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THE NAPPANEE NEWS UKTAStK : t t : INDIANA HELEN LAKEMAN; —OB,— The Story at a Yoonsr GirTs Strug* gle With Adversity. I . -s ST JOHJT K. MTJSTCX. Unoß or “Tn Banker or Bedford," 1 “Walter Browxitelii,'’ Ere. ICtpgright, last, ty A. .V. Kellogg Keatpogar Co.] CHAPTEK XXll.—Continued. Did they have a cat at their hense? Yes,;certainly, ami a titter went round the room, making the hairy mole on Mother Tart ruin’s chin tremble. Did they hare a kitten? The prosecuting attorney did not see that this was releTANARUS: at, tat the justice did. Ye£. they had a kitten. How old was the kitten? Foer or five months ohL Was it a very jdfyiol kitten ? It was, but was never known to open a carpet bag and hide away a gold bracelet. This produced a laugh at the lawyer's expense, and 'Mother Tartram clapped her hands for J>y. while tlie hairy mole on her chin wan greatly agitated. The lawyer then asked Hallie if she knew who pnt the bracelet in the carpet bag? No, she did not. Did she do it? “No.” very indignantly. She was dismissed and Mrs. Arnold sworn. Her examination in chief was the same as her daughter's. Then on cross-examination she admitted that it was not dark when Helen and “Pete, the pedtUct,” came to her honse. That Helen's brother was with her and both were soaked with rain. That Pete was a man of good character, and that they stated that Pete had found Helen and her little brother under a tree, and he ■volunteered to carry the little boy that far. She even thought that there jmight be nothing wrong in her coming Ahere with Pete. Mother Tartnun at this point shook her head. Airs. Arnold stated that they had a cat, yes they had an old cat, and that old cat had two kitteps. they were very playful kittens too, but she had never known them to hide things in people's valises. Might not the bracelet have rolled from the dressing ease? It might, she admitted, but It was not likely to roll into some other persons carpet bag. ■ Had she ever heard Helen's character questioned prior to this event? Well, there had been Some rumors. Mothers Tartrum and Grundy nodded their heads approvingly. What were they? She could not repeat them, bat they went to show that she was not as good as she ought to lie. Had she not helped to circulate these rumors? She might have repeated them. Had she not advised Mrs. Stuart to discharge Helen? . Mrs. Arnold was confused, and stammered out something about its being for the good of the family. “Speak out, Mrs. Arnold,” said Lay'Uri—, -severely. “Did yon, or did you not advise Mrs. Stnart to discharge her?” After a moment's confusion, she stammered, “yes.” „ “And then employed her yourself?” The lady, still more confused, answered that she, did. She left the witness stand greatly perplexed, bnt still clear as to the bracelet being found in Helen’s possession. It was found among some handkerchiefs wrapped up in a piece of bine calico goods, new, and evidently just cut off the piece. The calico was produced. She had never seen it before: it was found in Helen’s carpet bag, and Helen whispered to her attorney that she had never seen it either, until that fatal morning. Did not the goods really belong to Mrs. Arnold? She said: “No.” Mother Tartrnm next took the stand and said the “gal was no better’n she art to be—allers said she’d come to bad. Was not the least hit surprised when she heard she’d stole a bracelet.” On cross-examination, said she didn’t think it nice for a “gal to be runnin’ about after night with men. What men had Helen run about with after *mght? She heard she went home one night with Warren Stuart from roectin\ Did not other girls allow yonng men to accompany them home from church? The hairy mole trembled aud her eyes flashed with rage. “Other gals didn't come to people’s houses with strange men 'Way after night to stay all night.” When had she gone to any one’s house with a strange man? She went to Judge Arnold's. This was thrown out with a side glance of lire. Did not Mrs. Arnold saj : that Helen and Pete come there before night? Mother Tartrum was caught. Her face was dark with wrath, and she left the stand more hopelessly confused than Mrs. Arnold, Mother Grundy came next and was no 1 letter. But the discovery of the bracelet in Helen's carpet bag, and her admission of the fact to the sheriff fastened the guilt upon her. The evidence was all in, and the justice cleared his throat, elevated his glasses and rubbed the top of his head, very much as if lie had a painful duty to perform.

