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THURSDAY, JUL'"

George Francis Train says a Turkish bath will cure hydrophia. But it hasn't cured George of his little case of rabies.

SHAKESPEARE'S "Merchant ofVen ice" has been translated into Sanscrit and into a language called Tarnyl, whatever that is.

CONSIDER the bovine of the streets how she thrives. She is not fed at home neither is she cared for, but Nebechadnezzar in all his misery did not fill his belly with other peoples grass like one of these.,..

DISPATCHES of this morning indicate that the Orangemen of Montreal have reconsidered their determination, and will not parade, as proposed, on the 12th inst By this decision, perhaps, blood-shed ha been averted.

LOOKING GLASS' course is well nigh run. He is now cornered in the mountains by the regulars. Looking Glass should have reflected.—[St. Louis Joural.

How can you image ine such a mirs rorcle? rtV

W AT are you going to do about it, was an expression Tweed invented, but it i6 being used very vigorously by persons who are trying to move the Post Office from its present central location in opposition to the wish of nine tenths of the business men and citizens of Terre Haute.

MR. WILDMAN, representing the postoffice department, was in the city this morning, to take into consideration the qvestion of locating the postoffice. If Mr. Wildman will take the pains to go over the city and consult the business men and citizens ot Terre Haute he will find almost absolute unanimity on the question. The people want it to Jemain just where it is. In its present locatio it is entirely satisfactory to the people.

THURSDAY ot thi? week is Orange aay and will be celebrated at Montreal, Canada, by a grand parade ot the Orangemen. Great fears are entertained by the authorities that the procession will be molested by the hereditary enemies of the Orangemen* and there is some apprehension that it will not be unattended with blo6d«hed. Both sides seem to be concentrating their forces and-arming. An idea of the prospect may be gained from the tact that the metropolitan press is sending representatives to Montreal, with a view of giving the mat ter full attention in their telegraphic columns. Where news is likely to be, there will be found the reporter with his pencil and Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ,, fcif 7* r*.

EIGHTEEN HUNDR*D-AND-SEVENTY-SEVEN appears to be determined to bear, off the balm in the matter of storms. Beginning witn Mount Camel, scarcely a day has named without a disastrous storm in some section of the country Here in Terre Hvute we have had three all of which did more or less damage, and other sections of the state and of the Union hay§ been equally unfortunate. The telegraphic Columns of the GAZETTE yesterday contained an account of a very distructive storm in Wisconsin, which did great damage to property and was not wholly unattended with loss of life. The dispatch in to-day's paper, indicate that Ontario £and Poughkeepsie New York, were likewise visited by tornadoes though of less violence than that which visited Wisconsin. The wind must take its place along with fires and floods as an active enemy of mankind.

Seven hundred and twenty-three converts to the Mormon faith arrived at New York on Saturday on the Steamer Wisconsin. They were of almost all the European Nationalities. Among them were Danes, Svfeedes, English, Welsh, Noruegians, Germians, Swiss, and Hollanders. Over one-half of them, however, were iDanes.

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guaid over them

was a Mormon Bishop who had been in Europe on missionary duty for over a year. In many of the countries mentioned regular Mormon churches haye been established and the doctrines of the church, together with its miraculous history and marvel ous preservation are constantly preached. Polygamy is only indirectly referred to tand in no way practiced abroad. In view of this remarkable emigration it becomes a pertinent question whether the civil ization of this country is not a fraud.

