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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 6, 1879)
"irrHia kb iorR.n If to be sad whan nil ar y To iblnk all u witU u away: To alarttn thrill, Mini bark tnmuk Froia xpfcUtioD'ajoyoiii brink; . , i If few pcieatiukcD orlOf a haavari All lu Junauuhta bad not vicm; If all rzprmwlon pruvrd too mank Till heart to hrartancl obiwk to rbetk Alone aufflced Uit word toapeak Wblcli aelliie pnnt-up pmi.lon frre, Brought back Uia inui'a trauqullltv, And laid IhaatruKKlloa lie art at rent, Dropped Ilka a bird lulo ll'i oi; Jf t h In ba love, a lover' av. Dear, 1 have loved tbee many day. If to oppose when MiffrrlDgranrt The palu tl opponlllou cunt, To llkteo Willi averlrd face, Tet yearn loloe Willi an embrace; To walcb, to lend, to emlle, to gnavt, Reproof to bear, advice recflve; To work, lo wait, to pray, to live, And to Kle all, aud Hil to give; If tbU he lore, believe Die, dear, Tbat I have loved tbee many a year. And If, amid the vap'roui whirling Oi men and tnlngi that, upward eurllnf In ckd and ram. eoiue float iuk by . . From the deep tulfof memory. One face uhlnoa oul.one foriu.oDa power, uueintlnenceqnlokenlnir every Hour, A aneaklna tmiflln UDward turned. Or a deep look tbat through ma burned; II una ie love, love came to me, Aud itavi. melhlukd. eternally. LijiplncotftMuautlM, BOCDEB ROMANCE. J Denver Corretpondeooe Boston Herald. I read in the Denver Tribune the oth er morning the announcement of the killing of Yardmaster Jack Finehart of the Denver and liio Grande luulroad. Finehart had held his appointment only three days, having received it from the Atchison, Topeka and rianta 1 e Kauroad, on the occasion of the transfer of the Denver and Bio Orando in accordance with the order of the Federal Court. The paragraph startled me exceedingly. Jack Finehart's was a figure familiar in cer tain circles of society all over the west ern country. In most of the States and Territories his deeds have mado him al most an outlaw. Jim Currie, who shot Porter, the actor, in Texas, drow his first pistol under the tutorship of Jack fine hart. Jack Finehart has left a trail easy to follow him by wherever he hus been. He was no vulgar rufliun. He was as nearly the ideal of a frontier "charac ter" as I have ever heard of one man's becoming. Imagine a man six feet tall or over, with not an ounce of superflu ous nosh upon him, possessed of a hand some, determined face, stern as the countenance of justice, a man whose strength is hidden in tho finish of his proportions. Ho walked with graceful military erectness, and saluted his ac quaintances with great courtesy. His large moustache and broad white hat set him off to peculiar advantage. As anv one who niiirht have soon Tlnf fulo Hill in hia wild (lavs Mould have set mm down as an uncommon man, so any one meeting Jack Finehart would have wondered what sort of a record the man had. Jack was a Texan by birth and cringing np; a lexan in ins manners; a typical 'lexan in his Instincts: a Texan in Ins method of carrying a revolver tmiiy cocked ana hanging from a belt behind) ; a Texan in his record: a thor- ougn lexan "son-oi-a-gun. me earliest days of tho man s hfo were probably tho most exciting. iHOOd was spilled as freely as water twenty years ago all over . " . I the West. Deeds that history shudders to relate wore on the town annals of overy hamlet, lho frightful moral abandon of border life in Texas is scarcely worthy ox nonco now in comparison with the life of a score of years ago, whon Jack Finehart was a lad. Ho had a lino field to study in, and ho was bred well. A man who started his cemetery before crossing me threshold or manhood, and before the down had left his cheek mur der was no novelty to him. Finehart was often a leader of desperate people, and death came to him a hundred times, hovered about him, flirted with him, all but took him. and then departed. I am tolling you the story of this man's life, to show you an inside picture of a bordor man, a littlo redeomed from the desper ado in all his moods. Ho did not rob railway trains, coaches, horsemen, foot travelers, nor anybody else with his hands, but he quarreled, and drank, and killed, and loved along the frontier towns. Finally tho war broke out. He had by this time acquired that perfoct fearlessness and indifforenoo to death that in some nion accustomed to facing it becomos an absolute passion, urging them madly on to wherever a prospect of death exists. Finehart selected for his posts in the war the most fool . hardy dangerous and death-tempting there were to lie had. lie ran powder trains, mado journeys of exploration to see if tho