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It haa » |A I L r ® <*•.! saved hun- H jttmbsster,B.^. •EXECUTORS 7 " SALE H ! ; The ULideri-igned executors of Robert Tliomp pon, deoeased. late of Clinton town ship. lJutler Co., Pa., oiler for sale the following described property, located in said Clinton One hundred acres of liind. partly cleared, bonnded cm the aoujb by iaoils of 4otin Ulaegow, on tjie east l>y lari'ls of James heiru, on the north by land of is in .Thompson and on the went by laud of Absolr.ni Monk*. situated on the three-degree road, which passes near the house. 60 to 70 acres in good state of cultiva tion. good frame and log house. \vagon-»hed and spring house, gnod spring of water noar the bonce, and a first -clans young orchard of beating fruit trees. Convenient to schools, churches, mills, coal bank, etc. ALSO—Farm of Wm Thompson, ad joining tame tract, and containing about luO acrert. an?! hat-nig on it a goodJbricTs house, goodne'jr frame bank -barn and outbuildings, good orchard, it being part of same farm. AB-OLOM MONKS. ) . J. W. MONKS. F R • of Robert Thompson, dep'd, latp of Clinton twp. PENSIONS Procured for all soldiers disabled in the U. S. service (rom any cause, also for heir of deceas ed soldiers. The slightest disability entitles to pension. PENSIONS INCREASED. Rounty and new discharges procured. Those in doubt as to whether entitled to anything, should send two :t cent stamps for our "circular of informa tion." Address, with stamps, ST<UM..»RI & Co., Solicitors of Claims and Patents, Washington, I>. C.. Lock box G23. Mmaylm ML IT* XT TQ I WE WANT YOU In every T jjj i\ I | County, to sell our NEW Ai - TOM.VTIO CARI-KT SWEKPEK. You can make from s:t.oo to #s.(x> per day the year round. Good profits and rapid sales. Capital not necessary if you can furnish good references. Address at once PAGE CAIU>ET SWEEPEK CO. BUTLER. PA.. WEDNESDAY, Jl NE 15.1881 [From Scrihner's Monthly.] i MR. NEELUS PEELER'S CON DITIONS. "And those that are fools t let them use their talents." — Twelfth A ig/it. CHAPTER 11. In spite of Mr. Peeler's entire neg lect of ail sublunary pursuits for his public work, both stated and missioua ary, his professional reputation kept ou the wane. The country communities of those times were not very exacting, provided their preachers insisted upon being sure in their own uiinds of hav ing been called, and provided that they led moderately pious lives, and kept good, sound doctrine. Mr. Peelnr could not but be aware of some declen sion in his influence. llis afflicted con ditions had been worn and worn, until t}iey seenjed as if they were going to be threadbare, and that at no distant date. The main complaint was that, no matter what was the text, he preach ed the same—or pretty much the same at all times and places. 'l'm nobody but a female, and I ac knowledge it,' said Mrs. Peacock one day, when her husband and another of the deacons were diijcussing at dinner Mr Peeler's merits. She had been one of the last to give up. 'And I've al ways looked upon Brother Peeler as a acceptable minister of the gospel—that ip, congiderin' his phanees. But some how Brother Peeler, he preach better at first than he preach at the present time, and he don't come out enough on doctrjng lately.' 'Ah !' answered Brother Bullard, 'Sister Peacock, you hit the nail when you said that word; you hit the nail right spang on the head, jest as if you had 'a ! had a hammer. A few more of them greens, Sister Peacock.' Sister Peacock helped to the greens and wanted to fill Brother Bullard's plate with contributions from every dish at her end of the table. 'No, no ; plenty—plenty,' he remon strated, just before it was beginningto run over; 'plenty—plenty. But you jest as well 'a' h ai l a hammer when you said that word.' 'Brother Peeler is very good in a funil sermon,' acknowledged Mrs. Pea cock- ' That he is! Jabez Marshall, nor neither can Silas Mercer, beat him very fur thar.' 'And then he's very able in pra'rj' 'Powerful!' said Mi"- Bullard. 'But yit, Brother Bullard, we must have—we do want—we can't get along all the time without some doctring, if it's only of a Saturday meetin' like, or of a Conference day, with a little final pesse vera nee, and not a bit of faliin" from grace, and Well, you know Brother Bullard, I never was nothin' but a female, and I was always \\ illin' to acknowledge ' But Brother Bullard made Sister Peacock hush up right there, under ; rating herself in that kind of style. They sll agreed, even away down there, hard on the Ohoopees, that there were no limits to human griefs and sympathies; and that even the sadde.