CHAPTER XXIII. j THE ACQUITTAL Squire Bluffers was rubbing liis head as if he was in no hurry to decide this case. He calmly surveyed the audience who waited his decision. His eyes rested nervously for a moment upon the pale yet calm features of the prisoner. Judge Arnold, with arms folded, sat erect, his short roan whiskers almost horizontal with his cal's. He looked triumphant. To him there was but one way a man of common sense could decide. Mrs. Arnold’s head was once more high in the air. Hallie is triumphant and Mother Tartrum occasionally sends fiery glanees at Helen and her lawyer. At this moment hurried footsteps were heard upon the pavement without. During the last moments of the trial , the belated train had come in from Stratton, and these hurried steps came from the depot. Two men came in at the door and commenced elbowing their way through the dense crowd which packed the court room. “I say, Squire Bluffers,” " cried the well-known voice of Pete, the peddler, “hev ye measured this case and torn it off yet? If ye heveu’t, I’ve got some remnants o’ testimony to throw into the bargain.” Pete, with Warren Stuart close behind him, now struggled through to the small open space about the justice. Warren’s face was pale and his mouth showed a firmness that his friends had not seen before. Judge Arnold arose, bowed and smiled warmly, and took his hand. Warren’s greeting was yool, but lie

was silent. He did not speak to Hejfu. There was no unnatural, tragical, running forward and embracing as we read of in sensational novels, they merely glanced at each other and Mrs. Bridges .felt Helen’s hand trembleA discussion now arose as to whether the case wa/ closed, past hearing further testimony or not. The attorney for the State insisted that it was, and Helen’s attorney insisted that it was not. The justice agreed with the attorney for the defense. “ Now, I jest want to tell that lawyer for that gal somethin’,” said Pete. “I think I kin make somethin’ clear.” Five minutes was given Mr. Layman to consult with the new witness. “What is she accused o’ stealia'?” Pete asked. “ A gold bracelet.” “ Anv thing else?’’ “No.” “No money?” “No, that is only a slanderous rumor started by some designing person.” Pete then for a few moments with the attorney, and they returned. The peddler wanted to ,go after his pack before he gave in his testimony, and was granted permission by the Squire. “ He went oat, and in a few minntes came back with his pack of goods on his back. He set it down on the floor, and was sworn. Judge Arnold looked puzzled, his wife alarmed, and Hallie confused. Mothers Tartrnm and Grundy were no little perplexed, and the mole was trembling again. “Do yoa know Helen Lakeman?” asked the attorney for defense. “I do—she's an all-wool gal, too, an’ no mistake.” “Never mind figurative speech, Pete, just answer straightforward. Did you see her on the evening she went to Airs. Arnold's?” “Yes, sir.” “ Where did you see her first that evening?” “It was under a big tree in the lane. She an' her little brother had stopped under it, out o’ the rain.” “ What did yon say to them?’’ • “ I got ’em to go with me to Judge Arnold’s house,” said Pete. “ I was goin T there to stay all night, an’ I carried her little brother.” “ What time did yon get there?” “It was just abont sundown. It was still rainin’ an’ I couldn't exactly tell the time, but it was a good bit afore dark.’’ “ Who met yon at the door?” | “Airs. Arnold.” \ “ Yon stayed there all night?” \ “Yes.” “Where did yon sleep that night?”’ “Up-stairs, right over the parlor.” “ Are yon an early riser?” “ Yes, sir. I'm allers up before anybody else. I want to see the sun come up shinin’ through the tree tops as bright as fifteen-cent calico.” “Was yon up early that morning?” “Yes, an’ I had left my pack in the hall an’ I went down to see if any

PETE TESTIFIES. thing was damp, an’ when I gits down there I heard somethin’ rattlii ’ behind my pack, an’ jynllin’ it ’round saw a party little white "kit ten playin’ with a gold bracelet.” “Would you know the bracelet?” “I think I would; therewas two little dents like somethin’ had bit it on the under side. I took my knife an’ cut a cross jist between ’em.” “What do you say as to this being the bracelet?” r f. The lawyer handed Pete the bracelet which had been exhibited so frequently that morning. “That’s it,” said Pete, “an’ here’s the cross 1 marked with my knife.” He exhibited it to the justice, who was now all interest and attention. “What did you do with that bracelet Pete?” asked Mr. Layman. “I thot that bracelet belonged to Aliss Lakeman. Her mother hed a pair like ’em once, and I was sure it wns liors, and she or her brother hed dropped it there. I took a piece o’ goods from my pack an’ tore off this piece (here lie held np the blue calico which had puzzled Helen so much), tlicn I wrapped up this bracelet an’ put it in Miss Lakcman’s carpet bag. I lowed to speak to her about it, but I forgot it. There is the other renraant o’ the piece in my pack,” taking it out and tilting the two pieces together. “Now,-by the leave of the court, I will ask Judge Arnold a question,” said Air. Layman. Leave was granted. “Judge, where did yon purchase this bracelet ami the mate to it?” “I bought them,” said the Judge, still calm and dignified, “at the administrator’s sale of the property of Air. Benjamin Lakeman, deceased.’ 