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paIT FtlItsn chilled Land Flows ah1 fSpAli,,
Gale Chilled Land FlOWs and tppAltl, South
I'M GAlSd iS aSd ,i RCE, A VA M I1
Pi0W foIhlS, Malta And brown Double 5h6yOI
PiOS6l Malta and Brown Bulky gll llyAt6fa, OUT
Choice and Bt0Rn Five Shovel Cultivation. -.
Wilto LOT UilgilAts, price cpd tetflt1fy, All
otdstA promptly hllSd' lb@ NY s, EiIsly ..
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FOR SALE.

One twottOry FmmG, SlxroOms, stone iounda.
tlOn, good cellar glS and water; Ground ~ BY 10
feet t!,9OO,O0.
one two story Frame, ilyO rooms and kitchen;
good lomtiOnt ground IS by 100 feet, s2,7JO.O0,
one Tour aud one three fnOmGd house, Oh lot
70 ny Sieet; Will pny u per cent ~ An invest
one three rOOmCd Cottage on lot 80 by 50 feet,
NNcml nut bearing trees Oh premises, q OOO,0O,
Foll RENT-StOrc, room and Dwelling No.
2l5g Main street.
WANTED TO DUY,-DyClllnE House with
from to 10 rooms, within i've minutes walk Of
fOslOillEC.
ITO, TO- LoAS-5,WOOO on good real estate Sc
GEO. J. MATIIlsON,
N.Y. IliD ('hhhlInn giFNnl
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FOR SALE.

l'glldIug lots, Old Fair Grounds, ZanOs
Orchard, south ICnn, North Front, North Ilu.
t9I' s1nlh Huron, eouth Front, Fourteenth
Fifteenth, Wood, Wilson, MOystOn, Twenty
from son ~.
,HtivA House, three rooms, pantry aud collar
az ~ good TCpOif, Tor q, OjO cash.
u, W'he House containing 7rOOnH, at III South
dhGsuoaal"a!i lot AVXl9Oi III flrsLcln condition
a. Gooi toomCd house, IN very desirable lOCa.
uont on North front street, for d ZOO,
vss,Cn RoumCd Brick House, corner Thirty.
for zoo. '' '-'S W. IVA
~ S6I loSmCd Frame House on leased ground
Dwelling Houses and storc.yOonu for reat
,,,,- q. u, SMITH,
NY 1870 Main street,
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WOOL.

f,illlAbEtfiitA, pa, Juno 1-Wooi ptlccs 1,m
Ohio. fennhylEah!a and We'll ylfEitla Xxx and
Gaal) fci New York, Michigan Ind ana AZ a WbsI.
efn line 2gallqi medium B0AlflfC. rOafio TSCSiN,
ilnO washed lelalnO X and Xxx BlA!I5Oi inpdIuin
washed coupling aud dClAllO 8Ig a lO1i coarSoii;I
AiYGi Canada washed Coln9lng AaO0oj tub Waih.
lAlnB 9SAGOC, 'NN w
NEw YuhK, June 7.-wool d,m, homs,,l.
fleece oaaS'ci pulled 2aA3Vci Texii liars.
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TRAVELLERS GUIDE.

A RR1yAL AND DEPARTURE OF
"a TRAlNs..on and after May IL lsSJ.-.Rx.
day excepted. MONDAY excepted iHRturtay
excepted. Sunday only. Saturday only.
Eastern Standard tlmc,
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Qhe SntelLiaenter.
once, Nos. rs and VI Fourteenth Street,
TUE PLOOD,

