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O, ii. x .ey.Sccn.ti ry. Washington. IX C ' niccr of the State Oransc. W-j B. Porter, Master; Wm ilClllg.secreiajj. L'ncoin. . Ncmahn County Central AHsociation. Phurch IIowe.Pre?ldent Jiherman ,s -Q. n. -e-Prf'SldolJl liownru; .- --"' T,,-iJnvlllP PP-J- S W. Kennedy, TrH-i-nrer. UrowmlUe, VBt"rTF:-WM,?r.dge'PerU: J. Mariatte llrciii-ile: S.Kobcrtson. Howard. GRANGES. OBANOr. -. ty - MASTKR. 5EtRBIAni. Cliurcli Howe..,Wm. P. Frlss O. P. Avery It. H. Bailey J. Gilbert.. .. it. V. Black 'O. Watliau .!.-. ir.i.in.irnrrt An I.eerer.w Wllr:- K 1 Lnrt rO.ik-. irtt.rj'. t V J "Harnies Mrs.L. Schnyder Kit Wod I Koht. Sklilou (UrA-J lTa.riir- I -i-a- i . X. P Meaner II. Glasgow t i.nii' C Meadr.. JW.V. Smith. H : j'l'n K. III :3 Hautl. i"ir Poery W. II. Harris. weoiicr. -rtv u H.Childs F. Patrick. lLa'i'i '" J Higginft V. M stokes, S. Hotiert.on T.CKImsey. INr--.at.ft - V a"iCs '.trt Win. Watkin".. Thos. Kurress -it ft a-.e.v A. Waltz T. J. Majors C. Campbell Wm Jcncs I,eUoy?:ason.. John sitral n.. o. It. He-.ett it. f. senior J. M. Petti t Koht Coleman- J. Mariatte L.l..Ma;on C. Harm's J. B. Piper. r ift! F-v.fitKdee n-aJiitVa'ley 1 . . 1 11.11 Yt I "n 1Y ,--- "I .1 r 1 Perrv Iinckeis, ..- Wm.-Bagley. 'w. It J dge A. J.Skeen if-o. Oroxv. Wm. F. Paris ll.O.MIn ck. S Pochrnn J. Maxwell Chas. Blodgett O.J Matthews. J. A. G iel CM.O -el ill l-c'-tar til- m-in IWa-uTglon EZ!:t time sfrEmxs J RAILROAD TI3IE TABLES. . - r .lllantltt fifurllnsou & Mmsonn uiTcr.v..... in -itiirnsHB. MAIN LINE. lil.iaill.iwic '-"" !,..,. m locrp u I Piattsmoutn - p.ni.ni-i-4. c Lincoln 11:1B a.m. leave . L-iwrnnv June 5:45 o.m leavd i-.li". nm niritr. 1 -Kearney June I 5:45 a.m ..0.. . I Lilian n ii.i .ii. -.. - . .mt... .:". .:.. OMAHA BUANCH 1 H p. m. leave 1 Plattsniouth 1 2;o n.m. arrive Omaha I 12:15 a.m. arrive 10:50 a.m. leave BKATIUCE HltANCH. ; p ul. leive ' ip.ia.arnel .Crete 7:45 a.m. arrive 5:45 a.m. leave lleatrice Chlcftco & XortU AVeatcni Rnllwaj". Vralr.sctC nnBlulTs arrive anuaepa" """ ....-..-M Tll.D 1 PT j Ot V1 W EST AKIIIVK 1 uui?iu wii ";"- VKl 111. I . ti.. . ..-o 1.1'S.kii ill I I1AV KTUrtSttMM o.-f .. 1 X?. t 1 xrrc.s" ftlSalm. I Night K-cpress. 4.0.1 p.m. Kx. Freight 10:V)a.m. W. U. STKNNETT. Gen. Pas. Agt. Kansas City, St. Joe. &, C. K. Railroad. Trains leave Phelps Station as follows : VSot-.s Njrth V30 a. m. I Going South, 9A"i a. m. 4 05 p. m. I Going South, G:45 p. m. A. C DA WIS, Gen. Pass. Agent. 3a.z; North Midland Pacific Railway. Dam "i-Cinml Nebraska City 12:00pm 450pm Inn 8 rib in 1 -r . , f I MRU am lui 1 in ! niSS I Jpm I -Ltncoln wam ,ftu,a m S 4C pm l-tij i m J Seward I 9-OOam tK.SU a in J. N. CONVERSE. Sjupl- BUSINESS CARDS. ATTORNEYS. II. O. 3PftrUer . ITTIIIXFT AT LAW. LAND AKU TAi A l'-i z ent. Howard, Neb. Will give dilll ! r--a'U..r.. n toauy legal buiincbsentru:td to his f lir 16mC E. E. Eljrlglit, TT1IIVI Y AT LAW. Notary puhlic and Heal ' I --e t;p'it. OUlce lu Court House Build ' Cr.Aaihe Neb. T. L. Schick, TT ir.Nl Y AT LAW. MAY BE CONSULT V ti 3 t'ie Ceriiun language. Olfice next - rt( j-i-y Clerk's Offlce, Court House Build 's: Br,-. iv.lle.Nebraska IS-Cy J. S. St nil. ITTir.NFY VND COUNSKLOU AT LAW. -V O , No. 70 MaInstrDet.(upitaIrs,)Urown- v 'e.XtS lby J. II. Uroady, UTnNEYAXIl mnXSELOlt AT LAW. o:-i e jrer Stato Bank, urowuvun ,.cu. E. AV. Tlioinas, TDItVF Y AT LAW. Olhce. front room over A fnjn& Cross's Hardware Store. Brown- v.. . Nc'j. IV. T. Rogers, TTOr.'NFY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. Wi 1 give dlliccnt attention to any lesal 2s re-ss entrusted to his care. Office in Court House 1- i aj.Brownvllle.Ncb. PHYSICIANS. S. HOLLADAY, M.D.. Physician. Surgeon V- .. nstrinian. Oraduated in 1S51. Loca- Tel in urownville 1855. Office, Lett & Crelgb's Dr 5 stare McPherson IBlock. Special attention r 1 to Obstetrics and diseases or Women and v.Y:irc-i. L0!11 HL. MATHEWS. Physrclan and Surgeon. Ofllce . In City Drug Store, No. 32 Main street, Brown 'Ms,Neb. Notaries collection agents Ij. A. Bergmann, VOTARY PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCEU.- a-s O'Hee. No. 41 Main street, Brownvme.ep. 1.AND AGENTS. WILLIAM H. noOVEU, Real Estate and Tax iirn- irani nnf in District Court Room. w"lg.ve prompt attention to the sale of Real Es "Ue a:.d Payment of Taxes throoghouttbe N cmaba wai D.slrfcl- BLACKSMITHS. ,T. V. Gibson, lH.VKSM.rnr. AND nORSE SItOER. First s'r-- "bet iveen Main and Atlantic. Browcville, N W irk dime to order and satisfaction guaran- r;i. HOTELS. V MEMO AN HOUSE, L. D.Roblson. Proprietor, t Fx i t;treet, between Main and College. Good . atm Livery Stable In connection with this T.ETTER HEADS, fcsa fflgi BILL HEAD NeatlyprlntedRt this offlce. It- t;rme.v.o-j-d-a7 r each moutn. - ....nn1f.1l i oi"'w ";---.- . ,.i- rvinntr (JierK.. .. . All! Tflltalti fill 111 V-ey.Joinit. o - r-TTnr. her W1 ia'1Ac"- Vir niimore surveyor. J r f'.'