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“ I wish you would turn mo som e other w ay.” Tho \vealUcr-viuie said to the wind, one day;“ I am turned to tho north, and the people

com plainThat the wind is cold, that it brings no rain.”

"V e ry w ell,” said tho w ind, “ to the south you shall g o ;

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Tho cold ot tho north shall give place to tho balm

That com es from the region o f cane and o f p alm .” -

“ W hat say they?” was heard, as tho wind re­turned; ,

“ They say they are melted, and boiled, and burned,

For tho sun is so hot and the air is so dry They scarcely can lift lo m y height their eye.”

“ Then I’l l give them a change—I will blow from tho east,

A nd seo if their com fort is thereby increased; A breeze from that quarter so piercing I'll

sweepThat they cannot com plain of languor or

sleep.”

“ W ell, mhnt do they say ! said tho w ind, onoo m ore;

“ Oh dear, it is worse than it was before;For they all have colds, and they frown at me, A s if I the cause of tho wind could be!”“ For a final resort, tho west wo will try .!’The wind muttered, m ounting again on high; “ But I warn you, m y dear, that i t will not he

StrangeI f nothing encouraging follow the change.”

“ W lm t n ow !” said tho wind, appearing again, And noting the face o f the dubious vane; “ W hy, they tliinlc all oar iilans aro entirely

wrong,For the s.-a is too ltigb, aud tho wind Is too

Strong,”

“ W ell, then,” said the wind, com ing round with a gust,

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moroThan, with all our trying, wo suited before."—Prairie Farmer.

The Match That Make.

Did Not

B T N . B . D ABL1N G .

“ Yow, Dick, that’ll never do. Xou lire g o in g straight to destruction by the shortest cut, and it is my duty, us a friend, much more as a brother, .to warn you.”

“An, indeed!”That was Diclc, my brother, the

handsomest, best-hetirted fellow to be found in the country. He looked at me smilingly, holding Ills cigar dainti­ly between bis middle fingers, so that the smoke curled lazily up around his handsome face.

“ So you think I am going to destruc­tion, eb, Jim V”

‘•LooK at these bills, Hick, and then calculate how long it will take you to run your property through, at the present rate you're traveling.”

And I pushed a pile o f slips o f paper across the table.

“What’s the use? I always hated bills. I f they would sum it all up, and give me the amount on a slip of paper, I should like it so much better than these horrid details, so much for this and so much for that; why it is enough to drive a nervous man crazy.”

“But if you had to earn the money, my dear Dick—”

“ But I don’t have to, so we’ll have no it ’s about it.”

“ Butyou may have to.”“That so? Why, I thought I was

'clrawiim it uncommonly mild. What shall I do, Jim?”

“B o? Why, live within your in­come.”

“ W ell?”“Settle down.”“A h! You wouldn’t recommend

matrimony, Jim ?”“ Certainly I do.”Now, 1 couldn’t help blushing when

I said that, for you see I ’m a bachelor of forty-five. I always feel, when ad­vising young men to marry, just as I did during the rebellion, when I was advising all my rriends to go to war, but remained at home myself.

“ Were you ever in love,' Jim ?”“1 in love? Why—oh, no, of course

not.”And my thoughts went wandering

off in search of a pretty damsel, whom, if I did not love, 1 greatly admired.

Dick burst out laughing.“I should say from the woe-be-gone

expression of your countenance, Jim, that you have been disappointed.”

I sighed. Thoughts of sweet Annie always cause a sigh, and sometimes a tear.

“Ho, Dick, upon mature delibera­tion, I don’t think I ever loved—unless I do now,” I added to myself.

Dick laughed again.It is comical to hear an old bachelor

talk soft nonsense; and my brother always laughs at me when he finds I am in the melting mood as lie calls it.

“You’re so confounded serious, Jim, one would think it was a matter of life and death. Pudge! I have been in love a dozen times, more or less,” lie said.

I stared at Dick. That was quite beyond my comprehension. Pact is, the boy always puzzles me.

“You don’t mean it, Dick?” I cried. “ Of coarse I do. Why, if you doubt

my word, I can give you the names, all in black and white, and tell you how long the hallucination lasted, to an hour, in .each particular case.”

••Hallucination!”“Yes. Why, Jim, in this enlightened

age, you are not so foolish as to believe that ibis passion called love is any­thing more than a disorder o f the brain, which all young people are- liable to.”

“Disorder of the brain!"“Yes, or course. What c’lo you repeat

my words for?”“ They puzzle me.”Dick smoked for some time in'

silence.. I buried my face in my hands and tried to think. Wa3 Dick right? Pshaw ! a boy of twenty teaching a- man o f forty-five!

What a deuced handsome fellow. .1 was watching him through my fingers. I could not help loving him, for he was- my only remaining brother, and I had. been both father and brother to him since our own father died now nearly ten years ago. We were the last of a- large family. I don’t know that we had a single relative living. Por the last five years we bad boarded here with Mrs. Brown. W e had the two front chambers, and were allowed quite as much liberty as though we were in our own house.

“Hallucination 1” I mattered.“Ha! ha! haven's you digested that-

yet ?” broke in Dick.“Disorder ot the brain!”“Nothing else, old fel, I assure you

on my honor. But you’ll not believe.”- “ Is marri.'ige a—-a—or a desire to

marry, a desorder?”Dick looked exceedingly wise. He

twirled his mustache for a minute or two before be answered,—

“1 opine not. Ahem, I think matri­mony is —well, a sad reality. A newly married man may labor under an hal­lucination for a short time, but it never lasts over three months. I think marriage' is .honorable. I think 1 shalL marry,”

“ I am glad to hear it ”“ There's the dinner bell. I say, Jim,

I am going over to Minton after din­ner; can i do anything for you?”

“Ho, thank you.”1 was going myself. Annie lived in

Minton. We called it two miles around by the road, but only a mile across lots and through woods. The path came out just in the rear of the Widow Pootigal’s house, and in going to see Annie—her daughter—I generally took the path, and flue days Annie came out to meet me.

Dick took the horse after dinner and started for Minton. He didn’t know that Iintended to go. Pact is, I was rather ashamed to letDick know what I was up to. He thought it queer that I should advise any one to marry— what would he have said nad he known that I thought of taking the advice myself?

It was a warm, drowsy afternoon in the month of June. 1 strolled oil down through the meadows, after Dick had left. Farmer Robson had commenced his haying. It was rather early to be su.e, but he always cut two crops from t he Bigly mead; w. I am fond of haying—that is, I like to see it going on. It’s uleasant sport to watch the work, lying comfortably stretched in the shade of an oak or an elm, a white birch is better than noth­ing. The occasional bird note, the fragrance of the hay, and the drowsy hum of the insects, dancing upon noth­ing, give me a feeling of mild rapture.I prefer mild rapture.

In fact, I draw almost everything mild. It’s a habit I ’ve got. I was try­ing to initiate Dick into the same habit, particularly on account of his property. You see we both bad the same amount of money left us upon the death of my father. It was well invested, and the interest was quite sufficient to support a small family, in W u a t would be called, in Minton, good style. Still, you see, there was not a great deal to spare. It supported me, however, handsomely, while poor Dick felt it necessary to draw on the princi­pal.

I was thinking about Dick as I walked along toward Minton. I f he could only marry some smart, sensible young lady like my Annie, what a help she would be to him,' I thought. It w-oiild be money in Dick’s pocket. How, if I could think of some such a oue, that he w ould like, some pretty, agreeable little creature—like my Annie, for instance—I ’d endeavor to make the match.

I had reached the edge of the woods, and throwing myself in the shade of a tall pine tree, 1 laid my hat beside me. and brought ail the young ladies m review before my mind’s eve.

“ Miss Miunegan, why, there’s some property, a few thousand. But then she’s dumpv and twenty-seven—she’ll never do. Bell Puggei ty is pretty, but what a temper! Don’t I remember the time when she clutched her lingers in my hair?” I groaned audibly. I had paid some attention to her once. “She’s twenty-live. Miss Molly Pig- gins, ugly as sin, never'll do. Jennie Higly, pretty.genteel.sensible, but, Oh, what a breath! ‘The breezes that bio *v through orange groves,’ etc. Ho, she’ ll never do. In this nineteenth century everyone ltnowrs the necessity of good air. Miss Flora Dumpling, tine young lady, rather pretty, except that one eye is always gazing intently on the bridge o f her nose. Then she’s got bad teeth and w'ould have to get a new set the day after the marriage. Miss Rodman, handsome and strong- minded. She is exceedingly independ­ent, also very frank and outspoken. She called me an old fool once, but 1 like her. By Georee, why didn’t I think of her before? She’s just the woman for Dick, if he could only see it. But he won’ t; boys never will see what is best for them.”

I got up and walked on then. Part of this affair was settled. I had select the woman that I thought Dick ought to marry, and nothing l-emained now but to make him think so. Perhaps he admired her already. I wondered how far it was from that to love, or what Dick called a disorder o f the brain.

It was only a short distance through the w'oods. The path came out within four rods of Mrs. Pootigal’s back door which opened on the veranda. It was a pretty littlv cottage, painted white, with green blinds and white chimneys .tipped with black—a sort of half mourning costume. The verauda fronted the east, so you see it was cool aa£d shady in the long summer after­noons.

Perhaps it was all on account of this veranda that I found my calls at the cottage so pleasant. It was quite as likely, though, that the attraction lay in the widow or her daughter (strange as it may seem, at one time, I found it difficult to say which). Between the widow, who was called in the village Mrs. Julia, and her daughter, Miss Annie, there was a very strong resem­blance. One was thirty-six, and the other seventeen, and yet it was hard to say wliieh was the most beautiful. In the evening they were often taken for sisters. Hdwever, youth conquered, I found myself in love with Miss Annie. As Dick would have expressed it, for tnree weeks I had been troubled with a disorder of the brain.

How this particular afternoon I in­tended to give the ladies to understand my designs, in a delicate sort of wav, you know. Perhaps I would ask Miss Annie io ride out witli me upon the following day. Yes, I would. You perceive how necessary it was that something of this kind should be done. Here I was visiting two ladies, who resided together, as often as three times a week. Of course they felt that I came to see one o f them. It was a duty that I owed to myself, to the widow and daughter, also, to come to an understanding upon this all-impor­tant question as soon as possible.

Just as I expected, the ladies were out upon the veranda when I arrived. The widow was engaged upon some fine sewing, and the daughter was reading the last new novel aloud to her mother.

“ Why, how do you do, Mr. Jones ?” That was the daughter. I never

liked the name of Joaes, but how sweetly it sounded upon h§r lips/ I f she would only learn to .eaill me Jeems, or some pet name.

“What a stranger you ane.Mir. Jones!” That was the widow. She had a

sweet voice, too. I thought ,-ske was iqiiizzing me, for I was there.only the iday but one before. I told ber so.

“ Can it be possible? Why, I declare, iit seems an age.”

The widow said that. Her daughter ■only smiled, but it was the sweetest smile—like liquid sunshine condensed, fftnd double-refined.- I took a seat upon a low ottoman at the feet of Annie, asking her at the same time to continue her reading, and she did so. 1 listened entranced. Let-mo see, I ’ ve' forgotten the title of the story now. Perhaps it was a volume of poems. Well, we won’t mind lhat, as it was nothing to do with mv story. I don’t read novels. A ll on account o f my being a musty old •bachelor, I suppose*. But' as I said, I was-entranced, but Only with the read­er. 1 wish I could describe her to you, but .pshaw! Just imagine the most

, 'perfectly beautiful woman that, you \ can <conceive' o f—tall* well formed,

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witli dark hair and eyes, and you may have a faint idea of the beauty of An­nie Pootigal.

A t last site closed her book. .“I’ ve read enough for this after­

noon.”“Miss Annie,” I began, “I am going

to Kanleigh to-morrow afternoon. I f it is as pleasant as to-day, perhaps you would like to go ?”

Mother and daughter glanced hastily at each other.

“Coming to an understanding,” thought I.

The widow blushed and the daugh­ter turned pale.

“ Why, ye-s, yes. I shall be pleased to go, thank you, if it is fair,” Annie re­plied.

“Oh, it will be, I am sure. The wind is west,” I replied, delighted with my­self, with Annie, ber mother, and every one else.

I don’t know that I ever did feel quite so elated. I arose to my feet. I ’ve wondered ever since why I didn’t cut a pigeon wing right there and then,I felt so elated.

The shadows were growing long on the grassy plat that rolled back from the veranda. The bright glare of the sun was turning to more rosy hues, and I bethought myself that it was time that I was on my way home, and so bidding the ladies adieu I strolled leisurely down through the woodland path toward home.

Happy as I was I could not keep my mind Irom poor Dick. Perhaps it was because. I was in such good luck that I pitied hint the more.

“Dick must be married,” said I, “and that soon, too.”

I hoped to find him at home, hut I was mistaken; be had not returned from Minton. That was not very strange, for he was often away for two or three days together. Moreover, I determined to wait patiently until his return, but not to allow one moment more to go by without speaidng to him upon this all-important subject.

It was ten o’clock that night when he arrived. 1 heard his step on the stair. I thought how Dick and Miss Rodman—soon to be Mrs. Dick—would thank me for this night’s work. Bab! Republics are not half so ungrateful as husbands and wives are to those disinterested match-makers who labor­ed so zealously to bring them together.

Dick seemed to be out of temper, to judge from his face when he entered the room. I was half a mind to say nothing upon the subject until be should bo in better humor. 1 passed him a cigar to gain time,

“ Thanks.”“ YVhat’s the matter, Dick?” “Hotbing.”It was a regular growl.“I ’ve been thinking of you all the

afternoon. I have some very impor­tant suggestions to make to you.”

"Umph!”“ You remember what we were

speaidng of this morning?”“Reducing expenses, eh ?”“Yes, and. matrimony.”“ Faugh!"‘Tve picked out a wife for you,

Dick.”How his face brightened.“That’s it, eh ? Why, I wondered—” “Yes, yes, it’s all right, my boy.

She’ll have you, I know, and she’il make an excellent wife. I mean Miss Clara Rodman.”

“ The deuce!"Dick began to grow black in the

face. He threw his cigar out of the window and sprang hastily to his feet.

“ What do you mean, Dick?”“ By George, old fellow, we’ve had

humbug enough. I ’m going to have square work now, 1 tell you. I just want you to understand that I am en­gaged. D’ye mind?”

“Engaged!- Whom to?”“ The Widow Pootigals’ daughter

Annie.”“By Jove!”“ That ain’t all. You’ve been hum­

bugging Annie’s mother about long enough. Just make up your mind quick, what you mean, and Jet us have a fair understanding. But there’s one tiling more, you old rascal.” here Dick placed his fist very near my counte­nance, “ if I hear of your going down to Minton again to ask Annie to ride out with you, I ’ll—”

Here he plainly signified that my neck would be wrung.

“ Why—why, Dick, what do .you mean ?”

“ Oh, bother! don’t say any more, you old sinner, I should think you’d he ashamed of yourself, an old sardine like you, trying to court a girl seven­teen years old!”

“Dick!"“Ho, not another word! Just say

you’ ll marry the widow, or by George, I don't want to hear another word, from your mouth. An old rat like you, trying to come your gum-games over two unprotected and nnsuspect- females! I blush for you!”

With that. Dick turned and left the room, leaving me in a state of perfect bewilderment.

I took a solemn vow that night never to attempt to make a match for anyone except myself, and I think I shall keep that vow. I haven’t seen Dick since, though I understand his wedding is expected to take place next week. As for myself, after mature deliberation, I have concluded that the passion known as love is merely a disorder of the brain, consequently, I don't see how I can do better than to marry the widow.— Waverley Magazine.

with pitchforks. The stalks left un­touched by the roller are thoroughly thrashed with flails by women and boys. The well-beaten stalks and straws are then taken out by au in­genious manipulation of the pitchforks, and the chaff is removed by a syste­matic tossing of the golden grain into the air in shovelfuls until the wind blo ws every particle of chaff or dust out of the wheat. Even the chaff is carefully swept up and slowed away for fuel or other useful purposes, such as stuffing matresses, pillows and stable uses. After the wheat is allowed to dry a few hour3 in the boiling sun it is stored away in airy bamboo bins.

