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AGRICULTURE.
4XM tl, Hll*olt 1 Op TIIE 5UT1051
A I. • OM riSIOIEfr.
Anti t:* ■ ii uf -la in Kigard l Furalnf
I (Ur . I f .
(•< nm,-'. <■ . a n-.U, of tll'l N ltiOTAl
Ax* • l'.ird ot>-rt ii’ .t, itlt -i annua! re
|w>rt H;.s Ili- year wiu-ji o(<fn-i I ,i g o mi.
lUr U j .mx the d-striftion o' winter ■ r >|.
rioting w ;th li 1 ' it |;; if aboti inn 6
for iunit and Do i.-t ] r il r lata c*t wac-h
i not a l.urd-n t > the j.roducer. an I be
* 11 at i pru • wrnmi is not a harrier to t .e
P wrromum-r.
I! • ivi it ha-. }-■• • more apparent that
a mo. l i'unat relation is i>e •••-.-.'try bet we n
the ui.vci.tl nitural . lid tx|jerim-nta|
•tat j .ns an *, tli- 1-p irtmetit The < ollege*
■(••. :i low c I by <' i. i e Tiiey ur now
M ..,;y ai: in ,i-eritsn?nts wilho’it
mi-, . t.a ,i t i gh whi ii to report
ari l < in u • re .1 H- s.. rnits that the
th-j./u 11- ( . j. ii i.-tv- i.iilbority to avail
i- I ffered by
tli n • u.-Miut o.|( in to i at the adapta
bility of new x ! to vari m section-).
Th-* lin <• t.i . .•1,114 the hiir. au of animal
Indu-trv Ini -i. do s not authorize the
hi ; o ffeotoJ with at t
gi oi. inse.n 111 - ara' t. ri-.ti.-e of pleuro
pn .iiuio i-i in in it i --nit disease to ex
tiipat • .pt i.) thi la.gi.tr of a (Tec ted
aiiminlx ii 1 th - slaii -lit -r - r quarantine of
ad that hav • Ix-e-i -r.|xj.<rd. Kunb is now the
p ilicy o' m t civili el imtioiut. lie de
n r.bwi* the s iii * <-ll t upon our for
eign b ade in lif - k ri -ultin ' front the
exi-teir'•' of contagious dio-ascs among cat
tle, an I says that the r.-du non in the value
of cattle in the affected btales has been enor
-111 ,us.
In the entomolgi al division the work has
greatly increased during the year. Much
site ition has tiee i given t> agri ulturo, mil
the work in p- •■•'■t to silk < u.ture has been
much extended.
The stall U ian of tin- department has a re
view of th • c ur <■ of a riculturul production
(luring li.teeri years, which shows an esti
mat'd incrt'ii ei i ■ 'ii of 7,0 ■ 1,000 acres, or
8l p u cent; in win- it, of J 0,14 0.0 io a, r-s, or
108 pel- cent; in oat of 1 1,0 l,O '0 u res, or
14 : per cent, in ai i.'i'-il- taken together,
07,1 OffJXtO arcs, or 91 percent.
The coniuii H.o.e r hi o that many import
ant m -di- r -il ji ants me perfectly adapted to
orfr i:l mate, and could bu cultivated in |>er
fe -t i in ;an 1 i u ould svuii well that meant
sli ni l Is) taken to give them apropor trial.
The coiiiini sioner says tliat efforts should
Is.) made lo arouse the penpli to the dangers
which threa on us tiir..u ;li tiie destruction
of forests “Arbor days ’ sir u!il be instituted,
tin , ienen of forestry should be tnug it in
schools, and the organization of local and
l-itat f, ,r> s' ry so ieties should In encouraged.
in view of the continued (lostiu tion of
the tinib'-r on the govei nment lands, and the
importance of pr s-rving such port ons of
forests as are adja eat t the head springs of
rivers, or widen may I e n ><■ led for eiim itic
if ~t ir<as >n i"- ige ihat fhe further
■de of tinib r land belonging to the govern
illicit ought to bo siisj.endel until a survey
shall revet! what, poriion may lio sol 1 with
" oat in iitry t > tlio <■ amtrv and what ought to
lie iKTiiiaiioiitiy hel I in tho fore it condition.
The ooinm s honor - iys Mint particular at
tention has be n given I . im roved nietln di
of distributing eeds lie cal s attention to
that feature of the law which anticipates a
rejsirt of exp -rim nts from those who reelivo
seeds, nn I ay in a vast majority of cases
this design oi law is not met an 1 is not likely
to is-, lie suggests b r con-i leration whether
or not some systematic plan of cooperation
may not bo fixed upon between the depart
ment and meiiils-rs of Congress by which the
former can have a better c ontrol over the
and sti ibutio-i of see ls than it now h is, and
make file istribiilion a c iiidition precedent
tin * npiiance with simple but import iiit
reono enients
1 lie < ■ in si ner des riiies tlio remit pf
th • work .. the inicnisciiptcal division in tbo
discovery of a nielli ■! of detecting ounter
leit butter, and sa > s tin' the tin) ai added in
(Tea-e during the past few year- in ilie manu
fa turn and Kilo of various coiujtoutiils,
tw/raitdu.ently retire ented to the | üblic as but
m r, threitens t io di>.truction of the legiti
mate dairy busiin-s an interest of the
largest in cnitude. It is not, he says, coni
petition witli dairymen tint isdt pi er:.', >d. but
t se simulation o th > ti n dairy proluots,
libs use of impure substances and the dishon
listsalc, at high ra to of ptoiucts otherwise
of little value, pi n'tn s which demoralize
| trade, defraud hone-. industry and civ^
To i r t 'ci the pub!:.- from tin se deceptivo
practn -in earnestly rec mmends the prompt
imssago of u law by ('.ingress to prevent the
coil'muanee of this tm-i n s except under
such rogu'ations as t lie ne ss ties of the case
demands, the enforcem lit of the law, if
thought advisable by Congress, to bo placed
under the control ot the internal revenue de
partment.
NEWSY GLEANINGS
The pumpkin crop is the largest ever
known
Insan rv is Mint to bo rapidly increasing
in l'inladc phi i.
Am Kit.< an I.inv brewers use -10,000 pounds
of riiv annmulv.
Win at is i iv. r in Knelund than it has
b'-'on for a o. atnry.
I r is proposed in t'anada to render all debts
under *.) uneolloctablo by iavv
Ihe ta value of teal cslatoand persona’
propel!) 1.1 N n Jer ‘V is f >-ens..
A Miciiiiian man has invented a niaeniuo
with which he .an iid 1 >,OJO tomato cans in a
day.
A Nr.uhank a stock raiser is. n local paper
sav--, building a barn to contain b Id ’ mi tie
stalls.
An iron pior 3,It"A feet in length is being
built at Boston, it will be the longest in the
world.
A £ o (Vi i cm in ipation monument is to
rise at \ i k-br.rg i v 1 1^> dimes and dobais o.‘
ex 'laves.
Sl \ N i l : s us .! -f vrh -at .s th *pr -
duel from one gram of sect ia three wars
on a l ak. ta fai m.
lir v have gdd a s reefs in Sal.sburv, N.
t Ihoin i a lam .in; is being done with
gold quail/, worth sb> a ton.
WieNs the t nrty tw\> m miboi*s of the next
N.w \or it 'to o Semite there aro sixteen
lawyers and only one farmer.
A bfcINAMAN at San uento has established
a factory lor maun a turiug idols and devils
for use in Chinese p: occasions and to.no on
An Eastern paper records a case o blood
poisoning eau>ed by tol> ggunmgor ecu.i ng.
It is thought to bottle leginiug >f anew dis
ease.
Birmah, age n-t which England ha; gone
to WM. M a I lof 4,000,1 o . sat
tei ed o\ era territory' of 1 J, VO J squaie
nuies
The German government has discharged
sit th • women who were in the jKista! tele
graph an i rai wav . rvi e. on the ground oi
uutitnev. or p to ;<• bus. mess
bn' \ i. \ ; ' are being held at ;invp
places • i ; i iliith M. * n'teiiding
chun h bring!m; one :',oie leave- to t
distributed amoa ; t , and uaem. loy-d
Pirates Capture a Steamer.
nil f APT AIN STABKtID A>o THROWN
OVtli BOARD.
