The National Banner, Volume 13, Number 32, Ligonier, Noble County, 28 November 1878 — Page 1

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THE FOOL'S FARM.

- John Masgar was a wealthy farmer, with some few hundred acres of land, half of which was fertile and well tilled, and the other half a range of rocky upland, from which nature drew forth nothing save scanty almost worthless weeds. The better half of the farm was well stocked and well ord%ed; the farm house was the best in *the village of Daleford, and the out-buildings were the envy of the neighborhood. _ . ; John Masgar had a knave brother and a foolish son—his only relatives. Robert, the brother, by a just dispensation of Providence, was a man of comsparative indigence, but his brotherf}}@hn’é"'ve“iflqued his faults and saw only his poverty -and-relationship, and when dying he ealled Robert to his ‘bedside, and, placing the hand of his son. Daniel in his, adjured him to protgckt.nthe imbecile for his father’s sakKe. Ve : ;

‘Ehe fool smiled, and the knave he smiled, too; the one tickled at the idea of having a new friend, and the other at having a new victim, easily plucked and ruined.. = “I will see after him, John,” said Robert, with a look of assumed affection for his nephew. *“I will prove a father to him when you are gone, and I will turn the farm to the best possible account, that your spirit, if it still hovers about this earth, may be pleased with what I do.” ° ;

“Enough, Robert, adieu. We shall meet again in heaven. Farewell, my brain-wrecked son,” gasped the dying man. : :

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“Good-bye, father,” grinned Daniel, twisting his body awkwardly about. “Hope you’ll have a pleasant journey. ‘Ha, ha, ha.”

John Masgar died, and the lawyer Twistwell’s ‘assistance was called in to settle the affair, It had been the expressed will of Mr. Masgar that his estate should be equally divided between his son and his brother. Half to one and half to the-other, were his words, though the wisdom which prompted it was not equal to that of King Solomon. Lawyer Twistwell, at the instigation of Robert Masgar, made a cruel construction of the will, and awarded the better half, all fertile and arable land, to the uncle; while the meaner portion thereof fell to the lot of poor Daniel. o

~ The more heartless and unprincipled of the nsighbors laughed at the fool when they heard of the award, and congratulated him upon having received so much *“good up-land.” He, too, was well pleased, and capered about, singing mad songs, to find himself owner ‘of so much land. He thought his the better part, and bounded over it with boisterous glee, climbing the trees, tearing up and hurling. the rocks about, plucking up the bushes,’ leaping down declivities, and drinking of the stream, as if he would. convinece each inanimate object that he was their sole lord and proprietor. The rough waste that had been bestowed upon the friendless, witless creature, through the crafty connivanee of the lawyeér, suited the fool’s taste ‘to-a charm? for there he could wander in undisturbed solitude, in “idiet meditation, fancy free,” unconscious of the weaith of which he was robbed by his uncle. One little hut alone stood on it, and that served for his home; and his bodily wants were supplied by such of the neighbors as obtained their fuel from-his “farm.” :

“The Lord will never prosper him who steals his treasure from a fool,” gaid one of these neighbors to her husband.

He shrugged his shoulders with a “humph,” for he was conscious of having repeatedly drawn more wood than he bargained for, from the fool’s farm, and was unwilling to believe in heaven’s anger thereat. = - - “Heaven helps those who help themselves,” he dryly replied, casting his' eye out at the mammoth pile of brushwood, for wWhich he had paid but a trifle in barter. : His wife seemed to understand the look; but she sighed as she poked the fire'in the hearth. ! ;

