Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 4, Number 31, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 31 January 1874 — Page 3

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THE CHURNING SONG.

Apron on and dash in band, O'er the old churn here I stand:—

cream •port* andjflle*

h'o#*n shoes, and now Haeycat^

Cachog! cachog:

Ah,1bowSbon f'fired get? But the batter &nger»

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Cachug &

Aching back a ad weary «m .Quite rob eh urains of ittcbarm J— Cachagcsefjag! Sec the golden »peeksappear!

And the chnrn rfng« sharp and clear,— Cacti in it Arms, that have to flag began. Work on you will soon be done:—

Cacbink! cachink!

Bleb flakes ding to lid and dash Hear the thin milk's watery splash

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Rweetest rnnsic to the ear, For it says the butler 1* here I— Callnk! callnk!

Faith Murray's Vow.

BY WILLIAM O. STODDARD,

Not an ungenerous girl was Faith Murray, by any manner of means, and her honest bine eyes were very pleasant arid kindly to look into. A part, nevertheless, of Faith's inheritance from her high-headed Scotch ancestry bad been a somewhat hasty and jealous disposition, and a goodly share of their own unyielding obstinacy. As her mother was apt to remark at times, 'Faith is a (fear girl, bat she needs management, and it Isn't everybody that knows bow

Not 'everybody,' indeed and assuredly not such a bluff, frank, straight forwardly up-and-down fellow as Curtis Howland.

Tail, broad-shouldered, curly-haired, dark-eyed, was Curt, and his white teeth wore perpetually gleaming, through his heavy moustache, in a smile that betokened good-will to every soul he met, male or female.

That was very much tbe way in wbicLi be came so utterly to grief in 'his 'management' of Faith Murray lie was as true as steel, and she knew it but his universal popularity had shaped itself, strangely enough, into one of ber pet grievances, and this she had nursed into such strength that its evil energy burst furtb, at last, just at tbe wrong time and place

Openly, angrily, and in the hearing of others even, had Faith told Curt, on their return irom the last picnic and boating party of the season, that she 'would never put ber foot into a boat of bis again.'

Curt had replied, with a laugh 'Then I'll always have to borrow one fur you of somebody else but Faith learned afterward that irotn that day forth the square-nosed but light-built and almost handsome skiff, which bad carried so merry a party to the picnic, had never since that day been loosed from its chain at tbe bead of the little cove where the Howland farm came down to the river.

When Winter approached tbe boat had beeu tukon out, of course, and carefully carted to its customary shed barns, but Faith felt

near the great very sure that no other female foot sprang to his feel, threw ou bis capand since ber own bad been permitted to overcoat, and strode outjnto the open

step within it. As week bad followed week, and month after month weut by, Curt Howland's broad and inerry luce had seemed to grow a trifle graver and more thoughtful but his thoughts, however serious they might have been, had

than to say what he did to Faith when he m*de his first out-and-out effort at reconciliation.

He had refused all along to be on any other than 'speaking terms,' and had •left Faith to do her own quarreling' in

He said be would borrow a boat to take me out in, but I'll teach him a lesson yet!'

Perhaps Curt thought he bad learned all the lesson that was necessary but, at all events, one fine December day he decided to call for Faith Murray and

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a splendid opportunity to make up,and Curt bad laid the matter very close, indeed, to bis heart and hopes.

And yet even when he went after her be blundered, just like himself, from the Very beginning. Instead of dashing up in bis gay lttue cutter, with •just room for two,' the sleigh he drove whs. the biggest of all tbe balf-doseu or so that were bitched In front of Souire Murray's ample door-way, and Faith had said to herself, as she looked at it from the window:

Looks as it be was going to carry all the girls in tbe neighborhood I* and ber blue eyes had darkened, and ber fa!r cheeks had flushed with fresh vexation. She was, every bit, ready to take fire, therefore, a few minutes later, when her too open-hearted admirer asked:

You'll step Into my sleigh, won't you, Fatlh, even if yoo won't put your foot in tny boat

And she answered, sharply: •No, Indeed, sir I donH care to ride in an omnlbua. You will, doubtless, have plenty of company without me.*

If Curt Howland had seemed to make light of his rebuff at tbe Summer pie nk\ it was very different now,and there was something in the pained, hurt, disappointed expression of his manly and really handsome face tbat would have carried the day In bis favor under any other circumstance*. Kvery girl in the room was on his side in a moment—but Faith's rosy cheeks burned only the hotter for her cotuwifouaaees of that foot —and tbe onlv person present who felt any reel satisfaction was Sile Herring, the village lawyer, who was now sure of his good fortune to officiate to Faith Murrey's escort to and from the quilting.

