The Sun from Emporia, Kansas • 1

55 4. BY J. M. DAYIS. EMPORIA, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1878.

YOL. 1. NO. 28 First Class Goods and Frices Low. THE SUN.

Is published very Wednesday by book, that some day Will will tell her the old. old story, and she will hear it with a smile. "I shouldn't wonder if you were right, Brownie." says my husband how I laugh when I think of my jealonns fears about him once upon a time, "you almost always the baby when the ptof burn in the oven, We often we a lengthy aruch recording the good qualities of orae dcarlv wife, who has laid dawn her burden of earthly cere. and we can't help wonnvrinf how it was poatdble that her husband did not discover mime of her good qualities FIRST National Baxk, MISS ASHBELL. Consternation was depleted on.

the faces of the family group assembled to hear it. when I finih-d reading- the letters I had just received tom aunt. The group consisted of myself Mary, eldeet daughter if -fche hoiise -brown; dark eyrV alL aii3 18:. Helen, not I am afraid we had led her to believe that we were in quite a flourishing condition. But for all that, she ouarht to have known that we were not flourishing enough to support a delicate and" beautiful girl, used to luxury, tenderness and for even a few Tuonths.

Was ever1 anything so, rual-apropys and vexatious? Of course Miss Ash boll wcjuld look with scorn on our seven-roomed dwelling, with back garden twenty- J. M. DAVIS, Editor and Proprietor. Two dollars per year, invariably in advance. The leading Democratic raper in Western Kansas VIJm AfAtxKCTOUY.

couxrr officers. 3nAun Dintrfct Csurt E. B. I'evton. f'Wlj Hiutril't Cmi rt O.

W. i'redtrick. bburUT Hiram Conner. Attorney T. N.

hcilfe'wick. Jos. Ernest. Clerk Ein. IUJL'ister of Ieed8 F.

K. Pape. Kupt. l'ub. Instruction O.

B. Wharton. Surveyor Hurry Hibben. Probate Judge E. W.

Cunningham. Coroner Dr. J. W. Tmeworthy.

1). 8. Oilmoke, Commissioners Jj. A. Tavlob, L.

A. Wood. CITY Mayor TreHHurwr Police Judge City Attorney City Clork Marshal Chief tnginoer OFf ICKKS. John Watson Howard Dunlap C. B.

Uachellfcr C. N. Steny E. M. Forde Thou.

Flemrning u. W.IJraKur.ier. Ward. A. A.

Buker. I. E. Councilman irst Wrlnw '2nd Ward. II.

It. Jjowe. J. 11. lmvin, dra Ward, L.

L. Halleck. N. Whittlesey, 4th Ward, Ed. Korton, C.

P. Thies. Board of Education 1st Ward, J. Jay Buck, W. T.

McCarty. -nd Ward, Van McCnllough, T. Nix. 3rd Ward, H. W.

McCune, I. L. 4th Ward, J. A. Moore, L.

B. Kellogg. Treasurer Board of Education, J. M. Henson, Justice of the Peace C.

B. Bachelier, N. Constables T. Johnson, H. W.

Gilchrist. I'll I' 1CSS FOX. I CA it IfS. mi. F.

Z. NEDDEN, Homirpathist. I. D. Fox Co, Emporia, Kansas.

8 Book Store. Office over Dr. J. W. TKUEWORTHY.

Office Corner Commercial Street and 7th Avenue. Residence Cor. Merchants Street un17th Avenue. J. J.

WRIGHT, M. D. Office over First National Bank. Residence West Street. on Dit.

J. A. YOUNG, Emporia, Kansas. Office over First Dentist. National Bunk, C.

B. WACHELLKIt. B. M. BACHELLEK.

BACIIELEER BACIIELLEIt, Attorneys at Iiaw. Emporia Kansas. Office over First National Bank. Collections a specialty. F.

E. SMITH, Attorney at Law. Office over Wicka Bennett's Orocery store, Emioria, Kansas. W. A.

RANDOLPH, Attorney and Councelor at Law Collections I'romptly made. OUico over Dunlaps Bank. J. JAY BUCK. L.

B. KEiLOGO. BUCK KELLOGG, Attorneys i Law. Office in News Block. Em- I'oria, Kansas.

n'Ztt K. W. CUNNINOflAM. W. T.

