Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 4, Number 11, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 13 September 1873 — Page 6

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WEDDED.

Corhapspat

Heart linked with heart In each noble enHQntand and wife: We're) river-

The river of life.

The shore of my girlhood, far back In dlstanc*. Still I *ee

Bat"yoJ&VrSican

A4ft», whoa apart,

Stuce we were wed.

I fear not the storm-clouds that hover around me, Drifting with thee. For the Spring-time and Hummer of llle yet have jouud thee

Faithful tome.

On, on to tli? shore of the blissful Forever Iiu»band and wife Together we'll float down the beautiful rlvtr—

The river of life.

(From Scrlbner's Monthly.)

An Episode of Fiddle town.

BY HUKT HAUTH.

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Kiddletown considered her

very pretty woman. She had a qunn tity of light chestnut hair, a good fig are, a dazzling complexion, uud a cer tain languid grace which passed easily for gentlowomaniiness. She alwsjs dressed becomingly, and In what I'id dletown Hcccpted as the latest fashion She had only two blemishes: ono of her velvety eyes, when examined close ly, bad a slight cast, and her left cheek bore a small scar left by a single drep of vitriol—happily the only drop of an ontiropblal thrown upon her by ono of her own Jealous sex that reached the pretty faco it was intended to mar. But when the observer had studied the eyes sufficiently to notico this defect he was generally incapacitated for criticism, and even the scar on her cheek was thought by to add piqunncy to ber smile. The youthful editor of the Fiddletown Avalancho had said privately that it was 'an exaggerated ditnple.' Colonel Starbottle was instantly 're minded of the beautifying patchia of the days of Queen Anne, but more particularly sir, of tho blankest beautiful woman, that, blank you, you ever laid your two blank eyes upon. A ereole woman, sir, In New Orleans. And this woman had a scar—a line extending, blank me. from ber eye to her blauk chin. And this woman, sir. thrilled you, sir, maddened you, sir, absolutely sent your blank soul to perdition with hor blank fascinations. And one day I said to her, 'Celesto, how in blank did you eome by that boantiful scar, blank you And she said to me, 'Star, thon Isn't another whlto man that I'd con tldo In but you, but I made that scar myself, purposely, I did, blank me.' Theso wore her very words, sir, and

you think it a blank lie, sir,

ut I'll up any blank sum you can name and prove U, blank me.' Indeed, most of tho male population of Kiddletown were or had been In love with her. Of this number about onehalf believed that their love was returned, with the exception, possibly, of her own husband. lie alone had been knewn to express skepticism.

The name of the gentleman who enjoyed this infelicitous distinction was Tretherlek. He had boen divorced from an excellent wlfo to marry this Fiddlolown onchnntreM. tfbe also had been divorced, but it was hinted that some previous experiences oi hers in that legal formality had made it perhaps less novel and probably less sacrificial. I would uot have it iuferred from this that she was deficient In sentiment ,or dovokl of Its highest moral expression. liter intimate friend had written (on the occasion of hor sccond divorce), 'The cold world docs not understand Clara yet,'and Col. Starbottle had remarked, blankly, that with the exception of a single woman in Opelousas Parish, Louisiana, sho had more soul than the whole caboodle of them not to-

»ther. Few indeed could read those DOS entitled 'Infelis^lmxs,' commencing, 'Wiy waves no cyprors o'er this

,kSdLuiful,atiUinakea

my existence A heaven to me.

The strong arm of love has never yet failed ra«V" Never, dear heart!

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Wastel and wife erKielain, signed 'A. 8.' also published adrift, oh, my sweet, e$ _,

in tbtf AvKlanche sod supported by extensive-quotation. As the Avalanche did not possess a font of Greek type

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jiever, a ear nran tie], WH« blioin resident of the Indian Nor your faith, oh 1 ray darling, when een- territories, win supposed to be fatnuiar. #ure assailed inc. Indeed, the next week's Intelligencer

Loses lit KweetnaM Joy'a ta^faat flowers Hlootn never for mi-, A* lonely I walk through the desolate boon,

Waiting for thee.

