Bloomington Progress, Volume 16, Number 50, Bloomington, Monroe County, 28 March 1883 — Page 4

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8 CONDENSED.

8erioo charges vex made against

Bains vising Architect Hffl in connect!

with the dMraraemont for the new Govera-

Bnl building- at Philadelphia,

Edward Malley, whose Mm and nephew wan tried tor murdering Jennie Cramer, has brought thirty tosurance oonvpszues Into court at New Htm for refusing to pay their rfcks SliQ,CO0 in all onhia

atom at New Haven, bnmed Jfcbruary, 18i

One of the jurora who Med Dukes at

TAdoatowavFa,, for the murder of Dr. Jiutt, vm s tilted in tbe treeteof Belle Vernon

by yenuue who regard the Terdlot of ac

quittal a twramons, and so severely beaten

that bia life la despaired of.

While sue was Kneeling in praver, a

spark fed upon and ignited tbe dreaa of Mrs.

Ann Roland, of Bridgeport, Conn., and she

waaao badly burned that she died the fpl-

The white lead works at Washington, fa., were bnmed, ranging a loan of $90,000.

Charles D. Erby, the leprous patient in the Salem (Haas.) almshouse, who eon-

mwiisHBBBfagBBHua unarms, died the other day. Eighteen thousand people of Boston attended a testimonial' to their disifnfniahed townsman, Mr. John I Sullivan, the pugilist Petroleum advanced on the Pittsburgh exchange, last week, to SLID, the highest ngnre of the year.

The annual review of pork-packing in

CUoagoshows a small increase fox the win

ter season (from Sot. 1 to Feb. Zgf as compared with the preceding- season, and a falling; off for the entire year ending Pen. 28, 1KB, of tSO,O0Ohead in the number of hogs pat Vnd. ' The bill giving the remains of executed rrimhtsls to the custody of the MrarHT, who shall cause them to be decently interred, has passed the lower house of the Connecticut Legislature. A woolen mill at Mexico, Mo., was swept away by fire. Loss, 950,000; insuraaoe, 930,000. The burning of the Miami distillery at Hamilton, Ohio, entailed a loss of J10Q,coa - William Keys, a fanner of Greenfield, Ohio, accused Stanton and John Taylor, sons of a neighbor, of stealing from him. A light ensued, when Keys shot Stanton Taylor through the' heart and mortally wounded JohnTaylur. The cot of logs in Northern and Central Wisconsin for the season ost dosing will, according to careful estimates, be about Sb per cent, below the avenge, amounting in the aggregate- to something iks L,SOl,000,000feet Two men named Coomes and Smith, residing eleven miles northeast of Helena, Montana, who were siispected of araon, were banged by a mob. The Exchange Bank of Denver, Col, has closed its doora. A child of 5 yearawho was bitten by j a dog at Sionx City, Iowa, died are days j

afterward of hydrophobia The Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central BaUroad Company has ceased to exist, being raoceedod by the Chisago, St Loots and Pittsburgh BaUroad Company. Beports from the pineries of the Cpper Mississippi say that the crop of logs

ithia season will be about the same

The most notable transaction in fast horse-flesh that has taken place during the last leu years was consummated in Chicago week, it beta? the purchase by Messrs. H. C Jewett 4 Co., of Buffalo, K. T., of the trotting stalnon, Jerome Eddy. reeord2:lff& ntesom paid was 26,000, cash in hand, and, with the exception of Smuggler and Piedmont, it is the largest sum over paid for a trotUac stalnon. 80UXHKUT. During the past year the Baltimore Coaferenoe of the M. E Church South reosired 153,000 for missionary work the

A fin at Jacksonville, Tax., burned ptsrartyotllwi essliiislijavamoof 00,00a. Benjamin Bates, grand-nephew of Bdwaal Bates, Attorney General undn IfrosMsaii, Ianeom, rortimltted suicide at anesvneod, Ta. Aa inter-State military prise drill will take place at Hew Orleans next May. and aU rsgiilazty-oqraaixed militaiy eompanies are iasitsd to parttifpste. The Nashville publication house of the Baltimore Conference of the M Z. Church Sooth is so deeply embarrassed that asinUawfnndmast be provided to pay ita

Off Baltimore two oyster-boats came in eolhaton, one sinking Four persons were drowned, and of two men who had lashed thsmsslrsi to the rigging one was frosen to

A dispatch from Little Bock, Ark., reports that near BoonevuTe, Ijogan county, Sheriff Grady and posse attached four men apposed to be the little Bock and Fort Smith train-roboen. A running fight followed, and one of the fugitives was fatally wotmded Capt Ellington ef the Sheriffs

The scoundrels who captured a train en the Little Bock and Fort Smith railrosd and killed the conductor hare been jailed and have confessed their crime. According to their story the murder of the conductor was all a mistake, the tmerres having agreed not to kill anybody unless it became necessary in order to effect their escape. Bat one of their number 'became excited'' and the conductor fell a victim.

WASHnrOTOBT.

Owing to a lack of money to carry em the work of the signal serrice as at present arranged, the Chief Hignal Officer has ordered the discontinuance of thirty-three cautionary-display stations on the lakes and three on tbe Atlantic coast, beside other work of the bureau. Tho sta: -route trial has been going on for seventeen weeks, and has cost the Government already nearly a quarter of a xnilhon dollara. The report of Bear Admiral Clitz, eemntndmgthe United States naval forces en the Asiatic station detailing the circumstances attending the loss of the United States steamer Aahuelo, by which several Mve- were lost, has been recerred by the

Secretary of the Navy. Tbe report is of such a character that Secretary Chandler has ordered a court-martial to try Commander Horace . Muilan, who was in oununand of the Ashuelot when wrecked. A dividend of 7 per cent, will soon be ready for the creditors of the wrecked Freed men's Savings Bank of Washington, making tbe total dividends 12 per cent Secretary Chandler has issued an ordar that fight hours shall constitute a day's labor in the navy-yards. Secretary Folger'e sudden departure from Washington on Sunday was rendered accessary by tbe fact that hto health reajuiied an Immediate change of air and entsrerenef from the cares of cfSoe. Ha win rsaailn forsoaae ttmeatymti i Muuitja. Dr. Loring, Commissioner of Agrioultme, has invited Be Solomon, a ittaciplo ef Pasteur, to eouduot Ids experiments as to ta germ theory of disease under the ana. pleas of the Bureau ef Aapfooltam Dr. IyrtyfcaoptifnaaviotIhtod Mates wttl tad isaculatlos poesas in pre-

r Washington telegram: "The Pt oil-

dent has decided upon his vacation trip Ha has improved so much within tho last' few days that he has concluded not to lesvo Washington until after he has had an opportunity to extend suitable courtesies to Diaz, who. Minister Romero says, will be here next week. The President will give Diaz a dhmer, after which he win proceed to Fortress Monroe' and stay a day or two, when he will go to Florida by rail, and spend two weeks in Ashing at the head of the Indian river. Ha will endeavor to1 make his trip as quiet as possible, and will decline all public demonstrations," POLITICAL. Mr. Flower, who represented the Eleventh district of New York in the last Congress, has covered into the treasury of the United States S45&90, being the proportion of his salary as Representative that he thinks he is not entitled to by reason of absence from his seat in the House. The Tennessee Legislature has passed a but pensioning all Confederate soldiers who lost an eye or eyes during the late war. One also to Federal soldiers not pensioned by the United States Government The Governor of Tennessee has signed the bill to pay the State debt at 80 cents on the dollar and 3 per cent interest It is thought this wul be a permanent settlement of a question which has agitated the minds of the people of that State for the last eight or ten years. A bill was passed by the Tennessee Legislature abolishing public executions In

Tennessee.

