Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 3, Number 47, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 May 1873 — Page 2

[Written for the Saturday Evening Mall.] DECORATION DA Y, 1873. !BT ADEUA ELMER. We gather thy treasures, dh! land of tine

From mountain and valley, we bring them to thee. Oh!mother earth, lor in thy bottom to-day, Are sleeping our dead, the Blue and the

Gray.

The north but echoes the one sad strain, That the south wind brings with a low sweet refrain And old ocean catches the pitiful lay, Moaning its requiem for the Blue aud the 'Gray.

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From the wild western forest, tlie fur distant plain, There's sobbing and tears o'er the graves of the alaln And the lonely hearts gather their tribute to pay, To the loved,and the lost, the Blue ana the

Gray.

They slumber in silence, unbroken and deep, But angels will watch o'er the place where they sleep Tlie same loving Falher called them away They were his children, the Blue and the

Gray.

TEBBE-HAUTE, April 20th.

WAITING A THE DEPOT."

BY lOUISE E. LINDEN.

Waiting at the depot, Isn't it a bore? 'Mongst a crowd of people

You never saw beiore All are so impatient, Waiting for the train, That they look as drooping

As hens out in a rain.

Waiting at the depot, How slow the moments creep Every one is wishing

Old Time would make a leap To the hour of blessing And the end of pain, For it's surely coming

In on the next train.

Waiting at the depot, Isn't It a bother? All the children crying,

Making such a pother The fellows all look stupid, None oi the girls look gay, Can't men do dome flirting,

To pass the time away

{From Saint Paul's Magazine.]

Our Evening Party.

I thought, said Miller, there was something in the wind that cold Monday night when I got back from the city and found a double supply of my favorite hot-buttered muffins awaiting me, and my slippers so nicely aired on the hearth. But I was sure of it when my wife said, smiling, "I hope you like the tea, dear I put an extra spoonful in for you because it's such a bleak nightand when my eldest daughter laughed so heartily at my old story of the Chinese missionary, which I think so good that I take every opportunity of repeating it.

Now, Molly," said I, as I took down ray meerschaum after tea "now Molly, what is it?"

What is what, papa said Molly but she blushod and laughed a conscious little laugh all the same.

Come,' I retorted, "let us have it. What is it you want to coax out of me now T"

Woll, Molly, as papa seems so cunning at finding us out, I think we had better tell him what we have been talking about," said my wife, with a slightly nervons titter.

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A great deal better, you most artful of women," said I, with all the sternness I could muster "and no more compliments to my superior wisdom if you please. I am quite aware you aro only oiling the machinery to make it run round your own way. All uttempts to bribe the court with more muffins will only injure your case. Proceed, therefore."

Woll, James," replied my wife, the girls and I nave been talking all the afternoon, and, ahem

All the morning, too, I have no doubt. So far the court quite agreos with you, madam," I Interrupted, blowing out one of my most sarcastic wreaths of smoke. "These poor things, James, do so want you to give thorn an evening party—something a little stylish, you know—like other people." my wife continued, hurrying on like the steam when it has come to the brink of the precipice.

A in pa I re at in amazement. Oh, yes! do, pam," said Molly, sitting down on the hassock at my feet, ana putting her rosy chook on my knee. She is an admirable hand at coaxing, Is Molly.

Yes, dear, why should we not be like our neighbors, at least sometimes —like Mrs. Vyner, for instance?" pursued tny wife, skillfully singling out un acquaintance who was my pet aversion.

Well, because we can't, if we tried w© haven't got the money," I replied. You must snrelv see what nonsense it is to talk of our being like Vyner when his partnership in Double brings him a couple of thousands a year, and I have barely as many hundreds."