With Faith for the pilot, and Love to ea»t o'er

The light of h»r smile,

The waves of the river of lite yet before Look tempting the while.

regretting. My darling Instead, Not a moment thli hour wo would fliln forgetting,

and sunnorted bv

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text as an excellent Imitation of Choc UW—a language with which the CJOIO

(•OntiUlitxl some vila j. pfl to It* an snawer to Mrs. a poem ostensibly written t»y th« wife of a Dig «er liidi'in ehlef, accompanied by glowing •nloBiuni signed 'A. 8, S.'

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Kureka Saloon. Two shots were fired by the parties without Injury to either, although it Ihsaid that a passing Chinaman received fifteen buckshot in the calves of bis legs from the Colonel's double-barrel shot pun which were not intended for him. John will learn to keep out of tho way of Melican man's fire-arms hereafter. The cau»e ef the affray is not known, although it is hinted that theru is a lady in the case. The rumor that points to a well known and beautiful poetess whose luqubralions have often graced our columns, seems to gain credence from those that are posted.' ,f

Meanwhile the passlveness displayed by Tretherlek under theso trylngclrcumhtnnees was fully appreciated in the gulches. 'The old man's head is level,' »aid one long booted philosopher. -Kfthe Colonel kills Flash, Mrs. Tretlierick is avenged if Flash drops the Colonel, Tretlnrick Is all ri«ht. Either way he's got a sure thing.' During this delicate condition of affairs Mrs. Tretberick one day left her husband's home and took refuge at the Fiddletowa Hotel, with only the clothes she hud on her back. Here she stayed for several weeks, during which period it is only justice to say that she bore herself wilh tho strictest proprie-

^il waa a clear morning iu early spring that Mrs. Tretherlek, unattended, left tho hotel and walked down the narrow street toward the fringe of dark pines which indicated the extreme limits of Fiddletown. The few loungers

The gallant Colonel, notwithstanding that he bore tbe swelling port which usually distinguished him—that his coat was tightly buttoned and his boots tightly fitting, and that his cane, kooked ovor his arm. swung jauntily—was not entirely at his ease. Mrs. Tretberick, however, vouchsafed him a gracious smile and a glance of her dangerous eyes, and the Colonel, wirti an emnarrassed cough and a slight strut took bis placo at her side.

The coast la clear,' said tho Colonel, and Tretherlek is over at Dutch Flat on a spree thore is no one in tbe bouse but a Chinaman, and you need fear no trouble from blm. bo continued, with a slight Inflation of tho chest that imperiled the security of his button, 'I will see that you are protected In the removal of your property.'

I'm sure It's very kind of you, and so disinterested,' simpered tho lady as they walked along, 'lt'sao pleasant to meet some one who has soul—some one to sympathize with in a community so hardenod and hoartless as this.' And Mrs. Tretherick cast down her eyes, but not until they had wrought their perfect and accepted work upon her companion.

Yes. certainly, of course/ said the Colonel, glancing nervously up and down tho street 'yes, certainly.' Perceiving, however, that there was no one In sight or hearing, he proceeded at onco to Inform Mrs. Tretherick that the great trouble of his life, in fact, had been tho possession of too much soul. That many women—as a gontleman sbe would excuse him, of course, from mentioning names—bat many beautifui wotnon had often sought his society, but, being deficient, madam, absolute! deficient in this quality, he could »hen tw

inn 'Wiy waves no cyprors o'er this not r*clprocato. But when two natures brow,' originally published in the Ava- thoroughly In sympathy—despising .. .... tmi. «11 Un Kn ir)

lance over the signature of 'The Lady Clare'without feeling tho tear of sensibility tremble on bis eyelids, or the glowo~f virtuous Indignation mantle his

cheek at the low brutality and pitiable and mingled In pootfcal union, jocularity of the Dutch Flat Intelll- but hero the Colonel speoch, which geneer, which the next week bad suggested tho exotic character of thecy-

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Sletownasa

rwm and H* entire fthaenc* from Fidreasonable answer to the

Indeed it was this tendency to elaborate her feeling* in a metrical manner and deliver them to th» cold world

dlmlv conscious of certain bidden sentiment in his own nature, and it is possible that some reflection# on the vanity of his pursuit—he supplied several mining e*mps with whisk* and tobacco—in conjunction with the dreariness of the dusty pUIn on which he habitually drove, may have touched eome chord in sympathy with this sensitive woman. Howbeit, after a brief courtship—as brief as was consistent with eome previous legal formalities— they were married, and Mr. Tretberick brought his blushing bride to Fiddletown, or 'Fiddletown,' as Mr*. T. preferred to call It In her poems.