Ihe Brit >ll steamer Greyhound, Captain
C W Sieder. trading between Hong Kong
•: re vntly on
u • of h r regular tr.ps with 120 passengers
r.nd agn* ra rg > W 1 nth steamer was
a a; seventy mi. - southwest of Hong Kong
about forty a otic ty inn veil passengers
who w ere s■. ttered over the \ essel su id only
. a • lvers u the unsus cu
ing odicers. The captain attempted to reach
the art r in to arm hiuis If, hut was met
with a v . v from the pirates and was stab
b* i an i thrown overboard. Tne only
otliei white o'fi.ws on board were the tirst
and second mates an 1 th chief an 1 as-i-lant
.-a gineers. The cine officer and th *as sis? ant
engineer were forced at the point of a re
volver to work the v. ssol. w i.e the others,
with the r miain U r of the passengers and tiie
Cli n-s r vof twenty-live men.were pis xxl
in the hold, an 1 tiie hat a -s I attene.l and >.vn.
Tne pirates then ransacked the steaimr.
The ves e! was turned about, and
who i about forty' miles from bong
Kona three junks came alongside, t off
tb > pirates and their piu der, valued a' $ .-
(ltd, and sii e i . v v. The pirates w lem
p.s-essirn ol the v<ssei marie nice h airs,
l'he Ci'dicse author.ti *s have eajturo t two
junks containing property taken from t ie
G evhouud, and six m n who wtre concerned
in th ’ o trage. Tb.e prisone’s have been
taken t> Canton, where they will probably
be LeheadeJ.
Stove polish is made from plumbago,
some ot .he richest inihesof which are in
G iavmas, Mexico. The plumbago comes
from the mines in sacks weighing 150
pounds each. It is then crushed and
ksem.rate 1 <>y the use of huge pans, the
■coarse quality being se..t through the
Crusher again, and only the very fine
Bjoiug in o' th-. bins tc be mixed with oils
made int > stove polish.
THE NEWS.
interesting Happenings from all Points.
KtTRI!> AMR MIRDI.R STATES.
Mrs. Mart Fialea, a widow and her
>wo little daughters, aged six and seven
ears, werr burnel to dea'h in a New York
tenement house fire.
Johs BhAP.Pf.Ess, one of themostpromi
pent orthodox Friends in D-laware county,
b-nn . was murdered at his farm in Nether
r ivrlenee by a strange colored man. the
active for the crime being robbery.
Ci- to re ent date ths Grant national
monument fun 1 bid rca -hed
Hi aw mi h-.ve visited many por
t ons of tne Mirldl • r-tatec In I'ennsvivania
the snow wax twenty-four inch*s d.-ep.
A r ovvn .t: iX fif beliavera in the faith
cure has ju.t be-n liel 1 at Pittsburg. Penn.
Two ur: ,r cn 1 frami iwe'iings in Jersey
City, N. J , - id enly fail, crushing to death
• nr littie thiilren—two boys and twe
rris.
Mil l’ll AND WEsT
The annual convention of the National As
so' i.iti ci cf (fa.tle and Horse Growers was
held in St. l.ouri.
St.Ei .Hi\i, has a ready been enjoyed in a
t>o;tion of .Maryland.
Ai ter a bitter an 1 exciting rauv.m Ful
ton '- iirity Georgia, in which Atlanta b
situated, has h-n arrie.l by the Prohibition
is*, by j. v maje-ity. I'nrty lines were ig
nor 1 ,n this rctna-, a: lo canva-s, and on
p.e ion day the Prohibitionists and anti-
Pc h.b.tiom-ts were out in strong force,
working for their respe tive sides.
The Chi ago Columbus Centennial World’s
lair uni Kxp >s.tion coinjany lias \>o -n in
cur; orated, w.th it capit il of 1 1,01.0,000, to
hold an int*;rnational eti.osition in Chi'ago
in I K b:.’ In tliut year it will l>e 4'XJ years
s nee Columbus discoverei America
A train- was thrown fro n the track by an
immense boulder near AsSieviili, N. C., aui
plunged into a whirlpool eighty feet deep.
The engineer, fireman an Ia brakeman were
killed.
WASHING TON.
The President made the following addi
tional ap| oin ments: Andrew 11. Vvard, to
be -p i-ial examiner of drugs, medicines and
chemicals in the district of Boston and
Char!e_stown. Mass.: William A. Beach, of
New Ni rk, to be collector of internal revenue
for tin* Twenty-first district of New York;
Bartlett Tripp, of Yankton, D. TANARUS., to be
chief justice of the supreme
court of the Territory of Dakota;
George W. Miller, of Washington, I onn., to
bo marshal of the United States for the west
ern district of Pennsylvania; Elijah Gates,
of St. Joseph, Mo., to l>e marshal of the
United Stabs for the western di-.rict of
Missouri; George N. Baxter, of Faribault,
Minn , to be attorney of the Unite i States
for the district of Minnesota; Benjamin F.
Ledlietter, of Suinuierfield, La., to be sur
veyor-general of Louisiana; Thomas J. But
ler, of Ringgold, La., to be register of the
land office at New Orleans, La.
\\ A9HIXUTON ministers are opposed to th#
proposed opening of some of the pubii • build
ing- on Sundays.
Consul William Slade, at Brussels, in
his annual report to the secretary of state,
says the average siz.e of farms in the two
Flanders, provinces of Belgium, is about
seven acres, aud that a farmer will support
his family upon the profits of a tra t of six
acres.
The; total number of emigrants arrived in
the I liited States for October, DB7, was
tto.ffbs, against !>“,OT7 during the same period
:n 1884.
Further appointments by the President:
Richard D. Lancaster to be surveyor of cus
toms for the port of St. Louis, Mo.; Oliver
I'. Remick to be first assistant engineer in
the revenue marine service of the United
States; M. L. McCormack, of Grand Fork,
D. b., to be secretary of Dakota Territory,
bo be registers of land offices—Robert V.
Yeakle, of Little Rock, Ark , at Little Rock,
Ark.; Henry C. Tipton, of Melbourn, Ark.,
at Harrison, Ark.; Chester H. Warner, of
Colfax, W. TANARUS., at Walla Walla, \V. T.
Bartholomew Coffey, of Salem, Oregon, to be
agent for the Indians of the Umatilla agency
in Oregon.
Serious earth ]uakeshocks have been felt
in Spain and on the African coast.
London advices state four deputy
commissioners and four assistants have been
appointed for Burinah. This is tantamount
to annexation to British territory.
John Bright defeated Sir Randolph
Churchill in the eh-ctions for member of
the parliament.
General John R SfoNEHorai, assistant
a ljutant general of the State of New York,
die 1 in \V aihington the other morning of
paralysis. General Stonehousa was born in
Kent, L-.nglan l, about 181“, and earns to this
country in 1840, settling in Albany.
1 residential postmasters appointed; Ed
ward D. Porter, at Joplin, Mo.; J. S. McGee,
at Paris, Mo ; D. Wilmot Scott, at Galena,
111.; John Marens, at Hamilton, Mo ; Lloyd
11. Lease, at liffany, Ohio; William H.
Canon, at Merri 1, Wis.; Rob'rt J. McNally,
at Jveesoville, N. Y.; l-’rank White, at Mur
freesboro, Tenn.
General John Eaton, commissioner of
education, has resigned.
FOREIGN.
I.apt Churchill, the American wife of
Sir Randolph Churchill, has been wo. king
personally lor her husband’s re-election to
the British parliament.
A dispatch from Belgrade. Bulgaria, says
that the Servians have evacuated all the po
sitions hitherto occupied by them.
The British steamer Iberian, from Boston
for Liverpool, with a cargo valued at $“00,-
070. has been wrecked on the British coast,
T--r rf.-.r between Sorvia aud Bulgaria
oy *i- div ided territory 7- practically ended
Ki g Milan having accented the armistice
pi p eJ by the European powers. King
a>ii:.n has if-turned to Belgrade, having had
quite enough of lighting, his Servian troops
bcuig ie ulsed toward the last at every point
by the Bulgarians under Prince Alexander.
