Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 19, Number 25, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 15 December 1888 — Page 2

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THE_MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

TERRE HAUTE, DEC. 15,1888

THE EYES SHE LIKES.

WhVb «r«

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sweetest

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to yoaT

Tbe brows, where Arc aad lanrvorrowe, the sunny Uinhfan eyes of blue, Or black, vttb ctaoess Ay sod fleetf

Or opaline, wltk fhutefnl hue. Or gray, where mind with bet at? tIM. Or violet, eo ec£t tad tru®—

Tell BUS. which are the sweetest eyas!

My darUoff beot her «mny bead. Her radiant face seemed half dirfas, "Th« sweetest eyss to me," 1 said, "Are those that look with lore la mtaw." —Jl. A. Deaaisoo in Brooklyn Eagle.

[From December Scrlbaer.]

At The Station.

BY XKBKCCA HARD1KO

DAVIU.

Nothing coo Id well be more common place or ignoble than the corner of the world in which SUM Dilly now apeot her life.

wayside Inn, near a station on the railway which run* from Salisbury, in

North Carolina, up into the great App lachian range of mountains two or throe un painted boxes of houses scattered along the track by the inn not a tree or blade of grass in the "clarin' a few gaunt, long-legged pig» and chickens grunting and cackling in the muddy clay yards beyond, swampy tobacco fields stretching to the encircling pine woods. For Sevier Station lay on the lowland the mountains roso far to the west, like a blue haze on the horizon. The railway ran like a black line across the plain, and stopped at their foot at a liamlet called Henry's thence an occasional enterprising travoler took "the team" up the precipitous mountain road to Asheville, then a sleepy village unknown to touiists.

Nothing, too, could have been more common place or ignoble than Miss Dilly liorsolf a pudgy old woman of sixty, her shapeless body covered with a scant, blue homespun gown, with a big white apron tied about whoro the waist should have boon: a face like that of an exag Kernted baby, and round, innocent blue eyos, which, when thov met yours, you wero sure were tho friendliest in the world. Miss Pllly always wore a coarso white handkerchief (snowy white, and freshly ironed) pinned about her neck, and another tiea over her ears, for she had occasionally a mysterious pain, commonly known to us as neuralgia, but which the Carolinian mountaineers de-c-lure is only oausod by boing "overlooked" by someone who has an ovil oye. "Thoy tell me it must be so," Miss Dilly would suy. "But, of course, my dear. It was done by accidont. Nobody would hurt a person thataway, nieanin it. An' It's a mighty tarrible thing to have that kind of an eye! I hope tho good Iiord don't let any poor soul know that he has it.',

Miss Dilly had had this pain ouly since she had lived in tho lowland. It had almost disablod her. She was born In the mountains—up on the Old Black —and she fancied if she would go back to them she would bo cured. But her younger brother James, owned this farm and inn, and when their mother died, twenty years ago, he had agreed with Trenton Barr that ho should have both, rent free, if he would give Dilly a home and the yiold of one Hold of tobacco arly. James then set off to the West to make his fortune. JiOtlets at first came regularly. But It was ten years now sinco she had heard from him.

Nobody ever heard a groan from Miss Dillv when tho attacks of pain came on. "Wfien tho good Lord gives you a load to eahry, 1 reckon 'tar'nj the clean thing to lay It on othor folks' shoulders," she would say laughing. 8ho shut herself up, therefore, in her own chamber, and would lot nobody in, though evorybody at the inn, from Squlro Barr himself to Sam (the black cook, ostler and chambermaid) besieged the door.

A gloom like that of a funeral overhung the whole clarin* when Miss Dilly had one of her spells. After tho pssslng of tho two trains a day it was the one

topic of Interest. "I've knowod wimmen as was younger." old olonel Koyall would say, sol- ...7 emnlv wagging his head and winking other man, with sudden gravity, "thet his bfeamfeyes "Aunt Dilly is tho Jok- I cahn let prou try it yohself. But

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III IMOIinnl W Auuv i/iit -j if igOHtiuul inont ngroeabl© of her sex in TTTif i«ir tmrt of C&hlitiv, to

answer, any hu-

"Yes," Squire Barr would

'And how

mnlding gravely. man lleiiu can lay tho devil look on her, passes tue!"

When the attack was over she would come down, pale and piuchcd about the

aw*, but smiling, kissing and shaking

nin' hack to yer home on th' Old Black -I give you case, say the wohd. I cahn't

(mow*.

von rent in money, foh tiodamlty I've got none. But in truffle, tobacco, c.«hn, un' millet —it'll be all *cnt up rcg'lur. Though what we'd do with out vou nil, passe* mc!"

