Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 5, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 24 July 1886 — Page 6

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HAK11IA(JE MADE .EASY.

FACTS ABOUT THE WAYS OFJTHE FRENCH AQENCIE&

Xatlrod Army Men "Wbo mf rrequent Customer*—Easily Taken In and Sorry Zrer After—A Series of Questions for the Applicant.

I have mentioned that the classification of matrimonial agencies adopted by the police is purely arbitrary. With a few exceptions the tbe first and second class agencies are equally vmcrupulous, sometimes are branches of the aame establishment always resort to the tricks, and often employ the same personnel, the only difference between them being that the customers of tbe latter, who generally are officeholders out of place, retired soldiers and provincials, being less well versed in Parisian wiles, are more easily gulled than the native of the metropolis. The half-pay officer is especially a victim he loses his head at the first throw of the line, swallows tbe bait at once, and is landed immediately, How, you will readily see. The applicant begins by depositing the fee, which is from 100 to 500 francs, according to his own fortune and his pretentions. Ladies pay nothing in advance. Then a contract i3 signed to jwiy 5 per cent, on the fortune of the lady or gentleman who is tho objective, and, these formalities having been complied with, a sort of catechism is given to him or her, as the case may be, which is to be filled up.

A SEMES OK QUESTIONS,

Then comes the series of questions which you mast answer if you mean business: Your name and surname, address, titles, decorations, exact age, place of birth, tho stato of your health, your height, appearance, tho color of your hair, eyes and complexion, your disposition, your tastes, the degree of your instruction, your accomplishments, if you havo any, your religion and politics, the nature of jour present employment and its precise annual yield- If you havo a private fortune, what is iti figure? Is it in stock, bonds, mortgagee or real estate, and if tho latter, where is it situated and what is its revenue The amount of your debts, what are thoy and with whom havo they been contracted? Are your parents living, and if so, what is their age, whore do they reside, and do they know of the step that you ore taking

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If deceased,at what age, when

where? What are or were tho figures of their fortune? What was the origin of your family, and has it ever been distinguished by any great deed, or has it been involved in any great scandal? Havo you any good family connections, and who are your family associates? Have you any brothers or sisters, and if HO, what is their social standing? What ore tho best references that you can give?

There are special questions for widowers, widows and divorced jwrsons. How many child red have you? What is their age and situation with respect to yourself Name of the deceased or divorced spousoaml what was hi* or her profession? If divorced, on what ploa and in what circumstances? Was the divorce granted to you or against you? Then you must give your own personal preferences concerning tho person to lie selected. Birth, appearance, size, complexion and color, ago, tastes and education. What dowry do you demand? Do you wish it in cash, in government scrip, or in real estate? What exjjectatkms do you demand? What town or department do you wish to reside in? Then como the conditions of the broker. "As tho negotiation of a marriage involves always a certain amount of expense, the husband presents to us after marriage a sum equal to 5 per cent of the wife's dowry to cover our outlay, and, above all, in order to show his gratitude for our intervention." Tho concluding paragraph of this formulary is as follows: "We havo no dowry loss than 50,000 francs and tho majority of our connection is provincial. We have correspondents everywhere, and always select in tho best circles."

A NUMBER OF UCTTKKS.

This document, which is said to have been drawn by a person at one time connected with the press, but who gave up journalism for the more lucrative business of matrimonial brokery, takes readily with the inexperienced and relatively impecunious flats, who see in it a curtain semblance of frankness, and pay over their retainer with little hesitation, from which moment the agency begins to work, deploying all its resources to got much money as possible out of its client before the knot is tied, which is thus managed: A number of letters are successively written to the candidate No. 1 tells that a person likely to suit his conditions has been discovered No. 2 announces the departure of that person for the country, whither her father or her uncle took her "quite unexpectedly No. gives an account of a first interview, and with it such on enumeration of tho person's physical and moral attributes thut your future happiness cannot be doubtfu. In No. 4 you rend that Mme, or Mlle. X. has had a long "conversation with me about you—indeed, you were its unique theme, She looked lovelyr than ever as I drew your portrait—I assure you that it was not at all flattered. But -was it that portrait which seems to have turned her head? May she not have met you elsewhere, and since then have cherished for you an attachment which sho was loth to avow even to herself? However this may be, I know that sho loves you."