The onion waa not a felicitous one. It was not long before Mr. Tretberick discovered that the sentiment he had fbstorod while freighting between Stockton and Knight's Ferry waa different from that which his wife had evolved from the contemplation of California scenery ynd liwown sonL IMojr man of imperfect wtei toIn caused him to beat her, end she, being equally faulty in deduction, was Impelled to a certain degree of unfaithfulness on the same premise. Then Mr. Tretherlek began to drink, and Mrs. T. »te contribute regularly to the columns

Of the Avsiincbs. It mm at tkie time

bad been remarkaWlo for a certain wlilsk v-and-watery fluencf, grew btiskv^ almost Inaudible, and decidedly incoherent. Possibly Mrs. Tretberick may have heard something like it before, and waa enabled to fill the hiatus. Nevertheless, the cheek that was on the side of tko Colonel was quite virginal

ana a*nver mem iu in« coia worm SI'W"' -I"--- ---.*"--- through the medium of the newspapers and bashfully conscious until they I ItM

that first attraoted the attention' of Tretherlek, Several poems descriptive

JT£lDtiriCJtv nurrtti

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MSAUttil IHAIF infltion. reached their destination. It was a pretty little cottage, quite

of tbe effects of Cslift)rnlasK»nery npon fresh and warm with paint, very pleasa too sensitive aoul, and of the vagus anily relieved against a platoon of yearnings for tbe infinite which an en- pities, some of whose foremost flies had k. I 1 .1ha l/t lh« ^!U 1HV4WMIW «M -M vivid sunlight snd perfect silence bad a uew, uninhsblted look-as if carpenters and painters bad just

mrningi tor mw ihuhhv whu nn «m* uuv», puuib vi wmvov forced study of the hearite»ane*s of been displaced to give freedom to the California society produced in the poet- fenced inclosure in which It sat. In ic breast, Impressed Mr. Tretherlek. tfe^ i«~u. who was then driving asix mule freight It wagon between Knight's Ferry and the Stockton, to seek out the unknown left poeW dlml

It, At the farther end of tbe lot a

HCtOISt h) Wffk uuv iiiv uimuvnn iv» Ak tuvtmiun l««s. Mr. Tretberick was himself Chinaman was stolidly digging, but a# li i.irt an Kami aI Kai* as I ivn t\T VMI there was no other sign of occupancy. 'The coast,'as the Colonel had said,was indeed 'clear.' Mrs. Tretherick paused at the gate. The Colonel would have entered with her, but was stopped by a gesture. 'Come for me in a couple of hours, and I shall have everything packed/ she said, as she smiled ana extended her hand. The Colonel seised and pressed it with great fervor. Perhaps the pressure was slightly returned, for the gallant Colonel was Impelled to inflate his chest sad trip awsy as smartly as bis stobbv toed high-heeled boots would permit. When be bad

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Mrs. Tretberick opened the door, tened moment In tbe deeerted hall, and then ran quickly upstairs to what had been her bed-room.

Everything there waa unchanged as on the night she led It. On the dress-ing-table stood her band-box, as sbe remem hered to have left It when she took out her bon»et, On the mantel lay tbe other clove ahe had forgotten in her flight. The two lower drawer* of the bureau were half open—ahe had forgotten to shut them—and on its marble top lay her shawl pin sod a soiled cuff. What other recollections eame upon ber I know not, but sbe suddenly grewvqutt« white, ehlvwedj

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The insult of this jocularity waa briefly given in lai«*r copy of the Ava lanche. 'An unfortunate rencontre took pla.*e on Monday laat between the Hon. Jackson Flash, of the Dotch Plat

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Caroline.'

