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iFAIRBROTHER c HACKER, j Publishers and Proprietors. Published Every Thursday Morning XT BROWNYXLLE. XEBEASA. TER3IS, IN ADVANCE On copy, onoycar - u Lecal advertisements at !! nttpwnnnn . , , ., VMM& 0 0-Hneof Nonpareil, or less) first Inaa'rtlon.tZ.O each subsequent Insertion, 10c. - All transient advertisement mast be pat forin advance. One copy, six months Cne copy, three months. fj - w - 2Jo papersent from the office until paid for. BEOWNVILLE, STEBKASKA, THBESDAT, FEBRUARY 1, 1877. VOL. 21 NO. 32. READING 3IATTEH OXEYEKYPAGE Oldest Paper in the State. OFFICIAL PAPEE OF THE COU T MII-II1IM I - PSOPESSIOKAIi CARDS. ATTOEETS. S. A. 0orr, A' TTORN EY AT LAW. Office with W. T.Bog- er, urownvue. - k-. T. 1.. 5ohIc, i TTORNEY AT LAW.-VT BE CONSULT A ed In tkc German lanjnage. Office next oor to ConntyOlerfc's Office. Court House Build-n.Brownv111e.yebrE-. "-y . B. St-11, ATTORNEY AST) COUNSELOR AT LAW. Office, over Hill's store.Brownvllle.NeP. J. II. Broady, ATTORNEY AKXI COUNSELOR AT LAW. Office over Stats, Bank. BrownvlIUN eh. K. "VV. Thomns, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office.front room over Stevenson Cress's Hardware Store.llrown Tllle.Ncb. "V. T. Rogers, J TTORNEY AD COUXSELOR AT LAW. A. Will srtve diligent attention to any le?al a mlnessentnted to his care. Office In Court Huse 3ulldlnR.Brownvllle.yeta. PHTSICIAXS. A B. HOLLADAY,3... Physician. Surceon . and Obstetrician. Graduated in lBSl. Loca- ed in Brownvllle 1SS5. Office. Lett creish's drug-tore, MoPherson Block. Special attention paid to Obstetrics and diseases of "Women and Children. 10-6m HL.XATITEWa.Plrrrtc nandSrgeon. OOlce . In Oitv Drug Store, No. 32 Main street.Brown vlIIe.Neb. BLACKSMITHS. J. IV. Gibson, BLACKSMITH AND HORSE SHOER, "First stre-tbetween Main and Atlantic. Brownvllle ;eb Work-one to order and satisfaction guaran teed. J. W. AVITT, Postoffice address, HUMBOLDT, "YEH. All buslnej-a entrusted to his care will re clvo prompt attention. j. 3roiv, MERCHANT TAILOR, and dealer in FlnoEngllst, FreHch, ScoJcli and Fancy Cloths, Yestinss, Etc, Etc. Brcwnvilfe, Nebraska. HAVE 'YQU SEEI? 1PI n e a a r 8 g ES i i i Having purch:tsed tho " 13 X I? II A. IS '. I wish to announce that I am prepared to j aoailrst class livery business. Josli Hogers, J yf&BEL5 TOR, BROW-TVILI.E, JSEBRA5KA. Cutting, or Cutting and disking, done to order on short notice and at reasonable prices. Has had long experience and can warrant satisfKCtior. Call at bis shop at residence on Atlantic street. CITY HOTEL Tenth street, between Faraam and Harney, Oraalia, INeT. is EAR THE Br5SSS CENTRE F THE city : opon dav and rtgiit ; buws rntinlnsto and from the House inaklnc connection wfth all trains East. Wstorih and Sotn. AVe BoHcit a share oi the ptronre from fswthern Xebrasts. and the traveling jwbltc enerallv. Give special rate to T.S.Jnrorfi. or any parties remaining with usany lecth of time. E. T. PAGE, Proprietor. B. STROBLE, AT CIT dealer In PAMILT GEOOESIES, TEAS, CAS5ED FRUITS, CAXD1E5, GIiASSWARE. TOBACCO. CIG VIIS. WCnAF FirES, AXD 21U.SICAL IJISTliaiEXIS. pkesh: o " stebs HOMEWOOD III i - HavingI n my employ Mr. BEEiN'IE- SFTIi, Onowledged to be the best miller in the tate I am prepared to furnish GOOD FLOUR In any quantity. Every sack war ranted. yT Flonr Is for salo at all the principal Btores in Brownville. .. GEO. HOMEWOOD. Sheridan Mills.April 1st, lb.5. BEITISTEY. e, . : Tn3T, An experienced practitionor, will fill and ' extract teeth for all who wish, at reasonable rates, at bis residence on Main street, next door to B ration's store. JET BROWJSTILLE ? BAST WBJSK OF MAGS. 3IOXTH:. Tfc? WTTFS'F'S- rri : ..; 9JL9 BROIVXV1LLE, KEBUASKA, West side Main Street. overSnutz' Jewelry Store. In his absence, all orders left at Sher man House, City Drugstore, Lett Gibson's or Shut-' Jewelry Store, will be responded to without delay on bl6 return toBrownville. Totlce of absence and return duly given in The A veetisfk. JOHX CRADDOCK. W. T. CKADDOCK. CRABDOCK . SOX, GJJr SJfllTHS! BKEECH -LOADIXG SHOT GC.VS, BIFLES, rrbines Ammunition and Sportlnc Goods. Guns Sadc to ordr,ad Benairimj neatly done. XI -Iain St., Brownville, RTeb. TRACTS H3SI-R, I'AGON a.lAGKSMITHKQP OXE DOOK "WEST OF COT HOUSE. TT7AG0X