Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 9, Number 34, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 22 February 1879 — Page 2

THE DONATION PARTY.

They carried the pie to the parson's house Andsoettersd the floor with cranibs, And marked the leaves of hi* choicest books with the prints

TBE WAY OF LIFE. AT. THJRTT.~ Five trtndred dollars have saved—

A rat her moderate storeNo mattvr shall bte content When 1 ve a little more.

AT FORTY.

Well, I can count ten thousand now— That's better than before And I may well be satisfied.

When I've a little more.

Borne fifty thousand—pretty w«ll-t. Bat 1 have earned itsore However, I shall not complain

When iWtlttl? morel, atSixtt.

Author of "Boy Captive," and other stories

[The Marked Rifle was commenced in The Mail of Jan. 11th. Back numbers can be had at the office of The Mail.} I. CHAPTER XVL—CONTINUED.

While Dan was conducting Miss Hamley and her oppressor away, there was ether work going on in camp equally as hazardous and Important.

The prisoner bound to the tree had Men, by the light of the fire, bis child rush from the cabin, and the tall chief approach as if to aid Vican in his nefarious work. He was too mnch excited to notice a lithe form glide np to his side, and not nntil a familiar voice broke upon his ear did he tarn his head.

"Massa Ham ley I's here!" "Flip, how in the name of mercy did' yon resch me 7" "In disguise, massa—eh don't speak aboye a whisper. De scout got blanket fro us a wigwam, and a head flxin', and sent me to eat the strings what bold ye, while fae takes care of missus. Now I*s gwine to out de strings, but •ton' still till ye bear de cry of de night hawk den ran forthe riber. Heab's a weapon for ye to clear de way."

With the words the African severed the thongs, slipped a revolver Into Mr. Hamley's hana and t&en disappeared.

Beck bad noted the coming of Long Trail, and Watched his movements at first without distrust, but skulking near he beard Ids English words, and determined to see what the mysterious movements of the chief all meant.

He dodged the steps of the trio as they move« down the sKf ven path, until be became convinced lat his -confederate was In the power of some white man In disguise.

He was questioning himself as to how he should act, when he was suddenly seised by two men who slipped np from behind a rock, thrown to the earth and bis bands bound before he had time to comprehend what was taking place. Valentine wad one of the boatmen bad done the work and they hurried the man away after disarming bim.

Joat then there came the cry of the night hawk, followed by an uproar in eamp.

The prisoner was

#R Til# PEOfL

of their greasy thumbs.

Th Whil«* they gobbled 4 .Mils .• o. i: 4 Which "the parson

Vwif$ did make.

They bong Rfottod Caytie's classic seek -a Weir apple J»arin«3 for sport,

c"un*r

WA'

One^inndred thou£and?-slek and old— Aii! life is half a bore'!

Yet I can be conterft to live I When I've a little more! |4,1 AT SKViHTT.

Be dies—and to his greedy heirs I fie leaves a countless store His wealth has purchased him a tomb—

Ana very little more I rr

X)ON'T DRINK TO-DA Y.

Don't drink tolls^mybay-l liet hot the Sparkling glass That woos but to destroy,

Touch lips just fondly seal'd With mother's kiss, my boj Hter hope of early bliss Is told in asking this—

Don't drink to-day, my boy!

GOOD ADVICE.

If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, at Five things observe with care

Of whom yon apeak, to whom you speak— And&ow—and when—and where*

From the Inter-Ocean.

The Marked Rifle

OB,

THE PATE OP THE OVERL ANl)ERS.

BY C. LEON MEREDITH,

i'ree.

and flying for

bfe life. Hamley cam* bounding down the decline followed by a score of Sioux In haft pursnK.

On came the pursued and pursuers un HI Hamley had reached the margin of the river and stood at bay, then the welkin rang with the reports of firearms. The bowmen, with our friends, were prepared for sueh an event, and rifles andrevolvera sent the frightened Sioux np the hill in consternation. 'Are the boats ready the scout asked, as soon as the Indiana bad fled. "All ready," Valentine answered, stepping forward, "we have destroyed all of the Sioux dugouts save enough to carry our party to the steamer. We can go in safety now."

