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!•' -'.w1--' TTTTT" r" V • Jk «UESTI05 AND ITS AH8WB. - -if--, ' '» •• 5-'VS f - -- niAUUKC.I. , . *thfc sunset of life fctves myBtlcillore-'" , venerable btker, ere thou lesvata Mra% i tky mind la illumined (and fieed fw® ID r light late given from the heavenly sphere, "1 mas J pray, why earth is *U than**, awi .nothing is fentaurat which e*«r mmeth 'Iff ' itnoge. •K **• its bead. mighty, but chante is marked there On its eurf-beaien rocts and its beach hut and bare; • riW10 rainbow fe gortreotis--It stays not an bow-- * f Jjnd how transient the bloom of the loveliest flower! :«:• *lte swallows and martins that build in the wall Jfcre the winter is with ns arc flown one I ad all. there no Utopia where mortal*1 fond dreama re realized ever and life's what it seems t roses are brighter and sweeter .each morn, bloom is perpetual, with never a thorn? dear one* we love and clasp to oar heart >m our fond keeping shall never depart? affection i* truly an amaranth Sower, glow grows warmer and purer each hour? ere friends are mil true and never betr»y. Anddisoord comes not to darken our way? Where mortals ne'er pay {or that sad primal And is "the trail of the serpent over ns all?" In reply so promptly spoken, i-vty-iL;-; A* hia eye now gave the taken That his soul Must meet it* goal, hat the hour supreme was e tersely said, in tones of & if .» ,, f Daughter, why this change deplMttt 1' -¥ VJ)eath"s the only, only door ' J . Unto the land of bliss; ' v" Death is natural os our birth, y \ , • £.-; ^ •*>£• >f Trogrcssi ve as our ife on *erth jC-: &&U' Believ«;th thou this? . _ ^ ]tmm without a thorn, 'adeless flowers, earthly lion, Are but dreams But where eternal suocuner lies, S » , Bfljond the gates of paradise, f > All is what it seems." «, Ark. **•!?>.'• b FIOBIT WITH WOLYES*:' i• One of the most muscular, powerful- limbed settlers on the old New York frontier, a century since, was Henreioh Kaupman. His arms were like piston- rods, and he could drive his huge, mal- fet fist with snoh a tremendous momen- *|am as to fell an ox as if stricken by a thunderbolt. It is said that he was once caught by two iron-muscled Mohawks, each armed frith knives, while Henreich had neith­ er ; yet at the first onset he fractured ihc skull of the foremost Indian, and tfore the second one to the earth as .if lie was nothing but an infant. That . Indian never resumed the perpendicular ffgain. All this is by way of introduction to sn adventure tLat Kaupman once had frith a pack of wolves, and which came iea»fally nigh having a fatal result for kim. | The winter of 17-- was an unusually severe one throughout the JJorthern --States, and many deaths from exposure ~Snd starvation occurred before the opening of spring. The wolves, bears ftnd other wild animals became nearly famished from hunger, and, as a conse­ quence, were unusually fierce and cour­ ageous. They came down from the giountains, and woe to the sheepfold that was left unprotected during the : flight. They were sure to be invaded $y the starving animals, and not a sheep #ould live to tell the tale. < There were tracks around the barns, Where the wolves had trotted all night >|n their search for some means of entrance; their howls could be heard through the still, cold hours, and more than one housewife had been chased to Iter very door for imprudently ventur­ ing out after nightfall. Many of the settlers sat in the upper Jtories of their homes, and amused themselves by shooting the wolves, for Whose scalps the Government had a Standing bounty of several shillings. ^ Henreich Kaupman remained at ttome, only venturing forth to attend to Ids dumb animals and see that they Were properly protected during the Slight. But after a while his stock of groceries became low, and finally gave >ut altogether. True, be and his fern­ s' could live upon, the poultry, sheep #nd animals they owned, but it was father unpleasant to be without tea, «offee, sugar, salt and many other arti­ cles that were more necessities than ;||hey were luxuries. By this time, too, the roads baa been traversed so much that they were thor­ oughly broken, and Henreioh concluded to harness up bis mare to his sled and to the village, about four miles tant, and procure the articles which lie so much needed. With a want of foresight which he could never explain, he started out upon Ids journey without any weapon, except «, keen-edged hatchet, which was carried in case the sled should give out. In Ids house hung his trusty rifle, but neither he nor his wife seemed to im­ agine that there would be any call for it, and he drove cheerily away, bidding bis wife a merry good-by as the mare went at a spanking gait down the road toward the village. The latter place--which might more properly be termed a settlement--was leached in due time, the (groceries all fought, and everything was m readiness |o start homeward. Henreich had been storm-bound so ^ ng in his house that he found the Companionship of his friends at tiie vil­ lage tavern extremely agreeable. There was so much to talk about, so much news to listen to, such a quantity of gossip regarding the affairs of the neighborhood, that the time slipped un- .eonsoiously by, until, when he arose to «o, he found it was almost darit. Still lie had no fears, as his wife would nn- . fierstand that he had remained at the village, and there was no necessity of liis immediate return. As he turned homeward and left the Tillage behind him, and noticed that the dim light by which he was traveling belonged to the moon, it flashed upon ' him that perhaps he would encounter -danger before reaching home, and he regretted for the twentieth time that he had left his ride behind. The road, d«3p between the drifts of enow, was of just sufficient width for the little mare and sled, and the spirit­ ed little animal went forward at a swift & I, of the sled. He was half asleep and half conscious when he became sensible of a rapid in­ crease in the * motion of the sled. He felt it jerk several times beneath him, 1 Hud all at orce a fiercer jerk than usual, P accompanied by a neigh of terror, ef- kSS Jfectually aroused him, and he sat bolt , upright and looked around. He looked gV ' -jin front; all wore its wonted appearance; / * ' ^ wild, straggling piece of wood stand- ing two feet deep in snow; the narrow Ippj-^rack twisting through it; the heavens, I'/; , cold and clear, the earth white; but 'J'-\ '.elose behind the sled were three gaunt fn/' animals, cantering heavily, while a , fourth was fast gaining behind. The jaws of the leading wolf, o*ing to the lowness of the sled, were within reach of Henreich's shoulder. But the latter cared little for this. The brutes were after the mare, and npan her oourage and fortitude depended the es­ cape of herself and matter. If the alarmed creature could have the nerve to keep steadily onward in the track she had a good chaaee of eladinjc her pursuers, for the moment the wolves sprang outside the road tc pass the sleigh, the depth of the snow so diminished their speed that they fell behind. But should the mare, in her terror, spring aside and plunge into the snow, Kaupman knew it was all up with both of them. Such a proceeding would disentangle her from the sled; and, before she could flounder a dozeu yards through the snow, the wolves would be tearing her to shreds. Henreich leaned forward and spoke kindly to his animal, which raised her ears that were flat with terror, and fell into a more even pace. He then turned, and, brandishing his keen-t dgedhatchet, shouted to the brutes, but it did not discomfit them in the least. Beaching forward he patted his mare with the hand that he!d the reins, while he held the hatchet with the other, and kept his eye upon the fero­ cious beasts. However, he did not use the weapon, for the closer the wolves kept to the sled, the less they were seen by the horse, and, as a consequence, there was the less probability of her terror becoming uncontrollable, and her breaking aside from the path. So long is«s matters remained in their relative position, Henreich felt that all was going welt If, was not long before the wolves dis­ covered that there was little prospect of Success so long as they remained in the track, and they now began springing aside and attempting to get abreast of the horse. In every instance they fell behind; but each effort revealed them to the terrified mare, that had no blink­ ers, and the furious plunges she made filled Henreioh with the greatest anx­ iety. One of the wolves was very large and straight-limbed, and showed a speed superior to the rest. More than once, when he sprung out into the snow, he advanced nearer abreast the horse than did the others. Upon this gaunt creat­ ure Henreich fixed his eye, and caught the green light that played from his eyelids. By-and-by the snow became flatter, and the huge wolf again sprung aside. The speed of these animals is extraor­ dinary, and he gained rapidly. Hen­ reich waited until he got just abreast, when, rising in his seat, he circled the hatchet over his head and brought it down with the quickness of lightning. The head of the wolf was clef „ in twain, and with a dying yelp he doubled over in the snow, and was quickly left be­ hind. One of the dreaded animals was dis­ patched. There were three left as furi­ ous for blood as ever, and these never abated their speed in the least. Had they got a taste of the blood of their companion they would have gagged themselves on him before seeking the horse; but he whisked off the stage of life so suddenly that they scarcely noticed his absence. The distance from home was rapidly diminishing between