8he whun SJwife, - LIVE LOCALS SUBSCRIBE von THE , ADVOCATE. SriOILY WIWTTKJt. ONE DOLLAR. smisoitiitr. now. $1.00 a Year in Advance. INDEPENDENT " Live and Let Live." $1.26 when not paid in Advance. ONE DOX.LAIU Weispt Bnsta Directory. MtANKMN HOUSE, MAST WHISSrOKT, PENN'A. This home oHors llrst-class accommodations to ho permanent uoartier anu iraini funic prices, only One Dollar icr tiny. mi7-iy JOHN r.mmto, 1'roprleu.r. Oscar Christmaii, WEISS TOUT, PA. Livery and Exchanqe Sialics. Avrl.llnacarrlaEOnnd sate drlvlnit horses. ?7i "l8Jr,.i,to neenUi awl travellers. JiltelPfconlcr.irwtnptlyattto. Woissport - Bakery, The n. w. LAUnv. mominTtm. IliftllolUlllViniUO. D.i.mj jQji vaii supic B. J, HONGS W, OrCBSSOU TOOHAllLKB 80HWr.ITZItlt. Near the Canal Bridge, In BAST WEISSPORT, Penna Is prepared to do all kinds of Blacksmithing and Horse-Shoeing, nwnablo Trices. TIUK SETTING A TnicfAl-TY. Also, Accnt for ine P. P. Mast Road Cart, tho Cheapest and llcst on tlio market. f oM-yl HeaSpters for JtfffiUgg Henry Christman ATTIIK Port Allen House, Weissport, Sells tho l'opular and Celebrated Burlington O and O York SiNQLB AND I'OUBLB 0ASEI4QSS At prices that are considerably less than compe tition. I have all styles and qualities which I wish vou would not fall 'to inspect beforo making purchases. mas twin APPLES AND POTATOES "Received in Car Load Lots al most every week at O. J. Saeger's East Weissport, Pa. Store-keepers, Hucksters and all nrhora can save money by male mcr niirr.liases of liim. Other fruits in season. Call or write lor prices. Dead Men Tell No Tales WE'RE ALIVE, Our Story's Short. Wo havo'nt cot tho UI00K8T STOCK ot T)rv Goods. Groceries, Provis ions, Notions, Boots and hoes.Tobacco, Cigars, &c, &c, &c, in the Lehigh Valley, but we have an isicgnnt Assortment Just the same, and the prices arc marked way down below the great majority of our competitors, and that's what suits you bo- ' ......m i .1... mitnl.1a lv New. Fresh. Clean. Complete and Handsome, so we take pleasure In asking the people of Velssport and tho ginroundlue community to call and inspect our assortment or general store goods. ltespectlvciy, A. W. MABSH, Post-Ofllco. AVolssport, Pa. Over Canal Brie E. Weissfrt. TJND3HT AKB R AND DEAMIll IN FURNITURE, PARLOR SUITKS, UED ROOM SUITES, iHa iho verv InwosL Ouallty of 1 rloes Hie very owosi. u uy roods the heat Satislactlon Ktiarauteed in every particular, Caskets, Coffins and Shrouds, We have a full line which we will furnish n, the lowest possiDie prices. Flour, Feed, 8;o Mi the chQlQeat quality at very rwsnnaWo prices. run anu oe wimuwru, JOSEPH P. REX, AnrU-ly RABT W8IS8V0UT. ATj. CAMPBELL.,' Jeweler and WatAmato. Rank Street, Lehighton, 7nna. ItespectlnllytiivlUMithe attention of his friends UUUIUD CIUMJII. new siuc ti Watches, Clocks, Silverware, Jewely, at Prlean tliat defy competition. It will pay you o call ami Inspect my Uk before imreliftstiiK elsewhere. REPAIRING Promptly done at lowest oliarge, and all work fniarantMHl. Doa't Foraet tho Place. SIGN OP THE BIG WATCH, Dank St Lehighton. JOSBPtl Fa R8X9 VOL. XVIII., No 19 Catarrh IS a Wood disease Until tna poison is expelled from the system, there can, bo no euro for this loathsome ami dangerous malady. Therefore, tho only effective treatment Is n thorough coursa of Ayer's Snrsnpnrllln the best of all blood purifiers. Tho sooner you begin tho better j delay is dangerous. 1 1 was troubled with catarrh for over two years. I tried various remedies, and was treated by a number of physi cians, but received no benefit until I began to tako Ayer's Sarsaparllla. A few bottles of this medioine cured mo of this troublesome complaint and com pletely restored my health." Jcsso M. Bog; a, llolman's Mills, N. 0. "When Ayer's Barsnparilla was rec ommended to mo for catarrh, I was In clined to doubt Its efficacy. Haying trlod so many romeuies, wiwi muo umi cflt, I had no faith that anything would euro mo. I became emaciated from loss of appetite ami linpaireu uiKesuuu. had nearly lost the sense of smell, and my system was badly deranged. I was .-' ? 1 ...1..... n tel.. (Ill 1rVAjl nllOUl (USCOUnigeu, wuoh B- mo to try Avor's Barsnparilla, and re ferred mo to persons whom It had cured r Aflnr tnlilllir hnlf a dozen bottles of this medicine, f am convinced that tho only snro way 01 ireuuiuj una obstinate disease is through the blood." Clinrlcs II. Maloney, 113 IUver 8t., Lowell, Mass. arsaparilla, Dr. J. C. Aver & Co., lowcii, mass. I'rlce $1; six bottles, t. Vi'onh S5 a bottle. Intelligent Headers will notlco that is arc not "tcarranied to eun' all elnMes of diseases, but only aueh as result i rom n, uieoruerou liver, vis i Vertigo, Headache, Dyspepsia, rovers, uostiveness, Bilious, tone, Flatulence, etc. For tbeio thoy aro not vrnr ranted tnZ a mo if, Din uro Dsncunyionsiiianoi SOLD EVEllXTVHEKE. Eases Pain Instantly. Strengthens Weak Parts. Quiets Nervousness. A New Erslani Household Remedy. TTnlrcreoIIr po;u!ar Locauso of reM iitodiciiiu marit Kor the counties Duii and rchej florin- ts or waaknossos. no matter hovr ccu&cd tr how soero, txriloh ntrjif-V fhn hamiri Iwlv. nn rfir.fi "fv in t hi. A. or 1(1 U m prompt and tUorotigli in roliuvine, curing and re ctoriDjr aa th3 Mop X'lott ir una li'o cniinuy :crefV6t.r; sa:e or .rcso Clusters, 03 HOP l'LARTGRB ncrcr bwrn er Irritate. Ifyou cuffcr apply ono nowt you'll fx-1 hnppier to- BVT SEE HliRE- Hon VUw-t are nrld by tirmatllciia dal . IKj-i't bo KrindLnt into tflilog p snliatitnto ot im.cnt n J-iKn:itnre of vho proprtctora Will liQ IUUUU I'll kltU i-T-'UUlU'J J1UUIU. Hop Plaster co.,pHopaii:TOK1PrtSTON. Examine tcneti u ft, Jivoi t umhothh a. pun NEW NMIs Nnllfl lnll Watch worm W1UU.UU. iieai W Iwttchln, Die world, l'trfccl tUntkeeper. Vrrnted heavy, suwu uulu nuniinpr c. with work! and tint of qui vaiue. use I'SBSOWin th local It r can tecura on free, tojrelher with our lara-a d valuabl linaof Household nulei. TbrM mpiei.aa wtll tha nratoh. art free All the work vou ntd do ( to ihow what wb Hod yoa to tho? who call your fritndi and nefebboraand thoaa about you thatalwaya remits In TiloabU trad Tor u. which hold for yean when onct itarttd, and thai w ar repaid. W pay alt eipresi, freight, etc. After yoa know all. If you would Ilka to jo to work for til. yoa cea earn from tfSO to SOO per week and upwards Address, rmnioa ss totiuixai, rwruunu, iuniue. 