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Cora's pretty curly head looked out as
the vehicle stopped.
Harry, old fellow-hic-is that you ?
Get in, get in-why didn't you come
up? Oh, We had jolly time-hic-we
did. Such dance. Don't blame YOU
for going out, Harry. Didn't know it
was so pleasant-hic-I-I-meant to 90
every night"
You do?" he gasped, leaping into the
seat beside her, and grasping her arm.
Ever dare to DO such 4 thing again, and
you're no wife ofmine."
Cora laughed uproariously.
Nonsense, Harry-le'mme do as you
do, that's fair. Let go my arm; you
hurt, and you'll break my fiask-'tis
prime brandy-taste drop"
He caught it from her hand and flung
it out of the window.
Bah" said Cora, her cheeks flushed
her hair awry; Il wish I'd stayed at the
Reindeer" What makes you so cross,
Harry"
Hush. say no more, Cora he an
swered, his teeth set hard, Il can not
bear it. II may do something Ill be
sorry for. Keep silent-don't want any
more crooked words
''Rams Horn, if did for it, cried
Cora.
Then she clapped her little hands and
laughed gleefully, breaking off into a
moonlight night for ramble" Harry
let his head fall into his hands.
Good Heaven" he groaned; I'D
rather have died than have seen this
sight"
He got her home into her own room,
at last, but she was very unmanageable
and persisted in cutting up all manner
of capers; dancing, rnd singing her
cheeks flushed, and her hair streaming:
and asking him repeatedly if The would
not go another night-it was such jolly
fun
His pretty, modest, little Cora. Long
after she had fallen into dead sleep her
husband sat over the smouldering fire
with his face hidden in his hands.
Cora" he said, when she woke late
on the following morning, what hap
pened last night must never happen
againl"
She looked up with her old clear eyes.
"Very well, Harry. that is for you to
say. Just as you do, so will l."
He was silent moment.
Il would rather die than see what l
saw last night over again." he said.
Harry" she said her lips quivering,
Il have seen the same sight once or
twice every week since the day mar
ried you, and only Gods knows what it
has cost me-"
He caught her close to his heaving
heart.
Poor little wife," he almost sobbed
you shall never see such sight again.
l shall sign the pledge to day"
SO will I, Harry"
They both signed 1t, and Kept 1t too |
Ten years after, Harry Mayfeld was a
rich man, and also one of the most re-
temperance leaders of the day.
Harry" said his pretty wife one day,
as they watched their children playing
on the green; Il did fool you handsome
ly that night Harry, it was all make
believe. You know | was born a sort of
an actress, as you've always told me;
well, | didn't go to the Reindeer that
night, and not drop of that hateful stuff
had passed my lips, Didn't fool you
handsomely, and cure you in the bar
gain?"
You little witch +" he cried, but the
instant after his eyes filled. ayes, Cora"
he said, drawing her close to his side,
"you cured me ola habit that would
have been my ruin. Heaven bless you
for it,
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Gorrespnndenre
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
From our Special Correspondent.
NHU VAnU T,,-o 10.l O.