1 “ Had they not been his wife’s jewelry?” “I do not know.” “They lielonged to the family?” “I suppose so, I paid forty dollars for the pair.” * [TO BE CONTINUED.] Women Teachers in France. The new rules promulgated by the educational department in France] present several changes. Women arc admitted as teachers at the age of seventeen, lint men not until eighteen. A very important clause provides that in public schools of every description all instruction is to be given exclusively by laymen. This takes from the clergy their last hold on elementary education, for hitherto they have had the right to nominate in the schools a certain number of teachers who were not subject to the regulations under which the Government teachers worked. These teachers were under the direct control, not of the Alinister of Education, but of the superior of the religions society by which they were appointed. In the new rules, too, the regulations respecting the qualifications of teachers, both public and private, have been made more stringent.— H. Y. Herald. —A Schuyler (Neb.), farmer sent East for a hundred cats and turned them out to find homes for themselves. —Boston Journal.

HOME. FARM AND GARDEN. —Don’t forget the daily alio wane® of salt.—A r . E. Farmer. —Why leave stains on cups and saucers—the dishes most often stained —when these may be removed by rubbing with ashes? —Nobody has seen ground harrowed too much for the preparation of wheat, for it is hardly possible to get too fine tilth. —To find out the faults of your horses, offer them for sale. To learn the good qualities of other men’s horses try to buy them. —Do not use fertilizers too lavishly on potted plants. A small quantity applied frequently is better than a full allowance at one time. —The great object in feeding is to make the most gain with the least cost. You must therefore have your hogs grow and fatten at the same time. —Alake your hot-bed frames in sections, so that they can be stored away when not in use. It is much better than allowing them to remain on the ground to become useless. —Use the brush freely upon your animal. A good stiff brush is the proper thing. When a horse s coat shines, your mind will be at ease, and when it is rough and stands on end, yon may be sure the horse is suffering. —Prairie Farmer. —lt is not good policy to dry hay to brittleness before drawing it from tha meadow, for that causes waste in handling and reduces quality. Grass is well-cured when it will rattle lightly in the handling, and then js the time to store it .—Western Rural. —ln beating cake beat from the bottom of the mixing bowl with a wooden spoon, bringing it np full and high with each strike, and as soon as the ingredients are fairly and smoothly mixed stop beating, or yonr cake will be tough. —Boston Budget. —Since the Oxford and Shropshire Down sheep have been bred in this country the quality of the mutton in the market has been greatly improved, as farmers are beginning to give more attention to mutton sheep instead of confining their operations exclusively to the production of wool. —Buttermilk AI tiffins—These have but to be tried to become a standing breakfast dish. Beat hard two eggs into a qnart of buttermilk; stir in flour to make thick batter—about a quart—and lastly a teaspoonfed of salt and the same of soda. Bake in a hot oven in well-greased tins. Muffins of all kinds should only be cat just around the edge, then pulled open with the fingers. Hood Housekeeping. Baked Eggs—Put a tablespoonful of bntter in a pie-plate, and set in the oven until it melts and begins to smoke. Take it to the table and break six eggs one by one into a cup, pouring eaeh in tarn into the melted bntter carefully. Sprinkle with peppier and salt, prat a tiny bit of butter on each and set in the oven to bake until the eggs are “set,” that is, when the whites are firm and the yelks skimmejj over, bnt not hard. Four minutes in a quick oven should do this. Send to table at once. If yon have a few spoonfuls of nice chicken gravy you can strain and use it instead of bntter.— The Household.

