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iv|J |W? "f ?""3»'« •¥H#? -"^.S •f5 l£ 'e nWM,*f 4tfii k. *T*I -fv I £& &J llg hx •Y y- mP: WpllllWiTl'rfMWr oapltalista, ehlefiy English, have bees buying1 up American manufacturing establishments. Long ago some sensa tion was arouBed at the discovery tfrftt foreigners were among the largest holders of lands in the United States. It was learned that in the Territor alone more than 20,000,000 acres of land, much of it in large bodies, is the property of foreign individuals and syndicates, and then Congress passed a law providing that such ownership shail not be thereafter acquired but there was no interference with the titles to holdings already existing. Of course this law does not apply to the ownership of lands in States. There State laws alone govern such matters, and from the anxiety manifested by nearly all the States to secure foreign immigration it is evident that there is no disposition to limit the ownership of any sort of property by foreigners. As a consequence they have acquired large bodies of lands in most of the States, and now they are buying up factories and mines and are becoming the monopolizers of enormous in dustries. Not only does foreign capital control most of the American railways, but it has lately been buying up American breweries, and now it is operating among the great flouring mills in the northwest. It is true enough that the lands, the mines, the railways and factories which foreign capital controls in the United States cannot be carried out of the country and must be operated for toe use and convenience of the American people. It does not matter who actual ly owns the capital with which Ameri can industries are carried on, since the people must get a certain benefit out of them. If this were all, there wjuld be nothing further to be said. The trouble, however, comes up In a very tangible form with some extreme ly dangerons promises in the future. The country is virtually coming to be owned by foreigners to whom our peo ple are mortgaged. We are already coming to feel the power of great com binations of money in operating our industries. It is a regular business for these "trusts" to put up the prices of commodities and .necessaries at their pleasure. The arbitrary charges upon transportation, so long imposed by the railroad companies, became so oppres sive that it was found necessary to lay the heavy hand of tho law upon them but can the government interpose in every branch of Industry and commerce to prevent extortion by the powerful trusts?" It was once believed that the produc tive powers of the people arid the land of the United States were so enormous that no combinations could forestall or control them. Now we see syndicates of coal miners or of iron manufacturers stopping their works in order to en hance the prices of their commodities. This is done by the "trusts." We have seen such immense operations in the markets of cotton, grain and other agricultural products as greatly to disturb the industries that depend on them. Not long ago all tho coffee in the'world was cornered and all the copper was under control of a syndi cate. It is not too much to believe that the day is not far distant when it will be possible to corner all the cot ton and grain and to monopolize for purposes of profit the various neces saries of life. The success of these schemes depends wholly upon the ability to gather money enough under one management and in a single interest Europe and America by means of steam and elec tricity are brought into such close re lations, that they may be considered commercially as one country. When ever it shall become possible to wield the consolidated wealth of both hemis pheres to control a single product or In dustry, there will be no difficulty .in accomplishing any such scheme that may promise ready profits. Then the price of every commodity will be gov erned by the interests of some great trust or syndicate. The prime neces saries of life will be the most common subjects of speculation, and nothing but a revolution forcibly overthrowing the money power will protect the peo ple in the right to eat bread by the 6weat of their brows.—New Orleans Picayune. fnaka in a Snake. A blacksnake skinned by the taxider mist of Haine^City, Fia., had a king snake inside that only lacked a foot of being as long as the blacksnake, which measured seven feet Change of Heart First Female Advocate—"What? Do you mean to say Mrs. De Sweet has resigned from the Woman's Rights Society, and says she has all the rights she wants?" Second Female Advocate "Just so."' F. F. A.—"Mercy me! What has happened?" S. F. A.