Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 12, Number 27, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 31 December 1881 — Page 2

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A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

TKRKE HAItTE, DEC. 81, 1881

THE LITTLE BOOT.

Dumpy, stubby and old, The fnnnieat little boot. With mended toe nod flattened bed,

Ever worn by a little foot.

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i&~} The widow**! mother stands, Bull smiling down wlthmisty eyes On aUtttFe Toot in her hands.

Carefully laitlSway, si With a mother's yearning care, Are toy* with which tbe children played,

The clOthes tbey used to wear, With loving, lonjring heart «tii Her gaze is backward cast, •H JD» she softly lifts the little boot -*Wf %'FrotD them

Wne* of the pas*.

Hhe see* the little boy Thrq*t ouLhi* chubby foot, his happj

And hears his happy laugh and shout

At sight of his turn boot.

And trudging down the road, Htubblng grant, and leaves, and roots, She sees again thesolid form

Of the little man in boots, A conqueror that day,"» He ir,3ietlie soft air ring? Amid the shoexhoelc** laos at school

The boy in boots wm king. O the stillness of the room Where the children n*eu to play! 0 the htlline«H of the empty house

Hlnoe the children went away!

In a pair of little shoes, In ivsing'e broken toy,

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And till# the mother life— "To bdar, and love, and lose," v* Till ail the sweet sad tale 1m told ,£ '^4

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A flower orism*l, to Keep W.srt Ahfrngrant stjIHhefiwlerf life

Of one who fell airteep. The boy who irons the boot! While his mother's eycK am dim, itzktf Amid the world's unequal strife A

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How fat-cth It with him? Are the feet of manhood strong*

For manhood's sacred race, HIh hands outstretched, securely calm, To clasp its utmost grace With love her heart o'erflows,

With lew tier eyes are dim, Hhe softly wraps the little boot, A ml send* it far to him,

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The eyes of manhood /The ancient boot—the far off boy .w,f! Talks through It to the man, 'it., Thefcswl world 'a vexing road nm

The troy 's boot never pressed: Tht«

Knew not of manhoodV pain,

N or S it of re The man «ee« all things changed—

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The earth, the heaven above, f&\ One th 1 ng alone remai u» the same To htm—his mother's love. "ajf* The buttered little foot r3

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He tak^H as from her hand, And all sweetest, purestthlnfeffT Wetter to understand.

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The funniest little boot. With mended toe and flattened beel«, I Ever worn by alltti footl Yet a boot is a band to bind

The man to hi* innocent pa*t, To hcld htalaitlifDl heart of hearts .'f«1 To 11 fo's first love-rand its last! —[Mary detainer Ames.

li. M, Johpifon i^arj^or'f Magailne,

The Tonce Trammell

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Compromise.

"^ihs r/? K- i. mmmMT .••l The diUloolty about tho drinkin'of worrits," said 'old Mr. Splvey, when onst a man git to knock!n' of it too "Rtrong und rw'lar, i*, about this, that 4* when be one time lays off, efhe don't lay oft* lor good, when he do git l«ck,'it always seem a» of ha wanted to make up

Ifor lost time, ami so be go to knockin' .-sof it stronger thuu before—that is providing that you can't git him to compromise.'" I've saw it Ireqwent In my time, tuaiultTln sixty-eight years old,a-goin' on

-to uiy tdxty-nino, auu whlch Jit have been ton years'ago, and which thero once Trammell, and which, upon my word, as to Jotioftlf)Mi»rxieU-r-" ,,

Hut 1 couctudo, to. giye my own ac'count ofUlK TrummelT, as Mr. Spivey, eHpeclAtfy lie had taken hfs own »wooton«d dhtm, was rather giveh to extended narrations, even without allowance of ri^ts therefti. -li Johnson Trammell hmi married, some tiftiHu yccj-x iHiforo, with MtfiU'Amalia ones, it was. considered a fuJ^niatcb.

Hot ti wore good-looking—Mcely, indoed. quite pnitty. She \vn« better educated than Jona\ but Joncf did not care for "that, and folt hlmseljEcompetent to make tip l'»r it. Thoytrdrs* fond of each other, oven nftertft'o matters, small in .. the beginning, had grown into Serious »Luipormjuxj in Ui^ir conjug#llife.

ThAy reskled'a milesouthout ot tho town, near tho hill called Pimple Hill, .. on tho Augusta road. In spite of a still' n»cky: soil,, .lonoe tnude gaod crops, wfiotxi'and Those of Iila wife's »i loom we*ojiKlldlo«*ily invested. Of late, unfartnoaiflly^onoG had bectfrae addict.„ed to internuc$»to drinking, and ,tbo lujsihess of $4 farni begau to suffer, from the snHtawt&m of hls attention.