7 Horso Doctor, (Honorary (Iraduato ot Ontario Vet. College.) House.Baayst, LeoiiMon CASTRATION, DENTISTRY, ANIJ Diseases of Horse and Cattle, BUCCESSHUUA' TltEATEI). Special and Tiirticular Attention jiald to LAMENESS :-: SPAVINS, Splints, Ringbone, Hoofbound, And all diseases prevalent amon Doinet'.cated JM1U1UU9. Ills Horse and Cattle Powders sold b him elf and storos'generally. Consultation Free CliarKos Moderate. Ca is hytelecranli and telephono promptly at- atttudetl to Uiieratluns MKnltully I'eitorined Hesectfiilly announoes tu the nubile iliatlie hat opfmQ,i a KKW U VBIIY 8TAUI.K, and tliut he U i.ow preiiared to furuUh Teams for rum-rats, Weddings or ilusliies Trips on the shortest no- iceaUki mosi nunu irrius. .rnirr irn ui mi Caruou Hotue" will receive prompt Atttiuiiim BTABIiGB ON NORTH STREET, next the Hotel, I-ehliuton. laimiA- SHOEMAKER'S Horse aattleRoito. Joshua Shoemaker, Proprietor OHKUUYVU.I.K, V. O., Northampton eo. UIltBOTI ONS -For a horse. 1 ttkbleapnoufiil, tw or inree umes a week: wueti sivk. 'A uinw- spoousful a day. 1'ora Oow, 1 teaspmiufui twice a wank ; wheu sick, twice ady. Tin same for llixcs. For 1'otiltiy mix with l.-ed . . MTf "! 1,le- Is lirepared afterthe recipe of the tote I)r. II. o. Wilson, mid is toe K",ulue artlole. Owners f above named animals should write at ouee. Stoves, Tinware, Heaters and Ranges, Tn C-ttoat Vnrintv nr ' u u . OAjuTJELj UK AYER'S Popular Store, Bank Street. Roofing and Spouting a special ty. Stove repairs furnished on snort notice. Reasonable! I Iyer's S 11 H H H rj in Kofl Pftstew D. J. KISTLER THE FORGER'S BRIBE. By B03E TEBBY. VERY ttott April dny, now and then chillocl by tho wind off snow drifts thnt spotted tho hjlls evon after a rainy morning, was about half over as Sally Tylor camo up from the villago street to tho red houao where sho lived. She was extreme ly pretty; her features delicate and straight, her dark eyes sweet, hor blue black hair glossy; and now a littlo wild rose bloom on her cheek and a deeper crimson than usual on her lips made her look like a flower with a white hood on. She was evidently much engrossed by some new thought or plan, for sho did not stoop to pat the old yellow dog who raised himself on his fore legs and slob bered a welcomo as he lay in tho sun' shine: nor did she notice tho threat ening scream of a hen hawk that circled high in air abovo her tiny brood of early chickens; or even look at the golden crocus that had sprung from tho block mold of her posy bed, a cup of sudden sunlight slnco last night; but took her way round to tho back door, for nobody in Now England country villages uses tho front door, except for weddings and funerals. Many a liouso have I seen whose entlro front half, with its darkened and musty parlors, and its "spare eham bers" smelling of ill dried feathers, fen nel and green mold, might havo been sliced away and carried off, nowiso to tho detriment, and perhaps even without tho knowledgoof the inhabitants behind. So Sally followed tho worn foot track, past scraggy lilacs and sprawling cui namon rose bushes, round the house, and went. in to tho door of the back 'kitchen, whero at the sink her mother stood chopping some cold potatoes. Sally was an only child, but her mother was so haunted by tho ono ..fear of spoiling her that sho sometimes went too far the other way. Tho poor littlo girl was tutored," as sho said, tillbho was weary and aching aching for a littlo of the deep, real lovo tliat lay hidden away in her mother s heart, very much as the best parlor and bedroom wore shut up; there, no doubt, but useless and unseen. Today, as usual, tho first words were re proof: "1 told you tuero was too many per titers biled yesterday, Sally, 'n now I've got to chop 'em for dinner, and chopped portater ain't real good 'long o' salt beef; you'd ought to bo moro cousidorin'. Sup- posin you was to git married, and hev to seo to tho work yourself, I guess your husband 'd come to woeful want pretty surpnsin quick." Sally sighed a little but said nothing. : Sho had learned how to hold her tongue at least perhaps a better preparation for marrlago than tho economizing of potatoes. Nor did sho blush at her mo ther s illustration of her discourse, for in Wingfleld there was nobody who could be called n beau for hor; all tho well to do farmers' sons had emigrated from its barren hillsides, and tho hired men were moro often Irish than any other, or, if Yankees, of tho very lowest claas. Sho waited a minute till tho noiso of tho chopping knife, ceased and the pota toes were turned into tho spider, and then said, shyly: "Mother, I went to tho postofuco after rd carried tho eggs, and I got a letter from Cousin Jerushy." 