Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 21, Number 20, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 8 November 1890 — Page 2

THE MAIL

A pArER FOR THE PEOPLE.

SUMMER IN THE HEART.

Spriagtlnso may lose Its freshest ttota, And ftt'tujrmi!eaves their ffpld, The bitter blast atvi aoowy wreath

Slav sw*|» ttaxm the woM But the ymt* are fall of spiendor* Tl)3i never trill depart, For they *iwsl eisrnal fragrance

VFhcfl thc-re'* Summer In the Heart The »badvr« linger on the car"Ji. The winlxsuiiB bide away. The #ad rotate fold thrfr chill white hand*

About il face of day The tumult &«'l the rush of life Some I aye tn street and mart But thejr cannot drovrn Ufe'» mtwH

When there'# Summer to the Heart. The city towers are crumbling fast, Aiul tott«r to their fall The Irted castle on the height

Show* many a ruined wail But men fcuild eternal dwell log*

With strange and wondrous art, They are shrines for the Immortal* When there's Summer in the Heart, —Montreal Star.

Thanksgiving at Uncle Gideons.

[Anna WhIt-Uer Wendell In Oodeyls.] I. Such a gathering of the clan Scotland never Haw, a* took place at Uncle Gideoij'b that year. The erection of the Tower of liable was of no more Importance in Babylon thau the Thanksgiving Day in Mew England, and I doubt it much noisier. Form all happy, healthy sight, that long table, groaning under its weight ot good things, surrounded by It# host of beaming faces, its babel of merry tongues, goes ahead.

I remember perfectly, just how royal that Drown young turkey—who had been occultly warned, and gone around for days with haunted eye and mullledgobble— looked on hiH huge platter, trimmed round with greens. I can see the big ham at tiie other ond, rivaling the cranberries blush, and having spots of pep per over itN mound like a polka dotted red chintz and I can seethe fresh stalks In the celery glass, and my mouth waters, but when I come to the rich aroma wafted from the Hide table, where reposed pies, fruit-cake, nuts. apples, and the proverbial plumb-pudding, I atn too full for utterance, or I was, and simply lift my hands in memory of past ocstacv. Then there was all those dear people: Sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, and cousins scat tercd up and down between smiling Uncle Gideon and Aunt Haunah. There was Will, the oldest son, and his wlf» and twins Frances and'her husband:

Haohel and Mary, uncle's sisters—"the happy old maids"—as all tho family call oil them Raymond ami Hosemoii'ie, the newly engaged couple and Nina, whom everybody idolized, with Fred included

And what an evening tt was to be sure Hallowe'en, only more so, bobbing after apples, popping corn, old-fashioned games, where old-fashioned kisses play ed a part, and old-fashioned hobgoblin tales told by Uncle Gideon, our family Gulliver, whose pudgy cheeks, and ex pansive stomach, shook contagiously, as the eyes of his audience grow larger and larger with each new wonder.

Then came the hour for rotiring, wheu armed with our candles, we all flocked upstairs like a brood of noisy pigeons, and crowded merrily into the apart ments assigned us.

There were live of us in a great burn of a room in tho fourth story, and being monarohs of all we surveyed, we cut up scandalously behind our bolted doors. Nina was the gayest, most at I uriuK little witch, that ever made an angelic picture. In her long night dress and naked feet, which, like little white mice, darted in and out beneath the hem, as she scampered about like a frisky kitten. I guess it was one o'clock before our light was extinguished, and still later before Morpheus came round kissing down tho eye lids. Mine would not be wooed. I was always so happy when at uncle's! could rarely sleep for tho first night or two. I lav watching the outlines of the quftint. ofd furniture, that had been part of Aunt Hannah's "sotting out," and I heard two clear, sonorous strokes peal out from Beacon street, near by, and then I heard a sound that sent the blood creeping up my spine, and made tho papers on my head rise up—it was a premonitory crack of the celling, and a slow in dentation, and a quick upbringing of tho tin on the roof, behind a steathly tread.

I almost shrieked aloud, when Nina's little warm hand suddenly found mine. "Isn't it funny?" she whispered, "I heard it last night. What can it be?"