A law has been enacted by the New

York State Legislature requiring that 'all telegraph and telephone , lines in the attiea of Sew York and Brooklyn be laid under

ground. Ex-Senator Sprague, recently nomi

nated for Governor by the Bhode Island In

dependents, is indorsed by the Democrats.-

The bill in. the Michigan Legislature

making It a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine or imprisonment, forjudges. State officers or .Legislators to accept free railroad

is defeated

A bill passed both branches ' of the

Missouri Legislature, making homicide com mitted in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate arson, rope, robbery, burglary or mayhem murder in the first degree.

mscEiiAhnsous. Bishop Keener, of the Methodist

Episcopal church South, gave expression, at the meeting of the Baltimore Conference at Chaxtestown, W. Vs., to the fear that

the clergy Of his denomination are leaning

too much to oooklBhneas, and that wealth is exerting a ruinous influence upon the

church.

Many business houses in the trnblid

square at Bloom tagton, Ind, Were bohgumed, entailing a otal lbssof f TT,U0Q. Forest City, a muting town, in Sierra county, Cat, was totally destroyed by fire, the ioss reaching into the hundreds of thousands of dollars A cotton compress and 800 bales of cotton at Texarkana, Ark., were burned,

causing a loss of S100,000.

Four Americana have been arrested

at Panama on suspicion of being connected with the robbery of a $50, 6C0 keg Of 'gold coin from the vaults of the Panama Railroad

Company. Losses by fire : - At Lafayette, Ind.', litjcsnberger's flouring-mill and the Lafayi ette paper-mill, loss $50,000, insured; at Bog ton, Mass., several stores, causing aloes of 75,000, insured; at Huttar Station, 7a, a drug store and several other establishments, loss, 930,000; at Sheridan,' Mich.-, half a dozen stores, toss. 930,000, insurance 930,000; at Dudley, HI, a grain warehouse, loss 930,000; at Philadelphia, Fa., Xilne A Sons' cotton mills,- loss .900,000, insured; at Mineral lodge. Ohio, a general store and dwell, lng house, loea 330,000, insured. The only coin of the United States, that strictly conforms to the law hi the fxt gold piece. Other coins either lack something prescribed or bear some device unauthorised by law. The treasurer of the Irish Land league of America has cabled 3,000 fox the relief of sufferers by famine in Ireland.

Lord Carlingford has been' made Lord President .of the British Council, ' recently vacated by Earl Spenoer. The position includes the Minlutry of Agriculture. Queen Victoria slipped and fell asshe was descending the Stairs of the palace at Windsor and Buffered a painful injury of

the knee. Then were reports that she was

dangerously IB, winch caused great '-excitement in the metropolis and throughout England. The French squadron- has been ordered to blockade but a few ports in Msdagascax and save the capital. The Peltzer brothers have been re

fused a new trial in Belgium, and will un

doubtedly be executed, for murdering Berliinnvsmit, A fend between cattlemen culminat

ed in a fight near Fort Huachcua, on the Hex can border of Arizona, in which six men were killed.

Near Charlestown, Arizona, a party 3t coal prospectors were set upon by a band

of twenty Apaches, who killed several of Che party and wounded three

Dan Carlos, who styles himself King

of Spain, has issued a manifesto to his parti-

van, calling upon them by their faith as CathoUes to place themselves in the front in che struggle against socialism and anarchy. Emigration to America is depopulating several of the districts of Switzerland.

One village has been left without an inhabit-

ant The London Daily New advises the liberal party to prepare for the retirement if Mr. Gladstone from the leadership, an jveat which, in the natare of thingH, it says, cannot be far distant John Bright, in delivering an address ST Hector of Glasgow University, said Amerean Independence, the French Revolution, ind the English Reform bill transferred the wwer from monorchs and statesmen to the people. With regard to Ireland, he said if she treaty of Limerick had been fulfilled ind freedom of religion granted, the sad victory of that country might never have been recorded. India was the great problem of the future. The internal revenue receipts from ruly 1, 1882, to March 21, 188-1, are 92,300,000 in excess of the receipts for the correspond-

ng period the preceding year. The Treasurer of the United States

has referred to the Attorney General the

mestlon whether under the new Tax and

tariff law banks are required to pay taxes

between the periods of Jan. land March 3t 18W, according to the old law. The Treasorf r, who is charged with collecting a part 3t this tax, is of the opinion that the banks

reliable.

Bichard Crowley, a Texan lunatic, es

caped from the San Antonio Asylum, wen

x his mother's house and, brained her with max. In a game of poker at a Philadelphia Jlub, Thomas A Scott Jr., held four queens rod Mr. John Tucker a straight flush. Beting ran high between the parties until the tot reached 988,00ft Of course it was apturert by the man with tbe royal flush, nuch to the disgust of &ub holder of tbe 'our queens. A wagon that was used by old John Brown in tbe transportation of runaway egroes and in carrying arms for the raid on Jarper's Ferry has passed into "the posses,.

sion of the edito of an low City paper.

THE POSTAL NOTES. What Provision HasBeen illade for Sending. Small Sums of Money Through tho M all. (WiwM'nirtbn SreolaK)'' "" ' The. law autUoiiziJvg...f.he,,tirCQut, "postal note" directs that Its provision" shall bo put into operation by tho Postmaster General within nix months af lor the date of its approval by the President The act was sienefl on March :l, .ant. the postal notes must ijberefore4 be ready for the public bv Smifc 8, lSSi, at the latest The department officials are not ready to state' precisely tlin time at which thoy can be issued, but there seems to bo no good reason ' why they should not bo availably at the opening of tho nnw lineal year, July 1, as the new la v requires little ndiliUouai machinery. Some time will be consumed in advertising for proposals for thn new b unks, etc, that are necessary, whioh, however, are to be furnished by the Public Printer and t :e Bureau of Engraving n'(l Printing, if their estimates are below those received from private persona A'toiodolof tbe proposed" postal m te is printod on the back of the reports of the committees of both houses. It Is about as Ion? as agreenluiok. At the right' hnud are two columns giving the months of iha year, ami . the datos of twelve years beginning with tihti 'pres'eiit At the left hanO. lure tinea columns., of figures. . One, reirescnt'hg dollars, Is liuinbercd up to 4; iho second, rcpresoucingdimcs, is numbered up to 9; the third;' rejvresentnig cents, is also numbeicd up to 0, and each scrlos ends with a cipher. The note is' for. kuium less tlihn 95. The Postmaster at the office issuing the note will punch the month and ilxa yeur, the number of dollars, nmnl er of limes ami number o( cents in their respect. Vo columns, thvis prqvantiug any alteration t f tho amount or data liy this system the postal notes can ho i&jucil for any sum from 1 cent up to $ MM. No written anpiicatibn will bo -neeesmtfy. The note will be bougbtliko a postage stamp mid will be payable to the bearer at- ohy time, within three mouths front the lost day ojf the month of issue. Yhe' bodVof tlio hotels A

