THE TIMES, NEW BL00MF1EL1),1A., SEPTEMBER 17, 1878. lshetl old lttdy, Jumping up. 11 Bheshall marry, and I will fix things to that I shall have Homebody to depend on. That Lawton Isn't so bad a fellow after all, and she ahull have him. Kate, you shall have Illok Lawton. I will see If we are to be jeered at and shunned by this town on account of that fellow's stupidity." The guests had begun to retreat from the melee. Either the old lady's mind was breaking up, or she had a mono mania on that one subject ghosts. For hours Bhe walked the floor, cried and threatened. " You hear what I say, Kate V You shall marry Itlck Lawton and live here." " Yes, aunt." It was nearly daylight. I still linger ed, fearing some catastrophe from the excitement, llesldes, Bessie seemed to have grown com posed, and her blue eyes shone with something very much like happiness. 8he looked so deeply fas cinating, and Kate looked so mirthful behind her pocket-handkerchief, that I was bewildered. Hut I got a whisper of the truth be fore I left. It was Kick Lawton taking oft' his wig in the garden that had frightened Peter, and Kate, taking ad vantage of the situation, provided her lover with a sheet, whereby he personi fied a walking ghost for the benefit of the poor darkey. I went home for breakfast and in two hours was recalled to arrange legal doc uments concerning a wedding dower. Kate and Lawton were married then and there. They made a tour, but set tled down In the old mansion immedi ately. Privately, I think that It was fortunate that the old lady immediately took her bed, or matrimonial bliss might have been a myth for the newly wedded pair. She was confined to her room for sev eral years before her death, but made no trouble. Sometimes when the bell would peal half a dozen times In a hour, sum moning the doctor to his numerous pa tients of the surrounding country, she would smile shrewdly and say : " Folks don't seem to be afraid to come here." I was sorry to take her little nurse away, but Bessie attended her a whole year, after she had promised to be my wife, and I could do without her no longer. A year after Kate's marriage, we heard from the red-haired young man who had so befriended us. He had married a Creole heiress in New Orleans, and he wished us joy of our haunted old cas tle. It Is haunted with the laughter of merry children that's all. HETTY'S MISTAKE. lt pvEAR.-deor, how It rains!' said U Hetty Wallis. She had opened the door the least lit tle bit in the world, to see If there was any prospect of its clearing up, but the rush of the wind and rain that swept In at the crevice compelled her to close it again almost instantaneously. It was a little brown house, on the edge of the lonely Western forest a brown house, with sloping eaves and a bay-window, and a dooryard full of roses, whose crimson clusters gleamed faintly in the late autumn twilight. Doctor Wallis lived here Doctor Wallis, who had come West, with his two daughters, scarcely six months ago, and who was the only physician within a radius of thirty good miles around. Hetty stood by the Are, one foot on the fender, her dark, dreamy eyes fixed on the red glow of the burning logs. Sibyl, the other sister, lay luxuriously back In a cushioned chair, waiting for the lamps to be lighted before she went on with the bit of Berlin wool-work In her lap. Sibyl Wallis was a rose-cheeked, scar-let-llpped beauty, one of these fair hu man flowers which, like the lillies of Solomon, are destined neither to toll nor to spin. Doctor Wallis was a poor man, and kept no servants ; but no one ever ex pected Sibyl to do any of the rough and disagreeable offices consequent upon housekeeping. Sibyl dusted the parlors, kept the vases full of flowers, washed the tea china, and " did up" her own pretty laces and pocket-handerchief ; and Hetty, the sec ond daughter a brown little elf, with jetty hair growing low on her forehead, and a colorless olive skin cheerfully undertook the prosaic part of lire, as if it were her natural Inheritance. " To think of poor papa out In all this tempest!" said Hetty mournfully. " Gentlemen dou'tmind such things," said Sibyl, serenely. " And of course, It's just what a doctor must expect." "Hush 1" said Hetty, suddenly turn ing her head in a quick, bird-like fash, ion. Some one is knocking