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OTTAWA FHEK TKADKK. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, iS7.
I lllt WUL WWIlSIISl.'llS.Liaas
IN THE C1TV.
J.ori: trtkws souls I tnct ta-J;ijr
A ptlr of homcyim lovers;
JN lightsome anil us careless Uuy
As uulit fie juubhitio lovers.
;y moth Unit float tt,e t'.irousli
' lUtl winirioss poutmd brldo tlii'in,
Who. wJiolly Klu.l, found l"
Willi what iul;.'lit yet betide them.
u- i - UieU-v street tLcystcpt,
" Tau!i'iu:iJSi':I's'-"il,ll'rtwlst,'',(1: ,
Aji'l of tin-' t ro J wiio revird kept
ttliilt) ouo to other listed.
! rouUl not hear ft word they laid,.
' ' ret quick, returning glances
ik'tn een thun spoke of spirits wed
L.iliO those iu old rouiuuce.
ITc sachel p wliiffini; on his arm,
If U L'urmeuti (jnuintly tittcd,
tter eld-time An, yet s'.rlish cbartu.
Ami hld mo while they flitted.
. 1 civ they would not larUr one
1)1 cither's valued klseei,
Y'oi any riches under the sun
That make up meaner Muses.
Ami tbeu I thought how heaven coracs down
To bless the simple-hearted,
V)io have no care for fashion's frown
Nor feur but to be parted.
tlmmrM, too, if the world but guessed
The half of what it loses
5iv i-lishiin,' love, 'twould stand confessed
'iu shame of w hat it chooser
Tel notion;,' recked the happy pair
Of such a lesson needed
By folk overlooked, while lmsslni; ti.ere
Themselves as little heeded.
)l unconcerned th y dreamed not why
hcuuned their tell tale faces,
luil pitied f Hunt ones i by
Ti eohl, heart-lonely places;
1 h 'y lauithed und tallied, dellffhtinK eaeli,
And tdept as on the heather;
. Suprwuiely blest one jiiul to reach,
Lmked arm lu firm together.
Mary li. l)otli;in ChrUHun Luton.
SlIt: C it ADLK-TOMIf AT WKSTM INSTFR.
Ji Jinks rudely-sculptured bed,
With shadowing' folds of war Mi! lace,
al uuilt of marble, primly tproad.J.
Ami folded round a baby's face.
iixii.taly the tnlnik coverlet,
With royal blazonries bedri'ht,
Hans, as by tender figures set,
Awl ftraiKhU'ncd for tbo last gooduiglit.
Ami tmced upon the rlllowlrii: Btone
A dent is seen, as If, to bless
' That fiiiet sleep, some tfricvinjr one
Had leaned, and left u soft Impress,
Uneems no more than yesterday
i'iuce the sad mother, down the stair,
And lown the lonr aisle, dole away,
And left her darling sleeping there.
Slut .Just upon the cradle lies,
.i iii thwc w ho prized the half so.
An., decked her touch with heavy 6ijhs,
.-re turned to dust long years ago.
V'-'0 the peaceful pillowed head
u..ina ceutures brood; and strangers peep
. A i.i .vonder at the carven bed;
Uut not unwept the baby's sleep;
. W v. 1-If ill molher-eyes are blurred
(v, ;th Hiiddcn mist, us linuerers stay,
.Xif.l lie o;i'. dui-ts are roused and stirred,
lJ. the a itrui tear-drop of to-day,
. 'SY.t, furtive hands caress the stone,
And hearts, o'erleupini; place and ae,
Mt into iiiMiiiorlt'S, and owu (
A thrill of cumtnou pareutuse. .
Men die, hut sorrow never dies!
The crot'Ulntf years divide In vain,
And the wide world U kult wltu ties
Of common brotherhood in pain ; '
Of. common share In grief and loss,
Ind li'. ruill.i-e In the Immortal bloom
H I.vtv which, flowering round Us cross,
Made henuiiful a bnby's tomb.
finnan L'wlul, in fjmbivr for Ortolier.
HOW ITJENDFD.
I've 'uic-?.e ap my wind," bhU Miss Hell
"tfdrtiin.
Kiie was a rosy cheeked, squarely made
w-otouiv so-ncwhere about flvo and thirty,
wi;h innrry black ryes, short curling hair, anu
iretio ut; ciCDres&ion 01 countenance.
-ilut, Uoar ue, JJcll, you are notgoinjr out
aU tho wilderness actually to live, uio you?"
"Well, I've no Intention of dying there,"
i.'piffianuuaticauy repneu aiiss lieu.
lira. 1'iirkeswortli l'ryce slood in open
lriiiizemcnt. uerciirnet colored moiie antique
'Ircse trailing over the enrpet, and her large
.xri shawl festooncdjgriicefully over her
sit", hheuidcrs tho vory peMomticalton anu
ur.uUixlim'jat of a bruiniess votary of the latest
Il'.IiIou.
"My goodness gracio'is!" naid Mrs. Tryce
V:r', ii i: the magnitude 01 tno luea renuer-
-jjI it "impossible for hormindto grapple with
IL.
siiid Miss Bell, "I am. .'And what
ia tnore. Kntie Apnleton is coing' with nm
.VouBe, i' rs. l'ryce, I am not so- young as I
wa.:, ttd poor dear lvatie was disappoinwu
-wLnn that young soamp, Harry Messenger
?-jit South nd married Julia Lew, so we've
3fjcluded to retire on a farm in nestern ISew
YV., wh'-re we can raise calves and chick
jB. tud iruw our own asparagus and straw-
liK-jries t place in short, where we can be
4iUrely independent ol men !"
