Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 19, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 October 1887 — Page 2

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THE JylAIL!

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLI

MY FRIEND AND I.

My fricr. nml I, two «mb asrecd— His way I take as he dot'-i lead, Or ins'iM" path lie irsay not fcuow

foiUiws me, and thus we fro. Am

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ire eoncedc.

My frienl hath moods ah. stroax, ind.i-^. As if nil autocrat decreed «it we part not, though,

My friend and I.

Myself a« strong my rule to beod, Ail captives to each other freed V. re to each the answer *"?»•»,**

Nor iri«-nJs}iip ever break, and so We give to fiw.b love's highest mifd. My friend and _I)v. ,^'lit Williams in Home Jourual.

Harper's Weekly.

An Ideal Friendship and How it Worked.

Mr. Harold Clayton was certainly not a marrying man. It had been an open question with him until he was nearly thirty, when ho knocked in on tho head one night, and put it to hod in a pine box. Not that he objected to imirriai impersonally he was quite ready to a mit that foi cvery-day sort of people it wan ono of the beat working institutions which civilization had evolved, and when any of his friends told that he was engaged he congratulated him with the proper amount of fervor and good feeling. It was only, as he expressed it to a maiden aunt who had asked him, with tears in her kind eyes, why he didn't ret a little wife to pour out his coffee for lim, that he was too deucedly comfortably as ho was. If he married just tho right sort of a girl, and lived tho life which about one couple in a thousand did, he acknowledged that his happiness would be of a much higher kind than that which he now enjoyed. But the chauccM wore that which he would sacrl lice a huge amount of comfort for a

Ho had thought about this theory of his so much that ho camo at last to the belief not only in its possibility, but in its certainty. Yet ho was patient. He could a fibril to wait, ho told himself, as th«»ro was no conclusion to be hurried on Mesldos, ho knew that ho must not ex pert to find this woman ho was looking for in any drawing room ho happened to enter. Of course sho must not oe mar ried, as that would render the first stei Impracticable, and turn the wholo thing into a vulgar intrigue, with the divorce court for a background sho must not be too young, or sho would turn overy son timental remark he mado Into a compli incut, and olthor fall in love with him or grow weary of tho oxporlment before sho had woll begun it neither must she bo so old as to have gotten over all her illusions, for a woman without any lllu Minna ho considered unbearable. Then too, her culture must bo on a par with his own, so that they could understand each othor and she must be willing to brake a few conventionalities for his sake, as ho would give up sonfo things for her. He was thinking about all this now, as ho sat before his soft coal firo smoking a cigarette, and feeling particularly coinfortablo, because he knew that he must dress himsolf presently and go out into the biting air to an aftornoon toa, which in a moment of weakness he had promised to attend.

After he had exchanged a few conventional remarks with his hostess, sho said: "I want to present you to Mrs. (Jarnngton. She has been living abroad for two or three years, since her husband died, and she has just returned to New York. You will find her extreme!" charming." And so he found himsel sitting on a sofa beside Violet Carrtngton, and as he looked at her he was very glad he came.

She was distinctly pretty. She had soft silky hair, which was neither golden imr brown, but a little of both, big dark eyes, which were gwd to look into, though rather dangerous to the beholder, the prettiest kind of a row?, and a mouth which looked so sweet when she smiled that you thought it must have been par tkularlv designed for that purpose. "I hope you don't find New York disappointing?" he began. "iMsappointing?" she asked, in a soft, clear vojee, which the little English intlection she had acquired rendered particularly pleasant and musical. "'I hat sound's complimentarv but as I'm going to live here, I fancy the erteot I produce on New York will'be of much niore consequence to myself than the ©flfect it produces on me." "1 didn't mean to apologise for it in any way." he returned, smiling. "It would lx' rather cheeky in tne to do the modest proprietor over such a big place, What I mean was that I think one is apt to look at things one has left behind through a magnifying gla"«, and when one gets ••«. actualities they seem so much sin ..ler bv comparison, that is all." "I know I ve wasted my advantages awfully," she returned "but I have learneo one thing all these years—comparisons are t* al." "I/parning is much easier than application," he replied -«entenUoiislj\ "You dont brieve me, then?" "I believe yonr intentions." "That Is \*erv uncomplimentary. Intentions lire supposed to be the groundwork of a certain place.'* "Yet they are the beginning of all that is good." .. "Like love's voang dream, she replied, laughing. "I suppose you would consider me very cribbed If I disagreed with you in," be answered.