IA3NGt Repairing, T V Plows, and ail wor done in tue Dest xnannerandonsnon nonce, eed. GJvebimacalK Satisfaction guaran f4-iy. ABBOTT Wagonm oking BiacksmitMng, JIEL-E3r ' A-t - i .. .n a -nntx:Trnmrd-O'jtfltand friiroii inn niius 0iM ftlll UHLLIf h 1 HI TNH 1111 B S LIVEBT AHD FEED STaBI ES ' MATHEWS V x fc 5iiter freo- TCO., Auc-i5-1 OLD RELIABLE MEAT MARKET Y & BRO.. BUTCHERS, BROWATILLE, XEBRASEA. Good, Sweet, Fresh. Meat Always on band, and satisfaction guar antied to nil customers. J. BE. BETTER, Manufacturer and Dealer in Slant ots, Brushes, Ply Nets, e. XSr Repairing done on short notice. The cele brated Vacuum Oil Blacking, for preserving Har ness. Boots, Shoes. c. always on hand. G Main St., BrowurilEc, 7eb. :pt. cluenTie, F5HIONABI a. ,tv-5- -5? mr jet hS P 1 - 'jLE -"?. L Bb 5" ' lS r-S-5s3 iSSsHKl CD a ; ir-jfc JfeSs rrvat-E-Trx. - 6?" 'BOOTAND SHOE 3-.T-Ti.-. CUSTOM WORK 2IADE TO OltUEK, AXD FITS GUAHAXTEED. SO t&ln Strert, BBOWXTILLE, NEBRASKA. fc S I sajrs ait aireet, "Rr y? f Up stairs over Witcberly it iSiG- fl Smith's Barber Shop. BROIVWILLE, NEBRASKA. I make every size or style of picture de sired. Life-size pbotocraphs a specialty Every pains taken to give pleasing and be coming iosItions. None but FIRST CASS "vv ORS allowed to leave my gallery. A fall assort ment of PICTURE FRAMES, or all style.s and grades on hand. ALBUMS. LOCKETS COLORED PICTURES, ana many other ?L3 AST.TG 0E-?AK?3 FOB E P2L0 Persons wishing Photograph work done in the best style, at lowest prices, should not fall to call and see for themselves. P. M. ZOOK. ntf .. mt . i vaS Sp tt a . 4 w OLD CLOTHE He -will Color or Dye your COAT, VEST or PANTS, In the best style. IVIUDyo Ladies' Slimvls; ivlll take all tlic Spots out of Gents' Garments, and press them up In good shape ; -will re pair Garments, and -war-rant to give entire satis faction ; and will cut and make gentlemen' clothes. Equaled by Fewv Excelled by Hone Shop in Alex. Robinson's old stand, next door to Roy's Furniture Store. A. H;OBISOIT BAIlS- OPTS AND SHOE ausroM "Wi'obe: 3H40J -O -0E1X 3E.. Eepairinc neatly done. Ko. 5S Slalnstreet, Brown -rtlle.Keb. DaOTflPOIDU I MiM i ,", . M M HiiULE I ';' i-j,jh-"E '-"ft. ! ? DYEING k T"? f& 4e"- JC iA TSETTER HEADS, . M m BILL HEAD) X eatlyi pri.e-t-tfc1 s pSce . - Possibilities. We cannot all be beroes And thrill a hemisphere "With some great daring venture. Some deed that mocks at fear; But we can All a lifetime With kindly acts and true, There's always noble service For noble souls to do. We cannot all be preachers. And swny with voice and pen, As strong winds sway the forast, The minds and hearts of men ; But we can be evangels To souls within our reach. There's always Love's own gospel For loving hearts to preach. p THE msim- h.gySLSii, OK Wlio TVill Save Her? CHAPTER VIII.-Contlnned.) "The enormous risk !" put In the doctoiv " 'Just so; the enormous risk we Bhould run in the event of discovery; but I also saw ' ' We saw,' again put in the doctor 'we Eaw ! I think, Pojjpy, I had a part in that.' 'Well we saw that the game, under almost any circumstances, must be in our hand?. Holding fast and sure the winning card, it would be for us to decide when and how to play it.' 'A remarkable little womam !' said the doctor, looking round, as if ap pealing to the four corners of the un iverse a remarkable little woman !' Theremarkable little woman's :reen e3Tes bad a more than unusual veno mous gleai. It's a safr speculation, Seppy,' she said. 'Let David and the rest do their part of the work, and we'll open wide the bospitable doors of the YVindel straw house.' 'To shut them as quickly,' laughed the doctor. 'Windlestraw has its se crets and this will be one of them. He paused for a moment, as if struck by some sudden thoughl, an unpleasant thought evidently, for af ter roosting uneasily first upon one leg, and then upon the other, after ths fashion of that domestic fowl he at times so much resembled, he touch ed his wife on the arm, nervously. He did so two or three times before he attracted her notice : that ever ac tive woman having possessed .herself ofa -i-sitTtic-y huge housekeeping book, iuto which with an almost painful quickness of movement, bbe, with a very hard-nibbed pen, that scratched and splutter ed as she wrote, was jotting down items of expenses. 