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father refttMd hii oardon. Still aba wai »ttch ia lava with Mra. Cumbarland’a haodcoute Jatnaav, with hit dark mu»taehc, hit aplendid eye*, hii wonderful curl#, and, abova all, hia fine figure. And if now and than a lapaa In bta grammar bad

pebbly

•Urn pf the old oanoa.

SWEET.

Mahala Mumford, “the wiata grown ao that we'll have, to built for it.” Mnmfnrd. M WaU, I aupaa much about the garden

.aid tfahala.

«d wary much to ip Tina trellises,

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to aak her father a, and what she one, but she saw that be in a leader of hi. favorite resent further ioterrupPorted herself with the Mr. MaoSnaek, the local weald tell her where to go if he order, and took up her eroebeting until such time as her father, who dawdled over hii breakfast and hi. paper for aeveral boon each day, aro«e and asked her why she bad not told him what time it was, and rushed depotward with the hope of catching a train that was already bait way to New York. This event having occurred Mahala gave an order to the eook, dressed herself for a walk and shortly found hersslf at the

florist’i gate.

“A trellish!” repeated Mr. MaeSnaok, when ate bad propounded her question. ‘►“Ay, I could get the trelJUh done, but it's not jnst my line. I’d charge ye a commission on another man’s work, and for an ould eoostomer that’s not quite fair. Ye’d best

bed likely. He'e a good carpenter, is James)-.

BUM.

liud be praised! Mv boys are na troubled wi' it. They’re as like me as two peas in a pod. Over there—the yellow house, miss.” Mahala thanked him, and betsok herself to Mrs. Cumberland’, little dwelling, and, really, though Mr. MaeSnaok had no such intention, bis description had interested her, and she was touch more aoxieus to see Mrs. Cumberland’s Jatuesy than if he had beep spokes of as plain and industries*. “A trellis!” cried Mrs. Cumberland taking her pink arms out of tbe tub and wining them on her bltis-eheektd apron. “Yes, indeed, Jameey can make it, and very kind of Mr. MacSnack to recommend him. You

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see. Jameey ia backward in coming forward ana speaking for himself, and be is that good looking that It does teem a shame that he should have to work! The arrowstoekrasy on his father’! side conies out in my Jamtey. Poor dear Mr. Cumberland expected a fortune that he never got, and he couldn't put his band to a stroke of work if he starred till his life’s end. Jameey will do it if it eomea to him, though. I’ll

send him.”

“I couldii’i ,.ee him to talk it over, I sup-

pose I” said Mub&la timidly.

“Well, you see he was up latm'' said Mrs. Cnmbetland, “and he hasn’t fls yet But I'll send him over in an hour's time;” and at .he spoke a head was poksd out of an upper window and speedily withdrawn, and Mahala knew that she had seen the object of her search, ted that he really was,

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not useful, very ornamental

An hour or so after this Mr. Cumberland tuntered into tne Mumtordgarden, dressed Uber as though ha had been invited to ^ake a social call rather than to put up a

vine trellis.

lie bowed graciouMy to Mahala, and inspected the vine and house wall leisurely, fie remarked that St panted to be done well and to have time token over it, and there would be no use beginning until tomorrew. Then he entered into general conversation. Miss Mahala. as conscious of her social position as are the daughters of most rural magnates, would scarcely have permitted this in the son of the laundress if be had been a plain young man in ordinary working costume, but a being of beauty with a rosebud in his buttonhole was quite a different thing. She was surprise to see her father approaching tbe house just as Mr. Cumberland took his leave, and to recognise tbe fact that she had spent the afternoon wandaring about the grounds with a mas who had come there merely to make a tr«Uls for the wisteria, and to comprehend also that she felt pleased and flattered. Really, he bad paid her compliments and looked into Itor eyes, and all that sort of thing- When her father said, te.tily, “Pray, who was that?” and she answered, “Only the person about tbo troll is, pa,” sbo iolt quite hypo* llhifnext day tho trellis was begun, but by no moans finished. Maay eonsuitotiont were necessary. Mahala spent meat of the time in the garden, with a parasol over her head, looking upward while the young carpeator toek graceful positions upon the ladder aad beamed down upon her. It took wx days to finish the trellis. At the ead of that time Mahala Mumford had q«ito fsraeneo the seeial distinctions that prevailed in her native town, or if she remembtred the shook it would bs to “society” when it was known that the daughter of “our old and respected citizen, Phineas Mumford," had eloped with the Widow ‘ i Jamsev, she cared nothing at “ the eve was chosen aad the rhieb she was to leave the and marry the young you can write next dav and to forgive you,” said Mrs. CumJamesy. “They always do, you was right. Her father etiosete In his men net lorn spoke to her exeept to fiad Hut after all, be was her only and shs had always had carte as to personal expenses and her -•in tote totoiip.

