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? " Pled zed but to Truth, to Liberty and Law | Rn Furors Win us and no Pear Shall Awe." VOL. M'HENRY, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1895. k. ir if J 44JtJ*'<Lb 1 •*X i£H r&\ri&jr ip PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BT V A N 8 L T K m . jWlTOl ADD PROPRIETOR. \ \ » OR^ICE IN THE NICHOLS IT |w« Door* North of Perry ft Oirsa'a 8tor«, " F CRMS OP suaseniPTioN: bj«U(ln«dTUM) 11® No* Paid within Three Month*... ...» 1 AO Subscriptions received for thHW or fix lbs in the tame proportion.. ' RATKS OR ADVERTISING: We anmnnoe III »M( for advertising liberal ill the PLAIUDSALSII, and endeavor to state them so plilnly thai they will be readily an tsrstood. They are AS follows: m<V: ioo '&U • io 1# 1 Inch one year -• I Inches one year . i I Inches one yea* - - U Column one yearn . . ft Column one year* - Column one year - 1001 ru-: One it<" a means the mssiarssLeat of on* Mh down the colom®, single column width. Tearly advertisers, at the above rates, have th« privilsge of ohancfng as often as they ehoose, without extra enarge. Regular advertisers (meaning those having standing cards) will be entitled to Insertion Of local notices at the rate of 5 cents per line each week. All others will be charged 10 cents per line the first week, and 6 cents per in* for eaeh subsequent week. Transient advertisements will be charged at the rate of 10 oents pe line, (nonpareil type, sane as this ie sot in) the first issue, and B oents per line for subsequent issues. Thus, an iush advertisement will cost $1.00 for one week, 15.60 for two weeks, gt.00 for three week®, and so on. "x ne ritiiHuuiiSS "Will wv lltsri! !j*--! editorial notices, but, as a business rule, it mil require a suitable fee from everybody eeeklngthe use of its oolamns for pecuniary gain. BUSINESS OABDS. FBANK L 8HEPABD, v w --- „LLOB AT Salle St., Ohloago. QOUNSELLOB AT LAW. Suite 614--» La JOS. L. ABT. M. D. fUBTSlCIAN AMD 8UBGEOK, McMenrv, 111, : X^ OIIlee in Nichols Block, over *iaU»«ss|*r : Ottos. Telephone No. 4. O.H. FBGEBS, M, ©- PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, MsHsarj Ills. Ottos at Residence. UJ. HOWABD, M.D. "ijHT^lOTAN AND 8UBGEON. OfflcS at MT the ersinence of B. A, Howard, West lloflenry. 111. t DR. A. E. AURIWOBB. PHYSICIAN ASTD9URUEON Office In Dr. Ohiids building, West wcHenry, III. «: Residence, house formerly occupied by Dr. Osborne, All professional calls promptly at* tended to, r. C. COLBY, D. D. S. t*NTl«T. Woodstock. 111. Special aten-tlon paid to regulating children's teetti, •ties coming from a distance; will do well to give timel notice by mail. Offlc.n, Kendal block corner Main street and I'uoiu, Sq Bra i d i n ' " f " " " . \ Q. P. BABNBS, TBT, Solicitor, and| 0»ulMls(i Collections a specialty. WOODSTOCK, IU.IHOIS. KNIOHT * BROWN, tTTOBNITS AT LAW. U. 8. Express CO.'s . BuHdlng, 87 and 89 Washington St. CHICAGO, ILL. Y, 8. LUMLBT. TTOBNBT AT LAW, and Solicitor In Ohanoe: '^OOOSTOOK, ILL. Office In Park House, first floor. C t' >C %> H. C. MEAD, JtwHce ty the Peace and General in­ surance Agent ncluding Accident and Life Imurance. men WITH B. OlLBKBT, HIA1 DlIOT. wuT UoHim. III. W. |». ST. CLAIR. jwitceof the Peace and Notary Ptibttt heal Edtate and Insurance* • « UN DA, III. ; A. M. CHURCH, ffatohi taker and Jeweler NO*On • HundredTwenty-Flve State St Chi-cage. III. Special attention given to re »,,,, palringF )*« watches and Ohronoms ters. - ^TA full vssortmsnl of Ooods in bis lias JOHN P. SMITH, . >• Watohmaker St Jeweler MoHlNIIY, ILLINOIS. A FINE stock of Oloeks, Watches and Jew-dry always on hand. Special attention glTJ* to MWklrisf.I»@ watohes. Give ma JOHX P- SMITH. w< Wesferman & Son, \ ' MOUt&, 8ICN AND C^r.lAOS -.I . PAINT IRS* K'y aiSfeS HOHRITKT, . . . . . i u n r a i i i . •f r^k - •st'l 5are prepared to do alt work In OUT line ' • t#B tthort i oi ice and gu»r» ntee nutisfactiou f,// , ' P\PFB HANGING A SPKClALTK. p." '»- ,-iPrices reasonable and w rk promptly ^•ne* WEHTERMAN * SON. McHenry, J unary 80.1894. V &'*s£y M; JOHN J. BUVH, RESTAURANT i.'