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POLLY PEMSEOKE'S BABY.
'Dear me,' eaid Polly Pembroke,
'what a noise and confusion ! I am
qnite sore I should go crazy if I lived
in the city.'
Polly Pembroke was a farmer's
daughter, who had come down to
2sew York to buy the material or the
first silk dresa she had ever owned a
real deep blue, to be trimmed with
velvet of a darker shade.
And Polly's golden head was dizzy
with the thunder of omnibus wheels,
and the rattle and rush of elevated
railways, and the succession of brill
iant things in the shop windows and
Polly sat holding "onto her parcels in
the great echoing depot, and wonder
ing why everybody was in such a hurry-
For the express train was just go
ing out, and Polly and Miss Jones,
the village dressmaker, who had come
with her to help select the important
dress, were obliged to wait fifteen
minutes for the way-train, which con
descended to stop at Whip-poor-Will
Glen, where Polly lived.
She was a pretty little primrose of a
maiden.fwith large wistful brown eyes
lovely yellow hair, and cheeks as
pink as a daisy, while Miss Jones,
who sat beside her, was straight and
stiff, and upright, and wrinkled, as
became a single woman of sixty."
And jest as Polly was wondering if
there was no end to the stream of hu
manity flowing through the wide open
depot gate, a tall, handsome gentle
man, with a dark complexion and
deep Spanish eyes, came in with a lit
tle babe in his arms.
Stewardess,' he said to a respecta
ble looking quadroon, with a scarlet
silk handkerchief twisted picturesque
ly around her head, who was dusting
the window sash, 'I am going out on
the Chicago express, and I have for
gotten a message which must be tele
graphed to my place of business at
once: will you be good enough to take
this child a minute, until "
But the stewardess hastily drew
back.
'Xo, sab, ef you please, said she,
'I've heard o' many cases where 'spect
able women was left wid strange chil
dren on their hands jest dis-a-way !'
Instinctively, Polly Pembroke
stretched out her arms.
Let me take the baby, sir,' said she
coloring all over with pretty eager
ness. 'I'll hold it for you.. Children
are always good with me.'
TheBtrancex-dofTeiiJiia hat courte
ously. 'I am infinitely obliged to you,'
said he; 'and I'll trouble you no long
er than I can help.'
'Polly, Polly ! are you raving mad ?'
whispered Miss Jones, pulling the
sleeve of the girl's dress.
But Polly paid no heed to her.
'Suppose that gentleman shouldn't
come back?' cried Miss Jones elevat
ing both hands.
'He will,' said Polly, gently rocking
the little miteon her knee. 'Oh, look,
Miss Jones! Isn't it pretty ? I declare
it's laughing!'
Pretty ?' groaned Miss Jones, roll
ing her whitey-blue eyes skyward,
'Polly Pembroke, I do believe you've
taken leave of your senses! There's
the bell the gates ore closed !'
'What of it?' said Polly.
'The Chicago express is gone !'
'Well,' said Polly, 'and what of
that ?'
'Child, don't you comprehend?
Your fine gentleman was going in the
Chicago express,' cried Miss Jones.
'I suppose he has missed the train,'
said Polly, quietly.
'2sot he !' sniffed Miss Jones. 'He
has" slunk quietly in by another way,
and is laughing in his sleeve at you
and your folly this very moment.'
'Nonsense !' said Polly.
But she looked a little disturbed,
nevertheless, and glanced rather an x
iously at the door through which the
tall gentleman with the Spanish eyes
had disappeared.
'Come,' said Mis3 Jone3, jumping
briskly up, and gathering her paroles
in her hand, 'there's the bell for our
train.'
'But I can't go and leave the child,'
cried Polly.
'Humph !' snorted Miss Jones. 'Are
you going to stay here all night with
it?'
But what shall I do?' eaid Polly,
beginning to be a little bewildered and
frightened. 'Perhaps, Miss Jones,
we had better wait until the next
train.5
'And not get home until nine
o'clock at night? croaked Miss Jones.
'I don't see what else we can do,'
said Polly.
But the trains came and went, and
still no one appeared to claim the baby-
Miss Jones grew desperate.
