Bloomington Telephone, Volume 10, Number 11, Bloomington, Monroe County, 29 June 1886 — Page 2

Bloomington Telephone BLOOMINGTON. INDIANA. WALTER a BRADFUTp, - - PoBUtsraaL

THE NEWS CONDENSED. THE FAST, At a Sunday school in the suburbs of Boston, Frank Dolliver killed himself with a revolver because a young lady refused to marry him . . . The mammoth structure erected in Boston by the New England Mechanics' Institute, and subsequently purchased by a horse-railway company for a repair shop, was set on fire by a discharged employe of the road, and was quickly reduced to a heap of ashes. The building was insured for $300,000. Undeb the new law of New York against imprisonment for debt, the authorities at Zxmg Island City released Henry & De Bevoise, ex-Mayor, who had lain in jail for three years because of his inability to meet a judgment for $100,700 obtained against him by the city. Judge Noxt created a sensation in the

County Court at Albany, N. T., by announcing that Superintendent McEwen, of the Albany Penitentiary, had offered him a bribe of $50 for every lcng-term prisoner sent to that prison.... In a suit tried at Philadelphia, the Central Transportation Company obtained judgment for $119,729 against the Pullman Palace Car Company. Providence, K. I., celebrated on Wednesday, the 23d of June, its 250th anadversary with a procession, speeches, singing of school children, and other exercises. . . .Judge Stanley Matthews, of the United States Supreme Court, was married in New York to Mrs. Mary K. Theaker, of Cleveland, Ohio. The couple have ailed for Europe.

Miss Louisa, daughter of General M. C. Meigs. The House Committee on Invalid Pensions has agreed to amalgamate the substitute for the Blair bill pensioning disabled soldiers with the bill to increase the rate of pension of soldiers who have lost a leg or arm, and to attach to the combined bills a clause imposing an income tax to meet the expenditure involved.

POIJLTICAI

THE WEST

The trial of the indicted anarchists began in Chicago on Monday, June 21, before Judge Gaiy, who overruled motions for separate trials and to quash the indictments. A. R. Parsons, for whom detectives have hunted high and low, appeared in court, pleaded not guilty, and was plaeed on trial with the others. The work of selecting the jury then began. President Mackey, who has a system of 670 miles of rail in Southern Indiana, proposes to lay track from some point on the Evansville Road, through the Bedford quarries, to Columbus, Indiana, seventy miles The Circuit Court at Springfield, Missouri, quashed both the indictments

against Mrs. Emma Molloy in the Graham case, but held her in $1,100 to answer any new presentments. Cora E. Lee is still in jail at Bolivar. . . . At Cincinnati William J. Sanderson, a justice of the peace, pleaded guilty in the Police Court to a charge of assault and battery preferred by a Mrs. Gibbons, and was sentenced to two months in the workLonse and to pay a fine of $100. His appeal for mercy on the ground that he was drunk when he committed the offense was sot successful. . . .Henrietta (Tex.) special: The sixty days stay granted by the Secretary of the Interior in the matter of removing cattle from the Indian Territory is about up, and Governor Jones Wolfe, of the Chickasaw Nation, has issued a proclamation declaring, subsequent to the order of the Secretary of the Interior, deliberate and willful fraud on the Chickasaw people. Governor Wolfe flays he will hold as confiscated enough of these cattle to pay $1 a head to the Chickasaw Nation, and will, after June 24, expel them by men summoned for that purpose. The Governor declares that United States citizens must cease to trifle with the Chickasaw people, and demands $1 per head for herds grazed on the Cherokee domain in violation of the Federal law. Cattlemen are requested to take their stock, pay the price asked for the grass consumed, and remove the cattle from the Nation." City Marshal John Cowey, of Detroit City, Minn., was fatally shot by a desperado and gambler named Kellaher. The assassin was placed in jail, from whence he was taken by a mob of masked men and hanged to a tree, after which his body was riddled ith bullets.

Washington telegram : "About one hundred of the Democratic Representatives who voted for the consideration of the Mbrrison tariff bill held a caucus in the hall of the House. Representative Bragg, of Wisconsin, was chosen chairman, and Representative McRae, of Arkansas, secretary of the conference. Speaker Carlisle urged the members to stand firm iu their purpose of tariff reform. Mr. Morrison then moved that the tariff-reform Democrats select one member from each State to constitute a committee which shall consider the advisability of issuing an address to the country explaining the position of that element "and report to another conference to be held later in the present month. This motion gave rise to considerable discussion; but was adopted." The Democrats of the Seventeenth Illinois District, now represented in Congress by John R. Eden, have nominated Judge Edward Lane, of Hillsboro. Fifty-one ballots, were taken. . . .The Temperance Reform party of Delaware was organized at Dover June 22. One hundred and thirty delegates weie present. The utmost harmony prevailed. James R. Hoffecker, a New Castle County Democratic farmer, was nominated for Governor, and Richard M. Cooper, a Republican farmer, from Kent County, was nominated for Congress. The platform adopted favors a constitutional convention, the enactment of a registration law, the election of county officers now appointed by the Governor, more interest shown to agricultural matters; condemns bribery and fraud at elections, and favors the enactment of a law concerning the manufacture and sale of intoxicating bev