railroad had boon torn up, at tho rate of 70 miles an hour; he entered the Union camps at all points, led forlorn hopes, was always front in a skirmish, scouted and Bpied until the business palled on him, and ho mixed himself np in railroad alluirs un til no undertaking was too hazardous. Once he started to cross a river over which tho bridge tottered aud appeared altout to fall, having been burned by the Union troops. Everybody left the engino, and Jack plunged over the bridge alone. Tho bridge went down, the engine went down, but Finehart jumped and swam ashore. They were escaping from a Union neighborhood and were under pursuit. Finehart's companions were captured. On one oc casion there was a great bully in the army, and his powers was not limited in any direction. He had frequently killed his man; in fact, he enjoyed killing his man; it was an appetizing thing to do. In those days in Texas (he waa a Texan) you could serve your time at this trado without auy annoyance from the Justine of the Teace. Yea, he had a beautiful cemetery in Texan, and was going back presently to continue the work of popu lating it. One day Jack Finehart, who watched his colleague in the graveyard busineaa a good deal, happened to be in saloon with him. The stranger had hardly ceased relating some wonderful adventures, when Jack drew an enor mous revolver, cocked it, and laid it on the bar beside the man. The latter tared at the pistol and then at Jack. Finehart filled a glass with whisky, and, retiring a few stepa, Usted it. Then he aaid, facing the stranger: "They call this good whisky. Smell of it, and give me your opinion." And he dashed the tumblerful into the atran ger's face. There lay the revolver at the man's elbow; there stood Finehart waiting to be shot dead. The stranger did not move, bnt in as tonished silence wiped the trhiaky from his face. Then Jack stepped np, took the phtol, and, pointing it between hi eyes, said: . "Nov. iKlofrize for your lies and mope. The man did all this very abjectly. Jack and a friend were sleeping in a log cobin on the prairies in Texas, keep inir dark for some very good reason. They suddenly ,in the middle of the night, heard noises outHide. Says Jack, with niH habitual drawl: "Let's seo who they are ? His friend was already looking put. "jack, be remarked, "they ve got a rone. Jack pauHod, thoughtfully, felt of his neck, and drawled, "Don t be scared; it s me. " He knocked out the cartridges of both his revolvers and replaced them with others. He then felt of Ins bowie-knife, and mode a number of rapid and ex hausting movements to ascertain if he was stiff or not in condition. Mean while he could hear voices in different keys crying, "Jack! " "Jack Finehart!" "Come out, you Texan." "Come in, boys," he drawled, getting 1. ' X 1- . 1 T . 1 L 1 ...A uia wjuib rcauv. o ui, as uu awjipou uuv, a cocked revolver in each hand, and a bowie-knife across his mouth, there was a roar of laughter from the crowd It was moonlight, and Jack was ar rested in the act of opening fire. The leader then assured him that they A V . sirrmlv wanted his assistance to rnn in 1 t , . . , , . . btiib Hawkins, a noted horse thief, off to Cottonwood. Jack put up his pistols in great dudgeon and disappointment. On another occasion Jack was in a New Mexico bar-room. A young New lorker was talking a good deal, and Jack, in his drawling lexan humor or indifference (the quality resembles either) offonded and insulted him with out intent. Finally the New Yorker drew a seven-chambered pea-shooter, and discharged every barrel at Jack Finehart. Tho desperado received the they were nearly exhausted. Then, drawing quickly a pistol a foot long, he shivered the pea-shooter out of tho youngster's hand, and said: "Stranger, buy a gun that won't dis grace this country." lie deliberately put his "gun bock and did not even look to see where the New Yorker's shots struck. A young gentleman Mriended Jack and won his everlasting devotion. Fine hart was one of the most delicately organized men I evor met. He was like a woman; only less ashamed of natural emotion. Jack heard of some danger impending over his friend. For three months he dogged him day and night, ever hovering around him with two re- volvers buckled about him At last the night of the consummation of the scheme of revongo was at hand. Two men sprang upon the young man with tho in- tontion of lettinnr out his lifn-blood with knives, "Have mo " he contrived to scream. "That's what Jack Finehart has been waiting two months to do," cried the owner of the name, as soon as the smoke from t in shots had eifinred off. Drawing and firing both revolvers at once, hn luul uinkeil