Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 11, Number 39, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 March 1881 — Page 2

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THE MAIL

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TERRE HAUTE, MARCH 26,1881

IT NEVER PA YS.

It never noss to itet mpd grotfl's Whro fortune w«il* oor tat The better bred will look ahead

And- bmvcr Mow. Your luck In work. And those who sliJrk Bhould not lament their doom,'

But yield the play, And dear the way,

That better men have room. It never nay* to wreck the health In drudging after gain, And he 1* MOW who thinka that gold

IK cheapest bought with pain. An h-iinble lot, A cozy cot, Have tempted even kings,..

For station high, *fi That wealth will boy, Not oft contentment bring*.

It never pays! A blunt refrain Well worthy of a «ong, For age and yonth man learn the truth

That nothing pays that's wrong. The »ooa and pure

Alone are sure ig prolonged Kuccew, While what to right In Heaven's sight

To I rin

Is a]ways mre to bless.

Til* wgi.

Gentleman Jim.

BY MBH. JULIA C. POBK.

-Gen

That's what we calitd him, sir tleman Jim. It was in the wiater of '73. Ever been through the lakes, sir? Up the Soo, and then on through lake Superior as far ah Marquette? Well, that's where we were that year, twenty or thirty of us, gettin' out lumber for the Eagle Mills.

Ob, no! Not in Marquette. Marquette was a city, with a mayor and a board of aldermen, graded schools and water work s, even then. Not many pine trees growin' in her streets, if she was young!

The Eagle Mills were nine miles out up the railroad. Not much of a settlement. Just the Mills and the company's office, and a great barn of a boardin' house, and half a dozen shanties, and one snug little house, not much bigger'n a bird's neat, where Mr. Sterle —lie was our young boss, sir—bad brought his wife tho year before.

A queer place for a bride? Well, it was. Lonesome? That's no word for it. The piney woods had crowded close up rounu the mills once: but the best of the trees {had been cut down, and the woods on one side had been burned over time and again. So now, asfaras you could see toward the south, there were blackened stumps and charred logs, and here and there tall, bare trees standiu' out agaipsf, the sky, like black ghosts, as it wore.

Further on was what I once heard a high-flyer of a lecturer call the "forest primeval." You might have gone on for days and days till you came out at Mackinaw, find never seen a white man's face nor the smoke of his camp (ire. Before and behind stretched the narrow tract that ran from Mahfuettc to tho iron mines, and tho cars went tlmn- ~.* irwere no roate tosraaifof,-no neighbors and beyontt utxl where we were aft wofk fellin' the trees and (loin' our level best to spoil that side, as we had C'oftrtHV For the woods are all light an lwngtjm yon lot 'em alone. It is only whet* fl&f begin to meddle with 'em that titty gfow strange and nwesomeliko, with abadows comin' and1 goln'.

Hut as I was a sayln', it was a strange place for a bride to come to. We men wonderM a bit as to how she would take to the now life when we saw her step off tho cars onto the little platform and look round over the wlro place, with eyes that were soft and dark as a young fawn's. She wa'n't over twenty—a slight young thlug, with brown hair, all waves .and crinkles, and little windblown curls, and lips as 'red as straw*" berries. That wua all we saw that day for shepnt her hand right into her husband's, and he lod her into tho little house and shut the door behind 'em. 15ut, bless you, sir, if there's love inside the house, it don't seem tt makq, much difforcnco to a true wife what's outsldo of it and as for her, she didn't seem to bjGa bit more lonesome than the ottder. Ever sir? ight 8.0. .Most loiKp has. Well you'd lut* thought of '0111 Ifyou could hi' just stepped out 0* the woods Into that little horn*?, aftersho'd been there nwhl lev Flower ft blo&somin' in the windows and vihea a wandcrln' evCry \vhete,uud picture and a planner, ana all her little useless trinkets, such as wwnen folks set atofo by. It ,wuq^ ffetty as a piotnr'! -i

seeiu to Off a oil more lonesome sparroVt'Cfoes-on thebotigh votw read t|id "Arabian NlgbtK," thought «,o. Most folkp Imi

I doij't know a great deal about women. not twin' a married man myself and hnvln' lived in ihe woods niotffly but she tseetned Justus contentedas» the*ladles I've seen In the cities this winter! Anyhow. l| brightened up the place for every just t6 vat^h iflln

man o| us Just t6 .i»(^h|fflmpsMt Of her now arid then, ^ith A flower In her hair or sometimes df a aurrttu*r' evening to hear her singin' like a lKrk, or. leastwise like a brown thr«slht*r tton'tTcnow much about l«rJta not Mta' nsoti to them. \ud of Suuday nhe met! to sing hymnjfc It waa as good g*in' to meeti ri\ awry whi t.