erages which will give the people power to vote for local option, and a constitutional amendment regulating the liquor business. The ticket is looked upon as a very strong' one by both of the old parties.,, . .In the lower house of the Louisiana Legislature the high-license liquor bill was defeated by a vote of 53 to 38 .... The Governor of Louisiana has signed the Sunday law, and it will go into effect Jan. 1 next. The Republican State Convention of Alabama met at Montgomery with about one hundred delegates present, one-half

white. Speeches were made favoring the nomination of a State ticket. All the utterances were for a protective tariff and the Blair educational bill. The convention declined to nominate a ticket, leaving it with the executive committee to put one out or not. as it may think best The Democratic convention of the Twelfth Illinois District nominated George Anderson, of Quincy, for Congress on the 230th ballot.

THE SOUTH.

Windstobms at Waco, Dallas, WeatherJord, and other poir.cs in Texas leveled buildings, fences, and trees, and ruined crops. Several structures were demolished at Weatherford, and two persons dangerously wounded. The financial loss in Parleer County will exceed $100,000 The California trout introduced in the Southern rivers within the past three years are being taken by fishermen in various localities. Some caught in Virginia measured eighteen inches in length.... A rainfall of twenty-eight inches in fifty hours is reported from Alexandria, La. Ok a telegram from the Navy Depart--ment, the revenue cutter Forward left Mobile for Mississippi Sound, to intercept a schooner loaded with men and arms for filibustering in Cuba Miss Maude -Jetton, of Calloway County, Kentucky, who was bitten by a dog eighty days ago has just died of hydrophobia.... The boilers of the International Cotton-Press at New Orleans exploded, blowing out the Peters street side of the building and killing two employes At a banquet in Charleston, W. Va., the Hon. C. Grosveaor, an Ohio Congressman, said there was an intense feeling in Ohio against the New England States, on the ground, he explained, that these States do not want the South and West to improve.

WAsniifeToiv.

"The public reception at the White House Friday night," says a Washington dispatch, was more numerously attended than any previous one within the history of that mansion. The doors were thrown open at nine o'clock. Before that hour fully 6,000 people stood in line waiting for admission. The crowd began forming at five o'clock and the line extended from the west carriage entrance eastward to Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue. It probably numbered 1,000 in all, not more than twothirds of whom had gained admission to the grounds when the reception ended. The bride wore her wedding dress, and shook each caller by the httnd. The encomiums npon her grace and beauty were highly flattering." Mb. Jordan, the Treasurer of the United States, recently made the discovery that the Supervising Architect had discharged the only man in Washington who understood bow to handle the locks of the Treasury Department, Hjp immediate restoration to the pay-roll was a necessity. . . Archibald Forbes, the war correspondent of the Lonjdon Ney&9 wsg jnrried in Washington to

GEilERAL. The elections in Nova Scotia have rtf suited as was anticipated. The figh was made squarely and fairly on the issue of withdrawing from the CanadianJ6minion. Parliament was dissolved forJhe purpose. The Premier of Nova Scota appealed to the electors on a policy favoring secession. The result is that of th thirty-eight members elected twenty-nine are "seceders," and only nine are in wtfr of keeping up the Dominion connaon. A majority of the seceders favpf annexation to the United States, anjMooldly proclaim their views on this point. Thk executive of the Irish National League of America has summoned a national convention to assemble in Music Hall, Chicago, Aug. 18 next, and has fixed the quota of delegates. All true friends of Ireland are requested to make the event worthy of the cause they represent. .... Cardinal Taschereau, of Canada, has issued

a pastoral letter announcing that the Catholic Church cannot consistently tolerate the organization of Knights of Labor or approve of the means resorted to by that organization to obtain its ends. Henry Ward Beecher sailed for England last week. Being asked before his departure if he would electioneer for Gladstone, he replied: WI expect to. At all events I shall proffer my services, and I have an intimation that they will be acceptable. Such oratory as I am capable of shall be at the command of the cause of Irishmen's rights in their own land. Probably this is my last chance to help a good movement." A. W. McLelan, Minister of Fisheries for the Dominion, states that American vessels will be allowed to purchase bait or supplies, or make shipments at Canadian ports, but must not remain longer than one day. An association of anarchists, fifty in number, has been discovered at Hull, a lumber settlement across the river at Ottawa, Ont. Their oath binds them to burn, kill, and destroy, and they have been in communication with Chicago anarchists regarding the manufacture of bombs and dynamite, The discovery has caused much excitement at Ottawa The seventh annual convention of photographers was held at St. Louis, with 1,000 delegates present. The exhibition of views was most creditable.

