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Professional Cards. Five lines or leas. per year M OO BMk id'lUkMitl line. 1 OO attorneys. LI irOK MeMILLEN. Attornev-at-Law. Beat K<Ute and Loan Agent. O»oe In Me- Mltlea’s Block, Osktilooea. lowa. _ JL WASHES, • Altorney-kt-Law. das»*County tonk^S JAMBS A. RICK. Attorney and Counselor at Law. Office over M. Wltaoo’s store. Oskaloosa, Dm. perdue, • Attorney-at-Law, an<l Hotary Public, aoee Hill, low. MCFALL A JONES, Attorney s-at-La w, And Notaries Public. o*oe ov-er Smith k Brewster’s boot and shoe store, Oskaloosa. Bolton a mocot, Attorneys- at-Law, Oskaloosa, lowa. Office over Knapp A Spr ing's hardware store. OLIVER N. DOWNS, Attornev-al-Law, Oskaloosa. lowa Office over Mltoh * N. E. oorner of Park. Faria and city P^PJ^ 7 for sale. . Blanchard a preshin, Attorney vat*Law, Oskaloosa. lowa. WII practice In all the eourts. OiHce over the Oskaloosa National Bank. Z_ Georg r vy. laFFBRty, Attorney-at-I/tw. OBoe ovsr Oskalooen National Bank, Osks loosa, lowa. * W. HASKELL, W. A. GRBKB, • County Attorney. Deputy. HASKELL A GRKBR. A ttorneys-at- La w. OSce In Phoenix block, Oskaloosa, I™*** Business promptly attended to. JOHN F. LACEY, Attorney-at-lAW, and government claim agent. OBoe in Boyer A Barnes’ block. Oskaloosa, lowa. Prompt at entlon riven to collections. Probate business will receive careful attention. Business at en ded to in the 0. S. and State oourts. A) Jambs Carroll. Daribl Davis. CARROLL A DAVIS. Attorneys-at-Law. Oskaloosa, .owa, will practice in ail courts. Collections made a special feature. Office over Frankel A Oo’a, Bank. Branch office at New Sharon. *> “ MEDICAL. Dr. sbth cox. Specialist in Cancer, Scrofula, Piles and Chronic diseases. Office and Residence on B Avenue West.—No. SOT. 81. REBOOT, M. D. • H copathle Physician A Surgeon. Calls day or night promptly attended to. Found at office at nights. Office over Be* chier Bros.' south side. Sill J SEVAN, • Physician and Snrgeon. Office In era id Blook, over T K. .Smith’s jew elry store. Resident, 8 -cood avenue, between A aud B streets. Telephone No 80. *otf MJOSEPIIIN TENNET, M. D, • Physician and Surgeon. Office on west side of public square, over Miss Anderson's millinery store. Night calls promptly attended- ‘JO GBO. J. TURNER, M. D., Physician and Surgeon. Office Id Bridges' building, one door west of Far uer* and Trader* National Rank south side sgnsre. Re idence 2 blocks south ana 1 blocks west of Herald Block 20 •pvR J. C. BARRINGER. ” Physician and Surgeon, Oskaloosa. lowa. Office northeast corner ot square. middle rooms up stairs In new Masonic bmldlsg. Residence on High street, 8 blocks east «f square. Telephone connection at office sad residence with -II parts of the city. 20 0. A. Howrah, M. i). R. C. Hoppmab M. D. ME. D. A. A R. C. HOrFMAN Physicians and Surgeons. Office two doors north of Simpson M. E. ehuroh, near S. B corner of square. Oskaloosa, lowa. Residence on Main street, three blocks east of the publio square. 20 J. L. Corns. A. H. Cowles. COFFIN A/,OWLEB Homeopathic Physicians. Red Surgeons, will attend all calls.day or night. Office over Hmesley's cigar snop; Telephone 59: office hours of Dr. Coffin, from » o’clock to 9 •’stock A. M . and from 1:40 to 4 o’clock r. u. ; Residence 40* south A street. Office Hours of Dr. Cowles, from k to 12 a. m. and from 4 to 6 p. ffi. Will sleep In uffloe. 88 pv B. J. W. MORGAN, * 9 Eye and Ear Physician. Ms* carefully tested and measured for specta j .-les Oskaloosa. lowa. 90 BANKING. * J. e JONBS. JNO. H. ffiUUI, President. Cashier. A P. Bacon, Vioe-Presidsnt. The Farmers’ & Traders’ NATIONAL BANK, OF OSKALOOSA, IOWA. CAPITAL 1100,000. CORRESPONDENTS: First National Bank, Chicago. Importers' and Traders' National Bank. N. T. St Tailor National Bank, Deo Molne . J. A. L. CnooABAH, H. 6. Howard, Preoldont. V.-Preo. Joe* H Barnbo. Cashier. lAHASKA COONT7 BANK, OF OSKALOOSA, IOWA. Organized Under the State Laws. paid up Capital, sioo.ooo. - •toakholders liable for double the amount of Capital Btook. DIRECTORS: J. A L Crookkam, W. A. Seerere. A H. Olbba, Milton Crook ham, Jacob Vernon, A. J. Jarvis, R. Redman, W.C. England. John Toorheoa, John Nash, and H • Howard H. L. Sravciß. C. B. Lon.and. President. Oashler. —THE— ' Oslaloosa National Bail, OF OSKALOOSA, IOWA. DIRECTORS: Vm. H Sbstibs. J. W.MoMcllin, J. H. Gases, D. W. Lorino, Jno J. Price. Jr. H. L. Hr mom. Jambs MsCollooe. CORRESPONDENTS: First National Bank, Now York. Oilman, Son A Co., New York. First National Bank, Chicago. Clttaon’s Nat'l Bank, Or* Molne . • Davenport Nat'l Baak, Davenport. BANKING HOUSE -OF- I. FRANKEL, *• scocssoos to 'l Frankel, Bach & Co., The Oldest Btnk in Mahaskt County. WUi receive deposits and transact a general Esakis*. exohange. aad collection business, the same as an incorporated bank. ■kohangs on all tks principal cities of tke Halted States aad all cities of Europe bought and sold St sums to salt the purchasers. Passage tickets to and from all potatt la ■arose for sals at tbs lowest rates. OsUeciKms will receive prompt attention. Ido a strictly legitimate banking business, sms give tbs wants of eostomere special at tention. '*> ■ !■■■—l ■ I 1 " ' ' 1" “ " " MONET, LAND fta j¥«Tul[Fs¥«o¥ei(cT I have ea my books n largo number of farms aad bouses Is tews; also many thousand aores mt wild lead, if yon have real estate to sell or wish to buy. giro ms a call. I pay taxes in any rt mt tbs Stats. Conveyancing done. OSes Beyer A Btrees' block. Oekalooae. lowa. Oas bandied nloe building lots in Laosy t addi- Men to Oaknloosa. » fIOOOOO Am SIOO4OO Money to Loan! At Six Per Cent Annual Interest, S» years time, la loans of *M> aad upwards; id privilege of paying 6100 aad aoovs la sa il payments, if desired. •o JOHN P. HIATT. M , Cowan b Hambleton’s Lou A Abstract Office. IMII non to loss at* pm esot Interest on Bvs rears time; borrower having the op -7 tioo to payjmrt or all of prtn stpKCraret pear. •m*» bare * sompiww Of Abstract Book* Lands and Town Lots AK&AOTS OF OX SHOE? ' 11 m THE OSALOOSA HERALD. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT $2.00 per Annum, in Advance. C. Lbiohton, 1 _ _ . A. W. Bwalm. VPubllstaers aad Proprietors. W. M. Lbiohton. 1 _____ VOL. 39, NUMBER IS JDENTISTS. ___ Ur G. MILLAR. • jfCjSjfc . Dentist. f LE Office over postoffice, In Times Block. Nl rous oxide ga* usnd for painful operations. 20 R. M. L. JACKSON, Surgeon Dentist. Office in Exchange block, on Ulgh street, Oskaloosa. lowa, over Rader A Mowry’s drug store. MISCELLANEOUS. Israel M. Gibbs, Broker. Loens of all kinds negotiated. Mercantile paper bought and sold. Room 8, over Farmers Trailers’ Bank, Oskaloosa, lowa. 20 M ahaska lodgi no. is, i. 0. o. r., meets every Saturday evening at the Odd Fellows’ Hall, Exchange block. West H'gh ave. Visiting brothers cordially invited to atteod. O. r Bird, r »- A. Hikvit. Secretary. plj O’Haras losnraDce Agency REPRESENTING A Number of Old and Reliable American and English Companies. Office at the Famous, 207 and kO9 B. High Aye. Ralph and SamuklO Haha. 20tf Capital City CommerciarCollege, i’« mmsm, U» The Grmleal School of < omu»crcc la the West Special Basra!hf Hall. Mad ooaipleie Bullion eracthsa Oepartmsot to M hilt ll ooearoo mort oltuaUnßi for otudcaU Uananj other Sahael Am sight oahoal lor Jar atadenu for eircolara JL, M. Proprietor. OTaaO li'o Y Lit S' GUIDE is issued March and Bept.. each year. It is an ency clopedia of useful infor mation for all who pur chase the luxuries or the necessities of life. We can clothe you and furnish you with all the necessary and unnecessary appliances to ride, walk, dance, sleep, eat, fish, hunt, work, go to church, or stay at home, and in various sizes, styles and quantities. Just figure out what is required to do all these things COMFORTABLY, »nd you can make a fair estimate of the value of the BUYERS’ GUIDE, which will be sent upon receipt of 10 cents to pay postage, MONTGOMERY WARD & CO. 111-lid "'■Tt«»-*tc-^tx Avenne. f’hloapo. 11l VESRItfON’S MACHINE WORKS. W. E. VERNON, Prop. MANUFACTURER OF Small Steam Engines, Steel Dies Models and all General Job Work. Oskalooaa, lowa 90 L* Cook & Son, Steam Plow Shops. We make a SPECIALTY of Plow, Reaper, and all kinds of Farm Machinery Repairing. Goods warranted to give satisfaction in |all cases. Come in sod see ns and rive us a trial. *o L. Cook & Son. SSOO Reward. We will par the above reward for any cate of liver comoiaint. dyspepsia. sick headache. Indi gestion. constipation or coativeoess we cannot cure with West's VegetniiU- Liver Pills, when the directions arestriotlv complied with. They are purely vegetable, and never fail to give sat isfaction Large Imxes contain* 80 sugar coated pills. *3c. Por sale by all druggists. Be ware of counterfeits and imitations. The gen uine manufactured only by JOHN C. WEST A CO., 869 W. Mari'Son -t., Chicago 111. 