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I propose o keel) the best goods that 1 can get t nd will alwvays studyV the interests of y patrons anid give themi full weight e und mecasuire and sell cheap and only or Cash. Mr. A. D. Lovelace is with me and -1 ill be haippy to see his friends andt be public generally. t B. H. Lovelace. A FULL LINE OF ats, Boots, Shoes,I Trunks, Clothing, &c. &c., an be found At the LOWEST PRICES, t the OLD ESTABLISHMENT f -OF- C 42t!M. FOOT. animwwanted for The Lives of all Presidents of the U. S. The laget handsomest best t book ever sold for less than pice our price. The fastest selling book In America. immense profits to agents. ] 11 intelligent people want It. Any one Islt BokN o ,M e. ~ottrn. LITTLE MISCIIIEF. :ittle Mischief keeps the hounehohl In a constant hub-bub boo. i she's quiet, then 'tis eev tain, She is deep in mischief. to. 11 about the house she travels, Restless, busy little elf. . she spies some hidden treasure, Reaches up and helps herself. Lhere's no use to reprimand l her; She looks up in blank surprise, Vith her b:iby lips a-tremble, And reproachful, tear-dimmed eyes. Iamma thinks herself a hcathen, Such a baby girl to scald. Vhy of course, she knows no bette: Mischief isn't two years old. ,J we put our little trinkets Higher up beyond her reach, tud with loving smiles and kiss s, Rights of otkers try to teach. iet we know we ought to scold her ()nty for the mastery strives.) ittle Mischief, blessed darling! She's the comfort of our lives. -Sarah E. Eastman, in Gollen days. t1tttD tar!. M1L1IAY HEROES1 Coal-dust, cinders, oil and smoke isually make firemen on duty rath r grimy-looking personages. Per aps few among the thousands who ide in the railroad cars behind us ould care for our acquaintance. ut we are useful-as useful, per aps, as any other class of men; .nd certainly we have our full hare of the hard, disagreeable hings in life, including frequent erils and much exposure to weath r. Working up from fireman to en ine-driver-or "engineer" as we re usually called in. this country 3 often a slow process. There are ien on our line-the I~udson Riv r railroad-who have been firing leven years, with no promotion et: though they are no doubt ful y competent to run an engine. or promotion depends almost rholly upon vacancies occurring, r some special influence at head uarters. A man ought to become familiar ith a locomotive in eleven years. thought I knew every screw in line after firing two years. Yet takes a good deal of time to arn to fire well, so as to get the iost steam out of the least fuel, nd have the highest pressure at lie grades where it is most needed. 'o do this a man should know the oad, every rod of it, as well as the ngine. Then comes the oiling. An en ine requires a great deal of oil, s well as coal and water. The reman has to keel) in mind all hose scores of bearings where oil as to be applied. Between oiling, hoveling in coal, shaking and stir lng up his fire-to keep it steady .d hot-and looking to his stock f coal and water, lie is kept busy and must needs watch sharply. ~ut a man gets these duties well xed in his head in time. It is while "firing" that the prac ical knowledge of running an en ine is gained. A fireman is the room. so to speak, of tile '-iron orse" iIe must, morning and venling, have the engine polished, fixed tip," and ready for his supe-. ior, the engineer, to step into tile ab and start off. Usually the en ;ineer does not make his appear nce till the moment of connecting rith tihe train. Between the en ;ineer and his fireman there exists .n easy-going and manly sort of riendship, though I have known ases where the two men detested ach other. When I began to fire under "D)oc" ~immons, I scarcely knew enough o build a good fire in a cook-stove, ,d could not have found a quarter if the oil-caps. It must have been ,trial to him the first week or two lut he never gave a sharp word hough he often had to tell me ings over and over again. "Doc"--as the railway men all aled him-was superior engineer. Ie knew every pound of metal in ,locomotive; just where it lay, and ow much it was good for. He ras one of those men who seem to eel just what there is in a loco notive the moment he takes hold f the levers and starts up). iIe ras a good-hearted fellow, and al. rays had a pleasant word or a joke 11 along the line, and it is general y the case