THE OLD COUPLE.
It atandw in a ptiuiiv nn-adeiw.
The tuniee metiy ami lir.-wn.
With ii e. timorous old elum- chimney.
And the gray roof i-lojui; down.
The Iri'i-K fold their jrre'i-n nrmij aroiuni it,
Th tre a a c.-iiniry old ;
And the ilKli" , o dim through the-m.
And the eiiutH-ama elrejp lUcir
The Ciiwclipn etirinjj in the tiiareh.-a.
And th- re-aci' liloom on tin- lull :
And beeiili the nni.ik in the pastures
The herds fo fi-t-tliiii.' at, v. ill.
The children have jrmie and left them ;
They fit in the huh alone;
And the old wife's earn are failmz.
And rhe hark to the well known tone
That won her heart in her cir!!i"d.
'1 hat has aitlie;d her in many a cure.
And p aii- her now for ihe be iliim
Her old lace used to wear.
M)e think" SL'.iin of her bridal
Mow, clre-x.'d in her rolie ol white,
fch: flood by her iy yonni; loer
In the niorniu'o rofy lilit.
Oh! the morninc in roey a ever.
Hut the rofe from her cheek li tied;
And the Hiiii!iiue dill i eolden.
But It fulls on a Milvered head.
And the girlhood dreams, once vanished,
e'eime hack in her Winter time.
Till her feeble lllie- tremble
With the thrill of Spring time i ime.
Aud looking forth from the window.
She think how the tre-v have erowu
Since, clad in her brieiul whiicm-eH,
She croKfed the old door stone.
Though dimmed her eyeV brilit atire.
And dimmed her tiai'V yom: .lei.
The love in her uirlbond I irri t !
Ha never urow n eiim nor old.
They fat in their lnre In I lie rim-hill.-.
Till the d.-ey almost done;
And then, at It elope, an anel
Stole over the threshold f tone.
He folded their hand- together
He tmichec' their ejelicf wi'h biilin ;
And their laM breaih llouteij upward.
Like the clue of a foieinu i-,iiiu.
Like a bridal pair they trave rse l
The unseen inya'ic road
That li-ad to the liia-itiful city,
Whose builder and maker is Ciod.''
TIIE OLD DOAKIUXMIOl'SK.
"Ki.i7.Ar.hTir, stop iiatt;nirip your nose
atrainst th-it a inejow-j'ane, an d lisU-u to
nit-."
What h terrible shrill t'-ne there was in
Miss Jiminiii's voire Ihatcliilly NovrmbiT
morninjr!
Kliubeth turned her head slowly half
way round, and then back went the eairer
little taee to the window airain. There
was a K:it outside, and he had just ex
traeted a hujie piece of brown paper from
an opposite area, under which he had
taken refuce to escape the rain, and was
apparently niakiutr a comfortable break
fast oil it. Now Klizaln th felt an interest
in the trout, ami .he felt none whatever in
what Miss Jemima had to say. He looked
very dreary and desolate out there in the
rain, and she wondered how he felt
whether lie had ever lived in the country
and had lhinrs to his taste, and it it was
very disagreeable to him to be confined to
the city, to breakfast oil' brown paper, aud
be compelled to hunt through the putters
for a morsel for his dinner. He looked as
if he were miserable so very shaggy and
dirty and wretched, witli the rain trickling
down his sides ami dripping from bis
nose. Mie felt very forlorn and mist-ruble
too, and misery loves company; so she
watched the goat, and forgot to listen to
3Iiss Jemima.
Uut Miss Jemima's demands for atten
tion were not to be lightly put aide.
" Eli.abeth" (this lime in a louder tone
and a higher key), "you are making a
spot ou that window with your nose,
and I want to talk to you about the
liutter."
" My nose has nothing to do with the
butter, and I don'i listen with it, either.
"What is the matter?"
The goat was nearly out of sight now.
He had consutiuit the brown paper, hut
not satisfied his appetite, aud was com
pclled to forage ag,ain. At that moment
there was nothing left of him within
Elizabeth's ran;e of vision but Ihe end ol
his tail. He had stopped, and she was
anxious to know if he had found anything
she didn't want his breakfast to he all
Lrown paper, poor thing! so she jammed
her nose more persistently against the
window-pane, lie was desolate, like lie-r-fclf,
anil she sympathized with him, for
she thought lite ll.-c-il them lmth badly.
Yhen she saw him lift his head with a
disappointed air, she was sorry for hi nr.
anil it was not until he had quite passed
beyond h';r view that she linmght herself
back with a jerk to Miss Jemima.
" What h;is the butter ('mw?'' she in
fuired, with the bewildered air of an in
dividual who has let his attention wander
from a conversation, and finds it ditlicult
to bring his mind back to the subject un
der consideration.
" Done, you goose!" wailed Miss Jemi
ma, in a tone in which wrath was strange
ly mingled with despair. " It's all
gone."
"Gone? gone where?" asked Eliza-lK-th,
who was even more dreamily stupid
than usual this morning.
l;or Miss Jemima! Elizabeth wa a
terrible irial to her, and she had so many
trials. Miss Jemima belonged to that
class of unfortunate women who have had
a fierce struggle with the world, and in
the course of the battle she had received
many wounds. The world yields the liv
ing it owes us all very grudgingly to many
men, but to the women who undertake
the fight single-handed it presents so se
vere and discouraging a front that the
wonder is they ever succeed at all. Miss
Jemima was a veteran now. "She had
fought a great many years for the means
to support the life she had never enjoyed,
and she was in the midst of the strife yet.
t?he was worried and distressed, and
greatly disposed to think she was in pos
session of the monopoly of all wretched
ness. There was sovnetn ng very pathetic
in the anxious expression of her light
gray eyes and the dow nward curves at the
corners of her hopelessly homely mouth,
but there was also something very ridicu
lous in the daily catalogue of Miss Je
mimas woes, and me lernuie eagerness
with which she anticipated all sorts of
miseries that never happened. Elizabeth
thought slit; was the most aggravating I3
disrnal and despondent human being that
ever 8113- one was forced to live with.
But then Miss Jemima held quite as un
favorable an opinion of Elizabeth; for of
all the thorns, and there had been a great
many, that ever pierced Miss Jemima's
flesh, Elizabeth was the sharpest.
This same Elizabeth, commonly called
Bess, was Miss Jemima's sister, fifteen
years younger than herself, and, accord
ing to Jemima's simple theology, an all
convincing argument in favor of the doc
trine of total depravity.
No one passes through this vale of
tears without many trials, whether thev
be great or small; but surely to the lot of
no other human being falls so large an ac
cumulation of petty cares and annoyanc e s
as the mistress of it second-class boarding
house in a large city is called upon to en
dure. And the txsition of mistress of a
large establishment for hxlgers, in one of
the most tortuous streets of the crooked
city of Boston, was the state of life in
whicn ioor, pathetic, worried MissJe
mina was called ujion to do her wearing
anl difficult duty.
Bess' busy brain was perplexing itself
over a difficult problem this morning,
while she jammed her nose against the
window -pane, and forgot to pay attention
to Jemima's tale of woe. Hie was won
dering where her place was in this dis
mal, rainy world, and however she could
get into it.
It was eight years ago now since Bess
and Miss Jemima left the old farm-house
in New England, where their presence
had been barely tolerated by a hard-ti.ted
relative, who gave them a grudging shel
ter. Mrs. Brown, former mistress of the
old boarding house, knew of Miss Jemi
ma'shardlot on the poverty-stricken farm
among the granite hills, and, needing as
sistance with her large family and nu
merous cares, had sent for poor Jemima
to come to Boston, and given her permis
sion to bring Bess.
It was a happy change for the two un
fortunates. Mrs. Brown was a good-natured
old lady, and on the day when she
expected the two wanderers to arrive she
told their sad story to John, and concluded
it with the request that he would meet
them at the station and bring them safely
to the house.
4nJ,?nrWJhe yonn m who lodeed
keepcr for a retail house on Summer
street, and had bearded with Mis. Brown
a long time In-fore Bess and Jemima made
their lirst appearance in Boston.
It was John that made his way across
the city, and waited patiently until the
train arrived and emptied its crowd of
weary passengers upon the platform. He
found no diflicully in recognizing them ;
aud suppressing a smile at the bew ilder
ment expressed by Jemima's pathetic
features, and the consternation in Bess'
big round eyes, as they were jostled and
hu-tled by the hurrying crowd', he intro
duced himself, and giving the poor little
hair trunk in charge of an exprexsman,
tie posited Bess and JcminiH safely in a
streetcar. They were very tired. Weary
with travel, and frightened by the noise
arid confusion around her, Jemima could
with difficulty repress her tears, and Bess
sobbed w ildly, and clung to John for pro
tection; and he took excellent care of tiiem
both until the' reached the house, where
he h uided them o er to .Mrs. Brown for
comfort and consolation. This w.h the
beginning ol city life for Jemima and
Bess.
lood old Mrs. Brown took them both
into her capacious arms and heart, and
f r the tir-t time a bright ray of the sun
shine of aU'ei tion aud kindness shone
upon Jemima's dreary life.
