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TOK» hides fata Him, and day by A Fay defeat fall patiently, And lifts a riMfafnltoniideiay, _Howeverpoorhisfastaneebe-- He will not fail In UT qualm Of poverty--the parary dim* It will grow golden In hi* palm. Who ndea his time. Who bides bis time--ho taste# the 1 Of honey in the saltest tear; And though he fares with slowest feet, Joy runs to meet him drawing DM; The birds are heralds of his cause, And, like a never ending rhyme, The roadside blooms in his applause. Who bides his time. ;; .Who bides bis time, and fevers not . In the hot race that none achieves, . v it , Shall wear cool wreathed laurel, wrought i With crimson berries in the leaves. And he shall reign a goodly king, ,1' And sway his band o'er every clime, With peace writ on his signet ring, , • *- * Who bides his time. -i{ ."4 -James W. Rileu• { FIFTY-THREE. No, my Mend, yon are not old. Though to silver turns the gold v Of your hair, and though the bine: Of your eyes grows fainter, too, And yon gravely say to me, "Ah 1 to-day l'm fifty-three." ^ . Such a loyal heart aa lies In your bosom Time defies. Ana your voice must still be jwnft For it late sweet verses sung; And your laugh is wondrouuy Spring-attuned for fifty-three. Some there are but half those yean Deaf to everything that cheers. Dumb when they should kindly speak, Blind to all the poor and weak. Older these, 'tis plain to see, - " Are than you at fifty-three. None throughout the world, in i 'Part BO slowly with their youth As those spirits who delight In making dreary pathways bright,' Old my friend, you will not be When much more than fifty-three. --By Margaret Eytinge, inHarper's Weekly. THE SHERIFF BF SHALIYHOE. A Froutier Episode. • v T j ' / v ' - • F A B T I . ; A man in the regrrranon uniform of the mountains sat on a bowlder in the shade at the top of the divide. His pony, tethered by a long lariat of raw-hide, cropped the grass among the Btones and tree roots. The man, too, had just finished al fresco a repast of some sort, and was in the act of lighting a briarwood pipe. As he sheltered the match with his hand from the gentle breeze his ear caught a far- off sound as of a horse's hoofs away down the mountain side in the direc­ tion opposite whence he had himself come. The pony heard it, too, for he raised his head, pricked his ears and gave a low whinny. The man finished lighting his pipe, glanced at the smoke and saw that it blew away from the approaching horse­ man, and then walked over to the brow of the declivity, which commanded a view of the road half a mile distant and 500 feet below. A horseman was passing over this vis­ ible section of the road, and the man watched him keenly until he disap­ peared where the trees cut off further opportunity for observation. "Idon't reckon it's him," he remarked, half to himself and half to the pony, who seemed to listen; "but I s'pose I mought as well halt him and find out for sure." Accordingly he led the pony into the cedars and stationed himself behind a tree trunk which commanded the ap­ proach at short range. As the approaching horse's hoofs sounded nearer he cocked his double- barreled gun, and when the rider's head came in sight threw it with light- : ning-like quickness to his shoulder and , call out in an authoritative voice, ; "Hands up, stranger!" The rider started, reined in his horse, and for an instant seemed half inclined to take the chance either of flight or combat, but seeing that he was fairly covered by a double-muzzle suggestive of "buck and ball," he complied, and held up his handB, the horse resuming his mechanical grit till the level sum­ mit was gained, when he stopped of his own accord, with the drooping head and heavy breathing of a hard-pushed animal. "What's this for?" said the newcomer, eyeing the still leveled gun uncomforta­ bly. "Wal, stranger, I ax your parding if you ain't the right feller, an' I think you ain't. But I'm the Sheriff o' Shal- lvhoe County, an' I'm looking for a man. No you ain't him," he added, lowering his gun, naif-cocking the hammers and throwing it into the hollow of his left arm. "He's got a game eye and a slash across the nose, and you hfein't got nary one." "All right, Sheriff," said the horse­ man cheerfully, as he dismounted. "I hain't got them ear-marks, but my horse is pretty nigh played and I guess I've got far enough away from Bender City to rest a bit." "Come up from Bender, have you? expect the man I want is down to Ben­ der. How long since you left there ?" "Abont two hours. I got out in a hurry. 1 hain't got no use for Bender just now." "That's singular," said, the Sheriff; "I don't reckon my man'll have much use for Bender after to-night, if not sooner." Then after a pause, during which he thoughtfully regarded his companion: "Stranger, tain't none o' my business. I ain't arter you, but you've been shove lately, hain't you?" The stranger passed his hand over the lower part of his face, which was several shades lighter than the rest and comparatively smooth, from a recent acquaintance with a razor. "les," he said, "I'd most forgot that, and it does kind o' give me away, don't it! As you say, Sheriff, it ain't none o' your business, but I've just had an al­ mighty big scare along o' that beard or mine, "and I don't mind tellin' you about it. You see, about two years ago land a pard o' mine went up into theJBlue Horse Bange on