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tltude of petty cares and vexations, and ho idealized tho comfortable. Still, he had a theory of companion ship, which he believed, for certain con stituted people, like himself, who were willing to .sacrifice souio prejudices for future good, would be much more olevated and satisfactory than a conven tional married existence. He held that the ideal friendship between a man and a woitian wan not only possible, but would be highly delightful. How many unpleasant discoveries it would hinder! how much unhappiness it would obviate 1 All that terrible ordeal of wedded intimacy would be avoided, all those little concealments of personal weaknoss would be posslblo. You need nover know that she did up those lovely locks In (Hirl-jmporH, or sho that you ctiuntod the change in voiir trousers pockots. It would be an intimacy of the purest and most spiritual kind, tho sort of thing which tho world had been dreaming about ever since it began to dream cup of happinoss without any dregs, and lovo which would never pall, because one would nover have too much of it, And ho watched tho young people about him plunging recklessly into flirtations whi. must end in such unpleasant con sequences as broken hearts, or wedding eako and catnip toa, with tho greatest amount of pitv.

disappointed. Perhaps, if you confided in mc, I should even sympathize with vou." "Your sympathy would undoubtedly be a motive for action, but I'm afraid the pUnt only grows in very new soil. It wouldn't take kindly to an old bit of earth like me.' "Don't,' she says, prettily "you make one feel spooky. You forget that I too am old. You've no idea bow horrible it is to come back and tind that your sister has enough of a son to introduce himself to yon." "Your sister must be a great deal older than yourself," he said, gallantly. "That was rather neat, for the spur of the moment," she returned, smiling at hi in. "I shall cultivate you if you are given to that sort of thing." "VVarrented kind and gentle a woman can always manage him.' "No," says sho "I afraid I can't trust you. You Anglo-Saxons on both sides of the Atlantic expect altogether too much from a woman. You will always be falling in love with her. See those two dear little geese over there drinking down tea and burning words.

I fear it is a very bad case. Why ean't one of you be friends with a woman without want.ng to own her? A wise old English lady said to tne once only angels and good Frenchmen know how to be friends with a woman."

He started a little. Could it be that this sweet, ingenuous young widow looking at him quite seriously over her teacup, was the woman he had been searching for? "There are exceptions to all rules,' he said, as lightly as he could.

Meaning me? she asked, laughing a frank, friendly laugh. "Meaning me. You

Meaning me. You see, I'm a sworn enemy to matrimony I believe it is_ decidedly de trop, and that sort qf thing and evidently, though I know it sounds cheeky in me to say it, the article you are looking for—" "I not sure I'm in need of it," she returned, giving him her cup. "But you won't refuse it? Friendship, as the world goes, is far too unstable a thing even to create negation." "Then vou think my friendship would be unstable? Isn't that rather too bad?" "No quite the contrary you would be an exception. Hut I only means that our friendship, if you will allow me to fancy it accomplished, for the sake of argument, would have no restrictions." "Can you call anything which had no restrictions a fact?' "Precisely. And that is what I wished you to understand." "Under those terms, then," she said, "I think I can consent with safety. And if I cut you on the street some day, you will not feel offended" "No only hurt."

And whether it was because he was handsome, or she was flattered, or because she thought he was amusing, she gave him her number and asked him to call.

Claj'ton went home filled with the sweet consciousness of success. At last he had found the woman he had been looking for, and the great experiment of his life was about to oegin. So ho lit a cigarette, and sat down comfortably to think about her. There was no reason in the world, ho thought, why he should not think about her as often as he liked. If he were going to marry her, of course it would be quite different. Then certain questions of expendency and of success or failure would arise to torment him. But as It was, ho thought of her very much as he might tho Apostle John or St. Cecilia, or any other bit of defunct holiness. The only effect of his inedita tlons about her would be to make him understand her better, pnd bring their minds into a closer union.