Woll, but wo might just show Mrs. Vyner we know whmi's what." "it was a mean advantage which my wife Jane was taking, and sho knew it. Mrs. Vyner was from the same country town as myself, ami on the strength of her father having luid a thousand a year In land (and Heaven knows how much more h© had in rustic stupidity had always considered herself entitled to play the part «f superior being toward us. Nor was aha content with thinking this, but was determined we should admit her glorious supiemacy in style, house, furniture and belongings. In a word, she was my spccial abhorrence and if there was one thing 1 shonld havo liked, It would have been to see Mr*. Vyner "brought down a pog." Jauo knew this weakness of mine very weil, ami 1 consider an vjngenei*ons action on her part to have appealed to it. However, for the present 1 resisted the temptation firm*

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truth, the notion of our giving an evening party was a very ridiculous one. I was secret-~y to a cKy company, with about tlr. hundred a year. had already sac*: i*u«l to the graces of I/ondon society—a j, eara nces—b taking a decent house at Not ting Hill, and had hard word, Ned'# schooling and the finishing my two daughter*, to keep our heads fairly above water. Bo,

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a sensible man, I had

it to in a in in a 1 a had never received my mends otherwise than at tea and supper, in the plainest of "plain wava." If tLey liked to drop in at such times (and man/ of them did), we were always delighted to 8«e them, and under these circumstances had many pleasanter chat and laugh, I dare say, than fell to the lot of grander houses. The very freedom of this kind of visiting, the knowledge that you oan come and go home when you like, and that the more you pleaee yourself the better yon will please your boat, suited my constitution exactly and I believe that In liking it I am only one of a vast majority of London gen­

tlemen. For the ladies I daro not

When we wont to bed. however, my wife returned to the attack, and did not leave m® till *he was •victorious.

doily iauu)Ktt» iv young Kelly, who looked 80 sweet her: but hetfhcould we expect a respectable young fSlloW like him to come forward unless Ifcaaw we knew somebody aud were not quito out of the pal© ox

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these silly notions into Molly Kelly always seemed to me tobe rather spooney on Eilen "N ner, and not at ail

°n« Ah, flie Vyners always try to make out that he is quite devoted to them but I flatter myself I know white from black when Isee it-yes, yes, I think so indeed."

Well, do you really tlnnk wo ought to givo Molly this party," said I reluctantly.

Yep, that would be a good excuse for beginning, but I think we ought give one every year in the future."

I groaned in spirit and said, "Pray let us gtt safely over this before we talk of any more. I confess I think the whole notion absurd—the expense, the trouble, the probability of a breakdown with such servants as ours. But I suppose you must have your own way."

Accordingly, in the morning my wife and two daughters formed themselves into a permanent committee of ways and means. They decided that things could not possibly be got ready under a month, and for the whole of that time we were in a state of disturbance. First, it was found out that the drawingroom curtains were old and shabby, and wo must have new ones then, that the dining-room carpetdid not suit the furniture—"and you would not wish people to think we have no taste, dear?" said my wife. Now, it was my old book-case that had to be shoyed into an unobtrusive corner, where I had to go to hunt for my papers in the dark: next, I nearly broke my neck over a new music stand which had arrived that morning, and had been left in the passage, "only just for a moment till the carpet was put down then if any friend came in there was scarcely a single place where one could sit down. In a word, all our quiet, homely, comfortable ways were at an end, and what with upholsterers, carpenters, pianotuners and others, it was just as bad as if we were "flitting." I was heartily glad, therefore, when they at last declared themselves ready to send out the "invitations."

Then the consultations there were about the day, and what people we were to ask! Mr. Disraeli, forming a new cabinet for the government of a fourth part of the world, could not have pondered each name lor a longer time, or more anxiously, and I am sure he would not have looked half so gravely important over it. For my part, I watched the proceedings with an amused eye, for my opinion, like an eminent physician's, was only taken a§ a last resource.

The first name written down in "all the lists" was, of course, Fred Kelly's —to catch whom (in plain English) our party was given.

