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SURGEON DENTIST. ST. CLOUD MINNESOTA. A. P. ROBERTSON, Watchmaker and Jeweler, St. Germain Street, St. Cloud, Minn. Particular attention given to Repairing O E S & W A E S that have failed to give satisfaction after being repeatedly workedon by incompeten workmen. oct22tf T. J. BONHAM, Practical Tinsmith an* Dealer In I W AJEg/33. Parties needing Guttering, Spouting, or any kind of Job Work will find it to their advantage to give me a call, as I make this work a specialty. ST.CLQ^D,:, tlU€t Shop on Washington are. ST: CLOUD, MINNESOTA. J*. Uml. S O N of Srooxo Ajwnnaosr.) fjajjgtejgfc Cheap Carpet Kail of The Ksa _. ..-.'re |pM8wfl, Large stock Constantly Han4. Nos. 846 A 248, 3d Sti St ''in mi tssa Jui's 1e St I wLGiowiwmmmm%c The undersigned will furnish first-class muuefbrhaUs. Special iecea, aa may bie'dr reasonable mm FULLEB. U~l ST. CLOUD MARBLE WORKS. Josephh Hershbach, Dealer in mente and Gravestones. --y anu-.v-'J-!-: ,ii'. Also, Contractor for all kind, of -f- Stone Catting to Order. St Germain street—two doors east of the ,.."• Catholic Church. '-«-, BEgT LANDS JC2 JM 8 3 0 1 ir. O-OjfvOTJi'O AT CHEAPRATES, 'Address jBost •an:/:f bNev/.york^^ IN THE"'V'1J j!'--1 VOL. XVIII. hr-^i Does a 3reu^ral Bemking,: A 1. Legal andIGovernmen4t0advertisements, 75eent» per square for the ftnt insertion, and 37* cento per T. A T*»T,¥ square for each subsequent insertion. ED AS. A. JSELIJ, -AND— SPV1*? Setate Basinets. President. MBS Ware. Of all kinds] Corner St.J avenue, St Manufacturer of 'rlTfr^DS, STOREFRONTS, Office and factory on Washington av neit (loor te the bridge, Bt. Clotw A I 8 N S to the trade sent on application. All goods divered at the depots or within the city linite FREE OF CHARGE. As wo manufacture all our goods we Guarantee Satisfaction. ^Highest market price paid for Dry Lumber. Assisted by ENGLISH. Tor T»4S*f a I Maanfacturen of Ftwiar, Osatalm a^e«k« The Woven Wire, Hair, Moss, and other Mattresses, and Feathers. FURNISHING UNDERTAKERS. I Sole Agents for Fisk's patent Metallic Burial Cases and Caskets. I Comer Third and Minnaota Street*, vl7n42-ly —ST. PAUL. Mannheimer Fraser, No.7 I J. G. SMITH, Cashier. OS., Dealer* in "l HA RD W AR F• S a a e. Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron «r to Order on short notice. nain street and Richmond Minn. F*** 3 SCROLL WORK, PUMP TUBING, Ac. Window & DoorFjwmes, INSIDE.** OUTSIDE BUNDS, CP«S10J^ST^8S J?0PP% iU3 rTj usrrr.ur. ,-r Resawing, Scroll Sawing and Job Wo^ done to order mt fi ur J.I ).: .l :, 15 333'ffA J.T.. ui '£v etsiiCR cfkaaMMi jMtsjrjajMMi: I T-arJSBI ,.1111 JJtRUll .1-. Tbe Oommerclal Hotel"of tk© Oitj. Special attention given to I N E S O W O •J. CHURCH LODOE A HALL^ furniture made to order, on short notice. S BARNARD A COPE. Factory 4th street, East Side, arerooms 6 Centre Block. MADAM E HEARS QEBMAH ool 0 St. Ihi II- Largest Stock. Lmeett Pricee. 'a•RWfflUsWSt^a're «^BT^WIftooiz I O BlaiikWKmBijficlirjer. AU kinds of County Books and Blanks. 10Tr.Xl»li-« S ST-l»Atri»X *»K ^8« ?f vv I N N. H^Lttft)*jiSALE. ... liaii-'i:. ..•' •iiiiiiisJtjStTi'.'Sa fegiga .-' .....,/» t&eDfTO&X odt «Y.4*J£ $W P.F.&W.PoweU of Iron, Nails, Glass, BiACKSMITHS' 'TOOLS, Agricultural Implements. M0LINE PLOWS. in neapo I is /Plows. TIN, COFFER, AN SHEET IRON WARE. St. Germain street. St. Cloud. Minn. S E O N -..•: '.. W PIANO S Ai mm -AT— .SgOAIffiMY 0B IflJSIO, Minneapolis, Minn., on fhursdayjOctober 21st,1875. I A S 1 selling musical Instrument*. I propose the ex 1 triment of offering a stock of first-class Pianos JrtsaalTei^vaiWfe uava^irhleh-Wm obably be sold at one-half their value, and during evening wiU sell a stock of good violins, Guit ars, Aecordeons, Flutes, and othersmall goods, from le stock recently bought of S.fi.lvea. We cordially4n*laektritloal eiamlhatloi. of the "^"T. instruments previous to the day of sale. First sale 101 commence at 10 A. M. K. H. DRAPER, Reliance-Works, .aori'iiJavt.'il' Edward P. Allis & Co., vol MACHINISTS, AifD a I««.' ~RlrXST£ERS. 