-t and most sympathetic of mankind liked —occasionally, at least—to be pointed to a more hopeful prospect, both of this present mortal, and the future eternal life. Atid then, some doctriDg was actually needed sometimes. Sister Peacock might be a female; but she stoutly denied being a babe, to be fed on milk. The other sisters, following the lead of the great pillar of Harmony Church, took up this idea, and said they wanted something hard and solid, too ; and the way they taljiet} ahout Brother Peeler would have led one to suppose that Brother Peeler regarded all the women, in all the borders of Buffalo, Williamson's Swamp, and both Ohoopees, whatever their ages, as so many infants. The fact was, Mr. Peel er had to make a new strike. Sam Wiggins had improved everv way un der the sweet influences of his sister, Mr. Peeler ought to be more cheerful. Although the last to see, he did see at last that, eveu if in humility, he must go himself, and lead his flocks to feed, in more pleasing pastures. One day he returned from an uncom monly extended 'tower' and looked cheerful. Old Sam suspected that he had made a fee of five dollars for mar rying some couple ; but Sam was mis taken. 'Lijay, and only 'Lijay, knew the cause. Oh, how he had praised 'Lijay and bragged about, and was so thankful for bti and 'Lijay were doing for the regulation of poor Sam my Wiggins! "Lijay,' he said, 'I believe I've jest found out the real true idee of preach in'. It's to take a big tex' and then charge. I done that on Little Hoopee last Sunday week. I took a big tex' and I charged; and I tell you, my son, everything flewed before me like when Len Peek Is a.rfter Vra on BudU gill's mill-pond. Xam goin' to fetch up that sermon here the first chance I git, and then, you listen.' Shortly afterward, when the pastor of Elim Church, not far distant, was somewhat ill, Mr. Peeler hinted a wil lingness to occupy his pulpit one Sun day morning. It was the best ttyit | coulcj be soop l^e circumstances. Here was a large congregation. It was remarked that Mr. Peeler gave out a more cheerful hymn, and spoke a more hopeful prayer than usual, tie took for his subject the triumphaut entry of our Lord into Jerusalem. He apolo gizen for taking so vast a subject for his text; but on a as this, veersea pught to be no object. I could not dwell (without the appearance of levity) as he did. upon the wildness of colts in general, and mule-colts in par ticular 5 on the temerity of an unprac tieed rider undertaking to travel on one of the latter for the first time (in all human probability without any Sad dle, and a mere rope for a bridle) into a great city, and among vast noisy multitudes." The climax was in ascrib ing :o these multitudes the motives for their concourse and their clamors, and their strewing branches in the way. By the time that he got up to this part of bis subject, his passion, which had been working from the beginning, seemed to have gotten beyond all bounds, and he screamed as he de nounced that onbelievin' and Gallio like people. And then his audience was stupefied with amazement as he declared and labored to prove that the \ intention of these clamoring crowds was to 'skeer' that colt—that young 1 colt—that young mule-colt that young onbroke mule-colt—and drive him to do things that were too awful I to contemplate. At this cap of the climax, Mr. Peel er, overcome l>y his feelings, sank down in the rear of the pulpit. The congre gation was at a loss what to think. The young men smiled, and locked across at the young girls ; the young girls smiled in turn and looked at their mothers ; the answering mothers puck ered their faces and looked at the old men, and the old men frowned upon one another with terrible solemnity for a moment, and then looked interroga tively up to the pulpit. But the pastor apparently had been growing worse and worse for the last three-rjuarters of ian hour, and sank deeper arid deeper, until he was no longer to be seen. Af i ter several moments' silence, he rose feebly, complained of being extremely ill, gave out a hymn, prayed a dejected prayer, and dismissed the congregation. CHAPTER 111. It was very soon ascertained that the pastor's view 9 on the late question in theological science were not at all in accord with Mr. Peeler's, and so Nee lus had to take his mule across the tijhwopees. where he had been foal ed. But how he did grow to dislike Sam Wiggins! Sam Wiggins