As for Curt himself, net a word said he, but turned steadily and dlgnlfledly toward tbe door, and in another minute the quick, sharp jingle of bells told Faith that his sleigh was, like his boat, doomed to go empty of lady passengers until her own feet came back to it.

Up to that moment Cert's mind had been ©coupled only with jeeloua an agnations of reconciliation with Faith, and of the fun he would have on the sleigb-ride, going and coming, as well as a: the quilting. Now, however, as his fleet team drew him swiftly along the river-road on his lonely way homeward, his eyes wandered npon and down the river, predlspoaed to discover anything that might appear to suggest an Interference with the contemplated merry-making.

It is very strange how differently the

"freeze' of tbe Wintefbad been a severe one and tbe ice bad formed thick and strong, tbere hid now, for several days, been altogethegltoo much sunshine,and tbere was no stubh thing as telling what tbe effect ot it (flight be.

Up and down tbe whi'o expanse he gazed, and here and tber» he saw light cotters and even heavily laden woodsleigbs crossing and rec.ro9sing,abd the former and now then putting on *n extra burst of speed over tbe smooth and glancing surface. Neither to tbe right band nor to the left did he turn, however, and by the time Faith Murray and ber friends were on their way to tbe quilting Curt Howland'steam were safe in the stable, while his big sleigh stood emyty by tbe back-door of the house, with all its buffalo-robes, blankets, clumsiness and disgrace still clinging to its unoccupied spaces.

As for Faith bersalf, she had bardly ever seemed in sncb exhuberant spirits as she displayed that evening, and Mr. Silas Herring assumed for himself a species of personal triumph, as be compared his own position and occupation with what he could itnagiife of Cart Howland's brooding at home over his defeat. The quilting was thronged with young people and old, from far and near, but good,old-fashioned hours were kept, nevertheless, and all the more so, probably, because of tbe anticipated pleasures of the sleigh-rides afterwards.

If Faith Murray had any remorseful promptings concerning her conduct, she certainly gave no external token thereof, and led the fun as if she bad never heard of such a person as Curtis Howland. Perhaps a keen observer, like her own mother, if only that good lady bad been present, might have inclined to the idea that Faith was 'overdoing' something but Silas Herring was not a keen observer, and the rest of the merry company neither thought nor cared what might be the source of ber high spirits. When at last the •quiltiug-bee' broke up, those whose homeward way did not permit there to drive lu the direction of tbe river were half disposed to envy those whose bet tor fortune was to lead them across its broad, smooth bosom. They little dreamed bow much to beprefered were the rougher but more safe and solid roads that took them even among rug ged hills and beavilv drifted valleys.

Somehow or other, instead of going to bed at bis usual hour, Cart How land bad lingered and lounged in front of bis glowing, log-heaped fire-place long after every other soul in the house bad gone to bed. He bad pretended, at first, to occupy himself with a book but by-and-by tbe volume dropped on the floor. Then for a while Curt seemed to be absorbed in watching the vivid changes wrought by the fire as the sea soned oak and hickory slowly yielded and then, as the fore-stick snapped in two, and plunged among tbe coals with a strange crackling sound, he suddenly

air In front of the house. It was a clear, beuutiful night, jast tbe sort for a sleigb-ride, and not s» cold but what there was a continual drip, drip, at the eaves of tbe house. The tinkle of tbe falling drops, however, with now and then tbe crash of a loosened ioicle, fell

taugbt hirn little additional wisdom. If on his ears with a painful jar. Could they bad, he would have known better

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it be possible that such a man bad nerves? But now swiftly down the road there came a* sound of bells, and the vision of a sleigh was halted for a moment by the gate.