" Takin' lodgers was tryin'," as Mrs.
Brown frequently allowed; "but them as
hasn't rent to pay hasn't it so hard. If
they dot s.ii"t like things, and li nils fault
with the help, let 'em go where they're
better suited. You can 'most always
make the ends meet if you ain't got the
rent to worry about." Mrs. Brown was
fortunately situaltd. She had no chil
dren, and no rent to pay, and so remained
cheerful and contented in spite '' frequent
vexatious encounters with the trouble
some inmates of her house. Jemima
wondered if she would h ive been cheer
ful and contented if she had b en the
w idow of a well-to-do coi ner grocer, with
out Bess to worry her, anil in possession
of a comibtahlc house. I'oor Jemima!
who had never had more than a few dol
lars of her own at anyone time in the
whole course of her hard-working life.
Mrs. Brown was kind to Jemima and
indulgent to Bess, though Bess exhausted
Ihe whole force of her juvenile intellect
in the conception and execution of every
possible sort of mischief. It was Bess
who put the kitten in he water-pitcher to
"see how he would look all wet," and set
the fish to swin. ming in the wa-h-tub after
they were fried foi break fast. It was
Bess who hid in dark passages and Hew
out upon the frightened "help" until
they gave warning, because they were
"scaiit to death by that brat." It was
Bess who hid Mrs. Brown' best cap in
the Hour barrel, and tumbled down stairs
head-foremost with an appalling clatter
while the family were at meals. Jemi
ma's Ghrill tones were heard at all hours
of the day in violent remonstrance and
severe expostulation; but no amount of
argument, entreaty or severity availed
with Bess. There was only one influence
to which she was ever known to yield,
and that was John. He became her firm
friend and champion. It was John who
protected her from Mrs. Gruntley's threats
and .Mrs. Jones's wrath ; John w ho took
her to the circus, and gave her pepper
mint drops, and petted her w lieu she some
time s came togrief herself in her attempts
to torment somebody else. She had fre
quently chosen him for the victim of her
misdemeanors too; but Bess was so per
fectly wretched when John was "e-ross to
her" in those days that their difficulties
were always very soon made up by Bess
promising "never to iio so any moie,
not never again," and John agreeing to
forgive- he-rafter receiving the promise.
The irrepressible animation she had
formerly w orked oil" out-of doors w as now
shut up within four walls, and the atten
tion she- ree-ched and the injudicious pet
ting administeieii din ing her first sorrow
ful d.is in the e iry by good Mrs. Brown
had i!e-ve-liped aiap.ieity for mischief un
dreamed of w hile she re inained under the
severe discipline of the farm house.
Jemima began to tear that the inexhaus
tible energy displayed by Bess in devising
schemes tr th- annoyance of her victims
would end in their both be-ing dismissed
from the house w he-re; they had found
refuge. But good Mrs. Brown had too
much justice in he-r soul to visit the sins
of the juvenile eH'ender upon her elis-tresse-d
siter; and, besides, she was dis
posed to re-gard Bess' iniquities as lenient
ly as possible, for the motherly old soul
fancied she cnuiJ liiwc a slight reseiu
l.'ance somew lie-re about Bi-s.s' audacious
little pug-iiei.se in the same organ em the
we ll-beloved e oiuiteiKince of he-r ele-parled
grocer. This resemblance was a fortu
nate thing for Bess, lor the good old
lady's patience was not e-ndle-ss, and Bess'
appetite for mischief was inappeasable.
If Bess' nose had bee n ef a contour ei'her
tiree k en- Uoman, she and Jemima might
have found tin-msel ves homeless wander
ers in the -tre e-ts of Boston em the morn
ing alter Mr. Jones' hat, for which he had
been searching fully an hour, was discov
ered on the head of the pump in the back
yard. Mr. J eme-s was a good boarder; he
paid very regularly, and oe-cupicd the
tnirel story fr.mt. If it had bee n the third
s'or- back, who had a sick wife and two
children, and was very irregular and un-ce-rtain
in his payments, Mrs. Brown
would have bee-n less severe; but she
could not have- Mr. Jones trilled with, aud
Bess receive-d a severe reprimand.
After this there was comparative quiet
in the house for a day or two, but it was
only the calm that pie-cedes a storm. On
Sunday Bess undertook the descent ef the
staircase by way of the balusters, with a
broom in he r hand for a balancing pole.
Long practie-e had made Bess both skillful
and elaring in this sort of exe-rcise, and
the elesceiit would probably have bee n
successfully accomplished on this occa
sion but for an unlooked-lor accident.
Just as Bess had started em he-r perilous
unde rtaking from the second Iloeir lanel
ing, 1'ho be, the tip-stairs girl, appeared
on the landing below with a waiter in her
hands, upon which was arrange-d with
great care the elinuer for the hypochon
driac old lady w ho excupied the seeond
story front. Bess' attention was altracte-d
by the rattle of eli.-he-s beneath her, and in
turning her he-ad slightly to one side, in
order to see w hat w as going on be-low, she
lost her balance. Over she we nt, with
her head downward, her l'ee-t in the air,
and the broom humping wildly against
the staire-ase and opposite wail. There
was a w ild shrie k from I'lm-be, a wilder
yell f re m Bess, and a terrible commotion
among the croe ke-ry, as ihe waiter fell
from 1'ho-be's hands with a fearful crash,
and the plates and cupsaud saucers roll eel
frantically one after another down the
kitchen stairs. In less than a minute
every inmate ef the house was on the
scene; and in the e-enter ef the group
stood the w re tched cause of all the excite
ment, with he r he ad on erne side and her
finger in her mouth, entirely unhurt,
w bile fragments of roast beef, pedatocs,
and pudding lay scattere d over her hair
and neck and el re ss and little rivulets of
gravy and swe etme ats dripped from her
skitts. Be-ss had failen upon the-waiter,
anel probably owed her life to Biiu be's
prese nce ef mind in letting ge ef it and
promptly seizing the chile!. But 1'ho-be
gave warning imnii diatel , aud the eld
lady in the second story front refuse-d to
re-main in the house another day unless
Be-s was instantly removed from the
premises:.
Like Daid C'opprrfield, when Miss
Betsey acied upon Mr. Dick's advice,
Bess was " wa-lied," and then locked up
in Jemima's room while Mr. Jones, Mrs.
Brown an I Jemima met in council to ele
cide upon her fate. Mr. Jones was in
dignant. Jemima tearful and Mrs. Brown
seriously disturbed. Mr. .femes was ef
the eipinion that the culprit should be
sound- wipped, and quoted Scripture to
strengthen the force of his argument.
Jemima, who had learned by experience
the inadeepiacy of ceirpejral punishment to
centred Bess' depravity, only wept silent
ly when this idea was suggested, and
looked imploringiy at Mrs. Brown. Mrs.
Brown was revolving m idea in her head,
and emlv hesitated to announce it on ac
count er the expense it invedved; but
finally the; inexhaustible hencvole-ncc f.f
the dear old lady, in combination w ith the
resemblance between Bess' nose and that
of the deee ased grocer, prevailed, and she
announced her decision. Bess should
" go to school." In this way the wrath
of the old .ady on the second floor would
tie appeased, Plm-be's faithful services
would be retained, Jemima's mind set at
ease and peace ana quiet restored to the
establishment. Jemima had been of
great assistance In lightening Mrn.
Brow n's labors since she had been with
her, and Mrs. Brown appreciated her pa
tient devotion to her arduous duties. She
felt that Jemima merited some reward for
her devotee! service, anel then, in spile of
all her wickedness, there- was still a ten
elerness in the goed ehl lady's heart
towaid sinful Bt-ss.
So Bess was hurried oil' to? a cheap
se heied in the country be-fore she fully re
alized what they were doing w it li her or
had time te prete.-t. However, remon
strance em he-r part would have been use
less, for the arbiters of her fate were de
termined, ai d Be-ss was banished.
