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W Rffl MADE.
EXCITING SCENES OX DAKOTA'S
NEWLY OPENED LANDS.
A Grand Rush Made bT Thousands of
Eomeseekers and Specu
lators. 'The City of Pierre Almost Depopulated by
the Effort to Secure Choice
Lands.
Conflicts Over Town Lots Already Begun-
Whisky Flowing Like Water, for
Money, and Gambling Carried
on at Its Height-Account
of an Eye-Witnesi
WEATHER BULLETIN.
Sigxal Office, Wichita, Kan., Feb.
12. The highest temperature was 47,
the lowest was 23, and the mean 33 ,
with fresh northeast winds, shifting about
noon to light south, with rising tempera
ture and falling barometer; cloudless
weather.
Last year on February 12 the highest tem
perature was 55, the lowest 24 and the
mean 40.
Fued I. Johnson, Observer.
Wai: Depaktmext. Washington. D. C,
Feb. 12. 8 p. in. Forecast until S p. in.
Thursday:
For Kansas Fair; warmer; variable
winds.
THE LANDS FLOODED.
Pifty Thousand People Enter the Newly
Opened Sioux Eeservation.
PlERiiE, S. D., Feb. 12. This afternoon
Colonel Lassen, in command of the mili
tia at Fort Pierre, received an official Tele
gram from the war department oflicially
announcing the president's proclamation
opening the Sioux reservation and that
military forces should be withdrawn. In
formation to this effect was sent to the
daily capers of this city, and immediately
extras were llyiug .the streets announcing
the fact. The town was immedi
ately in a hubbub, of course.
Vehicles of all kinds were
immediately called out and packed with
men of all classes and thero was an exciting
race for the reservation. Everybody who
could not ride walked over. They went
pell-mell without waiting for anything,
bankers, clerks, boomers and all, each and
every one trying to be first to get in the
promised l.md. In thirty minutes tho
town was practically deserted, stores were
closed and business almost suspended.
Perched on the dome of the capitol
building the writer could see over the
country for miles around, and such a
thrilling sight was never before seen in
this city. Stretching away acro-s the
river for miles into the reservation was the
procession of men and boomers' wagons
liurryiuu along on their mad rush for
houses and land, winding their way over
hills and valleys, each trying to get ahead
of the other to pick up choice pieces of the
laud taken away from the red men and
given to the settler. Fully 30,000 people
were in tho crowd and tonight they are
camped over what was yesterday the homo
and hunting ground of the Sioux nation,
tonight the home and property of those
wiio have waited long for the day when
thev could take possession of the rich land
and cultivate- the soil. Load
after load of lumber has left the immense
lumber yards hero until they are almost
depleted, and tonight, for a radius of
twenty-live miles, can almost everywhere
ye heard the sound of the saw and ham
mer. Work is progressing now and will
be continued all night by the light of fires
and lanterns on the construction of shacks
on which the house seeker can lay his head
and protect himself from the elements.
Many houses can be viewed from this city
where this morning there was nothing but
the naked plain.
At Fort Pierre the situation is serious.
The bulk of the crowd first struck that
village aud immediately commenced to
claim town lots, there being as many .-is
len claimants to one lot. Some trouble
has already arisen and the indications are
that bef oi e morning thero will be some
thrilling scenes gone through by those
who aro disputing the Bosse.ssion ot lots.
Ten wagon loads of beer and whisky left
this city tor Fort Pierre and several gam
bling outfits. The liquor has been pre
vented on the reservation heretofore, but
tonight it is as free as water and the resi
dents having been relieved of the despotic
military rule that tnei-have been subjected
to for several weeks aro giving vont to
their leelings by imbibing the flowing
bowl. Gambling is going on openly in the
streets, and halt breeds, squaw men and
even tho red man himself are playing high
with the funds which they have received
for the relinquishment of claims. The
wily speculator. F. W. Pettigrew, brother
of Senator Pettigrew, has charge
f the town and is at the head
of a vigilanco committee in the
absence of any law. Pettigrew will profit
immensely from thesalo of Fore Pierre
town lots and his attempt to deny the real
situation in the hope of keening settlers
back until ail of his plans weie laid.
A big crowd ot settlers came iu on the
evening train who immediately crossed
over to Fort Pierre to join in the revelry.
WRANGLING OVER THE LANDS.
ChAMKBKLAIN, S. D., Feb. 12 The situ
ation on the town site west of this city be
came more complicated than ever last
night when :i large party of per
tons from along the Milwaukee road
nriived on the ground with a force of sur
veyors aud began at once running lines re
gardless of the rights of prior settlers. In
dian lands or anything else. A meeting
was held Inst uignt by the several claim
ants for the purpose of adjusting the dif
ference s, but a compromise could not be
made aud the fight lor the possession from
this time on promises to be most bitter.
Many settlers are putting up buildings ou
lands reserved for tho Indians in severalty,
but they aro being ejected. The settlers
Ironi a distance aie beginning to arrive.
A MARRIAGE CAUSES SENSATION.
New Y'ORK, Feb. 12. A sensational
story appeared in :i morning paper about
themaniageof Douglas Green, a New
York stock broker, to Mrs. Snell McCrea,
divorced wife of Willey C. McCrea and
daughter of the murdered William Snell,
of ChicagoAThe marriage occurred at Old
Point Coiriwrt, Ya., and a colored minis
ter tied the knot. Mr. Bateman, Green's
partner, forced Green to withdriw from
the firm this morning. Haying done so,
Green engaged passage on an ocean steam
er aud salted fof Europe with his bride.
