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JfosQBrro O alva; me drop of your Mood, Zlni, itinl Adnpttelte'tmtatgoL Sim, tbal A loatlna I tod ft roar rad. afOlTAb O no, I ahaH gtve yon no blood (Slap, Map!) Xhiak yon tt'a a plenty a and? (Slap, lapO I'd much rather Hire yoo. a thnd (Slap, slap!) And tak your remain for a sum. 8iap,alapi Mosquito Oh, -well, than, Dl wait an vow aleep, Zlm, atari Then through your white bar IwUl creep, Ztm, atml Tonr blood I shall set and 111 keep. Zlm. tira!

-KB NOT FOKGKT-VX" Bom folka believes In angela A ptowMc' aroand on earth; Experience tawhes me better Yer may take it Ira; what it's worth. La' ninht a dreamy-eyed creators Crwp Hp in Uie darkness an' laid; Tieaae runme a quarter, mister, Terpay lcr,a anppeeaat' bed!" I looked at him sharp and I thooa-hi I saw a strange ltRht in his eyes, An a sodden thought came upon me Twm a angel chap In dJiwniJw 1 So T reached ito-vtn in my breechea An ffin him mv 1r wtrav (lima,.

.... WVJi, .I 1, mtV WW US A bleaaln" me aU the time.

A calm liko peace came on me, An' them olefin's rang In my ear. Till later that night I tub across That tnar aal guxxlin' beer. Arter all, it dme ine more good To Rire to that thiretr moke Then ef he'd lia" been a angel A playin' a practical Joke.

UaRBY FM0OBgS WHISPER. "Go -way wid ye, bow, mod donl be afther spakin' t re agin far wither whole year!" cried young girl with blushes of mingled diffidence and anger. "What axe ye more nor any ither girl, what ye can niver be spoke to? An' who is afther spoking to ye, at all? Not I, I can tell ye. It vaa to whimper a worrd in yer ear; it's that I was afther doin', " replied Larry O'Moora. "I wouldn't lot ve do that; so go away sow, ve great big -non, as ought to know bitter nor to be tazin a poor girl whose mother im't dead a month and inakin' her cry! Ill tell my grandmithar ov ye !" "Oh, doont, doont; rm aiaared or herf" cried the great, stalwart fellow, shrngging bis shoulders in affectation of alarm.

"Thin Til till the school-master,'' said

the young girl, wiping er eyes on her apron.

"But fm not one or h Vys, and be

knows bitter nor to pat his Aend on me. X could square him np in me 1st, Latin and all!" cried O'Moore. "Cwom now.

will ye let me just whnsper a -rord in yer ear?" v " Ted an' I will not, an 111 tin the pTaaut that ye tans me, an' git a pinmujee

onye." "Arrah, now, jfc- do it. He'smefrinbj, an' he'd till ye to listen to me," said

Larry.

By this time Monica had reached the

Bdy httlo cottage of fcer grandfatherwho was the village cobbler of Drog-

gellan and fled into the shop iike a

frightened hare.

But, indignant as she was at the yonsg

weaver s tazm , she did not comr-rain of him to her grandfather. She statin her heart, "He's an honest kd, an', bavin' no sister to taze, what ilse can he do but taa the shyest girl be can find?" The winter was over, and the daisies and shamrocks were peeping above the ground. Children, always the first to welcome summer, were, scattered along the roadside, and even among the crosses and headstones in the churchy ard, filling their aprons with the treasures. Monica was among them. They loved her and followed her about whenever abe would allow them to do so. She, poor child, was gathering and kissing the feeble littlo flowers that were just peeping from the sod over her mother a grave. The little oalea stood reverently by. One was stroking her hair and whispering some little word of comfort, when they were aHjf'-startled by the appearance of Larry .O'Moore, with his arms full of gardefcfjoweia. He bad come, not knowing XAnfca was in the churchyard, to lay tb flowers on her mother's grave. - The children, with an innate delicacy which greatly distressed Monica, hurried away as if their presence was not want i, and Monica sprang to her feet and turned to follow her little friends. Bat Larry called after her, "Ami mch an evil memy that ye run from yer 'gutter's grave to be rid or me?" "No, Larry, yer a good friend, bat tot rm afraid or ye," cried Monica. "Will ye do me a favor, Monie? And thin ni promise not to spake to ye again for tt year, if ye say so," said the handsome yonng fellow. "lis. I think PH do it, for ye brought the Bowers to the grave of me mither," said Monica, stopping in her flight -Will, tan," he sail, rising from the mound where he had been scattering

me Howers, it is uuu x jist wants to whisper a word in yes ear." At this, Monica darted off as fast as abe could ran, leaving Larry to fill the place of mourner, as well as of decorator, at the grave. Larry folded his arms across his broad chest, and, locking after the flying little form, said to himself, "She's a sthrange eratur, that! If I'd ask her to walk round one ov these graves, barefnt an' alone, forty times at midnight, she'd do it, in gratitnde to me dead mither, for what she'd did for her dead mither! An' vet she'll not let me near encash

her to say a word that the whole warld mightn't bear' But I can find pHnty who wuQ open both ears and their months, too to listen to the whnsper or a lad that nan 'arn thirty ahittin'a a week at his home and has .a cottage, and a garden, an' a foine old farther, beside. I know Ise taxed her a daks. Now lH let her alone intirely, 1 wall, an' see boo she likes that!" The whiter had eome again. Monica felt the comforting effect of time on her heart. Bat she still missed her mother. She had very little company now. Her grandmother was always busy with her cottage work, or in looking after her fowls. And her grandfather pounded his lanetone and hammed old Irish airs all day. When Monica had finished her task at knitting, or sewing, she hardly knew how to amose herself. The cottage was poor in books, and of papers and magazines the hnnrWe popple of Ireland rarely get a glimpse, It is not strange, then, that the shy young girl was overjoyed at an invitation to a wedding. The gamekeeper's daughter a school friend was to be married to the shepherd's son. The Lady of the Castle had given the wedding gown, and consented to let her servants join in the dance. The schoolmaster was the gentleman in this stratum of society' and he was a wag, and merry-maker withal. No festival was of any account which was not planned and carried oat by him. Be was an original, and prided himself on having no two parties entertained in the same way. The gamekeeper's daughter had been favorite scholar, and he had laid himself oat to make her wedding s great success. Granny Blaney, also, laid herself oat to "dress Monica as well as one of the serving-maids from the Hall, who held their beads so high above honest poor folk, So she had bought her a white gown, and knots of blue ribbon to pin Ket every available spot, s P show

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.A. Republican 3?aper Devoted to tb.e Adanvoement of the Local Tnterests of Monroe Oountv.

