Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 38, Bloomington, Monroe County, 21 July 1883 — Page 3

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Is is not good i news to the American tobacco growers that the results of exriments in tobaco eoltnre in France have exceeded the most sanguine expectations. Despite the cold, wet weather last season, the yield of tobacco in. the southwestern -portion of the country was so satisfactory that an important area of land is at present devoted to the crop, soils of a sandy character being preferred, such being the kinds on which the t est brands of Havana are raised. Climate is no t regarded as a decisive factor in tobacco cultivation

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What has become of the law which waft to crush out polygamy and make the Mormon mourn? Never in the history of their church have the latter Day Saints prospered as they do now. Their missionaries are not only more active in this country than before, but they are Tatking converts abroad by the thousand Nearly seven hundred Mormon recruits landed in New York in one day, and they are all represented -to be thriftyjandwell to do emigrants, - ," .......

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el-moos never was a time V when there was less excuse for the tramp. Even in tlie ordinary channels of labor there is a ecifietent demand to give employment--to all and the season of harvest ; which is now at its height, would ghe every; one of these vagabonds work if he wanted it But he does not .want it Tim tramp is a bid quantity.- Two women have been murdered b the scoundrels in Ohio with in'a week, and their presence demand herculean treatment at the hands of our rural friends. If the shotgun pcKey justifiable on any occasion it is justifiable in its application to the tramp. '"': It has been suggested that inasmuch as Irish paupers have been sent back to the country tram which they came by the United States authorities it is high time that some action be taken in reference to toe importations of Mormon recruits team England and Wales. These recruits avow their purpose to violate a United States law; their intentions, according to the almost univeraal opinion of our people, are lrnmoraland they are moral lepers. They infest one of our richest Territories and make Kfe for good citizens there anything but pleasant. There certainly , is good ground for the suggestion that they be sent back. Only last week over 700 of them were imported. Another cargo is threatened in a few weeks, and the mis f ioLaries are at work among the vicious find immoral navvies of the Welsh coal regions and the English "Black Country to "makeup" several others. Collector Bobertaon ought to institute inquiries, rtsnid Secretary Frelinghuysen might ootanpy some of his valuable time in drreot

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' Fbofsb who have traveled in Florida will be surprised to learn that a range of mountains has been discovered in the interior of the State. Florida has heretofore been supposed to be as free from mountains or hills as the prairies of Kansas, though thickly covered with dense forests of pine and other trees! ' The recentiy discovered mountain range is in Sumpter county, and is about fifteen miles long; one mile wide and 500 feet high; The value of such a piece of property in a mountainless region is apparent, and every foot of land covered by this range has been bought up, and is held at sueh a figure as virtually to be out of the market. The present owners intend to improve it, and make several points summer-resorts for the heat-oppressed citixensof the Peninsular State. That these will be popular there is littleoubt. Beeidos the advantages of- mountain air, Lake Apopka is conveniently near, ac d a view of the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean can at the same time be ob tamed from the mountain sununit. "

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A. correspondent gives an interesting account of Balrville, near the Clinch Mountains, in West Tennessee, where the 'southern people, obtained their salt during the rebellion. The locahty is a basin enclosing about six hundred acres, the bed of a former lakefbrnnng one of those rich blue grass bottoms that are worth a fortune to the cattle raiser, and underlying it is a bed of salt rock. Here is made the salt that supplies v Western Virginia, Eastern Georgia, and Northern Georgia and Alabama. In 1858,George W. Pahnera New York salt maker from Syracuse, came to the region and went into the salt makiDg industry in a small way. Wells were snnk, piercing the salt rock, the water beneath it was raised to the surface, boiled m pans,and the salt thus obtained. The industry was in moderate operation when the rebellion began, and it thn exteEued in an amazing way. The blockade of the southern ports cut off all the outside supply of -salt, -and here almost the entire Southern Confederacy had to come for it The manufactory was made a National one, each Southern State established its agency, paying a royalty for the salt produced, and Colonel Palmer, ex

tending his business, took m - General Stewart as a partner. They are now probably the two wealthiest men in Virginia. Baring the war Federal troops destroyed the works, but after they left the manufacture was resumed. It was enormously profitable for the owners, who turned out as much as 10,000,000 hushels a year. Their receipts of Confederate money were at times so heavy that they had not the opportunity to count i but bundled it up, taking the account as sent them. As gold appreciated and the paper accumulated, they began buying land In this way Stuart got 7000 acres, and Palmer bought out all the region surrounding the Salt Lick, this getting a magrnficent estate of 12,00 acree,on which he now lives with his brother, and breeds many thous and of sheep and hundreds of fine cattle The salt industry, this process, often produced them an acre of land for a bushel of salt in the high war prices, but the production has now fallen ofl; about 600,- . 000 bushels being turned out annually.