MCCAKTY. Cunningham Mccarty, Attorneys at Law, Emporia, Kansas, practice in the District, Federal aud Supreme courts of the state. Hy B. M. r.VOOLES.

W. W. SCOTT. J. W.

LYNN. Rt'GGLES, SCOTT LYNN, Attorneys lit Law. Emporia, Kansas. Will practice" in all htate and Federal courts. n3 X.

C. STKJiltY. T. N. SEDGWICK.

STERRY SEDGWICK, Attorneys at Law, Emporia, Kansas, will practice in the several Courts of Lyon, Osau, Coffey, Greenwood. Chase, Harvey, Marion and Morris counties, Kansas in the Supremo Court of the Stat and in tho Federal Courts for the District of Kansas. nlyl GEO. B. COOPER, J'nint-r and Glazier.

Taper hauling a specialty. Work promptly done and satisfaction guaranteed. Emporia, Kansas. ltf. It 1 Tj I'A rJ A tiEXT.

S. B. JilGGS, SUCCESSOR TO ItlGGS GLOVEE, PPAL ESTATE AGENTS, Corner Fourth Ave. and Commercial Street. EMTORIA, KANSAS, Taxes paid for non-residents.

Abstract of Titles furniuhod. Money on uoou iteia nlly Estate Security. E. Borton, PEA ESTATE AG EXT EMPORIA. KANSAS.

Pays Texss, redeems lands sold for taxes. Will notify parties amount ct tax cua in time to save penally. Send New York Exchange or P. O. order.

Tax receipts sont by return mail on receipt of money. Enclose Etamp, description of lands and post mce address. REAL ESTATE B3LGHT AND SOLD ON COMMISSION. Call on or address, E. LORTON.

Emporia, Lyon County, Kansas. HOOT AXI SHOEMAKER. J. MINT I. (The Irrepressible.) Boot hoc aker Shop Next Door to Windsor Houseti Bfiotg and Shoes made to order.

Repairing made a specialty. Satisfaction guaranteed. nlyl C. P. TIIE1S, Boot Shoe MAKER, Shop on West side of Commertial 'Street, a few doors South of 5th Avenue, EM PORTA; KANSAS.

All kinds of Foot Wear made to order In best tyles. promptly attended to. UK A CKSMIIHS. HUMPHREY ELISOR, Blacksmith. Boss HcrseShccrs and Flow in the City.

All kinds of work done and SATISFACTION GUARANTEED, Shop on Fourth Avenue, corner Mechanic street. Tefft House, McXEEKlx ITARTZELL, I'ropHetors, TOPEKA, KANSAS. C3-This Houso Is Elegantld Furnished contact loo Rooms. and WILLIAM CLAPP3 Manufacturer and Dealer in Boots, Shoes AND Miibbers, 1j9 Commercial Street, EMPORIA, KANSAS. I make a specialty of my own Hand Made Boots, which I warrant to give entire satisfaction, and would be pleased to have you call and examine my goods and learn prices.

THE OLD RELIABLE LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLES GF J. H. DAVIS, (On 4th east of Sherman House, Keeps everything in first class style. Good Horses, Buggies and carriages. Also Good Wag ons for Mercantile lOramruers.

Boarding and Feeding Stock made a specialty. srnces reasonable. "-Give me a call, and satisfy vourselves. nlvl J. H.

DA VIS, Proprietor. IIARHY' Barber Shop, AND Bath Rooms, HAPPY L. LEIBFREID, PROPRIETOR. Fir a Fashionable Hxir Cut, Good Shave Hat or Cjld Bath, go to H4.KBT. nlyl THE BEST YET.

II. E. NORTON Have just received authority to sell Acres Of the Choicest 9 unimproved Land in Lyon County, Selected in 18.18, several thousand acres within four to seven miles'of Emporia, 'at from tO $4.00 FEB ACER! Either for Cash or on Time! THIS IS THE BEST CHANCE EVER OFFERED IN THIS COUNTY. BRICK! Those desiring brick for building purposes will nna tne BEST BRICK EVER BORNEO IN LY0H COUNTY PollarcVs Kiln, North of town, on the Necsho. Uriel- tJelir- ered tit the cilif.

Ihe best pressed brick ever burned the State. Frices Itttr the 1nrest. Call on or address, A. S. POLLARD, No.

5. Eniporia, Kansas. EMPORIA Marble Works. TEDFORD Mc HENDRY, Proprietors. We are now readv to furnish MONUMENTS, HEADSTONES.