I never could quite understand how this young Kelly, who was in the Civil Service, contrived to make so many mothers and daughters run after him. Perhaps (as quantity is often preferred to quality) it was only because there was so much of him, for he stood over six feet but then he was as thin as a lath and nearly as wide, with feeble attempts at the "straw-colored moustache and hay-colored beard" that Thackcy speaks of. More probably the reason was that he had in perfection the cool Ojibbeway manner of the man about town—that affectation of stony indifference which passes for the height of fashion in all except the best circles, where people can dare to be natural. He was never genial—never animated—never even interested indeed, to my mind he was more like a machine, that had been taught to talk a little, than a man because, to save himself trouble, he seemed to have a pet phrase for everything. All persons below the Civil Service were "haw, those cads"—the depth of his reprobation was "not good form, you know"—the height of his approval was expressed by "tol-tol" meaning tolerable though once I certainly heard him go so far as to call a thing rather jolly." My youngest daughter, Patty, who is very observant, used to laugh and say that Kelly was very wise to be lackadaisical about everything, because he know so little, and had no feelings and no ideas, that if he was not lackadaisical ho would be nothing. And from a pretty long acquaintance with him, I can safely say that, if he had anv ideas, he was always successful in ronoeaiing them. In a word he was quite the hero of certain modern novelists aud the very difficulty of thawing this fashionable icicle made Molly and several other young ladies attempt the enterprise. But as yet the iciclo remained an icicle, and would melt to no warmth they could apply.

Next after Kelly In our common list came the names of the Vynors—father, mother and two daughters, without whose eyes to observe our success in securing Fred the triumph would scarcely have been complete. All the rich people of our acquaintance followed singularly enough, there was not a shadow of doub* about any of them, nor about that tawny young idiot, Nortbcoat, who knew the younger son of a lord. Two budding barristers from the Temple were also passed nem. con. —"they moved iu such good society." I suggested asking mo Prince and Princess of Wales, but found my little joke received (for the first time I must confess) with chilling silence, as the awful gravity of the occasion required.

There was also a charming unanimity about asking some of our loss important acquaintances. Thus poor Miw Graham was asked, because she was so good-natured and "never objected to play any quantity of daneo-mnsic." Then Tom") ins could carve, and Vicker talk so well. Mrs. Grubs, too, and the three Miss Grubbinses, would be mortally offended if they were left out—so there was no help for it we must have them."

Other names caused mora discussion. I was obstinate w"en I found my wife and Molly5 were positively thinking of leaving out my old school-fellow. Dick Wothen»poott-~-the best of good fellows, only rather rough in his manners, as most of these enthusiastic artists are. It was not, however, on this account so much that my wife disliked him, as the fact thak though over thirty, beseemed to be making no he*dway at all in life, and wish I msel beginning to think he had mistaken his profession. Indeed he was 9Li poor that I had frequently lent him a five-pound note. But I now overruled my wlf»»s objectioos lo him and insisted on his being invited. With his name our list of forty-fire names was complete, that number being ten or fifteen more people than our rooms would really hold oat then, as my wife said, "They would be sure, some of them, to be engaged, and ao we

might as well have th ting them all as not." To be in prqper fwm, dayVlnvltMio#, an# th. ruled owrw tnill|aors.,irF inc till nflht thetfpt was to consultations about blonde lin. manve »nd magenta, or amlnatloBs of patterns, or "fittings on." For my part, I undertook to look after the tea, supper, and attendance, for all of which it was absolutely necessary to contract, since we only kept a fat maid-servant of twenty (whom my wife, on the strength of her being able to boil potato9s hard and reduce mutton chops to cinders, dignified with the name ol "cook"), aud one little slut of thirteen, scarcely able to lift a sloppall, whom we called our .'-.housemaid."

I must say I never felt myself in such a ludicrously mean position as I did when I was bargaining with the unctuous upholsterer in the next street for a stylish supper on hired dishes, to be handed around by threo imitation footmen, being the upholsterers assistants The whole thing did seem like such 1 sham, like playing the peacock with borrowed feathers.

The all-importaut night arrived at last, and the fever of expectation and anxiety which had held my womankind all the month reached its height.

Long shall I be in forgetting the preparations and fuss of that dreary evening,—the hurried tea, the laborious dressing, the solemn single knock of the upholsterer's men, like the undertaker bringing a coffin the frantic appeal of Sarah to "come and fasten methe rustle of skirts in the passage the llying about of distracted cook and house-maid the staid, methodical movements of the long-visaged waiters But as the clock struck the fatal hour of nine, we were all assembled in state ready for the first comer, my wife buttoning her white kid gloves,*and still red in the face with her nervousness and exertions. As a proof that her exertions hod been attended with some success, I may state that I overheard one ol our young barristers telling Nortbcoat "She looked a very handsome Dutch Venus indeed."

