Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 3, Number 49, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 June 1873 — Page 4

A HE ARTS A SSWER.

BY KATHIE.

Doyoa remember friend, when yfarsftgo,^ Iwe sat with one we loved, the window

In the alacfmonth the lovely rose* blow A branch had stolen In jnnt at my Hide, And yon. with careless hand, pulled a rich

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And b*ld its crimson beauty over me. Baying, "I crown yon queen of love to-day, Aod my allegiance pay on bended knee.

*Twas only pleasantry— I reigned a queen Over one loyal heart, and he my king! Tour words to-day bring back thehoor-the gcene

I nee the verdure, hear the gay birds Ring Tiia ocent of ro*e* aeems to fill the air hear hi* words uttered In love's dear tone— The only one I heard when life was fair—

And I forget that I am now alone. Ton say my kingdom is not desolate, For one now orient rae allegiance sweet And gentle care, and tender love await,

And a soul* deulre to make my life complete A famlhheJ heart has been your advocate,

I mast confess— I owe as much 10 you— Pleadlpg, When all thwe Joys await, Can you refus»e a love so fond and Hue?"

June's roses soon will bloom—when, fresh with dew, Tliey give their first rare perfume to the air, Kind in each fragrant heart an answer true:

A klrxlor answer than my words could bear, And I am sure alieart with richest (lower,

Freah as a rose still wet wiih morning dew, Bre ardent sun has wooed the blushing flower-

Will bring Its blessing and its joy to you.

WU.ll be my friend for the old friendship's sake, I cannot spare you now, so tried and true not from me the sweet assurance take

Still let me find a counselor In you And I will hope that time and distance lend Their solace, ere we cro*s each other's

And, that' a life complete for you, my friend, Will prove the answer Iwst 1 give to-day.

[Overland Monthly—June.]

Margaret Hemming.

There was a half-holiday at Howe's Flat, and tha people were gathered at tho express and post offices, to await tho arrival of tho semi-weekly tnulotraln with its express and mail matter, and tho customary freight of passengers.

The occasion of tho holiday and concourse was the expected return of John Hoinmlng, who had gone to the "Bay," to meet his wife ami child upon their arrival from the "States."

John was hold in great consideration at Howe's Fl.it, no: only because he was the chief owner in sundry very important minis, but for the roason, as tho miners expressed it, "Ho carno as near being a white man as any they make."

A cloud of dust announced the coming of tho train. In the advance rode the conductor, accompanied by a brlglitoj'od lad of some eight years, who saluiod the people with iood evening, gentlemen, I am Johnny Hemming please help me down." Jobnfiy was helped to dismount, was pissed from hand to band, surveyed, and commented upon with the froedom which distinguishes tho miners of California. Johnny took no oll'enso at these liberties, but, with natural boyish impudence, strengthened by his journey's experiences, bore up under criticism, and, in return, opened a battery of questions relative to everything he saw peculiar in tbe dress and manners of tho people before him.

While Johnny was fast making friends by his prattle, the attention of his audience was culled away by a loud shout from tho street, and tho exclamation, "John Hemming in a biled shirt and a plug hat, or I'll be d-- to which thcro was a chorus of voices, with a filling inflection, "Well, I swear."

Hemming and wife, who had linger1 in tlie rear of tho train, to keep out of the dust, now rode up—she, to bo introduced to, he to encounter the groet lags of, his numerous friends.

John, having ord red a free bar for t'io night— the usual method of celebra ting memorable occasions in the mines —took his wife and child to the cottage ho had fitted up for their receptiou, and where, during tho evening, they were waited upon by such of the people as had not boon so fortunate as to be on the street at tho moment of their arrival.

Some of the callers were refined, cultivated people, accustomed to goo^ so defy in other lands while many of them, awkward and boorish, entered without knocking, addressed Hemmlng's wife as "Mis' Hemming, stared her out of countenance, asked how she liked California, and took their leave with ft swagger, and an abrupt

Waal, so-long!" The comments of the people upou Mrs. Hemming were altogether favorable, not so hers upon them. "11 «rbarians was hor sententious remark.

