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EUGENE CITY GUARD. I. U CAMPBELL, srprlctor. EUGENE CITY. OREGON. THE CHARGE AT GETTYSBURG The Mrrna an Viewed by Captive Within Long-afreet' Line. Account of an Eve-Witnentl At last tho signal fur the onslaught came. Jt was thu sharp report of Whitworth gun, ami as its echoes died away in the distance wo could see thousands of men everywhere scramb' ling for thoir places in the ranks ami behind tho breastworks, liuttorkmcume galloping up from the right and loft, taking portion on the ridge and iui- niodiutoly oj on n tire, tho ntaff oilicors wore carrying orders in evorydreotion, It wan on etciting moment. Tho per tetitous silonce of tiie morning had boen oppressive, and wu wore gl.id that it was now broken. Anything wuh bet ter than uncertainty. Tho rebel cap tain's story was beginning to bo veri fied. In a short time, emorg ng from a straggling foruHt in thodthta ice, we dm tinctly saw the heads of threo columns of infantry. Our eyes were now strainod to tho utmo t to watch the movements of this now force. Slowly it came out into the open ground. It halted and dressed its linos. Here and there a slight wavering, as if shaken by tho wind, showed thoy wore stripping for action. Oilicors were riding Up and down and in and out among thoin, and their wild cheers showed they woro determined to do or die. They wavel their Lata and caps ubovo their heads as if in answer to the ap peals of their loaders. All this time we did not speak to ouch other, so intently I wore wo watching the onomv. Wo hold our breath and waited, each busy with Lis own thoughts. Aftor a while tho great "entering wedge" moved forward Then cheers und yells bruko out all along the line of battle. It was a scene which for grandeur and heroic interest was never before equaled on this con tinent, and how mighty wero thu inter csts involved I Tho fata of tho republic itself aye, moro, tho progress of man kind hung trembling in the balance. I had often sicu great bodio of troops in motion, but never anything Jikothut. hteadily, with tho roulurity of a muchino, they swept on. We were almost deafened by tho roar of cannon, for more than 100 rebel guns had openod thoir mouths ami were spouting tons of iron at evorv discharge Tho windows of tho building we occupied were rattling as though an earth )uake was upon us, and the very ground bo neath seemed to tremble. Added to this was our anxiety for our comrades. Could they live through such a cannon ade? M ould they be able to hurl buck this mighty surging column, so terribly in earnest? Yes; in spito of our fears wo know thoy would. We know the temper of tho men upon whom the dost.ny of the ropublio now rested. And oven whilo we s.toeulutoft thus the guns of the I'n on made answer. Every loyal gun was now pour ing shot and shell upon the advanc ing ononiy.. We could no longer noe them, so closely wore they enveloped in clouds of dust and tho smoke of burning sIiuIIb. The volume of sound now incronxod a hundred fold, and it seemed every minute that it would be more then our curs could I o ,r. It was torriblo beyond anything (hut con bo imagined by those who never witues od an artillery battle of magnitude. It Was my lot, just boforo the battle of iredoricksburg, to lie behind 1 nrn sidos guns unused on tho heights of falmoutn, while tliey rained hhot and shell into tho town of rioderieksburfi and on the hills beyond. 1 thought that cannonade was terrible, liut it was noys piay compared with the one we wero now witnessing. And yet, atrango and improbable as the state ment may soem, above all the roar of conflict we could ho.vr the rebel yell of that reckless charging column, it was shrill and continuous, like the whistling oi tno wind lu a storm, finally the tire of tho rebel artillery slarkenod a little as there was danger now of their killing their own men, but the battle was booonuiii? more furious, for the rattle of musketry had oegun, and tno clattor of small arms was continuous, lho roar of tlio guns on Cemetery lull and from every avail able point in tho Union liuo continued with lnoreasing fury, but still, obovo it u, mat roooi yell! would it never cease y Tho rebels back of us and from every elevated point far and near were watching thoir forlorn hope, ami oilicors of lugn anil low degree gazed anxiously into that vortex of Oitrnage. Occasionally they would point iu this direet.ou or that, and stall oilicors would gallop away to distant parts of me Hold as tiiougu preparations were boing in ado for a general advance. Our anxiety increased every moment, but we were still hopeful. As long as there was no sbatomeut iu mat terrible musketry 11 ro we knew our boys wero stauding their ground. Wo dared not think of the thousands of brave fellows who wore going down every moment. But the climax came at last. That pieroin. yell had