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O ! Vu)L VIII. BENTON, MONTANA SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1883. NO 36 ... . _--- _ :_. . .. . .. __ _ NO..... ...... .. IllS WORD OF HONOR. The "Green Dragon," at Orpington, assumed to be an inn, was really little more than a way side stopping-place. Mr. Biunter, landlord and p1roprietor was, therefore not a little surprised and flur ried when, upon a raw October afternooln, a young man preseented himsinelf at the bar of the ,"Green Dragon,"' and asked languidly if he could be accommodated with a bed and a sitting-room. "A bed, ir?" Ieplied Mr. Hunter, a biig wa with a red face and gray hair; ey, I think we can imantage to give you a bed.'' "A .d a sit ting-roots ''" echoed, the land lord, in a tn of one who is considering oncne great undertaking. "One minute, if youI please, sir." And Mr. IHunter disappeared into the little room atdjoining the bar, there to hold counsel with some recond person, the up shot beinf, that, in a few minutes, Mrs. Hunter and a few lHunters, just out of the crawlilg state, issued forth, bearing respe'tively working materials, socks in process of heing mendedl, whistles and de c.apiitated dolls. 1,You can have this room all to your self, sir," said Mr. li unter, triumphantly. "You really mist not let me disturb vou." replied the thraveller. "D)on't you meat ion it," replied the landlord, in a: tone at once genial and con tihlentlal: "'(we would not turn a customer trolu our do'ors. You see we do not have much parlor comrn pany. "And this is the only room you have t'.,:t ",-vn ':::v(: disengaged ".' " I', 1,, i s:ir; this is the only room for the prt-et. Suan coais for the gentle Inat's tire." The traveller ' as gl:ad enough to enter the ti:l't 'enit and to draw close to the ith thi otne dtii:lpidated arut-chair. A rtluri intoni, ha:ri.rtr by profession, ,anll a a wr'iterI foin choice, was not really more dt i: thirty, though he looked con siderahly oldecr: for the dark hair and beard were streaked w ith. gray, and the face, with its iegular, handsome features, wire a lock of intelnse Iutental weatriness. Fsl r .i otile tl iue hie leanled iiin o lentlyback 1ii- l:ti i:t- l.,aped behind his hea: ; at last hi ris. 5 iil tI:ok fromti his hnag a (eket and (tia' vy, ~ich I, opelned, andt ava:iling hitm s5le of pen and ink Vhith sloodl- uponll the tall., imade the following entry : "h' b.r, 17. 1871 .-Got up late. Called (1a the llrainatonc ; George was oit. Ilad a pl.ahant :chat with Anlnio ; went like a ooil to Ric liond, and like a feol haunlted IllI f:tavoulrite house. Looking just the : c :,s 1in the dear old days : biut I heard i rel 'r. laying in the gatdlen. The l, ', 1 ),liev', is let to city people. (:atne back to London: dined at the Pall Mall; went to the club. Got back to chambers late wrote a column 'Review.' A weary, weary day. Shall I never know a moment's forgetfulness:'" lie then drew from the leaves of the diary a letter written in a delicate hand and addressed, "Arthur Seton, Esq., 12 (ray's Inr:." This letter is regarded with a long, sad, loving look; then, resting his head on his hand, he read it through very slowly. It ran as follows: MY D):,i AaTurtl:-If you will be so suspicious, so jealous and exacting, I can not see how we are ever to be ihappy. Faith without works is dead, and love without faith is no blessing, but a weary burden. I am tiried of cross words and looks. Some women, I believe, like the feverish excitement of quarrels, but .1 cnly wish for pieace. This miserable jealoasy is quite unworthy of you; do try and put it :'romi you, and remember, that love once 'wounded, is sometimes hurt past hope of recovery. I received your article quite safely, but I cannot speak about it now. You have made me too sad, too weary, and even a little indignant. "Yours atlectionately," A LICE CLAREFIELD. Ife replaced the letter, closed the diary, took up his pipe and began smoking. The early part of the day had been fine and mild, but toward the lafternoon the sky grew leaden and the wind shifted to the northeast. Now the wind was rising and the rain was falling-a cold, penetrating impettous, determined rain. For want of something better to do, Se ton began to write a letter, but he made slow work of it. For minutes together he sat holding the pen listlessly, leaning his arm wearily upon the table, listening, as we all listen when alone, to what rsonnds may be going on near us, from a feeling that is not curiosity, but more overpower ing. Suddenly what must have been a very light vehicle dashed swiftly down the road and drew up at the door of the "Green Dragon," while the voice of the new-com er became audible. Seton, however, could only catch a few disconnected words, such