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SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN, APEIL 21, 1881.
VOL. I -NO. .23.
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Important Intelli-jeuce from All Parts.
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The TJ. S. Senate.
Mj^Ejendleios: took the floor on the 13th
an&jftgfaed" against the pending- resolution for
the election of officers; he claimed that the
►course the Bepublieafis were pursuing was
-without precedent. Mr. Dawes followed in
reply. Quite an animated personal debate ensued between Messrs. Dawes, Beck, Harris,
Hoar and Hill. Mr. Mahone, in reply to remarks made by Mr. Hill* demanded to know
whether the latter had intended, in his
speech on the llth, to imply that his
<MahQne*s) vote had been, or could,
be. bought. Mr. Hill replied that he had sim-
•plydeuiedan insinuation by Mr. "Rollins that
tthe Democrats had sought to "make an ar-
Tangement" by which they mierht control Mr.
"Mahone's vote, by saying taat they would not
iave bought his vote; he did not say the Senator had sold his vote, and would not make such
.a charge unless he Jmew it to be a fact; if
the Senator wished him (Hill) to go
further and say- What he believed, that
was a different question. Mr. Mahone, in re-
spondingj.sirate'a, -that he would give Mr. Hill
a conundrum to solve, and said: "I say to
"him, if,, he did not mean to imply that my vote*
liad beenbb could be bought, he states or undertakes ta convey that which is foul, untruthful; false, and that no man less than a
coward would make it." Mr. Hill said he had
never soughttb. receive or give, or resent an
insult inthe Senate chamber; the Senator
(Mabone) could not insult him (Hill), and was
pp^erlessrto insult anybody. A motion to go
itkg*executive session was lost—20 to 20—and
the_Sehat&adjourned forthe day.
%js th&lith^theipending business being the
resolution for the election of officers, a motion to go into executive session .was lost—20
to 21. Mr. Morgan then addressed the Senate, and was followed by Messrs. Brown,
H,oar.and Hawley, after which, an adjournment to the 18th was agreed to.
Domestic.
A"Cracr^ATi dispatch of the 13th says the
town of GtTover's Gap, "W". Ya., was in a state
of panic" over the alarming spread of smallpox. The d sease was brought there by a
young man from Pittsburgh. The physicians
-stereall^ick, and the body of a young woman
who'died: was left, unburied. Tbe Governor
.had been telegraphed for aid to bury the
•dead, but he replied that the county authorities should attend to it. Trains passed
through the town without stopping.
Jay Gould is said to have purchased the
interest of; Thomas- A. Scott in the Texas
Pacific Eailroad for §4,000,00 J. Mr. Scott has
resigned the Presidency of the road, and Mr.
Gould lias been elected his successor.
. Captain" H. B, McClellaud. of Pittsburgh,
who was arrested for complicity in the Missouri land frauds, was discharged on the 13th,
because the District Attorney was not ready
to submit any testimony against him.
At a point five mile3 north of Atchison,
Kan., early on the morning of the 13th, an engine, baggasce-ear and coach on the Nebraska
Koad left ihe track and plunged into the
Missouri Kiver. Those on board escaped by
swimming.
A disastrous tornado swept through the
region near Hernando, in Northern Mississippi, on the afternoon of the 12th, destroying much property, killing a number of persons, and injuring o'thers.
Five  persons  suffering   from   small-pox
were recently  removed from,  a  house   on
Carmine;street, New York,  where a woman'
who knew she had the   disease had  been
seiliug- cigars for a fortnight.
It is stated that half the peach, crop in
Middle and Southwestern Georgia has been
killed by frost; the fig-trees are said to be
'dead, and plums badly injured.
The Citizens' Bank, of Atlanta, Ga., failed
on the 13th, wi'h liabilities of §200,000.
Two students of Phillips Academy, Lawrence, Mass.*—twin brothers and members of
a respectable family—burglariously entered
the hou>e of a citizen early on the morning
of the 13th, when one of them was shot dead.
The other surrendered and confessed.
" To'secure a debt, an intelligent but impecunious resident of Charlotte, N. C, has
placed on record a deed qpnve3'ing .to his
creditor all right and title, to himself, his
wife giving her signature before a Notary
Public.
There were sixty-five eases of small-pox in
the almshouse near Beading, Pa., on .the
l3fe|*!p   ' -. *
' JCiKE Sesimons had the police of Greensville, Ohio,, looking all day for the $1,6.00
which he had lost. Arrests were "made and
houses ransacked. At length Mike's own
clothes were searched, and the roll of bills
found inthe bottom of his trousers, where it
had fallen through a hole in his pocket.
Heavx frosts have recently prevailed
throughout Texas, and considerable damage
has been done to the corn, cotton, fruit and
vegetable crops.
"/William Degesek, wife and several chil-
-dren, of Cievelitnd, were reported on the 14th
to be suffering f com trichiniasis. Some pork,
of which they had eaten, and a piece of flesh
from Degener's arm were found to be alive
with wigglers.
Thk number of immigrants arriving in this
country during March was 44,125, of whom
19,000 were from Germany aud 3,000 from
Irelfffd/* -The humfier arrived during the
nine months ended March 31 was 351,422. Of
these 102,OJO were from Germany; 86,881
from Canada; 39,772 from England and
"Wales; 33f334Jr0!.n Ireland; 8,991 from Scotland; 4,515 from China, and 75,831 from all
other countr.es.
