Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 18, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 October 1886 — Page 3

POLLY. It seemed so weak to say to her, as I did: *'I thank you for what you have done for me tonight.' I added immediately: "Do you believe me guilty?" "I do not know." "I am not. Pratt's wounds were both accidental and self-inflicted, one by a bullet from his own pistol, the other by a fall."

It was a hard thing to say. As the words were spoken I realizad more clearly than ever how improbable they must sound to others. Bhe was silent. "You do not believe meri said., "Yes, now I do." ','Wby nowP* "I don't know. Perhaps it is became for the last few montbf ,1 have boon so much among deceit and lies that my mind became trained to t.eliere anything." "You do not seem like the Blanche Sefton •f ten month ago." "You mean, perhaps, the Blanche you knew then, or rather oa much as you knew of her," she replied. "I don't understand you." "I don't understand myself. I wish I did. Yon thought me perfection then, did you not?' she asked. "I thought you very near it^ yes, and do now," I answered. "Well, I am not I'm glad I've found it out I find can make great mistakes and do very foolish things. Perhaps I've done cue lately." "How?" I asked. "In believing all I heard of u, in addition to what I saw." "Saw? What did you seel" "31 first sight of you in California was in Chinese Qanip yonder waltzimr in a dance Jiou%, your arm around the waist of a Mexican girt"

I was silent. She continued: "Suppose we reverse the case, and you had wen roe in that place, whirling in the arms of a brawny miuerf* "It's not a mpposable case," I answenM. "Thank yon. In other words you would my that 'tw lady* would visit such a placer "If I say so, then I suppose you will ask me why should a gentleman visit it f" "Yes,* mid »he. "That was my intention. On MKxnd thought I take tho question beck. I may want possibly, to reserve for myself some time or other some of the privileges of yon gentlemen.M

We were silent for some minutes. "Why did you not inquire of Broener with regard to the affair f* I asked. "I had reason*—perhaps right perhaps wrong—for not doing eto. I knew that as your partner, and an interested party, his sympathies would be In your brfalt 1 wanted to find oat for myself and place myself under as little obligation as possible to any one in doing what 1 had to da i^rhapa, In that, I made a mistake*.* "Yoo mean, then. tDat bad you been jtukled by Broener yon might not have been ywUtod as yon were regarding roef "Guided Is rather too strong a word. QMH, I think now his judgment in the matter would bar* been better than mine," she

replied. Tills phase of tho subject was not agreeable to me. I avoided present further mention of it bat that dreadful dance boom picture ot myself before Blanch* now took

BLANCHE SEFTON

.., A Story of Early

Heavens and earth 1 The fandango hall was open to the street—it ml*ht almost have been in it so far as privacy was concerned— and this was the manner in which I had been put on free exhibition to Blanche while •n her way that evening from the hotel to the Chinosi Camp "opera house." "And for that reasop you did not recognize ne in the lox at the theatre?' "It is not my business oa the staxe to reo•gnize auy ono in the jmdience. People do not pay their money to see an actress nod and smile at hor friends."' "How diil you hear of the charge against me?" I asked. "It was the talk at the hotel table, in that, oamp whero we playod. There I first learned •f my uncle's whereabouts and his condition." __ "What did they say of »f "In substance, that your life and fictions were suspicious that you 'loafel' a good deal, as thov expressed it, always had plenty •f money, and that no one knew how you came by it. I think, however, I should not have judged you so quickly as I did had I •ot soon you In tha dance house." "Why did that so set vou against mef "That's a stranga question for you to ask. Forhap* it was beeau of jealousy—perhaps oontempt." sin replied.