ag what she would do If her

INDIANA’S SILVER MINE.

made her wince she felt sure that she could change all that speedily when she had the eonfidenoe that wifehood would give her,

and with great ignorance of the o«dinary elderly gentleman’s way of contemplating things ia gsneral. she fancied that her father’s heart would soften when he really comprehendod how handsome Jamesy was. So she BOIit 0D and bought her ribbon, her hairpina, bar little fal-lals generally, and was returning when the skv, which had been darkening for some time, became positively black, and a tremendous gust of wind arose, banging the shutters, setting tbo old-fashioned signs swinging, blowing all the empty tin-cans at tbe milkman’s door into tbe road, and sending chips, white paper and littie boys’ hats flying into the air. Every one ran for shelter, and Mahala, grasping hor parcels, made for the open door of a carriage house. Hardly bad sne done ao when the rain began to pour in torrents, and as she seated herself on an old hex in the corner, happy to be safely housed, two men entered together. Io a moment abe saw that one was James Cumberland, the other an insignificant yonng man with red hair whom she had oec&sionallv seen at the door of a tailor'a shop in the place. The two men seated themselves on the shafts of a wagon, with their backs toward her. Even had their fafces been toward the dark corner where she sat they would not have seta her. But as it was she was perfectly secure from observation. It was a great joke on Jamesy, she thought, laughing softly to hersell, that she should be so near him and he never guess it The next

moment tbe little tailor spoke.

“Sing’ler that we should both run in here

at tfll same minute,” he said.

“Urn—why?*’ asked Jameey In an un-

pleasant tone.

“Well, I’ve been tryin’ to see yon about my little bill for some days,” said tbe

tailor. ,

“You’re in a hurry, seems to me,” said

Jamesy.

“Wbat I want to know is when I’m to have that cash,” said the tailor. “Come,

spy when.”

“Look here, Jinks,’' said Jamesy, more amicably. “You just hold on, aud the time will come when my enstom will be worth

haring. Don’t you forget It 1" “Ah!” remarked the tailor.

“Ah! aud oh! if you like,” said Jamesy.

“I’m going to marnr a hayress.”

“ When you find her, I suppose,” said the

tailor.

“She’s found,” mid Mrs. Cumberland’s Jamesy- “You don’fc suppose good looks like mine goss for nothin’, do you. Jinks? I’m formed by nature for makio' mashes. I’ve got them fine points about my personal appearance that the woibeo admire. Folks like you, that’s made, so to speak, for work, don't know nothin’ about it. Why, love letters! I’ve got trunks full, curls of hair and photographs. But most of 'em are, 1 confess, from gals not worth noticing—folks in the sphsre of life that my father, having married beneath him, reduced me to. This gal is the fust circles of sassietv. where nat’rally I belong. She is Miss M&haly Mumford, if you want to know who she is. “Honor bright?” asked the t»ilor.. | “Bible oath!” said Mrs. Cumberland’s Jamesy. “She’s fast chop, yon knowplain and umbie kind of a cbbnky little thing, but the only heiress of her pa. We go away to-night—get married at the end of our journey. She’s of age, you bet— kinder coin'for en old maid; but the chink, Jinks—the,tin, that catches me? It may take a week to get tbe old man ’round, mebbe a month. But yon sball be paid as soon as be says, ‘Bless you, my children 1” “I hope he’ll hurry up and say it,” said Jinks. “But now did you get introduced to

her?”

“She introduced herself," said Jamesy. “She’d seen me som'ers aqd set her heart on me ail at onct. She went for me, I tell you, and if she didn't pop the question, she comes mighty close to doin’ it. I’m ail right there, and once I get my hands into the cash, you and me win have lots of jollifications. I shan’t take airs over old friends when I'm rich and stylish. Jinks.” “All right,” said Jinks. “But I’ll feel better satisfied when I see the cash, for all that. There is many a slip between cup and lip, you know.” “So fear in my ease, Jinks,” said Mrs. Cumberland’s Jamesy. “Mahalais too dead gone on me.” Then tbe rain having ceased to fall as suddenly as it began, the two men left tbe carriage-hense. Ten minutes afterward Mahala, with blazing eyea and white lips, hurried homeward. . At the gate of the home garden she paused. In tbe middle of tbe lawn stood her father in a fury, with a paper in his

hand.

