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MM J?5k> JEmI M jj^ ^J1 Jjl^ J^jw1. j!^^ jj^ -, ^s . Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Domestic Eoonom|^^f^JJP^|^^yjj^|^y|^the Current News off the Day. r 1"" l'1' ?" ''^V*^'1 l?rmwfc , ?,.=s==;n--^ ^ ' I H ' rWUIW111 JV <^Um T^sg^-~~?- , , BI HERBERT HAt.t, WINSW*. My ?tory 1b a sad one, and won't take long to tell. To any aort of meter I can aoit It last aa well. You'll understand my misery before the tale la done; tit all began one hapless day -the day I made a And over's loco that fatal boor the people do doTbat I became a humorist, alas I right then and there; Though to be considered serious I'd give a lot of money, Whatever 1 may say or do, tboy will insist It's ' x mrgnt., perhaps, ban since escaped the <Hr?rul consequences. Bad I not penned a feeble Joke when hardly In ray senses. "Twne printed In a paper ot tremendous clrculaAnd I was dubbed a humorist by all the tanghIhg nation. In rain 1 tried to prove myself n libolod Indite' vidua!; The fatal truth confronted roe- the Joke was & ' quite original. Wbero'er I went there followed mo that dreadful jjb -i AotX every uerd t aioOqaroused uproarious each* I If IrSOTw^TOeaaual'tones upon the gloomy When 1 Rare informal lou ot some accident distressing. They roared with mighty merriment exceedingly depressing; And when I failed in htislnoss, and despairing told my wife. 6he,~laughing, vow'd I'd never Iteon so fuuuy In my llfel 1 dressed In somber hlnck, assumed a grim, funereal air. And spoko In woe-enve1o|>od tones, tny fnco distraught with care. 1 weptn little when I could, all steeped in incite! ? ? w nncholy, B BTt' piKUdoonljcJuuclntl eguiii, and whispered, W "Afn't he Jolly I In fact, the more that I became a sncrilVco lo sadness. The more 1 met the wretched glen that drove mo near to madness. ITall half my lime in spent declining pressing To (tumorous banquet* nnil to write lor comic publlcintlouM, And sceuted notes mid Intlors conclied Iri words as swool, us lioney? "Now won't you send your autOgrfipliV niul idouso to luako it funuy." If t should sink beneath my trials, and leave thle mortal splmm. The world would give me credit for tho host joke - < of ilia year; And dottblloHN folks who ciinte to eats upon my 2 tnouunteiit Would And It quite Impossible lo keep tholr laughter pent. *Tfs useless to deny H now, alack I tho mischief's ? <!? done. Ami I must be a humorist, tho' an unconscious ouo. I've only this request to iiinke, which iiomiocnn resist: 1*lease call uto iu my epitaph Ihs "Hurluus Humorist I" ?Harper'* Afaflutitui. THE LITTLE ffAlF. A Storv ftf Ahsnrhinir Inferos! - ^ ij - - . fwwi VIIIQ IIIWI VUld Dy BERNARD HERBERT. [CI1 APTEIl IX.?Contin UKI>. J ( The concluding words of the extortionate demand were fairly shaken ofT the scoundrel's lips. Like nu avnlntielie Boyden l?cnt ovor the table and Eonnced upon bis victim. lie seized im with both hands by ttie neck, raised him from his seat., and brought his ueud down with Hitch crashing power upon the table that the thing wnw shattered in ruins, the candle was extinguished, and the combatants went down upon the floor in a deadly grapple among tile debris. Bo sudden, so wholly uiiex peoted was the attack that Oarland never recovered his breath, and scarcely his reason. For a minute or two the suggestive tumult of hoarse breathing and deeper_ a. - ;.t a t ? ? * m*) wnuung iiisiuroeu ii|? sepuicurai quiet of tho den, und then all won alien t. In tho pitchy dnvkneaH, with his long, muscular hands atill griping tiie throat of his victim with the firmness of n professional strangler, Hoyden bent his head and pressed hiseur to the region of the man's heart. Thero was no pulsation there; only n faint whirring as of a clock's spring that has broken and rnn down. With a low exclamation ho loosed liis hold, and the inanimate head fell buck upon the floor. "God!" gasped the coward, staggering to his feet; "I've killed him!" A wandering gust of wind swept aronnd the house, and rattled at the slinttors with an eerie rapping. "I can't stand this," he panted, his blood flying with terror into the recesses of his craven heart; "I had better go now, and come baok for the will to-morrow. No ono will And him here." And suiting the notion to the words, ho felt liis way to the wall; nnd grojied aiong until Ire ri Castiug a fearftil glance Imek into the pregnant darkness he had left l>e ) hind, as thongh he half expected to s:>e the blood-suffused, lurid eyes of his ~ ' strangled victim glaring after him in hot pursuit, he stumbled out upon the stair landing, and grasped the rnil. Hark! what was that ? the scurry of a vat, or the stealthy souffle of invisible feet? Look! The outer door is hanging open npon its hinges nt tho foot of the stairs, and tho wan light of the night is falling in ! Who has opened that door? The wind? Noi There it goes again with $ts slip, slip, swish! God! it iu behind him, somewhere in tho capacious jaws of the darkness! With a strangling oath of terror in his throat, and griping the rail firmly, tho miscreant raised his irum 1110 uour, aim