the quick steps of the mare, which continued to carry the sled at full speed, until the fear of over­ turning became again a source of anx­ iety. Henreich, too, had learned by this time that these were no ominary animals with which he had to deal, but sharp-set, fiercely courageous and tie-' termined brutes, te which man or beast would be alike welcome, their prefer­ ence, however, as manifested by their actions, being for horseflesh. These were not the animals to be frightened away by the sight of a man's house, and there was a bad open space between the outskirts of the iorest and Henreich's home, to which he looked with no little apprehension. They had now approached the very edge oi the wood, and the wolves began gaining on each side. The terror- stricken horse became uncontrollable, and, bounding terrifically forward, caught the sled against the stump of a tree, overturned it, and galloped away at a full run, leaving Henreioh alone in the snow. Belore he could rise, he felt the brutes clawing at his throat, but his garments were so thick that he was saved from injury, and, rising to his feet threw them oft. His hatchet had been jerked out of his hand as he fell, and he looked desperately aroond for it, bnt it was not to be found. By this time the a are was almost out of sight, and two of the wolves were up­ on tne defenseless man, and the other, deserting the animal, bounded back. Henreich faced the foremost, and the next moment was surrounded. The powerful man now called into play all the strength for which he was so renowned. He struck furiously at the leaping, snarling brutes, and flung them off when they attempted to cling to him. Had he possessed a weapon, even a club, it is not impossible that he would have saved himself. One blow, with a club in his hands, would have cracked the skull of the largest brute, and with a knife he could have ripped them open. Bnt there was no hope, fighting with his naked hands. His blood had al­ ready dyed the snow, and the smell and taste of it made the brutes furious. Their lithe, heavy bodies were iinrled against him, as if impelled by some power not their own, and finally they polled him down. The sweets of this earth, the mystery of heaven, swept through poor Hen­ reich's mind; nay, in those brief, ter­ rible moments, the particulars found time to intrude. It is often, very often, thus an the moment of death. He thought how his devoted Mary would watch through the vigil--how his mangled remains would tell his fate in the morning--a life's despair for the mother of the helpless little ones. All these things rushed through his braiu, and he knew that he himself was in the jaws of the wolves* Then those foul, lurid eyes glared over him; the tightening of the throat followed, and thinking was finished. Still he struggled to release his arms -- the grasp on his throat was choking him; his senses reeled; when, like the whizzing of a meteor, another hard- breathing Mimal shot in among the assailants and fastened itself on the chief. The wolves for an instant relaxed their fury; Henreich reeled giddy to his feet, and recognized his brave dog. For a moment he stood bewildered, when he saw the wolf retreating, and the other two attacking his dauntless dog. He turned to help him, and a bright object caught his eye; it was his hatchet lying on the snow, within an arm's length of the last terrible strug­ gle. Henreich snatched it up, and was himself again. His arms were bleeding, bat their giant strength remained. The next in­ stant he hail split the skull of one of the wolves, and now he turned, liae the madman that he was, upon the fierce animal that had borne his faithful dog to the ground. The first blow laid bare the gaunt backbone, the next gave his throat a terrible gasb, and the third loosened his fearful grtpe upon the dog. Still he struggled fiercely,when Henreich sprang upon the animal, and cut And hacked and slashed until the wolf was mince­ meat. As he arose, a hand Was on his shoulder, and, turning, a hand was on his bosom. . •• - ' * Henreksh!" ^ 4 ^ Long did the p^pfe st^t^in speechless embrace; but the weaker supported the strong; for Henreich's manly nerves were gone, and he leaned npqn Mary, like a helpless child. The arrival of the frightened horse aroused the wife, and the moment she opened the door the dog rushed forth, led by his kindly instinct. Mary fled wildly after him, not pausing to bring the rifle. But this, it has been shown, was OQt needed. . . U . a i i I The Waste by Fires. If there be any virtue in the old pro­ verb, "Willful waste makes woful want," the citizens of these United States ought to heed the warning emphatical­ ly given them in the record of losses by lire. This record shows that, over $353,- 000,000 worth of property--products of the brain and brawn and industry of our people--was wasted by