The whole episode has created a great sen
sation on the stock exchange. Green was
separated from tiis first wife, although no
divorce had been obtained from him. She
is a riece of Governor Sprah, of New
Hampshire, anil moves in the highest so
cial circles.
Mr. Green's relativs and friends are
convinced that Ins mind is deranged. He
slipped and fell on the pavement about a
year ago, seriously injuring his spine, and
since that tim he has manifested great
aversion to his family, to whom he was
formerly greatly attached. Before mailing
for Europe ho looked upou his bigamous
marriage as a huge, joke.
A FORMIDABLE SWITCHMEN'S STRIKE.
BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb. 12. A dispatch
from Suspention Bridge says the strike of
the Central switchmen there is still on.
Superintendent Burrows told the strikers
that the road could not aud would not al
low the increse demanded. It seems prob
able that if matters here are not arranged
ihat the entire Central system and per
haps other roads will become involved.
HUNDREDS SAVED FROM FLAMES.
New York, Feb. 12. Fire was discov
ered shortly before 8 o'clock this morning
in a garret o7er the fourth floor of the
Roman Catholic orphan's asylum on Fifth
avenue, opposite the Vanderbilt mansion.
There are 414 orphan boys, between the
ages of 5 and IS years old, in the asylum
under the charge of twenty-six Sisters of
Charity. The children had just finished
their breakfast aud had just taken their
seats in the several class rooms when the
superioress, Mother Mary Martin, learned
of the outbreak of the fire. She at once
sounded the alarm used in the fire drill in
the asylum andvaided by the other sisters.
marshalled all the children in orderly
style from all the class rooms down to tho
Madison street entrance, where they were
in perfect safety. The children knew
nothing of the presence of fire in the
building until they had left and heard the
clang of fire engines hurrying to the
asylum. The fire was soou put out; dam
age 810,000.
Rheumatism attacks every age, gout
only adults. But whether you have only
to cope with the one or the other, Salva
tion Oil will be found equally efficacious.
It kills pain. Price 25 cents a battle.
"A merry heart goes all the day;" but
who can merry be, when racked and tor
mented with a hateful cough. Be wise,
and try Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. It re
lieves at once, cures promptly and costs
but 25 cents a bottle.
SHOCKING STATEMENTS.
New Yorkers Who Insure Their Children
and Maltreat Them to Death,
New York, Feb. 12. The Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children will en
deavor to prevent the return of a little 5-year-old
child, May Collins, to her step
mother, Mrs. Hannah Collins, of No. 34
Greenwich street. It is claimed that Mrs.
Collins maltreated the little one iu a
snocking manner. When taken in charge
a month ago May's left cheek was swollen
to twice its natural size, there were two
cuts on her head, the third fiuger of her
left hand was cut to the bone, her nose was
bruised and her right arm was broken.
"We have just found out," said Captain
Jentings of tho Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children, "that Stepmother
Collins had little May's life insured in the
Metropolitan Iusurance" company for $40.
This insuring children under 10
years of age is a terrible thing aud the leg
islature should pass a law prohibiting it.
In three-fourths of the cases of neglect
and inhuman treatment of children that
our society attends to in a year we find
that the guardians, parents or step-parents
of the children have insurance on their
lives. I believe that there are today at
least a hundred thousand children under 7
years of age that have a epolicy of insur
ance upon their lives. The insurance
agents are constantly going through the
tenement house districts getting people to
insure their children. The highest insur
ance they take on a child is about 120. T
tell you it is enough to make one's llesh
creep to think of the temptation it gives
to drunken, brutal mothers who have lost
the iustiucts of humanity."
INFERNAL INGENUITY
Could scarcely devise more excruciating
tortures than those of which you see the
evidences in the face of a rheumatic or
neuralgic sufferer. The agonies are the
consequence of not checking a rheumatic
or neuralgic attack at the outset. Hos
tetter's Stomach Bitters has been found by
skillful medical practitioners to possess
not only remedial buc defensive efficacy,
where those diseases exist, or a tendency
to them is exhibited. Surely this puissant
but safe botanic medicine, bearing, too,
such high specific sanction, is better than
the poisons of teu employed, but most un
safe, not onlyiu continuance, but in iso
lated doses. The blood is depurated thor
oughly from the rheumatic virus, and the
nerves, slightly impnrged upon, saved from
ultimate and direful throes by this benign,
saving medicine, which likewise exhibits
marked efficacy for malaria, kidney com
plaints, dyspepsia, constipation and liver
complaint.
WHOLESALE MOVEMENT OF NE
GROES. Raleigh. N. C, Feb. 12. R. A. Will
iams, who is chief of the labor agents at
work in North Carolina, reports that he
alone has sent 20,000 negroes out of the
state. He says he has never yet put a ne
gro on tho train without having a home
and labor contract provided for him. He
lias demands for 5.000 more negroes. Mon
day and Tuesday were the most excitng
days the labor agents have ever experi
enced. They say that notes of warning are
posted at several towns. One man was
driven away while he was endeavoring to
get to a school house full of negroes. The
The white people say they do not propose
to have the labor stirred up when the
crops aro being put in. The farmers in the
northeastern counties are greatly stirred
up and some agents have been threatened
with lynching.
PLEADED GUILTY.
Bribery of the Cronin Jury Acknowledged
Investigating tho Pacts.
Chicago, III, Fob. 12. When the case of
tho men indicted for attempting to bribe
tho Cronin jury was called this morning
before Judge Wathen, tho four remaining
defendants plead guilty. The court called
them up and told them to what they were
liable in case he enforced the full penalty
of tho law. but that he would have to have
evidence to determine what mitigating or
aggravating circumstances there were. A
panel of veniremen was accordingly called
into the box and the work of selecting a
ury beguu. Probably some interest in the
ca-e has generally lessened since the flight
of Graham, who is supposed to have been
near the head of the conspiracy to corrupt
the jury.