.l i...l.no Tnrtt-P. E. JM. ESTABLISHED 1856. Oldest Paper in tho State . THE OLD LETTER. The following poetnfrom tho Sedalla Times, -written by a young lady of that city, tellBthesad story of many a tender, true, loving heart that has grotto, cold to all the world, but which has, hidden from human Bight, a great deal of the leavcri of a holler human nature, that only needs to be touch ed by the soft hand ol love and pity, to bring forth an hundred fold of love and sympathy, and kindness for all that Is worth loving. The Ink is pale, the letters dim, I scarce can trace their faded lines; But yet how plain the tracings bring Sweet pictures of the "olden times'" Once more I'm crowned with girlhood's years; My bark's afloat on youth's bright stream, I care not for the treacherous reefs. The ruling charm Is "love's young dream." No warning volcelcan brealr the spell Which holds me in Its glittering thrall, Nor disenchanting hand remove The rosy cloud enshrouding all. For he, to whoiri my young heart turns, Although so many mlleS apart. The precious message pens to me, That he has given "heart for heart." And adds, with sweetly, tender thought, A postscript, saying. "Love to you, Through coming time, what'er befalls, Nay, even death will And mo true." O, world-worn heart, how faiq would I Win back the faith which bound me then. Ere I had learned such words meant naught But perjured vows from lips of men. Alas ! the knowledge came too soon. And I awoke from out the dream. To And my bark a floating wreck. Pierced by the rocks beneath the stream. While all the precious "pearls of hope," With which I'd freighted every part, Were cast aside aye, crushed and torn, Like fibres from a broken heart. To-day, they 'call me cold and proud, Nor know that 'neath this marble calm, A heart lies dead which once knew love, And what he made me, that I am. OLD FLAMES. A CA31P-3IEETING ROMANCE. "It's too aggravating, so it is ! Dear rue! I wish I never forgot any thing." "No, no! for mercy's sake, don't wish you never forgot anything; for then you'd nlwaj'3 have to remember all the disagreeable things that ever happened to you in your life. Be lieve me. it's vastly better ns it Is. If we never forgot anything at all, then we'd haveto carry down to our graves the vividjirecoliection.of all the grief. LojrowTor 'pafii we mriffergggft alrthetatefal things folks have said r to usf&Bd about us, and, above all, 5 of everjT time in our lives when we've made f6oI of ourselves. You will find that it's much to be thankful for if you can forget the occasions on which you've made a fool of yourself when you come to be an old maid like j'our Aunt Laetitia." Alice Kildare laughed. "Not much like being an old maid, is it, seventeen, and already engaged six months ?M 'Well, I was engaged at sixteen, and have been engaged three times in my life, and yet here I am an old maid in eye-glasses, rind intend to die the same, please God. Think, now, what a budget of heart-breaking rec ollections I'd be obliged to carry about with me the rest of my life if I had to remember it all. Don't wish you nev er forgot anything, Alice. On the contrary, thank Heaven we do forget things." Again Alice Kildaro laughed. ''Sue and I are going to have our fortunes told, Aunt Laetie. Go with us, venerable mother, aud seo that it's done right." "I can tell yours without looking into a globe of mesmerized water. You'll be an old maid ; mark the pre diction. You have the elements of an old maid in your soul one sort of old maid, that Is." "What are the 'elements of an old maid,' Aunt Laet ?" "Oh ! of your sort of old maid a high spirit, a bright mind, a sharp tongue, aud an uncontrollable love of fiirtmg. You'll be the sort of an old maid that takes to woman's rights and things not the sort that takes to cats xnd religion. Once more mark the prophecy, Alice Esmerelda Kil dare?" For the third time Alfce laughed her bright, spunky, ringing laugh, and then clapped on her gypsy hat and went with her friend Sue to see Mine. Minchauski, the great clairvoy-ante-sibyl, who could miraculously see the shadow of coming events in a globo of mesmerized water at so much a head. Alice was betrothed to aslim, hand some, long-haired college student. who wrote poetry and had an Eollan harp in one window and a rose-geranium in -the other, and meant to go into the literary line as' soon as he was done college. He was very much in love, and Alice was oh ! dreadful ly in love, but that didn't at all pre vent this truthful young lady from flirting with a" dozen other young men all at once, and telling no end of white lies about her engagement. She was exceedingly attractive, but not so pretty as she was bright, piquant and spirited. At this very time when she lay awake nights thinking of her be trothed, and never .went to bed with out tenderly kissing his photograph, at this very time she was flirting. des perately with Tom Creighton, her lover's class-mate, a rich man's son, who was heme on a three months' leave of absence which had been reo om mended by the college faculty. Worst of all. she bad allowed Tom Creighton, in