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About The independent. (Hillsboro, Washington County, Or.) 188?-189? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1890)
I t Ok L r ci j f 4 A Hope 6t Spring. ' ' eia reet deft Autumn softly weaTM ? Voiiet to wrap the new grave in, 1 ldcrs It with prold and scarlet leaves. ,. e spring's sweet mysteries of bloom be th the mold o'er which the sore heart rteves iiopcathat perished, like a flower in 1 IXWtt " Jjy'bol that each passing season leaves. To say. That Is not dead which seemcth lost. CoM. silent lips, which our warm lips have kissed. Dear hands,' whose touch can never be for rot. Friendships that vanish like a summer mist, we have you, and. behold, we have you not. A lonesome shadow falls across the floor From each low grave they heap beneath the sod Where sleeps the ones we miss; hut evermore t e liuve then safe in iaruuibe with God. Toue It often seems that death must be Like going on a Journey very far Arms the mountain and the solemn sea To dwell to a new land where stranirers are. But if a friend Is there we loved of old Our eager thoughts fly faster than our feet. And when In ours their loving hands we hold The stranger-land seems full of welcome sweet. How fair his grave will be when spring comes buck. And from the mold that hides his faee away The Violets grow, and every robin s truck Is covewHl by the creeping things of May. How fair his face will bo when dreams come true, A ud we stand face to face with him and see The rapture of a Joy we never knew iircak In the eyes we miss so constantly. Sleep) well, warm heart, so brief a time on eirth- Bcueuth the dead leaves and the autumn rain; That which men count as death. In Heaven Is lurth: Flowers die, we say, but blossom In spring Hiratn. The Violet above you In the mold Awaits the resti rni-tion of the year. .And when its leavea iu April duvs unfold W e II say, "He lives with Uod, who once was with us here." VIcVs Magazine. HER husmis una It is best on the whole not to read your husband's letters until he hands them to you, and it is much the best not to examine his pockets, except for holes, and then set aside whatever you lind there without examination. I belief e that Mrs. Elliott would give nny young wife that advice today; but there was a time we are all fallible, being1 mortal when she had been mar ried abo-.it two years, that she made herself an amateur detective sewfar as her frank went, and had found holes that she could not explain one that had something in it about Clara par ticularly. It was only half a lette r;but it was suspicious. Naturally" jealous, she was too proud to betray the .fact intentionally; but there iitro keeping a secret of that sort irom the servants. They knew it,other nle guessed at it. r fancies about Clara oh, who ;iara? made her heart ache, but tging and prying did not help her. ien her husband was away as he . was she suffered tortures. He it, for all she knew, be leading a -,.ibIe life, and so she steamed all "his letters open before she forwarded them, aid now and then found some thing that might mean more than it said; and so we come to an afternoon when she Mrs. Elliott came down stairs dressed for pinner, for which she always made a c.reful toilet, and met the waitress asctWing to the upper floor. The girl"s(place at that moment waj the dufing-room, and Mrs. knew thJt nothing was needed or gotten tht pertained to the din ?fr 'Ojjver.fthe girl h:ul an air of . y uboiriHTCr; y.nd seemed to be i something uler her apron. . h it's that youliave there, liosa?" 'lliitt asked, adittle sharply. riri sioppea, leaked down, and Onby a letter nu'am." "For yourself?" asked Mrs. Elliott. '$t, ma'am, for master," said tha girl. ' Vell, give it to me," said Mrs. Elliott. The girl hesitated. "Indeed, ma'am, the ladv said to give it to himself," said I'os.I. "A lady? A beggar with a petition, I suppose." said Mrs. Elliott. "A huh, ma'am, and she's gone." paid the girl. "She wore a blue veil; but I never saw her before, I'm sure." "Oh. very well." rcpli tress, "(iive me the note. Hardly had he passed) ie threshold when his wife sprung tor feet. slipped on an ulster that buntnia a closet in the diHingroom hall, donned a little round cap and gray vJil, and sneaked out of the basement oor sneak was the word. "She's following him this time," said Rosa to the cook. "Jealous again," said cook. "I guess he's giving her reason," said Rosa. "It's something dreadful." said cook, 'the way married men go on." Meanwhile Mrs. Elliott lurked in the shadow of the stouo balustrades and saw that her husband stoop nuder the gas-lamp at the corner cxamiuiug. the note which he had received. Well, wherever he went there also she would go. Whosoever he might meet should also meet her. This was the end of everything, the finale. But she would not weep she would have long years for that. She would behave as an insulted wife should. lie was about to enter a car; she also hailed it. An ulster and a thiek veil reduce all women to one level, lie .would not know her even if he saw her. She sat in her corner ami saw that he stood on the platform smoking. Which way the car was going she scarcely noticed. He left it at last and entered another; so did she. Again he smoked on the platform, but at last "Fort Ice ferry!" shouted the conductor and she followed her husband into a ferry-boat. It was dark, and though it did not rain the air was full of moisture. There were very few people upon the Imat, but several of them were brutal-looking men, and they stared at her, seem ing to wonder at her thick veil.' She had forgotten her gloves and her small, 1 white hands glistened with rings, some of them very valuable. ! As she left the ferry and, follqwing her husband's figure, "crossed the great ' track of a railroad she trembled with terror. As he ascended the bluff she : kilted her skirts anil followed. Who could Clara be? What manner 1 of woman was she to apioiiit a ren dezvous like this? It was a nasty, slip- ' pery, unpleasant