You tnink sh« might have Veen afmiu sometime? Why.w^at was there to be afraid ,0{? Thee wa'n't a mau abotit the phbce who hl» Ufa Iot her, what aome wotiwu would W b^n afmid for thehs wero h^lf breeds round, and It was nmglv up theje. no mistake. But, if»he v**, shedUtn'tshow it.

A goifcl deal pf snow up there? 1 guess You never *aw HIIOW. .You non't know what it mean#.

«o!

You'W wen it three feet on a level? Three feet! !Tuuiph:. 'VjLJUat would you think of aeein* the cars come in day after dav, for weeks together, between two walls of snow a» straight and solid as bl«ek»:of marble, and high you could only the too o' the smoke stack What woultLyou uiink walkio' on a snow drift right up on to he roof of the high* mt milt* Or Of walkin' on the crust over a trait) of care aa compleiely buried out ofaight a a potatoyouS-eJust planted I*w done that, aa late aa the seventeentb«K? Of April, too*

The hardmt oltt when the trains couldn't ran foe dkjn together* and we went* Jnt shut into that white world of snow. And that happened pretty often. No, sir folks dowru here don^ know anything about snow—the beauty of It nor the tetter of it, either. !/t«! tOi uikHutnmer Well. Uaat liw |Ueeni

nick and white with May flower# Taw iptke such a fuss about 'em dolfti here When you happen to find a Why, they u»ea to blossom under our feet in the mill yard, ifcaaasmuchas we do to

I was foreman o' the gang, and, as was only my duty with a new hand, I watched him pretty close and to this day, sir, I can't tell what made me mistrust at once he wa'n't quite one o' us, Aut 'twa'n't none o' my business, and so I said nothin'. The men didn't take to him at first. They sneered at him be hind his back, and called him the "dan dy" and "Miss Nancy." I don't know why. His clothes were as rough as the roughest but somehow he wore 'em different—wore e'm like a man who had been, used to better. He'd been with us a day or two when some one called out "Look-a-here, stranger, what might yer name be, if 'tain't too good to be spoken here

He pulled his cap down over his eyes and he colored up clear to his forehead Then he raid: "Call me Jim. Jim Leonard, if you like."

iiy

thing about It. When it

Hoes. It make* a Mb«m of It* It don't melt, and melt and driodft way InHxw, It jn«t »Jnk» Hght down Jut® -. i! ly asvl and before y«!.v l-rv.s'!-! bet. ii .* -a cvcr** Lcn\" aiv I b.i'U a »1 n*, and all wt arc

•il fji*.

But somebody muttered: 'Twou't do to be so familiar, boys." And won't say but what there was a word with two d's to it went before that "familiar." As you seem to be a minister, I'll leave out the swearin'. "Better caL him

Gentleman

Jim." So Gentleman

Jim he was from that day. It was just a bit of deviltry. There wa'n't any down right malice in it, and he took it in good part enough, just laughin' and touchin' his cap to the first man 'at called him so. But it wa'n't two weeks before the sting ha*i all gone ont of it, and the men called him Gentleman Jim just as they called me Judd Mason. The name fitted him, somehow.

There wa'n't a steadier or a harder worker in the woods that winter than Gentleman Jim. He was a slight-built man, thirty-five maybe, though his hair was gray as a badger. Ho lookedas if he'd seen trouble. And he wa'n't oyer'n above strong but he made his wits serve him in place of muscle,.and who ever else shirked out of a hard job* it wa'n't{Gentleman Jim. He aMcea no odds of any man and he always played fair.

He never had very much to say and was the one man in the woods who never told a rough story and he never seemed to hear 'em, either, for that matter.

As the months went on, I used to wonder what became of his wages. He was paid up prompt every week. There was nbbody Delongin' to "him, aa we could find out. He did*nt write any letters |nor get any. He never touched

There was a sari: ttaJrot ha didn there.

Yet, iu one way or 'nother, bein' foreman and kind o" head man, I used to leara a good deal about the men's aff&ii'H withovit asking questions. I ^rho«t generally found out by Mondaynightlathe^' had^tja red cent ln.'' utient,

ivu I

tiau al

't ha' laid down I .don't say but

•«Ma red ceny^r Jjis ppcket-|§^a

fe |tit soffit Aplendid

winter^ regular old stagers. 1 declare, I washer. Qne were at work" when I happened Stwle knight like to see it So I pjlea &mno buflalo-skinsfu^l blankets on tone of the ox-sleds and went after her.

