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• • • 1 mo. - 3 Mos. 9 men 13'r.
Ogg9gaan• 1.50 1.75 5.50 APO 12.0 11
Sze Manatee . 0.00 3.50 6.50 9.00 26,0
TAtto Squares •.
. 4.50 5.23 9.00 17.00 25.0 ,
1112 Square., •• ' • 11.60 17.00 25.00 45.0 3
quarter Galcimn . 19.50 22.00 40.00 00.0 ,
Half Column . . • 20.00 40.00 00.00 110.0'
Oas Ooluma : . • 20.00 00.00 110 00 200.00
Proreisional Cards 21.00 per line per year.
Administrator's and Auditor's Notices, 93.00
0117 Notices, 20 seats per line let Insertion 15 Sluts per
Inc snob subsequent %worth:s[l.
Ten lines agate constitute a square. •
ROBERT IREDELL, JR., Puntaanan,
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Coat attb Lumber..
MIAS. W. ABBOTT.
JAB. M. 'RITTER,
Union Street, near Lehigh Valley Depot,
Allentown
RITTER & ABBOTT,
MANUFACTURERS OF
Bask boors, Outside Blinds, Inside Blinds, Mould
ings, Brackets Balusters, Pickets, Blair Rail
ings. Window Frames, Door Frames, Ac.
SCROLL SAWING
•
TURNING,
PLANING. •
MATCHING.
FLOORING and
RIPPING,
DONS AT THE SHORTEST NOTICE.
ALSO. STAIR BUILDING done and HAND RAILING
made to order.
Having now had almost five yearn' poesemilon of the
Mill, rofurnimhed It almost wholly with new end Improve
ed machinery. nail having none tilt experienced work
men, we are prepared to defy competition from at home
and abroad, both to price and WArkMAMIIIiP.
D.iyou contetnplato building / Call at our Factory atoil
sanity yourself With A personal examination.
Drawing, for bonding,. bracket,. patter!ue for orna
mental work,...croll. for porches, can be neon at all times
by•calling at oar ofeco. Any Information-to the bonder
ftwolahed cheerfully and freely, by calling at the Mem,
factory, on Union greet, at the Jordan Bridge, Allen
town, Pa.. or by letter through the p 0.4 office.
Aug 9-1 y) RITTER et ABBOTT.
A'IMPART. B. OTTO. P.Y. OTTO. 0. W. MILLAR
F LBER , OTTO A: MILLER,
BIANJFAdTURERS AND DEALERS IN
LUMBER,
WLLIAMSPORT, PA.
.MILL ON CANAL WEST OF MAYNARD STREET
OFFICE AT. TILE MILL
W F CRANF
Carpct3 anti Oil Mott).
RICII AND ELEGANT
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CARPETS, OIL CLOI'IIS, &C.
S. C. FOULK.
NO. 19 S. SECOND ST., PHILA., •
(Fleet Carpet Store below Market, East aide, )
Invites attention to his splemi'd assortment of Imperted
and American CA which will be sold at a very
small advance. Goods warranted as represeuted so that
'all can buy with confidence and satisfaction.
nov 29df
SPfdarlCZ.
SPECTACLES ! SPECTACLES!!
EYE GLASSES. Sc.
Sp A e g a rg i e es a . nril; o onAle o le . a . ssili c r . tm a e:lt of all kinds of ,W
CHAS. S. MASSEY'S,
NO. 23 EAST HAMILTON STREET,
ALLENTOWN, PA.
•
•
Having devoted a great deal ace, nod attention In the
Spectacle Limit..ss for these last few years, I and that toy
booboo. In that line has Increased so .. uch that I have de•
termined to make Its SPECIALTY. There is no article
manufactured to which there le so touch deception precis
tired as there Is in Spectacle filitenes. Knowing that the
public have been frequently humbugged by portico pro
truding toll eve superior article of Oliviers. and charging
exorbitant prices f, hens, thereby tramming upon the no•
casein. and Infirmities of age, I have token plane to se
lect a large and complete assortment of the finest and best
Glasses ever manufactured, thus el:fording all persons
needing Spectacles an opportuetty of purchasing at rea•
minable prices. Persons having any iliMculty in being
salted elsewhere will do well to give me a mall, as I feel
coned. nt that [mono will NlllOl.. suited. Remember the
old stand. No. 'Lt East Hamilton street, opposite the Ger
, man Heft. toed Church, Allentown, l'a. tun 21 itig If
JOHN E. LENT Z JOHN
sEm AII..II R N . VEINSIIEDIAL
JOHN E. LENTZ &,-' CO.,
SUCCESSORS TO
YOUNG & LENTZ.
The firm of Tonna k t. , Ir wan .116,01vA1 by ,}ntonl
consent on Febrn m loth 1872 mr Yodels reVrinc Wm
weinebeirner and John hi Is . loositos t•koo his
pine•. The firm herlire br hico the cominimoce of the
p. Ironed° so literally bestow.l neon the old Ira 'they
will use their utmost mole .yora to ncc mmedate their
patrons with prom. Mess and tural.h
BOOTS AND SHOES
of the beat make end maisrial, and willalways have on
hand n one wort t of the most desirable alt lee,
milted to the trade of this set Outs.
The firm of Toone ..14 Lents linvinz ltsen dbmived, all
{lnaba lo Oiled t (burn or. re go' sled to nail, xi ttlonvot
between this Ti e hake tail fe
male at i'd pan d Kith, of the old p rotors in nu
thorired to nig° lu I toldittlun. fob 8 .Iln
AT me EMPLE OF FASIIIIOv.
T
GREAT CLOTHING EMPORIUM ESTABLISHED 1817.
• clothing,
...
G REAT ATTnACIIOII
'.1% \ TV FIRM! NE WV OOPS/
CLOTH LNG ! CLOTHING
GRAND SPRI7G AND SUMMER OPENING•
GREAT RED COTTON IN PRICES
T. OSMUN CO.,
Successors lo Metsgar & Oemun
BARGAINS
IN REIMER'S BUILDING.
NO. 005 HAMILTON STREET,
ALLENTOWN, PA
We would Inform the citizens of Allentown and the sur
rounding country that wo aro prepared with a large stock
of goods for
FALL AND WINTER WEAR,
and offer thtqn to the palate at reaeonalde prices. Toth°
who hey' their Chohloeg rvady-otado, they are prepared
offer BARGAINS.
WHOLE SUITS MADE TO pRDERI
COATS, PANTS AND VESTS
Cut and madoth tho latextttylo, mid by tile beet workmen
OltFt STOCK' OF
CLOTHING, CLOTHS AND CASSIMEREB
larger thou It ha. been before, auti RP Intend to roll at
•ery 8111 ALL PROM S, nod g.ve our .BW:urn. the bone:
rlt of our low purcheees.
Great quo titles nOJ varieties of
NECKTIES CUFFS, COLLARS,
And 0 erything lo tho Doe of
GENT'S FURNISHING GOODS,
MEN'S,. YOUTHS', sud CHILDREN B
READ.Y-MADE CLOTHING,
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Don't forget the phi., tio• CUS Iton street, third
door above liixthl,tr,et.
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T. 08 )INr .
r 24 tf
CONSHOHOCKEN
BOILER AND COIL WORKS,
JOHN WOOD, JR.,
I:=1
TURN. FLUE AND CYLINDER BOILERS BATE
AND STEAM CIRCULATING HOMIER.
All kinds of Wrought Iron Coils, Tapers for Blast Par
, nage. Gasometers. Smoke Stacks, Blast Pipes, Iron Wheel.
burrows, and everything In the Boiler and Sheet Iron line.
Also, all kinds of iron anti Steel Poraings and Blacksmith
work. Mineral Tools of all kinds, each us Wham Bingen.,
Picks, Drills. Mallets, Sledges, Stc.
[laving a Steam Ballwin, and set of tools of all kinds,
and skilled workmen. I totter myself that I can turn out
work whit promptness and dispatch, all of which will be
Warranted to be tirsb class.
Patching Hollers, nod repairing generally, strictly id
elided to. nor 17-
MORE Popular than any Other !
ALWAYS ON THE LEAD,
The Glory of the Morning and Any
Other Time
The Celebrated Mo.elog Glory Sloven are otaoarnetured
thin year lu greater quo; tides than ever before, to meet
the great emend (or a drat-class stove. They aro sold by
WM. G. -RITTER,
DEALER IF
STOVES & TIN WA RE,
831 Hamiltontt., Allentown.
•
Twelve hundred of then. Stoves hove been solo In Ibis
eouuty dortog the past floe )ear, every one of which
Lns
jive,, puhmheA sallt•lnctlou.labidl in the best reetuu•
Inetldalluts they uo,lh
Aiwa's on baud all atuda of Shoves, Mogen, Furnaces,
Orates. Tin and Sheet• It on Wttte.