THE SCHOOLTEACHER AT BOT-

It eertainly was hard* What was the freedom of a country in which the voice of the original founders was spent in vain Had not they, the "Forty-niners" of Bottle Flat, really started the place? Hadn't they located claims there? Hadn't they contributed three ounces each, ostensibly to set up in business a brother miner who unfortunately lost an arm, but really that a saloon might be opened, and the genuineness and stability of the camp be assured? Hadn't they promptly killed or scared away every Chinaman who had ever trailed his celestial pig-tail into the Flat? Hadn't they cut and beaten a trail to Placerville, so that miners could take a run to that city when the Flat became too quiet? Hadn't they framed the squarest betting code in the whole diggings? And when a 'Frisco man basely attempted to break up the carnp by starting a gorgeous saloon a few miles up the creek, hadn't they gone up in a body and cleared him out, giving him only ten minutes in which to leave the creek for ever? All this they had done, actuated only by a stern sense of duty, and in the patient anticipation of the reward which traditionally crowns virtuous action. But now—oh. ingratitude of republic*!—a schoolteacher was to be forced upon Bottle Flat in spite of all the protest which they, the oldest inhabitants, had made!

Such had been their plaint for davs, but the said excitement had not been productive of any fights, fur the few married men in the camp prudently absented themselves at night from "The Nugget" saloon, where the matter was fiercely discussed every evening. There was, therefore, such an utter absence of diversity of opinion, that the most quarrelsome searched in vain for provocation.

On the afternoon of the d&y on which the events of this story occurred, the boys, by agreement, stopped work two hours earlier than usual, for the stage usually reached Bottle Flat about two hours before sundown, and the one of that day was to bring the hated teacher. The boys had wellnigh given up the idea of further resistance, yet curiosity has a small place even in manly bosoms, and they could at least look hatred at the detested pedagogue. So about tour o'clock they gathered at The Nugget so suddenly that several fathers, who were calmly drinking inside, had barely time to escape through the back windows.

The boys drank several times before composing themselves into their accustomed seats, and leaning-places but it was afterward asserted, and Southpaw— the one-armed barkeeper—cited as evidence, that none of them took sugar in their liquor. They subjected their sorrow to homeopathic treatment by drinking only the most raw and rasping fluids that the bar afforded.

The preliminary drinking over, they moodily whittled, chewed, and exf ectorated a stranger would have imagined them a batch of miserable criminals awaiting transportation.

The silence was finally broken by a decided- looking red-haired man, who had been neatly beveling the door-post with his knife, and who spoke as it his words only by great difficulty escaped bein^ bitten in two. "We kin burn down the schoolhouse right before his eyes, and then mebbe the State Board Ml git our idees about eddycation." "'Twon't be no use, Mose," said Judge Barber, whose legal title was honorary, and conferred because he had spent some time in a penitentiary in the east. "Them State Board fellers is wrong, but they've got grit, an they'd never hev got the' schoolhouse done after we rode the contractor out uv the Flat onone of his own boards. Besides, some uv 'em migh think we wuz rubbm' uv it in, an' next thing yeu know'd they'd be build in' us a jai."

Can't we buy off these young uns' folks?" queried an angular fellow from Southern Illinois, "they're a mizzable pack of 6hotes, an' I b'lieve they'd all leave the camp for a few ounces."

4,Ye-es,"drawled

the judge, dubiously

"but thar's the widder Ginneys—she'd pan out a pretty good school room full with her eight young uns, an* there ain't ounces enough in the diggin's to make her leave, while Tom Ginney's coffin's roostin' under the rocks." *'Then," said Mose, the first speaker, his words escaping with even more difficulty than before, "throw around keards to see who's to marry the widder, an' goss her young uns. The fellow that bits the fust Jack's to do the job." "Meanin' no insult ^to this highly respectable ciowd," said the judge in a very bland tone, and inviting it to walk up to the bar, and specify its consolation, "I don't b'leeve there's one uv yer the widder'd hev." The judge's eye glanced along the line! at the bar, and he continued softly, but in decided accents—"Not a cussed one. But," added the judge, passing his pouch to the barkeeper, "if anything's to be done, it must be done lively, fur the stage is pretty nigh here. Tell ye what's ez good ez enny thing. We'll crowd around the stage fust throwin'keards for who's to put out his hoof to be accidentally trod onto by the infernal teacher ez he gits out. Then satisfaction must be took ont uv the teacher. It'll be a mean job, for these teachers hevn't the spunk of a coyote, and ten to one he won't hev no shootin' irons, so the job'U hey to be done with fiifts." "Good!" said Mose. "The crowd drinks with me to a square job, add no backin'. Chuck the pasteboards, jedge -The—dickens!'' For Mose had got first Jack. 'Square job, and no backin'," said the judge, with a grin. "There's the 6tage now—hurry up, fellers!"

