Bloomington Telephone, Volume 8, Number 43, Bloomington, Monroe County, 18 October 1884 — Page 2

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THE NEWS COyPENSm THE AT. Thb Supreme Court of New York has declared unconstitutional the law forbidding the manufacture of cigars in the tenement-houses of the larger cities.... The

Fort Pitt iron and steel works at Pittsburgh, Pa., which have been closed down for nearly three months, hare resumed, giving employment to several hundred men. . . .About 10,000 persons assembled at the Northampton camp-ground, near Springfield, Mass. , on the 8th inst , to celebrate the centennial of the independence of American Methodism. . . . Goenerweir, champion of Europe, and Augustine Schmitt, champion of Germany, wrestled (Swiss rules) at New York. Schmitt pulled his antagonist's arm out of its socket and won the match.... George Dolling recently caught a young xat in a mine at fionesdale, Pa., and made a pet of it The animal repaid the kindness by biting its benefactor with such severity as to cause his death.... John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, declares that he has forever given up drinking, and will immediately go into training to spar Laftin and others. He will then give some farewell engagements, and make a tour of the British islands and Australia Burglars raided the town of Perry, N. Y., securing about $8,000 worth of plunder. MAfiTrgi and armed men invaded the house of Joseph Gates in White Township, Pa., compelled the proprietor to give them $1,000 which he had secreted, and then departed firing their weapons. .. .At Allegheny City, Pa., Leo Brigel, aged 13, destroyed the eyesight of Bertie Black, a 4-year-old girl, by throwing mortar in her eyes, besides seriously burning two other children A fall of rock in the Bed Ash mine, near Wilkesbarre, Pa., killed two men. Hog cholera is prevailing o an alarming extent in , Eastern Pennsylvania. . . . Diphtheria has become epidemic at Astoria, L. L . . . .The window-glass manufacturers of Pittsburgh are considering the advisability of closing their works, owing to the dullness of trade.

At the outer end of the Hyde Park waterworks, just southward of Chicago, fifteen laborers had been living in a cabin built on a platform in the lake. The other morning the structure was toppled over by the waves. The Chicago life-saving crew rescued five of the sufferers from the timbers to which they had clung for hours. Ten of the parly probably lost their lives in the angry sea In Elkhorn Cut, twenty-five miles from Omaha, on the Union Pacific, a light engine and a freight train dashed together, one of the locomotives and several cars being demohshed. The engineer and fireman of the freight were caught in the wreck and roasted to death. . . .The Indiana Supreme Gpurt has decided that it has no power to respite or grant pardon to convicted criminals. The law i conferring that power on any other person than the Governor is unconstitutional. Miss Mabt Hoyt, daughter of the late Jesse Hoyt, the millionaire, visited a New York police station the other night, abused hurled missiles at the officer in charge, and was locked up for being drunk and disorderly. She made a scene in a Justice's Court and was fined $10. As she had been an inmate of an asylum in 1882, her friends declare that she was temporarily insane, but not intoxicated. Day Bbothebs & Co., dry goods dealers at Peoria,' HL, made an assignment just ten minutes before United States Marshal Jones stepped into the establishment to make a seizure for Eastern creditors. A partial statement shows: Secured claims, $200,000; other liabilities, $122,000; assets, $86,000 L. Blanden & Cos steam flouring mill at Port Dodge, Iowa, was destroyed by fire, with 2,000 sacks of flour and 10,000 bushels of wheat. The loss is $75,000, with $30,000 insurance. . A During a Democratic demonstration at Clinton, Ohio, one man was killed and two badly injured by the explosion .of a cannon. .... Small-pox, supposed to have been brought by emigtants, is spreading rapidly in the vicinity of Brookings, D. T. Ths Third Presbyterian Church, at the corner of Ashland and Ogden avenues, Chicago, was destroyed by fire. The flames broke out in the organ loft and almost immediately spread to the trestle work of the roof. The loss is in the neighborhood of $75,000. The insurance on the building was about $91,000.... A majority of the heavy shippers of Porland, Ore., have determined to give their business next year to the Union Pacific Boad, throwing over the Northern Pacific Company because of its alleged bad faith. . . . .The motion for a new trial for James Dacey, the murderer of Alderman Gaynor, was refused at Woodstock by Judge Wilson, who sentenced him to be hanged Nov. 21 At Troy, Ind., Mrs. Hendershot was murdered by her husband and sons for refusing to sign a deed to a farm to which she held title. The villains were promptly arrested. One of the sons was lynched by the citizens of Troy. . . .Work has been renewed in the Calumet and Hecla mine, in Michi