This jnwsage, which is textuolly reproduced from three different letters addressed to three different individuals, is tho last display of *%ush." All after wrrespondence relates strictly to business, for similar high pressure cannot be kept up. But it is usually a clincher. Tho rheumatic, war-worn warrior who knows nothing of life save what be has learned during five and twenty years' service with his regiment, which is absolutely nothing at all, mm a glimpse of sunlight on the horizon of his old age. Ho cheerfully pays the

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peases or that "indispensable" provincial announced in letter No. 2, semis other remittances afterwarvl, "because unforeseen circumstances oblige us to prolong our stay," bhwds freely so long as the horse leech thinks it prudent to phlebotomise, and then goes confidently to the altar with bis priceless pearl, to be uncommonly sorry for it. nine times out of ten. ever afterwards.—Paris Cor. New York Times.

The Census Returns for Purls. The census returns for Paris have just been lamed. Tbe population numbers 2,254,305 aoals, showing the small increase of 14,378 since the test census taken five yean ago, in 1881. In ten oat of the twenty arrondtssc(Bents the population has diminished —New York Sua.

How a Blind Man Flays WhU!. A blind man attracted considerable attention playing whist on aNew England railrood train tbe otW day. Cards with rated spot* were used, tbe three players who had their eyesight naming their cards as they

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them. Tbe blind man and his partner easily beat the other twtx—Chicago Tims*.

Dctsltlea of the Latest Word. Tbe definition of tbe latcet word to given by FhUadetphian: "There goes a gyp,* «J» ha. *Whfttta gypr was asked. "Why, a fallow that pro&sass to ba for joa, Ukss year gifts and turns in on slectian day *ad mi» his AMMoa jwt*—

ONE OF US TWO.

The day will dawn when one of us hearken la rain to hear a voice that has grown dumb And morns will fade, noons pole and shadows darken,

While sad eyes watchi for

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come. *7* One of us two must some time face existence Alone with memories that but sharpen pain, And these sweet days shall shine back in the distance

TJfro dreams of summer dawns in nights of rain. A. One of us two, with tortured heart half broken,

Shall read long-treasured letters thro' salt tears Shall kiss with anguished lips each cherished token

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That speaks of these love-crowned, delicious years.

One of us two shall find all light, all beauty, All joy on earth, a tale for ever done Shall know henceforth that life means only means duty—

O God! O God! have pity on that one! —Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

He Thought of "Dcm Hogs.** "Just previous to tbe war," said a Mississippi planter the other day, "I was out in the field giving an old and favorite slave of mine some instructions about a change of fence, when I heard the hiss of a snake and jumped aside just in time to avoid tho fangs of a cotton mouth. I was for tho time badly rattled, while the old num seized a club and killed the suake. Several months passed, and the incident had been forgotten, when I got into trouble and was challenged to fight a duel. I accepted and named tho next morning at 8 o'clock. How the news got to the old slave I never could undeijstand and he would never tell, but in some way he got an inkling that I was to fight. In the afternoon, as I sat alone on tho veranda, he came shuffling up, pulled off bis hat, and when I gave him a nod of encouragement he approached and said: 'Mar's James, dey dun say you am gwine to fight wid Mar's to-morrow.' 'Hush! What nonsense!' 'I aint gwino to say one word to nobody, Mar's James, but de old man ," 'What?" I asked as he hesitated. "Member dat cotton mouf down by de swamp, Mar's James? 'Member how—how you dun turned pale an' trembled? "'Perhaps I did." 'Wall, Mar's James, if you am gwine to fout wid Mar's jis' doant fink of snakes 'tall when you am standin' up to shoot. Put ycr mind right on dom eighteen hogs which rooted under de fence an' got out into d© brush do odder day, an' de Lawd will help ye drap him.' "The duel came off, and Mar's was 'dropped' with a bullet in his shoulder, and the old slave didn't quit shouting and praying for a week."—Detroit Free Press.

