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An Ishmoeltte. Jlhmed Ben Ishm&el. u the day was spent, Was resting at the entrance of his tent. About him spread the Case's grateful shade, While near his steed the Arab children played; 4 f t juat beyond the Palm Isle’s emerald bands J&relche4 out the Desert with its burning sands, TPo where the red sun’s furnace in the West 'Glared o’er the bleak hill’s rough and glowing crest. -The Arab Sheik iu full contentment sighed. Around him all the objects of his pride, When to his tent, with movement slow, there came ®L abject figure, ragged, bent and lame, Whose weary motions spoke of hungry days, Os thirsty journeys through the Desort’s blaze. With piteous look he bowed his aged head, To ask for shelter and a dole of bread. Then tip spake Abou, “Vex not thus our ohief; He stoops not now to beggar or to thief!” But Ahmed rose, rebuking Abou’s speech, And placing salt and food within his reach He clasped the Pilgrim’s hand, and to his tent Sup ported him, who staggered, weak and bent. With stalwart arm around his form embraced, And kindly words with kinder meaning graced. •‘Corns, poor worn pilgrim,” said the noble chief, * ‘I know thy cheeks are furrowed deep with grief, With want and toil thy strength has long been worn, With rooks and thorns thy garments have been torn." Allah is good! He gave mo what is mine, ■Of horses, camels, goats and goodlvkiue; I?at thou in peace, for what I have is thine." Then, all at once, there came a wondrous change; The stranger stood erect in garments strange, With sparkling eye. and mien of wondrous grace, White softened halo's beamed about his face, And, dropped like pearls of music from his tongue, The sweetest accents ever heard or sung. •‘Ahmed Ben Ishmael, may thy soul increase, To dwell with Allah in transcendent peace! Noble thy heart, and nobler still thy speech; X*t all thy deeds the same glad message teach. All thine shall prosper, and thy fame shall be AH that thy kindly heart hath won from me; fFor Inasmuch as with compassion sure, Thou gareat unto one who seemed most poof,. i£k> garest thou to Allah what was thine, •And He shall give thee of his grace divine. The gift, so rarely to the palace sent, Hath bloomed within the Arab’s desert tent; Henceforth thy harvest shall be full content." ffooh low to earth did meek obeisance make, As thus the spirit with sweet accents spake; .But when they heard the voice no longer there They looked, but he had vanished into air. -{kilt Ahmed bowed his head in humble prayer. ****** From that day forth all Ahmed’s flocks increased in wealth and fatness which hath never ceasod, 4’et Aimed bows at rise and set of sun. And every kindly act by him is done; Nor pilgrim, coming either night or day, Prom Ahmed's tents unsuccored goes away. “Allah tl Allah!” saith the worthy soul, “These are His children, and His is tie whole. All that I have to me is only lent J*m but a 10-lgcr in my desert tent. Praise be to Allah! I am well content." iMPtaNaPOUs, lud. —I. Edgar Jones. Her Eyes. Her eyes are founts of sparkling depth, O erhuug by lashes dark as night, And glowing cupids sporting there Speed thence swift arrows of delight. Out-flasliing from those liquid orbs A glorious spirit-form is seen; Tis Genius, with her radiant wings— The twin of Love—supernal queen. —W, Do Witt Wallace. Ulysses. (March, 1885.) One sunset I beheld an Eagle flying \ ’Mong the lone mountains of the Hebridos— Faintly be falter’d on. half ."pent and dying, Between the kindled crags, the darkening seas. SWore the wind he sail’d on feeble pinions. From chasm to chasm, from louely peak to peak; fling had he been for years of those dominions, And kingly seem’d he still, tho’ worn and weak. Piteous it was to see that bird imperial, Whose flight had known no bounds, whose strength no ohain, Drifting in desolation to his burial Somewhere in those cold regions of the rain. Yet have I lived to see a sight more sorry. -- Here in the mighty land where men are free— The eagle-warrior, lone with all his glory, Floating thro’ clouds, close to a sunless sea! ifl'he shape that on the wind of tribulation Hover tl, and ruled the tempest like its lord, The soldier-hero who redeemed a nation. And out man's chains asunder with his sword. The silent leader, who arose victorious Out of a flood of hate, a sea of death, Now, fallen on darkness and a time inglorious, Flutters so near the ground, with failing breath ! Oh, God! it seems but only vestereven The trumpet of Euroolydon was blown. The stoim-cloud gathered and the fiery levin Lighted thd world and flashed from zone to zone. *Mkl sounds of lamentation and of weeping, Ories of the waking who had slept so long Upcircling swiftly, thro’ tho tempest sweeping. The eagle rose, with flight supreme aud strong. His voioe was in the storm, above the thunder; His war-cry thrilled the laud from shore to shore; ♦lot till the battle-cloud was cloven asunder, He sought his eyrie, aud look’d down once more! "Feeble and weary, yet thro’ all disaster Silent and self contain’d, serene aud proud—- " Master of men, and of liis own soul master— Behold him drifting now from cloud to cloud! Ho wearily his slow, sad flight, he urges, Unrestful, fearless-eyed, as heretofore; Then pauses, calmly list’nmg to the surges, Thund'riug so neat on some oternal shore. The people ruise their pitying eyes to view him; Weary ho is. and weak, yet will not rest, Tho’ Washington is brightly beck’uing to him From the yet widening blue of yonder West! ©ut lo! a Form, with radiant robes around her, Uprises, follow’d by a shadow)- train, Cirowna him with love who once with glory crown'd her. Blesses the hands that broke her last strong chain! Senile, then, Ulvsses! Tho’ thy Troy hath ended, Tho’ all thy life’s long Odyssey is done, By Lincoln and the martyr-hosts attended Columbia kneels, before her soldier-son! l)Fhat tho' a little space, when homeward sailing. Thou aaw’at the treacherous Isles where Syrens dwell! sweetest songs they sung were unavailing To keep God's warrior underneath their spell. shou waat not made to herd with things polluted, Grasp dust of gold, and fawn at Circe’s knee; ♦hr flight was sunward, not thro' chasms sooted