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$ i r J - 5 -. . .... '!*. rty « ONG AGO. BT F.ltnuic PUS.HA.Wm. f'j' "M ipsifcdttltae* Tidsr some lienplM say' * ?• , ... P*>* times dev all van wrong. JF** SinvtMrL nnd kink, nnd suh jld all dW- ^ Po< V (tor onl y si»ng ; Vw WMBk 4at «ht«« am cars Kwne too gwick, : iJNl gone too unlaw; 4MM vish derwa no ears at Vll, 1A« in tier long ago. 2v\t • • ' 3MMM kick apoud dot delegrs|& Pad dog® electric li^lui, » t *%Md den dot elevated row! v , ^ . X«M deni avake at nighd. * :i'\ -SMof folk* vasdown on bustles, ,T~ Dad dings vot make Inns abow, v <J»d uy d»r ladies ought to dfltaa • Like in der long ago. *0 find much fault dmn l*>oples tryt| narrow crack through * Moh ROM oould see two briglit, dark «yw» *huiing. "Blow out the * #1.- The mysterious V/VNV <**«• ftvwu W- ftttd Ieelias father w »* tS*v;* £v>y* 4* cent burial. Izelia was kept in *ohv*4 vvmurw, and then she wtnrned h*r vnelo tho logs. The wnog hwntor | Henry's, a beautiful ami If id nil our country's law«, But of you ask der reason v j> Dem simply say "peeau*e.% Dem vunt the laws laid on dor Uad rulers Hunt pelow-- rmnent should run itself Like in der long ago. rm ;# "•ell, maype dot dem folks vas i Vat dink dw vwrld so mean; 'Of bnly.day vould shkip Borne nighd Haw pleasant dot vas peeu • '•> Vor ail item odder habby folks ': ' Vot like not ditigs BO alow, ' Vnd dink dese Union linbiovemetit §>•*' On dings of long ago. JUS FAIR RESCUER. ( BT ADU OIBSON. f JThe lone prairie inn was situated in a "%i!d, sequestered valley, hemmed in on "three sides by lofty, semi-woodetl hills -4*ad by A heavy forest on the west, such •s now and then break the monotony of •he prairie of the far West. The build- "-injr was tiiue-worn and dingy and had moiv the appearance of a forbidding fcove.3 than a place for entertaining per- : who Happened to pass through that - lonesome region. So Ross Davis thought -•s he halted, one evening, before tliis 'inn and asked to obtain food for liim- -•elf and weary horse, and a night's lodging. Davis was a handsome, blonde-oom- jdexioned young man, with a well-knit Sgure, becomingly attired in hunter's Costume. He belonged to a party of JEastern hunters, from whom he had be- •>me separated that day while out hunt­ ing. He had ridden until he was nearly KOTD out, and shouted until he became %oarse, without success, and had just juade up his mind to spend the night the prairies, cowboy-fashion, when Ida jaded animal entered a lovely valley %bBi» the above-described inn met his En answer to Boss Davis'-call the inn ijnot swung open and a tall, hatchet- "fecod, dark-skinned half-blood woman, plfttternly-attired, appeared. Her ferret lyeu scanned the young hunter closely, Hind in reply to his request for accom­ modations, she hade him, in a gruff voice, •light. Then elevating the harsh voice, *4be called: v "Ielhia! You-uns wanted hyar!" (beautiful young girl of 16, with *Sark hazel eyes and hair, quickly an­ swered the summons. She was dressed fe some coarse, dark material, while her feet were encased in some old slip-shod •hoes, at least two sizes too large, fier glorious nui-brown hair clung in wraoefnl ringlets to her little head; her jiace was pale and its expression seemed 4o be one of habitual sadness, as if. all joy had been crushed out of her young «pifc; the pallidness ol her complexion *1 If* w, however, partially relieved by a of lustrous starry eyes. Despite her unbecoming apparel, Ross .Davis acknowledged to himself that he l»d never seen a lovelier being than ittiii little Izelia of the Lone Inn. The half-blood woman ordered the •firl to lead the man's horse to "the -tarn," a wretched apology, made of 'fx.iles and clumsily covered with brush »nd tall prairie grass. Ross followed li« unprepossessing hostess into a -•cantily-furnished room, where he sank "drearily into a large bark-bottomed chair, 1*s she shuffled leisurely into the next *»oom to prepare his supper. Looking through the one dingy win- * <fc>w, which the apartment boasted, Ross ?«aw, without rising, that the girl had •*«ared for his horse and had started for 1the house. He could see her clasp and •"•iKvlasp her hands, as if some great Urouble was preying upon her mind. Eer conduct was strange and wild. The young hunter forgot his weariness fei watching her and wandering who she •4ould be. ,f "One thing certain, I am satisfied she isn't the child of that gruff- spoken, half-Indian tigeress, moving t*ow in her kitchen with the grace of •••n animated mountain," the young man •aid to himself, growing deeply inter­ ested, he knew not why, in the strange of the prairie. - , He was not allowed to look long at Izehia, for the tigeress soon called her to *#ome to the kitchen. He could catch the gruff tones of the "Voman as she talked to the girl, but *o words, except "Injun Tobe's ter- *«ght," came to hi*, ear. Presently he caught sight of Izelia "•©odding along through the dusk, down •*he valley, towards the forest. He 1 fluemed to understand instinctively that 4&e tigress had sent the girl away, but "imhy ? _ Me ate the coarse supper prepared for •i®t with a relish. Has hostess evinced ttoo disijosition to converse, although she Hfc/w him attentively. When he took out his heavily-jeweled ®old watch to tell the time of night, he «id not see the greedy, savage gleam %hich lit up the black eyes of the wo- 1tnan * nor did he note the fiendish tri- "limph which covered her hardened face Twhen he requested to be shown his bed "that lie might get an early start in the -•norning to find his oomrades. His hostess brought a candle -with * alacrity, and, opening a small door Sheading into an old log-built room, she : cignaled for him to take the light and ~ie.ptei\ Ross was not slow to obey the -*agn, for his long ride l ad made him • tired and sleepy. The woman drew the door shut her­ self and then walked away. Ros^ sur- "^veyed the