Then ensued the calmest period ef
Jemima's life. The ilays llowed smooth
ly along for the first time in all the record
of he r worried existence, and several years
w e nt by. But just as the coi ners ed' her
mouth were h-arning to relax from their
grim downward curve, and the perpendic
ular lines above her nose began to smoeith
themselves out a little, a new calamity be
fell Jemima, (ioeiel Mrs. Brown was taken
sie k. and, after a hng illness, during
which she ree-eiveel the most devoteel care
from her faithful frienel and servant, ele
parted this life to rejoin her deceased
grocer in another work!.
And now grim care se-i.ed upon ptwir
.Jemima again. She had spent six peace
ful and comparatively happy years w hile
her liiend and patroness lived, but now
she was alone again, with 1 ess and her
self to provide for, and only her own un-aide-d
efforts to win a living for them
both. Mrs. Brown had rc-e-oin mended her
to keep n with the h uise, und left he r
the good-will of the lodgers and a few
hundred dollars in the bank. But the-re
was the rent to pay. The heirs were dis
poscel to be as accommeidating as possi
ble, but when they came into ihe prope rty
the-y wanted the revenue from it, and
though unwilling to elistress pexir Jemi
ma, the-y must imist upon their elite. So
Miss Jemima, as she had always been
called, became mistre-ssed the house in the
place of good Mrs. Brown. She was fa
miliar already with the heavy burden of
care and responsibility, but before she
had had no experience of the grim night
mare called quarter-day. This was a
phantom that pursued her remorselessly
now. Four times a year did Jemima
tremble at the appreiaeh ef the terrible
elay upon which the agent appe-ared with
wiiat seeme-el to her his exorbitant ele
niauds. So sher saved anel pincheel, and
grew harder and thinner and more fretful.
Bess' se-hoe.'l lulls cou'el be paiel no
knge-r; indeed, all expenses must lie re
duced to their smallest possible- limit in
orde r that the rent might be forthcoming.
So Jemima sent for Ue.-s to come home-.
It was six years now since the memorable
day when Bess made he r sudden plunge
from the second-story "landing inte the
tray containing okl Mrs. fJruntley's elin
uer six years from the time when that
ludicrous elisaster resulted in her sum
mary banishment froui the old boarding
heiuse. Now she was back again. Mrs. Oruut
ley was there still, tint to this elay shehad
never forgiven Bess the shock her nerves
ree-e-ivcel e.n that occasion, anil Mr. Jones
still re-tained a recollection of the pranks
played with his wearing apparel. The
other hoarders were new, with the excep
tion of John, and therefore had no past
memories to assist them in forming an
eipinion ef the veiling lady whe appeareel
so suddenly among them; but there was a
prejudice against Bess in the house-, ami
Bess returned their elislike with all her
heart.
Tlnre was her old friend John but
Bess was not thinking about John on that
rainy morning, a month alte r he r re turn
from the country, as she stood at the w in-elo-.v
watching the- goat, while Jemima
wailed about the butter and lamented the
insatiable appetites of her boarders. John
was just the same great, big, good-natured,
allei tioiiati- John he had always been so
long as Bess had known him, ever since
she had cried herself to sleep in his arms
that dismal evening in the stree t car when
she and Jemima made their tirst acquaint
ance with ugly edd Boston?
But since I'.e-ss became a young lady
John was inclined to be slightly afraid ef
the impeding younsr pe-rson in" black al-pae-a
who male tlie-m occasional visits
during the s-choed holidays; and us tor
Bess Bess had fallen into the habit of
considering all the conditions of her e-x-isie-nce:
as hopelessly horrible and unin
teresting, and she include 1 John among
the- re-t. But this morning Bess feit t,hat
she wanted a little sympathy and advie-e.
She: realize d that an immense sum must
be forthceiining next month to meet the
elemands eif euarter-elay ; and that morn
ing she had tliseovcred that a tiny liede
was about to make its appearane-e in the
elbow e d' he-r best alpaca elrcss. This com
bination of circumstance s w as so depress
ing that Bess made up her mind thai she
must do something to assist Jemima, and
relieve her, at least, of any f urther e are e.f
her troublesome self. But the question
was, What could she elo? she was utterly
good for nothing. Suddenly a bright
thought struck her. She would tisk John.
She always use-d to po to John when she
was in a t-c rape. Why not now? Cir
cunistances were favorable, for at that
moment John appe-are-d em the scene. He
had just de-sce-nded from regions atieivc,
and seated himself at the further end of
the table. .
-"John," said Bess, coming round to
his side of the table and subsiding into a
chair. Then, leaning he-r head medita
tively on he-r hand, and putting her black
alpaca elbow in the bread plate "John,
what can I do?"
John, like the tru; Yankee he was, par
ried erne qucstie-n with another.
" W hat do you w ant to do?"
"Nothing; but one must live. Next
month Jemima has pot the rent to pay.
and she hasn't nearly meme-y enough ; and
she says you all e-at so much. And my
dress is all wearing out, and I must elo
something to earn some money. Now ,
John, what on I elo?"
This was certainly a perplexing qucs
tion. John puUeel his mustache with a
be w ilch-red air, anil Bess looked at him
disconsolately.
"Could you teach school?"
" Me! I ehm't know anything."
Jeilm w ondered w hat she had bee-n alieiut
all those years at school, but lie made no
comment.
"Could you serve in a store?"
" Anel stand up all elay in a Imix?"
"A counter isn't a Imix," said John.
" But so like one only just your head
and shoulders out; and I must have room
to move about, don't you se-e?"
John didn't see. lie thought there
were a great many people who elidn't
have much roe h 11 to move about in, but he
didn't say so.
" No, I e-oiildn't do that," said Bess,
shaking he-r head mournfully anil heaving
a long sigh.
"Can you sew?" asked John, after
me-diiating a few minute-s.
"No. If I ceuild, I'd mend that hide;"
and Bess pulled her sleeve round her arm
with her thumb and forefinge-r, anel
pointed out to John a small heile, where
the gray lining was beginning to show
threiugh.
Jerhn loeike-el at the plump little arm in
the worn sleeve, and then up at the bright
little lace, with its breiwn eycs, rosy
cheeks, ami auelacioiisly impertinent
nose, and an idea came into Ids head. It
was neit a new idea by any means, but it
was one that John had never elared en
courage. It had be-e n dancing abemt in
his brain oil' and on for two years, anef as
eifte-n as it forced itself upon his notice
John valiantly chased it away. Some
times it would take possession ef him leir
elays; then, again, John woulel conquer
it entirely, and it would not dare attack
him for weeks. But just as he thought
he had done with it altogether, it was
sure to come back again te torment him.
When Bess came home for her holidays
this idea would seize upon him relentless
ly, and he could not pet rid of it for days
after she was gone. He had always made
a violent struggle against it, for uutil
lately John's income had been so small as
to make the encouragement of any such
fancy very impossible and ridiculous;
but bust summer his employers had raised
li is salary to what he considered quite a
magnificent sum, anel as soon as that was
done the idea came brick again with re
doubled energy, and John never tried te
get rid of it again. Indeed, he took to
encouraging it in a friphte-ned sort eif n ay.
Now this idea was immediately connccteel
with Bess, but up to this time Jolm had
never dared to think of communicating it
te her. Indeed, he was so much in awe
of this yeiung person with the pug-nose
ane! shabby elbow that if the conversation
had not taken a very peculiar turn this
morning I doubt if Jemn would ever have
dareel to say anything about it.
"Jeihtl you eitjght te have been down to
breakfast!" began Bess, irrelevantly.
Bess' mind w as of such a nature that it
never could concentrate itself very long on
any one subject, and at this moment the
important matter under consideration went
completclj-emt of her heaei, all be-causeshe
happened to catch sight of the empty but
ter plate.
"Oh, John, if you only rotibl have been
licre this meirning! We were just about
half through breakfast, when Mr. Jones
helped himself to all the butter there was
en the plate. Then Jemima saitl, 'Mr.
Jeme s, de jou know that butter cost fifty
ce-nts the pound, sir?' "It's wutli it, marni
w uth it,' said the edd wretch, as he put
a piece an inch thick em his biscuit. Oh,
John, if yeu could only have seen Jemi
ma's face as he said it!' And Bess broke
into a pe-al of laughter that brought
I'beebe in freim the kitchen to see what
was the matter.
"I say, John, wouldn't it be nice if Mr.
Jones was to marry Jemima? 1 wouldn't
have to ele anything then, yeu see," con
tinuetl Bess, her mind relapsing back to
her own elilliculties.
This was John's oppetrtunit'. The idea
came to the front, anel he blurted it eut
before he had time te think.
"Why couldn't yon marry me?"
" Oh, Jeihn!" shriekeel Bess, in such an
excited manner that John upset his ceil-fe-e
on Jcmtna's e-lean table-cloth. Then
site jumped up and flew to the window.
