VOL. LI.
BRATTLEBORO, VT., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1884.
STO. 49.
(And VKIUIOST ItF.COIin AND t'AItMKIt. soiled
May 1, 180.)
ri'CLinuiu tvmi vaiDAi nv
FJK12NOI-I & STEDMAN,
unAiTLEnono, VT.
Tms.-1u advance, per year, $l.S0j If not paid
within tbe year, $3.00.
lUtcM or Anvt-ftTislsa furnished on application,
lllrtl e, licit In and Marrlagea published gratia: Obll.
nary Notices, Cards of Thauka, etc., 750 per Inch of
12 llnca or less.
Unltrrd at the nrattttboro vst Office at seromf-cfass
U. L. FitEKCI!.
I), n. Rtcdman.
Business (Cnrts.
iii:ii)i.i. v j:..r,
lleneral Insurance and Ileal Estate Agents.
Representing Conipanlea whoa. Assets areover
s4UO,OOO,O00.
TENEMENTS TO LET.
Agents for 1IAHCOCK Etna ExilSUUISIItlls.
Office In SUrr fc Eatey'a Newll.uk llluck, cor. Main
utl Elliot atreete,
11RAT1LE11U1.0, VT.
J A M CS .n. I TIKII, '
., , .. Wllllstou lllock, nralllelioro.Vt..
practices In all tbo court., make, collection, nromutlj.
ami luveata money un we-.tcru mortgagc-a.
KM. IIO I.TO.V , 3t. !.,
. I'HYHIOIAN AND BURGEON,
llRATTtsiiono, Vt.
Olllce and resideuco corner .Main and Walnutste
At home from 1 to 2 and Irom 0 to 7 o'clock P.M.
It. ALI,E. V CO., "
DEALERS IN LUMUElt OF ALL KINDS,
"22 Flat street, liraltleboro, Vt.
JAJ1EN CIIAIiAXll,t.ll
1'UH1CIAN AND SURGEON,
Uillco InLrusby block, over Vermont National Dank.
Olllce boura 8 to 0 A.M., 1 to 3 KM.
Residence 19 Main at I!ath-doro,Vt.
Di. tvi.iiN'ri:ii,.M. it.
Ollice anil re.ldence 27 Elliot it., Brattleboro,
V t. Olllce boura before 8 a. h.; 1 to 2 and 0 to 8 p.m.
ITK.HV Tl'lillKIl,,!),,
1 1 SURG V.OX Atl imTfPiiiTimaT
O nice In Leonard's Ulock, Elliot Street. UlDcebc
1 130 to 3:oo and 7:00 to9:oo r. at.
given to chronic dieeaaea.
Ulhcebours.
Special attention
HAHItWN .V HIOUIU1II),
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW
and Sotlcltore of Patente, Drattlebobo, t.
II.
MAXX, Jit.
LAWYER,
Wilmington, Vt.
WI" IIEWIH, Houbo ami Sign I'aluter. Or
namentaland Frweo I'afntlug.aralulog.Kal
iamininR, 1'aper Hanclog, etc.
lvo Oritn Street. BraUleboro, Vt .
C. nOLHTKII,
FIHE IKUKANCE AGENT,
rCTWET, Vt.
EJ. CAIimXTEIl, SUrkft lllock, Elliot
St. Dealer lu Tnyi, Faury flood, liooka, sta
tionery, Newipaper. Magazine! k Periodicals. Sub
Kcrlpttnna received for tbe prloclpa newspapers and
magazlnci, and forwarded by mall or otherwise.
T)IIOO HOtNK 1IAI11 IHlENft.
JL XU JtOOM. Mb. JAMES G. COOK, for
merly of the Tarber Hotjue, Uoston. Firft-claea work.
Hoorn In rear of hotel olllce.
F. AIIDItNOt,
STEAM FITTElt AND rLUMDEK.
Drattlebobo. Vt.
Steam ripo and ratings and Hteam netting appa
ratus furnlibed and put la. Steam boilers and en
glues repaired. All Jobbing Id this line promptly at
tended to. Water piping aud Flumblug done in tbe
best manner.
c. i:ntaiiiioi. jii.,
WAltDSDOHO, VT,
Home Fslutlng, Graining, Paper Hanging, Hard
wood Flolfblug. 40-52
BJntijs auto fHmicdtcs.
J.
Wlrstrru Enbcstmrnts.
J. U. MEIIHIFIELD,
President.
11. M. SUEItMAN,
Secretary.
Vermont Loan & Trust Company
OIKAXIl FOllKN, DAKOTA.
VEGGTIATOBS OF
Hcd Uivor Valley Farm Loan.s,
- Bearing 8 to 9 per cent. Interest, net.
Tnll particulars, with references, furnished on ip
plication. Correspondence solicited. 13
1. 1VII1TE.
SIOUX FALLS, DAKOTA,
E.
Real Estato and Loan Agont.
Eastern parties desiring tr loan money nr Invent fu
real estate Id thp growing city of Sioux Falls, cannot
do better than deal with me. I shall endeavor to deal
honestly aud fairly with all who may do bnsiners with
me, tod at a fair rate of comrolssiorj. Address E. F.
WHITE, Sioux Fslls, Dak.. Box 1177.
liefer by permission to editors of this piper, toS.
W. Kimball of lirattleboro, and to either Dr. Gray or
Dr. Tufts of Sioux Falls. 23
R K.
Mil
Our complete slock of Tall ami
Winter HOS Mill' and GLOVES
Is now open, and Includes many
choice and desirable goods.
MERIXO UXDEllWEAll - - A
large line and good value In every
yradc.
We have secured the sale of one
of the best lines of Ladles' WHITE
COTTOX VXDEllWEAll In the
market, made entirely on lock
stitch machines, and would solicit
an examination.
Wi STORE, HOOKER BLOCK,
TO WHOM.
IT SV1AY CONCERN.
Ami U concerns all intending to
buy
cub
CARD.
llnving piirclmserl (ho stock mid
Si?IP',ill8,nc8? of 1)r' " s WES
TON, formerly Dr. J. W. OIIEUG,
I would sny to tlio people of Unit
tlelioro mid vicinity Hint I nm pro
pnrcd to furnish TIIK I'UHKST OP
l)ltU(3H AND MKD1CINE8 nt the
LOWEST l'OSSIDLE 1MMOES.
Hnving hnd 15 years' oxpcrlcneo
n tho retail drug Imslness, includ
ing two years in tho city, I feel
confident Hint I enn supply you with
rol initio preparations.
Any physician's or family pre
scriptions you should see ill to fii
vor mo with will receive my prompt
aud careful attention.
Doping to receive n share ol vour
pntronngo, I nm very truly yours,
I. B. THORN.
"PEOPLE'S"
Drug Store,
119 Main St., opp. High;
A Fl'LL ASSOUTJIUNT OF
DRUGS. MEDICINES,
CHEMICALS AND
PATENT MEDICINES,
TRUSSES,
SHOULDEll IUUCES,
SUPPORTERS, AM)
SP0XGES,
01 LET SOAPS,
lAXDKERCIHEF EXTRACTS,
AM) COLOtiXES,
CLOTH,
TOILET,
HAIR AM)
TOOTH BRUSHES,
And everything usually kept in a
nrst-ciass drug store.
KEMEM.ISEH, I will not bo un
dersold! THE II EST (JUALITY
AND LOWEST PRICES must es
tablish my trade.
I. B. THORN.
Card from Dr. Weston.