uninviting bed-chamber, 'Unto which he had been shown, with aiiy- • filing but pleasant feelings. There was •» box in one corner, on which he placed candle. The bed in an opposite ! **J©°mer was hard and unclean-looking. ~But he was too thoroughly fatigued to ^a*otiCH this, only carelessly, as he seated Jhimself on the side of the bed and ; «.looked yawningly around the room. ; "They must be afraid light and air "will get in here, lie said, seeing no ^windows in the room. "Hello! there vfilias once been a hole up there over the ; ^ bed, but it's covered uith a little door rough lumber, and fastened on the "outside," -he exclaimed, rising to eX~ & stnuxie it. " Well, I'm a prisoner in the ^ £«one Inn, if that repulsive ogress has a S aoind to lock the chamber door." Words •<€ jest, but of how mneh significance he did not dream. . , A gentle rapping on the logs outside attgafted • his attention. What did it Ok^an? It ceased and was then re­ peated at the same place. R«ss ap- jptcoached the spot. A thin piece of clay fallen 6ft fefetwtfen the logs, leaving Tobeyetl 'without know injr whx\ As «l*rk- aews devoumi the spac<" of the rv^^u, a smothered curse aroegtoA him, coming from the adjoining r^xwu. What did it mean? ^ **Com^ here'" oowwasule*! ttie poll from the onfei<ie. I '•£/ R<^.s obeyeti, so wrJiWH^l ill mystery lie knew not what to uunk. "Put vonr ear to tlas oraek,* said the strange Voice. • R*>ss >li<l HO. v "You would liave been tihot if- vou Wl not Mown out the candle as I told ypn. The foiled villain has left the cabin to get assistance. The Ionian who runs this inn is mieen of a gang of out-throats and robWrs. You will not attaoketl alone, beeause you carry two revolvers. But come, there is no time to waste. You must crawl through this little door and escape at once." ' The young man was not long in ol»ev- ing the voice, which had saved his life £roiu the bullet of an unseen robber and pfairie cnt-throat. "He was soon squeezing through the aperture above the bed's head, and very shortly he landed on Ids feet by the side of his mysterious deliverer. What was his surprise to behold in the owner Of the voice, Izelia, the prairie maid ? . "God bless you," lie said in her ear. "I did not dream that this was a trap fpr the benighted or unweary traveler. "Hush! they may be listening. She is hard to fool," said the girl. "Hark! I hear them in the kitchen now. Oh, come, quick!" and the girl pulled the young man away through the dark ness to where his horse was in readiness for him. Ross soon vaulted into the saddle arid followed the girl, who, mounted on a fleet-footed pony, led the way down a deep, dark ravine. As they went, Ross could tell from the excited cries at the inn that his flight had been discovered. "Ride fast," whispered the girl, "for they will pursue us." Ross needed no urging to ride fast, for his trusty horse sprang forward with vigor and planted himself by the side of the pony ridden by the girl. "God grant we may elude them, cried Ross, as on and on the horses seemed to fly. "Hark! they are coming this way." "Yes, they have discovered our trail, said Izelia, with a calmness remarkable in one so young. "I was sent to Indian Tobe's cabin in the forest to-night, as I always am when that bad woman has murder in her heart. But I did not go there. I watched a chance to get this pony, and waited for the proper time to come to your help," she explained, as they rode away side by side. "Thanks, dear girl. I shall never forget your risks to save a stranger," spoke Ross. But further conversation was ren­ dered impossible by the rapid approach of their pursuers. It was clear that they were fast gaining on Ross and his fair rescuer. The young man grasped one of his revolvers, at the same time urging his horse forward. He intended to sell his life as dearly as possible. They swept down the wild ravine and entered the dark, somber forest, their pursuers close behind, uttering now then a loud curse or angry call. "Indian Tobe is leading the gang," cried the girl. "It is hard to outwit him." But on they rode through the forest, the girl acting as guide, and Ross following with his revolver held in readiness. The leader of the gang was in advance of the others, and though he could not see the fugitives before him through the Plutonian darkness of the woods, he could hear the crackling of the underbrush under their horses' feet. With a demoniac yell he urged his horse onward, at the same time sending a shot speeding in the direction of the pursued. The report rang wildly through the forest. The ball buried* itself in a huge tree directly behind Ross, serving as a means to frighten the horses forward at swifter speed. Suddenly Ross' horse stumbled and fell heavily to the grounds He gave a spring just in time to save himself from being crushed by the luckless animal. Izelia halted her povy, taking in the young man's situation at once. In a second she was by his side, saying: "Here, mount my horse and ride for your life." "Never! I shall not leave you to the mercies of that gang," cried Ross. Indian Tobe was almost upon them. But his advance was suddenly and mys­ teriously checked by a rifle shot, which cleft the darkness near them. Indian Tobe fell from his horse to the ground with an agonizing groan. At the same moment the woods rang with strange halloos. The pursuit was stopped, and the sound of their horses' hoofs tearing away through the forest could be easily heard. A torch was coming toward Rpss and his rescuer. The man who held the torch was followed by a num­ ber of white men. "Thank God! It is my friends," cried Ross, going to meet them. Greet­ ings were exchanged, a short explana­ tion given, and they all gathered around Indian Tobe, who was fast passing away. Izelia stood by Ross' side and shud­ dered as she gazed upon the face of the Indian outlaw she had known all her life. His eyes met those of the