The trellis was gone, and a pile of sticks lay npon the branches of the young wis-

teria.

“Mahala, hanged if I ever allow you to attend to anything agafiil” was Mr. Mumford’s greeting to bis daughter. “That trellis was blown down. A pretty piece of

AN INDIAN DIB THAT HAS KJEPT HOOS1ERS DIGUING.

Work’* Pioneer Efforts to Locate the Source of Aborlgrlnel Wealth—A Tale of Burled Treasure that Exoltes Credulous People.

Why,

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I’ll see him—ahem!

sent me—$30. blessed first!”

“Don’t pay a penny of it, pal" said Ms* h *“tshan’t,” said Mr. Mumford. “I was such a fool to get Mrs. Cumberland’s Jamesy to do anytnipg—an idle, laxv trickster—a low brute—a swindlerl” sobbed Mahala. “Oh, pa, forgive me!” “Bless me, don’t cry, child!" said Mr. Mumford, with unusual kindness. “There, there; how were you to knew about cai* penter’s work? Kiss me.’ And Mahala. for the first time in her life, wept upon her father’s shoulder—he never knew why. It was Mahala who suggested that evening that the old bull dog Scrpoge should be letlooeein thagarden. She was sure that she heard feet there the night before, It was Mahala who lay awake listening with bitter glee until she heard the appointed signal, “Meet Me by Moonlight Alone,” whistled beneath her windew—who heard a howl, a growl, fierce barking, shrieks, flying feet, and a shot from her father’s

windew.

It was Mahala who picked up several large pieces of checked cloth upon the lawn next morning, and then went to the kennel where Scrooge eat licking hia lips with satisfaction, and called him “Good dog!” She was somewhat disposed to be hysterica!, but she felt no pity. Revenge " gwc **-—(Mary Kyle Dallas. Was X* Contempt or Coosct

lDublin Times.]

A small Scotch boy was sutnmonded to give evidence against his father, who was accused of making disturbance in the

streets. Bald the Bailie to him: Co in 6, wy ©oo, «pe*k tbo truth, &nd

let us knew all ye ken about this affair.” “Weel, sir,” said the lad, “d’ye’ ken

Inverness street?”

“I do. laddie,” replied hia worship. “ Weel, ye gang along if and turn into the “An’ when ye gang across the square ye turn to the right, and up into High street, add keep on up High street till ye come to

a pump.”

“Quito right, fay lad; proceed,” aaid hia worship; “I know the old pump well.” “Well,” aaid the boy with the most infantile simplicity, “ye mey gang and pump

it, fer ye’ll no pump me.”

Army* Against irotsetive TanJZ.

[Hartford OUT Telegram.!

All the great independent newspaper* in the country,such as The ladiamipolls News, the Chicage Newt, New York Post, Herald and Times, Philadelphia Times aad Washington Post are opposed to a protective tariff, It ia certainly a good omen for the future when the brains of the country are arrayed against that monstrous iniquity.

A HeaUsuc suggestion.

f»ew Yura Sun.!

Wigge (at the rehearaal)—Mr. Baconshak,

we want to put a tittle realism into this

play- Can you suggest aaythihg? Baeoaafiak—You might try paying real

salaries.

Apt (9 fl*np««k(Kl. A grata of ooria.

