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The Wife's Choice. In a far-off famous land, in days long gone, Before the wise, good Rabbi Simeon A childless couple sorrowfully came; And, neither on the other casting blame, B-gged that the rabbi grant them a decree Divorcing them forthwith, perpetually; Since seven unfruitful years had come and fled, And found a childless home, a barren bed. The keen-eyed rabbi read in each pale face The wish to save the other from disgrace; Then bared his head, and sail in accents mild: 'Sad is the house wherein no voice of child Makes glad the two-fold heart with pride and joy; Yet that malicious tongues may not annoy With whispered evil motive, secret sin, Before you separate, single lives begin, Invite your friends, from greatest to the least, And be your supper as a marriage feast. To show you part as friends, and part in sor row; Then will I grant your wish upon the mor row." Well pleased, they take his counsel, and pre pare A parting feast, and call their friends to share, Then spake the husband to his childless wife: "We part not now in anger, hate or strife; And, as a pledge that this is really so, Take what you like best with you when you She smiled, and promised him a choice to make, And ever treasure it for old-times' sake. The guests were gone, save only six at most By the good cheer vanquished, when at last the host Himself succumbed. The wily wife then bade That he be to her father's house conveyed. The morning came. and from his stupor free, He woke. and gazed around him wonderingly. Then said his wife, who stooped and touched . his breast, "Of al your household have I chosen the best; Till death divorces never shall we part." And, rising up, he pressed her to his heart. -Hunter MacCalloch. Dorcas Caledon, THE HIR:SS OF CALEDOI HEIGHTS. UT W7LOnENCE E. DIAMOND. CHAPTER V. I was already up and dressed when Mag gie appeared next morning. "Why, miss, ye'r an early riser," was her cheerful comment. "Young ones don't generally get up without being called a dozen times or so," she went on; "but your different kind, I see." Iscarcely knew how to reply to this com pliment from my friend, so I wisely kept si ance. "You will come to breakfast now, if you please," she said, opening the door and stepping out into the hall. I followed her through the hall and past the room I knew to be the breakfast room of the family. - "You are making a mistake, Maggie," I said, pausing. Maggie hesitated one in _.-Usat before she answered me. - "Mrs. Clayton said you were to eat with us," she said, hastily, and, opening a side door, led me into the servants' hall, where, already seated, were the other domestics of -the family. " They greeted me in a friendly manner, and Maggie gave me a seat by her side. Grace was said by the housekeeper, a 'venerable woman, whose hair I afterward learned had grown white in the service of the Caledons. The meal passed pleasantly, and, to tell the truth, I enjoyed it much more than I had the cold silent breakfast I had. taken with'the family the morning before. After breakfast, as I was preparing to go up-stairs to the school-room, Maggie in formed me that it had been decided I should attend a day school a short distance away. "Mrs. Clayton thought it best," she said. ' This then was to be my lot among them a place among the servants and not even to be taught by the same teacher. My heart rebelled at this fresh insult. Child though Ass I felt my blood tingle and my cheeks bMred Ihad ever been dependent uponete charity of others, and should not complain if things were not quite to my mind. So I Messed myself with tolerable composure, ifter all. I had been supplied with suffi cient clothing since my arrival here, but, though these clothes were not much soiled, I saw at once they were cast-off garments of semeone, probably Innma Barrett. My pride agofli~ t this. I would not touch them. I onned the checked gingham I had worn at the home, preferring this to the cast-off silks or cashmeres of this scornful little lady. I'was not as handsome as she, nor hadlIas fine raiment, but my pride, I am sorry-to say, quite equaled her own. I then gathered up the books with which I had been supplied, and repaired to the kitchen, where Maggie kindly volunteered to accompany me to school and get me settled, as she expressed it. On our wayA gI noticed a carriage drawn up be ore the front entrance, and standing on toe balcony was Irma Barrett, dressed for going out. She wasattired in some light blue material that suited her fair skin and golden hair to perfection. Her little hands were daintily gloved and she wore kid boots, lght and.small enough for a fairy. She was eidently waiting for some one; but she did not deign tonotice me, even by alook, as I passed in company with Maggie. I sighed. B ow beautiful she was; "she bad every thing; I had nothing at all," I said bitterly, asltrudged onby Maggie's side. The school building was a low, white, structure standing among