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M APTtlVSVILLE, IND., JULY 1«,1874.[SITuiro 1 ScalingPrice Clothingouse,Merchant Tailors,which he helped himself to from the ( 44Where were you born V91 asked.kitchen cupboard, but it did not take his j “Waydown in Chatham count?, North appetite away, tor the substantial break- j Carolina, at the foot of Blue Ridge, 12 fast he ate with unusual relish. ; miles from Hillsborough. My father'sAfter the regular morning tueni lie sat j M™e w William Maynard. He liveddown in his arm chair on the porch and smoked his pipe, looking out on theto be eighty-eight years old. After he told me I was my own man I came rightwoods and field and sky, and once that j away to Pike county, Kentucky. I was she saw him, said his daughter-in-law, 11 yarned 0,1 the t°p of Blue Ridge toI NOTON STREET.^levied slock of Clothing for gent*, boyi end children. r« and fSn’aloons. We Import tW goods, snd hsse theill £lt;«-'tds tcarntnrt'sl ax »f|»rsented, ot iwruey ref ended.i nriv other Uou?-; in tin; City,331ystooped to pick up a pin. That was a wav he had. There never was a nail or pin that he did not see, and, true to the old superstition, he always walked aroundSarah Greenstreak, who was six months younger thau me. There's ji»t Ue;;(y-three years difference between my oldest boy’s age and mine.” [Here the daugh-vs£b11Cu£nilespstrn*trkahle poem by W. W. Story,, appear**! years ago in Black-be inagnittceiice of ita diction.iThe i!!owing remarkablethe eminent seulptor wood. Aside from the magnificence the idon of the |*ero is *o bold and original that vi tv fe'v will feel themselves familiar with Iteven on .1 reading.IIf re, Caarratmn. take my bracelets— They har with a purple stainMv anus; turn over rov pillows— ’They ah» hot where I have lain; Open the lattice aider, •A gauze on my bosom throw, And lei me inhale the odorsThai over the garden blow.I div-im-it that I was with mv Antony,And iu his arms f lav;Ah, me! the vision has vanished—Its music has died away;The flame and the jieifmue have perished— As this xfdeed aromatic pastille That wound the blue smoke of its odor Is now but an ashy hill.Seatin’ upou me rose leaves—Thev cool me after my «Vrj~And with sandal odors tan my,TUI into my veins they irt-op;Reach down the lute, stud {day me A melancholy luue.To rhvtuc with the dream that has vanished. And the aluuibciing afternoon.it, if necessary, to pick it up. point to- j ter-in-law interposed that this son was ward him, for luck. The next that she j eighty-four years old, which observation noticed, good Mrs. Maynard, the pipe I escaped the old man’s ear. He went on had slipped out of his hand, his stick had 1 with his story, which was elicited by dropped on the floor, and his bead had j ™ch interrogation.] “We had eleven fallen away over on one side until jt childrenWilliam, Julia, Betty, Rich-rested prone on his left shoulder. It was j ard* Jamrs. Janey, Barnabeth, Chnto-an attitude that was not to be mistaken,; P^r* John, Chanty and Susie. Four01ooeIbSand she cried out in alarm: “Come quick, somebody: something’s the matter with pap.”Sure enough when the family with hurried steps drew nearer they saw that death had gotten the best of the old mao at last. The blackness of death had passed over the face, the under jaw hadfallen, and the blue eves had turned a% *last cold guz* at the sky.My young reader may think it strange, but a lt;ry of lamentation.went up for the loss • 1 1 hat old, old man, who had for Years Item'more of a care than help;are dead. I remember when mv father was whipped by the British in the cornfield. during the Revolutionary war, because he would not tell where his brother was. My uncle was a soldier in the Revolution. My brother was taken off by the british. I have voted for every President from George Washington down to Mr. Greeley.” No one could get it through the old man’s head that Mr. Greeley was not President and alive.] “We lived in a little log cabin in North Carolina, twelve miles from the (Jourt House. My father had no staves. Myanlt;l th«- desolation of the household after step-mother had eight. We had no kindr,There, tlro^’amg in golden xantigfat, Um«-rx ! V* slow- smooth Nile,Thrmi;f‘i .