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RAILROADS.
= From Pittsbsrs u.iea ststioa-
Lines
Trains Rss By cs.trsI Tina.

oHTgv Eyr sYsTEM-PANHANDLE ROUTE.
Leave for Cincinnati and ST Louis, as a. m,
Il &nse!ns s eh'sls NJ: 20 s;lS p e. s.eaPta:
si so@u, si IFS is M. S;ss ,. Mansfield: s;is
io:Go III ,. ' NJ McDonsids 4l iO:is D. m. io:Si
M nEh5s' s.ds ss sss M IRON pennsoa $50 @ m stea.
benyiiie sos .. m. Wheeling. 2:Io, s:s5 a. m.
a. sS n -: 3 hi saIfs:ss'9sE ss 3 9o'
2:s5, s:25 p. m. Mansfield, $40 5:5a $50; 1l.io
M n.DSnaas is iSo rsa ss NO. Zoo BnIssf B. s l'
NoRrHwEsr sYsrEM-Fr. WAYNE ROUTE
t:a except Saturday 1l:2o p. M; Toledo. 7:io a.
Grcstline. Gre s:s5 NJ Cieyeiahd s:iS NJ i2ss lI:is
p. H.. and 7:lO a. ln.. via z Ft. W. &C; Ry.; New
Vile, Erie and Ashtabula 7:2o a. M. i2:so p. M;
n Ss. s aRS %hssIns snd BsaRie so m AZ
s:A5 D. M; Beaver Falls, 400 p. Beaver Falls,
DsrAsF i;sS FROM s Hem $50 a.
m. Beaver Falls. S:ld. IL 90 m. 5;i9 p. m: 4;@
e IS6S o. il 5 h9on or m s 1l @ 2 s''aa lse a4 5,s So s s
1880, $500 and 5 $50 p. m.; Conway 1850 D. m;
TRAINS ARRIVE u Mon station from Chicago. ex:
eept Monday. 1:69 6:OO. S:s5 a. m, SIS and
% YcunsstOWn sssa @ and New tas.le SO M. i;s $50
Cleveland, d $3.50 a. m, 2:20 100 p. m; Wheeling
and Bellaire 900 a. m, 220. 7:y p. m. Erie anc
AshtabUla l:25 l0l5 D. M; Alliance, 1880 n;
N lies and jamestown, S,l0 q. m.: Beaver Falls
5:3O a M. s:2s D. m; Leetsdale. lo:40 D. m.
ARRIVE ALLEGHENY, from EnOn, sou ~
Conway 6. 4Oa. ;Kocnester Q. 40a. Beaver Falls,
40 l2:3o 100 s. 30 and S:l5 p. M: Leets-
dale, 40 $50, 6.15 $50, T.45 q. M, lZoo. L Is
1.46, 30, 40. $50, 800 and 6:J5 p. H.; FAIR
oaks, 3 $50 4. m.
d. daily; 5. sunday only; other trains, e1ceps
SUNDAY.
JOSEPH WOOD. General Manager.
Z. A. FORD, General Passenger Agent
Address, Pittsburg, Ps-
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LOCAL LIVE STOCK.

