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, The New York Herald notes that the Instalment plan of selling bicycles, which. all the leading manufacturers have adopted, has vastly increased the number of devotees of the silent steed and to the same extent the advocates of good roads. Frances Willard, temperance advo cate, has somewhat astonished English people by suggest ag in all seriousness that the “grill" behind which all wo men except peeresses have had to con ceal themselves to listen to the debates in the House of Commons, be placed in the British Museum as a relic. A Mr. Snashall, of Washington, . D. 0., has recovered from the Metro politan Street Bailway Company of that city $443 as a recompense for the loss of the services of his wife, through an injury that she received in 1888 on the cars of that company. He is sa^d to be a wealthy gentleman from Wis consin, and his wife did the family trashing. Of course her services were very valuable. In 1892 the total persons ■ , employed in and about gSTfi> mines ol the United Kingdom was 721,808, oi whom (N99 were females, workinf above gTMiid. There were 862 acci dents da^k the year, occasioning 1034 deaths; death for every 679 per j||t ' Sons em^Bed, as against one for every reueumg year. v v r _J WHAT IS BEYOND. The blue sky and the blue lake Meet together In sunny weather, But what, oh ! what is beyond? I know this side the horizon line, With its purple hillsides, broad and line ; But the country beyond, has it lakes like ours. And trees of grandeur, and fruits and flow ers? What, oh 1 tvhat is beyond? The gray Bky and the gray inks Meet together In sombre weather. ■ But what, oh! what is beyond? I know these homes, with their loves ant woes, Their buried hopes from which patience grows; Are these broken affections united there? Are hopes fruition, and answered, prayer What, oh ! what is beyond? The black sky and the blaok laka Meet together In stormy weather, But what, oh! what is beyond? I know the currents that thrill the earth, And flash the sky at the thunder’s birth ; But what of the circuit for souls between, And the central power in the Great Unseen What, oh! what is beyond? -Sarah K. Bolton, in New York Independent THE COWBOYS’ COLLECTIOI T was Sunday. Th little church be! had summoned th congregation t morning service though a few lat comers were stil hurrying towar the consecrate spot. The Sabbatl was observed an respected by all th residents of th town, excepting Ja: This citizen, despite th pleadings and persuasions of the littl parson and different members of th church, refused to close his saloon o Sunday, for upon this day ho usual! realized his biggest profits. Many laborers from the surroundinj ranches, farms and mines spent thei Sabbaths and week’s wages at Geh hardt's tavern, and the passing travele was sure to rest there over night if k arrived on Sunday, and this was, o course, another source of revenue fo the proprietor. This morning Jan wa standing at the door, placidly smokinj his-pipe and looking away toward thi mountains with a self-satisfied expres sion. The beauty of the landscape be fore him might have awakened the sou of a poet or an artist, but Jan was noi of a sensitive, emotional disposition, The scene presented to his phlegmatic mind simply earth, vegetation and air, while in the.clear, propitious weathei he discerned alone the promise of ex tended patronage. » As he stood thus, wrapped in pleas ant anticipations, he heard a faint, low, steady rumbling as if of distant than der. He looked up quickly. There were no clouds in the sky. Wliai could it mean ? It was gradually be coming louder and more distinct, anc3 seemed to issue from a large gulch oi pass to the west. Jan took the pipe from his mouth and listened. Sttddenlj a shout, accompanied by the report oi a number of revolvers, startled the echoes far and near, and there issuec from the gulch a black mass whicl shortly resolved itself into a body oi horsemen bearing down toward the town. Jan watched them lazily, thinking of the money he would be able to realize from them. Nearer and nearer sounded the clat tering of the horses’ hoofs, until Jar oould almost hear eaoh separate foot fall, and presently they slowed anci stopped outside his door. Smiling anci duoking his head, he wished the visi win guuu murmug miu mvneu tnem m. They accepted his invitation, and were soon standing and sitting about the bai room, while the obsequious Jan served them with drink. One of them, a burly fellow, asked him for a certain kind o) liquor, and after the keeper of the tav ern had taken it from the shelf and turned about, his smile was suddenly transformed to a look of horror, for he found several revolvers levelled at him. “Mein chenelmens, fhat yougoin’ to do?" cried the affrighted man. “Dutohy,” said the burly fellow, “don’t you know you’re desecratin’ the beat day in the Week by keepin’ yer sa loon open?” “Veil, how can I helps it, chenel mens? It’s the pest day for peesi aess.” “Business or no business, old man, you’ve got to reform.’ We’re the Sab vation Army, we are, and don't you for get it" “Chenelmens, chenelmens, don’t do noddings to me,” cried Jan, wringing Jria hands in anguish, as he looked down the bright barrels of half a dozen re volvers. “Fetch down them bottles from that shelf," shouted the cowboy. The trembling Jan obeyed. “Now, then. ” said this strange avenging angel, up across th’ room; every bull’s eye. ” itated, but the revolvers com edience. Before the oaval moved on he had been obliged to destruction of a large part of' the unfortunate man was ■ Aiding amid a confusion of broken neckless bottles and pools of n^p and liquors, wringing his hands ■/calling down maledictions upon his ■secutors, who were now continuing Bjr maid .career, down the street. Bhe cowboys soon came in sight of Klittle church, standing in a lot sur *lf ° ronRh picket tence’ wllile ^^Hiymns floated and when it censed rode on to the , way._ M "Now for some fun, boys,” said IiiUylTj a graceful, lithe young man with mis-1 chievous brow n eyes, bb he reigned up i his horse; "you Allows just follow Spot j and we’ll see something interesting.” I Spot, who had been spokesman at the saloon, urged his horse forward and they slowly rode into the yard and to the door of the church. The congregation were kneeling in prayer, while the pastor, standing in the center of the platform, his arms uplifted, his face writhing the most ludicrous contortions, was moving his body up and down, keeping time with the shouts he omitted, which were sup posed to be the prayers for the salva tion of the souls of liis sinful brethren —at least so Billy surmised, as he I watched him with au amused smile. , | As the pastor w as gathering for the culmination of his prayer, the leader turned to his companions, and said in an undertone, ‘‘Now, then,” and their horses’ hoofs resounded on the wooden floor of the church. The startled con gregation, rising with one accord, be held Spot, the cowboy, riding solemn ly up the aisle, followed by his com panions. ? "Don't be alarmed, ladies ’n’ gentle men. We’re only come t’ join in the . services, an’ ’ill trouble yon t’ sit still they’re over,” said Spot, with a smile r manufactured for the occasion, as the people seemed inclined to depart rather precipitously. Seeing themselves thus 3 at the mercy of the cowboys, they j were obligee! to resume their seats, al 3 most overcome by fear and apprelxen ,sion. , “An’ as fer you, parsnip” said Spot, s pointing his revolver at the trembling | man, “elon’t stand there snivelin’. 1 You’re a purty kiud er shepherd! I’ll 1 bet there ain’t one in th’ flock as big a 3 coward as you, V yet you think you 1 kin buy off th’ Lord by shoutin’ ’n 3 pretendin’ t’ save souls a heap better’s VAHVn T’ll mnn n/vu —- > 1 * ,1 .. •_ -If -O - J 2 earnest. I ain’t had no one to pray fei a me since I was a little kid at my mam 3 my’s knee. You jis’ git down on yei 3 knees ’n’ pray fer me now. ” i The parson hesitated, threw up hit i hands, and rolled up. his eyes in depre cation. r “There, parson, dont take on like a r fool about it, but git down t’ business, . or I’ll give you a lift t’ a better land, a r service y’d no doubt thank me fer." ; The little man did npt seem quite f ready to depart for a better land, so ■ covered by Spot’s revolver, he was ob , liged to sink on his knees and begin . his prayer. i “Lord,” ho prayed, in a quavering voioe, “O Lord—forgive and protect -—this poor sinner-” . “See here, now I don’t want you givin’ th’ Lord no mistaken impression ’bout me. You tell Him about th’ benefit I am t’ this yere world." And again the revolver figured as a per suader, and the little parson changed the nature of his prayer. “He’s giving Spot quite a ‘send off;1'” said Billy in an undertone to one of his companions, “we’re