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OHIO STATE JfETTS.
BnxsvoiriAm is Inacted with thieves and
pickpockets.
Ksxt thinki of potting in water-works it a
oort of 50,000.
Twkhtt-two divorce suits are on the docket
Of the Common Plea Court, at Urban.
Cabl Torurr, a Oerman farms- redding
near New California, ni killed by a kick from
bone.
Thieto entered the house of T. E. Pomeroy.
at Milan, while he ni eating hi rapper sud
stole 200 in none?.
Fbam Frns, a batcher living near Hernia,
was track by a passing train about eight milee
north of Wooiter and instantly killed.
Boss Oaria, a farmer tiring near Circlevilla,
morning home from town in a wagon in an
intoxicated condition, fell oot and broke tua
neck.
A aiH a f i i - v
moot and vicinity. Bereral persons hare been
suited, and one. Andrew Cunningham,
nearly killed.
JcrriHsoa Ada, who three weeks ago at
Hansneld attempted rape npon the peraon of
Mrs. Moorbead, haa been aentenoed to the pen
itentiary for seven years.
Oaoao. riiumn, a young farmer liv
ing three miles seat of Independence, aoioided
by drowning in a mill-race. There seems to
have bean no eaose for the rash act.
Wat CraoLS, a resident of Zanerrille, was
mangled beyond recognition by a train in the
deep eat Juste of Zanearille. A suspicion
exiaU that Iphold was murdered and his body
placed on the track.
Taa Grand Jury has returned indictments
sgainat the Hydraulio Company and Htraw
Board Company, of Akron, for maintaining a
naiaanoe in the form of a fllthy null-iWruV
ning through the buainess eeoter of the city.
This ia a deciaiTe atep in one of the biggest and
bitterest local disputes on record at that place.
. Aof"' Chas. Wilkinson, white,
and Granville Nixon, colored, at New 8traiU
ille, (vaulted in the colored man biting the
biteman'a entire under lip off. After he bit
the lip off heapititonton the ground. It ia
enough to make one feel aick to think abont it.
Ths colored man haa been bound orer to Court
in the aum of 3oo.
A wax named Winters, living at Magnolia, a
few miles north of New I'hUadelphia, com
menced building a hones a few weeks ago,
when he was taken suddenly ill and died. The
widow, being left in straightened circumstances
and unable to hire help to flniah the bouse,
has undertaken the Job with fan own hands.
Bhe Is now a work lathing it, and ia doing
good work. All honor to the pluck little
widow.
A TiaaiBi.s accident occurred at the fair
grounds, at Tiffin, laat week. A span of fine
horses belonging to Jacob Rickenbangh took
fright and ran away around the race-track, and
when passing the first quarter-stretch one of
them ran against a scantling an1 drove it com
pletely through its body from the shoulder to
the hip. The horse ran two hundred yards in
that condition before it dropped dead. The
animal was rained at 250.
Two sooundrela called at the house of Mrs.
Abraham Fit, in the suburbs of Mount Vernon,
and finding her alone, demanded money. Al
though orer sixty years old, she refused and
defied them, whereupon they knocked her
down and kicked and beat her until she
was unconscious. They then ransacked the
premises and secured tlM in eash and made
good their escape. Her husband returned in
about an hour after the robbery, and learning
the facta, reported them to the authorities.
Guxbkai. Oasis No. 1, m the Wooater Uni
versity, has created general eonsternstior.
Young ladies are to receire gentlemen callers
but one night in the week, and neither the la
dy nor gentlemen students are permitted to
attend any kind of theatrical amusement. The
young ladies are circulating a petition which
prays the Faculty to state at what hour they
must dismiss their gentlemen callers. This (
a good idea. 8 me of the young ladies might
lei the fellow stay all week, and claim that ha
had made but one call.
A raawKB named Raphael Durbln, residing
sear kit. Vernon, attempted, a few daya ago, to
cross a swollen tream with a wagon. Accom
panying him were his wife, a sister-in-law
named Miss Martha Buck, bis daughter Mary,
aged nineteen, and three small children. In
the middle of the stream the horses were
swept from their feet and the wagon, with its
human freight, overturned. The three small
children were carried by the current to a flood
gate, to which they cluug until rescued. Mr.
Iurbiu himself succeeded in swiming to shore.
His wife, daughter and Miss Duck were
drowned.
Tbb October crop report of the Ohio State
Board of Agriculture gives the following
figures: Wheat, 13.8 bnabels per acre, total
number of bushels, 87,215,28; oats, 26.7
bushels per acre, total number of bushels, 21,
690,225 ; barley (per cent, of 1880), 87 ; rye (per
rent, of 18S0), 85; corn. 62; hay, 99; apples,
85 ; pears, 63 ; peaches, 32 ; grapes, 66 ; tobacco,
78 ; potatoes, 82 ; number of swine for market,
69 1 condition of pastures, 53. The drought
has inlured the crops more in the Southern
than In the Northern half of the State.
Abundant rains bare at laat revived the pas
tnrse nearly all over the Mate. Wheat figure
70 per cent, of laat year's heavy crop (52,500.
000 bushels), and oats 103 per cent.
Habitual Month Breathing.
Many people sleep with the month
open, and thus make this organ perform
a duty which ahould be transacted by
the nose. There are many objections to
this, and Dr. Wagner clearly points them
out. The air in passing through the
channels of the nose, for inatanoe, is
raised to the temperature of the body
before it reaches the larynx. Thus
breathing, no matter how low the tem
perature may be, the sense of cold is
never felt below the border of the soft
palate. Bat when one breathes through
the month on a cold day the sensation
proceeds as far as the larynx, and an ir
ritating congh may be caused. Then,
again, in nose breathing the air is moist
ened by the natural secretions which
cover the turbinated bones in a condi
tion of health, and the short bristly
hairs at the openings of the nostrils act
as a filter to arrest impurities and reduce
the liklihood of laryngial, bronchial, or
pnlmonary, disease. Infants, athletes,
savages and animals breathe through the
none theordinary civilized rutin employs
the month to an unnecessary, and often
to a very injurious, extent
The causes of month breathing are
myriad. Complete or partial closure of
the passages, polypus, congenital bony
doe lire, enlarged tonsils, protruding
teeth, adhesion of the soft palate of the
posterior wall of the pharynx all these
are sufficient causes of mouth breathing.