All sufferers from blood disorders can
use Ayer's Sarsaparilla with assurance of
cure.
LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY.
Central Music Hall, Chicago. Pilled With
a Largo Throng-
Chicago, 111., Feb. 12. Three thousnnd
people tonight at Central music hall cele
brated tho birthday of Abraham Lincoln.
The galleries and stage were resplendent
with flags and enthusiastic rendition of
the "Star Spangled Banner" opened and
closed the exercises. Lincoln Council of
the national union conducted the affair.
Hon. John M. Thurston, of Nebraska,
chairman of ttio convention that nomi
nated President Harrison, was the orator
of the evening. Rounds of applause were
repeatedly elicited by his eloquent de
livery. AT NEW YOKK.
New York. Feb. 12. The Republican
club at Dtilmonico's tonight commemo
rated tho anniversary of tho birthday of
Abraham Lincoln. Cephas Brainard pre- I
sided and there were present many prom
inent Republicans ot national repute. At
the conclusion of Mr. Bramard's remarks
Mr. Depew arose and propo-ed three
cheers for James G. Blaine They were
giveu with a royal good will and were fol
lowed by three and a tiger for Mr. Depew.
CUT NAIL SCHEDULE REVISED.
Wheeling, W. Ya., Feb. 12. At a
meeting of the Western Cut Nail associa
tion held here today the card for cut nails
was so changed as to make 50 to 00 pen
nies the base instead of 12 to CO pennies as
heretofore and advancing the price 5 cents
on 40 peunies, 10 cunts oa 30 pennies and 15
cents on 20, 1G and 12 pennies, with the re
mainder of the iist the same as on the
present schedule. The base price was
fixed at $2.25 per car load lots with 10 cents
advance for less than car lots. The meet
ing was unanimous in this action.
To create an appetite, and che tone to
the digestive apparatus, use Ayer's Sar-
1 saporillci.
K. OF L. OPPOSE ALLISON.
MAKSHALLTOTVX, la., Feb. 12. In the
state assembly, Knights of Labor, this
morning a long debate was precipitated
by a report from the committee on resolu
tions denouncing Senator William B.
Allison as a monopolist and demanding
his defeat by the legislature. A member
gave notice he would offer a substitute. A
number of strong Allison men in the as
sembly will make a fight for him.
VERDICT ON THE NAVASSA RIOT.
Baltimore, Md.. Feb. 12. The jury in
third Navassa trial, after being locked up
all night, brought in a verdict this after
noon. As to the killing of Samuel Marsh,
the jury finds Edward Smith guilty of
murder in the first degree. Eleven of the
remaining fifteen defendants are found
guilty of manslaughter.
Beecham's Pills act like magic on a
weak stomach.
A GRAND CHORUS
NEW OnLEAXS. La., Feb. 12. The twenty-sixth
Bunders' Saengerfest opened with
great eclat tonight. The immense hall
was crowded with a fashionable audience
a great number of which were from other
states. It was estimated that fully 1,650
singers would participate in the opening
concert, but owing to an accident to the
Queen & Crescent line the Chicago singers,
or at least a great number of them, failed
to appear. Nevertheless, fully 1,500 voices
were in the mass chorus, and the effect
was grand.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
Chicago, III, Feb. 12. Miss Hattie
Hind, a member of the choir ac the Rev.
D. L. Moody's church, was shot twice to
night by Robert Henderson, a member of
Moody's congregation. Henderson imme
diately Dlaced the pistol to his right ear
and inflicted a fatal wound. Miss Hind
niav recover. The tragic affair took place
in Henderson's apartments. Henderson is
a married man.
Soiling tho Succulent Fro.
Two or three times a month a bright
boy with a business like air visits the
hotels and restaurants. He was en
countered the other day in a down town
lunch room, where he had just sold the
proprietor a dozen fat frogs. They were
neatly strung along a stick, and one man
at first took them for reed birds. "I
caught these down in the Neck," said the
boy, "and it ain't no fun either, going
into a ditch after them with a net."
"What do you charge for them?-'
"Well, for nice, big ones, I can get
sixty cents a dozen," answered the youth.
A German woman from some place
"down in Jersey" peddles frogs, too.
She is talkative enough, except when
inquisitive folks try to find out juEt
where tho festive froggy can be found.
Then she shrewdly scents a possible
competitor, and thereafter remains as
mute as the proverbial oyster.
The usual way to cook bull frogs, or
cow frogs, a3 the boys call them, is, ac
cording to certain gastronomic authori
ties, a simple thing. Roll the frogs iu
cracker dust and then fry them as you
would an oj'ster. One gentleman of
pronounced epicurean tastes says that if
the flavor of the succulent dainty is de
sired, it should simply be fried in butter.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Fashions in Diamonds.
Diamonds flue diamonds especially
are as fashionable as ever. Jewels com
posed of clustered diamonds of different
sizes are losing ground in general esti
mation. They are now considered as in
effective at a distance, pretty as they
may appear on close inspection. The
new idea is to set the stones in rows, so
they constitute geometric, or at least
conventional, designs, which exhibit tho
diamonds to the best advantage, show
off from afar as well as near. The reader
need not he told that far more care and
careful manipulation is necessary to
create a jewel of this description. The
stones must be matched in size and color,
as the slightest variation is immediately
noticeable, whereas in the clustered ar
rangement diamonds of all sorts and
shapes may be crowded together with
more or less artistic effect. Jewelers'
Weekly.
