Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 3, Number 4, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 July 1872 — Page 2

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TWO FOOLS AND ONtt When I naked your old father, my I Ho wouldn't take on him to say.

He's a bit of a screw

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Have pity Ou me, Machree!

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Says she:— You fool

You're just irom school.

—Arrah get away—CLOSER—shawn, Ouainadhaun!

.5" Y^u/motheris willing, my Kitty, She wouldn't lake on her to say. She'* a bit of a screw *!Bat she'll give me a presint—of yon

Any day.

'o^!y !o3. Machree!

--1? i" "Rnysshe— YOU fool I You're Just from school.

•..." I'm bothered lntlrely for aise

«Y«

Arrah! get away—CLOSER—shawn, Ommadhaan!

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'Tls dralmlng I am of the day. I'm no getting sleep in the night, But lying awake with the fright.

My Kitty, -*?I Take pity ,,~ On me, if you plalse.

I'11 Just make bowld To lighten my hold,

-.•* ...«n fF Machree! ,1^"* Il*» "Saysshe:—,

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I You fool You're fresh from school.^!

Araah get away—CLOHEii—shawn, Ommadhaun.'

Yonr lips are so rosy, my Kitty, ,.f} I think they are pouting—at me, More's the pity

It's no wouder I'd wish to make free.' '*'5 Give me wan, and that's ail.

Sure I couldn't at all I I wouldn't kiss mortal, says she But may be you'd take it! Machree!

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l* Since you are making bowld,

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And ou keep a good how Id You needn't go back to the school, Llkeafopi If you get away—CLOSER-shawn.

Ommadhaun!,^

"'Tis past and gone, My song is done.

"W'o were two jools, and now we're

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Kitty Machree And me

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i'Putting a Light Out.

SKETCHES FROM AN OLD NOTEBOOK OF Til A VEL.

The "A Lode" saloon was having a good run, and Bon Tike,the proprietor, was happy, alboit what was gain to him in cash was loss to his customers in pocket, as well as in roputation. Late in the evening, a dozen or more ol us, composed of some of the most successful operators and some of the most impecunious wretches west of the Rio Grande, sat onjoying the hospitality of this notoriously lively resort. The room was large and tho walls were decorated with a highly colored class of pictures, so diverse in their character that every taste except the refined could le suitod. Thev ranged from the sanguinary battle-field to the full bred game cock from the ideal female figures, careless of tho voluptuous outlines exposed, to tho latest clip from an illustrated paper. At one end was the polished mountain mahogany bar, the

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rlde of the concorn, over which was as occasion demanded, the various beverages which the patrons called for. A tiit was always boing run "between cocktails and straights, and botwocn whisky and mescal. There was the Inovitablo mirror, in which the guzzlers of tho liquid damnation could view thoir images and tho usual compliment of bottles, glasses and other paraphernalia of such an establishment. But that which attracted most attention, and gavo tone and stylo to tho place, was tho fino collection ol captured bows and arrows, buckskin RUUB, ap'icho scalps, medicine bags, old Spanish swords and lire arms, and other trophlos arranged for display above and at each side of tho mirror. Everything bore the Btamp of tho blood-let-ting proclivities and disregard of life BO peculiar to that prospecting aud thoroughly risky form of civilization. It was that State where unlimited freedom rospoctcd the rights of others only to the cxtout of the muzzle of a sixshooter, nrnl wherr* no duty existed but uy compulsion, Tho occupants of the "A Lode" wore variout-lv cnipleyed army oillccra were discussing thoir chances for a furlough or transfer to a pleasanter station cont motors tho result of the opeuing of bids ou the following day for supplies at the different milituVy posts prospectors tho probability ot "pay rock" in their late discovery claim, gauablers their fortunes and misfortunes, ono cursing aud the other blessing tho turn of the cards traders tho condition of their t/ains ol schooner-wagons and the "jumping" capacities of tho apachos, aud others wero intently perusing tho newspapers, now well thumbed and always aged thirty days bofore they could reuoh this distant office. Beu's customers demanded news, ahd his subscriptions supplied the want, except when the m^ils were "takoii in," or when his packages wore pilfered by some rider or postmaster, upon which occasion Ben invariably swore, his roadera furnishing a full chorus. Froui an adjoining apartment could bo heard the sound of shtiflUng irds, tho clicking ol ivory checks, tho jingltng 61 coin, and the "monotonous calls ot tho kono marker, aLi of wliioli imlienteU that the gam M. wero at their height. The low lmttt of the voices of tho players was broken a* Intervals by the blasphemy of a loser, or by the rollicking laugh of a winner. Men entered aud departed, raanilesting the same cynical Indifference whether fleeced by "a bnwe nt faro, or riclwr by a sleight at monte. A