. ' M'"-, BOARDING HOUSE, Hew tin Iron Bridge, MeHearjr, r hi the Day or «' Hea«on«b_e rates* ,4'HHN' LIKS or. Row BOATS AT IIT IAIDWO, #ure W'nea. IJquorsanil choice Cigars ^ C. F. BOLKY, Frogilor of Meirj Brewery, MclBENRT, ILL. on Fand with the 10c. Does smoke from your cigar aria! Like incense in the air? ; Or does it only cause a smudge v, And make your neighbor swearf Why will yon stick to cabbage leaves And drive your friends afar, When yon can purchase for a difii '. •• "Oar Monogram" cigar? IOc» BARBIAN IOc. BROS. MAKBKR OF| Choice Cigars. We can sell you one or a thousand--retail or wholesale. -r,,;': • •3, :•:v-..; -: ;• SHOULD OBTAIN FOB YOU The Best M in the Martet. That is what we are sat- listiedi to make, Tit e Beats ** R»d think we oanadd^Monatrateto you if iyou will give un.the • W*> tu ^ • opportunity. i'SKV'11, Call In and see the Cooda and ba oonvlnoed. .pi CU3 CARLSON.' ̂ McHenry, 111., 1894. ; , " WM. B'ACON * DBALEB Dt v Agricultural Machin MoBKNKY, ILL. We tiavo the m^at line r»f Pumps to be found in thf county, and if you are in need «>t one it will pay you to ca'l ami We have OS THE MYERS FOICE POO, WITH WIND MILL Buggies & Carriages Our entire stock of Buggies and Carriages «"H be sold AT OS £ foe the next 30 days, ^ , mf. If! !.ii I- • -- 1 • 1 ' I ji! • • • r A. Bingolxx'st SALOON m RESTAUR 01 McHCMRY, ILLINOIS Wholesale find Ce4all Agent Jfor SO LI LITZ lilfaitee Mfii Co's Bee\ J ^ M E B E 8 T M A D C . In any quantiry from 4| Snit* Ghlass to 1G0 barrels., Orders by mail promptlv attended *a TP A I. SO. ALWATSjON HAND Pine Kentucky Liquors* French Bitters choice Ales, Wires, Cigars, Etc I b y none but the best land Bell at reasonab e prices. Call #nd &ee me and I wil^HStl use you wet ANTONY EN6EUI, McHfenrv, 111 , 1894. A G R A N D O F F E R ! • MME. A. RUPPERT'S FACE BLEACH Mm©. A. Ruppss-tBsys- "I appreciate the fact that there a. e many thonsancis of ladles in the United Statet that would like to trr mj \Vorld Renowned Fl ic# Bleaeli, but have bean ket t * from doing so on account w * prto*. which i« I2.0U per bot­ tle. or 3 bottle*. tak< n to- KeUier,Sj.(!ti. In order I hat al ' m«V nave an oppormnity, t willsellto every caller a?aE- pleboMleft ir 25c, and to ttoiC _ fivlni? outside of city. In any Ift... A J. -r- part Of ttw world,.I wn. it saf civ pa eked, pla! ti vrapper.alleharfM prepaid, for'i'iic, silver or eiarapa. lBererre«Mofflr«eklee.p ;ap!cs, motho. salicw-. AM. htaAkhaajle ann« AAVAma /kUinnno nr rftU2ii- West Side Livery, FEED ANB SALE STABLES E. .J. HANtiY Pr op'**. WE8T McHENRY, ILL. First cl&g# rigs, with or without drivtra. larn ahftdiat reasenabie rate*- parMea taken f» and from the Lakes tn Easy Rig#, and prompt connection made with all trains Our Riga will be kepi in flrst dasn nhape. and we fhttil spare no pains to please our cus tomtera at all times. Give us a call, E. J. HANLT, West McHenry, 111,, Aug. 15, 18M. Mrs. 8. A. lfc H< mrw NTH Laf*r Beer «MMI»I '.lUUBIO* \UUIi vauwu oy Ynviai --• - - Bleach removes absolutelr- It di"»n not cover «p sconmeties do, but Is n enr >. A(",£ro*'». al* coi:; •animations or call oa A. »; I I'PKKT o,s 0 East 14th Street, Scv/ V • j U Ctr.y. A'i my prnparntInns, cau bi. ie .'it regular prices INS, Agents Wanted 1 V I T A L Q t r S S T I O S S njT TUC n A V Political Revolution of w* 1 I* ™ T » Orlf ie of *93 and '94 Biftlen for brea<i, <<0XETI8M. t?trike^, the Unemploverl. GRKAT LABOR ISRUES of the present and the future Taiiff Leiiiilation The u ilVOT Questions What Protection does tor the Amrri^an Workmen. What Free Trade does for him. A bo'k tor the honr- Every body wants it,' Prii •« only #1 50. Sells at sight Most liberal terms to agents. Send for > ircul»rs or send centJ for agent's out fliatODce P. W ZtfcGfeKB * CO.