The Three-Emperors' Alliance, which was to expire in 1887, is said to have been renewed for a number of years .... The Spanish Congress has declared by an overwhelming majority that no Government of Spain will ever give autonomy to Cuba. . . . The German Reichsrath has approved the regency of Prince Luitpold of Bavaria. . . . .Terrible floods, caused by cloud-bursts, are reported in Silesia. . . . The French Senate has passed the expulsion bill by a majority of 34. The French Government has issued a decree banishing the Princes from the republic. Prince Napoleon, his son Victor, and the Count of Paris immediately left France. The members of the houtfe of Bonaparte affected immediately or prospectively bv the act ef expulsion are: Prince Napoleon and his wife, Princess Clo. thilde of Savoy, and their children, Prince Victor, Prince Louis, and Princess Marie. ; Princess Mathilde (Princess de Ban lonatoi. Prince Roland Bonaparte, son of tho la to Prince Pierre Bonaparte. Of the house of France (Orleans-Bourbon): Prince Philippe fCointe de Paris) and wife, Princess Isahelle de M on tpen filer, and children, Princess A me lie (crown princess of Portugal;, Prince Philippe (Duke d'Orleans), Princess Helenc, Princess Isabclle, Princess Louise, Prince Ferdinand. Prince Robert (Due de Chartres; and his wife, Princes Francoise d Joinville, and children, Prince Henri, Princess Marguerite, Prince Jean. Prince Louis (Due de Nemours) and his wife, Princess'Victoriae do Saxe-Cobourg et Gotha, and children. Prince Ferdinand Philippe (Due d'Alencon), his wife, Princess Sophia of Bavaria, and children. Princess Louise, Prince Kijinmn.'iel, Princess Marguerite (Princess Czartoryskij, Princess Blanche. Prince Francois (Prince de Joinville), bis wife

Princess FrnneoiKO of Brazil, and 0 Princess Fruncoiso (Duchess do Cbartresj, Prince Pierre (Due do Penthievre)v Prince Henri (Due d'Aum.r. The other branches of th$ Bourbon family are non-resident in France. The German delegates sent to China report that thre will be no opportunity for railroad building on a large scale until the Emperor attains" his majority, at the close of next year Twenty-five or mors people were drowned by the upsetting of a t'eiryboat while crossing the Sazawa River, in Bohemia. . . .The citizens of Gal way are gratified at a nhipment of American mails from that port, for the first time in several vaars.

ADDITIONAL SEWS.

In a hospital at Buffalo in tho case of a woman with a tumor in her throat, an opening was made into the stomach, through which food is passed directly New York dispatch: Ex-President Arthur has gone to New London, Conn. He was accompanied by his son Allan, his sisters (Mrs. McElroy and Mrs. Caw), Miss Nellie Arthur and her maid, and Dr. Peters- Mr. Arthur walked through the railway station leaniug on the arm of his son. He stepped up to the platform alone, but slipped and nearly fell at the top step. Kccover.ng himself he entered the car. The ex-President looked pale and worn. Several friends came to say good-by. To one of them he said: "My only trouble is my stomach." Then he added, laughingly: "You know how good that used to be." In reply to a question his physician said that his patient was progressing favorably, and without doubt would be benefited by a change of air. The Knights of Labor in Maine propose to address open letters to the candidates for the office of Governor, and to all candidates for the Legislature, demanding a decided "yes" or ''no" without any "glittering generalizations. " Among other things in the interests of labor, they will demand that the candidates pledge themselves to vote for a ten-hour law, employers' liability bill, repeal of the law of imprisonment for debt, and the abolition of the trustees process .... The Illinois Prohibitionists, in their State Convention at Springfield, adopted a coldwater platform and nominated Henry W. Austin of Oak Park for State-Treasurer and U. Z. Gilmer of Quincy for State Superintendent of Public Instruction The Republicans of the Twelfth Indiana District have nominated for Congress Captain James B.White, a grocer of Fort Wayne U. M. Broder has been nominated by the Prohibitionists for Congress in the Thirteenth Illinois District. . . .The Democrats of the Sixteenth District of Ohio have nominated Beriah Wilkins for Congress.

