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WF&rfiri- ' -V "U-t& vTVS FWssg . '- 3?fte fflxcMte Jpaxlu; gagle: gatesaaij ptorttittg, ;p&M 5, 1991. 31. T. 31UKDOCK, rtlltn. Botkin can not be said to have a lye face. Botkin "would probably speak of "little hogshead." Web Wilder issues the first number of his magazine on July 1. Ifc now turns out that J. R. Burton's tailor is as deaf as a post. Italy needs a chiropodst: ferinfr from a chill-Blaine. She is suf- Chicago admires the ability of a man who can smoke aud still live. Peffer will catch the Chinese vote, even if his queue is slightly misplaced. This time next year, we will hear as little of Jerry Simpson as wo do of 31c Ginty, this. The "profanity evidence" in the Bot kin case has, in a measure, vindicated Speaker Elder. To Ingalls eye, with Peffer filling it, the United States senatorship from Kan sas is an ex-position. Talmage will find his Christian pa tience tried when fly time comes, now that his whiskers are gone. Most of the Alliance politicians are un decided between the governorship and Plumb's place for themselves. Harrison Kelley, Barnard Kelley, and Senator Kelley ought to form an alli ance. The family needs it. It was a woman who patented the ice cream machine, but a man, probably, who invented the scrubbing-brush. A bureau of promotion lias been organized in Kansas, but it has to do with the exposition and not positions. When the Alliance starts banks that will loan money at 1 per cent, the cash iers if they go to Canada at all, will walk. As soon as the president ends his trip he will have to make another appoint ment to prove his faithfulness to In diana. Case Broderick is evidently afraid of his own voice. His silence must prick tho vain regrets in Tom Moonlight's bosom. The far-seeing conjures may sight in tho wheat fields suddenly turning yel low, un Alliance trick to ropo in tho negro vote. And when the president does appoint a man other than an Indianian, to a foreign post, the country refuses to accept him. The czar of Russia is a boomer him-1 self. He has just sent a man to Siberia for writing a book, entitled, "In De serted Places." The queen's little trip to Grasso cost SoO.000. Geuda Springs is vastly supe rior to Grasse. You can get along there on two dollars a dav. Von Moltke was not known until he ai i ast sixty years of age. Little facts like this have the same effect on Gen. Rice as laujrhinjr jras. Tho whole French nation is at tho service.-; of tho New York police. In spector Byrne can have Frenchy No. BOO if ho wants him. Competition always lowers prices. Since the legislature was in session, you can get into the main entrance of a cir cus for twentv cents. Ben Clover is out in a letter for abso lute free trade. Now that Simpson has slid in behind the scenes, Clover thinks he sees his tide at tho flood. The annual convention of the Order of Railway Conductors will be held in St. Louis beginning May 12. They are ex pecting a grand time, as usual. Tho court says that tho Sioux Indians can not legally make war against United States. The Siouxs will now hold a pow wow and lepudiatothe courts. The Atchison Globe stole the Eagle's baby article outright, without a sign of credit except a misleading one, which wasn't honest, and even baby case ought to bo at least that. Last Friday tho postmaster-general began the experiment of placiug the free delivery system in operation in small towns. Caldwell, Kan., is one of the town3 selected for the purpose. It is no more right to blame tho Kan sas farmer for not saving his corn, when it was ten cents a bushel, than it is to blame the Kansas politician for not mov ing to Indiana when Harrison was elect ed, and getting an appointment. Both lacked foresight The perplexity of the farmers over the alleged presence of chinch bugs in the wheat is as nothing to that of their good wives at the actual presence of that other sort of bugs in their domin ions just now. Hero is a chance for Prof. Snow to immortalize himself. Representative Breckenridge says Mr. Mills will bo speakerand McMillm chair man of the ways and means committee. The credulous and confidential Ken tuckian seem to forget that the northern Democrats will have a majority in the next congress. Or, it may bo that ho knows the composition of the two con tingents and bases his predictions thereon. The recent epidemic of raiiroad acci dents in which a number of employes in the railway mail service wore killed and injured prompts the Washington Post to renew the old proposition in favor of pensioning the said class of employes who may become disabled iu tho lino of active service. Until the government is prepared to extend the same benefits to all of its employes in every branch of its service the government will not grant this concession. The country may get around to that position after awhile but kis not readr for it iuat at presents. ForthaEajle. MOUNTAIN MEMORIES. 