The indications are not so subtle as not
to be readily recognized. Retracted
bps. open month, receding gums, pro
truding teeth, shrunken alao, decreased
size of the nostrils' orifices, wrinkles at
the eyes.' outer angles, and lines extend
ing from the alao to the mouth angles,
are the predominant signs. The effects
of mouth breathing npon the pharynx
are often most deplorable. The mucous
memtiranA twvimM mnk imiaiui a
chronio engorgement of the blood ves-
mnm m7 uuu piace, until permanent
dilitation of the vessels is produced, and
so on until the disease known as clergy
man s sore throat is produced. The
writer devotes a part of his space to
Showing the bad resmlra nf ilwrannwi'tli
the month nrn ami ii,mMl. n .n
- -,., .B(5w myyiy-
pnate remedy. If all snorers were to
.1 1 lL " ... . .
uup one 01 uie most disagreeable
noises of the night would be silenced,
. 1 " " UUUUU UICU
S?6 ,w"ile "ioP-nfc nerer snore. The
fifty short uid clearly printed pages of
Vklfih tills. tnnnnrrMnli -
to exhaust the subject Dr. Clinton
In Good Rands.
He was a young country fellow, a lit
tle awkward and bashful, but of sterling
wortn 01 cnaracier. Due was a Cincin
nati belle, and had sense enough to ap
preciate his worth despite his awkward
ness and bashfolness, and was his
fiancee. On a Bloomy Sunday evening
. last winter, they were standing in front
of the window in the parlor of her home
on East Walnut Hills, watching the
snownakes rapidly falling outside. He
was nos up in society small uujl, auu,
being hard up for something to say, re
marked as he watched the snow falling ;
" This will be hard on the old man's
sheep."
" Never mind, dear," said she, slip
ping her arm around him, "I will take
care of one of them." Cincinnati Com
mercial.
Btojtxhxxgb. in Eneland. haa been
generally supposed to be a relic of the
Druids, but one eminent antinnarv
it as his oninion that it dates still farthnr
back, and was a temple of the fire wor
shippers, belonging to the Bronze Period
of Northern aichwologlsta.
fie
VOLUME IX.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Qallraa Iaalrt.
Ouiteau lias been indicted for murder.
Fawilae la IvHca.
Owing to the failure of crops, a famine is
feared in Sweden.
Teara frw IVJare.
Frost has injured the tobacco crop in Vir
ginia and South Carolina.
BlhllUta Al
A dispatch from Bt. Petersburg announces
the arrest of sixty Nihilists.
leawral ttraa.
General Grant is to become a Trustee cf a
foreign insurance oompany.
SsetlMf Harper Jaa.
Fletcher IT. Harper, of the publishing hooe
of Harper Bros., New York, is dead.
The Democrats of Minnesota have nominated
General B. W. Johnson for Governor of State.
Cferaeil Valvei-ally's 4Jaa) Lark.
The late Mrs. Jennie ITcGraw Fixke be
queathed in her will $290,000 to Cor. ell Uni
versity. Baraside'a nacre
Kelson W. Aldrich will probably succeed the
late General Burnside in the United States
Senate.
September Enalrraat
There arrived at New York, durins rieotem-
ber 36,376 emigrants, against 26,942 in Septem
ber, 1880.
Mill ajbaktas- Tkeaa Vp.
News from Constantinople aava there e
been ahocka of an earthquake at Gallipoli and
Adriauople.
Fatal nipnibrrla.
Seventy-seven per cent, of the cases of diph
theria raging in the Province of Orle, Central
Russia, are fatal.
Taa Mrs. an3ell FnaS.
The Mrs. Garfield fund is now (335,117;
(19,175 have been contributed to the mother of
the late President.
Baaallpox; la Cbleafra.
Smallpox seems to be getting a foothold in
Chicago. On the 7th inst, seven persons died
of the disease.
Ia Mainland.
Intelligence from Zululand states that a w
rious uprising among the natives is feared.
unam is implicated in it-
Tremble 'UrlBatnl la the Tram raal.
News from South Africa is not favorable to
tranquility. The Boers are disooaed tn main
tain their present position. ,
The Nnmerwaa Earlbqamkr.
A severe shock of earthauake haa been flt
in New Hampshire, from East to West, but do
ing no serious damage to buildings.
The Hall wlmllers.
The bail of Brady and Brown. Star Rontera
haa been fixed at t7,500 and that of Turner
and French at $4,000. All are out on bail.
The Passaw Cfeaal.
At the present time there are 1,200 men en
gaged upon excavations on the Panama Canal,
auu it u expeciea were will oe B,uuu at work by
Deovmber.
i IaaMaaa. .
The Chirricahua Indians, a renort fmm Wil
cox, via Tucson, Arizona, says, have been
massacreing our soldiers and teamsters, and
trouble is expected.
Tae Yanal Pi
Mrs. Dale, a daughter, eonteats trie will of
the late James Stokes, of the banking house of
Phelps, Stokea A Co., New York. The estate
U valued at (6,000,000.
raraell's gapapalarlty.
A letter from Ulster, Ireland, says that the
people are satisfied with the land law and that
Parnell, by his persistent agitation, is daily
growing into disfavor among the tenants.
Burled la taa aaa.
A son of Brigham Young, L. Ferry Young,
who had been to Havana for his health, died
on the return trip and was thrown overboard.
His body was sewed np in canvas, and
weighted.
Captala Bfowcai Takes te JalL
Captr Howgate turned np in Washington a
few days ago and was immediately arrested.
He is charged with embezzling (91,000 from
the Government His 'bail was fixed at (40
000, and being unable to secure bond, he was
committed to jail.
' Aa KaCeveia la Traaala.
Franklin Hoses, ex-Governor of South Caro
lina, has been arrested in New York for obtain
ing (39 under false pretenses, obtaining a
check for that amount from Nathan Bozeman
upon representation of being the son of Dr.
Bteiner, of Atlanta, Ga., who is an intimate
friend of Bozeman. '
Arkansas does not do things by halves. Cox,
Stephens and Delaney, the Iron Mountain train
rob1-era, have all been sentenced to the Peni
tentiary for the term of seven years, the limit
of the law far robbery. The deed was commit
ted on the 22d of Heptember, they were arrested
on the 28th, and a special term of Court held
for the purpose, sentenced them on the 7th
inst,
A Swluslliur Cattl ltealer.
John H. Blanchard, formerly a well known
cattle dealer of Buffalo, has been convicted of
false pretenses, in having abou1, two years ago
purchased two cars of cattle, ostensibly for
Utica parties, and shipping them to Albany,
where he disposed of them, receiving the
money and claiming to have been robbed on
t'-e train returning home.
