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MEDICINE FOR WOMAN.

LYDIA E. PINKHAM's VEGETABLE coMpo1run
Is A POSITIVE CURE
For all those Painful Complaints and Wentne.... a.,
common to our best female population.
1t will cure entirely the worst form Of Female Com,
plants, all Ovarian Troubles, Inflammation and Iucero
uon' raining and DISBURSEMENTS, and the couseouen
spinal Weakness. and Is particularly adapted to the
Changes of Life.
1t will dissolve and expel Tumors from the terus IN
an early stage Of Development The tendency of Cam
cerous Humors is checked very speedily by its use
1t removes Faintness, Flatulency, destroys all era.
wings for Stimulants, and Relieves Weakness Of the
Stomach. 1t cures Boating, Headache, Nervous Pros
tration, General Debility, Seepessness. Depression and
Indigestion.
The feeling Of bearing down, causing pain. weight
and backache, is always permanently cured by its
IWPHYsICIANs USE IT AND PRESCRIBE 1T
FREELY.-A1
1t win at all times and under all circumstances act
IN harmony with the laws that govern the female sys
For the Of Kidney Complaints Of either this
Compound is unsurpassed.
LYDIA e. PINKHAMS VEGETABLE COMPOUND
is prepared at 233 and 235 Western avenue, Lynn,
the form Of pills. also in the form Of lozenge on receipt
Of price, 81 Per box for either Mrs. Pnkham freely
answers all letters Of inquiry. Send for pamphlet Adj
dress above.
: No family should be without LYDIA e. PTNKHAMs
and foEpty 81 t Thy cure consPa9n housneas
U-SoLD BIZ ALL DRuoomTs.-Es
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HowsoN's Ice Cream. 81 q a gal. 11oi 18th s.

BURTs PIPsIssEwA cures all kidney and blad-
der diseases, gravel, female weakness &c. Price,
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THE SALE of the Hamilton House effects will
be continued Monday and Tuesday next. when
some of the most desirable articles will be sold.
Your EYFSIGHT fitted at Hempler's near AZ st
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Forty Years, Experience Of an Old Nurse.
Mrs. WinslOw's Soothing Syrup is the prescrip-
ton of one of the best female physicians and
nurses in the United States, and has been used
for forty years with never-faing success by
by millions of mothers for their children. 1t re-
Ieves the child from pain, cures dysentery and
darrhoea, gripping in the bowels and wind collie.
By giving health to the child it rests the mother
frlce 20 Genus bottle. m,w,S
Mrs. =. A. Aliens Worlds Hair Restorer.
is perfection for restoring gray, white or faded
renews its life, strength and growth. Dandruff
quickly removed. A matchless Hair Dressing
Its perfume rich and rare
ZylO Balsamum.
Mrs Allen's)-A lovely tonic and Hair Dressing.
It removes dandruff allays all itching. stops fall
ing hair and promotes healthy growth with
rich, beautiful gloss. and is delightfully."- fragrant
Price seventy cents, in large glass stOppered
DOttleS. W&S
ssAlderney Dairy WagOns.o
Fresh Alderney butter churned every morning
and delivered in IS Id. Ward prints. 40c. per
Id. Also, cottage cheese buttermilk and sweet
milk sc. per qt. Cream, 1Oc. pint.
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Burnett's COcOaine
SOftens the hair when harsh and dry.
SOOthes the irritated scalp.
Affords the richest lustre.
Prevents the hair from falling off,
Promotes its healthy, vigorous growth.
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LOCAL MENTION.
The Weather.

OFFICE or THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER l
WASHINGTON. DC. September IT, 1881 $50 a IN Z
For the middle Atlantic states partly cloudy
weather local rains. easterly winds stationary or
higher barometer, nearly stationary tempera-
ture
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DEEDS IN FEE have been recorded as follows
j. Williamson, trustee 10 p. BrOdrecht pt 5. so.
ZIG; g. 500. Elias S. Hutchinson to David G.
Stone, east pit 6, So %; S1,079.13 Bridget
Morley, executrix, to John Lynch, sub 10, So
SO; S516
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SNOW WHITE BREAD
BEAUTIFUL ROLLS AND BISCUITS
VIII be guaranteed if YOU use
CERES.
tne celebrated Minnesota Patent Process Flour which
was awarded the First Premium all other cnmueti
tors at the National Fair in 1879 and again fhe First
Premium in the shape Of very handsome Gold Medal
in 1880. The milers claim that one barrel of CFRES
VIII turn out forty loaves more bread than any other
STERLING's ST. LOUIS FANCY,
amaRnthcentW WheatPaent and unriyaled by snv
patent process -four in the country except Ceres
GILT-EDGE. one of the most beautiful Patent Flours
ever produced in this country.
kELlA,NCE, q splendid Minnesota Patent Flour. made
by the celebrated hungarian process. Ii cheap
and beautlfu patent within the reach cases and
try it. ~ "'
GOLDEN HILL. the old reliable stand by and the
Standard Family Flour of the District and equal to
great many SO called patent nours We defy comne-
ton to bring forth any -four superior CERES STER-
Ling, M!NNEOLA. RELIANCE or GOLDEN HILL.
and we feel assured that housekeeper who tries them
once will never use anything else.
For sale by all Grocers.
Wholesale DEPOT,
CORNER 1sT STREET AND INDIANA AVENUE.
sl5 WIN. M. GAIT q co,
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ADJUSTMENTS.

