Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 31, Number 24, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 July 1885 — Page 7

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1885

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ELIZABETH ZANE.

This dauntless pioneer maiden's name Is inscribed in pold cm the scroll of fame. he wms the lassie who knew no fear When the tomahawk gk'Nmed ou the far frontier. If deeds of daring should win renown. Let us honor thi damsel of Wheeling town. Who braved the raynjre with deep divlaiu . Bright-eyed, buxom Klizabeth Zaue. "Twas more than a hundred vears a?. They were close l eset bv the "dusky foe: They had spent of powder their m äuty store, And who the gantlet should run for more J-be sprang to the portal and shouted. "I ; Ti better Hariri than a man should die: My loss would le but the garrison' Rain. I'nbar the gate:" aid KILzabetu Zane. The powder was sixty yards away. ArTuud her the foe men in ambu-li lay: As she darted from shelter they gazt d"wii aw, They wildly shouted. "A squaw ! "A souaw"' She neither swerved to the left nor right, bwiii as an antcloi-e's was her flight. THE FIELD OF HONOR. Hamilton Jay in Ietroit Free Press. Ananias Pickett, yellow, lived on one siile f the branch, and Jerusalem Johnson.black, commonly called "Ja," livetl on the other bide. Miss Sophy Giggles, the color of an underdone buckwheat cake, lived about five miles from the branch, and was the cause of an undue secretion of bile in both 'Xia-M and "Ju." The branch itself is not of sufficient inijortanoe to be indicated in red colors on any map of these blessed United States, and yet its local coloring is entertaining enough t warrant its being taken from the somewhat moldy cupboard of obscurity and placed on the inviting center table cf t lie present d3y. The dark and bloody ground Of Kentucky, with its expiations on the field of honor, Blennerhassett's Island with its tragic tale of love and dishonor, have both been embalmed in song and story, why not 'Possum branch with its Iliad ot woman caprice, man's devotion, and the fearless heroism of fascinated "hearts? The branch itself is a dull, sluggish stream about ten or twelve feet wide, running through the southern portion of Peon County. In the East it might be called a creek. In the West it might be signified by the name of river. In Florida it is simply a branch." A branch of what I am not at this moment prepared to state. It b lined with live oak, water oak, Cypress. jorimmon, and some few other varieties of trees. The country road goes over it dry-shod, on a rustic bridge, shaky " and decrepit, the nucleus of any amount of jossil.le and probable accidents. The water is alxut ten feet deep and very dark. No one but a t'or ner could possibly lind any enjoyment looking at it. 3 Ti e I ridge also serves as a short" cut for predatory foxes seeking through highways ami byways for the succulent chicken, the philosophic turkey, and the disciple of a certain school of medicine the duck. At times the trees that line this bank take on a vivid leauty. The bamboo climbs to the tops of the tallest ones and Hings a graceful crown over their swaying beauty. Scarlet coronals of unknown flowers emphasize the fragrant green, through which tiny birds peep and watch with wide-eyed wonder the creaking vehicle and strange figures that -pass slowly by. Outburst- of rarest song can be heard there through the soft, languorous days, i.m swift-darting fins, like errant rays of light, ripp'.e the wat-.rs below. On the east side are u half dozen or so of rough .log cabins, keeping guard over a few acres cf broken soil; cotton and potatoe patches, the garden of long collards and turnips, the parterre of sunflowers and oleanders. Each demesne has its dilapidated chicken house. itsrhcumatR'shed for the reflective mule, add its boudoir for playful swine. The owners and inhabitants of thec freeholds are happy and careless negroes, raising enough to eat and a little to sell, hiking in the sunshine, and obeying implicitly the scriptural injunction to take no heed to the morrow. In a little log house standing on the very banks of the branch, in a crouching attitude, as if just about to leap into the waters for a bath, both cleansing and sanitary, lived- at the time of which 1 write, Ananias, one of my heroes. On the west side of the branch the scene was almost literally related, with the exception that one of "the houses was of frame, with two rooms and a lean-to, and had forty acres of land attached to it. There lived with Lis parents, Jerusalem, my other hero, until the fiend of jealousy entered his otherwise placid bosom, and left wreck and ruin there. Five miles otF was another little settlement rf the .