'Ji Manufacturers of Superioi .{•it 5 1/ *l .".'- It. '. CAST IRON WiTEE AND GAS 1ISR ••-•v •MMC4til_ akenta or canvassers. The stock consiata of 13 Pi a aoe and 20 organs. :&£!£ —OF-*-: vl. W Hi Sttinway, HalliDsM, Vosn And others, fully warranted. WMFh&AVtilL —AN»- A S A I Brmmonthly a [ual.deduction 1 11' hich baveTj^nsoUbvua^r ye«a»,.and wlU be tally warranud wsvfciWigbl atpHvaU saieT ofsslectae-ftfertB eaffl halan« twelte payments fMm date of sale. 10 per will be madejw the balance (tbree --"•Mo&rtBeiliiro «8j8tock£aftw 8L_-» •1 '—-.TO' in our line made and catalouge of machinery, psjtes, sentfreeonapplication. lAYKraMrKJt OWEN, of: SASH.JJfiilSilMflOS, 0A8IN08, STORE FRONTS,BRACK ETS, SCROLLWORK, rv -B(.'='r-1 ui iVi8 S.)il.ira- insat^iatOM^Friw In.IdeBl^Arckitr.Te.,Ac. .,'3 I .r.u: Planing, Matching, Re-Saw ing amt Scroll Sawing frMUKACTAM 8 A A I I N a WW sH:ft.\-B*.v:o'i' 0^{ AB kinds of *T .floJec-jjitqi Iiicludins House, ^rackets, sawed to any given nuce. of, Wtf |a||e|n,^|iairianc^iiiam^itiil §l!i Brackets. i) &fta .mntf. Tii'i --i-.'.' n#?oSi( Ordet&Wffifi^^ given. Oood^hmped-itrvaft condition. OFFICE AND FACTORY LOWER TOWN, MKS and WOM EH In every clly0 —, ,. AlW,W!*cSSn*y vass for Wm!'Bedhe(rer's Viatent Lightning clpynwMtUg,. Camara Antt .Bgf Be»*er^r ''••J"1* sight and pays large proflts. lend for clr rtofnUaurarttorer, W. H7Chick A Co.. 1U». -'Street, St.Louia, aepdo ST, .CLpUD^OTW^ GRANDFATHER. JQSUKDVA' tud srouWapieeac day slle bU ecaWgw/aPArAenltfrtrred the breaSkef tla%iBMiipWstiei day. His face is turned toward the distant hills, Where the trees are yellow and green and gold. And they seem to say to the old man's heart, rpee! *o»rowaoleveJyaewe!groweld'.'' Over the landscape far and near Grandfather looks with tear-dimmed eyea, 3 Fo|f.ea^epeado,s*^^hehiils, "i The shadow of summer's slow death He*. But over it all, with restful calm, Therelingers a dreamful, tender hate, And the bieeze is fragrant With stolen sweets In meinorlam of the summer days. Grandfather thinks of the years gone by, The spring-time first of his merry youth, And then the summer of manhood'! Joys, When his heart grew warm with lore and truth. "Alas!" he murmurs, "thattime has*paysoil. And wintercomes for the year and me: Whataowa, as thecnill of age creeps on, How lovely I in my death shall be!" Grandfather lies on the hill-side brown— Uea at rest-end the setting sun. Kisses the spot were loving hands laid him down when his life was done. And over the meadow, over the hills, Thetbreexe goes sobbing the livelong day, 3 For the fair awoet summer whose life went oat With the shadow ofwinter chill and gray. r*^" *"_». CONCLUDED FROM LAST WEEK.) I won't bother you with all tfae ex travagances committed by poor Ma- attack. Positively, the boy scarcely ate or slept. He seemed to live upon *the thought of this litUefifdry,and nothing else. As it^haj^aed he saw her several times in AI series of lectures upon scientific sub. lie'rooms, iahd "thesefVere attended by which the lovers were included. ed by his uncommon beauty or his Bpeoking gaze, or influencedby some odd instinct or other, the little lady seemed fully to comprehend the state of our friend's mind, and to accept]6 his worship with considerable. satasfate "6nS- S%'laid a thousand fanny Ht tle coquettish airs and graces, all di rected at Madonna, yet all tempered .with. a most becoming haughtiness, which plunged him deeper than ever in Jove,. I should .think Madonna must have derived a good deal of in formation from those lectures. I never saw his attention awakened but to one experiment, and that was when the whole room took hands, and the same electric shock that paralyzed Madonna's elbow elicited a scream from Augusta Grosvenor. -r- A strange thing was now about to OcdUr^r TX rt »3 O f*\*H[ tnfak it was about three1 weekf after our first meeting with Augusta, tha^ the school m*s faf went -abt W iralk| '^Sl^fiManiSTi^lS® we cams, pouncej^popfAe^iflstaJili^ ijaent of Pallas -l^iljyic^toe1 Schools met. As they did sojl felt my arm squeezed hard by Ma4onha, .