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THE MAIL

PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

TERRB HAUTE, JULY 17,1880

TAKE DE PL AIX ROAD.

De Baptls' ban' to gwine to win— aagg TeLlIn'you no story T, So put yo' name down wblle you kin,

On de roll fo' glory.

«De Meth'dis ban' to lallln' frough— .Omgergatlon spatln' *?|lPtit$n' Qa Hu» will nebber do—

Too raacb blMutin'.

Good soda pone an' buckwheat cakes— Mighty ha'd to beat 'em But, lem me tell you what. It takes

Healthy folks to eat 'em.

'Mongde Meth'dis,des de tame, Wh Pi

ah dey bab de "scuffles fay de "put on" game-

De members

Sandin' by de ruffles.

But, high tone vittles bring de pain—, Belly can't dlges"em. You nave yo' funds fo' time o' rain—

Bes'way tolnves"em.

Des «o bit Is wld 'llgion, too Too much style will ruin De gospel nebber stomach you

Wld dat sort a doln'.

Too much show will nebber work In a mule up bltchin »You inns'gib no lancy Jerk,

Feolm' wld de britcbin*.

Kaze ef you do de mule will kick! Tain't gwine to be no playln', He kill you dead so debbllsh quick,

You bab' no time fo' prayln! Des take de plain road, dat du bes'j •. Asde Lawd inlondea 1* An' den you find de welcome res,

When de Journey's ended. —Bob McUee, in New Oneans Times,

Gentleman of La Porte

Brete Harte in N. Y. Sun.

He was also a pioneer. "A party who broke throagh the snows of tbe winter of 'SI, and came upon tbe triangular little valley afterward kcbwn as La Porte, fmud him the sole inhabitant. He had subsisted for three months on two biscuits a day and a few inohes of bacon, In abut made of bark and brushwood. Yet when the explorers found him he was quite alert, hopeful, and gentlemanly. But 1 cheerfully make way here to the terser narrative of Oapt. Henry Symes, commander of tbe prosnect'ng party: 'We kam upon nim, gentlemen, suddont like, jest abreast of rock like this'—demonstrating tbe distance—'tz near tz you be. He sees us, and be dire* into his ca'oin and oomeji out again with a tall bat—astove-

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lpe, gentlemen—and, blast me! gloves. w»s a tall, thin feller, holler In tbo cheek—ez might be—and off color in bis face, ez was nat'ral, takln' in acoount his starvation grub. But he lilts his bat to us so, and sez he, 'Happy to make your acquaintance, gentlemen! I'm afraid you ex-per-ieuced some difficulty in getting here. Take a oigyar.' And he pulls out a fancy cigar case with two real Havanas In It. 'I wish there was more,'sez be. •Ye don't smoke yourself?' s«z I

'.Seldom.' sez he, whloh war a lie, lor that very afternoon I seed him hangin' ouiu a abort pipe liko a suckin' baby outu a bottle, 'f kept these clgyars for ahv Ketitletnan that might drop in.' *1 reckon ye see a great deal o' the best society yer,' sez Bill Parker, starin' at the bat and gloves and wlnkin* at the boys. •*. few Indians occasionally,' sez he. ''InJIns!'says wo. "Yes. Vory quiet, good fellows in their way. Tliev have once or twice brought me game, which I refused, as the poor fa'lows have had a pretty hard time of It themselves.' •Now, gentlemen, wo was, ez you know, rather quiet men—rather peacennie men but—hevin'been shot at three times by these yar 'good' Injins, and Parker hlsielf havln' a matter o' three inches of his own skelp lying loose in their hands and ho walkln' round wearin'green leaves on his head like a Rornau statoo—it did kinder-seem ez if this y«r stranger was playin' it rather low down on the boys. Bill Parker gets up and takes a survey o' him, and sez be, peaceful like: '•Ye say these yer Injlna—these yer quiet Injins—offered yer game?' 1 'Thoy did!' sez be. 4 4

And you refoosed?' ,4-. »•. ««Idid,^ sezhe.

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•Must hev made 'em feel kinder bad— «orier tortered their sensltiv' natersf' sez Bill.

They rbally seemed quito disappointed.'