A Paris dispatch says that an 11-year-

old girl who had been treated by Pasteur for rabies and had returned to her home, has died of hydrophobia Herr Krapp is preparing to establish a foundry for the manufacture of cannon at Nikolaief, the Hussion naval station at the junction of the Ingul and Bug Rivers . . . . The French Chamber of Deputies has appointed a special commission of eleven members, to report upon the bill to enab3 tho Panama Canal Company io raise $120,000,U00 by means of a lottery loan. Eight of the eleven members are known to be hostile to the measure. . . .After five years of deadlock between Prussia and England over their respective rights to the appointment of the Protestant Bishop of Jerusalem, Prussia has decided to found an independent Prussian Bishopric at the Holy City. . . .The Count de Paris and his party met with an enthusiastic reception upon their arrival at Dover, England. The party consisted of the Count and Countess of Paris, the Duke of Chartes, the Duke of Orleans, and fifty companions. They were received by a large crowd. The Mayor and chief magnates of the town boarded the vessel, welcomed the party, expressed sympathy with them, and presented an address to the Count of Paris, to which the latter made a feeling reply, in which he said that he rejoiced that he had so many friends in England. An address from Frenchmen in all parts of Great Britain was also presented to the Count. The bill repealing the pre-emption and timber-culture laws passed the Senate, on June 24, by a vote of 31 yeas to 20 nays. The Senate passed the bill providing for the appointment and compensation of a United States IMstrict Judge for tho Southern District of Alabama, with an amendment offered by Senator Logan (111.) which fixes the salaries of all United States District Judges at 5,000 a year, and prohibits nepotism on the port of " Federal Judges. Th3 President beat his reeord by sending in twenty-nine messages vetoing that many special pension bills, The House went into committee of the whole on the sundry civil bill, and adopted, by a vote of 99 "to 78, an amendment providing that no money appropriated for the Bureau of Engraving and Piinting shall be used in printing United States notes of large denomination in lieu of notes of small denomination canceled or retired.

'Twill not be long before the advance guard of the picnickers will camp in woodland glades; and when the tattle of "Ant-eat-em" commences the howl of the w ounded will be beard throughout the land.

THE MAEKETS.

NEW YOKE. Beeves $4 53 6.25 Hogs 4.25 5.00 Wheat No. 1 White S8 .89 No. 2 Bed 84 ($ .85 Corn No. 2 45 A&A Oats Western 32 dj .35 Pobk New Mess 10.00 (10.50 CHICAGO. Beeves Choice to Prime Steers 5,25 5.75 Good Shipping 4.50 $ 5.00 Common 3.75 (4.25 Hogs Shipping Grades 4.25 $ 4.75 Flour Extra Spring 4.25 4.75 Wheat No. 2 Spring 72 sb .73 Corn No. 2 34 .34A Oats No. 2 26 .27 " Buttek Choice Creamery 15 .16 Fine Dairy 12 & .13 Cheese Full Cream, Cheddar., .06 & .06 J Full Cream, new 07v .08 Eggs Fresh 09 .10 Potatoes New, per brl 2.50 g 3.01 Pork Mess 8.75 3$ 9.00 MILWAUKEE. Wheat Cash 73 ,73 CoiiN No. 2 34 .34 Oats No. 2 26 ($ .27 Eye No. 1 55 (& .57 Pobk Mess 8.50 9.01 TOLEDO. Wheat No. 2 80 .81 Corn No. 2 w d4 .87 Oats No. 2 , 29 .31 ST. LOUIS. Wheat No. 2 Bed 77 .78 Corn Mixed 31 .32 Oats Mixed 26($ .27$ Pore New Mess 9.00 9.50 CINCINNATI. Wheat No. 2 Bed 79 & .81 Corn No. 2 35 & .35 Oats No. 2 29 $ .31 Pork Mess. 9.5J i 9.75 Live Hogs 3.50 4.50 DETROIT. Beef Cattle 4.00 5.2" Hogs 3.50 c4 AJ0 Rheep , 3.00 Wheat No, 1 White 80 .81 Corn No. 2 36 .37 Oats-No. 2 30 ($ ,3J INDIANAPOLIS. Beep Cattle 3.53 T, 5.50 Hogs 4.00 & 4.50 Shkep 2.25 4.25 Wheat No. 2 Bed 76 tl .77 Corn No. 2 32 tfj .34 Oats No, 2 .27 ,'27$ EAST LIBERTY. Cattle Best 4.75 3 5.75 Fair 4.25 4.75 Common. 3. so w 4.25 Hogs 4.25 t& 4.75 Sheep 3.25 5.0J BUFFALO. Wheat No. 1 Hard .83 & .F4 Corn No. 2 4oy,$ .41 Cattle 5.00 5.75

THE PULPIT AND THE TOOK, BY FRED WOODROW. It's something grand to think about Ther are no rich nor poor, In that great homo o' light and lire Insid the Gospel door. The wealth o mines, an! glint o siUt Don't count in heaven's plan, Where want o' grace, and uoto' cash Is what is ailing man.

