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A SLEEPING ELEPHANT SHAMI IN THE FLAINDEALER 4. VAN SLYKE, ESitor and Pub. McHENRY. ILLINOT' |V; ' *H£ SHEPHERDS WEALTil; *, ' % ' " *.V- ifcfr master calls a mile sway, •- 'Altvl down ti e breeze hi» ahoutlog OOOSM| * ' But. let him rRve, • The miser kua\e, : I snfnd him m the bee tut bawl .v . jTffcy cry to twoaiy-fchiee-- --v&vi Cfeytodn's on the meaai with m*t ^ . : •» r lips ao know a sweeter tone, : ~l#«r evtry action ia a voice; And in her eyes l'h-re detvly iiea 1 Bright commendat ion ol my choice," Sire's game no shephe d lad would mi;9 Clariiida's pout may grow a kiss 1 About, Farmer, shout t A lusty row I I'wi.l sti> the country-side, I \tiw! But who would part * From such a l:earc Where Cupid siyiy rap but now? Oo, place: go, pence. 1 ask as wealth To pre98 Clarina i's lip» by ste&lthi --Pall Mall Gazette. ••.t-r :"§l i,.' S ' - k'. ' tf'- J LAURAS ROMANCE. " thirty years atro Were was a grand brick house, standing In the midst of a sweet old garden, on one of the pleasantest sites or the famous Rich­ mond Hill. It had once been the residence of a noble family, but it was at that time pnly a celebrated school for young ladies. The hous$ itself was a plain, substantial brieir one, and there were plenty in the vicinity that in every point Excelled It: but nowhere was there a garden of greater Hoyelincss than .its high brick walls shut in. This was especially so. in the mornings and evenings, when the al­ leys and the hazel walks and the woodbine arbors were full of groups of beautiful young English girls- girls with (lowing brown hair and eyes as blue and clear as heaven, and faces innocent and fresh as if each face had been made out of a rose. But even where all are beautiful, some one will be found loveliest of all, and Laura Falconer was the ac- knowled belle of the upper class. She was 19 years of age, but she still lingered at Mme. Mere's school, partly be ause it had been her only I home for live years and partly be- } cause her guardian considered it to be the best place for her until she, was - I, when she would receive her fortune and become her own mis­ tress. t"o Laura remained at Mad- ame's, studying a little, but still haying a much larger amount or' lib­ erty than that gran led to the other {tuijils. This liberty permitted her to shop witti a proper escort and also to pay irequent visits to acquaint­ ances resident in. Rich mond and Lon­ don. On one of these excursions she had met Ernest Trelawny, and it is of this gentleman she is so confidentially talking to her chief friend, as they walk in the lonlicst part of the gar­ den together. - "I am so glad, Clara, that we met faim this afternoon: 1 wanted you so much to see Ernest Is he not hand­ some?" "I never saw such eyes, Laura! • And bis figure! And bis styish dress! > Oh, 1 think he is grand and so--well, ! so mysterious-looking, as If he was a poet or something." j "And then his conversation, Clara! He talks as I never heard any one else talk--so romantic, dear." ! ' Ob, I think you must be a very j happy girl, Laura! 1 often wish I had some one to love me as Ernest 1 loves you." „ • I Laura sighed and looked up senti- j mentally. j '•You have a father and mother, ; Clara. 1 am quite alone. Ernest j says that is one reason he at first felt as if he must love me." "What would Mme. Mere say?" | "Madame must not know for the world, Clara She would write to my guardian. Oh, Clara, i am going to tell you a great, great secret Er­ nest and 1 have determined to run away to Gretna Green and set mar­ ried." '•Ohb-b-h! Laura, how dare you? Madame will be sure to find it out. She never looks as if she knew things, bnt she always does. When are you going?" '•To-night. E nest will be wa t- ing with a carriage at the end of the Harden wall. 1 have bribed the cook i to leave the kitchen door unlocked, { and I shall go thro igh her room and j down the back stairs." | Thus, until the '•> o'clock bell rang, j the two girls talked over and over j the same subject and never found it j warisome, and when they bade each i other a good night in the long cor- ; ridor, it was a very meaning one. They were ooth greatly impressed with the romance cf the situation, ; and timid little Clara envied and ad-j mired her friend, and could not sleep ' for listening for the roll of a carriage and the parting signal which Laura had agreed to make on her fr .end's door as she passed it Then Laura made her few prepara- - tiofts arid sat down in the moonlight to await for the hour. She thought of all her favorite heroines who had enacted a similar part, and tried to : feel as tney were asserted to have ;• "Half-past eleven!" J \ She rose and laid her * lion net and T; laantle ready, i ut, in spite of ber t riemantlc situat on, she was really -fchillea and uuhappy and conscious of i II most unnatural depression of <:J spirits , • Just then the door opened softly, fc^nd Madam Mere, with a candle in if-;; f^er hand, entered the room. She • jj-^was a very small, slight woman, with j 1 |a grave, lovable face and a pair of i t