'In course,' sez Bill,

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now mout

I ftHic wh you be?.' •Excuse u*o.' says the stranger

4and,

d*r.» my skin! If he doesn't hist out a keerd case, and, handld' it over to Bill, sez, 'Here's n»y kyard.' •Hill took it aud read out aloud, •*. TrOtt, Kentucky.' •It's a pooty keerd,' sez Bill •I'm glad you like It,' says the strauafr.

reckon tho other fiRy-one of the dwk e* as pooty—all of 'em jacks and left bowers,'ssz Bill. 'Tba stranger sez nothln', but kinder draws back from Bill, but Bill ups and

""•Wot Is your little game, Mr. J. Trott of Kentucky •I don't thiuk I quite understand you,' •ez the s'.ranger, a holler fire coming intu his cheeks like as if they was the bowl of a pipe. 'Wot's this yer kid glove business— Ibis tall hat paradin'T—this yer circus fbolln'T Wot's «U a'xnitf Who are ve, anyway?' me stranger stands up and se* he, •E* I don't quarrel with guests on my own land,' sea he. "I think you'll allow Pin— a gentleman se* he.

With that he takes off his tall hat and* make* a l«w bow, so, and torus away— line this but Bill lltee ont of a suddent with nti right foot and drives bis No. 10 boot dean throagh the crown of that tall hat like one oMhem circus hoepa. 'That's about ez fur es I remember. Gentlemen! thar warnt but one man o' that hull crowd ez could actooally swear what happened next, and that man never told. For a kind o' whirlwind j«*i then took place in that valley. I dtaremember anything but dust and bustlln'. Thar wasn't no yeUin', thar warn no shootin*. It was one o' them suddint things that left even a alx abooter ont in the cold. When I kem ta in the chaparral—bel ng oneomftrtable like fromnevin* only b«f a shirt on—r fonod nigh on three pounds o' gravel wad atones in my poekeU and a stiffness In my ha'r. looks np and mm BUI hanaln' In the forks of a hkskory sapUa' twenty above me. •HW. »es he, in an twialrin' tij, *h«s th« tornadopa«wd T* ••WhlbhT'aeaL ••This yer elemental dta^u*bwM9~4a It over 'I reckon,* aez I* ••Because,' se* ha, this yer aleetrical phenomenon took place I hea a slight misa adenftmndlng with aetranMT,

and IM like to apologise!' ^And with that he climbs down, peaceful like, and goea into the ahanty, and oomee out, KTd In hand wlti thai stranger, smiling Uke an Infant. And that's the first time, 1 reckon, we know

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anything about the Gentleman of La Porte.' It is by no means improbable that the above incidents are slightly exaggerated in narration, and the cautious reader will do well to exeept with some reservation the particular phenomenon alluded to by the Captain. Bat the fact remaiDi that the Gentleman from L® Porto wits allowed an eccentricity and enjoyed an immunity from contemporaneous criticism only to be attributed

to his personal prowees. Indeed, this was once poblicly expressed. 'It to me,' said a meek new comer, who, on the strength of bis having received hews of tbe death of a distant relative in tbe States, bad mounted an exceedingly large crape mourning"band on his white felt bat, and was consequently obliged to treat tbe crowd in tne bar room of Parker's Hotel—'it 'pears to me gentle men, that this yer taxin' tbe nat'ral expression of grief, and allowin' such festive exhibitions as yaller kid gloves, as tbe gentleman on my right, is sorter inconsistent. I don't mind treatin' tbe crowd, gentlemen, but this yer platform aud resolutions don't seem to keep step. This appeal to the Demos of every American crowd of course precluded any reply from the Gentleman of Li Porte, but left it to the palpable Chairman—the barkeeper, Mr. William Parker. •Young man,' he replied, severely, •when you can wear yaller kids like that man, and make 'em hover in the air like summer lightnin', and strike in four places to onct, then ye kin talk! Then yo km wear your shirt half masted if ye like!' The crowd assenting te this sentiment, the meek map paid for tbe drinks, and would, in addition, have taken off hi? mourning band, but-was courteously stopped by the Gentleman of La Porte.

And yet, I protest, there was little suggestive of this baleful pioneer in bis face and figure. He was loose jointed and locg limbei, yet with a certain mechanical, slow rigidity of movement that seemed incompatible with alacrity and dexterity. His arms were unusually long, and bis bands bung with their palms forward. In walking bis feet 'toed In,' suggesting an aboriginal ancestry. His race, as I remember it, was equally inoffensive. Thin and melan choly, the rare smile that lit it up was only a courteous reception of some attribute of humor in another which be was unable him*elf to appreciate. His straight blaok hair and high cheek bones would have heightened his Indian resemblance, but these were offset by two most extraordinary eyes, that were utterly at variance with this, or indeed any other suggestion of his features They were yellowish blae, globular, and jlacidly staring. They expressed nothng that the Gentleman of La Porte thought—nothing that be did—nothing that he might reasonably be oxpectea to do. They were at variance with his spoech, bis carriage, even bis remarkable attire. More than one Irreverent critic bad suggested that he had probably lost bis own eyes in some frontier difficulty, and bad hurriedly replaced them with those of his antagonist.