'Do toll!" said Mrs, Tyler, for a mo ment holding the big iron spoon sus pended from her hand. "Why, we ham t hecrd from Jerushy quite a spell. How is all her folks?" "They're all welt, she says; only Grandmother Dyke has had a long spell of rhcumatiz. They've got a bigger tene ment now, and Jerushy wants mo to cotne and stay with her for a while." Mrs. Tyler stirred tho potatoes so vig orously that Sally hardly dared to ven ture farther, but sho did whisper, half audibly: "Can I go, mother?" Mrs. Tyler was what tho transcnden tallsts call "antagonistic," and her neigh bora "dreadful arbitrary;" her first lm pulse was to contradict every assertion and refuse every request, ur course convenience and policy, and various other motives, better or worse, obliged her to como round to assertions and re futes ta full half tho time, but it was a weary and delayed victory that the op posite side gained one of those con quests almost as undesirable as a defeat. Her husband, with a shrewdness men do not often arrive at In dealing with this most uncommon typo of women, alwayB took care to say and ask nothing impor tant if it could bo helped, or otherwise to ouer her tho exact converse of his wishes. True, like all maneuvers, this sometimes worked its own defeat, from her habit of giving in at last; and then the squire shook his grizzled head and muttered to himself, winding up with a whistled psalm tune, generally his best expression Qf doubt or consternation. But today Mrs. Tyler was somewhat softened by Solly's shy look and tone, though of course she put out a sharp negativo at lirst: "No, you can t. I don t seo how you oan think on't; jest layln' time, 'u all thoui hens to look after, 'n set, 'n feed 'n two calves In the barn. Well, I s'poso I might see to them tilings myself (she always would); "but he won't hear to't, I know, I don't know but what I'd like to Jiavo ye go to see Jerushy; she's a smart woman, and a pretty a woman as ever I see," (Mrs. Jerusha Phelps had muoh beauty as a chlmnanzee. , ' , , but "pretty'" means only pleasant and well mannered in our vernacular.) "I guegs you might go ef you had two new gowiu. you nam t got realty nothing (It to stay a Bpell, and I expect ho won't want to give you no money. Well, it's nigh about dinner time, and you might step out to the bam and call him it 11 save mo a blowln' the horn and you can settle it, maybo, 'fore you come in. I I n.nn. UnWA n 1m .1. . , Yw. ..1,1.. I uuu . nun lu uaiB w ji." v t iwiiv. likTe 631 Rnd dTwith : In her secret heart Mrs. Tyler knw that sho didnt wont to oom into ool Union with the quire if ho assented, pr fln.,tf. if fc .rn.ii..ni.i.ivi.n4 ...! opened the outer door, her mother called after her: ; "Doa fton t tU bin yt'v getie . Lohighton, Carbon County, Fenna. March 22, bo nxed olf to go, child. 1 oxnect litn growl some, but tho tcrbackor 'did 'Veal well last year, atid ho's a pncklnon't now." There was a world ot policy iruthii last remark, quite lost on slmploSnUy;rsoBho trudged out to tho big barn on tho hill side, and, stepping hi at tho liftlo side door, threaded hor way over milking stools, pitchforks, wisps of lurv , and nil the nameless litter of on ill kept barn, to tho wide hay floor, whoro her father and Peter, the hired Irishman, sat packing tobacco. Squire Tylor wasin good speci men of an elderly Yankee former; his fine head was covered with iron gray hair, curling all over it in spltoof hiiu;ihis faco was wrinklod, but sagacious and. kindly, while all tho shrewdness ascribed to his raco twinkled in thodeep set eyes, half lost under their big, shaggy brows. He was a quaint old creature, as far as his domes tio ltfo went, but nobody mado moro acute bargains than he, or understood better how to tako the top wavo of fluc tuating prices and como off with flying colors just before his delaying neighbors lost all their ventures. Ho lovod Sally better than anything else, and his Devon cows noxt; his wife camo somowhoro lower down in the scale, it is truo, but tliat was her own fault; twenty years of persistent nagging and contradicting will somewhat stunt tho growth even of a real affection, and whatever of lovo still lingered in this matrimonial tie had its balance altogether on tho wife's Bide. Now, as ho looked up and saw Sally leaning against the door, her white hood fallen off, and hor faco glowing with her walk and her errand, all his wrinkles and puckers vanished into a smilo of welcome, and the sharp eyes softened at onco. "Hullo, Sally!" shouted ho, "what b9 you after?" "Oh, father, pleasol I had a letter from Cousin Jerushy" Here sho stop ped a minute to take breath. "Well, that ain't no great thing to hov, is it?' I thought mother was kind o' down on Jerushy, or you was, or gome thin' or 'nother." "Oh, not mel And, father, she wants mo to come to Westboro and seo her a spell; and say, father, can't I go?" Sally gave theso last words In tho truo coaxing whine, and the squlro looked up and laughed. "You hain't set your mind on't none, hev you, Sal?" "I kind o' have, father." "What does mother say to 't, eh?" "Well, sho said I couldn't, an' then sho said maybe I could if I hail some now things, but I can't go unless I do." Tho squire was purse bearer evidently, and he began to tease Sally a bit. "Well, there's more'n four now things around hero 't you can hov if you won't spile 'ra; there's anew halter in that stall, and a now corn basket; n I've got a fire new ax to the house, i that 11 help ye any" "Why, father! 