Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 12, Bloomington, Monroe County, 20 January 1883 — Page 3

The startling"story comes froinEurope that young girls are abducted from London and Paris to adorn the harems qf the Orient . -

Judge Amos Briggs, of Philadelphia, has made the singular ruling that all who do not believe in a Divine Being and divine rewards and punishments are incompetent as witnesses in the court

Persons who mail newspapers weighing over two ounces with but a single cent stamp upon them commit a great mistake. The rules of the Posfcofttee Department require such papers to be sold as waste paper, hence they are not forwarded to their destination or to the Dead Letter Office .as letters with iusnftv cient postage are. Attention to this point would save many people much disappointment and the loss of papers they mail.

Ktrssi a is on the brink of bankruptcy. The State debt, both foreign and internal, amounts to the enormous sum of 3,142,000,000 roubles, and the annual interest amounts to 135,500,000 roubles. This debt instead of decreasing is annually increasing, for the Government, leing unable to pay the interest as it falls due, issues new obligations. An annual deficit of some 100,000,000 roubles has become a matter of fact in the Czar's financial administration, Russian Government securities in the different .European exchanges now stand lower than ever before. Even after the third defeat of the Russians at Plevna they stood four per cent, higher than now. It is said that a financial panic is spreading all over the Empire. ' ' The Kentucky public school system is far inferior to that of Indiana, but is improving. Instruction iu the common branches is now furnished by the . State, but no provision is made for building or repairing school houses, for fuel, or for other necessary expenses. These must be furnished by the patrons, and consequently the schools are much neglected. One will not find the comfortable school houses and pleasant surroundings like wc have na Indiana. High schools supported by taxation are rare except in the larger cities. Instruction in the higher branches is afiotaed by private academies and seminaries in nearly all the towns. Collegiate instruction is given in 34 colleges, while Indiana only has 16 such institutions. Thus, while the means for the education of the masses is limited, ample provision has been made for the higher education of the wealthier class. And this is true over the entire South.

The action of the coroner's jury in the case of the shooting of Patrick ; McGow an, last week, will commend itself everywhere. Boundsm'.in Delaney was sent to arrest an offender in a saloon notorious for its dangerous character. McGowan resisted the officer and endeavored to prevent hrm getting his man, going so far as to club the officer over the head with a revolver. McGowan then lumped into a hack and tried to escape. Delaney fol

lowed, his face and eyes covered with blood from his wounds. McGowan then

fired at him, the ball striking him in the eye and lodging in the temple, making a dangerous and it mav be fatal wound.

The officer fired twice in return, sending a ball through the desperado's heart. The jury concluded its labors by commending Delaney 's act, and presenting him with a

handsome gold watch and chain in recognition of the bravery displayed in performing his duty. Such evidences of appreciation aid calculatad to encourage

police oraeerB m the discharge or peril ous under takings, while at the same time they discouiage sentimental biubberings OTer dead desperadoes. -

Rvlph CoiiBrr, an ingenious 12-year old boy of K jneybrook, Chester county, Pa., has devjKed a novel plan of getting rid of the rats which infest his father's cellar. He has constructed out of old fruit jars a battery of three Ley den jars, which he connects and places upon a

large iron plate which touches the tin foil on the outside. The bait is so arranged

that when the rat steps upon the plate and seizes the bait he at once makes the connection between the outside and inside of the jars, and they are discharged through his body, killing him literally as quick as lightning. He charges the jars by means of an electrical machine, also constructed by himself. lie ran a couple

of wires through the fioor from the cellar to the room above, and as sipon as he would hear a rat squeak he would immediately recharge the battery. The first time he put the machine in operation he slaughtered twenty-five rats in the. space of three hours, and in two days the cellar was entirely cleared of the pests.

skeleton breathed forth his tale of condolence, Miss Thompson wa6 impressed. He weigns forty pounds, while she kicks the beam, metaphorically, at 160. In short she's plump and he's thin. But that didn't interfere. He was impressed by her, of course for she was a beauty, and she was favorably toward him, because well, just because. The engagement was over and the other competing beauties went their various ways, but stilt she lingered near, and waited patiently about till the reason did appear. "With an eye to the beautiful she had seized Mr. Skeleton, and come to the conclusion that he would be perfectly lovely in her parlor posing on one leg as a stork. So asthetic, you know, and all that. The plot thickened. Sprague kept right on in business on his slender capital, and Miss Thompson probably a relative of Thompson's eolt-niade daily visits to the museum. He found precious opportunities to whisper sweet nothings in her ear, and managed to slip his arm about her waist, murmuring that it should always sustain her, be a whale bone to her and the little olive branches that should grace their table ir. coming years. In the evenings she practiced at balanciug herself on his knee, while his fingers, like bunches of licorice root, conjured warm blushes into her cheeks. In a few weeks they were clean gone on each other, and when he asked her if she loved him, she sweetly lisped: "You bet your bones." That settled it, and he hied himself for a license, and they were married. This teaches that true love is lumtum everywhere iu the palaces of the poor, as well as in the humble cottages of the rich. Be good, dear girls, and

"fly," and you may marry a skeleton or a fool yourself some day.

A DKEAM.