The stage drew up with a crash in front of The Nugget, and the passengers, outside and in, but none looking teacherish, hurried into the saloon. Tne boysscarcely knew whether to swear from disappointment or gratification, when a start from Mose drew their attention again to the stage. On the top step appeared a small shoe, above which was visible a small section of stocking far whiter and smaller than is usual in the mines. In an instant a similar shoe appeared on the lower step, and thejxys saw, successively, the edge of a dress a bright muffler, and a pleasant face covered with brown hair, and a bonnet. Then they heard a cheerful yoice say: "I'm the teacher, gentlemen—can any one show me the schoolhouse?"

The miserable Mose looked ghastly, and tottered. A suspicion of a wink graced the judge's eye, but he exclaimed in a stern, low tone, "Square job, an'

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no bodkin',* upon which Mose took to his heels and the Placerville trial. The judge had been a married man, so he promptly answered: "I'll take yer thar,mum. ez soon ez I git yer baggage." "Thank you," said the teacher "that valise under the seat is all."

The judge extracted small valise marked "Huldah Brown," offered his ann, and he and the teacher walked off before the astonished crowd as naturally as if the appearance of a .modest-look-ing young lady was an ordinary occurance at the Flat.

The stage refilled, and rattled away from the dumb and staring crowd, and the judge returned. "Well, boys," said he, "yer got to marry two women now, to stop that school, an'you'll find this un more particler than the widder. I just tell yer what it is about that school—it's agoin' to go on. spite uv any jackasses that wants it broke up an' any gentleman that's insulted ken git satisfaction by "Who wants it broke up, you old fool?" demanded Toledo, a man who had been named after the city trom which he had come, and whe had been from the first one of the fiercest opponents of the school. I move an appointment uv a committee of three to wait on the teacher, if school wants anything money can buy, take up subscriptions to git it, an' lay out any feller that don't come down with the dust when he's went fur." "Hurray!" "Bully!" "Good!" "Sound!" "Them's the talk!" and other sympathetic expressions, were heard from the members of the late anti-school party.

The judge, who. by virtue of age, was the master oi ceremonies and general moderator of the camp, promptly appointed a committee, consisting of Toledo and two miners, whose attire appeared the most respectable in the place, and instructed them to wait on the schoolmarm, and tender her the cordial support of the miners.

Early the next morning the committee called at the school house, attached to which were two small rooms in which teachers are expected to keep house.

The committee found the teacher "putting to rights" the schoolroom^

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dress was tucked up, her sleeves rolled, her neck hidden by a bright handkerchief, and her hair "a-blowin'all to glory," as Toledo afterward expressed it. Be tween the exertion, the bracing air, and the excitement caused by the newness of everything, Miss Brown's pleasant face was almost handsome. "Mornin, marm," said Toledo, raising a most shocking hat, while the remaining committ-men expeditiouly ranged themselves behind him, so the teacher might by no chance look into their eyes, "Good-morning gentlemen," said Miss Brown, with a cheerful smile "please be seated. I suppose you wish to speak of your children?''