'taint tho30 kind of things I want; it's now gowns and a hat, and" "What'n thunder do you want a hat for? Can't you wear a decent bunnet, 'n not put a tin pan with streamers a-top of your head, like them darned fools of Ruckcrsr "Why I don't mean such a hat as that; I mean a big ono to keep tho sun out of myoyes. I'vo just got a now bunnet." "Sun won't hurt youroyes none they oin t overlastm' bright, anyway hut guess you can hov 'things,' ns you call 'em, 'nough to go to Westboro. An' soein' you can't get 'em without money, why I expect 1 11 hev to givo ye some, I'm a dreadful near old critter or'narily, ye know, but this hero terbacker crop has kinder drawed out my heart, n J won't grudgo you somo on't." with which speech the squire un latched his pocketbook and Angered out from its capacious depths dirty bills to tho amount of twenty dollars, which he handed to Sally, now drawn near enough to look over his shoulder; and was lnm self moro astonished in his turn than she by tho hearty hug she gave him. Uood land! what's that for, you young critter? Hain't been hugged so this forty year, Had to pay fort, though, didn't 1? Weill well! go 'long, gal, when you git ready, aud hov a first rate time; but don't you go to fctchin any o' them young fellers out of the iron works home arter yo. I don't beliovo in luggin' a gal through teethln', 'n measles, 'n all sorts o' knotholes, 'nlievin' tho first sassy chap 't comes along go'n and take her oil, fore you ve had a speck of con fort out on her." Luckily tho horn blow at tills moment both loud and long irato signal of n domestic tempest brewing in the house and drovo her father's caution quite out of Sally's head innocent littlo head that had not even remembered before that there were iron works or workers in Westboro, much less young men. "Whewl" involuntarily sputtered the squire as "the sound of that dread horn" fell upon his preternaturally sensitive car, Sally ran faster than his walk, but she stopped to wait for him behind the great water butt, and smiled to herself as she heard him whistling "Dundee" with great earnestness. Sho was bo happy she could afford to smile, even at tho ob jurgations that met them both, littlo calculated as those sonorous remarks were to sweeten tho dinner. However, the meal, like all New England penances of that sort, was soon over, and nothing wa Bald between the parents of Sally'i proposed journey; only that night, just as the squlro was all but asleep,- Mrs, Tyler suddenly camo down upon him. "So you went an W Sally go to West boro', arter all, husband?" in a tone ot mingled remonstranco and surprise "She ain't gone yit," growled tho squire, " 'n I don't care a darn if she goes or stays. I kind o' like to hov her round sometimes, but if she's a mind to go, why I don't care, only I alnt a-goin to have no young fellars a-follerin' on her home; 'n you kin jest drop a lino to Jerushy and say so." "I sha'n't do no such thing.1 So tho squire went to sleep, discreetly, Sally was what some wise peoplo would call foolishly happy for tho noxt week. I don't know how much folly there was in her pleasure. I havo seen rapture that was ingrain foolishness; I have seen despair quite as senseless; and have my doubts, after all, if there is much purer or simpler kind of happl ness extant than danced in hls sweet littlo girl's eyes and shone on her fair face in prospect of this first visit and I her wonderful preparations for it; for she not only had a now gray moussellne d latne and delktato llhva calico, but her rsother actually presented her with the dark green silk that had been her own wedding dress, fortunately plain and thick, but altogether too strait for tlra fritHo niAnArMftMi rf 1 po Tr1ai tiaui -requiring even every ac-nip of the long "cardinal" she had worn, with it to eke out a dress for Sally. Then there was hor white oamhrio dross and her old brown gingham. What more could she need or want? But the squlro, going in to Middlctown to sell off somo of his young stock, brought home a parcel and liung It into her lap. "Tliorol" said lie, "that's Juno's calf. Taln't half bo good lookln' as hor shiny red skin, but I guess you'd ruther put it on your back, so I swapped." lwiger hands unrolled the parcel, and thoro lay n soft whlto shawl and a hand ful of ribbons delicate pink, tender green and shades of aster color, with one trail of scarlet flashing through all. Sally was too happy to speak. Why can't wo mako people hnnnr oftonor, when they are young and simple onough to bo mado so? At forty, what are gowns or shawls or ribbons? but what aro they not at sixteen. At last tho old cowskiu trunk was packed and Sally seated In the stago that was to toko hor over tho hills to tho rail way station. "Good-hy, mother! Good-by, father!" Mrs. Tyler only nodded. "Good-by, little call" Bhoutod the squire, muttering as ho turned away, "I shall kind o' hanker arter her, I swowl guess I'll go 'n look arter that now heifer." So Sally "went safely off. and after a short drivo and a long car rldo found herself at Westboro' and Cousin Jerusha all ready to receive her at tho station, as well as her husband, whom Sally had never seen a tall, serious looking man, as quiet as his wife was gay. As soon as our littlo friend became known in Westboro' sho also becamo, without knowing, a social success; Bhe was so pretty, and delicate, and fresh, and Cousin Jerusha always so popular, that a round of tea parties and picnics mid drives set in directly, till Sally thought sho had never been in so delightful a place before. Westboro is a pretty villago on a hill side, beneath which runs a bright river, all its shores below tho dam, on tho vil lago sido, guardod by a huge rampart of workshops, where the trip hammers clanged all day, and swarthy men with strong