Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 7, Number 51, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 June 1877 — Page 2

THE MAIb

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

1XRRB HAUTE, JUNE 16, 1877.

IF I SHOULD DIB TO-NIGHT.

If 1 should die to-night,

My friend* would look upon my quiet face Before tbey laid it lu Its final resting place, And deem that death had left it almost fair And laying snow-white flowers against my hair. Would smooth it down with tearfnl tenderness. And fold my hands with a lingering caress, Poor hands, so empty and so cold to- night.

If 1 should die to-night.

My friends would Mil to mind, with loving thought, Some kindly deed the icy hand had

Some geotfe word the frozen lips had suld: Errands on which the willing feet had sped The memory of my selfishness and pride, My hasty words, would all be put aside, And so I shoulu be loved and mourned tonight.

If I should die to-night,

Even hearts estranged would turn once more to me. Recalling other days remorsefully The eyes that chill me with averted glance Would look upon me as of yore, perchance, And softeu, in the old familiar way. For who could war with dumb, unoonsclous clay? So I might lest, forgiven of all to-night.

Oh! Mends, I pray to-night Keep not your kisses for my dead, cold brow— The way Is lonely, let me feel them now, Think gently of me I am travel-worn My faltering feet are pierced with many a thorn. Forgive, oh! hearts estranged forgive, I plead! When dieamless rest is mine I shall not need The teuderness for which I long to-night.

THE

Circuit Rider.

A LOVE STORY OF EARLY LIFE IN THE WEST.

BY EDWARD EGGLESTON.

Auihrr of The Hoosier Schoolmaster End of the World," Mystery of Metropolisvilleetc.

[The Circuit Rider was commenced in The Saturday Evening Mail, Vol. 7, No. 48. April 21. Back numbers can be had of newsd alers, or at this office, or sent by mall for Ave cents each.0]

CHAPTER XXI. CON A LESCENCE.

At last Kike is getting better, and Morton can be spared. There is no Ion-

5enkinsville

er any reason why tbe rowdies on Circuit sboald pine for the muscular youuc^preacher whom they bave vowed to 'lick as soon as they lay eyes on him.' Dolly's legs are aching for a gallop. Morton and Dr. Morgan bave exhausted their several systems of theology in discussion. So, at last, the impatient Morton mounts the impatient Dolly, and gallops away to»preacb to the impatient brethren and face the impatient ruffians of Jenkinsville Circuit. Kike is left yet in bis quiet harbor to recover. Tbe doctor has taken a strange fancy to tbe zealous young prophet, and looks forward with sadness to tbe time when be will leave.

Ab, happiest experience of life, when tbe flood tide sets back through the veins! You have no longer any pain, you are not well enough to feel any responsibility you cannot work there is no obligation resting cn you but one— that is rest. Such perfect passivity Kike had never known before. He could walk but little. He sat tbe livelong day by tbe open window, as list less as tbe grass that waved before the wind. All tbe sense of dire responsibility, all those feelings of the awfulness of life, and the fearfulness of bis work, and tbe dreadfulness of his accountability, were in abeyance. To eat, to drink, to sleep, to wako and breathe, to suffer as a pasalve instrument tbe play of whatever feeling might chance to come, was Kike's lire.

In this state tbe severity of bis character was laid aside. He listened to the quick and eager conversation ot Dr. Morgan with a gentle pleasure be answered the motherly questions of Mrs. Morgan with quiet gratitude he admired the goodness of Miss Jane Morgan, tbeir eldest and most exemplary daughter, as a far off spectator. There were but two things that bad a real interest for bim. Ho felt a keen delight in watching the wayward flight of the barn swallows as they wont chattering out from under the eaves—their airy vagabondage was BO restful. And he liked to watch tbe quick, careless tread of Henrietta Morgan, tbe youngestof tbe doctor's daughter*, wh® went on. forever talking and laughing wltb as little reck as tbe swallows themselves. Though she was eigbtoen, there was in her full childlike cheoks, in her contagious laugh—a laugh most unprovoked, coming of itself —in Her playful way of performing even her duties, a something that so contrasted with and relieved the habitual austerity of Kike's temper, and that so fell in with bis present lassitude and happy carelessness, that he allowed his head, renting weakly upon a pillow, to turn from sido to side, that his eyes might follow her. So ui verting were ber merry replies, that he soon came to talk with ner for the take of hearing them. He was not forgetful ef tbe solemn injunctions Mr. Wesley had left for the prudent behavior of younjj ministers in the presence of women. ith Miss Jane he was very careful lest he should in any way compromise himself, or awaken her affections. Jane was the kind of a girl be would want to marry, if he were to marry. But Nettie was a child —a cheerful butUrfly—as refreshing to his weary uiind a drink of cold water to a fover-patienU When she was out of the room, Kike was Impatient when she returned, he was glad. When she sewed, he drew the Urge chair in which be rested in front of ber, and talked in his grave fashion, while she, in tarn, amused him with a hundred fancies.

