Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 18, Number 19, Jasper, Dubois County, 19 May 1876 — Page 2

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sir pnj.v. BT JOisjI il MtLI.KK. I .Irrantcl. O yueen. of the Ut niht, 1 ran b.u Irvmn of law U-iUy. l'.ul 'Irra"! - O 1 coul.l kneel an,t pray Tv one alio ;L a trntrr Itstil l.ral f ii in t iroukir-t war, Au.i a i.I o( a jrt w ill nut uy. I dream.), 4 nncra. rrfal gura, 1TI I h l followed Uwlr. AoJ i-lt.f jl a Um" 1'olar Mar; Pul Uiro. now, I L1 not ixra Tti ilT 1 larrl ilrw tx-ar lo the, lwi fo.Iowf.J. worshipiMi :lf tliy. 1 ilrcatnr-1 you rvvme-l la K1T laat ; I aaw Tu walk in lroiil (lato With Ht head an.l heart flal. in ) hllirt in Tour hite riKhl haant IVnr.ttn the rou.J St. Iwr' dome, 1 tial iurvl uov almighty B'Wn. A liann 1 tur was la your hir. I our lanifiiu were of iruiil and oow An.! mn ill I turn aal oiarrel , Ail ram fli 1 mt how mlchW fair, Atl alt mra' followed aa you uavaaMl;. Hut I cime ailrot, lone, aoi laal. AnJ holy men In aaltle owi, And p.n vriih cord an4 anlal hoJ li.l lk tolhe and Utra toool. Titer rro-l lhm lrp with bn.i hel down, ThfT chid thrmwlTe in I'rar thai Uief ShuuM, -eing thee, frrt U pray. ktrw px!. men apale ia boneypd worJ , Men p,'-M tea ilxuunl id a line. You l'Ml before the arre-l ahrine; Tow a if you bad not bearl. r.ut w ri-n I fime al your com mind I ou la.-i two UUiea in my hani. ) U-1y. if lr ea or laid. You yrt ta'irht wery of all men. And lum ont toui aint-er laen, At lay ii'iy iw h han-i. jn 1 would f.dl w Ime and far As Ter trimta tracked a alar. Mr aol ia roanr, my beJ ia atrong; O Udr rearh a band to-lT And tbou ahalt walk Utc Milky Way; Fwr 1 will gire your nam to aoe-. 1,' I aoi of Uie kmga of thouht. And thou ahalt hf abeo king art not. O reaeh a Hand, rour hand in mine, Wi.)-, I cj-:1 r. aa EtTer cu Ilaa aunrf ainee prvpbory berao. And thna atia'.t be UoUi aong aa I abriae Nay! what hare I ia her rateera." Tac nun ln; I avy oat aing aal Ireatn. THE COI KSE OF TBl'E LOVE. How Taakre Prjrfler Wmm m VhlUdtlpkla llelreaa. BT LIZZIE A. 9. CHESTER. The story the writer haa to tell was derived from such sources that she is willing to vouch ia her proper person for the truth of every incident of it. The last of the parties interested died, the past winter, and slight changes in names ocing made, no pwsible harm can retult from the narration. In the fill of 16, while Napoleon the First was rapidly marching his army northward for an attack upon 1'russia, pre-ss-gangs constantly scoured the latter country, recruiting for the army of his maje-sty, the King. The Widow Schauber, resident of a small village in Alaace, like tuany another German mother, kept her sons concealed in the cellar bv day, and released them at night only, for air and exercise. One mooni:gh't evening, Frederick Schauber and a companion are playing at a street corner, when songs, and shouts, and sounds of a hurried tramp come up the street; officers' hands are on their shoulders, and the lads sre in the service of hU majesty, the King. Resistance is death ; no time is allowed for adieu ; the lad are marched to the front. They are too young to bear arms, but are assigned the duty of removing the wounded. The vehicle appropriated to this use is a rough cart. The wounded are pic ked up and tossed in, piled one u(on another until the cart is full, then driven to a place of safety, where they are incontinently dumpe t: Frederick is sickened. Give him a musket, and he will fight this kind of work he will endure no longer; but his majesty, the King, chooses not to give him a musket ; there are more woundetl to be loaded and dumped. Then, in the ear of his comrade, he whispers, dutrtvn. Hack into Prussia is sure arrest and execution oTer the line, then. The boys have in their possession money to about the value of 12 cents. The Prussian forces are wretchellvfei. The sarranous Frederick Invests the 12 cenU in bread, bribes the famishing picket, and, half starved himself, comes, at length, within the French line. lie hastens to Paris. But who can foretell the fortunes of war ? Eu rope may quake at Ihe name of Napoleon Ibmaparte; Frederick fear because he has felt the power of his majesty, the King of 1'russia. Who knows but the Irusian array may yet enter ran? His comrade remains in Pans, but he Dushes oa to Havre. He finds there a vessel about sailing for Ameri ca. He works his passage, and, as soon as the vessel touches wharf at Philadelphia, springs ashore and accosts the firt individual he meets with the request f jr work. This individual is Hillyer, a PhiladclEhia baker. Hillyer does not wish to ire, but will take the voung msn as an apprentice. Never did" bakerfind more f.iitliful apprentice. Hillyer's lusines u a flourishing one, and for the next few ye.irs, increase both in quantity and character. It naes from retail to wholesale. Schauber is ipdispensable. Hillyer ama-sses a fortune; then dies, leaving his widow and Schauber to manage. The widow is a gentle, pretty little woman, and Schautn-r and the widow manaire" as would be exiMH ted. Schauber has aire alv accumnatrd a lisndsome property of his own,