at the back door." ' ' " Perhaps you'd better go and see who it is," remarked Sibyl. , It was a man all wrapped up in oil skin, until nothing more; than the tip of a very red nose was visible. '! Oh, I say, miss," said the dripping visitant, " Where's the doctor V" "He Isn't In," said Hetty. ." Where's Doctor Wallis," reiterated the man. i .. "He's out!" answered Hetty, speak ing loud hnd distinctly, under the Im pression that the Inquirer was deaf. "It'sDakln's boy," said the man, " he's chokln' to death." "Oh!" said Hetty. "Croup, I sup poser"' " Don't know what It Is," said the messenger, "Ain't ho doctor myself. All I know Is that I must bring back Dr. Wallis," with a nod at his lumber wagon at the gate. " But you can not, If he is out," said Hetty. The man stood a moment, shifting from'one foot to the other, evidently in a quandary. "I'm blamed If I know what to do," said he. " Well I'll tell ye what, Miss. You just send the doctor on to Daktn's just as quick as he comes back. If Dakln's boy chokes to death, it ain't no fault of mine!" And away rumbled the wagon Into mist and twilight. It had hardly disappeared when a lit tle lad arrived with a note for Hetty. " It's from papa," said Hetty, hur riedly opening it and reading aloud the following brief message: Deah Girls : Old Eldwood is very bad, and I shall probably be detained ail night. liock up the house as usual, and don't expect me until I come. Affec tionately, H. W. "Oh, dear," said Hetty, blnnkly; " and what is to become of Dakin's child V" " I never saw such a girl as you, Het ty," said lovely Sibyl, with a pettish contraction of the brows. " You are always shouldering other people's troubles. What is Dakln's child to us, I'd like to know V" " But only think of it, Sibyl," said Hetty, clasping her hands, "a dear lit tle baby suflbcating to death all for the want of the simplest remedies." " We can not help it," said Sibyl set tling back composedly among her cush ions. "But I'm not so sure of that," said Hetty, briskly. " I know the remedies papa uses for a case of croup, and how to use them. " I'll go myself." " Hetty !" cried the elder sister, " are you crazy 5"' v " Crazy y" said Hetty. ' "No, I'm only ordinarily human. The child shan't die if I can help it." She went to her father's drug closet, opened it, and took out several small vials. " Syrup Ipecac,' " said Hetty, with a little nod of her head to each. " Asa foetlda,' ' hive syrup.' Simple reme dies, but very effectual if taken In time." " But, Hetty," pleaded Sibyl, " you're never going to walk, nobody knows how far, in all the rain V" "Yes, lam," said Hetty, buttoning on a capacious water proof cloak, and pulling the hood over her head. "And you don't even know where these Dakins live." "Yes, I do. It's a big brick house just beyond the woods by the church. Papa showed it to me the other day." . "Full two miles away." " I can't help that," said Hetty. " And me all alone "' Sibyl's voice grew plaintive. " I can't help that either." returned Hetty, a little Impatiently. " But don't fret, Sib I'll not be long." And out the brave little girl walked Into the tempestuous twilight, with her pockets full of medicine and the water proof cloak buttoned snug around her. Not until she had left the friendly lights of home far behind and was lost in the black, rustling depths of the for est, where the dark boughs met over head, and ghostly, whispering sounds went through the dry leaves, did Het ty's valiant heart begin to quail. Even then she would n't admit to her self that she was in the least timid, but resolutely fixed her thoughts upon" Da kin's boy," Buflbcatlng to death with croup, and quickened her footsteps as she did so. Darker and darker it grew lonelier and lonelier; but Hetty pressed reso lutely until drenched with rain and ready to drop with fatigue of making her way through muddy roads against the winds, she knocked at the door of 'Squire Dakin's red brick house. An elderly woman opened it. " It is the doctor !" said she eagerly. "No," said Hetty, " but it's the doc tor's daughter." , " Lord sakes alive !" said the woman, despairingly ; " what good can you do, and him so mortal bad b" "A great deal," said Hetty. "Let me come In, if jou please. I under stand my father's treatment, and I have some medicine here." At