“Poor Daniel,” she exclaimed, “I hope will never suffer from cold or ‘hunger; but he seems to be in a fair way for it, with his uncle on the one side and a gelfish world on the other. His half was little enough as it was, and all that is good upon it is fast dwindling away. What will he do when the wood is all gone ?” “We had better be thinking of our own circumstances,” said the husband snappishly, “and let the town take care of the fools. ~ As for Daniel, no doubt -lie is happier now than many wise people.” . st “Happier than his -uncle, I'll be bound,” said the woman, “well off in worldly goods though he be. Old Masgar always looks distressed—suspicious and timid—as if he thought all the neighbors despised him for taking advantage of his nephew. And so they do. And- though everything looks well for him in a worldly way, there will come some kind of a change yet, depend upon it.” , . “Perhaps so and perhaps not;” replied the husband indifferently. “But get the pudding ready, at any rate, for I'm in a hurry to be off.” v

. 8o they smothered their sympathy ;vit.h pudding, and forgot all about the 001. j 5

Some one talked to Daniel about his farm and found him perfectly sat- “ What will I do with my rocks?” said he 'with a vacant, self-satified smile. Pile’em up. Make walls and forts. They'will last longer'n wood, and never burn up.” ~ v _ “But youhave no cattle nor crops, Danie}” o % ’ Tt

¢+ *I couldn’t take care.of them if I had. T can get meal and milk to eat, and 1 don’t want to work. I want to play with the children, and just walk about, .- Uncle Robert can’t doit. I ;:m 80 much better off than he is, you now.” 2

“Your wood will be all gone; soon,. Then what will you do? .Youlve-got | no money.” ; 9 E 57 iyl “It will be time enough then to pull up my rocks and plant seed,” said he looking wise. “And I'll do it all' mygelf, so that the seeds will know me when they come up, and bow to me in the morning when I walk out in the | flelds. Oh, I don’t care for anything ‘or anybody, with my farm,” he chuekled, flinging himselt upon the ground, and turning somersaults in his torn | clothes. “He, ha. But I’m not proud,” he added, rising and looking grave. “That’s the reason why I lay with | the dogs; and the boys and the geese laugh when I roll and tumble in the. SN - oo e n - The idiot seemed so contented that none cared to dweil on the great wrong“he had suffered; and 80 his un-

cle Robert was left in undisturbed possession of what he had fraudulently acquired, Pity for the friendless fool was not deep enough to arouse glpposition against the influential une. .

But it was not long before Daniel’s wood was thoroughly swept away, leaving him but the barren surface of the rocks on which fo rest his hopes of support; and now hunger compelled him to beg at the’®doors of his neighbors, for his uncle forbade him to cross his threshhold—averse to the presence of such a standing reproach to his iniquity, and thinking to drive him upon the pauper maintenance of the town.

~Alas, the lord of the house was a pitiable sight to see, as he wandered from door to door in Daleford, offering shares in his rocks for bread, and with no more of those vacant smiles which had shown his elation in\hsi: time of imaginary wealth. Distre bad ‘now joined hands with idiotcy, and the dream of comfort had vanished from the fools brain. The haggard skeleton in his life of:chance, found sustenance enough to keep' his soul within his body still; but that ghastly aspect of -human life was more mocking than even his sterile apology of a farm. Slow and sad was the step of the now sauntering scarecrow through the town—the melancholy cynosure of the pointing fingers, the desolate vietim of shameless relationship and a shattered brain. But, alas, for the spectral landed proprietor. Ll One day as instinct sent him begging after dinner time, for the dismal miscellany of his daily food, a summer storm darkened the earth, and peals of thunder startled all animated things. 'The flowers bowed in terror; and the invisible milliners who deck the bonnets of nature flew to their most secret haunts. But the fool stalked abroad in the pelting rain, and lifted his black lustreless eyes to thei furious source of the tempest, half amazed, half delighted, at the inter-] mittent fires. . : . :