ADJUSTMENTS.
FoRD's OPERA HOUSE.
FORD's OPERA HOUSE.
FoRD's OPERA HOUSE.
FORD's. OPERA HOUSE.
FORD'sl OPERA HOUSE.
ELEGANTLY EMBFIL1sHED. COMFORTABLE
AND THOROUGHLY VENTILATED PLACES
OF FASHIONABLE AMUSEMENT IN
YIN MONDAY EFENlNG,
SEPTEMBER 10TH.
WITH MATINEEs WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY,
THE PRINCES OF THE BLACK ART.
HAvERLY's EUROPEAN
MAsToDoN M1NsTRELs,
TO WHOM THE ROYALTY OF ENGLAND
PAID VISIT IN STATE
her MAJEsTY's ROYAL
OPERA HOUSE.
THE HAvERLYs ARE THE SUPREME REPRE-
sENTATIvES OF AMERICAN
MINSTREL MUSIC.
Their Manager Possesses
THE CREATIVE POWER
WHICH ALWAYS FAsc1NATEs PETTY RIVALRY
INTO IMITATION.
The Result of which is Always q Realization of the
Fable Of
THE FROG AND THE OK.
And the Moral is the Same.
THE MAsToDoN STARS
ARE PAID MORE SALARY THAN MANY NAM
MOTH COMPANIES ARE PROMISED.
NOTE THEM WELL.
BILLY EMERSON.
THE ONLY LEON,
WITH FORTY MORE,
ALL EQUALLY GOOD IN THEIR POSITIONS.
PETE MACK.
E. NJ. KAYNE.
BARRY MAXWELL.
JOHN H. LEE,
BOB HooLEY,
JAMES WALSH.
JOHN GoRMAN,
JOHN STILES.
VIM. BARBOUR.
CHAS. sHATTUCK.
WILLIAM BELKNAP,
EDDIE QUINN.
GEO. W. HARLEY,
HARRY MILLER,
JOHN MURPHY,
HARRY SHIRLEY,
MELVILLE WILSON,
ALBERT HOLLAND.
ALEX. ZANFRETTA.
FRED. ZANFRETTA.
POPSY ZANFRETTA,
GEORGE ROBINSON,
J. W. McANDREWs,
JOHN RICE,
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FUssELL's fee cream.

