Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 9, Number 42, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 April 1879 — Page 6

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

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arper's Magazine for May.

MISS MAY.

It was an afternoon in late February, and Tom Kingsley was lounging in the bay window of the little sitting room, his Latin and Greek books all around him, and, what was worse, a broad snow covered hill in front of him, down which sled after sled was gliding with the most tantalizing rapidity. Tom waa twenty, and devoted to learning, but be was not above a good coast when the chanoe presented itself. Occasionally he favored his sister, who was the only other oocupant of the room, with very audible growiings against the restrio tions of study hours.

The two were students in the aoadelny, whose mathematically square buildings roso almost opposite to the Kingsley house. They were nearly of an age but the one was preparing to enter oollege the education of the other was oonsidered nearly completed. The two young people, with their father and mother, made up the whole family but Mr. Ktagsley, in the simple, unpretending way of the village, received into his house as a boarder one of tho academio professors, and alao occasional students when they happened to be friends of the first named individual who was exciting Tom's attention, in laok of anything bettor to look at. "May," he said, jerking hi9 head over his shoulder with a quick, characteristic mTV® nent, ''just coma here aud see Proles *or usel go by.

His sister dropped her work and came to tho window. On the other side of the street stood a tail, ungainly man, with a scholarly stoop iu his shoulders, a head of busby hair muob threaded with gray, a pair of mild, wise spectacles, and a general air of perplexed acquioscence in alt mundane atfairs whatever. In his hands he held a very tiny slod, looking at it at arm's longth, as if it w» something of an exploitive naturo. One six year old little fellow vr&s surveying his broken plaything with despairing eyes, while two other oxcitod urchins danced up and down in front of the professor, endeavoring duly to set forth the nature of the accident that had happoned to the runner. Two dogs wagged their tails hopefully in the background, and, to complete the procession, a disabled crow, tbe p?t of one of the villagers, brought up the rear. It hopped gravely aioog, now on one foot now on the other, Hettu'i^ its head on ens side in oracular fashion, and looking ten times blacker and wickeder than ever against the whiteness of the snow.

After considering the situation a few minutes tbe professor started eff again, dragging the sled by the rope, and his rocesHion, crow and all, trotted along hind hirn. "Now," said Tom, "he will go straight to the carpenter's shop to get that thing mended and tbe carpenter, after impressing upon him tbe ardous nature of the job, will charge just ten times what it's worth, and ho will pay it without a word." "Nodoubt ho will." "And those little beggars will run off without even thanking him." "Hut they are fond of him, Tom." "1 don't care. May, you can make tint nriaii believe anything." "I know it." "Just fancy his going out with a teleH30pe and watohiug the moon all night because we boys told him there were changes on ite surface indicating some great interior oonvulsion! Ana when ibo couldn't find them, and came to us to point thera out, we pretended to seo them plainly enongb, told him his eyes were getting weak, and he believed every word of it, aud has taken to wearing spectacles from that day." "Well, taoy are becoming, at any rate, and he in short sighted," said his sister, laughing. "jj.it, Mar, the best joke of all yon never heard of. Promise mo you won't tell auybody about it." "Oi course not, except Jem." "Oh, Jem knows all about It already: ho was in it. Seems to me you're very dutiful, tbongb, all At once. Getting ng «ged has Improved you." '»We'il pray that it may last," said his sister, demurely. "Which?—the improvement or tbe engagement? How many people have you been engaged to before this. May?" ••About half a dojwn, I think." "1 think »o too. Don't treat Jem that way. He's a friend of mine: and, after all, it's rather mortifying, yon know, to a fellow," "Itcin't well be mortifying in this case, because nobody is to know of the engage tnftnt." "I should like to know if they don't! Whv, May, it's all over town. Jem told it himself. You see, you are rather pretty lor a girl aud then there's that bit of money graudmother left you. On the whole, Jem's proud of it, and