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off her lovely white skin and her pink

cheeks.

Her efforts were a success, too. As

the old cobbler planted his wax-be-nnjmmed bands on his leather apron.

and stood off to gaze on Monica, he

exclaimed

"Faith, thin, an' the on Id Duke would

giv' his right hand if he could mak' his rid hidded and trickled young lady as lovely as that ! If she warnt such a shy goose ov' a thing, as will niver look a bochr in the ere. I'd be that prood ov

her that Id think sne was the foinest girl in the world."

a gayer party never assem tiled. The

chf.rni of the entertainment was in the unique dancing. Four school-boys danced a cotillion on their hands, with their heels in the ak and their hats on

thoir leetl

A one-legged man danced a iig in a

wash-tab, with a humpbacked girl, in

another tub, lor bis partner.

On an awning, which he had stretched

rrom one end ox toe long kitcnen to tne other, the school-master invited "the ladies and jintlemen" to waltz, saying:

ion may take my word for it as a

man of honor, that this awning is as safe as 'terra firm' the same is the Latin for solid ground. I interpret this for your sakes who are not Latin sckol ars. I hope those o' ye who are the same havin' been to school to me will

take no offense at my translating as if there were any need of it for thim. I

do it pro bono publico, which manes in plain English, 'for the good o' the public."

All was going on "as merry as a mar

riage bell, when Monica was startled by seeing Larry O'Moore Walk in, in his best clothes, and looking as hnppy as if she had allowed him to "whisper to her" as often as he pleased.

f And she said, in her heart, "He's an

ungrateful lad, thin, afther all his mither did for my dear mither, to go and be langhin' as happy as if he'd seed me ivery week in this six months! He hasn't looked at me moren if I wasn't here at all" - Larry danced on the awning. He sang fanny songs, and he told Irish stories till the rafters of the game-keeper's cottage rang with the latghter of the company. Monica stood crowded up in a corner, looking very solemn and very Uncomfortable, while the company were all. laughing. She tried to get oat, bat could not, When Larry attempted to sit down there was a toad outcry for, "One story more! jist one more, Larry!" He, too, was in a corner: the one di-!

rectly across from that into which Monica was wedged. He palled up his collar till it touched his ears, and drew his early brown hair over his forehead. Then he pat a little scarlet skull-cap on his head, and looked like anybody else in the world more than like Larry O'Moore. Then he began 10 speak in a very loud whisper which was distinctly heard. Tm very hoarse, ladies and gintlemin, as yersilves all see. If ye will hav'me spake to ye, it mut be in a whosper. "Indade, the story I haV to tell ye is the story ov a whosper, and it can only be tould in a whosper. "Once there waa a yoong maan, and a foine yoong maan was he, and a w'aver by trade." Here Monica started and tried again to get out of hpr corner, bat in vain. Whichever way she looked she saw a pair of fine gray eyes staring at her from under brown curls and a scarlet cap! "Stbop yertaDdn and eonfersation in that farthermost corner over there," whispered Larry, with a power that made him heard all over the cottage. "Win, this same yoong man, and a foine yoong maan was he, and him a w'aver by trade, had a great secret lyin' heavy on his heart! And it was this same secret he wished to poor into the ear ov a certain lady, and a foine yoong lady was she; bat he niver eonldsee

her where he could spake it oot like a maan aloud.

He'd see her in the road full of folks.

or in the church-yard fall ov dead niin

and live children, or at mass, or at a

funeral. And all thim tunes he'd try to

whosper tins whnsper in her ear; but he could niver set near enough to her

to wnusper it, and " The hoarse whispering and its effect under Larry's disguise was very ludicrous, and he was stopped by peals of laughter. "Will, ladies and gintlemin, that whnsper is still whnsperin' in that yoong maan's bnzzum ; whnsperin' to get oat, and to whnsper itself into that fair lady's ear, that is not open for a whosper. "Now, thin, that yoong maan, and a foine yoong maan he is, and a w'aver by trade, is fall ov whasners to-nurht that

he m'anes to whnsper oot, ather in that yoong lady's ear, or else in the ears cv this big company now thin!" And the whisper grew louder and heavier. "Here goes! In one minute, unless he gets lave to whosper this whnsper where it belongs, hell whosper it oat so that the whole company will get it, as will as the fair lady to whom it belongs be right. What he'd whosper is this, this foine yoong maan, a w'aver by trade "Bnt whisht there, and be quiet, will ye, in that corner over there. Afore I whosper it out to ye all, IH tell you that this yoong maan, end a foine yoong maan is he, bides with bis ould faither the mither ov him bein' dead and an ould woman not over elane at the cookin', and this same ould faither says to that foine yoong maan, says he, 'Lad, why do ye niver bring me home a daughter to look after the bins and docks and the ould woman?' "There was hot one ov them all that the foine yoong maan cared a pin for, and he could no more get near to whnsper it to her, nor if she was the child ov the Qnane herself, in place ov the gren'ehild or a daeent ould lriah cob" He was interrupted and the company startled by a load cry. "Stbop, now, Larry O'Moore, a-taian' me, and lit me eloont" In the midst of this merriment Larry O'Moore gave a leap through the crowd, and before she knew it he waa "wbos-

in the ear of the blushing

CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC

No one knows to this day what words he "whusperedf .bnt in six months from that time they all knew that the "sehool-maisther" was bosy getting np another "unaqne mtertainment" for a wedding at the cottage of the ould cobbler, Daddy Blaney, as he was familiarly called. Youth's Companion.