gan, the flames having been smothered with steam. ... Charles W. Butler was hanged at Columbia City, Ind., for wife-murder. A desperate effort was made by his friends to secure a respite or commutation of the sentence. The Dakota Methodist Episcopal Conference adopted a resolution refusing to consent to admission of the Territory as a State unless its constitution contained prohibition Ten cases of glanders were discovered at Yincennee, Iowa. . . .The Bev. J. M. Kobinspn, of Indianapolis, was found dead in ft sleeping-car berth at Peoria. fHE SOUTH. J. A. Buckhkb, editor of the Gulf Coast Herald, was found dead near Tarpon Springs, Fla. Having quarreled with his mistress, she fled with a negro and Buckner followed after, and nothing was heard of him till found dead. WbzTjB target practice was being carried on on board the United States steamer Standish at Annapolis, with a number of cadets on board, a gun burst, three of its pieces of great weight doing serious damage jo the vessel and carrying away considerable of the rigging, but fortunately injuring no person. . .Ti party of seventeen persons, most of whom are missionaries, have left Atlanta lor China, Some of the ladies will organise in Shanghai a high school for girls. Loots G, Shaw, a well-known bil-

liarcf st of Baltimore, was fatally injured by a train at a street crossing. .. .Twenty-one business buildings at Liberty, Ya., were burned, causing a loss of $100,0-00.

The United States Supreme Court met last Monday. The number of oases on the docket is 1,025, or 54 less'than at the corresponding time last yean The Commissioner of the General Land Office reports receipts of $11,8-10,003 from sales of publio lands during the fiscal year. He favors withdrawing from tale or entry all distinctive timber lands un til they can be appraised.

POLITICAL.

Congressional nominations: Fourth Wisconsin District, L W. Van Schaick, Republican; First Connecticut, William W. Eaton, Democrat; Thirty-first New York, Robert S. Stevens, Democrat; Thirtieth New York, Charles S. Baker, Republican; Eighteenth Illinois, Henry M. Moore, Prohibitionist; Fourth Arkansas, J. N. Barber, Republican. The straight Republicans of Missouri met at Macon, and nominated a full State ticket, headed by Odon Guitar for Governor. J, Milton Turner is the candidate for Railroad Commissioner. John Qtjinct Adams declined the Democratic nomination for Corigres from the Second District of Massachusetts, and the Independent Republicans placed Dr. Wm. Everett in the field. The Democrats nominated Weston Howland in the First Massachusetts and Charles L. Mitchell in the Second Connecticut. The Democrats put forward John Power in the Eleventh Michigan District and J. G. Ballattiue in the Seventh Tennessee. Charieston (W. Va.) dispatch: A sensational scene occurred when the train bearing Gen. Logan and party reached Hinton. The General was speaking from the rear platform of his car, when he was interrupted by a man named West, who pushed forward through the throng to within a few feet of the vehicle. ''You raised the first rebel flag in Illinois, and I want to shake hands with you," the fellow shrieked, stretching out his hand. "Who Baid so?w bellowed Logan, furiously. '. don't know who," returned West, unabashed, "but I know it's so." "You are a liar!" howled Logan, and craning his neck over the railing he spat in the intruder's face. The man slunk off, and Logan afterward remarked to a friend that he regretted not having a mouthful of tobacco juice to make use of iu punishing WesfiTandacity. Thb Drummers' National Committee met at Louisville, KyM and issued a circular (ailing upon the drummers in every State in the Union to hold State conventions and appoint a popular resident drummer for elector in every district. Mnlhatton stalls on his . campaign tour 6hoitly, visiting Southern cities.