James Bukxs of Erie, Pa., has for eighteen
years been a paralytic cripple, his right arm
remaining.benind his head. On the ninht of
. the 14th he appeared on the streets free from
deformity, and declared that he had been
cured by the prayers of Father M-ilonev.
Ok the 14th the flood at Keck Island assumed alarming proportions. The fires at
the water-works were quenched, the jail cellars were; filled, and the street-cars ceased, to
ran.
The amount of capital invested in the iron
and steel industries of the United States in
1880 was $230,971,884,, against $l21,772,0?-4 in
1870.
According to the census reports the
school population of the United States is
14,595.183. Of this number 9,373,195 were
.enrolled in 1878. Thenj were in that year
271yM4 teachers. '**
James OrBRiE5T, letter known asBob Lindsay, has pleaded guilty in a New York Court
to perjury in the famous Morey trial, and was
sentenced to State P ison for eight years.
A general strike of the employes of the
Consolidated Cincinnati Street Railway Com-
panj' occurred on the 14th. The demand was
for $2.25 per dav for conductors, $Z for
drivers, and §1.75 for stablemen.
Postmaster-General James has decided
that any publication which is published in
violation of the Copyright law of the United
States is unmailable.  .
A recent Washington dispatch says the
reports received at the Agricultural Department indicated that the live stock of the
cotifitryy notwithstanding the scarcity of food
and provender ctused by the long and severe
winter, had come out in fair health, though
reported very low in flesh. No malignant
por prevailing disease was reported over any
Jc^0p"''i1t&x$e extent of country. Local disorders of
lungs and stomachs were often mentioned.
* Great losses from cold and exposure were reported from the plains ol the Far West.
The Chicago Times of the 16th reports
"having made a thorough canvass of the winter-wheat region, and says that the damage
done in Illinois and Indiana was much greater
than in the other States, and had led to anticipations altogether too dismal. There
were good reasons to believe that the yield
of the country at large would be nearly as
great as for the last two years, as the acreage
had very greatly increased.
Crop reports to April 1, received at the
Department of Agriculture, show an increase
of nearly four per cent, in the area sown of
winter wheat. Kansas and Missouri show
the largest increase; Ohio and Illinois but
slight, and New York and Pennsylvania
'remain the same as last year. Indiana,
Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia each report some decrease. Owing to the prevalence
of snow at the date of the returns, the condition of the crop was not gven in large
portions of the principal wheat-growing
States, but, whenever mentioned, it was
stated as below the average of last year. The
alternate freez ng and thawing during the
month of March was the most detrimental of
all weather during the winter.
The Mayor of Cincinnati has issued an
order closing all the Sunday theaters.
James GooDLOE,a well-to-do merchant, was
shot and killed a few days ago, in the neighborhood of Newport, Ark., by a telegraph
operator named George "Wallace. The men
were out turkey-shooting, and had separated
to meet at a given point. Goodloe wore a
red necktie, and Wallace mistook him for a
turkey.
The question of relieving the sufferers in
the flooded districts of Dakota was considered inthe Cabinet meeting at "Washington
on the 15 h. II was decided to authorize the
issuing of army rations and cloth.ng for two
weeks, and to supply through the Interior
Department points wh ch could not be immediately cared for by the War Department.
A Dubuque (Iowa) telegram of the 15th
says Mr. J. Richards, who had arrived there
from Dakota, tells a pitiful story of the sufferings of the people liying along the river
bottom. The severe winter had run them
short of wood, and. owing to the heavy snowfall, the roads were impassable, causing them
to suffer from cold and hunger. A large
number of people died from exposure, and
others had contracted diseases which will
terminate in consumption. Mr. Richards
was of the opinion that many residents would
leave the Territory and seek a more agreeable climate. The snow in many places was
still from four to five feet deep, and was
melting slowly.
At Matagorda, Texas, on the loth Ham
Rugeby, a deputy Sheriff, was killed by alady
who playfully discharged a pistol athim which
she thought was unloaded.
A fierce wind and snow storm raged along
the Atlantic coast on the 15th, and shipping
suffered quite heayily. One foot of snow fell
in Vermont.
Bhadstbeet estimates the total yield of
the cotton crop of 1831 at 6.233,403 bales.
Ik a recent billiard contest at New York
Schaefer made 4,000 and Slosson 2,780 points.
According to a Washington telegram of
the 16th Secretary "Windom was in receipt of
inquiries from Europe as to whether the
bonds actually en route to the Treasury before the date of limitation for accepting the
three and a half per cent, interest on the
bonds falling due this year would be considered within the time of the Treasury
notice. An affirmative answer would be
oiven. It was thought that the limit would
be extended for at least thirty days. The response to the Secretary's offer had not been
as'large as was anticipated.
Ox the statement of a dying woman at
Reading, Pa., three well-known citizens have
been recently committed to jail for the murder of a soldier fifteen years ago.
A large panther was recently killed by a
negro in an Arkansas canebrake only three
miles north of Memphis.