Condition of Markets at East Liberty Stock
Yards.
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DIsPAToH.l
THURSDAY April 2 (
Cattle-ReceIpts. $50 head; shipments, SAG
head; market steady at unchanged prices; one
car of cattle shipped to New York to-day.
Hogs-Receipts, 1900 head; shipments. 1.500
head; market excited; Philadelphias, IS %
as 4U; best orkers and mixed, S. 15@5 25; no
hogs shipped to New York to-day.
Sheep-Receipts, 500 head; shipments, 900
head; market slow at unchanged prices.
Following is report Of transactions at these
yards for the week ending April l:
RECEIPTS.
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OIL CITY. April 2.-National Transit GER
tiicates opened at 721sc; highest, T313c: lowest,
723sc; closed 1870; sales, 900 barrels; clear
ances, lS4, 600 barrels; charters. 1924 barrels;
shipments, 50, Ill barrels; runs, 65,CSs barrels
BRADFORD, April 2-National Transit GER
tiicates opened at 721Sc: closed at 7314c; high
est, 1896; lowest 725c; clearances, $4,000 bar
rels.
NEW YORK, April 2-Petroleum continues
dull with sales very small. The market for
May option opened steady and advanced
slightly on short covering by shorts. The
market then became dull and remained so until
the close. Pennsylvania oil, May oDtion, open
ing. 72slc highest 731lc; lowest, 723zc; closing,
1896. Total sales. 100 barrels.
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winter patent -four. IS 1896 25: fancy straight
winter. 81 S5G5 Is; fancy straight spring. 81 s.
15 Is; clear winter s4 7595 90; straight xxx
bakers, S4 5U94 7a Rye -four 81 75G5 10.
Buckwheat flour. Z14@2Hc y n.
MILLFEED-No. l white middlings S24 500
25 90 ~ ton; No. white middlings, s24 O0Q
"a so brown mIddlings, s23 00G23 so; winter
wheat bran % 00222 So
HAY-Baled timothy, No. l. ,s10 25910 50;No. 2.
do. 50 25Ql0 00; loose from wagon. Sll 0O@l3 90
according 70 quality: No. prairie hay, 81 ESQ
so; packing do 81 50l8 90
STRAw-Oat, IS OOGS so; wheat and rye, 81 90
M 50
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NO IMPROVEMENT.
Longest Period of stagnation in the Oil Pit
on Record.

Yesterday was another off day in the oil pit
So far this week there has not been a single
trade on the local board. This is the longest
period of inactivity on record.
Figures were merely nominal. The opening
and lowest was 72zc. A little pressure fEom
the East caused an advance to 78]Sc, at which
the market finished
A movement is on foot for Withdrawing from
the conference of exchanges and changing the
manner of trading in oil that regular will
mean delivered tomorrow" instead of sellers
option the succeeding month. An attempt was
made yesterday 10 fix the date for meeting to
consider the matter, but it was defeated for
want or a quorum. 1t will be brought up to-
uay.
Refined was unchanged. Average daily runs
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Closing Bond Quotations,
Bank Clearings.

NEW YoRK-Bank clearings, Sis, s27, $50: bal
ances. S5,820S69.
PHILADELPHIA-Bank clearings. sl4. .9Sl, ia;
balances. s., ,666.3S9. Money per cent.
BALTIMoRE-Bank clearings, S2,4S3. .S54; bal
ances, sST9 T96. Money 6 per cent.
CHICAGo-Bank clearings, sl3 553, ,000 New
York exchange was 60c discount. Rates for
money were steady at per cent.
ST. LoUIs-Clearings, s3,S6S, l46; balances
$685. Money 647 per cent. Exchange on
New York zoe premium.
CINCINNATI-Money 6@7 per cent New
York exchange firm at 3O@40c discount. Clear.
ings, s., 305, 3O0
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CHARLESTON, April 2-Turpentine firm at
BIC. Rosin firm; good strained, 81 80
SAVANNAH, April 2-Turpentine firm at
SIC. Rosin firm, at 81 45@1 55
WILMINGTON, April 2.-Splrits of turpen-
tine steady at SIC. Rosin dull; strained, 81 25:
good strained, 81 80. Tar firm at 81 45. Crude
turpentlne firm; hard, 81 40; yellow, 81 25: Vir-
gipia s. 25
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Coffee Markets..

NEW YORK. April 2 - Coffee - Options
opened dull, unchanged to 5 points up; closed
inactive. unchanged to points down; sales,
2,I5O bags. including May, T35c: June. lI.00c;
August, 1850; September. l6.05Q16.10e; Octo-
Der, l5.40c; December, IA Csc: spot RIO, quiet
and steady; fair cargoes, 20c; No. Z. lS11c.
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DrygoOds Market.