I was ashamed of snuggling up to her for protection, but I did. We lay holding our breaths. The uncanny thing had made pause directly above our heads as if fearful of Its own ateps, the ceiling cmoked again, and the crunching and rattling went fearfully on. I clung to Nina in a perfect panic. "It's g^lng acrtww to the next house it will come back it did last night/' she whispered. Keep right quiet so as not to wake the others, but I am going to peep out of the trap door In the entery and see if that's flesh or spirit." "Oh! Nina: Oh! Nina dear," I begged, catching her soft, plump arms in my shaking lingers, "don't, pleas® don't please, please lay still." ••Why, thing*don't frighten me," she whispered. "Oh! Helen, I must see this prowler, indeed 1 must. Kiss me. You needn't come a step If yon are afraid."

a tn »nent of gl.v-m. The next** lhe

I held on to her, and almost cried but suddenly, like a soft bird, she got out of my clttiel**9M«ui, with a low, excited mutt laugh, began dressing herself. "Theft* is a glorious moon,"she whispered, from the floor "perhaps he an Kaatarn Individual, and is making agar den up there but 1*11 see what he is up to," mmned, and began pnlHng on my olothe«. I knew It useless, but, trembling, followed when I *aw the car* lew* child. Willi only a decoy «bawl flung over her dreeling gown, her bHght hair falling to her kn«Hw» and h«r eye* dancing with expectancy, let heixeff and can* die softly out of th* d* .She tripped buoyantly along Hie en irv, made a m«vk farewell otiulde of Kre«r* dear, *n»l re»oh«*d the ladder lead log to the trafs »u»di**«overt"d. Here laid violent hand# o-» her again, and pleaded In vain.. ,. "1 am the daughter %»?d er4 shr whirred." and c®ttth*r*d **\v««d my reach. I SAW tier draw a r«Mv an.t»\n ja one general bow blow out the caodl*. Th« iw!* ww I thought w&m tn» at *r.d awful •if

l?',

,r' *nd

in tvwil at mv 3*M»d.!e*tr *.} up at the radian? and whiif dr*t»er* I *m.^t f» rgot m* jwMtxm. bm *hc |vo» d.*w«, and «o* reached me. "t am **ry •«H is*b«ur«** IwttMrtlyt

I shook the ladder in my frenzy. "it acteth weirdly," she continued, In »n atesorled tone* "Oh, mercy!" "Nina! Nina!" I moaned goiec up a »tepandcatchiughergowja. OhI Nina, are you crazy?"

She di-ew op her feet as if dimly conscious I was bothering her, and sat on the aide of the trap in fait view, "•It'n the queerest shape," %he nautter«d "i looks neither man, beast, or bird. Perhaps its Ragasus mistaking these houtw tops for Mt^ H^Hcin. It might be a guerilla, but it isn't, "whispered ISTina,

4,it's

a man, and I'd give my eye teeth to know what he's fixing. Hist! Get down something tells me be Is going to make a return trip."

We bad barely timo to drop when that horrible rattling of the tin sounded again, and a shadow fell across our trap. It had no sooner passed than that dreadful child bo bed up to look. "He's disappearing down the trap about four houses below," she telephoned. "Now, I'm going to skip up to .that apparatus he's left, and see what it is.

She was getting out with all when suddenly she dropped as if if shot. "He's coming again. It must be Mercury in disguise. Maybe it's dynamite, be prepared to go up in a sheet or flame, she said* "Oh, be carries a camp stool."

Without a word of warning she scrambled gliblv aud noiselessly out on the roof." Mv first impulse was to follow, and I could have screamed when I saw ttfat determined little villain cautiously mincing after the footsteps of the man, ape, or whatever it was, seeming to leave in the wake of her white garments a line of trembling silver.

I saw him

pause

twice in a short

journey, for caution's sake, and she

Eesitatingly

aused, too. When be moved on she unmoved, too and I believe she could have danced a jig when he finally set down bis stool and deposited himself thereon, with his back still turned and his fixings in front of him. I could see the long astronomer's glass, and all aronnd lay instruments I could not distinguish. What seemed an age elapsed, when I heard an impatient ejaculation as he tamed.

The little white figure stodd its ground unflinchingly. Neither moved or made a sound for full twenty seconds. Then, with a magnificent ease indescribable, that child or resources slightly turned her shoulder on him, and scanned the firmament with wrapt eyes.