died way, and nothing could now be heard but the diu and roar of battle. This continued for some time, and then, as the sun is wont to burst through the clouds and scatter the mists and darkness, only more suddenly came the round, hearty 'hurrahs of our comrades. We needed no interpreter to tell us the meaning of those cheers. They wero louder, even, than had been that rebel yoll, and we answered them vith a will irom our position inside the rebel lines. Kebel otl.cers standing abuut the building tried to stop us, but we oulv screamed the loader, for we were beside ourselves with joy. Wounds and Lunger were forgotten, and tears flowed dou our grimy faces. A Woman' Heady H It. INow York Letter. f-'poaking of Washington reminds me of a story 1 beard the other day about aludy, the wife of an ox-United fctutos miniHtor, who is made the heroine of most of tho stories of eccentricity that amtiHo society, 1 lie lad v was in I.on don lost year, and we heard much of her from tho other sido. Of course she wishod to attend one of her majesty's drawing rooms, and she found little dilllculty in obtaining an invitation One of tho peculiarities of this lady is her manner of dressing. Hho wears what sho likes, and never seems to think whether it is appropriate or not. As evory one knows, no one is allowed to appear before the queen exeopt in a dross with a train. It used to be that a low neck was ro iiiired, but that is not absolutely nocassury now. To thoi surpriso of every ono Mrs. ai med at court in a short dress, with a red shawl thrown carelessly over her arm. Tho oyeglusses of the aristocracy wero at once leveled upon her. That sort of attention, however, never gives her any discomfiture. liut she was Hying in tho faco of court etiquette, and tho Amorican minister was culled upon. He im mediately sent ono of his secretaries to oxpostulato with Mrs. , und urged her to return to her lodgings. Aot she. There was no social bull that sho could not take by the horus. Mo little thing such as the waut of a train wus going to drive her out after she once got to court. In tho twinkling of an eye, and before tho whole drawing room, sho took tho shawl from her arm, shook it out at full length and pinnod tho ends to hor shoulders; and then, with a careless glance ut her impro vised train, sho took the arm of tho secretury and sailed into tho royal iresouco, not tho slightest bit disturbed y tho peculiarity of hor drapery, i'ossiiuy the queen did not notico it, for oue's baok is novor turned to royalty .n If sho hail, I think her sense of humor would have ovorooino her an A PLEA FOR THE MULE. JIar latrllrrf nl. Chicago HeralJ.) The mind cure is considered superior to the hot water cure in liostoo, the latter not being intel'ectual enough, l'atients are instructed to thiuk, and real hard, too, that their pains are gone, and they art. noyunco. I'rayera anil Pintol. Fannie U. Ward's Z -ten teens Letter.! ii was a quoer eipenonce. llus evening we attended lresbvterian services in tho old Kan Augustine "Hotter tuko your pistols, said Dr. T . . . li i si . jcsi; so xioisey and i put our shining little weapous in tho small sachels we always wear at our belts. Uohind tho pulpit stood tho usual gtius, ready for : ; m . , msium service, wiiiio every man in mo houso and probably most of the women wero conspicuously armed But it was a vory attoutive audience, mostly Mexican converts, with thought nil laces and evident earnest purpose to ubide by the faith within tlioui. It scorned strango enough to hoar familiar hymns in tins fur-oway land "Josus lovor of my soul, lot mo to Thy bosom ny, "irom Ureen lauds icy mount alns, and Koolc of ages, cloft for me dear old tunes, which brought tears to our eyot, though the words woro those of an alien tongue. And tho read ing of tho sacred word in Spanish, tho prayers, with "Das nos osto du nuustra puna," (give us this day our daily broad) and tno stirring sermon which tollowod wero all a study worthy of attontion. in tho midst of the services a s luad oi soldiers Mod in and raniral thorn solves on each side of the doorway, so that nouo could escape instantly every man s hand sought his weapon and womon's faces puled with terror. but tho services went calmly on without interruption. It proved that theso minions of tho law had como to nrrost an aged rascal who had been per s. stoutly attempting to assassinate his own son. Tho young man, who is .member of this church, is about to wed a Protestant girl, which so enragod his sire that ho determined to destroy his own iiesii and blood, l no lunar, thin bludo with which the old man meant to do tho murderous deed Hashed sharply lor an instant iu his trembling hands, but ho was quickly disarmed and led away. Another Lineola Ntory. (New York Times. Hero is a now Lincoln story, properly authenticated, suitable for publication about this time, as