Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 12, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 September 1887 — Page 7

TH E-MAIL

A PAP^R^FOR THE PEOPLE.

DEATH,

Death In Its amber sets the happy past *,| With all its colors fair, like those bright flies That sunned their wings beneath the young world's skies, And still shine, gem like, long as time shall last.

Sorrows that mi?bt their shadows on love cost, Doubts that might blight, or griefs that might arise, Can mar it not. Safely enshrined It lies Perfect forever, all its beauties past. Though this be all. still it is much to hold .The consolation of remembrance pure

That cannot fade, or alter or wax old.

If tliis be earnest of some future sure, In what fringed words can its high worth be told? Till all be known, our hearts can best endure.

—Arlo Bates.

The Wedding at Law-

yer Blanchard's.

(Kate Putnam Osgood In Harper's Weekly.] »iot Okl-Man Hrackctt's farm, has a a is I llx him, 1 gdess!" "Now, Mhadrach, what's the use7 whimpered his wife. "Jestgoin' to beirin it all over again! Why can't ye live in

peace

an'quiet with your neighbors,

like other folks?" "S'pose vou 'tend to yonr own affairs, Mis' lIar*Von?" retorted

her

husband.

'•When want women-folkses' advice I'll ask for it." With this he stalked out of the room, hanging the door after him. Mrs. Harrison followed limply as far as the winIo\v from which she watched the tall, spare form pass between tho double border of cinnamon-roses, under the flowering locust trees, and down the road iu the direction of the farm lands. "There 'tis!" she said to herself, in do'spatring protest. "I did hope when Old-

Man Brackett died they'd 'a ben an end or it, but now this young man's comin it'll be the same thing right along. It passes mv understaudin how Shadrach ran." be

"cantankerous."

Old Joshua Brackett, or Old-Man Brackett, as ho was called in the village, had owned the farm next to Harrison s, itiid whilo he lived there had been war betvvoen tho two men about thoir boundary line. But 0110 day Brackett died suddenly, and tho victory remained, for tho time at least, with tho survivor.

It was not very inuch to light about, there being but a few yards' difference cither way, but it had aroused a bitterness and obstinacy absurdly dispronortioned to Its importance. Itinc uded an ancient right of way, where there had formerly been a road, now long disused, and marked only by" double row of apple trees. This road had been the tirst (•anso of the quarrel, which, as often happens, had outlasted its origin.

When Harrison came in again lie said nothing at llrst,

but

there was an air of

satisfaction about him which was of evil augury. His wife marked this, and held her peace. Finding that she would not speak, he said, finally, "Waal, Emeran/,y, 11vo irot things 'bout that bound ly line. OuessTt'y all right thix time. "Why, what you done? inquired his wife, dejectedly. "Nevor you mind," replied Harrison, with a chuckle. "It's all right, I toll yo. When that Dayton feller gits hero he II find I've saved him a heap trouble. vVon't ho my fault ef things don go 'long slick as paint now. 1 don want to quarrel."

His wife looked up at him eagerly, but wooing a contradictory gleam in his eye, she only answered, quietly, Waal, Mhadrach, that's a becomin' framo mind anyhow."

That same afternoon Harrison, at work on his farm, heard voicos in the adjoinina meadow, Creeping nearor, he saw two men talking together, one of whom was Pote Sprague, tho general factotum of old Joshua Brnckett tho other a voting man, whom Harrison atonceconcluded to bo the prosent proprietor, •suddenly the stranger raised his eyes and tlxod them on Harrison, who, perceiving that he was soon, swung himself over the fence. "How d'ye do, Mr. Dayton?' he said, with a careless nod at Sprague, "for I take it that's who ye air—hev?" "Yes, my name's Dayton, answered the young man "and you, I suppose, arc Mr. Harrison?" "Waal, vos, Is pose 1 bo," allowed the other, cautiously, "You're my next neighbor down here," ho continued, "like your uncle afore ve. Don know as he your uncle,' he went on, having fruitlessly searched Dayton's face for information: "but anyhow Old-Man Brackett an' 1 'a ben neighbors on these farms for a good while. An a fine piece o' land ve've got there, I guess."

