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BROWN vTLLE, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY AUGUST 7, 1873.
VOL. 17 NO. 43.
LEADING MATTER OyETERTPAGE
OFFICIAL PAPEK OF TnE COU 5TY
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BUSINESS CARDS.
ATTORNEYS)
J. H. Brosdj-)
I A Tj. . nvcf gtoMJIaiifc. Brownvllle.yeb.
-t .-n -rT-VETX)K AT A...T. .
t ir Thomns
,VP,. T t.aW. Office, front room over
Li-eBni Crs'a Hardware Store. Brown-
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. TTOKS-ET A5D S-orpiS Office. B?Swn
A OSice, two door, eatt ot ! " H1.
,-f . Alness entrasted to htm. Wi
Stull &. Sclvlclc,
i mv he consulted In tMcnBiij" .,.
li-if:. SS!- u-'u """ TsTly r
iutw. Brownvaie. .
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nryVT-r aXD COUNSELOR ATXA.-
i TTORKEV -,Viiint attentWn to any lezal
VT..i J?!"uk re.OfflcelnCounHuie
as'.ness eiru-. '" - b
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"V uKIOUS. Attorney RtVrT.
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PIIYSIC1AXS.
TTmTTADAV .B.. Physician. Surgeon
S- 'JTHhmIA Graduated In 1851 Coca
ami Li3-"-"" .. - -rf . rmkifr'
IrtriclnS-dUeasea of Women and
pa i ivm)iu
Z ArTTTrw! PhrKiclan and un;eon. 0ce
g.WB Sataln street, Brown-
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.tr-v OF THE PEACE AS?COIIEenOS
J lJ. C?loWnot 'accounts for
Eha-"-611-
" 1,. A. Bcrgmann,
t a-t OOVVEYAXCEB.
I yOT-V xo. Main Kret. BrownvlUe. yen.
; Z T..hii..nd Conveyancer,
T7 E.EBRI'lH-r.jMHa--gJo- BnWUVlller
I ii. So 7 ffiffiSK American Ton-
"J??V .5re"1. Twmpanles.
t. IIUC a-i -" ,im
... - fr-f lirh.
Tirwins. and dealers n Palnta, Oils,
, Wall
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Bweev nrjwnvine. eb.
I.AXD AG3TSi
, n...(n.i TnTTiivlnr
A PlC07AVcll Block, wrner First
f -Jl. .tztist. O.ace " iJf-a"" ,.;, Mrntionto
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RUliomrih MC-
P-Cjr.sBiock. up stairs. ir" " ' ""- i
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yi IL.iaAJi,u. " f.:.' T.-t-t, rinrt Room.
n FaviUSAWK., "'"r"T, o f Ileal E-
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GRAIN DEALEHS.
fii-o. G. Starti
VASnBEVLERIX GRAIK AND AGBTCUD
w A3 VJr..l . .....i ctnruro ToTWardinK
d Cnimlssion iferchant, Asplnwull.Neb.
SADDLERY.
J-T BAUER, Harness. Bridies. Lars;r.ic.,-.iu.
."M iIaInstreet.Browuvilltf.VeIj. ilendingdone
tcordcr natlsfactlon Guaranteco.
BRIDGE BCILDIJiG.
CW. WHEELER.BndKeBnildi'rand Contractor.
. Brcwnvllle. Neb. Sole av-eut for R. .ismltb s
Patent Truss Bridge. The strongest and btsu wooden
bridge now In use.
HOTELS.
A MERICAN HOUSE, L. D.Roblson. Proprietor.
A. Fr-jut street, between ilain and Culle&e. Good
Feed and IJvery Sible in connection with this
House.
GUX SMITH.
"Tr. F. CRABDOCK. Gun Smith & Ixck Smith.
W t3hop at No. 52, JIaIn street. BrownvlUe,
Nebraska. uus made to order, and repalririKdone
promptly -t cheap riea. 35-ly
BLACKSMITHS.
JTP. A J. C. GIRSON, Btacksmlths and Horse
. Shoers, First street. between Main and Atlantic,
Brown vlllc. Neb. Work done to orderand satisfac
tloa guaranteed.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
LF.X. ROBINSON, Boot and Shoe 3Iaker,No.
J. L 5s Main street. Brownville.Neb. Hasconstant-
y on hand a sood assortment of Gent's, Lady's,
Miaiei'a'.d Children's Boots and Shois. Custom
work d .-tie with neatness and dispatch. Repairing
done on short notice
SALOONS.
JOSEPII HUBDART fc CO.. Peace and Quiet Sa
loon No.51 Main street. Brown vllle. Neb. The
-best Wines and Liquors kept on hand.
L. A. BerginnTTTt & Co.,
Manufacturers of Cigars,
and Wholesale Dealers in
Chewing and Smoking Tobaco,
Orders from ih country promptly filled,
and satKractlonfcuuranteed.
io.41 Main St., ItllOlTSYILLE, XEB.
Clocks, Watches, Jewelry
JOSEPH SHUTZ,
No. 59 Mala Strt, Brotcnville.
Keeps constantly on hand a large and well
assorted stock or genuine articles in his line.
jRepairinc of Clocks, Watches and Jewelry
done on short notice, at reasonable rates.
ALL WORK WARRANTED.
