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FIFTIETH CONGRESS. ("*T SENATE. 'TheMB»teamendment*to oill author J™l the construction of ft bridge over the IOIMMW rivw near Knoxvillo worn o.on cnirmi in, and the bill was pammt. A motion fayconsider -the army appropriation DM] was ocn^tcdj: Coopidoration of bflln on tlio cal ender followed. Several hours debate onsued* •n mv«rn\ lrilW. but thoy were finally laid mrae. Bills granting rilief to El!en Pi Mal loy and the Heirs of John U. New man were, passed. HOU8E. The house went into committee of tho 2»*iia consider the army appropri.*it?oft tV men^ *n,8.ad0Ptcd »»»]Popria- *ng *900,000 for beginning thovbnstruetion' ora new military post near Chicago III. An amendment appropriating $30,000 for the fng urchaoe fng of powder to firo morning and ev«n guns at military posts was adopted. A trbvmioir Wan added to the paragraph'rijlat-' to post supplies, requirinp: them to IH» —-—-^wtierp- thejr i1air'be pntvhnBer) cheapest, quality and *:ost of transport atfon considered, The committee then rose and the Ml passed. There were but half a dozen republican, ahd less than a score of democratic {senators present throughout the sessipn. The senate passed a liiil authorizing the romtruetion Of A rAih'Oiul brulgc Urrons the Mississippi river at Alma, Wis. The conference committee on th- Indian appropriation bill was agreed tn. Tim non ite went into a secret session. The doors to the upper galleries were opened so that there could be free ventilation and all the occu pants of the galleries, corridors, telegraph of fices, and committee rooms were driven out. Only about a dozen senators remained itt their scats.« On motion. of Mr. McWHh the treaty providing for a reop^nilijf of the claims of American citizens against the Vene zuelan government was taken up, a ml after an hour's discussion was ratified. The treat •nept applies for the appointment of anew commission for the consideration of tire claims. notrsE. Bills appropriating $40,000 each for the •ration of public buddings at Fsii-ibaiilt, ami Rod wing, Minn., were introduced in the house. The senate passed a bill authorizing the •const ruction of a railroad bridge in-r^ss the lied river of the North. HOI^R. A bill was passed authorizing the ap tointment of an additional associate Justice Tor Dakota. The house went into committee on the sun dry civil appropriation hills, and after debate the provision appropriating K»00,000 on the Jibrary building was striken out. SENATE. "Mr. Farwell bill directing the president to prohibit the importation of the products of tforrign states in certain cases, was reported •adversely from the commit tec ou foioi" af fairs. House bill, appropriating S.'O.OOO to •complete the public building at Wichita, Kan., was taken tip and pasxed with mi $loo ooo"*' ',lcrcusi"s tll( 'U'l'ioiniiition to The nena^e then look up the private l/ills on the caJwmlur and passed all of Ihem 92 in uumlter. After routine business the house went into •committee of the whole on 1 he sui:drv civil •appropriation bill. In Die course »f the de bate upon the item relating tothespeci.il iigents the adininisl ration of the hind office under (ien. Sparks was severely critised bv Laird, of Nebraska. KEJJATK. t)n Thursday, in the absence of a ((uoruro, the Senate ^Jjourned over to Monday. HOISI Sunday civil service hilt still occupied thvattention of the House. Mr. Ki««e moved that, the appropriation for the surveys of public lands be increased from 9lOO.OOO to 9200.000. I.ost. Mr. Townshend offered mi men.hm-nt mak ing the amount host. «»n motion of Mr. McSliane. the oJliee nf sui vryor-gencral of Nebraska \v abolislied. I Witici*nis. It is snitl that Mount Ararnt, oil Mhirh ark landed, is more th tn 17-,O00 iwt above tho sou level, nid roMKtnntly covered wil.h snow inl iefc. It was evidently a cold day where Noah "{j^ot left"—there. lirown was eourtin.i? a ch:irmiiitq widow who tinned a deaf ear to his Holicitations. "Tho door of my lienrt is closed," she nmnnored.. "Hut," urged Urown, '"t-lio lutiK'ntrd could not certainly have carried the key «way jeith him." A patch on a, boy's trousers is »omotliin£ new. under the son.—.Bos-' ton Traveller. She wanted to take.some lessons in nivhery, bat she was very, very ver dant. "Have you a bow and quiver?" asked the teacher. "Ye—ye—yes/' she hesitated, "I have a beau, but I haven't a quiver any more. He's been comming for the tibout two months now, and I'm used to it." —Washington Critic. Old Gentleman (who lias jriven tramp a nickel)—"Now my man, what will .you do with all that money —spend it for whisky?" Tramp— "No,-sir. I need food and alothes more than I do whisky.. 1 shall take that nickle and buy a threo-boti on cutaway coat with vest, and what there is left of it I s'pose Delnionico will get. a Poor man, sir, can't drink whisky and be dressy at the same time.'—New York Sun* Magistrate (to plaintiff, with Jump on his heatty^lf your wife threw a wadiron !it yon why didn't you dodge?" riaintifi—"I did, Your Honor, and that's how I come to get hit." Smith has a good opinion of him self. He has never done a stroke of work, but lives on a hard-working father. Nevert heless he fancies that some credit is due to him for the for tune which he enjoys. The other day, leaning against the mantel piece, his back to the lire, he said, "I was born the son of a poor labor er: Before I was thirty years oid I was the son of the richest man in the country." What's in a name? Mr. A. J. Ham who recently died in Philadelphia, claimed to hate been a descendant of Francis Bacon. Minister: "So you go_ to school, do yoii, Bobby?" Bobby: "Yes, sir." "Let me liear how ytm spell 'broad'" "B-iMMl-e." "Webster spells it with an a,' Bobby.' '"Yes, sir but you didn't ask me how Webster spells it." you asked me how I spell it." Mrs. pe Troit (who lu\s just built a new house)-^"0iir decorator told me I ought to have a globule for the library." Dealer—"Globe,you mean,' madame. Here's a fine one." Mrs. De Troit—"Yes, but I want a. square one to fit in a particular corner near the fire place.