From our Special Correspondent.
NEW YORK, June, 18th, 1877.
Every one who did not belong to the
Can't-get-away Club, went to West
Point, to be present at the ball, at least
The fashionable bellies of New York wore
their best out of doors costumes to the
American Derby On the Saturday prev
ious, and made picturesque parties of
themselves on the Jockey, Club House
lawn. Bless me, but they're summers"
was the remark of one of the masculine
sex who stood in the outer court and
looked on with awe, admiration and
envy, arrayed in the very latest bed tick
novelty, eye glass in eye and sucking the
top of his new cane. But then, "he didn't
belong to our set, you know" and so of
course he remained in the outer dark
meas mere locker on. So far as / could
see, his bed tick garments were precisely
of the same pattern as those of the inner
court masculines: his hat rim was turned
down in the same modified East Indian
style; the veil around it was of the right
shade of green, his eye glass was single
and screwed into the eye; his neck tie
and shoes were English, and his cane
had silver horse rampant on top but
he has voted a Ecad," and was as unhap-
py as the Peri before she found the open
Sesame to the gates of Paradise.
He would have had his revenge, how
ever, had he gone to the West Point
ball. He thought the bellies ''stunners'
on the lawn; superlatives would have
failed him to express their effect in the
ball room. Having secured accommoda
tons from mine host beforehand, took
mine ease in mine inn and watched the
crowds arrive. They came siDgly at first,
then in companies, brigades, battahons-
West point has not been SO full for years.
Even the hotel keeper-born, grew anx-
ious. He slowed them everywhere.
Mortal enimies wooed Somnus on the
same couch; and after every available
nook and corner was filled, they roasted
like chickens.
The Mess hall, where the dancing was
in order, was beautifully decorated with
flags and evergreens. The motto Of the
graduating class: "Et Minerva ct Marte, .
was placed opposite the entrance, and
the green moss of which it was composed
was very artistically arranged The flags
and guidons added color to the scene;
the lights burned, not too brightly, but
with refreshing softness, and the whole
scene looked lovely even before the
dance commenced.
During the day those young ladies
who had been promptly on hand went
off in the most innocent manner toward
Filtration Walk, and murmured SEN
tences would float occasionally on the
breeze, the tenor Of which it would be
mean to tell. 1t was regular case ol
spoons on the part of the cadets, and the
way that some Of those New York girls
managed them was sufficient to show
that filtration is a science. They kept
them so nicely in hand, just on the edge
of declaration and it was not the cadets
fault if they were not all pledged to wed
the fairest Of the fair before the day wa:
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THE PROFFERRD HAND REJECTED.

Let us have done with this Decora-
ton day twaddle. The right was right,
and the wrong and right can never
shake hands over u bunch of flowers.
A. we'll might Cranmer, or Joan of Arc
say TO the men who lighted the pyres
under them, You are doubtless right
from your standpoint, and we are prob
ably right from ours, therefore let us
shakel and when we are burned up
yolr friends and ours can meet and
scatter flowers over our graves"
Where would Christianity have been if
the friends of those who fought with
beasts at Ephesus, who were stoned
and seourged and crucified, had shaken
hands with the pagans and admitted
that both sides we're rightl
The true Southern people have no
wish to obtrude their attachment to
their principles upon the gaze Of the
world; they are honestly determined TO
abide by the Federal Government;
they will struggle by all peaeea5le
means to make the GoceTnment as
nearly as possible like their belOeed Con-
federdte gorernment; they will cling
silently, in their own homes and by
their own graves, 10 the sacred memo
ries of the most honored past that ever
glorified conquered people; but they
do not propose to blot out their history
by such empty and abjeet twaddle as
that INDUCED in by the latter Deeora-
ton day oraters, who roll up the whites
OF their eyes and say, "God knows who
was right"
We know who was right, and God
knotcs that the South t0Gs right. God
used the south as a means of evangel-
izing and finally liberatiDg 1000, 600
Africans, and when His purpose was
accomplished, we find the South
stronger than ever, with its principles
of government more clearly recognized
than ever before.-N06ile (Ala.) Reg
ister.
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nnffiral,
THE ROMANCE OF THE CARPET.


Basking in peace in the warm spring
sun,
South Hill smiles upon Burlington.
The breath of May, and the day was fair
And the bright notes danced in the
balmy air.
And the sunlight cleaned where the
restless breeze
Kissed the fragrant blooms on the apple
trees.
His beardless cheek with a smile was
spanned,
As he stood with a carriage whip in his
hand.
And he laughed as he dofied his bobtail
coat,
And the echoing folds of the carpet
And she smiled as she leaned on her
busy mop,
And said she would tell him when to
stop.
So he pounded away till the dinner bell
Gave him little breathing spell.
But he sighed when the kitchen clock
struck one,
And she said the carpet wasn't done.
But he lovingly put in his biggest licks,
And pounded like mad till the clock
struck six.
And she said, in a dubious kind of way,
That she guessed he could finish it up
next day.
Then all that day, and the next day, too,
The fuzz from the dirtless carpet flew.
And she'd give it look at eventide,
And say, "Now beat on the other SIDE"
And the new DAYS came and the old ones
went,
And the landlord came for his regular
rent
And the neighbors laughed at the tire
less broom
And his face was shadowed with a cloud
of gloom
Till at last, one cherries winter day,
He kicked at the carpet and slid away,
Over the fence and down the street,
away with footsteps fleet.
And never again the morning sun
Smiled at him beating his carpet drum.
And South Hill has often said, with
yawn,
4Where has the carpet martyr gone."
Years twice twenty had come and past,
And the carpet swayed in the autumn
blast.
For never yet since the bright spring
time,
Had it ever been taken down from the
line.
Over the fence grayhaired man
Cautiously clim, clom, elem, clum, clam.
He found him a stick in the old wood
pile,
And he gathered it up with a sad, grim
smile.
A flush passed oyer his face forlorn,
As he gazed at the carpet tattered and
torn.
And he hit most resounding thwack.
Till the startled air gave his echoes back.
And out of the window a white face
leaned
And palsied hand the pale face screen
ed.
She knew his face, she gasped and sighed,
"A little more on the other side"
Right down ON the ground his stick he
throwed,
and he shivered and said, "Well, be
blowedl"
And he turned away with a heart full
sore,
And he never was seen nor known of
more.
HaWk-Eye.
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THE WARDEN'S DAUGHTER.