Canadian Pacific officials and the Japanese Steamship Company aro negotiating for a line of steamers between China, Japan, and British Columbia, and if established freight for London and Liverpool will be carried over the Canadian Pacific Road. The national agricultural report for October shows the general average of corn to be 93. The drought has not been sufficient to reduce seriously the yield, and very little injury by frost. The wheat crop confirms the indications of the former report. In cotton the average condition has been reduced frorn 82 to 74 as a result of the drought. . . .Business failures for the week numbered 213, against 188 the previous week, and 166 in the corresponding period of 1883. On the invitation of forty churches of Boston and vicinity, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, in session at Columbus, decided to meet next year at Boston, and will then celebrate the completion of the seventy-fifth year of its existence. . . .The Hamilton Powder Mills, at Cumminville, Out, were blown up by an explosion of gunpowder. Fcur men were killed and two fatally injured. The contest for the championship between the base-ball clubs composing the National League has ended, and the Providence Club will rly the pennant for the next year. ' The following is the record of the games won by the several clubs: Providence. 83 ; Boston, 72 ; Buffalo, 63 ; Chicago, 62 ; New York, 59 ; Philadelphia, 39 ; Cleveland, 34; and Detroit, 22. The Metropolitan Club, of New York, has won the championship of the American Association. The record of the games won is as follows; Metropolitan, 65; Louisville and Cincinnati, 63 each; Columbus, 62; St. Louis, 59; Baltimore, 54; Athletic, 5i; Toledo, 41; Brooklyn, 37; Pittsburgh, 31; Indianapolis, 31; and Virginia, 20. A portion of the new Parliament buildings at Quebec were blown' up with dynamite the other day. There were two explosions one at the noon hour, and the other at about 3 o'clock. The buildings were just being roofed in, and it was expected to hold the next session in them. A hcae twelve feet by five wide was made in the wall on the third story, and the corner stone was so badly shattered that it is probable that the walls around it will have to be taken down. Two men wer e (slightly in

jured. It is not certain who is responsible for the explosion. Irish dynamiters are accused of the deed. This is not, however, generally believed. French workmen who wish to injure the contractor are also accused. FOREIGN. Bismaeck has prepared a project to be laid before Parliament the coming session for the purchase by the German Empire of all railroads owned by the different states and placing the control of the same at Berlin. . . .Unemployed workmen to the number of 4,000 held a meeting in Glasgow, and passed a resolution asking assistance from the Magistrates. . .It is quite probable that the Tories will compromise with the Gladstone phrty in England on the franchise bill. s Delegates representing England, America, France, Portugal Spain, Holland, and Belgium will attend cok international conference at Berlin in November, at which all questions relating to the Congo country will be considered. Pbemier Fbbby is reported to have said a few days ago that France is prepared to make arrows of every sort of wood to fire at England unless she gave satisfaction to France in reference to Egypt. . . .The British commodore on the Australian station has been instructed to proclaim a protectorate over the southern coasts of New Guinea An army, of 8,000 will be sent by the British Government to proceed against thti Boers for vio

lence committed beyond the boundary lines of the Transvaal country A brigade of the French army in Africa will be sent to re-enforce the troops in Tonquin..,.The Mudir of Dongola and the Governor of Mem we confirm the report of the murder of Col. Stewart by Ambs M. Hemon, a French Deputy, and M. Dv pre, editor of Monarches Unione, fought a duel with swords. Beth were wounded, though not dangerously Lord Salisbury, leader of the Conservative party, in a speech delivered at Ealso made a severe attack upon Gladstone's redistribution scheme, which continues to be the topic above all others discussed by politicians.