both RHxiiMHinH. I I " ...... Finehart had a poworful name in Texas, in Arizona, in Kansas, in New Mexico; not a gambler from Texas to the Black Hills but respected tho name. respected tho name. An expert gambler, an unerring shot, un oqualed as a companion on a spree, he was, nevertheless, scrupulously honest, tender-hearted, sensitive and easy pro voked to tears. He had had one love af fair, and it was the romnnco in Iuh life. I don't know the history of it. Nobody did but Jack, and ho was not communi cative about it. It seems that his brother was equally involved about the girl, and, after much bitter feeling and exchanges had been indulged in lietween them re specting the lady, they came to an un derstanding thoroughly typical of tho hard, uncompromising nuturo of West ern quarrels. The understanding was to tho effect that the men plodged them selves novor again to speak to tho girl. the penalty for an infraction of this rnlo being that ono brother should kill tho othor, This was the compact. To any one familiar with the history of the West tliero is nothing strange, unnatural or startling about it. Tho brothers sop a rated, and each went his way.. This was some years ago. This summer Jack sought out his brother, and found him in Denver. He told him briofly that ho had broken his oath, and wanted the compact kept. There was nothing about Jack s demeanor that indicated fear. He was melancholy and quiet. This was indeod his habitual manner. He was firm in his determination to dio by his brother's hand. The witness to the com- Jaet was in Denver. Ho was found by ack, and the fact was narrated to him. He offered remonstrances, of course; Jack was as firm as iron. His influence over tho witness, and tho desire of the latter to see it out and put in as many obstacles as possible induced him to accompany his friend. The brother was waiting, aud they walked out on the l'latto river bank. It was late in the afternoon. The sun was making countless beautiful shajH-s and colors over the mountains. The air was cool and dry, and the earth looked very fresh and groen. It was a singularly inviting asjxtct, aud the world never apeared more tempting as a ploeo of residence. The men spoke not a word, but strode steadily along, Jack in front. The witness was alarmed and horrified. He knew not what to do. It was iniMM sible to influence the men; but he could not back out. They at lost reached a quiet spot in a shady valley. Tho Tlatte ran beside them, and would carry the body of Jack Finehart along with it in a few minutes. They utnsed. Jack drew a derringer and examined it carefully. Apparently satisfied with his insitection, he cocked it and handed it to hia brother. Then walking a few yards, he turned a two-third profile toward him, presenting his heart aa the mark to shoot at. There the Texan stood, with his arms folded and an expression of quiet melancholy on hia face. . "I am ready," he said, casting a single glance at hia brother, with whom he had previously shaken hands, and then turn ed his gate toward the river. The broth er leveled the pistol, took deliberate aim, and pulled the trigger. The cartridge did not explode. Jack flung a quick glance at it, and, seeing his brother about to try again, once more gaxed at the river. After another long aim the brother suddenly threw the pistol into the river and wheeled about. Jack ad vanced in anger. "You're a perjnrer,"he said; "I would have killed you." The brother aid not reply, Dut turned and walked toward home. Jack followed with the greatly-relieved witness. He did not utter a word until they partod in Denver. He made re - peated efforts to in luce his brother to carry out the compact, and seemed more anxious W Uia mo uiuio m icuwkxi ujjuu his escape. He appeared to court death with moody anxiety, and long after this affair had ceased to torment bim, this strange, restless desire to meet death by violence haunted him. At three o'clock on the morning oi ins ueam ine re m 1 1 - il mained up because he was tilled with a sunocatinor sense that aeatu was coming) ho walked down sixteenth street witii friend, and said : " It s coming, coming, i icei it in tue air ; but I don t know now, ana i a line to know. I've srot the 'sand to die game, and I'll die in my boots, but I'd like to know how it's coming. " You ought to go somewhere, Jack," said his friend. There is not a spot in tms western Lmmtn viiera Jack Finehart is not in I . .. . ... i danger he replied, At 10 o'clock he was attending to his duties as yard-master. A switch-engine was cninc down the vsrd behind a pas senger train, and Jack, knowing the en I KtUCUl III jvj B ASUUTW eUl wv 'V. gineer to be a Denver and mo uranue mttri ,! hinir distrustful of him. I i n. ,... .,lo nlnn nntli JUU1UUU uli UIO I Milt 4 uuu n.ung niw. ,im. 