girl, and reading in hers, no doubt, the ques­ tion she had so often put to that rough gang, without success, and the desire to make some slight reparation for his evil deeds, he said: "The girl nainjnn. Her white. Our gang kiU her father one night he stop at inn with lost o' gold. Her father Capt. Martin." A middle-aged man in the group of hunter* around the dying outlaw started. He was the one who had fired the rifle which ended the career of Indian Tobe. He now approached Izelia and sad: "Then I claim you as my niece, poor girl. I am Henry Martin. Your poor father's fate has been wrapped in mys­ tery, but this wretch's confession leaves us no doubts but what my brother was killed and robbed by this gang." And uncle and niece were clasped in a touch­ ing embrace. The hunters, as soon as they oould, brought officers to the Lone Inn, which they found deserted. But careful and cautious search enabled them to track the gang to an artificial cave in the; forest, where the woman and six rough characters were arrested and afterwards brought to justice. The woman cor­ roborated the story of Izelia's parent­ age, as revealed by Indian Tobe. Indian Tobe's wife had pleaded for the little girl's life when her father was killed, and it had been spared. The woman revealed the spot where the body of Capt. Martin had been buried, » * voung woman. Ross Davis his fair rescuer. As as* <*h^ re­ turned from school he oftVml }hH heart and it was not declined > Hunting the AUbtlMv Since it was discovers! t hat alt^tator hide makes excellent leather fcw foot­ wear, purses, and handltag*. the Florid* saurian has had a hard time of it. The sportsmen have been hunting him }>rettv regularly, but the commercial mnters have now reduced the warfare to a regular business, and in a few years we may have to go to a museum to see an alligator. The common and most effeetite mode of hunting is about the same as deer­ stalking. Two generally hunt together in a canoe, one sitting in the stern, paddling, the other standing at th«r bow with a bull's-eye fastened to his head. They move on cautiously, the one in front coaching the course by slow mo­ tions of his hand. Hist! a warning hand is upraised, the motion of the paddle ceases, and the oanoe glides on almost imperceptibly, the slight ripple at the bow being the only sound heard. The one with the rifle, a 44-calil>er Winchester, slowly raises his weapon, peering expectantly forward, now to one side, then another. Suddenly a gleam is seen ahead like a coal of fire shining through the darkness, and the upraised rifle belches forth a stream of fire. , A confused thrashing and perhaps a deep bellow follows; then all is still. If killed the alligator sinks at once; if wounded, he makes off for deep water. In either case the hunters ffb ahead to seek for another victim. . The next day they begin their lookout for their game. When killed, the alligators sink at once; but the gases in the body bring them up in from six to ten hours. The skins are carefully taken off,and the teeth are se­ cured if there is time, while the car­ casses are left for the buzzards,-- Oolde» Days. A Robin's Paternal Instinct. That animal instinct is lively in the bird was exemplified by the robin a few days ago. On one of the beautifttl su­ gar maple trees which grow in the yard of a well-known citizen of this place, a mother robin had built her nest, and as time went on she was re­ warded by a brood of yonng robins. One evening when she had nestled her­ self for the night a chicken hawk ob­ served the hwmless redbreast, and with a swift dart sffe caught the mother and took her flight. When the father robin came back to see that all was well for the night he found the young birds without protection. He flattered about and his bewailing song told his bereavement. He seemed to realize that something dreadful had befallen his partner, for he began to make preparations to act the part of a mother for the night. The owner of the property, who had observed the events, arose early next morning and he noticed the male bird taking its flight. The bereaved wid­ ower soared high and was soon lost to sight. .He remained away the entire day, and when he returned at nightfall he brought with him another wife. The strange bird was guided to the nest, and, readily comprehending the situa­ tion, she quickly covered the halfr starved little creatures, while the male bird darted off to find some food. There was great rejoicing" when he re­ turned. The new mother l^ since then taken excellent „ care of. her adopted children, and the father robin's song plainly indicates his happiness.-- Hollidaysburg (Can.) Dispatch. , Danger of Being a Human Being. Heredity is a puzzle. It seems to be easier in this world to inherit ba# qual­ ities and traits than good, but1 both sorts make such leaps and jumps, and are so inclined to go off on collateral lines that the succession is difficult to calculate. The race is linked together in a curious tangle, so that it is almost impossible to fix the responsibility. Defects or vices or virtues will not al­ ways go in a straight line. The chil­ dren of deaf mutes, for example, are not apt to be deaf mutes, but the cousins of those children may be deaf mutes, showing, it is said, that some remote an­ cestor of both had some mental or phys­ ical defect which has been transmitted to his posterity, though not in the form in which he was afflicted. In most cases we cannot do anything about it; the older our civilization be­ comes the more complicated and intri­ cate are our relations, so that it has al­ ready become a dangerous business to be a human being at all. It is not al­ ways certain that if a man eats sour grapes his children's teeth will be set on edge, but the effect of the sour grape diet may skip a generation or two or ap­ pear in a collateral line. We try to study this problem in our asylums and prisons, and we get a great many in­ teresting facts, but they are too con­ flicting to guide legislation. The dif­ ference is to relieve a person of respon­ sibility for the sins of his ancestors without relieving him of responsibility for his own sins.