sprang on into spaco. Blam-hang ho wont down over iho resounding stairs, tho echoes of the hollow building taking up and magnifying tho clatter of his d< scent, until it socmrd as though a hordo of furion wero in full cry in l>i* wake. It was a miracio that ho did not dish his bruins out, or maim himself; but, then, 'tis aid the dovil protects his own. Breathless ho reached the door, pulled it efter him with a deafening crash, and sprang away up the deserted road. Like a startled animal he ran until he reached the avenue, where, * completely spent, he leaned against a tree-trunk to recover his breath. There were lights hero, and vagrant sounds of stirring life. Half a dozen caroles* men and women passed on the rpposlto aide, singing a popular song i&Lv-' *, ; ->r; ><? brewery dray rumbled into view. tl Max Boyden saw all this, and a sense tl of his ridiculous behavior stirred within him-. fi "What an ass I ami" he muttered, ? the hot blocd tingling into his blanched T. face; "there could have been no one in " the house, and what had I to fear from a tlmt breathless carcass 1 Confound my nervousness. The work is only half * ' dono; since the will is in existeno?, I must secure it, or I shall never rest " easy. To-morrow will not do; I liad a bettor never run the risk of being seen about here. Come, como; courage! I ti ; will return, search the place thorough- d ly; and do the thing up brown once and w for all. Thon good-by forever to this cursed city!" el Ho felt for his match-safe, and find- p ing it in place and well filled, he re- w traced his steps to the old granary with ti ^^^^a si so approached it in silence, hi* footfalls being muffled by the carpet of dead gross. Holding his breath, he gained at the door; the padlock hung open upon the hiisp. He laid hold of the latch and w push, d, pushed firmly, with all his I strengtu, but pushed in vain. T* It hsd liecn lioltod on the inner side! "My G(k1 !" he gas|>cd, a dent lily sickness coming ovor him; "there is Homo la one inside!" Aii<1 like a lynx he stole away, oven p< mora silently than ho had come. ci vr. CHAPTER X. tiik hicckrt of tub oi.d uuii.dino. Meanwhile |?oor little Gracie Gar- d< land, fairly launched upon the world, a di total stranger in a groat city, alone and h< penniless in the night, hurried away G from the only shelter alio might claim, fr as though her immortal soul depended upon the haste slio made. wi Naturally she chose the inost bril- in liantly lighted thoroughfare, instinctively seeking protection in her forlorn m (light. It was not vet late, and the' ti street was well tilled wltlrpeople pass- ning to and fro, none of whom liocded her in tho slightest degree. Thoreforo, hr she trudged on, buried in her own bit- a ter thoughts until she found herself yc surrounded by the Hare and clatter of ( ut Third avenue. ni Here a group of showily dressed, ill- *" < bred men accosted her, but alio bent her head, and hurried ou, crossing the ?r avenue, aud following tho street as it i Ik leads to the river. he Presently the lights liegnnto twinkle "I farther apart, the houses dropped off, and were succeed* d by large fenced in- he closures for storing lnmber; even the h< line of crosR-town horse-cars coased, 1* and at last the river; its broad bosom T' dimpling darkly, and reflecting here and there an occasional light, which of served but to accentunte its gloom, gl spread out I efoio her. . b< Slie walked to the edge of the pier, w aud in sheer exhaustion leaned u)>on one of the massive spiles. ^ Beneath her she could hear tho water, th swollen by the risen tide, lapping and hi sucking in and out with restful, mystic 111 sound. She listened, and looked off over the swiftly flowing plain to where, ilcross t.In* slur-lit ninrlil uliv ....... ?J, ....6I..VUVO of black clouds drifted l>eforc the wind. Two great tears welieii from the e3 depths of her bountiful eyes and fell upon licr benutiful Imiuls. R1 "Oh, why should I not die and end ^ all here?" she murmured, coming to a hi realizing sense of her surroundings with u start; "who cares for ine now, and what have I to live for?" f?l And the stars twinkled at her with' r? kindly eyes, and the refreshing wind putted in lior feverish face, raising the d? soft brown hair upon her brow with 8* friendly touch. hi "No, no I don't look at mo so; don't hi caress mo!" she cried, addressing the 81 stars and the wind in a wandering way; P1 "you only mock me! Show me whore I can lav my head in safety to-night and I will beliuvo you." tr Then her eyes sank to the purling d< river, and its gurgling voice scorned to 'n say: pi "Hero is rest!" "i If sho had been found next morning floating dead upon those peaceful waves I lie ncwspniiers would lmve said I that alio had, in all probability, eoni- ?n mitted suicide iu a moment of mental h< aberration. And if they hail ?aid bo P' they would have spoken truly, ainee, for the time being, the poor, distracted hi child had taken leave of her senses. tli It is safe to! nay that within two 8? mi tin tea there would have been a splash in the river, and another soul tli launched* upon that unknown