She

seemed to shine all about him like sunlight. Poor Kike could not refuse to enjoy a fellowship so delightful, and Nettie Morgan's reverence for young Lumsden'a saintlinem, and pity for his sickness, grew apace into a lor© for him.

Long before Kike discovered or Nettie suspected this, tbe doctor bad penetrated it. Kike's whole-hearted devotion to his work had charmed the ex-minister, who moved about in his alert fashion, talking with eager rapidity, anticipating Kike's grave sentences before he was half through-seeing a»d hearing everything while he seemed to note nothing. He was not averse to this attachment between the t#o. Provided always, that Kike should give up traveling. It was ail but impossible, indeed, for a man to be a Methodist preacher In that day and •lead about a wife,' A very few managed to combine the ministry with. marriage, but in most cases marriage *Published In lllaM rated book form Uy J. B. KujU vo, vw Yvj»a.

rendered 'location' or secularisation imperative. Kike sat one day talking in the balflistless way that la characteristic of convalescence, watching Nettle Morgan aa •he sewed and laughed, when Dr. Morgan came in, put his pill-bagaupon the nigh bureau, glanced quickly at tbe two, and said: 'Nettie, I think you'd better help your mother. The double-and-twisting hard work.'

Nettle laid her sewing down. Kike watched ber until abe bad disappeared through the door then be listened until tke moio vigorous spinning indicated to him that younger bands had taken the wheel. His heart sank a little—it might be hours before Nettle could return.

Dr. Morgan busied himself, or preton ded to bury himself, with his medicines, but he was observing how the young

Eow

reaeher's eyes followed his daughter, his countenance relapsed into its habitual melancholy when she was gone. He thought he could not be mine asitnk his diagnosis. 'Mr. Lumsden,' he said, kindly, don't know what we shall do when j'ou get well. I can't bear to have you go

'Jou bave been too good, doctor, am afraid you have spoiled me.' The thought of Pottawottomie Creek was growing more and more painful to Kike. He had put all thoughts out of his mind, because the doctor wished him to keep his mind quiet. Now, for some reason, Doctor Morgan seemed to force tbe disagreeable future upon him. Why was it unpleasant? Why had he lost his relish for his work? Had he indeed backslidden?

While tbe dector fumbled over his bottles, and for the fourth time held a large phial, marked Sulph. de Qutn., up to the light, as though he were counting the grains, the young preacher was in stituting an inquiry into his own relig ious state. Why did he shrink from Pottawottomie Creek circuit? He had braved much harder toil and greater danger. On Pottawottomie Creek he would bave a senior colleague upon whom all administrative responsibili ties would devolve, and tbe year prom ised to be an easy one in comparison with the preceding. On inquiring ot himself he found that there was no circuit that would be attractive to him in his present state of mind, except the one that lay all around Dr. Morgan's house. At first Kike Lumsden, playing hide-and-seek with his own motives, as other men do under like circumstances, gave himself much credit for his grateful attachment to the family. Surely gratitude isja generous quality, and can not Dr. Morgan, though of another denomination, taken him under his roof, and given him professional attention free of charge? And Mrs. Morgan and Jane and Nettie, had they not cared for him as though he were a brother? What could be more commendable than that he should find himselfloth to leave people who were so good?

But Kike had not been in tbe habit of cheating himself. He had always dealt hardly with Kike Lnmsdem He could not rest now in this subterfuge he would not give himself credit that he did not deserve. So while the tbe doctor walked to the window and Eenselessly examined the contents of one of his bottles marked 'Hydrarg.,' Kike took another and closor look at his own mind and saw tkat the sne person whose loss would be painful to him was not Dr. Morgan, nor his excellent wife, nor the admirable Jane, but the volatile Nettie, the cadence of whoso spinning wheel he was even hearkening to. The consciousness that he was in love came to him suddenly—a consciousness not without pleasure, but with a plentiful admixture of pain.