'Polly Pembroke,' said she, 'I've no
patience with you for getting us into
this scrape. What do you suppose is
to be the end of it all ?'
Polly rose quietly up.
'I am going to take the child home
with us,' said she.
Polly!'
'I am ! reiterated the girl. 'Poor
little helpless innocent ! what else can
we do?'
'Let it be sent to the House of Itef-
uge or the Poor House, or some such
place!' screamed Miss Jones.
'With those eyes-?' said Polly, look
ing down into the tender, pleading
orbs. 'Never! It will be all right.I
am quite sure, Miss Jones. All this
is only a mistake. Stewardess,' to
the .suspicious quadroon, who had
taken care to keep at a safe distance
all ihe'"'waile, 'here's "my address.
BBOWVILLE, KEBEASKA, THUESDAT, MARCH 13, 1879.
Give it to the- gentleman when he
comes backr'
Yes,' said the woman, pursing up
her lips. 'But it's my private 'pinion
as nobody won't never see hide nor
hair of him again.'
So Polly Pembroke brought home,
not onlv a new blue silk dress-, but a
dark-eyed baby into the bargain.
'Child,' said Deacon Pembroke, 'I
can't blame you for doing a charita
ble action, but I'm afraid you have
taken a terrible charge upon your
self.' 'Don't fret, father don't fret ! said
Mrs. Pembroke, who was a cheery lit
tle body, with an invincible habit of
looking on the sunny side of every
thing. 'It seems a nice, healthy child
enough, and I dare say it'll soon be
called for. Besides, don't the Good
Book say that 'Whoever give3 one of
the Lord's little ones even a cup of
cold water,' in His name, shall not be
without a reward ?'
And so the days passed by, and the
weeks, and even Polly Pembroke, the
most trusting of mortals, began to
think that she had been the victim of
a conspiracy, and that she was des
tined to bear the whole responsibility
of this little nameless life.
'Mother,' said she, wistfully, 'I may
keep her, mayn't I if I'll give up go
ing to visit Cousin Sue, in Boston,
and not ask father for a new cloak
this winter? And we'll takesummer
boarders next season, and I'M raise
poultry, and she shall be no expense
to you, mother, indeed !'
Well. well, child.' said Mrs. Pem
broke, with a moisture in her kind
eyes, 'have your own way.'
'You'd a deal better send it to one
of the public institutions,' said Miss
Jones, severely.
Our little Uosebud ?' said Polly,
showering Eoft kisses on its velvet
cheeks. 'Oh, never, never, Miss
Jones!'
'You was a big fool to begin with,
and I don't see but what you mean to
be a fool all the way through,' said
Miss Jones.
She had come to bring Miss Pem
broke's fall hat home a venerable
leghorn, trimmed with drab satin
bows and when she was gone, Polly
chanced to pick up the New York
daily paper which had been wrapped
around it.
Mother.'cried she, springing breath
lessly to her feet, 'just listen to this
advertisement ;'
If the young lady who took charge
of an infant in the Depot, on the
afternoon of Saturday, July 30, 1S75,
will send her address to Messrs. Kno
bel & Ledger, No. Broadway, she
will confer an inestimable favor.'
'Mother,' cried Polly, 'what does it
mean ?'
'It means you,' said Mrs. Pembroke.
'Shall I answer it?' Eaid Polly.
'Of course,' said Mrs, Pembroke.
'But suppose they want to take
Rosebud away from me ?' faltered
Polly.
'My dear, we must accept our fate
as Providence metes it out to us,' said
the old lady.
'So Polly wrote her little note, and,
by the next train the tall gentleman
with the Spanish eyes arrived at
Whip-poor-will Glen.
'Do you think me a heartless wretch?'
he said to Polly, with his voice choked
with emotion. 'ButI am not. When
I went out of the depot that day, my
foot slipped in crossing the street, and
I fell under a horse's feet. They car
ried me insensible to the hospital, and
I lay there for weeks in a delirium of
brain fever, caused by my Injuries.
The moment I returned to conscious
ness I made every inquiry, but could
hear nothing of you.'