shore I'1 whence there is no returning; such tl1 would have been the cane but for the w unexpected interference of fate. 8' - With her eyes fixed upon heaven, b; in. 1.VK.LS tition for mercy trembling upon her 7 lips, Oracle was about to take the ' plunge, when presto! darkness en- b veloped her, some stifiing material en- h wrapped her in its folds, and while tl hliu felt herself raised in strong arms, she heard un excited voice pant-: w "I've got her! Quick, lend mo a h hand!" Then there was a senrrying of feet. R the rattle of oara being quickly manned, h the sensation of being c.nefully laid >' in the lmttoni of a lioat, ond then? v total oblivion. f] W hen at Inst she recovered her con- tl scionsness eho discovered Unit the 1 stifling material that had bereft tier of ' c her breath had been removed and lay B in soft folds about her; that tlie .stars tl still blinked above her, the fresh wind d fanned her face, while upon either side h of the river the lights of the two cities h were flashing post as tho boat drifted h down upon (lie ebbing tide. ? More than all this, she noticed the tl dark figure of a man resting upon his onra at her feet, while (die \as conscious that )u* companion eat in the a; stern at her head. As they were speaking. she held herself as uuiot as a K mouse, and lieut ?very energy to di- o vino what freeh doom was in a tore for her. H "Well, what nro yon going to do nl>ont it?" growled tho follow at tlie ? 'oars. v "Dnrned if I It now!" was the response from tlie stern. - * 1 "It's your own fault. You've made a beastly mistake and a devilish fool of voursell 1" * *xv n lA/um x mjii in? ainerence in he dark ? It looked like her and I hought it was her." "Well, you've got me into a deuced ne mess, but you've got to get me out f *t. It was bad enough to have to un 'lie risk for the swag, but hang me f I'm goiug to row right into the face nd eyes of the river-polioe with a trange girl I don't care a rap about in ho boat!" They lapsed into silence, and Oracie ad an opportunity to realize her sitution. It was evident that she had been misiken for some victim, and that having iscovered their blunder, the rascals 'ere anxious to l>e rid of her. For the moment the love of life tirred within her, and she silently raved that they would not make way itn her to shield themselves fmm in.. oe. Discreetly holding her peace, ie. heard the man ia the item ... "Poll ill shore and wo'll ship bar. "It she comes to, she'll squeal like a neked pig, and get lis into trouble." "Well, make haste about it and she on't come to before we are rid of her. answer for that; she's in a dead faint. I vo scon lots of 'ein like that." "All right I Which shore?" "West, of course. We can't make a nding on the Brooklyn side for mud." Rattle went the rudder, and with iwerful strokes Sandy sent the little aft skipping cross-wiso across the aves. At last tho keel grated rnrnn the tingle, Handy rose and jumped knee?ep Into tho water; the l>oat was awn up di'gh and dry, and closing :r eyes to simulate insensibility racie felt herself carefully transferred om the ljoat to terra flrma. In silence they laid her upon the ind-awept grass, and paused for an stnnt looking down upon her. "By the Lord Harry I" muttered tho an whose name was not Sandy, "it's iihninw talciTUJL ? '* 111 '* * lyin' here unprotected!" "Oh, get along with yon, you chioken arted fool I" growled Sandy; "you're fine rooster to belong to the gsng, in are! She'll not lay hero ten mines! I reckon she'll stay at home glits in future. Come on; we're well 1 of a bad job!" And taking his companion by tho m he pulled him down toward the >at, and in less than ten minutes tho tat of their oars had ceased to vibrate xtn the uir. Then Gracicsat upund looked about >r. She felt a trifle dizzy aud her utd was light, but otherwise sho was srfcctly herself. Before her lay the vcr; behind her a wide expanse of loocnpiccl land upon the far confines which the masked lights of the city ittered. She judged that she hud not >on carried far down-town, and she ns correct. ? - Strange as it may seem, the hand of te had led her within a gun-shot of ie old granary where at that moment ax Boydenand Nicholas Garland lind et "to talk business." She rose and filled her lungs with ie cool night air and felt refreshed. A uew strength cuwe to her, and the ro of a great resolution tilled her res. "God has saved ine from myself." ie murmured; "He has put mo into lis world for some purpose, and I will I ilfill His will, cost what it may!" Then, arranging her disordered attire, ie started bravely forward toward the limmcring lights. But she had overbed her powers of endurance. ( Frail girl that she was, ere long alio ?gan to feel the remnant of her vongth deserting her, and sho would | ?vo sunk down by the wayside to rest, id it not been that a house roared it- 1 ilf before her in the near distance rouiisiug her rest aud protection. This was the old building! fin milliner linisiol f nmdliow "1"* r """ udged on and soon paused beside the >or which swung invitingly open. Jlog of au easy conscience, and cometelv exhausted, tho