'Well; what is it?' She asked the question as though she had dismissed all the previous matter from her mind, but a glance at the doctor's face recalled her to it again. 'Sir Hugh should he recover?' 'Sir Hugh will not recover.' She had scarcely uttered the words than a great peal, as of a gate-bell, rung tbrough the house, or, at least, through that part of the house with which it was more immediately con nected. 'Somebody from the station,' said the doctor, peering nut from tho tho side of the bow-window. 'A telegram, perhaps,' ejaculated the lady. They remained thus, these two birdB of ill omen, anxiously peering out, but neither by words expressing the one thought that agitated their minds. The door of the room opened at last. A tall, spare, hard-featured woman presented hereelf, a telegram in her handB. Waiting an answer,' e he said in a cold, harsh voice that accorded well with her countenance. This was Mrs. Jane Murdoch, di rectress, under only the doctor and his wife, of the Wiudelstraw estab lishment. I will ring for yon, Mrs. Murdoch.' Mrs. Murdoch dropped a slight curtsy, and left the room as sedately as she had entered. As the door closed, the telegram was opened. 'From Dripaey Bridge?' And both man and wife read at the same time and under their breath : 'Sir Hugh Wcniworth expired last night. We shall require every assist- The answer, as the telegram said, wbb paid for; and the boy, as Mrs. Murdoch had said, was waiting. The question has come, after all, more suddenly than expected. The answer must be equally decisive. Tfes or no? The husband alone shows signs of irresolution ; the stronger mind has been made up long ago. Outside the lodge-gate, a lithe, sharp-looking lad, with crisp curly hair, and a snub nose, is rubbiug down a pony, rough-haired, and streaming with perspiration. He Is the bearer of the telegram. Within the Jodge-gates stands a tall footman, rural from head to foot, and wearing tho Windlestraw livery. Hi3 small x?yes gleam for a moment and his huge mouth still further ex pands itself into a lengthened grin. It has just occurred to him to vary the monotony of his existence by chaff ing the lad. Boy ! . 'Sir, 4o you 1 One conldn't say less, considering your get up, and what It must have cost your master.' And the lad continued to scrub away at his pony. 'What's your name?' 'Tom Brompton. If you don't like it, you can have me re-christened .l.An nn1 i.tn nnrl nnv tho nhorrvoa ' UUh auu ihii-, i jjuj . ..,--. 'Born here?' asked the footman, superciliously; for he was getting much the worst of it. 'Here!' The lad paused, and look ed about him with a vague astonish ment. 'Why, you don't think they grow such as me in these parts? I ain't beet-root, and I ain't mangold wuzzle. I'm London born and Lon don-bred, which is a jovial state of thingR not to be comprehended by you, my fine feller!' With the aspect of one who, think ing to grasp a ball of wool, has unex pectedly laid hold of a hedgehog, the footman, with a contemptuous shake of the head, slowly retreated. That will do-that will do! I'll go and get you your answer.' All right!' joinder. 'As was the cheerful re you've got yours, old Tiddlywlnks, I can wait for the mas ter's.' 'Here it is;' said (lie servant, re ceiving a packet from the baud of Mrs. Murdoch, presented ic to the boy. He popped it in a leather pouch slung at his side, and was in the saddle in a moment. Is that all?' 'That's all." The lad looked up with a queer twinkle in his eye at a huge inscrip tion over the gates. 'HydropathieEstablishment, whieh means, I suppose, a tap of nutritious wuter always turned on ut the prem ises. Thank 3'ou for nothing, old chap; of the two 'stablishments I prefer the workus' Pint o' beerreg'lar, no end of skilly, with beef and pud din' of a Sunday !' So saying Tom Brompton Bhook the reins upon the neck of the pony, and dashed away in the direction of the railway station. The return telegram contained these words : 1 Every reliance." CHAPTER IX. OXLY A D B E A M. We must go backfom'e twelve days to the time when poor, patient Ger trude was in part superseded in her careful watching by the skilful nurse .. And n very skului nurso imieeo proved Mrs. Prudence. Wakeful and noiseless, ever ready to the second with bandage or