At which Mr*». Missouri Barr would look at Mi*s Dillv with tears on her gaunt check*, ami the girl* \\u'l Itnng about her, patting her, nnd the Colonel would declare wtih an oath that "the whole clarin' had been powerful interrupted while you wa* gone."

The*e wen the b^ppu'*i moment.* of Mits lUly's happy life. She would explain carefully th«~ni, for the thousandth time her fccl'.ng -m the mailer. to me ef 1 w' in the i!.l placo. frtcin* Old tV»t:Ttv, *n the Sn nannoa a-mnnin' p«*! the i'^or, could p?»et tv fattier 'n mother overy moriiin whar thev'ro lyin" «nv-:sg the rowan tree*. J*d get young agin lose ihi* torment. But then, wim 'd J:*mc*!on think cf he'd come l*ack by \r real so cahrv tne to his home in i»nui

thinkln*. I didn think of dojn

from a long journey. The Squire invariably addressed her treated you.

"Kf it IK*

SO.

with ponderous gravity, after this fash-

Aunt Dilly, 's you think

them furrin countries? Me af!«r belong down in the pinv woods ken try my promise to wait? *N It w..nld go I '\e heered, though, as he was a power hard too to leave yon. Fre«t soury, 'o the girls, 'a fvatn hard

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It was singular to see how they all, women, children, and men, seemed to understand Miss Dilly at once, and treated hor with a tender kind of respect. She usually felt quite intimate before the evening was over, and when they entered the train and were swept out of sight would stand looking after them, the tears in her eyes. "The dear friends hardly come till they going again." she would say to tho girls.

One stormy night in winter the train was delayed "two hours beyond its time. A child of one of the passengers had been takon sick, near Henry's the train was stopped, and a man who said to have considerable skill in physic was sent for, two miles distant. The passengers waited willingly. They were in no hurry

had a boy once. He only lived to be seven. It was the head as ailed him.

little fellah had lived he'd have made his mark in the world alongside of Alick Stephens." "Died at seven?" said his companion. 1th aa inarticulate murmur of sympathy. "Well, sah. Him thet's above, He knows. It's all foh the best." "Not foh me not foh me!" with a fierce growl, after which he was silent. Presently he said: "Captain, I used to quiet my boy a-strokin' of his temples. Kf thoy'd try it on the bahv "I'm very sorry, Mr. Judson," said the

exclaimed Juason, angrily. "You don't suspect mo of a trick? Dy'e think I'm sneak?" "God forbid! No, no, Mr. Judson. I know a high-toned gentleman when I see him." When Sheriff Roylston give mo this commission he says: "Trait Mr,

and* all around as If sheTiadpomo back Judson as a high-toned gentleman, and as such I reco niated you. And as such I eated vou."

viction that the mountains on which The train ran bumping along the track her Lord walked and suffered and died and stopped. The passengers roe® and as a man were part of 4he mountains made their way out leisurely. In yonder, which were all the world that noise, they did not hear an altercation she knew. that was going on at the back of the ear.

There was »so church near the station Jndson had stiffened himself back la there were not even the monthly his seat. "pra'are" which keep up the religious and social life of the mountains. Mis*

or ten minutes each time. These'brief

Ction

iuses were the end of life for the popuof Sevier Station: the whole twen^ ty four hours merely led up to them When the train came in sight, the sia men. the women, children, pigs and chickens dropped the work they nad in hand and waited, breathless. It came up out of the great busy world and swept down into it again—a perpetual miracle —leaving them in silence and soltitude. Miss Dilly was alwaytf at her post by the window to see it go by. The conductor and engineer had learned to watch for the wondering old baby face, and often threw her a little package of candy or a newspaper. Her neart thumped with terror and delight as ths wonderful thing rushed past her. If she could only ride on the cars once, only for a mile! This was the one secret ambition of her life.