future, now within reach of the' Democratic party. The reform movement in this State in 1874 was the beginning of a new era which would have attained the grandest results but for the Great Fraud of 1876. The Presidency was stolen by a conspiracy backed by the whole military and civil power of the Government with Gen. Grant in the White House menacing civil war in case of resistance. That crime blocked the wheels of reform, so far as the executive department was concerned; It crammed the public offices with thieves, perjurers, ballot-box staffers, forgers, and the like, who were the instruments of Chandler, Sherman, Garfield, Stanley Matthews, and the other conspirator . who4.perpetrated tlnv iniquity. The Democratic House of Representatives chosen in 1874 kept faith with every promise of reform which had been made during the canvass. The appropriations for the fiscal year 1876 had already been made when the Democrats took poSb3Ssion of the House in December, 1875. The aggregate voted for 1876 by the Re-

pubheans was 8177,370,687.81. including

$30,000,000 for pensions. The Democrats found a Republican President and a Republican Senate to oppose them at every step, of reduction. They reported and passed bills aggregating 8138,752,343.42 for expenses, including $29,553,500 for pensions. Here was an economy of nearly thirty-nine millions to start wrth: -The Senate fought every bill obstinately, under the lead of John Sherman, who repeatedly declared that the public service would be crippled by the proposed changes. " In the committee of conference the Senate managers resisted these reforms as tenaciously as the Republican majority had done on tjie floor, and threatened to defeat all the appropriations. Finally a compromise was reached and the bills suramed up 8147,719,07483, or a saving of thirr millions iurround numbers for the same items as cornered with vious year! ' That result was obtained in spite of organised opposition, and with the doors, closed against all information that could be useful to the reformers. This immense reduction . . in the pubhe expenditures, which rnight be called radical from the manner in which it had to be made, did not make a ar in the machinery of government. It cut off useless offices and stopped huge stealing, but the public business went on as 5 nothing had occurred That exoerience was a clear proof of the prodigality that had been going on under Grantism, and of the corruption that had pervaded the whole operations of the Treasury. Tbia economy was pursued until one hundrol round millions were saved in four conseoutiveyears. The country was put again on the right road of prudent and responsible administration ... ., The election of Garfield reversed the engine, and a House of Bepresehtatiyes fitly led by Seopr Kobeson returned to the excesses which had been arrested by the Democrats. The people passed ju&g ment on that House at the very first opportunity, and now the Democrats have been reinstated by a vote nearly as large as that cast in the tidal wave year.-. The Commercial-' gazette of Cincinnati coolly asks, in presence of. these facts: "If Democrats are for economy, why do they not show it when they have fair opportunity?9 The records of three consecutive Congresses confronts and answers this inquiry. And we venture to predict now that the record of the Forty-eighth Congress will fully sustain these examples of reform and retrenchment. . 1 .

POLITICAL MATTERS.

EventsTand Opinions, Published Without Bias, for the Infqrmation of the Reader.

PENUSmVANIA BBPUBTjICANS. . The Republican state convention at Harrisburg, Wednesday, is reported as harmonious and enthusiastic. .The platform adopted demands a continuance of the present system of protection to home industry, and the development and guarantee of a just and adequate scale of wages for labor 1 that any surplus be dis tributed to the several states upon a basis of population, to relieve them of the bur-'; den of local taxation, and provide means for education; urges the redemption of the trade dollar; declares against pauper immigration; endorses theadniinistration of President Arthur jdeolares that soldiers and sailors and their widow and rphans have the first claim on the care, protection and gratitude of the American people; approves of civil service reform, etc. Wnu Iflvesy, of Allegheney county, was nominated forQovernoxr ... IOWA' QKMKNBACKEBS. At the Greenback Iowa state convention, in session at Dee Moines, Wednesday, two-thirds of the counties were represented. The platform demands the abolition of all banks of issue and the substitution of legal-tender treasury notes in Hen of bank currency, the volume to be regulated by Congress; favors unrestricted coinage of gold and silver; opposes the refunding of the interest-bearing government debt, and demands that it be paid as -rapidly as possible; demands a graduated

income tax; declares that all men have a sacred right to a portion of the soil, and demands a declaration for the future that

DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY. x, tScm. Bemoeratie leaders and . Democratic managers have often committed great blunders since the close of the civil war. The sew eonditionB created by the fall of slavery are responsible mainly- for these errors of judgment. ' The chief misfortune resulting bom this mistaken policy has been the prolonged life: of the Republican party, with a con tin nation of the corrupting system whwh has demoralized the administration of public atTairs and encouraged venality and plunder and fraud in all branches of the public service. The causes that misled these leaders are disappearing fast, and a change for the better is visible in every direction. Hope is encouraged and confidence is chetjredby tloe promise of a brighter

all unearned grants of land to corpora

tions shall be cancelled, and all public lands to be held for actual settlers; asks

the amendment of the patent laws to pro4

tect inventors and the formation of monopolies; favors civil service reform, the election of President and Vice-president by direct vote; fayors a low tariff and a revision of the present tariff in the interest of labor, not in the interest of monopolies; demands the passage of laws regulating railway and telegraph charges, the establishment of a postal telegraph system. Hon. J. B. Weaver was nominated for Governor. MB. MATSON OK THE STXTJATrOW. In talkiag of the political situation in Indiana, Congressman Matson said that the topic of all-absorbing interest locally was the pending gubernatorial contest. In his party ex-Governor Grav,who filled the unexpired term cf "Blue Jeans" Williams, had a good lead, with ex-Senator Turpie'a fair second. It was a foregone conclusion that Maj. W. H. Calkihs would Becure the Republic1 iiomin ationt

"Will McDonn Id hrr-Q a solid delega

tion from your-3t? ' in tbe national convention? .