'fhe rickctty engine was going very fast. It went off the rails and foil 0ver. and yardmaster Finehart was cmiAxnA in Wt.Ji and badlv mntilated xhe engineer was also killed. To think that n man who wna novernil from head to foot with knife and pistol scars; a man whoso death was many times due, perhaps, from the hands of other men, should meet it at last by a railroad accident I His funeral was at tended by great numbers, and, as he lies jn the cemetery, one sees over his grave only the simple inscription, " Jack Fine hart How the Country Hecnib to New York Teuenienwlouse thud. In this country one would not expect to find any city so environod that the aspect of the fields and woods is unfamiliar to the most poverty-stricken of its inhabi tants. Every city bos its parks and squares with foliage and flowers; the people are mieratory, and those who are stay-at-homes have innumerable excur sions within their reach. But the life of the very poor falls in a groove out of which their feet do not often strav. Un- less the parks are in their own neighbor- hood, they do not visit them , the feast costly of excursions, provided by mana- Kel'8 111 search or profit, are too costly for fl,em a.nU in ftl1. lar8e dt'es there is an i.icruumiiif Liuas iiuprinuneu in aneya ana tenements, to whom there is an unknown reuion dimly characterized as "the country." The ideas of what the country is, possessed by tho children taken to it through the beneficence of the fund previously referred to, would be amusing were it not for their pathos. "I've been to 'tho country' before. My pa once took me to Jersey City," said a little girl, as she was on tho point of leav ing New York. '"So have I," said another with a burst of pride: and when she was asked what country, she answered "Ireland." probably from the fact that she had iieard it spoken of by her parents as "the old country." Once beyond the city, and among the fields and hills, their interest aud wonder ment were unbounded. "How nicely the hills go up ! " said one boy. "Who's been wetting the grass?" usked another, as ho felt the morning dew. " Is it real ? " said a third, as he felt tho lawn ; and when he was convinced or its genuineness, he threw himself upon it and rolled over it and over it again. Every ohiect had freshness and interest to them. Occa sionally an incident became laughable, despite the pitiable ignorance that led to it. Several children at a village in New York asked for permission to play with the chicken-coops, and although tho at traction of chickun-coops could not be understood by tho farmer the desired con sent was given. The playfellows came back in a little while, and it was evident that chicken-coops as a source of pleasure had fallen vastly in their estimation. When a reason was sought, one of the childreu explained that the flies "bit too hard,'' and on a further investigation it was discovered that the chicken-coops were the bee-hives, the inmates of which had severely opposed the experiments made upon them. Sunday AJltnxoon for ih'lttember. LiVEitrooi, Docks. The Liverpool docks as they stand at the present day are among the wonders of the world. 8ince tho formation of the first wet dock in 1719 tho extension of these inlnnd basins has boon continuous. Fifteen years ago they covered an area of w ater apace to tho extent of two hundred and seventy-seven acros, and tho quays were nineteen miles in length. Since then there has been no cessation of dock ex tension. To enumerate or describe theni all would fill many pages. There are the Sulthonso, Albert and Canning Docks, the Clarence Half-tide Dock, tho Prince's Ualf-tido Dock, the Manchester Basin, tho Wapping Basin, the Coburg, Bruns wick Union, Toxteth, and dozen of other docks, with tho Ooreo Piazzas at the bot tom of St. James street, a short distance from the Town Hall. Evory convenience and facility for tho dispatch of business surrounds them. A broad open thoroughfare, tapping at right angles many of the prin cipal street, runs along their whole length; in this doorway is a double line of rails, which branch off also and sur round several of tho basins and docks; omnibuses and tramcara traverse it per petually during the day from end to end. The soeue is a busy one always. A hur- Sing polyglot multitude, constantly on e move in and about and around the sheds; great vans and wains laden with produce, cotton bales, ores, Manchester piece goods, cases of every size and de scription containing cochineal, indigo, flax, guano, mahogany, pressed hides and