r.Louisville Courier-Journal. I Indiana, like Kentucky, has a famous silver mine that has never been ditcovered. It has oost a good deal of money and enthusiasm in the search for it, but as it probably never existed, of courte its location has remained a mystery, but one which people are still trying to solve. One of the first men to become affected by the ailvermine craze in southern Indiana Vas John Work. Early in the year 1803 John and Henry Work, with their families, embarked on the Monongahela from their home at Red Stone, Pa., thirty miles above Pittsburg, for the settlement at the falls of the Ohio. The Works were iron-workers in Pennsylvania, having furnaces and a foundry at Red Stone, and they loaded the flatboat which bore them on their journey with iron kettles, the greater portion of which was disposed of around the falls for salt kettles and for boiling down the sap of the sugar maple, and for wash kettles. A portion, however, were retained and afterward sold to the settlers around Charleston, many of which are yet in use in that vicinity. They built a temporary home at the mouth of Harrod's creek, Kentucky. Not considering the location healthy, they crossed over into Indiana aud bought a large tract of land, extending front what is now known as Works’ Landing, on the Ohio river, across to Fourteen Mile creek, and far uo tbe creek, including the present site of the Tunneil Mills. Fourteen Mile creek was particularly inviting to the Works on account of its water-power. Early in the spring of 1804, while they were preparing to move to Indiana,.Henry fell ill of a fever and died. John and family and Henry’s widow and family crossed into Indiana soon after and settled on the lands purchased the year previous. f John Work la spoken of in an early hii tory of the'State of Indiana as a surveyor, mining engineer, millwright, and one •killed in working metals. He at once entered into tbe clearing of land and the building and operating of mills. He at one time had three grist mills, four saw mills, a powder mill, distillery, and mill for sawing stone, all in successful operation—and John Work was a busy man. In 1814, after long deliberation, he began the crowning act of hii liie—that of blasting a tunnel through aolid roca a distance of between three and four hundred feet through the narrowest part of a peninsula where tbe creek makes a curve of about a mile in length for the purpose of obtaining sufficient fail and ample water power. The obstacles were great, but nothing could turn him from his purpose. His tools were of the aiinplest character, and to purchase powder for the undertaking was regarded as out of the question. * But as io all previous undertakings he was equal to the emergency. He went to the olifis of the Ohio river and there between the ledges of yellow magnesian limestone he mined saltpetre, bore it to the river and refined it, and transported it home, made hia own powder and did the engineering. This required the constant work of three or more men tor three years. The tunnel is ninety-four feet below the summit, six feet high, and four feet wide. About seven hundred pounds of powder was used, and aside from his own work, the tunnel was finished at an outlay of about $3,300. Tbe completion of the tunnel was the occasion of a grand eolebration. He invited the people of the surrounding country to partake of his hospitalities. A grand dinner was provided. Two barrels of whisky were rolled up to the tunnel. The head of one was knocked out, and the other was rolled through the tunnel to the otuer side, and a head of that barrel knocked out. John Work and his wife rode through the tunnel on horseback. Speeches were made, and a general glorification was indulged in. History records it as the first tunnel made west of tbe Alleghenies. After the completion of the tunnel another serious obstacle confronted him, and many feared his work would go for naught, instead of a stone foundation for the mill, as was expected, he found quicksand. * Believing that wood submerged in water would not rot, he had large oak trees hewn aud placed is position to receive the foundation, and there rests a massive stone wall twenty or more feet in bight selid for all time to come. He made several trips on horseback back to Pennsylvania to visit his relatives and for tbe purchase of machinery at Pittsburg. His good wifa accompanied him on two of these tedious journeys, one time carrying a child in' her arms. I find in a diary kept by him, that in the month of March, , 1809, himself, wife and John, bis nephew, made the trip to Pennsylvania on horseback by following the trail east to Georgetown, Ky., thence north, taking the old Indian trail through Blue Lick, and crosing the river at Mavsville, to the old Indian town of Chillicothe, thence east again to Rad Stone, Pa. The time consumed was eleven and one-half days, and the party averaged thirty-one and one-balf miles per day through an almost unbroken wilder-

iSS.

Mr. Work’s mill was patronized for miles and miles around, some coming from so great a distance as to require three and fonr days to make the round trip. The Indians,' who used to camp in tbe vicinity for weeks at a time, bought flour of hjm, often giving •ilver-oTe in exchange, which naturally aroused the miller's ouriositv as to where they procured the ore. The Indians always claimed to him that they had a secret silver mine in the vicinity, where they could get silver in unlimited quantities, even for the purpose of raqlding into bullets, but that the place would never be revealed to the bite man. Among the last Indians who visited him, long after tbe body of the tribe had left this country, was an old chief, whom be had long known, and who had always professed great friendship for him. This chie^ years before, called the braves in grand council in the milier’i doory&rd, there smoked the pipe of peace, bad vowed eternal friendabip to himself and family. Mr. Work, whom one of the tribe at one time had attempted to murder with a tomahawk, thought tbe Indians treacherous, but nevertheless, believed tbqir story

had tidten out what silver they could carry away, and b«& sealed it up, and it would never again be opened unless the Indians re-occupied that country. He said that if the miller could find It tbe white people would have all they could use' and have

plenty left to shoe their horses.