Sometimes, but very rarely, the train was belated and stopped long enough for the passengers to take supper. The excitement rose the fever height. Mrs. Barr, the girls, Preston, even the Colonel were busy in the kitchen, cooking and scolding Sam. Miss Dilly, who could do nothing, hurried to the parlor, in fresh apron and handkerchiefs. It was a stuffy little room with plaited rugs on the floor, a chromo or the death-bed of Washington on the wall, and a red-hot stove In the middle. But the passengers who were waiting for supper, to Miss Dilly's mind were all dear good folk who had come up from the world to talk to her awhile. She took the kindest interest in them all nursed the babies, pulled out some candy from her pocket for the children, ran for a drink for the tired, dusty women, or sat listening eagerly to the talk of tho men, now and then asking a timid question. "And you really bin at New "iohk, sah. Dear me! I tfoan know what anybody that has bin at New Yohk wants.to come to the mountings foh. No, I never travelled. Much, that is. I was once at Asheville, foh two days. I reckon New Yohk is differint. But Asheville is a vehy large town, sah, You suhtinly ought to visit it."

tn^oAn l»v%i

Judson |made no answer. He had cropped back into his seat and pulled the ide-rimmed hat over his brows.

The child by this time was asleep the is»engers crept softly back to their places, and the train was again in motion. As, an hour later, it rushdd along through the gathering twilight, Judson glanced out of tho windows from side to «ido with a teriflied apprehension on his f»ce. "Isn't this the old Sevier plantation?" "Yes. Consid'ablo altera! since the railway was laid."

After a few minutes Judson again broke the silence. "Thah was a house je*t 1evond the Branch hyah. *T used to belong to a family named—Holmes." ••Ye*. Stations nigh thah now. Holmes house's took as inn. Squire !Urr'* the proprietor, sab." "Anvof the ffolmose* livin' thah?" n^ked'Judson in a tone which made

u-!y

it wt.ni.i 1 \e ucereu, inongn, as ne was rf'ton, *n Mi*-j ful agreeable gentleman. Very i, "n

»ily.

heap

all— very

The girl* always sorpri*ei Miss Dilly gone a good many vmr,n with a gvwnl shipper on tbe«e r«voven«»*^ l^o tney?" said Jndson, with

and the Colonel and Squire Prwion f. I intonatbm. it thfir duty to go to bed drunker than "Friend of voiira, m.d the usual, in sign ol jov. |'^»pt*in, curiously. Ji wn*s It was

At other time*,life st Sevier Station inruo.i toward him he was atarin«out was stagnant enough. Mi«* DiHy sew*vl into the darkening fields. He did not or knit in her own room, sitting at the «n*wer for a moment. window whei* she could the «ix men "No. He was no friend of ,w of the village sitting in a row in the gal said st last In a tone which

lerv of the inn. smoking. She esill*»d t*in Foulke keep silent. He was the them her boy*, and when «ne ehanoed to# last man in the world ton v, or tgbave the rheumatiam or toothache or a swt unpleasant snbjem

anake-bite^ clucked about bim like an or any other gentleman who was In difild hen ot-er an ailing chick. All th«» children in the hamlet were free of hw? The engine Rare a shriek. The oon»oom: there was always one at least srlth doctor^ who had be«n doting nmr tbm ber listening to her'otd fHble stories.' Neither they nor Miss Dilly srere at all sure bow far exactly Palestine was from Carolina indeed, Wily had a dim con-,

... ... ._jy

quain Foulke turn and look at him en- *blm and Miss Dill

Dillv. She resides with the

quire. olonel James Holmes, he's gone Wist thataway. I hear as he's made 1 a fort in out thah. So I've heered. I ncw-r kmoved Colonel James myself. I

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an*

The folks hyah boats think

the Colonel y*t, tbottgh be% bin

'iieutliy. The folks hyah bouts ,i.» •%. 11. 1* f*J*««.tfkl

queer

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Mr.

Jo »o,

stove, got up, yawning "Sevier Station, gentleman," In sngd. mildly. "Ttain stops hyah fob sr."

"My God! I cahn't get out hyah! Thah—than are folks In thet house thet

Wily with "her Bible and*barIncessant know me." He panted for breath with innocent talk of "the good Lord" was sheer terror his eves gleamed dangerall the pope or preacher Known to these onsly. Foulkeand thejconductor stood people, the only messenger sent to show over him anxiously. For the first time them bow to live or to die. the conductor saw that he was hand-

In the morning the train passed the cuffed. station going up to Henry's in theaf- 'Yes, explained Foulke rapidly, in a ternoootfit dme down it halted for fire whisper, "fcringin' him to Rale ghfro

1—Tennessee,

to stand his trial for manslaughter. Mr. Judson!" raising his voice "let me make you acquainted with Captain Arny. Mr. Judson, he proceeded in a hurried, deprecating tone, "hes come with me clar from the Nantahela range, whah I— whah 1—met him, and has give me no trouble whatsoever. He has conducted himself like the high-toned gentleman which Sheriff Roy Is ton "_I will make no trouble now," panted Judson. "Only let me stay in the car. Foh God's sake, Captain!"