IVheat in ordinary years is worth in open market in northern China about 81 per American bushel. The milling process’ is a very ancient one—two round, large blue-stone wheels, with grooves neatly cut in the faces on one side, and in the center of the lower wheel a solid wooden plug, are used. The process of making flour out of wheat by this slow machinery is called “ moh mien” . Usually a horse or mule is employed. The poor, having no an­imals grind the grain themselves.

Three distinct grades of flour are thus produced by this single grain. The “slion mien,” or A grade, is the first siftings; the “nee mein,” qr sec­ond grade, is the grindings of the rough leavings from the first siftings, which is o f a darker and reddish color than the first grade; the last grade, or “mo D,” is the. finely ground last sift­ings of all the grades. When btead is made from this grade it resembles rough gingerbread. This is usually the food of the poorest families, who buy it at something like 20 cents a bushel. The bread of the Chinese is usually fermented and then steamed. Only a very small quantity is baked in ovens. But til© staple articles of food in northern China are corn, mil­let, and sweet potatoes. In the south­ern provisions the entire breadstuff is rice—fiew YorhStin.

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Sam Jones oil Dudes.“Listen: When that girl began the

giddy whirl of the dance in tiie ball­room that was the time to get scared. When you found your boy spending more money than he ought, that was the time to get shocked.

Sow cards and reap gamblers, know I ’m called a trauscendtalist and called a Puritan, but God save my fam ily from cards and profanity, and whisky and dances, and let the world call me what it will.

Sow parlor dances and reap ball­rooms. Sow ball-rooms and reap round dances. Sow round dances and reap dudes and dudines. Sow dudes and dudtnes and reap half a spoonful of calves’ foot jelly. [Applause and laugh­ter renewed again and again.] I wish you wouldn’t laugh any more to-night for I never felt so solemn in my life. For God’s sake hear me with a solem­nity and earnestness wholly worthy of the cause. But you say I say so many funny things. It you only knew how many I have to keep back you wouldn’t blame me for the few which creep out.

Hear me, boys, girls, young ladies of Kansas City! I used to dance. I ’ve danced many a night witli the girls of my town. Hear me. I f I was a fair, average dancing man, and I think I was. then no pure girl can go out on the floor and dance another set. [A voice. ‘Hurrah!’] Young woman, if you could but follow the young man. after he has seen you home, to some bar-room or club aud hear the dissus- sion of your form and person and your virtue itself you’d never lose your re­spect and go on a ball-room floor. [Sen­sation.] The dudes get mad at me in some places and talk about wanting to slap my jaws. [Laughter.] But I say to their credit, they know better than to slap. I'm not afraid to drop down into a hundred acres of dudes and Dot a thing to fight with and all o f them armed with six-shooters. [Laughter.]

The tendency o f the nineteenth cen­tury is to dudeism. You dress a young buck out, part his hair in the middle, put on an eyeglass, give him pants which looks as though his legs had been melted and poured into ’em, put on tooth-pick shoes, and every girl in the town admires him. [Prolonged merriment.] God help you, girls, I’d rather see my daughter dead to-night than sitting in a parlor talking to a dude. [Applause]. The good bishop o f Hew York says the confessional shows that nineteen out of twenty iris meet their downfall in a ball­

room.In all my observation I never knew

a poor, rained woman who did not go to ruin through the ball-room and the theatre. * * * A woman who has lost all, but the boy is lionized by soci­ety. I f there’s one deeper, blacker bell than another it’s for that man who crushes purity and virtue under his unhallowed feet. [Applause.] The only thing in the world which deserves a double-barreled shotgun and a load of buckshot is such a man. * * * — Kansas City Times.

Just L ike a Woman.“I have had my pocket picked!” ex­

claimed a middle aged woman as she hurriedly entered detective headquar­ters a day or two ago.

“ Where did it occur ?”"In a store on the avenue, and I

know it was a man who stood near me took it.”

“How much was in it?"“I can’t say, sir. You see it was this

way. I came down to do some shop­ping. I put my poitemonnaie in my pockot when I left heme. When I went to pay for the goods it was gone. I think I had about eight dollars.”- “Did any one have the opportunity to pick your pocket?”

“I suppose they did-”“Sure you brought the money down

town?”“Yes.”“Are you certain yon did not lose

it?”“Do you think I ’m a fool, sir!” she

indignantly exclaimed. “ When I say I'had my pocket picked, I know what I am talking about.”

“I hope you do madam, but—”A t this moment a boy entered the

room witli the poitemonnaie in his hand and said:

“ Here’s your money, ma. We found it on the stand after you left the house, and Sarah sent me down to the store after you.”

The woman and the sergeant looked at each other for a few seconds. Then they smiled. Then she got red. Then he said he was glad she had her mon­ey, and she retorted;

“1 don’t believe it! You just Wish I had lost it! I ’ll never come here for help again, never!”

Wheat liaising in China.In the northern and middle parts of

China wheat raising is One of the prin­cipal industries of the farmers. The winter wheat is planted about the same time that wheat is planted here. The soil, especially in the northern provinces, is so well worn that it is es­pecially unfitted for wheat growing, and the Chinese farmers, appreciating this fact and the fact that ali kinds o f fertilizers are excessively dear, make the least money do the most good bv mixing the seedling with finely prepar­ed manure. A roan with a bushel basket swung upon the shoulders fo l­lows the plow immediately and plants the. mixtures In great handfuls in the furrows, so that when the crop grows up in the fall it looks like young cel-

•ery,' even as well-trained Ereneh sol­diers in a t o w . Immediatlely after the first melting o f snow, and when the ground lias heeome Sufficiently hardened by frost, these wheat fields are turned into pastures, under the theory that by a timely ciippahg ,o,f the plants by healthy animals the crops will grow up with additional strength in the spring.

Wheat thrashing is the principal in­terest in Chinese farming. Owing to tee scarcity of fuel the wheat is pulled ■ up usually hy the very root and bun­dled up in sheaves,-the same as is done- 'here, and immediately carted to the •‘inMen chong,” a-smoothed, and^harden ed space of ground' near the home o f the farmer. The tops of .the sheaves •areitheh clipped off by a hand machine. The wheat is then left in the “ mien chong” to dry. while the headless •sheaves are piled up in a heap -on the outside o f ' the “ mien chong'” for fuel 'OT-tliirtcihing.

When the wheat is thoroughly dry iit‘is beaten under agreat stone -roller ipulledthyliorses, while the places’thus xolled

Little Johnny’s Composition.A pupil iu one of the public schools

of this city complied recently in the following manner with a request to write a composition on the subject of a physiological lecture to which the school bad just listened; The human body is made up of the head, thorax, and the abdomen. The head contains the brains, when there is any. The thorax contains the heart and the lungs. The abdomen contains the bow­els, of which there are five. A, E, I, O, TJ, and sometime W and Y."—Phila­delphia Item.

Selling a Tramp.In the year 1S30 the writer witness­

ed the sad spectacle o f the sale o f a white man, because he could show no visible means of support. He was ar­rested under the then vagrant law as a vagabond and sold for one year to keep him from being a county charge. Old man Garret bought him for cents, took him home, and set him to splitting wood, hut whilehisnew mas­ter went down town of an errand the vag took to the woods, then not very re­mote, and made his escape.—Craw- fordsville, Ind., Journal.

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Fueilleton.P. Huntington, the railway mag-

Tiie Oldest Tree in the World.“A very fine tree, that ?” observed a

reporter, pointing to a handsome oak tree in Central Park.

“Yes, but it is rather young.”“Rather young? Why, its over three

hundred years old.”“That may he,” returned the second

speaker, who combines with this pro­fession of architecture a profound knowledge of forestry, “but that is not very old for a tree.”

“ Perhaps not for Europe or Asia, but recollect this is a new country.”

“How old do you think that obelisk is?” inquired the architect.

“A lictle over three thousand yoars.”“ Well, What would you say if I told

you that in one of the younger states of the Union I have sat under a tree that was full grown and visorous when the Egyptians were toiling on that very shaft?”

-“I presume I should have to believe you.”

“A s you please about that. But I have clipped bark off a plum tree in Calaverse county, Ca]., that spread over many square feet of ground before those pothooks were carved on the- side of that column. This tree that I speak of is supposed to be the oldest tree in the world. Its age is estimat­ed at thirty-five hundred years. The climate of the Pacific slope seems to be wonderfully preservative for tiees of its kind.”

“Gould a .tree ever live that long in this climate?”

“I doubt it.. Ho .tree certainly ever has. But when you speak of this being a new country, bear in mind that all countries were made about the same time and trees were not made hy man.”

The Eyelids.A profound observer says that the

way to judge an individual’s temper is to watch the eyelids. One with a fire temper will move the eyelids with a snap. Another who is easy-going and hard to arouse, mo.ves the eyelids lan­guidly. One with*a quiet brain and temper, furious when aroused, just winks steadily, but neither quickly nor slowly until engaged in interesting

over are constantly tossed over T conversation. .

nate, whose wealth is computed at 850,- 000,000, once peddled out butter by the pound to the miners in California.

The tanning of boa-constrictor skins forms a branch of industry in Ham- hug, H. J. They are made into pocket hooks, principally.

Prank Briggs, twelve-year-old. was drowned Tuesdaj', Jan. 3, at "Wmeen- don, Mass., and the body was found Wednesday evening hy use of an elec­tric light, which was put under water on a pole.

A farmer near Reedsville, Pa., re­cently killed two deer at one shot. H is weapon was a single-barreled rifle, with which he put a ball through the neck of each deer at a distance o f sev* enty-five yards.

A t weddings the Greek church uses two rings, one of gold and one of sil­ver. In Spain and Portugal three rings are placed npon the fingers of the bride at the words; “In the name of the Father and of the Sun and of the Holy Ghost.”— Hew York Star.

Hereafter no permit will he granted in the City of Mexico for bull-figbts on week days. This order has been given because hundreds of workingmen neg­lected their daily avocations in order to go to the bull-ring.

Hundreds of English sparrows are being dragged from their nests or roosts beneath the cornices o f the high buildings in Columbus, Ind., by large flocks of screech owls, that carry them away and devour them.

Mrs. Letitia Bovee, who in her youth was betrothed to President Buchanan, died at St. Paul last Tuesday, After the engagement wa3 broken the girl married a worthless man, and Mr. Buchanan remained a bachelor and became President.

Right here in Boston—literary and artistic Boston— lives a lady who has in her parlor a very elegant bookcase filed with standard works in choice bindings, protected from dust by glass doors which are kept carefully locked, the key being removed. A friend was calling there and asked for the key, as he wished to examine some of the vol­umes. “ On no account,” said the heir­ess. “I had a man come up from the book store to fit them in, and I wouldn’t have them disturbed on any account.-— Boston Herald.

A Hashville furniture dealer tells a little story that shows how some peo­ple are constituted. A lady ordered an elegant easy chair of a peculiar kind. I t was made and sent to ber house. She examined it carefully and critically, finally remarking that it suited her exactly, with one exception — it was too soft. She bad the man take the chair hack and make it a trifle harder. The chair was returned to the store and put aside. Nothing was done to it. After the elapse o f about a week the chair was sent out again. The woman examined it, and this time the chair was too hard. She was sor­ry, when she paid so much to get an article for her own comfort she want­ed it about right, So She sent it back to the store for another change. The chair was again put aside for a.week or ten days and sent: out for the third time without having- a particle of change made. This tim elt was just right. She took the chair* paid for it, and was sorry it had not suited her at first. The poor woman; never knew that .the chair bad not been changed a particle. .

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Buch anan R ecord.JOHN C. HOLMES, Editor.

THURSDAY. JAYU AIIY 19,1SSS.

Studebalvers have struck gas under their building in Chicago.

A new industry, that of making sorghum sugar, has spread excitement all over Kansas.

When people freeze to death in Tex­as, it is a sign that a pretty big storm has been prowling around the country.

Elkhart is following the example of South Bend, in kicking the Bell tele­phone out of town and granting a franchise to the Cushman.

LaMar was confirmed by the Senate Monday, by a vote of 28 to 32. Sena­tors Riddleberger, o f Virginia, and Stanford and Stewart, of the Pacific coast, calling themselves Republicans, voted for him.

Europe is in another sweat over the movement of Russian troops to the frontier, and active warlike prepara­tions that look as i f the Czar intended do something besides growl about the disposition made of the Bulgarian throne.

Cass countyites are beginning to believe that John Aiken, who disap­peared from Cassopolis a few weeks since, has been murdered, and the Board o f Supervisors is offering 8300 reward for the discovery of the murder- er.

Yew Y ork Legislature is discussing the advisability o f turning the state criminals over to the electric light company for execution. Their method works with dispatch on innocent citi­zens and should work as well on the criminals.

■ Year Valparaiso, Ind., Thursday night, a snow-plow swept away an obstruction intended to wreck the east-bound Ghieago and Grand Trunk passenger train due at Lansing about 10 p. m. It is supposed that the object of the wreckers was robbery.

Benedict, the man who was made public printer because he happened to he one o f Cleveland’s chums in Buffalo, although no printer and not much o f a business man is now recieving special attention from the Senate. Business sent to the printing office never comes out, or is so long about it that the ones who sent it there forget all about it. This is a good case o f paying the devil for his service.

Vm .J. Galligher, o f Chicago elec­tion fraud fame, who went to prison with Joe Mackin, has served his sen­tence and emerged from life in Joliet. During the last days of his incarcera­tion he is said to have told some woful- ly bad stories about some of his prominent democratic friends of Chica­go. His Story gives Mackin credit with being very far from a leader in the election frauds but that others, far more guilty than he, are free while be spends his time in prison.

Senator Chandler has succeeded in stirring up a nest of hornets by his reso­lutions to investigate the proceedings of the late Jackson, Miss., municipal election, in which the white democrats issued a "manifesto” to the negroes, headed by an engraving of a couple of pistols, shot guns and powder flask, and the reading matter of the same threatening character, warning the negroes that i f they attempted to vote It will be at their peril. As usual With all attempts to investigate any bulldoz­ing, this is met by a solid democratic objection. This time their plea is that it is a municipal in which the United States has no right to Interfere. Sena­tor Chandler’s resolution notes the fact that these shot gun practices are being done preparatory to the coming presidential election, and that a num­ber of President Cleveland’s appointees in Jackson are prominently engaged in this business and still hold their government offices.

Gov. Poraker, o f Ohio, has asked Gov. Luce to come down to Columbus Eeb. 13, to address a republican con­vention, and Cyrus has promised to go. When Poraker’s constituents first lay their buckeyes upon the sage from Gilead they will wonder what old moss back that is, but when he begins to tramp up and down the platform and tell o f things that even Poraker hadn’t thought of, they will forget about the moss back looks, the short pantaloons and the blue black prince Albert coat that doesn't hang quite sqr are, and will get up and yell for Luce just as if they lived in Michigan themselves.— Detroit News.

Let’s Move to the Northwest.Minneapolis, Jan. 16.—The Jour­

nal’s revised list of blizzard fatalities Shows 97 dead in Dakota, 13 in Min­nesota, 6 in Iowa, 17 in Yebraska and 2 in Montana ; total 135, besides 55 re ported missing.

Milwaukee. Jan. 16.—The ther­mometer at the Washburn observato­ry, Madison, registered 30 below. Eau Claire reports 48 below, and Chippewa Palls 60.

Y ow come some Ionia county lawyers who claim the local option act unconstitutional because the title floes net correctly indicate the intent o f the law that folio ws. A committee has been appointed to bring a test case.

The adoption of prohibition by Hills­dale county makes some of the saloon keepers in that city o f learning, es­pecially the hotel men, right mad, and they threaten to shut up shop.

Johu L"Major, a Wealthy farmer near Centerville, was poisoned while leading to water a horse having the glanders a few days ago, and he died from the effects Thursday morning.