October 5 was really the first oold day of the
season. At Bradford, Pa., ice was formed an
inch in thickness. Five miles north of Brad
ford snow fell to the depth of one inch. In
all parts of New England the thermometer was
below freezing point. Fruit was frozen on the
trees. Snow fell at Bangor, He. At Boston
mercury marked 28 degrees. In the North
west heavy frosts were reported.
Irlhir'i nileaaaaa.
The statement is published by the Army and
Ifavy JiegUler that Garfield's dying verbal re
quest to Arthur was, that Col. Rockwell, his
intimate and bosom friend, be appointed
Qnartermaster General. It is well known that
General Grant, Arthur's intimate friend, desires
the appointment of General IngalN for the
same position. What disposition President
Arthur will make of the matter the publio will
curiously await to see.
Aaatber L-rak DUrsvarexl.
Commissioner Dndley baa discovered aome
grave irregularities In the Pension Office, and
a quiet investigation has been in progress for
some weeks. It appears to involve a number
of clerks, and the moneys misdirected are re
ported aa very considerable. The plan of the
fraud was to pass accounts and pay them to
fraudulent representatives of the rightful
claimants.
.yaealaaa.
A m m named Church, in jail at Newton, Ca-
tawba County, N. C, charged with the murder
of Hiss Thompson in Alexander County, in Au
gust last, was taken out by a mob and hanged.
Two robbers, known ss Clark, alias Butch and
Frenchy, both formerly of the notorious
Stockton gang, were lynched at Soccorro, New
Mexico, last week, for a robbery committed on
Brown and Hanzarie's commission house.
William Nicholson was also lynched at Sandero
Station, New Mexico, for murder.
dalteaa kackeal.
Gniteau has had his nervous system terribly
shaken up. O e day last week George Sco
ville left with him some newspapers, which
were the first that Guiteau has been permitted
to see since he assassinated the President.
Some of these papers spoke very freely of Gui
teau's crime, and of the necessity of hanging
him as speedily as possible. He is reported to
have been so excited by reading these papers
that he was thrown into a high fever.
Iteatli at u Praaalaeat Dlvlae.
Rev. Stuart Robinson, D.D., after suffering
from cancer of the stomach for the past
eighteen months, died at his hime in Louis
ville on the 5th inst. Dr. Robinson was prob
ably the most prominent citizen of Kentucky,
and was certainly one of the most prominent
and one of the ablest American divines.
He was borne in Strabane, County Tyrone,
Ireland, in the year 1814. and was conseonentlv
nia sixty-seventh year at the time of his
death.
TraaererriBB' Ctalteaa.
The fact that the oonrt-house is three miles
from the Jail, and it will be necessary to take
Guiteau into court, creates some anxiety as to
how he may be safely transferred. It is pro
posed that Guiteau be locked in one of the
Treasury Department's burglar-proof safes,
used in carrying bonds, etc., the key left at the
Jail, and a duplicate key be held by the United
States Marshal, at the court-house, with which
to unlock the aa'e. The safe en route will be
guarded by mounted police. Much of the road
to be traversed is commons and sparcely settled,
and grave apprehensions for the prisoner's
safety are entertained.
Aflklrs la Taata.
A dispatch from Trims states that an attack
on the station was made by the Arabs who re
cently attacked Ali Bey. The station master,
an ex-Lieutenant in the French army, and a
chevalier of the Legion of Honor, was burned
alive, and ten employes, mostly Maltese and
Italian, massacred. Six hundred French troops
went there the 30th nit, but the Arabs disap
peared long before their arrival. The massacre
was undoubtedly caused by the wholesale de
struction of the olive forests, villages and vine
yards which General Sabatier conside ed nec
essary around Zaghouan. The Tunisian author
ities are evidently trying to screen the Arabs
accused of murdering the Maltese and Ital-
SnKeaa's Lawyer.
Scoville, Guiteau's lawyer, it is said, mis
ipprehends the situation, and has not the
ability to manage the case with proper refer
ence to the public temper. Some things that
he has let drop show that his experience as a
real-estate lawyer and lack of nractiee in crimi
nal proceedings may lead to a course that can
uuv ue anticipated except with alarm in view of
the inevitable effect such a line of nolinv rnnlii
have upon certain elements in the country.
Unless he accepts judicious advice and proceeds
witn more discretion than he has indicated we
may expect to see the uureflective public ex
cited again through the name acrftnnina u
characterized the wild utterances during the
nrst lew days after the tragedy of July 2.
Beastly Ofllelala.
A correspondent of the Chicago Times, who
was commissioned by that journal to attend
the obsequies of the late President, at Cleveland,
a few days ago published an account of the
manner in which the Chicago officials (or rather
the officials of Cook County) conducted them
selves on the occasion in question. The
writer Btatcs that before leaving Chicago
the officials provided themselves with edibles,
champagne, etc., sufficient to last them
during their absence, at a cost to the city of
(500 or thereabouts. At Cleveland they got
staggering drunk, and went about among the
mourning thousands swearing and acting in a
most disgraceful manner. They provided
themselves with hacks and took their places in
the procession in front of the Cabinet,
averring the publio would think they
themselves were the Cabinet officers.
One of them took a seat on the top of a
hack by the side of a driver, smoking and
acting in a manner at once disgusting. Only
the solemnity of the occasion prevented the
indignant publio from offering resistance. The
fact that they were sent to represent Chicago
is a severe reproach upon that city and her
citizens should take some public action in the
matter. The world should know their names
and they should be held up to public ridicu'e
and censure.
Pablle Dtkt atatemeat.
The following is the public debt statement for the
month ot September:
Bis per cent bjods continued at 3 per
cent. 178,03S,130
l lvs per cent, mwi eonunuea at oft
per not
400,8R9,950
10,82S,S60
sr.o.ono.oo)
788,710 860
639. 960
11,000.000
Five per cent. bond. ..
Four and a bait per cent, bonds.....
Four per cent, boods..............
Refunding certiflcates.......H....ml
Navy pension fund.
Total coin bonds.,
.f!,EM0!,2S0
10.039,195
346,7I105
8,ais,ooo
69,098,880
7,098,906
Matured dbt ....
Lesal-tendert.
Cexttncatesof deposit
Gold and ailver certificates....
Fractional currency....
Total without interest..
Total debt......-.....
$181,553,892
t,04,i9287
, 2S0.66,IS47
, 1,798,855,925
17,483 fAl
41,742,886
' IM4S.883
10,089,'9S
761 690
Cash In Treasury
Debt less eash in Treasury , .
Decrease during 8eptemberH,Hm..HM
Decrease line June 30, 1881.- .. .
CUUXHT LIABILITIES.
Interest due snd unpaid
Debt oo which Interest has eeased.M..