had entered with Bucky. As the muzzle of Ben's "navy" rea»heJ the rapgp of its object, he uttered the .words always ominous at such time, and here well understood: "Put 'em up, or ypu will got it." Bucky saw that Ben nad tho drop on him and obeyed the 00mmand "put 'em up." Quickly raising his hands abovfthis head, one of them still holding his cocked revolver, he "Stood in this hariftitsd attitude awaiting the further mandate of him whose linger hesitated 011 a trigger, which, if pressed, would sink a s»hait into bis. vagabond skull. Tho intervening seconds had introduced' thfS tablfeau so thrilling, that 110 division of time can eradicate it from my memory, and yet it was but ono of many \vhi«h had been enacted upon Ibo Bame stog«4 in which life always hung in the balance. If on? had probed any of the small boles visible in the walls and ceiling, be could have found lead at the other end. There was the shimmering blade and buck-horn handle, of the Knife, as it stood driven full half an inch into the counter back ot it the agile and courageous Ben, flight in form and no novice in such dramas, with a face indicating student life rather than border coyote, his eyes glittering in a way that betokened no wavering, one revolver aimed at Bucky, and within three feet of his defenseless head, and the other waiting for any hostile demonstration from the other quarter in front,

Bucky, a rough crude specimen of the Texas renegade, with flushed face and unmistakable air of a cut throat, his bands raised high abovo his slouched hat, and an expression of dogged submission which only waited a more opportune season for revenge his cronies standing beside him with weapons half drawn, but eowed into inaction by tho display of firearms from tho lookers on, who had assumed their positions as combatants, when the knite gave the signal for a row, convenient revolvers being whipped out and ready for defense or attack at the door leading to tho room occupied by the players there appeared the bleared ana interested countenances of the faro and monte dealers, of the keno enuneiator, oi several poker, professors and the shaved heads of two devout padres who were better acquainted with pasteboard dccks than with their prayer books and who preferred a cock-fight to repoatmg masses for kneeling penitents. The silence and rigid attitudes of all were relieved by Ben's curt erx-

Bression,quick

hsUf breed youngster acted as uiesaenjrer belWeen tho attractive end ol tho main room uml iho den Adjoining, taking in glasses tilled and returning thsm euiptv. Ban himself was officiating behind tUo counter, busily engaged in concocting atlmiilants, whoa there entered "Bneky Bill" And a eOirple ot companions. As I he tlxreo stopped ap to the bar fc was evltloat that iluofcjr had imbibed too much tor sobriety ot the Mexican dance, which tie had ju*t l»lt. Somehow, the gayetles of such Knlhenna* were always succeeded by iutosieauon provoked by JaesLtude, and by a disposition ruflled iuto pugnacity. The three coneluflM that their appetites teqaired at this particular time, each a cocktail, and ao ordered. But Ben was cranky to-night, and refused to accommodate BucSy, giving as a reason, that "wheft a man is stsvin* drunk he had bettor crawl between his blankets and sleep it off Bucky/tieon'1-1**1! roUdly importuned, argren, defiantly threatMiwi, and final Iv Whipped out his he arte knlft-and fiercely drove it into the harvl wood* slab in front of him. suiting UMJ action with feh® wordbs/'Yoa jost pan oat tbein drinks at toe »a«j« rolter. Upon the inst.inl lien covercd later generation so him with a six-inch Colt snatched from ceremony that the Catholic belief could it« convenient resting place among the n"*. to mistaken. Tribes which for bottlee,Mnd with his left hand lev9''} o-r.tur.es hal heard no tidings from a cotnpaniou weapon at tke two who their former toaehets, still clung with