EXCHANGE
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J. G. HT7SSJELZ,
Dealer In
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BILLIARD
"W. T. MOORE & CO.,
Commission Merchants,
SHIPPERS,
AXD DEALERS IN GRAIN AXD COAL,
72 Main Street,
BrownvlUe. Nebraska.
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BODY & BRO.,
(SnccEssons toJ.L. Crooks &. Co..)
BUTOHEES !
SUN TWO SHOPS.
One ODonsite Sherman TTons-on "Main streot ,hi
other next door to Bratton'p, on Sixth street.
Good, sweet, fresh meat always on hand, and sst
Ef&ctlon guaranteed to customers. 17-25-ly
FRA2TZ HELMER,
UfAGON &gLAGKSMlTHKOP
ONE DOOB WEST OF COUKT HOUSE.
WAGON MAKLNG, Repairing,
PIowb, and all work done la the best
manner and on short notice. SafisBscfibn Kuaran--eed.
GiveUimacan. IM-ly.
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UQU0RS&C1GARS
PERU ADVERTISEMENTS.
Insurance noil a Privilege bUtaSntyi
Continental Insurance Company
OF NEW Tf ORK.
Assets over ......
Lokhc paid in Chicago.
Losses paid In Boston, .
. $3,000,000
. 1,500,600
'500,000
ITo rr mBlle a specialty, upon thelnstul
r di III meat Or Annual Premium plan,
Qiclz-c for five years; less than fire years,
niolVb stock plan.
Insure against loss or damage by Fire and
jiguiniug imiiuings and contents, nay. grain
and stock. GEO. T. HOPE, Pres.
Cvnus Peck, Sec.
C. J. Barber, General Agent, Omaha.
P. M. MARTIN,
AGEN FOR NTE5IAHA COTFSTY.
BAEKBS & HOODET,
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SHOES,
Glassware,
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We are constantly filling up with new goods
which we
SELL LOW DOWN
to suit purchasers.
WE REFER TO GTR CUSTOMERS.
S. R. DAILY,
DRrGS, MEDICINES,
CHEMICALS,
FINE TOILET SOAPS,
'& Fane j Ilairi Tooth BfushcSi
Perfumery,
Toilet Articles,
TErSSES, snorxDEK BRACES,
Gtv antl Garden Stall,
POIE "WINES AXD LldDORS FOR.
MEDICINAL PURPOSES,
Paints. OilSj Tarnishes and Dje Stuffs
Letter Paper, PenN, Inkv, Envelopes,
GLASS, PUTTY,
Carbon OH Lumps and Chimneys.
Physician's Prescription! Carefully Compounded
TRUSS UHB.
II. S. Mail and Transfer lacks,
MAKE P.EG UL AK TRIPS DAILY FROM
PERU, NEBRASKA,
TO
Nobra-ka mnklne connection with trMns
City, on the Midland .Facinc ll. R,
Brownville andretnrn dally, raaklngcon-
liection witn the liusses to iiieips fetation.
Mo., ou the K. C, St. Jo. & C. II. R. R.
Also with hncks Jo Araso via Nemaha City.
Asp! n wall, Hillsdale and St. Deroin.
FREIGHT AND EXPRSS orlTl TJJc,
transferred on these routes All iViiiub
at reasonable rates.
fi3- Passengers comfortably provided for.
Charges moderate.
OFFICE at Dally Bros.'s Drue Store. Peru.
All orders will receive prompt attention.
M. H. THOJIPSOX, Prop't.
SCHOOL
nmwm
We invite your attention to the superiority of the
)EARS
( 6 SETTEE
ATENT
COMBINED.
IT HAS THE FOLDING DESK AND SEAT.
IT IS FltEE FROif NOISE.
IT IS STRONG, BEAUTIFUL, CONVENIENT,'
UUXtA-UL.
The castings are one-fourth heavier than those of
auy other desk, and so llansed as to secure the
Kreatest possible strength. The wood is selected
cherry, walnut or ash, thoroughly seasoned and
kiln-dried, and handsomely finished in shellac.
The scat, arm, and back, are beautifully carved and
slatted. We guarantee against breakage In fair
usage. It fits the school house for school or church
purposes.
We also manufacture "THE G E 31 ,' as its
name indicates, an elegant stationary Top Desk.
The 'ECONOMIC" absolutely defies competi
tion In prices lor rurnltnre WHICH IS GOOD.
We are also making a fuUIlne ot Recitation Set
tees. Teacher's Desks, Chairs, and all SCHOOL
FURNITURE. Our list or apparatus includes
Clocks. Bells. Globes, Maps, Charts, Slated Paper.
Liquid Slatlntr, Chalk, Philosophical and Chemical
Apparatus. Dictionaries, and everything desirable
In any grade of schools, all ol which we will sell
for cash, or on sufficient time to enable a district to
levy and collect a tax.
liaade's Reading Case is rapidly superceding the
ordinaryreadingTablets. SCOOOgroups. phrases and
sentences, based upon tne word-method, admirably
5?an,t,ed to primary lessons In Drawing, Numbers,
steading and Grammar. Address our nearest agent,
who will call upon you without delay.
National School Pumiture Co.,
jia ana iio State Strre,
CHICAGO.
P.M. MARTIN. Exclusive Agent for Otoe. Ne
maha. Richardson and Pawnee counties, solicits
correspondence. Will visit you with sample. Five
or ten-year building bonds negotiated without
charge to patrons. Address
Box 101, Peru. Ue'brasluu
CHARLES GAEDE
PROPRIETOR.