untanned, molasses, raw silk, and the thousand and one things of home, colonial and foreign produce needed to carry on the manufacturing processes of the world; the engines snorting and puf fing impatiently aa they rattle along with their long line of attendant wagons, en route for the great terminus higher np in the town. Our Otrn Country for Augwt. One tr.otn.iM or ctluumy only in corning it. Madam dt Jtfatiifenon. The Yiiag Corporal. I I There wu a young Corporal in the gar I rison of Nates, in the year 1794. He was a spirited young fellow, barely twenty, butt young though he was, he has already learned to drink to excess, according to the too frequent custom or the day. Brave and excitable, wine was a bad master for him ; and one day, in a mo ment of intoxication, he was tempted to strike an officer who was giving him an order. Death was the punishment of such an offense, and to doath the lad was condemned. The Colonel of bis regimont, remembering the intelligence and bravery of the young criminal, spared no pains to obtain a remission of the sentence; at first with no success, but finally hampered with a certain condition that the prison er should never again iu his life be found intoxicated. The Colonel at once proceeded to the military prison, and summoned Cam' bronne. "You are In trouble. Corporal, he said. ''True, Colonel ; and I forfeit my life lor my folly," returned the Corporal. "It may be so." ouotb. the Colonel shortly. "May be?" demanded Cambronue "You are aware of the strictness of mar tial law, Colonel ; I expect no pardon ; I have only to die " "But supnose I brine a pardon, on one condition? A The lad's eyes sparkled. "A condition ? Let me hear it, Colonel ; I would do much to save my life aud honor." "lou must never again get drunk." "Colonel, that is impossible ! " "Impossible, boy ! with death a3 an al ternative 'mative? You will be shot to-morrow, U1UU1 vw irjg . think of that I" I do think of it. But never to got drunk again ! I must never let one drop of wine touch my lips ! You aee.Colonel, Cambronne and the bottle love one an other so well that when once they get to pettier it is all up with sobriety. No, no ! I dare not promise never to get drunk." "cut. unhapy boy l could you not promise never to touch wine?" "JNot a drop, colonel l " "Not a drop." "Ah ! that is a weighty matter. Colonel Let me reflect. Never touch wine ! not a single drop in all my life?" The young soldier paused : then looked up, "liut. Colonel, if 1 Dromise. what truar- antee will you have that 1 shall keep my promise t ' "Your word of honor " Bald the officer, I know you : you will not fail me." A hunt came into the young fellows eves. "Then i promise," he said solemnly, God hears me. I, Cambronne, swear that never to my dying day shall a drop of wine touch these lips." The next day the Corporal Cambronne resumed his place in his regiment. Twenty-nve years afterward he was General Cambronne, a man of note, re- pected and beloved. Dining one day in tins with bis old Colonel, many broth- ers-in-arms being present, he was offered glass of rare old wine by his former commanding officer. Cambronne drew buck. "My word of honor, Colonel ; have you forgotten that?" he asked excitedly. Aud Aantes the prison my vowr e continued, striking the table. "Never sir, from that dav to this, hus a drop of ine passed my hps : I swore it, and 1 ont mv word : and shall keent it. God helping me, to the end." Story of a California Artist. Instances of American pluck in Europe ure common enough, but one rarely hears a oaso more remarkable m all its de tails than that of the young man from the Pacific Coast, who has been studying art here for a long time. One day, while andenug about on Ins father s estate in is native commonwealth, he saw. lor the first time in his life, an artist sketch- m;. and inquired what that was." lhe mysterious matter having been duly ex plained to him, ho remarked that he thought he would like to do that sort of thing himself, a course from which he as strongly dissuaded by the artist, on the ground that he had never shown any special talent for it. The young Ameri can did not take this advice, but inquired hat was ttie best way to study art, to hi eh the artist answered carelessly, that might be well to goto burope. As our ero's father was at that time abundantly supplied with funds.tbe young man forth ih set olt lor lurope, and when he reached London was told by a casual tie- uaintance that he had better keep on ntilbegotto Paris, where the art feel ing was more prominent than in the English capital. So he came to Paris, and cut to the lixole des lieaux Arts, where, he had never drawn a line,nor