Marshal Serrano, the well-known Span
ish genersd, ex-president of Spain, and an
unscrupulous politician of much ability, is
dead in ids seventy-sixth year.
Tin: elections for members of the British
piruam-nt have been most exciting. Among
toe leicaied iandid.iles was the M irquis of
Lome, husband of Pin nee ss 1.0.iß\ aid
am mg tne successful ones was the youtlifni
American husband of Baroness Burdett
'outts, tlu> ri host woman in England J'hs
torus were rnsst success:al, tbs liberals,
whose eader is Mr. Gladstone, losing many
members.
THE STEAMEU GItAHA.Mi SINKS.
In Twenty Feet of Water in tlie Ohio
Klver.
The steamer Emms Graham, which left
Pittsburg on Wednesday evening, bound for
Cincinnati, with many passengers on board,
suuk in the Ohio river at Rip ey landing, n ar
Parkersburg,W. Va., at nine o’clock last night.
In swinging into the landing she struck a large
. barge ffUied with staves. -IheUargewaTtieffid'
the anding with no d&ngt r signals dispixytd.
T e steamer struck on her starLo,id side *ith
terrific I nice, overturning everything o i boari
Tne barge was torn .ops aud tloaud off down
the stream. The iffice s of the G abam. not
knowing the extent of the damage to their boat,
made an effort to catch the barge, but the Gra
ham begau to sink, ann the captain tried to
beach the steamer, but the hole filled with the
water so rapidly that he found it im
p ssible to do so, and she sank in n.id-channel,
in twenty feet of water. Fonmau My o Cooper
was drowned. Several deck hands are also
missing, but it is not known that they are lost.
The Life-Saving Service.
\ RE.TIAHKABLK SHOWING FOR ISSS.
The annual report of Mr.' 8. J. Kimball,
general superintendent of the life-saving ser
vice. shows that at the close of the last fiscal
year the e tablishmsnt embraced '2o3stations,
l ‘>7 being on the Atlantic. th ; rty-eight on the
lakes, seven on the Pacific and one at the
falls of the Ohio. Louisville, Ky. The num
lo-r of disasters to documented vessels within
the field of stat.on operations during the
year was 258. There were on board these
vessels J.v0.5 persons, of whom only ten were
lost The sh; wrecked persons who received
succors: the stations number 50S. The esti
mated value of the vesse’s involved in these
disasters was $8.51‘J.b50, and that of their
carg,->es $1.084.P making the t .tal value of
property imp-rilled {4.tK4,455. Of this
amount $3,252.78 1 was saved.
dh total loss of life w ithin the scope of the
service is the smallest ever reached >inee its
general extension, except in the year 1880,
when lut nine were lost. The assistance
rendered in saving vessels and cargoes dur.ng
the year was arger than in anv previous
year, exee; t the last preceding The follow
ing statemen' gives a summary of the statis
tics of the service, from the introduction of
t it- present system in 1871 to the close of the
fiscal year. The loss of life as stated below
includes 183 lost at the wrecks of the Huron
ad Metropolis, whkh are really not charge
ail to the service: Total number of disasters,
2. ;> 18; total value of property involved. $61,-
703,fi’.*4, total value of property saved, $36,-
-77,927; total value of property lost, $15,485,-
76-5; total number of persons involved. 2 .693;
total nun ber of persons save l, 25,236; total
number of persons lost. 457; total number f
persons succored at stations, 4,829.
TIE MUON'S MONEY.
4N NI AI. REPORT OF W. 11. ( ANNOSI,
(OMPTROLLEB OF t I'BRESCT
•liowini an Increase of Business in the
National Banks.
The annual report of the Hon. H. W, Can
non, c mptroller of the currency, shows that
during the year ended November 1, 1887, 145
hanks were organized, with a capital of $16,-
838,<<W, and circulating notes were issued to
these new associations amounting to $4,274,-
910. Since the establishment of the national
bank system on February 25, 1863, there
have been organized 3.405 national
banks. Of these 432 have gone into
voluntary liquidation for the purpose
of winding up their affairs; 79 have
gone into voluntary li juidatiou for the pur
pose ol reorganization, 64 are in liquidation
by expiration of their charters, of which
number 38 have been reorganized; and 104
Lave been p aced in the hands of receivers
for the puipise of closing up their affairs,
leaving the total numb r in existence 2,272
on November 1, I> S 5, which is the largest
l -*-r t!,a* Ha- !e>n in nnerfltinn at anv one
time.
Under the provisions of the act of July 12,
*IBB2, nationa banks with a capital of fn m
f ri, 000 to ?i 70,000 may lie organized upon a
minimum deposit of United States bonds
equal lo twenty-five percent, of their capital.
The compitroller tiles that this reduction to
the minimum deposit of bonds lias had the
effect to increase the number of small banks
organized, AN bile the number of banks
organized from July 1,1879, to July 1, 1882,
with a ' apstal of $150,000 and uudsr was 232
the number of banks of this class organized
from July 1, 1882, to July 1, 1887, was 748.
He cabs particular attention io the fact that
banks are no longer organized especially for
the [uipose of issuing circulation, for the
reason that in a great majority of cases only
the minimum amount of bonds required by
law is deposited for the purpose of
issuing circulation.
Under the provisions of the original Na
tional Cuirency act of February 25, 1863,
banks organized had a pierlod ol succession
not exceeding tvven y years from the date of
the act. Ti.e National Bank act of June 3,
1863. superseding that of February 25, 1863,
provides that each national bank shall have
succession for twenty years from the date of
its organization. The act of „ u!y 12, 1882,
permitted the extens on of the corporate ex
istence of national banks for twenty years,
and under its provisions 1,169 a-sociatious
have extended tl.eir corporate existence, of
whi h number 801 extended during the year
ending November 1, 1887. A larger number
of banks expired by limitation during the
year 185 > than have or widexpire during any
year prior to 1900.
Notwithstanding the organization of new
banks, the aggregate am unt of bonds on de
posit to secure circulation has, during the
past year, diminished from $325,316,300 to
$308,364,570, and the net decrease in circula
tion during the year has been $15,545,461. The
reduction in circulation has been less than
was estimated by the comptroller in his last
annial report, as no United Slates bonds
have been called for payment during the
year ending November 1, 1885.
The comptroller proposes that toe taxon
circulation be removed and the amount of
circulation which national banks are per
mitted to be i- roaOTt to the value
of the lon Is deposited by them. Even if this
be done the national bank note circulation is
still b?b|a to reaction and final payment of
the debt of the United States. The comp
troller adds:
“While the bank note circulation of this
country is steadily in reasing, there has been
no reduction in the total circulation medium
in the United States, the reduction in the na
tional bank currency outstanding having
been more than met by the coinage of the
standard silver dollar and the issuance of
certificates thereon.'’
Through the operation of the act to author
ize the coinage of the standard silver dollar
and to restore its legal tender character, the
circulating medium issued by the govern
ment has been increased in the sum of $243 -
2.79,431, of which $4!), 442,089 in standard sti
ver dollars are in the hands of the people
and $70,670,570-of like coins are in the treas
ury of the United States, in addition to $93 -
146,872 of said standard dollars which are
represented by silver certifi ntes in the hands
of the people.
He culls attention to tbs statement in his
last annual report iteat the continued coin
age of tjjg standard silver dollar under the
br-ng the business of the country to a silver
basis and cause some degree of financial dis
turbance.
*.' J i w'. ll ,‘ r o b r lnks J W . th ■ nn aggregate capital of
StiOfftoO fai etl auring the past year. Divi
dends have been paid during the year to the
iro.iitors of insolvent l anks to the amount of
F-. I• > 1,868.
t,IQ year ended June 30.
tuTi'nii 61 ? I - tlle government of
the 1 Mt and States $2, 749,584, taxes on circu
lating notes of national banks.
