Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 7, Number 41, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 7 April 1877 — Page 7

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

MY NEIGHBOR.

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Throe linits i.avel envied my neighbor, M.v neii(tii)or over the way Once, who xi! ca'iif in her beauty

Home on her wedding day.

Once whew the proud happy father Carefully muffle the uell, Andjoyfally went me the message "Mother and child are well."

Again I envied my nt-iirhbor, Though my heart fairly ached with Its ain, AH they carried a white little coffin

Out into meson summer rain.

Kor I thoughta« I Hat at my window, Alum? In iny desolate ha.I, "It's much better to love and l* IOKO

Than never to love at all." And I, who have gone tliro' life loaely, Ko'uverho lwnely must be Fori know v.-ry well I hat in heaven

There i.s no xnly waiting for me.

While she, tho' her hair .may be snowy HeforeKtii' lies down to n^r rest, Will at iusi hi v.- iit-r dear tic baby

To lie like si iiove on ln-i Ti-a-st.

Littie Ching Fo.

.Just an the shadows beg-ui to grow lontf bi'Hide Laughing Iirook, two people stopped aside from the road and sat down upon the gxeen bank, apart from each other, as two oplo might who had quarreled, as indeed they had.

One was a pretty, dark girl, with great black eyes, a wealth ebon hair, aud the Miueiest red mouth in the world. The other, a tall, iair youug man, wear ing a single-breasted blajk coat, and with young clergyman written all over him in tho most unmi.-takable manner. He was the Reverend Keubon Eden, and the girl at his side was Ada Homer, to whom he was engaged. He seated himself stiffly, and with as much dignity as one can assume wpon the grass. She llounofcd herself down with a pout, and [Hilling oil" her hat, began to pluck at the strings in a nervous sort of a way. "Il'yoii are goin^ to tyrannizj over me already, I give you fair warning that I shall not bear it," she said. "I've alwaydone as I pleased, and always sha.l." "When I afkod you to be my wife bogau Jleuben Eden.

You wero «lad enough to get mo," interrupted Ada. "I.ot me finish, If you please," said the young clergyman. "VVuen 1 asked you to bo my wile, I thought you quite understood that tho husband is the head ofthehoue. liow will it be with us if you cannot bo taught that it must be so? We aren«t married yet, but vou should yield to my wishos. It is your duty. I disapprove of dancing. I highly disapprove of that dissipated and worldly young man with whom you have lately been Uirting. You have, of course, not forgotten that you will one day promise to obey me. How can you do that if you refuse to regard my wishes now?" "If your wishes are absurd—if your commands should bo ridiculous—I nuali always refuse regard and oboriieuce," said the girl. ••Then, as I shall be uiasteriu my own house, our home would be a very uncomfortable one," said the young man. "So decidedly uncomfortable that I believe it bo*t that everything should bj at an end between us," said the girl, flashing hotly. "That, u', letist, is a sensible remark," said the clergyman. Then she, growing as white as death, took from h«r finger a tiny diamond engagement ring and held It to wards him and he, whiter than sho, took it from her and quietly tossed it into Laughing iirook. The hands «f a thousand little water spirits seemed to catch it as the tiny rapids swopt it away over tho glistening rocks beneath. Over each brown head it sparkled aud flashed, and tuen was gone. Then* a dignified young clergy man slowly walked one way, and a very pretty young lady, with her round hat very much over her eyes, took tho other, without tho ceremony of leave taking. T.ut, oh, the pain and rage in h«r heart, and oh, tho rage and pain in hia. Site loved him dearly, though she was uu innocent little flirt and liked dancing too nuicu, and he loved her as i.it oiil\ iuvronco, though ho was conceited and intolerant, as a very youug clergyman oltcn is.

Tn'o girl hal done no 'liArm. If she had site was lrank enough to have owned it au.l begged forgiveness. And though a twinge of Jealousy had caused horlovor to make mountains out of moloiulls, his rule would have been gentle when tho little soul who had begun to dread it was once his own. Ilut there, beside Laughing Brook, their ways dlvorged. They saw ouch other no more for many days to come. The village gossips knew to a woman that tho att'alr was off. But though months wont by there was no symptom that "tho minister" was looking elsewhere for a wife, nor did A ia bestow any peculiar favor on any of the village beaux* A year posted—two, tho clergyman still lived alone in his parsonage, and Ada Homer kept houso for her grandfather in tho old mansion at the edge of the village. Now and then sho would go down to the margin of Laughing Brook and sit watching the water, that luni swept away toor ring, with a very grave law. But i»o took lung dolours to avoid tho spot and when the wind, settiug thnr 'v broiijjbf'''i' «j ing Brook to the parsonage study, he would rise and shut the windows and shut it out. lie had douo this the very day when, waking suddenly in tho middle of toe night, he was aware of a Strange flickering, vermilion glow across bis coiling, and jumping out of bed ho saw trom his window that the Homer mansion on tho hill beyoud was one great $heet of liatne, and only he seemed HO