-anie genus, and here Miss Sophy, my heroine, helil Je the hoe cake in the ancestral mansion, and bv washing for the neighboring planters' families, earned the shekels that went to purchase articles so dear to the average heart. Ananias was tall and thin, elaborately so ae to legs, and the suns of twenty-live years had enhanced the dingy yellow of his complexion. His eyes were of the vintage known as "pop," and the premature removal cf three front teeth had given him a wicrdly Ioetical appearance. Among the intensely black surrounding", the fairness of the skin was a drawback, more especially as his parents, by some strange oversight, are both of the same orthodox color. In teni ranu-nt he was somewhat haughty and passionate, and by his demeanor seemed to be continually protesting' .against Lis environments. Although entirely ignorant of belles-letters, or, in fact, of any letters, he was shrewd and forehanded, and was in a fair way to become something of a capitalist, when the unlucky collapse ol the Freedman's Hank, swept away the bulk of his garnered hoards This made him moody and irritable at times," but did not impair his ability as a cotton pickt r. which was something wonderful to behold. j Jerusalem, or 4'Ju," was short and fat.: and. like my old friend. Hamlet, somewhat scant of breath. His skin was so black that' oot would have made a white mark upon' it. His eyes were small and twinkling, inJ. dices of the good humor that animated his1 being. His lijs were large and Ium-khis. like slices of a ripe mango, and a No. 11 ho1 .gave him a dignity otherw ise imox.ible to? obiain. j Hissjeech was slow and dclibera e, indie-J -ative of a mind much given to inward thought, and his ears were large and wayward, restless with every motion that flitted across his expansive lace. As an only son , and presumptive heir to much land and some stock, his presence was always a desiraf ble one at the little social gatherings that eni . livened either side of the "branch." The woman in the case. Miss Sophy Uiggle, was a winsome creature of some nineteen year-', voluptuous as to outllie, and tasty "as to .dress. Her complexion was a clear, healthy brown, and dazzling white teeth lent splendor to her frequent smiling. The way she tightened up her hair during the work, and let it out on Sundays, convinced all of her inherent genius, and her singing is said to have made manv a mocking bird pull out its tail feathers In sheer envy. .She had worked two seasons m Tallahas see, also, as to her other charms were added the vasrue but delicious refinements of city life. No wonder the little boy Cupid used her as a bow from which to launch his dakity arrows, fiiven the place and mater ial, be could not have displayed much great er WlMlOIU. Jloth men were in lore with her; that was plainly to be seen. JJoth settlements knew, snickered at or poijed over it ami speculated as to on whom the choice would fall, fcophy, like most of her sex, was a born coquette, and pave no sign of favoritism. If she went to a ball with "Ju" one night she went to a festival with Ananias the next, and accepted the six sticks of sngarcanc with the .ame sweet smile and honeyed thank.- from one, as she did the quart u ieannts and susM-ndcr buckle from the other. Neither Lad ever kissed Ler so she said al

though the attempt had boen often made, and it was an open question as to wh would eventually win. The climax came oue day in balmy June, when the birds were singing sweetest, and the mud turtles felt a throb of joy in their gen tle bosoms, and old Jenny was the cause of it. She had dropped into the house of Jerusalem's parents for a social chat, and finding no one home but his father, good old I'ncle Hypothcmise Johnson" the conversation rapidly drifted in the direction of his love atlairs. "I year your son gwinter be kicked by S-'phy Giggles, Uncle N use. Am dat so?"' said Aunt Jenny, inquisitively. I dunno, I dunno. Aunt Jenny," was the reply; ''but ef she merries thet triflin', owdacious, yeller nigger, Ananiah, she's gwinter be sorry fer hit befo de y'ar am out." "Well. Uncle 'Xuse, dat boy 'Nias am a right peart boy, an' I year he's got a right smart bunch ob cattle in do woods somewhar." "Ilight smart bunch ob cattle!" said Uncle 'Xuse contemptuously. .Sho on'y got three bull yearlin's an one ole cow. hook yer, Aunt Jinny," excitedly, "leiunie show you wLa' my boy J it'll git when he gets married. And the old man opened a musty old trunk that stood in one corner of the room, and after much delving therein, and much hard breathing brought out an old stocking. Glancing cautiously around, even goin,? to the door to see if any one was approaching, be showed Aunt Jenny its precious contents, a goodly store of gold and silver, with some bills. Then, carefully replacing it, he resumed his seat. "Huh! Itight smart bunch ob cattle, eh? Aunt Jinny," impressively, "when thet boy ob mine gits married, he gits four Uun'er'd dollars an' t went y acres ob good ian'." That settled it; as Aunt Jenny on her way home met Sophy when about half way there, there could be but one result. That night, by previous engagement, Ju took Miss &phy to a festival held at the residence of I!ev. Capsicum Grant, on the way back he got his courage to the sticking point, told his love and was coyly but promptly accepted. The kiss that followed nearly made an owl tumble from his perch near by. and so bewildered him that an audacious tree toad sang an air from Norma right under his very nose. The news of the betrothal was known all over the neighborhood next morning, and then the storm came. That same morning I was sitting in 1113 oftice trying to lve an editorial on the beauties of