—Tid-Bits." What is the difference between a hill and a pill? One is hard to get up and the oulier is hard to get down. A large representation of farmers and Pro libitionistB of Spink county Dakota met at Redfleld to diecuss the feasibility of institu ting a movement looking to the consolidation of the alliance farmers with the Prohibition ists in placing a ticket in the field this fall. A centra) committee was appointed of nine, who will call a convention in two weeks. Fully seventy were in attendance. The move ment is looked npon by many as an import* ant one and likely to carry considerable iii ffoenee with it in the election in Spink county tbipfaU. mmny"f(fgK, AQHAMSE CHECKMATE. Three years ago I was a girl of six teen, nnemancipatsd from the sthb'ol room. My father is —banker at Siston. The ttoWnt lies in a valley and by a great many people is thought Unhealthy. Having a kinsman whom he c&n thoroughly trust as acting manager, papa theso many years tince has abandon&d the redHiouse in Sistbft Broadway, and resided at the Manor, Walnsey. This is, however twelve miles from his placets! business —eight by rail &chl'£d to four by road. The Manor* lias one drawback—it stands in a very isolated situation. Our nearest neielibors are out name sakes, th» -Escotts of W^lnwJK^Cross and Valeutia Loose, the country seat of Capfc. Milne Escott, lies westward across the wilderness we call the Heath a good three miles. The month when my story opens was that ef February Fill-dike, and and it was justifying its name. Of storms we seemed to have a ceaselees succession. Heavy rains ttfid high winds had been fot Stever&l weeks the prevailing ftusteorological condition. Alice—my younger sister—and I were prisoners withip doors and we should have found time drag more heavily than it did but for the presence of Val. An only brother is always a girl's hero, and Val was ours. In age he came be tween us, and his proper place at this period of the year $ras ttiigby. But he had met with Aft a'ctident ri't Christmas, and WAS bhly, just con valescent-. ifente his holidays had lasted in exces3 a full fort night of the working term. As per haps Val may read this. I will Be caudid, and add tlmt tUere were sea sons when} tix^uig to his teasing, we heattily wished him back in the Mid lands.- The Tuesday on Which papa announced his urgent summons to Ferris court was, however, not one of those occasions. Boreas was doing his best to bring the house about our ears. We could ridt pos sibly go out in the tempest. We were not ultra enthusiastic readers, and fancy work was ever Alice's bete noir therefore we must have settled [tit© tame subjection to enniv? bill tor Val. It was his business, as he put it, to make thhigs lively, and he did. I had ventured to demur to papa's soing. Surely it was my place to care for him as mamma would have done had she Isyed, and his health had troubled me of late, thoughtless as 1 too frequently Was. "It is a dreadfully rou^h day, papa," I .said. "Cannot Sir Huso Ferris wait? It is such a distance too, to Fsrris Court and all across country. You can't reach the place readily by rail." "No I wish that 1 could," papa an swered. "But. the journey is quite im perative. Sir Hugo is one of our best patrons. He telegraphs that his de parture for Algiers is fixed definitely for Thursday—an alteration of a week in his arrangements and I have ur gent matters to discuss with him. He insists—foolishly, but I cannot help it—on negotiating with the principal he will have none of Mr. Bellews." I suppose my face was visibly lengthen ing, for before I could reply, papa add ed: "Don't, look so glum about it, Magaie. You'll be quite safe here in charge of Mrs. Climber, our new house keeper. I am convinced that, atter many changes and mishaps, we have secured a reasure. I say this be cause it is uncertain if I shall return to-niuht. "Not return to-night!" I echoed helplessly. "No," he said. "I have decided to take the horses the whole way and as the roads are in a bad state, Spence will put the cattle Up in the next village and then drive me back the next morning. I shall be sure of comfortable quarters at Ferris Court." "Is it quite-Hsafe?" 1 askec^, "For me to do you mean?"-" "Xo-o, for us: This house is so lonely, and it is known that there are mamma's jewels—and the pictures— and the plate." Papa scoffed at my tears. "We are too far from the trttek of- the light lingered prowler to receive his atten tions," he answered. But it was an error. Ever since that- day have had a lurkinz belief in presentiments. I know very well that the confession will cause some superior persons, forti fied in the lines of a sane common sense, to smile with pity at my girlish Weakness. I am somewhat disposed to smile with them and yet it is not mora certain that a plot exist ed to rillo the manor, than that hour by hour after papa had 2one I grew more and more vaguely but genuinely uneasy. I said nothing to either Val or Alice. What was there to say?.. Nor to Mr3. Climber. Somehow I had not taken to the fresh arrival so warmly as the others. I did not dispute that her recommen dations Were tirst-class, that her de meanor. to each of us w^s precisely what it'should be—-neither overdefer ential nor too familiar—that she was a skillful house mistress and a paragon of order.,, Dusk thickened at last,, and we had the approval of onr consciences in closing blinds and drawing curtains to, and shutting out by every recog nized expedient the driving cloud rack the desolate landscapes and the con stant drip, drip of the complaining trees. And then Val accepted "a stray challenge—mine or Alice's, I cannot now be sure the point is immaterial— and proceeded, with a flow of boyish eloquence which promised well for his intended future at'^lie bar, to vindi cate his latest hobby," tho science of raphiolos,y. He had a notable little collection of autoeraphs and- speci mens of caligraphy which he rummag ed out of his hoard of treasures