Interest thereon..
Oold and silver eertiflcates............ . 69 893,830
United States notes bald for redemp
tion of eertiflcates o deposit 8,315.000
Cash balance available Oct. 1, 1881.. 160,024,648
Total ....4250.686,947
AValLABLB ASSETS.
Cash In Treasury.-
Bonda laiued to tne Pacific Railroad
Companies, interest payable in law
ful money, principal outstanding.-
Inter eat accrued and not yet paid
3250,686,517
64,28,M2
969.858
interest paia dv uniiea states..
61,167,272
Interest reamld by Companies by trans
portation service. -
By cash uarmenta, 11 re per cent, net
earnings -
Balsnce of interest paid by the United
States
14,486,125
655,198
86,325,947
nialna aael darnel!.
Secretary Blaine's letter of acceptance to the
late President Garfield has just been published
and its tone shows the deep sympathetic feel
ing existing for seventeen years between these
two men. We make the following extract;'
" In our new relation I shall give all that I
am, and all that I can hope to be, freely and
Joyfully to your service. You need no
pledge of my loyslty in heart and in act.
I should be false to myself did I not prove
true both to the great trust you confide to me
and to your own personal and politioal fortunes
in the present and in the future. Your ad
ministration must be made brilliantly suo
eessful and strong in the confidence and
pride of the people, not at all direct
ing its energies for a re-election and yet com
pelling that rosnlt by the logio of events
and by the imperious necessities of the situa
tion. To that most desirable consummation I
feel that next to myself, I can possibly con
tribute as much influence at any other one
SOMERSET, OHIO, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13,
man. I say this not from egotism or vain
glory, but merely as a deduction from the plain
analysis of the political forces which have been
at work in the country for the five years
past, and which have been significantly
shown in great national conventions. I accept
it as one of the happiest circumstances con
nected with this affair, that in allying my polit
ical fortunes with yours, or rather, for the time
merging mine in yours, my heart goes with my
head, and that I carry to you not only political
support, but personal and devoted friendship. I
can but regard it as somewhat remarkable that
two men of the same age, entering Congress at
the same time, influenced by the same aims,
and cherishing the same ambition should never,
for a single moment in eighteen years of close
intimacy, have had a misunderstanding or
coolness, and that our friendship has steadily
grown with our growth, and strengthened with
our strength." - -
ADDITIONAL NEWS.
The Grand Jury found eleven counts against
Charles J. Guiteau.
The total number of persons who attended
he Cincinnati Exposition this year was 234,963.
The South Boston Iron Company has sus
pended operations, with liabilities amounting
to (300,000.
Twestt pupils of the Constantino Military
School, at St Petersburg have been arrested,
and many Nihilist proclamations found in their
possession.
The Swiss Federal Postoffice has signed a
contract for the regnlar transmission of Ital
ian mails through the St. Gothard Bailwa;
Tunnel from January next. Transportation of
goods and passengers through the tunnel will
begin simultaneously.
Appleton Atkinsox and his son, James C.
Atkinson, sentenced to hang October 28, for
the murder of the wife and child of the latter,
escaped from jail at Gayoso, Mo., by tunnel
ing. Nearly the whole male portion of Pemis
cot County turned out in pursuit.
At the crossing of the Chicago and North
western and Chicago, Mdwaukee and St. Paul
Railroads, a passenger train ran into a train of
freight cars passing over the crossing on the
Northwestern road, throwing a heavily-loaded
freight car on the platform of the depot, kill
ing J. J. Flannigan, station agent, and Arthur
Cuddy, a boy of thirteen, and injuring three
others.
The Mexican Government has made a con
tract with Francisco Eizgo for the colonization
of 200 Italian families. Biz go receives (75 for
each emigrant over twelve years, and (40 for
each cl ild between five and twelve. The Gov
ernment furnishes land, houses, implements,
work cattle, a cow, a mare, and twenty-five
cents a day for one year to each emigrant over
twelve years old. The colonists are to repay
the same in ten years.
Two brothers, Henry and William Garrett,
in Louisville, Ky., became engaged in a quarrel
over a game or cards, when William swore to
Henry that he would cut him into mincemeat.
Shortly Henry went to a drawer and took
out a revolver, and William observing the act,
asked if that was for him. Henry replied that
it was not, but William discredited the state
ment and rushd at him with a large knife,
cutting through the mouth from the under
jaw, and splitting the tongue. At the instant
of the cutting Henry discharged the weapon
Into William's body, and both fell to the floor,
William dead and Henry mortally Wounded.
The Steel Horse.
Persons who ride or drive above Fifty-
ninth street cannot fail to note that
within a year there has been a sudden
and marked increase in the number of
bicycles on the road, and residents on
any well-paved road in the same part of
the city can testify that "the steel
horse," as the bicycle has come to be
called in .England, is often on the road
as early in the morning as horses less
toagn of liber. The popularity which
bicycling has suddenly reached in New
York is as gratifying to many who never
Destroae tne eversaddiea courser as to
the most earnest devotees of the new
sport, for anything that will offer tie
young men of our city a new inducement
to spend part of their time at vigorous
exercise out of doors is of general benefit
to the community. The steel horse has
its limitations j not by these, but by its
possibilities, it should be judged. It is
shapely, swiit and safe. It never throws
its rider, although the rider sometimes
throws the horse. It never stumbles,
balks, bucks or kicks ; never takes the
bit in its teeth and attempts to run
away ; it Las not the vice, so dear to all
other horses, of casting a shoe at exactly
the wrong time, and it can make its best
time and distance without being blown
or running the risk ef foundering. It
can be turned loose anywhere immedi
ately after use. No special stalls nor any
disagreeable and expensive retinue of
stable-boys are necessary to its safe
keeping, and the owner is never likely
to be greeted in the morning with the
information that his courser has died
during the night. Such an array of
special merits should be enough to com
mend anything to the favorable notice
of spirited young men. Even men who
are not young could make their days
cheerier and gain a promise of additional
days in which to be cheery, by making
frequent use of the steel horse. New
York Herald.
Packing a Trunk.
Most people dislike to pack a trunk,
and to do it well is something of an art.
