Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 12, Number 8, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 August 1881 — Page 2
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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.
TBRRE HAUTE, AUGUST 20,1881
THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE.
Over among the red-topped chestnut trees, Stand* the old school house, Ben! And mormon All the air like ban of bees,
And you and I are mea.
Oh! does it seem so long since we,* too, born The sachel and the date? And carelessly oar school-boy bogon wore,
And laughed at time and fate?
Just fifty steps trod by a boys rough feet, I've counted o'er and o'er— From the old pike—'tis now the village street
To the gray, battered door.
It seenft an age agosinaoflrst I dragged May Robin on my sled. And yon behind, with pretty Nell lagged
Alas! these both are dead.
And Ellerely, the grandest boy in school! I think I see him now. Beady with pen, or exercise or rule,
With God Tike eye* and brow.
a
Can ft be potsifble that yesterday I saw him he moved in zigzag circle* on the public way,
No longer feared or loved?
O time, what patches do thy Angers set Ob garment free from Htain!
0 rust,
and sloth, and greed, what prises get, That Heaven would gladly gain!
Ben, yon and f, thank God! have hitherto Our race with honor ran! And we may thank the little school-house, too.
Its study and its fun.
For there we learned, not musty books alone, And feared no eulprit-rod— For one fair saint, now singing near the throne,
Taught ns to honor God.
Han Francinco Arganaut.
OF NO QQ."
oughfare. A party er* had found that o-.., ... by walking to the end of the (lark recess
era had found that out, in tneearly
in the mountain and before they turned jn wise." back the plaoe was named "Oo Go." But gold was thereabout, aud the stream that tumbled down from the height provided water for the delver'spans. Therefore "No Oo" became a bustling settlement, thoaghit to somethin A stamp mi
ing. Some of the miners bad deserted their cabins and taken to boarding at the Spread Kagle,—a house made of laneu boards, and containing a painted
not thirty, and her face was not hid-
eous. .no tnoro for her lopk
fro'kl«l
hungry
Some of the men went llg mirror from a wagon iti "'"''.J,'''
reached toward the weapons, and she was left alone. The retreatere cache togetberundara abed a short distance away from the "Spread Eagle. High indignation was profanely expressed, and a proposition to mob Ag and born her house was quickly received with an enthusiastic "Hooray."
Bat a conservative voioe said she was not much to blame, taking the view of the matter that she did, and it was a |00djiime for them to experiment in for-
An' what in thunder would we do ef the 8pread Eagle was gone, an' ao other bar in No Go?"
That remark preeeqted a startling truth, and nothing more was heard •bout destroying Ag's house. Then somebody burst out with an infectious "ha, ha!" and the woman's exploit caxnequickly into favor as a piece of rare fun.
This view prevailed when Billy Wilk, otherwise William Wilkinson, joined
^l^fly T&ilk was not too-young£to have a beard his flannel shirt was as red as anybody's his long boots as heavy, and his soft hat as slouchv yet he lacked some of the accomplishments of his comrades. He could not swear as glibly, he was constantly lapsing into good English, and he could not drink the ordinary whisky of the town without a grimace. He had contributed to the gift, and a full account of its reception was given him. .. "And what does Billy Wilk think of that?" the narrator concluded. "Why, that Ag's a woman, after all," said Billy, "and therefore rather sensitive about her personal appearance What we want to do is to convince her that no joke was intended. Now isn't that so, boys?"
Kverybody said something that meant
"I move," said one, "that Billy Wilk be appointed a convincin' committee. He's the only chap that 'ud dar go into the Spread Eagle jes' now, 'thout casin' himself in bilir iron. Ob, Ag won't hurt him—we* all know she's soft on Billy.