I was silent. She »n inued: "Never mind that now. My fault is the greater. I want to see it all, and yo must help ma. Did not my mm nor toward you at tho store the other dav* excite more prejudica tU ri evor against you among tho minora?" "1 think it did." "I thou 'it so," said shs. "I began to see and fool it very soon. Well, It shows a woman's |»o\vor for good or ill—in this case for ill—and men call us tho .weaker sex. What caused the quarrel botween you and my uncle f' "Ho intruded himself ou ground belonging to ma and Browner." "I gather fro-.n my uncle's rambling, delirious talk that he imagines the ground in question not to be yours legally. Is that sor "It R" 1 "Tli^n why did you oppose himf" "Because I thought tho circumstances justide I it It is ground for which no logal provision is yet made for holdings." "Then how can you hold itT' "Only by tho unwritten law of this land •t present—the law of might" "The same law by which your roocntly dismissed friends from yonder hollow acted," was her answer. "You would make a good lawyor," I said. "I think I should. But lmve you not placed yourself in an awkward position?" "Yes, either I have or fate has for ma" "What do you thiuk my fault has bean la this matter she asked. "I don't know that there is any. I think, had you known the temper of Bull Bar, you would not unconsciously have brought the prejudice against me to tho boiling point by cutting me as you did at the store, before to many people. That, cm your part, was caused by ignorance. I think, though, that you night first hare sought me out and heard my story before judging ma." I said. "I should have done so. It was a great mistake. Any more?" she asked. "Well, you may have msde a similar misjudgment iu another direction, as to seeing me as you did in the—the dance house." "Indeed! I think I understand. You were tfmply enjoying a man's privileges In this wy free country." "That's your way erf putting llf "What is your way of putting itP

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BY PRENTICE MULFORD. [COPVIUOHTHD BY THE AUTHOR. AIX BIGHTS EESKBVKU.]

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full possession of me. I could not help talking of it I said: "As we are talking very plainly to each other to-night, may I ask of you exactly your judgment of me from seeing me at the fandango?" "My judgment regarding it is one thing my emotion may be quite another. As to judgment or judging you in the matter, I own 1 am not abb to do it You area ipan living among men, influenced possibly by other men. You live in the man's kingdom qnri in that kingdom are laws, customs, privileges, perhaps temperaments, which don't appertain to us women. You may have waltz.? 1 with the Mexican girl for the mere pleasure of the moment you may, again, be har lover you may like those low revels and per-ist in them you may drop in for a mo uent's curiosity and amusement and satiated, perhaps disgusted, soon coma out ngnin How do I know J' "I think your last conjecture- the right one," I said somewhat eagerly. "I hope it is," .she answered, adding, "for your own sake."

I was neither comforted nor satisfied. Talk of handling edged tools! 'Ihe Land of Promise, so near at one moment, receded at the next "Pardon me, Blanche," I said. I should hot have made such a remark." "I don't see why you should not What you suggest inay be among the possibles. How do I know?" she replied.

Miry ground this, I thought and I'm sinking in it all the time. Then I spoko "just like a man," and sartd foolishly: "Perhaps you'd have done the same for Mr. Broenerf «. "Perhaps so," she said calmly, adding as a clincher: "Very likely."

I went down over ears in tho quagmire of despond and jealousy. "John Holder," she exclaimed in a few moments, "this is no time for us two to be talking in this fashion and besides, John," yhe said, with a shade of playfulness, "if we do, you in your present attitude toward me, will got the worst of it Mr. Broener is an old friend of mine. I esteem him highly and valuo his association, for he is a remarkable man, and o~je from whom I have learned much. What we have now to do is to get Uncle Pratt well and you out of this trouble."

I replied: "If you mean br 'we' any aid of Mr. Broener in my behalf, lee me say right lioro, then'l don't want it and won't accept It" Tho word "we" was afresh brand in the (lame. "John, you are talking foolishly," she said. "Like all other men but one that I've known, you can't abide from a woman a word h» favor of another of your own sox."

But ono, I .thought, and that's Broener. We were now near Pratt's cabin. She stopped, laying her hand on iny arm. "John," she said, earnestly, and her voice trembled. "Your danger in connection with this affair isn't all over yet. Unle3s my uncle recovers, or confirms your story, you are in great danger. His delirious utterances are supposod to bear on you, and as heard by talebearers and meddlers they are continually going out and keeping suspicion alive against you. You mmt not throw aside any help that may come tc you—for you may needitalL" "I will not accept any aid from Broener, if I can avoid it I hate your men so brilliant that they are always towering over one."

Wo had reached Pratt's cabin. "Oh, John," was all she said. "Good-night" She

Good night

extended her hand. I took it coldly. So we parted, I bearing home a new mountain of misery in the thought that I had repaid her heroism with—well, what name is there for the acts and words of a jealous man (or woman) but premeditated insanity! r*'

CHAPTER XIX. twJ TARDY KKPEWTAJfCB.