this the woman stood back, mo tioning toward the stairway, and Hetty ran up and entered the sick room with a confidence born of her womanly cour age and kindness. " But It was no cradled babe or plump four-year-old Who lay there. "Dakin's boy" was one-and-twenty at the very least, pale and handsome, with closed eyes, and a face set as if lu mortal pain, as it lay on the pillow. Hetty Involuntarily recoiled. " It It isn't the croup then," said Bhe clasping on e of the little bottles in her hand. " It's quinsy,' Bald one of the atten-' dants, " and it Is a fatal case, I'm think ing." And little Hetty, all her bravery ooz ing out, like Bob Acre's courage, at her fingers' ends, sat down behind the door, and began to cry. The sick man opened his eyes large and soft, and dark they were, with long lashes and asked faintly : "Who's that?" Hetty rose and came forward. " It's ine, the doctor's daughter," said she. I thought It was a little boy with the croup, and " "Don't cry," said he gently, "It will soon be over." And he closed his eyes again, whllo poor Hetty cried harder than ever. An incipient case of croup she thought she could manage, but "quinsy" was entire ly beyond the range of her capacities. She had never been in a death-chamber before, and the hour and solemnity of the scene Impressed her with a sense of vague terror. Just then a brisk, heavy footstep sprang up the stairs, two at a time. There was a stir and commotion in the room. "Oh, thank heaven !" cried Hetty, " it's papa." Doctor Wallis It was. Iteleased earlier than he expected from the other sick bed, he returned home, and learned from his eldest daughter Hetty's errand, and here he was, flushed and breathless from the haste he had made. An hour luter he came down to where Hetty sat on the lowest stair, pale and anxious. " Fapa," said she, " how is the young man V" " Better, my dear. Doing well. But It was an even chance between death and life for one while. Come, dear, I'm go ing home now. Dobbin Is at the door." Hetty climbed silently Into the buggy and nestled down by her father's Bide. "Papa," said she, presently, " was I very silly to come here V " No, my dear, you were very kind hearted. But as you see there Is some difference between a simple case of croup and malignant quinsy." " Dakin's boy" recovered with mar velous celerity, and the first place he visited In his convalescence was Doctor Wallis' house, to thank the doctor's black-eyed daughter for coming to see him on that stormy night. " I wish I was a little chap with the croup," said he laughingly, " to put my self under your professional care." " What nonsense !" said Hetty, turn ing very red. " But Indeed, I shall never forget the pitying look In your kind eyes," said Hector Dakin, gently. "It seemed somehow to draw me back to life." And by the time that " Dakin's boy" was quite recovered, he had gotten into a way of spending his time at Doctor Wallis' that seemed decidedly chronic ; when he became engaged to the doctor's daughter. " It's very strange, though," said Sib, fretfully, " that the only eligible and decent looking man within ten miles should fall In love with our brown little Hetty." " I don't think it strange at all," said Dr. Wallis, dryly. Furious Sharks. The New Haven Journal of the 31st ult., Bays : As the large seine of the East Haven fishing company was being drawn to shore yesterday afternoon, and when the catch was close in to the sand beach and the heads and tails of thou sands of white fish constantly appeared and disappeared, thickly filling the sur face of the water in the net enclosure, an unusual and violent commotion told of the presence of more sharks In the net. On Wednesday one monster man eater, eleven feet long, was taken, and on Thursday, with 25,000 white fish, brought to shore, there were five of the rapacious monsters captured, one seven feet in length, one six feet and the rest smaller. The capture of these had whetted ex pectations of seeing more, although the company are not at all anxious for their appearance owing to the danger of their tearing and thrashing the net to pieces. When the sharks were seen yesterday they had not become aware that they were prisoners and were rushing about gorging themselves on the white fish at a great rate. It wasnt long before they found out