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der." "LM*s have the joke now, Tom never caiod the compliments." "Never complimented anybody in my life. What are you talking aboal? But about that little affair: you remember when we were experimenting with that nitrogen iodide in tbe laboratory, May?" "Yes." "You remember how explosive it waa —«.\fe as long aa you kept it wet, but going off just like nitro-giyoerine and dynamite put together whenever it got dry?" "It didn't go off unless some one touched it, Tom." •»t rather gue«n is did. If a fellow merely brea'.bsd a yard away from it, off it went. But that's of no consequence, for in thU case somebody was expected to touch it." "And that somebody was the professBar. of course?" «OT rse, We made a lot of it, and

at .-jui-' on the handle of his donr, gome hi* slippers, and some am his t- the rest we senUir&d round pro--iuously. And, as good luck would

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ahower that verv afternoon. The proshower that very afternoon. The professor earns harrying ins aoeidentally him en the atalra. We Jem and I met asked him to explain a difficult Latin passage. 'Oh, come right in—come right in, boys,' he says. In that benevoleut way of his, and laid his hand on the doorknob. Bangl He Jumped back as If he had been ahot. 'Bless me, what's tbe matter?' he exolalmed, rubbing his nose. "We didn's say anything, bnt acted aa if 'twas the most every-day occurrence. Well, we went in, and be polled off hia boots and started to get his slippers on Bang! bangl Oh, May, you never saw the like of that jump! I believe he actually struok the ceiling. When he took down the Latin book—it was a bl and heavy one—bang! bang! bang! An so on with everything be touched in the room, till I began to think the poor man would lose his wits. But the best of it was he never even suspected the cause. You know his wisdom lies in Latin and Greek he doesn't kuow anything about the sciences, though I believe be regards them with more awe than all the rest of the curriculum put together. Well, Jem just told him tbe thunder shower had done it, that it had charged the room with electricity, and that he himself was a first rate prime conductor. Jem expa tiated learnedly for half an hour or more on the freaks of electricity talked, you know, as if it was a usual thing to see rooms behaving in that fashion. And, if you'll believe me, the professor actu ally took it all in is writing a paper now—If Jom's any authority on the subject—on these extraordinary natural phenomena."

Tom was in ecstasies of laughter by this time, and his sister was not slow in joining him. "I was only afraid father would hear the noise, and stop the fun," gasped he at last, when be was able to apeak. "Luckily be didn't come in till it was all over. I suggested to the professor that it might frighten mother if he was to mention it at tbe'table, and he ha* been aa mum about it as possible ever ainoe. May, we can make him believe anything—anything whatever. If I told him there wereghoats in tbe house, he'd

out bis light and sit watching for one very next night:" "Why don't you show him a ghost, then?" queried May. "You know we read how they did it at the spiritualistic seances. I'll help you, and—" "May!" cried Tom, jumping to his feet and dancing the Fishers Hornpipe, "you're a trump! Just wait till Jem comes, and we'll fix it. The professor never locks hia door.

The two pairs of brown eyes looked at each other, and the respective owners of them burst oat laughing, with the delightful unanimity of sentiment that occurs whenever any specially delectable piece of mischief is on foot.

Jem in no way dissented from the programme when he presented himself at night, but on the contrary, added some timely suggestions. Tom considered his frieud the quickest witted mortal in tho world, and a handsome fellow besides, which last was true enough. The young people soon tound out that to copy the spirits successfully required more time and practice than they had oounted upon, their ghostly advisers having failed to provide any short road to perfection. They were very patient, however, as people will be when engaged in something with which they have no manner of business, and in about a week had all their arrangements completed. Jem was to personate the ghost, Torn and his sister tbe audience, Tom having reluctantly yielded the post of distinction to Jeaa'in consideration of his abilities.

But when it came to the point, the would-be ghost had a new proposal to make. "Let's tell him to do something or other," he said—"something he would never think of himself—so that we shall know by that afterward whether he believes in It all or not."