Marion Hyde was cripple, but for all
that she was beautiful. Her father was
wardei in prison. Among eprison-
ers was one at the registering of whose
name at his entrance Marion had been
present, and something in his youthful,
though sullen, face attracted her pitiful
glance. He had stolen repeatedly from
his benefactor, and finally had admitted
into the house at night time a gang of
burglars, who had secured considerable
booty and made off with it in safety save
one, after severely pounding the propri-
etor of the house. This one, who was
not able to escape, betrayed the compile
ity of the young man in the affair. He
was tried, convicted and sentenced.
There was no redeeming feature, ap-
parently, to the story, but somehow that
face haunted the gentle girls thoughts.
Perhaps it was because she had young
brother that was a wild lad, wandering
just now in disgrace no one knew whith-
er, and all the more tenderly loved by
Marion because of his sad ways.
One day, as she leaned on the window
sill, looking with wistful sadness into
the yard at the prisoners, one of them
looked up, and, changed as he was in
every way, thin in feature, she knew
again the black, sullen eyes that yet
were somehow like an angry, obstinate
child's.
Her glance followed him as though
fascinated, and as he passed from sight
she sighed softly and went in to look at
the prison record for the poor Lads
name.
It wac Aymer Preston.
The next she knew Of him he was in
the sick ward.
For a few weeks she saw him there
but the gloomy eyes never softened only
gazed straight before them from theii
hollow sockets, or hid Themselves obsti
nately behind their wasted lids
He never spoke, he scarcely ate, and
the prison physician told Marion that he
was dying of sheer inanition.
"It's my opinion that he's trying ie
starye himself to death, " he said.
/ Marion drew near the sick bed
She bent over him and spoke with
lgentle firmness.
| But she might as well have talked tt
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8oROucH OFFICERS
SoClE TIE s.


Axsonic Hall located in third story of Gage =
block, Main Street.
FiNDLAY COUNCIL X. q !. N, No. 50. Regular
Council second Monday evening In each
month.
fIsDLAY CHATTER. IL. A NJ. No. 81. Stated
Couyoc ttiun nrst Mohcay evenings In each
mouth.
sIspL ~ LuDSE.F. N, M. "a. stated com
Inunlcxtioa first and thiI "Wednesday eve
u as~ In each month
odd Fellows Hall east 81 oil Main street.
bstween Sandusky and ;rawford Streets
DOL DEs RULE ENcANPME IT. No. W, I.o!p.F.
meets second and fourth friday evening"
of each month.
HANCOCK LODGE, So.7S, L. -. %. f., ineets eve
ry Tuesday evening
FIHDLAYLoDGE,N No. IS, X OF r. meets every
Monday evening In odd Fellows Hall.
FINDL AY SAVINGS AsDBUILDiEG LoAHAsso-
CIATIoN meets at the courthouse ON the
third Monday In each month
rHG WoMEN's CHRISTIAS TEMPERANCE
UsIJsmeels nj theLeague Rooms opposite
the Joy House. General prayer meeting
everySaobatn afternoon at O'Clock. Wo-
meu's prayer meeting Wednesday after
noon al o'clock. Children = IneetiDg frSt
SATURDAY afternoon in each noatn at
o'clock.
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HAVING regained my health, 1 have res
III opened my Dental Office, over Bak r
a Co - Shse store. where my friends and
patrons will mud Inc prepared TO do all kinds
OF operative dentistry as usual. Teeth ex-
tracted WITHOUT FAlN for % cents; other
work me in proportion.
35yl - a hELINEh-
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Y. w. ADA MS'

ID you can get tie best OF work done In the
nesiesI possible style Ladi-.' and Children >
Hair Cutting nd 3hamp.BoIug speciality.
Shop Opposite Old White corner. Two Chairs
see him aud ger n Good job. Ladies desiring
work doae, by leaving word ri the shop he
will call al their residence. ~
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The years moved ON.