Joaquin Miller's Bit or Experience. My ambition has always been to build up a littlo homo and make a moderate living by raising something in a garden, such as fruit, flowers, and so on, and also practising law in a quiet way. In fact, I think I never had such joy as when last year at New Orleans I picked up a western magazine with a picture of tho house which I built and the trees which I planted in Canyon City, Grant county, Ore., when judge there. Those trees are now a fortune to the owner. I am sure I never had much idea of my verses, and I prefer proso work. But above either prose or verse I think I have financial ability that ought to have carried me far to the front. For a man who can at the ago of 153 take a county, with its pai»r low down in the twenties, and in less than four years havo it at par, ought not to be despised, oven if ho does write rhymes. It was something of this confidence hi myself, and a desiro to stop writing, also, with the purpose of writing a sketch for an English magazine, and all this backed by tho fact that my books had sent millions of English money over the Pacific railroad, which made its great manager my professed friend, that loci mo into Wall street, and to the wrecking of tho few thousands I had saved. This Wall street battle threw mo back to writing again, and harder. I went to Washington, bought apiece of ground, built a cabin—the only kind of house I could afford, and yet it suited me exactly—and paid for it piecemeal—by days' work, I may almost say. And now, soon, this year, God willing, I shall stop writing, and in a small way take up the law again. For a man who writes constantly can not think much. And a man who does not think much ought not to have much to say.— Lipplncott's Magazine.

Soldiers In the French Capital. "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," are cut and stenciled and painted above the doors of churches, wine shops, museums, libraries, theatres and schools, yet it does not seem like liberty to post your letters within ten feet of bayonet, to enter an art gallery lietween sentries and to find ft squad of infantry at the opera stondy watching your exit as if you had designs on the the building. It perhaps gives confidence to a people to know that it has 500,000 or more of soldiers ready to fight its battles, but what is tho use of having soldiers at every corner to prove that they are alive? In the United States, now, we aro satisfied to know that we have an army without ever seeing it Yet tho soldier adds to the brilliancy of the Parisian crowd and is probably liked because he Is red and blue and has brass buttons. Ho is inside the theatre as well as outsido you will find him gating at the pictures and tho marbles in the Louvre, stirring up tho animals in the Jardin des Plantes, lounging through the parks, taking his evening nip at a sidewalk table ou tho Boulevard, attending mass ou Sunday morning and going down the river with his girl in the afternoon. He seems to have leisure, and more money than his pay, and after awhile he comes to figure in your mind as an emblem of the amusements of peace rather than the savagery of war. But he may be out for business on one of these fine days, for his defeat by Goths and Vandals of the lands bevend the Rhine has mode a lasting soreness in him and he bankers for revenge.—Paris Cor. Brooklyn Eagle. ?«?,

What Nellie Thought A boat It, Nellie celebrated her fifth birthday la* week by a visit to the drew#, where she was greatly cnobanfced with ail she saw. When tbe female bareback riders came into the ring she screamed outright with delight. "Oh, pa," she exclaimed, clapping her hands, "just look at the angeisr—Somerviile JournaL

Estates grow big in Mexico. One on the lino of the Mexican Central, a hacienda, ceotains nearly 3,000,000 acres.

Hereafter English soldiers will not be allowed to smoke in lha streets in the daytime.

There are 60,000 volumes in the Boston state library, and not am novel among them.

Tb have many bad neighbors is a sign yoe •bookl reform.—Rural New Yorkar.

Thare are 1(^000 colored aebool toamtfc 5

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IN A DAT NURSERY.

OB* of New York's Interesting Plaeee. How a Bis Family of Toddlers Kindly Cared for Daring the Daytime.

TERRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

WORK THAT IS CARRIED ON BY A CHARITABLE LADY.