The supervisors o f Isabella county have fixed the salary of the deputy game warden at 25 cents per day. That is likely their measure of the value of the warden service of the county.

Some farmers in the Barnes district, Lawrence, are feeding wheat, claiming that if it is used judiciously it is cheap er than .corn at sixty cents,

Hersey has one citizen of whom she is proud—a woman who supports an invalid husband and family of four small children by donning the regula­tion lumberman’s toggery, fed stock­ings and all, and hauling logs and handling the eanthook with the best o f them.

Jackson post-office is in prominent and increasing demand with thirty or forty leading democrats, but as there is hut one post-ofilce In Jackson the city of the prison is likely to contain a large supply of disappointed democrats soon.

A t sixty-five feet and just after a coal vein five feet thick had been drilled through, oil and water was struck in a well at Grand Ledge on Alonzo Balter’s place.

Growing plums is an industry next to that o f peaches in Ottawa county. These demand a lower and richer soil than the peach, and this is found to a large extent. The trees come into bearing in four or five years, and the fruit is sold for from 82 to 83 a bushel.

The Military Academy at Orchard Lake has now the largest attendance of any military school in the United States. The success o f the Cadets at the national drill in Washington gave the Academy a national reputation, and the result is now shown in the crowded barracks, making it necessary to build not only additional quarters but a larger mess ball and kitchen.

Between the hours of five and six o’clock Sunday morning a ball of fire fell from the heavens near Yelson Yelson’s residence on Fairplains. After- lighting up the house and neighbor­hood in a brilliant manner for about five minutes it disappeared, with a loud noise. The fire was seen by Mrs. Yelson, and all were considerably frightened by the strange phenomenon.

The hired girl in William Roblin’s family, Detroit, had trouble in starting the fire in the cook-stove one recent afternoon. Roblin suggested that ker­osene would start a blaze, and getting the oil can from the cupboard he began pouring oil on the dull cottls. In an instant the contents of the can ignited and a sheet o f flame swept into Roblin’s face. He dropped the blazing can, and rushed to another room for something to alleviate the painful burns. One o f the children, a hoy o f three years, ran out to see the blazing can, and befoie the servant could interfere the little fellow’s clothes were On fire. Roblin forgot his own agony when he saw the child’s danger, and snatching a blanket he wrapped It around the boy, extin­guishing the fire. Friday afternoon the child died from the burns.

THE RINGS IN TREES.

The negroes, to a very great extent, have -withdrawn from politics—Saxan- aJi, (Qa.) News {Dew.)

State Items.Lenawee county will vote on local:

option Feb. 20.Mr. Firestone, of South Bend, lias

bought the Colon Breeze and the. citi­zens are looking for a regular simoom.

Yine Detroit Aldermen are saloon keepers. Detroit is soundly and always democratic.

Some one is making overtures to the Snaly road cart company to move away from Cassopolis.

A vein o f coal thought to be seven feet thick has been discovered, at Tus­cola county, and work has been com­menced to bring it to the surface.

Paw Paw had a 8100,000 fire Friday morning, completely destroying anu ru­ber of buildings and Stocks, including the finest brick block in town and the True Yorthemer printing office. The fire started in David Salisbury’s drug store. George Berridge,a-fireman, was badly Injured by falling from.? ladder. There was a strong west wind.

Some Carious Observations in Ulcasnrtf meats of Forest Groxvth.

Every day some pet theory, long held and honestly venerated, is being demol­ished and sent to the limbo of myth -with TeH’s apple, Washington’s cherry tree and other old acquaintances. Notv the age rings in trees have to suffer limhoni- zation, If the -word may be allowed. Mr. R, W. Furras, an agent of tho United States forestry department, who has given much attention to the age of a tree as indicated by rings, as well as to the period at which trees of different species stop growing and that at which the wood is at its best, has reached some conclu­sions of general interest. He says:

“ Concentric or annual rings, which were once accepted as good legal evidence, fail, except where climate, soil, tempera­ture, humidity and all other surroundings are regular and well balanced. Otherwise, they are mere guesswork. The only region within my knowledge where either rings or measurements were reliable indi­cations are in the secluded, even and regu­larly tempered valleys of the Southern Pacific coast.”

Annual measurements of white elm, catalpa, soft maple, sycamore, pig hick­ory, cotton wood, chestnut, box elder, honey locust, coffee tree, burr and white oak, black walnut, osage orange, white pine, red cedar, mulberry and yellow willow (nineteen species), made in south­eastern Nebraska, show that “ annual growth is very irregular, sometimes scarcely perceptible and again quito large,” and this he attributes to the difference in seasons. As trees increase in age inner rings decrease in size, some­times almost disappearing. Diminished rate in growth after a certain age is a rule. Of four great beeches mentioned in London, there were three, each about seventeen feet in girth, whose ages were respectively sixty, 102 and 200 years. Air. Furras found twelve rings in a black locust sixyears old, twenty-one rings in a shell bark hickory of twelve years, ten rings in a pig hickory of six years, eleven rings in a wild crabapple of five years, and only twenty rings in a chestnut oak of twenty-four years. An American chestnu >f only four years had nine rings, while a . each of eight years had only five rings.

Dr. A, M. Childs, a resident of Ne­braska from 1854 to 1882, a careful ob­server for the Smithsonian Institution, who counted rings on some soft maples eleven years two months old, found on one side o f the heart of one o f them forty rings, and not less than thirty-five any­where, which were quite distinct when the wood. was. green, but after it had been seasoned only twenty-four rings could be distinguished. Another expert says that all our northern hard woods make many rings a year, sometimes as many as twelve, but as the last set of cells in a year’s growth are very small and the first very large, the annual growth can always be determined, except when from local causes there is in any particular year a Jittle or no cell growth. This may give a large number on one side. Upon the Pacific coast o f North America trees do not reach the point where they stop growing nearly as early as: those! of the Atlantic coast. Two hundred years is nearly the greatest age attained on the eastern side of the con­tinent by trees that retain their vigor, 500 years is the case o f several species on the western coast, .and ODe writer is con­fident that a sequoia which was meas­ured was not less than 2,376 years old.

At "Wrangel, latitude 36 degs. 00'min., a western hemlock, six feet in diameter at the stump, was four feet in diameter 182 feet further up the trunk, .and its rings showed 432 years.

Hut In the Old Bartram Garden, near Philadelphia, not more than 150 years old, almost all the trees are on the down grade.* The Quercus Robar, England’s pride, which is said at homo to live 1,000 years, has grown to full size and died in this garden, and the foreign spruces are following suit. Silver firs planted in 1800 are decaying. The great difference in the longevity of trees upon the western and eastern coasts of continents in the northern hemisphere seems to be due to tho warm, moist air carried by strong and permanent ocean currents from the tropics northeasterly, in both the Pacific and At­lantic oceans, which make the climate both moist and equable in high latitudes. InSitka, latitude 57 degs., as much as 100 inches of rain have failen in a year, and tho liarbor is rarely frozen enough to hinder tho passage of boats. In some winters scarcely any ice is seen.—Lum­ber "World.

G liasily lie lic s .There recently passed under the exam­

ination of tho custom house officials of Philadelphia a number of cases of curiosi­ties and relics sent by the United States naval officers attached to the South Pacific squadron to some of their relatives and friends in Washington. The articles had been gathered in cruises among the islands of the South Pacific and along the western coast of South America. One of tho boxes was filled with human skulls, a number of which appeared to bo very old. Three of them were labeled, “ Skulls of longs of tho Easter Islands.” Tho ciu-iositie3 included war clubs, arrows inado cf reeds and tipped with hone, wears with long barbs, bound with cord to the shaft, a pear shaped rnaco Of stone about a foot long, pieces of South Ameri­can pottery, tho jaws of a large shark, etc.—Boston Transcript.

Heading; on Hail way Cars.Perhaps as effective a way of expend­

ing nervous force as can be devised, is reading on railway cars. The busy drive of American, life, wherein each, minute has a definite value in coin, makes our business men avaricious of time, and of a hundred coming down town or into town of a morning, it is safe to say that seventy-five will be reading a newspaper. What with tho jerky jar of tho train, sudden-stops and dusty atmosphere, the retina is kept in a constant oscillation to accommodate itself to rapidly varying conditions, and a nervous irritability is set up in the brain that starts the day badly. It is better far to let one’s eyes rest'quietly, focused upon some distant picture of green tree or cool meadow through a car window; or, if in town, to study human nature from some of the many leave's that a horse car is continu­ally turning in and oat.—American Magazine.

The regalia worn by the sultan of Jo- hove is valued at §500,000.

lo it Death .Unto in Tenements.It happens (never mind how) that I am

in a position to have a pretty good knowledge of tenement life in New York. It relates to the worst tenements as well as to the best, and it has extended over a number of years. Speaking practically, then, and from my own observation, I say that the death rate in the tenements, all things considered, is singularly low. "When the health authorities talk about it they lay special stress on the high mor­tality among children. I wonder if it ever occurred to these wise men that there is another reason them theirs why the proportion of deaths as between chil­dren and adults is so much higher in the tenements than in private houses? "What is it, this other reason? "Why, simply that the proportion of children to parents is much larger in the tenements than else­where.

Childless couples are never found, or hardly ever found, among the poor in the tenements. You find them by the dozen, by tho score, the hundred, in the higher circles. Among tho well to do people who have some children the number is usually small—frequently, say, two or three, often only one or two. But not so in the tenements, where it is hand to month, all the year round. Children swarm there; you stumble over them at every turn. They are in the yards, on the sidewalks, in the halls, on the stairs, in the rooms. Tho workingman and his wifo may find the shoe pinching very often, hut the family increases all the same. Not to follow this matter any farther, though there is much in It for reflection, I repeat that a strong and ob­vious reason, never mentioned by the health authorities, for high mortality among children in the tenements is the fact that children are relatively much more numerous there than anywhere else. And the real wonder is that so many of them not only pull through the perils of childhood, hut become as vigor­ous men and women as those who grow up in brown stone fronts—often, in fact, a great deal more vigorous.—New York Cor. Detroit Eree Press.

Oar Coufftfy’s Dairy Interests.Our American dairy interests are

startlingly enormous. They represent an investment of nearly five times as much as the entire bank capital of the country; that is to say, the bank capital is a little less than §671,000,000, while the dairy interests amount to more than §3,000,000,000. The number of milk cows is estimated at 21,000,000. They give each an average of 350 gallons of milk annually. This would make au aggregate milk production of 7,350,000,- 000 gallons, a miniature ocean, a fair sized Niagara. Four thousand million gallons are used for butter, 700,000,000 for cheese and the remaining 2,480,000,- 000 pass through the adulterating hands of the milkman and grocer and down tho throats of 60,000,000 men, women and babies in this land of freedom. The quan­tity of butter manufactured and used is about 1,350,000,000 pounds and of cheeso6,500,000 pounds. The value of our dairy products for the last twelve months was nearly §500,000,000. Thi3 is §20,- 000,000 more than the value of our an­nual wheat yield, while it closely ap­proximates that of our com crop, which is the most valuable of our farm products. To support this immense dairy herd 100.- 000,000 acres of pasture land are re­quired, worth. §2,500,000,000. It is easy enough to see, therefore, that the 4,000,- 000 farmers in this country are an Im­portant element of our national welfare and prosperity.—New York Herald.

Soldiers 3£al;o Good P olicem on.Few people are aware of the fact that

the very best men on our police force are recruited from among the soldiers of the regular army. No training in tho world makes as good a police officer as that ob­tained in a regiment of tho United States army. The habits of promptitude, dis­cipline and fidelity to duty that are in­stilled into a soldier from the day of his enlistment are the very qualities most necessary to a police officer, and the knowledge of sanitary matters and tem­perance that a soldier obtains is of im­mense benefit to him throughout life. An old first sergeant makes an ideal po­lice officer. He has learned both how to command and to obey; has by experience learned how best to deal with all kinds of violence and dissipation; has-become imbued with a deep sense of responsibil­ity, and is in every way the best man in the world for the police force. Hie high character and marvelous efficiency of the Irish constabulary, who are .almost en­tirely recruited from the army, amply proves this, and in all our large cities the best officers are old soldiers.—Police Of­ficer in Globe-Democrat.

Iu Eacli Individual Soul.But what really is needed in all classes

of society is a just hostility toward those debased human traits that are manifest in the'individual, whether rich or poor, in applying a pound or a penny, and which are hateful because they are selfish, de- bssing, and heartless. When we would identify the ills of life with a class; when we misinterpret “ the sheep and the goats’ ’ as referring to good and bad people, who are to he separated at the end of the har­vest, instead of the good and the bad in each one of us, the wheat and the tares in each individual soul, then we are in darkness and there is no reason, or cour­tesy, or judgment at the root of such es­timates Or hostilities.—John F. "Wier in Scribner.

Invalids and lo n g Life.Care is a prime condition of continued

health, even in persons who are physi­cally vigorous, but up to middle life, the recuperativo force is so strong and active that carelessness is the rule. Hence, per­sons who ought to live fourscore years and over, die at the age of GO or under.

The consumptive—notneglecting medi­cal aid—may do much toward holding his disease in check; perhaps may eradi­cate it; Let him spend a large part of his time in the open air and sunshine; take gentle exercise daily; keep the func­tions of the skin active, by means of friction night and morning, and the bowels in habitual good order; and mean­while) guard against taking cold. To settle back feebly into the arm chair of a sick room, and depend on the medicines of a physician—oveu the host physician in the world—is to hasten the progress of the disease.

Most people, when informed that their heart is seriously affected, feel as if there was hut a step between them and death; but tho heart is a very strong organ, and even when greatly obstructed or weak­ened, can manage, with the intelligent co-operation of the patient, to keep the . blood carrying life through the. arteries for many years. Often it has to force the blood through a shriveled opening not much larger than a goose quill; and this it does by working harder, thus causing its own enlargement.

But the enlargement may at length cause a dangerous thinning of some por­tion of its walls. Sometimes the walls of the aorta—the large arterial trunk into which the heart empties—lose their elasticity, and swell out into a great thin tumor (aneurism). Sometimes tho tough fibers of the heart are changed to fat. In such cases a fatal termination may be long delayed by avoiding undue excite­ment.

So, too, the diabetic patient may fill out a good measure of life, provided he is willing to abstain rigidly from certain kinds of food. Every one knows how fatal Bright’s disease is, and yet Bright himself, whoae researches respecting it have given his name to it, said, fifty years ago, “ With care, life may some­times be prolonged many years, and with­out caro it is materially shortened.” The experience of half a century has con­firmed ancl emphasized this truth..— Youth’s Companion.

E xtrem a A rctic Cold.A person who lias never been in the

polar regions can probably have no idea of what cold really is; but by reading the terrible experiences of arctic travelers in that icy region some notion can be formed of the extreme cold that prevails there. "When we have the temperature down to zero out of doors wo think it bitterly cold, and if our houses were not so warm as, at least, GO degs. above zero, we should begin to talk of freezing to death. Think, then, of living where the thermometer goes down to 35 degs. be­low zero in the house in spite of the stove. Of course, in such a case the fur garments are piled on until a man looks like a great bundle of sldns.

Dr. Moss, of‘the English polar expedi­tion of 1875 and 1870, among other odd tilings, tells of the effect of cold on a wax candle which he horned there. The temperature was 35 degs. below zero, and the doctor must have been consider­ably discouraged when, upon looking at ins caudle, he discovered that the flame had all it could do to keep warm. It was so cold that the flame could not melt all the wax of the candle, but was forced to eat its way down the candle, leaving a sort of skeleton of the candle standing. There was heat enough, however, to melf oddly shaped holes in the thin- wails oi wax, and the result was a beautiful lace like cylinder of white, with a tongue of yellow flame burning inside it and send­ing out into the darkness many streaks- of light. This is not only a curious effect of extreme cold, but it shows how diffi­cult it must be to find anything like warmth in a place whex-e even fire itself almost gets cold.—Scientific American.

Poisonous Kites and Stings.For the treatment of poisonous bites or

wounds made by insects, an eminent physician and lecturer advises as fol­lows:

Apply hartshorn, cologne water or vin­egar directly to the' wound. A poultice of ipecac has been recommended for tho same purpose.