It is said that the barb-wire trade of the United States amounts to $10,000,000 per anuiu. ' Phosfhob bronze has an electric conductivity two and a half times that of iron or steel and one-third that of copper. Certain physicians soy that crying should not be repressed in children, as the consequence may be Saint Vitus' dance or epileptic fltsi Bt the adoption of preventive measures to guard against expected epidemics in certain English towns Mr. Edwin Cbadwick estimates that three -fourths of a million lives and three million cases have been saved. This seems a somewhat startling statement, but the figures are the result of statistical comparisons, and are piopably correct. Db. Samuel W. Fbahcis, Newport, B. L, reports the successful treatment of an acute ease of pneumonia by the inhalation of sulphuric ether. Ho says "if seen early, daring the first stage, by inhaling ether for thirty minutes, every six hours, many severe and protracted cases of sickness would be arrested,' Dr. Francis recommended inhalation of sulphuric ether for bronchitis in 1863. Prof. Whitney does not lay any weight on the removal of forests as a cause for the dryness and desolation of former fertile and populous regions of the earth. He admits that the greater proportion of land , to water in late geological eras may have a little to do with the decreased rainfall; bnt he attributes the diminished precipitation mainly to a lowering of the intensity of solar radiation daring geological time. All know that air has weight, bat one

is apt to have rather vagae ideas as to the weight of comparatively limited quantities of it. A cubic foot of air weighs 538.1 grains or something over one ounce; 13.06 cubic feet of air weighs

one pound. About 65 cubic feet of air furnish one pound of oxygen. An apartment 8 feet high. 12 feet wide and 13 feet long contains about 100 pounds of air; and a room 40 feet square and Id feet high contains about a ton.

This is the way the iron ball gets in

side the shell of the sleigh-bell. Id

making the bells the iron ball is put inside a sand core just the shape of the inside of the bell. Then a mold is mode just the shape of the outside of thobelL This sand core, with the jinglet inside, is placed iii the mold of the outside, and

melted metal is poured in, vhich fills np the space between the core and mold.

The hot metal burns the core so that it can be shaken oot, leaving the ball within the shell. Ball valves, swivel joints and many other articles are cast

in the same manner. Tee new metallic compound now produced in England, known as Spcnce's metal, has been largely resorted to for making secu' e joints in water and gas pipes a kind of work for which, it is thought, it may supersede lead on account of its being more readily applied, and of its property of expanding as it cools, enabling it to make a thoroughly tight junction without tamping. It is a peculiar kind of bronze obtained from the sulphides of various metals. It is very light, being of alwut one-third the specific gravity of lead ; it melts at a low point, that is, at about 250 degrees Fahrenheit; it flows freely, resists the action of water and acids, and is unaffected by atmospheric influences. Literary Beggars, These are the litararv beirtrarfl. wbn

insist on sending you MSS. Or books, and, as it were, pistol in hand, coll for "your candid opinion," or your life. As regards this form of extortion, all but the merest novices will observe the rules never to read MS. unless it is

tneir paid profession to do so MS. is often badly written, on pink or yellow

transparent paper, and not to speak of your time (which nobody but yourself

considers worth anything; you may fairly say that your eyes cannot stand it The more pains vou take

the less thanks yon will get. "Should

I publish this?" inquires the aspirant, always at first deferential, on his war

to be indignant, and ultimately venom

ous. If you say "yes" you lure him on to destruction and make yourself an accomplice in his guilt. If "no" he twits you with Zoilns on Homer, Gabriel

Harvey on the "Fairy Queen," Johnson

on "Lvcidas," Jeffrey on Wordsworth, Brongham on Byron. ' Boldlv declare

you cannot read his MS., sent back by return post; tell him what is true that the literary market is glutted, as never was that of iron, or theology, or wool; that he had better break stones than write books; add what is most true that he has not the ghost of a

chance of justice, unless he belongs to a

London clique. Examine his MS., yoa are undone. The man who not only sends it, but comes and reads it, is, generally speaking, beyond the

pale of humanity; but there are pathetic cawes. Not long since a worthy middle-aged man read to mein.a faltering voice several pages of very fair verse bat neither intelligent nor disgusting, and without the power required to compensate for the lock of those popular qualities. Warned not to expect a for

tune from poetry, I don t want money," he muttered, "but fame, fame, famb." The. "short method" for intruders of MS. most be slightly

modified with intruders of books, eithe

worthless or to you uninteresting. These yoo cannot profess not to read ; bat yoo need not read them. When they come simply "from the author," acknowledge them at once; "anticipating much pleasure," etc., and you may escape. Bat in nine coses out of ten, there is a comment appended as to the articles of the catechism; you are implored to "say a good word for the volume" in a review, or "to give "a candid opinion" by which the author will benefit in a second edition. In any case it is frank criticism, not praise, that your correspondent hungers for. Lives there a man who over believed this shameless asservation? Some fifteen years ago my "green, unknowing yonth," yielded to the urgency of an infatuated husband some carefully sugared, but occasionally critical, remarks on his wife's indifferent verses. I shall never do the like again. Professor Nicliol in Good Words.

newspapers a the "Tuscaloosa thrashing machine for the moral and intellectual improvement of youth;" announced that, like "Wliigism," it was undergoing repairoi but. Mint by Mondny it would be refitted for llifc operotidns of another toilsome siege. Those "having subjects for this machine" were invited to avail themselves of its advantages ."provided they were well pleased with the salutary inflnenm it hap over both mind and morals wiiei! judiciously applied to the external surface of the patient. Those to whose nice, refined and highly sublimated sensibilities it is obnoxious were particularly requested to quarter their little urchins in some other factory of morals and intellects more congenial to their own." His eharges in the intellectual department were from 20 to 30 a session j "in the moral department, that is for the

use and wear and tear of the machinery j have been at Washington until a week $1.25." This last fee was "put low" to i ago, in the discharge of public duties, it

indicate the remarkably low estimate I is peculiarly gratifying to receive this

THE FOBTY -SEVENTH CONGRESS.