Having been btouKht up to work, always aItard worker. Mrs. Trammell now worked the harder. Joiice remarked her .. increased devotion to household duties), ami he remarked farther, and with alarm, a growing sadness upon her faco. a stooping Jn her figure,, atid a gen oral oldening.

The work that she was bmt at, that she liked the be»t, that seemed moat Important to her family, was weaving Almost all the rlothi ng worn by tho family, Mundaya a* well week-days, was wovon by bersolf. Then sho made counter* |iauo»At\datripca that were famous, and that brought in many a nice little sunt, not only mmt neighbors, but from persons tuiW away, even across the Ogeeeke. It would not 1k» going too far to say that Mrs. Trammell, at least in her yovmjj^r and riiore Cheerful, not to say am bitiouH, time, had barn prottd of this talent. Junoe waa always avowedly, so, until at last ho came to the conclusion

that she waa carrying two far. Ttaeiti warioits Kinds of fotfemp6r nee, Aleely," «aid Jonca one night, aft, after the supper -things were put away, she KMtitned her sent on the loom bendL didn't suppose thew was but one,*' aheanswacvd, wtUng thtilntlttelly.

Oh, yea a body be in torn pert in eatin* as well as drinkin', and Dr. Lewis sav theiVs ftaortj people dies* from that than

t'other and you know toe* thd«unart«at doctor £d aU this eo JTonds knew the thorityt for this -w tended his wife in more than on# spel! of dangerous illness, waa regarded by her with lulense admiration and a rati"^tode.

to all this country.' 06 knew the strength of that auphystch tclan, who had

I Dr. Lewi^l suppose, ought to know, Jnnoo font anyhow that kind of intennperanee don't bring the distitin that the otter does, and I cant see how a man t*n get bis ©Oiis^ot to kill hitnweif with either one, or with any kind of tatern-

Uow almit women, Meplyr wobmbi either hat I dont imp' t!at W, Lnvii' ever knew of aueh ISM©.** inteuri ^r*n» In work- -, Jonofs \viu» the look of ing to Uie main point t»—

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*'Ifilemperanoe in working, Jonce? What are yon talking about?" "Meely," said her nukbanc painftU seriousness, jlfrxri

abont a woman's kiabi' of a-wtevin' of herself to Aeath, and Dr. Lewis has told yw pfefty the same thing, and he* tola me blank to-day, and he aaLdJl stop it." "-Ssf

She paused from h«r work, and laid her weary head against.the post of the spinning-wheel that stood beside the loom. Hhe looked at her husband, and for the first time in her life apokei in a querulous tone to him. "Jonce, bow can I.. quit work, when work" Is needed by this family more than it ever was oeforeT—and it looks like as if my work was going to be needed more and more as Tgrow older and less able to do it."

Then ahe burst into tears. Jonce said no more upon the subject that night. -1 II.

These Words'&f his wife cut Jfonce Trammell morcrdeeply than if they had been harsher, and she had directly complained of his increasing infirmity. He thought of taking a vow of total abstinence, bnt he could not see bow he was to keep it. It had not been his habit to keep ardent spirits in his house, and it was only when he went from home that be took it. Whatever was his condition when in town, he bad always been sure to return by nightfall and it would be amusing as well as touching to observe his efforts to disguise bis inebriety, sometimes with a seriousness entirely foreign to his nature when sober, at others by an affectionateness so gushing that he could but believe it sufficient to win and keep wen the heart of a woman even far less responsive than his wife. Jonce understood this and other occasional remarks of bis wife to contain a tacit proposal that if he would become more temperate and moro attentive to the farm, she would recognize the di minished necessity of ruinous devotion to her loom. He waa right and when, after remaining at home two weeks, he found that she was far more temperate, and, farther, more eheerful, he was almost sorry for the occurrence of an apparent necessity one afternoon that he should go to town on some farm business. Mrs. Trammell, though not urgently, suggested that their son Tommy, ten years old. might go in his stead. But Jonce, upon reflection, thought he would go himself, "I sha'n'fc be gone long, Meely," said he as be rode off.

