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Vol. 4.— No. 28.

THE MAIL.

Office, 3 South 5th Street.

[Written for The MalL] TRIFLES. BY IDA MAY DEPUY.

Oaly a foot-fall in the distance, Treading the weary way, Only an echo, faintly falling.

On the ear at

break

day

Rat it i* the step of a tired son!, Preying on to it# destined goal.

Only a sunleam, stealing o'er The path, a faint one pressed, Only

mil very, flickering ray,

Yet the transient gleam was blessed, For It shed Its light o'er a darkened form, That long bad struggled with life storm.

Only a touch on a worn-oat harp, And weary mlewtrel »ong,

Only

a sad

andsUf.ple

lay,

¥et 'twill live fci memory long For its tones have quickened

strain.

silent

That will wakethose buried ones again.

Only a shell from the great wide sea, Washed by a wave on the strand, Onlv a raurmmrlng voice that speaks.

O/a homein a far away land Vet to a waiting heart will tell, -Of a wanderer's last farewell. Only one smgiug billow.

Kolling from a dark, blue deep. Only a ftence and sweeping tide, ltousii.gthe wnler from sleep Yet to the watchers waiting there It may bring peace or dark despair.

bnrqifte went out at tuorn, A To sweep tile oceans foam, And at eve a signal .sound

Sped the fate of the brave one home Hoo'hlng winds lulled the raving wllfi, Of only a fisherman's child.

Only a sh*rt way neatli the sod, To the r«*t they call the grave, Only a silent peaceful spot,

V'here a few tall grasses wave Vet sooner or later will sound the knell, Hut when, or where? Ah, whoca» Mil!

January oth. 1874.

HUSKS AND NUBBINS. Lxxxvm.

MISUNDERSTOOD.

IN there anything more painful than to be misunderstood? to have your motives impugned, your JicUons mis construed, your good intentions set down against you for evil ones? Who has not felt this paia lie heavy on his heart, a cold, dull thing which -cannot be put away, or. If forgotten for a moment, only returning the rrev.t with a sharper and crueler sting.

Yes, we are all misunderstood many and many timet* in our life. -She. world is lull of misunderstandings. It is these mainly whieh keep tt in that stato of wrangling which is -coustant and perpetual. Xow it is one "friend misunderstanding another aud in ono fatoful moment their friendship is turned to enmity. Jealousy, suspicion, fancied slight, some iusignHicant and trivial thing causes the sacred image to be dashed from the 4eart and its-doors to be double-bolted. Xe apology will be received, no explanations aHewed. The sentence of "guilty" is passed without a bearing, and it is irrevocable. There is nothing left for you to do tout turn away in sorrow, saying in year heart, "I have been misunderstood. I could h»v« explaiued the matter and justified myself, if my friend had been just and charitable, but there is that in Ills heart which renders alt explanation of no effect." (Lovers misunderstand- eacii other sad their love is turned to gaul and worm-wood. Each feels that the other is in the wrong and Pride stands between them an# holds a sword at each of their hearts to keep tbetn asaader. But Love is generally stronger than Pride., we are glad to say, aud this class of people usually mend their broken idols., i». Jf

Husbands ana wives, brothers and, sisters misunderstand each other and the peaee of the family is shattered and broken.

ro^wo. I LsMbr hiisuatfearsfatms Capital and Capital misunderstands Labor and there is continuil strife between them. The laboring men meet in mnsSconventions and tail^e&citedly of their wrongs and how Capital grinds them to the dust and envies them a livelihood for their families. The capitalists come together and dta^ift* tV depressed condition of affairs aid tht impossibility of realhting anything from investments and talk itvft vooijjtiattfeiHftf-flMt vemf »f the necessity of mincing wages. Capital and l.nbor itfilitfndeTstsind each other, both want to do what appears to them the right thing to do, but the standpoints from which they look »n ,antipodal*. The candid and unpreftidl^eil looker-on sees that, botji parties ,ptu into error *m) go wroiij- btit wtftfc the strife «it£g suppiufcoo that is between tb*t* Wibrplaiistioo