A largo aurtety of modern Cook Stove., such as
TLIEREGULATOIt. u-1.11 novolvinx Top,.
HOT BLAnT I SI'EI.- ,II CONK,
!WEAR'S ANTI.DIIS COHK
ALL RIGHT Cook,
GOLD BIeDAL. ETC
Alga, a large variety or the meet approved lleatlag
owes. uct23-w
82000
PER ANNUM
CAN DE MADE IN SELLING THE
NEW
WHEELER & WILSON
Sewing Machine.
A few active. rellabl boot eu men of •ood Lablts and
uddma. waut..d in deelmblo territory at meant on stew
pled. Wrto. a furnished ; noonnty.r..quiled. Bend for
Information. or'call on
PETERSON & CARPENTER, Uen'i Age's
-914 CHESTNUT STREET,
. Ptt ILADIIPHIL,
J W..11,11 - 10USE, Agent,
.11-1> . 014 .mllton 'treat. AlLpotown.
VOL. XXVT
fßiocellancots.
CARD.
BtAtowEit&f,
NO. 902.CRESTNUT STREET,
PHILADELPHIA,
Meeara Caldwell & Co.olealre to call medal attention
o their departlnect of . aolld ollver NVarea.
Po.tiegeing enper.or l'Acllit'en they will be enabled to
piece
‘ before their cnetemern, in advance or the genera
markei. all %the novelties and improvements In fllver
Goode in. rapidly an prodneed, •ory partieniar attention
being given to the specialities of Bridal and other Preeen
tall , o Oirte.
The standard of Silver long since adopted by them In
bat of Mellott Sttirllng, WWI , Ofittpo fine, tho quality of
vary Article mold bolng affinity guaranteed.
Attention Is respectfully directed to the unvarying boa.
Ine, , s policy In thin mine in regard to the firmly °slat.
Halted system of fixed pricey, whin', will he rigidly -
tiered to in all •acne, securing to purchase s. fairness
and equality irk every trantactl m.
Polito otter lion may he expected by all who may favor
them with a visit.
Orden and ll:mottlee by mall, promptly attended to
J. E. CALDWELL & CO
EEO
BUILDERS, .00K TO TOUR IN
TBRESTR.
L. W. KOONR & CO. are manaracturkor a Hydraulic
Cement Drain Pipe Chimney Flue and Ornamental Chut,•
ney Teas, cheaper and more durable than ny other to
maraet. They are made of pare cement and sand, being
powerfatly compressed. well seasoned, and are in all
practical respects
EQUIVALENT TO STONE.
CHIMNEY TOPE FROM $126 TO WOO
Send for a circular, or call and examineat their
id manufactory, corner of Hamilton etreetar..l Lablub
UP, Railroad low. 1 tf
MRS. GUI
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Ladies' Trimming Store,
ALLENTOIVIV. PA.
The trade at this old nod well known entriblinbreent le
onetently Increseing, owing to the fact .hat NEW (WOW ,
re Leiria conetently received of the LATEST .STYLES
ml alweve ituitable to the what! of her Emmert,ne mete.
•ore. People should olwaye go where they are lore to be
oiled at low florae, 'nu le
A. H. FRANCISCUS & CO.,
513 MARKET STREET
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We have opened for the SPRING TRADE, the largest
het Lest neserted Stuck of
PHILADELPHIA CARPETS,
rabte, Stair and Moor Ott Cloths, 11%mb:p hales
and taper. Carpet Chain. Cotton, Yarn. Bat
ting. Wadding. Twines, Wi.ks, Clocks,
Banking Glasses. Fancy Baskets,
Brooms. Baskets. Buckets, Brush
es, Clothes- It ringers, Wooden
and Wilton, Ware in the
United tales.
Our I true Incresse In business enables no to sell at low
Prices and furnish the best quality of (I oods.
BOLE AOENTS FOR THE
CELEBRATED AMERICAN WASHER,
Over 18,000 sold s ln Blx Months
Terms Carpets. 60 day, All other goods. SOdsys. Not
1'0b14 , 30 w sepl 3in w
MRS. M. A. BINDER,
1101, N. W. COR. 111 Tn h, CHESTNUT STS.,
PRI LA DEL
Inam'ler and Dea'gner of
Paris and London NovePirs,
Elmointle Trimmed Oneer Pattern. or I and moot
reliable Stele, Pic Tollil4' and Chllitcen'm gide
1, 4 .11m0 Drexr Trimmni,w, Peal nrd l mllellnßT are.,
MOVPOI. Fun, Whim..., Tuili,r Frei eh Jewelry, PndnY
DR E.S 41 ND CLOA R Ml In the muo .sta.
NI and elm, int m in•uir. A Perfert Nyttein of DRESS
CUTTYN/1 Tatruht.
iitrt punctuality In fulfillment or nrders. PA PF.R
PATTERNS, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Imw
GENTS WANTED
$BO 70 $2OO PER MONTH, BE BELLING
GREAT FORTUNI44tIS7
AND How TIIPT WI , Dr. VADD: R, TIIR STorAill.DA AND
Tall, Oil ye on It ADE MAN. In' J.ll McCabe. Jr.
It idioma haw iscercy. bilant and Patient InclimtrY kayo
alwayn fiat with naccaan when properly mo r1 , ',1. and by
(or p «maim!! -swap! n, tooet.om Vow to 500r.0..1
' In Ille
Tnd nt 1.1111. tam. Lawn. ma' kind Rend for narticu•
am, flatly , . al On prepu nod oxtro tenon, It,.
NEARLY READY ! A now book from the pen of 1110
LE‘Y IS. America n moat poplatir lootur, ai d Inciter
on II EALTII
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The wrld-R.lllO I,p.ttallon of the author. nud the largo
enlo of 01l Ills revloos work, cannot (.11 MOCUre
homeuso demund fn. f Int • • •I and nu
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Address GEO. M ACLEAN, Publisher,
noylMl ly w VD Stk. 411 Street. Phlladolrhla.
JORDAN HOUSE
• HOTEL AND RESTAURANT I
Jordan IIOOMO bar changed handti. The
h umw landlord will tra . to plea. ill who may paironixii with a
call Ile will weep conatnntly on hand the bent of choice
bloom, and keep the celebrated Uerguer A Emile . .. cele
brated Philadelphia Lacer Doer. In the Riednorant he
wlll keep all the delicacle• of the ammo° with the bled of
OYtilere prepared In all atylex. All who will RIAU him a
cull will go away natletled that It is the boat place In Al
lentown. A. P. NEFF,
JORDAN ilOOBll. N. W. Car. Second & Hamilton Ste.,
rwrial-tfw Allentown Pa.
AN Be Ito .Isined by the Select Doll Common COUPCIi4
dof the Clty of, Allentown, n0..1 IL RY Enni In hereby ordained by
hereby
of the cairn. That the Cllr be and r
hereby Instructed to change Poplar Nltfet. nett, en WKI•
nut and Ilautllt. u ntreeta no ea to entre..nal with the
etreet now op. clung the properly o' Na ban Mink, and
that ell on dh.oucen turounbteut herewith be nod the Name
are hereby repealed no far an the nuty apply bt thin
afficular all art. J. 1..11.1FFM A N. Free. S. C.
IJ El). FRY, Pren. C. C.
Attest—Wu J. Wetet. Clerk S. C.
E.LEHMANIirm C lerk C. C. •
Approved thin Ithll day ur February. A. D. 1672.
lob 23•3 t n. GOD, Mayor
A PROFITABLE BUSINESS!
I. MDT EQIIAi. TO 0 AS,AT TIM COST!
Cit
beeplonitd N. chimney or wick tiara.
MEN &ed. loy 4 PIDIFITAoLE ntISIN coomime.
Iho k.XCIAIS IN E 111410 r for Ow fE
mile of Dtirrli PAT
ENT PARDON OAS LIODT lIU RN Ells AND OIL. fo,
COUNTIES or STA I ES. Write for luform..(1011 or canon
••
No 111 SOUTH SECOND ST., PHILA.
N 11.—CHUSCHEs morel-hod Nl' lib CHANDF.LIERS
and LAMPS 1 tree,/ xeription. 23 per cent. cheaper
then at Noy other eetubltelunent In the country.
mirl:l•:linsv
FOR RENT.