At Davton, Cal., a few days ago, Henry
Swearingen shot his mother-in-law, Mrs.
David Boucher, killing her instantly. He
next shot his wife in the arm, seized her, and,
placing a pistol to her breast, fired again,
with fatal effect. He then sent a bullet
through his own brain. There had been
some family trouble between the parties.
The International Sanitary Conference,
whose session beeran in "Washington in January last, adjourned aim die on the 16th, without having accomplished anything definite in
the line of the purpose for which it met.
Want of harmony prevailed from the beginning. Twenty-eight Governments were represented.
A New York special of the 16th to the
Chicago Tribune says the leading clergymen
of the former city who had had the opportunity to gather definite knowledge regarding the revised New Testament appeared to
be greatly in favor of the new version.
Four lads of Lawrence, Mass., from nine
to fourteen years of age, were recently caught
in the Eastern Railroad irei&ht office attempting to open the safe. Thev had previously
robbed a stationer and coal office.
0. B. Barger, of Milwaukee, who was arrested for violation of the Wiconsin Anti-
Tf gating law, was discharged by Judge Mal-
lory on the 16th, on the ground that the new
measure is in ambiguous language.
Several of the new clerks appointed to-
$2 000 positions in the Pension Office in "Washington have been found incompetent to perform the duties devolving upon the clerks of
'that class, and have been assigned to mailing
circulars with ladies drawing sixty dollars a
month.
Messrs. Moodt and Sanket have recently
concluded a series of what are said to have
been highly successful meetings in Denver.
Personal and Political.
J. H. Paine, of "Wisconsin, has been appointed Cuief Clerk of the Department of
Agriculture at "Washington.
The Republican State Central Committee
of Ohio decided on the 13th to issue a call for
a State Convention to be held at Cleveland,
June 8.
The New York Assembly has passed a bill
providing for the appointmept of three Commissioners to regulate the railroads in that
ctate.
The Rhode Island House of Representatives has postponed—33 to 21—the Prohibitory Law bill to the next session of the Legislature. A member stated on the 13th that
he had been offere 1 one hundred dollars to
yote against prohibition.
The Pennsylvania Republican Convention
is to be held at Harrisburg, September 8.*
Dr. Ttng, late rector of the Church of the
Holy Trinity in New York, has denied a report that he was about to embrace Roman
Catholicism. *
Rear admiral James S. Lardner, U. S.
N., died at Philadelphia a few days ago.
The Illinois House of Representatives on
the 14th passed abill to prevent the adulteration of f< od and drugs, and defeated the Railroad Anti-pooling bill.
The sixteenth anniversary of the assassination of President Lincoln was commemorated at Springfield, 111., on the 15th by
BpeecbeB and by decorating the monument
with flowers.
Milo Goodrich, an ex-Congressman and
leading lawyer, died at Auburn, N. Y., on the
15th.   He was sixty-five years of age.
Ex-President Hates, in a letter to a Minneapolis (Minn.) paper, says that when he became President he was not a total abstainer
from intoxicating liquors, but that for the
past three years "he has refrained from the
use of stimulants, and will continue to do so.
A Justice of the Peace in Jersey City,
N. J., named P. N. W. Flynn, has been arrested oh a charge of having been, while
acting as an Election Judge_ detected in the
act of putting a package of ballots in the
box, and also of having a number of ballots
concealed in his coat-sleeve.
President Garfield on tue 16th received
a letter from a Chicago Socialist, in which
the writer says the President is as "much of
a despot as the Czar of Russia;" that in all
Republics the people are oppressed by the
rulers, and this is particularly true of the
United States. This Socialist concludes his
letter with an opinion that President Garfield ought to be served with a big dose of
dynamite and nitrb-glycerine.
Foreign.
On the evening of the 13th large petards were thrown into three houses in Madrid, causing some damage to property.
General Grant and Senor Romero arrived at the Mexxan Capital on the 15th. It
is said their movements were viewed with
great suspicion by the Mexicans.
The King of Abyssinia was killed in a
recent battle with the Assaimerks. He has
been succeeded b.- his son Michael.
A petard was exploded at the door of the
Church of Santa Maria, in Madrid, on the
evening of the 15th, while the edifice was full
of worshipers, but all escaped injury.
The Rothschild house in Paris has notified
the Italian Government of its inability to
issue a loan for the resumption of specie
payments so long as the d.fficulties between
France and Italy are not entirely smoothed
away.
A correspondent at St. Petersburg sends
out the startling statement that the candles
and tapers procured to burn around the bier
of tbe Czar, in presence of the royal family,
were found to be filled with nitro-glycerine.
The Roumanian Chamber of Deputies has
passed a bill authorizing the Government to
expel all foreigners suspected of compromising the public security.
The Afghan cavalry relieved the British
cavalry at Candahar on the 17th.
* Advices from Bagdad, received in Constantinople on thel6th, state that the ravages
of the plague were terrible, though not extending beyond the sanitary cordon. Four
thousand inhabitants had quitted Nedjed, and
encamped in salubrious localities. Nedjed
and Djuhara were burned on the Sth. The
disease became virulent, the afflicted dying
in ten hours after being attacked. ,,
Over 65,000 people visited the National
Exhibition at Tokio, Japan, during the first
fifteen days.
