Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 4, Number 28, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 January 1874 — Page 2

Vol. No. 28.

THE MAIL.

Office, 3 South 5th Street.

Written for Tbe Mail.] TRIFLES.

»Y IDA MAY DEITY.

Only a foot-fall in the dUtanoe, Treading the weary way, Only au echo, faintly falling,

Oo the ear at break of day Bat It is the step of a tired soul, Pressing on to iut destined goal.

Only amuibeam, stealing o'er The path, a faint one pressed, Only a silvery, 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.

ObIv a touch on a w?orn-oat harp, And weary mlewtrel's song, Only a Had ana sU*.ple lay, ¥ct'twill livefci memory long For Its tones have quickened st«»t strain, That will wake those buried ones again.

Only a shell from the great wl3te sea, Washed by a wave

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»3nly mnrmmring voice that speaks. Of a home 4n a far away land Vet to a walMng heart will tell, •Of a wanderer's last farewell. Only one singing billow.

Rolling from a dark, bine deep. •Only a fteiceand sweeping tide, ttouxiugthe w:il er from sleep Yet to the watchers walling there It may bring peace or dark despair.

barqae went out at morn, A To sweep the oceans foam, And at eve a signal sound

Sped the fate of the brave one home Soothing winds lulled the raving wild, Of only a fisherman's child. Only ash *rt way neutli the soil,

To the rest they call the grave, Only a silent pcmieful spot. Adhere a lew tall grasses wave Yet Booner or later will mund the ktiell, But when, or where? Ah, who ca« w!l!

January oth, 1874.

HUSKS AND NUB SINS.

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MISU.NIRIWTOOt».

In there anything more paiivfui than lo lie misunderstood to have your motives impugned, your actions misconstrued, your good intentions set down against you for evil oaee? Who has not, felt this paia lie heavy on his heart, a cold, dull tiling which cannot be put away, or. if forgotten for a moment, only returning the nett with a sharper and crueler sling.

Yes, wo are all misunderstood many and many LI men in oar life. The world i» lull of misunderstandings. It is these mainly whieh keep to in that stato of wrangling which is constant and perpetual. Now it is one "friend misunderstanding another aud in ono fateful moment their friendship is turned to enmity. Jealousy, suspicion, fancied slight, some insignificant and trivial thing causes tbe sacred image to be dashed from the heart and -its-doors to be double-bolted. Ne apology will le received, no explanations allowed. The sentence of "guilty" is passed witb out a hearing and it in irrevocable. There is nothing left for you to do tout turn away in sorrow, saying in yoar heart, "I have been misunderstood/ could have explaiued the matter and instilled myself, if my friend toad been just and charitable, but there is that in Ills heart which renders ali explanation of no effect." (Lovers inisunderstandr eaeh other aod their love is turned to gaul and worm-wood. Kach feels that tlie other as in the wrong and Pride stands between them and holds a sword at eacK of their hearts to keep them asunder. But Love in generally stronger than Pride, we are glad to say, aud tbie class of people usually mend their broken idols.. 1 ]f,

Husbands ano wives, brothers and sisters misunderstand each other and the peace of tli? family is shattered aod brofcec^ 1 I If

Iabbr toi&ufrrorsiaima/ Capital aud Capital misunderstands Laboraad there is continual strife between them. Tfee laboring man moet in masft conventions aod talk «&oited!y of their wrongs and how Capital grinds them to the 4US* and envies tbem a livelihood for their families. The capitalists come together and di*M*s the dopressed00tuition of affairs aid the Impossibility of milting anything from investments and talk la way of the necessity of reducing wages. Capital and l,*bor^Oihtftiderstaml each other, bovh want to do what appears to them the right thing to do, but the standpoints from which they look are antipodal*. The candid and unprejudiced looker-on rasa tl^at both pajrties „faft into error and go wroiiir, but wftfc ihe strife andr suspicion that is between theM ik ixplfchatioo r«u «ff«ec »ibb thing.