^ith Yhom^ walked, and'hS&TtlJ in his breath as one ter prise. At that instant Augus yenpr passed. \$f0Bjei Walked a little girl,, hairj, small pale face, and eyes lever saw. Those* Upon Mad^mna with ai that haunted me—fi -f-for days and days. It' "oolish days for tfiisv^ry moment, I recall,ij, and I see it. nowL. I ew, withoutever having seelf 1iert at this'was Madonna'slittleHaruelfove, lleanor Wilton We walked on in silence, Madonna had seen a little spirit. In truth, she had passed us almost like one. I don't remember that we ever talked upon* the subject. !X "d^l not know bow Madonna might receive it and, as I saw he was really very unhappy I thought it best to say nothing. He moped about the school ana play ground, a totally changed being,,ami BO provoked Alf Bathurat by his apar thy, or, as Alf called it sul.kiness, that the latter tyrannized over and worried him'W every possible manner. It was pitiable and' disgusting to see. O, if I had but been two years older! W A I a iv JA3K One day Alf struck Madonna a severe blow in the fece. The flush that followed it did" not subside, as was natural. Headache and sickness followed and the doctor, being sent for, directed that Madonna should be kept apart from the boys, and, if pos sible, despatched home. This with proper precautions, was done^and we shortly after learned that our school- withv smallrppx.,.-t'^ j.^* -. X-l During his absence we saw but lit tle of our f^,^ne^hbors #kd only heard incidentally that the little new girlj Eleanor Wilton, was in rather delicate health, and rarely went out with the rest of the school. The poor little soul however, seemed to 06,00^ rorite of the savage r, for we twice saw her At the end of two months Madon- heaith but 0,mjgracwg», what a haircut short. Poor old chap 1 We all pitied him, and gave him a jollti^flapirie, pSeetendingmot^icsee any alteration. All but that bully, Alf Bathurst. The illnatured brute .ii:si:__ ':_ what mamma said now to 0 fece^'Who was to be his next love? 4 W &c. 1 "Cut away, milksop! Is it one of juurae.'s.t^achwgtf -s-What a-lot ,cf .as ses' milk it will take to make a man, jot'yoursaidAlfl| ''. '".r",\ \r./, ^"Com»^ here*'^ said Madonna, ad- walked into the middle of the ground, Alf following. A circle of boys col lected round them. Madonna turned iip the etiff of nffwcklet,1 like W con jurer. l!T "Yousee tins?"he asked, showing |MSk^pje%pikjjf4^ a'^aafisK rx "I.do you donkey 1" ET&J Baihui e^ '•.K-"cv. -vy* .- bring ins that ball" filing. ^1»tSS a !lvey! 'i |ou beggar^' he, ad V^3Sl*55&>"S'V:t.. ^oi%W' ground), "rilseeifyouhaveforgot useof your stumps, anyhow." 1 •"Stop.fVgiaid Madonna, very pale, j"I can't run much yet but, if you Uk^F^ahowsyo^ instead a jcapiUl 'jFeei lit,. too 17 replied Madonna, dealt imaek on the lace ^ou might baveb^rd.at*£»,enA «3f S S Oieplayg\ouud. ,.E M-stoCd:f %ttentami, G^fiK^lK S8«Q noeition for A rtwirt-riml i%op»slfilettj.~~ th Mpw f°^0n I Several of us, however, throw bui telves between them. A fight wasn^t EHtjHSif0S^l^f: 4 "With the greatest, pteasuw,'? re-?b Ws^^s^Blf km wife fl|f my beauty andliaving .fM drawn her prohibition, my' fine eyes are at the seryicei pi^burfistsj^vidi. 4 an SyfeKttfer^eify8tt*$$&# ard tyrant, .^fe*' ^e Tipton Slh^et^lrom-TOppbsedi^m- (fttefe^^pM^ ijen^ man, for Alf and Poppy Purcell ahd Matilda LyontorMadonna) ?the senior cock, in the handabineflt man njer, volunteering his. »«rVioes as ref etee and this time the mill came fair-' I suppose that a happier fi ve-and forj^r n^butes never fell to tlie circle,• kugg»nai,P,M Ji^ees,, sucking brandy balls, cheering, criticising, at the very climax of human happiness. The end, satisfactory as it was, came but too quickly. Never was boy more beautifully and scientifical ly whipped, than Alf Bathurst. He wore a pulpier look ever after that polishing he got at the hands of the despised Madonna. It is believed in the school to this hour, that Styles himself witnessed the fight All I know is, that the curtain of /his window was