street.
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THE SPENCERIAN BUSINESS COLLEGE WILL in a
Few days, take possession Of its new ana hand
Some quarters in Lincoln Hall Building One
hundred and sixty students are in daily attend
anee See new advertisement in Educational
column.
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Don't Die on the Premises.
Ask your druggists for Rough on Rats"
clears out rats, mice. bed bugs. reaches. Only Is
per box. q
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DEATH UNDER SUSPICIOUS CIRcuNsTANcEs-
About the LIST Of September Vim. H. Thomas
and Chas- Stewart, two cOlored walters of this
city. were employed in the Hotel Manchester. at
Manchester, Mass. They had trouble, and
Stewart Is alleged to have struck Thomas over
the head with an earthen mug, cutting a severe
cash. Thomas went to Boston on the 5th inst
and was cared for at the City hospital. He then
went to the house of Henry w. Watson, No Q
Walker street, where he was attended by Dr.
Walker, and died there at nine o'clock Wednes-
day morning The cause Of death is being
investigated by the Boston authorities. The
trouble between Stewart and Thomas arose in q
dispute in dining-roOm, Thomas, it is stated
having attempted to take a tray which Stewart
had had well filed for some favOrite guest.
ALONG THE RIVER FRoNT.-Harbor Master
Sutton reports arrivals at the river front as
follows: Schr. Martha Washington, Capt. Kintry,
oysters for market; pungy Virginia, Posey,
oysters for same; pungy Annie Lowe. Simmons,
oysters, same; pungy John Jay, Fowler, oysters
for same; longbOat Silver Star, Henderson,
wood for j. o. Carter; slOOp Fanny Shepherd.
Chiseltine, oysters tor market; longbOat Poca-
hontas, Kendrick wood for o. Carter, schr. Five
Brothers, Pullins, 425 lunches fish for R. Golden
eehr- A. Harding, Smith, 474 tons coal city
dealers; schr. J. s. Hewitt, Abrams. 800 tons
coal E. McCauley; schr. Ben Stokely Wheatley,
IA tons coal, Geo. Bogus; schr. II. Ogden, Reed,
wood j. o. Carter; long boat j. ii. d. Smoot,
Underwood, wood j. o. Carter; long boat Peri,
Nash, 20 cords wood Johnson Bros. This latter
Is the largest load of wood ever brought
10 TINS market on long boat;
pungy James Somers. Bailey, oysters for mar
ket; schr American Eagle, Chiseltine, oysters
t Ga market; sehr. Electric Light, Case, ice,
1reat Fails Ice company; schr. James j. H.
ii. an Pmillps, coal, Clarke & Given; bark
ynn. n peBerty, Perry. ice, Cooperative COM
pany; schr Howard Williams. Green. coal citv
oea,ers' schr A p: Crammer, Isard. coal civ
dealers; long boat Caroline, Mothershead, wood
GurTEAU AS Y.M.C.A. MAN-Abrabam Hi,
teacher of the Bible class in the Plymonth
Church Bethel, Brooklyn, N Y. recently dis.
covered in large framed collection of pjctnres
OF the former members of the class the pboto-
graph Of Charles ]. Guiteau. He at once took
II out Of the frame, but has kept it as curl
osify. The Rev. Charles Morton former
superintendent Of the Bethel remembers Gui
tean as member Of branch of the Young
Mems Christian Association connected with the
Bethel He says Cuiteau was forced to cult
INC association. having been discovered by Mr.
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CITY ITEMS.

Hop Bifters
has restored to sobriety and health, perfec
wrecks from intenperance.
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BOOTS AND SHOES.

BUILDERS SUPPLIES.
IMITATION STAINED GLASS
This grand and beautiful invention fills a vacancy
long felt in the ornamentation of common windows,
glass, &C. and produces all the unique effects of the
real lead sash lines and colored glass richly stained
glass Windows For descriptive price list can send
postal New designs just received. Directions for
applying given to every customer Agency. 939
Refer by permission to Church the Incarnation.
se2-lm* j. e. CULVERM ELL, AIT. for ID. c.
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Sir James PadRet,

President British Medical Association SAYS that
10000 deaths are annually caused by nervous dis
eases in England and that there is no more pow-
erful and etfectual nervous tonic than the Liebig
Co.'S Coca Beef Tonic, is evidenced by the en-
phatic testimony of the most eminent physicians
Caution.-Beware of cheap, worthless limitations
under ours and similar names. Ask for Liebig
Co.'s Coca Beef Tonic. Recollect that for ma
lara, debility. sick headache, dyspepsia, monthly
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Opinion of Celebrated Or. WIN. HI. Stokes,
Physician. Mount Hope Retreat, Baltimore: IT
the virtues of Colden's Liebig Liquid Extract of
Beef and Tonic Invigorator as the very best
preparation used for depression. weakness and
indigestion, and therefore confidently recon-
mend it to the medical profession"
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BULLETIN EXTRAORDINARY!
THE AVENUE CLOTHING HOUSE
939 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
REASONABLE GOODS NOW IN STOCK
MEMS DEPARTMENT:
Light Cheviot Suits,
Light Cashmere Suits,
Seersucker Suits,
Serge Suits,
Linen Suits,
Drap de Etat Suits.
YOUTHS DEPARTMENT:
New Novelties daily arriving.
BOYS DEPARTMENT:
fine line Of Blue Flannel. Cheviot and Cashmere
Suits.
CHLDRENS DEPARTMENT.:
The Most Elaborate Display in the city.
KILT SUITS SPECIALITY.
CALL AND EXAMINE.
"a Prices the lowest
A. STRAUS,
1yl No. 939 PENNSYLVANIA avenue.
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Burnett's Cocoaine

The Greatest Appetizer,
stomach, blood and liver regulator on earth-Hop
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Women
that have been bedridden for wears have beer
entirely cured of female weakness by the use OF
Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound. Sene
to Mrs. LYDIA =. Pinkham, 233 Western avenue
Lynn, Mass, for pamphlets.
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PICNICS. EXCURSIONS, &c.