fire during the last five years. The losses by fire in the United States during 1879 exceed by many millions of dollars similar losses during 1878,77, 76, and fall short by less than $400,000 of the losses recorded in 1875, notwith­ standing that in the month of October of that year Virginia City, Nev., was visited by a conflagration tLat destroyed $6,000,000 worth of property. The losses to insurance companies last year were in excess of those of any of the four previous years. These losses amounted in 1875 to $39,325,400; in 1876, to $34 374,500; in 1877, to $39,- 398.900; in 1878, to $36,575,900; and in 1879, to $44,464,700. The destruction of special hazards and the losses there­ by to the insurance companies pro­ gressed in a similar proportion to this. In Canada the losses for each year varied^ widely. In 1876 and 1877 the Dominion was visited by no less than five large conflagrations; while in 1878 and 1879 the largest aggregate losses for one month amounted to $1,257,300. Of course the losses to insurance com­ panies for each "year varied in a like proportion. The number of fires has been gradu­ ally and surely increasing each year. In* 1870, for instance, the number of fires, each of which caused a loss of $100 and upward, was 9,391. Last year the number of similar fires reached 12,849, or an average of about one fire in every forty minutes. There is not a Bhadow of doubt that a large proportion of these fires might have been prevented. Poorly construct­ ed buildings, carelessness qn the part of occupants, and incendiarism are the principal causes of fire. Were these oauses remedied or removed, fires would be "few and far between;"--Insurance Chronicle. Overwork--The Breakdown. I met a man some time ago who used t6 travel in business, and almost passed his life upon the rail. He came home one evening, and, walking across his dining:room, he staggered like a drunken man. Uncharitable people, who ^lid not know his habits, might have thought bim intoxicated. He sank on his chair, and he was a pris­ oner in his chair all the rest of his life. He was completely paralyzed in his lower limbs. The incessant traveling on the rail had at last proved too much for his nervous system. Hence the collapse; and I have a strong impres­ sion that other CDllapses jpaiglit be traced to a similar source. T knew of a lawyer who was in a great rush of business. He liked his fees; but, like all men who succeed, he liked business thoroughly for its own sake. He was unable to refuse business, and, indeed, to refuse business is the hardest trial which can happen to any professional man. His mistake was, that he did not provide himself with adequate assist­ ance. The ill-treated brain took to softening, and then all business came to an end. I knew of a man who was enormously wealthy. In addition to the constant employment which his own vast property gave him, he was trustee for ever so many widows, or­ phans and charities. He worked hard at accounts till the small hours in the morning. A boy clerk, at 15a. a week, might have done it all for him. But he preferred "doing his own werk himself," and accordingly he had to quit this inferior existence, where such a condition of things is not always pos­ sible. One of the best-known men in the country once told me that he was going to take a six weeks' holiday at the seaside. I was rejoiced to hear it. No man better deserved or more re­ quired such a holiday. Then he told me that he was going to take his new book with him to the sea-side, and hoped to have it ready for publication by the time his holiday was over. I expostulated with him. I explained that he was only exenanging one kind of hard work for a still harder kind of hard work. But he took the advioe of what is often a man's worst counselor .--himself. His book was successful; bnt he never knew of the London Society. Kings by 31 ail. Don't send a wedding ring or a ring for a' present for your lady friend through the mail; or, if yon do, pack it so there will be no danger of losing it. The Providence Journal tells of a case of remarkable carelessness in this respect: A letter was received at this post- office, for a firm in this city, under cover of an official postoffice envelope. The reason for this was obvious. The let­ ter came from a manufacturing jeweler in New york, and contained what ap­ peared to be a fine gold ring set with a quite large stone. The stone and its settings were five-eighths of an inch across in tbe direction opposite the ring; the natural consequence is, that either the ring must lie horizontally in the letter and the stane stand perpen­ dicularly, or vice versa. Naturally the ring, being the largest, remained hori­ zontally. While the letter was in the postoffice at New York, probably when stamping the letter, the stone cut through the envelope and cut a hole large