the old aliu.inao used to luve it : Just aftor tho nubli cation of Socrotary Chase s exceedingly auio treasury report in IWJ, and when tho socretary was known to have the presidential boo buzzing in his bonnet, a zealous friend of tho president went to him (Lincoln) with a suggestion that Mr. (.huso should be looked after; ho was using his power as secretary of tho treasury to further his own ambitious Bohomos. Lincoln laughed shrewdly. and brought out the inevitable story of w hich no was reminded. An Illinois farmer, tilling a few acres or land anil employing ouly one poor old horse, was plowing ono day, whilo his son regarded theoporatiou from the nearest fence. Suddenly the old, spirit less horse pricked up his ears and started briskly onward in tho furrow, almost dragging tho old man at tho plow-tail around tho laud. The lad surveyed theuuusual sight from tho feuco, tho old man having hard work to keep up as tho horso wont flying around, and thon he cried out: "Say, dad, why dou't you brush off that gad fly on old Dobbin's back?" As he flow iiast tho old man replied : "I never saw Jobbin doing so woll before. Let the gad-tly be." How Linooln niado the application any man cau tell. And if there aro any high ofllcials so troubled with the presidential gad-flv that thev are doing unusually woll, it were a pity 10 aisturo mem now. f rve anil t'oolnra. Pittsburg I1i,iateh. A Lancaster oinan was bragging tho other evening of her nerve and cool ness. The next day ss she was look.ng in a stoie window at a choice thing in Handlings, a strango dog incidentally poked his n se aga list her bare hand, and she junipe I and elie,l so lou 1 that she shook oil" a pound and a half of ex cellent back hair. Hl(k-rrlei4 Hooka. iKxebangtv) Thero are only two American lxvili which have a market value approximat ing $1,000; they are the "liar Psalm Nook, wh oh has been sold as high as $1,200, and El ofs Indian Uible-"L liibluui Uod," in the aboriginal tongue. Where the Mule In Heen at Ilia) Ileat A Xoble Animal. (Turf, Field and Farm. It is only omong somo of tho Latin races, as iu Spain and Portugal and in the east, that tho mulo and his sire, the ass, are appreciated at their true value, With tho nations of Ueriuunio descent and more particularly thu Anglo-Saxon a prejudice as deeply rooted as it is ill-founded, pre.-ents that familiar, uf fectionato association with tho ass and the mule which does so much to develop the finest instincts, and hurnanio, as it were, the horso and the dog. With us horses are bred for pleasure as woll as profit, there is some sentiment in the thing, and ono rarely parts with a tine colt, at whatever prico, without more or less regret. I hero was a time, however, a few centuries since, when even in England the mule was the poor of his aristocratic half brother the horse; when olad in magnificent housings ho proudly bore upon his buck the abbots, tho bishops and tho princes of tho all-powerlul Human church, nor would this have been tho caso had ho not been deemed by the luxurious and self indulgent proiates of that day as lar superior to the horso for the purposes of tho sad dle Even as lute as 1830 the mule was held to be un indispensable part of the appenduge of tho iiourbou dvnasty of ranee, aud whenever the court of Charles X moved from tho palace of the l uilerios to (Jompiogne or I ontaine bleau it was in couches drawn at a gallop of ten miles an hour by superb tcums of Spanish mules, and such mules 1 Near sixteen hands high, matched to a hair, glossy black in color, mealy mouthed, with legs and eyes like untelopos, and showing m spirit. action and endurance the generous iiarb blood of their maternal ancestry, uut to see tno mule ut his best we should go to tho sunnv shores of tho Mediterranean to Spain and Portugal 1 he Arabian domination of nuu years on that great pouiusula rilled it with horses of Arabian and Barb blood, and this blood, to whirh wo attribute the best qualities of the modern race horse, and, paradoxical as it may seem, tho swoet temper, tho broad forehead, the expressive eve and boautiful ear of the massive Percheron, flows, and freely, too, iu tho veins of tho Spanish mulo, aud imparts to him an appearance as superior to American mules bred for the drudgery of our southern planta tions as is that of tho kings of tho turf to tho coarsest Conostoga. Whoever has had the good fortune to have Been the high-strung and highly bred mules harnessed to the traveling equipages of tho Spanish king dashing thiotigh tho Puorto-del-Sol at a ten milo gait, or has encountered the in terminable processions of gaily capari soned mules bearing tho numes of all the saints in the calendar, threading with unerring feet the dangerous de files of the Pyrenees and the Sierra Morena, to the sound of innumerable tinkling of bolls, will cease at once and forever to object to