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Publhshed Weekly -AT St Martinsville, L a. -BY EASTIrN A IENVENU. The Italian Government has devised wLat may be a useful plan for diminish inrirthe number of duels. Dueling in Italy is allowed under certain conditions, and it is suppl,od that many duels are due to the fear of tho-e ch:d!ienred that if they do not fEghtthe-y i!, be treated as cowards. In future any Italian who ca!is a countryman'a coward because the latter will not fight will be made to pay an extremely heavy fine. A visitor from Manchester,England, is astonished :.t the high average main tined in every' social circle in the aUnited States. tHe is reported to say: "The working tclaes-in whom I am most interesbted-re morally, mentally and materially in advance of the similar classes in any European country. Physi ca: comfort is the prim:try desire of the artisan; but he cannot live anywhere 1 ese' so comfortably as in the United States." The Augusta,: (ta.) (,l.ro,icle says: "Seventeen year locusts abound in the West. - There is a well defined 'W on each wing of the locust. The supersti tious attach to their %isitation the im portance of a warning from Providence, and maintain that the 'W' signifies war. It is a fact that in ltr4, when occurred the first of any rc.orded ,isits of the pest, the Crimean war was inaugurated. l Seventeen years later in I-71, they again appeared. Thatf ear marked the begin ning of the Franc~-Prussian war. This A St. Louis ysician says : "The quinine habit iss ning strength every day. Dizzineql, at you hear innum erable people coup:a:ning of in these days, can be traced to the excessive use of quinine. The good efet ts, that it is nearly always certain of, are 1o-t lty ex cessive doses. Too much quinine will also produce zcngestion of the ear andi vibration of the auditory nerves. The growing :habit of tiking muinine for teurl.gia anil other life conp:aits, a w.thout consu'ting a physici:an, i- a.to pether rel,rehe:cihle iantd may le..d to - very ser:oui reesults. Many cases of deaf ness a-c produced by o:erdoses and - l,.ng-, cntinued use of tie drug." t] lDr. 3George 3. .terncerg, Un:ted States army, has returned to Baltimore, says the .uI, of that city, from his trip a to IlHavana, whither he was sent by the Government to investigate the yellow o fever. II:- made numerous autopsies in a tLe military hospital in Havana, the re. - su!ts of which confirmedl the conclusions i .acihl in his previous inveCtigat:ons in Hai:vana in I1X!I. and in i:ra:il and Mex Ito the past sear, th:at no micro-organ Ismsn or bacteria haie b:_.n found in the Iot,.dt of yellow fever t.aticnte, conse quently the clar·ns of l:r. IDom:nrgos Fr-ire of Era:l, and Dr. 4 armona y Is Valle, of Mexico, that they found germs In are unsupported by Dr. .ternberg's au topsies. lie does not, however, assert a positively that no genie- exi-t acd may S not ie di,-covered in the future. If, adds H the .sa,. the positions of )rs. Freire and el Valle should be estab!i'hed by further r retsearche-, protective ino,-,ilation against i yellow fever would be the great boona conferred on mankind. C ------~ti AN EARTHQUAKE. Tr Steamer City of Sidney. which ar- it rivd at San Francisco from Hlong Kong I and Yokohama, brings through the Ja- ti eansee journals the particulars of the volcanic eruption of Bandai bank on k the 15th of July. The dtetils of the" catastrolhe came in a somewhat de poiled form. The Ch"ya Shim1,idin dis- I jatched a special reporter to the scene. h According to his account the villages surrounding Bandai healrd the strange rumbling sounds and felt the shocks of the earthquake from 13th. These pheno mnena crntinued intermittently for two days and nights, but not being attended bIy any serious result Ino great disquiet was felt. On the mornit of the 15th. at about 8 o'clock, smaller Bandai Bau tremlled and roared vio!entl-. Imme-t dia.tely