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Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29

THE Sign of the Arkansaw Couch
= Syrup is looking you allsquare in the
Do you want sure, safe and reliable
Cough Syrup? Are You troubled with 4
Tough, Gold, Bronchitis or Lung Com
all nigh, with Hacking Coughs, Colds in
the Head, etc. Do you want something
reliable in the house to meet these
emergencies?. We answer to all: "Go
to your Druggist and get a Bottle of the
no more" Price. so cents per Bottle!
c. II. HANCE, wholesale and rets
Druggist and Manufacturing Pharmacis
Nos. n and 70 North Spring street. Tele
phone No. 65. P. D. Box 2l65.
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A New Lumber Yard

Has been established by the Schallert-Ga
uahl Lumber Company on Washington
street. nearly opposite the washington Gar, ar,
den, where they will keep a full line OF all
kinds of lumber and building material.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29
PHYSICIANS.

nR. ]. II. DAvISsoN-OFFiCE AND
IL residence 32l5 South Spring street. nos
nR. j. A. DoUGHERTY-R0oM IL,
Roeder block, No. % South spring
straat sep16
nR- ]. MCCARTY-OfFICE AND RES.
IL dence northwest corner Sixth ana
olive Streets. sep1o
r TUKNEk,. M. D.-oFFlOE AMP & kEsI-
u dence-31 N. Main street. Los Angeles.
nR. JOSEPH KURTzaNo. 2b6 - MAIN
IL street. opposite the BakerBlock.
nR "a q MANN G. OFFICE AND RES
~ idence 81 South Fort street: once hours
% to II A. NJ. to 4p. M. Telephone z3z.
HLIZABETH A. FOLLANSBEE, M. D.
ii Office and residence 24O South Fort
street. Office honrs-S TO IL A. M. ana 10
6pM. jlyl6
nR. A. P. PoAPS, OFFICE NO. "A SOUTH
IL Spring street, Los Angeles. once hours
10 I'M. to A, aud 6P. Nj. oo-tl
DOSE TALLBOTT. M. D.-oFFICE 24o
IL South Fort street with DR.. Foliansbee.l
Once hours, 10 to II A. NJ. Residence. ~
Ninth street. olStI
r MILLS BOAL, NJ. D.-39 NORTH
81. Spring street lover Peoples store).
Hours-1o to IL, to 3, 6 to 7:3O. Residence,
947 Hill street, two doors from Fifth street.
Telephone No. 1856. oc4
~ E. OLACIUS, NJ. D.-PHYSICIAN AND
u. surgeon. Office Is North Spring
street rooms IL AND lS Hours d irom sanua = as M
eases and chronic diseases in general. n7-tf
Mrs. DIR. MINNIE WELLs-FIRsT LADY
Ns licentiate of Kentucky. Specially:
Diseases of women and children; also. in
connection with her practice, Electric
Thermal Baths. 34l SSpring street. nlItt
nR. G. EDGAR sMlTH-DlsEAsEs OF
IL women a specially. Rectal diseases
treated by the Brinkerhof Painless Sys-
TEN. Hours-9 A. NJ. to p. M. Ofices-
Corner of Spring and Second streets. Hoi-
lenbeck Block. sepotI
NEORGE W. COOK, NJ. D.-oFFICE 2s n;
(T Spring street; residence l25 Is. Hill
street, near Second. Speelalty-Ireatm
trusses for adults, children and infants
Perfect fit VI.
nR- NJ. HILlUN WILLlAM AMs-275 NOkTH
IL Main street Opposite Wells, largo
Co.'S Express oflice.) sPecialty-als sets es
of the head throat aud chest. together
with the eye, ear and heart Ohee nonIs'
from $3.50 A. NJ. to 4P. NJ. sep<o
DAYSON I. HUCKINs, NJ. D.-17 NORTH
Main street, rooms IS, 10, 20 ana 2l.
Hours Ii A. NJ. to l ?. M, z p NJ; 10 P. NJ.
Residence, s41 s. Hill street. Telephone.
office and residence, 25s Special treat
ment OF eye. ear, nose ana throat as
eases. hotI
nRS. DE SZIGETHY & UTLEY-OFFiCE
IL schumacher Block, opposite Post
office. Rooms 20 and II. DR.. De Szigethy's
residence Pearl street, corner Ninth. DR..
Utley's residence corner Fourth and spring
streets. Office hours-9 TO II A. NJ, 2 to p.
M.,7 to s Pm. Telephone No. 169 at ONCE
and residence. !anotI
nR, CHARLES WILLIAM BRYs0N-
IL Gives especial attention to the medical
and surgical diseases of women and chill
dren. Office in Solomon Block; NO; 441a
hours 4. NJ. to IL NJ, to and to SP.
NJ. Residence. No. 109 South Olive street,
Los Angeles, Cal. OH
nK. /. Il. UUHN-LAIE sUPEkINIEND-
IL ing Surgeon Northern Pacihc Rail
road Physician and Surgeon. OFFICE
HoURs-IO to II A. NJ, 2 to 4 P. NJ. OFFIcE-26
n. Spring ST., Rooms s, and 10. Residence,
Makara House, Main ST., between Third
and Fourth Telephone 564. Day ana
night calls attended to. slbtt
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29
N0TIcE,