drug, smothing the pillow with a hand whose touch was as a falling rose-leaf, and a dozen times during the long, long night arrang ing and re-arranging the bed-clothes, which the suflerer tossed aside in ever-recurring paroxysms of pain. No wonder the sick man approved of Mrs Prudence; that by degrees he came to miss ber attention, and often asked for her when she was absent from the room ; not but that with the all-absorbing selfi-hne-B of an invalid, es pecially of nn invalid of Sir Hugh's nature, he insisted upon Gertrude's presence also by his side ; and it was only by kiud Mrs. Prudence's insist ing that the young lady should have rest, that she (the nurse) was permit ted for some hours to minister alone in the sick man's room. A valuable assistant was the Lon don nurse to the London doctor. Poor Dr. Bowlby was soon nowhere he, a good-natured, wortli3' creature enough, confessed as much to himself, while he bowed with ready humility before the profound erudition and high scientific attainments of Doctor David Malj'on, whose button he was proud to hold while he dipped into a well of science that seemed never to run dry. 'Dip as j'ou will,' Bowlb' would say, 'up it conies, the bucket brimful and running over.' I fear, Dr. Malyon, there is but small hope for our poor patient; the brain is I say it with due deference to your greatly superior knowledge irrecoverably injured.' Doctor Malyon feared so too. 'AH that remains for us to do, Doc tor Bowlby, is to soothe to soothe and trust to time for the ret, and the chapter of accidents that chapter to which we doctors are more indedted than we choose to own, eh? Ha! ha! Nature, sir, Nature; when we can do no more, we call that lady in and give her chance, and in nine cases out of ten she saves the patient.' 'She won't do it in this case,' said Bowlby, shaking his head. 'Sad bus iness! As it was with the father, so it is with the son. A mad, head strong race, the Wentworths violent men, violent -ends!' and the little doctor passed his gold snuff-box to Malyon, who near emptied it at one gigantic pinch. This conversation took place over a substantial little luncheon, in a snug room in the Abbey, neigli boring the sick-chamber. A soft knock at the door. 'Come in !' The 'nurse from London' enters. She curtseys, first to Dr Malyon then io Dr. Bowlby, Very quiet aud re-j spectful in her manner 1b the 'nurse from London.' Like everyone else. Doctor Bowlby highly approves of her. A groom is going to ride Into Drip Bey. Mrs. Prudence wants to know if there is any alteration in the pre scriptions. 'Urn ! yes ; perhaps it will be better with Doctor Bowlby's approval,' And so David Malyon, M.D., draws toward him paper and ink, and writ es; hi9 confrere, meanwhile being quietly talked to and patronized by the 'nurse from London.' Have you anything to suggest?' asked Malyon, throwing the slip of paper across to Bowlby, who having set his heart on, the wing of a pheasant has just set his fork in ic. Nothing.' The doctor glanced down with a very profound look, but without read ing. 'It is impossible to improve upon, Doctor Malyon. Our double signa tureyes, of course ; very compli mentary." Mr3. Prudence passes -thej pen, and the Doctor signs. 'Shall I carve for you ? This pheasant is de licious.' Mrs. Prudence retires, noiseless as she came. The doctors pile their plate, and, for the time being, forget everything but what is on them. 'A glass of sherry with you, Doctor Malyon.' 'With pleasure.' How devoutly he wished it was rum! In another room of the ancient house, two others engaged in earnest conversation. Brother aud sister. Philip and Gertrude Wentworth. The room is Gertrude's boudoir. The tall French windows open to the ground, and out into a prettily ar ranged garden. Philip stands leaning against the open window, handB deep sunk in pockets, fiercely biting hid mous tache. Bad news, and a few duys' anxiety, have worked" a great and surprising change, In Mr. Philip. His eaay, all kuowing. 