as "caught in the rain-delicate-shelter -Clhiselhurst-closed carriage." Then the door opened, the landlord pre sented himself upon the threshold, and said in a very pointed manner: "If you please, sir, a young lady, driv ilg over to Sevenoaks in a light open trap, has been caught in the rain, and her ser vant wants to know if I can give her a sit ting-roomn while he drivel back to Chiscl hour-t for a closed carriage."' "Andi this is the only one you have?" rejoined Seton. "Oh, ask her in by all means. However, I am sorry the room smells so of smoke," he added, as he knocked the ashes from his pipe. "IDon't mention it sir, and thank you very much," replied the landlord. In another moment the door opened again, and the unexpected intrudereifter ed-a lady tall and graceful, Having'j iale Madonna-like face, and golden hair shining like an aureole round a classic head. Beton's face had grown white to the very lips, and his voice quivered lprreceptively as, extending his hand, he said: ''This is a very unexpected meeting." "Very unexpected," echoed the lady, removing her wet mantle, and sitting down on the leatL.er iola. The recognition had Ibeeni mutual, but women, as a general thing have more self-possession than the sterner sex. "'Let me recommend this chair," said Seton, laying his hiand upon the one from which he had iust risen. "No, thank yon; I prefer sitting awmry from the fire." "'I am sorry the room should smell so of tobacco," observed Seton, af'tter a pati',, "but you see, I did not expect the pleasure of a visitor." She smiled a rather forced smile by way of answer, and Seton folded elaborately and put into an envelope a blank sheet of paper. "The country is very beautiful around here," he observed, writing his own name with great care upon the envelope. "VWe have only been back from the eonr tinent six weeks," she observed, al ter a pause. "M3lannma has taken a house near Chiselbiurst. I was driving over to Seven oaks this morning, and I was caught in the rain and induced to ask for shelter here." '"And how is Mrs. Clarefield?" "Mamma is quite well, thank you." Then, after a pause, "Are you stopping here." "IHardly,' ' said Seton, with an assumPi tion of gaiety in his tone, "but I'll ,ell you all about it. My friends kindly took it in to their heads that I was sticking too close ly to work-that I wanted fresh air and exercise-so they bound me over on my word of honor to mwlk from .l,tn.lon to IIlst igs inla (we k. !I atquiesce. in - very tlhing now. s(o of course, acquiested in ihiis, and. tliis is inV first day'of hard labor ant! i rlii so ii 'n rt. "'But youl sed-" began the lady, then she colore.! a little ani seemed unwilling to lii.nh her sentenice.. vonl used to tIe so fond of waikintg.'" "Bat :t utI chainges a good deal in three years," he rieplied, wearily. It wullhi weary yol , reader, to set dowin here the dreary comuionplaces with which these two tried to begtuile the time for over an hour. At last they took refuge in silence, wt. hilýe th, win}d roared., and the rain lashed thei indtlow, the dusk callil o p)renatltrely', and Sr'tonl, looking out tion the cheerliss lprolspect, shivered I« with the col.. Then the lady rlose very' quiietly, stirred the tthe ii ao blaze, and re unnnd her seat on ithe soft'a. "No you diet;ldni't, really" said Sit.n not turning i... td, liowever, anid tttih a look of pain onlt his fice. It it wotderftl what .ttYlriiig "aa ut".oýl ,, ll1o n-plit-t' "I tuppo.se the carriage will soon be Sback," said Alice, presently, and .peaking w ith ain effort : '"our coachmani drives very "Yes; your termn of inmprlisonmtilt will I soon be up," rejoiled Seton, resting hi. arms upon the mantelpiece, and examining with critical interest a photograph before him. "flow the time passes!" said Alice in a low voice, as if speaking to herself. Then, with a sudden energy, "I cannot tell when 1 we shall meet again. Before we part, an swer me one question. You are looking worn and weary-are you happy ?" Now he stood before her, and through I the firelight his eyes flashed on her as he said, in a low, harsh voice: "From your lips that question is an in suit." ' "Of which we need not fear the repeti tion," she rejoined with cutting formality. "No, it can't end like this," he went on. "Do you know, ever since you have been here I have bitten my lips through and through '., keep them from speaking of the past? This meeting was not of my seeking, and it seems to me unmanly to take advantage of this opportunity. "We are sometimes so much mistaken," she said, hurriedly, but her words were hardly audible, and he continued: "Alice, you have treated me badly. On that day, now three years ago, when I gave you my love and believed in yours, I was frank with you. I told you how