Guests received at all hours, DAY
and NIGHT. Connects with
jLavex-y Stable
under same manarrRmpnt
i .eS-Careful attention Iven to the
' wants or guests. "We refer to the
traveling public.
C. W. CUX.EERTSOX,
(HER and BUILDER
CONTBACTS TAKEN.
Material PurnislieflTrlieE Desired,
at terms and rates which defy competition.
I Address, or call at Shop, corner" Flff.br arid;
A'arK streets, rTsra. jn en,
Sefffi V, J A. H. GTLLETTr
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GENERAL
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Xfc . Gr. W. PEARSON
J I will make to order
W I BOOTS AND SHOES.
W g2FAIEIN& DONS PEOMTTLY.
Call and see Samples.
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JOHIV BRPWSDOIV,
1 , Fashionable Boot and Shoe
CUSTOM W0KK ALWAYS OX HAXIh
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5 Repairs erecuted with neatness.
W I CALL AND EXAMINE MY STOCK
B. B. S3IITH,
Justice of the Peace & Coflection
AGENT.
Special attention given to collection of notes
anu accounui xor uuu-icucuw.
Address Bos 50, PERU, Nemaha Co., Neb.
" O. JET."
BarberShop & Restaurant
W. C. CCMUIING.
All work done In the neatest and latest
style. The choicest brands of Cigars con
stantly on hand. Delicious Confectionery.
Ice Cream In season. Oysters stews on short
notice. Soda Fountain in full blast.
Fifth St. opposite Brick Church,
WELL;
.A.. W. ELLIS
SOLE PllOPBIETOK.
has the exclusive right
of putting in BUKE.U
WELLS in NEMAHA
COUNTY. Calls by
letter receive prompt
attention. Parties may
make choice of PINE, GALVENIZED
IRON OR CE13IENT TUBING. We make
wells through ROCK, as we are provided
with a thousand pound horse-power drill.
Drill same size as Auger. Guarantee water
or no pay. Postoflice address, PERU, Nel
Horing done in Wtnteras well as Summer.
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J. L. KO"",
Dealer in
FURNITURE.!
Undertaking a Specialty.
Keeps a full line of
METALIO AND WOOJD
BUBIAL GASES.
56 Xaia Street, BROWJfYILLE, TfEB.
J. BLAKE,
DENTIST
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AK EDITOR'S WOOING.
"We love thee Ann Maria Smith 4
And In thy condecenslon,
We see a future full of Joys,
Too numerous to mention.
There's Cupid's arrow In thy giaiieS;
And this, by lore's coercion.
Has reached our very heart of hearts.
And asked for an Insertion.
"With Joy we feel the blissful smart,
And ere our passion ranges,
"We freely place thy love upon
The list of our exchanges.
There's music in thy lowest tone,
And silver In thy laughter;
And truth but we will give the full
Particulars hereafter.
Oh ! we would tell thee of our plansj
All obstacles to shatter ;
But we are full, Just now, and have
A press of other matter.
Then let us marry, Queen of Smiths,
"Without more hesitation ;
The very thought doth give our blood
AJarger circulation !
LAMEST OF THE DISOOXSOLATXl
LOAFER.
They say "a good time's comlnc,"
Though It travels mighty slow ;
But If ever It should getiiere,
I hope they'll let us know.
I can't get a drop of gin.
And am short of braad and tater,
And llnd that I am getting In
Almost a state of natur.
My'coat with mud Is coated,
And wholly full of holes;
My drawers are overdrawn ; my shoes -
Have mercy on their soles !
For they have gaped, and sasmed
To cry for pegs and stltohes t
But though divested of a vest,
I've breaches in my breechesi
Tboy say this oountry's free4
Ho tyranny can block up
But when I has a spree.
They puts me in the lock-up
If thus they treat a freeman
Of this boasted Yankee nation,
I'd rather be a nigger slave.
And work on a plantation.
There were terrible mistakes.
At the time. of the "creation ;"
For the plan of natur' surely needs
A sight of alteration ;
For thorns or thistles grow
Without being hoed or planted,
And weeds are always sure to come
Just when they isn't wanted.
Why net have wheat and corn
Spontaneously growing?
And why should inters need
Such an awful sight of hoeing 7
Thut a fellow's back must ache,
And his hands grow hard and horny?
Oil, If I oxly had the tin,
I'd go to Callforny.
THE THREE MARYS OP SHARPS
YILLE.
They are all dead uow as dead as
tbeir scriptural namesakes, bo that
they may lawfully "become the prey
of literature," and, without auy glam
or of romauce, ouly with the safety
of time and distance, be made to live
in the memories of the few Sharps
ville people why survive them.
Three unmarried Polly a they were,
of different degrees of education and
opportunity, but of the same social
position, being that of "one that
serves," and of very nearly the same
age.
Polly Frank had a story ; a sorrow
ful one, of which 1 never heard mauy
particulars, and those only years af
ter my first guess. Poor thing! I
suppose it was a comfort to her
her to whisper her Bad seoret to the
ear of eveu a child, else why should
the have told me once that she had a
son, twenty j-ears old; aud when I
bald, "I didn't know you were mar
ried, Polly," why did elie unnecessa
rily confuse my infant mind by say
ing she never had been ?
he mubt once have been very
handsome, for her face was of the
Grecian ideal type, with a line run
ning straight from the low forehead
to the tip of the nose aud following a
short upper lip and round chin that
Aspasia would have been proud of.