* W3 Market Street, ^t, Louis, Mo. mSAR THE DEPOT, ffESTMoHENRY, ILL. Keeps open for the aooommodatum tftle Public a Flrat-OlftM 'aloon and Reitinrast, Vhere he will at all times keep the beat brands of Winea, Liquors and ulgara to be found In tne market. pahvT'8 IQlvatini Lagtr At Wholeaale and Retail. r'-V^r- "MUm BMfift TAfgfc ot Small Kits* 6Y l^lttei al- rays on hand, oheaper than any other, qaall- iy considered. Orders by mall promptly attended to. ^ >->r> 8TAS11 NO FOX BORSPft . WOall and-aee na. Robert 8 'Hietil^ REIDS German OUGH KIDNEYEOR.^* (|onl&ins no Poison. Reid's German Pills euro Constipation and Malaria. Sylvan Cum purifies the breath. Hard • an< Hott "C4 ' S*$fl COAIil vmara LVMBER m. *.* f <' y-. YARDS iii' -\f\ WEST McHKNRY, Have now on hand »toth hard and soft Coal, which thev will »tll at prices ae low as the lowetft. We are handling the celebrated Gross Creek Lehigh Hard Coal, which we guarantee uuequaloti by any. "Delivery mad to «uit pur- cb..s«-r,- Feed ! Feed! Feed of all kinds constantly on hand. C*r Lots a Specialty. JSgTTile. Lime, Cement, etc awajsonhand. Lumber Co. M- jiiijiiiliit Do You Want t*Torlr? A steady payingjob |f \JJL Alto • with lar est house In the west, 20 years established. With our fa cilities we can make a good salesman in tw«. weeks from raw material. Nursery stock that is warranted to grow. 25 best varieties feed potatoes In the world, etc. If you warn money write, Slating age. L L. MAT * CO. 8t> Paul, MUK&> Kstserymen, Florists and Seedsmen. (TMa house^la responsible) a. :W';' JEWELER --«• OtTICIAH. Fi.est Ltoses, Fye-Glasses aiA SPECTACLEa No C harsre f r Testing the Eyes. PKBFS« T FI C UARANTEED. Will lx> af JBr TTfianlei's Drng Rtore, Algon* qnln, every W dne«day, oommenc.Ing Ju'y 11 Also, at a Se^erns's Drng Store, Cary. every Thursday, commencing July 26th. O^MUN BLOCK, 36tf NUNDA, ILL. M1?T?7ITII'Q M*xt V,#IV:-- . f p l j l l l o F r i d a y . At WOODSTOCK, IIU| flics Hotel Woodnfoob. FBBTH DISPENSARY DR FRUTH, after years of experience baa nerfectc<l the most infallible method ofeur- fug Nervous deii.llty, decay of body and mind, sel -distrust, p'fQr memory, weak eyes. Planted development, lack of memory, im- pov. ribhed blo >dt low titaiity.and all edeots ot nbuses, excesses, improper life, etc., wt.ich renders mar lagc unhappy and life roisiTtmle. _ . „ SPECIALTIES--Oatarrh, Skin Disea e», Sores Pi.nples, 4cr< fills, B>ood Taint, Eczema, Can­ cer, PilfS, and Diseases of Women We (insrsnlts to Forfeit S500for a case of SEXUAL Dl EA»E [LiUVoK Jure. Qn««ii n list FKE-K. ne personal interview aollcite . Cousults.tion tree DR. D O. FRU f M, 3B32 tMkn A*e.( Chlnagoi lAIAMTCn 8 or 10 men to solicit orders ww AH I tU for flartiv Nursery stock Fruit and Ornamentals ; also new and valu able varieties f See l Potatoes. Permanent position"; grod salary, ranging fr>m #75 t $125 psr mouth, Apj;ly quick with references, L. L. MAY A CO., St fau<, Minn. Nurserymen, Florists and Heed men. Ooitei States War Claim kim) OF---- • WM- H- COWLIN, Woodstock • - Illinois Prosecutes all classes and kinds of claim, against the United States tor ex-Soldierr their Widows, Dependent Relatives or Heir* A specialty is mads In proaecuung old ane rejected claims. All oommunioatlons promptly answered i; Pottage Stampsftre enclosed for reply. WM, B. COWLW olee a Bee. denes. Mad Is >n «t. t' eddsto CUARDSON. DEALER W BY CrOODS, GROCERIES, CLOTHING, Drugs. Paints and Oils. Flour, NutioiJte, Hats, Caps, Boots & Shoes, Hardware,. Etc. VOLO, TXJJLs. I wish to announce to my patrons and the public generally that l am now pre­ pared to furnish them with all goods in my line at the Lowest Living Prices. tSF FELTS and RUBBER8 at prices that defy competition. A large stock of Bed Blankets, Horse Blankets, etc. UNDERWEAR, the finest stock to be found in this section. The finest stock of Shoes and Rubber Boots to be found in the Northwest. The best 50c. Tea m market, lbs. Arbuckle Coffee, $1. Oysters 30c. per quart. A No. 1 Fine Cut Tobacco, 26 cents per pound. In fact everything at bottom pricee4M|d good goods guaranteed. E. RICHARDSON Volo, 111., Dec. 10, 1894. 