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Stiliich. iroo.ls to P. F. SIlHiTer. iroo.ls to 1 William Mcl'hcrsot.. roods to Louisa Annul, jroorti to C K rr.jrer, (roods to ' lopp - Unsfart. ir.iods to ' ,l.c..! Willi, irncx to Ocorire r. iViki1, iroo.ls to ' 1. Shields & Son, poods to ' .'itni s J. Murphy. olothftiR: to ' rfotv Wflin, e!if lilnsr to 1 (ii'o. '. K. iilun. clotlting to ' I-miis WHir?, slides to Nmu-y Noion. nllowiriioo, ' Wtn. Klattery, I'sej., jtistioo fees, J !tti Per, ?!.. jii-iti fco, ' .h'in Hriiilv. .!.. j'MtiT fro, ' K. t"n-t it, OMj , Jus? icf f ors. ' I. K. i'tj-iter, f-i., juri c fros. I " ' I J I!, iisi.il, ."!., 1tiPti.'o ri'-s, ' M. leortr , c-tj ., j;mt trf Teos. ' .l.-B.'ph Villi.,-, f.i.. Justice fees, ' .lulltl Si'itrliittvrll, CS'J., " " 1 J. .1. Ivill.-. i'M., ' " 1 r, -! I F. J. WjltlTS. .!. , " " " i i. ti.irrts, consTMOlo I ops, Jiilltl l.vcr-it. " " f;iir!fs"-"riil(T, ' " Ati iri-'.v (ihis-s, " " " A. II I:!VJ. " " llfur;"' SluiITrr, " " .I.!m Slii-li in. " " j C -oro VnrniT. 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" 25 00 i i.tt-ti.. ir relief, rcr.t. nurc, l) uinlir?, rto.. o. ii. 1.S3S (13 (." tli:i nt'.l ftiiictiil t'Spi'iiscp, f.iit-rli'or pimpiTS.. .. 3.i7 50 ll'iririitT rr iv.-s, ti. d. t);tiipTS CI !K) Tr:l !lp.lll ;li iitl it I id I III -'t us" service, iit-'loiir pn;tpers. 351 01 f.ivery, eiit i!:."ir 'i:t;i pers. ... 20l;0 F.. p-.'fisf to Hixmr.nt 2".' 25 Kx M-rsu-9 t i Mont.'iir c-.-unty. 21 K5 T!i!:-t.. r;i:iil p'ists for fmciiiir, etc 213 52 I.iipiI'.'T fr.'l Rh:np!o3 for new pnli'lier! 101 75 f'.iri enti.-r n;il inas-'ti work fur nw pun-lie? I'll 2". Gnii'tiir :t:i. ijnin fur rolls 175 30 .1 n .t ii-r !i!iii e;nsl:itil'- t v m .. 2;(.'i I '.irri.i re :ttn! e'lt tiDT-l't .T. .. 1 10 0'J Ain't line froiu ,l;i.u. J. Kvnt)3 l.ir l.i loi 4C5! r,s::t oi Net expenses of II. ne nriil Farm, li75.f 9 nr.rotlT OF I. I.II.T.V. S-rrwAr.n. .Ci'lf en I'm in. 4 hn-fr'. 8 cf.ws. 33 plierp, S"-. 1 lwi'tr, 7 sprints, s turkeys, 3- elii(-ii"lis. ' it. fu. N i't I'nrm. 14 tons hay. 7s5 l.ii oil,s1 5) tiit. eirtii. :lo tin, potatoes. S mis. tmek vhvit. I'M li i s. tnrniii. i;im lieji'l en o'.intres. l.' Mil--, eijeiiinliers, beet s. hi. ans, parsnips, toma tcci. etc.: lnO llw. wool. f'.rreii':.. !:fiiicmrii'.. Tntir-horse wacron. 1 Ti kir wnsron. 1 ciirrir.jr'.'. 1 biismy, I cart, I ha'i't-eiirt. I slei?,. 2 eN. 1 t lire-hin r machine, 1 tti.iwiro- irmcliine, 1 jrniin drill. 1 ciiler mi'l. 2 ; utt imr-bosey, I !i:i v-ral.e, 1 cult i vator, 3 plows, 1 3 hnr-'ws. 1 Ii iy-f'i k nn 1 fixlures. 1 h iistmar- : i irk. 3 srruiii erii'Hc. 5 mowing S"vtl:s, 9 si IS I o. '-e iT'-i'r-.2 ets iight hirnrss, 1 set ln ,-jry ; 1 nr'i ... 3 -s..:i s. tiri-lles, li liters, forks, rnke, ?!.f-e-.. itxc", Srtws. lc.K". eitairis, cte. Mia rfn t"Vrl i'i thr IiiHt'tntinu. 44 cfilrts, T4 worn, n'ir. s.vs. 17 cliil 'r' n'ii rtres s.J'J aeties, I 2 aprons chemises. 7 nhroui's. 35 tiill iw-.slips. I 21 sh." t. ?:? t!i!!nw, 10 Imtsters, 10 towels. 11 ; ti'-'l-t it k", 15 p. mitfe.io.12 women's c-nps. 10 p-ttiTo.:. 35 prs.F'K-k-. 20 prs. rt iek ins. 6 tm- 0 r.no'i". l .v.i iw. ponp. 8 htiU. soft s.ap, 1 kettle : nppie-iuitter, 1U li'il.-. r tur kraur. I 'irtirtm ;i i iml.-P i prs. siioes, 3 prs. boots, ! f " men's and Lov's coins. 6.S ve.s, prs. ra.it s, i 21 pvs. On-.TTors mi l un-le.v-liii t. 12 tiats. 25 j-s. wk. loo His. ci ttoti liipi, 50ls. new ir.utihi r, , 2 -5 l ls. fiili-o. 3 vis. Fliirtin-r, dl yi'. toweling- ' 'ls. n:uOin.54o lh. snn,i, 21 H3. custile s,.np. 2 bios. s"tt sor p. -oo ins. i n 'i. ::oo iiis. taiiow. so l. s. rati'tleo, 6 1 Ihs. tea. H5 lb". eotTee. 330 ll-s, , soir ir. 51 sin. svrup. 2 His. pr)if, i'.5 Ms. chI- , ti'-O l.'.Hi it.-, pork. i::'r0 1hs. beef. 151 D.s. ent-imil-rlrv i-ml eavi ti)i .e o. 3 bf'l". tb.ur. HO hearts j caiib.ie. 1 b'bl. vin-Kir. Vi hi. is. ci'lcr. 8 els. , tiir.--l.iitt'T. li 100. faur kraut. 1 rtoz. cim-m 1 i oo.as. S I'airs l.lan'ief in-ir), IJ tons Her. 50) bus. o;;t-. 