- fcc will, without a cloubt, The party

. ill ex-Govemor Hendricks have no following?" "Mr. Hendricks is one of the most popular men in the State. In fact, he has no enemioF. But his best friends think that an entirely new man would be more acceptable to the country at large' "What tauthis there in the reported scheme to nominate him for Governor and then adjourn the convention y before he has time to decline? T do not think there is any foundation for such a story. It is wel known that Governor Hendrioks would not accept the nomination untfer anjT plrcumstanoe," "Is Mr. McDonald as popular in the party at large as he is in his own State?" "I think he is the most available man in the party and acceptable to the great number. If the convention were held tomorrow he would be . nominated on the first ballot; but it is impossible to tell what a year will bring forth." rrsNHY WAnn BnttoHUB tntkbtibwbix - "The political world is lik this summer day,1' said Mr. Beeoher. "Who can tell whether it will grow warmer or cooler, or end in a storm? Things are at a standstill; but in regard to the presidehtial situation it looks to me now as if Arthur would get a nomination. He has carried himself very prudently and very gracefully, and his record, I think, ia unorittoisable. In the office of Chief Magistrate I believe that he bas been acting a distinct purpose in his own mind. The complaint has been made that he has been wanting in suggestiveneas as a lea 'er that he has given hio party no policy. But it must be remembered that the number of thinking men is growing greater every day; that the masses are beginning to do their own thinking now, and that they will take no policy from a CJay, a Calhoun or a Webster of to-day; but that the policy muat arise out of the living necessities of the community itself. The people are making themselves more and more felt'in the conduct of this government All talk about Ciesarism is not only bosh, but it is stupidity. : "What is the.outlook for the Republican party?' "Iseno reason why the Bepublican party should not go into power again. It is a protectionist party, and it will fight for protection, and although lam an anti-

protectionist I will vote for it I cannot

subscribe to one principle of -the party, hut I believe that the adaptation of the other principles is wholesome for the country. The leaders of the opposing party are incoherent in their expressions, and have no settled principles, except those general principles which we all cheerfully admit. Their special principles are either insignificant or impracticable. The signs are that in New York and Pennsylvania the Bepriblioaa leaders will lay aside their quarrels, in whioh event the party will sweep the country.1 Prohibition," suggested the reporter, "seems. to be a coming issue in some of the Western States? "I do not seo', said Mr. Beecher, deliberately, "how we can control human nature on its passionate side by mere legislation. If selling liquor is a crime, then drink ng it ia a crime. When you try to prevent men from drinkin? it you come between them and their liberty, ft do not think it is a good thing to drink liquor, but we have no. right to constrain men from drinking it. All we have a right to do is to persuade them not to drink it The programme of the friends of temperance should be to get a safe majority tlrst by moral suasion, and then secure it by legislation., AH INTrWATB FBIBJITD O MB TTIiDRH. "How lately have you seen Mr. Tildenr "Yesterday.; . ; ,v. "... Are you Teally advised of Mr. Tilden's views and purposes regarding his renomination for the presidency?" "Without qualification I anv" "You are aware that a wide discussion has arisen as to his willingness to undergo the strain of a presidential canvas. What do you think are his own "convictions?" ; ; ' . j tI &m satisfied that he views his public career as a matter so absolutely in the eontrol of the public decision that he will tacitly abide the event of a renomination. In regard to the idea of an excessive strain upon his physical oondition,he has been fully prepared for any contingency of this kind, not merely by his rapid restoration to health and vigor, but by his changed relation to suoh a campaign should it ocour."-- ' Tb it then, the willingness of Mr. Hen? dricks, as recently indicated, to run on the 'old f icket;that.-has changed Mr. Tilden's views?', . ....... tlHe has certainly recognized the sign ihcanoe of Mr. Hendriok's change of plan. It compels him to faee a responsi bility now of which he has heretofore been relieved by Mr. Hendricka refusa!i to run' Ts not Mr. Tilden too old to properly.

.administer the office of president?

"He is old enough to appreciate wis3 counsel and wise enough to direct a judicious administration. He is ten years younger than Thiers was as a statesman, y Connor as the leader of the bar, Bancroft as a h'storian, Judge Black as a jurist or Bred. S. Winston as the master of the greatest financial institution in the world." .

Saw - the Superintendent : . In the office ot a certain western railroad superintendent it was understood that when a common-looking strangar entered the outer offiee and asked for the Great Mogul, one of the several yomng men therein-employed should claim to be the official wanted, and turn the bore away. The other day a webfooted stranger wjh a business squint to his eyes, asksato see the superintendent, and the chief clerk promptly replied: "Yes, air; what can I do for you?"' Are you the man?' s ?TanvM - No mistake? "None at all.

-'xuen ii s'au ngnt. oix montns ;9go

one of your tmins killed a cow for ma and you have been just mean enough mot to answer any of my letters. Old hoss, I'm going to lick 935 out of you v "But, sir, you see

a seenothmg but you? Prepare tc be

4iokedP' And the proxy superintendent was not

only mopped around the room and flung

into the wood-box as limp as a olothesline, but the cow-owner kicked the others

outdoors, and upset the desks and tables

with the remark:.

"The next time I do business with this corporation I want you to not only Wiply to my letters, but to pft in haste oq your envejopeB,'

MY WIPE.