—'Tm sure I don't know. Johnny.' Have you seen Mrs. De Sweet lately?" Little Johnny—"No, ma'am, but as I was pafisin' her house this mornin' I sawd a furniture wagon stop and un load a cradle."—New York Weekly. Easily Explained. Eastern Man (getting a glimpse of St Louis from the car windows)— "My gracious!" What a hive of in. dustry this must be!" Fellow-Traveler (an Illinois Man)— "Eh? Wha—Industiy?" "Yes. Look at the dense clouds of smoke in every direction." "Oh! That blows down from Chi cago.—New York Weekly. The Doctors Agreed. Did you ever know two doctors to agree?" Medical Student (after reflection)— "Y-e-s: once." "Where was it?" "At a post-mortem."—New York Weekly. SW8S 'Vj "r thttr sailors «ad ninemeh fo* drowning during the three summer months of every year. There la less danger in store for those who '"go down to the sea in ships" than for those who go down to the little lakes that are frequented by city visitors in small pleasure boats. Women and children will take greater risks in order to catch a few striped perch or obtain a hand ful of water lilies than men will to secure. a vessel-load of cod or mackerel. The farther the place is from the ocean and the great lakes, the greater is the number of lives lost by drowning each summer. The little sailing craft or the still smaller rowboat has a great fascina tion to persons who are not accustom to going on the. water. They appear to be safe because they are so small and pretty. Women and children like to propel boats as they do to drive horses. They think that they need no instruction in the matter. They rely on instinct to aid them. A boat is dangerous in the inverse ratio of its size. One is much more likely to loose his life in a birch-bark canoe or a skiff made of veneering than in an iron steamship. At every wes tern watering pUu3 are dozens of little boats that no one but an expert should be allowed to take from their moor ings. Under good management not more than three or four should be allowed in one of them. Still, six or eight women and children, who know no more about handling oars and pad dles than they do of running a loco motive or operating a power printing press, crowd into one of them and push it from the shore. As long as they sit quietly they are secure, but the sight of a pond lllly or a bit of small fish Is enough to bring them nil to one side, This movement is certain to overturn tbe boat, and the chances are that there is no one on the shore who can rescue the persons struggling in the water. There should be a life boat and a person competent to man age it at every place where small pleasure boats are kept for the use oi visitors. The carrying capacity of each boat should be marked on it and the number of persons allowed to enter it should be limited to it A still bet ter way would be to dispense with the little boats entirely and to keep none that are not of good size and which are managed by competent persons. If all the persons drowned in some of our beautiful little lakes were buried on the shore much of the pleasure ground would soon be occupied by a grave yard.—Chicago Herald. Origin of Natural Soap. The natural soap mines of Owens Lake, California, are accounted for by the following theory: The water of the lake contains a strong solution of borax and soda. In these waters there breeds a grub that becomes a fly. The flies die In the water and drift ashore, covering the ground to a depth of a foot or more. The oily substance of the flies blends with the borax and soda, and the result is a layer of pure soap. These strata, repeated frorrf year to year, form the soap mines, where the large forces of men are now employed. This theory, as the Ital ians say, if not true, is well founded. Ex. Romance of a Modest-Looking A lady. "You see that modest-looking lady walking slowly down the corridor," said a treasury department watchman the other day to a Washington corre spondent of the Burlington Hawk-Eye. "Well, there is a very interesting story told about her. I'll give it to you for what it is worth. Several years ago she had a husband who was a clerk in this department and esteemed by all his associates. One day he failed to re port for duty. His wife stated that he was seriously ill and earnestly request that she be allowed to fill the place while he remained incapacitated. The permission was accordingly granted her. Soon after she got the place she proceeded to fix herself solid. The husband recovered, but she still held his position. She finally secured a permanent appointment to the place and at once instituted proceedings for a divorce. The divorce was granted on the charge of non-support Poor devil, she had robbed him of everything aud he was not