carjefbagisni, when the door thrillcJ beneath a most lugubrious knock In answer to my "come in!" behold the long, lank ligure of Ananias. His countenance wore ft' look of mingled ferocity and melancholy. "Cap'pcii," said he, "I have come to you for some disvice." I shoved my writing materials aside and motioned him to a chair. Then I lit a cigar, the brand 1 particularly affect O. P. (other tropic's) and said. "Proceed." He shuttled awkwardly to the chair, t .k a sition on the extreme edge o.f it, and began his monody: '(Wpcn, I lias been court in' Miss Sophy Giggles gwine outer two year. I has bought- j en lit r lots ob candy, pinders, an' secli like truck, kerried her to festibules, camp meet-I in's an' 'scursins, an' ob course I was 'spcetin' to ax her to marry me, but yesterday, which was Chuseday, she went an' promise tor marry dat brack no' count nigger, Jerusa

lem. I don't care so much about dat, C anpen, but dis morning he stuck out his tongue at me, an' I nebber 'lows no gentle man ter do that tcr me. so I axes you what I mus uo. It is the principal weakness of mr manv weaknesses never to allow an opjtortunity to pass for fun. Here was a brilliant chance. I embraced it. " 'Nias." 1 said, "you are a gentleman, are von not?' "Yes, sah." said he, "a Souf Car'liny gen tleman, sab." "Then," I replied, "vou must challcge him." "What is dat, sah?" "You must send a note to him, saying he must meet vou on the field of honor. In other irds, you must fight him." A smile plaved over his gentle countenance. "Lord bless you, cui'ien," said he. "sen dat note right off. I kin butt dat nigger ter pieces." That won't do," said I st ernlv; "as a gen tleman yon must fight with a gentleman's weaon. You must challcge him to fight you with pistols." JIis face turned a snaue paler ami lie Hesi tated. I turned on him ciuickly, drew mv chair close to him. and said impressively: " 'Xias, there is a tide in the affairs of love sick niggers, which, taken at the flood, leads 011 to marriage. I know him well, lie is a terrible coward, and will run just as soon as you present your pistol at him. Miss Sophy ill hear of it. All women despise cowards. She will 'kick' him and you will carry off the cake. I will go with you. act as your friend, and see that all goes right. Will you leave the matter to me?'' "Is you sure he won't fight, oa'en?" Certainly I am. Xow vou go home. Keen quiet. I will see yon through this matter, and when you marry Miss Sophy, will dance at the wedding." "All right, sah." he replied, and with a buoyant, smiling face left the otllce. Half an hour afterward I was in the saddle and on my way to my old friend, Major Swivels. To him 1 rept-ated the whole affair, ami lesought him to seek Ju and act the part of second for that meeting. On my return to my office I wrote a formal challenge to Ju in the name of Ananias, and quietly awaited results. Ju, through his second. Major Swivels, accepted the challenge: pistols were named as the weajxHis and the following Friday as the time. Thursday afternoon the Major and I met and jerfectedall the details. That night, for fear 'Nias might lose courage ami desert me, I made him sleep in my otiice, and fastened doors and windows ou him. Alxmt 5 o'clox-k the next morning I harnessed my roan marc Nelly to the buggy, took 'Xias in, and started ofl. The 1oy was badly frightened, his teeth battered, and- I could hardly control mv risible. With a careless movement of my foot I dislodged the cover of a box in the front part of the buggy and allowed him a glance at its contents. "These consisted of a hand saw, a long, glittering pruning knilV and an ordinary butchers' cleaver. "What's dem fer, cappen'?" he said. "They are surgical instruments," I replied. "You may be badly wounded, and I may have to cut off your arm or leg to save your life." " "Good gor-'a-'-mighty. cappen' let me git right outen dis buggy. "He kin hab dat gal if be wants, art sides" dat I forgot to feed de mule dis moniin'." "r'ilence," I said, peremptorily. "You have trot to tight now, and if yoü trv to escaie 1 11 blow the top of yonr head ort." The poor young fellow was almost aralyzed with fright, and becoming somewhat uneasy at his condition, 1 pulled out a fiask of brandy and pave him a pretty stiff drink. After the liquor had partially restored his faculties I said to him, "Xow, 'Xias, brace up and be a mau. I tell you that Ju is an awful cow ami and will run just as noon as you point a pistol at him. Just do as I say und all will be well." When we got to the appointed place the Major and bis protege were already there. J u was a sight. His eyeballs were rolling, his cheeks were as ashen as they could get under the xculiar pigment of his cuitclc, and no wonder, for in the MajoV's buggy were two huge pistols of revolutionary origin, with flint locks, a half-gallon syringe, a monkey wrench and a pair of horse clipiers. The Major saluted me in a grave, formal manner. I returned it as gravely and for mally. Tying our horses to convenient saplings and leaving our resected charges seated, with strict injunctions not to stir, the Major and I retired some little distance for consultation. "How is your man?" said he, a'mo;'rclok ins with, touglitcr.