not in it. The parson prayed for some time, then prepared to arise. “That ain’t enough,” shouted Spot, flourishing the revolver; “I’ll be hanged ef I'm not goin’t’ have enough prayin’ t’ last me a week, and then here’s all these boys ain’t been prayed for yet.” So the parson resumed his prayer. Several times he attempted to finish and arise, but every time Spot com pelled him to return to his prayer. At last, when he was out of breath, stiff in every joint and sick with fright, Spot condescendingly said: “There, little ’an, that’s enough. And now we’re goin’t’ take up a kerlection. Boys, take yer hats ’roun,’ ’n’ don’t let any guilty man escape.” Two of the boys, each holding a hat in one hand, a revolver in the other, passed about the church compelling every member of the terrified onnrrrfJ! gation to give some contribution. Those who had no money were obliged to give a watch or a ring, or some other jewel or trinket they might have about them, and finally it was all brought to Spot, who turned the col lection over to Billy. “An’ frien’s,” said Spot, “we’re much obliged t’ you fer all this yere stuff,,’n’ the parson fer his prayers. We only wanter ask one thing more o’ you. We ain’t no low down thieves. We ain't takin’ up this yere money ’n’ gewgaws fer onrselveB. We’re going t’ good with ’em. Now we’ll trouble you t’ tell us who’s th’ most deservin’ i charity in this yer town.” ; “The widow!” said several voices in | chorus. | “And who might be the widder? | There ken be more’n one widder in a Aown. What’s yer widder’s name?” Nobody seemed to know, but he was told where she lived, and the caval oade of cowboys turned their horses around, and pussed from the church into the bright sunlight. They wended their way down the road, laughing boisterously over their recent escapade, and soon found them selves in the little lane leading to the widow. Tho horses had been trotting brisk ly, but upon nearing the little, half decayed shanty standing alone among the sage brush and wild flowers, their pace slackened, and they finally came to a standstill before the broken gate. “Whose a-goin't’ take the money ’n’ stuff in t’ the widder ?” asked one of the boys. They all looked at each other in some perplexity. “ ’Pears t’ Spot ourter, ” said another, “he’s bin headin’ th’ gang all day.” "It was Billy got up th’ fun,” said Spot, “so ’cordin’ t’ my min’he ourter be th’ one to’ do th’ charity act. 'Sides, he’s a lady’s man, an’ a talker from way back.” t Billy made some remonstrances, but was finally prevailed upon to undertake :he commission, and, hanging his six hooter and belt on the fence, he snocked at the dopr. A feeble voice i Aid: “Come in.” Pushing the door jjjen, he stood irresolute upon the threshold. The light in the room was Him, and he could indistinctly see a figure streehed on a low couch in the farther corner. “Will you come in, sir?1' said the same feeble, gentle voice; then as Billy stepped in with some embarrass ment she continued, “Wliut is your er rand, sir?” He tried to think of a means by Which he could delicately and accept ably deliver liis message of charity, but finding none be was obliged to make known bis errand as simply as possible, trusting to the inspiration of the mo ment to help him out. “You are a widow, are you not?”ho I asked. "Yres,” she replied, raising herself hastily on one elbow as he spoke. “You must forgive a stranger, madam, for coming to you with so little ceremony and asking such a question, but the truth is, I—wo—” “Tell me, sir," she interrupted, “do you live in this part of the country? Are you a cowboy from one of the ranches? Excuse me, I am partly blind.” “Yes,” he said, “I livo here and I am a cowboy.” “How lollg have you been following this occupation ? How long have you been in Colorado? Yon were not born iu the West, I know, for you have neither the Bpeech nor manners of the people. Where did you.como from? Tell me, I implore you.” Billy looked at the form dimly out lined before him in blank astonish ment. “Why, madam, I'm perfectly will ing to tell you. My home was in New Huven, Conn., God bless it, and I came West eight years ago. .Since then I have met with many varied ex periences. I’ve tasted the sweetness of prosperity and the bitterness of ad .. _ _ r 1_i .. -J. -” J' — •• comfortable sum of money and waf preparing to return to the East, when by an unhappy speculation Host it all; then I