Howland!' shouted a deep hoarse voice. 'Ah, you are up, are you Well,

a way that was exceedingly impolitic} there's a big rise in the river, and it's and exasperating. a comin'this way fast. I've been just She had fairly longed to see him a racin' down the road to warn folk* to show some signs of temper or sentl-1 not to try the ice, but I reckon I've meut, and she hadderlyed nosmall de-j come as far as I need. Can you give gree of satisfaction from the manner In me j* sleep and a breakfast?' which ho had treated his boat. She had fairly warmed toward him, one day, when she learned of bis borrowing a skiff for duck hunting, aud yet she bud murmured:

Of course I can,' promptly replied Curt, 'and you've done a right good neighborly thing. It's Jake Robinson, isn't it

That's my name,' heartily responded tbe stranger, 'and I've only tried to do as I'd be done by.''

Well, then,' said Curt, 'you go ihto the house and go to bed. I'll hitch up my team and see if I can make out to keep the sleighing-party from mischief. There must lie time euough for tbat

ask her to go with bim ou the grand yet, seeing the quilting comes first.' sleigblng-party to the 'quiltlng-bee,' 'I'll stable my horses,' replied the across the river. There would besuoh philanthropic Jake, 'but I don't go ina magnificent drive on the ice,and suob to bed so long's there anybody likely to

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be in dangerl Drag out your sleigh. Is that it? Well, there's room in it for more'n two, there is.'

Curt Howland's movements were always a good deal more rapid and de* cisive than they seemed, and it was marvelous how quickly be and Jake were whirling down toward tbe customary crossing. In ouo thing, however. Curt had been woefully mistaken, and tbat was ?n the probable hour for the quilting to break up. Even while he whs putting tbe harness on bis good team there were terrible perils gathering around the gay sleigh-riders. Not only had tbe "bee' dispersed, but already bad ado* different sets of bells rung fart anu Mr on the frozen river, and already the first symptoms of the coining 'rise* were beginning to show themselves In the ominous groaning of the ice as the tide beneath it strained and lifted at ite frosty fetters. Bevond a doubt they would bf broken ere long.

Hark!' exclaimed Cert, ss he drove out from the shore. 'Did you bear that? We shall hardly hate time to get across I'm afraid.

Then they won't need no warnin',' coolly remarked Jake. .' Bark!: sgain cried Curt Howland, but hoarsely this time, and with something like pain in the intensity of his utterance. 'I did not hear it! There's a team coming down the river a a

Jake Robinaon himself heard it now, and exclaimed: •Itdoes sound mighty near like a runaway, I declare. Just hark to tbem bells!'

Curt* breath would have come even ffcstttr, and his heart would have jumped more fiercely, if he had known the whole truth. The horses of tbe sleigb-lng-party had recognised the signs of approaching danger mucta more promptly than had their masters, nor had it been at all difficult, in for their skillful drivers to head the frightened but willing brutes towards safety and the shore. Tbe single exoepUoo hsd been in the young and stylish but ill-broken span over wbloh Sale Herring held the reina, f&r the gay young lawyer was not only not a Skillful driver, but be had failed to understand the situation at first, and had lathed Us poor oolta mercilessly lor their trembling refttsal to go forward. Even when be consented to wheel tbem be had not been able to guide them land

erard, for a great beaye and groaa of the lee around him had Just then nearly seared the smkms ont of both him and his qaadrupeda. In a moment merej

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world will look to a man in one frame the fright of the Utter was a wild 'run-. I among the furs again, bat, in spite of of mind and another! That morning away'right down the river, and cer the roaring water and the rattle of the the sun bad been cheery, the sleighing tainly had one good result, for it bore rowlocks, she could plainly bear the ex

bad been extraordinarily good, and the sleigh and its oecapants swiftly Curt*s merry eyes had discovered^0 away from what was fast becoming an flaws in the prospect bat now, as if angrv tumult of cracking, tossing, bis wits were sharpened by Fdith Mur- grinding fragments. All this Cart ray's rough reply, be began io discern Hovrland did not know, bat, nevertbethat the snow Iras remarkably soft and less, be drove straightforward instantly 'soggy and that, although the first friths dim Sdfia of giving help to some-

body. Well for him that he did so, for is legs that half a minute be found himself spinning along at almost racing

And he had shouted, In reply: Head 'em for tbe island. Sile you can bring 'em in there. I'll follow right on. Don't fee scared, Faith—I won't leave you.'

And then another form had risen in the sleigh, and Faith Murray herself

passenger?'

Even in tbat moment of awful peril, however, Faith's obstinacy yielded slowly, and she was replying, naif ar gumentatively:

But, Curt, how will you ever get asbore? Won't wa be safer on tbe is land When she found herself caught up in strong arms and lifted, with or without her will, to a snug place among the blauhxts and buffalo-robes at tbe bottom oi he big sleigh.

