EUGENE CITY GUARD
LATEST NEWS SUJOIAItY.
nr TixruMArn to batk.
Cablcirmm from London announces tbe
oeatli of h. A. (Sotliern, actor.
Bitting Dull with 40 lodges of hi follow
ci uave goi usik into laiiana.
(Jen Grant was enthusiastically received
by the New York legislature on the HHh
Mrs, flutter, widow of the late fieri
Hatter, died Wednesday evening at Mix,
A (ire at Milton, New HampHhirc, on
the 20lli destroyed marly the entire
town.
Frederick Kestor. for the murder of his
wife In August, 1870, was bunged at Dan
vlllo, Illinois, on the J.'Ist.
Gen. Sheridan Iisb cone to Incite two
military pout on the line of the Atchi
son, Topeka, and Santa Feand Southern
I'aeillo Kuil way.
Wm. K.Van illiircorn, a farmer living
near Ocueva, Mniiiuan, shot hi wife
dead ami then killed himself; cause, drink
una family troubles,
Itopresnntative Whitnker has Intro
duced a biil to authorize the coiiNiruction
of a bridge on ftnuke rlyer between Texan
ferry and brand City.
At Climax, Micltiran, on the 1 1 tit one
liunureu pounds ol powder exploded in
the store of J. P. Andrew & Co., injuring
vi porsons, several lutuiiy
Hixty thousand pouudM of powder wa
shipped on tlio 21nt from tlio government
powder depot at the nrsonal, H utile
below St. I -on in for Bonlclu, Cat
On tbe 11th Inst, at I'hiladelphiii, ahoy
three years of age forced a red hot poker
down the throat ol a child two month
old by whidi tbe Infant's lifo was Instantly
lestroyed.
Francis I). Booth and wife an aired cou
pie living on llleocker street, Now York,
were found In their dwelling on the night
ou anuary 2ist in a dying condition huv
ing eaten nothing for nine duy.
Father Kdward Purccll, brother to the
archbishop and manager of the disastrous
church banking bouse hero, whoso failure
coat depositors over a million dollars, died
of apoplexy at Cincinnati on tlio lioth.
A Trlpple murder win committed ut
rlum City, Ohio, on tho nilit of the 17th,
tbe victims being Mr. Mittilda Scott
aged 40, her daughter a-ed I!!', and a boy
14. There was no cluo to the murderer.
Fanny Neither, a young lady nred 17.
committed solcido today by taking
Htrychnine at Brownvillo. Neb., on lues
dav. 8ho had been jilted by a iover who
refused to pay a dry goods hill Hhe hud
eontraeted with tho expectation of marry
ing him.
A boiler exploded on the 24th hint, five
mllea from L ng Prairie, Todd county,
Minnesota, killed Frank Oliver, eugiueer,
and seriously injuring II. K. Itico, propri
etor of the farm, and two brother named
Ktrong. Tho men were auwing fence
poata, uaing a threaliing machine for
power.
I.elund Stanford niiHwering tho New
York chamber In a three column article
Rityt in ell'uct thnt ownership and control
of the railway should go together; that
neither a state nor congress has iower to
regulato fe.res, and intlmutea that the Cen
tral l'at'itlc will be run lit the Interests of
the company,
A Fort Assinlboiiio dispatch of tho Kith
says: fjur companies of tlio lHtlt Infantry
and two of tho 1M cavalry left Friday to
move down Milk river to the vicinity of
Mtting nuirscBuip. I'rolmbly a co-operative
movement will be liiuilu by Maj.
Hges from l'opiar crock. Unless Hitting
iiuu surrenders stirring news may bo ex
peeled.
Ono hundred" commission murchnnts of
Chicago have signed a pledge not to sell
olcinargitiine, butterinu or any oilier vil
lainous compound of that class, and do ull
in their power to diseounteuunco nml
prevent their sale by others. Tho war
against the deleterious and unsavory
compound seems likoly to spread and be
" come extremely vigorous.
Kngntie Hale has been elected V, 8.
senator from Maine, J. It. Huwley from
Connecticut, Hen. Harrison from Indiana.
John Sherman from Ohio, T. F. Hayard
from Delaware, MeMillian from Minne
sota, livid win from the short and Conger
for tho long term from Michigan. James
U. Fair from Nevada, John F. Miller from
California, and T. C. l'latt probably from
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l'UT lllll, 1110 111tr, IIIU
Touncsnce legislature was still balloting.