3JAN. W. II. O, the path among the boulders With their lichen covered shoulders Scarlet vines cling on, Where the flaming gilia's splendor, And the wild rose shy and tender, Fringe the way along. Chipmonks darting up and over, Down the path and under cover, Watching for a crumb, From my little straw lunch basket. Twinkling black eyes plainly ask it, Pleading though 'tis dumb. In the wild raspberry tangles, Crimson fruit the vine bespangles, Cool with morning dew, Underneath in twining masses, Mid the ferns and ribbon grasses, Swing the hare bells blue. O, there is no music sweeter, Than the plashing water's meter, As it hurries by Over rocks with dash and sparkle; And where mirrored shadows darkle, Speckled trout leap high. And the cataract's white glory, Tumbles down the mountains hoary, All the summer day. And its silver chiming laughter, Rang in memory long after I had gone away. O, the odors loamy, moulded, Aromatic, darkly folded Down among the pine; Where the quaking aspen listens, Where the sunshine never glistens, And the winds repine. And the sunny sunny ledges, At the mountain's highest edges, Ragged, grim and white, Where the silence seems to mutter, Low, the thoughts I cannot utter, Of the Infinite. MAYBE IT CAN'T BE. The Emporia Republican is very loyal to President Harrison, or truly tries to be, but when anybody happens to inti mate that Jim Blaine is not the biggest man ever born on the American conti nent that paper forgeta that the country now boasts a great and good Republican president, aud proceeds in a column to do up the offender. We would criticise our cotemporary if we knew how with our own convictions on that subject to go about it, but alas, we are too much the same way of thinking. Webster, Clay, Calhoun, etal., were all as big men in a lesser day, but nono of them weie ever president. Blaine is as much greater than they as is the country now greater than it was then, but supposing it turns out to be impossible for this ideal leader to take tho field, what does the Republican propose to do about it ? A NEW PRESIDENTIAL RICHMOND. Democrats in congress from every sec tion of the west, southwest and portions of the south now in Washington, are giv ing Governor Boies, of Iowa, a big boom for the presidential nomination against Mr. Cleveland. It is stated that nearly all of tho candidates for the speakership of tho next congress have secretely com mitted themselves against the nomina tion of Mr. Cleveland whenever his name has been mentioned by Democratic mem bers f i om the west and southwest. The Nhe New Yorker's position on the silver, pension and tariff questions and his utter indifference of individual members of his party and his utter lack of gratitude are being mentioned in the work that is being done for the nomination of Boies. The friends of tho Iowan aie in some instances naming him for tho second place on the ticket for the puqiose of opening a way for their man, but their real aim is the head of the ticket and it promises so well that Iowa Democrats say that it will divide the party to an extent which will make it impracticable, if not openly foolhardy, to nominate Mr. Cleveland, who has no interest whatever in tho west. Whatever of substance of fact all this may possess as affecting the political fortunes of, or personal preference for, Governor Boies, it unquestionably indicates a disposition on the part of western Democrats to throw off tho dominating influence of the eastern bosses of their party and as sert their right to a hearing in the par ts councils. THE NEW STATE-PRINTING FIRM. The Alliance legislature refused to cut down the state printer's fees to some where near tho level to which all things have dropped within tho past two or three years, and there has been much conjectuie har their printer-elect would do with the assuied fortune which the Allianco houso forced in his favor. It was thought for awhile that he would organize a company and buy out the present state printing house, or buv it himself. But it now comes out that the commercial printing house and bindery known as the Hamilton Printing com pany, of Topeka, are to do the state printing, Snow having an interest given him in that concern. The Topeka Capi tal tells the rest: Ever since Hon. E. H. Snow's election to the office of state printer, .numerous priutiug firms of TopeKa have been pull mg tho wires for the purpose of forming a combination with Mr. Snow to do the work. It would require at least $o0.000 to fully equip an office that could handle this work properly. Mr. Snow is a man of nu derate means and an nounced soon after his election that he did not desire to establish a new plant if he could make satisfactory arrangements with firms already in the'business. Cliff Baker has been doing some able-bodied hustling, aud then George Crane hoped to make a business alliance with the new state printer, but Crane's and Baker's politics was in the war. Mr. Snow has taken an interest in the Hamilton Printing companv. The other members of the firm are C.'B. Hamilton and son and O. E. Walker. The con tract was signed last Tuesdav bv Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Snow, by which Snow becomes a member of the firm and the state printing is to be done by the new firm. The papers were drawn up by W. F. Rightmire. Immediately alter the papers were made out both gentlemen left the city. 3Ir. Snow went to Iowa on a short visit and it is understood is now en route to California. Mr. Hamilton went to Cali fornia to dispone of a ranch which he purchased three years ago for $3,000 and for which he now oflered $18,000. .1 u i ll i j. .1.