I had scarcely taken my place on the hearth-rug when a loud ran-tan at the door and a hearty voice in the passage announced the first arrival. "Mr. Wotherspoon!" whispered my wife to me, with a touch of annoyance in her tone "he, at any rate, takes care to be punctual. Knows no better, I suppose." When be was ushered in bv one of the imitation footmen he took much the same view of our proceedings as I took myself, and began chaffing me in his free and easy way. "Weil, now, Miller, tp think of you coming out in such a swell fashion! What on earth possessed you to begin giving state parties, eh?'' But Mrs. Miller—with that increase of dignity which the peach-colored stain always gives her—cut his audacious levity short by asking sharply, "Well, and why shouldn't we give a party like any one else, Mr.—a—Mr. Wotherspoon?" The assumed forgetfulness of his name was a masterpiece, and capitally done, considering she had never practiced the art of snubbing before. At all events, poor Dick seemed to have the ground taken from under him at once, and he subsided into a corner near Patty, where he seemed to be better welcomed.

But hark I the roll of wheels—"the brazen thunders of the door"—soon not intermittent, but continuous—and we are presently in the thick of it. Kelly came about ten, a little stiffer than usual but not till half-past did the Vyners sweep into the room, Mrs. Vyner overwhelmingly courteous and patronizing in her black velvet dress. But she soon contrived (without saying so) to make ns understand that she wondered we oonld venture to invite her, and that she considered it no little condescension on her part to oome.

There conld be no doubt that my daughter Molly and Ellen Vyner were the prettiest girls iu the room yet it was amusing to note the difference in their style and appearance. Molly, whose good-natured rosy faoe above her light blue dress seemed like a cherub's floating in the sky, was radiant, full of life, and sweet as a new-blown rose but she was a little too eager to please, and tried too evidently to make everything go off well. Miss Vyner, on the other hand—pale, slight, and with fine-ly-chiseled features—moved through the rooms a very statue of dignity and self-possession.

Quiet, perfectly well-

bred. and polite, she rather discouraged tne advances of her admirers, including

Kelly but her very discour­

agement seemed only to make them more attentive. If abe had a fault, it was that she Knew her own value so well she might have been a duke's daughter instead of a brewer's—though, indeed, I believe Vyner and many of his business think a brewer or a banker now-a-days a greater grandee than any nobleman.

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I am glad to say the party itself, notwithstanding our misgivings, went off without any particular hitch. In fact, it seemed very much like thousands of similar affairs given by people of the middle classes who know no better. There was the same stiffness and reserve at first, since in such a miscellaneous gathering very few of the guests were acquainted with eaoh other the same gradual thawing as we got up a dance (which, with hypocrisy that deceived nobody, wo pretendeato extemporize the same intense heat in the rooms, the same Jamming in the doorways, the same forlorn groups In the corners, groups that looked as if they knew they ought to bo enjoying themselves and wwe not.

And when the novelty of the position wore off, I did not find it very difficult to play the part of host. So I tried to say a pleasant word to any guests that seemed dull, arranged acoupleof whist tables for the elderly people, and, in fact, worked bard generally at amusing everybody. My wife, however, as the hours went on without mishap, grew prouder and prouder of her hired grandeur, and indeed, like old Weller's Shepherd, "swelled wislbly" in magnificence of deportment and manner. In my hearing alone she told six different persons that "there were forty-five invited, but unfortunately, so many were engaged."

I think you ought rather to say fortunately," replied that disagreeable Mrs. Vyner, as my wife made this remark to her. "My dear Mrs. Miller, how could you get any more people in these rooms? and a crowd is so very unpleasant," she added, fanning herself

.. hen I took Mrs. Vyner in to supnor she said, blandly, "I did not know, Mr. Miller—yes. champagne, please—I never knew before thai you kept footman j" looking hard at one of the upholsterer's mutes. ..

Why, he is like Vyner*s small aletor very occasional use only," I replied, determined she should not have all the sarcasms to herself, and knowing she bated any refterenee to her husband's business.

these whips are, Mrs. Miliar! I most get you to giro me the receipt," Of

course, the odious worn well that the creams. 11 else, were furnish who«d f(|fi«8V[.. makiiiimywirofbl fortabS forjhe tupe.