the trees and situated on the road leading to the city. There were a good many children gathered around the stepa as we came up; but I had been used to children all my life and their presence did not disturb me. We entered the school-room; a pleasant-faced lady arose fromt her desk to greet us, and I thought er voice the sweetest I had ever heard. In a few words Maggie informed her who I 'was and of my intention of attending school, all of which the lady listened to with respectful attentionl. And then, with akind smile, bade me welcome to her school, hop ing I would find it plasannt, after which she looked over my books and designated the lessons I should learn. And then, Maggie having departed, she rang the bell, at which the scholars came trooping in and taking their seats a hush fell upon the school as, with rapt attention, the scholars listened to their taer who, in the same sweet voice, read a chapter from the Bible, after which she repeated a simple prayer. The scholars then proceeded to their desks, but with no bustle or noise, as is common in country schools. It was indeed a pleasant school. -The teacher was so kind, her instruction so simple and yet instructive and interesting, I could not help contrasting it with the dry, dll and irksome teaching of the day before. Our teacher's name was Amy Lester; she ived in a tiny cottage just back of the school-house with her mother, who was an nvalid and unable to do work of any kind. Amy supported them both by her teaching and her drawing, for she was quite an art ist; and a happier, more contented couple than Amy and her mother, would have been ard to find. My first day at school passed pleasantly enough, and I returned home in quite a cheerful frame of mind. But alas! my cheerfulness was of short duration. As I entered the yard, I found the children en joying themselves under the shade of a great horsehestnut that grew near the gate. They were engaged in jumping a rope, and as this was a sport in which I greatly delighted, I stopped a moment to watch them. "Why, helloaV" cried Irving, when he saw me, and then assuming an air of great friendliness, he wanted me to join in the game. I hesitated, remembering his jeer ig remarks of yesterday; butlI did so want to be friendly in this house, where it seemed destined I was to dwell, that I was willing to venture any thing almost-t gain it. Ac cordingly, I approached and spoke to Bertie, who greeted me kindly in. return. "Here, now, if you want to jump," cried Irving. He gave one end of the rope to his sister and they commenced slowly swinging itat the sametim ugginme to .imp j advanced, and by a quick movement ganed the center, but at that instant, with a wicked laugh, Irving threw the rope and tripped me, throwing me to the ground with such force that I lay for an instant completely stunned, but not for long. With a scream of rage I was upon my feet, rad, scarce knowing what I did, I flew at Irving like a wild-cat. He was a well-grown boy of twelve; I wan rather an undersized girl of ten; but he was taken completely by sur prise, and beforo he could defend himself I had marked him for recognition by several rather ugly scratches, and brought away as a trophy a handful of hair. But his anger was kindled, and he struck me fiercely, at the same time calling upon Irma to heli him. In fact, the fight was raging fiercely, when I felt myself suddenly caught in s grip of iron, and turned to find a man, a stranger to me, had caught both Irving and myself by a shoulder of each and now held us apart, a smile of amusement on his face al our situation. "Well! well!" he said, at length. "What ever is the meaning of this? Fighting, ehi And with a girl, Irving! I am surprised." "She pitched at me first," cried Irving, his voice trembling with anger. "She'd hav tr myee u fI dntd ne 16' ,t te r . . r I IUD MARKED HIM FOIL RECOG\'ITIO'-. - have torn my eyes out if I hqd not defended myself." "Yes, indeed," chimed in Irma, anxious to defend her brother. "You must not blame him, Mr. Roland; this little beggar would have hurt him if she could." During this interesting colloquy I had stood quite still, too angry, hurt and bewil dered to speak. But at Irma's cruel words my temper blazed again. A torrent of words were on my tongue, but, happening to glance one side, I saw a face peering through the shrubbery. I knew it in an in stant, it was my friend on the cars. I knew the laughing eyes and the brown, curling hair. There was a broad smile on his face I could see, also. His appearance decided me. I did not pause to reply or defend my self before the gentleman, but, catching my books from the ground, fled toward the house, never pausing till I reached my own room, where I sank down, panting and ex hausted. I had never remembered being angry be for and this new feeling of rage and hate fairly overpowered me. When hurt or grieved before I had always wept, but not a tear dimmed my eyes now, whose fiery flashes would have scorched the