*K*n«ler papyri, lbut «ver The -leepiug eOH**Kl0e.The lotu- 5oils oil the writer.And opens its heart of gold.And over its hn«d leaf pavement Never a ripple la rolled.Tim twilight breeze Is too lazy Those feathery palms t«» n ave, And yon little cloud is as motion lew*As stone 4lwve s gra\e.Ah me! thU HfcJew cut lure Orose* my heart ami brain!Oh! for a storm nnd thunder—For lightning and wild tierce rain! Fling down that lu»e—l hate It!Take r;«th«*r his buckler and sword.Aud email and clash them ttmtber.is StilT^dTill this sleeping world’y*:IMS :Hark! to my Indian beauty— My cockatoo, creamy white.With re— underhis leathers—That flash across the light.Look! listen! as back ward Mid forward!To his hoop of (Cold he clings,How he trembles, with crest uplifted. And shrieks as he ntadly swings!Oh, cockatoo, shriek for Antony;fry, “cnme. my love, come home!” Shriek, ‘AtiUm! Anton. ! Antoay!”Till be hears you even in Boole.S.[Dig,Cut:x.There—leave me, and take from asy chamber That wretched little gazelleWith iu bright black eyes so meaningkm,I nervThe thing without blood or brain—And itsiy tinkling bell! Take him—my nerves bevexOr, by the body of Isia,Iil snap his thin neck in twain!L*lt;NA.Leave me to gaze at the landscape MfstUy stretching away,Wheu the afternoon’s opaline tremors _t’er the reemntaiiu qnWering play;Pours from the west its fire.And melted, as in a crucible,Their earthly forms expire;And the bald, clear skull of the desertter,Jau-of 8plUHit.lyWith glowing mountains is crowned. That burning like molten jewels Circle its temples round.I will lie aud dream of the past-time, -Eon* of thought away,And through the jungle of memoryLoosen my fancy to play;When, a smooth and velvety tiger, Bibbed with yellow and black, Snppie and cwshkmed footeds,iif finddftofactionIB.u1t1 wandered, where never the track Of a human creature had rustled The silence of the mighty woods, And fierce in a tyrannous freedom,1 knew but the law of my moods. The elephant, trumpeting, tarted When he beard ray footsteps near, And the spotted giraffes Bed wildly x Iu a yellow cloud lt;4 fear,I sucked fh {he noontide splendor,glade.Quivering along theOr yawniug, panting and dreaming, Basked in tbe ^aion^sk shade,Tfll I heard my Ud mate rdannN,B OWBIS)%ATLIS.As the shadows of triglit came on,To breed iq the tsof*# thick broaches.And the shadow of sleep was gone;Then I round, and roared in answer.And unsheathed from my eushiooeil feet My curving daws, and stretched me,And wandered ray mate to greet,'We toyed in the amber moonlight,Upon the warm flat sand.And struck at each ether our mamive How powerful he was and grand!His yellow eyes flashed fiercely As he crouched and gagxl at urn,And hte quivering tall, U*® s Serpent, Twitched, mirrtog nervously,Then like a storm he seized we,With a wild triumphant cry.two clouds in heavenAnd we met, as twlt;When the thunders before them fly.We grappled and struggled together.For his love like his rage was rude:And his teeth In the swelling folds of my neck.At time*, in our play, drew blood.Often another suitor—For I waa flexile nod fair—Foughc for me in the moonlight,While I lay etching there,TIU bis blood was drained by the desert;And ruffled with trianfpfc end power, He licked me and lay beside me To breathe him a vast half hour.Thai dpwn to the fountains we tottered.bangeSmWhere the antelopes came to drink; Like a bolt we sprang upon them,r.Ere they had time to shrink.We drank their blood and crushed them. And tare them limb from limb.And the hungriest lion doubted Ere he disputed with him.That was a life to live for!Not this weak human life, With Us frivolousIts poor aqd petty strife!Come te rn7 arms, my hero, tafaawenf twiUghtAnd the tiger's ancientrninatInon begins in flow.^jSfSBCttaspower,Take meAs a warrior that storms a fortress I will not shrink or cower. Umu, eeyowflsmeiuthn demri,Affd ieve as lou loved me then.the lvm.-.iii* wore cared fur ami buried, can *; iv Je likened to the void in a fam ily when-a little child is taken away.She wriie?* as follows concerning a visit to the old man last winter.Mr*. Maynard was a fair s|*vimen of a hard-woj king Indiana country woman. Her hands and face were brown with toil, aud her features had sharpened with age. but the r \; r. don of her pntirtcn arce was !h» ; . id mi r r- nversa! ion evinced more thau ordinary gi.nd sense and correct principle. For venn* she has had the entire care of .hertofather in-law, and, as her husband said, was the only one that could do anything with, him. He (Maynard yeve) had daughters, but he was not happv with them. Mrs. Maynard said perhaps it was because they did not live at the old home. They owned the home now, though, {Mr. and Mrs. Maynard.) Theybought it of the father, paying him morefor it tlmii any one else would. He had sjKiit the mlt; ney years ago, for traveling excuses to Kentucky aud