wonderful eyes. In their clam, clear 1 .l.ght lay the secret of her power j over the titty girls whom she ruled ! a solutely with a glance or a smile. > Sbe came gliding in more like a I spirit than a woman, and putting the ' light down, said: j • Laura, 1 have had a dream, dear ' girl--a oreadful dream--and 1 am • afraid. Let me stay here with you." t-osbesat down and began in a low, trembling voice to tell of Laura's dead mother: of her pure, loftly wo­ manhood, and of ber love of her child. Laura scarcely heard her: the time was goingfaster it was close " upon midnight, she must maite an j f effort at once. So during a moment's , pause., she said: ••Will madame try to sleep now?" j "Yes, 1 will put out the light, and c we will toth try." ' "First will madame permit me to my t$9 to ̂ ara's U* ' things there. anv one." In a moment rnadame's (attitude changed; her eyes scintillated with light: all the caressing tederness and sorrow of her voice and manner were gone. Sbe was like an accusing spirit. "Down on your knees, false girl, whom no memory of mother's love could soften! Down on your knees, and let your prayers strengthen the hands of those good angels who are fighting your evil genius this very moment! Pray as those should pray whose purity and honor, whose very life and salvation hang upon a vil­ lain's word!" And, drawing the girl down beside her, sbe watched out with her these dangerooa midnight hours. At 2 o'clock Laura was left to weep out alone her shame and her disap­ pointment. Madame had kissed and forgiven andcomiorted iter with such comfort as was possible; but youth takes hardly the breaking of its idols, and it was bitter and humiliating to hear that this handsome Ernest was better known to the police courts than to the noble houses he talked | about, and yet that she had chosen j bis society and had been willing to | become his wife. Madame had not i spared her; she had spoken very | plainly of a gambler's wife and of a | thief's home--or shames and horrois j Laura tiembled to recall--adding: j "I had willingly kept you ignorant 1 of such things, for the knowledge of ; them takes the first bloom of purity ] from a good girl's heart; but alas, | Lau.a, if you will go forbidden roads, ; you must at least he warned of the | sin and the sorrows that haunt , them." i Laura was ill many days afterward, i Madame had indeed forgiven her, but i it was hard to forgive herself, and for j a long time even a passing memory of i her first ljover brought a tingling j blush of shame to her cheeKs and a ! sickening sense of disgrace and fright i to her heart ! It was ten years after this event, j and Laura, with her two daughters, | was driving slowly across Cannock ! Chase. The pretty children sat on ; either side of her, and she drove the j ponies slowly, often stopping to let j the little girls alight and pull a blue- i bell or a handful of buttercups. Dur- ' ing one of the stoppages as she sat, i with a smile on ber handsome face, j watching the nappy little ones, some ' one coming fr m behind, touched her ! rudely on the arm. She turned and saw a man in grimy leather clothing, j with an evil, cruel face, at ber side, j Supposing bim to be one of the ^ men employed in ber husband's iron | works, who had been discharged or { who wanted help sbe said: j "Weil, what is it. sir. " I The man answered curtly: | "Laura!" Then Laura looked steadily into | the dirty, imbruted face. And in i spite: of soot and scars and bruises, ] she knew it. "Mr. Trelawny. why do--" •'Bosh! My name is Bill Yates. I You fooiea me once, my lady, but you ' wiii pay me lor it now. I've been \ lagged since then--sent across for i seven years--only got back six j m hths since. Glad 1 have found ! you, for I won't work any mflire now. Come, I want a fiver to star witn " I *»A 'fiver?*** '•Yes: a tlve-pound note." "I shall not give you a penny." 1 • "Then I shall take one of them ; Tittle girls--the youngest is the pret- , tiest *' , j "For God's sake, don't go near my | children! I will give vouthe money." j "1 prefer the money, it will sa^ ' me the trouble of selling the child . to the mere gypsies." j Laura hastily counted out the sum; j there was 7 shillings more in her | purse, and the villian said: 1 "I'll take the change, too. Shall j I lift the children into the phaeton?" "Pon't touch them! them. Gb, go away! Go away!" ••Go away, indeed! You were glad enpugh once to come to me. I have your letters yet It would be a sweet thing to show them to your husband. "You had better murder me." "I have half a mind to; but it suits me better to keep you for my banker. Be here next week with five pounds seven shillings, and every week after, until further notice, or else I will steal yodt- child and send them let* ters to your tine husband " Then, with a threatening scowl I and the shake of a clenched list in | her face, he went away, taking with j him all the joy and peace out of poor j Laura's life. | She now lived in constant terror, j and such a dreadful change came so ; rapidly o er the once happy, hand­ some woman that her husband was exceedingly