50yl ARBUCKLES’ name on a package of COFFEE is a guarantee of excellence- ARIOSA COFFEE is kept in all first-ol&ss stores from the Atlantic to the Paoifis. COFFEE is never good when exposed to the air. Always buy this brand in hermetically sealed ONE POUND PACKAGES. •JM&BBLT ncc iWr par WarranlaJ ll„, 7 MLqfT Oou Huo«m» cut MMfcyi iM Jj St V r-cant .n.i ma* indent. ' I hl, ‘“ I.JIM U'tlUU HIM , uiE rtkio.l i MP iDWh locality ran aarnra naa k j VKEE. II w i. ihl. poMlbi.t 6 S. tuvtr-v. vurt ow pe ana In aach locality, la kaap to m*P Sal n.aol >tu>* to Uwim aho emit, • complete llna oroar valaahtoaad nry will SOI NGBOI.U SAMPLES. Aw SfMM* wall u tba vtlrk n aend fm4M >IUr ysn haw kept M Is r«ar born* *nr * naUi and ahowa Una to Mato who mar ban eallad.lbey become yoor owl prepaid ri M p passible to but, thla rrwat offer. aandlac Urn SOLID SOLD wateb aad COST V eempl.dfrra.es tbesbowlacsf On aampiM la sny locality, always rasslts la a tarfa trada hv as, altor ear aemplea Kara torn Ina locality lor a mnalb aw lira at asaally tat from gIOOO to gBOOO ta trada from tba sarvaaaSlas coeetry. Thia, tba ntnat wontorful oSar aaa* known,la aaada in or tor tr.ai oar eemplas may ba placed at <•*» win, HMy caa ba an, all o.ar America Write at oaea, aad meke>ere at tba chance. Reuter It aril Iba hardly any tranUs law pen toebow uteeemplaa lotbw who may call at yaar baaaa aad yaor raward will ba mwt aatletertory. A poetal card on wblib to wrtta aaciala bat I cant and after ynataow all.tf yas Ssnal eara to po farther, wby no barm la dona. Bat If yaw da Sand yaar addrtaa at onea, yoa caaaarnra PMEE aaa at tba bast solid fold walehas la tba arorid and oar larft Itaa at CtBSTLV atnpl.BS. Wa pay sll ampraaa. rralfM, eta. sea m Jibuti sou.Ses su, rosTLA*D, hairs MARBLE WORKS. (Maloosa Karma WofKs. F. W. McCALL & SON, Denier la MonumeniL Tombs. Hestl (Mores Horde Ante loan Urauite Monuments, Etc. 30 06KAOD08A. IOV A LUMBER. - i i u;» £ I i “ ” d « eteq | jlf d ! g g si2 c :ii Ds 23 *-=> « s ■SS ~ Cl ® i|»l &£ Am fife ■ s a ii £ E 2 I I H|t > S 1 5 Ili i_ *3 r a 7* a .s o w BO 03 5 | £ ; uijS »43 5 gll ji i I ◄is\ 4 \ I H i I O *3 RAILROADS. CHANGE OF TIME B. & W. R. It. ARRIVALS. No. 1 fast mail arrives 1:10 p. m No. 3 Accom. arrives 5:20p.m. DEPARTURES. No. 2 Chicago express departs 2:48 P. M. No. 4 Accom. departs 6:50 a. m 272tf R. W. Price Agent. CENTRAL IOWA RAILWAY Passenger 1 rains leaving Oskaloosa station NOHTH. SOUTH AND BAHT. M No. 1 leaves... 7:66 A M No. 2 south 1v5.7:35 f M No. 3 leaves... 9:uo pm No. 4 south Iv».6:(j«a m No. 26 leaves.. 4:15 p m No. 4 east 1v5...8:t0 am No. 26 ar at ...12:60 pm NEWTON BRANCH. North de 8:10 A m| South ar 8:40 pm Freight Trellis Carrying Passengers: NOR PH. I SOUTH AND BAST. No. 6 11:20 A M|No,6 south.. .3:45 P. M. No. 90 east., .to 30P. m. (No. lo east ,8:20 A.M. Througn sleepers and coaches between St. Paul, St. Louis and Kaunas City. Nos. 1 and 2 daily. K A. JONES. Agent. C. B. I. & P. Tie Carl ARRIVALS. iio.24.Accommodation from Knoxville and a.m. Intel mediate s' atlons 8:05 No. 52. passenger from Des Moines, Coun ell KlufTs and lntermldate stations . . No. 63, passenger from Keokuk, Kansas City and Intermediate stations 9:55 No. 15. passenger from Cblcago and Inter mediate stations it :30 No. 23. Accommodation from Washington p.m and intermediate stations, fast freight .. 12:45 No. 16. passenger from Knoxville and Inter mediate stations— 4:56 No. 26. Accommodation from Des Moines and Intermediate stations 6:1 No. 25. Accommodation from Washington and Intermediate stations.. . 4:50 No. 51, passenger from Keokuk Kansas City and Intermediate stations 10:35 No. 54, passenger from Des Moines, Coun cil Bluffs and intermediate stations ..10:06 DKPAKTUKRS. No. 24, Accommodation for Washington a.m. and intermediate stations < .to No. 62. Passenger for Keokuk, Kansas City and Intermediate stations 8:50 No. 63. Passenger for Des Moines, Council Bluffs and in termed late stations 10:05 No. 15. Passenger for Knoxville and inter mediate stations ll :35 No. 23, Accommodation for Knoxville and p. m Intermediate stations i:is No. 16. Passenger for Washington, Cblcago and intermediate stations 5.00 No. 26, Accommodation for Washington and Intermediate stations 6:30 No. 25. Accommodation for Des Moines and Intermediate stations 5:15 No. 61, Passenger for Des Moines, Council Bluffs and intermediate stations 10:45 No. 64. Passenger for Keokuk, Kansas City and Intermediate stations, 10:’5 .1. M. Lyfopd, Agent. The Line selected by the U. S Gov’t the Fast Mail. The Only Line Running Through Trains with Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars and Ele gant Coaches between ST. LOUIS, MINNEAPOLIS, ST. PAUL And SPIRIT LAKE PASSING THROUGH Hannibal r 'uino~ Keokuk, Burlinfirton, Cedar Rapids, and Albert Lea, the Principal Cities of the Mississippi Valle-. Dlrect| v onncctlon Made at Kacb of its June} tlon Points with Trains to and from all Points in Missouri, lows, Minnesota, Dakota Illinois. Wisoonsin, Nebraska 1 Colorado, Arkansas, Texas, The Health Resorts of FLORIDA and al SOUTHERN POINTS. TbrouKb Trains and Direct Connections between St Louis and St. Paul, Minneapolis, Cedar Rapids, Cheyenne, St. Louis and Denver, Portland. Lincoln, Omaha, Sioux City, Council Bluffs, Keokuk, Quincy, Des Moines and Ottumwa. For tickets, rates, general information, etc., regarding the Burlington Route, call on any ticket agent In the United Btates. C. M. Lsvsy, Howard ElUott, Superintendent, Gen’l Pass. Agent KEOKUK. IOWA. ™ E CHICAGO A “° MORTH- Western Penetrates the Centres ot Population^ ILLINOIS, IOWA, DAKOTA, MICHIGAN WISCONSIN, MINNESOTA, AND WYOMING. It* TRAIN SERVICE is Icarefnllf ar ranged to meet reauirements of looal travels*, well as to furnish the most at tractive Routes for through travel between important TRADE CENTRES Its EQUIPMENT of Day and Parloi Oars, Dining and Palaoe Sleeping Oars ar without rival. Its ROAD-BED is perfection, of stone ballasted Steel. The North-Western is the favorite route for the Oommercial Traveler, the Touris and the Seekers after New ;Homes in the Qolden Northwest. Detailed formation cheerfully fur' nished by A. . PREST N, Agent. Gainloro. J .M.IWHITMAN. H ;C- WICKER. E. P. WILSON, General Passenger Agent Union Pacific R’y, THE'OVERLAND ROUTE lks nlj Lin* Carrying tka United States Orarland MaiL Through Pullman Bleepers and Modern Dk Coaches from the Missouri River Making Direct Connections TO JDenver, Cheyenne, Ogden, Salt Lake City, Sacramento, San Francisco, Loe Angeles, Portland and all Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Nevada, California, Washington Ter ritory, and Pacific Coast Points. Baggage checked through from all points in the east to points named. Family SUnm FREE on tkressk Trains. For further tolormsUoo regarding the terri tory traversed, rates of fare, descriptive ram. pbtoto, etc., apply to the nearest agent ot ti # Untou Pacific Railway, or connecting roads, ot ad drnas E. M. FORD, Travelling Pass. Agent. 218 Fourth St., Dei Moines, lows. THOB. V KIMBALL, Acting Gob. Mg’t X. L. LOMAX. J. 8. TRBBKTB, A.O. r. AT. A. O.P.AT.A. OMAHA. dAwtt uorfcT Notice la honhy giroa to all persona tntor satod. that oa the 13th day of Dra. A. o. lass. Ifce undersigned was appointed by too District Court of Mahaska county, lowa. Ex ecutor of the aetata of Sarah F Ktoker, deceased, late of said Mahaska oounty. All persons indebted to set* estate will make pay ■taut to tka under*lrued, and thooa having dliM against the asms will present thaw tagailv authenticated to said oourt tor allow *lDatad Daat, IStk. 18**, ~ , i.risimS ' Wam #2i The MEDICAL She Tried and Knows. A leading chemist of New York says: “No plasters of such merit as the Ath-10-pno-ros Plasters haveever before been produced.” They are a novelty because they are not made simply to sell cheap, they are the best that science, skill and money can produce, and will do what is claimed for them. For sprains, aches, weakness, lameness, etc., they are unequaled. 