silence and lonetioss of the place had no special terrors r her. She felt that if elio could only sleep, le wonhl ask no more. 80 she crept to the darkened portal and strained sr eyes to discover what manner of ace she was in. While she stood there, voices abovo ir reached her listening ear?voices iat moved her strangely, voices that lemod fatally familiar to her. With a bounding heart she descried to dim stairway, and mounted it with le Hwift, silent footfalls of a cat. At le door altove she paused. The voices ere raised in excited altercation, uddenly came the crash, succeeded Ir the struggle for life and death, and -e she could realize, what was taking mi, % hm* piffling nimal, burst out upon the fanding, rushing so closo to her that ahe was treed to spring aside to avoid being irown to tho floor. The man was Max Boyden, and it as Grade's rapid movement which ad so terrified and put him to flight. She heard him crash down the stairs nd slam the door; what she did not ear, however, was the cautious sliootig of the holt upon the inside by inisible hands, the hands of the shadow lint had tracked the two scoundrels to lieir lair. For the space of a few moments succeding the headlong exit of Boyden, ilence reigned unbroken throughout be building, to bo broken at last by a eep-drawn inoan of anguish from Garind. Gracie heard it, and overwhelmed y a premonition which she would have een powerless to explain, she felt her ray to the door, and standing upon the breshold, cried out: " Who is there? Is any ono hurt ?" A startled groan, significant in its gony, was the only response. "Oh, speak I" exclaimed the tortured irl; "perhaps I can be of somo help? nlv speak I" Then with a stunning surprise camo he words: "Whose voice is that? Grant God, m I mud? Grade, is it you?"" "Father!" "Oh, come here, my oliil?l I quick, trick 1" "Where are you??I cannot see!" "Here, on the floor, and I am dying!" With a gasp of horror the poor child | advanced a few steps, guided b; the | labored breathing of the nan; then | she dropped upon her hands and ! nees I and crept forward until she tot cited the inert form. "Father! is it yon?* she gapped, drawing back in instinctive alirni I ISV ? * " xe?; li is 11" | Half fainting she tlirust her arms about his neck and laid her head upon his breast like a little tired chihL "There, hush!" lie faltered, ps inful\v; "don't cry so; my lime is alioi t, and I must speak 1" "Oh, father?who has doii'i this thing?" "Grace, yon must not call me father, for I am not your father!" "Not my father!" she screamed,' raising herself and strij*^Jsto see his face. "No! You hadr?o*,5?n wronged? wronged all yGrhcie, hiVith loud wal^^^aiKess little Gracie fell prostrate across the inanimate man as a ray of strong light, shot from a bull's-eye held in invisible hands upon the threshold of the room, ilium* ined the pathetic picture. CHAPTER XI. tub sEcarr out. As the city clocks were chiming ten on the morning succeeding that eventful night in the old building by tho East River, Rupert Arnim suddenly emerged from one of the side streets leading from the West Side, plunged into the broad belt of sunshine that. pours down upon the lower end of Fifth avenue, seeming warmer and more genial here and elsewhere, and rapidly ascended the steps of the Brevoort House. He walked with the rapid firmness of a man under great nervous stress; a gray pallor overspread his handsome features, and his eyesj^gre dilated , J~^is~MrI~Boyden in?" he acquired of | the clerk at the desk, in a low, strained | VO!CC. The clerk replied that, not having seen Mr. Borden, he supposed that he was in. Would the gentleman bo good enough to send his card up to Mr. Boyden's room? Rupert answered that a card was not neccssnry, and instructed the call-boy to sty that a gentleman would like to see Mr. Boyden on important business., Five minutes later ho was invited to take the elevator to the suite of rooms on the third floor. Attired in u rich dressing-gown, Max Boyden sut iieiore a small table upon which wou spread a dainty breakfast^ but as yet the only part of the service which hod i?eon touched by him were a decanter of brandy, and a siphon of soda; of these he h&d ewidantly imfre off. judging by their reduced contents, and tha otherwise pallid fe He was manifestlydisturbed at the unexpected apparition of the young artist, since no "promptly rose, and pointing to a c isirj said, in an excited way, which woo not at all his habitual manner: "Why, good morning, Mr. Arnim! Pray be seated. 