anxious, both for her ; health and her reason. What did she do with the unusually large suras ' of money she asked him for? Why did sbe go out riding aione? Wny | would she not suffer her children to ! leave their own grounds? Why could j she not sleep at night? Why was j her once even, sunny temper become ! so irritable? Why did she search his i face so eagerly every night? These and twenty other anxious, suspicious I questions passed through his mind j continually, but he hoped that by ig. j uoring the cbanue it would disappear. ! Alas! Thingsgot worse and worse, j and one day, atter ten miserable j months, he was sent for from the j works in haste. Laura was raving and shrieking in the wildest par­ oxysm of brain-fever; I "Where are the children? Save them from that man! Henry, please take bim £5--no. he wants £10 now, and I can't get it!" In such piteous, moaning ejacula- I tions sne revealed the secret teiror ; that was killing her. | But perfect love casts our fear and I jealousy, and Laura's husband did ber no injustice. Tenderly he nursed I the poor, shattered wife and mother back to life again, though it was an | almost hopele-s task with that name- i less horror ever beside her. One ; night, when she was a little stronger, he led her on to talk of the past, aud he was so loving and so pitiiui that in a flood of life-giving tears she ! poured out to him the whole miser­ able story. Then the burden fell from her life, and she dropped hap­ pily into the first sweet, healthy sleep she had had for nearly a year. She never asked again for her tor­ mentor; sbe only knew that he had disappeared from South Staffords­ hire, and joy and peace came back to her heart and home. j But one day, after the lapse ot four years, she received a dirty. not disturb j nonymous letter fall of threats and | Insolent demands for money* Tv is time sbe went at once tov Iter flraft- hand wih the trouble. "Don't be frightened, Laura,'* he answered. "I know the fellow, fie is one of a gang of four who have just come to Sackett Village. He will be in jail to-morrow night This times he shall not escape my ven­ geance." He bad scarcely spoken whefi a couple of men ran up to the houtse, crying: "Measter! Measter! Hero be Dimmitt's height slewered away and there's *a crowning in!"' The iron-master leaped to his ifeet and was soon following the evil mes­ sengers to the village. He knew that. Sackett was all undermined with pits and workings, and it toas possible the whole village was! in danger. The disaster was right in the center of it and he was not long in reaching the great yawning chasm, where the earth had given way and down which two cottages, with their inhabitants, had gone | As soon as the master appeared the pitmen and ironmen gathered round him, though all knew that succor or help was perfectly hopelesa "Where is Bumby?" "Here I be, measter." ' "What mine was under this?" wj "Dimmitt's, measter, worked out£w "Is it deep " ••Six hundred feef'j , "Dry or wet?" "Deep water." - The master looked blankly at the black abyss. "It's the third 'crowning in,' I my time. T' last were in to Cavall's mine. Six decent families went down at midnight; they were dashed to bits on t' rocks at bottom." "Do you know who liv6s in these two cottages?" ' "One were empty, thank God. Four strange lads that wo ked 1* Sacketts mine, bad t'other; they nobbut worked there a week, they wor glad to get shut on tbem at end of it" "Do you know their names9" "1 know, measter," said Michael Raine the publican, for they owe me tor a week's beer and 'bacca--the score is ag'n John Todd, Tim Black, and Bill Yates." •• 'Bill Yates?' Are you sure?" "Sure to certain of that name, measter, for he said be wor come special to get upsides wi' you." Then the ironmaster turned thoughtfully home, and as he kissed his Wife, said: "Bill Yates is dead, Laura. My vengeance has been taken from me by Him to whom vengeance belongeth. You may rest safely now. darling." "But oh, Henry, what a destiny might have been mine!" "Don't say 'destiny/ Laura* Our choices are our destiny. Nothing is ours that our choices have not made eurs." This is a true story, and I tell it to many thousands of young girls with just as much earnestness as Laura told it to her daughters to show them that clandestine love affairs are al­ ways highly dangerous; for a passion that is cradled in deceit i» pretty sure to end in sin or shame or sorrow.-- N. Y. Ledger. " PAS3AOE or THE TARIFF BILL LEAVES INFAMY BEHINO. After Vlft Weeks mt Blustering the House Surrenders VneonditlonallV -- Farmers Cosened by Bold Jobbery and Baae In. trljtae--Hamlltatlon for Grover. LABOR DAY. frosts Taken Care Of. , . Tainted -by corruption, odorous of jobbery, dictated' by powerful combina­ tions,"fiitVly reeking with the results of intrigue and back-door lufluences, the Brlce-Gorman tariff b'll has passed both houses. The House and the President have been ignominioualy de­ feated. After five weeks of blustering, of secret conferences, of loud protesta­ tions of insistence, the House has lain down its arms and done exactly what wa9 predicted in the Senate a month ago. It has passed the Senate bill lit­ erally without dotting an "i" or cross­ ing a not daring to return the bill to the Senate for necessary corrections. The President has been humiliated by half ado?en Senators of his own party, j whiie I have been with the rest of the The sugar trust has not taken its fire-' democrats |n favor of reformin' the n' " m he tfti dlfti}?ft Kftve kinder edwoated ^nyHeB^wlie sends me the paper. Its a ptftreo&li.'