3' 10 luis rnm. S0:t.l's. pet.'Moes, l.u this. turnips, 20 bus. bti'.-k wtirat, 150 tius. coal, 00 16s. wcol. I.NMATEs. ic, tr itorE. Number of intr.ntes .Tiiru'iry 1. 1S75. . ...4S notniitctl r'urin yenr.OO " horn. .Innrj ('. 1175, a male ehiltl, Airnes G. Green bein the mother I 103 riiseh.ifK 'i nnd absconded during the veer Dieil dm mif the year. Itemaining in Hoiiso January 1, 1S70 W 'arr.r of Tn'iinfr who ilU-l t.'tin'dT "ie lrir, niirl ,!itr.' Polly T'oyer, January 20th : M iry l:ile, April 2!tli : .lohn MeGolrieU. May 1st : Thnmis Oram. May 21st: Polly Soimer. July 2:1.1: M ary bomrstrrth, Sept. 10th ; Geo. K. K. irer, Nov. 10th. Also, burled at Toor Iiouse, an' unknown ma:i, found dead on clay pike, April Ifili." , . (if th" inmates remal.tlnsr January 1st, ISTB. t!i-re re: Sane males, 2a; sane females. Id ; ii.stne males, H; tnsa.ie feicales, 10: blind males. 32-7 .50 ' " 3: Mind females. 1. Amerteans,.,i: i nr-'iyieri-. 1'r.ci.imta r.r inn rr rt tusiriei, resident--. S. Average nutnuer oi inmiiin i" i monlli. 'Ax nveratre cost or each Inmate week ly. 1.5.1. whieli includes meals to tramps tiurinif the year. I- LI LL , Steward. AMOC iT di e roon iiorPB as per auditor's IIKPOIIT. Atn't d.je from ronnty J in y l, ,nio Ai.l't paid A. I. Cri' te, K-q Ain't as per foliowinjj statement. 1'5 85 C57 ti I5..V.3 P2 . .. 9.000 00 14..VVJ F2 . 10.776 82 3,757 00 Reijitlsitloo for W.- Amount Orders paid, 1375 Ralance in favor of Too.- House AHnrsT tire took hocse. From John J. Kvnnj for hides... Wil'imn Slick, note " J. P. St rarer. Ksq., Coanmittco Mrs. Charlton . 4rt5f II'O 03 of 511 05 i57 Wr the tinderslirned T)'ree:or3of the Poor of r.imlVna cou.ity, do eeniry taut tha roreeoln? 1 a correct statement ot the eipenses, eic., of fie Poor anrt II-iu-e of F.mplo.rmeni for the j'er.r A. D. 1C5. All which ij respeeti'ully 3ni- '"wun'ess our hf nds, this 21t.t day of January, A. V. 1678. wT KLKN, ) ' ( HMfLKS H.ICK VDIrectors. J -'.SPK PATTKHSOV, I Attect-I, Lif.f-r, steward and Clerk.' rpAVKUN STAND FOIL KENT. -i. The well loeared Tav ern StBTid ud HwelllnT Moose tMiiiinePiY in inn umu' 'H'' utniiiK, 15 7S Kntiv.i s lie t i'-ii t injure, n .i nn T..nnt lll'l In l:lllit 40 34 is:n ; 7d 1 45 8 45 8 45 3 HI niiun,.. .... u - . .- ---- - nn towiiiliit. Car-Hirla roa'iiy, annul iiojuh a mile from Onl'.iir.in Station, Is o'Je'Cd for rent on fair term. P.)sessio.i will be sriven on toe hrst diiy r Hi''i. 'S78. T!ii House hs ll the npr-psary aoeomoiiaiiuns required by law, Buen as tooim". rtablinu, etc.; a!o nerer failmx spring well t the purest wuter on the premises. w",t tcn nnriliraiiotis will he promptly aoswered, and 1 50 z Wi terras specineu, wnicn win n innnvmic. 1:4h MICHAEIaAIcMORRlS. 132 5 I Tunnel Hill, Jan. 7, 187.-if. THE OIJ JiWKI'T S(),G. I remc mber a soup whoso miinliors throng As sweotly in tii"tnory's twilight hour As the voice of the lilesse.I in the Ilealm of Rest, Or the sparkle of clew on a !reaniing tl Dwrr. 'Tis a simple air, but vrlten others depart, Ijike an atipel whisper, it clings to my heart. I have wandered far tinder sun ami stnr, Heard the rippling tiiti.sic in every clime, From the carol clear of the gondolier To the wondrous peal of a sacred chime; I have drunk in the tones which bright lips let fall To thirsting spirits in bower and hall ; The anthems bland of fhe masters grand Have borne me aloft on their sweeping wings ; And the thunder-roll of Hie organ's soul Drowns not tb murmur ot fairy strings, Or the shepherd's pipe, whose music thrills "With th breath of morn o'er the sleeping hills; B'lt none romnir. like the simple strain Which my mother hang to my childish ears, As nightly and oft o'er my pillow soft She gently hovered to soothe my fears. I can see birr now with her bright hesi.l bent In the light which the taper so feebly lent. I ran see her now, with her fair, pnre. brow, And the dark locks pushed from her tem ples rlear, And the liijuid rays of her tender gaze Made eloij'tent by a trembling