the mule on tho scoro of his appeuruueo; and whoever has soon tho largo, dark-eyed, blown, dirty, ragged, but boautiful children of Andalusia gumboling as fenrlessly und with as much impunity under the heels of the mules with which they wero brought up as do tho children in the tents of tho Arab among the mares. will be compelled to adm.t that with the same kind treatment tho mule, too, will develop traits us near nltin to hu manity its the dog and the horse. We are inclined t believe that well- bred mules possess undeveloped quali ties for both iiuick draught and the saddle, for which the general public is not inclined to give them credit, and we are convinced from actual observa tion that for light, quick draught over long distances, and continuous from day to day, and for saddle-gaits, mules carefully bred are equtl and per haps superior to our avorugo light draught aud saddle-horses. We remombor a pair of mules, bred by one of tho Shelby's, in lvontucky, mat drew a carriage containing five heavy mon forty miles over an ordinary road in live hours, without turning a hair or crack of tho whip, and returned tno next day with e ptal ease and in tho same time. In 18'Ui wo saw on lied river. La.. f "00 paid for a saddle mulo that could paco at thj rata of ten miles au hour for hours togother. W e have a friend in I'appahaunock, i"a., Tom Hughes, a regular son of Anak iu Bizo, six feet five in his stoek- ing.s, big iu proportion and tipping the beam at over U(J0 pounds, who for sev eral Beusons rodo iu the first flight to hounds hunting a country that was nearly all mountain on a mulo that never made a misstep or refused a leap over icuco or wall. Yoans Men or tho Month. M. Quad's Seluia Letter.) The destiny of the south is in the hands of men under 45 years of ago. In looking about a southern town its young mon are the tirst point to be considered. Within ten years thov w ill uish it to tho front or abandon it. Hero in Selma four-fifths of the business is in tho hands of men under 45, and a great share of it in still younger hands. The boys who were 8, 10 aud li years old when tho war closed are now the business men of the south, and thev are full of entorpriso. Here in Selma they appear to bo an earnest, industrious set, and are advancing towards pros perity. You find them cheerful w hen the older men are gloomy; you find them hopeful when the older men talk of hard times; you find them ready to enconri:ge all legitimate enterprises when tneir fathers are content with what thoy have. t'aaae f r Kr form. Philadelphia Call. Mr. B. (to his new wife) Do you obioet to the odor of tnbaoo, do ir ? Mrs. B. (who had been a widow) Oh, no, not at all ! Mr. B. Are you sure dear? Don't ear yes if a c'gar is distasteful. Mrs. li. -Oh, Hove it! Mr. B.-Youdo? , Mrs. B. Yes. it reminds me so mneh of my poor dear first husband. He always Mr. B. atopped smoking. The Mulrldal Mrorplon. New Yoik Sun There is one animal which unques tionably doos kill itself the scorpion I had often read that that little beast will stub himself to death with the poison dagjer in his tuil when surrounded with a c.rcle of fire, doubted the story, but it is true. Once at Havana, I saw a little black, plump, crawling reptile, between two and three inches long, making pretty quick way across the tiled floor of a large parlor "A scorpion I" was the cry ef some rela tives who were to the manner born, and he was soon imprisoned under the glass dome of a goblet. It was cur.ous then to witness the little creature's rage. He was evidently in a fury, dashing him self aga nst h s transparent glass wails and sometimes curling up h s ta 1 t il the end touched his head, forming vertical ring. But he did not stub nor striko himself, and at lust lay down Beamingly exhausted. We did not try the tire experiment upon him, and he was carried off to be kdled by the black Bi-rvunts. But I know from" two nieces that on a subsequent occasion, when i scorpion was caught in a similar man nor, thoir brother, to convince them of tho truth of the creature's suicide when confined within an enclosure of tire, surrounded it with a ring of cotton wool saturated with alcohol, and tired tho ring. Tho scorpion dash d about tho fiery pr.son from place to place, evidently iu mingled fright and fury, and in search of an opening, till at last, despairing of escape, he v. out to tho centor of the circle, coiled h's tail over to his bead, and they saw him stub himself several times viciously With his sting, and he speedily sank down dead. Aa they described it to mo, his fat little body wus gashed in many places with his sclf-inllictud stabs. Thero is no real reason to bo neve that the unnnal knew that it was putting an end to its own life, or that it had uuy idoa of ceasing to be, or of what ' death is. It wus more probably from an instinctive impulse, iu blind rage and