The deputy sheriff ana conductor exchanged perplexed glances. "Come, come Mr. udson," said Arny, authoritatively. "Captain Foulke must have his supper'n somethin' warmin'. So must you. See hyah now!" wrapping the gray shawl which was common in use among men at that time about the prisoner so as to conceal his arms, and pulling his hat well over his brows. "Yoh own wife wouldn't know yob.sah. Come now. You can sit in the parlor if yoh don't keer to. take supper. On yoh parole, sah."

Judson hesitated, looking through the lighted windows of the inn with a terrified yet longing eye. Figures moved dimly within. "I'll go," he said, starting forward. "I'll sit thah. I'll not try to escape, so help me God." cS

What with the sick baby and the tired mother, Miss Dilly had much to to that evoning. She soon, however, had both of them comfortably disposed in her own room for the night, and then hurried down to see if anyone else neoded her. "Why, Squire," she said, bustling into the kitchen, "thah's a gentleman alone in the parloh, eatin' no thin'." "He ailin', Miss Dilly. Never mind him. He doan want nothin'."

But Miss Dilly was not used to leave ailing people alone. She made ready a steaming cup of tea. "I'm so sorry yoh feelin' porely, sah," she said. Won't yoh take this, jest to warm yoh?" "No," said the man, gruffly. Miss Dilly, unused to rebuff, stood hesitating. The lamplight shone full on her gray hair and kind blue eyes. "Don't go," said Judson. Stay with me. It will only be for a few minutes. I'll never bee you again."

Something in the voice startled the old woman. She looked at him, raised her bead, listening, and then, recollecting herself, sat down, laughing. "Thet's just what I alius say to myself," she said. "The folks come up hyah,

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nobody in Carolina was ever in a hurry as I saiS. ^ut I have my own people, in those days. Everybody was anxious sah. Blood of my blood and bone

I reekod it's its heard as is wrong. I never hear of now, sah. He was jest seven when he—went away. She turned her head, the tears creep-

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The brain, sah. Enormous! Kf that ing down her withered cheeks.

Judson did not speak for some time. His jaws sank deeper in the mufflers about his neck. He said at last: "An' when he comes, I reckon yoh'd bo pleased to hear of the rich wife and grand house?"

Miss Dilly winced. "Ef Jem's home is like thet, it's all right. I'd go if ho wants me. But what I've thought I'd like She hesitated. "What?" ••Ef we could go back, jest our two selves to house on the Old Black, an' him* an' me live thah together a few year before we went away

The mans head dropped on his chest. He was so still that she jumped to her feet frightened. "Yoh're very porely! J11 bring something—I've gam camphor in a jar of she laid hi whiskey

*y^y

on riquisition from Governor

stay jest long enough foh me to

find they're dear friends, 'n go, 'n I never see them again." "And yoh're satisfied with sech friends as the cars bring yoh every day?" he sneered, savagely.

Miss Dilly drew herself up with a certain dignity. "They're all my friends,

to help the baby, ant! proposed his own my bone. The dear Lord seut thei^ an^ favorite remedy, branuy being the most me into the world together. popular. "Who are they?" he said in a lower

There were only two men in the car tone. who did not join the group about the "Our family? Thar my brother, sah, sick child. They sat side by side on a Colonel James Holmes. I waitin back seat one of them, a swarthy mid- byah for him now. Im ex pectin him die-aged man, with eyes like those of a everyday. An' my father mother stupid, affectionate dog, stooping for- they're up on the Old Black. An than ward, listening eagerly to its moans and a child in our family, she added with a the advice of the crowd. proud rising of the voice. He mv "Poor little kid!" he said, earnestly, brother's son. He is sech a boy's yoh

She laid her hand on his

arm. At that moment the passengers came in from supper, Arny ana Captain Foulke, who nad Kept their eyes on the prisoner through tho open door, foremost. They tbrust themselves between

lake somethin'

idson,

e, Mr. Jn

warti_iij'." They talked londly, bustling about bf ^. tut she mfrVt not see the handct The pass* .-era crowded out of door, going to the train.

Judson with a fierce gesture motioned the men aside. "Imoat speak a word to her." He crossed the room to whore Miss Dilly stood. "Doan yoh git tired prayin' foh bim! Fdr Oo Mike doan git tired An' maybe kin come back V*

The train bad gone and Miss went abont b«r work, st^refied.

5:tBls

had she talked of Jem and sboy «1? She never spoke of them toitr%«ii. It seemed as if the good jLord id made her do It to-night.

