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VOLUMK 22.

PLYMOUTH, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JULY 25. 1878.

NUMBER 32.

raiytEPUJBLICAN. BY STDERS & PIPER. RATES OF ADVERTISING.

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r doing peSKy neatly, cheaply and promptly !

htbjvtv iiuuj DViivii J wui ai i wiiiit, utiiauLOCAL DIRECTORY. Cltl NII OFFICERS, Clerk.. Dttuial McDonald Auditar A. C Thompson. fiherjÄ LC. I'tak.

Vreasurer Kccosder Surveyor School superintendent

Commi.-s-ioners

, A. L. Thomson. i. B. N. Kliuger. A. C. North. W.E.Bailey. Hiram hVanck Howard Bnruaby James Ahrams

Kegnhur sessions of the Commissi on era' Court fü-st Mondays in March, June, September and December judiciair officers. Circuit Jrtdjfe Sidney Keith. Circuit Prosecutor P. 0L Jones. Sessions ol tii-- Circuit Court, 1st Mi'ii.lay in Man h, 3d Monday in Mav, 5th Monday in September and 3d Monday in December.

CITT (iOVKKNHKNT, Mayor Aniasa Johnson. Clerk David E. Snyder. Treasurer James A. Uiimore. Sup'i i'uMi. Schools Koecoe A. Chase. City Coimai meets second and fourth Mondays in each month. a

CHI Kl II UUtECTORY.

CHRISTIAN CHAPEL. Preachings! 10:3" a. m.

V7 and at 7:30 p m.

U.V. Heed, j'astor.

Sunday school at 12:15 p. m.

1BE.SBVTEKIAN CUUKCH. Preaching every - abbat b at t':30 a. n, ., and at 7 do p. m. Sabbath sehöo . at lt:15 p. m. Fraver me. ling, Wednesdays at p. tn. :U.- in. U. A. Little, Pastor. METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHCTtCH. Corner LaPo-te and Center afreets. Pteac lum.every bablath at H:30a. ni and IM p. nr. Sunday school at l:4o m T. C. Sttinger, Pastor. KKroUMKO Oil V HUH. Services in the Lotheraa church Ute fir-t ami Ujunl Sundays is each mousb at Mtüu a. aw, ami at the Jarwhy church at i p. m. J . B. Henry, Pastor. ST. THU A AS Episcopal chorea. Divine services every Sunday at MKS a. in., and at 7::io p. m. Sunday school at !2:3o p. m. Seats Ire. J. J. t "a . le. Hector. CATHOLIC (St. Michael's) CHURCH, Urs service, irSo a. m. Second service at 10 a: m. Vespers at 3 i. m. G. Zurweiieu. Pa.-tor.

MASONIC. 1j)LYMÜl TH CUMMAMiEHY, K. T., NO. 3. Staled conclaves the second '1 hursday in each month. J. W. iicmynton, B. C. C. E. loan, Recorder.

rLYMOl'TH CUl .NCIL, NO. 1, K. A. 3. M. Stated convocations the second Wednesday in each uioath. J. F. LangeulMUgh, T. 1. M.

pi.YMon'U, CUAPTEK, N

Slated couvocatious the n

days in eac u month, J M. ou

OLYMoI'TH, LODtiC: NO.

X Stated communications first and third Fridays In each mouth. A. L. Reeve, W. M. J. Browmee, Sec. av java. aasL

So.a. K. A. M. tst I 1 third Mimu M K. H. P Itf-A. F. A. M.

LLWiNNINO LODGE, -NO.saa A. '. A. M. V Scaled communications the am nnd third

'1 uesdays in each mouth. C. S. Sutpheu, Sec.

R. A. Chase, W. M.

PLVMOL1U (J U A PIRK, IASTKRN TAR meets the first Wednea-lay of each mouiu at Masonic UalL Mrs. C O. Smith, W. M. A Knüver, Sec. ODO KRLJLOWS. AMEKIcrs LODtiE, NO. 1, L O. O T., meeU every Thursday evening at 7:3-; p. in. Kcsideut and viaitiux brethren are cordially invited to attend, H. u. Thayer, N. O. U. u. ii.ee. Sec. ULYMOI TH ENCAMPMENT. No. 113. Siateil

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-etiu)gs second, anil icuirth .Mondavs in each . H. Speyer, C. P. J. A. Palmer, Scribe.

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KIUK COMPANIES.

ADRIATIC ENGINE CO. Stated sei and Tue suav in each month.

H . U. H. CaUeu, Sec. it. K. Banihill, roreman.

meetings

uesday in eacn mouth. J. W. Palmer, For-

PROTKCTION HOOK AND LADDER CO. Watetl meetings first Tnesday in each month. Henry Speyer, Forinau.

LOAN ASSOCIATIONS.

PLYMOUTH BITLDIM. LOAN A SAVI.M.S ASSOCIATION NO. 1. Board of Directors meet first Monday of each month. D. B. ArmStrolls'. Pres. C. E. l oan. Sec.