4M Fulton St„ Sandusky, 0., Nov. 21. *B7. The Athlopboroe Planter acted liks puurlc. It i« ttie bn* I ever tried and I have used many kinds. Our druuylst rdd “ planter* are all about the name "but don’t think no now. 1 apraiued my arm and Hhoulder in July, and it has been painful since, but it does not pain meat all now. Mta. Waus Mahiu. tSt" Send 6 cents for the beautiful colored pic ture, “ Moorish Maiden." THE A THIQPUCfIOSCn 11? WoHS* N Y. ely-s cataarh Cleanses QUDrcCOVwi Nasal Pasea-a|^t{vJ^Dxs'Sii t 's'l Res. All av s Pain and In FHWFEVErSIS flammation.l^ Heals the £m sores, restores mt S the senses ot Wh—: — Taste and Smell- TRY THE CURE. HJpr-FEVER A particle is applied Into eacli nostril and Is agreeable. Price 50 cents at Druggists; by mail, registered, 60 cts. ELY BROTHEHB, 56 Warren Street, New York. 21yi TOs Pills Regulate The Bowels. Coatlvenesa derange, the whole sys tem and begets diseases, such aa Sick Headache, Dyspepsia, Fevers, Kidney Diseases, Bilions Colic, Malaria, etc. Taft's Pills produre regular habit of body and good digestion, without which, no one can enjoy good health. Have been enjoyed by the citizens of nearly every town and city in the u. 8. and thousands of people ntlU City 11. . cao testify to the wonderfjil beating power of Hamlin’s Wizard Oil. It Cures Neuralaia, Toothache, Headache, Catarrh, Croup, Sore Throat, RHEUMATISM, Lame Back, Stiff Joints, Sprains, Bruises, Burns, Wounds, Old Sores and All Aches and Pains. Bold by Druggist*. SO ft* Bo.vo Book mailed free. Address WIZARD OIL COMPANY CHICAGO. TO H«yg fj a ve^etaWo H?msnyforl.iv«inCc>mpTalmß nt TorDld condition of the Liver. it Cures Constipation,Bil.ousnesß, Jaundice, Headache Malaria, Rheumatism Mon lnseasea resultfrorn an Unhealthy Liver than arty o»her cause. |>r Hanford’* 1.1 verlnviij orator I(esm 1 s tea the Rowels, Thirlfls the Blood,Assist* _ , Ai Ptren the Sy-dtem, Prprrnts Frrrrs. jjanTis hn.nn.K andinvaLuablk family miiirnct, THOUSANDS ON TESTIMONIAL STROVE ITS MERJT ANY UKLUGIST VTLL TELIt YOB IT» AIPCTA UOK Dr. E. C. West’s Nervr and Brain Treat ment, a guaranteed specific for Hysteria. Diz zlness, Convulsions, Fits, Nervous Neuralgia Headache. Nervous prostration oaused by the use of alcohol or tobacoo, Wakefulness, Men tal Depression, Softening of the Brain resulting in Insanity and leading to misery, decay and death. Premature Old Age, Barrenness, lossot power In either sex. Involvntarv Losses and •<pennatorrh«a caused bv over-exertion of th brain, self-aouse or over-indulgence. Eaoli box contains o- e month’s treatment. Sl.oo a box, or six boxes for 85.00, sent by mall prepaid on receipt of price. WK GUARANTEE NIX BOXEN To cure any case. With each order received by us for sis boxes, accompanied with $3.00 we will send the purchaser our written guarantee to refund the money if the treatment does not effect a oure. Guarantees issued only by Greco k Bentley, Druggists, sole agents, Oskaloosa, lowa me fiOyt RAILWAY. PEERLESS DYES Bold ax DacooisnL w® NEBRASKA, OF EXPIRATION. To John and Je«se Jackson You are hereby notified that the following described real estate, situated in Mahaska county, lowa, to-wit: The north west quarter of the south west quarter of the south east quarter of section one (i), townnhip '<4. range 14. Was sold for the taxes of 1881 on the Ath day of November, I&n3, to W. B. Sturgus, that the certificates of sale thereof have been assigned to and are now owned b-r J. A. Brown, and that the right of redemptt n will exDire and a treasurer’s deed for said land will be made, unless redemption f,>rsuch sale be made within 00 days from the date of oompieted service ol this notice. You will govern yourselves ao eordtnrly. Dated the 38th day of November A. D. IMS. J. A. Brown, lSwSpd Owner of Cerllfioat*. pROBATE NOTICE. In matters or the last will and testament of Lydia Ream deceased. Notice is hereby given that there Is now on file in the office of tne clerk of the district court of Mahaaka county, lowa, an instrument of writing purporting to be the last will and tes tament of Lydia Beam deceased, and the •ame 1* set for hearing on the Ist day of the next term of the district court to be begun and held in Oskaloosa. on the nineteenth day of February 1888. at which time objections can be made to the approving of amid will and its admission to probate. 17w8 F. E. Smith, Clerk. Traffic 1M an ager Resolution* of the Board. November 16,1888, the Board of Supervisors of Mahaska County lowa, on tbia day passed by a nnanlmoua vote of the Board the foi'ow ing preamh'e and resolutions: Whkrcas. Certain persona claim to hato a certain oontraot or contracts authorizing th m to collect flues, coat* and fees due the ooun y, and Whbbbaa The present statute of low makes It the duty of the County Attorney to oolleot all monies due the County. Therefore be It KaaOLTCD. By the Board of Supervisors of Mahaska County, that any contract or alleged contract, any person or persons may claim to have for the collection of flues, cost* or fee*, due said county ara revoked, and all authority to them U hereby withdrawn, and the collection of all money due the county Is placed in the bands of the County Attorney, aa provided by law. Mg it further resolved by the Board of Super visors Of Mahaska County, that hereafter until further notice, the Sheriff of said County is in structed to farnWh to persons confined la the County Jail on the charge of vagrancy, no other rations except bread and water, and this rule shall apply to toe Orst ten days of said confine ment and the Auditor la Instructed to have tbia resolution published for at least four weeks la the oskaloosa Herald, Mew Hharon Star, Saturday Olobe and Oskaloosa Time*. Attest. „ _ John k. Baer, J. H. Evans, Autitor. Chairman Board of 17 w 4 Supervisors. pKOBATB NOTICE. fn matters of the last will and tostauent of Pi star fan da Geest, deceased. If otto* is hereby given that there la now on flla la the office of the clerk of the district oourt of Mahaska oounty. lows, an iostrumapl of writing purporting to be the last will and tss tament of Pieter van de Ue«et, deceased, and same is sat for hesrtag on the Ist day of the next term of the district court to be begun and hefei tfM »sk atoosa, on the ISth day of Fahy. ;*es. at which time objections eaube made to the approving of said will sad tie admission to r,R SMITH, Clerk. OSKALOOSA, MAHASKA COUNTY, IOWA, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 20, 1888. Sold Everywhere. HEALTH IS WEALTH. Oskaloosa THE HERALD Circulation Nearly Three Thousand. PUBLISH RD BY The Herald Printing Company. at Tvo Dollars Per Annum. OSKALOOSA, December 25,1888. A TOUR SOUTH. Between Missouri and the Mexican border lies the great empire of Texas. And it is an empire in fact, aud one that contains a might in material ma jesty that the ordinary reader little comprehends. It is an area larger than lowa by five tiroes, and has a diversity of soil aud climate that presents an assortment that should not fail to please any sort of a climatic crank. Here are some of the facts about Texas, which we take from the undelivered address of a distinguished and extin guished Democrat, who has had access to a reliable book of reference: “Texas is bounded north by New Mexico, the Indian Territory, and Ar kansas; east by the Indian Territory, Arkansas, and Louisiana; southeast by the Gulf of Mexico; southwest b> Mexico; and west by New Mexico. Greatest length about 825 miles; great est breadth about 740 miles; land area, 262,290 square miles. From the Sabine river to the Trinity river is the great timber region, generally level and sandy in the south, rolling and fertile in the north. From the Trinity to the Colo rado is prairie, timbered along streams, with an extensive forest in the north called the “Cross Timbers.” Western Texas embraces the counties between the Colorado and ltio Grande; four tiftbs of it is prairie; timber generally contiued to banks ol streams. Between the Colorado and the Brazos rivers are the Comanche and Leon river moun tain ranges. In the north and north west are the Church and Double moun tains, ami the surface is generally bro ken until the Llano Estacado,or btaked Plain, is reached, when the surface is gently uudulating, and vegetation scanty. Between the Pecos and Rio Grande are several rauges, sometimes attaining an elevation of 5,000 feet. The chief crops are cotton, corn, and wheat. The former two may be grown in nearly any part of the State, hut especially in the eastern and central sections; the latter chiefly in the north and center. Sea island cotton is grown on the coast. Sugar cane is raised chiefly on the Brazos and other rivers, near their mouths, and rice in the southeast. Oats, barley, tobacco, and sweet and white potatoes are grown to a moderate extent. Swine thrive on the abundant mast of the forests. The chief occupation westward is stock raising and wool-growing. Figs and oranges thrive in the south. Manufac turing interests are increasing. The number of manufacturing establish ments in the State in 1880 was 2,996; amount of capital invested in them, $9,245,561; total number of hands em ployed, 12,159; amount paid in wages, $3,343,087; value of