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PRORIRIDNR.

Market very firm and fairly active IS fol-
lows:
BULK MEATs-Cle2r sides 1890; clear
rib sides l2t.c; shoulders SIC, all packed.
BACON-(New) clear sides 14c; clear
nib sides 13lc; shoulders 10c, packed.
HAMs-Hart * Hensley's 6. G. c. hams
14c.
BREAKFAST BACON-Per d, lac.
DRIED BEEF-Per ID, Ice.
BEEF TONGUE-Per dOz., $500.
LARD-Hart & Hensley's pastry, in
tierces, 163c; kegs, lie; prime in tierces,
l6c; pressed in tierces, 1916.
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On Saturday, the 18th dav of
AnriI. 1R76
Supreme Court Sale.
Michael Kean rs. John Watson.

Michael Kean Us. John Watson.
FNPURSUANCE OF A DECREE OF THE
Il Honorable the Supreme Court of Tennessee
now sitting az Nashville, rendered in the above
named cause, VIII sell at public Outcrv 70 the
highest bidder. at the Courthouse door, in the
city of Nashville,
On Saturday, the 18th day of
April, 1875,
A lot Of ground and the improvements. living i'm
the city Of Nashville, beginning az the corner
Of an alley l04-l2 feet wide being the north
east corner OF StCreLOUse and dwelling No e
NOrth Market street; thence sEuthwartiv along
the Wysr margin q Market trtct D. s. y feet 10
tH- msti'i.r 90 the th.d,.g w.Il aT lots Nss. g
ana % SAID plan q luts- thence wcstwardlv
With the middle Of said dividing wall 81 SD
teet; thence nOrthwErdly % inches: thence
westwardly along the south side Of the dividing
wall between said lots and A. C. HIP feet TO an
alley 81 feet wide; thence nOrthwardIy along
the margin OF said alley II feet 10 an alIsv
lu&-l2 feet wide; thence eastwardlv along the
south margin Of said alley rs 712 feet 70 the be-
ginning.
TERMS OF SALE-Cash
F. g. HUNTINGTON,
Clerk supreme Court.
NASHVILLE, March 26, 1875.
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LIVE STOCK.

Live stock continues in small supply and
the market dull. Quotations remain as
they were a week ago:
Hoss-Weighing 200 to 800 ms, &c;
lighter, care.
Commissioning, 1t62!c; common
butchers, 2td2ic; good butchers, 3Ia4Lc;
fine shippers, 3565c.
HORsEs-Extra:ts good, S1OOa15O per
head; medium TO Common, $4,000; plugs,
S25l50.
MULEs-Extra good, $1OO6125 per head,
medium TO common, $50a75.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

rr~~~~~~~~~~~~,~~~~~~~
"a LADY, competent 20 take charge Of a
a dressmaking and millinery house, wants a
situation. Can be seen at . S. College street.
apIO 2tE
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- Praaes Of the River Of Life, our popu-
la Sabbath School Song Book, come from al
quarters indeed from all who have used &C.
sabbath School men recommend il highly
Price SD per hundred.
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Supreme Court Sale
COZ
Valuable Improved Property i'm
Edgefeld.
B. J. FarTar rs. F. R. WTthey.

b.. FaYTar Is. F. r. Withey.
N OBEDIENCE To ADECREE OF THE
4 Honorable, the Supreme Court OF Teures-
see, now sitting at Nashville, pronounced I'm the
above entitled cause I viii sell at public outcrv
70 the highest bidder, az the Courthouse door
in the city OF Nashville,
On Saturday, the 18th day of
April, 1915,
A piece or parcel Of land in EdgefeI6, David
son county, Tenn, known as Lot No IS ian
Shelby's addition TO Edgefeld, fronting f50I
NIFTY feet on Fatherland street. and running
back (lIO) one hundred and seventy feet % an
alley, together with the improvements thereon.
TERMS OF SALE.-Cretlits OF six. tweIvs
and eighteen months. The purchaser viii be re-
CURED 70 execute notes for the purchase money.
win good and approved personal security. ami
lien retained.
Sale free from the equity OF redemption.
+. Q DUNNINGTON,
Clerk Supreme Court.
Marcn % 1910 mhZT, ap3 ,1O.1T
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LEGAL SALES.
SALE.