Tin Work or tlui Plrat Session Important l iBws I'erfwtcd or Well Adviiueed -A Kovlew by Couifrcssiiiiin Ilnrrows. From the Dutrolt Uost. The following is tluj Kalaniazdd Tele' graph's report of tho speech made by Congressman Barrows before the convention which renominated him' : Mr. Oliairmaii aul Gtjntienioii Of tliO Convention: For tho renewed expression df your confidence and partiality permit mo to return you my heartfelt thanks. For th. fifth" time the Republican party of this district' has conferred upon me'the distiiii-tien of leading the forces in the content for Congressional representation, but at- no time has that honor been bestowed under1 ehvrtulstttUPfls more sri-atifving than to-day. Detained ass t

put upon morals in our country." An

other advertisement was headed: "A Refuge for the Devil's Unaeeountablcs," and was copied into the London Times and other English . journals as an illus trationof American edUcatioii. "Many who are now living, and holding high positions in church and state" weie, if

i not "hung and drawn,- at least "quar

tered in "this factory of morals and intellects." .

unanimous approval of my public acts and unsolicited renomination from the

largest Congressional Convention ever assembled in the Fourth district. It is an honor of which any mail may justly bi- proud. 1 again tlintik you. I shall not detain the convention td enter into an extended discussion of the issues involvfcd in the approaching campaign, but may be pardoned for alluding in tho briefest possible term? to the

leading features of the work of the first session of the Forty-seventh Congress just closed, and reply as briefly to some

Kensted.

c our young men. cierics ona students. ... , 1 j ii while on a summer-vacation tramj !i c"tac,8.ms, pfl3sed uPn

through .Northern JMew England,

en

caged for a guide to a certain romantic

forest waterfall, a boy named Forrest Graves. Forrest was a fine, athletic fellow, who could outwalk and outclimb any amateur in the mountains, and his moral courage was quite equal

to his physical health and strength.

It will bo remembered that the Presi-

! dential campaign of 1880 resulted in i the restoration of the Republican party ' to power in the legislative branch of the i Government, after six years of Domo- ! cratic control. During those six years j but little was done in the way of genj eral legislation beyond making provision

Affar ha hA ;,l.l t.i,A mnl mOT wr me ordinary expenses tne uov

to the waterfall, and they hod satisfied ' emmont. The session just closed is the themselves with sight-seeing, they iu I un?er "epttbllcan control s-nce its vited him to lunch with thenl. ! f" 40 V??' f'118 of "Thank you, I have my own lunch s" ! labors mns be eminently satisfactory td and tho btf went away by himself, j the P the country. Beside. Later, when lull justice had been done providing for the needed expenses df to their repast, and a flask of brandy the Government, many measures of a hod furnished each of the young men P'1!1mj character have been considered with a stimulating draught, Graves was i ?ud Pd, contributing to the wellHgd j being of the nation. The subject "You must drink with us, if you will ! of polygamy in the Territories received t . wit.li n nf.w tho nu-nor I prompt and efficient consideration. A

the flask and the most reckless of the from the Territory of Utah,

revenue more than suMcient to I'oar the ordinary expenses of the Government and provide for the public debt, it is high time that war taxes to the extent embraced in the bill of tlio 'House should be completely removed. These, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, are sonic of the ittatty ittdamimi which have engaged f ile attention Of die nrs4

Session ot the i orty-Hcventii iJongre-sSi

mild fwpporHng him to bo kind enough to point ft 6tff. If thflrebe any chapter of history in which ((tiinaii pf tigress has lieen so rapid, in which buttiaa rights have boon guaranteed so firmly and enlarged so grandly fls within that period, I am ignoiaut of where id look, for it or where to And it. "2. And now at the end of these

twonty-enn VPare, in this blessed year of

t battered ; his arquebuss was shivered, his quiver shook like a civnal horse with, the heavex ; his tabard was in shreds; his ears were off; one eye was gone; Icto nose was out of plumb, and his jaw-bomi was paralvzed. He hod been trying to umpire a la-ball game. PITH AND VOVn.

TheVe wifspnly one question during the lhttt, wfl find an opposition made up of 6iif,ii-r srssirin -ullich iissiiin'ed a distinct- ! two or three llartic What do thev

ively partisan character, and. that was j propose to do? Nothing. The positive the subject of Southern elections. The1 measure1, the oggrc:wrive policy, tho deseats of several members from the fin it ion' of the tine and the metes ami Southern States were Contested, and, ' bounds of legislation htlv'e all been after the Committee on Elections had ' prescribed by the Republican party, and investigated those tjcs and reported i outside Of it we have had obje-stion, and ng uiist some of tho sitting members, the ! cavil, and quiiiMe", and slander, and all unusual position was assumed that the j manner of dishonorable and mean

House of Hepresontutives should not

even WttiskW tl merits of these cases, and by lifoieriidry. chiiju,ri' it waa sought to Heep men in their Scqifa who? were not in reality elected- We were' forced at last to amend the rif les that these cases could be brought to a hearincr and tho parties really elected ad-

critics lollowing as camp-followers af' ter a great ' procession that has gone ahead. But I challenge any man to show that in the whole of the twentyone years the' Democratic party and its various side issues, like Ofceofiack, and lalir and other organizations, has ever proposed a measure that was able to be

mitted to thei:: seats. It is to be hoped i materialized in the forill of a bill or re-

that tho people of the .south, when it is . solve of the Congress of the united established that they cannot profit by i States for the amelioration of any hntiieir fraud, will permit eVelf lawful man wee or for the advancement of any voter to cast CMC, boHesi baUol.and sea J public good." that it is honantly cduntecl. Upon no' No man can duestldn the fidelity of other theory can free feriresieutative' these records. TheVe is' 00 man ib the

government be maintained.

