going on weldingji.urnejs maybe, and others coming hon) who had been a long time away. "He remembered that, as he hurried to his place at the front, that day, a little girl with a cloud of golden hair leaned from a carwindow.to givo one more good-by kiss to her father on the platform. 'Take good care of mamma, darling!' he had heard the gentleman say. 'The fireman no coward, either, was Tim Harbrook, but with wife and babies at home let himself down from the tender and escaped. So might my Jack have done. But he crept along the side of the leaping engine, carefully and painfully he swung himsell into his place, and with every motion of his hands an untold agony, he reverse! tha engine and put on the air-brake. "Then the train stopped, snatched back from the pit s mouth, and they took my boy frcm his poet 'faithful and true!' "It was a long time before Jack's b ims were healed. The road people came often to see him no men could have been kinder and every week his wages came in full. "But one evening after he had begin to get out a little, one of hia mates cme in. Come, Jack, old fellow, you'll be mopsd to death here!' he said. 'You want a change. There's a big meeliog of the road folks over at the hall to-night. I'm just on my way. Come along!' 'What sort ot a meeting?' sail Jack. 'O.I cant aay exactly something interesting, they told me, and everybody invited.' "He stole a queer look at ma, and I knew he wanted me to help htm. So, as i really thcugkt it might do Jack good. I said: "rep. Jack, go along with Tom.' 'But I'm not presentable with this fao!' said Jack. I 'Pshaw, man ! it's evening, and nobody'll

nctico. Leastways, they needn't! "With a little more coaxing, Jack set off with him. - I had hardly heard the gate Click, whtn the door opened again, and Jen ny Brown came in like a sprite. "(joicki quick, Jlrs. liurton! xut on your bonnet!' she whispered. Where? What ao you meaa: 1 sau, ... A t I . , ,, T for I was frightened. "io the meeting! Hurry, or we shall be later "She was tyiflg my bonnet strings under my chin, as she spono, and she bad the house door locked and me do wn the girden path acd out of the back gate, fairly without my will, if he hurried me across the square, and puthed me through the crowd arouni the haii entry t e. "I was cut of breath with nervousneis and last walking, eo we sa down in a back seat. Tteiocm was full. There were a great many adies there, and on the platform sat the Su perintendent and several of the D.rec'x of the read. Everybody seemed to be whispe; ing and smiling and looked backwards to wards the door, and I looked too, though I didn't know why. Then the door opened and Jack cam 9 111 with Tom. I heard somebody on the other side ot me whisper. mava nei" and an other and anotl cr, and a nutle crept through' the place, and then, all at once auch a cheer went up as, 1 can truly say, 1 never heard in all my life before no, not even when the trcopa came home from the war. The paj pie stood up, and the ladies waved their white handkerchiefs. The Superintendent tried to speak, and rarped on his little table, but all in vain, un til the crowd had hai their three times three. And through it all I watched my boy. Ue looked around him, dazed at first, by all the tumult, and . trying to know what it meant; but wherever he might turn his eyes he met a hundred others smiling on him, and a score of hands stretched out to him as he r cased, and, all at once h j kne-! Üiir. I can not tell Toa about it! How tl ey carried him to the front, though not on tlep.al'orm there he would not go how ttey found me out and made me sit b3r.de him; how there were speeches and handsi akings and laughicg and crying. . "And, at last, the Supariaiend&it said that tl ere was a Utile child there, tt e grand Caughter cf the Pre ident of the road, who hid been with her mother on the train thit tity, and that she had deen Selectol by many plateful friends to present a little toU a a u tte man whose faithful courage had savdl so many lives. "Then a beautiful lady, all in soft, rustling iilk, came up the aisle, leading the loveliest child I ever saw, with a great glory of golian t air around her head, like the picture of aa ngel. I felt Jack itar., for it was the very child whose fac9 had come to him in that awful moment on the flying encrine. "The little thing Jet go her mother's hni as she came near, looking up with shy blue eyes, and in her small fingers was a purse of gold. 1 0U could see the great coins shining through the silk netting. She held it up to him, and all tne room was still as death. I heard one great sob rise in my boy's throat, and then he lifted the child in his arm!, and stood ep. holding her straight and tall. "But he did not take the purse. 'Nj, darling!' he said, in a low, tender voicj, so clear that everybody heard Then he kiuei her. and lifted one long curl from her na:, 'This is the only gold I want!" be sail, acd looked at the child' mother with a q ns ticn in his eyes. "The Jadv nodded, and my djt took out a little pair of sci&sors from his vost pocket, and cut the curl off gently, and pat it carefully away. "And, sir, ir they had cheered bafore, what was it now? The arched ceiling raug, th gas jets Cared and flickered, and the vary pendants cn the chandelier clash)! tog at a er.