- I deal said yesterday: "The Hamilton company sot th work because it is a 1 non-partisan establishment; that is, the firm has never mixed in politics. All things were equal between the three firms Baker, Crane and Hamilton ex cept in this one respect. Mr. Snow thought it better policy, all other things being equal, to associate himself with a firm which had not been so active in pol itics. There was objection among the Alliance men to both Baker and Crane because they were such active Republicans." The following statistics showing the strength of the Methodist church in Kan sas at the present time have just been compiled: Local preachers f;t Members of church C7.P22 Probationers 13,374 Churches ti Value $l,C34,O40 Parsonages.... SOS Valne .Sunday schools Officers and teachers Scholars $23 Wl 91) 10,179 7,l3i COLLECTIONS. Missions W. K. M. Society W. H. 31. society Church extension 'Iracts $IT,$0 H'tb 4 531 4?3 ::3 2 7.J5 G.U49 U'lo Jv4 4.244 331 Sunday School union Kreedman'said . Education Children's day Bible society . Conference claimants Other collections Total collections f31.TP5 Pd., Pas.. Pres , elders and bishops oo,s2a The Kansas City papers complain that the merchants of that place do not pat ronize the mud scows, alia3 steamboats, that the citizens had built last year and put in the Missouri river for the express purpose of forcing down railroad freight rates. There is nothing surprising in the actions of the merchants, latterly. They are simply following long and well-established business precedents and princi ples in patronizing the carriers that give them the best and most satisfactory ser vice. And the local papers' criticisms are a dead give-away. Without the boats it is very doubtful that the big ap propriation for the improvement of the Missouri river, which K. O. will most largely profit by, would ever have been made. The dispatches from Berlin state that Emperor William is very much dis pleased at the election of Prince Bis marck to the German parliament, and that steps are being already taken to conciliate and bring together in support of tho government and its policy the various political factions in the body in which tho prince will serve. The em peror thus places a high estimate upon the ability and influence of the deposed premier. Bismarck is in the civil arena of the German emnire what the late Count Von Moltke was in the military, that is, the recognized leader. It is stated that an eastern party will establish an extensive cotton mill at some point in the west this year and Kansas City is striving with its usual enterprise(?) to secure it, Wichita is a far better place for such an enterprise, for obvious reasons it is nearer the source of supply for the raw material br 225 miles, and likewise nearer a largo portion of tho territory to be supplied with the manufactured goods. Tho saving in freights both ways would of itself be sufficient to constitute a fair profit on the business of the enterprise. The trend of population towards tho cities and towns is not confined to the United States. The British census.taken on Aprils, shows exactly tho same state of things in Great Britain as here a large increase of city population and a decrease in the rural districts. The rea son for this drift toward the cities lies deeper than a mere question of currency or of economic conditions. It is the greganous habit in tho human animal asserting itself. Some people seem to think the actions of Messrs. Edmunds and Reagan in re signing seats in tho United States senate as rather significant, in view of the pre vailing political complications through out tho countr. Tho only significance wo see in their actions is that they were tired of official life in Washington. But it must be allowed that it was a very unusual proceeding. ADVERTISED RELIGION. "One of the newest instruments for propagating religious dogma," says Lon don Truth, "appears to be the wall almanac. Some ono has sent us the 4Westbury-on-Seven Almanac, 1891,' in which tho vicar of that parish, besides dispensing various more or less useful information, lays down the following propositions: "'If you want God's blessing upon your marriage, you must avoid the