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H Servioes every alternate Sun day at Lewixvtlle at 10 o'clock A. X. Pastor, Rev. A. J. WlNTRRICK. Presbyterian Church. Services at the Presbyterian Church,, Woodfield, every two weeks at 2k o'clook P. M. ' Sunday school every 8unday at 1 n'olock P. II. Pxrer meeting every Wednesday eveninir at ooiock. Pastor, Rev. W.T.Gaukowav. , ' ; PHYSICIANS, I II B . ' . WESXI E, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, BEAXLSVILLE, OHIO. ' Ofnoe In the Armstrong property. ' apr30,f78t V, TDr. ar. way. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, EXiTMC COVE, Washington lownthip, 3fouroe Co , 0 All calls promptly attended to, daring the day or night. v , Pb. 23, '89. DR. JAMS A. McCOY, CALUtVELL, OHIO, VlsitWoo(lsliel(l Itegnlarly. I guar antee oetter wora ana nse uetter materials than any Dentist in the ooanty, aprl5,'84 ItEIVlVOIV, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, . VOODSFIELD, OHIO. Office and residence in the Atklnon proper- ' ' j r ty, Main street. Calls Promptly Attended Day or nlglit, aetn,TSOa.a. EAGLE HOUSE, FJLTJlaZi STREET, "Woodsfield, Ohio. 0. P0ULT0N, Proprietor. HAVINd purchased the above named Ho. tel. and famish id it comfortably for the acnommodatien of travelers, 1 OJfdially iu- vite them to visit me. Hates Itcasonablo. Also. 'Proprietor of Towa Hall and SkadDg fiink Danoing Parties aooem. modatea at all times. deoecsr. r aL . iTwsssw Usim Plaoe a particle of the Balm into eaoh nostril and draw strong breaths through the nose. It will be absorbed and begin its work of cleansing and healing the diseased mem brane It allays in- ...,. tl. AMil ... vents frsh colds. MOT A 'LIQUID OR SdrFF. Aiiw apDlications relieve. A iliorovgh treat ment will curs Air reesble to nse. Mend for circular. . Prion bto cents, by mail or at drug gists. KLY BROTHRRS, deol,'85. Vrnggtsts, Owego, a. X. :TT wmwm OF PURE COD UVEB OIL Almost as Palatableas Milk. - : The only preparation of COD LITtR OH, that tan be taken readily and tolerated for a luagUatt Itr delicate sUuaacbs v A!HD A8 A PEBEPT FOTt TOrSTJWPTlO'y, fi!W)J;tlH AtKCTIOS, AXAEMIA, CEXy yHAli'iEiaUT, OtiH8 AND TilKOit At'. r;(rri6.lCad all BASTIXU PIM)niKtS 0$ -HlLPBK3f it Is marrrlloM In its prescribed and enilonvU by the best fSysioianS to we countries cftiMwotld, -. FOR 8ALS 8Y ALU DRUGGISTS. decf.'SS. -l. ". ' V ;. . , NOTICE. THK undersigned has been dnlv appointed Administrator of tl e estate of Michael vVeiaend, late of ifonroe conntv, Ohio, de oeased. JOHN A. BDSC3ART. fl98t.4. 1 rry iTsji. . . ji i goefrir. HOW I LOST MY liEAUT. , To tell you just how I lost it- v Oh, that were a difficult tusk I How the thing got away on that summer day I never stopped to ask. Perhaps 'twas a glance that did it; A soft cures to my hair; A soft, warm grssp, or (t gentle clasp .That captured it then and f here. Yon sen, there are things yon ran govern; Bnt hearts have a way of their own; ' Like bTrds they fly, and you can't tell why-- You only miss them when gono. I And why I don.t tell the story '..'.' .. ' If the reason yon really'niut learn Is though We- -brinht with a rosy Hgh&- Yet I won no heart in return. Somebody's eyes were gentle and kind. And his voice waff gentle and low; ' But the heart I wanted was given away ' Ever so long ago. And eo a bile 1 solace a lonely life With a oat and a cup of tea, Somebody's arm is round his wife, ' And her baby is on his knee. And the loss I met with results in this: . lhat mine is a lonely patt; Yon can't for your life make a loving wife Of a woman without a heart. Ancttet.hi .d iets on the manly breast lhat I wanttd to rhelter me: Borne other fair face has won my place So no man's wife I'll bel But compensation's a law cf life. And though trials the gods will send, I've no one to tco.d when Lis beefsteak's cold, And no small atookings to mend. ' 8o the love that is lost I never regret, . When I thins what troubles might btj When dinner is lte 1 smile at Fate, And nobody storms at me. cW iforir. Tbis story appeared in tbe Spirit in 1857, and ha; been