Margaret Hemming was an intellectual woman—not that she was entirely wanting in womanly sympathy, or in a spiritual nature, but these lay within her uncultivated—her intellect alone was developed. Married and loft by herself while yet scarcely more than a child in years, she had calmly surveyed the situation. She hoped John would return front California with a fortune, and she determined to qualify herself for the poultlou which wealth gives in everv community.

She thought, also, of the possibility of his failure of success, and of his death, even, she said to herself, "Then, for the sake of the unknown future, and that I may make the most of lift*, I will achieve what I may acquisitions never come amiss."

Her own earnings as a teacher, and. A tor a time. John's remittances, had

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iven her sufficient means to prosecute studies, and to preserve her standing In good society In a New England town, where tbo tlomocmtlc tondonclw of the people arc such, that the fact of a

of the people arc sucn, m»«. person's being engaged in labors producing a direct money return, does net bar him or her from the company of their natural associates*.

Undertaking literary pursuits as a means to an end, Margaret came te love them for their own *ako—came to lodge men and women from a purely Intellectual standpoint. Had they knowledge, power of thought, wit, tact, and taste? Wanting those, they could be uothlng to her.

She could see dearly the seven prismatic colors In the rainbow, and appreciate the rare beauty with which they shaded one into the other could listen, delighted, to the music of the rolling thunder, deeming It an exposition of force, the laws or which she fully understood but she bad no sympathy with, and nothing but contempt for those who see more than Is to be seen in tbe arch of promise, t*»ar more than is to be heard in the thunders reverberations, "Dreamer*, all," said she.

Impelled by a logical charitv, she eould relieve suffering with a due re-

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to the welfare of society, eould lafor the reformation of criminals but a divine love for those that suffer, a divine compassion far those that sin, she had no conception.

Under other influences, John had obtained bis development. Neither books nor cultivated people informed his mind, or polished his manners but be had seen tbe world and bad learned that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed in philosophy. He saw that every man and woman is more sinned against than sinning, and his heart was inspired with love. He straggled with difficulties, and acquired laltb encountered life's varied experience*, and learned charity.

When these two people met in California, after their long separation, it was to be bitterly disappointed. To John, Margaret was a statue, done in ice—clear, glittering, cold to Margaret, John was an image of clay—dull,heavy, wanting.

Her manners were refined his were coarse. Grace distinguished her every motion he was awkward and ungainly. She was mistress of all the arts of pleasing while ho had no deft ways, but rather a blunt sincerity, often of fensive, even in tbe performance of the kindest acts, How could there be harmony. His genius rebuked by that of bis wife, John could find no comfort in her presence, but fled from it to the more congenial society of the miners.

Margaret, ail unconscious that John bad qualities and faculties that lifted him up and made him tbe chief personage among men in his vicinity, saw only that no lacked what she prized, ana felt for hint a profound contempt she scarcely strove to conceal.

Time wore on a year had passed. The Hemmings, preserving the outward relations of husband and wife, were sciroely on speaking terms and, when words were interchanged, it would have been better if they had been left unsaid. Margaret bitterly lamented her situation. "Is it to be ever thus?" said she. "Aril I always to endure life in this wretched place, shut off from all congenial society, hearing nothing from human lips but thrice-told tales—lies from tho iirst, creations of poverty-stricken imaginations—and seeing no faces but those that are blanker than the dead wall of a church?"

Then John would answer "By and bv we will leave this place for 'Frisco, of the States. Not now, for our wealth is mainly prospective. The claims must first bo worked out. We must realize. Have patience."

Patience," sneored Margaret. "Have patience, while my best years are wasting, while I am growing old before my time, while rust is corroding all the faculties of my mind. Have patience, to endnre tha horrible same ness of existence in this miserable town, in quiet respectability. No, no I can not endure simply to be. I must live must have. If tho society and surroundings I crave are denied.me, will make tne most of what is at band I will not be immured in a living tomb. Society is here a chaos, but there shall be balls and gatherings What matters it that they will be fre quented by the lowest anil tha vilest from contact with whom I have always shrank with horror, Their envy and admiration is better than stagnation and, if 1 meet man or woman, saint or devil, who can provoke within me even a monentary interest, he or she shall bo my chosen companion, until, like a 8qtie z' (1 orange or a

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are cast awaj\ I may not find liuppi ness, but I will make believe perhaps I can cheat myself. My soul shall not utterly starve."