the presence of a third person, to toll her a slanderous story about her lover, one whioh she knew must be false ; and there she eat and listened to it without the faintest at tempt to fight for her lover's good name, just for fear Tom Creightou would think she was engaged if she said anything. I don't defend her, mind you ; I think such conduct was simply scandalous, and such a young lady don't deserve ever to have any body fall in love with her, no, not if she lived to be a thousand years old. "Well, what doeB the sibyl say ?" asked Laetie. "She's a humbug," said Alice, sav agely. "I'm sorry I went. It's real silly and wrong to encourage such wicked imposture, besides." - This time Sue laughed. "The sibyl didn't say Alice was to be married, and so she thinks the sib yl Is a humbug," eald Sue. "We went into a darkened room, and in one oorner there sat a little, ghostly, waxy -looking old woman, with great hollow, black eyes. ' She ha.d a glass globe of water before her on a little stand. The water had been magnet ized, she said, and she, being a clair voyant, was able, by her second sight, to see in the water beautiful pic tures and visions of events to come. Then she took Alice's hand and press ed it against her forehead, and began to wink And roll up her great, hollow eyea in an uwful manner. It was real scarey, Aunt Laetie. By and by she bobbed her head about'and mumbled something, and, still, with her eyes rollel back and half-shut, she began looking into the globe of magnetized water. Then presently she opened her ghostly-looking lips, and in a sort of sing-song tone said to Alice : 'My ohild, I see pictures of your future spread out here and there before nay Inward eyes, like a moving panorama. I see lovers, you will have plenty of lovers, but I see ho picture of a wed ding. Strange! There is no wedding-ring in the circle at the bottom of the globe. How is this, my child? I see one dim pic"ture, a long way off In the future, it must be, because it is so dim, and In it you stand up sur rounded by people ah ! let me see, they are children around you, and you are greatly changed, taller, paler, thinner, but there is no wedding, no wedding. The water is not clear to day, you ill us t come again. Mercy ! what is this? Here is a great crowd ; they are making a noise, aud, looking at two men young -la'dyv thetwo "wewmreiiigkliHgaadjAlHwivoBS l&the waterturns ret? ; it Is blood,, blood I m- -1"" MMi 6 But I Bee no wedding. I see blood, but no wedding.' "She looked so Weird and dreadful, Aunt Laet, that I was afraid to have her tell my fortune after that. She told us to come again when the water was clearer . and then we came away, and Alice has been cross ever Blnce. But I'm sure I wouldn't go back again for anything." Whereupon and finally Aunt Laet had her laugh. "What did I tell you, Alice? Did n't I say you were to oe an old maid? It was foreordained by the fates. On ly, Alice, let me request one thing of you, yea, two things, come to think. Don't you ever go to petting cats, or dyeing your hair with vile-smelling sulphurous stuff when white threads begin to Sneak in around your tem ples. I'll never will you my tea-pot or eye-glasses if you do that." Aunt Laetitia, who liked to tease people, laughed again. It was the season of peaohes and melons, the roasting season when idle people hunt cool places, and devout people hold camp-meetings. Alice went to a camp-meeting with her father, mother and Aunt Laetitia. Is there anybody here, I wonder, who doesn't know what a camp-meeting is like? If there is, let her go to the next one and find out for herself. Father and mother sat up among the worshipers, close to the preachers' platform ; Aunt Laet sat half-way back in the congregation, like one who was doubtful in her mind as yet whether to separate herself from the world or not, while giddy-pated Alice didn't pretend to sit among the con gregation at all, but hovered away back on the extreme borders, where the preacher's voice could scarcely be heard at all. Their position in the camp-meeting audience was an exact barometer of the'devotlonal status of these excellent people, namely : Fath er and mother, Laetitia, Alice. In point of faot, the young people on the outermost borders of that devout as sembly were flirting with' all their might. Alice Esmerelda Kildare was fiirtlne with Tom Creighton. Her betrothed, the slim, long-haired stu dent, was coming home to-morrow. "When the cat's away the mice will play, and the mouse will play till the very last minute before the cat comes back," Alice had said" to herself as she admired her bright, brunette face in the glass that morning. So she sat upon one of the' rude wooden benches under a tree, and let Tom Creighton talk soft nonsense in half-whispers to her. Was all this wicked, of a Sunday, at camp-meet-inr? Yes. certainly It was, but two- thirds of the young people about them were behaving in the same wicked manner. Suddenly Tom Crelghton's soft, lazy voice ceased, and Alice looked up, presently, to