With leaves that fall from Mammon’s upas-tree! ©oat, wanderer, in the sun, Columbia kisses Her soldier's honor'd brow, and clears its gloom— And this white lily of love she brings. Ulysses, Was piuok’d upon thy brother Lincoln's tomb! —Robert Buchanan,,, Grown-Up Land. XJood morning, fair maid, with lashes brown, van you toll me the way to Womanhood Town! 10. this way and that way—never stop, *Tis ploking up stitches grandma will drop, *Tu kissing tlie baby’s troubles away, ."Til learning that cross words never will pay, •Tit helping mother, 'tis seising up rents, •Tis reading and playing, ’H* saving the cents, *Tis loving and smiling, forgetting to frown, •O, that U the way to Womanhood Town. .Just wait, my brave lad—one moment I pray, Atanhood Town lies where—can you tell the way? pO, by toiling and trying we reach that land—jA hit with the head, a bit with the hand—""•Tis hy climbing up the steep hill Work, /Tt* by keeping out of the wide street Shirk, t *Tis by always taking the weak one’s part, ;*Tia by giving a mother a happy heart, HTis by keep ing bad thoughts and actions down, UO, that is the way to Manhood Town. -£tnd the lad and the maid ran band in hand Ijj'o their fair estates in tho Grown-up I.and. —JS \ Vitality of Great Men gta notal ways innate or born with them, but jawspy instances are known where it has been igbcquired by the persistent and judicious use of £pr. Hart*r‘ iron Tonic.

THE BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA. The Fight in Which Croxton’s Brigade Opened the Ball in the Chickamanga Swamps. Col. R. M. Kelly, in Louisville Commercial. In a recent number of the National Tribune, an excellent weekly, published at Washington, which devotes most of its space to articles relating to our civil war, Gen. H. V. Boynton has an admirable account of the battle of mauga, designed to correct an impression which influenced the career of some prominent commanders after that battle, the actions of others, and has taken an undue hold on tho popular mind. That impression is in substance that Rosecrans, after taking Chattanooga, marched out iu pursuit of Bragg, met his forces at Chickamauga, w3 disastrously defeated, and driven back in confusion into that # place, and his army penned up there until it was rescued by Graut, with his reenforcements under Sherman, from the Mississippi, and Hooker, from the Potomac. General Boynton, then Lieutenant-colonel of the Thirtyfifth Ohio, in Vauderveer’s brigade of Brannan’s division, the third division of Thomas’s —the Fourteenth —army corps, was an active and gallant participant in the battle of Chickamauga and the movements which led to it, and the characteristics which have since made him celebrated as a correspondent, keen observation and clear comprehension, especially qualified him to understand what was going on and to perceive aud put in their true relations the essential facts of that great campaign. General Boynton does full justice to the brilliant strategy by which Rosecrans drove Bragg from his strong positions on the Tullahoma and Sheibyville line, across the Tennessee and by which, moving through a country abounding in natural difficulties such as confronted no army in any campaign of the war, he deceived Bragg, orossed the river and threatened Bragg's communications so that he abandoned Chattanooga and moved southward as far as Lafayette. Rosecrans learned, before Halleck and Stanton knew of it. that I.ongstroet, from Lee’s army, and Breckinridge and Walker, from Mississippi, were reinforcing Bragg in his front, and as soon as he know of it he began to concentrate his army on his left and toward Chattanooga. As soon as Bragg knew that Longstreet was in reach, he commenced his concentration towards Chatauooga to cut Rosecrans off from it, and tho consequence of the two movements was tho battle of Chickamauga. On the second day after the close c * that two day’s battle the* Union army inarched into Chattanooga, which was the objective of tho campaign. In the second day of tho fighting, a misconceived order caused a break in the Union line, which threw several divisions into disorder and the right of the Union army was broken, but Thomas established anew right, and from then to the withdrawal, after night, four miles to Roesville. no unhurt man left the lL.a. The army remained at Rossville that day, and in tho early morning of the next marched into Chattanooga and established its lines around that city. While his troops were throwing up breastworks to strengthen their new position, a day or two afterwards, Rosecrans rode round the lines, and as he stopped in front of the command to which this writer belonged the soldiers greeted him with cheers, and he replied with this speech: “Well, boys, we started for Chattanooga, and here wc- are.” Our special object in referring to General Boynton's articlo, which we commend to everybody who wishes to get a clear idea of the battle of Chickamanga and the movements that led to'it, was to call attention to ono passage in which he has fallen into an error of detail, which illustrates how difficult it i3 for even the most intelligent man, with the best opportunities, to tell a story with so many groat incidents without having his memory mislead him in some particular. Gen. Boynton says; “The night march of Thomas and McCook had prolonged the Union left several miles and saved the army. It had concentrated between Bragg and Chattanooga. Thomas on his arrival across the roads lending to Alexander’s and Ried’B bridges, began at once to examine his front. It was reported to him that a confederate brigade had crossed the latter the night before, andthatthe bridge had been burned in its rear. With the minor purpose of capturing the brigade, if the story were true, and the broader purpose of thoroughly exploring his position, he directed Brannan to move on the road to the bridge, with two of his brigades, Vandorveer’s and Connell’s. After a very short advance Brannan struck a strong advance. Baird, who had moved Croxton’s brigade forward on the right, immediately struck the enemy. The fighting at once became general and fierce along the line of both divisions, and before either army expected it Thomas had opened