NEWSO¥ THE WEEK «At Anderson, near Huntington, Penna., on the 14th, Thomas Crepps, while walking on the track, was as- multed by two tramps and kmocked flown and gagged. After stealing his watch and a check for his months sala- 1¥, whieh he had just received, they {ed him to the track and left him to gis fate. By frantic efforts he worked himself partially free, but a passing freight train cut off one of the fingers »f his left hand, which he was unable to release from the rail. —J. C. Gaston, a lawyer of Chester, south Carolina, blew out his brains in Atlanta on Saturday. He was several fimes Solicitor General, and once a sandidate for Congress, ~The Attorney General has been to discontinue the criminal pros- scutions against the Oklahoma * boom- ars,” but has declined until he shall receive assurance that they have per- manently and in good faith abandoned their attempts to enter the forbidden Territory. —Secretary Endicott left Washington pn the 16th for Salem, Massachusetts, —The Roman Catholic church in Unionville, Connecticut, was destroyed by fire on the 15th, The loss is about ,000, insurance $13,000, —A despatch from Fort Reno says pews has been received of a fight be- tween a number of cowboys, at the ranch of Frank Murray, 35 miles south- west in the Chicasaw nation. A partly of 25 cowboys rode up to the ranch and fired about one hundred shots at the boys inside the ranch cabin, with whom they had a quarrel over burned stock. The boys inside returned the fire, killing “Dick? Covart and seriously wounding “Dick? Jones and **Bob” Woods of the attacking party. ‘ ~The New York Board of Alder- men on the 17th, fixea the rate of tax. ation for the fiscal year at 2.40 per centum, as against 2.25 per centum jast year. The aggregale assessment was $1,371,117,003, Chief Clerk, John Tweedale, of the War Department, will set as Sec- retary of War during the absence of Secretary Endicott. The Secretary will be absent from Washington until October 1st. —The resignation of Henry J. Aru- strong as agent for the Crow Indians in Montana has been accepted. —W. W. Morgan, ticket agent for the Baltimore and Obio Railroad Com- pany, at Hyattsville, Maryland, com- mitted suicide on the 16ih, by shooting himself through the heart. He had only been appointed on the 15th. —An explosion occurred on the steamboat Samuel M. Felton, owned by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company, on the 17th as she was leaving Chestnut street wharf, Philadelphia, for Wilmington with about 150 or 175 passengers. More than a dozen persons were injured none, it is thought, fatally, and the damage to the vessel will amount to about $2000, — Another meeting in favor of Riel was held in Montreal on the 16th and was attended by about four thousand persons. Resolutions condemning tix trial as unconstitutional were passed. —The train bearing the first instaimen of tea shipped by the Northern Paciti Road from Tacoma, on the Sth inst, reached New York on the 17th, mak- ing the run of 3378 miles in eight days and four hours, **being the fastest time ever made by a frieght train from ocean to ocean,” —A special despatch from Fort Bowie says Captain Davis of the Fourth Cavalry reports that Lietenant Day struck Geronimo’s camp on Au gust 7th and killed three bucks, a squaw, and Geromimo’s son, aged thir teen years, He captured fifteen wom- en and children, among them being three of Geronimo’s wives and five of his children. Geronimo was wounded, but escaped with two bucks and one of Altoona; Conductor, Lizzie Orr, of Allegheny. The total contributions in New York to the Grant Monument Fund amount to $45125. On the 19th while cars were as cending and descending the inclined rallroad at the Cabin Creek Coal Mines, near Charleston, West Virginia, the loaded cars broke loose and collided with a car, in which were Layton Oak- ford, President of the road, Thomas Peacock, Amos Mitchell, Joseph Hall, and a man named Thoman, killing the first four named and seriously wounding Thoman. - While charging a cannon at a pic- nic at Shenandoah, Penna,, on the 19th, John Giltillan, a miner, had his right arm blown off and received other in- juries that will probably prove fatal. There was a premature discharge. —The Democratic State Convention of Iowa met in Cedar Rapids on the 10th. Charles E. Whiting, of Monona county, a farmer, ex-Judge and mem- ber of the last Senate, was