But it is charged that this Congress has been extravagant and that its appropriations have been largely in excess of fche laf-ti fiscal year. ..

IWe Hirer md HaruCr mil is cited as 1 . . f , .Hi J

littftl, exalted or lowly, stdtgst8aa or' other, who dart shdw that during those twenty-one years the Dciotfe'ratic party as a whole, or any of its factions, direct ly or indirectly, has ever proposed any measure or policy capable of being ma-

party.

"No, sir, thank-yon," was. the boy's courteous response. "But I shall insist on it." "Yen Can do as you please, intl I shall do as I please."

The young man sprang to his feet,

himself a confessed polvxamist and

avowed representative and champion of that "twin rclio of barbarism," demanded a seat in the lower house of Congress. Heretofore' ithadlieeil granted him. It was for this Congress to bike" cognizance of his offense and decline to

accord mm a place m the national coun

hoped.

end to

and with a boundtood beside the boy. j oij Mor! th.n thi.S)SHcU mcasures h:m

been taken which, it is to be will, at no distant day, put an

tins national disgrace. The' Chinese problem has for the time being, at least, been solved. The people of the Pacific coast demanded protection against the importation of cheap labor

i which was driving ner people trom the j avenues of trade and threatening tho good order of her States. While it will be admitted W he Contrary to our traditions and the snirit of rmr instit.nt.imiq

r id 1 T ' to osclade any people of any race of man, imt lie tanpre from our shores, vet it inav well d, and my i . jij ...wi-or ivl.l i'

too much absorbed in nw own purpose to heed the quivorkig lips and flashing eyes of another. "Now yoo are boirid to try my brandy. I always rule." "Yoa cant rule me." These words wore scarcely uttered when the flask was seized and hurled into the stream, w iiere the clinking of glass betrayed its utter destruction. Then a clear, defiant tone ranar out.

"I did it in self defense. You had no right to tempt me. My father was

once a rich and ne aorable

uu . uiisrrauic uiuuauru, m, "y be doubted whetlier we would lw justimother came here to live to keep mo fied m tUl.owing wi(le open our doJol. to

a race having no interest in our institu-

awav from liquor till I should be old

enough to take care of myself. 1 have promised her a hundred times I wouldn't taste it, and I'd di before I'd break my promise."

"Bravely said. Forgive me, and let

Aw English Judge held that a yoanir

man who walked home with a girl and aid he hoped his wife would have jost aneh a lisp as she had W guilty of propoaing marri!,

An Alabama Factory of Morals, About fifty years ago an Alabama schoolmaster at Tuscaloosa was famous for the vigor with which he enforced the precepts of Solomon in regard to the application of the rod. His school was very prosperous and was well supplied with refractory boys from all parts of the country. He advertised tlie

yoo. I woukint tempt you to do

wrong. 1 shall never forget yoa, nor the lesson you have taught me." The most reckless was the most generous, and seeing his error apologized frankly. How many boyu need to be kept from strong drink; ancl, alas, how many men and women! Who dares tempt them? Let it not be yon and I. Youth's Com

panion.

tions, contributing nothing to the sup

port of the Government in peace or to its defense iu war, and looking forward only to the time' when th?ir enhanced fortunes slight enable tliiim to return

an intonint lnvish vrinnr)it.nrn.- mid : terialized ill the form of an act of lecrifi

lation lor tne amelioration oi any numau woe', oi for the advancement &i oily pub lie good. Na friend, or leader, or ecti vd member of the DeniOWatic party can point cut in the record of the1 twenly-

2. Tho amount ; one years of active life of the country

such as hA8 been experienced since l(U,

it has been the subject of severe criti

cism by the public press and denounced as a steal. But what are the facts? 1. No work is appropriated for in that bill that was not recommended by

Government engineers.

nmu'oui'iufced is m no instance in excess :

of the rtteoiiiiiletidation. and: 3. The one solitary Democratic proposition

total amount of apprdliriatiOil is less ' even having for Its object or purpose than one-half the sani which they af the heneftt df any human bing, or the firmed could he p'rofitaUly t xpeiided i improvement of elevation of any race, during the present fiscal ye'ar'; i nation or branch of the hlinian fsniily. The amoun carried by the liwri Kirsr I A more humiliating record for a jJarty and Harbor bill was $11.44I0ti. ' claiming the tftfi'eTnment of a nation of The sum appropriated this vear is ! 50,000 000 of free and i ltclligent peo$18.7451.875 an increase of 4,302.575'. 1 11 i 2"t perhaps, to be fenttid in the It is assumed that this additional sum. historv of Governments. No merely of $7,000,000 in round numbers has defensive pry. was ever intrusted by been nunropriated for creeks and ' any people with supreme TKwer, and

streams and objects not of a national ' tor the twenty-one years that the uem-

charaeter. But what does the bill disclose upon this point? The following are some of the items going tit make up tho increase of $7,0(10,0001 Imi.mve-tient tif Mi.-lsflhM rtyei- Mid

trihutarlt-s...

H;il!imor 1'sovMeu -orlvtr.... I'iiarUstcn barlior. . SivannaJi harbor. ..