The German delegates to the Monetary
Conference started for Paris on the 16th.
Bismarck had submitted to the Federal Council a proposition to* increase the coinage of
s.lver filteen million marks, because of the
growth of population.
A London dispatch of the 16th says Lord
Beaconsfield had so much improved that his
physicians were confident of his ultimate recovery.
No Russian lad between the ages of ten
and eighteen is now allowed to emigrate
without obtaining permission from the Government,
The London Times of the 17th says Great
Britain would be represented at the Monetary Conference by Louis Mallet, for India;
Sir A. T. Gait and Sir Charles Tupper, for
Canada, and C."W. Fremantle, Deputy Master
of the Mint.
Matthew Harris, another of the traversers in the Irish state trials, was arrested on
the 16th, under the Coercion act.
Fiftt thousand people were "encamped
on the 16th in the southern half of the Island
of Scio, with nothing but their tattered clothing. The relief organization was being systematized.
LATER JSTEWS.
The butter-dealers of "Washington Market,
New York, have resolved not to deal in
oleomargarine, and the clerk has been instructed to suspend any dealer selling the
article.
The conductors and drivers of the horse
railroads of Boston made a demand on the
18th for twenty per cent, increase in their
wages. The South Boston Road had increased their wage's from 81.75 per day to $2.
A call has been issued for the Pennsylvania Greenback State Convention, to meet in
Pottsville on "Wednesday, June 15, to nominate a candidate for State Treasurer.
Eleven persons were ".arrested at Cincinnati on the 18th for having the day before
violated the Sunday law by either promoting
or participating in theatricals. The arrested
parties are either theater proprietors or
actors.
Adolph Yager, of New York, ate raw
ham, and was in the Bellevue Hospital on
the 18th, suffering from triehiniasls. At
Allegheny. City, Pa., Frank Fr.ze, within
two days after eating freely of pork
which had been slixhtly cooked, grew
violently ill, and a physician found seventeen wiggiers in a piece of his flesh. He was
thought to be slowiy improving on the. 18th.
The late oiders for the construction of
additional Russian fortresses on the German
frontier have been countermanded.
Lord Beaconseield died on the morning
of the 19th. He retained his consciousness
to the last moment. He was seventy-six
years of age.
Alarming floods occurred in many portions
of Wisconsin on the ISth. At Fond du Lac
the river had become a raging torrent, and
part of the city was under water. Rock
River had risen several feet, causing a breakup of the ice, widch was rushing down
stream in large masses. Several bridges had
been swe;.t away aud railruads Washed out,
and as the river was stiil rising ..much more
damage was apm-ehended.
In the United States Senate On the ISth
the Vice-President presented as unfinished
business the reso.ution for the election of
officers. Mr. Harris entered into an explanation relative to the charge that Tennessee
had repudiated a portion of her State debt.
A motion to go into executive session was
lost—i i to 21. Mr. Johnston was permitted
to offer a resolution, which was adopted, calling on he Attorney-iieneral for certain papers in relation to tbe report of a special
u^ent, ol the Tieasury Department,
touching upon the "West Judicial D.strict of
Virginia. Some time was consumed
in roll-calls and various dilatory motions,
arter which the debate was continued by
Messrs. 1 awes, Sau .-bury, Burnside and
Beck, the latter declaring that Biddl berger
would not be elected Sergeant-iit-Arms of the
Senate, even in December, for the election
in Vir. inia woul l then he over, and, if the Republicans did not do so, somebody else would
tender for the ollice t.ic name of a wounded
Federal soldier and a conservative Re "ubli-
can. An adjournment f ;r theday was finally
ag. eed u,
THE  THORN.
lt was morning in the garden,
Life stirred among the trees,
"Where low love whispers answered
To the wooing of the breeze.
And the birds were singing matins,
Not a voice was out of tune,
And the dew lay on the rose?.
That crowned the month of June.
And away there in the distance
Shone a vision of the sea,
And I plucked a rose for Molly
And she crossed the lawn to me.
O the glory of the sunshine!
O the murmur of the hives!
As we stood there once, together
In the morning of our lives.
And the subtle, saintly fragrance
Possessed me unawares,
That .loats about a maiden "
Just risen from her prayers.
And the parrot bowed his top-knot
To her finger, from the perch,
As she softly hummed the hymn tuno
We had sung last night at church.
Then half ashamed, I muttered,
" Here's a rose for you, but see,
Deep in my clumsy linger.
The thorn remains with me!"
Straight from her housewife dainty,
She brought a needle bright.
And sought the cruel mischief out,
With skillful finger light.
O Molly, still I see you,
As you there beside me stood,"
In girlish, simple beauty,
God knows that you were good.
And I hear you softly saying,
" Do 1 hurt you? does it smart!"
And I couid not make an answer
Forthe beating of my heart.
The silent hills stood watching us
That sunlit, summer morn,
"When from my aching finger
You drew away the thorn.
Ah! little witch, you haunted me
Thro' many a lonesome day,
Wlien T wandered from your garden
With pilgrim feet away.
And by and by, m evil hour,
I asked you once again,
To pluck a thorn from out my heart,
And ease my bosom's pain.