John Work, who had searched for silver from the first trading with the Indians at an early day, continned the search with renewed vigor after each succeeding visit of the Indians. He never did anything by halves, and attempted to make the search

thorough, lie explored

oreek from mouth to headwater—excavated

He explored Fourteen Mile mouth to headwater—excavated

rock whenever he thought they might be placed artificially; explored caves, prospected along Silver creek, tested the sulphur balls found in the bed of that Stream, broke up large quantities ot “nigger heads” on the- knobs in the hopes of discovering silver therein, bought lerge tracts of land in tbe Guinea knobs, and dug great holes Where he thought he could detect the traces of mao's work. In short, the search for sliver was the prime object of his life, which be kept op until hi* death, which occurred in 1832. John Work has lain in his grave for fifty-nine long years, and this search for silver began by him has since been prosecuted by thousands. Andrew Mitchell, an early pioneer, who settled in tbe vicinity in 1804, end upon whose farm the Indians need to camp for weeks at a time, claimed that the Indians wore engaged in some secret work

balance of

jourfey op foot

they buried their treasure and never returned for it. These seardhers are traversing the country in platoons, marching aud countermarching over the ground where such treasure might be buried, each with a hazel dWtto^jUL * divining rod, which is •apposed to turn down shahid the hidden treasure bo crossed. Sw it sfienis that these lies about secret treasures tn this vicinity are subject to new variations, and-that the last display of foolishness outranks all other

demonstrations of like character.

Now scheme to Obtain Coal Gas.

(Plttoburx Times.]

A suggestion concerning the fuel gas supply which comes from a coal, miner deserves attention for its originality* whatever its practical value may prove to be. He mentions four acres of land not worth five dollars an acre for agricultural purposes, the coal under whieh has been partly worked out and the mine abandoned. Let some qn« buy this, drive driftways to a couple of outlets, line the upcast with firebrick.

make pipe connections, wall np the open-

tart a fire in tbe passageways

- When it is

lugs, s

blast to make it go.

and a

■■ pl . , coiag at the required rate, close up everything, and while the ooal is buruing the gas from this natural retort can be piped away for consumption. When this old mine is exhausted, fire up another. One advantage of this gas would be that should any of it escape into a room you would'' be sure to

smell it. n, ■ Gave Themselves Titles.

iNew York Trtbune.f

The lats ex-Senator Pomeroy wae known in Kansas as “Gsneral” Pomeroy until he became a Senator, in 1861. He and S. W. Eld/idge were making a tour through that disturbed territory in 1854; and Pomeroy at that time said to his companion: “If we bad a title we would get along a great deal better among these people, nl tell you what we will do: you introduce me ae ‘General,’ and I will address you and introduce you as ‘Colonel.’ ” Eldridge assented, and therealter they traveled as “General” Pomeroy and “Colonel” Eldridge. Pom^ roy continued to be called “General” for tbe next seven years. Eldridge is still

“Colonel” Eldridge. September Bits. I Now York Ledger, j

The September fruit.is the apple. Tbe September flower is the- golden sod. The September colors are crimson and

gold.

The September etoqe ia the chrysolite, which, if worn during tbe month, averts sadness from the mind, according to the

lore of the lapidaries. la His Footsteps,

lMoody.1

“I am told that men going through the Rocky mountains will find air Indian traij

■ ore, sail HHHI tribe follow him and put their lest in his steps. That is what oar Cbisf wants ns to do.” 4

Easy to tomiatt, , [Robert J. Burdette.]

“Pa,” said young Mittimus, 'coming in from school, “the teaohw says 1’va got to commit thirty lines of poetry to m4m to-morrow morning. T never <ym d# it.

Itpmw.’ • ' committed a poet for

oryby

-morrow morning, l never can d# it/’ “Pshaw," mid the jnttice, “that’s easy. I unmitted a poet for ten days in five min

ute* this afternoon.’