If ear iae!' said Mrs, l'ryce, "what a
(tiKOhc plan to bo sure!'
-Ji may be Quixotic,'' said MUs Bell, rub
cjiny' her chin taougUtfully ; "but we're going
to r.ivcdt trial, nevertheless, Katie and I. '
" Vou v. ill be heartily sick of it, and come
laicktoJVew loik in les3 than a tnoutu,'
predicted lira. l'ryce.
"Xo. wc ehall not." said Cell Martin reso-
nrdv. 4,I hnpo I am old enough to know
vc v oV ,-n mind, huJ Kstte will be governed
And in npite of the pathetic and oft repeat-
vl remoi!.tniRce or Jlrg. l'ryce anu otners 01
fetr stnne. Mios Jieil Martin ana ner cousin
Katie Apple'.on, a shy little maiden, with
ru Jft blue eyes, and a face like a peach
blossom, packed their guitar and canaries,
r.d croquet aud baud boxes, and went out
Isn't this jolly?" cried Bell, warming her
r-lunip bauds heloretho blaze ol abugewoou
nr.; on the nictit oi tneir arrival.
4h. vcs. certainly," said Katie, timidly,
"L it L -n't you t'aink it's a Utile lonely,
ISi'p1?"
We don'l mind that, child," said Hell,
' bra kly ; "we are going to be company for our
selves'"
A re we!"
- A'hy, of course we are. Jast wait till we
C"! our flower beds planted, und the daisy
r'lv's t out, and the chickens hatched, and
we shall hive no time to think of getting
IiMiirsome. '
And Miss Cell jumped ur to eet a fresh
wplyof wood from the covered shed back
of the door; for a fundamental element of her
drruj9 of rural fehcltv had been the strict
i in,rtrdictioa of anything in the similitude of
rTvant
"For I've been quite sufficiently Inshrldden
ia New Torkl ' sh had said.
-fuisuluxaryrwenton Bell, basking be
f.T the genial blaze; for the April evening
ii chilly and raw. bI reel jut like Roblson
C oo his dewrt Island, and"
Uash!" cried Katie, oervoasly graspinc
1t 'ousia's arm. "what's thatr
lAt1lutr,
Tht noise I 0, Bell, If there should be
gift ia this tanious old hotute!"
'0h. fiddlesticks!" said the mrtlci of fact,
Bull ; "it's only the cow looking in ut t'ne case-1
raent: don't you see her horns nowi"
- . . ' ....' . . . j. . . . ......
Miss iiell l iisheu out ol wie iioor in rouie
the enemy.
"Such h clear little dot ol a red ealt ns mere
is in the ham vnrd!' she cried ecstatically,
as she returned. "But we mu.-r take it uwav
to-morrow."
"Oh, don't tiike it away the dear utile
thing," cooed Kate. "Let us be a luflc con
slileriite. " '
"And have no milk to use," sculled H
U.
"That would be nico farming. 1 saw a Hue
lot of hcbs in tho barn this ulternoon, Katie ;
eeirs are flftv centsa dozen, aud uprlng chick-
ens forty cents a pouud. 'A e shall make our
fortunes, Kate. And old Mr. Tully says
strawberries bring fifty cents a quart, and the
asnarae-ua v elded a hundred ami seven uun-
ches at forty cents a bunch, and butter di-Hr,
dear there' s no saying what wo shall realize
outol butler with three cows.';
"To be sure,' said Katie, sympathetically.
It was raining bard the next morning when
they woke up. Now it the agricultural world
was all made up of leafy dells where the
drops tinkled musically as they fell, aud open
ing butter cups ana viou-is, mis wouui an oe
very well, but rain on the roof of n leaky
farmhouse, und rain in the country barnyard
are decidedly lacking in the elements of ro-
mance.
"Do lot me sleep just five initni'es longer,
pleaded Katie, piteously.
"uct up! tret up! ' cneu meruimess m n,
"we're farmers now, und you must couir out
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anu ueip uio uiuiv i n nm u m ,u.
"Iii tho rain r '
"Wr neither su'ar n"p salt we shall not
melt. Oct your niua nudum, ami come
(juick."
1 ..... ... . f ,...! 1
JUibs liell iookcu mc laeaoi rcsoiunou umi
enterprise as she stalked into the burnyard
swinging the pail iu one naiio ami me imec
legged stooi in the other. Kate Appleton
looked on iu admiration.
"Where did you learn to milk, Hell ?"
"I never learned."
'How can you do it, then?"
"Why It is easy enough of course. Any
body can milk. This calf has got to come
out first."
Miss Bell advanced to the little red caiT,
who was nestling close to Its mother.
"But to her amazement the brindled cow
lowered her horns and ran iuriously at the
disturber of her darling's peace. Miss Bell
scrambled over the wall more nimbly than
grace! ul.
"1 am afraid she is vicious," said Miss
BelUlubiously. ."We won't disturb the calf
Just now."
So, descending once more when the bellig
erent animal had apparently calmed down,
Miss Bell selected the mildest eyed cow she
could find, and sat down, adjusted in all en
gravings. "Why don't tho cow stand still?" she de
manded after having several times jumped
up and followed tho bovine animal around.
"A cowls a very trying quadruped! Get
some hay, Katie, and feed her. I am afraid
that unprincipled Mr. Tully deceived us when
he said there was three milch cows ; tho more
I pull, the more the milk won't come."
"Trv aeain." said Kate encouragingly.
Tull harder."
