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tetmeMjoa ataiethai wormtoiatoiaa, AndaHaoogh tt wu Manas m prose a tkaatBa, t will iT. U a metrical ,i wins, and see If lae atory Wll kM J RWM ay rhySOH. There oame to a Met In a-rlDaa cay A lont nd lank stranser in bxnespna arrayed; And " O wd mornttV, ' nid bo, in dtfiMent way. " I've Jee' come op to town ior a btt of a trade." The proprietor sodded and cheerily epok : WU. what oan 1 k for jwa, notshbor, sat howl" Wat, on of wlfe-a anWn? naedlte) a broke, As' sha waala ata to alt oae Sow math ba thay newt"

"They're two casta apiece.'" "Wal, ay.

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aid thi ereaaspsr presently, "Wal, I mt

He tain dan Oat needle sad Kit tba in b When the eouatryeaan Matted out, AttttjarlB. cnaed To treat a x attatontart fast to, rat dif. Though eragfered a IttUe, K mast Be confessed. By the customer" coming it rather too free; Yaa nuilinvlv vrantiaa tba modest Tiwiaa

. Tlia ihala. l.aimiilill - TTalt ailiai alien II huT-

WalL a drop of Madalry I reckon nl pan; IT Ma used terthet. see, ever ttneel waa bam." The e treekerfer handed a bottle aad flaee, AadaiaauttaBerpoarataiianenKiabor. For a meaaent h eyed the frratnHooa Oram Wuh tha air of a man wfcomuessoaaeniinaTreetas, Then bhmdiy remarscd, "Bo jr know tbat I am Vat; partial to mixing an R S ray winef Oh, nan, art as finish thia matter, I hat; Yon'mvarj partleaUr, though, Iauateay" Tha etorekeeper muttered end handed an egg Tbe lileatlcal OB ba had taken la pay. On therimof thetnmhlcr the roan broke be eheO " It'. oert'inlT hndmte the ir j yer treat folk;" Be opened It deftly, and plumprr a fall

With .plain, and no wonder-It await daaMa

yoat Tha emnamer saw, and a lone; breath ha drew;

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Bo hand roe another aa' then well be square I n Bar OwarwaC

HcAtiMi ran

AatWIrTS THBOIT BACKWASH Ever since Eve forced Outplo Ob her auanapeettng epooar, hfan haa bad hie bread to ffrapp!e Bj tba aaoisrore e bJa browa; Bat the ape waamneh ton clever To become the parpen t a prey 80 ba loth) not, and be nerer Tarna a hair the Mrelorw day. Antbropolda are never eoHd Never bare the tblmt tor drtak Rome at n!ht tia not re,-orded That the husband-monkeys sti k. When they're tripped by fortana Itckle, laetened to a erne chain. They anre nh reck tue nickel Tor the orKan-aindec1 gaia. How ther ecora the rami penny With their ranleae, mlUng eyeal Ah! beliavenie. rr knrwn aunty If en who are not half lo wiie. ' BJbw to lire withont a titlor Free truu oaTta and tlcctorn' pilla 3(eer Co rrembSa or tnrnpnla o'er Fl'ea of unreceipted bflti.

A YOUNG WIFE'S FOLLY.

Pretty Lilian Tjavwney, exquisitely 00atanied, from tba Umg silkea ostrich pfamM of her bat to the tip of her dainty boot, ran lightly down the high stops of bar beantifol new home. She had been married a mon th, - and was Tery happy as the d&rling of an old aoaii, who, while lortonate eoongh to Barronnd her with lnxnry, was also more Sorlnnate to pomeaj the utter faith and lore of his young wife. Haj. Lawney had nerer regretted the lew yean of tried fidelity aad experience wfaich made his breast a hayen of rest and peace to this otherwise louoly giri. It was Iiiiian who grisved that her brief twenty sammera might separmto so far their now united lives. But this brilliant winter day possessed for her no introspection. She only knew that her happy heart seemed to be reflectud from the daMling streets and bright bhte sky. Her content seemed to make all the world content about her, VJitU, quickly turning the career of the avraare, she came suddenly upon a knot of boys, in the nridst of vhiehwasadog, xmaexshle, crouching creature, over which her heart melted. She stopped. ' What are yon doing to thai poor dog? " she asked, somewhat sererely. The boys had pained at her sadden appearance npom the scene, with the air of detected criminals. One, revealing that he had a heart in Ids breast, finalFy answered : "Ned Bollins, he's tamed a whole bottle of kerosene over him, sad they're going to set it on fire I" " 1 that true f" demanded Lilian of atM of the older boys. " He's my dog, and I've a right to do what I please with him I " he returned, ianwleiitty, and he reae rp from his erooohinx position aad gave the poor dog a kick, which actanjilycaased Lilian feeling of physical iaixitness. . The other boys knked sdmewhat eowed at the indignant flash of her beautiful eyes, bat the bully stood de-

"Toa don't want the dog, I tmdertmadt "she said, at length, aMreasing

"Ho; I am going to kill him," be "He said he'd sell him to me, and ow he wont," spoke np another of the bWin joa sail him to me?" asked LCiaa qirtokly. "How machU 79a give?" demanded theyoticg rofBao. Xoliso took oat her ttrtlo asnre pane, wtdi its gold rings, aad turned the coin in her hand. Only a few pennies and a gold sovereign, which latter she had kept a poekM Taeee tomemnfla, Her Inwband had dropped it into her purse one day, playfully pripesing that she ahoold make some wia invetment of it. She tamed the ojin" ia her palm over regretfnily. Utore was no help sot it "I wffl grve-yott thfa," she said, tating otit the aovesHgn. M Toa may laWnha.'' Tranaferring the ooia to too boy's hand, Lilian beat over her new parehase, patting him, and taking the stnrg which was tied about his neck. The dog waa oaly a puppy yet, apparently of a large breed of animals, waa of good size, with a shaggy, rusty coat, bat Lilian observed that hts head, with its drooping, silky ears, was really pretty, and intelligence shone in his appealing browa eyes. BtOl, the forlorn, halfstarvod crvature was a ludicrous appendage to the elegant young lady, aad as she rose ap to lead htm sway the boys set up a shoot of derision. Lilian's cheek talced ; but she continued to lead and coax the aflimnl through the quiet aqaare to her own door. With a breath of retief she at length hut it upon him. In the vestibule of the elegant house the miserable dog looked more miserable than ever by contrast, aad Lilian looked at him thonghtfully, a faint smile of