His business was at the blacksmith's, at the near end of the village. After getting his plough sharpened, it occurred to him that there was a little matter at Bland's store that he ought to attend to. He scarcely looked into Fann'a grocery as he went up but on his return, seeing Fann in the door (for Fann, though a mere grocery keeper, was a right good fellow), he paused for a little civil and harmless chat. Among other things said by Fann was this: "I knOwed yon was Oh easy 'bout your wife, Jonce, and 1 wants her to try my cherry bounce that I've seasoned with cinnamon, 'specially for weak bresses. It's my own priperation, and I tell you now, Jonce, that I were studyin' 'bout yoqr wife when the ideo struck me."

Anybody* who knew Joxice Trammell would have known to What such as that wonld lead. Sonio time after dark he reached home, and ashamed, remorseful, and inadequate for either the digulftotl or the affectionate, feeling that ho could not endure the sight of tho pain his conduct waa inlhctlng,, dismounting from his horse, be tottered around to the kitchen, wherein, drawing his hat oyer his eyes, he took a chair and sat down bytfiie tire.

Lor. Marse Jonce," said old Aunt Dlley, the cook, "kitchen no plaC&fdr whlto folks to sit down in. Whint you

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ain't flkfh to*goWo your Miss Meely's house. Yoa'go tell her I said so.', MisaMeely-Weavin'ilhain't knowed her to weave b^lo'e of,a night, not in two weeks. My fo' mistiss goin' kill herself wid dat loom." "My Clod A'nUghtyr "fctclaimed Jonce, rising. At the kitchen door he met his wife, and without a word iiom either, suffered her to lead,him into tbje hou*e.

Look hore, Meely," said Jones the next, morning, kiiln's killn', makes no odds whether it's done with whiskey bottle or a shlck'le. If you'll quit weavin' fovtjood and all,I'll not take another drink.till the last day I'm a-livin' on top o' the ground, and I'm a-moanin' what I'm a sayin'."

She had in her loom a

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was takin great pains with. It was a stripo for frocks for herself aud her girls, and a neighbor who had expressed admiration for it. She regarded it as her masterpiece. She looked longingly ait tho loom, its fair liandiwork awaiting aiid inviting to completion.

You are in earnest, are you Jonce? am," said Jonce, firmly, etfen solemnly. i,

Tben let it boeo." She rose, cut the cloih from the unfinished woof, folded it, and laid it away. Each drew along breath, for each felt that faithful observance of the mutual pledges was to be at dear cost.

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The loom was removed into a shed room, and Susan, a bright uegro girl, whom her mistress had beeti instructing in the art, was brought into its continuous woik. Dr. Lewis was right. What with the suspension of exhausting labor, and the thought that her husband was saved from r\nn, the form of Mrs. Tram' mell straightened and filled, and the bloom canto back to her cheek.

Hard as was her straggle, that of Jonce was harder. B«t he loved his wife dear* jv, and he struggled like a true man. Jonce thought sometimes that it might have been as well to modify the compact from one of total ahstinance to moderate indulgence, but he was ashamed to «v so.

So matters went on. Of late Jonce had rather pemmded himself that there was a suspicion somewhere in his mlnd^—a suspicion which gave him less pain.bowever, than it oofnt. ••Siiaan,'" said Jonw to himself-—" Sasan a smart nigger. I know, that is, f*r a nigger bat SnsanM a learnin' of weavin' powerful peert, that is, for a nigger. I'm a-

pearanily a-gittin' on oncomnran peert I believe 1*11 godo-- rd^fidt. me and

jTom Awards sense' J«noe took his hat and sallied forth from ?But lie lingered in tha listened for the weaver's the dinner things -were put away, li heard it, and the strokes se^ed to him to be made by a person who knew what she was about. For the first time in his married life, Jonce Trammell did some creeping. This brought him to.the win'dow of the shed rooia, where—ob, faithless wife!—from her fair hands the weavers shuttle was enacting the swift* ness so expressive in the mouths of the holy prophets, while Susan was standing by, looking on with wonder and delight. Ashamed, but (as heafterward admitted) more for himself than his wife, Jonce crept away bnt he had gotten only a few steps when his wife, who had risen from the loom, observed him. Her impulse was first to call to hiin^but this she resisted. She went into her own room, sat down, and then Mrs. Trammell did s'ome ruminating. In a few minute* Jonce, who had saddled his horse at the lot, rode up by the ho opencu the gate, and turned town.

Jonce were mad, Meely bat he were drunker'n road. I hope he'll git over it by mornin', and come on home. Don't be oneasy. Jim Fann '11 give him a bed."

The old man was uncle to Jence. Hiding from bis own home, half a mile further down the road, about two o'clock in the afternoon, he came up to Jonce's house, and was suprised and distressed that Jonce yet lingered in town.

