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advantage to give me a call, as I make this
work a specialty.
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Cheap Carpet Kail of The
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Large stock Constantly Han4.
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reasonable
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mente and Gravestones.
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Stone Catting to Order.
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Assisted by
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Maanfacturen of
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The Woven Wire, Hair, Moss, and other
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J. G. SMITH,
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S a a e.
Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron
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to Order on short notice.
nain street and Richmond
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S E O N
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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_-»
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'—-.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.
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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,
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^_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'