W. Z. Cooper, Trustee, ETC., Us. r. Il
Thompson ct ais.
n PURSUANCE OF A DECREE REM
~ uefeu IN the above entitled cause BY the
Chancery Court at Nashville, I viii eEnose N
pubic sale, at the Courthouse in Nashville,
On Saturday, April 10, 1875,
at p O'Clock n, the following described tract
of land: ~ az
Inc acres remaining unsOld Of the subfIi-
vision No. Of the lands Of A j. Duncan sifT7-
a aleu- on the franklin turnpike, about three
miles from Nashville.
Terms OF SALE-One-third cash: the bal
anee IN one and two years, with Interest from
Gay OF sale Notes viii be required with good
security, and lien retained
NATHANIEL BAXTER. JR
10 - -. Clerk and Master.
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All books sent, postpaid, for retail price.
OLIVER DITSON & CO., Boston.
CHAS. II. DITSON & CO.,
IN broadway, New York
mh27 d2taw we'd ,satlNWtf
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BOARDING.

4 GENTLEMAN and wife, or two Young
"A men, can find good board with pleasant
front room at % South High street. ap10 1t
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PERSONAL.

A COMPETENT Dressmaker viii 90 out by
y the day 10 cut and fl in families; also teach
es dress cutting. . South College street.
DAY YOUR GAS BELL-The rules for
i turning of gas viii be enforced after the
10th inst. ap1O 2t
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FOR RENT.

HAVE for rent . dwelling-hOuses, prices
L ranging from 500 70 3 900 per annum; also,
q number Of stores, warehouses, suits Of rooms
and offices, both in Nashville and Edgefield. S.
W STEELE, No. II y. College street.
feb13 thursdssat If
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ton-Futures steady. April delivery 10
ole 9-16c; May 164d16 l3-16c; June II 8
16617tC; July 175c; August 1Tkf1T 11-l6
September II 3-16dl73c; October 16 Git
6l6sc; November 16sd165c; Decembel
10 7-l6616Ie; January l6sc. Sales $500
bales; last evening 1890 bales.
NEW YORK, april 8, 1905 P. M.-Cot-
ton-Ordinary lac; good ordinary 153c; low
middling 1910; mlddling 1870; Alabama
| l6sc; Orleans lie. Market dull and un-
changed. Sales for consumption 120 bales;
for speculation 45 bales; last evening for
export 100 bales; for consumption q bales;
for speculation 100 bales.
NEW YORK, April 8, 1926 P. M.-Cot-
ton-Futures easy. April delivery 1646
IS 9-16c; May 16i616 l3-16c; June THO
II 3-l6c; July II 7-l6d173c; August II O.
l8d17sc; September II 3-1661T4c; Octo-
Der 165616lc; November 16iTI6 7-16c;
December I65 616 7-16c; January 16 9-166
1899. Sales S,7OO bales.
NEW YORK, April o, 1:45P. M.-Cotton
Futures weak. April delivery Is 7-16d
1859; May TO 11-16616ie; June II 1-I6d
l7bc; July 17I117 7-16c; August 17Id
IL 9-l6c; September 175617 slice. Sales
27,900 bales.
NEW YORK, April 0, 2:O7P. M.-Cotton
Ordinary lac; good ordinary I55c; low
middling 16Ic; middling 16se; Alabama
l6tc; Orleans tic. Market dull and IN
changed. Sales for export 367 bales; for
consumption 1913 bales; for speculation 45
bales.
NEW YORK, April 8, 2:2O P. M.-Cot-
ton-Futures weak. April delivery 10 Z
16616lc; May 16tn16 11-16c; June ia
II 1-16c; July IL 5-16117jc; August I73n
II 9-l6c; September I7ic; October 10 7-l6
616ac; November 10 5-16d163c; Deem
Der TO 5-16616 7-16c; January l64d16 O.
l6c. Sales $500 bales.
NEW YORK, April 9.-Daily cotton re-
port for I days at all United States ports:
Net receipts 39,07G bales; exports TO Great
Britain 40 3S bales; exports to Continent
1915 bales; stock Of all classes 561,2S2
bales; exports to France 1920 bales; ex-
ports to She channel 2,175 bales.
New YORK, April 9.-Stoek of cotton
in interior towns s., l22 bales.
LIVERPOOL.
LIVERPOOL, April Q, 12:SOP. M-Cot-
tOnquiet and unchanged. Middling uplands
Sd; Orleans S5dStd. Sales to-day Il, 900
bales. Sales for the week 117,0OO bales, of
which q, 900 bales were for export and L, 900
bales for spectators. Total stock $4,000
bales, OF which 533, 900 bales are American.
Total stock afOat $4,000 bales, Of which
1000 bales are American. Receipts Of
the iweek $1,000 bales, Of which 1900
bales are American. Actual exports 5000
bales. Forwarded from ship tide 10000
bales.
LIVERPOOL, April Q, 500 P. M.-Cot-
ton quiet. Middling uplands Sd; Or
leans S{dStd. Sales to-day 1900 bales, Of
which 5000 bales are for export and specu-
latiOn. Sales Of American 1000 bales.
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WANTED

