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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1876-06-27
BEALLSvILLE
SCHOOL.
,e next session Of this School will com.

The next session Of this School will com.
mence on
MONDAY, JULY "a. 1879,
and close Friday, September 20, 1876.
Competent teachers will be employed, and
no labor will be spared to make this school
of thorough instruction.
Semi monthly examinations will be given;
also, lecture each week on ths theory aud
practice Of teaching, for the benefit of those
preparing to teach. There will also be a
Literary Society in connection with the
school.
foie TUITION. ~ z
Higher Branches ................$7 90
Common ................ w
Tuition in advance. No money refunded
except in cases Of protracted illness.
Good accommodations. 1t reasonable rates
can be had by students in the town, either
in private families or at the Hotels.
For further particulars, call on or address
D. McVAY, Principal,
Beallsville, Monroe County, Ohio.
1fsbs, ,'7ens6, ~
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(. EyAttention is invited to special no.
tice of the Stafford School. This is
one Of the best schools In Monroe Coun.
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MORRIS Il ARMSTRONG.

EHOEFFLER is determined to
auction his goods at the prices bidders
choose to offer. Don't fail to call.
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DfxD-O On Sunday, the 18th inst, Of
Consumption, LEVI ENsLEr, of Perry
township, aged 80 years. 1879
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E%Fhe Dairy Of Messrs DcuaHERrr
TwIsEM d RUNrAN, in this township
Center, commenced operations last week.
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I@Wool is selling at SO cents per
pound in the st. Clairsville, Belmont
, scpanty, market. Il IA 2 Z
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RAUCTfON! AUCTIoN!l AUC
TION!!! HOEFFLER'S STORE Is
THE PLACE. OPEN EVERY NIGHT.
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haeNew Prints, Muslins, Cottonnades
&C., just opened at the lowest prices by
NORRIS Il ARMSTRONG. Z
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EEFEcruAL SPECIFIC

etteVIUA6 0FoVbrsO
For Constipation. Headache, Pain in the Shout.
mouth, bilious attacks, PalpitaiioR Of the Heart,
gloom and forebodIngs Of evil. all Of which are
the offspring Of adiseased Liver. L
The Liver, the largest organ In the body is
Eeneraiiy the seat Of the disease, and II not
REGULATED IN Tin 1imsa A., grsas ,i' s,.nn suffering.
wretchedness, ana DEA1u Wiil ensee'
TED, have frequent HEADAcHR. MOUTH
fAsrEs badly, poor APrErIrE and Tongue
ICS Are S% sSa pohsnP pohng
WIN cure you 20 speedily and permanently.
"Ihsve never seen or tried such simple, ef.
feoclous, satisfactory and pleasant remedy In
Hon. Alex. b. Stephens.
II occasionally uss. when ny condition e.
sooS soasSfsd eject" * s."-Hon. ALEX. Il. srEfaSSs.
Governor Of alabama.
for some Sus time, and am persuaded il is vsius.
BE addition to the medical science. ."-Gov. ].
GILL SH0KfER, Ala. "a Es,,si
sI Ihsve used the Regulator In my family 70!
II 70 the world as tie best madeleine 1have ever
cure %~H. =. THIaPES.
President Of City Bank.
and efRcacisus medicine" ."-C. A. NurriNo.
Druggists.
1--WE have been acquainted with DIR. Simmons''
liver Regulator for more than twenty years. ana
know u 10 be the best Liver Regulator odered TO
he psblic. Z. LYON ana H. l.. bfoN'
bsIles1nss,nsd Hss snsed s. smmon Liver Regulator.
aNsr having suffered several years With Chiiii
md Fever. .H-R. r. ANDERSON.
The Clergy.
"My wife aud self have used the Regulator for
vasss, and testify 10 Its great virtues. ."-kev.Js
R.FILDRR, Perry, Ga.
Ladies Endorsement.
"Ihaye given your medicine = thoroueh triah
and In no case has II failed to give fan sattsfne.
fion.m-ELLEN MEACHAM, CAattahooehee, fias
Professional.
~From actual experience In the use OF this
mediclne In my practice, have been. ana an,
eattaAed to use and prescribe IL - r0rgaSivo
medicine "-Dr. j. W. MASON.
NE. Florida Conference.
NJ have used Dr. simmon.' LIVER Regulator i9
regard 1t an Invaluable remedy. II has n0t
failed to give relief In any instance" ."-hev. W.
r, ,EAsrERLING.
President Oglethorpe College.
.S,mmons. Liver Regulator 10 eertstniy =
speciac for thst class of complaints which u
daims to ocsre."-Rev. DAVID WILLS.
apr4,76T, :.
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EHThe iron bridge at SrEED's, on
Cranes Nest, needs coat Of paint.
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a@Great closing out sale of rem
nants, all kinds of Dress Goods, Mus
Inns, Jeans, Cottonnades, Cassimers. DC.
MORRIS d ARMSTRONG;.
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EF Now is the time to buy Now
ing Machine. If you want the best that
is made, go to SCHUMACHER'S and
get the Wood Full line of fresh Gro
ceries just arriving
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Belmont County Republican Con-
vention at Barnesyille, On Thursday Of
this week.
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SgC Canned Strawberries, Green Peas,
Green Corn, Tomatoes. Peaches, Cove
Oysters, Sugar, Fine Cigars, Tobacco's,
Bread, Rusk, Cakes and Notions for sale
at low rates for cash at 74aa.7g
JACOB REINHERR'S.
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2 Ez-ALsEnr STEWART, Of jackson
township, this connty, was sentenced to
four years in the Penitentiary for forge:
~, at the late term of Court held at
Marietta, Washington County. -
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WooasfieId stock Market.