The pan# w* till foo* or five o'ol

with splllt the young

people* at any rate, Especially my daughters Molly ana Patty, enjoyed this put offfifcbusiness most thoroughly. Toward tne end, however, Molly became rather sulky because Fred danced so much with Miss Vyner and my wife was highly indignant at Dick Wotherspodn's banging about Patty. Indeed, she would have proceeded to open, hostilities if I had not stopped her and, as it was, Wotherspoon evidently guessed her motive in always disturbing his confabulations with Patty, ana left early.

When our guests wero gone we were soon in bed, from which we did not rise till noon. Even then Patty was very tired and Molly bad a headachedue to Miss

Vyner,

I suspected. I, too,

was disgusted with tho hypocritical pretenses and bother of the wholo thing. My wife alone was radiant, and thought the party a great success, owing to her own admirable management. She was sure, too. that Kelly on leaving had thanked her and pressed her hand with a cordiality most unusual with him, and on this ground she told Molly to take courage, and all would oome right.

And her exultation was increased by several of her guests, who called in the afternoon and lisped the usual phrase on such occasions. "Delightful gathering." "Enjoyed ourselves so much." "Quito a success."

When Mrs. Vyuor called, however, she threw a little damp on my wife's ardor. She pretended to praise—she was always more malicious when she did that.

How very good of you to take all this trouble—so unexpected, too!" she said. "And bow very well you did manage considering "you were quite

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unaccustomed to this sort of thing! ,ble must have been a most formidable un dertaking, I'm sure. And I hope you, Mr. Miller, were not very much behind hand with your work in consequence."

Generally I could give Mrs. Vyner a Roland for her Oliver but, on the present occasion, my conscience sided so much with hor in her politely-veiled sarcasms—I mean, I thought them so just—that I really could only mutter out some commonplace answer.

I am afraid you are a little tired with your exertions, Mr. Miller: indeed, they must have been immense," id in no mood for rep I'm sure it was very kind or you to try

continued the merciless virago, seeing that I was in no mood for reply. "But,

you. Ah, I dare say you know what it ia. Fred Kelly proposed to Ellen last night, and it is all arranged—so kind of you, I am sure, to give him the opportunity. And we think it will be a"very nice*match, don't you, Molly?"

Poor Molly held out till Mrs. Vyner was gone, when she made a rush for her own room, with a tear in each eye. She had scarcely left us when a double knock announced the postman. "It hi from Wotherspoon," I said, opening the letter. "Do you know I think our new splendors, Jane, made you seem a little rude to him yester-

'^Ab, well! if I am never rude to any one of man consequence than Mr. Wotherspoon, it will be no great matter," she replied, contemptuously. "But I am grieved and vexed beyond measure about tbis young Kelly. Ellen Vyner, indeed!"

Dear me!" said I, as I glanced over Wotberspoon's letter: "You'll like to hear this, I think, Jane." So I read it to her.

DEAR MILLER: I am sorry to be obliged to leave without calling to bid you good-by, but have just met some friends who are going to Italy, and I have decided to accompany them. As we start to-morrow, I am in an awful hurry, and I shall be away at least two years."

And a very good, thing to," interrupted my wife. "Do you know I am quite sure he would have made Patty an offer last night, if I had not looked so well after her that I never gaye him the chance? I have always wondered, James, you never would see the depth or that man. However, we shall be safe from him for noma time, it seems."

Quite safe," said I. 'There were one or two things that I particularly wished to tell you last night but in suoh a crowd I had no opportunity, and' "There, I told you, James!" broke in my wife again. "One of these things, you may depend on it, was a proposal, and I'm glad I stopped it."

All right, only do let me finish 'ana, to tell you the truth, I was a little nettled (you know I was always too sensitive,) because I thought Mrs. Miller last night scarcely treated me with quite the kindness due to an old friend. So I ran away early and did not say what I intended. Perhaps it is as well. One bit of news about me, however, I am sure you will be glad to hear, and I feel that 1 ought not to go away without tolling you. A few days ago, to my immense delight and astonishment, I received a lawyer's letter informing me that I was heir-at-law to a distant relative who died in Jamaica so that I have dropped all at once into five thousand a year. Rather jolly, isn't it? But I won't forget all your five-pound notes and If ever you want a little cash, old fellow, just yotl ask your old and obliged friend, 'K. WOTBJBR8POOX.'