PLYMOUTH BUILDING, LOAN &. SAVINGS ASSOCIATION, NO, 2. Board of Directors meet first Monday in each mouth. W. B. Hess, Pres. H.A. Brown, Sec.

DENTISTS

F, M. BURKET,

Consultation free. All

Dentist, Office over A. Becker's grocery, opposite Post Office. All work warranted to give entire satistart. u in i-ry rc3" ' . Diseases oi te mouth and teeth succesef ullv treated i th ex irac te d without pain bv the use of nitrous oxid

w ork warranted. I

Souk Twdiy ui Widutiir f M Wui. DR. A. C. HUME,

PATENT MEDICINES. VEGETINE FOR DROPSY

'l.OV I PENCE.

I tlJ-ver sliatl

Forget the first Dose, Paovi

Mr. J. K. N7ennj(

Diik Sir, I have been a a: -at safferer from Dropsy. I was confined to my house more than a year. Six months ot the lime" I w entirely in-lji-less. I was obli-d to have two men help me in and oatot bed. 1 was swollen 19 inches taiger than my natuial siw aronnd my waist. I snfferM II a man could and live. I tried all remediei1 for Drop. sy. I had thfiee different iI.m tors. My friends all expeotrd I would ilie : many nichts 1 was expected to u e before morning. At last V'ejretine was sent me hy a frieritl. I never ahall forget the f rst dose 1 could realize its good effects from (lay Id day; I

I was swung hetlt r. Atter I hail taken some nve ; or six lMttles i coumI stoep well nisjhts. I betran to i

gam now BM Bati Alter taking some ten bottlea, 1 could walk trom oue pari ot oty room to the ofiif. My appetite Was good; She Dropsy hail at tins tjtne disappeared. 1 kept akin the Vegetiae until I had regained my usual henlti, I heanl ot a .-rent niauv cures hv usiiiL' Vcgetine after I got out

anil was able to attend to work. I am a carpenter

a TT it mTTiiier. i in nisi say 11 niv . um. &11 ouui of my wife's of Neuralgia, w ho hail suffered more

than in years. She says she has not had any Neu-

Weariness. Mine eyes are wcry of surveying '1 he tairest thing, too soon decaying ; Mine tars are wear) of receiving 'I he kindest w. ids ah, past leiieving ! Weary my hope, of ebb and flow ; Weary my pulse, of tUBes of woe; My trusting li'-art is weariest ; I uosld 1 would I were a. rest! For me can earth refuse fo fade? For me can words be faithful made? ill my embitlerest hope be sweet? My pulsi- tarego the human best? No! Darkness must consume mine eye Silence, mine ear hope cease pulse die Ami ii' t mine heart a stone he pressed Or vain this "Would I were at rest '." There is a land of rest deferred ; Nor eye hath seen, nor ear hath heart!. Nor hope hath trod the precinct o'er; For hope bene Id is hope no morel There human poise forgets its tons Tuen hearts may know as they are known! Oh. for dove's witnrs. thou dwelling blest. To tly to the and be at rest! Mrs. Browning's Earlier Foei ta.

WHO IS MY NKit.HllOB .'

"Oh, what a lovely bunch of paneies! Is it possible they are for me?" I exclaimed to a tiny, brown-eyed

mk-ia lor ehrht months. I have uiven it to ojie of

my children for Canker Humors. I have no doubt girl, wltO plncorf a fratrratlt boquet Of in my mind that it will care anv nwniin It it i . , , , . , , , treatfleaiiserofthenliMHl, it is safetogite a ihlM. the gold aild .urple dewey blOOIllS IU I will reeommend ie to the world. My father Is W ' . r . . , T . ... years old, and he savs there is nothing hke it to my hammock in which I was idly g strength and hie to an ag.d,H-rsou. I cannot avTiDCini? Under the biff maple, he tM thankful tor the use of it. lam Very gratefnliy yours. John M. Nottai. "AuDty Lee Bellt them,' Said the All Dfsiws ot the Blood. If Veg4iue will re- .. . . Here pare iii.u.sc, purity, and cure such diseases, wee child, 'and she hopes the mounreatoring tne patient to perfect health slier living . . ,. , different physicians, many rem.ili. s and suffering talU air Will SOOn make J'OU Well, and

tor years, is it not conclusive proof, it you are a ant,'a Vnnr neiohhnr il.twn linder the suit, rer yon can N'. utwl? Why is this m-dicine i 8ne S JOUr "IgUDOr, UOWR Uüfier Uie

pertonnlng such srn at . ur.-s? Moo1, in the circulortng fluid.

it works in the hill."

it can Truly re

called the Great Blood Purifier. 1 he great source of disease originates in the blood; and no medicine that does not act directly upon it U purify and renovate, has any just claim upon public attention.

VEGETINE I OWE MY HEALTH TO YOUR VALUABLE VEGTINE.