tear, Aashe watched thesleepthat issweet for all Jiko rose-leaves over my spirit fall. And the notes still throng of that old sweet song, Though silent the lips that breathed them to me. Like ibe chimes ro clear which mariners hear From the sm.ken cities beneath the sen; And never, ah ! never can they depart Wliile shines my being and beats my heart. That song, that song, that old sweet song ! I gather it up iike a golden chain. Link by link, when to sinmber I sink. And link by link when I wake ngnin : I shall hiar it, 1 know, when the last, deep rest Shall fold me close to the earth's dark breast. rAiiJiEi: it no ivy fs stout. A THRILLING TALE OF RF.AI. LIFE. I have no words for lier sweetness ; I can't desciibc lier ; perhaps, were I to do so, or even could I place her picture be fore von. vou mighi, not see her as I t'id and do. Eve: y eye makes lis own beauty, ! and lo ire she was more lieauiiful tha.i any oilier living creature. Xellio Rrclie I mean lovely Xellio Brodie whose" father wa.s sexton of our church, n good snau, but prosy and prone to tell one or two jjo'jd stories about ghosts, proved not to be ghosts after all, "Whenever one met him. Many and many a li.no have I listened to them out in his little porch, of a summer's night, with ihc moon bright above us, and mysterious chirps and ciics in the hushes, and the smell of the evening primroses growing far sweeter and sweeter, and Xel lic t il' as quiet as a mouse, sitting with folded hands between us. Wo were busy folks enough by day; but wo idled away the long summer evenings together, pnd thought no harm of it. It is good to he idle sometimes, in that happy sort o" way, aud to tell the truth, I like it. Xo man could say I neglected my'duty : a belter f.ti m no man ever had, a.id large--crops none gathered, and no starved cardo grazed in ray meadows. As or my dairy but that was my sister Jane's doing. A pood horse, and a pietiy blue-eyed gill with a warm heart r-.id a lauh hat seem ed to be catching. TVgelhcr we two we.e, and we were fond of each oilier. I never told her I liked Xrllio Brodie, but I did not hide it from her. Xcllie and tdiei were great friends. Over and over again I i.icd to ft. id ort from Jennie what she said about me Xellic, I mean but the g'ul would never let a word slip out. A true woman hides another woman's secrets; I knew that and I built on it. "For," said I to myself, "if Xellio'dis liked me, Jennie would give me a hint, sistcr-like, and save me from mortification. Either she knows nothing or she knows Xellie lil e " ne." After thai, I may say I courted Xcllie. i i I She knew I loved lief, and I'm sure of that ; even if I had not said so out and out, she could not help knowing ii. But there were other young men i.i the place of course, and many willing enough to l.sten lo6ld. Brodie's stories for the sake of looking, at his daughter ; and many a jealous pang I had in those days, for Xel lie had the same pretty, kindly ways to all, and the same f-mile for every one. I used to thi.ik that "no" from Xellie's lips would go through my heart like a bid let, and I found it hard to risk the hearing of it. She must say it to all but one or ns, and I was not so handsome as one, aud not so wiity as another, and not so rich as a third. I 1'aink I never knew how plain I was, though, vnlil I had my photograph taken one dny by a man who had a gallery io the village. I thought at first he roust have made loo much of my mouth and too little of my eyes ; but he showed me plain ly.tuat the machine must Lake a good like ness, because it was a machine that could a' t make a mistake. -I took the things home and put them in a drawer aud showed them to nobody ; but they took the lillle vanity I had out of mo, .though I kept saying orer and over agaiu, "What do looks mat ter for a man?" I'd meant, you see, to give Xellie one for her album, but 1 thought if I looked like that it was best not. I've often heard other people speak of the same feelings since, in regard to