Mabel turned as she recognised the voice of the yowng hunter, and extended her hand. "1 am indebted to yon for all this, the brave soont tells me, and I have no words which will express my gratitude. Bat .the lifelong blessings of my heart *^May I not hope for the love of that heart, too?" Valentine whispered, ss he led the happy glrl aalde from the group. ••That you had before," Mabel jmawered frankly.

left my Whole heart

with von when leaving the prairie L" borne.'

Oar hero was too happy at thi#moto attempt to spesT drew the head of the devoted

ment again. He bis breast, then bent sad kissed the

4t, pallid lips. How long the twain would have stood there under the stars, in the sweet ecstacy of requited devotion, cannot be told bad they not been disturbed, for all else but the bliss of the moment was forgotten.

The part

party was scon in the eanoes paddling up stream. The prisoners, with hands bound, were in one under the oharge of Dan, and the flunlly of overlanders in another.

Mabel wept as she fell Into the embrace of ber father, and Flip with glls-

tenlng eyes reoelved the praise of Vioanknew (hat his game that bis flayed a de* now that the ined upon of the justice.

The word four hours ing ber away

"f.

Next day the parson went down on his knee* ltnfettoprfcy O, n*£"*twM^o scrape the gireaseand dirt

From the carpet »n& stairs away.

jf Mabel spoken twentyre,'frhen they were bearthe canoe, came back to

the culprit like an echo ftom the grave: "Luther Vican, as Bure as there Is a God above us, so sure will yeur life pay for this merolees work."

He gazed at the dark water beneath the bark that here him, and when not watched ana the other boats were not near, be sprang to bis feet and plunged head downwara Into the river.

AllOlUI WC

Efforts were made to re60ue thedrownbut to no effect. the excitement of the moment, determined to fellow his confederate, and he too succeeded in cheating justice.

Ing man, be Beck, in meat, deter

Dan was now alone, and anew thought cams to htm rowing to the oanee containing Flip, be asked the boy to get In with him, and as soon as he had done so struck out for the western bank. "Whah is ye gwine, Massa Gleason?" "For the horses we left hampered in the ravine."

CHAPTER XVII. A

On the morning .following the resoue we find all of the party who had left Dakota Ledge in the canoes—save Vican and Beck-*upon the deck of the steamer.

Mr. Hamley and his- lovely daughter had received the hearty congratulations of Captain Peros, and the men were at tbelr post again the boat was on the return trip. Alabel and her father had seen enough of the new Northwest. The captain had no particular object in going further up the Missouri, and Gerome Valentine foroing upon him more money than the whole trip would yield, he turned Utejiow southward and set the engine in motion.

He had sent two men, the day before, to bury the mate, while his own attention had been given to the wounded man he had brought from the bluff. During the night the invalid bad rested well, and in the morning which greeted the return of the lost ones he appeared better and in the full exercise of his reason.

When the steamer passed Dakota Ledge, our fiends were at the pilot house to see if the Sioux were still there, but not a vestige was left to view. The wi^wanos were gone,: and the soout Bald the camping ground was deserted for good, ana Flip added: "I guess pQttin' a hole frew dat Long Trail us on dehill demoralized de whole gang."

The party, who had been told all the particulars of how Dan Gleawn come of the chiefs long headpigments laughed heartily over the boy's remark, and praised him to his infinite delight.

An hour later Captain Peros came out from the cabin with a troubled look upon his face.

Valentine and Mabel were sitting on deck and he approached them, saying: "I am afraid the wounded man is bleeding Internally he has a story to tell, and has requested the attendance of such as I may prefer. He evidently cannot bold out long. Please go to his couch while I speak to Mr. Hamley."

The captfin turned away and Valentine hastened to the bedside of the dying presently Mr. Peros with Mabel ana her father entered the cabin where the sufferer lay. & "We are assembled," the captain said, reverently,

uto

hear what you may have

to say respecting yourself, and you may feel assured that What is confided will be sacred to each aiid every one of us." 'libel that I am grpwing weaker each mement. and will not enter into detail," the invalid ^ald with a moan. "Twentyfive years ago* lived in Paris, and was joint heir to a large estate, with a sister younger than myself. Dissipation led me to a great sin. I gained possession of my sister's portion, and reduced her to absolute want. She was beautiful, and pure as the crystal waters. Finally she fell In love with a young American traveler, and nay opposition to his suit claused ber to fly witn her lover across