Importance ot Beane ox maaO. . (TheLutheran.J “There are things that are many times more important than a satisfactory bonk account, and peace of mind is one or these. Covetousness is the serfice of aeruel ido!, who plagues his devotees whom he deludes to tbeir destruction.” Its Identity E-tat>H«hecL I Baltimore Amsrican.l "My speech at the meeting last night was my maiden effort,” said the young orator, proudly. ’ ’ ■>> “Yes,” cynically replied hit friend; “I noticed it wa* something of a miss.” . ; ^ jnte Tenges. ilJpplneeH’s] «ve knows ho past no to tore, you declare; Look ia that magic glob*, your lady’s ey s, tad see your answer deeply mirrored there; In love’s rich present* past and future lie. Ape to Delude Cs. tPhUadelphie Record.! The smoke from the tin-plate ehmroeys should not be mistaken for the Indian summer haxe.

while there, and always went away heavily ! laden with some kind ot heavy substance, 1 presumably lead or silver ore. A man who had lived with the Indiaus told Robert Plasket, another pioneer, that the Indians used to mine silver n«-ar Fourteen Mile creek by cutting the solid ore from under a rook in a ravine, and he thought the mine was located on the land recently occupied by Riley Amick, now deceased. Thomas Runyan, a native of the vicinity of Works’ mill, was employed early in the fifties in the Government service on a boat furnishing supplies to the Indians up the Missouri and the upper Mississippi in the then “Far West.” On some of the trips the boat would lay for considerable periods at some agenev. On one occasion an old Indian with whom he had become acquainted asked him where he lived. On being told near Charlestown, Ind., and on being asked to be more explicit, Mr. Runyan said his home was near Works’ mill. The Indian said he knew all about that country, as ! they had a silver mine near there and he | had been there many times. He told Runyan that if he was to find that mine he would have all the silver he wanted. Mr. Runyan thought from what the Indian said that the mine was on the Martin farm, came home and organized a company, made a contract with Mr. Martin, and went to work. After considerable prospecting and doing a great deal of work, he became discouraged and abandoned the search. The places opened by Mr. Runyan have tince been further opened by persons yet living in this country. Even Davis, who made a precarious living by running a mill and turning bowls out of buckeve blooks, on “Yankee Run,” also engaged in the eearoh and continued it daring hia life. He was joined in the latter portion of hia life in the searob by Joel Paaawater, who had been a prosperous farmer and miller near New Market. Fasswater moved to Holman, where be was still in comfortable circumstances. He would take some bed-clothing in a basket and wander away for weeks in search of the sealed mine, spending tbe greater portion of his time in the vicinity of the Davis mill. He got his living as best he could and made his bed under a tree or in a fence corner and “dreamed and dreamed again the visions which arise without a sleep.” But in all the search for silver there has not been silver enough discovered to wash a pewter dollar.' Those who have purported to have engaged in the refining of silver in this county in secret in the dead hour of night were rank counterfeiters, the male members of a family. The most noted of this class who made spurious Mexican dollars and other bad money in this country years ago were hung bv a vigilance committee in Canada. Gold we have hern brought in the drifts during the glacial period, but in such small quantities as not to pay for working. The richest of the deposits are found in Brown county. It Is well demonstrated by men of science that the rook of this country contains no gold and silver, and yet men go up and down the county with divining or mineral rods, waving them as magic wands in the vain hope of having the earth divulge the secret of a wealth it does not contain. Among the searchers this season have beeu two miners from Nevada, who have been brought here by some specimens supposed to be gold

ore sent there to be assayed.

At present there is a company of meo engaged in a search for a buried treasure. Their story goes that early in the preseut century some French monies left Mexico witlflarge treasure, which they intended taking with them to Canada. That they ascended the Mississippi river in a fiat boat and entered the Ohio, and after a long tedious trip their boat was swamped in the Big Eddy at the Falls; but that these monks saved their treasure and built a house at th* mouth of Fourteen Mile creek Hera they remained for a while, but concluding to " mak* the

FfcARY’H WINTER QUARTER* The Fiace Ha Has Selected tor Hu Susy —Probable Plana of the Explorer. Lieutenant Peary has established his winter qnarten, as the map below shows, in a region thick-sown with memories of past Arctic expeditions. The bead of McCormick bay, where tbe hat in which he ia passing the winter with Mrs. Peary and his associates has been bnilt, was not the point he had originally selected. He hoped to pass up Whale sound to the head of Inglefield gu^f, where he wo aid have been some thirty ifiiles nearer the interior and would occupy h better position for passing up the steep cliffs which circle the coast of Greenland here. After surmonnting them and passing fifty miles or so inland, Mr. Peary hopes to reaoh a level and unbroken field of ice for travel to the north. He will reach this from his present position either by going along the ehore to the head of the Inglefield gulf, or by passing directly inland. In the latter coarse he will find himself on the great Humboldt glacier, dis-