TKKRE-HAUfE 8ATUKlAXJ^XENP[ji^ALLi-§lE]ZM^SJL^ZiL

^s ^V^obli^%o Ve^uce'tbe down to get aBetter light upon it, until wandering alone and poorly cl*d. she iuminmoXrl in IbeTrdinsry tbesllghtcast in ber velvety eyes be- came upon her husband nn.l'another uucoflwn memwn in

Yeth. Tarowline Tretherick.' 'Whose child are you?'demanded Mrs. Tretherick still more coldly, to keep down arising fear. «VVy, yours,' said the little creature with a laugh. 'I'm your little durl. You're my mamma—my new mamma —don't you know my ole mamma's dorn away, never to turn back any more. I don't live wld my ol' mamma now. I live wid you and papa.' •How long have you been here? asked Mrs. Tretberick, snapplsbjly.

fl.ik its free days,' said Carry, reflectively. 'You think !~don't you know?'--sneered Mrs. Tretherick. 'Then where did you come from?'

Carry's lips began to work under this sharp cross-examination. With a great effort and a small gulp she got tbe better of it and auswered: 'Papa—papa fetched me—from Miss Simmons—from Sacramento, last W66k*'

Last week! vou said three days just now.' returned Mrs. Tretherick with severe deliberation. 'I mean amonf said Carry, now utterly adrift In sheer helplessness and confusion.

m*»1 a nf A Inw And

alike tho sordid tramels of a low and vulgar community and the conventional restraints of a hypocritical society— hen two souls in perfect accord mot lea

Do vou know what you aro talking aboutf' demanded Mrs. T. shrilly, restraining an Impulse to shake tbe little figure boforo har and precipitate th© truth by specific gravity.

But the flaming red head hero suddenly disappeared in the folds of Mrs. Tretherick's dress, as If It were trying to extinguish Itself forever.

There now—stop that sniffling,'said Mrs. Tretherick, extricating her dress from the moist embraces of the child,

Carry moved away,

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Who takes care of you. child?' said Mrs. T., eying her curiously

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r' lK,..k^ ,.f h«r blonds h.tir abov« red-haired woman at his side. Sitting

era the braids o*f her blonde h*lr above t*d-haired woman at his side. er little pink ear, until abe cams unon upon the tronk ahe had just packed. an ugly, half-healed soar. She gssed she partly composed a lugubrious sugges at this, moving her pretty hesd up and poem, describing ber sufferings, as,

•STlnuiSr dtaSwiof came very «tr°n*V marke'd fndeed. flaunting In silks and diamonds. She I A a a

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marked fndeed. flauntlns in silks and diamonds. 8h(

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rMklau, foolish Ungh. and r.n, lo th. Broogbt 0.1 by ~rro«,

teit as an excellent imitation of Choc- cloaot here hung her precious dresses, wreck, yet still fascinating, g"®d u^m ull-a Un^gewVh which the Colo These she inspected nervously, and efnlnglv by the editor the Ave-

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jiiBptiCinu 4.iurvuu»ijf »uu .% missing suddenly a favorite black silk lanche ana Col. Starbottle. And wners Irom its accustomed peg for a moment,

thought she should have fainted. But

was

'dhcoverin. it the next iu»tant, lying derstood her. He—she laughea tne upou trunk where she had thrown it, reckless, light laugh of a Paw moments a fettling «»fthsinkf«iln'*ss to a Superior before, and then her face suddenly B«in^

prole-.-! the friendless, for grew grave, as It had not a few momenta the first time sincerely thrilled her. before. Then, allwit sho was hurried for time, What waa that little red-haired Imp she could not resist Irving the effect of doing all this time?

a certain lavender neck ribbon upon quietT

the dress she

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the mirror. And then suddenly she became aware of it child's voice close beside her and she stopped. And then the child's voice repeated,'Is it mam ma

Mrs. Tretherlek faced quickly about, bad been used as a/towrK03. With a Standing in the doorway was a little half-guilty consciousness she crept girl of six or seven. Her dress had sofily up stairs, and. pushing tho door been originally fine, but was torn and partly open, looked within. dlrtv. and her hair, which was a very

Is apt to come upon children who are left much to themselves. She was hold Ing under her arm a rag dell, apparent ly of her own workmanship and nearly as large as herself—a doll with a cvlln drical head and features roughly indl cated with charcoal. A longsbawl evl dentlv belonging to a grown person dropped from her shoulders and swept the floor.

The spectacle did not excite Mrs Tretherick'® delight. Perhaps she had but a small sense of humor. Certainly when the child, still standing In the doorway, again asked 'Is it mamma?' she answered •lutrply, 'No, It isn't, and turned a severe look upon the Intruder.