Nonsense," Billy interposed. "'Taint no nonsense, nuther. When Ag keeps a seprit bottle for Billy W ilk, thoi*| jes' 'cause he's got a faint-hearted stum-
I jes' 'cause he's got a faint-hearted
prospectiiig min- mic, it's a clear case o' gonfon Billy,
ug with
CI an 'vVr I frleul», al all oventa." ha
did e'xpe*-' to bring .ledge Low up from I'inkevvillo to tuako a preeentaslnng stteocli, but lie's got a hungjewry in a ho«s ease and can't come. So we 11 jes have it brung right in, without no more talk."
bThev leaned it i^arefully agaiust the wall, crowding in front of one anotlier
Ag. Eh? Say 'ays' if I'm talk-
s&PF-18rhto^
fh it did not change its name I jng against the bar. and her sharply bent those whom indicative of prosperity. I elbow raited on it for support. Her face jjolet to ma was being built, and ma-1 ^aB
yet
VOu
ntiii unwthor.marVfd T'—I niMr cuuiu w.iww an
Bnapl
wolves," Ag said vo had
yer jrrun, hain't ye?" The voice was harsh but good natured, and the rude words wero understood by all those present to lie jocose. Her qu«»tlon brought a hesitant spokesman to the front. He went so far toward.taklng
mm .i luiinu buii
the front. He went so far toward.taklng ,ovln.
off his hat as to push it to the back of his
head, and said: "It's this way, Ag. The boys has been a thinkin'as'they'd like to give yo a| kindo* tes»tl-nion\-yal, 'specially sence
o'yer fingers for me,
evening, but the msn stood iu a clump, don't. That's sauar as a instead of sprawling over benches, ehairs that yor know I love every hair in ye and tables. I head, Billy Wilk.' "I'd like to know what ye mean bv Rjny bad known it, as she said, but grinnin' and sneakin' round ^r°® P? nothing of the kind had ever been o'
8p0jjen
sail.
Why, now, Ag—" the spokesman be-
rnuatnt make no sport my loofcs. neljW
onrivil.
fov the door. ii% jfc li w»lf.* llottfee awl glasse*! twit,
nnd a
knife
'You kin l»et: jmrds, thar's no man In camp lmn's with."
lll?
house. Thev had trouble in getting it
through the" d«torway without scraping
saI]10
tVtotT the htmvyfrsme. Ag faeej
the glVtotT the heavy fnune. tlnsheil when she saw it, which i«ight have boon taken as evidence of deliglit buU her suddenly loweretl brows and compressed lips would have warned the company of an ontbrenk if they had not Ipwn too busy with the mirror to observe
.now
lh«rlUrnr1^
iollitv out of their faces. Tbt'l"1 anr of them had seen her look like that, was whon she broke a pitcher over the lMnkevville champion's "Stau' aside, the spokesman cried, with brave attempt at hilarity,
gTh$* *tiffly obeyed? eyeing the en-J
she seised a lot tie
SKky bVlheimk, with one brawny I hand and flung it with all her might at the mirror, shattering both plate and missile. auJ spattering the beverage on I
*^"Th*r*s mv feelln's fully exniwwd,"
^Itovln
hotms 1 uwkw a forplbta remark frame left, an* ye kin tote it out, or I
aadsauar.
if ye like, an I'd ruther jinel
She took the only bottlo of good whis- started.
Ye wont.
A roar of "aves" was decisive. Billv the rumor that gave him the distinction
JS tofnot'etangedher .ttitude in Bar. Tho«, who WBmwl lUo Sigh** HOT back WU
.Ml tan-1
hard with anger, Dut tears were furtivelv. w~— "---7^-3,.-
chinery was beginning to take the place trickling down it and she could not dash engaged in emptying. °oUles of men'A armH In lh. procM^ them .A, l»l*ly b»l that Billy «w Wal Billv Wilk she harshly ex-1 the antics of the men who were yet their
lh,t
piai bar room. Supper wus over at tho Spread Eagle, and the mistress, leaning her back against the bar and her elbows on it, carelessly faced a crowd of her boarders I gonial. They hadn't the slightest noand others. A few of these rough reai- tion of a joke." dents of No Go knew that her name was I She took a lamp from the wall, thrust I could Agnos Urlnkley, but tho Brinkloy was jt close to his face, and gazed eagerly into her hardlv overheard, and the Agnes wus, I },!* eyes. in common usage, shortened to Ag. She "See hyar, Billy Wilk," she said, if me maaen wuw, WHH
"I was with the boys in getting that g]a«a
from
'Frisco, certainly,7' said
»ip from 'Frisco, certainly,' 'but it wasn't done for sport, at all. It was meant for a sober, serious teati-1
he
Her blindest friouds could claim hell me so I'll believe y« Thar aint|Uptbe —-aa^it take.oii your worko' gu4ps. „, ...