ostenta tiously drawn, in a manner to show that he wasn't there, of course: arid also, thatft.mysterious order reached the kitchen, directing, without any assignable' reason, that tea) which was always served at six, should be delay ed twenty minutes. a iq ti 3 If our anspfcions were correct, Styles to lick Alf Bathurst to a nicety for at ten minutes past say the "Tipton" Ulinounced that Alf gave in. Amidst ultuous applause Madonna was Y^ctof, .and advancedto.theirr1 ^ceition{tf$vw#x ££$£! lher: s^iibr "ine'?boy of inrty^nalttJ^ kindly knd patiently commenting up? oA the noticeable points of thei con it and, further, explaining to ii young brother the means he hadand found most efficacious in removing the traces of such encounters. Scarcely less beautiful was it to notice the mariner in which the: senior cock af fected to ignore the fact, that any por tion of the cheers that pursued them up the playground* was due to Ws o^ri manly condescension. curred: ~tl'' But, altiouJKn vic^mnsV in^ihe field,!6ur j-popr^ 'Madonna ot|ier arid more painful battles to fightf fie had come back apparently as much is love as ever with his little coquet tish princess, and, I have rio^doubV counted the minutes till his first chance of seeing her. This soon |J 1 1 I vi y-iTp-*i I "ii I S S I abearitiftil rul^ a ronrfi' lorina resolved to ol at WJWt ^i^^slirin^ W aSp'^"""' panied by any communication,^ fewnlf l&lnrfaalsi^Hf W™™' We heara'no nior$ Wjj^^M for Augusta, although he mether a score oftimes,she never again tarried mk had come to a secret to do so. But one remembrance did arrive for poor Madonna. It cairie In: a queer way. We were marching one day in single file round the" piay- in BIO, ground under the so Sergeant Grace, of the 7th Hussar"' a rough chap he was, and stoo^ no aonsense. As Madonna meurtafttlly strutted by r'^ "Number nineteen,—fall growled the sergeant. -MadonnV 5 Madonna's blood wasnpi*t laJt. •?yW cowardi" aXJrfcamed AK over ftftAM* A* thfn crowd "wiU' you sH I a aocotxSagl tumbled out, and stood at attention a worry 0 a lingfluV'-~~'^^ IP liUU shea^skd1u^f!,rrcried5 the boy, growing'warmer as he proi [,:with,!&e#co!lectiQn:of, :what ^.:W4i^vi!S:fe^-tVa^!a^bitntta settle withjyqft and I'll make your punishment .remembered in the school as long as ^tyle'a, stands warlikespeejBh.,._ :-si .x,.,,:•',-^ *3 The fight was arrauged to come off after the school rest at five. Prelimin aries were duly settled, seconds chos en (phelia and a Jtw tpft £$fj8%*^s^teK I «*wj»^dpubii«a An interval of forth 0l 4 Bob Lindsay pressed his hand with P^W7f!ijrWd,P. if a the housfti,0njiw ,,/i teiiTa-, HTibxl Itwas^beautifulsightto see the oc* snoid'J a isJi vi Madonpa had leave IK\ dny down the town. He came back the image anguish and despair. He had met *!.Hehadbrbughtback w|th hirn'M school a present from his jrrandmoth grandmc I W fc~*'^—^ cket. The drill seemed interminable to anxioui lover. At last5'^fisniisfc as given and he- darted into* the kool,aird tore^open th^riiisam. XR tt was a little bo±^ of choice Iwn bons, and under the lid was writ ten,-:- A »EAR BOY, "J9«Wi»lad you are well,—I'm not "Good littie heart!" bought Ma donna, with a pang at his own, over said above tiie disappointment, and pJttfWP differ^Vfro^ 1 does not turn from me* at le*y?i.'' And I wish that you didn't want Wle#any%te^I«t^Wp S| cholty s^meho^,when°rtalK or^|n1rikc of the marvelous thing that followed. Perhapsyo4 won't believe it butit's as tt4mr^?m^lia^1mL' About tiwee o'clock in the rirflirn ing, on the 2d of June a loud cry that sounded like ^Help!" roused uW all from our sleep. We»started up in bed. The shutters were not clos ed, and the room was already gray, with the coming dawn. The cry had proceeded from Madonna who: was sitting up like the rest, but motion less, his hand clasped upon his fore head. We asked him if he was ill, and why he had cried out. He made no answer, bufc took away his hands from! his face, and looked: so pale and strange, that Purcell wasMnovinjr away to call the usher. ,! 