I heard n g bowl in the maonlipht night, Viid I wont in tho window to aoe tho sight All the dead that over T knew Uoiug one by one; and two by two. On they : passed, and on they pa&sed. Townsfellowa all. from first to last; Born in the moonlight of the lane, jVnd quenched in the.hoavy shadow again. Schoolmates, marching as when wo played At soldiers owns, but now mora staid; Those were the strongest sights to me Who were drowned, I knew, in the awful sea. Straight and handsome folks: heni and weak, too; And some that I loved and gasped to speak to; Some but a da; in their churchyard bed. And some that I had not known were dead. A long, long crowd, where each seiemcd Vmoly, And yet of them all thovo wan one, one only. That raised a head or looked my way, And she seemed to linger, but might not stay. On. on, a moving bridge they mndo Across tho moon stream, from shade to shade; Young and old, women and men; Many long forgot, but- remembered then. And first there came a bitter laughter, And a sound of tears a moment after; And then a music so lofty and gay That every morning day by day; I strive to recall it if X. arty. . ; Boston Transcript. AUTUMN BLOSjSOMS.

How was it that I came to be an old bachelor? Not because of hating women, I am sure, for I liked them very much, and never could haw spoken to one rudely or discourteously in my life. As near

ly as I know it was in this wise:

Mv father died,

leaving a family of

Acobss and "pig nuts" have long been known as good feed for swine, but it will surprise most people to learn that they have a foreign export value. Mr. Letterman, of St. Louis county, Missouri, recently shipped 300 bushels of red oak acorns to Europe, and about the same time 120 bushels of pig nuts were shipped by parties in Pennsylvania. The shipments were made under the direction xsttBSmic-dix Forestry Society-, and the nuts are to be used for seed in England and Germany. Experiments in these countries with various kinds of hard

wood trees indigenous to North America have proven the hickory and red oak to be best adapted to foreign soil and climate, and an attempt will be made to introduce them on a large scale. In their adopted land they will be planted on barren hillsides and such other untillable lands as can only be utilized in the pursuit of forestry. Acorns are not a merchantable article. Neither can pig nuts be procured in the market; for these reasons there was no Utile difficulty in filling so large an order. The seed had to be gathered between one fall and spring, otherwise it would be worthless. It was with considerable misgiving that those in charge of the matter undeitook the contract for so large a quantity of the nuts, but by employing men, women and children to gather them it was finally accomplished.

One would hardly look to a dime museum for a love episode, nor to a living skeleton for a "masher." SfclL there are

always exceptions, and the unpromising quarters of a dime museum in New York has developed a skeleton that made a mash on a professional beauty. Isaac W. Sprague is the attenuated human ossification in question, and bis heart was so touched in sympathy for one of the beauties who failed to get a prize in the late contest, that he figuratively wept with her over her chagrin and disappointmeni. Her number was seven ty-one, and

her niirae -Minnie Hhnmnson. Whan, the

LEGISLATIVE NOTES. Senator Fonlke Wednesday introduced a bill nrovidinff that married women

shall have the same rights under the law as single women. One of the officers of the Senate was seen Monday, busily engaged in distributing what has mora than a passing resemblance to railroad passes, among the members. The Senate Monday, very considerately adopted a resolution - consoling the French republic over the death of Gambefcta. These international courtesies are very touching. Representative! Copelaud, of Jefferson county, "Wednesday introduced a bill making the offense of placing obstructions on railroad tracks, whereby there is loss of life by accident, murder in the first degree. Representative Weaver, Tuesday, introduced a bill making it obligatory for dealers in oleomargarine, or those who habitually use it, to label it, so that nobody would be deceived. This is rough on boarding-house keepers. Many of the Bepublican members of the House and a number of Democrats complain that Speaker Bynurn is dispossd to be unfair in his rulingSj and that it is almost impossible for many of them to secure recognition by the chair. Bepresentative Huston has introduced a bill making it an offense for railroad companies to offer public officials, or for them to receive, either free passes or reduced rates in consideration of their position. The average legislator will consider this a direct blow at his vested rights. Senator Bischowski has introduced a bill providing for a commission to select a series of school books for the schools o the State, and which shall remain in use for at least fifteen years. The commission is to include the Superintendent of Public Instruction and two experienced teachers. Governor Porter, Wednesday sent a message to the Senate, inclosing a letter from Secretary Folger, asking that the Legislature pass a law ceding certain territory in Terre Haute and Ft. Wayne to the general government for tne erection of public buildings. This is a formality required by law, and the judiciary committee will draw up a bill making the requisite provisions. Bepresentative Huston has introduced a bill to tax the gross receipts of all corporations doing business in this State but organized under the laws of another Stf te. It is provided that the rate of taxation shall be S3 on each $100 of receipts and the tangible property shall not be

exempt If passed this bill will .affect the telephone monoplies operating in Indiana. It is ev. dent that the present legislature is determined to make 3ome law compelling hotel keepers to provide fire escapes, In the Senate Monday two such measures have been introduced, both being referred to the judiciary committee with instructions to report after the first meeting. One bill was introduced by Senator Youcbe and the other by Semator Spann. The latter is the most rigid in its demands. It provides that each room in a hotel shall be furnished with a rope ladder. The buildings shall be inspected se ni-annnally by the proper officials, and the penalty for a violation of the act is a fine oi $1,000, $500 of which goes to the X)roseeutmg attorney who secures the conviction. Any person who may think that the temperance people are not alive an-1