Of eottm, so soon as alone I regretted bitterly my manner at parting toward Blanche, and spent a large portion of the night in imaginary interviews with her, in which I acted more rationally and smoothed over all my roughness. I reeolred to see her as early as poadble next day and acknowledge to her my error. But the doors of our to-morrows are not always those of our to-days, and may open on far different scenes and events, an which or in which, despite all our effort or we most either gaxe or participate.

Broener arrived early that morning. I knew that a surprise) was fat store for him and wondered how he wtxdd take it I knew that 1M had been disappointed at not finding* Blanche at Marysvilte, and least erf all expected to find her at Ball Bar. He showed 00 signs ot chagrin, however. This wns characteristic of him. It was his philosophy th»t e*ra, vesattaa. trouble of any sort or from any can**, were all foes to be fongfat off and beaten off as speedily as possible. "The actual events"" be said, "was quiteeoougb. All dwelling in thoogbt upon it afterward was in substance a re-creatfrm and repetition of it Switch the off on some other track and pat the trouble oatof sight It can be done— b* traininc."

CKBtandie presence I mid nothing. He muld visit Pratt and find out far htmestf, Qanoergtng n*X W1"! *nd

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"For my *akj aloaeT* "For the sako of all or any ono "vhosa hap pinew depends on your welfare," she replied "Does yours now depend at all on that welfare? I asked. "Do you mean to ask if I love, you still? Is my act-to-night one of love or hatef" was her reply. ... "Perhaps you might have so done for any man."

She paused and then said slowly: "Since you are so kind as to suggest the idea, well, perhaps I mi?ht"

the night I told him in the briefest pa^ible terms. Of the manner of my release I said simply, "I got away." That left a large floM for conjecture. He saw that I preferred to remain reticent and did not question me. Uncertain as were oar social relations toward each other we had reached that fortunate condition where each knew to a hairs breadth where the other desired to stop at self-revelations, and acted accordingly.

Soon after breakfast he went over to Pratt's. Despite my misery I was half .tmawi at a thought thus shaping itself: "Well, the drama progresses. I wonder what figure will be disclosed by the next turn cf the kaleidoscope." I had tmconsciousl/ absorbed something of Broeners philosophy. "No matter what happened, be "a man who had brain enough could always find something of interest in noting that no two of life's picturej were exactly alike, and that, as regards incident event or situation, every day for such 4 man had some new shade of color."

He returned 'in about half an hour, sat down awhile, pared his nails carefully, and finally remarked "This world is all a fleeting show but, nevertheless, a very interesting one. I wonder which way the cat will jump next At the same time, how monotonous it would be if the cat jumped the same way every time." 1 could not help laughing in spite of alL "Yes," he said as if in reply to a remark of min« "I agree wi:h you. Holder. Out of the nettle trouble we will find flowers of recreation, if not of resignation."

I wondered. for whom he meant the term '•resignation." The man had sometimes two and even three meanings for some of his sentences, which it might take days, even weeks, to mate out r, "How is Pratt?" I asked. "l'o the ordiniiy beef-eating mind of Bull Bar," ha replied, "the professional pill-ped-dler. who pr^cticoj the solemn scientific over htm included, he is no better. To ons like myself, a few degrees higher than they in the plane of intelligent animal development, he will eventually mend and recover the small fragment of mind vouchsafed him by—well, the Infinite: 'Oh, woman, in her hours of ease,'etc."

A horseman rode ftp to the cabin door and called out: "Does John Holder live here?" "1 am John Holder," I replied, coming out

This was a deputy sheriff With a warrant for my arrest on a charge of assault with intent to kill Jedediah Pratt

I gave myself up and asked of the officer as a favor that he would make no parade of me as his prisoner on the Bar. I desired above all things not to make any semi-dram-atic departure in this situation before Blanche, or give her any notice of it whatever. "I have friends," I said to him, "liviug near by, and I don't wish they should ,-ee me." "I will be responsible for Mr. Holder," said Broener. "All right," fail the deputy. "You want get away quietly, I know. I'll wait fc ou up yonder," whe-ra the trail turns up the •fountain." "1 will go with you and give bail for your iwpearance," said Broener. "No," I said "I'm going to jail" "I wouldn't do that," he replied. "First, there isn't the least necessity for it Second, it will hurt your case. Appearances go a long way here, and to go to jail is to put yourself in the position before the community of a man without money and without friends.'V "Well," I asked, "what matters that so long as I am innocent?" "It matter.* a great deal," he answered, "from the point of view that law is qpalt ouf here—or elsewhere. 'Plate siti with oro,' you know,'and the lance of justi harmless break*. Clothe it in rags, a pigmy's straw do.li pierce it.' How William 8. did write for posterity, with a big P! Come,'Holder, don't make what's hard any harder than it need be."