(Iciicral Walker has sent to the two
houses of congress tho complete census
returns of the whole country. The cen
sus of the states shows a population of 40,
3(i0,&!5, and terrltoiies 7S3.271, making a
grand total ofotl.l.V.'.Ntifl. General Walker
furnishes ollleiul figures of tho population
nllhe following states: Colorado, 104.040;
Florida, 2(i(i,o(i(i; Louisiana, UIO.L'tUt; Ken
tueky, l,4S,601l; California, KlU,(kS(t; Con
port lent, 022,083; Muho, 32,014; Ueorgia,
1,638,983.
Sugarcane growers of Minnesota id con
vention unanimously adopted the follow
ing: Kesolved, That as a proof of the en
couragement we feel, and as indioutiv of
our prosxi'ts of iiiccoi-a. a barrel of sugar
on exhihition be sent to president elect
tiartleld with our compliments, suggest
lug as it does, not only the care ami pro
tection which the government should ex
tend ao great an Industry, but the now
famous nisxin of the distinguished recip
ient, "nothing like success.''
About fifty Jewish geutlemen met in
(Ireonhsuru's hall Chicago, on the 23d for
the purpose of aiding a colonv of Israelites
w hich has established itself'in Talestlne.
The colony, which is composed of aixty
families, obtained grant of 80,000 acre
of land between Jerusalem and Jaffa from
tbe Turkish rovernmeut several vears
ago, and is now engaged in tilling the
ground after the fashion of their ancestors
long centuries ago. The colony is not rich
and societies have been orgruiieit in New
1 ork, I'biladelphia and other cities to as
sist lU iU getting a firm foothold.
The sonata In executive acaslon di'
rectea its committee on elections to loves
tigate by what means the full text of the
Chinese treaties and arcotupanvlnir docu
tnents, printed in confidence for the use
of all members of tbe senate, became pub
lio lust week fa twelve or fifteen news
papers throughout the country. The
resolution ordering this InTcstlgation was
presented by Edmunds in a speech, in
the course of whioti he expressed a ho)e
that the senate will subject any corres
pondent who refuses todisclose the source
from which be obtained the document to
imprisonment la jail for as long a time as
ne mar continue to refuse the committee's
question. The resolution as adopted em
powers the committee to send for persons
ndpspen.
Rcnt advices from the Interior of
South Carolina report tbe Leafiest u&ow
fallen for 60 years.
Tbe Oriental Tea Company of Chicago
with liabllitiesof$:i5,000 made a roluntary
assignment 00 tbe lath.
Tbe wife of James Curomlngs, colored,
living near Cranston, North Carolina,
gave birth to four babies recently; alt do
ing well.
Noah Bowllmrs during a drunken spree
yesterday at Delaware Bend on Ited river,
Texas, aaaauiteu oeorge uarreu wuii
pistol and waa shot and killed by Barrett
A solder of company F, Nth Infantry,
was shot and killed in cold blood at fan
Angelo, Texas, near Fort Concha, on the
rJtli by a gambler named u. u. waiaou,
who, after the murder, was furnished with
a fleet horse hy his Irionua and encupeu,
Three passenger cur of an express
truin on the Chicago, J lock Jslainl et I'd-
citlc railway, which left Council isiull on
tiie 20th for Chicago, were thrown from
the track bv a broken rail near Fond
creek. Ills., early this morning. One of
the cars took lire from a lump. Two pass
engers were fatally injured and four ser
loualy hurt.
A few nights ago some on9 Qred a hay
stack belonging to Henry Yarnoll near
Chuttauoogu. While Yarned, alter be
had extinuuished the flumes, was search
lug for the incendiaries, assisted by a Ulan
mimed Howe, a report of a gun was heard
and lartioll dropped dead, Miot through
the bruin. Howe, also, wus shot in the
mouth, dangeroiibly, itcrhups fatally.
Gen. Walker stutes the per rentage of
cemtus Increase as follows: Alabama 20,
(Jeorgia :i. Delaware 17, Louisana z!,
California 6-1, Miiryluud 10, Illinois 21,
Missouri Iowa :), Kouth Carolina 41,
Michigan 'M, Texas 04. Nebraska 2(1, Went
Virginia 18. Ohio 10, Florida 42, Wiscon
sin 2-'), Kentucky 24, Colorado :iN.1, Arkun
sas (.", Kansas 173, Indiana 17, Mississippi
37, Minnesota 77, Worth Carolina HO, Ne
vada 4l,TeniiehfeH2J, Oregon 02, Virginia
2:1, Arizona 310. New Knglnnd States
Connecticut 15, Massachusetts 22, Khode
Island 27, Maine .OH, New llawpshirs ,W,
Vermont .005, New Jersey 2", I'eniisyl-
yanla 22, New York Id. District of Col
umbia oi, Moiituna 00, Utah (Mi, Wyoming
128, Dakota 8.l, Idaho 114, New Mexico
20, Washington 213.