I heard, nor, O, cautioanly, Opoa my bed room daor; , I heard the stop as noieolesBry To mjr oouoh across tho floor; I Celt ! hand my temples press, Her ltpB just touohing. mine ! i-And in my anguish and dlstrces TSreie sinful to repiino; Our pilgrimage ia nearly through We've passed life's mountain brow: I thought I lored her years ao I know I love her now. Her fane was hovering over mine, Hor ivarm tears on my check; Her whispered prayer of thought, divine Rose frequently, bntmeek: Her bosom rested on my arm. I j.'elt its tremulous throe; I knew the cause f its alarm, And Jelt its source of woe. And then Uie blood system throngh. Come pressing on my brow. I tb ought I lovedher years aao I know I love her n ow. Thiw vrafcohed that tilled and patient one By n ight as well as day: In , sadness and almost alone, TK11 weeks had paused away. Bereft of sleep, depuved of! resti Oppressed, borne down with 3are; 'Till O, her labors have beer, blest. Ifor God has heard her prayer, If or oheoka resnmes its wonted glow, iknd placid is her brow; I thought I loved her years ago - !I kraow I love her now.

THE YOUNG ENGINEER.

A MOTHHB'fl STOBY.

"The young man you met at the irate sir ? Yes, that is my son my boy Jack. w5cu noticed the soars on his face, sir, and thought, may le, that they spoiled i featureis meant to be handsome. . "Ah, sir, that was because you did not know! . Why, those red markB make him more beautiful to me now than when, a baby in my arms, with yellow curls and laaghing eyes and a akin like a rose leaf, the people hurrying in and out of the trains would turn to look and smile at him, and praise him to each other, speak ing low, may be, but not too low for a m.o(;he:r's quick proud heart to hear. , "For we lived in a little house close by the station, and when I heard the whistle ot liia father's train, I used to snatch the boy from his cradle, or off the floor where he sat with his little playthings, and run down to the farther end of the long de-. poii, where the engine always halted, to g(; the smile and the leving wori that my hf aTt lived on all day5 "Not the least bit afraid was the baby of all the whisthjig and clanging of bells, the groaning of the wheels and puffing of the steam. He would laugh and spring so in my ajms that I could scarcely hold him, till hiB father wotdd reach dowm sometimes and lift him up into theengineisr'fi cab and kiss him for one precious niinu te and then toss, him to me again. "When he grew a lifrtle older, he wan tMxev playing horse or soldier lilo the other little fellows around; it was always ft railroad train that he was driving. All. the smoothest strips out of my billets of Irindling wood went to build tracks over Jjhe kitchen floo liither and thither., crossing and ro-orossing each other. " 'Don't move my switch, mother dear he used to -cry out tp rna 'You'll wjfo my train for sure!' ..... "So I had to go softly about my work, with scarce a place sometimes to set my fool And all the - chairs in the house would be ranged for oars, the big rocker, with the tea bell tied to its back for the engine; and there he would sit percheii up by the hour together, making believe attend to the valves and shouting to tb fireman. "I shall never forget the first time his father took him to ride on the engine. Jack had begged over and over to go, but his father always bade him wait until he was older. So I had said: " Dont tease father any more, Jack, dear and like the true little heart be was he had not said snother word about it

for a matter ol! six months or more.

"But that day such a wistful look came

into his face, and he pulled hhasolf up

tall and straight, and said quite softly,

his voice trembling a little, "Father, do you think I am grown enough now?

'Looking at him, I saw two tears in his

pretty eyes. I think his father saw them

too, for he turned to .me in a hurry, and sai d her -

'We meet the up-train at Langton,

Mary, and Will Brown will bring the lit

tle chap back all straight, I know. What

do you say ?

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per-time he was back again, but be oould not eat. Hio eyes were like atari, and there was a hot, red spot on each cheek,

so that I feared he would be ill. And I

bad thought he would never be done

talking, but now he said scarce a word.

'What was it like, Jaokifc?' I asked him. ', " 0, motherP' he said, "it wasn't like anything r He sat for a minute thinking

then he said, Unless it was like that you read last Sunday.

" 'And what was that, Jack?' I asked,

for I had quite forgotten. :

" Don't you know, mother?? "The wings of the wind !" , . "This was not Ins last ride on the engine by many times, for, as he grew older, bis father would take him of ten on Saturdays or other half-holidays. He was perfectly trusty and obedient. I believe he would have his right hand out of? sooner than have meddled with tiny thing; but he knew every valve and screw and gauge, and watched every turn his father's hand nd learned the signals all e Jong the Mne, so that my husband . said to me more than once:

book that he had got out of the public

library, but by-and-by he stopped and leaned his head on his hand, looking into l;he coals. All at once: " 'Mother, said he, 'isn't it a wonderful thing that God could trust man with, it?' '"With what, Jack?' " 'With the steam the power in it, I mean. It was a long time before ho did. But when the right time came and somebody listened, then He told. " 'O, mother he said, with his eyes shining, 'what must it have .been to he J ames Watt, and ;bo listen to such a secret as that ? u 1 believe in my heart, Mary, if I was to be struck dead on the engine, Jack could run her through without a break l" "He was in schoiDl md learning fast,but