muscular, her rod hair was dropped like woman ye ever seed, an' likely ye she Tooin—ye.'Bfirw waas a man's, and her coarse features were "critter jVill amoosetheirselves. Durn her white ... i,_j hide." •She didn't fool me, Ag.
heavv eyebrows wnro now lifted in sur- than I le, if ye tried. io never lied to prise* (or the bar roam assemblage was
not only larger than usual early in tho
mei
Billy. To never told me ye «uwl a
between them, and ho didn
find hor blunt avowal comfortable to recevve. "Oh, ye needn't the lamp back
y0t
(lnrn
blurt," .rid rto put) wb. atoat
In its place.
"I don
blush aiiy, Billy, cause I ain't ashamed
jjf ye told moye mffld of the
fer mo ye might blush, eithei fer
the first lie to me, er fershaino that yo
A
No Go.
fell in Jove with Ag, Bill
IJiH\s
A. They feels 's come to a
ve bad tho l»r room'rainted. They feels
shttk0'I
I a W I a a a pi in a
rent out and lifte«l a un^i two glasses, cliuked her arms, and forcing \lil"
-r
a 0
time WRS
occupieil in doing the
are ye gettin' on with Kunnel
Dinglev's daughter Nell Billv choked an instant on the last swallow of his whisky, and Ag's hand
~n,«ar:.
tr.st/o..hu^
u.|
thing ve
irn. or a button on
alu't an ounce of gold a headache ye have, or a button rlotlieo—that I donH know of
clothes—that I dont Know
OI-
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woman. no objection to telling
oX'p ojar^
Ag." He drummed on the counter un- o«uj
easily however, while she leaned over closelyfo _pn
quite comiwsediy from the other side, on
her hair is so yellow, ber eves so oiue, her cheeks so pink, her form DO
woman in No go."
never made no claim** 1 womai'inN^^' homely eta hedgehog, she interrupted, nvi *a durnea sight and her .rt* ... tl*» U^TSLIS I s^£i« th*n whTv-e dil«y. some work for Colo•r hk* au««w» v. -1
T.,,_i„v
%!5arthai wc dkin^ iu»*n notfalm'j f.-** Ag-all the hoyw'il ^Ij^amed^o mhX:h^u^^SK I whin the avowed hia love, and again tod
a or
nn».u™ .nd aapport. "y! thtuse I** the rear were breaking qwktly plain ild no)
that Ag
and won Id not lo»R «*.
I
and revolver were
known t« hang #r«tro{ badde* I iVndUlon she
The
retreat became a sta*
^ed
her pre»-iMtarl-m. wh 4e
fragile,
diffrent from the only other
the only
more deGo on,
mn know, over at the new
|n
the eflice a gowi deal.
Vm with a sudden reserve. He did not ^rev the mistreM of the Spre^ Kagle confidant but she was tttA tow
for a '"•'•TWVdlUierehirf U?" ahe^ecboed, mockingly. a rnan? Haw y* axed her to marry yott?" "No." "T- go straisht aft the fjonl an* to the Kunnel*s
WE TTATTTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.
era fool.
yei
as would say 'No' to Bil a4oo
Whar's the gal aswoul IT
Wilk?
I
wen her a4ookin' at ye
t'other day, when ye warn* aware*, an she loves ye—jes' as sure as I do, an mebbe jes' as much. Off with ye, now offwith ye."
There were faces at the window. The miners had grown impatient, and were watching their ambassador in his convenation with Ag, though they could not hear it. One of them ventured to open the door. ,, "Come in, Bantam," said Billv, "and bring in the boys Ag understands it all
n"Whoo-oop, hooray, boys!" shouted Bantam. The whole party crowded noisily into the bar room. '"Twas a misunderstandin' and apolyglzes to yer, boys," said Ag, heartily. What's more, I'll set 'em up. can drink all ye want in the Spread Eagle twixt now an' midnight, but ye can't pay a cent."