NEW YORK. April 2-Under depressing
weather conditions there was no improvement
in the drygoods marker. a small iue of six
Notunghams was jObbed at 519 cents and
some indigo blues continued to run on the pre-
vicus opening.
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MONEY MARKET.

General Trade Holding Its Own Under Pc
culiarly Unfavorable Conditions.
Money was easy yesterday and in limited de-
mand. Rates were 697 per cent on all classes
of loans. Outside the banks small amount of
good paper was taken at s. The Clearing
House report showed good volume of general
trade. Exchanges were 81, 2S9 lS9 81 and bal
ances 1887, ,644 9S
easy, ranging from 234 to 81 per cent, last loan
~; closed offered at 211a. Prime mercantile
paper 597c Sterling exchange quiet but
firm at 81 sc for 80 day bills and "a SS1a for de.
mand.
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FOREIGN METAL MARKETS.
The General Situation Is Devoid of Any
thing of Special Interest.


-EPFcIAL TELEGRAbI TO THE DISPATCH;
NEW YORK, April 2.-The foreign metal
markets are thus reported by the Iron Age: In
London the transactions IN pig iron warrants
have Deen limited scale. Ths Easter holi-
days have served to check operations in some
degree, but it Is apparent that outside interest
is extremely tame, and that the general situa-
tion IS devoid of incentive to action apart from
cautious venruring on short" account Prices
are considered low. but the supply of warrants
on sale is comparatively large, and the blowing
in OF additional Scotch furnaces, along with
unfayorable accounts from MIddleboro and
the hematite sections has a rather depressing
influence.
There are at present 81 Scoth furnaces blow
ing in. that promise to soon neutraliZe the late
steady depletion of stock. Cleveland iron
masters, owing TO the poor condition of bust
ness. are erdeavoring to bring about 4 re-
duction OF L per cent in wOrkmen's wages. and
several furnaces are damping in consequence
of unremuneratiYe business.
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Metal Market.

NEW NORK-Pig iron quiet: American, l69
Il. Copper quiet and steady: lake. April.
Sl3 20 Lead dull: domestic, 81 BY Tin
strong and fairly active; straits, $40 s..
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Mining Stocks.

NEW YORK. April 2. Alice. $50: Adams
Consolidated. 1So; Gould and Curry, 325; Home
stake. $50: Horn Silver. 200; Mexican, $685.
Ontario, $500; Plymouth. 1SU; Savage, 280; Sierra
Nevada, $50; Standard. l2O; Yellow Jacket, 200.
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The Price of Bar Silver,

ESPECIAL TELEeNAM TO THE DIsPArcH.I
NEW YORK, April 2-Bar silver IN London
447sd per ounce. New York selling price. as
reported by bullion dealers, 9S1ac. Gold value
of silver in the standard dollar 50 T5S.
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When baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss she clung to Castoria,
When she had Children.sh gave them Castoria
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FREE-Samples of DIR. Miles restorative
Kervine at Jos. Fleming & Sons, Market
ST., cures headache, nervousness, sleepless-
ness, neuralgia, fits, etc.
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DRIFT OF The RIVERS.
Boats That Came and Went During the
Hours of Yesterday.

THE Scotia arrived from Cincinnati last
night with a cargo of beer. She returns to
Cincinnati tomorrow evening at 4o'clock. The
e. w. Bachelor also came IN last night, and
will go out tomorrow.
THE river stood ID feet inches last evening.
The II. K Bedford came up from Parkersburg
yesterday and will leave tomorrow evening at
o'clock for Wheeling. The W. F. Allen left
at noon yesterday for Parkersburg.
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PhiIadelDhia StOeI<a-

Closing quotations of Philadelphia stocks. rur-
nished bv whitney Stephenson brokers. NO. 81
Fourth avenue. Members New York stock Ex-
change:
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WILL TRY IT AGAIN.
The New Pork Inspection Laws May be the
Basis of Fresh Negotiations.