"Who i9 this neighboily Aunty Lee?'' I asked the woman with whom I boarded when she next came within hearing of my voice. "Oh, then, she's pent you some posies," replied talkative Mrs. Evans, coming briskly from the garden and sitting down on the steps of the little porch so that she might entertain me while she was shelliug her peas, thus

than five ' killin' tew birds with one stun, as tared bone, which ,

' I was wondering to ray-

Nkwpoht, Kt., Apr., tf, 1S7T. Mr. JJ. R. Steren: DeaB Sir.- Having suffered from a breaking ont

of Cankerous Sores lor more

caused bv an accident of a tract

fracture ran into a running sore, having used every i ghe Said, thin., I rmilit think ni atul niifhiiitp hliMil me until I

I had taken six bottles ol your valuable medicine Self UOt tt'W IllinUtPS ago h0W long which Mr. Miller, the apothecary re -m mended ; , , , . - , , . a , . . very highly. The stxih untie cured nuand all i ' t would be before she d find out about can sav, is that 1 am toy health to your valaable . ftonfi VA onthin' T rAn't oma fnr VegcH-ie, Your most obedient servant, e a - 8ena 3Q SUtniD . 1 Can l See I0r alhibt vonHoeuib. my part how he can afford to do as "It is unnecessary for meto enumerate the das-1 " eases tor wtiicti the TefetiB" sbouW be used. 1 1 She does. know of no disease which will not admit of its use, , . r, , jn t i n with gKHi results. Almost innumerable coin- i ""Ji W nai UOCS 6U6 OO t X inplaiuts are caused by poisonous secretions in the ' ujred bliMMl, which can he entirely xis-lUil trom the, lullcusystem by the use of the Veifetine. Wh- ii the "Oh," she SaV9, ' she aims tO be blood is perfectly cleansed, the disease rapidly yields; all pains cease; healthy set ion is promptly neighborly, ami if anybody happens

restored, and uie imrteiil is curwi.

VEGETINE Cured me when the DOCTORS FAILED.

to be sick auywheres around she sends 'em little things to eat an' flowers to cheer 'em up, as she says; and she always has her knit tin" work in her pocket and her odd job o' knit tin' as she calls it, grows eout 1 ke magic into gloves and mittens and wristlets

Cincinnati, O., April, 10, 18TT. ifr. rr. Ji. Stevm: Dbak Sik. I was seriously troubled with Kid- - ... i . : i .

uri yfiiiieaiiii 101 a inn: nine. i uae ...upim.-i , , , , . i .

the best doctors in th's city. I have us. .1 your u oewe iviu a tum am- gn-.n imuj. VegeUne for this disease, and it has cured me when I " Tn hr friends nsnnlm fnllv nlil tiw doc-on. failed to do so. Yours truly. io ner menus, people iuiiy auie

Kknkst Di iiioan, Residence Sil Kai . st. ) UV them. I SUPPOSe.' I'lura rf K1.1in.we Kt l I sit A V- WW

VEGETINE. I'rejsMvrt ny

Oh, dear, no. To poor children an' tew old men and women that, I snriRo aro r:d needv nn' thnt. et

II. R.SteTODS, BOStOIl, MllSS. ( great store by her warm an' hand-

Vegetine if sold by all Druggists. ! 80me Presents, for her yarns are as mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmm ' bright as her flowers, an' I've told my

BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

Dr. J M-JENNINGS. 1)HYSI TAX AND SURGEON, office with Dr. N. Hherntan over Luuer'n Store, on Michigan street, Plymouth, Ind. i.i. h n( mttst atfeet. opposite. Catholic chureü. bm uo6 AM ASA JOHNSON ATTORNEY AT LAW. Prompt attenUon given to collections, settlement of decedents' estates aud guardianships, deeds, mortgages, and other eoa -racts drawn up and acknowledgments taken. Office ovrr Buck a l oan's Hardware Store.

man a good many times that the color went half toward makin' her little gift so welcome. An then she has so much comp'ny." "Rich people from the city, whose visits she returns?" "Oh, land sakes, no; poor folks that are tickled most to death to get an invitation to her pleasant little home. Yes, her home is an amaziu' pleaaant home, though her man is only a poor mechanic. She's always

P O. JONES,

Attorney at Law A Dist. Prosecute a say in' that she'd rather dew a little

good every day as she goes along than to be awaitin' to do some ftreat thing when she gets able, and then, p'raps, lose her opportunity and do nothin. I told her one day last year,

Prompt attention given to nil claiiua and eelectiona left in his care. Office In corner of Sear's brick block. Plymouth Ind.

C. H REEVE, ATTORNEi AT LAW. Located in m. Collections ami conveyancing a speciI it C U . 1 T ...,. ....II.. .... ....... 1,1 i .

IUI. lUSM'lS llSIOIll:.-',lll.-''l.''llllAil"1 . . v w . . , . .

ion. Inburos iie and property in A.l oom- S.i'S 1, 'A11S3 Lee, 1 ShOUld rutfl-

cur ml KiÄ.'11 fcr "SoS- " ! er be a puttin' by a little suthin' in

the bank for a rainy day, than to be a givin' away all the time.' 1 And,'

OR I. BOWER.