the battle of Chickamauga.” In this passage General Boynton assigns Croxton’s brigade to Baird. Croxton’s was the second brigade of Brannan’s division. The circumstances attending tho opening of a great battle are always interesting to those participating. It happened that this writer was so situated as to have an opportunity to observe closely what occurred at the time to which the passage above quoted by Gen. Boynton relates. Brannan’s division, after bivouacking late in the afternoon before, had been ordered to resume its march, started about dusk and marched all night That was a march not easily to be forgotten by any who participated iu it. As the coming dawn began to afford a dim light, the head of Brannan’s column passed in rear of the Union troops at Leo & Gordon’s mills. During a short halt the position of the confederates was pointed out, and mention made of sharp fighting the day before. Brannan’s column shortly debouched on to the Lafayette and Chattanooga road, marched dowu it some distance, and halted for a short rest. The sun was just beginning to get the better of the mist and fog of a September morning in the Chickamauga bottoms.-**. It happened that in the order of march Croxton’s brigade was at. the head of Brannan’s column, the Fourteenth Kentucky at the head of the brigade and the Tenth Kentucky next. The halt threw the division and brigade staffs together, and the field and staff officers of the two Kentucky regiments, and indeed those of the other three, the Tenth Indiana, Fourteenth Ohio and the Seventy-fourth Indiana, joined them. After the long night inarch the sun made everybody cheerful, and there was lively talk and some wagers as to whether there would be a battle that day. The march was speedily resumed. The writer was then attached to the division staff,, and riding in advance of the column with it. Just before reaching the point where the road from Reed’s bridge joins the State road on which the column was, General Thomas was encountered, sitting on his horse by a large oak just in the edge of the road. The column halted, and General Brannan rode up to report. Col Dan McCook, commanding a brigado in Granger’s reserve corps, and in Steedmaa’s division, was there, and much excited. He had been recalled from Reed’s bridge, and reported that he had cut off a small confederate brigade which had crossed, and which he would have captured if he had not been ordered away. He was indignant at the order, and told, in language more forcible than polite, bow the confederates had treated him as he withdrew. One expression he used was that “Jim Steedman might as well have torn a star from my shoulder,” so sure was ho of winning his brigadiership by capturing that brigade. This gallant officer fell in the Atlanta campaign without having won that star. General Thomas quietly suggested to General Brannan that he had better send a brigade towards the bridge, and see if he could capture the brigade that Colonel McCook had been compelled to let go. Croxton’s brigade being in advance, General Brannan ordered him to move towards the bridge by a road which came up through the woods just at that point, and General Thomas gave him as guide a citizen of the neighborhood whom he had with him. The writer accompanied Croxton to see what lie found and report, while General Brannan moved down the road a little further, turned on to tho main lteod’s bridge road, and, after advancing somo distance, moved southward of it toward Croxton, and considerably to bis left Croxton advanced some distance without encountering any enemy, but soon his skirmishers aroused cavalry pickets; there was a blowing of bugles in front, aud presently a regiment of cavalry, found afterwards to be a Texas regiment, came charging on the skirmishers. Croxton caused his two advance regiments to lie down on the crest of a small ridge. The skirmishers ran in, and the cavalry came charging in gallant style through the open woods. Croxton let them come to within short musket range, when his

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lino rose, poured a destructive fire into them and the cavalry took no further part in the engagement there. Immediately on the retreat of the cavalry, infantry in considerable numbers came into view and advanced to the attack, and Croxton was soon engaged in a heavy fight. The writer, as soon as the heavy infantry attack developed, returned to report to General Brannan and found him in position as described above. It is the recollection of the writer that at the time he reported back to General Brannan the other two brigades of his division which he had with him had not opened fire at all, or only in very slight skirmishing. News of the serious wounding and disabling of the commanding officer of his regiment, to whom he was next in rank, reached the writer . a few minutes after reaching General Brannan through a straggler from Croxton’s line, and by permission of General Brannan he was relieved from staff duty and returned to his regiment, and did not witness the entry of the other two brigades into action, which must have occurred almost immediately. After General Croxton had been engaged in heavy fighting about an hour, he sent word to General Thomas that if Dan McCook would send somebody to tie a red string on tho brigade he wanted, he would try to get it for him, but that there were so many there he could not know, without some mark, just which it was. Croxton’s brigade and the two Kentucky regiments of it have always claimed the distinction of opening the battle of Chickamauga, aud, this writer has always believed, on good grounds. They claim the credit, too, of leaving not till about 8 o’clock in the evening of the second day, along with General Boyntou and his command, tne position on the hill, which, with them and others, they had held against all assaults aud till the battle had ceased. COLD DAYS IN THE SECOND DISTRICT. Fatty Walsh and Jerry Hartigan Going to See the President About It. New York Sun. “They do be savin’ that no’ we’ve all of us elected Claiveland. he’ll bo givin’ none of us offices who wants them,” said Stephen Huggard, of 53 Oak street, on Saturday night, pulling his chin whisker nervously, in