June 26.-Cattle 3a3tc per pound ;
Sheep 2f@3c per pound. Hogs 5cper
pound.
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WRENyAMIa BERRY, q resident OF
Guernsey county, is Ill years old.
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RECEIVED

FAttend HOEFFLER'S auction if
YOU want goods at your own prices.
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At P. SCHUMACHER'S ''cash store" a
lot of choice Flour, which is for sale at
a reduction from former prices.
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Baltimore Live Stock Market.

Baltimore Live Stock Market.
OFFICE MARYLAND STocK SCALES, !
edsa BALTIMORE, June 81, 1876.
CATTLE-Priccs are 4c off from
last week sales at 3@53c.
HOGS-The demand is for neat ba-
con hogs; sales at S@8Ac; most sales
have been made at St@S4c.
SHEEP-4@5c, iew at the bottom
figure Lambs 5@7 on, or 5@7c per
pound; stock sheep 2@3 90 per head.
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1876-06-27

Ths Camp Meeting At Burr's
Amont county, will commence
kara0n Tuesday, August 22d and
-sue, ten days, sgstsm s ifgs sp
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1876-06-27

az Odd Coats, Vests, Pants, and odd
numbers and styles in shoes, at close out
prices.
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EFThe Republicans Of Noble coun-
ty nominated the following ticket last
week /: Auditor-J. F KNouFr; Com
missioner JoHN CoNNoR; Infirmary Di.
rector--SAMuEL LAuaHLIE.
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EE Gents Linen Suits, Summer Dus.
ters, Gauze vests, Fans, Parasols, &C.,
very low.
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Hats and Bonmets Trimmed IN the Lates'
Styles. -
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.EVPackage peddlers are on the wing.
Tell them you don't want to buy.
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TT a KE . :.
SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR

For ali diseases Of the Liver, Stomach and Spleen
HAZARDOUS FEVERS. BOWEL CON-
PLANTS, DYSPEPSIA, MENTAL DEPRES-
SION. RESrLESSNESS. JAUNDlCE, NAU.
SEA, SICK HEADACHE, COLO, CONSTIPA-
TON and BILIOUSNESS.
It is eminently Family Medicine, and By
being kent ready for Immediate resort. will
save many an hour Of suffering and manya
dollar In time, and doctors bills.
After forty years, trial II Is still receiving
the most unqualified testimonials OF its vir-
and responsibility. Eminent physicians
command II the most
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EEEDwtRD Qkrr, Esq of Franklin
township. is building new barn.
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-eENeH pavement in front o. Mr..
j. T. JupKlAs residence.
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EECapt. SpASGLER's militia company
will parade at GraysviIle on the 4th.
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M One day last week 275 tax payers
scttled with Treasurer NORRIS. SAB
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eHRemember, tax-paying without
the pensl.y, closes July 3D.. W
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srIuvitationaA are out for wedding
in town this week.
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BUSIN ESS NOTICES