But the cow, resenting this mode of treat
ment, deliborately kicked over the pail
whisked her tail in Miss Bell's eyes, aud
walked off.
"Ob, dear, dear!" faltered Kate. "I wish
we had asked Mr. Tuity to stay a day or two
and teach us how to milk !' - -
"Ai if I'd ask a man to teuch me anything,"
Cried Bell disdainfully. "If he can do it I can ;
I'll try again by and by, when tho cow gets a
little better tempered. Li't'a go in anu get
breakfast, Katie. Hero are hall a dozen eggs
In the hay under the manger. Very careless
in tho hens to leave their eggs around in this
sort of lash ion 1 I shall huve up row of
pine boxes filled with straw, before 1 am
twenty four hours older."
"Perhaps they would prefer hay," said
Katie dubiously.
"I don't care what they prefer,' said Boll,
dogmatically "they must adapt themselves
to "my perfoctness, or I'll know tho reason
whv. But as I was saying, fere's tho mate
rial for an omlet so we'll go in and breakfast
like a pair of queens."
Tho coffee was made without milk and
tho morning meal was soon disposed of, Katie
remained in doors to sweep up ana wash me
dishes, while Miss Bell sailed forth to inves
tigate the various offices und buildings which
skirted tho barn. In a few minutes she reap
peared, dripping like Undine of old.
"Katie," she cried breathlessly, displaying
the pearl white treasures of her apron. "I've
found two more settlements of eggs."
"Let's have some custards," suggested
Katie.
"Uustards, indeed! iN'o, no I preferspring
chickens. Katie, 1 am going to set a hen."
"Set a lieu" replied Katlo in bewilder
ment. "I've caught the most motherly looking old
hen you ever saw, and shut her up In a bar
rel," went on Miss Bell.exultlngly, "and now
I'm going to fix tho nest. In just twenty-one
days from now, Katie, we shall be reeding our
chickens."
"Shall we?" Katie Appleton did not dis
believe, perhaps, but 6he Uoubteu.
Half an hour afterwards when tho rain held
ud a little, aud hero and thcro a glimpse of
uazling Ol uo pvereu uuougu mo uu oi me
gray sky overhead, Katie tripped out In the
barn, where Miss Bell stood in an anxious at
titude over a square box alio placed on a beam
"Hell, what are you aoingr" sue crieu.
"I'm trvlnir to keep this hen on her nest,"
said Miss Bell, turning perturbed face to
wards her cousin. "Niuo times hHo has flown
cackling off, and nine times I have caught
her and put ner on again, we ve roaeu mree
of the ecus, but they are easily replaced. It
is like tho old story oi uruce anu me spiuer,
ami 1 will conquer. 1 nave roauers toierauiy
safe with a board and a stono for tho present,
and I shall come out three times a day to feed
her."
"But I thought," said Katie, after a moment
or two ot crave consideration, -that you ai
ways had to wait until a hen chuckled and
puilcred out her featheas, and wanted to set
ol her own accord.
"Uld tashioued farmers do that, I suppose,
but I can't wait a lumdrcd years for a hen to
make up her mind. "
The rebellious murmurs of the gallinaceous
foul imprisoned beneath the cruel board,
echoed MWs Bell Mirtsn's accents.
"I declare Bell!" cried tho admiring Katie
Appleton. "I didn't think you had such a
will. You ought to haye been a man and a
statesman."
"Don't talk nonsense, I beg of you," said
Bell, a little more than ordinary complacent,
however, "but run into the hoa.se and bring
me the box of assorted garden seeds. If the
weather clears up we must begin planting
early to-morrow. I won't havo people saying
our farming is behind hand, because we are
women !"
Toward the evening of the next day, old
Mr. Eliphalet Tully, a leather farmer, with a
curiously intricate net work of fine wrinkles
round his keen eyes and shrewd mouth, look
ed casually in to see how his successors were
thriving.
"Afternoon t'ye," was his greeting "WV11
how ye getting along T"
"Weaienoteettingalongatall, Mr. Tul
ly," said Miss Martin, In an injured tone of
voice. "You've imposed upon us."
"I declare to gracious, I don't know what
ye meaa," said the farmer, witk countenance
o! onSrlgced astonishment
"Didot joa tell up your cows we re kind?"
' they be," hiiid old Eliphulcl-"the
kimlcst ciealun s ever an vc
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i m if tr lit. 11 1 iii, ill, ti nil I' I I i f t I I V It P I I IV ll
"'j ".''
i mi1, il l' mu ' unii h i u c i;u iivt'i um"iv
it is half tul!. besides making inu chase all
I around the barn-yard after hei r"
j "Guess you uiu'l used to milking," said Mr.
'I'll 1 . nlllewilly.
I "Uiseil to it,'' echoed Bell; "aud sup
'posing that 1 am not, what diU'eience can it
make!' Am 1 to have u diploma, and show it
b j Uiccow belore I dare take the privilege oi
milking ?"
"Cow is dreuillul sagacious creatures,''
said the farmer with a Iuughing twinkle in
his eye. Some oa 'em can't never abide wo
men lolks louiul, and now 1 como to think
ou't Miss Tully never used to milk, cause it
was ul'as hamly to do it. I tell you what,
Miss .Martin, 1 guess you'll have lu keep a
man."
".Never," said Miss Martin resolutely.
"And then the luike)s they gobblo and
swell out and run alter us in a way that is
pcsitively frightful."
"Do you wear them ar shawls when you go
out to leed 'em,'' said the farmer, nodding at
two bright outer wrappings that hung ou'lhe
pegs behind the keeping loom door?