TABLETS, And all kinds of MARBLE WORKS, We work nothing but the best grades of It aJiaii American Marble. In finish and design onrwork cannot be excelled. Prices low. Satisfaction guaranteed. Works on Commercial Street, near 2d Avenue, mmj JAIPOIUA, KANSAS.

EMPORIA BILLIARD HA L. F. SCHMIDLING, Proprietor. West side Commercial bet. 5th 6th Avenue The best Tables, and the best Balls in the City.

GOOD ORDER Will be maintained at all times. The Choicest Bbaxds of SEGARS always on hand. Lemonade and Cider in their season. A FREE READING ROOM Attached, where the latest dailies will be found for the perusal of visitors. A fair share of pat ronage Boncitea.

liyi Meat Market UKK, rroptors. 180 Commercial Street, EMPORIA, KANSAS. FRESH BEEF, PORK AND TEAL Kept constantly on hand. Nicely cured nAMS, SHOULDERS AND BACON, AND SMOKED MEATS, At Wholesale or retail. Everything usually kept at a first class Meat Market can be found at this shop.

iive us a call. BOSS PAPER HANGER, AND BILL POSTER. GEORGE. ARBELL. EMPORIA, KANSAS.

Boom painting dseeialty. are." And aunt's speculation turned out splendidly (she is still living, a hale old woman of 75), and she insisted upon our accepting what she called father's share, and that share was no inconsiderable one. And the seven-roomed house has grown to a twelve-roomed one Betty, by-the-by, has allowed her daughter to assist in the housework and the twenty -five by twenty-five garden to a hundred by a hundred, my corner just filled with rose-bushes. And everything has prospered with us, and no lengthened shadows have fallen upon our paths, since the rosy June afternoon we so unwilling opened the door to let in the darling who loved us. and we loved her at first sight sweet brown-eyed, golden-haired Miss Ashbell! i THE LEOFARITS WRATH.

A Female Aniirul-Taiu-r Tom by an En- raged Brute. Xew York Herald October Sth. The last act of the cirens had come, and the audience was prepared for the sensation which was to be the climax. The horses and the gymnasts and the clowns had limshed, and tne wild beasts were to be dehtd. Ihe creaky little wagon that held them was drawn out into tne ring, and a woman en- tertd the cage a slender, lithe, active, sinewy, woman, with black eyes fall of tire and a cruel rawhide whip in her hand.

The wmp was weighted at the handle and a quic-K shift woulp make it a deadly uugshot, but this the audience did not know. It was Mme. Rhinehait, and the wild boast were the lion, lioness and leopard in the Equescurriculum. It was yentcrday. iu the afternoon.

The woman cooL careful, quick and keenly watchful as ever snapped the I whip around, and with sharp angry words i of command, drove the beasts from corner to comer in the usual style of such ierfor-mauces. It was exciting even to those us to the kind of performance they were wit- nessing, and to the ladies and children it was tnrilling. for the deep, angry roar of the beasts was no mock raging. They were too sullen to be laughed at. Suddenly Mme.

ltainehart stepped backward to leave room for the lion to in one of the tricks she had taught him. and she stepped against the leopard. With a snarl that seemed half human in its malice and wholly devilish in its utter ferocity, the angry beast turned its head and raised its paw. The paw rested one moment on the right thigh of the daring woman, and the claws shot straight through the thin garments into the quivering flesh. The javs now open an insiant and then closed on what seemed th woman's body.

Probably not one person in five in the audience realized that what they saw was any-tning different from the usual performance, for everything Mine. Rhinehart had done had been done in a Hash, aud there was no time to realize this before she had mastered the situation Turning as quickly as the huge leopard had turned she shot her slender white left hand sirignt from the shoulder to the leopard's threat with a motion as quick as tleeuan's, and with the right he wnirltd the wnip around and brought the loadL-d handle down squarely letween the two great green eyes that were gleaming hate into her owuil Then shifting the whip again so quickly that few saw the motion, sae rained a dozen quick fierce blows ou the tendcrest spots the leopard wears. There was not time for the shudder the the audience began to feel to hafe passed away Ihj-fore the trick was over, the lion was ready for his next word of command, and the leopard had slunk back two steps to the far corner of the little cage, cowed and beaten by a woman he could nave rent liml frjin lira had he known his power. Only tnree great drops of blood remained to tell the story of what migai have happened, and taey d'd not show on the gaudy dress she wore. Tne woman's stays, rigd and stronger than the fashionable corset, hud served to protect her sids from the fangs of the beast, and her arms and legs were only scratched.