1 st I>ay. R E V I V O RESTORES VITALITY. AVINGS.JSSn.iKSS rfCfrived and ioausd on carefully lecied real estate securities an. tas interest co]h«ct«dT A A MC »nd remitted withnutAiyyxxl * kJe ciinrgo. Loans made 01 time and toras to suit borrower J. W. BAMIIlK&Di 'ags street, KUan. Illinois. Made a #^lWell Man 15thDay. Qf Me. THE GREAT 3Oth Day. PHENOII HBMUIDY produces the altove results in 30 days. It trto powerfully and iiuicljly. Cures wlieu all others fail /ouiig men will regain tbeir loat manhood. 2nd old nen will recover their youthful vittor liy utiin/ REVIVO. It quicllly and surely restores Nervout lees Lost Vitality, Impotency. NiRlitly EIUIKSIOCP jjott Power. FailiU(f M. rioory, Wafitini: DihKaj.os. an< *11 cff'.dcte of self-abuse or excess and indissrctioc which unUts one for s'ndy busim sK or marriaj?--. J: not only cures by f-tart in#; at the seat of disease. ton« is a great nerve tonic and blood builder, bring ing back the pink plow to pale cheeks a' d rc storing tbo fire of youth. It wardu off Tusrji)!; mil Consumption. InKift on having RKVIVO, n. ther. It CM be earned in ver-t pockft. By ma; >1.00 per ] a<'k.iKe, or nix for S5.00, with a pot ive writrcn jru:irnnree to cure or refw the meaor,. Circular free. Address T0YAL MEDICINE CO., 63 River St., CHICAGO, ill FORSAUTBY i O. W, BESLET, W«t«t McHenry. Defense of the Pass 3ttn. SB, 188], the Boer8 of Cape Col­ ony gave the Brit- _ . f tsh soldiersi their Ak Laing S first stunning blow ' 4'V In the Transvaal * Vi; war. The Fifty- elglitii regiment (British), of about 90t> *riueket«5 and 180 mounted troops, storm­ ed the height covering the Drakenburg pass over Laing's Nek. Daylight broke before t^ie column started on its perilous marciv The cavalry spurred quickly up the sloi>es on the left of the pass, but the Boers, equally quick and brave, hurl­ ed them back terribly cut np against the infantry. The infantry next dashed forward. Led by Colonel Deane, they were hurried up the steep slope in the face of an accurate musketry fire from the Boers, who did not flinch when cori- frouted by cold steel. In fact, the Boers returned the British thrust in kind and charged their colors, taking one flag at the point of the bayonet after killing the guard. Although quite exhausted and out of breath as a result of their mad run up the hill, and raked down their line by Boer riflemen on their right and right rear, the British moved stubbornly on until Colonel Deane was killed and nearly all of the officers who went in on horsebaok had shared his fate. In the hottest of the fighting the combatants came so close that escape was all but impossible. Forty Boers gave up their lives within the British lines, resisting the charge by sheer phy­ sical strength, and in the ranks of the storming party the number wounded was but a trifle greater than the killed. GEORGE L. KILMER. Napoleon • In £f<: -iattllt" Jan. SO, 1814, Na­ poleon fought the first desperate bat­ tle for the salvation of his waning em­ pire. The remnant of his legions after the Russian campaign had been recruit­ ed to 70,000 men. The allies invaded France with 600,000, and in order to discourage enlistments in the battalions of the emperor circulated proclama­ tions threatening to shoot down as ban dits every French peasant found in arms. Napoleon left the affairs of government in the. hands of Louisa as regent and rode to the camps outside Paris, hoping to divide the euemy's forces before they oould unite near his capital. He sur­ prised Blucher's column at Brienne, the scene of his schoolboy life, overthrew the Russian cavalry, and by a brilliant charge captured the castle where Blu- cher was at dinner. The great Prussian escaped by sneaking away through a back doer. Napoleon's personal valor showed at every point, recalling to his Veterans tl!