humor relieviDg ber excitement and

At that nuavetit she beard her bos-

band's step in the drawing roam, " Major r she called gayiy. Darliagr waa the response. ''Ikave mveBtedaytovareigB, Come and see f Mayor Lawney, with haaviisome, manly nvee and carliag gray hair, appeared in the hall. With a dramatic ah of mock triumph Lilian pointed to the dog. "Why, Lilian, whore did you get that anfortonate aveatuie rternanrted her

knatano, in the lew tone rf

"Foafd himvrith sme boys who wore

going to 'srlr'n' fehn. T aould not save aim any other way, no I bought him, and I had only the sovereign to pay for him. with. - He isnt vary nice, bat I pity him so! sad 1 may keep Urn, mayn't I, Guy J" Major Lawney looked from the lovely face to the unlovely dog, and the next ntooMt his own faee broke slowly into smile. "Tea, you may keep him, and he shall be called Lai's Polly, " he said rather yly.

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The next instant her arms were around Ins neck, and they were laughing heartily together. Bat Lil's Folly, fed, washed,' brushed and treated kindly, began to have a respectable appearance. Lil observed that he was growing; and Major Lawney snrreptitiorisdy fed him from his plate at dinner, and pronounced him a very good specimen of the Newfoundland. "Not so tad an investment, Lil,' he finally remarked kindly, when in the spring Folly had reached a remarkable

JU1 laughed. "Thank you ! I eon bear considerable of that sort of thing, Guy; I have been ashamed of him so long." Folly was invested with a handsome new collar, and in the summer went down to the seashore with them. They took board at one of the hotels, Lil had never been in such a place before. The great, restless, level sea, the stretch of silent shifting sky, the panorama of the gliding sails were-iiidescribably delightful to her. 8he was constantly out of doors, running along the shore, and climbing the rocks like a ohild. She watched sunrises and sunsets. She sat in the yellow sands watching the snowy sari, and lived all the happiness sha had ever dreamed. Her husband leisurely accompanied her light footsteps. If his thoughts were graver than hers they were not less pleasant; and that bonny, golden, glancing boad was the light of his eyes. But one day he had letters to write when Lil wanted to be out of doors. - "Be as quick as you can, Guy, and I will run about by myself, with Folly, until yoa are ready, when we ahull go down to the shallows," she said, and was away, the great Newfoundland dog at Iter side. Folly was sagacious, docile and very obedient. Along the shoie he was allowed to accompany tbem ; bnt at the village, where Maj. Lawney received bis mail twice a week, he was found an embarrassmen t a certain belligerent mastiff making war upon him; and though Folly, "being in," bore himself bravely, he was the greatest sufferer in these encounters, by reason of his shaggy coat, which gave the mastiff so undetachable a hold upon him. Lil also had occasional errands at the village. If Foilv followed unperceived and was sent back be always obeyed, not o ly turning back at t e command, " Home, sir, home I" hut returning to the pinzzi of the hotel, where he lay

down and patiently bidea his time.

But this mornmg he was free to follow his vounsr mistress. He bounded at

ber side, his head erect, his great tail moving like a "banner, apparently as

bappv as she was. lil took a new direction this monihisr.

and, being out of sight of the hotel, ran out upon a promontory that reached far into the restless water. There she

sat down to rest, but soon busied herself picking np some beautiful pink sea-ahells.

When an hoar had passed in this way

she tamed to retrace her steps, bnt paused in amazement. . Sha was upon a small island. The sea had advanced.

crossed the neck at its lowest point, and

cut her off from the main land. And,

to her horror, she saw that it was still advancing, and lessening the little island apon which she she and the dog stood.

After a moment she climbed noon the

highest rook and watched it. Yes, the tide was coming in rapidly and swiftly and sorely surrounding the island. She had reason to believe that it would soon

be submerged. Folly, too, seemed to scent danger. He ran back and forth

uneasily, sniffling the air.

1M sank down on the rocK and tried to think. She was about a mile from the hotel, and out of sicht of it. Her

husband would apprehend no trouble,

and when he snould have finished his letters, would take a cigar and await Iter return. No one was on the shore, and no boats in eieht. If the water

should submerge the rocks upon which

she sat there was no prospect bnt that

she would be drowned.

I cannot tall how long the poor girl

sat there, watching the crawling water, trying not to think how happy she had bees, how hei husband would be stricken by her death, for she never knew herself.

But she rose at last, making a desper

ate effort for life. She determined to

send the dog ashore with a message to

her husband.

Tearuur a blank pane from a letter m

her pocket, she wrote few words upon.

it with the little gold pencil that hung from her watch guard, then tried to

iten the note to Folly s collar : bnt the

note was too perishable to trust to tha water. The salt drops already dripping

nom nis snaggy coat instantly soaked in and made it worthless, and she broke into a bitter cry. The next instant she snatched the pretty straw hat from her bead and tied it securely by its cardinal ribbons to Folly's neck. He looked into her face, whined and crouched at her feet. Was he troubled

for her or himself?