There was no goat now to look at, emly a
gloemiy street, wrth the rain pouring
eiewu. She did see half a potato borne
alemg by the rushing torrenis in the gut
ter, and in spite ef the wonderful event
that had just happened to her, thought ef
the goat, and hoped he would get it.
John was agitated, toe, but now lie had
begun the business, it diet neit alarm him
nearly so much as the thinking abeiut it
had used to eh. He gave up all further
attempts at a breakfast, however. It had
been an unlucky breakfast from the be
ginning, and John frequently epuoted it
afterward as the worst meal he ever made
in his life.
After Bess' frantic rush to the window,
lie was veiy much at a hiss what te de
next. He wished that Be-ss would say
something, but she evidently had ne in
tention of doing anything of the kind;
so, after waiting a few minutes, he went
to the window, and, summoning all his
courage, he gathered the little black fig
ure all up in his arms. Be-ss made no re
sistance, emly began to cry. This was
Bess' usual w ay of managing all enur-ge-ncie-s.
Whenever her native impudence
faileel he-r, as it did em this ex-casion, she
always began te) cry. John was familiar
with this peculiarity, and so it eiid not
alarm him. He emly kisseel the little
mouth very tenelerly, anel as he did so, a
shabby little sleeve stole: gently rei.ind
his neck, and the tears fell e.n his shirt
bosom and took all the starch eut ejf it.
As soon as Bess could eommand her
feelings sufficiently to speak, and ceuild
gain posscssiem of her mouth for that pur
pose, she said, " Oh, John, won't it lie an
awful load off Jemima's mind?"
ates. It was inspired by disloyalty, afitl
prosecuteel by all the arts of duplicity.
T IwMcnrnr unpi'ml tl.ia ntirn.'c t (
show to the people that the Demecratic
... 2- I l..r l.v..
J pany IS tunuuucu au&uiuivjj oy oiite-
score ex-Uemietieraies. the investigation
is deael ; it is a wreck encumbered by its
Own slain. CA't-"?? Jntcr-Ccean.
The eld beiareling-house lias fallen into
the hanels of strangers. But there is a
cunning little- cottage out on the Cam
bridge road. In it yeui can find Johu aud
Bess and Jemima, and they are not alone,
for one elay the-re came a most ridiculous,
reel-faced, balel-headed little baby, who
took up his abode with them, and I'hn-le
had to be sent lor to help take care ol him.
Jemima sometimes looks at Bess and
thinks what remarkable materia! I'rovi-elence-
chooses to make wives and mothers
emtef; but since: John litis taken charge
of Bess, and there is no quarter-day to tie
elre-aileel, Jemima takes more cheerful
views ed life. She lias (bund out why
there are so many girls: the girls grow up
to lie women, and it takes three women te
look alter one baby. Harper' Weekly.
Mr. Blaine and Jl is Investigators.
The- malignancy of the Democratic ex
Confederates ef the National House of
Kcprcscntativcs was shown in a vivid
manner by M r. Blaine em Monday last.
Knott's duplicity and Hunton's sharp
practice were presented in clear outline.
The almost, innumerable tricks by which
Ilunton prohmged the investigation from
elay te day, and carrie-d it beyonel the
le-gitimatescope of the resolution, and the
supp-ession by Kneitt ed important testi
mony in support ef Blaine's innocence,
were drawn in bedd lines, as if em canvas,
and held up to the view ef the eonspira
tors, to the ir utter dismay. All reports
agree that the scene was dramatic beoud
elescription. In Blaine's impetuous as
sault upon his enemies there was the art
ef the erator, the ingenuity of the trainee!
politician ; but, above all, the conviction
was irresistibly enforced upon the excited
audience that before them stood an honest
man, penetrated through and through
w ith an intense se-nse ed emtrage, tired to
a white heat of indignation, and roused
to that sublime attitude whence a brave
man, beset by assassins, hurls elestruction
at his foes. He analyzed the committee
appointed to investigate him, and charged
anil proved that it was compose-el
of men who sought revenge for blows
given in fair debate. He held Iluntem up
te the seorn ef the House and the country
as an unjustjudge sitting to convict by the
elistortion of testimony. He arraigneel
Knott as au inquisitor suppressing impor
tant testimony in a e:ase involv
ing the honorable name e)f a fel
low member. He: pilloried these two
men as would-be assassins of his reputa
tion, anel left them in the stocks confess
edly guilty, a prey to the slings of re
morse and objects eif measureless con
tempt. He reassureel his friends by a vin
dication as simple as it was conclusive,
and electrified the House by the masterly
manner in which he exposed the
treachery and duplicity of his ene
mies. If the scene was uuparal
lekd, it was simply because the ec
casion was unmatcheel in any history.
The-re was an attempt in lytil to dis
member the Government, te erect an in
ele pci.dciit government from a portion ed'
the territory of tiie I'niem. But the pur
pose was boklly eJeclareel. I tie gage of
battle w as thrown at the feet of loyalty,
and war w ar uncompromising and to the
eleath was declared. To-day the situa
tion is vastly eiillcrent. It is propesed
practically to destroy the L'niem under the
very folds eif the L'niem flag. It is pro
posed to nullify the Constitution in the
very act tf swearing to suppert it ; and
Ben Hill and Tucker and l'roctor Kneitt
and Ilunton, with three-score; elhe-r ex
Cor.federate Generals, Colonels and Cap
tains, are sent to Congress to push the
scheme eif treae hery and treason to a con
clusion. The lirst step of the conspiracy
was the prepesitien that Congress should
force amnesty upon Jell Davis, the head
eif the late Confederacy, in the face ef his
pren-laimed scorn and open hostility to
the Union; a proposition to eteity the
Conlederncy by a recognition of the jus
tice eif rebellion. It was a monstrous
proposition; every ex-Confederate and
every Northern Democrat in Congress
supporteel it. James G. Blaine steiod
in the way. From his place in the
House he declared its utter infamy, pro
testeel against it, and in an impetuous
assault bore it to the earth and pointed
the finger of scorn at it as the new rebel
lion, strangled! In that remarkable de
bate, which marks an era in the history
of this country, Mr. Blaine elrew from
the ex-Confederates a eonlession of dis
loyalty. In their madness they hastened
to defend with vehemence the Confedera
cy and its chief, and eve.i went so far as
to justify the horrible cruelties committed
against humanity and the spirit of civil
ization at Andersouville and other hell
holes of the South. As this debate pro
gressed it become evident that the slum
bering Confederacy had planted its guns
in the hall of the National House of Rep
resentatives. Mr. Blaine unmasked these
guns, and exposed to view the insedent
ex-Confeekrate perjurers who manned
them. It was at that time that the infa
mous conspiracy against Mr. Blaine took
form. Into it en tercel the elements ot
chagrin and hate. This is the secret of
the investigation which has resulted so
disastrously, not to the investigated, but
to the investigators. It was an inquisi
tion upon a Lnion man by cx-Confeder-
A Man
Frozen to Death in the SluU
die of M.ay.
Twei Swedes, crossing the Snowy
range en foot, left the: Summit House, in
Berthenid Pass, Sunday, and started down
the west slope. They were Intending lo
go to Hot Sulphur Springs. Both men
carried bundles of blankets and provis
ions, each pack weighing seventy-live or
eighty pounels. On Tuesday evening one
of the men returned to the Summit House.
He was snow-blind, frost-bitten and had
barely strength enough to walk. He re
ported that his companion had frozen to
death. Seiem after leaving the Summit the
storm set in, and they became bewildered,
be numbed w ith cold, and lost their way.
They threw away their blankets to facili
tate their movements, and the matches
with which they were provided, being
wet, refused to ignite. Had they been ex
perienceel mountaineers, they would have
wrapped themselves in their blankets and
sunk into the snow, where they might
have lived until the storm abated. The
survivor withsteiod the terrible exposure
anel readied the Summit as aliove de
scribed. A party of men at Summit went
down the trail, or road, and on Wednes
day found the dead Swede. The snow
was seieleep that the removal of the body
secmeel out ot the question then, so they
buried it temporarily under six feet of
snow, and wiii leave it there until its re
moval for permanent burial can be ef
fected. The dead man's name was Gett
fried Meyer. His companion's name lias
not been ascertained. Upon the boely eif
tiie unfortunate Sweelc were found some
photeigraphs, naturalization papers, the
address of Samuel Beader, Denver, and
some lo in money.- Dtnicr Col.) J'cim,
May 27.
SENSE AMD MO-NSESSE.
A good kind of cremation ice-cream,
ation.
(!iK)D tea has been raised in North Car
olina. Tiik best place to see fine crops is at n
poultry lair.