form stating tho office at Which It is issued ut d the office W Which It is sent ven' paid the person .obtaining payincnt put?, his signature 'upon the note. It if: nDt'claimed ' tlia't tlie postal soto f urnishos the tame elements of securiiy as the postal order now in use', where tba seuiler's name is privately forwarded-'to the office where tho order Is to bo paW,; bu, ,it:is believed that its (cout-eiene'8 to' wr classes of people will-' bfe so iri eat us to render the decrease in security of trifling importance.' ' It is expected thatlo wiU.tak the place for iraosmissfon of raoriey through tlie'nSaflB'of the old fraction i) cunoncy, Miues that .was withdrawn fliers lms' boon noshl'e onrt njrWeabie way of tr'aluuuittiug entail suius eXoojit by postage stamps, wliu-h are not regarded with favor as or rreuoj-, or. by the otunlwiN

some process oi the postal order. Tho iobtal note system has been in use in Great Britain just t o years .with great popular acceptance. ' The .-last annual report of . tlie British Postjnaster Uerieral shows' ' that 4,483,01 Of theso postal Orders, amounting to ?,lA',ni7t hiidj beou Issued in one year. The average time Xhey were in circulation was six tlars, chow, lng that ihere-iras-'no fbundacion 'rbr th idea that they W ould bo (tqvptedtd permanent .uee as cvrroncy. The United States, nostal note is. however, belter adapted to

public ute in several respects than tho).

ijnynu jjus.ui iiuiu, jl ne uoie, cosi-iiig miee cents, eon be israed,' as already stated, for any sum from 1 cent up to '94. 00, while tbe British not-s's can le-issutKl only for ten .fixed amounts ftom 1 shilling to Al shillings, no provisions being mad fer mtermediate sums. Our postal note will require only a single blank form, while the British system calls for ten different blanks for'the ttn gradesof orders. The fee tor the lowest British postal note is a halfpenny; for the tlghest, S penca The fee for 'united .States pestaj note will be the same in all cases up to 953 cents. The uewrates for postal orders, which are to some extent reductions on existing rates, are as follows: For orders not exceeding 910, Scents; .be-. tween iio and 915, 10 cents; between 915 and 930. 15 cents: between 930 and, 940, 20. cents; between 940 and 950, S5 cents; between 950 and 9(10, SOcents; between 900 and 970, S5 cents; between 970 and 98940 cents; Between $80 and 9100, 45 cents. No money order is to be issjed for a greater sum than 9100. t ' Thi'. New Senate. ' The TTnited ' States Senate is now fcort-'

stituted as follows, one .place from. New Hampshire beinf vacant:

Terra ' ' 'Term' expires.! expires. AftABAMA. '1 . . MlHSOnRI.

J. T. Mot gan. D. . . .1889 Geo. G. Vest. D. . . .1885 las. L. Pagn, D 1689 F. M. CotltreH, D..18S7 AIIKANSAS. KEttHASKA. , A H. Garland; !).. ..1889, C. F. llandersoa.R.lSSS . JJ. Vslker, K.,..188SC.H. Van Wyck,B.l88T CAblFOBMIA. I NEVADA.

Jss. T. Farley, D. . . .11 85i Tohn P. Jones, ft. . .1885

sonnr. aimer, 14,...IS7;J4S. i-alr, u 1887 OCiUBAI0. SEWlIAMPsmKE.' " T. M. Bo-nren, B;,, ..lssfl.TobcchoeeftJuuciIB,' ii P. Hill, B 18851H. W. Blnir, R....:lsW. COK!,-EPTICOT. . : NBW JEBSOBY. .. 0. H. Piatt It 1885 J. R. McP"iier8on,D.188' J.fi.Bavley,B,.i...l887.Wm. J. well, B...188T DErAWABt- 1 i ' KB W YORK " E. Sanlslmry, . . . .tssn E. G. I-npliam. R. . .1883 1. F. Bavard, T.. .18 Warner Miller, R...M3T. FIX) RID A, ! NOHTH CAIKIUKA. Vflkhisoa Call, D.'.1885M; W. Ransom.. D..1W89

Unas. vi. J ones, v. .1887:3. x. Vance, u loss GKOBOt. ' onto.. . . , A II. Colquitt, D... .ISRj'G. H. Pendleton, D. 1885 Jos. E. Brown, D,. ,18SS JoUn Shermant. . J887 ILLINOIS. OKEOOS. 8. M. Culloni. R....lS89iJ. N. Doluii. li 1889.

John A. IJogas, B. ;.1885'3amo H. Slater, D.1885 TKD1AKA. I. PEXSSYL.VAKIA.

P. W. Toorhees, D. .1885. J. D: Cameron', R. ". ;1B85'J

uenj. narruion,M. ,iJV;Jonn i. Aiucneti, it.istn IOWA. BBODii ISnAKO. J. F. Wilson. R. 1889 H. B. Antbony. B...1889

Wm. B. iJUson, B. .1885'N. W. Aldrtoh, rt'.887

KANSAS, I KOUTH.CAKOUHA. , P."B. Plnmb, R 188o!M. C. BntjBr, tr...-..is89 John J. lngalls, R. .1835 Wade ( ampton, D..1885 TtHKTTIfTKV TRKKKRm.

J. B. Befai, D 1889 1. G. Harris, D. , .. . .1889

Johns. Wullams,i'.lB65,U, K. Jackson, p., 1887 LOUISIANA. TEXAS. B-Ii. Gibson, i... 1889 R. Coke. p...,-. 1883 Ben. F. Jonas, D . . .1885Sam. Bell llaxey, D.1889 UATHK. I VEKUOKT.

W. P. Trye, R 1889'Jnstin S. Morrill, R..1S8S

juneene iiaie, u.....ittaj1teo.r . iamnnas,i.j8aj MAKTLAMD. TntOIOA ' J. B. Groome,D....,1885,H.Rlddleberger,I..188 A P. Gorman, D.. . .ltrWillism Mahone, 1.1887 : MA8SAOUU5EITH. ! WEST VTBOIKIA. G. F. Hoar. R. .. . . .188 J. E. Kenns. D 1888

H. L. Dawes, R.,...185J. N. Camden, 0....1887

auoHiOAir. I wiHCOKsni. T. W. Palmer, R. . . .188!) Antros Cameron, R.1885 Omar D. Conger B.lssi'P. Sawyer, R J&ffl jriNNESCrA. BVMMABT. D.H. Ssbin. R 1889Bepublicans..; 88 S. J. R. McMlllan,R.1887iDemocrats 88

MifSissipEt inqepenaente.. ....... a

OUE YOUNG FOLKS.