How far, did you ask? Oh, only four or tivemilee. But we had a sort of oamp up there—a Toughly built houseT trtth ghlV UUAIV UWUEWt two rdow» down below and a loft overhead, With bunks for thirty men. 'One of the, hands lived there with his wife jrfflpboardgd the rest of us. But, as I was saying, I went dowh after the boss and his i*3y. She waa rendy enongh for the lark and, after #be had wrapped up in her furs and hood, with some soft, white, fleecy thing over all, w» tucked her up in the,bufiitLoe9, iuul off we startr ed. i. /. si'

1-SL»

toinove, them on

keep the dainty

little beauties off the railroad tisat. Fact, sir. Trailin' arbutus? Well, yes\Jl lieve that's what some folks call it." IJut I -was goin' to tell you about Gentleman Jim. We got to callin' him that, in the first place, because we were' a net o*

blackguards, I suppose, and wanted to run some sort or a rig^ on him. Me. dropped down oh us one day out o' the sky, as it wer& and wanted work. John Smith had broke his leg the day before, and Mr. Sterle was just goin' up to Negaunee, to see if he could find a hand. So he looked Gentleman Jim over sharply for a minute, and then stepped off the platform, "All right," says he. "There's work enough to do here, if you can do it," "I can try," says the fellow, quietly like. And the next day he went into woods.

Evef been in the woods in winter, sir? lien you've lost a good deal.. Though aotrt surprise the W(wi3& hereabottra itW Hkctbose xip'

rf6rtli,^'anyii6w

"it

doca sWw lciiid of impertfuetvt fo ntKl1dle wilh *r?m. ront it. now?" I,leaved yoij, Mr. Just to thltik o' ctmlh*

Wh that h?r ghwiiF and and wthkita 'iti tho sunslxihe dew for fntndreds'of Vtfttrs, jfust tloorin'aiJd ttmbwtofr«h«£Ti*e a pliort-lived creeter*as Mm. Wliy, the one we. felled tjwMay wm,a good faired sapling wheii Cuirwfopnor Colui^bus dB»ed¥erM We counted the rirtge aokl sfrhert itri^ oaulhe g^ounjil, if yon wero^ou oi^e-s »idejrou couldh't see the •xen and-men on^othei: side, *.',' -k

It cim^«i.nd in the Htm. Hie sky was blue a» a har6bejl, nlidtbe air w4s Hbc wine, ft *et youtbloofr to ^flandn' so. ''Ti&'w&MtB were full o* winter birda-^-gay, ^fearless cceeters, that jnst aot^tllflma Ipoked at us as we passed '«n W and tht? «nb# was Covered with the tracks o' many wll4 Uj|nga |ie^

aio't mu^&'or a rhrtnttan, sftf fe to' speak—that is, 1 don't beltmg to no iiud of a chnrch but 1 nev«f could be in them woods, and 4ee all tlie life that was a goin* onln 'em. even fn the dead o' winter, and think cf ail the flower* that were livia' under Ufc? «aow, wtthf out always feelln' «urtin thM the One "at took care o' them would look out for us, too. And I hope He knows I thought of Him.

Did you see then* dark mug flowers that girl carried bv just noaT Yi'leta, I b'lieve they call vm! Well, a»w« rode along that day, every UWJe hollow in the was lined with that color—a ahiui airing blue light, that seemed to fill 'em o*gloiy» with a sort it, sir.

You'd ou«h« to see

There had beeu a nlj

Jim

-4

flurry o'snow the

ere had ht before, and the road was pretty I filled in. It took me longer to go and come than I'd calculated on, and a* aoonas we gvt to oamp I seed the tne was about ready to fall. It shivered and trembled against the *ky, as if there was a thrill running all through Its great body. We had planned to tnt it ao& would fall in a partly cleared place, where the stamlin' timber wa'n't good for much, and It waa leanin* a little tfifte in tfee tight direction. The ine4t %er#' all at a saf# diatanve, except Qehthsman. Jfcosn anybody but Mrs.

and another Mow who were to give the death strokes. I give "em the signal. The swift, sharp strokes rang

against his heek aiid was quiat •r a tiunute. But pretty soon he waa feeliti'lmund again. ,MLo6k in his pockets, Will," she iaid. Bnt there was nothin' in 'em he cottld lia' wanted. His pocket-book waa ei ait usufei. It waa Irfs «yes.fii^ed on movui. The little with tears. "Come here, Will." she said to her httsbahdr ^'See that black ribbon under his shirt. There's something hanging

Mr. Sterle took hold Of the rlbbon%hd ptitled out a little oiled-ailk bag.

iileman Jim gave a cry when he seen iU hold of it,. lay quiet as a bin' an iam "There," thinks I to myself—fibre's wberehe keeps hia money: andl'mglad of itf if he's going to be laid up. Ana if he ain't there's his funeral:"® Ydu see I knew how it woukfcbe with' ntyself, sir.