She prayed for her brother that night as she never had prayed before. She did not know why abe did it. Nothing this gruff stranger bad reminded, ber -.1 saocy- affectionate Jem.

Bat

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everybody in the inn wan

in bed and aaleep, rim crept to tbe porck and stood looking out into tbe gray, fathomless night. Somewhere out in tbat great unknown world—he was. He might be in that grand sink and stai-ring among oeggars:out berever be wa% hs muat come back to

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fKHRE HATTTE SATUKDAT EVENING MATT*

The prisoner half rose, with a muttered exclamation. "What's that? Who cried Miss Dilly. "I beg yoh pardon, sah, I thought I heard a name "What do you mean?" "Nothing—nothing. I thought yoh said a name that I used to be called at home—mother an' Jem an' all of them. I haven't heard It foh years. I reck in it was talkin' ef them made me fancy it. I'm afeerd my mind's gettin' foolish stun'in' about Jem an' expectin' him." "An' yoh think he'll come?" "I know it," said Miss Dilly, quietly. "Squire Barr, sometimes he says: 'Maybe the Colonel's merrled a rich wife, in some of those big western towns, and has done forgot us all/ An' the girls, I know they're afeered he dead. But he'll come. Every day slnoe he went away I've asked the Lord to send him back: so he—has to come."

her. Her childish, faithful soul went oat in an agony of supplication. "Lord, bring bim back to me. To me —me!"

The fog was thick and cold, and Miss Dilly was used to the warmest corner in the house. But it seemed to her that she mast go oat into the open wide night to come near to him. He was there alive, needing her. "Lord, bring him back to me," she cried.

The people at the station noticed a change in Miss Dilly after that night. She had always been kind, but now she was tender to every living thing she could reach, with the tenderness which a mother shows to a sick child. She had always been cheerful, but now she was breathlessly anxious to make everyone about her happy and merry. "I reckon,' said Colonel Royail, shaking his head, "she's a ripeniu' fur the ena. The doors is openin' an' the glory's a shinin' down on her."

An uneasy dread seized the station when this opinion was made known. Everybody whispered and kept an anxious watch on Miss Dilly's coughs and appetite. Mrs. Barr, who was a dribbling woman as to mind, at last told her what they feared.

Miss Dilly laughed a sound, healthy laugh. ''It's not aeath at all that's comin', Missoury," she said. "It's Jem! The Lord isn't deaf. Nor hard of heart. Neither has he gone on a journey, as the prophet says. He'll send my brother back to me. I'm thinkin' of it continovally now. If one of you's sick I thiuk —what if that was Jem? An'I try to help you. And if another one's downhearted, I think, what if that was Jem? An' I try to cheer him up. That's the truth, Missoury. It isn't death, it's Jem." "If the Lord shud disappoint her after all,'' the Squire muttered with bated breath when he heard this report from his wife.

Summer came, and winter, and summer 8g:dn, until two years had gone by. Judaon had stood his trial and been convicted and served out his brief term of imprisonment. The day he received his dishcarge, the warden of the prison, as usual, spoke a few kind words of warning ana counsel to him at parting. He was startled when Judson, who was noted as a reticent, gruff man, answered him formally: "Sah, yoh're quite right. I'd been runnin' down steady for ten year. Down. Sudden, one day, like a Hash of lightnin' across my path, I was made to know of a woman—who shall be nameless hyah— who hed loved me an' believed in me all my life. Thet has made a differeut man of me. Sah, she's kep' a holt on me! She's tied me to God with her pra'ars! I cahn't get loose!" he cried with a nervous gulp in his throat. "Sah, 1 thank yoh foh yoh words. I'm goin' to her to try to be the man yoh say. I'm goin' to trust to her an' God to pull me through!"

Before he left, the warden gave him more advice. "Take your own name, Judson," he said. "I suspect you are now under an alias. Say nothing to this woman of your past life. Begin afresh where it is not known, and may God bloss you, sah."

This was in October. ~Christmas, that year, brought, as usual, a stir of delightful excitement to the inn. Sevier Station knew nothing of the high significance which modern thought attaches to the great festival of the Christian Year. It was the day, however, on which Colonel Royall sent, before breakfast, a bumpeo of foaming egg-nog to every white man and woman in the clarin/ Every negro who asked for it had "a warmin' of whiskey, at the Colonel's expense. It was the day, too, on which Squire Barr gave his annual tremenjous dinner of turkey and chicken pie, at which the six families of the village all sat down together. Mrs. Missoury Barr, also, mado a practice of Bending dishes of roast pork and hominy, or 'possum stewed in rice and molasses, or some such delicacy, to every negro cabin. There was a general Interchange of gifts brier-wood pipes, or pinchbeck scarf-pins, or cakes of soap in the shape of dog's heads, all of which elegant trifles had been purchased from travelling peddlers, months before, and stored away from the great occasion. Miss Dilly, you may be sure, was quite ready for Christmas. Her locked drawer was full of socks and mufllers knitted by herself, all bright red. as "bein' more cheerin'." Nobody was forgotten in that drawer, from the Squire to the least pickaninny in the quarters.