Time sich as that were put a stop to in some ways or in some ways else. I'm a goin i-n to Mann's, Meely. If I ain't jack in two hours, you beeter come yourself. 'ltin't worth while to be mealymouthin' 'Dout Jonce no longer."

He rode on into town The old gentleman never had been to the grocery except on such er similar btfsiness, for though he habitually took his one sweetened drama day, always, as he expressed it, of a mornin' like," few held drunkenness in deeper disgust.

Jonce, though not deeply intoxicatedyel was in sad plight. In answer to the old man's entreaties to return home, he went many times over the case of his wife, the judgment of tha#biil|r. his own repeated remonstratlpo, afllRlwelt on the piteousness of haw goipg to be when she, in spite&ven Other emn pledge—such lability or her should succeed in secret, JJis uncle, smo pitied Jonce—oh, ver could hot get Jonce's subject of a return to his hofttff Jonce coutinued to harp upon his misfortune in thus losing the best of wives. In the midst of these pathetics, Mrs. Trammell, leading ber little son Tommy, entered the room. The presence of such a fine woman the poor place, seem suddenly

house, toward

Why, I thought you were going to the low grounds, Jonce," called his wife.

Yes/' answered Jonce," but, Meely, you see you were mistakened." IV.

Jonce Trammell had never, during any of his drinking frolics, staid from home at night. But now it seemed ss if he was destined to illustrate the truth of old Mr. Spivey's saying njxmt the making up for lost time in such cases. "The" grief of his wife was extreme, as alternately she sat up and walked the floor the night long. When the morning came, she adjusted her hair, re-oressed herself, and tried to look bright before her husband. But no Jonce, neither to breakfast nor at dinner-time. She knew he was at Finn's, for old Mr. Spivey had told her so the evening before, an'd he had told her further that in answer to his request to Jonce to come on home with him, Jonce had refused peremptorily, atjd' had said that he did not know when he would.

-he mfconti for the"-:loom^ ",ng he^lf i*? sweetly

and unendurably disgusting to the me: who were therein,tand they slunk out ot it even Fann himself crept into his bad room.

When Jonce saw his wife, at first h] thought ho must be In a dream. "Jonce"' she said, trembling, I anU Tommy have come for you."

Her eyes were red with unrest anfi weeping but they exhibited no anger, or 6ther passion than affection "Sifd sorrow.

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•^1 know you »to ashamed of ane, Jonce, for coming into this place. But I fcould not live at houie without yod. Oh, iny husband, I wish I had called voti back yesterday. I started to do it, but I

yon'd have left me as you did, because I could have explained everything- -2fU that I blame yon, my dearest Joncpr ipr watching me. That was my husband's Hght."

Old Mr. Spivey, famous peace-maker though he was came near pouring forth an indignant dissent from this proposition. But fastening his jaws together, He looked with hypocritical# fondness upon Jonce, who bowed bis head with shame.

Poor Jonce! poor fellow! said Mr. Spivey. compassionating Jonce, it was not clear for what.

When I agreed with yon, Jonce, not to do any more weaving, I didn't think you'd coont what little 1 did in showing Susan. The whole of it, as God is judge, I don't believe would have made a single yard."

My! my! Jonce Trammell," said Mr. Spivey I thought from your talk that Meely was a-killirt' of herself."

And so she were," Said Jonce, dog' gedly the doctor said so." Jonce looked as if he had been wounded in his very tenderest sensibilities.

Ah, Uncle Adam," said Mis. Trammell, that was three months ago, and then 1 quit that work, although everybody ktiows how necessary is work for oar family. But I quit it. Oh, it was a strange bargain but I made it for the sake of my husband. took delight izk my loom, nut I gave it np to oblige him, and save, if possible—"

Then Mi*. Trammell sobs..

Right thar.1" Mr. Spivey need to say, in recounting this scene, '**1 dont think I were ever madder or 'shatneder, not «nly of Jones TrammmeH. bdf o' my

speakin'o' Susan a-bein', and bein* Oft whole sect and came nigh o* beiri of nonplashed, were my feelill's but were for compromise, .., and hid 'en*. come nigh of a-a-gittin' to be of waiible nigger, cert teilin' of JofiiMr tlu^ he were the tri"sf io- «, to mind, and to prowl about the honafc^wt bllt in, because I were after a comntorethan his wont, sometimes coi^h^wise,'' in at unexpty^ed hours. Mid at ttrt^adk'f Let ns hear what tlie old bv)XK99le insteiid of the front door. Bat be the! Mid as be wiped his qym, or nither, as while kept sober as a judge—more pretended, bis nose, with Shis great than some judges." bandana. "I don't think, Jonce," said Mwm now, now, Meely! They is two Tmmmell one day at dinner, that sidsn of everr qnestiooX knew a girl to take to weaving as Jonce turned nis eyes appealingly to ooo and as kindly as 8c»rie.n I the old -Shed^d^she?" "And which now, Meely, if it's aques-

a nigger, and I sav that she's' learnin* weavin powerful peert. Site's a-comln' o' the stripe*, here nlelv 1 see. Susan's