Suddenly a shriek was heard alopg the road; and looking backward, he saw upon a frightened horse a young ' maiden of the village clinging to, the mane of the gallopping animal, which, snorting with alarm, was approaching him.. ; : ~Daniel Masgar was a fool—but he was a man. A wise one might have stepped aside in fear, but Daniel seized .a broken bough by the wayside, and brandishing the huge weapon for a moment, darted into the middle of the road; and as the wild careering steed, came thundering on with its insensible burden, with a well directed force the limb was brought in contact with the horse’s head. The concussion was tremendous, and the animal, panting and quivering with swelled veins, fell heavily to the ground. : A S Happily for the girl; whose hold was upon his mane, she was hanging updh the opposite side to that on which he fell; and before the half-stunned animal could struggle to his feet again the idiot, inspired by the emergency, sprang forward and pulled the insensible maiden from her perilous position. The sheuts of approaching men, one of whom was her father, now attracted: his attention, and in a few moments..the girl, still unconscious, was in her parent’s arms. . -“YWell done, Daniel! God bless you for saving my daughter’s life!” was the grateful exclamation of Mr. Fontley, as the party, bearing the.girl, and leading the now passive horse, proceeded to his house near by. “You have done that which I shall never forget, and I will do what I can to repay you, poor fellow—but he dees not, understand me,” added the father, shaking his head, as the fool, unheeding; followed them, brandishing the huge branch with which he felled the horse, and smiling at it. “What ‘agents the Almighty sometimes chooses for his work!” continued’ Fontley. “A fool has been the means of saving my only child from a ride to a bloody grave!” : Helen Fontley was but fifteen on that day of her great danger, and was returning home from a customary jaunt; when overtaken by the storm, The father was wealthy and centered in her all his cherished hopes. The heroic deed of Daniel affected Fontley deeply, and filled him with -an active compasgion for the young man. He resolved to be his friend, and he was 80. Out of the mouth of the thunder followed the blessings for the fool.— With the passage of the eclouds on that day came sun upon the soul of his fortunes. . o

Having inquired after his affairs, on the next day Mr. Fontley rode over to the “fool’s farm,” and made a brief survey of it— Daniel and a few others accompanying him. - “What do you think of the division of the property ?” was the question of one. - “Was it not eruel ?” :

_ “Daniel, come to my house. Cruel ? No!” replied Mr. Fontley, his. face brightening up with a meaning smile, as they left the sterile uplands. “Robert Masgar did a greater favor to his nephew by the division than his ignorance intended, if I.am not much mistaken, But we will see,soon, how it turns out.” :

From that day Daniel was amply provided for in the house of Mr. Fontley, and meanwhile the secret of the latter’s words became revealed. The “fool’s farm” was rich in coal. The experienced eye of Fontley had detected, in the gourse of his visits to it, indications which had escaped the notice of all others, and which subsequent prospecting proved true. Those barren undulations of soil contained a mighty mine of coal, and the wealth of the grateful and delighted Fontley developed the black: treasure for the benefit of Daniel. e Numerous workmen were soon employed upon the before derided waste, and Daleford in a few years derived its chief importance from these fields. Capital and enterprise were attracted to the town, and hundreds of families were supported by labor in the mineral “bowels of the harmless earth,” and the star of the fool rose suddenly up in the sky of benefaction. Fontley, his patron and self-appointed agent, ‘was true to his grateful instincts and his important trust, and Daniel Masgar became the possessor of untold WeREh, e G As if Heaven’s rebuke were designed to be xmmeaiatq? ‘manifest, the strata .did not extend in the land of Robert Masgar, and he saw with double mortification the contrasted ;wea_l%x of the Ytﬁuhaw‘ he had :,d‘es'goil‘-» ed, &gwm,, Aiﬂ.,eﬁoﬂ&gﬁﬂm ase any part ef the “fool’s farm,” or all of ik, &t any price, stood the sagacious, watchful and honest Fontley; and of ;m%hﬁ% idm destitution, the mind and |ﬂb of Fontley became the guard,,