ADDITIONAL HEWS. Thomas M. Sobooot, an old stationer at Philadelphia, lias been sentenced to two years imprisonment and fined $1,000 for selling obscene pictures and books At Philadelphia, Adam Forepaugh, the showman, married Mary G. Tallman, a beautiful girl of 20. The groom is 54 Dominick McCaifrey and Charles Mitchell, the English pugilist, fought four rounds at New York, the referee deciding McCarTrey the victor. There was great excitement, and Mitchell was badly punished. A Turkish mail caravan from Bagdad was attacked by brigands near Ismid. Three of the escort were killed and $300,000 in Government bullion stolen A Conservative demonstration at Birmingham was broken up by an organized force of their opponents The conference at Berlin to discuss questions concerning the commerce of the Congo will meet Nov. 6 arid be presided over by Bismarck On Sept. 15 the cities of Yokohama and Tokio were visited by a terrible typhoon. In the latter place 3,000 houses were destroyed and the loss of life by sea and land was appalling. Neab Florence, Kan., an attempt was made to wreck a Santa Fe express train, section men rinding a tie thinly bound across the track. The object of the wreckers is believed to be robbery, and a heavy reward for their arrest is offered Arrangements have been made by the Atlantic and Pacifies, St Louis and San Francisco, and Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Bailways to run a fast freight train from Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas Ciity to San Francisco At the Cincinnati Hospital an attendant was drawing a patient in a truck to ride upstairs on the elevator, but fell into the elevator well, dragging the truck after him, and both med were killed.... S. S. Davis, a banker of Cincinnati, made an assignment, with liabilities of $60,000, a considerable portion of which is due to benevolent organizations or secret societies. A bewabd of $4,500 is now offered for the conviction of the men who caused the explosion in the new Parliament building at Quebec. The corner stones of the structure ore so much out of place that the whole wall wilt probably have to be taken down. . . .Clearing house exchanges last week $740,757,352 were $04,243,803 less than the preceding week; and when compared with the same time in 1883 the loss equals 33.2 per cent. The Governor of West Virginia has commuted to imprisonment for life the sentence imposed upon Charles Spurlock, of Lincoln County, one of the gong who killed Alvin Wood. The Hill brothers, his accomplices, were lynched lat spring. . . . Having been rebuked by officials of the church for attending a circus perf ormonce, the Bev. Dr. A. W. Lightbourne, pastor of the M. E. Church at Easton, Md., has resigned, and goes to New York to become a journalist

A New Author. "I would like to take one of Bart's works' said a lady to the custodian of a circulating library. "Bart? I am not familiar with the author. I do not think we have any of his works in our library." wO ! yes, indeed you have. I have seen the name in the cataloguge." "Do you remember the titles of any of his works?" "Yes, I remember one." "And that was ?w "That was 'The Last Days of Pompeii,' by E. Bulwer Lyttoii, Bart.' n Boston Globe. Take the place and attitude which belong to you, and all men acquiesce. The world must be just. It leaves every man, with profound unconcern, to set his own rate. Hero or driveler, it meddles not in the matter. It will certainly accept your own measure of your doing and being, whether you sneak about and deny own name, or whether you see your work produced to the concave sphere of the heavens, one with the revolution of the stars. JS. WEmerson.

THE MAKKEaS. NEW YORK. Beeves $5.00 & 7.00 HOCiS 5.75 1 C.-25 Flour Extra. 4.0 j 5.75 Wheat No. 2 Hprinsr 83 c ,s No. 2 Red 87 ifn .89?$ COfN No. 2 00 .62 Oats White 34 an .37 PottK New Mess 16.75 ($17.25 CHICAGO. Beeves Choice to Pi hne S;eers. 7.0t 7.5.1 Good Shipping 0.00 &i G.50 Common to Fair ' 5,0.) FOR 5.50 U fi.oo FiiUi; Fancy White Winter Ex. 4.25 & .75 Good to Choice Spring. . 4.00 4.5ft Wheat No. 2 Sprin" 76 t) .77& No. 2 Red Winter. 78 .80 Conx No. 2 , 54 4 .5J Oats No. 2 27 & .28 Kye No. 2.. 54 g BARLET No. 2 C2 .3 Buttee Choice Creamery.. 20 .$ Fine Dairy 20 & .22 Cheese Full Cream 12 .isu Skimmed Flat oj (gj .0;) Egos Fresh 17 $n .18 Potatoes New, per bu 26 .2 POItK Mess 1C.25 ! 15.75 Laud U74 .0794 TOLEDO. Wheat No. 2 Red 76 .77 Corn No. 2 ms .58 Oats No. 2 26 .27 MILWAUKEE. Wheat No. 2 , 75 .76 Corn No. 2 .5 i .54 Oats No. 2 .28 si .30 BARL.ET No. 2 54 i .56 PoEK Me33 16.10 ($16.50 Lard 7.00 7.50 ST. LOUIS. WheatNo. 2 .78 .79 Corn M.xed .50 $ .51 ATS No. 2 26 (& .27 RYE 49 i$ .51 Pork Mesa 16.60 &17.00 CINCINNATI Wheat No. 2 Bed 82 m .8 Corn 54 (ft .55 Oats Mixed 28 & .30 Pore Mess J6.25 $ifl.76 Lard 07)$ .oa DETBOIT. Flour.. r.so 6.00 Wheat No. l White. 79 .80 Corn Mixed .56 iJ .57 Oat-No. 2 Mixed 28 .29 PORK New Mess 18.00 t18.6 INDIAN APO LIB. Wheat No. $1 Bed, New .78 & M Corn Mixed 62 .54 OATS Mix;, d 25 .27 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle Best 6.00 & 6.50 Fair fi.6C 6.00 Common 4. 00 (rt 4. 50 Hogs s.so 0.00 Sheep 4.00 4.