And in the next few weeks he called upon her very diligently, and one.day, when he fancied she was in an unusually sympathetic mood, he propounded, with* many misgivings, his scheme. But instead of*snubbing him, as he half expected she might, she accepted the idea quite enthusiastically. "It will be delightfully puzzling to everybody!" she said. "I rather think I shall enjov being a soci il euigina. Fancy how wretched all the old women over thoir tea, and the men at the clubs will be about it! Aud remember you are always to pay me the greatest possible attention before people." "Are you quite sure you realize the gravity of all this? he asked, a little porplexed by her attitude.

She laughed. "I don't fancy, she said, "a woman of twenty-eight Is apt to bo wholly blind to her own interest. Yon may accept that as a compliment, if you like. I will be quite as frank with yon, Mr. Clayton, as you have been with me. I mean"what I said the other day about the impossibility of beln fri'ends with an Anglo-Saxon, but I thiu you are different. I don't wish to marry —I know more about that even than you do—neither do I like a woman for a friend. Oompreitez-tmisf You said a little while ago that a woman without any illusions was unbearable. I hope I haven't shocked you. Please consider all mine lie along the path of friendship I accept seriously your friendship, aud I give yon mine. See? And I am willing to let you into as much of my inner life as will be necessary for you to know to understand me. The only condition I shall mako is absolute secrecy, not because I wish this affair to degenerate into a vulgar intrigue, for that would disgust me, but because wo are not iron, uiy friend, and no one can see the end of a road on which he starts in this life. What you say about preserving certain illusions about each other is also quite true, and I shall do what I can, without being hypocritical, to keep the dark side of my character from you, as I shall expect you to keep yours from me. And now-," she added, "I think I have made rather a long speech for a woman, and you will please go away and let me think It all over. You see 1 am going to be quite free with you," she said, laughing, and letting hiin'hold her slim, cool hand, and send vou awav whenever I don't want vou. But you are to understand by that that I shall expect yon to give me the opportunity very often, and I shall always boat home to you when you call. Qood*bv«"

Hiooii-by—Mrs. Carrington," he said. "I hope I sh'n't make you sorry for having said that." had been conscious of an odd wish to call her Violet, as he stood there holding her hand, which had made him hesitate oyer her name, and he laughed at the absurdity of the thing as he walked home.

She was certainly frank with me," he thought. The idea even occurred to him that what she had said might be con* strued into her acceptance of him as a utility. But then the consciousness that you area necessity to a pretty woman is not unpleasant to most men.

But in whatever way Violet looked upon him, she certainly accepted his friendship with the greatest cordiality and kindness. He began to consume a prodigious number of

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of tea In her

pretty drawing room, ana paid her most marked attention at balls and parties. Indeed, ahe hinted that she liked to hay* him dance with her.

You really do waits unusually well,** ahe said, "and yon are not eternally reversing one, like moat men here. I have gotten rather out of the habit of revara-

"Si" I always told myarif," be returned,

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Hhat I must be prepared to make c®tain sacrifices." You have evidently t$d yourself that our intimacy has gotten beyond the stage of compliments," afe replied.

But for all this fine soliloquizing, and though he told himself he ought to be the happiest man in the world, he had to confess that this scheme was working out its own failure. Still, he did not honestly think it had been his fault, neither could hediscover that Violet had been lacking in any essential particular. She had certainly been sympathetic and candid with him in the extreme. The extent, indeed, of same of her mental disclosures had made him wonder a little But he felt that their intimacy had gone as far as it could, and was, so to speak, at a dead-lock the inner sanctuary of her soul would always be shut off by a veil, which she would never lift to him as a friend.