The ri is rising. There is a great flood coi. ug down!' exclaimed Curt In half »ui hour the island will be un der water, and everything on it swept away. 1 1 never have known if Jake Robinson hadn't warned me. I bitched up and came out as soon as I got tbe news. Thank Qod!'

Faith Murray felt aglow and a melt ing at her heart as she listened, but she made no reply. Tbe situation seemed hardly to favor much conversation, for Curt was driving fiercely up the river again, and everywhere tbe signs of tbe approaching 'break-up' wero growing more and more fearful and threaten ing.

Why don't you drive down she asked. Tbe rapids are only half frozen,' re plied Curt, 'and we should surely be lost if we got into tbem. Besides, the water is shallower up there, and the borses will find their footing sooner after we break in 'Alter we break iu repeated Faith to herself. 'Why, the sleigh will go right to the botjom. He is terribly cool about it!

It was a cool sbbjeot, perhaps, and Faith felt the icy^ shudders creep over her, in spits of heijcourage, as she noted how far tbe^^eM yet Irom any possi ble landing-place.

And now the booming, moaning sound that Faith had heard once be lore, that evening, began tn fill their ears, and tbe sleigh slid hither and thither on the undulating surface, and Curt lashed bis faitbful, powerful span to their utmost exertion. Every minute seemed an hour but now, at last, Curt exclaimed, exultingly

Hurrah, Faith! We are beyond the deep channel, I think. Back there the current is swift, and the ice will break and pile. It's breaking now See it! —see the great cakes go over and ever! 'But, Curt,' responded the almost shivering beauty, 'don't yoo see that the ice is parting from tbe shore ahead of us, just because it piles up out yonder? I can tell by toe moonlight on tbe water. O Curt, dear, it is dreadful to be drowned, bat it's even worse te think that I've brought yoo out here, loo. Can't you swim ashore? O Curt, I've been so very bad to you!'

You wait a moment I' shouted the single-minded young athlete, as he gave bis team the lash again. 'If we can only get a Uttie nearer the edge of the ice—Ha! there It comes! Down in the bottom of the boat, Faith 1 must use my oars?—-now—quick—hur rah!'

F*ith Murray had hid her face in the furs that almost covered ber as she stooped, but abe heard a wild fierce, frightened neigh a great splashing plunge. the homes went Into the water a cracking of ice, mingled with the roaring soundof the flood and then instead or the Arctic bath for which she bad prepared herself, she was conscious of an easy, rooking, floating mo tion, and the music of rowlocks, as the oars were swung strongly back and forth by the sinewy arms of Cart Howland.

Then, at last, her astonishment jgot the better of her fcsr, sad she looked timidly oat from ber htdlog-plaee hot tbe color came fast into her eheeks agala as she did no.

The boat, Cart?' she asked. Yee, tbe old boat herself.' he replied. •I put it on instead or tbe eleJgh-box to come after you with, and covered it all over with robes and blankets. I only expected a good laugb,bot now It has saved both our Uvea. oa didn't mean toput your foot in my aleigh and the boat at the asm time, did you, Fsith?' •OCart, forgive me!' waaall tbsaaSwer that cams Just than, and Fvkith felt specially telle? at the remark which instantly followed. 'Tbenue the beiese Si la an their test in the shallows and making for the shore! There most be twenty men!' ^Dowft vj 1..

TKKKE-HACTE bATURDA* EVENING MAIL, JANdARi 31. 1574.

brave girl knew very well what Curt says, 'it would have been an impossimeant by 'the island,' a low-lying bit of duck-marsb and drift-wood hardly above tbe water's edge, not a great way farther down stream, but in the very middle of the river. She thought it a strange stopping-place, at first, until

Straight for the island, then, and Curt Howard's sleigh was close behind ber but, even as ber wild young team sprang up the low acclivity, there came to Faith'9 ears a sharp, cjuick, snapping sound the reins were jerked from her hands, and she found herself suddenly sitting still in ber light cutter, while tbe colts went madly on, with the pole and its attachments banging at their heels. No uncommon thing for'irons'to snap, under such circumstances and if Faith was dismayed for a moment, Curt How-

altant, happy, almost oooslng tone of a deep, musical voice, that repeated her name over and over, and other words that seemed to be fitthd wonderfully well both to name and voice.