A yell and a wild rush to the bar was the unanimous response. In the midst of the hilarious uproar, Billy Wilk quietly slipped out, unobserved by anybody except
Ag,
who was performing wonder
ful feats with glasses and boltles behind the bar. He went directly to Nell Ding-
^The car-.usal at the spread Eagle surpassed ail its predecessors. Probably the free bar was the cause of it. Not that the assembled gentlemen of No Go selfishly drank faster because there was nothing to pay but the absence of finance confined the operations to liouor and farfliated them. In a single half hour the company was dead drunk, aud the rest were nearly so with two exceptions. Ag had drank an amount which to her was in effect nothing at all. The other sober persons in the room was tail, lean, long-haired and sallow. He did not show a miner's clothes oif manners. He might have been a gambler or a preacher, according to how the uninformed observer construed his closely shaven face, self assured manner and smooth garb. \V hy he was there he could not himself have explained.
He
had not drunk "with the
roysterers, nor entered in the least into the fellowship of tbeir spree. The lack of any other way of spending the evening was probably the only explanation of his presence. The others know hiso as Arnold Watts, associate in some capacity of Col. Dingley in the mill enterprise, and their opinions differed as to
his face. Ag watched him hile seeming to be totally*
When Billy Wilk returned Ag saw that Nell Dingley had rejected him. She did not need to ask him whether the rl said "yes" or "no." She paused in er work involuntarily, because she was dumbfounded. That any woman
Id resist Billy's wooing was beyond comprehension. She covertly beckoned him to the bar and poured from the hidden bottle, out of sight, a brimthe private stock. He caught lass and drank the whisky in ning across the bar, and
will look nie squar in .the face and mer from the private stock, lie caugnc
said wasn't the home- closing her hands over one of his flat,
a
And Billy
waeTicnv-i^rapid and earnest in his speech
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'She owned she loved me. There wasn't a shadow of soquetry in all she did. I've had her in mv arms, Ag—right stop my heart here—' 'Thar don't mind that. ,What made her jilt yc? Skip the rest an' get to that. "Because she roust marry
't Don't glare at him
what she's told me.
nf
MJO
man
He's tho re4 owner
the mill, becauso he owns Dolonol
he demand8 the
Sonei
hand, though nomowhat harden®^ So^it "j/°it^ heaven's truti A^, by toil, was smaller than the one that I
Olonel's
wife.
He carrie in the
hi9 8hlrt a
note, wlch the
wa8
somehow driven Uforge.
()h^ the
fmm b»r towrd
so ferociously, and spoke so lout even Bantam, who had been motloi on his back for ten minutos, sat uf
Ag was outside the bar
ireing a laugh. Thar's trouble
ot
them brainy chaps—they capacity. He's only fit for bed, thar's whar he's gone."
The onslaughter was so unexpeci
had resisted he would have been mnt^h for the woman who held him.
he sputtered. I .hnnt vnr secret. Bill! sputtered. musn't shout yer secret, Bil Them's the biggest Jjj®,Wbat^^was ye thinkin^on? Waggle
V^^lf in, and»W'
ori Bill yobeved mechanically, after watching him to his door withi al her rugged face of the I is the outward
ter
Did ye
semblance on
1 „xnrcMion which is the outwara
^hokin' vet? Mebbe its emoskun at barroom. imnreased the Ve cliokin' yet? Mebbe 5 Wal I axed ye 'bou.
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The episode had not impressed the fuddled observers deeply,»ndtji«yask vou I ed her no questions.