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"Let go of that thing," and

ucky's response as his uplifted hand nnclasped and let iall his revolver, which struck the floor with a thud at his feet. Still acting as II capitano of the squad, Ben issued his final order, "Now you bulky pups,navigate outside of that door," and with his hands still up, Bucky went out and the two went with him. This ended the entertainment, but the audience stayed behind, bound by the hush of a danger avoided. Ben as the principal star of the troupe, seemed oblivious of his resolute achievement, and quietly loosenod and withdrew the murderous knife from its crevice. He picked up the revolver left behind by its owner, and, as be examined it, soliloquizingly said, "If he had drawod this thing on me first, I would have gone under sure, lor these loads is rammed for business. Guess I can afford to treat, so order up boys." The "boys" ordered, for whoever knew one of them to decline when there was a chance for a free drink, and they all tipped glasses to the sentiment, "Here's to Bon Pike, tho best shot aud tho best fellow in the district." But these congratulations caved in allot a sudden, when ono of Bucky's chums, who had gono out with him, came in and walking straight up to Ben said, "You've got to work this claim a little further with Bill, he'll show hands with you to-morrow morning at sun lip, down to tho Old Mission. Is it a go?" "Of course it is did you ever know me to go back on a bid. Only Bocky had better let up on this thing if he wants to deal any more poker," said Ben. But the fellow made no reply, and swaggered beyond the throshnold. A duel wa* arranged and these were the few brief preliminaries. Ben oauie up to me in his careless fashion and said: "You rout out early in tho morning and drilt down to the Old Mission, aud you will soe two fellows playin' a a game with Navys, and both aealiu' at once. It's mighty interesting and the fellers sometimes has a queer notion of stoppln' bro»thin' right in the middle of thfe thing." "Ban. said I, "nrd you going to kill that follow You cau tlo it I know, but fix it up. Ho may settle you, and I liko you too well for that," Ben bent his head in a thoughtful way, and then roplied "That makes 1x0 difference, if lio melts me, nil right, I won't squeal but if ho stands up before me there will be a holo through him somewhere.

I shuddered at his boldness and de-

Soubting

arted to my rest, never lor an instant but Ben would add another to iiis list of victims.

Early the next morning I started for tho rendezvous a mile away, stumbling along through the streets and past the one story adobe buildings, occasionally noticing a lazy Mexican sitting upon the ground or loaning against a wall for support, with his blanket about him waiting for the sunshine aud stolidly smoking a cigarette in lieu of eating" breakfast. Tho batalllon of dogs'which every such town endures and supports was oporatlng in every nook for moans by which to stave off starvation. Equally busy were the Mexican women aud Opitah equaws about their diudgery, which at this hour consisted in procuring thoir daily supply of water from the Ascequia and carrying it to their homes iu large ollas, or earthen jars neatly balanced upon their heads. Passing the fields of onions, chili Colorado, wheat ahd barlev, and sheltered by lofty cot ton woods and aged willows standing on the banks of tho Ascequia, which I was following, the shadow" of the Old Mission Church was etched at last. It stood ag grand and gloooiy in its present condition 6f decay, and a9 Impressive in its proportions, as when erected by its founders, the Jesuits, ttro hundred years before. Their fanatical r.eal knew no bounds, and penetrating to theso wilds they had left ror tho centuries succeeding "this ovidoooe of their powerv« portion of the structure had iallen.tho walls were nearly all standing, the adobe gradually disintegrating. WHb cme of the tovrers time fead lealt very kindly, for it stood as of old and wreathed by clustering'

dealt very kindly, for it stood as of old

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irotOcted and wreathed by clusterii vy, and shielding at its summit a full chime of bells, for a century sUent, but whose notes long ago had summoned to reverent masses Indiaha mote numerous then, but more hostile BOW.1 The devout paJres had departed, the images and paintings were destroyed, the chants musing, and the benedictions unrronounced, but the remembrance ol the service and Its teaebings,

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TERRK-HATTTE SATURDAY, EVENING MAIL, JULY 27, 1872

a strange tenacity to a few faintly remembered signs. Their Jtmrial places Watched eveiy skeleton with its crossBy that emblem they warded off danger. and at the hour ol final dissolu. tlon sought salvation through full conftosion. This crumbling sanctuary, so rfch in tradition and so suggestive of sentiments of love rather than of hate, frowned down upon the little coterie gathered to witness the approaching contest. Added to those who had been spectators at the "Adobe," wero now others, making in all, a group of twenty. To them a greensward stage, separating the Actors by teh paces, was no new thing, and they surveyed and commented upon the soon completed preparations with the same degree of interest that they would have bestowed upon a game of poker. One of them remarked Bucky's got four aces agin him this time, one might as well own it. When this show is over he'll be shuffled into a hole right about whar he stands." Another g»ve it as his opinion that "he would oe essentially cussed if he'd stand in Ben's tracks for the best claim in the territory." A third said, "there's Bucky's gal, stickin' to him like a centipede, she's got the stuff into her." Ana sure enough, standing apart from tho men and half concealed by an overhanging mosquito bush, was "Pancha-ten-doTlars," the virtueless Mexican mistress of "Bucky