I gave my address to the Steward
ess,' Polly said.
But the stewardess had gone away.
A Strang woman occupied her posi
tion who remembered nothing of tho
circumstances, and for a while I act
ually believed that my motherless lit
tle treasure was lost to me forever.
How-can I ever thank you, Miss Pem
broke, for all that you have been, to
my little Isaura ?'
So the tiny Rosebud was carried
away ; buther father brought her back
several times to see the adopted moth
er Tvhom she loved devotedly.
Polly,' said he, one day, 'Isatrra is
happier with you than she is any
where else.'
Is she?' said Polly.
For by this time they had become
great friends, and she had lost all her
awe of the stately gentleman.
And it's a singular coincidence,'
he added, with a smile, 'that I am al
so.' At this Polly colored radiantly.
What was the end of all this? Can
not any one guess?
'P'rhaps if I'd taken the baby home
and made a fuss over it, the rich gen
tleman would have married me !' said
Miss Jones, when she was cutting the
white silk for the wedding dress. 'I
thought Polly Pembroke was a fool
then, but I've seen cause to change my
mind since.'
A story is told of a New Haven col
ored preacher, who when his church
was out of communion wine recently
rcalled on a dealer to est more, nnrl nn
being asked what kind be wanted,
replied that "some ob de ladies ob de
congregation had expressed a
ference for gin."
pre-
An English nobleman, who is in
the habit of speaking to soldiers in an
affable manner, was much amused
lately when a guardsman said to him,
in a hearty and genial way: "I like
yon, my lord. There's nothinjr of
the gentleman about you,".
SPSEOH BY GEN, SHIELDS.
In hc U. S. Senate on the Resolution
Granting Pensions to the Tetcrans
of the 3Iexicaa War.
The Vice-President. The Senator
from Indiana, by unanimous consent,
calls up for consideration a resolution
which will be read.
The Secretary read the following
resolution submitted by Mr. Toorhees
on the 10th of April, 1S7S:
Resolved, That the Committee on
Pensions be instructed to report a bill
to this body making provisions for
placing the name? of the surviving
soiaiera or tne Mexican war, and of
the widows of those who are deceas
ed, upon the pension-roll of the Uni
ted States,
Mr. Shields. Mr. President, I thank
theSenate for giving me an opportu
nity to speak a few words in this
place in favor of my old comrades of
cheMexican war. My words shall be
very brief indeed. They will be
nothing more than an earnest appeal
to this body to pass the resolution
just read, and when the bill returns
to tiie Senate that the resolution calls
for, to pass that bill also, and then, i
in ny opinion, this body will have
done generous justice to the soldiers
of tbe Mexican war.
The soldiers of the last war have
been treated by Congress with justice,
and, in my opinion, with very com
mendable liberty. The soldiers of the
Mexican war have not been so treated.
Those soldiers served their country,
and have received nothing in the way
of generosity at the hands of the
Congress of the United StateB. I
wonder not at seeing the services of
yonng soldiers handsomely rewarded;
but the wonder is at seeing the servi
ces of old soldiers almost forgotten.
They complain that Congress has neg
lected to listen to their appeals. In
my opinion, sir, after all, Congress is
not so much In fault. I think the
fault principally lies upon the Bureau
of Pensions. That bureau, by some
proeess of calculation utterly unintel
ligible to ordinary intellects, or at
least to &n intellect like my own, has
reported to Congress a larger army of
Mezban veterans alive to-day than
ever stood on Mexican. soil with arms
in tbfiir bands at one time during the
whole period of the Mexican war.
No wonder Congress ha3 hesitated to
make provision, after such a report as
that." The only wonder is that any
intelligent Congress could place im
plicit confidence in such areport. For
my part, I do not place impliolfc con
fidence in bureau estimates. I have
seen too many of them to place great
r el once on them. -It is said that the
farcousDr. Johnson, when asked if he
believed in the existence of ghosts,
said, "Gho3tsI do not believe in, be
came I have seen too many of them."
Lacgbter. So. Mr. President, I S3y
in regard to bureau estimates.