"But he would not take the noney the a

cor afterward. "It is not ours! What can wa it with it? We can not throw it away!' the Sapariiitendent eaii. "I'll tell you, then, sir! said.Jsck, at laft. Brakeman Jim Flaherty wai k'.Uai last week. He left a sick wife and six little children. Give the money to then!' "And so they did. O-.'ow yoa kn:v. sir, what the acara on my boy 'a face mean to me. I read in the red maikr, 'Faithful and true!' aad I would not have them changed for the cat-o!-arm of any king on any throne! Tlie Bad Boy. I Peck's Sun. I "Here, condemn you, you will pay for that cat," said the groceryman to the bad by, as he came in the store all broke up, tae morning after the 4th of July. "VV hit cat?- said the boy, as he leaned against the zinc ice be x to coal his back, which had been having trouble with a bum h of fire crackers in his pistol pocket, "We haven't ordered any cat from here. Who or dered any cat sent to our house? We get our sausage at the market," and the boy rubbed soma cold cream on fans noee and eyebrows, where the skin was off. 'ie, that is all right enough, said the grocery man, 'but somebody who kn3w where that cat slept, in the box of sawdust back of the store, filled it full of fire crackers ednerday forenoon, when I was out to see the procession, and never notified the cit. and touched them off, and the cat went through the roof of the shed, and she hasn't got hair enough left on her to put in tea. .Now, you didn t show up all the forenoon, and I went and asked your ma where you was, and ane saia you naa Deen selling up four nights straight along with a sick boy in the third ward, and you were sleeping all the forencon of the 4th of July. If that is ao, that lets jcu out on the cat, but it don't stand to reason. Own up, now, wm you sleeping all the forenoon of the 4th, while other boys ivore celebrating, cr did you scorch my cat?" and the grocery man looked at the boy aa though he would believe every word he said, if he was bad. "Well," said the bad boy, as he yawned as though he had been up all night, "1 am innocent of Bitting up with your cat, but I plead guilty to sitting up with Duffy. You see, I am bad, and it don't make any differ ence where I am, and Lruuy thumped me once, when we were playing matbles, and I saia i wouia get even wun mm some time. ilia ma washes tor us, and when she told me that her boy was sick, with fever, and had nobody to stay with him while she was away, I thought it wouid be a good way to get even with Duffy when he was weak, and I went down there to his shanty aad gave him hia medicine, and read to him all day, and he cried, 'cause he knew I ought to have mauled him, and that night I sat up with him while bis ma did the ironing, and Duffy waa so glad that I went down every day, and stayed there every night, and fired medicine down him, and let hia ma Bleep, and Duny has got mashed on me, and he tajs l win do an acgei wnen i aie. Last night makes nve nights 1 have sat up with him, and he has got ao he can eat beef tea atd crackers. My girl went back oa me 'cauee she said I was sitting up with some other girl. She aaid that Daffy story was Uo thin, but Duffy's ma was wasaing at my girl's house and she proved what I sail, and 1 was all right again. 1 slept an the torecoon the 4th, and then ftayed with Daffy till 4 o'clock, and got a furlough and took my girl to the boldiers' Home. I hal rather set up with Daffy, though." 0, get out. You can't make me believe j ou had rather stay in a sick room and set up with a boy, than to take a girl to the I'.h of July," said the grocery man, as he took a brush and wiped the saw dust on some Dottles ot pepperaauce that he was taking out of a box. "You didn't have any trouble with the girl, did you?" "No not with her, said the boy, as he looked into tho iittlo round zinc miircr to see if hia eyebrows were beginning to grow. "But ner pa is so unreasonable. I think a man OUght tO know better than to kick a boy right where he has had a pack of firecrackers explode in his pocket. You see, when I brought tee girl back home, she was a wreck. Djn't you never tako a girl t the 4th of July. Take the advice of a boy who has had experience. We hadn't more than get to the Soldiers' Homo grounds before some boys who were playing tag grabbed hold of my girl's crushed strawberry polo naise and ripped it ou. That made her mad, er d she wanted me to take offense at it, and I tried to reason with the boys and they both jumped on me, and I see the only way to ect out of It honorabi , was to get out real spry, and I got out. Thea we sat down un der a tree, to eat lunch, and my girl swallowed a pickle the wrong way, and I pounded her on the