Sitvwas not aroused. She eyed him
wbile until
"I reckon I am in love frhe^lTi But w^ she meditated Dingley's ul*£*$£?is w^a lick of her acctistomed imwonder if shed guessed it, but that is Folding her bared arms, .11 nnon mv word. It ism Grange that I wl» ».,rv«ved the company.
she was satisfied
creaseB
came to her
an omnioivs
compression
be disturbed by her black
wnwiins. Only Arnold Watts saw it, Ind he was wxm aware that her ey« were gleaming at him. Her aspect alarmed him, if it did not disturb his nlacid exterior, and be rose from his chair to retire. Ag strode across the
P°"Bo
ve too proud to drink with the
bovs? cried. "Wall, I reckon »oboav would touch the g\*m after ye, ao the juice monght e* well be throw'd
.itswn^ni into his face. He took the
®re is of it. m* for what It seetned—the wanton in-
S«,0oi W-ot sjMsi
wef«
fro, knocking over chairs and and writhing in each other's
table*. iK locked arms. Then they flew apart, and for an instant stood panting and glaring. The woman was first to close again. Darting upon her antagonist, she wrenched liim off his feet, strained him across her hip, and flung him heavily to the floor.- The feat had not been easily done. The muscles iai her arms had "bulged like an athlete's, and the cords had risen with the tension. She stood with her bosom heaving and her wild face aglow but only for an instant, for when Watte began to scramble to his feet she threw herself upon him and bore him down again. "Give me the note ye*ve got it in vour belt," she hoarsely whispered "the forged note—I know it is war—or I'll have your life."
She* whipped out a knife. He was a coward. The gleam of the Made did not make him obey. But her knee was on his breast and her hand on his throat. She felt for the belt, and like a flash cut it through his clothes. To pull open the pocket required both her hands, and When the choking stopped he cried out with an oath that she was robbing him. A terrific blow on his mouth prevented him from being understood by the excited spectators. The papers in the belt were torn out, and then crumpling them into a wad in her hands, she let him get up. He staggered back, drew a revolver and fired before anyone could hinder. Ag clapped her bai^i to her side, and blood ran out on the papers. She turned unsteadily half way round, and fell on her face. "Call Billy Wilk," be said "call him quick."
Billy heard the shot, and was already bending over her. "Here—here," she continued in a whisper, "the crooked note is in this lot of papers. Stick 'em in your pocket. Thar."
Arnold Watts undertook to slip out, but a dozen hands grabbed him. "I've got too much lead in me to ever git up again, boys." Ag continued, speaking with increased difficulty, "so good-bye. Don't bar no ill-will about the lookin' glass. Come close, Billy." He was holding her head on bis knee. "Shake hands. I ain't sorry fer what I've done, and not much fer what's happened to me. The gal's yourn, Billy, God bless ye ye wanted the pretty critter, and I was bound ye should have her. Take care o' that note, an'
Billy felt the grip of her hand relax, but a smile staid on her face until, she was dead, and afterward.
There was only one thing that could possibly happen to Arnold Watts. He knew it so well that he did not utter a word of protest. The drunken and exasperated miners hanged him. The job was not as neat as though the accustomed tree had been used instead of the empty frame of the big mirror but they would not leuve out that sentimental element, and Watts was the only sufferer by the bungling,
UiK
Posy was tall and slight, with braids of blonde hair, and a complexion dolicately tinted, like a sea-shell. Letty was ciark, with velvet-brown eyes, full red lips, and hair that waved in natural ripples across her forehead. "Who is it?" said Letty.
Posy seated herself on the low window seat, and made an impromptu' fan of her hat-brim. "Don't you know that tall, roundshouldered, red-haired, lantern-visaged man from New Hampshire," she said, "who stops at the Rea Lion hotel, ana advertises 'Music taught thoroughly in ix lessons—the man who goes around iving lectures on the accordeon, and ho has opened a singing school, of renings, in 'Squire Dennison's big red rn
Mr. Eiekiel Greengage J" cried Letty the goggle glasses and the fine, ,1 accent!"