Yes,*" assented the young man. "I ve been looking it over a little with Mr. Sprague here. About this fence, now, Mr. Harrison," laying his hand on it "1 believe von put It up lately? "Must 'a done it this niornin' Tor 'twarn't here last evenin'," interjected Sprague, with a grin, "Waal, yes," admitted the farmer, ignoring Sprague's remark. "1 thought, as vou was a stranger here, I'd kind give yea start, so 1 jest run this up along the edge."

Pote Sprague threw up his head and laughed. Dayton smiled. "It's almost a pitv you took the trouble," he said, "for I'm afraid 1 shall have to take it down again." "Take mv fence down! repeated Harrison, with a start1. "What in thunder for?'1 ... "Well." rejoined the young man, with an evidently pacific iocoseness, "perhaps to nut it up again a little further that wav," pointing over Harrisons land, "Come, now, Mr. Harrison, about this question of the boundary line: of course I believe my title's clear, but I dont want to quarrel with my new neighbors, so, though the lands mine, if v.mV/agree not to plant anything on it." will, and we'll just Uke down the fence anil say no more about it." "We will, hey?' growled Harrison, losing his temper at what he considered the consummate impudence of this speech. "Land's yours, is it? Toll ve What I will agree to, young feller! III keep that fence where 'tis, of I have to put It up every mornin*." "Then you will have to, I'M afraid, answered* Davton, calmly, "for I give vou fair warning I shall pull It down as aften as vou put It up." "Ye will, will ve?" blustered Harrison, with an angry snaj* of the eyes at who "stood by. chuckling. hat we'll see. I guess." With which he swung himself over the fence again and disappeared. "I suppose, said Dayton, looking thoughtfully at Sprague, "my title cle*r? He "aeeuis pretty sure of his side."

The grin vanished fromSpnwtie'* face. ••Look a-here Mr. Dayton," he said, earneatlv, "dont ye take none o' Shad Harrison's saas 'bout this 'ere bound'ry

line. Twarn't never sfettled, n' ipbre if the doctrine o' 'riginal sin, but Pve alius heerd as the old gentleman's title was good, though Harrison uigh plagued him out of hfe life about it. But, ye see, you bein' a 'stranger here, he thought he'd git beforehand with ye, an' so run that 'ere fence up, calc'iatin ye'd let it stay 'cause 'twas up. D'ye see?" "Yes, I do. Well, I'll make sure ab.»ut this thing, and then we'll try if we can't beat Mr. Harrison on his own ground— or mine," he added, with a laugh which found an echo in the delighted ."sprague.

The young man then betook himself to the house of Mr. Samuel Blanchard, the local lawyer. Finding him at home, Dayton took a seat, and explaimed the object of his visit. "You see," he said, "the matter stands just here. Old Mr. Brackett was a faraway cousin of mine, and he has left me this* farm on the one condition that I never give up the boundary line to this Harrison. So, as I hold the property on that basis, I'm prepared to fight for my rights. Only, of course, I want to be sure they are my rights." "Of course," assented the lawyer—a large and rather pompous man "I follow you e?7/ipletely. Now, then, you can just maRe up your mind there ain't a single identical chance for Shadrach Harrison once this matter comes to the jusisdiction of the courts. Why, you can shake him up root and branch, you can, sir. Old-Man Bracket could 'a done it years ago, if he'd been a mind to, but he'd got a grievance against the law, and he wouldn't resort to it anyhow. Yes, you've got the whip-hand of Harrison, you have, sir, ana that's the etarnal truth!" "All right," said Dayton. "Now I see mv way clear before me."

The next morning early he wentdown alone to the field to reconnoitre. On the other side of the fence, which was still standing, he perceived a movement in the thick clever. There were glimpses of a dark curly head among the purple blossoms, and it occurred to him that this was some one in Harrison's interest sent to work some new mischief. "Now, then, young fellow," he called, briskly, "just come out of that, if you piease." "Oh yes, I'll come but I not a 'young fellow,' if you please," answered a sweet, saucy voice. And the next moment a girl's laughing face was looking at him over the board fence.