IMIYSKTAN AND HUKUE0N. will

x pleased to rr-cHve patients at his offlce. i savs she. 'Mrs. Ewings,' says Bhe,

S ar . IUI.. U I. 1. I

foend a all tun. b. ex. ept when profeaaionai- ' that's your way an it s a good way.

ly absent, hia r-si!. n being at tho utue

place. July 1st. 1876. 0m Wm. N. BAILEY M. D., 1HY8ICIAN A BURGEON. Thirty years practice. Graduute of two Medical '. leges, and nix yearH Burgeon in the army of Uie U. 8. (vol. serv.) Can compete soeeeea

luliy with any quuck in tne btiiteu Mates

I don't find no fault with it, but all these little things that I give away would never git into the bank, an' so you see, they'd be lost, an' I should pass away without ever doin' anything for my Master. An' I don't

Thankful for paaf favors, is tili in regular want to go to bed without thinkin' practice, and only requires to b-better known .

DENTIST! Office in Second story. Post Office Bulldfng Teeth from one only, to a full set, so cheap that the rich and poor can all GST TH7T.M. Pieservatjori of the Natural Teeth " A SPECIALITY.

to have an extensive one. Office in Sears'

new brick, cor. of Jfichigan and LaPorte Plymouth. Ind.. July 1st. HrTa. ly J. 0-, S. D- A J. W. PARKS, A TTORNEYS AT LAW, Notaries Public and A. Authorized War ( ianu Agenta ; Oltiuea at Boarbon and Plymouth, Indiana. Especial atte n tion given to t h " s- ttlei i ie tit of lecedents

Estates. Conveyancing, ana the Collection tit Soldieis' Cluiuid for Pensions: will attend I romptly to all professional business entrusted to them, and practice in Marshall and adjoining ooanties. Plymouth office on Gano street Iwtwi'nu Miehitrn and Center street!. Bourbon office. urirr jr prmtinif office. 26tf

R8. E. W. DOHLAP,

HOMEOPATHIC Physician and Dentist, and Dr. J. A. JJunlap, regular physician and surgeon, respeetlully ofler their services to the public. Office in Corbin's block; residence on East Gano street.

WILLIAM B. HESS, ATTORNEY AX1 COUNSELOR AT LAW. Plymouth, Indiana. janlyl

JOHN S. BENDER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, AND NOTARY PUBLIC, BALCONY BLOCK. - - - - - PLYMOUTH, IND. Especial attention given to the settleu.eut of es

tates, and partition ol lands; also the collection of

:laims erd foreclosure of mortgagr-s.

prompt.

Remittance

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C. C. DURR, DENTIST! Office over Parks Bros.' La w Office, Gano Street.

Plymouth, Ind.

yrno!4

A. C. St A. B. CAPRON, Attorneys & Counsel lors AT LAW REAL ESTATE ACENTS. ftPFICB A. la WHF.KLBR'S BLOCK. Tn PL YOUTH. IND.

J. D. McClarek t. It. Chasbt. McClaren A Chaney. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Will practice In all the courts in the state. Office iu Wheeler's block. OTer "Becker A Wolf dry goods store, Plymouth, lnd. Oct-oin OR. J. T. DOKE. 1HYSTC AN 4 SURGEON. Temlerabi professional services to the citizens of Walnut and vicinity. All calls promptly siterjlud to. Charges reasonable. If jnyTT

ey f extra fine calling cards 10 cents; 40 tinted Z. ö bristol 10 cents. C. Lamson, Plymouth, Ind.

that I have that day tried to lighten

some fellow, mortal's burden, brought a smile to some face, or a streak o' sunshine to some heart,' if it's only a givin' o' posies in the right speret.'" "And these flowers cost her a good deal, first and last, I suppose?" said I. caressing my pansles. M Oh, 'twould cost me a good deal

to run sich a flower garden as she does, but Miss Lee says she's not so strong, so she gets fresh air, sunbaths and exercise in her garden and

spends her time workin' in there In

stead of visitin'. She retui ns all her

calls by sendin' her compliments with

a bunch o' posies.'

' She hires sume one to carry them

about, I presume?"

" Massy, no. There isn't a child in

the village but what would run Its

legs off for Aunty Lee ;" and having finished shelling her mess of peas, my talkative little hostess trotted

about her work again, saying, as she

disappeared through the doorway,

" It's well enough to be neighborly, of course, but Miss Ie may see the

time when Bhe'd wished she had leetle snmthin' eout at Interest."