Pathetic Stories. There is a lady living on the north side of Washington square—whose name I would love to give, for her noble generosity amply deserves it, bat sincere respect for her Christian humility as well as her modesty forbids —who is to-day the means of saving many helpless babes and little children from a life of misery and suffering that is past the power of words to describe. It came about in this way: The lady—whom we will call Mrs. Lee—was the mother of a little girl 11 years of age, who was unusually sympathetic and was generous to a fault. Children of her own ago were especially interesting to her, and when she met a poor girl on the street she would always speak to her, and if allowed would have taken off hir own shoes or wrap to clothe the little stranger with.

About Christmas time Mrs. Lee was invited to visit a day nursery in the lower part of the city, where the children of poor working women were cared for during the day. She was deeply touched by the sight that met her eyes, and when Christmas day had passed she took the handsome tree with its wonderful lights and trimmings that had been an ornament to hfcr own wealthy home and planted it in the play room of this nursery.

Her little daughter was with her, and tfce joy that she felt was deeper even than that of the crowd of little ones, who had never before seen such a sight, and who walked round and round the tree, peering at it from all sides with wide eyes and asking all manner of questions about it with childish eagerness.

After that the little daughter of Mrs. Lee seemed to dwell upon her memory of the nursery, and often begged her mother to opan another nursery in their own basement, promising to take all the care of the children herself.

A GRIEF-STRICKEN MOTHER'S RETURN. A few months afterward, while traveling in Europe, the daughter suddenly died, and the grief-stricken mother returned to her darkened home. Everywhere she went she recalled the child's earnest wish to care for the suffering children, and at last, as a fitting testimonial to tho lovely character of the child herself, and As though it were the child's own bequest, she took a legacy that had belonged to her and purchased and fitted up the Memorial Day Nursery. It is located at 275 East Broadway, and takes care of thirty-five babies and children from 7 a. m. to 7 p. m. Every morning a stream of women crowd into the basement door of the nursery, leave their little ones in the care of the nurses and hurry off to their day's work. The children then receive a bath and are clothed in calico and gingham dresses and fresh, clean underwear. At 9:30 they all go into the dining room to the low tables and benches and enjoy a luncheon of bread and milk. Then tho older children go the playground in the rear, over which an awning is drawn, and the babies are carried into a big room up stairs and put in a padded playhouse, with soft toys, where no fall can hurt them.

At noon a warm, bountiful dinner is served, and at 1 o'clock tho whole troop, saving those of 6 years old, go up stairs to the dormitory. On hot days they are undressed and put in cool white night dresses and laid to sleep in small whito beds and cribs. Two hours after they are dressed again and ready for another frolic in the playground. After a hearty supper at 7 p. m. they are dressed again in their own clothes and are ready to go hom&

REPROOFS OF THE CHILDREN. Two children, some years ago, were living in a sub-cellar with a drunken mother and a dying father. A missionary found them, and through her efforts the children were put in the nursery and the mother went to work. The father died, reclaimed in heart by tho Almighty's grace. The mother had never properly cared for the children or for their room, and they lived in filth and destitutioa The children were taught to be neat, and when they returned to their home their childish reproofs to their mother ran about as follows: "Mamma, Mrs. G., the matron, says wo must keep our faces clean. You must keep your face clean, toe, You must sweep the floor, mamma. Mrs. G. says yon must. You must make the bed up, inamma, or Mrs. G. won't like you."

This sort of rebuke had a more signal effect on tbe mother than .all the missionary's gentle admonitions, and in a short time a marked change had taken place in that household.

Another little child, a pretty baby girl of two years old, whoso mournful eyes and sad but very sweet face touched your sympathies at once," came up to tho matron several times, and, looking with wistful eyes straight into her face, asked, "Do you like me. My mamma don't like me. She says I am no good."

After coming several weeks the mother left the babe there for two nights, and when she finally claimed her she was so drunk she could scarcely carry her away. jict summer the matron took forty children to the seashore for a day on several occasions, giving the little ones great enjoyment Such an excursion costs $10 for the whole company, and is worth much to them in health. How many $10 bills are thrown away on a bit of millinery or an hour of pleasure that would bring health and immeasurable enjoyment to these children. And a few dollars more would send their mothers ith them also, and make one bright day in tiicir locg weeks of toil and privation.—N..W York Graphic.