a ^report of placer mining. There was a pile of men went up there, and things was pretty lively for a while. There was a hard lot, that jumped claims when they could and raised the devil generally and there was a law and order party that wanted every feller to have a fair show. "Well, just off the toughs had the upper band, but after awhile more American men come in and we--me and my pard--was always on the law and order side--we began to feel strong enongh to take a hand. So we called a meetin' and I was chose Cap'n, and we gave out that there wa'n't to be no more fool in' like what we'd had so much of up to then. "Well, the toughs, they attend ed the meetin' of course--every able man in camp was to that meetin' and they tried all they knew to break it np, but we was too many for 'em and passed our resolutions all straight by a large majority. It's wonderful the boys didn't get to shootin' while the meetin' was goin' on, but tliey didn't, and after it was over they kinder stood round wiitin' to see what would hap pen. "They's most always somethin' hap- a crowd liko that's forit, wttlr sfcootin' irons and . in its belts, nit pretty soon it There wis three or four knots of the boys, some of 'em one party and some another, and some mixed, and Pike Murphy's saloon was dost by, wide open and all lit up gorgeous." "Who'd you say?" interrupted the Sheriff; "Pike Murphy ?" "That's what I said, Sheriff. Enow him ?" "I've heerd on him--that's all. Drive ahead!" "As I was sayin', Pike Murphy was servin' out his pizen pretty liberal, and his pard and him was 'round among the boys as much as they was behind the bar. Oh, they was capitalists, they was, and had their hired bartenders, they did! "Well, Pike's pard, he was wus nor Pike for all sorts of pure cussedness. Barndollar was the name he went by, and we called him Dolly for short. Fust I knowed Dolly come out of the saloon and a lot of others 'round, and he sings out: 'Where's the feller that •aid he'd run Pike Murphy an' his gang out o' camp? Let me get a show at him oncet!' "Like a durn fool he hadn*r draw'd before makin' this speech, so I jus kiv- ered him quietly and tole him to hold up his hands, and he, like any other durn fool, undertook to draw after I had the drop on him fair. Well, as a matter of course I just shot him right in his tracks, and he didn't write home to hiB friends no more. "The law and order party they backed me up good. They was two or three more of the crowd shot to once and some more lynched before wo got through with 'em, but we ended by act'ly runnin' Pike and what was left of his gang out o' camp. The law and or­ der party naturally took possession of his stock of liquors and after takin' toll all round, appinted a good steady fel­ ler executor of the estate, with power to continue the business for the benefit of the commonwealth. "Well, you see, Pike couldnt in the natur of things, cherish much affection for me, and I got word from over the Divide that he was a laying for me and swearin' he'd kill me on sight. Now, I'll say for Pike that he was a man that always kept his word--'specially in matters of this sort. It was a kind of a religion with him, and I knowed I'd have to be mighty spry when the time come. "I used to shave them days, but, come winter, I let my beard grow long, and somehow 1 never shaved again till this forenoon down to Bender. I've been knockin' about ever since, from one camp to another, and doin' fairly well on the whole, and, finally, thinks I, I'll go down to Frisco and see some folks again. So last week I lit out, in­ tending to take the train somewheres down the range., I got to Bender last night and seen the sights and slept late this mornin' and thought I'd ride out and see an old pard o' mine that's got a ranch back in the foothills, when just as I was goin' to start I seen a barber-pole, and thinks I, 'I'll have a shave and look kind oT civilized like on account of Tom's hav- in' his family with him." So in I goes --there wa'n't nobody else in the shop --and sits down, not tikin' notice of the feller that tended the shop. "Well, he clipped off my beard with hiB shears and got me well lathered before I took a square look at him, and then, Great Scott! I seen it was Pike himself! "He didn't know me yet, that was plain, on account of the beard, but I knowed he would before he got all through; and then, stranger, 1 just felt myself turnin' as pale as death inside. I don't know whether I showed it in my face or not, for I was afraid to let Pike see my eyes. Why didn't I draw on him then and thar? Well, stranger, I don't blame you for askin' that question, not a bit. it's perfectly natural, but I'm ashamed to say I had most carelessly took off my belt and hung it up out of reach, Of course, if I had a shooter handy there wouldn't have been no difficulty at all in getting the drop on him. But here he was, with one hand holding my head stiddy and the other--well, stranger, I never thought to object to a sharp razor for shavin' before. PART N. "Pike had his tools in prime order and awful convenient. He was always a quick, handy man with weapons of any kind. I thought he'd have to reach for a towel or something, but he never let go his grip on me till he got most through; and, I tell you, when I felt that razor edge on my throat it was kingdom come, sure enough. Lookin' back on it now, I don't sup­ pose he would have done for me that