"Go home ho&e, sir 1 she said. For the first time Folly did not obey. He alternately crouched before ber and sprang upon her breast, wagging his tail. She caught hold of his collar and led him to the water's edge. "Go home, Folly home home ! " With a desperate howl the dog sprang He swam away and left Lil alone. The water encircled her within a few yards. She was certain mow that it would rise about the rocks upon which she sat. In spite of herself she was crying miserably whisperiugher husband's name trying, poor child 1 to say her prayers, to say numbly, " Thy will, not mine, be done. Bnt it was hard, while the cruel, craving, cold waves came up, np, and there was no sound bnt their clashing .voices. She was not ill, either. Her heart beat so violently in her young breast, the blood beat so hot about her throbbing temples, and the sweet lips that trembled were yet thrilled by

"'twill be too late! too late t" Folly might go directly to the hotel and display the drenched hat; then, again, for once, he might hie away to seek his own pleasure, ' and the hat be torn from his neck and never be found in time to tell the story. Already the water was creeping around her feet already she st on a level with the tossing waves. Ten minutes more and "Lil! Lil! Lil!" A call her name 1 She sprang np, tore off her duster of pale linen and waved it eloft to guide the coming boat She could hear the ears, and at last at last she saw the little dory leaping over the waves. There was her husband and another strong oarsman, and Folly stood in the tern. She utterly lost control of herself then and wept wildly, until her husband's arms took her into the boat ; and then.

sobbing into calmness on his knees, as they rowed away from the dreadful spot, . Lil, prayed, ! When he could talk and she could listen, Maj. Lawney told her how Folly ; had come ashore. I " He came bounding into the clmra- ' ber with the hat in his mouth, evidently ' wanting to attract my attention to it, I i was still writing, and half-absently or- ! dered him out He would not go but ' sprang around me, whining until, I glancing at my watch, and seeing how

late it was, witn n sounas oi your arrival, I looked at him more closely, and saw that he was very we. On trying to take the hat away from him, I observed that it w ts the one you had wcrn away. The truth then rushed over kne ; but never was there a more miserable man,

for I did not know which way to gt. I

feared that you were crowned. 1 rushed down to the shore, called to the land

lord s son ana pusnea on me aory. x begged him to come with me. Folly, too, jumped in ; and when we began to row showed every sign of dissatisfaction until we turned the boat Evory time I called, he barked, until, dear child, we came in sight of you. and then I could hardly keep him iu the boat, so anxious was he to reach you. But for his help, sweetheart, death would have separated as. No money shall ever buy Folly."

REPUDIATION 111 ARKANSAS.

To Love, Honor, ana Obey. The old-time formula in the marriage service, by the utterance of which the bride unreservedly commits herself to obedience to the dictates of the man she marries, is greatly disliked by most womec There are many who are willing to say they will love the man. Some go so far as to promise him honor. But in implicit obedience there seems to be something co lavish that the feminine soul instinctively recoils from it Some women , require that the officiating clergyman shall omit the objectionable word. Others want it to be slurred over so as to be hardly audible, and there ore some who are willing to have it pronounced aloud and to respond to it with the understanding that it means no more than the " with all my goods I thee endow" which is uttered by the bridegroom, whose sole possessions are the goods upon his back. When, therefore, the married man insists on the full carrying out of that part of the contract in 'which - obedience is promised by the wile, he either becomes an object of ridicule or else otherwise gets himself into trouble. Thus it was with one Davenport of St. Louis, who undertook to rule the wife of his bosom as an Oriental potentate would lord it over the inmates of his harem. Within a few weeks after marriage thh tyrannical person began his tyranny, exacting the most rigid obedience to all his dictates and making his wife's existence a protracted misery. This autocrat seems to have been woefully jealous of his wife and to have had stout objections to her even speaking to other gentlemen. To carry out his views on wifely obedience he enacted a set of rules for her government and gave them to her as her guide while on a visit to New York. These constituted a sort of moral strait-jacket, to the great discomfort of the poor woman who was expected to do the obeying. She was to speak tu nobody in traveling except to conductors and porters. She was to go directly to her mother's boarding house and there salute nobody except her own relations. She was to refrain from singing in the boarding-house parlor. She was to remain with he- mother continnally, day tmd night She was to eat with the old lady or else at a separate table by herself. And she was on no account to permit herself to be introduced to anybody with a view of forming new acquaintances. As if all this were not enough, the poor strait-jacketed creature was every night to write to her tormentor a full and exact account of her doings and goings and sayings, which was to be warranted faithful and truthful. It is not surprising that a divorce suit grew out of this system of compelled obedience. The woman who could oliey such a tyrant as this fellow could neither honor nor love him. The man who could thus shrivel a woman's soul is worthy of nothing better than a divorce, but the divorce should be of the sort which forbids him to marry again and biing any other woman under the ban of his horrible tyranny. The "obedieiice" idea may be good in theory, bnt an soon as it is put into Bevere practice it becomes so odious that it chafes the marriage bond, and before long begins to ravel it The obedience and honor which do not spring from lore are not worth having. Philadelphia 2Vie. The Paris 'Bos. "The "bus system in Paris fc the best in the world." So says the guide-book. The "buses are long carriages with seats on the top, but no "knife-board," such as the London 'buses have, which accommodates two persons on each side of the driver, the very best place from which to see London. I learned a good deal about the Paris "buses by experience, I stood on the sidewalk and bailed a 'bus that had " Baatile " on it. They didn't pay the slightest attention to me, but bowled serenely by. I ' hailed the next and the next with the same result, and as the 'buses were not full I betran to set offended about it I

j shonted at the next one and waved my ! umbrella, but both guard and driver

looked at me with a sort of mild curiosity as they quickly passed on. As my gestures became more emphatic, arid my shouts to stop more audible, a whitsaproned waiter approached from the cafe in front of which I stood and said : " Parley voo Jfatnsay, moaseau?" "No." "You speak do English, den?" "Yes." "Well, my mastair, le propretair, would be oblige if you not repeat yoar wave la paraplue-e-le nmbxel but to move 'way." " Then, does your master, the proprietor, imagine I am doing this for tie amusement of your master, the propr tor, and his guests? I want to get one of these idotio "buses if I can." "You vant to get oa ae 'bes ?" asked the waiter, in astonishment "Z-snw uy you not go to ze stasheb le station ?" aad ha pointed down the Boulevard cos Itahens, to where a 'bus was standing and people were crowding on board. "Then 'buses stop only at swtiojis, like railway trains?" "Gairtammang, Mossu. Z 'bus systaim de Faroe ex ze lieat in xe voruld." Detroit Free Prest,