Cliarlc It. Thorne, Practical Joker.
One day, says Whiting, thero was a mati
nee, and old Tom Morris was taking his usual
nap in tho Morton house cafe. It was 11 a.
m. Tho matineo occurred at 2:30 p. m., and
Morris, who played a servant's part, was tho
first ono ou tho stage. Thorne saw the old
fellow asleep and he put up tho job. Tho
cafo clock was pushed forward throe hours.
Then Thorne bribed tho theatre's call boy to
rush in, arouse Morris, and lell him he was
late. This ho dicL Poor Morris rubbed his
eyes, glanced at tho clock, saw the hour, and
then rushed into his dressing room and made
up for his part in a great hurry. With per
spiration pouring from his face for it was
midsummer ho sat down to await his "call."
All seemed quiet. Then the old fellow looked
at his watch. It was 11 :15 a. m. Ho swore
a good deal, but rather than wash and "make
up" again ho sat in his dressing room for
three mortal hours, and when he went on tho
stage ho cast a reproachful glanco at Thorne.
He know who was rcsponsiblo. Chicago Her
nial Portugal's Kin? aud Queen.
King Carlos of Portugal, who possesses six
teen Christian names, whilo his j-ounger
brother answers to no less than thirty, is
personally one of tho most amiable of nion
Drcus. He is a handsome blonde young man,
who carries himself with a military air, and
is credited by his personal friends with con
siderable decision of character. He is a de
voted sportsman, an accomplished musician,
speaks seven languages, and paints in water
colors in short, he is a bit of a savant, liko
his relative, the unlucky ex-Empsror Dom
Pedro. Tho queen is believed to bo popular.
She is tall and handsome, and was very care
fully educated. Sho does not share her hus
bauTs passion for music, but is a student of
history, delights in mathematics, and is a
clever sketcher. She speaks French, Portu
guese, English and German. Sho is said to
take a deep and intelligent interest in public
affairs, and to bo exceedingly fond of her
adopted country. Pall Mall Gazstte.
A. Ms Brain.
The "brain of the maniac homicide,
Daley, who killed J. G. C. Kennedy
some years ago, and who committed sui
cide at St. Elizabeth's a few days since,
has been examined. It was found to
weigh fifty-nine and a quarter ounces,
thirteen or fourteen ounces 'more than
the average weight of a man's brain. It
was to all appearances in good order, and
exhibited no symptoms of disease or
malformation, so far as could be told,
though a microscopical examination may
show some. If an expert should be
shown Daley's brain, and not know any
thing about the man, he would probably
regard it as the brain of a very ictelii
jeat man. Washington Post.
The violet harvest in southern France
and Italy is extremely good. Three
trains daily bring huge cargoes of vio
lett to Paris, packed in light frnit bas
kets. The contents of the erening train
are kept for Paris consumption, while
the violets that arrive in the morning
are sent chiefly to England. "What are
our own farmers about that thev dpnor
fifeJL spy? violets in wicte ,
KINSHIP.
My prew to the tangle.
In a flams red garment dm tmi.
And many a ruby spangle
Besprinkled her tawny breast.
And the silken moth saDed by her
With a swift and a snow white sail;
Noea jrflt gert bee came nigh her.
Nor a. fly in hi3 gay green mail.
And the bronze brown wings and the goldea,
O'er the billowing meadows blown,
Were Etill as by magic holden
rom the lily that named alone;
Till over the fragrant tangle
A wanderer winging went,
And with many a rubie spangle
Were his tawny vans besprent.
Acd he hovertd one moment stilly
O'er the thiifcet, her mazy bower,
Then he sank to the hearc of the lily,
And they seemed but a single flower.
Helen Gray Cone.
THE FOOT OF A KABBIT.
A WASHINGTON MAN WHO CARRIED
ONE FOR GOOD LUCK.
He Fell Down Stairs, His Wife Became
IU, a Case Was Decided Against Ilim,
and for a Whole Week Everything Went
Wrong Then He Threw It Away.
If a man ever tells you there is luck in
a rabbit's foot, believe him if you want
to, but don't let him, under any circum
stances, present you with one as a
souvenir to carry for luck. If he at
tempts it, bo sure it is because he has a
grudge against you, and desires to get
even in a roundabout manner.
There may be good luck in some rab
bits' feet, but the particular ono which
this story concerns was the quintessence
of misfortune, and its possessor is a hol
low eyed picture of despair, whose every
movement has been productive of calam
itous results.
Two weeks ago the owner of the charm
was in the best of spirits and on good
terms with himself and the world, and
prospering. For a week the nightmare
of ill luck has clung to him with tho
grasp of tho old man of tho sea, and
cannot be shaken off.
AN UNHEEDED WARNING.
He came into the possession of the
furry article which wrecked his happi
ness in a somewhat peculiar manner. It
was presented to him as an emblem of
luck by one of his friends, and he care
fully tucked it away in his vest pocket
A third friend who was standing by re
marked at the time: "If I were ycu 1
would throw that cursed thing as far as
I could. It's certain to bring ill luck. I
am usually not superstitious, but I
wouldn't carry one for a thousand dol
lars." The pessimist was heartily laughed at
for his foolishness, and ridiculed as a
prophet of bad luck. "Wait and see,"
was his laconic response to tho other's
badinage. Had thatfriend been listened
to and his advice taken, this story would
never have been written.