Dayton's hat flew off. "I—I beg your pardon," he stammered. "I had no idea who was there." "Well, 'tisn't trespass as long as you let the fence stand, so perhaps I can keep these,*' she went on, gravely, holding out her strawberry pail. "It's my last chance, maybe, and the biggest ones grow here.'

Dayton could not help laughing at the absurdity of the position, and the mischief that danced in her black eyes. He look at her from his six foot superiority, and said, gallantly, "Givti me one of the strawberries, please, and we'll call it quits." "Well—if that wouldn't look like paying toll—" she hesitated, with assumed auxiety. "Because I belong to the other side, you know

So he had already guessed, though it was difficult to connect her frolio daintiness with anything as crabbed as Farmer Harrison. "No, I don't think it would," he answered, in the same spirit, especially as there's no witness—" "Waal, I swan!'' suddenly exclaimed a voico, in curious contradiction of his words, as the lanky form of Pete Sprague emerged from some willows. "Dew tell ef thats vou, Nan Harrison! Hain't como down to settle the hull thing afore breakfast, have ye? Mornin', square" —an appellation transferred from his old employer to the new one. "They told mo, up t' the tahvern, 't you warn't In, so I thought mebby Id find ye down here."

Dayton just then wished him back at the

:,tahvern."

To a young man of

twenty-live the tender blue of the morning skies, the dews and blossoms and waving grasses of the morning meadows, are a fitter sotting for two than for three, when one of those two is a saucy little beauty with eyes as bright as the dew-drops and cheeks as pink as the clover blooms.

Nan herself, however, did not seem to share these feelings. She tossed back her short black curls as she said, with a laugh: "Oh, Is that you, Pete? Then you can introduce us." "Waal," said Sprague, proudly, "guess I can give an interduction's good 's the the noxt man when I set out, Mr. Dayton Don't know 's I know your fust namo?" interrogatively.

Willard," supplied Dayton, laughing. "iVrcisely!—Mr. Willard Dayton, let me make you 'quainted with Miss Annie Harrison, tho pootiestgal in the village, of she on the other side." "Well, If I take down the fence, she trow7 be on the other side," said Dayton, affecting to misunderstand, as he began to suit the action to the word. But upon this tho young girl tripped away with a laughing nod, leaving tho two men looking after her. "Seems kind o' enr'ous a gal like that kin belong to Shad Harrison, don't it, though?" said Sprague, reflectively, as ho joinod in tho work of taking down the boards. "She doesn't look much like him, certainly," answered Dayton. "No. Favors her mother. Ain't like her mother, though, 'eept in looks. Mis' Harrison she's a broken-backed woman. Means well, poor Emeranzy, but hain't no gumption. Nan, now, she's got more 'f her father's grit, fur all she's sweet natured." "She seemed to be on friendly terms with you," said Dayton, carelessly.

Pete laughed in a gratified way. "Yes, I've alius knowed Nan ever since she was knee-high to a toad—she an' Milly Blanchard, the lawyer's gal up yonder. Them two's as thick as thieves. That's another pooty gal, now,"continued Pete, judicially, "though not to be evened with Nan Harrison in my 'pinion. Waal, square, s'pose I'd better take these 'ere boards away? 'F they're on your land, they're vou'r prop'tv, an' they'll come in mighty nandy some'eros else. Hey?" "No,*" answered Dayton, quickly. "Just pile them up somewhere oyer there. You see, Sprague," he added, "I don't want to quarrel with Harrison more than I can help. I won't let his fence stand, because that would be allowing his claim, but I won't use his boards. I don't sarv step.

The next morning the fence was tip again. Again Dayton had it removed, and again it was replaced. Once more he took it down, and on the following morning he found a rope stretched along the boundary line and knotted round the apple trees—a contrivance which required but a few minuter to adjust. This also Dayton removed, only to find it there the next day. So things went on for some time, the rope fence appearing and disappearing regularly every day, without a word exchanged between the two belligerents.