and upon these he descanted with all the dogmatism of the professor and all the fervor of the disciple. As he was pointing out to half skeptical critics aiid listeners an alleged resemblance between traits in the historical char acter of the Duke of Wellington and features in the great warrior's hand writing, he was interrupted. To the surprise of each of us we heard the nimble of approaching wheels on the soaked avenue without. "Can papa be back after all, and as early as this?'' Alice cried. "Not he. That isn't our carriage. It's a brougham certainly but Spence isn't driving it—the rattle isdifferent," Val answered, at the end of a short pause. "Then who can it be?" I said with wonder and a recrudescene of anxiety. Val crossed to the window and caught question and reply of visitor and coachman. "Is this the place?" inquired the former. "Yes this be Mr. Escott's o' t' Manor, Walnsey," returned thp latter. Claiig went the hall bell: and in another half minute Josephs, our butler, looking anything but pleased at the interference with his session of enjoyment it* the kitchen, opened our door and ponderously Announced: ••Mr. Lidlaw," The name was entirely unknown to me, as also the purport and occasion of the call. I debated. Jor a second whether I 'should send Alice in search Of Mrs. Climber—who was, I believed writing in her own room—or whether I should myself assume the responsi bility of confronting the stranger. This question was decided for me. On the heels of thedomesticadvanced Mr. Lidaw he, at least, appeared to have no doubt as to the course to follow. Under sized, middle aged, clean shaven, gray—this is thS liest and fullest d£8jripti*dn which I could have given at the moment of the easy goint! intruder, and it will suffice tor my narrative. "Ah, three of you!" he said. "My old friends's daughters and f«on, I presume.. Wasn't aware he was so favored." The human voice is a wonderful Instrument. In one case it shall of itself convey suspicion in another, reassurance. It was the Ittttei: here. A tyrannical imagination had painted before my mental vision with swift brush the portrait of a dangerous conspirator. The living enigma spoke, and however puzzling and mysterious his presence continued to be my courage revived. The circumstance is ftS I state the explanation I leave to others. "My name is Escott this is my brother—and my sister," I stammer ingly answered. "But who—to what do we owe" I was a pitifully poor inquisitor. Before I had framed my query I was stopped. "Who am I?" tho cheery stranger said. "Well, I suppose "one can't claim universal fame but it certainly strikes me as curious that yott should have. t*» aglt, As io my errand, that is just pleasure and the tesiis'citatiqri..of ol4 memories. Your rather and I used to be stanch friends. You're not very like him, young gen tleman." The latter sentence was, of of course, addressed to my brother Valentine. "Indeed," the boy said laconically. The stranger's glance had fallen up on the strange medley that decorated our center table. "Some one here is a collector of autographs, I see." he went on gayly. "May I inspect them? Thank you. It is a pursuit of great interest to me I sometimes have to study—ahem—in a professional ca pacity contrast and likeness in pen manship." He bent over Val's speci mens, among which were included examples of tho hand of he&rlv all the boy's acqitaintancesi for Val" played havOc Very impartially with charac ters ancient and modern, great and small, famous or obscure. And by and by I noticed a queer little start, seemingly of recognition. Mr. Lidlaw looked upi "VVhb .wrote this?" lie saidi It Was a couple of lines—a quo tation from Tennyson—and, beneath, the signature of Mrs. Climber. It was Alice who replied. ''That's the writing of our housekeeper," said she, wonderingly. "Do yoii know Mrs. Climber? She came to lis from Leeds. I like her hand, it is so neat and pret ty." "And it bespeaks a strong will, de cision, and perhaps finesse," said Val, sententiously, quite in the style of the lecturer. But I felt it was time to know more of the visitor who seemed to be tak ing his footing in our midst so much for granted. I broke in with a direct demand. "I have never heard papa speak of you, so far as I can recollect, Mr. Lidlaw, and he is not at home. Did he expect you to-night?" Mr. Lidlaw awoke as from a reverie. "Capt. Escott not at home!" he re peated. "Expect tne! I am here in response to his pressing invitation." Val and I had the clew to the riddle simultaneously. "YoU are wanting Valehtia Lodse Walnsey Cross," I said-. "It is Mr. John Escott who lives here there's been a mistake," cried Val. Mr. Lidlaw stood as though paralyz ed by the revelation of his blunder then a shadow of intense vexation passed over his features and this in turn yielded to a smile at his own ex pense. "Whew! This comes of not be ing sufficiently precise in investigation a lesson I hardly ought to need to learn,after all these years," he grimly soliloquized. Then he bowed depre catingly to us, and proceeded: "The storm was raging so fiercely that I was content in the station yard with little delay and few words. I asked the corichman who was handiest if he could drive me to Capt. Escott's, Walnsey, and he said 'Yes.' I sup pose he did not catch nlore than the surname and I was ignorant that Walnsey and Walnsey Cross are not identical places." "They are three miles apart," said Val. Mr. Lidlaw carefully inquired his way, and announced that he should walk. He asked, too—very oddly,as I thought, with a new twinkle of doubt —the nearest route back to Daleford village. Val's directions were clearand, full, and if the stranger obeyed them he could not possibly go astray ui either direction. It seemed inhospit able to permit him to turn out unat tended in the night but I could per ceive no Alternative, and I have reason to.think that he would have overruled any and every objection. Mrs. Climber had not appeared. This struck us afterward as strange. However busy she might be with