So much of beauty was left that age
could not wither ; with a tall, com
manding figure, that never stooped
or bent to living man or woman. Blue
eyed, fair-haired, and strong-limbed
she-was as the chariottedBoadicca, or
as a daughter of the New Hampshire
hills was wont to be.
Had she a father? hnd she a moth
er? And why was she scrubbing in
any back-kitchen in Sharpsville that
happened to want her, when every
one knew that she counted kindred
with the bluest blood in W., and
when she couldn't wash a floor or
cook a dinuerwithoutmaking enough
olasslcal allusious.to astonish a soph
omore? "How came you to know Latin,
Polly V"
"Studied it, child, of course. My
father taught me, Dr. Frank ; and
Greek, too,"
Then aho would reaite In what pur
ported to bo that tongue. We never
thought of questioning the Greek or
Latin then but there came a day
when doubt broke in upon us, and
when we doubted everything I mean
about her knowledge. The first day,
so fatal to faith, I was reading in the
kitchen, and looking up dutifully, as
usual, said, "Polly, Where's Crown
Point? do you know?"
"Know ! of course I know ! Crown
Point? why, it is off Cape Cod."
She leaned on her mop haudle, as on
a sceptre, while she asserted this, fix
ing her eyes gravely on me. If man
ner would have done it, the fortifica
tion would have been planted at Province-town,
and she doubtless thought
it was, or else believed in herself as
implicitly as Norma of the Fitful
Head in her own prophecies. But,
somehow, the assertion didn't fit in
with Ticonderoga; and so, as I said,
the whole fabrio of faith came event
ually to the ground.
Yhateve wo might think of Pol
ly's geography, or even Greek, we
were heartily afraid of her knuckles
In the nursery, and rather bore the
ills of keeping our own faces clean,
than have those hard hands at our
wind pipes. Then the wondrous tales
by the kitchen fire at night! Even
after we oame to disbelieve one of the
most frightful, we Bhuddered at the
"Bluck legs coming down the chim
ney," as with the pleasant thrill from
a theatrical catastrophe.
Polly had fallen from her high es
tate of maidenhood at W., and as the
custom was, had been discarded by all
her large cirole of unspotted relatives.
Coming to Sharpsville, wbereshewas
both known and unknown, she had
some peculiar advantages. People
could afford to sympathize with her ;
and, being down, she feared no fall.
She readily found employment and
lived and died among us, an honest,
industrious woman, a Pharisee of the
Pharisees, and a respeoted member at
last, with three others, of the town's
poorbouse.
To the poorhouse we all sent her
frlendry contributions of green tea,
loaf sugar, and such delicacies as are
provided by the selectmen ; as also,
from likely to need. These she ac
cepted with & lofty grace, quite her
own, leaving ns only hunrbie that our
offerings were not twice as many and
better. Bometfmes in my mother's
eagerness to bestow good" gifts on Pol
ly, Bhe quite forgot the proprieties, as
when she sent her ll too- aomv my
fetber's winter drawers f Ba that, re
turning from encrrch la the teeth of
northeast wind, the good man was
moved by conflicting emotion to ex
claim with augry, bliter personality
as he rubbed the chilled surfaces of
his sacredefrB, "I met Polly Frank,
going to thefOrthodoi meeting, ttflth
mp drawers on."
I should do wrorig to say that ehe
was a "professor." Sitting In the
front pew where the town's poor were
paraded in what seemed to me an in
delicate and inconsiderate manner,
Polly always stayed to the commun
ion quietly waitlngfor 'the elements,'
which never came. The deacons
would not bring them to her, as she
had never given what was called
"satisfactory evidence" of her fitness
to sit at the Lord's table. They
might have forgiven her for her much
loving, as He did the other Mary, but
they wouldn't do this without a 'con
fession,' as they called it, and this
-confession Polly would never make.
Of her "misfortune" she would say
nothing, at any time or to any per
son. Only she as8ertetirwith her
grand slr,'SrMy skirts are clean;"
from Which dccular saying the dea
cons might have inferred muoh, If
they bad been less eager or curious or
more Christ like.
So she soared about in Sharpsville
in an empyrean of her own which
was well ; for in a thinner air, how
soon her poor, broken wings would
have brought her, stained and humil
iated, to the ground I And after all
what was anybody in Sharpsville
that he should throw stones at her?
t guees that a keen sorrow of Polly
Frank was that serpent-toothed one
of her son's alienation. He never
cume near in all her long life ; and
she never Whispered, but to herselfj
his name. In those Weary years,
whloh could not be called repeutant
ones, had she not paid pressed down
and running over, in her hard, dis
graceful life, for the sin of her young,
foolish days?
Of oourse, people cannot all begood
and we needn't have expected it in
Sharpsville. Nevertheless, there are
reasons. Polly Dexter, who was well
to do, well enough oonnected, had no
story, no mystery, no excuse, and was
a "professor" besides in good church
standing, had no business to be so
heartily disliked and dreaded as she
was, in every house where rents and
holes made her advent necessary.