nominated for Governor on the frst ballot, and E. H. Gillette, of Des Moines, for Lieutenant Governor, —The State Democratic Convention met in Jackson, Mississippi, on the 19th, and re-nominated Governor Lowry on the first ballot. Resolutions endorsing the administration of I’resident Cleve- land were adopted. —The delegates to the Ohio Demo- cratic State Convention arrived on the 19th. There is no organized opposi- tion to Governor Hoadly, and the im- pression is that he will be nominated on the first ballot. Judge Thurman has refused the use of his name for Governor, and the opposition to Gover- nor Hoadly are not inclined to combing on any other person. — Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour pre- sided over the Canal Conference in Six Millions gone in Smoke, “The fireworks season,” said a lead- ing dealer in New York, ‘‘ begins early in February, when the far west sends in its orders. The factories are busy with these until early in the spring, when the states east of the Mississippi begin to stock up. It is a curious fact that, although the north, from Maine to California, lays in a full stock to blow up on the Fourth, not a dollar 1s spent by the people south of the Poto- mac and Ohio rivers. They use them only on Christmas day. The demand for all kinds of goods fell off rapidly for two or three vears after the Centennial, but for the last five years it has steadily increased, and this year I think will show a genera! increase all over the country. I don’t believe that there was ever before so many firecrackers explo- ded as on the recent Fourth. From all the data obtainable I should say that there was distributed over the country over 500,000 boxes, worth about $500,000, Then the big crackers which have risen rapidly to favor, have been more extensively sold than at any other time, the patriotism of the young men who are too old for the old-time firecracker expending itself in produc- ing the unearthly din these big crackers make, Of course I judge at least five million more were blown into smoke and fragments on the Fourth, “The fireworks manufacturers do their best to discourage the consump tion of firecrackers but the young peo- ple appear to have renewed the loyalty to these time honored explosives, and our opposition seems to have made but little headway. The fOreworks now mostly in demand are of a kind decided- ly superior to those mostly in vogue in the past, and the demand for them is not by any means confined to the big squaw. Everything in the camp was captured. | ~The New York Democratic State) Committee, at its weeting in Saratoga, on the 18th, decided to hold the State Convention in Saratoga on Thursday, Bep. 24. Resolutions of respect to the memory of the late Siavey PP, Nichols, of New York ; Charles W, McCune, of Buffalo, and Edward P. Apgar, were adopted by a standing vote. John O'Brien was chosen chairman in place of Hon. Daniel Manning, resigned. ~The cause of the mysterious explo- sion on the 17th on board the passenger r Samuel M. Feltoa, uear Chest- nut street wharf, Philadelphia, Pa., is age 10 the boat. Ts 8 e which at Wilm at $4150, No offi- cial i of the explosion has et been made. The persons injured are reported to be recovering. ~A despatch from Derby Line, Ver- mont, says sixty-five pauper Arabs who were refused permission to land indNew ork a short time ago, were landed at Quebec subsequently, and are encamped within two miles of Derby Line, “They will pass through here into the United Statea. They bave with them 10 performing bears, 2) monkeys and several horses, supposed to have been , and are a filthy, . (des perate crowd who are community,” cities, but Oregon and Montana want just as good fire goods as we can make. Of these, rockets, Roman candles, and the various colored fires seem to have struck popular fancy. There have been sold this year, I think, fully $5,- 000,000 worth of these for consumption on the Fourth alone, so that the day witnessed the dissappearance of fully $6,000,000 in smoke as an evidence of the patriotic feeling of the country north of the Ohio niver. This does not Include the new-fan- gled Japanese fireworks, which are now extensively used for daylight exhibi- tions, Every visitor of a country fair now thinks the show lacking if the committee does not let off between each heat of the races a lot of these Japanese constructions, Their use, however, 