arms worked wonderful results out of tho dull masses of iron before them. Theso "shops," as they called them, wero a dreadful institution to Sally; she was taken through them as tho proper thing to do, but tho furnaces and the hammers and the noise so confounded and frightened her that she was glad to get away to tho cool green hillside again and play with Jerusha's children. But many nn admiring eye followed her prog ress among tho forges; and that very evening no less than three spruco'young men all known to Mrs. Phelps, it is truo, but not usually so attentive called at hor house. Sally did not recognizo the vulcans sho saw in tho morning in these washed and shaven and adorned youths, sho only thought them very pleasant and kind. But after that it was surprising to seo how popular Mrs. Phelps gretv how many calls she had of an evening, whiio her unconscious littlo cousin sat and smiled and talked and behaved her self as a wild roso might, transmigrated Into a young woman. A great many drives and walks Sally had, but after a while one gray horse seemed to her quite tho best and gentlest she had ever known; and of all the wild flowers given and sent her, one basket of trailing arbutus surpassed all others. There wero pinker clusters and larger flowers and bigger bunches, but the birch bark basket with its mossy covering was so graceful, and the flowers so fresh and so deftly arranged; and then they were all gathered in her favorite walk, a path in tho woods by the river sido, so shaded and fresh, and sweet with such vernal odors as were never known to the bare hills of Wingfleld. It was rather odd that this was Joe Dyer's favorito walk also that ho own ed that gray horse and made that birch basket. Perhaps it would havo been odder still if Sally had not liked him oven better than his gifts and belong ings, for ho was a good tempered, hand somo, gay young fellow, with overflow ing spirits, a quick temper and a kind heart; as lovable and honest as a child, yet with all a man's resolute will, strength and fidelity. And Joo liked Sally; ho had flirted with a dozen of the village girls and loved none of them. This shy, simple, sweet little country maiden was altogether different from tho romping, boisterous creatures that are tho growth of a manufacturing town; and for n wonder her voice too was sweet and low a thing rare enough among New England girls. Under tho circumstances it was hardly strango that Joes liking and Sally's, witli no Intrusive elements about them, and tho kindliest encouragement on Jerushy's part, should havo ripened into a real, honest love. 'Jerushy knew that Joo was a young fellow of thoroughly good character, earning high wages, and considered it a happy ordination of Providence that brought him and Sally together; and when it was time for Sally to go, and Joo appeared at the cars, Jerushy discreetly turned her head and appeared not to hear that perfectly audi ble whisper: "Dearest Sally, may I write you a lettcrf But I nm afraid sho heard, neverthe less, from tho very significant speech that followed her good-by kiss on Sally's pensive blushing race: "1 expect you won't 6tay away a dreadful long while from Westboro', Sally; and you'll be just as welcome as summer time when you do como back." To which Sally only returned as an swer a deeper blush and a dimpling buuio It would bo impertinent to inquire what were Sally's meditations in the cars; thoy aro open to "conjecture; but when she arrived at the Btatlon where her father was to meet her, and, after a welcomo, according to his own chestnut bur fashion, of a growl and n kiss, was safely set beside him in tho wagon, the squire looked round at her with a pierc ing store, and expressed his opinion in the premises: "Well, seems as if you'd growed kind o' good lookln', child. Had a good time?" "Oh, father, perfectly uplendldi' "i want to knowl Any young fellers down to WestboroT "Yes, sir," with a fresh blush, for her pure ekin showed the heart beats un derneath with a lovely but annoying fa- ciuty. "Any on 'em ask ye to marry W "No, sir." Oh, Sally! Sully 1 was that the letter or the spirit of truth? Perhaps, after all, it was both, for she felt the sadden scarlet burn all her face, from the very folds ot shining hair down to and through the white throat below. Happily the squire's orltloal eye sur TQrd ot that mrffT rrfTT" of BSwIj- 1890. plowed land, though ho went on with ins conversation: "Left your words behind, hain't yo? Jerush' aflers was a master hand to talk, n I expect you've larnt how to keen still, 'n that's just principles for women folks. 1 never see furrows run like them on that hill lot they're all outerln'. Otighter be ashamed on't. Well, little crotur, be yo glad to get homer" "Oh, yen, father." with a very srenulne love look and smile. "No desp'rlt harm done, I guess." "How's mother, father, and the chick ens?" "Mother's real well, 'n spry as ever. She's follered up thorn old liens till they da'tn't call their souls their own another minnit, 'n went to settin' like sixty, jest to git rid on hsr. There's moro'n six broods. Git up, old hose! we must be a- oggin'." And inhnlf an hour moro thov wero at home. "Well, here yo ho, Sally! I'd kind o' gin yo up thought you didn't mean to como at all, maybe." "Why, mother! Tm sure you said I might stay till this week." "Well, it I did, I didn't lot on your stayin' till Wednesday. Come, child, take off your things nnd stir round; it's most tea time;" aud with a cold kiss. that agreed well with her welcomo, Mrs. Tyler returned to her rag piecing as if lilo and breath