rewritten from mem ory by Mr. Joai W. Stricelino: Fortunes and Misfortunes OF- SALLY kW JOHNSON. AS RELATED BY HERSELF. Mose Phil'Ip osed to be considered about the Gnest joung man in our na borbood. I kind of thought bo, too ; but Ina Tye found oat mote bouUiimt.be'J j st as mean a feller as walks on ground. SoQer Kng, sues ornrier than Mose, and you'll say so when you read all thai I'm a writin' about her. You eee, "Mose is purty well fixed in the world, has two forty acre lots, and he feels a leetle above common people He dida't ose to he that way when he come to s -e me, and that's the reason I liked well I didn't exactly like him neither, but 'lowed him to come when no one else wanted to come. ' I was a leetle older than Mose the firs' time be come a eparkin' to our bouse. J reco'lrct itm'ghty well. It was the night of old Mrs Puillipses apple cutiln. Af ter the crowd sot done cuitinf op nod some of them girls did cut up high, I tell you If I'd a cut up like flume of tbem did, I'd been ashamed to a ahowed my face to dec nt ' peop'e S8 r K ng wasn't there; she was only a chunk ot a girl then, but if she'd a been sbe'd a car ried on as bad as 'be worst of em Well, as I was a ssin', when they'd got done eultin applet and a citiin' np, tbev sarted borne, and it kind of happened, I don't sre bow it did happen, hut that' the way it was any how -it kind of bap pened somehow tba' all the voung fellers gathered up (heir girls, and none of em that I'd a went with happened to ask me for the plrshure of my company home, and tat kind of left me like, you know. Mis. Pail'ips, seeln how it was, whis pered to Jrt"8e that he'd have to 'ecort me home I would give a purty thing to knw if them girls with their cuttin' op didn't ask the young men to take Vm home. But anyhow, I'd as letve a went with Mose as' tbe best of 'em, if not a leefe rnther. Mose and me went along together it was about a mile and a hair be was a good deel bash'cl at first, hut I talked to him familiar like, and against we got haf wav be sidled up and I took hold of his aim. ' s ' ' When we got borne I asked bim to come ic; be kep roakin exouees, and I kep ineistin till be mo out of excuses, and he .walked in. I most knowed be didn't want to, but I knowed at tbe tame time it would be to hi advantage to lesrn something about keepin private curopnv, and that's the reason I might a seemed a little anxious for bim to come in. . , "Mr. Phillips,' saya I.openin the door, 'won't yoa step in and rest yourself a mtnit?" Ob, no; I ain't the least mite tired," ses be. . "Jist step'in a minit or so,." s?s I. '! bave something particular to say to yfu. I bave to git np airly in the morning to go to mill, and it's gettin late," says he. "Oh, but Mr. Philips, Us not perlite be first lime yoa go witn a young lady not to c-me in. I shant Insist, but Jist step in a minit 01 eo," ses I, takin holi of his arm and ateppin in. Mose corns in and staid three or for?) oars It wss nigh onti one when we got home. I fixed a cupple of cheers and we sot down and clinched. I nearly latTe 1 at bis awkerd pullin, bnt knowin i' was bis first etfert I kep serious. I kep talkin up to him right smart, but he didn't say hardly three words the whole sodnrin time, except yes and no. When he'd mo'ton as thow he was goin to get np I kinder fqueeied bim a leetle llgbtei tban usoal and kep him a sell in. Finally when he went to leave, "Mv see," nits I, "I spose as von've hid sicb a pleasant time you'll call again, woo'i yoa, Mnsy ?" "Yes" saya h, "soteetimB when it comes bandy I'll drap in " t'Well now do, Moy. L's onlv a keUe step over, and jou prt to call of- ten. When might I expect you agin r" "Ob, ' I don't know; some of these times ; I can't jUt say bem" vWell, seein as you're a little basbfal, epose I jist aeggest best Saterday nigbt, How wood tbat ane you ?" I can't Jist asy whethtr It wood be sntable or not. He think about it how eomever." Well, then, next Saterday nlte He be expectio you Now dn't disspplnt me. Mosy. I shall stav at home that evenin a purpose, and shall refuse all other enmpny ezpectin you