Tho apiortionment bill Introduced by
lleprcseuiutive Cox fixed the number of
representatives ut 301, ami apportion
them ns lollows: Alubuma 8, Arkunsus 5,
California 6, Colorado I, Connecticut 4,
Delaware 1, Florida I, (ieorgia 0, Illinois
10, Indiana 12, Iowa 10, Kaunas ((, Ken
tucky 10, 1-oulsiuna (I, Maine 4, Maryland
0, Massachusetts 11, Michigan 10, Minne
sota 6, Mississippi 7, Missouri 13, Ne
braska 3, Nevada I, isew Hampshire 2,
New Jersey 7, New York 31, North Caro
lina 8. Ohio 10, Oregon 1. Pennsylvania
2(1, Khode Islam! 2, South Carolina (I, Ten-
iicsxco 0, Texas 10, Vermont 2, Mrpiina
0, Wont Virginia 4, Wisconsin 8. As com
pared w ith the present number of mem
bers, this bill makes the following losses
and gains: Arkansas, California, Iowa,
Michigan, Mississippi, South Carolina
ami Went Virginia g.tiu ono each, Kansas
gains three, lexas four, und Minnesota
two.
Senator t'.uton, chairman of tho com
mittee on loreL'ii relations willou the2.tth
call up the Chlncso treaties in bis com
mittee and endeavor to have them made
the exclusive order of business from day
to day, until tho committee roaches linul
action in reguru to them, lie also says
that w ith a view 01 hastening action ho
will propose thut tho committoo obtuin
authority from the senate to hold timet-
logs whl.o the senate is in session, ben
utor.F.nton fully appreciates the imttor-
tauco of tuking prompt action or. U10
treaties, as, It they nro to bo amended,
they should speedily bo brought before
tho senate for discussion or cine they may
not be returned to China for ratification
of amendments before next winter; and
If lliey aro to bo ratified without amend
ment, this also must bo done quickly or
thero will bo no time left for this con
gress to enact tho necessary legislation to
carry them into ell'uct. On tho whole,
ho"'ever, Senator Kuton doubts whether
final action by tlio senate may reasonably
bo expected short of two weeks from tho
present tiuio
Tlio 'uvnJo Indians.
General Doniphan describes tlio manu
facture of lluo blankets by tho Navajo
wouiou us ho saw it during a visit to their
country in New Mexico. Tho w ool was
all spun with tho lingers and without tho
aid of a wheel, tho progress being very
slow and requiring greut skill. Tho col
ors were all vegetable. As two women
spun tho warp two others stretched the
yarn upon pegs driven iuto the ground,
ouch thread being as long as tho blunket
was to be. Wheu tho warp was inado
and arranged, tho woof or filling was
spun in tlio same way, and each thread
woven in by hand with the greatest caro.
In this maimer four women would miiko
four fine blankets iu about three mouths.
Tho Nuvajos have not lost tho art of
weaving blankets, says a recent letter
from Santa l'o. While tlio men hunt
and herd cattle and sheen, tho women
spin ami weave blankets lor their own
uso and for sale. Homo of those which I
have seen hero aro coarse ami can lie
purchased for from throe to six dollars,
but others aro so Quo and so tightly
woven that they will hold water liko a
rubber poncho, and sell for from twenty
five to seventy-five dollars each.
General Doniphan descriltes the horse
manship of the Navajos as really won
derful. An exhibition of it was given iu
his honor during his visit to tho Iniian
country. Half a dor.cn juckrabbits were
"corroled" in a space of a few acres, and
as many Navajos mounted ou ponies aud
carrying clubs chased litem about, not
attempting to kill them but simply pre
venting them from escaping. This, of
course, required great skill aud activity
both ou the part of tlio ponies and their
rider. After this sport had continued
for some time, the Indians killed the
rabbits with their bows aud arrows,
shooting under their horses' necks while
in full career. '
Tho standard trotter is ono that can
cover a mile iu 2:30. It is said that less
than 000 of all homes raised and trained
in the United States have this record.
The number that can trot in 2:50 boar the
ratio of one to 2.3S3 horses rained. As a
business the breeding of fust horses is
therefore very much of a lottery; and
when we recall the fact that the high
I) rices which famous colts have brought
lave randy been received by the men
who raised them, the prises iu breeding
and training trotters are few and uncer
tain. I Scientific American.