The years moved on.
Marion was twenty-five. Her father
was dead; her idolized brother had per-
ished in a brawl; she was alone in the
world, an invalid, living on the merest
pittance, but the same sweet faced, sweet
voiced girl who had won the hearts of
the prisoners in the gloomy abode of
which her father had been warden.
One day she was sent for to see about
some embroidery: She was received by
a young lady, and something in the
young girls bright face drew Marion s
glance unconsciously. Where had she
seen those eyes, so large and so intensely
blaek2
"Why do you look at me so asked?''
the young girl, with maize eagerness.
"You remind me of some one have
known" Marion answered, simply.
NO one ever accused me of looking
like any one but Robert before, laughed
the girl.
aAh, yes, YOU do. l see the resem
blance now quite strong" and Marions
fIce flushed with emotion. Perhaps
YOU are related to him. His name is
Aymer Preston.
@Ohl" cried the young girl, springing
up; land you are lame, and your name
is Marion Hyde. Tell me, isn't it. i
knew it. Oh, Robert, what will you
sayT
She vanished from Marion's aston.
ished eyes with the words on her lips;
she was back, however, in trice, and
with her came a tall, dark-haired,
heayy-bearded gentleman.
"Marion Hyde! is it possible9' be
exclaimed, elasping both the little
trembling hands in his and putting
them over and over again to his lips
which were quiveriug with emotion
Surely you know mer
"You-you are Aymer Preston,
stammered Marion.
81 was Aymer Preston. am Rob
ert Liesson. A relative of my mother'i
left his property on condition of my
taking his name. / have searched fol
you vainly, Marion Hyde. Ny pros
perity has been bitter to me, till now
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Gu RATtV Z.

Burns, Scalds, Wounds. Cuts ard
bruises, are healed with wonderful rapidiiy
by frequent applications ofthe CURATIVE. Es-
len or Stiff Joints and ChiIbIains. =
remedy was ever found which would so spes-Si-
ly cure by q simple outward application. fa-
etc, it is taken internally. with : certainty oi
relief.
We ask all who are afflicted with the eora.
plants above mentioned to give the CURt1 -
n fair trial. following the directions faitffuliz
and perseveringly, for We do know that = - q
with singular success.
PRICE ONE DOLLAR.
Prepared BY the Lawson Chemical Company
{ CLEVELAND, OHIO
SOLD By
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". III. HANkN.

DRACTICAL DRUGGIST. DIRECTLY OP-
posite the Cours House Findlay, Ohio.
Physician's Prescriptions mpoundei care
fuIly. Full stock OF Drugs, DiIs, Paints, Per-
fuulery Soaps &C. i9
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Strikes at the root of disease by purifying the
blood, restoring the liver and kidneys to healthy
action, inyigorating the nervous system.
Vegetine
Is not a vile, nauseous compound, which simply
purges the bowels, but a safe, pleasant remedy
which Is sure to purify the blood, and thereby
restore the health.
Vegetine
Is now prescribed in cases Of Scrofula and ether
diseases of the blood, by many of the best ply
sicians, owing to its great success in curing all
diseases of this nature.
Vegetine
Does not deceive invalids into false hopes by
purging and creating a fictitious appetite, but
assists nature in clearing and purifying the
whole system, leading the patient gradually to
perfect health.
Vegetine
time by some Of our best physicians, but those
most incredulous in regard to its merit are now
Its most ardent friends and supporters.
Vegetine
Says Boston physician, "has no equal as q
blood purifier. Hearing OF its many wonderful
cures, after all other remedies had failed, Wis
tied the laboratory and convinced myself Of its
genuine merit. Il is prepared from barks, roots
and herbs, each Of which Is highly effective, and
they are compounded in such manner as to
produce astonishing results.''
Vegetine
Is acknowledged and recommended by physi-
clans and apothecaries to be the best purifier
and cleanser Of the blood yet discovered, and
speak in its praise who have bsen
TO health.
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ACROSS THE STREET.