&elp toe cause I get the tb*i inai4«>fa*i*«ul'jr about what our congressmen is doin\ I ain't been right well satisfied with things here of late. . Cur congressman which if! a grate than sends me his speeches and from the way they read I know he must have tore congress wide open when he made 'em but some how the papers don't eay much about It. He's a dem- erat and I alius been one, my daddy havin' raised mn that way and mo and' hims been powerful thicks He alius stops at my hou e wnen he speaks over to Thompsons school house and it makes the old 'oman and the gals feel powerful stuck up case he's been to Washington and may be has seen Grover. It dont have no effect on me tho'.. I went to Nashville to a conven­ tion once and shuck hacds w£th the Governor. But to git back. Jve read them steeches and Ive read the t>a ers and every week 1 git a little old radical sheet j ub ished ia town and some how just between me and you to go no fur­ ther you know that blamed radical ed­ itor do hit us democrats some blamed bard^icks and while I dont let on I know they is fax. pure cold fax. He's been hoppin' on to the Wilson bill and QOSS fiijRQUOH IN THE HANDS QtF JTS FRIENDS. ft--Chicago Tribune^ to Anrttiteff Co*. Mwed or Ufa The elephant in his native wilds can be active enough and even swift, but as vtfi usually see him in captivi­ ty, shambling reluctantly in circus processions, or swaying gently on bis gieat wrinkled legs inside his stall, wbile awed little boys feed him with peanuts and'gingerbread, he certain, ly looks like the mo-it. lazy, easy-go ing and good-natured of beasts. Of­ ten be drowses, and hl& huge bead bangs heavily, and his little sharp eyes are closed for a moment; but an elephant really and entirely gone to sleep--settled down for his night's /est--is another spectacle, and one which the public seldom has an op­ portunity to see. . Mr. Cleveland Mpffett was allowed to pass the night among the animals of the Hagenbeck menagerie, and hav­ ing seen it describes it in a recent magazine articlci. "There is no stranger sight in a menagerie," he declares, "than that of an elephant asleep The huge legs are bent to right angels at the knees, and the trunk is curled into the mouth, the whole suggesting a shapeless mound of mud or clay, or a halr-infiated balloon. "It bears no resemblance to any* thing possessed of life, for there is not the slightest movement in any pait of the big bulk, and the pa ts are not distinguishable in the dim light Head and tail are alike; the ears lie t at; the eyes are quite con­ cealed in the wrinkled flesh; but from somewhere within this seemingly dead mass comes along hissing sound like the exhaust from a steam pipe. "This sound continues for several seconds and then stops, to be re* peated after an interval of si ence. So long is this Interval that the regular repetition of the sound does not seem like breathing." The visitor was provided with a small alarm clock lent him by one of the grooms of tbe menagerie, and was carrying this at tbe moment when he chanced to approach tbe slumbering giant. So> complete is the illusion of the sleeping elephant's not being alive at all, but only a mound of dead matter, that Mr. Mori'ett abstractedly set tbe alarm- clock down upon the flat bone of the animal's foiehead. "No sooner have I done sen" be says,. "than I spring baek startled, leaving the clock ticking on the ele- ItAPMNESS COM ES AFTEftYCHHS OF SUFFERING. * ; She Terrible Kxperlence of m Well-kaeva Official'* Wile--A Story That Ap»* " yHli to Every Hotter i* . " % . . i J?Vom Ihe Chattanooga, Term., j'reit. No county official in East Tennessee Is better known and more highly es­ teemed than Mr. J. C. Wilson. Circuit County Clerk of Rhea County, at Day­ ton, the home of Mr. Wilson. He en­ joys the confidence and respect of all elates, and in the business community his word is as good as his bond. Just now Mr. Wilson is receiving heartiest congratulations lrom his numerous lriends becau e of the • restoration to robust health of hia estimable wife, who has u r years been a helpless in­ valid. Mrs. W ilson s high standing in society, and her many lovable t raits of character have won her a host of friends, and her wonderful recovery has attracted widespread attention. As the Press was the medium of bring­ ing to the invalid lady's attention the remedy that has effected her remark­ able cure, & reporier was sent to Pay- ton to interview Mrs. W ilson. in order that tbe general public might have the bene'it o: the sufferer's experience and be made "aware of the treatment that wrought such a marvelous changa in