Polly Dexter was as mustard and
vinegar to the feast, nay, rather like
cayenne or horse-radish ; so biting
were all her 6ayings, so persistenther
fault-finding, so faithful her trans
mission from house to house of every
Item of information unsuited to such
travel I
For all that, Polly was as necessary
to Sharpsville as the air she filled With
her mischief-making, for who. In her
absence, could or would undertake
the accumulations of carpet-mending
consequent on limited means and so
olal ambitions? From six in the
morning (for she preferred breakfast
ing with her'customers) till nine at
night, she made her needle and
tongue fly, transforming, with god-
motherly skill, rags into hall ureases,
and making darns at which the elev
en thousand virgins would have hew
itated. Aud then the modest way in
which she announced, after many
years, that she must raiBe her price
from tweuty-flve to thirty-two oentsa
day, because "wood has raised !"
What was seven cents more or less.
When put In competition with skill
and patience like hers?
She had a dark, bony body, with
coarse black hair tightly drawn back
in a knot. She wore her thin lips
drawn from her teeth ; andj her black
eyes , restless and roving, saw every
thing they shouldn't, and seemed
like the child's description of Satan,
"walking up and down, seeking how
he might catch somebody."
Her arrival was the unwelcome sig
nal for the portcullis of silence to de
scend before our lips, and the small
est among us, without understanding
why, knew better than to talk before
Polly Dexter. It was reserved for
farther experience to show us that it
makes all the difference in the world
to whom a thing Ib said, and that a
remark as innocuous as a drop of fair
water may fall on some minds poison
ous as one of hemlook. Being in
structed to "shut up," before Polly,
we naturally associated her with the
restraint of our position ; but indeed,
6he never said or did anything to
make us like her. So, as I didn't and
don't love her, it may bo with a
slightly accldulated sense of justice
that I describe her, and feel a certain
pleasure that, on a life like hers, bear
ing as it did only thorns and thistles,
not the srauziest shadow of tender re
membraiice need be thrown ; but that
it should be life bare a reminder and
a warning to carpet-mending and car
pet traders as well. I mention the
last, because it is a Bad thought that
the vices slip unawares into all floors
scandal being harbored so frequent
ly, even in parlors, as to have given
rise in some quarters of the imputa
tion of depravity in the general
heart.
How are we to excuse a person who
has not even fallen ? one who is poor
spirited and mean by nature, and haB
not been so placed as to remedy, edu
cate, and destroy bad qualities? For,
perhaps, no good-natured friend told
her of them. Only everything "shut
up" aa well as they could when she
was by ; and, except in a general way
when informed that with many mil
lions of the same species she was a
sinner, how was she to know? She
was rich. She owned three houses in
Sharpesvllle. But she was snappish;
scandalous and mean. On the other
hand, she gave her money to the
church when she died. The church
at least ought to tread lightly on her
grave ; and be sure the deacons al
ways gave her "the elements."
In another world, must she not be
somehow made over, with tentacular
instinctB which may dimly reach to
wards something higher," something
unknown and undreamed of here.
No doubt, in that future state whioh
is to clear up all the mysterious of
this, the monkey-like malice linger
ing, in the undeveloped humanity of
Polly Dexter will have dropped away
and given her an equal chance with
her fellows. Till when, what is there
left in life for such as she, but to be
pitied, avoided, and not to put too
fine a point upon It bated ?
But Polly took her betters every
day and all day ; and she had no op
portunities and no beauty She might
be said to have, in her expressive ver
nacular, "no nothing." And so Pol
ly Dexter may have at least a good a
chance as Burns gave to a worse spir
it. Like all New England villages fifty
years ago, ours was full of original
characters, sharply cut and definite
In tbeir manifestations. Even the
mindless ones had their individual
notions, which they carried out with
dignity and vigor like the harf-wlt-teu
Luna, who; beirig supplied daily
by nr-'Hrotrrer frost feer own-' table;
sent the foifowfng iaessags Co hit'
benefactress l "If Miss P. is goin1 to
send me roy dinner every day, J want
UholJ" Which was reasonable, di
vested of conventionalities; and the
rebuke was meekly accepted, with a
Corresponding reform.
Polly Forest, my third and best,
owned a farm, or rather a part of one,
in Sharpsville Swamp; and might
have lived at home, had she so chos
en, or if she had been afllicted with
that disease of false and foolish pride
which brings bo many girls, In our
days, to bad lives. But boing neither
self-important nor self conscious, her
affectionate raatuie and religious faith
led her to devote herself to the Inter
est of her employers with an assidui
ty and faithfulness tha.t even the
Apostle Paul might have made an ex
ample of. Also, beoailss ahe was self
reliant and independent, Bhe despised
putting herself forward, or out of her
place, as she phrased It; ilnd sha kept
that of servant with a pertinacity on
ly equalled by her modest dignity.
At the same.tims she held herself as
the dear friend of ub all, and an un
wearied correspondent wheri we were
away from home ; giving important
particulars of the cat and fox, which
she suspected might be forgotten in
our parlor correspondence. Being a
great reader, with also a pretty taste
for verse-making, many were the pa
ges of rhyme Bhe sent us always un
der the seal of secrecy, for she was
far too modest to make any talk of
what she was, or had learned But
in fact hers was,
"A dreadful life (a silent voice. ')
My Polly the third had sorrows of
her own, as well as Polly Frank, but
not like hers. Indeed, I doubt if Cu
pid ever so much as brushed a feather
of his wing against her red cheeks.