From the Chicago Tribune. J The State of Arkansas soma years ago scaled her debt very heavily, and there is now pending before her people an amendment to the constitution practically repudiating the rest of it A strong effort was made by a minority of the Democratic party to save the credit of the State by protesting against the amendment, but the majority of the party in the recent State Convention in

dorsed the repudiating platform, and

l?imilUlllA2U LM1V fjm by 111 ItUC uvnw V AM adoption. As there will be large portion of the Republican party also supporting the amendment, the probabilities are that m November Arkansas will "emancipate" herself from debt by writing upon her constitution an irrepealable law prohibiting its payment In the legal arguments before the United States courts of Tennessee concerning the validity of some of the bonds issued by that State, the venerabla Charles O'Couor in his argument lamented the adoption of the Eleventh Amendment to the national couc titution eighty ytars ago, whereby all legal means were abolished through which a State Government could bo compelled to pay its honest debts. He regarded it as a national reproach that Stale Governments were recognized as possessing power to incur debts and liabilities, without any ower existing anywhere to enforce the payment on their fart of their obligations. During the last ten years the hand of the scaler of State d'jbts has been busy at the South. Sou Ji Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana have "paid" their debts lo'a large extent not even with the frankness of Micawber. They have simply tendered the creditors new bonds for a proportion of their debts, declaring the rest "oS." Arkansas has taken two or three chances at the debt The Legislature declared that a large proportion of the State debt had been contracted by "alien adventurers," and sponged it off the books, and the State court declared another batch was. "invalid." On the debt not yet

i formally repudiated no interest has been paid for many years, aud now it is pro- ; posed to declare furmally in the constitution that this debt never hod a legal . existence. Of courro both political par

ties in that State, being controlled by cheap demagogues, will vote this act of repudiation; and next year will advertise Arkansas as a State "entirely free of debt" These States have taken the direct road to perpetuate their poverty. For fifteen years they have advertised over the broad earth that they had nothing in common with the principles of political freedom so universally established in other States of the Union. Tuey undertook to inform the world that there was a "solid South" in which there were two distinct and separate races ; the one the superior, governing and ruling race, and the other thts inferior, servile and governed race. It was announced that this condition of society was unchangeable and should be perpetuated, and no matter what means might be necessary to maintain the supremacy of the one race and abject political degradation of the other those means would be adopted. The resolve has been maintained. Daring the present year ajmost 1,000,000 immigrants have come to our shores from foreign lands. Last year and during the years since 1866 the tide of immigrants has poured into all the Northern States, but the "solid South" has been avoided by them as if it were a land of pestilence. Except in the case of Texas the Southern States have been avoided by these millions of immigrants these men seeking homes for themselves and their families have had no more thought of migrating to the solid South than they had' of going to Africa, In the far-off homes ana villages of the people, where they discussed the future they expected to share iu the land of freedom, they no more considered the States of the solid South as port of "America " than they did San Domingo, They have therefore directed their course to all parts of tha country where the "superior race" aid the "nice born and educated to rule " does not abound. Arkansas is one of the States which have been onrsed with this policy which has warned off all immigration. Arkansas, with her immense natural advantages, ought to far in advance of Kansas, Iowa or Minnesota in point of population and general activity, industry and wealth; and what a spectacle is she made by having a convention of her leading citizens meeting in solemn conclave and formally resolving to repudiate that portion of the State debt which had not already been repudiated 1 What an advertisement this for the political morality of a great State which appeals for immigrants 1 Immigrants do not make new homes in a State where public dishonesty is mode a governing policy, and wbere public debts are repudiated that taxation may be rated low. What an encouragement for capital is offered by the formal repndiatim of the public debt ! If the State repudiate, why not counties, and cities and towns ; why not corporations, firms and individuals ? No State or municipality can prosper with an impeached or blighted credit, and while for a time a few demagogues may rule, arid hold offices, and lord it as the ruling and dominant race, and boast of how they delivered the State from the bondholders, the curse of repudiation wili rest as a blight upon the State and keep it in poverty and in sloth for generatioim to come. The roan or the community that pays a debt by repudiation will never grow wealthy by honest labor; and no State and no community can evr be prosperous when labor is not made the foundation for all wealth. Repudiation is the most costly of all means of paying public debts.

AcbCBKnt Castle Garden, who had been reading the debate ou this AntiChines:! bill and just 'finished Senator Edmunds' remarks about the necessity of homogeneity among the people of (lie republic, glanced up at an Irish emigrant who was leaning against the desk and soberly asked ; " Pat, are you homogeneous ? " " Divil x bit," said Pat, "I'm a Corkonian." Brooklyn Jiaffle,

A REPUBLICAN SENATE. From the Mew York Tribune. The gain of a Republican Senator in Oregon is of great importance. It assures a Republican majority in the United States Senate till after theujw President takes his seat on March 4, 1885. Whether the Republicans hold or lose their control of tho House of Roprosentatives in the meantime the Senate iu secure, and secure by what promises to be a safe majority. The terms of 26 Senators will expire in March, 1883. Of these 11 are Republicans, 14 are Democrats, and one. Davis of Illinois, is Independent T ie Senate stands at present 87 Republicans, 37 Democrats, one Independent, and one Readjuster, Mahone. Several changes in the new Senate have already been made. A second Readjuster, Riddieberger, has been chosen to ropluce a Democrat from Virginia, and a Democrat lias been chosen