The LOS ANGELES CITY WATER 90,
viii strictly enforce the following rule: The
hours for sprinkling are between6 and
O'clock A. M. and 6 and O'Clock p. n. For
violation OF the above regulation the water
viii be shut off and fine of two dollars will
be charmed before water viii be turned Oh
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29

| Main street Opposite Wells, largo Il
Co.'S Express Oflice.) specialty-diseas es
of the head throat aud chest, together
with the eye, ear and heart once hours,
from 30 A. M, to 4 P. NJ. sepZo
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29
To Bakers, C0nfecti0nerS. hotels. etc.

TF YOU WANT ANY BAKER, PASTRY
cook or confectioner, address the
BAKERS UNION. No. 45, Postoftice box
1859. or call at JACOB REUSCH, 100 South
Spring street, Rosters Bakery. olS 1y
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29

DR. ]. II. DAvIssoN-OFFlcE AND
IL residence 92l5 South Spring street. no25
nR. j. A. D0UGHERTY-ROoM IL
IL Roeder block, No. 2S South spring
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29
New and Beautiful Map.

NOR NEW MAPS OF SOUTHERN CALL
II fornia call on ROWLAND e. KOEBER-
LIE, with e. II. GRASETT, dealer In photo
graphic stock, Rooms IA and 15, Roeder
Block, % 8. Spring street. ds-tf
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29
Stray Notice.

NAME TO MY PLACE AT THE CIENCGA
" Ranch, Dec. 2lsJ, one red and white
steer: both ears are cut partially. owner
can have same by proving property and
paying charges. J. NJ. MOLE.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29
Dissolution Notice.

THE COPARTNERSHIP HERETOFORE
i existing between M. Cawker ana L.
A. Sutherland, at Santa Monica, Cal, Is
his day dissolved by mutual consent
NJ. CAWKER,
L, A, SUTHERLAND.
Santa Monica, December20, 1885. d2S6t
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29
A Good Rancho for Sale Cheap.

SIXTY ACRES CHOICE FARMING LAND
y near Cerritos Station, with house of six
rooms. sta bles, corrsls, corncribs, ETC.. some
vines, fruit trees and 10 acres alfalfa: en-
tire sixty acres under fence. Price, for q
short time only s75 per acre, on easy terms.
Apply to r. VERCH, Room 50, Temp
Block. dl71m
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29
LAUNDR1ES.

UXCELsIOR STEAM LAUNDRY-WALL
III street. near corner Seventh. Tele-
phone No. 367. Our wagons call for and de.
liver washing in all parts OF the city. Ali
ord ers promptly attended to. Only white
labor EMPLOYED. aub-tf
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29

Perez deceased.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN BY THE
IN undersigned, Executrix of the last will
Of Jean Marie Perez, deceased, to the cred
having claims against him, to exhibit them
with the necessary vouchers within four
weeks after the first publication Of this no.
rice to the said Exec trix. at her place of
business, to wit: At the office of Brousseau
g. Hatch, Nos. 81, 32, 33, Baker Block, in the
City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles,
State of California.
ROSALIE PEREZ,
Executrix of the last will of Jean Marie Pc
rez, deceased.
Dated, Los Angeles, California, December
3, 1886. d4-aw
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29
Large Lots on a 6O-FOOt Street,

Just beyond the city limits at Boyle Heights.
street car line now running near, and
two electric roads soon to be completed,
will soon make these lots pay 500 per cent.
HUMPHREYS & RIGGIN,
d4-lm No. 20 South Spring Sire ct.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29
SOCIETY NOTICES.