."Scared to death," I replied; T had to brace him up with brandy. "So "did I mine." said he, "and now let's have the circus. I have loaded the pistols with iowder only, of course, but so heavily that the discharge will knock the devil out of them at the first tire." "That w ill be a good thing." I answered, "for their pastor assures me that he has been trying to do that for the last three years." We gave the heroes another drink, and placed them in Ksition. ten paces apart, pistols in hand. The major won the word and gave it sonorously "Fire! one, two, three!" There was a terrific report, a vast cloud of smoke, and both men lay prone upon the gronnd. I rushed for Ananias and raised him up. The huge horse pistol recoiling had struck his nose, and it was bleeding" profusely. Ten paces away. Ju just recovering his senses saw the blood V face of his antagonist and yelling ."Done kilt him," broke for the woods. We called after him but to no avail. He kept on running and as we have never seen him since we suppose he is running still. About a month later 'Nias came into my office, and looking up, bashfully said: "Cappen, is you gwine to town ter-day?" "I am," I answsred. 'Den if you please, sab, ax at de ros'oflis for Ananias Giggles." "I thought your name was Pickett," I said. "Pat was my maiding name, sab," he replied with dignity. "I was married dis mawnin' ter Mis Sophy Giggles."

WESLEY AND HIS WIFE. A Curious Letter Hitherto Unpublished Showing His Domestic Trouble. New York Critic. John Wesley wa married in Febuary, 1751, to Mrs. Mary Vazeille; "a merchant's Widow in Threadneedlc street," who possessed a fortune of about S.V,000, secured to herself and her four children. He was fortyright, slie forty-one. His biographer, the Pev. L. Tyerman, says of their marriage that it "was in a high degree, an act of tolly; and, proerly enough, to the end of fife, both of them were made to stiller a serious penalty." Mary's life was ended ten j'ears before her husl and's. She died in 17S1, after having made him miserable for thirty years. Wesley survived her, living to the ripe age of eighty-eight. In a worldly wav be had gained no'thin; by .his marriage. It lost him his fellowship at Oxford and at le:u-t temporarily alienated his brother Charles and his wife. His domestic infelicities are set forth in de tail in the following curious letter hitherto unpublished "CoLKKORC. Oct. 2TJ. 175!. "Dear Molly I will tell you simply and plainly the things weh. I dislike. If vou re move them. well. If not, I am but where I was. I dislike your showing anv one mv letters and private papers without my leave. This never did any Good yet, either to you or me, or any one. It only sharjens änd embitters vourown Spirit. And the same Kl'cct it naturally has upon trthcrs. The same it would have upon me but that (bv the Grace of God) I do not think of it It can do no good. It dan never bring me nearer, tho' it may drive me further off. And should you do as vou often threaten me, then the matter is over. I know what I have to do. Ia all this you are fighting-against yourself. You are frus trating your own purose. if you want me to love you. You take just the wrong way. Xo one was ever forced to love another. It can not be: Love can only be. won by softness; Foul Means avail nothing. Put vou say, 'I have tried r air Means and they did not mcceed. If they did not none will. Then you have only to' say. 'This Evil is of the Ixrd: I am Clav in bis Hand.' VI dislike, 2, Not having command of mv own House; not being at liberty to invite even mv nearest Relations, so much as to drink a Dish of Tea without disobliging vou. I dislike, 3, The being myself a Prisoner in rav own house: the having mv Chamber door watched continually so that no Person can go in or out, but such as have your Good lA-ave. 1 dislike, 4. l he leing but a prisoner at large, even when I go abroad, inasmuch as you are highly disgusted, if I do not give you an account of every Place I go to and every Person with whom I converse. I dis like, 5, The not being safe in my own House. Mv house is not my Castle. I cannot call even my Study, even my Bureau, my own. Thev are liable to be plundered every day. You sav, 'I plunder you of nothing but Pa pers.' 1 am not sure ot that. How is it pos sible I should? I miss lnonev, too, and he that will steall a Pin will steal a Pound. Put were it so. a Scholar's Papers are his treasure; My Journal in particular. 