Be seemed to catch his breath, and shifted from one foot to the other. She waited a moment, and then began very slowly to move away from him. He started and caught the fringe of her shawl. "Are you spirit or woman?" he said, excitedly. "T beg pardon?" "I—I had no idea," ho began. "Nor I. I'm afraid I disturbed you."

She was moving in my direction, and

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drew him after her like a magnet. I saw his face in the clear light—it was alive with perplexity. "Have you been up here very long?" he ventured, scanning her closely. "Not very long—to-uight." "Other nights?" f?he encountered his eye# with agentle .surprise that made him writhe. "None that I thought was lovelier than this," she said sweetly. "Would you care to look through my glass?" he stammered, as she placed her foot on our trap. "Thank you not to-night, I think."

A sharp, little Novemoer blast came scurrying around a chimnoy, and twirled her garments in mad glee. "Good heavens!" ejaculated the astronomer, violently, "such clothing ou such a night. Get inside there, right away."

He did not allow her look to annihilate him. He very sensibly took her hands aud balanced her until she was down at least three rungs of tho ladder. "Good night," he said, as sho drew her fingers away.

She looked up gravely then a most delicious unite broke out all over her face, the moon reyealing it. "Good night perhaps there will be a moon to-morrow night." Shu made the slightest perceptible pause, then—"if so, oh, wise astrologer, commend me to her." "With pleasure. Whom shall I say desires hor majesty's remembrance?"

He dropped on his knee, ostensibly to close the door. She answered quickly: "Ask not a mortal the planets will unthe mystery. Search them farewell." "Stop, now, till I light the candle. I must bolt the trap," she whispered.

Let it go till morning never mind it uow, 'said I, beseechingly. "Notso astrologers are absent-mind-ed creatures we must guard against the unexpiainable mishap of his mistaking our door for bis,"

But search proved unavailing for our ignited spark, aud tho determined child crept up in the dark. I heard the rusty bolt go gratingly to its place, and then a soft rustle at even intervals then a little thud, and a smothered exclamation of pain. 1 found her in a little tiny heap on tho wrong side of the ladder-

I guess I fell through the rungs,"she said, between laughing and crying. '•Don't be frightened its only my foot.

Oh! oh!" Poor child! Just as I got her half up, Fred's door opened, and a flood of light poured out. "What's the matter?" he cried. "Hush, Nina has slipped and hurt herself don't make a fuss about It."*

He quickly got her out of my arms into his, aud laid her down on the first bed he came to. "Where is she hurt?" be asked, ia a low, troubled tone to me. "I heard jou parading overhead."

Nina moaned. "Where does it hurt you!" be asked frantically, trying to straighten her out.

Oh! don't oh! please don't you might touch it If you did, I—I couldn't bear is,'* "I'm going for a doctor," be said, decisively springing up, wub««tanother word.

tor, ne mm. aeand, dartea ofl

I wakened one of the girls to go down and tell Aunt Hannah. Presently she arrived in a red flannel petticoat, ishort swk n'ght-gown, and a frilled ea|», h«r spectAdrw, a bottle of camphor, and a medic*! treatise in her bands. Uncle Gideon f«Mow#»d, in a complete unit of •tagger, his snuff-box and a glass of tepid, *met being bt» trophies t» the sufferer

I binsh to think bow tittle sense any of us had. Not once did hot water, wtteb banie, or any *imjple remedy, occur to tt*, and when Ttm *c« and said be had a doctor "fron here," we bad noiy gotten the silk stocking off, and the foot *n a pilkVw*

I noticed many things about th*young phrsicmn that I liked* He the nr*lt he did ftot wait. ,*d hi* nam#, befarfc h« toolit na i'

WfrNtna

4 »rr»rg* light created fcfcl aa If bad been m&tiwsil*

I mm at fault, lie ai to work 4 geotle way? fn*' **r all or*mjfaml fool, not pa afc a -v-xsb sfe# moaned mm ft tin I «t*»i

break, or sprain be patient, just a little

I'm sorry if I was rude," she

said, tremblingly, stili fighting the.tears. I saw the doctor bend a swift, compassionate look on her, then he announced that it was a break. "I always bad a grudge against broken bones," said Cousin Slay to me "do you think she'll faint?" "No," said I, for I saw Nina's suffering eyes on me "she's the daughter of a soldier."

44Now,

I'll just set this troublesome

little bone," said the doctor, as if proposing an excursion to Yellow Stone Park "if I may ask most of you to leave us. Perhaps, you will remain," he said to me, and he handed Fred something, to indicate that he could be of service.