Indeed yea. I've got her to wearing Uon of kiUin* of youwelves jes* so« alrosdy.'' Me^y,-ahera '-and wHfc* 4 haa ao it a a a a if he id ha *. anfi

leastways out n' «]iie agin one

bein of a nigger, and—«p Anther, Bnt kiilin's killin', Meety, as I roi*® have to have stated words, and not

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say, and I'm obleeged to agree

with Jonce tbar, Meely and ef Jonce Igpicions that your intentions is to run

.i ii *gin bothbim and Dr. Lewis, right iuto ing-aine, (the jaws o' death, why, you see, Meely, Jonce mom, as a 'fectionate husband, try to git in before you, as it were, and not a wishiu' andadesirin' of a-bein' of 1f widderer, as it were

Here Jonce broke iuto loud lamentation. "Ah, now," said the old man, with profoundest sympathy, "you see how 'dieted the poor fellow

air. Inco'sohe' is, and I'n

a-goin' 'long h»me tirith us, a-goin' to git yoa and him to compermlse this case, for it's a case that can't be settled 'ithout a compermise. So you go on home. Meely, and Jonce and mo'll come amegiantly. I see from his looks that he's a-goin,'and which if he don't, why, in co se you can come hack and put up here at Fatm's, and see Jonce through, and wHich in co'se it would be pity for Jonce to die in a grocery (though I got nothin' to say agin Fann), and not have his wife to-smooth his dyin' piller? and ketch his parti n' words, and eee him breathe of his life out sweetly thar, as it were."

She went out with her son. Jonce was sobered enough by what had transpired to be made to listen to reason. He rose, washed his face and hands in a basin in the back room of the grocery—Fann the while aiding and expediting eagerly— brushed himself, ana came forth with his uncle. When Mrs. Trammel 1 saw them fairly out, and not before, she mounted her horse, took up her son behind, and rode slowly on.

On the way, Mr. Spivey's talk, the smoothest he could invent in the beginning, roughened gradually as they approached Jonce's residence, and he felt that he could let out some of his vial upon him. "And I am glad to hear you say, Jonce," ho continued, uninterruptedly, after constant previous discourse—"I am glad to hear yoit acknowledge that you nave a faa jeweled of a wife"—Jonce, I observe parenthetically, had not opened his month, not, indeed, having had the opportunity—"which go to snow that you ain't the fool and scoundrel you would be if you didn't acknowledge it and, Jonce, I'm not a-talkin' of your gittin' of drunk, but that yistiday business I'm a powerful 'shamed of it, Jonce, as your«own blessed uncle and I never knowed a feller, make no odds how bad he wanted of a drink o' sperrits, to grabble lower to gitit that is, Jonce, a-providin' that were your objec'." 'It weren't, Uncle Adam," said once, humbly I did want a drink, but 1 were mad because I thought Meely were a foolin' of me." "Yes, and you found that you was afoolin' o' yourself. Jence Trammell, ^rou area euild o' my own sister that's dead and goned, and I Want to tell you this: when a man have to go tograbblin' in the dirt—for that's what I can't but name it—makes no odds what kind o' wife, bqt 'specially with sich a wife as you've got, when he have to sneak about and peep through winder-shetter cracks to watch her, and 'specially when she's a-workin' for him and his cbildern, itls a pity somebody weren't thar to poke a p'lutef

uted stick through that crack, and punch out at least one of his eyes out and then ef—providin' he want to die* and Which wouldn't be a onreason'ble wish in them circum'ahces—to lead up to him, and to back on him, a mule, and let him kick him to death. Now as for the drinkin' o' sperrits—I'm a-talkin' tow, Jonce Tramaiell, of one drink a ay, and which I means a sweetened uram oft moauin' Uker and which ain't a-goin' to kill nobody and ef he'll cenfina hlsself to that, he'll never feel likea-prowlin'of around his own bouse, like a suck-egg dog around of hen-ness-eses, and git liable to have his hide walloped, and a few o' bis bones broke with a bar'l stave or a bean pole. And furthermore, Jonce Trammell—yes, I mout add, furthersomemoreover——"