'todchW him or said one word. 1 see*t •he took notice o' the iilk shirt and OtAer thlpgs.- Truth was,

TERRE HAUEE SATURDAY 1NING MAIL.

and we waited, folding ourve

Oh, no! Gentleman Jim wasn't killed, sir though we all thought he mnst be. He lay on his face where he had been knocked down, with a great weight o' green boughs a pressin' ou him but he wa'n't dead. It took us a long time to cut away the branches. Tho body the tree had missed him, as by a hand's breadth. Then we carried him into the house and laid him on the bed in the little room that opened out o'the lfvin' room.

He was alive, and that was all. I could just feel his heart beat. You never see men so cut up. They crowded into the outside room and stood with tkeir caps in their hands as If—as if—there was a kingadyin' in there. Jack Elliot, he was a cry in' like a baby, and the two children sat on a log outride the door, lookin' scared and dazed. They was old enough to understand what had happened and how it happened. Mrs. Sterle called 'em up to her pretty soou, and made 'em cuddle up lteside her under the buffaloes. She always took to children.

Meanwhile one of them dashed down to the mills, to catch the first train for Marquette, after the doctor. But it would be hours before he got back. By and by Mr. Sterle came out of the bedroom. "The house must le cleared now, my men," he said, in a low voiee. "We must have air and quiet. You Mill all go away but Judd" (that was me, sir) "and Jack Elliot, and we will try and do the very best we can for the poor fellow."

We undressed him as carefully as we could, and I own up that I was astonished though, as I said before, I had mistrusted all along that Gentleman Jim wa'n't exactly a lumberman born and bred. But Mr. Sterle he looked puzzled enough.

The man's outside clothes were coarse and rough. So were his flannels. Just such as the rest of us wore. But Underneath 'em he had on a shirt and a pair o' drawers o' soft white silk,fineenough for the, Queen o' Great Britain. I tpok notice of his feet. They'd never done much bard trampln' before that winter. Not a real hard callus unto 'em, and the skin was as smooth and white! I just pointed to 'em, and says I to Mr. Sterle: "Look a-there, sir!" "Yes, I see, said he. Aag} then, he never spoke another word. Jlpt one.

Mrs. Sterle came Into the house, -and Jack ESliott took his children homipn the «led and came back again. And theh wp watted and waited. It ttiual

been fewr o'clock befofe he st mado a sound. Then ho began to and whisper, and he seemed to.be ing rqithd after sometbtng. 1 could n't. makeont n.

Mtflttn1!

win«.

t*ik

torn)*

Uke m# dowti to was whi* »fc«y ihlieftth4f VH1» theWpodit 1 se^'iHr. Steals thou^i he made aome count of the tronbl«f lt wife. But the wouldn't and 1 think I thing in

Whv use't he

pl)egan

ideanng,

ren, coming to ould be! The:

had come up on the crust to see the big tree go down. Every man of us started on the run But what was the use? We were rodi away. jTberf GentleniaJi Jfiin boundet forward, like a deeir, caught thate ehil-

dreu^-Qne at a time. jmjLJEitli aomgbty jJford-to. -waiL-aayJimger. Tlrir 1 «. 1 .UV. ~«T1I +.rw enve ehn An,

effort, he hurled them far out into the snow. ,7. And the great tree came down, down, down, a cfeavin' the air with a swish and a rush, like the sound of many war ters.

't we exami plain asifcie 't want us mpnev was nt dltnat?

pitiful to see him, her face and his li| 's (?yes

Dft l)i

die, 1 ion't want to ne buried pauper I He dropped away again a3 he got hold o' tbe'bag, Ima l^y

When? I die, I -dqn't want to like nb as sooi 1 afe ust 11 ((fii Td man till thew&CKweame

It ^A» old l»r. Porter. Ho. loclked at a: fail minute, liftin'- bis ey«^

E^rows

andshuttin' of hifi lips, before bo

tbe «tan

tits thbru, with his hair Crashed out and coicse clothes off.he didn't look, no „. re fllke a workinSnan than—4hati— yiAi d^'^bnt^elf this mintittj, effff