And you would not, or you could not,
But you turned with tears away,
And the dream of manhood faded
For ever and for aye.
The time of flowers is over,
The rain falls cold and chill,
The mist comes creeping sadly,
O'er every sunlit hill.
Yet I can suffer for your sake,
Since better may not be.
If you may keep the rose, dear,
The thorn m ay bide with me.
—Temple Bar.
HAMAH AND I.
My father had moved into a new
place. Prospectively, I enjoyed much
in the dethronement of our household
gods and the reduction of all our worldly goods to a state of chaos. I foresaw
the delicious suspense, anxiety and final
dismay or rejoicing that would attend
the transit of our looking-glasses and
parlor chairs. I looked forward to a
kind of nomadic existence about the
house during the days wherein we were
getting settled, to the exploration of
unknown depths under the closet-stairs
and of mysterious recesses behLr/d the
chimney. I expected to sit and sing in
the best rocking-chair,- to- roll my tired
limbs on the best mattress, and to take
my dinner with a large spoon from out
a fruit-jar.
When, therefore, 1 rode up from the
depot on top of the box containing my
mother's best china and glass-ware, I
felt that every one who beheld, also envied. The short ends of my hat-band
fluttered spiritedly in the March breeze,
and the anticipatory tremors in my
breast creaked the starched shirt-front
beneath my jacket.
At a very tender age we realize that
this is a world of disappointments. Por
the next few days my life consisted
mainly in hunting up the hammer, running for nails, trotting up to the store
and down to the tinners, and after the
carpenter, pushing stove-legs into place,
holding up foot-boards of family bedsteads, lifting the corners of bureaus,
waiting upon the painter and the white-
Avash man, getting my fingers pinched,
getting scolded, getting a cold, losing
my handkerchief, having nothing in
particular to eat, save a little baker's
bread and now and then a bit of beaf-
steak, cooked sometimes by my mother,
sometimes by my father, sometimes by
Mary Sullivan, and occasionally by all
three.
By the third day I began to see that
the anarchic style of housekeeping has
its disadvantages, and to feel that the
springs of a naturally good constitution
were wearing out in the family service.
On the morning of that day I left my
mother and Mary Sullivan stretching a
carpet fitted for a room fifteen by fifteen
to cover our new dining-room fifteen by
sixteen, and walked out in the yard to
take the air.
As I sauntered down to the front gate
my eyes were greeted by a vision of
youth—I cannot say of beauty—swinging u pop. the gate over the way.
The "vision" wore a large bombazine
hood, such as was at this time in high
repute among grandmothers, but was
never calculated to enhance the charms
of the youth. A little plaid shawl was
pinned askew about her shoulders. One
of a species of embroidered pantalets,
which like the dodo of Mauritius, v has
since become extinct, had slipped down,
and lay like a wrinkled bandage, along
with her garter, around the top of her
shoe.
"Hallo!" said I.
"Hallo!" responded she; "you're a
mean, nasty boy!"
I should have promptly returned this
compliment but for the consideration
that I had just moved into the community and everything depended upon my
acquiring a good reputation. Without
replying, therefore, I began reflectively
digging a hole in the gate-post with my
jack knife. The " vision" swung back
and forth, and hummed " I want to be
an angel." In giving an unusually vigorous lurch outward, an apple Hew from
her hand and fell into the middle of the
muddy street.
I digress here to state that, though a
popular street, that portion of it in
front of my father's house generally
was muddy.' During the spring and
fall months we had a large, swashy pool
there—one that appeared to How from
a secret perennial source of muddiness.
In the winter months it froze over and
made capital skating. During the summer it gradually dried away until, at
the " pollywog" season, when alone a
boy can take the highest rational en-
(joy ment in a mud-puddle, only a damp
6pot in the center of the street indicated the place iron! which the water had
subsided. It was now at high tide, and
the apple fell into the ooze just below
it.
"Boy, come over and pick up my
apple," commanded my neighbor.
Conscious of setting that young pagan
an example of good manners, I returned
the apple with a bow my mother had
taught m.e. She gave it two or three
cleansing dashes on her dress skirt and
then said;
"Lend me your knife and I'll give
you half."
She set the apple upon top of the
gate-post,   savagely jammed the knife
through  it,   wiped   the blade on  her
shawl, and returned the knife with the
larger part of the apple.
" Thank you," said I.
" What is your name, boy."
" George Haraman. What is yours?"
" Hannah Ann Farley.   Y'ou going to
live in that house?"
"I expect to."
" I'm glad of it. There's been a disagreeable, stuck-up little girl living
over there. I thought, when first I saw
you, you were going to be just like her."
This 1 took as Hannah's apology for
her reception. It was satisfactory, and
Ave might then and there have become
friends, but at that moment Mary Sullivan came to our front door and called
me home. She said the brass-headed
tacks were all gone and I must go to
the store for more. When I returned
Hannah Ann was nowhere to be seen;
The next  morning I was fortunate
enough to find a five-cent piece in  a
crack of a bureau drawer-, and. promptly
started for a store wherein to spend, it.
The streets were so muddy I thought I
would go across and leap the fences.   I
was in neighbor Farley's yard when 1
was sharply hailed from a little window
high up in the end of the house.
"Boy, come up here!"