What should a clergyman preach
about? About a quarter of an hour.
WHIT RS 1BW1S TH THASKFl'L
rye.
BI MAM OBJttl BALTINE.
Kichard Irwin toiled slowly and very
wearily up the two flights of stair
which led to the poor abode, whoso
scanty furniture had grown still more
scanty as want and poverty pressed nioro
and more hardly upon him.
But poor as it was, everything was as
neat as his pretty wife Mary's busy
hand could make it, who turuod upon
him the same brave, cheerful smile with
which she alwaya welcomed him, though
her heart sank as sue saw mo giootu
which shrouded his face.
"It's of no use, Mary," ho said sinking
down into a chair. "I'vo walked the
streets all the morning, and thoro is no
work to be had; men are discharging
their old bunds instead of taking new
I'vo had no work for three months now,
with the exception of an odd job or so.
Winter is coming on; all my hardly
earned savings are gone; ami what is to
become of us is more than 1 know.
"It is always darkest before tho dawn,
Richard."
"Thnt's what you have been saying for
a long time, was tho gloomy respouse;
"but the night keeps growing durker. I
would't caro so much if it wasn't for you
and the baby; but to see you growing so
pale and hollow-eyed, and to know thnt
Freddie is neither comfortably fed or
clothed drives mo almost wild."
Tho young wifo laid her hand softly
upon the bowed howl of the speuker.
"God is good my husbund. He will
not forsake thoso who put their trust in
Him."
"I sometimes doubt whether He cares
much for what is done here. It don't
look as if ho did. There is Tom Stevens,
who has got rich through fraud and ex
tortion. A I was going through the
market on my way homo I saw him
bringing a turkey for to-morrow for to
morrow is Thanksgiving Day that is
for somo people. I don't know whut wo
have to be thankful for."
Mrs. Irwin's chief comfort in these
durk days hud been her firm belief in the
wisdom and goodness of uod, and it cost
l.er not a littlo effort to repress the eager
protest thnt arose to her lips. But she
was a wisy littlo woman, who knew when
to speak and when to be silent.
I know what I have most reason to be
thankful for," she suid, touching her lips
lightly to his forehead; "thut I am the
happy wiso of a mini w ho never gave mo
occuhiou to blush for him, or regret the
day thut made, mo his."
Lifting his head Mr. Irwin looked
cugerly into those sweetly serious eyes.
"Is this really so, Mary? I have feared,
of late, that it was a selfish thing in me
to tako yon from a home of euso und
comfort to shure my hard and toilsome
lifo. You had many suitors. If, know
ing all that you do now, you had your
choice to inako again, would it be tho
sume?"
"It would bo tho same. Yon littlo
know tho heart o( your wifo, ltichnrd, if
you think that I havo the shadow of a
regret. I only wish I could help you iu
someway."
"lou do help mol If it vreio uot for
your love, and all thr 't gives mo, heart
and strength would utterly fail."
"See whut a nico dinner I have for
you!" said Mrs. Irwin, pointing to some
covered dishes upon tho hearth. "I
don't believe you can guess whero I got
it?'V
"Bogged it, perhaps," was the bitter
response.
"Xo, indeed! wo haven't got to that yet,
and pleuso God, we nover will. Tko hud
only a crust left from breakfast, nnd this
I moistened with some milk for Freddie.
As I was thinking of it, aud fooling
troubled at tho prospect of haviug no
dinner for yon on your return, Mrs. Al
len's littlo girl tapped at tho door, Buy
ing "that her mother hopod I excuso her
for sending somo ment und vegetables as
she had more than sho wanted for din
ner. Mrs. Alleu is tho woman who has
the rooms under us, and with whose sick
baby I watched ono night last week."
The savory dishes that Mrs. Irwin
plaeod upon tho neatly-spread tublo gavo
forth a very grateful odor to tho hungry
man, who, with ull the rest of his dis
comforts, wus faint for want of food.
It may bo a humiliating admission for
them to muko, but is, nevertheless, true,
that tho world looks very different to
most men ufter and beforo dinner, aud
air. lrwm aroso from tho tablo with
nioro conrago for tho sharp coufliet, tlio
insvitablo hardships, that tho majority of
peopio navo to euduro m ono form or an
other.
"Seo how nicely 1 havo mendod your
coat, said airs. Irwin, holding the arti
cle alluded to up before her husband.
"I want to go to church in tho morning.