To the Penplf o Jlmttltboro :
Halnc sold my Druz business and all Prescriptions
to I. D. TllQltX, I Mould most cheerfully recommend
blm to my friends and former patrons, atxl from my
arquiintance with him I feel sure that suy who may
give blm their patronage will flul all their orders and
prescriptions carefully snd accuntely prepared.
iienpecuuur,
40 E. K. WESTON, M. D.
CHEAP FOR CASH,
To call at South Main strcot Store,
Tiper's old stand.
NEW STOCK
OF
GROCERIES
AND
PROVISIONS
And all kinds of Goods
usually kept in a first
class Grocery Store
Having had somo oxpcrlonco in
Jinking I slum mnuo
FLOUR
A SPECIALTY.
G. B. DICKINSON.
MISISIIK!
DROWNS
STOCK OF ROOTS AXD SHOES
FOR THE FALL AXDWIXTER
TRADE IS SOW COMPLETE.
I have a largo slock of
RUBBER GOODS,
Including the best makes, nt prices
t lint will suit nil.
FARMERS!
C0JIE IN & LOOK THROUGH MY
KIP BOOT DEFT,
Ami IF vnu ivntlf si lioot Hint will
stand by you, ask for tho "MONI
TOR Kir, Hand Jiauc.
LADIES !
Don't fail to see those "CONGOLA"
chnniois-llned boots, for a wnrm
winter shoo. "LADIES' COMMON
SENSE" a specialty.
PEOPLE EEA.LIZE "VALUE EE-
0EIVED" AND HAVE DIS
COVERED THAT
BROWN'S
IS THE PLA0E TO BUY
Boots and Shoes.
BROOKS HOUSE BLOCK.
H. E. BOND,
D CALEB IN
METALLIC, WOOD FINISH
& CLOTH COV-ttKiUU
CASKETS,
If
Jlh'A Til IX TIIK M0IXTAIX8.
Absolutely Pure.
Thla powder never Tarlcs. A taarrrl of imnly
BtreDKth and whole.om.De... Moro ecuDotulcal tltaD
tbo ordinary klDil.. aud cannot bo .old In comix-titlon
with the moltllude of low te.t. abort wrlgbt, alum or
phosphate powdera. VW only in can.
aTJjrtotAl. Uiimo rowDtn Ca.ina Wallil., N. Y
AIX STYLES AND QUALITIES.
TEXTILE, OOLI) JXI SILVER
I'LATEIl TlllMMiAuo,
i niPR' & CENTS' ROBES.
Cbtauiber.'a IHalnfecllna; a'luU for llie
nnniec PHNRALMED
SO AS TO UK PRESERVED 1'OIt ANY LENGTH
U( 4IJUC) ...
noomi over Cox's stove store. , , .
' u w" Connected w Uu TeUphonu Eichange
JAMES PYIES
m BEST THING KNOWN
WASHINGBLEAOHnTG
IN HARD OR SOFT, HOT OR COLD WATtB.
BATES LAltOI!, T1MK and ROAT AJI.U
INQLT. and glrcfl unUerartl aHU.riicllon.
Ho fflnllr. rich or poor ahotild lo without It.
Sold by ail Groccrl. MUWAltCof Imitations
well dcslimod to mislead. lT.AItLINi: 1 the
ONLY SAF13 labor-aaTlna: compound, ftnc
altrnya bear, tho aboro symbol, and namo of
JAMKtt rVLC NEW vow;.
IT LEADS ALL."
No other blooil-purlfviwr inrilN-lne li uiji1.
or has ever Iw-cu pfpur-'tl 'iiuh co to'n
pletoly nuvli tU HAtu u! phjBtclauB autl
tho giMiaral puhhv! tu
Ayer's Sarsaparilla.
It e&U tho IWt an ft truly wit ntifli prvpirv
tlon ior nil LlHh liHii-tti. If (!n!r ih a lurk-
Qpnnnn ji Ut t.iut f s rutuii .thDut .u.
OunUrUUt Ai ntt surtKii.L will
diMixlgtj It ami vspl it from your ytem.
l-'or cotutitution il f-r -tululoui Cut.nrli,
PHTIODU AVKH'- S if MtII.LV fu t'lO
UfllAnnil tru rm.-lv. It Um curwl
liuniwrl.'rti cii n. It t ,ll nt'p tlie nitlitvoiH
fturrlnl dif -iiiry , .tu I r. -H'trw itio Bickcii
iug o.ur uf th" tir.'.itu, ua.cli aru IiiJicH'iuua
of avrufuloiu origin
Hi rrnmiQ ""-'i -sm
ULULnUUO "At tho of to vi ar im i.f
Cnnrn my chll-lren m.h terrihly ntltict-'l
OUnCd with uceruut ruiinhi,! mrm on U
i&e an.t tifck. At tbrt c.nno lime lu ejii
vero swolltfu, much I till mi'-il. nml ery sur.
CilDC PVCO l,lxh'ijii' t-l l unthit ii iov.
OUitu CTLv rulalU;riitlvomt?licineniut
be etnpleU Thoy uiilUxl lu reoomiiitMutui
AVFU SiU44t'AHILI,l. A few lintv pn-
diuHtl n M'rftlhl iinproc:nfnt, whK'h, l y
nn Aiitierenr to your lireotln, vra contht
uel to a ct nplttd Aiul i-frmtiient cum, No
evidence l.ut Inc appd.iru'l of tho existeiK-t
of auy wrofulou tvijiL'tirifs; nnl treat
ment of any disorder mm t rer atu-ndeU by
more prompt or etrcctu.il result.
Vour truly, It. V. Joilsso.N.
rani-AiiED nv
Dr.J.C.Aycr&Co.. Lowell, Miisrf.
Sold by all Drul.ta; 91, tlx bottles for $5.
A linpp.r (.'irprisc it m to Mr. A. 11.
;:"rtnn, of IlrUuil, Conn., when ATinxiruonos
put him ou hU feet, and 6cnt him cbecrtuily
about his buslnem. Ut Wm tell hU own fctory:
"About three wecta a;o I was taken
with a Mtra crick lu tha bu.k. Tor four cUya
1 uu uii.blo to turn lu ll without LUi, and
heu hf Utl up could not rtand on tuy f et t Iwoa
1nduc'dtotoATULorHoi:oi,alUxallthcu.u&l
n-nutUt. failed In aDUilnutc after Uldntftno
tint dOM I could bear my weight ujou my f t
lu twodiya able t)K(t about andattcud
to biudne... In tno other cae. which hae
coma to mjr fcnowhxhie 1U luo haa bctu atuudul -with
the a&in. rculta '
A ponr man in rhilailelpliia 1i:i1 to lmr
row a dollar to buv a loitle of Ami opiioko.
on account of his poverty hit namehhalt remain
a Becnl Ho had BufTered terribly from IthiU
matlsm. He gratefully writcss
' I tool; my first d'; Tuesday nftf rnoon,
and on Wednesday, after but M:endnw-. 1 h ..I
not a tharp or ei ere ache left. Then I mlu. r.1
the doee onchalf end to.-k t'ie ruiainUr cf Uia
bottle. I waaatleloleteAdy at work tlli Kit.
urday, when I took a Hivcre cld aud waa un
ab!e to um) my hit han t. 1 rurchM-d anotlu r
bottle and by bedtime T found relief. The
medicine 1. .11 you chum fur 1L"
Investigate ATllLoi'iioitosallyou please!
Find all the fault you chootc villi it! un.l
yet the f-ict remains, that it U doing v liat
no other medicine ever could do for Hhcu
niatism and Neuralgia.