'up-to-everything manner has gone his self-sufficient swagger utterly departed. He seems suddenly, so to speak, to have shrivelled up within himself, his features to have become thinner, sharper; the whole expression of the face mean and Aus picious. One could almost imagine that the spendthrift bad becomes mis er in a few short hours. He strikes his foot savagely on the ground and swears an oath unneces sary to repeat. His sister, her hand upon his arm, looks up frightened in to his face. " 'You must: not say such things, Philip,' she says in her pleading voice, so beautifully soft, so musically plain tive. 'They make me shudder.' - aitiay-heaij Why , not? What have I done, Gertruutr; u.t the door of my father's robin should he closed only to me? I have an equal right with yourself to stay by his bedside and mini-ter to his wants. Not that that kind of business is much in my way, but the right exists the same.' 'Undoubtedly.' . 'And it's my belief, be went on, roughly repulsing the little white band that was laid bo coaxingly on his arm, 'that, but for back-biters and mischief-makers, I should be ns wel come as I am now unwelcome.' Oh, Philip." I am here as a son should be.' he went on, spenking with Imt. vehe mence, 'to tender a son's aff-ctiou, and receive the instructions of a per haps, dying father.' 'Philip!' What do I find ? That positive commands are given that I urn not to be admitted to the sick-room that my father will not see me; but thnt I have his kind permission to remain in the house, as a guest, I presume as a guest!' I have pleaded for yon, Philip. Night and day, I have pleaded for j'ou indeed I have !' Thanks !' He looked down into the Innocent face, sneeriug sardonically. 'I say again, and will say it again and again, that my father's mind has been poisoned against me that I am the victim of lies, lies, lies!' He struck his heel three times down upon the floor, grinding it as" if grinding the forhead of an enemy. 'And you think that I ' 'Who else?' and then his wild' rage bursts out in all its full cowardly force. 'Who else has had my father's ear from first to last? Oh ! I've been well informed as to your doings, your Innocent wa3Ts, your cunning serpent wiles!' Gertrude, who had risen, gazed into his face with a look of blank aston ishment. 'Well informed! by whom? who could Have been capable of slandering me thus? And there arose before her, even as she asked the question, the figure of a little bent old man a man with smooth, silky, white hair, shining and soft as floss silk ; a man witli a hunched back and a stooping figure, a manner gentle and caressing as that of a tame cat, with eyes deep sunk and brilliant as diamonds, which Bhowed the latent spirit of a wild one. Benjamin Darknoll, in fact. It was not in Gertrude's nature to hate strongly ; butoh ! how sheear ed that smooth-spoken and, seeming ly so pnssionless old man. She felt instinctive' he was no friend of hers; she knew, indeed, none could be ignorant of his blind devotion to her brother Philip; from the latter'a birth the old man had been his faithful, much-suffering servant and slave. To all the cruel caprice3of the boy, the old man had given way-without a murmur. What it pleased Philip Wentworth to order, that it was Benjamine Darknoll's business to do. A ready pupil and a bad teacher; but the careless father, who gave Blight heed to anything but his horses and dogs, was only too glad that old Darknoll should take care of his un ruly hoy, and so an evil shadow was everywhere destroying all healthy fruit. 'Who,' cried Philip, In answer to Gertrude's question 'who but those who have my interest at heart, an Bee the trick lam to be played.' Brother! oh, brother! my dear brother! what wicked people they must be who have told you all this!' She sougbt'to encircle himvwith her arms, but he pushed her off, drawing his brows fiercely together, and hard ening his heart against her as he did so. 'Getaway!' he said ; 'all will come right in time, and, among the rest, you will get your deserts. There's a doom and a gloom over everything in this accursed house; but you'll please to remember one thing that whatev er occurs to you, you've brought it on 3'ourself.' He looked askance at her as he said this, and could not help being struck by the agonized expression of her faoe. Gertrude's was one of those natures that bend before the storm, hoping it will pass away; a thoroughly wo man's nature, trusting to the last. You know yon hate me Gertrude !' he said, but in a somewhat milder voice. 'My father hates me, and you follow suit. It's the nature of 'our charming sex to go with tho atronger party, 'ou know.' 