to come eertaln. Good mornin, Mosy." . TJtxt Saterday night as t w,9 enmin in from milkin thare, sure enuff, set M ose and pap on tbe porch a talkin, I Lor ried and strained away tbe milk and sot mother and Jsne Elia to waaiiio the ilirpa-and mnt anrl-nBXn.frMnBa to Step into the bouse; but pap said, "Hold in a while, Mose; you and Sally Ann can talk after a while." Dad was tryin to trade bim a cupple of steers for a two year old con. I waited awhile and eeg geeted that it wss getttn cool, and asked him in agin. But pap told me it I was too col, to go in the houe ; he reckened Mose knode whether he was cold or not I waited a little longer and suggested that the niel t air was injurious to the health, when pap told roe to sbet np or be d start me. Pap gits crots spell sometimes and 1 can hardly gat along with bim I sot till I wss clear out of patience a etudvin what to do. An idea come into my head party soon, and I got op and wa'ked down a past the edge of tbe cornfield, end come A burr) in back and saya I : "Pap, I think I heerd a bog in the corn ; it was a breakin stoc'ts Uon and destroyin corn like everything. I Mow you'd better turn it out right away or it II no a mighty sight o barm Wt II, Sally Ann, go right straight and git Watch and Jane Eliz-r and Ring and go down arid drive it out. Let tbe does tear It like forty P If you ever did see a mad person i was me. Yon see I was J s a foolin pap about the hog to git him away till I cood ask Mose to step into the bouse. But go I had to, and we went down, and Jane E iz and the dogs hunted the field over and couldn't find a bog nor notbin e'se I Jist got on tbe lens and cried and nearly swore I'd been so sot np when I seen he had come and now to be sot hack eo was raore'n I could stand. We went back to tbe house and told pap it must a been one of the dogs I bad heerd for we couldn't find notbin. '.. "Dogs wouldn't be breakin down stocks, Sally Ann ; ther must be a bog thar. Let's go and try it agin. He be boond I can find hlra." So back we bad to go, and pap c'im on the fens and listened, and thought be heerd it; eo he s nt Jane Eliat to Thenbejthaaaht he .heerd it la anotner place and sent me to see , Apd so be Rep a seodin us here and yanner, and wbeniT r we hollered and told trim ft wasn't one place, he'd boiler and tell as he beerd it some pjace else. And for one solid our pap kep us a clamberin and cranblio through the corn and Spanish needlea and burs and fall n down over punkin vines Finally, for feer he'd keep us thare the blessed night I hollered that I'd found it, and soohoyed as if I was drivin it out. Tbei. I punched a rail ou of the fens, and pap come around and I told bim it was out, and we fixed up the hoi and went to the boose. . Mote hod gone! 1 won't sav b it what I swore a leetle hen, though I don't aware for common But I was too mad to cry, and whit else cou'd I do? 1 recollect of sayin d n a cupple of times, which was about the worst I 8aid. If I didn't give things sissers about that house for a week or ao! Mother thought I was possest, and Jane Eliza and tbe dogs had to stand clear . I tell yoa. I kep ber a bawlfo or tbe dogs a yellin from mornin to nigbt till pap took me in band. When be does git mad he's awful. He was goin to trounce me, bat I begged off bo hard and told him, says I:t . "Pap yoa know Ime yonr only daagh ter except one, and if it'a tbe rnle of the bouse lhat I aint to slap Jane Eliza and cud tbe dogs, wy I wont do it; and be sides the doctor-said totber day that I wasn't liken to be long-lfed, and when I go to my delh bed I know, pap, that you'll wisht yood a bin good to me and hadn't a whipt me and helped to bring me ihare " Jist then Jane E 'zi who'd bin agin me all tbe time begin to cry, and mo'bet and her got to coaxin pa,) and amongst us we got him not to do it But I didn't git over that tor one while. I didn't go into enropny agin for near six months. I wasn't always asked to every gatherin, but if I hair a bin I wouldn't a wen. The reason I aint alwava asked is s roe of the gi la is jelus of me and I've given sevril of tbem a peace