There was a vague idea throughout the clarin' that the day was one in which to be friendly and to give old grudges the go-by: the Lord (with whom Aunt Dilly was better acquainted than the rest) was supposed, for some reason, to be nearer at nand on that day than usual, though not so near as to make anybody uncomfortable.

Father Ruggles, the jolly old Methodist itinerant, was up in the mountains, and had sent word he was coming down for hia Chritmas dinner. "He'll ask a blessin' on the meal, thank Heaven 1" said Mrs. Missoury with a devout sigh.

The Squire hurried with the news to find the Colonel. "It'll be a big occasion," he said triumphantly. "Father Ruggles '11 be equal to a turkey himself. I depend on you foh makin' de coffee, Colonel. Sam that eggsited now he doan know what he's about."

Suhtenly, suhtenly! But really, Mrs. Missoury'd better double de supply of mince-pie," he suggested, anxiously. "Father Haggles is tahrible fond of mince."

Preparations went on with Increasing force and vigor. They reached full completion the day before Christmas. Then the station paused to take breath before the great event.

Ffetber Ruggles arrived at noon, and in five minutes had shaken hands with everybody, black and white, and put them all In good humor with him, themselves. and each other. "A doan like Miss Dilly looks," he said, lowering bis voice, when be and the Colonel '-nd "^nire were seated together in 1 ,^h cn. lave on the gallery. "She's blue 'n peakpd about the Jaws. Old age, heh?w "Not a bit of it!" rejoined Preston, qt. vcly, "She's a yonng wc in,' npai.t4vely. It's Jem. Colo)

hovsee huddled closely together. Their hoods of feathered, crusted snow mado them almost picturesque.

Across the road came a black, paunchy figure. It was Natt the carpenter, who kept the post-office in a box in his shop. "What ails Jabes?" wondered the Colonel. "Somethln's happened."

Nutt harried up the steps. "Mail's in, gentlemen. Two circulars an' this letiter. Foh Miss Dilly. I just run over with it I thought "Quite right, quite right!" exclaimed Father Ruggles. It may be

The men all rose in tneir excitement. "Do you give it to her. Squire," said the old minister. "You've been her best friend."

Miss Dilly came up the steps. The Squire handed her the letter without a word. His red, pudgy face fell into queer grimaces as he watched her. "Foh me! A letter! Foh

The blood stopped in her old body as she took it, smiling but very pale. When sho saw the writing on the envelope she turned and went to her own room aud shut the door.

The news spread. In ten minutes the whole clarin' was gathered on the gallery. "It may not be from Colonel James at all," suggested Jabez. "It may be on business.' "Business! Doan be an ass, Jabez Nutt," said the Colonel.

The station waited breathless. She came out at last, hor faoe shining with a great inward peace. "Jem," she said to them in a low, quiet voice, "has gone back to our house on the Old Black, an' put it an' tho farm to rights, and, him an' me is to live thah together. He's comin' to-night on the train."

Nobody spoke. The tremendous tidings took their broath. "An'—an' when is yoh a-goin', Miss Dill?" gasped Sam, who was tho first to recover. "Not jest rightaway. He'll stay hyah a week, to see hie old friends," sho said. "An'—thah's the train!" Then she broke down and began to tremble and cry. The women gathered about hrr and cried too, while they smoothed her hair and re-pinned he handkerchiefs.

Tho men hurried down to meet the train. "What an occasion to-morrow'll bo!" panted Squire Barr. "It's nothin'short of providential that the Colonel shud come on this Christmas. Fathor Ruggles hyah 'n all. The station kin give him a suitable reception. Ef the turkeys only hold out! I count on you foh thecoftee, Royall." "You kin. But it isn't victuals I'm keerin' foh, sah," said the Colonel, with a quaver of genuine feeling in his voice. "It's thet pore soul yonder. Godamighty has sent her her Christmas gift, shore. Hyar's the train, gontiemen!"