."Years passed, I reformed and became anbbrlstian man,'and still possessed one half of the original wealth, which in jas tice bUlonged to the sifter I had so cru elly wrongedr aocUl it to her, could she of the earth: I had reoelved two or

resolved to restore

she be found on the face

three letters from ber—simple, prayerful notes, signed only by her given name—the name of the man she fled with, I never knew, nor could I learn it. "Concerting all the remaining property into exchange,1 1 sailed eighteen months ago for America, and deposited 9100,000 in aNew Yoric bank. While in that city I met a man by the name of Lather Vican, who, from a photograph shown bim, told me that he bad seen, be believed, the one I sought in the far West, and I confided to bim my whole

ling to Use any

dlsoover my slijEer and make the restora-

The^otogfaph, together with other papers, I sealed securely in an iron tube ttatttbey might not be destroyed or inlured."

Here Mr. Hamley ahd Mabel Started and excbanfced glanwfc, btit the speaker wis not interrupted. "I Was chased by the Indians one day, a year ago, on the bank of the Sioux Mver, and, being hard pressed, I foroed the tune into the bands of ajmaki, who providentially crossed mr path, and he promised to keep it until we should meet again* He*gave the hame of Lester Hamley, and, trusting to Vican to ferret out the man, I have failed. "I was captured, but escaped, leaving behind my rifle, a splendid repeater, in the hands of the savages, and never expected to see the gun again but fortunately, chance threw it into my hands sgain. "I knew of the stranding of this boat, end discovered Vlcanr with another man a# treacherous In look* ap himself,

negro boy. in the bluflk. adminisan an£esthetic,whichl Carried ass idy tor pain, and after binding the eeoarely, I set the captives free. be repeating rifle I found in their ..

my sister, and now I bS7e ftow thn,{nonejf in some W asfjjfaf ffljow, way tOW KWjg/lHSt SOI nBspeikir closi saqH back ffpon hi

0 jJ

a, and seised upon It as an

«"«I intended to bold them In bonds only uotU the Isdy should have time to

gone.

down the stream, I came «{on and, believing the men had dug-out, a! landedfor some purpose, I took the os noe away. It was the seme thi good captain brought me here in.

that the The

work the repeater afterward did, Mr. Valentine has told you about. •'Now my days are numbered and my work is to oe left unfinished. But God knows I hare repented thejgxong done

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL..

bis

Mr. Hamley, who, with Mabel bad been sitting at the head of' the eopah, bow arose, wd aiieriuy pawilnft arfturfa where he could be seen, said, kindly: "Iam the man hrto whose hand -you intrusted the iron tube, and It baa been saoredly kept intact." "That is good,*' wss the reply. "Is it here? If so, let it be opened that I may look upon the face once'more. Some of you may be able to flnd the wronged one yet."

Flip bad carefully concealed and kept the tube, and restored it to Mr. Hamley again. It was quickly opened by Gerome Valentine, who drew forth the papers and photograph in a well preserved condition.

Holding the portrait in bis band a moment, he stared at it in blank amaiement, then exclaimed: '•Mabel. I would think this a picture of yourself."

Mr. Hamley, who was standing behind the speaker, caught the photograph with trembling hand, and cried out: "-Mabel, it is the face of your mother, as she looked when we \ftt Paris. Turning to the invalid, who was now gazing upon him with Wild, anxious eyes, he added in a hoarse whisper: "What was the name of your sister?" "Rose Moreau."

Mabel sprang forward now with ashen faoe and quivering lip: "My mother! and she is lying in her grave upon the prairie."

Now, for the first time, the sufferer saw the faoe of Mabel Hamley, and he lifted a band and laid it in the palm of his niece, as be murmured: "The sweet face of my wronged Rose I need no further evidence, for there is no other face like hers on earth. God has Indeed been merciful to me after all my complainings and seasons of deSD&ir*"

He beld'the hand for a lttug time, gazing at Mabel, as if his eyes oould not be satisfied with resting upon a face, the vision of which had smiled upon him a

He turned away finally and asked to see Mr. Valentine alone for a minute. The father and daughter withdrew, and then he said: "There WAS a blank check in the tube?" "Yes." "Please fill it out to the full amount, of my bank deposit, $100,000, payable to Mabel Hamley, and then give it to me to sign."