" by, ves, 1 believe we did."
"Tiiat accounts lor it then. A turkey and a
bull, ilie dlor o' red he Is Y 111 wild. 1 thought
wij body knew thai.''
"And 1 am to select my wardrobe iu rclcr-
enee in me turiviys in me pouury-yuru in
dignantly demanded Bell.
Turkeys know a dreadtul sight, although
they're generally calculated to be a uiupid
bird," said Mr. Tully, sagely.
"And the hens! di ar me! ' went on Miss
IJcll, "I have such trouble about their selling."
"Give them ugood ducking at the pumps,"
recommended the farmer. "That's a sure
curi! Icr tin ni as wants to set."
"But hey don't want to set," interrupted
Bell; "Unit's the trouble. Old Speckle has
broken all her eggs trying to get out.''
"If they dou't waul to they won't," said the
laruier, "and it's no use talking."
"I'll seo whether they will or not," said
Bell, compressing her lips lightly.
The farmer looked somewhat awed ut her
Imperious voice and gesture, and glanced un
easily out ol the window lor acnunge ot suo
ect. "What you been doiu' out in the door-yard,"
he usked iu some surprise.
"1 wanted to plant some candy-tuft and
uiijonelte seeds," said Katie meekly; " so 1
dug up all those onions with tho sprouting
tops."
"Onions!" cried Mr. Tully. "Why Ihem
was Jerushy'8 double tulips and hyancinlhs !'
Kate looked at Bell in consternation.
"Vou told mo they were onions, Bell, and
you have got u handful of them boiling in
ihu pot with the maecaroni aud sliced car
rots now !" she said reproachfully. But Bell
preteuded not to hear.
"What do you thiuk of the strawberry bed,
Mr. Tully?" said she complacently.
"You haven't been dlsturbin' tho roots dig
ging 'round 'em at this time of the year?" he
sulci.
"Yes I have," said Miss Bell. "I didn't
like to see them straggling about so slovenly,
so I dug up every root and planted it nearly
over again."
"Land o' Uoshin!" said larmer iully.'l be
lieve you're crazy. And what's them pots in
the window? l'osey seeds?"
"Why," said Miss Bell with concious pride,
"it was too wet for me to work in tho fields
this morning, so I've started my sweet corn
in crocks so as to bu ahead of the Season."
Mr. Tully turned of a deep appolectic pur
ple, in consequence ot trying to Oliver", a
burst of laughter into a fit of coughing.
"But how be yo going to get your potato
crop into the ground?" he demanded, "wom
an can't plow."
"I don't know vhy thej can't," said Miss
Bell, argumentatively.
"Because they are women," said tho con
servative farmer. "Ain't that reason enough ?"
"Jot by any means," said Miss Bell. "I
am going to lollow tho example of the Ger
man women, who work out in the open fields
just like men. Germany is a great country!"
"1 should think it must ue'saiu jur. luuy
dubiously.
And he tooK ins leave, aner some very
kindly meant advice, which Miss Bell resolv-
ed mentally not to take.
So tho Jays went on ai iim jirooK oy
which euphonious title Miss Martin had de
cided to call her farm until one evening, re
turning from a survey of her premises, she
came on Katie Appleton leaning over the
stile, talking to somebody in the twilight.
"Katie!" sho cried warningty as tao con
science-stricken little damsel tluttered toward
her with both hands full oi the lovely pink
blossoms of tho wild azalea, "was that a man
vou were talkmirto?"
"It It wus only the rector," faltered Katie,
"to know why we wereu t at ctiurcu lasi
month."
Miss Bell was not exactly satisfied w ith her
cousin's explanations, but said nothing. V er
1m1 silence, bo wever. does not restrict the free.
dom oi thought, aud within herself Miss Bell
Mart u was bv no means at ease
"Tho rector." sho repeated, "A rector is
onlv a man. after all and I should think
Katie had enousu of tho false heart and hoi
low profession of men ! But there it is some
people will never learn by experience."
Aud between tho obstinacy of her Mercer
Dotatoes. which absolutely declined to come
up, aud tho ill advised thoughtlessness of
Katie ia persistiiur. in any intercourse with
the forbidden ranks, Miss Bell was really
nuko miserable that niirht.
Sho had cause to be more miserable yet in
a day or two, for in a hand to hand encounter
with a refractory pie. who had the greedy
taste to prefer tho vegetable garden to the
precincts ot her owu pen, she sprained her.
ankle.
"What aro you to do now?" she groaned,
when, by dint of much fortitude and resolu
tion, the had hobbled to tho old chintz-cover
ed longc.
"Don t you tninK. 'nazzareu ivaie, -mai we
had better send fr the rector?"
"The rector indeed!" cried Bell , irascibly.
"I think the doctor would bo a great deal
more to the purpose!"
The doctor came, aud so uiu Mt. Jiuourn,
the rector, with his brother, a handsome
sou are shouldered aian of forty.
.... . i r i mrril...
'I llioUE lit." saiu .nr. jiucu niauuni, up
ologetlcally. that, "that you might like to
have someone to nave an eye on imugs uruunu
the nlare till vou are better. June is a bad
month for u-orkini; females to tail sick
"I'm sure I'm much oougeu to you, said
Ih ll. desnondentlv. "If Katie had the spirit
of a grey kitten, she vould attend to matters
. . . . if
and things herseii nui sue acreauis u mc
cow only shakes her horns, aud is actually
fttrniil of (ha Chinese coose
The rector looked admiringly at Jvatie,
wimsn hlushcs at the enumeration oi ner
rmilu were certainly rather becoming and
Mr. Milburn asurcd Bell that he would loon
rt. .p tin. iniristt her agricultural demcaso.