Toledo, who was a very yonng man, blushed, and the whole committee was as uneasy upon its feet as if its boots had been soled with fly-blisters. Fnalty, Toledo answered: "Not much, marm, seein' we hain't got none. Me an' these gentlemen's a committee from the boys." "From the boys?" echoed Miss Brown. She had heard so mpny wonderful thing.s about the Golden State, that now she soberly wondered whether bearded men called themselves boys, and went to school. "From the miners, washin' along the crick, marm—they want to know what they can do for yer," continued Toledo. "I am very grateful," said Miss Brown "but I suppose the local school committee "Don't count on them, marm," interrupted Toledo "they're living five mile away, and they're only the preacher, an' doctor, an' a feller that's j'ined the church lately. None uv 'em but the doctor ever show themselves at the saloon, an' he only comes when there's a diffikilty, an, he's called in to officiate. But the boys has got the dust, marm, and they've got the will. One of us'll be in often to see what can be done fur yer. Good mornin', marm."

Toledo raised his hat again, the other committeeman bowed profoundly to all the windows and seats, and then the whole retired, leaving Miss Brown in the wondering possession of an entirely new experience. "Well?" inquired the crowd, as the committee approached the creek. "Well," replied Toledo, "she's just a hundred and thirty pound nugget, an' no mistake—hey, fellers. "You bet," promptly responded the remainder of the committee. "Good!" said the judge. "What does she want?" w,

Toledo's countenance fell. "By thunder!" he replied, we got out 'fore she had a chance to tell us!"

The judge stared sharply upon the young man, and hurriedly turned to hide a merry twitching ef his lips.

That afternoon the boys were considerably astonished and scared at seeing the schoolmistress walking quickly toward the creek. The chairman of the new committee was fully equal to the occasion. Mounting a rock he roared: "Youfellers without no sherts on, git You with shoos off, put 'em on. Take your pants out uv yer boots. Hats «ff when the lady comes: Hurry up, now— no foolin'."

The shirtless ones took a lively doublequick toward some friendly bushes, the boys rolled down their 6leeves anu pantaloons, and one or two took the extra precaution to wash the mud off their boots.

Meanwhile Miss Brown approached, and Toledo stepped forward. "Anythingwrong up at the schoolhouse? said he. "Oh, no," replied Miss Brown, "but I have always had a great curiosity to see how gold was obtained. It seems as if it must be very easy to handle those little pans. Don't you—don't you suppose some miner would lend me his pan and let me try just once?" "Certainly, marm ev'ry galoot ov 'em would be glad of the chance. Here, you fellers—who*6 got the cleanest pan?"

Half a dozen men washed out their pans, and hurried off with them. Toledo selected one, put in dirt and water, and handed it to Miss Brown. •'Thar you are, marm, but I'm afeard you'll wet your dress." "Oh, that won't harm," cried Miss Brown, with a laugh which caused one enthusiastic miner to "cut the pigeonwing."

She got the miner's touch to a nicety, and in a moment had a spray of dirty water ffying from the edge of the pan, while ail the boys stood in a respectful semicircle, and started delightedly. The pan empty, Toledo refilled it several times and finally, picking out some pebbles aug hard pieces of earth, pointed to

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the dirty, shiny deposite in the bottom of the pan, and briefly remarked 1/ "Thar 'tis, marm." "Oh!"screamed Miss Brown, with delight "is that really gold dust?" 'That's it," said Toledo. "Ill jest put it up fur yer, so yer ken kerry it. "Oh, no," said Miss Brown. "I couldn't think of—it isn't mine." "You washed it out, marm. an' that makes a full title in these parts.

All of the traditional honesty ot New England, came into Miss Brown's face in an instant and, although she, Yankee-like, estimated the value of the dust, and sighingly thought how much easier it was to win gold in that way than by forcing ideas into stuoid little heads, she firmly declined the gold, and bade the crowd a smiling good-by. "Did yer see them little fingers uv hern a-hd!din' out that pan?—did yer see her, fellers?" inquired an excited miner. "Yes, an'the way she made that dirt git, ez though she was useder to washin' than wallopin'," said another. "Wallopin'," echoed a staid miner. "I'd gie my claim, an' throw in my pile to boot, to be a young 'un, and git walloped by them playthings of.ban's." "Jest see how she throwedj dirt an water on them boots," said another, extending an enormous ugly boot. Them boots iin't fur sale now—them ain't." "Them be durned!" contemptuously exclaimed another. "She tranped right on my toes as she backed out uv the crowd."