drifted into my present situa tion. But I mean to accomplish some thing before I go home again to my dear old mother.” There was a charm ing youthful ring of hopefulness in hit voice which his eight years of trying experiences had failed to obliterate. The widow dropped back on her couch and was perfectly still. “But I am forgetting my errand,’ continued Billy. ‘ ‘My friends and 1 have brought you a little offering, which I hope will be acceptable. It should be, for it is a present from the good church-members of the village, who beg you will accept it with their compliments.” He advanced to the side of the couch and bent down to place the contents of his hat in her lap. As he did so a ray of light stole through the half-closed blinds and fell upon the womun’s face. “My God !” He started back paler than his companion, while the hat dropped heavily to the floor. The next moment he was kneeling beside the couch clasping the wasted form in his strong young arms, his frame shaken by violent sobs. “Willys, dear Willys, I have been seeking you all over the West for the last five years. Thank God, oh, thank Him a thousand times that I have found you at last.” In the meantime his companions out side were becoming impatient. “Wonder what’s keepin’ th’ feller so long,” said one of them; “ho could a gave the widder th’ money a hundred times over during th’ thne he’s been in there.” “I should think he could. Tell yon what. I’ll just creep aroun’t’ th’ win j der ’n’ see what he’s up t’. ” said Spot, ! suiting the action to the words. Drop I plug uu uib nxitt-'H, utJ uuuiiiuuBiy peereu j through the half-closed blinds. The next moment he had fallen backward, and was soon hastening to his com rades with a curious expression on his face. “Well, what'B up, Spot?” he was asked. “I dn’ know,” replied Spot, scratch ing his head* “ ’pears like Billy’s gone and got mashed oil th’ widdor. He’s down on his knees ’fore th’ bed a-hold in’ her in his arms.” A hearty laugh went round the crowd. At that moment Billy ap peared at the door with his sombrero pulled well down over his eyes. “Boys,” he stammered, and the strong man's lips quivered—“boys there's an old lady inside who wants to know my friends. CtJme in. It's my mother.”—The Californium England’s Plowed Land Diminished. During the last twenty years the area of land in England under the plow has diminished by very nearly 2,000,000 acres, or over fourteen per cent. The amount of arable land in Walea has diminished twenty-one per cent, in the same period. In Scotland, on the contrary, it has increased by 78,000 acres. This difference is partly explained by the relatively large-areas of land in Scotland retained under clover and rotation grasses, more than one-third of the whole cultivated area. In England "the proportion of culti vated land so occupied is little more than one-tenth of the whole.—Chicago Herald. To |«('ate Metals in Flesh. An electrical instrument has recently been invented which is sufficiently deli cate to detect the presence of one eighth of an inch of steel or iron wire at a distance of six inches from itself. It is intended for use in locating small pieces of magnetizable metal, such as needles, tacks, steel and iron chips, etc., that may have entered the human body unawares and hidden themselves in the skin or deeper tissues. It will probably prove to be of- great service where the ordinary methods of detect ing the presence of foreign metallic mbstances are ineffective and unreli ible.—American Farmer. i GENERAL MEWS. ' . ... .. I ■.» V Current Events of Gnnc J-al Interest Epitomized and G rouped. Kansas miners are on a strike. Edwin Booth is said to,be dying at his home in Now York. Dr. Briggs, after a long-winded trial, has beeu suspended. Bank failures the jpast week havo been unusually numerous. The Wesleyan Female College at Murfreesboro, N. C., was burned a few days since. The cholera scourge still holds a footing in Germany and may break out at anytime. The Southern Oil company has de clared a dividend of 2 1-2 per cent., payable JutteilS. The ieaders'.of tho Populist party in Kansas wants to change its name to the “National Party.” Another crevasse has occurred in the Mississippi rJvor levoes fourteen miles above Arkansas City. Jim Hall knocked out Slavin in seven rounds at London. The induce ment was glory andt^botter 125,000. Heavy rains overjthe State, during tho past week, in1 many places