'That ia not true,' was the quiet re ply. I have been your defender with our father always.' The dark shadow came back upon his face. 'Who accused me? There must be an accuser for n defender to be need ed. Gertrude might have answered. 'Your own bad conduct was your ac cuser;' but she "only drooped her beautiful head, flower-like, beneath a rain of tears. A step oame crunching over the gravel, a man halted before the win dow, and, as he stood, blotting out the sunlight, projected a shadow into the room. The shadow was long and crooked. The figure that cast it was Benjamin Darknoll's. 'Can I have a word with yon, Phil ip? The doctors have had another oon'aullolion i T? foSifJ;ofr'tTfStrj?i worse.' He never once glanced at Gertrude ; speech and gaze were alike directed to the young man. 'Is m3T father worse?' cried Ger trude, pale and trembling, asshe start ed to her feet. M3' poor dear, dear papa ! I will go to him at once !' And thinking of nothing but the suf fering man, who might require her attention, Gertrude passed quick' from the room. The hunchbacked old man came nearer to the window. Philip still standing sulkily within the Bbadow he cast into the room. 'Gertrude' (ceremony was a thing dispersed with in so old a retainer of the Wentworth family as Benjamin Darknoll), 'Gertrude nowa her power, and, like her sex, will hold it to the last. A. nice child, truh', to bear the weight of three vast estates!' The old man laughed a soft, almost musical laugh, as he glanced at Phil ip, still tnoodj- and silent. 'I am proud of the famil3 proud of its name, which expires, should Miss Gertrude many, or3ou.' . Philip stopped him with an impa tient gesture. 'There that's enough! I am in 3our hands. Daddy Darknoll. I think 3ou love me, whatever the rest may do.' Philip had stepped from the room into the garden, but treading in the shadow of the old man, who laid his long honj' hand upou his arm. 'You think I love 3'ou, Philip!' he said, in a voice that trembled beneath its weight of feeling. I am three score years and ten, aud the onl3 hold I have to life is the love I bear to you. They had quitted the little garden, when, shaking; his silvery hair, the old man, with a somewhat unpleas ant, toothless mirth a laughter that savored of the grave pointed to a huge sun-dial, that stood directly in their path. A heap of carved stoneworkbear ing the escutcheon of the Wentworths in its midst. There was a shadow on the dial, but it was not to that the Boft voiced old man directed Philip's at tention. A double shadow, enst by Philip and Darknoll, fell, black as night, as death, across the stone escutcheon. 'A black mark !' the old man said, in his caressing voice. Bu it i3 not indellible. We can remove it, Philip, aud we will !' That night, wearied with watching. pra3ing constantly, hoping, hoping) alwaj-s, Gertrude Wentworth had a dream., The fire had crumbled down to its last Bsh, and Gertrude, forgetful of her promise to Mrs. Prudence to retire to rest, still lingered by her father's bedside. Sir Hugh was sleeping. As Dr. Mayon eaid, the one great thing for him was to be soothed. The brain grew heavier the Baronet was quiet, and he slept. There was a chillness In the air that very early morning air, which eeema the pfertingbreat of a dying day and Gertrude tried in vain, with shawl and wrapper, to keep it out. The lamp had given its last despair ing gurgle, its wick its last expiring flicker, when Gertrude Wentworth, crouched up among the thick folds of thecurtainsat the bed's head, dreamed a dream. The sick roan still slumbered heav ily ah, so heavily! The moonlight was pouring into the room in one shower of cold, soft silver, when, be tween the moonbeams and the bed, glided into the room a small, gnome like figure. Had it walked upon air, its foot steps could not have been more noise less. It floated, rather than walked, aud seemed to hover, with restless, bird-like haunt, over the confusion of phials which were gathered together on the table. Stopper after stopper was with drawn, cork after cork deftly removed, the contents held up to the moonlight, and closely examined. Then from the folds, as it appeared to Gertrude, of her gray shadowy dress, she produced another phial. The