out of hours he was always studying over books about machinery and steam, Suoh

an odd child as he was, with thoughts

far beyond his years. Sometimes sitting

here by myself I go over in my mind the

strange things he used to say to me in

those days. "I remember that one evening ha ha1 beea reaxling jiof mg tirno some

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"In a minute he spoke again. ." 'And it's never safe to forget to listen because we can't 'know when He migbt speak, or what there might be to hear, '1 could not answer him for a choking in my throat, but T laid down my knitting and put my arm around lum; and he looked up into my face with something in his eyes that I never forgot. "We were getting on well then. The little house and garden were almost paid for, and we thought that nowhere in the world were happier people than we, or a brighter, cosier home. My husband and I were always talking of this and that to be done for Jack as soon as the last payment should be made. But before the money was due my husband came home sick one day. ' KDout be frightened, Mary,' he said. I shall be better to-morrow. "But he only grew worse next day. It was a lung fever that he had, and for many days we thought he must die. Yet he rallied after a time thoUjrn he kept his hacking oougha.nd sat up and moved about the house, and at last thought himself strong enough to take his place again. But that was too much, for at the end of the first week he came home and fell fainting on the threshhold. 'It's no use, Mary ha said, after he came to himself. 1 Can't run the engine, and if I could, it isn't right for people's, lives to be trusted to suoh weak hands as mine,, "He never did any regular work after that, although he lived for a year. "Consumption is a terrible disease, sir. To see one that you wouM give your heart's blood to save slipping, slipping away before your eyes, and you helpless to hold him back by so much as a hair's breadth from the black gulf of death; ah, sir, T trust you have never learned how hard it is, j "Young as he wa. Jack was my stay and comfort through that dark time. My poor husband had matters on his mind that he longed to speak to me about, but T always put him off, for I oould not bear to listen to anything; like his going away from us, But at last, the very day before the end oame.as T sat by his bed holding his hand in mine, he said, very gently, but firmly: Mary, my wife, I think you must let me speak to' you to-day.9 MI fell to crying as if my heart would break. nd he drew a pitiful sigh tnat went like a sword through my breast: vet T cou'id nri son the pob. Thwi Jack rose up from the little f tool whore ha had sat so quietly that I had alm ost iforgotten that he wa there, and came and touched me, " Mother, dear mother,' he sid; and as 1 looked I saw his face perf ectlywhite but there were no teiirs in his eyes. u Mother he said again, please go away for a little while I can hear what father wants to say.' "Ton will think me cowuirdly, sir, bull d:d as t r rhild bade me, X left the door ajar, and I could hear my husband's weak vo'oe, though I could not understand the words, and thn mv brave boy's, answers, clear and low; no, a;. break, of tremble in the sweet voice! kA at last J aok said : Is that alt dear father?' and 'Yes, I will be sure to remembe r overy word.' "Then he came out an 'rissed me with l-rjKf n BTmie,and went through the outer doo "Ri ifc nn hour afterward, when I went out to tin wMlJ heardalittl ohok. inound. and saw hii ' on his fa.'; in the long grass under the anple tree, sobbing his very heart away. So I turned about and went into the house as softly as I could, and never let him know. "After H wi all over and we had time to look about us, we found some debts left and very little money. It was a hard thing for me, that IisaI had tor so long a strong, loving arm between me and every to have to think and plan how to make ends meet, when I could not even start evenly at the beginning. But Jack came to my help again. . i u 'Father said that you were never to work hard, dear mother, because you were not strong, but that I muat tnke care of you some way. He thought ' you (nld let two or three roorris to lodgers may be, and that the best talhz for me Just now would be to gels a trainboy's place. He said the men. on our road would be sure to giye jn a chance tor his sake.' '1 do not know, that I had smiled before since his father died, but when ! heard him say 'our road,' in that little proud tone he had. i caught him to my h'art and laughed and cried' together.' s. " 'And I spoke to Mr. Withers about it only yesterday, he went on, and he said that Tom Gray ia going to leave and 1 can have his change imd begin next week if I like. What do you say, dear mother. "'0 JaokP I said, 'how can I get

. through the long, lonesome days without

you ? And if anything should happen to yon I should dieF Don't mother!' he said gently, for the tears were in my eyes again. But I would not heed him.

" 'And you to give up your school M cried. And all our plans ifor you: to eome to naught f '

" 'Father thought of that, too he answered. 'But he said that the whole world belonged to the man that was faithfulandtrua And ! promised him. You can trnst me, mother? ITruBt him? ah, yes, he had struck the right chord at lest, and I lifted my head and dried my tea's. Whatever unseen dangers I might fear for my boy would be of the body, and of the soul. Faithful and true!' IJhanked God and took courage. "It was wonderful how he succeeded with the books and papers and the other things he sold. There was something in him that made him a favorite with every body. I have been told by more than one that the sight of his franlc, handsome face was like sunshine and that people bought of him whether they wanted anything or not , Well, the years went by and he grew up working his way from one position to another, on tho road trusted everywhere. He was my own boy still, though he was so tall and strong, with his bright curls turned ches tnut -brown and a silken fringe shading the lips that kept their old, loving kisses forme alone. "It was not very long that ho had had the place of engineer, which he had wanted so long. He had a day off, and was doing some little things for me about the house and garden, when one of the depot hands came running up the path calling for liim... . " 'Mr. Harding wants you instantly, Jack!' cried the man. 'The Jersey ei: press should have left the depot five minutes ago, and the engineer has just fallen down in a fit. Curtis arid Fitch are both pff on leave, and jifr, Hiding says tare's