of my mind and we are not on vory good terms, and so they manage to keep me from bein invited I tried eevrll times to get a few words with Mose Poi!lip9, bat I couldn't git a good Chans. I seen him a comin op the road one day, and I atarted out as if I was a goin some place, tbinkin I'd meet him; but jist as he seen me be recollected that be forgot something, and turned back and walked eo fast I ouldn't overtake him. Another lime I tried tbe same game but be bein in a burrv I spose, dim tbe fens snd took a nigh cut around the field, so I missed. But one afternoon I hap pened to go to the Puillpnea to borrows snn-honnet pattern, and actually didn t notice it till it was dark. Pnillipse asked me to stsy all nigh, but law, I told them I could n (, they d he s pectin me home. I rftood there talkin till alter while Mote come in the room. Jist then I opened tbe door and looked out, and says I : "Oh dear me, how dark its got. I m so (raid to be out by myself after dark without some man person with roe. "Then I reely think you bod better stay all nlgut. Sally Ann," says Mrs. Phillips. . . "Indeed, Indeed I can t, Mrs. Phillips. I reely mast go borne. If Moses would l!st step over to our bouse and ask pap to come over and takj me home, I d be ohleged to him," says I a lookin at Mose. "Why I might as well go with yoa myelf as to do that," says he. Sure enough." sav s I. "I didn't think of that; so if yoa're ready we'll jist atari afore it gits any darker." More and me went along, he a shyin d as if ho was afeerd I'd bite him. "Mosy.deer, I spose from the way you haint' come to see me of late, that yon consider that I Backed yoa the last time totPwas at our house. But I didn't mean io do no eich a thing, and tt you'll come agin you'll see that 1 think X03 much of you to do sicb a thing, and as things is jist as they are I think I might insist a little on your comin. How would it suit you tnist drop In next Siterday night ?' "Well I don t know as I shall be about borne next Saterday right." "Then how would tbe next Saterday night Buit ?" ' "I , don't know. Let me see; that's Saterday night week Well I couldn't go very well then. I kind of rutber promised to be somewhere else then.",.. , And where might that be if I may be so bold aa to ask 1" Oil jist up the rosd a peace" "You might jist tell me Mosy I spose its no place youre ashamed for enny boddy to know It?' "Oh no," said Mose a little snunky, "if yoa roust know it's np to Mr. Kings.' . That waa tbe fust I ever louod out tbe plot I eees in a minnit that it was that huzzy of a Sofier King that had been a nndermiaing me and was a tryin to cat me oat with Mose. I most knode It was her that had set all the natters to talkin about me. I got mad right atrate. Says t: "Mose, dfVt you know Sofier King aint any bettern she ort to be? All the nabera is tockin about a scoldin, snappin thing she is.goia about among the nabera tellin things to stir np fusses. Now if you want to he respectable you'd better keep away from Sofier I can tell yoa " I kep on givin Sofier fits till we got home, Mose not a sayin much. ' Somebody raised a lie about me and Mose about me trvin to gH bim to go in, and I most, knode it was her. Tbey said I ke'ehed Mose by the coat tale and be palled one way and I palled another till I tore the tales off.which wes a plump lie, for when we got to the bars Mose laid them down and I crep tbro.and Mose laid tbem right np and started for heme, makin bis excuses as he was a goin. From that time I went to work to show Sofier Kng that she was not quite snarl enough to cut me out. I writ several letters to bim about bofier and signed tbem a .friend It was then that I writ some poetry for tie pspera to kind a put him on bis gard. I spose yon never got it. I didn't see it printed. It was the follerin : - LINES TO HOSES PHILLIPS. A friendly smile I love to see, - When it comes from tho hart. And with sitoh friends I lots to be, And never with them part. Oh, how with friends I love to bo, And hear thalr oharmin vols. Oh how I love thalr faoe to ses, And my hart with them rejois. Oft comes