TUE FlOOD,
IeT York World,
l.
Tho rhythmic ring of a horses feet
Echoes along the city street,
And the idle crowd sWlrms out 70 see
Who can tho reckless Rider be-
With bloodleE face and blazing eyes
lie daahes on, and wildly cries
ely, for the rivers Wnth lHneaTl
Fly, for the Flood-the Flood u heFe|"
He passes, and they stand amazed;
Then leRt, and deem the rider cEaEed-
Some misunderstanding AddlepGte-
Then turn and see, aud ty-Ioo lAIel
With a moan aud 4 gFORl,
With u shrek and roar,
Down on the town
The waters pour
A shiyerlng cEdsh,
And II Is no m0rel
The torrent sweeps on lis changelGss path,
Grinding the puIly walls like chat,
In lis awful play.
Like straws before the fresh Ming breeze,
Like sands beneath the beating seas,
They pass away,
The SeethIng whirlpool bOils and ioGms
Above u thousand ruined homes,
And on It's bosom sped,
All ghaslly In waning light,
Are borne Into the coming night
AnRTmy OF the dead.
III,
Tears for the souls that passed away
hut charity for those
Whose nil was lost that bitter day.
WHOSE call for pity goes
Up from the hearts that arc sad aud sore,
Aud laden down With woes;
Tears for the lives that Ar0 no more,
But charity for those.
GLEN MACDONouGH,
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CHICAGO, June ,-Catslc-Recelph 1900 head,
shipments 1900 head; market slew and i6ade
easCri bCoyCs 81 4ai %; steers o 6OI Isl SioCE.
err aug igSdefg y 80A9 49, cow1, bulls aud
81 SNl2 70 logs Receipts, $1,000 headi shin.
mgnts 1000 hpAdi market slow, mixed u IN
4bt heavy 2Oai A0I light 81 9SaI IL, ILIns
% coal 90. Sheep IICcciptl 1000 head Ihlb.
insHiS SOo bead market weak natives - SOSI i
lambs o. 7iaB 40 v WV w
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Petroleum

NGy, YplG, June l.-Poltpleum opened A
:IE sShS ~ lowest iiSi slOihS a ssS
AnceS liiUd1bdtfels. S''sS' V'ss''
PltTsHvggll IA, juno 7,-feltolbum on,s,,
0Pensd 4. ~ siyEdi closed atSatSi 6iVESst 9SSI
TlrusyiLlL IA, iune 1,-obcned Al sNlo,
highest sacl lowest 3Ifoi closed aItl,ic ~
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A new danger soon brought them both
TO their senses; an o. tree whirling
past grazed Coventry's plane tree; It
was but q Craze, yet II nearly shook him
OIL into the flood, and he yelled with
fear; almost at tho same moment a high
or wave swept into Titles room, and
the rising water set everything awash,
and burst over him as hC kneeled with
Grace. He got up, drenChed and half
blinded with the turbid water, aud, TAX.
ing Grace In his arms, waded waist
high to his bed, and laid her down
on II.
Fearful as tho situation was, siCkCn.
ing horror was added TO II blythe horri-
bic smell oil tho waterj II had foul and
appalling ,odor q compound Of earthi.
ness and puLresCence; II smelt like a
newly.opened gravel II paralyzed like a
sorpent's breath.
Stout as young LittlO's heart was,
II iainted when no saw his bedstead,
and his drawers, and his chairs, all
slowly rising toward the ceiling, lifted
by that cold, putresCent, liquid death.
But oil men, and even animals, possess
greater powers OF mind, as well as Of
body, than they over exert, unless com.
PEELED by dire necessity and II would
have been strange indeed II a heart 90
staunCh, and a brain 10 inventive, as Lii.
ties, had lot his darling die like rat
drowned In hole, without some new
md mastery attempt first made 10 save
her,
10 that moment Of horror and nara.
lysis succeeded ali activity OF mind and
body almost Incredible. He waded 10
tho drawers, took bis rifiO and fired both
barrels At ono place In the ceiling, burst.
Ing a hole, and cutting a narrow joist
almost In two. Then he opened drawer,
got an AK and q saw out, and tried 10
wadO to tho bed but the water now took
hin Of Il ID feet, aud he had 10 swim 10
II instead. lie got on H. and with his AZ
and saw hO contflvcd 10 paddle the float.
ing bed under tho hole Ia the ceiling,
and then with a few swift and powerful
blows OF his Ak soon enlarged that aper.
turU sufficiently but al that moment tho
water carried tho bed away from The
place,
lie set to work with his saw and al
and padded back again +.
lie drew himself Up through .heaper
turC, and Grace, holding his skirts viii
her hands and the bed with her iDei
climbed RdrOilly on tho head Of thI
bGd--a French bed made Of mahogany
and Henry drew her through the apef
tute,
They were now on tho false ceiling
and nearly jammed against the rool
Little soon hacked a great hole In tina
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Base ball 10 going up in thCworld. An
American sculptor has statue under
that title In the Paris BalOn, represent
Ing "a young man In the act Of throwing
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FARM FOR SALE.