that snch men (do not al the company o:- the publie at a ritical moment. I went home and cried like a ba y the day "Doc" was killed. If Shad been my own father I could ot have felt half as badly. I ac ually wished that I had gone to e bottom of the river with him. It was the night of the 6th of ebruary, and fearfully cold. We ad "No 117" then, and took out from New York city, up the line ti Albany. It was a bitter night. an the line was frosty and slippery. The express was always a heav; train. The night we had thre, baggage and express cars and eigh passenger coaches, and we wer late out of New York, to begin witl --about fifteen minutes, I think. Such cold weather is always de moralizing to a railroad It i much harder to make time, all met al works bad, and though the fir appears to burn brighter, it take more coal to make steam. Th train seems to hang t , the line Then too, the cutting wind i enough to freeze the marrow in man's bones. It might have been mostly fanc on my part, but I thought -Doe had an odd look in his .face tha night, as he got into the cab. H1 was more serious than usual, for w both knew we had a hard run befor us, and a cold one. Both of ti were muffled up in fur caps an old oveicoats. "Shove in the coal, Nick, an shake her down smart. We wan every ounce of steam to nigit, says Doe. '-Fifteen miantes behim and eleven cars on ! Those slecp i ig coaches are as hr avy as a whol block, too. I'm glad this is double tiack line, and all clea ahead.' We pulled out, and frum the wa, )oc handled her, I knew that io meant to pick up the fifteen minute if it was in the old machine to d< it. I suppose we made thirty mile; an hour-perhaps forty-on thi level stretches. On we went, reeling off the dark bleak miles, with the sharp winc cutting into the cab, till near Nev Hamburg station, where the lino then crossed Wappinger creek or the trestle bridge which had "draw" in it. It was a comfort tc think that the draw would certainl) be open on such a night, for thi creek was frozen up. Ah, if it were only permitted tc trainmen to know just what is aheai on the tracks on these black bitte nights ! But we can only see whal the head-light shows us; and ofter the signals seem strangely obscure in fog, or in driving rain and snow. One of those always possibl( "breaks," which may not occur foi years, but are yet constantly liable to happen, had occurred that night One of the South-bound night frieght-trains, running down tc New York. broke an axle and go one of its midile cars off the rails before reaching the bridge. How far thy dragged the car it that condition, no one knows; for it was so cold that the conductor and all the br:akmen were huddled in the caboose behind. But they found it out after a time, and slow ed down as the train got on the bridge. As they camne to a stand-still two or th~ree other cars jumped the track; and one of these ,an oil-ear, with a long tank on it. broke it: coupplings-and v ; shove dovc r or to the up-line of ; tk-our line where it stood SidL .-ise across tih< rails. The accident male great confus ion with the omen on the freight but they claimed that they got out their signal-' anterns as soon a: they could. andl that it was not: minute before we came up. As we shot along past the dark station and out toward the bridge I saw the white steam of the freight train. -'We shall l'ass No. 19 right by time bridge," I)oc said. Both of us were looking, Doe or his side and I on mine. Suddenly, right ahead. we saw red lantern swinging on our track at the head of the bridge. "-God save us, D)oc !" I shouted 'the draw's open !' "Spring the patent brake !" h< said to me-that was what we called tihe air-brake, then-and in a mo ment we had shut off, reversei and whistled for the hand-brakes But we were going at a greal speed. In a moment more we ha! come alongside the freight engine and out on the bridige we saw th< oil-car right across our rails ! It ha! a look of death in it. I swung oul on the step). "-Shan't y-ou jump. Doc?" I cried lie stood with his back to me lookino ahead. but turned when ] called'out. 1 .shall never forgel that last look he g:sve me. lie dii not speak, but his look seemed t< say, "Yes, you may as well jumi but I mnust stick to my post.' lHe barely !ooked round to me but made no answer, then looke< ahead again. Then I jumped-went heels ove head along the side of time embank ment leading