This is all the treatment that is needed for bites of wasps and bees. Sometimes a person may be stung by a great many bees or wasps at once. In such cases fainting may be produced, and the pa­tient will need internal stimulants, harts­horn, wine, brandy, or some liquor.

Poisonous wounds made by spiders, centipedes and scorpions are treated in the same way as those made by insects, that is, by the direct application of harts­horn to the wound, and when necessary, internal stimulants.—Boston Budget,

TVlisto Swelling*M r. M S. H am lin , one of ike best known

in - iiranee men in North Carolina, writes from W inston, as folio w s: “ Evar since I was seven years o f age I h ive had w lm t the doctors call hip disease, ancl which I call white sw elling. M y hip was drawn out of place. There w as a sw elling at tho knee-joint, where there is a profuse run­ning, which has been there for years. Of course this has -greatly depleted m y sys­tem , together w ith surgical operation on the leg bone. I tried every known blood purifier to build up m y system, but none did mo good u n til I took S. S. S. I use it every spring. I t always builds ine up, giving me appetite and digestion, and ena­bles me to stand the lon g, trying, ener­vating, hot summer days. T o me there is no such medicine for purifying the blood and building up tho wasted system as S. S. S. On using it I soon became strong of body and easy of m ind. M y color changed from a pale, worn look to a healthy, robust complexion ”

M r. G . N . Prizzel, of Farm ersville, Texas, w rites: “ A b ou t A u gu st 1st, 1805, an eruption' appeared on m y arms and legs, which pained me much and seemod to affect m y physical, condition generally. On the advice o f a physician at this place, 1 finally commenced using Sw ift’s Specific. I am glad to say that after using three largo bottles the sores-haye all h e a le d "

Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. T u b S w i f t S r a c n n c C o., Drawer 3, A tlanta, Grit.

PIIACTS AND PHYSIC.Two Yew Orleans belles thrown up­

on their own resources have opened a dairy and seli milk.

W h a t A m I To D o ?The symptoms Of Biliousness are un­

happily but too well-known. They dif­fer in different individuals to some ex • tent. A Bilious man is seldom a breakfast eater. Too frequently, alas, he has au excellent appetite for liquors but none for solids of a morning. His tongue will hardly bear inspection at any time; i f it is not white and furred, it is rough, at all events.

The digestive system is wholly out or" order and Diarrhea or Constipation may be a symptom or the- two may al­ternate. There are often Hemorrhoids or even loss of blood. There may be giddiness and headache and acidity or flatulence and tenderness in the pit of the stomach. To correct all this if not effect a cure try Green’s August Flow­er. it costs hut a trifle and thousands attest its efficacy, 2

Love when forced must soon become mortal hatred.

B o n U E x itc riin c n ii—GYou cannot afford to waste time in

experimenting when your lungs are in danger. Consumption always seems at first only a Cold. Do not permit any dealer to impose on you with some cheap imitation of Dr. King’s Yew Discovery for consumption, coughs and colds, but he sure you get the gen­uine. "Because he can- make more profit he may tell you he has something just as good, or just the same. Don’t be deceived, but insist upon getting Dr. King’s Yew Discovery, which is guaranteed to give relief in all throat, lung and chest affections. Trial bot­tles free," at W, H. Keeler’s Drug Store. Large bottles Si.

Unless the liauit leads to happiness, the best habit is £o contract none.

The estate of the late Governor Bod well, o f Maine, is valued at 8600,000.

"Why don’t you use Johnston’s Kid­ney Cure? OulvSl.00 per quart bot­tles, at W. F. .Runner’s. 45yl

A s concerns the quantity of what is to be read, there is a single rule; read much, but not too many works.

Worth Ton Dollarsto my family, is Dr. Kaufmann’s book bn diseases; finely illusiiaied plates from life; don’t be humbugged, but cure yourself. Send tluee 2-eent stamps for postage to A. P. Ordway & Co., Rostun, Mass., and receive a copy free.

Senator Ing-ls has a human scalp- lock in his’ library. It is an Indian trophy.

X Am Proudto say from personal experience that Sulpnus Bitters, which advertisement will be seen in another column, is the best spring and blood medicine to be lound. it is prepared by au honest firm who seoru to use cheap and worth­less medicines, but use the best that money can buy.—Editor,

There are said to be but four horses in Alaska— turee at J uueun and one at tiitka

The most delicate constitution can safely use Dr. .1. II. McLean's Tar Wine Lung Balm. It is a sure cure for coughs, loss o f voice, and all throat •and lung diseases. 40m3

All the rarest hues of human life take radiance and are raiubovved out In tears.

Sick Headache, and a sensation of oppression and dullness iu the head, are very comniunly produced by itidt- gesiiou;moreoid despondency,irritabil­ity and over-snsitiveness of the nerves may. iu a majority of eases, be traced to the same caused. Dr. J. II. Mc­Lean’s Liver and Kidney Balm and Debits will p sitiveiy cure. 40m3

Begin early in the course of educa­tion, u bile the mind is pliant and uge is flexible.

( ’l a r k ’s F lits S a lv eCurses piles, salt rheum, letter, burns,

scalds, sores, wounds, infant’s sores and dialling, sore nipples and eruptions of the skin. Sufferers with catarrh will find this an invaluable remedy and cer­tain cure. Pieasaut to use and perfect satisfaction guaranteed. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by W. F. Runner.

13ylOne seldom speaks of virtue while

one has; but much oftener of that which fails us.

The quality of the blood depends much upon good or bad digestion and assimulatiun; to make the blood rich in life and strength giving constitu­ents, use Dr. J. H. McLean’s Strength­ening Cordial ami Blood Purifier; it will nourish the properties of the blood from which the elements of vi­tality are drawn. 81 per Dottle. 40m3

Do not anticipate trouble and worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

B u c k ic u ’ s Arnucii S alve .The best salve in the world for Cuts,

Bruses, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains Corns, ancl all skin Erup­tion, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money re­funded. Price 25 cents per box. For Sale by IV. H. Keeler. 22yl

Deal not roughly with thy wife whose strength is less than thine; but be thou a protection unto her.

F it s .— All fits stopped free by Dr Kline’s Great Yerve Restorer. No fits after first day’s use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and 82 trial bottle free to Fit cases. Send to Dr. Kline, 931, Arch St., Phila., Pa. 9yl

Less coin, less care; to know how to dispense with wealth is to possess it.

Life will acquire new zest, ancl elieerfullness return, if you will impel your liver and kidneys to the perform­ance of their functions. Dr. J. H. Mc­Lean's Liver and Kidney Balm will stimulate them to healthy action.81.00 per bottle. 40iu3

True greatness is sovereign wisdom; we are never deceived by our virtues.

2 -O n c biiU H'iie red H im .A. II. Thompson, Rockford, 111.,

writes: "I have been troubled with Catarrh for years, nothing helped me until I tried Papillon Catarrh Cure. 1 followed directions, arid with less than one bottle, I am cured.” Papillon (extract of flax) Catarrh Cure will positively and permanently cure Bron­chial Catarrh, Acute or Chronic Catarrh, also Rose Cold ancl Hay Fever. Large bottles Sl.00, for sale by \V. F. Runner.

The United Slates put 50,000 pianos on the market last year.

2 —Y iic G reatest D iscov eryOf the nineteenth century, can truly be said of Papillon (extract of flax) Skin Cure. Tnousunds testify to its wonderful- curative powers in seem­ingly hopeless eases of Eczema, Salt Rheum, Erysipelas and every kind of skin disease. Mr. O. P. Algier, of Hartford, Ohio, fried everything he heard of or saw recommended, and suffered five years -with Eczema until he found Papillon Skin Cure, which cured him. Large bottles only 81 00, at W F. Runner’s Drug Store.

The Commercial travelers propose to erect a club-house at Pittsburg.

A B! octeru Sliracle.Mrs. J. W. "Wentworth, of Elkhart,

Ind., was long subject to pain in the side, shortness of breath, weakness, slight cough, swelling of the ankles, •ancl other symptoms- Of serious heart disease. She was expected to die at any time. Doctors in New York, To­ledo, etc., failed to help her. But two bottles of Dr. Miles’ Yew Cure fur the Heart eared her three years ago and has remained well ever since. Heart disease can be cured. Sold by IV. H. Keeler. G

Forty-five years ago there was not a postage-stamp in the United States.

G o o d i d v i c e .I f you are subject to nervousness,

headache, morphine or opium habit, sleeplessness, neuralgia, backache, monthly pains, sexual weakness, St. Vitus dance, or other similar affections do not fail to use Dr. Miles’ Restorative Nervine, a valuable nerve food and the latest and most scientific of remedies, it is guaranteed to give relief; 85,000 is freely offered for a better Yerve Food and Medicine. It soothes and quiets the nerves while furnishing .nourishment and strength. A sk for a free trial bottle, at W. H. Keeler’s Drug Store. 6

Sauer kraut is said to be as danger­ous as dynamite if confined top close,

A Sound L e g a l O p in ion .—0E. Bainbridge Munday, Esq., County

Atty.. Glay Co., Tex,, says: ‘‘Haveused Electric Bitters with most happy results. My brother also was very low with malaria fever and jaundice, but was o f red by timely use of this medi­cine. ’ Am satisfied Electric Bitters saved my life.”

Mr. D. I. Wilcoxson, of Horse Cave, Ky., adds a like testimony, saying:" He positively believe? lie would have died, had it not been for Electric Bitters.

This great remedy will ward off, as well as cure ail malaria diseases, and for all kidney, liver and stomach disor­ders Stands unequalled, PricefiOc and 81. at "W. H. Keeler’s.

A stronghold—the bull-dog’s.—Prick.The best on earth, can truly be said of

Griggs’ Glycerine Salve, which is a sure, safe arid speedy cure for cuts, bruises, scalds, burns, wounds and all other sores. Will positively cure piles, tetter and all sk in eruptions. Try this wonder healer. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refund­ed. Only 25 cents.

Whisky lowers the man and arises the devil.

Two physicians, of Morris, 111., told E. W. Hnell that he was beyond the help of medical skill from seated lung disease contracted in a cold rain. Was induced to try Dr. Bigelow’s Cough Cure, two bottles of which completed a cure. Over a year has elapsed and he is in excellent health, doing hard work on tiis farm. Dr, Bigelow’s Positive Cure is the only known consumption cure. Sold by W. F. Runner in fifty cent and dollar bottles. Get the genuine. Pleas­ant for children. three

Dr. E. P. Brown, of Flushing, Long Island, claims to have made a set of false teeth for his old cow.

"When Baby -was sice, -wo gavo her Caatoria, When alio was a Child, sho cried for Caatoria, W hoa sho became Miss, she clang to Caatoria, Whoa she had Children, she gave them Caatoria,

Sarah Bernhardt presented her daughter-in-law with a diamond neck­lace valued at 60,000 francs.

There is no deny ing the fact that Dr. Jones’ Red Clover Tonic is the most successful blood purifier ever put on the market. Its wonderful cures in stomach, kidney and liver troubles has brought out many imitations. It re­stores debilitated nerve tissues, restor­ing the force lost bv sickness, mental work, or excessive use of liquor, opi­um and tobacco. W. F. Runner will supply the genuine at 50 cents per bot­tle. three

Why is your hat like an advance ageut? Because it goes on a head of course.

The “Life of the flesh is the blood thereof” ; pure blood means healthy functional activity and this bears with it the certainty of quick restoration, flora sickness or accident. Dr. J. H. McLean’s Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier gives pure rich blood, and vitalizes and strengthens the whole body. $1.00 per bottle. 40m3

Estate o f E lij.iL H . B eardsley .First publication, Jan. 19,1888.

STATJ3 OF MlCHlGrAjfti County of Berrien.—es At a session of tile Probate Court for sold Coun­

ty,held at theProbate Office,In the village of Berrien Springs, on the twelfth day of January, iu the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight.

Present,David E . H lymay, J udsc ofProbnte In the matter of the estate of FlijaliH . Beards­

ley, deccaced.On reading trad filing the petition, duly verified

of Solomon L . Beardsley, praying that a certain instrument now on file in this Court, purporting to be the last will and testament of said dectased, may be admitted to .probate, and that administra­tion of said estate may be granted to the petition­er, the Executor named in said will, or to some other suitable person.

Thereupon it is ordered that Monday, the 13th day of February next, at 10 o’ clock in theiorcncon, be assigued for the heating of said petition, and that the heirs at law of said deceased, and all other persons interested in said estate, are re­quired io appear at a session ot said court, then to be iioiden in the Probate Office, in the village ol Berrien Springs, and show cause, if any there be wb y the prayer of the petitioner should not be granted. And it is further ordered, that said petitioner give notice to the persons interested ra said estate, oi the pendency of said petition, aad the bearing thereof, by causing a copy of this order to be published in tho Bnchanau Record, n newspaper printed and circulating in said county, three successive weeks previous to said day of hearing.

[L. S.] DAVID 33. JELIKMAN,(A tm ecop y .) Judged Probate

Last publication, Feb. 9,1888.

Twenty-Eighth Annual ReportO f tli© F arm ers’ M u tu a l ITiro Insu rance

A ssociation o f B errien County, M ich.., fo r the X « a r Ending: D ecem b er 3 1 , 1S 87 .

Number of members, Dec. SI, 1830,...................1,835Ffumber of members added during the pres­

cut year............................................................... 424Deduct number oi expirations, surrendered,

cancelations, &c............................. 403LeaviugNo. ot members belonging to C o... 1,S46 IVe have insured property durlnglhe year, $518,336 Expired, surrendered aud cancelled by

board*........................ *.................................. 49S,8S7Amount or property at risk Dec. 3 1 ,1S36. 2,444,882 Amount of property at ri»k Dec. 31 ,1S57 . 2,464,341

RECEIPTS.Amount on hand Jan. 1, i8S7............... . $305/7From assessments levied in 1SS0............. .. C,84S75

** “ *e in prioryears.... 420.57From policy fees.................... 180.5*

“ increased and decreased ii sarnoce.. 42.00 “ surrendered and transferred policies, 19.68

Total receipts,................................. $7,857.17EXPENDITURES.

Paid ior losses Uvit occurred iu 1SS6........$3,486.36“ for losses that occurred in 1SS7 2,689.45 “ W m .it. Kougb.'President..... . . . . . 450u W m . Bnrrus. President.................... 16.50“ Charles F. Howe, Secretary............... 42.50te Freeman Franklin, u ............... 216.00“ W m . Haslett, Treasurer................... 9.59“ Wm. Hasleti, Director....................... 3d/*0“ S.C .Thom son,Treasurer.............. 259.46

of which receivers retained $142 40.“ S. C. Thomson, Director.................. 2J.C0“ Samuel Mars, Director......... 15.00u J. (L Sanborn, Director ($7 for ser­

vices 1S86).................. 25.00** James Badger, Director, ($31 for ser*

vices 1$86)....................... 50.50“ Jas Coverdale, Director, ($10.50 for

services iu lSSO).................... .. .. 26.59u A Keiuley, Director, ($17.95 ior ser­

vices in 1 8 3 6 )................................. 34.45•c L. W . Spaulding, Dilector, ($14.50

for services iu 1886)...................... 33.00w J. T . Beckwith........................................ 20.50*c David Scbuort................................... 19 50a R. AT. Hogud......................... 4.50“ G. 2L Parketon......................... 22.50“ A . T . Hall................................................. 1.50M Postage aad Stationery....................... 92.44“ Print lug ($42.So of which was for

1885 aud 1886).................................... 50.10tc Justice fees..................................... 6.50,l Attorney f e e s . . . ^ ......... .................... 3000“ Office rent........................................... COO“ Assessments returned.................. 12.39“ Policy fees returned........... 1.00“ Interest, ($80.90 paidformouey loan­

ed in 1886)........................................ 239.80Cash in Treasury to balance..................... 330.G3

Total e x p e n d i t u r e s . $7,88747 The following have been the losses during the

year 1837:Jan. 11. Evangelical Association, damage

by fire to parsonage............. .......................... $15.35Feb. 7, Damage bv fire to dwelling of Wm.