But they had now reached the horseblock, where Mrs. Trammell had just alighted, and the artful, aged peacemaker felt that he mnst change the tone of his remarks in the hearing ot the other party. Without a moment's pau8ehecontinued:

a wife you've got, nnd which everybody know that weavin' a-bein' of a leanin'over kiud o' work, and be liable to pejuiCe bres complaints and so as you've got back home onCe m6xe, I'm a-gof u'to stop, maybegit a bite o' supper with you and Meelv, and compermise thistroublesoule business and it wouldn't take but a very few words, a-providin' that a man have exper'ence to know how and wliar to put 'em and which, upon my soul, Jouce,you and Meely both looks a hundred per cent, better jes' at the idee." vi.

By this time they were in thq piazza. Mr. Spivey had not paused a single moment in this talk. Liko an experienced lawyer who wilt brook no interruption by his client, ho went on in his deliberate way. as if, after due submission ef the case oy the parties and careful preparsaion, he was proceeding to a formal settlement. "And which Jonce and you, Meely, at I understand, it's your desire to compermise this case, which have give anexity on top of anexity to you both, and whieh I'm Jonce's uncle, and your'n too as the wife o' Jonce, ana proud o' that, as Jonce Trammell know and I'm sixty-eighty ear old, going' on my sixtynine and ft

ve knowed cases and cases mid 'a got worse and worse ef hadn't

that would they which Meei.i

been compermised and I would ask you, as the

party of the first part, the follerin' question, jes' for the fillin' of the blanks o1 this compermise, as it war, and which it is, bow much, more or less, now nigh as. you can oome at it, Meely, a woman to work not too rapid, bnt reasonable—how much weavin' ought she to do MFo like?"

The old gentleman made at this point his first pause, rather, it is probable, for a momentary rest, than to await Mrs. Tmmtneil's answer. She could but smile at the question, understanding as she did its purport. "Ah ha!'' said tbe good man triumphantly. "There it is. Yon see, Jonce, and which understand Meeley to say,

about half a yard not over a half ayard. I'm goto', Meely, Jonce's to respect feelin s, and his desires, and his an xities, to a half

and teieh yon down to a half a yard a day: and which, as Jonce Trammell's unclew say to Um, it's afar and a rsason'ble cornsideration for tbe party of tbe first part, and which I hunt the first2dee that lie won't say so and which now for tbe said party o' the second part, and, which I know that, a* general thing, females don't come in,'not as qnick as men, 1 mean, and understand compermlses, yit, as in co'se tbey have gdt to be a cornsiderstion fit every compermise, 1 hain't tbe Jeaatt idee but that Meeley Trammell, tbe said party o* tbe first part, will agree that tbe said Jonm IVammell, of tbe second part, and which I would say. one dram a day and as b»Ut the parties knows that acotnper-

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leave no loop-holes, I put it—ahem!—to One sweefegied dram, in a modert-sise humbler, aixt of a mornin' like—" i," Buvpncle Adam ."interrupted Mrs. Trammel! "I duii't think a wife has may right to liont her—" '••Cert'nly not,*' Mr. Spivey broke in, with, for^hfni, surprising- fjtriekreSs-^ cert'nly not, Meely it's your husband «r4imitin' of hisself. I understand you, Jobce Trammel^ to say that it air the said party o' the #Bcond part that's alimitin' of hitself to one sweetened dram of a morn fti* likei And now"—rising, and taking slyly, but with triumphant -smile*, a-bottle, whieh he set upon the sill of the window—" I've fotched this bottle along, and I puts it on the win-der-shelf here, for Meely to make the first toddy with ber own captiwa&in' hands, and, as it war, open the ball and cap the climax o' the compermise, arfter both o' the parties has baa a good night's sleep aud I will say that I'm sixty-eight year old, a-goin' on my sixty-nine, and I've been witness when people has made many of a compermise but I Will say I never were witness to one that was faiirer for both parties than what Jonce Trammel! and Meely Trammell has now called on me to witness, and I never heerd two people talk farrer or more reasson able than both the said parties, and "But, Uncle Adam,*? tried to urge Jonce, who had not been able to get in a word, though constantly so desirous and repeatedly endeavoring—"but. Uncle Adam-" "I understand you, Jonce, perfectly," persistently refusing to be interrupted, the old gentleman continued, "and I stand by what you say, that a compermise couldu't be farrer for both parties and I'm sixty-eight year old, a-goin' on to my sixty-nine, and both the parties will say so long arfter I'm in my grave."