capable of even sup porting himself. You see she is well dressed. Her husband is walking on his uppers, and his outer covering is nothing but a linen duster painted black." An Bvery-Day Scene. Pedestrian—"What's all that fuss about in that house—wedding?" Resident—"No. A new baby arriv ed last night, and all the women in the neighborhood are going into ecstasies over it" '•Who is that tall man all the women are crowding around?" "He is a minister, come to fix a date for the christening." "And who is the short man who at tracts so much attention?" "He is the doctor." "Ah! I see. That no-account fellow, who is being pushed out of the way or ran over, is the hired man, I presume." "No he's the father."—New York Weekly. Unjust Suspicions. Mrs. Shrill—"Two or three times family matters referred to on postal cards which I received have become public property, and I'd just like to know how it happened." Postal Clerk—"I guess you must have left the cards laying around the house." "Oh! Think I did. do you? Ah! Are you sure those cards were not read by somebody here?1' "Very sure, ma'am there isn't a woman in this office."—New York Weekly. ft is the clerk of the weather who fre quently makes a signal failure.—Yonkers Statesman. •(tterof-Vaet KomiaMi W Br CBABUS Runs. /r OHAPTEBIX COXTlNUBnu Next morning early, Alfred Bardie started gayly to sptad the day at Ubion Villa. Not a hundred yards from the gate he met Sarah, with Mrs. Dodd's letter, inclosing a copy of his father's to her. Mrs. Dod4here reminded him that his visits had been encouraged only upon a misapprehension of his fathers eeati ments tor which misapprehension he was in some degree to blame: not that she meant to reproach him on that score, especially at this unhappy moment: no, she rather blamed herself for listening to the sanguine voice of the youth: but the error must now be re paired. She and Julia would always wish him well, and esteem him, provided he made no further attempt to compromise a young ladv who could not be his wife. The note concluded thus: "Individuall I think 1 have some right to count on your manly and gentlemanly feet ing to hold no communication with my daughter, and not in any way to attract her attention under the present circumstances. "1 am. dear Mr. Alfred Hardie, "With many regrets at the pain I fear "lam giving you. "Tour sincere friend and well-wisher, Mrs. Dodd noticed also a certain wildness and almost violence, with which she threw herself into her occupations: and a worn look about the eyes that told you of a hid* den conflict. On the whole, Mrs. Dodd was hopeful for she had never imagined the cure would be speedy or easy. To see her child on the ri^ht road was much. Only the great healer Time could ''medicine her to that sweetpeace which once she owned and even Time cannot give her back her child hood, thought the mother, with a sigh. One day came an invitation to an evening party at a house where they always wonnd up with dancing. Mrs. Dodd was for declin ing as usual for since that night Julia had shunned parties. "Give me the sorrows of the poor and afflicted," was her cry "the gayety of the hollow world jars me more than I can bear." But now the caught with a sort of eagerness at this invitation. "Ac ceptl They shall not say I am wearing the willow." "My brave girl," said Mrs. Dodd, joyful ly, "1 would not press it but you are right we owe it to ourselves to outface scandal. Still, let there be no precipitation we must not undertake beyond oar strength." "Try me to-night." said Julia "you don't know what I can do. I dare say he is not pining for me." She was the life nnd sohl of the party, and, indeed, so feverishly brilliant, that Mrs. Dodl said softly to her "Gently, love moderate your spirits, or they will deceive our friends as little as they do mo." Meantime it cost Alfred Hardie a severe struggle to keep altogether aloof from Julia. In fact, it was a state of daily self-denial, to which be would never have com mitted himself, but that he was quite sure he could gradually win his father over. At his age we are apt to count with out our antagonist. Mr. Richard Hardie was "a long-headed man." He knew the consequences of giving one's reasons: eternal discussion ending in war. He had taken care not to give any to Mrs. Dodd, and he was as guarded and re served with Alfred. The young man begged to know the why and the wherefore, and, being impulsed, employed all his art to elicit them by surprise, or get them by inference: but all in vain Hardie senior was impene trable and inquiry, petulance, tenderness, logic, were all shattered on him as the waves break on Aiisa Craig. "Sicvolo, sicjubeo, stet pro ratione vo luntas," was