enough not only to show what was in it, but to allow the ring to come out en­ tirely. So the officers put on a strong hold on, of the the ring the Gov- 6overaiiiiten' the ringtiBit and forwarded it Postmaster. On out its way r ernmeni envalope, tH|t mail t escape, though it fell out od this letter when the onte* envelope »ed. And yet we wonder that vafodbfea aM sometimes loaf in the mails. , ALT* SORTS*' * ' ^ HSXR dye induced fatal paralysis in a man at Beartown, Pa. THE Bible in the original Greek is read in the public schools of Greece. A PRUSSIAN grave-digger has been arrested for roasting bodies and selling their fat. THE debts of English towns and oities for sanitary imprc^remefats amount to $230,000,000. JOHN CANTBELUS Texas stage robber, has just been awpfttced to ninety-nine years' imprisonment. MR. MACTKAE has fomnd out for him­ self that the crystals he obtained are not diamonds, after all. THE cost of the Hayden trial is esti­ mated at over $36,000. The jurors re­ ceived about $200 each. THE census of school children in California shows 216,404 in 1879, an in­ crease of nearly 11,000 over 1878. BLOXDIN is coming back to America, and probably will repeat his feat of crossing Niagara on a rope. THE Boston Watchman says a reli­ gious novel is nauseating, and wants its religion and romance on separate dishes. TURKEY'S territorial loss is estimated by a German authority as a territory almost as large as Prussia proper, with a population of 11,000,000. A YOUNG man in Bridgeport, Va.,thus answered an invitation from a lady .to attend a leap-year party: " Deer Miss, yours reseeved--I tumble." GKRTY HOKMEII, a 15-year-old girl o Leadville, secretly got married to two fellows, and then killed herself with ison because her parents criticised fftraage FeoA. Some soore or so of contributors to _ journal dined one ham and heart of a lion. killed sporting tifeliami JOHH M. ItesarAxls Is aew in Europe poise her. killed by Constant Oheret, in Algeria, Tbe flesh of the lion was found to be particularly firto and eWgrained. like that.ofa horse, trot although pro«otnj<*d palatable, it only achieved what is termed 'a success d'estime, while the heart, skillfully prepared with tnsffies, Was unanimously voted tough and indi­ gestible. In fact, the French journal­ ists were not much better pleased with their fare than was Bruce, the traveler, when the guest of the Arab tribe of Welled Sidi Boojanim, " the sons of the fathers of the flocks," bou£$ by vow to eat lion's flesh once every dsjy; fa# the traveler found male Hon meat leatt, tough, and musky in fla^br, lioness meat a trifle fatter and more palatable, and whelp fieah the nastiest, of the three. Mindful that an unlooked-for pleasure is thrice welcome, Frank Bnckland did not advise his guests-on a certain occa­ sion that they were about to enlarge their gastronomic experiences, but when the soup had been disposed of asked a famous gourmand sitting near him bow he liked it. "Very well, indeed," was the answer. " Turtle, is it not? I only asked because I did not find any green fat." Bucklamcl shook his head. " I fancied it had a somewhat musky taste --peculiar but not at all unpleasant^" remarked his neighbor. " All alligators have," replied the host, " the e&yinfeD, especially---the fellow I dissected this morning, and which you have just been discussing." Half a dozen of the sud­ denly-enlightened diners suddenly started to their feet, two or three slunk from the room, and the rest of the meal was enjoyed by only a portion of the original «ompany. " See what imagi­ nation ip," said Buck land. " Had I told them it was turtle, or terrapin, or bird's- nest soup, or the gluten of a fish from the maw of a sea-bird, they would have pronounced it excellent, and their di­ gestion would have been none the worse. I tell them that it is alligator soup, and their gorges rise at as good a dish as ever a man need have 1" Fore­ warned, and, therefore, forearmed, were the gentlemen who lunched on the oc­ topus at the Brighton aquarium, trying it in turn boilei, broiled, and cold. They found it excellent eating, resem­ bling skate, but not so tender as might be. The verdict would probably have been still more favorable had the octo­ pus been boiled first and then roasted, as is the way in Corsica, where the monster is esteemed a moat delicacy. --Chambers' Journal. Washington as a ftremaa. In 1774 the Friendship Fire Com­ pany* which Hfcill exists, was organized. It at first consisted of citizens who, out of "mutual friendship," agreed to carry to every fire " two leathern buckets and one great bag of oznaburg or wider Jinnen." Washington was made an hon­ orary member, and when he went as a llelegate to the Congress of 1774, at Philadelphia, he examined the fire en­ gines in use there. On his return to Philadelphia to the Continental Con­ gress