The re; ort contains comparative state
ments of the resources and liabilities of the
national hanks during the past ten Years, and
a detailed statement of their condition on the
lyst day of October, 1835. The different
items indicate that the business of the na
tional banks has largely increased during the
past year although tho items of United
.States bonds and circulating notes have de
creased Liabilities to depositors and corre
*poudents have increased more than $180,000,-
000. During t..e year the banks have ii
creased their specie resources more th in $76,
000,090. This in rease is made up of $44,471,-
714 of gold coin, and $1,991,284 of silver coin.
Tlel g.il tender notes held by tho banks
have, however, diminished about $2,709,0.0
EIGHT NECKS BROKEN.
Th* Northwest Territory Rebels Strung Us
Together at Battleford, N. W. T.
The execution of the eight Indians found
guilty of murder at Frog Lake and Battleford,
occurred at 827 p’e oek Friday morning. The
gallows were worked without friction.
The government an horities permitted the
savages from reserves distant ten to fifteen
uiues from Bi.ta.Doro pest to be present ai the
execution, and ail n gut clusters of brave
hung a I'.lit tie stores and camped out in the
open ground in the vicinity of the n
the mourned police. Damp tires .it up the
prairie, and lie comrade) of the warr.ors to be
executed cou and be heard chan ing tne deat
songs o their tribe). The gallows s ood out
iu beiid reii- i, having h en p.a ed near the lim
itary past, iu the open v ew. to eiiabie the .an
warr i.g s.v gts to mtne.-s the death p -.iaitm
passed up ii tin,ir lead rs. None oi a.e pr:s fil
ers di'sp.ajvd any uiiusua signs of . xcitern nt.
bu remained s oicai up t> the h Ut o. .hen
appearnre • o the sc ifo and.
A, 7.30 o'clock each m m was p.montd and
guardeii on c.iher si .e, was marched to tli
scallo.d, ta ug Ins p ace on the trap. When
they w re asked n i ..ey nad auyihing to say.
Wand.riugS in: began to speak in ins native
tongue, acknowledging t at he de eived death.
He warned h s p_opie ucu to make war on tn.
wni.es, as the., were l-atait if,find.-. ,H' tu-d-n_
the' Yin 2 Lake Massacre, aud too.\ ill burden
of the crime upou In . seif. He was fo. e>we
by Miserab.e Man.wao spoke iut esame sliau .
4hen the savages began to chant heir deal
song, to show tint they dl l not na. death In
chanting ot the savagees continued even at,
the wuiie cap- had been aeijusied, and in t..
uudet of their sung, the bou sa.- eh awn a. id a
feti together, every one apparently dying m
s.autre. Aft-i hinging uueeu minutes th
bexiies w.re- eu and nvu an i pnc.d in coffins an,.
handed over ui the ceroutr aud jury. At. th
arrangements had been eaiemated w.th precis
ion, aud as a resui the txteu ion took p ace
without a mishap. The suenee was only broken
by the wailing of the wives of the condemned
braves.
A HORRIBLE DEATH.
The Terrible Result of a Railroad Accident-
Injured Horses,
A serious accident occurred Wednesday night
at Lindsey, Kansas, on the Solomon railroad. A
rail had been removed from the main track,
and a “wild" tram came thundering along al
abont thirty-five miles an hour. The section
man threw the switch open, sealing the train
like a lightning bolt into a lot of freight cars
standing on the side track, smashiug the en
gine and the cars into sp.inters. J. M. Smyser,
ow ner of the elevator at Lindsey, was caught
between two freight cars and his body severed,
the upper fiortsou firing up in the air and the
lower pvortion dropping beneath the cars. H;g
horses were also badly used np and had to be
khied. It is understood the aection boss,whose
uame is unknown, was at o*ce arrested and
conveyed to jail
Ophased by the z-quatter*,
A dispatch from Florence, Wis., says : Ok
Friday armed and organized squatters on land
iuemded in the disputed Oatanogon grant and
Cash en:ry district, droye off the lumber
owners who own the patents on pine lands, and
and are cutting the pine Frazier, the con
tractor for < ulbei t—m, and many others, were
ordered to stop cutting. The lumbermen say
they wid continue operations, and defy the
sqtiitteis, many of whim are lawless and dis
reputable, aud armed with repeating rifle*.
Much trouble is ant e pated. The recent de
rision of Secretary Lamar favors the Cash entry
men,but the squatters are bound to aaMrt what
they c.&ia to be their rights.
SUPPLEMENT TO MONROE ADVERTISER.
THE BEXKI BOrS SOLILOQUY.
■ svt, or ci: to eat 5 that Is the question,
hether 'tia better for to ketch rieht on,
md stuff in raatton stew, which is mg.,
Or go without and git no other grub.
Coe ma won't gimme none? To fast: to starve;
All that; and so by starvin', siy I spit
Mv spite right out on ma, and make her feel
Jest awful sorry—that would be jest ballv.
If ma would on'v feel sol To fast; to sta -vet
To starve, and mebbe croak—ugh! there’s the
rub;
For should this starvin' knock me out, the
chance
That Cousin Dick—blast him—would get mvbat
And things, must make me tbinln There's
hunger which
Makes it domed rough on fellers that must eat:
’Cos who would go corned beef and cabbige
blled, . - ,
Next mo fciD stuff in hash, which ain’t no good;
And th n to tackle liver, which I hate.
And tough old tripe, and measly biled np
greens,
75 hich is the chuck for h' sses, cows, and pigs,
7Yhen he might starve h mself in two three
days.
Ands -oot sech vittles? Who'd scch fodder
have.
To gag and growl and grunt and groan and
grieve,
'F he warn! afraid he'd miss things if he
croaked—
The bully cigarettes and theaters.
And no base-ball to play—jest puzzles roe.
And makes me rath r stick to chuck I git.
Than go wlie e I can't git no kind of grub?
So stummucks does make duffers of us all:
And so the pluck that fellers think they've got,
Is, in a single roun !. lest cler.n knocked out;
And things that might be did, if we'd the grit.
And warn't afraid as c ts of dogs and boys.
Is never did, by thunder!
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Twenty Thousand Dollars Reward,
BY M. C. FARLEY,
Author of “A Chance Acquaintance,’’ “A Run
away Match,” ‘‘Van Dorn’s Lesson,” '
“Barbara’s Burglar,” etc.
CHAPTER 1.
AT ROKEWOOD.
wee a long, low-ceiled room, with the
small, old-fashioned window-panes find the
wide-mouthed fireplace common to the
boases built a century ago.
A faint blaze now sparkled fitfully on the
tiled hearth, sending occasional lanca-lik-e
gleams of light into the dreary shadows
that darkened the apartment. .u<:
Long, rich curtains of wine-red ijajpask
hung at the windows, and the floor was
covered by a Turkish carpet, whose th ; ck
pile deadened the sound of the footsteps
passing over it.
In a far corner of the room, where- the
shadows seemed darkest and dreariest of
all, stood a tall, high-post bedstead, and a
white, pinched face, worn and haggard,
pressed the pillows.
“Mailey," cried the weak voice of the sick
man, “I hear the tramp of horses’ feet.
Has he come?”
“Not yet, sir,” answered Marley from
his seat at the head of his master’s bed.
“It is not time. ”
“I say it is time,” persisted the voice,
tvliich expressed anger as well as weakness
in its accents. “Marley, how dare you con
tradict me? I tell you I heard the steps.”
“Yes, sir,” said Marley, submissively.
“ Well. Then why don’t you bring him
in here—the business is urgent? Fool that
I have been to wait until now to make my
will. Open the door.”
The old servant rose, and, going noise
lessly to the opposite side of the apart
ments, threw the door back upon its
hinges.
“You can see for yourself, Mr. Roke
wood, that nobody is waiting to enter,”
cried Marley, respectfully.
The sick man peered out from his shad
owy corner into the dense darkness of
the passage. “True,” assented he, fret
fully; “ho is very slow. Sit down again,
Marley, by mv bed-side, and take my hands
wi'T- 1 !!^inrii'fir B> !E'.u
.clasp of your hands on mine, my soul
seems to want to play me tricks and flit
away from my control ”
“You are very in, sir.”