AS IDYL OF THE HAMMOCK.

We are sitting in the hnmiaook, she and J, May and I, And the gentle blowing- breeze, Through the overuingin(r trees, With a sad and mourful sigh, Whiflpors by, Rustles by, Coollyi sweetly, aadly, gently rustles by. We are swinging In the hammock, lovers two, May and Low, And her tiny booted feet, With the branches neatly meet, And see in eyes of blue, Love so true, Fond and tiue, Brightly glowing, gladly beaming, focd and true. We are sitting in the hammock, lovers fair, foolish pair, And my careful arm around, Her delightful waist is wound. Just to keep the little dear From a fear, Haunting fear, From a tumbling, toppling-over haunting, fear.

We are lying in the grasses, she and L May and I, And the maiden, blushing red, Sitting squarely on my head, Utters one affrighted cry "Hammock down, Broken down, Oh, the horrid, horrid hammock's broken down!" Boston Globe.

CORN-SHUCKING SONG.

Shuck erlong, nigger, shuck dis co'nl Dar's menny er barU in dis ya pile; Dar's menny er rashlrt, sbo's yo bo'n, Ter feed all de nan's wjd arcer 'wile. Luk at S using, dat fat gall War she git dat ballymeral? Miia' er cot hit turn ole MNs Sal. Shuck erlong, shtck dis co'n. Chorus. Shuck a ruck a shuck! shuck a ruck a shuck! Pars dat tickler fiown dis way. Shuck a ruck a shuck! shack a ruck a shuck! Ain' gwine home ez long ez I stay. Hvar dar bo' pic, how he squeal! Wishin' fo' de stops ter-morrer mo'n; Ef he hatter got in dat dere nel Niggers, we'dreber bin shuckin' dis co'n. Luk at Moses, how he grin ! Ain' nuittn' ob htm but de wool an chin; Mouf ez big ez dat co'n bin. Shuck erlong, shuck dis Co'n. Chorus, Shuck a ruck a shuck! shuck a ruck a shuck! Pars dat tickler down dis way. Shuck a ruck a shuck! shuck a ruck a shuck! Ain' gwine home ez long ez I stay. S l Cromwellt in Editor I)mwer9 Harper's Magazine.