It should never be done in a hurry. You
should first get everything - together
which is to be packed, and then go quiet
ly and systematically to work. Very
large trunks are an abomination over
which expressmen groan and swear, not
altogether without reason. Still, small
ones are inconvenient, except for short
journeys, snd multiply expense, as the
expressage is for each piece, be it Sara
toga trunk or a small valise, without re
gard to size. But, whatever the size of
the trunk, it.shouid be filled, or at least
packed full enough to prevent the con
tents from tossing about. If you are
compelled to take a trunk which is too
large for what you need to pack in it,
fill it with crumpled paper, rather than
leave it half empty. Owing to the rough
usage which baggage always receives,
unless the trunk is closely packed the
contents will be literally churned up and
down, and the clothes which you have
carefully folded will be tumbled to a de
gree, even if nothing worse comes to
them. For a long journey it is well to
cord trunks. Itope is better than strap,
because it goes both ways. Nothing
heavy, like bootB, etc., should ever be
put in the top of a trunk, since the more
heavily it is weighted the more likely
the hinges are to break. Dresses should
be carefully folded, with the flounoes
laid smooth and drawing-strings let out,
the waist folded but once, the wrong
side out, with the sleeves laid over the
back and the fronts over all. Then, if
absolutely necessary, the bannue mav
be folded again down the middle seam
of the back, but never aorosB.
A professor at Cornell, leoturlng on
the effect of the wind in soma Western
parts, remarked : ' In traveling along
the road, I even sometimes found the
logs bound and twisted together to such'
an extent that a mole couJoVt cliniD
TW tMOla 4 VMU aSUBfa,"
THE DETIOI? ARCHITECT.
ET M. E. LOCK".
Somewhere I have read a strange story, t
Sent down from the ages of old ;
It may be some monk in his cloister
This wonderful story hath told. 't '
So long it hath been since I read it.
It looms indiFtinct to my mind;
It seems like a f ar-diatant echo
Borne on by the whispering wind.
Bow onee In Cologne the Archbishop
A mighty catbedrat would raise,
That, reaching high into the heavens,
His greatness ahould silently praire.
The architect he had commissioned
Wrought many and many a plan.
Dreamed long over that which should make him
Eternally known unto man.
But, long thongh he patiently labored,
At last he was brought to despair ;
yNo plan he could draw appeared worthy
Of projects so Taat and so rare.
One night, as he sat by the river.
His head asdly leaned on his hand,
A demon spproached from behind hint
And rapidly drew In the sand.
A vision of marvelous branty
Was sketched on that treacherous sand-.
A wonder of coin runs and arches.
And Bteeples and minarets grand.
Bnt line after line the scene vanished,
As fast as it ever had grown.
And back to the depths of his sorrow
The suffering artist was thrown.
On parchment the demon then drew it,
Which snatchitifr, the architect ran,
And, battling back his pursuer,
Triumphantly olung to the plan.
Thy cunning shall profit thee nothing,"
The demon thus terribly swore.
"And, though the design shall be finished,
Thy name shall be heard nevermore."
Long years had they toiTed at that building,
When the architect mounted one day
High up on a tower, to chitel
His name where forever 'twould stay.
Bnt suddenly down feH the scaffold.
Before the good work was begun;
The days of his life had been numbered
The course of his life had been run.
And, now that the labor is finished,
Kowhere in the world Is it known
The name of the artist who fashioned
The beautiful church at Cologne.
Jerry's Mortgage.
Mrs. Deane put the finishing touches
to her tempting little supper table (set
for three), tucked Cissy's napkin around
her neck, and lifted her into her high
chair, then stepped to the wide, cool
doorway to watch for her husband. He
came in sight ere long, walking wearily
and slowly, as if the fair summer pict
ure of mountains and green fields
gleamed upon eyes too sad to drink in
their beauty and significance. A man
certainly not old in years, but with lines
of care about his temples, and a painful
droop to the mobile, sensitive mouth,
which showed a harassing anxiety a
constant, daily struggle with fate. His
wife walked down the grassy garden
path, and took" his hand in hers.
" You are over-tired, Jerry. I have
a nice supper for you, and Cissy is full
of cunning little ways to-night. Cheer
up, dear."
He looked down with a sorrowful
smile, and put his arm around her. " I
am tired to-night, Jjouie tired ana dis
couraged. I have been to Cyrus once
more, but"
His voice broke, and Louie clasped
his hand more firmly, and raised it to
her lips.
" .Never mind telling me, my dear. j.
can guess it. He is determined to fore
close the mortgage ? "
"Yes."
She walked silently up and down the
path with him.
"My own brother, Louie I It does
seem as if he might give lis another
chance, but you know how he is about
money. Since he married that second
wife of his -he seems harder than ever.
Honest he is no man could ever say
that Cyrus wronged him of a cent, but
war to the knife to get his own I"
They entered the kitchen, where Cissy
was beating a drum solo on her tin plate,
and casting eager glances at the plate
of fresh gingerbread. " Papa's baby,"
said Jerry, and bent down to kiss her.
He sighed heavily as he took his seat,
while a tear stole down his cheek.
" Ugly man to make my papa cry.
said Cissy, doubling up her small fist,
" 1 1 jes Kill him !
The 4-vears-old tot had gathered
enough from her parents' daily conver
sation to Know that they were in some
trouble connected with " a man " whom
she remembered to have seen a few
days before at their house. He had
talked loudly and last, ana tne mental
photograph -left on the waxen tablet of
that infant soul would have made an
atngel weep.
"Uush-sn, tjissy. mamma s aaugn
ter mustn't talk so. She should be a
gentle lttle girl 1" and Louie stroked
the little fist'till it slowly uncurled.
" Martin Best told me to-day that
Cyrus has just bought another yoke of
oxen, and a $200 bnggy !" said Jeny,
bitterly, as he took a forced swallow
of tea.
"Well," said his wife, "it can't be
helped, dear. But don't let us cherish
hatred, or say anything we may be sor
ry for. I know it's hard it's hard ! "
and her lips quivered, as she looked
around the neat, home-like kitchen, and
glanced beyond it to the vine-wreathed
window of the bedroom where her baby's
eyes had first opened to the light. "You
know different people have different
make-ups." A great sob rose in her
throat she gave one look at Cissy
struggled to restrain her feelings, but
the flood-tide of grief must have way,
and, rushing to Jerry, she clapped her
arms about his neck and burst into tears,
just as a shadow fell across the door-way
and a visitor entered.
In the morning sunshine, in the cor
ner of a flourishing field near a thrifty
looking white frame house surrouneiea
by substantial out-buildings, a man with
a bushy, red beard and small, weasel
like, gray eyes, was hoeing corn. He
was so busy that he neither saw nor
heard the approaoh of footsteps to the
fence.
" Cyrras Deane, do you know that you
are a-sendin' your own soul right stret
to perdition?"