Doctor Morgan's eyes, glancing with characteristic alertness, caught tbe expression of anew self-knowledge and of an anxious pain upon the forehAd of Lumaden. Then tbe physician seemed all at once satisfied with bis medicines. The bottle labelled

Hydrargf and the

'Sulph. de Quin.' were now replaced in the saddle bags. At this moment Nettie herself came into the room on some errand. Kike bad beard ber wheel stop—had looked toward the door—had caught ber glanco as the came in, and bad, in that moment, become aware that be was not the only person in love. Was it, then, that the doctor wished to prevent the attachment going further that he had delicately reminded bis guest of the approach of the time when he must leave?jThese thoughts aroused Kike from tbe lassitude of his slow convalescence. Nettie went back to her wheel, atld set it humming louder than ever, but Kike heard now in its tones some note of anxiety that disturbed him. Tbe doctor came and sat down by him and felt his pulse, ostensibly to see if be had fever, really to add yet another link to the chain of evidence that his surmise was oorrect. 'Mr. Lumsden,'said he, 'a constitution so mtfch impaired as yours cannot recuperate in a few days.' 'I know that, sir,' said Kike, 'and I am anxious to get to my mother's for a rest there, that I may not burden you any longer, and '"Vou misunderstand me, my dear fellow, if you think I wanttoget rid of you. I wish yeu would stay with me always I do indeed.'

For a moment Kike looked out of the window. To stay with the doctor always would, it seemed to him, be a heaven upon earth.) But had he not renounced all thought of a heaven on earth? Had he not said plainly that there he had no abiding place? Having put bis hand to the plow, should be look back? •But I ought not to give up my work.'

It was not in thiatoue that Kike would bave spsrned sucl?n temptation awhile before. 'Mr. Lumsden,' said the doctor, 'you see that I am useful here. I cannot preach a great deal, but I think I have never done so much good as since I began to practice medicine. I need somebody to help me. I cannot take care of the farm and my practioe too. You could look after the farm, and preach every Sunday in tbe country twenty miles roupd. You fnight evqn study medicine after awhile, and take the

»ractice as I grow older. You will die, yon go on with yonr Circnit-riding. Come and live with me, and be my assistant.' Tbe doctor had almost said 'my son.' It was in his mind, and Kike divined it. 'Think about it,' said Dr. Morgan, as he rose to to, 'and remember that nobody is obliged to kill himself.'

And all day long Kike thought and prayed, and tried to see tbe right and all day long Nettie found occasion to come in on little errands, and as often as she came in did it »=em dear to Kike that he would be justified in accepting Dr. Morgan's offer and as often as she went out did be tremble test be were about to betray the trust committed to him.

CHAPTER XXII. THR DBC1SIOX.

The austerity of Kike's conscience had slumbered daring his convalescence. It was wide awake now. He sat that evening in bis room trying to see the right way. According to old Methodist custom, he looked for some inward movement of thespirit—some 'impression'—tkat sboald guide him.

During the great religious exoitement of the early part of the century. Western pietists referred everything to Qod in prayer, and the belief in immediate diviue direction was often carried to a ludicrous extent. It is related that one man retired to the hills and prav«vi a week that be might know how he should be baptised, and that at last he came rushing out of the woods, shouting 'Hallelujah! Immersion!' Various tie. Joes were invented for obtaining divine direction—devices not unworthy tbe ancient augurs. Lorouz Dow used to suffer his horae to take his own course at each divergence of tha»road. It seems to have been a favorite delusion of pietiim, in all ages, that U~d could direct an inanimate object, guide a diynb brute or impress a blind impulse upon the hu

man

mind, but could not enlighteu or guide the judgment itself. The opening of a Bible at random lor a dlrocting text became so common during the Wesleyan movement in Knglaud, that Dr. Adam Clarke thought it necessary to utter a stout Irish philippic against what he called 'Bible soitilege.'