Valentine did as directed, and after it had been signed, with a steady, determined band, "Eugene Moreau," the check was handed back. "Keep that until I am no more, and then give it to my niece," he said. "She is heir to her mother's inheritance, and the one of my choice."

Valentine promised to do as be directed, and then Mr. Moreau requested feim to call in Mr. Hamley and Mabel again.

After father and daughter entered the cabin, he asked for the repeatlng-rifie, which was placed upon the couch, at hie side. .. .. "This gun I brought from Paris," said be, laying his hand upon the piece, "and when I learned in New York that my sister had been seen in the new country, I had it marked Unissez nous— unite us-^and through it w6 have been united. I would not be here had I not found it, as I did, in the hands of Vioan, and rescued you, Mr. Valentine, from the hands of the Sioux. It was lost by me, purchased by you, given to my niece, lost again by her, recovered by me, and again it must go back to the one you gave it to, as a double gift." "Let the rifle remain at my side until am through with my sufferings," he continued, faintly, wearily, f'l feel that the end is n^ar."

There had a change come over the features of the dying man. His breath came hard now, and a rattling in his throat showed that indeed the end had oome. "We can take away the rifle now," Captain Peros-aaid, after a few minutes "Eugene Moreau is dead." "And his whole work was finished," Mr. Valentine added, solemnly at the gaode time placing In the band of Mabel the check that had been entrusted to his

The loving girl read it as one in a dream, and passing it to her father she dropped upon her knees at the side of the couch, and kissad the cold hand that had written the name, while tears of gradltade and sadness flowed down her

Minutes passed, and Mabel still re* mained kneeling. Net a word was uttered to break the solemn spelL Her thoughts were not all of the dead. There swept through ber mind the.trlals and joys of the past few days. The wicked, sensual face of Vican came up, and now she saw the ofeject of his villainy. He knew of the fortune to be bestowed, when the funole should find her, and knew that she wss the child of Rose. Then following this dark, dread scene the face of Valentine in the purest of love and the sweetest of life's sunshine, and as an added blessing the great gift of her repentant uncle.

Mabel was happy In her sorrow, and felt herself the West of earth.

The stearrfer, after Several days of uninterrupted sod uneventful voyage, stopped at Council Bluffs, and here Mr. Hamley disposed of bis effects, and Dan aieasoi* separated from the party.

Mr. Hamley became aware of Mabel's engagement, and readily yielded to the wish of Gerome Valentine, that father and daughter should go directly to New York with him, where a fortune awaited the girl in one of the large met* ropolitan banks. onoe thought it a very floe thing to brave the hardships and anew region of country, but one day at the stake in an Indian camp is sufficient experience to last me the balance of my life." Hamley said, "and I am certain that all the poetry found in the song of the red man's home has been taken out of Mabel's mind. How is It child?" "I think that I can be sufficiently happy among civilised people, hereafter, to overcome all my cravings for adventure, yet I am not dUpteaaia with the events of the past month. I would sufler again were it neoessary. for sueh rewards as have come to me."

So it was fixed, and after Dan had been paid a aum of monoy double in amount to that which waa promised, he bade the friends good-by, and started npon his horse to continue bis worts of •oting as guide for overlanders.

One of the fineet mansions Hudson Is to-day Owned by Valentine and ooerapted by his own tamily. Gerome and Mabel are middle aged, but years have not told upon them as upon many. Their children romp through the hails at will, and never tire o( (be amusing tricks of the bead col-

j£L

ored servsnt, "Uncle Flij htm.

with silver great (rfty, the time" daughter'^

in for a

There was slltiice in t1 few minutes then, under the influence of a powerful stimulent administered by Captain Peros, the dying man again revived.

Gerome

autufms and that ti)

as they call

^'tgife nM*i islneas inlpie id portion of he calls bis

field that will shoot with the MARKBD

1 11 1

(UM pft'.ud uitt wM pr«ty ripb oo.