covered by Kane, whose closer rtady is certain to yield valuable reanlte. Acrose the foot of thie glacier, sixty or ■eventy miles, at B, is the bey where Kane spent two yean in the Advance, whieh he left in the ice, passing eonth io hie boats In 1855. Five years later Dr. Hayes, one of his companions, passed a winter at the point of thie peninsula. On tbe other side of Smith sound, which until Kane explored it was so long the nnknown gateway of the north, at C, General Greely and his devoted band passed the dreary winter of 1883-84, starving to death while ample supplies were at inaccessible cairns opposite. Tbe year before the Protens was sunk Inst above Cape Sabine with supplies, and ten years before, in 1873, the Polaris, with the remnants ot Hall's ill-fated expedition, sunk, and its survivors began their marvelous drift of 2,800 miles on an iee floe. The lonely graves of three of Franklin’s party are on one of the islanda just south of Peary’s quarters, and other explorers have wintered in the neighborhood. His own objeet. it must be remembered, is to explore tbe interior, sod when he passes east of 65° west of Greenwich he will be ia an untrodden region.

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BAB.

Six Bottles and SSO Wagered on the Result—An interesting Struggle.

fKew York Sun. |

A number of flies bad settled os one end of the bar at a well-known up-town resort the other afternoon, attracted by a few drops of a sweet drink that fiad beeu spilled. A group of customers of the place stood near, out the tippling fli«« were objects of no interest to them until one of the group discovered a reddish-brown ant moving in a very business-like mannet toward the flies. The presence of an ant of that kind in such a place was something so unheard of that every person in the house became interested in it at onoe. The ant hurried along until it wae within three or four inches of the flies, and then stopped and seemed to be makiug a recoonoisance. Presently it advanced in a cautious, sidling manner toward the flies again. The flies were apparently ao much engaged in absorbing the strange delicacy they bad come upon that they did not notice the approach of the ant, and even if thev had there was nothing in the manner of the insect to strike them with alarm. The ant sidled along until it was close to the unsnspectmg flies, when it made a sudden dash and seized a fly by one of its wings. This created a panie among the flies, and the unluqky one was left struggling to escape from its captor. The fly was more than twice the site of the ant, and if the latter had seized the former by a leg or by the body the fly would bave'had no difficulty in bearing the ant away, whatever ite ultimate fate might have been; bat the wily ant undoubtedly had calculated on tbM when it made its attack on the fly, and by grabbing it by tbe wing made it unposIn tbe struggle that followed the ant was tumbled and rolled and pounded about by the big fly, as a bear might tumble a woodchuck which presumed to give it fight But the ant held on, and presently accomplished what it had act oat to do, probably, from the first. It out the wing from the fly, close to the body, and thus put an end to the insect's power of flight The attack of the ant on the fly excited the most intense interest in the group of spectators from the start, and when the ant disabled the fly, after the lively rough-and-tumble round, a dozen bets were quickly made on the result, the odda being In favor of the ant. • The fly, nnable to take wing, tried to escape by running, but the aunt was upon it again in a second, and again they wrestled about on the bar. By this time two or ibree of the fly’s companions had recovered them>elves sufficiently to comprehend tbe rouble it was in, and came back to aid it bey plumped down on the wrestler and

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done, nut me ant oaenea noidty fight again, and grabbed one of the newcomers by the leg, This fly rose from the bar, taking the ant with it, hot the ant nipped the leg off, tnmbied book on the bar again, and, without ait instant's delay, arted fn ptmuit of the crippled fly, whieh as being helped Hong by its remaining

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They might have succeeded in getting the crippled qrto some place of safety, but the spectators who had bet on the ant interfered at this point and chased the reseniag contingent away. The ant then pitched into the one-winged fly, and after another lively wrestle cut tbe remaifilng wing off All this time tbe other flies were making efforts to get to their imperiled companion's assistance, and had to be kept out of the fight by tbe spectators. After snipping off the fly's second wing the ant boldly grasped the insect by the head, and, throwing it over his shoulder as a lioness might* deer

sistance, and had by the speetstoMp fly's seoond wing the jint boldly "grasped

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it had captured, trotted off with its prey, climbed down the end of the bar and disappeared ifi a hole behind It Sixty dollars in money and six bottles of wine wer* lost and won on the exciting ant and fly

duel, which lasted five minutes. Bright Massachusetts Figs.