Tho sick man irritably pushed away the
hand that had obediently taken his own.
“ Out upon you, Marley, ” said Rokewood,
“knave that you are. Is it you—yon who
have served me faithfully as boy and man,
who now prates to me of illness?”'
“The doctors ” . . ,q-.
“Who cares for the doctors—curse, them!
They make fat graveyards, Marley-—that’s
about all they are good for. Iu spite of
what they say, I’m good for twenty years
yet. Doctors are only mortal men, and
they are not infallible; you should read
what history has to say of doctors, Marley. ”
“Yes, sir.”
“And history will tell, you that when
King Charles the Second was taken a little
ailing his attendants called in fourteen doc
tors to prescribe for him; and when they
had deliberated on the King’s case, they
contradicted each other and themselves.
Some thought the KiDg epileptic, some
thought him apoplectic, and then it was
determined to call his disease a fever, a* and
administer doses of bark. One only hit
the truth, and he ran to the Queen and toid
her his brethren would kill theKijig. Go
to Macaulay s history for this statement,
Marley; you’ll find it there.”
“And did the King “die?” asked the
servant,- gently smoothing the thin fingers
he had again taken in h.s hand.
Rokewood burst into a feverish laugh.
“Die?" he gasped, recovering himself. “I
should say so; how could ho keifrrt, with
fourteen doctors -about him, all determined
to have their way with him? Fourteen men
against one man is an unfair advantage,
and he had to die. It was a enseofeom
pulsion, and he died to get rid of them.
Don’t forget that, whatever else yea forget:
for King Charles the Second o< rtainly died
to be rid of the doctors. But hark! What
is that?” .
The-e was no sound save thfit of the
wind as it swept up over the house-top and
went wailifig down the long pine avenue
leading from the house to the road.
“It was nothiug. sir, only the Wind,” said
the serving man. soothingly.
“Nothing?” whispered Rokewood, hoarse
ly.
“Only the wind, sir.”
“Strange,” muttered the sick man.. “I
could have sworu, Marley, that I heard
Catherine's shriek—the awful, weird, un
"eartiriy-cijrhe-gave when they sentenced
her over yonder,”
ing finger toward the town.
“Do not think of that ..ow,” cried Mar
ley, hurriedly; “it is all-passed,and gone
forever. ”
“Not think of it?” cried Rokewood. beat
ing the bed in sudden fury. “Ofi! if I
could only stop thinking of it; but I can
not.”
Marley threw himself upon his knees by
the bed.-ide of his dying master.
“In restitution you would find peace,” he
whispered, earnestly. “Oh, my dear, kind
master, have you never thought of that?”
“Never will I undo what I have done.”
“But your promise to me,” cried Marley,
wringing his hanls. “You told me years
ago that you would not die with that s n
upon your soul. ”
“Hist! Marley, what would you? Look
there, behind those red curtains—l saw
her. ” He put out his shaking hands a
though he would thus hide the picture away
from his sight
“Only your imagination, sir,” said the
servant
“Hear it? How plain it sounds to-night
It is the anniversary to-day—twenty years
ago—that she was sentenced to be tmng. I
can hear that cry of hers now. O—o—:0l”
“Think no more abont it,” entreated the
servant, wiping the death-dew from his
master's face.
“Gr-:at heavens!” shrieked Rokewood
“you know not what you ask. As well
might you command the sea to stop its rest
iess motion. Yight and cfar, day andnighl,
that awful cry has rung in mv ears for
twenty years. Hist! how plain it sounds
now."
He cowered down under the bedclothes
in abject terror, great drops of sweat stand
ing ont on his hands and face, as he listen
ed to the imaginary sound.
The tramp of a horse's feet rang o*on
the turf, and the rattle of fast approaching
carriage wheels attracted the sick man’s at
tention.
“Light the lamps.” he gasped to the ser
vant; "light all the lamps, and leave mr
alone when he comes in here. No prying
about, remember.”
Marley did as he was directed. Soon a
flood Qt light streamed from the many win-
(lows and a second later a carnage uacun.
up to the door and halted.
A tall, spare man with gray hair and long
gray beird alighted therefrom and eutered
the house.
‘“Come at last,” said Rokewood, feverish
ly. '‘You were not always so slow in an
swering my summons, YYiverly.”
“True; but I was away when your mes
sage was left at the office. How are you
to-night?”
‘‘Well as usual, I think,” returned the
sick man, turning uneasily on his pillow.
“Well as usual, but for the strange fancies
that have lately taken possession of my
brain.”
"I have brought the papers, as you di
rected me to do. ”
“Yes, yes.” with an impatient wave of
the thin white hand. “Eut there was really
no need after all. Marley and those cursed
doctors tell me that I am going to die. and
I thonght.it would be as well to make my
will to-night; but already I am feeling
better."
“We must all die some time or other,”
rejoined the lawyer quietly, “and it is a
wise man who arranges his business in
season.”
“Aye, to be sure. You are light, Wiverly,
as you always were.”
“I have brought your old will, which you
told me is to be destroyed. ”
“Bum it now. ”
Wiverly laid a paper on the few coals
that burned on the health. A puff, a single
flame shooting suddenly far up the
chimney, and it was gone forever.
“Now, then, it is gone. I wait your fur
ther instructions, ” said he, arranging pa
pers, pens, and ink on the stand by the
bedside.
“Hush,” cried Rokewood wiidly, “hush.
Did yoju hear that shriek? How unearthly
itf'Sounds to-night. God! If I might
never hear it mo e, I could rest and be at
peace. ”
“It is the wind,” said Wiverly, listening
for a moment to the sighing of the old
pines. “It is the wind, and nothing more. ”
“It is she” screamed Rokewood, wildly,
“it is Catherine’s voice I hear shrieking,
shrieking, shrieking! Begone, I say, be
gone;-.! am not dead, I will not die. See
her;- there she sits,” pouting a shaking
finger toward a shadowy comer. “Scream,”
he continued, his voice sinking to a terri
ble whisper, “scream, and well you may;
for in life, in death, to the end of time
itself, I am your bitterest foe.”
Wiverly poured out a soothing potion
from a vial standing near, and adminis
tered it to the sick man. “Control your
self, Rokewood,” said he firmly, “You are
very ill. and every moment is precious. Do
not exhaust your strength in this -wild
way, but try to be calm and tell me what
you want done. See, lam ready.”
“All ready,” repeated Rokewood vacantly,
sinkjng.back, “all ready. Would to heaven
I could ‘say so too.”
“I have drawn up anew will,” said Wi
verly in a loud voice—made purposely so in
order to fix his client’s attention upon what
he was saying. “It is alt ready for your
signature, unless you desire to change it?”
“No,” said Rokewood feebly, a vindic
tive gleam shooting from his sunken eyes,
and his crafty face more crafty and haggard
still. “There is to be no change; the world
may change, and the people in it, but
Rokewood, never.”
“Have you thought of the injustice you
are doing your grandchild in making such
a will as this one is?” asked Winerly,
sternly.
Rokewood broke into a feverish laugh,
a hideous chuckle that told plainer than
words could have done the vindictive
character of the man who lay dying there.
“Who dares to say ‘grandchild’ to me?” he
whispered fiercely; “who dares to think for
one instant that a jail-bird’s brat should
inherit the Rokewood millions? Never,
never, never.”
CHAPTFgt 11.
“I know well enough that it is not for me
to argue this point with yon, after all these
years; but as a friend, Rokewood, tell me
truly if what you testified to at the time of
Catherine’s trial was the absolute truth. I
will admit that of late I have had my doubts
about it, owing to certain words you have
dropped since your illness. ”
Again that horrible chuckle,
r- YAnd if von were mistaken-—let me cau
' geutler iirib ojom ,v, a
liltMillln 'Will 1
for you to make restitution,®®
teirible wrong she suffered at your
said Wiverly, solemnly.
Rokewood glanced at bis lawyer; his lips
worked nervously and his thin hands shook
like leaves blown by a winter’s wind.
“Who talks of mistakes?”cried he, rising
upon his elbow and staring hard at Wiverly!