place. There was a drinking saloon hard by which seemed to be full of rough men. She drew so ' near to her husband that she could have touched his coat as they passed j this place, but he did not look around, i And now it began to rain in earnest, ' and the road they had turned into ' seemed to lo two feet deep with mud, and still Mr. Elliot marched on. At last a frightful thing oeeurred to Lizzie. She wore upon her feet a pair of patent leather ties, and with all this climbing and straining of the shoes the ribbons I had come undone. Suddenly the mud, caught at them with that curious owcr : of suction which mud seems to have at times, and the shoes came off. In vain i she felt arouud for them; they seemed to have vanished. Just I hen; "Halloo!" said a voice near her; "what's the matter with you, young woman?" "I nothing!" gasped Mrs. Elliot. A ; large policeman stood before her. i -Miwsani no piace ior a voting woman to be kiting alone," said the i: -. i puLiceuiaa. - it s u;in(rou it you r. GENERAL3WS. There are mere than two hundred lawyers practicing in Seattle, Wash. A citizen of North Hampton, N. H., has been a justice of the peace for more than fifty years. Emperor William of Germany has boycotted his halerdasher for sending him a pair of French kids. The emperor of Russia has increased his chances of a sudden and violent death by learning to play the cornet- j Buffalo Bill and Rosa Honheur have 1 ljeconie great friends. The former is i i taking lessons iu oils from the great j artist. t A West Virginia farmer claims to j have dug three bushels of otatoes from ; one hill. Iu his held the ground is very 1 uneven. Thieves made a dnnkard'a meeting house in HeidelburgTownship.Lebanou County, Pennsylvania, a receptacle for stolen roods. 1 There is a rumor that the German ' waiter is henceforth to wear a kind of ; order.a gilded star pending from a short chain, ou his manly breast, j A company has been formed iu Berlin j to run a line of steamships between Hamburg aild Mozambique. The ves sels will stop at Zanzibar en route. Iu Paris the dramshops have in creased from 21.0JO iu 10 to 2U.OOO at the present time. The consumption of alcohol has trebled in the last thirty years. According to a paper read at a con gress at Strasburg. 152 jer cent of rail way passengers iu Prussia travel fourth class, I'l per cent third class, 'JO, second and only 8.9 tirst. A handy man in Steuben ville, Pa., used his children's roller skates to move a heavily laden refrigerator from the dining-room to the out kitchen, and not one breakdown happened. A beautiful spring of crj-stal water, where West Chester folks were wont to tarry, has proved to' be an outlet to a filthy sewer, the water being purified by percolation through the soil. Miss Cordelia Mei ers, of Newville. Cumberland Count', N. Y.,has a piano which was owned by the wife of Presi dent John (tiiney Adams. The instru ment is still iu excellent condition. "Please com upe dad is away this eve," was the message found "on a postal card picked up on a street in Bradford. It was signed "Sadie," and addressed to a prominent young man. A few years ago Antelope Valley, on the Mojave desert, was considered worthless for farming. This season, however, the people have harvested 0O,(HH sacks of wheat and the same amount of barley. Members of the Iowatrilwof Indians are very well off. They have Ix'en re duced iu number to 8:1 persons and have 'JOO.OOO acres of rich farmingland, which they are to sell to the govern ment an average of over 2, I(H acres each. and banking inter Jzta ever since o her brothers was attacked with dis and the other lost hi t life. She is SO years of age and is a handsome woman of the blonde type. She ob tained her business training from ber lather, to whom she was a constant 1 companion in his later years, and she turned it to good account when the Garrett family was actually deprived of ' a male head. She has made Robert i Garrett a wealthier man than he was , when bis father died." How They Marry in Burinah. The Burmese marriage is a very sim ple affair. It consists ordinarily of the eating of rice together in the presence of friends, and of saving that the two pro- jtose to live together as man and wife. The matches ire sometimes made bv nfeof - ' - Xase avit wft nmmi? tot 7 the parents and sometimes sional match-makers. The mon method, however, is by the voung )ieople fixing the arrangement for themselves and carrying on their bill ing and cooing the same as we do at home. The Burmese grom furnished the wedding breakfast, and he carries it to the house of the bride. After the marriage, rice is thrown after the couple as they goto the bridal chamber, ami they are exjiected to pass seven uasin seclusion, though tins is not i -tie proprietor or a crematory is de i peuoeut upon his urniugs. lrashino j ton. CnftUaL , H'tting Bull recently lost $450 at ' pokr. He seems to be in the Sioux o. A. r. Wwrld. Frennently late election returns sem cme properly from outlying dis cta. Merchant Traveler. The owner first breaks the racehorse; then the racehorse proceeds to break the ow ner. Wathinytou Vai.itaU YounghoT "Figures can't lie. sir." ()Id!oy "Cant the v. tl gh? Tell that lo the modUies!" .V. '. Ilerahl. A New York waiter says his w ork re minds him of a large eagle. It is so 1 take to coming lr' ne earlier." "My dear child," said her mother, "you are young yet, or you .never would try that plan." 2'trre llaute Expre. Anxious Mother "I am greatly sur prised, my son, to find that while you were away you became engaged. 1 hope you have not acted hastily. Has the young lady you have M-lei-ted the projK-r (jualilicatlous for : poor man's wife?" Adult Son "Yes, indeed, mother. She's got 000 iu her own right." A', i'. Weekly. to rriets, tTooiTj riff iuvdvii 1 AN ENGINEER His Remarkahl OF NERVE. What MORGAN, BARNARD & THORN, Idtrutnre and Hi-ought llliu. It by profes- long from tip to tip. Yonker Slut, . most com- man. The letters our w ives don't care if j we do keep in our iocken instead of i lasting fiem V's and X'.