her correspondence, it was curious that she should have heard nothing of the arrival, or that, hearing, she should have kept away. Some twenty min utes after Lidlaw had lelt she entered the drawing room and listened to our joint narrative of what had happen ed. I fancied that she was preoccupi ed to the visitor's inspection of her handwriting, and that, then her man ner changed, and she listened with more interest—even anxiety—than she cared for us to observe. From this fact—if such it were—I was, how ever, at a loss to draw any particular deduction. I pass over the hours that elapsed between this episode and midnight. We had retired early, and the house ought to have been as dark and still as if unhabited. Older friends tell me that it is the privilege of healthy girl hood to sleep soundly and with ease. Idouotdoubt that they are rialit, but on this occaion I continued obstinate ly awake. Suddenly, a chill shot thronah my veins I «at up among the pillows, rigid, and, I doubt not, blanched al most to their own whiteness. I listen ed in a very agony of attention. From the depths below there had echoed distinctly upward—or my faculties were playing me false—the sound of a sullen yielding of a bolt. My apart ment was immediately over the plate closet, and adjacent to the partition which closed in the second flight of stairs. This accounted for the trans mission of the noise. But the noise was an ominous disclosure. In the dead of night, it was surely illegiti mate and spoke of crime. 1 pressed my throbbing temples hard aeainst the wainscot, and found that the wood was a faithful conductor of sound. A rumbling and grating that could have no honest and satisfac tory cause, jarred upon my highly strung nerves. I was not the victim of delusion. Assured of this, I becran to dress, with quaking, fumbling fingers and in the dark. Plan I had none as yet, and my actuating purpose was merely to reach and alarm the rest of the household. It was just blind in stinct, for I did not pause to ask what effectual resistance to $ gang of robbers, CDU Id be pflered by, pack &i Scdr'eu women, an invalid boy and one tottering old man. I thought first of Miss Turpin, our governoss, and Miss Climber, and in this order. They both occupied rooms on the same floor a3 myself, but far in the rear of the building. It was an ugly venture to get to them. As I was debating, 1 remembered my moth er's jewels These Were deposited ».U & dressing case,lbcked ittto $ Tti^drKde strong befs :h papa's room. Had they escaped the thieves? Would they es cape? By almost a mechanical im pulse I unfastened and opened my door, and stepped lightly the five or six paces fo that of the vast cavefp like "champer in which, the fable goes, a queen once slept. There was a light within,other than thatofthewan young moon, which glimmered feebly through lozenge shaped panes in a window high over my head. I sucked in my breath with & well ttigti dlidibld gasp and shivered but it was as though a subtle fascination drew me nearer in spite of the peril. I crept to the tell tale crack through, which the penciled.line of light felh. A single peep Rtid 1 knew the Worst We Weria betrayed. Kneeling before the recep tacle of my mother's family heirlooms was a woman holding a lamp for the guidance of a male confederate, who busied himself with a file at the ward robe lock. They seemed equally absorbed in their nefarious task. The man I had never before s*en the woman was Mrs. Climber. I believe 1 was nigher to swooning than on How papa had been deceived! and all of us, for, though I had vaguely disliked the newcomer, no suspicion of her fidelity had entered my mind, yet my eyes had testified that she was an accomplice in a sinister plot. Very possibly she was its orignator. It. gave me intense anxiety to de cide upon rny next step. daring suggestion flew to my brain, but I dismissed it, not so much as imprac ticable as useless. It was to lock the two thieves in. This was possible, if managed with adroitness, for the key cast a shadow on the polished floor. Mrs. Climber had locked the door 6i papa's room With hypocritical card as we retired that night, saying thiit housemaids were curious and had been known to walk in their sleep, and that it was not well to trust them to excess. And.now ,the adven turess had left the key on the outside: But what would the countermove avail? There were villains below making away with the plate I had heard them they wouid come to the rescue, and I had no means of sue cessfuly following up the temporary advantagei Yet my fingers itched td drag to that door And imprison my foes. Clang! clatter! all our belis seemed to be ringing at once, and Mrs. Clim ber's precious confederates would not have given the alarm, it must mean for them interruption and discomfit ure. And in a trice I had acted on my wild idea. The great oak door was fast—fast! I had the key, and with it I fled to my room. There I cowered as children do under the bedclothes, and suffered paroxysm after paroxysm of helpless, abject terror. Every vest ige of bravery, deliberate or fortuitous, had forsaken me. But I was not mo lested. What happened on the other side of my fortress can be simrily and suc cinctly related in the words with which on the morrow our friend and benefactor, Mr. Lindlaw, enlightened papa, It will be. needful to resume from the point oifhis recognition of Mrs. Climber's handwriting \vhen chatting in our drawing room. "You see, I am an expert in these matters," he said. Probably you may have seen my name in the news papers in connection with some trial, civil or criminal, in which the identi fication of handwriting has formed a leading feature in the proceedings?" "I have," papa answered. Exactly. And two months ago I had to make a professional study of various documents and signatures in a north country case of systematic and lohg continued fraud. I am pre pared to swear that the specimen of Mrs. Climber's alias Mrs Cleg^'s hand shown me by your son is the fac simile of a large number of