the purport of ull he could be got to say, and that was wonderfully little. Thus began dissension, decently conducted at first, between a father indulgent hitherto, and an affectionate eon. In tkie unfortunate collision of two strong and kindred natures, every advantage was at present on the father's side: age, experi ence, authority, resolution, hidden nnd power ful motives, to which my reader even has no clew yet apurpose immutable and concealed. Add to these a coldernature and afar colder affection for Alfred loved his lather dearly. At last, one day, the impetuous one lost his self-command, and said ne was a KOB, not a slave, and had little respect for Authority when eiraid or ashamed to appeal to Season. Hardie senior turned on him with a gravity and dignity no man could wear more nat urally. "Alfred, have 1 been an unkind father to you all these years?" "Oh no, father, no I have said nothing that can he so construed. And that is the mysteiy to me you are acting quite oat of character." "Have I been one of those interfering, pragmatical fathers, who cannot let their children enjoy themselves their own way?" "No. sir yon have never interfered, ex cept to pay lor anything I wanted." "Then make me the one return in yonr power, young man have a little faith insueh a father, and believe that he does not inter* fere now but for your good, and under a stern necessity and that, when he does in terfere for once, and say, .'this shall not be,' it shall not be—by God!" Allred was overpowered by the weight and solemnity of this. Sorrow, vexation, and despondency nil rushed into his heart to gether, and unmanned him for a moment HA buried his face ID his hands, and some- filil 1 While Mrs. Dodd wrote to Alfred Bardie, Julia sat down and laid her head on her mother's knees. The note was shown to her) she approved it languidly. Along and sad conversation followed and, after kissing her mother and clinging to her, she went to bed chilly and listless, but did not shed a single tear her young heart was benumbed by the unexpected Mow. LUCY DODD." Alfred on reading this letter literally stag* eered: but proud and sensitive, as well as loving, he manned himself to hide his wound from Sarah, whose black eyes were bent on him in merciless scrutiny. He said doggedly, though tremulously, "Very welll" then turned quickly on his heel, and went slowly home. Mrs. Dodd, with well-feigned indiffer ence, questioned Sarnh privately: the girl's account of the abrupt way in which he had received the missive, added to her anxiety. She warned the servants that no one was at home to Mr. Alfred Hardie. Tiro days elapsed, and then she received a letter from him. Poor fellow, it was the eleventh. He had written and torn up ten: "DEAB MKS DODD,—I have gained some victories yi my life but not one without two defeats to begin with: how then can I expect to obtain each a prize as dear Julia without a check or two? You need not fear that I shall intrude after your appeal to me as a gentleman but I am not going to give in because my father has written a hasty letter from Yorkshire. He and I mnst have many a talk face to face before I consent to be mis. eroble for life. Dear Mrs. Dodd, at first re ceipt of yonr cruel letter, so kindly worded, I was broken-hearted, and now I am myself again. Difficulties are made for ladies to yield to, and for men to conquer. Only for pity's sake do not you be my enemy do not set her against me for my father's fault. Think, it you can, how my heart bleeds at closingt.his letter without one word to her I love, better, a thousand times, than my life. I am, dear Mrs. Dodd. "Y8ur sorrowfully, but not despairing, "ALFRED HABDIE:" Mrs. Dodd kept this letter to herself. She could not read it quite unmoved, and there fore she felt sure it would disturb her daugh ter's heart the more. Alfred had now a soft but dangerous an tagonist in Mrs. Dodd. All tho mother was in armsto secure iier daughter's happiness coute que coute! and the surest course seemed to be to detach her affections from Allred. What hope of a peaceful heart without this? and what real happiness without peace? But, too wise and calm to interfere blindly, she watched her daughter day and night, to find whether Love or Pride was the stronger and this is what she observed: Julia n-ver mentioned Alfred. She sought occupation eagerly: came o.'tener than usual for momsaying it was for "Luxury." She visile the pdyr more constantly, taking one of the maids with her, at Mrs. Dodd's request. She studied Logic with Edward. She went to bed rather early, fatigued, it would appear, by liei activity: and she gave the clew to her own conduct one day: ''Ma ma," said she, "nobody is downright un happy, who is good." MwspapwwMita^ ?