to replace Kellogg, Republican, from Louisiuia. This is likely to bo the only loss that the Republicans will sustain. With a tho change mode to date, and counting the grain of a Republican from Colorado, and that of tho Republican who is curtain to be chosen in Illinois to succeed Judge Davii, the new Senate will stand 88 Republicans, 86 Deracoiats and 2 Readjusters. Whatever the Beadjufsters may do, :.t is safe to predict that they will not vote with the Democrats. The States at present represented by Democrat whose terms expire in 1883 are Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Now jersey, North Carolina; Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia aud West Virginia. Of these they have lost alpjady Oriigon and Virginia, and they stand A good ohance lor losing New Jersey, North Carolina a.:id Tennessee. New Jersey has had a Republican Legislature for tho pust four years, and is likely to have oue next year, ia which case Senator McPherson will give way to a Republican, who is pretty certain to be what the lute Gov. Williams of Indiana would ha-.'e called a " more abler man." North Carolina and Tennessee are both very uncertain for tha Democrats, and it is not improbable tin it they may choose Republic!. n, or at hiost anti-Bourbon, Legislatures. As we have said, the only State in which the Republicans are likely to lose it Senator is Louisiana. The other States which are to elect Senators to succeed Republicans ore Colorado, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, No oue of these can be called doubtful. By holding all these, and by gaining a Senator in each of the States of Oregon, Illinois and New Jersey, two if which are already assured, the new f-lenato would stand 39 Republicans, 35 Democrats, and 2 Readjusters, This ia vry likely to be the way in which it ill stand, with the possible addition ot tiro anti-Bourbons from North Carolina and Tennessee. It is clear, therefore, that the Senate is safe for the Republicans till March 4, 1885. The terms of 2) Senators will expire on that date, but except through death or resignation th re will bo no vacancies to be filled in tte meantime. The Democrats may be able to keep the Republican majority a very close one, but there is no possibility of thair securing a majority for themselves.

REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION. HurQUABTXKR REPrilllCAK HXATK CkKTSAI.) Coxxr.TXK, Deg Moikkx. June 23, 1082. j A State Convention of tho RspuMioan parly in Iowa will bo held hi Den Moines, lona, on Wednesday, the 2d day of August, A. D. 1882, for the pur) one of nominating candidates for tho following; offices, to -v. it: A candidate for Secretary of State. A Candida to for Audhor of Stat, A cfciriidnte for Treasurer of State. A Candida o for Jndgn of tho Supreme Court. A candidate for Clerk of tha Supremo Court. A candidate for Reporter of the Supreme Court. Tho ratio of representation will be one delepate from tieh county hi tho State, and in addition thereto oue delegate for each 200 votoa or fraction ver 100 cast for Buren B. Sherman, candidate fur Governor lit the general election in October, 1881. The following shown the rcjv rcsentftiou :

, to assert; their rights by the assurance : that when they do so thsy shall be sustained by Congn-ss. Th'jse two lessons, once thoroughly imprcitsed upon the

Southern peoplo, will work a political revolution in their section ; and hence the expulsion ef Wheeler, Chalmers, Dibble and Finley from the House, to which tney were never elected, has been of the highest significance with regard to the rule of majorities, Chicago Tribune Nervousness in America. Men prematurely bald, old, " unable to carry their owu liquor," and anxious beyond their face yours uro getting conspicuously common iu America. Tho slow, sententious Yankee of the stage in becoming rare in the cities, and thu cool individual who offers the suspicious stranger a cigar light stuck in the muzzle of . revolver, is happily confined to Demlwood Creek or Gough Eye Unleh. The women are more lovely than ever. Their faces arc tho faces of angels chiseled in marble ; bnt the pallor ia unhealthy, and tho liveliness of the American girl is, to a groat extent, incipient disease. It is, like their beauty, part of that nervousness which is afflicting their race. Their minds are untroubled by the cares of housekeeping, for mot of them live in hotels or boarding houses. In Europe they contract in marriages. But they soon fade, and while the English matron, and even her sister of Canada, who leads much tho same kiud of life is still in her prime, the once beautiful American is often a lean, hysterical haunter of health resorts. The future is -aot a pleasant prospeet. As men of leisure depart from the busy multitude, it is difficult to see what they aro to do with their money. There is n limit to the number of greenbacks which'a people cau spend on a house, and even a modest fortune is cumbersome to carry about in diamonds and watch chains. They can, of course, always go to Pariii, bnt a Tuileries American, as this hybrid Gaul used to be called in Napoleonic days, ceases to be an American, whilj if "he stays at home, it is hard to see how the rich average republican is to spend his money in any Other way than that which has produ!ed, and is increasing the nervousness of. his race. Competitive examinations', whioh will, in time, add their worry to the endless voting and electing of the present time, a:re calculated to intensify the trouble: But for long the evif tall not be much noticed. The county will be fertilized by a continuous stream of fresh-faced, simple-lived emigrants from "tuwd-up Europe." These will mingle with the humbler natives, and since the trua-born Yankee of New England, and ths "fust family" Americans of the South are notorious for the fewness of their children, will keep up the population of the United Stnteu. Meantime, tho learned folks, with, nt the fear of patriotic papers before their eyes, will affirm that the European is not naturalized in the new world At best he is a nervous edition of the gallant from wlii jh he sprang,and were it not for the new blood that is recruiting his jaded life, would dwindle away and become extinct London World.

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Arinigenn nts nil! be mado with the railroads of the State for reduced rates to delegates, of nhioh due i olice will tie hereafter given. By order )t tho committee. Wiixiam Cnais-rr, Chairman.

