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Sometimes" i" said Miss Sophrony, with |
a sly glance at her sisters.
Suppose we have a game then, said |
John, earnestly.
Several handkerchiefs were simultane-
ously produced and before Johnwas aware !
he was in midnight darkness.
"But you must be blinded, too. Lucy"
said Miss Malvina; cit always makes it
livelier to have two, you know"
So Miss Lucy's sight was Temporarily
obscured IN the same manner that Johns
had been.
Then the word ready" was given, and
without a word of warning Sophrony, Pa
tience, Priscilla and MSlvina noiselessly
glided from the room.
For awhile John and Lucy groped in
nocently about them, each failing to find
the objects they sought. At last John
spoke
al say, where are you all?" he said,
helplessly.
No answer came to his question from
"John," said Lucy, al believe they're
all hiding"
Just at this moment the two approach
ed each other with their hands extended, +,
and they were each suddenly claspedy in
each others arms. This was sensation
so new to John that it almost deprived
| him of articulation.
ooh, is it you, John p said Lucy; 81 do
believe they're fooling US"
She Suddenly removed the bandage from
her eyes, and the next moment John felt
her deft little fners untYing the Knot in
the handkerchief that was bound about
his head.
"Look here, john" she said, in q
half provoked sort of way, "Just see what
a trick they've played upon US. / might
have known what they were up to-. Never
!, mind, we Il have real pleasant visil
now"
They sat down side by side on the high
backed sofa, and Lucy talked so pleasant
ly and encouragingly to John that he sooI
t felt perfectly az home. He was almos
: astonished at his self-possession. Tn
e minutes elapsed into hours, and-well, h
never could fully explain how it was, af
] terward, but the fact was that Lucy prom
2 ised him that she would be Mrs. Johl
e Jansen whenever he was ready to clair
i her as his own, and ohm went home tina
= night very proud and happy, and on tn
= following morning ne informed his aston
s ished father that any time that farm wa
ready he would be ready to 60 10 house
|. keeping.
e Peter Jansen kept his word, and job
e was often subsequently heard to say tha
= if it hadn't been for tnat friendly gam
of blind mans bluff he would hardl
r have known how to have made
n choice.
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a Beecher, or Bismarck; do you notice
that high forehead?"
I did. Thought he was all forehead,
as his hairididn't commence to grow until
the back of his head was reached, but she
assured me I was mistaken.
Wouldn't I Just heft him once 2"
Ihefted him told her that l never
knew a child of his weight weigh so much
and she smiled like an angel. She said
she was afraid didn't appreciate children
but now she knew did. -.-|
Wouldn't Just look at his darling lit
tie leet-his little red feet and cunning
toes ?"
Yes, I would. She rolled him over on
his face, and unwoand his feet, and trium-
phantly held them up TO my gaze. con-
templated the hundreds oC little wrinkles
running lengthwise, the big toes and the
| little toes, and I agreed with her that, so
far as / could Judge from the feet and the
toes and the wrinkles, future of unex-
ampled brilliancy lay before the pug-nosed
imp.
He began to kick and howl, and she
stood him on end, set HIM up, laid him
down, and trotted him until she bounced
! his wind collie into the middle of Septem-
Der.
.'Whom did he look ike?"
bent over the scarlet-faced rascal,
pushed his nose to one side, chucked him
under the chin, and didn't answer without
due dehberatlon. 1 told her that there
was faint resemblance to George Wash
ington around the mouth, but the eyes
reminded me of Daniel Webster, while
the general features had made me think
of the poet Milton ever since she entered
the house.
That was Just her view exactly, only
she had not said anything about it be-
+ fore.
"Did I think he was too smart t,
live?"
I felt his ears, rubbed his head, put m,
finger down the back of his neck, and
a told her that, in my humble opinion, h
t wasn't, though he had a narrow escape
e If his nose had been set little more I
e one side, or his ears had appeared in th
: the place Of his eyes, Bascomb could hav
: purchased weed for his hat without de
q lay. No, the child would live, thel
n Gasn't the least doubt about 1t, and an
t man or woman who said he wouldn't gro
e up to make the world thunder with b
= fame. would steal the wool off a lost Ian
IS in January.
: She felt so happy that she rolled Il
imp up in forty-nine bandages, shook hi
n to straighten his legs and take the kinl
It out of his neck, and then carried hi
.e home under her arm, while my WI
v made me go along with an umbrella, Il
a fear the sun might peal his little nose
M Quad.
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Mesr8. RussaU& ca, Canton s-z-s
Township the
Rake would hills
where could not cut with any other machine that has timber bar at the inside
kind thought c. the Russell Self
machine the Russell
Rake. it strong and durable ---..
the leading and in this Stark Co Ohio the home Of the
quite familiar with all leading machines bis attention called to
The Russell his
relief result stated
Manufactured by c. RUSSELL & CO.. Canton, Ohio
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A man who can have his corns mashed
without grumbllng is undoubtedly pos
sessed of tolerably good disposition. One
man, being once at political meeting,
said, in a pleasant manner, to big burly
fellow who was standing upon his toe;
"My dear sir, are you not a miller" "No,
sir; why do you ask2" "Why. sir, the fact
is, 1 thought you were a miller, and a
very honest one, too, because you have
been grinding my corns this half houl
without taking toll.
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"Trifes" does not know where this next
originally appeared. 1t is one of those
fatherless paragraphs continually found
floating along the sea Of journalism. Like
some human orphans we know off, is a
good deal better than many fellows with
acknowledged papas:
"a gentleman in Pottsvilles Pa, has
named his dog Penny because 1t was
one cent him, and has had ten mills with
the cat - ~
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In THIS world it Is not the most potent
forces that are are accompanied by the
most neise.1 Some OF the mighhest of Ma
ture's processes are the quietest, There is
silent power welded by q dead rat in
the wall which drives all befofe it, like an
army with banners In such an invisible
presence even q newspaper itemizer is SO
impressed that he can generally eentrive
to Sense the precise thing.
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MAssILLoN, OHIO, August I, 1878.
G. RaLSSeH & Co. 1:

c. Russell Co.:
cutting with Combined Mowers and
be
the
with
wheat in half day
with changing horses
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that number: in the first primary of the
South building, there are this term III
children; in the first primary of the East
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The old gray mill is yet murmuring on,
cho hrnnl. hra1Els dnMn ihrnnuh the limestl

The old gray mill is yet murmurng on,
The brook brawls down through the limestone
street,
The girls that blossOmed around the deor
And hid and sought till the grist-snoTed hoSr
Was printed off with their merry feet
Like notes of music-the girls are gone
The mill IT said that he alway1 heard
The slender song of the outside bird
Through the grumbling roll of the whirling mill,
He never heard when the wheels were still.
Perhap s-why not Through the anthem grand
He helps to chat in the Better Land,
The mills old murmuring monotone
May now steal up to his ear alone,
Bringing a breath of the SaviOr's Prayer
DroninS the base to the angels air
| Hum of the Mil in the golden choir.
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D52gLBz TRY
THE MILLER AND THE FILL,
BY B. F. TAYLOR.

The roar came up in misty cloak
Whose skirt was trimmed with the swan S-down
foam,
Beside the mill with its windOwd wall
OF rusty red as it lOOmed so tall
The wheel was still in its dark, aim room,
The air as whist as a wreath of smoke,
The tangled light through the eObwebs fell,
The mill was as dumb a heather-bell
The dusty miller was leaning DER
The lower half of the battered door,
Thinking the things be allCGyS thought,
Tolling the grists no man had brought,
Counting the dreams that came to ought
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ism and very valuable, beng applicable to
all styles of machines.
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Observation-Disclosures Block. Canton. Ohio
A. ]. DOUDS,