materials used, $12,956 269; value of products, $20,719,- 828. There are immense deposits of copper along the line of the Texas Pa cific railroad; coal, timber, limestone, soapstone aud iron are found in the same region. Argentiferous galena is found in large quantities in northwest ern Texas; immense quantities of mag netic Iron in Mason, Llano, and the western counties. There is a field of bituminous coal about 6,000 square miles in extent, and a Held of anthra cite in Brown, Coleman, Comanche, and Hamilton counties. Salt is produced in large quantities from springs in El Paso, Lampasas, and Llano counties; asphaltum is abundant. Large quanti ties of saltpeter are found in Blanco and Burnet counties; marble and roof ing slate, grindstones, pot and fire clays, marl, and other fertilizers are found in great quantities. There 225 counties in Texas. Newspapers are published in 137. Cities, towns, and villages in which papers are published number 194.” GREAT AND SUBSTANTIAL BRAIN are these facts. Texas presents »n im mense and complete network of rail ways, operated in every direction, so that the actual mileage is scarcely sec ond that of any State in the Union. It has large and prosperous cities within its borders. Dallas, Fort Worth, Waco, Denison, Galveston, Houston and Sau Antonio are the largest, and they all show to a marked degree evidences of real thrift and solid devel opment. There is a lack of the manu facturing interest, but when all the conditions are considered the develop ment in that direction may be set down as satisfactory in the best degree. The fuel problem, in connection with man ufactures, is a serious one for Texas, but no people could do better than they are doing. Of course, the great cattle industry is the over-shadowing busi ness, and the millions invested therein may be said to control matters at large and generally. We noted that all the smaller towns w*»re purely given to the support of and by an agricultural trade —with no diversity in business other than that called for by the wants of the planters and ranchmen. But there was an apparent abundance of capital to swing the great cotton crop, and hence matters had a rosy and prosperous hue. in the north half of Texas, and extend ing in strips to the gulf coast, is a good loam, rich in every way for cotton and corn, and with a record of occasional drouth which plays havoc there as well as elsewhere. This past season there has been an unusual rainfall—more than in any one season for several years. Some man, wise in weather lore, argued for forty miles to establish the fact that the great increase in steel railroad tracks bad made the extra vis itation of moisture, and that hence Texas would hereafter be assured of all the rain needed. That may or may not be so. But at all events the surfaee presentation of Texas, as a rule, is one that pleases the eye, whatever the many other couditions are needful to a pleasant life on farm or in town. The Texas railways make a great point in looking after and building up Texas business. They do this everywhere, and the commercial interests as well as the producers claimed great satisfac tion. A state officer said that the rail way managers had shown a disposition to meet all the reasonable demands of ail classes of people, and that they had matters well along to a permanent set tlement, unlike some of the northwest ern states. Numerous cases of change of conduct to the more liberal sort were named, in all of which the commercial and business interests of the people were well considered and well served. Of all southern states Texas possesses the greatest school fund of permanent character. The educational problem receives the closest consideration and the common school is looked upon with jealous care and watchful eye. The men of Texas know that ignorance is a reproach to any people, and in good time there will be general results in every way flattering. In the cities and towns just as good report can be made for the schools as from lowa, and noth ing better need be said than that. In some portions of the state the fields are putting on the green of fall sown crops, while the oaks are generally dotted with bunches of mistletoe—that queer plant that livee on something else than rooting itself in the ground. Many of the streams were of the clearest kind, IOWA: SECOND ARTICLE. TIIE STATE. THE 801 L having their head waters in the moun the mountains away off. In some of the sections the farm houses were of the kind that indicated comfort and ro ll nement—places where the stranger could always dud a welcome that had no discount to it. The towns of the smaller kind made a favorable impres sion. Denton, Waco, Braunfels and a number of others were pleasant and prosperous in looks. The two first were specially attractive, and we were told that much of the population hailed from the uorthern states. However that may bo, every evidence of cheery hospitality w’as not found wanting. Leaving out San Antonio for a special article, we leave Texas with this pre diction, that when Texas shall have reached development easily possible in every section, it will be found to l>e one of the richest as well as the greatest states in every way. Of course it has a brutal Democratic majority but the sunlight of progress will knock that down to something decent and conquer able. AT A BULL FIGHT. TIIIRD ARTICLE. Brutal sports have been noted as a part of the history of nearly all the people who have Oiled places in the history of the world. Who that reads the graphic descriptions of the gladi atorial combats, man pitted against beast, and man against man, in tbecol loßseum and Roman circus, in those harsh and bloody days, but is shocked and rowelled with indignation at tbe brutalities then practiced? For cent uries these ring-encircled cruelties were popular, but with the coming of a gentler civilization, slowly winning its way, came a gradual diminution of the sports more distinctively brutal. The northern nations were first to yield to the benign influences, and it is only among the southern nations—those coming from a Spanish cross—where brutes are used in public sports and most cruelly and barbarously treated— amidst the applause of the attending thousands. The bull fight of Spai u and of Mexico are the last relics of the brutal sports that found their greatest glory, their highest patrouage, and crueleet development in the hand of the Romans—that people in whose hearts and consciences seemed stilled all those sensibilties that now move men and nations, and open up all tbe font of pity, and of charity. BEING IN MEXICO CITY on Sunday, December 2, 1888, in this year of grace, and of all things, we de termined to fall in with the temptations of the day, do as the Mexicans did, and nearly every one else—goto church in the morning, chip in a quarter, and to the bull fight in the afternoon at a cost of $1.50 for a reserved seat—safe away from the bulls, and where an Ameri can party of seven lowa editors could see the slaughter, give free expression to their opinions on the brutes—both kinds, and also hide their disgust of which they soon had quantity suf ficient. We take our readers into our confidence fully about this matter. Had we returned from the land of the Montezumas and not seen a bull fight when the opportunity offered, so that we might tell you all about it—you would have been found condemning us for want of consideration of your de sires. Knowing all these things we or dered the dragoman to secure a box,and prepare for the visitation of the party. THE PARTICULAR PLACE visited to observe the bull fight was out ou the fine Faseo—one of the finest drives in any country—along which the aqueduct is carried from Chepultepec to the city, and about which was fought a hot battle in the takiog of the city in 1847. In a general way the building in which the people meet to observe men practice cruelty on bulls, is modeled after the old Roman circus. Say, a ring nearly circular, two huudred feet in diameter, with boxes and comfort able seats on the shady side, and ordin ary seats on the sunny side for the great mob only williug to pay a quarter for a seat. It was a BRIGHT, SUNNY AFTERNOON, and don’t for a moment think that the audience was made up of a Mexican mob and seven lowa editors, for let us tell you that while we occupied box 21, forty or fifty other boxes were occupied by splendidly dressed men and women —specially women, while many children also graced (?) the occasion with their cheerful presence. So, after all, our company was quite select—for such a place. A few boxes away was the box occupied by the aldermau under whose personal supervision the fight was to be conducted. He