way. Pike may have been a murderer and a horse thief, but he didn't never, BO far as I know, come down to the cut­ throat business. But it wasn't much of a time for cool reasoning, that wasn't, and I tell you you can't know till you have tried it how awful weak enin' it is to the nerves to have a razor drawn across your windpipe by a truth­ ful-disposed man who has sworn to kill you. "Well, that waa the longest slmve I ever had; but after a little eternity he went across the room for something, and I put a twist into my voice and said something about getting my tobacker, and got up and walked over to where my traps were hung. I never looked toward him till I got a holt on my army Colt, and then I turned, quick as a flash, and had him covered before he looked round. "The minute he saw me standin' up and nigh on clean shaved, he know'd me, but he went on stropping his razor, cool aB you please. •"That you, Cap?" says he. " 'Yes,' says I, 'it's me, Pike. Never mind about the second course. I knows its customary, but there's your half dollar all the same,' and I chucked one on the floor. " 'Oh, that's all right, Cap,' says he. 'I don't owe you no grudge now,' says ho. 'You may as well sit down agin.' " 'Not if the court knows it,' says I. 'I know you for a truthful man, Pike, and I know you swore to lay me out for what I did up to Blue Horse, and I don't propose to have you do no more foolin' round my windpipe with no razor.' " 'Well,' says he, 'you've got the floor and I hain't got nothin' to say.' " 'I have, tho',' says I. and I made him lay down his razor and hold up his hands till I tied 'em w iih a bridle thar t*e (that**! atom iitaMnr'i yfitohe was>iiss* leadin* oitls<& and w»« run­ nin' for Mayor or some tbia'. Stflreck- oned he oould whoop ftp the-boys and make it uncomfortable for me if I stayed in that neighborhood too long. That's the reason why I fresh shaved, Mr. Sheriff. Hew a Humorist's ROM Were lira 111 toil Bis Sensitive Soul Harrowed. I do wish the washee, washee people of the Tftrited States would call a na­ tional convention of launders and Now, if' you don't mind ! laundresses, and adopt a uniform style tellin'me, who is it your after?" j of marking the linen that passes "Well, stranger," said the Sheriff,, through their hands. I have suffered slowly, "I'm after Pike Murphy-- • much from the diversity of talent dis- though he don't go by that name in 1 played in the private marks of Anglo, Bender. He's been regularly sentenced ; German, Franco, Hibernian, Chinese, to be hung in three different counties and American laundries. I am a man in Nevada and Colorado, besides which not given to novelties. I like variety, the woods is tolerable full of citizena' but I want it to be the same kind of committees that's just spilin' to inter­ view him. We didn't know till yester­ day that he was down to Bender and runnin' a barber shop. Of course he goes by a digerent name there. I've variety. I do not like to go round the country lecturing in the guise of the tattooed man of Borneo. Now, when I put on my war paint and sarahed forth to see whom I might got a strong.posse appointed to meet me gather the lecture committees in, I had here before sundown. It's about time some on'em was comin'along. Bein' as you know him, stranger, maybe you'd like to go along with us ?" inter­ rogatively. With that readiness to risk life for the sake of a little excitement which is characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon man, the Btranger accepted with pleasure his new-founa friend's invitation. "William Mack Kyarter is my name," he said. "It's my real name, too. I come from Pennsylvania, and I ain't no ways ashamed to have it known who I am." The Sheriff and his oompanion pro* ceeded to make themselves comforta­ ble, where they could keep an eye on the trail which led Benderwards, and I in due time the posse began to ride in, singly and by twos and threes, until some twelve or fifteen determined-look­ ing men were assembled, all heavily armed. In the late dusk of the summer even­ ing they rode into Bender, silently sur­ rounded Murphy's shop, and four men, led by the Sheriff, entered and sum­ moned him to surrender. Pike was professionally engaged at the moment, but warned perhaps by his morning's experience, he h ad his revolver within easy reaoh, and dropping behind his customer's chair, much to that individ­ ual's consternation, opened fire on the Sheriff's party. The skirmish waa short and lively and peculiarly entertaining to the un­ fortunate customer, who with, a long white peignoir, or whatever that mys­ terious garment may be called where­ with tonsorial artists are accustomed to swathe their victims, found himself suddenly converted into a species of fortification. When the first shots rang out the bullets whistled in close proximity to his person. He started from his recumbent position, grasping the arms of the chair, but was trans­ fixed by the voice of the Sheriff. "You sit still, stranger!" he roared, adding to his own posse, "take to cover and wing him if you can, boys," upon which the three deputies promptly availed themselves of such shelter as the establishment afforded, taking snap­ shots whenever the unhappy Pike in­ advertently exposed any portion of his anatomy. In a skirmish of his character, or in a regular pitched battle, it is surpris­ ing how many shots can be fired and but little damage