The boat and thealeigb, both How strangely her rash and

words bad come to naught, and what a man among men was Cmrtis Howland When at last the square prow of the

speed, behind a light sleigh, in whicb I skiff grated on the it* and gravel at the there shortly arose a female form which be knnw only too well, while a clear, firm voice exclaimed: 'OCart, the iee is breaking! Drive asbore right away 1'

margin, and the strong arms once more caught her up and bore her onward Faith Murray's blnshing face was read} to nestle close to Curl's shoulder, ana she whispered:

Ko other boat but yours, if you'll forgive me—no, not as long as Hive!'

THE SECOND AD VENTISTS, The Watchman's Cry, tbe organ of the Second Adventists, which is pub-

caught the falling reins as Sile Herring! lisbed at Meridan, Conn., has felt itself dropped them and sprang out npon the I compelled to acknowledge that it cried ice. It was a rash and foolish thing to do, and Curt reined in just long enough to say: 'That'8 it, Jake jump ont and drag

in vain. We have not seen tbe paper, but find the following concerning it in the Hartford Post:

him ashore while 1 go on after the run- I form, and evidently is prepared for a ways.

Jake obeyed heroically, and he found that Sile Herring did indeed require 'dragging' to get him asbore, after that wild spring and thump upon the ice.

Faith was alone in her sleigh bow, and but little sorry for that, to tell the truth, or even that she had tbe reins in her own bands, for she knew how to manage tbem far better than the pan-ic-stricken youth who bad deserted ber, while the colts themselves were getting the first frenzy of their flight somewhat raced out of tbetn. The

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long existence. It regards the non-ful Ailment of the calculation as to the de struction of the world previous to 1874 as astounding. 'It isincomprehensi ble,' says the editor of tbe Cry, in resuming publication. We cannot tell why we are to-day. And when we re view the argument that we have presented, we can see no flaw in it. We cansotsee where there is any mistake in the dates. We are waiting for Qod lift tbe cloud-' Tbe publisher, Dr, Charles Baker, of Meridan, talks in' the same strain. Only a few days ago, be

bility to have persuaded me that we ever should have seen tbe like of this. Instead, I fully believe that Jesus, our Savior, with all the retinue of aven, would have been here—tbe dazzling glory of Qod revealed, and our immor-

sbe recalled how bluff and steep were tal eyes permitted to behold the won

the banks on either side of tbe river for miles below the accustomed 'crossing

drous beauties of eternity. But here we are. After all, may it not be true that we are the simple-minded, foolish people the world at large esteem us to be, and our hopes a mere dream—an hallucination Tbe editor is still confident the Lord will come in a little while,' the publisher,gathering caution from experience, prefers the phrase, in bis own good time.' The rank and file are somewhat dazed and stupefied. Tbere is no doubt that tbey were sincere in their belief. All their prophecies cent red and ended in 1873 it was as simple and conclusive as any other mathematical demonstration doubts

land felt a good deal more inclined to a and questions were merely temptations

hearty thanksgiving, 'Jump in, Faith, jump in be shouted, cheerily, as he drove alongside the cutter. 'Don't you see you'll be my only

of Satan. There was no room for doubt or question in tbe premises. And because tbey did not believe so fully in the correctness of their figuring,because they were so sure that to doubt whs to sin, the waking up has been a bitter one."

INTELLIGENCE OF HOGS. Hogs often show great intelligence Rtid aptitude to learn. A lorester had a Chinese pig which followed bim like a dog, came at call, and ran tip and down stairs. It learned to blow and perform several tricks. It was very expert in hunting mushrooms, and when told to keep watch, it would remain at its post until called away. When its owner said, "I am going to kill you," it would lie down on its back and stretch out its

^Vben Louis XI, was sick, in order to relieve tbe sadness of bis mind, a nobleman thought of teaching a pig to dance, and bringing It before bim. It was not long before a pig could hop about very well to the sound of a bugpipe. Tbey then dressed it with coat, pantaloons, necktie, bat, sword, etc., in short, all that tbe court gentlemen of the time were accustomed to wear, and introduced it into tbe presence of the King. Tbe animal bowed, danced, and followed all orders in the most artistic manner, until, getting tired, it became so awkward that the King roared with laughter, to the delight of bis courtiers.