There have been many attempts to
ob-ain returns of the survivora of the
Mexican war from every State in this
Unao, and the returns which have
beet, obtained by the associations con
cerned are as, accurate as any returns
can in all probability be in such a
cas; and what are these returns?
Tbfit in the whole Union at this day
then are not eleven thousand Mexi
can veterans alive. I need no report
from any bureau to enlighten my
min( on a point like this.
I eanndt-call the death-roll of the
American Army that served in Mexi
co ; "bufc, sir, I can, and if the Senate
permits me I will, call the death-roll
of all the general officers that served
in tfrat Army In Mexico: Scott,
Taybr, Wool, Worth, Twiggs, Kear
ney, Quitman, Pillow, Pierce. Cush
injy, Cadwnlader all gone; oil dead.
T, tbe youncest of them all, am left
to make this appeal to Congress to
make it with heart and voice to do
something j to do it speedily; to do
it before they are all gone. Sir, if it
is not done Bpeedily, if it Is deferred
a few sessions longer, it will come too
late; for then the action of Congress
will not come to cheer living men,
but will fall on silent graves.
Sir. do not talk to me abont exag
gerated estimates by the bureau. I
can give figures of my own. One of
the regiments of my brigade, a regi
ment from the State of my friend
near me, Mr. Butler, when it land
ed in Mexico mustered eleven hun
dred gallant boys. When the war
was closed, when the city of Mexico
was taken, that regiment mustered
what? Two hundred and twenty
three men. Only two hundred and
twenty-three men of that gallant reg
iment were left to carry the Palmetto
flag back to the old State of South
Carolina; and how many men of the
two hundred and twenty-three are
now left? Just eight. A delegate has
come op from there to attend a meet
ing in Baltimore, and he is here to
day, and perhaps hears me now, and
he tells me there ore only eight men
of that whole regiment now left alive.
Sir, you may go over the States, and
I have been over many of them, and
of the men I new in Mexico and
who fought In the battles there, I
cannot find one man living to-day
out of every twenty or thirty. This
illustrates the way Congress has been
imposed upon.
Sir, I need not talk of the history of
the Mexican war in this Senate, x on
are
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all familiar with it, although I
t sav that there Is no history of
that war that does even half justice.
Neither need I talk of the army that
conquered Mexico, but I can say in
one word that no nation upon this
globe need be ashamed of such an ar
Irny. I say hero to-day; I say it be-j
cause it is due to that army; I say it
because It is due to the American
character, that no government ever
sent an army into a foreign country
better, braver, nobler than the army
America sent to Mexico. Why, sir,
from the first shot fired on the Bio
Grande to the last Ehot fired at the
city of Mexico, that army never suf
fered a single defeat, never lost a bat
tle, never met a repulse, neversurren
dered a detachment, never even suf
fered an accidental disaster. Where
can you find anything like that?
But some men may say : "You had
only Mexicans to fight?" Yes, very
true, we had only Mexicans to fight,
and we had plenty of them to fight.
But ask the soldiers of France, and
they are as bravo soldiers as can be
found in Europe ; ask them their ex
perience of these despised Mexicans,
and they will tell you frankly that in
all Europe there is no peasantry that
are less afraid of death than these
very Mexicans. I" ought perhaps to
except the Irish and the Anglo-Saxons,
and the Germans also ; but I tell
you the Mexicans stand killing as
well as any people on God's earth,
and they had plenty of it -when we
were there. Laughter.
Sir, if this Government ever under
takes to walk over Mexico again with
the expectation of having the same
result, they will find themselves
much disappointed. I assure you that
it is my opinion, withont saying one
word against the American Army
now, that if the soldiers of the Amer
ican Army were just such soldiers as
first starved and then killed tbe
Cheyennes on a recent occasion, they
will never get to the halls of the Mon
tezumas, except a3 prisoners of war.
That is my opinion.