Ai loust she called them scratches, when a few moments later she laughingly stretched out a maimed arm and grasp the reporter's hand so firmly as almost to make him wince. Sne was puttinir plasler over tne "scratches." disdaining any better treat- ment. "It'll heal ngat she said. "Why, you know my historj she said in answer to a question about her busness. "I'm Lenetta Khinehart, Sana Hhinehart's wife, that's been known to every circus man in the countrj' for the past ten years at loust.

No, I'm not living with him now, tjid haven't been for throe year; bus I'm taking care of our two children. He does what lie likes and 1 do what I can for myself and them. No, there's no divorce." Mme. or Mile, ltainehart. as she is called ind.if reutly on the bills "The Madam," as everione around the circus calls her, respectfully is a black haired, blaci-eyed woman, with strong ling- rs.

quick eyes and motions, who tatks as simply and unaH ct-edly of what Rhe does as another woman would talk of embroidering. Her face is not pleasing and intelligent. "I've been in it ail my life," she "At least for sixteen years, and sixteen years ago I was only a girL I began in the side show line, and kept candy standi and that sort of thing. How d-d I get into this? WclL I hardly known. I bad an idaa I could do it, and did.

Firt I began riding. Now, there is hardly a bone in my body that hasn't been broken by a horse at somj time or another, but I'm not afraid of any horse living. Well I thought I could do as well with the beasts as any of the tamers, and I got a chance to try with ilia's Brothers r- cus that traveled oat of Columbus, and since then I've kept at it most all the time." I never had a bone broken by any of the wild beasts. It's lacky for me. too.

for I such wounds never seem to heal. Jim yon- der, got bitten by a lion five years ago and one of his bones was shattered and never healed. But I've had my flesh torn and chewed up most horribly at different times, i My leg. from my waist to my heel, has been torn all over. This particular leopard has attacked me four tiras this season.

You see he is ugly any way and he sc ms to hate me particularly. 1 ought to feed them all myself, but I have been cart less about it i lately and have let one of the men do it for i me. Well, this leopaid can't seem to stand it to have ms change my dross. I got struck with the blonde fever a while ago and put on a blond rig, and when I took it off he went for me. "What do I do? "Well I hardly know.

I get hold of his nose or throat and leat him with a whip or a club. I nt know why it is. but he gits fr gatenea ana gives right away. I suppose it is becau-H3 I don't gut frightened. I alwavs have a club handy.

however, in case I should drop my whip, and a man always stand near to help me." "WelL yes. people say to me very often 'You will go in some time and you won't come but I always say that I never think of it that way. I always think I am coming out. What would become of the children if I didn't. Ijut I' Have Change, I am tired of reading commsnts on old maids and hen-pecked husbands.

Why don't some one spend a little sympathy on us poor women who spend our whole lives in a vain end iavor to keep buttons ou shirts and get the baby reared big enough to take care of itself We turn over the same bed) and sweep the same rooms something near three hundred and sixty-five times a year; wash the same dishes (if they don't get broken) ten hundred and twenty-five times a year. No wonder women grow dull and listless. What wonder we forget to laugh when our husband comes home to tea. or that we feel like spanking the baby when I i i while she was here. I would rather bav" my lmhuid tell me that I made a pood cap of coifee, or that I am a goo-1 loooking woman to-day.

than to erect a fine tombstone engraved with my virtnes when I am no more on earth. Why don't men discover that a woman need feme expression of their love to relieve the monotony of her life I have no patience with a man mho says once to si woman. 'I love you and considers that if he make her his wife he has done all that is remirrd of him. A woman can take but little comfort in making a- horn? pleasant for a man who considers hi duty done if he furnishes ht with food ard finedivsKfts. The machinery of a woman's being, daily worked without the oil of love plentifully applied to hrr heart, grows dry and rusty, and finally 1 wears ent irely out.

long before the expira- tion of the time allotted to her by the laws of nature. Hubf-nds. kis your wife when you go to your busnit in the morning aud come home go natured to your dinner or tea. Never mind if your sflTairs have bothered you during the day. llow do you know but that ehft had trreen wood to conk your ilinner with, or thrt the clothes hasn't bro- ken ftnd sent vo ir Wst white shirt whese yon didn't want it? Don't be afraid to bring home a new Ikvk.

or to sjeak of a new jwra. It may be that your wife can read and understand s'mWhing besides a receipt for making corn bread, or a new way of bxrilicjr potatoes, if she is too tired to talk much when her cares are laid aside for the day. Sympathy is necessary and a change is needed in the lives of wane of oar home-loving women. I know that many women hare died of nothing but loneliness. OTSTERS.