did it all; and once more he returned, in his cjjspoqrses tmd aud conversa tion oy:er chicseil arid biscuit, to his af flicted conditions. A little freshened by temporary rest from work upon one long-continqed liae, and resolving, if possible, to recover the ground he bad lost, he strove to dig down to the very roots of human sympathy, drag it forth and press its last tpar.. Meanwhile, Sam quietly pursued his humble way, workiug every week-day all day long for Mr. Peeler and his family, and when the night came, sit ting by his sister, watching her ting, rolling her balls of yarn, reeling her hanks of cotton and wool, and oc casionally alluding fondly to the two old people now lying iu the garden. When bed-time eanie, he lit his candle, went to his bedroom, and slept tho sleep of the upright, the industrious, and the weary. As he Vised \o say to j several fripuds, but always in the strict est confidence, the old feliow had grown a little tired of Neelus Peeler's ever lasting preachin' and pravin' and talk in' about him, and he was sorely con cerned sometimes to know what ho ouj;ht to do, Hut for his affection for his sister, he sometimes felt that he would like to give Mr. Peeler a good shaking and then go away and leave the place forever. Between this affec tion on the one hand and his growing ] reseutment on tbs other, his simple, , guileless heart had many a conflict Iu the impossibility of real, his mind in dulged itself iu imaginary aveugement, Curiously enough, his rumiuations on one occasion took the direction of art. The hawk had been unusually trouble some of late to the barnyard. Sam, having no time to hunt so cunning a ! thief, determined to make a scare-crow, , intended to represent a man with a gun , In his hand making ready to lire. Al- ( though with quite limited knowledge , of the principles of £\rt, it occurred to him to make this figure resemble Mr. , Peeler. With some old, worn-out clothes, aud other necessary things, he made his man, set him up, and oontem- I, plated him. 'Qood! I had no idea I could do it j so well You are ugly enough, Nee- j lus.' Yet, in fixing the attitude of tbe j arms, he had some difficulty. After , several efforts her sat down and pon dered 'lt's no use; it wouldn't fool a jay bird or a joree, let alone a hawk. , They'd know you well enough, but . they wouldn't know the gun.' Risiug again, and essaying to adjust ' the arms to the intentions of the hun ter, a new idea seized him suddenly. 'That's it, that's it! Instid of mak ing you a-shootin' at 'em. Ef I can git that idee in 'em, they leaves these partß certain and sure.' Suiting his actions to his words, he took away the gun and stretched out the arms. 'I wonder I didu't think of it before. AU you want now, Neelus, is a ivoice,' This unbloody revenge went far to satisfy his sense of injustice. He grew to think this likeness quite striking, and every time he passed within view of it, smiled with satisfaction. Many j a talk he had with this preacher. 'How's your conditions this morn- i ing, Mr. Peeler? Pretty good? Ah! ! Jest passable eh ? I think you mout ! be satisfied with 'em, —the rest of us a \ workin' and you a-roamin' and a roar in' 'round genilly.' Sometimes he would seriously re monstrate with him for his ingratitude, his non-appreciation of his wife, his neglect of his son ; but he would soon lapse into a pleasant vein, and, regard- i ing him with pleased attention, seem to lose all resentment to the man in the satisfaction with his own hitherto un known and unsu-pected genius These colloquies were usually concluded with the ejaculatory refrain : 'All you wants is a woice. What would you be if you only bad a WOICE !' The only uneasiness he ft?lt was from an occasional apprehension that his sis ter might happen to notice it some time, and, being struck by the lac-sim ile of her husband, have her feelings hurt But she seldom went out of tbe yard in that direction. However to make sure, in order to avoid detection, he placed the figure in the plowed ground beyond the fence, artfully avert ed his face from the lot, and, as it were, disposed hie audience down toward the meadow. About this time the regular battalion muster came on. This was the grand i occasion of the year, not even except | ing tbe Fourth of July. Men that never got drunk during the whole year j sometimes had to give out on this day, ! and nothing, or next to nothing was said about it. The drum and fife were j too inspiriting, the memories of the brave deeds of their fathers too fresh and exulting, to allow even tempar i ance society people to keep entirely sober. By night. after such a day. the battalion, taken as a body, believed itself competent to manage the choicest red-coat brigade that might be muster ed. Sam Wiggins, in obedience to the orders of the captain of his militia dis trict, had to atteud. 