nobody left but you that he'll trust with the train.' . " 'II, cried Jack, in amaze.vThe Jersey express! And ! never drove anything but a freight train.' . "Well! wellf oried the man, impatiently, 'don't stop to argue! Orders .is orders; and here's a minute and a hidf gone already T Jack seemed to come to himself at that. He darted one smile at me, and was off like a shot, drawing on his coat as he ran. In less time than I take in telling it, I hoard the signal of the out-going train and knew that my boy was trusted with a task that was used to be given only to the most intelligent and careful men in the service, "They brought him back to me that night, sir, and laid him on his father's bed; and, by piece-meal, then and afterwards, I learned what had happened tjiat day, "The train starting out so late, they were forced to make up time somewhere on the line. So, on that long, straight stretch of track through the valley, they were making sixty mites am hour. The train fairly flew. Jack could feel the air strike his face like a sharp wind, though it was a balmy spring dav. "Then an awful thing happene 13ie great connecting rod of the driving wh eel on the right ot the engine broke. Jack seemed to live all h s life over in that one terrible instant when he saw the end Of the rod swing upward. It struck the cab under him and- knocked it into a thousand pieces, and he knew no more until a horrible agony awoke him where ha had fallen senseless on the en gin a "0umed and almost blind, with the flesh scalded and torn from his hands, he remembered the engine with its open throttle,leaping' on to certain destruction. He seemed to see the passengers inside the long train, .aa so many timea in the old days when he called the morning papers through thf train. ... "fie knew how they looked and- what they were doing the men reading, sniakinsr, talking of the elections, the price of grain, or bow ntocks went up last week; women with crowing, dimpled babiea in their arms; little children crowding to the windows, vainly tryiusr to count the w blazing telegraph poles; young, happy couples oing on wedding Journeys, maybe, and others coming home who had laeen long away. "He remembered that, as be hurried to hifi pine at the front that day, a little

girl with a cloud of golden hair leaned from a car-window to give one more goodby kiss to her father on the platform. 'Take -'ood care of mamma, darling,' he had heard the eentleman say. . "The fireman no oowardi either, was -Tim Harbrook; but with wife and babies at home let himself down from the tender and eacaued. So misht my Jack have done. But he crept along the sfd o the leaping engine carefully ari l painfully he swung himself into his plaoe.and with every motion of his hands ao untold agor ny,4-he revenied the engine and put on the air-brake. ; " ... :v...:,. "Then the tnin stopped snatched back from the pit's mouth, and they took my boy from his post'faithfnl and true,' It was a, long time before jackB burns were healed. The road people came often to see him no men could have been IrindV e:r,and ovefy w.-'ck his i wages-cams in full, "Bnt one evening, after he had begun

: -?t out a little, one of his maos came in. ComcS Jaok, old fellow, you'lF be moped t j death heref he said. -You want a change. There's a big meeting of the road folk "over at the kali to- night. Tn just on my way. 5 Oome along Tl " 'Wh .t soft of a meeting?' sa d Jack. " Ci T can't say exactly something interesting, they told-me, and all invited.' ?He stole- a queer look at me, and I knew, he wanted me to help him." So, as t really thought it might do Jack good, X said, nreas Jack, go along with Tom.' I " But I'm not presentable with, this face said'Jaftk. "Pshaw, win! it's evening, arid no?

ilwdfll notice.' Leastways; they neednt.

"With a little more coaxing Jack set oJT with hinii I had hardly heard the gate

oliok when the door -opened again, and

Jenny Bro wn came in, like a sprioe. " 'Quioki quick, hire. Burton! Put pn your bonnet,' she whiapered. " Where? What do you mean?1 1 said, for I wasHrightenedi "To the meeting! Hurry, or we shall be too late!' . . .. r "She was tying my bonnet strings u ider my chin, as she spoke, and she fond the door looked and me down the garden path and out of the back gate,f airly without my wilL She hurried me' across the square,and pushed me through tha crowd around the hall entrance. ". waVout of breath with nervousness and fast walking, so we sat down in a back seat. The room was full. ' There were a great many ladies there, and on the platform sat the Superintendent aud several of the Directors of the road. Eyerybody seemed to be whispering and smiling and looking backwards tiDwards the door, and I looked too, though JC did

n't know why. . . : "Then the door opened and Jack came in;with Tom. I t.eard somebody on the other side of me whisper, 'Thafs hel' and another and another, and a rustle crop through the "place and then, all at orice, suoh a cheer went up as, I can truly say,

I never heard in all my life" before ho, not even when the troops came home from the war. The people Btood up, and the ladies waved their white handkerchiefs... ,l,J: "The Superintendent tried to speak,;md rapped on his little table, but all in vain, until the crowd had had their three times three. And through it all I watched my boy. He looked around - him, dazed at first, by all the tumult, aud trying to know what it meant; but wherever he might turn his eyes he met a hundred others smiling on him, and a score of hand? stretched out to him as he passed, and, all a oncehe knew! "O, sir, I cannot tell you abou t it! How they carried him up to the front, though not on the platform there he would not go how they found me out and made me sit beside hint; how there were speeohe and hand-shakings and laughing and crying. ; '. ' . "Ancl; at last, the Superintendent said that there was a little child, there, the grand'daughter of the . President of the road, who had been with her mother on the train that day, and that she had been selected by many grateful friends to present a little token to the man whose faithful courage had saved so many lives. . "Then a beautifu lady, all in soft, rustling silk came up the aisle, leading the lovehest child I ever saw, with a great glory ot golden Ijair around her