Cassala Hall. “Me ould woman was radin’ it in tho paper. I spake of it. gintlemin, that yo may do suthing about it. for I’m telling ye there’s grate discontent in this ward.” A dozen men were on their feet in a jiffy. The chairman of the meeting. Aldermau Fatty Walsh, tried to pick out the mildest of the lot, but John J. Sligo was too much for him. “I’m a kickin, 1 am,’’ he yelled. “I was for Cleveland, but I’m going to bust up my association. You can tell that to Mr. Cleveland for me if you want to. I was his friend, but he’s no friend of mine. You can toll him that if you like. What did he want-to go and spring his civil service on us after ho got in for! If we’d know’d that in time he’d not have got in at all.” The Alderman was all the while trying to shut off Sligo, but Sligo would not have it. Fatty sent Jerry Hartigan to him. “Shut up, ye ongrateful divil, ye!” Jerry cried out, taking the two legs from underneath Sligo, and landing him on his two knees on the floor. “Wud ye take tho bread from out of all our mouths?” “’Tis not much I have to say,” said a mildfaced man, “and I ’on’t kane ye long; but suthin’ railly ought to be done wid PrisidentClaiveland. Ho is alright hisself, but he has bad advoisers, sir. Let the Alderman writo im, telling him of our grate nade. Rims are very high, aud it’s been a very cowld winter.” “We have no use for Claiveland,” said Paddy Fogarty, the shoemaker of South street, “if he has none for us. We dieted him as our frind. To speak me mciml intilligcntly, jintlemin, I think he’ll have to bo dumped, in the long run.” Tho room was again in an uproar. The Alderman grew red in the face pounding on tho table with a cane he had borrowed from Mr. Naughton, the undertaker in Mott street.. Jerry jumped up, holding out both of his hands, and cried out: “Let ye all kape yere shirts on. gintlemin. Thera’s a Winnebago blizzard outside. The Alderman ’ll spake a few words wid ye.” “][ was in to speak to President Cleveland when I was in Washington at his inauguration.” the Alderman said, “and he begged to be remembered kindly to you all.” “Did he speak at all about me Pert ’Warden’s job!” asked Stephen Huggard. “That’ll come round in good time Stephen,” the Alderman replied. “If I thought I’d get it at all, Alderman,” said Stephen, “I wudn’t moind drawin’ out of the Imigrant Bank there in Chambers street the SSO I have thare agin me buryin’, aud goin’ on to Washington. I’d have the better chance on the ground. Thare’s no need of me tillin’ ye thares uixt to nuthing doin’ ’long shore.” The meeting received the proposition with uproarous applause. Johnny Bennett, the excise inspector, moved as an amendment to Stephen Huggard’s offer that the alderman and Jerry Hartigan bo added to the commiteee, the club to pay all their expenses. A faction of the committee were at first for not paying their expenses, unless the committee got them all jobs; but after a good deal of persuasion they said they would put up the money. The committee was instructed to start on Tuesday morning for Washington. “We oughtto be afther sindln’ a committee to Commissioner Squire,” said Gaddy Fogarty, the shoemaker, of South street “A frind o’ mine wint to see ’im about a job of mason work two weeks ago. What do ye think tho omadhaun asked him? Dii he know how far was the sun from tho earth? ‘’Deed I don’t,’ me frind said, but if ye’ll just put me on the pay roll I’ll measure it for ye ivory foot o’ the way.’ They only laughed at him. He told mo the other day, divil anuder vote ’ll he put in agin, if they put him in prison for it” The Old Mop. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. An Old Mop that had grown so fat and greasy and lazy with ago that it cared only to stand in a corner of tho room and enjoy breathing, was so engaged when a New Broom swept into the apartment. With a look of scorn at the Old Mop, tho New Broom brushed busily around, aud after cleaning up the floor spick and span, departed. The Old Mop sighed but said nothing. A year rolled by. Again the Old Mop was loafing in the corner, and again tho New Broom entered. Bat it had lost some of its whisps, and was not as brisk as before. It sat down in a chair awhile, and left a few cigar-stumps on the floor when it went out. The Old Mop sighed but said nothing. A year rolled by. Again the Old Mop was loafing in the corner, and again the New Broom entered. But the Broom had worn itself to a stump, and it simply leaned on a chair and gazed abstractedly at the littered floor. The Old Mop sighed but said nothing. A year rolled by. Again the Old Mop was loafiDg in the corner, and again the New Broom entered. But, alas, it was a broom no more. It had a mop’s clout tied about its stub-worn head and was quite as fat, and greasy, and lazy as the old original And it picked itself out a corner and went comfortably to sleep without a look at the floor. The Old Mop sighed but said nothing. Moral: There ain’t any. Mile. Rhea’s Flemish Pictures. Chicago News. Fraulein Rhea, the charming Amsterdam actress who is now traveling in America under Col. Jimmie Morrissey’s management, is about to make her appearance in a Holiand-English adaptation of the Parisian comedy “Piccolino.” This adaptation is to be entitled “The Power of Love,” and in the course of the play Fraulein Rhea is to impersonate a boy. Col. Morrissey, who has viewed the play at rehearsal, informs ns that when she is attired in hose and doublet Rhea presents a most ravishingly beautiful appearance, combining all the statuesque symmetry of a Phidian marble with the deliei >us coloring and repose of a Rembrandt. Candor impels us to remark that, most of the impersonations of Rhea we have seen and hoard remind us of a Dutch marine in an American gilt frame. Lamar’s Defense. San Francisco Post. Lucius Quintius Curtius Lamar, our Secretary of the Interior, when besieged by office hunters, forms his name into a hollow square and resists the attack. Thk surprise of Rip Van Winkie when awaking from his long slumber, could not have been greater than that of the patient who had been troubled with a bad cough for weeks upon finding himself entirely relieved after a few doses of Dr. Bull* Cough Syrup. Price 25 cent*.