that there was trouble In the catrip, and they lashed the whlte-flsh-fllled water with their talis and swam around In cir cles, lathering the place with foam. Not to give the sharks too much lee way, Mr. Meadham stepped out among the thousands of white fish, axe in hand, and dealt two of the largest sharks each a powerful blow, which seemed to stun them a little. Then, with a large heavy Iron hook In hand, with a long rope at tached reaching to shore, he watched his chances, and at the right moment struck the hook Into the nearest shark, and the hook taking a strong hold, the shark, with ten or a dozen sturdy men at the rope, soon found himself on the sand. The operation was repeated until five of the ugly, thrashing Intruders were making the sand fly on the beach and snapping their saw teeth in the most savage fushlon. A bean pole Inserted in the mouth of one of them was held as If In a vise, and pieces were bitten In two. The three largest sharks were meas ured with a foot rule when lying com paratively quiet. The largest one was eight feet long, the next seven and the third six feet. The other two were three or four feet long, but were active and saucy enough. As soon as some of the sharks found themselves on land they discharged from their capacious jaws a shower of White fish. One of the smaller sharks had his head bitten clean off in'a trice when in serted In the open jaws of the eight footer. A number ot years ago the fishing company's seines brought sixteen sharks to shore in one season, and the catch this season is the largest 'since then. The unusual number of sharks In the harbor and along the shore this summer Is partially accounted for by the hot weather and the swarms of white fish In to feed. It might be added that It behooves the small boy to select his bathing ground with sOnic show of dis cretion in view of the shark family preference this season for the shore. Lockjaw by a Lightning Stroke. A Kalamazoo paper says : The case of Benjamin O. Bush, of this place.who has been expected to die every day for the past week with the lockjaw, but who is now believed to be slowly recov ing, has been a very singular one. Some time ago he run a rusty nail into his foot, but the foot was poulticed and healed over without any apparent re sult Some two weeks ago he was wit nessiug a game of base ball between the Jackson and Kalamazoo clubs, when the lightning struck a tree on the track and Bush Immediately felt a pain be tween the shoulders as though a knife had been run into him. He went home and his symptoms continued to grow worse in spite of medical assistance, un til It proved to be a very bad case of lockjaw. He had to be fed through a tube for several days, and the cramping and contortions of the body were fright ful to behold. A Fashionable Call and all They Said. . How do you do, my dear? Purty "well, thank you. (They kiss.) How have you been this age? Purty well how have you been V Very well, thank you. Pleasant to-day. Yes, very bright but we had a shower yesterday. Are all your people well 5 Quite well, thank you, how are yours? Very well, I'm obliged to you have you seen Mary B. lately ? No, but I've seen Susan C. You don't Bay. Is she well? Do call again soon. Thank you but you don't call upon me once In an age. Oh, you should not say that ; I am sure I am very good. Good day. Must you go? Yes, Indeed ; I have seven calls to make. Good day, A Lonesome Watch. William McMurtrie, a Patersou school teacher, and his son, while walking through the woods, near Southfield on Saturday evening, lost their way and were unable to find their way out in the darkness. While they were discussing what to do Mr. McMurtrie fell forward on his face dead, it is supposed of heart disease. The son was compelled to sit by the corpse all night, not knowing which way to go. In the morning he found his way out anl summoned as sistance. At Bombny a lady and geutlema n who were taking a stroll sauntered into a church, and finding tbe marriage register on a table, the gentleman for fun wrote in it the names of four people (two couples), well known in their circle of friends. Tbe names may not be erased, because any ooe tampering with the signatures in the regis try is liable to seven years penal servitude. Tbe offender has absoonded, the gentlemen are in