It was not so easy now to resist Him as 1 had imagined. There was a shadfi pf tenderness and fooling in his tonos, and in his look also. Some change had come over him. What, to me, was indefinable. But I would go to jail. "Sorry, Ho'der. that I've got to put the matter to you, thon, in another light," he said. "This arrest of yours is aimed at me as well as you, and is backed up by some party behind Pratt, influenced by some motive other than that of mere friendship for Pratt The parties are, I think, those who sent him tip here to hunt for the 'Bank.1 Suppose they manage to get you in prison, though but for a time. Then you, as one of the 'Bank' keepers are out of the way. Next, they'd probably turn their batteries on me, whoop up some prejudice against pie on th? Bar as an abettor in the 'assassination' and cripple me by legal procoss in some way. This leaves the 'Bank' at their mercy. Their tool here now is possibly Sefter. The only flaw in their calculations is this: The 'Bank' is nearly worked out Still it may be a feeder to some even richer vein. Anyway, I want to fight this thing out As a matter of simple justice, ought you not to help me in the best way you canf' «.

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"Very well. One of these 'best ways' lies in not going to jail-when, you can get bail for your appearance, and so keep a respectable showing for our side." 'Td as lieve go to jail as stay on this bar," I replied. "It's been a hell to me for weeks." "You needn't stay on the bar," he answered. "Stay anywhere you like. Travel round and amuse yourself as you like till the trial comes OIL"

And leave you here with Blanche Sefton, I thought "We might ramble round together," he said, after a pause. "Hunt more quarts leads elsewhere. We're posted in all it's signs and indications, and there's a world of that wealth lying as y«t uncovered all over this state."

Then in mind I objected because because I ooold not be near Blanche, on the Bar, and because, turn which way I would, Broener seemed always getting the best of me in wmMng me act like a rational creatare. Now, I thought, confound him, he outdoes me in unsidfishnees in volunteering thus to leave the Bar and Blanche himself.

I consented oa one condition: that in all that concerned the trial I should have my own way.

Broener was well known to the deputy, and satisfied him that whatever bail was required for me would be fo thcoming, and that he would be "up country' next day to attend to tbe proper legal formality.

I left the bar without being observed and the official and myself rode off together. He was a pleasant manly fellow. We soon became on good terms. No appearances of captor and captive were observed 'Ton seem to trust me," I remarked. "Well, I generally know my men, and I know you're not one of the kind that would give me any trouble, rm not over anxiotts to put handcuffs on any decent man, who may be bhmalf sheriff of the oounty inside of six months. Up* and downs are pretty frequent here, you know.*

It w»s an ascent, in some places steeply itsdined, in others graded for fully two miles from BuO Bar before reaching the general upoonatry grade, The higher we went the lighter became my spirit*, despite what I was leaving behind me. I seemed coining cot of a dark ckrad and taking front me a load— the load a( malire, snspirinn, Has and ill tn» tent wfe^ had borne down upon me at Ball

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING.MAIL.

Bar. Broener now stood out in a different and more-favorable-light Blancho seemed more lovely *h»n ever, and even the. morbid, suspicious,'jealous, unreasonable Holder of the night before seemed far removed, from the one of to-day. The trust reposed in me by the deputy and the footing of companionship he established between us was a great relief. I to him, from his point of view, was only apiece of goods, which he was charged to deliver at a certain place. So long as the package was not- unpleasant neither would bo be so. If on the way there was any recreation to be got out of his merchandise he proposed to get it.

You may say it was not very consistent for me thus so suddenly -to climb a mount of joyfnines?. Perhaps not, though consistency, as applied to human nature tvn conduct is for me a word of vague meaning. The fact is, I was tolerably happy for the first time in a fortnight, though a woman was then .in tears cm my account behind ma That I did not think of.