tho time that we matt part, While travel in here below. Oh how oar harts appear to smart, When the time arrives to go. .Altho sitoh friends is hard to find, Yet plenty they appear, And if yoa trust them with your mind, Yoar very hart they'll sear. A true friend maketh a hart glad. While a false frend a curse, An enemy ti as is bad, -Bat a falsa frend is worse. Theu never trait a frend, Without yoa know ah) Is true, For by it yoa will sare odend Them that is dear to yoa. - Then remember one and all, And over bare la mini, That it is not at every oall, A faithful frend you'll And. I bad ano her vers part made with all oar names in mine Mose' and Sofiera, hat I couldn't git no word to ryme with Johnson and 1 bad to leare'the other vers out. About a week after Mose septed my campny home. I got it fixed out bow I 'lowed to manage thinga. I goes down to Kings to ask if they knode where pap could. hire a hand for a few days to help bim plant corn. And while I was tbere Mrs, King and Sofier and me got to talkin and says I : "Have you heerd these awfal tales about Mose Phillips? Oh I couldn't hardly bleave tbem tiU I jist had to. It's a pity for him.tbougb I epusenoboddy'a to blame but himself." .. "Dear me no, I - aint heerd notbin," said Mrs. King. Aboat Moses Pnillips? Why what can they he Sally Ann? . Mercy bakes P said Sofier. "Ad yoa ain't nary one beerd em ?" said I; "why that s curious, says I. Tbayr the naberbood talk, and thayr spectin him to be took op every day. T epose he'll be in jail afore a week "Why Sally Ann what can they be? Do tell me," aaid Sofier. "But if yoa aint heerd 'em I'd rather not aay anything about 'em. I don't like to tock about my nabers.yoo know; hat if you'll never mention them as comin from me, I U venture to tell you two aa yoore particular friends." We won t sty anything abont it, In deed we won't," said both of 'em at once. "Well" "ssys I he's been psstin coon- terfil many, and several men are watch- in ott for biro. Tbay say be passert seven dollars and a hair in counteifit notes, on a poor widder woman, who was around raisin money to keep her last ... It cow trnm bein soaia. "Mercy eakes alive!" sail Sofier, "wy aint tjst awTul. Who was a tellin you Sally Ann mehhv it) a mistake." "I jist doan't bleave St said M rs. King." "Its aa true as preachin,' aaid I tSnnoh T ilarnt tell who In d me. lor 1 got it confidential. Besides everybody knoee toat Mose hss got along a leetle too fast in tbe world to make bis many onestly. "Its very Blngler"said Softer; "Inev er heerd a-word t gin bim afore " "Never heerd n t an agin Mose Phil lips afore?" Bail I,- surprised like. "Wby it wood take me a week to till all the ornoryneas I've heerd of that feller, and a good deel ot it I knose is true Wv sertinly, Sofier you ve heerd about tbe way he cat up with them fore girls over in the Hoskins settlement, I thot every boddy heerd tba'. "No indeed, indeed I never heerd a )reh about it.": "You didn' ? ' Why he s been coa tin fore dece. t resprttsble girls thair and he's epgsged tbdugii I oiten to tell you, as I understand be comes to see you too. Oh you moFt Sally Ann, now yoa mu't tell me.' It yottre as good a friend as you eay you are, you ort to tell me. I ll do ennything in the world for yoa 1; jist tell me that " "Now Sofier, says I Seem she was purty neer a cry in, "MbBe baa been a coartia you, and t ra all I know youre engaged to he married, 1st like tbem fore girls in the Hoskins settlement ;, and if you are, its no U8ts for me to tell yoa; or.'.f you 'low t let bim keepon coartio you. it ain't proper f r me to aay enny thing about it. Bat now Sofier, I'll do i lis ; if you'll promis to not have noth in race to do with tbe ornry wretch, and will sack bim the fust time he comes, aa yoa ort to by all mean's, I'll tell yoa all of bi ornry dolus 'Well Silly Ann,' say she, a snifttm like, 'if be's what yoa aay, I wont never keen campny wi'h bim agin'. 