& bridge at Lodi. At,the head of the Old Guard he charged jthe rear of Blucher's line to cut off tffrtlfe- treat Meanwhile the enemy's horse fell upon the French at? the castle. The battle soon degenerated into an inde­ scribable melee in the walled grounds and park of the chateau. All those near Napoleon were out down, but he de­ fended himself with bis sword until he backed against a tree which had been his favorite resort for 6tudy when a schoolboy. At St Helena he declared that in that exciting moment he marked the tree and thought of the strange des­ tiny which brought him again under its shelter. Regaining the castle, he found his cavalry marshal, Desnouettes, dangerously wounded and a body of Russian horse charging to retake their former ground. The gateways and passes were barricaded with dead sol­ diers. Only a single battalion of Frenoh was at hand, but the fiery energy of the emperor made him a host in himself. His soldiers caught the infeotion and would not be outdone in sublime dar­ ing. Led by Napoleon, this handful repulsed the last attack. Blucher re­ treated, and the French slept on the field as victors. ••**>, ; ; ,i. Q«>BGK KILMEB. t Jan. 80, 1868, was the date of a spir­ ited fight between the Confederates of General Roger A. Pryor's command and Corooran's Irish Legion. The scene was near Suffolk, Va., where the gallant Corcoran went in search of more fighting adventures after his narrow escape from death as hostage in Libby prison. The fame of his valorous exploits with the old Sixty- ninth at Bull Run and of his noble bear­ ing under sentence of death called to his standard a new legion, among others a militia regiment bearing the number of the Volunteer Sixty-ninth. Pryor's troops, with 12 cannon in their train, marched past the camp of the Legion on a for­ aging raid, and Corcoran went out to spoil their fun. Three times Pry or ' s men j charged upon the Irish skirmish­ ers, finally bring­ ing their 12 gnns into play. There were also 12 guns with the Legion, supported by the GEHFKRAL CORCORAN. Sixty-ninth. The artillery took position, 12 pieces on a side, and for over two hours kept up a furious duel. The Confederate firing was unusually savage. In both Union bat­ teries the gunners fell -by the score, the shells likewise tearing through the ranks of the Legion behind the pieces, with awful execution. Finding the shots running low in the artillery chests, Cor­ coran led his infantry forward, but the enemy wouldn't stand for close combat, although the Legion and a squadron of cavalry with two sections of fresh artil­ lery harassed their march for miles Corcoran fought in defense of Suffolk when Longstreet laid seige with an ar­ my some weeks later, and soon after that bis career ended by an accidental death at the camp of Meagher's Irish brigade in the Arrpy of the Potomao. GEORGE L. KILMER. m of the Legion. Murat's Cavalry Charge at tween Eylau. The 7th of Feb. tuary is the anni­ versary of the bat­ tle of Eylau be- the French and Russians in 1807, up to that time the bloodiest encounter in Napole­ on's wars. Early in the morning during a blinding snowstorm, Augereau's French division charged upon the Rus­ sians, and while their cannon mowed down his regiments the terrible Cos­ sack hordes dashed up on both flanks, cutting down thousands and capturing thousands more. When the storm clear­ ed, only 8,000 out of that gallant corps of 16,000 veterans remained. The battle was to decide the fate p£ his empire, and Napoleon ordered a and charge of toe imperial guard and all the cavalry --4.is noble reserva Murat, whom Na­ poleon styled "the best cavalry officer in the world," rode at their head. Slowly gathering momentum as they descended the snow covered slope, the squadrons, mustering 14,000 sabers, broke into a rapid pace across the field, where Au­ gereau's line had been destroyed. Their leader oould be sin­ gled out by his streaming white plume, and as he spurred on into , HURAT. the mass of Rus­ sian horsemen, hewing a pathway by his own fiery strength, his white plume, like the pennon of Marmionon the field of Flodden--now sinking and again flashing high as the excited charger leaped onward into the shattered ranks of Cossacks--nerved his followers to quicker, fiercer blows The shock of the onset drove the