Tho ntars o' rank and gilt

strips them bare, And man to man we're H1 heaven's stair.

name The Gospel

alike In climbing

To working folk tho lifce'o' mo Who toil to earn their bread. This truth along the roof o life Shines like a golden thread. For who upon God's rolling world Need Gospel comfort more, Than tuose whoso backs are bent with toll And fingers stiff and sore. I own it looks as if the world Believed tho other way. And churches nowadays were run Above a poor man's pay. 9 he lordling gets the softest seat Silks trail the carpet floor, And corduroy and workingmen Are put behind the door. The preaching seems for higher folks Than wear a hob-nailed shoe, It's Sunday cake for them, but not Plain bread for me and you, it's more than I can understand How such a thing can be? That men should hold the Gospel way Too high for you and me. It's not the gift o' gab that makes The truth o words divine, In saving souls a hempen rope Is more than silken line. It's not the sweetened cake o' words Nor money on tho tip, That gives the grit to labor's heart Or gristle to its grip. The tune o' this and ring o' that May have a certain charm. But where's the muscle coming from To keep a man from harm? There's eloquence in speaking plain Short words are always best, And Truth is not a dummy yet For exhibition dres't. On looking matters all around Tho Church it lags behind, And Gospel food for working folks Is pretty hard to find. The crowds go by the temple door That ought to enter in. If such a Friend there is as Christ And such a Foe as sin.

It may be lock o' simple words or pride.

But anyway the people choose To other side.

It may be pomp

walk the

know with ministers as men There's good as Wt-ll as bad, And in the Gospel net we find The minnows with the shad.

But still the Truth enough for me. And if the world could world 'twould be.

o' other days Is good hear it more A better

A TEST OF LOVE

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It had blown a perfect hurricane all day, and early in tho afternoon the snow had commenced to fall, increasing in violence until at G o'clock, when Lottie started home, Tottenham court-road and the bystreets were full of drifts, the air was a blinding haze, and the wind fiercer than ever. "Oh, how pleasant home will look!" she said to herself, pulling her collar up about her ears, and tucking her music-roll securely uader her arm. "How happy I ought to be that I have it to go to, even if it is only a little room all by myself! What do poor girls do who have none, no work, no home and no Kobert?" Then she laughed shyly to herself, and blushed a happy, rosy blush down inside the collar, and walked faster than ever. Home was quite a distance; but her fleet steps carried her quickly there, and the hall door had flown open in response to her latch-key, when, from somewhere in the darkness near, a voice came a tremulous, pleading voice, "Pity, oh, for the love of God, pity me!" i; Who are you? Where are you?" asked Lottie, startled and stopping right where the hall light shone in her face and dazzled her eyes. "Here." And from the shadow beside the door rose a woman'tt rigure a woman that the next moment also stood in the light, showing a wrinkled, aged face and snow-white hair, covered with a tattered bit of shawl. "I am freezing, starviug,and maybe dying. If you have any pity, give me some food and some kind of shelter!" she said, with a desperate sort of famished eagerness. "I will oh, I will come in," cried Lot

tie, her voice quivering, and her eyes shining with the generous pity that flooded her young heart. "I have no place I can take you but my room on the top floor. Can you climb the stairs?" "For warmth and food? Yes, yes; lead the way," cried the woman, eagerly, looking at" the girl with a trembling delight burning in her hollow eyes. "I can follow anywhere." But she was aged and weak, and the four long flights of stairs were slowly accomplished, Lottie assisting her companion as

well as the narrow staircase would allow, and going very slowly. "This is my room,1 she exclaimed at last, throwing open a door and leadiug the pauting woman in. "hit down here, and in two minutes ray Jire will be lighted. Are you very tired?" The weary woman could only nod as she sank into the chair Lottie gave, while her young hostess flew about the room. Everything was most exquisitely neat, and the little grate, brushed and polished, was already laid for the Are, and, at n touch from Lottie's match, blazed and crackled with amazing brightness. "Is not that lovely?" she cried, turning to her strange visitor. "Now yon will 6oon be warm, and in a few minutes I will give you a cup of tea. Move nearer, won't you?" Apparently speechless with grateful amazement and delight the woman did as bid, throwing orf her wet, tattered shawl, and holding her wrinkled hands over the blaze, while her eager eyes still followed every move Lottie made. "Iam my own housekeeper, you see," continued the girl, gaily, as if wishing to mako her visitor less timid and moie at home. "Here is my little kitchen:" and with a merry laugh she threw open the door to a large closet, showing within two neatly papered shelves of dishes and tins. "I am just as happy and independent as can be. How do you like it?" "Like it!" echoed the woman. "Does it not look like heaven to me? But are you all alone?" "Yes, all alone. I have not a relative in the world that I know of," said Lottie, taking off and hanging up her things, now that she had all things started. "I would

be very Jonesomo if I had the time, but I haven't." "Then you work you are poor?" cried the woman, as though the surroundings were to her suggestive of wealth and t ase, "Oh, yes, I am poor; and yet I am rich, for I have health and strength and good work," paid Lottie, with a world of thankfulness thrilling her blithe voice. "In the morning I am up early, and arrange my room and fire, and have my little breakfast; then I am away all day as nursery governess and music teacher iu a great house near South Park. I never have time to be lonesome, and I am very happy."