1 f you cannot pet ArnLOrnc kos of your d rug.
gist, wo will rend Uexpi-mspalchon receiptor
regular price one dolljrper bottln. We prefer
that jou buy It from our druggltt, but It ho
hasn't II, do not be p -rsuaded to try bomethlng
ebe, but order at o:ico lrom us aa directed
AThlOPHCFOS CO., 112 WALL ST., NEW YORK.
i.;HiTr-i';..,.HH,J,iiiiniimmjjl
Tiir. DREAnrui, n.Aiiur. wuicit a beveue
tmouaiii has caused in wehteun mimiinia
AND EABTEDN EENIUCKt,
A dupnlch from IlinlOD, West VirtflnU,
uuder date of Nov, Sllsayst New rumors of
tho plnguo lu tho extreme southern part of
this fctatc. In Western Virginia aud In East-
tru Kentucky nro faM RivlDg way to startling
facts, The centre of the sfllicted district is
in the centre of Dickinson county, Virginia,
n the midst of the Cumberland mountains.
and over 100 miles from tho nearest railway
station. The greatest destitution prevails,
and the cold weather is sure to cause such a
mortality as eveti the present state of affairs
has not begun to equal. The last rainfall
was on August li, unless Unas fallen witmu a
week. The last person arriving here from
hat section was a commercial traveler for a
llallimora house, who k it Ii 'ekburg one week
ago yesterday, lie says business is at a
standstill. (Jtops are a failure. Many fam.
litis have not a bushel or grain nor a bead of
hvo stock left. Medicimi are exhausted.
aud physicians are nearly all dead from over.
uork. Corpses he for days uuliurleu. In
many instances water is carried three and
four miles in buckets. There ia no running
water lift, that which is used being found in
tools fu the deeper holes in creek bottoms.
.jmma river has nut suluclent water In it to
lloat a chip, save in pools. The flsh are dead
iy Ions, incited, It Is asserted that there Is
not a live li)i in six or seven counties. As
the waltr evaporated, that which was left
naturally relaiutd all the salts aud minerals.
It is believed that diiuking this water caused
the disease.
llie disease is not cmitentaus. That belief
arose from the fact that everybody was taken
with the same symtitoms, tbe luuorsnt ponu.
latlili not reasoning as to the real cause.
l.nck of mllijlcl.t and uroner food greatly In
creases the mortality. The latest e-stimates
place tbe number of deaths at i'.WKI. 'Ibe
patient Is seized with vettigo, heavy fever.
complete uuconscioutuis, with luvoluntary
liKCbarges much colored with blooil. Aleatn
etisueH in about ten hours, the victim suffer-
i it Intensely. Mho scenes of distress aro
ti rrible. All tho people are poor mountain
eers, uio-t of them living in log houses of
two rooms, oocupied by from l) to a dozen
persons, lu some instances tbo uiseaso bas
swept off wLole families, the lant members
to ills being left unburifd.
Up tbe mountain passes and aloug the
small streams in tbe valleys are to be found
scores of houses unoccupied because their
owners are dead. Auimuls suffer from the
ssmo symptoms as the men. The cries of
the children begging for food aro pitiful. If
relief is sent it must ho soon, before tho
roads aro blocked with snow. Thero is little
of the plsgue iu We st Virginia, only portions
of four counties suffering.
Ibe l.'iuirtvllle tJourier-Journal recently
sent a stall correspondent to investigate tho
reported raVHgts of the disease, aud he Bends
the following from Williamsburg, Kentucky:
W. C. Lester, a prominent attorney of this
place, has just arrived from Mouut 1'leassut,
be county seat of Harlan. Ho savs that In
Harlan couuty tho ravages appear to be the
worst. It is most fatal aud prevails to the
greute st extent up about the head waters of the
l'oor l'oik aud Clover Creek, iu tbe moun
tains about !!. milts from Mouut l'leaaant.
This largo territory is terribly afllicted, tho
people dying rapidly. In one neighborhood
twelve persons died iu a single day in the
latter part of last week, and there were
scarcely well people enough to make them
covins end bury them. On Brown's creek,
which rites lu Harlan county, aud cmptiea
into the Cumberland river, in Hell county,
the dicaie is raging with frightful rapidity,
aud tltrft is no means of keeping a record of
the dead. All along the bauks of the stream
pennloitre sick, and physicians and medicines.
outside of herbs aud roots with whose cura-
ive properties Ibe ustives are actiuaiuted,
are unknown aud unobtainable. The epi
demic is rapidly spreading In Harlan couuty.
Mr. Letter eays that uo one seemed to know
the exact nature of the pestilence. Mod of
the people called it "llux," aud it is probably
an aggravated form of that disease. It be
gins with griping paius lu the stomach, fol
lowed by a debilitating dlarrLeua and swell.
ng of the turost, aud it not fatal lu three.or
tour days the patient as a rule recovers. All
reports agree as tolhe cause of the epidemic,
t Uing attributed to Ibe use of impure wa.
er by tbo uatives. The season has been un-
ueualiy dry, the streams, as a rule, consisting
etuly of narrow threads of murky, foul smell
lug and foul-taidtng wider. 1 he .coin crop
in all tho counties named is good, and starva
tion and want ouly e list because tbo people
can spare uo lime from the tick to gather it.
No mills are running on the smaller streams.
Ilonnriirht Cruelty,
To permit pouraelf and family to
"Suffer I"
With aickneaa when It cau be prevented and cured
ao easily
With Hop Uitter.il I
Hat log eiperleoced a great deal of
"Trouble 1" from lodhjcetlou, ao much ao that I
came near loslna my
My trouble alwaye came after eatlog any food
However Hsbt
And dlge.llule,
For two or three hours at a time 1 had to go through
the moat
Excruciating pains,
"And tbe only way I ever got"
"Relief 1"
Waa by throwing up all my stomach contained. No
one can conceive tbe palna that I had to go through
until
"At last f "
I waa taken! "So that for three weeka I lay lu bed
and
Could eat nothing!
Myaufferlngewereeo that I called to doctor, lo
give me aometblng that would atop the pain, tueir
Etforte were no good to me.
At laat I heard a good deal
"About your Hop Ultlere !
And determined to try them."
Oot a bottle In four boura I took the conlenla of
One!
Next day I was out cfibed, and have not ae en a
"Sick!"
Hour, from the aame cause alnce.
I have recommended It to hundreda of othera. You
have no such
"Advocate as 1 am." Geo, Eendall, Allston, Boston,
U"' Columbus Advocate, Texas, Arrll 21, '83.
Dear Editor: I have tried your Hop Ulllers, snd
find they are good for any complaint. The best med
Idne I ever used In my family. H. TALENER,
...
llNooe genuine without a tranrh of green Hops
on the white iauei. nuuu n . u. i-.-vmv-
with "II0p"or "UOpa" iu lueir u.uio.
em
0
Security 3 to
o lunar. y o ' . ,
INTEREST
..... . t .ml nth nl Ii 11 nine Ik.
wiu year i ------
1 No tr..tor cw b4 to py taiw, cwu of
land. BEST of Reference. Urite
if yuu baro money 10 joau. au-w
D. S. D. JOHNSTON & son,
Niaotlntora of MortBOflb Loans.
MeuUon this paper. 8T. PAUL, MINN.