Meanwhile Dayton waa frequently meeting Nan Harrison here and there in

"%-v ~r jf thevillage, aa£ particularly ttt toe House of Lawyer Blanchard, whom he had occasion to consult from time to time. Nan also was ofte» th©re visiting her -friend Milly, and inany a pleasant hour

This was very nice whUe*iTla8ted, but when presently some rumor of it came to Harrison's ears he was furious. He burst like a tornado into his house, but not finding Nan there, with sudden sus-

Eicion,

leaving his untasted supper, he urried back to the fields. By this time the men had all left them, and they were relapsing into their usual evening quiet. The sun had not yet set, and the long level rays struck across the landscape, intensifying the green and gold of patches of unmown grass interspersed with" tall yellow lilies. Wher^ ever these lines of light lay'it still seemed broad afternoon, though the deep contrasted shadows had the look of twilight, while the dimness of night was already confusing the outlines of the farest hills.

In one of these lines of light Harrison's eye presently caught the flutter of Nan's pink and white cambric dress, where she stood with Dayton under one of the apple trees, whose leaves were tossing over their heads in the.rising night breeze. The young man was talking earnestly as he bent down, holding both her hands in jhis, but the look in both faces needed no words to tell the story.

With a bound Harrison flung himself between them, and pulled his daughter away. "Come along!" be gasped, in a voice choked with rage. "Bold, unna ternal— And as for you, ye meanspirited snake in the grass—"

But by this time Dayton had recovered himself. "Mr. Harrison,' he said, quietly, "7 take whatever blame there is in this, though I don't thiuk I deserve the name you've just given me. I mean to be fair and above-board in all my dealings. But at any rate it oughtn't to come on her. She didn't know—" "No, no," sneered the farmer "didn't neither of ye know, I expect, when ye was havin' yer stolen meetin's an' yer love-makin' up Lawyer Blanchard's." "Father!" interjected Nan, with a flash of indignant disavowal.

Dayton struck in more calmly. "We haven't had any stolen meetings, Mr. Harrison, nor any love-making either until to-day. I don't deny my feelings for your daughter, and I would have come openly to your house if you would have allowed me but I knew'twas no use trying that, so I went where I could see her. But there was nothing secret about it. Anybody might have known it, and plenty did. She must have guessed I wanted to marry her"—with a quick look in Nan's half-averted, burning face—"but I never told her so till today, and we were planning just now how to get your consent—" "I'll see you strung up with that rope fust!" burst in Harrison, unable longer to control himself, and pointing to the coil which lay on the ground where Dayten had thrown it. "Comin' here to steal my land! Think ye can play the same game with my gal, do ye? Now you listen, young man: I'll give her to ye when ye give up that claim, an' not before, as there's a heaven above!" And the old man raised his hand toward the rosy golden sky a sea of soft light over their heads. "But, Mr. Harrison," remonstrated Dayton, "I don think you realize how I am placed. This property is mine on the express condition that I do not give up the claim, and if I do, I don't know how long we might have to wait, for I should have nothing to support your daughter with." "Waal, go to work an' make somethin' then," retorted Harrison, with a grin. "I'll give ye leave to wait, ef that's all. Don care how long ye wait."

Dayton wavered for a moment. It was hard to have Nan there, in his sight, almost in his erms, and speak the word which must separate them. In his desperation he appealed to the girl herself. "What do you say, Nan? Would you wait for me? Shall I give it up and take my chance?" "No," answered Nan, promptly, with something of that paternal "grit" of which Sprague had spoken, "I'd wait for you at any time, but I don't want you to give up your own on my Account. Just keep right along, and there'll be a way out somehow." •Yes, Nan, I suppose that's best really.' said Dayton, half regrettfullv. "Well, Mr. Harrison, won't you think better of it? I'd do anything else I could do to please j'ou." "Much obliged," answered the farmer, with angry scorn "but there ain't nothin' else I want of ye. Ye 11 find when I get my mind set, I ain't so easy changed." He turend, with afresh grip on Nan's arm. "Come, gal, como along," he said rouglrly.