80 sorr not to have seen you last evening." Without accepting the troferrod scat, Rupert replied: "I called here according to appointment." "80 I am told. I warned you that I might be doluyod, yon liiow." "I do not come here th reproach you for breaking your appointment," ro[ marked Arnim, sternly; "I am fully convinced that you netfer intended to ' sit to me for yonr portrait." aceimng trouiuem turn veiled thrust, Boydon drew himself up to llio fnll of his imposing height as Up inquired: "Indeed! May I\afr&*a wlpit I owe the honor of this early call ?" "I have an important piece of information to communicate; something that I have reason to think will affect yon." Then fixing his burning eyes upon Hoyden's expectant faco and mensnring Iris words, ho added, "Oracle Garland disappeared from my house during lost night!" It was a terrific struggle with Boyden to maintaiu his composure in the fuco of this startling intelligence, hut somehow ho managed to, sufficiently to inquire: "Pray, how should your news affect me?" "You know Orneio Garland." "I am aware of the fact." "Yon called upon her in my honso I last evening." "I did." "What is there between you?" s "Nothing." s "Do yon dare to tell nv> U,afc f on do JftflHove liet"'" jJf.' Bj&yden went off into a peal of isugnun in its heartiness, during wlncii 8 faoe darkened ominonsly. s "Pardon me, Mr! Boyden,2:J*e said, with repressed feeling, "if iAAthat in spite of what yon. tell me, v pnspeot that there is somethinHlHLeen I yon and Grace Garland." * | "I allow no man to doubt /rd, Mr. Arnim. Be good cnonf. J | plain yourself." ? MVnil otflrrhffc Alio! r/ni lr nnv _ . Garland, that you called at ml tfouse last evening for the purpose oA/ ?ig her." \ "I do. "Why should I not?" "I do not hold that you should not; only, when you visited my idtudio for J the first time yesterday meaning ?"d J saw her portrait upon the/ ousel, you . totally denied all aequain}b?neo with her." 7* "And for the best of retain*." "How so?" ! "Shall I speak plui?ily?f /'By all means, if you pUease." "Well, 1 saw at a glunipe^lhst you weretdeenly<,heels oyer sta^lovo with , ~ r; ^ "You "puauj "Well, thwT''.considered it prudent to hold my-V^co concerning what 1 Rupert ArgLt started at the words, and Ida ?vn flattened as he demanded : "So youS the mau *1to holds thii ' eecret power*'*?*" h?r!" MI *m om\t *1*9 jnen, for there W( others." A "What do you mean?" "Be seated, and I will satisfy you curiosity in short order. But undei stand me, I should not hare destroyet {'our faith in her had you not compel ed mo." With a suppressed gasp of miser, the young artist sank into the chair a which Boy den pointed, while that gen tleman resumed his seat beside th table. "Proceed," murmured Arnim, in i scarcely audible tone. "Know, then, that Grace Garlam murdered my uncle, Orrin Clifford, i: England three wooks ago, that she wa fleeing from justice when you met he ,on board the ill-fated ' Oregon '!" it .. om lomiui ukiw, one 01 mos shocks from which suffering humanity rarely recovers. Rupert Arnim showed the effect o .the lying words simply in kis attitude for he was speeolilesa. He seemed U -V t t. | .1# i ?i . i. i ? mmvttin^ ffiuiiu mmseli ntw a uiJIiMi ' -flbwer.that is blighted by tho scorch in f lightning; he held his peace evei wnile Boyden continued, mercilessly "Oraee Garland wears the curse o: Cain upon, her brow. Tho police o: this country are upon her trail. It it but a question of time when she will be called upon to atone for her crimt upon the scaffold." "My God! Oh, Grace! Grace!" He buried his face in his hands, and his tearless emotion seemed to rend hit bent form. Even his agonized crj sounded like a petition for mercy tc tho throne on high. "Oh, Grace, Gt*co!" It was the despairing wail ol a Bonl in angnisli. Boyden looked upon his work, and Sloated in his nefarious triumph. Budenly Arnim rained his haggard face, and demanded, huskily: "Have you proofs of what you say?" "Irrefutable proofs! "But she swore to me, that though the shadow of crime had rested upon her, she was innocent." .Max Boyden HjPjl&Myfa^*afeP he said. "Why, look at it! Here is a girl whose hands are stuined with innocent blood; she successfully evados justice; is loved by an upright man, and loves liim in return. Perhaps in her repentunco bIio foretastes a life of comfort and secure affection. She is clever enough to seo that there is some secret in ber past, and she ndraits that there is, stating thut she is a victim; but will she tell the man who lr?v??i ho*- tl.?* with those hands that rost in his, she has strangled the breath in the throat of the man to whom sho owes all that ' she is! That she?" "Oh, hush, hush! I can bear no more!" Arnim had sprung to his feet and was blindly pacing the room to and fro. "I have said enough," went on the pitiless rascal. "You see for yourself, that whilo she iu in her senses, she is &fctft.*" iteei' called upon her last evcniug, why I intentionally missed my appointed with i you, or rather, why I directed you to come hero, that the coast might be clear for me to go to your honse." He paused an instant, and Arnim halted abruptly, fixing a pair of eager, questioning eyes upon tho speaker. "I went to Grace Garland," said the varlet, "in your behalf." "Mine!" "Yes; I saw how things wore going, and I made up my miml that, under the circumstances, I could afford to be magnanimous. I soucht the eirl. ami begged her, l?y lier love for you, to undeceive you, to tell you the truth." "And she " "Flatly refuRcd. I then changed my tactics. I warned her that the police were aware of her whereabouts, that within twonty-four hours nhe would bo lodged in the Tombs, unless she escaped." "Well, well?" "I