head, like the picture of an angel, I felt Jack start, i'or it was the very child whose face had come to him in that awful moment on the flying engine. 'The little thing let go her mother's hand as aho came near, looking up with shy blue eyes, and in her small fingers was a purse of gold. You could see the great ooiuB shining through the silk netting. She held it up to him, and ail the room was still as death. I heard one great sob rise in my boy's throat, and then he lifted the child in his arms and stood up, holding her, straight and tall. "But he did nob take the purse. 'No darling!' ne said, in a low tender voice, an clear that everybody heard, - Then he kissed her, and lifted one long curl from her neck. '.J 'This is the only gold I want!' he said, and looked at the child's mother with a question in his eyes. "The lady nodded, and my boy took out a little pair of olssors from his- veBtpooket, and out the curl off gently,- and 4ut it caref ully away. "And, sir, if they had cheered before, what was it now? The arched ceiling rang, the gaa jeta flared and flickered, and the very pendants, on the ohandeliers 'dashed together. "But ho would not. take the moneythen or afterwards; ; It is not ours ! Wliat can we do with

it? We cannot throw it away !' the Sup erintendent said . " Til tell you, then, sir I'said Jack, at last. 'Brakemau Jim Flaherty was killed last week. He left aaick wife and six little children. Give the money .to them !' "And so they did? "Now you know, sir, whit the soars on my boy's face mean to ma I read in the red marks, Faithtnl and truer and I would not have them changed for- the coat-of-arms of any king ob any throne! The Haughty Graduate. Chicago Tribnne. "Gan I come in?" V" ; A young man whose clothes were sua piniouflly new, and upon whose face there wea a complacent self-satined expression, stood in the doorway of the editorial room.;. ; :- ' ; . KUertninly you can," said the horse reporter, "only don't say anything to the effect that we ought to - have a pleasant summer after such a rainy spring, or you may find yourself a pallid corpse in the donjon, keep beneath the moated turrets of the castle. If you are looking for the Hawkinsville Clarion or the Grundy

Oounty Palladium, you will find them in that pile of papers over there in the cornar. It! you are aweary, and fain would woo the drowsy god, ask the man in the next room for the Boston Advertiser;,ar "I don't want to read any exchanges, said tho young man. , "The object of my visit was. to see tha principal editor--: the one who makes eTigagemsnts with journalist"' '"v .. ' 'I : . "The whatr ' .' ,; "The editor who makes, .engagements with journalists." "Oh; you mean the man who hires the hands. He's in the other room. . Do you want a job?" 'Well, said the young man, in a very haughty manner, "I have some thoughts of entering the jo-siaelistic profession." Ton mean that you want to hire out as a dx)k hand on, a newspaper, don't your . - ; ' "Perhaps that is your way of expressiag it,- sir," said the young msn, "but our professor of rhetorical w&$b ioid;ua,,fchat

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Its tendrils in arabeequee tenderly 3lnng Tn tfin onnl filandar bars in the shade of the

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As swees; as a rose in thepale pine azul bine

Ot her tUin,fleeoy robe with .-. .hair,'

As fair as a tropic bloom fxesh with the dew,

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never tantalized hi a wife, about

mother used to eook.

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j. ue new iaw in ajK.uuya uxou roan

as the legal ditsanos between a ohuroh

and a saloon. Some men make this lap in

marvellouBly quioktime.

An old lady, hearingofthe strike of ttW - Jfeji wire-drawers, exclaims: iro irawfe? & S Gracious me! What new-fangled thirgs:

will folks be-wearing next "How do vou like the butter?" asked

landlady of theiew boarder, 'ad-haadF f

ed if you please,' he simlingly npVy' IThe Dairy.j"::;,;!:,;t ' Ha-wMay I call you vefeagtii .:Saiv?r ..

Why?-. H.e" Because revenje a bo sweet. She " Certainly you may, pr6 8 Vded, however, you will let me call yoif? 1 Vengefcuoe He nA why would yoii -call me Vengeance.'' She-1-" Because geance is mine." And she beoaine. bisau .

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r. freeze yon to we meaner 4 Last week a Sunday-schools teaeheRof

Batavia, Y,,- was trying to niaka clear to the class the feeling of ani ino sity oher-

huu outs iwaou ,? iuw uiwo v JfwvMo 5

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been looked do wn upon among us refers 1 '

ing of ooTrae, to the claVea, and are stall

deapisftd' by many m tha Sm an4; North ?" A. bright girl in the elf cuiok- , j.j

iy ansirsrea, "xue uemoorwe, .

A. pftcnoir rer uroB w au uuw hum - & more iofoimdly oon r,S its4 immeasurable superiority to every cfe "1 1. J;.

er country in the world. "The languages

of tho;e countries, he cays, with a tins

soorti, 'partioular Nh oaUthings this, tbaiy and the .Dite;w1s1$ r'

out toe suratest regard ror tnerr nacuxw & - m

or use. How, know it's Aurexi with tisu We call abrdsha brush, baoau'je you ua it to brush with: a class a fflaee, because

it is made of glass; or ahat a hat fciowwd?

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"Oh, you're a college graduate, ara you,,h said the horse reporter. "I thought you had a kind of I-shallrnow-go-forth and-tf ike-charge-oi -8 flairs about you. I suppose you graduated last week:?" Ye, sir," wa the reply, "and, tT may say that my oration' ric jow all about it," interrupted the horse reporter. "You 'spoke a piece about 'fife's Mission,' or Our Country's Future,? or something like that, and when you had finished it the young- lady in the percale dress, whom you had been taking to the weekly meetings ofr the Platonian Literary Society for the past two years sentfa big bouquet up to the platform for you with a little piece of rose-tinted note paper in the center of it, with 'From One who Admires Genius written -on it There are now more young men who started out to carve a niche high in the tempel of fame, chasing large red eteers over the arid plains of Texas, or delivering mackereLto the first families;' thin you can shake a attcVat ? Your best hold for ttie next year or two will be checking off hirrels of A 1 sugar for Bom wholesale house over on Biver street. Destiny won't get left any in the meantime," ' ?-Then you don't tcink f will bk able to make my mark in the JpurnaHstio profes8i n?" ' ": VJ.