Then John would answer, dreamily

Happiness is from within." Margaret fulfilled her threat.. Ball succeeded ball. Motley crowds of peoplo were drawn together, and over the assemblages she reigned a oueen. At her house was found welcome for all those brilliant men with whom the mines wore infested, who, their imaginations being in the ascendant over their judgments, suffer shipwreck early in tho voyage of life, and ever after live by their wits, becoming gamblers and sharpers. For a time, to save appearances, Hemming escorted his wife whou sho went out, and tolerated at his own house tho presence of unwelcome guests, but this could not last. The time came when ho said to her, that, lor tho future, bo should neither do one nor tho other

As you please," said Margaret and tho evening following, with other escort, she attended a dance. Tho next morning, Margarot saw that a storm was at hand, and she braced herself for its coming.

John sai.l, "I have interests at Jasper Creek. I shall go there to attend to them, and shall bo absent some time, per Imps all winter."

Very well," said Margaret yon can not go too soon." I sh.ill

take Johnny," said he.

Margaret smiled Incredulously. John repented, "1 shall take Johnny." Do not think," said she, "to frighten me with an idle threat. Let meat least retain what respect I now have for your good sense. I am not a child to he frightened into compliance with your wishes." "ItisiPotan idle threat," returned he "nor do I appeal to your fears to control your actions. It is my fixed purpo.se that the boy shall go with me. and I only speak of it that I may not be apparently guilty of tho meanness of stealing him away."

Margaret rose to hor feet, and said "Is it possible that beneath all that show of homely goodness lurks a spirit so mean as to take from a miserable woman all that she has? That child is mine, John Hemming, not yours—not yours. A wanderer and an adventurer, you noted not the weary months of toll I gave to him the sleepleis nights and patient days, when I stood alone, with only him, in a condition more desolate than that of widowhood. Human law is with you, but there is a higher law that will overtake, and, with Inexorable clutch, squecae dry the hearts and lives of those who come In between the mother and the child she has borne."

John was unprepared for this cry of anguish from bis wife. For a moment his resolution wavered, butthe purpose which bad been months in crystallising, eould not easily be shaken. He could but give nis reasons for so decided a step, which he did, gently but firmly: "Margaret, we have no thought* or hopes in common, nor can we labor for a common purpose hence, It is beet we part. It is Inevitable If not to-day, another day. It is a custom of the country thai wives from the States shall seek divorces and form new alliances when they come into the nlne«. I accepted the common fate for

Margaret covered her face with her hands, and John continued "For this, if for no other reason, I go now but, before I go, let me say, that, cooceding vour superiority In all things that strike the world, I envy not what you are. Conld I, by a mere effort of the will, place myself on a level beside ton, tbe effort would not be made. There is a higher knowledge than comes from books—a better grace than la learned in society. I do not take the boy to be avenged on you nor because I think you will lead the life of a waa

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cause liis character is to be formed, and I would not have it developed under your influence, even at yeur best."

Margaret sank into a chair, and gave way to a flood of tears. When she aroused herself, it was to find that her husband and little Johnny had dlsa pea red. A letter she found, coldly stating that her check would be honor ed at the bank for a monthly sum sufficient for her needs.

That Johnny should have so readily accompanied ber husband, without one word of adieu to her, did not surprise Margaret. The manifest preference of tbe boy for his father rather than her self bad for months been an occasion of grief to her. She was conscious that the faet existed, but could not understand tbe philosophy of it. She thought, as tbe sole recipient of her love, he could do no less than place his chief affections upon her in retnrn that the debt of gratitude due for the care she had lavished on him from bis birth, should have bound him to her by bands not admitting of even a tempo rary separation. But reason can not discern the laws that control the affections. Hearts lay hold upon hearts The loving are those who are beloved Children are both clairvoyant and re ciprocal. Johnny could not help but know his father's love for humanity, his mother's indifference and, being himself a part of that humanity, he could not help but reciprocate the one and the other.

The parting interview was fraught with a revelation to Margaret. Had John put off the form of a man and put cn the appearance of an inhabitant of another planet, her surprise could not have been greater. She mused deeply, but her musings were more in sorrow than in anger. John had grown in her estimation—had outgrown contempt— and yet she could not hate him.