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years old now. but I was not born then, though tljat don't matter, I guess—pa had lots of money. I was born at the Lick House, snd yon ought to see my baby clothes. Jones A Co. haven't the kind ot goods that them was, because Maud has draggled them all to pieces. Maud Is the baby. 81 years old Maud is, and it won't be long before she will be a clerk In Jones & Go's. First babies always have the nicest things. Ma says first babies are like second WlV68i

But I keep getting away from Jones fc Co. Well, I am of the opinion that after pa

Ut« U/misa am Vasfl Vaao A ooti no'

One day be came home with a brand new carriage and a span of long tailed

funny little darkey for footman. It was for ma, ana we rode every day. Then sometimes pa came home and looked very blue, and talked about stocks, and I began to watch pa, and noticed that sometimes when he laughed the loudest he looked just as if he wanted to cry, and then he sold the horses, and then the house, and the furniture was sent to auction, and ma she felt very bad, and pa wasn't like himself any more, and onoe when baby Maud was asleep in his arms, be kissed her and cried, and then when I told ma, she said she guessed pa did not feel very well, ana that I mustn't notice it, ana then she cried.'

After this we all went to -a boarding house—a nasty, mussy boarding house. Everything was well enough, only a boarding bouse ain't much like heme.

Then the baby came, and it died, and ma almost died, aud I heard pa say to the man that kept the boarding house that "he was pretty tight up, but It was all comin' out right,' and the next day pa didn't have any watch nor sleeve buttons.

I didn't seem to notice it because I seen that maybe pa had sold them to pay board, and I heard pa and ma talk away in the night, and sometimes ma cried, and pa lookod In the morning as if he hadn't slept a wink, and I don't believe he bad.

Once it was dreadful. Pa came home tipsy, and I never seen ma feel so bad, ever and then they talked It over, and ma went home to grandpa's in New York with Maud, and I stayed with pa to go to school.

Then pa kept getting worse and worse and we went to live in rooms and eat at restaurants, and pa stayed out late at nights, and I guess be drank more than was good for bim, and I thought something had to be done. So I said to pa one aav: "Pa, less go into business and open a store

And he-laughed and said:_ "What kind of a store?"r And I said: VQh, a candy store, or a stationery store, or a thread and needle store, just such as women keep aud little girls help in."

And pa laughed and said be Would think of it, and when he came home that night I asked him if he had thought about it, and be said he hadn't, and- I said he had better, and he said he would and thatemornlng he didn't go out but stayed at home and wrote ma a long letter.

So next day I went Into a store on Polk street kept by a nice lady who had a bad husband, where they sold everything, and she said in France they called It lingerie.

I didn't know what th«t meant because it was French, and I asked her if she didn't want to sell ber.stpre, and she ^"Do you want to buj If^tore/ little girl?"

And I said: "My pa does." Ana she smiled and said she guessed the shtrlff would have a store to self in »few days, and I said I would tell pa because he knew Mr. Nunan, tbesber-

Sid

hlm

jump out and me some shoes

sell P*

nice

I tended *l|re when jifoent, tended stoie wbep I went**! day pk oggbe fn a«d lool ilblnd, alptb tnefi| anft do kuOweP

sjie3

fegtktar ai^tbe

ie, takes a bunt at the West too many things for the store, knd-that fend indeed the statement, a note for a thousand dollars had to be jg%otagun in the sporting paid, and

tbere

A St ild^lUrT' tflST l1lis* onMtotaic

H1"' -1'*

3 A

,.XSE

Story of Jcxaes & Co.

use he knew Mr. Nunan. the sber- tor ma ana msuu, Iff. It was one of Mr. Nunan^smen tbat have to go into any *»°re nasty

pa's Lorses and furniture off for lug bou,^,

And the next day I told pa about the Thrti we sent tor store and what a nice one It w«» »nd he

aprons, and I made them myself, ahd I right square In the faoe.

over everybody that I guessed had a thousand dollars, and every oo&I unfiled bad it I guessed wouldn't lend it to pa. And then I thonght about Mr. Flood and said, "111 go down to his bank and

.«rrhL)V

f.fcat cmMrad had a

vada the cellar is full of gold, and of course be don't want to use it all the time, and I'll borrow a thousand dollars for pa, and before Mr. Flood wants it I'll

time, for when they came to California it was on their weddlug tour, and oost lots they came by way of New York, and Washington and Panama City, in a steamboat, and ma brought a maid to """T." wait on her, and pa had a black leller It back to him and pay the mimed "Jim and when we scot to Call- And then I jnmped up and hurrahed fornta-I »y w, I'm onlf toam.!. lor.»Jon« Abo.," took my Uxt bonnet, ivaaiisi a

and put on my gloves, and took off my store apron, ana combed my hair, and and got into a car and went to the Nevada bank, and told the clerk I wanted to borrow a thousand dollars and he laughed and said be "guessed Tbad better see Mr. M'Lane." And I asked who Mr. M'Lane was. The clerk said Mr. M'Lane was the president, and was in the back room, and I went into the back room, and Mr. M'Lane said "Well, little girl, what can I do for yon?"