Arent.............................................. 4.00March 10. Granary and contenie, of Paul

Jlalone................ 150.00April 10. Dwelling and contents, ot George

F . Wiedman............... ............ ........................ 50D.0011 pril 10. Damage by fire to dwelling of

Wm. Legal* ............. 10.00April 17 Damage by fire to dwelling of

John H. Williams...................... 2.75April 27. Loss by fire of personal property

of Edward Blanchard............................... 34.00June 5 Damage by lightning to barn and

Stock of Chas. F. Howe.................. 25.00Junes. Slock lolled by lightning for Ely

L ock............................ 6.00Juno 20. Stock killed by lightning for

Francis Lanuinier........................................ 40.00July 4, Stock lulled by lightning for Theo­

dore Spading.......................... .................. 6.00July 27. Burn and contents of August Hadt ke 650.00 Aug. 4. Damage by lightning to bam of J.

T. Beckwith, estimated a t . . . . . ......... 25.00Aug* 4 Stock' killed hi" lightning for Hoei

Wright...................................................... 150.00Aug. 4. Da mage by lightning to dwelling

of Zacbariah Fisher,................. ..................... 5,85Aug. 21. Grange hall, contents, and barn of

Mt. Tabor Grange................. ................ 1050.00Oct. 21. Oats bnrri'd in stack by steam

thresher ior Benj. Chamberlain................. 37.50Oct. 15. Stock killed by lightaiugfor Joseph

Chevarie . . . . . . . ^ ............................. 20.00Nov. 5 Damage byTire to duelling of Chris-

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THURSDAY, JA N U A R Y 19, 1SSS.

5nt«rcd fl-t the Post-Office, at Buchanan,Mich as S econd-Class Matter.

W . T R E N B E TH ,

TH E T A IL O R .

Has just received the finest stock o f

For Gentlemen’s Wear,

ever brought to Berrien county, and is prepar'd to make up the same in the latest styles, at the lowest living prices.

In Inspection isBuchanan Markets.

Hay—§5 Q, $10 per ton. Butter—16c.Eggs—ISc.Lard—Sc.Potatoes—7-5 c.Onions—SOc.Salt, retail—$1.10 Flour—$3.60 @ $3.20 per hbl. Honey—1G.Live poultry— 4 © 6c. Wheat—S0@S2.Oats —30.Corn— firm. SOc.Beans—$2.25.Clover seed—$3.75 Buckwheat flour—$2.S0. Dressed pork—$6.00 per cwt.

K eep your walks clean.

St. Joseph has a Board o f Trade.--------------o-a-tc--------------

Eau Claire is without a hotel.--------- ...

James Edge?, o f Dayton, draws a pension prize.

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Dr . E. E. Anderson will make her next visit to Buchanan, Jan. 25.

-------------------------------Insurance rates have been raised

in Xiles, and all Yiles is a kicking bee.

Sleighing is excellent and sleighing ^parties popular.

The workmen on the Yiles gas well have pulled up their stakes and quit.

“ . --------- X g gwA re the ice-houses being tilled so

the supply will not fail next summer? o > --------------

Y iles is the proud" possessor o f a howling ailey.

------------- ----- -------------Cass county Editors have organized

against the whites.

Geo, W . Angel, o f this place, was granted a pension, Jan. 11.

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ment o f Yew York Mail and Express.--------------<-C-e.-------------

Jchn L . Bishop has been appointed postmaster o f Berrien Center, vice Uriah Shaffer resigned.

Kalamazoo Telegraph refers to Yilc-s as the burdock city. This is the worst whack o f all.

— < »■>■--------------T here wa3 a leap year party and

lots o f fun at John Graham's, Friday evening.

— -----------<w>--------------A bout four inches of light snow

fell Saturday night and smoothed cur sleighing.

THEnext meeting of Pomona Grange of Berrien county will be held at Bain- bridge Centre Grange Hall.

--------------<-«->--------------Me. A rthur Harper has sold his

interest in the restaurant and bakery in Three Oaks.

Geo. Slater has sold his oil wagon and business to Will Dunbar, who now manipulates the quart measure.

Two bright “sundogs” were seen from this place Friday morning, about an hour after sunrise.

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Clem Crawford did not find a mu­sic store in Yiles profitable and has taken his stock back to South Bend.

Patrick Flyn n , night watchman in Yiles for a number of years, died Tuesday o f last week.

The Yew Year’s ball in Yiles is dis- cribed as a gorgeous affair; in the mat­ter of costumes.

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Mrs. Lil l ie Staerett , of Chicago, is in Buchanan for a visit with rela­tives and friends.

3 > ■-----------T he St. Joseph Republican runs a

Deuisch abtheilung for the benefit of its Deutseh lehrers. Hot a bad idea.

Mayor Beayer and Ex-Sheriff Peck of Yiles were in town Saturday even­ing;

A stock company is being formed in Three Oaks to manufacture Dr. Sal­ter's medicines.

Good sleighing makes lively businessand the streets are crowded with teamsevery day. N

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Once more Buchanan has a Buchan­an Cornet Baud, and they propose giv­ing a charity ball January 27.

—--------- < t > ..................Highest temperature for the week,

30. Lowest, 14 below. A t 7 this morn- in, 2 below.

Mr . J. Mile y was called to Yiles to officiate at the burial Mr. Wm. Coch- ram, an old and esteemed citizen who died Monday, .

F rank Tucker's Metropolitans at Rough’s opera house next Monday evening in “East Lynne” and Tuesday evening in “Mrs. Partington.”

W. E. W alden, o f Watervliet, had $200 invested in one dog, and then the dog died. He had no business being a $200 dog.

Ex-8 TATE SENATOR H. C. SHERWOOD,of Watervliet, has been elected presi­dent o f the Western Michigan fair as­sociation.

The mill yards in this place have been filling up with a good class of logs and quite as rapidly as usual since the sleighing commenced.

------------- <-o-w-------------T here is a good one-story building

with engine and boiler in this town that ought to be utilized for some man­ufacturing purpose.

-------------- a-a >-The finding of gas in Chicago places

that natural fuel on all sides of us, and not far away in either direction, hut too far to be o f practical use here.

A pension inspector was nosing about this place yesterday, to see how many o f the boys are not recieving enough pension, we suppose.

A n E mu Claire correspondent an­nounces a good bed of iron ore discov­ered in that place, and wants a smelt­ing furnace at once.

F rock Davis goes to Ionia ninety days, for throwing stones at Frank Merson. He plead guilty to the charge of assault and battery.

A n unusually large number of new names have been added to the Record subscription list during this month. There is still room for more.

Y ou will find a good class of reading matter in the numbers of the Metro­politan, published in Y ew York. Sub­scription taken at this office.

E verybody' knows that Frank Tucker always gives a good show. A t Rough's opera house Monday and Tues­day evenings, Jan. 23 and 24.

■------- ------------------------The Coloma Courier is informed

that something over two years have elapsed since L. P. Alexander has been postmaster in this place.

A. Mrs. Dumbleton and her three children, late of Buchanan, are stop­ping at Y . D. Rice’s. The children are all sick, with scarletina. — Coloma Couner.

A ccording to the Three Oaks Sun, Stevensvillej bummers get their whis­ky by buying a bit of camphor gum in it, and then drain the whisky off before the gum has a chance to dissolve.

------- -—■ ■■■■< fr C»If you have any dentist work for

Dr. Mansfield to do you want to be calling on him, as he expects soon to be too busy with the mail-bags to bothe with such matters as dentistry.

Several brick blocks to be erected this y**ar are in contemplation.—B. H. Palladium. Where, in Chicago?— Niles Star.

Y o, in Buchanan.» "■■■ ■ ■■■ ■ ■

The Berrien County Press Associa­tion met in Yiles, Monday, with small attendance. Pretty cold weather, Y ext meeting at Berrien Springs third Monday in April.

M ichigan farmers who read the Michigan Farmer find it the best paper for Michigan farmers, for it makes a specialty o f matter pertaining to Michigan farming.

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hot fires be sure that your flues are all right. A fire where you don't want is not the most desirable thing to have this kind of weather.

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If those who have been contemplat­ing making Dakota their home will read the particulars o f last Thursday's blizzard, they will start at once, but not for Dakota.

There must be some great attrac­tions in Berrien Springs, or perhaps a number o f them, judging by the fre­quency and regularity o f the visits of Buchanan young men to that place.

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Cold weather has brought the wagon works into trouble by bursting the steam heating pipes in all parts of the building, and about all of the work that can now be done is to thaw’ out.

—< ■» »»-------------The inhabitants of the west part of

town sleep to the tuneful melody of a poor sick windmill that continually sings at a -high pitch, “ Grease, Grease, Grease.”

F il l up your ice-houses if you ex­pect to keep cool next summer. That is about the only way you will have of distributing this cold weather through the year.

-Mr . W m. Conradt is drawing mate­rial upon his large lot, on Front, Third and Ammerman streets, for the erec­tion of; one or more houses during the coming season.

F riday was the last day of twenty years continual service by Mr. B. D. Harper as foreman and job p rin te r In the R ecord office. In the mean time the Office has changed ownership five times.

The new hooks for the township library have be-n bought, and in order to newly catalogue the entire library, the librarian, Mr, Seth Straw, says he wants all who have books from the library to return them P. D. Q.

The next examination o f the teach­ers for Berrien county will be a regu­lar examination at Berrien Springs the first Thursday In March, A special examination will be held in Buchanan the last Friday in March.

Gass county will vote on the local option question January 14 and to out slders it looks as though the “drys” would win. Some of our business men, we understand, are preparing to in» crease their stocks of goods in event o f the drys winning there, thinking it will induce many on the oth.er side o f the line to come here to trade, where man, in, the selection of his beverages, is: permitted to follow the dictates of his- own conscience'.—Niles Dernfoerut,

That sounds naif oral.

Theodore T haldorf, a citizen of Tjiree Oaks, shuffled off mortal coil by the laudanum method, Saturday even- iug- The reason given by our in­formant is that he had been a tippler reformed and had fallen a second time into old habits.

V ol. 1 Y o. 1 o f the Prohibition Ad­vocate, published by W. A. Streater, in Ye w Carlisle, has made its appearance. It boldly announces that it has come to stay and will attend the funeral of both old parties. A bold front at the outset is commendable.

Local option must be voted on in Febuary to become operative in this county this year, that being the only month not having any municipal or other election before the first of May. To bring the question to a vote by that time requires prompt action. Start the petition at once.

D r . A . B. Spinney, of Detroit, will he at the Major House on Friday, Jan 27. The doctor makes a specialty of all forms of Chronic diseases, particu­larly. Catarrh, Eye, Ear, Throat and Lung diseases. Best of glasses always on hand. Fits guaranteed. Consulta­tion free.

Petitions for an election for county prohibition are being circulated in all parts of this county for signers. Re­member that none but voters are en­titled to sign them, but no voter who has an opportunity should fail to at­tach his name at once. There is no time to spare.

A l . A ymau is chief captain of a bowling alley in Yiles. I f any one in that berg wants some cheap fun we can supply them with a $10 account very cheaply, that they might trade out. He would not trade it out in the restaurant business but this bowling business is a little different.

The Star feels sorely aggrieved lest local option carry in this county, and says the result will be fifteen vacant stores in Yiles. Yes, most likely. There are fifteen saloons in Yiles. One would think by the Star’s wail that nothing else is done in Yiles hut sell whisky.

“Chick'’ W i l k i n s o n , of the Berrien Journal, makes everything lively when he comes to Yiles. He is in the city to-day, and has all the freedom any one can ask for.—Niles Star.

Yes, “ Chick” runs a matrimonial bureau, although a bachelor himself, which doubtless accounts, in a meas­ure, for the "Freedom.”

F or the benefit of the Star we will say that the state prohibition amend­ment carried in Berrien county by a little less than ten rotes, and a great many who voted against that measure would vote for local prohibition, hence the chances are good for that to carry, if the lime occupied in procuring sig­natures to the petition be not too long.

Charley Broceus explains that eye of his by saying that he fell from the trapeze in the high school gymna- seutn. Some of the hoys are mean enough to intimate, however, that he probably ran against a soft glove, Queensberry style. They thought the eye looked like it.

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L ast week an item went the rounds o f the county press commending Judge O’Hara for the way he put the fine to a St. Joseph saloon-keeper, $75, and the excellent lecture Tom deliyered for the fellow’s benefit. This week the Capi­talists are laughing because when an old soaker comes before Tom on the same charge he is let off with a $50 fine.

< 8 >Spencer & Barnes have commenc­

ed drawing material upon the ground for the erection of a two story brick addition to their factory, to be 4Sx94 feet, on the north side of the present factory. It is the expectation of this firm to, by this means, add about thirty men to their force and nearly double the capacity of the factory, by having greater facilities and conveni­ence in handling their work.

Marriage Licenses.Fred. Getcreonlai, Lake township, Frederika Gast, Lincoln •* Edward M. Rongh, Bertrand “ Mary M.Dressier, “ “Cbas. A . Hartman, Benton Harbor. Lena Weiscnhergher, St. Joseph. Wesley Hongton, Galien.Della Spennotta, “JohnOlney, Niles.Elizabeth Stimley, Niles.

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Millie Edinbomgh, *

There is some strong figuring toward building a two-story brick block from Dodd’s east to the sa­loon the coming summer. The A r­thur property being the only hindrance at this point in the business. Mary does not care to build, nor do her neighbors or any one else care to buy her .out at her price, and the conse­quence is likely to be no building there this year. The problem may possibly be solved before spring.

There is a bridge near Isaac Haroff’s place, in this tow.1.-hip, that is in a dangerous condition and netds the attention o f the high way commis­sioner. At least two horses have been reported to the Record as having fall- • on through and been injured. Of course the inhabitants thereabout would keep right on breaking their horses legs before they would either repair the bridge or go and notify the commissioner, but never cease their swearing at him for not attending to it.

Jack D ttlin, of Yiles, when arrested by the Marshal, drew a revolver and fired at the marshal’s head, at short range, but a quick move by the mar­shal saved his life. Dnlin had been doing considerable blowing about what he would do in case any one interfered with his hilarity. His sentenceis four years in Jackson. Had he killed his

’ man he would have gone for life, yet how much less is his intent for crime, which constitutes the crime, now than had his bullet had its intended effect?

It is leap year, and it lias been just1,000 years since there was as many S’s in the year as we have just now. It is a good time for old bachelors to cogit-S, and the girls to reciproc-S, and not hes- it-S.—Berrien Springs Journal. Yes, and if the old girls procrastin-S, anoth­er year will find them desol-8 with chances less for things to cnlmin 8 in the blissful realities of the wedded st-S. —St. Joseph Republican.

"Well, at the r-S the girls have start­ed in this town the bachelors will meet their f-S and m-S before the year of SS is passed.

Sold.—Meach & Hunt, who have been engaged during the past fifteen months in the furniture business in this place, sold their stock Tuesday to Mr. Ed. Calvin, who wall continue the business at the same stand. Mr. Cal­vin is a wrell known young man to this community, having lived the greater part of his life on his mother's farm in the bend of the river. Meach & Hunt have rented the Harger build­ing on Day’s avenue and will continue their upholstering and wholesale busi­ness until spring, when they expect to erect a building of their own on the opposite side of the street. The present appearance is that this is the starting of another large furniture factory in Bu chanan.

1SS8.1SSS should see the new railroad

completed from South Bend to St. Jo­seph.

A dam across the St. Joseph river at this place, and at least one good manufacturing establishment utilizing its power.

A new hotel in Buchanan.A good sewer builo down Front

street from the post-office to the creek.A good electric light plant in suc­

cessful Operation in Buchanan, and the streets properly lighted.

The most prominent portion Of Front street paved with good stone pavement.

Some good thriving manufacturing Industry occupying the gristmill Ouild- ing, instead of having it rot down in idleness while its owners quarrel.