Reg istrar's office. The clergyman is the only proper person to perform marriages, and the only proper place to be married is in the church. It is wrong to forsake the services of tho ancient Church of England for tho new-fangled inventions of the sects.' "This is rpally an admirable imitation -of the trade almanacs, on which it seems to be modeled. We would suggest to this vicar that ho should add to his next edition: " 'No religion is genuine tmless bear ing our trade mark. Beware of spurious imitations.'" JUDGE REAGAN A HOODOO. Netr York Recorder Washington Letter: Senator Reagan, though he had served barely one term in tho senate, will be missed. He was one of the striking fig ures who was always pointed out to visit ors. Tho ex-postmaster general and act ing secretary of war of the Confederate states, the companion of Jeff Davis in his last flight, sitting in the United States senate, was oue of the most interesting sights to strangers. Mr. Reagan's per sonal peculiarities also attracted atten tion. He had a habit of always occupy ing somebody else's seat. This custom he kept up to the very last. As soon as he became legally entitled to tho seat of Governor "Joe" Brown, of Georgia, which he had pre-empted for the best part of the session during Senator Brown's absence through iilness, he resigned. It has been a superstition among senators that Mr. Reauan's occupying their seats in their absence brought bad luck. "When Senator Eustis, of Louisiana. x ent home to sea about le-electioa he tx-gged his friends to keep Reagan out of his vacant seat. Their efforts were in vain. Mr. Reagan occupied the Louisiana orator's chair on several occasion;, and Eustis returned to Washington a beaten man. Joe Blackburn and several others are alleged to have devised extraordinary i precautions to prevent the eminent J lexan irom sitting miueircnairs uunng j their absence, but wheneverMr. Reagan, i in h raii(icrinN ovor thr Hnor. s.iu- an openiug he was apt to drop into it. He has probably not occupied his own allotted seat fifty times in his five year of eervice. r when they hear that the young men of Oklahoma aro organizing a militu. THAT LABEADOR CATABAOT. From Goldthwalte'a Geographical Magazine. There is a fine chance for some enter prising young man with a taste for ad venture and geographical research to make himself famous by settling the question of those mysterious Grand Fall3 of Labrador. Two men have asserted that the Grand river tumbles over the edge of the great plateau of inner Labrador, and that in a single leap the foaming waters reach Mother Earth 2,000 feet below the spot where they dropped over the wall. The 6tory is stupendous, whether the falls are or not. Geographers are inclined to be doubting Thomases whenever these falls are men tioned, though we have never heard anything against Messrs. Maclean and Kennedy, who visited them entirely in dependent of one another and told the same wonderful story about them. Big or little, there they are only 160 miles up the Grand river, all ready for some young American who is willing to in vest a little money and do a little roughing it in order to learn the truth about them. Who will attempt it this summer? LITERARY NOTES. An article on the "Soro3is," written by Marion Harland. will appear in the num ber of Harper's Bazar published May S. It will be accompanied by a portrait of EllaDietz Clymer, formerly president and now vice president of the associa tion. A novel, interesting and instructive contest is offered to its readers by Harp er's Young People. A few cotton seeds are supplied to all applicants, and these they are invited to plant and raise, and after a certain date to send in a written history of their experience as cotton planters. A hundred prizes will be the substantial reward of the hundred young planters whose histories shall prove to be the most complete and most accurate. Thousands of these young planters have already come forward, buc it is not ex pected that the crop they raise will seri ously influence the markets of the world. Harper's Weeklv is publishing an im portant series of illustrations represent ing the principal buildings of the Colum bian exposition at Chicago as they will appear m 1893. These illustrations are drawn from the architects' accepted de signs, and there can bo no question as to their accuracy. The number of the Weekly for May 6 will contain views of the Administration building and the ag ricultural building, two of the most im portant edifices to be erected in connec tion with the exposition. Views have already been published of the Electrical building, the Mining building, the Water palace, the Queen Isabella pavilion, and several other structures. With every issue the New England Magazine becomes wider in its scope, and is more artistically goen up, it be being the evident desiie of the editors and publishers to mako it take first rank among the great