11A ,1? Madonna caught his dress. rjght," he said, fcrcmg a "sMe| '^1: w^8 dreaming,—only dreaming,—go to bed, old boy. ^Ydu don't flunk thpyiearrrme^^do^-^11 •-fT' »^m«fc In a miriute or so feJ essAsi to our nests again to finMi'lhe ntglt The wxmp MiSriS^Ww® vacant. His jacket arid trousers were" m|s8ing, his shoes and stockings re mained. The window^sash was open. l^^t JL *.**.. «.*. Ai E Jrefreshmeritof any kind. He^made nis exit -that wayy and no^ E S S E oubt, by means of a familiarleaderi ^ater^pip^wHch naieT'or^fi is W a .Theres^ 5 from his own account, partly what we learned elsewhere. .at, oh the night in 1 iHe's tion^h^e had felt very odd and uneasy' for several hours after^ratiririfrtobed, could not close an eyesroramo ment. A curious sense of lassitude and hunger possessed him he WonldT have given five shillings for a hard biscuit. We remembered his asking if afiy chap happened to have any eatables under his pi116w\^-but rro^' bjdy had!- At 'last, toTcaxde 3 ng, he dozed off, and had a dream! He thought that his little true-love, Eleanor WUton, came^and stood at hit .bedside, v./^e, was dressed in, white,,and carried a basket filled with cu|riou8 and dutiful flowery, juatbudding. Although'she did not •P^r^eWeftae^med.to.ihi conyey °M fe hwjfeat.f^ had bronghfctjiem, 35 ^_BBBJSBBJ asaaajsaajaBBBi IW^SmaftpVA, tojjpbjy(,4h«Jpti- 0 snjtaon, but found 1 P^lyaeck somehow, he •vuuld.uwth- poor bpv lit of surih arididjsgns^ath^.c^^ doubt the effect upon her heart of his ed to notbinjf. Jfadorina: cj#okfi altered visage. Elejmor l^mpn was not with them. S S 6nlyune chance of reviving her inT ant witii^er 'haslet f&flw*m olff ^IS^^^SAafWM S fixlIybloWn." Jin the" centre of eaek I S Ma4onna—it WWna.of much uj»,~ *as a ruby heart-^neaelod with dia- H^yjet an early h9M»emaid who 3 if be did no* then anawer, he wild never—never—never—Before meaning was complete, she was gone, and ones more he awoke, and •nee mere he slept again. For the third time the fairy figure bis«de bnjjapjwatUmua, and pulistj|Dct, th|^lie«ouMI^ only trace tor outline fand ifte 0W?5PA^sW hoa &st&ft^ r^ak«tv.wer& broken, diwptrigV and "Slead.1 thought she stooped over him as though be i, then began to 'disappear. 1. In I*? I Madonna struggled fiercely to move, [tut in vain, and uttered the cry that BpSEow^^perfecyy con off that ierl ton his fears, but hastily resolved up- R&arJss No sooner had we settled off to sleep out^'fi gain—which must have been in some ^nuabiw athun *e^gbfrjip, 'tdrew a some cktiwsvsoftly:dpeiMd the win 4ow, and slid down safely into the S 4 1 burned round duiiide that of the for it flashed npoq his tasjmor^lirfiaygrotind till he arrived in front ofmer at Sergeant Grace wa» an attend, ©alias House, f^etlring d^rtw his a there,:«sthou^h she bad oned him with her harid-from e.wuadow. Yeivhowito^wiieh the ^SRfWfiHr* Aft Iftvtriberai an^ empty cow-shedr Back be «#,-—round1" the" ladder,—-draggd, tched, arid sLrig it across the wall, dVlb three minutes, had reached fi W|ndrjr. 3 H4 ^nl make out Wfe&g O in a S O ^cfT 7 I if as rn^iieeiwejd^ pushed it up softly and looked in. A chair, a small, table with a book and a mug of Water, a low couch, and Upon it, sitting up as though in ex peetation,—Eleanor! She exhibited not the least sur prise. --A ytajq IL/)C: ':. '. "I knew you would come, dear ^^d^She,.it^e„tiuJBft faintly *^t^ou were, very long., I wait to sp^k to ypu.'r. Madonna, was. in tjie robin in an instant In a few words, uttered with difficulty, she told him 3hkt l&ei arrival of the rufey neart hajd been. notified to Miss Billiter, who taxed Agusta with receiving it Tljatyoung lady, having,it would ap pearr a desire to keep the ornament, fk ahec dttcarded the donor at t.deniebV it* possession bat, -after hours' confinement in the Peni tentiary,/resolved to endure no more for the sake of either lover or! offer ing, andgave in. She asserted, how ever, that it was not intended, for her, but for ^Eleanor Witton, with whose ion for Madonna she was well uainted, and who, she knew, .