was accompanied by his family, and a bugler, whose shrill notes gave the signal for the onset. As the first notes of the bugle died away and the cheers of the crowd bad ended, the doors to the arena were thrown open, an 1 in marched, in gala procession, the men who were to take the part of bull fighters. First came the two chief matadors, the men who kill the bulls; then the banderillors, the men who torture thebu'.ls, and then the capas, the men who fling red capes into the face of the charging and enraged animal. The picadores are mounted on poor horses, and carry a pole with a sharp prod in the end. Their duty is to protect their horses from the charge of the bulls—the horses being somewhat protected all around with a heavy leath er apron. Other attendants are in the procession, and they all salute the smiling alderman in the official box. The favorites of the public are greeted with various favorite calls, and some who do not stand high in public esteem hear some frank opinions very loudly expressed. The crowd numbers NEARLY FIVE THOUSAND, and two-thirds are over across in the sunny quarter, and, ye Gods! what voices they have! Have you ever read the graphic descriptions given of those early Homan scenes of such like char acter 't How the mob shook with a roar more brute than human, the cry for the bloody contest to begin ? How above the volume of harsh and penetrating noise there would rise the voice of some extaordinary bully—Vulcan lunged and fog-horned in tune? Well, we could readily imagine the same clamor that awaited the gladiators, who with sword, net, and oestus, were ready to do and die, had been handed down through the intervening ages to cheer on the sport of having bandy-legged Spaniards attempt the killing of the bulls. M EI toroa! El toros!" was the demand, and the bugle sounded forth the call for the bull to be sent out Opposite is a great wooden gate that leads to the den of the bull. It is dark. The door is opened, and the bull sees the light. He makes for it. As his head comes out he is held a moment by the half opened door, jnstlong enough for a lusty armed assistant to drive a gaily-colored bakderills into his neck, and on he comes, mad dened and charging at everything he may see. These men that we have Herald. described are in the ring, but remain near protecting targets, on the inner wall of the ring, for there are two walls. A foot rail gives them a pur chase, and when hard pressed they vault over into the space between this and tbe outer wall, and, uufortunaleTy, are safe! We shall only describe one tight out of tbe six bulls killed. A large, long horned black bull was sent out fiercest of all of them. Stabbed deeply by the barb, he went at everything with a terrible earnestness. One charge at a mounted picadore, and be has ripped a great hole in the breast of the horse, and THE BLOOD CAME IN BIIOWKRS. A second charge and another horse went down, and so with the third—two of them being killed. Such destruction maddened the whooping crowd—and the scene was one that, only a Dore could fairly catch. It seemed as if the blood of the bull and horses had mad dened tbe great, yelling crowd—and here we heard the only cheers that came to our ears while iu that country I Three horses down, and the alderman ordered the horses away, and then came the WORK OF TOE BANDERILLOS. Each one of these handsomely dressed fellows took two da ts, each two feet in length, and loaded at one end. The duty of this particular brute in gilded tights was to advance on the bull, and as tbe animal came at him, plant those barbs in the upper portions of his neck. Well planted they instantly drop over and are fastened for good. As well to try to shake out a great, heavy fish hook! As the barbs are driven into tbe bull his temper is not improved, and the pain drives him to frantic action. He sees the red cape near, and charges; but the agile fellows are away and he only has the cape to gore. This goes on until six of the barbs are placed in the bull—he always on the charge—when the bugle calls THE MATADOR to bis work of killing the maddened beast. He doffs his hat at the aider man, then throws it down with a “here’s* for-you” air to the bull, and armed with a red flag and a straight-30 inch sword, faces the now panting bull. He waves the red flag, and does all that he can to make the bellowing fellow charge. For the matador cannot strike only save when the bull charges. He does charge, and the sword jumps into his neck from the top. One stioke out of the many only was fatal—all the others requiring several before a fatal spot was reached. In one case it was necessary to lasso and throw the bull, when he was killed by the butcher. Thus six bulls were killed—and two sent in who would not fight, and were sent back. Tbe brave bull always died but tbe coward he escaped. We staid it all out—but candor compels us to say that our pray er and hope was that each bull would kill a man or two engaged in the torture. Every element of disgust was aroused iu us, and we have seen tbe first and last bull fight. It is BRUTAL IN TIIE EXTREME. It is cowardly, for it gives no bull a fair chance. Man has everything on bis side—unlike the old Roman battles, when matters were made as near even as possible. The mules who were used to drag the dead bulls out, one by one, just after the killing, seemed to be em bued with great decency, for they wanted to bolt at each time away from the unsavory job. —Still, there were thousands of peo ple there—and many of them delicate ladies, and their children. Queer ways and queer feelings that could take elegant ladies to a scene of brutal butchery I —We have confessed, and here prom ise never more to see a bull fight, Sun day or any other day, place, country or time. One is enough for a life time save, unless there should be a guar antee that the bull would kill the whole outfit. 1c that case we would want to be there to hurrah for the bull I Oar Soldiers Visit Maj. Looey 2few Sharon Star. At the last meeting of Henry C. Leighton Tost, G. A. It., it was resolved to visit Maj. J. F. Lacey, Congressman elect from this District. Friday after noon, Dec. 7, was the time fixed and in vitations were given to all old soldiers. The boys’ drum corps, consisting of Masters Clyde Conaway, Burt Wood, Frank, Del and Clark Adams, were se cured and at 12 o’clock the procession was formed and marched to the depot headed by the boy band. The banner and flag of the post were carried at the front and then followed forty old vet erans. At Oskaloosa they were met by Geo. C. Morgan and escorted to the residence of Maj. Lacey, who with his estimable lady, assisted by Mrs. Gen. S. A. Rice and Mrs. Henry C. Leighton, warmly welcomed the company and extended to them the freedom of their home. The moments sped swiftly and pleas santly by and soon Mrs. Lacey in sisted upon lunching the old comrades of her gallant husband. The Maj. gave command and his orders were prompt ly obeyed. In the spacious dining halls were found three large tables loaded down with everything that could tempt the most delicate appetite. The boys are of the opinion that Maj. Lacey’s “lunch” is good enough for a “square meal” for them, but they wonder what their Congressman-elect calls a regular dinner. We were present by invitation of members of the post and feel highly honored at being able to share the pleasure of the occasion with old veterans. There is no class of men on earth who know better how to enjoy life than do they, and they improved the opportunity to the highest degree. As entertainers Maj. and Mrs. Lacey are noted and they were ably assisted by the widows of the lamented Gen. Rice and H. C. Leighton, whose presence did honor to the veteran comrades of their husbands. At 4 p. m. the Maj. made very appro- Eriate remarks, thanking the comrades eartily for their call and assuring them he would faithfully guard their interests as he understood them while he should represent the District. He was always glad to meet an old soldier and felt honored with the presence of so many. At the close of his remarks the la dies were bade adieu and the Maj. took his place in the ranks escorting his vis itors to the depot, where we said good bye to our generous, gallant host and re turned to our homes ever to remember Friday, Dec. 8,1888, at the Lacey home as one of the brightest and happiest days of our lives. The following resolutions by the members of C. Leighton Post, No. 199, G. A. B, and other ex-soldiers of New Sharon and vicinity were unan imously adopted: Resolved, that we most heartily return our th&uks to Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Lacey for the splendid manner In which they