The child retreated a step, and then gaining courage with the distance,said in deliciously imperfect speech.

at that early hour were preoccupied with the departure of the VVingdown ceach at tho other extremity of the street, and Mrs. Tretberick readied the suburbs of the settlement without discomposing observation. Here she took a cross street or road running at right angles with the main thoroughfare of Fiddletown, and passing through belt of woodland. It was evidently tbe ex- small and not very clusiye and aristocratic avenue of tho town the dwellings were few, ambitious, and uninterrupted by shops And here she was joined by Col. Star bottle.

Dow 'way then—why don'tynu dow away Bui Mrs. Tretherick was eying the shawl. Suddenly she whipped it off the child's shoulder and said angrily

IIow darsd y«u take my things— you bad child

Is it yours?Then you are my mamma ain yeu Yoa are tnamtna!' sho continued gleefully, and before Mrs Tretherick could avoid her she had dropped her doll, and, catching the woman's skirts with both hands was dancing up and down before her. 'What,s vour name, child?' said Mrs. Tretherick, coldly, removing the very white hands from her garments.

Tarry.' 'Tarry?' Yeth. Tarry. Tarowllne.*

Colonel Starbottle all this wntie

why

didn't be oomet He st least iin-

then wearing before and listened. She fancied lhat sbe

Athwart

violent red,was tumbled serlo-couiical- aslant sunbeam tr^1" single small ly abut her forehead. For all this sbe window lay, A led with dancing motes was a picturesque little thins, even

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She opened

the long, low studded attic,

and only

half Illuminating the

through whose chlldbh timidity there dreary apartment. In the raj-of this was a certain self-sustained air which sunbeam she saw the child glowing

Sbe flew swiftly down the stairs and encountered the Colonel in th« hall. Here she pourod into his astonished ear a voluble and exaggerated statement of her discovery and an indignant recital of the wrongs. 'Don't tell me the whole thing wasn't arranged before hand, for I know It was!' sho almost screamed. 'And think,' she added of the heartlesstiess of tbe wretch

OI IUQ ILT?ARILTIN8LIN9A VU VUO «IVVVM

It's a blank shame!' stammered the Colonel, without the least idea of what he was talking about. In fact, utterly unable as he was to comprehend a reason for the woman's excitement with his estimate of her character, I fear be showed it more plainly than he Intend ed. Hostammered, exp*nded bis chest looked stern, gallant, tender, but all unintelllgently. Mrs. Tretherick for an Instant experienced a sickening doubt of the existence of natures in perfect affinity.

It's of no use,'said Mrs. Iretherlc.k with sudden vehemence, In answer to some Inaudible remark of tho Colonel's and withdrawing her hand from the graspof the ardmt and sympathetic mam 'It's of no use my mind is made up. You can send for my trunk as soon as you like, but I shall stay here and confront that man with tho proof of his vlleness.

and feeling exceedingly uncomfortable. Tretherck's own child and run away and house. He was dimly ai she continued, as of some uiiforseen obstacle to tbo per-

where's

papa He's dorn away too. He's sick. He's been dorn'—she hesitated—'twofree days.'

eying ber curiously. uai oer, b«iu mir. John—the Chinaman. 1 tresses my- exctedly. In ber deepest emotions, selth John tooks and makes tbe beds.' tliher In verse or prose, she rose above 'Well,

ch^ess In taking it from the hook on which it bang she scratched her soft hands twice with an ambushed pin. All the while sbe kept up an indignant commentary on tbe events of tbe past few momenta. Sbe said to herself she saw it all. Tretberick had sent for this child of his first wife—this child of whoee existence he had never seemed to care—just to insolt her—to fill her plsoe. Doubtless the first wife herself would follow soon, or perhaps there would be a third. Red bair-not auburn, bnt red—of coarse the child—tbla Caroline—looked like so ahe was whole thin red-haired v-—, er, had been kept a convenient distance at Sacramento, ready to be sent tor when needed. She remembered bia eoeasional vUrtts there, on business, as be said. Perhaps the mother slready was there, but no, she had gone Kast. Nevertheless Mrs. Tretherick in her then state of mlod preferred lo dwell npoa the fact that ahe might be there. She waa dimly conscious also of a certain satisfaction in exaggerating ber feelings- Sorely no woman had ever been so shamefully treated. In fancy she sketched a pistore of herself aittlng alono and deserted, at sanset among

will put him face to face

with his infamy.' I do not know wl ether Col. Starbottie thoroughly appreciated the convincing proof of Tretherick'*? unfaithfulness uud malignity afforded by the damning evidence of the exlstenco of in his own