Methods of Cooking by Lover. Sew Tork World. Now that the "It" note has been Founded by Father Time, and now that the oyster is legitmately here, what fhall we do with him? This is an epiuran e.nurdram that finds as manv answers as Mrs. Jenks had (Jenoral Butler. One disciple of the "It" mysteries will contend for eating the oyster as he lies fresh in his own tiled a.ode.

and will a-k only a grain of polite salt as introducer to the titillated epiglottis. Another disciple will leard the oyster in his pearly den. and slaughter his flavor with those barbarous deer ct ions of the nasturtium and tomato that cunning oys-t or men originally contrived as selling sauce for any suspicions bivalve. A third sci-. pie.

who affects his clu't sunpr aout m'd-night. will demand a double feast of the oyster, by ha'iling him over the coals, and will grow ecstatic ovpt the feasting first upn the delicious ordor of the roai-td shelL and nxt up-m th positively gamer ta-te which the roasted ovsfer possesses, and especially if, after he has lingered Iwd-ilv upon the palite. be bi washed down with a gurgle of Barsac wine. Still another disciplo will clamr to have the er broil or fried, and clad in a rat rial ic rohe iT ettnitie of Indian little thiuk- int d'wivrd deciplc that Fuch a case the eater m'g'it as pilataMy ne allayed the pangs of hnngr-r with the mori economical salsify nrepirrd in th ram way. A har-barian x'ipl' miv tell you that to fritter the oyster and egg hi-a to vour digestive rpiosc the rand in whic'i to treat him.

The truly gastronomic, disciple will contend for the. of stewing ths oyster in a chafing dih that is half filled with Cmmoaigne or Saul erne wire, or for scalloping" him in his native shlL or in the sweet depths of a fragile vf as in-crusted with crumbs of the old-fashioned Bostoa cracker hat. have leen previously soaked in sherry, but more than all for sf reamuig him in a caland-rr placed over a kettle of surely billing water, so that the oyster cannot s'irivel nor dilute has flavor into any liquid contact, and then serving him immersed in warm cram. and then serving him in warm cream, and with iis of Chateau Yqncrr. Perhaps the disciple, if a lady, will insL-t upon a rice lbur piire of the oyster, straining through silver, aud flavoririg with a fairy's portion of peach laf.

But as for trie oyster liscspl? who shall hint of peppering the oyster in any form, or agonizing him with draughts of spirits of any kind or acidulating him with claret, let tha Jnd condemn to ttr-rpetual oyster lVnrl? ever allow hi id 1 to form acquaintance with larr beer, but he will permit, the amalgstmtion of malt ale. unless the companion ousters are roasted, or seallopMl. Nor will that hon- est without prot'-st. allow the oys-l ter to be preliminarily frozen under huge Mocks of ice aiil the dlscipla will insist that the ouster opener violates Ho.vle. and whf-n in doubt over the t'msd mollnsk.

shall pcremptorlaly refuse the trick; sinew every fathful oyster disoitde knows that the suspicious oyster should share, the verdict of the generous cook upon an egg that will not swim nor poach, and thit the oyster alwavs. in a culinary way, take rank beside Cesar wife. MAILtXU curx. The I'osition nf Drpartuiect in the Matter. Washington Past, The postoface department has issued a circular to puslm-i-scers regarding the mailing of coin.

The order says: "It having been decided by the department that coin, is mailable matter, notwithstanding the fact that it has always i.d-i-d the public against using the mails fr the transmission ot valuable matter, except by money order or registered letter, you are hereby cdvbifcd that if panics desire to send coin as third das. in the condition required br the laws governing the transmision of third-classs mail matter, registered or not registered they may do so at their own risu. neither this department nor its revenues being lial le in case of loss of package or the contents." Tne postmaster will also be directed, when a package of gold coin is registered, not to give receipt for the amount, nor to treat the ackage in any other wav than merchandise. HlooOy Sliirt anil Tl.Ingn. Learcnuxrrth Timet.