" How am I going to get up?"
"Go around to the kitchen and ask
my mother to show you the way."
1 hunted up "the kitchen and found
Hannah's mother. Prior to this time
when I.wished to represent a female
figure upon my slate I had drawn a triangle surmounted by an ellipse, and
this in turn finished by a small circle;
hereafter, with Mrs. Farley in mind, I
drew a cylindrical figure with a small
circle on the upper end, and a slight depression representing the waist-line.
After Once seeing Mrs. Farley I could
never wonder that Hannah was forever
boiTOwing a pin to fasten something on
with. There could never be a more delightful garret than Mrs. Farley's, for
never could there be a woman who
could excel her in the celerity with
which she would use up furniture. Such
a collection of mirrors with shattered
glasses, bottomless chairs, dismantled
bureaus and tables standing upon three
legs is seldom met!
" What do you want to play?" asked
Hannah.
"Pirate."
" What's a pirate?"
I explained, and Hannah forthwith
became the most blood-thirsty of pirates.
It was in my heart to spare the women
and children; but she refused to listen
to such a proposition, and felled her
victims left and right Avithout regard to
age or sex. Once she pierced me through
the heart and I fell bleeding, dying, hitting my head against the chimney, and
yelling out in unfeigned agony.
Aftervvai'd, we were riding peacefully
along over the green fields, and beneath
the calm blue sky, on a two-legged and
Arery dusty sofa, Avhen a party of brigands swooped down upon us aud bore
us off to a loathsome dungeon behind a
dismantled bureau. We flattened ourselves and crawled out, beheaded the
brigands, appropriated their spoils and
returned triumphant to our own homes.
We were very dusty and covered Avith
cobwebs when I remembered my five-
cent piece and said I must go.
" Give me half of what you're going
to buy and I'll go Avith you," said
Hannah'
I couldn't very well refuse this generous offer; so she put on her hood and
shawl, at my suggestion tied up her
shoe-strings, and Ave started. She expressed a preference for black licorice
and I expended my money upon that
luxury and shared it liberally. We came
home hand in hand, and though Hannah Avent over-shoe in mud and water
three times, she bore it with inimitable
good nature. a
From that morning our friendship
matured rapidly. Sometimes Hannah
was at our house; sometimes I played
in the Farley garret; and sometimes
when she had a sore throat and wore a
preparation of lard and camphor-gum
around it, Ave had permission to play in
Mrs. Farley's parlor. Whenever Hannah stole cookies and ginger-snaps for
herself, she always laid in for me; when
Mary Sullivan made tea-saucer pies for
me I carried them red-hot from the oven
to neighbor Farley's, and Hannah and
I watched them cool with hearts that
beat as one. Then while one-half the
juice drizzjed over my jacket the corresponding half dripped on Hannah's
apron. Hannah was passionately fond
of " jooce!"
When School opened, Hannah and I
Avent hand in hand and stood by one
another in days of adversity as" well as
days of prosperity. Hannah being a
miserable scholar, her days Avere mostly of adversity.
The months slipped -aAvay, and the
years grew apace. My father petitioned
the town authorities to fill up that mud-
puddle in front of our house. The town
authorities gave every encouragement
that the " Avhole board" Avould be on
the spot at an early day, but we looked
for them in vain. My father made a
Second and third importunity with like
results. Then he pressed his grievance
upon their attention as gentlemen and
men of/honoi\ As gentlemen and men
of honor they gave their word that the
matter should be neglected no longer.
We lived upon that promise six months.
Then my father, grown irate, threatened to sue. The board, becoming defiant, just Avished he Avould sue; they
should like to see him sue. At this retort my father's feelings rose to the
summit of moral indignation; he
wouldn't sue; he scorned to lower himself to a quarrel with such men; but he
would pay no more taxes in that town;
and energetic preparations for our removal began.
Hannah and I were sitting npon the
edge of Mr. Farley's coal-bin when I
communicated to her my father's de
cision. As soon as she saw I Avas in [
earnest she dropped over u__)on the anthracite and gave vent to a flood of
tears. She declared that she couldn't
and wouldn't have me go. She should
die with lpnesomeness and she wished:
she Avas dead. A few tears of mine
drizzled over into the bin and mingled
Avith Hannah's. Afterward she appeared
reconciled, and manifested intense interest in our prepartions obtruding her
services at our house until my mother
declared she should never De ready to
go if that Eaiiey girl couldn't be kept
at home.
The morning of our departure dawned
at last. My father and mother went to
the depot, leaving me to follow, as I
had come, on the last load of goods.
It was an April morning, succeeding
a heavy rain-storm, and the Avaves of
my father's mud-puddle ranhigh. Hannah sat. upon the old petunia mound bv
the gate, sobbing. I raised her drooping form to bid her fare well, pushed the
hair from her face and gave her my last
kiss. She clutched frantically at my
jacket, but, realizing that delays are
dangerous, I sprang upon a dry-goods
box"~in the wagon. The horse, most severely afiiicted with spring-halt, set off
at a fearful gallop, and we disappeared
around the corner forever.
As soon as circumstances Avould permit I addressed a letter to Hannah, and
soon received a reply, of which the following is a verbatim copy:
My Dear George:—
1 now set down to let you know how I am. T
have had a. soar throat nerely all the time
seneo you Left. Someboddy has shot our Cat.