Ihaye uIce Farm oil ITO acres, lying along the
In CaGL) four miles from New Mattinsvllle;
nearly MI down In grass, we'll watercd, suhStan'
ilal Improvements, and In good neighbOThOod,
which wish TO sell, The tito Ia perfect, and
Will be sold at a bargain and on reasonable terms
Csl on or address me at New MAttlnylllC,
Wctsel county, W. Va,
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INV Yonx, tune 1-pls Iron quiet American
LSda'R SS III ddli az ~ i sSRf ~ q
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4. NJ u q VI NAlLHOAD,
8ellAlfe 4 EAnOsyllle THROUGH iaS,obrc, Il, Ga,
ne,lalte a. sAoa. M, arrives al ieliSIfS AZ 'I t
Wcs9,.ield pa,se9ret leaves ieilAlto Al A,.o n
ellAlte AZ 4. m, !"
a. i2ll p ND AftiSss AZ YipSn NJ leaves Deil'lFo
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FINANCE AND TRADE

ToR A DIsonDERED LIVER try BEEcH.
ANS Pills. ws&w
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EAST liREETY, IA Juno S,-Ca.IlO-nccclnt,
HS. req .,b SiPTStlt az p me-. Hogs W
grades 81 b0ai o.. Bheep-tCcolblI 6Oj hCai
than yesterday.
CINCINNATI, o., June I-llos. active and
higher common and light o G8ai SOi psnilnl
aud bnlCheiE y sOai iO receipts |, 40 head ShIp.
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DRAWING

ANtAS FeSNASAAf W NANNsS' eNW S.tS',N4t
Tuesday, June ID, 1885,
CAPITAL PRIZE, 100000.
10000 Tickets at Si0i Halves so, Quarters $40;
EighthS Is; TWeIlethS g; FOrIlelhS 81.
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t'REMEMBER, that tho payment OF Prizes IA
GUARANTEED ny Four NATIONAL BANKS OF New
Orleans, and Tho Tickets arc signed by the Presl'
dent OF an Institution, whose chartered rightA
are recognized In tho highest Courts therefore,
beware n any limitations or anonymous
ONE DOLLAR "a the price Of tho smallest
part OF fraction Of Ticket ISSUED BY Us IN any
Drawing. Anything In our name offered for less
than Dollar Il o EwindlO. myl6-wRAW
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THE COMMITTEE ON ELECTIONS.

Southern Members of the House Will De.
mand the Chairmanship for Colonel Houk.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, June There is going to
be great deal of contention, when the
organization of the House committee on
elections. 1t has already been announced
that the South intends to combine and de-
mand the chairmanship of this committee.
A majority has undoubtedly selected Col
onel Houk. of Knoxville, Tenn, who has
been a member of the House for five OF six
terms, and during most of that period one
of the committee on elections. The South
will furnish more contested elections than
any other section of the country. and each
contestant has his friends in the House.
There is one popularity in the Southern
contestants over those from the North
they would like to know in advance how the
jury is made up which will hear their cases.
Before the Speaker is elected some of the
Southern members will not only demand
the chairmanship of the committee on
elections for their favorite, but they will
demand of that favorite an expression as to
what he thinks of certain contests. Judge
Houk is man of good judicial mind and
eminent fairness, and it Is probable that he
is before he has made judicial examina-
ton of 1T. This is very likely to result in
the South dividing on the subject of recon-
mending chairman. and in this event the
South may. get left. Already there is q
good deal of talk on the subject. and con-
siderable feeling is being shown. 1t Is
claimed that, more than anything else, de-
cisions in favor of certain contestants in
the South will help to break up the solidity
of Democratic majorities which have been
secured by fraud. They want some exam-
pies. and are determined to begin at this
time.
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Nav Weather.