to the bridge, rollet over and over. and landed down o1 the ice of the creek, near the ab)ut ment. which I had scarce touche< when I heard time crash, as our en gine struck the oil-car. With the collision came a sudden brilliant flash of light ! Everything above me, the whole bridge and thb cars on it seemed wrapped in: blaze of fire ! At the same instant, too, there as a Anul long, taing crash 3 The trestle had given way beneath I the strain. Down came our engine, th. three y baggage cars, a passenger car, and e I (lou't know how many freight t cars of the other train. on to the e ice. The whole wreck, as it fell h down. seemed enveloped in flames for the oil had splashed over every ' thing. and the blazing coals from I s the fire-box exploded it on the in. stant. 3 When the engine struck the ice, s it broke through, and with a hiss a went to the bottom of the deep water there; and on top of it came s tumbling down all the other cars. I For a moment following the crash there was an almost complete silence; then agonizing screams, and prayerful cries for help from t the imprisoned passengers. I We who were not disabled did what e we could. The seven rear cars did e not run into the chasm. but two of s them burned on the track, along I with a number of freight cars. I Twenty-one of the passengers were 1 killed outright, and a still greater t number were injured. ' As we worked there in the noise, 1 heat and awful confusion of that night, I cast many an anxious e glance round for Doc, hoping and a half expecting that he had got clear r and would be at work with us try ing to get o it the passengers. But F I saw nothing of him, and by day a break I felt sure that he had gone s down with the engine. The locomotive was not hauled s up out of the water till the next e week. Then we found his body jammed down under the engine on the bed of the creek. His hands. I face and c'othes had been ,co:ch d; but whether lie was drowned, or a burned to death. w-, could not tell. ie had met his death at hisspost t of duty; gone out of the wor:d with his hand on the lever; ~giving his own life that the lives of others might be saved-a man of whom any people may be proud. t isttI1anccns. WIND-SOUNDS IN TIIE DES ERT. The travelers tales of sounds like the ringing of bells, which they have heard in descrts and lonely places, are familiar. Some of them are two well substantiated to admit of serious dispute. Among them is that of the noises heard at the Gebel Nakus, in the Sinaitic peninsula; the musical cliffs of Orinoco, told of by IIumboldt; and the sounds which the French ser vants, Jollois and DJevilliers, de clare they heard at sunrise at Kar nak, Egypt, andl described as com p)arable to the anc'ent fable of the v-ocal Mem non. Tfhe sounds are not always or exactly like the ringing of a bell; sometimes they resemble the music of a string. and may be geraljly described as of an inter m nediate character between the two c 'asses. A characteristic of the sounds is that no one caL discern -where they come from. M. Emile 'Sorel. fils, in order to determine their origlin, has made some success fuil experiments in reproduicing thema atificially. Taking his gun into an open field, he placed it at an angle of forty-five degrecs against thme wind, when it gave forth~ a soundl. Then moving it around, lie caused it to utter the exact tone lie sought. The sound could not be localized.- Addresing a peasant, lie asked him. "D)o you hear my gun?" "Pardon, mnon sieur, it is the bells o--." A 'similar answer was got from every one whose attention was called to 'the noise. it was believed to come from abcut two miles and a half to the windward. M. Sorel believes this experiment authorizes the hy pothesis that the ringing is the re sult of the blowing of the wind over a slope at the foot of which is something that may act as a resona tor. What is done on a small scale in a gun may be done on a large scale in nature, on the face of a mountain or a rock which is backed by a valley or a ravine, or which is itself elastic enough to give the re sonant efTect. The sounds are ap parently not as readil1y given when the vibrating surfaces and media are moist.-Popular Seimio. ALL (OING TociTH1Ea.