informed her that so far as I was concerned, she was freo to Diake hoi escape that night; indeed, I urged hei to go for your sake." "You did this for me?" "Certainly! Would wortJiot have done so for any honest jced to I For tho first time ; | .goniz ing interview, the sc , _..rs sprang to Ituport A mini V ft void [TO BE iTNUEO.] Gastronomy. In the mutter of "gastronomic econ omy there are no familica in tlic worlc eqna't to the French. The highest gastronomic authoritici diow preach for vurioty in food in th< interest of health. They say the only men who habitu ally eat Irish stew in reHtanrants ari those who enter the lions' den in tin circus. Canned lolmtcr continues to be o x e x? * xI 1 t great iesuvui iieip an over wie iana 11 assisting consumers to "shuffle off* thi mortal coil." Goddard, in his excellent book 01 "Marketing," says: "Jn selecting Hah choose only those which are firm am stiff, with lively red gills, eyes full nn< clear, and tins firm." A light breakfast, a suspicion of lunch, and a nulmtantial, wholesom dinner, not later than 7 o'clock, is health rule for hot woather laid dow by a physician who is also an epicun A brave Question. Little Nellie, aged four years, wr out riding one day. While passing cemetory she looked up to her inothc and said: "Mamma, how long after they bur nny one before their gravestones com up?"* A Dawson, On., man has a curiosit a. i? ill mii: nnu|?r ui mi * kk* at* 10 lialt the annul aizo, with a hurt) she 1 hnmile originally about an inch lon| and presenting tho appearance of - TomKi^'Jjfl/ell-proportioned gonrd. \ A u on st eh frog swallowed a c.hicki nt Oconee, Oa., and acoined to bo rc isliing the bit iinmcnaely when tl owner killed him. i Concf.it is a good thing after nil. is well for every man that soinelxH j should think well of hiuv?Somcrvii Journal, THE NEWS. r I Rnc? troubles caused serious rioting in ^ small towns in Louisiana and Mississippi. and several colored persons were sbot. y During a tire in Bpring City, Pa., the wall of I a warehouse fell in, killing one man and in! juring others. William K. Denning, the e defaulting assistant po.itinaster at Krownville, Ind., lias conbsscd to having lost his a money at cards. Jay Gould ami C. P. Huntington are forming a combination to ^ obtain control of all the Southwestern lines. n An excursion and a stock train collided 8 near Vermont. A conductor and a pissongor r were killed and others injured The capital stock of the Commercial Colile Company 8 has been increased from six to ton millions. ^ Reimund Holzhay, the lone highwayman j who terrorized Northern Wisconsin, has been captured. Owing to the large pension j wo jiuuiioaeut na* increased durr ** lb? month of August. The Cramp g Brcs., of Philadelphia, have notified the Hecx retary of the Navy that the cruiser Phlladcl. ; pbla will be launched on tho 7tli instant. f Hie Superintendent of the Census has npf pointed Dr. Charles A. Asliburner and John ? H. Jones special agents to collect the statisl lies for ooxl for the eleventh census. James ) E. Vrank has also bien appointed to collect >ron and steel statistics, and Jnmes A. Blodjett, of Illinois, to collect statistics of educn' lion. Mr. Wnt. Ziler was killed at Mar ' linsburg by a train, while asleep on the trock. r Tho wholesale jobbing house of Wheeler, ' Blodgett & Co., In Boston, was partly doL itroyed by fire. A (Ire at the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton elevator caused a loss Of $50,000. Henry A. Sage & Ca's harness factory rt t Easton, Pa., was destroyed by fire. IjO>s $30,000. Typhoid fever is raging in Johns1 town, (hero being twenty-five patients down with the disease in the Red Cross hospitals. The safe in the postolfioo at Cornwall, N. i Y., was blown open and $500 in stamps stolen. ?The female cpUfl^-fi^/nffwrbr ^rmrfZ* its prettiest pupils. The United States steamer Rush capture 1 another British sealing schooner in Bebring Sea. Two Biters? Mrs. Dobson, aged sixty-five, and Mrs. Dennett, aged seventy, while returning in a buggy to their home, outside of Milwaukee, were struck by a railroad train and killed. Tho business portion of the histo io village of Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., was destroyed by fire. Loss $40,000. Wbitill Tatum & Co., green gloss manufacturers of Mlllville. N. J., have acceded to the demands of tho workmen. A pair of swindlers, representing themselves as agents of the Standard Oil Company, successfully work innocent people ia the towns aloug the Ohio river near Wheeling. Rev. Dr. Yost, chancellor of the University of Florida, presented to Heidelburg College, at Tiftln, Ohio, a museum of curiositus valuo l at $(K),00i). Judge McConnell, of Chicago, has decided that all the defendants in the Cronin trial must be tried together, with the exception of Woodruff.?r tion endorsing Commissioner Tanner's pen* sion policy caused a lively discussion in the Grand Army E o .mpinent, resulting in the adoption of a substitute resolution expressing confidence in bis integrity, and uuiting with him in a request for an investigation of hiB administration. James