This being hailed with acclamation, Tom suggested that theprofossor should boootnmanded to wear a cocked bat for a month May, that be should make a daily pilgrimage to the top of Meeting house Hill for that length of time. But Jem rejected both of these proposals they would be liable to bring about discovery, and were not solemn enough to be accredited to a ghost. "No it must be something that will affect his whole life," he said—"something of so much consequence that he would think it likely tbe spirits wonld be charged to deliver it. We'll tell him to marry aemebody—May, here, for instance be was always fond of her, and she is right in the same house." "But, unluckily, May is not fond of him, but of you," observed Tom, wickedly.

Well, he doesn't know that. He will think it's his duty to ask her. And when she says no, he will wait for some how spiritual light. You don't mind, do vou, May?"

May did mind very much at first, but the two boys, aided by her own sense of fun, at last persuaded her into it. Perhaps the thought that it was sure to be discovered, an that the professor oould not possibly carry his credulity to that point, helped to quiet her conscience. At any rate, she not only yielded, but, after the iashion of womenklnd, was tbe one to originate the boldest part of the scheme. "If I let you do that, boys, yon must let me do what I want to."

Of course they both asked, What is it?" May refused to tell them. "You'll know soon enough," she said, with the mischievous sparkles coming and 'going iu her brown eyes. "Only, If I don't say anything to spoil your fuu, you must promise not to spoil mine."

Tbey both gave this promise very readily, finding anew interest in their rojeot now that something not laid own in the plan might possibly happen.

In about a woek rverythlng was ready and the ulgbt set for the ghostly visitation.

The professor, after patting out his light, was just getting into bed, still ab•orbed in the true interpretation of a difficult aorist construction, when the door oreakad gently, seemed to swing open ofitaelf, and presently, to his astonished eyes, a tall white figure presented itself, with a faint blue light encircling it, and a general misty uncertainty of outline that might be attributed to the shifting of some thiok vapor, but to an uniniatea person was highly anggeatlve of uncorporeal spirits.

Bless me! bless me!** said Professor Rensel, staring at this viaion. Who are yon, my friend?" "I am a disembodied spirit," replied a sepulchral voice. "Dear, dear! what a pitv! Can't—can't anything be doue (tor yon?" "Nothing. I atn sent to yon "Well, my friend, I am here"—after a pause, in which he seemed to imagine that the embarrassed spirit required some encouragement. His faco shone with a mild oe".o volenoe. "I am here," be epeated. V/hat can r*n for yon7w

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tion. Then the aepnlobral voioe replied, "You are commanded to marry May Kingsley." "How? What? My good friend, you are talking like a—ghost!" exclaimed the astonished professor. A slight flush rose to his benevolent face. "You are commanded to do it," repeated the spirit, monotonously. "Bless me! bless mel It isn't possible." "With us, all things are possible." "Indeed?" said the professor, inqnirlngly. "Indeed?" be repeated, with aa mueb deliberation as if he were addressing his classes. "Well, well. Let us consider that settled, and—and pass on to something else," with a oertain mild dignity, asir he objected to discussing the lady tbey had named even with a

host. He was evidently disposed to be but somewhat at a loss bow entertain his visitor. "You are not," said the professor, glancing hesitatingly at the suggestive blue light, "from the celestial regions, I am afraid?" "No." "Dear me! dear me! what a pitv It must be very unpleasant. Yet if yon oould—if you could be persuaded to givo me a little information about the other place. The truth is, I have a young friend who is going that way, I very much fs»ar, and—"

Here something not laid down in the programme happened the ghost incontinently bolted, blue Hgkt aud all. Outside there was a auspicious scuffling and hurrying of feet that may have been produced spiritually, but was very like scampering humanity.

The professor deliberately got up and closed the door, murmuring to himself: "Very singular—very singular indeed

Tbe same embarrassed llusb still lingered on his face, but be got into bed and wont calmly to sleep, aa if nothing unusual had happened.