those forg ed papers. The writer is the same. And now that I have seen her—she had a most valid reason for keeping the background yesterday evening I recognize the woman too. She only escaped a long term of penal servitude through the plea that she was her husband's tool. And another thing made me startled and euspi cious. It was this: at Daleford a man left the same train whom I identified in spite of his wrappings as tlfe broth er of the condemned Long Firm swin dler, who stood in the dock with Mrs. Clegg. He'll soon follow him into a convict cell. He was involved in the Manchester case, though there was a flaw in the evidence, and he eluded the grasp of justice." "But Mrs. Climber's testimonials— they were most excellent," murmured papa. "Forged, my dear sir Ientertain no doubt of it," replied Mr. Lidlaw. "These people saw your advertise ment, and application and references were all parts of a rather clever'plant.' But the female trickster carried lier daring a step too far, and will pay the penalty. When I was confronted, with that couplet, in the hand I had so much reason to know, 1 got an inkiing of the game that was on foot. And instead of going on to Walnsey Cross I returned to Daleford and intervied a sergeant of police. It seemed that he was in possession of an official warning that tended in the like direction of watchfulness. We botn had a suspicion that you might have been lured out of the way by a bogus message." "No there was no stratagem there," put in my father. "Then events conspired so far with the gang of rogues. Well, we came up to the manor to make sure that all was right, and we found an open win dow and moving lights. We were five in number and armed. The ser geant and two of his men entered by the same road as the burglars, and at a signal from the oHicer I aroused the household. One thief was taken in the act of selecting the choicest specimens of your old fashioned silver, and to our infinite bewilderment we discovered later that your clever housekeeper and a second confederate were caught like rats in a trap. That was the work ot Miss Maggie here. As soon as we learned this we applied to the young lady, got the key and entered. We were only iust in time to thwart an attempt to escape by the window. But for the height and the awkwardness of the descent, the man at least would have escaped. But the three are in Siston jail." "And I have to thank you," said papa, "for the protection ot my prop tery, Mr. Lidlaw I am sincerely grate ful". "And I am glad to have been of ser vice," answered our friend.—Cham bers' Journal. Michael Rook, accompanied by eeveral companions, went to tho mill pond at Le mars, Iowa, (or bath, and setting into w*tor boyond bit d»ptb( wu drowned. Ifelliijirton.' An English nobleman writing 8l Wellington, just after Waterloo, says: "he is quite unspoilt by suc cess, gay, frank, and .ready to con verse." "Ho has none of the airs of a great man at the head of a hundred thous and, men/' wr(j»te another} "he is full of life and good-humor.' He rejected the congratulations offered him after his return to Brus sels from Waterloo, saying: "It was a dreadful business t.Hiri(y thousand men destroyed, and a plagued near thing." "Oh!" answered the duke to a soci ety woman who asked him to describe Waterloo, "it is very easy done! We pummelled thciri they pummelled tis. and I suppose we pummelled the hardest, so we gained the day." Wellington's head was not turned llis llnnillm-it.V "If nnv Ana VIA glance toward my iron shutters, will soon sober him." Those "iron shutters" always re minded the duke of the fickleness of the London mob, and he ferred to them, Du ri any previous or subsequent occasion Luckly, with a supreme effort I was able to recover the self possession Witested frbiii.me by the double shock: I dare not think what might have been the denouement in the contrary vent. lie parnest as often re ng the debate on the Reform Bill, which Wellington opposed, the London populace, for getting his services, broke the win dows of Apsley House, his city resi dence, and did much injury to his PROPERTY. The duke put tip iron shutters to his windows and there they remained until after his dejith, Some time afterward, wlien lie had regained his popularity, he was fol lowed by a large crowd of men, who cheered him heartily. He received it all with indifference, but walked his horse to Apsley House. He dismounted at the gate, gave the reins to a servant, turned round to the crowd, pointed to the iron shut ters, made an ironical bow, and en tered the court without saying a word. The Eighty-eights. FVorri tliPLondrttt Globfl. "The eighty-eights in English his tory hot bnly bring great events,but more particularly they bring foreign invasions." That, says Prof Seeley in Good Words for June is the con clusion which we must arrive iit, if HE were to play With chronological coincidenences. In 1588, the Spanish armada in 1688, the landing of Dutch William. OT course the Span ish did not land, but they would have done so but for that favoring storm which blew them from our coasts. Ah, yes says the sceptical reader, but how about 1788—what happened then? Well, nothing in particular the professor confesses it. But in 1796 French troops sailed for Ireland, in 1798 they landed there, and from 1800 to 1805 our danger from invasion was greater than it had bnen in the days either of the armada or of La Hogue. These facts SEEM to SUGGEST that every hundred years or thereabouts, England be comes subject to catastrophe from without* We are now in the presence or another eighty eight, and the prbt'es^br risks ^LIOTHEF another period of convulsions is due. We are now, says, tery inucli iii that position which Spain occupied iii 1588. In that year, and in the next two eighty-eights, our islands were threatened: in 1888 it is not Great Britain but Greater Britain which is exposed to attack. Wo have, as Spain had an empire which is to be found everywhere, and which is pro portionately liable is it to the atten tion of an enemy's