done. Of the score or so of bullets which flew back and forth across the room only three drew blood; two of them lightly scored the arm of the devoted customer, and the third, passing through the board parti­ tions, pierced both ears os a mule on which one of the Sheriff's men was mounted, creating a diversion in the darkness outside in which mulish heels and a summarily unseated rider bore conspicuous parts. Kyarter was nearest the door, and re­ marking, "I'll fix him, Sheriff," bolted around to the rear of the shop, seized a double-barreled shotgun from one of the guards, thrust it through a pane of glass without waiting to open the win dow, and, presenting it within three feet of the discomfited ruffian,remarked, "Now, then, Pike!" That individual turned his heed and looked into the double muzzles, which seemed to grow larger as he gazed. One glance was enough. "Put her down. Cap," he said. "My hands is up." A crowd had rapidly gathered from the neighboring saloons, which formed the business center o: Bender City, while the arrest was effected, but it was kept back by a cordon of the Sheriff's men. Presently the prisoner, securely pinioned, was brought out and lifted to the back of a led horse, while the Sheriff read his warrant to the crowd--which seemed somewhat inclined to attempt a rescue. He gave, also, a brief summary of the prisoner's history, with some of the aliases by which he was known. Popular incredulity and indifference OB to alleged murders gave way to right­ eous wrath as soon as it was known that he was a thrice-convicted horse-thief, and when the posse rode out of town all danger of a rescue was over, and the Sheriff's only solicitation was lest a citizens' committee should take the matter into their own hands. Nor was his anxiety without foundation. As the party rode up the long mountain road consultations in a low tone of voice took place among the members of its rearguard. At length one passed to the front and engaged the Sheriff in conversation. Then another joined, riding up on the other side where the trail widened a little. At a favorable moment his wrists were seized, and, al­ though he struggled manfully for a few seconds, he was quickly overpowered and disarmed. m m * • * e Early on the following morning a camping party, bound for one of the smaller mountain parks, crossed the divide. Some of them had walked on in advance of the team which was toil­ ing slowly up the long ascent. Two girls, just from an Eastern school, were leading the way, alpen­ stocks in hand. As they paused for a moment to wait and rest, one, with speechless horror, clutched the other by the hand, and both gazed with pallid faces upon a lifeless form that hung by the neck from a limb of the wide- spreading oak under whose shade they stood. Thrust in his belt was a half-sheet of paper, on which was rudely printed: "Pike Murphy, horse-thief and mur­ derer. Done by order of. Judge Lynch by the Citizens' Committee of Shaliyhoe County, June 15,18.--Charles L. Nor- tan, in Chicago Inter-Ocean. my scanty store of linen marked with the real initials of my own honored name--that Mrs. O'Mahony'a husband might know whose shirt he was wear­ ing to church, and Mile. Celeste might know whose handkerchiefs she stole, and that Wun Lung might be able to swear that the collars he offered for sale were given to him by his deceased friend, Ram Jam Bang. But did these simple marks content the wash ladies and the laundry gentlemen? Nay, not so. The first laundry gentleman mark­ ed everything I had with a big black X in indelible ink, save only mjr--excuse my blushes--hose. These dainty little fabrics of silk and worsted, with faint traces of cotton, he labeled by Be wing a large white patch about midships on the after part of the veal of the same. I left all these marks on, hoping that, in connection with the regularly or­ dained initials, they would content the next washer gentleman. But he was a Trojan, and he put on a mark some­ thing like the Greek letters phi, psi. This was in Philadelphia. At Pittsburgh I had a round-up of my linen at the Great Western Satin Gloss Laundry, where the man with the indelible ink labeled everything XO, big and black, and sewed addi­ tional patches on my--ahem! hose. I next corralled my things at the estab­ lishment of Ping Ping, in Columbus, Ohio, who stitched in a firecracker joke in red thread. We- -I and my herd of linen and manuscript--drifted slowly to the Northwest, and the wardrobe was watered at a French laundry in Kala­ mazoo, and branded OHA. At Minneapolis it went to the hotel laundry, and came back bearing the new legend LT, with a lozenge around it, and with red tags on my s--ks. This was growing interesting, and when a brand of blue ink came into the plot at Council Bluff's and was cast for XOA, I sat up half the night reading my things. I am fond of literature, anyhow, and when the mental pabulum on my linen was re-enforced at Concordia, Kan., by the addition of VZ in a black circle to the bill of fare, I began to look about for a publisher. At Kansas City Hang Hi worked in a crazy-quilt stitch on me, and at De­ catur, 111., the launder had a rubber stamp, the design whereof was a valen­ tine heart inclosing the letters XLX. I do not know the meaning of the sym­ bol unless it refers to my age, which certainly has nothing to do with the age of my wardrobe. This man sewed white tags on the ears of my st--ck- --ings, with the same design printed on them. At Terre Haute, lnd., they sewed tags on everything, from withers to hock, and at Valparaiso they stitched XVH on the entire , and at Upper Sandusky I got NYX inked on every­ thing from collar to crupper. At Beaver Falls, Pa., a Chinese gentleman embroidered on all my things portions of a strange, weird alphabet wherever he could find room for it, and at Uhrichsville, Ohio, my linen was re turned to me with a note stating that all articles must be plainly marked be­ fore they could be received at the laundry.