And I said: "I want to borrow a thousand dollars." Mr. M'Lane be opened his eyes, and

Well, I am ot tbe opinion ma* arter pa bought his bouse on Vass Ness Avenue screwed bis chair rout*d, jand looked at be went into stocks, whatever that Is. me, and said, A thousand dollars Going into stocks must be a very curl- with as much surprise as though a thouous business, and sometimes pa came Mud

d£llars

home looking splendid, and wanted to in the bank. Tben buy everything and laughed at ma for and cry, and^then I told Mr. Lane all being so mean, and for not getting bet. Jones A Co. ter clothes, and then he always wanted her to drive in the park, and to the theatre.

wwal1 the money I

about pa and "Jones A Co.," and what we wanted to do with the money, and that I would pay It back to him and he looked kinder puzzled, and asked me What my pa's name was, and I told him, and where tbe store was, and all

died. I gueSs that not v#ry much like business, and I don't know what Mr. M'Lane wanted to know all that for. Then be looked at me again, and I guess be wasn't going to let me have tbe money, when a gentleman at the other desk came up to where I was sitting on a chair, and Mr. M'Lane said: "Well, Flood, what do you think of this yenng merchant?" And then I knew it was tbe rich Mr. Flood and I looked into bis eyes, and they kind of laughed, and he said: "Let her have the money. I will endorse her note." Then I jumped up and kissed him, and he kissed me backhand Mr. M'Lane made a note for ninety days, and I signed it" Jones & Co.," and Mr. Flood wrote his name on the back of it. I took the money* away in a canvas bag, that Mr. M'Lane ssld I must bring back, and I took the money to pa, and didn't he look surprised when I poured out the great big gold |20 pieces on the counter.

Then I told him just what happened at the bank, and when I asked him if be didn't think I waa. a. pretty good business woman after all, I guess he felt real shamed.

In a few days a beautiful carriage drove up to the door, and a nice young lady came in and bought nearly f20 worth of things. I never sold so many

offer to help me at all, and looked kinder comical when she and me was puzzled over the figures to get them all right. The nines trouble me dreadful In adding, and so I have got In the way of makiug figures either fives or nothings, so they will add up easier. When the young lady drove away, I went to tbe carriage and saw the letter "F" on the panel and on the harness. "F," said I to myself "I wonder who it can be?" I should have tbpught it was Miss Flood, oclv she hadn't any diamonds In ber ears or on her fingers, and was dressed just only nice and plain and I said of course it wasn't Miss Flood.

After this, I never see anything like it —sdeh lots of carriages and suoh nice ladles kept coming every day, and most all of them traded with me, and pa was just as pleased and happy as he oould be. Jones fc Co. was making lots of money. When I took Mr, Flood's money back* I just marched right through the bank, past tbe big counters, into Mr. M'LSne's room, and I took very care to let the cleric that laughed at me before see the bag. Mr. Flood was in there, and Mr. M'Lane and I opened the bag, and turned out the money on Mr. M'Lane's desk, and Mr. Flood came up and laughed,-and I beard Mr. Flood tell Mr. M'Lane they would have that champagne lunch tp-day. And then Mr. Plood told me if I panted to borrow money again not to go to imy of tbe other banks, but to come to bis, and I thanked him, and Mr. M'Lane brought pae my note, cancelled by a great blue "Paid" stamped across the face right over wbeWt I wrote "Jones A Co." Then I told Mr. Flood that perhaps when we felt able to send for mjt I should come and borrow some more money, because I wanted to buy a bouse for ma and Maud, so that they wouldn't

and

have all the money 1 wantea.