Bill," who had followed him, and who dared now to stand with her reboso wrapped about her head, facing calumny and derision, with defiant eyes and statute like indifference, listening for the pistol report wbieb would send to

fteraitioncommonwho

the cur had enticed h$r

nto the course of her sex in this semi-savage country. Nothing could shake her devotion, and she would have willingly consented to furnish him means fur debauchery from her prostituted resources. There werei no seconds, no surgeon, no preliminary delays, but atter the principals had shed their light "coats, the Infantry Captain chosen to give the word» instructed them as to how it would be given, aiid stepped back. The interval of silent expectancy was broken by his inquiry, "All ready Ben nodded and Bucky said "ready," and so they faced each other, and staked life against the demands of passion, hate and the code, manifesting no sign of trepidation as they stood upop the verge of eternity ana strained to catch the sound which would prompt them in their mode of obtaining satisfaction. "One! two! three!" deliberately spoken, a sharp crack and a whiff of smoke from Bucky's revolver, and Ben, jerked his head slightly to one side, as though hit, at the sametiine rising his navy, which had been grasped in his hand at his side. I could have besought mercy foi the ruffian at whom it was aimed, for it was evident that Ben had chanced a fatal wound, and was now intent upon delivering his counter salutation, but my impulse was cancelled by the flash which drove half an ounce of lead into the brain of Bucky Bill, who started tottering, and quietly sank upon the ground. We all involuntarily approached the body, but the last gasp and convulsive straightening of the limbs proved that the lamp was darkened, that "a light was put out." "Poor lellow, he ought not to have tackled Ben," said one, and we all echoed, "poor fellow," knowing how tough it must be for him already to be tackling a bar where bowies brought no lavors, aud where past good deeds wero the winning cards. After Ben's shot, ho brushed up a handful of alkali dust and rubbed it upon the wound which ho had received, a mere mere scratch uf.ou the right side of his head, which appropriated a small piece of skin and a few hairs, but Ben could afford such a trifling sorapo and clip, knowing how near it came to being worse. He drew* near and looked down upon tho body, remarking as he pointed to the spot where the inissilo had struck below the left eye, "Ho come close enough to show color on me, or I should have snuffed him square above his nose, but it's all the same,he's gone under 'bout the same as tbo rest. I wouldn't have reeffed his pulse,onlv be would have sneaked

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and I'd had to shut up 'shop.'" Tossing a twenty dollar gold piece to the old padre who was bending over the prostrate form, "so that the soul of Bucky would have a jubilee and a lift on its way, in the shape of a mass," Bon shouldered hia double barreled shot gun and took a turn at the quail piping about merely as an appetizer. The rest of us had delicacy enough not to intdrltore with the claims of Pancha, knowing that her hands would protect the remains from carrion birds and animals by a shallow grave or a thin covering of brush and earth, and that her sobs and tears would be a fitting burial service. Sho had stepped forth from her partial concealment and drayki near, all traces of daring having disappeared from her demeanor. Tho narrow shawl had crept Irom her limp hand and now unbound trailed upon the ground, one end still resting npon her shoulder, her clear cut features boro that yearning, pleading agonized expression which only a stricken woman can portray, ancUshe stood in her sorrow above tho piano whero chiding tongues could question her acts of affection and where none could deny as to her's the best right to perform these last rites. Years before the Old Mission had worn upon Its walls a rare canvas representing another Magdalene who sought rather- than shrank from similar deeds of respect and devotion. As wo went our way, sho disturbed the dolorous service as "it was being mumbled by the hypocritical priest and knelt beside the stiffening Bucky. Tho clammy features could show no deepening tint beneath lier caresses, and her long black hair roleased from bondage covered them as with a pall. That same day saw tbo earth freshly heaped into a little mound, and atone end a rudely-sliapod cross, which boro no epitaph except the one usually Implied, "Whisky and women and a bullet put this light out." ffl 'it "j'

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A TJTCJTDEB STOKMV—

Mr. Jackson, who made an ascent in a balloon from the Derby Arboretum during a thunder storm en Monday evening, sends to the Derby Mercury au account ot what he saw: "I, believe I witnessed a sight that has never been seen bcrfotp. In one direction the black storm was raging in all its fury. At times the lightning ran fromAop to bottom in zig-z3g fbnn. This produced rolling thunder. At other tlntfa the great black block would spilt open, arid aloud clap of thunder would follow. The lightning appeared bluer and the thunder appeared more hollowf hnn is seen and heard&om the eaeth. Over those parts that the storm bad passed there appeared light clouds moving in another direction, and looked like whit« smok$.i$gm"g.rr6m a„||re. WULK oat flatncL t'%4 ..