Xreuing Sook, (This praetlon little sonff and chorus oaa b tang by little girls in'the'kltcaen-garden, with appropriate movements. First your iron smooth must be, .(Chohus:) Rub away! Rnbawari Rust and irons disagree, Bub away 1 Rub away) Though your Iron must bo hot, ' ' Gllile awayl Slido awayt It must never scorch or spot, . Glide awayt Slide sway! Then trie cloth, so soft and white, Press away Press awayt On the table must be light, Press u way Press away I. Crease or wrinkle must not bo, Smooth awiiy! Smooth awayl Or tho work lu spoiled, you see, Smooth awayl Smooth awayl Every piece, when pressed with oars. Work awayl Work awayl Must bo hung a while to air. Workaway! Work awayl Then you fold them oo by one, fat awayl-i Put awayl Now the ironing is done, Maimydayl. Uspnydayt .-fit. AVAoias. Shuttle, tbe Baby Alligator. : . A queer name for-ababy! But this baby was mi infant alligator one of the "Pike-npso family," and a native of Florida, nfafhmk alligators btiUdtlieir nesbj among: tall trees by tho. banks of rivets or shallow ponds. Tho nests looki like small tents about four feet iiigb. First, mamma alligator makes a circle on the ground about as large rdund as a wagon-wheeL A mud fjoor s siupotliert over this cirole. As soon iat is Wrrl she packs dn ' it as niany eggs-as she can crowd togethor. Thoy ,are larger tliflu ,a hen'p figg and have very hard shells.' Then'oAmes a setrioud raud floor, a iittto snudler than- the first, and mora eggs. And so on, until the peak' of h'e'r house is Toaohed arid theje is no rfior'c room. Sometimes 100 eggs arc in ono hojise. Mamma alligHtor keeps' careful waieli over them. &he iight.s if onanups 'bbmo dear. Baby allig.it rs follow tjio .rnQtljer in water just as duetts swim' out after .their mptJiers. When "baby alligators lie on th'o shore . in tlie sunsbino thoy whine., aad': whelp' likfe little dogs. At first they ava1 noti very strongi If ' large bihls peck at them or ugly turtles poke

them, tnoy cry out for tin- mother. One day. a inamnia alligator went' off fishing, and a black boy caught one of iter- babies. It was about six inches long. He sold tho little creature to a

ladv. Master Pike-nose slipped about j 11. V j 'l. 1 A- - .l A'i

tua Jiouhc caKiiy, uatt was awauuru running on the ground. So, itt fun, lie 'was callpil Khuflle. . !J had a small Imtlij-tub for'his home. There ho was happy, ajidievery.oni petted liim.- One day -Shuffle was missing. Oh, what hunting thore was! AH the boarders looked thuough closets, and under beds and sofas. Nothing waSfheard of Shuffle all night. Little Daisy Fonn, waking early, peeped through tho bars of her cribr.. "O mamma see, the paper is moving!" she cried. . "Jit the fircplaoe,' added Jack. "See, see!" : "Ha, ha, X see.Wa nose," said manunai .now wide awake. Master Pike-nose popped out, quite as much surprised as i&nv-onu, .... It did not take long to Alton the rogue and put him into .his bath-tub home. . "Just to thi.ik of it." said all in a breath ; "xee all slept in the room with au nlli-" gator a froo.ftHigatprJl'. "And uobtxlv was hurt," added Jack. "That's the fttiihy part of it." Shuttle was a very small eater. A bit of raw bet:f the size of a pin-head fassenedto a quill was given him. Tb's wa-s.aUJievwished for a day, and sometimcj he would not cat even that. OJ3

alligators go wholo days without food, j In the spring when Jack returned to his j northern homo, ho brought Shuffle with j him in a los, -a present from the land-1 lady. -Our .Lit Uq Ones..

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Washington in Tooth.

Ii. Q. C. Lamar, D. .1889 J. Z. George, D 1887!

The Third Tariff Reduction. It we start with the manufactures created

by the war of 1613, and the consequent exclusion ot imporis, and count the tariff of 1810 as the beginning, wo can easily grasp thti upsand downsorour'poUey by the aid of the following table:

i arm ot isiu, rour years, ai-per csnf, Tariff of 1830, four years, 80 per cent Tariff of 1834, four years, 38 per cent Tariff of 1K28, four years, 43 per cent Comnromise tariff. ltSKi with slldinir scale

for ten years, reducing 'i per cent, a year, 42 to 90 per cent i . '

Tariff of 1812, 1 or lour years, 33 per cent Tariff of 1840, for eleven years. 34 percent Tariff of 1857, fc r four years, lit per oent Morrill tariff of lSbl, decrcased-in 1872, increased in 1875, amounting upon .the dutiable imports from 48 (1867) to 43 (1882) per

cent.

Commission taint of lool), probable rate, S3 per cent It should bo added that, whereas the value of articles imported upon the free list fifteen years ago was lees than 5. per cent of the whole, it was 30 per cent of the whole in 18SJ, and will probably be fully one-third ander the new tariff RpriiigjMd Jlepiib Ikan. j'r ' - Illegal Advertisements. Mr. Brooks, Chief of tlie Secret Service Division of the Treasury Department, has received notillottion that persons in the West are canvassing the vurlous States for the sale of advertising-cards which are made to represent treasury notes. The canvassers sell these imitation bank-notes to one dealer In each town and enter into a written contract to give the exclusive right to use them for advertising purposes. This is in direct violation of Sec. '1,708 of the Revised fitat-' utes, and the treasury officials are determined to hunt down the guilty parties. Tlie latest complaints come from Cairo, III. and Goldsboro, N. C The penalty is $100 for' each note distributed. Washington telegram. Here and There.The crops outlook in the Pacific coast States and Territories is said to be excellent The 1 ranco-American Steamship Company Is canvassing the practicability or the ORinbltshines t of a steamship line, between .New Orleans and Havi a Am Austrian raco-horso that had won fiftyfour rti qes. never having been beaten, was recently killed by Its owners, as it was incurably affected with the glanders. The homeopathic physicians of Ma snchusetts hfive petitioned tho Legislature of Uiut State for the establishment of au uilditiomV insane asylum, to be under the control of their school of medicine. Tub late F. G. StobMns, editor of tbe Pairint or'O.iba, N. Y., left directions that he shoiilr! be buried without religions ceremonies. il:s roiiiest was complied with and as the i i ud .ii I'ocession moved toward the cemetery "Marching Through Georgia" was sung, the customary hymn at t lie (rave giving place to septimeuhtf love song.