depended on it, though her heart really glowed within her at the sight of her child's fair young face; but she had held tho mother love in fetters so long that it was too cramped to assert its strength oven on an occasion of spe cial demand like this. Sally went up stairs with a wistful quiver on her lips. What a pleasant time sho had had at Westboro! how kind everybody was! how glnd to see her! And then, there was that letter a bright spot of sunshino in tho chilly dullness of home. Oh, when would it come? The weapons Mrs. Tyler had so long been forming against heraelf wero today set hi Sally's unconscious grasp, and she used them. It Is tho young soul's instinct to hunger after lovo, nnd bitterly aro thoso to blames moro bitter U their pun ishment who Btarvo it at homo and drivo it out to wander after food. If tho postmaster at Wingfleld had not been n deaf and gruff old man, who had no curiosity left in his wilted soul, ho could not have failed to wonder at Sally's persistent haunting of tho "store" where ills pigeon holes wero used; and Sally s ingenuity was taxed for a week to find daily pretexts for her stroll toward the few clustered houses that wero the nu cleus of tho village; but at last sho was rewarded. If Joe had been delayed by a sudden journoy on business at tho ex press orders of his foreman, tho letter was at least worth waiting for; it was short, strong and earnest a true man's letter! and not tho less precious to Solly that sho felt a sort of prido in it But if her joy had come, so camo tho trouble, hand in hand. As sho walked along tho green path homeward, tho littlo white sun bonnet shading her faco, utterly ab sorbed in reading and rereading tho blessed epistle, not having tho prudence or worldly wisdom to hido it in her pocket and read it .at some other and more fit timeiigho' felt nhnhtl laid' on' her shoulder, and there was her father. Goodness! how sho colbrcdl What ye got there, so all flred Inter esting Sally? Jerushy ben a-writln' on ye Bomo more?" "No, father." "What ho you a-colorin' up for bo, jest like our old turkey? 'Tain't nono tliem Westboro' chaps ben a-sendin' ye lovo letters, bo it?" Tho squire spoke in jest, but hu word was true. "Oh, father'" "Tho Lord above! Ef I hain't hit tho nail smack on tho head this time! Come, Sally, let your old father see it. I don't allow no fellars to go n-writin' to my girl'thout I know somethin' who they oo, jest." There was no place for Sally to escape; disobey she dare not. Her hand shook with apprehension ns well as emotion when Eho put tho fair shoet in the squire's hand, and her oyellds quivorod with half shed tears as sho watched his inflexible visage. "Darn it all! lie s got brass enough for a meetin' houso bell! Wants to marry ye a'ready, 'n hain't known yo but about threo weeks; shows lies a fool on tho faco on't. Now I s'pose you think ho's a real smart chap. Why, Sally! n-cryin', my little gal? Don't mean to tell mo you like tho critter bo much? Well, well, well, I'll seo about it. But I swan to man! there's your mother, 'n I don't know no moro than Pharaoh which road sho'll turn up. Who wl" nnd he took to whistling "China five degrees worse than "Dundee." Toor Sally's heart sank. "HVwjf v got thtre to all firtil mtretin "Stop u miunttl" said the squire, after the quavers of the last bar subtlded. "Let's whittle it a bit. I guess you'd better show this here letter to her right away, 'n not say uothin' about me. She wont never surmise that 1 ve oome aoroetyet and then you'll know which way she' goin' to take, 'n let me know aooordln'. Or I don't know' I will; I don't keer to he manoyverin' round. It's sure as moouthlue ehe'U set her face agalnet It, jest ae I'd oughter hev, 'n dWn't." Sally turned a face full of dew and bloom on her father for reply. "Come, take your handkeroher and wipe up them tear I didnt eat ye, 'n maybe Mine Tyler won't, bat there's small obaneee but what she'll irv to.'' The squire turned down a laue with a grin at Ids daughter, thrown after her ' as a oorMolation. But oh, denr reader, did you ever go tn a denttat' Do you remember the sinking tiart w ith which you forvud yeusheif r the tfcrehei4 Single Copies 5 Cents While overy fiber or your Hesh recoiled? I think it requires less courage to face the flashing front of a battery, for there is a Chan co about bullets. Much like this felt Sally as sho quickened her steps almost to a run to havo this matter 'over with." Pale onough sho was as sho trosned anther than spoke: "Mother, I'vo just irot a letter from Westboro." Mrs. Tyler turned her oool irrav eves from tho ironing board and survoved Sally, whoso faco certainly accorded witu uer tono. "You hov?" "Yes'm; hero it is." Her mother took tho lottor between her thumb and finger and deliberately road it. 'Of all things! Hero's a nrettv nleco of business! I told yer father 't I was clear against your goin' to Westboro', and now he'll seo what comes on 't. I guess ho'll hark to mo noxt time. Mar ry you, indeed! 