fountain up. But at length I grew calmer, I re moved my bonnet and bathed my face and hands. - It was then I became conscious of a stinging pain in my left arm, I pushed up my sleeve and found a livid blue mark across my arm which was also severely bruised, either by my fall or from a blow in the affrayIhad just taken part in. I looked at my bruised arm with a terrible feeling of rage and grief, not so much at the injury, that would soon heal, but there are scars on our memory that never heal. This was one. I had never been struck be fore, and though it must be remembered I struck first, yet in my own eyes, certainly, and in others perhaps, I was quite justified in doing so. Therefore my feeling of out rage was the same as thoughlIhad been ignominiously beaten without a cause. irving Barrett, no doubt, regarded the whole affair as a joke, yet he hardly guessed that that one cruel act would be weighed in the balance against him when that same scale was balanced for life or death. "Well, Miss, yer uncommon sober to night." I started. It was Maggie's cheery voice at my elbow that aroused me from my gloomy thoughts. I did not answer, but fol lowed her out and into the supper-room without a word. After supper I inquired who the gentle men were I had seen in the garden. " The black whiskered one," said Maggie, "is Mr. Roland, an old friend of the family; he is here every summer. The other young man, it seems, is a friend of his; I never saw him before to-day; his name is Oliver Dud ley, and a handsome, proper-spoken young fellowhe is, too," she added. I went back to my room and moped in si lence until dark, when, seeing the family were all assembled in the grand drawing room, I crept out, and taking the first path I came to, wandered aimlessly on, scarcely knowing or caring whither it led, tillI found myself on the shore of a lovely lake, on whose clear surface the moonlight was rest ing, silvering each wave that rose till it looked like molten silver. Drawn up to the shore was a beautiful boat with softly cushioned seats, and a pair of oars handsomely carved rested in the oarlocks. I stood watching this moonlight scene with such keen delight that I did Rot notice the approach of a party coming near until they were close upon me. I had bare ly time to conceal myself behind one of the rustic seats that lined the shore as they all came up laughing, chatting and seeming in high spirits. There were in the party Mr. and Mrs. Clayton, Irma and Irving, and also the two gentlemen I had seen in the after noon. I trembled lest they should discover me, for Mrs. Clayton came so near that her silken skirts brushed my hands as I crouched beneath the seat; but, for xnately for me, they passed and entered one of the boats without noticing me. I could hear the dip of the oars as they rowed out on the lake. How I would have liked to accompany them. I had never been in aboat in my life, and I fancied it must be a great pleasure to float, as they were doing, over the silver waves. But I could not go, so I remained where I was, listening to the sound of their merry voices, and hating them all the more heartily, I think. I even wished that the boat would upset, and, not drown them, I was not quite so bad as that, but give the:n a wetting. But they came to shore at last- The gen temen assisted the ladies out and the party returned toward the house, all but Mr. Dudley, he lingered behind and lit a cigar. I could see the blue rings of smoke curling up throagh the clear air. The rest of the party wvent on, evidently not missing him. He waited untii they were out of hearing and I was devoutly wishing he would go on when he walked leisurely up to the seat, behind which I was hiding, and stopped. I could see his face plainly in the moonlight, and there was a smile upon it. Could he be laughing at me? Had he seen me? I asked myself; and he answered as if instantly divining my thoughts: "Yes I know you are there. Come out! What are you hiding for?" I crawled out and stood before him, a very tumbled, confused looking object, no doubt, from my hiding among the reeds and rushes that grew on the bank "So you hid, did.you?" he inquired, lok ig at me still with that kind, quizzical look, half laughing, half serious, on his face. "Were you afraid, little one?" putting out his hand and drawing me gently to his side stroking my tumbled hair with his whie shapely hand. "o, sir," I answered, sullenly, "but they d not want me and I hid to keep out of heir sight-" then without any seeming questions he drew from me the whole story of my adop tion by Mrs. Clayton, my treatment since my arrival there, and my difficulty with Irv ing Barrett that afternoon. The young man seemed puzzled. "You are sure you are no relation to Mrs. Clayton," he said, after a few moments' thought. "None that I know of, sir," I replied, "certainly, if I was she would not treat me so." Mr. Dudley smiled. "Perhaps not," he said. "But" he added, starting suddenly, "I am going away