It was some minutes before the doctor was ready. Then the rub came, and he

ffeltthose

ve two or three agonizing jerks, her shaking violently, and her teeth closing In the bosom of my gown, but she uttered no sound—not one.

She lay back, white and spent, and some tears stole thickly out between her closed lids.

The doctor prepared a powder, and she swallowed it without unclosing her eyes. Then he sat down by her with his fingers on her pulse. "How did she meet with the accident?" he asked, presently, of Fred. "Well," said Fred, "you know Thanksgiving's a pretty frisky tinje, and Nina's the jolllest of the whole crew. Well— oh, the other girls put off on her to sneak down and get them something more to eat, and she slipped in the dark, and h6r6 g|j0

The very deliberate way in which he began, and the tremendous hurry he got in when he saw his way out, made me fear that his veracity would be doubted, but the hearer's face vjras as the face of one who listens to the De Profundis.

Where I had seen that face tormented me until, when he had gone, promising to come back in the morning, Nina had slowly opened her eyes and pointed heavenward. "Esculapiusand Herscbel are one," quoth she.

II. at

When we spent Thanksgiving at Uncle Gideon's, it was generally undersood we were to arrive fully three days before, and remain a week after, at the very least.

So, but for Nina's mishap, our merrymaking would have gone on without a check, and when on the second day Dr. Boguardos carried her down to the library sofa, and she assured us she was dellciously comfortable, we resumed our antics with aright good will. "More'n likely, her bones ain't as tough as Gid's grissle," I beard Aunt Hannah saying to the doctor, "just point 'em at each other, and they'll kuit I s'pose." "That's the principal," he said, with his quick, appreciative smile "if we can only keep her quiet ior a little while, she will be all right, and there seems lots of fun here to amuse her."

I thought he looked a bit wistful as he said this, and it seemed to strike Gideon too, for he cried in his big hearty voice "We need another one to keep us going: know of chap wanting to join ...a aom pany of hobbledehoys?" "I'd apply for the vacancy," was tho warm response, "®nly I've been out of practice of that sort so long, I might be a hindrance, not a help." "Not a bit of it," roared Uncle, bring ing his huge fistaown on his round leg with a bang "out of practice! why? don't yon keep Thanksgiving in your part of the country?" "This is my part of the. country but my people have all gone to keep it in a better." "I've been wondering," Aunt Hannah said, "what it was made me like you, and I know now," making an impressive pause.

The doctor's face glowed. "It's because you look like our Charlie. He's been« in that other couutry these five years and Thanksgivens aint a scrimptlon to what they used to be, though we make I slleve." (How my heart echoed what she said how I yearned to bless her for, those faithful tears.) "If you are lonesome for your people, and can get any comfort out of his, for pity sakesdo he would like it beyond everything

She bad laid her hand on his arm, aud I saw him lift it to his lips, and heard htm answer, very low, ^'Perhaps my mother has found him aut, if he is lonely too."

It was a little thing to say but the simple manner of saying it pleased Aunt Hannah. After that we saw him besides bis attendance on Nina, part of every day and evening. .The next day, while playing chess, the doctor looked up. "Check!" said Nina, holding his king with her queen.

He slid his bishop between them, with his eyes on hers. She took it with a proud and wicked laugh. "You had better come off star gazing, Boguardos," growled Fred, twirling his toothpick fiercely from one side to another. "Oh, did you ever study astronomy?" asked Nina, eyeing Boguardos animatedly. "I paid some attention to it until recently." "Until recently! Oh, discovered the fickleness of the heavenly bodies, 1 pre* sume: I don't believe myself they are to be relied on." "I do they have revealed mysteries to to me past comprehension. But I trust the interpretation to the fyiture." "What kind of mysteries? queried Nina, moving a man. "Beautifuloeyond the telling."

The doctors hand went up suddenly to his mustache. "I thought I had removed that castle," he said, presently. "I have not liked the look of its watch tower ali along." "I creep up then to survey the nakedness of the enemy's land."

"And lay siege to all he holds most dear." "Yea I'm a foe to be dreaded." "I know that so what 1 do I must do quickly.**

He swooped down and took the castle with a half-hidden knight. "Thoee hopping pieces remind me of flies," said Nina, disgustedly "I want that castle!"