Meauwbile the ghost and the audience were holding a hurrlod consultation down stairs. All three were considerably taken aback. "He knew us," said Jem, disconsolately. "He must have known us the very first thing. His young friend! That w&a cool, at any rate. Which of us does he mean, Tom—you or me?" "Perhaps he didn't know himself whioh it was," said Tom.

As neither of them oould settle this point, they at last adjourned to bed, each, perhaps, with a little sense of disoomfiture under all his merriment.

Tbe next morning, after watching Tom out of the bouse, May sat down to some feminine work of her own, to ponder over their ill fated schemes, when in walked Professor Rensel, who was supposed to be safe in his class room. May was aghast at the sight of him. "Now for it!" she thought. "It is too baci I should have to take the scolding alone."

For it could not but be that even so mild a man would be angry at such an escapade. True, he could not know of her share in it, but it was nearly as bad to have Tom made tbe scapegoat.

Miss May was an audacious young lady, but conscience made a coward of her, aud she dared not look up or ask him why he was not at school. "Why don't he begin?" she mused, still keeping her eves on her work, as the tall figure shuffled uneasily round tho room.

Presently the professor stopped in front of her and cleared his throat. "My dear Miss May, do you think you could ever bring yourself to marry me?"

The work .fell out of her hands, and May sat fairly dumb with astonishment. The proteehor picked it up again for her. "I am much older than yourself," he went on,}"and a vory awkward man in action aud speech, as you see. Not Bnch a one as a young lady would ever be likely to fancy. Only—only I felt it my duty to ask you."

Then at last May found her tongue. "One would not like to marry anybody who asked her merely from a sense of duty," she said, gravely, bending still lower over her work.

The sacne flash tinged the professor's face that bad been there the night before. "When I said duty, Miss May," be answered her, half reproachfully, I only expressed the motive that had led me to speak to you this morning. I said nothing of my own feelings. Surely you must know what they are and have long been. You must pnow that a man like myself, who has neither youth nor attractions of any kind, woald, under ordinary circumstancoa, feel debarred from the right to ask what a younger and happier man might ask. Such a one as myself can only stand aside, glad to be your bumble friend, and to wish you all happiness to the end of your life."

There was something so pathetic in the sight of the gentle, learned professor addressing such words to the thoughtless girl whom others treated only as a companion in mischief, but whom his love olevated to a pedestal above common womanhood, that May might well have been restrained by it. His gray bairs and simple kindliness of life might have turned aside the jokes his credulity brought upon him. She wavered visibly for a moment then tbe old mischievous sparkle name back to the .eyes that were so demurely dropped. "Yet you bnve altered your resoltion tills morning?" she said, inxulringly. "As I told yon, Miss May, because I believed that it was right for me to do so." "Well," said May, alter a ldng pause, in which she was scarcely able to keep down tbe roguish quivering of her lips, "If It is your duty to marry mo, it must be mine to marry you." .» "Then you oonsent "Yes."

Tbe tall, ungainly man stooped, with no grace except that whioh love gave him, and lirted her hand to his lips. He seemed no more astonished at ber answer than be had been at the spiritual visitation of the night before.

When tbe boys came homo that night they found tbe professor radiant, Mr. and Mrs. Kingsley beftmlng approval upon their daughter, and May herself submitting to it all with the most curl»n and dimoghter and

one expression ever seen upon and dimmed faoe—a compound of iai oubt, of fun and fear.

Whether she was prioked by her conscience or only frightened by the boldness of tbe game she was carrying on, they oould not tell. As soon as was possible tbey got her alone by herself and fell upon her, metaphorically speaking, with an avalanche of questions.

May, did he really ask you to marry him!" "Yes." "But he acts as if yon had said yes." "Well, so I did." "By Jove!" ejaculated Tom, perfectly confounded. "You know I told you, boys, that if I helped yon in your fun, you mu»t let me have mine." "But, May! May! do you know he has already asked father's c*n«»nt? How will yu got outoi it? What a storm there will be!n m^ns," interrupted Jem, who en laying her t*ce ^cntively,

"to let it go on till it oomee to tbe finale, and then say no instead of yes when the minister puts tbe question."