Following is a summary of the meteorological
condition at indianapolis during May, as fur
nished by the Signal Service officer:
Mean barometer, 29.974; highest 30.2S; low
est, 1918; range, .55.
Mean temperature, co.,; 3.7 degrees below
normal for May: highest, 90, on the 10th; lowest
80, on the 3d. greatest daily range, 29 least daily
range, 5; mean daily range of temperature, 19.3
mean temperature for the month in 1871, $50;
1872, 64.3; 1878, 63.9; 1874, 66.O; 1875, CO 81
1876, 65.7; 1877, 9; 1873, 61. g; 1879, sc. 2;
1880, 6S.4; 1881, 7O2; 1882, 5S.5; 1888, &C. 8;
1884, 62.1; 1855. COS; 1886, 64.3; 1887, 673;
1888, 6O.5; 1899, 60.2; coldest, May, 1882
Nearly cool as May, 1889, are May, 1863
1885 and 1888. Total deficiency in temperature
during the month, 20; total excess deficiency
in temperature since Jan. 1, 1889, "97.
Mean daily dew point, AGO.
Mean daily relative humidity, 62.6.
Prevailing direction of wind, south; total move
ment 4.8O9 miles; extreme velocity, % miles,
west, on the 11th.
Total precipitation, 30 inches number of days
when rain fell, 10; total precipitation for the
month in 1871, 1.59; 1872, 322; 1878. 3.S9;
1874, 4.03; 1875, 5.13; 1876 II; 1877, 2.O9;
1882, 7.65; 1888, 400; 1884, 4.S0; 1885, 1866;
1886, 3.s2; 1887, 2.39; 1888, 4.73; 1889, $40;
total excess or deficiency in precipitation dur
ing the month. 1.53; total excess or deficiency
in precipitation since Jan. 1, -4.22.
Number OF clear days, 8; fair days, 8; cloudy
days, 16.
Frost on the Sd. Thunder-stOrms on the II tn,
18th, 10th, Goth, 23d and 27th.
{. K. Il. WAPPENHANs,
Observer, Signal Corps.
$Plus MINIS
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The Great Amount of Time and Money Spent
by Those Wanting Government Positions.
Special the Indianapolis Journal

The Great Amount of Time and Money Spent
by Those Wanting Government Positions.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, June 1.-"Office-seekinp
costs a lot of money! said a Western Re-
publican Senator this morning Hundreds
of men have been hanging around Wash
ington ever since the 4th of March. seeking
places, either for themselves or somebody
else. presume there has been an average
of one thousand men here daily from var
ious parts of the country during the past
ten weeks, and they are either at their own
expense or that of those they represent.
About half the men who come here seeking
places for others have their expenses paid
by the applicants. These men will average
a cost of at least S. day. and that means
not less than 8. 600 daily for office-seeking.
You can see that already a half million
dollars have been expended. / doubt very
much if all of the offices secured pay sal
aries worth 500, 600 for four years.
II have encountered a good many mon
strosities and n great many peculiar situa-
tions In connection with 0ffice-seeking
know a father and son who are both seek
ing positions in the same branch of the
government service. The success of one
means the defeat of the other. There are
two brothers here seeking place in the
Treasury Department. Each knows full
well. and acknowledges it. that if the other
is gwen place he will be left ont. Neither
the father nor the son, nor either of the
brothers will be given a place. / ad-
vised them. repeatedly to get together
and one withdraw in favor of the other. but
they were unwilling to do this"
There. Ia good deal of superstition in
connection with office-seeking. One of the
most energetic and strongly-indorsed Of
tce-seekers carries real rabbit foot in
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THE WRONG DONE COL. WICKER.