"I like that man," said tho unwilling in
valid, when Hugh Milburn had gone out to
look aftor the cattle, anu uis uroiuer una ai
so denarted. "There is no nonsense about
him."
"Who, the rector?" innocently questioned
Katie.
"No," Urtlv responded her cousin. "I mean
hi brother, Mr. Hugh Milburn."
The earlv summer dawned bright and soft
over Elm Brook. Old Speckle having main
tained a troubled existence under the board
for some weeks, mdJcnly decided to set in
good ci.-nct, and divers Jiher biddies follow
ed her example. Mercer potatoes sprouted
feebly above earth the sweet corn transplan
ted liom -Mus Bell s eatihernware crocks
died and made n i sinn, but tho later crop
made the furrowed fields beautiful with their
silver green blades, and the farm throve glo.
rious under the new iidniini.-tration.
"How nico It all looks," said Bell, sighing
nevertheless, when she first walked out, lean
ing on Mr. Hugh Milburn" s ami to see the
voiiii'' wheat bcoml the corn lots.
"It Is a beuii'liiil I'uin in ;i beautiful Indi
cation," said Mr. Milburn quietly. "I have
always thought I should like ju.it such a farm
us this."
"Why don't you buy one then?" demanded
the straightforward damsel.
"What lor? Am I not a cipher in the sum
of Immunity? A solitary old baehlur?"
"But you needn't be an old bachlor."
"Neeu I not? His blue eyes sparkled
with inerry amusement. 'This is just what I
wanted you to sav, Bell. You huve trusted
me with your farm for a mouth, now suppose
you trust mc with yourslf for a life time."
"Do you mean that you want mc to marry
you ' she asked bluiuly.
"J-.xactly !'
"Dear me!" mused Bell dropping her arm,
"I had never thought of that ! But I do be
lieve that we could manage the farm nicely
on shares."
"Well," said Mr. Milburn, who had patient
ly waited w it li mi amused sparkle in his eyes,
while Bell thoughtfully twlMcd a green black
berry round and round her dimpled linger,
"is it yes or no?"
"It is yes," said Bell.
She wus sitting by tho window that even
ing thinking how she could best explain her
change ol programme to Katie Appleton.
Truly it was an embarrassing thing to do.
In her own mind she felt that she had acted
wisely, yet to the u-'liserimhiating world it
would seem a pusillanimus fulling of her
Hag.
"I don't care," thought Bell, next to beluga
farmer, it is the nicest to be a farmer's wife.
Let the people say what they pleuse, so long
as I
Her revery was interrupted by Katie Ap
pleton's uriii around her neck.
"Dear Bell, I hope you won't be vexed with
me," faltered Katie, turning red and white,
after her fashion, when ever so slightly exci
ted, "but I am going to be married!"
"To the lector?"
"Yes,"
"God bless you Katie," murmured Bell.
"Oh Katie, we huve both found ourdestinies!"
And then she told her story and they were
very happy together in the purple softness of
.i... . :i:.i.. 'i'i. : ,.r i...:H i;r,.
uie nviiiem. ilie boiiukhiuu men jut
was lute, but it had come.
JSADI.Y MIXKII.
How lYlntler llltrierliiuk'g School Hooks (iot
( liioi-il.
from tho Burllntftou Hnnkvye.
It appears that during vacation Master Bil
derback, having fallen behind in his studies
last term, wns compelled, by his ma, to read
his school books certain hours of the day,
until he escaped that tyrunny by going out to
his Uncle Keyser's farm. In order to make
his study as light as possible, this ingenious
boy had dissected, or rather skinned his
books, and neatly inserted in their covers
certains words of the most thrilling character
known in modern literature. When he came
back from the farm this transformation busi
ness had entirely escaped his memory, and it
was not even recalled when ho heard his
mother tell the teachers, who called in hopes
of learning that the bean had sprouted and
crown into his brain und would probably
terminate fatally, that he was the bet boy to
study during vacation that she ever saw, anu
would pore for hours over his books, and even
seem anxious to get at them. Master Bilder-
back had forgotten all about it, and only
thought ll was some of his mother's foolish
ness, of which he believed her to possess great
stores. As lor the bean, the amazed teacher
learned that it never was discovered, it never
hart him a particle, and had just naturally
ceased to be. And the teacher went sadly
away moralizing over this case, nnd that of
little Bzra Simpson, the best and most studi
ous, and quietest, and most lovably boy in
her school, who one day stumbled and ran the
end of a slate pencil Into his nose and died
the next day. And long, long after sho had
got cut of sight of Bilderbuck's house, she
could hear the hopeful Master Bilderback
shouting "Shoot that hat!" and "Bull down
your vest!" to gentlemen driving with their
families or sweethearts, past that mansion.
Dreadful boy, she thought, he will surely
come to some bad end some day.
Well, it was ouly the next day that when
the reading class was called, Master Bilder
back took his place tor the first tune, the
boy next to him had no book, and as he was
ciuleu first no just tool; jh aster JiiiueruacK s
who turted to look on w ith the boys on the
other side. Tho class was reading tho se
lection lrom "Old Curiosity Shop," and a girl
had Just finished reading the tender para
graph, "She was dead. Dear, eentle, patient
noblo Nell was dead. Her little bird a
poor 'slight thing the persuce of a thing would
have crushed Was sitting nimbly in its
cage, and the strong heart of its child-mistress
was mute aud motionless forever!"