fury, to strike, strike, striko at the only objoct in reach of its natural weapon, in the case in which 1 saw ouo imprisoned under a goblet, he did not striko at the transparent crystal, which ho probably did not Bee, seeing only the externul objects around. The fire seemed to madden the furious little beast. The C'lothea-Pin Supply. (Indiuuupolis Journal. Tho latest campaign lie is to the ef fect that the American republio gets away with a,000,OUO,000 clothes pins annually. Now, it is evident that sixty lothes-pins per head per annum is cer tainly a very liberal estimate. Take a family of ten persons thoir allowance in the regular way would bo 000 pins a yeur. It is a well known fact that thero are certain classos of people, ag gregating thousands, that have no use for clothes-pins. Take a bachelor. The only possible onploymont he can devise for such a thing is to fasten his sus penders to his trousers. But a dozen pins per year would bo a vory generous allowance for him. Then thero are babies. Babies don't uso clothes-pins excessively, and por- aps on un average an ordinary buby doesn't swallow more than six or seven in a twelve-month, and most of them are recovered by anxious mothors un- illiug to encourage such expensive habits of diet, iiusmess men use clothes-pins very sparingly, whilo the majority oi preachers could not tell othos-pm from a meat skewer. W e are then driven to the hired girl, upon whom pends the responsibility of account nig for bUO clothes-pins u yeur. Hint she does not uso thorn for fuel is plain enough, since nobody ever saw a elothes-pin that weighed less than e pound und a half on account of the wa ter it has assimilated, and by no possi ble process could it be made to burn, 1 ho secret of this mvsterv as great as the one concerning the d sappearance of ordinary pins is that the girl must swallow them. A ROMAN CIRCUS. Xot ftreatly IUffrrent from the Circus of To-Day. St Nicholas.J Bomo is astir early; citizons an strangers, slaves and soldiers are all hurrying toward the greut plensuro- ground of Homo, tho Circus Maximus, With flutos ploying morriiy, with sway ing standards and gleaming statues with proud young cadets, with priests and guards with crested helms, skilled performers, restless horses aud gutter ing chariots, down the sacred street winds a long procession, led by the boy magistrate, Marcus of Borne, the favorite of the emperor. It passes into tho great circus and files into tho arena. Two hundred thou sand people think, boys, of a circus tent that holds 200; 000 people! riss to their foet and welcome it with hearty hand-clapping. The trumpets sound prelude, theyoung magistrate (standing in his suggestus, or state box), flings the mappa, or white flag, into the course as the signal for the start; and, as a ringing shout goos up, four glittering chariots, rich in their decorations of gold and polished ivory, and drawn by four plunging horses, burst from their arched stalls and dash around the track, Oreen, bluo, red, white tho colors of the drivers stream from their tunics Around and around ftey go. Now one and now another is ahead. The people Btrain and cheer, and many a wager is laid as to the victor. Another shout! Tho red chariot turning too sharply, grates against the meta, or short pillar that stands at the upper end of the track, guarding the low central wull ; the horses rear and plungo, the driver struggles manfully to control them, but all in vain; over goes the rhariot, while tho now mad dened horses dashed wildly on until checked by tiounted attendants and led oil to their stalls. Blue I blue!" Green ! groen !" rise the varying shouts, as the contending chariots still struggle for tho lead. White is far behind. Now conies the seventh or final round, Blue leads! No, green is ahead ! Neck and nock down the homestretch they go magnificently; and then the 'choer of victory is heard, as, with a final dash, the green rider strikes the white cord first and the race is won I Now, in tho interval between the races, como the athletic sports; foot racing nnd wrestling, rope-dancing and high leaping, quoit-throwing, and ju venile matches. One man runs a race with a Hoot Cappadocian horse ; another expert rider drives two bare-backed horses twice around tho track, leaping from back to back as the horses dash around. Can you see any very groat difference between tho circus perform ance of A. D. 138 and one of A. D. 1884? Advice to the Colored Hare. Lime-Kiln Club. As a race we am too restloss an' on easy. When wo am' doin' well we sigh to do hotter. If we have 'tater an' ham fur breakfast we srgy that we orter to have chicken pot-pie fur dinner au' fried oysters fur suppor. If we happen to find ourselves possessod of mo money dan am wanted fur rent, pur vishuus an' fuel for de week, we can't rest till wo price a fo'ty dollar suit of cloze, or a hoss