photographers ; and I am not sure now that they were always perfoot. Waiting and watching, hoping and fear- j ing, I let the time slip by ; and winter came with its frosts and snow, and old Mr. Brodie told his stories by the fire in- stead of on the porch ; and the lamp light j fell on Xellie's yellow hair, as she sat f knitting, making the prettiest picture jou ever saw ; and I made up my mind to put . my fate to the test before Christmas, but didn't. You -see when a young fellow is in hive he loses courage. But one thing I i vowed Xcllie should take a sleigh ride with me. Tom Armstrong had said I had heard him that he meant to drive the prettiest cutter, the prettiest pairof horses, and the prettiest girl in Xew Bridge, lie meant Xel- lie by the prettiest girl. ITis turn-out might be what he chose, but Xellie should never go with him she should go with me. The snow fell fast, and by morning you could see nothing for miles around but great white drifts, though the sky had grown as clear as though it had been sum- mer. I called for Xellie in the afternoon, and she was ready, aud away we went She looked charming, with her rosy cheeks j and brighi, eyes and sunny hair ; and I was ' happier than ever I had been iu my life. Joing out of the village, we met Tom Armstrong, with his splendid cutter. lie looked daggers at us both or at least I thought; and ho went, as I heard after wards, to invite Sue Xichols to ride with l.im. As he drove out of sight, 1 made up my mind to ask the question that would settle everything on our "way home. Man proposes and Heaven disposes. Things happened that evening that I had not thought of. Wo were going hack, iu the moon.ighr, when 1 put my hand on yours or hers !" Xellie's and made her turn her eyes to- "Miss Brodie and I never had a quarrel," wards me. ' : I eaid. "I have been trying to say something' 0h, Xed," she resumed, softly, "don't to you for a long while," I said. "Per- i try j,;je jt f,.orn n,ef when I saw your haps you guess what it is?" i portrait in her bosom. I told you so, I But before I could utter another word my k,10,v ami thought it was all settled and horses became frightened at something and . was St giiMj. away they went like mad ti.b.g.s. Xcllie J I started up and caught Jennie's wrist, clung to me and screamed. I did my best j ijry portrait?' I cried, to stop them, but they left ihe road entirely "Why, Xed, Xed, don't look at me so, " aod took their road across a field, and RCIO,T,med Jennie ; "what docs it all mean? sti iking against a slump the snow had hid- j your jortrait, ir course ; one of those pho den, the sleigh was overturned, and we I 0lnnhs vou had taken I found the rest were thrown out together. I was not hurt, but Xellie lay insensible I lif.ed net in my aims and clasped her to ! my bosom, and begged her to open her eyes and eper.k one word to me. But she was like one dead ; and in my terror I dared not lake her home. I c.n iied her, instead, to my sisier, who, f,igbtened half out of her senses, came to meet, inc. She tool; Xel lio in an inner room and bade ine briug a doctor ; and he was there soon. I speut an hour in agony, such as I bad never fell before ; but at last Jenuie came to me, all smiles. "There is no danger," she said. "She has come to herself; she only fainted from fright. You haven'.; killed her, or even hurt her much, you foolish boy." Aud I bursl iuio tears. Jennie bent over me. "Bui to think that she should bo so shy," she said. "A gentleman's portrait in her bosom all this while, and not a wor-J to ine of it! I'll punish her for it. now." And away she tan back io Xeilie, but my tears were .ll dried vp, and my heart was gall. Sho was engaged to some one rise, this girl who was so dear to me. Some one has been bef.ne me, and she wore his por trait next to her heart. Fool that I was not io guess it. I never asked whoso portrait it was Tom Armstrong's or Jack M.iydeti's I did not care. When Xellie was well enough to go, 'n the course of an hour or two, I