W. Newbaker, a politician of Bataria, Miss., was assassinated by unknowu parties while entering his house. Fostmnster General Wanamnker has offered a reward of $1,000 for the arrest of any robber attacking a stage carrying the mails. Robert Ewell was shot aud seriously wounded by Joseph Taylor, near Onancock, Va , in a quarrel growing out of the wliitocap pranks of last spring. The Supreme Council American Legion of Honor, in sesI sion at Chicago, elected Enoch S. Brown, of New York, supreme common ler, and C. C. B ttiug, D. D.t of Baltimore, supreme chapi Jain.?L roy A. Trueslale has been ari rented iu New York, for einb.'xzling from the New York, Pennsylvania and O.iio Railroad Company. A monument to the 1 Confederate dead was unveiled at Manosses. Alfred Brood, formerly treasurer of the Hteeio Packing and Provision Company, of Grand Rapids, Mich., bus been arrested 0.1 a , charge of embezzling $10,00J. A colored man was robbed by tramps and thrown from a train on the Norfolk and Western Railroad, , near Literty, Va. In the Grand Army naval engagement on the lake at Milwaukee, two sailors of a United States revenue cutter and several other persons were badly injured by the explosion of canons and mortArs. Sarah Althea Hill Torry was arraigned iu a j San Francisco court on the charge of contempt In obstructing a Unit d States marshal 9 in the performance of his duty. Two a freight trains on the Buffalo, Now York and Pennsylvania Railroad collided near Bradford, Pa., and fifteen cars were wrecked and o Engineer J. B. Comstock killed. George B E. Batch well, editor of a temperance paper published In Watertown, N. Y., was assaulted ' by a saloon-keeper. John Turner, colored, " who killed Charles Walker in Fayette county, 8 W. Va., was taken from jail by a mob ol soil lM.Ak.4 U,' lurcr iiuuuim unu iy iiuuou. ?? in. i? him-i 11 and Jack 8painard were hanged at Fort | Smith, Ark., for murder. a OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. e 11 Eightieth Birthday Anniversary ol th) Noted Poet. Oliver Wendell Holmes quietly passed his eightieth birthday at Beverly Farms, Boston. Letters and telegrams of congratulation have 18 poured in on biui from all over the country, n and he received many ladies and gentlemen. >r Many loautiful floral gifts were sent to the Doctor, and the house is filled with sweetly smelling plants and flowers. Ho also received a very handsome remembrance in tue form of a solid sliver, gold-lined loving cup ol y beautiful design from personal friends and classmate.", whoee names Dr. Holmes desiree .. should remain private. He stated that be had received a short per Of, sonal note from his friend Whittier, it n which the later merely expressed his regart and his deep regret that his present ill bealtl would prevent ni^being present in person t< grasp his friend by the band and tender con ,i gratulafciona. The Doctor expressed his sor "" row to bear that Mr. Whittier was not well 0 The Doctor greets eaoh of his visitors pel aonally with a cordial grasp of the hand an expresses bis great pleasure at their coming it am as ti?uuuii?, uu m \ v and his eyes as bright and merry a* they bar ./ been these many years back. Barring slight difficulty with his hearing, the l>.x tor's powers *re uuiropared. tbade'of tbb rat^ Increased Activity Reported at All Business Centres. The Wh?at Iter,oris?Money Dlibnrw mrniN by the Trraxury l>ep?rt ncnt Itclicvcbpcculativc Unifier j Than Comnicrcl.il Needs. U Bpeciul telegrams indicate a very generally increased activity in general trade in almost all leading commercial and Industrial centres, excepting a few of the larger onea on the Atlantic coast. Even at Boston and Philadelphia an improvement is shown in staple lines aside f om wool and woolens, which have been affected by severcl heavy failures and restricted discounts. At New York there is no marked change in the volume of merchandise distributed. "* Since January 1 there have been fifty-three woolen and wool trade failures,-against fortyono in n like portion of 1HS8. But the total of liabilities this year is *0,000,000, against t'2,400,000 lust, and of ussets *0,000,00 >. I si in i mm i .u iocw. iroininent Western cattle markets aro rlull and nri?;-*K lower. A correspondent of HrtuLsi.reeCs at Kansas City wires that tho sensational reports of Texas uattlo fever ravages in the (Southwest are unfounded; thotlesitrouble is cause 1 by this disease now than for three years past. No case of the Texas cattle lever has existed in Kansas City lor ihree weeks. Shipments of wheat from San Francisco lo Australia and South America contiuue heavy. Crop reports generally remain tnvoruble. Without serious frosts for a fortnight, the Indian corn crop promises to be the heaviest on record. There has been more activity in domestio grain markets. Flour has sold more freely for home use and export at full pricia. The Vienna Congress istim-iteof a 15 per Cent, deficiency in European crops advanced wheat Erices here 2e per bushel. 'J his was lost later, ut. wheat retains an advance of c ott the week. The interior mov ni.