--Chicago Tribune. Health and Dirt. Chancy M. Depew raises the question whether cleanliness is essential to health. In a lecture on Ireland he says:" Children swarm everywhere, for the marriage bond in Ireland is a coupon bond, and they cut one off evey year. I said to a distinguished English sanitarian: 'See how these people live, and what pictures of health they are, while we in New York are ventilated upon a new principle every month, and in fighting sewer gas squander our incomes and be­ come the abject slaves of the plumber. How do you account for it?'4 Well.' said the nonplussed scientist, 'it establishes the fact that there are only two con­ ditions for perfect health--either all dirt or no dirt. And yet the intelligence and morality among them are superior to those of any other peasantry in Europe, and out of these cabins wili trip barefooted girls, so rosy-cheeked and neat and sweet of voice, to sell you the little articles they knit, with a bit of bright color in their shawls to contract with their dark hair, that they seem to have dropped from the clouds." San Francisco at an Enemy's Mercy. With the evident want of preparation, granting our. present defense their full value, the San Francisco bay could be entered by an enemy's fleet without meeting with any material opposition. The city and surrounding towns could be shelled; the communications with the^interior could be cut off, and irre­ parable loss would be suffered by the destruction of our naval and military stores at Mare Island and Benjcia.-1- Oen. O. O. Howard, in The American Magazine*- ^ ̂ W«AT 4:ipro,ffAS' CAN DO. *» >U * 8tor<> Without Help aM > -- Mistake. WMT York Sun.] While in the employ of tlie lffew Set- Southern Railroad, a few years ago, Charles H. FenuinxVre, of Fartningdale, had the misfortune to lose the sight of «*ne eye, the result 0>f getting a hot cin­ der from the loc -motive in it. About a year afterwards,' while working in a marl pit »t Lower Squankum, he got a small pebble iu the other eyte. He was taken to an infirmary in New York, where every eftort was made to save the sight, but he became totally blind. Revolving in liis mind various pro­ jects for the support of his family, he determined to try keeping a country store. His friends endeavored to dis suade him from the undertaking, but he was resolute an I opened a small store in Lower Squankum, three miles from Farmingdale. He soon showed an aptitude for the business, and accom­ plished tilings which seemed' marvel­ ous. 1 » • • His dwelling house is over a mile dis­ tant from his store. At first his little daughter regularly took him by the hand at morning and evening and con­ ducted him to and from his occupation. A little later he said he could go alone, and has done so ever since. His method is to count the steps from the front of his house to his store, and he has ex­ perienced no difficulty in reaching both in safety. He locks and unlocks the door and opens and closes the shutters without assistance. His son sweeps out and dusts the store, but he expects soon to do this without assistance. His sense of touch and memory are simply wonderful. Every sort of goods put up in packages are so arranged under his direction that he can deal out anything in his stock that is called for. This he does by counting the steps from either end of the counter, and the num­ ber qf shelves, beginning with number one at the bottom, and enumerating the dividing spaces from either end of the rows of shelving. He weighs accurately anything from a quarter of a pound of tea to twenty- five pounds of flour, being guided by touch in arranging the weights and the tijkpings of the scales. His memory of voices is so sensitive that he has never been known to make a mistake in a person's name. As a test a stranger to him was sent to the store. He was a fair mimic, and endeavored to personate a man well known to Mr. Fenniniore. He signally failed, the blind store-keeper interrupted him at once and saying: "I don't know who you are, but vou ure not George Brower." Perhaps Mr. Fennimore's greatest evidence of an unfaltering and accurate memory is the facility with which he makes change. Every morning Mrs. Fenniniore arranges his wallet for him. The $5 notes are placed in the bottom, and $2 notes in the middle, and the $1 notes on the top of the package. He always knows to a penny how much change he has in an ordinary shot bag, and can tell the instant he touches any piece the value it represents. Thus equipped, he is ready to give a customer change for a note or silver currency, and his accuracy in. making change equals that of any merchant in all the country round. Tried one day with a $5 gold piece, which was placed in his hand, he looked toward the owner of it as if he could see him, smiled, rang the coin upon the counter and said: "This is a $5 gold toiece; Vrhat do you wish to buy?" ^ He is an expert at addition and sub­ traction, readily keeping in mind a dozen articles and their price, and tell­ ing a customer the amount the moment the last article is served. He is pleased with his occupation, and has made his business a modest success. > Medicinal Qualities of Onions. The free use of onions for the table has always been considered by most people a healthy and desirable vegeta­ ble, and but for their odor, which is ob­ jectionable to many, would be found more generally on our dining-tables. For a cold on the chest there is no better specific, for most persons, than wfell boiled or roasted onions. They may not agree with every one, but to persons with good digestion they will not only be found to be a most excellent remedy for a cough, and the clogging of the