BERLIN, April 2.-The Vosstsche Zlituno to.
day announces that the United States laws for
the inspection of pork and bacon will probably
form the basis for fresh negotiations for the
abolition of the prohibition placed upon the
importation OF American pork into Germany
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The total sales of stocks at New York to-day
were l42 0l3 shares. including Lackawanna and
Western 6,062; st. Paul, 1920.
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Other Oil Markets.

were 1854; average shipments, 67.O53; average
charters, 33lSi,
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ribs were practically unchanged at the close
and lard was about &c lowe-.
The leading futures ranged as Iollows. as cor
rected by John NJ. Oakley & Co., % sixth street,
members of Chicago Board OF Trade:
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For MonongaheIa Citv, West Brownsville and
Uniontown 1910 A.. For Monongahela City
and West Brownsville !. 55 and TO- ~ A. NJ, and
4.50P. N. On Sunday, SIS A. NJ. and l.O1 P. N.
For Monongahea City only, l.O1 and $50 2. NJ.
week days. DrayOsburg Accom-, 500 A. VI.
and 3.20 P. NJ. week days. West Elizabeth Ac-
com. s. 35 A. NJ, la, 6. 30 and ll.S5 ?. N. sum
daH. 9. 40 NJ.
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Suddenly the baclkfre sent up leap
ing tongues of flame, and began TO fly
forward TO meet it's huge adversary,
much as bits of steel are drawn to a
magnet. Now the children's work was
done. They could only stand back and
wait. The interior of the school-house
was filled with dense cloud of smoke
that could not be endured, SO Nell sent
them to the eastern side of the house
where they had It as shield from the
fearful heat. i'H -
On came the fire, roaring, surging,
seething billow of fame that broke
over the little blackencd beach of burnt
prairie and reached almost to the door
of the school-house. For moment the
air about them was full of fire, and the
children fell on their faces with screams
of terror 1t was moment never to
be forgotten--a moment face to face
with death. Then the baficd fire drew
back, swept around and on, and they
knew that they were safe.
Nell had stood her ground on the
western side of the house, beating back
the burning tumblewceds and husks
that came flying across the burnt space,
and Aleck and Jimmie had bravely
stayed with her. Every spark that
few across the barrier was promptly
extinguished, but it set fire to the trash
under the house; and not Until the fire
had passed well beyond them did they
abate their efforts. Then they dropped
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EAINSB0kO.
March Sd, 1891

ou, lOVls
Rev. A. Z. Wright and wife, OF Tarlton,
Ohio, are guests of j. w. Dewitt and
family.
Samuel Douglass removed to Boston
last Thursday and Rufus Foraker now
occupies the house made vacant by his
removal.
]. S. w. Spargur has been confined to
his home with 81 ckness for the past two
weeks but is improving some.
Benz. Wisecup after long residence
in tins village is arranging to move to
the vicinity of Greenfield this week.
The Farmers Institute will hold a
meeting at the public school building
on Saturday, March 14th, at p. IN. ].
B. Davis and Joseph Karnes will each
furnish papers to be followed by dis.
cussions.
Presiding Elder beavers, of the U. B.
Church, is the guest OF John Hulitt.
Rev. Stiers, Of Cynthiana, is also here
calling on friends.
Mrs. Louisa Oates will sell her person.
al effects at public auction on Thursday
The series of meetings at the M. E.
Church closed last night on account Of
the sickness of the pastor, Rev. w. j.
Baker. His wife is sick also.
The news of the death of William
Oates, at the home of his parents, near
Lyndon, last Friday night, filed many
hearts with sadness. He was born and
raised in this vicinity and was held in
high esteem.
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NEW LEXINGTON.
March 1st. 1891.