afterwards ache., bean to fail. the sky suddeaty grew dark and the ritubling soed' ce.,tirued, uccomilane , i ky violent earthquakes andl dflare of daz- . Si ns lame. The crest c-f tle sr.:ITlr r ( l::r dai San appearc i to ic. liftted ilily Ii wr;rds and thea to f .l au.in i ti: a tr,.mienulous noiser. Thcei f,,lwed .he w- hi c:', .f ,,l rm.d. Ining' cr.l itlh htrLe I, ititc''! c, wi c the ltt re , nt.,arlv s *l 4rip: ; a-itl mnita w~ih ne cm: 1: itt', -. l,:t c',mec pr.e:nl cr-,:,:: .,llt by Le.vy iii sc-. ,e. Ncurly 5,0 I "atr kalled. fa Pl'rinces 'roqne, of The Mohawk tribe. Sir 0 Nation·. made an inter "tinr and instructive temperanee addres at a recent meeting of let. Fatrici 's T-tt.: At.ne:ane:, 5O~-e -etv, I Washington, II. C. The P:rn.e,- wore arich atn .irse. the sks-t ,: i,. s.. a- han:d- l'1 paintel with .owers ir . ;: : :: .: : :.rt , lit S ZIERRPbOTED. SWhm Mary Anan Dollinger got the sakle daown thaer os aiea Bay I was glad, fer I like ter mse a gal makin her honest way. I beerd swme talk n the village about her fly i,, high. Tew high fer buy farmer folks with clho,e ter dew ter fly EBut I paid so eorter attention ter all the talk (.eAll She core it, her reg'lar boardLu'n ainuud ker rs!t with lus a esll. My Jake an' her hed been cronies ever sence they could walk. An' it tnk me aback t r hear her li rre'tln" him ,L his talk. Jake ain't no hand at grammar, t:hough he habsm't his bet fer work: E.: I sez ter myselt., "look tout, my al. yer afoolin with a Turk" Jake bore it wonderfully patient, an said ir. is mournful way Be p somed he was behind hand with the do in's at Injan Bay. I remember once he wa askin' fer some o my Injla buns, An' she said be should allue say. "them air. stid o' "them as" the ones. Wal, Mary Ann ker at him staddy. mornin' an' evenin' long. Tell he dassent open his mouth fer fear o talkln" wrong. Ont day I was pic:kin' currants down by the old quince tree, When I beard Jake's voice a-mayn' "Be yt w: lin ter marry me?' An' Mary Ann kerrectin'- "Air ye w:iL' -'o:: abd say. - Our Jak e pe uit hit foot down in a pl tmn de i.ded way, "No w;aumm folks is a-goia tcr retarangen' awee flereatter I say craps, them is, I calk ;ate. an I be, Ef hflkt don't like my talk they needL': Lark ter what I say, But I ain't agoin ter take no sam from folks fom Injun Bay. I ask ye free an' final, 'Be ye goin, ter marry me?' An' Mary Ann sU tremblin' yet ani.ous-lake "I be!" F. E. PNTs. THE FISHER-BOY'S HUNT.I nT EDWARD A. RA'eD. AN! Dan! Dan: ' an Fuller wasa crossing a bleak, .. . roeky hill on his ; way to his home; in a sheltered lit tle nook at the' foot of the hill. SHe heard, or he thought lie heard, somebody calling. He stop- i S-ped abruptly. He turned his excit-' "_ - -Y- ied face toward the sea tossing restlessly to the east of : the hilL "Seemslike Will calling," said Dan, elI listened again. It seemed tooome; once more: "lDan I Dan ' Dan !" Was it that or only the wind blowing over the white-capped waves in the hav and then moaning through the firs at - the foot of the hall Y A boy's excited imagination would explain all the rest. "It is Will!" said Dan. Will was Dan Fuller's brother. The autumn before te had gone to the east : ard in a (;Goucester fishing stuack which never made harbor again. The wild, wrecking sea saomyv here covered every t trace of the fisher-bor fronm (iiouesteer. Wil and Dan had hail a strong desire to try their luck in a Eshing trip. 