The man givn to aifwoad ideas is tnisunderatood and inlus a ltfe^ong craotB xlon. ilisti •h^p*rsdoxltM:p^ tioo of doing good and being incessantly stoned for it. Th^r*

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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 man's theories if put into practice vtoold overturn tbe whole social structure and involve us in universal ruin and disorder." He conld bear this He expects opposition and is prepared to tseet and overcome it. But when those who are constitutionally inositols ®f anew idea and can only iterate tbe ideas of 110se whom their ancestors stoned in a former generation, fire at bina 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, a3 the pestiferous gnat will punish with impunity the beast which would trample a lion to deatia beneath his feet.

And so it is all the way through. From infancy to dotage, from tbe individual to the nation, we are constantly misuuder9tanding anA misunderstood. It is tbe one chief source of our wretchedness and strHe, the arch disturber of O'ur 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 misconstr«e each otrher's motives and conduct, and when wedid, would be willing to have the misunderstanding explained sway. Instead of standing in stony immobility in the posititon we have taken, 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 tight and wrangle some ages yet before Charity-shall have done her perfect work. There is little doubt of that.

TOWN-TALK.

OKOllOIAJtA AX» HER StOHAL I»HII,OSOI'HV, It is not so much anxiety to know who the individual is that 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 its profoundest depths. The name is feminine. The voice is masculine. If this state of nncartainty is painful to society generally, what nuifet it be to those who are 4u the same household. Here are the 'Contributors to The Mail with anew raember in the family, a metaphonical baby in the house, and they do not know whether it is a girl baby or a boy-baby. But Mr. Westfall gives the same bland unmeaning smile to ail questieaors. No tbo smile is not unmeaning, but it plainly means "Find out if you can." Then to add to the uncertaintgr in the matter, this individual of dou4»bful sex announces the belief that it 4s right to fib sometimes. Tbe name-of a woman may be assumed by some man iti accordance with this principle. Ur tbe airs Of a inau may be assumed by some woman. So the plot deepens, and f1. T. is in a worse box thah' iny of tbe rest, for he wants to say something about what this writer has said. It fa terribly tincomPortable not to know whether it is a man or woman one is writing abont. Bat T. T. nutMtgo in. He will assume that Georgian* is a worn au. T.*t. i| must t»e*«tbat she j* a woQr^^%^iM^4l«y^^RHful]y and saUsfAQtorily defend*,

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The readers of The Mail will remember that Mr. Veragrene asked Qeorgbuta if •he had any idea who was walking among the thurchea. -She thought he suspected her and she said "No." She thought aboot tha fib and ooncluded that it ^ww all right. Bi§* argument and iliyitratlottBareMrpat^ so convincing anS pomfortingthM T.will give tb*m the jbeuefit »f place is column. She says: "Illsa point in m&al philosophy that doctor* disagree about. Ko doctors of medicine disagree as to whether a certain article of ro*d la 4Met»i$Kirwr aot. Since they can't agree I makeit a point to always partake Of ll -H I tike it Cticnnwtanoin determine tbe matter and ao since D. D'« cannot setUe this moral question I letclr•cuatstanees aettie it for me, and come to the conolwion that ia estreat cases it UJustiOabte to tell a—fib. Then haven't 1 the 1 lutil til Hsnail mi person from awanlt, mj MwHartr fternlow? What »thedlflereooe BKwvim theTObber demaadtog my^kefa or demabdtng'iwt, aecret Knne whatever, y«n^#«imllr So I think was right in eaylngUtistime.

T. T, has derived solid wtttufaetion from that plain and crmvfTidngatateomtoft^ciie. If& fct of these fibs weighing on his conscience. Bnt peace reigna now. T. T. aaya "Haven't I aright to deftnd my person from msfiilt, my property (mm loaaT What is «b« dfifereneft betwetp' the robber demandiiift my keys 6r de* mandinu my sfcemt

he maltha toi*Ni NorwouMhe mtnd th!*.1*rttw note*' T»aok! plug, ao oft*. Introdoeed forand tomult of the battle are inspiriting OMfy. Th«*by bangs a tale j«wt hi to him *nttiykw«un t«r* tight if poinU Th««fat plug had taveral quite goo4 fm to be ftfrtui. sarfoos tfktilb*. such aa shying, balking, otrrtood all the while »n-l slandomj1 backiag and playfully putting ber