^auldwtake all' the •responsibility. MisaBiliter at once turned all herperhaps fury upon the latter and, on her re fusing to reveal the name of the send er, committed her to the usual prison, directing chat aha should have noth ing buta water—not even a crust of bread—until she had discarded.' her sullena, and accepted her mistress's tettns. It 40 rise, Harry/'she said, «Tm to :mya*iCther«^yott TtribwnI sai^.X would rather, Don't leave hie1 ^0^don?t -^ien*t 1••'• 0/I am so glad you came! I asked Qod if you might, because you weremy only friend. Let me lean my head on yorir shoulder," said the little thirig[ aitl" she a^Je^J and gently ing tiie long hair from Madonna's Scairred forehead, —white and smooth ns eve)-,to her loving eyes,—«he gave hupg upotn bosom as'he knelt4(„,. He thought she was sinking to sleep, and, almost siraid to breathe, remained perfectly motionless' for n«4rliy half an houi-. Then a feeling of anxiety and dread stole over him. He rooked: closely at her.' One tiny finger had hooked in: his button-hole. mtf^¥/kfiieTirifpes^» 1 ^om^e ccnsul^begged.him nottof a W ^ad been a ghost, which, it is prob* the whim of the moment. Carver a oor Eleanor, however, had been some t^yery.jaij^gi,. and' jthe SSfS§5? her inind, STefe n¥Wf%^^4lJBHf% tjM eepmi| pf^tjb^ poor- b^ocent nineteen houp mtiiout notice, solace, r() As she cajnetoJ^ climax of )u^. Madonna's rage ..mastered his ef. He started to his .feet, intend ing to seek^assistance /but Eleanor extrted all he»: strength^ and held n"m^ftatO Jiq^q ^f v^{o« NO. 1 4 hastening to tell his friends and hers. TWservant tried to detain him but be walked down stairs, opened the front door, and proceeded straight to the school, arid to Style's room. There-lie related the circumstance of his dream, and the ead story of hisAlumina little lady's imprisonment and death. Styles—when he wasn't in school— Was a kind, good old chap, just and decided, and always did the right thing,—which is a great point, you know. I He wrote instantly to his^riend, the clergyman of the parish, who was also a magistrate. This gentleman j] crime to him directly, and,—I don't mm exactly what was the result of their consultation,—but a rapid cor respondence ensued with thegovern ess at Pallas House, 1 It was reported that a coroner's in quest would be held on the poor child. This, indeed, was not done but you'll be glad to hear—at least, I was—that that act of tyranny cost Miss Billiter her school, and that she low goes out teaching at eighteen pence an hour. Madonna never recovered his for spirits. He left at the end of the njalf^ and his friends sent him abroad to the window ef-the Penniwith a tutor but he became sofret tdtiswat- 'ful,- irritable, and impatient of con S a S *MjMde&ufit} of that sort of contrdl, ti&^Ss^^SSm'^^fTi^^wh^^her yielded to a curious fancy that had seized him in Pans, audi procured his enrolment in the fr. *f certain French marine. That was just at the beginning of-J the war. Madonna was appointed to the Vtlle de Paris,,and sailedtothe East, carrying the flag of Admiral Hame- At the attack by the ships up on1 the sea-forts, at the first bombard ment of Sebastopol, the Ville de Par is got into a hot position. She lost several officers and many men, and a fragment of the same shell which killed two aides-de-camp of the admi ral laid poor Madonna lifeless upon the deck. The French officers kindly collect ed every little article of value be longing to him,'and, cutting off a mass of his bright curls, transmitted tin) whole to his relations. Among other things was a small velvet case which was found in his bosom, and. within it a little paper written in a child's hand. You've heard it:— f'This is to give notis that I have promessed to be your true-love and when I groe up I will mary you if ypn like and to be your Dutiful wife tflj death and if not I would rather go toniymotiier— •nTttrfibelieve me, •m "DearSir, "Yours truly, "ELEANOR WILTOX." PBPKSTONE OF THE MISSISSIFFI VAX LEY. IBead before the San Diego (Cal.) Society of Nat ural History, Sept. 17th, 1875 by Prof. Ira Moore.] 