An English gentleman carefully trained a hog for hunting. "Slug"' for so tbe hog was called, was very fond of the chase, and was ever on tbe alert when tbe huntsmen were preparing to start but tbe dogs could not endure its company, and their owner was never able to make use of both at the same time. "Slug" could scent a bird from a great distance, and would dig in tbe earth to sbow where it baa been. When the bird bopped it followed like a dog.

Hogs have been trained for draught. A countryman was in tbe habit of going to St. Alban's market in a small cart drawn by four hogs another countryman wen a wager tnat bis bog would carry bim on its back four miles in one hour. Tbeee facts are cited to sbow that tbe bog is a more intellectual animal than we give bim credit for. However, every klnd-hea?ted person will disapprove of teaching dumb creatures to perform tricks. For our own part, we take no pleasure in seeing dancing bears and spelling pigs for the process of training draws so deeply on our sympathy that we look upon everything of the kind as tbe torturing of animals.

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Boston Journal.}

One of the most melancholy sights in this city is the ex-Congressman, who persistently arrives at tbe commencement of each session, and endeavors, by lobbying, to defray his expenses until the final adjournment. Apparently entranced by Washington life, as Rlnaldo when spell-bound by Armida, or Ulysses subdued by the cup of Circe, he haunts the vestibules of the hotels and the lobblea of the Capitol, ready to sell his influence in support of any bill for a small retainer or a large contingent. And if ha sits beside a 8enator or Representative at meals, er wslk la the streets with them, he mysteriously hints that the vote of his honorable friend is all right," To most Senators and Representatives these former associates are nuisances when they return, leech-like, to fatten on old acquaintance.

Txa Alt© Pratkks.—Fsahionable Christianity in London is growing to be amuaittf. People are now invited to prayer meetings precisely ss Invited to asocial soiree or an evening party. The Newcastle Chronicle prints the followlng tnuisoript «f a earn wfcMi it has received: "Mr. and Miss propone (D. V.) to bold a Bible reading on evening at 7X o'clock, when tie comnany of firieods la requested. Subject, Hen IL Reading from 1% to #f. Morning dress A writer in the Broad Churchman states that he got a card of invitation, which, as far sa the body of onoeroed, might have applied to ereafd puty, bat In tbe corner were the ehsraoters.* Tea and P. Af tor awhile he diseovwsd tbat the cabalistic sign stood for Tea sad Prayere, He went, and when he found tbem beading Bibiee roond on a tray, be left

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A white boy met a oolored lad tbe other day, and asked him what he had such short nose for. 'I 'spect so it won't poke itself into other people's business."

How test they build bouses now!' said H. tbey began tbat building last week, and uow they are putting in the lights.' Yes,' answered bis friend, and next week they will put in the liver."

Peter Vau Dyke, an old chap, who died in New Hampshire tbe other day, worth (140,000 in cash, requested in bis will that no one 'should snuflle and shed crocodile tears at his funeral, but cover him over and then hurry home to fight over his money.'

Lapeer, Michigan,has had a dramatic entertainment. The 'Union Spy' was produced, and tbe local editor's ecstatie feelings on the occasion may be inferred from bis allusion to 'a billowy ocean of foaming skirts, which, in tbeir virgin and uncontaminated purity, rolled and surged and puffed in tbe gaslitair.'

GOLDEN WORDS.

Tbere is no God dare wrong a worm.' —Emerson. Fame is but a flower upon a dead man's heart.—[Motherwell.

All things come round to him that doth but wait.—[Longfellow. Weakness is more opposite to virtue than is vice itself.—[Rochefoucauld.

A crowd always thinks with its sympathies, never with its reason.—[Alger, Men live better in tbe past, or in the future, than in tbe preseBt.—[Novalis.

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of another.—[Emerson. Crimes sometimes shock us too much vices almost always too little.—[Haire,

By the very constitution of our natures moral evil brings its own curse.— [Chalmers.

Volatility of words is carelessness in actions words are tbe wings of actions. —[Lavater.

The heart is like a convent—tbe boli er tbe cloister the more charitable tbe door.—[Bulwer Lytton.

Music is a prophecy of what is to be— the rainbow of promise translated out ot seeing into hearing.—[L. M. Child.