Dayton did not care to exasperate him by further fruitless argument. But neither would he seem to renounce his claim on Nan. He bent down suddenly and gave her a parting kiss, "Good-by, Nan," he said. "Dont forget me and remember, as you said just now, there'll be a way out somehow." "Good-by, Will," she answered "I won't forget." Then, urged on by her father she moved away. Dayton lingered to watch them out of sight through the darkening meadows, where the plaintive night choi'uus of the frogs and whippoor wills was just begining.

After this for along time the young man's only sight of Nan was on Sundays in the family pew at the meeting-house. She no longer visited Milly Blancbard, and It was reported that her lather had sworn she should never cross his threshold again if she so much as spoke to Dayton,

So the weeks passed by, until one day the village was startled by the rumor that Dayton was going to marry Milly Blanchard. People surmised that his ught even justified him for dis*-egarding so uncertain an engagement, but most

Sfilly

mean to take a single unneces-

How fa

ar these peaceful intentions to

ward Harrison were influenced by the meeting with Harrison's daughter Dayton perhaps was not aware. Possibly Sprague was, for he chuckled to himself as he laid the boards aside.

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ltied Nan, and blamed Dayton and equally. They caUed Milly a cold hearted jilt who had not hesitated to sup-

Eer

lant her friend, as well as to throw over cousin, John Dearborn, although everybody knew that the poor fellow a* expecting to marry her as soon as he could make a home for her in the West.

When Harrison heard these reports he was divided between the resentment at the slight to his daughter and triumph over the bad light in which Dayton had placed himself. Since the trouble about Nan, Harrison had summarily rejected the young man's repeated overtures for although that device of the boundry rope had been abandoned, neither aide taking any active steps about the claim, the old farmer was just stiff-backed as ever, and vowed that he would never give Fan to Dayton as long as the young man aaserhis right to the land.

Meantime Nan bad lost much of her buoyant vitality the rich clover red was fading from her cheeks and her dvk eyes looked unnaturally large in their hollowed sockets, but, with her inherited "grit" she opposed a steady front to her father's flings and her mother's lamentations.

But one day Harrison came home ex-

yer Blanchard** gal's a ried right away to that blasted viper!"

Nan looked

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL

to get marfeller—

up at her father with a

certain suppressed excitemfent'and a!feverish flush on her cheeks, as she* an' swered, catching her breath, "Yes, fath er, I know—I've seen—Milly."

Mrs. Harrison opened the door it» time tolhear the last words.

Yes, Shadrach

Harrison, an' it's all your doin', every bit of it," she chimed in. "I hope you re satisfied, now that poor child's neartbroken!" "Stuff!" ejaculated Harrison, as his wife's voice failed in tears. "Guess she ain't heart-broken with them red cheeks Be ye, Nan? An1*so the Blanchard girl told ye herselff"he went on, curiously. "Yes," Nan answered, in the same half-suppressed manner- "She asked m»to be Her bridemaid." vHarrison stared. "Brazen hussy!''he

rowled. '*Waal, Nan, why don't you it, ef only to show'em how little you mind?" "I told her I would," replied Nan. Going up to her father, she laid her hand on his arm. "Father," (she said, with strange eagerness1 "I know you haven't meant any unkindness all along, but I wish you'd say you haven't felt hard toward me—that you never will." "Why, no, of course not, Nan," Harrison,'answered, with another stare. Then, as he looked into the girl's upraised face, so wasted with the hectic color, his hard but not wholly unfatherly heart smote him, and he said, with roughly kindness "Honestly, my gal, I though you was better off without that feller, an' ye see now I was right. I've meant well by ye, Nan, an' always shall.*' "Then we'll both of us have that to remember. answered Nan. She kissed him silently and left the room.

As the door closed, Mrs. Harrison's tears broke out afresh. "Ye don't realize -Shadrach-—what—what ye've done," she sobbed out. "Ever sence she heard —she's been—like that—kind o' still an' queer. I'm—I'm afraid—" "Afraid o' what?" demanded Harrison sharply. 4Somethin' she might do to herself— at the weddin'," said his wife. "Women-folkses' nonsense!'said Harrison, contempously. "What could she do? Won't you be there to look after her, I'd like to know?"