phial a very small one she emptied into a glass of what appeared to be an effervescing drink. It was only now, asshe turned, that Gertrude recognized the face, dried up and parchment-like, of the "nurse from London.'' Slowly, and with no other light but the moonlight to guide her, the wom an approached the bed Gertrude knew there was dangler. and struggled with her sleep, but it clung to her like the serpents to the Laocoon, and, do what she could, it was impossible to throw it off. The woman approached the bed, and bent over Sir Hugh, who, with that low, terrible, half-inaudible moaning, was tossing his head from side to side, not violently, but like one under the influence of narcotics powerless to take effect. The woman, with a ready skill that could cnlj" come from long practice, propped up the heav3 head, and ap proached the half-filled glass to the lips. By a powerful effort Gertrude shook off the lethargic fetters which had bound her. An instinct of danger possessed her of danger great and immediate. With a wild cry, Bhe started to her feet. "NO!" The shadowy hands go up In a ges ture of alarm. There Is a noise 83 of falling glass upon-&fioortherrdefs; over taxed strength gives wayTannTwItlra confusion of voices about her, Bhe awakens, to find herself in her own bed, in her own room. , A voice speaks in her ear, and fin gers are upon her pulse. The voice and the fingers are the voice and the fingers of Doctor Malyon. "Fever, poor child ! fever! The strictest seclusion. You will attend to her, Mrs. Prudence you will at tend to her." CHAPTER X. SHADOWS ABOUT THE THRESHOLD. When Gertrude Wentworth recov ered from her swoon, it was to find herself in her own room, with Doctor Malyon, ever kind and attentive, b3 her bedside; Weak aud suffering as the poor chifd was, it required but little argu ment on the doctor's part to persuade her that what she had seen, or, as he phrased it, believed she had seen, in her father's room, was but a, dream, a mere delusion, arising from the ner vous S3stem having been over-taxed b3' anxiety and loi!j watching. Rest, rest, was what Gertrude re quired, and rest Bhe must have; in deed and the doctor strongly empha sised the words without rest he would not answer for the consequen ces ; an opinion in which, aswa3,usu al with all Dr. Malyon's opinions. Dr. Bowlby unbesitatinghr agreed. And so Gertrude was forbidden, for that da3r at least, to rise from her bed, while old Mrs. Bleek, the housekeep er, willingy undertook to sta3 beside her, receiving and transmitting to her young charge the news from the Bar onet's room. The "nurse from London" wisely kept awa : besides, her duties called her elsewhere; but it was from her that Mrs. Bleek received her reports, which were uniform favorable to the Btate of health of the patient. Poor Mr. Bleek! A piece of an tiquity crumbling awa3' a colorless, characterless old woman, as toroub- jly "faded out" as one of th myriad figures in the tapestry which rotted on the Wentworth walls, she regarded the progress of events around her through a pair of weak, watery eyes, too utterly feeble to be even aston ished, caring for nobing.talking of nothing, but the grandeur of the Wentwortbs, and clinging to the 'old house' with the instinct of a cat. Perepared to meet an opponent, Mrs. Prudence had found in Jthe housekeeper a ready, because an un conscious, alh The poor old soul succumbed at once before the irruption of "clever folk" from London, was ready at beck land call, happ' to do anybod3's bid ding, as she glided about, a phantom of the pas.t, her head alwa3 twisted over her shoulder, Inching, as Benja min Dark npll would sneeringlj-sa3, 'even strength of mind enough to die." Her one fear was this same Benja min Darknoll. Tn his presence he; "faded out" still more, growing; men- tally, thinner and thinner, till, meta- phorfcally speaking, she "became a mere glimmer of a woman, like a fig ure on a magic lantern slide. "An awful man Is Benjamin Dark noll, my dear' she would 6ay to her young mistress, Jn those, rare times when she permitted herself to talk of him at all, "and one that I wouldn't knowingly cross for a great deal, not withstanding im soft-speaking waysj His daughter, Mrs. Rockwood as Is now, was one not easily to be faced when she was angered, but. lor' bless