It rolled* up the track stopped. A short, heavy man with gray hair and a kind, resolute face, came out 011 the platform. "Thet' him! Thet's Jem!" shouted the Colonel. Then they all broke into a rouBing cheer, pressing round him, waving their hats, and shaking his hand, after the hearty Southern fashion. "She's up thah, Colonel," said tho Squire. "Go right away up, Bah. She's been waitin' along time."

Personal.

Mr. N. H. Frohlichstein, Of Mobile, Ala., writes: "I take great pleasure in recommending Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, having used it for a severe attack of Bronchitis and Catarrh. It gave me Instant relief and entirely cured me and I have not been afflicted since. I also beg to state that 1 have tried othef remedies with no good result. Have also used Electric Bitters, and Dr. King's New Life Pills, both of which I can recommend.

Dr. King's Now Discoveay forConsumtion, Coughs aud Colds, is sold on a positive guarrantee.

Trial bottles free at Carl Krietenstein's Drug Store, S. W. Cor. 4tli and Ohio. 1

Wonderful Cures.

W. D. Hoyt fc C., Wholesale and Rotail Druggists of Rome. Ga., say: "Wo have been selling Dr. King's New Discovery, Electric Bitters and Bucklon's Arnica Salve for four years. Havo never handled remedies that sell as well, or give such universal satisfaction, There have been some wonderful cures affccted by this remedy in this city. Several cases of pronounced Consumption havo leen entirely cured by tho use of afow bottles of Dr. King's Now Discovery, takon in connection with Electric Bittors. We guarantee them always."

Sold by Carl Krietonstein, S. W. Cor. 4th and Ohjo^ 1

Baoklen's Amies Salve.

The Best Salve in the world for Cots, Brulsej, ires, Ulcers, Halt Rheum. Fever Horns, Tefter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, aDd

VV1 -yj-mTTjr«-

TUB

BRKATH

Jt m.

She's done tired ont waitin'on that man. st year she** took to *-pectday. watci.'S the

It 'ud make face when it

train night ~'n morn in', yoh to see bear old goes v.*» r," the Colonel in "we want to 1—Miss Di Li: to-morrow, long o' the rest. Sbe doat rget non as in ber knit* tin's jyin*s,Ili arrant! I says to the fi-. irs hyah, '•off de cl»r com-l e, 'n buy somet i* wuth «de a cbc »r new calico or methin Bat be says, 'What's de user be says, 'she wants nothin' but ber teotfw. Kin w® give ber her brother?* 80 ahs bcrw it to!" filling his pipe, with a gi -ay nod.

The man glanced fnrtirelv at Miss Dilly, who, in ber blue gown and white apron, stood in the yard Mow feeding a noisy flock of chickens.

The sun going down through a frosty sky threw red lights upon tbe yast white pt«tiM and the dnster of liUle gray

DllllDFIf \AIrU™| HUVJ

all skin eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to rjy» perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. 25c per box. For sale by Carl Krietensteln, H. W Cor. 4th and Ohio.

of a chronic catarrh pa

tient is often so offensive that ho bocomes an object of disgust. After a time ulceration sets in, the spongy bones aro attacked, and frequently entirely destroyed. A constant scource of discomfort is the dripping of tho purulent secretions into the throat, sometimes producing inveterate bronchitis, which in its turn has been the exciting cause of pulmonary disease. The brilliant results which have attended its use for years past properly designate Ely's Cream Balm as by far the best and only cure.

Dr. B. B. GLOVER,

Kectai diseases only. No. 115 South Sixth street. Savings Bank' Building

Dyspepsia

Makes the lives of many people mlicrxble, eat ess after eating, tour stomach, •tc -, e, heartburn, toss of appetite, a faint," all gone" feeling, bad taste, coated and irregularity of

DlStr689 u.^ureh. Dyspepsia does After

001

weU

tt»ei£. it

requires careful attention,

Eating -A

A remedy like Hoods

Sartaparflla, wb5 et* gently, yet efficient! j. It tones the stomach, regulates the digestion, nes a good ap-

AI-L

petite, L_olshes headache, and refreshes the miwL rieaaaCnO I have been 4 with djrspef I bad hot little atrU.^ and what 1 cJ, eat

UAO distressed ne, or did ne rvearx good. After eating 1 burn

'••ti a taint or tfred,

a&fooe feeSng, ss I bad not eaten anything. My trouble was aggravated by

spr I I fs ®our whidt did me aa wtOVnaCrl tan se

.v-

of gave .-

i__i i_jr food i—*e4 and

the ersvtog I had ptvtkmAf experienced." GBOBOS A. Paox, Watsrtown, Mass.