--K J. Burdelte. In Teheran. One of the most common sights in the streets of Teheran is a man seated on the pavement against a wall while a barber shaves the crown of his head, The barber's trade is one of the most important in Persia. The customs en joined by the Koran, or religious law, make it indispensable that barbers should abound in this country. The Koran makes it honorable for a man to wear a beard, but commands the shaving of the head. There are two Seat sects among thope who accept the ohammedan faith--the Sheas and the Sunnees. The latter are all Turks, and they shave the whole crown, excepting a tuft in the center by which the arch­ angel may draw them out of the grave. But the Persians are Sheas, and they shave the center of the head, from the forehead to the neck, leaving a long curl on each side. It is curious to see even little boys with their heads thuB polished. The Persians consider it a great disgrace to lose their side curls, As they all wear turbans, or black, conical caps of Astrakhan lambskin, no one would suspect the head to be shaved until the cap is taken off. Then, indeed, the appearance of the head is exceedingly grotesque. It is' evident that the care of the hair is a very im­ portant question in Persia. But that is not all. One rarely sees a gray beard or gray locks in Teheran. Even the most venerable men have dark or red hair. The reason is because all, from the highest to the lowest, dye their hair. This is done first with henna, which g.'ves it a reddish tint. Many prefer to leave it thus. But others add to the henna a second stain of indigo, and the combination of the two colors imparts to the hair a dark-brown hue. The tails and manes of horses are some­ times tinged with henna. Those of the royal stables are dyed a beautiful rose color. The use of red for curtains, awnings, and umbrellas is forbidden. It is a color reserved in such cases for the palace and the King alone. There are other remarkable restrictions in every Persian city. No Christian is permitted to enter one of the public baths. These baths are on the plan of what are called Turkish baths in Amer- The womt n bathe in the morning, Tke Prejudices M>t by a Caa raaser fer tfee fMcrtal Fund. The Bartholdl pedestal fund is nearly com­ plete. The statue has arrived, and soon New York harbor will be graced by the most mag­ nificent colossal statue the world has ever seen. Liberty Enlightening the World!" What a priceless blessing personal liberty is. It is the shrine at which people, ground under the heel of tyranny in the older worlds, worship with a fervency that Americans oan scarcely realize; it Is a principle for which Nihilists w.lLingly die the death of dog's; and fit and proper it is that at the very entrance of the Bay of New York this emblematic statue should flash a welcome to the world. The press is entitled to the credit of this achievement. Mr. Philip Beers, who has been making a oircuit of the country on behali of the pedestal fund, says that the fund will certainly bo raised, as the World does not know the word fui'. Mr. Beers says that he has found the most pronounced generosity among those of for­ eign birth. They seem more appreciative of liberty than do our native born. Moreover, among some a strange prejudice teems to ex­ ist. "Prejudice? In what particular?" "1 have ever found that however meri­ torious a thing may be, thousands of people will inevitably be prejudiced against it. I have spent most of my life on the road, and I know the American people * like a took.' In 1*79 a personal misfortune illustrated this prevailing prejudice. I was very ill, had suf­ fered for several years with headache, fickle appetite, dreadful backache, cramps, hot head, cold hands and feet, and a general break down of the system. 1 dragged my­ self back to New York, seeking the best pro­ fessional treatment. It so happens that among my relatives is a distinguished physi­ cian who upbraided me roundly for preach­ ing so much about my own case, finally, with some spirit, 1 remarked to him: •• 'Sir. you know that much of your pro­ fessional wisdom ie pretense. You are con­ trolled by prejudice. You cannot reach a case - like mine, and you know it, can you?' " I had him, and he tlnally conceded the point, for it was Rright's disease of the kid­ neys which had prostrated me, and tho school nien admit they cannot cure it. Hav­ ing cured myself, however, in 1879, and not having seen a sick day since, ttiy relative finally admitted that Warner's sate cure, which accomplished this result, was really a wonderful preparation. Had President ltut- ter, of the Central Hudson, used it, I am certain ho would be alive to-day, for he could not have been in a worse condition than I was." "I have found similar prejudices among all classes concerning even so laudable a 6cheme as this pedestal