see why. She could hardly keep down a cry as she saw, approaching them, her own betrothed, the slim, hand some student, who had been gone a whole year. Somehow she felt dread- jfully guilty as she oaught his bright BROWNTILLE, NEBRASKA, gray eyes. It was such fun to flirt, but dear me ! The slim student passed her with a cold bow. His mother was on bis arm, and he led her to a seat up among the devout people around the preacher's platform. Alice's heart beat a little queerly, and Tom Creigh ton watched her keenly. It wasn't pleasant, and Alice hated unpleasant things. Suddenly her betrothed oame back toward them- He had seated his mother and left her. He touohed his hat to Alice. "I beg pardon, Miss Kildare ; but I wish to ask you something, in pres ence of this person. I may not have the opportunity again. Imaynotsee you again soon, Indeed." He took a paper from his pocket and unfolded it. "Read that, If you pleaBe," said the slim studenb to Miss Alice, who, by this time was beginning to be con scious of a powerful inclination to run away. The paper contained an exact copy of the slanderous statements which Alice had allowed Tom Creigh ton to repeat to her concerning her betrothed. "I only wish to knbtf,'' fiald the slim student with simple dignity, "whether you allowed this person to tell you the stuff thst is on that pa per?" Alice did not answer. She wanted worse than ever to fud away, but to save her life she could not have gone past that wrathful, gray eye, which was fixed on her like a siege gun. "A very short answer is sufficient, yes or no, Miss Kildare." "I won't tell you," said Alice, pout ing. "Do you think you can make me do anything I won't do?" "I beg your pardon," said thB slim student with icy politeness. "I would not for the world ask you to do any thing which is disagreeable to you. Allow me to wish you good morn ing." But as he strode away and left them Alice didn't like the looks of him. Consequently she flirted hard er than ever. During the dinner re cess after Tdnl Creighton had gone awoy and left Alice, suddenly there arose a terrible roar and rumpus in the edge of the woods. Then there was a pistol shot and the next mo ment were heard cries of "Prize fight!" "Murder!" "Part 'em!" "Give it to him,.little one !" -WPhoee who rushed to the quarter whence the crles'catoeSafJaslende? , . . ... L. ...- x Riatv'allwootiy--at)a"-l&acatn I'Ke a' wild beast, madly heating and pound ing a big fellow who was trying faith fully to shield himself from the blows which were raining down upon him. And before they could bo separated the sllaS student had beaten Tom Creighton half to death. "And good enough for him too," said everybody who saw the encoun ter. "Bui who'd have thought that a slim fellow who wrote poetry could doit?" It seems that iuo two rivals had met somewhere in the grove. Angry words had passed between them ond at Inst Tom Creighton, who' seemed to be in constant terror lest the other would "pitch into him," the boys said, suddenly drew his pistol, with out a moment's warning, and ex claiming, "Don'tyou come near me!" fired fit the slim student. The blood streamed from the young man's arm, and he fell to the ground, wounded and stunned. Tom' Creigh ton turned to run away, but had not taken three steps before the slim stu dent who wrote poetry was upon him. He sprang up, covered with blood, and leaped madly forward, with a roar like a lion. "I'll beat your infernal head off,' he howled. "I'll kill you!" He was In a fair way to do It, too, wounded though he was, when the camp police appeared aud arrested both the young men in the name of the offended majesty of the law. That evening this note was put into the bSnds of naughty Alice Kildare, who had caused ail this trouble : "I return you ydeff troth. It is nothing to me now, because I know it is nothing to you. I know now, too, that women are incapable of steady truth and faithfulness. I suppose God made them so. But I do not know why it was ordained thataman shall pour out all his soul, all his soul, all his manhood and earthly hopes at a woman's feet and for com pensation have only the satisfaction of knowing he is a fool. I shall not return to college and you will not see me again. But I hope you will al ways be happy." Alice took the letter up stairs with her, and cried all night over it. In the morning she bathed her red eyes very carefully, and looked at hejself narrowly in the glass as she combed out her dark locks." "And so I'm to be an old maid for all time,"-she Baid, very scberiy. That is the romance of one camp meeting. n. "Oh ! botheration !" remarked Sam. "Sam Harrington ! before heaven I believe you are the -laziest, slovenli est, crossest, uncivilizedest old bache lor that ever vegetated outside of a grizzly bear's hollow tree. I can hardly believe you are my cousin any more, as I think of what you were fifteen years ago when you visited us, and look at 3'ou now, stout, chuffy, slovenly and rich, caring for nothing on the earth or under the heavens