bronchial tubes, which is usually the cause of the cough, but if eaten freely at the outset of a cold they will break up what promised, from the se­ verity of the attack, to have been a se­ rious one. A writer to one of our medical jour­ nals recently recommended the giving young, raw onions to children three or four times a week, and when they get too large and strong to be eaten raw, then boil and roast them, bnt not aban­ don their free use£; Another writer, advocating their use, says: "During unhealthy seasons, when diphtheria and like contagious diseases prevail, onions ought to be eaten in the spring of the year at least once a week. Onions are invigorating and prophylactic beyond description. Further, I challenge the medical frater­ nity or any mother to point out a place where children have died from diphtheria or scarlatina anginosa, etc., where onions were freely used." A (Jood Excuse. When the French troops were in Mex­ ico during the days of Maximillian, a private soldier was brought before Gen. Geningros, who was in command at Monteery. You are charged with having stolen the golden slipper from the foot of Virginin the Cathedral," said the Gen­ eral, sternly. "I didn't steal it," replied the soldier. "But the slipper was found in your knapsack." I know it was, but I didn't steal it." How, then, did it oome into your possession ?" The Virgin gave it to me." How so ? You know, General,* how she sits there with one foot over the other, sticking out a little?" "Well?" "She didn't tell me to take the slip­ per, but she held her foot out as if she was saying, 'Tabft the slipper if you want it,' so I took it, more as a matter of accommodation than anything else." "Humph," said the General, smiling, "that's about as good an excuse as I ever heard. You can go this time, but if the Virgin offers you anything else and yon accept it IU have you shot."-- Texas Siftingh. No More Cooks in France. Not only gourmets, but the habitual frequenters of good restaurants, com­ plain ,ithat th«re is but one sauce in France, thus reversing the dictum of Voltaire. The ragouts, for instance, which were the triumphs of French cullinary art, are, it is claimed, uneatable nowadays. Espagnols is the read} made sauce for everything from the ragout to the sole au gratin. Game is done in an oven, just as are the beef, mutton, and poultry. Wine is undrink- able and liquors are distilled from the best root and all sorts of uncleanliness. --Paris Correspondence London tel­ egraph. Some Lies Nailed at Last. I began life as a "printer's devil." It is popularly supposed that "the devil" sweeps out and does other dirtv work for a year or two before promotion. On the first morning I reached the office I was told to take things easy until the "old man" came cown. I went over to the bank for one of the "comps" and deposited $2,000 for him, cleaned up the foreman's $000 diamond, and dusted off a plush chair, end opened a box of Henry Clays for the pressman, and by that time the editor came down in his car­ riage. He ordered his coachman to give me an airing, and when I returned he benevolently observed "Well, Henry, you and I are to run the Gazette. You won't have much to do. Give me about three columns of crispy editorial per week, and if you want to dash off a poem or a sketch, go ahead. Your salary will be $30 per week for the first six months, and you will occupy one^of the spare chambers in my residence--the blue and gold one." He had a residence valued at $125,000, filled with tho richest furniture. His wife thought nothing of giving a wash­ woman a silk dress which cost $500 and had a splash of mud on it. No tramp went away with less than $20 in' cash. Their ice cream for one season cost $2- 426.75, and they were astonished at the smallness of the bill. One of the rooms was known as "the coupon room." A young man with very delicate com­ plexion spent eight hours per day the year round in this rooom shearing off coupons from bonds, and from November 1 to December 31 he had to have two assistants. While the bona fide circulation of the Gazette was close on to 200,000, the edi­ tor kept the figures at 1,400 in order to' avoid a rush of patronage. He paid six of the largest merchants in the city $2- 000 per year each not to advertise with us, as their advertising would make ex­ tra work for the compositors. What ad­ vertising we did do was very high-toned, and was charged for at the rate of $2- per Wi. id. The salaries paid to em­ ployes were not as large as in some offices, because we could not afford it, but every one who had been on the Gazette two years had saved sufficient money to buy a house and lot and horse and carriage. During my ten years in the office I never knew us to be hard up but once. The proprietor bought a gold mine in California, a coffee plantation in Brazil, and a railroad in New England at one time, and carelessly made out the papers so that we had to raise about $3,600,000 in one day. We raised it, but I had to chip in fifteen cents from my private finances to make up the sum. It was only a week later that the wife of the proprietor paid $6,000 in cash for a blue- faced sunflower for a corner of the back yard, and the only remark nade by her husband as he learned of the purchase was: "Why, my dear, you should have taken a pair at $11,000." In the seventh year of my stay the Gazette changed hands. There was the usual notice of sheriff's sale, and of the plant being bid in by a young and enter­ prising man who would seek to make it a popular organ, etc., but that was all tar. The proprietor sold out to open a chain of national banks extending from Portland to Galveston, and to put five now lines of ocean steamers inte opera­ tion. I can remember the day he left tho town. I was called upon to see hie wife's jewelry to the special car char­ tered for it. There were seven large dry-goods boxes full, .and a peck or so of