fund. Mr. Ueers's experience and the recent death of President Hut er. of the Central- Hudson Hailroad, of an extreme kidney dis­ order, proves that the physicians have no real power over such disease, and indicates the only course one should pursue if, as the late I)r. Willard Parker says, headache, sick­ ness of the stomach, dropsical swellings, backache, dark and offensive tiuids, prema­ turely impaired eyesight, loss of strength and energy occur, for they unmistakably indicate a fatal result. If not promptly ar­ rested. "Yes, sir-ee, every cent needed for the ped­ estal will be raised. Of couse it will be a great triumph for the World, butwouU It not have been an eternal disjrraee had our people failed to provide f«" tNw tvrtnon' " •:;>"\;xi Is the test of fortitude »T*g Bat we defy any Cherokee, Bioux, or Connote to endure the twinges of rhemaat'sm without wincing. These, indeed, are sight* at first, bat grow in intensity until they become unbeara­ ble. No malady is more obstina: e in its matu­ rity than that which gives rise to them. The more need, then, of attacking it at the outset Foremost among remedies for it is Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, safer and infinitely more ef­ fective than colchicnm, veratrnm and nux vom­ ica, all remedies which might prove destructive of life in a slightly excessive dese. Mineral de- purents, also, when not positively mischievous, are far inferior in remedial power to this salu­ tary botanic med cine. It entirely expels from the blood the acrid impurities which originate the disease, and enrich as well as cleanse it. Constipation, liver complaint, dyspepsia, and other ailments also give way to it. UR ; s profound impression, was hangin' up behind the door, and assers!6 ' ou,an<*a' Agents A grand chance for then I triced him up on one of the raf- , rrr , , ters just so he could stand easy.' fl[S iff 311161, u 'Now, Pike, says I, don t you hol- your choice of townships. Address N. 1>. PSON & Cp., Publishers, St. Louis, Mo. w York City. 4w 8end for particulars and be convinced that this is the most salable and . - r , i • » » it Bb,e t,°0'4 published; or, to save time. low till I m out of nearin , cause if you ^5 eents at ouce for c.mvassing Book and do I'll come baek and shoot you through the winder. I'm not sure but I'm doin'/wong to let you off this way, anyhow,' says I, 'but I'm a stranger in Bender, and I don't know the ways of the place, so I'll give the Sheriff an­ other chance.' " 'Then I got up as soon as I could and lit out from Bender, 'cause I heer'dat the hotel that this here bar- sell C yoi Men WnwtaW- "WHAT must I do," asked and conceited man of a friend who knew him well, "to get a picture of the , one I love fl&ost?" "git for your own j portrait,*1 was the replj, I and the men in th6 afternoon. After the bath the bathers lounge in an outer room and gossip and smoke. For the women, especially, the weekly visit to the bath is like resorting to a woman's club. They take their sewing and em­ broidery, and after the bath sit for hours chatting, sewing, and smoking the water pipe. When the woman re­ turns home from the bath she is full of the gossip of the neighborhood and has plenty to talk about for a week to come. I In Turkey all sects can visit the bath, M but the Persians allow no one to bathe I with them but the faithful followers of « the Prophet.--Exchange. mean4 WHOM the gods would destroy they first make drunk.--Boston Courier. The Capture ef New Orieatfb From the Century we quote the fol­ lowing from the paper of George W. Cable, on "New Orleans Before the Capture"What a gathering! The riff­ raff of the wharves, the town, the gut­ ters. Such women--such wrecks of women! And all the juvenile rag-tag. Tho lower steamboat landing, well covered with sugar, rice, and molasses, was being rifled. The men smashed; the women scooped up the smashings. The river was overflowing the top of the levee. A rain-storm began to threaten. 'Are the Yankee ships in sight V' I asked of an idler. He pointed out the tops of their naked masts as they showed up across the huge bend of the river. They were engaging the batteries at Camp Chalmette--the old field of Jackson's renown. Presently that was over. Ah, me! I see them now as they come slowly round Slaughterhouse Point into full view, silent, so grim, and terrible; black with men, heavy with deadly portent; the long-banished Stars and Stripes flying against the frowning sky. . Oh, for the Mississippi! the Mississippi! Just then here she came down upon them. But how! Drifting helplessly, a mass of flames. "The crowds on the levee howled and screamed with rage. The swarming decks answered never a word; but one old tar on the Hartford, standing with lanyard in hand beside a great pivot- gun, so plain to view that you could see him smile, silently patted its big black breech and blandly grinned. "And now the rain came down in sheets. About one or two o'clock in the afternoon (as I remember), I being again in theBtore with but one door ajar, came a roar of shouting and impre­ cations and crowding feet down Com­ mon street. 