thing. The man fltvan •oa4vaooed ideas is misunderstood and suffers a lifelong crucifixion. Ui»ta^|^oxfek|ftp tlon of doing good and being incessant-: ly stoned for it. There ifrfM, wHhi, him whieh lapels bin* a ktoktdp for the wrongs he sees on every hand—

something

honest, sincere

will

•mm

and reviled, that is what hurts him more than all the blows of his antagonists. Yet it cannot well help being so. The world is a great mass of stupid conservatism. The present state of affairs is good enough for it. "Our fathers were satisfied with this, why should not we be? There is nothing better. That mam's theories if put into practice would overturn the whole social structure and involve us in universal ruin and disorder." He could bear this He expects opposition and is prepared to meet and overcome it. But when those who are constitutionally incapable *f new idea and can only iterate the ideas oft jose whom their ancestors stoned in a former generation, fire at hiisa their little pop-gun pellets, and accuse him of seeking the popularity of a charlatan, then it is that the very insignificance of his tormentor overpowers him, as the pestiferous gnat will punish with Impunity theheast which would trample a lion to death beneath •1 his feet.

And so It is all the way through. From infancy to dotage, from the individual to the nation, we are constantly misunderstanding and misunderstood. It is the one chief source of our wretehedwessand strife, the arch-disturber of our happiness. Would we but cast the scales of prejudice from our eyes, and put faith, hope and charity in our hearts, we would not so often misconstrue each other's motives aud conduct, and when we did, would be willing to have the misunderstanding explained away. Instead of standing in stony immobility in the posititon we have token, we would come down to the place where «our opponent stands and try to see as he sees and accept his explanation in the spirit of candor and charity. But We shall have to fight and wrangle some ages yet before Charity-shall have done her perfect work. There is little doubt of that.

TOWN-TALK.

OEOKGIAXA AND HER MOIlAfL I»HJLO.SOPH V,

Tt is not so much anxiety to know who the individual is tbat is taking "Walks among the Churches," moralizing, philosophising,and criticising on the way, as the question whether it is man or woman, which ta agitating society to itfl profoundest depths. The name is feminine. The voice is masculine. If this state of uncertainty is painful to society generally, what mult it be to those who are -in the same household. Here are the 'contributors to The Mail with a new member in the family, a metaphonical baby in the house, und they do not know whether it is a girl baby or a boy baby. But Mr. Westfall gives the same blaud uumeaning smile to all questioners. No the smile is not unmeaning, but it plainly means "Find out

Haven

and conscientious.

Nor would be mtwd cMn, mr the and tumult of the battle are inspiriting to him unt fight if

goctt mm be «t»m«-

-V

TERRE-HAUTE,

you can."

Then to add to the uncertainty in the matter, this individual ofdou-bfcful sex announces the belief tbat

4s right to

fib sometimes. The uameof a woman may l»e assumed by some nan in accordance with this principle. Ur the airs eff a tnan may be assumed by some woman. 80 the plot deepens, and it*. T. is in a

worse

box ths|i? toy of the

rest, for be wants to say something about what this writer has said.

terribly uncomfortable not to know whether it is a man or woman one is writing aboot. But

T. T. niaatgo

assume that Georgiana is a wo

man. T.

jtoiigrk« if tnu&t Jie .that she

jsa wo||fa»j^bJe*«s64he SN»Jfc«MfuHy and satisfactorily defends, y. FIBBiXO.