illustrated monthlies. The May number presents a varied and excellent table of contents. Tho initial article is "Walt Whit man at Date," by Horace L. Traubel, and his revelation of the everyday life and struggles of the good gray poet, whose limbs are now paralyzed, will interest thousands of admirers on both sides of the Atlantic. An article dealing with the loyalists who fought against their country and their kith and kin in the revolutionary war, is not often seen in an American magazine, and it shows the spirit of fair play, and the decline of prejudices in our country, that Mr. James Hannay's article, "The Loyalists," writ ten from the Loyalist standpoint, should be given a prominent place in tho cur rent New England, and should be so lib erally illustrated. There is a fair instal ment of poetry and fiction. "Poor Little Mis Severance," by Miss Fanny Louise Weaver, i3 a queer little story of Nantucket. "My Lady Wentworth," by Adeline A. Knight, is an interesting mixture of fact and fiction. The serial, "A Fair Exchange," develops a situa tion. OKLAHOMA OUTLINES. A lot sold in Guthrie last week for $2000. The Oklahoma farmers are getting ready to cut wheat. Langston has a new paper and ifc is printed iu black ink. The season in Oklahoma is almost a mouth ahead of Kansas. The worst whisky in the territory i3 said to be sold at Choctaw City. There are twice as many book agents as there are lightning rod dealers. The Guthrie News refers to tho Indian soldiers as "Red Men in Blue." The Payne county commissioners have issued script to build a $1,800 court house. Guthrie has three street sprinklers, still the saloon-keepers are expected to put their dust. O. N. G. does not stand for "Oh. no srood" in the territory, but for Oklahoma National Guards. A man has written up Guthrie in a Ger man paper. It would not do for an Okla homa City man to translate it. Guthrie Capital: From statesmanship to poetry and from poetry perhaps to the gallows, is the drift of Ira N. Ternll. The prisoners in the Oklahoma City jail have a Kanagroo court that no civilized country would allow. Why don't the authorities set down on it? The idea that all white settlers have to leave the Chickasaw nation seems to be a mistake. It is simply the intruders who will not pay the $j tax that the govern ment imposes who will either have to comply or leave. Visitors to the Pott country say that in many places the hills seem covered with snow, so thickly is the country overgrown with wild strawberries that are now in bloom. This is destined to become one of the finest fruit countries in the United States. There have been 575 contests filed since the openinc of the Oklahoma City land office. About 4U0 cases have been heard. Guthrie and Kingfisher turned over to this office 2 000 cases Not mare than half the coutests represent caes which will come to trial, and often three, four and even five coutests will be consolidated. Mr. Waiker, n-u ;- nllnttinrr or-onf ?n : country InwruinS of the I th ?Znr nnd Pot M..r.nn. f tli. nv...T ;.a? tK. Atlnnffn.. ' incident- "We are going to allot a claim to a woman next week wnose nusoana oe longed to the council and he left her and went to living with another squaw. When he went hack to get his blankets and other worldy effects that go to make up No. 1) hammered him so that he had to j have his head tied up. He had the coun- j cil meet and demonstrated hi bad usaze j by his black eyes. The council of the noble red men voted her ont ot the tnbe ' and ordered the acent to strike her name off the annuity roll, but the commissioner j of Indian affairs thought the tribe needed mnrf.nch women o,l ordered her nam t kept on the rolL They have a marriage law but not aivorce law. Tahlequah Telephone: The loving dtvo- I tion of a mother her child is almost as j te compared to earthly things. This j fact has many times ba exemplified, and i the extreme hardships undergone lis: week by Mrs Nancy Stxkiiler, mother 01 tne wo uannawas uoy uu wc; hanced at this nlace Friday, wa only aaoiher isnhtantiar.mff instance of this assertion. After learning thst the princi- J pI chief had refused to pnnioa her txxn or commute their death sentence the old lady was wild with gnef, Jind determined to go to the chief in person and make a last anneal to him for thetr lives. The Idiitaace from Mr. Sixiiiitrs hoes io i Gong Snake district to Chief Maye's resi dence on Grand river is not less than eighty miles. Although an ngpd and feeble woman of 70 years she made the long journey afoot and alone. All in vain! Her pleadings with the stern old chiet came to naught, and the heart-broken mother was back at this place before the hanging so that she might be with her doomed boys during their last hours on earth. When she left her home lire. Six killer had on an old pair of shoes, but when she arrived in Tahlequah her feet were bare, torn and bleeding, and she was in an utterly