Without another word from any of the three, Mr. Spivey left the house, mounted his horse, and rode away.

When he had gone, Mrs. Trammell rose and walked to where her husband sat, with his hands covering his eyes. "Jonce, I don't want you ro ^insider yourself bound by anjgfftTfe tnP has been said by Uncle Adam. I have no right, and Uncle Adam had no right—"

Jonce arose with passion, and looked upon her whom he loved more than his own life. "Meelv," said he, "I do! and may God-a'mighty strike me dead if I—''

She placed her hand unon his lips, put herself in his arms, ana wept upon his breast.

For full forty years Jonce' Trammell kept his part. The only deception his Wife ever practiced upon him afterward was when She saw him abstaining from his morning dram, knowing the reason why, to make a show of working at her loom. She died first. From the first day of ber sickness until bis own death, a year after, he could never be induced to take spirits of any sort

The great.peace-maker, as long as he lived, regarded the Trammell Compromise his masterpiece of work in this his favorite line. "Yon see," he wonld often say, "when two things has got to be fotchea together in a compermise that's as fur apart as weavin' and the drinkin o' sperrits, and which one is a wertu in a female person, and the tother a wico—I'm not a-speakin' of one sweetened dram of a mornin' like, but sich as Jonce Trammell's drinkin' wljen he got fa'rly sot in, and which is a wice in a male person—it take a man o' exper'ence -ana obserwation to do it. You see, I never let nary one of 'em talk. I done the talkln', and afore they scarcely knowed it, I had the papers aignded, as it warr and which I bad rawed 'em so Htdose^idparUcklar that nary one of 'om couldn't never find a place to pick li hole in 'em."./

WHY WEAR PLASTERS* They may relieve, bnt theylSn't cure that lame buck for the kidneys are the trouble, and you want a remedy to act directly on their secretions, to jpurify and re&'oifc their healthy condition. Kid" ney-Wort has that specific action—«nd at the same time it regulates the bowels perlectly. Don't, waft to got, sick, bjit

f)lther

Andfurthertnore-

sfsomeover, Jwnce, I agree with you intirely, Jom»f that when a feller git oneasy when 'pinions as vou say,

et a packaige to-day, and cure yourself. liquid or dry for sale at tmo drug-gists.-^Bhighgiapton 'Ftepublicain.

fUE RtdHT SORT OF GENERAL. Jacob Smith, Clinton Street, Bufialo, j&yS he has used Spring Blossom in bin famtlVas a general* meaib'ne for cases of indigestion, biliousness, bowel and kidney complaints, and disorders arising from impurities of, the blood ho speaks highly of its efilcflcy. Prico 50 cents, tri

Til* bottles ten cents.

I 1 .!

WOMEN that have been given up by

their dearest friends as beyond help, have beeiipermanently cured b. of Lydia E. Pfnkham's Vegetable Compound. It is a positive euro for all female complaints. Send to Mrs. Lydia E. Pink bam, 233, Western Avenue, ILytth, Mtutfi., for pamphlets.

iT dosp not make any difference howsevere the case of bilious derangement fa, Simmons' Liver Regulator will core it speedily and effectually without salivation, or that prostration of the system ensuing from the use of drastic purgatives.

As there are many spurious imitations of this valuable medicine, take care you get the genuine. ••We have been selling your medicine for some time, ana we find it better adapted to tbe cure of bilious attacks than any other medicine We have ever used or sold. "J as. M. Beast-et & Co. Magnolia Ark."

"OTICEjs

THE:

Eldridge Sewing Machine Office & been cbaoged to

Fi»kV Stone Pomp Bnildlig,

No. 117 Bocth Thlixl itzeet. between Ohio and "Walnat, wen side.

It is Warranted,

It is the moat emn ad tot

Protcssional Cards.

CO.«LINCOLN»Eirri(«Tm•

Office, 19% 3. Sixth, opposite P. o. jix trscUagaba artinoi|lleeth-epetiiUtles#Ai wo^k warranted (dftvMf)

W. BALLEW, i%

DENTIST,

TERKMHAUTB, IVDrr 1

Can bMfonsd in office 9. mapMD&sf ^K. \€V.nval4VB. $ RICHARDSON & VAN VALZAH -iN

DENTISTS.

EMOVAL.

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Officx—Sontliwost corner Fiftli and Main streets, over National State Bank .(entrance*! on Fifth street. Communication by Telephone.

RANK PRATT,

ruble ro*ctiios

muueimu i« the pifWIC. Betoc Um Uteat, it has ttie advantapi of baying rery dadiaMe and new tmprovemenus.