Yon w ill go, too, won't you ?"
Mr. Irwin hud his hut in his hand pre
paratory to going out again on his al
most hopeless errand. He turned back.
"What for?"
The voice was very low aud reverent
thnt said:
"To render thanks to the Lord for all
His mercies."
'Toor littlo woman! For what will
you reudcr thanks? For these thin,
faded garments, these buro walls, and
scurcoly food enough to keep soul and
body together?"
"No, Kichard. FVr this, that health
and streughth are continued to us; that
while so many households havo been
mado desolate in our land, wo are spared
other!"
Mr. Irwin felt his eyes moisten as ho
descended the stairs though he did not
feel the full Bigxiflcance of these words
until a few hours later.
"Mary is a good woman," he thought;
"the best wife in the world! I wish I
could feel as she does about these things,
but I can't."
As he euterod a store, whose proprie
tor hod somotimes employed him iu do
ing odd jobs about it, he was accosted
by a pleasant-looking elderly man, who
addressed him thus:
"Is your name Irwin?"
"Yes, air."
"You worked, at one time, for the
Waterville Sewing Machine Company?''
"Yes, sir. I worked for the company
until they failed, about a year ago.
"It did not foil exactly," said the
stranger, with a smile; "it suspended.
It has gon into operation again. My
son is one of the firm. He wrote me to
try to hunt yon up. He is in want of a
faithful, competent man to act as fore
man. Would you like the rhu?"
Mr. Irwin felt a choking sensation in
his throat, and his voice was a little
husky as he said: ... ,
"I should, rery muoh. I have a de
ttendent family; and I have been out of
steady work for somo months.
Those keen eyes took a rapid survey ol
the speaker's worn and shabby garments.
"My son writes you that thero is some
thing due you on the old account. Let
m Here the speakor referred to letter
which he took from his pocket.
"Seventy-flfe dollars. I think I have
tho amount with me, and if you will give
me a receipt, I will make it square with
you now." .
It was a long time sinco Mr. Irwin had
had a sum like this at his disposal, and
ho could hardly realize his good fortune,
even when tho roll of bills was in his
band. . , , , ...
His first collected thought was or his
dear, patient wifo. 'Toor Mary! how
glad she will bo to know this!" he said
to himself as ho went down the steps into
tho street, putting his hand in his breast
pocket to make suro that it was not a
myth, the money he hail plucod there, as
well as tho bright prospects that had so
Biiddculy opened before him.
As he 'hurried along, eager to tell her
the good news, oud impatient at every
obstacle in his way, ho saw a dense cloud
of smoko iu tho quarter where ho lived.
As ho drew nearer he saw a crowd of
pcoplo following some ghastly thing
that was being borne pust him to the
station.
"Whut is it?" ho inquired of a by
stander. "A womun and child burned to death
iu a tenement house on Front street."
Front street! Thero was where ho
lived aud with quickened step and sink
ing heart he pushed on. His worst fears
were realized. Tho building he had left
a few hours before was a mass of smoking
ruins, whose numerous tenants wore
huddled out upon the sidewalk before
tho few things they were able to snatch
from tho flumes, but among whom his
eyes sought vainly for those that he most
wished to see.
Bushing up to one of the women, he
seized her almost rudely by tho arm.
"Mrs. Allen, whero is my wife," ho
cried.
l'utting down tho child sho was hold
ing, the woman aroso and stared around
wildly.
"i haven't scon her. Tho Lord bo
good to us! it couldn't be her they took
away so burned and blackened that her
own own mother wouldn't know who she
was!"
F or a moment Mr. Irwin stood motion
less, struggling with the sickening hor
ror thut palsied limb und brain. Then,
as ho remembered the ghastly spectacle
ho hud met, pushing through tho crowd,
ho turned his tottering steps in tho di
rection in which ho hud seen it borne a
moment before.
In tho shadow of such a terrible be
reavement, how light seemed every other
trial , how black tho ingratitudo that had
mado him so thankful for the rich treas
ure of love that had been his! What
cared ho now for tho opportuitiPHtVown
open to him! How poor nnd empty
soi'd ull thut ho had hoped to do and
win now she was gone whoso presence
hud mado his lonely abode such a haven
of peace and rost.
"Merciful Father! tako all else, but
spare my wife and child!" was the cry
that went up from his tortured soul, us
the officer iu charge turned tho key of
tho room whore the dead luy.
Upon a rude table, their faces charred
and bluckeued beyond all recognition,
woro tho unfortunate mother und child
awaiting identification.