There are show ageata is New York who furnish live serpents at so much a foot. A snake measuring ten feet Is worth $."*), and the Kme rate is carried out reptiles ot twenty feet kmjr. Byond th|s, prices become fabulous.

WIT AND HUMOJt.

ly we treated those aiffejrpd it) theology to

Forme rl

whom we stake, and no*f w^jpnly cold shoulder.

with hot

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A Quaker onoe hearing a person tell how inucjb he'had felt for another who was in distress, and needed assistance, dryly asked him "Friend, hast thou felt tn thy pocket for him

As so many articles in every day use are manufactured of paper, it is asked If a paper bee 1st oak cannot be invented to take the place of the leather ones common at boarding houses. ^,^,^,.1,

A gentleman was introduced to a yonng lady recently, apd addressed her ad follows: "Whero do you live when at home To which she promptly replied: "When I'm at home I live there." woli* 5

An English lord once said to Train, "Mr. Train, have you the law of primogeniture in America?" Said Train, "No." "What," said he, "noAentail?" Said Train, "No but we have the cocktail."

Potatoes!" cried a darkey peddler in Richmond. "Hush dat racket you distracts de whole neighborhood," came from an aged uncle in a doorway. "You can hear me, kin you!" "Hear you! I kin bear you a mile." "Thank God for dat Fs hollowin to be heard, tatoes J" iter 1 "Sal," cried a girl, looking down from the upper story of a grocery, addressing anothor girl, who was trying to enter the front door, "we've all been to camp-meeting, and we have been converted so when you want milk on Sunday, you'll have to come around to the baok door."

Lawyer: "How do you Identify this handkerohief?" Witness: "By its

Seneral

appearance, and the fact that I

ave others like it." Lawyer: "That's ho proof, for I have one just like it in my pockeU" Witness: "I don't doubt that. I had more than one of the same sort stolen." j-

A few days since one of our popular attorneys called upon another member of the profession and asked his opinion upon a certain point of law. The lawyer to whom the question was addressed drew himself up and said, "I generally got paid for telling what I know." The questioner drew a half dollar "fractional" from his pocket, handed it to the other, and coolly remarked: "Tell me all vou know and give me the change." llhere is coldness between the parties now

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A few gentlemen of charitable inclination were once visiting some of the tenement-houses in New York, and in one room in a baserhent they found four families established. Accosting an old man who sat smoking his pipe near the door, one of the gentlemen said: "Don't you find it rather crowded with so many in a room?" "Well, well," said the old man, "ther's ownly fower fimilies ov us, anther was room enough till the lady in the corner begun to take boarders."

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3IBS. JSTANTON ON SICK MEN.

4'" .11 BY LITTLE HOME BODY. F-I

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that of all pitiful sights the most pitiful is a sick man. A woman arrayed in rich dressing gown and cap can look quite interesting, pale and thin, in an easy chair, but a man with his Adams' core, unkempt beard, irritable temper, his hopeless views of the future, and his long legs that no one can lift to bed or out, is enough to.appal the most patient and loving of Eve's daughters.

And so Elizabeth ton are moved by the apparel and surroundings of a sick, man than by tho sickness itsolf. Ah we of tho weaker sex have been accused oi loving purple and fine linon too well, but with all our frolics some have made the sick room their sphere. What would have become cf our poor soldiers had woman stood aloof where rich dressing-gowns or even necessary garments were lacking I suppose you would have no objection to working velvet slippers and making a dressing gown for our sick men while we take care of him, and when he is able to don them, we will carry him out and lay him graccfvUy on the lounge, cover up his long legs and make him look attractive and then you can read one of our speeches to him and he will go to sleep and look lovely.

What il somo of your fomale friends have nO rich dressing gowns Romember, Eve's daughters are not all lawyer's wives or daughters of judges, aud a calico wrapper and a faded shawl are all'they have to look interesting in, in sickness. Would you consent to call on them? Would it excite your ironical pity so that you would be moved to "set off" their appearance in a style equally taking?