“Yipat I said then I now repeat—she killed
hint and she shall not escape my venge
ance.” He laughed an unearthly laugh
that rang throughout the room. Wiverly
wiped the froth from his lips and laid him
down again.
“But her child—youi son's child—is inno
cent, and the innocent should not be made
to suffer for the sins of the guiltv. ”
“Bah!”
‘And that child, if living, is your only
heir, and at your death should take her
proper place as the mistress of Rokewood. ”
“Never, never, never. No prison-bom
creature shall ever preside over Rokewood
—perish the thought,” screamed the sick
man frantically.
“ Where is my will? Bring it to me; it shall
be made now. ”
“Let me read it to you; for I have already
drawn one up according to former instruc
tions. and it is all fixed for signing.”
“Give it me. Let me read it for my
self—perhaps you would trick me out of
my revenge even now; but \ou canuot do
it. ”
The lawyer handed him the paper, and
turned the lump so that the rays fell full
upon it.
Kok. wbed grasped the will and read
aloud Gowly, sdimming over the opening
pal-seraphs un il he came to the bequests.
"T the State of Virginia I give and be
quraih all my perso al property, with the
exeep ion of twenty thousand dollars, to be
used as hereinafter mentioned—likewise all
mv real estate, consisting of Wansmore
Place, in YVestmoreland County; ten farms
and their appurtenances thereunto in Mid
dlesex, and the estate called Rokewood, to
gether with ail lands pertaining to it
“The sum of twenty thousand dollars is
herein set aside to be nsed as a standing
reward for the arrest and capture of
Catherine D^aue—otherwise known as
Catherine Rokewood, who escaped from
YY ansmore Prison while under sentence of
death for murder, the tenth day of Septem
ber in the year eighteen hundred and
sixty ”
‘My everlasting curse be upon her and
hers forever and ever and ever;” screamed
Rpkewijod. _ choking with and
vindictive passion.
“Bring me the pen, and call Marley—
quick. ”
“Control yourself, Rokewood,” said
Wiverly, in a soothing tone, “Y’ou will
kill yourself in’ one of those spasms of
rage, if ycai are not more careful. Remem
ber that with difficulties of the heart exces
-sfve emotion is fatal. For heaven's sake,
try and be calm."
Rokewood glared up into the speaker’s
face, and a shudder ran over his wasted
frame.
“Talk not to Rokewood of calmness,”
said he, with a gesture of scorn, “but hand
me the wine, for lam growing cold. Pi!e
on more wood in the fire-place, and call
Marley; I want Marley.”
Yne awyer threw some pine faggots on
the coals, and touched a bell.
Almost instantly the old servant ap
peared at the bedside.
“YVhat o'clock is it, Marley,” asked Roke
wood. in a whisper.
“Ten, by the clock, sir.”
“And what was it those cursed doctors
said this morning? Do you remember?
Speak. ”
“They said you could not last longer
than midnight, sir. ”
“They lied, Marley; they lied like dogs.
Hush! YY'hat is that I hear again? Cather
ine ”
“Oh, my dear master, have you done
what you promised me you would do,
when the lawyer came?” cried the poor old
servant, sinking on his knees by the bed
side, tears streaming down hig" wrinkled
face.
“Aye," with a wicked look.
“And I am absolved from my vow at last
Thank God —at last.” Rokewood put out
his hand feebly.
“Marley. give me the pen. Hush now;
how dark it seems; this cannot be death,
freezing the very marrow in my bones.
More wine. ”
He drank the wine, and took the pen in
his trembling fingers.
* This is my last will and testament," he
said in a broken whisper. “I must sign—
sign now. Remember your oath. Marley,
your oath, man ”
“I am ab*olysd.” cried Marley. itarjt
up in terror. *“oh. surely I may speak the
truth for Catherine, at least; poor, lost, un
happy Catherine.’'
“Be still—fool," gasped Rokewood;
“would you play me false now? Catherine
shall have her ju<t deserts—that much—
not more. Hear her—that cry—it haunts
me. even here.”
He started up in bed. and looked wildly
about him.
“Hark! Here she comes. I lied a royal
lie, in a royal way. Eh, Mar ey?” He
waved his aims restlessly from side to
side, unmindful of the lawyer who stood
patiently by.
“They said I swore her life away, and I
did. Revenge is sweet. Marley!”
“Here, sir."
“Let there be more light; it is growing
dark here. More—light—l—say.”
“Rokewood!” cried Wiverly, placing a
pen between the stiffening fingers, “Roke
wood, sign the will. ”
The crafty look on the wizened face
grew deeper and more crafty still as the
lawyer's words fell upon the dying ears.
He clutched the pen, making a last futile
effort to write his name.
At that moment the wind came roaring
down through the trees and a wail sounded
mournfully through the room.
Rokewood shrieked. The pen fell from
his hand and lay unused upon the satin
counterpane. Another blast from the
wind—another shivering cry among the
murmuring pines.
Speechless, Rokewood turned his fast
glazing eyes upon the lawyer, and mo
tioned slightly with his hand toward the
unsigned will. Another moment and he
was gone.
The spirit had flown so quickly that it
was some time before they could realize
that he was dead.
YY’iverly felt for the pulse. ID was still.
“Dead!" he said, solemnly, closing tho
lids down over the sunken eyes.
“Dead!” repeated Marley, with a burst of
tears, as he looked long and earnestly at
the fiail clay tenement which had so long
resisted death—the cold and stony image
of that stem and unyielding master he had
served so faithfully—“dead, and he had
sworu that he would not die. ’’
The lawyer pulled the sheet up over the
rigid features.
“It is written of man,” said he, turning
to the servant aud speaking slowly, “that
two things he shall not escape from, aud
one of these is death. ”
CHAPTER 111.
YYiverly hurried back to town. He was
the senior member of the great law firm of
YYiverly & YVopping—a firm that had done
business iu a certain city that shall be name
less here.
For thirty years these gentlemen had had
the management of the great Rokewood
estate. And now that the master of that
vast property had gone where riches and
wealth availeth not, Mr. YY’iverly felt it in
cumbent upon the firm to pay all due tribute
to the memory and the station of the de
ceased.
There were no mourners for Rokewood.
He had been too proud and overbearing to
make a sincere friend. His temper had
been too hot and his disposition too revenge
ful for any one ever to have loved him well
enough to shed a tear for him in death.
Four generations in succession an only
son had succeeded to the broad acras called
Rokewood. Like all the men of his race,
the dead man had married young; like them,
too, while yet a young man, he had buried
his wife in the vaults of Rokewood Chapel,
where lay the dead aud gone generations of
his powerful house, where later on he had
stood aud looked his last farewell at his own
dead son, the last male heir of the line;
where he now claimed for himself the ever
lasting darkness and si’ence of the tomb.
Earth to earth and dust to dust. Mr.
YYiverly could not help but feel tfie respon
sibility of his position as he journeyed
back to the town.
Rokewood had died without signing his
will, and the vast estate, the pride of the
whole country side, was literally begging an
heir.
There was an heir to Rokewood—a puny
girl, bom nineteen years before in YY’ans
more jail.
Mr. YYiverly would have given his K ood
right hand if at that moment he could have
laid it upon that missing girl and brought
v “ frperard ns the mistress of Rokewood.
had meant to defraud
having her just rights, strong as
his intention had been to put his wealth
away from any claim she" might possibly
make upon it, his object had been defeated
by death. YY’hatever the form he had
meant his vengeance to assume after he
had bidden farewell to earth was frustrated
now by that u nsigned will.
The will being void, the law would Wee
its natural course, and that course would
be to place the estate iu the power and pos
session of the lawful heir.
The only thing that worried the attorney
was ihe whereabouts of that heir.
“It is a beautiful restitution,” ho mused;
“a beautiful restitution. Catherine Deane’s
poor, despised child now inherits one of
the most princely fortunes in the country.
It is enough to make Rokewood turn over
in his coffin; but she shall have her rights.