DoattnnrtffitUyoaseelt, Harry MetzeKet, Iate solicitor for the White, will to |?ad to nee btootdeetftotaerK.

Office, H7 (SoKL Third street, second door tKHthof Foots, Hunter A CO' LivefjrfltaMa.

W. H. FISB Agent.

0«T—COW—BROWH A KB WHITE li eetor—more brown than whlie—«ood liEajie—neck and bead &JI brown, with small Mack stripes. SoftaMenewam will be given tor information of her whereabouts.

JOHN GEHHAKD,

4th boose aodtb of

M14afao."Ttb

street.

Dr. J. P. Worrell,

OCULIST and AURIST, 656 Mala Street (McKeea Block)f TERRE HAUTE, IND. Ofsicb Hocks—9a.m.to12 m., 2 to 5 p. m|

AGNER & RIPLEY,

importers and workers of

Sooteh Granite and Italian Marlift*

MONUMENTS/

S A A N S No. 418 Cherry St., bet. 4th and 5th. TKMKK HAUTE, IN IX

CAL

THOMAS,

Optleian and Watchmaker For t£.e trade, No. &15 Main street, tflgn of big man with waton.

GAGG,

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ARTISTS" SUPPLIES,

PICTURES, FRAMES, MOULDINGS. V,.- -i

Picture Frames Made to MoEeen's Block, No. 646 Main strtot between 6th and ,7th.

WASTED.

ERSONS afflicted with PILES" to ad dr* me. I have a never failing cure, app cation made by patients without pain or li convenience. Personal examination or vis not required. Positively no charge for treat ment until permantly cured.

For full particulars address with stamp, Dr. VOIiKEItS, sff 086 Main st. Terre Haute, Ind.,

or Denxison, Ills.

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Importer aad^Dealer In

ITALIAN MARBLE AND GRANI?*

'^MONUMENTS -i

Statuary, Tases, &c., &c.,|

COR. FIFTH AND WALNUT ST E E A I N

OTICE' TO THE PUBLIC.

"*1 the.underajgned have opened a recelv^ Room in the'rear of No. 17 South Sopa Btrcet. here' I aim nreparod to receive iU& Tallow, Grease of any kind, I'ork and li Cracklings and Bone* wnetlier areon or d, for which Iwili pay the highest coj*1» prf? And will nlso boy Dead Hokh by, the sin hog or car load. Hogs reoclvod on the I«is soulh-wefltof the city, at the factory.bfllce 17 South Second Street, In tlie roar entrsfi front the alley. TerreTInnte Ind. Jp ,fil HAIUlhiON SMIT^

KELLEYI

FRAGRANT

I^prepnred with great trora the best and

carefuDy selected materials, warrants* represented, and commended by many Mi fol physicians and dentists deanmw tf thorou^ily heals and hardens softV' spongy gums in a short time, if 'recti are carefully observed. Contains no sow) acid, nor anything but what is benendp the gums and teew, and Is agreeable to Additional directions and hint

ints with

bottle. Price, 85c. For sale prlnclpa-1clpaTl

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WiUard Hotel Lotted

DRAWING

14th Febroarf, 1882,

OR MONET REFUNDED.

Louisvili.*, Kt., NOV. .10, }4

the Wlllard tiotel Lottery. «nUl the HU». at February, 1882, and that they will not* senttoeny farther delay of the same.

Bobt. Mauuby. Cliairrh

By the above resohitlon this drawing and will be had on the day fixed, or be dirtrlbnted back to ticket-holders,

If encatgb tickets am sokf before date the drawing .will he had, and notice same win tiegfven through the paper*.

LKTTOF PRIZES:

One Residence on Onsen street.

Five Cash Prises, eaeh 11^00...^Five Cash Prices, each SO dash Prizes, each flfl 100 Cash Prisesu each 60 500Cash Prlxeeeach 20..., One Bet of Bar Furniture... One Fine Pis no., One Handsome Silver Ten Set... 400 Boxes Old Boorbon Whiskey, t|L« 10 Bankets Cbampacne, 500 C**h Pri*es, each 110— 400 Boxes FlneWinea 200 Boxes Roheitson Co. Whiskey, tM*. 409 Boxes Havana Cigars, SW Cash Prises, eaeh »10„ ibombI Whole Tickets, 88 Halves.*! auart

Remittances may be made by Bank MOD Ftart&l Money Order, or Ke^onstbte agents wanted at all or circulars, jqvtng fortfckets,a4dr

full InformaUoE

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