THE STEAMER J. W. THOMPSON WILL LEAVE
IL the ComTany's Wharf MONDAY,
S s.hns .sI,s isrE o'elSck a. M SHARP
Evening there viii be a Grand Ball at Lower Cedar
Point. Fare round "trip. IS cents. IL
GRAND PICNIC, To BE GIVEN FOR THE BEN.
NJ efit Of HENRY POPkfNS, at Reyer'e sth-street
Park, TUESDAY. September 70. 1851. Tickets, Is
cents, admitting .lefnan aud lazy.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-03-29
NO. ll2.

CkN1hAL kk@ Exc
NORTH SIDE BRIDGE s-HIfr
WIN MEM UCCA, NEvADA A.
Opposite the Poatoffsee.
HaSing bought this well known Hotel.
hereby notify our friends and the PUBLIC in gen
Sral tskat 1t will he kept o first class Hote in
every particular.
The fable win be secund 60 None In
the Country.
Tire BAR will be sappltedwith the brst trands
of
Wines. Liquors. Lager Beer, CiGnrs, Etc.
Good COOKS and Gentlemaiiiy WALTERS have
been secured.
We also hare o first class 4Biesaard Table.
Az Gtte1tton will be paid TO the wants OF
= Patrons.
JOB & HADLEY, Proprictors.
witrnemucca, Aug. ], 1872.
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Cs1O Outfit furnished free, with full instruc
ON tions for conducting the most profit
y able business that any one can engage
in. The business is 10 easy to learn, and our
instructions semple and plain, that any
oae can make great profits from the very start.
No one can fail who is willing TO work Women
an. successful as men. Boys and girls can
earn large sums Many have made at the busi-
over 800 dollars in single week. Moth
ing like it ever known before. All who engage
are surprised at the ease and rapidity with
which they are able to make money. Ycu can
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at great profit. You do not heve 60 invest cap
itaa in it. We take all the risk Those who
need ready money, should write to us at once.
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dis Augusta, Maine
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PARTIES WISHING TO I.RAs4. OR sr.R
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at the G. r R r. Office Sbsre thay ALL c<.ss;.'e
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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-05-20
LOCAL DIRECTORS.

Masonic.-staunton Lodge NO. 13.-J Howard
Wayt, Master; A. A. Eskridge, Sec'y. Meet at their
lodge in Masonic Building the second and last Fri
day nights in each month.
Union Royal Arch Chapter-W, H. H. Lynn, hlgh
Priest A. A. Eskridge Secretary. Meets In Masonic
Hall the third Friday nghtin each month.
Stevenson COMMUNICATIVE. A Burke Com
mander; A. A. Eskrdge, Recorder. Meets
Masonic Hall the first Friday in each month
Knights of Honor-J. E. Rollins, Past Dictator
T. J. Crowder, Dictator; w. A. Burnett Reporte
Meets lstand 3rd Monday nights in their Hall In
! the Cochran Building.
Ryoal Arcanum.-Regent, Joseph E. Rollins; sec
rotary, Jos. B. Woodward. Meets on the I'd and
4th Tuesday in each month, at 7:3o P. M. in their
hall in the Cochran Building, on Augusta Street.
Odd Fellows-Stahnton Lodge No. 45--John
! Wehn, Noble Grand; Chas. Burchell, r. Secretay
J. N. Argenbrght F. Secretary. Meets every
Thursday night in Odd Fellows Hall.
Central Encampment No. A-J. W. Ailor
Chief Patriarch James w. Blackburn, Scribe Meets
second and fourth Tuesday In each month in Odd
Fellows Hail.
saunton Lodge No 1877 Iron Band O. X. S. B.-A
Hart, President; Mortz witz Secretary. Meets IN
their Hall in the Cochran Building on the LIST and Sd
Sundays at 10 AM.
Charity Division No. 6, Sons of Temperance, b.
B. Rule Worthy Patriarch, z. 7. Hiltzhmer, Re
cording Scribe Meets every Friday night at Tenn
perance Hall.
Fire Observation-Disclosures Fire Company
Michael Cox, Captain; Thos j. Crowder, Secretary
Meets fourth Tuesday in every month at Flremens
Hall.
Staunton Hook and Ladder Company.-B. F.
Terry, Captain; Charles Hudson, Secretary Meets
on first Tuesday in each month at their headquar-
tiers in the city school building.
Newtown Friendship Hose Company-R. A, Ham
ilton. Captain; Oliver SMITH Secretary. Meets on
the I'd Monday in every month.
j. B. Scherer 'Jr, Chief Engineer Of Fire
Department.
Military-West Augusta Guard-Wm. L. Bum
gardner, Captain; Lewis M. Bumgardner, Secretary
Meets in their armory in the City Hall every
Monday night Regular meetings first Monday in
each month
Staunton Artillery-A. FL. Fultz, Captain; N. M
Warner, Secretary. Meets at their armory in the
City Hall every Tuesday night. Regular meet
ngs second Tuesday in each month.
Stonewall Brigade Band-Prof. A j. Turner, Con
ductor and Presidents John Ut. Carroll Secretary.
Meets Tuesday and Thursday nights every week in
the City Hall.
Religious-Young Mems Christian Association
T. c. Morton, President; A. F. Robertson Secretary
Meets at their rooms in City Hall for all devotional
exercises every Sunday evening at4 P. NJ. Direc
tory meetings at the call of the resident. Library
open every evening from to P. M.
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Moral Courage.