FOUNDRY. AND MACHINE SHOP
. ' AT FRENCIITOWN. N. J.
7110 new an i rxtonslae Foundry. ‘l l lllFliwka and Pat
ter... and the Machine -hop ....clad therewith 1 he
Ntarinurry to 101 l new and conirdote and rotadata of Lithe,
Pawiera. &r.
.
For tonna etc., call MI or addrema
P. U. 11R 41111 , 0. Prealdent ; or
S KII 0 LER,. Secretary,
Frenclnowu, II noterdoo Co., N. J
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ANibROINANCE RELATING TO
INFRCTIOTIR fIISEARER.
hoe 1 11.. It ordained Nod esueleot by the citizen. of •he
Borough of Cep! .• In Town Cantrell se•erobled • and it le
hereby ordained b) the antloor11) of Item., That It alto I
hereafter be the duly or every preettrialt ith•elo an within
thin Borough, Co report too the Ito gene forthwith the en•
felerce „r a yc.rrruf small.poox. •earletlna nr other eon
tooluus ur mallgneut dice.. Whin the Hu Ito or the 13o•
rough. too receipt of which lemon the Burgeon ..halt In..
uoclictely notify the teacher of every ',bout to the Bo
rough. ro quectloot a Id leech. Co alopeene with the at
tend.. of all pupils retohliou to .ho fanny to which Poch
dl ena extra, end ato) phyrlclan or leacher of any .1..11
w With thin Borough 00.11rfIlUR or refaelog to e. mply
with the provlnionn of thin ...lion. or who shall oft
each notice receive lotto lila or her school any pupil from
tr out tot any In lu whirl) much die.. h. hewn •o no
ahorancid r•p orted to until netitled loy the otlrnafug
phyelel. that tug cams Lan die•ppeared or caged to he
Geedaugertous.
101 in shot) on eutomettort thereof lunar a Penalty or
of. 4
one 1 bet the Oe • upon the receipt nf the in form•
lieu nientum. d lu the roteatult g pectin)). Abel, abv. tin
addition 111 the dutle.. already enjoined) coon.. n dice to
be poebd in a conapicuous place up to or neer the pretnt.
nen infected with •ny the PPPPPP in the
pectin)) aforesaid. Waking known the fact and the nature
of the dia. to.e.
Ono . That ell infected clothing ►f those who shall
here had any of the diatotera mentioned shot be hosted.
and not waehed or horned. mud the washing and hurtling
thereof le inh eh• prohibited.
Sae, 4 That all metutorn of 61111111. CO infected with
email pox are prohibited fr. rn their pretnixe,
nod all I et -onn are hereby Prohibited isnot ♦isitinn such
infkted houses or (audit., wahnat the comment of the at.
tending phyelolan, until auch thee an the attending phy
el tan shall dictate that the tutuger of Conittainti no longer
eal•ta.
lige. O. That ►n person •iolatinp neglecting or refne•
lug to oomph with armldnrt Of Is ordinance bnell
On COnTlollull Mama lava/ II penalty or gne of ten d
o t•
tan. D. LI. ECLIZth. klecretary.
• war blow
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PRICE $5.50
.MESMI
MARK HEBER'S LUCK
AN INDIAN STORY
Mark Heber returned home from his father's
funeral with the problem of his own future
pressing upon his thoughts, and demanding a
prompt solution.
His home had been, from his earliest re.
membrane°, upon a stony, worn•out form of
fifty acres, situated upon the Seneca Lake, in
Western New York. His father had become
. -
so heavily involved in debt, that two weeks
before his death the farm bad been sold by
foreclosure of mortgage.
And now wont was Mark to do? •
Ile•was a lad of nineteen, slight and boyish
in frame, but with the strength of a man in
his sinewy arms. }1 hind the usual advpn•
taps of education affohled to farmer's sons.
He returned home from his father's grave
to the small, univtinted story and a half house
and after hint came his father's only brother,
a wvll.to.do farmer. who residei in the neigh
borhood.
This uncle, Mr. William Heber, was a man
of slxty years, pompous and self important.
His soul was of the smallest pattern, and he
100 l never been known to do a generous deed,
while he hod done ur any mean ones.
"Well, Mark," said his untie, "I've sent
my folks on Lome ' so that I can have a good
talk with you. Morgan tells me hg wants 'he
titrm. Ile has held off two weeks- while
George was dying, but he wants to move In
next week. What are you going to do?"
"I don't know uncle. I am trying to think.
What can I do ?"
"I have thought the matter over," said Mr.
Usher, "and have thought upon a plait. 1 am
willing to Lke you, Mark, and treat you as
my own son. You shall have a home at my
house, and a Beat at my table. What do you
say Y"
"You ftrget, uncle, that I have some one to
provide for besides myself," said Mark. "Sup.
pose I were to accept this offer of yours, what
will you do for Gay 1" •
"The girl Is no relation of yours, Mark."
The boy sighed.
.:Poor little Gay," he said ; "hers is a hard
lot. Do you remember how the child came
by her name ? It is thirteen years this spring
since a lady stopped at bur door and asked
leave to remain over night.. She staid on day
after day, growing weaker. It did not take
long to discover that she was insane. She
called the child Gay, and sometimes Gabrielle,
which is Gay's tru ; name. But she did not
tell her surname, nor anything concerning
herself. Lute that summer she died. No one
ever came to inquire after her or the child."
"tier mother was a crazy tra•mp, and noth-
ing more. No wonder George was behind
hand, when his wife adopted , the child of a
tramp aabrought her up a lady," said ltis
uncle.
Mark colored.
"I cannot hear a word against my mother,
sir," he said. "I shall pr'tect Guy while I
live, and she shall not be separated from me,"
"Then I wash my hands of you," exclaim-
ed Mr. Heber angrily. "You can go your
own way, and get, your own living."
"Very well, sir," said Mark quietly; "that
is settled then."
In one week Mark had sold a pair of colts
which he had raisid himself, for five hundred
dollars, the household furniture for nearly as
much more, and was on his way, with little
Nay, to the far West, to seek their fortune.
The young travellers arrived at Leaven.
worth after a tom¢ and fatiguing journey.
Here Mark, while looking for a wagon and
a ycke of oxen with which to cross tho prai
ries, fell In with an old farmer named Whit.
man, who had been living in Western Kansas,
but did not like it, and was now on his way
to Nebraska. Mark concluded to join hitn,
and Mr. Whitman assisted him in purchasing
a suitable outfit, and that same night Mark
and Gay were snugly ensconced in their huge
travelling wagon, outside of the city, on the
edge of the prairie, where Mr. Whitman, with
his wife and seven children, had encamped.
Six other families were with them—the seven
wagons being "parked" In the form of a cir
cle—that is, the pole of one wagon resting up
on the rear of another—and the oxen, mules,
horses, cows, dogs and pigs being gathered
into the circle thus protected.
Outside the circle of wagons a great fire was
burning, and as Mark's Wagon drove up, the
conductor of the train, Mr. Landford, came
tor Ward 'and welcomed the new comers.
It scented to Gay and to Mark that they had
mitered a new and wondrous world.
Both lay long awake that night in their
wagon, close up under the canvas roof, and
they talked in whispers of their great future,
and wondered what it had in store for them.
.The next morning at daybreak the camp
was astir. By sunrise the wagon train was
on its way toward the north. west.
At night they halted-beside a small stream
and parked the wagons, and bud supper, and
talked and sang songs, and told stories, like
one great. Joyous family.
At daybreak, avaln they were on the way.
In tile course of ten days, having ..ravelled
rapidly for ox teams, they reached tile Little
Niue river, a branch ot the Big Blue. 'I he
women built fires and began the preparation
of supper. The men proceeded to park the
wagons.
•'fhe last train I took over this route was at.
tacked by Indians OW here,'l said Conductor
Ltindford. "They were unusually • hold, and
we had a tough tight—Good Heavens I What
is that ?"
Ile beheld, by the last rays of the sunset, a
mounted hand of Indians, their weapons glit
tering in the yellow light; their plumes nod'
ding in the wind, as they came on like a whirl
wind.
"Indiana!" yelled the conductor, in a voile
that made every woman's lace turn white.
"Pawnees or Sioux, I can't tell. which.
They seem to be on the war path. I can see
their weapons. They outnumber us, count
ing in our women. Call In the children. We
shall have to defend oursilves."