'n talks as though ho was pretty considerable suro you'd hev himl" Harmless fell this acuto arrow. Sallv did lovo Joe, and know ho knew it. "You kin jest answer that letter. Sal ly, 'n tell him wo don't want nobody round after you; mo 'n your father can't spare yo. I ain't a-goin' to have no sech talk, not this ton year yet, 'n mebba not tnen. lit you know'd es much 'bout tho troubles o' matrimony 's I do, I guess ye'd ruther 11 vo single, a sight." "But, mother, I I I don't want to write such a letter!" Sally burst into tears just as her father camo in. "Well, now, what is't. wife? What's broko looso now?" "Nothln great, only Sally's a fool: and another ono o tho samo sort, only a young feller, has been a comln' round 'n askin her to marry him. "Vou don't Bay so!" ejaculated tho squire, ns naturally as possible. "Tliat does beat nil I I nover did hear such brassl Ono o' them Westboro' cliaps, I sposo. "Now, there you go, right off the han dle, slap! I should like to know who gov her things 'n money 'n all to go to Westboro And hovin' Hung her at tho poor young man's head, so to spsak, lo you now! ho turns around and jaws at mm lor pictiu on hor upl Thats real man fashion, I do declare!" "Goodness gracious! ef that ain't junipin' tho fencol Anyhow, Solly, you've got to givo him the mitten quick step. I sha'n't hev it, "n I won't, 'a I ain't a-goin' to!" 'There you bo agin, husband! How do you know but what ho's a real clever young man? An' Sally soems to kind o' set hor heart ont; n I s'pose she'll be a gettin' married some time, anyhow." "I nought you set your faco agin mat rimony, Miss Tyler?" "Well, I can't fix the world over ef I want to, and folks will do so, whether or no. And ef he's got means, and is pretty respectable, 'n goes to meetin', why, in uvo or Bix years or so I might be brought to think on't," "Oh, mother!" ",Wcll, what!" After that tho battlo raged, the squire opposing, Mrs. Tyler consenting, till at lost, after myriads of words, Mrs. Tyler sat down to write Mrs. Phelps a letter of inquiry Into Joo Dyer's morals, meanj, manners, etc.; and in duo time got this hardly satisfactory letter from Cousin Jerushy: "WESTBOno', June a, 13--. "Dear Aunt Hum ah I got your let- tor two days days ago, but Sophrony and Mary Jano are both down with measles and I don't have much time. 1 don't know anything about Joe Dyer but what s good. He hasn t lived hero a great while; ho como from Springfield, where he worked a good spell in the armory. He makes good wagea here, and we think to our house he's a real pretty young man, and I guess a good one. Anyway, Uncle Tyler could write to tho head man up to the armory and find out all he wants to know. I can't write much moro, for the children have 'most got through their nap. Give my love to uncle and Sally. "Your affectionate nlooe, "Jkp.usiia. PnELTS." "Well!" groaned tho squlro, from the side of tho room behind his wife, giving Sally a look as full of mischief as a boy's, "I wobIi my hands o the hull business. You've took it up, Miss Tyler, agMnstmy feelin's, 'n you can kern' it out." "Jest as ef I should go 'n write a let ter to that man up to Springfield, hus band) Tain't my business; men' folks never want women- a-writln' to them about sech things. I should make moss on't; and roelly, ef you do caro about Sally's feelin's, you'd oughter do It right off." "Well, welll" groaned and grinned the squire, "It's no use talkln no inoro. retch mo the paper, Sally; "I'll go n do it now, if I'vo got ter. So tho squire indicted the following epistle, peculiar In more than its brevity: "Juno 4, 18. "Mr. Adkins, Esq.: "Sir I havo hecrd that a young man called Joseph Dyer worked to your shops last year. What did he do and how did he do It? Leastways, what kind of a feller is he? I put in a stamp for answer, which will obleege "Yours to command, "Pawiro Tylkb." Nobody saw tho letter beforo it went. Joo's heart accorded with the season, and it beat harder than was pleasant as he knocked at Squire Tyler's frontdoor, standing open for once in Its life, and letting in to the usually musty parlor the whole breath of Juno and the delicate odor of two great whlto roso bushes that guarded the portal on either hand and trailed their wreaths or sunny blossoms whose hearts glowed with tho saffron tints of dawn, oven across tho quaint old lintel overhead. Sometimes all powers aro propIHouf to lovers, truo though they be, ana to night the hour and tho pair might liavc appeased the Eumonides themselves. Mrs. Tyler, dreaming of nothing lest than Joo Dyer's vicinity, was in tho far ther barn coercing a refractory hen, thai bad a will of her own and declined to accept the situation; the squire was at tho postofftoe waiting anxiously for the mail. So Sally herself appeared through the soft dusk like a glimmering blossom, and was stunned, perhaps not disagree ably, by finding herself la Joo's arms, "Oh, Sally!" "Oh, Joe!" And then the parlor sank into a mo ment s quiet ae they looked at each other and caid no more. It speech was given us to onDoeal our feelings, they hail very few to conceal, oertalnly; and 1 am In cllne.1 to think it was so. Concluded on fourth page. Don't stand on tho oriler of iblng-1' but straight to the next comer nd buy VfcottUot nr. TJnll'i Ucugh Sirup, I) jon wantto car your oolil. Fsrnwi and Horsemen rd ihtol I and Salvation. Oils, most excolUut ltnhaeat ma( hones, and I tako pleasure la Indontag It M e certain remedy for scratches. Junes Thomse, Franklin Jioad, near Ualttmora. A tea set The Chinese. Cut rates The bather's fee. Lawyers aro llko Ivy: the greater the tuln, tho more they cling. 10O Ladle Wanted. A ,,.1 inn ,., .. .i t,, ...u ww uvm w Mil. Ol U.UUI0IB, 1UI free package of Lane's Bamllr Medicine, 1 1 . . 1 1 , i ...... i uicKicnuwi nnu nerD remedy, uucoreera liv Pr Htla. T n it.Il t- L. 'Ai.Uil . J ' ' nuitt. ill .un WVKJT U1VIUJ tamns. Kor diseases of the blood, liver and Kiuneys u is a potiuvo cure. Jr or constipa tion and clearing up tho complexion It does wonders. Children like it. Everyone praises it. Large-size package, SO cento. At nil (lriitKisu A good fit A fit of laughter. Bars of matrimony Tho frort feate. A tight shoe) on a deaf-mute's foot causes untold suffering. The Doctor and I'oatmaoUr.' ,-U.t -v.