drove her home and hade her good-bye. I said: "I regret that I should have bpen the means of alarming you so, Miss Brodie." And she looked up into my face with her great blue eyes, and said : "It was not your fauli ; you could not help it. It was no foolish to faint away " And t though-io myself, "what deceitful creatures women are!" for ihe look she gave mo was as sweet as n sue nao not worn another man's portrait in her bosom A week fiom that day I went to Xew York, and sought out aa old ship owuer who had been my faihot'o Yiei.d. "I'm tired of farming," I said, "and want to try Hie sea as a common sailor." The old man would have laughed me out of the notion ; bu: when he found me firm, he gave roe what help ho could. I wen.' on toard a ves.se" bound Cor China and wrote to sisrc Jennie, telling her to send fot Uncle Wi'lia.n and his wife to manage the farm, whic I knew they would be glad to do ; uni I nevci iold her where I was or what j" bad done. T ment, you see, to throw myself away, and lie heard of no more by any one. Of course I was mad for the time ; ihat is the only ercuse for me. So I led the sort of life one in the mer- I chant service leads no vety pleasant one I I can tell you for a yea or two. I grew j no be ter for fr, am' "o haprner. The other ' men had mosily some one ti home mother or sisic-, wife or 6wcethea i to get a mes sage from at times. I, of my cwo act, bad no one. And all the while, at. work or at mess or in m noma w.ien watcu was nepi, on deck, I thought of Nellie; saw her as she looked when 6he sat by her fitter's side in the summer moonlight ; saw her with the firelight on her golden bair, ue- side the winter hearth ; saw her smiling up at me as wo were whirled through the snow drifts that last bright day, and saw her as she lav like a dead thing iu my arms. And fancy painted other pictures. I saw hei as j Tom Armstrong's wife. I saw her oh, j good heavens! with his children on her knee! I am not sure but that I should have turned idiot, had not something happened to alter the circumstances in m3- position. j This was nothing else than the total wreck of our vessel, and my narrow escape from drowning, but with an aim broken by the falling of a spar. For a month I lay on a j sick bed ; and then, with a softened heart I and a feeling that I was sick of the sea, I j went home to sister Jennie, to be a farmer ' again, if I could. In these two years she had never had a line from me. Xot an angry word did she j give me, but ran into my arms and wept on j rny bosom like a child ; and she showed j rao ti,e wedding ling on her finger, and the i baby lying asleep in the cradle, and told me whoso wife she was. She was Mrs. Tom Armstrong, and I had never guessed they liked each other. "And I'm as happy as the day is long," she said, "only fretting about you. How could you go away so, Xed? If you did not ihink of my feelings, you might have remembered Xellie Brodie's." "Xellie Brodie's feelings!" I cried. "Xellie Brodie's 1 Don't laugh at me, Jennie." "Laugh at you'."' she cried. ' Laugh at you, my dear! I haven't thought of it. Did I yon quarrel that night? K must have been ( a quar.-el, I think. hose fault was it, after you went away. Oh, Xed, don't look so, dear?" ' thought; yon told me she wore another man's picture," I said. "That drove me away; that, and nothing else. Oh, what a wretched Tool I've been! I did not know she had my picture r and 1 mighi have cast hcrpway! I, who loved her so, and have pined for her all these years !"' .But Jennie, dear Jennie, with her kind molLcly face, and loving woman's e-cs, came close to me, and put, her arms around my neck, and whispered, "Don't despair, Xed, she has never liked any one else, and 1 know for certain that sho wears your piciuie still." And those words brought my youth back to me ; and the yea;s seemed blotted out, and I was Xed Brown, who fell in love with Xellie Brodie, orcc more. Well, Jennie iold the Irrth. I went to see Xellic Brodie, and fou id tier sweet