'Put I took only such Pa'ier as relate to Sarah Ityan and Sarah Crosby.' That is not true: What are Mrs. Landcv's Letters to them? Presides, vou have take Parts of my Journal which relate neither One nor the Other. I dislike. 0. Your Treatment of my Servants (tho indeed they are not properly Mine). You do all that in 3 011 lies to make their Lives a Burden to them, iou brow-beat, harrass, rate them like Dogs, make them afraid to speak to me. You treat them with such Hautiness, Stern ness, sourness, uritiies. Ill-nature as never were known in any House of injue for near a dozen years. You forget even Good breeding, and use such coarse language as befits none but a Fishwife. "I dis'ike, 7, your talking against me liehind my lnck. and that evervdayand almost every hour of the day ; making my faults, (real or supjwd) the standing topic of your conversation. 1 dislike, t. vour slandering me, laying to my charge things which you know are false. Such are (to go but a few days back): 'that I beat you.' which you told James Burgees; 'that I nwle to Ktngswood with Sarah Byan. which vou told Sarah ltighy; and that I required you when we were first married, never to sit in mv presence without leave, which you told Mr. Lee, Mrs. Fry, and several others, and stood to it before my face. I dislike, your common custom of saying things not t me. To instance only in two or three particulars: You told Mr. Ireland Mr. Vazzilla learned Spanish in a fortnight; you told Mr. Fry Mrs. Kllison was the author as to my intrigue in Georgia; You told Mrs. Ellison 'you never said any such thing; you never charged her with it V you also told her that I had also' laid a plot to serve you as Susanna was served by the two elcler. 1 dislike, in. your extreme, immeasurable bitterness to all who endeavor to defend my character (as my brother. Joseph Jones, Clayton Cart by)" breaking out even in fetal, unmannerly language, such as ought not to defile a gentlewoman's lips if she did not lelieve one word of the Bible. "And now: Molly, what would anyone advise you to that has a real Concern for your Happiness? Certainly, 1, To show, read.touch these le tters no more; if you did not restore them to their pnjer owner; 2, To al-. low me the commando!" my own House, with free Leave to invite thither whom I please: 3, To allow me my Liberty there that any who will may come to me, without Let or Hindrance; 4. "To let me go where I please, and to whom I please, without giving an account t any; 5, To assure me you will take no more of my Paers, nor anything of mine, without Consent: (, To treat all the servants where you are (whether you like them or no) with Courtesy and Humanity, and to speak (if you sneak at all) to them, as well as Other, w ith Good nature and Good manners; 7, To sjeak no evil of me behind my back; f, Never to accuse me falsely:!', To be extremely cautious of saying anything that is not strictly true, both as to the Matter and manner, and, 1, To avoid all Bitterness and Expression, till you can t? void all Bitterness of Spirit. "These :re the Advices, which I now give j-cu in the Fear of God, and in tender Love to Your ekml. Xor I can give you a Stronger Proof that I am, your ail'ectionate husband, Joux Wesley." The Xcw York Sun says: Once more, then, we earnestly advise our correspondent, ami all other coiuplaiiilu Ucmocrat. to in;ke the U'st f the situation; to support the administration lu-artily in everv truly Democratic Mip i takes: auit to M:m.l by their iwrty onthustnsticall v. as the onlv visible uienusol maintaininz. extending und vitalizing tlie K'nerutnent oi tue people, by the people, aul tor tae icop.e.

THE HOME.