back, the wav ma does me when I choke, and the yelled, and a policeman grabbed me and chook me, and asked me what I was hurting tbat poor girl tor, ana told me if I did it again he would arreet me. Everything went wrong. After dark sjmebedy fired a Roman candle into my girl's hat, and set it on fire, and 1 grabbed the hat aid stamped on it, and spoiled her hair that her ma bought her. By gosh, I thought her hair was curly, but when the wig waa off, her own hair was as straight as could De. But the waa purty, all the sam. We got utder another tree, to get away from the smell of burned hair, and a b)y set off a nigger chaser, and it ran right at my girl's feet, and burned her stockings, and a woman pur, tie fire out for her, while I looked for the bey that fired the nieger chaser, but 1 didn't vtantto find him. bae was pretty near a wreck by that time, though she had all her diesa left except the polonaise, and we went aid sat under a tree m a quiet piaco, ard l put my arm around her aad told her never to mird the accidents, cause it would bsdark when we get home, and, ust then a spark droppe d do wn through the tree and fell in my pittol pocket, right next to her, where my bunch of fire crackers was, and th-jy began to go off. Well, I never saw such a sight as she was. iier drees was one ot thew mof Quito bar. cheese cloth dresses, aul it burned just like punk. I had preience of mind enough to roll her on the grass ana put out the fire, but in doing that I neglested my own conflagration, and when I got her put out, my coat tail and trowsera were a total loss. My. but she looked like a goose that haa been picked, and I looked like a 6 reman that has fell through a ha'.chway. My girl wanted to go home, and I took her home, and her ra was setting on tne trout ttfps, and he wouldn't accept her, looking that way. He said he placed in my posieslion a whole girl, clothed and in her right mied, and I bad brought back a burnt oner ing. Ue teaches in our Sunday-school, and knows how to talk pious, but his boots are offul thick. I tried to explain that I was not responsible for the fireworks, and that he could brine in a bill against the gjvernment, and 1 showed him how I was bereave! of a ccat tail and seme pants,but he wouldi't reason at all. and when hia foot hit me l tr ouebt it waa the resurrection, sure, aad when I got over the fence, and had picked mvself ud I never stopped im l got to u nf's and 1 set up with him, cause I thought her pa was alter me, aad I thought he vcu'dn't enter a sick room and maul watcher at the bedside of an invaliJ. Bat tbat settles it with me about celebrating. I den t care if va did whip the British, afr d'darinar indeoeudence. I don't want my

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independence good for to a girl who loin her polonaise, and haa her hair burned o f, and a niggr chaser burning her atocking i ? No. air, they may talk about the glorious 4 .a of July, but will it bring back tnat blonda wig, oi re-tail my coat? Hereafter I am a rebel, and I will go out into the woods ths way pa docs, and come home with a black eye, got in a rational way." Well, we won't have another 4th of July for a year, and maybe by that time my girl's polonaise and hair will grow out. Ta-ta.'' Personal Adornment, Black straws are preferred to red or blue. Dress draperies are irregular in arrangement. Silk gloves come even in the smallest sizes for the little ones. Velveteen skirts will be a leading feature of autumn costumes. T. Bed straw hats have become too common for fastidious people. The smaller the buttons on children' dresses the more fashionable. The shell-shaped straw hat meets with only a limited amount of popularity. Children's skirts grow narrow, as doladie3 while full draperies grow more popular. Black stockings are worn with dresses of aDy color and on all occasions by both ladies and children. Butterfly bows are much worn on the left shoulder with children's costumes, either white or colored. Plain dark colors in hosiery for children seem to be gaining precedence over the stripes and figures. Dark blue flannel dresses, decorated with gold braid and tassels, make up very gay and jaunty little costumes. Jersey pelisses in deep tinta grow in popularity for girl, and many of them are made with hoods lined with bright -colored satin. The little Mother Hubbard dresses of bright red are ornamented with bows of blue ribbon, and those of blue trimmed with red. A pretty new dress of pansy-purple cashmere for a girl of ten is decorated with straight rowa and rosette loops of narrow old gold braid. The little atraw pokes with pointed crowns and brims tied under the chin with a wide bow are very quaint, and accord well with Grcenaway dresses. Young girls who wear half short sleeves should wear very long gloves or mitts; bare arms in the street look vulgar, and soon beccme roughened and red. Ornamental pins of brooches in fanciful designs are used to fasten the end of the pelerine over the le't shoulder, or to attach a bow or bouquet at the same point. A pretty novelty lace pin is in the form of a modoline in old silver with strings and frets of gold, and a pin enamel ribbon attachment studded with small diamonds. Canvas laced ahoea, foxed with yellow, blue, or brown leather, are used for walking in the country, and they are the best shoe for the beach. And there are low canvas