Nor was this all the fortune of the fool. In his youth he had been bright, aN}he saying is; but a diseass of the brain had settled there, converting it to idiotey. Years full of darkness had left no hope for a revelation of reason, bat now the reign of folly had ‘expired. . The sudden change in his lot had thrown Daniel into a state of feverish exultatiun,gg)ich resulted in a severe sickness, from which skillful treatment raised him gradually to health and sense again. » It appeared as if joy had started and loosened fromt his brain the disease -which had made bim idiotic, and the long latent bane was expelled forever. He arose a man! Man in the sane and glorious control of all his faculties. Man, in the full possession and free use of that immortal mind, without which we would be no kin nor part of the Creator, nor could dream that our final home and harbor is the bosom of our yearning God. A man! Fool no more; and- like oue who awakes from some long vision of dread images, he moved and spoke with an unladen mind, and wept in joy at the coming. of the morning of his liberty. = : |

- The tears of Fontley and his daughter were freely mingled with his—a happy trio. And still prosperity, with brighter smiles, abided with him. The harvests of Robert Masgar became the prey of various misfortunes. They were backward, scant, mildewed, here scorched by too inuch heat, and there destroyed by the tempests. Murrain blighted his cattle, fire destroyed his buildings, and as if the hostility of the elements and of man were not punishment enough, sickness prostrated him, and in the midst of his ruining adversity his only child died. - ; { :

So fled the promise of the better farm. So perished, like the golden mist of the sunset, the vision of the villain. - When he recovered from the couch of physical prostration, he learned for the first time of all the good fortune of the nephew he had wronged—his reason added to his riches—his further bliss—his union with his benefactor’s daughter. - Then walked Robert Masgar forth into the air, and confessed in anguish his wretchedness. He beat his breast, and strode among the ruined fields, and knelt and sohbed aloud:

“Now, O Lord, I know my sin! And though my heart is broken, it is purified!” s

. So ends the story of the “fool’s farm.” " So closes it with a moral.— Let not the oppressor be too confident. The changes, of New England’s April are not so great as the changes of man’s vast estate; and those who exult in eruel self-reliance, over the unfortunate and unhappy, may take their place to-morrow.

Proposed Constitutional Amendments. The last General Assembly passed nine important amendments to the State constitution, which if approved by the Legislature which meets in January must be submitted to the peeple for their ratification, when, if adopted, ‘they become a part of the organic law. In brief the amendments are as follows: - - i ! 2

The first amendment requires a sixty days’ residence in the township and a thirty days’ residence in the precinct or ward to entitle a citizen to vote.— This amendment is badly needed, and we feel confident every fair minded citizen will vote for its ratification. -

The second amendment -simply strikes out what is already a dead letter in the constitution, the words, “No negro or mulatto shall have the right of suffrage.” ‘ : The third amendment changes the time for holding general e'ections from October to November, at the same time other States hold their elections. It authorizes the Legislature to provide a law that the judges of courts may be chosen at a separate election. It also provides that a registry law may be enacted. We believe this amendment will be ratified nearly unarimously. c The fourth amendment strikes out the word “white” from sections 4 and b, in article 4. This is a very important amendment, as the colored vote under the constitution as it stands. is not considered in making apportionments. - : 7

The fifth amendment authorizes the passage of law in yelation to fees and salaries “so as to grade the compensation of oflicers in proportion to the population and the necessary services required.” This will be a popular amendment and will be ratified by a nearly unanimous vote.

The sixth amendment has particular reference to the reforming of our judicial system, which will make it more efficient and at less expense to the people. . The seventh amendment relates .to the reorganization of the supreme court, and provides{ﬁt an increase in the number and a change in the manner of electing the judges. : .. The eighth amendment authorizes the General Assembly to:sit for one hundred and twenty days, or four ‘months, instead of sixty days, in general session, and for sixty days instead of forty days in special session, and prohibits a change in the salary of the members during the session at which such change is made. The ninth amendment limits the authority-of political or municipal corporations from contracting debts exceeding in the aggregate two per cent. on the taxable property within such corporation, : : ‘