Had this ingenious hypothesis reached the ears of the Gentleman he would have probably contented himself with a simple denial of the fact, overlooking any humorous incongruity of statement. For, as has been already intimated, among his other privileges ho enjoyed an absolute immunity. His deficient sense of humor and habitual gravity in a community whose severest dramatic episodes were mitigated by some humorous detail, and whose customary relaxation was the playing of practical jokes, was marked with a certain franknes* that was discomposing. 'I think,' he remarked to a woll known citizen of La Porte, 'that, in alluding to the argumentative character of Mr. William Peghammer, you said you had found him lving awake at night contradicting the Katydids. This he himself assures me is not true, and I may add that I passed the night with him in the woods without any such thing occurring. You seem to have lied.'

The severity of this reception cbecsed further humorous exhibitions in his presence. Indeed, I am not certain but it Invested him with a certain aristocratic isolation.

Thus identified with tbe earliest history of the Camp, Mr. Trott participated in its fortunes and shared its prosperity. As one of the original locators of the "Eagle Mine" he enjoyed a certain income which enabled him to live without labor aud to freely indulge his few and inexpensive taste?, After bis own personal adornment—which consisted cblefiy in the dally wearing of spotless linen—he was fond of giving presents. These possessed, perhaps, a sentimental rather than intrinsic value. To au intimate friend he bad ouce given a cane, the stick whereol was cut from a wild grapevine which giew above tbe spot where the famous 'Eagle Lead' was first discovered In La Porte the bead originally belonged to a cane presented to Mr. Trott's father, and the ferrule was made of tbe last silver half dollar which be bad brought to California. •And yet, do you know,' said the indignant recipient of this touching gilt, "I offered to put it down for a fiveaollar note last night over at Robinson's, and the boys wouldn't see it, and allowed I'd better leave the board. Tbar's

onment or tbe line of ten dollars. If yon have not the money with yon, the clerk will doubtless advance It for you.'

It is needless to add that the clerk invariably advanoed the money,, and that when the courts adjourned the Judge Instantly reimbursed him. In one instance only did the sturdy culprit —either from pare caasedneas or a weaker desire to spare tbe Judge the expense of bis oonviction—retase to borrow tbe amount of tbe fine from the clerk. He was accordingly remanded to the county jail. It is related—on tolerably good authority—that when the court bad ad loomed, the Gourt was seen, in spotless linen and jrallaw gloves, walking in the direction o! tbe oounty jail—a small adobe building, which also •erved as a Halt of Reeorda. That, after ostentatiously ooosulttngosrtaln records the Court entered tbejafi aa If in a lion. list, later la deonty aWiff ha

official Inspection. the dec evening.

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oharge*or tbe prisoner was despatched (bra bottle of whiskey and a pack of oarda. But as tbe story berealieigaetbet the deputy that evening loet the amount of his month's stipend and the Court its entire yearly salary to the prisoner in a friendly game of *out-threat eoohre,' to relieve the tedium of the prisoner's con* flneuent, the whole story has bran denied, as Incompatible with Judge Trott's dignity, tuoogh not inconsistent

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with bis kindliness ef nature. Itiscer tain, however, tbat his lenity would have brought him into disfavor but for a redeeming exhibition of bis unofficial strength. A young and talented lawyer from Sacramento bad beeh retained in some civil case before Judge Trott, but, confident of bis success on appeal from this primitive tribunal, he bad scarcely concealed bis contempt for it in bis closing argument. Judge Trott, when he bad finished, sat unmoved, save for a slight coloring of his high cheek bones, Hot here I must again btirrow the graphic language of a spectator:

When the Judge had hung out them ar rtfcl danger signals he sez. quite peaceful like, to tbat yer Sacramento shrimp, sez be: "Young gentleman,* sez he, 'do

rou know tbat I could fine ye fifty dotfor contempt of court?"

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Happy would it have been for the Gentleman bad those gentle eccentricities produoed no greater result. But a fatal and hitherto unexpected weakness manifested itself in tbe very court in which be bad triumphed, and for a time imperiled# his popularity. A lady of dangerous antecedents and great free dom of mauner, who was the presiding goddess of tbe "Wheel of Fortune" in the principal gambling saloon of Ln Porte, brought an action against several of its able bodied citizsns for entering tbe saloon with 'force and arms' and destroying tbe peculiar machinery of her game. She was ably supported by counsel, and warmly-aympathlzed with by a gentleman who was not her husbaud. Yet in spite of thi9 valuable co-operation Bbe was net successful. Tbe offence was clearly proved but the jury gave a verdict faror of tbe defendants without leaving their seats. Judge Trott turned his mild inoffensivo eyes upon them |Do I understand you to say that this isjpour fln»l verdict?' *You kin bet yer boots, yefHonor,' responded the foreman, with cheerfnl but well meaning irreverence,

He rose and left the bench. In vain did influential citizens follow blm with expostulations in vain did they point out the wortblessness of the plaintiff and the worthlessness of her cause, in which he had sacrificed himself. In vain did the jury intimate that his resignation was an iifeult to them. Judge Trott turned abruptly upon th with the old ominous glow in cheek bones.