He Was Sacrificed to Prevent a Row with
Spain. and Now Seeks Restoration to Office.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, June "Reminiscences re-
lating to the filibustering expeditionswhich
sailed from Key West, Fla, to Havana,
Cuba, and the agitation over the subject.
during the years 1SS3-S4. have been revived
by the application of Col Fem Wicker for
appointment as collector of customs at Key
West. 1t Will be remembered that Colonel
Wicker was removed by the Arthur admin
istration, on the charge of dereliction of
duty in permitting filibustering expedi-
ton to leave Key West for Cuba after he
had been warned that such project was
on foot. The truth is, Colonel Wicker re-
ceived no official instructions regarding
filibusterers. and hadno officialinformatiOn
on the subject at the time the expedition
instructions were issued for a revenue cut
ter, and the expedition started and
reached its destination owing to the care
lessness of officers on board the government
vessel. Somebody had TO be sacrificed,
however. 1t would not do to dismiss the
commander of the revenue cutter, and so a
lesser officer was selected for official de-
capitation. Secretary Folger subsequently
acknowledged the wrong worked upon
Colonel Wicker, and afterward offered to
appoint him as a special agent of the Treas
ury Department. stating. as he did, that sit
would be an offense against the Spanish
government, under the circumstances, to
restore Wicker to his old position of col
lector at Wey West" The expedition, it
will be remembered, consisted of little
sailing yacht, with fourteen cigar-makers
on board. They perpetrated no wrong
against the Spanish government. and the
alleged infractlons of the revenue laws
were not affected one way or another.
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WILL RECOGNIZE HIS FRIENDS.
Indianians Will Be Remembered by the Pres
ident Until the Offices are Exhausted.
Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal

Indianians Will Be Remembered by the Pres
ident Until the Offices are Exhausted.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, June 1.-The announce
mont published in various Democratic pa
pers in the West, and which has reached
here. that the President had ceased to ap-
point Indianians to office outside of their
State, is untrue. The President has not
stopped recognition of men from his
own State except to fill To-
cal offices. He said this morning
that he intended to recognize and please as
many of his personal and party friends in
Indiana as possible, and that he would not
cease appointing them until the Offices were
exhausted. 1t is true, however, that there
is glut in the Indiana office-seekers' mar
ket, and a practical suspension of opera
tions, at which the hopeful complain.
However, the announcement that there
are to be no more Indianians appointed has
had the effect of inducing nearly all of the
Hoosers to return to their homes dispirited.
Generally speaking the office-seekers had
come to the conclusion that they
and that they stand as good
chances of preferment at their homes as in
Washington, and there will not be much
personal solicitation hereafter.
Superintendent Porter says the food of
inquiries coming from Indiana relative to
appointments in connection with the census
are just so much time thrown away, as
none of the appointments will be made un-
der ten months
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Brutal Murder i'm an Insane Asylum.