(Ml of the Hillyer estate, bring Schauber among the rank of laoneyed men. Still the bakery flourishes ; outside speculations succeed; Schauber becomes niaga ate amid all the Herman population of Philadelphia. Ha build a grand house, furnishes it elegantly, stocks it with MTtanU according toold-couutry idea.; but the center around which every thing is to revolve, the heart of the household, is the youngest of his three children, his only daughter, Katherine. Schauber has observed what money can do in the home of the free and the land of the brave, and has resolved that his daughter shall be reared like a princess of Fatherland. His commands are imperative that she shall never lift one dainty finger in her own service. All that is richest and rarest ministers to her wants. Her opportunities for culture in all highest directions are unsur1assable. As lor Katherine Schauler, icrself. she is a flower, a sweet waxen lily, but unlike the majority of tlowerlike girls, she is not inane. SLi has the brightness of a dew-spangled flower, and underneath her ladylike exterior lie the daring and perseverance of Frederick Schauber, himself. While the pretty Widow Hillyer and the sagacious young Grman have been 'managing the estate of the late Thomas Hillyer, baker, the four sons of Kufus Swift, farmer, of Middlefield, Mass., formerly of Southampton, have developed an adventurous spirit, redived the prayers of the church, the tearful adieu x of neighbors nd friends, and sought the fardistant and unknown land of Pennsylvania. In Pennsylvania, Kufus, the eldest. tire of the slow and inglorious pursuit of farming, and enters upon the wider sphere of tin-peddler. His cart rattles spiritedly around amid the precints of Germantuwn and Philadelphia, and he drives thrifty bargains with German vrows and Yankee housewives. He is prospering and is content, when suddenly there appears, direct from Massachusetts, n enterprising young manufacturer, named l'lunkett, who shows him still a better war. l'lunkett has been charged to "look up Hums." He brings him many messages from his anxious mother, Sally, also a pair of blue wuvlcu Loo. Plunkctt is dcsirois of introducing among benighted Phila-d-lphians a new and most desirable Yankee invention, a kind of inside window-blind, a sort of forerunner of the outside blind of our modern days. This is composed of thia, narrow strips of painted wood fastened together, and is to be suspended and drawn up as we now employ a shade, l'lunkett figures out for Kufus the exact profit to be made upon this commodity. Kufus promptly sells his tin route to a younger brother," and enters upon the blind business. The introduction of the blind is successful even leyond what the sanguine l'lunkett and Kufus have an ticipated. Philadelphia throws back her heavy wooden shutters, and takes the blinds, if not to her heart, at least to her windows. Kufus accepts the agencv for all the towns around about, extending as far south even as Haitimore. He is not at the expense of an office, but has his headquarters with one Froeling, whose business is housefurnishing. Froeling's son has married a daughter of the late Thomas Hillyer, baker, a half sister of Katherine Schauber. A passage-way leads over from the Froelings' shop to the rear of the Froelings residence. The Froelings are much in the habit of running back and forth. Katharine Schauber is frequently there. The Froelings possess that new and aristocratic instrument, the !iano. Katherine plays and sings. Kuu, having received the advantages of the Middlefield singing-school, also sings with the spirit and.the understanding, if not melodiously. Kufus is sometims invited to tea; Katharine sometimes drops in to tea. A corresponding ratio may about this time be observed between Katharine's growing fondness for her half-sister and Rufus's appreciation of his friend, Froeling; as Katherine's errands up the front steps increase, so do Kufus's errands through the back passage-way. Now Kufus at this epoch no more entertained the conscious purpose of making love to Katharine Schauber than of seeking to beguile the star Aldebaran from its course in the heavens. His business wu window-blinds. He m.vle out bills for window-blinds, and dispatched orders for window-blinds, he canvassed for window-blinds, and he made money. One afternoon, he observes in the window of a book-store an unusually elegant volume. He finds it to be a col lection ol ioems. Kulus has a percep tion cif the fitness of things. He purcba.sc the book quite regardless of cost, and an early opportunity finds himtraveling the pasage-way between Vroeling's shop and residence with a package wrapped in tissue-paper under his anu. Katherine is delighted with the book. She reads a little to him, and Kufus ad mires where he understands and dis creetly keeps silent where he don't tin derstanJ. Alter tea she rea.is some more; Kufus reads, to. and though Kufus's elocutionary drill, under old Masters Hell and Tinker, may not have been particularly adapted to the mcllif luous rendering of sentimental verse. he does his best, and Katherine is not just now in a frame of mind to be crit ical. Perhaps they kept the book at Froeling's: at all events, they read a rood deal in it, and, figuratively speak ing, that book of poems finihed the business for them that is, as far as the young people themselves were concern ed, not at all so far as Papa Schauber was interested. Papa Schauber has all this time leen pursuing the even tenor of his ways, his