It was Saturday evening when the gift
was received, but nothing eventful hap
pened that day. When the possessor of
the talisman went to bed he began to
think of the words of warning he had lis
tened to and it began to trouble him. He
could not sleep for a time, and when he
finally fell into a fitful doze it was only
to see big and little rabbits' f eetobstruct
ing him and barring his progress in
whatever direction ho turned. They
seemed to overwhelm him and crush
him down, and when ho awoke with a
start it was to hear his wife calling him
to breakfast. He arose, haggard and
worn out. Sleep had been a burden
rather than a rest, and in consequence
he was snappish and out of humor.
Tho breakfast was a" succession of
growls. He grumbled at everything
until finally his wife, who was unaccus
tomed to see him angry, anxiously in
quired what waa the matter. He gave
lier a curt reply, that sent the tears to
her eyes and her lips to quivering, and
left for his office without his usual fare
well kiss, something he had never done
before since his marriage.
It was Sunday, and, of course, none of
his clerks were at work. He could not
find any of tho correspondence he de
sired, and this made him more angry.
Finally he thought again of the rabbif s
foot. "It must bo that," he soliloquized,
"but I'll keep it just for spite and Eeo
how far it will work its spell."
Coming down the stairs from his-office,
he slipped and fell, and badly 6prained
his wrist.
When ho reached home his wife was
sick, and so tho doctor had two patients
instead of one. Sunday night was but a
repetition of the previous one, filled with
bad dreams,! and when th8 morning
dawned the possessor of the emblem was
thoroughly fatigued in sonl and body. He
determined to get rid of tho rabbits foot,
and when ho reached the street threw it
on the sidewalk. In a moment ho felt liko
a new man, and his former buoyancy of
spirits returned. But, alas, fate had more
misfortunes in store for him, and he had
not proceeded half a square before a col
ored urchin touchedbimon the-arm and,
holding tho fatal rabbit's foot toward
him, said, "I seen you drop it, sir, and I
thought you might want it.
There it was, confronting him like a
nemesis. It would have been easy to have
told the boy to keep it, but ho did not do
this, and moodily walked down to his of
fice. The day was a succession of un
lucky events. Ho did not receive a con
siderable sum of money he confidently
expected, an important case in which he
had a large contingent fee was decided
against him, and his clerk was taken ill,
so that it became necessary for his em
ployer to do his own wort, which he man
aged to get through at a late hour with
the assistance of a stenographer and
typewriter.
His wife was considerably worse when
he returned home aad be was compelled J
to remain up all night with her. The !
rest of the week was a repetition of the !
two davs he had passed. When Satur- !
day came ho was careworn, fretful and j
anxious about his waes health, for she
was dangerously ill, and there were
grave fears as to her recovery. His busi
ness had cone wrong and every thing he
did seemed to turn out exactly opposite j
to what be desired. ,
Then he determined to get rid of that !
infernal rabbit's foot. Its influence bad ,
undoubtedly contributed a great deal to '
his rnoToseness, and he was well nigh ilL. j
Into the rtove he threw the foot and (
watched it burn with considerable pleas
ure. He was rid of it at IbsZ. ,
Strange to relate, his wife began to im-
prove. He felt on eeiier terms wun
himself, and his life returned to its nor
mal channels. It niay be that a rabbit's
foot is not unlucky, but there is one aaan
in Wacfaiacton who will never carry cue
arin for good luci. "aeaiaswa Post I
LOOKING UP AT EIGHT.
"Oh. clond of gold. Ore fairy ship,
Sailing afar on yon bine sea
Above this earth, to my love's Up
Bear thou this evening H; from me.
Oh, vesper wind, with voice so soft.
Breathe thou these words in my love's ear?
"He, who hath watched for thee so oft,
Losgeth to-night to have thee sear."
Oh, pole star, from thy northern sides
Shine forth, that mirrored I may see
That cherished face, those tender eyes.
Which now are turned in love to me.
Oh, beH, strike eight! Darling, our start
Thy promise ah, 'tis kept, and bright
Thy dear eyes tell me from afar
That 1 am loved! Bless thee, good eight!
Wellesley Bradshaw ia Philadelphia Xorth
WHEN BOM GE WAS OYER
Miss Dora Dwight, on her thirtieth birth
day, received the first love letter of her life
the first offer of marriase. It was handed
into the dormitory of tho Physicians' Or
phans' home not, as may be supposed, a
homo for the orphans doctors have made, but
for tho children of deceased medical men.
Miss Dwight was matron there, and at the
moment was changing tho pillowcases before
the wash.
"I suppose it's about Johnny Gilroy and
his swelled knee," said the servant. "Dr.
Emory seems to think it wuss.:'
Miss Dwight, however, waited until the
girl was gono before sho opened the note.
Then, not greatly to her surprise, sho read
the words:
"Mr Dear Dora You havo known mo
since you were a baby. Do you like me well
enough to marry me J Of course, you and I
havo given up romance long ago. I havo had
two wives. You must be thirty-two or three."
"Just thirty," said Dora to herself; "ho is
sixty-nine." "You will greatly improve
your position by marrying me, and I always
liked you. Please meet me in tho garden
after hours. I hope to find you under tho
willows. Yours, hopefully, B. Emory."
It was not a love letter calculated to flatter
the heart of a woman of any age. At first
she said: "I will refuse him." Then she re
membered how good and kindly he was. "I
will accept him," sho said, "but no romance
shall be in my talk with him. Ho shall find
me like a stone. He shall havo the sort of
wife ho wants."
It was early when the door bell clanged,
aud a foot crossed tho long passage, and,
ceasing to echo on the painted floor, struck
tho stones. Earlier than sho had expected
him, but sho was ready for him under tho
willows in tho garden.