°I»* '"W CBri of,thalip, iTithg hardly genuine, for he waii not altogether unmoved but he was a man of rartseKcom 'mpress on Alfred'that ne was no more to be broken or melted than A mere rock. M.i!iB PWCttrious to act a part and 7Act?WM raJll#r a}»1* Hil a father. "I never knew him tmnpw, thought he. -31'"M"js'Astorgof.' "(AGreek wort Jm. without bowels of affection." Thus a gesture, so to speak, sowed the first seed of downright disunion to Bichard Har dies house—disunion, a fast-growing plant, »i/L"1?n 't in the soil of tho passions. Allred, unlike Julia, hud no panacea. Had "pa, except perhaps hers, told him that £ooi t,° i* .h?.PP^ below," he k-jfi. ve rePHed'..'Negatur tled The above sentences, of course, were never uttered. But they represented his thoughts accurately, though in a condensed form, and are, as it were, a miniature of this young heart boiling over. From that moment he lay in wait for her, and hovered about the houseday and night, I determined to appeal to her personally, and undecieve her, ana buffle her mother's treach ery. But at this game he was soon detected: Mrs. Dodd lived on the watch now. Julia, dressed to go out. went to the window one afternoon to look at the weather but re treated somewhat hastily and sat down on the sofa. "You flutter, darling," said Mrs. Dodd. "Ah. he is there." "Yes." "You had better take off your things." "Oh, yes. I tremble at the thoughts ol meeting him. Mamma, he is changed, sadly changed. Poor, poor Al'red!" She went to her own room and prayed (or him: She ld the Omniscisnt that, though much greater and better in other respects than she was, he had not Patience. She prayed, with tears, that he might have Christian patience granted him from on high. "Heart of stone! she shuns me," snid Al fred, outside. He had seen her in her bonnet. Mrs. Dodd waited several days to see whether thin annoyan-.-e would not die of it self: waiting was her plan in most things, Finding he was not to be tired out. she seat Sarah out to him with a note carefully sealed: "Mn. Airmen HARDIE,—Is it generous to confine my daughter to the house? Yours regretfully, LUCY DODD." A line came back instantly in pencil: "MRS. Dunn,—Is all the generosity nnd all the good faith to be on one side? Yours in despair, ALFRED HARDIE." Mrs. Dodd colored faintly: the reproach pricked her, but did not move her. She sat quietly down that moment, nnd wrote to a Iriend in London, to look out for a furnished villa in a healthy part of the suburbs, with immediate possession. "Circumstances," said she, "making it desirable we should leave Barkington immediately, and for some months." The Bosanauets gave a large party Mrs. and Miss Dodd were there. The lutter was playing a part in a charade to the admira tion ot all present, when in came Mr. Peter son, introducing his friend Alfred Hardie. Julia caught the name, and turned a look of alarm ou her mother but went on acting. Presently she caught sight of hira at some distance. He looked very pale, and his glittering eye was fixed on her with a sort of stern wonder. Such a glance from fiery eyes, that had al ways dwelt tenderly on her till then, struck her like a weapon. She stopped short, nnd turned red and pale by turns. "There, that is nonsense enough," said she bitterlv, and went and sat by Mrs. Dodd. The gentlemen thronged round her witli compliments, nnd begged her to sing. She excused herself. Preseutly she heard an excited voice, toward which she dared not look it was inquiring whether any lnd.v could sing Aileen Aroon. With every dfsire to gratify tbe young mil lionaire, nobody knew Aileen Aroon, or had ever heard of it. "Oh, impossible!" cried Alfred. "Wli it is in praise of Constancy, a virtue ladies'shine in at least they take credit for it "Mamma," whispered Julia, terrified, "get me own v, or there will be a eeene. He is KCRIMI. Be calm, love said Mrs. Dodd, "there ?be rose and glided up to Mnd Unrdit, looked coldly in his face: then said with external politeness and veiled con tem]rt, I wijl attempt the song, sir, since you desire it." .She waved her hand, and he fallowed her sulkily tothe piano. She sang Aileen Aroon, not with her daughter'* elo quence, but with a purity and mellowness that charmed the room they had nmr heard the genius sing it As spirits are said to overcome the man at whose behest they rise, so this aweet air, and the gush of reminiscence it- awakened, overpowered him who had evoked them: Al fred put his hand unconsciously to his swell ing hearty Mat one look of anguish at. Julia, and hurried away half choked. Nobody but Julia noticed. A feljow in a rough great-coat and tatter ed