-Little Nell- Oh! I have such good news. Mamma and papa and I are all go ing to another city to live. Visitor-Indeed! Yiou amaze rme. What city is it? 1|Little Nell-It has such a funny name. It is called Harry, and it is an awful old city. :1Visitor-Oh! I guess you heard the name wrong. Little Nell-Oh! no, I didn't. It was at the breakfast table. Pa pa told mamma to go to the old SHarry, and mamma told papa to go' a there himself, and then I asked them to take me, and they didn't esay anything, but I know they1 wihm .-Piladelphia Call. A SILEN T ARGUMENT. Says the Lahore (India) Gazette: Long ago there flourished in Persia an academy called that of Silence, whose tenets inculcated a vast amount of thought. a very little writing, and no talking at all. The number of academicians was strict ly limited to one hundred. One of the members (lied, and at that very time there was living at the other extremity of Persia a most learned mai, Zeeb by name. No sooner had he heard of the vacancy in the academy of silence than, seized with a laudable desire of filling it, he posted up as fast as horse could carry him. Meanwhile a court fav orite, renowned for his talking pro pensities, had been installed in the vacant place. The consternat:on of the fellows may therefore be im agined when the learned Zeed sent in his name as craving adinittanc2. The president determinea to give h:mn an audience in full council to show their regret. Zeeb, therefore. was ushered in, and the president, taking a glass, filled it as ful of water as it could possibly hold, so that another drop of water would cause it to overflow. Zeeb understood the allegory, but, seeing a rose leaf lying on the floor, he picked it up and placed it gently on the water. which did not run over. The members were so charmed at this that they instantly admitted himi a member, regardless of all rults to the contrary. The bo>k was brought for him to sign his name in, which he did, adding the numerals 100, and then prefixing a nought thus, 0, 100? showing the number and worth of the academy was not increased by his admit tance. However, the president, charmed with so much modesty in so learned a mian, scratched out the nought and added a oqe in its place, 1,100-thus implying that the academical worth was increased tenfold by his presence. H.A4B1'S YIOTII EI:. Oh, little baby. all pink, and wrinkled, and ugly as you are in men's eyes, how sweet you are to your mother! Heaven knows why and Heaven only-I say it reverent ly -Ileaven that sent you. A wo man who has never loved a baby is not half a woman. She does not know what love can be. In every other phase of love there is some selfishness. In that which we feel for our baby there can be none. W hat does it bring to a mother, this morsel of humanity, but pain, and fear, and weakness, deprivation of pleasure, and vigils many and long Yet the love she has for it pays for all. It is a passion-though it has never been called so-the strangest, sweetest, purest passion~ possible. When a lover's lips touch hers a girl looks fatir and bright, and as beautiful as she ever will in life, so that those who see her envy and admire; yet her emo tions may then be merely an equal mixture of love and vanity. When a mother kisses her first babe she is often pale and far from beauti. fl, but never in her life has such a depth of tenderness dwelt in her soul; necver was she so near per. feetion; for all that we women have of goodl and true in our hearts has its'l>ase in moth 'r love. It is from this that our power to care for our householis, to do our duty as d aughlters, sisters, and wives, must principally spring. The woman simrply capable of romantic emotion may have lovers by the score, but is never true to one. and is always selfish to the heart's core, grasping all she can, and giving nothng. The women with strong mother-love in their souls give that-though in less degree than to their babes-t( all they love; and so is home built as the nest by the mother-bird. LOOKING FOR A k'RIEND.