Fortunately for himself and his country, Vashmgton was educated in povbriyt. the soil of a .Virg'uiik f avhe.r. From his childhood he was jivobably employed ' in active labors. His father had-largo inapts cf land that apparently produced liltje money. The house in which the yohrig Washington was borh was small, iwid built of wood. The country around

was wild and thinly sett led. Washington'

wont to- a - country souool, where: the .leaching, was. yery poor. At -homo. in 'Ihc plain country farm-houso be could have learned .little; iais mother was an eccllcut woman, and taught her sou industry and honesty. His father died when he was a child.' and his mother, who was his father's second wife, was left to support herself and her children from, her farm. She lived -in comparative poverty in a

small wooden house, tier son ufeorge was a strong, healthy boy, and gave . her, no doubt, all tho help he could. , He studied well at school. He was always industrious. . lake ; many useful men, he educated himself. His mother would rfo-doubt have been glad to have sent him to college at Prjiicito&oHnrvard; but the cost was great, and the poor widow'dlsori could -hope lor none of the advantages. oi a higher eduraUion, John Adams and Samuel Adams could pass through 'Harvard with snbeess?' Hamilton tvas at Columbia QaUego Jefferson at William and Mary, lint Washington, tho innst eminent 6f; the patriots, was obliged to educate- himself in the midst of his labors on tho farm. Like Franklin and Burns, Shakspeare and Virgil, he probably read a3 ho worked at the harvest or guided his plow. Washington had never any leisure to learn Latin or Greek, or even French. His object was to make a living. He kept no journal of bis youth. Ho never desired to become a "great man, " but he was resolved to be an honestone, and to maintain himself. At one moment lie thought of going into the navy, but his mother opposed it. She said it was a "bad soheme," and kept him at home to become the founder of the republic. The warrant for making him a Midshipman was already signed when she interfered so happily for all. Sho would not part with her eldest son, the stay of the family. She feared to expose him to the temptations and dangers of a naval life. A mother's love saved him to his country. Forty-two years afterward, in 1787, ho could still write to her and subscribe himself, "I am, honored madam, your most dutiful and affectionate son, 01. Washington." ,. At 11 Washington became almost ac-

.cidentaUy a surveyor. He had already

taught himself to write a clear, round hand. Ho drew well, and was a careful mathematician, very correct and methodical in all that he did. He had left school, and went to live with an elder half-brother, who owned the tine astato of Mount Vernon. He seems to have resolved already to become a surveyor. Ho had surveyed tho land around his schoolhouse, and was fond of wandering over tho country. He had not sufficient knowledge to become a teacher, like John Adams, or a lawyer, liko Jefferson. Ho seems to have found farming a pursuit that brought in little money. He passed a winter in preparing himself for his duties, and was employed, when under 16, by Lord Fairfax to lay out his large estate beyond the Al l'eghenies. In this pursuit ho plunged into the wilderness, slept on the ground in chill weather, swam streams on horseback, climbed over rooks and precipices, and performed his work well. Everything that be did was well done. Ho grew

1 "... 11 J1 JL.."", .. tall and strong; he could bear hardship and constant labor. He was trusted for his honesty and good faith. At nineteen he became tho most active of the survtiyors of the colony. He received large sums ot money; lie was never again in want of it until hi to hi life, when: his patriotism had made him poor. But hin work was constant. For three yeat-s ho was always busy in tho wilderness. He climbed moiuitaiiis, explored valleys, became familiar with tho veil men and the wild tenants of tho forest, and evidently loved his border life. This was the school and college in which Washington was trained. He was tbe product of a laborious you tlx. Had ho been accustomed only to tho luxurious life: of a city he could never have borne the toils and cares of his -camp life. Had he been less honest and true hounight have sought a crown and a tyranny instead of the love and gratitude of mankind. It was because he learned to Inbor in youth that Washington became useful to all men. We celebrate his birthday because he labored, not for himself, but for hie country. Harper's Young People, ' Punishment and Pardon. Mr. Stanley tells, in his "Dork Continent," how he dealt mercifully with a thief, who was one of his most valuable men, and at the same time prevented the demoralization of his followers. Uledi, the coxswain of liis boat, and a most ueful helper, was detected in a serious theft. He hod stolen, five pounds 01: beads, on -vhioh Mr. S tanley depended to buy previsions from the natives. Stanley was perplexed. He could not spare TJledi's services, nor pould he allow tliO' offense to go unpunished, lest his clemency might injure the discipline of the corps. He thought the matter ov, r and wisely determined to leave tlie matter to the company. The chief of the' l.egroes Bpoke first, saying, if it had been one of the common men, he would' have advised pun

ishment by death, 'but as it was Uleui, always bold and faithful, who bad saved J thirteen lives, he should adviso a j whipping. ) Other leaders agreed with the chief. I Mr. Stanley then asked tho opinion of the bbatraen. The first said the offense j mil;-1 be punished, even if tho criminal i were Uledi, but ho lioped the whipping I would be light 1 Tbe next, the culprit's brother, said, I "Uledi is a thief. I have begged him , :hot to steal. But he is Uledi, and has done so much for us. He must be ' whipped, but let me take half the ! whipping." 4 Tho next said, "He is rhy cousin, and !

so useful ; let me take the other hail, ci the'trliipping." Mr. Stanley, much moved bv the of

fer of these two men to substitute I themselves for the offender, answered : j

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rnuri and Saywa take his punishment, he is set free, and I pardon Shumari

and Saywa." I " Uledi, broken down by the generous i offer and the pardon, said, "Master, it was not Uledi that" stole; it was the! devil who entered his heart, Uledi wl ! be good in future." j 1'rom that time Mr. Stanley had no more honest or faithful servant than j Uledi. The love of brother and cousin, ' shown by giving themselves as his sub- 1 st.it ute, and the gentleness of his master, i expelled covetousness from his heart ' and mode him anxious to merit a good j reputation. , : , Senator Talwr and the Drumuicr. . They tell a good story now on Sen- . ator Tabor, of Colorado. It is related . that, when .Tabor was on the Kansas ' Poeifio train going to Washington to 1 take his seat, lie met ti Hebrew drum- f mer who had known him some time by I reputation. To pass the Rme they cn- j gaged in a game of seven-up. The I play was. even until the close of the see- j cmd game, when the drummer received , four kings and an eight-spot. A queen j was turued up. , . "(iroat Heaven !" said the drummer. "M. IhiWr, I visht it vas boker-. If Ve I vas Ulayin! boker I would bet you my ! whole bun-dell." "How much is your birndle?" asked) tho noble Senator from Colorado. . j "Tws hundred and fifty toUar," re- ! plied tlie drummer. '! "WeD," replied Tabor, "if yon give me th? queon -which 'is' turned, I will' f go you." !:'.- : j ; "'Tim," said, the drummer, and. Tabor ! jiickod up the queen. ' ' 1 ' j ""Dot eos -a shnap,- whispered the j drummer, showing his, bond lo a man ; in tho r est seat. : ' ' i

"I should smile," answered thamfea

laconically,.

"onfIvon like to lint nnmn mors.