The Vermont mountain air agreed

with me, my health gradually improv

ing, and I staid on and on, week after week, spending a great part of my

time, when the weather did not posi

tively forbid, in my hammock under

the maples. As yet I had not once

seen my neighbor, Aunty Lee, but

grew to love her on account of the pretty nosegrays that found their way

from her hand to mine by one and another child messenger. One night, late in August, there

was a heavy thunder shower. The sudden downfall of rain swelled the little river that skirted our village to a veritable mountain torrent. A mill lam some miles up the stream had broken away and the angry flood came rushing down sweeping all before it. "Aunty Lee's husband's shop has gone," shouted my hostess, Mrs. Ewing. as Liie knocked at my door in the early morning after the storm; "and that's nojt the worst on't, for her garden is all washed eout and undermined, so that it'll take a purty pile o' money tew fix it up again if it ever is fixed. I wonder now ef Miss Lee don't wish she had'nt been quite so neighborly, and so had a little sumthiu' eout at interest;" and it really seemed to me as if the brisk little woman chuckled to herself as she pattered down the stairs. In less than half an hour she came back to my room with as doleful a looking visage as I ever saw. "Whatever is agoin' to become o' me an' my man," ciied she; "Our savings were all in a stock company op to Minotsville, because they paid more interest than the bank; we only tuk it eout o' the bank a little while ago, and neow their old mill has gone clean off, and they'll all go to gineral smash and we go long with 'em;" and this time she went slowly groaning down stairs. I could not help pitying the woman from the bottom of my heart. There was a great excitement in tho little village, as a matter of course, but Aunty Lee was reported to be as chipper as ever. The nosegay came to me every day as usual, not quite so many, not so great a variety as formerly, for a part of the garden had been washed away, but enough to give me an increased admiration for the sweet old lady who was so persistent and unwearying in her neighborly acta of kindness. The next Monday's local newspaper had this unique notice at the head of the village items: "All who have ever been the recipients of kindly deeds from 'Aunty

Lee' and who would like to recipro

cate now in her day of misfortune,

are invited to bring their suppers to Oak Grove on Thursday afternoon, at five o'clock, and talk the matter up over a neighborly cup of tea."

At the time appointed I had a car

riage come to take my hostess and

me, and my basket of cakes and buns

resh from the bakery, to the beauti

ful grove. As we were driven along I was surprised to see so many people, lunch baskets iu hand, speeding in the same direction.

" Almost everybody in town is gon'" said Mrs. Evans, " high an' low,

rich and poor."

As I was being assisted to a scat a

trentle, motherly little woman spread a soft shawl over the back of ths chair intended for me and quickly

folded another shawl for my lame foot to rest upon.

" This is Annty Lee," said Mrs.

Evans, and the sweet faced little woman aud I looked into each other's faces with a little curiosity, perhaps, as well as sympathy, and shook hands cordially. "I don't know what all these good people are to do with Elijah and

me," she said with a smile that was

as genial as a sunbeam, but the

minister would have us come, and he

and his wife drove around for us."

The miuister ascended the plat

form just then, and after tenderly yet impressively invoking the Divine

blessing, he looked down benignly

upon the faces upturned to his and

with a touching intonation of voice

asked: "Who is my neighbor?" He

then went on to tell how Aunty Lee had answered that question in regard to himself.

When I first became acquainted

with Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Lee," he said, " I was finishing my heological studies here in the village with Dr. Mills, and they had just married and

settled down in their house yonder, which they had inherited. One day I was sent for to preach on trial in

the adjoining town of Luxboro. My

only coat was threadbare and exten

sively patched, end I hai no way of procuring another. Feeling sorely grieved and dispirited, I started out for a walk, and for the sake of telling my troubles to some fellow creature and with no thought of receiving any aid in the premises, I turned into Mrs. Lees' house and read to her the invitation I had had from Luxboro and frankly told her why I could not go at present "Leave it to the Lord," said the good woman, and forthwith she proceeded to take my measure with a piece of tape. " Go home,' she continued, " Write yoar sermon and cotge here Saturday morning. 4 1 obeyed. I subsequently found that the woman hed actually taken a piece of cloth that she had laid by In the house for a oloak for herself, and tailoresa as she was by trade, had cut and made me a coat from it. I

preaobed my tirst sermon in It, and shortly received and accepted my first call." "Oh, dear," whispered Aunty Lee,

from her seat by my side, " he's paid me for that coat every New Year's Day since, and it wasn't much for me to do afber all Major Sanford, the richest man fn town, wajs the next to take the stri!.