Oneo'f his ribsiwas brokhnw

hard with himJ' b« «aid,

see. Mr. Sterle, he's not exactly—.walk perhaps I m^ht say not a yoti would expect to find the wood choppers." "Yw, Ido see ittaow," "btit tho fact is be Has been IB

Ink I new waa gladder frfanywhe°"*

Mm safely do^nthere.

and ihe Btoly Child mn wail. High up against like a frieae (I brieve that1* tail ft» now-n-day*), there wa*! printed oat lured and yell

on thtgtoiiBd i0or, «iiftiifaiH«l In and laid him on the bed. I tell 1 liavin* ittat come ont o' ouur^ dld Mem jost like HeaveM ig ... quiet room,

where the

raid it aa 1 canw out. M| b(#«ed eieep^-liat's what^wST thought cieuUentan JuftLo^ii if eny where. ~Jtm as began tohaWiWf d* atiout "it. Be didn't kwM.liy. ef Mr. ftefle. and Jack and irtttin* up nightsu Bui I (Mm diwp o' meAiile or

uotpvni w*wprthought a gel well there, days went by I

how hi# eyes did follow the time he hung onto that IS life.

Why, bo-

But ohe day when the doctor came was sinkin' he looked real down in the mouth. He'd got kind o' interested in the case, no doubt. "Can't you manage to get hold of that

-**1*11 try," says she. And just then, as sure as .yjou live, he dropped asleep and let go ortbel»g. She Whipped 6nt a pair o*scissors and clipped that string quicker'n lightnin'.

We went out in the other room. I see she waa all of a tremble. "You open It," says the doctor, kind 6' quiets

'There waa something thin and fla£ in it, folded up in a piece o' tissue paper. Nothing In this wide world but just a white card, with the dried stems of a rose and two, geranium leaves fastened on with a drop o' red seal in'-wax! The leaves and ihe flower were all crushed to a dry powder from bein' held in his poor, hot hand so long. "Anything written on the card?" the doctor ajfkea.

Vit-

"There hM beeli," says she, her oyes all wet and shiny and her lipa in a quiver "but its rubbed so I can't make ont. Judd, run over to the office an get Mr. Sterle's magnifying glass. Aslr him to bring it." 4

She (Aught the glasses soon aa became in and ran to the window. This was all there was of it: "Marie, JunelDth, 1871," in a woman's hand-writing?'* Wasn't .that a queer way to spell Mary, though? Below }t was written, in a man's *nand: "June 10th, 1872. All withered but the thorn."

Mr. Sterle put the.card back in the little bag, with e^e^y gridn o* du$t from the Wittered rosei leaves and'fastened it round his neck again, And When I looked at him the next ipinute, he had hold of it, tight as ever.

It went down into the grave With him," sir, and that'a all we ever knew about it

A Peculiar Woman.

"Ketfh hold, Tom. There! I declare,, it youi ain't spilled about a quart! I knew you would get it too full. "1 dijdn't spill more than ten drops, cousin! Silence. How yonfcw.ony ove^ the loss of a little grease.V-_ "It's one Of my prUiciplesi to si ht a' learned long ago."

you might a

on t»e

are

man!

b1-

was fo^Hn' bout over he bedM^ftes wh

his own clothes. -Mrs. Sterlo went up to hkn an hand oh ils forehead. He dr... mn

ul put rew.it

a Bui Therms worth-

ton your fece Besides, we pit, and what

the lrankcst

»bw,." and vmnito

pnnlf okimbdMknd ^eia*|rt?ilier usln, Tom L^wejr, W ty espaped from WP^nausgpm.,

frankness," said T»m too%,^ah never besiU|te to ^eak mind when duty urges. However I aon't want to hurt yoUr flselingft, eoustnSilence."

en, ana fe61m% But the idea ofVOur duty u^ifl' speak your mind to roe. Perhaps rout don't reco^ct^MMpj^^^M &

n«ed to those •wg

"You jnsed to mako medo'dtfty in those days. But I wish couW convince ypu that it^ould be only a Christian adL for vou tq send aljttlehelp to Mrs, Baldl-fn. Vou Wouldn't feelithe-apettdftng of fW

folks know more busfiiea» than 1 do mysdlf. Fifty thousand!, Law! Who said was worth that "Ohl it's common talk,0 replied Tom. "Well, It won't do you

er'n ever, see he

boug:

wagon, wnic! Tom to his

But I found out afterward that there wa'n't a sick man. nor a sufferin' woman, nor a feeble child within five miles or there that c6uldn't ha' told me What 'became o' Gentleman Jim'a wages, i. .'M