Enough houses built in Buchanan that when families comes here to live they will not be obliged to leave town for want o f a house to live in.

The population o f Buchanan 500 greater than it is now.

A. row of substantial brick buildings along Front street, from Dodd’s to the creek. Along Main street, from the bank to the wagon shop, and on both sides o f Day’s avenue as far south as Spencer & Barnes’ property.

Local option adopted and strictly en­forced throughout Berrien county.

The Common Council strictly enforce the fire limit ordinance, no matter whose private interest it may affect.

Front street sidewalk, from the hank east built on Its proper grade.

The Ross corner built up witli good store rooms, and a good second, floor opera house.

Th e R ecord subscription list with 2000 names, all paid in advance.

A Republican President elected.

Instantly K illed ,—Frank Heffer- man, night operator at Galien, was instantly killed in Galien, Friday night. W ay freight had been ordered to side­track at Galien for the Yew York ex­press going west, which was quite late. A fter the express bad passed the freight train bands asked him if he would not close the switch after them, so that when once under way they need not stop again. To do this he stepped on the engine to ride to the switch, and in stepping off he was so completely enveloped in the smolce of the engine that he could see nothing,

-and stepped on to the south track di­rectly in front o f the fast express go­ing east, which struck him, crushing his head. His remains were taken to Rives Junction, ten miles north of Jackson, where bis father is station agent for the Mi chigan Central Com' pany.

R eport of Coyeney School.—The school this month, ending Jan. 15, has manifested more interest In its work than the preceeding month. The fol­lowing are the names o f those who have been punctual m attendance: An­drew Mitchell, Minnie Mitchell, Stella Mitchell, Sue Spaulding, Levi Spauld­ing, Frank Spaulding, Eva Spaulding, Lillie Mitchell, Walter Mitchell, Ralph Smith, Charley McCracken, Bertha Mitchell. Parents are requested to visit on review days, the last o f every month.

F lorence H a r t s e l l , Teacher.■ ■< > >■-------------

It is expected that the next meeting o f the County Sunday School Conven­tion will be the best ever held. Prof. Excell; the leading siDger of the West, Jacobs, of Chicago, aud the State Sec­retary have been invited to come and help in the work. As soon as their an­swers are given the date o f the meet­ing will be fixed. The Sunday School workers who came together at the close of the temperance meeting last Sunday night, did well in inviting the Convention to Buchanan. The com­mittee appointed by them will soon call a meeting o f the Sunday School people to make preparation for the re­ception of our guests. Meanwhile let all S. S. Secretaries get their reports perfected. H. V . W .

G A L IE N ITEM S.W e have had a sample of western

blizzards during the last week, the thermometer on Monday showing IS 0 below zero.

Frank Hefferman was night operator while Mr. Fellows took a western trip. Oil Sunday night he rode on the engine o f a freight train to the west .switch to close it after the freigtli, evidently forgetting that the Atlantic express going east was due. When he jump- ped lie got in the way of the express and was killed by it. His body was taken on the midnight train to Reves Junction, whore his parents reside.

Jerry Painter recently bought forty acres of George Fryar.

George Ashman and Ed. Curtis have each recently taken a young boarder into their families. The youngsters are rather particular about their dish, and have a strong preference for lac­teal fluids.

Our 5 and 10c store has been closed for nearly two weeks. Its business must be slack since the holidays.

John Pen well has been South mostly for more than a year, but has recently returned. His friends called upon him one eveninglast week to discuss “Auld Lang Syne”, and also discussed a quan­tity of oysters. A ll had a pleasant time.

Mrs. Peter Klasner, of Michigan City, is reported very sick, and the case critical.

Your correspondent is informed that catarrh, and not consumption, caused the death o f Mrs. Malcam Smith, noted in last week’s Record.

J. B. Moulton, of Buchanan, had a meeting on Monday night to organize a class in singing, with a fair pros- peetjaf getting a sufficient number of scholars tQ_insure success.

Dr. Bulhandgives notice that he will return to Galien.

This week will see all the ice-houses inGaiieu will filled. Byron Denison took an unexpected plunge hath while help­ing at the lake. Y emo,

------------------------------Circuit Court.

The following business has been transacted since our last issue:Geo. P. Gore vs. H. W. Ray. Decis-

sion reserved.A . H. Potter vs. James Forbes et. al.,

case. Motion to require Plf. to give security for costs denied.

People vs. BurweU Hinehman. Plf. allowed to endorse on information of additional addresses.

People vs. John Dnlin. Same.People vs. Wm. R. Smith. Same.People vs. Harvick and Martin Scan-

lan. Same.Pros. Attorney Bridgman being call­

ed away by sickness, Geo. S. Clapp was appointed to fill his place, temporarily.

People vs. Geo. Herman, violation of liquor law. Pleaded not guilty. Con­tinued.

People vs. John Davis. Found guil­ty of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder.

People vs. Edward Robinson. Sen­tenced to county jail for thirty days.

People vs. Victor Hare. Sentenced to house of correction for six months.

People vs. John Peters. Sentenced to Jackson for six months.

People vs. Charles Davis. Sentenced to Ionia for ninety days.

People vs. Richard. Smith. Same. People vs. Frank Gilbert, violation

of liquurlaw. Plea of not guilty with­drew and guilty substituted. Fined $50 and costs—$70.

Bachr vs. Ryan. Continued.People vs. Woodwoith. seduction.

A . 0. Roe appointed as attorney to de­fend.

People vs. Smith. Found guilty of assault and battery. Fined $35.

People vs. Welch. Found guilty of violation of liquor law.

Wm. C. Hicks admitted to citizen­ship.

People vs. Harvick. Plea of not guilty withdrawn and guilty substitut­ed.

People vs Seanlan. Found notuilty.People vs. Tyler.—Berrien Springs

Journal.

FALL AND W INTER ANNOUNCEMENT.It will pay you to visit Yiles for your Winter stock of

Boots, Shoes & Rubber Goods.W e have one of the largest stocks to select from in South-Western Michigan. I will make it pay any of my Old customers

to take a day and come and see me.S T Y L IS H G O O D S ! S U P E R IO R

C. A . SIM ONDS & C O ,S T O C K ! L O W P R IC E S !

48 M A IN ST., N ILES.

Custom sawing done. Entire satis­faction guaranteed. A ll kinds of logs wanted. A special good price paid for large oak for quarter sawing. Mill on Chicago Street.

M. S. MEAD.Any person requiring the services

of an experienced nurse can secure one by calling at the residence of Mr. C. Y . East, River street, Buchanan, *

W ill U. Martin is in town on his regular visit for Tuning and Reparing Pianos and Organs. Orders may he left at Mrs. Sawyer’s restaurant.

Another barrel of that nice SauerKraut coming. ^

BISHOP & KEYT?Only four Yewmarkets left. You

can save from $4 to $5 by buying one of them of Jr

CHARLEY H IG H ./Talk about prices, High & Duncanj,

will sell you Goods as close as store in the county.

R emnants! Remnants! ! Look at the bargains we have for you. 12?

BOYLE & BAKER.J. Miley , Undertaker and Funeral

director, located foot of Day’s avenue and Front street. Residence eoruer Cnicago and Clark streets. Hearse furnished.

A ll goods to be sold cheap for the next twenty days.

GRAHAM ?Corn and Oats, at

BISHOP & KEYT’SfA closing out sale of ladies and

misses Cloaks. Yow is when you can save money. —>

BOYLE & BAKER/F or Sale .—I offer my house and

lot on Third street for sale, at a bargain. , Call at the premises or at John . Currier’s, on Terre Coupee prai­rie. ELI EGBERT.

It ivill be twenty days before I com­mence to invoice, and during that time I ‘ Will sell you Dress Goods, Flannels, Biankets.Shawls, Embroideries, cheap­er than you ever bought them. "I

G R A H A M ./I f you want a Bed Comfort, look at

ours. They are cheap. °y

- D E A L E K rNT-

Books, Stationery and W a ll Paper.

F a n c y a n d T o i l e t A r t i c l e s , B r u s h e s ,

PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY COMPOUNDED.

Fine Soaps, Sponges, Ete.3 9 Front Street, Buchanan, M ich.

T H A T H A S

A l a r g e black bear, weighing 450' pounds, was captured by C. W. Stahelin while he was engaged in cutting down a huge red oak tree on the premises o f Rufus Feather, in Bridgman, Berrien county. The bear had made the tree,, which had a large opening at the bot­tom, his place of refuge, where he was discovered and killed after a desperate struggle. Great interest was manifest­ed in the discovery and slaying of the bear, many people coming miles distant to see him. Mr. S. has the animal’s skin as a trophy of the encounter and will have the hide tanned. Stahelin and family will live on dainty bear- meat for some time to come.—Kalama­zoo Telegraph.

The Benton Harbor Palladium! claims this as one of its fibs.'

Capt. Thomas, living between Hast­ings and Carlton, was visited last week by a man who gave his name as Fris- bee and represented that he was agent for a patent washing maehing. Fris­bee persuaded liis intended victim to visit Kalmazoo on a guarantee that they could make $2 a day and expenses and there they took a room together. When Frisbee had the captain talked up to the proper pitch, they were visit­ed by a third party, a confederate of Frisbee’s, who was anxious to buy ten counties, paid $500 down, and was to give Ms note for the balance, $2,500 on delivery of the deed. And now Fris­bee got in his work by saying that while he was agent for the sale of territory yet he could buy these partic­ular ten counties himself for $1,500, and if Thomas would go in with him they would buy them and deed them to the third party who had agreed to pay $3,000. This was finally agreed to by Thomas, who gave his note for $750, expecting that Frisbee and him­self would clear $1,500 by the operation. Frisbee immediately skipped with the note and the captain is now busy try­ing to prevent him from selling it.— Hastings Banner.

John Miller is now a resident o f In­galls. Some time ago John married a squaw, and now he is ttoe father of seveuteen papooses of various sizes. There is an Indian reserve near Shaw- no where each Indian or papoose is en­titled to a quarter section of land, and Miller pere is considering the plan of moving onto the. reservation with his numerous progeny, and taking up large slice of the country.—Menomine iDemocrat.

CHARLEY HIGH.Don’t fail to look over our Rem­

nant Table. You can get almost any­thing you want at half-price. p

BOYLE & BAKER.TO A LL!

We have some Woolen Goods on hand, and will sell them at cost-. /

HIGH & DUYOAY? Bargains in Toboggan Caps, to close

out, at BOYLE & BAKER'S./*Our box Fapeteries are where you

can see them. LOOK! ^P. O. YEWS DEPOT.

A fter invoicing, I*will have lots of Yew Goods to show you. / O

CHARLEY HIGH.It is not necessary for me to men­

tion- prices to you of different kinds o f Goods. But I will say that I can sell you Goods from 5 to 10 per cent, cheaper than anybody. T

GRAHAM.That Crushed Coffee for 25 cents is a

dandv.

The annual report of County Yrea.s- urer Storms to the Board of Supen-vin- ors last week shows some interesting figures. The balance on hand De c. 31, 18S6, Was at $1,433.36; received from appropriations* $60,450.62; -from pri­mary school interest, $13,202.08; from taxes, $7,091.44; liquor licenses, $12,- 765; other sources, $3,448,80— total, $98,400.49, Of disbursements, $21,- 934.20 went to the state treasurer' $11,544.72 was paid in orders on gener­al fund, 2,527.30 for jurors. $2,549.49 to the state asylum for the blind,. $701.61 to stenographers. @5,650 for connty officers’ salaries, $267.92 to- the teach­ers institute fund, $12,468' as saloon taxes. $1,725.47 to. the treasurer o f Ben­ton, $1,243.19 to the treasurer o f St, Jo­seph and other amounts making up the total above given, with tbe exception of tbe balance on hand, $6,268.17.— Berrien Springs Coir., PpMadium.

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belonging to us, w ill please return them soon as possible and oblige

Y O U R S ,

YEAR

“G-WHIZ-Z!”litmited Express Trains—Five Hours Saved

Crolnar W est or Southwest via Chicago to •Council Bluffs or Kansas City.

The “ Great R ock Island R oute’ fets adopted a fast-time schedule which guarantees a rate of speed between above named points heretofore unat­tained in Western railroading. Its “Council Bluffs and Pacific Limited Express” leaves Chicago daily at 7 :30 P, M., and arrives in Council Bluffs at 11:30 A. M. next day. This is a mag­nificent train, including Pullman palace sleepers (price of berths greatly redu­ced) and dining cars. Tlie “Kansas City and Pacific Limited Express” .leaves daily at 5 P. H., and arrives in Kansas City at 9:05 A . M. next day. ’The equipment of this train js also superior and unsurpassed, consisting ■(in addition to first-class day coaches) •of new and elegant reclining chair •cars and Pullman palace sleeping •(berths at reduced rates) and buffet •cars. Speed, safety, comfort and luxu­ry have long been recognized as char­acteristics of the Rock Island, and, imore than ever, are these traits now •exemplified in its fast train service,

\ -which guarantees a delightful journey, 1 (consuming only sixteen hours’ time $ Ibetween Chicago and Council-Bluffs or

Kansas City. A t both these points, (connections are made(in union depots)vyith fast .trains running through to California and all points on the Pacific | Blake’s, icoast. ’ Plenty of Honey, at

You will see the best assortment of Embroideries this year, at

CHARLEY HIGA big drive In ladies’ and gents’ Red

Underweav. Yow is the time to buy, at HIGH & DUYCAY’S. i

I have the best wearing and fitting Corset in this city. Look at my as-, sortment. CHARLEY H IG H /^

A few good Blankets left. A bar gain for you.

HIGH & DUYCAY.W e are now prepared to deliver Corn

and Oats to any part of the city at market prices.

BISHOP & KEY t .We have the best aud cheapest Dress

Flannel iu town for the money. Come and see them before they are gone, j A

HIGH & DUYCAY1 7 Bread 1 Brea d ! Bread ! at

E. MORGAY & CO’i Slippers! Slippers! for everybody,

at J. K. W oods. Call and see them before buying.

Pure Buckwheat Flour, from Ber­rien Springs, at1 J. BLAKE’S . /

Go to J. Mixey and have your pictures framed. He has a fine lot of Moulding and many Yew Styles.

Look! L ook! at my cutters.T. C. ELSOY.

Goods must he sold and we are making Prices that sell them. Look at

BOYLE & BAKER’S.A fine lot of Hanging Lamps, at

J. BLAKE’SF or Sale .—Lot 14 Ross & Alexan­

der’s second addition, village of Bu­chanan.

J. G. HOLMES,High & Duncan’s is the place to buy

Bed Spreads.FOR SA LE —A Pony Team, Spring

Wagon and Sleigh.,T. G. HOLMES.

For new Dress Goods go toBOYLE & BAKER’S.

Look for the Big Boot. That is where J. K. W oods is.

Ladles, call and see the nice new Shoes I have just received. Ol), m y ! they are nice. S

J. K . WOODS. ISanta Clause will arrive at the F air

tomorrow.DRESS-MAKEYG.

Miss Elmira Burrus is prepared to do dress-making in the latest styles and give good work. Call at her home on Day’s Avenue, near the depot.

To know what low prices we are making you must come and see.

BOYLE & BAKE! Remember that High & Duncan’s

F ine Shirts leads them all, at 50 cents. FRESH BREAD will be kept at .

TO EVERYBODY!And to make it happier come and pay us what you owe us, that we may square our accounts up too.

Yours for settlement,

DR. E. S. DODD Sc SON,DKUGGrlSTS AN D BOOKSELLERS.

•5

Immense Stock for

-A T THE-

Be sure you see our assortment and prices before you buy,

W . F. RUNNER.

WOOD & HOFFMAN^BUCHANAN, HIGH.

BLAKE’S.

TUB READING STRIKE.s a

13 IT T H E BEGINNING OF A Y EAR O F LABO R T R O U B LE S?

Sumi- Inform ation C o sard in g tlio Causes T h a t T.cil to tho Stoppage o f W o rk . Pictures o f President Corhin. an d Chair­m an P ee—Previous B i g strikes.