entertained us during our social call at their pleasant nome. Resolved, that we extend our slneere thanks to Mrs, Sami. Rice for honoring us with her pres ence on that occasion. We will ever hold dear to our hearts the memory of her Illustrious husband, Gen. Rice, who lost his life In the de fence of the flag we lore and adore. Remtlved, that we extend to Mrs. Henry G. Leighton our thanks for being with us on the oc casion. It was In honor of her belovod hus band we named our Post, and hts name adorns our banner In letters of gold. Resolved, tli at a copy ot these resolutions bo presented to Maj. Laoey and be published in the New Sharon Star. Mr. J. F. Wood, of Saylorville, lowa cured two persons of neuralgia and a young lady of a severe attack of sore throat with a fifty cent bottle of Cham berlain's Pain Balm. One of the per sons cured of neuralgia was almost erased with pain. For sale by Oreen k> Bentley. BY CHARLES J. BELLAMY. CHAPTER VI. A DAY OFF. Jane Graves was putting on her hat and faded plaid shawl for another dreary day’s work. She hated it with all the passion of her nature. She saw nothing in it but slavery and degradation, and in her impa tience thought she would rather die than drag out her life thus. Somebody must do the work, but not such as she, surely. “Come here, my dear.” She had been lingering aimlessly, only that she dreaded to turn her feet toward the factory, whose tolling bell rang sternly in her ears. Now she approached her mother’s bed with a gentler expression on her face. Tho thin hands wero laid on her arm, and the sick woman drew the girl’s head down on the pillow beside her own. “Was I ever so pretty as you, I wonder?" she said wistfully. “They used to say I was the prettiest in the village.” And the sunken eyes brightened at sweet memories, the ■weetest in the world to a woman. “It did you little good, mother,” said ttye girl in a muffled voice. In a moment more she started up- “There, mother, I am late again; a quarter day’s pay lost, and a scolding gained.” The tick woman’s eyes opened wide, and the girl waited one sad minute more, to see how terribly white the poor face looked even against her pillow. “I had something to say, I thought," said the woman eagerly, “but I can’t remember, I am so sick. But perhaps it wasn’t any thing. You may go now, dear; lam sorry I kept you.” The girl pinned her shawl about her. What good of looking in the glass! It could only tell her she was pretty, as her mother used to be, and remind her what a fool she was to expect a different fate. Fifteen years, and she might be sick and broken on this very bed, perhaps telling her own unhappy child how pretty she used to be. The girl shud dered at the picture as she went out of her mother’s room. “Oh! I remember now," called the sick woman. “Did you want the tea put near you!” asked the girl, coming back wearily. “It is not that—but—but you are not to go to work today. Somebody is coming to see you. He wants you to live with him.” “What, to marry me?” exclaimed the girl in astonishment. “He didn’t speak of that,” smiled her mother, languidly, “but I can’t talk any more, I am so tired." Jane Graves had learned one lesson of pov erty, not to hope. So after this strange an nouncement of her mother's she only laid off her hat and shawl, and waited. After look ing idly out of the window for a while, and seeing nothing that had not worn itseH into her very soul years ago, the vague woman instinct stirred in her and she moved about the house arranging things. She found a little map that hung in the sitting room a little awry and straightened it. It was a dingy map of China that had come once with a pound of tea, and she wanted to throw it away, but the wall looked too bare without anything. She took down a couple of ugly little gift chromos her father had placed on the mantelpiece and tore them up in disgust. There seemed nothing else to do, there was so little to arrange. She wasn’t so sure but it was better in the mill—perhaps it was a blessing the poor were kept so many hours in its grim walls, where at least there was but little chance to think. What was there to long for in such homes and such leisure as this? She stepped to the closet and took out a well thumbed book and sat down. She turn ed two or three pages, and then counted how many times she had read them before, and she felt sick with the foolish hopes and dreams the oft read book had used to wake in her. She laid it away with a sigh and picked up an old newspaper. How slow the forenoon went. She read down the advertising columns. How many beautiful things in the world, and all for sale! Somebody must have the money to buy them or the stores wouldn’t be run ning. Where was it all? Did anybody work any harder for it than her father and herself? Jane Graves opened her little pocketbook and shook it over the table; but it was as empty as the day she bought it Then there came a light tap on the street door. This must be the “gentleman,” this tall, elegant figure in a checked summer suit; and he actually lifted his hat to her. “My name is Ellingsworth.” Ho needn't have told her; ho had figured in the girl’s fancy for years as the very im personation of rank and wealth. “I called about a maid. Mr. Graves gave me leave to speak with his daughter. Is she in?” "I suppose lam the one. Will you come in?” She watched him as he crossed the room to the nearest chair. How much lighter he walked than she could; and one might have thought from his unconsciousness that he had been used to just such a miserable room as this all his life. He showed no surprise at her being the prospective maid servant; n© doubt he knew it all the time, and the way he spoke was only a part of his good man ners. But then she could not imagine hi* showing surprise at anything. “There will be but little to do,” Mr. El lingsworth continued, looking at her face and not seeming to see how ill she was dressed. ‘There is only my daughter; you may have seen her, yes? and myself. The wages will be small,” and he named them and smiled apologetically, as if he expected her to de cline. “Your father spoke to me as if you did not like the factories.” Out at service; well, why not? Could it be any more degrading than the life she lived? •nd such wages, too. Why, she could dress quite prettily then; and her girlish heart fluttered. And she could leave ugly thing* and rude people, and breathe perfumes and have only graceful surroundings; what mat ter if they were not hers? She would be lifted right up in the very atmosphere she longed for. Yesterday she had envied the Ellingsworths, to-morrow she could share their beautiful life with thotp Why not? She lifted her bright eyes to his face. It was in half profile at this moment, and she could see his hair was just touched with gray. How could meu in this world ever grow old? He was smooth shaved, she wing in full effect the delicate, cynical curve of his thin lip and the clearly defined outlines of his chin. He must have been very oddly affected by the poverty pictured so unmistakably about him; but there was not the smallest sign of it on his well bred face. “I will go,” she said abruptly; “when do you want me?” “I shall be away for a fortnight," be said, rising, with his own admirable smile. “You can come when I return.” She rose too, but could think of nothing proper to say. But how poverty stricken she would look in her factory clothes. Her spirits had fallen already. “By the way,” Mr. Ellingsworth turned, as If a sudden business item had struck him. It was a peculiar expressionless monotone he used sometimes when on delicate subjects that seemed to have as little personal quality as a printed page. “I always pay in advance; be kind enough to accept your first month’s wages and our bargain will be closed.” inegirt round nenelf alone, i<x>king at the crisp, fresh looking bank bills he had placed in her hands. “How thoughtful these rich people are. They have time for It, I sup pose.” Her wardrobe was very simple. Thera hung over the back of the chair the dull check of a merino, chosen long ago to endure the most service with the least show of it On the bureau before the mirror was a paper box holding a discarded ribbon or two, pink or cardinal, and two or three pieces of cheap jewelry the girl was too proud to wear. “It won’t take me long to pack,” she said aloud. Bhe suddenly took a pretty attitude of lis tening. She had closed the door into the sick chamber in a moment more and stood in the middle of the sitting room when Curran came in. “Why, you don’t look vary sick, Jennie; I have to walk to Lockout by 8 o’clock, but thought I would look in just a minute.” “I am going to leave the mill.” How pre occupied he seemed to-night. “I am going to leave the mill, Mr. Curran,” the girl repeated with beating heart. He might not like her new plan, and at the very thought of. his die approval sne reit an Her Bright Hopes taking to themselves wings; end the old dreary pk> ture of factory gates and soiled calioo dresses came back. “Going away, little girl?” He seemed to ■peak with a slight effort, as if his mind was not on what he said. “Well, I suppose yon can’t be any worn off, but w* shad mim you.” And was that all he had to say when he thought die was going forever or* of his life —irrarffr ‘ ~. - - ■ , i- 1 , riirrTiMrr^i.