"AETED-A situation as housekeeper OF
w seamstress; understands dressmaking. En-
quire AZ Is South College st. apI0 2t#
MAN TED-Six or eight active young men
w % act as agents that are willing TO work.
Travelling expenses paid on way. Cal az Mas0n's
boarding house, No. q Broad street.. HOWARD
& co. ap9 3t#
Everybody needing furniture to
w know we have received this week the
haDds0mest and most complete stock Of ParlOr
Sets, Folding Chairs, Marble-tOp Tables, Cham
Der Sets, etc, etc, we have ever offered. All
goods marked low down for cash. Call at
BRADFORD NICHOL & CO.'S, 3 and q
North College street. mh28 I'm
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sEVES PART SONGS. Fer mixed voices,
by >. G. ID. PARKER, contains new Glees which
were successes when sung by the Parker
Club" Price 20 cents.
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Chancery Sale.

Mrs. a. u. HightOlVer, Adm'z, Us. Matte
HightOtUer ct ais.
BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE OF THE
~ ~ Chancery Court for Rutherford county,
Issnn, pronounced in the above named cause i
viii, on the premises, on
Thursday, April 10, 1875,
ofier for sale at publicoutcry, TO the highest and
Dsst Did9er, tnree vacant lots situated in tht,
Cnerry street "a feet and extending back from
sald street east l36 feet 70 alley said lots h.
ng bounded on the south By j. N. Frslevis
mouse ana iot' and on the north By a vacant lot.
TEkMS.-A credit Of six and twelve months.
tIee from any equity Of redemption Purchaser
March IS, 1875. @. A NJ and Co--'
mh2O OaW4t I'm -
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Piano at Home P a I4[go collection ,lSe ,0 Of
-Four Hands, is fun Of good and most entertain
ing musicfOr practice or home recreation. Price
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STRAYED.

OTRAYED-FrOm my stable, 172 South Cher
- ~ street, a bay mare colt, Is months old.
Anv Information that will lead TO her recovery
VIII be amply rewarded. THAD DAVIS, sat
Cherry, O'COnneT & Co.'S ape q
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LOST


7 OST-MemOrandum Book, at Maxwell
1 4 House, with name on fly leaf. Please re-
turn same to Office of Maxwell House. JOHN L.
MARTIN. GplO 1t#
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NEW MUSIC BOOKS.
GeFman -Four PaFtSOngS, 7

D q
VOICES. just published, is an unusually good
collection Of entirely new music, by the Sest
modern German composers. just right for Nu-
steal Societies. Price 1.5O
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FOR SALE.