The Lesson of the Contested-Election Case. ' Mr, Burrows told the simple truth ! when he i aid that " the country has yot j to hear one word or syllable of dennn- ' ciation of tissue-ballots and other elec- ' tion fraucis is the South from the Demo- j c ratio minority vex the House." The j Democrats have been united in their ! championship of fraud, and their defeat ! in so bad a cause cannot fail to add to ! the popular distrust with which their ;

party is l jgarded wherever the purity of the ballot-box is maintained. Mr. Horr, of Michigan, described the Republican purpose properly when he undertook the other day to tell why these election eases have been urged with so much energy. It is essential to the existence of the Government that elections shall be protected against terrorism and cheats. Mere partv advantage is of minor importance by comparison. The Republican, party seeks no recruits from Bourbons aud no assistants from their methods. He is not ready, nor is the Republican party as a whole, to open its arms to such a man as Chalmers because the latter is disgruntled at the failure of his party aseocitttes to keep him in a seat whioh he held for several years withont a shadow of claim, Mr. fjbwe has been seated in place of Gen, Wheeler, the bulldozer, though Mr. Lowe is not only a Democrat but a Greenbacker, and thus doubly arrayed against the principles of the Republican party, Tho Republicans have been engaged in rebuking fraud and depriving it of the fruits it has brought forth iu the South. This ii a mission whioh is at once honorable aud necessary. The Southern Bourbons must be taught that they cannot continue to exercise an undue influence ovor national affairs by means of ballot-box stuffing or other 'devices to defeat tho will of the majority. The anti Bourbons of the South must be encouraged

The Values of Vegetables. AC; vegetables have an effect on the chemistry of the body , so that we oannot speak too highly of their importance at bible. We will mention a few of theso matters first and dispose of this aspect of the subject, so as not to seem to mix pharmacopoeia with the kitchen. Asparagus is a strong diuretic, and forms part of the cure for rheumatic pa tients at such health resorts as Aix-'ei -Bains, Sorrel is cooling, and forms the staple of that soup aux herbes, which a Freuch'lady will order for herself after a long aud tiring journey. Carrots, as containing a quantity of sugar, aro avoi led by some people, while others complain of them as indigestible. With regard to the latter accusation, it may be iromorked in passing that it is the yellow core of the carrot that is difficult of digestion the outer, a red layer, is tender enough. In Biivoy the peasants have recourse to anaitifusion of carrots as ii specific for jaundice. The large sweet onion is very rich in those alkaline elements whioh con nterac t the poison of rheumatic gout If slowly stewed iu weak broth, and eaten with a little Nepaul pepper, it will be found to be' an adn.irable article oi diet for patients of Btuclious and sedentary hubits. The stalss of cauliflower nave the same value, only too often tte stalk of a cauliflower is so ill-boiled and unpalatable that, few persons would themk you for proposing to them to make a part of their meal consist of so uninviting an article. Turnips, in the same way, are often thought to be indigestible, and better suited for cows ondsheep than for delicate people ; but here the fault lies with the cook quite as much as with the root The cook boils the turnip badly, and then pours some butter over it, and the eater of such a dish is sure to be the worse for it Try a better way. Half boil your turnip, and out it in slices like hah -crowns. Butter pie-dish, put in the shoes, moisten witi a little milk and weak broth, dust once with breaderunbs and pepper and salt, and bake in the oven until it gain a bright golden brown. This dish, whioh is the Pieimontese fashion of eating turnips, is quite unsuited to cows, and ought to be popular. What si: all be said about our lettuces? The plant has a slight nar jotic action, of which a French old woman, like a French doctor, well knows the value, and when proper ly cooked it is r jolly very easy of digestion ; but in our country, though lettuces are duly grown in every gardea, you often hear the remaik, "I can't eat salad;" and as few cooks know how to use a vegetable which has been refused in its raw state, the lettuces are all wasted, and so is the ground in which they were grown. Mrs. Reeve' Book on Cookary.

A Generous- Hon. A pair of horses in an English stable, whose box-stalls adjoined each other, wet e firm friends. The one which ' fin. ishiid its hay first rivariably received from the other evough to keep it busy until both lots were consumed. One day , one of the horse. made its way out of "its own loose liox, the door of which wi unfastened, ami found out a bucket of laosh which was standing in the entrance of the stable, mid, tiking the op portunity, while the coachman was in the loft overhead, it was helping itself freely to its tempting contents. Tho other horse, which was fastened to its own loose box, caught siiiht of its friendV proceedings, and neghed loudly, evidently demanding a share Hor iteelf ; and the servant was astonished to see tho horse whioh was enjoying itself fill its mo l th with the mash, and poke its nose through tho bars of tie loose box for its friend to take it from its mouth. This wuti done several times.

INMAftA ITEMS. J The "county history" look over $3,000 . out of Whitley county, Mautin county is tho first county to ! make its return of agricultural statistic j to tho State Bureau of 'Stat sties. ! Fbakk FbTjOeb was strnci by a freight

tram and latatiy injured, near jjori Wayno. Ho loaves a large family. Du. Solomon Stougit, of Waterloo, has been fined fl,00J for accepting bribes for issuing iulso pension certificates. (jHOitfiE RoHSEiii-E, a tramp, was killed near Shelbyville, white attempting to get ou a moving froisht-train. Both legs were cut oif close to the body. A wateb spotrr burst about one-hid! mile bi low Counersville, washing down fences and coinpl:-tely submerging the road, so that travel was impeded for some time. Paxtok WitHITE, an old farmer, residing seven miles south of Crawfordsville, was robbed on the streets of tLavv place, tho other day, during the parade of Cole's circus, oil' $1,000 eoldensh. . This ligltnmg-rod sharps boast that they can stand the newspaper bree:se, considering the) ox t that they bled about $5,000 out of the farmers of Cass and adjoining counties, in the space of two weeks. A littiiE boy at Richmond swallowed three arsei:ic pills that had bf en carelessly left :n his way, and the fright eucd mother seut for a doctor; but before he cane tha boy h id vomited up tho poison. Tn consequence of I'nliuess in the building line, the Hinsdale Doyle stoaeUiills, at B;il ford, have shut down for tho present, throwing out of employment a large number of stone-cutters, careers and laborers. Tuh Board of Commissioners of Jackson county ;iav just made their annual settlement, struck a balance, and find the county does not owe a cent U(l RS 332,089.13 in the treasury. Tho levy is one of the .owest of feliy county iu th" Stn'e. Hanover College has conferred the degree of LL. D. upon Alias Maria Mitchell, Professor of Astronomy at Vassnr College. She is the sister of tho late Gen. O. M. Mitchell, and as a woman audiichoiur deserves the honored title. Joseph iiPUBOis, a lO year-old boy, got on a rock car at the quarry, iu Salem, and nuloosed the brake, which threw him down upon the track, and the cars started and ran over one of his legs, crushing it to almost a jelly. It was amputated about four inches from the body. Mbs. YtozTjER, of New Albany, cherishes the traditional feminine dread of a man unde r the bed. The other evening her apprehension was justified by the discovery of a concealed intruder, whom she, with commendable presence of mind and steadiness of nerve, knocked iniiensiblo with the lamp.