THE FOOD WE EAT. A. Branch of Sanitary Knowledge in Which Much Progress Has Been Made. We know of no department of sanitary knowledge and care ■in which more progress has been made than that which relates to the piroper choice and preparation of foods. It is a department of study that has been pursued botn ia the direction of science and exThose having charge of -dietaries examined into the rystiJtV froi#j.,.the use of various foods; while the chemist has been busy in thosb experiments which have confirmed or corrected the apparent results of experience. In addition to thi3 the process of digestiod has become much better understood so that we are able to make choice with reference to the capacity of the different parts of the digestive apparatus. It is now safe to adapt dietaries to the varied demands made tipion the human system. Not only is the training of the athlete based largely on the dietetic regimen, but foods are adapted to the callings of men, and we can distinguish quite accurately between the flesh or tissue forming and the force generating foods. There never was a time when the person of self-control could so easily put into the human machine just the food adapted to his particular wants. While we are not very hopeful that the great electrician will invent a machine that will supplant the nsnal mode of food production, tve know it would be a greater boon to the world if .every pierson should learn to use only such and so much fowl as ia needed, and should have in view the proper running and repair of the instrument he has in charge. The old division into nitrogenous and non-ni-trogenous foods is valuable as a guide, and all the more since we are able more fully to define when and how they snppliment or replace each other. Chemisty has not only defined the constituents of food and the constituents of the Iranian body, but also the modes in which the interchanges occur. It is not enough that albumen exists in the egg. or that it is needed and found iu the flesh. We must know how it is converted. If we find that the egg as furnished in a hardboiled state or as heated and cooked in cake will not give up its albumen as food, it matters but little that so much albumen was eaten. If again we can furnish sugar by furnishing starch it greatly modifies the degree in which we need to supply sugar direct. No one can take up any recent book on the chemistry of foods without perceiving that we have gotten clear of much that was vague as to the action and value of food, and are able to spieak with positiveness of their action. Not less valuable is our knowledge of how to adapt fowls to the condition of certain organs or to certain indications of disease. If the stomach is debilitated in its functions, we so use malted or peptonized foods as to do in advance, part of the work of stomach digestion. If the liver or pancreas or the glands of the intestinal tract are embarrassed, we avail ourselves of foods that require little or no service from these organs. The use of only cold meats and of no fats is as clear an indication in some cases as the free use of oily foods is in others. It is nowpossible for ns to cure many diseases and relievo others by dietetic medication. Better still, the laws of food use are definite enough to enable those who understand them, or who will follow them, to prevent many diseases and to add to the effective force of their lives. —A. Y, Independent,

EUROPEAN PROTECTION. What It Is Doing for the Dlffi-rent Powers of Europe—England’s Retrogress&n. Colonel A. L. Conger, member of the, Republican National Committee for; Ohio, has just returned from a two months’ trip in Europe for his health. He has been chairman of the Ohio Re--1 publican Committee, Commander of the Ohio Department, G. A. R., aud is one of the men who is counted among the future Gubernatorial possibilities of his State, in which he is a leading business man. He is at the head of the Whitman & Barnes Manufacturing Company, which makes mower and reaper knives and sickles, and has factories in five or six States lies ides one at St. Catherine’s, Can. Colonel Conger made some observations in Europe to which he gave expression in an interview as follows: r“My observations abroad have intensified and greatly strengthened my views in favor of a strong protective tariff for this country as a broad principle of sound governmental policy upon which the Government should be ran in order to derive the greatest good for the greatest number. lam satisfied from what I saw that we have no need of going into free trade to sustain our position among she nations of the world. We eaii mantain the present powerful position that we hold if we still maintain our tariff, and we would not better ourselves by throwing it over. The necessity for a reduction of the revenue can best be met by making a tariff’ in certain directions that will be prohibitive and thus cut off the revenue. I found, on investigation, that England is to-day paying higher wages than France, Germany or Italy. Asa consequence, she no longer holds her ruling position in trade and manufacture. Germany has become her competitor already, and the manufacturers of Germany can compete with the manufacturers of England in nearly every line and branch of business. The English people are feeling this difference keenly. It has resulted in a strong sentiment growing up aipong English manufacturers, who told me that England must speedilyjadopt a protective tariff policy in sljeer self-preservation.