The talk which they created in society annoyed him extremely, as he was a sensitive man, and made him feel, when he met her out, as if he were performing for the benefit of somebody else but it was the efiect on himself which distressed him most. There was always, even in his happiest moments with her, a feeling of disappointment, something expected and not realised, which puzzled him. Then, too, that indefinite lack of something of which he had always been conscious began to narrow into a definite want. Even his rooms, after he had been with her, seemed to have lost that air of bachelor comfort which they had ever possessed and there was a certain large plush carved easy chair beside his fire, in which he constantly saw, in spite

of himself, a perfectly dressed figure, with a head which was neither golden nor brown, but a little of both, and a pair of the dantiest feet in the world crossed on his fender. One day when he was in a particularly sentimental frame of mind he told her of this, and said, allowing himself to look into her eyes, that he always called it her chair. "Now really that's uncommonly friendly of you,' she said softly. "I shall come to your room some afternoonwith my aunt, and see how I like my throne." "But you musn't expect to transfer it," he returned. "That is the only piece of furniture I own which I couldn't do without."

The climax was reached when he entered her drawing room one afternoon, and found a man noted for his suuqtss with women sitting calmly on the sofa opposite her with an at-home sort of air. lie was startled, troubled, but he felt that his intimacy warranted a little rudeness, so he quietly sat down and determined to wait his rival out, and learn what he must prepare himself for "Don't you think Mr. St. Mark very charming?" she asked, innocently, after her visitor had departed, settling herself back in her chair and folding her hands, as she usually did when she prepared to talk to him. "I think be is the cleverest man I know. "Do you really?' he returned, poking the fire intently, with his back turned toward her. "I suppose it must be my obluseness, but I confess I never discovered anything particularly brilliant in him Jmyself. A man's stupidity, as a rule, doesn't dawn on one till one know him intimately." "You say that as if you expected me to dispute it," she says, watching him still at the fire business, with her head a little on one side, and an odd, half tender, half mischievous smile on her pretty lace. "I can't just yet. Perhaps when I come to know Mr. St. Mark better, I shall be able to. He is very well off, isn he?" "Much better than I am—every way." "That may be, truthful, but I don't quite see the necessity for the compari son. These sudden admissions of de feet are rather startling when one is not ared for them." he often come here?" he asked, suddenly, turning from the fire and fore ing himseV to look at her.

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

It would be very useless if it ha|

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Yet one docs not always like useful things best." "So you really have the bad taste toitfefc prefer sugar-plums to tonics," he Mays. "I shall be charmed to administer them. Shall I begin on your gown or yourself?" "On my gown. My person is altogether beyond my own control [am responsible to myself for my gown. Do you think it fetching?" "Men say it in lovely—you see how I listen when my friend is talked over— and women say nothing, but look." "I hope you didD't invent that. But you—you see I insist on particularizing do you like it? I though of you when Jl put it on." "If you told me you selected it with reference to me, 1 should consider you charming in a calico frock. But now— ah, well, why should one say everything one feels?" "Now I am satisfied," she said, giving him a glance out of those dangerous eyes a ne put his arm about her slender waist. "How llat all that little talk would sound between a husband and wife!" he said to himself "one or the other would have been sure to nave uttered some vugar truism, and turned the whole thing into a squable."

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Her large eyes flashed a little. "I don't remember that there was anything said in ourarrangementabout whom I should receive in my house," she said. "I hope he will come often. He certainly is very grateful for what he receives ana I have never known him to be rude.' "Ttell me," he says, quickly, ignoring her defiance, "you are not going to marry him?"

There was a beseeching ring in his voice which touched her, and his face

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"Does it trouble you?" she asked, softly, watchiug him. "Ah, no! rest yourself easy, my friend. Mr. St. Mark from the angle of a friend is very well, but Mr. St. Mark from the angle of a husband would be—pouf!" and she blew a little kiss from the tips of her white fingers. "Don't you think that it was a little unkind," 'she went on, still in that low tone which he liked best, "to accuse me of intentions which—which would have been a breach of faith to you?" "Violet, you are an angel!" cried the young man, excitedly. "Take care, my friend," ahe says, uietly. "That rather borders on the iangeroua, doesn't it? And I don't remember that I ever asked you to call me by my first name." "I beg your pardon," he said penitent* ly. "I have no right, I know, to come nearer to yon than you wish me, but I always think of yon as VI—by your first name." "Then think of me so always," she says, tremulously, with eyes downcast. "And go away now. please, Harold and his name seemed to come spontaneously from her lips, as though from some force beyond her own oontrol.