Tom's faoe was a picture of mingled consternation and admiration. Hs bad held a very low opinion of the oourage of girls up to this point, but here was one who was willing to go beyond liiiti. "Did yon tbik of this last nlgbt when yon wouldn't tell us wbat you were going to do?" he asked humbly, "Of course I did." "Only think, Tom, he believed every word of it, alter all!" put in Jem.

Tbey coagratnlated each other upon having perpetrated a successful joke bnt still their countenances wore a very uneasy expression. "AftArall, May, it's a little too bad," said Tom, hesitatingly. "The professor is a good sort of man, though he is suob a muff. We won't spoil your fun, of course, but just look at it before you go ahead. Have you thought what an awful row there'll be when it comes out?" "It's too late to stop now," said his sister, faintly, as if sho were a little alarmed herself at tne prospect. "Well, anyway, May c^n marry me, and so get out of the scrape, said Jem, taking her band consolingly. "She'd better marry you right after the other ccremony, then," answered Tom, ominously. "YouM better take her out of father's reach as quick as possible. He thinks everything of the old professor. "Well, why shouldn't we?" asked Jam, with confidence. "It's just as well now as any time. May won't mind."

And Indeed May did look so relieved at this proposal, after the fashion of a child who has unexpectedly grasped a torpedo, that Tom began to think it would be the best way out of tho scrape, after all.

To be sure, the pair would have nothing to live on after they were married, except his sister's little legacy, which would not ge far, and, besides, which oould not be claimed for a year, till the young lady was of age. But Tom had a oheerful confidence in Jem's abilities, and as great a confidence in his sister.

They finally settled it among themselves that this was to be the denouement, and afterward tried to look as if everything was all right.

One of them at least failed ignomlnously. Tom was attacked with fits of self reproach every time be chanced to meet the professor's eye, and whenever the good unconscious man showed him any trilling kindness, would rush out of the house as if be were a convicted criminal. This went on for a few naontbs, Tom growing more and more conscience stricken, May more and more silent and timid, till at last the powers that be were moved to set the wedding day.

They all felt a kind of relief at this. Th^ joke which bad seemed 6o ludicrous at first had grown into a species of nightmare, which bestrode them all mercilessly. May submitted to the wedding preparations with a quietness very unlike her. She avoided solitary interviews with the professor but as he had far too great a reverence for hor to seek them, this conduct did not attract attention. There was much wondering and many comments among the gossips of the village over this singular and apparently unsuitable engagement but Miss Ntay had always had a reputation for doing unexpected things, so at last tbe wondering settled down into acquiescence.

By the morning of the wedding day Jem and Tom were beginning to recognize the serious aspect of the drama to be enacted, and were uot a little nervous on entering the church. Iu their trepidation they nearly forgot to provide themselves with white gloves, if there had not oome a timely reminder from May. The service commenced—went on without interruption to the place where the decisive question was put. Jem and Tom listened in the utmost excitement to the professor's response and then the question came to May, "Wilt thou have this man to be thy wedded husband?"

Jem was just rising from his seat in anticipation of the impending soene, when her answer oame, in a low, clear voice that oould be heard distictly in all parts of the church "Yes."

Tbe two boys were horror struck. Was it possible she knew what she was doing? Was she overpowered by fright?

Whether she was or not, they certainly were for, in spite of a frantic impulse to ory out and proclaim tho mistake, the deoorum of the plaoe kept them still till the oeretaoov was over. Then they rnshod to her siae, heedless of order or conventionalities. "May 1 May!" whispered Tom,catching her hand in his excitement, "are you crazy? Do Vou know that you are married to him?"

The oolor in her faoe deepened as In a late sunset sky. "Yes, I know it," she answered, quietly, laying her other hand upon her husband's arm and then lifting her beautiful, flushed face to her brother, "and I love him."