to-morrow, Dorcas (I had already told him my name), and shall not be back for years. I am going abroad to finish my education. I may be gone three, fouror even five years. I am sorry I am going so soon for your sake. I would see if I could not unravel this mystery, for mystery it surely is. But, as I said before, I am going and have not time now. But now listen to me, Dorrie: Be a good girl; never mind the sneers and gibes of the family, but attend to your books. You have a kind teacher, you say, that is good. Make as many friends as you can and as few enemies. Don't run away, as I dare say you are thinking of, but stay here. Let me find you here when I re turn. Will you do as I wish, little one?" "I will never do any thing you would not like, Mr. Dudley," I answered, simply, and for years I kept that promise. - "That is right," he answered, gladly. "Now we will go to the house." He arose and took my hand and I trudged along by his side, feeling, I knew not why, strangely safe and glad. When we reached the house he paused: "Good-night, Dorrie," he said. "Remem ber what I have told you. You were hiding to-night, little one. Don't do it again, Dor cas. Be open and frank and generous in your actions, 'tis the best way, dear. Re member what I have told you and your promise to me. I shall hold you to that promise, Dorcas," and he smiled. "I am your friend," he continued, " and as a pledge I will give you this," and he pressed into my hand something that glittered brightly. L "Keep this," he said; "don't part with it unless you can do no other way. Now good-bye." He raised me in his arms and kissed me; then, letting me go, disappeared within doors. I looked at the token he had given me. It was a bright golden dollar that was shining on my palm. I saw and I felt rich indeed, for I had never owned but a single piece of money before, and that was a large copper cent which little Paul at the home had given me, and which now, wrapped in paper, re posed in a box in my room where I kept my few scanty keepsakes. I laid this away with them when I reached my room, and then crept into bed, feeling quite cheerful and happy. Some one cared for me-some one was my friend. This thought comforted me more than I can tell, and I feil asr' to dream of Mr. Dudley and his magnificent present. The next day, or morning rather, I saw the two gentlemen drive away, and I knew my one friend was going far from me, and could scarcely keep back the tears; but I resolved to try, as Mr. Dudley had told me, to make the best of things, and I succeeded very well, though my life was a hard one, shut out as I was from all companionship with children of my own age. Except my schoolmates at school I knew no one, and these I was strictly forbidden to visit or in vite inside the gate of "The Heights." My only company, therefore, was the serv ants of the household, and though they were always kind to me, I often felt I was in the way, and considered a nuisance. At such times I would wander away by myself and sit for hours on the mossy bank of the lake, or under the shade of a tree in some part of the grounds where no one could see me, and there read and re-read the few books I had picked up. Once a year the family went away for a month or so, and then. unseen, I would steal through the grand rooms, feasting my eyes on the beauties of the costly furniture, pict ures, carpets and statuary which the house contamned. I often wondered cif the little heiress of Caledon (the dead one I meant) had ever traversed these rooms, or her childish laughter or chatter ever echoed through the house, or had she died ignorant of all this grandeur that should have been hors. I inquired of Maggie about her, for somehow I felt a strong interest and sym pathy for the little gn-1 who had died when she had so much to live for. But Maggie knew nothing about her. She had died long before she came there, she said; and she did not even know her name, though she be lieved it was Dolly, or some thing like it. "The housekeeper could tell ye," she said; but I disliked to ask questions of this grave personage, and so remained in ignorance of what might have been a great benefit to me. I seldom went to church, and I missed the sermon we had always been used to hear each Sabbath and our quiet Sabbath-school very much. The family went to church in their grand carriage, and a liveried coach man drove their handsome horses for them. The servants were permitted to attend once in the day at any church they chose; but few availed themselves ..of this privilege, prefering to gather in the kitchen and gos sip. Maggie occasionally went to church,but the church she attended was aRomanish one and I did not understand a word of what was said; solIbegged to remain at home, a request she was only too glad to grant. I often wondered at my strange life, for "wA R O EDN o itws* :trnelie Hr ;wsliig eatng seepng ude th aerofwt ityed, asnge etIfas Hedstnreomwa lihem, as far removed, as though I had dwelt at the