he.' condition. The reporter wa> wel­ comed at the W ilson home, and the en­ thusiastic lady with becoming reluct­ ance gave the history of her atiction and tne manner in which she wai re­ lieved: "Yes," said Mrs. Wilson, "I wai for eight years an invalid with one of the most distressing a tlictions woman can suffer. Foi eis ht yearj I mcped around, dragging myself with dirficulty and pain out of bed. My little ones went untrained and were greatly neglected, while I looked listlessly and helplessly at the cheerless prospect before me and them. I suffered the most intense pains in the small of my back, and these Eeemed even greater ia the region of tne stomach, extending down to the groins. I suffered agony sleeping or awake. Despair- is no word for tho feeling caused l\y that dreadful sensa­ tion of weakness and helplessness I constantly experienced. "I way treated lor my trouble by sev­ eral local physicians, but they were able to give me only temporary relief by the use of sedatives aad narcotics. I had almost given up all hope of ever securing permanent relief when I saw an account in the Press of a cure which Dr. Williams' Pink Pills had effected. > ' - r X I decided to try thiem. as I knew the Hoo.'t rpu„„„ v or. . lady who had been cured and had great pbant's head. There has been nc confidence in her statement. I " ft la Now Added to Oar 1JM «f Motional Holidays. At the present session of Congress a bill bas become a law which makes the first Monday in September a legal public holiday, or "nationalholiday," in the same sense that Christmas day, New Y'ear's day, Washington's Birthday and tbe Fourth of July pre already national holidays. Ic tbe act creating the new holi­ day, the first Monday in September is formally defined as "the day cele­ brated and known as Labor's Holl- Don't look at j day." Tbe day Is more commonly known as "Labor day." This law is a recognition by tbe ^National Government of the import­ ance and significance of tbe new holi­ day, which bad already been made a legal holiday in twenty-seven States and one territory. it must not be supposed, however, that the new law makes Labor day a holiday, or dies non, to all intents and purposes in tboso States which have not decreed it to be such by the enactment or their own Legislatures. So far as ordinary business is con­ cerned,--the signing and falling due of notes, tbe lawfulness of customary transactions, the fulfilment of .con­ tracts to labor, and so forth,--Con­ gress has no power to create a holiday in tbe States. Though tbe first of January is a truly national hollttay, it is not a legal holiday in tbe States ot Massa- j chusetts, New Hampshire, and lihode Island. All ordinary transaction^ are legal in those States on tlfat day, and contracts made on tbem may be enforced. Tbe saine d true as to tbe 22nd of February1 in Arkansas, Iowa, aud Mississippi, and as to the30th of May in several States. The Congiessional enactment makes Labor day a legal public holi­ day in the District of Columbia, and ] places the closing of all federal oilices j throughout tbe Union under the' game regulations on this day as on Christmas, New Year's, Memorial { day and Independence day. Congress aud tbe Executive have simply done what is in their power to give to the day chosen by organized labor as Its special anniversary equal hopor with the birthday of the na- i tiou, the birthday of Washington, and the other general holidays.-- Youth's Companion. Selling «LandU Anciently, 4n many partsof France, when a sale of land took nlace, it' was the custom to have twelve adult! witnesses accompanied by twelve lit- j tie boys; and, when the price of the land was paid and its surrender took ! [ place, the ears of t e boys were ! pulled and tbey were beaten ; severely, so that tbe pain thus . inflicted should make a impression I upon their memory, and if required I1 they might bear witness to the sale. Washington's Many Widows. There is one widow to every sixteen and a half ot the population of Wash- | ington; tbe whole number of widows, as appears by the recent census report is i5,uoo. The excessive proportion is accounted for by the fact that em­ ployment in many branches of the ( Government service has been found t h e w i d o r o y f S M W i w * - , • A water from bond for nothing. The farmers of the West have no protec­ tion for their wool, and the iron mas-1 ters of Alabama and the coal miners of West Virginia are looked after. The W ilson bill is dead. The Brice- Gorman monstrosity is on top. The Bouse died in the last ditch and in the lowest portion thereof. Thu%says the Chicago Tribune, there is to be a laritf laVv which, according to Mr. Cleve­ land's letter to Chairman Wilson, "means party perfidy and party dis­ honor. " According to that high Dem­ ocratic authority "no tariff measure can accord with Democratic, principles and pr< mi es or b >ar a genuine Demo­ cratic badge that doas not provide for free raw materials." But the bill which has parsed imposes duties on coal, iron ore and sugar. Mr-Cleveland said to Chairman Wilson a month ago that tne Democracy demanded