. Auction at HOEFFLER'S every
night.
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,arGold closed in New Yorktthe 23d
inst, at 81 H. s3 s-'
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eEBridge notice in this issue. Iron
bridge builders to the front!
The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1876-06-27

nEBlank Deeds and Mort
Cages for sale at thM office.
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D0rSee advertisement Of Bellaife and
Southwestern Railroad.
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SPRING AND SUMMER
MILLINERY GOODS.

l have just received nice stock o.
Hats, a
BOnmets, i9
..4..}Q Collars, is
Ladies' Necktfes,
Ribbons, Flowers, and other articles connect
ed with Millinery Establishment.
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fHE SPIRIT OF DEMOGRACY,

Tuesday, Jane 27. 1876.
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kTCcurt adjourned on Thursday, the
s2d inst. 80 sea " n
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Ladies', please call and examine.
may23, '76Y.
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decd, the sum OF %5l5 ZZ-thlrd lien |;
order for sale of mortgaged premises
E. E Mills VS. Edward Maginnis.-
Civil action; tried to jury; judgment in
favor of plaintiff fer 1904 A.
Daniel Neuhart, Assignee, vs. John
Nalley;. Judgment by confession for
1878 70.
WEDNESDAY, June 81 p. Dorr VS. N.
Ludwig and another; sale of real estate
confirmed.
H. r Mason VS. S. Y. Mason ct al
In Partition; G. w. Mason was subsii-
tinted as party plaintiff, with leaveto file
supplemental petition in 80 days.
S. F. Webster & another, Executors,
VS. Samuel Bigger ct al. Civil action ;
judgment in favor of plaintiffs for $674
Is; in favor of William Thornberry for
S38S 35-second lien on SO acre tract
described in the petition: in favor of G
W. Sampson for 3225 Al, now due, and
other sums not yet due; order for sale
of real estate.
Isaac P Cline VS. James M. Cline et
al Partition; report of commissioners
confirmed and real estate ordered sold
John G. Patton (by next friend) VS.
Alonzo Lacey ct al. Partition report
Of commissioners received and real es
tate ordered sold.
| Abigail Hickman and another VS. Ly'
dia Pttman Ell al. Partition and Dover;
report received and real estate ordered
sold.
D. Baker VS. John Reisbeck ct al
Civil action; judgment in favor of plain.
tiff for S50S 10; defendant filed mo
ton to set aside the judgment; continued
to the next term of Court
W. F. Hunter VS. Joseph B Cline =
Civil action; Judgment in favor of plain
tiff for $l12 81, and costs.
Samuel Orr vs Charles Mcconnell ct
al Civil sction Judgment in favor o
plaintiff for $l22 80 ard costs.
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life upon animals. 1t might be possible
to do this with regard, at least. to domestic
animals; of the length of life of other ami
mails, astonishingly little is known. The
actual length of life would not seem to have
much to do with the question: the appar-
emily stupid tortoise, for instance, long out
lives the intelligent dog and horse. The
age relatively to the age of others of the
same species, and with relation to succeed
ing generations of the species-this would
be the point to determine. In Whites
"Selborne," it is said that the natural
term of a hogs life is little known, be-
cause it is neither profitable nor convenient
to keep that turbulent animal to the full
extent of its time. Whites neighbor. ga
man of substance, who had no occasion to
study every little advantage to a nicety.'''
kept sow, as thick as she was long. till
she was advanced to her seventeenth wear,
when she showed signs of age, and was
turned into "fat good bacon, juicy and
TENDER She was moderately computed
to be "the fruitful parent of three hun
dred pigs" Now, White remarks that
from long experience in the world, this
female was grown very sagacious and art
full Here, then, is a case in point, al
though We should like to have been in
formed whether this creature were not from
the first exceptionally intelligent.
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AGE AND WISDOM.

The extraordinary wisdom shown by such
writer's as George Eliot and Hawthorne sets
US to wondering whether their wisdom would
be proportionately increased if their lives
should be prolonged, say three times the
usual term. We doubt that it would. of
course wisdom is derived largely through
experience, but the insight that gives wis,
dom does not require any excessive oppor
tunity for observation. The ordinary term
of life is enough. For not only observa
ton is necessary, but sympathy-and the
kind of sympathy we give to, and receive
from, persons who are in the same time and
mood of life with ourselves. Hawthorne S
earliest writings have much of the same
truthful and typical quality that his later
ones possess. Old people do not seem to
have any proportionate increase of wisdom.
Their knowledge of instances and exam
pies: their opportunity of watching the
curious processes of heredity, instead of
making them wiseheads, often makes them
nothing better than dogmatists and Cos.
sips.
We should think that natural historians
might find ente rtainment and instruction
in studying the intellectual effect of long
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RUGS.