Russian horse back upon the infantry. There Murat's squadrons were checked. Seeing a line of Russian foot soldiers whose bullets emptied his saddles more rapidly than Cossack sa bers had doue, he spurred his horse upon their blazing muskets. Instantly the men of the Old Guard who had elung by him through all the storm closed in behind their valiant leader. With flash ing sword in one hand and pistol in the other, the bridle reins in his teeth, he dashed into the Russian line with a fury that swept it from the field, routed as thoroughly as the mass of Cossacks had been by the ardor of that first mag­ nificent galloping charge. . • v* i, GEORGE 1*' KnJUB.:' Storming of the uSwamp Angel." Feb 8 is the an­ niversary of Burn- side's capture of Roanoke island in 1862. Landing while the gunboats •helled the bluffs and woods, the troops found the solitary road across the island blocked by a lit­ tle fortress mounting three guns The road led though a wooded swamp almost impassable for infantry, and the ground in front of the redoubt had been trans­ formed by heavy rains into a sea of mud. The brigades of Foster and Reno ohased the graycoats along the road as far as the swamp, where the roadbed was elevated to form a causeway through the dense morass. Wherever the ground appeared solid enough for a foothold the surface had been barricaded with fallen trees. On the right and left of the bat­ tery there were long log and earth par­ apets sheltering 2,000 soldiers, so that the cannon, with their rifle re-enforce­ ments, easily turned the advance of Re­ no's and Foster's men into a bloody march. Nothing daunted, however, they went on. Finally, Reno put three of his regiments to the charge on the right, Foster rushing his troops in on the left There wan no halting because of the en­ emy's bullets; only for miry pitfalls. The last Union regiment to come up was Hawkins' zouaves (Ninth New York). Stealing through the woods, ankle deep in mire like all the rest, the red capped line dashed by the left flank into the road and giving a wild cheer, which was started by Major Kimball "on his own hook,"the zouaves stormed the sally port, bayonet in band. Three Union bat- tleflags arose above the parapet about the same moment Roanoke lacked not a hero among heroes. Colonel de Monteil of the D'Epineuil zouaves, a regiment not engaged, fought in other ranks as a pri­ vate. When Hawkins' men leaped into the road and started on the run for the sallyport, he was among the roremost Gheering on his comrades, he was a shin­ ing target and soon went, down, shot through the temple, the only one of the party killed^ that charge GEORGE L. KNJFLBFC . Au.m |«* Feb. 9 is the an-Hero In »iver8ary of com- • the modore Truxton's c x first battle in the rOretOpS. good ship Constella­ tion. On that day, in 1799, he van­ quished the smartest French man-o'-war in the West India waters, L'Insurgenta When the fight opened, Midshipman David Porter stood in the foretops to signal below news of the damage made in the rigging by the Frenchman's broad­ sides. He saw a cannon ball cut its way through the mainmast Thus weakened, the mast Was in danger of going down under the load of ropes and yards and sails which hung aloft When Porter hailed the deck, officers and men were busy fighting the guns and either thought the boy was beside himself or else were too excited to think of their own welfare He got no response, so de- oided to act in his own way. Th French sailors aimed at Truxton's spate and rigging almost wholly, and for that reason the hottest plaoe on the American ship was aloft The young midshipman knew how the shots flew up there from his experi­ ence in the foretop, bt* he bravely climbed the mainmast in the teeth of the iron storm, cat away the stoppers and cleared .the rip for the yard to slip down witb||ft!iMi|toigbt of canvas and LINES. -^L^^^HbaGE L. KIT.ma CATS' EYE®,: War--al r«rm IS* ths SKNMH Human Bye. The pupil of a cat's eye or pears as a long, narrow straight, vertical black line, mal seems to