“ I think from what I saw and heard that it is safe to predict that England will adopt such a policy, because otherwise she will be obliged to reduce the wages of her workers to the basis of wages in Germany,which would be disastrous to Great Britain in the further impoverishment of her lahorers, whose; condition is already very low. The fact can not be disguised that free trade for America means that the wages here must at once be reduced and put upon the level of countries with which we might seek to compete under free trade. Under onr present system we are fast building up every branch of manufactures by reason of the improved quality of labor and the better class of goods which we are enabled through intelligent workmen to produce. Our first-class, wellpaid labor can overcome the ill-paid, impoverished and ignorant workmen in all markets of the world, and vve have only to maintain our position to dictate instead of being dictated to. “The one important factor that we require in order to take a commanding position is American lines of steamships to all parts of the world. Onr Government could make no better investment of its surplus revenue at the present time than to devote a large portion of it to the building up of American steamship lines, either by subsidies or by the extension of a direct aid to all capital that will attempt to carry out this project. We can build ships in America as well as they can abroad, but we require first of all a starter —that is, the encouragement and assistance of the people through the Government. We have the ore and the timber and the skilled workmen, and we demonstrated our ability to build ships as fine as any that are built on the banks of the Clyde. The point made by free traders against the encouragement of American shipbuilding, that they can bay ships cheaper abroad. That takes ns back to the question of wages. We hold today a great advantage over the other iat ions of the world by the high wages iiat we pay our working-men. If we adopt a free-trade policy as to ships we should loose that advantage, but if the Government comes to the rescue and gives the shipbuilding industry a start, the shipping question will soon take care of itself, just as it has done in other lines of manufacture that have been promoted and encouraged by protective tariff.” Colonel Conger was askcjl about the section steel tariff, in which his company was much interested some two or three years ago, and said: “Up to within four or five years we had large dealings with firms in Sheffield, Eng. They were able to lay down section steel in this country cheaper than it can be made here, but the tariff was put up and now we buy all our steel at Pittsburgh. Just before General Garfield was elected President he was in our place and went through our works, where he made many inquiries about matters affecting the tariff’ question. I was in the White House some time after his inauguration, and he told me that he ascertained that this section 6teel tariff gave employment in this country to 5,000 men when formerly the work had been done by as many men in England. I found the manufacturers in Sheffield with whom we formerly dealt to be among the earnest advocates of a protective tariff for Great Britain on account of- the German- competition of which I have spoken. I made inquiries as to the wages. As an example, the difference between what they pay their engineer and what we pay ours is a good illustration. Their engineer is required to do his own stoking and gets $1.25 a day, which is very high wages. We pay our engineer about $1,200 a year and give him a fireman and sometimes two. I noticed the houses of the working-men in Sheffield and inquired about them. They are owned by the proprietors of the shops and factories, and are rented to the men. Our working-men whether In New York or Massachusetts or Ohio, nearly all own their own houses and have their organs and pianos and nice furniture and pictures, none of which are to be fonnd in any workingman’s home that I saw in England.” “Yon must also have observed the difference in living.” “Throughout France and Italy I discovered that the laboring man lived principally on bread. They have no meat, no butter, no coffee or tea. A little watered wino is their only beverage. That is what American win kingmen- only come to under free trade. They have literally -no chance f advancement.”—-A, i\ T> Ojt-t.e.

DEATH IN THE WATER. ta the Element We Drink Decimating the People?—How a Universal menace to Health Slay Be Disarmed. A few years ago the people in a certain section in one of the leading cities of the State were prostrated with a malignant disease, and upon investigation it was found that only those who used water from, a famous old well were the victims. Prof. S. A Lattknore, analyst of the New York State Board of Health, upon analyzing water from this well, found it more deadly than the city sewage! r’ The filling up of the old well stopped the ravages of tho disease. Not long since the writer noticed while some men were making an excavation for a large building, a stratum of dark colored earth running from near the surface to hard pan. There it took another course toward a well near at hand. The water from this well had for years been tainted with the drainings from a receiving vault, the percolations of which had discolored the earth. Terrible t A similar condition of things exists in every village and city where well water is nsed, and though th£ filtering which the fluids receive in passing through the earth may give them a clear appearance, yet the poison and disease remains, though the water may look never so clear. It is