Hi exceptional success of tho Christmas
number rf Ilirper's Mageziue last year has
b-d the editor aud publi.bers to attempt this
year to di.appi iut tho public agreeably by
gmr.g them a still doer number an attempt,
we Lave uo hesitation lu saying, which has
tieen entirely succeFsful. The December is
sue, contains no less linn six separately print
ed plates, besides several other full page ih
lustrations, the fmutitpicco being a repro
duction, iu the highest art of the wooden
graver, of tho charming picture of "The lloy
Jer-u In the Temple," by Prof. Hofmann of
Dreseli n, one of the chief contributions of
modern paintiug to religious art. The en
graving is thB work of W. H. Closson, from
whose graver comes ano lu the same Issue a
reproduction of the Klora" of Titian, The
literary aud nrtistio contents otherwise fur.
uUli an extraordinary and delightful variety
of sketch, story, peietry, art and music; while
iu llie Ussy Chair Mr. Curtis writes of "John
Hull aud Hrother Jouathan at the Christmas
1'ireslde;" and iu tho Drawer Mr. Warner
has a pleasant prefatory word as to The
Universal Christmas Feast."
An HnglUh writer, treating of Pompeii uu-
der the text that there is nothing new under
tbe sun, says that the bread baked yesterday
at Naples is of the preciso shape of tbe loaves
found at Pompeii which were put into an ov
en nearly two thousand yrars ago. The coin
age of I lint period differs little from the coin
age of this, except that its workmanship is
better. A gaming-table tutu had a pair of
dice, aud a lady's toilet table a mirror and a
rouge pot. "Small boys scribbled on tbe
walls and playeel with balls aud knuckle bones
and whipping tops aud marbles in the streets
of 'eld Pompeii as they do in modern Paris,
Naples, IyOiidcn, or llerliu. There even are
the pass checks which were curreut at the
theatre where tbe people were assembled at
the time of the eruption." Of one modern
article, however, this writer could find no
counterpart among all the matters recovered
from l'ompell. mere was no classio cork.
screw.
Julian Hawthorne in a late addro,s alluded
lo Abraham Lincoln as "tho man who made
black white."
This country has obout 10.000.000 chil
elrtn of "school age," but less than 10,000,-
0(10 are enrolled in lui schools. There are
.".10,000 teachers employed in all, and tbe
cboolscost i'.ii,ouu,uti a year.
Tho nuaitet iu Ksv. Dr. Newtusu's quirrel
lug church, ou a recent Sunday sang to an
audience of eighty three people, "O, for a
thousand tongues lo sing." The Now York
Sun reported tbe services under tbe head,
"More than !)00 tongues short."
In bis Thauksglting-day sermon the ltev.
Talmace said, "tho Iwt thing Congress could
do with tbe $100,000,000 surplus, which the
K publicans have not stolen and tbe jJemo
crats have not vet had a chauoe to steal,
would be to apply it In some way to tbe es.
tabliebment at steamship lints to South
America and to dredging nut their harbors so
as to rcuder them accessible to commeroe."
There are 1S.O0O government employes In
Washington, of whom only about 0000 are
protected by tue civil-serviteiaw. vtasuing.
tou dealers iu all articles of luxury must con-
tomplate a season of uuusual stagnation,
since thousands of clerks will economize to
the last oent during tho winter. In order to
pay oil iud"ht dnesa and secure property on.
ly parlially paid for, or to make provision for
the oontiugtucy ut removal.
Qeu, Sherman said In a recent speech at
St. Louis that J (I Divit was a conspirator at
ibo oi eniut' nt tbe rebellion end sought to
mokn hlnikilf dictator, and that in a letter
written Ibeu uu said he would turn Lee a nr.
my agniust any slate which tried to secede
from ilia conMeracy. To this Davis answers
that Sherman is a liar aud that he must pro
duce the letter "or wear tbe brand of a has?
slanderer:" and the Osneral rejoins that
"Mr, Davis will ijtt all he wants in due
time."
Miscellany.
In Xrn.l.rla.
A rnnntng not their own our hands mekra wle,
anei rowers mere be that are nnguessed or men
That build tbelr faltha bevond the nlmost ken
Of earthly wisdom, Bnlrlte In dl.gnlsa
Lead our feet dally under fairer sktea
i nan tnone our eyea Dahoia. Hands guide the pen
Of bard and nronhet and of atateatnan when
Tbey wot.not of tbelr preaenee. Stare arise
We dream not of, to lluht o'er perlloua seas
Tbe drifting harka of yeara that Journey on,
Hearing tbe aeeda of far-off centuries.
Tbo1 noperceived, there blowa a breath through 111
Toward beavenly ahorea, aod a propllloua moon
owaya au tua ocean uaee or nntnan win.
iruller ft. Women.
Uerbctt Spencer, the great phlloaopher, while In
America aaldl "The Yaukeca live too fill, work too
much, aud catch cotd too often." What a chance for
Dr. Hull's Oough Syrup I
TlIB LITTLE LACK PKVVLKll.
lit II. II.
It was a sultry afternoon in August. Jen
ny Connard and beraunt, Mrs. Hsrrett, were
sitting on their vine-shaded piazza, looking
bo cool aud comfortable that tho very sight
of thetn was tantalizing to people who could
oot afford to sit cool and comfortable ou vine
shaded piazzas.
This was tho thought which casseu throucb
the mind of a tired, dusty, overheated wom
an who opened the gate, aud with an irreso
lute step and glance walked toward thorn.
"I don't believe they'll buy," she said to
herself, "They look too comfortable for
anything, sitting up there in their mualin
gowns, cool as cucumbers. UU dear I Hut
I may as well try,"
And while tho poor woman was thinking
this, Mrs. Uarrett was saying in an under
tone to her niece I "Dear 1 there comes one
of those peddling women. That's tbe wor.t
of being out here in full sight of tbe street.
Thero's uo escaping anybody that chooses to
open tbe gate aud walk In. I do hope your
uncle ii leei that he can build another piazza
ou tbo backside of tbe house before another
summer. It's just like Bitting on the side,
walk to sit here: and for people that
cau't even go anywhere iu tbe summer, it's
too bad not to have a nook or a corner to
themselves out doors."
As sho spoke tbe last words tho dusty,
flushed stranger reached the foot of tbe piaz
za Btepa and Bald, "Cau I show you some
laces to day, ladies?"
"Ob. laces. Is It ?'' said Mrs. liarrett. "1
thought you were a book-agent. If its laces,
you cau come up. 1 shan't buy anything,
but I d like to look at them."
With a sigh of relief tbo tired woman sank
into a chair, and said, "Well, I'm thankful
you would. I'd most made up my mind to
ask you to let me sit down here a few min
utes, even If you dldn t want to Bee a thing.
I've been walking all the morning, and the
heat's something awful. It's heaven hero ou
this piazza."
At this Jenny smiled and looked at bar
aunt. She was about to say, "You Bee, it
seems a good deal better thau tbo sidowalk
to some people," then Bhe changed her miud
and turned to tbe laces. They wero exceed
ingly pretty; somo of them valuable.
"How do you get such laces as these ? '
asked Mis. Uarrett, sharply.
the woman was too tired to bo resentful.
"Ob," she said, "I only Bell on commissiou.
I get all my laceB from a store in New York.
I've been travelling for thetn now for two
years."
"travelling I exclaimed Jenny. "Do you
go far ?'
nell, 1 haven t been out of Iew iotk
slate till this year," she replied. "I did
pienaidly there the nrst two years. 1 just
took the towns right along on the railroads ;
aud sometimes I'd stop a month in one place,
ami -go round to tho small villages and farms.
You wouldn't believe what nice things some
of the farmers' wives '11 buy. I've had the
best time goiu' round among them. I do
love tbe country. I can drcssmsko a little
too, so they'd get mo to make a dress, or cut
and fit, maybe; and I'd pay for my board
that way, and they'd always buy something.
I did real well at Niagara, too, last year.
Hotels aro hrst-rate places. Travellers aro
always getting Bhort o' laces and collars and
such fixings. I sold over five hundred dol
lars' worth at Niagara ; sold out once, clean
out, aud had to send back to New York for a
new stock."