-i^ TRADE WITH Brewster & Co., The Shoe Men. ESTABLISHED 1850. “I am not going far,” she began hurriedly. “There would be no use going far." He had seated himself on the other side of the table from her, and rested his face on his hand. “It is just the same everywhere. Wherever there are a thousand souls ten will grind the rest. I don’t suppose the rich mean to be so unjust, not all of them; they don’t stop to notice that they are getting all the good things in the world. It never oc curs to them to wonder why the great earth seems to produce only for them.” Jane Graves sat back in her chair, her hands crossed in her lap. Why didn’t he talk about her just a little? She looked up at his absorbed face wistfully. “Why, Jennie, sometimes I get so tired trying to stand up against it all, so sick of my own heartache, that I can make nobody share with me.” He had risen to his feet and was walking moodily across the room. That very night he must pour out all the precious energy of his soul into dull, stolid ears, that seemed so slow to understand. A hall full of strange faces would look up coldly at him, and his hot words would be quenched as they fell from his lips, in the unmoved depths of their hearts. It seemed so vain, all he could do or say, and he felt so tired to-night, long ing, instead, to rest his head on some gentle breast, and be soothed with some foolish words of comfort and tenderness. The girl had risen, too, and stood resting the back of her hand on the table. But her eyes dared not Jift to his. She tried to speak, and her lips trembled so that her voice came strange and unfamiliar. “I am sorry for you. Is there no one, no woman?” she half whispered. “Women do not care for such as I,” he said, smiling a little bitterly. “They love light and pleasant things. lam too serious. I should only frighten them; they could not understand.” Then he came toward her with a softer light in his eyes. “ v ou are a good little girl, Jennie.” He had taken her trembling hands, which only trembled the more. “I shall miss you very much. What is the trouble with your eyes, Jennie, you can’t look at me? lam going now.” Then she raised her eyes, like lightning, to his face. “Oh, let me comfort you," she cried. “I would die for you. I will ask nothing back but a smile now and then. Nobody can ever love you like me.” His face was troubled, but cold and im passive as rock. He still held her hands, as she sank in a heart breaking flood of tears at his feet After a moment he bent down in pity, and githered her trembling form in his arms. ow the sobs seemed to shake her. He smoothed back* her wavy hair from the low forehead, and even kissed her wet cheeks. But all he said was: “Poor little girl, poor little Jennie." For an instant she lay still as a nestling child. Then she sprang back from him, and fled into her mother's room, and wept and moaned for shame and heartache, until tbs calm of weariness came over her, as nature’s blessed gift to her hopeless children. CHAPTER VIL A TEST. “Isn’t your father going?" It was the same evening, and Philip Breton was assisting Bertha into his beach wagon for a twilight drive. “Father has left town for a few days. Didn’t you know? Suppose you let me have the back seat. The world is large enough to afford us a seat apiece to-night.” Bertha adjusted her wraps and the horses stepped off down the street as gayly as if their driver had not been disappointed. There was not very much conversation to day; indeed there never was unless Philip afforded it. Bertha considered she did her part in looking well, smiling prettily at his witticisms, with now and then a remark, if she felt inclined. But today Philip was moody and silent. So Bertha gave herself up to the sensuous delight of riding, and only spoke in mild exclamations of admiration of the scenery as they left the village behind and followed up the winding river. But suddenly Philip saw a man’s form swaying easily while he took great strides along the footpath. “Curran,” he exclaimed, and stopped his horses close beside him. The man turned, and one might have thought he did not recognize the Occupants of the carriage, except that there was the least bit of a flush on his face, which bore the lines of interrupted medita tion. Then he bowed slightly to Philip. “And you don’t recollect me, I suppose,” smiled Bertha. “I am not so stupid," he said, letting his steel blue eyes rest admiringly upon her. “We are going to Lockout, too. You must get in with us.” “No, I won't crowd you; don’t move.” And he turned a little away from them as if to continue his walk. “Certainly you must!” said Bertha; “see, I have a whole seat to myself and it is so stupid. Please.” And Curran took the seat she offered him, bolding back her wraps till he was seated, and then releasing them. “Do you think I shall ever learn to weave cotton cloth r asked Philip, to call his atten tion to their day’s work together “I presume so, if you really mean to. But It is lucky you haven’t got your board to pay meanwhile.” But Curran did not smile, and was very ill at ease. He seemed to be lifted, body and soul, into the very life he was accustomed to rebuke. The beautiful horses of the rich were harnessed today to his pleasure with their gold plate trimmings. What right had he here? He said nothing of it, but felt intense ly the falseness of his position. The delicate springs hurt him, and every sign of lavish wealth in the dress of his companions. He wanted no interests with the rich; his life work must be against them; he desired no association with a luxurious manner of life which he ought to upbraid. There must not be one chain of gold to unite him with the wealthy class in whom he saw the enemies of the people. And yet he was taking delight in this wo man’s presence, a new delight, such as the women of the poor had never given him. And was not she the very essence of luxury and refinement? He hated himself for it, but for all he tried to look elsewhere he kept see ing the sparkle of the diamonds on the whitest hand he had ever seen. He enjoyed the lilies of the valley set in mosaic at her throat, which showed its creamy white against the delicate ruffles, and the comb with its band of Roman gold almost the shade of the rippling hair it restrained. But were not these the very extravagances the poor had to struggle to earn for her? He ought to be fulminating withering sentences for such as she. “I will get out at the rocks and walk the rest of the way," said Curran at last, as they could catch a glimpse of Lookout In the dis tance. “The workmen I want to talk to would hardly understand my coming with a carriage and pair.” Th'' “rocks” came but a mile from Lock out and the horses trotted so well that the spot was reached in a few moments more. The road at this point had been cut through a side hill of sandstone by dint of great blast ing and the jagged edges jutted out angrily at the passers by. “There must be a wonderful landscape on the other side of the rocks,” said Bertha, as Philip stopped his horses for Curran to alight. “Have you plenty of time?" she asked, before the workman could express his thanks. “An hour to spare.” She looked wistfully at the envious rocks that shut them in and then at Curran’s grave face. “I would so like to see that view from the top of the rocks if I had some one to help me." Curran’s face suddenly flushed with pleasure. “I should like to help you.” In a minute more Bertha was climbing the rocks with her strange escort, and Philip sat holding his horses quite a little distance back. “You duln’t talk very much during our drive," spd Bertha, as she stood with her companion looking off down the valley. “Is it so wicked of us to be rich!" He shot a sudden deprecating look at her. “Don’t force me so far. I cannot say it now.” Bertha smiled. “Then leave me out of it; say Philip instead.” “He is enjoying the fruits of terrible injus tice.” “But would his father have been rich un less he had deserved it?” asked Bertha. “Is it a just reward of merit, then, that a thousand human creatures should wall nigh starve, and he be rich? If he has deserved to be rich, you must say they have merited star vation.”