farthest corner of the globe. I seldom saw the children; I never spoke to Mr. or Mrs. Clayton; they never addressed me in any manner. What explanation they made to their friends for my appearance I know not. I was simply passed over as though they never even dreamed of my cxW.. ice. But when I had been at the Heights ucarly two years,!I was one day nearly upset by Maggie bursting into my room in a great hurry, and crying: "Oh, miss, the mistress sent me to fetch ye down to the parlor at once. That old witch, Miss Armund, is just come, and no body looking for her. Put on your best frock and come down this minute. Wondering what could have happened to work such wondrous change, I did as Mag gie commanded, and soon found myself in the parlor, welcomed by Miss Armund, who looked many years older than when I had last seen her. She welcomed me kindly, however; made me sit by her, and asked me a multitude of questions about my health, my studies, etc., all of which I answered as well as I could. I was astonished at the friendliness shown me by Mrs. Clayton and Irma, who treated me in every way as a member of the family. I began to think my troubles were ended; but, alas for human expectations! Miss Armund stayed two days, during Which time I was shown every attention. A++t th mi a+M +iaMn Armnund took her leave, evidently well satisfied with the condition of affairs. She had not been gone an hour when I was ignominiously shoved -back to my old place and there to remain until her next visit. But I now saw that it was some secret which concerned Mrs. Clayton's welfare that this woman held, and that accounted for my installment there. What this secret was I determined sooner or later to find out. rTo BE coNTINUED] GENERAL NEW1 NOTES. Items of :Interest Gathered from Various Quarters. At Opelousas, La., the ground is covered an inch deep with ice. E. C. Walthall has been re-elected United States Senator from Mississippi. The Ohio Republicans are organizing a Sherman League. At Brownsville, Texas, the mercury has fallen to 18 degrees, the coldest since 1880. The old business part of Thomson, Ga., was burned yesterday. Loss $30,000. A new Home Rule paper, the London Evening Star, made its appearance yester day. The issue was 142,600 copies. The trial of the Pickens lynchers has been postponed till the summer term of Court. A young negro boy four years old was run over on the Georgia Central railroad yesterday and his body cut in halves. The Turkish Minister of War has been enjoined to hasten the completion of the defenses of Adrianople.. Governor Semple has signed the bill giving the ballot to the women of Washing ton Territory. A meeting of the citizens of Cincinnati has enthusiastically endorsed John Sher man for President. Mahone has obtained control of the Re publican League of Virginia-Riddleberger being left out. Eight suicides occurred in Vienna yester day, among them Captain Deschauer, of the Austrian navy, and Paymaster Fuchs, of the army. At Birmingham, Ala., yesterday, H. H. Scarbough, a detective, was dangerously shot by Tom Ellis, editor of the Bornet, in a saloon row. Milton Young'.s stallion Pizarre, by Ad venturer, dam Milener by Rataplan, valued at $15,000. died Wednesday night at Lex ington, Ky., of pneumonia. A -fire at Fort Mackinway, Wyoming Territory, destroyed $100,000 worth of pro visions, and the garrison has been put on half rations. The Ashland steel works, about twenty miles north of Baltimore, have stopped work, the Reading strike causing a scarcity of coal. Fire at St. Puul, Minn., yesterday de stroyed two buildings occupied by a large wholesale grocer. Loss $300,000. Insured. Fire in Montreal yesterday morning de stroyed $100,000 worth of property. It was so cold that the fire ladders froze to the walls. The schooner Myra Pratt, Sherman mas ter, of Mobile, was wrecked on Tanipico bar on Sunday, and two lives were lost. Part of the cargo of crossties was saved. The Iowa Legislature, voting separately yesterday, re-elected Senator Wilson as his own successor. The joint convention will ratify this action. The Delaware rolling mill at Phillips burg, N. J., shut down on Monday, owing to the scarcity of coal aid dulness in the iron trade. Three hundred hands are thus thrown out of employment. At Chippewa Falls, Wis., on Sunday morning. the thermometer stood 50 degrees below zero, and yesterday morning it ranged from 55 to 62 degrees below. The Charleston cotton mill was offered for sale yesterday, but as nobody would bid $35,000 over the debts of the concern, the property was withdrawn. The long strike of shoemakers in Roches ter, N. Y., which has continued since No vember 1, has collapsed, the men returning to work on the manufacturers' terms. Both branches of the Legislature of Washington Territory have re-enacted the woman's suffrage law, but have exempted women from jury duty. The annual afternoon performance for the benefit of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum, at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, netted $10.000. Every box sold at $18. Four th'ousand people were refused admission. Reports from different sections of Texas note the cessation of the blizzard, but the temperature continues very low for that latitude. The weather has been unprece dented, both in respect to low thermometer and snow and sleet. Reports of loss of life in last week's storm in the West continue to come in. One list now numbers 153, and another 159. It would seem probable that the final summary, if such can ever be made, will show quite 200 names. ;."md g5 Miss G adielma Bostic, a distant cousi, of .euswr .uuuer, was married last night at it. John's Church, Washington, to E~n sig i Wilkerson, of the vavy. A brillian' re aption took place afterw ard at the houst of the bride's sister, Mrs. Charles Sydne3 Wnitman. John Murray,'of New York, 123 pounds. nd Ed. Daly, of Providence, 115 pounds. ought in New Jersey yesterday with bar< inuckles for $200. At the end of nint retty lively rounds, Daly was knocked enseless by a right hander under the ear Murray was declared winner. At Thntier, Pa . Wpdnesdav rnornine,~ John Mathio, a Frenchman, and a Belgian named Alix, foreman at the Standard Plate Glass Works, were almost instantly killed while placing a sheet of glass in position on the grind table. The wheel turned sud denly and they fell on it and were ground to death. A shocking fatal accident occurred at Amick Brothers' saw mill, in Lexington. Charles Quails, a young white man. was moving a slab, which come in contact with the circular saw and was thrown against his body with terrible force, knocking him down, breaking his neck and killing him almost instantly. Quails was from lPenn sgvania, and was about nineteen years of A collision between two snow plough engines took place Monday near Hoskings, Neb., in which an engineer was instantly killed and several other men injured. The enger was working his snow plough in a cut and got stalled. He thereupon backed his engine and started down grade at a rapid speed. A drag-out engine was coming around the curve and they came together. The other injured me'n will re Talmage on Newspaper Men. The Rev. Mr. Talmage wonders that newspaper men believe anything. They see more of the sham and meanness of the world than the members of any other profession. They are bored by cranks, mock moralists and pestilent humbugs every day in the week, and they see the follies and shams of the world through disguises that are as open as the day to their practiced and disgusted eye. All this is true, but Mr. Talmage should re member that newspaper men are fairly bubbling over with charity and good nature. They see the good as well as the evil in the world.-Cincinnati Com mercial Gazette. A few oyster shells will remove clinkers from the grate. Why is your hat like an advance agent? ece it ones on a head, of course. BRIC-A-Bt AC. "Give me a kiss, my darling, do," He said, as he gazed in her eyes so blue. "I won't," she said: "vou ilazy elf, Screw up your lips anl heup yourself." A letter head-The postage-stamp. No man should be a judge in his own cause. There is-not much color togin. yet it can scarcely be called a sober tiat. Strange as it may appear. it is usually a cold day for a man when he is "tired. "Woman feels where man thinks," says a writer. Yes, that's why man is bald. The Virginia Republicans have organized a State League. A year of time brings wisdom. The trees are not so green as they were last summer. If there is anything more contrary than an obstinate woman it is a right-handed lock on a left-handed door. Coal is so high in Chattanooga that the coal dealer barely speaks to an ordinary editor or colonel. Looking at it from a feminine point of view, a bridegroom is always insignilicant until he becomes a widower. Many a man "mounts the rostrum" now a-days who hasn't real ability enough to warrant his "going on the stump.' It is true that the busiest man is the hap piest man, but he often doesn't have time to realize it. A cold is now defined as a state of ner vous collapse, and a stimulating plan of treatment is advised. It is not the cloven foot but the cloven breath that gives a man away after he has been out to see another man. "Yes," said the landlady, sadly, "ap pearances are deceitful, but disalppearances are still more so." The days begin to lengthen. and so does the face of the man who looks at his emptying coal-bin. Economy is the road to wealth, but a great many people 1 eep wearing themselves out upon the road after they get there. This is leap year, and the favorite excla mation of the waiting maiden is: "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?" A man cannot always remember a thing by pasting it in his hat. Some method should be contrived to paste it in his head. "What is more lovely than a peaceful grandmother?" asks an exchange. I1er granddaughter. If this is not the right answer, we give it up. The woman who married