S,GNET CHAPTER NO. 81, r.. A. NJ,
Meets statedly on the first Thursday 81
On each month, at 7:15 P. M, at Ma "a -,
sonic Hall, Mcdonald Block. So-~ ~
ourning jmpanions in good stand nv
ug cordially invited.
R. T. MJJLLARD, Secretary.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29
REAL ESTATE.

CHARLES W. SCHROEDER, REAL ES-
u state and Loan Broker, Mcdonald BLOCK,
Is North Main street, room 2: Bargain
House and lot on west side Of Hill, between
Eighth and Ninth streets. 9 rooms, with all
jlyStf
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

MADAME G. ANTONIA, NJ. d., BUSINESS
M and Medical Clairvoyant; 16 years OF
large practice in San Francisco; correct dag
nosis and sure, careful treatment OF all dis.
eases. Ladies and gentlemen can consult
her on all and every affair of life, specula-
opposite Cathedral from II A. NJ. to P. M.
Diseases of women and chronic diseases
specially. English, French and German
spOkcn, az I'm
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29

ONLY 500 FOR A BEAUTIFUL 50-F0OT
~ lot, by paying $40 down; balance of IS
on the installment plan of $40 per month,
without interest. Reservoir rights, besides
well is now being put down for domestic
purposes for each 10-acre tract This choice
tract of 20 acres has been subdivided into
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29
EmPLOYMENT BUREAUS.

% %EMPLOYMENT OFFICE, <, X. La
tate Agent. Property sold ON installments.
r. NITINGER, removed to 151 N. Spring.
Telephone l13. Residence Fifth and Hope
straats. au3-tf
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29

~ OLACIUs, NJ. D.-PHYsICIAN AND
u. surgeon. Office Is North Spring
street, rooms II and Is. Hours from IL a. m.
eases and chronic diseases in general. n7-tf
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29
Homes for all on the InStallment Plan.

Nos. 5s, 60 and go, North Los Angeles street
dl6-lm
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29
A Beautiful Home.

P15OO.
One and half acres, highly improved: I:
nice house and stable. fruit trees flowers and
shrubbery; in very healthy and desirable
location; one hours drive from Los Angeles
P. 0. Price, $500; terms: $500 cash. balance
$40 per month. r. VERCH, Room SO, Tenn
pie Block. d1S-1mO.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29
A Lovely Home For Sale.

EIvE ACRES, WITH TWO STORY HOUSE
Il of large rooms, stables, wind mill and
tank; beautiful garden of choice flowers
and ornamental shrubbery, together with a
good paying dairy business; twenty fine
cows, chickens, horses, wagons, farming
implements, furniture and household goods
price for all only $500. Terms, half cash,
balance on or before two years.
+. VERCH,
d15-1m Room so. Temple block.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29

ct. Jacobs Oil positively cures rheuma
tism, neuralgia aud other bodily pains.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

BOULDER BELT WINE COMPANY
ID Superior wines, both red and white
sold for family use by the gallon, wholesale
at l8 West First street. Wine cellar under
Bartlett Bros. The above wine is recon-
mended by physicians. This wine Is solo
for cents glass at the popular saloon Of
WESTERNHAGEN,2 "a North Main street.
d3-tf
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29

T TURNER, M. D.-vFFlOE AND KESl-
81, dence-S1 N. Main street. Los Angeles.
nR. JOSEPH KURTZ-No. 2bb MAIN
street. opposite the Baker BLOCK.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29

nAILROAD TICKETS TO ALL POINTS
IL bought sold and exchanged at PRYkt
& cos CutRate Ticket Office, 2So Nortf
Main street. uS-ti
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29
EXCURSHONS.