The'highest and rarest of human quail
ties is moral courage. Men have been
brave on the battlefield, who shrunk from
the performance of private and civil duties
in grave crises. 1t is the hour of trial
which tests the character. When calam-
ity falls upon the household, death carries
off the most loved members of the family
circle, wealth is swept away, and the
means of existence are endangered, it is
then that the father is called upon to put
forth his utmost energies to preserve Sc
rene front amid the wrecks of his domes-
tic interests and affections, and to rescue
those he holds most dear from impending
ruin. To seek oblivion of present griefs
and future responsibilities by drugging
the brain with intoxicating liquors, by de-
sertion or by suicide, is sin against God
and man. Reverses happen to the most
favored. We have no right to take our
own lives. Their termination belongs to
a superior power. We must do our duty
and fight against a sea of troubles, and by
opposing, end them. A cloud of ADVERSE
ty sometimes surrounds the best men. Man
is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly up
ward. We cannot expect to pass life
uuruffled by the breath of adversely. We
may be rich: we may have all that can
minister to our 'appetites and pleasures;
and yet there may be skeleton in the
closet, canker-worm gnawing at the
heart a fearful swath, made by the sickle
of Death in the household. We know not
what the morrow may bring forth. We
lie down in peace, and wake up in sorrow
In view of these emergencies every man
must be be prepared for the worst. He
must cultivate self-reliance, an unyielding
spirit, and courage to perform this duty
under every phase of life.
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NABBY'S HUSBAND.
A knock at the 'squire's door.

A knock at the 'squire's door.
An eager "Come in' from the Squire, to
whom any outside diversion is an inesti-
mabie boon, he having just reached that
uncomfortable stage Of masculine conva-
lescence when life becomes burden not
only to the so-called patient" himself
but also to those unlucky feminine rela-
tives whose duty it is to officiate as his
''ministering angels"
Mary, the servant, came in.
PLEASE. Mr.. Hosley, there's woman
down stairs who says she must see you.-
She's been here to see you before since you
were sick, and now she won't take no for
an ans Wer."
''Show her right up, Mary" said the
squire, alertly, Frightening up visibly like
the war horse who scents the battle afar
off. Not all the coy comforts of his sur
roundings, the "Sleepy -HoIlowness" of
his chair, the pleasant pictures on the wall,
the wood fire which now that the wintry
twilight was settling down over the bit of
gray sky, left visible by the curtains heavy
folds, danced and flashed over the room in
rosy shadows, could not reconcile the
Squire to his enforced seclusion. Secretly
he pinned for his dingy old den of an office,
and chafed at the doctors restrictions,
which as yet forbade all thoughts of bust
ness. But now the moral police force,
represented by his wife and daughter, being
luckily off duty, there was nothing to pre-
vent this probable client.
'Show her up, Mary and the Squire
cheerfully Strengthened himself and assum-
ed as much of legal dignity as dressing
gown and slippers permitted.
Mary disappeared. Presently the door
opened again. "Why, Nabby," said the
Squire, sis it you? How do you do?"
Yes, squire it's me" said Nabby, drop
ping down with a heavy sigh into the chair,
land don't do very well.''.
Nabby was short, squarely -built wo-
man of fifty, with considerable gray IN the
compromisingly back under bonnet about
fifty years out of date She had sharp,
black eyes. and a resolute, go-head man-
ner. Evidently a Woodworking woman;
yet in looking at her you could not help
the conviction that something more than
hard work had plowed the deep wrinkles
which ran across her forehead, and threat
ened to lift her eyebrows up to her hair
Nabby had lived with the 'squire's mother
fifteen years-from the time when Mrs.
Hosley took her in, a ten-year old orphan,