but your nasty pipe. An old bache lor i9 a disgrace to humanity, any how. Sam Harrington I 6ay for the Lord's sake, get up and -put on this clean shirt t" THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1875. Sam grunted. The little woman poked him energetically in the ribs. "Your duty to your health impera tively demands it," she said. Sam groaned. The little lady pok ed bim again. "By all the laws of reason and loglo thia duty Is pressingly incumbent on yotf. Allow md to put It td you in the light of public duty which j'ou owe to your kiqd, as a member of a oivllized community, and not a Hot tentot or a red Indian. Moreover, I, your cousin, implore you with tears in my eyes to oblige me immensly and go and change your linen, and not to disgrace irie before the world. There, now, is a consideration whioh ought to inpve a heart of stone." Sam elevated his right foot across his left knee and regarded attentively a hole in the toe of his rdgged right slipper. "Oh, pshaw!" gays he. "There is no pest on earth equal to a woman." "And besides that sooiety expects It of you," continued the little woman, punching him with great vigor. He arose and slowly stretched him self. Then he disappeared and pres ently came back, having reluctantly made the required change of raiment. But the wristbands were Unbuttoned and Ihe collar and bosom terribly crumpled. His cousin eyed him dis contentedly. "See tho man now !" she said; "and that beautiful bosomtoo, looks as if you'd been rolling down somebody's shed roof. I declare you're enough to drive a woman mad. And you're going to our camp-meeting with us tor, atrd I wanted; so much to intro duce you to.WIdow " "Drat all women !" said Sam, re flectively. "Drat all women especi ally widows." "But our widow isn't a widow at all ; she's she's an old maid. I do not know why everybody oallH lier Widow but that's the name she is al ways known by. She used to be rich when she was young, but she was real bright and learned then, very learned for a rioh man's daughter. Her fath er died, they io'st their fortune, and Widow had to work for a living. She came here and has actually been principal of our village High School for the last seven years. There never was a woman held the place before, and there never was a man who filled it half so well. Her graduates make theibest wives and the -beat school- iw -&- t . im i mi a i m" '-- - - Sam. I used to be a sohool-mistrese myself." "Yes," said Sam. "Modest, you know." "And the Widow has dode an 1m measureable lot of good among the girls here. She has made them like herself, as far as they've sense enough to be it brave, strong, honest and wise. There never was another like her, Sam. She supports her mother out of her earnings, and and dresses like a lady, too," said Sam's cousin, adding the 13St as the climax of all praise. "I don't like paragons," said Sam. "Awful tiresome." "At any rate, you're In no danger of being taken for one yourself" re plied the sharp little w'omanr "You had the world before you, and we were all so proud of you, and had 6uch high hopes of you. You were gsiDgo be a famous poet, reform preacher, ,aud the Lord knows what, and you've not been any of it. When you die, I shall have this label tacked across your coffin : 'He began life a poet, full of graud hopes aud aspira tions, and he ended by being a slov enly old bachelor, who made a for tune in the brick-pressing business." "Cousin Mary, Jet's start to the camp-meeting." At the camp-ground Sam Harring ton and little Mrs. Gerty sat among the devout part of . the' congregation, aud listened to the sermon like old folks. When it was over aud they had all left the wooden benches, a tall, pale lady, with lustrous black eyes, and dark wavy hair, stood up facing them. An aged lady with silvery hair and esweet, plaold face leaned on the other's arm, and the younger lady carefully supported her feeble ateps "That's Widow and her mother," whispered Sam's cousin. "Isn't she lovely ?" Sam looked. The fine, delicate face was the least bit faded and tired looking, but not a bit soured or gloomy. Oh, no! not the least. It was a clear, true face fine, strong and pure, like steel or silk, or some thing of that sort. Little Mrs. Gerty caught the school-rrifstresses's hand. "Widow!" said she, "this is Cousin Sam Harrington, a rich, slovenly, old bachelor. I wish vou'd take him off my bauds. Sam Miss Kildare." "Wh-a-at!" screamed he, crazily. "Don't hurt my urm so. What did you do that for?" said Mrs Gerty. "Mr. Harington and I used to know each other long ago, when I was young," eald the' school-mistress, calmly, but with and ineffable look from her dark, sottly-fringed eyes. T mat Tr. TTn.rrin'rfnn flftppn veara J. U.- ..