Sir, that little army that is now
gone except a few broken remnants
was as conspicuous for its humanity
as for Its distinguished bravery. I un
dertake to say here-to-day that Mexi
can life, Mexican property, fumily re
lations all over Mexico were a3 well
protected during the American occu
pation as they had ever been before or
have been since. I say further, and
I say it on tbe honor of a man, that
no army ever invaded a foreign coun
try that committed so few effenses as
the army that operated in Mexico,
and I am not sure but that the men
committed fewer offenses than the
same number of men living In civil
life now in the United 3tates of Amer
ica. If you ask me why, I will tell
you. It was, first, discipline; and,
second, not speaking of the com
manding officers, who were the best
America could furnish, (not Includ
ing myself of course-, but speaking of
the rank and file.) they were eimple,
honest, brave, manly, generous, and
humane. It Is said there are about
ten thousand of them still left, and I
say here now, and I will thank any
man to correct me if I am mistaken,
that I do not think In all America
you will find one of them in the pen
itentiary. They would die before
they would commit a crime. Some
of them may die in the poor-house,
but you may take my word for it no
soldier of this nation who ever fought
in the battles of Mexico will ever die
the inmate of an American peniten
tiary. If the Senate will bear with me, I
will justify the truth of this assertion
by a reference, a brief reference, to
the campaign. - -
In the fall of 1816 a Missouri regi
ment nine hundred strong, under
Colonei Doniphan, took its departure
for Mexico. That regiment executed
a march of some two thousand miles;
deserts were crossed and arid plains ;
they passed through the Jornada del
Muerio, the journey of death, a3 it
was called, passed the Bio Grande at
EI Paso, found opposition of every
kind before them, entered and cap
tured the city of Chihuahua, and in
all that march never committed a sin
gle crime, and never met with a sin
gle defeat. Ought men of that kind
to be forgotten? Any government
that forgets such men is not a govern
ment to encourage national heroism
of any kind. But the public are bet
ter acquainted with what occurred on
the Bio Grande. lean hardly find in
history a spectacle more interesting
and more romantic than mi old
friend, Zachary Taylor, "old Bough
and Beady," standing there at the
head of three or four thousand men
confronting a whole nation of ten
millions. That campaign commenced
at Polo Alto and commenced brill
iantly, and it ended at Buena Yista,
and you all know that it ended there
in a blaze of glory. Sir, I reckon
Buena Vista is one of those battles
that will always stand foremost in
history.
Then look at the other campaign
beginning at Vera Cruz under Win
field Scott. The capture of the city
is splendid as any military achieve
ment. The Gibraltar of Mexico was
taken by a little American armj, with
a less loss of life on the part of the as
sailants than was ever suffered in any
assault. This was owing to the skill
and consummate geniu3 of the com
mander, the excellence of our engin
eers, and the splendid management
of American artillery at that time.
Then there was Cerro Gordo. I
have some reminiscenses of that and
I shall not forget them. There was a
natural fortress defended by the Mex
icans. That natural position Is per
haps the strongest in Mexico itself.
The strength of that position was
great in itself, besides the strength of
the Mexican army defending it, and
tbey were nearly double the strength
of tbe American army assailing it. It
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was as fine a position as it could be.
And yet Cerro Gordo was carried with
a small sacrifice of life, which to the
military men of that day all over the
world was a matter of astonishment.
Sir, in my humble opinion Cerro Gor
do ranks with and 13 only second to
the battle of New Orleans under old
Andrew Jackson.
But I will not delay the Senate ; I
will not abuse its courtesy. On the
10th day of August, 1S47, ten thou4
sand men crossed the mountains and
entered the romantic valley of Mexi
co. It wa3 an adventurous move
ment. That army abandoned its com
munications, its supplies, its very pos
sibility of re-enforcement. That was
its condition, and yet isolated as it
was, small In numbers as it was, it
fought tbe battle and gained the vic
tory at Contreras, Churubusco, Moli
no del Bey, Ohapultepeo, and on the
13th day of September, 1S47, It stood
before the ramparts of Mexico ; and
how many men stood before those
ramparts, all told ? Six thousand six
hundred men on the 13th day of Sep
tember, 1S47, crossed those ramparts,
captured the city, a city containing
two hundred thousand inhabitants,
and defended by thirty thousand dis
ciplined soldiers. Give me any other
instance of the kind in history. Why,
sir, the army was hardly sufficient to
police the city after they captured it.