wild and irregular my life had been. and how full of faults I was. You reclaimed me you transformed my days-you made life pure and fair; and then, because some thorn in my love hurt you, you threw it away, and left me to perish miserably."' She would have interrupted him, but he silenced her with a gesture and went on: "And now, when we meet after three years, you ask me if I am happy. If I loved you once, I shall love you forever. Do I look happy?'" "I think there were faults on both sides," she said quietly. "Yes, there were," he replied; "but I was reading your last letter only to-day. Oh, how terribly bitter it was I" "And have you forgotten your answer to that letter," she said passionately, her voice quivering and her breast heaving. "I don't remember it word for word," he answered quickly; "I know it was written on the impulse of the moment." "But I have it by heart." Then very slowly : "You said if your love, inn iLs heart and strength, was a little exciting mine was cold and tideless; in fact, no. love, only a cold, sluggish affection. You almost thought I was right, and that we co ld not be happy. I am naturally pr ud," she went on, "but a woman with le, pride than me could not have-acted tl. erently. Only one course was left to m -to be silent." Well, it is all over now; we shall prob ab never ileet again." 'You won't take my friendship, then ?" 'No, thank you, you are very gener ous; but I do not want that gift." He drew himself wearily into a chair, and for a time these was slence. Hope s aware of its existence when it has ceased to be. Arthur Seton looked upon himself as a man without hope. It seemed to him that his life could not be more desolate than it was, yet who shall say what feelino of which he was not directly conscious, may have sustained him during the last three year,? Npw everything seemed gone-there wa.s nothing left ;to him but death. Pre-ently a carriage came down the road; a carriage lamp flashed through the Itusk :. d grew stationary opposite the window. Mr. Hunter bsrtled in and an tioul(eut! that the carriage had conie for the iyoung lady, ad hadaddone the distance wonder iully quick. Then the door shut and they were alone with each other once more Softly and distinctly Seton heard her speak his name, "Arthur!" but he did not move ; it seemed to him that he would keep back all his love, clinch fast his heart till shite was gone, and then die swift cy of the pain. " Ar: hur, I amtt waiting, dear. Won't yoru oiie ? Are you ntot going to forgive ne ?" lie groped his way toward her. She stretched out her hand and drew hiti tow ard her. Th'hii lie lhn down; site ratised her face, :mid the hearts and lips so long disiunited camen together in a long, ptaQsiolt ate kiss. He knelt down by her, and her head stink uponi his shoulder, and for llany il)llnutes they remained thus, lost in love'- profounld peace and niysiery. And the -orks coiitinuied to pop, and the wag ioners on their way to London, tramped in andtl out of the bar. and good-nlights were x'ha.ilged ?ieti\eeln clnstorters and lihnd lord, anitd as Ar hnr folded Aliee'A mantle Iarouin( her, slit staid slyly : yi oU Ile colilllng back with lle to see nonma, are youil not ."' "May I?" he answered Joyfully. So thie edroom which Mrs. Hunter had been preariu.iig all the afternlooll, and of which shle was not a little proud, remained uitortctipited; but the payment was lavish ;1iad tlie dli. 's labor was not regretted. Oi I that never-to-be-forgotten ride to Chi-,ellurs t'..'ut;gh tl. wild, windy even i ing! Ti rl it ceased, :ta s iit;titg Voties werel' atlbrd ill the Winl'd, sliging juhiailL - ly ov'r hive-rl -el and redeetnilig. The clouiids drift.ed away and the pur. sweet mt!,oiiligrl t quivered over wet fields and trlee ,i tttl seeied love's benediction. lThe rettdir is leit to imagine the arrival homie. Arthulr was a favorite with Mrs. 1 elaretieldl, Iand in the old days of quarrels would :ilw:tys take his part. %When dinnler was~ di-po-ed of Mrs. Clarefield pleaded househo'l duities aind went to her room. l'here shie .sat d'.it betore the fire and w-p), dear .onl, over the hitppiiiesss of her children. Down stairs these two were very quiet. To them love was a sollemn thing, ind thiey were silent lovers. The momen's went swiftly on. Presentlly Alice sa'd, as she looked ulp in Arthur's face: "You are not going to continue your walk to Hastings this week?" He answered with a smile : "But, dear, I have pledged my word of honor to do so." "I command you to break it." He did so; but none of his friends brought it as an accusation against him that he, for once in his life had broken his word of honor. "lies Adjudicata." WASHINGTON, March 12.