ahoea for the house that may be tied or buttoned on the lower part of the instep. Shoit jerseya in dep tints, with checked or plaid tkirts, with deep piaitings around the bottom and cash drapery arranged over the jereey, make very preUy and stylish cos tumes for mi5es, either for strict or home wear. Some of the prettiest collars for girls are wide sailor shape of white linen, on which are printed Greenaway figures in gay colors, sometimes extending in a b?rder around the edge, or again with one or two of the odd little creations in each corner. Thsso are very much prettier than the dogs and horses' heads which were formerly used, and with deep cuffs to correspond they afford a pretty change from the usual collars of lace and em broidery. Mrs. Mattie E. Johnson, Elkhart, a sufferer from Heart Troubles, states that Brown's Iron Bitters baa greatly helped her. Mies I raddon was, we believe, the first modern story writer who niada all her wicked heroines fair, since which the army of blonde fiends that have stalked through the ptges . : i i II t , oi action ens peen appalling. learned treatises, too,- have been written to show that cold-blooded calculation is more apt to go with the fair type while the heat and im pulse of the dark render them unfit for planned wickedness. Then, too, the pages of history have been ransacked to show that tho intriguing women, prisoners, etc., were meetly fair. Now fashion has decreed that the blonde must take a back seat, while the pale brunette is the type to which art must make all women approximate, öj the dark horse gets the start in the race once more. Transcript. Not Only for Alan. Iloreemen, tutfmen, atablemen all use St. Jacobs Oil in horse ailments. It kills pain. For the treatment of both hard and soft corns Dr. Traill Green rpsaks highlf of the ute of ralicjüc acid. He has adop'.el a formula recommended by Dr. Gezon, which is as follows: salicylic acid, 30 parts; extract Canabis indica, 5 parti; collodion, 210 parts. The collodion fixea the acid on the diseased part, acd gives epeedv relief by protecting it from friction. The Canabis indica acts as an anodvne. The acid loovens tho corn ao that it ccmes off in four or five days, adhering to the collodion. If any portioa of the corn renains the acid should be applied again, and the treatment continued until the whole of the corn has disappeared. Kalamazoo, Mich., Feb. 2 1SS0. I know Ho;- Bitters will bear recommendation honestly. All who use them confer U on tbeui the highest encomiums, and give them credit for making cures all the proprietors claim for them. I have kept them pi nee they were first ollered to the public They took high rank from the first and maintained it, and are more called for than all otbeis combined. So long as they keep up their high reputation for purily and usefulnew, I shall continue to recommend them, tomtthing I bare never before done with any other patent medicine. J. J. Babcock, M. I. The need for a period of rest has been the development of centuries, the outcome of a tension which was unknown in former times, the natural sequence of a premise, the demenstration of the unalterable law of caure acd effect. That man is poor indeed who does not give some though to the gratiflca'ion of the desire for relief which inheres in us all . We take pleasure in informing the public of the merits of Fapillon Catarrh Cure. It will cure Chronic Catarrh, Cold in the Head, Rose cold, and for Hay Fever no remedy is es effective. It has cured hundreds of cases. cthing in newipaper history is deserving of more general condemnation than the overstrained notoriety given and published about the unsavory actions of the actreea Langtry and the young man Gebhaidt. The prurient pirit which causes the same exists in the tffices of the papera that publish it. The general public have no taste for auch stuff. Horsford's Acid JPhosphate for Nervousness, Indigestion, etc. Send to the Unmford Chemical Works, Providence, II. I., for pamphlet. Mailed free.