Henry Maddox, of Hillsboro, visited
his daughter, Stella, here last Sunday.
Silas Thornburg and family have re-
moved to town, and now occupy Mrs.
Conard's property.
Miss -- Smith, OF Indiana, daughter
OF Hampden Smith, a former resident Of
this place, il visiting her aunt, Miss Hell
en- Smith.
The s. OF v. entertainment last Satur.
urday night passed off in splendid style.
The "Dutch Recruit" was rendered in a
superb manner, and the frequent ap-
plause showed the appreciation Of it by
the large audience. It was pronounced
the best entertainment ever given in
New Lexington. The receipts were
about $40.
Bert I. Rogers and 'Banty" CLANCY
were in town to-day posting bills for the
Kid Minstrels, who show in Hillsboro
on Thursday night of this week.
Deputy Probate Judge Fred Kelly wsg
in town Saturday and Sunday.
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Stand Your Guard.

When you mike up your mind to
take Hoods Sarsaparilla, do not he in
duced to buy some other preparation
instead. Clerks may claim that "ours is
as good as Hoods" and all that, but the
peculiar merit of Hoods Sarsaparilla
cannot be equaled. Therefore have
nothing to do with substitutes and in.
sist upon having Hoods Sarsaparilla,
the best blood purifier and building-up
medicine.
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~ rank growth Of tall grass and SUM-
3Dwes, curled and Drowned by the
1sak. and giving little token Of the tor
9sue OF water whose bed 1t was at Ger
1ain seasons Of the year. Across the
1tver two miles away low cloud OF
anDke had been slowly creeping north
v.rd all day, showing the progress of .
1saarie fire that some one had carelessly
01lowed TO get away from him" Tho
~ had . coppery. burned out look, tho
Wfnd was dead, and tho sitting air held
Aehant smell Of smoke.
% was not pleasant outlook truly,
~ Nell had bat 70 close her eyes In
0agination and she could sec the I'M
wing front Of her beloved seminary,
epzd feel the velvety grass beneath hsr
tss4 could breathe the fragrance OF tho
1zOves Of pines, could see the sweep Of
- pebbly drive. and The ripple Of The
S110ae lake.
0Ae was reused from her reverie by .
Adam gust OF wind that swept IN .
- south windows, whirled her papsss
1Bsa her desk and tossed her haif in
- disorder. Il was . hot rough.
onsey bresse. but n wss ''air in mo-
Dna.r and any thing waA better thnn
eheutter ssagna&ioa Of The moment ~
4hsas 70 she hsiled 4 . . relief n
es:a ess:ss.e. :. y. : ~ esllghs 80
~ peegonotur1k
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~ met Ms. Knicicefbockes N shabby
eos. little while ego He has not fsiisd
haA hsf"
20. nos hs only puts tha4 eoet On
whsp hs goes 70 the aaseaso1s 10 give h
bis property for aassasmsnA s-xszas
0lftan9a
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NEW MARKET.
March I'd, lse

March I'd, 1891.
MI. and Mrs. Tip Miller, of Hillsboro.
have been visiting relatives in this
vicinity for the last few days.
Mr.. t. j.. Hunter and wife were the
guests of James Hulse and wife, of
Leesburg, Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Lizzie Mcclure, OF near Bethel.
has been the guest of her aunt, Mrs.
Ruth Hunter, for several weeks.
Mr.. Mark Lemon, who resides in Illi-
nois, arrived here Saturday and will
visit relatives for some time.
A Christian Endeavor Society was
organized at the Presbyterian Church
last Sunday night with nineteen mem.
bers.
Bofn-To James Grahm and wife, a
girl.
j.. vanWinkle, who has been at
the Medical College at Columbus, is at
home for short stay.
Harry Elton. of Samantha, spent Sun.
day with friends at this place, returning
home Monday accompanied by Mrs. H.
8. Vance, who has been visiting here
for the past week.
T.J. vanWinkle and John o. Vance
were at Blanchester last week on busi-
ness.
Miss Ella McClintick has returned
from Sardinia after a two weeks visit.
John Purdy leaves this week for
Louisville, KY, where he will spend the
summer.
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If one is "down in the mouth" and
his trouble proceeds from nasal catarrh.
we advise him to keep "stiff upper
lip" for Old Saul's Catarrh Cure ''knocks
out" this disease every time.
When you wake up in the night and
hear the baby crying, look out for dan
ger-there's rock ahead. DR.. Bulls
Baby Syrup will assist you in safely
passing the rock. 1t costs only 25 cents.
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"Perched upon a bust of Pallas," or
better yet, on some handy shelf, the
sensible housekeeper has her bottle Of
DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup, and when the
child has distressing cough or q touch
of Group she cures the little one in no
time.
"What d6spreacher talk bout to-day,
brudder Julius? "Oh, he telled bout
Samson beat dem Philistines, en-, you
know ! NOSE cry to tink dem poor
creeters couldn'tg get no salvation OIL"
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Plenty to Interest.