Scarcely hearing the speech, and more concerned with the apparition itpelf, Judge Trott stammered vaguely,

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if ye

could," sez tbe shrimp, peart and sassy ss a boss fly, "I reckon I could pay it." "Bat I ought to add," sez tbe Gentleman, sad like, "that 1 don't pur-pose to do it. I believe iu freedom of speech end —action!" He then rises up, onlimbers bisself, so to speak, stretches out that air Hand o' Providence o' his, lites Into that ar shrimp, lifts him up snd scoots blm through tbe window twenty feet into tbe ditcb. "Call the next case," sez he, sittin' down again, with them big white eyea o' his iookln' peaceful like ez if notbin' partikler had happened.'

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I didn't understand you,' udge. 'I was Bayin',' said tbe foreman, hastily, 'that it was useless to argue tbe case any longer,' and withdrew sligfttly in advance of tbe rest of the jury, as became his official position. But Judge Trott never again ascended the bench.

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It was quite a month after his resignation, and tbe Gentleman was'sitting in the twilight "under bis own vine and fig tree"—a figure of speech locally interpreted as a giant redwood aud a mossy creeper—before the door of tbat cabin in whlco he was first introduced to the reader, when be was faintly consolous of the outlines of a female form and th$ tones of a female voice. The GenttemiA-hes-itated, and placed over his right eye a large gold eyeglass, which had

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lately accepted by tbe camp as bis most recent fashionable folly, lhe form was unfamiliar, but the voice the Gentleman instantly recognized as belonging to the plaintiff in bis late momentous judiciaf experlonce. It is proper to say here that it was tbe voice of Mademoiselle Clotilde Montmorency it is only just to add that, speaking no French and being of unmistakable Anglo-Saxon origin, ber name was evidently derived from the game over which she presided, which was, in tbe estimation of the Cam, of foreign extraction. '1 wanted to know,' said Miss Clotllde, sitting down on a bench beside tho Gentleman, 'tbat is, me and Jake Woods thought we'd like to know bow much you cossslder yourself out of pocket by this yer resignation of yours?'

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appreciation of sacred things In this yer camp.' It was in this lash growth and springtime of La Porte that the Gentleman was chosen Justice of the Peaoe by the unanimous voice of his fellow citizens. That he should have exercised his Amotions with diguity was natural that he should have shown a singular lenity in tbe levying of finei and the infliction of penalties was, however, an unexpected and discomposing discovery to the settlement. •Tbe law requires me, air,' he would

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the pleasure of addressing Miss It you mean by that that you don't know me, never saw me before, and don't wan't want to see me agin, why, I reckon that's the polite way o' putting it,' said MIBS Montmorency, with enforced calmness, scraping some dead leaves together with tbe tip of her parasol as if she were covering up her emotions.

I'm Miss Montmorency.

I was saying that Jake and me thought tbat—seein' as you stood by us when then hounds on tbe jury give in their hellish Iving verdict—Jake and me thooght ft wasn't square thing for you to lose your situation just for me. "Find out from the Judge," sez he, "jist what he reckons he's lost by this yer resignation—patting it at his own Aggers." That's what Jake said. Jake's a square man—I kin say tbat of him, anyhow." 1 don't tblnk I understand you,' said Judte Trott, simply. 'That'sit! that's just it!' continued Miss Clotild, with only half suppressed bitterness 'That's whst I told Jake. I sez: "The Judge won't understand yon nor me. He's tbat proud he won't have any thing to say to as. Didn't be meet me square in the street last Tuesday and never let on tbat he saw me—never even nodded when I nodded to him?"

'My dear madam,' said Judge Trott nrrfedly. 'I assure you you are mistaken. I did not see yon. Pray believe me. Tbe fact is—I am afraid to confess It even to myself—bat I find that, day by day. ray eyesight is growing weaker and weaker.' He stopped and sighed. Miss Montmorency, glancing upward at his face, saw it was pale and agitated. With a womau's swift intuition she believed this weakness explained the otherwise gratuitous effrontery of his inoongrnons eyes, and It was to her a sufficient apology. It Is only the inexplicable in a man's aglioaa that a worn* an never pardons. •Tbea ye realty dont recognise me?' said Miss Clotilda, a little softened, and yet a little uneasy. •I—am—afraid—not,' said Trott, with an apologetic smile.