Jenny's eyes wero as big saucers. "Have
you been at Niagara?" she gaoped. "Did
you have time to see it, besides selling your
things?"
"Oh lor! yes." answered tho woman, "I
saw all 1 wanted to of it, and more too. It's
a dreadful tiresome place enough to make
you deaf, tbo sound of tho water. I was glad
to get away.
"Id give all la worth to see It lust one
hour," exclaimed Jenny.
The woman looked at her curiously. "Well,
can't J e go ? What's to hinder ?"
Jenny shook her head and turned again to
the lace box, over which her aunt was bend
ing with absorbing interest. It was a pretty
aseorlment of alt tbe numberless little dainty
articles uf loco-wear, tempting when one
sees them spread on city counters, but how
much more so when they aro suddenly dii
played to ur.u.ed eyes in rural villages 1
"jenny, look at this ptuk crape bow with
lace ends 1" exclaimed Mrs. Harrett. "Would
n't that be lovely with my wine-colored gren
adine? I would like it. But it's no use; 1
can't buy it."
"It s only two dollars better take It," said
the sales-woman, "Tbey were two and a
half, but I'm selling tbe last at two. Or
here aro some at one dollar, very similar."
"Not half so pretty, said Mrs. liarrett.
"It's the two dollar piak one I want. Hut I
can't have it. You may as well put it up."
The woman lingered. It did Indeed seem
to her like heaven on the cool shady piazza.
Have you got much family? sho aked.
"Ouly myself aud my uieoe now," answer
ed Mrs. Uarrett, wonderlngly. "My bus.
band it ia New York buying goods. He
keeps that dry. goods store on Main street,
Perhaps you saw it."
"Uhl does bee les, l was in there try
ing to sell some of my laces, and they 6aid
tho boss was away buying. Tbey said busi
ness was dreadful dull bore now."
"Yes, 'tis," sighed Mrs. liarrett. "I would
n't have minded buying that bow last year
this time, but my busband told me not to
spend a singlo cent I could help, and I ain't
going to."
"There's mighty few wives like lht," re
plied the sales-woman, half soliloquiziugly.
"Say," sbe continued, "if you want that bow
so bad, why don't you just keep me over to
night and to-morrow ; it won't cost you any
thing to speak of, and I'll let you have tbe
bow for it. It does seem to me like heaven
on this piazza here I"
Mrs. Harrett looked at Jenny, who nodded
approvingly, exclaiming, "Ob, do, aunt!
She may sleep in my room, and welcome ;
and I can Bleep wltb you."
"Well," said Mrs. Uarrett, "seeing my hus
band's away, you can stay. We haven't got
but tbe two bedrooms."
"I shouldn't care if I had a bedroom or
not, it seems to me," said tbe woman, "if I
had such a piazza as this. I tell you, if you'd
tramped as much as I have to day you'd think
it was just heavenly. My name's Williams,"
she added. "I suppose you'd like to know
something about me : Harriet Williams. I
was bom aud reared just outside of Canau.
daigua, New York, and I've got folks at home
very comfortable. I can go home any time
I'm a mind to ; but I just thought I'd be In
dependent, and I'm real fond of travelliug
besides. At least I was. I'm about sick on't
now. I reckon I'll stay at homo this win
ter." "I thiuk It's a perfectly splendid way you
do," exclaimed Jenny, who had been devour,
lug every word she said. "Do you really
make money besides all it costs to travel ?
Undo always 6aya it costs frightfully to trav
el." "Well, it does, and it don't," said the prac
tical Harriet, who had taken off her bonnet
and was leauiug ber head back against tbe
lattloa-work wall of the piazza.
"It's all according to how you travel. It
costs me mighty little. First place, I get a
commercial traveller's ticket. That cuts
down on the fares a lot. Then I don't stop
at bigb-ptised houses. I always find out
somo nloa quiet boarding bouse. I never
pay outside of a dollar or a dollar and a half
a day; and sometimes I stay a week, or even
a mouth iu a place, and pay all my expenses
doing odd jobs of dressmaking nlgbts and
mornings. So all I make on Bales Is clear
gain. Oh yes; It's a good thing. I cleared
three hundred dollars tbe first year ; but then
I took tho typhoid fever in tbe fall, and was
sick three months. I bad it awful, and that
pretty near used up all leaved tbat year."
"I think it's the nicest thiug I ever beard
of for a woman to do, to earn money!" ex
claimed the excited Jenny.
"Meroy on us," sild her aunt, "bow you
do go on I You'll be starting out yourself
with a box the next ining.
"That's just what I mean to do. Aunt liar.
relt," retorted Januy. "You see if I dou't."
"Your uuelo never 'II consent In tbe world,"
said hor aunt.
"Yes, he would. Ho always said I had a
fitst-rato buslnoss bead, t bet you he'd help
me."
"You're crnzy child 1" was all Mrs. liar,
rell's reply, as sho left tho piazza lo prepare
their suppor. "You just slay here with Miss
Williams," sho added. "I'll get supper;
thero ain't much to get."
"Well,"began the strange guest, eying Jen
ny closely, "It strikes ins now that you would
bo just tho one to get aloug first rato In this
business, iou look real courageous. And It
takes courage, I tell you, to strike off all
alone among strangers. Travelling all alone
is awful dissgrocablo sometimes for women.
But I haven't got Inlo auy acrspe yet but
what I got out of all right. You sod, when
folks find out that you're In dead caracal, aud
are all right, tbey always help you along."
"Of courao tbey dol" said Jenny. "I
wouldn't bo ono uiito afraid. Hut I wouldn't
Btaydgbt round here iu Ohio. What I want
to do is to travel. I want to go to California
and Colorado; but first of all I want to see
Niagara."
"Oh my!" Bald HirtLd Williams, "you
are courageous, sure cnougb, talking about
California. You wouldn't ually start off for
there alone, would you ?"
"Why not ?" said Jeuny. "If it's safe to
do It for a buudn d miles, it's safe to do It
for a tbnu.and. That's jut what I do mean
to do If I do it at all! I mean just to see
this whole United Stales. I've sat thinking,
thinking, by tbe half-day at a time, how I'd
over get a chance to see anything of tbe
world, and I didn't seo any loophole of a
chance; but as soon as you began to talk I
just foil right away, 'Now b"ro's something
I could do!' Now you Just tell me every
thing you can thiuk of. How do you man
age about getting tbe right things? You
don't have to keep going to New York us un
cle does, do you V I expect he could get
iuing ior me ; iney d tiust him; he's been
buying in Nt-w York for years aud years."
mulct Hazed admlritinlv at tbe oirl'a face.
then sighing, sho said : "You've got it in you,
uo inlslakel Now that's been tbe trouble
wilb me, I've never had nouraco to strike
out that way. I've just trotted right round
aud round in a kiud of circle. This is tho
rlr-t lime I'.e be-n so far west as this. Hut
I'vu always known the West was tho place
to go to. I wish I'd had your grit. Tbo
trouble with me is I get loueenme and home
sick, Don't you suppose you'd get homesick
sometimes ?"
"Not if I was making money and scoinc!
new places," replied Jeuny ; "I'd be perfect,
ly happy. Tboy'ro the two things I want to
do. If you laid up Hired hundred dollars In
ono year, in ten you'd have three thousand.
iou could go to EurofJa for tbat aud stay a
whole year."
"Ob'l Europe!" ejaculated Harriet. "You
wouldn't go as far as that alone ?"
"If I could talk their languages. I wouldu't
mind," said Jenny. "I'd do anything under
heaven to get there."
"Weil, you are tbe beat of all the girls I
ever saw 1" said tho aitouiahed Harriet. "I
shouldn't thiuk you'd ever want lo leave such
a piazza as this.