The woman turned her eyes to the fire again, and as she steadily and silently watched the dancing flames Lottie seized the opportunity of looking at her closely, when the woman turned, almost sharply. "You were studying me. What do you think?" "Oh why I I was wondering if you had always been so poor," stammered Lottie, honest but embarrassed. The woman laughed, and not unmusically. 1 No," she said, "I was not. But you are young and I am old, therefore let us talk of you and not of me. Tell nie, do you always intend to live so alone don't you want to marry?" A wave of color, like the warm tint to a sea-shell, covered Lottie's sweet face. "I am going to marry very soon," she said, after a moment. "Are you? And do you :rJnd telling me about it and him?" questioned the woman. "He is teaching French and Spanish to the children I am nursery governess to, and we meet there very often. I know he is good and noble, because because I do. He shows it in every look and act." "And you love him?" "Ah, yes! Yes, indeed!" Something in the sweet purity and rapt expression of the girl's face made the woman turn suddenly away and wipe her eyes. And then nothing more was said by either until tho dainty supper of tea, toast, and egg was cooked by Lottie and placed before the woman on a little tray, covered with a worn but snowy napkin. Then suddenly came the question, "What are you going to do with me to-night turn me out?" "Oh, no, indeed. You shall sleep on my bed, and I can make a pallet here by the fire. My bed is out of sight now," she added with a laugh, as the woman looked about inquiringly. "I like to have my room a sitting-room; so if anyone comes to see me I fold up my bed into a lounge, and put all my toilet things back of that pretty curtain, and that leaves me a little parlor, you see. Isn't it pleasant?" The old woman's face was a mystery as 6he looked and listened. The thin lips continually twitched, and the eyes with all their sharpness gone, filled with tears. But she asked no more questions. Lottie ate her own supper, then went into the closet, took down the tiny dishpan, poured out her water that had been heating while they ate, then quickly cleaned up all signs of supper, working quietly, as she supposed the weayv woman was dozing, when, on the contrary, she was intently watching every act of the young housekeeper. Work done, apron was removed, clean cuffs were put on, the soft curls brushed and tastefully tied; then Lottie came to the fire, and seeing her visitor awake, said, with a smile and a pretty blush, "My Robert is coming this evening, and you will see if he is not good and noble-looking. " "He is coming here? this evening?" exclaimed the woman, starting up. "Then I must go at once!" "Indeed, no! Wheie would you go? You will stay here," said Lottie, with decision; and at that very instant steps sounded on the stairs, and through the hall; and she added, with a quick smile, "Here he is now." Trembling, and evidently at her wit's end, the woman sank back into her seat; and whilo Lottie went to the door, and greeted her lover in a few low-spoken words, she sat staring into the fire, a smile gradually breaking over her face, as though consternation had given way to amusement. Laying his hat and coat over a chair, Bobert Claxton came around to the lire and looked down at the old woman, as she looked up at him; and there was a moment's silence.

"Grandmother!" he exclaimed at last, in a voice of stupified amazement "Grandmother, am I dreaming?" "Well no I think not. You don't appear to be," answered she, as though, after all, it was a great joke. "But you what I " "Didn't I say I was going to?" asked she, shortly. "No, you didn't say what; and I never thought " "No, I suppose not; but did. See here, Lottie." Like one doubting her senses, . Lottie had stood listening to the strange dialogue, and even at this peremptory order she had not the power to move. "This is my grandmother, Lottie," began Bobert, as if at a loss how to tell his story. But she interrupted him brisklv. "T il tell you about it myself, Lothe" said she. "I am his grandmother, and I am not poor; and no more is he, as he has made you believe. On the contrary, he is t;o have all my money; and I had set my heart on his marrying Maude Dawber yes, the very young lady where you teach and he set his heart on rinding out for himself what she was like. So I humored him, and he left off his last name, Bennett, and went to the family with a glowing letter of recommendation from me. He was engaged; he saw my pretty Maude in her home, and I need not tell you how he

found her to be a shiftless, spoiled beauty. He also saw you, and I could never repeat nil his love rhapsodies. I was chagrined that mv choice had been found at fault,