exhausted condition caused by her grief, hunger aud fatigue. She had waded creeks and climbed moun tains until the shoes were completely worn out. George and Fred Dunnawas were the only children of Mrs. Sixkiller, and she loved them as only a mother can. She beseechingly plead for her children as only a mother can plead. She was with them in their last hours, followed them to the fatal gallows and saw the rope placed 'around their necks. As the ommious black caps were being drawn over the faces of her boys, with anguish and sorrow depicted in her face, she gave them a last pleading look, screamed piteously and sank prostrate to the ground. She was tenderly removed from the horrible scene by High Sheriff Cale Starr in a pitiful and insensible condition. EXCHANGE SHOTS. Clarkson's First Duty. From the St.. Louis Globe-Democrat. The first duty of Col. Clarkson as president of the Republican National league is to see that the Democrats do not elect another governor in his state this year. Sure Cure for Rheumatism. Gen. Lew Wallace, author of "Ben Hur," says rheumatism can be cured in one night without fail by a poultice of mustard and garlic applied to the feet. The remedy is so simple and inexpensive that few people will be willing to try it. Mills Doesn't Stand m with Hogg:. From the Macon Telegraph. Mr. Mills must think his chance to be speaker very good indeed, or he would not have refused the senatorship, which, it is said, was offered him. But then Mr. Mills was always a sanguine, over confident man. Party Fealty. From the Atchison Champion. Tho Champion has the profoundest re gard for the glorious history of the Re publican party, and it yields to no one in its admiration for the true Republican ism of today. This, however.should not be construed as expressive of any ad miration of tho kind of Republicanism advocated by such journals as the To peka Capital. Commander McCarthy. From the Atchison Champion. The Kansas G. A. R. is to be congratu lated upon having for its commander for the ensuing year ex-State Auditor Tim McCarthy. Volumes of good things might be written of Tim McCarthy, a born gentleman, with a warm and tender Irish heart filled to the brim with the milk or human kindness. Another Whack at Kelloy. From the Salina Republican. George T. Anthony has been appointed a delegate to the Denver commercial congress. If he had been a de'egate to the Kansas City convention Crisp and some of the other blue-blooded aristo cratic southerners would have gone homo with more respect for Kansas brains than they did as it was. They Wouldn't Havo it Otherwise. From tho Newton Repub'ican. There is general complaint throughout tho east that farm hands can not be fonnd. There is also some complaint of the same kind all over tho country. There are a good many people out of work, and there are a good many peoplo who want to bo out of work. In this age of Bellamyism, and belief that the "gov' ment" should usurp the supposed func tions of tho Lord and "provide," it can not bo expected that the apostles of des pair and disciples of hawbuck statesmen will wear very horny hands. Tho Tenth Anniversary. From tho Leavenworth Times. Yesterday was the tenth anniversary of tho adoption of the prohibitory amendment. Jim Troutman tried to persuade tiie peoplo of the state to cele brate, but, at tho time of this writing (11:38 p. m.) we have not heard of any such celebration. In view of the ex posures of the past winter, and of Humphrey's persistent nullification of tho law, such a celebration would be an absurdity. The people of Kansas can stand a good deal but they will not sub ject themselves to the ridicule of the country if they know it. air. Blaine's Forbearance. From tho Boston IleraIL Whatever may bo said of Mr. Blaine, ho does not resemble Clay and Webster in crowding himself upon his party after his defeat. When Clay had had his op portunity as a candidate for the presi dency, and lost it, though he was a much older man than Mr. Blaine, he still hankered to try again, and wad not modest about saying so. Mr. Webster, too, was so chagrined because Gen. Tay lor was nominated for president rather than himself that he declared Gen. Tay lor's nomination "not fit to bo made," and when Gen. Scott also defeated him went homo to work injury to his paru Mr. Biaine could have had his party a nomination in 1SS3, and can probably have it in 1892. There are different rea sons given for his declining it, but this seems to us the fact in both cases. The Coins of Ijigland. In the reign of Edward I thenonndin tale of silver coins was equal to the pound in weight of standard silver. The pound in tale was divided into twenty t-hi I lings, the shiilinj?s into twelve pnce, and each penny piece weighed a pennyweight or twenty-four grains. Before the mintage of gold coins in England, the byzant, val ued at ten shillings, was imported from Constantinople and tiorences of the same valne