-"Do you know a Colonel Smith of this city?' asked a staanger of a Louis ville man. sterel, te "Oh, yes,' a h el,"hr he is now, standing on the opposite corner." "No, that is not the gentlemanI refer to. My friend is a taller man.' "Well, there is Colonel Smith just coming out of the post office the gentleman with the slouch hat." "No. neither of them is the mar that I am in search of. The manJ want is a smooth faced, thick-sel man, and achieved some distinctiori in the late war." "The late warf' said the Louis ville citizen. "I guess I am noi acquainted with him. Ther'e is nc Colonel Smith in this city that know of who ever had anything t< (10 with war." WVhen you see a married mar hugging a wooden Indian in fron1 of a cigar store at midnight, it is sure sign that there'll be a storn before morning. Never present a gift, saying thal iti ofn no nse in vourself. HIGH LIFE IN ENGLtND. The Earl of Euston, the future Duke of Grafton, is about to begin the much talked of suit for divorce from his wife, on the plea that the lady's first husband was living at the time of her second marriage. The Countess will submit in de fence that when she married her first husband she supposed him a widower, but he proved to have another wife, and when she learned this she abandoned him. The case promises to be exceedingly interes ting. Thirteen years ago Henry Fitzroy eldest son of LordAugustus Fitzory, fell in love with a woman known as "Kate Cook." She was hand some and stylish in person, and her matured charms were quite suf ficient to captivate the youth of twenty-three. Unknown to his fa. ther, who was Equerry to the Queen he married her. Most chronicles of the peerage ignored the marriage Others described the bride as the daughter of John Walsh and the widow of "Mr. Smith." In 1882 the bridegroom's social position changed. Lord Augustus Fitzroy succeeded his brother as seventh Duke of Grafton. Henry Fitzroy became Earl of Euston. The win dow of "Mr. Smith" became Coun tess Euston and the future Duchess of Grafton. But troubles had al ready come between her and her husband. They separated by mu tual agreement. No fault being proved against the Countess since her marriage, the Earl in vain sought an excuse for divorce. The myst2 rious."Mr, Smith" has now appeared a-id the excuse is found. STURGEON DON'T BITE.--There were four or five of us on the long wharf running out into the Gulf at Mississippi City, and we had been fishing away for half an hour with out any luck when a big fat man named Blake, from Ohio, suddenly called out: "Say, boys, let's have a swim." It was too hot, and we were too lazy, but Blake declared that he'd have a swim by himself. lie off with his clothes, backed down into the water, and for a quarter of a hour hung to a pile and splashed the water, not being able to swim a stroke. By and by he climbed out, but scarcely had his feet touched the plank when one of the men sang out: "By the great horn spoon ! but see there !" Ten feet away from the end of the wharf were two sharks at least seven feet long, and the water was so clear that every wink of their eye could be seen. "Yes, a cuople of sturgeon !" observed Blake'as lie waddled for ward. "I saw 'em hianging around when I went down, but sturgeon don't bite !" When lie came to fully realize what an escape lie had had he sat down on the head of a pile and blubbered like a boy who had stub bed his toe.--31. QUAD. A REcEiPT FOR A DCEL.-In the little town of Rosenberg, West Russia, lived a young and hot head ed lieutenant, who one day had a dispute with a clerk in the gov erment service, and suddenly ex claimed, "You know well enough how to handle your p)en; but I have at home a pair of sharp swords with which 1 can write better.' The other answered, Such playthings ought to be giv en to children who have nothing to lose." T he lieutenant the challenged him to fight with pistols. 'Very well,' the clerk replied, "I accept your offer, on one condition. You know I have a wife and chil dren for whom I must care. My income is four' thousand five hun dred marks. If you will deposit a sum sufficient to yield that interest, I am willing to fight. In that case you must place to my account ninety thousand marks." "But," stammered the astonish ed officer, "I have no fortu.ne." "A b, sir, those who possess noth ing have no right to ask men who must work for other people to fight duels" IThe duel never took place. KAN A MBITIOUs BlOY.-"No use talking" said young Tlommny, "I am bound to do something to get rich when I grow up." "I fear that you are learning to love money too well," remarked his father, sadly.. 