She shall have her rights!” he repeated
firmly, ’“and she shall be produced, if we
have to move every man, woman, and child
on the American continent to bring it
about”
It was late when Mr. YYiverly returned to
town, but be was used to late hours, and,
besides, there was much to be done.
He went immediately to the undertaker’s
and ordered him to go to Rokewood atouce
and make the necessary arrangements for
the funeral of its late master.
Then he went to his own snug office,
where he sat down and tried to form some
plan for immediate action. His partner
was long since in bed, and Mr. Wiverly
could hear certain nasal strains issuing
from the sacred precincts of his partner’s
place of retirement which proclaimed his
condition plainly enough.
“\Vopping’s asleep, as usual," muttered
Wiverly, “but I’ll call him, any way.”
He rose hastily, and knocked at a door
near him.
The firm of Wiverly <k Wopping occu
pied lodgings contiguous to their office.
They were both elderly bachelors, noted
for their personal integrity and fidelity to
business.
Their place of business and sleeping
apartments were on the second floor of a
great brick structure that bad been oiigin
ally built for mercantile purposes; but long
and long ago, as the city bad grown Larger
and its people more fashionable, the stores
and shops had moved one by one into
grander quarters, and the old “brick” had
been gradually transformed into of
fices and lodgings, and finally given
OVSI whe’r!?- to thar~ --vr 4 ' array
of lawyers, and doctors, and clerks,
and artists, and printers—that great brain
ful, busy class—which constitutes the
world of Bohemia. Wiverly knocked lightly
on the door, “Wopping,” said he, softly,
“get up.”
“Don’t bother me,” returned a sleepy
voice, “but do go away. I shan't be able to
catch the forty winks nature requires, if
you insist on knocking like that. ”
By way of answer, Wiverly pushed open
the door and sat upon the bed. “I have
just returned from Rokewood,” said he,
with meaning emphasis.
YY’opping started up. “YVell?”
“He is dead!”
“Y'ou don’t say bo?”
“He died while I was there.
“He signed the will, of course?
“No.”
Mr. Wopping was very wide awake now.
“Y'ou knew that I had' drawn anew will
for him?”
“Oh, yes.”
“He died before he could write his nams
to the bottom of it. ”
“And that great property ”
“Asa natural result, that property now
reverts to the one who rightfully should
have it—that poor child. ”
Mr. Wopping got out of bed and began
to pull on his clothes. “Yes,” assented he,
“to that poor child; though there might
as well not be a poor child in the case, for
all that we know of her or her whereabouts,
She may be dead for anything we know to
the contrary. ”
“ I don’t think she is dead, ” fcaid YY’iverly.
“I tell you that I believe in God, and God’s
justice is such that sooner or later that
child will be restored to her heritage. ”
Mr. Wopping jammed first one fat foot
into a slipper and then the other.
“Too many years have gone by since her
disappearance for us to hope of finding her
now. In my opinion we don’t stand the
ghost of a show for bringing her forward
at this late day. It is the eleventh hour, as
it were: besides, think how many experts
failed in their efforts to trace her. I tell
you there is nothing but failure for us. ”
“ YYe won’t a> gue that point, for I realize
the difficulties of the situation—nene more
so. Come out into the office while I tell
you of the new plan I have studied up. ”
lio 9*
fIUMOROUS SKETCHES
A Strange Presentiment-
Mr. Merriboy stepped into Cheese
cake’s grocery the other morning in a
great flow of spirits. He thought he saw
Cheesecake stooping down behind the
owuter, so he took up a codfi-h, reached
over aud hit the stooping figure a most
resounding blow across the back, shout- !
ing, “Rise up, Sir Cheesecake,’’ and
with a sh’iek of fright, a nice, good,
motherly old lady, who was back there
tying her shoe, rose up.
The horrified Merribov dropped the
codfish on the floor, when a hungry
sneak of a dog started off with it, and,
rushing across the store after it, the
joker knocked over a barrel of eggs and
the dog got away with h s fish.
“By Jove, ” groaned the unhappy man,
“I felt, when I turned in here, that I'd
do something foolish before 1 got out. ’
And staggering to the window he sat
down on a square yard of fly paper and
buried his face in his hands. — Burdette,
in Brooklyn Boyle.
OHln a ( rank.
The palatial steamer Mary Potrju was
on her daily trip up the Hudson. A
number of passengers had gathered
around the open door of the engine
room, looking with interest at the move
ments of the ponderous machinery.
Among the passengers was Sam Foster,
a New Y’ork gentleman, who is a practi
cal joker. lie is a voting man of means,
aud was elegantly dressed. He is, more
over, a very good amateur ventriloquist.
“Now, boys,” said Foster, “let us
have some fun with the engineer.”
A creaking, squeaking noise was heard
among the machinery. The engineer
was somewhat startled, and he lubri
cated various and sundry parts of the
machinery with great industry and an
oil can. The latter contained half a
pint of oil.
Foster nudged one of his boon com
panions in the ribs, and pretty soon the
machinery squeaked again. Once more
the engineer calmed down a suspected
piston by anointing it with his alleviator.
The squeaking still continued, aud
Foster pointed out the, place that needed
oiling. Once more the engineer took his
alleviator, aud removing the cork,
poured the contents down the back of
the festive Foster, and over his forty
dollar suit of clothes.
“There,” said the engineer, “I don’t
think that crank will squeak again in a
hurry.” —Texas Siftings.
Inslile ttio Slior.
never did have any luck, nohow,”
wailed an old man on a train out from
Chicago. “Been up to town to see my
son-in-law and get him to help me, hut
he won’t do a thing. I don’t know what
I’m going to do for a living. All of this
comes from being so foolish as to stick
to one of them old customs.”
“How was that?”
“YYell, you see, some years ago I was
1 purty well off. Had two farms and a
| lot of stock an’ money in bank. The
chap, what’s now my son-in-law, came
along, an’ courted my darter. lie was
as poor as a church mouse an’ so I op
! posed the match. But the old woman
was fast for it, an’ I had to give in, as I
usually do when the old woman gets her
dander up I wasn’t very cheerful dur
ing the wedding, an’ was all the time
thinkin’ of the cheek o’ that chap mar
ryin’ my darter on ten dollars a week.
“After it was all over an’ they was
just about to start, they asked me to
throw my shoe after ’em for luck. Well,
I did, an’ that was the cause of
trouble. The young ’T’.u had
Yack, and is now worth a hundred
sand, while I am as poor as
| Y'esterday I asked him to loan
i hundred and be refused point blank.
| You see, he hasn’t forgotten the time I
| threw my shoe after him,”
“Why should he be mad about
I that?”
“My foot was inside the thoe, device!
take the luck.” —Chicago Herald.
Outwitted.
The following anecdote, told by the
Scottish American , illustrates the fact
that the man who is asked to do an un
usual thing will expect much more pay
than for doing a usual thing that costs
him several times the trouble. Some
years ago, before the sale of game was
legalized, and a present of it was thought
worth the expense of carriage, an Eng
lishman rented a moor within twenty
miles ot Inverness. Wishing to send a
ten-brace box of grouse to h s friends in
the South, he directed a servant to call
upon Donald Fraser (who owned a horse
and cart, and made a livelihood by driv
ing peats into town), and ask him what
he would charge for taking the box to
Inverness.
Donald would not take it under eight
•hillings. The demand w r as thought so
unreasonable that the gentleman com
plained to a Scotchman, who was shoot
ing with him.
The Scotchman replied that he (the
Englishman) did not understand how to
bargain with the natives, and that one
of them approached in the right way
would do the job for much less. Calling
Donald, he held the following conversa
tion:
“Guid-mornin’, Donald! What’s the'
price o’ peats the noo ?”
“Juist auchteenpence the load, sir.”
“Y’ery Weel, ye can tak’ a load into
my hoose in Inverness the first thing the
morn’s mornin’.”
“I’ll dae that, an’ thank ye, sir.”
The Scotchman then walked on about
twenty yards, when he suddenly turned
round, and said:
“By-the-bv, I hae a box tae send; ye
can juist pit it on the tap o’ the peats.”
“I’ll dae that, sir. It’ll mak’ no muckle
difference.”