Imagine the fealings of tho teacher when the
boy got up w ith Master Bildcrback's reader
went on:
"Black end ol the nethermost gloom, down
to tli v craven soul thou Best," declaimed
Manfred, the avenger, drawing his rapier,
"Draw, malicnant hound, and die!"
"Down, perjured fool! Villain and double-
dyed traitor, down witn thy caititl lace in
the dust. Dare'st thou defy me? Beast with
a pig's head, thy doom is sealed!" exclaimed
tho mvstic Knitrui, lurowinc up ins vizor,
"Dost know me now ? I am the Mad Mun-
cher of the Bazzarooks!"
"Manfred, the avenger, dropped his blade
at this terrible name, and''
The teacher caugh: her breath and stopped
the boy. In tones ot forced calmness she
asked what he was reading, and he told her
it was Bilderbuck's reader, and looked in
amazement at tho innocent scholastic books
and the villainous interior, which was nothing
less than "The Blood on the Celling; or the
Death Track of the Black Snoozer." After
requesting Master Bilderback to remain after
school and explain, she called the next class-
one in aritumatic.
"Fisher." she said, "you may read and ana
lyze the fourth problem."
And Fisher, who was Budcrback's next
Katmate, and had taken that young man's
look by mistake, rose aud read:
TTi! pnrttfwt lltll luhr. oh:
That ever I illJ mw.iIi!
Tbrrnell pv'KO'lf.oh!
Ana eni h up lo eiory, mi:
KIllWV. lullltCT.
stir l)rcc lor gonlljaieu
boiueilme "
"In mercy's name," shrieked the poorteach-
ct, "what have you got there ? ' And Invest iga
tl n revealed the rather humiliating fact that
when Mrs. Bilderback thought her young
$na was pouring over mathematical problems,
he u learning choice vocal selections out
of "The Pull-Back Songster aud Ethiopian
Glee Book."
When the grammar class was called, the
teacher asked some one to bring her a book.
Mt.T Itilderback was the nearest and he
handed her his, innocently enough, for he had
bern busy with more projects than he coul I
tell about in a week, since the arithmetic
clas had gone down. The teacher was tired
and listless with that wearying worry lonurc
i,irh wunnh found in the school room,
and she listlessly and mechanically opened
the book to the place, and said: 1
".Mamie, how do vou analyze aud parse
this seiiteiice," and castlag her eyes on the
page, she read :
"Ol'er you don't vas got some clothes on, go
on dark bluccs. oil' you please. Aind It?"
Sho laid down tin.' book, and burst into
hysterical tears, unable even lo exert her au
thority to retain the mirth that burst out all
. . 1 . L' I , , - .1 . t ..
over the sctiooi room, one uismisscu me
school, and had not sufficient energy to pun
ish even Master liiliieri'UCK, ana mat young
gentleman only carried home a note to his
father, reciuest'ing that citizen and tax payer
to reorganize his son's library before be sent
him back to that palladium of our country's
liberties, the public school.
An HUtorlc I'liriwe tiinl;il.
From Ihu San Francisco (I l.) Chronicle. Brpt. 111.)
At the banquet of the Veterans of the Mex
ican war, held on Tuesday evening, L. B.
Mizner. of Solano, in tho course of an elo
quent address, took occasion to correct it la-
bricution which hau passeu inio wsumv, at
tributing to General Taylor, the hero of Bue
na Vistu, the slang admonition, "A little more
grape, Captain Bragg." Such language was
unworthy of the uiau nnd the historic mo
ment, when the result of tho most desperate
and memorable battle of the war was waver
ing in the balance, and nothing, said Mr.
Mizner, would have been more foreign to the
character of General Taylor in his manner iu
trying emergencies than such an exclama
tion. "Holding the position of an interpre
ter on the stall of General Taylor," said the
speaker, "I was seated on my horse immed
iately near him, when Captain Bragg dashed
hurriedly up, saluted the General nnd repor
ted : 'General, I shall have to fall back with
my battery or lose it.' Several of his guns
hud already been dismounted, a large part
of his horses killed, and about thirty ot his
men were prostrate on the heath. On rccciv
ing tho report General Taylor turned on his
horse and surveyed tho situatiou for u lew
seconds he required no field-glass, for the
scene of conflict was not far removed and
the reply was, 'Captain Bragg, it is better to
lose a battery than a battle.' This was the
interview on which was based tho famous
slang phrase that was ucyer uttered by the
General to whom it was imputed. Captain
Bragg returned to his battery with renewed
determination, and by the efforts of that gal
lant officer and his brave command the tide
of battle was turned, and tho greatest victory
of tne war was wou."
Farms for Sale.
In Fori). Vormllllon. Cnnmpnlin and Iioqtiol cnnntlot.
I'rlce from Iii lo S4I) per oru. Term to ialt purclwseni.
r'or turtlier Informtitlon i!ilre8 or cull on
A. O. MOKRISS,
bept. ll-3mo P.enl Ejtatc Agent, Paxton, Ford Co.. HI
Improved Farm for Sale.
Hnvlnff pmrnffed In the hurilwfire business. I will sflll my
farm, lTin about four inlloa aoutlieant from Suneca, at a
b.iriinln, and on reasonable tcrmn. Snld farm contains 12U
aere.20of which la timber. School and market conve
nient. Ooort lioimu.irooil cellar anil clutern. Good fcnees
and good fruit. Enquire of
.'uriiiiiiin t. t a iix-n
i.1 . 11 I vrl.l U. IH I .nil.'!,
deelJ-tf Seneca, La Salle Co., III.