-Mroit . Free J're. ! There are many Lf I).' in this j country, but there are' lots of laws that ' Uvvti doctoring just the same. .W -i ter iW-.fej7rt.. j A good thing for young sMcu!ators ' to remember is that as a rule there is common. I he new ly-mari ied pair live ' nething crooked about a straight tip. with the bride's parents for several years j Jl'irjier't liazar. at least, nl in case that one of these parents dies the other Ihm-oiih-s an in mate of the family for lifetime. It is presumptuous for "a young man to set up housekeeping immediately after marriage, and he is stipMsed to work for a certain time for his wife. i The Growth of Tree. In the parish of Winfarthing are two magnificent oak trees, one of which is known as the "Winfarthing Oak," the other is little inferior to it iu magni tude, but apiears to have lceii general ly passed over in favor of the more celebrated tret? first mentioned. These trees were insiccted bv Mr. Robert Marsli am, F. R. S., the friend and cor resHndcnt of (Jilbert White, and a great agriculturist, in the year 17 U; and he has left in tiis dairy accurate measure ments of both. The larger tree mentioned at that time :$8 feet 7 inches iu circumference, and the smaller just if) feet. Iu the year 1874 when these frees were measured according to Mursham's method, the larger tree was jut 4 feet in circum ference, and the smaller 0 feet; it will thus Im- seen that one tree had increased 17 inches in l.Ut year, whereas tha oilier nau reinaiiietl in statu LvuilnH Stmtiltiril. t'itar in Germany' pio. What's happened? Lot Elliot, "I'm not husband! Frank! I her mis Mr. Elliott h to be Is shaving and would net w disturbed." ' The girl gave a little impertinent tos&iaber head as she obeyed and floimcjsd downstairs in a way that made her mistress resolve to give her warn- in or 5he ome t trouble was that the la.lj in - the )il had given Rose some monev: naa wi inspereo". "Mr. Elliott, and no one ell se," and had hurried away in a iiprftp? tVfnyn an n er. Mrs. EIliOtt-'UTieanwhile stood turn ing the envelope over. The address was merely her husband's name Mr. Frank Elliott and the edge of the flap was still damp, as if sealed at the door. It would open at the touch she could read it and know its contents if she chose. "I do choose," she said the next moment, and the edge of the envelope rolled back and a slip of paper fell out. On it was written these words: "Du ikFrajik: Meet me ul the usiinl place u can doUtre your wire. Clara." "ment more and the letter was "i Mrs. Elliott, trembling, stood leaning against ethos ne. She felt that the dread en upon her hail taken t. . , she would not be hasty, i j wait until she was sure that d to receive the letter. If he j ..obey the summons it would! prove to her that he was true to her. ! Then she would tell him what she knew j anil ask his confidence. j She carried the letter down-stairs ! with her and placed it at his plate, and as he opened it she watched him close- j ly' I It certainly did not seem to please him. Il fr. "ahrast it into his pocket; but he went .!.U U!. .1? . i fj nuu uis umner wunoui anv remarK. . Mrs. Elliott, however, could not re- ' ain silent. j "You look as though you had received ' nlumber'a bill," she said. e ir.ugneu. !'It & not a bill," he said; "it s a note, ?,nd it vexes me because I shall have o change my plans for tonight. I in tended to take yon to the theater; now I can not do it. I shall have to leave yon, and, what is more, I shall not be back until tomorrow night. I'll send a messenger to Uncle James. He will escort you to the theater and ' 1 will not go with your uncle j James," said Mrs. Elliot, sharply, j "You must take me; I will not be used 1 in this way; you must go with me. a decent girl yourself?" "No," said Mrs. alone; there's my rrann: i-rank.: ' Mr. Elliot turned and walked back. "Left you behind, did I, Lizzie?" he said. "You're a mighty careful husband." said the policeman, "I do think," and strode away. Then Mr. Elliot, who was a large man, simply picked his little wife up in his arms and carried Iter back to the grounds which encircled the tavern. Here he sat her down tijKJii a wooden platform. Then for a moment he vanished and returned with a glass of wine, which he made Mrs. Elliot drink. "I've hired a cab," hefaid; "we'll drive back to the ferry. it's too stor my a night to go looking for Clara; be sides, she's thousands of miles away." "Clara!" cried Mrs. Elliot. "IXm't speak of Clara how dare you?" "She very nearly ruined, me, my dear. I threw away lots of monev on j her," said Mr. Elliot, "but she is look- ! iug up now. juy uear, l Know you ve been rummaging my pockets and read ing my letters for two years, but I only found out what you suspected when my mother told me that you had asked her if I had ever known a lady named Clara before I met you." "Oh, Frank, don't try to deceive me!" sobbed Lizzie. "I read the note the woman left tonight I " "Oh, I knew it," said Mr. Elliot; "it was fixed for you to read. I w rote it to myself, and my mother left it at the door at dinner time. I gave her a signal fr om the window that she miht know you were coming downtairs,aud I've kept an eye on you -I've watched you ever since you left the door. My dear child, I never knew a Clara in mv life; I never had a doubtful love affair even as a boy. The note you saw about an oil-well in which I had shares the Clara. She was a tickle creat lire. I admit, and made me anxious, but since you were bound to le jealous" "Carriage, sir?" said the driver. Mr. Elliot lifted his shoeless wife into the vehicle, and half w ay home she vowed that she would nevei forgive him, but the other half she wept upon his vest. "I felt so helpless without inv shoes," she declares, "that my spirit was fairly broken." But all events she was never jealous of Clara again. Fireside t'ot)ijnuion. Wise Words Alxut Women. " Men make laws; women make man ners. Ie, Segur. i As a husband is. the wife is, if mated 1 with a clown. Tennyson. But