whic h. uriiul with the widow portion

mind fixed only upon safe and remu- j iterative inveatiuents. Not until ai. German Philadelphia is roused from its J wonted apathy by the report that Katb

enne Si hauu-r is Mirreptitiouaiy recm ing the addrees of a Yankee eddler, is he apprised of the facts. Schauber is no longer the famishing boy-deserter traveling on foot f nun Paris to Havre, no longer the hard-worked cabin-boy or baker's apprentice, but Frederick l Schauber, acknowledged magnate of all German Philadelphia, whose princess j daughter, Katherine, is existed to con- j tract a marrir-je worthy her position ' and charms. He cures Kufus, curses the Froelings, comes near to cursing j the adored Katherine herself. Kufus, emboldened by open opposition, takes ' a position he had otherwise hardly dare j assume, that of declared suitor of Kath- j erine's. To bis inexpressible delight, , he nnds Katherine not one of thoe young ladies who are in a twilight state of uncertainty in regaru to tne nature of their own feelings. She is jut as decided as to what she wants as Papa Frederick is to what he dont want and won't have. In vain Kufus shows himself the possessor of from eighteen to twenty thousand dollars. What are eighteen or twenty thousand to Sehaul-er's own half-million! In vain Kufus sends to Middlefield for a certificate from "Pries; Najh" that his parentage is respectable and his character unexcejtionable. What does Frederick Schauler care for Yankee parsons' certificates of the character of Yankee peddlers ! She shall never marry the beggar, rwrfr; I will rend her to Germany!" cries the infuriate t redenck. Katherine goes no more to the Froelings'. Mie shall neither ride nor w alk without trusty attendance. Put Katherine is own daughter of the man who at II years of age briled his war through the Prussian lines with 1 cents' worth of bread. She easily arranges for an interview. I don't know what he will do, Kufus; he may send me to German v, tut " The delicate garden lily flames cp with the force of the Schauber will to a royal tiger flower. She rounds her sentence with a look Kufus will be likely to remember. From that hour Katherine utterly disappears. No one of all Ler acquaintances can give any clew to her whereabouts; the Froglings profess ignorance, and are evidently sincere. Not a vessel leaves the wharf for Premen or LeipMC that Kufus does not board, seeking a glimpe of the one f gure in all his thoughts; not a door in Philadelhia or Geriuantown but opens at his :nH-k. the reouest alwavs on his lios to be allowed to put up blind, the h-e always in his heart of a glimpe of Katherine. He sends U tters to every citv in Germany. He spends hours in watch utxn the Schauber mansion. People come and go, forms flit before the windows, and faces look out, but Katherine never. 1'hiladelphia becomes a strangely empty citj ; one street in it is a dead street. " It's no use, Kufus," sxvs his go-d friend Froeling, at the end of a year and a half; ";chauler has a will lice iron; you will never have that girl." Kufus remembers that Ka:henne,too, has the Schauber will, and in this connection comes the problem why, if still faithful to him, she never manages to convey him a message. Then come self-distrut. V hat, be asks himIT. is he, Kufus Swift, late New England farmer, then Yankee tin-peddler, that he should call forth such devotion as be has taken for granted in this flower of Philadelphia culture and refinement? Is it not good sene to believe that her at tachment to him was but a fleeting fancv? May not her absence from the city be accounted for by her shame and dread of the raillery of gay acquaint ances? Uoubtless she is mingling in society in some distant city, and thinking of him only with a flih of self indignation that she has ever entertained one thought of fondness for him. He waits and watches another six months. One fct becomes patent to Kufus's mind the regard which Katharine Schauber had profeed for him was but the transient emotion of an enthusiastic, warm-hearted girl. The next incident in this story is unfortunate for the interests of sentimental literature, but considering the world as it is, not surprising. Kufus is altogether sick and tired to death of his unexceptional, first-ciavs Philadelphia boarding-houe. The occasional teas at the Froelings have grown dull and uninteresting. Perhaps he has been seized with a longing for the apple-pie and doughnuts of his native land. He bethinks himself of a lady, nameless here, resident in Southampton, Mass.; a lady of refinement, amiabilty and domestic qualifications With buineslike promptness he addrcs-es her a letter, in which he says he has always he!d hr in high esteem, and would like "to open a correspondence with her with a view to matrimony." He duly posts the letter, and return to his office to find a Nv waiting with a card saying that Mrs. Hoev, of No. North Soond Street, wouf l like to see bim. Kufus is frequently in refipt of similar meages. Philadelphia ladies are still a trine suspicious that th-e window-blinds are another incmtable Yankee trick, and, if they fiil to go up or to come dawn smoothly, they send for the agent and demand an explanation. Kufus makes out a bill f r a heavy cuUmer who is in waiting, tucks the money received into bis vet-porket, ml prrw-eeds to report himself at No. North S-eond Street. A middle-aged, ordinary-looking woman receives him ia a room, the windows cd which be is surprised to tTc-ive are not hung with the new pp Jar I .'.ir.d. The la Iv wa'ks