Mrs. Loretta E. Il. Turner furnishes the
housekeepers department of the German
town Telegraph the following on rugs:
Probably there is no greater saving in
household economy of small items than in
the matter of rugs if they are rightly used.
They can be placed where the greatest
amount of wear would come on carpet,
aud in that way save a considerable ex-
pense. Then if we have any work to do
that Is to cause a litter, we can manage to
have the ''muss" fall en- rug and take it
up and shake it out of doors, to save sweep.
ing carpet and raising dust: and last
but not least we can make the rugs our
selves of pieces we may have aud be to no
expense to buy.
We will consider a few of the different
kinds of rugs of home manufacture. Rugs
knit of carpet-rags do not commend 1t
is very hard work to make them, they are
not pretty, and it takes great amount of
material which could be manufactured into
carpeting and 60 SO much farther; still
there are those who consider them economi-
cal
Braided rugs are one degree better. 1t
is not so much work to make them and
does not take so much material.
Chnelle rugs. where the rags are gath
cred up and sewed on foundation in diff
ferent patterns, are sometimes pretty, but
very expensive, and one had much better
go to the store and purchase Brussels or
plush rug, some of which are really hand
some. But cheap articles are what we
started out to consider.
There is one kind when pieces of drag
braid of desirable color or colors are cut
into lengths to form circle, when one side
is gathered closely, then sewed on some
thick cloth in patterns to suit the manu-
facture. Again, pieces of cloth may be cut
into circles and sewed on one above the
other three deep, the upper ones diminish
ing in size. The cloth should be rather
heavy. Beaver, opera flannel, velvet, ETC.,
are suitable. Both of these rugs should
be lined and bound with braid.
An ingenious woman will contriye a
pretty rug of scraps that are apparently
worthless and too small for any thing else
The devices are innumera BILE. One way.
where the pieces are of not very heavy
cloth, is to fold it into points and sew on
firm foundation in any pattern desired or
if the pieces are heavy, they may be pinked
and then sewed on.
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GLEANINGS.

Poverty is nmble, and soon overtakes
laziness.
There will be only two Smiths in the
next Congress.
In the United States there are 100 re-
lgious denominations
"A confidence man is not the sort want
| ed for a confidential clerk
An independent editor in Texas must
write well and shoot better.
ALL persons need to know how to grow
old gracefully, and how to wait patiently.
1t is said of great talker that he
looks sweetest when his mouth is in repose.
The Norway rats in Virginia burrow
under the houses, and whip the largest
cats.
"A Baltimore critic likens Bret Harte's
play to dime novel struck by lightning,
and the author has not yet accused him of
dishonesty.
Shoe dealer: ~ find we have no No.
II shoes; but here is pair of large 9's."
Customer: Mines. Do you take me for
Cinderiler?''
The modern cook stove, says the Dan
bury Ne'os, is approaching degree of per-
lection which will require competent en-
gineer with a stated salary to run it.
A Holyoke Mass bachelor, fearful of
10 yrIIa Of tI,n Co,
which has no windows, and only one door.
The latter is scarcely three feet high.
-Bayard Taylor says: at is whitening
commentary upon our modern costume that
no sculptor has dared, or ever will dare to
model statue wearing a stove pipe hat"
The latest fraud on New York gram
gers is managed in this way. Several well
dressed men drive through the agricultural
districts and contract with the farmers for
all the butter they can make during the
Winter at fifty cents per pound. A few
days later a drover follows with a large
herd of mich cows, which he is very 10th
to sell, but finally disposes of to the credu-
i''' 'tu' So9Ci db TWO VI JllI66
times their real value.
Perhaps the most practical and salts
factory answer to a bashful lovers question
ever given was by Prof. Wilson, the fam
ous'" Christopher North" of Blacktoood.
His daughter was ardently beloved by the
man afterward well known, VIM. Z. Aytoun;
1l1t thn fall A.
anything but stern father. So the daugh-
ter spoke for him. Old Kit" said not a
word, but wrote on slip of paper, "With
the authors compliments las if he were
dedicating book, and pinned the mes
sage on her sleeve. 1t was enough, and
wanted only the then unknown &c. 0. D."
to make the humor of the act perfect.
An inebyiated Jerseyman in New Y ork,
led by flaming posters advertising the play
of g The Forty Thieves at Niblo's, went
to the box office and called for ticket, at
the same time throwing down So green
back. On receiving in return So and
ticket (he had expected to pay about fifty
cents, the astonished countryman, looking
first at the money and then at the ticket,
exclaimed: " H h-how much dyer ask to
(hic) see these Forty Thieves q" The
ticket seller informed him that the price
was 50. WE'LL" said Jersey, throwing
back the ticket and looking sharply at the
official, "you may kk-keep yer ticket,
don't care about seeing the other thirty
nine
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BUBBLES.