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bind feet into the buck board, not always being careful to get tbem over the top of tbe dash board, thongh T. T. will do ber the justice to say that she seemed to try to get them over. Finally T. T. humored her by not having any dash board. But T. T. made up his mind to part with tbe 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 autborship of tbe walks. It flashed upon T. T. that he suspected the real state of the case, and T. Y. said "no." Then instead el stopping there, he 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 •Joe Blake's bridges over a dry streamshied 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 wrathful 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 as much as he did. T. T. needed all the money he could get. He generally does. It was an extreme case. It was rigdht to keep bis secrets. Thanks, ten thousand 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, be would propose a partnership. She may have a partner already. If so there must be one happy married «tian. Of course her husband—if she has one—knows just when she thinks it right to fib, and so just whou it will do to believe her. Such talent as hers ought to be employed in some Sunday school. She would say, "Now, boys and girls, you must always tell tbe truth, esnept, my darlings, in extreme cases." If T. T. could have had sai?h a teacher in his youth, it would have saved him many discomforts in early life. He bud a great many secrets, and if he could only have known enougta when his fond parents wero 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 libbed oat 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 to the rule, "Never lie—except in extreme cases.'' Blessings on thy bead, sweet (Georgians* Go among tbe churches. Tell us the truth, the whole truth, about them— except in extreme eases. And as you walk still philosophize. Continue dear one, to eat all things about the healthfulness of which any doctor may have a doubt, and also to take tbo advantage of all doubts to fib when you •desire to do so. Again blessings on thy bead, sweet Goorgiana. In behalf of al! the readers of the Mall T. T. wiR venture to say, we will follow thr teachings and tby example.

CHURCH S0TES.

8ervi«s to-morrow in the Univeraaliet Church. II A. it. Subject, "Prayer and ita Answer." 7 l*. m. subject, "What ia Keceasary to receive the fellowship of the so-called Kvangelieal Churches? What must I do and belieye in order to pray, worship and work with tbem." Rev. M. Crosley, pastor. All who ooine will be welcome, .Sunday school atd 3d A. x. 1*

At Centenary, M. 15. Church—Theme la the morning, "A General Reviva^ o/ Religion—Its Character and Conditions." Them* at night, "Importance of Early Piety—& sermon tntferymrog." SeaU

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TERRE-HAUTE, IND., SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1874. Price Five Cents.

PEOPLE AND THINGS.

We all have to take oft 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, tbe 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 lecture. There was never anything so mean that he wouldn't go into.

The gamblers of Cairo have purchased a bell for anew church, and the police don't huut 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 appeared at Sfceinway Hall, New York last Sunday, and delivered a sermon He did not wear any vestments of any kind.

A 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, that just forty years after Caleb Cushing published his "Reminiscences of Spain" he was appointed United States Minister to Madrid.

A Pennsylvania manufacturing es tablishment 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 which they imagine to bavo been bidden in a barren hill side near Rockingham, Virginia, a long time ago.

Booth says' that' ^rfc' abibitioil is to render Shakespeare so that the audience shall weep, tremble and ahout by tnrns, and he doesn't care how many faiut «nd fall off the fcbairs and break their back-oomba^^

Fifty-three journalista died is this country during the past year of them two committed saicide, three were accidentally drowned, and one was assassinated, not counting Ralph Keeler, whose fate is «nkno4rn.nt

Could anything be neater than tbe old darkey's reply to a beantifal young lady whom be offered to lilt over the gutter, ar^J who inaifted that she was too boavyt "Lor, irriasoa," said he,

I's used to lifting barrels of nugar.'f

Did any of ovtr'.f^^cp^'fisln the Interior, ever kqrW of congregation who wont- heavily ia dfafctlJbr a new chtrrCfo, and who^ld tfdt sobn thereafter a?ub sbig their pastor The church debt makca people cross, ill-na-tored, orttteAl, and: t%e minister I* tbe moat* natural otye In "the world at' wh&hUfc*bMot spleuetfc arrows,

general Praise meeting withjsiilgfng by tha choir, by tb« Sunday eebbol dad by all the people. Seata free. Yoong Men's Bible claas meeta In the Son day school room at 9K o'clock A. m. and ia taufcJbt fegr the paw tor. 'rm» first of tbe seriea of ontaide tew? ptr*nc ©etitigB at Sugar Grove suhool bouae was largely attended laat People talk,, cl^evjj traiging their own peoaltiecmit ia tbia wodd^