A N it t o that the presidential elec­tion year is to be> a year o f strikes in

, tho United States?In th o closing days o f 1SS7 reports ap­peared in the daily papers o f trouble in the Heading coal region o f Pennsyl-

1 va n ia ; on tho first day o f ’SS wo were positively assured that th e trouble ■was settled ; but on Jan. 3 the great strike form ally be­gan. I t soon ex­tended: m ightily,

involving tens o f thousands o f workers in no w ay connected with the original movement.

The dispute has tw o phases; The Philadelphia nnd Heading Railroad com pany, its line run­ning up the Schuylkill from the former city to the latter, nnd sending branches through all that section o f the anthracite coal belt, is a very prosperous corporation, o f w h'eh M r. A u stin Corbin is president. Its gross earn­in gs in 1$S7 were $21,762,929, an increase over | 1SS6 o f $1,910,2-11, the clear profit over all expenses being reported a t $2,203,050. B u t connected with.it—indeed part o f the samo corporation—is tho Beading Coal and Iron company,, which had gross earnings last year o f $19,425,SOT, an d a clear profit, as reported “ on ’change,” o f $054,210. B u t in 1SSG it is claimed there was a clear loss o f $2,131,737.I t is obvious that the managers w ould seek a readjustment o f tho relations o f tho tw o ; but it is needless to detail the movements, c-x-

' cept state that tho usual course was adopted— to reduce wages.

In the summer o f 1837 the average earn­ings of a miner in the Schuylkill valley were $2 per day. The company then agreed to give an S per cent, advance, and in addition 1 per cent, for each advance o f 3 cents per ton in the price o f coal at Schuylkill Haven over the $2.50 standard. A s coal has lately been $2.SG or m ore a t that point, the miner who earned $3 a day in A ugust would now be earning, say, $3.40 per day i f the rate was maintained. B ut the com pany claims tho ex­piration o f that agreement, nnd so there is a m argin o f thirty or forty cents a clay fo r the average miner between tho conflicting claims. The com pany asserts that it contracted specifically w ith tho m en fo r the limited timo andstooclthe loss, and that the m en no w violate the agreement and refuse to take their share o f the reduction. O f course, the miners understood the agreement differently, and so 20.000 men quit work a t the instance o f John R . Lee, chairman o f the Reading employes, tho railroad being also invol ved. M r. Cor­bin was able to supply the place o f the strik­ers on the railroad r 'flciently to keep up a semblance of traffic; but he m ade no serious attem pt to do so in the mines. The coal ship­ments rapidly declined, and one b y one the manufactories in all that region began clos­in g for w ant o f fu el; each stoppage cut off an increasing number o f closely related indus­tries, and so at least 60,000 workers soon be­came idle and stagnation set in through all the region.

A H the usual phenomena o f strikes have been n oted ; the m m w ho too k the strikers’ places on the trains we^e boycotted and they w ere turned ou t o f hotels and boarding houses; the Knights o f L abor began a t once organizing all the connected industries to re ­sist any imduo pressure on tho m iners; the usual brood o f Pinkerton’s m en and detec­tives were put on at once; the usual expres­sions o f hatred and defiance and tho usual contributions from workingmen elsewhere were also soon tho order o f the day. Cor­bin’s attitude has been that there is nothing to compromise— only an agreement to carry o u t T he business m en o f R eading and m any in Philadelphia early in the fight appealed to h im to arbitrate; and suggested 3Ir. George TV. Childs, o f T he Philadelphia Ledger, as referee, but M r. Corbin refused.

I t seems but yesterday that politicians “ pointed with pride” to the fa c t that there were no “ classes” in the United States,

involved a u llio manilTnes north o f UTe T ot0- irttic and west o f tho Hudson, A moderate estimate puts the lives lost at 400 and the total losses a t $40,000,000. I t was alm ost n civil w ar. Since then the reader o f tho daily paper has become so fam iliar with Str l.estbat the very names o f “ P all River,” “ Hocking Valley” and the like suggesta strike; and the

CHAIRMAX LEE. strikes in Eng­la n d , w h i l e a thousand Fourth

A trsn x c o r b ix . o f Juliai'S fanned the heated a ir w ith fervid oratory on the country’s complete exemption from labor troubles. V e t since the civil w ar there have been 4,000 regular strikes, besides minor troubles too m any to be counted. In three m onths o f one year (ISTTj there were more strikes and riots, laboi troubles and m ilitia calls to suppress them , more fighting and de­struction o f property about w ork an d wages, than in a ll the years from "Washington to Lincoln. I n the first edition of W ebster's D ictionary the word “ tramp” as a substantive w ith its present m eaning was not fou n d ; as th e thing didn ot exist in Am erica, the lexicographer did n o t think i t w orth w hile to im port tho E nglish slang word. V e t a close observer could see even then that Am erica’s exemption w as n o t solely duo tG her rulers or institutions, but largely to the immense area o f cheap and fertile lan d ; and when the civil w ar ended, and foreign immi­gration assumed a magnitude never dreamed o f forty years ago, the prem onitory symp­tom s were at once visible.

Since 1SG5, beginning w ith the “ E igh tH ou r d u b s,” each successive m ovem ent has had a w ider sweep and acted w ith m oro precision and success. B y compact organization the laborers inside the unions havo accomplished th a t w hich every theoretical econo­m ist had pronounced an impossibil­i t y ; they have held Up wages in the face o f a steadily declining market, and while the average profits o f capital are, probably, little more than half w h at th ey wero tw enty years ago, and the retail prices o f products are greatly reduced, associated labor is able to maintain a rate o f wages hut a trifle be­lo w that o f tho m ost flush period in this country’s history.. In union there is strength, an d wherever th e laborers are thoroughly united, they prove this in a w a y capitalists

The first thoroughly organized labor so­cieties in Am erica, were noted in N ew V ork and N ew England In 1S29-33, nnd an In ­dustrial Congress o f the United States con­vened in Now Y o r k city , Oct. 12, 1S45; but

a s late as 1SG0 so fe w were the Organizations that, to tho mass of the people outside a few cities, the phrase trades’ union, had no mean­in g or conveyed only a vague impression. N ow i t would be difficnlb to name an in­dustry em ploying 5,000 persons (except the purely agricultural or the unskilled) which has n ot its complete anion, w ith a code as rig id as Draco’s and an ex­ecutive energy equal in its sphere to that o f the government. The first m en w ho organ­ized strikes were indicted fo r conspiracy and, some of them, punished. A s late as 1777 the selectmen o f some towns; established legal rates o f wages, and alm ost down to the civil w ar a strike w as regarded as a sort o f crime. The first strike b ig enough to be noticed in the papers occurred in N ew V o r k city in 1803; the strikers were dispersed b y the gov­ernment, and tho leader sent, to prison for a short term . The im ported laborers on th e . Chesapeake an d Ohio canal struck in 1829 an d Were arrested en masse, but the court ruled that their action was not a “ conspiracy under tho statute;” In tho next ten years there were several strikes fo r a w oridngday o f ten hours,, and o n A p ril 10,1840, President V a n Buren issued an, executive order m ak ing that th e lim it in a ll governm ent work. I t was remarked th a t yea r as an am azing thing that there were some tw enty trades unions in the United States, besides; a “ "Work­ingm an’s P arty” in the cities. M ay 28, 1S45, the N ew England W orkingm en’s association held a large conventioain Boston, an d among the active participants was Charles A . Dana, now editor o f The New Y o r k Sum In 1847 there were several strikes ; in 1857 as m any, and in 1800-67 the movement for an eight hour la w assumed national pro­portions.

Then the modern organizations began and have m ultiplied, till, as aforesaid, th ey in­clude almost; every branch o f labor. A . list b y titles m erely o f tho acts they have forced through congress a n d legislatures would fiU several columns: A n d , it m ust be1 added, a list o f the strikes fo r one year, especially 1885 or 1SS0, w ould fill as m any. The great strikes o f 1877 began w ith a resistance to a, 10 per cent, reduction o f wages on the Balti­m ore and O b is railroad, and in three weeks

ORDEREWJ THE STRIKE.autumnal m onth in which some governor does not “ order tho m ilitia " somewhere m ay be marked with a white stone. A ll this time thelabor organizations were coming closer to­gether and learning; to w ork more in harmony, and finally tho K nights o f Labor attained such strength as to promise an absorption o f all minor forces. O f late, however, tho order appears to bo weakening, while the new con­federation o f labor— a “ union o f unions”— is becoming stronger. Tbo sum mary o f this tedious detail m ay be given in one suggestive sentence: Tho laborers o f tho United States have learned how to organize an d to w in vic­tories b y union. A l l the progress o f tho workingmen for a century has been b y their organized efforts; and without deciding upon the rights or wrongs o f present strikes, it p a y be said w ith certainty, that labor or­ganization in A m erica has accomplished a vast am ount o f good, at the cost Of somo seri­ous afflictions.

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BUNNIE AND BABY BUNTING.

The T am ons B rea ch o f Prom ise Suit R e ­cently T ried in tho City o f N ew Parle.Tho K M Q’s and tho H ’s and K ’s of

Coffee Millionaire Arim ckle, of N ew Y o rk , will not soon bo forgotten, either b y himself or the rest o f the world.

T hey are likely to cost him $45,000, and they put a broad smile over the face o f the populace. I t has been suggested that M r. Arbiu-lde w ill uow discard the popular inter­pretation o f K M Q to read K ick M e Qui­etly. This shorthand o f love, however, will probably not take on any prosaic meaning, but w ill go hand in hand with young Cupid for m any years to come.

M iss Campbell, or “ Bunnie,” a s shois bet­ter known, is a resident o f fronton, O . She claimed $250,000, and not $100,000, as has 1 * been stated, from, her B aby Bunting— as A r - buckle signed liis letters to her— becanso he would not m arry her, and the m atter was argued pro and con fo r several days b y sev­eral of N ew Y o rk ’s brightest lawyers, but the ju ry decided that under a ll the circum­stances $45,000 was enough, and Miss Camp­bell says she thinks the verdict quite vindi­cated her. Miss CampbeU declares that she has grown ten years older in the last few months, and th a t she would be thankful If people would stop calling her “ Bunnie.” She w ill not go on the stage, she says, aithongh she w ould like to dearly. A s a music teacher she m ight bo a success. “ But,” she adds, “ at m y age— I had to tell it under oath as 39—I am too old to im prove m uch, practice as I m ay.”

Tho jum per concluded that Methodist prop­erty was not good property to jum p,

IT . H . Stevens, o f tho Iron mine, was a great friend o f TTzzell’s, and on one occasion Stevens authorized some ladies to give a party, saying that ho would pay fo r the re­freshments, and suggesting that they sell tickets a t $1 apiece, tho proceeds to be given to UzzeU for his church. During the evening tho parson stood as the door taking tickets. Suddenly ho was called up stairs. There ho found that Stevens had been smuggling champagne in the building. “ I was too la te ," says M r. Uzzell, “ to stop tho drinking, but I put an end to an intended dunce. A s I en­tered the room some one jumped on a chair and shouted out, ‘Get your partners for the first dance!’ That was ‘Dick Allen , o f The Lcadvlllo Reveille, one o f tho old newspapers in the camp. I interposed and said I would not perm it any dancing a t a Methodist so­cial, and Dick did not urge the m atter any further, but an Irishm an present did. Ho said lie had paid his dollar to get in and in­tended to dance. H e insisted, notwithstand­in g m y objections, and finally threatened to give mo a thrashing i f I interfered. I was expecting trouble, when Tabor, who after­w ard became U nited States senator, being present, interfered in m y behalf and quieted the troublesome Irishman.”

M r. Uzzell is now in charge o f tho People’s tabernacle at Denver, under tho supervision of tho Hom o Missionary society' of New Yovk. ________________ ___

M issouri's N ew Governor.H on. A . P . Morehouse, the now governor

o f Missouri, vice Marmaduke, deceased, was b o m in Delaware county, O ., July 11, 1835. H e received only such schooling as naturally falls to farmers’ boys, terminating his studies when h e w as 20 years o f age. However, ho m ade f t e b e s t o f whatever ad­vantages ho pos­

s e sse d , and became a teacber in Cam­den, Mo. Soon after be removed to Nod­aw ay county,where ho occupied what­ever tim e was not devoted to teacl n j to studying lav and was admitted to practice tho pro­fession In 1800.

Governor More­house has always been a Democrat, ni

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REV. THOMAS A. UZZELL

He Stands V ery Itigrli Am ong: tiie Camp Preachers o f the Par "West. ~

R ev. Thomas A . Uzzell is a te of the best known o f the m ining camp pi eachcrs o f the far west. H is w ork has led him among tlm wildest and m ost depraved inhabitants o f Leadville and like settlements, and his work has: invariably been such as tc insure respect even from the m ost reckless. Often aftei^a broil, in which some reckless creature had fallen before the o ft used rev elver, tbo par­son w ould be called in to perform the last offices for the dead. Then would the strange gathering stand uncovered, tamed, in g io presence o f one w ho told them o f the eraor o f their w ays, while sympathizing w itlitheir weakness as a brother m ight.

This singular m anj so w ell fitted for the singular field in which belabors, is a native o f Lebanon, Ills. F orty years ago he was a wild, young fellow himself. H e was a gam­bler and a horse racer, and i t Is said that he

attended c a m p m eetings fo r the purpose o f pelting t h e worshipers w ith c o m an d p ea ^ 1 A t 21 he re fo rm ed H e could then neither read nor write. Somewhat late in life he w ent

" to college, being graduated a t A S- b u ry university,In­diana, in 1575. Tb£h next year ho was ordained by Bishop

REV. THOMAS A. UZZELL. Simps0I1) 4 d sentto Colorado. In February, 1S7S, he struck Leadville, when the place was a mere ruining cam p o f 500 people. »

The m orning after his arrival ho started on a tour am ong the saloons and gam bling places. The inmates laughed a t him and in­vited him to take a drink o r a hand a t poker, but Uzzell began a t once b y fiUing his im ­provised cabin a t evening service, and com­menced to raise m oney w ith which to build a church. H e first tried the miners, but not getting all he w anted ho extended his solici­tations to the gamblers an d tho w om en o f the tow n. F rom theso reckless pcoplo he m et w ith a universal response. One saloon keeper offered him tho proceeds o f a keg o f whisky, which UzzeU refused to accept. H aving taken qtute a collection in the saloon, a gam bler, remarking th a t they had dono the fa ir thing b y the parson, insisted onUhis taking a drink. I t appeared th a t Uzzell m ust either drink o r fight, so he polled off his coat, whereupon the stalwart bartender, who was something o f a fighter himself, leaped over tho bar a n d declared that he proposed to take a hand, a n d UzzeU needn’t drink i f he didn’t w ant to . This-restored quiet.

M r. Uzzell tells a num ber o f good stories anent queer weddings and funerals he has officiated at. H erois one concerning a wed ding:

“ ‘Ih a v e just been let put o f ja il,’ said t ’ e m an who wished to bo m arried, ‘and^bor- rowed a sa w an d buck and w ent in search of work. i"When I asked this wom an here b y m y side fo r a jo b , she said she had no m oney to hire a m an, being a poor widow woman. I told h er I w ould saw the w ood and take dfer fo r pay, and she said “ all right,” and here we are non- to get married, but I baiut g o t no m oney, parson, to p ay the bill.’ ”

M r, Uzzell performed the ceremony»and paid the recorder’s fee.

There was then a great deal o f what was .caUed lot jum ping in LeadviHe. M r. UzzeU secured some lots for his church. One day lie found a jumper unloading logs for the pur­pose of building a cabin on these lots. Uzzell took off his coat and prepared to resist the jum per, w ho was beginning to unload a fresh lot o f logs:

“ I f y o u get off that wagon I w ill thrash you,” said the preacher.

“ Parson, you; wouldn’t fight, w ould yon?” replied the jumper,

“ I don’t w ant to fight, b u t i f you jg jt another log on this lot I w ill thrash you, or you wiU m e,”

“ W ell, w hat do you w ant done?”“ Drive aw ay w ith the load o f logs yon now

have and then haul off th e others already on the lot.”