'The mother had consented that Will might i go, but Dan must stay at homne. Not withstanding hip brother's lo I tan lhi an ('ermastering desire to try his han.l. Since his brothter'b de.lth t'hat pitileso t sea somehow fasi:nated him more ti,: tt ever. "1 must surely g: now," lie said, h;ar rving home, that gusty .l:ty, acro-s the hill. The Widow Fuller, as her r.eiglhzh:-. eCa!'d her, was btay with her ,r~hItara- " tions for supper in tlhe littl,- red farm L'.us, cozily tu'k-ed into a niche in the I hill. Arthur. the oldets: son, whothrift ily managed the farm, had just gone out to the long barn that snugly shllterel - the cattle. "Mother." said lbi. as hi entered the kitl:en, addressing her very abruptly, 'g "I must go to sea.' "Oh. Dan :" - "I think mother,' he said, lowering his voice, "I think I heard ,is voioe. It s"no ded just like him.' "His 'oice, Dan? Too Raean Will :'" "Yes, coming over the hill," he ans wered, soberly. . "S'he said nothing more. She dknew 0 Dan's nature; that hasty opposition' would be harmful. She asked Arthur's advice. ,h "Well, mother," he said, "you know a tlho*e two bos were ]utt crazy for one another. Wil's gone and Dain's more r'.tles than ever. I think he hasa salt- ! wa:ter trouble that only salt water will 'I cure. and you might as well let him go fti now as an:" time. You don't want meto tf sa.y that, hilt it'. the way I feel.' - it wa:s d.ehid, ti.e next day that Dan fl might ge. He diil ao, tell everythlingin h his th'..rt. H- ibelieved that in all pro- f, l,.:li!::' Wil! was lost, b;t we all know 1, thtit wslen :out :. tut great, sad masterv. s5 "La -: at sea. t!iere coma.s neither face re c,.: , rmI nor voi. e to bring any positive k itlt-:ligncr, the heart clings to a very r faint, shadowy hope that perhaps some- 1' o:,c dear to nus may yet te alive. h "'1 !,all neIrr ihe satisfied,"' Dan p 'ou. sPay t, t:im.xslf. "till Igo to the 1:aks~. where Will was last seen." Wh,-:. the neiglbors knew that Dan I'uler was going of' in the tabluag- ( -Chkoner, the "Jauanty, --om thle port ec of Olossester, these -e e rnry goeI Swishes expr sed. Ben Lgri did net say anything pleasant. He was a sto, I Sheavy boy about Dan's age. He had been an old rival of Will Fuller in the days when together they went to school, or asam off the beach Ilelow the hill, or fishedl in a dory that swung lazily in the swell off Rocky Point. The rival had become a bitter enemy. He had said hard, untrue things of Will Fuller. The vessel in which Will went off fish uing had not had a g.nld name at Glou. cester. len had et-n it, came home one day and nmaliciously commended it to, Wtll, who ventured his all when he S'oucluded t' go in it. l)an was not go ing to try his luck save in a good craft. His chest was packed. His mother had this parting wish for him: "Be a good Sboy, Dan, and if-you think-that Will called-vou-then-then-if- if - any body wants or-or-yon ever want to- to do wrong-you bear his-voice--call ing ye'i away--away from- HIer last words were smothered in the Spron with which she was wiping away the tears that glistened on her cheeks. The "Jaunty," was a schooner built for the fisheries, rigged fore and aft, sad rated at "eighty tons." When Dan went d'own into the cabin he cried, "Ain't this cute?" It was a little cabin, tiers of bunks oe cupying its sides, and in the centre was a table that Black Bob. the cook, had set with all the tempting items of a chowder dinner. "Hello! There's Dan' get right down!" cried Clipper Tim Jeffrey in a loud, hospitable voice. Besides the skipperDan did not think that he knew one of the hands at the' table, but his stage ride to Gloucester had given him an appetite sharp and strong. A chilling wind was blowing out of the east, and the little cabin was warm and sheltered and homelike. "'Isn't this splendid'" exclaimed Dan, half way through his first plate of chow der. "Is it," said a low voice behind him, "Wait until ye've tasted salt water down by the Banks.' Dan turned and there was Ben Lewis. "You here:" mid Dan, abruptly. "O' course 1 am' Don't greenhorns need to be told what to do by some bodvy" asked Ben, with a sneer. "'"Well," replied Dan, "if I am all that. it will l'e like one sculpin telling another sculpin hog to bite at a hook." The aculpin is one name for a fish that has an immense cave for a mouth, and if its name were changed to "gulping,' it wouldl Is very appropriate. The