back, principally, but she did not care for that. He was welcome, and she would do the best she could for him as long as he lived.She made some apology for his dress, saying he liked to wear old clothes the best. The only concern she had in her mind was in reference to the la«t vote her father in-law had cast. He had always been a Democrat, but at the last election the Democratic party was all torn up, and one of the neighbors thatcame over and took him to the polls per* suaded him to vote for Greeley. He•A*d her if it would be right, and shesaid yes; but she could never forgive herself for not having told him that Mr. Greeley was not a Democrat. * Her husband voted for O'Conor, and she was sorry his old father should have cast his last vote, maybe, for Mr. Greeley, who was the main cause of the “war trouble.”The old man was seated in a chair to the left of the fire-place, where, by turning his head, he could look out of the window. It was his corner; the best place in the room ; and was never occupied by any one else. There was a par-ticijlaf peat for him. also, at the table. As we walked towards fhe fire-place he rose from bis secttrod extended his hand. He waa not remarkably old-lookiog— oould have readily passed for eighty. In bight he was about five feet teu, and his frame was slight, but quite erect. In youth he must have been a handsome man, for, sans teeth and with eyas deeply sunken, he was not uncomely. The thin locks were not all gray, and were combed with a certain grace from off his forehead. On closer view I was struck with the texture of his skin, which SCWD ed to have shrunken, like cloth, withoutwrinkles, over his featurea. The hands especially had a parchment hue, and their clasp was as nerveless and loose asa baby’s. He was dressed in a suit offine brofffn jeans that was scrupulouslyle.dean, and he looked comfortable. He had on thick, warm, woolen stookii^s, and neat, strong shoes. His hat—felt— the oolor of his clothes, was hong on a peg above his head. Two canes were also standing in the corner, and they were curious. They were made of hickory and were three feet ten inches in length. About six inches of the upper end was plain; the rest of the cane was cut in mgny rided points like a precious stone, and they were painted in a variegated style, Mue, black, red and yellow. A buckskin string, some ten inches inlength, was ran through a hole near the top. In addition to the two by the fireMQSES MAYNARQIfoes.p.DEATH OF TW OLDBST MAW If WffUffAa ooaa*»roK Mat's Visit *0 MiN»Laura Ream writes to the Louisville Otmrier-Journal an account of a rsoeot visit rto Moses Maynard, (whose death wm reontljr rtpoirt*!), preMng »follow,:“TU Ofcj ibui■which came to cm bjrfe dwd,”waiW to111merS“And who, p»»jr. is theA aPSBERhundred and was Dorn, according to all account^ Ob-June ^ 1874, I tpjll not add ftill ofburden of year*, retted On Jiiiiaplace, the old man took down two others from* the rafters, which had just been presented him. I noticed two gnus andgame-bags and shoton the rafters. Behind the door in the right hand corner was the old man’s bed;it was furnished with a fine mattress and a great feather bed, ruffled piliow-caw* and bolster and handsome patchwork quilt. When Mrs. Maynard iotAxhmd me to the old man she mid I would have to speak very loud, ae “pap” was very deaf. “He heave a woman better than aman, though,” she added. He most hate beard her, fur he said:1 i4I tun' kike an old, thing. Idon’t hear what i* said. I have nothingto talk about I know nothing.”In fbtthm conversation he toM methat be hid never been dck but once, and then the doctors drove him pretty dose. He wie never mimed but once, and hie wife had been dead twenty eeventears. He hid never married ivtin. He would hbf trouble inybody itseWfth tbs cm of hint He mi his wM;r* * JAt lt;ufewne ho, like atMffaKdT^lld. TbereUdUwf. 'fbcUwMri^ore of beakh even. HeRfKTfo1 *Sf*■■in tb« door■naebed at • erwat of Uand___________wHk U*kwwrf to Dm Bnptict ehwoh. Qbc «*boned in the grave-rard aear. oAcib U-xpeMftd to lie wbeo tbe Ahnkhtr oelW hue. He Mibpned be wooldT never die UtiJ Uitime^ie. bat W hMl of -OOf mtesr •» thnxwfi bhn.OWtob you r I eAed.old;* be replied.U elinijrc mn,* ob-ecrred Aa demtoter in-Uw. “He we*of wagons in those days. We put ihe tobacco in hogsheads and lashed them to hooppoles, and hitching hordes? to them rolled them to market thirty nnd forty miles. The way was to heat and bend hooppoles and nail them to the hogsheads. The people about where I was born and raised were bad off, but they were free with what they had. They were an awful set to drink. 