and determined to discover tiawsinhis, and well, I've tried, and failed." She paused there, and rising suddenly, went to amazed and bewildered Lottie, and took her hand. "Bobert, the girl you love is worthy all you have said and believed of her. She is a pure, true, noble girl, with a heart that yon or any man must strive hard to be worthy of. Take her, with the warmest blessing your crusty, doubting grandmother can ask or give." Tenderly Bobert clasped the hands placed in his, and drew her to his breast. "Lottie, my darling, you forgive us both?" But from mingled astonishment and joy, Lottie was sobbing and speechless. "I played the hungry old woman pretty well, I think," said old Mrs. Bennett, complacently, as she sat down by the fire again. "I am old and rather pale, and, of course, tho child never guessed I was swathed in thick flannels under all these rags. But, oh, Bobert, my boy. you have found a little treasure you have indeed. Be worthy of her." "I will try, grandma," he said, tenderly kissing Lottie's blushing, happy face, "every hour of my life."

He Meant to be Complimentary. Miss De Vere (the charming actress) And how old would you take me to be, Mr. Fitzpoodle? Mr. Fitzpoodle (withdrawing the head of his cane from his mouth) Well, I

aw cawnt say I'm sure.

Miss D. V. (with a bright smile) Ah,

von mean you win not sav. louwish

me to tell. That is what you are after, Mr. Fitzpoodle. Well, I am just as old as I look. Mr. Fitzpoodl e Indeed. I aw should have thought you were much younger. Boston Courier. How brightly do little boys beam upon a soul which stands on a ground darkened by the clouds of sorrow; as stars come forth from the empty sky when we look up to tliein from a deep well.

NATIONAL LAW-MAKERS,

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An extradition treaty with Japan was ratine by tho Senate June 21, aa also no for the resurvey of the boundary-line between the United States and Mexico. The Senate passed a MU granting Dearborn Park, in Chice-go, to thePublic Library, Soldiers' Home, and Academy of Design. In the Hons of Kepresentatives, Mr. Henley introduced resolution directing the Attorney General to prosecute all officers of the unions Pacific Railroad Company responsible for issuing collateral trust bonds, guaranteeing interestand paying dividends without the consent ox Congress. The naval appropriation bill passedL the House. The President sent to Con gress fifteen veto messages, three of ";heui being upon private pension bills ; the other two wer. on bills for public buildings at Sioux City, lowav and Zanesville, Ohio. In refusing to approve or the act fo:r a public building at Sioax City, hestates that the poatomce is leased until 1889,. and that occasional sessions of the Federal courts have been held in the county court housewithout inconveniencing anyone; in disapproving the bill to provide tot a pubUobuilding at Zanesville, Ohio, the President takes the same grounds. In vetoing a pension bill the President suggests the significance of the startling increase in pension', legislation and the consequences involved hv its continuance. He says: "I am so thoroughly tired of disapproving gifts of public money to individuals vhot in my view, haveno right or claim to the same, notwithstanding apparent Congressional sanction, that, I interpose with a feeling of relief in a case where I find it unnecessary to determine thamerits of the application. In speaking of the promiscuous and ill-advised grants of pensionswhich have lately been presented to me for approval, I have spoken of their 'apparent -Congressional sanction' in recognition of the fact that a large proportion of these t bills have never been submitted to a. majority of either branch of Congress, bun are the result of nominal sessions held for the express purpose of their consideration, and attended by a small minority of the members of 7 the respective houses of the legislative branchof Government. Thus, in considering these bills I have not felt that I was aided by tlie deliberate judgment of the Congress, and when I havedeemed it my duty to disapprove Many of the bills presented, I have hardly regarded my action as a di ssent from tt e conclusions of the people's representatives. I . have not been insensible to the suggestion which should influence every citizen, either in private station or official place, to exhibit not -only a just but generous appreciation of the services of our country's defenders. In reviewing the pension legislation presented to me many bills have been approved upon the tneory that every doubt should be resolved in favor of" tJae proposed beneficiary. I have not, however,, been able to entirely divest myself cf the idea that the pnbUc money appropriated fcr pensions is the soldiers' fund, which, should be devoted to the indemnification of those who, In the defense of the Union and in the nation s service have worthily deserved, and who, in the day otV their independence resulting from such suffering, are entitled to the benefactions of their Government. This reflection tends to the bestowal of pensions a kind of sacrednass, whichi. invites the adoption of such principles and regulations an will exclude perversion, as well as insure a liberal and generous applicatioa of grateful and benevolent designs. Heedlessness and disregard of the principle which underlies the granting of pensions is unfair to the wounded, crippled soldier, who is honored in thejust recognition of his Government. S uch a man. should never find himself side by side on thfpension roll with those who have be a tempted: to attribute their natural ills to which humanity is heir to service in the army. Every relaxation, of principle In the granting of pensions invitesapplications without merit and encouragesthose who for gain urge honest men to become dishonest. Thus is the demoralizing lesson, taught the people that against the publictreasury the most questionable expedients are ailowbale. The Senate took up the bill repealin g the pre eruption and timber culture laws at its session on June 22, and rejected the Iagalls amendment applying to all lands the Blair amendment prohibiting the acquisition of more than 640 acres of desert land under one ownership. The original amendment was then rejected by a vote of 42 to 3, Senators Blair (N, H.), Del pi 1 (Oregon), and Teller (CoL), voting yea The President has sent the following nominations to tha Senate: David N. Burke, of Mew York, Conitul of the United States at Puerto Cnbello; Edward T. Pittmon, Receiver of Public Moneys, Durango Colorado ; Samuel L. Gilson, of Pennsylvania, Agent for the Indians at Fort Peck Agency, Montana ; John M. Gralloway appraiser of the right of way of the Southern Kansas Railroad Company through. Indian Territory. Registers of Land OfficesPierce H. Ryan, Humboldt, Cal. ; W. E. Copeland, Carson City, Kev. ; Richard McC loud, Durango, Col. ; J. L. Camp, Precott, Arizona Postmasters Fannie D. Porter, 1 Paso, Tex. ; Thomas H. Perrin, Alton, 111. : James Able, Au burn, 111. ; John J. Ankeny, Minneapolis, Minn, ; S. Curtis Symonds, Hudson, Wis. , James McDonald, Ligonier, Tnd. ; Frederick A. Edwards, Webster City, Iowa ; Joseph J. Topliff, Longniont, Col. In the House of Representatives Mr. Morrison called up the proposed change of rule making it in order to amend ft general pension bill by adding a provision for rhe imposition of a tax to meet the expenditures required by the bill. A long and hot debate en sued. The debate took a wide range, and although in its opening stages it presented the rare spectacle of the rival leaders of the majority party, Mr. Randall and Mr. Morrison, in apparent accord, they soon fell to belaboring each other in good set terms. Mr. Mor? rison and General Brae? maintained that the