--. .U.W.. ..,. ., ago at a camp-meeting. I have never seen him from that day to this." Then she moved on in a calm, graceful way, with a little spot of quivering sunshine glancing across her gray dress as she passed. And the first thing Sam Harrington did was to look sheepishly down at his dusty old boots, while his face red dened slowly with the memory of an old flame. He laid his hand upon Mrs. Gerty's arm. mistresses in" theountry. School-n(rowejraijlyX- nkigoadwjiga. f i "Cousin Mary, you said awhile ago that I used to be a poet and an enthu siast, with bright hopes aud grand aspirations, and it has all ended in my being a useless, slovenly old bach elor, who got rioh at patent briok making. That woman knows why." "Then I'm sure you wronged her more than she wronged you. She is the truest, best, brightest woman I ever knew. I do wonder if you are the man she nearly broke her heart about long ago? I've heard a whis per of that, I'm sure. You wero al ways too hardand unforgiving, Sam." Little Mrs. Gerty, romantio as a girl, watched them narrowly. Were the old flames kindling into life again? Sometimes little Mrs, Gorty thought they had never died entirely out from the heart of either. Sam Harrington began td black his boots and button his wristbands. One summer moonlight evening Alice Kildare sat on the porch of the little cottage in which she lived with her mother. She was looking down the avenue of trees in front toward the west, where the sun was sinking in the glowing sky. Sam Harrington came slowly up the walk and joined heron the poroh "Widow Kildare,". he said, "I've come to bid you good-by." "Have you?" said Widow. She would not ask a word more. "Yes; I must go back to my muck raking. Bricks, you know, and clay and furnaces and things. I meant; to be a poet when I used to be in love with you fifteen years ago, a brick maker." Used to be! That was had staid ati old maid'for. Now I'm what she Her heart wa9 like lead in her bosom but she smiled and said : "After all, a briok maker is as good as a poet." Are you sure that you think that, Widow Kildare?" "Yes ; quite sure." "Wouldn't you like to see 'em the great brick-yn'rds, and the huge fur naces, baking the patent bricks by the half million?" "Yes ; answered Widow. "I could tell the school-children about it, you know." Sam Harrington made a face. Then he looked at her and saw that, in spite of the brave, proud head which she held up so stately, her face was pale and sorrowful as face could be, a9 tho she were parting with a last- great uPe- "TSTi . - . :W And he actuallyBmlled to se She had tortunwlmbitterlyM1 see ;it. i nnnA 4 T- "-. 1 ! " W JM fn " He threw his hat aoross the the floor and sat, down on the edge of the porch at her feet. "Alice," he said, "why haven't you been married ? What have you stay ed single all these years for?" She looked at him and tried to an swer, but the sound died away in sor rowful, bitter sobs, and she covered her face with her hands. The brave, proud woman was crying. He took one of the slim, cold hands in both his own. "Alice I never got over it the old hurt you gave me" once. I never got over the old love either. Bo my wife now darling, and let us begin all new again." A little, old fashioned portfolio lay on her lap. .Sfie took from it a slip of paper, all yellow and oreased with age. She held the paper toward him. "Samuel.Harrington ! You said in this note that a woman wa9 incapable of truth or faithfulness. Will you take it back ?" shesaid, softly. "Will you take it all back?" He tore the paper into shreda and fragments and blew it away through his fingers, and I don't know where the wind carried it. "So, please Heaven ! my hand shall remove ull that gives you' pain or trouble as long a you live. God bless you, my wife! God bless us all!" In spite of tho globe of magnetized water, Alice Kildare didn't die an old maid. "There is no love like one's first love, after all," said little Mrs. Gerty to her cousin. "No, there isn't that is if one's first love changes' so as to suit as oile grows older," answered Sam, with o miserable attempt at being philoso phical instead of sentimental. And that is the romance of the' sec ond camp-meeting. Keep Mirroks Out of the Sun. It does not seem to be generally un derstood that the amalgam of tin foil with mercury which is spread on glass plates to make looking glasses, is ve ry readilyjcrystalized by actinio solar rays. A mirror hung where tho sun can ahine on it Is easily spoiled ; It takes a granulated appearance famil iar to housekeepers, though they may not be acquainted with tho cause of the change. In such s state the arti cle Is nearly worthless, the continuity of the surface is destroyed, ond it will not reflect outlines with any approach to precision. At what what time did Satan make his appearance in the garden of Eden? Some time in the night. He certain ly came after Eve. Miss Ros3, a Chicago epinster, has recovered $10,000 damages for a breach of promise of marriage from George H. Fancher, a wealthy California ranchman. Horse thieves in Texas are serenad ed by stringbands. A fishing smack Kissing' a' girl when she is pouting. VOL. 19.