Miss Ciotilde paused.

Do you

to say yoa coaldat sse me wheal in court during tbe trial Judge Trott blushed. 'I am afraid I saw only—an—outline.' •I had on,' continued lite Clotilda, rapidly, *a straw hat with magenta silk lining, turned np so—magenta ribbons tied

here"—(indicating

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Vardens,' continued Miss Ciotilde, anxiously. Jadge Trott smiled politely but vsguely. Miss Ciotilde saw that he evidently had not recognised this rare and becoming costume. She scattered the leaves again, and dug her parasol into the ground. 'Then you never saw me at all

distinctly.'

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it's a fair question betwixt you and me,' she said suddenly,4what made yea resign?' •I could not remain Judge of a court that was obliged to render a verdiot so unjust as that given by the jury in your case,' replied Judge Trott, warmly. •Say that agin, old man,' said Mis9 Ciotilde with a» admiration which half apologized for the irreverence of epithet.

Judge Trott urbanely repeated the substance of his remark in another form.

Miss Montmorency was silent a moment.

4Then

finally.

it wasn't mef' she said

don't think I catch your meaning,' replied tbe Judge a little awkwardly.

4Why—ME.

It wasn't on aocoont ol

me you did it?' •No,' said the Judge pleasantly. There was another pause. Miss Montmorency balanced ber parasol on tbe tip of her toe.

Well,' she said finally, 'this

isn't getting much information for Jake.' •Forwhom?' •Jake.' 'Oh—your husband?'

Miss Montmorency clicked tbe snap of her bracelet smartly on her wrist and said sharply: 'Who said he was my husband 'Ob, I beg your pardon.'

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that's about tbe way tbe thing points.' 'Mr. Clerk,'said Judge Trott grimly, 'record the verdiot, and then enter my resignation as Judge of this court.'

Jake Woods. He's a square

man—I can say that for him. He sez to me, "You kin tell the Judge that whatever he chooses to take from t)s, it ain't no bribery or corruption, nor nothing o' that kind. It's all on the square. The trial's over: he isn't Judge any longer he can't do anything for us he ain't expected to do anything for us but one thing, And that is to give us tbe satisfaction of knowing that be hasn't lost anything by us—that he hasn't lost anything by being a square man and acting on the square." There! that's what he said. I've said It! Of course I know what you'll say. I know you'll get wrathy. I know you're mad now! 1 know you're too proud to touch a dollar from tbe, like of us-If you were starving. I know you'll tell Jake to go to b—11 and me with bim! And who the devil cares

She had worked herself up to this passion so suddenly, so outrageously and inconsistently, tbat it was not strange tbat it ended in an hysterical burst of equally illogical tears. She sank down again on the bench she had gradually risen from, and applied the baoks of ber yellow gloved hands to her eyes, still holding the parasol st a rigid angle with her face. To her infinite astonishment Judge Trott laid one band gently upon her shoulder, and with the other possessed himself of tbe awkward arasol, which he tacitly laid on tbe ench beside ber.

tare mistaken, my dear yonng

lady," he said, with a respectable gravity, "deeply mistaken, if you think I feel any thing but kindness and gratitude for your offer—an offer so kind and unusual tbat even you yourself feel that I could not accept it. No! Let me believe that in doing what I thought was only my duty as a Judge I gained your good will, and let mo feel tbat In doing mv duly now as a man I shall still keep it."

Miss Ciotilde bad lifted her face toward bis, as if deeply and wonderingly following bis earnest words. But she jonly Bald,

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you see me in thR light?

^.t this distance'? Put up your glass and try.' Her face was not far from bis. I have forgotten whether I have said that she was a pretty woman. She bad been once prettier. But she retained enough of her good looks to invest the 'Wheel of Fortune,' over which she had presided, with a certain seductive and bewildering uncertainty, which increased the risk of the players. It was, in fact, this unhallowed combination of Beauty and Chance that excited the ire of La Porte— who deemed it unprofessional and not on the square.

She had fine eyes. Possibly Judge Trott bad never before been so near eyes tbat were so fine and so—expressive He lifted his head with some em harassment and a blush on bis high cheek bones. Then, partly from a desire to. bring in a third party to relieve his embarrassment, he said:

I hope you will make your friend, Mr. understand that I appreciate his kindness, even if I can't accept it,' 'Oh, you mean Jake,' said the lady. Ob, he's gone home to tbe States. I'll make it all right with him!'

There was another embarrassing pause—possibly over tho absence of Jake At last it was broken by Miss Montmorency. 'You must take care of your eyes, for I want you to know me tbe next time you see me.'