discovered ny capacity for doing so, he had a hard inc. liut presently be beuau to draw. and made such prodigious progress tbat a rominent t rench artist who had several mes refused him permission to draw in is studio at last relented, and finished by becoming a thorough believer in the lent which he was so rapidly develop- ii g. About this time tue miner on the acihc Coast descended with dazzling uddenness Irom the heights of fortune. and our young friends were left without penny which he could Call his own. ere. his native pluck and determination came to the rescue arid he resolved to pursue bisstndies, no matter what circum stance might endeavor to do toward pre venting him. lie lived for two months on thirty-five francs, and managed to do good work all the time. While he was going through the crudes! period, which proved to be long and exceedingly disa greeable, his struggles attracted the at tention of some oi nis compatriots, who ere able and willing to order from him ork which was entirely creditable to is master and himself: and lie has been able to go on without sacrificing his in dependence, and after discouragements Inch would bavt floored many weaker people. 1'arii Corr. Botton Journal. rLowisio by Elkctbii ity. At a recent meeting of the Paris Academy of Scien ces, si. lresca gave an account of some experiments in plowing by electricity huh he witnessed at bermaise. in the Marine. A Gramme machine, making 1200 revolutions per minute, and driven by a steam engiue. was connected to a second Gramme at a distance of 440 yards, and caused the latter to revolve at the rate of 1140 revolutions to the minute, the electricity produced by the first machine being thus converted into work. The second machine was connect ed to a third at a distance of 219 yards, and these two worked cables attached to double brabant plough. According to M. Treses, the experiment was ver y suc cessful, the work accomplished rep resent ing the equivalent of three horsepower, bile one-half of the motive Dower ob tained frutn the steam-engine waa reallr transferred to a distance of more than 10UU yards from the furnace. I Extraordinary Yenatillty of Western litera. - A day or two ago a motherly-looking woman of 45 entered a Woodward avenue store having a man's linen duster on her arm, and when approached oy a saies man she said : "Some one in here sold this duster to mv son yesterday." "Yes, ma'am, I sold it myself," replied the clerk, as he looked at the garment. "Did you tell my bou that this duster could be worn to a picnic, ninerai, unuai party or quarterly meeting s " "I did madam, and so it can." "Did you tell him it made a good fly blanket wneu not otnerwise neeuea t "I did." "That it could be used as a sail boat, a stretcher, a straw bed and a bed spread?" "Yes. ma'am I did" "And many people used them as table' covers t " "I did." "And that thev would last for years and then make excellent stun lor a rag car pet 7" 1 did." "And you only charged a dollar?" "Only a dollar, ma'am." "Well, when John came home last night and brought the duster, and told me all you said, I made up my mind that he must have been drunk, and I was a leetle afraid he stole tho garment. I am elud it's all right." "it certainly is all right, ma am. and since he was here yesterday we have (lis covered that the duster is a great con ductor of sound, a preventative of suiv stroke, and that no man with one on his back ever dropped dead of the heart dis ease." "Land save us!" ehe gasped, as she reached for the bundle; "but who knows that they won't fix 'em so 'fore long that they'll raise a mortgage oil the farm ? " Detroit tree irm. Not If It Were My Boy. Some years ago the late Horace Mann, the eminent educator, delivered an ad dress at tho opening of some reformatory institution for boys, during which he re marked that if one boy was saved from ruin it would pay for all the cost and care of establishing such an institution as that. After the exercises had closed, in private conversation, a gentleman rallied Mr. Mann upon his statement and said to him: " Did you not color that a little when you said that all expense and labor would be repaid if it only saved one boy?" " Aot if it were mv boy, was the sol emn and convincing answer. Ah! there is a wonderful value about my boy." Other boys may be rude and rough; other boys may seem to require more pains and labor than they will ever repay; or other boys may be loft to drift uncareel for to their ruin, which is so near at hand bnt ' my boy' it is worth the toil of a lifetime, and the lavish wealth of a world around to save him from temporal and eternal ruin. We would go the world around to save him