dat kin trot in 2:40. We nius' sottle down as if we had cum to stay, an' meant to lib always. When we git a job at a dollar a day we musn't lot go of it to hunt fur one at ten shillings. One reason why it takos so long to catch a rabbit is bo kaso we have to hunt all over fur him, au' bekase he keeps hoppiu' about. Chose your brush heap, an' let it be kuown dat you km allers be found under it. What Will Ilurat a Uan. Philadelphia Times. Some strangely twisted pieces of gun barrels in a window on Chestnut street exhibit in most interesting fashion the vagarios of overtasked guu barrels. These specimens are parts of some guns burst by Capt. Heath, of this city, dur ing some protracted experiments with various weapons. Five of the barrels wero burst because a ball was "stuck" near the muzzle in each case, two gave way because about four inches of suow was put in the muzzle, two were burst by reason of having some wet sand at the muzzlo, and three were ruptured by mud at tne muzzlo. sportsmen often scoop up a little mud or sanl uncon- so.ons y. bang away at game, and are thm udon sited to rind the gun with a I ragged aud shortened barrel Toil llavty. A jealous Providence husband became so ind guant at a follow passenger in a street-ear because he gazod directly across at his wife that he got up aud slapped him in the face. Just then the car stopped and a littlo, thinly-clad girl assisted the otlcnder off the car. He was stone blind. Rev. Dr. Deems: Insight into tho spiritual world is necessary to corroct impressions of this world. Tho men that have made tho great discoveries, the men that have inaugurated the great roforms have been great believers in the unseen. About the M ay or It. Somerville Journal. "But in this euso when the office starts out to seek the man " "Yes, sir." "I want you to fix it so that I will be the first man that it will find." It appears thut the leaf of a plant can transform into useful work as much as 40 per cent, of tiio solar energy it receives aud absorbs. THE TORTURES OF NEURALGIA Are promptly relieved by a new Treat ment, which acts directly on the great nerve centres. If you are a sufferer from this painful disease, write to Drs. Starkey & Pulen, IlUu Girard St., Philadelphia, and ask them to send you such documents and testimonials in regard to their V ltauzing Treatment as will enable you to judge for yourself whether it promises to give relief in your particular case. All orders for the Compound Oxygen Home Treatment directed to H. E. Math ews. (KM Montgomery Street. San Fran cisco, will be filled on the same terms as if sent directly to us in I'hiladelplua. Company. They usually result In an In vestignting committee which nev amounts to anything moro than a draft 1 upon the public treasury for the exnPn. e the Investigation. Another squeeze u the abattoir bills, as they are caUed These, of course, are fought by the butch ers and market-men. Tho first attemni ! force a bill of this description was i when a prominent Washington politician oflered a fabulous sum for the franchiiw "Anything else in this line that vo think of, Mr. Ashley!" , you "Yes, there's the Job to reclaim the Po tomac (luu, which, had it become a law would have resulted in an enormous steal' The work Is now being done by the Gov ernmcnt itself, and will rid the place of that malarial atmosphere of which wa hear so much outside the city." "During vonr residence here have you ayhe K",uiuof uvin ,n "Well wtlilft T hftvA nnf at .11 (mA. joyed good health, I am certain that the dilllcul y which laid me up so lomr wan not malarial. It was something that had troubled mo for veara. Anhnnrfno at ing pain that at times attacked diflcrent parts of my body. One day my right arm and eg would torture me with pain, there would be ereut redness, hr&t mid ii-iiin of the porta; aud perhaps the next day the left arm and leg would be similarly affect ed. Then again it would locate in some particular part of my body and produce a tenderness which would well nigh drive me frantic. There would be weeks at a time that I would be afflicted with an In tcrmlttent kind of pain that would rnniA on every afternoon and leave me compar atively free from suffering during the bal ance of the twenty-four hours. Then I would have terrible paroxysms of pain omlng on at any time during the day or night when 1 would be obliged to lie upon my back for hours and keen an mntlnnUm as possible. Every time 1 attempted to move a chilly sensation would pass over my bedy, or 1 would faint from hot flashes. I suffered from a snasiiindin rnntrncllnn of the muscles and a soreness of the back and bowels, and even my eyeballs become sore and distressed me greatly whenever I wiped my face. I became ill-tempered, peevish, fretful, irritable and desperately despondent." "Of course you consulted the doctors re garding the difficulty." "Consulted theml well I should say I did. Some told me I had nenrnlirin- nth. ers that I had inflammatory rheumatism, for which there was no cure, that I would be afflicted all my life, and that time alono wouiu mitiKate my sufferings. "But didu't thev try to relieve your mis. .