No, Mrs. Stanton, there are many, many who are not appalled by any of the.magnified sights you picture they do not seel tho ungraceful attitudes or remember tho words spoken by a sick man who, perhaps is brain wearied by perplexing business, that needs his care at tho very moment of sickness. He is too sick, restless and anxious to sit "pale and thin in an easy chair" and look interesting to idlers.

No wonder that man looks hopelessly into tho ftituro when the champion ofWoman'8 Rights is terroa stricken at the dishabiUeot sick man's toilet.

There are lew lelt of the 'Vld school" who dfo not shrink from the duties of the sick room, who make life even bearable and pleasant to the invalid, no matter in what garments they may be clothed they are their sick and are loved all the more. Heaven bless such wives and daughters. •t 00 eta.

LYING AND SWEARING. rl*'* 014 Parson of Connecticut, was a particular kind of a parson. One day He had a man ploughing in his field, and he went out to see how the work was going on. •The ground was very stony, and every"tittle the plough struefe a stone the man took occntpn te swear a little.

Look here," cried Parson 8., "you mustn't swear flfcat way in my field." "Well, I reckon you'd swear too," said the man, "if you bad to plough such a stony field as this."

Not a bit of it," aaid.Mr. S. "J&st let me show you/' So the parson took bold of the plough, but he very soon had great trouble with the stones. As stone afterstone caught the ploughshare, Mr. S. ejaculated "Well, never saw the like!"

And '.his h» repeated every time a stone stopped his onward way. When he had ploaghed around euce ho stop* ped and said to the man:

Th«reA now! You see I can plough without swearing." But I guens ItNi pretty near aa bad to lie," said the man, "and you told a dozen 0' lies. Every time the plough strack a stone, you said, 'I never saw the like,' when the same thing had happened the y»ry mioute before.f

THE LITTLE PEOPLE.

"Ma," 4 *'*1 "Well,darlii«?" -J Don't little boys have the hecups "Yes, pet."

Then don't little girls have the shecups?" A little boy was Sent to a store for some eggs, before reaching home he dropped them. In answer to his mother, who asked, "Did you-break any? he replied, "No, I didn't break any, but the shells came off from somo of theni."

The rising generation "age" rapidly in Detroit. A mature specimen, eight

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'ears old, was hunting about the postations for astray father the other night. "You see," lie. remarked with' filial exultation, "the guv'ner's a little wild yet, but he'll grow out of It."

Old Gent to Boy Did yen ever fight in the wrong?

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Boy: Often. ws ov«d bU'.r Gent: Dear me, why? Boy: Didn't know until I got the worst of it that I had got boltl ot the wrong fellow.

A blacksmith bronght up a son, to whom he was very severe, in his trade, One day the old man was trying to harden a cold-chisel, which he nad made of foreign steel, but he could not sucoeed. "Horsewhip it, father," exclaimed the boy "If that won't harden it, 1 don't know what will."

If the boy that practises whistling for an hour every morning at. No. 3 Columbus avenue, will call at the opposite bouse, he can make the acquaintance of a middle-aged, nervous gentleman, who will be glad to show him how a cane whistles.—J3oston Com. Bulletin.

A voung merchant who Is'trvihg to A young merchant wno is trying

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struggle uong in a falsely economical way,-took a class in one of our Sunday Schools last Sabbath. During the progress of the lesson he asked "What is solitude?" and was visibly disturbed when a miserable boy promptly answered—"Tho storo that don't advertise 'v*"'

A little girt*, when- her ^father's table was honored with the presence of an esteemed friend, began talking very earnestly at the first pause in the conversation. Her father checked her rather sharply, saying: "Why is it that yon always talk so much?" "TanSe I've dot samuch to say," was the innocent reply. ..

JOSH BILLINGS ON BABIES. Babies luv with all mi heart they are mi sweatmeats they warm up mi body like a gin sling, they krawl into me and nestle by the side of my soul like a kitten by the side of a stove.

I have raisod babies myself, and know what 1 am talking about. I have got grand children, and they are wuss than the first Jirop to riot among the feelings.

If could have my way, would change all the human beings now on the face of the earth back into babies at once, and keep them thare, and make this footstool one grand nursery but what should do for wet nurses don't kno and don't care.

I would like tohavel5bables now on aid? 3 world for

my lap, and mi lap aid?t the handiest lap in the world for banrys Mi lap is long enough, but not the

neither.

widest kind ov a lap

I am a good deal ov a man, but 1 consist of length principally, and when make a lap ov myself, it is not a mattress, but more like a couple of rails with a jint in them.