School commenses next week. 1 ared it. A
new family has moved into your House, there
is too boys, Eddy and willy. >1 Ave never see
each other again on urth lhope we may meat
in heaven* Yours Truly,
Hannah A. """"ae-ley.
The letter also contained two blots
and a grease spot and was directed by
Hannah's mother, wrong side up with
care. I wrote her once more but received no answer, a failure which I attributed to her aversion to all literary
labor rather than to any diminution in
the ardor of her affections.
I attended school for the next three
or four years, and then entered the
wholesale mercantile business in the
service of an uncle. 1 became a rising
young man. Some of the time I rose
rapidly, as gaseous matter and young
men between the ages of sixteen and-
twenty-five are in the habit of doing.
Our family also prospered. From three-
ply in our parlor we passed by easy
stages through body Brussels to English
Wilton, and we numbered the successors of Mary Sullivan by twos and
by threes.
Presently I arrived at that age whereat-
extremely witty people begin pointing
at a young man peculiarly sharp and
original jests concerning the subject of
matrimony. At first the implication
therein conveyed that I had only to
choose was gratifying to my vanity:
but by the time I began to direct any
serious thoughts that way imself, so
much solid Avit had become an insuffei--
able bore. There were girls in large
quantities and excellent qualities all
around me, but the thought of advancing to anything serious with any one of
them always suggested Hannah.
My reminiscences of Hannah were not
such that I could create an ideal feminine character of her; but when a felloAV
has sat in a coal bin with a girl and
taken alternate sucks on as many Jackson-balls as I had with Hannah, no subsequent experience can ever entirely
efface the impression. I had a curiosity
to know Avhat Hannah had become.- The
surest Avay to satisfy this curiosity
seemed to be to go and see hei\ I accordingly Avent.
The girl Avas pretty. She had color
and frankness; she had grace, and repose of manner. Her finger-nails were
scrupulously kept, root and crown, and
her hair was glossy, as well as fashionably dressed.
The 3 ear we left town Hannah's
mother died; and after the billows of
affliction had surged over his soul about
six months, Mr. Farley again beheld
the sun and took a new Avife. The ne^w
Avife had taken infinite pains Avith her
step-daughter. The step-daughter's
present appearance, as compared Avith
her former condition, bore favorable
testimony for the lady's system. Hannah said that when we were children I
had seemed like a brother to her, and'I
at once placed myself upon a fraternal
standing. I interrogated her in regard
to the occupants of my old'home, and
she finally confided to .me that she was
engaged to the younger Wetherbee, the
"willy" of her letter.
I afterward saw him, and could but
inwardly applaud the discrimination
that led her, even in childhood, to begin his name with a small letter. He
was an individual of from 110 to 115
pounds weight, though what there was
of him was drawn out and judiciously
distributed with a view to making the
most of straitened circumstances.
There may be no more ink in an exclamation point than in a vowel, but it is
better adapted to attract attention. As
to color, energy and vivacity, Hannah
had enough to supply three just like
him. Hannah's, I soon perceived, was
the philosophical form of engaged life.
One evening when we went to walk,
she said to me:
"Mr. Wetherbee has his faults; no
one knows them better than I.   But
where," added she touching!v, -"Avhere
.Will you lind a man avIio hasn't faults?"
" Where, surely!" responded I.
" I don't look for perfect happiness
here below,"   continued Hannah pensively; " I've seen too much of life for
that!" —Hannah is some years my junior
and must, at this period,  have arrived
at the mature age of nineteen years.
I returned home, and two years
slipped aAvay. I vAvas still halting between two opinions and looking inquiringly at the third, and the "opinions"
had begun to manifest lively symptoms
of taking care of themselves, Avhen one
day in a neighboring city, strolling
through a paper box factory whose proprietor was my friend, I came across
Hannah.
" How in the world came you here?"
bluntly ejaculated I.
"By the fortunes of life, and the railway
'i
I didn't know whether she -«•>« '".* i i
addressed as Farley or Wetherbee, arid
observing that she was dressed in deep
mourning, avoided anything that might
suggest explanations. She presently
told me that her father Avas dead. Then
as 1 sought her confidence^-oa tlie fr3r
ternal basis—she told me that her f athei
had left his estate encumbered.
"Those disagreeable Weatherbees
hold a mortgage * on the house," said
she, " and they are just the exacting,
unaccommodating kind of people who
wouldn't hesitate in foreclosing the day
the time expires!"
She had set herself  about   earning    ..
money to pay the indebtedness.
" You see," said she, " the property
is left by will to mamma and myself _.
conjointly. If it is disposed of at a forced
sale -it must be at a great sacrifice and
then poor mamma will be left without a
home. She has done everything for me"
—here Hannah's large eyes filled with
tears—"and it is a small thing for me
to try to save the home for her."
I said I wondered she hadn't sought
a different kind of employment and
suggested teaching.
"O, I've tried applying for schools..
Two or three times I've received invi- '--
tations to   examinations; and they've
given me  perfectly   dreadful  lists   of -r
questions—asked reasons why we performed operations that I never .'before
knew we did perform."