He looked up, Btartled. A tall, gaunt
female was pearing at him from a pair
of glistening spectacles a woman in a
rusty black dress and a straw "shaker "
trimmed with a bombazine cape and a
single bow of blnok ribbon. It was
Miss Mahala Truffett. She ws that
universal village character of whom the
weak and vicious so justly stand in awe
a woman who speaks her mind and a
very startling way she had of doing it.
Being possessed of considerable prop
erty ana social position, she was allowed
to exercise her privilege to her heart's
content. A tongue like forked light
ning, when occasion required, but a
heart o'erflowingwith love for the strug
gling and suffering. Cyrus Deane shift
ed his hoe uneasily. "I don't see heow
you make it eout thet I'm a-goin'
any faster'n other folks. I hain't done
nothin' to disobleege you tUet I know
1881.
"You know what 1 mean. 1 was up
to Jerry's last night." She gave him
another steady look from those Khada-manthus-like
glasses. TTia gaze fell be
fore hers.
"I hain't pizened none o' Jerry's crit
ters, nor set his barn afire, hev I ?"
" You've pizened his peace o' mind.
You've worn him out with worry, till
he's a walkin' ghost. I set great store
by . Louisy Ann, I do, and when I see
her a-gittin' that fit o' high-stericks last
night, all along o' your hardness and
scrinchin meanness, I como as nigh
bilin' over as ever I did in my life 1
Your own brother, Cyrus Deane ! The
little, curly-headal chap that, like
enough, slept on the same pillow with
you many a night. What would your
mother ha' thought, ef she'd ha' knowed
heow different you'd turn out ? "
Cyrus Deane drew down his bushy
eyebrows, and gave an energeiio kick to
a small bowlder.
" Jerry's hed ez good a chance to git
along ez me. We started even. It's his
own lookeout 1 He hain't no hand to
manage never was never could git
fore handed in his born days ! "
" The more reason why you ought to
be merciful. He hain't hed ez good a
chance ez you. The year that your
barns was groanin' an' runnin' over, his
wheat got the weevil, an' his corn
ketehed the mildew. His cattle died,
an' his tools was stole. He laid sick
with rheumatic fever, and hed a doctors
bill of $90 to pay. Do you call thet ez
good a chance ez yours? Louisy Ann
works ez hard ez any woman cookin' an'
cleonin' an' grubbin' an' never had the
fust scrap o' hired help, 'cept for eleven
days wen Cissy was a baby an' she
never gits a ride in a bran-new buggy,
nuther ! " casting a keen glance toward
the wagon shed.
Cyrus mopped his beaded brow with
a red cotton handkerchief, and took np
his hoe with a determined air, as if to
end the conference.
" I hain't been harf as hard on him ez
some folks would ha' been. I've gin him
time, and gin him time, till my patience
is clean tuckered eout, an' he keeps
a-fallin' behind instid of gittin' forrard.
He's younger'n I be, he kin go West I "
Miss Mahala took off her "shaker,"
and shook out the cape, straightened out
the bow, and set it on her head again,
then said, in slow, measured tones :
" May the Lord hev mercy on your
soul, Cyrus Deane I Ef He measured it
eout to you ez you do to ether folks,
you'd hev precious little to be thankful
for."
She walked slowly down the road, and
Cyrus went on with his hoeing. He
didn't consider himself a hard man.
Honest outwardly, he was, as Jerry had
said, but " war to the knife to get his
own." In two short weeks he could
foreclose the mortgage, and Jerry's little
place would be his own. Would he do
it ? Miss Mahala's words were verjuice
to his conscience for a brief minute
nobler feelings strove with his greed of
gain, then, dashing down the hoe :
" No! Jerry's got to look eout fer him
self. He's a grown man not a baby 1
Why carn't thet old vinegar -face mind
her own business ? "
In the afternoon he drove to the next
town in his new buggy. A little flossy
haired girl ran out from a nook in the
woods, and cried:
" Man man take me a little ride, do,
please."
He reined up the horse and helped
the little creature in. Cyrus Deane had
one soft spot in his heart it was for lit
tle tiny children. No prattling hps had
ever called him "father." It would
have been better for those he had to
deal with had it been otherwise.
" And whose little gal be you, pray,
out here in the woods alone?" he
" I'm Cissy Deane, and mamma lets
me go to the big rock by myself, 'cause
I know the way." She looked up and
gave a little howl. " Let me out ! Oh,
let me out ! You're a bad, dreadful
man ! You're the man that made my
papa cr j ! "
She scrambled down, and shaking her,
tiny fist at the buggy, stamped her
foot, and ran away.
A bitter look came into Cyrus Deane's
face. " My own brother's youngster
an I never would ha' knowed her ef
she hadn't told me her name. She'll
hate me too, like as not 1 "
He whipped up his horse and drove on
rapidly. Fate seemed determined to
thrust the mortgage business in his face,
at every turn. He had two weeks be
fore him. He could change his mind
whenever he chose. Should he do it?
Cyrus Deane and his wife were eating
their early breakfast next morning, when
Miss Mahala gave a short knock at the
kitchenioor, then, according to the pre
vailing custom, opened it and walked in.
With a rather grim " good morning " to
Cyrus, and a stifnsh nod to Mrs. Deane
Number Two, who handed her a chair,
she proceeded at once to the business
that had brought her there.
"Heow much 'ill you give fer that
big blackberry lot o'mine, Cyrus Deane,
south of Anthony Woods' place? "
Cyrus looked surprised. " Why, what
be you wantiu' to sell that blackb'ry lot
fer? " .
"That's jest the identikal question.
Sposin' I dew want to sell it, what will I
sell it for? In other words, what 'ill you
buy it for?"
Cyrus Deane's little gray eyes twin
kled. His vulpine instincts scented a
bargain. Ho hemmed and hawed:
" Waal now come to think on't, th'
ain't much go6d in a blaekb'ry lot. You
carn't keep the pesky boys off of it to
save yer life 1 "
" Ef you couldn't scare 'em off, I don t
know who could," said Miss Mahala,
with a snap. "It's splendid land. You
could plow 'em under and raise 'most
nnvthiu' on it. I hain't had much time
to bother with it, lately, so it's laid
there, and laid there. Thur's one or two
ben askin me 'bout it.
" Yaos yaas!" said Cyrus, and hitched
in his chair.
Miss Mahala sat silent She felt sure
of her man.
Cvrus pushed away his plata and
moved back from the table. His wife
began to clear off tho dinh.es.
"Sposin' you struck a party that
wanted it, heow much 'ud you take fer
it, did von say ?
"I didn't soy. I asked how much
you'd give me for it."
Cvrus reached out his horny hand and
pulled a splinter from the broom that
hung near.