still worse with the farmer, for the drainage from the barn yard and the slops from the kitchen eventually find their way into the family well t The same condition of things exists in cur large cities, whose water supplies are rivers fed by little streams that carry off the filth andulrainage from houses. This “water” is eventually drunk by rich and poor alike with great evil. Seme cautious people resort to the filter for purifying this water, but even the filter does not remove this poison, for water of the most deadly character may pass through this filter and become clear, yet the poison disguised is there. They who use filters know that they must be renewed at regular periods, for even though they do not take out all the impurity, they soon become fouL Now in like manner the human kidneys act as a filter for the blood, and if they are filled up with impurities and become foul, like the filter, all the blood in the system coursing through them becomes bad, for it is now a conceded fact that the kidneys are the chief mean3 whereby the-blood is purifipd. These organs are filled with thousands of hair-like tubes which drain the imparities from the blood, as the sewer pipes drain impurities from our houses. If a sewer pipe breaks under the house, the sewage escapes into the earth and fills the house with poisonous gas; so if any of tho thousand and one little hair-like sewer tubes of the kidneys break down, the entire body is affected by this awful poison. It is a scientific fact that the kidneys have few nerves of sensation; and, consequently, disease may exist in these organs for a long time and not be suspected by the individual. It is impossible to filter or take the death out of the blood when the least derangement exists in these organs, and if the blood is not filtered then the uric acid, or kidney poison, removable only by Warner’s safe cure, accumulates in the system and attacks any organ, producing nine out of ten ailments, just as sower gas and bad drainage produce so manylf atal disorders. Kidney disease may be known to exist if there is any marked departure from ordinary health without apparent known cause, and it should be understood by all that the greatest peril exists, and is intensified, if there is the least neglect to treat it promptly with that great specific, Warner’s safe cure, a remedy that has received the highest recognition by scientific men who have thoroughly investigated the character of kidney derangements. They may not tell ns that the cause of so many diseases in this organ is the [impure water or any other one thing* but this poisonous water with its impurities coursing constantly through these delicate organs undoubtedly does produce much of the decay and disease which eventually' terminate in the fatal Bright’s disease, 'for this disease, alike among the drinking men, prohibitionists, the tobacco slave, the laborer, the merchant and the tramp, works terrible devastation everv’year. It i3 well known that the liver, which is so easily thrown “out of gear,” as they say, very readily disturbs the action of the kidneys. That organ when deranged immediately announces the fact by sallow skin, constipated bowels, coated □ tongue and headaches, but the kidney [when diseased, struggles on for a long time, and the fact of its disease can only be discovered by the aid of the miscroscope or by the physician who is skillful enough to trace the most indirect effectyin the system to the derangement of these organs,las’ the prime causes. The public is learning much on this subject and when it comes to understand that the kidneys are the real health regulators, as they are the real blood purifiers of the system, they will escape an infinite amount of unnecessary suffering, and add length of days and happiness to their lot.

A KIND OFFICIAL. How He Assisted a Poor Peasant In th Hour of His Affliction. The Vienna Xeue Frtie Freese prints one of those stories that “make the whole world kin,” and in the touches of nature which they contain powerfully command human sympathies. A Roumanian peasant, by dint of hard work and carefuL living saved the sum of two thousand dollars in bank notes. The better to protect his treasure, he placed it in an iron vessel, covered the mouth of the receptacle with a linen cloth and buried the whole in the earth. A few months later, wishing to add to his savings, he dug up the iron vessel, but was terribly shocked to find in place of the bank notes thousands of tiny morsels of paper, in cjvhich a money value was no longer recognizable. Field mice had vis ted the cask and gnawed the notes to pieces. For a time the peasant gave himself up to despair. But at last it occurred to him that if the pieces were preserved his title to the amount of such notes as could be recognise# would not be disputed. He carried the ruins of his treasure to the director of the National Bank at Bucharest, and that official, becoming aware of the facts, took pity on the peasant, “matched” the fragments as far as it was possible to do so, and by the exercise of much patience succeeded, to the great delight of the owner, in verifying and restoring fourteen hundred dollars out of the two thousand innocently exposed to the ravages of the mice. A Smart Dog’s Penitence. An attache of the St. John’s Herald office, who is the owner of a largo and unusually intelligent dog, says that a Mexican came to his ranch on a certain occasion and the dog made a vigorous attack upon him, tearing out a largo fragment from the rear of his unmentionables. The dog was called off, quieted and severely scolded for his want of hospitality, which caused him to crawl off to his kennel hi shame