her husband for money never complains that he doesn't kiss her as much as he did before the wed ding took place. He-This must be the place. She-Stop: don't ring: this doesn't look like a board ing-house. IIe-O, yes it is. I smell the onions. For every ten hundred dollars expended for flour in this country, it is said that fifteen hundred dollars are spent for to bacco. Teacher-Correct the sentence: "The liquor which the man bought was drank." Smart Boy-The man which bought the liquor was drunk. The cold was so severe at Monterey, Mexico, a few days since, that a circus proprietor had to build a fire around his elephant to keep him from freezing. "I don't mince matters. I can tell you," observed Mrs. Brown at dinner ycsterday. "I shmild say not, judging from this mince pie,'' u: ambled Brown. Old Man (calling down stairs to daughter) -Clara! Daughter-Yes, papa? Old Man -Ask that young man in the parlor which he prefers for breakfast, milk rolls or Vienna bread? A Florida paper complains that there are in that State "too many lawyers, doctors, preachers, editors, and tramps. and not enough men who earn their living by the sweat of their brow." Nervous lady passenger (in train, after passing a temporary bridge)-Thank good ness, we are now on terra firma! Facetious gentleman-Yes, ma'am; less terror and more firmer. Last year bread and butter cost less than in the previous year,' but cheese, pork and canned goods were higher. Coffee, which advanced in price, decreased largely in con sumption; while tea, which declined in price, increased ten per cent. in use. 3Iatter-of-Fact MIother (to fashionable daughter who is going out)-Clara, I think your bustle is altogether too large to look well. Fashionable Dauthter--I know, mama; but you have no idea how slippery the sidewalks are. A Chicago woman, the wife of a police man, rigged up in her husband's uniform, and nobody detected the disguise until she allowed herself to be found when a row was'going on. Then they knew she wasn't one of the force. The Deadly BlIzzard. The terrible storm which has swept over the Northwest, blockading railroads in five States, is now over, and the victims of its fury are being counted. The pitiful list is growing almost every hour. It is not im probable when the record is complete it will show a hundred lives sacrified to the awful fury of the blizzard. Next to this. the worst blizzard that the Northwest ever experienced occurred January 7, 8 and 9, 173. In that storm seventy people were frozen to death and thousands of dollars' worth of property destroyed. The recent storm promises to be even more terrible in its results. It camne without warning. The mercuiry fell rapidly, and by 5 o'clock on Wednesday evening it was fifteen de grees below zero, and the next morning it registered thirty degrees below. All the while the wind increased in fury, snow fell thicker, and the large quantity of snow that was already on the ground was blown into powder and hurled along by the wirad. The sufferings of the victims were intense and the death-list was appalling. A re vised list of the fatalities shows ninety seven dead in Dakota, twelve in MIinnesota. six in Iowa, seventeen in Nebraiska and three in 3Montana--total one hundred and thirty-ive, besides fifty-five reported miss in. Additions are cons-antly ibeing made to the list. Railroad travel has been blocked for some days. Will i MMbe a Year of Ware The present year is the fifth year of modern times in which the aggiregate of the figures is twenty-five. andl there will be but five nmore years in which sac-h a comibina nation is possible prior to the year 7>99. Probably few have ever hecard of the old prophecy, which runs as follows: In every future ye-ar of our Lord, w hen'the sumi of ht h~e it utes is twenty-lire, Some variike k.nad'.m wi.I draw th,- sword, But pleacelul inat ions ini peace Shad thr'ive. Students of modern history will readily recall how faithfully this prophecy has been fulfilled in the f'our previous years to which it applied. In 1699, Itussia, D~enmark and Poland fored the coalition against Sweden wih-hb inaugurated the great war that ended in the disastrous defeat of Charles XII. at Piul The year 1780J will ever be memorable on a~ccount of the breaking otit of the French Revolution. The y-ear 1798 witnessed the campaign of Bonaparte in Egypt and the formation of the second European coalition against France. In 1879 war broke out between England and . r!hanistan, followed by the invasion of th- .atter country by British troops. In what manner the prediction is to be verified ia 18S8 remains yet to be seen, but the present condition of Europe seems to promise. an abundant fultilment of the TIE BILLS. Afhtr S:ir A ien PV -About a Mile After. Sec tie postl:m with the bills \Wh1at a world of tribulation Now their sending out fultils! IIow they r:waile, rinkle, rankle, In the startled dreams of night, As the creditors' procession of the cliunler takes possession With a brutaliid