8 W a made was soft enough to beeasi lifted han W even before the blowpipe. Indeed theaction of fire to which it was sub- lifted back tiie small head:^I The while, laid his little true-love in mother's bosom! Belf1hMedi: and: stupefied witn re^ec1ffig%irielr placedit S 3 a 4 aj» in in any direction according to 5 ne was powerless t» repin* und^%ih1qa»M sa 1 m$-W crius^-wai Si stood that she wastocome onc^a^n^lying dead above, and tiurt^cw^rco Smoking is a widely-spread custom ampng the nations of the earth not so nearly universal as the be lief in a future state, or in the exist ence,of a God yet so broadly diffused as to suggest either a common want of the human frame or a sure evidence of our universal total depravity. The plants used for the purpose are var ious yet all possessing in greater or less degree the property which has made tobacco so celebrated, and caus ed its production to be among the grejafcIndustries of the earth. When America was discovered, tobacco was known to but small part of it, yet the same excessive habit of smoking which they have to-day, characterized the tribes from the Atlantic to thepointed Pacific. In the Northern Mississippi Valfey the! bark, 7 pf the red willow was used and called in many Indian lan^age^k^icjfe knick, of which our present word kinnikinic is a corrup- .To this people, then, was the pipe a necessity. They had not learned to rol| the fragrant cigar, not did thein material used admit of it. They sejB^nri^t'to' have had the requisite 9kUl~: in 'pottery to mould pipes of clay some native 'material must be found to answer the purpose. Stea tite] would possibly do but aside from" ita dull gray color, so unattrac tive to the Indian's eye, it is not found in the Mississippi Valley. Yet when Hennepin arid the other early French missionaries penetrated this region eveiy In^ian.from Lake Superior to Mexico had his pipe, the most valued of earthly possession, not excepting squriw'and pappoose. These pipes were of bright red Color, sometimes mottled with light spots, fancily fin ished, and fitted with reed stems so long that the owner might stand erect and, smoke, resting his pipe upon the1 grbhnd. The material of which they cbarige of color after long use. $i^course the inquisitive Gaul and thejUlter Teuton wished to know the source of this wonderful stone. The Indians were communicative, but the testimony was very conflicting. The Great Spirit sent it to them. They found it in pieces, just large enough for pipes, upon a mountain. Where was this mountain? And then they "^/^s^: ******»*&. with the ioux of the Minnesota river in the county which now bears bis name says "At that branch of it (the Min nesota) termed Marble river is a mountain, ftom whence the Indians get a sort of red stone, out of which they hew the bowls of their pipes." It was not till 1832, whenCatlin the artist visited and spent some years among the Sioux, that the secret was discovered, and he, after many efforts and much delay, was allowed in 1836 to visit the spot. His exulting paean of victory a a as intemperate as Sher- man represent General John A. Mo Clemand'8 to have been on the cap ture of Arkansas Post. In 1838, Nicollet, accompanied by John C. Fremont, found the difficult path. An analysis of the stone made under his direction gives Silica 48.2, 28.2, Magnesia 6, Car. of Lime 2.6, Perox. of Iron 5, Oxide of Manganese 0.6. He describes the stratum as 11 feet thick, in thin slabs, compact, structure slaty, dull polish, red streak. Color blood-red with lighter spots of same. rough fracture, sectile sp. grav. 2.9. Acids do not act upon it. Infusible before the blowpipe per se, but with borax gives green glass. I may add to this its geologic age as prior to the Potsdam and the same as the. sandstones of Lake Superior. I visited the place in. 1868. In the extreme southwest of Minnesota near the Dakota line, forty miles from the nearest settler, a valley .one mile long by less than half a mile in breadth is scooped abruptly rJUt of the boundless, treeless