'Lijay suggested to his father that he ('Lijav) ought to go along with his uncle Sammy, aud try to keep him sober. He had very nearly made an entirely sober man out of him, anyhow 5 but to-morrow would be a great strain. The idea struck Mr. Peeler as wise and opportune. Sam smiled, but said nothing at the break fast-table, and his sister looked sur prised, but also said nothing, when Mr. Peeler told 'Lijay he might have .Jim, the mule, to ride to the muster. During the greater part of that day, Mr. peeler sat in his piazza and rumi nated He hardly knew what he thought. Sam had been temperate so long that Mr. Peeler now had inade quate cause of crying, even with his jaw*; If old fellow should happen to make a big spree of it to-day, a little fuel would be added to the flame of his pathos, which he confessed had been burning low of late. He hardly knew how he felt. Toward evening, his wife brought out her sewing antf sat also in the piaa«a, silenf and thoughtful. At length Mr. Peeler spoke. 'lt appears like Sammy is sorter late in comin' from the muster, 1 'Yes/ answered bis wife, 'it's time they were home.' 'They ?' ejaculated Mr. Peeler. 'They? 'Lijay would have been home long ago, if it hadn't been for your brother. It's him that's been a-keepin' 'Lijay back, you may be sure o' that, Pity—pity—pit-tee,' continued he, lengthening his words as if he would reduce to measure and sing his commis eration—'pity that a minister of the gospel, the blessed gospel, should have to have bis mind all tore up by sich a case, and to haye his own sou a-foller ifl' uf his own uncle, and to take keer of him. aud to watch him, and to fetch him home from a wicked muster ot a wicked battalion in a wicked town; and —ahem!—a man's own wife not seeiu in' to keer for such things, and her own brother at that, and a drawback, as it Were, and a backhold, and a ' 'Mr. Peeler, what is all such talk about, and what is it worth? You know I do care for such things (or ought to know it) as much as you do ; but not like you do. I care for them for Sammy's sake ; for he is the best mau iu this world, in spite of tnat one fault, which he is very seldom gui'ty of, and which, somehow, you make ten yes, a thousand—times worse than it is. You talk about his being a draw back. Why, if he was to go away from here, as I know he feels like do ing sometimes, he would be missed— I can tell you that' 'Oh. Betsy, 1 shouldn't wish, that is, I shouldn't de.-ires that Sammy should go away and depart from us, and, as it were ' 'No; I think not. But I can tell you farther, that if you did let 'Lijay go to the muster for the reason you say you did, and if Sammy finds out that that was the reason, and if such as that is 'oo be kept going much lon ger, Sammy, will leave; and there won't be any power on this earth that can stop him. Mr. Peeler, I wonder you did t hat. I'm sorry you did that.' Mr. Peeler, with all bis powers, stood in some awe of both his wife and Sam. 'Why, Betsy, my dear, I—l—l thought that was the very best thing, —leastways, it was my desires ' 'The best thing!' she replied, con temptuously, but quietly, and, as al ways, without anger; 'the best thing with an honest man to send a boy, and a boj like 'Lijay, after him to watch him? —his own sister's child ; and one too that, here I tell his father, has been watching hounding his uncle too long already,«nd is not a fit person to be put to reform his uncle, or any one else that I happen to know. 'Lijay had better staid at home.' 'Well,' said Mr. Peeler apologetical ly for bis wife's weakness of judgment. 'Sieh is the female mind, and sich it will a-most always stick to its own brothers, no matter how Gallio-like— and even against their own chil'.—But yonder they come—and—-yes—-jes as I expected.' There they did come slowly up the lane, tbe horse and tbe mule ; but only the latter's rider was erect. Sam's horse was apparently bringing a heavy load. 