learned long ago.". •*n

"I believe in prudence but what's a few drOps of lard more or less w^th farm, arid nobody know* hbu- mud bank? 1 You skimp attdisMftr thlhlc Ibere view dangepftCyo«jrg«tt

any good to

talk. 'You'll never see the oolor of my money after I'm dead and gone. I've made my wilLjnd since plain speakin' you, rll make free to My you pleases ain't mentioned ln it. So there!" "I Calculate io take care of myself," said Tom, tilting his chair against the wall "Leave your money wherever you choose I don't want it." "The day may come when you will -ey^rad then you'll be theWworda. I'll rewill yon when11 your pride has its fall. There's plenty o' things I can leave my jnoney? to it tronago^gritfg.'J

u/d m(n«'n guess if'you were to live h^ife *Rpna£l and see the streams of visitors I have. There ain't a dav but I about my moneynby Somecon Bomwy tbillkB it's his duty to advise meto leave it to aa orphan's home, did Mr. Cr^

E2.r,

bQWi, fbundjai Wants

to^renaftnbev wli«!tjadeH,aqii the

m^t^phtalMifriasefnl in lifting

jars and b^ra^fwtjjrease on and off v&teJBhn

"InvtW

9b* opwted the doot-o^herowt* ndjifti to perform^"

Totn'g* —i exacting, much to hia repcet and more tbne on hie hands than -5035^1 jj

MButmrir*yi«b«iM

Baldwin InttleBee, attack.

vbn«WsesKiMra.

a someAhing for chrlsimas, oous»

waa Uue

mwwer b« "received to his "Martha Baldwin and I aint'been breaking terms tmAxeymn,

Bmm kt not-#

tftat you was aqparkln' that Priasy soli." "I wish Mnllasn Bman^r Her twudnesa." »I»ont get filed. I 0**e

pr«$lv faWfr eM*. therl

op hi

and he was out of the ing briskly down gate. ^w' "Law sakes! what peculiar creatures men are. Talk of me bein* peculiar ain't a drcumstances to that Tom ei, MeiliMtn UWti Prissy Carroll ow,1f1t*?oillyto OTTOW me he don't care l", and, wlt^a sigh, Mi^ Sience .went back to ber mrd.

en door and to the path to the

.faumblo pfeto Maitha Baldwin^ Bu^ "icfw or other, her conscienoe did

somehow. not feel quite aq easy, t^s if had felt before

Tori's rA®

arm a: lov4bl 4er.lt

,rr

Vlatei8 •rtfm WRS Bittln^ In la's snail rpaflotf with his ^tr^nwaiitaxid aray ii head rest in tr on hi&shoulevident tnat the closest at emissary witb the Bald

Wins* wbtti, th^eadba of varnish and new hair cloth. "1 wish I saw my way clear to take yoti Out of this* Pn«ay," ^aid Toni, with,

"Now, Tom. Where's the ne^d to worry? I couldn't leave Aunt Martha, anyway. We are both young enqug^i to

"Y'ou're too g6od' for this ^wortd, Prissy," said Tom, with'd kiss on the diimofe^ white chin. "There's some one, knocking: let me go," cried PrissV, springing up and rurining^o thfe diror: yTwaa no vMtorJ but^the hired man from Mis^ Silence'* iarn,», witlithespring eh he had brought to convey eousdn's hofe^V fbr Mlss Sllence hed, iot ten minutes after his derture au houx previous overturned a ttl^ oflgrd bytaqcident and. been tarri-

^Where's my li«!t t" dried Tom, 'ih great excitement, while the man waa telling how he hud wasted time by gping

f'Let trie go with you, TdW I knOW'I can help," cried Prissy, a* her iaver was

"P"ifh^?is8y!^'o!fonlyTo?rid," •'Wait tihtil I gfet my bonm$ anashaWl and tell aunt Martha, I won't be gone a minute,and Prissy rushed in thekitcheri Wl

ing

Jof

thogirkib in coherent explanation

"Stay as as you are needed, and don't'worryuboiitme.",. Miss Silehce made fid remark When Prissy entered her room wlth Tbm. She was in great paiu^ and waa thankful to

'n l'\"" hfeo weeks' tWfcsy

as if

I. iiouiw

:ifa»chief

di-

rector at the fhrm^ and madaged things weleter^ly .ttiat Miss Silenpe ^ad no «han«ej to find fault. But th« grim spinster had no wOrds of commendation for the you rig

girtfe nti ring Industry.