When Margaret realized that there was a separation, her first impulse was to continue her wayward course of life, but somehow, she could not tell why, the spirit was wanting. Balls were held, but she was not present and her doors were closed to all visitors. Companionless, save ber maid-servant of all work, whose stout husband served as warder to her castle, Margaret sat down to consider whether there were things in lite that had so far escaped her notice,

John Hemming, at tbe newly discovered mining-camp of Jasper Creek— busy in the day-time with bis mining interests, and in the evening with the recitations of Lis son, to whom he was teacher (the school-master, in the absence of children at that precinct, being abroad)—tried to think himself happy —tried to think himself content with the inevitable but tho consciousness of the inevitable heals few griefs, and John was sad.

Not sad was little Johnny. Rosy with health, exuberant with the joyous spirits of childhood, idolized by his father, tho pet and special care of tho packers and miners, life to him so abounded in pleasures that he had no time to grieve for the loneliness of his mother. Like a bit of suushine on a rainy day, Johnny dropped upon the miners in their diggings, or darted into their cabins, to be petted by fathers as proxy for their own children far away, and to be caressed by time-worn bachelors iu gratification of a dormant but not dead parental instinct. It is inherent in the nature of man to love children, and Johnny was the recipient of tbe affections of a camp and so it was when tho days grew short, near the close of the year, and the boy fell sick of the mountain fever, the labors of many w« ro forborne and business was in part suspended, that the miners might sit watching around his sick-bed, or stand waiting in tho hope of an opportunity to do him service.

S!owly the disease triumphed over health and strength slowly the lad wasted, u/.til, one overling, at the close of his visit, the doctor called Hemming from the bedside to an adjoining room, and said, with averted face, "Johnny will die." As Hemming returned to the sick-room, Johnny opened his eyes for the first time in twenty-four hours, and said, "Papa, take me to my mother."

Yes, Johnny," said he, "I will. God forgive me that I ever took you trom her.'"

It was the fall of 1861—the beginning of that season which has passed into history as the wet winter of California. For thirty days it bad stormed almost incessantly—rain in the valleys, snow on the hills. Tho lowlands bordering the Sacramento Ri\er were inundated the summits of tho Sierra were bur dened with twenty feet in depth of snow. All communication of mountain towns with each other, or with the plains below, was shut off. Trails for animals could neither be made nor kept open and the usual winter method of transit by means of snow-shoes was forbidden by a dense pall of clouda, so obscuring the vision, that the hardiest mountaineers deemed it madness to attempt even a five-mile journey over a familiar trail. So, when it was ai nounced that Hemming proposed carry the sick boy thirty miles across the country to Howe's Flat, tbe miners said, "It is madness." The doctor— familiar with travel in the mountains, in winter as well an summer—deemed it next to an impossibility for a man to find his way between the two points and discouraged the attempt, saying, "It matters nothing to Johnny—bis Btnpor will continue, with scarcely any interruption, till death ensues then why should you peril your life for what, if successful, he can not appreciate

John answered: "It is not for the boy alone it is due to his mother that I make this attempt. Whether she kiss the living child's lips, or I down my life, the effort, perhaps, wi atone in part for the grievous wrong I did her in taking away her child."

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There were not wanting heroic spirits who volunteered to accompany John on his journtv but this he sternly forbade, saying, "Every man who sets forth, risks nls speedy success are no greater with a

life while the chances of a

speedy succes thousand than with one. I go alone." The preparations for the journey were made with the assistance of many ready bands. Blankets were cut, sbeped, and sowed, to shelter and support the boy, and attach him to his father's shoulders while tbe champion of the snow-shoe adepts of tbe district volunteered his favorite pair lor«Jobn's use, and made them rea«iy by applying his choicest "dope." the composition of which waa a well-guarded secret. These snow-shoes were not what are popularly known as such in the Western States -harp-sharped frames, woven with thongs of leather or raw-hide—but were staves of white ash, four inches wide and ten feet long, turning up slightly at the foremost end. For racing, these shoes sometimes attain tbe extreme length of fourteen feet bnt for ordinary traveling, these from seven to ten feet are preferred. The doping consisted in applying a waxy substance to the bottoms, which gave a surface as smooth as glass, and, in contact with tho snow, very nearly as bard.