The readers of The Mail will remember tbat Mr. Veragrene asked Oeorgimaa if she had any idea who was walking among the ihurchet. Sho thought be eiibpected her and she s«t9 "No." She thought abo«t( the fib and ooncluded that

-was all right. Her argument

and iI lustrations are s«pat soeohTincinf «n8 pomfortin^ thafc T. T.will give tbaui theJwneat |riad61» his column. She says: ta

It hi a point in philosophy that doctor* disagree aboat. Ho doctors

lclne dlwgree as

med

whether a certain ar

tide of foed -ia 4i«letadens

mot. since

they can't agpee I make it a point to always partake of tl-li I ttke It. Clucumstanoes determine the matter and 90 since D. l)'s cannot setUe Ibis moral question I letclrtusutanees askUe it for me, and oome to the conclusion that la extreme cam it lsjusUflable to tell a—fib. Then haven 1 the totfeiMtft my person from assault, nay

What is the difference

MI tHefOhber demandinx my tnt* or SMf aecret ?v Hone whate%*er, yga

1 thluX 1 wsw right

I a

right to

•a|rlng*5^thte time." T. T. has derived solid satisfaction from that plain and conrtn^tng Matemient of tfee case. I|e hsl, a few of these fibs weighing on his eonsatettaa. But peaoe reigns now. T. T. says

deftnd

my person

freui awiuit, aay property Stom loss? What Is the dMfewnce the robber

demsndingi

my keys 6r de»

mandlnc my ^ei^rtit?** Coh*d«tK» ottt get ever tiwtoamadnia. The readers of thig crtTumri huvfc probably, mtseec! ftlr «m«n« t|M allaslons to T. "Tsold (dug, ao oUa iutrodnood formerty. Thereby hangs a tale jost in point. The (lilt plug had several quite fferfoos fkrilbi, svieh at nhying, balking,

aerstooii all the wblip and slandered hacking and playfniiy putting her'week.

^...^w,.^ "rrr^rTT

p»«n»»s?

u-i'r

IND.,

hind feet into the buck board, not al ways being careful to get them over the top of the dash board, though T. T. will do her the justice to say that she seemed to try to get them over. Final ly T. T. humored her by not baving any dash board. But T. T. made up his mind to part with the faithful animal. The man who wanted her bad the impudence to ask if she ever shied, Now he asked the question suspiciously just as Veragrene asked Georgiana about the authorship of the walks It flashed upon T. T. tbat he sus pected the real state of the case, and T. Y.said "no." Then instead et stopping there, be asked if she backed, and so on through the whole list of her piccadilloes, and T. T. said "no" everytime, This long string of fibs h«s worried T. T. The man who bought the horse had the dash board of a new carriage knocked in before a week had .passed, and in the three or four months* during which he has had her, she has backed a carriage olf a bridge—one of -.Toe Blake's bridges over a dry stream— shied on an embankment and tipped out the whole family, breaking an old lady's arm, and refused to go forward times innumerable. And worst of all T. T. could not walk the streets in peace, but was kept busy dodging the purchaser, and could not sleep nights without dreaming that the wrathfol man was at his heels. But all is peace now. T. T. sees clearly that the fact that the old plug shied was his own secret, ditto the other facts. It was a secret worth a considerable sum to T. T. therefore it was bis property. If he had imparted all these secrets he could not have sold the horse for half us much as he did. T.T. needed all themoffiey he could get. He generally does. It was an extreme case. It was right to keep his secrets. Thanks, ten tbous and thanks to the dear wise Georgiana for her philosophy. If T. T. were not in fear that he might be served by her as he has been by others, he would pro pose a partnership. She may have partner already. If so there must be one happy married man. Of course her husband—if she has one—knows just when she thinks it right to fib, und so just when it will do to believe her. Such talent as hers ought to be employed in some Sunday school. She would say, "Now, boys and giVls, you must always tell the truth., escept, my darlings, in extreme cases." If T. T, could have had s«ch a teacher in his youth, it would have saved him many discomforts in early life. He bad a great many secrets, and if he couid only have known enough when his fond parents were quizzing him in a very impertinent way, to ask, "What is the difference between a robber demanding my keys or my secret," he would have fibbed o«t of many bad scrapes. How comfortable -children could be made by this philosophy. T. T. almost regrets that he has no offsprings to rear according to this new light. But hereafter T. T. will himself live strictly according t« the rule, "Never lie—except in extreme cases.'' Blessings on thy head, sweet*eorgiana~ Go among the churches. Tell us the truth, the whole truth, about them— except in extreme eases. And as you walk still philosophise. Continue dear one, to eat all things about the healthfnlness of which any doctor may have a doubt, and also to take the advantage of all doubts