"I am glad to find you here," said a deep,
old voice. "I thought you would be sensiblo
enough to do what I asked, butl was not quite
faure not quite. No. You havo read my
note carefully? Yes? Well, imagine that I
say to you again what I wrote. I await your
answer with anxiety."
She looked at him, and ho saw that she
smiled in an odd, embarrassed way.
"Will you marry me, my dear" he added.
"I see I must mako it easier for you to
speak."
"It was a little hard to begin," sho said.
"Tho usual reason moves me," ho said.
"I'm in lovo with you. I think it best to
marry again, and I know no ono liko you
no one. I've had two wives before, I admit.
However, neither of them complained of mo,
I believe. I have a very nico home, and,
really, it will bo a very much better position
for you than being matron of an institution.
You do it admirably, but I hate to see you
here. Your father was older than I, but wo
were great friends. I think ho would advise
you to say 'yes.' "
Sho put her hand upon his arm.
"I am a very practical woman," sho said.
"If I marry you I forfeit a good position that
may be mino for life on independent posi
tion. It is dangerous."
"My dear, you'll have half of all that is
mino; and I'm not poor."
"You don't think mo young, I know," sho
answered. "Who thinks a woman young at
SO? But you havo four sons, hard, business
men, older than I. They'll not approve of
the match."
"They aro not at home; it can't matter,"
said Dr. Emory.
"But," said Miss Dwight, with cruel dis
tinctness, "tho trouble will como when you
die. You have made a mistake; you are
older than poor father. If you leave mo a
widow your sons will make every effort to '
rate everytning irom mo; x snau oo letc witu
nothing, my place gone, my habits of indus
try, my briskness. I make no doubt you
havo heard of such cases; I have."
Tho suitor sat and who can marvel at it?
stricken quito dumb by this speech. At last
ho gasped:
"You aro candid."
"Iam,"shoanswered "I am, indeed. Now
is your time. You can take back your offer,
Dr. Emory. Everything can bo as it was
before I '11 tear up your latter; I am con
tent that all shall remain as it is."
"But, then," ho nbswered, "I am not.
After all, all you say is only true. I can faco
tho music, I hope. My answer Is-this: Marry
me, and I will make a wall, having you
everything, on our wedding day."
"That would bo unjust," sho said. "It
would be a will to bo contested. Leavo mo a
home and an income." Sho named the sum
sufficient to ke?p it up.
"That is moderate sensiblo. .And you will
say 'yes,' " he said. "I promise, of course, I
shall mako it better than that, still leaving
my sons no causo for complaint; but it is not
my fault that wo are not more romantic."
"Let tho romance come afterward, if it
can," said Miss Dwight.
After this, they walked about tho garden
awhile, and the day of tho wedding wus set,
leaving time to find a now matron for tho
establishment. Miss Dwight was certainly,
as domestics say, "bettering herself;" but she
was not elated.
In fact, a little regret stole into her heart
83 sho walked about the place whera she had
been so independent, so respected; and won
dered whether sho should bo happy in the
future.
"At least," she said, with a degree of bit
terness, "I matched him with his 'romance is
out of the question betmn two like us.'
Matched him, and went further."
Tho bell tinkled in the ball just as supper
time was over that evening, and in a few
moments a servant came to call Sirs Dwight.
"It's a gentleman; he don t know who ho
wants," she said. "Somo one who knows all
about tho place, ho told me.'
And Dora went into the parlor, a. bore look
ing room, long, and with whito walls, a panel
carpet, a library table, a horsohan sofa, and
ox chairs, saad tho portrait of tho founder of
the homo over the mantelpiece. There stood
under this portrait, with his elbow on tho
marble Uelf, a gentleman. Dork eyed, daric
haired, with a faco that waa not so nrcch
handsome as dehghtf uL
Writers often spend a good deal cf time in ,
dhicusncg wbaiifc is that men rem in the wenwa
whom they fall in love witii wfcea they say:
Thi3 is the wenoan for scef'
I behove the woman who meets for the first
timo the oalr ma oa earifc towfaosa she
would wilhnjjly give herself, has dper ex- j
perisness stdl. I
Tho moment had ccese to Miss Dwight. j
She had waited thirty years for it, and now j
she did not know whit it meant. But an tin-
conscious smCe caaw to her lip", a light to I
her9rftbreyeaflntobsznohchek. !
Sha looiel prettier than she cosid hare j
dreznd poiU cf at thai mcrMsat. '
The stranrer told ha business. He had r-
Meaa while h brother had died, fcavis re
cently lets. h& tI. He understood, to fca
aitonishraaat, that hi httlo ntpacoi were m
thHom.
"Of cocrsn. I with to tains charge cf them,"
be said. 11 m ajZsrAvJ caajurisc
ror t&eir care. They heed not live on char
ity." "It is not charity," said Miss Dwight. "Dr.
Ellwocd gave largely to tho Home in his life
time. The children are considered little
ladies and gentlemen. They ore well edu
cated; taught the usages of good society.
They will have a collegiate course when they
leave this place. Most of tho girls become
teachers, I think. The boys choose their pro
fession. There would at least be no need cf
haste in removing them."
They talked togetherawhile. Sho gathered
that he was what might be called apoorman.
He lingered after the boys had come and
gone. Ho came on the morrow, and again
and again. The ostensiblo motive was to seo
his nephews, but he also desired to see Miss
Dwight.
Meanwhile, Dr. Emory called every after
noon and consulted with Dora as to tho new
parlor carpet and the china.
"Buy good things,1 she said. "What is the
use of getting a carpet that win fada soon,
or china that chips; and silver makes a table
look well. Besides, the things about a house
belong to tho widow if I should be left."
"She is deuced practical," said poor Dr.