working would have been convinced to the contrary had they been in the Seoate and House Monday. !Cn both branches, petitions asking for the submission of the prohibitory amendment, were presented from eighty-five counties and signed by 5i,755 persons. Petitions with 9,957 Bignatures went to the Senate and 14,798 to the House; 4,283 to Bepublican senators and 5,674 to Democrats: 7,521 to Bepub

lican Bepresentatives and 7,277 to Demo

crats. This is but the first installment of petitions, and hundreds of others are to follow during the session. They were all referred to the committee on temperance, necessarily without reading. ... The Community in Danger. San FranciBco Chronicle. A San Joaquin farmer recently advertised that his wife had left him without just cause. The wife retorted with a card in a Stockton newspaper, stating that one of the reasons why she left him was "per

sonal uncleanliness on his part, he having acknowledged on one occasion that he had not bathed himself for over five weeks." The states that she has other reasons, but does not give them. If disinclination to bathe can be set up as good ground for divorce, we may look to see a lively lot of litigation, especially in the dry season.

A post of the Grand Army of the Republic was organized at Princeton, on Saturday evening, by Comrade A. C Kosenoranz and other members of Farrago Post of Evansvilje.

children, a wife, and an old father and mother, of whom only myself was able to earn a shilling. He had never saved anything.

So, after the first great grief, when we had calmed down, and were about to look matters quietly in the face, there was a wretched sort of prospect for us. I was only an accountant, and had a young fellow's habit of wasting my small salary in a thousand different ways. I had been "paying attention," too, to Elsie Hall, who, young and childish as she was, had a way of leading her admirers into extravagance. Of all the trials of that never to be forgotten time, I think the greatest was appearing niggardly in those baby blue eyes. I did not mind wearing plain suits, discarding kid gloves, and renouncing the opera; but not. to lay those boquets, and books, and music, and dainty bits of jewelery,arcd multitudinous trifles at Elsie's feet, was a very terrible ordeal. I passed through, and if ever a man had reason to be thankful I had, for the acquisitive little beauty jilted me in a month for Tom Tandem, who was rich and lavish of gifts, and who ran away from her after a marriage of ten months. I worked day and flight, and managed to keep the wolf from the door. Sometimes I used to think how well it was for Elsie that she had not really loved me, for she could have had nothing but a dismal project of wearing out her youth in a dreary, hopeless engagement to one too poor to marry. That was until Torn ran off. Then I thought it would have been better for her to have shared our humble home and poor fare, and the love I could have given her, than to be deserted so. A nd I pitied her as if she bad not proved herself heartless. But I never went near her, of course, and I never evcar spoke of her to my mother. I grew no younger all this while, and every year seemed to add five to my looks. I had never been very handsome or very merry, and I soon became conscious of a peculiar middle-aged look, which settles down upon some people very early. Strangers, too, bcean to take me for the head of the family, and once, in a new neighborhood, the butcher alluded to "my wife." I found out that he meant my mother, and only wondered that it was not dear old grannie. She was 80, grandfather 90, and they died one bright autumn day before prosperity came to us, died within an hour of each other, for grannie said; "I think Til just, lie down a bit now, Leinual don't need me. I'm very tired." Then she kissed me and said; "You've been a good boy to your grandpa, Edward, you'll have that to think of." And when next we went to her she was dead, with her cheek upon her hand like a sleeping child. So two were gone, and we were sadder than before. And then Jean, my eldest sister, married at 16 a physician, who carried her off to Hindoostan in her honeymoon. And we could none of us feel the wedding a happy thing. But prosperity did come at last. I had worked hard for it, and anything a man makes his sole object in this life he is very sure to attain. "We were comfortable- -easy. Ah, what a word that is after years of struggle! At last we were rich. But by that time I was five-and-forty a large, dark, middleaged man, with a face that looked to myself in the glass as though it were perpetually intent on figures. The girls were married, Dick had taken to the sea, and

we saw him once a year or so; and Ashton was at home with mother and myself the only really handsome member of our family, and just two and twenty. And it was on his birthday, I remember, that the letter came to me from poor

Hunter that letter which began; "When these lines reach you, Ned Sanford, I shall have my six feet of earth all I ever owned, or would had I lived to be a hundred." We had been young together, though he was really older than J, and we had been close friends once; but a roving fit had seized him, and we had not met for years. I knew he had married 'a young Kentish girl, and knew no more, but now he told me that she was dead, and that his death would leave a daughter an orphan. "She is not quite penniless," he wrote, "for her mother had a little income, which, poor as I was, I was never brute enough to meddle with, and it has descended to her. But I have been a rolling stone, gathered no moss all my life,and we have never stayed long enough in one place to

make friends. Will you bo her guardian? It is a dying man's last request " And then he wrote some words, coni

ng from his heart, I know, which bein of myself I could not think that I do served them. And the result of that letter, and of another from the lawyer who had Annie Hunter's fortune in charge, was that one soft spring day found me on board a great steamer which lay at rest after her voyage in the protecting arms of Liverpool, with two little hands in mine, and a pair of great, brown eyes lifted to my face, and a sweet voice choked with sobs saying somethiag of "poor papa" and how much he had spoken of me, and the lovely voy

age, and of the green graves left b&ma, and I, who had gone to meet a childWl

found a woman, looking at her and til

ing towards her an I had looted nor felt to any other.