A 1,BOO-Pound Breech Loading Gun. The trial of a 1,500-pound breech loading gun manufactured at Finspong, in Sweden, recently took place at the artillery grounds of tbe Danish army, near Copenhagen, fen- which it has been manufactured, tbe result being, it is stated, that* the gun was found to be in every respect equal to those made by Krupjx— Boston Budget.

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Kxpoct* to Return Same Day-* Prince Jerome Napoleon, upon hearing the result of the vote in the chamber of deputies expelling the princes, exclaimed: "I shall soon return to save thoee who have proscribed me from being guillotined by their friends of to-day."—The Argonaut

An Adventurous American Wheelman. An adventurous American wheelman has just started to cross Russia, from the Arctic ocean to the Crimea, on a tricycle so arranged that it may be converted into abed at night. —Tbe Current

Men of great genius should not forget that their failings, or vfcas, are more apt to be noticed, and even admired, than their virtue*. —Unde Esek In The Century.

"Talk about it as much as yoa like," says tbe genial -Autocrat of the Breakfast TabJe," "one's breeding abows itself DO* TEN mors than is his religion.*

It has been demonstrated at Pittsburg that for broiling meats natural gas has not proved a '•H

CALLING THE ANQELS IN.

We mean to do it 8ome day, some day, We mean to slacken this fevered rush That is wearing our very souls away

And grant to our loaded hearts a hush That is only enough to let them hear Tb* footsteps of angels drawing near,

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We mean to do it Oh, never doubt, When the burden of daytime broil is o'er, Well sit and muse while the stars come oat.

As tbe patriarchs sat at the open door Of their tents, with a

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To watch for the angels passing by.

We've seen them afar at high noontide, When fiercely the world's hot flashing beat Yet never have bidden them turn aside,

And tarry awhile in converse sweet, Nor prayed them to hallow the cheer we spread, To drink of our wine and break our bread.

We promise our hearts that when the stress Of the life-work reaches the longed-for close, When the weight that we groan with, hinders less, •We'll loosen our thoughts to such repose As banishes care's disturbing din, And then—we'll call the angels in. s*

The day that we dreamed of comes at length. When, tired of every mocking quest, Anrl broken in spirit and shorn of strength,

We drop, indeed, at the door of rest, AnH wait and watch as the day wanes on— But the angels we meant to call are gone! 4 —United Presbyterian.

IN A MEXICAN SCHOOL HOUSE

Bagged Urchins Slioiitiiic Their teuons in sinslns Chora*—Tlio Small Boy. While' tho mules were resting and tho drivers enjoying their usual siesta, we wandered out to view the village, whose lowroofed and no-roofed casas are nestled at the foot of dark hills. Its quaint church—as usual, the prominent feature of the place— rejoices under a fresh coat of sky-blue plaster without and much gilding within, spread over the mold and cracks of centuries, which gives it the appoaranco of a wrinkled octogenarian fashionably bewigged. The weedy incisure behind that serves as a campo santo, or graveyard, has rows of grinning skulls ranged all along its adobe walls. I picked up one of these with the intention of adding it to my somewhat varied collection of "recuerdas de Mexico," but it crumbled to dust at a touch and filled the air with fine powder. Then we strayed into the school house, where a bevy of ragged urchins were shouting their lessons in sing-song chorus. In Mexican schools children never study silently, but all •MBITSare committed to memory by loud repitition, making, as may be imagined, tho vicinity of these temples of Minerva by no means desirablo places of abode. Here the noise was deafening, and the poor, pale, shabby-looking old woman who presided seemed half distracted, as no doubt she was. Tho dog-eared books which these children were using had been selected by some local priests years and years before. Tho girls were also taught needlework to the extent of embroidering altar cloths for the village sanctuary and vestments for the Virgin, while upon the blackboard were some lessons in spelling and arithmetic, which were given by tho preceptress "out of her own head," as sho explained to U3.