PUZ
How to obtain a remedy which
shall equal OUIl NONE-SUCH
LUNG RELIEF in the confidence
of the public as an infallible cure for
wy and all Diseases of the -Throat or
Lungs. Try but a single bottle, and
you will never consent to be with
out it. It is I'lcasant as Honey, bure
as Quinine. Km Inn HK ALU.
Aug. 21, ItSTa. City Pru Storo
HENRY KOCH,
hi ml Lock Sill.
CABB AGE CUTTER
Anc all other ntenslls made to order, and repairing done
neatly ana on snort nonets.
Model Making a Specialty.
MitillHon Street, eor. Clinton, Ottawa, 111.
August 38, 1375 ly
mam
Lawson's Curative
TTAS been In use noun fifteen
an. for t'.i
XX.
permanent and kim;Ivj euro
t
Aiimqlipm Mftiirnliril
5-:
nnd! Inflammatory dNw. Kt. rn'"v n;- li,M
it glvea immnliait r.'li fn:ii tln. 'I'l.en o;i.j iu
two bottl" tiiki-n Internally lrt.mvo cuiv tai:::
nf th diwiw. Wo liavo rnrril I:!ii:;: vi. 1 -!i nf
FIPTKKN YKAti.H' STANIMMJ. win i- .ii i. l i
remedies have faib'il. Wo havo m.l'u Ui
out with iiilTuring from
NEURALGIA, SCIATICA, Nt.TVOUS A7i?
SICK HEADACHE,
relieved from pain In few Imiri, tl. p. htm '
nrnlly curnl. so in nfl.-r jvnra I lie iUm-ht Ii.-i . i
returned. Tin Curative, ilrilniv 'lie ii. ;..p in
Wool that proilttee Uio ili-easo." 1; IT.Ti (I i.l.V
is mlilieil of its tenors, nit It a 1 ;.!. 1' M . iv.
Rt hand, s it destroys tlm vlnts nnd !
Hie formation of the poisonors .itrh . It
I)YSI'KI"SI.,as it prevent in M i ii' v.;..
Ihe food and promotes illi;i'-ti !; ''
hid appetite wbii It feel, relief i." i' i' :
The Curative does vr cuntaix '
OK STtMl'LA NTS. M'OMiV !' IM'I-A ' I i-
Ctl'MS aro cure! It a few njeui-.i,. .
T ho have used it have told its itn-r:: h ::i s .-i- .
terms titan we ha ever u-'d.
I'riee IINK xt.l..Vll ll !( In I I'M'. i , .
for sale liv your In ui.'i--. 'eti-l ti
e will send yon a bottle hy i-xpress, p:- n.i,...
LAVTSON CHEMICAL CO., CWl !. i:.
R. THORNTON,
CITY AUCTIONEER,
No. 14 Court Street.
A (fncrsl store, full of sll torts of soo'Is. With him Is
sssoclste'l H. H. MATUM'K, reUhrated Auctioneer, who
Is ih bent Id ths twt. Ksrmfrs' stock ssles sollclttd. ll
parties sre lot sstuned. do chsrgr. gcttsttiios
JOHN CROSS,
(Successor to C. G. Lotzj
BOOK BINDER
And Blant Boot Mamifactiirer,
La Salle St opposite the Court House.
OTTAWA, ILLfS.
tW Paper ruled to any desired pattern, aai 1'aperPotes
sule.ta order ,J
A A n A A.ENT8 wanted to sell SIX BelTB
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 . ret and ol rl tsim Wtvery.
w w w w
ErUUAIM BBOVTX. Lwn, Has.
iBi Has
wi1"
ileU) anbrrtisrmrmis.
MILLINERY
HEADQUARTERS
137 Main St.
The HUbsorlliers desire to call special attention to their
New Arrivals of
FALL
IMF
JUST KKCEIVED, INCLUDING
Bonnets, Ribbons, Kid Gloves,
Hats, Feathers, Flowers,
Tidies, Hair Goods,
Toilet Sets, Hose,
Belts, &c,
All of which have been personally selected by Mrs. Flazlttt,
unit hotisht forcash. l.Rilles enn nly upon leitinz soino
Uiln' uuw, liiahlouuble uuil tlitap. An early vail bullclU.il.
MVS. IIAZLITT & MISS BASTIEN.
O'.tawa. 111.. Sopt. ,'.-. 1HTS.
A units Wanted for a Xew iiowr,
PRESENT CONFLICT
OK SCIKNCK WITH ItK.LMilON.
M.nlirn Slvftlrlnn iivt on It nun tnmi'M. The whole
wurM Is alive, to tho Contest, mid It' tne HlMe triumphs It
must triumph elorionsly and forever. Written In a terse,
clear anil rorclble style.
J'rtntfd, Uliinratnl awl ftmcxl in th ,flnrt mimnfr.
ltecommenileil by lemllnir thinkers and writers, and MU
ill SiiiH. Steauy worn and f.o.xl lu - for Aijents,
Touchers, Students, Milliliters, Young Men vr Women. For
circulars, terms, 4c. address
.1.0. Mot'L RDT & CO.. Publishers.
(sepiS-'Jmo) Cincinnati, O.; Ciilcaxo. III.-, or bt. Louis, Mo.
j IMITEI) lATAJ31tSlIlI.
N'otlce Is hereby tlven, that the terms of ft limited part
nrrslr.p which lias been snlered tulo by the underlined are
as lollows: . . , ...