Not Elsie to Hall. It was not the boy

ish love dream come again. Analyzing the emotion, I found only a great longing to protect and comfort her, to guard her from every pain and ill; and I said to myself: "This is as a father must, feel to a daughter; I can be a parent to George Hunter's child iu very t ruth." And I took her to the old house and to my old mother. I thought, only of those; somehow, I never forgot how she brightened the sombre rooms. How, as her sadness wore away, she sang to us in the twilight! How strangely a something which made the return home, and the long hours of the evening, seem so much brighter than they had ever been before, stole into my life! I never went to sleep in church now; I kept awake to look at Olive Hunter to listen to the pure contralto,as she joined in the singing. Sometimes I caught her eye her great

"unfathomable brown eye for she had e

habit of looking at me. Was she wondering how a face could be so stern and grim? I used to ask myself. Ashtou used to look at her also. He had been away when she first came to us, and when he returned she was a grand surprise to him.

"Oh, how lovely she is! he had said to me. "She is very pretty," I replied Ashtou laughed. "May I never be an old bachelor if it brings mejto calling such a girl very "prefty," he said, and I felt conscious that my cheek Unshed, and I felt angry that he should have spoken of me thus though I had never eared before. They like each other ery much -the.5 e two young things. They were together a great deal. A pretty picture they made in the Venetian window in the sunset. He is a fair-haired, blue eyed Saxon looking youth, she 60 exquisitely dark and glowing. Every one liked her. Even my old clerk Stephen Hadley used to say her presence lit up the office more than a dozen lamps, the nearest approach to a poetical speech of which old Stephen was ever known to be guilty; and I bevei knew how much she was to me until one evening, when coming homo earlier than usual, I saw in thai Venetian window where Ashtou and Olive had made so many pleasant pictures for me, one that I never forgot that I never shall forget as long as I live. She stood with her back to me. Ashton wTas kneeling at. her feet. The sound of the opening door dissolved the picture; but I had seen it, and I stole away to hide the stab it had given me. I sat down in my own room, and hid my face in my hands, and would have been glad to hide it beneath my coffin lid. I knew now that I loved Olive Hunter; that I loved her uot an an old man nxght love a child, but as a young man m ght love the woman who ought to be his wife better than I had loved Elsie Hall; for it was not boyish p&ssion, but earnest, heartfelt love. I in love? I arose and looked in the mirror, and my broad-shouldered reflection flashed before my gam The spring time of my life had come and gone, my summer had flown, and in the autumn I had dreamed of lov e, bud and blossom. I knelt beside my bed and prayed that I might not hate my brother that I mighf not even envy him. His touch upon mv door startled me. He came with

something iu his manner not usual to him, and sat down opposite me. For a few moments wo were silent. Then he said, speaking rapidly, and blushing like a girl: "Ned, old fellow, you you saw me making a fool of myself just now I suppose?" I saw you on your knees," I said. "And thought me a silly fellow, eh? But you don't know, Ned. You can't understand you've been so calm and cool all our life through, you know. She's driving me mad. Ked, I do believe she likes me, but she won't say yes. I'd give my right hand for her love. I must have it, and I think you can help me, Ned. From something she said, I believe she thinks you would disapprove; porhaps you are one of those old fellows who want every one to marry for money. Tell her you're not, Ned dear old fellow; tell her you have no objection, and I'll never forget it, indeed I won't." "Tell her I have no objection,'' I repeated mechanically. "You know you are master here, and as much my father as if yon really were one, instead of my brother' said Ashtou. "If I did not knoW how kindly you had always felt to us both I should not confide in you, for it's a serious thing to be in love, Ned, and you may thank heaven you know nothing of it." Know nothing of it ! Ah, if hij could have read my heart just then!

"I'll do what I can, Ashton," I said at last, "I'll try my best." And he flung his arms about main his own boyish fashion, and left me alone alone with my own thoughts. He had said truly; I had been like a father to him. I was old enough to be her's, andjno one should know my silly dream. I would hide it while I lived. As I said once: "I've only the old folk?: and the children," I said then, "I will only think of mother and Ashton. Let my own life

be as nothing; I have lived for them if needs be I will die for them," But I would not see or speak to Olive that night., nor until the next day was quite done. Then, in the twilight I sat beside her and took her hand. "Olive" I said, "I think you know that Ashton loves you. I am sure that he has told you 150, And you cau you not love him?" She drew her hand from mine, and said not one word. "I should rejoice in my brother's happiness. I should think him happier in having your love than anything else could make him," I said. "I told him I would tell you so." And then she spoke. . .