Emory to himself.
This was after the new matron arrived and
was being drilled in her duties by Miss
Dwight, who calmly said befor very ono:
"You see Pm to bo married shortly."
Onco he even remonstrated, saying:
"Do you know, poor Nellie never talked
like that, nor my dear Maria."
"Of course not," said Miss Dwight. "But
you remarked in your offer to mo that (of
course) you and I had done with romance
long ago."
Dr. Emory tried to laugh, but ho was not
happy. '
That afternoon ho took a long, long rido to
the sea shoro, and, stabling his horse at the
hotel, walked down to tho beach. "Tho sea
son"' was over. The caterers expected only a
littlo chance custom. It was a day when
driving clouds made it cool enough to bo
pleasant. Thero he sat down behind a big
mound of sand, and watched tho sea, and
thought of Mario, and how ho used so often
to kiss tho back of her neck because the two
littlo curls looked so cunning, and how sho
thought him handsome; how dear they wero
to each other I
How long his reverie had Listed ho did not
know, when inerry voices sounded in his ear.
A man's tones, those of two littlo boys, and
a woman's. Surely ho knew tho last speaker.
Ho peeped from under his big Panama hat,
and saw Dora. Sho had brought the Ellwood
boys down for a holiday, at their uncle's re
quest, and ho had como also. Dr. Emory
guessed who tho gentleman was, for ho had
had the case of these boys laid boforo him,
and was looking for two orphans to fill their
places when they should bo gone, but tho
presence of Mr. Ellwood gave him offense. "It
bos quit tho air of a family party," ho said.
Tho boys played about, due with their lit
tlo spades and filled with whito sand thoso
painted pails which all good picnickers buy
at the seasido. Thoy took off their shoes and
stockings and waded along tho edge of tho
water. Tho elder peonlo seemed as hannv oa
iuej, uuuuu juuuk. f " ""
vorv np.ir m Ilr. HmnrY- with fholr- hnMra tn
his sand burrow, and ho saw a man's brown
uuuu usvu upuu u. U..WO nruim uuo uuu uoiu 16
uguu . luioui. Junius uu no wum
not see their faces.
"Do you know why I asked you to come
hero?" said the owner of tho brown hand.
"To mind tho children, as Sally says," re
plied tho owner of the white hand.
"No, to tell you something," said Brown
Hand. "Darling littlo woman, prettiest and
sweetest of all created beings, I have loved
you from tho first moment I met you. Do
you think you would mind marrying a man
who has his fortnno yet to make? Could you
bo poor with him, nnd yet bo happy? You
seo I am poor, but I adoro you and 'm sclfi-.li
enough to ask you to do just that for my
sake, if you can try to lovo mo."
Tho whito hand fluttered. A soft voice
trembled.
"I should not havo to try it," sho sobbed.
"It seems to como of itself, and as for pov
erty, I'd rather beg with you than live with
out you and bavo millions. Oh I don't look
happy, don't look happy, dear, when wo both
must bo so miserable. I'm engaged; my wed
ding day is set. I thought I had outlived
romance, and I promised to marry nn old
man who ouly wants a lady at tho bead of lib
house. Oh I why did you not como to me one
day earlier 1"
Silence fell. Dr. Emory heard them rise
and go away. In a minuto more a littlo boy
rnshod up to the sand mound and poked it
with his spado
"Here's a dead man," hosald; "aurownded
dead man."
"No; it's a tipsyman," replied Billy. "Let's
pile sand on him."
This they proceeded to do, until Billy de
scried "undo beckoning," and they departed
on tho run.
After tho last train had gono cityward, an
elderly gentleman took a sandwich and some
alo at tho hotel before getting into Ins gig.
Ho emptied a great deal of sand out of hh
pockots, did not feo tho waiters, and ar-emud
to be, tho cashier-said, "in a temper." It was
Dr. Emory. Ho drove straight home, and
sat down at bis desk.
"Thank heaven, I can -appear to havo th (
best of her," ho said, spitefully. "But th ,
next timo I propose to a woman I will not !
ifell her that romance is out of the question. r i
Then ho wrote:
Miss Dwicnr I om an old man, bat I find 1
havo raado a mistake. 1 haro too mush romaarx
Wt (n mft in nrnnr rmi. Anr ntfuniarv rpmnv I
peas you desire I win offer; cad, if youltre, tii
matron's place, is again yours. Eaoux. j
Miss Dwight onlyrioticcd thisnote by pack-'
ing her engagement ring in pink cotton nnd
isndhxr it back. Sho aid not want the ma-,
iron's place, and sho married Mr. Ellwood !
veryshortly. !
Jk AJUiVIJ J-4i-WF VVM4fcUiy"lw,lVf u-w .
vowssno auores nun, ami wisoes very icucjy ,
that ho were bers. Ho likes it. Mary Kylt
Dallas in New York Ledger.
frenchmen SurprJaed at SooTjte.n
The first snow of tho season reminded
Bn artist friend of a snow gtorni which
ho experienced at Avignon, in tho south
of Franco, a year or two ago. No mow
had been fceen a Avignon for twenty
years previous, and tho surprised French
man knew not what to mako of it. An
amusing sight it was to eeo thexa try to I
make snowballs and pelt one another.
Experienca had never tanght them the
art which every New England boy learns
as eoon as he leaves bis cradle, and they
handled th enow as daintily as doea a
cat when sho lifts her paws one by onj
in a surprised manner, and snakes thcxa
hofnrt fihn nnts them down airaln. Two I
American artists found great dehght in
making snowballs and engaging in the
fray, and they eoon put the entire village
of
Frenchmen bora du combat, "ion
pat Etones in theraP they cried when
they felt the power of an especially bard
snowbalL Thy were ehown that Uiu
waa not true, but they could not under
stand bow the American could make
their missies so bard or throw them
with each force and accuracy. The vil
lagers of Avignon will no doubt long re
raexaber their Waterloo at th hands cf
tho two American sriitta. Boston At
rertiser.