from Florence. Edward III subte qnentlv minted the noble, Edward IV tne rial, Henry VII ihe double rial, James I the laurel and Charles H revived the old me laurel sua V-Hsries li renTHi ine om , er the name of the guinea. This guinea in the reign of Qneen Anne, ori jonally issued as a twentv shilling piece, roe in valne to thirty shillings, and was acrobatic in values t..l tsir Isaac Newton secured authority ordering the guinea to to pass for twenty-one shillings sterling. The present English sovereign was tsetitd ixi lS17 nd weightd twenty twenty-first parts of a guinea. The present standard of fineness for silver coin eleven ounces, 0r two peanrweifcht silver and eighteen nnvweiiit allor ' !; , " .. ,,j , t.sn . TvlBroaz?fJlfl Wefe d -? Pg the old copper corns Ant, leshzd v the Hat of Charles II and afterward made by James II irom old s&z&, copper v!. pewter pots and a general assem blage of oonaratlrdy worthl nietal. Agt; of Stcl. Orizia of the "Confident-" Mas. A popular phrase is sad to hare thus originated: A few years ago raan in New York, well dressed and of exceedingly grn teel manners, went ibout faying in a very winiisg maoMr to almost er-rr gwrtie noA9 he m,HaTe you contldeace enough is ire, n entire rtmeger, to fend use 5for aa Jxour or two la this way be got a goo deal of money and came to bsgMseral- lylapwn in the courts iad eis-ewLere as ta ICoutdcaoe iUn." Aaxeriesa Grocer. J -f (lV o T 4b 9. c J SO && O VJ m "&. v ;V!Vi VOG sfrsG ovv vx 0rAvAv O O yP THE CEUELTY OE WAE. HEROIC DEATHS OF TWO DEVOTED FRENCH LOVERS IN 1871. An Episode of the Groat Pranco-Prnslan Conflict Tho Romance of the Youthful Fair Recalled by the Death of the Fa ther of the Tounj Soldier. In tho cemetery of Pero Lachaise, in Paris, the remains of an old man were committed to earth whose death recalls a sad and romantic story of the war of twenty years ago. This wa3 poor old Pere Delorme, who has been for years one of the familiar figures about the streets of Paris. Few persous knew his history, for he rarely spoke to anyone. He was, however, well known to the poor quarter of Paris, where he resided entirely alone in a modest apartment. The old man had a modest annuity, which enabled him to live in comparative comfort, but he was so benevolent that he frequently gave the last few sous he possessed to tho poor and distressed who asked him for aid, and he would then have to borrow a few francs from the shopkeepers until he received the next installment. Although it was generallv known in the' district that the old man mourned an only son who had been killed by the Prussians during the war, but few knew the details of a story from real life which would eclipse many a romance. In the quiet little cemetery of Ste. Gene vieve des Bois you will find two graves side by side. A headstone at tho top of one bears the name Andro Delorme, and a sen tence in French intimating that he died for his country. That marks the spot where lie the remains of the only son of poor Pere Delorme. At tho time of the declaration of the Franco-German war the old man, Alphonse Delorme, was living quietly with his only son Andre upon their little farm, situate between Ste. Genevieve and Fleury. The youth was but nineteen years of age, and his mother having died in his infancy the whole of the poor old man's affection was centered in the boy. When the dread war cloud burst over France 3'oung Delorme, wno was a youth of ardent, adventurous spirit, determined to enter the army to de fend his country against tho Prussians. These were stirring times, and the corps which young Andre joined was ordered to the front, and tho lad went away to the frontier after bidding an affectionate adieu to his father. rARTIKG OF THE LOVERS. Andre had a sweetheart, a beautiful young girl of seventeen, who lived some three miles from the house of his father, and he was allowed by special permission of his colonel to go and bid her farewell ere his regiment marched for the theater I of the war. The parting between the young lovers was a most affecting one, and An dre's fiancee with her own hands placed a rose, as a tribute of her love, inside his kepi, as he gave her a final embrace before starting off on a starry midnight to rejoin his regiment, which was under orders to march at daybreak. It would bo making the tale too long to follow the fortunes of younR Andro dur ing the war, but suffice it to say that ho bebaTed with conspicuous bravery in sev eral engagements. Victory, however, rest ed with the arms of the German troops, and young Andre was mortally wounded in a fierce engagement near Choisy while saving the life of a wounded officer of his regiment who had been attacked by half a dozen Germans. He knew that his condi tion was hopeless the regimental surgeon told him so and he determined to make his way to the bouse of his fiancee, and to bid her farewell before he died. The un dertaking was a dangerous