and beautiful as ever ; aid we were married when the spring came and the birds began to build their nests in the green orchard. Afterwards when she had been rny wife for some time, Xcllie told me, under those very apple trees, bow she had "ound my picture one day when no one saw her, and worn it afterwards for love of me wore it and wept over it while I was far away, trying to forgot her trying, but never sueceediug; for the love I bad for Xel!ie Brodie was part of my life, and will be, I believe, part of, the eternity where, when death severs us here, w shall be reunited. A Tiiue Romance. Seventeen rears ago, p poor carpenter died in a large city, j and, as a matter cf course, h's children j were at the charity of the neighbors. Three of them were taken WesI by a friend, and ihe fourth, a Hltlft girl, was placed in an asyhi.n. Last full, the only sur vivor of J tho western members of the family came i jast mt search oi Uis long tost sister, uav- i ing himself becoir.o very wealthy, tie found that the ghl had beeu adopted by a j dry good merchant, but he had been dead a oozen years, ano there was no trace oi he gtrrs whe'cabouts siice. Being dis couraged, he started West agaL?, bri on the Main, be not iced among a bevy of girls who cbered ihe cc:s one who remarkably resembled 1iis mother. ITe left the train j when Shej did, and soon found that it was indeed his sister, who was living with her poor adopted mother. She bad never been told that she wa.s an adopted child, and it was long before she realized her situation. The young lady could not be prevailed upon to accompany her brother West, but as she looks'upon the luxuries w'th which she and her adopted mother have been surrounded by her brother, sle enjoys the pleasures of a real romance. The spelling school furore has been of . i i . 1T 1 i greai. iieip w kl 'etsi, uno imt". lie uaa been courting a girl for three years past, and had i't ihe courage to speak his mind. As they weie seated on the sofa the other j night, she referred to the Rpellin g school ( excitement, aud added, "Matr.mony is an t awrui lorg word to spell, isn't it?" He - leaned over, grasped her hand, and next i morning he had arrangemeats made to be , married in a month. johxjoxl:s, tiii: SICK MAX. Ho was "grunting around" for two or three days before he would give up. Mrs. Jones advised him to take pills of quinine, but he said he guessed he'd be all right as soon as tho weather changed again. On the third day he had a high fever and conldti' stand up. Mrs. Jones seemed delighted. He had not been sick before for thirteen j-ears, and she had a splendid stock of herbs and powders and liquids in the pantry. "Xow just give right up, John Washing ton, she replied, as ho groaned and sighed and declared that he'd get down town as usual if it killed him. "There, let me turn your pillow over, hang your clothes in tho closet, and then I'll run aud mako some toast." He had to submit;. She darkened the bedroom, put a clean spread on the bed, and a grand smile covered her faoo as she sailed into the kitchen, "Sarah Jane, you go and fan your father with a newspaper and keep the flies off of him while I get the poor man some thing to cat. Your father is a very sick man, Sarah Jane, and I can't say that you won't be fatherless this lime next week. Sarah Jane went in and Mrs. Jones rushed from the stove lo the pantiy : She toasted four large slices of bread, broke three eggs into hot water, g-t down a pint glass of jelly, sent for half a pound of crackers, and in about a half an hour she had the sick man's breakfast ready. "I don't care what all the doctors in the land say," she remarked as she drew three chairs within his reach and loaded them down v. ith provisions. "I know that peo ple can't be sick without something on their stomach ?" He tasted the toast, sipped the tea, groaned, growled and sighed, and she pleaded : "Xow, John, do try and cat something. I know just how you feel, and I know you haven't any appetite, but do