from peril, and would bless every hand that was stretched out to give him help and welcome. And yet every poor, andering, outcast, homeless man, is one whom some fond mother called my boy.' Every lost woman, sunken in the depths of sin, was somebody's duughter in the days of her childish innocence. To-day somebody's son is a hungry out cast, pressed to the very verge of crime and sin. To-day somebod v's daughter is weary, helpless wanderer, driven by necessity into the paths that lead to death. Shall we shrink from labor. shall e hesitate at cost when the work before us is the salvation of a soul ? Not if it is my boy.' not if we have the love of Him who gave His life to save the just. How Gkkmany Has Spent the French War Indemnity. An uccount has been itely published of tho way in which the indemnity paid by France to Germany on the conclusion of the war of 1870-71 has been spent. Altogether, including the ar contributions imposed upon upon Paris and the departments occupied by the German troops, Germany received from France tbesumof 5,254,000,000 francs, or about 210,100,000. Of this sura 91 , 48,5-U were in tho first instance set aside fur Imperial purposes, and the remainder divided among the several tstates forming the Empire, the old North Ger man Confederation receiving 70,114,235; Bavaria, 13,408,819; Wurtemberg, 4,248,304; Baden. $3,050,593. and Hesse, i 1,430,509. Of the 91,548,543 set aside for Imperial purposes, 28,033,849 have been appropriated to form a pension fund; 10,800.000 to strengthen, enlarge and add to the number of the fortified places of the empire; 8,580,000 for the purchase and construction of railways in Alsace and Lorraine,and the twoaunexed provinces ; 6,000,000 have been placed n the Imperial war treasury: 000.000 have been awarded in grants for eminent services; 242,740 have been spent in providing a range on which to carry on artillery experiments ; 300,000 have been dotted to Uorman subjects expelled from France, while smaller sums have been appropriated to recompense railway companies for the damage done to their rolling stock ; to improve the military, telegraphic aud postal services ; to com pensate German ship owners for losses sustained during the war; to extend the military topographical department : to en large the military workshops at Slracburg ; to provide commemorative medals, and to construct a building for the Reichstag. 1'all Hall Gazette. How Monuments Weab Oct in Lon don. This morning the Albert Monu ment, in Kensington Gardens, was inspected by several scientific gentle men. Their attention was drawn to the fact that the marble waa sensibly af fected by the atmosphere, and that the statues forming the fresco had the ap pearance of being sculptured from chalk rather than marble. The cause of this was stated to be that the soot, under the influence of rain, yields an acid capable oi acting on the marble, and the rough washing it is occasionally subjected to perforates and destroys the smooth snr- ace. Another agent consists of the car bonic acid evolved from the lungs of ani mals. They were of opinion that if something waa not speedily done, this splendid monument will rapidly fall into decay. It was suggested that it should undergo a cleansing process similar to Cleopatra's Needle, and then be in durated with' a colorless solution which will not only preserve it from further decay, but restore the marble to its origi nal condition. London Echo. SHORT BITS. A wildcat recently broke up an Jlr kansas picnic r" Pluck and luck are twins, and wern. Is found there is another X. 8009 You cannot always tell by the way a person dresses whether his pew is piij A Justice is called "Old Perfumery" h often. - ""J" uoudo no uus nceui em UD In, There is grave apprehension in En. laud as to the potato as well as the other crops failing. Up to July 1st forty-eight officers had fallen in Zululand : th rtv-s x h .n... and exposure. Was anvbodv ever cano-hi n-nu-it., der the canvas of a gospel tent. The silver vase trepntjil tt Clay by Whigs is offered for sale in Bos ton by his grandson. West Point has a Flirtatlon-wa 11' irhnk. the cadets learn the tactics used in en gagements. How it is that trees can nut nn . n dress without oneninir their tm cause they leave ont their clothing. Edison's last Invention enablna a to tell which door will hark unit -k;k bite. It is called the docroohono. An inventor calls his now o ;.,.. "Mexico," because it makes so many revolutions. ' The idea that apple cores are pood fn consumption is gaining ground in Ohio It was first started by the father ofalaree' family. Turkey can lick the stnflinir nf Greece and informs England that she