1 have had more hardships than all the rest of thefamily.”Speaking of driuking seemed to make the old fellow dry, for, rising from his seat, he went to the little cupboard I have spokeo of and took down the whisky bottle. “I take it by word of mouth,” he remarked. “Will you have yourn sweet ?” We said we would take it raw, and from the same cupboard he produced a horn jigger, which he filled with the intoxicating beverage and passed around. His eye lighted up at the sight of the liquor, and after drinking a copiousdraught his tongue ran volubly.A good deal of that farm money, I was • afterwards told, went for whisky, the old mail getting gloriously drunk everv time he went out. He was nevermfnoisy or troublesome. Within the last few years he has been from home very little, and he told me he had not drunk as much as he used to, becau-e the liquor was bad. He was afraid it would shorten his days. For a period of ninety oddyears he had been a constant drinker, and longer than that time he hud chewedand smoked tobacco. Withal, he hadnever wronged any man but himself ot , and died as much respectedi11tli6taniiVIt;ahnPIli1Cu¥#dkoo¥flt;t1(.0habat!1iffnecnsitand more regretted man many a younger man.1cLETTER FROM WASHINGTON.TUB NEXT IT. 8. SENATOR FROM INDIANA.tft($IFI;I0 c1 ItI-t11atAs a Senator i* to be elected by the Legislatnre, the coming winter, to fill the place of Hon. Dauiei D. Pratt, of Lo-gansport, whose time wifi expire on the4th of March, 1875, the quest ion natu rally arises, will he he a Democrat, Republican or Granger? If the Legislatureshould he Republican who will be selected ? Or, if neither the Republicans orthe Grangers have a majority will they not be likely to unite upon some man who is a Republican member of Congress, and who has used his efforts, energy andtalents to procure cheap transportation, and legislated in behalf of the laboringclasses?Daniel D. Pratt, of Logansport, has made a good and useful Senator. He is not a man of brilliant talents, but is an honest, faithful servant, always at his post and ready to do his duty. He is a man of sterling worth, of the strictest integrity, and his course in the II. 8. Senate has been such that it will bear a favorable comparison with that of any other 8enator who may be better known, and who may have made more noise and louder pretensions. Senator Pratt is probably the largest man in the U. S. Senate; he has arrived at that age when experience is ripe and judgment has ft\itVi11hbIreached maturity ; he was horn at Palermo, Maine, October 26, 1813, and is consequently 63 years old. He gnuln ated at Hamilton College, N. Y., in 1831, and removed to Indiana in 1862. He studied law in Indiana, and removed to Logansport in 1836. He was a member of the Indiana Legislature in 1851 and 1853. He was elected as a Representative to the Forty first Congress in 1868, and before taking his seat, was elected to the United States Senate, to succeed TKma. A. Hendricks. Shortly after Senator Pratt took his seat; the theater to him was a new and untried one, and the situation was not suited to his taste or inclinations and it was erally understood that be inten retign; upon tbe most urgent (solicitation of his priitical friends, however, he was induced to remain until the expiration of his term. For this reason I draw the inference that Mr. Prsitt will not nor could not be induced to be a candidate fbraseeood term.b(Ptaa«tfaiis tended toTbere are quite a number of Iodian-ians here, and being true Republicaus,they m* only feel but express a great tolioitiMe in tb. ItefiuKiiaai p«*ptca ftIndian* and »JpAfo » ability uf barmprMJbttioa n Oaagetf7 Wirt irtd M* Octot*4\ bat M iwvef'hmnr * foal; nj* b* i* omj *kUr tku niMty-tfcrw.* «id, “Ji________Umy, «■»*• p«»WWvtlw* I*foU !■ IodiMa.and I eumonunt for hi* *o wny th*n it ii.k.. yfifUk Mng which is natoral to ail hnmiT brings that what wa h««a ahooU ha tha lH*t and that me State prid. be-Oamat a part and pareal of oer nature,aatongnirfy400 mambmntthe Houre and Senate we went nun to lie the beet and greatest. State pride baconwa * prnmiaaat iodividoal bump here d«rin* the eeeriene of Congrew.The laet day of tha mm I waa amineh the fthery and a Southern lady waa eHtbg mar; she derired to know whnthat nma was who waa spaaMag so well aid waa shtoaleg srnrn Xaetasw Bsnsa-sentathw who was stinniag Maf lI straight sstsrfdwch, an#N. Tyma, at him *(JiiI88Ifl1U«t1rdiiIi%.1i4I1I
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