ROCHESTER, Mimi, June Ia murder COM
mitted in the Insane Asylum here, about April /,
has just leaked out. The victim a patient
named Taylor Combs. who had been committed
for a crime on a five-yearOld girl at Saltwater.
Combs washing the ceiling at the asylum
and muttering as TO what he would do if he had a
revolver, when he was attacked by Edward Pc
tersOn and August Beckman, who commenced
pounding him over the head with a cane and "a
hickory mop handle. Then they made him set
up, and Beckman commenced to pound him,
knocking him down, and then jumped on his
chest Combs died two hours afterward. The
painter who saw the deed told that If he
disclosed the murder they Beckman and Peter
son, would kill him. The manager of the asylum
called in the coroner, who made an examination
Beckman and Peterson claimed that COmbs's
death was caused by falling from the scaf0d
When the facts came out the men were dis
charged from the asylum. Warrants were issued
and Beckman was arrested last night, and Pc
tersons capture Is expected soon. The grand
jury will investigate the on Monday. The
asylum authorities say that Combs was industri-
Gus and easily managed, and il is declared that
his death was nothing short of diabolical muir
der
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-06-02
SENATOR Voorhees, CHEAP BID.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
BRAZIL, Ind, June 1.-The cheap bid of
Hon. ID. w. Voorhees, for the votes of the
miners here is the subject of no little talk.
Its publication in local paper is regarded
a mistake by Democrats. while the
Republicans appear much pleased over
it. Had Mr.. Voorhees, contributed $50
and refrained from a political essay whose
arguments the contribution was aimed TO
help out, it would have been all right. Had
the letter been withheld from publication
no criticism would have been made. The
party to whom the letter was addressed
cratic central committee, but is
a well-known leading Democratic pol
ltlcian, and was the choice of Clay
county Democrats for Congress when Mr..
Brookshire was nominated. Further, he
presided at the nominating convention.
He is recognized authority. The letter
was hardly intended as private one, and
disqualification Is simplya political mistake,
rather than breach of confidence. Demo-
cratic bids for. the votes of the
miners are entirely too common for dis
guisement in this instance. But the miners
remember the Democratic accusation that
they were hired to visit Mr.. Harrison dur
ing the campaign. Furthermore. at a big
Democratic rally in the coal fields just
west of Clay county, the poster calling the
meeting, among other assurances of Demo
cratic love for the people, promised cheap
coal" The reduction demanded by the op-
orators has not materially affected the
price of coal. ManIfestly the reduction
that would make it cheap" would be
greater than the one that has so strongly
$50 will be, thankfully. received. but the
miners will go slow in fOrsaking the polit-
ical faith that keeps them from the pauper-
ism they came her to escape.
The Indianapolis journal., 1889-06-02

An Interesting hit Of History Recai1ed-Ths
Queens Full Name.

Queens uu Name
Philadelphia Press. 49, @
Victoria the good, as Il has been suggested
the Queen of England shall be called. when
she fell In love had TO do the proposing for
herselfg' said an Americanized Engiishmau
the other morning. whose reminiscencet
were called up by the fact that Queen Vic
toria will be seventy years old tomorrow.
was very much interested In reading re-
Gently the account of her betrothal. 1t had
always been expected that she and he1
cousin Albert would eventually make a
match of il. When they both were about
eighteen years old, he visited England. but
did not make much impression on the new
ly crowned Queen. However, three yeara
later he made MP his mind to now or
never" game. and with his brother visited
her at Windsor Castle Like more humble
lovers he was placed in a rather embarrass-
ing predicament by the ncn-arrival OF his
luggage, and was thus prevented from
dining with her Majesty on his
first evening as her guest For
i've days dld Victoria study him and then
bourne. what she had decided TO do, she
sent for Albert saying that she desired to
see him particularly. One account of the
affair. certainly valuable for its brevlty,
reads as follows: What the Queen told
heart, and that she desired to be his wife,"
She was accepted without hesitation. as
any good-looking sovereign of twenty
might have hoped to have been, and so
they were married. 49,
Another fact about her life which inter-
ested me was the fact that she was christ
ened Alexandrina-V Victoria, with q hyphens
and not plain Victoria. as she is gener-
ally called. As child she was called
''Irina." and her maternal grandmother,
who had fondness for nicknames, gave
her the endearing titles Of Sweet Blossom
of May" and May Flower. because of her
birth. Oddly enough, two or her eighe
children were born in the same month";
Helena on May 25. ls46. and Arthur on May
1870