Meester i)abor ?" asked tho commercial tourist with an insinuating smile. "l'es," said the noble Senator, "I have a fair baud; I will make it $500." "S Bi only iiftey," replied the drummer, aiid lie made the bet good for $1100. "What haf yon got, Meestou JJabor?" "Four aces," answered Colorado's favorite ton, showing tlie "fatal one-spots. The drummer was perfectly paralyzed, and unable to speak, while the noble Senator stowed the pot in his togs. Slowly drawing a cigar from his poeke Colorado's favorite was about to light up and withdraw, wheu the drummer rei-ovcrod his sense -of speech. Leaning forward h said, "Eet ish all right, Mvc.-.ter Dabor; you haf won the money figipuvre ; but great Heoven! Mr. Dabor, vot hud der g-vceu to do mit four aces?" Educating Wills. Some of us, at any rate, ou both sides of the Atlantic, have begun to reab,e that serious study is le,s likolv to injure women than pinched waujss, late honi'M, hot rooms and unwholesome food, and wo think it is bettor for our girls to be graduated at schools for science rather tliau at schools for scandid. We think it will better prepare them for the grave responsibilities of matrimony and motherhood than rapid life in which personal adornment is their chief aim, and how to kill time and secure' a rich husband their principal anxiety. The mental companionship which is improving i commuu ion between active minds, and tho women of a man's household must be either a stimulus to his highest aspirations or a drag upon them. For the in terests, thereforo,. of men, and of human improvement in its widest sense, there should bo a purpose in the education of women quite apart -from questions of what thoy arc to learn, and preparation for so wiil a sphere of domestic or social duty admits of no such low standard as that of custom or fashiou. I do net if-k that women should have greater influence than they now possess. I only ask that, they be trained to make the best possible use of it. Tliis will make marriage more noble and more complete, enrich and strengthen tUo mother's influence, and give to life a diguity and strength. Emily Faithful.

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A cmi.n, having sustained horizontal relations with his mother's lap, was heard to philosophically remark that spunking not only developed the bottom fwt of a slipper's usefulness, but also afford the spankeo au admirable opportunity of appreciating the beautiful and wondrous intricacies of the carpel pattern. A MAN who can't excite envy or jealousy needn't expect to excite admiration and respect The man who has no enemies cannot boast that he lias any frieuda,

XiXK ROTES.. The object of an advanced education should be to develop, if possible, a taste for good reading, so that instead of whiliugaway his long winter evening smoking his pipo behind his neighbor's stove, or in some shop, or roosting on a meal bag or nail keg telling big stories, ho will stay at home and read. Of lato years, those so unfortunate as not to have liberal educations conclude that it is useless for thorn to attempt to compete for honors or distinction nguinst those more fortunate. Franklin, WnMhiiigUm, Jackson and Lincoln, though duUuieu t.in tho education of the schools, did not quail before educated compositors, but marched boldly forward to honor and renown. The Brititih Qtiarterly Journal oj Agriculture says : "The horsos of Normandy are a capital race for hard work and scanty faro. Have never elsewhere seen such horses at tho collar. Under the diligence, post-carriago, or cumbrous cabriolet, or on tlie farm, they are enduring and energetic beyond description. With thoir necks cut' to tlie bone they flinch not. They keep t!ieir condition when other horses would die of neglect and hard treatment." There are many qualities essential to constitute tho model hog and although, he is not permitted by the taws of nature to laugh or even smile, he enjoys the next blessing of humanity the disposition to groMr fat. . He is a happy fellow; when well bred and cared for, he lives like a gentleman of leisure, free from all the trials that disturb this busy world. He has no mortgage on his farm, no notes in bank maturing in the next ten days; yes, ho is happy as a hog in clover; when bo can't stand up

no lies down. A. vat lor. j Wc say to two-t' 'rd-i of the farmers ! of Iowa knowing what wo 3ay, and saying it witli our teet h clinohed and j our nerves strung, that if you -expect to j Successfully cc-mnete with vour more

enterprising neighbors, Iffcre must lie a more thorough system rigidly enforced to increase the productiveness of your farms. Your iiituation imperatively demand that you improve your stock by the introduction of better blood. You mut c ase scu.-taring the corn in the mud or the snowto stosk sheltered in these bleak days on the north side of a Wire fence. TfoU must cease the practice which m ikes you send your 10-montlis-old hogs to market weighing 100 pounds each when your neighbors' hogs of the same gi) weigh -W0 pounds. You must uodTKtu'ul your business better so that you wil know what yortr crops cost, and what tho food is worth which your hogs and cactle have consumed. The .reason .why you are behind your more prosperous neighbors is that you hove not yet waked up to .your duties or your possibilities. Ydu have not lived to know your business. For a quarter of a eoutury we have been with you in Iowa farming have watched your operations -seen wherein you failed know whereof we write and feel the .full force of our words when we say youmustwakenp to a full realization of your situation, or drag out your life and that of your family in poverty and obscurity. And all we regret is that we caunot arouse you with our words as with a forty-horse-power galvanic battery. Den Maine Register. We notice frequently outlandish recommendations, agriculturally and norticultnralty, which must result in failure and di-eouragement. We have now before us one of these for stimulating tho growth of trees, by boring holes in the ground and pouring in liquid manure about the roots! How the roots are generally to be got at in this way we cannot see. What better can be dsired than applying the same liquid uniformly over tho ground and let it soak iit ? "if the surface is very hard it should be loosened; or, what we contend is still better, top-dress the surface as far as the branches extend with good manure, and the substance will soon find its way uniformly to the routs with the assistance of the rains. Our own judgment and practice has always been to treat tho soil in which tlie trees, frui t and ornamental, grow, as far as can be done, the same as soil that is cultivated for vegetables or general farm craps, and we have always been satisfied with the result. As some evidence of the effect of such application we will mention this instance: Some years ago a hemlock spruce had a. rusty appearance and at last fell much behind the Others in depth of color. It was about 12 feet in height, and must have been set out in a spot where tho ceil was not as affluent as that where others were planted. At any rate two wheelbarrow- loads of good manure, spread out as far as the extremity of the branches, -restored it perfectly the ensuing year, and it was one of our handsomest trees. Cfermantoum Telegraph. In early life (sixty years ago) wo were taught that it was important in order to have a strong and'hardy horse that tho colt must be allowed to shift for himself, live oitt doors through the winter and support himself by gleaning in the stock-fields. And this doctrine is believed, or at loast practiced, at the present day, not in solitary cases, but tho instances can bo found all over tho Stnto. Tliero is no doctrine more fallacious, and no practice ' more detrimo'ital to t'. future usefulness of the horse or more injurious to the interests of tho owner of the colt. The first year of a colt is all important to his future usefulness, and no item in his care and tro&tment is as essential as plenty of gosd nourishing food. He needs as much, if not more, than a fully matured horse. Just as a boy's appetite and the demands of his growing system require more food than the man of mature age, so che colt needs more at tho period he is building up his flash and bones than any other period. So pivo the colts plenty of good food, not in proportion to their size in comparison to the horse, but feed in proportion to the appetite and the use thoy have in building up their system. Wallace, in his monthly, says colts need more food than an ordinary horse. Give tho col't pure water, not too cold; good air, clean quarters, plenty of room, backed by an abundance of strong, nourishing food. Then he will add growth and strength, a solid constitution, and valuable powers. And, during this solid winter, lot the men and the boys on the farm recollect the difference m the appetite of a boy and a man, and treat the noble little colt, whose appetite is keen as a boy's who has been all day lishing, and ho will repay it ia efficient work when ho wears the eoUar. ibma State lieginler.