When tbe dawn of Christmas Day appeared, John, with his burden, sallied forth. Hemming was fully con

ao such belief but be- sdous of tbe desperate nature of his

undertaking. Thirty miles in a short winter's d*y, dragging heavy snowshoes through the moist, yielding, newfallen snow, and bearing such a burden as be carried, he well knew was sufficient to tax to the utmost the physical powers of tbe hardiest man. He leared that bis strength was unequal to the task but this fear was as nothing to the greater one of losing his way. The shroud of snow obliterates all landmarks. The landscape of summer can not be identified In its winter robes, even in tbe bright sunlight and then there was no sanlight. Vapors, of which the snow-flakes and tha boarfrost are born, veiled the Sierra in a mantle of gloom, shutting off tbe view of distant objects, and so distorting those at band, that the most familiar things could not be recognized.

Were the perils a thousand times what they are," said John to himself, ''still would I venture. She has borne and nurtured the boy, and, if he lives till night, she shall see him once again, alive or else be and I will sink into these snows, to lie chill and frozen until spring—then to feed the coyotes and buzzards."

From many standpoints, the summit of the Sierra Nevada, near the sources of the various forks of the Yuba River, seems to the observer a vast, nearly level plateau but when progress in any direction is attempted, the continuity of the seeming plain is found to be broken bv tortuous ravines, that wind In every direction, and by occasional canons, thousands of feet in depth, with sides of steep incline.

Hemming had "raised the hill," as tbe mountaineers term it, from the bottom of tbe canon where Jasper Creek lies hid and now, safety and success were dependent on his always choosing (when the frequent alternative was presented) the ridge which led to Howe's Flat, and avoiding that which led astray in crossing the numerous ravines at the proper point and, finally, in making, at or near the proper place, the hazardous descent from the mountain's brow to Howe's Flat in the depth of the canon below. Swiftly he moved, with watchful care, seeking to recognize familiar objects, but finding none, and often consulting a pocket-compass, to be in part secure of his general direction. Hour after hour he toiled on, in doubt and uncertainty, his only guide being what the sailors call "dead-reckoning." He grew faint and weary, and still, with a will that conquered bodily weakness, he slid swiftly down into the ravines, to struggle up the opposite slope, and resume the wearv monotony of shuffling alone tbe fiat. Ever and anon be listened for the troubled breathing of the boy, and sometimes, in his anxiety, ho spoke to him when the faint "Yes, papa," that came from little Johnny's lips, fell on bis ear like a knell.

Admonished, at length, by the fastfalling shadows of night, as well as his rapidly waning strength, John determined to make the descent into tbe canon from the mountain along the brow of which he had for an hour toiled. He felt no certainty that Howe's Flat lay below indeed, he scarcely dared hope so much. "But what matters it," thought he, "whether we perish on the hill above or in the abyss beneath

In the haste of preparation, John had forgotten nothing. He undid from his own waist a wideband, or surcingle passed it around Johnny and himself, outside of all wrappings, and buckled it as tight as be dared, to prevent the boy being thrown from him in case of accident. He shuddered to think of himself groping for the lad deep buried in the snow, where a disaster would hurl him.

Hemming was too familiar with the mountains in that vicinity, and with the use of snow-shoes, to attempt to pick his way down the canon's side. He knew, that whatever there was of valley lay at least two thousand feet, as the plummet falls, below where ho stood, and that tbe descent to that depth must be made in a traveling disance of a little more than one mile. No man could keep his footing, at a leisurely pace, on such an incline. There was but one way, and that was, to make a dash. With cautious stpps,