' Annie Kino, a handsome young

Msnooiroistress and daughter ot a prominent fannar living, near Wabash, eloped with a fellow named Daily, whose home is in Newcoatle, and who has a wife and two children. 'I he affair has created a big breeze at Waba3h in consequence of the prominence of Miss King. Job Sjcxdeb, living near Georgetown, Floyd county, having some wot pov der, placed it in in oven of his stove to dry, and apparently forgot it as an explosion occurred soon after which "blow tilings in all directions. His two children, who were in tho room at the time, were struck by pieces of the stove and fatally wounded. The employment, of experts at high wages by the County Commissioners of Lawrence county to examine the books in the County Treasurer's office, which occasioned no much excitement a short time since, has resulted in a personal quarrel between Commissioner Alex. Glover and ex-Treasurer- F. A. Sears. Through the columns of the local papeis they are gradually telling all they kn6w. Mns. Hekbt S. Lank left Orawfordstvilte, last week, for New York, where she will be joined by Mrs. Oilman, of Boston. The two ladies will sail for Europe, to be absent till next spring. They will spend tho summer traveling through the different countries of the Old World, will join Gun. Lew Wallace and wife in Constantinople in the fall, and will spend, the winter in Palestino. Oscar Goodwin, cashier of the Ik gansport National Bank, is mistertonsly missing. The bank officers report that, so far as thoy liave been abla to examine, all his accounts are perfectly correct Goodwin stood well in business circliw, although ho was addicted to drink. The bank of whi ch ho was cashier is the lending one in Logansport, and had probably $80,000 in its vaults when he left John Cabmony, the engineer of the railway train which was wrecked near Bedford, died every inch a hero. Fastened under the locomotive, and his legs and the lower part oi his body actually cooked by the boiling water that deluged him, he was asked by the firemnn what could De done for him, and, with the courage and self forgetfulncss of a martyr, he replied: "Let me godon't stay here ; but, for God's sake, go and help those poor women and cluldren in the coaoheti 1" Maiicotte and Jettetura. Both dictionaries and scholars fail to answer tho question, whioh the opjra with the title constantly noses, what is a mascotte ? But the visitors of Moate Carlo tell us it is a fetich a luok-bring-er. All ge.ni blew are superstitions, snd draw their inspirations from the oddest circumstances. A mascotte may b a son or a sixjienoo with a hole in it, a button, a look of hair, anything which the puutei has associated with a lucky turn. Alnis to a beggar mascotte; denial of almi mascotte; seeing a hunchback or a white horse mascotte; meeting a black cat mascotte. Three years ago a little hunchback at Monaco derived larg' returns from standing near the table and rubbing his hump at the request of tho pluycrs. H-a had a tariff: Once, 5 francs; a long rubbing, 10 fracas; for standiig hall: an hour behind a certain player and not rubbing for others, 20 francs. At the end of the season, returning to Paris on the train, he was seen to thrown away hit hump, Mascotte is the opposite of jettatura, or the evil eye, iVcti; York Sim. It appears from a Parliamentary return Unit 4,01t ersous were drowned on the coast and ia tho inland waters of Great Britain during the yoar 1340. Of this numtier, however, 471 committed suioide, and twenty-sit were murdeiod. The number ot prisons saved from drowning was 718, -f whom 577 ivern saved by life-boa tr

THE T0BS AIM1 SKi-SOX Uiiwiuni ot 300 kNmpte KtUeel a at Alllllona of PkOpen-jr aaeveawyant M I'&r Tbla Ymr. The year 188 w,m th Chisago TrOnme, bkla fair to bu known hexaiiter tha tornado

yei, r. There were aavaral mnd-titannB in.lH8I, but only 187 persons were Killed by them, while aJroady during tha Unit the mcntiia of 1883 Uiare

have been 315 killed mn;r hundred aarioifBiy

injored, and milUonsot dollim' worth of property dest royed. Ttwug h tha principal part of this Iohi belong to what may ba called to tor