Fob Soft custard, boil one pint of milk in a double boiler; beat the yelks of three eggs and add one-half a cup of sugar and a saltspoonful of salt. Pour the boiling milk over the eggs and cook in tho doublo boiler until it thickens like cream, stirring all the time. Strain, and when cool add one-half of a teaspoonful of vanilla, lleat stiff tiie whites of three eggs, scald them over a sieve, drain and pile them lightly on the custard and garnish with jelly.

For a white fruit-cake use one cup !

ot uucter ana two cup oi wniie sugar and beat them together thorough!; then add one cup of milk, two and a half cups of flour, the whites of seven eggs and two teospoonfuls of baking powder ; bnatjill well before adding the fruit Take one pound each of raisins, figs, dates and blanched almonds, and a quarter -of a pound of citron; cut all very fine, sprinkle with flour and mix with the other ingredients. Bake slowly. apple umelkt. Tnis is a delicate d:sh and is a nice accompaniment to boiled Ktiaro-rih r roast pork. Take eight or ten large tart apples, para them, and stew them in a preserving kcttlo until they are very soft Mash them so that thore will bo no lumps, add one cup of sugar, one table-spoonful ot butter, and cinnamon or other spices to suit the taste; let the apples cool b fore putting in the beaten yelks of four eggs, stir well together, beat the whites to a stiff froth, odd to the applet, theu pour into a shallow pudding dish, place in a hot oven and brown. Chektn'tjt sauce, which is very appetizing with roast turkey, is made of one pint of Lirge-shellcd chestnuts, one ijuart of stock, one teaspoon fu! of lemon jutco, ono table-spoonful of flour and two of butter. Cook the chestnuts for live minutes in boiling water, than drop them into cold water and remove thoir skin; put them on to steam with tho stock and let them simmer for about an hour until they are ready to mash; then mash as fine as possible. Brown the butter and flour in a saucepan and stir in tlie stock and chestnuts and cook about two minutes; season with salt, pepper and the lemon juice. Chicken 'Salad. Good Cficer contributes the following recipe : One large chicken boiled iill tender; when cool take all the meat from the liones; use it all except tho skiu ; cut it up into small pieces; t a quart of chicken add one pint of celery cut fine. Dressing: Ono table-spnonfnl of mustard, moistened ; piece of butter the size of an egg, one-half teaspoonrnl- of salt, a little pepper, one-half cup of vinegar. Put all on the f-tovo to scald. Beat three eggs and stir into the vinegar, not too hot, but hot enough to make it thick. Pour this over the prepared chicken. Add salt and pepper to taste.

GETTISG OCT OF THE ARM.

DOMESTIC RECIPES.

Potato Balls. Potato balls nro verv nice for breakfast Boil them, and while still warm mash them until there aro uo lumps left: then. mix butter, pepper, salt, a little chopped parsley, and one- or more raw egsrs ; beat these together thoroughly, then mo d in balls, dip in bo iton eggs and then iu flour, and fry in butter: Boiled Mvckerkt.. Sometimes the mackerel iuix-nded for breakfast is not fresh euougli in the morning to be citable; it is then a good time to servo boiled mackerel. Wrap the fish in a oloth securely so that you cau lift it from tho kettle w!.ieu it is tender without breaking it. If you change the water two or three times, it will freshen in a vevy few minutes ; do not change from boiling water to cold, but pour from the teukettle each time.

Spelling and Composition Col. F. W. Parker, writing in the Minnesotatburwa' of Education, says: We give to spelling so much of our important time! What is it? It is making the form of a word. That is spelling, per se. Oral spelling is the description of a word, naming its parts. A child can spell, i. e. learn the letters of a word, but might merely get it from sound. Spelling should be a description, as if I drew a house, which would be describing it. One of old Conimenius principles is this: "Things that have to be done-should be done by doing them." The powers of the teacher seem to have been directed to doing a thing by doing something else. As soon as tho child begins to read he spells. Oral spelling should be put off till the second year to make sure that he gets the form right The first year should be given to copying words. Much teaching is merely attempted forcing out of the mind what has not yet got into it. Never spell any words for a child unless that child can follow with the idea, as the pencil traces the word. He thus learns the written and the spoken language together learns to read and write at the same time. If all the spelling books were piled up and set on fire, they would give more light to the world than they ever did to tho school-room! The purpose of spelling is composition. In the first year provide the pupil with a correct copy of mental pictures. Give sentences, have the children copy them, and after they are erased have them reproduce them. Give the thought of what is spelled. The next year teach spelling by dictation. Train a child to know when he does not know a word He will then never spell wrong. All spelling can be taught in composition. Children can be mode to love to talk with the pencil. A child knows a unit of thought by expressing it Do an act and have them write it, or let them tell it orally. AU of grammar can be taught in a beautiful way by action. Put no false syntax on the board; the wrong form is as likely to remain in the child's mind as the right Be right from the start. Pictures can be utilized in the writing of compositions. Tlie little ones may write one, two or three sontenees only about a picture, but by the second year the chdd can write a story about it. In the third year it can write a page of composition entirely correct. Is that not a foundation for grammar? Another way of teaching composition is to tell the child stories, and have it reproduce

them m its own wonts. In object teaching there is as much nonsense as in anything else. Tho fundamental mistake is that teachers attempt tho impossible. Thoy fail to understand that tho child cannot see what they can see, and consequently talk above their heads. Government Wit Tho following is the formal report of a young pens ou examiner, presented in alt seriousness, on a pension claim. It need not bo stated that the letter critic

of tho division returned it with instruc-'

tions to tho wi iter : Sib: In the claim for invalid pension. No. 8M1.UW. of Jnooli Fro, s d mdopenden! Ohio cavalry volunteers, the claimant alleges that he was engaged in a hand-to-hand lie-lit with his saber tor n distance of live miles, near Huttonville, Va , Julv 2, law, and that, while in said light, he wascut iu the riirht arm and shut in tho left orin and U-jr. Tho claim is inadmissible without further and more de:tnite information. The claimant is therefore re.uired, with the return of this letter, to eta- e, under each, what caused him to jrot into a Hirht with his bor; what kind ot a saiier was it he got into a light with ; how he happened to have a hand to. hand tight with it; whether lie bad bauds; whether th.re wore anv witnesses prenent during tlio iiglu; how ne mamured to got shot wniie lighting with bis wilier; whether it was a shooting saber; whether ho believer the salier shot him; whether it shot anybody eha; whether he shot it; how many s-hots were filial : who tired the Hi-sL nhot: whelhor l h

so'dier was in the hahitof turnting his salx-r; i

how long a time be foiif.-lit it, and whether he had ever fought any other Miber. It should bo shown hy compettnt testimony whether the soldier nliot the saber or the salier rtiot tho soldier. It should also he