I Worcester Gazetted

Mr. Joseph Stevens, one of Oxford's moat successful farmers, has a sow and fofir wellgrown pigs, which run in an orehard where the limbs of the trees are quite low and laden with apples. Tbe old aow would

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Bought Game That Got Away. (Ban Francisco Examiner.! One of our prominent citizens was outing at Lake Tahoe, a short time ago, and while there went snooting. Somehow the wild animals that he encountered stayed such a short time in any one place that be missed every shot. Finally he brought up at the cabin of a mouulaiueer who was feeding a caged wildcat be had trgpped the day before. Here was a chance to bring back to the hotel a genuine trophy—and silled by his own naud. “How much will yon take for that beast?” he asked. The captor said $20. and the money was paid over. “Now,” said the Nimrod, “tie one end of a strong cord to that tree and another to tbe cat^ necx, and then open tbe door of the cage.” This was finally accomplished, and the tierce animal stood straining at its tether. The Sportsman, who was watching the exercises from the interior of the cabin, leveled his rifle gcross the window sill, took careful aim and biased away. The wildcat gave a joyful yell and disappeared into the forest. The bullet bad eut the rope! npoltod Hi* Reputation. [Somerville (Me.) Journal.! Bjenks—Mr. Bjones ia a man of fine discriminating judgment, Mrs. Bjenks. Mrs. Bjenks—Nonsense! the man doaa not know anything at ail Bieokt—Why, what do you know about it, I’d like to know? You never saw him but once in your Ufa Mre. Bjenks—I know I never did. but that was enough. I held up the baby to him and asked him if she wasn’t the dearest, sweeteet little thing in all the world, and, will yqu believe it, all that stupid man would say was “M-m-m.” A Quick Beginning, fBaltimore American, j “How ia youraon getting oa with the stsffiy of th* law, Mr. Stoopedef’ “First rate, six; he’s commenced already, ho tells me, to prosecute bis studes.” flflpRIGfv V* DELICIOUS

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THE BOYS. We have a number of broken lines of $4, $5 and $6 SUITS (splendid goods) that we mark #2.85 to close. In addition to the above Special Sale we exhibit the largest line of

Ever shown at this season o the year, at the WHEN

DOUGHERTY’S

NATURAL FRUIT FLOORS. Vanilla 01 Perfect purity. Lemon " l Of sxeat Strength. Orange ** | Hoonomy In their use Rose, etO./?^ v o«' *• delicately and deliciously m» the fresh fruit.

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DRUNKENNESS Or tte Ltqnor HaMt, FaelBvelg uorte

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odnt sad «peedy ours, wh# moderate drinker or sn aM< bees given in thousand* of m •taupe S perf*

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up and catch a limb and

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ringing down tbe apples, which she

and her family quickly devoured. After getting in this way all she could reach, one pig climbed on tbe mother’s back and reached a higher limb, wfiich she shook vigorously, bringing down a fresh supply of

fruit This was seen by a witnesa*

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I Youths’ Oomosnlon.i

The pet of the houaebold knelt as usual to say bis prayers at hia mother's side. “God bless papa and mamma and Unela Ed and—and—" here be hesitated. “And Pollr,” prompted hia mother.

Polly was hia nurse.

“Ilaf"he cried indignantly, looking np, “can'4 I skip Polly? She spanked me to-

day.” •

Goaerally Accominoaated. ’ 1 Galveston Krws.1 The man who prefers to be right rather than be President has usually been heartily accommodated by the people.

Usually.

[Drake's Msarasiae.j Straining every nerve—pulling a tooth.

1,500,000. “TP HE exportation of hams and bacon from this country was valued at about $50,000,006 during the year 1890, and now, wit German prohibition removed, it j that not less than ten millions rti added to tht figure. In i860 the total cite ports of merchandise from this country were only $316.000,000. Now. it is probable that the export of pork products may reach that figure.—[Editorial in Indianapolis Journal. BPKkixgan & CO. Made 1,500,000 ol Hams last year. What won’t they do when they head the procession lor Germany? But there will be enough for home folks. Aak your butcher or grocer for KIKGAN’8. aad take no other.

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