try." "O, thunder 1" he groaned, as his stom ach rebelled against the food. "Poor man ! poor mati !" she sighed, and placed her hand on his head. "John Washington, if you should die, this would be a sad house ! I don't believe I could stand up under the blow over three weeks, and I know the children would give right up." "Hadn't we better have a doctor?" he inquired, becoming frightened. "Xot now, John not until we see that I can't do you any good. I know these doctors to a T. They'd come beie and dose and dose and make a great bill, and you'd probably die just Ihe same." She carried out tho food, put on a ket tle of water, got out a clean towel, and as she entered the bed room with a dish of warm water in her hands, she said : "Xow, then, I must wash your feet and cut your toe-nails." She sat beside the bed, took one of his feet on her lap, and that sweet smile on her face proved that illness would be a gain to her of a pound of llesh per day. "My soul ! but I'm glad I thought to wash your feet !" she exclaimed, as she i-ubKd I hem with a wet towel, "I would not have had the neighbors come in and see these feet for all we are worth." She wanted to scrape the soles with an old case knife, but Le would not permit it. Sho, however, got the shears and had a good time cutting his toe-nails and digging under them. She worked iudustriously fot half an hour, and t hen held the foot off and looked at it admiringly and said : "There ! I'll take my oath thai you have got the cleanest feet iu tow n." He half admitted that be felt belter, and, greatly encouraged, she sent Sarah Jane out to pull some horse radish leaves. These were trimmed, laid on the stove, rolled in her hand, and she weut back to Mr. Jones aud said : "Xow then, we'll put on the drafts." She put a leaf on the sole of each foot, lied clean cloths over them, hunted up clean socks, and worried them on over the cloths, and as she tucked the spread down, she asked : "Xow, Jehu Washington, don't you feel be Iter a little better ?" "Oh ! dunno I" he groaned, turning over. She turned over his pillow, put a damp cloth on his forehead, couuted his pulse, and whispered : 'Sec if you can't catch a little Bleep while I go and wash the dishes." When sho went out Sarah Jane had her brother William harnessed to a chair and wasdiiving him around the kilci.tu for her horse. "What I didn't I tell you your father! was ill?" exclaimed the mother, as she boxed their ears. "It will bo a pretty BiO'-y to get out that your rather lay dying." Tlie children subsided, and as tho mother piled the dishes iogether and carerully scraped the crumbs fr om each plate on to a platter, she couldn't help wondering how she would look in crape. Her husband was well known, belonged to the Odd Fel lows and a debating society, and or course everybody would turn ouw io ttie fruieral. She would have lots or sympathy, and the head man of the Odd Fellows would see that tho funeral passed off all right. She wouldn't never marry again or coarse, though it would be hard lor her to bring up two email children and settle up her husband's business and earn her own sup port. She would be "Widow Jones," and if she smiled at all it must be a faint smile, and if she talked she must have her hand kerchief ready to wipe the tears from her eyes. As her last dish was wiped her revery was broken by a howl from William, who had fallen over a log in the back yard. 