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Eggtaaton and Rev. *C. R. Wewderabn. S-otland H»Qrn||xA tfeiog *r#, shall The next meeting of the seriaa Mill he held at llymoutb Chapel, on the Bloom Ington road, in the eastern pat* of the city, op Friday ffveftlng of next week. 7.

b^wlll »he that a UgMaing-rod man ot book -canvasser hay f^ilon heir So al. or th^tage^^eaaanly hotel ntar* mk drawn in the Havana tottery.

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FEMINITEMS.

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

The life of Agassiz, written by his wife, will soon be ready for publication. Mrs. Mat tie 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 head, and then went like a good girl and gave the money to the poor.

Queen Victoria, an English Jenkins s»ys, 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 than ny man he ever saw except a Nevada trapper.

Thero is an effort being made in Boston to establish the fiishion of receiving callers in the kitchen, so that pie making and gossip may go on simultaneausly.

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

Mrs. Asa, of Western Kansas, is twen-ty-nine years old and has fourteen Asas! Heavens! what a prodigious po-ker-hand that woman does hold.— [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 ber she could not comb in.

Imagine tho mortification of a Jeffersonville young lady to discover that she had been walking up street with a placard pinned tolier dress, upon which was printed, "2,000 children wanted."— [Inter-Ocean.

Tennie C. Claflin has taken to the stage, making ber first appearance as Portia. Tennie does right in striking at once for the legitimate. The leg drama 'inmoral, 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 tbe money received by tbe sale of the flowers. They were, of oourse, made to refund, and given their passports at once.

Large fans are gradually being folded and laid aside, probably for sev4p years, when fashions repeat themselves, like history. Meanwhile tbe pompadour fan is tbe 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 bad a pail of yeast in her hand, and answered his impertinence witb*a dose of the lively liquid which covered him from head to foot. His Mends BOW regard him a* arising young man.

The Pittsburg Commercial aays: "When the people can work themselves up to the point of conceding to woman the power to bold office, tbey may as well make up their minds to go tbe whol^v figure and tuaka ber a voter as well as an oAlee-bolder. Consistency requires that the principle involved should be .cjajriedo.ut in its .complete a

In consequence of the death of her grandfather, Miss Nellie Grant will not heretofore atatod, be one of tbe bridesmaids at the approaching Cad-wallader-Borie wedding in Philadelphia. Th« Prafeideqti'a wile and daughter have withdrawn2XromsOsiety for tbe winter, and no ei^tertaiomenta nill be given/a&the White 'a rrJi—:

Ti*» bit^tt aJ^omi nation among tho ultra ftebioaable ia kid neck* whieh Jennf# June declare* have already appeared in New York. They are made of the fiaeet fflove kid, wmI ao fitted over tbo natural neck as to deceive tbe very fled. It is Impossible to tell, when properly fitted, where kid auda and flesh begins. To remkf the illusion omnaplrte however, a toile scarf is lightly worn about the throat. ,*

Tbe £^npreaa of ®em»any is one of tho moat diaply draaaed of woosen, exoapc on oocaslotka* df ceremony. Her dry gooia bjtll»,at4a44 to'be leas than tbe wives of aaany «f the m«rchanU. Aha drWaa ont in a ealieo dreaa. AUd th# Prtn&as Bismarck, freab aod comely, Lbonch paa^^aiaty, «e9perintend» he* farm work, geeaaboat On hoese with great btmefa of Tcvjn at ber girdle, and her bonse ia filled with knitted quilt* and aneh, UM*evidene»ef herakiliand industry,™ J&Mi 5"'

CONNUBIALITIES.

THE WIDOW.