-A pre-emptor I writes to a newspaper man in this city to know if pre-emptors have any rights the t government is bound to respect, doubtless C having the late Chief Justice Taney and the Dred Scott case before his mind's eye. He settled upon a piece of land ten years ago and made valuable improvements, and when he attempted to enter recently as a homestead, he was told by the land officers that his place was on railroad land. He asked again if the books did not show that the land was pre-empted before the rail road was thought of, and was advised that that made no difference and that if he wanted the land he must buy it from the railroad company. There is a railroad within seventy miles of the tract at the present time. He then wrote to the secre tary of the interior, who replied that the commissioner had decided correctly. Sub sequently saw that the secretary had de cided that when there was a settler upon a piece of land before the railroad was locat ed, the land went to the settler. He then went to the local office and again asked to be allowed to enter, and was told that he could not enter it because he had applied once before and his application had been rejected and that decision was final. While yet in the local office a man who had over heard the conversation stepped up and asked the location of his place and at once filed for the place under the timber culture law. "The local oMleer," he writes, "said the reason that anybody else but me could enter the land was because my case was res adjudicata. I don't know what res ad judicata means unless it means that every body in Washington are thieves and scoun drels." He adds that %"before the tree man gets my homstead there will be one or two funerals." A bright little three-year-old likes very ni eh to go to church, and especially en joy i the singing. One day the choir isang " iok of Ages. Cleft for me;" and, after sh gotwhome, the little one was heard sins g, very seriously, "Rock the babies, ke t for me." $hey have discovered a new way of prerving butter go that it will lat, they claim, 100 years,': Why any one s.ould wsbat to eat such old butter when he can buy some five years old at any greery, is a question not before the hb t.--f THE GOLDEN RULE. There are two forms of this rule, the af firmation ascribed to Jesus, and the nega tive ascribed to Confucius. Whoever the author of the latter may be, we know that it is much the oldest. Many people prefer the form: "Do not unto another what you would should not be done unto you," to the other: "As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise." This is, however, merely a matter of taste, as in practice both forms amount to the same thing. Perhaps more sermons have been writ ten on the Golden Rule than on any other text of the New Testament. 1. said in an article on Agnosticism that Agnostics would follow the Golden Rule until a better one was found. Let us examine this rule and see if it is practicable. The test of any rule is to ap ply it to some simple affair of daily life. For the purpose of illustration, we will take the form ascribed to the Master, it being both more convenient and more fa miliar. "As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise." We must take these words in their literal sense, for, if we try to read between the lines and give some figurate mneaning to them, we should soon have hardly two persons agreeing on the same rendering. The only question is as to the meaning of the word would. This is simply the Preterite of the verb to will and means to wish or desire, The rule will be as fol lows: "Asye wish (or desire) that men should do to you, do ye also to them like wise " That this is the true intent of the rule is abundantly proved by the context of the chapter in Luke, where the rule is found. What would be the result if this rule was strictly and literally followed ? Let us take a familiar instance. An In dian or a white man stea1a my horse or kills my cattle or does something else equally as criminal, I naturally try to catch him, and if I can prove it against him, he goes to the penitentiary. If I do have him punished, or even wish him punished, I break the rule. Let us reverse matters. Suppose you or I kill cattle or steal horsei, we expect to be punished by the owner or owners if convicted, but we certainly would neither wish nor desire that they should punish us. If, therefore, we did to the horse-thief as we would wish to have domn. to us in 'imilar circum stances, we would do nothing atall, and no one need to be told wh t a state f af fairs there would be if the iru was n erally lived up to. It may be objected i .if . ..n who steals my horse, had followed the .rule, lihe would not have stolen him. But because he disobeys the rule can be no reason why I should disobey it also. It is very well to say