"So I did." She glanced over the board searchingly. "What did you take my other one with?" she asked. "This!"touchlog the offending horseman. "He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone but—" "Let those laugh who win," she cried, bringing her queen down with a defiant little rush. "There is no shame in that surrender," he said, placing the piece among her other tfcrophtai. "Hestormed the cast to g«t access to the queen, and fe# a willing captive.

I closed my book and wandered ear shot, thoagh I caught a £rag*^~n Nina* arornml retort, "Cba^ many garmenta la whfeA loak."

In the dining-rDom toaueueupoe Ft**!, looking diseostt&kiu "Bang that doctor h* sis Nlaa 1 am txmnd tefaa*-*

Nina wma««ri-.^ weett

hvtnpm 5. Htoa waaserfc 111»»* ^sf ajaald nouafna should not m* I WnV',

knowing that he was but nineteen, and too young to think of her. Fred seemed confident of success, as he said, "I am sure of her if I can but get the chance to propose to her again." "You had better wait," I replied. But my advice was not heeded for, that evening, asl wentintosee Nina, I found him there. "Is that Helen!" said Fred, without turning bis head as the door opened.. "Yes it's Helen. "Helen, can't you make Nina good to me?" turning his face to me.

I sat down close to both, and did a few sundries in the way of pats ''Don'tyou love-this dear bov, "Nina dear?" I asked presently.

You know," she said, with a catch in her breath, "I just love him dearly dearly, but not enough." "You don't try hard enough you were just coming round when you got hurt, and you haven't been thinking about me a bit since." "Ob, Freddie, yes I have." "You haven't. You won't let me carry you up-stairs any more, and I guess I ain't any more likely to run you into banisters and door-jams, than the next one." "I know, and I will, Freddie. You can take me right up now. I'm all tired out."

She dropped her bead with a weary movement that went to the boy's heart. "I'm awful mean, Nina," he said, penitently. "If you say its no now for good and all, I'll swallow it if it kills me, but think real hard before you do it, for its bang to every hope I've got, remomber that."

She put her arms up aud pulled his head down to hers, and I saw she was

jrying, a very unusual thing. "Oh, what shall I do, what shall I do?" she moaned,

shall "its awful to have lovers," "Freddie," said I, "give her until tomorrow, she's tired now." "No, its got to be now, Helen, I'm going away to-morrow, if its no." "Where are you going?" cried Nina, tightening her arm. Those were tho kind of unguarded things she did, and then wondered why lovers were loath to go. "Anywhere, I don't care."' "Hush Fred," said I, "you hurt her give her till Christmas, that's a month." "I did last year," he said. "Well, do it once more." I was a max ed to see Nina's eyes peer over his hair, with a command in them to desist "N-b-o. I had better decide now," she said "oh, Freddie why can't you love me like a brother, haven't I always been a good little sister to you?" •'Yes, darling, too good," he said, brokenly. "Then let us stay this way,!' she whispered.

Fred groaned unaccountably, and covered lier hair with kisses. "Yes or no," he cried, desperately, straighteniiig up

She would have'edged out of it, but he looked more in earnest and paler than we ever saw hint, and when he said again, "yes or no, Nina, speak." She she cried* out no, in a burst of tears.

He left us next morning, making excuse that "some fellows wanted him in Providence." He braced us very unselfishly, and showed a cheerful face at the last, only to me at the door he said^ he was very miserable, aud begged if Nina showed any signs of weakening I would telegraph him.

She didn't, though, she stayed upstairs all dav, with a headache, and emphatically denied herself to the doctor, who sent up twice to ask if he might see her, and try to relieve the pain.

That

evening he came in the library,

where I was rummaging among the magazines be looked woe-begone, but was too proud to express

after I left "If yon speak

In his voice.

"Can I help you search?" he asked pleasantly. .. .. "I'm after the Atlantic Monthly. I thought I'd read to Nina," I said, thinking the mention of her name would make It easy for him to inquire again, if he cared to. "How is the aching head?" he asked. "Very much easier, come up and say good night to us before you go. You'll find us in the sitting-room." I was turning away, when he said in the direct fashion I admired, "Could I come now, do you think?" I encountered his eyes and smiled a little, he answered it, a slight blush staining his broad brow.