did much damage to tho,growing crops. Trouble lias broken out in the Sal vation Army in Canada, and several members have sent im their resigna tions. The Prohibition State convention of Iowa has nominated Capt. K. W. Brown for governor and a full state ticket. It is reported that the Louisville & Nashville railroad Jias secured control of the Newport Netjvs and Mississippi Valley road. Fire at Nowton, \ Miss., destroyed tho principal business portion of the town, causing a loss^of $50,000, with $20,000 insurance. Sixty men were , entombed in a coal mine near Eagle?Pass, Tex., and it is feared that they ‘ will be dead be fore aid can reach them. T. M. Scruggs has been appointed Judge to till out the un.expired term of DuBose, who has just been suspended from the bench at Memphis. Twenty-live men walked into Deca tur, III., a city of 22,0QQ( poople, and strung up a man on the principal street without meeting any opposition. The Carnegie Iron and Land Co., of Johnson City Tenn., hsive made an assignment. Tho liabilities arc placed at $125,000 and assets at $600,000. The waiters of Kansas .City are out on a strike, at least those who belong to tho restaurants. Their places ware retilled with non-union mean and wo men. The governor of Georgia has com muted to life imprisonment the sen tence of death hanging over J. It.Von Polnitz, convicted in Decatur county of wife murder. President Cleveland has returned to Washington from his fishing trip to Hog Island, and it is reported will at once take up the cases of the Internal lievenue collectors. A severe storm passed over parts of Arkansas and Mississippi a few days since and did a great deal of damage. To property at Boscda'.c, Miss., the estimated damage is $50,000. Ten thousand people in East Carroll and Morehouse, West Carroll and Mad ison parishes, La,, have been rendered homeless by the overflow of the Mis sissippi river, and there is great suf fering. Furnaces at Rock Hill, Pa., have closed down indefinitely because of a strike which was brought about by the refusal of the management to reinstate severul discharged leaders of the local labor union. Col. Log an H. Roots, an Arkansas millionaire, who died - a few days since, left $700,000 to be used for a hospital and park for Little Rock. A portion of the hospital is to be set aside for old and destitute masons. Tho mammoth Depaw plate glass factory at Alexandria, Indiana, closed down Friday for an indefinite period. The cause assigned is scarcity of money, lack of demand for plate glass and the uncertainty in the regard to the policy of the government on the tariff. The Queen and Crescent route will sell excursion tickots from ail points east of the Mississippi river to Cinciu. nati, O., and return for one faro for the round trip, on all traius scheduled to arrive in Cincinnati Juuo 11th and 12th, on aocount of the Mystic Shriue. Rates open to all. At the national session of the Feder ation of American Mocltani cs recently held in Indianapolis, Jhhn J. Lamb.of Scranton, Pa., failed of ro-election .and absconded, it is alleged, with all the funds in his possession.amounting to about $5,000. Lamb has returned to Scrantou and has been arrested. Dr. T. P. Bell, well known to all Southern Baptists and who has boon for a number of years connected with the Boards of the Southern Baptist Convention, has been tendered the po sition of Corresponding Secretary of tho Foreign Mission Board. Dr. Bell has not given his answer to the invita tion. Another trust has been or is about to ho launched upon the business world. It is to be known as the American Flint Bottle Company, and with that title has been incorporated under the laws of Wisconsin. Tbo • mount of incorporation is said to L’J $1,000,000. Tbo object of the com-' pany is to raiso prices by combining. At Cleveland, O., tbo largest mort gage over tiled for record was deposit ed in tbe office of tbe county recorder Friday by the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad. It is for $50,000,000 in favor of the Mer cantile Trust Company, of Now York, and Theodore P. Ilaughey, of Indian apolis, trustees, and is to securo tbe issue of 50,000 $1,000 bonds. The Commission appointed last summer to treat with tbe Yankton Sioux iu South Dakota for a cession to tbe United States of tlieir surplus lands lias submitted its report to Secr retary Hoke Smith, together with the' articles of agreement. All