.,n.n.l.t-n fl.Mtr in me agitation. I

1 don ; know but I've done wrong," ay. ahe immediately. ! "Kufus thinks she refers to not having purchased blinds. t - ... t , i t ' " I donx Enow uux i ve uone wrong, i pursues she, but I've accepted a note for vou from Kath."'ne Schauber." -'Kaihtrine ihuutr! Where? Hand it here, woman; quick!" I sha'n't deliver it until I thiak it best." " Woman keep that nte on your peril! Give it here ;uuk: V.if unless I am ersiiaded it is best 1 for Katherine." ! 1 tell you, give rue that note!" " If Katheriue fchould-" I I lufus plucks from his vest-pocket a ! ndred-dollar bill, and throws it at I hundred -dollar the woman's feet Take that and ytt me my ro."' The woman demurs. It nk-notes fly around her feet like leaves in Valombrosa. M tuy can't buy it unless I'm persuaded it is best for Katherine," says the Hoey. Then Kufus takes his tura in pacing the floor, lie open his lips and sin-aks, and Mrs. Hoey has an opportunity of observing how Yankees can talk when they feel that they've any thingat stake. Whether it is l-"t for Katherine or not, there is soon placed in Kufus's hand a slip of crumpled paper which reads: " I am tonfitud in 'iy 'zihtr'j aiitc uvLr kixr. You om Uam more ly in jiiirinq of the Ixiris ijxrls." Kufus bfees no time in calling upon those Davis girls. The lavis girls are not distressed bv doubts of what is best for Katherine. They are eager to tell. Katherine has been shut up iu the attic udcr tU Aslant -svh ?c htrge -tHry has been made dependent upon her vigilance. Kverv thing that money can rtroeur ha l.een nrovided to irake her incarceration U'arable. But after a year and a half her heath had so far failed that Papa Schauber was obliged to call a physician ; the physician announced that she mut have more exercise and company. She was then allowed the freedom of the back yard, an.l the Iavis girls, keing clo-e at hand and considered! discreet, were invited to call. No disclosures resulting and Katherine's health appreciably improvin", she was allowed under a strong bodv-guird to return the Pavi girl-", calls. On one of these occasion, while the attendant's attention was momentarilv diverted, a bit of paper and a pencil Were slipped into Katherine'. . . . ... hand and sne wrote tne message wfcich age which Kufas had received. The Pavi girl adore Katherine, and think kufus i "nice." but detest Papa Schauber and di-like the voung men Ss hauler, w ho ..- ..t.:" ;,k ti,;,f.., ti... .r fall of symyathy, andprxunie Kufus all the asitac.-e in their iower. Kufus g'e home and writes to the ' Southampton lady : ; I, this morning, add resse.1 you aj letter d which I now desire you to take i no notice. All that I expresed in that ! . . a . a.' letter was wun eriecx sincerity, oui events Lave since transpired which, could you know, I am sure you would deem the request which I now make pardonable. I shall ever remain your with the dee pest respect, Ki rt s Sw ift." Py a fortunate interposition of I'rovi-den.