So they parted. The Judge did recognize her on several other oooaslons. And then La Porte was stirred to its depths in hillside and tunnel with a strange rumor. Judge Trott bad married Mins Jane Thomson, alias Miss Clotllde Montmorency—ln San Francisco For a few hours a storm of indignation and rage swept over tbe town it was believed to have been a deep laid plan and conspiracy. It was perfectly well understood that Judge Trott resignation was the price of her hand— and of the small fortune she was known to be possessed of. Of her obaracter nothing remained tbat was assailable. A factitious interest and pathos wss Imported into the character and condition of ber last lover, Jake Woods, the victim of the double treachery of Jadge Trott and Miss Clotllde. A committee was formed to write a letter of sympstby to this man, who a few months before had barely escaped lynching at their hands. Tbe angry discussion wss at last broken by the voice of the first ker in this veracious narrative, speaker Qapt. Henry Symea: •Tbar's one fa •Tbar's one feature in this yar case fchat ye don't seam to know, andoaghter oe considered. Tbe day she married him in San Francisco she bad just come from the doctor's, who had told her that Trott was helplessly blind Gentlemen, when a gal like tbat throws over her whole life, ber whole perfession, and a square man like Jake Woods, to many a blind man without a dollar—jast because be oace stood up tot ber—on principal, hang ma ef I see My own good enough to go back on ber lor It! Kftbe Judge is wilUng to Wader overlook little bygone eooentriettlcaq' bers for the sake oMwiag oarsd lor and looked arter by ber, that's kit lookoatl And you'll exooose ma If, arte* ay axnerienoe, I reckon it ain* mtij'» badness to interfere with the domestic ooncerns of the Gentleman of La Porta.'

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—*a reg*lar 'Frisco hat—dont yoa remember?* *1—that is—I am afraid—' •And caa of them figgered silk Dolly

economy! to nse the beat

thing first hence when the Baby is suffering with tbe Oolic. Diarrhoea, etc. use at once Dr. Ball's Baby Syrup and observe its remarkable quick cod beneficial effect.

A PIECE OF ROMANCE.

HOW A YOUNG LADY FROM THE SOUTH AND A TRAMP MADE LOVE ON KENTUCKY SOIL.

Yesterday, says a Little Rock paper, Mr. Robert Preston snd wife a oouple who were happily united a few days ago, arrived in this city en rout'e for Texas. The story of their marriage is rather a romantio one not that it abounds in hair breadth escapes, or of blood In large or small quantities, but that—well that it is romantic.

About four years sgo Miss Emma Roland, of Galveeton, visited an aunt in Warren county, Ky. It was summer, and one evening the girl sat in the yard, balf reading and half regarding the enormous bumble bees buzzing around. A Warren county bumble bee will attract attention anywhere. He can make you think that he is tangling himself in your bair, and looking around, you see him ten ieet away, clinging to a thistle bloom. That's enough about the bee. A footstep didn't arouse the young lady. It was a voice, that said, "Can I get a drink of water?" Two arms and the cbin of a tramp leaned on the fence. He was dressed in the tramp's garb, a wardrobe at once so desoribable and indescribable. "I say, can I get some water?" .? vm*-* "Yes," said the girl. "Most I go round to the gate or climb over the fence?" "Both, if you ohoose."^ "That's the way I like to hear people talk," said the tramp, climbing over and approaching. "Now, Where's the water "I'll bring it." "You'd better bring the well, for I'm drver than a barrel of bromophyre."

The girl went to the house and returned with a bucket of water. When tbe man had finished drinking she did not think that he had exaggerated bis thirst. In fact, she did not think that his comparison had been adequate. "What book are you reading?" "Mill on the Floss." "Overrated. I never liked it. All depth or no depth, I don't know which. Strained characters or no characters, don't know whiob. The novelist has tried to write a story without a well defined plot, and he has failed. Goldsmith's success as a plotless and charming writer was a baa example." "You shouldn't tear my favorite book to pieces. I like George Elliot and her works." "You don't like 'Mill on the Floss.' You have been nodding over it for tbe last balf hour. You only pretend to read it because you imagine that in'doing so you develope literary taste." "I think, sir you are impudent." "But truthful. Here's a book you should read," and tbe tramp took from his ragged coat a tattered copy of Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. "Dr. Johnson said that this book was tbe only work that could induce him to get out of bed, mornings, sooner than his regular time of rising." "And that's why you like It," remarked tbe girl, taking the book. "If Dr. Johnson hadn't made tbat remark you would not find tbe work so charming?" '•That's all right. Give me some more water."