"Oh, Mary! oh, my boy ! can this be
you?" groaned tho wretched man, as ho
turnod his shuddering ga.e upon them.
Hero Mr. Irwin felt a light touch on
his arm.
"Kichard !" 1
"Turning, ho saw his wife, with their
child in her arms, standing just back of
him.
Tho revulsion, from the extremes of
grief und despair to this blessed reality,
wtti too strong, und had it not been for
the officer who was standiug by, ho
would have fallen to the floor.
It seems that Mrs. liwin, who had
barely time to escape with her lifo, had
taken- refuge nt a honso opposite. Sho
had seen her husband rush past, on his
way to the station, and divining his er
rand, followed him.
Tho following day wus truly "Thanks
giving Day" to both; aud not only for
tho material blessings that surrounded
thorn.
And through all the prosperous years
that followed, years that w hitened their
hair and knit their hearts more closely
together, never did Mr. Irwin omit, on
that day, to refer to this eventful season
of his life, or fail to render most hearty
thanks to tho Giver of all good for this
crowning proof of His goodness, "that
they wore spared to each other."
Aa Elephant's Gratitude.
A story conies from Tenbury England,
where a menagerie has been paying a
visits, which illustrates tho well-known
character of the elephant for humane
feelings iu a remarkable degree. Among
tho animals was a fine fomalo elephant,
called Lizzie, which was attacked with a
violent fit of colic, and suffered intensely.
A local chemist whose success ns
an animal doctor is well knowu, treated
Lizzie, and saved the animal's life. Sub
sequently ,on passing tho chemist's shop,
the elephant immediately recognized her
benefactor, who was standing at the door
of the shop, nnd going to him, gracefully
placed her truuk in his hand. The
chemist visited tho exhibition in the
evening, and met with an unexpeetod re
eeptiou from his former patient. Gently
seizing the doctor w ith her trunk, the el
ephant encircled him with it to the ter
ror of the audience, who expected to see
him crushed to death, but Lizzie had no
such intention, and after thus having
demonstrated her gratitude by acts more
eloquent than words, she released the
divtor from her embrace and proceeded
with her appointed task. That elephant
seemed to ossess a holier sense of grati
tude than some people do.
Santa Claus is every body's friend, and
it would be a difficult matter to find a
child who does not regard him as his
especial patron. Some youngsters re
cently dropped the following note, writ
ten in a sprawing hand on brown paper,
in the letter box at the pentoffice:
My der Santa Clans: Wont you
pleas bring me for crismas a nice torch
lite procession on horseback so i can ride
myself. Johsm Goodwih, troy.
The Deacon's Experiment.
"I hope the children haven't been any
trouble to you, Miss Peck?" said Deacon
hia nnndiorse chaise drew up
on the green in front of Miss Thilena
Peck s house.
Miss Peck hurried out, all smiles, to
greet the portly widower.
ti.a 1itl darlincs!" she cried effu
sively. "Trouble indeed! Why, dea
con, how you talk! It is a positive pleas
ure to have them hero. I should like to
keep thon: a week.
Tim Annrnn amilnil Olid shook CIS head.
"That would bo a littlo too much,"
said ho. Come, children, jump into
the wagon."
And the three apple-cbeoked little
Grinders two girls and a boy were
hugged and kissed, and lifted into tho
wagon by the beaming spinster.
"T ahull Its lonolv wlion thev are gone.
sho said. "I do so dote on children I
Keniombcr. darlings, that tho goosoher
ries will be only too happy to see you
amiin."
The widow Clapp come hurrying out
as the chaise rattled by, with a tin pan
in her hand.
"Dour me. Descon Grinder." said she
"You are always in such a hurry. Do
stop a minute, can't you? Here's a pail
of new honey in the comb. I know the
darlings will like it on their bread and
butter of an evening. Whon aro you
coming to spend the day with me t I do
elare. JoBie is crowing perfect iu
beauty !" .
"Tut. tut. Mrs. Clapn!" said the uea
con. " 'Hundsome is, that hundsomo
does. Thnt s my motto.
"Nobody can t do handsomer than my
littlo Jo." said Mrs. Clapp. "And there's
Tommy grown as handsome as ever was,
and Dolly the very picture of you, drop
into tea some evening this week."
The deacon hud hurdly guided his old
horse around tho corner of the villugo
green whon Miss. Burbara Bower tripped
out of tho millinery store.