We stopped at various camps on passing through, and brought up at saloon doors, "Magnolias," "Bella Unions," "Long Tom'.'1 The deputy was known everywhere his arrival was th9 signal for the formation of a file of men at the various bars, and the usual solemn, silent performance with tumbler and bottle. A heathen might hive supposed it one of our religious rites, and. the common, and about the only expression, heard on such occasions, "Here's luck!" a preparatory invocation to the ruling deity of tha place. The depu'y treated at every camp. I soon divined that this was a matter even more of biHines. than pleasure. He informed me that he intended running for sheriff next election, an«i drinks were largely re.ied on to influence votes. His trip for my arrest servod for him alr the purpose of an electioneering tour through the county,, partly at tho public ex-' pense. .He had many private talks in retired corners with the presumed party leaders at sundry precincts, and in cases involving extreme secrecy the buttonholing went on at great length behind sundry barns or pigpens, while I remained in the saloons, an interested observer, being simply introduced to the crowd by my considerate friend as "Mr. Holder, a cousin of mine." We arrived at the last camp before reaching the county town about nine o'clock in the evening. "lhis is a hard old place," said the deputy. "There's more fools to the square inch in this camp than any other of the county. There's a crowd here who loaf all day and raise the devil all night When they sleep, or how they get their living, the Lord only knows. Yes, they're at it now!"

About way through the single street we Were suddenly confronted by a huge apparently mechanical contrivance mounted on a wheelbarrow, propelled, furiously by a man, some five or six othors running by its side. It was dry goods box, through which was thrust a section of stovepipe, and vaguely suggested a photographer's camera. Said one of the party: "We must take your pictures, gentlemen: done in two minutes. Oh, Aleck, is tha you? Just in time. .We're doing a rushim business to-night taking the whole camp* Now, James, get the plates reat'y." "Let them have their fun. We'll nevei get through here if we don't," said the deputy to me in a low voice.

Wo halted our horses iu tho full glare of lights from two saloons fronting each other. The sidewalk was full of amused lookers-on. The mock photographers went through a great amount of ceremony in getting the presumed chemicals ready ano' adjusting the instrument. Then arose a discussion among them as to the po3e of our horses. One insisted that abetter effect could be obtained if the animals should be backed up to the instrument while we were reversed on bur saddles so as to face it The deputy's horse was placed in such position. The chief photographer hooded himself in an old blanket and took the regular position fronting the glass, watch in hand.

So our pictures were taken, and at tho close

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of the performance some charcoal scrawls on pasteboard were presented to us with the remark that the "New Helio Daguerreotype company were 'arid' through tho exhausting effect of the chemicals necessary to be used in taking equestrian pictures and that both Bell, of the 'Placer,' and Soper, of the 'Rocker' saloons, had fixed the price for that evening in consideration of the occasion at 'a dollar for the houw?.'"

This meant the treating of the crowd by the deputy, a matter well known to him in advance.

As we rode away, the photographers had brought their instrument to bear on the store of a Hebrew clothing dealer, ''taking the establishment.'' "Half of these men," said the deputy, "have families somev^bere in the states. Dye think they'd dare cut up so there! No sir-eel They're just like boys let out of school out here."

TO BIS OOJntKtTED XEXT WEEK.

ENGLAND HM Don* for ladle.

M. Bemenyi, tho celebrated violinist, has been traveling in India, playing the port of a political observer as well as musician, and he until* op his deductions from what be has seen as follows in Tho Madras Mail: "Englishmen ought to be more proud of having been able to govern India's vast population than of anything else. No other nation on earth cocld have undertaken such a great task with such glorious results. Don't misunderstand me. I do not rnnan to say that England's rale in India is perfection—far from it but it is the best possfblo under the million of difficulties which most have obstructed tho path of the English and I repeat it again, and with emphasis, that Englishmen ought to congratulate themselves on the happy result of their government of glorious, grand old India, for, through her colonfafog genius, England has Awift mora good to humanity than thousands ot visionary utopfets and pcteticastcra. "—New York Tribunei

Tke Terrible Drain

Which aerofula has upon the system must be •nested, and the blood must be perilled, or ocrkras consequences will ensue. For pnritying and vitalising edfects, Hood's SamapariUa has been found superior to any other

fty from a vigor upon abUng ltto

to entirely overcome disease.