'o"said Tommy, "I don't care for money for its own sake, but for the good it can do." '-In that case,'' answered the father, brightening, "your ambition is very commendable." t"And will you promise to get me a place where I can become rieb, 1Ob! awfully rich!" -"I will," respondled the father. One week afterward the old man true to his promise, took the boy and got him a situation in a news paper affme ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements insertcd at the rate of $1.00 per square (one inch) for first insertior; and 50 cents for each subsequent insertior. Double column advertisements ten per cen-, on above. Notices of meetings, obituaries and tribut(s of respect, same rates per square as ordinary advertisements. Special Notices in Local column 15 cert per line. Advertisements not marked with the nurr. ber of insertions will be kept in till forbid and charged accordingly. Special contracts tnade with large adver tisers, with liberal deductions on above rates JOB PRIXTI.'G DONE WITH NEATNESS AND DISPATCH TERMS CASH. ON A CUBAN RAfLWAY. A letter from Havana to the Pittsburg Post, describing a Cuban railway, says: Presently an angu. lar mummified negro, who had been frcqncntly passin 'through the train and making himielf generally conspicuous, rings a dinner bell which he holds in his hand, and this is the signal to leave. You might have imagined that this bell-man was connected with the station, and not a pai t of the appa ratus of the train; but that is an error-and at every station there after, when the dinner-bell rang on the platform at the rear end of the train, the engineeralways obey. ed the signal. The train carries three classes of passengers, the third class in front and the first class in the rear. The only difference is in the seating of the car, there being no cushions on the second and third class, and no backs on the seats of the latter. The road is a narrow garge. but it move's rapidly enough, and there are no vexatious delays. Many of the stations are fenced in with barded wire, so that if any one aishing to dt f and t. e aih oad com pany, passes out at the wrong sta tion, or having purchased a ticket for a certain place to which there is cheap fare, tries to get off where the fare is dear, he can be certainly detected. The regulation of the rates, I think, depends perhaps up on the opposition the road may have, and the rates are strangely unjust. It is cheaper for instance, to buy a ticket through to Havana, than it is to purchase one to a cer tain point.not quite half way. It may be possible, too, that the road discriminates against certain points as stich a thing as that has been known even in the States. A GREATr CoMxPoLxEr.-Little Jack-"You nevecr was in the coun try much, I guess, Mr. Popinjay?" Popinjay (delighted)--Do you think so, my little fellow? Well, I have not been in the country for many years, but I used to live there when 1 was a little boy. You would not believe, it, I sappose. Little Jack-"Dunno about that, but I guess sistr would not. I k-now she thinks you never was in the country at all." Popinjay (ttill more delighted) -"A b! Indeed?" Little Jack-'Yes, she said you did not even know beans." A FEMININE V[EW.-Mabel Isnt it awful the way those Wes tern cowboys carry on ?" Edith-Yes; but it is no wonder they are such desperate characters. Mabel-No wonder? Edith-No. They have to b)e as brave as lions, you know, in the first place. Mabel-True; I forgot they had to go nvar cows-Piladelphia Call. "-Yes." she said. "-I always obey my husband, but I reckon I have something to say about what his cammnands will be. A New Yor-k paper says: "Mr. Vanderbilt's mouth looks like a gash in a pumpkin,"and Russell Sage has a mouth like the Missisip pi river." A camel will work seven or eight days without drinking. In) this he differs with some men who drink seven or eight days without work ing. '-Do vou believe in spirits, Mrs. McGinnigle?" "I do, ma'am! Whin the weather is cowld a'ilittle drop does me a power o'good." George and William Elam, broth ers, of Morgan county, Kentucky, are covered with scales like alliga tors. There is always a spot ini our sunshine; it is the shadow of our selves. Tihieves on the stage are always caught in the act. Some men are born fools but most fools are made to order. Everyone praises a success. and most people think they can plan one. If the greatest man who has ever lived, should tell the truth, he would tell you, that how he came to be so great is a wonder great to him. It is oftener the case, that what a man forgets educates him more than what he remembers. A man of a great deal of charac ter cannot hide it. He will betray it even when he sneezes. Every ladder has a top round to