speedy action on the tariff, "but they demaind not less earnestly that no stress of pejessity shall tempt tjose they trust to the abandonment of Democratic principles. "t The House Democrats did yield to the stress of necessity and nbandoned Democratic rrinciples. True democrats repudiate the Senate bill, ani tl&s peopie. irrespective of politics, cannot be expected to approve of it. i<or it doe^tfoo much good to a trust and t o much harm to them. Mr. Wilson stated in tho ciucus that-- bad been ci-udiuU Informed and be­ lieved that ihe sugar trust hud, anticipat­ ing tbe enactment of the tenute sugar schedule, purchased 8112,009,000 worth of raw sugar, it this was tgjie, he said, the profits accruing to the trustT^om this la~ vestment In advance of tbe enactment of the Senate schedule would be at least$40,- OJO.OOO. Mr. Wilson also pointed out at length the embarrassment attending tlte efforts to adjust the coal and iron sched­ ule* The "stress of necessity" which forced Mr- Wilson and his colleagues to knuckle dowttto the trust and give it forty millions wilt not have any weight with tho voters this coming November. They will repudiate this new tariff measure not merely because it is a surrender to the Sugar Trust, but also because it is a wage-cutting, 'actor y-cl03ing measure. Said Mr. 'Vilson: The groat battle is between the Amir - o-in people and the f ugar Trust. It 1s a battle in which tho tiu«t has taken ihe people by the throat, and it wilt never end until we throw off th<8 *r!p. The voters will sen ! to Congress in 1894 and also in 18^6 re. resentatives; who will not give way to the trust as he has done, and who will throw off the grip he has helped to tighten. It is true that the House proceeded at once to pass tills for the free-listing of sugar, coal and iron ore. Hut this is merely firing o t -b ank cartridges. These bills could never get through the Senate Those interests which stocd together to force the adoption of the Senate bill will stand together this No onj imagines that after Tariff or payin the blame thing off and settling it I dont care, if weve got itl6nley enough, this fellow goes aDomg and pints out .fax as I know is fax about coal and iron that there aint no git-, ting around. I know-) what it cost to' get out ccal and iron and Im putty well up on the cost of makin' pig ironcause Ive been about the mines and furnaces workin' between crops off and on now fur going on fifteen years and I know that unless th^ey can git a certain price fer their stuff they cant rum That radical editor la it week had the fol­ lowing piece in his i aper. He said: noise or movement, no indication of displeasure, no effort to do me harm. But suddenly in tbe middle of the huge mud-colored mass, there has ap­ peared a round, red circle about twu inches in diameter. Tbe elephant has simply opened his eya It rnerelj remains open on me for a lew sec­ onds, a round, staring circle, and theu disappears as suddenly as It came." That may do for an experience; but there are few of u» wno would not prefer to pass the night where there could be no possibility ot mis­ taking an elephant for a table. Every man must know that the consum­ ers of our country furnish a market for what the farmer has to selL Foe Instance there are 800 hand* in the mines, workshop and furnaces here who earn an average of a dollar a day. At least tno-thlsds have famil1e< of from three to five each and tney must live They produce nothing to sustain life, depending upon th>e farmers to furnish such food as tbey may need. Our home market is rood and furnishes tbe farmers of this vl'Mnlty a ready sale for their surplus produce at a fair price; Suppose this market were shut off and tbe capitalists to discharge the labor? They must then become producer* themselves or move to other places. Our people cannot afford to have the duties on eoal and iron disturbed. Now how can I, although lor a good Democrat as ever Mv.d, my father be­ ing one Vefore me> how can I get i round that? Its fax. Th.re a.nt enough so t soap ever bi'ed in a kettle can wash th t out. There ca it be no g ttin'around it by our politicians, and 111 be blamed if I can s e how our Con­ gressman is goinp to explain to roy satisfaction why he wanted to put us on the fres list. Now it don't make no differences as I can see about cellars and culs and sugar and so forth. Weve all got to have sugar, and nobody but town doods wares collars and cuffs but this here iro i and coal business gives w rk to lo s of folks and 1 dont think it orter ba monkeyed with. Times is gitting blamed hard any howf and if them, works do shut down its goin to be Katy bar de door with lots of us folks I can tell you. Now for the- furst ten or twelve years after them works started and the mines was opened it didn t teem like they could git enough hands. And as fur money why l dont reckon thay ever missed payin off a toll. In season it warnt no trouble to drive up to the store and git cash fur garden truck and chicken and t ggs. Licker could be got them days by any body but taint 60 now. Wny actually Ive got d wn to a pint