Tiik New York World thinks that he
reditary depravity can be beaten out of 3
boy.
" IlATtn Ti.MF.s"are visible in the num
ber of last years' summer suits cleaned up
and worn for new.
Shoots of the rubber tree are In live-lj
demand in New York for house plants.
It is tough and will stand furnace heat.
It is a bad year for fruit. We have
observeel seve-ral bunches of straw with
no! a be rry em them Cincinnati Time.
J ESSE 1'nM EKGkY was convicted long be
tire I'iper was. It looks much as if the
lad weie being neglected. liodtCftcr Dem
ocrat. Sruc.EeiN DK.e itoiv, of Paris, holds that
hor.-e-l!esh is tbe w lioleseiine-t meat for
human beings, and he has a right le his
opinion.
" A vn;v vot xii lady," says the New
York ll-rahl, "may wear corn color with
pale eoral." Thank heaven! this ques
tion is se ttled at last.
It is now a misdemeanor in Alabama,
punishable by tine and imprisonment, to
sell properly subject to a mortgage er a
landlord's lien without the consent of the
mortgage-e eir landlord.
" I NAJUtowi.Y escaped being cut efl
with a shilling." said a solemn young
man. " How did ou escape: it?" aske I a
bystander. " My lather hail no shilling,"
was the solemn reply.
Dom Pepuo had a bill of $:l,0l0 at the
Continental Hotel. Philadelphia, and
paid it. "This is a great country," be
savs. in a burst of admiration a great
couutiy for he del charges.
" I I'on't see w hy the papers make such
a to-do about it," said Mrs. Partington
this morning, ns Ike re iel, " Great Picture
of the Pioligd sun-burnt." "He wen
without his hat," she: murmured; " lop
pered milk is gooel for it."
The superiority ef man to nature is
continually i'.lu-trak-d in literature and in
life. Nature needs an immense number
tf epiills to make a goose with; but man
can make a goeise of himself in five min
utes with one ejuill.
A m n w ho lias been lecturing in Pe-nn-pylvanla
on ' Mnemonics, eir the Ait ef
Cultivating a Perl'eet Memory," left
K'ading. Pa., last week and forgot his
trunk at the hotel. P. S. Also the bill.
N. B. There were bricks in the trunk.
A'. V. World.
The line of reasoning which makes an
ostrie li, with his head in the sand, think
that he is hidden, is not confined te brutes.
Four-fifths of the pedestrians, on a rainy
day, carry their umbrellas so as to protec t
Ihe front portion of their bodies, and get
their backs wet.
Genus cannot bo disguised. True
greatness of soul reveals itself behind any
mask. One elay recently a barouche-load
of reporters at the Marble-head celebra
tion were mistaken for Gov. Bice and
stall'. The Fire Department uncovered
and shouted, and the band played " Hail
to the Chiefs."
Bec enti-y as a farmer near Oakland,
Oregon, was plowing in his field he un
earthed the skeleton of an Indian which
had been in the ground for a long time.
Near by it he plowed up what was much
better than a dead Indian, to wit: Six
hundred dollars in the old fifty-dollar
slugs, once the currency of California and
Oregon.
Fifty years ago Mary Sturtevant wm s
tailoress. and made a coat for David II.
Campbell, who has just given five towns
of the State of Vermont $ 5,000 each for
the poor. His bill amounted to :!s '.hi,
and when he went to pay she was mt in,
and, as they both soon left town, he lai:ed
to hand her the money. She was aller
ward married, had a son, and became a
widow, and he went through a long busi
ness experience, becoming wealth-. One
day, in 180!), she received a letter from
him, in which lie stated that lie had just
learned where she was, and inclosed the
money, with interest. The money was
give n to the Consumptive Home. jjon'on
Ailcertt'ser.
TEi.EouArn operators sometimes make
mistakes in sending or receiving dis
patches, which are vi ry amusing as well
a serious. The other day an order for
goods was sent from Midd'e-towu to inter
cept the American Express messenger on
the morning train lo New York, on the
New Jersey Midland. It was delivered to
him by the loy operator at Pompton in
this way: " Get r0J culls" (oysters) real
"GOO Lulls." "One barrel of soda crack
ers from K. Titus, "js:j Washington street,"
was " L.S2 fine toast." "Ones barrel of
spinach" was "one barrel of china."
" Forty pounels butt' became "forty tubs
butter." The order was elated also it
Hamburg, instead of Middle-town. For
tunately the messenger had seen the orig
inal order before starting, and instead ot
"bulls" and "fine toast and china," etc.,
he bought the articles which he knew
were wanted. JidUittoicu (N. Y.) iVcei.
New York w ill soon have an immense
public aquarium w here every fac ility w ill
be attorded for original scientific investi
gation and research at the same time that
au interesting and attractive resort is lur
nuhed ior amusement seekers. The
building w ill inc lose an area ot over 1,7-KJ
square leet, and i:s interior walls will be
lined w ith tanks having plate-gla-s fronts
and varying in lengtu lrom ten to one
hundred feet, with height and depth pro
portional. The central space w ill be oc
cup.ed w ith a great circular tank already
nearly completed. All these links w ill
be adorned with rock work, and w ill con
stitute the homes of numberless varieties
of attractive and curious marine animals,
ranging in size and intCit'st from the in
genious stickleback and beautiful sea
anemone to the porpoise and devil fish.
In addition to these stationary tanks there
will be a large number of smaller table
tanks so arranged as to furnish every fa
cili y for onset ving the structure and hab
itsof ail hums of marine lite. The con
struction of the work is already far advanced.
ISF.FL'h AND SUtUKSllVr:.
MrciLAc.E. The mucilage used br the
Government fer fastening postage sta:;:p3
is composed of dextrine, two ounces;
acetic acid, one ounce; water, five ounces ;
and alcohol, erne ounce.
Eoo Sandwiches. Boil fresh eggs five
mifitttf.s;. put them In cold water, and
when quite c!d feel their. ; then, after
taking a little white oil' eath eiid. of the
eggs, cut the remainder in four slices,
hay them between bread and butter.
Aiti.e Float A pint of stewed, weil
mashed apples, the whites of three eggs
vef?n to a still' froth, four large table
spoonfuls of sugar, then add the apples,
and beat all together until s'it'.' enouidi to
standalone; fill a deep elish wild whipped
cream or boiled custard, and pile the
plant on top. This is excellent with other
fruits.
A lady contributes to he Chrinti.in
Monitor a quick pudding which aiis.VCrs
nicely for any time when you are in a
hurry: Cheap minute pudding may be
made in the following way: Into a quart
of boiling milk stir four eggs we ll beaten
and four spoons ed" corn starch ir six ot
Hour. Eat w ith sw eetened cream. Or the
sugar may be put in the pudding aud it be
eaten without sauce.
CuiLi.Eits. One cup of butter, two
cups of sugar, small cup of milk, a spoon
ful of soda dissolved in it, three eggs, a
nutmeg; melt the butter in the mi lk stir
the sugar in it; beat the three eggs very
light and siir in, if the milk is not too hot ;
add just Hour enough to roll out. Be
careful not to make the dough too stiff
Put at least thre e pounds of the be st lard
in a narrow and deep kettle; cutthedougti
in cruller shape, and drop in two or tlnee
at a time; rock the kettle gently till they
rise to the top ; turn them over that they
may be equally cooked. The fat must be
boiling, but not so hot as to scorch.
Tins is the way they cook shad in Phil
adelphia according to a correspondent of
the Chicago Tribune: A plank, generally
of cedar, two feet long, a foot wide, and
two inches thick, is taken, and with it a
shad. The fish properly split through
the back and dressed is laid upon the
plank, with the; outside out, and secured
in place by a few nails. Then the whole
arrangement is placed before the fire, and
the shad is cooked by the heat. When he
ami vou are ready, he is brought to the
table and placed before you. A litth: salt
and less pepper, with collaterals ot
stewed corn, green peas and tomatoes,
bread, butler, and such odd trilies, and
your planked shad has gone w here it will
do the most good.
Slick to Your Farms.
The life of a fanner is not an easy one;
but when we look around and see tiie
wrecks of fortune made on every hand by
men engaged in other pursuits, the farmer
has cause: to be thankful if he can support
his family and give his children a good
common education. It has been stated
that during the last half century only four
merchants, in the city of New York, out
of every hundred have succeeded in mak
ing their business profitable. The unsuc
cessful ones have managed, in many
cases, to contiuue in business for years
alter the y had become bankrupt according
to their books; but, of course, finally had
to succumb to their fate. These men,
while living in good style, and many
luxuriously, have: carried continually a
load of care that no farmer ever experi
enced; and w hen the time came that their
business must lie wound up. their condi
tion generally has been oneof poverty and
utterly broken down in spirits. A few
recover aud resume business again; but
the: majority arc pushed aside to make
room for others, eventually to follow in
their footsteps and end their lives in misery
and despair.