that if everyone followed the'rule there would be a millen nium, but everyone does not follow it, and probably never will, and the only way that we can judge of the unsefulness of any ruld whatever, is to apply it to some simple and common occurrence in every day life, If it does not work then, we simply beg the question by trying to apply it to some imaginary thate of things. The truth is that no one does or can fol low the Golden Rule literally, anld all who do follow any rule, follow one much like this: "Dc as you expect to be donAe by." If I steal a horse I expect to go to prison if convicted, and so if a man steals my horse I send him to prison as I would ex pect him to do to me in a similar case. We cat, do nothing which in the nature of things is impossible, and it is impossible, on this earth, tofollow the Golden Rule. G. H. H. The hirer. The river yesterday afternoon was at a a standstill, it being nine and a half feet $ above winter low water mark. It rose e seven feet in the last five days, and is now within three feet of the top of the dyke. It is now higher than last year at the break up, but not so high within three feet as at e the time of the break-up two years ago. e The river will probably fall to-day and not rise again till the gorge at the mouth e of the Yellowstone gives way, which is not expected to occur before the 23d inst. e Old river men predict that the river will break up at this point before the 25th. Bismarck Tribune, March 5th. Damala's Retirement. n SM. Damala, Sarah Bernhardt's husband has written the following letter to the Gaulois: "My dear M. Meyer: Several l journals have circulated the rumor that I and Mme. Damalaare about to separate. d This is not true, and yet there is something true which accounts for this false news. e The fact is, I am finally going to leave the d theatre to resume my old profession of a ld soldier. France, which treats my wife as a spoiled child, will, I hope, have room for me under the shadow of her flag. Being passionately fond of the stage, I deceived | myselt as to the possibility of at once tak a- inga place not too unworthy of that which ee my wife occupies in the first rank. But ,r notwithstanding the indulgence with which I was received, I must be more se ry vere towards myself than the press and the j. public have been. Reason and honor call ig upon me to take a manly resolution, and er therefore I renonunce my dream of being rd an actor and resume the career of arms. This very day I enlist in the foreign legion and solicit the favor ofletters of grand nat of uralization. I hope thelmotives for this determinr vw€l -andl 1: ashall be greatly obliged to o.l to make it Sknwna to all whom it may interest. Ac cept, Joseph Damala. It seems that i. SDamta =was once a sub-leutesant in the From the Third to the ThirtyoSecond Degree in one Night. A dispatch from New Haven, Conn., to the Boston Herald says that great indigna tion prevails among higher degree masons there and elsewhere in the State, because of the doings of an irregular masonic or ganization that has been conferring de grees up to the 33d, despite the fact that it is not recognized by the higher masonic authorities in the land. The irregular or ganization is headed by five advanced ma sons who were recently expelled from the supreme council to which they belonged, because they had assumed power that did not pertain to them. t'hese Quinnipiac bodies, as they are called, started in New York State a year or two ago, and soon gained a foothold in this city, and then spread to Massachusetts. Said a promi nent mason here to-day: "They confer the degree. from the 3d to the 32d in one evening or two for about $15, while to go through the regular bodies takes about two months, and costs $100. I don't know why theme seceders are acting as they are, except that some have grievances against regularly constituted authority. Others want to get the higher degrees as cheaply and quickly as they can, and others, again, see no hope of gaining the coveted 33d de gree, by remaining with us, and so they branched out and formed this organization. We recognize them so far as the blue lodge degrees of entered apprentice, fel low-craft, and master mason are con cerned, but after that the Quinnipiac bod ies go on and coonfer degrees on their own hook, that are recognized by no true ma sons. In Massachusetts, however, the grand lodge of the state hascdeclarPe( that any one who shall have anything to do with those Quinnipiac bodies shall forfeit all the rights'and privileges of a mason, which would throw the member out of the blue lodge. We shall come to that here yet and in New York. These bogus bod ies are recognized by no supreme council at all, while our bodies are recognized by the twenty-two