(rttlvuMtoii liar!)';

301,11(10

fl.V'"U 125,100 13S,OHO WI.U0I)

Oakland harbor m.ix) U-iir-ilu lirlor. 25,'jo I.vnv harbor Potvraao flats Mi,ooo

ooratio party has been in the minority"

it has been nothing but a mere negative organization opposing everything the Republicans did without ona thought of progress or improvement. It has not a policy to propose, nor even a scheme to suggest. The Cfciihtry has passfld through one of the most trying ordeals td which any nation h.s been sulriected. There hava been lfiaiiy times when the pKtplo wet dissatisfied with the Republican man-1 agcrs ami Republican rule, ud wheri another party with vigorous leaders-, capable of proiosing proper remedies for existing abuses and weaknesses, would have boen welcomed, bat that party, with such leaders, and proposing

Total t.,S0,ii00 The foregoing items of increase, it will l! observed, aggregate more than fire millions, and otlu-r works might be -. 1 ....I, -II.. i .. .

i"?1 , ' ',u7- "'7, " '! ny romedv for anvthing, or capable of hciont to iMWount few the remaining . ' sin. 'v bW f,- anv Lncmm.

-,000.000. . . j wBg neVef fOTthcomin. The only remThis examination shows how Unjust j edy ever suggested lor financial strinand unfair tlio charge is that the River I gency, depression or distress wtw repuand Harbor bill is a "steal. It Will.be j d:,lfinfi. tt.rt j Twmfv mentioned for

i j - --t, '

i,-t- A. f i i iursuacs ougm enauie inem uo return tis shake hands. My mother wduld be j fl Ule land f their mivk Happily a happy woman it I was as brave as j tl, auestion . beojl aMdi m t, J J

Teaeh the Boys to Do Houseworli. I have often wondered why mothers do not more generally teach their boys to do housework, and thus, in many cases, secure the best of help. One of the saddest of the many sad sights in this world is - that of a poor, wearied, over-worked mother, iitaving herself to death to wait upon her boys, who are sitting around in her way, or learning the ways of evil on the afreet, when they might and should be her efficient helps. The larger the family the more help she ought to have. E ven in families where thure are girls the domestio education of the boys should not be omitted, unless, as is the case in most farmers' homes, there is plenty ot outside work for them to do. Many mothers neglect the household training even of their daughters, thinking :it less trouble to do all the work themselves than to teach their children. This is a great mistake, one that works evil in all directions. Of course it would be easier for a teacher to do all the reading and spelling, and examples in arithmetic, for her scholars than to teach them to do the work themselves, bnt it might not be the best, for them. It requires a great deal of time and patience to train a colt for the various duties which will devolve upon him in the course of iiis life, bat it would hardly be considered good management to let him grow up without such training. To be sure the over-willingness of the little ones to help is sometimes rather trying, especially when one is in a hurry ; but let them do what they can, praise them when they do well, encourage them to do better, correct their mistakes patiently, and see if the result is not satisfactory. The burdens of life tihould be more equally borne. Parents should allow themselves, as well as their children, time for reading, writing, music, etc The scarcity of good help is one of the standing complaiuts of civilized life. If the children, boys as well as girls, were systematically triinod to do housework, as they should be, this diuljul y would soon be obviated. Beside the present help, such training would bo of the greatest advautage to them when they have homes of their own. I do not believe that any one ever had reason to regret the pousesmon ot a j thorough knowledge of hiusswork. 1 New England Fanner.

John Quinot Adams in his long ser

vice in Congress was never known to be late. One day, says tradition, the clock struck, and a member said to tho Shak

er: It is time to call the House to order." "No." said the Speaker, "Mr.

Adams is not in his seat yet." At this moment Mr. Adams appeared. He was punctual but the clock was three urinates font.

this question has beeu settled in the in

forest of American-born labor, and in accoi dance with treaty stipulations between tho nations involved. Another question bos been settled. The charters of national banks were about to expire by limitation of law and it became necessary to continue this system or devise ouothor adapted to our business needs. The opponents of

i the present system, the advocates of a

greenback currency, made haste to advance their theories and urge the retirement of the national-bank circulation and the issuing of Government notes in their stead in quantities sufficient to meet the demands of trade. The country is to be congratulated that all such vagaries are discarded, the public credit maintained and the present banking system continued, giving to the people a safe and a stable currency.

The tariff question demanded atten

tion. Its revision is a necessity. The

consideration of the subject provoked general and extended debate between the' advocates of protection and free

trade, and resulted in the creation of a

commission, whose labors it is believed will contribute to a thorough and in

telligent revision of our tariff laws. It is hoped and expected that at the next

session a code can be adopted which, while repudiating the doctrine of free

trade and its twin folly, "a tariff for

revenue only," will so impose duties as to yield sufficient revenue and aftb.rd just and ample protection to American

industries and domestic labor. It may be of interest to note in passing that st the close of our late civil war a large number of soldiers who hod

served faithfully to the end, without

waiting lor the formalities of a discharge, hastened to their homes, and from that hour they have been borne upon the rolls as "deserters." Theso faithful men have been relieved of this unjust imputation, and upon proper proof are to receive that honorable discharge to whioli their honorable service entitles them. Other measures of more or loss importance haye been matured, and received executive approval. Other? again have passed one house and await action by the other body. Of this class I may mention the Agricultural bill. The Agricultural Department has been and is wholly unworthy this great peoplo, whose material prosperity rests upon and depends to so large an extent upon tho cultivation of the soil. A measure has been passed the House of Representatives, and is awaiting the action of the Senate, by which 'the Commissioner of Agriculture is made a Cabinet officer and his department elevated to that diguity which its importance merits. The nouse also perfected and passed

a measure to protect the purchasers of patented articles from unjust exactions,

and, while it may not bo all that the necessities of the case may require, yet it will go far to correct abuses which have become well-nigh insufferable. Another measure of national importance only waits the favorable action of the Senate to become a law. I refer to the bill reducing taxation. With an overflowing treasury, with a surplus!

observed that tho main portion of this increase is lr the improvement of the Mississippi river and its tributaries, that great national highway throngh which the surplus products of the West may

lie cheaply conveyed to the markets of the world. tt htnst not be fflfgotton, either, that much df the oriticisid of the River and Harbor bill may emanate from the railroad interest of the country, which would be materially aided by arresting all improvement of the great national waterways. And, finally, it is charged that the amount appropriated for the support of the Government for the current year is greatly in es;cess of the amount appropriated for the last fiscal year.