Grandpa

gavema

said he had been a dry goods man once, and so we didn nave to oorrow any had had a large store, andsold silk

jandwe tookani»

drees goods, and velvets and furs, and very near tbe store, for pa didn want laees, worth ever so much a yard, and ma to know ab^t Jones & Co., though IndU abftwU worth more th.nathon- hot. Sh. "Tdon't know oxactly what pa did, but thought pa had a store fotl'Sf I think something "turned up" a few dttvm Afterwards for I heard hiui my he fibs about being detained at schoolf gobad made a "raise," and he showed me ing more than a thousand dollars In gold to account for being borne 'atenotes, and for a day or two be carried One day wboshoutd I see coming into them in aside pocket, and mostly kept the store bnt ma! hia band over them for tear they would

bum* mi "Have you aay pearl shirt buttons, fly away: and pa bought little girl ?"saidma. and a hit, andQuff for "Yes, ma'am" said I, looking her

oWer saw pa look so happy since ma "Ooodnew gracious!»said ma, "ia that went away and one day he said to me: "Vevie, I have bought the store on ,—- and you are to be my sales- yo» want ^dsure 'enough," in a few days we

I have bought the store and you

you, Vevie?"

on Isald: "Beg panto T" Andtl

woman and partner." wenUnto*Restore!' rtjd*over thedoor cap like a Frenclii gM, and because I ras a great big algnof "Jonee A Co.," wasn't veryhi^i wboiu ndpasaid I was Hie Oo." And when woodenbrOMns, aala "and so. pa. you are 'Jones,'" be ton*i| Into which I lumped my feet, and blushed, and I guess be didn't like for they made me about four or five inoben his old friends to know that he was sell- tall®c_And ma stared at me, and then

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We had two snug little rooms in the You looked much like my danabter back of the atore to sleep In, and I made L^SiSiJi^down behind pa's bed and swept out the rooms, and Tb«n I heard pa snicker downioemna tidied thinga. At first pa shut up the

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atorewhen be bad to go down town on and hid.Just as ^«®a wentout, badness, but after awhile I tended it, pa jumped up and laugb*^, wdmjd snd when there waa two customers In "Snatch off if the store I waited on one, and it wasn't and ran round the block and get home long before I could make change and before your mother. thl^and add up almost as good I did, and when ma got home she the sspa coma: and by-and-by when he the l«at went down Iown I tended store, and we seen. We bad splendid times. We went out to a and so that night ^we

place across tbe street for our meala. the house of Jones A OoM and ma

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kissed pa, and said bt was a "splendid, noble fellow, and just as good as gold,'' and that pbe "never was so proud of bim in alljber life," and fell to kissing bim and fb crying and taking on. I never saw ma act so foolish in all her life, and nassld she "waa malripp love to him m§r again." »wpy«

Well, now, tbe story is about over. Ma canae down to the store to help. At first sbe looked kinder sboepisb, especially when some lady came in that she bad known at tbe Lick bouse but soon she got over all tt}at, and began to make bonnets, and we bad a and then she insisted expense of a separate moved into a larger store next door, ijrith nioe rooms fixed up to live in, and a nice show window lor bonnets, and little Maudie is beginning to be bandy about, and all of ua work, and we are

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ust as happy as the day's long, and of money. 1 never seen Mr. Flood but once since, when I went down to the bank unbeknown to ps, and told Mr. Flood and Mr. Mc'Lane that any time they wanted to borrow a thousand dollars "Jones A Co.," would lend^ittortbem and they laughed, and I said "tbtiy couldn't tell, stocks migbt'gb downand then Mr. Flood saidi'^tf all the pimple be had given and lopped money to would pay it back as I bad5, he didn't think be would get busted in along time."

And then I saw the clerk that laughed at me, and I smUed at him and bowed, and since thin "he has been buying all his gloves at j(he store. I told bim I thought he used a great many pairs of gloves, and be Mild they wore out very fast oountlng the1money. He is dreadful particular about his gloves, and if there is nobody in tbe store but me he is sometimes half an hour picking out just tbe kind he wants.1

Pa has-bougbt a splendid gold watch —a real stem winder—and we—Jones A Co.—have bought a nice larg£ lot out on Gov. Stanford's newicable railroad, and paid for it, and if times are good this summer, Us pa thinks they will be, we shall have~a house of our own again, where we shall all live in £eace, die in Greece, and be buried in a oake of tallow.—MART JANS JONES—The Argonaut, San Francisoo, 1879.