Five thousand a year!" groaned my '•But how could I know, wife now. James? spoon tell us?"

didnt Mr. Wother-

mg maliciously, unu peruups UB »r» wished to see whether we cared for bim without his money."

Oh dear, oh dear! couldn't I write a note of apology and bring him back No lr I know Wotherspoon, It is too late. As you said, Jane, he is to deep for that."

Ah well," said she* quite piteously. "And this is all the reward one gets for nutting oneself out of the way and going to all this expense to give one's friends a treat."

Our motives, I could not help thinking, had not been quite so disinterested as my wife now wished to make out. Few people do give parties, I fear, on the pure principles of Pickwickian benevolence. However, we bad got a lesson and I am happy to say our first evening party wa^ our last.

THE surest and most direct mode of removing or contracting kidney, bladder and glandular diseases, mental and physical debility, diabetes, gravel, female weakness and uterine complaints, Is to occasional^ partake of Smolander's Buchu. Tuts vegetable medicine nay bo relied upon as being a tonic, diuretic solvent and alterative and the best preparation of Buchu.

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BLONDE FOB BS0NETJTE. A Change $ Picture*

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Qf Wives—A

JioiMMiia story of Two Englishmen Who

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VTom the Bogtoc Globe.] Then is a little romance going the rounds about Richard Farquahr Dingle and his wife Phoebe, and Robert Moore and his wife Mary. The account of the strange fortune that happened these couples Is so circumstantial that it must be in the main true. All the parties were English, and were uewly married as above in England before they came to the New World to court the goddaaa fot4.un^. Jiak I)ingla and his wife were both blondes, aud Bob Moore and his wife were browns, and both women were beauties of their respective types, and all were young and adventurous. The two couples didn't come over in the same ship, but they came about the eame tims, and they did not know each othor. Dick Dingle, together with his pretty wife, proceeded to Petroleum Center, Pa., with a capital of 910,000, which was sOon sunk in oil wells—all but$400. Dck divided this sum with Phccbe, and started out alone for the Argentine Republic to retrieve his lost fortune aud make another. He struck a good streak of mining luck, and cleared §9,000 in the first two years, whiehhesent to Phoebe and which she duly received. This reconciled her to her husband's absence for the time, but she heard no more of him for somo years, and she began to xcgard him as dead. The fact is he was living a wild sort of life in South America, and had almost forgotten his blonde wife, though ho carried her picture.

Bob Moore and his brunette wife had also a comfortable capital when they arrived in this country, and lost some of it in unfortunate speculations. Bob left Mary in Rochester, N, Y., and went to South America full of golden visions. He promised to write to his wife eoon, but never did, and was not lucky iu the Argentine country. I'inally Dick Dingle and Bob Moore met, and both were vagabonds—in a strange oountry and without money or friends. They joined their fortunes, and told each other the story oi their

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There was a remarkable similarity between them. They both had pictures of their wives, and each went in raptures over the other's picture, and cared very little for his own. In a mad freak vagabond Dick and vagabond Bob exchanged the pictures ot their wives, and some luck appeared to come to tbem afterward. They were fast friends, and accumulated some money, and began to^behavethemselves better. It was seven years since Dick Dingle had written to his wife, and one day in a fit of repentance he wrote her a letter inclosing $1,000, and asking her to join him in South America as soon as possible. In the meantime she had removed from Petroleum Center to Philadelphia, but the letter and the money found her after along delay.