n. j.. OOOODJ
sureeou DentIst-Ofice up stairs, in residence
on Market street, west side, three doors sGoDn
connected with the profession promptly attend
ed to.
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the trial that and notice that machine did not cut off the the
wheat and leave them others did ran Lighter and easily nanage
say that all did well the Russell (Which Of them did, con
dollars than
SRake and cut myself sonnlaw 70 and
whatever
decided success and recommend
Yours JOHN T. BLACK.
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The miller starts from the faded dream.
A lever creaks and he lifts the gate.
The rumbling food in the frothy tiume
Is rolling through to the twilight room
In whirls and sWirls at n reckless rate
The rustic strength of the headlonS stream.
storm Of rain in the chamber DIM
A mighty swing of giant limb!
The Wheel is washing his max ed arms
The mill is alive with the strange alatIAs
A lazy log has Just turned over,
The mill is full of thousand things.
They tramp with feet and they hlm With wings
A troop has halted awhile to feed.
Old Pan has come with his droWsy reed.
Hark! Bees abroad from field of clover
A flock of grouse with frightened whirr
A Scotch brigade with & Tweedside burri
Two wheels lay hold with their iron teeth
And turn a shaft that is hung beneath,
| With a tumbling thump Of the tumDling bolt,
| Like the awkward trot of 4 barefoot colt.
In swaying glide are the leathern bands
| The hoppers jar with their palsied hands.
Forever spillIng the grists of grain
In rattling showers like frozen rain,
| While face to face with its gritty mate
The milestone whirls with grinding CRATE,
| What might be laid in a castles wall
I Is twirled light parasOl!
| And out from the rock, once of old,
| A streamlet flows in its white or gold!
| Busy as bees when the buckwheat blows
| Are the little buckets that run in rows
| Up stairs and down with sparroT's weight,
| With tiny drift of the dainty freight.
| The place is thrilled with rumbling tread,
The air is gray with the ghost of bread!
Dizzy and busy, above, below,
| I.ydian river and fiOWery flow
| Corn in the gold and wheat in the snoT,
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- 10y NFUtILLk
OF meddiesome eroakers who have been
laying for them eyers siRce panic times set
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He saw four butterflies winged in white,
That fiuttered over the wayside pool,
They looked like bits of an old lOye-note
To Lucy Jones, and the first he wrote
But never sent to the Flower Of lhe school
"What if he had - and "Perhaps she might"
he saw four butterflies wing'd in gold,
And thought of what things the "perhaps" might
fold
A woman's foot on the powdered sill
With arch enough for running rilt,
To walk his world and-he thought again
How the blossoms show in the route of rain
Make summer time till the first snowfall,
Perhaps and Might How they puzzle all
Jogging along horse came slow,
Boy Was alOft and bag below,
Caliper legs and head of tow.
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DENTIST.
IOSEPH CRAIG.
DIR. ]. II. sIDDALL,

-nrN-AL SURGEON No. 0, Cassidy Block, Canton, o.
- An operations performed in the most ap-
proved and satisfactory manner. septls '13tI
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'But this is rather sudden. ("

ing to the load on the engine or the
amount Of pressure in the boiler. It's
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JEWELLERS.

{ AZ DEUBLE & BROTHER,
dealers in Watches Clocks, Jewelry, SilyerWSTe' e
. T&c east side of Public Square, Canton, OHlo'
Repairing done on short notice.
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]. A. MEYER

naalar In American and Foreign Watches, Clocks,
= SIivArWare and Fancy Goods-Northwest corner
Of Public Square, Canton, Ohio. Repairing he"V
~, expeditiously and satisfactorily dohe'
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Take Notice,

+ HAVE appointed J. NJ. Ebersole, of No. At
i East Tusearawas street, Agent for the sale
my Cigars, Where can be found a frst-rate
article of Connecticut cigars at $500 per hun
dred. Also fine lot Of Yara and Havana Ci-
gars. A. LIPPERT.
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. sssR Ezo1E sna rIeIcTiin ~ 4
t1ea read ht1tory ot She Press OF Eastern chlS
80 % motions WAS requested % have tho -
paollshe1 "A the Buckeye State aud = Cow It65
Q A'VAUeaAss sSee.y. W.T., BAs0oHs frsa.s. -
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FDWTN SMITH

Photographer, &c-Particular attention gwen sre 20
COPYING and enlarging pictures. OVai FIaliiSs M 90
and Albums constantly on hand Rooms IN
Mathews's Block, South Market street SshtSh
ohio. luioA ~
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15rELS,
JACKSON HOTEn.
AMERICAN HOTEI


GEO. A. WINTERHALTER,
Dealer In Millinery and Fancy Goods, No opera
House Block, Canton, Ohio yZiu
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STARK COUNTY DEMOCRAT,
A. McGregor & Son, Publishers, and ram ana pc
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HIRAM THuRSTON