diamonds which could not be crowded in was brougt along in a coffee sack. How Grindstones Are Made. A contemporary gives a description oi a visit to the Bay of Fundy and along the shores where the grindstone quar­ ries are located. When the tide is out the quarrymen go down on the rockj shore and work out near the water. A1 low tide the men on the shore drill holes in the ledges, put in powder and blast out great pieces of rock. When the tide rises again they float out some big logs and empty barrels over where tht loosened rocks are. When the water goes down again they fasten a big rock to the raft with heavy chains, so when the tide again rises it lifts up the raft and the rock with it. Then they tow it as near shore as they can. If it is the right kind and size for a grindstone, sometimes it is allowed to lie there until the workmen, with stone-chisel and hammer, work it into the proper shape. At other times, by means of a derrick, it is drawn out on the wharf. Then it is rolled on a truck and hauled to the factory. At the great stone factory the large piece of rock is placed on a carriage, and with a saw similar to the up and down saw in a mill the rock is sawed into slabs of the right thickness for the grindstone. The saw does not have teeth, but wears its way through the rock with the aid of sand and water, which are continually pouring on. Then the slabs are taken, a bole made in the center, the edges trimmed off with a chisel, and the whole placed on a kind of lathe, turning it until it is true and the edge smooth. The rock from which the grindstones are made is a kind oi sandstone, and there is a great differ­ ence in the "grit," some being coarse and some fine. Often several different degrees of "grit" are found in the same quarry. There are many quarries along the shores of the Bay of Fundy. The reason stone is taken from undei the water, when there are many quar­ ries a little distance from the shore, is because the best stone comes from the bottom of the bay, where it is covered at high tide. Keeping Bnildingg Painted. Any one who attempts to paint an old house where the paint has all worn ofl will understand the impolicy of neglect­ ing this work. The weatherbeaten wood absorbs paint rapidly, causing a brushful to go only a little way, and not produce much effect. Still, it is econ­ omy to keep the house painted, though if very old and much weather beaten cheap paints with considerable body are used for the first course. The paint ab­ sorbed by the wood makes an old house much warmer in winter than it would be without it. From the absorptive power of old and thin clapboards it seems as though the wind might blow through them. The same is true of neglected or badly laid cellar walls, where the poor plaster has fallen out," leaving the wind to find its way beneath the building and making the entire ^g^juuomfortable. THE PLUMED KNIGHT; Ths Vaiae Statesman Betum Abroad and Ssceives an En- thuiaBtic Weloome. m from of Admirers Do Htal KttiH Blaine the Picture of Ruddy Health. [K»w York special telegram.]. Hae Hon. James G. Blaine, who for fourteen months hM been sojourning in Europe, arrived. in this city Friday, the ICth. Bis steamer, the City ot New York, was met at quarantine by a thousand friendB oa board the fctaiin, which steamer be immediately boarded. On behalf of those present and the entire country, so many different and widely separated parts of which they represented, President Bartlett, of the New York City Republican Club, delivered an addrets of welcome, to which Mr. Blaine responded, ILLINOIS STATE NEW& other welcoming addresses followed. Mr. Blaine--who is described as a picture of ruddy health--was driven to his hotel, where other addresses awaited him. In the evening he ad­ dressed an lmmens 3 mass-meeting of working- men gathered to give him greeting. MB. BLAINE'S REPLY. Is Happjr to Again Bs at Homs--Sow the Campaign Is Viewed Abroad. Mr. Blaine, In reply to the address of weloome. said: ' "Mr. President sad gentlemen of the Repub­ lican Club and fellow-citizens : To enable you to appreciate this welcome, each and every one of you should be absent from home and country for the long period of fourteen months. I am •ure you can have little conception of the great gratification of that instant when I flaw the shores of the great republic. I cannot tell you how deeply grateful I am to be remembered in this manner by you and these aasembleJ gentlemen. It is a scone I shall never forget. It is an occasion which, I assure you, I appreciate from the depths of my heart. It is shadowed only by the Biid event which greeted us as the flrat piece of American news we heard--the death of Geu. Sheridan--a man who was above party and stood for the union of the States. With that exception my arrival upon my native shore was unattended by anything but joy and happiness. "It is the opportunity of England ; it is the lotia- looked-for occasion upon which the cheaper la­ bor and the cheaper fabrics of the old world ex­ pect to invade the new and lower the wageB of American workingmen to the European stand­ ard. It is not a contest of capital against capi­ tal ; it is not a contest of partisan against parti­ san. It is much higher than either of these. It transcends all party motive. "In this moment of wolcomo and joy, getting home to old scenes and old friends. I must b3 allowed to enjoy the pleitsant emotion of the occasion. I can only add my fervent thanks to eac i and every member of the club and to all my friends for the generous and j yons wel­ come they have extended to ma in the har­ bor of New York." TALKS TO LABORING HEN. Great Demonstration in tlie Evening--The Plumed Knight's Remarks. Madison Square was ablaze in the evening. The throngs did not gaze in vain toward the great reviewing stand n,ear the Worth monu­ ment to see the familiar figure of thi returned statesman. He was there, and though