"You wish me to marry Ashton?" Reproach was in the tone reproach and sorrow. "If you can love him, Olive," I said. She arose. She seemed to shrink from me, though in the dark I could not see her face. "I do not love him" she said. And we were still as death. Then suddenly Olive Hunter began to sob. "You have been very kind to me. I love you all," Bhe said, ,but I can notstay here now. Phase let nw go some where else. 1 must I cannot live here'

a co no tyrants; and assured, you do not love him, Ashton will " "Hush!" she panted; "hudx! Pleuse let me go away! Please let me j0 away!" The moon was rising. B.ir new born dight foil ou Olwo's face. Perhaps its

Yhiteness made her look so pale.

she leaned against the wail with Lor litje hand upon her heart, her unfathomabltoyes full of pain. How had I hurt her SV A new thought struck me. "Pojmps you love some one else, Olive?1 And a this she tnrued her face from me and lid it in her hands. "Too uuch too muo'i. You might have spnrcduie that," she said. "Let me jo away, I wMi you had never brought mo here." And 1 arose nxX went to her. I bent over the woman I loved. I touched her with my band; her ?oft hair brushed my cheek. "Olive," I said, "Is co ming hero has brought pain upon yo, I wish I had not

HORRIBLE HOLOCAUST.

The Burning f a Milwaukee Hotel Cauaen a iMHb of One Hundred LlvcSi-Iteart-rendlng Scene. Jumping five Stories to Ue Sidewalk. Incident.

shook, and sho turned her face toward me again and looked into my oyes. What sho saw in mine X do not know the truth, I think. In hers I read this: I was not old to her--not too old to be loved. I stole my arm about her; she did not untwine it. I uttered her name, "Olive" huskily. Afterward I told her of my struggles with myself, not then. I said: "Olive, I love you but it cannot bet that you care for me. I ara old enough to be your father." And again I saw in her oyes the happy truth, and took her to my heart But we kept our secret for awhile, for we both loved Ashton, and both knew that his wound was not too deep to find u balm; and within n y air, when the boy brought home a bride, a pretty creature whom he loved, and who loved him,! claimed Olive. And she is mine now; and the autumn blossoms of my heart will only tide, on earth to bloom again through all eternity n Paradise.

A FEARFUL FIRE AT M1XWAUKKE. Tho Nowhall house, a sis story brick building, burned "Wednesday, causing a Loss of seventy lives and injury to thirty more. In less than a half hour after the discovery of the fire the whole building was enveloped in flames. The shrieks of tho unfortunates filled the air in a heartrending manner, but tho j;eopple below were unable to render any aid. Many of the inmates threw themselves from the windows to tho sidewalks and were horribly crushed. The building has long been designated as a death trap. liATKK PARTICULARS.

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Hints for Love Making. First oatch your lover. Hold him while yon have him. Don't let go of him to catch ovary new one that comes along. Try to get pretty vwU acquaint! with him before you take him for life. Unless you intend to support Mm, find out whether he earns enough to support you. Don't make up your mind that he is an angel. Don't palm yourself off on him for ono either. Don't let him spend his salary on you; that right should be reserved till after marriage. If you have conscientious scruples against marrying a a tan with a mother, say so in time, that !be may get rid of her to oblige yon, or get rid of you io oblige her, as he thinks b& t. If you object to secret societies and tobacco, it is better to come out with your objections now than to reserve them for curtain lectures hereafter. If your adorer happens to fancy a certain shade of hair, don't color or bleach to oblige him. Remember your hair belongs to you, and ho doesn't. B very sure it is a man you are in love with, and not the clothes ho wears. Fortune and fashion are both so fickle that it is foolish to take a stylish suit for better or worse. ' If you intend to keep three servants after marriage, settle the matter beforehand. The man who is making love to you may expect you to do your own washing. Don't try to hurry up a proposail by carrying on a flirtation with some other fellow. Different men are made of different material, ar d the one you want may go off in a fit of jealousy and forget to come back. If you have a love letter to write don't copy it out of a "L etter Writer." If your young man ever happened to commit the same volume, he onld know your sentiments were borrowed. Don't marry a man to oblige any third person in existence. It is your right to suit yourself in t!iie matter. But remem-

j ber at the same time that love is blind, i and a little friendly, advice from one

whose advice is worth having may insure a life time of happiness, or prevent one of misery. In love affairs always keep your eyes wide open, so thins when the right man comes along you may see him. When you do fee him you will recognize him and the recognition will be mutual. If you have no fault to find with him personally, financially, conscientiously, socially, morally, politically, religiously, or any other way, he is probably perfect enough to suit you, and yon can afford toBelieve him; Hope in him; Love him; Marry himl

"Go from us, Olive?" I said, "Nay; wo 1 upon them.

The Nigh Attack in Egypt. One of Sir Garnet's anecdotes about Tel-el-3Cebir is rot yet out of date. Ho had timed the night attack to begin at a certain hour, and reports to be brought to him from the different bodies of troops that they had actually reached their positions. Surrounded by his staff, he sat waiting on lions aback, and in his nervous impatience he was continually pulling out a repeater he carried, and ringing the hour. The night was extremely dark, the repeater very old, and Sir Garnet grew frequently anxious lest the moment of the attack should oass before every

thing was reuly. The atafcVaid what they could to rcasf me their chief, and somebody shmwdly suggested that perhaps tho old repeater was too fast. Just then a faint, light dawued ou the eastern sky and grew swiftly brighter, and before long, the hori:a ju. and all thai quarter of

the heavens we re radiant wit!i the hues of early morn. Sir Garnet threw down his watch with an exclamation of despair, and, turning to Che staff, said: You see, gentlemen, it is loo late, it will bo broad daylight beforo the troops cau reach the euemiy's line." "But why?" queried one bold mar, "tho hour fixed is not past." "It m ist be past,' retorted Sir Garnet, "look at tho light in the sky.' "Yes," responded the bold man, "I see the light. It i the comet' Florid buchled are used to catch up the folds of the drapery of evening dresses. Th?e buckler arc large and square and arc made of card board covered with