I'M wo \j I ovuii your feet expression of tbe infinite longing of bis own sentimental nature. But before he could say anything Carrie appeared on the landing above them, looking timidly and yet half critically at I he p-ilr. hat's her,' said Mrs. Tretherick,

run away and behave a consideration of grammatical con

yonrselr, and don't bother me any structlon. .. more said Mrs. Tretherick, remem-

be ring tbe object of her visit. 'Slop— assumption of parental affection and where are you going?' sbe added, as jocularity tbat was glaring unreal tbe child began to ascend the stairs, snd affected. 'Ab pretty little girl, dragging tbe long doll after her by one pretty little girl! how do you do? how helnlessW are you vou find yourself pretty well,

Doin upstairs to play and be dood, do vou, pretty lHUe girl The Coloand not bother mamma.' nel Impulse also was to expand his 'I ain't your mamma,' shouted Mrs. chest ana swing his cane, until it ocTretherick. and then she swiftly re- curred to him that this action might be entered ber bedroom and slammed tbe ineffective with a child of six or seven, door Carrie, however, took no immediate

Onca Inside, sho drew forth a large notice of this advance, but further dlatrunk from ibe closet and set to work composed chivalmus with querulous and fretful baste to running quickly to Mrs. Tretberick, ick her wardrobe. She tore her best and bldin|t hewlf. as If for protection, ing in tb* folds of her gown. Nevertheless, the Colonel was not vanquished.

Ah!' *ald the Colonel, with a suddon

Falling hack into an attitude or respectful admiration, he pointed out a remarkable resemblance to tbe 'Madonna and Child.' Mrs. Tretherick simpered, but did not dislodge Carrie «s before. There was an swkwsrd pause for a moment, and then Mrs. Tretherick, motioning significantly to the child, said in a whisper: *tjo, now- Don't come here again, bnt meet me to-night st the hotel. Sbe extended ber band, tbe Colonel bent over It gallantly, and, raising hie bat, tbe next moment waa gone. 'Do you think,' said Mrs. Tretherick, with an embarrassed voice and a prodigious Mush, looking down snd ad

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will be 'dood* if I re and alt with me?'

Carry,

WUU J^VU. MIU Sitting out of the window. 'Only playing yonr dowin away, iggestea Carry with a laugh.

she so

the door noiselessly

beard,above the multitudinous small noises, and creaklngs, snd warpings of the vsoant bouse, a smaller voice singing on the floor abovp. This, as sbe remembered, was only an open attic tbat

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hair, as if crowned l»y a red anreole, as she sat upon tho floor with her exaggerated doll between ber knees. Sbe appeared to be talking to it, and it was not long before Mrs. Tretherick observed that 8lie was rehearsing the interview of a half hour before. She catechised the doll severely—cross-exam-ining it in regard to tbe duration of lis stay there, and generally on tbe measureof time. The imitation of Mrs. T's manner

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exceedingly successful,and

the conversation almost a literal reproduction, with a single exception. Alter she had informed the doll tbat sho was not her mother, at thi close of tbe Interview, s»be added pathetically 'that if sho was dood, very dood, tho might bo h*r m:itn:tiasnd love ber very much.'

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I have already bintcd thit Mrs.Tretlierlck was deficient in a sense of humor. Perhaps it was for this reason that this whole scene affected ber most unpleasantly, and tho conclusion sent the blood tingling to her cheek. There was something too inconceivably lonely in the situation tbe unfurnished vacant room, the half llahts, the monstrous doll, whose very size seemed to give a pathetic significance to its speechlessness, the smalluess of the one animate self-centered figure,—all theso touched —n, waa «u cnoj iu uu »v mm—»