and mortification. After the Mexican retired the dog came in, took in his mouth a needle and thread sticking in the wall, gathered up the dilapidated pants, together with the torn fragment, and carried them all to his master, and then quietly took his seat and waited the repair of the garment that he might restore them to the place he had found them. We believe it will be difficult to cite an instance of more remarkable courteous intelligence. Beecher's Method ot Exercise. The Cincinnati Enquirer has received “privately from Rev. Dr. Bolles, ot Cleveland, to whom Mr. Beecher himself told it,” the following story about Mr. Beecher’s early method of physical exercise: *' His means were then small and his do mestic surroundings ver> modest. But he had a clean, dry and roomy cellar. He procured to be delivered there a load of sand. One day he shoveled it from one end of the cellar to the other, and the next day he shoveled it back to its old position. This he continued until his brother Tom discovered it, and drove him to the more intelligent and wholesome exercise of the gymnasium.” ’ Aristocratic Lift In Chicago. According to the Chicago Sews “Miss Birdie Brown, who made her debut in leading fashionable circles last week, is the daughter of Watkins H. Brown, Esq., *he wealthy speculator who wears the famous *IO,OOO cluster diamond and bosom pin. Although a resident of Chicago for nearly twenty years, Mr. Brown was not recognized by our elite until he consummated a great jorfc deal last yovejatier.” 1—

CRISP AND NEWSY. Illixois hunters in a two days’ shoot killed 300 rabbits and 58 foxes near Talone. The owner of a vineyard near Livermore, Cal, has thirty-fonr cats who keep the rabbits and gophers in some sort of subjection. Ax Arkansas lion, measuring six feet six inches in length, and weighing 152 pounds, was killed recently in Hempstead County, Ark. A recent big storm in Dakota blockaded Jthe railroads so that the Mound City Journal ran out of white paper. A little thing like that didn’t bother its enterprising editor, who printed the edition on brown wrapping paper, and sold more papers than usual. N. O. Shellnctt, of Jackson County, Ga.,was hanged twice by a mob in January last, and still lives to tell the tale. He says that it is a great mistake to think that death by hanging is painful “There is no pain about it,” he says, “and a man can die mighty easy.” A couple of unfriendly dogs had a mill in a mid at Cuthbert, 6a., and in the course of the fight knocked down a gun leaning against the wall, and when it fell it went off and killed one of the dogs instantly. The survivor was intensely surprised at his victory. The ownsr of a cattle ranch in New Mexico has a pet antelope, less than a year old, which follows his master about like a dog; and, what is more remarkable, like a dog, eats greedily of raw meat whenever it can get it, evidently preferring it to any other article of diet. A storm-drivex partridge took refuge on an apple tree just outside of the window of a sick woman in Unity, Me., and the ten-der-hearted invalid saw the tired bird and sent the hired man to shoot it. She said that she had been wishing for a bit of bird for ever so long. Obadiah Yixcext, an inmate of the Cumberland County (111.) poor-house, was born in Kentucky in 17(37, and is consequently 120 years old. His form is bent nearly double, ho is blind, and yet until a few weeks ago he was able to do enough work to keep him out of the poor-house. Miss Bertie Priddle, of Glenmeyer, Canada, was knitting the other day, and thoughtlessly put the point of her needle in her ear. It went further than she expected and touchel the tympanum, and as it did so she started with the pain, and the needle pierced the tympanum, destroying the hearing of that ear forever. Postmaster L. Davis, of the town of Solar, Jackson County, 111, receives the moderate salary of 10 cents a year. The postmaster of Peck, 111, got 30 cents last year, while the postmaster of Lear, Ark., got 31 cent3. It is said that there are more than 16,<X)0 postmasters who receive no more than S4O a year, and 10,000 who receive about $8 a year. A Long Harried Life. A case of a happy early marriage, in which the parties have lived happily far into old age—and perhaps a case unparalleled in Connecticut in this latter respect—is that of our respected citizen, Mr. Ch *rles T. Hillyer, says the Hartford Cou-rat-.f. Mr. Hillyer and his wife have been ma tried upward of sixty-two years. They knew each other as little children, and were playmates at the age of five years. Mr. Hillyer, now eighty-five, years, and who, by a long and upright business life, has amassed a large fortune, finds in his declining years his best comfort and happiness at his own fireside, and he and his life companion do not like to bo much separated. An Extraordinary Feat. John Beauchamp, a big negro of Louisville, bet that he could eat sixty eggs in as many minutes. The wager was accepted, and the other evening he appeared with five dozen eggs and a skillet, and the match began. He cooked the eggs himself, and ate twenty-seven in six minutes. Tho remaining thirty-three disappeared more slowly, but none was left when time was called. The eater could hardly speak when he finished, and had to be helped to his feet. December 1880, wrote O. L. Hathaway, Fall River, Mass., “was greatly afflicted wlen rtremuarcisia; wioa ss. Awvm ahi; nil pain left me.” October 19,1386, be writes: “ Have not been troubled with rheumatism since. ” James McEllen, Port Huron, Mich., writes: “Had severe pains in side. After taking Red Star Cough Cure the pains ceased entirely.” Price twenty-five cents. At Druggists.