She had been employed in curling the long ends of her unbound hair about the tassels of a silken girdle knotted at her waist, but weary of this, had fallen asleep, he» hands half open like a child's her whole attitude very appealing. Her wrapper was of white cashmere, trimmea with swansdown, and pale blue ribbons. The open sleeves, Itned with blue silk, pulling back prettily from the round banish arms. I never saw a lovelier picture, and I think ho never did. I turned awav, for that sudden light, like a new dawn that uncontrollable tendencies pouring down upon her, was not for me, though I had seen the lik«, aye, seen and trembled at the strange guest's knock, just as he trembled there. "Sit here and read," I said, seeing him hesitate, and opening my own book.

He sat, half turned from me, and I did not hear him turn a page, but I suppose I read for a quarter of an hour then I heard Uncle Gideon calling vociferously from below, and I went down.

I suppose I stayed longer than I intended, for when I got back to the sitting room it was half past ten, and Nina looked as If she mighthave been awake some time.

I suppose we had been in bed a hairhour, and I was just dozing ofl, when Nina's voice, very sudden and queer, recalled me. "Helea, do you like very big people," she asked.

No, I like very little people," I answered, sleepily, putting out my hand. She drew it across her lips, and I felt that her cheeks were wet. "Nina, dear/ I cried, wide awake, gathering her over to me.

She cried in good earnest then, though silently. "It isn't any thing -to fret about,"!—I 'spoae," she ejaculated, strug gllng with her tears, ana ending with a nervous langh, "only it's the most disgraceful thing I ever heard of—not—not a week, and Freddie hardly oo—Id in bis grave, yon might say. "Nina," I Mid, shaking her a little bit, "what have you done?" "Nothing, nothing at all oh, dear." "What happened in that sitting room t?* I asked, sternly. that way I'll squirm and she moaned. "I can't

she moaned ng if you fnam me, can

hurt my foot.1 tell you anythi

"I was awakened up," she began, "by fediftg eyrn it's a horrid sensation, and I thought I must be d5ngRti11, when he neveramiled, or 1 different, or spoke v, ben I Nsd, so I moved my handc sttrwtt attention, and I Startle n. W ». he paid me fc he hT. t'r f-r.' ku! J-

J-!,)- mi '».*•?, I. I? flu tit a -r- a wafAttqgt a ttfittjj#

tv.

•Well, I had to do that or cry he went on so w.«is all worked up, and I didn't want him to ee, did I?" "True,1 said I, soothingly. "Well?" "I thought bow nice and patient Freddie always behaved, so, when I did look, I looked meaningly, aud just said Freddie," "It was awful," she whispered, solemnly. "I never saw a man suffer before he buried his face in his hands, and such a groan never heard. I stood it as long as I could, and then I saw a little end of mustache sticking out between bis hands, aud I pulled gently. He lifted his face, and 1 never, never want to make him look that way again. My!, it hurts me awful. I fujrgot all about everything. Helen, youTl be ashamed of me, but 1—I hugged him. Now, Helen, I can't tell you the next. I've told you my part, but the rest is all his part be was so happy he said a good deal, you know, and it wouldn't seem fair to tell even you, would it?" "No,' I said, gravely, "not at all fair, dearest, only I want to know if yeu really love him, or acted on impulse it's only been a week, Nina, since you found him on the roof aiid called him a Guerilla." "I told him that, but be says, it seems longer, and be saj's, he can show Uucle Gideon he comes of good people, aud his life shall prove how faithfully ho has learnd the lesion in a week."

We lay silent a long time, then Nina crept a little close aud whispered brokenly "It's been ft real Thanksgiving for me, Helen I didn't do it on impnbe, I wanted. I know, I seem a child u» ail of you, who have known aud petted me so long, and the words sound vain from such a foolish little thing as I am but I'm not afraid that the woman's love will not teach the child wisdom, and, with God's help and her husband's, she can perform the solemn duties faithfully that she sees before her In those coming years. Kiss me, aud trust me, Helen."

And, I did.

III.

So many things can happen in a week. So many, many thiugs can happen in a year. So many hundred things can happen in two years. 1 think this as I pack my little trunk, in my Manchester boarding house my heart just bounding in anticipation of the morrow, when we (my trunk aud 1) shall be welcomed once more into Uucle Gideon's dear old arms, for auother Thanksgiving.