'No. that yoa wont' said old Mrs. King 'if them things is all true, Mose Phillips Shall never stick his . bed inside that dore agin, I can tell yon that.' I dident jist like tbe loocks of the old woman; I kind of thought she dident bleve what I was Bavin.. But I tip and told 'em a String or stuff tbtat t thought couldent help but set 'em agin Mose, I told 'em that he went to town every week and got drunk, and bad fights and swore around and gambled and cut np like a crazy man, and how be told the crowds of drunk fellers bow he could carry on with Sofier K ng, and how tbay I a (fed at her. I told lots and lots of si:cb bluff, and ob, but Sofier did cry and the more she cried tbe more I told her, till ber mother ac'elly invited me to atop. . A goio home I was tickled a tbinkin bow Mo would be sot back when be went to K'ngs next Satterday nigbt, and she'd start him home faster than be come Thicks I Sofier K ng you Sibt quite smart ennS to cut tbis child oat, and if you git Mot,e Phillips it'll do you good. Satterday evenin I went down along the road toarda Kmga and bid in tbe weeds in a fens corner, to see if Mose got sacked, jist at dusk I seed bim comin, fixed up the nicest kind. I coodent see tbe door of tbe house from where I waa a settiu, but jist about aginsthe had time to git tnere, I beerd the dogs begin to hark and I beerd someboddy a hollerin 'sic, sic, sic,' and the dogs pitched oat and I heerd tbem comin, as if thay were tearin someboddy to peaces I ducked down close in tbe fens corner, and lafed till I thot Ide die. Tbe dogs went a past and on up the road like all possest, I laffed and lafled, a tbinkin I seen the dogs a e rabbin at his cote tails. Thinks I they'll tear then wots than Sofier (I most know it waa her) said 1 did. Toink I thats the last time Sofier ever g ti to pull Mosr Phil ips. Tuen when I thot how esy Ide fooled 'em I com mensed lafBn agin. Jist ten the dogs, thare was thre of tbem, jist then thay wss comin back, and the sheep killing sneks s en me in the fens corner, and tvery one lunged at me liae tigers, I clim no the 'ens right q uck and screamed ai d hollered, skeert neerly to deth, and them a jumpin at me and yellin all ibe tlm". I do bleve tbaved a tore tbe fens down and et me up if old King badent a come out and driv 'em otf. He said one or our dogs had come to his house and tbayd set their dogs after it to drive it home, which was the way he sposed thav cam to take after me, I was sc mad and tripidated Jike I coodent say much, bat I put for home. A few days after that Kings dogs all took sick and died, Kings fokes 'lowed some mad dog had bit 'em. - I didn't hear bow Moss and Sofier made it for some time. . It was In the bard workln parttf the year and there is not generally much cbana of beerin things. I was afraid to go to Kings to inquire, because I thought thay might ent a believed all I told 'em about Mose, and then I dident j st know what tbav might think abcul thair dogs a dyio. I asked all the nabers I seen but thay dident seem to know ennything about it. lis straing that some peple haint got no cunosity. . ' I writ a long letter to Mose, and told him how Sofier had been tockin about him, and told bim all tbe pack I had told Sofier, and laid them all on her I told bim that she aaid thet tbe reson that she let him keep campny with ber was be cause Mose owef her pap. and abe was ateerd if she sacked bim that he'd never pay it; and that as soon as that was paid if be said beans to her she'd pit in bis face; and had the letter full of sicb. Mose ansered ibis Jctter, which waa tbe first lhat he answered, Tbis is tbe way tbe answer was writ : Miss Sally Ann I receavett yonr letter to-day and sevre'I others some time ago, I haint time to write much bat will siv this, that your kimlnessio writing things to me and saying things to me that none of myotber friends would, shows thai yoa area friend indeed. The kia 1 in terest yoa have took in me shall he re warded as it deserves. MoSRsliiLUPi I reckon I red this letter fifty lime, it done me so much goni; th"uh Ilea rutber he'd a eel "DetrSaVy Ann" tbe commenament, and "y -urt till deth ' at the end, as it was hU first letter I could forgive him. That evenin I happened to go down to Phillipses for