"You mjighV replied the how reporter, 'f you were to go up stairs and fall over some type, but not otherwise at pres-

on journalism, and await an bprwrtunity to join its ranks." - r "All right," said the horse' reporter; "but in the case the street oar conductors get up another strike you bad better remove your - optic from jpurnalism and hea! for the oar barns " , A Monkey's Narrow; EsapaV Philalelphia Record. ; , F.Jtf. 0Gonuell, dealer in confections, Pniiii ieiphia, was surprised while emptying h bag of cocoanuts to find nestled among the hard shells a grinning monkey of (liminutive size. The little fellow rose from his crouching position and began to oh&ttar in a livelv manner. His dark

bead-like eyes fairly sparkled; With surprising agility he sprang from the bag and scampered about the floor, as though enjoying the freedom; He was captured and placed in a cage A few days ago the schooner Ella A. Wheeler arrived in Phildel phia from Kayaguez, Porto Bioo, with a large cargo of cocoanuts in bags. Prom this lot Mobonnell made his purchases Evidently, the little fellow, imbued with the ourious prying disposition of the monkey tribe,vQntured into the bag while it was being fflfed in his native clime. How he escaped being crushed to death when the bags were thrown promiscuous

ly into the hold of the vessel, and when the vessel was discharged, is a mystery. Tiie nuts provided hiuu with meat and diink during the voyage. A number of them in the bag in which he was imprisr oned had been gnawed open and the contents eaten by his m.xnkeyship The. vcyage occupied about ten days It is said that God Bless Our Board ing-House" has never been worked in worsted. .., Unpopular soldiersPrivate, Hque and Corporal Punishment

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Henry Gasman of Dauphin oounty, Pa, has just aied, aged ayearaA v - "Aunt Nancy--AAnniv. Viririnia. died on Thursday last

aged 100 years. , . . --;. ' P1M VouW. Wpip:bJR-; s sou county, N. I., has iost;cirahej? 100th birthday; ,V

Joeeph OarreH who -diedr lately afei

Westminister, ;wiwg',i

each of whom is over 60 yiW; ol .fcfJJ -1 atillido. -their ovm housework '0m$'-f. help; . ... :- . ...:-:' --v 3' : " '" Until witrun three days of death,; Franois Tqsaw;iif v BlshyV tiandinfe v Y., was working yeare-old 'rr . 'igm Aunt IHnah, who died attrtoO resevatiou last month, was born . . and was a fulloei Cmpn Afier a married life of mrtrseen yearej ;; Amelia :. Sar;,

died recently at the age of 88. Met auth,

band, is 92. . 'r. ;

Ten By ok DeWitt died op, Srmday X

his bomeat Old Hurley, N S.aged 9 ; yearn. For more than thu , yM18 h; . , T was a Justice ot. the Peace. ; ..- . ; S . - '- Almost every resident ot Fultot aoia ipjf

who was in her IHth year wfieu; sr Mt ? .-? ,

was the mother otweuty-sveu chiidi. J twenty six of whom a still Irving- ;ef arandohiidreu and! Mrs. Oynthia Francis of Madisom Wia i.ip - has just celebrated W ) She wa-born in Hancoo Mase., endwa' ; married in 1TO9.. She converses f&ti&h fif and iutelligeutly on public eveufe whici1'. :; CMxmrred ninety years ago: Srsj-stHlvy4-does housework, and - cant 'WSil:;,Tnilef .

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Facts About Women.

The Superintendent of the Nebraska Mrs. Dr. Jennie' Trout -of Tordn: 3 Canada, has donated $10,000,to eetablisli' 1

a medical school for womeru r : The most intimate friend of

Emma of the Sandwich Islands is a Bos

ton gxil, who wrote to Kimt Kalakaua Id

please invite her to visit hie phimn mouth. ... . ,;

A Brooklyn Heights girir disguised aa. a maid servant, washed th sidewalk

her father's residence with the hose for,. .'7

the 8akeof gettteg a ehance W tn water on a dude who iusiatedje ing love to her. ' " ' JXTwo robbers, a white man and a mgnsAi entered the room of sliss Katie Gamble v ; of Jacksonville, Eli, while J she was aaleerj As she awoke, the white man drew r. f yolver, and threatened to kiU heip ; trnwA sm alarm. Snf fclv rwiohinj? Under' ft "

nil low. am Ttnllnd out a nistol and' fired

at the robber, The negro tumbled out ot tho window in affright, Jjaf te white, man returned the Are. Bss GamVile not; : only fired at him again, but upon hie ? turning to run, sprung out of berl flteS another shot, and, as the scoundrel was. hastily getting put of the window, skaok.

him a good blow yer the head witti, the '

pistol

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, Cholera Every Seventeen Years.

A New Yorker notes that the . choleraappears every sevimteen years, as folio wa ; 1832, 1849, 1866 and 188a. Jt is some thing like the seventeen-year locusts, which have been pieeUcted eery .ysjjj-a