the oc­ casion was tl*o tender of a serenade and address to him by the workingmen the entire city seemed to be crowding to soe and hear. Even before sunset the people commenced to gather on the curbs and among the trees of the park, and long before the appointed time those who were entitled began taking places on tho grand stand. An eloquent and eulogistic address of welcome was delivered on behalf of the work­ ingmen, to which Mr. Blaine replied as follows: "Mr. Chairman, it would be considerable ego­ tism on my part to take this magnificent de­ monstration as personal altogether to myself. It rather signifies the great popular interest in the question upon which I nm supposed at least to have a consistent record ana an earnest zeal. You have before you a contest in which that great issue is to be settled by the American people for perhaps an indefinite period, the one way or the other. The year 1887 was prosper­ ous, and the President at its close proposed a radical change in the industrial sj^tem which had produced that great prosperity, and since that day there has I een confusion in the com­ merce and manufactories of the United States. The question before the American people is whether he and his administration shall be sustained In that movement. The Repub­ licans, having the best cause, have nominated tho best man. They have given to ycu for President a man of sound experience, a man of heroic record in the war, a man of great puritr of character, a man of gfeat firmness, aud worthy of the beBt days of the administration in this country. And you have associated with him a man wh m to New-Yorkers I »sod not further describe'than to say his name is Levi P. Morton, a man of the in st generou? character, of intelligent comprehension of affairs, of the widest and most statesmanlike views on all public questions pending befor.i the American people. "Now, gentlemen, I know that in discussing the question of protective tariff we are always point ns; out what England is doing. I have lately been in Kngland for some months, and I found in English public opinion a very givat difference of opinion upon aliiiott all questions. They are about divided on what you cull the Irish question ; they tire about divided on the forcible policy of Gladstone and Salisbury; they are divided even upon the continuance of tha House of Lords, and they're not absolutely unan­ imous iu support of the monarchy. But there is one opinion they are united on, and that is that the Hon. Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, embodies in his person the regular form of revenue nnd free trade for the United States which they like. 1 have no objection to their right of opinion, and if I had it would amount to nothing ; nor do I intend to sp 3ak disrespectfully of the English, for I have recei ved at their hands very graceful a»d very cordiaj hospitality which I would be a churl not to acknow ledge fce!or# an American audience. But that does not affect the pending conditions that the American people find, their interests in one policy, aad that th) English want to ehance that policy BO as better to con­ form to their interests. Aud that, gentlemen, is the prime question before you in next No­ vember's election. 1 am glad that this meeting is called in the name of the laboring people, be­ cause this ques. ion is, from first to last, from skin to eore and back to akin again, a question of labor. "I will not in this campaign stop to argue the question upon any other basis. I have no per­ sonality to Indulge in; have no sores to heal, and I would ruther h tve your cordial and heartfelt and symputhmio welcome than any oflioo you oare to bestow upon me. But in this e invass, in which 1 shall take reatar or less part. I shall hold this ques Jon from th i begir.n ng to tha end as a question that in or .ihts e\ery man, woman, and child in this countcy that'dtpends upon daily labor for daily bretd. Tiere is no need to make any laws to protect capital. Capital always takes care of itself and gets a full share, but there are laws that can elevate the condition td the laboring man and then* are laws that can dearade him, aud t ho Republican party has stood for twenty-five years, and it will staud, I believe, \vita the bles.sing of God and the will of the American peopk\ twent.y-ftve years more upholding and maintaining the laboring man, for the Govern- tnriit which takers care of the bona and sinew and working muscle of the laud is taking care of the men who created tho wealth in the country and who are therefore entitled to the patronaga and protection of the Government. "Now, genil'nion, you represent a critical State; you represent the State of New York. Your votes are to tell in that issue. Your votes can be decisive upon that f tis issue.. Do not be diverted irom tl at one question by sidelsBues. I)o not bo misl ni by pstty s piabbles upon this or that small issue or 'upon personal qu 6tioi:i of abuse on th? one hand or th1* other, but give your votes as independent laboring m»n aud give them for th • interests of your own homes, of your own fireddos, aud thereby for the gro.t interests of tho greit republic. - "1 never, Mr. Chairman, thought of this re­ public as 1 do to-nipnt. 