-nt ot Winter w heat has not met ex|iectatiotis. It racist reel's 1/ondon correspondent reports the United Kingdom's probably import requirements for tbe coming year at 147.000,(JJU bushels, mill llm I'.llltlliAnl'j 1'HkSI IMI l.l^?* .! imports requirements for all Europe within tho next year. This he does not believe can be secured nt prices as low as they are now. Corn is j lower this week on heavy movement at tho W. st. Oats too are %c off and iu active deinund. Exports of wheat (and llour ns wheat,) both coasts, this week | equal 3,088,000 bushels, against 2,703,145 bushels last w.ok, and 2,035,711 bushels ill I the closing woek of August, 1888. Exports since July 1 equal 17,041,000 bushels this year, against 18,070,311 bushels iu 1888. y .More contidenco is rejiorted in the woolen goods trade, not withstanding shut-downs of vurious mills. About the usual auiouut of orders for Hpring- weight goods is reported. Trade iu blankets is better than for several years, and improvement in clothing trade is i reported. Lack of remunerative orders and narrow margins render raw wool duller than usual at this date, l'rices are tie lower than two wojks ago. Autwerp wool sale advices are strong. From tho activity uoted lost week raw sugar has relapsed to stagnation, which freer arrivals and offerings l>y imnorters fail to relieve. Demand lor refined, too. is very s ow. Raw sugar at New York is off ^c and refined is shaded. At San Francisco granulated is tbe ^c higher. Licht's Continental beet crop ' estimate's ars again rednoed. InUargc vesssis owing to tbe theie ulr iiraziiian COffafl AhlrfatSffmi Kiwr .? r. " * ^ - ?UIV|?1>DU1 UIUUVU, uuiut?I.IU IllIU HtUTO* K*an markets nre> aluoof firmer temper. At ew York prtiys ?^ e up 9?o. AN OILY PAIR OF ROGUES. ?i I IIow They Worked tlio Good Peoplo Along the Ohio Ilivcr. A good deal of excitement war created in Wlio.'Hng, Bteubeusvllle and other cities Along the Ohio by tho arrest of Edward Morris, alias F. Trogle, alias Duncan Bruce, on tho charge of fraudulently obtaining moiuy nnd other property. Morris struck the Ohio Valley about a week ago, passing as the ngent of tho (Standard Oil Company, lie dro-sod in exqu silo last", put up ut the best hotel, and created a furor in real estate and commercial circles by atinouuoing that tho (Standard had concluded to erect largo refineries at various points, and would lay pipe lines to the river, and put up n groat amount of tankage, etc. Here he contracted for fifteen acres of high priced ground, borrowed raoDey and made himself conspicuous. He aunounc d that President Kockefeller and several directors would bo along in a few days, and k?-pt two livery rigs, a private socrotai y and a local attorney busy. He was lionized by business men, until the Wheeling people identified him and his secretary, P. P. Roberts, as a couple who had worked the same racket In Wheeling, and had left many mourners when thev deoartod. THE MONTANA FIRES. Tito Flnmca on tho Mountains Init Twelve Miles From Helena. Colorado Giilcb, which extends into Helena and which is heavily timbered, id on fire but twelve miles from here, aud the flames are progressing in this direction. In the gulch nro ? numlwr of saw mills, the most extensive I oing that of Sturrick & Brown. These were quickly wiped out, as well as the homes of Reveral ranchers. Te ? men started to fell the timber in the hopj of arresting the fire. They were soon Hllrr.iumi wl liv ft mini nml linrnlv MSCAlH-d i with their lives, ail of tliein having their ' hair singed and their clothing burned bo that it foil off of them. The wind shifted and carried the Amies 1 Eastward to Colorado Gulch. which goes half around Helena,starting at Broadwater's Hotel and ondiug at Chinatown. The air is full of cinders and tho heavens South and East of the city present a lurid appearance. * d r MARKETS. ^ Bai.timohe?Flour?City Mills,e*tra,f4!flw at4.85. Wheat?.Southeri. Fultz, Corn?Southern White, 40a41 cts, fellow ' l^ald eta.Oats?Southern and Pennsylvania i 3ta'-7 cts.: live?Maryland & Pennsylvania yta-Yicts.; Hay?Maryland and Pennsylvania 18 50af 14 (K) ;Straw-W heat,S.OOaftS..*>0;Butter, Eastern Creamery,HVSa^k'Miiear-hy receipts i lttal7cts; Cheese Eastern Fuucy Creain. eta , ?Western, 8a8U cts; Eggs?1U . tJO; Tobacco Leal?Inferior, ln$2.0d, Good Common, It 00k$4 00, Middling, 5a 90.00 Good i to line rod,7a$U; Fancy, 10a912. [ Nkw York? Flour?Houthern Common to , fair extra,93.25j$ .27: Wheat-No I White 85^ ; Rye-Stale. M!t?a52'^; Corn-Southern Yellow, 43^a43>i.Oat8-Wtiite,Htate25Kai?>^ eta.; Mutter-State. 1 laltt eta; Cheeeo-cttate, ItXa^cta; Eggs?18ult?X Ota rniL.adkl.phia ? Flour ?* Pennsylvania fancy, 4.25a4.75; Wheat?Pennsylvania and . Houtnern lied, 83a84; Rye?Pennsylvania . r.2a5hcte:Com?Southern Yellow, 414^x42)^0. Oata-28a28X cti.; Butter-State, lbaiu eta; ,v i* Choeee?N. Y. Factory, OaWX eta* Egg*? j State. 18al0 eta ; CATTLR , Badtikor*? Beef, 4 12a4 85; Sheep?$9 00 -vSa a4 00, Hogs?94 2V?4 40. ? - h kw York -Beef?94 75a5 25; 8heep-|3 75 !& Z aft 2ft; Hogs?$4 80 ?4 7ft. East Libkrtv?Reef?11 aat (? RHwa ' ' $3 30*4 75; Hugs?$4 26a4 40 ' PU'iM