bo awaro of the tact. All the villHge slumbered, and about the house iteil no figures moved. They were being burned in their bods or smothered. They? Nay! 8lie, hia Ida,

he called

her at that moment, uttering her name for the Ur*t tune for two yeara. Hastily clothing himself, he rushed out of the hou.te and over the hill, crying "Fire as he ran. Wtudotvi opened at the cry. He heard voices utivnng acmauta of ntnajtotlleut. The alarm was given. But was it iuw of any avail llo stood be fore the house, and saw every window fast shut but one upon the second floor. This the ilauiea had uot yet reached. I'uder a great pear tree stood a ladder. It was a very heavy oue. At ordinary times his hands, unused to anjthing heavier than the pen, could not hav« stirred it. Now be found no difficulty in carrying it to the window and placing it so that he could ascend by it. This done, up he went and in at the casement. Ureal clouds of blinding smoke greeted him as be entered, bat be groped his way on. shouting as he went. The tlames wete bunting through the partitions, the paper ahnvedng into xroila. There was an old picture in the passage with a wreath of fire for a frame, aud as he turned a glance upon it

a red tongue licked out the face and powdered hair and white ruffles, and there was nothing left. This room with red do:r posts was hers. He knew it. He stood on the threshold and aaw at first only leaden smoke and scarlet blaze. Then, low down on the floor something the flames had not touched yet—a figure in white. "Ada!" he cried, and seized it in hit arms. A little worsted shawl had Deen about her shoulders. He wrapped it over the facp and head, and lifted the sanseless forru in hi» arms. Then he sped back again, not knowing whether what be held was a ltvi'ig woman or a lifeless form. Mis w«y was now through fire as well as hrniigii smoke, but he reached the window at la^t, and the crowd balow welcomed hiai with Gries and shouts as he appea'ed upon the ladder, his hair burn* d, his lashes scorched, his clothing burned upon him. The next instant ho htood upon the grass, and laid his burden .I'UMi and uncovered its face. The fire had not touched it, and it was the face of a living woman.

But. as the eyes opened, be saw .hat it was not Ada. He had saved the life of a young sei van! girl who had recently come to take service with the Homers.

She—Ada—was s-till in the burning house. With a wild cry he dashed towards the door, which had at last been battered down. A sheet of flame rushed out to meet him, and he fell senseless upon the ground. The next morning the Homer mansion lay in ashes. Tne poor uirl who had been saved lay raving in delirium aud unable to give anj account of the origin of the lire. And in the dark fined room of thf parsonage the young minister lay suHiring and disfigured upon what the 0 etors had little doubt would be a bed ol ueuth.

Three weeks had passed since the fire. There had been a sean among its debris, but the bodies of tho old man and his granddaughter had xioi been found.

Tnero it lay, an unsi^hMy heap, wllic'i Reuben Eden was glad that he could not see as he sul in his invalid chair by the window. The yonng clargyman was getting better, and one day no would be quite well, but at present he was simply a wreck of his former self.

Ho was unable to take a stop alone, and his eyes had been so injured that it would be months before he could read or wr.to. Even the faces of thase about him were dim and indistinct to his -vision. Aa for his heart, it would never know peace again, it seemed to him, as he kept saying over and over to himself. "If I had not quarreled with Ada, she would have been here beside me, safe and well. She would not have been in the old house when the flames destroyed it, tor she would have been 1113- wife." Ho was dreadfully miserable, and with tho irritability of a convalescent came a detestation of those kind, gossipy matrons who had nursed him so tenderly and so faithlully. He wished them away with all their inquiries and sick room talk, their camphor aud cologne, and jellies, and good books. And one day he confided to his friend and fellow clergyman, old Dr. Orm by, that a man to wait upon him would be a great relief.

The ladies are so—so oppressively kind, you know," he said. The other understood.

A few days after a little note was brought to him by Mr. Arlington's wile, who was then prtsiding over the sick $ootn, and who, since he cowld not read it himself read it to him:

DEAR EDKN:—I think you will find the bearer of tnls note a very good uurse and aitendant- The Mission brmght him over. He understands ngllsh perfectly, and is as gentle as a woman and not as talkative1 Try him. Yours, OKMSBY. "Let the young man come up," said Mr. Eden. And forthwith entered a little creature with a long blue cotton blouse—-a costume scarcely masculine in effect, with his long hair braided in a pig tail and liis eyes cast humbly to the ground. Mr. Eden engaged him at once, and tne lady members of his little flock wero secretly delighted. Even a young clergyman,"when ho becomes as cross as Mj\ Eden was in his uncomfoitable convalescence, grows wearisome.