"I do hopovou will excuse mo Deacon
Grinder," said she with all the pretty
confusion which naturally belonged to a'
maiden of six and thirty summers, "but
I was so edified with yonr beautiful re
murks iu prayer meeting lost Monday
night ihat I couldn't help setting myself
to work to think what I conld do for
you. And hero's a collar I've sticthed
for dear Tommy, and a handkerchief for
Josie, and a doll as I've took tho liberty
to dress for Dorothy. Oh, don't thank
me pray, It ain't nothing, "-.iflpared
with the peace of mind I gej, listening to
your precious remarks!"
But Naomi Poole, sitting other needle
work, by tho old red farm-houso win
dow, had only a smile and a nod for
the party as they drove by.
"Pa," suid Josio, who "wus a shrewd,
sallow-faced child of 11, "don't Miss
Poole love us as well as Miss Peck, and
Mrs. dapp and Miss Barbara?"
"I hope bo, my child," said tho be
nifjn deacon. "Why do you ask the
question ?"
"Bocauso slio never givos us any
thing," said Josio.
"She is poor, child she is poor," snid
the deacon. "But I am sure you all
have h?r good wishes.
"I'd rubier havo the honey," said
Tommy.
"And goosebe."vies and dolls," added
li.ttle Dorothy.
But when the deacon sat alone by his
hearthstone that evening, his sister, Miss
Muhala Ann Grinder, expressed herself
on the subject with a great plainness
and perspicuity. "If you've really
made up yonr mind to marry again,
Josiah," said she
"I think it would add to my domestic
felicity," said tlio deacon, serenely.
"In that case," said Miss Mahala Ann,
"1 do hope you'll make a sensible choice,
not allow yourself to bo imposed upon
by a set of selfish widows and scheming
old maids."
"Sister," said tlio deacon mildly, "yon
aro severe."
"No I ain't," said Miss Mahala Ann.
"If you wasn't well to do in the world,
and hadn't a nice homo and farm, and
money at interest, thoy wouldn't none of
thcui look twico at you."
"Do you think so?" said tho deacon,
and ho pondered tho question long and
earnestly in his own mind. "Upon tho
whole," said he, bringing down his
palm upon the bible, "I ain't sorry that
those investments of mine in tho Mari
posa Silver Company have proved a
failure."
"What do you moan?" said Miss
Mahala Ann, curiously eyeing him over
the top of her spectacles.
But the deacon only shook his head
and smilod. "Time will show," said he,
"time will show."
Tho nows that Deacon Grinder was
wrecked in Mariposa Silver Mining
Stock, flew like wildfire through the
peaceful community at l'itchvillo, Four
Corners.
"Well," said Miss rhilena Peck, "I
am beat!"
"Ho never had no judgment in money
matters," said the widow Clapp.
"I've thought all along he was living
too fast," said Barbara Bowyer.
"Those poor little children. What is
to become of them?" said Naomi Poole,
wistfully.
Tho next day the deacon mado his ap
pearance at Miss Peck's homestead, pale
and rather shabby, with a child in one
hand and ono following him.
"Miss Peck," ho said, "1 suppose you
hove heard the nows?"
"Yes;" said Miss Peek, looking vine
gar and tack nails. "If it's your failure
as you mean."
"I think of going to California," said
the deacon, "to see what I can do, and
in tho meantime, could you be induced
to give my children a home"
"Oh dear, no!" said Miss Peck. "I
never could get along with a pack of
children! I dare say you could find some
half orphan asylum or place of that sort
by inquiring around a little."
Miss Peck sat very upright and glared
so frightfully out of her light blue eyes at
the deacon, that he was fain to beat a re
treat as soon as possible.
He knocked next at the widow Chvpp's
door. 1 r
"Is Mrs. Clapp at home?" he asked.
A head was thrnst over the stair rail
ing, and the widow's shrill Toice calW
out:
"Is tliat Joaiah Grinder, with his
swarm of young ones? Tell him I'm
particularly engaged. Do you hear Bet
seyparticularly. Miss Barbara Bowyer was arranging
trimmed hats and rolls of bright-colored
nbbens m her bow window as the
deacon and bis little ones entered the
shop.
"Miss Bowyor," said the deacon, "yon
were ever a genial and charitable soul, it
is to you that I trust to make a home for
my inothorlosa ones, while I endeavor
to retrieve my fortunes in the for West."
"I couldn't think of such a thing,"
said Barbara, dropping a box of artificial
rosebuds in hor consternation. "And re
ally, I think, Deacon Grinder, you
huvon't no right to expect it of mo! It's
all I can do to support myself, let alone
a pack of nnruly children. I dare say
tho poor master could do something for
them, or"
"I thank you," said tho deacon, with
dignity. "I shall troublo neither yon
nor him."