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Let

me lejplsy, too.' Mrs. T. assented. Carry flew into tbe next room, and preaently peared, dragging a small trunk, which she gravely proceeded to pack ber clothes. Mrs. T. noticed tbat they were not many. A question or two regarding them brought out some fur ther replies from tbe child, and before many uilmi —j ites had elapsed Mrs. Treth crick was In possession of all her ear ll history. But to do this Mrs. Treth erick bad Deen obliged to take Carry upon ber lap, pending the most con fldential disclosures. They sat thus a long time after Mrs. Tretherick had apparently ceased to be interested in Carry's disclosures, and, when lost in thought, she allowed the child to rattle on unheeded, and ran her fingers through tbe scarlet curls.

don't hold mei right, mamma,

said Carry at last, after one or two un easy sbiftings of position. •How should I hold you asked Mrs. Tretherick, with a half-amused, halfembarrassed laugh. 'This way,' said Carry, curling up into position with ono arm around Mrs. Tretherick's neck, and her cheek resting on ber bosom this way— there.' After a little preparatory nestling, not unlike some small animal, she closed her eyes and went to sleep

For a few moments the woman sat silent, scarcely daring to breathe, in tbat artificial attitude. And then, whether from some occult sympathy in tbe touch, or God best knows what, a sudden fancy began to thrill her. She l»egan by remembering an old pal that she bad forgotten, an old horror that she had resolutely put away all the years. Sho recalled days of sick ne»8 and distrust, days of an over shadowing fo.ir, days of preparation for something that was to bo prevented —and was prevented, with a mortal agony and fear. 8he thought of a life that might have been—she dared not say had been—and wondered 1 It was six years ago if it had lived It would have been as old as Cj»rry. The arms which were folded loosely around the sleeping child began to tremble and tighten their clasp. And then the deep potential impulse came, and wilh a half-sigh, half-sob, sbe threw her arms out and drew tbo lody or the sleeping child down, down, into her breast, down again and again as if she would hide it In the grave dug there years before. And the gust that shook her passed,and then, »n me! the rain

A drop or two fell on the curls of Carry, and she moved uneasily in her sleep. But the woman soothed ber again —it was so easy to do It now—and they so

deeplv the half-poetic sen- gat there quiet and undisturbed sibilities of tbe woman. Sbe could not quiet tbat they might have seemed in

SlUllllies OI IU«5 wuujau. 1|UICI iu»w IUC* help utilizing the impression as sbe corporate of the lonely, silont house stood there, atul thought what a fine the slowly declining sunbeams, and _.

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gvv/x/til 1 v| W 1114 IJ u^•• »UV poem might be constructed from this the general air of material, if the room were a little dark- abandonment, yet a er. tbe child lonelier—say, sitting beside a dead mother's bier and the wind wailing in the turrets. And then she suddenly heard footsteps at tho door be suaueniy noaru loowtup »i» my town nui/oinn mut uiguviu vain* low and recognized the tread of the the next morning, when Mr. Trether /..inn inir rot 11 mod to his hnsks. he founc Colonel's cano.

had in it nothing of age, decay or dis pair. Col. Startoitle waited at tho Fiddle town Hotel all tbat night in vain. And

iok returned to bis husks, he found the bouse vacant and untenanted except by tnoats and sunbeams. (To be coulinucd next week.)

leaving hisown child alone heroin that old. It states thnt there was in Para-N a fam r\) A ItnUf nf nfAAlAllft ftLnflAH. way,

dise a temple built of precious Btones. Men dared not enter Its splendors. Deep in the midst of Eden It stood, angel-bnllt—a dazzling sanctuary. Our parents sang their vesper songs in the twilight shadows of its courts for there were pillared halls and cloisters of emerald and pearl, where fountains sprang aloft in the silent noon and long, luminous vistas, where, hand In band, theso two lovers walked in sinless beauty. Then there were pinnacles and domos of sapphire, blazing in tbe sunlight by day, and glittering In tbe star-Tight by night. From court and terrace, waters welled out, and the iris-crested cascades fell down lo cool shady dells of asphodel below for the temple was placed far within tbat valley of Eilen where tbe four rivers flow eastward. However, sad to relate, upon tbe day Adam fell, this glorious temple was scattered into a million of fragments, and sown broadcast over the oarth. These fragments wo now light upon, and gather up with cost and care, and call them rubies, emeralds, sapphires and diamonds but they are, after all* only that primeval palace. The sunset splendors and the diadems of princes, the milky way in the heavens, snd tbe spray that sparcles in the entanglements of a maiden's t*ir, are alike but tbe ooatlv dust of that lost sanctuary—the sad remembrances of a departed Eden."