and rigid muscles, Hemming approacha launched

ed the mountain's brow, and himself on its slope. Away he sped, swifter than the torrents of spring, that course down those hill-sides—swifter than tho flight of an eagle, as he stoops on his prey. Scarcely seen in advancc, and deftly avoided w'itb a skill known only to the adept in the use ,of snowshoes, tbe few scattering trees fled up the steep incline behind him as cloudshadows course acrtho plain on an April day—faster mul faster. And now the even gr^de is broken by sheer precipices of ten, fifteen, or twenty feet, ovi-r which he rode scarce conscious of th•» breach of continuity under his t. With lung* still distended with breath inhaled at the top, ho reached the bottom, the impetus of the de--i'iit carrying him far out on the level. With a murmured thanksgiving, John -aiized that tho immediate peril was st. "Whither now said he. The .'iixions question was answered on the iustant lor be saw immediately befoie mm, looming out of the mist, the outline of a house, which, as he approach-e-i, took upon itself a wondrous farnilu- look,. The orchard tree-tops peering above tbe snow, the green blinds, and the porch over which a now leaf-b'-'S vine wound its long, naked arms, tn:d him that be stood at tbe door of hia wife's cottage.

Margaret, sitting at the window, had for hours gazed out in'.o the gloom had for hours watched the Idie snowflakes. as they sauutered to earth, and listened for tbe occasional sough that betokened a rising wind but ber thoughts were elsewhere. Fit time for retrospection Sbe had once again reviewed her whole past life had thought of her girlhood of the days of court ship of her fierce, tumultuous love for John of ber marriage at eighteen of her husband's determination to visit California of his preparation and deartare for the land of promise of the irth of little Johnny, on the day of which this was tbe tenth anniversary of her struggles with poverty, while fortune frowned on her husband, sick and destitute in the land of gold of the days when sbe earned bread for herself and boy, by school teaching, whereby was formed tbe habit of selfreliance of her persistent self-culture in all matters pertaining to the intellect, the fruitage of which, at ber old home, bad been, not Arm friendships nor warm affections, but envy on the part of women, admiration on that of men of John's joyous letter*, announcing bis prosperity in California: of

ed between herself aotfhusband—that her tastes, thought*, and desires were not hia—that while ber purposes in life were definite and flxea, his were dreamy and uncertain—that while she lived in the world of mind and logic, he lived in tbe senses and feelingswhile the key-note of ber character was to have, that of his was to be. From retrospection to introypeciion was she quite secure that her standard of excel-

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lenoe was higher than that of John poinf en ad

Was it not logical, that tbe point lay between tbe extremes? mittiug the errors of her husband's ideas of life, and the desirability of bis adoption of her views—bad she done her doty by him. Should she not, by gentle influence, have led him step by step Into the clearer light instead of which, had she not, by 111-concealed contempt and entire want of patience with hts Ideas, driven him from her side, to seek companionship and social enjoyment elsewhere She thought of his fidelity to her in the long years of separation—of bis endurance of sickness, privation, and suffering—and her heart softened toward hiin. But then came in the thought ot his coldness and neglect for months preceding the parting, and of his taking away the boy and her heart repented of its momentary weakness. "Still, one aot of kindness," said she—"one generous deed for my sake, to restore my belief in the nobleness of bis nature, to assure me that his love for me has not wholly died out, and I will forget the past and strive for the future. Yes and putting aside all past convlotlens, I will study life's great lessons anew. But till then ... ."

Even as she spoke, the door opened, and John with his strange burden, entered. Margaret neither spoke nor moved a great fear and dread laid hold upon her, and paralyzed every muscle. Hastily, Hemming freed hinifrom his load, removed tbe rubber coat and tbe many blankets that had sheltered and supported the boy, and placed him on her lap. The pale, suffering face lighted up with joy, and, with a glad cry of "Mother! my mother he kissed her on the lips and either cheek, clasped his bands about her neck, and rested his head upon her bosom. Tbe mother's arms closed around him, and fondly would she have clasped him there forever but sbe felt tbe hands loose their hold, the liinp form weigh heavier hi ber arms, and she knew that Johnny was with the angels.

Other children have since been born to the bouse of Hemming, and for them tbe waters of love flow from tbe neverfailing'springs of parental affection, But dearer far than the living is the dead boy who slumbers in the shadow of a giant pine—whose white tombstone gleams out of the night, and over whose grave rosrs shed their ils and boney-suckles distill their fragrance— whose young life was demanded that the parents might live, and whose memory is to them ever an admonition and a benediotion.

SOLITA IiY A ND SILENT.