"Well," said Miss Bowyor, with a toss
of hor head, "you needn't fly iuto a
rage because a neighbor gives yon a bit
of good advice!" ,
But Naomi Poole ran out to tii'o little
garden gate as tho forlorn deacon wont
by.
"Deacon Grinder," sho hesilutod,
turning roso red and white by turns, "is
thi:i true?"
"About my Mariposa investment?
Yes."
"And that you are going to Califor
nia?" "I am talking of it," said the Doacon.
"Would could you lot me tako euro
of tho littlo ones while you are gone?"
said Naomi, tenderly drawing little
Dolly to her side "I am very foud of
children, and I would bike the best of
care of them. And you havo been so
kiud to mother and me, Deacon Grinder,
that we should foel it a privilege to lie
able to do something for you."
And poor soft hearted littlo Kuomi
burst into crying.
There was a moisturo on the Deacon's
eye-lashes, too.
"God bless you, Naomi!" said he;"you
are a good girl a very good girl."
"Ain't it truo?" suid Peck.
"Well," suid Mrs. Mopsley, "it is, and
it ain't. He did lose whut he invested in
them Muriposa mines, but only a thou
sand dollars; and the rest of his money
is all tight and safe in United Stutes
bonds and solid real estate."
"Bless me!" snid Barbara Bowyer.
"Well I never," suid tho widow Clupp,
with discomfited countenance.
"And," went on Mrs. Mopsley, with
evident relish at the consternation she
was causing, "they are building a new
wing to tho house, and he is to be mar
ried to Naomi Poole in tho full."
"A child liko that!" said Mrs. Clapp.
"With no experience whatever!" said
Barbara Bowyer, scornfully.
"1 only hope ho won't repent of his
bargain, sighod Mrs. Thilena Peck.
And Miss Philena's charitable hopes
were fulfilled. The deacon never did re
pent his bargain.
An Effete Doctrine.
Most of thoso who do a good deal
of reading have probably gorje
through General Grunt's article on
"Transcontinental Canals." They
huvo found it na they find moat of his
utterances, clear, logical und sound.
All that ho says ot tho advantages
of the Nicaragua route over the Pan-
a ma is correct. The shortness of the
routo whon American commerce is to
considered; tho lessor difficulties in
building; tho comparatively small
expense; tho increased certainty of
success in tho undertaking; the great
advantago in soil and climato of tho
northern country; tho i Defeased facil
ities for sailing into or away from the
northern channel, all aro cogont and
pertinent reasons why the northern
routo should bo ndoptod and why
work vhould bo performed by Ameri
cans. Thero is certainly, however,
i 8)faD of weakness in tho undue
stress which ho gives to tho Monroo
doctrine nnd the urgency with which
ho persists that tho Monroo doctrino
must bo enforced in this mattor of
building tho canal. That ho is a lit
tlo shaky on the poiut is evidenced
by the closing sentence of his article,,
which is as fellows: "If not accom
plished by Americans it will un
doubtedly bo accomplished by somo
of our rivals in power and influence."
If tho Monroo Doctrino must bo en
forced, whether or not, then how aro
any of "our rivals" to do tho work?
Tho Monroo Doctrino is & national,
not an individual business. Were
any Government of Europe interfer
ing and making preparations to build
tho Darien, or Nicaragua canal thon
all that General Grant says on tho
subject would be pertinent; but if a
private Froncbman pleases to organ
ize a private company, sell the stock
and with tho proceeds build a canal,,
in what is the act ditl'erent from what
it would bo for another private
Frenchman to como to one of our
mining States, bend a irreat mining
proporty. and coin? buck to Fr.
sell enough of the stock to pay for
tho mines and dovclnn ilw-m Tint
Losseps has done moro than that.
iie has placed a distinguished Ameri
can at the head of hhj enterprise,
and wants Americans, moro than all
other peoples, to join him in dig
ging and controlling tho work. With
all respect for tho profound sagacity
of General Grant, we do not think
he strengthened his argument by his
reference to the Monroo Doctrine.
language has a tone as though,
on that point, ho hud I
against his will. If he had felt en
tirely solid on the point, he is too
sharp to ever havo admitted that it
was possible for any other power to
ever carry the work through. On its
merits the Nicaragua enterprise
All rrh I, . . I
--6uw lw uo inaugurated and carried
through with a boom.
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tl lS .' party "Ah! I'd
ShJTvlA.PP" from ybody."
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Will TOll l.ovo UV . .".Br
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