a day now and drnt git that r gular cau e old Jim Runnells says he gits more corn now than he can still and what with the ravenoofl and hard times he's got to have cash., J tell you now I cant vote for no radiqal cause Im a democrat but Id hate it pdiverfull if them furnaces was to close dd^'h. Elije'? Grumbins. South 'PrtTSBURG, Tenn., July 30, 1 1 8 9 4 . ' - r - . . Had TonKh Stomachs. > Not long Itgo Sam Bavmood went shooting with a small party of citj ball frieuds. When the patty reached their camping grounds ihey found an empty shack that had evidently been occupied by a similar crowdi not long before. The commissary department of the party had neglected to provide anything in the nature-o£ sj-lids, and as a consequence the sportsmen had not, when they reached the shack, partaken of food for over eight hours. "If I knew of a wolf that bad suf­ fered such pangs of hunger ihat Arc now ^gnawing my vitals, I woUl eject a monument to hi& wolf ship it Lincoln Park," said Ravmond, as they stacked their gun* in tbe corner of the shanty. One of the sileut members of the party, who had once been a pros­ pector in Colorado and who bad many times refreshed himself on the bacon discovered in a deserted shack, began to "nose around" to see what he might discover. Ia a few moments he said: '•Well, boy*, the Lord has pro­ vided." And be drew from a b:x a chunk of bam slightly the worse lof wear, but in fairly good condition from the standpoint of a crowd ol tamisbing hunters. •rtie discovery was hailed with shouts ot joy, and inside of fifteen minutes they were feasting on the ham. The second day of their stay they received a call from the owner of the shack, who lived just through tbe timber. "Say, tellers," said the old farmer, "you ain't eat nothin' you found 'round here, have yeV Helta hunk of ham here with a dose of rat poison on it an' it just came to me when I beard yyu sbootin' that you might think it was all right an' tackle it" "We've eaten every bit of it," re­ turned Hay mond, "and I never ate anything better in my life. For one, I don't'propose to go into paroxysms and die at this late hour." Not a man in the party was sick, and they all consider themselves fairly tough men.--Chicago Post. winter. - - -- - , , . the sugaf trust, has got througn a bill which gives it-a douceur, or sweet- - f ; The jn-li»h of It. encr, of forty million dollars, it will f'< would not be surprising sf the allow another-b.ll^toj:© l American people, after they taste the the Sena'e at the coming session whichi will take frc.m it a portion of those ille-, gitimate gains. > . , The new law will remain unaltered, until the next Presidential election places the Republicans in power. Till that time this s enate peea u e will have to stand--a measure which the people do not wa .t, which Mr. _ Cleve­ land denounced, and which is com*- msnded only by the sugar trust, the whisky tnut. and % tho Populists on joys of cheaper commodities under a moderate tariff, went, for a still lower tariff, or even free trade in necassAry .-articles, especially if the income tax yields the comp aratively small revenue required by^yaeir Government.--Brad­ ford, (England, Observer. Thfy Nrted Watch'ni?, very worker in a c:al mine and evWjE man who helps to produce iron „ ore from the bowels ci the earth should account cf the income tax provision j vatch any effort of the'Democratic which the Democrats to:k from them party to place coal or: which -- and put in their bill. M.IJKB UBUB1UKS LETS LOOSE. %.» Good a Democrat, as Ever I.lve^l. bat, He Can't Get Arountl " F»x." MlSTUR Editur: I have read a piece published in a paper from New Orleans. That is, I tried to read it. It do seem curious that fellows will print pieces like that whon they know the fellow that writ em ain t got no education; That uster be my 4*'ate drawback but of late sence mv boy Sam has got * i' party to place coal orircn ore upon the iree list. Importations of these prod­ ucts |from foreign countries mustUn- 'terfdie with the existing wages paid to the America i w rkers. , The first book with maps wa3 printed in I486. It was an accotint of Breyden- bach's travels in Palestine, and con­ tained seven map . one of them five feet in length and folded. •; If you are inclined to underrate the importance of small things,a consider how much insomnia there is in one lily. began to take the pills in October, 18R3, and in two months I was doing light house­ work and attending to the children, without any bad ehects or weakness such as I had formerly experienced. Hitherto, I had been unable to retain any food, but now my appetite grew stronger, and with it came back that old healthy and hearty tone of the stomach. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cured me, and I assure you-the cure has brought a great change in our home. I can now rejoice in my hu.cband's suc­ cess, for I fee that 1 have something to live 1or. Who has a better right to feel this than a mother? One thing more. I have recommended these pilis to others, and many of the women of Dayton have taken them with gnod re»> suits, and it is my greatest pleasure to recommend to every suffering woman a <remedy that has done so mueb for me." • An analysis proves thai Dr."Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People contain in a condensed form all the elements nec­ essary to give new life and richness to the blood and re-tore shattered nerves. They are an unfailing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus' dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous head­ ache, the after efl'ectfrof La grippe, pal­ pitation of the heart,, pal© and . allow comolexions, that tired fee ing result­ ing from nervous prostration; al dis­ eases resulting from vitiated humors in the bxod, such as scro>.u a, chronic erysipe as, etc. They are alsoaspe ific for troubles pecu'iar to females, such as suppressions, irregalant ee, and a I forms of weakness, in men they effect a radica' cure in all cases arising from menta wot*ry, overwork, or excesses of whatever nature. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pa'e People are now nramifaetured by. the Dr. Williams' Medi ine Company, Schenectady, N. Y., and are so d in boxes i never 1n loose torab; the dozen or hundred,, and the pub c ara oau- tion d agrainst numerous imitations so d in this shape. at £0 cants a box. or six boxes for $2.50, and may bo had of all druggists, or direct by mail from Dr. Williams' Medicine Company. Noise from Human Bones. Among savage nations it is of ten cus­ tomary to use human bones for the purpose of making hotns. and a terri­ ble screech can be brought out of these awful instruments. Tne braves in many South American tribes in the vic.nity of the Ami/oa employ these peculiarly constructed horns as in.tru- mants of war, playing on tno.n as they enter into conflict^ ana employing thair harsh, screeching tones tj ur - wn the cries cf the wcunded tin I inspire their f( es with terr r. The chief warriors of the tribe ma^e it one of the maih points of the r fighting to capture or ki.l the c icse.1 caiefs of th3 other side, not to eat them or lake their tciips, but to make horns out of their bones. Armed with the e peculiar instru- , rr.ents, they n arch a sec nd tme|j \\ against the'hostile tribe, playing thu s ;; battle music, which is to encourage v | j their own iren, on the b.nes of the • chiefs of those v.hom they march t;|>| oppose. A warrior, iri fact,-may be | tne cncsen bravarf a tribe tne day, and the next dav part cf hin mey he *" jt turned into an instrument of martial . jj-j;t music with which his brethren ttttr'" !]| scared. ut|j Thirty Year Old Hay. ^ In 18C4 James Car-, ille, whose picture > 1 4; esquely ill kept home in Lew.ston wai : described a year ago, was offered $40 a ton for hat then in the mow on hi-^-M^sfe farm in Litchfield. Ca:ville declined to sell unless he cjuI l-get $50. In fact, -1 he never would sell anything at any<w*;, ^ price. This hay he kept thirty years * waiting for the other *10 a ton. Last *| ** week his administ ator sold this hay^if 4 ,5 from the mow for less than the $10 that J Carville <udn't get and a Richmond,Hp j Me., horse is eating the thirty-year-^ old fodder with a lelish. This beats' t Homes for Girls in France. An account is given in tbe London Paily News ot the Protestant organi­ zations that are found throughout France for the benefit of younR work­ ing girlsi who have to provide their own home. The International Union of the Friends of Young Women has founded in various towns in France twenty one homes, where young women are lodged and fed cheaply, and can enjoy many social pleasures. In Par s there is the Christian Asy­ lum for domestic servants, and the temporary asylum for Protestant women, where for a small fee women may lodge and board wh^n out of work. These is, also, in Paris, a workshop for unemployed working- j RLp Van Wink e and tne seven sleep? v is eiv.-^Lewiston Journal. ' " " y. women, where plain needlework found and well paid for. Paris has a club for shopgirls, which is open every afternoon and evening, where lessons in English and music are given gratuitously. At this bouse the average daily attendance is be­ tween thirty and forty. There is, also, a convalescent home for Prot­ estant young women near tbe Bois de Boulogne, where they are all allowed to stay ror three weeks at a tim& With a few exceptions, these char­ itable institutions, though primarily intended for Protestants, art not ex- xlusively sectarian. - •! „ "tat ' H&I *' -• % m Wrongly Samel. In an old church register there are several entries which show that the unneces ary trials of tome children be­ gin almost with their lives: 17SMJ, Jan-,* l j| uary IT, Charles, daughter of John and [4| Betty Haine>. This child ought to • i "f have been christened* Charlotte, but, \'4 owing to a mistake of the sponsors, it f was wrongly named. 1791, July 13,- William, daughter of William and-, Sarah Weiddick. N. B.--It was in-, tended that the child, being a girl, J should have been christened Maria,. 1 but through a mistake of the godfather - ^ it was named William. * V* Hf";1 'zJ k .15* \ lb** V it - i .jL&jflft; „v.