"Waal now !" picking his teeth,
"'tain't likely anybuddyud give you
more'n a hundred dollars fer it. Would
you sell for that ?" '
"Of course not." said Miss Mahala,
promptly, "it's worth jest double
every cent of it."
"Thun " began Cyrus, and knn hm
brows. .
" It will be a building lot some day,
when the village grows. Then whoever
owned it could git $500 fer it, easy,"
said Miss Mahala,
NUMBER 28.
" Why don't you hold on tew it, then ?"
asked Cyrus, quickly. 1
" Because I'd ruther sell it now," and
Miss Mahala snapped th clasp of her
old-fashioned reticule hanging on her
arm. I
" I couldn't give $200 fer it, no way at
all. Would you take. $150?" I
" Call it $i75 and it's a bargain. ! John
Haley 'ud jump at it ef he could git it at
that price."
Cyrus threw down the broom splinter
and reached for another. j
" Kemember, in a few years you may
git $500 for it !" !
" I mought and then agin I mought
ent," said Cyrus, then, suddenly slap
ping his knee, " Wall call it a trade at
$175 I Do ye want it all to-day, cash
down?"
"I don't want any cash at all. I'll
give you a deed o' the lot an' $125 in
cash beside, ef you'll trade me " i
The conclusion of her sentence had the
effect of an electric shock on her audit
or, i
" Thun you don't mean it I .What
in kingdom be you a thin kin' of, to take
hole o' sech a resky piece o proputty
ez that ?"
" I hain't afeard o' the resk," said
Miss Mahala, drawing forth a roll of
greenbacks from her reticule. !
The bargain was made. They went
to the Squire's to have a deed made out;
and, as Miss Mahala's stiff, straight fig
ure disappeared down the road, a craity
smile crept over Cyrus Deane's face, and
he slowly ejaculated :
" Of all the tarnal fools on the
face of the airth the tarnal est is a wom
an when she sets eout to tranzact biz-
ness ! 1
A few hours later Miss Mahala stepped
softly across the threshold of : Jerry
Deane's home.
"I hain't forgot that this is Cissy s
birthday. I've fetched her a little pres
ent," setting a plate on the i table.
Tain t much to brag oi, only a loai o
lection cake, but Timothy Meaaowses
wife (she was "Liza Blyhn) used to low
that I was the beatenest hand at 'lection
cake that she ever see. I don't say it to
boast Go on with your dinner. 1 ve
et mine." '
She gave Cissy a loving hug, and
helped herself to a chair, receiving Mrs.
Deane's thanks with a "Sho, 'tain't
nuthin to speak of only I thought I'd
jest like to celebrate. Uissy s a peracier
pet o' mine, you know."
After a pause, she contmnea; "iiy
the way, Louisy Ann, you'd better put
it on another- platter. It's ben on
that one bo long it s ail got sweatea
down." - I
As Mrs. Deane lifted it sne discovered
a folded paper underneath. " What's
this ?" she exclaimed, in surprises
"Jest open it an' see," said Miss Ma
hala. " Didn't I tell you I wanted to
celebrate?" and the rhadamanthus
glasses grew suspiciously cloudy.
" Jerry ! Ob, Jerry I It's the mort
gage ! How ever did you get hold of it,
MissMahala?"
"That's my affair " said Miss Mahala.
' The only difference is that you kin
pay it to me instid. o Cyrus an' you
kin take your own time to it, Jerry. I
know what kind o stuff Louisy Ann's
made of. She d work herself to a shad
der to git it paid off, ef I'd let her.
But I tell you, once for all, I don't car-
late tew.
Yeara later, when, m the inexorablo
retribution of events, Cyrus Deane, by
a peculiar succession of calamities, was
rendered a homeless and ruined man, it
was his brother's roof that sheltered him
and his it was his brother's hand that
bestowed the wherewithal to start anew
it was his brother's hope and courage
that warded off despair, and saved him
from a suicidal grave. " More than this
it was his brother's voice that turned
him, late though it was, from the paths of
greed his brother's influence that
sowed in the long-negiectea garaen oi
his soul the seeds that make for loving
kindness, peace and good-will to men.
He lives to-day a childless man still
but every youngster in the village calls
him " Uncle Uyrus, ana no man or
woman is afraid to seek a favor at his
hands. Springfield Republican.
Lessons In Words.
An explanation of the derivation of
words will give a puoil an insight into
their history, and he will comprehend
their use and power-
" Sierra " means a " saw ;" hence the
use of the terms Sierra Nevada, Sierra
Morena, for the mountains look like
great saws turned up to Uie heavens.
" Frank " comes from a nation that
possessed Gaul. They were distin
guished from the Gauls by their love of
freedom, their scorn of a lie. So
marked was this national trait that it
was applied to denote moral distinc
tions.
"Slave" was once a noble word,
meaning " glory." It was significant
of freedom. But the slaves (or
Schlaves, as once spelled) became cap
tives to the Teutonio race, and so a
"Slave " was synonymous with one
who was subject to another.
" Turkey " is applied to a fowl that
originated in this country, but it was
supposed by the common people to have
come from Turkey.
"Daisy," Chaucer tells us, means
" day's eye" eye of day. The sun
had this title first, but those who
saw tho daisy saw a likeness to the sun
the white flowerets resembling the
rays hence the name.
"Knave" meant originally only
" lad " and it now means that in Ger
many, but so many lads were bad that
it got to have a bad significance.
" Villain " meant a man who worked
on a villa or farm ; but so many of them
had rough, hard natures that it took a
low signification.
"Silly "in the old English means
"blessed." 'Our early poets use the
word to show harmlessuess. - The
" silly sheep " is very common. But
how the word has changed 1 School
Journal.
Humor and Happiness.
All pure, sweet laughter ia a sign of
happiness, and happy people are much
more apt to be virtuous than the unhap
py. Be good and you will be happy is
hardly a more valid saying than bo hap
py and you will be good. In the matter
of thought and character, it has many
times boen observed by the most careful
students of the mind that the lack of hu
mor involves a very serious intellectual
defect, a lack of nice discrimination.
A Poet's Home.
Rose Terry Cooke's house is iu Win
stoad, Ct It is an old-fashioned country
house, with antique furniture rifled
from many a garret She not only
writes poetry about her garden, but gets
up before sunrise to work in it Hor
roses are her pride. She takes almost
the entire care of all the flowers, and
tliev repay her richly. She is a famous
eook,
In the garb that was guiltless of colors
She stood, with a dull, listless air
A creature of dumps and of dolors, . .
But most undeniably fair.
The folds of her garment fell round her,
Bevealing the curves of each limb;
Well-proportioned and graceful I found her.