A Fearful Place for Drinking, | (Correspondense Chicago Journal.) New°Orleans goes ahead of any city on the:continent in the imbibation of liquer, and a very poor quality at that. The average .is three barrels of whisky consamed to one barrel of sugar. Milwaukee beer is brought heire, but “rotgut” is deminant as a stimulant. Business men who begin work at nine and go home at three drink it to excess; carpet baggers soak it, and the negroes! the first question propounded by Cuffeé when asked to work is how many drinks a da]:}y, instead of how many shillings. very corner grocery keeps the article on sale, and altheugh there is little drunkenness visible onithe streets, the faces of the residents generally show asuperabundance of nervous blood, rendered so by the poisoned corn juice of Cincinnati and Frankfort. Aeperson will not enter one house out of ten on a social call where liquer is not offered. Before dinner it is an “appetizer,” after dinner a "seégor,’? during the evening a “social nip and before retiring a “night cap.” S s o s . Our druggists all say they have guch yniversal mutmﬁnn% Dr, Marshall’s Lu ‘gﬂ:;’"m% Colds, ete.’ It has no eq: . : !

Political Notes.

The Grant movement is taking a very sound nap. © b

The Pittsburg Post suggests Hendricks and Hancock for 1880, .. .. The Washington Post estimates the clear democratic majority.over all in the next house of representatives at 16. seb E R T e

The pelished New York Senator, Roscoe Conkling, seems to: have the inside track for the republican nomination in 1880. % SR b

. When the new house of répresentatives comes to elect a speaker, the F't. Wayne Sentinel predicts that Wm. R. Morrison, of Illinois, will loom up.

The Memphis Appeal is of the opinion that the next democratic candidacy for président will fall to the lot of either Hendricks, Thurman, or Voorhees. ol 3

Senator McDonald says he wouldn’t accept a nomination in 1880, éither for president or vice-president, and that he is for Hendricks first, last and all the -time. Ry

Now you, New York democrats, stop your fighting and behave {our-‘ selves. Thiswill never do, you know. Bury the hatchet and unite against the common enemy for 1880. . e The New York World compliments: Senator McDonald for his “strong. sense and political. courage,” which, it says,“are things good in themselves g'nd of a refreshing -quality in these ays-n : . o 5 S

Senator Winterbotham’s head is level on a great many subjeets. Ina recent letter he said: “I can see no ‘more reason for giving the people’s money to railroad and steamship corporations than there would be in giving it to some poor man to start a shoe or blacksmith shop in any country village.” : SR

. Watterson, of the Louisville' Cou- | rier-Journal, considers the house of representatives “for the most part, a mob of fourth rate nobodies, in which a few impudent upstarts are bellowing, artifice and pushing, contrive to .elbow their way to the front.” = Mr. Watterson has been theré and knows what he is talking about. . Much nonsensical talk is just now. being indulged in by the republican ppress, about a “solid North.”, The fact is,.if these republican’ editors would examine the figures on the late vote, they would discover that their party, with three exceptions, is largely in the minority in every state in the union. The only trouble is that the opposition to the republican party was divided, which enabled them to carry some of the northern states with a minority vote.—Huntington Democrat. S s et

‘ That Black Infamy, | The New York Sun gives editorially a histery of the electoral fraud in Louisiana, furnishing copious extracts from the sworn testimony %aken, during the congressional investigations. The Sun concludes its article with the following summary: “In addition to. this testimony, it may be stated as a notorious faqt that ‘when all these offers to sell Louisiana out had not succeeded, a round hundred thousand would have bought the returning board out and out. | They were in the market to the last moment, and as Wells admitted and Anderson declared, the democrats “had no money.” That they were paid in money and in office is: indispﬁable.' Anderson is deputy collector, Wells is surveyor of the port, Kenner is. deputy naval officer, and Casenave’s. brother is in office. Wells apd An-: derson have openly controlled all the federal patronage of New Orleans and the state; and when ene collector of customs did not suit thegl they bave turned him out aud put in another. All their instruments of the returning board are drawing pay from the publie treasury, in Louisiana or elsewhere. - This is the brief history of how eight electoral votes were stolen and sold. 4 million cipher dispatches, whether true or fabricated, or correctly or falsely translated, would not alter the stern and overwhelming fasts” AR g