As Dick had waited the proper time and heard nothing from his wife he began to feel uneasy, and one day resolved to return to tne United States to hunt her uo. He started from Panama on the English steamer George Watts for the United States on Friday, the 7th day of June last, while his wife sailed from New York for the Argentine Republic the next day, Saturday, June 8. Dick went to Petroleum Center. thenca to Philadelphia, but could not find bis wife or hear anything of her. He then went to New York, resolved to take the next packet for South America to join Bob Moore. But something occurred to prevent the voyage. He got on a little bit of a spreo in New York and happened to stumble into a store in Broadway to buy somo trifliDg article. There, behind the counter, he saw a handsome brunette, whose ftice looked charmingly familiar. He was not mistaken—it was she, and the picture he carried proved it. The acquaintance ripened. Mary had sought and obtained a divorce from Bob Moore for dlseition. and was free, and lovely» and still young. Dick Dingle told the story of his wife's disappearance, and the couple resolved that she must be dead, so these two got married and are tow living happily in Brooklyn.

Phoebe Dingle plowed the deep to oin ther recreant but repentant husand in the Argentine Republic. Mbe was doomed to disappointment but she found Bob Moore, and Bob showed her the picture which be had received from the hands of Dick Dingle himself, but he did not tell her the whole story. In fact it is uncertain what Bob did say to the beautiful woman who had come so far to find her husband and failed, but it Is quite certain that those two got married in a short time and now live in good style in Cordova City, Argentine Republic. A real blonde is quite a variety down there and she makes a sensation when she rides out every eveniugon a beautiful palfrey. It is, perhaps, just as well as it has fallen out. These two singular couples are too far apart ever to interfere with each others happiness, and are much better satisfied as they are than as they were.

Oun ATTACHMENT TO FAMILIAR THINGS.—Wn are not only creatures of habit, but old friends and memories and places live the longest in our hearts and are the dearest# There is no desolation so great as to be in a strange place, with the crowd passing and repassing before you, but not one familiar face among them. There is no loneliness in the world so sensible as tbis. The same is true of books and papers: they grow to be visitors and friends. A man who is accustomed to read a daily paper, if it fails to come he misses it, and reels all day as if he bad lost something, or something was wrong. So, too, or duties. When men grow old and infirm, and are obliged to relinquish their accustomed place in the store or counting-room or office, they do it gradually, because they cannot bear to do it at once.

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A RICH SCENE IN A: SitOKING CAR. An amusing incident occurred recent' ly in the smoking car of a C. O. C. & I. R. R. train between Shelby and this city. A woman with a poodle dog entered the oar just prior to the departure of the train from the former point, and after depositing her dog on one seat, turned over the back of another one, so that each seat faced the other. Together she ahd her canine companion thus monopolized two entire seats.

Appearances seemed to indicate that the car was one exclusively fcr the convenience of those addicted to the use of the "weedbut of this fact she was soon apprised by the conductor, who advised ner to obtain a seat in another car, informiug her at, the same time that the accommodations in the way of seats in the other coaches were superior to those where she was thea. However, she insisted on remaining, urging that her presence woukl deter the occupants of the car from smoking, and sho would consequently experience no discomfort from tobacco fumes. Long before the train reached this city, however, a gentleman sitting directly in front of her produced his case, and taking therefrom a cigar, began puffing away at it in a manner which seemed peculiarly calculated to aggravate the "strong-minded" woman immediately back of him. In an instant, by a strategic movement, she wrested the obnoxious cigar from his mouth and threw it out of the window, exclaiming, "If there is anything I do hate, it is tobacco smoke."

The passengers who had witnessed tho affair were convulsed with laughter, but the offending smoker suppressed whatever emotions may have been struggling for expression in words or action ana maintained throughout the same imperturable gravity which had characterized him from the first. Calmly rising from his seat, he opened the window nearest him, fastened it up, and reaching over the seat back of him. took the woman's poodle dog and threw him out of the window and as far beyond as possible, ait the same time saying, "If there is anything I do hate, it's a poodle dog!"

The scene which followed beggars description. The car resounded with peal after peal of laughter, and as the ,• extreme ludicrousness of tho affair became apparent to the principal actors in it, they too joined with the rest. Despi re re in id to he os her dog, the woman could not repress her inclination to laugh at the unexcted finale of the affair.—[Cleveland imes.

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TOT Jomat Ptow has a cast -tc«l mold-boaid. All other plows of same price have German steel molds.