It is not doubted that men hare a hame la that place where each oue has established hi hearth and the bum of his possession aui fortunes, whence he w ill not depart if nothing calls hira way; whence if he has departed he teTtos to be a wanderer, and If he returns he ceases to. w&ader. Condition from Civil Law. "Then stay at home, ray heart, tad rest, TV. bird is safest iuthe ne-t; O.T&ll that flutter their wing? and fly, ä hawk is hovering in the sky." Lonjfcllow.' YOUNG FOLKS. Elizabeth Zane. This dauntless pioneer maiden's name I inscribed in gold ou the scroll of l-'aine; She was the lassie who knew no fear V hen the tomahawk gleamed on the far frontier. If deeds of daring -should win renown. 1-et us houor this damsel of Wheeling town. Who biaved the savage with deep disdaia, Bright-eyed, buxom, Elizabeth Zaae. 'T was more than a hnndred years asro. They were close beset by the duxkr foe: They had spent of powder their aeauty More, Ana who the gauntlet should run for more? She sprang to the portal and shouted "I ; Tis letter a pirl than a man should die! My loss would le but the Rarrison'a gain. I'nbar the gate!" said Elizabeth Zaue. The powder was Mxty yards away. Around her the foemeu in ambush lav: Asshe darted from shelter they gazed with awe, Then wildly shouted. "A squaw:" "a squaw!" She neither swerved to the left or rlgh'.. Sjvift as an antelope's was her flight, ijulck ! lien the door!" idie cried, araai.i, "i'or a hope forloru! 'T is Elizabeth Zauel" Jo time had flic to waver or wait, Hack she must go ere it le too late: lihe snatched from the table its cloth In haste. And knotted it deftly about her waist.. Then filled it with iowder never, I weeu, Had powder so lovely a magazine; Then, scorning the bullets, a deadly rain. Like a startled fawn, fled Elizabeth Zaue. She gained the fort with her precious freight ; Strong Lands fastened the oaken gate; Brave men's eyes were suffused with tears That hal leeii st rangers for many years. From üiut-lock rifles again there sped 'Gainst the skulking redskins a storm of lead. And the war-whoop sounded that dry ia vaiu, Thauki to the deeds of KILwbeth Zaue. Talk not to me of Taul Revere, A man, on horseback, with naught to fear: Nor of old John Iiurus, with his bell-crowned hat He'd an army to back him. so what of that? Here- to the heroine, plump and browa. Who ran the gauntlet in Wheeling town! Here i a record w ithout a Main. beautiful, buxom. Elizaleth Zaue. John S. Adams in St. Nicholas for July. Our Fourth of July. There were just six of us. Fred and Charlie and Frank and Arth they're boys; and May and I we're girls. My really true name is Stella Planche; thats pretty, I think, but somehow, I have always ln-en called Patty, ever since I was a little teeny-weeny thing. I am eight going onTnine now. We all live in the city, and go to school all the time, only in the fummer when we come to Grandma Daly's and stay a long time. We are all cousins, mixed up some way, but she is Grandma to all of us, 'cause she said so, and Grandpa, too. Frank and Charlie arc brothers, and Arth is May's brother, and Fred is mine; so now yon know all about us, and I can go on and tell you alxmt the gay time we had last 4th of July. All of us children had been at Grandpa and Gralidina's alout three weeks but our mammas had not come yet; you know sometime?, there is right smart of sewing to do, and they stayed home to do it after we were out of the way. Grandma had been tending to us all that time combing our hair and fixing us up, and. between you and me, 'spect she was pretty near sick of her job, but la! she thought so much of us. she would not have spid so. if she bad been worried, to de.ith. Well, the 4th of July came on Saturday, and the Thursday before, at the dinner-table (I remember we had apple-dumplings for the first time) Grandpa said there was to be a big celebration at Jonesboro, and asked us if we wanted to go. Of course we said we did, and we almot gave three cheers for grandpa and the 4th of July, right there at the dinner-table, but rememlered ourselves in time. Grandma said she guessed we could get read' for it, but we would all have to help her to cook and fix, as it took an awful sight of victuals for anything that way. We all promised, and you may wheve, we did not talk of much else that afternoon, but the celebration and the good time we were going to have. The boys commenced hunting up old Hags and things, and Frank and. Arth walked clear to ltid;reville, a little bit of a town, alout a mile away, to get some torpe does and firecrackers, and then didn't get anv, cause thev have only one store there. and they did not have any. May and I got a lot of Veil, w hite, and blue ribbons, ami sewed on our white dresses, and we thought they looked just grand. After that we trot out intime orchard and practiced marching till supper was ready, lhe next day we had to gather berries, for grandma to make pies, bunt the ecrsp. brins in wood, and well. she just kept us trotting all the morning, till we were nearly tired to death, unt then we bad promised to help and we had it to do. After dinner the bovs went off to the field with grandpa, and May and I he!'ed grandma to clean up swept the iorch and cellar steps, so there wouldii t be so muc h to iit in tlie morning. Then we went and swung awhile, 'cause we hail nathing else to do, and waded in the branch, and finally got our dolls and made a play-house. It seemed as though the 4th of Julv never would come: I know that was 'the longest afternoon we ever saw. Put after a Ions while the supm-r-bell rang, and we- weren't very sorry. After supper we all sat out on the long tairch and grandpa told us stories about the 4th of July and atvout some battles ne was in one time. He was in a war once, in Mexico, I think, or some other place, and I don.t know just when, but 1 think it was In-tore I was iwrn. Well, we went to bed rather early that niirht. 