of the un allotted lands on the reservation are to tic ceded to ihc government in con sideration of the sum of $000,000. All of the charges of murder, etc., against N. C. Frick and others, of the Carnegie Steel Company officials, as well us the Pinkerton detectives, have been dropped in court. In turn, all of the strikers who bad been arrested and us yet untried have been released upon their own recognizances. This virtually ends all homestead cases la connection with the big strike of last year. me statement tnat tne Secretary of the Treasury intends to increase the issuo of greenbacks to $400,000,000 is attracting a good deal of attention in Wall street. Opinions are evenly divided as to the/.wisdom of the plan. There is now $55,000,000 in gold coin in the sub-^'easury at New York. Under tbe Orders for tbo ditlerent sub treasuries fo ship gold to New York, Cincinnati bus sent $5,000,000 and will send $3,000,000 more; Baltimore has shipped $3,000,000, $1,000,000 of which arrived today, and Chicago has sent $2,000,000; l’hiladelphia will send $2,000,000. A. 8. Waters, president of the Kansas Minors’ Union, is at Osage, where he will organize a strike among the coal miners of that district to act in sympathy with the strike in South eastern Kansas. When this district has joined the light there will bo 10,000 miners out iu Kansas, 9,000 men in the six camps iu Missouri and / 9,500 in tho Indian Territory. In the meantime, tho president of the Colo rado Union, which has charge of tho Atchison, Topeka & Santa Ko mines* at Irinidad and Rockville, will have organized the 4,000 men now working under his jurisdiction. By July 1, l’rcsident Waters says all tho work will havo been accomplished. In round numbers there will be 30,000 miners out west of the Mississippi river. There are 10,000 members iu the union, and Waters expects tho re maining 70,000 to assist the strikers in carrying on the light, lie makes the boast that the union has so effect ually fortified itself that it can hold out for two years. A Fortune For $2. Leo Slanlon, an English painter, bought a leather valise at the Grand Trunk Railroad sale of unclaimed bag gage for $2. On opening it he found 107 shares in the Western Gas Im provement Company, of Chicago, fully paid up and worth $107,000; The valise was tho property of Louis Ilalberstndl. who died at Btockville, Out, in October, 1891, of Alcohol ism. He went to Btockville from Napierville, 111. A large sum of money and some jewelry which he was known to have just prior to his death, wete missing, and it was gen erally believed at tlje tiuio that lie hud been robbed. Gas Gavo Out. Findlay, Ohio, is in tho dying throes of a boom built upon gas—nat ural gas. Recently a statement was made that there were 600 vacant houses in the city and the truth of the statement has been verified by actual count. It is now stated that all the glass manufacturers have signed an agreement to movo their plants from the town not later thau July 1. It ia estimated that this exodus will take 4,000 people from the place. Some of the manufacture! 6 are going to differ ent locations in Pennsylvania, but the greater number will locate in the In diana gas fields. Moral—It won’t do to build a town on gas— not even natural gas. Sentiment in Hawaii. The secretary of state has received several reports from Minister Blount in regard to the sentiment of the peo ple iu Hawaii on the subject of annex ation. The reports will be made pub lic in due spason, as the ^resident de. sires to sound the sentiment of his own country before he makoe recom mendations to Congress regarding the future relations of the United States with Hawaii. Sunday Closing at the Pair. The United States Congress, in appropriation to tho Woild s Fair, did so upon tho grounds that the fair should close on Sundays, fho management, however, of the great exposition have refused to obov the orders and now tho matter is in ti e United States court for sotileinent. The decision 0f this high tribunal is watched with great interest by both £"**•**■ "II i8 understood that tho decision will settle tho contro versy for good, as neither side will make any appeal. Judge DuBose Impeached. Judge J. J. DuBose, of Memphis, of whom so much has been said and written in the past few weeks, has been impeached by the Tennessee Legislature and removed fi oin office and forever disqualified from holding any public trust again.