Fit st. The name or firm under which the partaershlp Is
to lie conducted shall lie "M. & A. Malcrhofer."
.((. The ceueralnstureofthi'buslnesstobecondoC'
ed Is the manufacture snd ssle ol Plows and other Agricul
tural Implements, and the office and factory of the Urui aro
In Ottawa. Illinois. t
77i(t'. The tlrtn Is to be composed ol Mathiiis Malerhofer
and Allien Malerhoter, lioth of Ottawa, as the general part
ners, and SUas W. Clieever, ol the same place, as the special
'"li'oii. The amount of capital stock which tut sale! Silas
W. Cheever nas contributed to the common stock Is Wtecu
Thonsand Dollars.
Mflli. The said partnership Is to continue lrom the 28tn
day of September a. D. lsI5 until the tlrsidayol July, u.
is;. and Is not to lie dissolved by the death ol any ot tlitt
partners prior to said last mentioned time.
In witness whereof the partners have esecnteil and riled
In the offlee of tha Clerk of the County Court of La Salle
county. III., a certificate. jSm
ALBKKT MAlKllHOr EK,
oct'-MlW 8. W.tTIEKVEK.
SUMMARY.
I have a large and complete stock of Drugs and Hook
Iwout be beat in quality. I will tell at reasonaolo price
K. V. 0K1GUS.
umi mai . sn. TiienuMicrlher offers for sale, on rea
F sonahle terms, the pillowing lauds aud tow n lols.iltua-
ted In La Halle county, to wit:
LANDS.
JAcres-WW8WXof EWNEWSec.3 T.8J.B.8.
H'- Acres- IS. ofcaaal) KVNKM Dec. IT, 1.88, B.S.
WO Acres-SWX Bee. iii, T. si, it. s.
lHtl Acres-NWK Bee. 117, T. a. K.S.,
TOWN LOTS
Lots 5. 8, Blocks, State's Addition to Ottawa.
UnrtjAot 11, Block 4, State's Addition to Ottawa.
Lotsl, a, S. 4, 5, ft, , W. in Block 27. State's Add. to Ottawa.
Lots 8, 9. 10. 11. 12. 13, 31. 2, Block 38, State's Addition.
Lot. Block 88, State's Addition to Ottawa.
Lot 13, Block 30. Ottawa Centre.
The above will be sold for part cash down, snd the reside
on time tosult purchasers. For further particulars apply
to AlbertK. Dow.CanalOUlce.Ottawa.l llnols.
Ottawa Msy lHW.-tf B. K.UOODELL.
o
SHAN Ac HAPKMAN,
PHIITTBRB,
Booksellers and Stationers,
No 1H Ln Halle Street,
West of the Court House Suoare. OTTAWA. ILLS.
c
UHI) 1KIXKH, WH I Ml", I?ezliuo
and Euchr at iinters. ostiums tiapf map s.
CEAN PEOPLE,
Housekeepers, Builder Painters, remember that I keep
lar'ee stock of nure lads, Paints. Oils. Varnishes,. fain
Brushes, and all kinds of material for painting. I will no
be undersold. E- GlllliOS.
FIT 10 I'OCKWT MOOH
MONNAIS AND BILL BOOKS, at
POC5KWT IIO(KS,l'OIlT.
nioivn, ai
OSMAN & nAPKMAN
F.D.SWEETSER,
Dealer in and Manufacturers' AKcnt
lor all the best
Farming Implements
Seeds and Wrapping Taper In the country.
OTTAWA,
ILLINOIS.
fW Highest cash price paid for all kinds or Seeds, A full
no of Taper Bags at Manutactnrer's Prices. auglt
Blank Books,
Office Stationery,
Pocket Diaries,
Wedding & Fancy
Stationery,
West of Court Hons Square.
llliANK
IIOI1KH
HTATIOH EHV
l AM
AM) PKIM1NU lurnlshed promptly at resonatile
imptly at irsonahl
A Jt UAI'kMA.
prices br
UOOIl agents wanted.
We want llTe men who desire to muke a business ol sell-
"rTl-toryol Iowa," or "HlsUiry of Kanaa." or lll-tory
i.. i ... ...1. -1 iit..n tn rima TerniorT on rnir new
of Wlsconrln." or -History ol ine jnna.. wf"
thene books are new and contain over HO enravtntrs. ou
csBSelln" "f State History t- one of any otaer book.
He elvs exclusive territory, liberal commission, ete. 6en l
for private terms sample pages, circulars, etc, 10 the
office nearest you. Aduress,
11. B. Rl KLL & CO., rbllshr,
ocUfi 4W Or. IMS MI.ES, om.
Sealed Proposals.
Sealed proposals win be received by the ond;rs?ned nn
ttt the Sib of November, for the delivery of m tons of
CeaU more or less, at mel oonty Asylum. Baid proposals
iV.t state to price per too. weighed on the comity .ralra.
rndiobTf!rt Pfroradirt. aod accepted by the Warden of
tw ronntv Uoose. I,, n. JA,.Kso.(
oetl w 8Bperttidntof County Asylum.
1SOCK KT I0K.. The nnestfia(Usb,Ger
PM al A-ertcan Po ,ke Boos.. nkpK
IND KEAMNCJ. PSYCHOMANCV, FAS
rlMtloa.Koal t harwloc. Meiierlm stml
MATTlace battle. bnwmf k.w eMber sex may fwlnate and
"yl th. uyw .ad aflrettoa ef sry persna they cboo In
taatly PP Hy mall s; muV Uat k. I tS.
na birret. nulaosia.- Siaj
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