fleet while Eng land itself has reason to be anxious about its food supply from abroad. Such considerations are not pre cisely novel but it is interesting to observe that Mr. Secly, Whose pro fessorship I3 not of politics, is as any politican could bo in his exhortation to Englishmen not to pooh-pooh possible calamities but look things to be full in the face "ready in time." and Swine Improvement. In an address before the National Swine Breeders' Association, Prof. Morrow, of the Agricultural Depart ment of Illinois University, stated that those engaged in the improve ment ot swine had been remarkably successful. Not in one breed alone, but in a number, there has been ex traordinary development in the qualities desired—rapid growth, early maturity,quiet disposition,and readiness to lay on flesh. Differing in minor points—color, size, form as to detail—there is comparatively little essential difference between half-a dozen leading breeds, and they are becoming more and more alike. Speaking of dehorning, a corre spondent of Hoard's Dairyman says: The cruelty to the animal part of the question is almost too sentimental to notice, but when it comes from those used to cattlc and their belong ings, and those, too, no doubt, used topracting castration upon the in nocent lambs, pigs and calves, with all the attendant risks, and the com plete changing of the ordering of nature,there is a little too much false sentiment to be borne without pro test. The propellor Starrueea, of Buffalo went ashore in a heavy fog about three miles west of two Harbors on Lake Superior. The tug Ella O. Stone, went to her relief and succeed ed in releasing her. She started for Duluth leaking quite badly. Tho steam barge May Purr, of Milwaukee, with the schooner Hal stead of Chicago and barge Oak of Bayfield in tow went ashore in a heavy fog three miles west of the same place. Tho schooner Halstead struck and is looking quite badly. The Oak saved herself from grounding. The aig Stone went to the assistance of the Purr and released her. The three boats were loaded with ties. Tho Purr threw off about two thousand ties from her deck. During a hard rain the barn of Ira Noble near Albia was struck by lightning and burned together with five horses, one of them being a fine stallion. Mrs. Noble received a vere shock. The barn iiftlliig UL Destroying Barer*. A mixture of resin and lard is rec ommended for applying on trunks of trees to repel the borer. Ltftseed oil mixed with soot, and applied the the first week in June, has kept the borer from attacking trees thus pro tected for two or three years after It* application. Carbolic soap is also a good repellant. If the borer has al effected a lodgment,he must be dug out or followed tip into his hole with' a flexible wire and killed. Apple and peacli trees ghould be Examined the latter part or the Sumnief, eVcn if some offensive substance has been iti drive away the enemy. It may have fajled, to reach! every part of the think liable to attack. William E.. Hill, who van iftntlon agent for the Sault Stc. Marie railroad at Weyerhauser,. Wis., was arrested.at,the instigation, of. the company, charged with. embezzlement of $110. He ffas *en£enced by Judge W. R. Hoyt of Chippewa Fniig to one year in Wau pnn. .j.The lieayy harness should be dispensed with soon as the weather begins to get warm. "More than all other Lung Remedies, ft what E. W. Fairman, a druggist at Dayton, Ind., writes adout the sale of Allen's Lung Balsam. He has sold it for eight years, and it gives satisfaction. Sold dy all druggists at 25c., 50c., and $1.00 a bottle. Sell your poorest horses. Always keep the bett young females to breed as they mature. The Coming Comet. It Is fanned by a grateful patron that the iiext Ctftrtfit.tvill lippedt in the form of a huge pottle, having "(ioltfoS ):{1 .D!8£»,tVcry'' inscribed ripoui it in bold characters. Wfc-thc? the conceit and high cpinpliment will lie verified remains tpibe sqeii, bu'i D.r. .Pierce tfill contin ue to send forth that wonderful vegetable compound and potent eradicator of disease. It has no equal in medicinal and health-giv ing properties, for imparting vigor and tone to the liver and kidneys, in purifying the blood, and through it cleansing and renewing the whole system. For scrofulous humors, and consumption, or lung scrofula, in its early stages, it is a positive specific. Drug gists. If yon "go for" the caterpillars and can ker worms now it will save much trouble later. Women's Works. There is no end to the tasks which daily confront the good housewife. To be a suc cessful iitnisekeeperj the first requisite is good health Hotf Cart rt Woman contend against the trials and worries fit lioiiwkoop ing if she ba suffering from those distressing irregularities, ailments and weaknesses pecu liar to li)='r Sex? Di\ Pierce's Favorite Proscrip tion is .ft sjietitic for these diedrdcrs. The ouly remedy, sold by druggists, unde'l- positive guarantee from the manufacturers. Sat isfac: tion guaranteed in every case, or money re funded. See printed guarantee on bottle wrapper. Good farm help is very rare. When once obtained it is a mistake to part with it. A Genera* Tie-up. of all the means of public conveyance in a large city, even for a few hours, during a strike of the employes, means a general par alyzing of trade and industry for the time be ing, and is attended with an enormous aggre gate loss to the community. How much more serious to the individual is the general tie-up of his system, known as constipation, and due to the strike of the most important organs for more prudent treatment and bet ter care. too long neglected, a torpid or sluggish liver will produce serious forms of kidney and liver diseases, malarial trouble and chronic dyspepsia. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant. Purgative Pellets area preventive and cure of 1lies« disorders. They are prompt, sure and effective, pleasant to take, and positively harmless. It Is dangerous for the colt to run alongside df tiie Mare, particularly on a public road. TFOXIE* Old men iise Atoxic tile yertr round, to keep tlicit- nervous systems strong enough td sup port the functions of the body, and mend up the break down of a long business life. The young city bloods to remove the effects ironi liquors and a night of dissapation. A tumb ler full will break a recent intoxication iii aii hour, with no ill effects of stimulation. The farmer, not the retailer, should have the main profit on milk. The North Star Lung and Throat Bal sam is a sure cure for Coughs and Colds. Itching Piles. SYMPTOMS—Moisture intonm itahing ftrvl ATTN^N? moat at night wono by acratcliin& If ullowolti continue tumors form, wliich often Hteed .ml •te, Iwcoming vary tore. SWATNB'S OiH-NTZMTulwr- BECAUSE your blood is se of the Hon. J. C. Robeson was also struck and con siderably damaged. Impure Blood Appears in a thousand different forms and canses a vast amount of snfferinft. Scarcely a single person is entirely free from its cffectR. Hence the necessity of a reliable blood purifier like Hood's Hirsaparilla, which eradicates every impurity, and gives to the bloud vitality and health. It cures, scrofula, salt rhcniu, humors, boils, pimples, and alt other affec tions caused by impurities or poisonon* germs In the blood. Hood's Sarsaparilia also overcomes that tired feeling, creates an appetite, enrea dyspepsia, biliousness and headache, and bniida up the vrhole system. Hood's Sarsaparilla N4 by all druggists, 1 six for C5. Prepared only I1?' HOOD & CO.. Apothecaries, Lowell, Mats, 100 Dose* One Pollar RVrps tho itching and Dleftdiiig, hanls nicer u.ion. and In many oaaen remove* the tumor*. It i«e»i*llvo!flc»ciiim in curing bll Skin DifMmiut. T)R. SWAYME & SOS. Proprietor*. Philadelphia. BWATSK'* OIMTMRKT can bo obtained ot draggMU. Bout Uj mail fa* 50 Centa. WHY? WHY do I have this drowsy,lifeless feeling? WHY do I have Backache? WHY Neuralgia and Rheumatism? Why does Scrofulous taint and Ery sipelas show itself? filled with POISON, which must be COMPLETELY ERADICATED before you can regain health. You must go to the root of the matter. Put the Kidneys—the great and only blood purifying or gans—in complete order, which is complete health, and with Warner's Safe Cure and WARNER'S SAFE PILLS your CURE IS CERTAIN. WHY do we BECAUSE ands of grate women in all world have written us to know this? tens of thous ful men and parts of the voluntarily this effect. THERE IS NO STAND-STILE IN DIS EASE. You are either growing Better or Worse. How is it with YOU? WHY not TO-DAY resort to that medicine, which has veritably CURED MILLIONS, and which will cure you Vegetable. They if you will give it a chance? All of Warner's preparations are Purely are made on honor. They are time-tried. They are No NEWDISCOVERY, UNTRIEDAND WORTHLESS on the contrary, they have stood the test—they have prov ed their superiority. They stand alone in pre-eminent merit, and YOU KNOW IT. The VICTORY Thresher is tho simplest and strongest. It will thresh faater wflsto less grain and clean it better than aiiy other. We (ire also general N. W. agents for the famous HUBER ENGINES Straw burners. Wood or Coal burners. Trac tion or Plain. Send for prices ami terms to MINNEAPOLIS THRESHING MACHINE CO., 206 Washington Ave. North, Minneapolis, Minn. WEAKMEN^ E(nat AWOMMW^U) earn l!wtrMlret«f Wufct" far Vitality, I«(t5: aa. MM TMUifa! amm, Ac., M* Baak All PrlrafaS 1.1M aiiltlr at home. S3 Batf ®J» All Prtrata Uljratw sent free, SkiT\'«§6£JP- W COF ICU^. F^/VY^DI^IV \T0THIKU is TO 8CIENCK AT ALfc J.~ comparable to ha RCMKDIM la their marvelous properties ot clesten^ piirifjr ing and beautifylnn the skin, and in curing »itt« nrlng, disfiguring, itching, scaly and pimply dis eases of the skin, scalp aud blood, with losa of Eatr. ctmfctrfif. the great Skin Cure, and CirnctTBA SOAP, aneif/ittiaitc Skin Beantifl-r, prepared from it, externally, and CiiricuiiJt HSSOI-VENT, the new Blood Purftter, internally, dure etftrjf formof skin and blood disease, from pimple's to ftcfbfal& Soli everywhere. Price,' CUTICURA, 50C. RE-" SOLVENT, $1 SOAP, 25C. Prepared.by the Pox*. TFEB DRUG AND CHEMICAL CO.. Boston, JKasa.' Bfliur for "How to Cure Skin Diseases." ttf Pimpled, blaok^ieadb, chapped end ollr ^£9 W skin prevoritM by-5UTi«UBA ter. 25c. SOAP. Dall Aches, Pains and Weaknesses in stantly relieved by t&o CUTICUK«! ANTT PAIN PLASTEB. Che bnly pain-killing pl&g* aines (^mbound For The Nervous The Debilitated The Aged URKS Mer v5-ir*Prost rati an, Nervmia Head 'ache, Neuralgia, Hefvou* Weakness, Stomach and Liver Diseases, and t!l affections of the Kidneys. AS A NERVE TONIC, It Strengthen# and Quiets the Nerves AS AN ALTERAf IVB, It Purines and Enriches the Blood. AS A LAXATIVE, It acts mildly, b« •nrely, on the Bowels. AS A DIURETIC. It Regulates the Sid* neys and Cures their Diseases. Recommended by professional and businessmen. Price $i.ou. Sold by druggists. Send for circulars. WELLS, RICHARDSON A CO., Proprietor!. BURLINGTON. VT. SEASONABLE -AND- PRACTICAL ADVICE. Every family, i( is supposed, have tlicir favorite Home which they luivo useil with much benefit, cow^eqiicntly 'liey Have a i-ond dcul of f-iith in them. Although it i= not a good plan' to be taking medicine all the time, it is always well, and in fact necessary, to keep some medicines itt the house at nil times, in ease of emergencies. PERRY DAVIS Pain-Killer Is one of the most valuable household remedies for cur ing CHOLERA MORBUS, CRAMPS, AND ALL BOWEL COMPLAINTS. In sections of the country where Fever and Ague Prevails tlicre is n-i remedy hold in prrater e-leom. Persons traveling should ler'p it iiy tlu in. A few drops in wwin lii '-vent ,s elui'jss oi-bowel troubles from i-hango water. When lisc.l externally, ft5! liniment, nothing cives quicker e::e in burns, tilts, bruises KJUHIns, etiugg Irom iM-.ec' nnd Do not tritlo with y^iireolvfK liv testing tint' ioil rfirn dics lie sure YOU C.I:I for, smcl the genuine I'AIU Killcr. maiiy worthless nosirums nrff fit tempt" tl to lw sold on tho great reputation of th.s valuable medi cine. Directions accompany each bottle. ri ite !5els„ /iO«-ts. and $1 i»cr bottle. SOLD BY ALL DRUCCISTS. CLOTHING for Men and Boys sacrificed by the BIG BPSTOX, Minneapolis. Men'* Seersucker Coats and Vests, $1 Boys' Saiior Suit.