Ching Fo, a young Japanese, was installed at the parsonage, and in the little slippers which ho wore in tho house went noiselessly from his work and petted and nursed his master with a strange tenderness. He never sp.ike unless spoken to. But when ho was not busy, he liked to sit 011 a low stool close to Mr. Eden's invalid chair, and Mr. Eden liked the little man 11. Once, as ho crouched there, the master's thin band was outstretched, and rested for a moment on Ching Fo'ssmooth head. While it lay there, the Japanese sat quite still, but when it was about to be removed, he caught it and pressed it to his lips, and shwwered kisses on it. "He has a tender heart," thought Mr. Eden.

Winter was gone. Spring had come. All the grass about Laughing Brook was reen, Iresh and teider. The young eaves were on the trees at his window. Tho young minister, whose vision was yet dim, could hear tho lap and ripple of tho water over tho stones. He did not shut it out now. Itsoemod to him as tho' the memories of his dead love hung so closely about Laughing Brook thai* if spirits could return to earth, hers would revisit that spot of all others. At least those fond remembrances that, ir they are not the spirits of those we have lost, serve us in their stead, would fill his heart beside its shady margin, and ho might beguile himself into a fancy that ho was waiting, as he had often waited, lor her coming "step. At last he determined that he would go uitbor. •'Ching Fo," h? raid fo'-ttV* 'apanese. "can you wheel me as far as the brook yonder?"

Tho servant replied by retroating behind his master's invalid chair, and no tnore was said until, by quiet paths, they had come to the side of Laughing Krook—taay, to the very spot where he parted from Ada, where he had thrown their troth-plight ring into tho water. Then sho stood beside him, living, young and hcautltul. Then hp was strong and active, aud full of vigor. To-day she lay dead, ashes amid the ashes of her ruined home, aad be, heiplasfc, halfblind invalid, Rat there alone. Aud all might have been so different. lie put his head down upon his hands and the tears could not be crushcd back from his weakened eyes. "If could only have diod with her," he said to hiniaeif, "U would have been ao much better."

Meanwhile, Ching FV, who must have had some sorrow of his own, cried softly behind the chair. But Chtng Fo's *ye* were bright, even when wet with team, and, as he wiped them away, be caught sight of something among the pebble* that glittered and flashed with at ran re brightness, and leaving his maatePs aide, be crept forward and stooped with a low cry and eangbt it, aud htd it in his bosom. "Oh, I have found it!" be cried.»^ i!

And Ren ben Eden, starting .from his bitter reverie, said— v-a-, \Wbat nave you found?" "A little ring, sir/* said ChinVFo. "A ring?" saw Mr. Eden, "Give it to me." "Pardon," said Ching Fo. "I found it* Let me keep it."

"Not if It is what I think ft Is," aaid his master. "I will give you another ring, or more than itn value* in money. But if it is a woman'* ring with "a diamond, with 'Ada from Reuben' engraved within, Imustiiave it." "It is the ring," said the Japanese, as he advanced and put it into his waster's hand. "Ching Fo," said Reuben Eden, "yon area good, tender-hearted fellow. Let me tell you why I love this ring so well. It belonged to the girl who should have been my wife. She is dead new. I tried to save lier, but iu vain. I—oh, I was cruel to her—cruel, cruel—and this is all I have left. I deserve it—I deserve it."

He dropped his head passionately upon his arm. But two smaller arms lifted it up. andasoftcheek pressed hi*. Lips touched his scarred forehead. "Oh, Reuben!"cried a voice, full of all the tenderness of love, "you did love ineafter all. It was Ching Fo who spoke— Ching Fo who showered these kisses on the aching eyes and fondled and ca ressed him—Ching Fo, and. not Ching Fo. "In heaven's name speak again!" cried Reuben Eden. "Tell me who you are?" And though the voice ouly answered, "No, no let me iro," it was enough. "Ada," he said, and held her fast. "Ada, no, I will never let you g' again. Since you are not dead, but living, since you have stopped your woman's pride to minister to