•The very one/' said Posy. "Well, it that the Red Lion hotel was aloo far away from 'Squire Dennibarn for the convenience of this ideal prodigy, so he has asked Aunt xandra to accommodate him with ieals twice a week, on the red barn and all the time we have been ing out in the pine woods. Aunt as been practising do—sol—ia—mi,
Mr. OrecngageJ" they engaged?" cried breathless,
ill, not quite that but Aunt Lexy me to understand that an enis imminent. She has made mind, she says, to consent. Mr. is the only man, she declares, she feels that she can safely er future." a goose she is!" cried Letty, ropping the skimmer in her "At her age, to think of—" indeed!" shrilly echoed a high ce, and Aunt Alexandra herced out from the protecting the doorway. And at my ve vou to know, Letitit Popinftfortv yet, and you're fiveif vourre a day(younielf."
lar. and
eati*ht up the tumbler and dashed
je between her manner now
and when they had seen her a reckles*
a^ailant on paused an instant, as though bedtating in MKOunter a woman, and would have
and whirled him round. The spectators intuitively cleared a Sfwee. SJeepers
quietly pokedandawalwmed. Tbere a moment of alleat expectation then Ag's right arm straightened out,
and
her fist reached his far^ with aloud sjwt. Instantly they were together,
while your pa ia away
ii'rt
Wi-
fsi
The Wrong One.
"Wonders never will cease!" cried Posy Poplar, flying into the cool dairy, where her sister Lettv was printing off pats of fine, fragrant DUtter.
Outside, July upheld her golden shield in the blue zenith trees drooped in the torrid sunshine, and cattle stood panting under the trees. But in the dairy, at Poplar Farm, a refreshing eoolness reigned: the shadow of green vine leaves
ing pans of milk, the stone jars of cream, and the little round balls of cottago cheese, gave one an idea of homely plenty. "What's the matter?" said JLettv. "Dear me! this print doesn't work half so nice as the last one. I can't mak this look like a sheaf of wheat, do what I will!" "Aunt Lex has got a beau!" "Nonsenee!" said Lettv. "But she has!" cried rosy, her blue eyes sparkling with mischievous delight, "a real, live, masculine beau
Letty laid down her butter print, wiped hor plump, dimpled hands on a towel, and looked with surprise at Posy.
They wero passing fair to look upon theso two farmer's daughters, who nnd grown up among tho cedar forests of Maine, and who nad never even looked upon the walls of a city.
So you may tell
ty ten them*
your two young men to make
selves scarce." But, Aunt Lexy," pleaded Posy who, amid all her discomfiture, could not but perceive the humor of the thing, "thia isn't fair. We don't forbid Mr. Exekiel Greenwood the premises because papa, who ia as much your legal guardian as he is ours, happens to be in Boston."
That's quite a different affair," said Alexandra, with the severe dignity of a Diana.
And she stalked out of the diary, leaving Letty and Posy looking at one another in sore perplexity. "Cross old tning!" cried out Letty. "I wish to goodness she would get married!" said Posy, sighing. "Then perhaps you and I—and Frank Lacy and Alfred Moore—might have a little peace of our lives." "I really think," said Letty, solemnthatit is our duty to encourage the
oing
master as much as possible. Ia
this the red barn night, Posy?"
MNo,"
said Posy, gravely, "If it had
been, Aunt Lex would have been baking cream biscuit and lemon pies, and all the monster strawberries out of the Champion beds. It's to-mor-row night that Mr. Greengage holds court.
Aunt Alexandra went to bed early that night. She had been whitewashing the kitchen celling, and was tired. But she did not desert ner post nntil she had seen Letty and Posy safe in their room, with their candle blown out, and the key of the big front door safe in the depths of her own pocket.
Duty before everything else," said Aunty "Lex, grimly screwing up her thin lips.
In the mid-watch of the night, however, Auut Lex walked up with a peculiar sensation of the ear drums.
Is the big church bell a-ringin'?" said she to herself "or is there a storm ablowin' up, and the wind slirickin' down the north chimney, like mad
But as the cobwebs of slumber cleared away from her brain, Aunt Alexandra was aroused to the consciousness that the strange sounds disturbing her dreams were neither church bells nor chimney flues. "It's music," said Miss Alexandra, scrambling out of bed. "It's a fiddle or else a banjo. It's that unprincipled Frank Lacy and Alfred Moore come to Berenadethe girls, as true as my name is Alexandra Poplar! But I serenade them, see if I don't!"