A Terrible Punishment

Mr. James Greenwood has published a frightful account of the silent system, which iR in operation at the Holloway Model Prison in London

It is an offence for a prisoner to spenk one word, and he is never addressed except in whispers, so that he may bo in prison two years without bearing the sound of the human voice. The effect of this is so terrible 011 tho mind that prisoners often speak out in desperation, at the risk of any punishment, rather than endure that horrible silence*.

The prisoners nover see 0110 another, but remain in perpetual solitude. One poor wretch, driven to desperation by nine months' solitude and silence, recklessly broke out, in Mr. Greenwood's presence:

For God's sake, Governor, put me in another cell. Put 1110 somewhere else. I've counted the bricks in the cell I ain in till 1113'eyes ache."

The request of the tortured wretch wesrefustd. There is a fine hole in each CPII, and as the wardens wear shoes of India rubber soles, the prisoners can nover be sure of being alone.

Those condemned to the treadmill have to ascend 1 200 steps every alternate twenty minutes, for six hours And this is a place so hot and close that prisoners often lose in perspiration three stone iu as many mouths.

Every day the prisoners are taken to a chapel so arranged that they can see no one save the ehaplain, and him only through an iron grating. And thus is tho order of devotion observed. Wardens are constantly on the watch, lest tor a single instant they, through the whole of the servlco, depart from the rigid rule of "eyes right." They must look steadfastly at the preacher must raise and lower their prayer-book witb the elbows squared, and all at once, like soldiers at drill. They dare not scrape their feet without haying afterward to explain the movement. They scarcely wink an eye or sigh without danger of rebuke or punishment. God help them, poor wretches 1

DISCOUNT ON DULLNESS.—The New York Observer says The time has gone for dull preachers. Tbe activities of the age, tbe diffusion of knowledge by schools, books, and periodicals, the spirit of inquiry, tbe spread of infidell ty, the prevalence of doubt, the subtlety of false science, demand live, strong, earnest, capable men to preach the Gospel. It will not answer to educate dullness or mediocrity. It was forbidden that a son of Aaron should be a priet if be had any blemish. Even a flat nose excluded him. And tbe age wants no half-baked ministers. Tbe west will not heart hem the east can not bear them. Tbe heathen know too much to take them. They are not wanted on this eartb. To get money to educate dull boys because they are pious is robbing God and a fraud upon the Cburcb. It is a crime or a blunder, or sometimes both.

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At from SHOO to 510,000 also a rare opportunity to invest a small amount of capital so well. Call on Gi lines A Roy,«e and take one ot Brokaw's Lots, tluy are on 6^ aud 7th streets terms easy. Also, Three Lots, east front, on south eth street.

Ofllce, ffo. 2 Fifth Street, South of Mnin.

Plow

has a cast

«teel mold-board. All other plow* of same price have German »teel mold*.

0™0

attachmkwt

works splendidly In

or stub

ble, and any plow can put on It, Why walk when y.vu can ride?

SAY YES!

DSA1

j|YESl||

The Idea or cenaine cast steel In a cheap plow in new. The Jones Plow ta tbe only one that baa It.

Jones 4 Jones, east tide of tlx •qoare, Terre-Haute, are propriP0

etor* of The Jones Plow. Look for the brand on tbe beam.

The Jones Plow Is me latest. Tbe Jones Plow t* the bardwrt. The Jones Plow is tbe lightest. Tbe Jones Plow ta tbe cites pest.

plo

'h 1 Mil

price. The Jones Plow la such an Improvement that It is cheap at: present prices. gfH

maim

not lose to exceed $-*0,000.

-Cash Capital, *200 000. over $1(15,000 J/jsses, $(iil,ixH)

TiRRE-HArTE, Jane fitli?

The following figures are paid te farmers and others by dealers In this city: BEESWAX—Yellow S J2® °7 BUTTER-Best tm 3 CORN MEAL Z"" 50

Live Geese..... 55^ t0

nY-?~^2CApples.