Ile blew a shrill blast on his bugle that rang
out tar and wide. They were sweeping down
upon the train, with whoops and yells,murder
and rapine in their very aspect.
Conductor Landlord was Skilled in Indian
wa-fare, and was a scout oleo:lei:Jerald° note.
''There are twenty savages,"he announced.
"Itemeno er,' Is:3:s, you are lighting for your
mothers and sisters. Show us what stuff you
are made of."
Then lie shouted
"Now, men, the gun ! Have out the gun !
They are in war paint, . and mean mischief.
When I give the.worcl, fire I"
The Indians came nearer and nearer, ad•
wincing in a- atraight
"Now, boys, give them a hint that we are
not fooling.' said the guide grimly.
Mark Heber and his young comrades, fired
a volley.
Tile next moment a shower of bullets came
hurtling toward the defenders of the camp.
"The gun !" cried Landfurd. "Give it to
'em, Whitman."
Whitman did "give It to them," mowing
down three mounted savages, horses and rid
era rolling over and over In horrible death
agony.
The remaining savages again came to a halt
but only for an instant. With a terrific war•
whoop, they came on again to the onslaught,
firing us they came, and looking like incar
nate demons.
"All together!" cried the guide.
'I he other men and all the boys fired, each
with especial aim. Six mounted savages fell
betore the deadly rain.
A panic immediately seized upon the eurvi.
vote. In the midst of it, Whitman grimly
touched off his field-piece anew.
This ended the conflict. The savages with
hortible yells beat an Instantaneous retreat,
leaving their dead upon the field, and drag.
ging away their wounded.
Amory had a bullet %%pied in his shoulder,
and Arnold's eldest son had a flesh wound In
his arm, but neither of these injuries was se
rious.
" Arc you safe, Gay ?" demanded Mark,
coming toward her.
"Yes, bat I'm almost smothered," answer
ed Gay. " Have the savages surely gone,
Mark Y'
Gay cautiovsly crept forth while she was
speuklig. The remaining wagons disgorged
their crouching occupants, women and chil
dren coming forth pale and trembling, but
lull of joy fun gratitutie at th . eir escape from
death, or a late worse than death. The camp
took on its ugual appearance even before the
retreating savages were entirely lost to view
in the tar distance. That night they encamp
ed upon the prairie, and met with no the
lure. A guard was maintained as on the pre
vious night, but no Indians were to be seen.
Every day tor the week that followed the
encampment ou the Littlb Blue was full of in
cident, hut all of the pleasant sort, nothing
occurring to alarm the emigrants.
And at the end of the week, to their great
joy and relief, they "arrived at Fort Keep / f ey.
Ihe emigrants did not halt at the fort, but
pressed on to RearneY.Cfly, where they. en
camped just at nightfall. . •
Here Conductor Landford found another
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train, the guide of which had been stabbed
the night before by a notorious man, who had
escaped arrest. The train was offerod to
liandford, to be united with his own. •
The assault that had been made upon the
conductor of the previously arrived train was
made a matter of discussion, and regret that
his assailant had escaped was universal.
" I know the fellow who d irked the con•
`ductor," said Landford. "Ho is a perfect
demon. I know that ho has killed several
men. I saw him at Denver last year. Ile
had just stabbed a miner from behind, and
robbed him of all his money and gold. He is
called Blue Jack."
" Blue Jerk I" cried , ono or two .boys
What a name I"
" They call him so because one side of his
face is blre, as if bruised," said Landlord.
" Looks as if the blood bad settled under the
skin."
The new train was bound for Denver, as
Landlord had said.
Vito wagons belonged to men who had no
women "withthem. 1 hero were five of these
desperadoes, and only tho smallness of their
number as compared with the others induced
Landford to allow them to travel under his
guidance and the protection of his train.
A few introductions took place, and then
the long train took up Its lino of march west.
ward.
During the noon encampment, on the fol
lowing day, Gay had finished her dinner, and
a merry snatch ofsong was on her lips, when
one of the desperadoes known as Berk came
up to her, and paused teside her, regarding
her with an insolent stare.
" Hallo, younker," he said gruffly, "I no
ticed you yesterday, and you are the pret
tiest young one I ever did see. Got no father
nor mother, eh ? Going west with your broth
er, oh ? Give us a kiss, there's a doll I"
In an instant she leaped to her feet.
Child as she was, she resented the insult
that had been offered her with a woman's of.
fended pride and anger.
" How dare you ?" she cried, " Go away.
If you touch toe, I'll call my brother.':
" Ali, now, young one, you're foolln," lie
said insolently. " You act older than I took
you for. I'll warrant no boy except your
brother has kissed them lips o' your'n, and
I'm bound to have one—so now I"
AB quick as a flash, she drew from her
pocket a pistol Mark had bought for her at
Leavenworth, and which he had since taught
her to use skillfully. She cocked the pistol,
and its tour small dark tubes were promptly
presented to the eyes of Burk for Inspection.
Lie started back in unaffected horror and
amazement.
"The little vixen I" he muttered. " She
acts like a highwayman instead' of a shrink
ing girl. She beats all I"
'I was only fooling," he said aloud. "I
didn't mean nothing. Don't say nothing,
young one. I'm off." '
And he hastened to beat a retreat to hts own
proper quarters.
Gay's light laugh rang after him mocking
ly.
" Curse her !" muttered Burk. " Blue Jack
would tame that wildcat spirit of been, and
I wish he inay. do It, that's all. I'll make 'em
acquainted, blest if I don't I"
'the train was ready to resume its march.
" Come up Into the wagon, Mark," said
the girl coaxingly. " I have something to
tell you."
Mark climed up beside Gay, his boyish face
full of tenderness and affection as he looked
down upon his adopted sister.
" Weil, what is it, little tray?" ho said, as
she hesitated.
• "Have you noticed that man Burk, who
joined us with the other train at Kearney
City ?" asked Gay.
"I've seen him and noticed him," • said
Mark. "Mr. Landlord has a poor opinion of
him. He's a confederate of Blue Jack, the
outlaw. What have you to say about him,
Gay
' He wanted to kiss me back at the halt."
said Gay composedly, "and, as you were
busy, I Just pulled out my pistol and scared
him. Ile thought I meant to shoot him, end
went off to the rear of the train."
Mark's boyish brows grew stern, and his
eyes dashed.
"The cward and villain I" he exclaimed.
"I'll horsewhip him for that. How dared
he ?"
4 ' Don't get into trouble on my account,
dear Mark I" exclaimed Gay, in alarm. "He's
a bad man, and he might kill you. He didn't
kiss me, and I have taught him to keep his
distance, so that he won't trouble me again.
Don't speak to him, Mark, please don't!"
But Mark would not promise.
About sunset Landlord beheld in the dis
tance a solitary horseman, who upon looking
back and observing the train, wheeled his
horse about, and rode rapidly toward it. As
he approached it, he said :
" Are you the conductor of this train, sir?
I am bearer of dispatches from Furt Kearney
to Fort Sedgwick. Will you grant me the
prop ction of your train during the remainder
of my journey ?"
" What is your name r
" Fallon, Lieutenant Fallon," was the re
ply, and he offered to show his credentials.
Landlord bade Lieutenant Fallon welcome,
mid offered h m the trt.edom of the camp.
Fallon are supper with the Whitmans, and,
after conversing until a late hour, retired to
the rear of the train to sleep.. After all was
still, he rolled over on the ground Until be
came to the side of Burk.
" Burk l" he hissed.
Burk started, with a smooth oath
Who calls ?" he growled.
" Hush, you Idiot I" hissed Fallon, between
Ills teeth. " Have I tooled you and the boys
as easily as I fooled the conductor of the train ?
Don't you know me ? I haven't got my card
case with me, but I'm Blue Jack, at your ser
vice I Ila, hal The serpent has got into
Eden I"
_
" I and the boys have looked for you to join
us all day," said Burk. " But of course we
didn't look for you in this disguise."
Upon the morning after the counterfeit
Lieut. Fallon bad joined the wagon train,
the
camp was astir as usual at daybreak. The
train halted at noon on the river bank, oppo
site a lovely island. At sunset they again
halted, nod for the night.
In the course of the evening Lieut. Fallon
approached Gay, and said:
' Mies Heber, I must say to you that you
are startling like a former friend of mine. It
seems almost as if she stood before me as 1
first knew her. It is a strange, a startling co
incidence. I could almost think—but no. Im
possible I You are the sister of Mr. Heber, are
you not?"
iy's pure face flushed.
" Yes," she answered, with some hesitation.