Walnut Trees and Their Value,

The South Bend 7'ributie has the following: “There is a company in Fort Wayne who are buying 'up-all the choice walnut trees they can find in the forests of northern Indiana. They select the trees;/have them felled, cut into logs, measured, pay the cash for them, and then ship the smaller logs immediately, ‘while the larger ones are allowed to 'remain in the woods until sleighing comes. One bought by them on the farm of Samuel Bowman, in Center township, measured 4,922 feet, whieh at $25 per 1,000, the price paid by them, yielded Mr. Bowman the handsome sum of $125.06. The measuring in this instance was done by Newt. Jackson, and he pronounces it as large a walnut tree, probably, as there is in the country. It -measured six feet ‘through, and one of the logs contained 1,500 feet. Another tree bought by this company on James Saving’s farm, in Portage tewnship, brought $ll6. - it ’ The Peer of Any Democrat. : [Valparaiso Messenger.] ' : The Messenger can’t join the demos cratic press of Indiana in opposing. the nomination of Hon. Alfred P. Edgerton, of Fort Wayne, for gover‘nor in 1880., Of course, we frankly confess that Allen county has already her full share of state officers, and ought to be satisfied; but that is no reason why the mention of ‘an honor-: able and eminently respectable gentleman’s name for the governorship should throw a large portion of the democratic press of the state into convul’%ons. ‘Mr, Edgerton is the peer of any democrat in the state. =~ ; Thﬂ!;@l%@ all diseases of the stomach, bowels, blood, liver, nag%g,ku‘ neys and urinary organs, and $5OO will be paid for a case they will not. cure or help, or for any thing impure or injurious found in them—Hop Bitters, Lest it. See “Truths” or “Pro-. verbs” in another column. . 81-2 t. adh Dot TG Vet th olnt ot n Gy uld nof »'f*:“f hsent & Jury - g:tfa peration, &W’*" that nothLingi‘ 41 ")E \ v‘,vl w‘ “éﬂ"’g physician got & priest apd several .

General Items.

* Senator Gordon has been re-elected unanimously in the Georgia Senate, and almost unanimously in the Houss. : :

. Deacon Richard - Smith, of the Cincinnati Gazelte, has inaugurated, in his paper, a crusade against dancing as at present conducted in society,

Half the sugar sold in New York is believed by people who are in the secret to contain a quarter of an ounce of poisonous adulteration in evety single pound. : ; -

_ George T. Messels, an educated gentleman of Lynn, Mass., shot himself through the head at Kansas City, Monday, because of failure to find employment, : ;

- Immigration’ statistics for the past thirty years show that Ireland in that time was dispossessedof two million -and Germany of two million one hundred thousand souls. o - The one fact behind the attack on silver by the National Banks of New York is the fact that the bonds are payable. in silver. The bondholder desires to change the contract again. A severe earthquake wasfelt:in Manizales, the capital of the state of -Antioquia, Colombia, on October 9. JOne hundred and twenty-one houses -were destroyed. No lives were lost. The damage done will exceed $100;000, SRn 3 .

Another attempt will be made. in congress next winter to accomplish a great and necessary reform by transferring ‘the Indian "bureau from the int;el;;im' department to the war department;: -

' Secretary: Schurz has written a caustic letter in answer to an arraignment of the Indian policy of the Interior Department by General Sheridan. The Secretary calls upon Sheridan ‘to substantiate eertain of his assertions. } i

- The plates for the five thousaud dollar and ten thousand dollar greenback netes are being perfected, and will be ready for circulation by the day fixed for-resumption. Their size will be-'the same as that of the other greenback currency. . . ..