They were those hard unspoken sor
rows, that admit no sympathy. An
intemperate, lazy brother, and a
mother, so proud, so unreasonable,
and so reticent, that bj no chance
did a kindly or affectionate word ever
escape her. To drunken Joe she ad
dressed all her worldless kindnesses,
insisting on Polly's outdoor services
in his place. Insomuch that one day
Polly came near bping torn to pieces
by the bull, nnd only escaped by
climbing a small tree. Here, at the
distance of a few feet from the roar
ing creature, tearing at the slight
trunk with his horns and ploughing
the ground with angry hoofs, did she
await the threatened destruction,
whioh, indeed, seemed inevitable.
But for drunken Joe and a neighbor,
who with much clubbing changed
the bull's mind, where would have
been my Polly? Polly always ad
dressed her mother in the third per
son, as if she spoke to some potentate.
"Would ma'am like to have the door
shut?" or "Shall I get the Water for
ma'om?"
There was nothing to be afraid of,
that I could Bee in Mre. Forest, who
seemed only a pale, stiffish woman ;
but to lier daughter she was an object
of awful deference, and she obeyed
everv token of her will more like a
slave than a child.
I think Mrs. Forest had no objec
tion to Polly's "going out to live," for
a year at a time, though she never
said so; nnd Polly always formally
-asked ma'am's leave when she came
to us, though she was twenty-five or
thirty years old.
There were no "base laws of servi
tude" between us. It was always a
love matter. It was understood that
she was to have the highest wages in
town (four and sixpence a week, and
time to mend her own clothes after
nine o'clock at night;) but she earn
ed it well In a family of sixteen, and
with children about in all directions,
hindering as well as helping her.
Before the kings of Ireland overran
this land, and before the Yankee ten
dency to patent inventions had been
so stimulated by ignorance and stu
pidity that a pall of water cannot be
drawn from the well In anatural way,
our Polly used to go smiling into the
garden and gather eight or ten kinds
of vegetables for dinner, preparing
each for the table, And they had a
sweet freshness and flavor found in
no market produce now.
Her skilled eye detected the full
oorn In the ear by the look of the
husk, and she knew by the swell of
the pod when the peas were ready for
boiling; she knew wliatsquashesnot
get, and where were the crispest cu
cumbers. Indeed, she had the na
tive talent which induced cows to
give down their milk, even without
the promise of a silk gown ; that wit
to make hens lay and chickens live,
nnd rising, like the virtuous woman
In Proverbs, while it was yet nicht.
her washing was hung in snowy lines
before her breakfast waseaten. What
soever her hands found to do, that did
she with her might. She wns so fond
of flowers and so patient with them
in their short-comings and their ever
needed pottings that I think she must
have a garden now somewhere in par
adise, and croons Methodist hymns
over her flowers as she used to here,
about,
"The Lord Into his garden comes !
The spices yield a rich perfume.
The llllles grow and thrive,"
and so on ; fox I don't see how Heaven-is
going to change one's tenden
cies unless one Is made over; how a
queen is to take up the role of peas
ant, or a nhilosonher that of a stock
broker; merely by another place of
fpq H n P f
My Polly ! In that Btate or place
where j'ou have gone, do you find any
one to minister to, to serve with lov
ing diligence, with heart-full, un
wearied teuderness, as you did here
There was a tie between you and
those you loved closer than that of a
maid to her mistress, and that tie
ma3' remain In another world. She
whom you loved so much, and in
whose arms you died, when she, too,
went to the world of souls, must have
found you, I think, waiting for her
with the same simple devotion as
when you left her, to take up your old
relation of unselfish love.
Like most country girls, Polly could
drive a nail and split wood if necess
ary, which I fancy it often was at her
house. She was a pretty good car
penter, and, besides tinkering the
house on occasions, could give form to
her own inventions with some skill.
A board for scouring knives of her
own make, with sundry contrivances
and conveniences, lasted In my kitch
en until silvering them came into
fashion.
The greatest treat we had as chil
dren wa3 to go to Polly's farm be
tween whiles to visit her. I remem
ber vividly the queer, long, narrow
passages to remote parts of the' house,
which defied all rules of architecture,
and v-bicb- led nowhere with a capti
vating mystery. I was glad to find1
something that .illustrated the "Ro
mance of the Forest," doubly glad
when! got only Into the back kitch
en and wo3 relieved from the fear oT
seeing a skeleton. Mrs. Forest was
gen-eyaHV to be found there untiring
ly' f ciBlving; ni yery dtefcn pans
and tubs, lingers in mv meraorv to
this day, as also the impression of the
nuuic jubiubui me uweiiing iresuiy
whitewashed always, boards as well
as plastering. It was fearfully and
wonderfully clean at the Forest farm.
Then, not-having the dread of the
bull before our eyes, having ascertain
ed that he was tightly confined, we
strolled off into, the woods that skirt
South Mountain, where we gathered
the tender check erberrv-leaves. or. if
PaHv In fYta Pfl4nn tlw ll.H hurriu: I
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er. Afterwards, being refreshed by
ma'am's hospitality of rye and Indi
an bread and cheese, we set off at
dusk, on our two-mile homeward way
and Polly stood at "the delectable
gate," as we called It, guarding us
with her smiles, till the road bent,
and shut her away from our sight.