isn't required to mediate between the twv countries. A soft answer may sometimes turn. away wrath, but we should place more re liance on a reputation for being a bad man in a fight. A pitiable old tramp wasentertn! Battle creek, Mich., by a negro whom he hud once owned in the South. Times had changed for both. The best temperance movement tha Buffalo Exprm thinks, would be a rprfiio.. tion of the price of temperance drinks to reasonaDie ngure. Lydia Thompton has viewed Kura Bernhardt, and savs she would not flrnw in the legitimate drama of the Thomp sonian type. We have a shrewd suspicion that Imir the planets recently discovered are mere ly old fellows-who have been off on a starring tour. "I make it a rule," said a wiseacre to his friend, "to tell my wife everything that happens. In this way we avoid any misunderstanding." Not to be outdone in curiosity, the friend replied ; " Well sir, you are not so open and frank as I am, for I tell my wife agreat many things that never happen." A country woman stopped some ten minutes in front of a store in Springfield to gaze at a patent fly-trap in operation, which was pretty well filled, and after studying the placard, $2, intently moved on, after piping out, to the great amuse ment of the by-standers: "Tew dollars! I wouldn't give tew cents for all the flies in Springfield." An Interesting Story. An interesting story in connection with the new silver dollar has just come to light into Philadelphia. The secret has come out, through the Record newspaper, as to who the young lady was that sat to Mr. Morgan, the designer, as a wodel for' the head which appears on the coin. The lady who has thus been raised to the fauie, and whose name will be chronicled in history, is Miss Anna W. Williams, re siding with her widowed mother at 1023,. Spring Garden street.in this city. In 1876r when Mr. Morgan was making designs for the coin, he was introduced to the lady by Mr. Thomas Eakins, a friend of the family. He desired to have a true representative of American beauty em blazjned upon the coin, and the profile of Miss Williams appeared to him as the best approach to it he bud seen. The lady, who is of a very modest and retir ing disposition, was induced to sit, and after four or five interviews, sufficient sketches had been secured to proceed with the work. The artist wrought up the face afterwaid to its present appear ance, as it is shown upon the coin. It would be impossible to recognize in it any resemblance to Miss Williams. The Gre cian nose and the delicate lips had their foundation in her features, but the full, rounded chin resembles more that of the wife of Mr. Morgan. Miss Williams is a blonde and considered quite pretty. She is a teacher in the girl's department in for the House of Refuge, and about eighteen years of age. This sets at rest the numerous stories which have been in circulation as to whom the face on the coin belongs to. Horrible Occurrence ix a Chtrch iard. A horrible occurrence is report ed from a churchyard near Guildford, one too, which throws a lurid light on the causes of fever and plague. It appears that in digging a grave in the adjacent parish of Shere, a human body was exhumed in a semi-decomposed state lying only four feet from the surface. The brains and ligaments were still remaining, in an ad vanced state of decomposition, and giving off a most horrid smell. A second corpse was partially to be seen within three feet of the surface. It was left in this state for twenty-four hours, and was within thirty feet of the house in the church yard. The smell in the rooms facing the graveyard was so strong that it was quite unbearable. In the meantime a large hound got access to the graveyard, and was discovered devouring the flesh from the portion of the corpse that remained. The medical officer states that the cprpse was buried within nine feet of the churchyard house last year, and soon after there was a case of typhoid fever ; and the same in 1877, after a corpse had been buried close by. The churchyard is above the well that supplies the house, and these bodies have been buried in a direct line with it, and the water at the present time is used by several families in the village. The sanitary authority, it seems, has forwarded the report to the Home Secretary and to the Local Govern ment Board. London Echo. The Principal of Yassar College step ped suddenly into one of the recitation rooms and said: "That person who is chewing gum will please step forward and put it on the dek." The whole school stepped forward with one accord toward the desk, while the teacher slip ped her quid beneath her tongue and said: "Leally, guls, Tm snppriseldr