•desire to do ao. Again blessings on thy bead, sweet Georgiana. In behalf

jAjj-if.'i ji'-ttmiwir. ravftM-Hmm

mm\

PtfA btlSiKr 1 Jfl '~w W ».i»x 4^

fib when you

of all

the readers of the Mail T. T. will venture to say, we will follow thy teach4ug* and tby example., ,'

CHURCH JftOTES.

Her vies to-morrow in the Universaltet Church. II A. M. Subject, "Prayer and it® Answer." 7 R. M.subject, "What is Necessary to receive the fellowship of the Bo-ealled Kvangelloal 'harches What must I do and belieye in order to pray, worship and work with them." Rev. M. Crosley, pastor. All who ooiue will be welcome. .Sunday school at 0:30 A. x.

At Centenary M. E. Church—'Thefaft in the morning, "A General Reviva^o/ Religion—Its Character and Conditions." Tbeuje at night, "Importance of Early Piety—a sermon to the yoxjng." Seats freeand asordlal invitftli6u to all, N. L. Brakemnn, pastor. A

Services in the Congregation^cAiiureh to-morrow at 11 A. M. and 7 E. F. Howe pastor, In the e|®a#ng~vbs Week of Prayer will be a general Praise meeting withsirijjlng hy the choir, by the Sunday scl&61 sjhd by all the peoples Seats fire*. Yoang Men's Bible class meet* In the Sunday school room at o'eltHsk a, m. find taukht hgr the paw tor. »,j V'm

Tin firs* of the series of oattMe tern-, peranoe meetifiga at Sugar firrtrrf sthool boose was largaly attended last night and uid?h enthusiasm prevailed. The ilwrf* family and ringing addresses wed made by Hon. Wm. and Bev. 1 IL ifendersdu. The next meeting of lheseri«a iWili he held at Plymouth Chapel, On the Rloointagton road, in the eastern pari of the #y, P|i Friday mfl!nS

**s* «K'J RT

SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY

Fifty-three journalists. died

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PEOPLE AND THINGS.

We all have to take off our hats to the barber. -*. Another cashier in Massachusetts has defaulted—$65,000.

The Liberal Jews talk of celebrating their Sabbath on Sunday.

A grange of colored farmers has been organized in Grant County.

Hammond, the professional revivalist, has started out on his winter campaign.

A Philadelphia paper has ascertained that Noah Webster used to play euchre and steal eggs.

Buffalo Bill's mother is said to be stage struck, too. Where is this dreadful business to end

Wm. Hutton, of Pittsburg, died suddenly of heart disease, while at work. A warning against work.

Perhaps Sickles could be got to lec tu re. There was never anything so mpan that he wouldn't go into.

The gamblers of Cairo have purchased a bell for a new church, and the po lice don't hunt them any more.

Neither President Grant nor any Cabinet officer offered intoxicating drinks to their guests on New Year's day.

John Taylor, of Floyd County, didn't know it was loaded, and tried it on Albert Worley, who now carries his arm in a sling.

Washington society is glad to learn that Newton Booth is a bachelor. They think be will get lonesome, so far away from home.

He was a good man," says an Iowa paper of a deceased citizen, "but then he sometimes bet on the wrong horse, the same as the rest of us."