*t calkerlate to pay you for what you ba*e w«t

fn^° ¥Wt MrSUence, om

Prissy,wit»

vo With

lO,

you

about

hia, head,

IItem wall,, ai^g^', to stpp

t^Air6f

uI've n^

'em any satisfactioti, and

one

eowo» Afcptesaion. more [than a day^oy two Ibokitlg in on the me spin he conkl

waa for too which earnestly

aa4 FI66

taakin' myself datty small to

mad

her

C&tfaimaa pceeenta. I'd soon be on the town if I began to help rfltbe poor folia won know. It "petes to take a mighty deep interest is thesn Baldwioa,

say It's tfn*»-

"Twouldbe fitey^toconrt a gtri wfi»-

wunS°Srfa*y OaK^i's bssn 'raiwi

nialti

tsmhaitt Silmce.' "Now, Tom I»wey,' brandishing the Wig Iron

Aiid «dl f9decr

a pesfltltoiiarfh she eatqdtit

**9*?

ImtML

MddKhisStence, too spoon with

which she Sirred the lard, "dont make1 "I want to see

to SiKmce

Waa able to be about again, and Prissy went homei defining the 920 bill offered fpr her services. But she bad not been gone three hours when the hired man «ame from the farm with two large basketa, whioh he set down on Airs. Bald Pi kitchen floor. "Compliments of Miss'Silence, and she sent thrae in place of the money," and waa driving off in the spring wagon before Prissy could recover sufficiently from her astonisli^ent to ask him any question!.

The ba&ketswere"'full of good things of evely sort, and there was a royal Christmas dinner for the Baldwin# next day, thuch to the joy of the children, who ndrcl rnefolly contemplated djping on mqsb and potatoetf.

Prisey sent a note of thankii tqt MUs Silenoe by Tom, but she received no aufewetf

Time went on and Tom's law business irnprovtxl so mucE~tEaT Be persuaded "Prissy, agalnal ber better judgment, to marry him. a itt^Mlsi Silencfedid n'^honor the occasion

..llisi S with l|er presence

tiq)eto be gaiivanting off to

weddilws,"

Wf»,

ber excuse wben Toin

reproacnea ner for this slight. "She is such a peculiar woman, must net expect her to act like other peo pie bat she has a

a good heart in. spite of said Priasy, when Tom cusea for his cousin's

a Kfi

thout see if ttNSay

rtmfeinesg. "Bdt her greatest peculiarity lies in not liking yfm^P.riasy," said Tom, kiffiUhjfr his bride's soft cheek. "And I eahHifnite forgi veh^rlackof taste,

All I went W^ll fertfae' young oonpfe for mover than ayeer. They began housekeeping in a cottage Tom was paying for by installfnent*, and. were so prudent that tfi^W »^n gatftered about them inanv-HMfli ^omf«ts »hat made their as an

in fieoember Tom's and waa burned to

nodiing "belrig left ekcept a betaftgiug-to Trfaty and«*

declined to make it. He proud to aak for the kwelp

ho thought should have been JT-Wk—nT vUvitM* His law bddka and

ldnn*t ffie^flaipMa hadall been destroyed^in the thtneisistk licet for be had used a room in the cofchis ^eaSnT tage for an office, and gating a living

WM rather uphill work. Christmas waa dreary enough thai year, and eren-Pris-Hy's courage sunk as abe thought of the future. "Tom Lowey will bare a ehance now to »how what kind, of stuff heii made of''aaid Miss Silfflice.

MHe

burdened

himself With a wife and f»Sy, and HeTl have to look rat for*em.11irad Him iH n«cergive him a dollar ol ^ny mtaiey, and rtl kaep my «wiswd#no |m|tt«rwl»ai

Silence had|honght herself proof

asiitaitthe weakness of falllng 111 but

a'mevet*

oeld and

pne«inionia «a«K^. She felt that ahe never should get well again, and the •aid not derive her With fal.se but told her tttnkly that in all she would live but a lew

the lawyer at once, if

that ia the case,*' Ae said "I mus make an«rwill.M

fr.

TO!

I'm worse," said Miss Silence, feebly, "but I'm not afraid to go. Perhaps I'm peeuliar in that as in other things. Deacon Bonneyand the minister, Mr. Craig and Mr. Darby have all been here

a urgin' of their several claims. I told each one o' 'em that I'd consider theme tter." "Wm Wv b8^!»ppointed, cousin gU lence?" asked T®m,

Poor fellow! he was in such ,u sorestrait that hi could uol hilp a deifo to lisve small help from nia cousins hoard.. He had hardly dared hope she had left bim a .cent: and yet he was her only relative T* "S*

/'But doa't cherish no hopee^-foi11 ain'tleft yon a cent." A oiUer smile eurltd T^m'p lipf^ "jut"

riie

mite no reply.' "r not the Silence,' "but yOu've taken such p#4etu» care to convince me that you dopft^faftifc U'i&at n'v§

believcd

"I raffesf^thihk yon are mistaken,'* said 'Squire Darby, "for I foel morallyt cerUin ahet haa^eft. her money to fo^iu|kf.i'jjr

Tho "minister," stbisd near, ^mtled Mr iiitnself. He had not the slightest doubttf that the debt which had hung over -hit* A

church like a ]all would? now )JO lifted' through Miss Silence's will. Tom did not want to go to the reading of the important document, bo*tPri*»yi insisted, MO they .went togethorrthough neither of them looked very cheerful.