Despised Accomplishment. Old Mr. Brown stood in his private office with his back to the lire and his coat-tails balanced in either hand. He was a bald-headed old gentleman, with a ruddy complexion, keen black eyea, and leg-of-mutton whiskers,which were as white as snow And Miss Nellie Torrance stood looking at him timidly from the depths of the big armchair in which he had beckoned her to sea$ herself. "So you are my cousin Adrian's daughter?" said he, after a long panse. "Yes," said Nellie, wondering what was all those mysterious tin boxes, and whether the monster iron safe was full of gold and silver pieces. "And you want something to do?" "Yes, please," "Humph?" said Mr. Brown. Nelly glanced shyly up into his face "But," she added with some spirit, MI am not asking for charity. I am wiil-ir-fj to work for my bread." "You mean that you would like to daub canvass, or sew yellow flowers on gr en plush screens," sarcastically observed the old gentleman. "I don't call that work." "Nor I, either," retorted Nolly. " Then what do you mean ?" said Mr. Brown. "I mean that I shall be glad to undertake any sort of honest work by means of which I can earn mv own living." "Humph!" again interjected Mr. Brown. "Can you cook?" "Yes," Nellie answered. "I don't believe it." "But I can." "Very well," said Mr. Brown, releasing his coat tails and sitting down at his desk as if the question were definitely disposed of. "My cook went away this morning. I haven't engaged any one in her place. You may come this afternoon and see what you can do for me." ( Mr. Brown fully expected that his young cousin would recoil indignantly from this proposal, but she did nothing of the sort. She simply said, "Yes, Cousin John," and asked him for his private address. "Mind you're punctual, my dear," said he, as he handed her the penciled card. "I am always punctual," calmly responded Nelly. Mr. Brown watched her out of the fEce with a quizzical twinkle in the corner of his eyes. "She won't come,w he said to himself. "I've seen the last of my fine relation." And Nellie Tox ranee went home to a little second-floor room, the cheapest which the widow and her daughters could possibly find. Mrs. Adrian Torrance was dressed in Black a fair, delicate piece of human china, who had been like the lilies of the field, in that she toiled not neither did she spin, and Lucetta, the eldest daughter, was trying, unsuccessfully enough, to trim a black crape bonnet by the window. They had come up from the country, at Lucettas suggestion, to appeal, in their poverty, to the rich cousin of the dead father and husband, but none of them anticipated any very satisfactory results from the experiment. "These rich people are always miserly', said Miss Lucetta. "And I've understood," sighed the gent little widow, "that he was rot pleased when poor, dear Adrian married me instead of Miss Goldage, the rich pawnbroker's daughter." "Well?" eried Mrs. Torrance, eagerly, as Nelly entered. 4 "What does he say?" questioned Lucetta, dropping the fold of crape which she was vainly endeavoring to fashion into what the fashion-plate called "an oblong bow." "I have seen him," said Nelly, untying her bonnet strings; "and I'm to go tc his house in Grand over Park this afternoon. n "You don't mean," cried Mrs. Torrance, with a spasmodic catching for breath, "that he is going to adopt you?" "Not in the leaBt," said Nelly. "Now, mamma darling, don't jump at conclusions. Just hear my plain, unvarnished title. I went to Cousin John. I told htm I wanted something to do. He ajked me if I could cook. Thanks to