Some men seem to be fond of hugging delusions, and it may be that they got in the habit because girls are such delusive creatures. —Journal of Education. Come to the bridal chamber. Death I Come to the mother, when she feel3 For the first time, her first-born’s breath. And thou art terrible! The untimely death which annually Carries off thousands of human beings in the prime of youth, is indeed terrible. The Erst approach of consumption is insidious, and the sufferer himself is the most unconscious of its approach. One of the most alarming symptoms of this dread disease is, in fact, the ineradicable hope, which lurks in the heart of the victim, preventing him from taking timely steps to arrest the malady. That it can be arrested in its earlier stages is beyond question, as there are hundreds of well-authenticated cases where Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery has effected a complete cure. Something peculiar about a match. No matter how yon drop it it always lights on its head —if it lights at all —Cleveland Sun. Prevent your hair from becoming prematurely gray by using Hall’s Hair Renewer. Bilious attacks are speedily relieved and cured by taking Ayer’s Pills. Try them. Love for labor is an acquired taste. The average man was born lazy.—JV. O. Picayune. A Trial by Jury. That great American jury, tho people, have rendered a unanimous verdict in favor of Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets, the standard remedy for bowel and stomach disorders, biliousness, sick headache, dizziness, c mstipationand sluggish liver. A “trtino” ordeal—melting fat.— Fret*, el’s Weekly. The members of the Illinois Legislature were recently presented with complimentary boxes of “Brown’s Bronchial Troches’ by Messrs. Jno. I. Brown. & Sons, the proprietors of that popular remedy for coughs and throat troubles. Through the wide world he only is alona who lives not for another. —Foyer*. THE MARKETS. New York, March LIVE STOCK—Cattle *1 80 @ 5 85 Sheep Hoes 5 90 @ 6 SO FLOCK—Good to Choice ../. 815 @5 20 Patents •. 4 75 ©3b WHEAT—No. 2 Red 90*@ 9114 No. 2 Spring 92 @ 9214 CORN 48*© 49* OATS—Mixed Western 3> @ 37 RYE 53 @ 59 PORK—Mess 15 25 @l6 50 LARl>—Steam 7 55 @ 7 63 CHEESE 12 @ 1414 WOOL—Domestic 30®. 38 CHICAGO. BEEVES—Extra *5 40 @IBSO Choice. 4 90 @5 03 Good 4 40 @ 4 85 Medium 4 25 @ 4 60 Butchers’ Stock 3 00 @ 4 00 ° Interior Cattle , 100 @2 00 HOGS—Live—Good to Choice.. 505 @5 95 SHEEP....* 3 50 @ 4 55 BUTTER—Creamery .. 15 © 30 Good to Choice Dairy 12 on 24 EGGS—Fresh 11 @ 1114 FLOUR-Winter 3 75 @ 4 33 String .„... 350 @4 20 Patents 4 00 @4 70 GRAlN—Wheat, No. 2 77*© 78* Corn 3.'*© 87* Outs 21 © 2i* Rye, No. 2 5414© 55 Burley. No. 2 50 @ 52 BROOM CORN— Self working 3*@ 5* Hurl 3* © 5 Crooked 2 @ 3 POTATOES (bu.) 40 @ 90 PORK—Mess 20 50 @2O 60 LARD—Steam 7 40 @ 7 43 LUMBER— Common Dressed Siding— 49 0) @2l 50 Flooring .. JfciCO @B4 00 Common Boards 92 O) (g-13 00 Fencing 10 50 @l3 50 Lath 1 75 © 2 00 Shingles 2 20 @ 2 40 EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE-Best S3 00 © 5 25 Fair to Good 4 50 @475 HOGS—Yorkers 5 50 @ 5 70 Philudeiphias 6 10 @ 6 20 SHEEP-Kest 5 25 @ 5 40 Common 3 53 @ 4 00 BALTIMORE. CATTLE—Best *3 1214© 5 25 ; Medium 8 50 @ 4 50 HOGS ... 550 ©5 56 KHEEP—Poor to Choice SW T#

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