men at the table laughed heartily. Skipper, Jeffrev yelied out, "Purty good!" Ben ecowled' and locked sullen as a fog bank. He did not make any other, iattack on Dan that clay or the next, but, although he was silett, Dan was very sorry to see him. "If I had known he would be here. don't believe I should have come," thought Dan. Then he thought of Will, of the great sea which, while covering up all traces of Will, might yet reveal some sign of him or the vessel in which he had sailed. "I am glad I am here," thought Dan. "I will do the best I can." Favorite resorts of the Gloucester fishermen are the Grand Banks of New foundland, and also banks known as the I "Georges.' The fishermen go in small vessels, braving the wildest weather for the sake of the fare that these fishing grounds promise. 'eculiar dangers attend these trips. Sometimes their vesse-ls lie in the path way of the huge iron racers between Europe and America, and down into the oran may be pressed the daring little' 'Yankee vessel. One method of fishing is that old-fas-hioned way, by hand, and the ,thier is that of the trawl, a long, t stout rope from which hung many fish- - ing lint-'. The lengthy trawl is stretched , out and ie:,!-ted up, and then to the sus- 1 pende, i.,o- rush the greedy cod, many , of tl:' m ::,;-er going aasy again. The stittnr and. n? houling of the trawls may be uatt-ndtld with serious risks when the fogs s',t'e diuo\r. thi'l; and Ilinding, and c the traul..r :r'uxioislv ask, "Which way is the ."ho',,ner:" it may ite stormy fi 've:ther, too, upon the lRanks, and the little craft may not outride the gale. I ,an tFl ri worked diligently, and e "-rv- opportunoity that he had, when o:iue.r %et e-!st nret the "Jaunty," he ask' d agairn andn again if anything had le-n heard of Will's vessel the "Fish Hawk. t" "Ohi. she i' lost, sure :" was4he answ. I er given onire than once. n "ider.t you know that ," asked one 'I skilper. "T'hought the 'IFish-Hiawk was a given up long ago." e Dan always had a sorrowful face after i h these interviews. Dan rnd Tan Leuis worked side by a side, but Dan knew that he did not i work with a friend. Ben lst noopportu- a nity to show that he was Dan's enemy. i This hal been specially noticed just h before the breaking looseof aheavy gale n .out of the northeast. How the wind tI whistled through the rigging of the I "Jaunty '" Every shroud, stay, ratline, n became the wire of a harp, arm, temrse, b and resonant in the wild wind playing a upon it. 0 Again and again Dan seemed to hear a Will's voice calling, "Dan: Dan Dan!" n Then Dan would shake his head mourn-. i fully. The sea was swollen into huge, I frightful billows, and they were crested tl wits foam. which, breaking, would be Zr fung dnwi their green s!,opes till they ti Iooked like great monsters, mad and si frothing. The "Jaunt'' was anchored but the strain on her lhawser was very severe. While one moment there was room for doubt whether she would be i kept from drifting. another moment a h great sea might swer o.-er her deck. q n' T'here was room for fear that these huge a bammer-like billows might seriously c1 pound and bruise her. I: "Look out :" cried Dan to Ben. i "Look out yourself:" sngrled Ben. "I mean to '" said ilan; gripping a en coil of rope one end of which was fastan- hi e4 L- .- ringbo:t. * I i "uBagggg le up 1" w flas a mmmmg A comment on Dan's d The next moms Be was going over i the vesel's milin the srog, Sere grasp e of a sweeping billow ! Dan clung for W his life. r "Good enough for him :" muttered e Dan. 1 It was then he seemed to hear a voice, I "Dan ! Dan ! Dan!" He looked up amid the flying spray. "It is Will !" he moaned. He seemed to hear his mother's voice, e too, saying, "If you ever want to do t wrong, you hear his voice calling you e away from it." The next moment Dan had kicked off T his heavy boots, was climbing the I schooner's rail, still clinging to one end I of