I shown whether Uioy fought for a distance ot

live miles apart or tho saber was livo rnuej long. Yery respectfully, The Work of tlie Bulcher Bird. While Dr. J. T. Metcalfe was out on one of his hunts in the co.infcry, ho ca e across a simrrow which had been do-

capitated and transfixed on a thorn. It seems that this sparrow ha I fallen a j victim to a rapacious bird, known as tho "butcher bird." which strikes its j prey with its beak, kilk it, pulls off its head ami impales it on a thorn or twig j

for greater convenience in pulling it to pieces. Dr..JIotcalfe, although on industrious huntsman, and familiar with all kinds of birds, soys ho never before had an actual evidence of tlie habits of the butcher bird or shrike, of which there are more than fifty varieties.Thomasville (Qa.) Enterprise.

Why loan- Man Enlist, aa

Wish to B Fran Aguitu Washington Letter in Philadelphia BeeordLf Mothers and fathers are constantly applying to the Secretary of War for the discharge of their sons from tho army. As a result he has to talk to s dozen or two agonized parents every day. As a rule they represent iha their sons were under lawful ago when. i.1 T$ fto. MM MHMM tnW

their sons are discharged. When they

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neara au tnese tales, that this was th popular method of committing suicide.

Most of our young soldiers .appear to have taken up arms because of a aea of troubles. In almost every ease tho young man is just about to desert. Har sees nothing before him in the army but the slavish monotonous life of a, soldier without a cent, and without a' future. He sees about him, if he is in the West, as he uauolly is, splendid possibilities for a young; man. They want to get out of the army. They want to get at the possibilities. So they write to their., people in the East that they will desert unless they are honorably discharged from the army by a certainday. Thereupon: the half-frantic mothers and fathers . and uncles and aunts flock to the War Department. The War Department holds on like grim death to the few soldiers it has. The army grows smaller day by day. A year's desertions decimate it ns a battle would. There are), only 20,000 men in all. They are dropping out by twos, threes, dozens every day. The fascinating recruiting agents dc not charm enough recruits to make' up ity the losses. So the War Depart--ment fights for its soldiers aa its' soldiers ought to fight for it When therf' desert they are chased, if enough sol-., diers remain in the garrison. If 'the. deserters are caught they are tried by court-martial and sentenced to two years' imprisonment at hard labor in the military piison at Fort Leaven worth, Kan. At the expiration of hi, term of imprisonment be is dishonora-' bly discharged f rom the service of thof United States. T would advise yopngmen to keep out of tlie army, until ai least tho army grows better. I'orltapit will never grow better unlets Huff grow better, and unless more of them' (to into it ... So Lawyers Charge Big Fees! i And lawyers can charge big fees, tod! For example, if I ..should charge the press in the same proportion that lawyers chargo for their time, I should get about Sl.tXK) for this letter. Here i cw. Mr. B. L. White, now editor of, the Providence Press, and I were associated as correspondents of the New York Tribune. ' The Alabama treaty,' on whose provisions two contiuentav hung breathlessly, had been signed and' sent to the Senate. This was mair.years ago. A copy came to us 89 le gitimately as any piec of news coraesf into the Press oflio, but it happened that we could not 1. 11 where it came from. We were brought before 'the Senate and sent to a committee, and we refused to answer and tt-11 where tlie treaty, as printed in the Tribune, came from! We were locked up about fortnight The great public vas wtfa us, and we had more applications' t,- .. ia ni,tuMinl,a ft, an V1,!T .

pay postage on, and we had cases of wine, and cases of brandy, demijohns of whisky, box of cigars, woodcock, terrapin, canvasteek ducks, flowers, and such things galore. Senators came to our rooms foe drink, and lunches, and the whole tiling Jjnt beginning to end was a great joke. -Bat and here comes the point we were ef course released by a tremendous majority of the Senate, but there were certain legal points to be disposed of. We had been indicted for disrespect to the Senate, or something of that kind. Weengaged a lawyer, and he went into" court and asked that our indictment bo quashed. That was all, and the indictment was quashed. How much, Mr. Editor, do yon think he charged for that five minutes' work. He charged and I paid him $500 for that job, and I have his name on my check to show itv Suppose a newspaper man had token $500 ! Well, you know what Pistol said when he was compelled to eat the garlic. I have a moral. It is: Study law. Philadelphia Press.

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A Stupendous Work of Katnth Ages ago an arm of the Gulf of Mexico extended northward probably to where Cairo now stands. This water varied in width from ten to sixteen miles. Stretching for 1,000 miles) northward, and from the Alleghanies to the Rockv mountains, waa, ano still is, the land that drained it "TOPplus waters into this arm of the Nature sought to fill up this deep triangular trough, the apex of which touched tho present watew of the Ohio. The work was an extensive one. The granite flanks of the Kocky mountains, tho shales of the Alleghanies, the tertiary formation of tlie plains, were all

plowed bv rivers, and the material -kvm

pulverized bv the action of strong:

waters, ground in the batteries of "naV ure, until they were an impalpable dust, capable of being held in suspension by flowing water. Iu tho workshop oi nature, ou the plains and in the mountain, t'lis process ceaselessly continued. The nioltmg enow and heavy rains, cansirg the rivers to rise, tarried the pulp to Cairo. There the aolt water of the gtdf was met; and, the flow of the rivet checked, unable longer to hold the pulp in suspension, it ws precipitated, forming a delta. Slowly this delta was pushed southward. Mountains were cut to the level of tlie plains; the flanks of mighty ranges were deeply furrowed to supply tlie demand tho river made to fill the trough below Cairo, and render it fit for the habitation of man. The North was devastated to answer the cell For ages the waters of the North and West poured into tho trough. For ages the process of shoaling "the salt waters slowly eoutiuued. After tho land appeared above tho surface of the river the annual overflow added to it height New Orleans letter. His Beasen. The attorney for a Maryland railroad which killed a passenger was trying. to effect a cheap settlement with the father of tho victim, and finally said: "Now, sir, was not your son almost dead with consumption?" "Yes, sir." "He would have died anyhow within a month?" "Yes, within a fortnight" "Then why do yon demand $1,000 damages?" "Well, the case is right here. If h had died at home I should have got a $20 coffm. had a quiet funeral and put in throe hours' work cutting corn the same afternoon. Doing be wo killed away from home and the news spread around, we had to keep dressed up for four days, buy a $30 coffin, hire a regular hearse, and feed and lodge over twontv relations who hod no call to show their noses. It's a damage of at least $500, and tho other half won't more'n piy his debts and got hood stono up." He got his money.