Hood's Sarsaparilfa

•eld Ml draggtot*. fl ats tor $i. J-rsp*f*4 only tyC.1. BOOB a OO.. Aytlwttrtw. Latwll. Ifiw

IOO Doses One Dollar

:wmmm

The Handsomest tady In Terr® Haute Remarked to a friend the other day that sho knew Kemp's Balsam for tho Throat and Lungs was a superior remedy, as it stopped her cough iustantly when other cough remedies had no effect whatever. So to prove this and convince you of its merit any druggist will give you a Sample Bottle -FVee. Lasge sue £|pc and $ 1.00. eow-alt.

SuflTerwt for Six Years.

Wife suffered six years from oppressed menstruation. Has been treated by the best phj-sicians without benefit. Two bottles of Bradfield's Female Regulator relieved her. W. A. SIMMONS, McNutt's, S. C. Write the Brad field Reg. Co., Atlanta, Ga. Sold by James E. Somes, cor. 6th and Ohio. 17-1 m.

TAKE! NO OTHER.

UNG™CTiufr AULDRUGGIST3 25GTS.ABDTTIB

If You Have

Kaanpetttp, Inclination. Fltttnlenee, Kirk Ilouducho. "all rnu down," losing ricsli, J'OII will find

Tint's Pills

tho remedy yon need. They ton© np the weak Ntomacb anil build unttie flagging energies. Nnfferers from mental or physical overwook will find roller from tliem. icely sugar coated.

SOLD EVERYWHERE.

ELY'S CREAM BALM

CATARRH

Cleanses tlio Nnsnl

I'HNHAgeH, Allay

rain and In (1h

mat ton, lloals th Sores, Itestores tlir

wFEVER

Senses of Taste an*!

Smell,

Try tho Cure.

-FEVER

A partlclo Is an piled Into each nostril and fsagreenblo, Price GO cents at lrujrglsU by mail, registered, (to cts. ELY MIOH., fifl Warren Rt,., New York.

^OTHERS'

j&asy:

jyxMtNigHEju i)ANGER ToUffc or MlOTH£A^CHU&

0OOIL T& JJRADFl£LD. REGULATOR CO,

Sold iiy

.1. K. Ho.MKH.cor.6th and Ohio.

DRUNKENNESS

Or the IJeaor Habit. Pasitlvelr Cared

Aamtalaterln* Pr. liaises' ticldea Hpecifle.

It can be given In

curt

of coflteo or tea

without the Knowledge of tho person taking It Is alisolutelcy harmless, una will effect a permanent and speedy cure,''Whether the |otlcnt'ts it moderate drinker or an alcoholic wrecK. Thousands of drunkards havo been made temperate men who have taken Golden Hpcclflclti their cofltee without their knowledge and to day believe they quit drinking of their own free will. IT NKVKIt KAIIjf. The system once impregnated with tho HpoIflc, it becomes an utter Impossibility for the llouor appetite to exist. For salt by

JAH. E. HOMKH, IJrugglHt,

Cor. 6tb and Ohio sts., Teirc Haute, Ind.

The BUYERS'OUJDKIs issued and Etpl., pnch your. It i* an cny riopeiiia of uk 'iv (i-.tr-for au'who purvhe luxur.ts ot- tba necorjitic» Ci hlfc. v«/s f... nn-l mine a

cau cicthr ,-Jl "h- W": 'Y.

fish, ha-t, tt !. rc to t-MUiih, or nt homo, so 1 iii artouf 1 v.tw.ft'Uitf. Ju» ttgur" out wiir.t r«mi'»-oU t.o du all those things fnd you c«n make a tair C. iuitUc oi tLo value of the BUYT511S' which will be Rent upon receipt of 10 cants to pny post»tro, MONTGOMERY WARD & CO. 111-114 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IiL

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HORSE AhD CATTLE POWDERS a* roirrz

I!«m« »N FTNJR. JVit* or 1^ •*«». if I i'trwnm *re in tin*. I vuV* r» willmrr

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KMCHAUU.

Vmur* I'nviir* «(J! in tewuk srfll th? qnxntiif of milk %-•*, T«-*» t»eoijr ptr eeau mA ntatlM' Ui« ttetter Qtm im fowAtt* srffj tw trr prrr»m sjnysst to wald) Hon** (ritifeeL torrr* Pwwtt wtu «vs H»ruar*crnm.

MA erefj-wbtrs. StWD ft TOUTZ, Proprietor, MAvrmomm. UD.

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GAGG, nsAI

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