"Why, jou said you w.nted to travel your
self," .aid Jeuny. "You weren't contented
to stay at home aud not do anything."
Harriet's faoe clouded. "Oh, well," sbe
said, "I was situated very different from you,"
aud her lip riuivered. ' I can see you've got
the nicest kind of a homo here."
"Yes," said Jenny, "so I have. But It isn't
my own, as if it was my father's and moth
er's, 'they're dead, and I haven't any broth
er or sister, aud I always have felt as if I
ought to earn my living ; but I never saw the
way how till to day. row I do, and I ra go
ing to do it." Aud Jenny set her white teeth
together with a click that souuded as resolute
as the click of a pistol lock.
The girl was too excited to sleep. It was
near morning when her aunt, roused by ber
restless turning, exclaimed. "I do believe.
Jane Connard, you're lyiug awake all night
thinklug o that peddling.
"That's what I am, aunt," replied Jenny,
"as wide awake as I ever was ; and I've got
it all planned out. I'm going to Niagara first.
Uncle 'II fix it for me, I knor he will. Don't
you suppose he'd be glad to have me earn
three hundred dollars a year ?"
"I don't believe hor,'' said Mrs. Barrett,
sleepily.
"I do," said Jenny. "That's just the way
uncle makes his money. Why shouldn't she ?"
Mrs. Harrett was too sleepy to answer, and
Jenuy went un undisturbed till d.ylight in
her auitittlous plottings.
Sbe hardly felt herself tbo same person the
next day, so full was she of hir new purpose,
so iuipalieut for her uncle's return to carry it
out. She plied II trritt with tiuostioaa innu
merable at breakfast, diuner aud supper, un.
til she had all the details of the project clearly
mapped out in bar mind. And when tit night
tbe lace veu.ler gave an account of ber day,
and exhibited tbe twenty dollars in cash
which she had taken In, spit of the hard
times, eveu Mrs. Harrutt was conquered, and
admitted that there was a "fair show" for a
goe.d bu.iuens iu peddling laces.
Harriet Williams's vi.it had marked an era
iu Jeuuy's tifs. From tbat day her purpose
never flagged uor faltered, and wbon ber un
cle returned from Now York bo found her
plans already so far matured that sho was
waiting ouly for bis endorsement of ber ap
plication to a welt-known New York firm to
receive from them a box of laces for hor first
venture.
"What? you wrote to them yourself, Jenny,
all alone? Nobody helped you?" said her
uucle.
"No,nobody helped mo ; and, what's more,
nobody knew it," repli-d Jenny.
"No, iudeod," said Mrs. Uarrett. "She's
been a sly pubs."
"I didu,t want you to laugh at mo if tbey
wrote mo back a saucy answer," said Jsnuy,
Mr. Hirrett was astouished at tbo letter
when Jenny showed it to him. The firm said
that tbey knew Mr. Uarrett by reputation
well, and that if he would endorse his niece's
application, and deposit ono hundred dollars
with them as security, they would forward to
her at onoe two hundred dollars' worth of ar.
ticlos for ber first venture.
The truth was, little Jenny's clear-headedness
aud common-sense had stood her iu good
stead in tho wording of ber letter. It was
short and to tbe poiut. It chauced to fall
under tbe eye of the senior member of tbe
firm.
"That woman's got a buclness head on her
shoulders," he said. "You can trust ber. Lit
her have a small slock, and try it."
"Will you trust me, uncle for the hundred
dollars ? I'D pay you good interest for it,
and pay it back before the year's up."
"les, HI trust you," ho said ; "but 1 don t
feel quite rightabout your starting off alone
so."
"You just let her go, father, "said Mrs. Bar
rett, who had become almost aa much inter
ested in the plan as Jenuy herself ; just let
ber go. If the doesn't like it, she's nothing
to do but to come home. She won't go far
at first. She cau easily tell if it suits her."
"It will suit mo fast enough," said the
dauntless Jenny, "if I can only make it pay.
That's all my misgiving. Uut I don't see why
I shouldn't do as well as Harriet Williams."
"You ought to do a hundred times better,"
exclaimed Mrs. Harrett. "There wasn't auy.
thing taking about ber at all. I didn't much
like ber looks when she came up tho yard that
day."
"So you think our Jenny is 'taking,' do
you ?" laughed Mr. Harrett.
"Well, sbe might be more taking than that
Williams girl and not bo anything to boast
of, "said Mrs. Harrett, who was afraid of mak
ing Jenny vain an unnecessary fear, for a
mudester, more unassuming little body never
lived than Jenny was, spite of all her courage
and ambition to Bee the world.
"Taking," however, was just tbo word to
describe her ; it was emphatically true of her
whole manner and bearing ; she bad tbe di
rect, outspoken ways of a ouild,wltb tbe self
reliance of a woman ; a keen hsuso of humor
too, aud a love of nature which was a passion
There oould not be a better combination of
traits for a woman who was to travel by her
self. Sho was not pretty, but sho had an hou-
est face, frank blue eyes, a clear skin, a pleas
ant Bmile not a bad equipment to confront
tbe world with.
And so Jenuy set out on her travels. To
Niagara first. Of that Bhe meant to make
sure, whatever happened. It was lata In the
season ; but, spite of that, she had good luck
In selllug ht-r laces at tbe hotels, also In
tbe village. She was astonished at finding it
so easy ; aud between bsr unexpected success
In trade and her eostaiy in gazing at the t alls,
her bead was nearly turned. She wrote to
hor auut every day, according to her promUe.
but her letters were little more thau a seriea
of exolamation points. From Niagara she
went to Buffalo, having ou ber memorandum
tha names nt several customers there, given
to her by Harriet Williams, who had said. gen
erously i
"Buffalo's a first-rate place. You wouldu't
think It would be, with all the stores there,
but it is. Buffalo aud Cleveland are both
splendid places, and I'll just tell you some of
my best customers In both those place. "
At Buffalo, Jenny bad the great pleasure of
remitting to the New York merchants almost
tho entire sum due them on her first consign
ment and ordering a second. This also she
did In such a clear, busluess-llko way that tho
merohants became especially Inlorostod In
her. Sho ordered with discrimination and
taste.maklng several new suggestions to them.
"This woman is a born trader." said the
senior pattnor. "You seo If she doosu't work
up a first rato business ;" and ho sent Jenuy
a commendatory letter, whli-h, with groat
pride, sbo forwarded at once to her uncle.
At the ond of three mouths sho had worked
her way slowly homo again. Sho had prom
isod to bo at home for Christmas, and she
would not break ber promise. But she was
Impatient to be off. Tho tasto she had had
of independence and travel had but whetted
her appetite, nud after two weeks' holiday she
set off again, this time going south as far as
Nashville, and as far west at St. Louis. The
summer sho spent In the northern lake states
and in New Kngland. Bhe had a purpose in
thus rapidly extending hor circuits. Sbe
wished her aunt andyuncle to grow bo accus
tomed to her being at a great distancs from
them that tbey wotild not bo startled at ber
plans for the following year. Jenuy was re
solved that another year should see her in tbo
ltocky Mountains. "Onoe there," she sail
to herself, I am suro I can keep on to Call
forula ; but I wou't sav anything about that
at first."
Her relatious with the New York bouse
wero now so assured that they trusted her
with all she desired. She had but to telegraph
to have a box of such and such articles at any
glvon point on a given day, and sbe always
found it there awaiting ber. Some of hor
most profitable business was In taking specific
orders for articles too valuable for ber to
carry about in ber boxes. These orders were
instantly honored,
It was past midsummer when Jenny sua
ceeded la reaching her goal in the ltocky
Mountains. It was Ili3 little watering-place
of Manitou, In Colorado, at the foot of Pike's
Peak. She had travelled slowly, having found
an astonishlug demand for ber goods in towns
both large and small in Missouri and Kansas.