I know, my Polly, that the record
ing angel never set down against you
Ihe little whiffs of temper that made
you Borne times even throw the Chairs
out of the window, or the little injus
tice that made my brother Ralph
hate yoa. To me y ou were alwa3's
kind, gentle and patient; but who
pretended you were perfection On
ly I would that I could find a helper
to my domestic infirmities one hun
dredth part as faithful, as clean and
capable, faults all counted in ; would
there be any question of wages be
tween us ? Think of Polly "going to
leave- oecause tnere is sickness in
the family! Think of Polly with
drawing from the store-room portions
of groceries, under some ethical de
lusion familiar to the Celtic imagina
tion ! .Think of Polly at all the same
category with locks and keys, with
modern notions of hire and service!
The whole thing is as different as if
we lived on another planet.
She was such a large part of my
cnild-life. that it is difficult to look
back without seeing her constantly.
Now that she is gone, I naturally
dwell only on her excellences ; the
more when I contrast her solid vir
tues with the flimeey ghosts of such
that I uow Bee in every kitchen her
faithfulness-weary feet, that with au-gel-like
persistence ascended and de
scended to minister to the wants of
others; all her thoughtfulness, her
sweetness, her patient energy ! At'
lantic Monthly for June.
JUSCELLAXEOUSt
Mediocrity is often garrulous.
The Indianapolis Journal alludes to
n "widow woman."
Prof. Wise, the balloonist, ought to
take a skyeterrier along.
The English railways are flooded
with comic American books.
Several Iowa towns prohibit the
sale of newspapers on Sunday.
When an Indiana paper mentions
"The Stalking Monster" cholera is
meant.
The second volume of Mr. Beech
er's "Life of ChriBt" is in an advanc
ed stage.
The death of the newspaper ex
change system has brought down the
price of shears.
Elihu Burrit calls his forthcoming
autobiographical volume, "Five Min
ute Talks."
The people of California are clam
oring for a paper currency forty
three newspapers for and fourteen
against it.
A Milwaukee boat club has adopt
ed a light uniform, described as" u
handkerchief around the head and
one suspender.
A Connecticut paper speaks of a
reign of terror in that State because a
man has been arrested for stealing an
umbrella.
Seup for the poor in Boston cost
about $4,000 last year, and "refresh
ments" for the poor city government
$41,000.
A floating cannon-ball is one of the
sights at Vienna. It weighs fifty
pounds, and It floats in a cauldron of
quicksilver. '
The London Saturday jRcvicivBaxs
that Bret Harte is a story-teller of true
genius. So is B. B. soys the Courier-Journal.
The Parsons, ETan., Herald records
a suit for breach of promise, and says
the plaintiff wants the jury to award
her $2,000 "buck pay."
The New York World has coined a
new adjective. It speaks of certain
crossings of Broadway as the "jam
medest" spots in Its whole length.
A Rochester man lay drunk in an
alley all night with $800 in his pock
et. It is only necessary to add that
the Rochester folks didn't know it.
Probably the most recent American
ism is that constructed by an Illinois
paper, whicUsajs that Edwin Booth
will "iragediate" in a certain town.
General Wise In his prime couid
write an editorial fifty-six yards long,
but he is getting old now, and don't
push them beyond forty or therea
bouts. Country papers come In weighed
down with editorial correspondence,
ever since the convention. This will
be continued until the passes issued
shall expire.
A traveler says that in Spain um
brellas differ in Bize from an ordinary
dinner-plate to a small tent, and their
colors are as various as the tints of the
rainbow.
"What's the date of your bustle ?"
was what an anxious papa of Coble
skill asked his well-dressed daughter,
after searching for the last copy of his
paper.
Twenty-eight different kinds of
i'bitters" sold in Rhode Island for
"strictly medicinal use" are undergo
ing analysis by the State chemist from
an excise point of view.
A contemporary, speaking of the
difficulty of a newspaper editor pleas
ing everybody, says i "Even if one
sounded the praises of his Maker the
devil would be offended."
"Bitten by an alleged mad dog," is
the mild way in which it is put in
Baltlm'ore, to avoid hurting the dog's
feelings, should he merely be labor
ing under a temporary aberration.
A citizen of Connecticut, recently
introduced to a newly-married man,
congratulated him warmly, and said :
"Ah, these Litchfield county girls
make clever wires I've bad three of
'em."
Athol's oldest Inhabitant 13 Mrs.
Dolly Graves, aged ninety-five; the"
next is Asa Hill, who Is in his uifte
ty-fifth year; the fattest Is D. E.
Cbamocden, proprietor of the Sum
mit House, 264 pounds.
Mrs. Mary J. HartwelT, of Colum
bus, Ohio, heard a-voice say trie Other
night i "Your brother WiHiata is
dead," and she awoke the old man
wifh her screams". A letter earner
next day from Dayton announcing
that her brother was werr and had a
paving contract.
XAXADLER.
He Tell About Hopkins' "Vox Bnna
B" Stop and FIJI Domestic Life.
From the Saturday Evenia j Post.
HorKrxs' stop.
When Hopkins was organist 3t S.
Abed iego's Church, he gave a concur .
for the benefit of the Sunday school,
Hopkins would fib sometimes, and he
had told some of his brother orgauista
that he had a vox. humana ston in his
' organ. a several or tneiu were com
ing round to. the concert, Hopkins de-
leruiineu to prevent mem. trom de
tecting the deception. S& lie engaged
a friend of his who sang tenor down
at the minstrels to come up and get
into the organ case and sing. It was
arranged that Hopkins was to give -a
certain signal and that the minstrel
was to tune up and warble an air,
while Hopkins went tbroogh the mo
tion on the keys. When the eoncert
came off the schemo worked snlen-
dldly. Everybody exclairaed : "How
beautiful !" "Elegant, isn't it V
"Sounds exactly like a human voice."'