She is modest, bnt not basbftil, Free and easy, but not bold, Like and apple, ripe and mellow,

Not too young and not too old Half-inviting, half repulsive. Now advancing and now sny There is mischief it her dimple,

There is danger In her eye. She has studied hnnian nature, She is schooled in all her arts She has taken her diploma.

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

But a widow all tbe while. Are you sad how very serious Will her handsome face become Are yon angry she is wretched,

Lonely, friendless, tearful, dumb Are yon mirthful how her laughter, Silver-sound!ug will rlu outShe can lure aud catch and play you.

As the angler does the trout.

You old bachelors of forty, Who have grown so bad aud wis&, Young Americans of 1 wenty.

With the love locks in your eyes You mav practice all the less-ns, ui?ht by Cupid since the lall. But I knowa little widow

Who could win aud fool you all. Bazaine's wife goes into exile with him.

Kokomo will soon be convulsed witb two big breach of promis9 suits. A postmistress in Pennsylvania employs her husband as bead ciork,

A tender hearted wife at Scranton sold her false hair to buy her husband a silver-hoaded cane.

Boecber thinks that piety is the bess cure for a scolding wife. Few husbands but have tried something else.

No man is safe these times. A convict at Sing Sing has had notowoif a breach of promise suit served-cu 'him.

A Dnbuque young lady gave up ib» man she loved and took the one her parents favored in consideration of tbe sam of three dollars and a sky-blue merino dress.

A Kentucky jury has justly decided that $9,000 would scarcely compensate Miss Tubb lor tho breach of pnmoaa* which deprived hor of an opportunity to change her name.

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

A Maiuo wife-beater was taken out &< the house by a neighborhood vigilance committee and tied to a trf e, wbil his abused spouse severely whipped Lim. Whether harmony reigned in that bouse 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 calleach other. Three brothers there bBve married three sisters, whose brothers, in turn, have married their sisters-in-law

Julia Ward Howe says that there nothing but dumb submission for th» women. There isn't, eh She ongbt to meander through this State and look upon the splintered rolling-pins and battered potuto-mashers.—[Detroit I'-ree Press. -'I-

An undecided fellow courted a lady for twenty-eight years and then married her. She rned out a perfect virago, but died in two years after tbe wedding. "Now,'' said be, ill a self-con-gratulating tone, "nee what I hav« eacaped by a long oOurtsblp." 1 u'T 'nr? y:"r~TT%r

A tbfrty'-fivo year old Widower of Buffalo has recently been married by bis rich mother-in-law, a widow of Storty. We could weep with pity for that poor man till pity's self be dead if we didn't think be has too much grief Ht bis own to appreciate ours. .J

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"Mary," said John llenry, a* ilu reclined in the arms of hi» living sweetheart, "can you tell me wby my bead at present is like what I was last night?" "No dear, why it* it"?!' "B«h banse," murmured John Henry, absently, "it. Is on bust." Tho resemblance »iot 4v»qfe|^ible moment.

For a wile to be drivou from home by ber husband i« Nothing utwxmtmon.bat the husband whd does It generally a live one. Mrs. Sherman, of Buffalo baa, it is seid, b«eu obliged to leave her residence by tbe nnwelcomo vtaltn«f ber dead spouse. Mr. I].t 1". fcbermaa waa agent of the Amebian £xpreea Company, and died frorn apoplexy. He bad occupied comfortable apartnWntw over the office, and the company permitted tbe widow to reUiio then. One evening Mm Sherman was eta rtled to hear tbe fbotstepa of her husband upon th* stairs. He waJlEfd iuvkrfbly Inio flie room sat upon the* fated, and* pnlM off hi* luvMble bentA «b»i rildn't #lPt bnt fled, but after making ftp her minll that her ioMghiatioau had oopjuied a^t theaoare, she returned to ber rooaa.* The next evening the safi*» thing waa repeated, Mod tbe bseQ in the hoahn fMoly heard tbe footetepa ef the4e parted man on tbe atalrs. Friend* who ware called in beard the ttame tbing, aod the noise of hla sitting on the ed and pulllrg off bis boots. Mrs. man bas gone elsewhere to sleeps I I .i t»s

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