one thing on earth is ls-tter than ! the wife that is the mother. l-oiMdd Shefcr. i , A. mother's love, in a degree, sancti fies the ni(t worthless offspring, llosea I Ballon. j j A house is no home unless it contains food and tire for the miml as well as the liody. Margaret Fuller Ossoli. , Can-manor woman choose duties?! .o more than thev can clnose their birthplace, or their father and mother. George Eliot. i A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there "is a child in it rising three years old and a kitten rising three weeks. Southev. A mother's first ministration for her infant is to enter, as it were, the vallev oi trie suailow or death, and win its life at the enl of her own! How different must the affection thus founded be from all others? Mrs. Sigonrney. It is curious to see how a self-willed, haughty girl, who sets her father and mother and all at defiance, and can not be managed by anybody, at once finds her master in the baby. Her sister's child will strike the rock an4 set all her affections flowing. Charles Buxton. Snow- f'lowrr. Accounts have lieen received of a so called snow-flower, said to have been discovered by Count Anthoskoff in the most northern lsution of Siieria- An eastern Ohio invalid thinks he contracted rheumatism from a horse chestnut which he carried in his clothes as a preventive. He picked up the nut in the street, and now believes some one else had throw u it there after loading it with the disease. ' President George Williamson Smith, of Trinity college, Hartford, Conn., has 1 been very successful since he took hold of that institution, some years ago. i The college under his guidance has grow n rapidly and now has the largest uumber of students iu its history. Pope Leo, despite his advanced age, , is an unusually early riser. He is rare : ly in bed after o:.'50, and by G he may ; Ik seen walking in the gardens of the j Vatican attended by some members of ' his household. Very often he gives j audience to his -secretaries before breakfast. The Indians of the Five Nations take j great interest in news from the sur- roiiinling states, as w ell as within the borders of their own nations. Ten weekly newspapers are published with in the territory, and a number of daily newspapers from the states are taken by the Indians. The female clerks w ho have obtained positions in the Treasury Department within four or five years are mostly young women who have just passed through the normal schools and have entered the government service through the civil service examination test. They are a bright lot of young women. In Hamilton. Ohio, a man died a few days ago, who had ifXVsl jn money laid j up, and a payment of floO was clue to save his home. His w idow took the money to buy a fine casket, an exjeu- j sive lot iu the cemetery, and to hire twenty-five hacks for the procession. ; and thus used every dollar and let her I home go by default. Says an American tourist, writing' from Rome: "We went to St. Peter's ; twice on Sunday to hear the choir, j They are all men. and there is one i among them who has a phenomenal soprano voice. He is called The Angel of St. Peter's.' If I had not looked right at him when he was sing- i ing I should not have Uliefed that the voice w as a man's." :- Says a corresM)ndent from Boston, ! of course: "What William 1. Howclls i is to the HarM-rs in a literary sense, and what Kelly is to Soden in the base- ! ball line, Lew'K. Harlow seems to 1m I : to the Prangs, who are producing so ! I many of his water-color studies at their j establishment. It is understood that i : the lirm agrees to tale every picture j , that Harlow makes up to f 10,000 avcar ' j iu value." " ; j The court of Austria has not yet re- J I covered from the sensation caused by ; the shah of Persia. He was considered , at Vienna a thorough barbarian. He I ! paid no attention to his royal hosts and j , snubbed them in the most brnt.il I j fashion. On three different occasions j he made niMintments to visit public1 institutions in Vienna, and archdukes and ministers assembled to receive, but i he came not. His manners at table were horrible and he seemed to take 1 delight in shocking the onlookers.. ' , King Ja Ja, the deposed potentate ', of west Africa, who has leen imprison ed in the island of St. Vincent by the English, has taken up a Naoleonic habit. He U-came extremely melan choly and fears were entertained that he would soon sink into a premature irrave. w hen somelsxly suggested teach ing him how to play" cards. He now lonils days and weeks at solitaire. He is as patient and docile as a lamb since he learned the game, and has begun to : recover his health and spirits. If he could behead a few slaves he would Ie hunsclf again. On going to the top of the Eiffel tower Mr. Edison w rote in the" visitors' " book as follows: "Top Eiffel Tower, Sept. lO, Isjs'J. To M. Eiffel, the brave builder of so gigantic ami original a specimen of modern - . ..om one who has the greatest resjiect aud admiration for all engineers, including the great engineer, the bon Dieu. Thomas A. Edison.' He su!seuuently Cigars are no longer to Im called "cigarreu" in Germany. R uichrolle has Ih-cii substituted, and Pastor Zcller of Waiblingeii has earned a prize of 100 marks for suggesting the name. A Drawing-Knoiii Homily. Is it not too bad. says Bishop Hunt, ington, in a time w hen there is so much fact to In- learned, so much work to be done, and done belter than it is, so much wrong to be righted, so many burdens wait to le eased, so many nobje enterprises to be set forward", that ladies and gentlemen of faculty and information should array them selves sumptuously and go 'l. meet each other again and again, and stay together for hours, only to look at a sjH-ctacle that is without signilic.'uice ami hear sounds without sense; to see unreal manners and hear com mon place speech; to exchange greetings with the dearest friends only on a crowded staircase, as the two processions upand down meet anil pass, or in : ernsli"' where