Every one looked jealously at the last speaker, and a grim old fellow suggested that the aforesaid individual had obtained a trampled fool by fraud, and that each man in camp had, consequently, a right to demand tatisfaction of him.

But the judge decided that he of the trampled foot was right, and that any miner who wouldn't take such a chance, whether fraudulently or otherwise, hadn't the spirit of a man in him.

Yankee Sam, the shortest man in camp, withdrew from the crowd, and paced the banks of the creek, lost it thought.

Within half an hour Sam was owner of the only store in the place, had doubled the prices ot all articles of clothing contained therein, and increased at least six fold the price of all the white shirts.

Next day the sun rose on Bottle Flat in his usual conservative and impassive manner. Had he respected the dramatic proprieties, he would have appeared with astonished face and uplifted hands, for seldom had a whole community changed so completely in a single night.

Uncle Hans, the only German in the camp, had spent the proceeding afternoon in that patient investigation for which the Teutonic mind is so jDstly noted.

The morning sun saw over Ilun's door a sign, in charcoal, which read, "Shavin' Dun Ilier and few men went to the creek that morning without submitting themselves to Hans'hands

Then several men who had been absent from the salpon the night before straggled into camp, with jaded mutes and new attire.

Caiondelet Joe came in. clad in a pair of pants, on which slender saffron-hued serpents ascended graceful gray Corinthian columns, while from under the collar of anew v?hite shirt, appeared a cravat, displaying most of the lines of the solar spectrum.

Flii3h, the Flat champion at poker, came In late in the afternoon, with a hugh watch-chain and an overpowering bosom-pin, and his horrid fingers sported at least one seal-ring each.

Several stove-pipe hats were visiable in camp, and even a pair of gloves were reported in the pocket of a miner.

Yankee Sam had sold out his entire stock, and prevented bloodshed over his only bottle of hair oil by putting it up at a raffle, in forty chances, at an ounce a a chance. His stock of white shirts, seven in number, were viziable on manly forms his pocket-combs and glasses were all gone and there had been a steady run on needles and thread. Most of the miners were smoking new white clay pipes, while a few thoughtful ones hoping for a repetition of the events of the previous day, had scoured their pans to dazzling brightness.

As for the innocent cause of all this commotion, sl.e was fully as excited as the miners themselves. She had never been outside of Middle Bethany until s.lie btaricd for California. Everything on the trip had been strange, and her stopping place and its people were stran? get* than all. The ma'.e population of Middle Bethany, as is usual with 6mall New England villages, consisted .almost en'it ely of very young boys and very old nit,*". But here at Bottle Flat were iiu- ot" uiddle-aged men,and such funny ones! "She was wild to see more of them, and hcai them talk yet, her wildness was no match for her prudence. She sighed lOithink how slightingly Toledo had spoken of the minister on the local committee, Mid she piously admitted to herself tlut

Toledo and his friends were un-

dotibictUv on the brink of the bottomless pit. and vet—they certainly were very l.ind. If she cou'd only exert a good influence upon these men—but how?

Suddenly she bethought herself of the grand social centre of Middle Bethany— uic siugitg-school. Of course she couldn't start a singing-school at Bottle Flat, but if she were to say the children needed to be led in singing, would it be very hypocritical? The might invite in vi such of the minera as were musically inclined to lead the school in singing in the morning, and thus she might, perhaps, remove some of the prejudice which, she had been informed, existed against tbe school.

She broached the subject to Toledo, aud that faithful official had nearly every miner in camp at the school-house that same evening. The judge brought a fid die, Uncle Hans came with a cornet, and Yellow Pete came grinning in with his darling banjo.