Bishop Cummins, of the New Church appeai'ed at Steinway Hall, New York, last Sunday, and delivered a sermon He did not wear any vestments of any kind. •, .. rV merchant who invites everybody to examine his goods before purchasing elsewhere, complains that his advice is followed to the letter—even to "purchasing elsewhere."

It is noteworthy, says the Boston Transcript, tbat just forty years after Caleb Cushing published bis "Reminiscences of Spain" he was appointed United States Minister to Madrid.

A Pennsylvania manufacturing establishment has begun discharging men for telling falsehoods. This plan, if generally carried out, would be apt to paralyze tho industries of the country.

A writer in Scribner says that a man enters aNew York restaurant, calls for fish-balls, and hears "sleeve-buttons for one" ordered, and finds pork and beans transformed into stars and stripes."

A couple of negroes have been engaged for two years in digging for a large quantity of gold wbioh they imagine to have been hidden in a barren hill side near Rockingham, Virginia, a long

Booth says tbat bis ambition is to render Shakespeare so that the audi-

once shall weep, tremble and shout by turns, and be doesn't care how many faint and fall off the .Chairs and break their back-combs- .,/.•

ill

this

country during the past year of them two committed suicide, three were accidentally drowned, and one was assassinated, not connting^alph feeler, whose fate is unknown,

Coold anything be neater than the old darkey's reply to a beautifnl young lady whom be offered to lilt over the gutter, ar^d who inslfted tbat she was too heavy "Lor, missus," ssid he,

"bid lWy^1f'6ur rfeAddf-s^slcs tbb Interior, ever know of congregation who VMnti&eavily in debt tor a new chttreb, and wb^^fd mit soon ttktreaft«r s?utt ,H|i3 ship their pastor? The church debt makes people cross, ill-na-toredf mttr*l, and the minister is the

most hatnral otyect in the worjt^ at whieh tasbwt splenetic arrows. $

•1

Biffin* ft» Clfcwrtatfft, ton* btftodght td!iv« do*fp East. His name is fleorge W. twqo*. iHe has ta£$l*d huge piank

ttiliti

th5

jack-fcoife, parpofeing to

whittle it into marvelous things, and leave ^hem-all concreted. The work w«U b»dor» in tfase exhibition at

Already

lelsurt of* ywirhss b**ti expended

j®»:tfrw#km*-* i.

4fafktf

I •ffcftWWi' Ju^fcging their own penalties wsu ia this world, •am) yet ,inherfti6g '^3,600,©00 from fcn noble in H-otland ThQ,n§x4, t^ipg we shall i»**r wllHbe Hilt a HgtttwiagHfPd w«n or book-canvasser* hair to af. -•dim, or that a gentlemanly hotel tew lottery.

j-f'f# -**t »%,„* Vr «.«,

If), 1874.

FEMINITEMS.

Quaker gray is the color still popular among brides for traveling dresses. Mrs. Soutbworth has "done" as many novels as there are SUtes in tho Union.

The life of Agassiz, written by his wife, will soon be ready for publication. Mrs. Mattie McDaniel, Postmistress at Spencer, has been superseded by a he man.

Love birds are said to be growing in favor as pets among the ladies in New York, and the discarded poodles are becoming jealous.

A Georgia girl allowed three hundred men to kiss her at ten cents a bead, and then went like a good girl and gave the money to the poor.

Queen Victoria, an English Jenkins «»vs, has a cask of fresh sea water sent daily to London for her morning bath during her residence in that city,

Madame Lucca, according to a New York restauranter, can get away with a bigger meal of victuals tba»i uny man he ever saw except a Nevada trapper,

Thero is an effort being made in Boston to establish the fkshion of receiving callers in the kitchen, so that pie mak ing and gossip may go on simulta newusly.

Mrs. Harriet Beecber Stowe is said to have evidently exhausted her strength for public readings, and is going to take leave (Palmetto leave) to recuperate iu Florida.