He conducted his devotions in a state of great mental distraction. Seeing a copv of Baxter's Reformed Pastor which belonged to Dr. Morgan was lying on the window-ceat, he took it up, hoping to get some light from its stimulating pages. He remembered that Wesley spoke well of Baxter but ho could not fix bis mind upon the book. He kept listlessly turning the leaves until his eye lighted upon a sentence in Latin. Kike knew not a single word of Latin, and for that yery reason bis attention was the more readily attracted by the sentence in an unkbown tongue. *He read it, Nee propter vita in, vivendi perdere causas.1 He found, written in the margin a free rendering: 'Let us not, for the sake of life, sacrifice tlieonly things worth living £. r.' He knelt dowa now and gave thauks for wbatsoemed to him Divine direction. He had been delivered from a temptation to sacrifice the great end and living for the sake of saving his life.

It cost him a pan to bid adieu to Dr. Morgan and bis motherly wife and the excellent Jane. It cost him a great pang to say good-bye to Nettie Morgan. Her mobile face could ill conceal her feeling. She did not venture to como to the door. Kike found her alone in the little porch at the back part of tbe bouse, trying to look unconcerned. Afraid to trust himself he bade her farewell dryly, taking her hand coldly for a moment. But tbe sight of her pain stricken face touched liim to tbe quick he seized her band tears

fUUUUCU 111 UI bV wuc VjUIUAf and again, and, with eyes full of lAjnia, said huskily: 'Good bye, Nettie! God bless you, and keep you forever!' and thenjturned suddenly away, bidding the rest a hasty adieu and riding off eagerly, almost afraid to look back. Ho was more severe than ever in the watch he kept over himself after this. He could never again trust bis treacherous heart.

Kike rode to his old home in the His sawachee Settlement. 'The Forks" bad now come to be quite a village the valley was filling with people borne on

vauey was mung w.vu wra* «u

that great wave of migration that swept

over the Allegbauies in the hrat dozen j)B(j

y*®,1"8. "f mtio

mu ..

a»

receivwl him joyously, and wiped her

W J?AR.APRON ^E.N

sick be bad bc«a. Brady was at tie

widows cabin and though be etood by

the

fiP

two splint bottomed chaire sat suspi- jnK

cioasfy «lose together. Brady bad Jong pat.-n„ jn

it wasn't for Koike,' said Brady to

himself,

Td propose to the widdy. But

what would tne lad say to sich follies at mv toime of loife? And the widdy'B more afeard of bim than I am. Did iver

moreafearo^oi nmi xmuu ,y'u jver

anybcKlysay 1^» of a by^that

vin the atUnUons of a larnt grammarian loike meailf? The uiWcrtin' is that Kotke dent hare no wakenisses him-

•ilT I wish be bad jist one, and thin I wouldn't keer. If 1 could only foind that he'd iver looked jist a little swate loike at iny young girl, I wouldn't moind his cinsuro. Bat, somehow, I kapa a tbinkin' what would Koike say, loike a ould «»ward that I am.'

Kike had come home to bave his tattered wardrobe Improved, and the

thoughtful mother b«d already made him a warm, though not very sbaoely, suit of jeans. It cost Kike a struggle to leave her attain. She did not think him fit to go! But she did not dare to say so. How should she venture to advise one who seemed to ber wandering heart to llva in tbe very secrets of the Almighty? God hall laid hands on him— I he child was hers no longer, But still she looked ber heart-breaking apprehensions as he set out for home, leaving her standing disconsolate in tbe doorway wiping her eyes with her apron.

And Brady, seeing Kike as he rode by the school-house, ventured to give htmadvioe—partly by way of finding out whether Kike ha£ any 'wakeaiss' or not. •Now, Koike, me son, as your ould taycher, I thrust you'll bear wltb mo if I give you some advice though ye have got to be slcb a praycher. Ye'll not take ofSnne, me lad?' •O no certainly not, Mr. Brady said Kike, smiling sadly. •Will, tbln."ye're of a delicate constitooshun as shure as ye're born, and it's me own opinion as ye ought to git a good wife to nurse ye, and thin you could git a home and maybe do more than ye do now.'