At the present time, when the jreopli of all parties tarougaoal the State are busily engaged in the noble aud br jtherly work garnering supplies for the benefit of the iuiiicte-d people of the South, it doesn't seem to be just the thing for our State cen- erg goie fctock in trde consist of abxse of the same people to whom we ars sendmj our contributions It isn't calculated give savory flavor to our charity but if it is necessary to the tsuscess of the party that the ensanguined neither gormenS should again flap deuan ily over the peaceful prairies of Kansas, in memory of issues that depart this life a decadi ago, for heaven's sake let it le flapped by men who can put a Lttla vim into tae flapping. Ail shirt, and no enthusiasm makes a dail meeting, and has a Uxd ncy to make votes for the other man. Con fed? rate va. Federal. Cinsianati Enquirer.

Colonel John Mosby was accorded an interview with the President to-day. and informed Mr. Hayes that he could not leave for his post China until November. He was admitted to the royal presence as soon as his call a one -arm id onion soldier kept waiting in the ante-room until after three aad was then told to call again to-morrow, as the was busy. and 16 Will, browner, darker-eyed, a head shorter, and 10: and Carrol, towering above us all, blue-eyed, fair-haired, golden mas-tached.

and 21. Aunt was, in fact, our srreat-aunt, sister of our fathers's mother, but the only aunt, great or little, that we had ever known. We had met her but two or three times during our lives, as she lived in far-away Illinois, and was too much occupied with grains and herds to think of frequent visiting, and we well, we were too poorly provided with gold and silver to be able to take long and expensive journeys. So what little visiting there had been on aunt's side, with one exception, and then I was the visitor. It was when I was about 15 when this short and memorable visit took place.

Yielding to aunt's repeated solicitation I was her namesake I started from home with the intention of spending the summer months on the Elinois farm. I arrived there safely, was welcomed heartily, and entertained right royally but before a week had passed away I had grown so tired of the seeming boundlessness of everything, and longed so for the little cottage and Lilliputian garden where grew my three rose-bushes one red, one white, and one a creamy yellow that aunt, seeing the longing in my eyes, said, you must go back," and back I am, long before I was expected, but my dear father and mother assured me not a moment too soon. Ve children haa alwav hearo. tsnce a year from aunt once collectively at Christmas, and once respectively on our birthdays and each time the kind note which exhorted us to "be good, industrious, and self-reliant," inclosed a check larger or smaller, according to aunt's gains of the preceding car. These notes we had been taught to answer with many wishes for the old lady's welfare, and thanks for her kind ness, and hopes for a speedy meeting; in short, in a manner enenttmg the only neices and nephews of the Carmody fami ly when replying to the friendlier epistles of their only aunt, to say nothing of that aunt being the wealthies and most iufluen- ential member of that family.

A few days before our father cuea he call ed us together, and said, "'My children, it isn't at all likely to occur, but if ever aunt should ask a favor of you, grant it, at no matter what inconvenience. She has been my best and dearest friend." Poor father! I suspect aunt had often helped him out of the pecuniary difficulties. He was an unpractical, dreamy sort of a man. rond of birds and poetry and nowers. and didn't succeed very well in life.

But, in spite of his dreminess and his wants of wordly tact, and his being so totally unlike her in most ways, he was a great favorite of aunt's, and when we telegraphed his serious illness to her she left her vast possessions without a captain at a moments notice, and hastened to his side, making her appearance in a bonnet that immediately suggested the prairies, it was so unlimited as to size, and so bare of ornament, and which grotesquely obtruded itself into the remembrances of that sad time forever after. Since father's death things hadn't been very bright with us. In fact, they hadn't been bright at all. We found there was a good deal of mon ey owing, and what remained of the two hundred dollars aunt gave us on the day of the funeral she bade us "good-bye" the instant the ceremonies were over after our very cheap mourning was paid, for, went to the butcher, grocer and shoemaker. We were all willing to do, and all did, whatever we could toward supporting the household; but, dear! dear! talk about weeds! I never saw anything grow like bills.