'Now, aint that a sight for a minis ter of the gospel to have to see a-com iu' to his gate—and the poor bewilder in' creeter not bein' able to set up, nor hold his head up, but has to lay down on the dumb animal's neck, and 'Lijay, be havin' to hold on to his leg. I leaves the sight.' And Mr. Peeler withdrew into the back-yard. Mrs. Peeler put down her sewing and looked anxiously and painfully at the comers as they slowly approached. Never before had Sammy conic home, or been known to be, in such ill con dition. She rose to her feet, and look ed more and more eagerly as they neared the irate. Just as they reach ed it, she uttered a cry and ran to them. The burden was takeu from the horse, carried somehow to the house, and laid upon the floor iu the piazza. Mrs. Peeler went to the back-door and called her husband. 'Have the poor creeter been put away, Betsy?' 'I tell you to come in. You are wanted here right away.' 'Well, my skeerts is cle'r,' and slow ly entering, he walked through the house on toward the piazza. No soon er did he get there, than he fell back waad into a chair. There stood Sam Wiggins, leaning agaiust a post, wip ing with his handkerchief the sweat from his face, while prostrate, with rol ling eyes and grinning mouth lay— 'Lijay ! Tte boy, seeing his father, muttered seme words about 'having fotch—ole fel—safe ; but mons-trouble,' and then gave a loud, dismal cheer for Gen'l Wash'n.' Mr. Peeler winked his eyes repeated ly while lookinir alternately up at Sam and down at 'Lijay, as if he must be mistaken as to their relative situations. NO. 80 He then looke'l at his wife, who stood still, silent, pale as the dead.' I don't,' he began, at length; 'I dou't, that is,' —ruobing h<s eyes vio lently, and winkin' more and more; 'aint they—aint they some misunder staudin'—or some mis—ta—take—or some niis ' 'You see for yourself,'said Sam ; 'or, could see, if you would open your oyes and quit winkin' 'em so much, and would look down thar on the floor. You see it aint ME.' '1 never should a bl—b'lieved it.' 'You shouldn't. Well, I always knowed it was a-comin'; only it didu't come quite as soon as 1 spected ; but it's come soon enough.' He lifted the boy, carried him into his chamber add laid him on the bed. 'Lijav was inclined to remonstrate, still desiring to continue faithful to his trust, and look aftor his poor old uncle Sammy. Being repeatedly assured that Uncle Sammy was all right, at last he became reconciled, and immedi ately dropped to sleep, llis lather looked on utterly bewildered. He curiously contemplated 'Lijay, seem ing to regard him as something that was dead, and to be trying to recall to himself whether or not he had ever known it while it was alive. He fol lowed Sam back to the piazza, as if he had been charmed. Sam paid no at tention to Uim ; but, taking his hat, he walked past the stable, climbed the fence, arrived at the stump on which til* imaginary Mr. Peeler, now much worn and wilted by long service in wind and weather, yet. held out his arms and poured fourth upou his con« ditions to a sorrowful and sin-stricken world. 'And now, sir, before I go from you for good, I'm goin' to do the best I can for you, and give you some conditions, as you call 'em, that will do to talk about when I'm gone. It's the best I cau do, situated as I am, and situated as you are, and situated—well never mind about the balance.' He seized him by the throat, wrench ed him from his elevated position posi tion, and, striding along, the feet of the wretched man dragging beneath that powerful grasp, his arms vet ex tended, as if yet appealing for sympathy and snccor, the avenger pressed ruth lessly on iuto the remotest depths of a small pine thicket that had grown up around a bend of the spring-branch. It was never definitely known what became of the victim ; but from frag ments of felt, feathers, cotton, shoe leather, and other articles of human apparel, afterward seen upon the marg in of the s'rearu, it was suspected that he had been drowned CHAPTER IV. Sam walked slowly back, lingering a minute or so at the spring, at the ?ow-pen gap, at the stable, at the crib, at the yard gate (where he exchanged he saddles of the uorse and mule), and even at the bottom ot piazza-steps. Mr. Peeler and his wife were sitting there, and both watched him closely as he dragged his feet heavily. Without daring to look at bis sister, he turned to Mr. Peeler and, standing, said : 'And now. Neelus Peeler, it's about time vou and me had some understand in'.' 'A understandin'—Sammy, a—un der—standin' ?' Mr. Peeler's eyes snapped, and he looked as if he had been under the impression that the most satisfactory understanding had been arrived at between hiin and his brother-in-law long ago. 'Yes, sir,' answered Sam, making his attitudes so as, if possible, to have his sister in the rear while he had Mr. Peeler in front. 