HUMOR OF THE DAI. A Postponement. —“Oh! where is the spring, That mysterious thing! Now do not all answer together." Correct. I jet us sing That the advertised spring “Is postponed on acoount of the weather." —Boston Journal. So It Goes. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. (Twelve months before marriage.) He—“ How coyly the rose and lily nestle on thy cheeks, Laura!” (Twelve months after marriage). She—“ Say, have I got too much on my cheeks?” He —“How’n thunder do I know? Go look in your glass. Don’t bother me when I’m reading!” The Newspaper Grumbler. New York Sun. Husband (at the breakfast table) —I think it’s disgusting the amount of space the newspapers devote to this prize fighting Sullivan. His every movement is given to the last detail. This paper has a column article concerning him. Wife—ls that so? Let me see the paper. Husband—Well, wait a minute; I haven't finished the article myself yet. Into the Jaws of Death. Arkansaw Traveler. Agitated man to acquaintance: “My gracious, did you see me rush up just then and shake hands with that fellow?” “Yes.” • “Well, I did it under misapprehension. I wouldn’t have shaken hands with him for any* thing.” “Why, don’t you know him?” “Yes, I know him, but I owe him $10." A Phrenologist’s Mistake. Public Opiuion. “The development at the back of the head, my friends, indicates filial affection,” explained the phrenologist. “Now you will observe,’’ he went on, feeling the head of the boy on the platform, “that this bump is abnormal in size, thus indicating that this l&d loves and reveres his parents to an unusual degree. Is it not so, my lad?” “Naw:” “What?* You do not love your parents?” I think well enough of niither,” replied the boy, “but I ain't very fond of feyther. That bump you’re a-feelin’ of he give me last night wid a cricket stump.” A Princely Gift. Texas Siftings. The daughter of Mose Schaumburg was recently married in Austin to a Hebrew gentleman of cultured refinement. Mose is very stingy, and Gilhooly suspected that he had not done much for the young couple, so he asked him: “What did tho uncle of the bride give the bridal couple?’’ “A dinner-set for twenty four peebles,” replied Mose. “What did the father of the bridegroom give?” “He gave dot pridal gouple a tea set for twenty- four porson3.” “What did you give, Mose?” “I gave more den anybody else. I gave a teastrainer for more den twenty-four peebles.” Precautions for a Successful Journey. Boston Courier. “Now, then,” said the cashier to his wife, “are you dressed for the journey, my dear?” “All ready, my love.’’ “Got the boodle safe?” “All safe.” “What kind of a dress is that you have on?” “It is a pull-back.” “A pull back! Good heavens! The idea of your thinking we can escape to Canada while you wear a dress like that! Don't you see I’ve got on a cutaway coat? Go and put on a dress with a sloping train, and your hat with a flyaway feather. Wo must take every precaution setting out on such a journey.” LIVING BY THEIR WITS. How Attorneys Scheme to Win a Living at the Bar. Detroit Post. “How can all these lawyers earn their living?” asked a reporter of one of the oldest members of the bar. “The lawyers have no difficulty in making enough to live on. There is a comparatively small number of these amongst the three hundred attorneys here. Os course it is simply im possible for three hundred men in a city of this size to eke out a subsistence by the use of their legal lore. A great number are young men who have not worked up a practice, and cannot be expected, however shrewd they may be, to earn a living. Then, too, Detroit has its full quota of shysters and pettifoggers, who resort to all sorts of schemes to earn a dollar. If you will take a court docket and look it through, you will find that about forty lawyers have most of the business. If the law business were equally divided, there would be enough to support all of the profession in the city, but there are several who make $20,000 or $30,000 a year.” “How do tho rest live?" “In various ways. Some have money to live on inherited from their fathers, some have rich wives, many combine their law practice with real estate and insurance business, but there are more than people suppose who are living from hand to mouth, hardly knowing where the bread for the next meal is coming from. There is another class which, I am sorry to say, is not a small one, and which is the disgrace of the profession. It is the class of dead beats who, in some inscrutable way, gain the title of attorneys at law. They make it a business to squeeze a client as long as anything can be gotten from him on one pretext or another. At one time they want money tor officers’ fees, but the money never reaches the officers. At another time it is to pay for counsel or for ‘expenses.’ There are thousands of ways that are used to get money from an unsuspecting client. Many of this class have no office. They sponge their stationary off the county, beat landlords out of board bills, and borrow money until their credit is gone." “Do lawyers ever seek out business?” “Certainly they do. I know of lawyers in this city who make it a practice to hunt up persons injured on the railroads and induce them to begin suits for damages. In these cases the most of the lawyers’ fees are often made contingent on the success of the suit A close watch is kept for every accident, for scandals. family disputes, or property litigation. Immediately any promising case is developed the lawyer approaches the victim and generally suoceeds in being retained.” “How is this business looked upon by tho profession?” “My own opinion is that no first class lawyer would ever stoop to any such proceeding. When one is iu straitened circumstances, though, I can hardly wonder that such devices are resorted to.” “Is this system pursued successfully in criminal cases?” “Yes, and much more easily than in civil cases. I don’t know how it is now, but a few years ago I have positive knowledge that there was a combination of certain lawyers with detectives and other officers. The detective used to get a percentage of the fees in all the cases he would bring to the lawyer he had bargained with. It was very easily managed. Criminals very frequently consult with the officers as to a suitably attorney to employ, and the advice of the officer is usually followed.” The Western View of Oklahoma. Omaha Bee. All there is to the Oklahoma business is that tho “boomers,” who waut to secure homesteads and improve the land, are being kept out for the benefit of the cattle kings, who have fenced in the country. If the farmers are to be kept out on technicalities, then let the cattle-king landgrabbers be driven off the disputed territory. It is the cattle monopolies who are the ones that are blocking the way of the homesteaders. Not “Hello,*’ but “Oyez.” Caraccas Letter in Chicago Inter Ocean. There is a telephone exchange here, with 475 subscribers, managed by Mr. Durrom, of Paterson, N. J., with branch lines to Laguayra and other neighboring cities. The instrument is very popular in all these tropical countries, where any method by which physical exertion may be avoided receives both public and private approbation. The Spaniard shouts, “Oyez! Oyez!” (Hear ye! Hear ye!) when he goes to the telephone, the same words which are used by bailiffs to open courts of law in the United States, and it sounds quite odd not to hear the familiar “hello!” after the boll jingles. Tho telephone is

extonsivoly used in private houses, and as the etiquette of the country prohibits ladies from shopping or going upon the streets without an escort, they find Mr. Bell’s invention a great convenience. They visit with their friends and gossip over the wire, order their meats and groceries from the market, and direct the storekeepers to send up samples of the goods they want to buy. —— ii ——— Verb “To Be.’* (PRESENT TENSE.) I am—a lonely, bitter-hearted woman; (I might have been—a happy, honored wife.) Thou art—another’s husband; thou art human; (Thou mightst have been—the joy of all my life.) She is—my jealous, cruel enemy; (She might have been —as once—my trusted friend.) We are—but strangers meeting; woe is me! (We might have been—together to the end.) You—fate or fortune—are—both deaf and blind; (You might have been—a goddess gentle-eyed.) They—my own household—selfish are—l find; (They might have been—as bulwarks by my side.) The present tense is harder far, I ween, To conjugate than this, “It might have been." —Chambers Journal. MARRIED HER DEAD HUSBAND. The Sensational Statements Made by a Ladj Residing at Macon, Ga. Macon Special. “You are an attorney as well as a magistrate,” said a lady in Justice W. A. Poe’s office, as she glanced nervously around tho room. “Yes, madam; how can I serve you,” said the justice. “Do you keep a record of the marriage ceremonies you perform?" she inquired, after some hesitation. Her mannnerwas still excited, and her fingers played rapidly with a handkerchief that she held. “Only a partial one. It is not very accurate." “Get the book and look at the date two years ago," she demanded. “The order was obeyed and the following entry read from the record: “Married, March 23, Fannie Howard and James F. Sterling." “Yes, yes,” she said, “I am now convinced the man to whom you married me was my dead husband. You may not believe it, but so sure as I am a living woman, the ceremony you performed bouud in wedlock a live woman and a man who bad been dead for three years. Listen to what 1 say: You married me to a materialized spirit. I see you do not believe in spiritualism. I do, and on oath I declare that in this room, on the 23d day of March, 1883, you married me, Fannie Howard, to James Franklin Howard, and not to J. F. Sterling. There is not, and never was, aJ. F. Sterling, who married me in this room, on that 23d of March, two years ago. I will prove it to you, on testimony that a jury of twelve men cannot doubt. Eleven years ago, in the county of Monroe, this State, I, Fannie Westbrook, married James Framtlin Howard, my husband. We lived together twelve months, when he was taken sick and died. Shortly afterward I went North. In my distress I visited a celebrated medium in New York. There I saw my husband a materialized spirit. I talked with him, and enjoyed the happiuess his presence gave me. 1 left the medium-room with new life ami hope, and in a short time returned home. The quiet neighborhood of a country home is seldom broken by the appearance of a visitor. One day, however, there came to our house a stranger. Ho had been in the neighborhood several days, and his striking resemblance to my husband had been noted by many of my friends who had seen him. He came to our home at the invitation of my father, who had requested him to dine with us. I did not enter the dining-room until all had taken seats around the table. My eyes rested upon the stranger, and in a moment I saw before me my dead husband, as distinctly, sir, as I see you. Ido not know what passed afterward. Memory deserted me. I seemed to bounder the influence of some spiritual power. Mr. Sterling came to our house often afterward. I never was so impressed in my life as I was at our first meeting. His resemblance to my dead husband was startling. In