These devout diviuinga, tbeae vanes aettocat-jh the direction of heavenly breezes, could not but impress so earnest a nature as Kike's. Now in bis distress he prayed with eagerness aud opened his Bible at random to find his eye lighting, not on any intelligible or remotely ...» applicable passage, but upou a bead- his present weakness were fresh in his roll of unpronounceable names In one of mind. He would not again give place to the earlv chapters of the Book of Chron- the devil. icles. 'fhis disappointment he accepted 'Mr. Brady, there something more as a trial of faith. Faith like Kike's is important than our own ease or happ not to be dashed by disappointment. He ness. We were not made to seek com prayed again for direction, and opened fort, but to give ourselves to the work

Kike's face settled into more than its wonted severity. The remembrance of his recent vacillation and tbe sense of

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prayeu aKaiu ior uirecnuu, uuu uucuou ". at last at the text: 'Simon, sou of Jonas, of Christ. And see! your head is alread lovest thou me more than these?' The blossoming for eternity and yet you tal marked trait in Kike's piety was an en- as if this world were all. thusiastic personal loyalty to the 'Lord Saying this, Kike shook hands with Jesus Christ. This question seemed the master solemnly and rode away, and directed to him, as it had been to Peter, Mr. Brady was more appalled than evin reproach. He would hesitate no er. longer. Love, and life itself, should be 'The lad haint got a wakemss, he said, sacrificed lor the Christ who died for disconsolately. 'Not a wakemss. lie him. Tiieu he prayed once more, and repeated, as he walked into the schoolthere caine to his inind the memory of house, took down a switch and prothat saving about leaving houses and ceeded to punish Pete Sniger, wbo^ as homes and lands and wives, Christ's the worst boy in the school, and a sort sake. It came to him, doubtless, by a of evil genius,often suffered on general perfectly natural law of thenUl associa- principles when the master was out of tion. But what did Kike know of the bumor association of ideas, or of any other law of mental action? Wesley's sermons and Benson's Life of Fletcher constitu ted his library. To him it seemed cer tain that this text of scripture was 'suggested.' It was a call fiom Christ to give up all for him. And in the spirit of the sublimest self sacrifice, he said: 'Lord,I will back nothing!'

Was Kiko unhappy when he made his way t® the Pottawottemio Creek Circuit?

Do you think the Jesuit missionaries, who traversed the wilds of America at the call of duty as they heard it, were unhappy men? The highest happiness comes not from the satisfaction of our desires, but from the denial of them for the sake of a high purpose. I doubt not the happiest man that ever sailed

But emotions and resolutions that are at high tide in the evening often ebb before*morningr Kike thought 'him "if through Levantine seas, or climbed strong enough to begin again to rise at avivug O four o'clock, as Wesley had ordained in those 'rules for a preacher's conduct,' which every Methodist preacher even yet promises to keep. Following the same rules, he proceeded to set apart the first hour for prayer and meditation. The night before all had seemed clear but now thai morning had eonie and he must soon proceed to execute his stern resolve, he found himself full of doubt and irresolution. Such vacilliation. was not characteristic of Kike, but it marked tbe depth of his feeling for Net-, on his lips: tie. Doubtless, too, the ener.vaticn of] nothing! convalescence had to do with it. Certainly in that raw and foggy dawn tke forsakingof the paradise of rest and love in wbieh he had lingered seemed to require more courage than he oould muster. Alter all, why should he leave? Might he not be mistaken in regard to bis duty? Was he obliged to sacrifice his life?

3ian muUllVSlUB. was J. aui

Tarsus. Do you think that he envied the voluptuaries of Cyprus, or the rich merchants of Cornith? Can you believe that one of the idlers in the Epicurean gardens, or one of the Stoic loafers in the covered sidewalks of Athens, could imagine tho joy that tided the soul ol of Paul over all tribulations? For there is a sort of awful delight in self sacrifice, and Kike defied the storms of a northern winter, and all the hardships of his lonely lot, with one saying often 'O Lord, I have kept back

I have heard that about this time young Lumsden was nccustomed to electrify his audiences by his fervent preaching upon the Christian duty of Gloryingin Tribulation, and thatshrewd old country women would nod their heads one to another as they went home alter ward, and say: 'He's seed a migbty sight o' trouble in his time, I 'low, fer a young man.' 'Yes but he's got the victory and how powerful sweet he talks about it! Ineverheerd the beat in all mv bern days.' •ritu [TO BBCONTrNUJSD.]

CALAMITY JANE."

Tho Black Hills," by H. N. Magulre, contains a lively and accurate history of the settlement of-tbe Black Hilis country by the whites, and among other phases of rough frontier life gives the following sketch of a noted fomale character known as Calamity. Jane."

How far is it to Deadwood, Jack Only a mile and a half that girl on the horse is going tber9 now."

Girl! What girl I dou't see anybody on a horse but tbe dare-devil boy yonder."