To IViea I-tt- m GIsjuu
Tor Uxirsiziz " lsr, firare, ic, oa
gia-ts thow wfcsdcril, so taat tfcey, erea
when Kitsierstd ia water for serrnra! days,
psrt
ladia. raber, tarw jxri mv&c aad fifty
parts casJorofwrm- Jj the nuxtcre stand t'Jt
tnrend day ra krr leajp-raesrt, to dtwoii
She cwtaeai. It most be npyjifi Tery rap
Idly, as ii bococsMS thisk very wa
SCIENCE AND ril0GRESS
INTERESTING FACTS PRESENTED W
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BRIEF AND POPULAR FOHtt,
A. View of the Proposed BriUft
the English Channel as It Will Afcfiwr
Alter Completion Japan's CuWii't
Dwarf Trees.
The accompanying cut, a repriat fract a
Nature, represents a view of tie prepwad
bridge across tha English channel at it will
ippear after completion.
TOE ESGUStl CEA5XKL ERrDOE.
Tho proposed bridge will start from near
Folkestone, in England, and ctokj to a point
near the pore of Ambleteuse, on the French
coast. The total length will bo about twenty-four
miles. The piers, of which there will
bo about 125, will bo of solid masonrr, aad
will bo built near tho shore in caissons, and
then floated out into the channel and sunk in
their proper places. They will project fi)
feet above low wnter, and en them will r.
tho steel cylindrical columns, 10 feet u
height, which support the supwstru'-U.re of
tho bridge, making a clear hcisht of ls3 feet
above the water, and allowtag ample rocm
for vessels with tfio highest ro-vCs to pfita
freely beneath. Tho construction and plac
ing of each pier L estimated to bike about a
year, although, of course, an indefinite num
ber can bo constructed at tho same timo.
Tho length ot tho span will varv, but tiw
widest will consbt alteroaUy of 900 and
1,500 feet, each span of tho bridge (as shown
in the engraving) resting npon two purs.
Tho narrowest span will be 500 f eet. Over a
million tons of metal will Le ui iu tb
work, and the cost is estimated at from $173,
000,000 to 3)0,000,000. About ten year wul
bo required to complete it.
The commercial and political importance
of this bridge, which woukl give Great Britain
direct end nnhrokcu railroad commtnnration
with all parts of tho eastern hemi?jhen, cin
hardly Im overestimated. Mr. Gladstone u
reported to havo said that "by ctthr tbo
tunnel or tho bndgo the peace of tho world Li
assured."
TTastcsl I'owcr.
Investigation recently made in a number
of largo manufacturing concerns, to deter
mine what amount of tho power doveloptxi
by steam waa used and how much was waited,
have brought out como a&tcnudiing facta. Ia
one oCabUhiocnt the per cent, wasfcxl wiu
! . . . .r . .
t G5 and in another 73, whxln in another eleven-
twelfths of tlw CO horse powtr, indicatd u
,,w,.ln.W.l hv- t, min ira Wftrfl in frie.
tio .. .ort w,- ttlr firo iMn.
! poorer to bo utilized in manufacturing pur-
jiotes. Tho cost of rufcl is a kxIous twrn in
most kinds of manufacturing, and Stationary
Engineer, therefore, "ugRass that it would
bo well worth tho tfme cf tho owners to start
a little investtgnton as to what bcom of
tho power they pay for. It is ako thought
that those facta f umish at least a partial ecc
plana t ion, to tar as cocjxtos macafacturing
by steam, of tho statistical chrictuut, whki
may be correct in tho mala, that oat of every
hundred men engaging in busioes-but Uin
aro succossXul.
Solution for lirrnorlnjr Int or Rtut.
A solution for easily removing Ink and rest
stains, boanng tho trade naiat ot "encrf
voir," is said by a pburraacvatica Jccrnal to
consist of ten parts each of tartaric acid
alum and cUbtlllod was.
Japanese Dwarf Tree.
In one corner of the lato Pari exposiiio
wits a remarkable exhibit from. Toklo, con
sisting of plants two too in height or lem,
and growing in porcolaiu vaca. Thew vera
miniature and perfectly proportioned tree
of various species, tasaa ot them, aasordktz
to tho labels, being 100 and 150 years old.
Them dwarfs are the males of careful cul
ture and training: At iui early ag they ara
planted in small potn, and th upward growth
is interrupted continually and Is forced Vi
grow horizontally, spirally, aud jtwi down
wards, being upcuml la those on natural posi
tions by strings and sticks which br-jwn
verv numerous in couro of time.
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Thesa plant and tfn rare of them ar
handed down from Utlmr to ton. Axaoag
tbeno curious pi-mi oa cxMbfck fca Pfcri
may t mcatoru sa wwkim mpn
which h 20 incix hitft a 0-ar-iM, 13
iochea, and a croup ef rvflnpora iff yn
old sad S to X2 inc kife. If oBwtred to
grow fr?ly, tb-y rtM hav aaslaad
fceiZDt of abowt JO frt. 8ae of tfc pine
wrxe 1 yirs old, and ta oiwt wiX bat 't
laches high.
J,-Wuao ISrrTfM.
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cbemJriK. It an rr l-'qsSi of a bwrn
color, nui safXa w mwri J-fc nwk taat per
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