There was a little disappointment all around when the boys declared their ig nuiance of "GreenviHe" and "Bonny Doon," which airs Miss Brown decided were most easy for the children to begin with but when it was ascertained that the former was the air to "Saw My Leg Off' and the latter was identical with the "Three Black Crows," all friction was removed, and the melodioue howling attracted the few remaining boys at the saloon, and brought them up in a body, led by the bar-keeper himself.

The exact connection between melody and adoration is yet an unsolved religiopsychological problem. But we all know that everywhere in the habitable globe the two intermingle, and stimulate each other, whether the adoration be offered to heavenly or earthly objects.

And so it came to pass that, at the Bottle F^iat singing-school, the boys looked)

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straight at the teacher while they raised their tuneful voices that they came ridiculously early, so as to get front seats and that they purposely sung out of tune, once in a while, so as to be personally addressed by the teacher.

And she—pure, modest, prudent, and refined—saw it all, and enjoyed it intensely. Of course, it coulu never go any further, for there was io Middle Bethany no moneyed aristocracy, the best families scorned alliances with any who were ui»degeneraite, and would not be uuequallj yoked with those who drank, swore, and gambled, letfcione the fearful suspicion of murder, which Miss Brown's imagination affixed to every man at the Flat.

But the boys themselves—considering the unspeakable contempt which had been manifested in the camp for the profession of teaching, and tor all who practiced it—the boys exhibited a condescension truly Christian. They vied with each other in manifesting ft, and, though the means were not always the most appropriate, the honesty of the sentiment could not be doubted.

One by one the greaterpart of the bovs after adoring and hoping, saw for themselves that Mis,s Brown could never be expccted to change her name at their solicitation. :3adder but better men, they retired from the contest, and solaced themselves by betting on the chances of those still "on the track," as an ex-jockey tersely expressed the situation.

There was no talk of "false-hearted beauty" or "fair temptress,'' such as men often hear in society, tor not only had all ihij tenderness emanated from manly breasts alone, but it had never taken form

of words. Soon the hopeful

we're rlduced to

half a dozen of these. Yankee Sam was the favorite among the betting men, for Sam, knowing the habits of New England darpsels, went to Placerville one Friday, and returned next day with a horse and buggy. On Sunday he triumphantly drove Miss Brown to the nearest church, Ten to one was offered on Sam that Sunday afternodr, as the boys saw the demur and contented look 011 Miss Brown's race as she returned from church. But Samuel followed in the sad footsteps ot many other great men, for so industriously did he drink to his own success, that he speedily developed into a bad case of delirium tremens

Then Carondelet Joe, calmly confident in the influence of his wonderlul pants, led all odds in betting. But one evening, when Joe had managed to gel hitnseli in the front row and directly before the little teacher, that lady turned her head several times, and showed signs of discomtort when it finally struck the latter that the human breath might, perhaps, wait toward a lady perfumes more agreeable than those of mixed drinks, he abruptly quilted the school and the camp.

Flush, the poker champion, carried wilh him to the singing-school that as tounding impudence which had long been the terror and admiration of the camp. But a quality which had always seemed exactly the thing when applied to poker seemed to the boys barely endurable when displayed toward MisB Brown.

One afternoon, Flush indiscreetly indulged in some triumphant and rather slighting remarks about the little teacher. Within fifteen minutes Flubh's final earthly home had been excavated, and an amateur undertaker was makiug his coffin.

An nntimely proposal by a good-look-ingyoung Mexican, and his prompt rejection, left the race between Toledo and a Frenchman named Lecomto. It also left Miss Brown considtrably frightened

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until now she had imagined nothing more serious than the rude admiration which had so delighted her at first.

Bui now who knew but some one else would be ridiculous? Poor little Miss Brown suffered acutely at the thought of giving pain, and determined to be more demure than ever.

But alas! even her agitation seemed to make her more charming to her two remaining lovers.