you, darling, I would rather have to do wither in her wra.u, than with her father, who never seems to get angry at nil." . Tn one or her hurried flutterlngs from the door of Sir Hugh's room, back to where Gertrude, ever greedy of news, was tossing her pretty head to and fro uneasily on her pillow. Mrs. Bleek encountered Benjamin Darknoll coming out of the shadow of the long corridor. A queer pair the3 were, this hunch ed old man with the thin white hair aud steal th3 tread; and this dim old woman, who seemed but a gliding, Bbadow. of other dim old women, who stltclied and embroidered centuries ago the work now crumbling from the ancient walle. Both far advanced In years, yet, how different in thought and feeling! the man restless and eager beneath his quietude of manner, busy with the present and full of schemes" fqr tha future; the woman only brooding upon what has been a nervous, spec tral old lad3', seemingly almost as Im palpable to the touch as .one of those chilly vapors that nestle over tombs. She was hurrying by, when Dark noll, by a gesture, etopped her. to be continued. A Card to lite Public. For mau3 years we have made two medicines suited to the ailmeuts of a vast class of sufferers. Thousands of cures have been made by them, and in fact, the word failure could not be coupled with them. But within the, last two years counterfeits of our medi cines have sprung up, dangerous In. their close imitation of our Trade Mark. To secure the people we have placed upon each genuine box of Hol- loway's Oiutment the facsimile of the signature of our agent, Mr. Job. Hay dock. To counterfeit is felon3. We. shall relentlessly pursue any one who imitates this with the utmost vigor of tho law. We must earnestly beg that the great mass of the American people will aid us in our efforts to protect- Ltboir ealth, and help us lu our tk of bringing these most utiprin'cipled'men to the bar of justice. Uniformly to, purchase Medicines purporting to be ours unles3 Mr. Jos. Haydock's signa ture is attached to each box of Pills or pot of Ointment, and the end will soon be reached. The public's obedient servants, fmlj Holeoway & Co. State Horticultnral Society. Lincoln, Neb , Jan. 13, 1877 The winter meeting of the Nebras ka State Horticultural 3ociety nd- journed to meet at Lincoln. February 7th, 1S77, at two o'clock. This meet ing wijl be devoted to disoussions of fruits best adapted to oar soil and cli mate ; insects and other ills detrimen tal to fruit culture ; the bird question ; soils and other characteristics most favorable to fruit culture; fruit and forest tree and hedge planting, and. other kindred subjects that may sug gest themselves. Also to reception and reading reports from counties,, end a revision of our fruit list. It is hoped there will be a general atten dance, and full reports from counties. Daniel H. Whbmlbk, Secreta ry. An Unsolved Question; All this morning I have been try-t ing to solve this question : If God's nature is perfect in it? love and beau t3, , from whence oomos thase forms in the world without us which to us are hideous and unlove? These forms of animal life reptiles and snakes, and huge monsters from whom we shrink ean these be beau tiful to Him whose eeisvast enough, to comprehend the whole where ours fail to see even a beginning? If they are not beautiful to Him, how can a Being, whoso vry nature is beautj, produce hideous forms? Selected. In London a Jew hits bean charged, with the murder of a Jew. It Is said, this is the first time such a thing has happened, and that the last Jew hanged in . England was hanged 200 3'ears ago for forgery. io i Bloggs says if the Democrats ob jected positively to the Returning Boards, they should not gone into tho election. No use quarreling with Hoi'le after the rubber is lost. Charles Fenno Hoffman, author of the familiar song, 'Sparkling and Bright La. tho Rosy Light,' Is In tho State lunatic asylum.'in Harrisburg, Pa. He ia 70 years old. At bedtime now, after the Philadel phia boy has said his 'Now I lay me he adds in trnly thankful sj)Irit, '-i(ar alntlglad I don't have to sleep out in the shed any more.' Frederick Douglas says he prayed three years to be delivered from bond-, fage, but he never got anyanswer till heip-ayed with his legs. I . .' !WH-WP