' Ten years ago over one million of acres were devoted to potato cultire in Ireland; now only about 870,000 acres, are thus employed. The decrease is attributed to the great uncertainty attending the cultivation of the crop, and to new methods of foraging cattle. :

‘Hon. Alex. H, Stephens is in better health than he has enjoyed for five years. He thinks the financial question will drop out of polities before the next Presidential campaign, and that the attempt of the republican leaders. to revive sectional hate will in the end react upon those who are now 80 busily fanning the flames. e . The New York 7'imes’ southern correspondent, who is writing colamns just now about “fiegro massacres,” in South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana, has never been out of Washington. There he sits with the bloody shirt wrapped about him, constipated in brain and dyspeptically ministering lies to the 7'imes’ readers. g

Secretary. Sherman, being convinced by the adverse criticism upon the proposition of the New York banks to receive silver on deposit only under a special contract to withdraw such deposit in kind will not prove acceptable to the 'public, now comes to the front and denies that, on behalf of the Treasury, he ever accepted any such proposition. » ale

Governor Hartranft has issued a warrant for the execation on December 18 of the notorious Molly Maguire, John Kehoe, for the murder of F, S. W. Langdon, in Schuylkill county, in 1862, and also for the execution of Martin Bergen, of Schuylkill eounty; Charles Sharpe and James O’Donnell, of Carbon county, and Alexander Sayres, of Philadelphia. : :

~ Chicago is to have a fat stock show at the exposition building from December 2to 7, inclusive. The prizes are - distributed as follows: Cattle, - $2,350; sheep, $725; swine, $600; fat = poultry and wild game, $l7O. In addition to above the National Liwe Stock Journal, of Chicago, offers challenge cups as follows: Best beef animal, $100; best fat sheep, $5O; best fa-t ‘hOg. ssov | 5 " i

- Director Linderman, in his annual report, just completed, gives as the gold and silver product of the country for the fiscal year ending:June 30, 1878, $93,952,421. Of this amount: $47,226,107 is gold and $46,726,314 silver. He furthermore estimates the gold and silver in the country, coin and ‘bullion, at $332,448,947. Of this amount $224,353,390 - is- gold and $BB, 090,557 is sglver. Y

A girl in St. Joseph, Mo., went to a drug store to buy arsenic with which | to kill herself. The clerk happened to-know that she had quarreléd with | her lover, and he guessed her pnrposa. He gave her corn starch instead of ar‘senic, and hurried out to tell her lover. ‘'The lover repented having griev--ed the girl; went to her house, found her lyingi on a sofa waiting in vain to die of a o‘ge of corn starch, and made ° up with her. : : : The new mammoth cave, near Luray, Page county, Va., is situated -about 150 miles west'of Washington. = It is reported of consisting of a‘great ' | -succession| of lofty eaverns; tortuous ' - passages and.fa’ihongeps—chams. with.* . natural beauties of the most gorgeous - and w‘bnd{_i'ful “description, the whole" far surpassing all other subterranean = «caves ever discovered. The develop: ;ment of a rabbit-hole on a side hill led to the finding of the cave, . ~ | j_mélgrs. Elizabeth -va“aßtmgg Iv&vgho s o few wee m»i 0,-im- the New: | ' Mork m lwyg?gﬁ%@ 'ﬂ%ﬂt propose. j to have the body-snatchers drag her from the fosh. ' Ste s4ved themihe trouble by bequeathing .beforehand < . her body for; dissec don, With Shees. . . pression of .a desire tha éﬁf’ ton. . . *gshm 6of plundering cemeteries < ‘is for more heroic sou Qe i: i "lﬂﬁgﬁi mm% AR 0 SR PRIROR 8. X 8 oo would so v for - would beat amead. vag g . T™ T Gg i dPR e Sumee e ' Stegle & Price, of Chics igo and 8, ~3% w§u§ based Lo B ﬂ*{i‘f Te ‘3 il . T HORRG PEERR “ Y‘““n-:e*'@;: /‘;’%M‘f“‘;ﬁjilﬁ‘ -1 To e f.er:\é ‘United Bbtee Gotaratiyres % B mode ot A o SRR BRI

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