A. DREARY EXISTENCE.

THE LONESOME LIFE LED BY SOME OF THE NORWEGIAN WOMEN.

Tending the Cattle High fp in the Mountain Pastures—A Pathetic Sight—Prcvalonoc of Insanity—Evil Kcsults of Intermarriage.

The saeters area great feature in Norwegian life, and in May or early June the cattle are driven from the pastures in the lower valleys and about the home farm to the pastures high up in tho mountains, whero they are kept uutil September. Ono or two girls, the daughters of tho house, go with them, and remain alone in the saeters, tending tho cattle and making butter and cheese during the endless summer days. Tho girls at tho saeters lead lonely lives in the isolated spots that they go to, with only fortnightly visits at the most from their relatives or lovers, who take them provisions and look to t|ie progress of thebutr tcr and cheese making.

At tho Aak saeter at the end of the Istordal we found three women, but only ono of them was young enough to fit into the pretty picture that one unconsciously paints of saetcr life. AD three of them came to the door of the turf-roofed hut and looked an equal surprise and welcome when our train appenved, climbing the Inst grassy knoll and leading the ponies by their bridles. Two young heifers stood as if petrified at our approach, their eyes evidently not used to tho spoctaole. and then came slowly toward us with a juvenile curiosity so apparent as to be laughable hf these dumb animals. While tho ponies cropped grass and rested wo feasted our eyes on the scenery, listened to the roar of the Islerfoss »t the end of the valley and watched the afternoon shadows creeping up lac opio sit* wall of granite.

THE WOMEN IN TUB 8ASTER. jjg By the aid of a phrase book we conversed with the women in tho sneter, and paid them compliments when they showed us tho jars of milk and the rolls of butter in the dairy room. They showed us tho ono living room where they slept, with a hugo chimney in the corner with a cavernous fireplace, in whi^h thoy cooked their food, and last they conducted us to a little niche of a room, cleaner and neater than tho dairy room, if possible, and set on the white pine table pitchers of such milk as we bad never dreamed of before. We drank glass after glass of it, pressed some small coins in their hands, and had our arm nearly shaken off in return, and then, urging them to come to America, we descended the hill and away. We could see them looking after us as long as the little procession was in sight, and tho thought of the lonely life of those women made the group in the doorway fairly pathetic to us. By the end of this month life in the high saeters becomescven more dreary. A touch of frost comes to the air, the nights begin to grow dusk, and then tho lienrs, if there are any in tho neighboring mountains, are apt lo come prowling about the saeters at night.

Insanity, which in Norway affecte an amazing proportion of the inhabitants, is said to bo often due to tho solitary, isolated lives that tho women lead at the saeters in summer, with so few recreations or lighter amusements to relievo tho strain ine.lnncholy that comes with tho alternation of tho long summer daylight with the dark winters, ond the depression that tho constant presence of this stupendous mountain scenery brings. Tho intermarrying of generations in those small communiiics and thinly populated regions has added to the evil as well. In southern Norway, whero the people are of a lighter and gayer temperament, with more festivals and amusements, their bright costumes, a softer scenery about tbem, and living moro in villages and congregated farmhouses, the percentage of insanity i& much less Mian in these northern fjords, and valleys.—Norway Letter, ifc -i-

How Grant teamed Strategy. Once while talking with Gen. Orant, 1 asked him how ho got his strategic knowt edge. "I got it on the farm when I was a boy," said the general. "I learned it when I was. driving oxen, feeding calves and breaking horses. One day, when I was on tho old farm in Ohio, my lather taught me a valuable lesson in strategy." t. "How?" I asked. *$• 1 "Well, father took me in the stable one day where a row of cattle stood in their uncleaned stalls. "Said be. 'Ulysses, tho stable window is pretty high, for a loy, but do you think you can t^ke this shovel and dean ?ytt.l\e stabler 'l don't know, father, says I I nover have done it.' 'Weil, ray boy, if you will do it this momtoig I will give you this bright silver dollar,' sai.1 my father, patting me on the bead, while he bcld the silver dollar liefore my ey-g. 'Good,' says I 'I'll try,' a?id then I went to work I tusgetl ami pulled and lifted and puffed, and filially it was done, ami father gave me the bright silver dollar, saying:

That'* right, Ulywes, you did it splendidly. and now I find you can do it so nicely I shall have you do It every morning all winter.' ''—Eii Perkins in Washington Post. &|| r. Keep sweet your breath—If maid or wife,

Or old or younjr, or large or small, If you have any hope In life,— ji&Vl If you have any friends at all. •*$*%£ Keep sweet your breath—and heed the wafn-

Use sSzODONT each night and morning!

like the Perfume Wilted

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"SPALDING'S Guns," useful in every house* l9-5w.