Ana nimbly making her way toward the big pitcher of water, which stood in readiness for her morning ablutions. Aunt Lex noiselessly lifted the sash, and flung its entire contents over a dark figure which was dimly visible below by the light of a gibbous moon. "There!" said Aunt Lex with a shrill accent of reprobation. "Got it now. I guess haven't you? And I only wish there was twice as much of it, to soak the nonsenee out of you! I'll teach you to come here disturbing an honest family's rest in the middle of the night, with your songs and your fiddles, and your foolishness! Clear out of this will you? Or do you want me to unloose Towser and get the old gun
Not a word was uttered in the shape of response, but the velocity with which the dark figure sped across the yard and down the winding expanse of road, 1espoke his ardent desire to escape from the old gun, Towser, and Towser's mistress. "I've settled him!" said Aunt .1^* triumphantly, as she Dangea the cast ment down, and went back to her pil —K-taiuD'c see tQo otner on** run but.I think it likely he ain't very far Tiehind."
When she came down to get breakfast the next morning, Israel Meadow, the farm hand, stood in the kitchen, pumping water. Beside him, on the sink shelf, lay a confused heap of conglom erate wood and leather. "Mercy on us!" said Miss Lexy, "what's that?" "Suthin' I found, out alongside the ate, in the bushes," said Israel. "It ooks a good deal like Ezekiel Green gage's big accordeon, that he pitches tho -tunes with in 'Squire Dennison's psalm-i barn." "What!" shrieked Miss Lexy. "Yea," said Posy, who chanced to enter the room just then "Mr. Greengage was singing and playing beautifully under the window, last night, Aunt Lexy* until you threw cold water on him. To think of your having a serenade!" 'We were quite jealous of you, Posy and I," said Letty. "But, Aunt Iyjxy, why on earth did you repulse him so cruelly?"
Aunt I/exy sank down all in a heap in one of the kitchen chairs, and threw an apron over her head to conceal her tears. 'I—I never dreamed it was him!" she said. "I s'posod, of course, it was Alfred or Frank! Oh, dear! What have I done?"
She had settled her own autumnal love affair. Mr. Ezekiel Greengage never came near her again! "I wouldn't marry a woman with a temper like that," said the musical proaigy, "not for the biggest farm in the country."
LEARN TH18 BY HEA RT. New*. My nerves will regain their vi My brain will become more cl powerful.
Ageat* sstf
Make from
The 1
Aunt said Letty, didn't intend to hurt your
feelh„w
long bad It on my mind," Alexandra, venomously, ,-our poor, (Mar, unsuspertaaetwo young men that und here about half the .-c' scarlet* .. said she, with spirit,
I are doing nothing seand. Papa knows very
," said Aunt Lex, with a
tow of |»ded flaxen ringiete. "I
stand not exw to you to undeH diculoua
of a mother—no,
bat of an elder slater— and I plainly give yoa 1*11 not have thia ring and nottsem* here
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My muscles be made strong. My dyspepsia and indigestion no longer trouble me.
My heart's regular action restored. My blood made more pure. My weak lungs made more healthy, and all the functions of my body restored to their normal condition, aod every symptom of weakness, nervousness and debility be removed if I use Brown's Iron Bitters.
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ISO per week sellioc
goods for EL O. HIDEOUT CO., 10 Barclay Street, New York, fiend for their catalogs* and terms. AagM*! yr.
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makes* Wee Ml
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THE GREAT
FOR
RHEUMATISM,
Heuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Backache, Soreness of the Chest, Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swellings and Sprains, Burns and
Scalds, General Bodily Pains,
Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted Feet and Ears, and all other Pains and Aches.
Xo Preparation on earth ST.JAC.IN* OIL
A lafr, *»if*, tin*pt«
of
ami
cheap
External
](«medy. A trial entails but the comparatively triflliiK outlay of 60 Cents, and *Tery one nurturing with pain can hato cheap and poaiUve proof
iu clalma. Direction* in Eleven LangnagM.
SOLD BT ALL DRUG0I8TS AND DEALERS IN XBDIOINE. A. VOGELER to CO..