The old people smiled and nodded their heads, but the young folks looked at each other and wondered what he could be indebted to Aunty Lee for. " When I was a boy," the Major began, "I was bound out in H to a very, very bad master, from whom I determined to run away. I availed myself of an opportunity to escape one Saturday afternoon, when I was sent to the pasture to salt the cattle. I came straight over the mountain to this place. I wanted to get out of the State as soon as possible, so came directly to the bridge down here at the river, which is, you all know, the New Hampshire boundry. Just after I had stepped upon Vermont soil I overtook, on the road, Mr. and Mrs. Lee, young people then. They had a basket and a spade, and had been digging up wild flowers to transplant in their garden. Although I had been an entire stranger they accosted me kindly. Noticing that I had been crying, Mrs. Lee asked me my trouble. Defore I knew it I had blurted out the whole story and had been invited by her to go home with them over Sunday. I was of course only too grateful to accept the invitation. After supper we set out the plants and then Mr. Lee took me with him down the hill to the bank of the brook, as we called it then, and into his little machine shop. I soon evinced my fondness for tools, and confided to him an invention that had, in a crude form, long had possession of my brain. Being a natural mechanic he saw the utility of my invention at a glance. The subject was not mentioned on the morrow, which was a quiet, restful day to me. Mrs. Lee loaned me a clean linen suit belonging to her husband, and I went to church with them. The next day Mr. Lee went over to H and md.de terms with ray master, because Mrs. Lee said she could not allow me to feel like a runaway. Then Mr. Lee took me into his employment and gave me a corner in his shop where I could at odd moments work at my model. My invention proved a success and made my fortune as you all know. I am thankful my friends, that I am able to repair the damages done to the dear little homestead and to rebi lid my friend's shop;" anl Major Sandford sat down, wiping his eyes with his handkerchief, while his delighted audience applauded vocifer u sly. "Dear heart," said Aunty Lee to me, "what was he talking about? He's paid us over and over, and he's tried and tried to make Elijah go into partnership with him, but he wouldn't

three rooms in a poor and comfortless manner for $275 a year, and to support such an establishment all the members have to work ten or twelve hours haily. For a family of six persons the cost is about $7 a week an amount but few families can earn, as the depression of trade and the reduction of time allow few to do a full week's work, although wages are nominally a trifle higher than five years ago. The state of trade is deplorable. Factories are run and sales made at a loss, except perhaps the silk and button industries. Retail trade is somewhat more prosperous.

and I would not let him."

Then followed one minut3 speeches : gr,iss for the cows,

by the score. "They kept me three weeks when I was sick aud homeless," said one. "I made their house my home for a week when I was out of work," said another. Ten homeless working girl? were married in their parlor and went out into the world with their blessing. There was a great number of touching little speeches from those who had received flowers and delicacies in illness and warm garments in times of need. And so from them "all flowed out contributions of money, the greater part of which was safely placed In bank for the benefit of the Lees when old age and failing strength should overtake them. "Dear me," said Mrs. Evans to Aunty Lee, "you've been lendln' to the Lord, and He pays the best interest arter all. I never could understand before; but I dew now." "There are none of us so poor that we cannot give such as we have. A smile or a kind word will even come back to us in kind," said Aunty Lee. and we all brushed away the tears that we could not suppress while those touching speeches were being made, and want to our homes.

The Cattle Train. Tho Incident was related some years ago bv Miss L. M. Alcott, the well known author: "Somewhere above Fitchburg, as we stopped for twenty minutes at a station, I amused myself by looking out of the window at a waterfall which came tumbling over the rocks, and spread into a wide pool, that flowed up to the railway. Close by stood a cattle-tiain; and the mournful sounds that came from it touched my heart. "Full In the hot sun stood the cars: and every crevice of room between the bars across the doorways was filled with pathetic noses, sniffling at the sultry gusts that blew by, with now and then a fresher breath from the pool that lay dipling before them, How they have suffered, in sight of water, with the cool dash of the fall tantalizing them, and not a drop to wet their poor parched mouths!" "The cattle lowed dismally, and the sheep tumbled one over the other in their frantic attempts to reach the blessed air, bleating so plaintively the while, that I was tempted to get out and see what I could do for them, But the time was nearly up; and, while I hesitated, two little girls appeared, and did the kind deed better than I could have done it. "I could not hear what they said; but, as they worked away so heartily, their little tanned faces grew lovely to me, in spite of their old hats, their bare feet, and their shabby gowns. One pulled off her apron, spread it on the grass, and, emptying upon it the berries from her pail, ran to the pool and returned with it dripping, to hold it up to the suffering sheep, who stretched their hot tougues gratefully to meet it, and lapped the precious water with an eagerness that made little barefoot's task a hard oue. "But to aud fro she ran, never tired, though the small pail was soon empty; and her friend meanwhile

pulled great handsful of clover and

and, having

no pall, filled her "picking dish" with water to throw on the poor dusty noses appealing to her through the bars. I wish I could have told those tender-hearted children how beautiful their compulsion made that hot, noisy place, and what a sweet picture I took away with me of those two little sisters of charity." Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain meny."

Wages in Germany. The Department of State at Washington has received from the United States' Consul at Barmen a very full report on wages and labor in his district. For agricultural labor the pay varies greatly, according to the prox imity to v emoteness from agricultural centres. It ranges from fifty six cents a day in the neighborhood of Barmen to thirty-one cents a day in

the lower Rhine valley, and as low as eighteen cents in parts of Silesia. At Barmen, Crefeld and Düsseldorf carpenters, coppersmiths, plumbers, machinists and wagonsmiths earn fifty-one to seventy-five cents daily; saddlers and shoemakers forty-seven to fifty-two cents daily; bakers and brewers, with board and lodging, from $1.42 to $2.14 weekly, and without board, from sixty cents a day to $4.28 a week ; farm hands are paid from $107 to $215 yearly, with maintanance; railroad laborers from fiftysix to eighty-three cents per day, and as high as ninety-five cents daily for piece work on tunnels; silk weavers can earn $2.15 to $2.82 a week per loom; factory women $2.15, and children $1 a week. Business and

wages are very low. In good times wages are eighty per centum higher. The cost of the necessaries of life has increased some fifty per centum in thirteen years, although It la now but little higher than three years ago. A man or wife with two or