I cut many strange antics, with no one by to see-, but then, old maids are proverbial for silly thiugs. For instance, 1 sling my report books and all the miserable paraphernalia of my daily work in the bottom of a closet, with a grin and a muttered "done with you, for a while!" And I cry a little oyer the picture of a great big man, who looks strong enough and true enough, to take care or a dozen little school teachers with one hand, as I lay him between the leaves of tny Bible, and put him in my trunk. It comforts me to remember that the dear eyes rest against tho line— "He giveth his beloved sleep." Yes, that comforts me a little, when I think how dark life sometimes is but, perhaps, if—our lives together might—Oh, Father,silence my murmurings! "Stand beside the brink"—staud close beside the brink, that the waters tie not all marab to my lips!

Theu I smile at the pack of letters, freshly written, that I drop in, too. Crazy Fred—he thought his heart was broken two years ago, and to-morrow I will meet his fiancee. "Just the dan diest girl, Helen, you ever saw! Hair, like a raven-wing eyes, like a gazelle and brains, a walking Encyclopedia Britannica, nothing less and a staunch ofilshness about her to nery fellow but me." So he had written in his first glow, and so I could well afford to smile oyer Fred's future.

But what made me laugh aud cry together (very silly no doubt), was the thought that to-morrow I would hold Nina's babv in my arms, the tinny mite that bore ray Charlie's name, "On his diminutive countenance may be discerned a weird mingling of star* and physics," the little mother had set down in her first description of him to me. And how I yearned to behold that little face, where heaven and earth both shone, none knew, not even Nina.

At last, to-morrew dons the present tense and is to day, and I find myself trembling, as the slow old train creeps into the station, and I tremble more, and I cry a little, because I ant so silly, when I near that dear old hearty voice, and feel those light old arms aud good old lips, and know I am onco more near home. Then the glad surprise of seeing Freddie, and knowing he has left his love to come and meet old me and the double, treble gladness that surges over me, with such a rush, I dare not speak, when wide is thrown the door, and I see the crowd of glad, welcoming, familiar faces, all tumbling toward we at once, and I feel warm arms and soft lips and a motherly bosom, and know I am it home for Thanksgiving.

Life Is Misory.

To thousands of people who have the Ictlrit of scrofula in their blood. The agonies caused by the dreadful running sores and other manifestations of ihls disease are bsyond description. There Is no other remedy equal to Hood's Sarsaparllla for scrofula, salt rheum and every form of blood disease. It Is reasonably sure to benefit all who give It a fair trial. Be sure to get Hood's

The usual treatment of catarrh is very unsatisfactory, as thousands of dImpairing patients can testify. A trustworthy medical writer says: "Proper local treatment in positively necessary to success, but most of the remedies in general use by physicians.afford but temporary benefit. A cure cannot be expected from snu fls, powders, douches and washes." Ely's Cream Balm is a remedy which combines the important requisites of quick action, specific curative power with perfect safety and pleasantness to the patient.

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diseases, Scereeiy a family Is entirely fire* from if.' ads everywhere are lla Hood's Sorsaparttia baa fcitd nsmarkalAs ftweess In cartog every form of serofttia. The most severe and palatal flaming sates, sveffi&gs in the neck or gtiitte, tHRxur ts the eyes, estuing partial or total «, yield to tha oweiftd affects ef It mot gbly t+moras eves? trace baporfjy from the If Heed and baikhs? tt# weakened system, isiM

WHAT CURES.

Editorial Difference of Opinion on a Important Subject.

What is the force that ousts disease, and which is the most convenient appratus for applying it? How far is the regular physician useful to us because believe in him, and how far are his pill, and powders and tonics only the material representatives of his personal iullueuee on our health?

The regular doctors cure: tho home atkic doctors cure the Hahnemannitd cure aud so do the faith cures and tht so-called Christian scientists, aud the four-dollar-and-a-half advertising iti rants, and the patent medicine They all hit, and they all miss, and tlr great difference—one great differenceiu the result is that when the rogul doctors lose a patient no one grumbles and when the irregular doctors lose on the community stands on end and howl —[Rochester Union and Advertiser.

Nature cures, but nature can be aided hindered or defeated in tho curative process. Aud the Commercial's contentior is that it is the part of rational beings seek and trust the advice ot men of goo character who have studied the hums system aud learned, as far as mode science lights the way, how far they can best avoid obstructing her,—[Hufial Commercial.