plain. Like the Jew Shy lock's house, it is a hard placetohit One may pass within a hundred rods of the edge, and be unconscious of it The eastern side is a ledge of bright red sandstone of many colored bands, fifty or sixty feet vertical height, whence a gentle eiope to the center of the valley. Three small streams of clear, bright water from springs not far away fall over this ledge making constant music, and uniting in the valley, break through the western side and away into the Des Moines of Iowa. A layer of pink sandstone thirty feet thick forms the cap of the expos ed rock this is extremely, dense, and has the remarkable property of be coming glassy on the weathered sur face. One could walk as easily on ice. A detached column seven or eight feet square, and eight feet from the main rock, made a grand test of Sioux manhood. Not Leueate's promontory, though graced with the leap of Sappho, had more local celeb rity as a cure for love. He who clung to the rock won the heart of the dusky Sioux maiden for his brav ery, while the unlucky fellow who overshot theglittering surface, quench ed life aud love at once upon the rocks below. On the bare sandstone rock of the. slope below are three huge granite boulders, the size of cabins, evidently once a single rock. This is the dwell ing place of the Great Spirit, and here the Indians made votive offerings of kinnikinic or tobacco at every visit. About the center of this slope, and covered with one to three feet of grav el and vegetable mould is the outcrop of the pipestone. The Sioux is not fond of hard work he would dig a little pit to the edge of the stratum, and when the supply was exhausted, instead of clearing away the earth he had thrown out and following along the edge, would start a new place. This was the occasion of much cere mony the tribe purified themselves for several days then the Pharisee of the most straitest sect was delegated to dig if he struck sandstone instead of finding pipestone, he was incontin ently kicked out and a successor ap pointed. The Indian tradition is no less trustworthy here than elsewhere. The Great Spirit standing upon the edge of the rock, called all the tribes of red men together in the valley below him. He advised peace and harmo ny in all the land but especially at this spot, there was never to be war, or blood-shed, or guile. Then he out the pipestone as the com mon heritage of all tribes, and fash ioning a pipe, he smoked over them all, and told them they must them selves smoke in token of peace. At the last whiff of"his pipe, a blaze of fire rolled over the surface of the rock, and he disappeared among the boulders. The^re- glazed the rock, which his foot-prints are still point ed out. Dispersed through the stone at Ir regular intervals, are flinty nodules, rendering it very difficult to work in large plates. The Indians made careful selection for their pipes, re jecting fully as much as they carried away. This fact and the difficulty of quarrying gives probability to the Indian theory that the Great Spirit designed it for the savage alone and that it will again only be useful when Macaulay's enlightened New Zeal ander shall wonder what ancient race raised the broken shaft on Bunker Hill, or shall attempt to decipher the hieroglyphics on the stones of Green wood Osmetrv. ^a» GOOD ENOUGH FOB HOC. '/Howrath, the hardware.and house furnishing man, says the Danbury 'News, has got in a new lot of cuspi dores. On^eof has custoners was af ter a parjor lamp,, and Howrath took advanfag&pf the opportunity to press the cuspidores upon him.. "What's themforf' asked the cus torrier. f«£6^expleeWrite in."* "Expectorate1 An what's that?" "Why'to spit in. You see you are getting anew lamp for your house, and so you want one of these fine specimens of art to keep it company." "None for me, thank you," said'the customer, "Sly father used to spit in the scuttle, an' what's good enough for hHri is gbod'enough for me I reck on" •••*-£J-:v• •-:!£. SJ£ •••:V.i:-' ^Alr^^e^riiiiiteoknp his lamp and went holiieV W'1'