nado region namely, that section of ooqotrv nortiioaKt from tho northern Dart of

Tiixaa, inclining the Indian Territory, Ktn,,

jniiisouri, jsormera iimKM ana lomm law all parts of the Sooth and fkratliwoat have trafferod severely, and ooa aevere wind-totm iwopt through a portion af Pennsylvania. Those terriblii vhatatixiii onamensad to March, thtre being twi ia (hat month ope in Georgia, involving a Ion- ot atx Uvea, and one in Dakota, wbkfc Miciifteed twpntynx. Iu April heavy winds wan very prevalent all over the Southern Statea, destroying a large amount Of priiperty and killing no kj than 118 persons. In Kay there waa a comSarauvo lull, though there waa & severe tornado i the vie only c f Mt AJUn ier, Texaa, whioh resulted in tie doath of eighteen persona, and there were numerous leae-c attructivc blows in ansa. and Texas, which helped to swell the deubroli for tho month to forty-four. This seemed to be the tngnal for nnlooxing the f nrv of tha winds in the West, and tho month ot June has witnessed on almost constant tuotaaeion of terrible tornadoes throughout Iowa aad sane parts of Kanaat, the pruuipal ones being moat Hjvcrey felt at CrrinnsU, Independence and Kmmetsborg, and other parte of Central Iowa. The list of dead ainady mashes -127, and many mom hive received injurka from which they cannot rwover, while many hundreds have bean brcsKid and maimed, end the dauage occasioned by the loss 'rf bonsea, barns, oh ircuea, wbojls, crops, stool: and farming iinpl mcnta can hardly be estimated. In the Orinnoll disaster the onslaught waa unprocodeitedly fiunotu, throe totnaSoes ragtag at ono time, one cxnnnienctnjj' in the sonthwen part Of Ik one county, and endi iu; near Ogdeu ; tho second oo nmenciuig near the ttuwouri 1 rentier and codini; near Burlington ; and the third lieginning near Orinnell and sweeping over a oonram at Sa miles oefore iu a vful Journey waa tenMnatod, leaving ixjhind t a wrath half a mile in width of utler destruction and devastation. As if not content with these, Nature has mauif cited her auger in nn aauully severe wind, bail, and tbunclor storms. Hoods and tidal waves, whioh have helped to inoeue the enonuooa lois of property throughout the west The description of one of these tornadoes answers for all of tbcin, for there ia no difference between them except in the aggragstu a? d junction they cause. In each caie tnere to tfceaantfc swiftly-whirling funnel-shaped oloui giving warning of its nppiroech, not only by its distinct form and the ooinraotioa it oauees ia the atmosphere, bat also by the iMrible rearing Boand whiet precedes its aaeault The preliminary phenomena are always the sn. All tae data concerning their occurrence are now wai known, and the experiences of the part twenty yean indicate to an absolute certainty that the region wait or tho Mississippi river, from the northern hue of Iowa and Nebraska down to Alkausaa, thu Indfan Territory and Texas, must always be exposed to them, especially in the months of May and June. It is hopetoss to attempt to stop them by any measures knovn to science, bat they are now so. well known tnthtir origin, direction, progress and results that the Hignal Service Bureau ought to be iibli to give timely warning of tbeir approach so that persons may be able to protect tnemsclve if not their property. It haa been proved that the onUaf oi' a house ia the only place of eaitety. . As it may r-ot be feasible for every man to cfmeniato himself by a cave on his grounda to which he and his family could repair, it seems, as one Iowa paper baa already suggested, that a stronirand substantial ahstteamight.be designed in the collar so that tha danger of falling timbers might be averted and thus a harbor of refuge would always be at hand. At QrinneU, ai at Ganunohe twwy years ago, tho tornado give ample warning of ita approach and left uifAcient time to seek refuge in cellars, and tioae who did so escaped hi aluiocc every instance. THE FJJaTLT DOCTO. Dtukpsia. Thin simply means poor digestion, It is far easier to prevent thia horrible disease by rogularity of mtadav eating slowly, ohevriiig faithfully, and by the use of a moderate quantity of plain, idmple and w ell-o aoked food, than to cure it by drugs, Tkk Spark Room This room, (oof. vacated, dark and damp, the belling almost moldy, may be good enough for pirates, whom we snay wish to nd the world of, bnt net for our dear frifmdav And yot thousands are annually slain, by bei ig kept for a night in such damp beds, contracting colds too severe to yield to ordinary trist.tmesit Arp .ua A more extensive use of apples a& food at our meals, remarks Dr.. ,J. H. Hanaford, will do much to dicanish dyspepsia and biliouc-ness. They are " loosening," and, iJierofore, teed to remove constipation x prominent cans of digestive derangement. The acid f tliis fruit one of tbe rry bee-t known ia aid of digestion aots favorably on tha liver, causing it to accrete the bile, whioh is nature's cathartic, thus preventing this constipation. While eating them between meals musli dec&nge the stomach like the ui cf all food at that time they are reJly n very valuable) food, demanded o ecuUly in warm weather. They may be too cooling in the coldest weather, while the mora acid berries are betoor in. the spring and summer. Eat Yoirn BBSitsvAsr Fmsr. Dr..' Hall is authority for the following thoughts nxnbreai.fssting before moon exercise in the open air, particularly in districts where fe ver and ague are abundant : Breakf rt should be eaten in the morning before leaving the house for exercise, or labe l.' of any kind ; those) who do it will lie able to perforin mora work, and with greater alacrity, than those who work an hour or two before) breakfast, Bueido this, the average) duration of life of those who take breakfast before exercise or work will be a number of years greater than hoe who do otherwise. Most persona begin to feel weak after taring been engaged five or six hours in their ordinary avocations; a good meal rein vigors tea, bnt from the last meal of the day until, next morning there is an interval of some twelve hours ; hence the body, in sense, ia weak, and. in proportion cannot resist deleterious agencies, whether of the fierce cold of mid-winter or of the poisonous miasm which rests upon the surface of tha earth wherover the nun shines on a blade of vegetation or a lieap of offal. This miasm is more solid, more concentrated, and heuce more indignant, about sunrise and stnset tluta any other hour of the twenty-four, IxKwmse the oold of tho night condenses it, and it is on thd first few inches above the sod in its most solid form ; bnt as the sun rises it warma and expunds and atusehds to a point high enough to be breathed, and being itafcen into the longs with the air and swallowed with the saliva into the stomach, all weak and empty as it ia, it is greedily drank in, throwr. immedi ately into the circulation of the idood and carried to every pan of the body, depositing its poisonous influence at thu very fountain -head of life. If early breakfasts were taken in regions where uhills and fever and ague prevail, and i t, in addition, a brisk lire were kindled in the family-room Cat an hour, iu eluding sunrise and simsot,these troublesome maladies would diminish in any one year, not ten-fold, hut a thousand-fold, because the heat c the fire would inrefy the miamatio sir in-, staidly, ami send i.; above the breathing point. But it i " troiibLesomc" to build fires night id morning all summer. It being no ' ' trouble," reqiiiring no effort to shiver md shake by the hour, weeks and months together, Berlin has a rogro colony of about sixty persons, many of whom came from this country, thwgh others are natives of Africa and arrived direot. With mm exception they am all employed ai servants. One is u aervunt to Frhioe Charles. Many cf them have not only acquired the Gen a an language, bnt lire said to use the real Berlin dialect, Three, have married whi girls. A xoxmo negro in Richmond said he hoped God would utrike him dead if he was lying. As 1 fell dead, there ia little doubt that lie had Men tolling a whopper.