The conversation was pursued until tbe tramp accepted an invitation to supper. His Idea of Burton and Johnson was soon covered up with butter and cakes. The tramp, Mr. Preston, remained all night. Next morning, when be aunounced his intention of leaving, the girl accompanied bim to tho spot where she sat when be hailed her. "Why do you tramp round have you no home?" "Yes, as to tbe home. Don't know as tramping." "Whisky?" "Whisky." "Whv don't you quit?" "I will." "When?" "Now, on one condition. That you will consent to be my wife. Meet me under this tree four years from to-day." "I will." "Good-bye," and be climbed tbe fence and was gene. No correspondence was carried on between them. The manly, handsome face of tbe tramp hung before the girl like a portrait. Deep, earnest eyes, a merry faugh, accompanied the tramp. Several weeks ago the young lady visited her aunt. One evening last week she sat under a tree in tbe yard where four years before she nodded over a book. Bees buzzed around the same bees seemingly. On ber lap lay HMill on the Flossnear her a tattered copy of "Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy." A buggy drove np.

man alighted

and climbed tbe fence. /o "Mr. Prestos." "Miss Roland."

There was no Indication of a tramp In the handsomely dressed gentleman. Tbe clear, earnest eyes snowed no lurid iigbt, kindled by Satan's breath. Clasped hands, kisses, renewal of vows. Tbat evening tbe buggy went to Bowling Green. Next morning a happy couple left on a Southern bound train. They are now in this city, stopping at tbe Grand Central. To-morrow they will leave for Texas.

Ho Hospital Heeded.

No palatial hospital needed for Hop Bitters patients, nor large-salaried talented puffers to tell what Hop Bitters will do or cure, as they tell their own story by their certain and absolute cures at home. ,Vf? ,3

There is no ase in drugging yourself to death, and having all tbe vile medlcices for internal use when you can be cured of fever snd sgue, dumb sgue, billions disorders, jsundioe, dyspepsia, as well as sll disorders and ailments of tbe liver, blood and stomach, by wesring one of Prof. Gnilmette's French Liver Psds, which is a sure cure every time. If your druggist does not keep tbe psd, send fl.S0 In a letter to French Pad Co., Toledo, O., and it will be sent you by msil. It is tbs only psd tbat is guaranteed to cure. Beware of counterfeits. 8old by J. J. Baur. (1)

Hundreds •fLadlea,

Who bsve been unable to attend to their duties owing to periodical sickness, have found Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure a real "friend in need." Being a purely vegetable compound and containing all the elements of safety ss well as those of power it has become

the elements of safety ss

universally popular. During the Summer especially, it Is a certain preventive for the numerous Kidney, Liver and Urinarytroahlee incident to tbe season. All druggists sell it, and none except those in perfect health osa afford to be without it.

CINCHO QUININE

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it Is a PSBTECT

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BUB-

the sulphate qalnlne.

spertor in tonic properties, and prodoees

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Sold by all drocgist*, or sent by mail, os

ApOSMm

Chemists,

Bronetaitie, a Premonition Consumption, Ss characterised by ca-j£, tarrh.or Inflammation of the moeousf\ membrane of the air passage*, wlthH cough and expectoration, short breath, hoarseness, pal us in the chest. For all' bronchial affections, sore throat, aphonia, or loss of voice, coughs, Dr. Swayne's compound Syrup of Wild Cherry Is a well known curative,

HOKE TESTIMONY. «. A

Asthma and Distressing Cough Cured. My mother was a great sufferer from Asthma cough, could not sleep, her symptoms became very alarming, short breath, pains and oppression. Dr. Bwayne'a Compound Syrnp of Wild Cherry gave heT immediate relief and in a short time restored her to good health, H. MEYER, Grocer. 17th and Carpenter streets, Philadelphia*

Price 25 cents and 1 per bottle, or 6 bottles 15. The large Mae is the most economical. Sold by all prominent druggists.

fiuntln A Armstrong, Terre Haute.

Baoltlen'a Arnira Salve. The BEST 8ALVE in the world for Cats, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum. Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains/ Corns, and all kinds of Skin Eruptions. This Salve is guaranteed to give perfect sallsfaction ln every case or money refunded^ Price 23 cents per Box. For sale by OuUck & Berry, Terre Haute. .4

XtcMiag Piles

Isoneof the most annoying diseases lnr' the world, and yet ail can dnd sure re- $t lief by the use of SWayne's Ointment. It has been tested In thonsand of Instances, and invariably makes a sure cure. The symptoms are moisture, like- -X parlicu-'W

about the rectum the private parts are Ef* sometimes affected. Procure this Olntment at once and be cured.

SKIJ* DISEASES.