Why that's a girl on that hucking cayude that's Calamity Jane'." And Calamity Jane" she was, as I ascertained in getting some items in regard to her most remarkable career of ruin, disgrace, and recklessness. Tbe was nothing in her attire to distinguish her sex, as she sat astride the fien? horse she was managing with a cruel Spanish bit in its mouth, save hor small, neatfitting gaiters and swei.ping raven locks. She wore coat and pantaloons of buckskin, gayly beaded and fringed, furtrimmed vest of tanned antelope skin, and a broad brimmed Spanish hat completed her costume. Throwing herself from side toside in the saddle with tho daring self confidence of a California buehario in full career, she spurred her horse up on the gulcb, ovet aitcbos and through reservoirs and mudholes, at each leap of the fractious animal giving as good an imitation of a Sioux war whoop as a feminine voice is capable of. 'Calamity Jane" is a character in the mountains. She has redeeming quailtie-'. Every one may have. She cornea from a Virginia City (Nevada) family of respectability and intelligence. The first step to ruin taken she haa not tbe moral courage to seek retrievement—what en-

cou-rag6 to Beek

cour„geraent

8heattempted

tliere were

was wll,n

d.f lc£CliitHn7J^°rd

inftkmy

one side, giviuft to the cabin as Kike would continue mistress of her thought, an unpleasant air, as of a man est iny. She sought not the syma little exhilerated with whiskey, who kindred Associations, but prebas tipped his bat upon the side of his ferrej to stand alone, in brave defiance bead leer at you saucily. Tbe mother

Qf a

8UC|,

riltely

A SHARP WOMAN,

A'few

weeks since a young tnsu and

bis newly-made wife went to Chicago to pass the first few days of their honeymoon in viewing th,-* sights of the city. For a time nothing but pleasure came to tbem, but in an evil hour tbe husband fell In with one or tbe many confidence men who infest the city, and by bim was introduced to a select company of the swindlers. Tbe sharpers played their usual game, and one evening the husband found himself without money. His currency being scne to fill the pockets of the swindlers, there was nothing leftbntto tell his wifeand make the best of it. Tbe wife suggested an application to the police, but the husband shrunk from makine his foolishness public. Before be had lost bis money tbe husband had procured tickets for one of the theaters, land though hardly feeling in the rnood for amusement tbe couple decided to use them. Theyiwere hardly seated when tbe husband whispered to the wife, "there's the man who robbed me," and without attracting any attention, pointed the sharper out to her. With a woman's quickness she at once decided on a plan of procedure. She told her husband to leave ber and take a seat in a remote pajt of tbe house. There was something in'ber raannerthat compelled obedience, and he followed her directions. The confidence man in surveying the house noticed the lady sitting alone, and be also noticed that she was fair to look upon. His frequent glances at her were returned, and emtxldened by her seeming acquiescence he took the seat beside her. They engaged in conversation, and when the performance was concluded be offered to esoort her to her hotel. She accepted, and when tbey had arrived, in response to a hint from him, she invited him to her room. Once there he proposed a bottle of wine, atad when it was brought displayed a generous roll of greenbacks in paying for it. The lady made some excuse aild left the room. In the hall she met her wondering husband to whom she made known the situation. She then returned and found the wine opened. Just as they were raising the glasses to their lips, the husband burst in. Without a word of parley he soiaed the confidence man, ana after choking him till be was past resistance, took the money,from his pocket, counted out the amount he bad gained by the robbery in the afternoon, and then kicked him out of the room. The sharper concluded that discretion was the only means of safety, hastily quit the house without making any trouble. The wife of course fainted after it was all over.

A COOL HAND.

BALL

levels of infamy and degra-

dallon to wbich she could ..ot .ink. If

ne left rnust be "a woman of the world,"

*S°5 «ho would at least save her Independence

decrepitude tho barrel which served nhiin fniinwinor hn nat.)i of of decrepitude the barrel which served of character- while following tbVpath of fjr chimney-pot was canted a little on

through |all its dark wiudings,

attJro

S E

®FW.