When I myself stand here and look
back at that, it looks even to me more
like fable than reality. I shall never
forget the insignificant appearance
we cut when we got into the great
plaza of the City of Mexico. Happily,
though, they thought we were only
tbe advance guard of some tremen
dous army. T recollect an old English
miliiaire who was there, and after he
looked at the little band he said, "Is
this the army ?" "Yes." "Well,"
said he, "all I have to say is thi3, yon
Americans are not only the bravest
people I ever heard of, but the most
audacious people on God's earth to
come here with such an army as
that!"
Then, sir, think of the acquisitions
that have been secured to this country
by that war. They are not to be esti-.
mated now, they are not calculable at
this time. The future only can esti
mate the value of the acquisitions re
sulting from that war, a territory suf
ficient to make an empire, certainly
large enough for another Independent
country, with unsurpassed mineral
wealth, mines of gold and silver that
have ohanged the .monetary condi
tion of the world. Why, sir, the
world was struck with astonishment
a year or two ago at the idea that this
our territory acquired from Mexico
wa3 about to deluge the whole world
with an inundation of silver. I wish
to God the American Congress would
turn a little stream of that flood in
the direction of our Mexican war vet
erans. I am very sure we could stand
under the deluge.
Now, sir, one advantage not to
speak of the harvest of glory which
we foolishly thought we had reaped
at that time, but a harvest, as I say,
of real, substantial advantage ia ad
dition to the territory and mineral
there, is this, and future ages will con
sider it. and that is, the command of
the great Pacific Ocean, the greatest
ocean upon this globe, which, will re
main in oar control "to the last syl
lable of recorded time,' if America
MtTSTt luut i-i" lwng. -
Sir, the remnant of that army, the
army which did so much to this coun
try, speak as it were through me to
day, hold up their hands in supplica
tion to this body and this Congress
and say, "Give U3 a little of that we
helped to secure for our country; give
us a small pittance before we leave
the world ; give us a pittance to help
us on the downwnrd path of life in
our old age ; give us something to as
sist us in our last days when we are
marohing to that field from which no
warrior ever haa yet returned victo
rious, and never will.
Sir, I thank the Senate for the kind
attention which ha3 been bestowed
on me and for the courtesy of permit
ting me to make snob a speech as thn;
and were it not that it might look
like taking advantage of chat courte
sy, I would move now that the reso
lution be taken up and passed and
sent to the committee, in order to
have the bill reported speedily.
"Gettin EddjEashnn."
Jake was heard calling acro3 tbe
fence to his neighbor's son, a colored
youth who goes to school at the At
lantic Colored Unlveraity,
"Look hyar, boy, yon goes ter
school, do n't yer ?"
"Yes, sir," replied the boy,
"Gittin eddykasbun, ain't yer ?"
"Yea, sir."
"Well.it do n't take two whole days
to make an hour, do it?"
" Wy.no!" exclaimed the boy.
"You was gwine ter bring dat
hatchit back In an hour, wern't
yer?"
"Yes, sir."
"An' it's bin two days since yer
borrowd it. Now, what good's ed
dykashun gwine ter do you thick
skulled niggera whenyergoterschool
a whole year an' den can't tell how
long it takes to fetoh back a hatchit?"
There are a good many white peo
ple whose education does not seem to
teach them how to fulfil their prom
ises. The Connecticut courts have ruled
that In that State clears mav be le
gally bought on Sunday, but cannot
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IS IT A G1I0ST?