The disguised Blue Jack turned yet whiter.
He had marked that hesitation, and his won•
der at it thrilled filth with a sudden fear.
" You do not look like your brother, Miss
'Mier r he remarked.
I have been told so before," said Gay dry
",And you are his own sister ?" persisted
Blue Jack, with agition.
" I do not know your motive for making
such inquiries, Lieutenant," said Gay, after a
moment's thought. "I do not therefore know
how to reply to you. I should like to know
the name of your friend whom I resemble, hut
for an answer to your inquiries I must refcil
you to my brother."
Gay Heber seized the first opportunity to
inform her adopted brother of the particulars
of her singular interview with the false Lieut.
" I told him to speak to you, Mark," she
said, "but my heart has been on fire ever
B nce. What if he should have known my
miother 7"
"Ile looked like death when he first saw
your face, Gay," said Mark thoughtfully. "It
was as if he had seen a ghost."
Gay started and exclaimed :
"From the moment I beheld the man I
shrank from him. I had an Instinctive fear
anu abhorrence of him. Oh Mark, dear Mark,
don't let Lim know any more about me than
he knows now I"
" I will not, Gay," said Mark soothingly.
" If be is your father, he, shag not know that
ou are his daughter."
you
promise comforted Gay, who smiled
faintly through the gloom that bad fallen
upon her.
As some young people came toward the
lieberS, Mark arose abruptly, and went to look
atter lila oXcp.
Gay was about to join Mark, when the false
Lieutenant Fallon approached him, offering
him a cigar. -
, Fine evening, - Mr. Heber," said the dis
guised Blue Jack courteously. " What I You
don't smoke? Smoking is a vice. I wish I
could break myself of it. Your sister Is a
lovely child, or girl, I should say. She must
be fifteen years old. Is she not ?"
" She is but a child yet, Ileutenant—only
fourteen—yet she Is more womanly than many
girld of eighteen."
"Only Murton," sald, the pretended lieu
tenant musingly. " I—l had a fancy thatahe
Was fifteen. I knew a child once—white's
she's dead now—but If she were Hybl; she
.would he fifteen years of age, and the very
picture of your sister. And, oddly enough,
that child's name was the same as your sister's
Gabrielle V'
Mark repressed a start, and turned away his
paling face from the keen scrutiny of the
scheming villain.
"The child I alluded to," continued the
false lieutenant, "had black hair and brown
eyes; rather a singular combination ; but her
mother, poor creature, bad had the same fea•
tures, and had been a great beauty in her day.
Blio was a New York belle, la belle Gabriella!
But she went insane, and wandered away
with her child and was never heard of more.
"If you had seen the Now York dailies of
thirteen years ago," resumed the* false lieu
tenant, you could not have failed to notice a
striking advertisement offering a thousand
dollars reward for information of the where
abouts of an insane woman and her child.
The reward was afterward increased to five
thousand dollars. Did you never hear of the
advertisement, Mr. Heber ?"
" Never," said Mark. " How should I have
seen it 4"
" Ah, yes ; true. You were but a boy at the
time. Yet if you lived near New York, you
might have heard of the disappearance."
"I did not live near New York."
" Why, the conductor told me you came
from York State," said the false lieutenant.
" So I did," responded Mark.
" May I ask from what part ?" inquired the
villain.
"Certainly," said Mark. " I come from
the western part of the State. May I ask the
name of the lady whose dlsappearance called
torch the advertisement of which you speak ?"
" Her given name was Gabrielle," said the
pretended officer evasively. "If I could get
a tine of that insane woman and her child, I
would give a thousand dollars out of my own
pocket. Think what a start of life that sum
would give a young man like you I"
Mark shrank back, as from the touch of an
embodied pestilence.
"I can give you nn assistance in yoursearch,
Lieutenant Fallon," he grid coldly.
" Permit me to ask if Miss Heber is your
own sister, born of the same parents as your
self ?" demanded the pretended officer ab.
ruptly.
" I do not tolerate any intrus'on into my
private family affairs, Lieutenant Fallon.
said Mark hsuilly. "My sister has already
been annoyed by your questiods in regard to
her history, and I must rcqurst you to leave
us alone.'
"I beg your pardon, Mr. Heber," said the
villain, adding maliciously, "I see this is a
sore sub?ect with you. You have not said
that Miss Heber is your own sister. I presume
you cannot say so truthfully."
"We will not discuss the matter, sir. Gay
Heber is my sister, and while I live she shall
not lack for a protector."
" Ah, yes,"' said the pretended officer, using
his favorite phrase of assent. ". Brothers are
not usually so devoted to sisters as you seem
to be, Mt. Heber."
That evening Gay, whose curiosity had been
stimulated by what had taken pace, to find
out something more about her pare.ttage, was
examining some jewels which had been left
by her mother, and 13,,me trinkets which she
hsd possessed when a child. She had taken
them from a little box in the bottom of her
trot:11(01nd thought herself perfectly secure
under the cover of the wagon, when she sud
denly detected the false Lieut. Fallon peering
at her through a hole which he had cut In the
canvass. All this she reported to Mark.
Ou the following day Mark had a violent
altercation with the,pretented Lieutenant.
No one had eyes or ears for anything but
this exciting scene, and it thus happened that
a small body of horsemen in the uniform of
the United States had come up, and had dash
ed Into the very camp before their approach
was noticed.
A loud bugle call from the head of the troops
was the first token the emigrants received of
the new arrival.
In a moment the combatants were loosed,
and. all eyes turned to the newcomers.
The disguised Lieut. Fallon looked and
turned faint. He knew what this Visit meant,
If no one else did.
"Conductor," shouted the leader of the
troop, " we are here in search of Blue Jack,
the noted desperado, accused of the attempted
murder of Lieutenant Fallon of the United
States army whom hd brutally attacked and
flung Into the Deep Canyon as dead The
lieutenant is now at Fort Kearney, in a crit
ical condition, and we demand his would-be
murderer. "
The emigrants had listened with breathless
amazement to the annourfctment of the of
ficer In charge of the small detachment of
troops. They were actually spellbound. Not
so the person most Interested in the announce.
ment—Blue Jack himself.
The desperado had comprehended the er
rand of the troops in the first moment of their
appearance. After hie first sensation of faint.'
ness and terror, he had recovered hie coolness
and courage, and, was himself again.
At the very commencement of the officer's
announcement, Blue Jack exchanged glances
with the terrified and cowering Burk. 'The
latter pointed one trembling finger over his
shoulder to a spot at a litt!e distance, where
Bit e Jack's horse stood grazing, saddled for
use. )
In an Instant the chief desperado darted un
der the wagons toward the waiting horse.' lie
reached him and leaped upon his back.
And in the next moment that desperado rose
gracefully in his stirrups at the distance of a
tew rods, and with the fierce defiant yell of a
wild Indian, dashed his spurs into his horait's
sides and was away like the wind.
. . . .
'1 he troops gave an answering yell of sur
prise and anger, and the officer in command
led the swift pursuit
Blue Jack bad the advantage of a good start,
and was splendidly mounted, his horse being
a seasoned animal, born and bred on the
plains, and endowed with great life and spirit.
Blue Jack laughed aloud as the strong an i.
mal bore him onward as if he had been a
feather's weight. He rose again in his Stir
rups, and shouted back defiantly
" Como on. Take Blue Jack if you cant"
The pursuing officer shouted to the outlaw
to surrender, but the only, reply was a mock
ing laugh. The officer then fired a shot at the
fugitive, but the bullet missed Its mark, and
Blue Jack, bending low to his horse's neck.
and digging his spurs into the animal's sides,
swept on and away with the rush of a tornado.
And after him swept the pursuers.
The emigrants watched the pursuit with
breathless interest until the foremost figure
upon the powerful Indian steed had passed
beNond their line of vision.
During the confusion Burk escaped also.
At nightfall they halted upon the south
bank of the Platte, and were at supper around
their tires when the trooops were seeu to ap•.
proach, weary and dispirited—without their
prisoner.
" The fellow has escaped us," said the offi
cer.
"You held on to the chase well, Lieuten
ant," said the conductor.
" I can't bear to go back to the fort with
out him," was the quick reply. "There's ex
citement all through the fort. Poor Fallon was
nearly murdered, and was left for dead. He
was (lung over into Deep Canyon, and hap
pened to lodge in a clump of bushes. There
he came to himself, an hour' or more after
ward, and, more dead than alive, he climbed
up to the ground above, and fell down in a
dead faint. A party was Immediately organ•
ized, and sent in pursuit of the outlaw."