®, Navy Blue. 80c Shirt Waists, l.»c Straw Hats 5c to $3.50 Mexican llammocksi l'J foot, 7dc 15-foot,.11. Men's White Dross Shirts, Lineu Bosom, 25c. Seud an order for any kind of Clothing and get a bargain. THAYER'S Catarrh Cure! A New Departure. This treatment fr Catarrh i.Mtrols:i-e* entirely new system- The mi-wil tiro tiicr Highly cleansed, ti.e living jrcrm-i il 'stroyi'il the mucus in iubr ine re stored. If thoroughly tis.yl it will cure any caso of NoPal. Throat or Bronchial Catiirrh. l'repared by the U. S. DlSt'ENSAHY CO., Mi nncajiolis, Minn. USB TES BKST. Stationerskeep.'hem. Standard qvaMKr all styles. Sample ucz. lucerne John St XDWICHT ARIVI rfSS Malaria, Damb Chills, Fever and Ague/Wind Colic, BUiotUi Attacks. Whew protfnee mcalafftlMMral afxttMMs, n«vwr friye «r lilfmtM with dally bMtncss. AM a family laiiitlMi tfcey ahwld N la awryliamfcaUl. SOUP EVERYWHERE. fSAI hi worth-$9M per Ih. Fet(r% JRy* t«lv« in worth MvlilF tWM, hutfcaold »t »cw»taHnK hy luiai fttvicraato*. tttrnhnjaafeky J.lV41ka,M,pml,HtaMk. PlSOS FOR CONSL'MPT'? N j|i||MA -nshfeff Tacklo, Pocket CWery itnfl Ball Ba eral Sporting Gooda. Send for'Catalogue,' Vtl|U.B, PMNITT a, M( tr«htagtsa St.. ftli^a 6LEK —lURML^S. Positive Cm* for failing. ManbOoi"!. Gives solid health. 91 bottle.' by drag's. Crieh Co ,33 K.Statest,CHica(co- hila. By Mail. Mc. Ua4« hy J. P. Altai. St. r»l.Miaa. 50c* This Coupon Is Worth 50c. The beet, newest, brightest-, handsomely illua-' tnited (colorea flates) book, on Child-birth vritb (linoiMCK of children, urice $ 1 .OO, will he.ipot if yoo. c.nt'thin out nnd acud tfitt 50e to M. KEITH. Minneapolis,-Miuit.. —jr. InsMre y?Kr Horses and Cattle stenjni tirc Stock ImiiM Conpair, of MINNCAIWTE Minn. Cipi'al, S10(T.SW. INSURE*) ugaiimt canseri by L)ieeaw! or Accident.stoelr (aid Promptly, g«nd for Circular. Agent* wanted. frindjNil Office, 308 Lnttibrr Exchange MIXXEA VO J, IS, JW/JT.V. prescribe and f*hf dorse Big ii aa thtf Mily •pacific for the ctrtain ul» of thiadisraae. O.H. INGRAM AM. Aisaterdam, N. Y. W# bave soid Big for many year*, and It kM aiivcn the bast mt aatia* action, D. R. DYCHK A CO.. Chicago, Jit. •1.00. Bold by Drucriata. FLOWERS, PLANTS. For Geraniums, Verbenas. Pansies, Colens. Fuchsias. Heliotrope, Fever Few, and all other Plants Vases, Urns, Settees, Garden and Iawu Ornaments Cut Flower-! (of Weddings, Far ties, or Kncralf, send to HENDEN2AL.il GREENHOUSE, Minneapolis. Minn. MARVELOUS MEMORY DISCOVERY. WINIIT unlike xrliliciHl ayatem*. urn of miml waiiderinx. •A ny-l»ook learned In one rradinic. Clauses oi 10»7 at Baltimore. Hit).", at I Detroit. 150C at 1liiladelpbia. 1113 at Washington. 1216 at Boston, larw classes of Columbia law stn.lentx, at Yale. Weile?ley.- Obeflin, University of l'enn.. Michigan University. Chautauqua, ti-.. Endorsed by ltich *rd Proctor, the Scieiltitt, llons.W.W.Aator, .Indah p. -ii»aiiun. Jndire Hibsoo, Dr. Brown. E. H.Cook, l'rin. XI. Y. State Normal College. Arc. Taught by corregiioadeSce. Prospectus pout free from Prof. LOlSETJE. -37 Fifth Ave.. N. Y. Tb0 BU7HKB' GUIDE Is iflsued X«rcit#nd Sept.. year. It enoy ^Meiappdim of uaefal *9for ^•Dttlon for 11 who pnr» chase th0 luxuries or thd necessities of life. W» can clothe jou ftnd furnish you with all the necessary md unnscessanr appliances to ride, walk, dance, sleep* eat, fish, hunt, work, go tr» churebi or stay at home, and in variou.9 sizes, style* and quantities. Just figure out What is required to do all these things COPfrORTABLI. and ypu can make a fair estimate Of the value of the BUYERS' GUIDE, which will be ssnt upon receipt of 10 cents to pay postage, MONTGOMERY WARD & CO. 111-114 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, HL M0STASRALA1ABLE AS MILK". •iii li-1. 8o disguised that tho .moat. delicate atomach can tiiko it.« Remarkable a FLESH PRODUCER. Persons fals rapidly while taking it. scorrsEiuisioff Is acknowledged by Physicians to be the FIXES! end BEST preparation of its class for the rel ef a COJfSTTMPTIOK, 9CROFULA,* QENER4M 'DEBILITT WAttrma th9Rme» or CUlItDREN, and CHROSIC COUGHS. ku. Druggists. 8cott & Bowne, ASK VOUR GROCER FOR COW-BRAND SODA"SALERATUS AND TAKE HO OTHER. AND 9b ITnwurhfrpcnand Farmer*. ~It is impor tant that tho Koda yoa nso should bo White and Pure same as all similar nibstanccs tised for food. To insula ob taining only tho 'Arm & Hammer" brand Soda, bay it in "pound or ha pound" cartoons, Which boar cur liamo and trad o-mark, as in ferior good* are aomc timeasubstitntcd for tho "Arai Hammer" brand when bought in bulk. Parties using Caking Powder should remem ber that its sole rising property consists of hi RAND SO OA S. E. OLSON & CO.'S MAMMOTH VHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRY GOODS HOUSE, 213 AXI 215 XICOLLET AVEXZrEt 3lIXXEAPOrI8. THE CHIEF BARGAIN HOUSE OF THK NORTHWEST. Vail Orders receive onr best attention. Shopping done throngh this department aa advam laceonaly as in person. Send for aamples. SLICKER Now York. Ifc will fop to jour advantage when writing ndver1i»»'emto i»ay you saw their advertise ment in 1 his |t i|er. N. w. N. 18?8 No. 26. TO MAKE A DELICIOUS BISCUIT 4 HAM ER carbonate of soda. One teaspoon fnlof the "Arm Hammer" brand of Soda mixed with sour milU equals four tea spoonfuls of tbe best Baking Powder. nTlnc twenty time a i(s coat, besides 'being much Wealthier, be cause It does, not contain any injurious snbstances^ such.-.s alum, terra alba etc., of which manyBak* ing Powders am madew Dairymen and Farmeia ehoulduse only the**Arm It Gammer" brand for cleaning and keeping aa Milk Fans Swoct am Pe**-. Th« PTSH BB 4*D SLlCIKlt WBfTrrnof, aa* Ih. lisntMt vtorab Th. n.« 1-OMHKI. Sl.lCiKRI-- J" eoTCratb*#«tlre«»dd1«. F«wnr®ofImiUtfoM. BrtaJ" tr*d*-ra*rk, Ulaitf t#4 CaU^f«• J- Yowtr, Partus