'Yes, sir, a understanding. I've stood your preachin' about me (if you tnout call it preachin'), and I've stood your talkin' about me, and what's more, I've stood your doggin' me about with 'Lrjay about as long as anybody could be expected to stand 'em. But now, Neelus, we got to part. It's mighty easy to make a settlement. I want nothin' but Bob, and my saddle and bridle, and thar they stand hitched at the gate. Betsy may have the rest.' He turned and looked toward his sister. It's sorter hard to part from her, and ' Before he could utter another word, she gave a piercing scream and fell upon his neck. 'No, no, no!' she cried. 'And what will become of me without the only one in this wjrld who loves and cares anything forme?' And then she let bim go, and stood with her left baud resting upon his shoulder, liaising her right hand ex tending it toward her husband, she said : 'Neelus Peeler!' Mr. Peeler could not sit in that chair; so he got up and backed against the wall. 'Yes, sir, stand up. Eighteen years ago 3 r ou stood in that room and promis ed to love, and honor, and protect the g:ri that stood by your side And while you were making these promises, this man here was standing in bis mother's room, because he couldn't bear to hear the words spoke that were to part him from his sister. I'm not going to reproach you for anything you've done to me, nor for anytbiug you've neglected to do for me and the poor boy that lies in there on the bed. But this man here, who has been for over thirty years working and toiiing for father and mother and me and has got nothing for it except his food and his clothes, —do you think I'm going to sutler you to drive him away from this place, and keep me here after he is goue? I call heaven to witness, Mr. Peeler, that if either my brother or I must leave this place, it shall be me. The day he leaves, I leave too; —but not to go along with him, and be a bidden to him any longer. There's been enough of that, Ood knows. But when he takes his direction, I will take the other, and work my way, or : beg my way from house to house.' Her long hair became disengaged from its comb, aud fell streaming over her neck, and face, and shoulders. She pushed it back from her eyes, and then again threw her arms around her broth er's neck. Mr. Peeler tried to speak. but, for tbo first time in bis life, the' ADIERTIBIXO HATES, Ono sqnaro, ono insertion. *1 ; each aabe« quent insertion, 50 cents. Yevrlv advertisement exceeding one-fourtb of a column, 15 per inch i Figure worn double these rates: additiona charges where weekly or monthly changes are ma., P. Local advertisements 10 cents per line ; ~,® rrt insertion, and 5 cents per line for each ■ fJflt'Onal insertion. Marriages and deaths i üb l:«heu free of cliajge. Obitmrv notices charted advertisements, and parable when handed in ! A,;i "'»rs Notices. $4 : Executors and Adminia i tra'.urs Notices. i 3 each; Estray, Caution alio I I'lssolutioii Notices, not exceeding ten lines qaoh. ' From the fact that the CITIZEN is the oldre* [ established and most extensiv. ly circulated lie publican newspaper in Bui ler county, (a Kepufc licaii county 1 it must be apparent to business men that it is the medium they should use in a Ivertising their business. words stuck in his throat. He scraped himself slowly against the wall until he reached the door, then backed into the hou.-e, and got out of sight. Poor old Sam ! He feebiy strove to get loose from his sister; but all his great strength seemed to have departed | from him. He reached out toward the post, got hold of it at last, laid his head against it, slowly sank down upon j the bench beside it, aud wept aloud. | He had not had the slightest idea of giving up in this way ; but the arm of I that sister around him pressed upon his great, big. old heart, and he could not see clearly how they were to part. There they sat a long, long time. Day went dowu, and the moon arose, and yet there they sat. Sam tried to argue. He had thought that he had a good case; but she headed him at every corner, and it appeared more and more that instead of a good case he had no case at all. Oh no, no,'she said softly. 'No, no. Here was where you and I played to gether. You've been here ever since I went away. Perhaps I may not have done as well as some others; but God knows what is best. And now I am back again in the same old home: no longer a child, and more than ever I have needed before, the love and ' 'But Be-be-bets—' Sam began. 