time he addressed me, and I accepted his offer against my father’s consent he came to this city, and in an hour after we arrived you married us. We left your office for the hotel. My husband left tne at the room door. I partially closed the door and instantly opened it He was not in the hall, as he was a moment before. He had not entered the office and no one saw him leave the hotel. It was a mystery. He never returned. I was advised by tho proprietor to consult the police. I did so, but never afterwards heard of him.” “You were cruelly deserted, madam, by a cowardly villain,” suggested the justice.” “Deserted!" she reported, with an incredulous smile. “No. Let me tell you a man of flesh and blood could not cover 200 feet of a hallway in the short space of five seconds. No one saw him pass. Besides, is it likely the police force could have failed to find him if he had been in the city. His motive for deserting me must furnish a key to the mystery. From the facts, I firmly believe that I married the materalized spirit of my husband; that his spirit came back to earth and assumed a form like that he wore on earth; that for a season he made me happy, forgetting his spiritualized life. He overstepped the bounds of that existence, and was recalled peremptorily to the spirit land. With this knowledge, I can swear that 1 married in this room, on the 23d of March, 1883, James Franklin Howard. If ever I can believe as you do, cir, I will call again. Pardon my intrusion. I bid you good-day.” And tho strange visitor glided out of tho door as if she herself might have been a materialized spirit. Wisconsin Legislative Amenities. Madison Journal. “Mr. Speaker,” said the gentleman from Rock (Mr. Norcross), “I would suggest that tho attention of the sergeant-at-arms be called to the fact that it is oppressively warm here.” The Speaker called the sergeant’s attention, as suggested, to the* warmth of the chamber, and tho latter had a window on the north side lowered. “Mr. Speaker,” said the gentleman from Kewaunee (Mr. Darbellay), who occupies a seat on the north side, “that window will have to be raised again, for a heavy draft is blowing in here on me, or I’ll have to leave my seat.” “The Speaker is in doubt what to do. One member calls for a window down and another for a window up,” observed the presiding officer, whereupon the gentleman from Wood (Mr. Nash), arose, and. in the drawling tone characteristic of him, said: “M-r. Speaker, I w-o-u-l-d sugg es t t h-a-t a c-bu n-k o f i-c-e be g-i-v-e-n t-o t-h-e g-e-n-t-i-e-m-a-n f-r-o-m R-o-c-k, u-p-o-n w-h-i-c-h t-o a-i-t.” “Mr. Speaker,” retorted the gentleman from Rock, quickly. “I would suggest that a chunk of ice be applied to the head of the gentleman from Wood.” A Generous Offer. San Francisco Post. A recent historical writer explains that the ancient Egyptians, on the death of a cat, shaved off their eyebrows. We are rather proud of our eyebrows, and we haven’t got fnany of them; but we are willing to do the most we can, and, rather than see the community suffer, we’ll chip in two eyebrows, and swop them for dead cats, if the rest of the city will be as generous. The Luck of the Book Fanner. Pittsburg Commercial-Gazette. David Dickson, a South Carolinian, who wrote a book on “How to Farm Successfully,” has just died worth $500,000, while the men who farmed according to his directions are either striving to pay off mortgages or are on the township. The Governor Told the truth when lie said Dr. Wing’s Corn and Bunion Remedy had no equal Bowara of cheap imitations said to be as good, or just like Dr. Wing's. RAILWAY TIME-TABLE. Fort Wayne, Cincinnati k Louisville Railroad. (Leave ludian&nolis via Bee Line.) SOUTHWARD. Leave Fort Wayne 11:00 am 5:50 pm Leave Bluff ton 12:03 am 6:50 pm Leave Hartford 12:58 pm 7:41 pm Leave Mancie 3:57 pm 9:23 pm Arrive Indianapolis 6:00 pm 11:15 pm NORTHWARD. Leave Indianapolis 4:00 am 10:10 am Leave Mancie 6:00 am 1:15 pm Leave Hartford. 6:37 am 2:00 pm Leave Biuffton 7:30 am 2:58 pm Arrive Fort Wayne 8:30 am 4:00 pxu

RAILWAY TIME-TABLE. [TRAINS RUN BT CENTRAL STANDARD TIH.| Trains marked thus, r. c., reollaingchulresr, fui. •..sleeper; thus, p.. parlor car: thus, h.. hotel car. Bee-Line, C., C., C. k Indianapolis. Depart—New York and Boston Express, daily, s 4:00 at* Dayton, Springfield and New York Express, e. c 10:10 ana Anderson ami Michigan Express.. 11:15 ana Wabash and Muncie Express 5:55 pat Now York and Boston, daily s., c. o. 7:15 paa BRIGIITWOOD DIVISION. Daily 4:00 am—.. 2:20 pnt Daily 6:15 am 3:30 pot Daily 10:10 am 5:25 paa Daily.. 11:15 am 7.15 paa Arrive —Louisville, New Orleans and St. Louis Express, daily, s 6:40 aet Wabash, Ft. Wayue and Muncie Express 10.45 ana Benton Harbor and Anderson Express 2:20 paa Boston, Indianapolis and Southern Express 6:00 pm New York and St. Louis Express, daily,s 11:15 pm Chicago, St. Louis A Pittsburg. Depart—New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore and Pittsburg Express, daily, s 4:25 am Dayton and Columbus Express, except Sunday 10:45 am Richmond Accommodation.... 4:00 pm New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore ana Pittsburg Express, daily, s., h 4:55 pm Day ton Express, except Sunday... 4:55pm Arrive—Richmond Accommodation, except Sunday 9:40 UR New, York, Philadelphia, Washing- . ton, Baltimore and Pittsburg Express, daily 11:37 AMI Columbus and Dayton Express, except Sunday 4:35 pm New York. Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore ana Pittsburg Express, daily 10:20 pm Dayton Express, daily, except Sunday 10:20 pm CHICAGO DIVISION VIA KOKOMO, P., C. A ST. L. B. EL Depart—Louisville and Chicago Express, _ P-o : 11:15 am Louisville and Chicago Fast Express. daily, s 11:00 pm Arrive—Chicago and Louisville Fast Express, daily, s 4:00 am Chicago and Louisville Express, p. o 3:35 pm Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis k Chicago. CINCINNATI DIVISION. Depart—Cincinnati and Florida Fast Line, daily, s. and c. c 4:00 am Cincinnati, Rushville and Columbus Accommodation 11:15 am Cincinnati and Louisville Mail, p. o. 3:45 pm Cincinnati Accommodation, daily.. 6:55 pm Arrive—lndianapolis Accommodation, daily 10:55 am Chicago and St. Louis Mail, p. 0... 11:50 am St. Paul and Omaha Express 4:55 pm Chicago, and St. Louis Fast Line, daily, s. and c. c 10:45 pm CHICAGO DIVISION. Depart—Chicago and Rook Island Express.. 7:10 am Indianapolis and South Bend Ex.. 7’lo am Chicago Fast Mail p. c 12:10 pm Western Express 5:10 pm Indianapolis* and South Bend Ex.. 5:10 pm Chicago, Peoria and Burlington Fast Line, daily, s., r. o 11:20 pm Arrive—Cincinnati and Louisville Fast Line, daily, c. c. and a &35 am Lafayette Accommodation 16.f5 am South Bend and Indianapolis Ex.. 10:55am Cincinnati and Louisville Mail, p. c. 3:30 pm Cincinnati Accommodation 6:42 pm South Bend and Indianapolis Ex... 6:42 pm Vand&lia Line. Depart—lndianapolis aud South Bend Ex.. 7:10 am Mail Train 7:15 am Day Express, daily, p., h 11:55 am Terre Haute Accommodation 4:00 pm Indianapolis and South Bend Ex.-. 4:55 pm Pacific Express, daily, s 10:45 pm Arrive—New York Express, daily 3:50 am Indianapolis Mail and Accom 10:00 am South Bend and Indianapolis Ex.. 10:55am Cincinnati and Louisville Fast Line 3:30 pm New York Express, daily, k 4:40 pm South Bend and Indianapolis Ex... 6:42 pm Wabash, St. Louis k Pacific. Depart—'Detroit and Chicago Mail 7:15 am Toledo, Foyt Wayne, Grand Rapids and Michigan Express 2:15 pm Detroit Express, daily, a 7:15 pm Detroit through coach on G., St. L. & P. Express 11:00 pm Arrive—Detroit Express, daily, s 8:00 am Pacific Express 11:30 am Detroit and Chicago Mail 8:55 pm Detroit through coach on C., St. L. & P. Express 4:00 am Cincinnati, Hamilton k Indianapolis. Depart—Cincinnati Dayton Sc Toledo 4:00 am Cincinnati, Dayton, Toledo and New York 10:45 am Oonnersville Accommodation 4:25 pm Cincinnati, Dayton, Toledo and New York Express 6:35 pm Arrive—Oonnersville Accommodation...... B:3oam Cincinnati, Peoria and St. Louis.. .11:50 am Cincinnati Accommodation 5:00 pm Cincinnati, Peoria and St. Louis. - .10:40 pm Indiana, Bloomington k Western. PEORIA DIVISION. Depart—Pacific Express and Mail.. 7:25 am Kansas and Texas Fast Line, r. e.. 5:07 pm Burlington and Rock Island Express, daily, r. c. ands 11:10 pm Arrive—Eastern and Southern Express, daily, r. c. and 8 3:50 am Cincinnati Special, r. c 11:05 am Atlantic Express and Mail feWpi ST. I.OUIB DIVISION. Depart—Moorefield Accommodation 6:30 pm Mail and Day Express 5:02 pm Arrive—Mail and Day Express 11:00 am Moorefield Accommodation 6: 10 pm ■ASTERN DIVISION. Depart—Eastern Express Mail, daily, s., r. c. 4:20 am Day Express 11:15 am Atlantic Express, daily, s. ami c. 0.. 7:10 pm Arrive—Pacific Egress, daily, s. and c. c... 6:55 am Western Express 4:45 pm Burlington and Rock Island Express, daily, s. and r. c 10:35 pm , Indianapolis & Vincennes. Depart—Mail and Cairo Express 8:15 am Vinoennes Accommodation 4:00 pm Arrive—Vincennes Accommodation.lo:4o am Mail and Cairo Express 6:30 pm Jeffersonville, Madison k Indianapolis. Depart—Southern Express, daily,* 4:loam Louisville and Madison Express,p.c 8:15 am Louisville and Madison Mail p. 0.. 3:50 pm Louisville Express, daily 6:45 pm Arrive —Indianapolis and Madison Mai 1..... 9:45 am Indianapolib, St. Louis and Chicago Express, daily, p 10:45 am New York and Northern Fast Express. r. e 7:00 pm St. Louis, Chicago and Detroit Fast Line, daily, s 10:45 pm Indianapolis k St. Louis. Depart—Day Express, daily, c. c 7:10 am Paris Express 3:50 pm Boston and St. Louis Express, p... 6:25 pm New York and St Louis Express, daily, s. and c. c 11:30 pm Arrive —New York and Boston Express, daily, c. c 3:45 am Local Passenger, p 9:50 am Indianapolis Express 3:00 pm Day Express, c. c., daily 6.25 pm Louisville, New Albany k Chicago. (Chicago Short Line.) Depart—Chicago and Michigan City Mail.... 12:45 pm Frankfort Accommodation 5:00 pm Chicago Night Ex., daily, s 11:20 pm Arrive —Indianapolis Night Ex., daily, .... 3:35 am Indianapolis Accommodation 10:00 am Indianapolis Mail 3:15 pm Cincinnati, Wabash k Michigan Railway. (Over the Bee-line.) Depart—lndianapolis and Grand Rapids Ex. 4:00 am Michigan Express 11:15 am Louisville and Wabash Express... 5:55 pm Arrivo —Wabash and Indianapolis Express.. 10:45 am Cincinnati and Louisville Express. 2:20 pm Indianapolis and St Louis Express. 11:15 pm Evansville k Terre Haute Railroad. (Via Yandalia Line.) Leave Tndiananolis. 17:15 am, 11:55am p, 10,45 pmi Leave Terre Haute . 110:40 am, 3:20 pm p, 4:00 am s Ar. at Evansville. ..t4:0O pm, 7:05 pin p, 7:25 imi Leave Evansville.. .10:05 am 10:30 am p, 8:15 pmS Ar. at Terre Haute .(10:U0 am, 2:l7pm p, 11:59 pus Ar. at Indianapolis.t3:3o pm, 4:40 pm p, 3:30 ams (Daily except Sunday. All other trains daily. P pai lor car; a, sleeper: (Via L & St. L. Ry.> Leave Indianapolis (7:10 am, 10:55 pm> Ar. at Terre Haute.(lo:lo am, 3:00 pm p, 4:00 amt Ar. at Evansville. .(4:00 pm, 7:03 pm p, 7:10 am a Leave Evans villa.. (6-05 am, 10:30 am p, 8:15 pm s Ar. at Terre Haute (10:00 am, 2:l7prap, 11:59 pas A*, at Indianapolis.(3:ls pm, 6:25 pm p, 3:45 amt (Daily except Sunday. All other trains dad parlor oar; s, ■deeper, * -

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