The next day they encountered the party
of soldiers that had been sent in pursuit of
Blue J ck. They had found no truce of the
desperado or his companion.
"No use looking for Blue Jack," said the
officer in charge of the party, addressing
Land ford. " 'There has peen a party of Si•
oux about this quarter for a few days past,
and no doubt Blue J ick has • fallen In with
them. The party Is hardly large enough to
attack your train. and I understand they have
gone up toward Dakotali. Blue Jack has an
Indian wife somewhere up there."
Upon the second day after leaving Fort Mc-
Pherson, the emigrants made their midday
halt in a grove of cotton-woods, upon the
bank of the south fork of the Platte, •at its
junction with a wide, tree-fringed river which
descended from the northward, and here they
concluded to settle.
The site of the village was selected exactly
at the junction of two rivers, upon a low bluff
overlooking the two streams.
Then a public square was carefully laid out
with math, mattes] exactness.
Then each man's lot was assigned to him.
Mark Heber's was next to Whitman's on
the eastern side of tue square, facing west,
and his futtire garden ran back to the edge of
the low bluff.
Mark Heber did a man's work, and from
the first day of this hard toil Whitman ceased
to class the youth among the boys.
In the course of a week, eight strong log.
houses, each a story in height, and, pierced
with loop-holes, and each provided with a
single capacious chimney, were finished, and
fronted the little naked square.
MtU•k Heber's house was simply arranged,
built upon the plan generally adopted by the
settlers. Thera were but two rooms, one be.
log entered through the other. The . inner
room was to be Gay's. The outer Too.
to be parlor, dining.room, kitchen, library,
and !dark's bed-room.
"The home Is your province, Gay," eni•t
the youth, upon the morning after the house
was finished. "I shall leave you to furnish
it and transform it int , a home while I work
upon the stockade. It you need my help when
the stockade and bloca•house are finished, I
will turn myself into a house•carpenter.'!-
" I shan't need you, sir," said Gay sautely.
" You attend to the farm, and leave the house
to me."
The shelter provided, the eight houses were
left entirely to the management of the women,
the men working upon the stockade, which
was constructed upon strict military princi
ples, and was a model of worth and exellence,
It required two weeks and the labor of six
teen men to complete this work.
Whitman and his family had been living in
their house for a week All the families had
moved into their homes save the fishers, but
Gay with a pretty tyranny bad not allowed
Mark to cross the threshold of his house since
he had finished it.
Now, when Mark unyoked his oxen, turn
ing them loose in his own yard, and drew his
wagon under a great cotton-wood in his back
garden, Gay calimi to him with a bright smile
saying that he might enter the house with
her
lie came pleased and smiling, but ptsused
upon the threshold in mute amazement.
Was this the room with four rough log
walls which he had given into her binds?
Was this sunny little home a log-house on
the plains?
It seemed incredible.
For little clever-w {tied Gay, with her deli
cate, skillful fingers, had fashioned a lovely
home out of her barren materials, such an one
as would delight the eye to rest upon, and her
sole helps had been two kindly boys of fifteen
years, who had worked under her directions.
" It is the prettiest room I ever saw," cried
Mark with enthusiasm. "'There isn't a house
in town like it. Won't the people open their
eyes? ICs Just lovely !" cried Mark delight
edly. " You are a regular home fairy, Gay.
You were meant for the frontier, and you are
the fairest flower on all the plains ! My pre
cious little sister !"
Ile drew her to him and kissed her tender l ,
ly. But Gay, most unaccountably, broke
from him blushing like a rose.
"I'll call Whitman in to see the house,"
exclaimed Mark, not noticing Gay's confusion.
"We shall set up for the aristocrats of the
town."
lie dashed out in boyish exuberance and
called in the entire population of the village.
They all came in, and there was a gencal
request that Gay should christen the settle
ment.
Gay's eyes brightened even while she
shrank (rem the honor thus put upon her.
"I can't" site said. " Mr. Whitman is the
oldest of us all, and is our Mayor. Let him
name the village."
" Then call it Heber, In honor of our
little Gay," cried Mr. Whitman. "What do
you say, my filen& ?"
Heber it Is !" cried a dozen voices In ex
claim, •
At that moment a boy who had been play
ing upon the platform Inside the stockade
clime in gasping the words:
"indium!" The above we publish as a spec
imen chapter; but the continuation of this
story will be found In the New York Ledger.
Ask for number dated March 30, which can
be had at any news office or book-store. If
you are not within reach of a news office, You
can have the 'Ledger mailed to you for one
year by sending three dollars to Robert Bon
ner, publisher, New York.
EASTER.
I=
Do saints keep holy day In heavenly places?
Does the old Joy shine new In angels' faces?
Are hymns still sung the night when Christ was
• born,
And anthems on the Resurrection Morn ?
Because our little year of earth is run,
Do they make record there beyond the sun ?
•
And in their homes of light so far away
Mark wi.h us the sweet coming of this day?
What is their Easter? For they have no graves
No shadow there the holy sunrise craves,—
Deep in the heart of noontide m•trvelous
Whom breaking glory reaches down to us.
How did the Lord keep Faster t With Ella own!
Bark to meet Mary where she grieved alone,
With face and mien all tenderly the same,
Unto the very sepulcher Be came.
Ah, the dear message that Ho gave her then,—
Said for the sake of all bruised hearts of root] !
_ .
—" Go,tell those friends who have believed on ine,
I go before them into Galilee!"
" Into the life so poor and hard and plain,
That for a while they must take up again,
My presence passes I Where their feet toil slow
Mine, shiulug•swift with love, still foremost go!
" Say, Mary, I will meet them. By the way,
To walk a little with them ; where they stay,
To bring my peace. Watch I For ye do not know
The day, the hour, when I may find you so I"
And I do think, as Ile came back to her,
The many mansions may be all astir
With tender atepe that hasten In the way,
Seeking their own upon this Easter Day !
Parting the veil that hideth them about,
I think they do come, pof.ly wistful, out
From homes of heaven that only seem so far,
And walk In gardens where the now tombs are I
—Scribner'sfer pr 11.
Beat Grant but not the Party.
From the Worcester Spy
Now, to "beat Gen. Grant" is not the very
worst thing that can be done, provided beat
ing him does not beat the Republican party.
Gen. Grant as an individual is one thing ;
but, Gen. Grant formally put before the people
by the Republican party as its candidate for
the Presidency, is something very different.
It is the Republican party which the plotting
"passivists" are so eager to beat, and, to reach
this result, they would nominate Gen. Grant
himself, by acclamation, if they could persuade
him to be sufficiently "disaffected" to act with
them. Some of their helpers in getting up the
arrangement by which those poor flies, "dis
affected Republicans," are to be made fond
for the Democratic spider, say in every varie
ty of tone adapted to their purpose,that a "Re
publican" nominated for support by the Dem
ocratic party, will be just as much a Republi
can as the nominee of the Republican party.
They suppose somebody will believe this, we
dare say; and, doubtless, they will next main
tain that to belong to the Democratic party is
precisely the same as to be a Republican.
Therefore, while it is to us comparatively . a
matter of indifference whether this or the other
competent man shall get the Republican nom
ination or fall to get it, we hold It to be a
matter of the highest importance to the coun
try that the Republican candidate should be
elected. And he will he elected. The so•call
ed "disaffected Republicans" are not nnner•
ous, and very few, if any, of them are disaffect
ed with the Republican party itself. They
may oppose individuals, but they are not
ready to strike the party or to desert its alms.
None to Defend the Peer Went
Why Lave the Democratic organs been sat.
isfled with reprinting the scandal with which
the Senate Chamber has been flooded, without
calling up their own res^rves ? It is simply
because Republican Senators, notoriously hos
tile to the Administration, seized the moment
most fortunate for the opposilon to make their.
assault; and carried it forward with a degree of
energy which no Democrat could possibly ap
proach. Meanwhile the President, the Secre
tary of War, the head of the Bureau of Ord
nance, and the subordinates through whom all
this business must have been transacted, are
silent. There's no national theatre,gorgeously
painted, crowded with admiring auditors front
pit to dome, in the midst of which they may
appear to confound slanderers. They have de
fenders, but no representatives in the Senate
to answer for them. Mr. Morton, Mr. Fre
lingliuysen, Mr. Harlan, Mr. Conkling, Mr.
Sherman and others, acting on their own re
sponsibility,have ably and successfully repelled
the assault ; but the Executive Deptirtment—
the Government—•represented by the President
and his Cabinet, has not made its appearance.