"Music, then."
" I love music; but there are three
teachers to every pupil. This is pleasant
Avork and lam happy in feeling I shall
save the home for mamma!"
When I reached home that evening I
sold an opera ticket I had purchased in ' ' ^
the morning, and, Avhereas 1 had always*
smoked fifteen-cent cigars,   now pur- - ;.
chased a box at ten cents (I gave them
away before the close of the week and
went back to fifteen's) and asked moth- .;■
er if there wasn't a place somewhere in
the city where they cleansed and dressed
over soiled kid gloves to look as well as
new. *
For the next few weeks I had eonsid- .
erable business in a neighboring city,     (.
and I used to transact it in season for
the three o'clock train, and then conclude to wait for the express.    Hannah
was always in fine spirits, buoyed up,by ^
the belief that she Avas   making sure ""
progress in paying that debt.   I should
as   soon   thought of  discharging   the     •»
Nationalobligatiohbypeddlingmatches.    ■'£
One Avarm Saturday afternoon, when
I stood by her side and she leaned back    ..
fatigued, but distractirigly pretty with     *"'
the loose hair curling around her temples
she inadvertently laid her hand^pn the  ,,.-:
corner of the table next me.   It Avas
growing thin and the H formed by the
.blue veins on the  back, and Avhich, in
the days of youthful simplicity she had. • .
told me stood for Harriman,  stood out    '.'
with great distinctness. ' ", '
I sng-orested being alloAved to make an ''■
arrangementremovmg her from the ne^ : . s
eessity of liquidating those debts.    She
r-efused to listen.   I pressed the matter    ''
unavailingly. •.-;'■)
Ithen went to the proprietor, told' -
him Miss Farley was an old school-mate    »
and friend of mine, who was heriocally     t
trying to save the family residence for
her step-mother, and asked him if he**"'
could not furnish her a better position;   ..
but Frank is the most obtuse of creatures.    He finally asked me if she could
keep hooks. Remembering the splurges"
in that youthful epistle of hers, I felt by-"*>
no means confident, but said I: .-.
"Give herthe books, any way, and Z
look to me for damages." \ "*'J
He found that she wrote a neat hand
and had a slight inkling of double entry? .
but when it came to the subject of re- -•
muneration, and she asked him how, .,
much he had paid his last book-keeper, * *'*
he had the stupidity to replv, " He had I
§800, but I shall allow you .§1,200."       *.,
" Ah!" said she, "he was an old and ....
experienced book-keeper, Avhile Iknow"^
little about it. Why under such cireum-""'"'
stances do you increase the salary?" "      -
Frank wouldn't have scrupled at all; ■>
entire series of equivocations in his own.-,..
behalf, but since only my interests were""**
at stake, his conscience became as ten- e
der as George Washington's. He finally
acknowledged that the increase was -,-5
provided for by a friend. .' _t.?
"I shall accept the position at $800,"e*'"
said she, with dignity. ■ '*-*•'** i
I went up and held a conversation
with Hannah.   I " reasoned" Avith her;
"I- Set things in their true" light;'"-"I
* '"made matters clear.''    It did seem as' ~
if she might see, but she wouldn't. ■..«     f
Upon the urgent and repeated invita-. „
tions of my mother,   she consented to"'^
spend her Sabbaths at our place." She *
was in the frequent receipt of letters .->
from: her step-mother,   in  Avhich the, •
most     affectionate    sentiments    wem
cou'ehedin the most beautiful language,
and on Sunday evenings she used to
read me extracts from these letters Avith .7
tears in her eyes. ,1
The pay-day came at length yj^iereoh „
I was morally certain she Would receive* ~
enough to complete" her payments'". FT
Avent to see her at her boarding-place,;
that evening and broached the deferred,*
subject. She attempted evasion, but* T*
had decided that if ever I was to have *
my own Avay in this connection it was "
time I began. The result was 1 went;
home with her the next day. -,•>.«
. We found Mrs. Farley had just decid-"
ed to marry the former 'chairman oF'l
that Board of Eoad Commissioners who,'
Avouldn't fill up my father's mud-puddle..^"
" I think, Hannah," said she reflectively, "that perhaps we'd better dispose of the property and take our respective portions to purchase our trous-.-
seaux with."
They did accordingly, and one " re-"
spective portion" was made up '.-as*
quickly as I could spur on an able and,*
experienced corps of dressmakers.
During She years that have_ elapsed
since that eA^entful period, our%omestie:
life has been sometimes critical and*
of ten peculiar, but always jolly. I've
never seen the hour when in the inmost
recesses of my heart-IVe regretted that'
my father's family once resided opposite'
that mud-puddle and Hannah Ann--^
Flizabeth A. S. Chester, in Springfield
(Mass.) Republican.
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—The average novel may be described as an attempt by some matchmaking person Avith a turn for letters,
to bring a nice- young man in contact
with a nice young woman, and after
spinning out the story of their ema
barrassments to conventional three?
A'dlume length, to hand them over in
.bridal array to a sort of clergyman; to
the end that he may celebrate between
them the sacrament of holy matrimony,
after which, they have ceased to, jifi
heroic or interesting, they are conducted to their new and happy home," and
we Ibid thenj farewell forever.;""
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