--JST0. rJ "WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT. If you've any task todo. Lot me whisper, friend, to you, Dolt. If you've anything to say. True and needed, yea or nay, Say it' If you're any thing to love, As a blessing from above. Love it. If you've anything to give. That another's Joy may live. Give It. If you know what torch to light; Guiding others through the night, Light It. If you've any debt to pay. Rest you neither night or day, Pay it. If you'vo any Joy to hold Next your heart, lest It grow cold, Hold 1U If you've any grief to meet At the loving Father's feet. Meet It. If you're given light to seo What a child of God should be. See It. Whether life bo bright or drear. There's a rnessago sweet or clear Whispered down to every ear; " Hear it. SJEI& .'JACKSON'S COURTSHIP. It was a law in Tennessee, in early days, that a man could be divorced from his wife only by two successive acts of the legislature, aud it took two sessions of the body to accomplish the feat. Application for divorce was made personally before the legislature and it was" decided by a vote whether the cause should be heard or not at the next session. If the decision was favorable, the case was investigated by a committee, who reported at the next session favorably or otherwise, according to the evidence, and the de cree of divorce was granted or refused as the" case might be. Mrs. Jackson's first husband was a miserable scamp named Roberts. She loft him and induced him to apply to the legislature for a divorce. He did so, and she, supposing the de cree granted, after a year or more, married Andrew Jackson. After a time it was discovered that Roberts had not taken the case to the legislat ure for its second hearing, and a de cree had not been granted, although Jackson had been living with Mrs. Roberta for two years as his wife. But a divorce was finally obtained, and Mr. and Mrs. Jackson remarried ao cqdlng tojlawIZ This innocent trans gression of eUwt-iendthe the Hermitage. This led to tWjkfthr of Dickinson, and was the cauBe of nearly all the seventeen duels in which Jackson was engaged. He would allow no man to reproach his his wife for unchastity ; and she, it seems, was quite' as sensitive. In his camDaicm for the Presidency this scandal was revived, and there is no doubt it shortened her life. The as persions upon her character crushed her; that she, who had been a chaste, faithful wife for thirty-seven years ; the guide, the leader, and the orna- meutof a religious circle, should be dragged into the public prints and held up to the contempt of a nation as an adulteress was more than she co'd endure. She died of heart disease. Said one of her friends : "Her heart was broken ; It was a clear case of a broken heart." Tree Peddlers Tricks of tlie Trade. The following is from the Iowa Homestead. There are occasionally honorable exceptions amongst the tree peddlers, yet the tree planter would do well to heed what the Homestead says : What western" farmer's premises has not at sometime been invaded by the "brush peddler," a dapper little fellow trimmed in tight pans, bob tail coat, patent leather shoes, plug hat and "kiliingest" kind of a neck tie. Armed and equipped with a half dozen fruit tree catalogues of popular nurseries, and one of thoBe beautiful Fruit Piece Books, and an order book, ho is prepared to "forage on the ene my." He is a wonderful smooth talker, always represents the identic al nursery you want to deal with, and can" fill orders for any variety of fruit you are partial to. He seldom fails to get an order for something, often for a large bill of fruit, shfuhbery and or namental trees. When spring or fall comes, and the trees come, the buyer almost invaria bly finds that he has been most shamefully swindled. You have no redress, for you have taken the bare assertion of an irresponsible tree ped. dler, who has no local habitation, no character or responsibility, nothing under heavens to recommend him to the public confidence, but a smooth, oily tongue fashionable clothes and a nicely painted fruit book. Thousands of western farmers have been victimized by these 'bummers.' Now we have onljT to say In conclus ion, that if the people will still contin ue to give orders to thee tree peddl ers, after repeated expositions of tho tricks of the trade have been publish ed, they do so knowing!-, aud have no excuse for grumbling when swin dled. There are plenty of reliable nurseries In the western States, whoso proprietors have a reputatiou built-up by long year3 of industry, experi ence and honest dealing, that they will never forfeit for temporary profit; they advertise in the leading agricul tural papers ; they know what varie ties of fruit are adapted to the differ ent localitie, and there is no risk in sendiDg ordera directly to them. ADVERTISING RATES. Space. I '-I i-btSSjffi- I Inch 3 inches.. 6 Inches. 12 Inches. ;4 Inches. 11 00 I $2 CO I 2 50 400 I 4 00 I 600 I 7 CO I 10 00 j 12 00 I 18 00 l 00 I $10 150 I 20 2 75 I 36 5 00 I eo 8 00 1 1C0 Legaladverttsements atlecal rates: One square (lOHneof Nonpareil space, or less,) first Insertion $1,00; eacbsubseqnent Insertion. 