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I think of thee In the day. W hen the tide of life runs hurt; 'Mid the dashtDg foam and spray The thought of thee doth lie Asleep in bloom and balm. Fair isle in a towing sea! Sweet spirit, folded In heavenly calm, Dost thou erer think cf me? I think ot thee in the niht. When the stars are out on high, And beneath their tender light All the world in sleep doth lie; Bot the heavens hold no star So pure as the tboughtof thee! Sweet spult, dwelling; in light afar, Dost thou ever think of me T Are the joys cf Heaven so rtre, ' Is that world so lost in bliss That thou hast no thought or care Kor the loved and left in this? All Its uuforgotten love My heart sUU holds for thee! Sweet spirit, at rest In realms above, Dost thou yet remember me? Demorest's Monthly for August. CURIOUS, UdEFUL AND SCIENTIFIC. More than 3,000,000 ' trees were planted in Great Britain during the season of 188182. Although 80,000 paper car wheels were ia use on 150 different roads last year, but three failures are reported. The greatest heat of the air in the sun probably never exceeds Fah., nor the greatest cold 05 below zero. About 100 above and 40 below zero are the extremes for the United States, and very unusual. It has been observed that "right-handed ness extends far down in the scale of creation. Parrots take hold of their food in their right foot by preference, and Mr. Crookes is inclined to believe that insects 'like waspj, beetles and spiders use the right anterior foot most frequently. It is maintained by some scientists that the aroma of fruits increases with the lititude, while the swoetnees decreases. Many herbs, such as caraway, are richer in essential oils in Norway than in more southern regions. This effect is ascribed to thejjiniludnce of the prolonged light of the summer months. The composition of elephant's milk, according to the analysis of Dr. laesneville, in the Moriteur Seien tifi que, is similar to that of cream, but its consistency is different. Its odor and taate are very agreeable, and the taste is superior to that of most other kinds of milk. It ia about equal to cows' milk in quality. The London Graphic eayr: "The cheapest postal service in the world ia that of Japan, where letters are conveyed 11 over the Empire for two Ben about seven-tenths of a penr y. Thi3 is the more wonderful, considering the aifSculties of transit over the irregular country which has less than one hundred miles of railway, while wa.on can only ps ss over a few of the chief roads, and the steimers connect but a small number of ccfet stations." Dr. Julien came to the following : concluriors in regard to the life of stones, delaine; , life as the period during which the stone prcf ented a decent appearance. Coarse brown stone, beit med cut of the tua,from Cve to fifteen years. Laminated fine brown etone,rom twenty-five to fifty years.- Gjmpact fiae brownstone, from one. to two centuries. Nova Scotia stone will probably la3t from 50 to 100 years. Ohio sandstone, the bast of the sandstones, 100 years; Caen etone, from thirty five to forty years; coarje dolonvte marble, forty years; fine marble sixty years; pure calcareous marble, from 50 to 100 years, granite, from 75 to 200 year?, according to variety. In selecting flour, first look to the color. If it is white with a yellowish straw color tint, buy it. If it is white with a bluiih cast or with black specks in it, refuse it. Next examine its adhesiveness wet and knead a little of it between your fingers; if it works soft and sticky, it is poor. Then throw a little lump of dried fbur against smooth surface; if it falls like powder, it is bad. Lastly, squeeze some of the flour tightly in your hand; if is retains the shape given by the pressure, that too is a good sign. It 13 E&fe to buy flour that will etind all these t03ts. These modes are given by all old flour dealerf, and they perUin to a matter that concerns everybody. "White and cream lace drcases, made over inexpennve and white surah as a foundition skirt and batque lining, are