I cau hold more babies in my lap at one time than any man in America, without spilling one, but it hurts the baby.

I never saw a baby in my life that didn't want to kiss I am wuss thaii an old maide in this respect.

I have seen babies that have refused to kiss until tl^ey were washed but the baby want to tlamo ior this neither was i.

There are folks in this world who sav they don't love babys, but you kan depend on it. that when they wuz babys somebody lovod them.

Babys luv me too. I kan take them out ov their mother's arms justaz easy as can an unfledged bird out of bis nest. They luv mebccause luv them.

And hear let me say, for the comfort and cOnsolashun of all mothers, that whenever they see me on the cars, on a steamboat, out of a job, they needn't hesitate a'minit to drop a clean, fat baby into mi lap 1 will hold It, and kiss it, and be thankful besides.

Perhaps there iz people who don't envy me all this, but it iz one ol the sharp-cut, well-definod joys ov nil life, mi luv for babys and their luv for me.

Perhaps thare iz people who call it a weakness, don't caro what thoycall It, bring on the babys. Uncle Josh has always a kind word and a kiss for the babys.

I luv babies for tho truth their is In tbem, ain't afraid their kiss will botray me, thero iz no frauds, dead boats, nor counterfeits among them.

I wish 1 waz a baby (not only once more) but forevormoro. ll. "i

GIRLS.

a'A 'y'Af- \s .4 V'O' BY A BOY. it If

Girls are the most unaccountable things ip tho world—except women. Like the wloked llda,-when you have tbfem they airl't there. I can cipher •dean over to improper fractions, and the teacher says I do it first-raio but I cau't cipher out a girl, proper or Improper, and you can't either. Tho only rule in atithtnatio that bits their oase is the doable rule of two. They are as full of Old Nick as their akin can bold, and thoy would die if they couldn't torment somebody. When they try to bo mean they are as mean as pusloy, though they ain't as mean as they let on, except sometimes,, and then they area good deal meaner. The only way to get alongwitha girl when she comefc at you with her nonsense is to give her tit for tat, and that will flummux her. and when you get a girl flummuxed she is as nice as a now pin. A girl can sow more wild oats in a day than a boy can sow In a year, but the girls get their wild oats sowed after a while, which boys never do. and they settle down as calm as a mud pnddle.

Bat I Ulce girls flrst«rate, aftd I gncss the boyaaH do. I don'» care how many trioks they play on me—and they don care either. The hoity-toitiest girls hi the world can't always boH over like a glass of soda. By and by they will get Into the traces with somebody they like, and pull as steady as an did stage

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let them wave, I say they will pay for it some day, sewing on buttons and trying to make a decent man of the feller they have snllced on to, nr*! ten chanoes to one if they don't get the worst of it

A mat? in Jamestown bought a ticket to Barnnm's show for himself and boy and bad just a dollar left Co buy meat fs

ly. As his pockets were icked it is hoped this little

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incident will serve -as a warning to ail men not to save any money for meat whGn there is a circus io town.

Count no?one lost to tho who died loving thee. I 'j Many a one has kissed the trouble at parting that heijbet with trembling.»

A secret has been defined aa "anything made known to everybody a whisper.''

Most of the shadows that cross our path through life are caused by standing in our own light.

If a cause-he good, the violent nfc tacks of its enemies will not

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much as an-injudioions defense of it by its friends. To see God's hand in every trial is:'l"" the way tb bear ft and when tried by the storms of life, may we think of the joys of heaven.

Truthfullness Is a corner-stone in character and if it be not firmly laid in youth, there will always bo a weak spot in the foundation.

Half the vices in the world rise out of cowardice, and one who is afraid of lying is usually afraid of nothing else. —James Anthony Froude.] 'M

A helping hand to one in trouble is often line a switch on a railroad track, —but one inch between a wreck and a smooth rolling prosperity.

To succeed in the world, it is mucht more necessary to possess tho penetration to discover who is a fool than to discover who is a clever man.—Cato.]'

There is one inevitatble criterion of judgment touching religious faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce iC to praotioe If not, have none of it.— os a a W 4

Wit loses its respect with the goodr when seen in company with malice:! and to smile at the iest which plauts^ a thorn in another's breast is to becomo, a principal in the mischief.

True glory oonsists in doing what^ deserves to be written in writing, what deserves to bo read and in sof living as to make the world happier! and better for our living in it.—Pliny.]