M. WALTERS EXCURSIONS GOING
Ia. East leave Los Angeles Bi-Monthly.
Office, st. Elmo Hotel. sepl2ti
VTIOLET'S NEXT EXCURSION LEAVES
Y November 18th. The only complete out
fit on the road. Office, 24S North Main
street. al7tf
DHILLIPS' POPULAR PLEASURE PAR
L ties going East leave here October IL
and 10. November 10, December and Is.
Call on or address A. PHILLIPS q CO..
1884 North Main street, LIZ angeles. au5-tf
TETARNER BROS. & CROSBY, OF 3S2
w North Main street, Los Angeles, Elk
cursions East and West at lowest rates, and
pleasant accommodation. Call on or ad-
dress them for pan ticulars and rates.
~ an2 u
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29
K. OF p.
Knights Templar.

CuuR De LION CoxMAEDsaY NO. 0, X. T..
Holds its stated concayss at the asylum In Ma.
sonic Hall, on the Third THURSDAY of each
month, at u o'clock P. M. Sojourning knights
Templars in good standing cordially invited to
attend. By order Of the E. C:.
X. 7. MULLARD, Recorder.
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(. o. q. E.

Orange Council No. 26, I. o. Q. F., meets
every Wednesday evening in Good Temp'ais
Hall. Visiting members are cordially invitet.
K. W. READY, N. G..
A. J. E. FURBIsH, Rec. Sec'y.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29
American Legion of Homer.

Safety Council No. 664 meets second and
fourth Thursday evenings of each month
at their Hall, Evening Express" Building,
Sojourning Companions in good standing
are cordially invited.
W. T. BARNETT, Commander.
GEO.W. KNOX, Secretary.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29

VyHE GRAND SUCCESS OF OUR CITRUS
Fair, now being held, proves that the
culture OF all tropical fruits in Central
tion OF doubt.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29
Free Public Healing.
DIR. Il R u Il ID T. l. l.
WILL GIVE
FREE METAPHYSICAL HEALINGS
In the Grand opera Hall.

Private classes for the study OF the Science
of Metaphysical Healing meet every Mon
day, Wednesday and Friday, DR.. A. P.
Truesdell and Mrs. L. s. Hill, teachers.
For particulars, inquire at the Office,
rooms IL. IS and Ia, Forster block, 2S South
Main stI eet. 0l0-tf
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29

nR, G. EDGAR SMlTH-DlSEASES OF
women a specially. Rectal diseases
treated by the Brinkerhoff Painless sys-
tem. Hours-9 A. NJ. to 4 p. M. Offices
Corner of Spring and Second streets. Hoi-
lenheck BLOCK. sepotI
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29
WOOD CARvEKS.

NF STAEHLI, ARCHITECTURAL WOOD
carver. Mechanics Mill, % Alameda
street. Los Angeles, Cal Carving for interior
OF houses artistically executed. All work
promptly attended to. Also ornamental
patterns for castings. d22-lm
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UEORGE W. COOK, NJ. D.-0FFICE 2S N.
(T Spring street; residence l25 Is. Hill
street, near Second. Speciality Treatment
of rlipture-to retain and TO cure; Best OF
trusses for adults, children and lnlanss'
Perfect fit. OH
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-29

DOSE TALLBOTT, M. D.-OFFlCE 24o
II, South Fort street with DR.. Follansbee.l
Once hours, 10 to II A. NJ. Residence. ~
Ninth street. olott
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-07-21
Golden Maxims for Wives.

Always remember that you are married
to a man and not to god; be prepared for
imperfections.
Once in while let your husband have
the last word; it will gratify him and be no
particular loss to you.
Do be reasonable; it is great deal to ask
under some circumstances; reasonable wo-
men are rare; be rare.
!, Anticipate the the discovery by your y husband
that you are "only woman" if you were
not, he would not care about you.
Let your husband read the newspaper at
breakfast-table; it is unsoeiable, but then it
is only trife after all, and he likes it.
Remember that servants are made of the
same material that you are; little coarser-
grained, perhaps, but the same in essen
tials.
Read something in the papers besides
fashion notes and society columns; have
some knowledge Of what is going on in
foreign countries.
Try and forget yourself. As to your hus-
band, forget that you married him, and re-
member that he married you. He will then
probably do the reverse.
Be companion to your husband, if he
is wise man; and if he is not, try and
make him become your companion; raise
his standard; do not let him lower yours.
Let your husband know more than you
do once in q while; it keeps up his self-re-
spect, and you will be none the worse for
admitting that you are not actually infalf-
BILE.
Respect your husbands prejudices; re-
spect his relations, especially his mother
she is not the less his mother because she
is your mother-in-law; she loved him before
you did.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-07-21
Haunted TO Death.