guise, you must love n. •. Take the ring agiin—put it upon yur tinker. I have mado a fool of myseil' but iod only knows how bitterly I have p-iid tor it-." "I never meant that you should find me out," said she. "1 heard th»t you could scarcely see, and that you oe lieved ino dead. I grievtru f-ir you so bitterly, and grandpa, who could not bear to come to the old place, sent mo down when he beard what had hap pened. Wewerenotin thehousewhen the lire broke out we were away on visit, and before Gretchen—whose life you had saved—was sensible enough to tell people that her friends had taken her home. When I came down here I met the little Japanese, who had been sent to vou by chance, and he really looked like me, and was much my »ize. I told him you would not be a kind master, and sent him toaomeoue I know wh« has wanted a servant for a long time, and I bought two of bis suits, and got a letter of recommendation, and grandpa thinks I am visiting Jane Lome, and, oh, indeed, I meant tc go away before you could guess at Untruth, mypoor, blind dar.ioi ." "And you must go away before any one «lse guesses it," said the man. with a sudden remembrance of evil tongues. "But you will come back to me in your perBon? You will promise that, Ada—you will bo my wit'o." Ada promised. That night tho Japanese servant disappeared. The next day the village was astonished by the news that Homer aud his pretty graud-daughtt~r were alive, and long be fore he was strong of limb and eyesight again, the minister had a wife over whoso wedding-ring glistened tbe dia mond that Laughing Brook had kept for her two long years.

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ASK Y0UI tTDVC DEALER FOR THE "FAVORITE."

Sold by B. L. BALL. Ohio street, between Third and Second streets.

COIN-SILVER

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Gold Premiums

GIVEN AWAY

To Every Subscriber of This Paper!!

Silver and Gold goods furnished under this Premium Proposition are from tho well known and reliable Eagle Gold and Silver Plating Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. Under a very favorable proposition from the above well known house, all regular patrons of this paper can secure a useful and beautiful, as well as a very valuable Premium, in the shape of a handsome set of

EXTRA PLATED SILVER SPOONS,

the kind sold in this country for $4.50 per set. Aud, in addition,

WILL BE HANDSOMELY ENGRAVED WITH YOURIONOCRAM I INITIAL.

All wno are entitled to receive this elegant and useful Premium can do so ou compliance with the following conditions: Send your name and post-office address, with your express office, to the Eagle Gold and Silver Plating Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, together with the following Premium Order, and inclose with your order 75 cents V) pay cost

of engraving your initials, express charges, boxing, and packing, and you will receive by express (or mail, if you have no express office) a full

EE OF ANY CHARGE.

return express (or mail, if you nave no express office) a full set of extra plated Silver Spoons

All express

ANY CHARGE.

and the Spoons will be delivered to you S a a Tne order must in all cases be sent, to indicate that yon are entitled to this Premium, as

All express wid

Spoons will be delivered to you

At no time In the history of manufacture* ha* Silver Plated Ware attained ao high a perfection a* at the prMeut day. Theie good*, la appearaaoe and for practical uae, are a* good a* aolld Silverware, and much preferred by many families. Tht* olifer can not long be held open. Thoac who de»lr« them are urged to Ininirdlatelr nend and secure to themselve* the Immenaeadvantagea offered by tht* company for aecurlug the he»t Silter 1' I«t Ware ret offered on auch favorable term*. J7 Addrea* all order* to Eagle Uold and Silver I'lntliiff CO Cincinnati. Ohio.

CONSISTING OF I

Klecnnt extra-plated TABLE SILVERWARE, iiucli as $7.00- Castors, Knives 86.00 per act, Forks |5.00, Spoons $4.50 per set, Napkin-

Rings $2.50 a pair, SngarBowls, goldlined, all of latest style of pattern,

TO EVERY SUBSCRIBER FREE.

FREI

you

the Spooai la $4.50 per set. We wtU in no oaiie reull them at a leia prloe. or tend them la •ingle teu to any on* who docs not Bend the required "Order," shoving that the tender a patron of thta paper. 07 Ail order* mutt be lent to abore firm. Oou.

HEAD CAREFDEiTiT.—If you prefer as a Premium our $7.00

Forks upon receipt of $1.00: this includes the cost of packing, boxing, postage, and express charges or we will furnish you any of the other goods named on same terms. Thus delivering to you the goods free of any expense, as a Premium, at cost of packing and express charges, etc.

1 PREMIUM SILVER ORDER. fl^Premitim Silverware: Warranted Extra Silver Plate.

To the Eagle Cold and Silver Platting Co.. Cincinnati, O.t This ia to certify that I ara a aubscriber of tho paper from which I have cut this Order, nnd am entitled, under your premium arrangement, to a full aet of extra-plated Pilrer Spoons, with my initials engraved thereon, or other Silverware which I may order herewith. I inclose herewith 75 cents, to pay express, packing, boxing, and engraving charge*.