white hat opened the fly door for Mrs Dodd. As Julia followed her be kissed her skirt unseen by Mrs. Dodd: but. her oniric ear* caught a'heart-breaking eiph. She looked, -.V S v.». Uiii-i Mis. than wise Al- on® watehed him keenly aa P®"™ the monetary article with tranquil U'V"! th?n»for the Awttime in his life int°th® young man's mind that his contradicted by daily experience. It never occurred to to of !fu himsolf. and sym- 8°rthdsorrows of the poor, iu!lr bottomless egotism in contact with the well-to-do. He brooded on his own °*u happiness, and his own •twi ,®8 n,ghts 5vH i.i a 7Ki .n- were sleepless, tri«d for w-'Jk.u- hard to read iSfiit'jl '®8?' ^?t for once even ambition failed it ended in flinging books away with a curse. He wandered about dreaming and some change, and bitterly J"* excessive deli- own hands aud brought him to a stand-still. He lost his color and what little fleBh he had to lose for such young spirits as this are never plump. fLJLr0' !n,f now strait-jacketed into feminine inactivity, while void of feminine natience, his ardent heart was pining and fretting iMI out. He was in this condition, when one day Peterson, his Oxonian friend, burst in on him open mouthed with delight, ?ni!u„a8j)1i8uul wit'1 bright spirits of this caliber, did not even notice his friend's sad "f88-,. Cupid had clapped Peterson on the shoulder, as Shakespeare hath it and it was a deal nicer than the bum baliff rheuma tfsm. "Oh, such a divine creature! Met her twice you know hjr by sight her name is Dodd. But Idon'tcare it shall be Peterson the rose by any other name, etc." Then followed a rapturous description of the lady a person well worth omitting. "And such a jolly girl! brightens them all up whenever she goes and such a dancer! did the catchouka with a little Spanish bloke BnsMnqjuet has got hold of, and made his black bogus eyes twinkle like midnight cigars danced it with castanets, and smiles, and such, a what-d'ye-call 'em, my boy, you know such a'go."r "You mean such an 'abandon,'" groaned AHredfsturning sick at heart. "That's the word. Twice the spirit of Duvernay, and ten times the beauty. But just you near her sing, that is all: ltulian, French, Greman, English even." "Plaintive songs?" "Oh, whatever they ask for. Make you laugh or make yon cry—to order never says no. Just smiles and sits down to'the music box. Only she won't sing two running: they have to stick a duffer in between. I shall meet her aguin next week will you come? Any friend of mine is welcome. Wish msjoy, old fellow I'm a gone coon." This news put Alferd in a frenzy of indig nation andfear. Julia dancing t,he catchouka! Julia a jolly girl! Julia Binging songs pathetic or merry, whichever were asked fori The heartless onel He called to mind all he had read in the classics, and elsewhere, about the fickleness of women. But this im pression did not last long he recalled Julia's character, and all the signs of a love tender and true she had given him he read her by himself, and, love-like, laid all the blame on another. "It was all her cold-blooded moth* er. Fool that I have been. I see it all now. She appeals to my delicacy to keep away then she goes to Julia and says, 'See he de serts you at{a word from his father. Be proud, he gay! He never loved you: marry another.' The shallow plotter forgets that whoever she does marry I'll kill. Hiyr many un suspiciousgirls'havethesedouble-faced moth ers deluded so? They do it in half the nov els, especially in those written by women and why? because theBe know the pertidity and meaacity of their sex better than we do: they see them nearer, and withthelrsouls un dressed. War! Mrs. Dodd, warto the death! From this moment I am uione in the world with her. I have nofrivnd but Alfred Hardie and my bitterest enemies are my cold blooded father, and her cold-blooded moth er." Mf 'tiat-. CiliViv^w fit the tikgry oae, To ascertain this Mn, Dodd waited toat speak. thi^r Yad' ly nut out mt'on her daughter's the girt was trembling violently. Jttie distance, then and rested it for a erhan 7'Llttle wretch!" came to Mrs. Dodd's lire, but she did not utter it. They were near home before she spoke at all, then she said very kindly, "My love, you will not be subjected again to these trials a re mark intended quietly to cover the last oc currence as well as Alfred's open prosecu tion. They haft promised to go outthevery next day but Mrs. Dodd went alone, and made excuws for Miss Dodd. On her return she fonnd Julia sitting up for her, and a letter come from her friend, describing a pleasant cottage, now vacant, near Maida Vale. Mrs Dodd nanded the open letter to Julia she read it without comment. "We will go up to-morrow and take it for three months. Then the Oxford vacation will terminate." "Yes, mamma." 