somethin, I dont jist re collect what I hadent been there but a lit tie while till Mose come .in a lookin amiliner than I ever seen him. He seem ed wonderful lovin, and afore he'd been iber five minutes he asked for the plesh ure of my campny home, though it wasenl sundown yit, I septed bis cum pany and we started. A goin along I fetched np subject about him and Solier King. , . - Mosv,' sara I 'I do hope that as nice snd well behaved a young man as you are doant think nothia of eich a peace as Sofier King. I used to think putty well of her, said Moe 'bat we had some words, and sins that I wishe'd there was no Sofier King, and there aho'uldent be if I could htlrt it.' , Haint she tocked about you awful'? 'Yes Ive beerd about it 'says be, and wbats more she's said jist as bad things to my fson as she ever did behind my back "Toe Imperdent hozty 1" She ort to be treated as a man would ent treet a abeep-Eillih dog,' says he 'and A Pungent Resolution. . if t had my own wav ahe ahould be' Thats true' aay a I 'and Ime glad yoa One day not long ago, tbe following found her out, before you married berMsaoidtioh was offered in the Ohio Leg .. .. . - . . .IT ,. . .. frklftft I might a thought a little of her Once' said Mose'bat she never could bave been my wife as long as Ber name Was Sofier King nd I hope If she ever does marry it wont be to enny friend, of mine.H And we went on tockin this way till we got hornet Mose a sayin the hardest kind f thinga about ber, and me a sidin with bim. . Mose wood a west in, but as I said before, Jt Wasebt Sun down yet, and be left promisin to Call again soon. Tbe next Wensdsy Week after thi& it rainedjtbe Whole blessed day, and waa as toddr aa it COttld ber In the evenin who sliood come but Mose He come to ask ibe plesbure of my campny to ingla scool.' I dident ventur to object for fear he d think I sacked him azin. It got awful dark after we started and wasdrhtlln rain, and, Mose had forgot his lsntern and nnmberrell We went to the Bcbool house about a mile, it was, and tbare wss no sine of a singin scool, so we' bad to wade back agin thru tbe mod. It waa tbe wust gittin about that I ever aeen, and we both fell down a dozen times and got covered with rood from head to heels. But I dident mind it much for Mose talked Bo lovin that I dident think ot notbin else, Before Mose left that night we was as good as engaged. Some of oar folks tried to make Qs bleave that tbere never bad been a sin gin school giv out, and that Mose jist took me out in the mud and rain for his miscbeef, but I knode better. Some days after this I got a letter from Mose sayin that his fokes objected to tbe match, snd that we'd hate to do the rest of oar courtin by writin. He appeared mighty sorry that hia fokes objected and dident know what we was to do. -1 writ back to him tho affect'.o ateat Rind, and told . him that ' we could run off and get married, - - " It took us sevril weeks to git things fixed all right for startin. We agreed to meet on a sertain night Snively'a hrige, and go from thare to Pennsilvany. For tbree nights afore tbe one that we was to go on, I was 8'ealin ont ray close and things and packin them to the brige, and hidin them under it. 1 took some of mothers things and Jane Ehzcra by mistake, and 'alt - of them mads, three good back loads. . When tbe night come It was nnfortu nitly a rainin; but I alint out ot the house and started. : I had to go thru the woods all the way for fear if I went along tbe rode 6ome boddy Wood see me. I got to the bridge and bid . under it a waitln for him to come. By and by I beerd a horse a comin, and as it come on the brige I stepl out and saein a man says I. "Is that you Mosy?" ..If ever you seen a man a whlppln and a horae a running and heerd yellin I In less thao a second tbey waa out of eight. It wasabt Mose, bat some feller that thought the brige was banted and that I was a cost. I waited and waited till 1 was tired nerly to deth, but no Mose come. I coodent think what waa keepin him, I lowed mebby bis horse bad throde bim and mebby he bad took sick, and lots of other thinga. Tnmks