Fanners, lie contented. You may not
tie able to lay up money; but if you can
pay for your farms and live comfortably,
envy not the condition of those engaged
in other pursuits. To those farmers who
are out of debt and own good farms, need
I say that the apparently wealthy bankers
of Wall street might we ll envy your lot.
Nearly every week some 01, e of these
firms, ow ing millions of dollars, explode-,
and its members sink into pove rty and ob
scurity; but the farmer who is emt of debt
owns a bank that can never fail, inasmuch
as seedtime and harvest are promised unto
the end of time.
A word to farmers' sons. If your fath
ers own good farms w hich are not mort
gaged, elon't all abandon, your homes.
One of you. at le-iist, should remain to
carry on the: farm when your father's
le ase of life has expired. You might pos
sibly do better in some other business, but
you had better not risk a change. N . Y.
(Jbxercer.
"Why, to be sure! The Pittsburgh Com.
in ercial says that the gre at unknown is the
man w ho doesn't advertise.
Xlif Supply Ilepot of I lie Itody.
The stomach the gr;uift supply depot of
the body, upo-.i whh h it draws for all the
eli ini iits meile-d in the composition of hone,
muscle, brain anil Mood. The liver i.4 an
important auxiliary of this mighty organ,
and the tw o an- 1110-t intimately eon Heeled.
Nothing so certainly eii-iucs the harmoni
ous action of these viscera, and so complete
ly removes the disorders which simultane
ously a fleet both, as I lost etter's Stomach
Bitters, the most popular American spi-cilic
for all complaints to which the stomach,
liver anil bowels are subject, and the fore
most tonic on this side of tin Atlantic. In
digestion, eosti veness, inactivity and con
gestion of the live-r, poverty of the blood,
debility of the bladder and kidneys, and
many e"! her ailuii-td s prod need by or caus
ing weakness, are entirely removed by its
use.
Wlileli M.all I Takct
This Is often a serious epiestioii with the
Invalid. He tinds the market Hooded with
proprietary medicines, scores of which are
recommended as certain cures for his pecul
iar ailment, lie ri ads the papers, circulars,
and almanac-, and tinds each sustained hy
plausible arguments setting forth its virtues
and spet itic action. The recommendations
are as strong for one as for another. The
cures claimed to have been wrought t-V 'ne
areas wonderful as those claimed to have
lie-en wrought Py another. In bii perplexity
and doubt, the siillcrcr is sometimes led to
reject all. Hut it should be- borne- in mind
that this condition of things U one. that can
not be remedied, lnaland where all are free,
the good the truly valuable must come
into competition w itli the vile and worth
less, and must he brought to public notice
fcy the same instrumentality, which lamlnr
t .'. Ill such a case, perhaps the only ab
solute proof that a remedy is what it claims
to be, is to try it The "'test of a pudding
is the eating of it." " Prove- all thing-', hold
fast that w hich is gooel." is the apostolic in
junction. There may, however, lie stronger
presumptive evidence in favor of one reme
dy than there is in favor of another, and
this should lie allowed its elm: weight. A
due regard te this may save 11 vast amount
of experimenting and a useless outlay of
money. As presumot i vc e idenee in favor
of !r. Pierce's Family Medicines, the
Proprietor desires to say, that they are.
prepared by a new aud scientific, proc
ess by which the virtues of the crude plants
and roots are extracted without the use
of a jiarticle of alcohol. Not a particle of
this destroyer of our race enters into the
composition of e ither his CJobleu Medical
Discovery or Favorite Prescription. This
consideration alone ought certain' to rank
them high above the vile compounds SMtil
r.iteil with alcuhol, Jamaica rum, sour
beer, or vinegar, which fire everywhere of-fe-red
for sab-. Again, thev are of uniform
strength, and their virtues can never be im
paired bv age. The-v are- also made from
fresh herbs and roots, gathered in their ap
propriate season, w hen they are Hush with
medicinal properties. In support of these
claims, the following testimony is otic red:
K. V. 1'IEKCK, M. I.: New-auk. N. J.
Jlfjr Sir I have sold a great deal of your
exeelle-nt remedie s, and I prefer to sell them
before other-, because- they give good eietis
factieiu to those who use tlieiu 1 hi-ar
f 111 h remarks as " Sage's Kemeely complete
ly cured me; it is a s b niiid thing;"' or,
'Pierce's Discovery is ju.-t what I wanted;
I feel better than I eve r did." One ed our
e-e lebratcd singe-rs use's it for stremrtlie-ning
her veiiee, and savs " there is nothing equals
it;" and so I might give scores ed remarks
t-aid about your preparations. A colore el
woman was Using your Discovery, and after
taking three- bottle's w as completely cured.
Hie. being in the store, said to me, "I don't
w ant no doe-tors 're. und me so long as I can
gi l the Discovery; it beats all your doctors."
And se I might go on.
I am, mo.-t respectfully, yours,
A 1 11 A li. CltOOKS.
Larue Fiirnltnr Traele.
ITolton eS liildn th, --r. acd 2-27 State Ftrcet,
Chiea-'o, are doing the largest furniture
trade In the citv. (moil goods and low prices
have made them the leading house. A visit
nill convince you.
T)U. SCHENCK'8 Fl'LMONIC Sviu p, Hka
Weed TelstC ifin Mawiibake ru.i.s. Ttie-e med
icines have tindniihteflljr tujrrnrmed more e-iue-s of
:'eiri?teniW!isn Ihail afiy other rettipty known to tlin
American po'iii'. The nfa e-ennfioimeteel of veye
th!e iie-reilie-nts and Colifaiii tlMtdi'g ihkh can
lie injiiriems to the human constitution. (Mhff
reirec-ilies aetvertiseil as cures fur ('emiiinitinii
probably contain opium, which is a eomeivlmt
dnngc-roua drug in all case, nnit. If taken fre-ely
try Consumptive patientx. it must do (jreat injury;
ift tf tendency Is fee confine; the morbid matter in
(in- fSf-m, fiictt, of course, fnut inuke a e-11 re
impossible. C" ht-n'-ft'n PnhnOhit isyrup l wa. -ranted
not to contain it partic pf etjilnm. It l
composed of powerful but harmfrrs fief, which
ne t em ttie lungH, liver, etomnru and Mood, and
thus correct all morbid Keen-lions and cxj.e-t fill
the elini:aied mntte-r from the body. The-se arc the
only meatio by wlileli CoiiHiiniiition can be cured,
and. at? P-He-nt's Pulmonic fynip, Sea Weed
Tonic and Mantlr'aae: Wh n-i the only medicine
which operate in this way. It li einvlotn they are
the only genuine cure for Pulmonary ('oliMiff'p
tiem. Each bottle of thi invaluable medicine i"
ae-ronipaiib-d by full directions. Dr. Schenck is
professiemai! y a? priiirij.nl oftire, corne r Sixth
anil Are-h stre-e-ts. Phi buie lp':):!. yty Monday,
w iu-re nil letters for advica must be atlf?r-ri.
Economy. You will eave money by using
Procter .t- Vaniblc's Oruinctl Mottled (crtnon
Sonj. It will not waste nor be-come soft
likeordhliiry yellow coap when use d in warm
water, nor la U chenpi ncd with article inju
rious to clothes. JutHcm'irr.yvu obtain a full
ot.r.ioHvd bar if you purchase their brand.
To protect the-ir brand from fnuUtuia
Procter .V (iambic pate-nte-il it. and the-patent
was sustained in the United Mates Courts.
Kxomhit the xtiuip on the bail vhenyou.
buy. Tokc their Xvap oul'j.
StiAi.i.rMiKiioEH's l'lt.M atone dollar, nre
beyond riuestion the cheapest Ague remedy.
(Or place! la a lino, ever)
MILES
11 ' r
I ' I
PufsiiiN-o'a White Wine
and cheapest, warm nt "d to
Vinegar, purest
preserve pickle.
A Store Dealer Says:
During an experience of over twenty yonrJ
In the stove business, I have never seen a
tove that gave such universal satisfae tion
to purchasers as the Ciiaktkk Oak in all
the essential points that combine to make
up n first-class stove, ami I consider it not
only the cheapest, but the best stove for the
nioiiev 1 ever solel.
seilicil
Co.: I.-eicI.
.Io. M attemon. firaln (-oiiimiImI'iH,
Uooiii &l, ! WasliuirfO'ii -ri. e liii a"i.
iiKiuiu-iita. Ue-lcrs to J. . i-arwi-u
MurikKh A Fischer; Hunk of Illinois.