Perhaps two more dlscomfitted young mon never stole out of church than were Jem and Tom as they slipped away unnoticed among the crowd of people. Tho former, indeed, was savage, and declared that he would never forgive her.

But Tom, when he saw his sister's face leaning out of tbe carriage for tbe last time before they drove away, was moved to kiss her in a grim, uncompromising sort of way and seeing the penitent tears gathering in her brown eyes, to mutter to himself: "It was our fault, after all. We acted as if we were sure she hadn't got any heart, and no wonder she was ashamed to show it."

As for Jem, he finally retracted bis heroic resolves, and consented to a most amicable truce between himself and Mrs. Professor Rensel after ber return but tbe two young men were never quite sure whether the professor believed in that ghost or not.

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Dolly's Stratagem.-

"Prank!" "All right, Dolly!" He eat before tbe glowing grate, his feet on one corner of tbe mantel, his chair tipped back. His young wife looked at him and her pretty black eyee, which only a minute before had been brimful with tears, now emitted sparks of fire. Her rosy month oloeed with a firm expression, and her dainty foot oame down upon the rug in a very decided manner. "I won't stand it," said she, under bnr breatb "I can't—'twill kill me! To see bim thus, nlgbt after night, besotted and degraded, ruining both soul and body. I must save bim for my baby's sake!"

Then sho sat and meditated. They had been married a little over two years, and tbe babe in tbe wicker cradle was a thriving boy. No happier woman than Dolly did the wide world hold, but for one thing. Her young husband would drink.

Ho lovod his social glass, his wine suppers, and bis club dinners. He did not neglect his wife, but often came homo in tbe small hpvxn in. ap,unsteady condition,

Dolly tried everything—tears, entreaties, persuasions—but he only laughed her off. "Where's the barm, Dolly? Can't a fellow be merry now and then with his friends?"

But Dolly saw tbe fatal evil growing upon bim day by day, aud knew wbat tbe end would be. She shuddered, and her eves filled with tears, but the minute after they flashed fire, and then she smiled. "I'll try it," she said to herself. "If it doesn't do any good, it can't do muob barm."

Then she said: "Frank!" Her husband roused np, and opened his eyes with an imbecile stare. "All right, Dolly." "Frank, you believe that a wife should always follow in ber husband's steps, don't you?" "To be sure. You're a sensible woman, Dolly." "And you area sensible man, Frank. What's right for you to do is right for me, isn't Ft "Precisely, Dilly just so exactly. You're a wise woman, you are."

Dolly smiled quietly. "Very well, Frank, if you go to the tavern any more oi nights, I'm going too!"

Her husband looked up quickly, half sobered* "Nonsonse, Dolly," he said, "that's running it into the ground. You'll do no such thing." "You'll see that I will, Frank?" she answered, resolutely. "I love you, and wbat you do I shall do, too! If you should see fit to ruin yourself, soul and body, and shame your son, I shall follow your example. I caro for nothing that you cannot share. As you do, so will I."

His cheek paled and his lip quivered. Her words toacbed him to the quivered. Her words touched bim to tbe quiok. He sat silent fur a moment, then got up and said: "Nonsense, Dolly. Come to bed, listle girl."

She followed him obediently, and nothing mora was said on tbe subject. For three or four nights, Frank came homo punctually, then his old habit mastered bim.

Dolly bad bis supper all waiting, and bis slippers and dressing gown Before the fire, but be did not come. She waited patiently for him till ten o'clock, and then she called tbe housemaid, and put on ber wraps. "Sit by baby's crib, Mary, and when Mr. Mayfiela comes, tell him I have gone to tbe Reindeer. Ask no questions and take good care of baby, and you shall have one dollar extra this month." "Very well, ma'am," said Mary, with wondering eyos.

Twelve o'clock, one, and the young husband let himself in with his latch key, and came reeling into tho sitting room. There sat the maid beside the sleeping child.