W hat Democrat') Has Done for the La boring Man. First. Before the rebellion they held 4,000,000 of laborers in slavery, thus degrading the whole mass of laborers in the couutry. Second. They refused to pass the homestead law. Third. They went to war to perpetuate slavery. Fourth. They held that slavery was the normal conditiou of the laborer. They enacted that all dues to the

Government should be paid in coin, that Government employees might be paid in superior currency, leaving only depredated State currency for the laborer. Sixth. They opposed the creation of a Government currency for all the people; Seventh. Since their accession to power, under the false plea of ecunütn7. they have refused appropriations of the people's money for needed improvements, thus depressing labor in a time of general distress, while they squandered millions in profitless investigation und payment

of iebel el aims. Eighth. They have attempted the reduction of the tariff, that American labor might be reduced to competition with the half-paid labor of foreign couutries, Ninth. They have refused encouragement to commerce, through which our surplus productions might find a profitable foreign market. Tenth. They have embarrassed and retarded the public business by unwise reductions of the clerical force tn the Departments. Eleventh. They have attempted the reduction of the army below the actual necessity of the country for the protection of the frontier settlements, and with the view of throwing upon an overburdened market an additional supply of unemployed laborers. V V

The Secret of a Girl's Age. Old Time walked thronph the meadow grass Aud spied the very prettiest lass That youth did e're adore. And by his scythe be loudly swore N ver to reap such beanty mere, Aud madly broke his glass. But when he fried the mahlen to woo, She lanfrhed and asked: "Pray who are you?" And since ihiit day the shrewdest sage Could never tell a-maiden's age. Items of Interest. Nicholas Strother, one of President Madison's colored servants, died at Freedman's Hospital, Washington, last Friday, at the age of eighty years. Mr. Reed, the English writer on naval architecture believes the war ship of the future, will be a small vessel of immense speed carrying a very heavy gun. California expects to realize $50,000,000 on her wheat crop this year, an increase or $26,000,000 on the receipts of last year. California crops are raised mostly by irrigation. Tea raised in South Carolina and prepared in Baltimore was lately exhibited in Washington to dealers, who were unable to distinguish it from similar varieties of Chinese and Japanese growth. Paris is seldon visited with fire. This is accounted for from the fact that the structures are all built out of stone. The Fire Department is not looked on as one of the important institutions of the city. Mary Benton, of Elton, Durham county, England, is said to be 14$ years old. Her memory Is still perfect, and so is her eyesight She cooks, washes and irons, threads her own needle and sews, without the aid of glasses. There are a hundred thousand corn-fields that glory in this melting sunshine. Corn scarcely knows how fast to grow, but in Kansas it is thought that only tall men will be able to reach the ears, and gather in the crop this fall. Mention of the Berlin congress has been found in Zachariah, viil., 23, as follows: "In those days it shall come to pass that ten men shall take hold of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, we will go with you." Blue Jeans Is six feet four inches

in height according to his own statement Thi3 noon he was placed on the scales at the Pacific hotel. He turned them at 190 pounds. He is slightly stooped in the shoulders, wears a dark cheviot suit and a black slouch hat Chicago Paper. The Marquis of Salisbury still labors under the impression that the Berlin congress did much to assure the stability and independence of the Turkish Empire. The Sultan with his eyes fixed on the new map, may be pardoned for harboring some doubts on that question.

three children can live In two or I wife.

A Doctor went out for a day's hunting, and, on coming home, complained that he hadn't killed anything. 'That's because you didn't attend to

your legitimate business," said his

Sir Astly Cooper said: "I never suffer ardent spirits in my house, knowing them to be evil spirits. If people could see the white livers and shattered neryous systems which I have seen, as the consequence of drinking, they would be aware that spirits and poison mean the same thing.Tilden is an early riser, and may be seen any fair morning, when at home, inspecting the plants and flowers of Gramercy square, attired in dressing-gown and slippers, with mysterious strings dangling about here and there. These are supposed to be the strings which bound his Tammany friends. Don Fernando Salazer, a rich Mexican, said to be worth $100,000,000, is one of the social sensations of Paris. The hotel-keepers are livid with rage because, instead of putting up somewhere and being roundly overcharged during the two months of his stay, he has'thought it cheaper to buy and furnish a house for himself. The venerable Richard H. Dana, now over 90 years old, is enjoying life in a retired home by the sea at Manchester, Mass. He left Newport and Nahant because he dislikes noise, and activity, and fashionable society. His estate at Manchester is so large that the summer pleasure-seekers don't crowd or disturb him. He is described as erect of form and firm of step, but has no desire to leave his beautiful home. There is living in Whitefleld a Mrs. Evans, who was born in that town on the 7th of July, 1776, or three days af