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A. P. MOREHOUSE, u for moro titan tw enty -

fivo years lias been actively identified with the Democratic party of his state. IIo was a delegate to the national Democratic conven­tions o f 1873 and 1870. H e also served in the Twenty-ninth and Thirty-first general as­semblies, being the presiding officer o f the senate fo r tw o terms and a member o f the Democratic state central committee of 18S3 and 1SS3. Personally Governor More­house is tall and dark, his manners being u n ld an d affable. H o is an ardent prohibi-

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The Australian narket gardeners aro being ruined b y Chinese cheap labor.

TO FEED STARVING- MEN.T H E TASK SET FOR HIMSELF BY

JOHN H. KEYSER.

There A to Thousands o f T hem In tho City ot N ow Y o rk am i the Charltahlo Societies H avo No m eans o f R eaching Them — M r. K eyser’s P lan.

N L Y a m an with a very charitable turn of m ind and a wiU strong enough to dare try over­com ing the insur­mountable would attem pt the task John H . Keyser, of N ew Y o rk , has set for himself. The experiment is not a novel one in point o f object sought, but M r. Keyser’s plan is a somewhat

novel one. H is operations aro carried on a t 123 W est Fourth street, and tho result has been such as to make m ost people won­der w hy a sensible m an should tr y such an experiment a t all. H e sim ply proposed to give tw o meals a day to all w ho choso to apply— aU tho bread and soup and coffee one could w ant, and not a cent to pay. W e need not wonder that though but seven­teen applied the first day, tho number gradu­a lly increased till one day 2,S00 came, and M r. Keyser put up bis shutters, after a piteous ap­peal to the public to como forw ard and help him. I t was m uch the same as if a thriftless housewife should splash m ilk and sugar over the kitchen floor in Juno and then wonder w hy tho flies were bad; lo r is i t not one of tho best proved facts in nature th a t every organization multiplies in tho exact ratio of tho increase o f its food and the decrease of its enemies, and that as careless giving in­creases careless paupers increase faster still, and so the net result is an increase of misery ? To put it mathematically, double the food fo r tramps and tho number of tramps w ill nearly treble, so there is tw ice as m uch mis­ery ns before.

The General Charity Organization o f the City of Now Y o rk , b y M r. Charles D . K el­logg, its secretary, M r. A . F . Schauffier and others published a protest against M r. Keyser’s scheme, which really w as not nec­essary, as monied men. are not going to sup­port such things as free restaurauts; but it almost broke M r. Keyser’s heart. Onco ho was wealthy, and it is little wonder that ho is not rich now w hen one hears his own ac­count. H e is a thin, odd but kindly faced old m an, looldng w onderfully like a “ gaimted” Santa Claus. Speaking mourn­fu lly o f tho hard lines his charity had met, hesaid:

KETSER’l! FREE RESTAURANT.“ The trouble is that the Charity Organiza­

tion society deals with hum anity in a lump. I deal w ith it in individuals. They want to put charity on a machine basis—to get work for the poor. M y plan is to feed those who now go hungry. The best w ay fo r them to stop m y work is to successfully accomplish their ow n. B u t while they aro about it , what’s to bo dono for those who are suffering right now? I have lived in this city fifty years and made the condi­tion of the poor a special study, and I know that never since tho starvation winter of 1S78-74 have there been so m an y thousands o f men idle through necessity as now. T o let them suffer would be a crime. There are in this c ity at least 20,000 m en and women working only occasionally or not a t ail, and this through necessity. In 1SSSI started the ‘Stranger’s Rest,’ on Pearl street, where pen­niless m en could get food and lodging. I t furnished 9,000 lodgings and IS,000 meals a year, cost $10,000 a year and ran five years. In the w inter o f 18731 fed 1,000 men a d ay in m y back yard. Charitable people backed me after I lost m y own m oney.”

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A SQUABS JCEAL FREE.The rather dingy little room on Fourth

street now shows in the window a b ig sign in­scribed:,

Closed on account of the place being far too small for the constantly increasing applicants.

B u t tho current was too strong to b e sud­denly dammed, and a few hundreds were fed daily for som etim e after the nominal closing. For the last tw o weeks o f “ open doors” the

"rush began a t 5:30 in the m orning and con­tinued till the latest hour, to which the m an­ager would keep open; for the restaurant was but twelve feet w ide a n d fifteen feet lo n g , and though thickly set frith tables, and c h a in

tho service was b y b u t ono person at a time. Each “ customer” got a large m ug of hot and stroug coffee, with sugar and as much but­tered bread as be could eat, and reporters who dropped in from curiosity pronounced the articles very good. Our artist writes in­dorsing this.

The observing eye, however, could detect tho peculiar aimless look in every third or fourth m an, the “ air neglige,” the slouching gait, the lack lnster eye and generally out at the elbow and down a t the heel look which marks the professional tramp.

M r. Keyser has builded better than he knew in ono respect; he has stirred np the regular charities to adopt m ore system, and set m auy thousand pcoplo to studying how they can aid tho deserving poor without do­ing harm. A n d this, by tho w ay, is the great and ever present grief Of chavitaljlo people in a b ig city— tho fear that they arc encourag­ing frauds. A noted and benevolent lady, who gave aw ay millions, once said: “ I am the worst woman in New Y o r k : I did incal­culable harm before I learned how to give.”

A nd the vice president o f the N ew Y ork C ity Mission deplores M r. Keyser’s institu­tion as on a likely to add to the fascinations of city life fo r the great arm y o f tramps. H o backs up liis views w ith the story o f a wom an who was living in squalid w ant in N ew Y o rk . A good home and w ork were provided fo r her in Connecticut. But she was soon in N ew Y o rk again as poor as ever. People were “ better company than sktumpsl” she said.

That explains it. A n d the same feeling explains a good deal of this congestion of cities which is such a momentous fact in recent Am erican life. Scores ol’ rich agri­cultural counties in the eastern and middle states havo actually lost population since 1870, while the A tlantic cities have grown at a rate never before recorded in history. In 1S78-74 free soup houses were established and tho m ain result was that the city was soon crowded with tram ps and vagabonds. Tho- charity tickets for bread, soup, coal, etc., also wrought great demoralization. Som e of the oldest workers in charity question if a ll then" w ork in N ew Y o r k has not done as m uch harm as good. A ll these facts and statements have been drawn out b y M r. Keyser’s ill advised attempt.

BUILT HIS OWN MONUMENT.

Tbo Strange Character o f Louis Masque- Tier IVho R ecently D ied on l ong Island. Louis Masqucrier, who built his own mon-a­

m ent, and was onco a candidate for the gov­ernorship of New Y o rk , died recently at tho age of S5, a t his home at Greenpoint, L . I. H o resided there for nearly fifty years.

Forty years ago ha was the center of a group of land reformers. H is idea was to divide the earth into equal parts, allotting a part to each fam ily , carrying his scheme to suck minute detail that the divisions of the plots, the site o f each building upon them and the plan of the house was established.

Tho house in which Masquerier lived is such as was ordinarily built half a century ago, and is now hem med in b y brick resi­dences. In a room upstairs the old m an used

to s le e p , e a t , cook and work.H o would be­c o m e s o o n - grossd in bis w ork as to for­get his molds, and often re­quired to bo re- minded o f them b y a kindly jia sQu e r ie r— sio n u h en t . neighbor, who furnished him with m ost of his food and took care of his room . H e oc­cupied himself in m aking curious devices in wood and cardboard, illustrating reforms of all sorts and drawing plans in red and blue penciL

Masquerier was one o f the twenty-five co- workers w ho in 1S72 Were photographed in a group. O f these five were present at his funeral.

One liv in g to so great an age would natur­ally bridge fa r remote periods. H is parents w ere prominent during the last century. In a short sketch read at the funeral they were referred to as follows:

Mr. Masquerier, the last of his name, was of Huguenot descent on his father’s ride, and on his mother’s of a hero of tho war of independence, who commanded a company and fought through the whole of it up to the surrender of Lord Corn­wallis. Speaker Carlisle is a grandson of liis great uncle George Carlisle, of Woodford county, ICr., brother to his grandmother. Thomas Hicklin, his grandfather, was a noble hero. Ho received two wounds in the war of independence, and at the close he declined pay or pension, saying that he did not fight for wages, hut for liberty and independence. His father's brother, John James Masquerier, made a colossal sketch of Napoleon and his army during a grand review at Paris, in which the commanding form of the great general was majestically draped in? a military clonk, which appeared on all portraits of Napoleon by artists of distinction in after years. This picture was exhibited iu London and Paris, and brought in to the painter over £5,000.

The rise in the value o f his property should havo ruaejg. him comfortable. H o was gen­erous to tho poor but niggardly to himself. F or some years ho busied himself most o f the time attending to the erection of his tom b­stone in Cypress H ills cemetery. I t was completed on June 5 , 1SS7, and dedicated b y the m an it was to commemorate. The mon­ument is surmounted b y a bronze figure of Liberty enlightening the world: Ho said it would be a living witness o f the truth long after he was dead.

FINALLY LAID AT REST.

Itelnteraaent o f N apoleon I I I and th t Prince Im peria l.

The remains o f Napoleon I I I and the prince imperial, or Napoleon I V , as Bonapartists prefer to call the latter, were recently re­moved from Chiselhurst, in England, to the mausoleum prepared fo r them b y the E m ­press Eugenie, on Farnborough bill. The widow and mother desired that the mau­soleum should be erected a t Chiselhui-st, but an Englishm an who owned the only suitable ground, treasuring a hereditary hate for Frenchmen, and especially for Rom an Cath­olics, despite the intercession o f the queen and the Prince o f W ales, refused to sell, and it was necessary to select another site.

MEMORIAL CHAPEL, FARNBOROUGH.Since tbo late emperor found a retreat in

exile am ong the people who dethroned bis uncle, the great Napoleon, Chiselhurst has been an attractive point fo r sightseers, and the name o f tho place has become a fam iliar word throughout tho civilized world. The prejudice of an English lord of the m anor has deprived it of a great portion o f its in­terest in the future, and it is said that its in­habitants are greatly dissatisfied and cha- griued at the result.

On the fifteenth anniversary o f tho death of the emperor, and on a typical English , morning under a lowering sky and falling rain, the coffins containing the imperial dead were transferred to their later resting place, to remain, i t is intended, till perchance another branch of tlio Napoleonic dynasty shall sit on the throne o f France, in which event, doubtless, the bodies w ill again h ere- moved, to rest w ith those o f the founder of the fam ily , in the Hotel des Invalides, at Paris, on the banks o f the Seine.

O f those who remained faithfu l to the im ­perial exiles but tw o were present at the re­m oval, Pietri, the secretary, and Bassano, the son of tho ex-household minister. The church is cruciform in plan, w ith a dome over the crossing, is vaulted in stone throughout and has a crypt under the chancel. I t is described b y an E nglish paper as being a favorable specimen o f the transition between the flam boyant and Renaissance styles,, which is so popular in rural Franco. I t is

„built o f white Portland and Bath stone, has neither spiro nor tower and is very rich in detail. Behind the high altar there is a semi­circular passage, to bo used as a sacristy, With a n entrance to the vaulted cham ber under the church, in W hich the bodies have been placed.

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THE MAUSOLEUM.Near the mausoleum there is a red brick

b u ild in g -“ the Priory”— wherein reside cer­tain members of the order of “ W h ite Canons of St. Norbert,” a portion of tlio 6,000 “ re­ligious” cast out of France b y the decrees of1SS0. Theso canons, once a very numerous A Practically Pei feet Preparation for QMLdren’s Complaints.order, have found a friend and protector in * Xrtho Duke o f Norfolk and a generous bene- ^..,CT factor in the ex-Einpress Eugenie.

A H O T E L ON A RAILROAD.

T rying to G et A w a y from tho Sail Sea "Waves a t Coney Island.

Encroachments o f the land upon the ocean and the ocean upon tho land are always going on.

These changes aro observable at any o f the summer seaside resorts on the A tlantic coast. A t some points the hotels aro a t a much Greater distance from the beach than was

STARTING WITH A BIG LOAD, originally intended, while at others they are so near as to be drenched constantly b y tho spray. Change o f this sort is constant at Coney Island, New Y ork ’s great summer breathing nnd bathing place. Coney Island is really the southwestern extrem ity of Long Island, and can be visited from New Y o rk within an hour. A t Brighton tho sea has SO fa r encroached upon the beach as to roll under the great hotel there. So now it is the old story about Mohammed and tho moun­tain, or, in other words, as the land in its retreat from before the w aves has le ft tho hotel behind and w ill not return for it, tho hotel m ust go to the land. B u t such a re­m oval requires extraordinary measures. The ordinary single horse who, with drooped head, meanders around a windlass and thus moves sm all fram e houses, would have no effect whatever in this case, and a fa r greater power m ust he called into play. The hotel Is being elevated on to 125 platform cars, and when all is ready ten locomotives will unite in an effort to drag the building back on to hard ground, some 500 or GOO feet distant. This move will be attempted about the 1st of February. It is supposed by j the superintendent o f the w ork that there will be no insurmountable difficulty attend- , in g it.

The illustration shows the building ns it w ill axipear when all is ready and the eu- . gines are in position to start with their enor­mous load.

There will bo another attempt to build a railroad through the Euphrates valley, not­withstanding the m any previous failures.

A BROKEN FLANGE.

A Confidential Letter, Dated Oct. 1, 1887, Which We Publish by Per­mission IL.der Later Letter, Dated Oct. 12, 1887.

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Your Je’ ler of the seventh inst. be­fore me in reply will say. If my former Utter to yo.u will do suffering humanity any g od it should be pub­lished. It was through a lei ter from a resident o f Pontiac that first brought it to my daughter’* notice anil my only regret is, that we did not know of it a year ago instead of the bint six months. 1 shall “lill prescribe, it to my patients, as I think it the, most wonderful medi­cine known, or ever put before the public. Truly your reword will be gn at as suffering humanity is blessed, and as you become thoroughly known.

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Tlio Xfriln Tfc TTorkcd On tiie X>aston and TVTalne R ailroad.

O nly a broken flange! O nly a slight flaw’ , imperceptible to the human eye!

B u t that flaw, that break in the flange, m eant bruised, torn and bleeding bodies for a largo number o f human beings, instant death to nine and lingering, agonizing death to three more.

This accident, one o f the earliest o f tho j year and the worst so far, took place a t H a v- j hill, oh tho Boston and Maine, a railroad that 1 has heretofore boon singularly free from dis­aster. The broken flange threw tho smoker from tho track, and instantly tho cars were in hopeless confusion.

A noteworthy escape from personal injury was th a t o f the engineer o f the unlucky train — "Warren French. H o bears a charmed life. During his experience as a railroad m an he has m et death face to face several times, but has never been harmed and has never been personally at fault.

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T U I C (% A B C D is onfilqin PhiIndelntitav iVasJSa^ssssssrst ssi-■ H . W « A V E It * S O N . our authorized agent*.-

Mortgage Sale *THe sum ol" two thousand six hundred eleven

dollars and twenty-one cents is claimed to h e . due at tho''date of this notice on amortgagemade

by William Dickey and Sarah Dickey, his wife, lo David E . Riuimm, dated October thirteenth, 1883, and recorded October fifteenth, 1883, iu liber six­teen of Morteages. on page 203, in the office of the Bcgistcr or Deeds or Berrien County, Michigan. Pin-uant thcrelore to the power of sale in said mo tgngc contained, the premises therein describ­ed to-vvit: The west half o f ’the north-westqn iter' of section seventeen (17; town seven (7) so .th, range nineteen <19)wesr, in Berrien County, State of Michigan, will lie sold at public auction, at the front door of the Court House, in the vil­lage of Berrien Springs,In raid county, on Friday, the thirtieth day of March, 1838. at-one o’clock in the afternoon, to satisfy the amount due on said mortgage, together with the cost o f foreclosure allowed by law.

January 5, 1888.DAVID E . H IN M A N , Mortgagee.

Last publication, March29, 1&8.