jcvanaau 1 action, in voting against consideration of the tariff bill, had violated the pXeiges contained in the "platform" of 18S4. Mr. Randall, on the contrary claimed that his court e In the House upon the tariff question had been in entire accord with the "spirit of the aforesaid platform, and resented the criticisms upon his conduct with much warmth. A motion by Mr. Reed to lay Mr. Morrison's motion on the table was defeated, and the motion went over. Ni ie vetoes of private pension bills were laid before the House, and referred. Several of the President's terse sentences and ironical suggestions were greeted with applause and laughter. Mr. Morrison informed the House that he had concluded for the present not to renew his motion to go into committee of the whole on the turiff bill. President Cleveland sent in seven vetoes of private pension bills to the Senate June 3X The Senate voted to reconsider tha vote by which it had passed the bill prohibrtfng Congressmen from acting as attorneys f 6r land-grant railroads, and the measure was then referred to the Judiciary Committer In discus sing the matter, Mr. Beck, said ho was mmself lawyer, and would not place an indignity on tbe profession of the law. When elected to Congress, however, he found that his public duties required all his time -not being possessed of the transcendent abilities that the Senator from New York perhaps possessed. The country believed' that the S5.OJ0 a year received by Senators and Representatives in Congress entitled the people to their whole services, and if Senators or Representatives could not live on that compeiuatiou they hod no right to supplement it by taking fees from corporation! whose interests were adverse to those of the peoples The entire legislative day in the Hoise was occupied by the Republicans in filibustering to prevent the Democrats from adopting a rule which would result in setting apart for the benefit of pensioners the revenues to be derived from

a tax on incomes. Messrs. Morrison and Randall have fought shoulder to shoulder in this fight, and only ten Democrats, including Messrs. Townshend and Worthington, of Illmo s, aided the Republican opposition. Nothing occurred to break the uninteresting round of roll-cans except an occasional pass between Morrison and members on the Republican side. The letter frequently proposed to improve the time by going on with the appropriation bills or with the Blair pension bill. Randall replied that he would take care of the appropriation bills, and Morrison informed them that there would be no trouble about the pension bill if the Republicans would agree to amend it by proi ling for a tix to meet the expenditures that would result from its passage. The proceedings were conducted in good temper on both ak es, and were ended by the arrival of the fixed )u?ur for adjournment. The Democrats did not have a quorum at any time, and the Sergeant-nt-arms waB unable to ft&d any of the absenteea in the city. Major Simmons and A. T. Pattillo of Gwinnett, Ga., saw what they thought was a very large moccasin soake on the bank of aond. Sirimons fired a shot at the snake and killed it. On examination he found that there were four snakes in the bunch and that he had killed them all. The word embossed was formerly applied to a deer when foaming at the mouth. It was once usual to call a pack of 'lounds a cry.