Baltimore, Md., V. 8. At
MRS. LYDIA E. PINKHAM.
OF LYNN, MASS.
mscovERRa or
LYDIA E. PINKHAM'8
VEGETABLE CQMPOUWD.
ThoPoslMvpCnro
For all Female Complaints.
*hu preparation, aa it* naran altrnlfle*. Emulate of Vegetable Proportto* Chat am lmrmloaa to the moat delicate lnralld. Upon one trial the merits ot thia Com pound will ha roeognlied, aa relief ia immediate anil when Ita uae la continued, in nlnotjr-nlno caaoa In a hun. drad(aponnanentctirciaefrectod,aathoaaanda will ti-a^ tlfjr. On account of ita proven merlta, it la to-day nv comiaended and proecrlbod by tho boat pbyalclona In the country.
It wilt care entirely the worat form of falling of the utonw, Lancorrha'a, irreffuiar and palnfnl Msnatrnatlon, all Ovarian Troublaa, Inflammation ami Ulceration, flood Inge, all Dlaplaoementa and the consequent apinal wcaJcneaa, and la eapoclally adapted to the Change of Ufa. It will dlasolro anil cspel tumor* from the uteruain an early ataga of development. Th« tendency to eanceroue humora there ia choc It od very ipeedUy by Ita uae. in fact it haa proved to be thn (rroateat and beat remedy that haa ever been dlaeovcr•d. It permeate* every portion of tlie ayttom, and (rlvoa now life and vtffor. It removea faintnoaa, flatulcncy, do•troya all craving for atimulaata. and relievoa weaknoaa of tbeatomaeh
It cure* Dloatinff, Heada^bea, Kprvoua Troatratlon, Oenoral Debility, SleeploaancM, Deprcnrion and Indlgeetlon. That feeling of bearing down, caualng pain, weight and backache, to aiwaya permanently cured by Ha uae. It will at all time*, aod under all rlrrtimatanoee, act in .harmony with the law that governa tha female aystetn.
For Kidney Com piainta of either aex thia compound la unaurpaaaed.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound la prepared atCSSand ns Weatern Avenue, Lynn, Kam. Price 11.00. Ms bottloa for $8.00. Sent iiy mall in the form of pllia, alao tn the form of T»ceii«rr-«, on rocelpt of price, |100, per box, for either. Uro. HXKItAM freely aeewuiwJl iettcm of Inquiry. Bend for pam pblet. AddnnaiMljove Mention IM* paprr.
Ko
family
ahoold bo without LTDIA E. PIXKHAM*
llVEBPnxa. They
cure Conrtlpetlon, Biliouaneaa,
%IT(i|MH| of tbeLiver. Beeataper bo»-
JOHN D. PARK & SON,
Wholesale Agenta. Cincinnati, Ohio.
LIVER
TARAXINE
The Great Vegetable Liver-mi Corrector.
It contain* no Catom+l or Mineral of anf kind, its Main Ingrtdi*nt it the Concentrated Mrdfeat Principle of the Tarturieutn or
Jtandelion.
TARAXINE
Xt a ftpeciflc for alt arising from StarangoA Lir+r. Itntevlm, Hpltrn or Kidnrys.
TARAXINE Cures Liver Complaint in all its
Stages.
andmlM Btlmtilam
Lati(,wtthout Into*
TARAXINE Cure* Habitual Constipation.
tacra or vjvqrtMsi mt t* oaa HaotUi•tek bat If
are Hal tte dloinoraC km CwimttttOfn
yon
met2mm at a uf«4 iMBdisrta ttwrr «W sot orteycor frtaBdv
WW Mop Anm*4 1 Bn*
Bimiiii r, Bop gtttm t* no
TARAXINE Sever falls to cure Chronic
Ague. Try it. TARAXINE Cures Xh/spepHa and
Indigestion.
TARAXINE
for Balr htt all Druggists aud Patent Medicine Dealers.
JPrice, 50 Cts. and $1.00.
A.KIEFER,
ISfiSii
Indianapolis, Ind.