-~>>~>~>>~~>0~.>~~0~>,>~,
EOEE-A good supply at the Gas Works;
~ cents per bushel delivered. ap10 q
nor sALE-S6,OOO Davidson county bonds
now due at SO cents on the dollar. THOS. S.
MARI. ap9 3t
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NON RESIDENT NOTICE
County Court at Nashville.

County Court at Nashville.
james j. Mason, Adm'r, ct a., rs. John
Neal ct al.
T THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF
"A the County Court at Nashville, on the 18th
dav Of March, 1875, ON motion Of complainant,
bv counsel I'm the above cause, and 10 appearing
to the satisfaction Of the Clerk that the said
defendant, John Neal, is a nonresident Of
the State Of Tennessee, and therefore the Or
binary process Of this Court cannot be 8ryed
upon him. 10 Is therefore ordered by the
Clerk that publication be made for four weeks
i'm succession ia the Nashville Union and Amer
lean, a newspaper published in the city CO
Nashville, requiring the said defendant % ap-
pear az the next term O. the County Court % be
holden for the county OF Davidson, at the Court
house thereof, I'm the city of Nashville, on the
first d Monday IN NAV next, and answer said
bill, or the same viii be taken for confessed
as 10 him and set for hearing ex parte.
JAMES +. BELL, Clerk.
j. e. White, solicitor HheO Oaw4t
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BANKING.
NASHVILLE MARKETS.
o UNION AND AMERICAN OFFICE,
FRIDAY, April o, 1875.
COTTOE.

UNION AND AMERICAN OFFICE,
FRIDAY, April o, 1875.
COTTOE.
Market opened quiet, was easy at noon,
and closed heavy, but unchanged, being
still quoted as follows:
Ordinary. ...............,......I3
Too TOoG r1 9FGInaTy ...'...''.'......l4E -
| % Low mluullng .....s.s.....s....lb
| 9lluQllNg ss..s......s.....15k
GOOD mludIng................
OF the receipts reported to-day % were
by the Decatur road, and l by wagon
Summary of the days movement:
keoelpts-.... ..................".... 26
Sa!es-...:. ''.s..........-.....s...s. ia
AiPAioL1s-'.s s-sss.s-ss.-.ssssss W
NASHVILLE COTTON STATEMENT.
Stock on hand Sept. 1, IS74.....::. 1895
Received tO-day............ %
Received previ0usly........ 5s3sO 5s46
1OtaA-s ss..s.ss...ssss..sssss 6ool2
SL!Ppe9 JO-day'.. s......sss. 90
Shipped previously......... 1896. 1896
Stock on hand..........,.., lI5OG
For comparison we reproduce from our
files the following:
Stock on hand April Q, 1s74........ 5.55s
Receipts to that date............... SO 9aG
shipments to that date...........G,159
Good ordinary Ga shade better than pres
ent good ordinary was quoted at 1890.
Stock on hand April 9, Is73....11.62s
receipts 20 that date...............55.Gj9
Shipments to that date...............H,236
Good ordinary was then quoted at l4s0
15c.
STATEMENT FoR ALL UNITED STATES PORTS.
Beceipts to-day April 3D.. 1858
Receipts since Friday, April ? 39.T6
Receipts same period last week sO,I75
Receipts since Sept. !. g. So
Receipts same period last year. ,4C7 ga
STOCK IN port april 9............ 6lS56
Stock in port same day, ls74... GOO,6S2
The interior stock to-day was reported at
3,122 bales, against S9,74O a week ago.
TheNashville Savings Company furnishes
rs the following quotations slowing the
prices and movement Of cotton at New
York and Liverpool throughout the day:
NEW YORK.
NV YORK, April o, 1O:25 A.M.-Cot-
tOn-FUtuTes easy. April delivery l6I6
10 9-16c; May 16sd16 l3-1Gc; June hin
II slice; July II 7-l6617Jc.
NEW YORK, April o, 1910 A. M.-Cot-
tOn-Ordinary 14c; good ordinary I55c; low
middling l6tc; middling 16sc; Alabama
16tc; Orleans lie. Nothing doing: prices
nOminally unchanged and probably lower
TO sell.
NEW YORK, April 9, IO:57A. M.-Cot-
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MUSIC Books.
ALL FOR ONE DOLLAR.