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Uoiiews Her Youth.

«Mrs. Phtebe Ohesley, Peterson, flay Co., Iowa, tells the following remarkable story,the truth of which Is vouched for by the rrsldents of the town: "I am 73 years old. have been troubled with kidney complaint and'' lameness for many years could not dress myself without help. Now I am free from all pain and soreness, and am able to do all my own housework. I owe m.v thanks toElectric Bitters for having renewed my youth and removed completely all disease and pain. le, only cents, at Cook, lJc'le and Try a bottle, Loury's Drugstore.

Bucklen's Arnica Salve.

The Best Salve In the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all skin eruptions, and positively cures Piles* or no pay required. It Is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. 25c» per box. For sale by Cook A Bell. •. (tf.)

The brerth of a chronic catarrh patient 1» often so offensive that lit' cannot go into society and he becomes an object of disgust. After a time ulceration sets In. the spongy bones are attacked, and frequently, entirely destroyed. A constant source of discomfort Is the dripping of the purulent, secretions Into the throat sometimes producing Inveterate bronchitis, which in its turn has leen the exciting cause of pulmonary disease. The brilliant result* which have attended its use for years past properly designate Ely's Cream Balm as by far tho best, if not. the ouly real cure for hay fever, rose cold and catarrh. (2)

JJ'OR DYSPEPSIA, ,'

^"Mental andJPhysic&l Exhaustion,

Nervousness, Weakened Energy,

INDIGESTION, Etc. *-.

ACID PHOSPHATE

A liquid preparation of the phosphates find phosphoric acid.

Recommended by physicians. It

maKes a delicious

Invigorating

el'ing.

drinK.*

and strength-

l'amphlet free.

For

sale bj all dealers.

Kumford Chcmical Works. Providence. R.

HKAVAKE or IMITATIONS,

IVORCE

Stat® of Indiana. County of Vigo, In tlio Vigo Circuit ourt, September Term 1880. No. 1H51. Ruth A. Daughcrty vs. Uoorgo F. Daugherty—Divorce.

Bo It knov.n, that on the flth day of October 188(1, It was ordered by the Court that tho 1 OOUt 11* vi^ .. Clerk notlfv by publication said George Daugherty as non-resident, defendant of the pendency of this action against him.

Said Defendant is therefore hereby notified of the pendency of said action against him and that the same will stand for trial November 30,1886, the same being November Tern*, of said Court. In the year HWA-

MEIiUILL N. SMITH, Clerk.

W. 8. CMFT. J. H. WIT,MAMB. J. M. CM FT.

QIjIFT, WILLIAMS & CO.,

f'*t

MANUFACTURERS OF

Sash, Doois, Blinds, etc.

I & A*n DEALKltS IN

LUMBER, LATH, SHINGLES

GLASS, FAINTS, OILS

AND BUILDKRS' HARDWARE.

MARK.

ECZEMA ERADICATED.

Mulberry street, corner 9th. ,,,

4

Tcrro Haute, Ind.

Established 1866* Incorporated 1878.

MADAME

J£.

MORA'S CORSETS.

MOST CO!IROKT--AIN AS»

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KKUf Fli ilNG. .nUMjrther bett«

rw^iuuwiiu #v» shape. Csanot fcrr»k •*cr Mm. Ars particularly liked br SEX*of Tuffflipire. Tfie "COjSf-

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has th« popular RaoVAILS wnrj*. wiikib CM to Instantly taken wnnotrr ctmwo o*

SETS. No_ptherfia»e tho Slebrated Freavfe Corr*4 ••4. IVrware of imlUtloTi* offered to d«cHw thfl public. For aal* by all leading deal-

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