-... - . ... due to a nog'.ectd eold and rapidly golax Into Uonsumptlon, which was promptly euredbr Puritan .Tnuvh ,nrt fx. - 24 cents. !..-.. .v- . f porlence Jis t shown suffererinith Utyspenil diseases, arising from a dliorderedlyitenV that nothing cqnalsDr. I.oe'i Liver litrutaur fer fnr tli i,n , win I.!.. i-w, in-, . , A Thomas' drug store. The oldest settler in the, west The sun. There Is no politics In moralllv and little morality in politics The Jury. Sam. TTnnlt.ll 1mm1a Allow n couch tn run niitll It crt ivnnA the reach of medicine. They', qfien, say, '' Oh. It will wear .wnv. hnt'ln 1 ml it wears them away. Could,' thigy be In duced to try the successful mstdicihe called ffnmn'ii Itnl.nn, uMnl. tA t.l ., ...... ,u , .(tw, pvm vu jjuqiuvc guaranteo to cure, they would Immediately pa. 1 1. - 11 ;t- i ... ..... . . . ecu mv cAwiivui cneci alter lAKing the ursc dose. Price 60c and I1.00..iTriaFs!ie free. At all druggists. The race question "Which horse Is ahead?" -It seems to be a divine right of woman to havo a man all to herself to bou and tantalize at her own sweet but Illogical will. ItKMAIiKAllLK TflBBVX. Parents too freauentlv bermit their chit. dren to suffer from headache, fits, St. YItu Dance, nervousness, etc., whennhey can be cured. Mrs. P. was cured of sipkheadacbe, dizziness, dyspepsia, nervous prostration of eighteen years standing, aftcrfillure Of sir- ,Aft ..1 : : . -.r ir - f . , i . , : , . .cv.i iiiijroiuuiiB , ours. xv..ui Bloc iieoaacuc for 35 years: Mrs. P. of twcntvi to fiftr fits a night ; others from this vicinity could be ....... 1 ! 1 , I , , , ., luviiuuiiuu who nave pcen pureu pr lull wonderful nerve food and medicine Dr. Mi!es' Nervine, which contains' no 'mor phine, opium or dangerous drugs. Free sample bottles may bo had at Blery's and Thomas' Drug Stores. -Men -abo usually have deep tlewfr The divers. - -Truly the wajs of women-Mepast finding out, but they are dear dellghtfol crcotures for all their lack of continuity. Dyspepsia and Uver Complaint. Is it not worth the small price of 75 cenU to tree yourself Of every evmutoiri Of ''these distressing complaints, ifyou think Wo call at our store and get a bottle of Shlloh's Vilalizer, Every bottle has a 'Printed guarantee on it, use accordingly, Und if it does you no good it will cost you nothing. Sold at Biery's or Thomas' drug store. It Is the guilty mas who makes ex planations. It's a pity, girls, that this , year Isn't leap year. The prevailing .Influenza ha broughtimany a hardened oldf.batchelor to bis sneeze'. Ob, What a Cough. Will yon heed the warning.. Thaatgnal perhaps of the sure approach of that, .more terrible disease, Consumption; Ask your selves If you ran afford for (he sake. of, sav ing 60 cents, to run the risk and. do noth ing for it. We know from, experience that Shiloh's Cnre will cure your bough. .. It never fails. This oxplalhg why more than a Million Botths were told the .pis( year. It rel.cves croup and whooping couth at once. Mothers do not be without', if, For lame back, side, or chest, 'use flhtloh's. Porous Plaster. Sold at Biery's or Thomas' drug store. It has been beautifully said that ''th Tell which covers the face of futurity if woyen by tbe'band of'Mercy." 1 Now, Give Attention To tho purification of your. blood, for at no season is tho body so susceptible to'the ben., fits to be derived from a good mcaiciqe, as in March, April and Hay. Ilop4's,Sarsa parllla it the ncople'savorite sprlug rnedi cine. It stands uncqualed for pqrjfylng the blood, caring scrofula, salt rheumJuscJT(( ulatlng the kidneys and .liter, itrinj nerve tissues, strencthenlug and.invtfQrat. ing the whole body, as well as cbejlijlmr the progress of acute and. ehmnlr. dUease, aud restoring the afflicted .parts, tore, natural, herltv condition' If yoa hy ,-aerej-' tried Hood's Saisaparllafor your "spring medi cine do so this season. Faith, like any virtue, tnnit fcave, its test, and probably the reason for Inexplica ble evil. JSUl'El'SY. This Is what you ought to ltave, lu fact, sou must have It. to fully enjey lite. Thousands are tearchlng for It dally, end 'moundne-, heeausa they find It not Thousands upon thousanilj of dollars are being spent annnally'trf'our 'people in the hope that they may attain this bona, And vet It may he had by all. Wo guarantee thr Electric flitters, If used aecordlngiteellreetioaa and the use persisted In, will bring you mod dl. t-estlon and olist the demon 'djspepsh-ra&d in itall Instead liupepsv. Ve recommend Klectrte Hitters for dyspepsia and all diseases of Llrer, Stomach and Kidneys. Sold at toe, and II per bottle by IMCItKK dniKElst. Don'tj allowjjyourself to be carried away by enthusiasm jou Aaj have lo walk back. IVbat 14 uoaU Must bo carefully considered by the great majority of people, in liuyinjreyrueptssl ties of Hie. Hood's 8arraprlla, cijmmeniUi itself with special force to the great, middle i-lavce, bf-rauie it combines positive smnoiny with great medicinal power It Is the only medicine of which can truly be Id "100 Doses One Dollar," and a bottle taken according to directions will aversfo to last a month. To be good and disagreeable Is high treason against the royallty of virtue. Fer the ears of ooldi, eesgis, s4 slldettnc. raenti or the retplrai.ory orgaas, Da-aa-tsaepl-olue is so reliable as Ayer's Oherry PeeioraL It relieves tlib atibmatle and ccMB-npUv. even a advaaecd stages of disease, aad bas aaved ra. euerable live
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