Great Merit

AH the fairs give the first premiums snd special awards of great merit to Hop Bitters as tbe purest and best family medicine, and we most heartily approve of the awards for we know they deserve it. They are now on exhibition at the State Fairs, and we advise all to test them. See another column^*

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We Challenge tbe World. When we say we believe, we have evidence to prove that Shilon's Consumption Cure is decidedly the best Lung Medloine made, inasmuch as it will cure a common or uhronio Cough in one half the time, and relieve Asthma, Bronchitis, Whooping Cough, Croup, and show more oases of Consumption cured than all others. It will cure where they fail, it is pleasant to take, harmless to the youngest child ahd we guarantee what we say. Price 10 oents, 60 cents and $1.00. If your Lungs are sore, Chest or Back lame, use Sbiloh's Porous [Plaster. Sold by Gtjlicl^ &

Do Ton Believe It.

Thatln this town there are' passing our store every day whoso Jives are made miserable by indigestion, Dys*

Sour and distressed Stomach, liver Complaint, Constipation, when for 75 cents, we will sell tbem Shlloh's Vltalizer, guaranteed to cure them. Sold by Gulick A Berry The most popular and fume of the day "HACKMATACK."

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popular and fragrant pereday "HACKMET

Try it. Sold by Gulick fe Berry^

Bneklen's Arnlc» Salre.^ The BEST SALVE In the world for dots, Bruises, Sores, Ulcere, Salt Rheum, Tetter, Chapped Hands. Chilblains, Corns, ana all kinds of Skin Biuptions. This Salve is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction in every ease or money refu aded. Price 26 cents per box. For sale by GULICK A BERRY, Terre Haute. (je8-8m)

A CARD.

To all who are suffering from the errors and indiscretions of youth, nervous weakness, early decay, loss of manhood, sec., I will send a recipe that will cure you, FREE OF CHARGE, This grfeat remedy was discovered by a missionary in Sooth America. Send a self addressed envelope to the Rxv. JOSEPH T. IXKANV Station D, Bible Honse, New York City.

Mr. Flo^Isald I should

BENSON'S CAPCINE POROUS PLASTER

Its Wonderful Merit

Has been recognized

BY PHY.SlCIANS,DRUGGl3mT«EPUBLie.THE PRESS, THE CENTENNIAL MEDICAL JURY, THE FRENCH MED

ICAL JURY, AND THE H1UHE9T AUTHORITIES EVERYWHERE* The highest aftad only medals of merit

for rubber plasters were awarded to manufacturers of Benson Capcine Porous Plasters by the medical Jurors at both the Centennial and French Expositions. Physicians everywhere prescribe and endorse them as a great improvement on the common slow acting porous plasters and ail sin liar articles. Dr. J. W. Thompson (One of the Philadelphia Jurors), "Prefer them to all others. Use them in my practice." Dr.E.Deyo, Ponghkeeysle, N Y, "Best plaster in nse. ^.lways gives satis faction.' Dr. I. W. Onlly, Bt. Louis, Mo, "X have prescribed tbem with great success. Truly a wonderful remedy "One of the few averUsed articles not a humbug." Dr. A. Wooley, Wsissw, lad, "J prescribe none but these." Infirmary for Women ana CMMren,

Louisville. Ky, "The members of our Staff speak in the highest terms of your plasters." Cftemleal Gsictle, If Y, "Unquestionably an improvement on ordinary porous plasters."

ASK ANY PHY8ICUN. We Intend that the public shall become thoroughly famlliarwith the great virtue of this really wonderful r*a»«uy, and we recommend any one who is disposed to doubt our statements to eonsult some reliable physician in his own locality our assertions will thus be confirmed by those in whom yon have eonfMenee.

BENSON'S

Capcine Porous Plaster

Is specially recommended for tbe following tseases and ailments: Rheumatism, Lame and Weak Back, Sciatica, Lumbago, Stubborn and Neglected Coughs and Colds, Female Lameness and Weakness, Lung and Chest Difficulties, Kidney Disease, and ail Local Aches and Pains. Sold by all Druggists. Price 25c.