ROADMASTER'S ASSISTANT
A XI)
SECTION MASTER'S GUIDE,
Iselirmiest complete ami compae-t- hniifl book rve-r
piiliii-lie-it en tins Miliie-i i. It roiitiiuiK tin- re snl' ol
more- th:tll li'HlV e-x pe'rie'liee- as r;i(tllillste-r . tw w rit
ti'ii 111 a c-ii'.-ir'auel atlrae-tive il l-; pi" iiiiniio- ell
ri'ftp'iiH for lioiiitr. rppniriiift "'! l-alliistuii: track,
I inlitinc 1 all le'-jiiiiinl''. culvert, turn-outs. e tc.. and
iliseiisses nil imris or the road and we-tiein iii.ite-is'
en k- poiuiing out both the rnjlit and Hie wrung
UieUiodn.
PRH K, $1.00.
4ddrena
the i:aii.i:oad oazktte.
79 .lackMHi Street. Cliie-apo.
BOLD EUEI1T& TIIS YEAH 1S75.
EVERY STOVC 19
useesklt mmim
UHEKEVF.K l.SKD Oil SOLD
As Absolutely Without a Fault,
Our New Size
Xos. 37, 3S, 39, 47, 4S and 49
ARE A KAR7EL0US CC'iEISATIOJ OF
by
And all the renti.il points that go
to makfl up tho
WIST FBBFECT COOiSSf STOTB
Ever oflcred to I lie public
MADE ONLY BY
EXCELSIOR MANUFACTURING CO.
Kos. C12, 614, C-1C k C!3 17. ILx.u St.,
ST. LOUIS, 3IO.
ALL LIVeTsTOVE DEALERS.
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liKW SOLPXAaT ti:.SuN
WITHOUT ONE FAILfUE 0U ItLJLCTIOJi
Thin I- tho r.niiiiim Tlin nliinn niarliiii" tlmt Tiaa
" IHVe'.it Hi" li -I'l " ""I en al 'I mii'Ii a leoliltt.ill I I OlA
tr.lel'-, I'.V it MATi'HLI .--i OaN-.AVIMl AM' TlMlfel-
l.vi iTim-ii'le-u.
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Pin- v--rVl " '- --
Hiipr'f A t-rm rtaep.M
iuc bli.iliou tuiDted. bteiw.il Mf(. Co., FllubUigk.
A Tet! H.w h.eihoM n-i-iltT.
B I f DVto' " ISuhher Ptampn
BIU t n I
11. S. PiKBlSIl, 1.
Terni frrn.
O. Ux 2-.5. Chicago.
lI; - e CrA a 'lav at tmniR. "timpici wr.r": I "nt
T) " t!5-mf tree. Si I vmis 'Jo.. Fortiaml. Me.
0
VFItr 1eirMt)!e KV AKTICI.KH for Age-nta.
it Oar at fame. Atri-nis w
1. -tnii3 free. Aaeircss TUL K it CO
nteil. einttlt and
AUb'uMa.Me.
TPW A C Pamphlet, Maps ami Clre-ti!iir"ent
I ElAHvJlm-. AiMm-m W. Ci. KiMifiiiKY,
Texas Im. ARt. J0- South Fifth Street. St. lui. Mo.
J5JOC A Mnntti. Aa-mta wnnteil. 3l beat
wkOS?w a.-Hinic artii lM In the fejrM. Oneoampla
free. Adelre&a JA UHU.VSII.V, Detroit, With.
,- e.rr P-fticf,
A. 1 'J.Kidi ri-
iieoflVri Arl.ti rxlraot
SeiilitzPotiersS
THrnn'a are r!taMi!.
iinit":ii-turt-l flrnt la
IvX). ti.jl.l i Ino.'i'jr:i
APCUTC ''' "'tMcrihmin one tint, liett hlrrnry
nui.1 I w fiW. only l. o a ve-ar.
Chrome, freec. Jlun vox 4 &'po.nklkr,I,uI.
Thre e ,0
I'hlia.. l a.
Jt't A MIITH nail traveling exprii.e-a pil
f"r VI I.FSMKV N pe-'Mi' i wmite-.i Ad
drea ilo.MlOli MA.M'F'U CO.. CincinLiiii. Ohio
Vlltliic fnrela. Hh vour nitre finely
priiiit-il, .i-nt f r '.:.v. We have 1 Oil !) '.
4ie iit WhiiIi-iI. U aami'lei ent for
tmi.p. A. H. i ull'-r A Co.. llroe ktou.
S2501
MO'VMI. A?Mi.a wnniPl iw-r-
hrre. I '. nvs Inch .nil-it- ar:f Pr. t
aH. T artM-nhir m-hi In c. A-f'-re-
JOHN W(MM it A: CO.. M. U Hi-. M.
OPIUM
anel Meirptilne- ll ihlt ahuolutely and
iM-e-elliy cure-el. l-ainie-ieee :no pin n-i-
tv. Se-ii-1 ft:e!Mi fur prtrtie-ulars. Or.
iOirlt-e.il. lrtl S ulliliiCleju-BUCtixarfO
TIIK EN'ORMOCI WASTAlil. e. (.oain, i'ir it M
villi vtlur '. ef Thp-!i-T, rati I"- IsA M l-y ihl
I in rov. i Ma. hill", tntlb i'lit, in rt u jvh, to tan0 thorn
pi;i uH ctyeiue of tliroiiinc.
FliAX, TIMOTHY, MH.I.KT, Jll'Nl'KIAN an1
like wo.ls nre thn-elie-el, c i:n.ilol, cIi-hm.' I fltul mh1
ju canity ami pi-i ii-ctly .ut Wlii-at, Onto, Hi eir J'urh y
AN UXTIiA I-H!l i; i-e nuully pai l Im (.-ntin aui
et'O'ls rl- an'-il l y this inai liin", for cxtia i li uiiWm-ea.
IN TIIE WET OKAIN eT ls7r, th-se were- Kiilpetan
tially thu ONLY JIAl'illNl.S that ronl l run with profit
or -imciiiy, '1'i-ix f.i-l, then-UBli ami p rlict oik,
tiie others tUU i lij Judt-it.
ALL GRAIN". TIM Kami MONEY wa-.tli.ii romplira
ti.m.i, aurh aa -En ll.-sre Aproiia," ull:M-," " lieMt.-rs."
" 1'icke'l-e," i tr., an. tnltnly dispell l trill, ; hurt th ill
on--half llio imial Ue-ara, "lie llH, llin'n.nirl Ji.nirialu;
e-a-ii r maiia.vl ; morn el'iralili-; lilit nimn'iK : n"
ly ri paii-"; no elust ; in. " litl. riii; s " to le nil U ; nut
tronlili-l hy iulvcrs-1 wiirle, rain or htoiui'.
FARMEKS ami GRAIN II A ISEUS win. are. poM
In tho largo navini ni.t.ln y it will rut employ frifn.
rior aud waate-fnl m:u hiiws, Imt will wut on thia
improTed 1 hreuhe-r doiiif; their work.
F0UK KIZE3 niwlo for 6, R, 10 ami 12 Huraa
Powers. Alw a ninialty of 6i tarat jijj, defigned
and iiiiuIb tsei-iie.siii.r roa fteam iiiwi ii.
TWO STYLES OF HOUSE 1'OW I KS, viz : (mt Im
proved "Triple G.-.-er," mid our ".lair S d" (Weaa
Lury btj lei, lioth " Mounted ' otiimr wh-.-Ia.
IF INTERESTED in Thrishinc or Gi iin RaiieinR,
apply to our nearet Iiniil.T, or writ" to iik lor lllutn
teil Circular fsrnt free), giving full particulirs of Size,
fitjk'B, Prices. Ti-rms, etc
Nichol$, Shejtard rf Co.,
BATTLE CHEEK, 1UCIL
SifSCSiOCE3BV
Tlio Enemy of Disease, (lie Foo of
Tuiu to Man and lea.st,
la the Oran.l Old
MUSTANG ;
iikiment;
wiiicii ii sTcmii Tin: tit fir tr
1 EAIOi. i IIEIIi: is e MtllElTtWI.t
(r iik.ai., ,v i.iniAiAs it Ain.r
rv r riti:,Sc tc m i.. mumia.tiiat
fKH.M TS 'I in-; in i-v IIOIH , olt
in-; itoitv - iioitsi:i( o i li in
IMI I S1II'AIMI.. THAT le K IT
HI Ml TO IT .11 A'.IC TOI 4 11. A I. ..Ill
fliiv'--t(:.,i.c-.orI.Oo.t.norif-iB .nrl
llirlilr or.fiiiin.il lo-1 n . a o o-liirr.l 1 n
life aud uaelulueaa uia.11 a valuable liui ac.