silk; small ftr.wero are then f?ewwl thickly

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fairly in position the flames had enveloped tho whole southeast corner of the building, the fiery element licking its way greedily and with lightning rapidity toward tho northern wing. Borne blundering individual, seeing the reflection of the holocaust ou the sky, turned in an alarm from the wrong box causing the loss of the work of one steamer and ten minutes of precious time, just when the lire was at its worst, and every window in the huge building lined with shrieking humanity. The multitude, which by this time had swelled to thousands, stood in perfect awe, but few having self possession and resolution enough to lend a helping hanh on the canvasses stretched out to receive those despairing inmates of the burning pyre who risked the leap down to the stone sidewalk, so many feet below. GUESSES AS TO THE OIUGIH. Q A number of rescued guests say the fire started in the basement and went through the elevator in all parts before the alarm could be given. A man employed in the cooking department arrived on the scene about 4 o'clock. He states that at 5:80 he passed to the third floor and assisted in rescuing a number of lodgers. It is stated on good authority that there was no fire in the rear portion of the building, where there was a wide stairway, by means of which all those quartered on the upper floors could have made their escape. However, tho smoke was so dense that all those who were not su ffocated lost their presence of mind. There is loud talk of incendiarism, in which the chief concurs, also tho police who were first on the ground. No tangible ground can be given for the theory beyond the breaking out near the toot of the elevator, and spreading so rapidly that the building was destroyed in half an hour. BRAVE FIREMEN AOT POLICE. Deeds of heroism are recorded worthy of unqualified praise. Ed. Ryemer and Herman Strauss, of truck 1, appeared on the roof of a bank building at a critical juncture, directly opposite the servants' quarters, ladder m hand. For a moment the unwieldy thing was poised in mid air, then descended with a crash through the window of tho hotel. It formed a bridge across the alley, and before it had become steady in position the men had crossed over into the hotel, and then amid the cheers of the multitude below, dragged helpless creatures across the slender bridge until a dozen were rescued, all of whom wore in their night clothes. Many wore badly frozen before taken to shelter. A woman in a dead faint, unable to help herself, was dragged across in safety, but at one time the whole of her body was hanging over clear of the ladder while the brave man held her by one of her ankles. The crowd below held their breach in suspense, expecting every moment to see the ladder turn over or break beneath tho terrible strain. The man, however, was equal to the emergency.and by a herculean effort pulled her upou the bridge and finally placed her out of danger, while the crowd, which had en dured a most painful suspense for fully ten minutes, burst forth in round after round of applause. Twelve poor waiter girls were rescued by these brave men. Two brothers, named Clayton, rescued four women, carrying them bodily out. The police saved a dozen persons. INCIDENTS OF THE FIRE, At one time there were six persons hanging from a window sill at the fifth story, at tho same time crying in agony for help that could not be rendered them. One after another loosed their grip and met their fate. One man, by letting himself down at arms-length from a fifth story window put his foot through a window below,nd reachead the fourth-floor in safety. This operation wis repeated until the third story was reached, each point gained in the progress of his descent being greeted with encouraging cheers from the by-standers. Ashe was putting his foot through the top of the second-story window his hands slipped from the sill above and with a wild shriek of despair he fell backward, turning over several times, and striking the pavement on his bead. He was mangled beyond recognition. Another man jumped from a fifth story window, struck tho telegraph wires on Michigan street, bounded up and came down a mangled mass of flesh and bones. A number of people dropped out of the different gtoires on the jumping canvas, but in the majority of cases they were killed or sustained injuries from which there is little hope of recovery. John A. Antesdel the principal pro prietor has become insane over the terrible affair. He ran up and down Michigan street moaning and crying: "Oh, oh, nh. mv Cmil. who set that fireP Over his

head was a black cloth. He held his hands heavenward, as if invoking Divine

aid. A BUNCH OF HORRORS. Beside a pile of clothing lay the remains of a meagre, wan. pale-faced old lady of perhaps forty-five years, who must have met her death by falling heavily upon a single telegraph wire, as her body was literally cut in twain about the waist. Among tho terror-striken iumates of the hotel a number died from sheer fright and exhaustion. Some appeared at windows, waved their hands wildly to tho sea of upturned faces below, and then wore seen to rush madly back into the flames. One girl turned a manaic, and when a fireman sought to rescue her fought with frenzied strength. She was at last borne down tho ladder. Jndson H, Hough, oi' Peoria, III., who had both legs broken and received Other interna injuries by jumping from a fifth story window into the canvas held by the firemen, died at the Central police.

station. Mr. Hough was visiting the family of Allen Johnson. He was special agent of the Northern National Fire Insurance Company of this city, and leaves a wife and four children. He was about forty years of age. There was a touchng scene when he tried to tell tho bystanders where he lived. He spelled out the words: "p-e-o-h-i-a w-i-f-e B-A-B-Y." Detective Reimcr, one of the first ofticcrs to arrive on the spot, says: "Wo held a canvas, but what good was it for people falling so high? The poor girls came down thud, thud, and as each would fall we would try to catch her, only to have the coiners torn from our hands in spite of us. At one time the back alley was a mass of gore, and seven sjirls were piled there dead, while a number groaned in the agony of deith. Our men report that they could hear the cries of the dying as