Although quite alarmingly slim, s
From t he hem of her robe peeped one sandal
" High art " was she down to her feet;
And though I could not understand all
She said I could see she wss sweet.
Impressed by her limpness and langour,
1 profiered a chair near at hand;
She looked back a mild sort of anger
Posed anew, and continued to stand.
Some praises T next tried to mutter ' "
Of the fan that she held to her face;
She said it was " utterly utter," -And
waved it with languishing grace.
I then in a strain quite poetic, . -Begged
her gaze on the bow in the sky,
Ehe looked- said its curve wss " tcstUelic."
But the " tone was too dreadfully high."
Her lovely face, lit by the splendor
That glorified landscape and sea,
Woke tuoughts that were daring as tender:
Did her thoughts, too, rest upon me?
" Oh, tell me," I cried, growing bolder
' Have 1 in your musings a placet"
" Weil, yes," she said, over her shoulder;
" X was thinking of nothing in space."
Eric--Ilrae in oarSmer't,
HUMORS OF THE DAY.
Hapless sons of day are frequently
bricks.
When a man is cremated, does he go
to the burn from which no traveler re
turns? A corbespondbnt of the ChicMO
Inter-Oeean signs herself "Alice Car
lysle." She makes us smyslo.
The true way for a woman to drive a
nail is to aim the blow square at her
thumb. Then she'll at least avoid hit,
ting her thumb, anyway. Boston Pott,
.35sthbtio: The " utterly utter " kind
of talk has infected the street gamins,
one of whom, after picking up a more
than usually fragrant cigar stump, ex
claimed to his friend: "Jack, this is
quite too positively bully."
A New Yobk horse that attacked and
killed a man is believed to be insane.
They've got so used to accounting fcJr
the killing of men on the theory that the
killer was insane, that next they'll be
allowing insanity against the engine that
runs over a man. Boston Post.
Papa " That picture shows the story
of Prometheus and the vulture that fed
on his liver. Every day the vulture de
voured it, and every night it grew for
him to eat again." Sympathetic child
" Poor, dear old vulture. How sick he
mnat VinvA bppn nf livpr Avprv rlav "
j .
" Who ever saw a farmer," asks the
Philadelphia Times, in deep conviction,
" stopping the plow to ask himself if life
were worth the living ? " But did the
Philadelphia Times ever see a farmer
when the plow had stopped him and he
lay doubled over between the handiest
There is a young lady in Keokuk,
Iowa, who is six feet four inches tall,
and she is engaged to be married. The
man who won her did it in these words :
" Thy bsauty sets my soul aglow I'd
wed three, right or wrong; man wants
but little here below, but wants that lit
tie long." Buffalo Express.
First Yotnta Lady "I like them
both, but I've made up my mind to
marry Tom." Second Young Lady
" Why, Minnie, Charlie is ever so much
handsomer." First Young Ladv "Yes.
I know it ; bnt Tom's in the hairpin
business, and father says there's big
margin in hairpins." Boston Courier.
I rOTKD, I'm free to confess, on her hair,
It was wondrously long and so charmingly fair;
And so when one evening we walked on the pur,
I whispered the tenderest words in her ear.
Then a strong wind uprose, and she blushed rosy
red As it blew all that beautiful hair off her head;
She was bald as an egg, and I blessed that bard'
Dreeze,
For disclosing that fact by the shimmering seas.
Xswdea .Pause.
Said a young lawyer, not long ago :
"I've made $40 this week." "How?"
" Well, I got $10 for a case, and I bor
rowed $36. " The story is not unlike one .
told of Henri Muger, that noted Parisian
bohemian. " What is your income," he
was once asked. "It is hard to tell,"
was the reply, "but in good years I can
borrow at least 10,000 francs." New
Orleans Times.
Moss Schatthburg, returning from
market with a basket full of spare ribs
for his Sunday dinner, was horrified at
seeing four or five of his children lean
ing half way over the second story win
dow. "Shildren," exclaimed the ex
cited parent, " go vay from dot vindow.
Yen you all falls out and preaks your
necks, den you vill say it vas not you
vot done - it Go pack I dells you
Texas Sitings.
Unkisssed Kisses.
They sat together on the verdant
banks which ran down close to the ocean
beach. In front of them , lay the slum
bering sea, its placid surface softly
gleaming beneath the mellow light of the
rising moon.
" 'Twas not an hour nor a scene for aught
But love and calm delight."
And so, perhaps, that young man thought
As he sat with her there that night.
There was no one near them; at least,
no one that they cared for paterfamil
ias and mater ditto having meandered
out of the night air into the warmer at
mosphere of the hotel. He broke the
poetio silence by observing :
" And so you have read Oscar Wilde's
poems?"
"I have."
" And you like them ?"
"O. I think they are just too awfully
too too. There is an outwardness and
entirety about them so extremely soul
ful. They are gushing with the sub
stance of intangibility."
"What do you think he means when
he writes about the barrenness of tin
kissed kisses ?"
" First of all, I thought he referred to
those kisses which youiig ladies give to
each other when their veils are down :
but on giving the matter thorough con
sideration" here she looked cautiously
around " I came to the conclusion that
they were those kisses which a lover
fails to take when he is alone with his
fiancee and all the chances are favorable
for his obtaining them."
Having said this, she cast her eyes
down and blushed. Then his arm wan
dered around her waist her head
drooped npon his shoulder, and well,
imagine the; rest. Somerville Journal-
Tokening Words.
Respecting the removal of the Ute
Indians, occurring some time ago, the
Solid Muldoon, published on the fron
tier, says :
" Now, laying aside all animosity, we
ask, is there to-day, upon the frontier, a
human heart that does not throb with
sympathy for those untutored beings t
Take the lesson home to yourself. Think
of your , being forced from scenes and
possessions that are rendered near and
dear by childhood's, happy recollections.
Think of having to leave forever those
dear ones who are laid away to await the
resurrection morn, and leaving them,
with a knowledge that ere Your foot-
Srints have been obliterated by, the
ews of heaven, the plow of the pale
face will have levclod the little mounds
and completed the work of desolation.
"Fellers, it's rough."
A Narrow Escape of a Buggy, f "
Jim Webster was driving a buggy
rapidly down Austin avenue, when he
knocked down and ran over old Unole
Mose, but as if by a miracle, the .old
man was not injured in the least
Look heah, Jim, you had better be
more keerful." .
" I'se gwine ter be, Unole Mose, jes so
soon as I has a buggy ob my own ter
drive. Dis heah turnout don't belong
ter me," Texas Sifting.