-e she received the letters by the same mail, and was thus spared the labor of raking up any ideas for theprorsed correspondence. Kufu, two days after, received a note from Miss Iavis, saying: "Call at our house, just after twilight, to-night." The PavLs residence is oppsite and just one block llowthe Scb.aul.er mansion, easily overloVed, therefore, from the Schauber window. It is thick twilight when Kufus suddenly glide around from the side of the lis . ; the Pavis window-draj-eries are visibly agitated. Miss Pavis herself opens the door for him before he has time to ring. She significantly joints to the parlor. Kufus enters. Smeone is half acr.s the flrto meet him, p.v.e and thin, but Kit'htri u Sr. hi u t r .' The Pavis girls didn't attend that meeting, but undoubtedly they f.-lt some curios. ty in regard to the exer cises. Next morning, Kufu (goes to the Citv Clerk's to get his certificate. license, diploma, or whatever it is Pennsylvania laws require a man to arm himself with in such cases. He request the Mavor to be at his office a little after dark why Mavor, instead of minister, isn't ascertained. A little after d irk a carriage drives up to the rear entrance of the Pavis resilience. The Pavi girl are fertile in devices, and Katherine's attendant is jut now cnvr niently out of the way. Katherine enters the carriage. The Pavi girls go as witnees. Ihe party is whisked of: to the The

Mayor's. I he twain are made one, n,,thing i the matter, why do you 1and the man who would have put them have in that manner? I like my boardasunder int present. The party are ! er to e frank with me."

whiked ba k to the rear f the Pavi! resi.lenee; the Pavis girls return Hath - enne to her attic ; and Kufus goes se-

rer.ely on his way to the wind-w-!.Imd j we wished to express a state of extreme bu-ine, leaving to Fate and Papa j mental obtusene, we were wont to Sr hauUr the next move. ( say of the obtu-e one that he didn't Hie party who ha ! taken the most know which side his bread was butu red unequivocal pleasure in the proceeding" on.' I think I must be losing some of thusfarwas undoubtedly thoe Pa is ! lllV jK-rceptivc f acuities. I find no fault girls. The "awful responsibility f wftn yolir provisions, dear madam ; the this solemn step" was no concern .f . f:lit must be in me. I h ive lived and theirs, but the twilight secrecy, the ro- rat. n two-and-fifty years, and for the mai.tic interviews-, the dah to the May- first tini in my life I find myself unaor's and a k, and the uncertainties to ,oide on which side hit bread i overhanging the fut ore must hae struck I buttered." their imagination deliriously. ( y .jiddlecni-t left her boarders to In less than a wk Kufus receives a . ,U,T their own bread after that. note from the elder Mis Pavi, stating ( fr auflrt (X. C.) Evjle. that communications with Katherine; - are cut ofT. The fact are out; she The leaves of the pirmipple are can't f'r her life conceive how pro!. a-, now being utilized in the manufacture