Clayton went home with his head In a whirl, but by the time he had reached his own rooms his ideas began to arrange themselves somewhat. He felt that the time for mental shillyshallying was past and that, however painful the result might be, he must come to a definite understanding with himsslf concerning his feelings toward Vkrist. So be sst down by taat firs by whoss soft light be had so often soojorsd ap bar Image, sad

began* to put himself through a merciless set Of questions. Why was he pained Co see St. Mark •«ibin Jbfatth her? Because he was jealoudf^pBo* was he jealous about? Violet. Ana his heart leaped as he remmembered her soft voice saying, 'Then think til nie so always." Why was he jealous ut Violet? He waited some time fore he eould bring himself to answer this last, but at length he forced himself to reply. Because he was in love with her*

BuLtfdrhad a much mora difficult question? to ask himself, and one to which it would be impossible, for him to make a Cttogorical answer, nauiely, did Violet love him? With the exception of her little speech to-night, he eould not recall a single remark which could be construed into an admission of tenderness, and even that might have been quite as much the expression of friendship as of affection. He was very much ashamed And yet he asked himself if, after all, the power to recognize so mu^h soul beauty in a fellow-mortal, and a particularly pretty fellow-mortal, so to be brought into unconscious subjection

was not more a sign of strength than of weakness. It was Jsimply tnat his soul had refused his chains of theory and had perfected itself, even against his will by love. Still he was a good deal frightened at the situation, and I think the thought that he must confess to this woman, who respected him so highly, that be had been weak enough to fall in love with her was the hardest of all for him. It is certainly not a pleasant thing to have to acknowledge ones self beaten in one's own game: or to confess yourself morally weaker than the woman you love, with the chance of being rejected and despised. Nevertheless, partly because he felt himself incapable of carrying on this horrid hypoorisy any farther, and partly because the certainty of failure even would be preferable to this terrible uncertainty, he determined to ask her to marry him the first opportun ity.

His declaration, however, was hurried on by his coming unannounced into her drawing-room one evening and finding her with her face buried in herhandker chief.

She raised her eyes as he entered, and, and he saw that she bad been crying. "Good heavens!" he cried, "what has happened? Don't look so ^distressed, or I snail go mad. Tell me what has happened, Violet—tell me!"

She calmed herself with a great effort as she saw him, and rising, said, rather coldly: "It is nothing I can tell you, Mr. Clayton. Each of us, I suppose, has trials which it would be impossible for the other to share in or understand fancied we comprehended that. Perhaps I was grieving over my past, or troubled about my future. There is surely enough sorrow in either direction to make one cry. You may consider either the case, ir you wish. But I think you transgressed, just again, with my name." "I beg your pardon," he said, stiffly. "I dare say when I get into the habit of seeing you crying I shall be able to control my feelings better. "If you had gone to the trouble of announcing yourself. perhaps you would not have been subjected to the affliction," she returned, meanly. "That is a fault, however, which I can pprtly rectify by going now," he replied moving toward tne door. "No," she says, weakly, "don't go. Is it^quite the best means of comforting one you are aware of to say nasty things to them?" "All my modes of comforting seem to meet with the same success," he answers, gloomily. "Are your resources exhausted?" she 1wks, presently, sm^ng at him a little, "or shall I consider that you think your presence ought for my happiness? "Don't make fun of mel" young man, sternly.

He had stood quite apathetic when she began but when he came to understand her drift, when he heard that question come trembling from those lips so sweet and kissable, he took a quick little step toward her, and caught both her hands in his. "Violet," he cried, "do you mean that you could possibly get on with me as a husband?" "I'm afraid I couldn't." she said, charmingly "but I'm willing to try. And you must call me Violet as often as ever you can," _______

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"You may be the

stronger of us—I dare say you are—but remember, my fall, if it Be a fall to you, is not my fault."