In this way the Scotchman got a good
load of peats, and the Englishman got
his box sent for nothing.
A ItT-J Winch H&Uk*Fed.
Yesterday forenoon a farmer whose
wagon needed some repairs stopped at a
blacksmith’s shop on Grand River ave
nue. He had with him a dog almost as
big a3 a yearling call, and when the
wagon was run into the shop the dog
was tied to a post near the door.
By and by quite a crowd gathered
to comment on his size and appearance,
and aiong came an under-sized, common
looking cur and sat down about ten
feet away. It was then the big dog
swelled up and sent forth thunderous
growls and howls. He scratched the
earth. He demanded blood. He tug
ged at his chain with the strength of an
ox.
“Don’t any one let that ’ere dog
loose!” cautioned the farmer as he came
from the back end of the shop.
“Sposen we did?” queried one of the
boys.
“Then he’d lessen the number of dogs
in this town by fifty.
The farmer went away, and the big
dog continued to tug and strain to get
at the little dog. The latter didn’t scare
worth a cent. He sat there a3 if he
meant to stay to dinner. Everybody
was wishing that the big dog would get
loose, when along came a man who
stopped and asked:
“What's the trouble?”
“That big dog wants to get free!”
“Oh. he does. Well, I’ll help him to.”
He walked up to the post and cut the
rope, and the next instant big dog and
little dog were so mixed up that one
could hardly separate them. But this
lasted only a minute. All at once the
big dog broke for the sidewalk and up
the street, and the little dog hung to
his hind leg for at least a hundred feet, j
The farmer came out to see his Jumbo
legging it for the country, while the
little dog sat on the curbstone watching
his flight, and he tnrued to the yel
ling ciowd and exclaimed:
“What art you fool* lafi* at I Didn't
I tell ye my dog wouldn’t be meau
enough to fight anything less’n a
panther?” —Free Press.
LIVELY BROKEUv
s <*n of IlilAritf lii (he New
York Stock Exchange.
The activities of stock-brokerage in
volve exhaustive drain of vital energy. The
nervous force necessarily expended in
rapid reasoning and quick decision is
often directed into other channels to re-
Feve the overtaxed brain. The younger
section of the broker tribe indulges in
an annual regatta of its rowing associa
t on, in base ball contests with tfce cal
low athletes of popular colleges, or in
friendly struggles among themselves, in
which the “Good Boys” are pitted
against the “Bad Boys,” in go-as-you
please pedestrian matches in Central
park, Bacchic dances to the entrancing
music of Italian organ grinders, in tre
mendous attempts at Grivco-Koman
wrestling, and in exasperating “tug-of
war" contests at either end of a stout
rope. It also revels, in company with
the elder, in the concerts of the Glee
club, and never fails to make the annual
song festival at Chickering hail, or the
less frequent one in the Brooklyn acad
emy of music, a grand success
iu respect of enthusiasm, flow
ers, and numbers. At the Christmas
season it luxuriates in the blowing of tin
horns and bugles, smashing of broker
hats, pelting with blown bladders, wet
towels, and surreptitious snow-balls, and
in the sly insertion of the cooling crys
tals between the collars and necks of
unsuspecting brethren. Hot pennies are
sometimes substituted. If the victim
whose spinal column glows with un
wonted heat be of dynamite tempera
ment, a tierce explosion is the inevitable
result. This same juvenile section is
addicted to horse-play with unconscious
intruders into the Board Room, and with
subjects of practical jokes. The clothes
of Loth grow rapidly worse for wear,
and are badly marked with uncertain
figures in chalk. This is all the more
incongruous iu view of the faultless and
almost dudish attire of many of the
members. Fashionable tailors cannot
crave better advertisement, nor florists
more striking coign of vantage, from
which to display their choicest wares.
This class of gentlemen reveals re
markably affectionate interest in the
advent of a newcomer to the broker
household, circulates tidings of the
joyful event, congratulates the blush
ing pere, and takes up a collection for
the purchase of some appropriate or in
appropriate present to the infantine
monarch. They are also somewhat prone
to the hazing of new members, and are
not always discreet in the choice of
methods. If the welcome be peculiarly
hearty, the novice may receive a free
ride around the Board Room, the trans
fer of quotations from the b ackboard to
the back of his coat, and see the neces
sity of new orders to his hatter and
tailor. Iu vain does the chairman use
his gavel on such occasions. The spirit
of fun is riotous, and does not hesitate to
run off with that symbol of authority.
At other times it may leave him alone in
his glory to call the list in awesome
silence to empty benches. These irre
pressibles welcome some visitors with
profound respect. Prince Ilohenlohe is
regarded in silence; “God save the
Queen” is sung with enthusiasm in pres
ence of Sergeant Ballantine; and loud
applause greets a brief speech from “Tom
Brown.” Oscar Wilde.does not fare so
well. The cheers arc dcrism^j|teiti|j^
lm' > seven-.
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conflicting counsels, suSias “Hire a
hall,” etc., etc. “Thank you,” was the
staple speech of one of the best secre
taries the Exchange ever had, and never
failed to bring down the house. The
hilarity and practical jocosity at rare
intervals overleap due bounds, and pro
voke fistic encounters, in which case the
impromptu Sullivans and Morrisseys aro
parted, and then punished by temporary
suspension from all privileges of the
i Exchange.
Repartee is piquant, always pointed,
sometimes Falstaffian. In dull times the
lovers of fun amuse themselves with
parodios of election tickets, railroad
regulations, and corporation circulars.
Of the latter, that of the Great Bric-a
--| Lrac company is a specimen. It pro
i posed the manufacture of antique china,
I bric-a-brac, and bron7.es out of old fruit
cans, broken crockery, old iron, tin-foil
I tobacco wrappers, and other refuse.
Domestic discussions were possibly re
fleeted in it. — Harper' Magazine.
How General Gordon Was Killed.
The war office has forwarded to us the
subjoined copy of the confidential report
made by Major H. H. Kitchener on the
fall of Khartoum:
The only account by a person claiming
to be an eye witness of the scene of
General Gordon’s death, relates: “On
hearing the noise, I got my master’s
donkey and went with him to the palace.
We met Gordon Pasha at the outer doot
of the palace. Muhammed Bey Mustapha,
with my master, Ibrahim Bey Rushdi,
and about twenty canvasses, then vrent
with Gordon toward the house of the
Austrian Consul Hansel, near the church,
when we met some rebels near the outer
gate of the palace. Gordon Pasha was
walking in front leading the party. The
rebels fired a volley,
killed at once; nijp; — canvasses,
Bey Rushdi, and Muhammed
Bey were killed, the rest ran
away.”
A large number of witnesses state
Gordon was killed near the gate of the
palace, and various accunts have been
related from hearsay of the exact manner
in which he met his end. Several re
liable witnesses saw and recognized
Gordon's body at the gate of the palace;
one describes it as being dressed in light
clothes. The Soudan custom of behead
ing and exposing the beads of adversa
lies slain in battle was, apparently, caried
out, as w r a3 done by the Mudir of Dongo'a
after the battle at Korti.
The Bagara savages seem to have had
some doubt which was Gordon's body,
and great confusion occurred in the
Mahdi’s camp at Omdurmnu, where the
heads were exposed, as to which was
Gordon’s head, some recognizing, others
denying the identity of Gordon’s head.
One apparently reliable witness relates
that he saw the rebels cut off Gordon’s
head at the palace gate after the town
was in their hands.— London Telegraph.
Iceberg Echoes.
It is asserted in Science that experi
ments indicate the possibility of obtain
ing an echo from an iceberg when in
dangerous proximity to a ship. It is be
lieved that even an object offering so
small a surface as a floating wreck may in
this way be detected during a fog in
time to prevent a collision. Experi
ments recently made have demonstrated
the feasibility of producing well-marked
echoes from sailing vessels and from
steamboats considerable distances away.
The apparatus employed consists of a
musket, to the muzzle of which a speak
ing trumpet had been attached. This
gun was aimed at passing vessels, while
blank-cartridges were fired. After a
longer or shorter time, according to the
distance of the vessel, an eoho was re
tUTM4,