the correct weir for both day and evening entertainments at watering places. If it were xossible :o got the testimony of the multitude who liavc used IIooo's Saksapakilla for debility, ii'.nguor, lassitude, and that general foi'lit.;; of stupidity, weariness and cxliaustio:i which every one feels during this season, ve sliovlil le aMe to re5ei.t to our reader .such r.:i overwhelming mass of commendatory messages, that the few who have not tried it would do so at once. It is a positive facf. and lias Ken so effectually demon stratcd that no one li-day denies it. that Hood's Sarsaparilla contains more real inedcinal value than any article before the lieoplc. What a Dracvt, Mass. Messrs. t'.I. Ifoon & Co., U)wcll, Mass.: IVarsirs I have suf-fm-d from kidney coiuJTZW 11 Dl(l I'laint ami biliousness for l".f teen vears. Have tried .. f f 7. everything and never got t 11 Uli anvgood. Last Jaruarv, lK'fore 1 commenced takT- . .cdnieall up. iaiu In my tO)H))l(t lilt chest and arms, headache and ili.7.v. 1 could not CCt up without fcf Yuva weary and all lasrpe.s out. .Many inotiiins I was obliged to l;e 1nwn on t lie lounce. T do any work sccmt'd almost imKWMl,!e. Have taken two bottles. Tie backache, dizziness, pain in my chest a-iti anas, and that feelinsof intense weariness arc all jione. I rail eat anytliin? mul it iloes not 'ies me at all. teel jusC like work; ir. fact, like a new man. Can liearfilvvt'ooiiinu'iid llH)i)-sAi:sAr-Aitii.i.A, and ho--; all who desire to know anytfims about it will come lo me and abk what 1 thiuk ot it. Very truly your, Jonathan j.coduivv. HOOD'S SARSAPARILLA Works t!invi;h the blood, vgniatiny, toning and iii vUjoraiini all the fund ions of the body. Sold by druggists. Trice $1, or six for $5. C I. I10O1) & CO.. Lowell. Mass. ' MISCELLANEOUS. THOSE wing to Hot Spring! forlha treatment of syphilis, k eet. scrofula, snd all cutaneous or blood disease, cm be cured for one-tblrd the east of such a trip at tne old relitble stanl. I nave been Jocatf d here for twenty three retrs, and with the advantage cf loos: and successful experience ran warrant a cure in all casea. Bnermatorrbea and impotei cy, in all their stages, positively cured. Office hours, 8a m. to 9 p. m , Vir?ini avenue, IndiaDapol.a. Fills sent with full directions at f 1 per box. DB. UKSNEIT, Successor to Dr. K-intr. a1'll" 's6U ARE cr UPKICHT ""ROSEWOOO 71 Oct. PIANO, Coves. $96 fcrBAS UPRIGHT? OcU Piano. ! for an 18 ß Ttop Organ. CHUPEL ORGAN. $70. Warranted. Address Dtcwf son S Co., 13 Vest 11th St. TJ. Y. AM) NOT .siw--I KAR. iM:T a i jr mm mm Iren. u.a. 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TBI PFOroSIOK A CXIT. Mr.C.U. Draper. o! 2JJ Mala J:.-ft, Worsjstar, Mm., volunteer the following: "Having occafiou repeatedly to use a remedy for kidney disease. I applied te my druggist, Mr. D. B. Williung, ot Llncola f iure, thU city, aad requested him to furniah me the best vUsey medicine he knew of. and he htndel me a bottle of Hunt'a Remedy, statics that it was considered the best remedy because he hal cold mtnr bottles of it to his customers in Worccst? r.aad they 11 peak o! it In the highest terms, an J pronounce it always reliable. I took the battle home aad commenced taking it. and find that it doea the work effectually; and I am p '.eise I to recommend to all who have kidney or liver disease the use of Hunt'a Remedy, the aure cure." April 11, Uv3. WE ALL SAY SO. Mr. George A. Burdett, No. 1 Froat Street, Wor cester, Mass., has just aent us the following, directly to the point: BeiDg afllicted with ailments to which all humanity is subject sooner or later, I (read carefully the advertisement regarding the remarkable curative powers of Hunt'a Remedy, and aa it seemed toapplytomy case exactly, I purchased a bottle of the medkine at Jannerj'a drug store in tals city, and having nsed it with most benencial results in my own cate, my wife and aou also commenced its use, and it has most dt idsdly iaimroved their health, and we shall continue its use in our family under such favorable results." April 17, 18S3.