About three months ago woman named
Eva Hebron died at Bound Brook, N. j.
just previous to her death she obtained
promise from her husband that he would
never marry again. He soon forgot his
promise, and his wife had been in her grave
scarcely six weeks when he sought to sooths
his sorrows by wedding Mary Chandler, a
buxom widow of some forty years. She
was Roman Catholic and Hebron imme-
diately renounced his connection with the
Methodist Church and embraced Catholi-
cism. Shortly after his second marriage his
acquaintance began to notice that he acted
queerly. He seemed i'll at ease. and had the
appearance of man haunted with some
secret trouble. He said himself that he was
troubled with insomnia. One night he
arose from troubled sleep to watch the
burning of the Episcopal Church in that
watching the flames be started back with an
exclamation of horror, and in spite of all
his wife could do to arouse him he appear
ed as though held by some strange fascina-
tion. Then he shrank back, placed his
hands before his eyes as though to shut out
some horrible vision, all the while trembling
in every limb.
He called upon his wife to see the spirit
of his dead wife, which had come to haunt
him and remind him of the broken promise
he made her on her death bed. He also de-
clared that she brought an army of CHASTITY
creatures to end his life-ten thousand dew
ills, whoj jeered and jibed at him. He then
fell to the floor in a dead faint From that
time Hebron believed he was doomed
man. His dreams were hideous, and his
wakeful moments frighful. One morning
he came to some of his friends with a coun-
tenance more CHASTITY than ever, and told
them of dream he had had during the
night. He said he thought the skeleton of
his first wife lay beside him, and when in
terror he sprang from the bed the spectre
him. At length it pinioned him to
the wall with one of its long, ghastly fin
gers, and be felt his life blood ooze from his
pierced heart and drip to the floor. Then,
he said, the spectre licked up his flowing
blood screaming; $50 stop the vitality Of
my false husbandr"
, This story convinced Hebron's friends that
he was insane, and they were taking steps
to place him in the asylum, when one morr-
ing of last week he was found dead in his
bed. He had died from fright.-Ne,o York
Star, 29th.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-07-21
A Correspondents Story upset by General
Early.
YELLOW SULPHUR SPRINGS. july 9.

YELLOW SULPHUR SPRINGS, July 8.
To the Editor of the Lynchburg News:-
1t is very remarkable that any respecta-
BILE Southern paper, especially Virginia
paper, should copy that absurd story, which
comes from Northern paper-the Boston
Traveller, belisve-about Gen. Lees seek
ing to sacrifice his life during the closing
days of the war. If Gen. Lee Intentionally
sought death by unnecessarily exposing
himselfto the enemy's fire and had succeed
ed, would not that have been suicide as pal
pably as if he had blown his brains out with
a pistol, CT had thrown himself on his
sword? Yet it is well known that he was
Christian. As such could he have con-
templated suicide If any impression ex-
listed among Gen. Lees officers that he con-
templated Intentionally sacrificing his life,
never heard of it. 1t is true that he often
exposed himself to very great dangers, as
did Stonewall Jackson, but it was from
high sense of duty, and to enable him to
render his small army as efficient as possi-
Bile against the immense odds with which
it had to contend, by supervising all its
movements. AS it is said that he contem-
plated such a purpose at Cold Harbor, l
will state that, at first Cold Harbor
began his brilliant triumphs over Nc
CleIlan army IN Lne seven Gays DaItieS
around Richmond, and at second Cold Har-
Dor Grants army was repulsed with such
fearful loss that when it was ordered to re-
new the attack it refused to move. was
in constant communication with General
Lee in person while the two armies con-
fronted each other at Cold Harbor, and
was at his headquarters two or three times,
but never suspected him Of a purpose to
sacrifice his life. The fact is, that the cam
paign from the Wilderness to James river,
in May and June, 1864, was the most bril-
liant campaign of modern times, and re-
suited in series of triumphs for Gen. Lees
army which inflicted on the opposing army
loss greater than its own numbers. No;
while Gen. Lee did expose himself very
greatly, often to the great distress of his
officers and soldiers, he did not seek death
because he foresaw defeat, but he deter
mined from the beginning to share the
fate of his people in victory or defeat. have
written this in great haste, as l am on the
eve of starting for the South, but could
not leave the State, even temporarily, with
out entering my protest against the slur
implied upon the memory of our great
leader, by the story you have copied with
out dissent J. A. EARLY.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-07-21
Mah0ne's Tissue Ballots.