Words should be employed .as tbe means, not as tbe end language is tbe instrument, conviction is the work.— [Sir J. Reynolds.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more indulgent. 1 see no fault committed that I have net committed myself.—[Geotbe.

It is safer to affront some people than to oblige tbem for tbe better a man deserves the worse they will speak of bim.—[Seneca.

I hate anything tbat occupies more space than it is worth, I bate to see a load of band-boxes go along the street, and I bate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.—[Hazlitt.

SENS A TION OF STARVING For the first two days through whicb a strong and haalthy man is doomed to exist upon nothing, his Bufferings are perhaps more, acute than in tbe remaining states—ho feels an inordinate unspeakable craving at the stomach, night and day. The mind runs npon beef, bread and other substantial^, bat still in a great measare, the body retains its strength. On tbe third and fourth days, but especially on the fourth, this incessant craving gives place to a sinking and weakness of the stomach, accompanied by a nausea. The unfortunate sufferer still desires food, but with loss of strength be loses that eager craving which is felt in the earlier stages. Should he chance to obtain a morsel or two of food, be swallows it with a wolfish avidity but five minutes afterward bis sufferings are more intense than ever. He feels as if he bad swallowed a living lobster, which, is ohaw ing and feeding upon tbe very founda tion of bis existence. On the fifth day ebe»ks suddenly appear hollow end sunken, his body attenuated, bis color is ashy pale, and bis eye wild, glassy, cannibalisb. The different parts of the system now war with each other. The stomach calls upon tbe legs (o go with it in quest of food the legs, from very weakness, refuse. Tbe sixth day brings with it increased suffering, slibougb tbe pangs of hunger are lost In an overpowering languor and sickness. The head becomes giddy—the ghosts of well remembered dinners pass in hideous processions through the mind. The seventh day comes, bringing increased lassitude and further prostration of strength. Tbe arms hang lifelessly, the legs drag heavily. Tbe desire for food is still felt, to a degree, but it must he brought, not sought. Tbe miserable remnant of life which still hangs to tbe sufferer is a burden almoet too grievous to be borne yet his inherent love of existence Induces a desire still to preserve It, if it can be saved without a tax npon bodily exertion. Tbe mind wanders, At one moment he thinks bis weary limbs oannot sustain him a mile, tbe next he is endowed with unnatural strength,and if there be a certainty of relief before him, dsahes bravely and strongly forward, wandering whence proceeds his new and sodden impulse.

JOHN STUART MILL OS ENCh LI8H SOCIETY, **General society, as now carried on in England, is so insipid an affair even to tbe persons who make it what it la, tbat It ia kept np for anjr other reason rather than the pleasure It affords. All serious discussion en matters on which opinions differ being considered ill-bred and the national deficiency io liveliness and sociability having prevented tbe cultivation of the art of talking agreeably on triflea, in which tbe French of tbe iset century so nsueh exoetlfd, tbe sole attraction of what ia nailed society tothoee who are sot at the top of the tree is the hope of being able to climb a little higher fc It. To persons of any but a vecy eomtnoa erder In thought or feeling snob society, anises he bee personal obiecte to serve by it, must be supremely unattractive and most people. In the preseatday, of any really high clses or intellect, stake tbeir cootact with it so slight, aad at such long intervals, as to be almoet conaidered as from

retiring

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SHORT SMILES. Soxk persons when they join tbe A Western newspaper heads its list

of female personal intelliwnce.'Her

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Mugging "iteys that. Id .. tfnard face of your heart, sins it! slnir itf times, a five-dollar greenbat-k looks as big as a circus poster.

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more

fitted to destroy bad government than tooonstZsct foundations for good ones. Nine-tenths of the ministers of the country are not as well paid as baseball professional. Bat religion is not tbe national game."

Gracious me!' exclaimed a ladv in a witness box,' How should 1 ki»ow~ anything about anything I don't know snytbing about?'

mu8t

m,rth and

take all the

«lee

oot

Ji i° it. IfaiovesongriDDlestothftsnr.

of tbeir lives, Dou't

sing it! do not let it die. My second mother, for I remember no other was my ideal of womanly gentleness' propriety aud grace. She used, before marriage, to be quite a belle, and was often known to trip the iigbt fantastic toe. One evening, as my father played a tune on tbe violin, my mother arose, and in the most graceful manner possible to conceive, commenced to uauce about tbe room. I didn't know what to make of it. I was speechless with consternation and delight. My father looked on with surprise. Never, in the whole course of my life, had I seen such a thing attempted in my father's house. It was delicious, and I got a lesson then which has lasted ever since. I think to this day,if mother bad danced oftener and aaid catechism a little less, it would have been better for us all. If you have a talent for dancing, cultivate it make the most of your talent, whether of voice, or foot or [Beecher.