'Hurrah for Jeff Davis! Hurrah for Jeff Davis! Shoot them! Kill them! Hang them 1' I locked the door on the outside, and ran to the front of the mob, bawling with the rest, 'Hurrah for Jeff Davis!' About every third man there had a weapon out. Two officers of the United States Navy were walking abreast, unguarded and alone, looking not to right or left, never frowning, never flinching, while the mob screamed in their ears, shook cocked pistols in their faces, cursed and crowded and gnashed upon them. So through the gates of death those two men walked to the City Hall to demand the town's surrender. It was one of the bravest deeds I ever saw done. "Later events, except one, I leave to other pens. An officer from the fleet stood on the City Hall roof about to lower the flag of Louisiana. In the street beneath gleamed the bayonets of a body of marines. A howitzer pointed up and another down the street. All around swarmed the mob. Just then Mayor Monroe--lest the officer above should be fired upon and the howitzers open upon the crowd--came out alone and stood just before one of the howit­ zers, tall, slender, with folded arms, eying the gunner. Down sank the flag. Cap­ tain Bell, tall and stiff, marched off with the flag rolled under his arm, and the howitzers clanking behind. Then cheer after cheer rang out for Monroe. And now, I dare say, every one is well pleased that, after all, New Orleans never lowered her colors with her own hands." Amicably Adjusted. "Do you mean to call me a liar?" asked one rival railroad man of another, during a dispute they had on business. "No, Colonel, I don't mean to call you a liar. On the contrary, I say you are the only man in town who tolls the truth all the time; but I'm offering a reward of twenty-five dollars and a chromo to any other man who says he believes me when I say you never lie," was the response. "Well, I'm glad you took it back," replied the other party, as the tiger­ like look of ferocity faded out of his features, and he looked around for the nearest saloon.--Texas Sifting8. THE merit of great men is under- > who are formed to be such; genius speaks only to genius. "I Don't Want Relief, but Cure," is the exclamation of thousands suffering E. ST. JOHN. WeK-tfiMeiWd Promotion of Man. [Chicago telegram.] President B. R. Cable, of the Book Island Road, has issued the following important notice: "Mr. E. St John is hereby appoint­ ed assistant to the General Manager, appointment to take effect July 1. The general ticket and passenger depart­ ments will remain under the jurisdic­ tion of Mr. St. John as formerly, and all communications in connection with those departments should be addressed to him as General Ticket and Passen­ ger Agent." The above announcement of Itfr. St. John's promotion will be read with interest and pleasure by the many who have become intimate with him during a very long career. He has been asso­ ciated with the road so long that he is always considered a part of the system, good, Reliable, and ever on time. Mr. St. J&lijn entered the railway service in 1862; was clerk in the general ticket office and depot ticket agent of the Quincy and Toledo Railroad at Quincy, 1 111., until its consolidation with the Great Western Railroad, when he assumed a clerkship with that com­ pany in its general ticket department at Springfield, 111., remaining in its ser­ vice until Jnly 3, 1863; on July 4, 1863, and until November, 1864, he was employed as clerk in the general ticket office of the Chicago and Rock Island Railway. Nov. 1, 1864, to Sept. 1, 1869, he was Chief Clerk in charge of the general ticket department; Sept. 1, 1869, he was appointed General Ticket Agent, and Jan. 1, 1879, he was ap­ pointed General Ticket and Passenger Agent, which position he continues to fill. On Saturday, July 4, Mr. St. John will celebrate the twenty-second anniversary of his connection with the Bock Island Road. Mr. St. John's promotion is another illustration of the well-known fact that the Rock Island Boad appreciates the merits of'its of­ ficials, and gives tangible evidence of its appreciation. JVM from OpimUa, H PROMPT, SAFE, SURE CORE fmr CIHII. Sato Th •Us. InMkim ' tins iPrlce se eents a bottle er*. PartUi unable to a f t i t f o r t A t m i c t f J r e t x i c * t o o paid, by one doliar to IUOMEUS A. & it BITTERS. THE Right Reverend Bishop Gilmour, Cleveland, Ohio, is one of the many emi­ nent church dignitaries who have publicly adde d their emphatic indorsement to the wonderful efficacy of St. Jacobs Oil in cases of rheumatism and other painful ailments. Frozen Champagne. If there is anything that I particu­ larly like it is frozen champagne. It is so nice to have your butler going round the table and slapping his hand on the bottom-of the bottle in order to get the congealed liquid to flow through the narrow neck. The noise is an agree­ able diversion, and the act attracts the attention of the company, and saves them the necessity of listening to some bore who may be telling a long 8torv Besides, there is always a fine chance of the bottle--not wine, it is no longer wine--under the influence of some more than usually strong thump, coming out with a gush and spattering the table­ cloth or the ladies' dresses. Such a timely accident always causes a laugh, and therefore interrupts the monotony that otherwise would be tiresome. Then--and this is the chief advantage --it is so much more convenient to eat your wine than to drink it. I would suggest that you serve it as a sorbet with spoons.