Frank looked about tbe room a little anxiously. "Ah, fast asleep, fine little fellow," be said, bending over tbe crib. "Mary, my girl, where's your mistress? Gone to bed?" "No, sir, Bhe's gone to the Reindeer hotel." 4., v.

He stood and stared. "What do you say, girl "She went out at ten, sir, and bade me tell you when you came that she'd gone to the Reindeer."

The young husband stifled something that sounded like an oath, and sat down before the hearth. Half an hour went by, then he started up and glanced at tne clock

Great Heaven! 'tis nearly two o'clock and she not here!" He ssizad his hat and rushed from the house like one mad.

By the time he was half way to tbe Reindeer, be was perfectly sober. "Could she have meant what she said?" he asked himself over and over again.

Presently a carriage came down from the lighted tavern on the bill, and as it passed him a woman's voioe rang out, singing the chorus, "We won't go home till morning."

It was his wife's voioe. He oaught at the horses' heads, frantic with rage. Dolly's pretty curly head looked out as the vehicle stopped. "Frank, old fellow—hio—is that you? Get in, get in—why didn't you oome up? Ob, we had a jolly time—bully time—wo did. Suob a 'mense dance* Doa't blame you for going out, Frank. Didn't know it was so pleasant—gioriousb time—I mean to go every night." "You do?" he gasped, leaping into the seat beside ber, and grasping her arm. "Ever dare to do such a thing again, and you will never be wife of mine?' "Nonsense, Frank. Le'me do as you do, that's fair. Let go my arm, you hurt, and you'll break my flask 'tis prime brandy. Frank—taste a drop."

He caught it from her hand and flung it cut the window. "Bah," said Dolly, her cheeks flushed, her hair awry "I wish I had stayed at the Reindeer. What makes you so cross, Frank?" "Hush! Say no more, Dolly," he answered, his teeth set bard. "I can't bear it. I—I may do something I'll be Borry for. Keep silent—1 don't want to hear any more crooked words." "Ram's horn, if I die for it!" cried Dolly.

Then she clapped ber bands and laughed gleefully, breaking into "A Moonlight Nlgnt for a Ramble."

Frank let his head fall Into his hands. "Good Heaven!" he groaned "I'd rather have died than have seen this sight!"

He got her home and into ber own room at last, but she waa very unmanageable, ana persisted in cutting up all manner of capers dancing and singing, her cheeks flushed and ber hair streaming, and asked bim if be would not go another night—it was such jolly fun

Hie pretty, modest little Doll! Long after sue had fiallen to sleep, Her husband sat over the mouldering fire, with his faoe bidden in his hands. "Dolly," be said, when she awoke late on the following morning, "wbat happened last night moat never happen again." si 8be looked up with her clear eyes. "Very well, Frank, that ia for yen to sav. Just aa yon do so will I."

He was silent a moment. r| "I would rather die than see what I saw last night over again." he said. "Frank," she said, ner lipe quivering, "I've seen tbe same sight once or twice every week ainee tbe day I married yon, and God only knows what it has eo«t me. "He caught ber close to his heaving heart. "Poor little wifel" he almost sobbed, "you never shall see suob a sight again. I shall sign the pledge to-day." "go will I, Frank."

Tbey both signed, and kept it, too. Ten years after, Mayfleld was a rich m»n, and one of the moat renowned temperance men of tbe day. "Frank," said bis pretty wife once, as tbev watched their children playing on the'lawn, "I did fool you handsomely that night Frank, it was all make oe lieve. I didn't go to tbe Reindeer that night, and not a drop of the hateful

isiisis^ig

stuff had passed my lips. Didn't I fool yon banasomely, and cure you in tbe Da gain?" "You Ijttle witch," he cried, but the inatant after, his eyes filled. "YM*. DOW ly. be said, drawing ber close to bfaH siae, "you cured me of a habit that would have been my ruin. Heaven bless you for it!"