eye.—

Smith was walking out with

the idol of his heart, the other evening, and ihey chose tbe favorite resort of lovers, the goat pasture near the dam. While admiring the falls and getting their noses reddened by the north wind, she burst out raptuouslv "Isn't that dam splendid She nearly lainted away when Smith answered that he wasn't used to hearing young ladies swear, and another engagement is broken off.

vent Centaur Linlmcut. The Rreat discovery of the ace. There is no pain which tne Centaur Liniment will not relieve, no swelling which it will notsulxlue, anrl no lameness which it will not cure. This is strong language, but it is trne. It is no hum bag the recipe Is printed around eaeii bottle. A

drcu ... containing certificates of wonderfui cures of rheumatism, neuralgia, locklaw, sprains, swellings, burns, scalds, caktxibreasts, poisonous bites, irozen feei, gout, salt rheum, ear-ache, Ac., and the recipe of the Liniment will be sent gratis to nnv one, It. is the most wonderful dealing and*painrelieving agent the world has ever produced. It sells as no article ever before did soil, Snrt it sells because It does just what it pretends to do. One bottle of the Centaur Liniment for animals (yellow wrapper) Ls worth a hundred dollars for spavised, strained or galled horses and mules, and for screw-worm in sheep. No family or stockowner can afford to be without Centaur Liniment. Price, 80 cents large hot le,$l 00. J. B. Kosb A Co., 63 Broadway, New York.

Castoria

is more than a substitute for

Castor Oil. It is the only

safe

article in

existence which is sure to regulate the bowels, cure wind-colic and produce natural a eep. It is pleasant to take. Children need not cry ana mothers may sleep.

iHE OLD ESTABLISHED

IRON WORKS,

OF

TEURE-HAUTE, IND.

Owing to Its Increase of business in the past year, and flattering prospects for yet greater in the future, have been compelled to enlarge upon its already capacious facilities for doing business enabling it, thereby, to do

ITS WORK CHEAPER AND WITH GREATER DESPATCH, In additon also It has established in connection with it. a first-class Boiler and Sheet Iron Works, of sufficient capacity to accommodate all who are pleased to give their patronage. None but first-class workmen in either department. 1 respectfully invite the public to call ana examine my Mann(torture of Nlalionnry A Porta-

IIkBiikIb(k, Haw ft Plonrln( Mills, hnl Con! Shaft Machinery. a supply of which I keep constantly on hand, of tbe most approved Patterns. Also Corn Mitellerw, Cast* MlIIm, Ntafn*

Rl« Maehlnea, both Hand A Power. Kail's Celebrated Mtrel Itoltorn R. M. Scraper, also Cast i* Wrosgbt Irou 8«rap«ra, For farm use. Alse a great variety of Sebeol

Seats and Deffks, which tor beauty aad durability cannot be excelled. Together with castings of all description* for general use in this country, all of which 1 warrant to be as good as the beet, both in material and workmanship, and as cheap as the cheapest, quality taken into consideration J. A. PARKER

'IME DEFIED! PRESERVED FOR EVER I

Buried securely and la order, by nalng ffiPBOOHEtt,

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InfiHnary." Dr. D. C. Wttoew

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PATIMTmBfKCOPF»VAUlT. Isaac Rail, Agsat, city ot Terre-Haute.

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HS and Dr.». 1. asnth^ HavesotabUshed an Rye sad Bar

Mala etreet, to tk« JKarMe

ry at e9 •leek. We ate prepared to perform aUMSurgtsal operations en the Eye, Ear and Throat scQBedtna to (he mmt reesat sad sdentllc "weOnarsntee to Core in from Four to Eight weeks, the wont em»m of Chronic Hore Eyes, either Beratoteus, Granulated Eyelids, or any form of toflamaiation without lafcrenc* to tbe length of time the

wen ilJwi'sed aad used in Ce/lJoruia ^S^MeSued Eyelids, the worst

in M'KMWni Eye Inftnaarte*. «m be

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sneeewftal!y.