TirP RCT»*t ATTACITWKXTRT A A works splendidly In sod or stub- II II ble, ana any plow can be pot onII K. Why walk when you eanUYESiy ride?

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The Idea of genuine cast irteel ..i ft Cheap plow Is new. The Jones Plow la the only one that has It* T"-

Jones A Jones, east side of the, square, Terre-Hante. are proprietor* of The Jones Plow. Look for the brand on the beam. ra

...-kThe Jones Plow Is the latest. CAV ft The Jones Plow is the hardest. lOni 11xhe Jones Plow Is lh« lightest.

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Jones Plow is the cheapest

All plows have advanced lnj| price. The Jon«* Plow is »ch anf I Improvement that It Is cheap all I present prices.

TBRRK-HAUTK, May 23.

The following figures are paid to farmers and others by dealers In this city: BEESWAX—Yellow.... S 22® 27 BUTTER—Best 210® 25 CORN MEAL. 50 E008—Fresh 10@ 11 FEATHERS—Live Oeeae.. 65QI «0

Old ." 20® 80

FLOUR—Fancy brands 8 000 8 25 FRUIT—Green Apples*. 75® 1 00 Dried 4§ 5

Dried Peaches 6« 6

GRAIN—Corn, new 80® 82 Oats, new 25® 30 nevr— 65 60

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White Wheat 1 60 ai Alabama. 1 55 ', Mediterranean 1 45 .J. GINSENG 1 00 GREASE—Brown 5® JB HAY—Per ton 12 G0®H 00 HIDES—Green trimmed 9® 10 .. Salted 9k® 10 pry salted H® 15 •i Dry flint 17® 20 "Sheepskin 76® 150 TALLOW 7k PROVISIONS—Hams 10® 12

Sides. 8® Shoulders. 6A

MESS PORK-Per bbl.„ 00®15 00 LAKD—Country 0® 7 POTATOES 70® 80 POULTRY—Turkeys, alive per lb. 9® 10 dressed 10® 11

Ducks per doxen 2 00® 8 80 Geesa 8 60 Chlo'ns, old.perdoz. 8 00® 8 2T\ dressed 8 25® 8 50

SEEDS—Flax 1 45 Clover 9® 10 RAGS-Cptton 8® 3k WOOL—Tub-washed 55® 60

Fleece 85® 40 Unwashed 38(5 88

DlVlmiSTKATOR'S SALE.

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Griffith's west line, thence north 78 feet, thence east to Griffeth's east line extended, and thence south to the place of beginning.

Terms—One-third cash, balance In nine and eighteen months, purchaser giving notes, waiving valuation, with Interest and mortgage. H. D. SCOTT. Adtn'r,

Mayl7,187iHt. David O. Denny, Dec'sd.

Grover & Baker.

RIMES & ROYSE, ..... ft

Real Estate Dealers,.

HAVE r«B SALE

0\K ltl NDUED VACANT LOTS,

In different panto of the city at prices froi 9175 to *4,000.

FIFTY DWELLING HOUSES

At from SV60 to 310,000 also a rare oppor to Invest a small amount of capital

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nlty to Invest a small amcrani oi capiuu well. Call on Grimes & Royse and take or ot Brokaw's Lots, they are on 6V£ and 7 street* terms easy. Also, Three Lots, eat front, on south 6th street*

Office, Ko. 2 Fifth Sireef, South of Main'

Grover & Baker/ NEW BATH ROOMS

Anew and reliable change has been mod In order to furnish

HOT AND COLD BATHS,

At all times at the JXew Bath Rooms at a be S O to W 3 A it

Dr. A. Blit.

Ocnlist Atirls Gives special attcnt]. to the treatment of diseases of .the Eye Ear, whether of acut-

-Tiar' Chronic form, as

Earache, bard hearing, earn ess, disagreeable smelling, the Ear, Catarrh, etc., cured In a short time.

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Una and other sore eye*, which from ne gence have become chronic. Grannlav Lids, weak Eyes, etc. ivy®*' has become obscured other opacity operated carefoll and ski, fully and the sight S straightened In one minute, without or chloroform.

Coll and see Jr- BLITZ, at his office, o. 119 Main over sages ConfecSow BtoreTTerre-Haute, Ind. ma