Had the boys at the saloon comprehended in the" least the cause of Miss crown's uneasiness, they would have promptly put both Lecointe and Toledo out of the camp or out oi the world. But to their good natured, conceited minds it meant only that she was confused and unable to decide, and unlimited betting was done, to be settled upon the retirement of either of the contestants.

And while patriotic feeling influenced the odds rather in Toledo's 4'avor, it was fairly admitted that the Frenchman was a formidable rival

To all the grace of manner, and the knowledge of women that seems to run in Gallic blood, he was a man of tolerable tdacation and excellent taste Besides, Miss Brown was so totally different trom French women, that every development of her character afforded him an entirely new sensation and doubled his devotion.

Toledo stood his ground manfully though the boys considered it a very bad sign when he stopped drinking, and spent hours in pacing the ground in front of his hut, with his hands behind him, and his eyes fixed on the ground.

Finally, when he was seen one day to throw away his faithful old pipe, heavy betters hastened to "hedge as well a6 they might.

Besides, as one of the boys tiuthfully observed, "He couldn't begin to wag a jaw along with that Frenchman."

But, like many other young men, he could talk quite eloquently with his eyes, and as the language of the eye is always direct and purely grammatical, Miss Brown understood everything they said, and, to her great horror, once or twice barely escaped talking back.

The poor little teacher was about to make the whole matter a subject of special prayer, when a knock at the door startled her.

She answered it. and beheld the home ly features of the judge '1 just come in to talk a little matter that's been botherin' me some time. Ye'l pardon me ef I talk a little plain?" said he. "Certainly," replied the teacher, wondering if he, too, had joined her persecutors. "Thank ye," said the judge, looking relieved, "It's all right. I've got darters to hum ez big ez you be, an I want to talk toyer ez ef yer was one uv em."

The judge looked uncertain for a moment and then proceeded: "That feller Toledo's dead in love with yer—uv course yer know it, though 'tain't likely he's told yer. All I want to say is drop him kindly. He's been took so bad sence you come, that he's stopped drinkin, an' smokin' an' chewin' an' cussin', an' hasen't played a game at The Nugget, sence the first singing school night. Mebbe this ain't much to you, but you've read hot.'

®boot the woman that was spol* well ov Air doin* what she could. the first feller I've ever seen in the diggin's that went back on all the comforts uv life, an' —an' I've been a young man myself an' know how big a claim it's been fur him to Work. I ain't got the heart to see him: spiled now but he will be ef, when yer hev to drop him, yer don't do it kindly.'

An'—just one thing more—the quicker he's out uv his misery the better." The old jail-bird screwed a tear out of* his eye wilh a dirty kn ickle, and departed abruptly, leaving the little teacher just about ready to cry hersrlf*

But before she was qui'.e ready, another knock startled her. She opened the door and let in Tole do himself. "Good-evenin.'rtafm,*'said he grave-' ly. I just come in to make my last 'fficial call, seenin' I'm going away to- 4?' morrer. Ez there anything the schoolhouse wants I ken get an'send from-^

Frisco?" "Goingaway!" ejaculated the teacher* heedless ot the remainder of Toledo's sentence. 1 "Yes marm goin' away fur good. Fact is, I've been tryin* to behave myself lately, and I find I need more com-* pany at it than I git about the diggin's,** j'm goin' some place whar I ken learn to' be a gentleman I feel like bein'—to be| decent an' honest, an' useful an' there ain't anybody here that keers to help a feller tnat way—nobody."

The ancestors of the Browns of Mid- s* blfe Bethany was at Lexington on that., memorable morning in '75, and all of hia-v promptness and his courage, ten times multiplied, swelled the heart of his trem-T ling little descendant, as she faltered out:* "There'sone." •'Who?" asked Toledo, before he could raise his eyes.

But though Miss Brown answered not 1 a word, he did not repeat his question, for such a rare crimson came into the1''''' little teacher's face, that he hid it away,, in his breast, and acted as if he would never let it out again.