Il = HIRAM THURbIUN, -
Roolr-B Binder and Blank-Book Manutacturerin Al AZ
orders from abroad promptly attended 70; Pm bllu
cry in Harter's Block, up stairs, Canton Oiii0'
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JACOB NEWSLETTER.
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JUSTICE OF PEACE-ofice in TrumP's Build
ing, (up stairs) Canton Ohio. Nov. q, T3-yl
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fact to ponder on-that Innisfail, this
Poland of the West, hold all that is
mortal of one who has fought in defence
of that ancient faith to which ireland
has clung unchanged and unchanga.
BILE through centuries of cruel wrong,
and in fidelity and devotion to which
she has been rivalled only by Poland.
The noble exile has found a tomb far
away from his childhood home He now
sleeps in the lone graveyard of Moykar-
ky-in the midst of hospitable Upper.
ary-with one of those feudal towers
scattered over our native land as a sen.
tinel guarding his slumbers."
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-15
THAT AFRICAN WAR.
English Feeling Concerning 1t
That Umbrella

A London letter to the Cincinnati
Commercial says
" II is very plain that the English peo.
pie are more ashamed than cheerful ct
the outcome of the Ashantee EXPEDITION.
No conquering ero ever returned to
have so little ado made over him as Sir
Garnet Wolseley. He comes to find
that while he was burning the town of
Coomassie, which will be rebuilt in a
month or two, all his own most valuable
treasures have been burned in the Pan
technicon and are not to be replaced.
The people are glad that the thing is
over, but it is amusing to witness how
quiet everybody is about the treaty with
which the war is terminated. The treaty
comedies to the Ashantees right of free
trade with and access to the coast. 1t
was the denial Of that to them which
made them assume hostile attitude to
the tribes under English protection. SO
England goes, fights them, burns their
capital, and then-acknowledge that
they were right from the first. You
may fancy from the magnificent way in
which some of the journals declare that
the great object Of the war has
been attained, the name of Eng
land is respected throughout Africa,
that this nation has suddenly be.
come fatuous But | assure you
and there are multitudes here who would
gladly give up any respect their country
has won in Africa to recover the respect
it has lost at home by this contemplate
little invasion. We are Just now feeling
sadly bereft of the great humorists and
satirists. Today the papers inform us
grandly that her Majesty, the Queen,
has been graciously pleased to direct
that the State Umbrella of the King of
Ashantee shall be exhibited in the South
Kensington Museum. Oh, for one hour
of Charles Lamb, of Jerrold of Thack-
cray, to do justice to Victoria and the
Umbrellal Do not imagine this is a
small trophy; it is six feet long. 1t is of
red serge, lined with what seems to the
Daily News man black petticoat. A
correspondent of the Daily Telegraph
affirms that it would fetch in a brokers'
shop five or six shillings. Nobody after
this will grudge Sir Garnet the rank of
Major General about to be bestowed
upon him, and his annuity of el500 a
year. There is to be great review of
the troops which have been out to
Africa, and no doubt the uplifted um-
brella will be borne at their head. 1t
must console the hundreds of English
families newly draped in mourning to
know that while King Koffee has all he
fought for, the English troops bring back
thousand ounces of gold, silver cup
and sundry English guns that had been
supplied to Ashantee troops"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-15
AN ADMIRABLE ANSWER.