supreme councils of the world." The speaker went qq to say that masons young in the order should be warned against joining these bodies. Up on inquiry, however, it was ascertained that quite a number of men prom inent as citizens, if not as free masons, had become identified'with the Quinnipiac bodies,, and that they were constantly growing, notwithstanding the anathemas of the so-called regular bodies. The Earth quake Sensation, All who have related from actual ex perience how an earthquake feels, agree lin describing the sensation as one of pe culiar sickening fright and despair as:if the bottom had fallen out of the world and l the whole universe was going to pieces. ' In "Traveles in Peru and Mexico," the writer givesJuan Romero's story of are cent terre-nmoto in the equatoral Sierras, from which he and his cattle were suffer ers. t At the first warning mumble in the ground, himself and his family and his workmen all quitted their occupations and ran to the middle of an open field. 3 But lefore we reached this (he says) the earth trembled violently beneath our feet, and we were all thrown to the ground. We were all however soon on our feet again, and l it aposition of comparative safety where we could watch the effect of the earthquake upon the animals. These all stood motionless with their legs stretch ed out and their heads bent down almost to the ground, one or two'of the cattle moaning. A second shock was'{ very different. During the first one we seemed to be drawn or pushed from side Ito side; but now we felt,'for a minute or more, as if some weightwere pressing' us to the ground, and immediately after this as light as if we were ascending into the air, show ing that the shock wasýln'the 'first case horizontal, and in the second in a perpen dicular direction. Of his own feelings, Mr. Romero said that he experienced a kind of terror hard to describe. "My first "sensations were a dread that the earth was about to open and bury everything within its bosom. But what I felt after this was not like the fear of death which I have experienced in other cases. I have faced the bayonet and stood before the cannon's mouth, and I cannot say although without fear of human ene mies, who, one might suppose, experienc I ed the same unpleasant sensations as one self. The prospect of death, however, is generally accompanied by hopes of the future; but during an earthquake the rea son is subdued, and my predominant feel ing was that we were utterly lost. It seem t ed as if all nature was about to expire; s aud for an hour or two after the shocks r there was the same appearance of dread among the whole party. "Even the beasts-stood forsome time in the position which they had taken during i the shocks, and requiried patting. and t reasuring before they would move. "Fact is," said the physician, "you don't take enough exercise." "Don't take enough exercise!" exclaimed the pa tient in astonishment. "Why, doctor, I belong to the Episcopal church and attend services every Simday. For 'ie .rifi ke, what more would you have ?" A Southern correspondent of the Hart ford Times says tbhe re are tP~u~ Floiida-the orange, vegetable, and inva* lid 4easons--and thatcthbal ayfh riy°. Sonebody- aslaid behres.: bits thit a the summer the natives qFlorld4iA e oa o swewet potatoes a yd sup; ene an . A Remarkable Breach of Promise Case. The following case of breach of prom ise, recently tried in Middlesex, England, has some points of human interest, and the defendant might serve a new dramatic hero for the greatest efforts of Mr. Tenny son's life: Miss. Euphemia Collart, the plaintiff, was a young lady about twenty four years of age, both of whose parents were dead, and who had been following the vocation of a skilled attendant upon ladies suffering from mental disorder. She had been for about three years an attend ant to an aged lady at a salary of £68 a year, and in October, 1881, the lady hav ing recovered, the plaintiff was commiss ioned with the charge of an insane young lady, and was paid £100 and the necessary expenses to take her to Ncw York, and while there she received $25 a week. She was advised by a friend, Dr. Macdonald, the medical superintendent of the princi pal asylum there, to remain in New York after her engagement terminated, as ser vices were in request and were better paid than they would be in England. To this plaintiff agreed and through the introduc tion of the principal specialists in New York she obtained several highly remune rative engagements. Ultimately she had an offer, which she accepted, of becoming a matron of a retreat for ladies suffering from nervous disorders, under Dr. Hamil ton, which was to be opened in Novem ber. Before however, entering upon her duties, she wished to come