It was immensely hot, with the tropic sun beating upon tho roof without a tree to intercept its rays, end streaming into the uncurtained windows, everybody was sleepy, the teachers cross and the pupils irredeemably stupid. A fat centipede was slowly dragging his loathsome, greenish-yellow body and hundred legs, surcharged with poison, along the floor in a corner, and I counted more than a dozen scorpions darting about the walls but nobody minds such trifles as these in Mexico. I observed that tho "innate cussedness" of tho small boy seems to be about the same the wide world over, for a little Mexican urchin, who had evidently been made to stand up in the corner for some misdemeanor, was delighting himself beyond measure by torturing a small lizard, which ho had fastened to the wall by the tail, sticking pins into it and otherwise proving tho doctrine of total depravity, at least so for as small boys are concerned.

We left the little Babel reluctantly, knowing full well by tho vicioas clutch of the schoolmarm's thin claw upon the stout stick she carried, and by an ominous snap in her beady eyes, that she only awaited our departure to urge certain loitering steps up the thorny steeps of learning by vigorous switch suasion. Poor littlo ragamuffins! The nervous irritability of that ancient maiden ventod upon their half naked and poorly fed bodies must be hard, indeed, to bear. And tho small amount of useless knowledge which may be beaten into them will not abate, by one jot or tittle, the utter hopelessness of their lives, nor even result in so much as improving their apparel, as tho first taste of "the tree of good and evil" is said to have done by our earliest ancestors.—Fannie B. Ward in Boston Globe.

A Shrewd Stroke of Economy. Ever since District Attorney HillborQ met with that accident when he asked a Chinaman what a 10-cent cigar was, be has felt like giving up smoking. And another experience has just happened to him which makes him afraid to buy a cigar in case some joke will como out of it He engaged a new boy for his ofliqp—a young, zealous, economical, bright boy, whose whole soul was devoted to his master's service. Among the boy's duties was to go out for cigars for the judge. The other day the boy was given half a dollar. "Go cat," said the Judge, "to 's and buy me four cigars-r-four for a half. He knows what I get"

The boy started off and aihe back presently, his face aglow with pride and triumph. Ho bad six cigars. He handed them to the judge. "What are thesef "I didnt go to 's, sir. I know a place where they give you six for a half." ftnd that boy, if bo reads this story, may perhaps discover why the anticipated raise of salary did not follow his stroke of economy.—San Francisco Chronicle.

Silly Flippancy and Solid It is not long since a Frenchman wrote two •illy little books about tbe English, treating tn that lively style which is sure of popularity. Nearly at the same time another Frenchman, more careful and more serious, pflKiioHwri a volume on the same subject, which, though it contained a few unintentional errors, was on the whole likely to be inrtructive and useful to his countrymen. The flippant little books had an enormous sale the instructive book bad bat a moderate circulation. Tbe rule holds good for a paragraph or a sentence as well as for a roiume. An on just brief paragraph, with a sting in it, has afar better chance of being remembered n«« a duller bat more accurate statement of the truth.—P. Q. Hammertoe in Tbe Atlantic

Fattf's Prwft* to HOT ft is said that Patti ather fast, in accordance with an old torn, |si—ilul each of the toodaaaa with a piaoa rf bar

Tho Tramp and tho Bear Trap. Mr. Eben E. Rexford tells a good story about a boy, a tramp and a bear trap, which to says Is a true one.

He sayB once a man named Uncle Joe Sampson had a nephew called Willie Dana. Uncle Joe lived in a wild part of the country where bears sometimes came. Willie went to visit Mm One day Uncle Joe said he had seoi signs of bear.

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have to get the old trap down and oQ it up, and maybe when the corn is ripe we can catch a bear or two," he remarked.

He did so, and got the trap ready for use. "I think it must be a pretty hard job to set the trap,"said Willie, as he looked it over. "I dont see how you go tq„ work to crowd the spring down." Jj|\

Til show you," answered Uncle Joe. "It's easy enough when you know how. Bring me one of the hand spikes out of the woodpile."