that course of lessons I once took of Signor Silverspoon, I was able to an swer yes. Then he told me that his cook was gone, and askeot me if I would come to his house this afternoon and take her place." "And you?" said Mrs. Torrance "I said yes of course." "Eleanof?' cried Lucetta, "I am scandalized! You will do nothing of the sort!" Certainly not," 3aid Mrs. Torrance, developing strong hysterical symptoms. "If your Cousin Brown intends to insult us " "But he doesn't mean to iu stilt us," pleaded Nelly. "He intended the offer in all good faith, and I accepted it in the same spirit." "You surely do not mem to degrade yourself," cried Lucettav "b turning cook for anv man living!" kiI don't see" argued Nelly, "that it is any more degrading to cook for Cousin John than it would be to embroider slippers for him of read the newspaper aloud to him of an evening." "Eleanor never had any proper pride," said Mrs. Torrance, wringing her hands. "Never!" echoed Lucetta. "And," added Nelly, "my cousin would have every right to believe me an imposter if I had told him I wanted work, and had then refused the first offer he made me. It will be useless for you to remonstrate, Lucetta, and I hope mamma will not place any obstacle in my way, for I am quite determined to go to Grandover Park this afternoon." And she adhered firmly to her resolution. It was six exactly when Mr. Brown lei himself into his house with the latchkey, which always depended from his watch chain. The gas jet burned softly behind the rose colored shade in the hall, the fire clicked cheerfully in the grate of the parlor beyond. "Humph!" he muttered. "She hasn't come. Thought so. There's no such a thing as a practical woman now a days." At the same moment a light, whiteaproued little figure came out of the dining-room beyond, and Nelly Torrance's voice uttered the words : "Dinner is ready, Cousin John." The old man smiled. He had a pleasant expression of the face when he smiled, and Nellie wondered that she had not before noticed what a handsome man he was. "Oh," said he, "you did come, then." "Oh, I always keep niy engagements," said Nelly. "Punctuality is the soul of business, isn't it, Cousin John? At least, that's what I used to write in my copy-books at school." Mr. Brown patted her hand as she helped him off with hi overcoat. "You're a good girl," said he. And in his secret mind he decided to put up with any deficiencies in the cooking of a girl who had such excellent business principles. But, to his infinite amazement, there were no deficiencies to overlook. The soup was on the table, flavored like a dream of Soyer's own. The first course was baked trout, swimming n wine sauce, the second a pigeon toast. A small and compact roast of beef ribs was flanked by a dainty giblet pie, and the desert was fruit, tarts and Bavarian cream. Mr. Brown ate and reiished and wondered by turns. "My dear," said he at last, when the cloth was removed and the wine and walnuts brought on, "all this is very nice. Ill concede that you are a tiptop housekeeper. But of course you ordered all this from Mouer&te's retaurant?" "But of course I didn't, Cousin Brown, " said Nelly, decidedly. " I cooked it all myself." "What, that soup?" "Yes, that soup!" "Did you prepare that trout sauoe, and broil that pigeon?" "Y'es, Cousin Brown." "And the giblet pie? Was that yours?" "Yes, anjl the giblet pie ! Don't look so astonished, Cousin Brown," she added, laughingly. "I may as well confess that I took a course of cooking lesfons last summer." And I like it of all things, especially in a household like this, when one can command the very best materials." Mr. Brown closed hi eyes and made a hasty calculation. Bas life had been "worried out of him," to use a mediocre expression, by capricious house-keepers inefficient cooks and untrained servants. Here,' at last, was a gateway out of all tribulations. "My dear," he said, I should like to have you come here and live." "As cook, Cousin Brown!" "No as my adpoted daughter and housekeeper. I need some one to take the helm of my affairs. By Jupiter !" he added, as he recollected the flavor of the giblet pie. "I haven't eaten such a dinner in ten years." "But my mother," hesitated Eleanor, "and my sister Lucetta." "Let them come too," said Mr. Brown. "Bless your heart there's plenty of room in the house. Can they cook, too?" "No, Cousin Brown," confessed Nelly. "Well, perhaps it's just as well," said Mr. Brown. "There can't be more than one head to a household. I hope you have preserved the recipe of that giblet pie, my dear. It was really something extraordinary." 80 the Torrance family found a comfortable refuge for the soles of their feet, and Nelly's despised accomplishment proved the sword wherewith she opened the world's oyster. And Lucetta sighed and wondered why she, too, had not taken cooking lessons. "Nelly is the old man's first favorite," said she. "He'll leave her his money when he dies; and all because she accepted his ridiculous offer of turning cook for a living." Mr. Brown, however, looked at this matter in a different, light. "Nelly is a trump," he said. "Nelly is not too lazy to work, and too proud to beg. She is one who ennobles the humblest task, and does, with all her might, whatever her hands find to do." So the proverb came true; "Heaven helps those who help themselves."