the liveliest feeling is a fear of damaging a fabric or being mortified by a mistake; to eat and drink what could le eaten and drank with far more comfort and safer digestion at home; to say what one only half feels to crsons j whom one does not like on a subject that one does not half understand; to j pick a way Ix-tween frivolity and false- I hood or wade through a mml.lv mix ture of Ik1 h; to cover disgust with a! smile, inward protest with soken ac- ! cent, or weariness with a jest, and then i go away at an unhealthy hour with' nothing to renieniU'i-but' a babble, a! whirl, a jam. and a secret self-eon- 1 tempt? "Horrid Is ire, isn't it?" said ! one victim to another. "Beastly, was the cordial answ er. "Let's go home!" i "I wish I could, but oiisecI can't; I ! am the host." ; IVIiy They Married. In an oM book written by a western congressman, a contemporary of Clay and Webster, containing reminiscence's of his time, a story is told of one of his friends, a farmer "in Kentucky named Payne, who had six daughters", none of w hom were blessed w ith beauty. The congressman knew them in their home ly youth, and when he returned a few years later found them all married to good iulltiential men. So great was his surprise that he ventured to ask their father wliv thev h.-ol le..i. sought when other "girls remained neglected. The old farmer chuckled. "Yes. and you may say when they had neither dower nor "good looks. Well, I II tell vou. When I wantluv rattle to eat bui-kwhe.it stubble instead of grass I don't drive them into that field. I fence it off from them. They are so contrary they always want the thing they can't "get. They break down the fences: I drive them' out and j put it up. By the time they tight for it once or twice they think they like the stubble. " "Well. I saw my girls weren't the most attractive kind, and I fenced! them iu! "You never found them iu the hotels danciu' or keepin' stalls at count v fairs. Young men to know them had to come j to j their father's house. When the i neighlsirs saw how the P.iyue girls were kept apart from the crowd they thought their value must In? high, j Young men came to break down the fence. They like to break down fences." . ,.'ri . ' .... ' ine siory was coarse v lo . oer- : old narrator; "but than meets the eve. , haps," adds the there is more in it A Heroine InAeed. "My dear I can not tell you how it Mr. Elliot. "Frank," she answered. "I have al- ' ways said that there are some things which a wife should not endure." "Lizzie, my dear, listen. I will take you to the theater tomorrow night or the night after; we will enjoy ourselves quite as well. I think it will rain to night, anyhow." "Do you suppose I nm k baby to fret nlfiUtsot seeing a play?" said Mrs. Elliott.. j'No, Frank, only yon must 'ell miW" voii break tVc'c i" i -eiuem w nerc me groun.t is continually covered wrote his name uixm Mile. Eiffel s fan, Uilh f j r Tl 1 W.-l I - .... .. T shoots forth from the frozen soil onlv on the first day of each succeedin' year, it lives hut a single dav. then resolves to its original element's. The leaves are three in numlier. and each about three inches in diameter. They are develop! only- on-that side of the stem toward the north, and each seems i to be covered w ith microscopic crystals Of snow. r of autographs, lieariug the signatures of all the princes of the blood royal and the princes of science who have visited her father's chef d ceuvre. Miss Mary Garrett, sister of Robert Garrett, of Baltimore, is a great busi ness woman. Says one tof her acquaint ances: -It seems incredible1, but it is the truth, that this young lady has virtually handled the "Garrett railroad "Sister Marie Therese! When sea rce Iv O years old vmi were wounded on tlie hattleticld of Balaclava while devot ing yourself to the cure of the wound. -d. At Magenta you were again wounded in the front line of battle. After that you nursed our warriors in Syria, in China, and iu Mexico. At the battle of Reichahofen you were carried wounded from the "field amid a heap of slaiu Cuirassiers, letter on -. Hml shell fell in the midst of the ambulance committed to your care. You immedi ate! y seize I it, ami carried it some eighty yards away from the ambulance, where it fell to the ground, and by iu explosion wounded voii seriously. Alter you had recovered, vou follow ed yourvooation here to Tonkin." In such remarkable words did the Governor of Tonkin, surrounded by his staff, in front of all the troops, lately address ! the Superioress of the Sisters" of Mercy. ' He then bade her kneel down, and touching her shoulder thrice with his! sword, added: "In the name of the ! French ieople and army, I confer upon vou the Cross for Tried Bravery. 5'o Lody can show more heroic deeds to merit it, uolody can claim a more self denying career, and entirely devoted ! so tlie serv ice of his fellow-men audi his fatherland. Soldiers, present arms!" Aged Pauier (in New York) "Can you tell mo the shortest way to the 1 almshouse, sir?" Lambkiu "Wall ! street!" X. Y. .s'. We live longer than Methuselah, for ! we know more, do more, are more in seventy years than he knew, did, or i was in his 'M'J. Advance. j "What'do you get an evening for ' waiting at entertainments?" "Five ! liMit-ks, but if there is to be winging I ! must ask six." Flityemlc Matter. I Real humorists are scarce, and when j a mau once gets 'the reputation' his j whole life is saddened by the effort to' live up to it. Mobile ih-yixlrr. He "And to-morrow is our wed- j ding-day, dearest." She "Yes. am! it j is bargain-day at Sicilian's, loo. Isn't that aggravating?" T rre Haute Fx- press. i Stein "Don't you find it a "Teat in- ! convenience to be so hard of hearing?" Irvin "No, we have a o-moiiths-old baby up to our house." Kearney En terprise. ..t'i. . .1 .i . . --Di uai is uie us- o mat girl hangiu I away n the piano, Maria?" "Prac- : tice, John. Practice makes crfect." ' "Perfect what pandemonium? ' Jlar- i per's liazar. j Harkins "It is said that women ive longer than men." Barkius "Bosh! I Why, I've known a hundred men w ho ! outlived their grandmothers." Jlar- l:r' liazar. "Jack," she said, iu a tender voice, I "I am really sorry, but our graduating ; motto this year was l arn to Say No," ' and this is the tirst chance I've had." ! A". )'. Sun. Fond Parent "No. darling-Bobby j is getting better. What should v.."u ! have done if he had died?" Darling! (after a pause)-"! should have had! his Noah's ark, shouldn't I?" Fun. j Hans. vou got punished to-day; what for?" "Because, papa. Ed a aid j Lang had Ixten fighting.'' "Ami with i whom had Edward Is-eu fighting?" j "With me, papa." Flinjemle Matter. "Poverty is no disgrace," said Jinks, j ! "In many vases it is something to be proud of." "Yes," replied Jones". "It's! a constant struggle with me to keep! my pride down." Mtrelmnl Traveler. Philanthropist (to small boy) "And ' ; o you've got a little sister "at home, ! have you sonny? What do you do j . when you get together?" Stnall Iniy ! ! (laconically) "Fight." Philadelphia j i J n airer. : Mrs. Poortahle "It is raining fear- ! fully outside. Hadn't you better stavj ' ami take Miptcr with us. Mr. Smith?" ' : Smith , no, Mrs. Poortahle; the ! weather can't le as bad as that." ' Texas iiij'lintjH. "There is a goo.l deal of chance in I politics," said one traveling man to an other. "Yes," said the speaker, who had been defeated at a recent elect iou, "ami the chance is mighty small." Merehant Traveler. Family Washlioard "I'm broke; lend me a quarter until I get my day's pay to-morrow." Family Razor" "Should le glad to do it. old friend, but the fact is I'm always stropoed Sunday." A'. Y. Herald. ' Snow-Wry "Sjieaking of the old fashioned custom of writing finis at the end of a book makes me think of my wife." Donney "How so?" Snow -berry "O. she always gets in the last word." Kearney Enterprise. Minister "How do you know, my little son, when Sunday comes around?' Young America "Give me an easier one. Do you supjiosc I don't know when we 'have mrk ami bean for breakfast ?'Jioston Gazette. American "I am acquainted with two men who own diamond studs." Englishman "'Oly Moses! Some En glishmen 'ave very hexpensiye stables. ! but Hi never knew such hextravaganee has that." Jew, ler' Weekly. Ella "I know I am ugly, but I love vou, r.rasnis; i nave f iMlN a year. Will you marry me?" Eraslus "Yes, darling; I'd marry you if you were twiee as ugly as'vou think you are, my beautiful" birdie"." The Ept-h. Dog Fancier "Ye, madam. I have all kinds of dogs here. Is there any particular breed you wish?' Old Ladv ' (who reads the pa rs) - ), anything that's fashionable. J-mme see an j ocean greyhound." .V. )'. H'teky. Hardup (with his winter ulster) "Ixiks pretty well for an old one, . doesn't it?" "I've had it pressed. Badluck (catching sight of the tag) ; "Yes, I supHise it was pressed lot of others ou top of it." Lawrtuee Anuri- ; CHH. "Who is there?" said Dr. Brow n-Se. quard in rcsonse lo a knock at his , lalxiralory door. "Tin; Grant Monu ment Fund," as the reply! "Well, I . cau't do anything for vou. You'll have , to wait till resurrection day. Wash ington Capital. "No, sir," said the old tramp, sadly; "I can't get no work at my trade. I've tried hard, but it ain't no' use." Phil anthropist "Your trade Why, have 1 you a trade?" Tramp (tearfully) "Yes, sir. I'm a winter waiter "at a summer resort hotel." ltiilatletphia Jmjnirtr. Lawyer "Judging from your re plies, you do not M-cm to have any opinions ou any subject, " Possible Juror "No, sir, I ain t tried to have no opinion of my own fer a good many years?" Humph! How many years?" "O, I dunno; ever since I married. . 1 A. Y. Weekly. "Good hcavcn man! your head is laid open, your nose is smashed on the back at your net k. one arm is fractured, aud , your jaw dislocated. How did it hap pen?' "Ah. docther, Biddy rit her sowl lammed me w id a motty ;! ; Bless Our Home, ScJiwate Home." .V. Y. Herald. Employer (to bibulous clerk) "Mr. ' Soaker, why are you not like a gun?" Soaker (who feels it incumlient on him to laugh) "I (hie) don't know, sir!" ' Employer (meaningly) "Because a! gun cannot lie discharged w hen it is half rocked. You may get your salary from the cashier." .V. Y.'Sun. "Henry is late again to-night, sobbed Mrs. Xu bride, "and he knows ! well enough that I told him I wouldn't j jeak to him for a week if he didn't ' i St. Louis Star Sayiny: In the smoking car, along with half a dozen ! others of us, was an engineer who wai 1 going down to Peoria, and after a time the judge started to draw him out by ! saying: "I presenile vou have bad your nhare of dose shaves, along with'othcr en gineers?" "I have, sir,' was the reply. "Been in niauv Miia-hups?'' "A dozen, I giiess." "Any particular adventure that i might lie called wonderful?" "Why. Ves: I did have one." rei.lil the mau, after relighting his old ei-'ai stump. "I didn't think it any great ..shave myself, but the lys cracked it ! up as something extra." " "Let lis hear about it,"' said the judge, as he passed him a Havauna. "Well, one day alut three v ears ago I was coming west with tin lightning express, ami w as running to make ii lost ti III. Down here alxmt tucnti miles two roads cross, as you w ill see, i ami there are a lot of sv -itches and sidetracks. J had just whistled for the i crossing and put on the brakes, w heni- the coupling between the tender and! baggage car broke." "I see, I see," murmured the judge. "At the same moment something went wrong with old No. 40 alid I could not shut off steam. She sprang away like a Hash, and as she struck tht crossing she Jeft the track and entered a meadow filled with stumps " . "Good heavens!" "She kept a straight course for alxiiil forty rods. -(iiashiug the si unqis ev cry second, and then Iea)H a ditch, truck the rails of the D. V If., road, and aflei a wobble or two settled down and ran for twoluiles." "Amazing! Amazing!' "Then, at a crossing, she left tin metals, entered a cornfield, and, beat ing lo the right, plowed her way acros. the country until sho came to our nut. road again. She had a long jump ie make over a marsh, but she made it, struck th- fails, and away she went.' "You - don't - say - so!'' fc "I was now Uiiind my I rain, am! after a run of two miles I got control of the engine, ran lip and coupled ti the palace car, and went into Ashtoii pushing the train ahead of iW.'' "Great Scott!" And was no out hurt?" "Not a soul, and not a thing broken. The siijn'1 intemlent played a nn-ai trick ou me, though." "How?" "Why, the fanner who owned the meadow paid the company fix forth' stumps I had knocked out for him while the corntield man charged $! fol damages. The superintendent pock' cted the balance of the money." 