'cause grandpa said we would have to get up at ü o'clock, sharp, so as to get ready to go to the celebration. I dreamed that night I was going to the celebration, riding on a white bore and dressed in my white dress, with red, white and blue riblvons. When we came to the town, some one cried. 'Here comes the Goddess of Liberty!" the Kopie began to shout and the drums begin to beat and grandpa was pounding the doorwith all his might, and telling us to get upto' breakfast. We bounced up quick, got dressed in a hurry and ran down to breakfast; but some way we did not feel as hungry as usual, and grandma got afraid we were sic k, but we all declared we never felt better in our lives. When breakfast was over the loys hustled oil' to help grandpa feed, and we wanted to help Susan, the girl, do up the kitchen work,, but she said we were in her way and wouldn't' let us. Grandma called us up stairs and told, us to begin to dress, as it most always took so long. We didn't like it a bit 'cause she had taken the red, white and blue riblvons oil' our dresses, but she said she supped the little girls in tlie city wore their dresses that way. but the little girls in Jonesboro did not, and they would make fun cf us. Of course we did not want to be made fun of, but still we .thought they looked real prettv, though we IumI never seen any of the girls at home fixed that way. It took grandma an awful long time to fix us that morning, she said she didn't know much about little girl' clothes nowadays, "and couldn't get the bang of them anyway." I noticed May's sash looked kind-o'-funny. and when I looked close, I saw it was tied up-side down! In a little bit, the boys came in, in a terrible hurry to get dressed", and tearing around ju-t like they were crazy. It did not take them long, for they were not a bit particular how they looked only Fred; he's fourteen, ond sometimes thinks he is awful nice and pays a good deal of attention to the girl.s, but mo.st of the time, be is jut a little loy. like the rest of us. That morning, he could not get his neck-tie to suit him, and grai'.'Tiua could not tix it, nor Susan, and if it bad not been thnt May got it twisted just tlie rijjtiC way, we might UaYvbe('atu::e.

yet, for all I know. When the dinner was all packed, and my, what an awful lot there was of it! the boys wanted to start right away, but grardpa said he 'spected we had letter bitch up first! Did you ever? Those boys bad never thought of that, once, and it was all of five miles to Jonesboro. We could not all go together, unless we took the big wagon, so grandpa said that grandma, Susie, May and I, with the hired man to drive, could go in the carraige, and he and the boys would take the spring-wagon. That suitd us all exactlj, and before very long, we all climbed in the boys with 'their big flags and we with our little ones, and just the wildest, noisest crowd you ever saw. Even grandpa cut up as much as any of us, and was so near crazy, I believe if grandma had not told - him he would have gone off with every door in the bouse wide open. When we finally did start, such shouting and hurrahing you never heard! After we bad gone on a while, the boys drove on ahead of us, for grandpa had promised to get them some firecrackers, and they wanted to get them before they were all sold out. When we got nearly there we met lots of other people going, and when we droye into town it was almost like a funeral procession, only everybody drove fast. The streets were full, and every window in all the bouses was full of beads; flags were streaming every place, firecrackers popping, drums beating, and everything just like the 4th of July. We drove down to the centre of town, where there was the biggest crowd, and there was such a noise and so much fuss we could hardly bear ourselves talk. The band was playing and a company of boys, bigger than Fred, was marching and showing off. Pretty soon, the man'who bossed the thing said they would now proceed to the fair ground. So the band went first, then the hoys that marched, then the carriages with the sc-akers, then anybody who got in next, ami then the jeople who walked. We gt in right Itehind grandpa and the boys, and as they had their jackets full of torpedoes and firecrackers, you may know there was a lively racket round where we were. As soon as we got there everybody said it was dinner time, and I thought so, too, for I never was so hungry in all my life; so grandma and Susan commenced spreading the dinner out on the table-cloth, and I tell you, it looked good! We children began to get scared, when grandpa brought about a dozen of his friends up to take dinner, for fear there would not be enough; but there was, and lots left over. After dinner about a hundred and fifty of us children got together and played "drop the handkerchief and "cat and mouse" for a little while, and then the man who losscd the things said the speaking would soon begin, and those who wanted seats bad better get them. Then there was a big rush toward the platform, and Frank and Arth and May and I got right on the front seat where we could see everething. Fred and Charlie were talking to some girls about as big as them, that had on piuk calico dresses and were freckled. Such taste! Directly the man who bossed introduced an awful big man to the eople and told them he wa going to niake a speech; he did real nicely and didn't forget his Ikws. WIk 11 he got through, some one called for "Major Daly." and