ter the Declaration of Independence was declared. Her maiden name was

Johnson, and she married Joseph Evans, who died in 1852. For eigbtyflve years she has cut and made her own dresses. She is now living with her sixth generation, Is smart as a lady of fifty, and bids fair to live another decade of years. Not quite half of Congress went to college, and oddly enough, the proportion of graduates is smaller in the Senate than in the House. Only 28 of. the 76 Senators are graduates, while there are 123 among the 293 Representatives. Of these Union college numbers 7; Yale, 5; Harvard, Hamilton, and tho University of Virginia, 4 each; Waterville, Bowdoin, and six other colleges of the Middle, Southern and Western States, 3 each; Dartmouth and Trufts 1 apiece, but Amherst not a solitary one.

The Food Supply of Great Britain. The gross imports of the United Kingdom for 1877 exceeded those of the previous year by the sum of over $94,000,000. Or this Increase, $48,400,000 was for articles of food for human consumption. The total import of such articles for the year amounted to more than $466,000,000. This amount includes live animals intended for food, meats of all kinds, wheat and flour, Indian corn, rice, butter, lard, cheese, eggs, fish and potatoes; and does not include tea, cDfTee, or sugar. In custom houses parlance theee latter are not articles of food. Thirty years ago the import of food was not seriously large. In 1846 foreign breads, tuffs were imported to the amount of only seventeen pounds per head of the whole population of the country; in 1855 it had increased to seventy pounds; in 1865 to ninetythree pounds; and in the past five years the average annual import has been over 180 pounds for each person in the kingdom. It, is estimated that evsry person consumes a little more than five bushels, or 300 pounds, of wheat or other grain yearly, and it will be seen that the Britons are now obtaining nearly two-thirds, of their breadstuff's from abroad. It should be noted, however, that three seasons of the last five have been rather indifferent ones, and the average may be abnormally high in some measure. Nevertheless the increase is uniform and rapid, and Great Britain is fast nearing the time when fully twothirds of her bread supply will regularly come from foreign countries. Waiting. When Collins went home to dinner Monday he found the house tenantless, the cook-stove cold, and there was a lonesome look about that part of the Monday washing still left in the tubs in the summer kitchen. Hurrying through to the back yard he saw his wife braced against the fence, holding to the end of a broken clothes-line to keep the newly-washed garments from tne ground. "You'ye got here at last, have you?" exclaimed the wife, as she caught sight of him. Yes. Tin here what's the matter?" he repeated. "Here I've been holding this broken line for over an hour over a full hour, sir!" she snapped. "I was determined to die right here before I'd let these clothes down!" "But why didn't you call some

one?" he innocently inquired. "There's that new family next door the woman would have come over in one minute." " Woman next door, you big idiot youl JHasd't she been peeking around and peeking around for two weeks to see my wash, and d'ye think I'd give her a chance to come over here and see for herself whether the sleeves of my night gown were pieced down with unbleached cotton ! You don't knew anything, sir, and you make tracks for a piece of rope, sir!" " Well, I swan!" growled Collins, as he "tracked. Detroit Free Prco.

She Failed. The other day, soon after a Congress street woman had decided to build a big strawbeery short cake for supper, she heard the musical voice of a peddler crying in the wilderness: "Great big strawberries eight cents a quart three quarts for twenty-five cents!" Nothing like taking advantage cf discounts," said the woman as she ran for a dish, and in five minutes she had her three quarts of berries and the peddler bad her silver quarter. Time passed on. She sat in a rocking-chair looking at the luscious fruit, when all of a sudden she turned pale and began breathing hard. It was not a case of heart disease or spinal meningitis, nor had a new wrinkle suddenly developed itself on her forehead. She had simply figured: "Eight cents per quart three quarts for twenty-five cents three times eight Is twenty-fourl" Her son came in just as she had slipped a revolver into her pocket and tied her bonnet strings into a square knot and when he asked her where she was going she solemnly replied: "Harry, I am going out to kill a strawberry peddler a seven-story hypocrite and deceiver who gave me wholesale rates on these berries! Tell your father to engage three lawyers and be at the Central station in half an hour!" But the strawberry man had passed on -had sought other shady and innocent neighborhoods, and she returned to her darkened home with a toothache under her ear and her heart beating at 115 degrees in the shade. Detroit Free Pre.

Little John is visiting his grandfather. This is an extract from a letter to his mother: " Pot ater-bugs is plenty, an I enjoy 'em very much 'cause they makes gran'father swear, an' every time he biles over he spills his false teeth, an' he always forgets ware he spills 'em an' he hires us to roust 'em out. 8o yer see huntin's good here. He pays as in pigs, an" 'fore the sesln's over I think ile hev enuf to start a swine sbtp. Tell 8am Jenkins, 'cause it'll make him hoppin' mad to know ime hevin' such a binanzer." Ex.