With blush on cheek, she comes and
goes
watch her when she little knows;
| wonder if she dreams of it.
Sitting and working ct my rhymes,
| weave into my verse at times
Her sunny hair, or CLEANS of it.
Upon her window-ledge is set
\ box of Towering mignonette;
Morning and eve she tends TO them
The senseless flowers, that do not care
About that loosened sand of hair.
AS prettily she bends to them.
If | could once contriye to get
Into the box of mignonctte
Some morning when she tends TO
them
She comes | see the rich blood rise
From throat to cheek Down go the
eyes
Demurely, as she tends to them.
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CHURCHES.

MeLIsodisf Rpisc0pdl-Rev. Parker i Pope.
Prex3gfe7Tdn-Rev. X. X Sutherland.
Lltheya7i-Rey L. \. Sprecher.
C0agre0ati0aGi-R
Eoaa0eIical Charch-Rev. =. Heusel.
Uasfed RreLhrea-Rey. A W. Holden.
Germdn Ref0Tbi-Rev. A. KonetZka-
Church Of God-Rev. j. V. Updyke.
German LIaherd1-Rey. NJ. Buerkle-
81, K;chdePs catholic Church-J. b. Young.
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Prepared by H.R. STEVENS, Boston, Mass.
VEGETINE Is SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.

Among the many remedies which have been
brought to the notice of the Public. no one has
attracted SO much attention from the wonder
fcl cures it has performed as LAHS0N'S CUkA-
ofNew England while at work in his laboratory
and used by himself and friends and among tho
afflicted poor of his neighborhood for Inanyyear5
test Of years with a constantly growing reputs-
ton until il has become household neccssi;:.
Nhercverit is once used in : fa :niiy thGt famiiy
will never be withoutit.
From q knowledge of its effects it is recon-
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COUNTY OFFICERS.

OUmm0R Bleds Judge James
amda0r- George b. MoslIer.
ta>fko( Courts -5c5lL W. rTsbie.
TreasureT- Peter Hosler-
Rec0rdeT-Paul kernerer.
f1rs1GL> Judge SsInucl b. HnnuiA".
.sher1-PsrIee G. Tri:ch.
Prosecuting hu0rney Henry bro"h-
ts0r0aer- -. n. Cline ,., A,
fssaasalsssoneTs- Ross w Noore' JUL"
Bishop ad John Edsington. a,
taa-a.IrJ pf.,eclors-Cam ob>ll ByAl. H. a.
Watson ami ]. X. BusiIors-
Tadrap1s-g lSuDeTfaGestdeHt-J James Il hrhrs
Sch t-SlEDI1aLscrs-W. Piati' J. IL h1so >
and Dorilas &artz-
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4mdlag Bpsimess 1iferforg.
OR. AgNER l.. DAVIS,
DENTISTRY.

PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office up
stairs in pavis' opera Hons Block Find
iay Ohio, 81 ly
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gitp and County Difeffarp.

rival and Departure Of Mails az the
Flndiay Post-office.
pEPAkTCRk-
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- Rs.f l.. Rk. going SoHLh, lI:i2 a. IN
' North, 4sS p IN.
DEPARTURE.
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aud Saturday, at p IN; o.,..1,. and f,fE-
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J. @. JOHNSON,
tss 9 9 . 8 9 9 9

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n. n, DUNN
Il. .JOH SSON.

ATTORNEY AT LAW.
once In New Bank building, West side o
Ha.n street, No. ~ Nov. ZS.tf.)
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rruRNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT
a LAW. ffndlay, Ohio. Office in -Head-
u.rIers' Huiiding North east of Court
House, VIII attend promptly business
entrusted TO his care. april 70. 1871
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WASHINGTON LETTER.

Financial, the Presidents Views Somewhat
Chansed-Shcrman's Management and the
New LOan-Turkish ReguIatiOns-AttorneV
Generals DeelsiOn-Tanmany-M Ar
fairs.