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streets. One poor follow crawled from window to window down three ttories, and then gave out, fell, and was killed. His hands were torn in shreds from falling and catching." In the clothes of Mr. Thomas .Vanloon. at the morgue, $25,000 in securities was found. TOM THUMB AND HIS WIFE. Tom Thumb and his wife were rescued from the hotel by Police Officer O'Brien who took one of the little people under each arm and carried them down stair's and across the strest to the American Express office They were in ; their night clothes and Mrs. Thumb suffered much from the cold atmosphere. The General, immediately upon being planted in th

express office, began mourning the loss of j

valuable diamonds and other jewelry belonging to himself and wife. The latter heard him thtough,and replied reprovingly: "What if we have lost everything? Just look at those people there," pointing to the mangled forms of twenty dead and dying men and women lying upon the floor. The little woman then bravely began relieving the sufferings of those around her by supplying them with water and a display of other acts of sympathetic kindness. In the evening, at the Plankinton House, a reporter met the General in the rotunda. The diminutive Falsfcaff stood on his tip-toes to strike a match on the base of the mantel piece, and said: "Yes, the policeman entered our room, but he did not carry off one of us under each arm. I went down the ladder alone, sir. Yes, I think they carried my wife down, but I got down first. My body servant, tho colored boy, Charles Kelsey, was completely burned up, and, then, my manager's vife, Mrs. Bleeker, jumped from the second story-window, and fractured both her legs. This is the first experience that I've had, sir, and I don't wajit any more of it in mine." WH1SN ABKHAHAM LINCOLN WAS THER22. A New York man says: "I remember an incident of some little interest in connection with the Newhall House when I heard Abraham Lincoln make a speech there long before he was thought of "for the Presidency. It was just after he had been defeated for the United State Senate by Mr. Douglas. He made his speech from the balcony of the hotel to a great crowd, and C had gotten in close behind him with an old playmate of mine. He told one of the stories which he . was amed for telling in his inimitable style. He said he had been asked how he felt about his defeat for the Senatorship. 'Why he declared, I feel just like an Illinois boy who was traveling up a hill very fast, when suddenly he stubbed his toe against a stone. I'm too big a boy to cry, he said, holding his hand over his foot, but the plegged thing hurts too much for me to laugh " Bird and Telegraph Wires. Now York Stur. .... ..... ,. At a recent meeting of the JSlectroteohnic Society of Berlin Herr Massnmn read a paper on some observations which he had made on the Imperial telegraph lines at the instance of the Secretary of the Postoffice. He found that in districts where there are no trees,the smaller birds of prey, such as crows and magpies, are very fond of roosting on telegraph poles, while sparrows, starlings and swallows frequently alight on them in great numbers. This leads to a fouling of the wires with excrement until they look as if they were plastered. The soil has, howevermo damaging effect, as the rain washes it off; unless, ii ideed, the aoid excrement tends to the decay of the wooden poles. Swallows like to build under the eaves, where wires run into telegraph pffices,and sometimes cause an "earth" contact. Contacts between wire and wire are frequently caused by large birds, such as bustards, storks, swans and wild ducks. They cause the wire to swing and sometimes to break. Accidents of this kind were frequent when the wires ran by highroads, along which young geise were driven to their pastures. Smaller birds, even partridges, are generally killed by t he shock of striking the wires. They do not cause much damage to the wires. Holes are often pecked through she poles by woodpeckers (the Pica martins, or black woodpecker; the P. veridis, or green woodpecker, and the P. major, or piebald woodpecker). These birds spare no kind of wood, unprepared pine and oak poles, as well as poles treated with sulphate of copper, chloride of zinc, or sublimate of mercury. Some oven state that they will attack creosoted poles. Tho theory that the birds mistake the vibration of the wires iu the poles for insects humming is doubted by Herr Massman, who declares that they often Hnd insects m the dry poles. 1 Mrs. Garfield at Home. Cleveland Lottor. Mrs. Garfield is now living in her new home in Cleveland a plain, unpretentious, but cheery and attractive home. The mother of the late President and the wife of Dr. Boynton are spending the

winter with her, , She is said to be now looking much better than she has since her bereavement, although ma? ks of age, care and sorrow are fixed upon her face. She is often visited by artists competing for the 310,000 prize offered by the Ohio Legislature for the best bust of Garfield, who seek her approval of the

work. When one of them called on her a few days ago, writes a correspondent who accompanied him, Mrs. Garfield gave the bust a quick, sidelong glance, and then approaching it closer, looked at it steadily, and in a most critical manner, for several moments. Then she , spoke: "It looks more like Stanley Matthews," and then after another inspection: "No, I can't say it resembles the General to any great extent," and the disappointed artist sadly withdrew. Dashes of red appear everywhere in the toilet, from tho plumes on tiie bonnet to the "clonks" of black silk hose.

FARM NOTES.