be looking tl slits in the iris of its eye, < when it faces the light. InY ness the pupil widens into «| > oval. One is accustomed to l narrowness of the pupil guishing peculiarity of til 'All animals of the cat family t peculiarity, And yet, according to the: scientific investigation of eat cently made in England by Johnson, the natural shape pupils is circular. By varying the quantity of tering the eyes he has seen the] cats and tigers change from lines to perfect circles, and der the influence of atrop suspends for a time the mas trol of the eye, they are alwaj cular. The normal form of the cat's ] then, the same as that of pupil, but when submitted tei ence of light its behavior bright light our pupils small circles, while those of iU ji into ovals or narrow slits. effect is the same in either i ly, to diminish the quantity^* passing into the eye. Curiously enough, In the mals of the cat tribe, such aa i pupil sometimes behaVes ei human eye, and when bright ated contracts into a minuted stead of becoming linear. I| of domestic cats the older the more frequently does the _ the eye assume a circular form.' KEPT HER DARLING WAI iWnblaf Beeae In a Chicago ltarlng m Bllzsard. As far as herself was conc held the storm lightly. She, little jacket not longer than Her eyes were unprotected#! ring a pair of kid gloves her I uncovered. It was in a the north side, says the une, when she came in evide was a crowd inside the doori a car. She was out of sighip big showcase using the telej er ordering n oilcloth for a and three-fourths yards wl|||p yards long, and having fc ring off, the waiting messet her say: "And was my sweet darlin§| is too bad, dear; no matt soon be home." "Tough weather for out," thought the car rus. Then she appeared showcase and put a bundle < stand. From the folds of ing wraps was poked the thoroughly an unattractive < took a prize fOr ugliness hfeit show, "fhe outer covering aff­ inal ws^F a heavily quilted : broidered wrap of dark this there was a delicate covering worked with toisi? Both were of extent enoi around the dog twice. She, its wraps carefullv, BO that the tip of its tail was ej made out into the storm her own unprotected face, hands and Insufficiently jfrot body, it waa all right, her da was safe. THE DUKE AND THC A H«w sad Interesting Stacy moos Welllnffton. Napoleon was worshiped but men loved and adored duke. Of the former, how ^ kindly human traits recorded! i the other, to this day fresh coming to light of simple^ dwelling long in the mindi'gj The following anecdote coi letter lately exhumed may i instance out of a thousand the sympathetic nature of tfae commander. The letter, sayattl writer, was In some such tei these: Field marshal the duke of Wei ton begs to inform Willfom Harris] his toad is alive and welL" It seems that the duke, in th«M of a country stroll, had coma; little boy weeping bitterly ov^'a£i A strange trio they must hai the lean, keen-eyed old sol flushed, sobbing boy, and them the wrinkled reptile with tearful eyes and tl The boy wept because he waa j school next day; he had cornel feed his toad; the little racked with grief because he J darling would be neglected was gone and might starve. TSifcf heart was as soft as the boy's, undertook to see that the looked after, and the letter quoted is one of the aubseqi tins. A B*?*l Art+ele •( A] From time immemorial been one of the favorite alty and dignity. The judge was originally llnsA This is emblematical of honor without a stain. The emperors of old were almodk portrayed with garments of ' with lining to their wra; this exquisite fur. For has been less in demand, all „ „ this is so it would be diffi6q|t agine, for certainly no " " of fur is half as beaui The ermine is a small extremely northerly lati slightly brown in summer, ter is white, except the tip which is of a jet black, distinguishing marks of slightly yellowish tingefigl the body and the tail. It is said to be tate this, and it value of the genuine far. wary small, from to two hundred Ufa, foxing uaed-'ta M