'The scoundrel! And how much arc you paid a month?" "Ninety dollars." "That's for running on the toad?"' Yen." "And nothing for Iv'iii"?" "N..t a red.- ' "That's an outrage. The siiperin fctident is an old friend of mine, and I II see that you get tin- ou th otumpage and a salary of 'o a mont! as icing as you live. It is sjich m you who make a line jiopular." ACENTS FOR THE- i i I I A imrvn tiuui AMI rvn t rprr TO Till- CITY OF MI1SIS0K0. THIS EXCELLENT PROPERTY HAS HITHERTO BEEN ENVIOUSLY LOOKED UPON Hy HomeseeUers, hut its owner pre? fcrrcl to retain it. It however, lieen recently pureliriMetl fit m very motleivite priee ly u synciieme of our n iost ei lterpriKing men who, to sup ply the lei no i ul for NICMLY LOCATED LOTS, :: !: MODI-JUT!; AT A v- 4 tm IImvo ha.l n lainl Mirvovi'il aud thrown nju u at pricoa from lor wnlo $100.00 TO SI5.00 FOR LOTS SO FT. X ISO FEET. i Location Best in Torxin. ONLY ONE BLOCK FROM PUBLIC SQUARE, :-: :-: GROUND SMOOTH, CLEAR AND DRY. Now is your CTiana. Don't I May. Terms Ltsy. ::.';jT)ora9, Bari?ard 9 Jlpori?, eits. An Kkjj With Window. ! A FronHi scientist who nMiiovM the 1 licll on ciilicr Mile if an vx wit limit , iiijiirui tin mt'iiilminc, in patches aiMMii me size i tiu i:ili)i-trr of a jmm, I anl Miujrlv fitteil the ieimir' with j mis ii jiass, rivs the !( 1 low inr ro- j Krf of tliti vvomlerfiil oxix-rimeiit : I ! jilacetl the e-r with the ' jrlass hull' ! ves in an iiiculiutnr run !y lo k vvork mul revolving once e.-u-h hmir. so that I i hal the lileasiire ,,f look in- tllrmi.rli uiil vvatchin the change niton flu; hi ile at the enl of each itv minutes. J No changes were noticeahle until after the eml of the twelfth hour, when some of tie lineament of the h'Ml an. I IxmIv of the chirk male their apiwaranees. The heart aie:ti-el to beat at th en. I of the. twenty-fourth hour, and, in fort y-ei-ht hours two ves-u-ls of !. ..) were ilistinjriiish'!, the jnils.it ions e. in juite visible. At the. fiftieth hour an auricle of the heart atMKarel. miieh reseml.linjr a "are, or noose, fohleil down uihui itself. At the eml of eeyenty hours we distinguished vvins nd two u!lle for the brain, one for a bill and two others for the forepart and hindpart of the head. The liver apM'ared at the end of the lifth day. At the end of 1:51 hours the" first voluntary motion vv as observed. At tli eml of l.'W hours the lun-s and Btomarh had Ix-emne visible, ami four hours later the iute-tim-s, the loins and tin' upier mandible could l listin flushed. The slim matter f brain ! ;aii to take form and Im-coiii compact ul the lM'ritiitinr of t hi' seventh day. At the I'.Nith hour the bill first ojhmiciI, ami flesh U'-raii to ailear ou the j breast. At th.- l'.Mili th.- sternum :tt ! IM-ared. At the -.'loth hour the libs had . In'-iiii lo put out fmni th; ba k; Ihe I bill waspiite tiibfe as was M the all blahler. At the lnjjiii nin f the l';!ith hour the bill had Is-conie jjrcfii, ; nml it wasevideiit that th chick could , have imvel had it I -ecu t.ik.ii iiom the I hell. 1'our hours nimv and feathers i had commenced to shoot out and the ukull f become ;;ris ly. Atfh Jiilth ! hour Hie eves ajs an'd and tw bonis ; later the ribs were jH fe t. Al th "Wist hour the spleen drew up to the j stomach and the Iiiiis lo the che.t. : When the incubator had turmsl the ; epsXto time the l.ill was f reipi-nt I v ; ojN-niii and closing, as if the chick was a-piii for breath. Wh.n : hours lial -lapx- we heard I he first ; cry of Ihe lit 1 1.- iinpiisms bibed. From that lime forward lie e;r w rapid ly, ami came out a full-tleded chick at th- ioi-r time. PORTUGAL'S NEW KING. His foil nrr) Him In New- York My a an Km-i'llpiil VtxniK Man, All excellent character is e;iven by the Portuguese f this citv, avs the ?. V. Hi rafif, to he v oiiii-ilnke'of Urac il na, v ho, as ( "alios J.. will suct''M Kin-j: Luis as ihe ruler of ritual. I ini wiiii.- oi i ii i ran-eim-iu tor lightltijf the ciw at a who have met h.m. sn.l all said that he certain hour each riffzht and turning it - - ........ I'lwii- .t MiiHifi i mi ii arc ii and ev-r retain the affection of his mib- i.ils I Ijamptt filghteii ly ClocirorJt. For nome time past pedestrians on State street have remarked a peculiar attachment to the lamppost at the cor tier of State and Devonshire at reet , aud many have lieen the surmises as to the contents of the little iron box and it tisanes. Superintendent Allen of the lamp department aula It was an ar- out a certain hour in the morninir. In fact, ft is a newly invented machine destined to do the work nt Ihn bimii. 1'aidlnrAlllleirim, (lieeotisul-irt-neral llL'hter. with the slmrle eveentloii of of I (jrtiial in this city. isoneif those , cleaning the lamp, it has u clockwork who i have made the voun luke ne. nrrantfemeut, which is no r.'tfiilnted piaintatice I found him nt the con-j that it conform to the moon's changes f iliate. 14 earl streei. and he told me j ami lights the pis and puts it out early that iu every way the youn man will . or late, according to thetullness of the prove a tilting Mi.-.-. ssor t King Luis. I moon or chan;n in tiine of rising er Jh oung luk is Kplemlidly en. ' -ttinfr, low-l. ' both plsi. aUy and mentally," The iMachlne is about the hap- of a he pmn( l out. -He has received a I ear, ami contains ,4 dock of the elght-irst-rate cdii.