But she does not quail beneath bis gaze as he stands before the fire looking down at her. "And am I to lose you, my friend?" she says, sadly. "Well, perhaps it is best. I am a great believer in the fitness of things. Our partnership has been very pleasant, but you are free—you remember what I said about that?—and if you feel yourself unsafe, it is I who bid you go." "Are you quite sure you do right to despise me?" he said, slowly. "Walt a second. I admit that I have failed, and that I lovo you but is *t strange to yon that I should? It is uot to me. My soul needed you for its completion, and it absorbed you in spite of me. Do you understand I say in spite of me! Thank God, you cannot take that away from me! Is it singular that a man should not be able to make himself over, at thirty-three, for a theory Women may have the power to assimilate and not become attached I have not. 1 do not hesitate to say—yes, I am proud to say— I love you. I love you now, and shall love you always. Vou cannot help that any more than you can help being beautiful." "And I," she said, solemnly, raising that sweet face, full of womanly love and purity, and letting those eyes, teardimmed and beautiful, speak for her— "do you think I can let the truest mail I have ever known so cruelly misunderstand me? Look! I can humble myself in the dust before you. and tell you why I was crying. When I first met you you only amused me. Then I began to like you. Then you proposed your scheme to me. You know what I said about that. I had had enough of marriage. God knows, to an old man I hated, and I thought this would be just what I was wishing for, giving me companionship and leaving me free. Ah, well! we have both made a mistake. Is it too late?"

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A MoSel Invention endorsed by Scientists and the Medical Profession as a Preventive against TYPHOID, SCARLET AN J) MALARIA FEVER.1

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All Summer Resorts via Chicago & Eastern Illinois

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THREE TRAINS DAILY FROM

Terre Haute to Chicago

Making close connection with all roads diverging. Call or write for copies of

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iTourists Guides,

Giving a description of the various summer resorts of the North and Northwest. WM. HILL,

Gen. Pass. Agt. Chicago, 111.

R. A. CAMPBELL, General Agt, 634 Wabash Ave.

JULIUS F. ERMISCH STEAM DYE HOUSE,

656 Main Stmt, MeKeen'n lUork, Cleaning and dyeing of all kinds of IjadlS Genu clothing. Gents garments a»-

Wrlte for price list.

and Genfa cloth In neatly repaired

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CATARRH

CREAM BALM

Cleanse* the Nasal

Passages, Allay sj

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Sores, Itestores thej

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A particle is ap plied into each nostril and lsagreeable, Price 50 cents at Druggists by mall, registered, 00 cts. ELY BRCJH., 286 Greenwich St., New York.

SALESMEN

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To canvass for the sale of Nursery Ptock. steady employment guaranteed. Salary at 4L Expenses Paid. App.v at once, stating age.

Chase Brothers' Company,IlocHK8TNK,V.

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YOUR BUGGY

Tip tnp fbr Chain, Lawn SMM. Bath, Flora M, sabjr Carriage*, Curtate film, Fnreltur*, Front DOOM, Stora-frontt, Scran Doort, Boats, Muitlta, lion Fncn, in fact «*wytMiif. Jutt tfca thing tot tha ladle* to u*« abont Ut* houas

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F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, O.

HOUSE PAINT COIT'S FLOOR PAINT

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Mnt that wart* a Nsst tins 4 popular and Miubte shades, warranted to *7 har« a* roeh aver atfftt. Ne trouble. No swearing.

WONT DRY STICKY

It Is simple In construction, strong and durable, as it

no tubing, suckers, or valves. It does not freexe. the buckets having a hole in tbe bot* torn, discharge themselves.

It is easy to set up as there Is nothing to fasten below tbe platform. It will not rout, as the chain and buckets are made of the best galvanised Iron and steel.

We have the best pnmp for domestic use In the world. Try one tor30days and If not convinced, return It at our expense. With this pump as many gallons of air are circulated through tbe water "from the bottom to the top" as gallons of water are drawn. The pure oxygen of the air thus liberated rastllate*, vitallMsand psrlfles the v»t«r. After a few days use all foul taste and smell will be removed, and tbe old tlatners, and Insipidity Is replaced by a sparkle like that of a aaoaatala spring:. It is tbe only device knowa that will destroy wiggles, water bugs, lice and worms, for sncb vermin cannot exist in living water.

Every Pump Warranted for 5 years.

Gall at our place of business, No. 16 south Second street, west of New Coatx House, and see glass model, showing this action of the air on the water. .... -4

MCFERRIN BROS

No. 15 South Second Street, Terre Haute, Ind.

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