pursuit, and the ladies in dismay. Tbe governor has been appealed to, but no decision has been arrived at as to what can be done. V E G E T I NE rurlfles the Blood AGItcs Srength. ' ' ' . Do Quoin, ill. .Jan. 21, 1S79. Mr. H. R.Stbvrnr: Dear Hlr Your Vegetlne has been doing wanders tor me. Have been liav Inn the (jhllli and Fever, contracted In the swamps ot the i South, nothing giving me relief until I began to nra your Vetlne. If giving me Immediate relief, toning up my system purifying my b ood, giving strength) whereas all other medicine weaked me, and filled my system with poison i and I atn sattsned that If alt families that llvelntheaguedlstrletaof theHouth and West would take Vegetlne two or three time a week, they would not be troubled with the Chills or the malignant Fevers that prevail at certain times ot the year, save doctors' bills, and live to a good old age. Respectfully yours, . ... , . J- MlTOltM.t,' Agent Henderson's Looms, St. Louis, Ho. Au, Disrasrs of thi Hr-oon. If Vegetlne will relieve pain, cleanse, purify, and cure such dis eases, restoring the patient it perfect health, after trying different physicians, many remedies, suffering foryears, is It not conclusive proof, if you are a sufferer, you can be euredt Why Is this medicine performing such great nresT It works in the blood, in the circulating Hold. It can truly be called the Great Mood I'urlller . 1 he great source of disease originates In the blood: and no medicine that does not act directly upon it, to purify and renovate, lias and (list claim upon public atteutlon. VE GET IN1J Has Entirely Cured Mo of Vertigo. ni tt u . Cairo, 111.. . Tan. 4.1,1878. Mn. II. R. Stevens: Dear Hlr I have used several bottles of Vegetlne jit has entirely cured me of Vertigo. I have also used It for Kidney Complaint. It is the best medicine for Kidney Complaint. I would recommend It as a good blood purifier. n. voc'UM. Pain and Disease. Can you expect to enoy good health when bad or corrupt humors circulate Willi the blood, causing pain and disease; and these humors, being deposited through the en tire body, produce pimples, eruptions, ulcers. Indigestion, costiveness, headaches, neuralgia, rheumatism, and numerous other complaints? Remove the cause by taking Vegetlne, the most reliable remedy for cleansing and purifying blood. VEQETINE. . I Believe it to be a Good Medicine. . XENtt, O., March 1, 1S77. Mr. A. K. Stevens: Dear Sir I wish to in foim you what your Negetlne has done for me I have been alllleted with Neuralgia, and after using three bottles of the Vegetlne was entirely relieved. I also found my general health much Improved. I believe It to be a good medicine. Yours truly, FRED. HARVEKSTICK. Veoetine thoroughly eradicates every kind of humor, and restores the entire system to a healthy condition. VEGETINE. Drngglsl'a Report. H. R. Stevens. Dear Sir We have been selling your Vegetlne for the past eighteen mouths, and we take pleasure In stating that In every case, to your knowledge, It has given great satisfaction. Respectfully, BUCK&COWOILL, Druggists. Hickman, Ky VE G E TINE IS THE BEST SPUING MEDICINE. VEGETINE Prepared H. R. STEVENS, Boston, Mass. sept Vegetlne Is Sold by all Drnggists. .. jypSSER & ALLEN CENTRAL STORE NEWPORT, PENN'A. Mow oiler the public , . A RARE AND ELEGANT ASSORTMENT OF DRESS GOODS Consisting sf all shades suitable for the season. BLACK ALP AC CAS AND ' Mourning Goods A SPECIALITY. BLEACHED AND UNBLEACHED MUSLINS, AT VARIOU8 PRICES. AN EXDLE33 SELECTION OF PRINTS! We sell and do keep a good quality of SUGARS, COFFEES & SYRUPS, And everything under the head of GROCERIES! Machine needles and oil for all makes of Mashines. To be convinced that our goods are CHEAP AS THE CHEAPEST, 13 TO CALL AND EXAMINE 8TOCK. T No trouble to show goods. Don't forget the CENTRAL STORE, Newport, Perry Comity, Pa. ESTATE NOTICE. Notice la hereby given that letters testamentary on the estate of I.ydia A. Mader, late o( Peun twp.. Ferry county. Pa., deo'd.,nave been granted to tbe undersigned, residing in same township. AU persons ludebted to said estate are request ed to make Immediate payment and those having claims to preseut them duly authenticated lor settlement to I. J. HOLLAND. July 16, ir8-fltpd- . Executor.
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