that rope, and then threw himself into I the sea. Ben was just ahead, turning now and with ghastly face looking to. ward the schooner. He could swim, but he was no match for Dan, who was called at home a water-dog. In that confusing, driving sea, amid those terrible billows F swelling, towering, Ben's strength would soon have been exhausted. He could now make out that somebody was corm Sing from the schooner toward him. He t could make out a face. He caught a gt limpse of the rope. It aroused him to Snew effort. He swam harder. There, in the terrible sea, Dan and Ben mete and Dan shouted, "Hold on to this !" A dozen strong, brown hands were laid on that line to which Dan and Ben clung. t "Easy, boys !" shouted the skipper to his men. "'ull stiddy Look out for breakers !" Clinging to any chance support as they pulled, they drew out of that maelstrom of death the two young fishermen. A month after this the "Jaunty" sail. ed, one Tuesday, into Gloucester har. bor. Wednesday Dan was at home in the little red farmhouse, telling about his trip. ".Mother," said Dan, soberly, "I thought I might hear something about Will at the Banks, but I didn't hear a word about Will. I heard him calling me, one fearful storm." "You did :' "Yes, mother." He did not tell her he had obeyed the voice and rescued Will's enemy. Others told the mother about the rescue. "Didn't pick up anything about Will, mother, but I feel nearer to him,' said Dan. Widow Fuller started, urged by some unknown fear. Arthur was observant. He noticed her agitation. "Mother," he said, at dusk, when they were alone, "guess I wouldn't en courage Dan to talk about Will- "I don't, Arthur." "You see, it lays in my mind just this wa, the boy is crazy to find his brother, anc I believe it was the secret of his going away. Don't yon see, mother? a Now, he thought lie heard Will, but it a was only Dan s mind a-workin'. She was silent. "Folks that talk that ray about them that are gone will-I don't know, but it t makes me shiver."' It did not make Dan shiver. When a t fever set in which the doctor said could be traced back to Dan's exposure in that storm at the Banks, Dan was out of his t head and talked about Will, but these thoughts were not unwelcome. They seemed to make a restful music in the sick boy's soul. "Arthur, he's no better," moaned the I widow, "the doctor says he can't be well again, and he's all the time a-talkin' i about Will. Can't fnd him, yon see. Hark!" A summons from Dan's Bed. "Open the window!" lie said. They raised the window toward the sea, and the gentle hushed roar along the sands,could be heard in the chamber of death. it "Hark!" said Dan, looking up, a soft, bright light shining in his dark evyes. "Don't yon hear him:" " "Who is it?" sobbed his mother. "Hark!" don't you hear Willt He's a calling! He's come! I knew lie wasn't !ost! Oh, no-nio--" The next moment the fisher-ov had found his brother and they were joined forevermore.-C 'krisnia,. Uniol,,. A Terrible Bedfellow. The Getter:.,r,., IP., ('~,ipi~r tells this startling "tory:-Mrs. T. J. Ebv lives with her husband on a farm; C 'near Mahilantatgo, Junista County. They have a three-months old balv, and the yonugster had a terrible experience the other night. Mr. Eby had been in the habit of putting the b-ibe in its carriiae and placing it under a tree in the yaid. The child also slept in the coach at night. A night or two ago Mrs. Eby heard her baby uttering a half-suppressed cry. It was soon still, however;but later in the night the d mother was again awakened. This time the child continued to cry, and Mrs. Ebytook ittobed withher. The next morning the woman was about to Put baby in the carriage again, when she was surprised to find a large black snake coiled among the blankets. She killed and burned the reptile. The child's neck was marked with red streaks, which indicated tlhat the snake had coiled around the childs throat. Mrs. Eby