DRUGGIäT'd EVI 1EN UK. Mr. George W. llolcomb, druggist, 12) aad 151 Congress Street, Troy, X. Y.. writes April 7, 13 JJ: I am constantly selling Hunt's Reniedy for diseases of the kidneys, liver, bladder, and urinary organs, to my trade and friends, and it gives general satisfaction to til who use it." SB (CONQUEROR,) A SPECIFIC FOR EPILEPSY, SPASMS, CONVULSIONS, FALLING SICKKESS, ST. VITUS DANCE, ALCHOHOLISM, CPiUM EATING, SYPHILLIS, SCROFULA, KINGS EVIL, UGLY BLOOD DISEASES, DYSFEPSIA, NERVOUSNESS, SICK HEADACHE, RHEUMATISM, NERVOUS WEAKNESS, KEB70ÜS PROSTRATION, BRAIN WORRY, BLOOD SORES, eiLIOUSKESS, COSTIYENESS, KIDNEY TROUBLES AND IRREGULARITIES. 2C$1.50 per boltIe.53Q For testimonials and circulars send stamp. The Dr. S. A. Richmond Med. Co. , Props. , St. J"ccepii, Ks. (11 Correspondence freely ausucred by riiysiaau. , Sold by all Druggists. A PositiTe Cere hay-fever. CATARRH I have been t !!! Icted for t ffentj ears, during tue mouth of Au;uKt aad soutember. wlia HayFever. a:irt have tried various mnedies without relief. I was niueed to try Eiy'a Cream iMlm:hsve ued it with favor -ible re-ulis. and can conS lentrecoromiid it to 11 similarly Rlicted. Rlett W. Towaley, ex Mayor, Eliiheth, X, J. ) HAY-FEVER Avp't by the little fineerinto lue nostrils. By aosormion It eirectuallycieauhee the nasal pawapea of ct&rrhal ylrus. caasina; healtbv wcrtuous. It allays In Sammation, protects the nierabranal linings of the head from additional CGidS, completely hesls the sores and restores the sense of taste and seil. Beneficial results are realised by a few apnllcalioDS. A thorough treatment mill cure. l'ii equaled foi coids in head. Agreeable to use. send for circular and tpstimoniah. By mail 50a a package stamps. ELY'S CRKAM BALM CO. Oweco. N- Y. ' JOHNSON'S ANODYNE LINIMENT win pcsttirely prTnt this terrible diseane, an will porttiTly cur nine ea oct of U-n. Informal im that will i many Ii ve. Bent f t by mail Don t q-'y tnomrnt. prrrpntion is better t nan cure. L S. JuriNfOX CO., FOSION. MASS., formerly BNGoa. lis. 7" PiBSONa' iTraeiTiTK lux mk uow rli U biixxlTbi-- HKI.T or ru-frnera-f.r i inaie t xiimiy lir tliet-mv ! rtrimiiri'iiieriK in lorts iml rrst.ire thtm to h-!tlr j-titi. I H cnl.tumj tint with V.WM-tric iVUt fnlverM''! lo eiuv all ill f-iiiii l.-ftil tot--. It' fr tli.-1 'Si: f wirtc imriKdie. I-1 ii i-m-til.n ;rnrit.' iuh ini.rniiii. miilivsfc 1 hvver Eu- tlK- !t-ft ! .. KU Wai-lillitfii.ll M.. I ilM-avu. 1IL Eiiiever'i Sp-lS FREE for TRIAL An unfailing rA spr cure tsr Am-v'w l"bi!ti!i and U rtür. LOH oi Vttttfttt and 'npr, or any evil result ot iudmcwion. noma, ott-f-rork,etc, owr forty thonnana poxttivecurwO TSend lie ior poa tin trial box ot 1J t illa. A ldre, Vr. M. W. H OliN. cor. Clr St. and CaUuHML tutu, Cm . Ill cava IteMluy. lo any suticfinn with CaUrrh or Bron chitis who earnestly desire relief. I can furnish a means of Permanent and Positive Cure. A Nome Treatment No charoe for consultation by mail. Vatca 1 bis Treatise Free. Certificates from Doc. (tors. Lawvers, Ministers. Business-men. I Address Rey.T. P. CHILDS. Troy. OMe. Im tmi& eWl romniuurniizcrJIfuim Hr. Ab. Mtvert.ld uta if J.otvin'M, vhn mnj tf a t-tm dairy f Epilepsy.' . i:bt t:t cU"itjt l-vttju r:t I t motorow" Iii a . tt hr ii iix fhi.-i-i. F : . .m imipty Im-? i ,sit'.tLln; ve hm h-;-tt pfr ., ver v yearr' p it(Uijj u.vf. iiniLr ,- i .v V . i Tith Ur-.rt botU T h w.;iit.-l,il nit- f-1 t r - i ferer who iuf nl thrir pk trv ail I. O. Ad'-lrv- VIr. A toast doUk and suoceasful rpecialists In tho U. a, t now retired) for tbcurwof Arww MUVi Mjimt MmnH, irealiMM aud ixxv. tal U plain ataled cn veloerc. iruaiataca OUU. Addrtfl DR. WAR3 ft CO., Uuisiaat. Ha

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