It is not in its power to do so ; and it must
trust for its vindication not to spoiches of
friendly Senators, not even to the reports of
committees of either House, but to its public
record and to the common sense and the sense
of justice of a fair-minded people.—Boston Ad.
carting,
The contemplated review of the Volunteers
at Brighton. Eug., on Easter Monday, will
not take place, as sufficient land for the man
euvers of the troops cannot ho obtained.
rangements are making, however, for a re
view at Portsmouth.
The examination of witnesses in the Mc-
OlureGray case closed last evening. On Batur
day,the committee will hear the'argument of
counsel in Harrisburg.:
AN ANGEL UNAWARES.
By ,OEOROIA
"Oh !, why does misery so often come hid
den in a nutshell? Why did mine come tome
In such a way ? I did not dream it would ever
burst its narrow bounds. Perhaps I might
have borne it better had I known how rapidly
it would grow. But now it is entwining
about me till my very soul in being smothered.
" Moan, moan, ye dying gales !
ThC saddest of your tales •
Is not so sad as life."
Beauty and sunshine In the morning, btit
wild winds calling together clouds the live.
long day. What wonder that the cold rain
beats against the window at night? So my
life goes, and at its close, after the waters of
tribulation have drenched my heart, what
then? Will there he a rest for me, or only
bitterness forever ?"
The pale lips of the woman twitched nrr
vously, and her slight figure seemed to shrink
into still smaller proportions as she drew
hack into the gathering darkness of the room.
It was only for a moment. Again she leaned
her face against the cool panes and her tear
less eyes giev.d listlessly down into the street
below, while her voice resumed its chanting
complaint.
"Only three years ago the world seemed
so full of joy and hope, but there's no more
happiness for me. Can this bethe anniversary
of my wedding day Y Yet I must walk through
long years husbandless and childless, ' cold,
and dark, and dreary.' Would 'hat the All
Father.would guide me ton haven of rest on
earth or in heaven ! lla 1 What was that
The gaslight looks so dim through all this
driving rain I But it was a child, arid she lies
still in the place where she fell. Poor wee
bit of humanity 4 are you hurt, dr stunned, or
—dead ?"
An impulse of mercy stirred the sad watcher
to action, as she quickly sprang from her chair
glided down the dusty, creaking stairs of the
tenement house and out into the street. Strong
gusts of wind and freezing rain dashed against
her face, and took away he'r breath, but the
frad,weak woman had suddenly becomestrong
and resolute. A moment more and she stood
on the slippery pavement across the street.
The child stil. lay prostrate and motionless.
There was no chance for inquiry there in the
storm, and she bravely bore her dripping bue
den back to the house and up the long, dark
stairs. llow long and dark they seemed to
the strugglit.g, panting woman, with snot a
dead weight in her arms I
" That you, Florence?" said a voice nt her
elbow, as•she reached the top of the second
"No, sir, she answered, in a startled and
defiant tone, I'm never Florence to you.. I
ant Mrs. Harden. Let me pass, Mr. RIM-
Icy." But the man impudently refused to let
her proem d.
"Tell first where you've been. What you
got in your arms? Needn't be mad. Will
call you Florence. What's your hurry ?"
" Mr. flawley,wlll you stand aside ?" Mrs.
Harden, as she called herself, spoke calmly,
but she was trembling with indignation. Just
at that moment the door opened at the further
end of the narrow hall, and au old wolnan's
head was thrust out.
" Dick Hawley," else called, " come back
to your supper I What are ye doin' out them ?
Be ye botherin' Alia' Harden nein, and keepin'
her waitin' ? Leave 'lone her if 'tie her."
Coming in a minute, Aunt Pull. Go back
and shut the door,'+ said the man angrily.
"I won't go in till ye do come, Dick. Miss
Darden won't never have nothin' to say to
such as you, with yes miserable fiddlhe and
dancin' at an old circus. I won't board yemo
longer, Wye be my nephew, if ye don't mind
yer own business, and let alone disgustin'
that won."
With smothered oaths and mutterings about
arousing the neighborhood, Hawley took his
leave, and Mrs. Harden falteringly climbed
up step after step, till she reached her own
little attic. She locked the door with her
quivering fingers, and hastened to light a
lump.
" Living or dead ?" was the query of her
mind, as she turned to the couch' where she
bad laid down herstrange burden. " Mercy I"
A hysterical laugh, that sounded like a sob,
followed the exclamation, for she was unpre
pared for the picture before her. A little girl,
six or seven years of age, stood on the floor,
with garments ragged, drenched, and muddy,
clinging closely to her form. Her large eyes
stared wonderingly up into the face of her
rescuer, and her tiny red hands were clasped
together tightly. Mrs. Harden found her
voice. " Child, you kept so still 1 thought
you were killed.'
"I thought I was, but I guess I ain't. I
hurt my head some on the bricks, and the
storm poured down an hard I couldn't get up,
so I said want to be an angel,' and then I
thought God sent you to carry me up there,
and pretty quick I heard a man speak, and I
was afraid lie would take me away from you,
so I kept still." She paused a moment to
breathe, and again, gave loose reins to her
voluble little tongue.
"It's nice and warm, and dry here—so
nice I Are you my new mamma? Grandma
Weeks said God would find one for me some
time." She tossed back her brown curls, so
heavy with rain, and smiled winningly, step
ping forward toward Mrs. Harden.
What a strange expression flitted over the
young woman's face Had her prayer been
answered so soon? Was the poor waif sent to
comfort her lonely heart ? The hard look in
her eyes softened, and a sudden determination
sent the blond to her pale cheeks.
" Yes, my dear, I will be your mamma,"
and she placed a motherly kiss on the up
turned brow. New coal was added, hasty
preparations made for a warm meal, and then
Mrs. Harden proceeded to warm and dry the
little stranger. An hour or more afterward
the child, enveloped in a soft wrapper, sat
folded in the warm arms of her new mother.
There was a smile of supreme content on her
baby lips.
" My name is Happy."
" W hose Happy ?" asked Mrs. Harden,with
a shade of jealousy creeping into her heart.
"Your Happy now. All my name is Hap
py Mary Alice Dayton. Papa was Captain
Dayton. I can 'member him end mamma
too. But they went away hi a ship years and
years ago. Aunt Mary said they sailed for
heaven, and won't come back no more. Atint
Mary said she was glad I didn't go, for I was
her Happy. She called me Happy Day Borne
times. And last week she went to heaven
too. She went in a box on a wagon. I cried
to go, but Grandma Weeks said 'couldn't go
then.
" Who is Grandma Weeks, and where does
she live ?"
"011! she ha poor old Grandma Weeks. She
ain't my grandma, but she Is somebody's,
guess. She Is awful poor, too. She don't
have much to eat. I gave her all the things
Aunt Mary had, but 'twa'n't no such nice
things as you have. God glees you beautiful
things, don't he? See what a pretty bed, and
mat, and curtains, and stove, and—every•
thing I Who Is that beautiful man in a frame
up there I"
" That—that—is Mr. Harden."
"Oh ? your father ?"
" No, he—that isn't toy father," stammer
ed Mrs. Harden.
• • .. • .
"Is he my papa, my new one ?" Happy
looked animated ,• she thought she had made
a discovery. " Will ho come home soon ?"
" No," answered her friend uneasily. "Ile
don't live here. Tell mu what made you go
out In the storm to-night, my little one."
"Grandma Weeks let me stay with her,but
her awful Wicked son came home tomight,und
swore he'd kill the if I stayed any longer, so
I ran away."
Just then there was a loud rap at the door
Mrs. Harden flushed angrily, and called in an
impatient manner.
" W hat is wanted ?"
"Nothing," replied Hawley. " S'pose
you've locked your door,
as usual ? Don't
care. Saw your husband to-day. Pretty girl
on his arm. Both drunk, I thought. Good
night !" The quiet step of siippered feet
passed down the naked stairs, and malicious
heart of their owner was satisfied, for lie
knew that he had caused the woman who
scorned him a pang of misery.
She looked down into the face of the child
In her arms, but • the sweet, dark eyes were
closed. Happy's short life had been spent
amid the haunts of wickedness and distress,
and she had grown,wise in reading the signs of
wrong-doing. The picture on the wall, the
coarse, biting words of the man, the sudden
pallor of Mrs. Harden's face had been enough
to convince her that she had found another
home where trouble reigned.