back to Eng land and sailed by the ship Queen, and whilst on board, at his own request, the defendant was introduced to her by the shipping agent, During the voyage, he showed her constant attention and even tually proposed marriage to her, and sta ted that he intended to settle as a farmer in Canada West and had been provided by his father with means. His father had retired from business and lived at Nottingham.' The plaintiff accep tedhts proposal. On.' landing they dis missed their friends and defendant accom panied the plaintiff to the Grosvenor Ho tel, where she hýd arranged to stay. They parted in the hall, but next morning the defendant came to her room, just as he was descending to breakfast, to borrow her hair brush and comb and then effec ted her ruin. Plaintiff was subse quently introduced to his" parents and treated as his future wife. In No vember last she'diseovered that she was enciente, and communicated the fact to the defendant, who said he would marry her at once, but when arrangements had been made he said his father had discover ed all and threatened to disinherit him, and wanted him to marry another young lady who lived in Nottingham and who was possessed of .18,000 or £10,000 and he begged the plaintiff not to force him to ruin himself by offending his father. In what the learned [counsel described as a foolish moment, she very reluctantly con sented to a postponement, and the defend ant gave her a wedding ring and told her to take his name. Since then he has re fused to fulfill his promise and the plaintiff has been depe-ndent upon her friends and has lost her situation in New York. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, assessing the damages at £.250. Hardly enough to keep the baby through teething, not to sneak of Euphemia's lost character and future prospects. But he roes will be heroes and juries-will be juries as long as babies come before their time. The Remains of a Megatheriiun. Surprises from Wyoming Territory are not at an end. Not only is the country prolific in mineral wealth, but fossil re mains are being discovered in abundance. A mining expert who has been in the Sweetwater country for three years has just arrived in Kansas City, bringing with him portions of the skeleton of a mIegath erium found in a sand-bed in the valley of that river. The portion brought with him is one of the vertebra, measuring twenty two inches in diameter. The gentleman himself is well known for credibility, and reports the following facts in regard to the find. The discovery was made while the party were prospecting for a new road to the miens. It lay in a sandy pocket of what is known in that country as "bad lands," a volcanic formation. The possi tion of the skeleton indlcated that it had turned on its side to die, and when found part of the headFand shoulder was above ground. The whole frame was exhumed and kept entire with the exception of the vertebram, brought away for exhibition, and measurements were made of the skel eton left on the ground. The leg meas ured thirteen feet eight inches in length, and twenty inches in diameter at the smal lest point. The jar is eleven feet long. The skeleton had never been disturbed in any way, and its size indicatedlits weight at about thirty tons. The exact location of the "find" has been kept a profound secret. As it is the largest specimen yet found of the extinct animal, the Smithso nian Institute has made an effort to se cure it, but with correspondence with per sons in the East would lead to the belief that the latter will get the prize. A short distance from the same spot the same pros pector found, after blasting in shale rock, spedimens of skark's teeth,. crayfish, bats, frog,,iiid vegetabile fos fosren ains. The ,TgentlemeE hsd these, witt them, as cor rob ration ofi story orf?#at .rtIrn of the Sweetwater country. . Froude,in the course of it recent ect re, stated that Cato did not begin to ' tar the Greek !laniuage until be was * eighty-four years of age. The boys of to day te11 their fathers that they are anxious JO f *~wP the exanple of Cato.}-.omrtttlle MI aking Spartans of the Girls. "Would you like to see our Spartan girls?" an Astoria German said to a re porter. The reporter replied that he would. The gate leading to the Turn Verein build ing in Astoria was closed,'and the report er was led through a beer saloon and a back yard to the side entrance of the build ing. On entering he saw a capacious hall furnished with a variety of gymnastic apparatus. The American and G(;rman flags adorned the walls. Fourteen girls. from 8 to 14 years old, were assembled in the hall. They wore a uniform cunýi~sing of a navy blue shirt, with a skirt of ti:e same stuff reaching to the ke«cs, blt; drawers, red stockings, white lined slip pers and a belt. They were ifi a merry mood. Some were swiftly sliding over the smooth floor like sylphs, others weret jumping like kids, and some were swing ing and climbing among the ropes like a troop of inohkeys. All screamed and laughed in chorus. "They are amusing themselves till the teacher comes," said the German. Soon the teacher appeared, dressed in his gymnastic suit. At his command the girls arranged themselves in a line. .