Uut she was not too late for Maultou. Its
four hotels and all its boarding-houses were
crowdod to overflowing. It bad been on,, of
tbe gayest seasons ever known there, and
promised to last well Into September.
It wsb the sixth day of Jenny's stay at Man
itou. Already the erect, encrgetio little fig
ure, with its plain gray sergs gown and broad
bat, was well known by sight at the hotels;
and already, es usual, Jenny bad made friends
among her patrons. There seemed a sort of
magio in tbe way her confiding trust in every,
body's good-will disarmed tbe usual antago
nism toward peddlers. "That's what I am
a peddler 1" sbe would say. "Some folks ask
me why I don't call myself something else
' Travelling sales-woman 1' but peddler's short
est. If people wou't like me by that namo,
they won't by any."
A largo party was setting oil for the ascent
of Pike's Peak. Little Jenny stood on Ibo
piazza, black morocco box in band, watching
tbem wistfully. Sbe bad just made a big
sale of laces to one of tbe richost guests in
tbe house, and sbe was thinking to herself,
"Now if only I knew somebody to go wltb,
I could afford to hiro a horse and go."
"Look at tbo little lace girl," said this lady
to ber husband. See how sho wants to go
too."
"Well, why shouldn't she ?" said he.
"I don't suppose sbo knows any one to go
with," replied his wife.
"Nonsense! said he; "anybody that wants
to goes in these Pike's Peak parties. Tbat
girl can take care of herself anywhere. Ask
her if sbe doesn't want to go. I'll make oue
of tbo guides wait for ber."
"What!" exclaimed Jsnny, "Just as I
am ? I baven't got any other gown except
my black Bilk," she added, shyly.
"I'll lend you a skirt. Come quick to my
room," exclaimed Mrs. Sanders, whilo her
husband beckoned to one of the guides, and
sent him to tho BtabU for another horse.
Jenny thought sbe was in a dream. Uefore
she fairly knew what had happened Bhe was
cantering off on a good pony, commended to
tho special care of the guide by kind Mr.
Sanders, who bad said :
"Now remember, Mao, this young lady is
a stranger hero. She knowa no one in tho
party. You look out for her. and btlng her
safe back."
"Tbat I will sir," answered Mac, gazing
approvingly at Jenny's glowiug face as Bhe
thanked Mr. Sanders. And then turning to
him, she exclaimed, warmly,
"Ana thank you too, Mao, beforehand, for
taking care of me."
It was a large party, but there was not a
man or a woman in it who so keenly enjoyed
the beauty of tbat wonderful upward path
as did Jeuny tjonoard.
As they reached plateau after plateau, with
fresh outlooks over tbe plains, or glimpses
down into grand ravines where pine-treee
looked like bushes, tears of delight filled Jeu
ny's eyes. No ono spoke to her. but sbe did
not thiuk of feeling herself alone. Iu de
scribing the ascent afterward, she said,
"1 never once thought about being alone,
any more than I should iu heaven."
Hut as they neared the top Jeuny began to
feel strangely ill. Few persons can without
suffering breath, tho rarefied air of fourteen
thousand feot abovo sea-level, aud to many it
is dangerous, l'oor little Jenny proved to
be one of tbe latter class. Her head swam.
a sickening Bense of weakness overcame ber.
"Mac," sbe called, faintly, "1 am afraid I
am" and the next thing ebe knew she
found herself lying on tbe floor of tbe Signal
Service hut on tho top of the Peak, her head
on Mac's knees, and Borne ono pouriug
brandy down ber throat.
As she opened ber eyes, tho samo swoon
lug sensation seized ber again. "I must be
dying," thought Jenny, who had never in her
life fainted. Her next thought was, "Who
will see to sending the laces back ? Will you
please write down something for me ?" sho
gasped to the stranger who was bending over
ber. "I am suro I must be dying."
"Uu no, miss, no Bald ; "you aro only
faint."
Hut as be said it, Jenny sank off into so
much more serious a swoon tbat he wag not
Bure. It was terrible. From one swoon into
another she sank, until finally it was thought
tbo wisest way to carry her out of tbe bouse
and lay her ou the ground. Here tha wind
revived ber.
"Please write," she gasped. "My namo
and my uncle's aro on a card In my purse."
(The wise little creature always carried these
as a precaution in case of disaster ) "Please
tell Mr. Sanders box from Aiken &
Wheeler's laces will conio eipress to
morrow. Send back" and she was gone
again.
As she said the words "Aiken .t Wheeler's,"
tbe young man who was bending over her
started, and muttered, "By Jove, that's
strange!"
"Do you know 'em, sir ?" whispered Mac.
The young man nodded. Then, speaking
very loud, bo said In Jenny's ear, "I belong
to that firm myself. I'll see it's all right."
A grateful look came into Jenuy's eyes ;
she tried to smile but bad not strength;
whiteness like death spread over her face,
and her gasps for breath wero fearful to see,
"There is but one thing to do," said Mao.
"She can't breath this air ; wo must carry her
down even a few hundred feet lower down
sbe may come to. I've seen ono lady this
way before. You lead the horse, sir, and
we'll carry her,"
So, in tbe arms of tbe two guides, tbe un
conscious Jenny was carried down the path
on which sbe bad a few hours before set out
with such gayety of heart. As Mao had pre
dicted, ebe was releived after a short descent,
bo much 60 tbat she was able to sit ou her
horse, being steadied by his arm, and with
Mao on one side, and ber new acquaintance
on tbe other, with long intervals of rest, Bhe
was at last carried safely back to the hotel,'
only, however, to be laid iu her bed, from
which she did not rise for many days. Her
system bad received a terrible shock, from
which It did not easily rally, Tbe story of
her Illness and oourage, and ber touoblng at
tempt when she thought herself dybg to se
cure tho safety of tbe goods intrusted to ber,
spread through the hotel, and little Jenny
found herself a heroine and tbe fashion.
Mrs. Banders took her at onoe under hor
own charge. She felt herself responsible for
tbe catastrophe ; but before many days had
passed she said to her husband ; "Don't ever
tell me there Is'nt such a thing as Provideuco
again. That fine young fellow thak came
down with Jenny off the Peak is head over
ears in love with her I'm perfectly sure of
it. And he's in Aiken t Wheeler's store,
the very plaoa ebe gets all her laces. Now
dou't you call that a Providenoe, that he
should have boen picked out to be the one
she should have asked to write down about
the laces? I do. It's just like a story iu a
book."
Which It was, and no mistake ; for It was
exictly ai Mrs. Bandtrs mid. Samsthlog In
tho courageous, uuselflib look on Jenny's
faoe, trying, In what sbo suppose 1 to be ber
dying moments, to make suro tbat no one
should suffer loss at hor hands, sunk deep In
to Oeorge ltllleu's mind. He could not leave
off thinking of it; and when ho saw Jenny's
palo face and languid eyes tight up with
pleasure nl sight of blm, ho thought to him.
self, "Bhs is as US-eel as she Is honest I" and
the ntxt thing was Mrs. Binders had hot
exaggerated It In her colloquial phrase ho
was over head aud can iu lovo with her. And
tbo next thing to that was a wedding in tbo
bouso of Jenny's Uncle Harrett; aud Jenny
the arch, loving, resolute littla Jenny say
ing to her husband as tbey were setting off
for Now York, "To think of your having
married a lace peddler I"
Tl,e .TIIi.il ilui-liitf NlarlHllmi.