1 am now about to relate a circumstance by no means without parallel, but almost impossible to account for and, as nothing is more common and contemptible than inadequate solutions, I shall ofler none at all but so it was, that Mrs. Dodd awoke in the middle of that very night in a mysteri ous state of mental tremor trouble, veilsd in obscurity, seemed to sit heavy on her bosom. So strong, though vague, was this newond mysterious oppression, that she started up in bed and cried aloud, "David'— Julia!—Oh. what 13 the matter?" The sound of her own voice dispelled the cloud in part, but not entirely. She lay awhile, and then finding herself quite averse to sleep, rose and went to her window, and eyed the weather anxiously. It was a fine night soft fleecy clouds drifted slowly across a silver moon. The sailor's wife was reassured on her husband'B behalf. Her next desire was to look at Julia sleeping: she had no particular object it was the in stinctive impulse of un nnxions mother whom something had terrified. She put on her slippers and dressing-gown, nnd, lighting a candle at her nightlamp, opened her door softly, and stepped into the little corridor. But she had uot taken two steps when she was arrested by a mysterious sound. It came from Julia's room. What was it? Mrs. Dodd glided softly nearer and nearer, all her senses on the stretch. The sound came again. It was a muffled sob [TO BE CONTINUED] Overhauling History, Tbe old story books make us be lieve thab on April 20, 1775, Israel Putnam was plowing in his field, when a messenger arrived in hot haste with news of the battle of Lex ington, and that the hero farmer un yoked his oxen and left them to their fate, mounted a horse and was oft to the north without so 'much as saying "good-by" to those of his house. And were we not brought up in the belief that this line— They left the plowshare in the mold, was inspired especially by his case? And have not we, all of us, ever since our childhood been familiar with pictures representing him plow ing, clad in a frock as long as a nightgown, which no farmer could wear at anjr kind of work without imminent and unescap able peril of being tripped up at every step he took—to say noth ing of turning a furrow, when he would be indeed fortunate if he did not find himself under the plowshare? And to know that after many years that there was no plow in the case— to find out that that, too, is a myth! It wns, indeed, the day after the fight at Lexington, in the morning, and Isruel Putman was at work on his farm in Pomfret, Conn. But he was building a stone wall, with his hired men and he had ton a leather frock and apron—the irock must have been a short one fancy one of that material coming to nis heels! He took off the apron, but did not wait to change the check shirt he had worn in the field, and was oft without delay. He rode the same horse 100 miles in eighteen hours and reached Cambridge at sunrise the next morn« ing.—Wide Awake. The World's Shipbuilding. At no period in the history of ship building has such rapid progress bran recorded as is now being made. Every large liner which is launched has its improvements on its prede cessor, which all go toward increas ing speed, safety and general com fort. The amount of machinery in a large steamship is very great, and new applications of steam apparar tus are continually being found. Refrigerating, distilling, electric light and improved blowers are among the latest additions. Dur ing the last year there were built 765 vessels, having a tonnage of 927,000. Of these Great Britain built 484, having a tonnage of 777, 000, or 84 per cent, of the total num ber. Germany comes next with 37 vessels of 40,000 tons, and the United States built 73 vessels of 38, 000 tons. The last named were al most entirely of wood.—New York Commercial Advertiser. The Franking Privilege. The postal authorities say that the amount of postal matter received under the frank of congressmen is so small as to be of no importance in connection with the work of the of fice. Occasionally after some import ant speech a number of Congression al Records will be forwarded to Bos ton or to other parts in New Eng land. Outside of the departments of the government and the members oi congress the franking privilege is en joyed liy agricultural colleges and the widows of the ex-presidents of tbe the United States. A circumstanoe not generally known is that all the mail matter addressed to Sarah Polk, Lucretia R. Garfield and Julia D. Grant may be sent free of charge. No signature or murk is neceflsary to the free carriage of mail matter to either of the above named persons. Tbe address is sufficient. These la* dies not only have the privilege of sending their mail matter for noth ing, but their correspondents enjoy the same privilege.