Swayne's Ointment is also a specific Itir tetter, itch, salt rheum,scald head, erysipelas, barber's Itch, blotches, all scnly, crusty, cutaneous eruptions. Price, SO cents. Threo boxes, $1.25. Sent by inaU to auy address on receipt of price. Prepared only by Dr. Swayne & Son, Philadelphia. Sola by all prominent druggists. At Buntin & Armstrong's, Terre Haute.

An Honest Mediciue.

Of all the medlclues advertised to euro any affection of the Throat, hest or Lungs we know of none we can recommend as highly as DE. KINO'S NEW DISCOVKKY lor Consumption, Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Hay Fever, bronchitis, Hoarseaess, Tickling in the Throat, Loss of Voice, eio. This medicine will positively cure, and that whore everything else has failed. No medicines can show one half so many posltiveand permanent cures as have already been effboted by this truly wonderful remedy. .Far Asthma and Bronchitis it is a perfect specific, curing the very worst cases in the shortesttime possible. We #ay by all means give It a trial. Trial bottles 10 cer. ts. Rtgular si se $1.00. For sale by Gullolc A Berry,. Terre Haute. For Falling, Premature Qrnjr Hair

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A toilet luxury, entirely free fiom all obnoxious or unpleasaut odor, it thickens, thin hair, restores gray hair, gives it new life, cuies dandruff, causing the hair to

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row where It has fallen olf or become thin, not soil or stain anything, and ts so perfectly and elegantly prepared as to makeita lantlng hair dressing and loilet luxury. Price 75 cents, six bottles $1. Sold by Buntla & Armstrong, Terre Haute, and all lead* lug druggiits.

A celebrated preaoher makoa the' .re oratnendation of Ayer's Pills, a matter of religious duty. When people are blllious and dyspeptic, what thoy need is the Gospel of Health. In such casec, the best creed to swallow consists of tho thirty sugar-coated articles in the pillbox.

BROWN'S

EXPECTORANT

The old reliable remedy for all Tluoat and Lung Diseases, is a scientific preparation, compounded from the formula of oue ol A the most successful practitioners in the fV Western country. It has ttood the test for the last twenty years aud will effect a cureafter all other cough remedies have failed.

READ THE FOLLOWING. HAI.1I OV REPRESENTATIVES, 1

INDIANAPOLIS,

Ind., Feb.

CAUTHORK,

15,1871.)

DR. J. H. BBOWN—WC have used your pleasure cine for coughs, colds, hoarseness, and cheerfully recommend It to all who may be troubledwith Throat Lung affections.

Wjn MACKand House of Kep ZKNORSpeaker

Rep Harrison county.

Kuox county.

MONTGOMERY,itep

Rep Johnson county.

TARLTOS, Rep Johnson and Morgao. counties. -v4 F«C«ELL, Doerkeeper House of Rep. N WAUKOM, Rep Hancock county.

ABHOTT, a

CALKINS,

Rep Fulton county.

COPNEB,

Rep Montgomery cotraty

W (i JNKFF, Rep Putnam county.

IT ACTS LIKE MAGIC. OFFICE J. M.

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JEFFERSOITVILLE, Ind., April 0,1871. DR. J. H. BROWN—Having suffered with a severe cough for some time past, 1 was in— ducedto try one bottle of your "Brown's~ Expectorant." I unhesitatingly say I found it pleasant to the taste, and Uact. like magic. A few doses done the work for the cough,and 1 am well.

DILI-ARD RICKETTS,

PresidentJ.M. and I. K. XL

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READ WHAT GEN. KIMBALLBAT8. INDIANAPOLIS,Ind., Dec. 20, IMP. DR. J. H. BHOW*—After having used your "Expectorant Syrup" long enough to know and appreciate its good qualities, 1 can cheerfully bear testimony to its uniform success la curing tbe most obstinate cases of coughs, colds, etc. 1 have frequently administered tbe ^Expectorant" to my children, and always found it the very best well as the most pleasant remedy of its klna

and during tbat time has tried most all of tbe medicines recommended tor that amease without affording any relief. I was Induced by the recommendations of Or.

am confident It will entirely restore lies health by its continued use." IT CUBES BRONCHITIS.

ZEniNKUBOH, Ind* August 28,1*71. This is to certify that I have used Brown* Kxneetorant in my lamlly since its lint introduction. lthss sever failed to give entire satisfaction. My wife is subject to bronchitis, and. IJave found no remedy eqoal

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NATHAN KIKSALL, Treasurer of tttato. WHAT A CASE OF CONSUMPTION SATS.

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Brown's Expectorant:

IS FOR BY ALL DRUGGISTS.

A. KIEFER

INDIANAPOLIS.

W *0, til'

"Brown's Expectorant-'' I reoom-

Daeod it as a safe and reliable remedy J.T. BKENTO*, M. D,.