1 have seen the other side; I have devoted many of the last iourte< n months to seoing the < Oiidltiou of 1-ibor and la­ boring men in the oth«T hemisphere un t I say without foar of cmtradic ion thit in no country of Kuropn, In no part of Ei rope, or a part of any eoni)try. is the cc nd tioii of 1 ibor comparably to that which it holds in ttio (Jmtad States. Are you willing to give up tha'p. sii ion, rr are . yon wi ling to maintain it? You can maintain it by a, Strong pull nnd & kn > pull and a pull altuWty • _ âcy- --John P. Fred, editor and publisher of the Independent, a weekly Republican paper at Blue Mound, has purchased tha Macon Signal ot Cook A Lewia and hwpi; ^, taken charge of the same. He will pub* "'f. lish a Republican paper. \ t --A grand banqnet to several hundred y people was given at the armory in Deca- * s; tur, in connection with the receptio* given in honor of Bishop Brown and thf - sixty ministers who attended the annual - conference of the African Methodist ' Episcopal Church. --The annual conference of the Norther* / Illinois Free Methodists will be held a| * Elgin, beginning Sept. 18. Bishop Cole­ man will preside. f --A carious tea party has been held a| Elgin. Mrs. Nancy Kimball gave an inf /l; formal reception to celebrate her 101st * birthday. Her guests were the early setn tiers of Elgin, and the youngest of th$r J party was a lady of 60. The exact date of Mrs. Kimball's birth is Sept. 26, 1787. an«| ^ Sept. 26, in the present year, the anni* vereary will be observed by the general I public of Elgin. - ' ' " --Over twenty head of cattle have died at Braidwood lately of Texas fever. jl --Jacob Custer, a farmer living neaf St. Joseph, shot and killed himself. He was to have been married to his house­ keeper soon. r--The Rev. T. J. Cooper, of Aurora, who while insane made an attempt to com­ mit suicide a few weeks ago, escaped from his attendant, burned down hi& house and hanged himself. 5 < r--Rev. T. R.Ward, presiding eldev of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, died at his home, near Ramsey, of paraly­ sis, aged 57. He was buried at the Craig cemetery with Masonic honors, of which fraternity he had long been a member. --Corn, except in a few counties, i$ making a rank growth, and a number ot correspondents call attention to a verf? \V. large average of ears to the stalk. In not * a few cases, observers report more stalks with five or more ears than heretofore no­ ticed. The unseasonable weather of lato has reminded many farmers of the severe August frost of 1863, when equally as favorable prospects for corn as at present were so seriously damaged. --The comrades of the Department of the State, Grand Army of the Republic, will present the name of Col. James A. Sexton of Chicago for Commander-in- chief of the Grand Army of the United = States at the twenty-second annual en- 1 ^ \ campment at Columbus, O., Sept. 11, 18 ^ and 13. Col. Sexton is the present com­ mander of the department of this State. --Mrs. Seilhammer and a young girl named Fisher got into a fight near Isabel, Edgar County. In the melee the Fisher girl hit Mrs. Seilhammer on the head with a skillet, fracturing her skull. The woman ;| will die. --A dispatch from New York announces the death in that city of Bob Conner, • • gambler, who left $150,000 in Govern- ment bonds in a safety deposit vault, to­ gether with other funds and personal .3 property amounting in the aggregate to-- If $200,000, and that Connor was believed to^ di have no living relative to inherit the fort­ une. It now turns out that Conner was for several years a resident of Galena in early times, and that he leaves a brother, John W. Conner, now living at Augusta, Ga., who enlisted from Jo Daviess Coun- • ty, during the late war, in Company C, Ninety-sixth Illinois Infantry, and who lost all trace of Robert many years ago and has long regarded him as dead. Bob Conner left Galena as a bartender on an upper Mississippi packet, and began the profession of blackleg while employed in that capacity. John W. Conner has been notified by friends of the fortune that un­ doubtedly awaits him. --Neoga people who have lost cows by Texas fever demand pay-for them from." the Illinois Central Railway Company, claiming the cows were exposed to the dis- ' v ease by pasturing along the company's right of way for a distance of two miles, where the fence was down, and becoming' infected by the refuse which dropped from cars, in transit loaded with Texas cattle. About twenty head have been lost. --Henry Hollman, Jr., slipped and fell sixty feet from the cupola of Charles Plagge's new warehouse at Monee, land­ ing on the main track of the Illinois Cen­ tral Railroad. He died in two hours. -- Captain Atchison's 18-year-old son, while playing ball at Gerlaw, was struck on the back of the head by a pitched ball and died from the effects of the blow. --The largest display of fine horses of all grades ever made in Piatt County was seen at the opening of the Piatt County Fair. A number were there from other States, including racers, trotters, and pacers. Several premium herds of Here­ ford and Holstein cattle were also there, among them those of R. Price, k Sons, of Williamsville, and Fowler & Bassett, of Long Point, Livingston County. The display was the best ever seen and the attendance large. Gov. Oglesby and Judge Matheney addressed the old pioneers at their great reunion, which was held on the fair grounds. The speak* ing took place from the old log cabin which was ereoted sixty-six years ago, the first in that county, by George P. Worth, assisted by the Kickapoo Indians. --The Illinois Division of the League of American Wheelmen will hold their race meeting at Cheltenham Beach, Chi­ cago, Aug. 2. The programme is varied, and contains no less than seven cham­ pionship events, including three State races, viz: One, two and five miles each. The Chicago Bicycle Club, Fort Dear­ born, Illinois, Lincoln, and Pastime Cy­ cling Club, will each have a championship one-mile race. The balance of the pro­ gramme consists of a one-mile novice, two-mile handicap, three-mile handicap, two-mile race for Rover safety bicycle, and a one-mile consolation. There will be no less than three cdstly prizes, consist­ ing mainly of gold medals, in eaoh event. ; The officers of the day will be: S. A. Miles, referee; R. S. Garden, Chas. P. Stokes, P. W. Gerould, and Edwin Oliver, judges; Capt. Frank l!. Yates, E. • L. Ferguson, timers; F. E. Riggs, clerk of course. The tournament is nnder th* personal management of Capt. Chas*. H* * * 9 ..v.. V;'-.. A