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Louisa Annul, jroorti to
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I-miis WHir?, slides to
Nmu-y Noion. nllowiriioo, '
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1 0,872 77
STATEMENT.
Ain't of OrOcra p.ii'l by A. r. Ct i;te. ..$10,770 82
ritoM wiikh r.tnrcr:
Misff norm's p.ii.l A- II. C'l i! 05
( !? f'r Uhts prior to J:m.
1. 1-75 l'Sno
llixtivint !fo-spit:il 1.18 .:"
Sfi'.ti- l.upm ic Hostii'nl 100 Oil
Fliilnni lplii.i A'instsoijnu.. .. "Z 07
M-.lit'.tir t'litirtty hi 21
I.:i u i-. n' O l.'oiiniy ISI 7;
I'll V: it iiinp, o;U-i!oiir pr.ii;KT8 5.'5r..'
f.'..titii'l. " 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.
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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.