A 2TysicriDns Female TTlio-' Appears?
and Disappears in an Unaccountable
Hannor,
SpecialrTeiograra to the toierscaat
Elpaso, HI., Feb. 2Se WhUe work"-
Ing alone, two miles east of Bero to
day, near bridge No. 57, orrtbe Tole-
do. Feorla and Warsaw railway, Tim-
otby Donahne, a seotion foreman on
that road, saw a woman standing on
the bridge about thirty yards from,
him. She was poorly and thinly clad,
and had what appeared to be an-old
handkerchief tied around her head,
the top being bare; an old, faded
cloak around her shoulders, and her
dres3 reaohing only within six or
eight inches of the ground, and ap
parently in her stocking feet. Dona
hue looked at her for fully five min
utes from where he stood, and, think
ing she was In distress and needed as
sistance, and eeeing a freight train
approaching only a short distance off,
he dropped his tools and went toward'
the woman to assist her off of tho
bridge, but before proceeding half the
distance, tbe woman had vanished
land could nowhere be seen. This was
on the open prairie, wliere there is-not
an obstacle in the way where any one
could secret themselves, and in clear,
broad daylight. Donahue examined
the brioge carefully, and the ap
proaches on either side, but could
find no traces of any one having been
on or near it. The bridge is only
about thirty feet long, and spans a
narrow, shallow brook, only a few
inches deep at this time of year, and
there were no signs of any footsteps
or of any one having been around or
near the brook. Donahue tells a very
straight story. He is a sober, steady,
reliable man, and will make oath to
his statement. Upon inqairy 1 find"
that this same woman has been seen
upon two former occasions by differ
ent persons, once by a farmer about
seven years ago, and two years later
by a woman who was walking on tho
track who lived near in a farm-house,
each one telling substantially tho
same story at the time of the occur
rence. No one here can account for
this strange phenomenon. As to
what it is, and why this straage ap
pearance is made, is a mystery that
no one seems able to solve.
The Sad End of a Bomancc.
At Vassar College not mors than a
dozen yeara ago was a youaggirl from,
an interior town of Wisconsin. Of
wealthy parents, herself handsome
and unusually bright, about to-gradu-ste,
after which she was to wad her
heart's choice, her cap of happtoess
seemed full to the brim.- Probably
prompted by pare wickedness, an un
natural brother set about breaking the
engagement, and only too soon suc
ceeded in his purpose. The sorrow
stricken yoang girl retarned home,
though on tbe eve of honors that had
cost her several years' hard labor.
Her lover left itome and friends for
tbe far west, not to retertr. A short
time after the girl's parents tHed, and
the large estate was divided between
the surviving children. Takiag ber
share, nearly S100.COO, she tarsad her
back on the home ef her cbzWirood,
ame In Miltgatilcan. aad has elace
lived a most isolated life, not adam-
ting anybody to her confidence, re
pulsing all attempts at friendship.
Betiring deeper into seclaeion year
by year, to-day but few dare face her
stern presence. She seldom if ever
writes or receives a letter, makes no
calls and has so callers, and, in short,
is as entirely alone as one can be in
this busy world. With an immense
income, and one that ie rapidly in
creasing, she spende bt little money,
and that for necessities. Barely is
she seen in the streets, aad than as if
she feared tbe toneh of the bosiliag
pedestrian. The brother does sot Mve
a hundred miles from Milwaukee.
MUwGmkte Sentinel. .
Purification of the Blood.
Tbe various periodicals of tba day
are becoming more and more atten
tive to tbe sabfeet of beaitb, aad
while many paragraphs appear vfbfofi
are as opposed to health as to comraon.
sense, yet now aad then, we are de
lighted to Sad a paragraph which we
can heartily indorse, and which com
mends itself to the good sense of ev
ery one. Of such a character is the
following from the Wcdehman .-
The most important meams of par
ifying the blood whatever veadera
of 'purifiers' may say are tha free
use of pare air, a eleaii skin, a sound
liver, active kidceys, exercise, and
getting the system late its natural
state. One may purify the blood more
In a single day while breathiag pure
air than by taking sersaparilla for a
month. More of effete matter Is
thrown off by exercise and perspira
tion, In one day more than one-br
of all taken Into the stomach, sli
and liquid than by a year's dosing
with some of the no? trusts of the
groceries. A free use of fruits will
stimulate the liver to filter out more
waste or 'bile' than some sappose
while good, plain and wholesome food
will make good blood, the old and
worn out materials pass off by the
mean3 referred to, soon leaving tho
body in a good state. Pure air and
water for oloaneiag are cheaper tben
,the 'patent WtecHrSurfa and will
o ."w.TATitEnonirz.
effect far more