THB most inexcusable folly is to endure dyspepsia with all its miseries, when a 25 cent bottle of Dr. Bull's Baltimore Pills will cure tbe malady.

We Challenge tbe World. When we say we believe, wo have evidence to prove that Sbilob's Gonsumivtlon Cure is decidedly the beet Lung Medicine made, inasmuob as it will cure a common or cbronio Cough in one half the time, and relieve Asthma, Bronchitis, Whooping Cough, Croup, and show more cases of Consumption cured than all others. It will cuoe where they tail, it 'is pleasant to take, harmless to tbe youngest child and we guarantee what we say. Price 10 cents, 50 cents and $1.00. It your Lungs are sore, Chest or Back lame, use Sbiloh's Porous Plaster. Sold by Gulick fc Berry.

Do Ton Believe It.

That in this town there are seo res passing our store every day whoso lives are made miserable by indigestion, Dyspepsia, Sour aud distressed Stomach, Liver Complaint, Constipation, when for 75 oents, we will sell tnern Shiloh's Vitalize *, guaranteed to cure them. Sold by ullck fe Berry

BROWNS

Expectorant

The only reliable remedy for all Throit and Lung Diseases,'is a scientific preparation, compounded from the formula of one of the mostauoce^aful practitioners la the W osteox oountry. It has stood tbe test for the last twenty years, and will effects cure after all other oough remedies have failed.

the Following:

HALLor

RKPBESANTA.TIVES,

INDIANAPOLIS,IND., freb 15.1871.

DK. J. H. BROWN:—we have used yonr "Brown's Expectorant," and take pleasuae in saying that we found tt the best medicine ever usea Tor Coughs, Colds, and Hoarse-^ ness, and cheerfully recommend it to all who may be troubled with Throatand Lung affections.

Wm Mack,Speaker House Rep, Zenor, Rep Harrison county, Cauthora, Rep Knox county,

Montgomery, Rep Johnson couRty, BT&rlton, llep Juhnson and Morgan counties, KSchell, Doorkeeper HouRe Rep, "N Warura, Rep Hancock county,

UUP Abbott, Rep Bartholomew counjy E Calkins, Rep Fulton county, Juo VV Copner, Rep Montgomery county W UNefT, Kep Putnam county.

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ii. BUOWN Having suffered with a

severe cough for some time past, 1 was induced to try oue bottle of your "BrownIs Expectorant.' I unhesitatingly say I found it pieasant to the taste, aud to act lika magic. A few doses done the work for the cough, and I am well.

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Bead What Gen. Kimball Says.

INDIANAPOLIS, IJTO., Dec. 80,1809.

DR. J.H.BROWN After having used yottT "Expectorant Syrup" long enough toltnow and appreciate its good qualities. I can cheerfully bear testimony to its uniform success in curing the most etestinate cases of Coughs, Colds, etc. I have frequently administered the "Expectorant" to my children, aud always found It the very best,as wellasmostploasantremedyof its kind.

NATHAN KIMBALL, Treasurer of Siate.

What a Case of Consumption Says.

David A. Sands,of Darlington. Montgomery county, says: "My wife has been ullliobed with consumption for a number of yearB, and during that time has tried most all tbe medicines recommended for that disease without affording any relief. I was Induced by the recommendations of Dr. Kirk, druggist at Darlington, to try'Brown's Expectorant Syrup,' and I am now happpy to say that my wife is so tnncb improved I am ooifldent it will entirely restore her health byIts continued use."

It C«res Bronchitis. EDINBCSEN,

IND., August 28,1871.

This is to oertlfy that I have used 'Brown Expecterant'in my family since ltsflrstlntrouuotion. Ithas never failed to glvesaV iafactlon. Mywlfo is subject to Bronchitis, and I have found no remedy equal to "Brown's Expectorant." I reoommend it as a safe and reliable Medicine.

J. T. BRENTON, M. D.

Brown's Expectorant

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