Here agai n a simple statement of facts will show how unjust such criticism is. In deterinii! ing the increase of appropriations th:.s year over those of last, we must first add to tb'o appropriations for lost year the amount of deficiencies made necessary by insufficient allowances. This sum is 29,248,193.90, which added to the regul ar appropriation aggregate the sum of $219,307,983.38, the amount actually made use of in support of the Governmen t during the last fiscal year. The amount appropriated for the current year for expenses, including the River and Harbor bill, is $265,923,065, an increase, it will be observed, over the preceding year of $40,522,001.71. This increase wa made necessary by the enlarged service of the country and the pension list. The chief items of increase are the following : Uxcecs for pensions over last year. .M,ron,noo.OO Increase pemuon force i,M ',iWO.O0 Increase of Iliver and Harbor bill. . . ,sos(7s.oo Increase of postal and other service l,t3,UG.77

Aggregating- ,538,ril.1J The aiuo'int deducted from the total increase lowes only a balance of $1,983,879.98 to be accounted for, which was properly allowed for legitimate objects. Having thus briefly alluded to the chief work of the first session of the Eorty-seveuth Congress, it only remains for me to accept the nomination whieh you tender and to assure you th at if your choico is ratified at the polls, by the good people of this district, I .pledge

yon that in the future, as in the past, I will carry the Republican standard with a steady hand ami unflinching courage, uiiuing'to advance the interests of the people I represent and by just and wholesome laws promote the welfare of tho republic. TWO MEMORABLE RECORDS.

defec ts in the currency was to weaken

by wntoi ing the existing currency; th only remedy for fraud and corruption and incompetency in the civil service was to install in the public service f resit tribesi of incompetent and inexperienced officers, clamoring to be provided for out of the treasury of the nation they had wasted thew substance hi trying to destroy. Twnnt v-nne veara tif thfl filOst import

ant period of the national life, when the j ,

existence, when its credis was impaired by disastrous war and oppressive debt, when tho means of the people were con suiucd by confiscating taxation, and the times demanded the most sacrificing nn.f.i-irit.iRro. thn hrichtasfc intellects and

kdivstrions labors of all her people! j What was the Democratic party doing I

for tue national welfare? How was it tryiiig to relieve the Governtaent of its burdens, lift up its failing credit and iinii tain tho national honor at home md abroad? . It was declaring the war t'or the Union a failure, proposing" an umistieo between the armies on the field thf,t the Union might be severed in txi-aiu ; insisting that slavery should be l (ft undisturbed; that the national bonds should be paid iu irredeemable itapcr, and that the paper should then lie repudiated; there was never a Democratic proposition that did not imply national disunion, national dishonor, national, repudiation, national bankruptcy, national disgrace and the national preservation of human slavery or national ueonace. As Mr. Blaine

strongly put it, during tliose twenty-one

When is an estate like a watch ? When it is wound up. Atlanta has a pretty female shfiomaker; but such an institution cannaft last. A wan may like to stand on the pinnacle of fame, but he does not care to sic ' down on the first part of it. The ubiquitous sign, "Post no BilK" has never deterred your tailor from firing his missives at yoa through the inoilti. 'ME SKBOSENF. CAS When ttl wind whistles and the snow drifts higher, The maiden I if te til tno to Horbt tho Oghar, ?(, ittver more will Coaaanara hat 'lit young exile skipping (tar sad five momr tho filK about the cabin yard; . feue'0 ii! on I laud, but Father tired and diarrw A titft AS gSr on one . occasion indulging in ske ptical doubts of the existence of an overruling Providence, Sydney Smith, who had observed him evidently well natisilcd with his repast, said :'Ydii must admit that there is great genius and thought in that dish T "Admirable I" he replied; "nothing can be liec--terf "May I then ask are yon prepared to deny the existence of the cook ? asked Sydney. Hi argymcnt won't brimc a nianbisr to your side ofa do qiiesfnii), knocliin him down wont do any good. De nn.u Who can run up r. bill at de butchsr.. an' dodffj him for six months am nob necessarily a statesman. De man iho A 1 .1 f .' J 11 L ..-11M

de pusson ob de moos' consequence. A 15-ceut drunkard wants mo' room in dis world dan a Judge ob de Soprome Court. Brother Gardner. If they can do so truthfully, edftorg should always speak favorably of the people nmong whom their sad lot is cast. The editor oi the Grifdn Banner, referring to one of the most jespectiible citizens in the place whd committed suicide white laboring under the effect! of delirium tremens, says that he was a lite and public-epiriUid citizen, ver mindful Of the com fort of his neighbora -Texas Sifiiwj. "How are the colored rotors coming on, out on Onion creek?" asked tn Austin candidate of a darky with a load of hay. "Dar's a heap ob sickness out clar among de colored folks." "What is it, malaria?" "I reckon dat's de name of de stuff. Hit am sumfin what he got from the dniggery shop." "What stuff ate you talking about?" "De stuff a white nlfln oat dar puts fat his wntormillions to keep M colored folks !'rora mistakin' em for dar own watei-iull-ions." A THobottoi'ly well -tm then ticat I anecdote illustrating his excessive tact Was told of Disraeli, soon after he was created Earl of Beaccwfleld. It appears that not long after his transplantation from the House of Commons tc the House of Lords, Disraeli met a brother rr ir. fjh'j street, who asked him how liked the change. "Like it," ex,(flahned Disraeli, forgetting himself for the moment, and blundering out with the truth; "like it 1 I feel as if Pwero dead ind buried olive." Then, seeing the expression of discomfiture on iho . peer's face; he added hastily;, with a courtly and an irraristible smile, " and in the hind of the blessed H Bbcwn has a friend whe is txwetaatbjr

mousing alwut the tobacconists' (tores In the effect to find how cheap he Jan purchase cigars. The consequence is, that while he brags a great deal about ' the uiexiensiveiies and surprisingly good qualify of hi purchases, ho smokes weeds of the n.ost horrible and mysterious character. He met Brown te' the stnwt, and kindly held andsr his nos! a cigar that he woe smoking. "What do you think of that?" said he; "pretty good cigar for cent, isn't it?" "Maylie," returned Brown, as ho hehl his nose, "but it's a dreadful scent for a cigar." Thereupon Chey parted v ithout' further discourse. A. i:m vi. couple s.'tt on the pi:'.za of a hotel. They tried six or seven different chairs before finally selecting those cotisilered suitable. It was cool, and Mr. Youiiphusband went np-stairs to get a shawl for his wife, and in j utting it on mussed her hair, as all aw fcward men, especially biidegrooms, do. , "George," said she, "ain't It lovely here?" "Yes," said George, "it is.