Wine, Wife and Song. ........... BvStrauss
A Happy Circle GslOp. 4.-.........-.S trauss.
Ia ! lie de Madame Angut .........-,.. waltz
With Steam, Polka .....S..........Ed Strauss.
Let's be Cay. Waltzes.. D ...........J.S Strauss
AArkatsa hc-ieA Liil5-.. 10y lislat
- beliS Lcllse- Eulckstep -...--...-. RublfA
where che Citr0-s Blossom o. 49,. StrGuQ
VINO is ~ D y Wi-..EE....... $50. Osborne
Any heaT--------- -.--. ra....------.......Abt.
Why throw avay E10uel 0n hisl-priced music
when sou csl select from EUur catalogue OF 100
pieCes3 ANY % Half Dirth or 30 OF Dime Series
mailed on receipt Of Or5 Dollar. sold BY al
booksellers, and can bsEOrdered through any
newsdealer. Send stamp Dr. catalogue BENZ.
W. HITCHCOCK, Publsher, 555 Third ave-
me. New York. iensD .pwSm
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SAVINGS BANKS.
BANKING HOUSE

Nashville SGU5Ssgs Company.
L. 8. TARBOX, Cashier.
THOs. 8. MARR, President.
eposits received and interest allowed thereon,
Loans Negotiated: Collections Made,
and General Banking Bugi-
nOV1 " ness transacted.
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lcs-..-.ss..ss.sss--..sss %
Nashville, Chattanooga and st. Louis Raj
road, first mortgage. 50
Nashville and Decatur Railroad bonds, sec
Ond mOrtgare. ga ---------- Il
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NEW IoKA, April J-FIOur, TAR demandi
superine, western and State S4.GOa49O;
extra Ohio S5.l0a6.SO; st. Louis S5.10a
$40. Wheat i'm fair demand; No. / spring
S1.26a1.3l; No. 3 spring S1.17a1.19; No.
Chicago S1.21a1.24. Rye firm and quiet
at 90. Barley quiet and heavy; 4 rOwed
State SIPS; State Csc; Canada Sl.05. Corn
firmer and in good demand al SZ5a9Sc.
Oats 73aT5c. Coffee quiet and steady. SUI
gar steadyat 7IaS!c. Mess pork frmer at
S22.jCa23.0O for new; middles frmer;
short clear 12ic. lard fiTIner; prime steam
15sal5 11-16c. Whisky lower at S1.14.l
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CHANCERY SALE.

+. ID. WHIJWOkTH, sheriff.
BY F. VI. WOODALL, Deputy.
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-04-30

THE WAY TO GET ALONG. Twenty
clerks in q store, twenty hands in print
ing office, twenty apprentices in a ship
yard, twenty young men in a village-all
want 10 get along in the world, and expect
to do so. One of the clerks will become a
partner, and make a fortune; one of the
compositors will own a newspaper, aud
become an influential citizen; one of the
apprentices will become a master builder
one of the young villagers will get hand
some farm and live like patriarch-bu
which is the lucky individual? Lucky ?
There's no luck about it. The thing is al
most as certain as the rule of three. The
young fellow who will distance his COM
petitors is he who masters his business,
who preserves his integrity, who lives
clearly and purely, who devotes his leisure
to the acquisition of knowledge, who gains
friends by deserving them, and who saves
spare money. There are some ways Ia
fortune shorter than this old, dusty high
way; but the slaunch men of the commu-
nifty, the men who achieve something real
ly worth having-good fortune, good name
and serene old age-all 60 in this hard,
dirty d.-Erchdnge.
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Gbe Dtrmont 9benir:.
BRATTLEBoRo:
FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 80, 1876.
Tho PIarue Of Files.