Carrol, who had an artistic turn of mind, struggled with it, and who had a dressmaking turn of mind, struggled with that, and Helen struggled with her books, hoping to become a teacher in time, and little Will struggled with somebody else's books, for he went into a publishing-house as errand boy poor fellow Besides the struggles, we had mother on our minds. A few weeks after we lost our baby sister. A beautiful child she was, as bright as a diamond, and as fair as a pearL and the pride and darling of us all. Already sinking beueath the blow of her husband's death, when her little daughter too my mother's heart was nearly broken. From being a sunshiny, energetic, busy woman, she became listless and apathetic, sitting in her room day after day gazing upon the pictures of the loved ones, or rocking back and forth, her hands clasped, be fore her, iooiong with dry eyes upon va cancy.

that she could be made to weep that she could be roused from this dread ful speechless gloom into which she has fallen;" was our continual prayer, for the terrible thought came to us often that we should lose our mother in a much worse way than we had our father and sister that her brain would at last give way beneath its weight of heavy, desparing thoughts. Weil, the exchequer was low enousrh and mother had had one of her very bad spells and a lady customer had just been in and abused me yes, abused I can use no other word women do fly in such temper at their dress-makers about the fit of her dress, declaring it to be "utterly ruined," when it only wanted taking up a little on one snouiaer ana letting aown an men or so in front; and Will's right arm was almost disabled from a heavy load of books he had carried a long distance the day be tore (how men can have the heart to give a man burden to a child 1 can see) when aunt letter tell lilte a bomD-sneil into our very nearly disheartened little camp. Dear Iolks: A friend of mine An Inghshman (aunts language was correct enough, but at times her spelling was somewhat peculiar) who come here purposing to start in business, took the fever, lingered a few months and died, leaving. Heaven knows why, his only child, a daughter, who will eventually be a not-to-be sniffed at airess, to my care. Having been delicately reared in the midst of devotion and tenderness, this place, only suited to bold, strong natures, is a little too rough for her.

So she desires at least I desire for her a home in the North, and I wish that home to be with you. My neice Wary who inherits the dispo-sitioo of her father to a great degree and he would have gone out of his way any day te give even a dumb brute pleasure will. I am sure, be kind to her. Carrol will love her for her beauty, if for nothing else, and the rest of yeu will love her because she is most lovable. Her maid, will accompany her.

At present her affairs are in a tangle, but hope to unravel them in the course of a few months, and then you wid be recompensed for whatever extra expense she may cause you. I would enclose a check at present writing, but all my ands are invested in a speculation from wh'ch I ex-rect to reap much profit. Do the best you can until you hear from me again, when I will further unfold my plans in regard to Miss Ashbell, who, by-the-by, starts tomorrow, Avtnt. No wonder consternation and dismay were depicted on every countenance when ceased reading this letter. No wonder we looked gaspingly at each other.

What in the world were we to do with this fine young lady in our humble home? What could aunt be" thinking about? True, she didn't know ejeactly how poor we were, for we had been too proud to acknowledge our extreme poverty in our few and far-between letters. On the contrary, 1 five by twenty-five, and a court-yard ten by ten. And suppose as aunt, with shortsightedness very unusual with her, complacently remarked Carrol should fall in love with her? The proud English girl would no doubt regard him as a fortune hunter, and invidiously compare his frank, impulsive, rather brusque manners with the repose and awful dignity of the languid swells of her own land. And somebody else might be attracted toward her men are so susceptible to wo-woraan's beauty somebody who at present thought my brown face the sweetest in the world. The very thought made my heart stop beating.

And the maid? Even if we could make arrangements to accommodate her and it seemed utterly hnpss-sible for us to do so Betty, our faithful st-rvant for last fifteen years, would look upon her in the light of an interloper, and. treat har as such. Betty had been used to being monarch of all she surveyed. Even in house. cleaning times those times that try men's souls and women's soles she scorned the idea of an assistant.

"No ma'am, IH have no strangers pokin' roun me. hen 1 not able to do the work of this house alone, I'll go." And mother dear, shrinking, grief- stricken mother how would she bear the advent of this dainty Miss Ashbell? But we could do nothing to avert the impending misfortune. Even if we had thought of disobeying our father's last command, and refusing aunt the favor she had not asked, but in her usual decisive way, taken for granted, the young lady was on her way, and would be here in a day or two. The news must be immediately broken to mother and Betty, and being the housekeeper, undertook to face the latter. I will confess I did it with fear and trembling.