He spoke with derision, yet he could not help a certain uneasiness, in recalling Nan's strange look, and the peculiar solemity with which she had kissed him Harrison was proud of his daughter's beauty and brightness, as well as of her superior "book-l'arnin"' he was even fond of her, after his own fashion and he did not like to think that he had ruined her happiness, and possibly |driven her to some desperate act. Therefore he stubbornly put the doubt aside, telling himself that Nan's manner just new had been only a recogqition of his better judgment.

During the time before the wedding Nan seemed more like her old self, so that even her mother ceased her predictions of evil. As for Harrison, when he drove his wife and daughter over on the appointed day he was in high goodhumor, for though he^himself would not set foot in the same house with Dayton, he was pleased with what he called Nan's spirit and paid her various rough compliments, declaring that the bridemaid would outshine the bride.

Probably, indeed, the girl had never looked so lovely in her life before, for her beauty had gained a softness and expression which enhanced its natural brilliancy. Everybody watched her curiously, but she betraped no consciousness except once, when she met the eyes of Willard Dayton. The color dropped suddenly out of her face, only to rush back again in a great hot wave, which dyed cheek and neck with buroing crimson. At this the spectators, with a common thought, nudged one another significantly*

When tho guests were all assembled, the bridal party took their places before the table where Lawyer Blanchard, who was a justice of the peace, stood ready to tie the nuptial knot. The similarity of the two girls' white muslin dresses was somewhat perplexing, and before people had fairly settled which was which, the brief ceremony was concluded. Upon this Milly fell back a step, and then it became evident that she was not the bride, and that Willard Dayton had married Nan Harrison.

A great stir followed, until Lawyer Blanchard with a waye of the hand enjoined silence. Every one watched with eager curiosity, while the newly wedded pair left their places to be filled by Milly and her cousin, John Dearborn, who had just quietly entered the room, and for whose benefit the marriage ceremony be gan again.

Meantime some busybody had slipped over to the "tavern" hard by and informed Harrison of what had taicen place Harrison burst into the room just as the second ceremony was ended, and foaming with rage shook his clinched fist in the lawyer's face. "I'll make ye smart for this, ye lowlived, swindlin', humbuggin' rascal!" "Mr. Harrison," the lawyer interposed, with much dignity, as the angry man

taken, and there are plenty of witnesses here. I'll make you smart!"—with sudden fire—"I will, sir, by the Lord Harry!"

Harrison did not reply. He had almost as much fear and dislike of the law as Old-Man Brackett himself, and he did not intend to get involved in its mysterious toils. While he stood silent and baffled, his daughter hastened up to him. "Father," she said, pleadingly, "don't you remember what you said the other day about meaning well by me? Oh, then forgive us now! We had to do like this it was killing me. Dear, dear daddy, only listen to Will. He'll explain." "Yes, Shadrach, do hear to reason," plaintively put in his wife, who had seized hold of the other arm. "Think o' the fate of them that sit in the seat of the scornful!"

Harrison turned his eyes from one to the other, and finally rested them on Dayton, who was silently waiting his opportunity to «peak. In this look there was a tacit invitation, of which the young man hastened to avail himself. "Mr. Harrison," he said, quickly, "I have always tried to deal squarely and openly w'ith you, and it's gone very much against the grain to try any other way. (But you heard what she said"— and he glanced at Nan, "I didn't dare to wait, and I never got the chance to speak to yon. Now this trouble between us seems to be just here, that you would not give me Nan if I held on to that claim, and I couldn't keep my farm if I

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ave up the claim to you. Well, now, a deed making over that piece of land to Nan. How's that? Mr. Blanchard has looked the matter all over, and he thinks that covers the whole case, as the land wont belong to either you or me. Now, Mr. Harrison, won't you shake hands over it, and let by-gones be bygones?" "Do, father dear!" pleaded Nan, while the termer's wife said, with tearful solemnity* "Shadrach, ye ain't a-goin' to break the poor lamb's heart a second time over?**