TO the Editor of The Scientific Americana
Mr.. William Steele is not the only rer-
son in this country whose troubles from
the encroachments of insects are sufficient
to inspire a wish for the invention of some
internal machine to extirpate such pests as
sand flies, feas, etc. But 1t seems to me
that the dissemination of Science and
better knowledge of entomology are what
is most needed in this direction.
l have not seen a bedbug or a flea In my
house for many years. If an army of them
were to be brought in, mercury would
speedily exterminate them, but I think
cleanliness the best and perhaps the only
preventive. The common house fly l do
not modest, believing that it more than
compeusates for its trouble by clearing the
atmosphere Of effluvia and the animalcules
which always arise from the putrefaction
of decaying substances in warm weather.
So, also, with the birds, which are quite
numerous here during the summer; in
stead of shooting them, or setting up scare
crows to frighten them away, I throw out
every possible inducement for them to
build their nests in my fruit trees. The
birds capture a large shareiof the insects
in the larval state, land thus the milers are
prevented from depositing eggs for fu-
ture crop of worms. As to the loss Of fruit
by the birds, the latter 1re always sure to
be on hand in force in the season of ripe
fruit, whether they come early enough TO
take the worms or not. For the residue of
insects which infest my vegetable garden,
\ IT. - IL. ~
furnishes material fatal TO them all, among
which white hellebore and cayenne pep
per are of the most utility; the bug or
worm which cannot find vegetation unfla-
vored with these articles will seek its
breakfast elsewhere, and leave my garden
unmolested. A few drops of carbolic acid
in pint of water will clean house plants
from lice in very short time. If mosqui-
toes or other bloodsuckers iufest our sleep
ing rooms at night, we uncork bottle of
the oil of pennyroyal, and these insects
leave in great haste, nor will they return
so long as the air in the rooms is loaded
with the fumes of that aromatic herb. If
rats enter the cellar, little powdered pot
ash, thrown into their holes or mixed with
meal and scattered in their runways, new
er fails to drive them away. Cayenne pep
per will keep the buttery and storeroom
free from ants and cockroaches. If mouse
makes an entrance into any part of your
dwelling, saturate a rag with cayenne in
solution and stuff it into the hole, which
can then be repaired with either wood or
mortar. No rat or mouse will eat that rag
for the purpose ofopening communications
with depot of supplies.
CHARLES THOMPSON.
st, Albans, VT.
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THE SPARE BED.-When l 60 to the
country to visit my relations, writes M,
Quad, the spare bed rises up before my
Imagination days before start and shiv-
er as remember how cold and gravelike
the sheets are. put off the visit as long
as possible, solely on account of that spare
bed. / don't like to tell that had rather
sleep on picket fence than TO enter that
spare room and creep into that spare bed,
and so they know nothing of my suffering.
The spare bed Is always as near mile and
a half from the rest of the beds as 1t can be
put. 1t is either up stairs at the head of the
hall or off the parlor. The parlor curtains
have not been raised for weeks; every
thing is as prim as an old maids bonnet,
and the bed is as square and true as if 1t
had been made up TO a carpenters rule.
No matter whether II be summer or win
ter, the bed is like ice, and 1t sinks down
in a way TO make ono shiver. The sheets
are slippery clean, the pillow slips rustic
like shrouds, and one dare not stretch his
leg down for fear of kicking against a
tombstone. One sinks down until he Is
lost in the hollow, and foot by foot the
prim bedposts vanish from sight. He is
worn out and sleepy, but he knows that the
rest of the family are so far away that no
one could hear him If he should shout for
an hour, and this makes him nervous. He
wonders II any one ever died in that room,
and straightway he sees faces OF dead per-
sons, hears strange noises, and presently
feels a chill gallOping up and down his
Md moi a m m nNia al, Ia
night in spare bedH No matter how
many quilts and spreads covered him, he
could not get warm, and If he accidentally