-.in - The new plugs ot solid whisky will have a clove attachment with each bite. "THE THIRD HOUSE." Its Good and Bad Membera-The Re markable Experiences of a Close Observer of Its Workings Daring Long Besldenre at Washington. Indianapolis Herald : The truth is that in these days of eagerness for office, too many men think to use money-bags as floaters. In time the bags collapse, and the owners go under. (Correspondence Rochester Democrat.) No city unon the American continent has a larger floating population than Washington. It is estimated that during the sessions of congress twenty-five thousand people, whose homes are in va rious parts of this and other countries, make this city their place of residence. Somo come here, attracted by the advant ages the city offers for iiiakincr the ac- quaintance of public men; others have va rious claims which they wish to present, while the tcreat majority gather here, as the crows nock to the carrion, for the sole purpose of getting a morsel at the public crio. xne latter ciass, as a general thing, originate the many schemes which termi nate in vicious bills, all of which are neither directed at the public treasury, or toward that revenue which the black mailing of corporations or private enter prises may uring. While walkina- down Pennsylvania urn. nue the other day I met Mr. illiam M, Ashley, formerly of your city, whose long residence here has made him unifsuallv well acquainted with the operations of the lobby. Having made my wants In this particu lar direction known, in answer to an to terroKatlve. Mr. Ashlev said: "Yes. durinirmv residence herfl I have become well acquainted with the workings tt t)ta .Tltid! II.-...UA - - J . 1- . . 1 I couni leu you oi numerous jobs, which, like the 'Heathes Chinee,' are peculiar." "You do not regard the lobby, as a body, vicious, do your "Not necessarily so. There are good and bad men comprising that body: yet there have been times when it must be admit ted that the combined power of the Third House' has overridden the will of the peo ple. The bad influence of the lobby can be seen in the numerous blood-bills that are introduced at every session." "Hut how can these be discoveredf" "Kasily enough, to the person who has made the thing a study. I can detect them at a glance." "Tell me, to what bills do you referT "Well, take the annual gas bills, for in stance. They are introduced for the pur pose of bleeding the Washington Gas-light Yen. thev vnniltprf and rdivulnail n,a blistered aud bled me. plastered and oiled me, sweat, steamed and everything but froze me, but without avail." "Hut how did you finally recover?" "I had a friend livintr in Mirhlcnn whn had been afflicted in a similar way and hod been cured. He wrote me recrardimr his recovery and advised me to try the remedy which cured him. I procured a bottle and commenced its use. taking a tablespoonful after each meal and at bed time. I had used it about a week when I noticed a decrease of the soreness of thn joints and a general feeling of relief. I persevered in its use and finally got so I could move around without limping, when I told my friends that it was Warner's Safe Rheumatic Cure that had put me on y leei. "And do you retard your cure as Derma- nentl" "Certainly: I haven't been so well In years as I am now, and although I have been subjected to frequent and severe changes of weather this winter, I have not felt the first intimation of the return of my rheumatic trouble." ''Do vou object to the nubllcatlnn nf tlifa Interview, Mr. Ashleyr "Not at all, sir. I look upon it as a duty I owe my fellow creatures to al leviate their sufferings so far as I am able, and any communication regarding my symptoms and cure that may be sent to me at S0(t Maine avenue will receive uromnt and careful attention." "Judcins from vour recital. Mr. Ashlev. there must lie wonderful curative nroner- ties about this medicine." "Indeed, there is. sir. for no man suffer ed more nor longer than I did before this remedy gave me relief." "To go back to the original subject, Mr. Ashley, I suppose you see the same famil iar faces about the lobby session after sesslonl" "No, not so much as you might think. iew uices are euiiHiuiuiy seen ann old ones isapuear. The Btrain upon lobbyists is necessarily very great, and when you add to this the demoralizing effect of lute hours and intemperate habits and the fact that they are after found out in their steals, their disappearance can easily be account. ed for." "What proportion of these hlnnd.hllln are successful!" 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