Mrs. Asa, of Western Kansas, istwen-ty-nine years old and has fourteen Asas! Heavens! what a prodigious po-ker-hand that woman does bold.— [Courier Journal.

The Kansas lady who went to a theater and handed the man who took the tickets a fine-tooth comb instead of her ticket discovered her mistake when the door-keeper told her she could not comb in.

Imagine the mortification of a Jeffer sonville young lady to discover that she had been walking up street with a pla card pinned to her dress, upon which was printed, "2,000 children wanted."— [Inter-Ocean.

Tennie C. Claflin has taken to the stage, making her first appearance as Portia. Tennie does rij?ht in striking at onco for the legitimate. The leg drama N mdmoral, and then it is said Tennie'a legs are awful scrawny.

Two ladies who presided at the floral temple, at a recent private fair in New York city, were caught in the act of stealing the money received by the sale of the flowers. They were, of course, made to refund, and given their passports at once.

Large fans are gradually being folded and laid aside, probably for seven years, when fashions repeat themselves, like history. Meanwhile the pompadour fan is the most fashionable. It is very odd, and for that reason the ladies consider it very pretty.

A gentlemanly appearing loafer addressed an insulting remark to a lady of Troy, N. Y. She had a pail of yeast in her hand, and answered his impertinence witb*a dose of the lively liquid which covered him from heid to foot. His friends now regard him as arising young man.

The Pittsburg Commercial says: When the people pan work themselves up to the point of conceding to woman the power to bold office, tbey uiiy as well make up their minds to go the whel^ figure and make ber a voter as well as an office-holder. Consistency requires tbat tbe principle involved should be carried out in its completeness.

In cofl&eque*nee ot tb6 oieaih of her grandfather, Miss Nettie Grant will not

beretofora stated, be one of tbe bridesmaids

the approaching

Cad

wallader-Borie Redding in Phiiadel phfa. Tbe President's wile and daughter hate withdrawn /rom somety for the winter, and no eqtefuinmeDtsji U1 bo given.atAhQ White Hoooa.hMJ rz* 'rrr

Tim biMpt^aj^onii nation auioitg tho ultm-fSHMoanble is hM neoks wbioh Jerm^^uno decUres have already ap peardn in New York. They are made of tho. fioest glove kMl, and ao fitted overtbo natural nmk as to deeeiretbe very elect. It is Impossible to tell, when property tittad, where kid ends and flash begins., To render tho illusion emplH* hAWeyer, a tulle scarf is lightly worn about the throat

TbA rsMof&ermaay one of tho

most simply dwwwl of woown, exoapt on occasions1 df Ceremony.

goods

Her

billf iaresatM tolw

less than the

wi«esof many «f Mm merchants. 8ha dffVtooot in ealieo dresa. And tho Princess

BMya^arck, frMh

thongh past

and comely,

4»i*ty,

^anperintenda

and (tnnh» tllfffiilfnfin of har indastry. 'i

her

fmrmwtMic, gaeaahonttha hoMe with* great bttnefe oTteys at bte girdle, and her bouse is filled with knitted

qallta

Price Five Cents.

CONNUBIALITIES.

THE WIDOW.

She is modest, bnt not bashfti], Free and e^sy, bat not bold, Like and apple, ripe and mellow,

Not too young and not too old Half-Inviting, half repulsive. Now advancing ana now sny There is mischief in herdiraple,

There is danger In her eye.

She has studied human nature, She isschooled in all her arts She has taken her diploma,

As the mistress of all hearts. She can tell the very moment When to sigh aud when to smile O, a maid is sometimes eh arming.

But a widow all the wlnle. Are you sad how very serious Will ber handsome fane become Are yon angry she is wretched,

Lonely, friendless, tearful,dumb Are you mirthful bow her laughter, Silver-souudiug will riuc outShe can lure and catch and play you.

As the angler does the trout.