world. Donning male

in tbe mining regions of Nevada,

where no legal restraints are impesec(

jnquitous eccentricity, she

tQOj. the aQ(]

one 0f a

has ever since

™n^t a'nani6 been nomadic in her habits—now form-

hunting party—then partici-

a mjn|ng

thooght of J1"' attached to and moving with a freighting Brady and the widow we're in mortal

ari

foar of Kike, whose severity ofjudgment service as a sciut in and sternness of reproof appalled them. hJTl£d

stampede, again

it is said, she has even ren-

HTeian

Indian "campaign. She has had experience as a stage driver, and can draw the reins over six horses as skillfally as a veteran Jehu, and handles a revolver with the dexterity, and fires it as accu-

ranger. She Is still in

early WOmanhood,

aud ber rough and

dl»lp*Uxi career bu Dot j.t .together

swept away the lines where beauty,: lingers.'-

A fatherless Danbury boy was paring down acorn with a razor, Sunday morning, when his motbsr caught him by tbe hair, yanked him from the chair, aud electrified bim by the remark What do you 'spose your father in heaven'll think to look down an' see his son a hacktn' corns with his raser?"

The Gold Hill (Nevada) News mentions an incident reaently happening in that town to illustrate the indifference of the average pioneer to death. During a game in a gambling house two men get into a row, and one of them, pulling out a pistol, began to shoot. His aim was poor and a bystander was hit by a bullet the ball cutting tbe skin over the eve and ranging around to the left temple. With some impatience tbe wounded man worked the bullet out at the hole where it went in, and throwing it back at tbe man who was shooting, he said Hold that cussed gun up you will put somebody's eye out first you know."

The comfort of its possession is very frequently offset by the annoyance occasioned by the continual crying of the baby. Crying, however, is the child's only method of suggesting that it suffers with discomfort and pain and at once ceases when the cause is (as it should be) promptly removed by using Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup. Sold everywhere. 25 cents per bottle.

-IS

STILL IN MOTION. BALLisselling

the best

keeps a general variety of House Furnishing Goods.

BALL

keeps everythinR usually kept In a tlrst-class house of this kind.

BALLIs

prepared to do Jebbl ng, Gut'erlng and Spouting on good terms.

gALL Is a practical workman.

BALLfacturing

BALLCopper

retrievement—what en-

would she have received

to do so?—and still

personally superintends the ManuDepartment.

BALL

warrants all work done at this house.

pays tne highest cash prlcsforold and jtrass.

pays

tT.

BALLand

pays the highest price for old Cast and Wrought Iron.

Wrought Iron.

Is near corner of 1 Main, TEltRE HAUTE

J^ALL Is tioar corn or o{ Third St., No. 808

TALL can be found at

ftlgn of The Tin Kail,

BALI.hopes

1« thAnkfnl for pa-»t favors, and by strict personal attention bnxlness, the

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WII.I. KEKP KOLLlHO.

PictureFrames

Made to order at the lowest prices.

Motto and Premium Cliromo Framing a Specialty.

Orders by mall, or left at Mrs. T. -Riddle's, 403 Main street, A. Hoberg's, 075 Main street, Allen A Koch's, 26 south 4th street. 10 call on you with moulding samples will be pro tup iy attended to.

Frames Hade for tbe Trade.

J. F. PROBST,

(.Late with R. Oagg.) 603 It. 4»h street.

M24-3m.

WARRANTED.KeverAgueDBTCHOX'S

DK. E. 30

cent sjugar-coated Pllle.to cure AOUE, fehill* and underfill circumstances, when used as directed. or Sale by Bvjfiix & ArmstrongV,lVrre Haute, Intl.

Professional Cards.

AAA M. BLACK. EDWIN W, BLACK.

T)LACK & BLACK.

ATTORNEYS AT LAW, pr?? 313% Main street. TERRE HAUTE, IND.

JOHN T. WILEY,

INSURANCE AIVD

COLLECTION AGENT,

NOTARY VVB1.1C,

Makes a Specialty »f Collections. *& 623% Main Street. Terrs Habtx, Ind

OHN T. SCOTT,

DR.

COOK STOVES

the Market.

BALL

sells the FAVORITE Ccok Stove for wood and coal.

BALLStove

fells the PRAIRIE CITY Cook

gALL sells the BELLE Cook Stove.

BALL

has the largest 'slock of Stovesln tin. cltj. i-

LL sells Stoves cheaper than any house lu the city.

BALLsatisfaction.

warraHts every Stove he sells to give

BALL

sells the cheapest and best Toilet Ware.

BALL

has the largest stock of Tinware in the city.

i* s"*

Attorney at Laft,

OFFICE-NO. Ill MAIN STREET.