one, for the country was overrun with Germans who had entered Montlery and established a camp near the residence of bis sweetheart, between Ste. Genevieve and Fleury. Yonng Delorme knew the country well, aud by the exercise of great caution man aged to elude his foes. He painfully dragged himself through the wood-i and by paths known only to nativea of that part of France, and thus was able to reach the home of his beloved unperccived. The i yonnR mrl, Jeanne Bcrnier, lived In a pretty white farmhouse surrounded with vineyards, with aspacious yard in front. A KELACHOLT TRACED r. On the eve of a hot autumn day the dy ing soldier arrived at the gate with hw uniform blood stained, torn and covered with dust, and his wan features riid with pain. Poor Andre knew he had not many hoars to live, for the blood wm again bcr ginninc to flow from the wound where tha foeman's bullet had pierced his breast. He could not open the door, bo he broke tho eclats in one of the window?, and raising it quietly, enteral the hou.s and made his way to the room where he knew ho would find bis fiancee. Oi opening tha door, what was his horror to find Jaenne strug gling, terrified, in the anna of a Prussian officer. Andre, maddened with rage, braced himself up and tired his loaded re volver at the cowardly assailant of the young girl, who rolled over dead oa tb floor with a bullet in his heart. The young lovers had barely ttmi to em- '- -' -- - "j .u w Ci.j- J' soldiers, who had heard the report of the firearms, burst into tne house and entered the room. Wfcn they saw the French uniform and their dead officer lying on the floor, they dragged the dying ald:tr from the arms of the almost fainting girl, and taking hkn outside placed him rongbiy Agajnj tfce wii tor in tact xcatioa. It was in rain that Jrance p!e.5d with Andres eaptor to et mm die la peace. The soldiers pushed her &ud and a fils ot v . ia v m. -. v O j nSraen were drawn up who leveled their guru at the ngnre of the dying tsA&e: wbce iif- blood wan welling fortioer his travel stained inform Sid ur.pp.ng oa th ground. With a rapreme eSTort the yoath straight ened hi bck maims, the waJJ, tzA dsfias iy facing hu foes exclaimed, "I ds for cy couctrj and my aocer Wfcila the xsea were making rady to firs Jeanne crept cIct and clojer, and when she e&w the lip of the man in chure of the firing party about to give the faUl cr&tr. aiw rnhd in with oototretdwi anari m if to meSd her lover, ted -whea the n&ok cie-trwl sway there Mere two corj oa U. ground, each pierced wua serersJ bullet. Tee Jortrs were boned de by side in two grave is tie lnUe cexseteryef St. Genevieve de Eols, with a tonsbttoce at ,Jad of each. pArta Cor. Ci&ciBati j J eW & SI "st j X W X && - .-.. " i cr Ov :o & - XV kO v TJ - - . .. - -r i . " - , - - w x . v r V 5V V aV " . " BUT REFUSE . v SUBSTITUTES. GENUINE HAS - BUFF WRAPPER AROUND BOTTLE. MADE ONLY BY v POND'S EXTRACT CO., 76 FIFTH AYE., NEW YORK- Vaccination. The tendency of smallpox to reappear as an epidemic from time to tune is noticts. able even in countries where vaccinatioa prevaib and is somewhat thoroughly en forced. Are we, then, to infer that vaccinatioa is a failure, as some persons conteud? By no means; the carefully gatnercd facts of all lauds prove the reverse. For instance, in the great epidemic m Sheffield, England, vaccinated children were seen to be twenty times as safe from an attack as the nuvao cinated, and nearly five hundred times Ibm liable to a fatal result. Three thinjs, how ever, seem to be established: Some persons have a susceptibility to smallpox which is not readily overcome, either by vaccination or by a previous at tack of the disease. A Sister of Charity, who had been successfully vaccinated in childhood, had a severe attack of smallpox attheayo of thirteen. Four cars latr she was again successfullv vaccinated, and still again m adult ae. Persons ha been known to take the disease several times. During an epidemic of smallpox the sus. ceptibihty to it is greatly increased. Per sons who in ordinary circumstances might be exposed to the disease with little risk will often take it readily during its preva lence. Vaccination, as a general fact, loses its protective power after a few years, espe cially prior to adult age In the Sheffield epidemic it was found that tho safety of the twice vaccinated whs twelve times a great as that of those who hod been vacci nated only once. Every child hhould bo vaccinated in in fancy, and again at tho age, ay, of seven. It is safer to repeat the operation apjiin in youth, if nu epidemic is prevailing, but in every case it should be repeated after adult ago i3 reached. Youth's Compauiou. Tears Shed ot a Dog's Ornvt. Frank wa3 the pet dog of tho men em ployed on tho Toledo nnd Ohio Central railroad. Ho died tho other day, nnd hU friends gavo him a grand funeral at Bu cyrus. 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