-ati.Mi. and in field kihmi day pattern, w hich in turu is attached he can ho d his own with nny man of to a fulminate cylinder in w hich nre his nge. Distinguished men liaveiMle i 4X small pit holes tilled with a water, as his tutors and he has also received a! proof fulminate compound or enough ...uvciMiv i ra i n.ng. ti sh.K.fing he is to last a whole year. In i.lace of the fomlaiul is a dead shot. IlesiMMidsi hIui very a good 1 ! open cglect air, cts his I'ollin Mild (ii-MVCkloiir. . me. Dernhardl lias li-xs l( c.lliu that she had lHHighl atin-t Ihe time of h.-r burial. sav the ' Matt tiazettr. Hut the original Sarah has Wen -cliise. in the matter of anti-i-patory dealings with the undertakers.' In the hurting ground attach.-! lo a certain f.r. tly church there is to I. wen a curious object iu the sha..' ,.f a large black tombstone, laid on an on-iM-ciipie. grave. It is the proM-rtv of an eccentric lady, w ho w i.hes all" the arrangement for lu-r funeral to be conducted in strict accordam-e with her own views. To this end she has al ready sell I. -d many preliminaries, in. i eluding not only the purchase of the1 grave she is to rest in, but also the fetone which is to cot r li r. ami here I it lies already in s,-iiion am only 1 awaiting the final inscription. At prew nt only the initials of the proud owner are graven on th.. fool. The : il of his fimi in the o I . . ... i . uui ai ine same time never " llitellectllal pursuits. "With the jM'opIe he Is extremely ular, ing lo his good nature and atlability, Ileis etcr ready fo listen to ! , grievance ami to redress t hem If he can I do w .. ' How aliout Portugal' Ii nances, j batiXi?" I asked. j "The country's credit is good," he j replied, ''though the public debt has ; somewhat increased of late. There j j absolutely no iopular discontent on I that account, and I am Mire Ihe Mople j are satisii.-d (hat the new king vtilL look nut for t h. ir interest on all cm. caion." llaon d'Aliiieirim fuilher said that he had rec.-it e no new iu regard lo the forthcomiugioronatioii, but that Im was cm, lid,. nt that tt would Imi a i-plcmli.l (riv nt. I'hc royal head of Iaiiox-, he sai.i would -it Imt attend in N-rxtii or send tilling represent- j live, and the ceremony it.clf would lie conducted in prcxciicc of the mem Iter of parliament, w dose duty it would Im lo . the oath administered to Carlo I. pledging liiiu lo kp the constitu tion, i 1'oltugal Is-ing, in a s-ne, the' mother count rt of Itra.il, Ihe Kra.iU iaus of I hi cif t ar' almost a much in teiestcd in the approaching coronation j H ihe 1'orlugllese are, J'he preM'lit ' inH-ror f lrail i a n-ar relative of Ihe late King l.ui. and I lie subject of the two monarch hate nlttats taken a i lit It inl lest iu each ol tier's Welfare. FV lhee r.Msoii il i considered pn-tlt j O il till by New Vol k III aill. Ml Unit, i among the mot couspicuou ligiuc at i Ihe coi enal ion W ill In' flic ellls'lor of' Itra.il or hi reprewnlal ite. In IV. i gar I lot In new king New York Hrazil. ians say that they hate heard noihlngj lo his discredit, and that a he ha a son, here i no reason why hi lineage should not continue lo rule over I'ortu. attached to a cylinder, and w hen the hands of the clock point to the del; i uted hour, the cylinder is turned by a ratchet hating the name number of teeth us there are pit on the circular of the cylinder, a spring i loosened, the gas turned on, and u small hummer strikes one of the lilt hole, and the result is that th. gas is lighted at a uniform hour all over the city, or wherever the appliance is uttitcho. Hy a simple mechanism after the ga is lighted the reverse I the order, and at the same time nt which Ihn clock i set iu the morning the ga I turned off nil over the city. A man in only ie- piired to visit each street lamp by the new arrangement once a week to clean the lamp, ami at the name time to wind the clock; or, if he should happen lo miss a day the work w ill be performed fust the same by this automatic lamp ighter, a the clock tun nine day. Jiuntou Jli raid. l'addy'a llrtuht Idea. Il Haa AIwhjs lleen Ho, ... ).. si ion i Mini iii in., prime life and iu redundant health. of Over ."(J.insi lite iiai!s pass through the hands of one commission merchant a'oue iu New York every fall and tviu-tcr. The Chinese hate a tradition thit over J;f,M tear ago then was a law in that empire aimed at the fellow who wanted fo borrow a lite until Sal. iirdiy, ton kiioM, but who never re rm-mls-red when Saturday night came around. I'mlcrthai law i he)- lost their heads, but iu these days no law call touch them. Ihlroit Free, l'rc, CtiincM Journal. The I'd in (hi'.ettc asserts that 1.900 of it editor have Imm-ii beheaded. The Journal in question claim to have been in existence for a thotisaud year. Here I n slightly irreverent story from the Christian at Wurkt An IiUli man was ordered lo make a colllu, w hich he did. and to paint Ihe inset lp. lion on the it, which he did aflej a fashion that caused a little excitement in the churchy ard Itydinl of billow ing the written copy, he managed lo get as far a "Michael O'Hairertt. ng'l " bul, try as he Would, lie could Hot imitate (he fweul t. eight. ' At last he I cmcmhcrcd that he could write seven, and Ihe four s-veii made twenlt-t-ighl. So he finished (he in scription, ' iigeil seven thousand seven hundred ami setcnl vset en," When they came to bury Michael the colllu stood at the grate side, ami the priest sjsike as follows: "Ah, he was a fine lad. He' laying there so still, taken away iu Ihe Very prime of life, Yinng lie was, imi, only " Here the priest looked down at the colli n plale lo see how old Michael was. "He was only," said his reverence again, and he put hi glasses on. and went nearer to see how old he really was. "He was only," he continued, "seven thousand, seven hundred uud eve n ly.se ten. The i'orth HrlUtte. The sustaining power of the Tort.li bridge, iu Scotland, may I imagined from the statement that each cunt iTuyer would sustain sU of the greatest iron-clad. .1 w? ' .' X ) i y