Miss Cusbman DenOunets an Abuse.
The dramatic critic Of newspaper in
neighboring city recently wrote to
Miss Charlotte Cushman, asking her,
without much ceremony, to give gratui
tous representation for the benefit of
the poor of that place, and requesting
her to answer by telegraph Yes or
No. To this summons Miss Cush-
man sent the following sensible and ap-
propriate reply:
DEAR SIR am in receipt of yours
of the lst, in answer to which | find my
self under the necessity of saying mo"
to your request that would give one Of
the nights OF my short engagement in
Washington for the benefit of your local
charities. My reasons for this decision
are as follows:
think the time has come in which
some one should make protest against
the system now so fully inaugurated of
making artists pay so much more than
the rest of the community for charities
in which they are not especially inter-
ested, and which have no claim upon
them. You simply ask of me that /
should give from $4O0 to $500 to your
poor, while those more Immediately con-
cerned, those who are bound by all the
ties OF neighborhood and common broth
erhood, think they are doing their part
in paying their quota of dollar or two,
when they receive in return full equiv
alent out of the labor, severe enough, of
the often hard pressed and struggling
artist Each one of these already does
to al ha lna ~ = al.
the range of the claims which fall upon
every human creature alike. You may
think it indelicate, but it is surely not
irrelevant for me to say here that /
every year give TO my poor and needy,
and my poors poor and needy, upward
of $4,000, which consider very fair per
cen.age upon my income. AS for my
self, it would take every day OF every
year if l were to respond to one.half the
applications of this kind that meet me
at every turn; and each one OF US who
are so freely called upon in these ways,
| have no doubt, have not only their
regular clientele of claimants, to whom
they are bound, and for whom they are
accountable, but also hosts of such
applications and claims for which they
are in no way bound.
1t strikes me that the whole affair is
onesided, and that a word is necessary
in the way of justice / am willing to
place myself in this breach and say for
all my confreres in art-whose errors
have never been on the side of niggard-
liness-that it is Unfair we should do all
the work, and pay also, both publicly
and privately, as we do to my certain
knowledge.
Allow me to suggest that in place OF
this easy manner of doing good, house
to house visitation for charitable objects
would place it within the power of every
citizen to help the poor of his own city
and neighborhood, with much greater
comfort to his conscience than this cent
per cent contract of so much money for
so much amusement - and the poor
thrown in. Believe me to be, with much
consideration, respectfully yours,
CHARLOTTE CUsHMAN.
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what General Grant offered TO
Judge Black.

Washington Cor. st. Louis Republican
One day during the late unpleasant
ness concerning the Chief Justiceship,
when among the wild rumors that were
flying about the Row and the hotels, was
one TO the effect that after Cushing
would come Jere Black. / met the
famous Pennsylvania pacing up and
down corridor in the Ebbitt House, as
Black, is it true that the President has
signifed his intention of nominating
yourself for Chief Justice in case Mr..
Cushing is rejected"
The Judge raised his hat, adjusted his
wig, and proceeded to say, The Presi-
dent haatendered to me and l have ac-
cepted the highest and most honorable
position that can be held under his ad-
ministration.
Here | waited expeetant-
The proud position of private citi-
zen, pursued Judge Black, impertura-
bly,.
"Oh," said l.
"Yes, said the Judge.
"Ahl" said l.
Well, this reminds me of a small boy.
The small boy was at Methodist re-
vival, and the minister, at the close of a
fervid exhortation, asked everybody who
wanted TO 90 to heaven to rise up. All
rose except the small boy. Now"
said the man Of God, with awful solem-
nifty, if there is any one here who
wants to go to hell, let him rise up. 4"
Instantly the small boy became perpen-
dicular. A groan sounded all over the
sanctuary.
Poor boy" said the minister, "do
you really want to 90 to hell2'
Well, replied the small boy, Il
cant say that is my main object; but
don't fancy this crowd, and i am bound
to get out of it if have to 90 to hell
to do il.
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nenth or a PoIish PntrIot.

Our Irish exchanges mention the
death, on March 9, of DR.. Loudaski, one
Of that heroic band of Poles who shed
their blood, in 1888, for faith and father
land. The father of DR.. Loudaski died
upon the scaffold, like so many of his
chivalrous compatriots, for having un-
successfully striven to shake off the alien
yoke Of Russia Yet the fate of the
father did not deter the son from fighting
freedoms battle which had been be.
queathed to him. When the time ar
rived the son threw himself into the
breach to stand or fall with the destinies
Of the afflicted land Flinging away rank
and splendor, which possessed no at
fractions for him when the sacred cause
of liberty was at stake, he preferred
welding the sword in defense Of a cause
which has been stigmatized as rebel
lionl Says correspondent Of the
Irishman: His many suiferings
are already krown-his long exilein the
dreary deserts of Siberia-his wander
ings in many climes, and his perils
both by land and sea, until, impelled by
favoring blast he was waited o'er the
raging billow, and sought home in the
Emerald Isle. Aud what a glorious
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-15

The turning upside down of the Via
Quattro Fontane, Rome, has brought
forth a new statue. While the workmen
we're at work, few days ago, they dis
covered just under a paving stone a
pedestal, to which, further investigation
showed, pair of feet were attached.
One of the city Governors was sent for
in hot haste, and in a short time en- old
Roman consul. who had stood on his
head for a few hundred years, was raised
from his uncomfortable position. The
statue was perfect, and will very likely
do duty at the Pinoio.