--From Dr. Hammond's "Mr. Oldmixon." An Important Arrest, The arrest of a suspicious character upon his general appearance, movements, or com­ panionship, without waiting until he has robbed a traveler, tired a house, or murdered a fellow-man, is an important function of a shrewd detective. Even more important is the arrest of a disease which, if not checked, will blight and destroy a human life. The frequent cough, loss of appetite, general languor or debility, pallid akin, and bodily aches and pains, announce the approach of pulmonary consumption, which is promptly arrested and permanently cured by Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery." Sold by all druggistB. WHEW grief comes to an honest man. Be usually shows a clean balanoe-sheet. When a scamp comes to grief, he usually shows a clean pair of heels. WEAK lungs, spitting of blood, consump­ tion, and kindred affections, cured without physician. Address for treatise, with two 8tamps, WOIILU'8 DISPENSARY MEDICAL AS­ SOCIATION, Buffalo, N. Y. THERE is said to be a great similarity be­ tween a vain young lady and a confirmed drnnkard, in that neither of them oan ever get enough of the glass. Important. When you visit or leave New York City, save Baggage Expressage and Carriage Hire, and stop at the Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central Depots fioo elegant rooms fitted npata cost of one million dollars, reduced to $1 and upwards j er day. European plan, Elevator. Restaurant supplied with the best. Horse cabs, stage, and elevated railroad to all depots. Fami­ lies can live better for less money at the Grand Union than at any first-class hotel in the city. THERE IS hope for dudes. A French scien­ tist claims to manufacture artificial brains.--- Philadelphia CcUL "Put up" st the Gault House. The business man or tourist will find first- clftss accommodations at the low price of $8 and $2.50 per day at the Gault House, Chioa- go, corner Clinton and Madison streets. This far-famed hotel is located in the center of the city, only one block from the Union Depot. Elevator; all appointments first-class. HOYT & GATES, Proprietors. 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It cleanses the Sjra* tens of the potaonoma humors that develop tl Liver, Kidney and Urinary disease*, oar- rving away all poisonous matter and vs> storing the Blood to a healthr ooaditioo, enriching it, reftreafelng and imrigoi-atiac Mind and Body. It prevents the growth to Sertoua IllneM of a Dangeroai Class at Disease* that begin in mere trivial afl- ments, and are too apt to be neglected as ancfe* THOUSANDS OP OAKS of the worst forms of these terrible have been quickly relieved and la a i time perfectly cured by the use of JHalt Bitter*. Do not get Hopa and Hall Pitt ess < founded with Inferior preparations of stn name. Take Nothing but Hops* Malt: ten if you want a sure Cnre« . HOPS & MALT BITTERS SAD ACCIDENT. MB. OSCAR CRAIGO Blown up by • tw$i. v^ mature Blast in the Rosendale Cement • ' Quarry--DESTRUCTION of an KYK A --Its Subsequent Removal by "t ^ ! Surgical Operation, -' <• 1 llr. Oscar Cralgg was foreman la a aataqaft quarry at Rosendale, Ulster Co., N.Y. By an W" plosion one day in the quarry he lost an eye-* lost it totally. Under an impression that the r-;J matter was less serious the local physician told J Mr. Cralgg that his eye was not lost wholly, bit -Ij could be saved by treatment. The experiment was tried and failed. Worse remained 1 for he was in danger of losing the other alao, through sympathetic inflammation. In this strait he consulted Dr. ltavid Kennedy, of Han­ dout, N. Y.. who told him the injured eye most be taken out to save the other. To this Mr. Craigg demurred, and went back home indonbt. His local physician said: "Go to New York." To New York the patient went, and one ot the moat eminent oculists in the country, having looked at the case, said: "You have lost one eye en­ tirely ; go hack and do what you can to save the other. "Briefly Dr. Kennedy removed the ruined eye, and treated Mr. Craigg with "Kennedy's Favorite Remedy" to build up his system, sad the result wss successful. Dr. Kennedys great success aa a Burgeon Is due to the use of "Favorite Remedy" In the attar treatment. _ ^ Are yon troubled with Dyspepsia, Liver Com­ plaint, Constipation, or derangement OfthejUd- neya sad Bladder, then DM Dr. Kennedy's fFa- vorlte Remedy." It wjjTnot "Dr. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy ̂terii»V all druggists. R. U. AWAM Lorillard's FREE TCl£v£ t̂e?MfcJ: ~ _ Write tor/ree pamphlet. Address THE 8ESD DROCX stood but by those who are formed to J REGULATOR CO„ LKMONT. CENTRE CO. PA. >RA1. hoi from Catarrh. To all such we say: Catarrh . can be cured by Dr. Cage's Catarrh Kemedy. It has been don© in thousands of cases; why j not in yours? Your danger Is in delay. ln- _ ,. , ! dose a stamp to World's Dispensary Medical HELL by any other ^aipw w J118* 48 i^ociaUrtu, pamphlet of I IjMC •" ' ' V - , ' * • •*'r £*****•'»* > PATENTS nnini/s-I II III • Htalking, tl Mmptea free. yUHHIiBg'.-aaaBfllg MM FRO. R. S. A A. P. IACKV, Patent Att'ya, Washington. D. 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Bach issue contains at ieaai a pace of or humorous articles, fro* tlie pea or oneoataS racy writers of the present day, which faataie la worth more than the price charred for n* •fcS&S®£?«* a really ly Interesting pai'- r ««mla^»MwWa«£ pie copy. Yon eanuot t*il to be itNMd Ml Ww ityi , tour letter to The Cfe n street, Chicago. 111. .!»?. " . V .< ' . "a, . . >. . .. •Mai/:, ' • „ ' ' . - , C.N.U. "yiyHKN WRITING TO