Mf. Simons made ho objection to the presence of 'Squire Darby: 'Bifr. Oral#* and the' minister chuckled as Dcaconr a» Bonney entered, with pleasani suiilei for 'jTom, who well knew what sarcastic trinmph lay boneKtli it.

The will was dated three daystpretlous,

ssy Lowev.

M4-

was not mentioned Tom's face was a study,' whilo Pri^sy almost fainted at this sudden relief to all her trqubles. 1,

The faces of the other men present We^e studies, tdo. Tlie Deacon left the house Without a word and the 'Squire*

artB, ?fftlrtdeVing all thiugs, Mini Silonco did more good with her money than if she had left it found a library or lift it, church debt.

A GOOD HO VSEWIFEi

&?\w AY«RtS

Simons, who had managed her

business for veara. came when Uo re-*, ceivfd her messa«, and tho Will was madfe, Hohad hartily left the KOHM beTore Tom called.

y^w»

cord in'."

Tom went home and repeaMKRIw'wtt^ venation to Prissy, Who shnfl if •'few tears, but tried to cheer up her husband'a drooping spirits with hopes of more law business in the spring.

That night Miss Silence died, and the whole town turned out to her funeral, a few days later. "I expect Wolfboro Academy will find itself able to erect a new building whet* Miss Silence's will is rend," said: Mr. Craig. "She told me she'd cousjnl^r tho matter, $gd I know she .wa^jiu^resfie^

eij

'ii

•Ml

i&TI

oman,'1 saldf* 1^

r, wiplng hls broW, on whlcl drops of jierapiration stood

the beaded .. thicklf. iHU anxiety ttbou^hip church had b«n veiy great, yQit see.

But Tofii 'ana Prissy could kffbtd to ll fbtgtit: their dead cOtisin^ peetiMarltles, since ^M bad kepfr heti

vow? Uf)vor- t»,

Tom a cent, and,yet had uwinagect to make him comfortable for life. Thoio was no immediate flittlrtg to the conifortable ffl»-m house andfTonl furnished a ntes, jililln tpwanddrove in every

iftif Vffere made more MitlfOrtable

Concor*!, N. H. Patriot.

The«ood housewife, when slio is giv-' ing her house Its spring renovating^U should tyear in mind that, the dear inmates' of her house are more bret-iouw than litany houses, and that their ays-'' tem t^eed cleansing by purifying the^ blood, regulating the stomach and.,. bowelti to prevent and cure tho diseases arising from spring malaria and miasma' and abe mnst know that thero i« notb-l Ing that will do it so perfectly and aure- 3a li as Hop Bitters, the purest and,4mk«f, medicine.

HELPED HERSELF. -^4m \^m. J. Win field, Hyracus, N. Y., re ports the following My little girl was afflfcted with Croup iii Its form. Sho by chance got hold Of a bottle Of Dr. ThomnsT'^lectric Oil and heljied herself, as we thought toofreely" but am happy to. state its uae entirely restored her =. lllllfl'" from tliat inbst prevalent and dangerouap *he phllds'ills. of all

Pflrjf $mt$n no

fviij 'a

&oton

oil,

calomel or*' rrfT«0htk The.V are com"pounded 61 pdt»ii vegetable ejctrafctH, which havf,p^tive virttw?t and ohvavw, fciire, Where cures ar^ossible.

iU1

'-im

The Great

Consumption Jtetiiedy. La

BROWN'S^

EXPECTORANT

Mfr«e»***** hum*! of e*ug,mm4 TdSSZi'Stf/ It Curs* Comaha. It Cures AHhmu.

It Cures BroHehitis, It Cures Hoarseness* It Cures Tightness, of the Chest*,, It Cures IHffleuUy of Breathing

BROWN'S Expicjo]

1M Spteimltp

AMMI

Wa—rixs It ieUi tht* mliamimim

(Ub# mm

at Ut7m2R«th* eM without ItmwiHff say PMQ&, 6i