Harrison's compressed lips slowly expanded into a grim smile. He pushed his hand up through his bristling ironhair as he said: "Waal, I s'pose ye smart 'my

Dayton, "for, as youv'e Just Mid,

land aii't ibioe, no more ain't it yours. So

shake

Eis

"hands, young feller, an I guess

ye'll find that bit o'ground ain't the only thing Nan 11 have." Dayton at once availed himself of

remission, after which Harrison kissed daughter, remarking, humorously, "S'pose you ain't a goin' to shut up the land from both of us, be ye, Mis' Dayton?" ...

At which Nan blushed deeply, while

everybody

Elarrison

else laughed. This put Har

rison in such high

good-huuior

that, in

terrupting his wife's feeble explanations that she had bad no knowledge of the plot, with "Now, Emeranzy, ef ye'll jest let-go o' my coat sleeve, I'd like to 'tend to a little job here,' and walking up to Lawyer Bl&iiehard1 he made excuses for

JOA tiasty speech. That gentleman waved his hand deprecatingly, and protested that he had himself been placed a most difficult position, and that they might make mutual allowance. Here upon MillV and John Dearborn came up to ex-

lain their part in the conspiracy, and pinched Milly's cheek and called bera sly-boots, in a genial manner quite unlike his usual crustiness. Harrison, in fact, was so relieved to find away out of the dilemma in which his own stubborness had placed him that he secretlv felt almost grateful to those who had solved his difficulty for hiin.

Meanwhile Nan and Layton had stolen a little apart from the laughing and jestine, aud were standing together by the open window in the soft September night. The breeze which blew fitfully up from the meadow stirred the dark waves of the girl's hRir, and shook out the fragrance of the flowers she wore in her bosom. The young man leaned over her and held her haud, and standiug so they looked at each other with eyes that were filled with the perfect content, of happiness that comes after trouble.

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which defy ordinary treatment, yield to Ajer's Sarsaparilla after a compa ti\e ly brief trial.

Mr. C. K. Murray, of Charlottesville, Va., writes that for .years he was ajtilcted with bolls which caused him much suffering. These were succeeded by carbuncles, of which he had several at one time. lie then ltegun tho use of Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and after taking three liottles, the carbuncles disappeared, and for six years he has Jit had even a pimple.^

That insidious^ disease, Scrofula, is the fruitful cause of innumerable complaints, Consumption being only one of many equally fatal. Hrnptions. ulcers, sore eyes, glandular swellings, weak r.nd wasted muscles, a capricious appetite, and the like, arc pretty sun! indications of scrofulous taint in the system. Many otherwise 1 ieaut iful faces are disfigured by pimples, eruptions, and unsightly blotches, wh.Yh arise from impure blood, showing the need of Ayer's Sarsaparilla to remedy tlie evil.

All sufferers from blood dTsor«!cra should give Ayer's Sarsaparilla a fair trial. —avoiding all powders, ointment.', ami washes, aud esjiecially cheap and worthless compounds, which not miy fail to effect a cure, but.more frequently aggravate and confirm tlie diseases they are fraudulently advertised to remedy.

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There are very few men who do not pride themselves ou always having thecorrect time apd wonderful and delicate mechanisms tu*4 devised to enable theto to do so. But"the more delicate a chronometer is made the more subject it becomes to derangement, and unless it bo kept always perfectly clean, it soon loses its usefulness. What wonder, then, that the human machiue—so much more delicate and intricate than any work of Man,—should requiro to be kept thoroughly cleansed. Tho liver is the mainspring of this complex structure, and on the impurities left in the blood by a disordered livor, depend most of the ills that flesh is heir to. Even consumption (which is lung-scrofula), is tfaceable to the imperfect action of this organ. Kidney diseases, skin diseases, siek headaches, heart disease, dropsy, and a longcatalogue of grave maladies have their origin in a torpid, or sluggish liver. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, by. establishing healthy, normal action of the liver, acts as a cure and preventive", of these diseases.

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