\ regular drill followed. The girls marched in pairs, in fours and in Indian file. Then they ran, jumped over a string, climbed up a high ladder, swung on parallel bars and performed military evolutions with light sticks which served as guns. "These are our Spartan girls," said the German, admiringly. "I hope they will be worthy of their ancient prototypes. The Spartan women, you know used to hand the shields to their sons about to go. to bat. tie with the words; 'Either with this oe on this.' Do you think they would have been so bravelif they had;1not taken eaer cise like this? Our grandmothers used to appear on the battle-fleld to eucourage their husbands and sons fighting against the Roman legions. Do you suppose they would not havehiddeni themselves in the forest at the first sight of the Roman's ap proach if they had not strengthened their nerves by exercise? I don't think that hereafter women will ever have to appear on the batttle-field, yet there are a thou sand occasions when a lirm hanul and it brave heart may be of much use to them, for daily we hear of disasteirs at sea, and on land. Life is a great bliss and a heavy burden, and we believe that only those well trained, both mentally and physically can bear the burden and enjoy the bliss. So we make Spartans of our girls."-Ne-. York Sun. The Canadian Pacific Road. The main line of the Canadian Pacific railway will be 2,400 miles in length. The British Government gave the company $25,000,000 in money, and 25,000,000 acres of land, which is claimed to be worth an average of $5 an acre. It is said that this grant of land will more than build and equip the road, leaving the company their entire capital stock and several million acres of land as net profit before the first train is run. The surplus will be used in build ing branch lines and establishing steam boat lines from Montreal to Europe on the east, and from Port Moody to Australia and the Asiatic parts on the west. The company's property will be exempt from taxation forever. The theory is advanced that a company acquiring its property so cheaply will become a regulator of the other transcontinental railways, and force them to treat the people fairly. The builders of the road, however, may retire and leave a company :to operate it, who have been persuaded to pay for the prop erty about all it is worth. Human sel fishness does not seem to admit of a fa vored company dividing up a good thing with the public. Leprosy in the United States. When we remember that leprosy pre vailed in Great Britain and other coun tries, now nearly or quite free from it, in comparatively recent times; when we take into account the considerable Scan danavian immigration to-our shores now going on; and, above all, when we ref' ct that the policy of isolation pursued by communities in which the disease is rife is not an ostracism of the leper on account merely of itsjloathsomeness,,but a whole some precaution for the general safety, founded on thejconviction thatlleprosy is contagious, which"conviction is forcing it self more on those who have made the matter a subject of scientific study-when we take all these things into consideration, and couple them with the grim fact that leprosy leads infallibly to death within a few years, we may well ask if it is not desirable for us as a people, and if it is not incumbent on the government, to take steps to prevent the spread of the disease in this country. To be sure, the conta giousness of leprosy is not the rank com municability of the.acute infectious dis ease, but that it is contagious to such a degree as to make it unsafe to allow its victims togo in and out among their fel low men year after year, seems to admit of little if any question. Certainly, the community should give itself the benefit of whatever doubt there may be in the case, and Isolate the leper ruthlessly, and, as regards leprous immigrants, forbid their landing on our shores.-N. Y. Medical Journtttl. r at--~----~ qrnmt to Death while as Prayers,. t Brmiu roar, Conn., March 1S.--Whfle Mrs -Anne Bollard wvs kneeling in front sof her stove yesterday saying her prayers, a live coal fell on her clothing setting them on Are. She was shockingly burned and died this morning. Three of her daughters Swere badly burned In trying to extlingulal the ihati.