$l(r
to e-.C u rk nml r". t pe-iK.-f. or !I0
lo: f : e-'I . Al! t!ie l.ew ;in.l -f aii'l iril N.o.-it e-..
C hroliios. f-tc. "nl.:.i:.:- s-him j.!.. fr.-e-uithl ;irti'iri.
Iw L. FEE I LlIEK, III e ha Ml he-If Sliert. New 'oik.
-l-:it rt KEK .iF.M: AN7I.I-Ii TO
AL-.'litie, M-ilraml Kemaie. in llii-ir x" r I lo
rallty. Term und CH I y 1 1 V v.rr.. A'i'lo--'
!'.. VICKERY eS: CO.. Aiii- i-M. Maine
aaK want Rood salesmen to se'l itaple p.xl. to mer
it e-lianis in e-v.-rv e-itv in f. S. We will pay Iravel
Ina cupe-iist-c ami -a'lr'te. iin-n iO. al.ility win. ran
DiuTi.ui ri it-M-iii-.'s. A.Hire-s. w mi sii.ini'. i.i'
PACKi.ei Co.. Noa. 2.4 & '. Ciaik fat., tliicmie,.
K.r'.vrf.i'.ass
Si
, iil.
, ANN .
ELIZA
YOUNG.
ACENTS WANTED "
Book BrlKham Voung't
Wife No. 19. 23.00O ' - r
I.IUllrkKdurruUn, i.l f" . CUBtlfl.
Cllman A Co.,"''."-.''
(i, lli.. Cibc.i.i.u. Oiuu. K..riiiiua Vs.
Learn TELEGRAPHY.
But before (tolnc elsewhere to elo ao, aetid f.r e-ircu-liosofllie
. H'.'lrlijlliph I II ntr, .lali.-n-villi-.
Win.. hie ii i re i "iiiii!' ii- 1 Ly .-opt. of .-t'n
Union Tel. Co. as the only i riiaoie bc-liool in me et.
the world Importers-
pne-i-a Earnest t ennpanv In Ameri.-a
rtapie article pieaara eve-rvl.o.ly I raile com iiiuany
Inrr'-aaiiiit Ape-nta wanted everywhere Im-m I n.l u e
nieuta -don't waste time aebd lor cire uUr to liOIVT
WELLS. 43 Vuse-y St N. Y. 1. O. iJox 14H7.
4 t" The rlmleet In
76
STATE FAIII Ultsr rilEIH MS'
i i ;inr..-i ,n i. i.i. is ii i;.
I-Oi IN HOOK Ii A i l-oUK and I'.e'-
for Mow Llis and M-oki
tl iv or si raw. 1 li-- w', a 1 inoi-r n e-r wa- U now n
I.i '1 : pin-.' Willi tthfii Irii-r no-ill- hi'.-mio- known.
I'liinpliii-t lr e.-. Addr'k A.J. N fills & e,o., I'i: tshtii xh,l .
76
SODAlPOiraTAINS.
Neev and Eich O lk-n. Ijmi Improveirienia in
Pe,,i Fountains. F:n M.vhle and SiHe-r 1 lat.-d
C:. . miter Stands at re.!i:e e.l r.ri. !. t or riesi-r.ptive
circular send to N . IK KOllI N S. bhelh) vilie. lueL
EXPOSITION !
TENTS- Eve-rvhodv in prK to ramp out !
F"I i e mi't K" wniiout tin- vtar-p..i:i-il Hann.-r.
A.iiree; F. l-OSTf- l, MlN I I .. for Il nstrt...J
I'rit e - List TV lit a. Klu. llan n rt v It aa I in,
Awuiiigt.Ilaiiiiaeitkb A.C. 4 Market at. e h:i;aj.
LgL!LsfiEXTEXXML
wof:K. now prADYrDM a HISTORY THC
UNITED STATE8 Uf Khevrui t.m -. Tne onip
liirrt,MiLt'i ioa by i rminmt author. or wokf to b puLv
U-bM la both Knrlih and Uernan. ODliiteu4
profu4ry lllutrutl, jrilo i.ncJ .ium!. Tur xMm
eon if otJfif rut oiii. lo!l.l!yiiIul'! iwmi of - p n'-h
!nCrD4Cet-ntraoi&lCe.ebratinn.ACENTS WANTED!
fmt ffrcwiof iDlWeiilfTf b'T io Uie U-i in'f Liu ry tltur
UaaaudUnu,feSCAMMELL&CO.,ChiCaKO,lll.
n.e.
lor ti.a
ti,,
rt.
,l 't.
SPECIAL aOVANTAGFS!
Th ln-ft fi-,l iii-f ' V'iiit rMair In v pr.
(Ki r V'i fiii'l iiis n -:i-' i tr.
hMrt ii it'i'iri:h' rr.M.'.''-ni-iti, rt I i'""
i'.tMik k't '. i .ic ii,mi i.tl ,i :m;i! I 1; -l nd
C'Miii.i'-!:ii A r, I t: TiH-t .r lanjt ( t v i . ii r.t ; r-.f-'I
-l-irr-i.iv aii'i J 'h .ihi a i-i'i i ti -u.y.
1 h r ti i "-i j- i '" ' ii r' .ui.tr. v ":; !
No V A Al l"S MiUli -lit f r t - '1 ,i! id;.
A IWiitJt ! t'7 1 KJMi .t mm 'V.l.i hll.-' -
naillt w :inti I'. . Mliilre-.-K (if tfll IH, J lilt !l.
ht'Cl l'r rr-'iil:!' t. ''f f "t ir,'ir i fit
m v -i i.i a I . M I 1 1 : i ; 1 1 " i f . I i ! '
ri '
RUSSCLI.&C?
JfVlof I,Jiyu.J.t;i. ry m.-i
AiT ph"!. r.'Mi
t-I'll
PORTABLE GnifaDir.G FrSlLLS.
IttPMt V-'rMla Ittti r
l. uii'i-i -r ; iin' i . k
; lHr-I uitri'! -, f r l irui
I ior Jiiil Miit of nil
i 4ii'Muiui' Iull 4-r-t
i;olliti Ifitli, nrj
ni kit
l.i;n ry m;1 jiiillnf
in l"r rumtililfU
JUST OUT.
The SHIPPER'S GUIDE and DIRECTORY o
COMMISSION MERCHANTS cf CHICAGO.
A valuaii'i' hixilc. liie li t-lle you how to put your
t-'o u- in the- l.i-st n'min- lo liriiij.- the inot money, and
( iiiioi. :t e o'iipleti' l;st of Hi! in.; e oniini.-enion M.-r-C'lH-it-
d i ..1-Hv''. Oil'" ric:pt alone. f'T e i.lorlin,
pi . '. ti: .i:i- sw. nin.r l.o' t--i-f i-hipio.-ne to
mrkf.ee orili in t iini inure tlinn the jirirt e a.-
for - l.o-iii. It is liaii'ls"i'.n-!y l.ound ill c'.otli and
pol'l. and ' nt postra'.d on i n -i'j t of 7. re-iit. Addrcsa
lMY.t ek Xu'- Ui;'b.n, Iwvlu 1; M.E.CLui'CU Ii'k.Lidi; j.
1. 4... . .. ..f . ,-. .m.-i I. A T. "
4 l..,Mt4 B.tr.n .1 It:: e,, . ,. .-. .- I'f I
loeic ic. aiiio.i.-.-. o tnrt n..i 'j.
Ll.r. ai.ldrr. Hie-. - - ! H.-il ri.l.
.!.. Itge.rfi.i'-. ffWALI BiSEASU '
u a 'iod -( io i.n.-". Ji'jii" -oi n e emi o.a
obool Phj:cl::ir-I -'""" ' .' " " V.r""
0..i.nj(.'. ' "Itl ' ', I.-- " Ml
a.ra'cn;kioiiT.uiV.Y:criiciB
y r iYV. in n in 1 1 in i ii
ii7de in CINCINNATI.
WANTED:
pejurcs paid. .MoNiro
Men to petl o.:r gnat to
..A I.KKi. Noped.lll' f
from house lo l,.,ne. H I
inonMi, nml t ' -avelinn el.
Al a..' Co.. Cinrn. nail. o:oo.
A N . K.
S. 4.
1. . I.
AIVEKTIl.tS,
iilraae an v vou w tnes Ail vciltav-
-IVIIKN WiilTINt TO
It pie ae any yott
ucut iu tlxl nuptr.