in 1775, he bought from one Gibbs a small fourth-class engine for £80 10s., and just before he set out for Boston heights to become Commander-in-Chief he dispatched this little engine to the Friendship Company. When in Alex­ andria in his younger days he always attended at fires, and assisted to extin­ guish them. In the last year of his life a fire occurred near the market. He was riding down King street, fol­ lowed by his servant, also on horseback, and he saw the Friendship engine poor­ ly manned. Biding up to a group of well-dressed gentlemen near by, he called out: "Why ere you idle there, gentlemen ? It is your business to lead in these matters." And, throwing the bridle of his horse to his servant, he leaped off and seised the brakes, fol­ lowed by a crowd that gave the engine snoh a "shaking up" as it never knew afterward.--Wm. F. Came, in Mar- per"» Magazine. THtKAT RUtlHMMM TBE TOTS Perfectly, •!»Oitt»*frC0ftT«rs*«lm,Lactam. Co*- certs, etc* br New Channel to th«NervesofXk»rifif byntsnw* rMfMtwondwftil scientific inrenttoa --tbsDentaphone, For remark*bl« jxibltc tests m the Deaf, al«o on the DMT MM Imam, see tbe Mem ¥o>*HaxiM,Sept. 28; TBTJTM Ifer*CftrMia« .44M- eale. No*.9», etc. BVtry (leaf peraon sboold asn4 for nn Uioswated descrlptiv* puqsMet to tbe hMN <)•>> Cliicuuuui, Ohio. Worthier Staff. 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AN interesting French J>lue-book has been found, showing that the Jesuits, thongh thrice expelled from Franoe, hold prosperous establishments in fifty- one of its eighty-one departments. THE Cossacks number 4,309 offioers and 152,514 men. They render military service without remuneration, in lieu of paying taxes, and havcasmaU allowance in lieu of rations, together with their arms and ammunition. BLIND TOM, when at his Georgia home, remains alone with hi8 piano, in a building apart by himself, and plays day and nitrht like a madman. He now plays about 7,000 pieces, and picks up new ones everywhere. OXK tlm»' I wrote » beautiful verse; It was quite musical, cute and terse. 1 said to my lady-lt-ve, one day. " I'll »ay my verse if a kiss you'll pay; Von know you already have tuy heart. And I'd like a kiss lietore i start."' I *rot the bisF, for bi'ttor or worse. But, lo! I'd already ssid my verne. EBN-I:ST FRANK. THE capital employed in British rail* roads is a little less than $3,500,000,000. It is administered by 224 distinct com­ panies, some of which pay no dividend, while others are hopelessly insolvent. As a rule, the smaller the company the less profitable the undertaking. Thb folly of the existing system of Indian management, remarKs tiie New­ port (E. I.) Neuis, " is seen on a small scale in the persistent keeping up of a separate nationality in Rhode IsJaad, where we have a tribe of Narragansetts with not a single Narragansett Indian in it. AT a recent session of the North Mis­ sissippi Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, the Bishop presiding, decided that a lady who had been elected as a lay delegate coild not serve. He said both the discipline and Bible excluded women from holding church offices. BOB INOERSOLI. threatened to prose­ cute the Rochester papers if they pub­ lished his lecture entire, a£ it was copy­ righted. He said it was worth $125,000. He limited the space to a column and a half, into which one paper succeeded in getting almost the whele lecture by using small type. AN employe in a menagerie at Lyons was nearly eaten alive lately by seven lions, into whose cage he had entered for the purpose of cleaning it. The lion-tamer, a woman, happened to be on the spot and rescued the man, but not before he had been tearfully mu­ tilated. THE system of holel fees to menials had its origin in a semi-barbaric age, when none save the wealthy and aristo­ cratic traveled far from home, and when royalty and aristocracy gave not only to those who served them wherever they stopped, but flung alms to the poor on the highway. A VBBMONT hunter refrained from firing at six rabbits and two foxes that he saw, because he wanted to have his gun all ready when that deer which his dogs were running came up, and when the animal did appear, and proved to be a heifer from a neighboring pasture, he sprained his knee kicking the hound that ran it. WESLEY SUMMERS, of Pickens coun­ ty, S. C., a colored boy a little less than 18 years old, defied his father's opposi­ tion bv marrying. The father epent j P«r mou;h and expensea all the next day hunting for his »on,1 nUrB *dllreBli abo**- and, finding him in tho evening, took him home, where the youthful bride­ groom was beaten until he was almost senseless. The unhappy boy then em­ ployed the little strength he had left in committing suicide. THE Molva, a financial, commercial and literary papet published at St. Petersburg, has been virtually stopped by being