As (J. S. Commissioner is authorised make,proofe in Bankruptcy. Over Henderson's Stove Store, bet. Fourt and Fifth streets. mai22 TERRE HAUTE. Itfd. N.

BUFF. S. M. BEKCHER.

UFF.& BEECHER,

ATTORNEYS AT LAW,

Office—No.820 Ohio Street, bet. Third and Fourth, north side. J. P. WORRELL,

Office, LINTON MANSION, Southwest corner Gth and Ohio Streets. Offlco hours from 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. and from 4 to p. ni Practice now limited to diseases of tho

EYE and EAK,

DR.

J. MILLS

would most respectfully announce to the citizens of Terre Haute and vicinity, that he has opened, on the corner of 13th and Chestnut streets, a Medical Office, where he wllrtreat all classes of Chronic and acuto diseases, of botli sexes, in the most scientific and successful manner, either wither without electricity.

Office aud residence on corner of 13th and Chestnut streets, three streets east of Vanda11a depot. Visits made to the country, If required. (febl7-ly)

OSEPH RICHARDSON, M. JB

tr^

Office on Ohio Sit^ Bet. 3rd 4tb TERRE HAUTE, IND.

O. LINCOLN, IMSKTIST.

Office, 221 Main street, near Seventh. Extracting and artificial teeth specialties. All work warranted. (d&w-tt)

L. H. BARTHOLOMEW,

SarffeoM and Mechanical .,

DENTIST,

Dental Room, 157 Main Street, near atli,

iff, *1 TKKKKHAUTE, INJ.

Nitrous Oxide Oas administered lor pan ess Tooth Extraction.

"1 W. BALLEW,

DENTIST,

OKlee, 110 Main Street, over Sage' old confectionery ntnn«t. TEKRK HAUTE, IND.

Can ha found In office night, and da.v.

'Business Cards. IAL THOMAS,

Optician and Watchmaker For the trade, Main street, near Sixth, sign of big man with watch.

WP.

MYER,

Tinware and Job Shop,

114 south Fourth st-. opp, Market House. A. full stook of Tinware. Special attention glveu to Job Work.

RW.

RIPPETOE

0 Gene il Dealer In GROCERIES, 0 VISIONS AND PRODUCE,

National Block, 165 Main stree

KISSNER,

J® Wholesale and Retail Dealer In I'ianon, Melodeona, Organs, Musical Instruments, Ac.,

Palace of Aiuslc, 48 06lo

SEWING

MACHINES

REPAIRED AND ADJUSTED In the very best manner and warranted to werk, by JOSEPH FOLK, No. 822 Main street, north side, between 8rd and 4th streets, up stairs. Don't condemn your machine until Mr. FOLK has had a leok at It for the real trouble may be veiy light und tne cost of repairing a mere trine. Tbe besi needles and oil constantly on hand.

Jnnel9-tl

STOVE DEALERS. HEELER & SELLERS,

Main Htreet, between Eighth and Ninth, TERRE HAUTE, IND., Keep on hand at their place of business a large and well selected stock of

STOVKH, TIN AND AKDWARE, And ask the public to call and price their goods before buying elsewhere and bo benefitted thereby.

Produce and Commission 0& IT BRIGGS,

PRODUCE AND COMMISSION MERCHANT, and Dealer in

HIDES, PELTS, RAGS, BUTTER, EGGS, AC., Corner of Fourth and herry streets,

TERKK HAUTE, IND,

RESTAURANTS. H. ROUSER'S

GRAND

Restaurant and Dining Rooms, No. 610 MAIN STREET, North Side,

TERRE

HAUTE, IND.

OPEN DAY A SI) *I«nT.

HOTELS.

EMJERSON HOUSE.

F. P. NICHOLS, Prop'r.

South Fourth St, Bet Walnut and Poplar, TERRE HAUTE, IND. First Class Hoarding by the week, Day or Meal. Best wagon yard in the city.

HOGS.

TTENRY BROWN,

I llOO SHIPPER, TERRE HA UTE, IN D. Buys hogs every day In the year, "cash up and no grumbling." Officcon south lourUi street, one half square south of the 1^.k®t house, one door wtuh ol Uou»e. All I ask Is to try me. Trade with mo once a ndyou will trade with me again.

fSEfiS RELIEVED.

UJuAJb cine. Book free. G.J. WOOD, MaUiion, in0.

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