Another knock at the door.' Toledo dropped intc a chair, and Miss Brown hastily smoothered her hair, opened the door, and again 6aw thef judge. "I jest dropped back to say com-1^ inenced the judge, when his eye fell up-, on Toledo.

He darted a quick glance at the teach-, er, comprehended the situation at once, and with aloud shout of "Out of his misery.by thunder I" started on a run to car- -, ry the news to the saloon.

Miss Brown completed her term, and then the minister, who was on the local Board, was called in to formally make|*f her tutor for life to a larger pupil. Lecomte, with true French gallantry, insisted on being groomsman, and the judge" gave away the bride. The groom, who gave a name very difierentfrom any ever heard at the Flat, placed on the bride's^, finger a ring, inscribed within, "Made? from gold washed by Huldah Brown:"^ The little teacher has increased the num ber of her pupils by several, and hen latest one calls her grandma.

CAPTURING WHITE WHALES

ANew York Sun correspondent has a very interesting account of the capture, of white whales tor the New York and

THE LAST MOODY STORY. From tbe Springfield Republican The Hinsdale butcher drove past Monday. Moody ran out. ''Beefsteak?" "Yes." "When kUled?" said the Evange-

METEOROLOGICAL INFORMA TION... Loni»vllle Courier-Journal.

Coney Island aquariums from their na- "x tive haunts at the Isle aux Condres in the St. Lawrence, seventy miles below Qjjebe re a it re on a a business of spearing porpoises for their', oil, taking now and then a white whalei' the larger of which are preserved for the the aquariums as they are required fronv, time to time. These whales are timid, stu-t pid creatures. In pursuit of small fish they run up close to the Rhore, and the.,, 4 fishermen corral them by planting stakes at distances nearly two feet apart, in a line enclosing a parallelogram a mile in ,.r width, and extended three-quarters of p. mile from shore seaward. As the tide recedes, the whales find themselves with-

in this enclosure. One of the big whales could swoop down a score of these stakes 1 by a single dash at them, and there is.." even room tot him to dart between with ,.: ~ut touching them yet so cowardly is he that these slender obstructions suffice toturn him. He will rush seaward to within a yard of the fence, then wheel in wild affright and dart back towards shore, and so aimlessly exhaust himself, while the water is constantly growing more and more shallow. At last he lies*, helplessly stranded. None have ever been known to break through the barrier and escape. The boxing up and transportation ot these big fish to New '], York is a great labor, and it often takes' thirty strong men several hours to get one of the monsters into his traveling case. Once in his box water has to be poured over the backs and blow holea*' of the imprisoned whales every five minutes. That water-pouring, bjr the way, is a monotonous and tiresome job, which must be continued without intermission' during the next ninety hours, while the'' whales are carried by schoner to Quebec, thence by ra*'l via Montreal and Albany,' to New York. The water in which7 they lie must not cover their blow holes, else, as they have not room to move, they would be unable to rise and breathe, and would consequently drown yet •. they must be kept constantly wet. So, their boxes are tight only as far up from the bottom as their eyes. Above that

line there are cracks for the surplus waiter to flow off, and a man must stand over them until they can be got into a' tank, dipping from the river while in the-' schooner, or from a hogshead while in ~t the cars, and drenching them all the' time.

list, approaching the cart. "Yesterday." "I don't want any meat killed on Sunday.' Butcher drives on, soliloquizing sot to voce. Returns Thursday, passing the Moody residence, full drive. Moody hails him again. "Beefsteak?" "Yes." "Bringin ten pounds." "We don't take money earned on Sunday!" and butcher drives on. Appears on Monday morn-, ing again. Moody on the watch. "Beefsteak?" "Yes." Lays in a large stock no qnestions asked.

This is the kind of weather which re minds people of that passage in Henry Ward Beecher's clerical life, when he"* mounted the pulpit one July Sunday" morning and remarked: "It's d—d