delight: C'all:ng "Tiiel" "Timne!" Time!" In a sort of prize-ring rhyme. To the dark and deep demnition That so rradually kills. From the bills. bills. bills, bills. bills. From the tailors' and the hatters' little bills. Bills: - Bills: Bills! See the big bills for my wife Tailor-made in yt les now rife. If the present fa: bion grows We can wear each other's clo'es, Dropping frills at. furbelows, Dropping furbelow: and frills. And reducing tailors' bills Bills! Bills! See the fearful grocery bills Eating bills! What exceeding cost to people Is the food that stomach tills. Doctors' bills For their pills, Potions, squills And subduing all which kills. How we dread to draw the money When recovered from our ills! Plumbers' bills For stopping rills In the pipes beneath the sills. When we tell them for their pay To take the house and all away, They but answer 'twould not meet Their "little' bills Their extortionate and bank-suspending bills! Bills! Bills! Bills! Facts About Rainfail. The subject of the rainfall is an inter esting one this winter. The American Meteorological Journal informs us that "the precipitation in the temperate zone is extremely variable from season to sea son," which inspires hope that other winters may di)ier a little from this one. The discussion of the weather journal is, however, chiefly devoted to the rainfall on the Western plains, which isrecogniz ed as a most important element in esti mating the agricultural future of our country by such competent authorities as General Morrow, Mr. Charles Francis Adams, Professor S. R. Thompson and ex-Senator Dorsey. In investigating the climatology of the United States, allow ance has to be made for the difficulty of placing rain gauges in exposed localities so as to obtain accurate results. Snow drifts and inequalities of exposure play an important part in upsetting the measurements by gauges; and much care is necessary to prevent inexactness in a result in which accuracy is essential. Mr. Mark W. Harrington, in the Meteorological Journal, recommends the maps of Lorin Blodgett as the best standard for comparison as a basis of earlier observation, and those of Dr. Charles Dennison, of Denve r, for the later dates. With these as standards, Mr. Harrington concludes that there is a slow but gradual gain in the rainfall in the West, which argues well for the in creased fertility of our great developing agricultural regions. Patronize Home. Ye', patronize home schools and home everything. Patronize home industries, home factories andl everything that you consume, that you can possibly get at home, get it there. Don't send your money off to other places, where you will not have a chance to get any of it again, but buy everything at home. By so doing you will not only help to build up the town and make your ueighbars more prosperous, but will help yourself in the same proportion. -Wlil&'n Xirror. A TONGUE IN KNOTS. I contracted malaria in the swamps of Louisiana while working for the tele graph company, and used every kind of medicine I could hear of without relief. I at last succeeded in breaking the fever, but it cost me over $100.00, and then my system was prostrated and saturated with ialarial poison and I became almost helpless. I finally came here, my mouth so filled with sores that I could scarcely at, and my tongue raw and fi led with: little knots. Various remedies were re sorted to without effect. I bought two bottles of B. B. B. and it has cured and strengthened me. All sores of my .outh are healed and my tongue entire ly clear of knots and soreness, and I feel like a new man. Jackson, Tenn., April 20, 1888. A. F. Barrros. STIFF JOINTS. A mIOST REMAuK.ABLE CASE OF SCRIOFULA I have a little boy twelve years old whose knees have been drawn almost double and his joints are perfectly stiff, and he has been in this 'condition three years, unable to.walk. During that time the medical1 board of London county ex amined him and pronounced the disease scrofula and prescribed, but no benefit ever denived. I then used a much ad vertised preparation without benefit. Three weeks ago he became perfectly helpless and suirered dreadfully.2 A friend who had used B. B. B. ad vised its use. He has used one bottle and all pain has ceased and he can now walk. This has been a most wonderful action, as his complaint had baffled everything. I shall continue to use it on him. Miis. E3DIA GRIFFITHS. Unitia, Tenn., March 2, 1886;. WEBB CITY, ARlK., BLOOD. Ilav ing tested B. B. B. and found it to be all that is claimed for it, I commend t to auy aind every one suffering from lood p oison. It has done me more good for less money and in a shorter pac of time than any blood purifier I ever used. I owe the comfort of my if to its use, for I have been troubled with a severe form of blood poison for 5 or b vears and found no relief equal to that given by the use of B. B. B. W. C. McGAU'EY. Webb City, Ark., May 3, 1886. 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