"That was as awful mean pre-

en ft vour sister gave me was at it, George?" "Why, no: I don't t ank it was," said he, a trifle angry,' "Yen it Wan, too!" exclaimt-d Mrs. You Agliavji band, beginning to cry, "and yoo know it was. She's a nsean, stingy thing. ' Ill send back the old butter iah, so there ! and you ought t o be ashamed of

imeif to quarrel v itn me wo won.

TO'.

They went down to th lake in silence.

The Tobacco Cancer That Kitted ,

Hill. Epitheloma, or akin cancer, is entitled to lie classed with the other ooroiiiomia, or cancer proper. Its seat is always in tho s tin, or muooos membrane, or both, and it may force iteolf into. the deeper structures, invading lymphatic and other glands, and infiltrating the surrounding tissues. It is essentially a disease of middle age, the tendency to ft increasing as age advances. It is geneerally occasioned by the long-con tinned or frequently repeated applieatkm of an irritant, as in the cum of Senator HiL who liad the peculiar habit of holding cigar almost constaitly in bia month.

j i : ik. i MuAa AHja

yeaw, while the nation was strugghng iliet gft Bide hi8 fagae. This fnr oviatanca. the Demaor&tio nartv j i il. : u:

From the Chicago Tribune. Mr. Blaine iu his recent- speech ut Portland iu Maine, in addressing the people ooi:.coriiing the ourious combination of all the parties and factious which was now opposing the Republican party in that State, mode a graphic and forcibln presentation of tho character of the opposing parties. This he did in detail, and also (in hii own inimitable, terse and pointed way'i expressed his thoughts in a few brief sentences. We reproduce hissummiiry of tho two records: "1. For twenty-one years past last March the- destiny of tho United States of America, in so far as that destiny can be controlled by a political party, has been in the keeping of tho Republican party if the United States, and if there le a -cater chapter of history written in the ;!m:iU; of tho human kind, I would liko

for Gov. Ptaioted or any other gentlo-

for existence, the Democratic party

never had a me isure of legislation to propose or a policy to offei "for the amelioration of any human woe or for the advancement of any public good." What does the Democratic party of to-day propose any way different from whet it has proposed during the last twenty-one yeoi-s? The only aggressive proposition was that made in 1880, whem it suggested "a tariff for revenue only," but then, before the election was over its candidate repudiated that issue, and in so doing was joined by the other le aders of the party in a majority of the States. At this time the- party

has nothing to offer. One faction is for a tf.rill for rovonne and another is for protection; Voorhces and Hendricks are at variance in Indiana; Morrison and Robinson dispute which is the Democrario doctrine in Illinois. Oue faction is far prohibition and another is merging the Democratic into the LiquorDoulers.' party. In Maine anel Iowa, Kansas. Michigan and other States the party in largely inclined to greenbacks, while in New York and Nevi' England (outside of Mauue) the party is for coin and specie payments. The Democratic party, therefore to-day is as barren of principle, as desperate as to policy, as iilivuninitte'd o any measure that night lie reduced to tho form of an act if legislation as it has been eluriug the past twenty-ono years, during which it icor proposed a bill or resolution to ameliorate a human woe or ::'or the advancement of a public good."

Hers de Com bat. He lay in a swoon by the roadsiele. His helmet was broken; his visor was cracked ; his gorget was tarnished with t-ho nir.oke of battle: his breastplate was indented liiio a milk can ; his halborel was us dull as a 5-cent barber's laser; the look, of his cross-gun was

was. no doubn. the oxciting cause in his

case. It is wed known thaVthe Senator inherited a predii potation to emnoer, having lost a sister several years ago by the ime disease. Many instances anon record where the disease has-been, traced to a short-stemmed pipe. Eaish of the millions of little round cells is a section of epitheloma, endowed with the power of reproduction, and the cells migrate and colonise, and feecl upon the surrounding ti-auea. About! three years ago, Senator Hill observed littlo fissure on the right side of bin tongue. Aside from slight pain fuid oo CHsiomd inconvenience nothing waa thought of it. As it grew worse he consulted a physician, and waa told that it would soon heal. Had Senator Hall removed the exciting cause, by removing the ever-present cigar, the chances are that it would have healed kindly. Soon an ulcer formed, and the construction ot tissue and life tegan. The disease grew daily worse. Finally, after a long and fatal delay, his friends induced him to visit Prof. S. D. Gross, of this city, only to hear the great surgeon pronounce those ominous worebi "too late, " jPAi7ii!iAia Press. Tjpe-WriUng. The copying of legal and othor documents with the type-writing machine is rapidly coming inno prominence as a remunerative occupation for women. The work is peculiarly adapted to their capabilities, as It demands, instoad of physical strength, simply a rapid, delicate and dexterous use of the fingers, nmeh like that requisite for ikillful piano playing. Expert manipulators of the machine can often earn from $10 to $12 per day, and sometimes moi'e. No preliminary education is requiired, except the capacity to 8 pell rapielly and well, though the efficiency of fiiotype-wi-i'ier is much incimsea by & knowledge of stenography,