'What! howling like that when your dear father is dying I" sho exclaimed, and she shook him right and left. He subsided, and sho sent Sarah Jane down to the market after some lean mut ton to make the invalid a nice broth. "The poor man !" she sighed, as sho tat ted for the bed room. She reached it to find him out of bsd and dressed and ready to go down town. The horse radish drafts were hanging on the iiedstead. tho pillow was on the fl'vir, and the spread her best was in a heap under the bed. "Why, John Washington," she ex claimed, raising her hands. "I'm going down," he replied in a de termined voice. "And ain't you going to have a fit of sickness ?" "Xo, hanged if I will." And the poor woman sat down and cried. All these herbs and powders aud liquors must remain on the shelves, and she might not have a chance to cut his toe nails again for the uext fifteen year . JT. 27tis is the Way Asfor Arc Made. A Fourth street man being told there were several pieces of tin which needed mending, conceived the idea of getting an iron and solder and doing the mending himself. His wife, filled with vague forebodirgs perhaps, said that the expense was such a triile that it would hardly pay to do it oneself, to which he responded : "I'll admit, that in this one instance it would not pay ; but there is something be ing in want of repair every little w hile, and if I have the tools here for fixing it, we are saved just so mnch expense right along. It may not be much in the course of a year, but every little helps, aud iu course of time tlie total would amount to a nice littlo lump. We don't want the Astors luggiug o.T all the money in the country, by gra cious." He got the iron $1 and SO cents worth of solder, and 10 cents worth of resin. Ho enme home w ith these things and went into tho kitchen, looking so proud and happy that his wife would have been glad he got them were it not for an overpowering dread of an impending muss. He called for the articles needing repair. His wife brought out a pan. "Where's the rest? Bring 'em all out, an' let mo make one job of 'em while I'm about it." He got them all and seemed to be disap pointed that there were nut more of them. He pushed the iron into the fire, got a in ilk-pan inverted on his knee and, with the solder iu his hand, waited for the right heat. "That iron only cost $1, and it'll never wear out,, aud there's enough solder in this piece to do $25 worth of mending," he ex plained to his wife. Pretty soon the iton was at thn right heat, he judged. He rubbed the resin, about the hole which was to be repaired, held the stick or solder over it, and care fully applied the iron. It was an intensely interesting moment. His wife watched him with feverish interest. He said, speaking laboriously' as he applied the iron: "Tho-only-thing-that-I-regret-about-it-is-that-I did-not-thinV-of-gettiiig-this- Infore " Then ascended through that ceiling and up into the very vauit of heaven the awfrilesi yell that woman ever heard, and that instant the soldering irou flew over the stove, the pan went clatter ing across tho floor, and the bar of solder struck the wall with such force as to smash i ight through both plaster and lath. And before her horrified gaze danced her hus band in an ecstacy of agony, sobbing, screaming, and holding on to his left leg as desperately as if it was made of solid gold and studded with diamonds. "Get the camphor, why don't you ?" he yelled. "Send for a doctor. Oh! ohl.I'm a dead man," he shouted. Just then his gaze rested on the solder ing iron. In an instant he caneht it tip and hurled it through the window without the preliminary of raising the sash. It wa.s some time before the thoroughly frightened and confused woman learned that wmo of the molten milder bad run through the hole in tho pan and on to his leg. although she knew from the first that something of an unusual nature had oc curred. She . didn't send for th rtortnr. She n-ade and rpplied the poultices herself to save expenses. She said : "We don't waut the Astors lugging off all tho money in the eountry, by gracious." "Come, Maiia. don't yon I too cun ning," he sheepishly expostulated. Maky Jane was in the parlor the other evening, entertaining her young man, w hen Johnny, her little brother, entered. . M. J. "Why, Johnny, where have you Wen all day?" J "Oh, I've beeu up to the Park to see the animals." M. J "Well what animals did you see tip there ?" J- "Oh, I seen the monkeys, the bear, the boaress, and a w hole lot of little bear ebsea !" M. J. faiuted.
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