If Sunday had not been observed as a. day of rest during the last three oentu-I' ries, I have not the slightest doubt wet should have been, at this moment, a, pooier and less civilized people thanf we are.—Lord Macaulay. .T -ir'-' :-i

Life may be gloomy to tho good man,,, the way rugged,and the path uneven he may come halting to his end but the powerful hand ofGod will eradicate!1 every root of bitterness, evory sonsa-r tion of former pain and all before him' be pleasing ana delightful.

An old writer has quaintly said: "God looks not at tho oratory of our? pravers, how eloquent thoy are nor at' then- geometry, how longthey are nor! at thoir arithmetic, how many they are nor at their logic, how methodi-t cal thoy are but Ho looks at thoir sin-_ cority,"how spiritual thoy arc."

Spoak kindly in tho mprning it: lightens tho cares of tho day, and makes household and all ether affairs mpve along more smoothly. Speak' kindly at night for it may bo that bo-* fore the dawn some loved ono may fin-p ish his or her span of life lor this, world, and it will bo too late to ask lor forgiveness.

TEN BECAUSES.—A hundred reasons! might be given why Lyon's Kathaironf should be usod by every intelligent human being in preferenoo to every otlior preparation ior tho hair, but ten will: suffice. Here thev are: Becauso itt nourishes the fibers, multiples them and makes them grow becauso It thusi:

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revents from whithering and* because it removes the scurf: and dandruff which choko them as tares choke the golden grain becauso. it keeps the scalp cool and prevents eruptions because It renders the hair' as lustrous as satin becauso it makes' it pliant and elastic becauso it is a fragrant and delightful dressing bocause it does not soil the pillow, tho1 cap or the hat beoaUse it is without a. rival in cheapness, and because 11 Oj other article sold for the same purpose, in this or any other country, possesses all, or even ohe-half, of those inralua-V ble properties.

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CASTOR!A—is a scientific yegetnblo preparation a porfect substituto for., and more effective than Castor Oil, and is pleasant to take. It cleanses the system In a most remarkablo manner does not distress or gripo, but operateswhen all other remedies havo failod. It is certain to supersede Pills, Castor Oil,Narcotic Syrups, and all other purgative and exciting medicines. The Cas-f toria contains neither Minerals, Mor-, phitio nor Alcohol. By its emoliont. soothing

it assimilates tho lood*

and produces natural sloop particularly adapting it to crying and toothingr children. It cures Stomach Ache, Wluu, Colic, Constipation, Flatuloncv, Croup' and kills Worms. Make your Druggists send for it be will always keep It, as* every family must havo it. It costs but thlrty-fivo conts a bottle. (Mt. j,,,

FEMALE WEAKNESS.—Vogetine acts, directly upon the causos of those complaints. It invigorates and strength-^ ens the whole system, acts upon tho secretive organs, allays Inflammation,, cleanses and cures ulceration, cures constipation, regulates tho bowels,* headache and pains in the back cease in fact there is 110 disease or complaint whero the Vegotino gives so quick rorelief, and is so effect!vo in Its cure, as* hi what is termed Feuialo Weakness. It has never failod in one instance.

THE man has never been found who can choke down IheTornaThresher. It oan't bo chok--* and It won't bo choked. It has hundreds of friends in thU

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OUR object belia 1o sell machines wo won't mias a u»Ur.

11 11 Where parties are KOOI, or furII YP\flJni"h ample security, we don't If lUw.Vf -nutate to give long time. Homo money is necessary,hut a little fJJlgo a a a a a a

AfliVitAT a trial of Cider Mills, each II SAT I (claiming to be the best, I L-.Y.f I produced 0% pounds of Cider IfYFXlLJwUh 76 revolutions, No. 2, 1% •f •"^•"pounds with CO revolution^ 0. 8, -1 pounds With 60 revolutions, while the American Mill produced pounds with itlons. Bee It at Jones 4 Jones'.

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/I' *IVf\TH8TpBWAnoSEPAKATOR isthe I loAX 11 most handsomely fluli work II vn-Atl Mit Is the best, the c.v.i nscs are |J YES'Ll-roOotbest, and it. Is decidedly tbe best in every way.

Tjtr. TOITNANO. BEPAUATOU 30 Inch in cyHndi-r, Inch carrier. The Tornado 30 Inch cylinder, -11 inch carrier. The Carey Power 8 horse or 10 liorw*. The Carey

Power mounted or down. Warranted every one of them, at Jones & Jones, Te^re-Haute, Indiana.