Willie did so. Then his uncle put one end of the lever in a crack between the logs of which the house was built, close to the floor, and placed the stiff spring under it. By bearing down on the lever the spring was shut together, allowing the jaws of the trap to fall open. It was then an easy matter to fasten them open by turning a pice of iron over one of them and fittting the end of it in a notch at the side of the "pan." If anything touched this "pan," the pressure on it released the iron from the notch, and the great spring would fly up and fling the jawB together like a flash, and whatever happened to be between them when they closed was sure to stay there until some ona saw fit to liberate it

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Pl.t that back," cried Willie.

Uncle Joe had just saved enough money from some hauling he had done to finish paying for his horses. Tho amount was $50. Like so many careless and honest farmers, he Had put tho money simply in a tin box upon the mantelpiece. Next day he meant to go and pay it out

Suddenly, a little before dark, he and his wife were called to go to a sick neighbor. Willie was left alone in the house. He was a brave boy, though, and was not afraid. He ate his supper in tho kitchen. Then he took down his gun and cleaned it and loaded it to help pass away the evening. He heard footsteps, and thought it was Uncle Joe, but it was not. A great, fat. wickod-looking tramp opened the door and walked in. lie went directly to the tin box upon the mantelpiece, took out tho money, and was slipping it into his pockct. "Put that back," cried Willie.

The tramp laughed. "I see tho money put into the box, and I've been a-watchin' my chance to got at it ever sence. D'ye s'poso I'd let such a chance slip to mako a good haul? You must be green, if you do. But say, haint you grot nothin' to oat about the ranch! If y'have, dish up suthin,' an' be lively about it."

Til see what I can find," said Willie, and went into the kitchen, tutting the door after him He was half wild. His first thought was not for himself, though, but for Uncle Joe's hard-earned money, and how to savo it.

An idea struck him that was like an inspiration. "I will set tho bear trap, and see if I can't catch him in that," he said to himself.

Quickly and noiselessly he got the heavy trap. He pried open its great jaws with an iron bar, just as Uncle Joo had shown him to set it. Then he hid the bar outside. The kitchen floor descended a step from the sitting room whoever entered it from tbe door there would step down heavily. In a breath or two more Willie had dragged the trap in front of tho door. He got together a few things to eat upon the table hurriedly. Then he shaded the candle so that its light would not fall upon the trap when tho thief opened the door. Ho would thus step down into it without seeing it, and get caught It was Willie's only hope. His heart beat so that you could have heard it Ho called tbe rascal and told him supper was ready.

But Willie himself ran outside the kitchen door for safety. In a moment he heard a yell of pain, and muttered curses. The thief was caught!

"If you do. TU Bhootyov."

Willie ran around to the other room and brought his gun. "Throw me that money," said Willie.

The thief dragged himself over towards the candle. He was going to burn the bank bills. "If you do, 111 shoot," said Willie, aiming bis gun. "Throw me that money."

The fellow saw that it was all op with him. Cursing frightfully, he threw the money towards the boy, who secured the precious packet in his pocket.

Tbe next thing was to stand guard over his prisoner. This tbe brave fellow did, hour after boor, till Uncle Joe and his aunt came home. *Tve caught something in tbe bear trap," said Willie. "I was bound to save your money, Unde Joe."

Next day they took the Wg wicked prisoner to town, and he was sent to state's prison.

Cfcarado.

My firet is the foe of rats and mice, My next you'll meat with in fair My third at various form and price,

Oft decorate a lady's hair My whole in foreign climes it aid To form a mansion far the dead. (Its first syllable «JC ttw answer to thb la-call

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Whereas, It appears that, on the 5th day of July, 1886, plain tin* filed with me their affidavit and undertaking entitling them to an order of attachment, and whereas, also, it ap-' pears by the return of the summons herein Issued, that said defendants were not found In this county, and whereas, also, said plaintlflh filed an affidavit showing that said defendants are non-residents of the State of Indiana. Therefore said non-resident defendtheso heard

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