You old bachelors of forty, Who havo grown so bad aud wii»s Young AmmeauB of twenty,

With the love-locks in your eyes You mav practice all the less-ns, ught by Cupid since the la!I. But I known little widow

Who could win aud fool you all.

Bazaine's wife goes into exile with him. Kokomo will soon be convulsed with two big breach of promise suits.

A postmistress in Pennsylvania employs her husband as head clork. A tender hearted wife at Scranton sold her false hair to buy her husband a silver-hoaded cane.

Boeober thinks that piety is the best cure for a scolding wife. Few huebands but have tried something else.

No man is safe these times. A convict at Sing Sing has had no&co-of.a breach of promise suit served'Cu 'him.

A Dnbuque young lady gave up the man she loved and took the one her parents favored in consideration of tbe sam of throe dollars and a sky-blue merino dr^ss.

A Kentucky iury has .justly decided that $9,000 would scarcely compensate Miss Tubb for tho breach of prtra&iaf1 which deprived her of an opportunity to change her name.

This bit of sarcasm from tho Stage: "As times are bard, wooden weddings and other nutial anniversary celebrations will be very mimerous this wioter, with a view of replenishing one' household goods.

A Maine wife-beater waetalcen out at the house by a neighborhood vLilanco committee and tied to a tree, wbil 1 his abused spouse severely whipped Lira. Whether harmony reigned in that house thereafter is not related.

There area lot of peoplo in town of Patten, Me., who are related so muoh that they don't know what to call-each other. Three brothers there have married three sisters, whose brothers, in turn, have married their sisters-in-law

Julia Ward Howe says that there is nothing but dumb submission for thn women. Thero isn't, eh Sh« ongbi to meander through this State and look upon the splintered rolling-pins and battered potato-maahers.—[Detroit.Ereo Press.

An undecidcd fellow courted »lady for twenty-eight years and then married ber. She turned ont a perfect virago, but died in two years after the weeding. ''Now,'' said he, in a soli-coi*-gratulating tone, "nee whnt Thavw escaped by along oburtshfp." ,4^,

A tbirtyrlive year old widower of Buffalo has recently been married by his rich mother-in-law, a widow of sixty. We couid weep with pity for that poor man till pity's self be dead if wo didn't think be bas too much grief *T his owit to appreciate ourc. .^r

"Mary," said John

Henry, ht

clined in the arms

his living sweet

heart, "can you tell me why my head at present is likn

what

blance

night?" "Xo

was

last

dear, why

i« it?!' "Bo«

cause," murmured John Henry, absently, "it. on

busi.*' The resem

wasuot

diao»rnible

tb^tuextt

ment. »i|3« Utj\ 'tis---'

.. itiw. or a wife to be driven frois home hy ber husband i« nothing nttooiutoon,hat the husband wh6

does it i* generally a

live one. Mrs. Sherman,

Buffalo,

has, it is said, boon obliged to leave ber residence hy the nnweleomo visits her dead spouse. Mr. B,# 1\ Sherman waa agent of the Am^ri'-an Kxprem Company, and died from »popk»xy. fie had occupied comfortable'" *partm*ntn over the office, and, the '-ompany permitted the widow to retain them.

evening' Mrs. Sherman was startle#, to the fbotst#p«of h?r basbsnd opdn ths stairs. He wajftifd iuviaibly Wo the room, sat upon tiM^htHi, aad mlM off h! invisible boot#. «b» uldn't #lit bat flad,bat a/tor making hp her mlna that her inu«i«Hitioa had oonjoredap thesoare, ahe returnel to ber tooaa. The tMXt' evening tho saMe thhrg wan repeated, and the men Ih the hoain plainly hoard tho footsteps of tho-dis-parted man on tbe stairs., Prfimde who w»r« eallod in heard the 'same tblB^r aodthe aoiae of his sitting on the bod and palling off his boots. Mrs. Sherman bas gone elsewhere to sleep.