—Boston Tran. script. Women's hats have assumed anew wrinkle. The Paris models reported in London are s:id to be "somewhat fantastical in shape, the brims break ing out in unexpected curves, de pressed here, raised there, and twisted into all sorts of angles. A double crowned hat lius also been seen. An unusual sensation was prodoMS at the cemetery of Pen when a/hearse entered the gate, fol lowed by about 150 men of extra* ordinary size and strength. Some were neatly attired in black gar ments, while others displayed, below a light overcoat, their legs incased in tights and spangles. All the wrestlers and "Hercules" in Paris had come to the cemetery for the in terment of one ot their colleagues, Louis Launay-Launay, who be longed to a wealthy family, and was at a very early age with the ambition to display his muscles at the different fairs. His strength and ability soon won him fame. He was accidentally bitten by a pet terrier and died from hydrophobia.—Paris Letter. tm The Mckle in the Slot* Tou can drop a nickle in the Blot and get almost anything. You can get your weight, your height, try your grip, try yonr lunge, get your bonbons and chocolate, etc. The latest thing is an automatic insur ance policy. It is for railroad em ployes only. There is one of them in the Lake Shore Depot. Under neath the glass in front is a copy of the ticket. The employe drops a nick le in the slot and gets an accident in surance. Ticket good for twenty four hours. The same company has a box in the Palmer house for travel ing men only. The benefit is so much for death through an accident and so much per week while suffering from injuries sustained.—Chicago Herald. When shehad Children,shegavethemCastoria for Qire The only way to successfully master Shorthand to place yourself under a flrst-clasa Instructor. CURTISS COLLEGE mp1oyft none bnt tbe beet teachers. It stands it the head of all school* of buHineeeln the North irest. It haa the bent of everything and 'toe* the oest work. Send for special circular ofBhorthand department. Address MINNEAPOLIS. MINN. It will be to your advantage when writing advertisers to say you saw their advertise ment in this paper. N. W.N.O 1889. FOR TWENTY LE8SON8. •ft?:* A 7 & 6 All who use Dobbins' Electric Soap praise it aa the best, cheapest nnd most economical family soap made but if you will try it once it will tell a still stronger tale of its merits it self. Please try it. Your grocer will supply you. Dispatches stated that a number of lives were lost a wreck near Scranton, Pa., but later advices that only one or two passengers were slightly hurt. 1 LittleAdTlce, The stpmachsofchildrenbecomedisordered by over-indulgence in summer and Cramps, Colic and Cholera Morbus maks them miser able. First stop the supply of irregular and unwholesame food, next nave on hand Perry Davis' Pain Killer for there is no other remedy so. efficient. Inspired by the pearl discoveries in Wiscon sin, many people have examined the clsimB which abound in the Kishwaukee river in Illi nois with great success. A pocket match-safe free to smokers of "Tansili's Punch" 5c Cigar. John O'Connor and T. J. Condon, mem bers of parliament for Tipperary, were re leased from prison. They will at once resume their seats in the house. When Baby waa sick, we gave her Castoria, When she waa.a Child, she cried for Castoria, When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, will car* then trssklm. Try (hi Sold Evenrwhw. 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Just figuro out what is required to do all these thin«« COMFORTABLY, and you oan makaaflai estimata of the valuo of tha BimiBB' GUIDE, which will ho sent upon receipt of 10 centa to pay postage. MONTGOMERY WARD A CO. *11-11* Kichigan Avenue. OhieacotZU. CB mm $ Allen's Lone Bal stands pre-eminent. The druggist* speak at it in the highest terms, as giving entire satisfac tion wherever it is used. C006HS, GOLDS, BMCMS AND SORE THROAT, In their vsrioas forms, are so frequent In this changeable climate, and so often lay the foanda. tlon of disease, that no one who has a 'nronss regard for health should be without Allan Lung Balsam. CONSUMPTION. For the cure of this distraining disease therekas been no medicine yet discovered that can show mora evidence ol real merit than AUen'e Lone Balsam. Mothers wlll flnd It a safe and rare remedy to give their children when afflicted with Croup. It is harmless to the most delicate GUd. 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