It is not our purpose to consider t" evils that result from employing the un scrupulous, the ignorant, charlatans aud q\iacks to prescribe for the maladies that atllict the human family. We siinplj declare that the physician who knows something is better than the physicia who knows nothing, or very little ii deed about the structure and the condi tlons of the human system. Of cours "he does not know it all."—[Hochestor Morning Herald.

I have used Warner's Safe Curo and but for its timely use would have been, I verily believe, in my grave from what the doctors termed .Blight's Disease. D. b\ Shriner, sonior Editor Scioto Gsi zetle, Chlllicothe, Ohio, in a letter dated Juno 30, I8!0.

CONSUMPTION OUKlit).

An old physician, roll rod from practice, having had placed in hip hands by an Eiwt India missionary the formula ofaslmplo vegetable remedy for the speedy aud permanent euro of Consumption, Hronehttls, Catarrh, Asthma and all throat and Lung Affectlons, HIho a positive and radical euro for Nervoiis Debl 11ty aud all NervotiH Complalnts after having tested Its wonderful curative powers in thousands of eases, has felt, It his duty to make it known to his »ufll!rlng fellows. Actuated by this motive and a desire to relieve hninan sutlterlng. I. will send tr of charge, to ail who desire It, this recipe, 111 German. French or Kngllsh, with full alrec" tlons for preparing and using. Ho lit by mail by addressing wltn stamp, n&mlng this paper. W. A. NOYEM, 1# Power's Block, Uoohno v. 10-i»ow ester, N. Y.

Miles' Nervo and Liver Pills, An important discovery. They act on the liver, stomach and bowels through the nerves. A new principle. They speedily cure biliousness, bad taste, torpid lives, piles and constipation. Hplendid for men, women and children, Bmallest, mildest, surest. 30 dote* for 20 cents. Samples free at J. & C'. KftUr's' 100 I.iidleH Wanted,

And 100 men to call on any dnigglut for a free trial package of Lane's Family Medicine, tho great root aud herb remedy, discovered by Dr. Silas I^ane while in the Rocky Mountains. For diseases of the Blood, Liver and Kidneys it is a positive cure. For constipation and clearing up of the complexion it does wonders. It is the best spring medicine known. Large size package, 50c. At all druggists'.

To Care Kidney Troubles

Use "IV- Kilmer's Swamp-Root Kidne,Y, Liver and Bladder Cure" It relle\ quickly and cures the most chronic ant cornp.ieatod cases. Price 50c, and fl.00 Pamphlet Free. Blnghampton, N. So d, recommended and guaranteed l. J. & C. Baur.

To Cure Heart Il««as0

Use "Dr. Kilmer's Ocean-Weed Ilea Remedy." It regulates, corrects and lieyes the most distressing cases. Prle 60c and $1.00. Pamphlet Free. Bin hair.pton, N. Y. Sold, recommend* and guaranteed by J. A C. Baur,

CATARRH

Catarrhal Deafness—May Fever. A Ne Home Treatment. Sufferers are not generally aware that th diseases are contagious, or that they are du to the presence of living parasites In th lining membrane of the nose andeustachls tubes. Microscopic research, however, proved this to-** a fact, and the result of th discovery Is that #. simple remedy has bee formulated whereby catarrh, catarrhal dea nessand hay fever are permanently cuied I from one to three simple applications mad at home by the patient once In two weeks.

N. II.—This treatment 1* not a snuff or ointment: both have been discarded by rep table physicians as injurious. A phamphl explaining this new treatment is sent fre on receipt of a stamp to pay postage, by A H. Dixon & Bon, Wand 3W» West King strec Toronto, Canada.—Cbrlatlan Advocate.

Huflerer* from Catarrhal trouble# shoul ca*«fu.iy read the above.

"My little daughter's was saved, as we believe, by Hood's Sarsapajflla. Before aha was six month#" old she had 7 running scrofula sores. One physician advised the amputation of ooo of her Angers, to which

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we refused assent Wtm we begsn giving bar Hood's Rarsapultla, a marked improve* meat w»a noticed tad by a continued o#e it bsr recovery was eomplete. Aadsheisnow, beta* seven yean old, strong and healthy.", 8.0. Jew**, Aim,. Lincoln County, Me. ».& Be asre to get Hood's.