50a 5-Alltransclent advertisements must be paid' orlnadvance. . OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE C0TJKTT TOWELS. It Is aot uncoinmohV in country houses, for all members of the family to use the same towel for wiping their hands and faces. I am often surpris ed to see how this practJce; prevails, even among people of considerable cultivation ; frequently the towel is made of three yards of good crash, sewed together at the end arid hung over a roller. This seems to be very generous and nice when it 1$ clean, but not bo after it has hung there two or three days, used morning, noon and night, by half a dozen persons. We may bs'able to enduY"? a great deal of our own dirt, when we are ob liged to, but it is no fa morbid delica cy that shrinks from usiDg a towel soiled by other persons. Each hu man body gives forth its own peculiar excretions from every pore of the skin, waste matter, more or Iessfiltby, bo it is not merely the impurity de rived from external "sources that wo wash and wipe when we perform our" ablutions. It is also this one's dys pepsia, that one's billiousiiess, and thet other one's tobacco'; ugh ! Give me a clean towel, please ! And give every child its own towel and ita own comb as soon as it is old enough to use them ; and now I'wnnt to add please, O, fellow citizen ! give ev ery human being n ohance to bathe tho whole body, privately, whenever one wishes' to do so, in a comfortable bath-tub, and all the.cleaxi towels de-' sired. AmericanTAgriculturist. Smart ciiiLmueiVf Connected with the Presbyterian' ohurch on N street, Is a very flourishing Sunday-school, which, with most all' the Protestant schools in the city, commenced on January 1st, the study of the International ser ies of lessons, begining with the Cre ation of the World. The second les son was about the Garden of EdeiiC The teacher of the infant class, which numbers about a hundred boys and girls, on Inst Sabbath was question ing these little ones on the previous lesson, to see how much they remem? bered of what bad been taught them. As she wenff over the successive days' of creation, obtaining very satisfac tory a'nswers, before proceeding to the proper lessons for the day, she inquir ed who was the first man created, and" "Adam" was the unanimous rep'y. "What was the nexrf slop ihVcref linn 9" ccl-ort tliet foanhnr --SkJSBi t!'jEv," was the prompt, reply. Then one or two qneatlo&s as- - i i toj how Eve wan created edtl forwhat purpose, were asked and answered. Then came the next question. "What wan the next thing crea ted?" Expeotiug, of course, that tho "Garden of Eden" would be the prompt reply, the teacher was some what astonished that there was" no Immediate answer, but she was still more astonished, and most effectually silenced for the remoinder of the les son, when a little girl smart beyond her years, spoke up s'ha said : "I gues3 it was a.little baby." The class was promptly dismissed, and we presume the child will be rec ommended for promotion to a higher grade. The construction of the Centennial buildings at Philadelphia is making favorable progress. The estimated cost of the enterprise in its details has been published, and it appears that the greater part of the required sum is already secured. This includes the means for the structure uA follows : Main building, $2,000,000; arifgaHery $1,500,000; machinery building, $800- 000 : nud conservatory. $200,000. To tal, $4 500,000. The following expen ditures have yet to be provided for: Agricultural machinery building, $250,000; water, gas grading, rail road facilities, and sanitary arrange ments, $1,000,000; general adminis tration, $500,000; and an addition of 25 per cent, for errors and contingen cies, the whole amounting to $2,025,- 000. It is gratifying to learn that there is no reasonable doilbt of this" sum being obtained within the inter val of time remaining, and reports show a largely increasing interest throughout th country In favor oX? the enterprise. Secretary Bristow has officially de cided that journalism is a profession,' under the folIowing"circuinstance3: An American journalist who was re turning from Europe, bringing with him a considerable quantity of books for his own library, held that the books were entitled to be entered du ty free, under that eectlon of the cus tom law3 which makes provision for the free importation of books for the library of a pby&ician, a lawyer and a clergyman. The custom-housse'offi-cers at Baltimore, where the books wero entered, decided that journalism, is not a profession, and that the hooka must pay duty. An appeal was tak en to the Secretary of the Treasury who has reversed their decision. Prince Georger of RusslS fs writing a drama, the subject of wiiioh is taken from the Old Testment, General Sheridan was sustained and thanked by a meeting of colored citizens at New Orleans. Benton G. Bo'oue the new Speaker of the Missouri House of Representa tives, is a grandson of Dan'el Boone. Drains on the public purse need re i. n g HI I ii i l i If1 YM