Through the long hours of that wild night
that childish head rested peacefully on a pil
low ; but a pale watcher moved noiselessly to
and fro, pondering, weeping, praying. When
day dawned, and a glorious sun made the
earth rejoice after its night of desolation, a
new light rose in the heart of Mrs. Harden,
and tenderly shone forth front her eyes.
Days, weeks and months passed.. Many a
lesson of faith and wisdom was learned from
this lips of an innocent child, reared by Chris
tian hands, though surrounded by wretched.
nese in every form. Mrs. Harden.had a new
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Interest in life, too. She labored for the sup•
port of herself and the orphan she had learned
to love. •
One evening she briefly rehearsed to her
little companion the story of her sufferings.
But, ere it was finished, she forgot that she
had a listener, and poured forth her thoughts
audibly, instead of hiding them in her heart
as she had long done.
" When I was a girl like you, my Happy,
was left an orphan too, and I lived with my
aunt. But she was not poor; she was rich.
and appearances were of the utmost Impor
tance in this world. She had girls of her own
younger than 1, and she tried to pursuade me
to marry, even when I was very young. They
called me very beautiful in those days, and I
know that I was haughty and willful as well
ns fair. I married a man that seemed to meet
all my requirements. Ho was young, and
handsome, and wealthy. To be sure, many
called hint wild, but that was nothing to his
discredit in irmy estimation. They called him
fond of social glass,' but that seemed
cent in my eyes. Ho was not a Christian,
but that was no objection to me. Married
life proved to be different from what I WWI
- There was harmony for a few weeks,
but we were both undisciplined, selfish, un
willing to yield when our wishes were oppos
ed. Then our trouble began to manifest itself
in reality. My husband commenced by ab
senting himseit from home evenings and ere
long he came home intoxicated. My pride
was hurt and my feelings outraged, and I re
proved him severely. It did no good, for he
did he same thing again, until I was nearly
distracted. I heard whispered rumors of his
being seen in company With a young and
b autiful woman, and 'could endure life there
no longer; but I was too proud to go back to
my friends, and my only wish was to hide
away frotn the world. That is how I came to
be iu this poor, naked destitute room, for I
hired it of my kind old washerwoman,Mother
Hawley. And even here I cannot remain in
peace, because I am persecuted by bee wretch
ed, dissipated nephew. Ho urges me to marry
him, saying that my husband has obtained a
divorce and is about to take another wife.
Alas ! my husband has forgotten me, for
lie does not seek Inc, though he knows I
am in the city. Oh, what is marriage in
these days of unceasing change but a mockery
—a farce? There are vows, but they' are
not binding ; there is an appearance of,
Live, purity, and truthfulness, but it Is a
temporary display. • Idid not mean to perjure
myself. Iliad a reverence lor God's or
ii minces, but I did not think of what might
he in store for me. I had no high and noble
thoughts of life's duties and responsibilities.
I had not made up my mind to bear or forbear.
I had forgot that marriage was tor better or
for worse till death. I did not realize that soul
must he united to soul in Christian love and
labor in order• to render a union lasting for
ever even through eternity. But in these five
long weary months I've learned the lesson too
late. tilt, my little girl, my heart was grow
ing hard and desperate in its desolation, but
you have warmed it to new life and led
my soul up to holier aspirations."
There were secret, sober thoughts hidden
down deep beneath the quiet brown eyes of
the child in her arms, though Happy answer
ed not a word. For several days after she
had been made a confidan e she seemed to
have sonic concealed burden resting on her
mind, which Mrs. Harden in vain tried to
comprehend.
"Come here, my bird," she called one day.
" The sun Is bright and warm, and you are
growing too solemn,shut up in this dull place.
Now go and play in the streets till dusk. I
can trust you. Good bye."
Down the same worn stairs where she bad
been carried two .mouths before, she lightly
stepped, and out into the gay busy street, .so
dith•rent from that dismal stormy night when
she had been turned out shelterless. She re
membered it all and pin ered upon it in her,
childish way as she tripped along up the street,
down another, •across, and still on, for she
was at home on all the streets of that vicinity.
An elegant brown house In an aristocratic
neighborhood at length attracted her attention
She looked at it curiously. She walked to the
opposite side of the street and scanned it.
She peered through the iron bars of the gate
into the garden that seemed a paradise to her,
with its musical fountains and rare flowers.
" Wonder If it is locked ?" she whispered
to herself, as she tried to open the gate.
To her joy she found no difficulty in enter
ing—The great bronze lions siartled her a
little, but she walked on up the broad path to
the massive stone steps, her eyes growing
larger and darker, her lips closing firmly to
gether. The door was fastened. Should she
ring the bell ? She had never ddne such a
a thing, and she concluded she would not try,
but search for apother door. Down in the
basement kitchen an old gray-headed Irish
woman looked up from the floor and her
scrubbing brush to see what human• being
was daring to invade her domain.
"I would like to see your master," said
Happy, with a coaxing smile that made the
old servant put her hand on the bib of her
sloppy apron as If there were a sudden dis
turbance beneath.
"Sure ' an' it's a darlint like the little lady
that can be after seein' him."
" Is lie In his own room?"
"Fair, an' ho is that same. Wud ye be—
" I know the way," interrupted Happy. "I
can go alone. You stay here."
The child boldly marches up the stairs and
the astonished old woman eat down on a
. .
bench to contemplate, with folded rums, the
" queer darlint."
Happy did not have any difficulty in find
ing the room she sought—a largo front ono
on the second floor. The door was slightly
ajar, and she noiselessly pushed it open and
entered. She had never before seen an abode
- of luxury, but her eyes were fixed upon one
obyet. A man, still young and fine looking,
but bearing marks of dissipation in his face,
sat in an easy chair, apparently asleep. There
was au expression of sadness about the mouth
as it he had tasted of the cup of pleasure, and
found it tins. tisfactory—better. He fild not
arouse until a pair of soft white arms enclosed
Ms neck in their warm clasp,,and a kiss from
childish lips fell on his brow.
"I've found you, papa. I knew I should.
I've looked ut your picture so much, I know
you 'most its well as mamma." Surprise and
bewilderment overcame Mr. Harden, for, it
was he, and he looked up luto that fresh dim
pled thee as into a deep mystery. " I'm Hap
py Harden now; mamma says she has 'dopted
me. We live In a little room together, but
stir says she wants to live hero again, only
you don't love her no more. You do, don't
you She didn't know I was coming here,
tint she told me one night where you lived.
We walked by here and she cried. She loves
you for better or for worse, and she told
Dick Hawley so. I heard her."
Mr. Harden began to have a perception of
the truth. His eyes flashed at the mention of.
Haw ley's name, and he pulled the mild down
into Ins lap with au almost savage,force.
" Are you spirit or flesh ? Do you speak the
truth ? Hawley told me long ago that she had
lei the Stale.to procure a divorce, and was
going to marry him. Is it true, child, woman,
angel, whatever you are?
"She hates him I We never speak to bird
now. lie has gone away from Mother Haw
ley's. She wouldn't keep him 'cause ho
plagued mamma and told stories about you.
I don't believe you are had."
" Where is my Florence ?" ho asked quick,
ly.
" Crime with me," she answered quickly.
Mr. Harden seized his hat, and together
they went t. ut in silence. Ile loved the wo.
man lie bad married more thin he know him
self, and during that short walk he registered
VOWS of future fulthiulness and temperance in
his heart of hearts.
In that little room, where, a few months
before, a despaiting woman had accepted a
forlorn waif as a trust from Heaven, this man
and wile renewed their marriage promises,
and with enlarged views of Bin's duties, and
simple faith In the commands of God. perhaps,
even hereafter, "a little child shall lead
them."
R'nNNLington • x Llttle llntchet.
The Chicago Tribune gives the following
new version of the hatchet story :
Washington's paren.tp were very particular .
as to little Georgic's playfellows, never allow
ing any but his little cousins or nephews to
visit h'in. Quo of these playfellows ' and In
some way connected, was one; of the Gaels
boys. Among other cognomens bestowed
upon this youth at his christening wee that of
Isaac. Well, Isaac and Georgie were playing
together In the orchard on the day when the
historic cherry tree was disfigured. The pa-
rental Washington canto along and was very
much enraged to see his favorite tree cut, and
hacked in a very bungling manner. So he
said to George, "Come here, you raaatl ! Who
'cut this cherry tree of mine 7" George gazed
for a moment at the riding-whip in the old
gentleman's hand, and then replied : "Father,
1 cannot 'toll a lio—lke cut it with ity Oats
kaioha 1" • • • , •
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