'No, no,' said his sister getly, put ting her band upon his lips. 'No, no, I am better off than you think, in spite of some few troubles which I am thank ful are no worse. You can't put your self in my place, my dear old Sammy. lam happier than you kuow of. And I am going to be happier than I have ever been in my married life. I am sure of it. Come with me.' They rose and she led him into the garden, down behind the rose-trees, under the cedars, and they sat down upon the iude bence. They were not persons tor much sentiment, these two, brother and sister, even as they sat at midnight by the graves of their parents; yet they came away shortly afterward, if not with fonder mutual affection, with more cheerful hopes for all the good to which they humbly aspired. From that night things grew better and better. Mr. Neelus Peeler retired from public life ; not abruptly, nor, as it was believed, from any detinite prede terminate resolution. It seemed rath er as if the work that had been alloted to him in the vineyard was finished sooner than had b»*en expected. His forte haviug been mainly, if not entire ly, in the pathetic, and it now being universally recognized that, in his do mestic relations, he had everything to be thankful for, except in the matter of bis own son (and he not so old as to be incapable of amendment), M. Peeler necessarily subsided into private life. About a year afterward, a girl baby was born. Mrs. Peeler said that Sam my should name it. To this propo sition bet husband made no objection ; for now in Mr. Peeler's eyes Sam Wig gins had become, not only respectable, but great. Sam answered that if they left it to him, they ought to know that he should name the child Nuncv. And then his sister, as she lay upon her bed, lifted her arms, put them around his oeck, pulled him down, and hugged him until the old fellow was ashamed of himself. For Nancy was the name of their mother. 'Lijay, now having different guides, made some improvement. Before he was fully grown, Sam succeeded in what he frequently (but always confi dentially) declared was his best hope for 'Lijay, namely, in marrying him off; or rather, as he was no match-maker, nor match-breaker, he let 'Lijay marry himself off; and notwithstanding the frequency with which such a thing oc curs, everybody wondered at the luck that 'Lijay had For the rest of his life, Mr. Peeler submitted with a melancholy resigna tion to be supported by his brother-in law and wife. Of course he could not feel as if he ought to be entirely idle. Sam kept him in powder and shot, in fish-books and lines; and it was some what touching, once in a while, to ob serve the meek satisfaction with which he would contemplate a broiled squir rel or a pan of horny-heads, that through his labors had been brought to the breakfast-table. CHAPTER V. AND oh, bow little Nancy did grow The great secret of Peruaa is that it always coincides with the vis medica trix natura. (Nature.) A fly is said to have 16,000 eyes. No wonder he is careless when he leaves his specs. Any remedy that always coincidea with the vis medicatrix natura cures all diseases. Peruna. It is sad to know how few people recognize the alterations made by the New Testament revisers. The Oil Ci f y Derrick was the first in the field with its spring poem. It runs thuswise : 'There came to our cab in one morning in spring, a sweet little robin—he came there to sing, but the cat was attentive, and watched from afar, till the robin all heedless was killed like a Czar. [Gouverneur, (N. Y.) Herald.] With great pleasure we can recom mend as a radical cure for rheumatism, St. Jacobs Oil. This wonderful reme dy has been extensively used by a large number of people who daily tes tify to its marvelous effects. Biddy,' said a ladv to her servant, 'I wish you would step over and see how old Mrs. Jones is this morning.' In a few minutes Biddv returned with the information that Mrs. Jones was seventy-two years, seven months, and twenty-eight days old. That dog of yours flew at me this morning and bit me on the leg, and now I notify you that I intend to shoot it the first time I see it.' 'The dog is not mad ' Mad! I know he is not mad. What's he got to be mad about ? It's me that's mad.' A minister overtook a Quaker lady, and politely assisted her in opening a gate. As she was a comparative stranger in town, he said : 'You don't know, perhaps, that I am Mr. Haven't you heard me preach V 'I have heard thee try,' was the quick rejoinder.
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