photographed sermons" Sermons in
stones"
That widower who slept on his wfe's
grave during June is married again, and
the grave is all covered with snow.
"A young lady says that :" if cart
wheel has nine fellows attached to it, ISIS
a pity that girl like her can't have one,"
WHAT'S the difference between an en-
counter with and grizzly and torn panier?
Ones tussle with bear, and the other
hustle with a tare.
Many a young lady suffering from
blighted affection and a resolution to die
at once, has been jerked from the brink
of the grave by reading the announce
ment of a Fall opening.
A womans hand. How beautifully
moulded, how fautless in symmetry, how
soft and white and yielding, and oh, how
much of gentle memory its pressure con-
veys. Yet we don't like it in our hair.
-" Will You have apple or damson pie ?"
asked a waiter of a small boy who was
dining at restaurant the other day.
bring on the apple first" said the bright
lexicon of youth, "and | will get away
with the other damson.'
A negro held COW while a cross eyed
man was to knock her on the head with an
axe. The darkey, observed the mans eyes,
and in some alarm inquired, You gwine to
hit where you look % g Dem said Cutfee,
"hold dis cow YOURSELF
A man who was undergoing examina-
ton for school teacher in Maine, after STUN
bling through some simple arithmetical
problem, was asked where Boston is. He
answered.: =" | know all about it, probably
Just as we'll as you do have heard of the
place several times, but can't somehow or
other, seem to locate it." With view of
helping him out, the committee man said:
:" 1t is the capital of some State is it not ?''
| {" Yes, | believe it is g What State?'
Well, know, probably, as well as you
do what State Boston is the capital of, but
you see | haven't the flow of language to
express it"
-Corns are of two kinds-vegetable
and animal Vegetable corn grows in
rows; animal corn grows on toes. There
are several kinds of corns There is the
unicorn, capricorn, corn dodger, field corn,
and the corn that you feel the most. 1t is
said, we believe, that gophers like corn;
but persons having corns do not like to
'go fur" if they can help it. Corns have
kernels, and some colonies have corns.
| Vegetable corn grows on ears but animal
corns grow on the foot. Folks that have
corns sometimes send for doctor, and if
the doctor is corne1, it would be better if
they had not sent for him. The doctor
says corns are produced by tight boots and
shoes, which is probably the reason why
when man is tight they say he is corned.
If farmer manages well, he can get
| good deal of corn on an acre, but we know
of farmer that has one corn that makes
the biggest acher on his farm. Another
kind of corn is the corn dodger. The way
it is made is very simple, and is as follows
that is if you want to know: You go
along the street and meet a man that you
know has corn, and a rough character,
then you step on his toe that has the corn
on it, and see if you don't have occasion
to dodge. In that way you will find out
! what corn dodger is.
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knew. How long it was before he found
himself standing on the north terrace, he
could not tell, nor how he ever reached it:
only, as he paced there up and down, the
morning star just broke an instant through
the clouds-the day star of the merry
Christmas morning; and along the foot of
the grange hill iiickered the torches of the
village waits, chanting the Christmas carol
greeting as they wendell home beneath the
unlighted grange.
The grange is left to the sole habitation
of wraiths that upon gusty nights may be
heard to sweep and patter through the
walls, or half aloud to sigh in the deep
alcoves. There, around the north win
dows, the ivy waves more and more, and
stronger in its age, as if it drew in all the
life about the place. now falling into ruin.
Its master is gone, drifting about like one
of those storm rent, storm tossed ivy leaves.