A "foot note" in the New Fork Trib one recommends to coal tar tne wood work of a stall of a gnawing horse. Thorough saturation with kerosene is also said to produce a permanent cure. The basket willow will grow around the mill-ponds and along the margins of the water-courses. It is an article which is always salable, and should be made to take the place of the unsigh tly briars and bushes that often prove so troublesome in such places. An exchange gives the annexed recipe for colic in horses, which it claims is one of the best known, and is well worth preservation by horsemen: -Laudanum, belladonna, sulph. ether chloroform; each two ounces; dose, half tublespoonful in a half pint of water. If fowls are fed more than they wil e-1 up quickly they become ";oo fat, and vili cease laying. GiveM-v '8f&$& as ;?e) will eat eagerly, and no more. Scalded meal, bran and mas ted potatoes form an excellent meal for tie morning fed. The feed of corn or other grain should be given at night. A pure Italian bee should have three distinct yellow bands or rings across the lower part of tho abdomen, and bright yellow hair over the body. Tno o-calied Albino bees are a strain of the ItahYzie, having With bands and hair. The latter are the finest workers of. the two, and are easier handled. The Scientific American is quoted as raying that "copal vanish j.pplied to the: soles of shoes and repeated as it dries until the pores are filled and the surface

-snines likepollished mahogany, will makt

soles waterproof and last as long as the uppers." One of the best things we have seen for farm boots, is an outer sole, or tap, of wood thoroughly dried, soaked in linseed oil and screwed to the lottom of the boot. It isn't elegant, but it does keep the cold from " strikeing through" the bottom of the boot Complaint has often been made that grapes grown in the vicinity, of as-wcrks posses the disagreeable taste and odor of gas-tar and it has been supposed the fruit absorbed this volatile substance from the air. Recent investigations prove, however, that the odor and flavor of the grapes are due to the fact that the say of the vine absorbs them from the sail. If disagreeable odors, may thus find their way into the grapes, why, by similar artificial process, may not grapes, and indeed, other fruits, be possibly flavored to suit the taste, however varied and whimsical. , . ' An English leather horseshce has been tried in Brooklyn which lasts a month longer than iron shoes made by blacksmiths. Their is a. suspicion that blae.csmiths use lead in the iron -of which horseshoes are made. Put a pair of new shoes on a horse wih steel corks a. id drive the horse five miles and the corks will be worn down so the horse will slip on a wee pavement. What it wants are corks made of the kind of steel burglars' tools are ' made of, or leather. If English leather is more tough than the blacksmith's iron the leather should come in general jse ard let blacksmiths get poor and shoemakers get rich. I ' .

Fattening Fowls. Poultry Monthly. It is almost useless to try to fatten fowls that have their full liberty. - They may be in good condition, but there is no excess of fat. Fowls are fattened quickest easiest and cheapest by putting them -in coops and feeding with sue! fo d s will

accomplish tne purpose best. ' The young stock intended for roasters

this fall should be put up to fet len. Every one who rears large flocksof poultry will have a considerable surplus of cockerels on hand, unless they have been dis posed of before for broilers, jfiu those only partly matured can not easily be made to fatten, for they need most of tu6ii food for growth. Adult fowls can be fattened

upon grain of various sorts fad for a change. But a variety not only stimulates appetite but aids digestion; aj very littie animal food, as beefs liver or other, butcher's waste pieties, may be added daily. . ., . We have found oatmeal, cornmeal and

barleymeal, alternately cooked and mixed with milk and seasoned, to be in the best e form the most nutritious and jbest adap;vd ;

for their digestive mills. The trough or fading boards should : be kept constantly clean, and the food placed outside the coop at regular hours, and enough at a tune to be picked up clean, and when satisfied it is cert to remove the boards, placing a-Htfu sharp gravel within reach to aid digestion.

Nilsson's Kindness.

Sacramento Bee. The railroad conductors and employes who were on the train, that bc-ie Mine. Nilsson away from she Pacific c.-ast are enthusiastic in their praise of the great singer and excellent lady. Independent of her sweet singing, they were charmed with her gentle manners, generosity, aiufc kind consideration shown to every ovta, and to the public Realizing the fact that the people of the interior could not hear her except in this way, she freely sang whareyer people assembled.- bhe did it, too, without condescension, and her face showed her happiness in being able to please them. She bowed with as much grace at the applause, and seemed a3 much delighted as if singing to a fashionable audience in a crowded theater. While crossing the straits on the ferry the passengers gathered about the car, and she sang to them. She treated Sacramento the same way. Kockiin was similarly favored, and the residents of Reno heard the famous lady. The employes of the road were welcomed to her car, and she sang for them willingly; She expressed herself ..as delighted with California and its cliEaatc,and the enthusiastic reception she met with, hoping some day to be able to return and view the wonders of which she heard so much. A ll .wfea saw her seemed to have fallen in loa with the lady. ' - A Sure Cure for Neuralgia

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fras, oil of organum, and a half ounce of tincture of capsicum, with half a pint of 1 1 ' 1 0l; winA t.3ct s.9 O'l ,inol

aiconoi. outuv muo ww w ; -. in the mixture, wrap it around the head, and then insert the head in a hay stack till death comes to your relief. An Unseasonable jGostume. Boston Transcript. . , , "J. B. Brown is painting a young gii U with a very sweet face, seated in tco fields, with her hands clasped hi her lap, wrapped in happy thought." If the girl doon t get her death o oold, she'll be lucky. ... i

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