FA MIL NIC WSPA MRS. Few persons have any conception of tbe extent or their indebtedness to the papers for the information they possesa or the moral sentiments they cherish. Compared with any past age of tbe world, this is a remarkably enlighted period. A large amount or tho people nave considerable Information on all topics of any real information. But bow did they come by this knowledge? Not at school nor from booksbat by picking up here a little and there a little, from the family newspaper, In imperceptible small installments. There are in a single number of a paptr sometimes from ono hundred and flfty to two bnndred separate and distinct articles, each one conveying an idea or a fact or a sentiment, and stated or illustrated so as to produce effect in enlarging tlje reader's store of knowl«d*«-

BRIO HA ATS 1'KRPLEX1T\. Brigbam Young preached a sermon lately, in which he said tbst the sisters thought they bsd a good deal to bear, but if they could stand in tbe shoes of their husbands tbey would know wbst trials and perplexities are. "Just fancy a msn/'sald tbe prophet, "with two or three or half a doxen beloved wives catching him on one side, and before he ean take half a doses steps, more wives catching blm on the other, with *1 want this,' 'I want that,' 'this is not right,' and ao on their minds just pulled to pieces.

dressing tbe fiery carls Just visable In tbe following statement of recent aplritthe folds of ber dress.'do vou think ual manifestations In hisi district: We

HOW THE SPIRIT* MO VED. An Indianspolis genius has famished

jress. 'do you think ual manifestations In his district: if I let yon stay in all sot around a table and put our hands

will be'dood* t«« jvu re and alt with me?' on it, and pretty soon tbe thing began And let me call you mamma?' to move, and we all began to feel queer, queried

looking up. It was hot ss biases in tbe room, and

'And let yon call me mamma,' as- dark as pitch. I tell you It was the sented Mr*. Tretherick wilh an em-

funniest

barrassed laugh. dium was from Cincinnati, and when 'Yeth,' said Carry promptly. tbe tablo began to move he said sow, Tbey entered tbe bed-room together, if there be any apirits pre^nt, let them Ourry eye instantly caught sight of signify it by two slight wrrollopson tbe trunfc tbe tible/ and, by gad, they corrol'Are you dowin awsy sdaln, man- loped.

ORIGIN OF CAMP MEATJNOS. A correspondent of a Boston psper gives the]following version of the origin of tliess popular, religious gatherings:

I not long since listened to a sermon on this subject from wblchlgatheredtbe following facta. Two brothers, preachers, one a Methodist, the other a Presbyterian, were traveling In tbe State of Tennessee. They stopped at a village to spend the Sabbath. There being but one church in the place, (a Presbyterian], it was agreed that they should both preach in it—the Methodist officiated in tbe morning and the Presbyterian in tbe afternoon. As they were very sealous In tbe cause they concluded to hold a meeting on Monday. The excitement became so great that the church was not large enough to accommodate tbe multitude, and they adjourned to a grove near by, and the people came from Tar and near some bringing tents, and covered waguus, and continued the meeting a week. Hence the name of camp meeting. Though tbe Presbyterians have never made it so prominent in their operations as tbe Methodists, yet they Bhare equally in ita origin.

JSPEYER,

ao art tnn

desertion and desertion that

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Architect and Superintendent,

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Attorney at Law,

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Attorney at Law,

AND GENERAL COLLECTING A REAL ESTATE AGENT, 141 Hnln Mtreet, Terre-IInnte.

Money advuuceU oil good notes. !cbS-Cm

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E. IIOSFORD,

AN ARAB TRADITION. **, A writer in the Overland Monthly relates tho following: "Tbe tradition which I tell you," said Reis Hassan, "is many centuries

VAttorney at Law,

cor Fourth and main sts. si-iy

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Bui

place I was ever in. Tbeme-

Terre-Haute, Ind.

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Collegiate Institute,

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wlllalve hi* special attention pyr.v to the MEDICAL and SURGICAL treatment of Ai.i. diseases, of tbe EYE and EAB. Artlflcial eves Inserted. Of-1 •ee 119 Mala slreei. te* tween 1ih «s4 5th Nt*., over Page's Conieotlonery Store, TBERE-H AUTE, ore, angl.

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