then everybody called for "Major Daley," and would you believe it, Grandpa just walked out there as cool as a cucumber and said the niceJ little piece, and didn't look the le:ist bit seartä! I just, felt so sorry for him all the time, and afraid he would ferget it, but he di In't. And when he got through, my goodness gracious! how the people did .cheer him! After that there were some more men sjoke, but we got tired and went out in the grounds where the children were playing. There was a tub of lemonade out there, and we all drank so much and stuffed gingerbread, that we were nearly dead. Oh, the fun we did have! I know there never was a celebration just like that one. It was not but a little time till grandma said it was time to go. We went to a house and stayed for supper and then stayed for the fireworks at night. That was grand, I tell you! IaAh of colored lanterns, millions and millions of skv-rockets, Roman candles, pin-wheels, and oh, everything! We got awful sleepy, though, and were ready to go home when grandpa said it was time" It was way after nine o'clock when we got there, and we al hustled right off to bed, jnt the tiredest-out set you ever saw. That's all Emellbce." Homely Proverbs. The man that has not an enemy is really poor. A lie is like a cat, it never comes to you in a straight line. Advice is like castor oil. easy enough to give, but dreadfully uneasy to take. When a man measures out glory for himself, he always heaps the measures. What a man gets for nothing he is very apt to value at just alxmt what it cost him, Politeness never makes any blunders; it often gets snubbed, but never gets beat. Medicine has cost the world more than bread, and has killed more than it has cured. An idler is twice a thief, he not only steals bis own time, but hangs around and tries to steal yours. I never knew a man that lived upon hope, but that he sjenthisold age at somebody el.-e's expense. . 7 He ?.iio has nothing to do in this world but amuse himself has the hardest job on band I know of. I never knew a man to brag of his money or his iedigree who had anything else worth bragging about. When you strike oil stop lioring; many a man has bored clean through and let the oil run out at the bottom. When you come across a man that neither flattery or abuse will- stimulate, let him alone, he has gone to seed: There are two kinds of men I do not want to meet when I am in a hum-, men that I owe and men that want to owe me. Those who are too proud to inquire what a thinfT costs when they buy it are the first to find fault when they come to pay tor it. Go slow, young man; if you tap both ends of your cider barrel at once, and draw out of the bung-hole besides, your cider ain't going to hold out long. Whenever the minister prenches a sermon that pleases tlie whole congregation in nine cases out of ten he has preached a sermon that tlie Iord won't indorse.

Jlaby Won't 0. 'Doctor," he began, as be entered the office of a well-known medical man the other dav, we've leen talking it over." "Ah!" "And have concluded that it would be best for the baby's health to go to the country, this summer." 'I see." "What do you think of it?" '. "At a relative's I suppo.-e?" "Yes." "Swamp anywhere near the bouse?'1 "Well, I believe there's one about a qnarter of a mile awy." , "That's good. Is the well in the woodshed?" "It is." "Good again. That will kccd the floor damp" and muddy. Is the" cellar concreted and drained?" "I think not." That's elegant. A cellar witlr a natural earth bottomcan always be depended on for sour smells, and one without a drain helps, along fever. Lots of shrublvery around?" "Oh. yes; you can hardly see the house in summer." "Kxactlv. That keeps roofs and walls damp, and you can depend on malaria. Pissty und barn bandy to the back door?" "Yes. only a few" rods away." s "Very nice very. You can rely on thd odors, 'and i-rha"ps the well water is improved by the percolations.- Ever notice the cistern?" "Yes. it is a nice wooden one." "Splendid! The water is always throwing off a sour smell, aal sotaetUinj IcsUIwä

million mosquitoes breed therj every summer's night. I agree with you to a "dot, especially if there are any box drain irou.nl to breed typhoid fever." "You you won't advise it?' nurled the father. "8av!" said the Doctor as be leaned over the table, "let the nurse drop hint out of the window push him down the back stairsget him run over by an ice wagon give him your revolver to pläy with. There's a dozen ways of killing him off besides taking him to the country, and any one of them will save you time and money. St. Taul Globe. Bric-a-Hrac. Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure There is no sterner moralist thai pleasure. Byron. De min wut kaint stan' prosperity puts me in mind o' de peach tree tlat brakes down 'case it is full o' fruit. Joel C. Harris. Pride hath no other g-lass To fchow itself, but pride: for supple knees Feed arrogance, and are the proud man's fees. Shakspeare. Suppose the course of true love always did run smooth, and everybody marries bis or her first love. Ah! wh'at would raarriage be? Thackeray. Art builds on sand: the works of pride And human passions change and fall; But that which shares the life of God With him surviveth alL Wordsworth. Sweet is the memory of distant friends, Like the mellow rays of the declining sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. Washington Irving. I count these things as grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God, Lift iiu the soul from the common sod To a. purer air and a broader view. J. G. Holland. Li e is a warfare, and those who climb un

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