! The girl liked to hear his earnest, thrilling tones, and watch his eyes and his uae trils dilate with such rare passion. “Is it just,” he went on, “that no matter how unweariedly a [laborer works, his idle neighbor, es surely as the sun seta, should lay intolerable tribute on his profits so that he must stay forever poor! Is a day’s work worth nothin*? Then why does it brinsr in some capitalist thousands of dollars for a stroke of his pen?” Bertha understood but little of what he wes saying, but she oould look Intently at him with wide open blue eyes, which bed a pretty trick of changing uprtwioii alia "oreat wealth is made up of 10,000 trick ling streams, drained from the paltry earn ings of as many defrauded workmen. Mere cunning scheming ought not enable a man to turn aside the great river of Uentv. which uows tor an men. \v tiy these shrewd busi ness men, whom so many praise, have so in geniously placed their chains on the laborer, that the harder he struggles to escape from poverty, he only turns the faster the wheel that grinds out fortunes for his masters, and draws him in at last to be crushed.” He hesitated for her to ask him some ques tions, and perhaps it wa* already as plain to her as to him. At any rate, she only looked off to the west where the glow of sunset was fast fading, and then back into his face re gretfully. “I suppose we ought to go down,” she said. “Why, yes, I had forgotten whether it wae night or day.” He took her hand gently as if ho touched a holy thing, and his face softened like a child’s. He would not have let her fall for the world She had taught him, how he did not stop to think, that there was a rare and exquisite strain of joy in life. She had spiritualized womanhood to him; ho sud denly saw in it ap essence so pure and fine it might redeem the world An hour ago, he had been so wretched, and now a vague, sweet hope he cared not to define was born in him. As he stood upon the road bed «nd reached up his hands to help Bertha down, their eyes met for a moment, and then she trusted herself to him in such gentle sur render that a mist floated before his sight. She almost fell, and he must needs gather her perfect form in his arms to save her. Philip had been idly snapping his whip and looking up the road. Ho thought he saw in the distance a number of men with guns hurrying in his direction and before them—yes, it must be a dog; an odd hour of the day for hunting. He might as well have his horses turned about; he could see Currai and Bertha clambering down from the rocks. So it happened that at the moment Bertha came so near falling—in fact, did fall, into Curran's arms—Philip was sitting with his back toward them, faced toward home. But by this time the hunters with guns were nearer; the blacksmith had rushed out of his shop to look at the dog who bounded along with his mouth to the ground drop ping foam as he ran. The dog was mad. Bertha saw the great white creature, and grew pale as death, and pressed back against tho rocky wall in de spair. Curran saw him too, and had not even to make up his mind to die to save this woman. It was a matter of course. He stepped out directly in front of her without one word, and bending forward, waited. The mad dog might pass by. But no, in an in stant more the beast was upon him, and like lightning Curran had reached out his hands of iron and caught his shaggy throat as in a vise. The creature rose upon its hind legs and snapped ravenously at his captor, great drops of foam, specked with blood, dropping from his jaws. With one rapid glance Curran saw the men with guns, running at full speed, and almost at hand. If he could hold him but one moment more he might yet be saved, if those glistening teeth, distilling poison and madness, would spare his flesh one moment more. His arms and wrists were corded like a giant’s; his head thrown back to escape the venomous fangs, while he listened with fast sickening heart to tho sound of approaching feet. He heard, too, the quick breathing of the woman behind him; thank God, he could save her from such a fate, and she might think kindly of him sometimes, even if he must die like a dog, since it was for her. But now his arms trembled with the terri ble strain upon them and the dog struggled more fiercely, so that the man felt his hot, fetid breath on bis cheek, and in an instant more the deadly jaws seemed closing over his arm. Suddenly there came a loud report and a cloud of smoke, and the mangled creature fell upon the ground in his death a-reny. The madness had gone out of hh Lig, brown eyes which looked up pitifully the man he would have slain. “They were just in time with their guns," exclaimed Philip, rushing up and wringing his hand. But the man made no response, nor e ven looked around for one sign of gratitude from the woman he had risked his life for. He had no answers or smiles for the admir ing crowd that had seemed to gather so quickly when the danger was over, but hit face grew quite pale as he walked up the road. At the blacksmith’s shop a thought seemed to strike him. He hesitated amo ment and then went in. When tho crowd came up and followed him in, they found him before the glowing forge. His sleeve' was rolled up, revealing an arm almost like the smith’s, but how closely he was studying it. Just below the elbow were the marks of a dog’s fangs, out of which slowly oozed two great drops of blood. No one dared to speak; all looked on him as a man devoted, and half expected to see al ready the signs of madness on his calm, pale face. The men with the guns had come in with the rest, and stood under the rows of horse shoes that lined the blackened walla. Thank God, he could save her from such a fate. with horrified eyes riveted on the print of the poisoned fangs. The blacksmith Rtood by his anvil, hammer in hand, as if frozen, and even Philip Breton was stunned and baffled at the sudden revelation of the fate stamped on this man who had given his life for Bertha’s. Philip had been devising how rare a gift of undying friendship he could give him in token of his gratitude, and now a terrible death must be his only reward. But the face of the victim was as com posed as if death had already claimed him. He did not seem to see one of the silent forms that thronged the little shop. Then he looked carefully at the wound in his arm and pressed out the drops of poisoned blood. In another instant he had reached out his right hand toward his forge and grasped the end of a bar of iron that shone at white heat where it touched the coals. He drew it out before one could catch his breath and held it close against the death mark in his quivering flesh. A sickening hiss brought a cry of sympathy from the astouished crowd, but his lips never moved till the cure was com pleted. He threw back the iron, and grind ing his teeth in his agony turned on his heel and went out. At the door was a face paler than his. Bertha Ellingsworth had seen it all. As he looked at her white face and golden brows and lashes, Curran thsbght of wreaths of strands of gold on the driven snow. But her eyes had a new fathomless expression in them, and her lips were parted as if to speak, if there were onlv words sweet and gentle enough. His face flushed with a ae licious gladness deeper than his pain, as she made him hold out his arm for her, and touched it with mysterious tenderness, and bound her handkerchief about his charred and aching wound. “And you can’t disappoint your audiencef How brave you are. But you will come to me to-nuurow?” “If a wish it." The crowd had gathered outsitw. the door, and stood a little way off, curiously watching them. “I wish I could repay you,” she said, look ing wistfully up at him. But Curran’s face flushed crimson, and ha drew back from her as if he had been stung. As she looked at him, a flush slowly came into her face, too. ’’Would you like tokiaa me, just once?” The man turned and drew her to his heart, and her eyes fell till their long golden lashes touched her cheek, as he stooped and kissed her pouted red lips. [To be Continued.] On* Black Drop. Byron was wise when he wrote, “A drop of Ink may make a million think." This is indeed true when the black fluid is used to enlighten the world on the merits of Dr. I'ierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. Let consumptives every where hear the glad tidings. Try it all, who breathe with pain ard toss in fever through the long night hours. You will And the cough gone and sleep as balmy as a child’s will visit your pillow. 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