The reoent case of canuiiml.sni at soa opens
up some curious questions as to tbe elf. o,s of
faxtiug on tbo moral nature of man. To tbo
supirlloial observer, death by starvation sim
ply means a wastiug of the body, a horrible
agony, au iuoieailng weakness, a letbargio
stale of the brain, and a sleep from which
thero Is no awakening; but is this all that it
means? Whilo this is going on, let ut con.
sider whether or not tbe Intellectual faoulty,
and wilb it tin power of disliuguisbl jg right
from wroug, Is not also undergoing a process
of wasting and death, even before tbat of
tbo material part, for, however dangerous it
may be to received opluions lo aiiooiate the
material nature of bram with tbe moral
nature of our being, we are bound to do so
lo elucidate some of tho facts connected with
this cae.
Iteasouing by analogy, wo find that, in
many ca-.es of bodily disease, lbs state of the
miud is tbo ludicator of tbe mischief going
on in the system. Take even such a simple
thing as lndigeition, which, as every ono
must know, is only a manifestation of a de
ranged stomach, and what do we fiud ? That
the lowness of spirits iudnced by this affec
tion may vary from alight de'j-ctiou and ill
humor to the mod extreme melancholy,
souietiuioa inducing even a disposition to
suicide. Tbe sufferer uaiseontrues every act
of friendship, and exaggerates slight ailments
iuto heavy grievances. So in starvation, the
power of reason seems paralyz,el and the In-,
telleclual faculty dazed really before the
fuuetions of the body suffer, or even the
wasting of its tissue becomes extreme. Such
being the case, tho unfortunate individual is
not accountable for bis actions, even if they
be criminal in character, long before death
puts an end to bis sufferings. Popular
Science Monthly for December.
I V UEXEIaAI..
Six thousand persons applied for a plica
in a Paris bank which paid ouly $J25 a year.
An egg-catinlng business is opened in St.
Louis. Tho eggs aie broken and dried, seal
ed up, and warrauted to keep three years.
Sir Moses Montefiore, most illustrious of
centenarians, shows somo signs of failing
after all. Uo remarked the other day : "A
man of my age oughtn't to grumble, but I
feel my eyesight isu't as good ut it was."
Oov. Cleveland will keep away from
Washington until March 3 in order to avoid
the olllce hunters. Ha hi) eujaod rooma
at tbe Oenestee hotel, Haffalo, from Februa
ry i to the day bjforo tbe inauguration.
A national bank, known as the "Gov
ernment Hank of Chius," bat boen establish
ed at Pekln, with a capital half Caineso aud
half foreign. Tho board of management is
composed of Chinese and foreigners equally
divided.
Tho railroad up Vesuvius has already
paid ior itself. Trains run both night aud
day, and are well patrouiz nl ,by both natives
aud visitors. All go to tbe top now, whilo in
tho old time climbing wat so bard tbat few
undertook it.
Mr. Ulaino bat eight gold-headed canes
as mementoes of tbe recent Presidential cam
paign, tho eighth one having been presented
to him last week by Father Auderaou of Cin
cinnati in behalf of the Catholio congrega
tion to which he ministers.
Tho apex of the Washington monument
will be of aluminum, and the block has al
ready been cast. It is about five inches square
by seven high, and is the largest aiumiuum
casting ever made. Lightning rods will run
from this to the ground.
An English physician is using frog skin
for grafting ovtr granulating wounds with
great success, human bkin being diBljult to
obtain. Frog skin retains its vitality for a
long time, Bud cau be carried to a distant pa
tieut by tbe surgton in his pocket.
Sawer.digging in Schenectady, N. Y.,
has unearthed at a depth of 1G feet remaiua
of the military corduroy road built in lu'90,
ruuniug to the forts on tho lakes. Some hol
low logs were also found, well preserved,
which were laid to bring water to the town
in 180G.
A mandarin at Ut. Sin Shan, China, bo
lectedarmy recruits by competitive examina
tion. Ho had a trench dug six Chineeo feet
wide and deep enough to probably break the
neck of any ono who fell in, made all bands
jump over it, and took those who landed
safely on tbe utber aide.
Oov. Cleveland's election threatens to
deprive an old gentlenitn in Call well, N. J.,
of his house aud home. Ho lives iu the
bou&e where Clovt-laud was born, and tbe rel
io hunters are chipping it to pieoes. Uig
chunks have already botn taken from tho
front steps and piazza.
About a year ago the barque Maggie M.
Itivers of Maine, lumber laden, for Washing
ton, was abaudoued In the Gulf Stream dur
ing a severe storm. She has since then drift
ed about In all directions in tbo track of oth
er vessels, and at last has been towed into
Bermuda by two British war vessels.
The New York Medical Times says that
since the production of cider in New Eng
land has fallen off thero has been a marked
increase in ihoumitism and stone. Europe
an observers have called attention to similar
facts abroad. The records of a hospital in
Normandy, where tbe ordinary beverage is
cider, show that only four casos of stouo were
received in r.'.i years.
In order to check the frightful increase
of intemperance in Switzerland, tbe Federal
Council has deci led to make tbe duty on im
ported brandies so high as to absolutely bar
tbem from the country, and to tax all domes
tic manufactures of the liquor, except those
expressly made for export, bo heavily as to
make the procurement of brandy in any form
by any but tho very rich practically Impossi
ble to Switzerland.
Tho only vegetablo life on the reputed
site of tho Garden of Eden, at the junction
of the Tigris and Euphrates, Is a clump of
date trees near a vary small aud dirty village
called Gurna, where the Turks maintain a
garrison and a telegraph office. Tbe inhab
itants point out to strangers the tree of knowl
edgea most sickly specimen, bearing a
small green berry which would cause oven a
goat to turn away In disgust.
Kaiser Wilhelni went the other day to
call on a Itussian lady 8,ri years old. On tak
ing bit leave he said : "At our age people say
'good.by' when they part. I am two years
older than you, and you aro 8,," True, Your
Majesty ; but you appear Infinitely youuger
than I do," "Uut I have have had a great
many severe fatigues," said the Emperor,
"They hardly count," replied the old lady.
"Where would you be if you had homo eight
children as I have?" The Emperor went
away laughing.
Natural gas as fuel Is driving coal out of
Pittsburg. It costs no great sum to dig a
well, with the flow once started tbe only ex-
fiensa is in maintaining tbe pipes, and hence
t Is impossible for coal or anything else to
compete with tbe gas on its own ground.
Manufacturers are uslns it more and more,
and a well boring concern in Allegheny coun
ty has bought 10,000 tons of pipe to be laid
in tbe cities of Allegheny and Pittsburg, and
it is said tbat if the supply of gas holds out
coal will disappear from use in all that part
of tbe slate. As to the permanency of that
supply no ono can guess,
A party just returned to Quebco from an
exploring excursion intonorlboru IJrliiili Co
lumbia report the dlsoovery of a now lake
hitherto unknown. It is situated about
MO miles north of Quebec, and is larger than
Lakes Erie aud Ontario combined. Tbe wa
ters of tho lake swarm with fish of all kinds,
and fur-bearing animals are abundant. The
climate is agreeable and tho region It suita
ble for agricultural purposes. It is said that
the Hudson Bay Co. have had an ngeuoy
there for upward ol 100 years, but have kept
tbe fact secret that a large lake of such eti
mansions ever existed lu that part of the
country.
FOR U0L1DAY GIFTS, It will pay yea well lo go
to Boiton to attect from l,Cs0 artistic tsney pistye of
furniture St patoe'e, on Ganal-at.
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