She heard me grimly, never ceasing to pare the potatoes she held in her lap, and when I had ended, looked up with a sharp nod of her head, and said slowly and emphatically, "Betty '11 have to go now, sure. She can't stand no fine young ladies and sassy young ladies' maids about for nothing. Helen went to mother, put her arms about her neck, and with a kiss and a smile told her of the expected visitor, adding, with the assumption of gayety: shan't come near you at all, mamma dear, if you don't want her; but you know aunt has been so kind to us, and father loved her so dearly, it would be impossible to refuse the first favor she ever asked of us." Mother said never a word, but began brushing the hair back from her temples with both hands in a nervous way she had when anything grieved or annoyed her. And then we began preparing for Miss AshbelL Will's room was to be given up to her, and Will (Carrol's room was scarcely large enough for hinisel, and his art traps, as he calltd them was to be stowed away in the loft a proceeding which he viewed with much dissatisfaction. "I'll smother up there in hot weather," he said, with a wry face.

"Oh. 1 wish there wasn't any Miss Ashbell Why don't she go to a hotel?" "Why don't she?" echoed I. I said we began to prepare for her, but for lack of the before mentioned silver and gold, our preparations were of the simplest Kind. Carrol made and put np two pretty brackets, and hung wi ih a sigh for he hated to part with them the few pictures he possessed on the walLs. I looped back the white curtains (freshly washed and irontd.

with much grumbling, by Betty) with new blue ribbons, and I covered the trunk ottoman with bright ceintz, and with Helen's help made a new mat to place before the bureau, and we turned an old table cloth into napkins, and bought a new napkin-ring, and two or three cut-glass goblets and a lovely china cup and saucer, and when all was done waited with anxious hearts for our unwelcome guest. Mother had shut herself up in her room early in the morning of the day we expected her, and had remained there; and the rest of us were as unsomfortable as poor, proud, shy, sensitive people could be at the thought a perfect stranger's ingress into the very heart of their home, aud wishing audibly and inaudibly that Miss Ashbell's father had never brought her from Eng land, When, as the sun sank in the West, and a cool summer breeze, fragrant with the breath of the roses, lifted the curtains of our cozy bay-window, a carriage stopped at our door. "She's come, and I'm gone." said WilL flinging down his book and rushing out into the garden. Carrol rose from his chair, ran his fingers through his golden hair, and glanced in the mirror at his new silk necktie. Helen sank back on the lounge with a sort of groan; and I opened the parlor door as Betty went muttering through the entry in answer to a bell.

"Is it Mrs. Carmody's?" asked a pleasant voice yes, it was a slight brogue. "Yes," answered Betty, shortly. And in another moment a round-cheeked, unmistakably red-haired, good-natured looking young girl in a plain traveling dress stood before me. "Good gracious! is this the beauty?" thought and Carrol fell back a step or two.

"Are you Miss Carmody?" she asked. "I am," I replied, holding out my hand, and let me welcome you when turning from me, she gently pulled forward into the room the loveliest little child I had ever beheld in my life, with large soul-lit brown eyes, and sunny hair the exact color or our lost darling's. "This is Miss Ashbell" said the maid "and I am to stay or go back as yon see fit." I looked at Carrol. He indulged in a long under-the-breath whistle. Helen buried her face in the sofa cushion and laughed historically.

Thechild came forward, and holding out her little hand said, with a pretty drawL "I am to love you and you are to love me. Aunt said so." I went down on my knees on one side of her and Helen went aown on ner Knees on the other, and we kissed her till her dimpla cheeks glowed again (you see the house had been so lonely without our little sister). while Carrol looked on with astonishment. admiration and tenderness blended in his handsome face, and Will stole in with the only bud from my precious tea-rose, the stem carefully stripped of its thorns, and put it in her hand. "Thunk you boy, she said, "I will have you for my brother; and you too," with a bright smile mto Carrol face.

"Tnere is an angle, horn 3, in a big picture, with hair and eyes like yours." Carrol caught her up hi.s arms and ran away with her to mothers room. And there she iiad no sooner said. "My papa and mamma are both in heaven," than mother burst out in a fit of weeping that left a rainbow behind it. And from that hour the weight began to be lifted from her brain, and soon I had to resign my position as housekeeper, for we had our mother back again as she used to be of old a little quieter in her ways, perhaps, but just as sweet, as kind, as unselfish as ever. And Carrol's picture of "Miss Ashball" gained him a place on the walls of the academy that autumn; and will who entered college last week, never ran away from he-again.

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