I now be s some place a fairly weepin because he cant git to his Sail Ann; I know he's a feeling worse about it than I am. Bat when we do git married we'll jist be tbe more lov in becausa we've had these trubles Oh Mosy deer, said I a most oat loud, doant be weeoin and altbein, we'll be happy yit. Yonr Sally Ann will be true to you liUdnth do os part. At last findin that th&J somelbin wss keeping him back, and he couldent come that night, I bid my close agin and atar ted home. I got back Jist at daylight. I slipped up ataira and put on dry close (old ones of mothers) and come down jist as if nothia was the muter-. Jans Elizer come in where I wss and give me a letter, I aeen it was from Mose, and knode it wood explain all, I run np ataira and tore It open and red. , 2 Deer Sally-Aon, I suppose you was disappointed in not meeting me at the bridge. Bat Sophia King and roe'had a little business to transact before the Squire, and I couldent .go. In short, Motes Phillips and Sophia King were married last.nigbt. I hope, however the exercise of packing your old clothes back home will be beneficial to yoar health, I was standing behind tbe door at Kinga when yoa told Sopbia that pack of stuff, and I heard every word of it. tye had los of fun watching you on the fens, and Kings dogs trying to get at you. , . Mosx PpiLLiPJ. Oh I jist raved and caved round and pitcht and tore. I swore till things look ed fairly blue, I carried on for about an our, and then went down ataira resolved (bat my close snood rot, before I'de go' after them; lor I knode Mobs wood oe settin around thare some place to lafl at me.- When I went down stairs what do yon spose I seen ? I hope I may die if thare wasent pap and mother and Jane Elizer openin thn bundles of close. They said ibey found tbem nangin on tbe bars, l shant attempt to tell yoa how I alamed things around, I coodent do it if Ide try. . Aa aoon aa I got tho mad worked off which was about seven weeks, so I oood write, 1 sot down resolved to put Mose and S -fler in the papers. And now if a thousand men wants, to marry me, I wont have (he purtiest one that ever was born, until he promises to Vbale Mose and Sofier both till they cant walk. ' Tbe end. : . 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A virtuous man who baa passed through the temptattona of tbe world, may be compared to a flan who lives all the lime in salt watzr, yet is atill fresh., lalatnra hv Mr. Hnllt Whereas, Tne benevolent film of Van At twerp, Bragg ft Co., have re cently conveyed at their own expense a large number ct oar Legislst rs to Cio cinnali to behold the wit and beauty of "bur" Mary Anderson, the only Galatea" of the stage; and Whereas, Tbe said firm publish school books at less tban cost, toereby losing targe sums of money--for the lax pay era', abd . Whereas, The bill of tbe poet laoreata- of Miami county, was poatpnned nntil tbe 17ih inat., thereby entailing addition si expenses opon the Bsid impecunious. firm of Van Antwerp, Bragg m Uo , and Whereas, Tbe Panhandle railroad baS been pat to great expense in Inrcisbing ansoortaiioo, while tbe firm of van Antwerp, Bragg ft Co., bad to pay fa tbe opera. house boxes and hotel bills! and . ' ' - ' Whereas, O.ie member of the Legi-. lative party, while trying to telegraph hia feelings and emotions ahead of hirer lost his bat and overcoat, missed Ids' train and didn't get t) see the 'show;' therefore Resolved, That tbere be appropriated . out of any money remaining in the trees ttfyi nut otherwise appropriated, tbe fol lowing eoms for the following purposes) 1 Tu reiuburss, Van Antwerp, Bragg ft Co i in the prcmisee bertin, 917,. 915.21. ' 2. To reimburse tbe Panhandle rail wav for transportation, $.002 35. 3. To reimburse the legislator for the. loss of bis overcoat snd bis bat, and for tbe disappointment he sustained, $2 87. Tbe UolnunuB corresponded ot tuo Cleveland Press commenting upon this sarcastic teaolution saya: "Tbecbalr declared tbe resolution rut oforder, but it leaves its impression Juartie same. 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