K^On receiptor this Order, we hereby agree to return to tbe sender, exprew or mailing cknrfe* prepaid In ftill. a full bet of six of

EOLKAFS AGUE AND LIVER PAD

OYSTERS!! OYSTERS!!

M. C. RAFFEIITY, aiain slreet, east of Sixth, IKVH

packing charges are covered by the 75

FREE/

ed, yon are only required to send 60 cents, to

I I A 1 A S A I A A

verv liberal offer is not extended to any who is not a patron of this paper. The retail price of tliis sot of spoons is $4.50, as the following letter will show: Omci

OF .EION

GOLD

it marveloiu in H* prompt and radioal ciira for awry •peoie* of Liver and Stomach difficulties. It contains only harmless vegetable compounds, and is worn EXACTLY WHERE NEEDED, over the vitals, the Liver and Stomach. It re-^w

moves torpidity of the liver, and arouses the stomaoh from its dormant state, arresting fermentation, torpor and pain, *7" by giving it the natural quantity of bile arid gastrio juice. It also vitalizes the entity system with Nature's true tonio. It arrests all deteriorated and poisonous fluids in the stomaoh, and thus prevents their entering the system by way of cir-i,^« I culation. It absorbs from the body every particle of BLOOD

POISON, whether bilious, malarial or medicinal, and leaves the wearer in perfect health. Sent by mail, frne 6f charge, on receipt of $2.00. Address Holman Iaver Pad Co., No.^^ 68 Maiden Lane, P.O. Box 2112, N. Y., or 248 W. Fourthv Street, Cincinnati, 0. All live Druggists keep ihem.

E A I 1 0 E I S E I A may be found tho largest .itisortinontof,

PIANOS, ORGANS,

""J-'^lVier'Musical Instruments

and MUSICAL MERCIIAXDiSE. of cvnrv description/u

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!§S rj

If. you do not desire to have the cxprcssage aijd boxing, to this Premium, as this

AKS SUM

We n«.ur« all unbiorlbera that the goodi contracted for arc flrd-elut

PLATnra

COMRISR.

&'•

equal to the best article of

EACH SPOOK

eft

CIKCIXXATT, OHIO.

erery re«peot, and that our reull prloe (br

IKD

SILT.. PLaniw Co«.*!«R.

CASTOR*

we will furnish you with the Castor on receipt of 81.50, and the

or 15.00

our extra-plated Silter Spoons, with tbe initials of

the sender, or any other initials desired, engraved thereon, or our |7.00 Castor on receipt Of #1.50. 0®"This Order will be honored by us for ninety days from the this paper, after which it will be null and void. [Signed] EAOI.K GOLDADD SILVKIIdate

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VLATofNU I CO., Cincinnati, O.

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th«s#ffft and Ihe best, is histantuiipouft lti Its tion, anil 11 produces' the most, natural shades of hlai-k or brown, dot^s not slain the skin,and Isenslly ftppliod.pS^ It iBastandMd iiroiiaration, and a favorite upon every well-nnnoInteH toilet for lady or gentleman. For Raw'-'"'* by all llniKKlsts and Hair l»re*ser». JOHKI'H )r 1 Ttnt)/^ 1® 't ft/tv "119 Vnw ioiu'lctor, 1'. O. Box i!112. New York.

I OR FITS ahsolnUly eared by the UJ«

*. u., ror.liiuO, Main.

tho ««eno

for the best brands of Oysters, which he ol lers to tiie trade at reasonable figures. H» sells the finest Fish in the West.

Ron' Epllop-.

tlo Remedies. TKIALPACKAOHSENT"Dr.tpcodilyandof rRBR. Addre«i. ROSS BROTHKK3,, No. sis Main Street, RICHMOND, IXIV

Sartiples IN

nr» per da/ »t home. dO

worth

a week In your own

IOWII.

Term#

aud 55 tun til net-. II. II I *10 ff te' CO., i'ortland, Maine.

h'i 'i fan.

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I A TT w-1 nt-few ever kept in lerre-Haute.

Purchasing everything from first hands, the proprietor also having acquired tbe trade of a Piano Maker, at tbe ^ame time having an catabllnbed reputation as a Toner and Musician, superior advantages nre which are simply -.W-:

PAST COMPETITION.

PIAX08 AND ORGAN.S rented and sold on easy monthly payment*. t.

Notice.—GUIDE TO STRANUERS inquiring for

KISSNER'S PALACE OF MUSK).

Take street cars to oomerof Main and Third Ktreets. sooib tbence one block to .-

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