prohibited from receiving ad­ vertisements. The Molva is the only Russian newspaper which has consist­ ently advocated retrenchment, a reduc­ tion of army expenditures,and a pacific policy throughout, particularly toward England. A LITTLE girl shut up as a punishment for some fault in her father's barn at Baud (MorbihanJ in France, was killed by a wolf, which by climbing a rubbish heap was able to enter by the roof. The family had been at work in the fields at some distance, and on the father open­ ing the door to release the child the wolf sprung out and made off, leaving on the floor the half-devoured remains of its victim. OPIUMS? nerahhi# RsUtCand la ]• ••lay*. Noimy tilt Cared. BTKF.iiKS's, i^ebanon. Olilot, VOUNG • month. EOTJ gimdaste guaranteed a parift* situs- tfcrn. Address K Valentine, Manager. JanesriUe, Wis. YOITR LAST CTrANCKtoaretMOsen Texas Lnnd for $ 180. Pamphlet, with i Addraes B. K. LOWKR, I^and Commission! Land Co., Seymour, Buy lor Oo., Texas. i of choice MM. tree. •, Western READTHC EVIDENCE. curio* "trar tkatna." that "Wall's I beyond doubt a core. Wa take] C'T'.vr1 GOLD AND SILVER 0RE8 BSjfiSSx PRACTICAL SH0KT-HAND. •Av&SSi. «»»•, Rapid, ATL. to all fanMt*. K. »WBST< VANtfl H. J. SI jr. D! M.^S^uanii,' f.-U' WBLTFLRTDAOO ̂ KL - - " ,IH. ,.-,1 IKL. l TRUTH &e&njxi Spteia* a--rwtU StioOi^ amna.nr twtwti>.tJ>iiliif>waHai*«*Ha«» auvt, «ai aaar* WANTEDS PrsAt |»od. Outtt free. »is>ia.«--h --I lift frss. INTERNATIONA!. IH'B. CO Nrii ifea, mkff e , by sample,to PEOWJJ'8 TEA CO., liox 60C&. t*. 1 sell the't^ftsloptdta of TltefS Wartfe n* *erj lilwtt). Ontti itrftMt, Si. touts, X* WEDDING STATIONERY Parties oontemplsting marrisge, and aesutna some­ thing very neat and tut; In tbe ins of Wedding Note Paper ana Envelopes, should ask the publisher of this paper i» show them NEWSPAPER UNION samp e^aucli goods. In most of the papers may ba Men an an­ nouncement of a new rubber boot, made by the Candae Rubber Co., of New Haven, Ot This boot marks a new era in the manufacture of rubber goods, and is called the " 05 Per Cent. Sterling," to denote its high quality, and is covered by no less than seven patents, all ownea by the Candee Oo. { One of the boots, split to show its exact character, is on exhibi­ tion at the stores, and shows an article for genuine service that is seemingly indestraolk ible. The Company warrants these boots three months, although there is abundant testimony that the boots will stand six months' hard wear every day. The " Candee " is the largest rubber goods company in the world, and its warrant is equal to a bond. One of the patents referred to covers a hinging for the top of the leg, in which are engraved spaces for every day and month in the year, so that the store­ keeper can punch out the date of sale, and so fix beyond dispute the duration of the three months* warrant' Altogether, it is the most wonderful boot that has yet appeared. Oh 30 DAYS* TRIAL We will send our Rlectro-Voltalo Belts and other Rleotrie Appliances upon trial for W to tboae afflicted with Aerwnu Itebility ana diseases tyT • par- torn I nature. Also of tbe liver, Kidneys, Rheumatism, PSralysis, Ao. * Address ~ OK. til. Co.. ll» (K, III. nOMM«Nn riMMN ueii ial for W d y ana dine,, r, Kidneys,] O. A nr< cure UUOTMIMI er no pay. Vsltsle Belt Co., Mas-shall, Mleh. PETROLEUM Grand Medal at PM.adelp'ia Exposition. VASELINE JELLY. Silver Medal at Paris Espvs.tiou. AN HtfAfBNiSS AREA OF HAILROA» AN1> CiOVBRNSTENT I.ANDH, OF FEBTllOT, W1VUIN KAHV SfcKACH OF' PERMANENT MARKJtT, AT ttXTKXMB. LY IMW PK1C£H, to MW la KASTSRN OREGON a»4 EASTS**v."J-' WASHINGTON TKRK1TORY. v f •Ttf» Tim wonderful substance is acknowledged byphysi- otans throughout tbe world to be the best remedy at* covered for the cure of Wosade, Barns, Bk«ssui. tlsisi, Nkln Diseases. Piles, CMarrk, Chll* blttlns, dtf. In order that firoty one may try M, it is put up in 16 and 25 eent bottles tor household use. Obtain it from your druggist, and you will find It superior to Miything yuu he.TO ever used. The Koran. A rurlwUly to every on-, and a necessity So nil Mtudrnts «»t' lliMory or lellslss i THB IORAN OF MOH AM M KD; translatad from the Arabic by (ieorgu &ale. Formerly published at $8.76; t MW. th-boand edlt%>p; price. HS standard mrlu,jreinarkablykiw!n prioe« beeutUui tfpe, nest, cioth-buand cents, and 0 eenta for . •ioejWitSlei to clubs, free. Ssy where you saw this advertisement. AMEHIOSM BOOK BXCSANQE, Tribune Building, N. Y, price, i ef many extra terms $10,000. SAFETY LAMP. ACSBNTtt WAKTRD Mailed Free for 85 Cts. Four for 9*. 910,000 will b« [Aid to any peiMi whocnn wfW» a !*mp lilted wltlt our PATENTED SAFETY AT­TACHMENT. M*y use auy lamp or burner, rremit* di !pi>l»K and luatlnr. Send l«r txitnples,witli tlaeefooUai and depth of your $. S, Newton's Safety Lamp Co. 13 W. et Bioailwav, jew T Factory and Office, Binghamton, N. Y. Verb Forsnveass of -- [REWARD I Blind, Itching, or Ulcerate - 1'llea that DeHfna's Pile I Remedy fails tocure. Gives I immediate relief, cuien tvu-ea I of long standing in 1 week. I and ordinary cases in 2 days. 