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80 years old yesterday He if in excel lent health, and works, it is said, sit teen hours a day, thus proving an exception to the general rule that old men are incapable of grtat exertion. But perhaps this general rale, lift many others that are received without question, is a fallacy. Perhaps it might be fairly asserted that busy men live longer than idle men ; that work is, after all, the true elixir of life. Many notewor thy instances where longevity coincides with remarkable mental activity will easily toc cur to the reader. Was not Sophocles more . than 90 when, to prove that lie was not in his dotage as his heirs claimed, in ordet to get his money he wrote one of his greatest tragedies? Did not Humboldt do more work at four score than many bright men at 40? Goethe, as everyone knows, died with pen in hand at the age of 82. Von Ranke, the fore most of living historians, has jut pub lished another volume of his Um versal History ; he will be 89 years old next December. Carlyle and Emerson lost none of their vigor until they reached three score years and ten. And, today, who imagines that Oliver Wendell Holmes, already on the verge of 75, is old? Longfellow did some of his best work shortly before his death, at 75. and Whittier is now two years older than that. The vast energies, whose sum in many directions ore known as Victor Hugo, shows no signs of decreptitude, although it in mora than eighty-two years since Victor Hugo was born. Historians, it may be remarked, havte usually been long-lived. Voltaire died at 84. Thierry and Miohelet at 76; Mignet and Guizot at 87, George Bancroft is now t4, and George Tjehnor lived to be 80. In public life we have had several recent examples of great men whose power for , statesmanship did not diminish through age. Gladstone is nearly 75, 3?almerston was Prime Minister at the time of his death, two days before he had com pleted his 81st year. Benjamin Franklin , in the last century, lived to be 84. These instances suffice to show that there are constitutions which not only can bear, but which actually noed the stimulus of hard work up to a very advanced period. Of course, on the other hand, might be cited the remarkable men who died young, but even from their experience the fact might be brought out, not that they wero killed by overwork, but by irrational work. Usually, as in the case of Keats, early death is the result of chronic disease. Shelley, who is always mentioned among those whose life stretched but a span, was drowned accidentally, and there is good reason to beieve that but for this he would have lived to old age, because he was physically strong. Baphael, Mozart, Byron, Burns, and Schubert succumbed just at the age when most men reach their prime, but it must not be forgotten that the last three undermined their health by excesses. Shakespeare, Napoleon, Cseear, and Beethoven, recognized as the unrivalled giants in their respective departments, died between 50 and 0. But on the other hand Michael Angela, than whom no man ever expended more en ergy on his vast achievements, lived to be 90, and Titian was 99. It is evident, therefore, that while no strict 'law can be established, there is a relation between longevity and labor. Work pre-

I serves the health while idleness tends

to weaken it Philadelphia liulletiru Ruin-Filled Walting-Stidc "There is a cane," said a well known dealer in gentlemen's furnishing goods, "that I have just patented. It was suggested to me by the habit very young men have of wearing the heads of their sticks in their mouths. It is of bamboo, and lined with a thick covering of porcelain. The head may be of whatever shape the purchaser desires. A crab's claw, a dog's head or simply a straight ivory handle, but running through it is a fine tube, guarded at its outer end by a spring valva You see at once the immediate advantage of such a cane.", 44 It would be very light," observed his customer. 44 Mv dear sir," returned the habetdasher, "it can be filled with any liquid. If the young man who carries it is very , young he can carry a supply of milk with him, and as he strolls along Fith avenue refresh himself with cooling draughts of that harmless fluid? Think, he continued, enthusiastically, of being able to carry with you to the theater a dozen whisky cocktails or a few brandy smashes. As you sit gazing abstractedly into the eyes of your fair companion, you can imbibe inspiration from here and rum from theoaae at the same time. Besides, my patent does away with those intensely hibrrassing excuses about "going out to see a man, or such statements as the gas makes me faint, I must get a breath of fresh air." "It's a wonderful idea," observed the customer, as he grasped the possibilities of the invention. "Make me one big enough to hold a quart of ice-cream, 'm awfully fond of a girl and she's awfully fond of cream, but she prefers it melted, - When I next walk out with her I won't have to dodge around the corner from 'Freezem, the confeotioaer,' bat I can had her my stick and tell her to help herself." "That's a use for it that had not suggested itself to me," concluded the patentee, "but I assure you that I have already received sufficent orders from local option towns to insure my for tune." JV. F. Morning Journal. A Sound Opinion First Burglar Bill, I guess we'd better make arrangements to. crack that bank in Bugle ville. Second Burglar But I thought we decided six months ago that it wouldn't be worth while to attempt the job. First Burglar Well, INe changed my mind. I'm pretty well satisfied now that there's money in it. Second Burglar Why, what have you heard about it? Got onto some thing new. First Burglar Yes; Tre discovered that the cashier has been sick at home for over four months. They must have accumulated some surplus by this time, 61 York Sun.

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