thinks that the reptile tried to isuck tlhe milk out of the ehild's throat. The lit- n tle one has nearly recovered, but was sick for a few days.. T1nRE is a man in PahatL_ FA., who imagines that he is a teapo~ He is r fectly sane on every other sbject, lut nothaing can convince" him that he is not a teapot, and earthen at that. He sticks Iut one- azn to represent the spout, I bends the oth.r to reprsent the handle, i makes a his'.ing noise to represent the escapming stesl, and then, if any on tI .omea near him. in very uneasy lest they I hit him ind 1:.L kf fis handle orkaao51 ilIL STHE BDET THE FUNNY MEN DO IN WARM WEATHEIR A Disability Peasion-M-sue ait AMl-A Poser on Pape-m l-' Bills-Some Advice, Etc., Et. MUSIc In Taxo x161t. Miss Cla (retired for the ai Ethel, wake up; there is the wle musi you ever beard in frot go. house I iust expected tha ChaurIeyg Miss Ethel (excited)-Oh, Clara, it lovely? Oughtn't we to drop uo flowers from the window? Miss Clara-Oh, I think so (drop a bunch of roses with great ca There, EtheL Voice (below)-Mein Gott in ve no lit on roses.-Sun. A WILt Grieved Sister-O, Harold, you 4do know what I would give to se you Swork with a will. Waywrd Brother-Go to work wis will, eh t Well, my dear sister, yeou wait till uncle dies and you'll see asD it, if the will doesn't suit me. Ti.ne AS THE ]DO IT IN nO•TON. AElderly (d to platformA , aBoston and lbay statnm)--m err do I want to taker Polite Bailroed Man-You will pr don me, madam, for answering yea question with another, IM the sboibn of the proposition depends, to a s what broad extent, on where you waei to go.- Timer. IT DID Nor cor'Y'. Ethel--Is it true, Cla, that you a-e engaged ? Clara-Yes, dear. Ethel-When is it coming off? Clara-Why, you silly thing, not et all. It's only a summer engargemes and doesn't count.- WasAingtoa Cril AN OPPORT'NTFT. "I cannot ge you s deAnite , to-aight, M. aperwate,' said the softly; "you must give me a month if think At over." "Very well," was the young man's ust sponee, "andin the mean time I as think it over myself.' t "So Reddyhas been drowned. PEb ty rough oa i famb." "Oh, no, not so baj. The family's.a right. He had a ten thousand dll life insurance policy; but it may be rough on Reddy himself." "Oh, no, he's safe enough. He had a tire insurance policy, too." A PROPIT. Custumer (to restaurant proprieta J That coffee I just had wasn't as good a. my mother used to make by a laqy Shot. Proprietor-It's the best we aen dl air, at tive cents u cup. I s'pose yom. ,mother got ten for her's ? AN UNRELIABLE .O, Father-You have given up your pi tion again, I see. Son-Yes, father. "That's the third or fourth time thit year you have left your position. don't think you would stick to9 business if you did nothing but sell fly paper." IE HIlS LIll "What a terrible clamuor that mua does make !" remarkled Mrs. Yeast, as a clam vender pasreed the house. "Well, that's his bushiness," remarksed her husbamL "What's his business 1" "He', a clamunmer." DANGoERS P POOGRApUR., Attorney-- Mirass Smeage, you are the plaintiff in this suit for breach of yam ae, Ibelieve! "Yes, sir." "And Mr. Squint, here, is the defa dant ' "Yes, sir." "Well, MmisSamssg you may tollt. court how and when he promimed t make you his wife." S"It was on the 3d of September ld sir. I went into his photograph pl and asked him if he would take me, an he said he would."'-&a Franaiso Wesp. "Vhat ? Leave thesecool breezes la a summer in Canada :" "Well, my hushband is there-sand" "(iGodnvaa The idea of his going there !" - S"Well, he preferred ('anad to S COI.LExtrOss sxw. Brown-Can yoi let me have the 55 you owe me, Robinson Robinson--Can't do it possibly, old man; I'm just off for a month's vacatics Sand will need every cent I've got. Brown (·a monat later)--How saout that little V, Robinson; can you let 31 Blavet it now f Robinso--Wh-.at ! Whiy, ma slise, I'm just lach from a hf&sths s ation! s , 4.13