'CAUTION Saw ' ha» printed on it in btaek a /**'{• of Sfones and 'itfer't sfffnttiurm, . § I A DOtt! A GREAT SUCCESS! «o,ooo Said:: LIFE AND i complete THE practical joking too. common in ' jra^ELS"of GEN. GRANT French institutions on the admission of . gy J|„„_ J.T.Headloy. The only book gMng a complete a neophyte has led to a painful incident | bV'** "•***- at Angers. A youth named Guyot, on - entering the Ecole den Arts et Metiers, was so squeezed against a table, or be­ tween two tables, that he was taken home hopelessly ill, and died in four days. • .. A million people want thlabcwkand no other. Our Agents are sweeping the AGCIITfi llfANTCn I einose the* have the AuCli I © If All I Clf* hook worlh ftsyina. Brware of lniitnfors. who copy our adv. in order to sell their catchpenny books. For proof of superiority, aad extra terms, address Hubbard Bros., Chicago. 111. a» areraae " ar^ajg*r? tmi CI RAIN AT PORTLAND (JOfflntTANOS A PKICK KQCAL TO THAT OBTAINED IN CHICAGO. assured eany aad ekoai tldf.«raier on the C rnpldlBtttoaan In the wMoa aia emtitioa. UND8 SHOW aa A¥KRACUS YIKLD aC ^ ,? 40 BV8BILS OP WHtAV rBB AOS. No Fallara af CNK mt fcapwa. A ^ rSJKUiS CLIMATE MILD M0 KIALTHT. T* K. TANNATT, ' w Gen'i Kaatera PaaaV : - " SM BMoahray, Naw .•j. cuaiimnmnv HSC ENCYCLOPAEDIA. The most nlstbte Book published inoaiitui-- i (KMQ17 Of TO ASENT8 G.W. CARZa .4- î »• , - Wantad. Co., Marahall, MiA, ageut in ibu couuty at onoe, at a nluy of *1U0 is paid. For foil partic- Bbarman ft I WAS a hodman by uattti*. ~'i. but aspired to be 8 lawyer, • : *jid went to the Legislature. But Coiigreas prdvtd iiiy destroy#.1 How I sit and mum with tbe crioMM» ' Ard rhyming exp» ct to toiler; I never scratrti Greenback tlcketa, . But I'll take yer taard-paa doU^ir. M. WHEN you go to Chicago, atop at the TBEMOOT HOUSE, whicn is one of the neatest and most comfortable hotels in the ciiy. JOHN A. RICE, the wt-li-known landlord, with an able corps or gentlemanly clerks, will attend to your wiBaea in a. manner that will make yott feel perfectly at home, and you will be surprised at the reason ableneue of the bill when you settle np. Try the Tremont . FOB one cent purchase a postal card and send your address to Dr. San ford. lC!i Broadway, New York, and receive pamphlets by return mail, from which you can learn whether your liver is out of order, aud, if out of order or In any way diseased, what ii the best thing oi the world to take for it ' DR. C. 1. SHOEMAKER, of Beading, Pa., ii <he only sural surgeon in the United States who devotes nil his time to the treatment of deaf­ ness and diseases of the ear and catarrh; es­ pecially running ear. Nearly twenty years' ex­ perience. Thousands testify to his skill. Coa« tult him by mail or otherwise. Pamphlet j'rqt. PIMPLES AND HUMOKB ON THE FACE.--In this condition of the skin, the YEGETINE is the great remedy, as it acts directly upon the cause. It cleanses and purifies the blood, thereby causing humors of all kinds to disappear. LADIES' and obildren's shoes cannot run over if Lyon's Patent Heel Btiffeneia are need. 0L OHiBKBT'a Corn Stareli for FUttf, •segMtrt, Wives aad Melherai DR. MAJBCHlSrS TTTKRIN* CATHOI.IOOH a« fositivelyem* FemaleWeaknee- su. Ii ialltogofithe Wunb. Whiles. Cbronio Inflammation Ulcer ttaiet (beWomb,Iscidantal Henwrriuwieor Blading, fioppieesecj and irregular Menstrnstion.&c. AnoMsafl teliai lo remedy. Send i<»'al card jot a psirannlet. sits treatment, «are» and cettllloaiea fcuai pHjag^ans and fatiente. to HOWARTH * BAH ARD. IpO*. B.J. Sold bj all Druggists--•! » per bettla. Hew IJIW. Tkosas^d 8 iHlm> sail fcetoieeiUftsd. Ps«isfc>usdatebaelt>eikfcibntie«4--Ifc. «Das D Addisn, with stewVk e»Mi s. inras, f. O. Drawer Mft. VasMwtaa, X BCATTY STE^ fir Co./> - -t-if B RATTLE B O ROVT. EVERYWHERE KNOWN AMD PRIZED S e w ̂ iUBMaStSSlt tSIII SlnLfHI AGENTS WANTED SlAt'dU complete and authentie history of the giwst tour ol C.GILBERT' It deiaribesRoyal Palaces.Rare Curb* it, Waalthand Wonders of tiie Indies, China, Jspsn, t-tc. A saulion people want It, lliis 1b the best i-lianre of your life to mske money. Beware of -"catchpenny" imitations. Sena for circulars and extra <erm» to Agents. Address NATIONAL. PUBL.1SHIM. CO..Chicago, 111- QAPONIFIE s 8AWIN8 THE UHb. IT a jrrx* vmir SArm JMMnKK THE GREAT SUCCESS OF TBI* HPE8VED RSAVIAEDLANT will saw a two foot kf In three minutes. Kvar* Ikissw iwsfc oaeC Township agenui vnuited. Send for Illnatrated ctrcalar and Terms. PERFECTED* BUTTER ITNB«tUitk*|Ut^«4eeler tkeiwimL The lerxeel ft Thousand* of Paltymea saylTJS PHRgTOT. Used by alt the* wwrt.it (•» * WAc t,?., '•