Many Democrats in the Eastern section
of the State will endorse the statement
made in the Washington letter of the Al
exandria Gazette, that Malone originated
and first used the tissue ballots in the city
of Petersburg. The letter says
Ore of the charges brought by General
Malone against Mr.. Goode was that of
fraud at elections. And yet Virginia Con-
gresham has now in his possession letter
written by General Malone to the State
Democratic Committee in 1876, telling them
that he, who was then running the Demo-
cratic machine in the Petersburg district,
did not want them to send any election
tickets to his district, as he would provide
them himself. As the tickets for that dis
trict had already been printed, aud that,
too. at considerable expense, the Committee
were puzzled to know why the General
wanted to subject himself to the extra ex-
pense of printing others, until after the
election, when they found that he had
printed and used tissue ballots, the first
and only time they were ever used in the
State.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1886-07-21
How "Gurfew" was Written.

OF the hundreds of residents of the city
of San Antonio, Texas, only a few who fire.
quentiy inset tall, slender lady, with ra-
ven brown eyes and hair, and with singu-
lar attract1veness in her facs, know that
she is Mrs. Rose Hartwick Thorpe. whose
famous poem, "Curfew must not ring to-
night, has given her reputation in both
hemispheres. How, at the age of sixteen,
the young country girl was led to write the
poem, now so widely known, is thus
narrated, as furnished by her person
ally for this publication: "rhe poem was
suggested to me by the reading of
story, Love and Loyalty in April, 1867.
l was then plain country girl, not yet
seventeen, residing with my parents at
Litchfeld, Michigan, and under the pretext
of working out mathematical problems,
with my arithmetic before me, I wrote the
poem roughly on my slate. ! was forced
to carry on my literary work under these
difficulties because Of the opinion of my
parents that my time could be better en-
ployed than in idle dreams and useless
rhymes" 1 wrote the first copy on my
slate between and o'clock in the after
noon, but much time since has been spent in
correcting and revising it. l had no
thought that 1 would ever be able to write
anything worthy of notice. The poem was
first published in the Detroit Commercial
Adrertiser in the fall of 1870. The editor
upon the receipt Of my manuscript at once
wrote me letter of congratulation
and praise, in which he predicted the
of the verses which they have
since received. had no literary friends,
not even a literary acquaintance, at that
time, and did not know the simplest re-
quirements for preparing my manuscript
for publication" The poem at once at
tracted popular attention, and bestowed
upon its young author reputation which
each succeeding year has been enlarged
able forms and different books and collec-
tions, and has been translated into the
French, German, and other languages, the
poem has never brought its author any f.
nancial remuneration, as is too often the
case. SIT raised me-" writes Mrs Thorpe,
"from shy, obscure country girl into pub
lie notice, and brings to my side yearly
hosts of new and delightful friends
Wherever I go my friends are there before
me, and the poem, which gave to TIE pub
lie with no right reserved, while it has
made fortune for others and dropped
golden coin in other pockets, has reserved
for its author admiring friends"
Mrs. Thorpe spends her summers in her
native climate of Michigan, where she year.
ly recuperates from the effects of Texas
winter. The author is thirty years of age,
happily married, and is enabled to quietly
enjoy the respect and love of her neighbors
and friends, while her literary admirers are
leqion