) I'ly this iilentical .xiis lavis told ber j j m.t intimate friend, and the m-st in- ' tir:. ate friend told somebody !e, nd' bly this identical Mis Pavis told her

soonl. Mr. Schauber is raving and

tearing his hair, and there's a terrible state of affairs at the mansion Miss lavi is evidently excited, but Kufus is alm. He g.s directly to an attorney tint ft imiiilvnt mrairiuf " - r. Frederick Schauber for unlawfully de taining and willfully incarcerating his wife, Katherine Swift, to her manifest injury and loss of health. When this paper is served on Sckauber, he raves i ana tears nis nair worse man eer, oui i the course of justice is not seriously ob structed thereby, lie finds it necessary ary to seek legal advice. His own counsel. dter conference with Kufus's counsel, advises his client that thee are serious charges ; with the evidence Kufus can produce it will be likely to go hard with him ; if the lady is delivered to her lawful (guardian, the prosecution niay be withdrawn. SchauMr grimly produce the lady. A carriage is in waiting to take her to a house already engaged, and the princess and the peddler w ander over the house, chattering as merrily over carpets and new furniture as if the course of true love had run like a meadow brook. The Schauber easily became reconciled to Kufus, but Kufus, who hail seen German pride, now chose to exhibit the Yankee variety. On the birth of his first child, SchauWr begged to le allowed to make it a present. "Never!" declared Kufus. In a general financial criis, when Kufus U'catne ftecuniarily enibarra.ssed, Schauler begged to be allowed to grant assistance. ".Vtrrr."' responded Yankee grit, and pulled through unaided. On the death of Katherine s boy. the lady ners. lt tre Schauber' petition to be allowed to provide the funeral. "For your sake nJv, Katherine." yielded Kufus. With the exception of the death of j children, the married life of the pair I was a sunny as it deserved to be after i so much anterior thunder and lightning Katherine died a little past middle-life. Kufus, while on a visit to Massachusetts, a few years later, said with an earnestness Iran-porting the sentiment to the region of the sublime : I shall never marry again, for nowhere in God's wide world is there a woman worthy to le the successor of Katherine Sch.iu!er: j He was faithful to his word and her memory. Two month ago, he d. d. an old man, anl tney i.tia mm uown ai Laurel Hill, beside his loved Katherine. r an, .ion V" ' ' t ' e Pavis girls h adn t betrave d their 1 Ir.t.l an. I lfll.lt i imIM n.I I'llI'M with Hut after all, don't you sup,Ke that. " V - V. i '. v . a view to matrimony nai ;one icn uously forward, Kufus would have joy- ; niarnea m.- uu . i 1 tranq-nlly ; .,,, tl... marble al.ve her remains would have U-en in- . n r I . hj .... 1. ...... . .H ! scribed i "Kcloved wife She i not ! lost, but gone liefore!" and that Kufus, I with an earnestness approaching subj limit v, would have cried " Nowhere in Gol's wide world is there a woman worthy, etc.?" Human hearts are curious organs. Sprxn'jfitll (M'U.) Rtyubliran. Altogether Tf Thin. It was late in the fall when our good Mrs. Middlecrust went down to the market and selected a tub of butter. She always In.ugltt good butter. In fact she was determined that none of her boarders should ever have jut caue of complaint against the quality of her provisions. 44 Madam," said the marketman, " 1 would advie v.u to secure two tubs .f that butter. 1 shall have none U tter, and butter will U sure to rise in price through the winter." Mrs. Middcrust bought two tubs, and on her way home she bethought herself how she could contrive to make that butter last through to spring. Ah! a happy thought; she wou'd toast the bread for supper an i butter it herself. Puttered toast was the thing. Accordingly the giMnl worj.an set out uon her plan tt saving. For tea the loaves were nicely and evenly sliced, gently browned lefore the fire, and very g'-ntly and carefully buttered. A her boarder took their seat, she fancied that one or two of them were l-oking for the nut ter, so she smilingly said : I have buttereaf the bread mv-elf. jreritlemen. A it was toasted, I thought ' i would le nicer so." J jjr. Nipkin, a "bald-headed bank j cderk, wearing spectacles, took a sli e f the toa-ted bread and examined it long and critically. Mr. Nipkin, "is any thing the matter with your bread ?" asked the landlady. "No, no nothing is the matter with the bread." And he turned it over and submitted it to further examination. ""Mr. Nipkin," persisted the good woman, frrowini? red in the lace, "ii "My dear Mrs. Middlecrust," n1 plied Mr. Nipkin. baking up serenely, : wij (rank. When 1 was a ov, if t f a coarse kind of wadding available t d a coarse kind of in upholstery, and ir fabric resembling tla in making a heavy lin.cl.