MIRA 0otham-I don't sec how you
can endure little place like Lawn
villa Nothing 10 see, nothing TO hear.
nothing TO talk about.
Rural Guest- saleesl WY, our
own church has changed ministers
three times within . year, and the
other church - having . row With
theirs.-N. Y. Weekly.
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ters hung by single upper hinge and
Mapped disconsolately in every puff of
wind that eddied round the southeast
corner; another had succumbed to its
fate and lay neglected upon the ground.
Trespassing penSnives and pencils had
cut and written the names of their
mischievous owners upon the front of
the house, and the open door was dec
GRATED with notices of school meetings
nnd election bills.
Such was the.exterior of this western
shall of learning" and the interior
looked scarcely more attractive to the
stschoolma' am" who ''had the fall
term" at the munifcent salary of twen-
ty-fivc dollars month. There was the
usual array of SCARED and iulS-stained
desks, rusty stove, 'scratchy".
blackboard and a smoky ceiling The
wall was decorated with maps done in
red, yellow, blue and green, and here
and there hung writing or spelling
chart. A globe stood on it's chest in
one corner and the water-buclset occu-
pied a bench beside the door. Four
bracket lamps were fastened to the
window castings. as the school-house
was used in lieu of both church and
public hall.
Nell Benson. who sat at the teach
er's desk" that September afternoon,
was the daughter of Presbyterian
minister who had but recently removed
from the pleasantly Miami valley to
the prairies of Kansas. o, how home
sick she had been for the pretty Ohio
home, the old neighbors, the pleasant
village; but most of all she longed for
the familiar halls of the seminary at
Oxford, and missed the CHEEKY faces
and merry voices of her gay classmates
there.
The, expenses Of the long move had
drained heavily on the minister's slen-
der purse. and the struggling little
churches to which he had come were
able to give him but a small salary;
oven the small sum necessary to defray
Nel1's expenses at the seminary was
not for moment to be thought of. So
With many secret sigh and tear she
bad packed her disappointed hopes
With her trigonometry and moral
science in the very bottom of her trunk,
md had gone bravely out to try to earn
1A1OukA w Soiiy ACA w u eAAPAOAAo- sAA0
next year. Next year! o, what tor
tnre to think of Sue and Lill and Kate
going back 'this year" for their senior
year, while she was the only missing
one. But Nell was conscientious about
her work, and really enjoyed it; though
sometimes her twenty small scholars
seemed dreadfully tiresome, and Aleck
Somers, the freckle-faced boy on the
back seat, was often inclined to be un-
ruly.
On the afternoon on which we look
IN upon her she was very weary. The
Ehildren had been noisy and restless,
md Aleck had persisted in sitting side
ways in his seat and gazing idly out of
&he door. 1t was not pleasant pros
pect outside, and Nell wondered why It
6hould be so attractive to him. Tho
Pcalrie stretched away from the door,
brown, dreary and bare, till it dropped
1nr moment in the muddy waters Of
Sl.e Minnesota.
Ths "big slough" that passed within
= zew rods OF the school-house, and
exailed its snake-ike course across to
Ehe river, was the only break In the
0xoaxy level. This slough was . mar.
SUw depression in the prairie, marked