.bra^5•• S 8 25

FKUIT—Greeu 7*3 1 00 urieci

..... j.a

Dried Peaches. 6

aR IN

"S?r? 3*9 sr .. vu

Alabama Mediterranean .'J

ginseng

GREASE—Brown..... a HAY-Perton oaiTu on HIDES—Green trimmed 9.74 ,n

Salted Dry salted fj.'it Drj flints

PROVISIONS—Hams. 12 81des_ 3 Shoulders. 5(3 0 MESS PORK-Per bbl 1J Ol^lS Oo ^AUD-Country... 63 7 POTATOES. t)^ SO POULTRY—Turkeys, alive per tt. 10 dressed 10j| 11

Ducks per dozen 2 OfJ 3 00 Geese jj 50 Chlc'ns, old, per do*. S Ot 8 25 dressed 3 3 60

SEEDS—Flax 145 Clover ««a

RAGS—Cotton S» WOOL—Tub-waslied 45 Fleece J..."

Unwashed ^7,5 fc)

QRIMES & ROYSE,

Dr. A. Blitz,

Ornlfst it Anrhf, Gives special atteutiou to the treatment of ail diseases of lie Eye and Ear, whether of acute or chronic form, as scrofu

lous and other sore eyes, which ftom negligence have become chronic. Granulated Lids, weak Eyes, etc. Eyes, where the sight has become obscured from cataract or any other opacity operated carefully and skillfully and the sight restored. Cross Eyej straightened In one minute, without pain orrhlorofoim.

Earache, hard hearing, deafness, disagreeable/ smelling, discluvues from' the Ear, Catarrh, etc., cured in a short time.

Call and see Pr. BLITZ, at his offlce, No. llli Alain street, over Sage's Confectionery Store, Terre-Haute, Ind. mar22

•LEASE DON'T READ THIS

\lThat company sh ill 1 Insure my clwellTT iiiK fn to obtain perfect security—'1 lie Wntortow 11.

ACompany

doing only a dwelling and

tarni business is not subject to conflagrations. rjMie companies doing a general business may be bankrupt to-morrow. yndeavorjo secure the strongest policy,

get the Wnt rlowit.

Real

security beyond any contingency Is 'offered by the WritCi town. 'Plie reason is obvious—the eggs are not all

In one basket.

Ordinarily

With

the Wafprtown wll] lose not

to exceed $-"i,000 In any one tire.

the burning of large cities 1 not lose to exceed 30.0X

could

Cash Assets,

1X72, Income,

... Income Sl20,uoo. Losses, #35,000.

Watertown Fire Insnrance Com'. WATKKTOn X, XEH'YOKK. PAVS ALL LOSS OR IUMAGE BY FIRE

OK LIGHTNING.

rti'es'aw. Security Perfect. NeCompany more prosjeron«. I\ A. McDOXAM), Agent.

Room So. 7, Braeirn ll'ock.

9 4, 5, 0, 7 AND 0 INCH

Stoneware Pipes,

Cl7RVES, ELBOWS, JOINTS, TIM PS, &c.,

CISTERN*. KI\K«i. (TM.tRN, SKW-

EM*, I

I.VI

RTM, Ai-.,

JONES & JONES,

msy2l-tt La»J of Public Square.

IIORT-HORNS

At Public Nale,

WEDNESDAY, Al'0.13t!i, 1S73. Thin entire herd the property of A. C» Htevenson, Oreencastle, Ind., will be sold on nix months time, consitlng of forty-nine head beside a number of calves. For particulars send for catalogue. To render thM of iMtme permanent usefulness we have appended the point* of cattle and their philosophy. Young breeders will find this worth sending lor and preserving. Address, A. C. HTEVENSON, Ureencaistl^, Putnam County, Ind. marSl-tf

NEW BATH ROOMS!

A new and reliable change has been road in order to furnlxh

HOT AM) COLD BATHS,

At all times at the New Bath Rooms and Barber Shop on ObloM., bet. 3rd A 4ih*

Worrell, M. D.,

Ixtb St., Month of Ohio.

Ornat

c.E-

Atti

fl-ljr

COl

OLD

I -vf

roCRA—8 to 9 o'clock A. *. 1 to I [o'clock

and 7 and night or dj ally.

x.,and all other hours

when not absent professionftbVtf

)SFORD,

l*rfr

Law,

rney at

FOURTH AND MAIS 8T8.

floe,

fr*#-

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[PERS FOR HALE AT THI-J OF-,, I cents a hundred. ,i, -r 'i