Then there was an encore, and anoth
er air was sung, right in themiddleof
it the vox humana stopped suddenly.
Then it was heard using the mooC
dreadful language inside the orgon
it yelled for help, and Hopkins dash
ed arourid to the rear to ascertain
what was the matter. He found thafr
I his man had been standing on the?
bellows, and that the Ijlower objected
to the extra weight, and finally began
! a combat with Hopkins' frien And
now the bellows blower had the vox
humana stop down on the floor in
side the organ, and he was nibbling:
at vox humana's nose aud rolling
around against the pipes and ma
chinery in a manner that threatened
general demoralization to the machine
and the more the combat deepened?
the more the vox humana 6top howl
ed. They were separated by the war
deus and the concert proceeded in a
minor and melancholy key. But the
next day they discharged Hopkins
from St. Abednego's and now he
wishes the bellows man had murder
ed the minstrel man.
FIJI FASHIONS,
Housekeepers will be surprised tc
learn that the custom of sending in
to a neighbor to borrow a little butter
or sugar or other articles of diet, is
quite common among the savages of
Fiji. When a lady in Fiji has some
friends to dinner unexpectedly, she
goes over to the woman across the
way and says : "Yak yak and his
family have just droppecWh todinnerr
and I bavn't a thing in the house.
How do you think your hired girl
would work up into a stew ? Can I
borrow her for a few days ?" Then
she seizes that domestic by the hair,
aud drags herover, chops her up with
parsley, and carrots, and celery-tops
and cloves, and lets her simmer over
the fire. Or may be the other woman
sends over and says : "I'm entirely
out of meat, can you lend me your
little William Henr3' for hash or your
Mary June for a pie ?'' And over go
William Henry and Mary Jane, and
they are stuck,with a fork and basted
and put on to cook gently, and the
debt is paid otf the next week by the
borrower sending back her aunt, al
ready boiled and suitable for cutting
cold for tea, or one of net twibtwljorn
ed so as to make a nice lunch. Some
times a woman in this manner will
work off a couple of her mothers-in-law,
or a rich uncle, or a plump, sec
ond cousin, nnd then ehe wilt sit a&
her window and sniff them as they
are cooking in the kitchen next door,
or watching one of the company in
the diniug-room nibbling at the el
bow of her late hired girl. The cus
tom seems to ns an excelent one. par
ticularly when it is applied to hired
girls. We have had girls whom we
would hove loaned to a neighbor un
der a solemn promise that they should
be butchered and boiled as quickly as
possible.
TnE woftLlr's ttsir.
We have heard from our old aify",
Professor Plantamour, again. Last
vear he prophesied that we were to
be burned up. Since then he has
chanced bis mind. Now he declares
in a paper just IssCed in Paris, thai
everybody will be frozen to death in
the year 2011. We nre glad to haver
the date accurately fixed, for we shall
arrange for our life insurance policy
to expire in the year 2010. Tbe first
news of the freeze will appear in tha
Saturday Evening Post for January lt
2011, and we shall offer as a premium
to clubs that year, on all-wool over
coat four feet thick, with an alr-tighc
stove in each breast-pocket, a gas
heater in the tail, and an open grate
arranged at tbe collar. Tbe getter
up of two clubs will have o pair of
skates and a double-breasted pink un
derskirt thrown in. Persons who
wish to compete for these prizes can
send their subscriptions now from
this year to 2011, in order to make the
thing cerL.in. No paper shall beat U3
if we have toget up a corner on double
breasted undershirts and create a pan-'
ie in the market.
VERY ABSENT 3rrNDED;
The most absent minded man' we?
ever knew was oar friend Gener&r
Mumm. He lost one of his legs In
the late war, ond he always wore a
patent artificial Teg, full of springs
and joints. Sometimes when he star
ted out in the morning ha would get
his leg on hind part foremost, and
then he would gostraddlfngdown the
street with one set of toes pointing"
east and the other set pointing west.
His right feme would bend in one di
rection and his left would bulge la
another, and the old man would bob
up nnd down like a Jumping-jack
worked with a string. Prespntly he
would meet us, and come jolting up to
us to suy that he wished we would
pitch into tbe highway department
for leavinjr the pavements Iti snob, a
rascally condition that a man couldn't
walk straight. Previous to the war.
While he was down at Cupe May one
summer, he took a bu5-bab early in
the morning, and while in the7 ifKtef
he got to meditating upon ome ,j
struse subject, nnd forget'frjrliimseir.
he came walking out upon the bench?
nnd up the street to thfe hotel dressed
in nothing but a sad,weet smile.jut
as the' p&o'pte were coming'
down to breakfast. Only a eiort
time ago he bitched his horse to a 3ei
key with the animal's no3e pushed
close up szainst the dasher, and start
ed off backwards without noiiorrr-rthf
direction. At the end of tfie first half
mile the vehicle jammed up against-a
tree, and the General shot out over
the horse's tail. If fie doesn't get out
of his coffin at hJs-own funeral; and
insist upon going 03 a pall-bearer, it
will be singular.
Conundrum from the Chicago Trib
une; "Why is it that lightning neve?
strikes ofgSff grinders, that they nev
er fall into the river and get drowned,
that they never starve to death, and
are never biiiea by mad dogs J'
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