18 almost entirely confined to such occa- sions, But few are sold for the Fourth, as the celebrating patriot of to-day, like his predecessors of old, wants just as much noise as possible by day and just as handsome a show by night as money will buy.” Riding Bear Back. While riding through the willows near the head of the west fork of Rock creek, Colorado, Harry Morgan had an experience with a grizzly that will lin- ger about the panels of his memory during life. He rode directly into the embraces of a she bear as large as a five. year-old steer, Bruin tenderly knocked Harry off his horse, Quickly throwing him on her back, she quietly trotted up the stream about a mile, and then, throwing him down in a washout, de DYING FIRES, The log on which the hearth-fire Jeng has fod Is nigh ocnsumed, and vow the flame burns low, ‘With one faint blaze of feehle, flickering red, That ghostly figures on the wall doth throw. But now the wind comes breathing soft along, It flames again and lights the gloom about, Then lower sinks, asquick the wind is gone, Then flick’ring fades and witha puff goes out. Love's fire for long has fed upon the heart, And nigh consumed it though a feeble flame From oat the ashes now and then doth start, Casting weird shadows on the troubled brain. But mem'ry’s wind comes breathing softly by. It glows again and for a time is bright, Then the thought passes and lips sadly sigh, As it dies outand leaves behind but night, ER THE LOUIS D'OR. When Lucien de Hem saw his last bank notes of a hundred francs raked in by the croupler, and when he rose from the roulette table, where he had preme and final contest, he was almost ofercome by © vertigo, and thought for a moment he should fall. With swimming brains and trembling limbs he threw himself bench covered with leather, which was placed all around the sides of thegamb- ling hall. For some minutes he sur- dimly shown by the light of three large globes, that he had at home in the drawer a simple captain, had used so well at the attack on Zaatcha; then, overpow- sleep. ed and parched, he perceived by a glance gire to breathe the outer air of night. The hands of the clock marked a quar- ter of an hour to midnight. As he arose from the bench, and stretched his arms, Lucien remembered that it was of his memory he suddenly saw himself again a little child placing his shoes near the chimney before going to bed. At this moment the cid Drouski, a sort of pillar of the gambiing-house, the classic Pole, wearing a shabby surtout, ear these words, which seemed to issue from his grizzly and grimy beard: “Lend me a five-franc piece, monsieur. For two days I have not stirred from teen’ has not come oct. Laugh at me if you will, but I give you leave to cut off my right hand if in a few moments, when it strikes midnight, that number does not appear.’ Lucien de Hem shrugged his should- the place called **The hundred sous of the Pole.” He passed into the ante chamber, put on his hat and pelisse and descended the staircase with the rapid- ity of a person in a fever, During the four hours which Lucien had been passing in the gambling-house street—a street in the centre of Paris, rather narrow and built with high hou ges on each side—was perfectly white, In the sky, which was now clear and of a blackish blue, the cold stars sparkled and shone, The ruined gambler shivered under- neath his furs, and set out to walk rap- Mly, turning over in his mind his de- spairing reflections, and thinking now more than ever of the case of pistols which awaited him in the drawer of his dressing -table; but, after having gone a few steps, he suddenly stopped before a heart-rending spectacle, Under a block of stone, placed ac- cording to former usage near the prin- cipal entrance of a hotel, a little girl, 6 or 7 years of age, barely clothed in a black gown, all in rags, was seated in the snow. She had fallen asleep in spite of the cruel cold, in a pitiable attitude of fatigue and exhaustion, and her poor little head and diminutive shoulders were crushed, so to speak, into sn angle of the wall, and rested on the icy stone. One of the shoes which the child wore had become detached from ber foot, which hung down limp and inert, and now lay mournfully before her, With a mechanical gesture Lucien de Hem raised his band to his waistcoat pocket, but he remembered that a mo- ment before he had not been able to find a twenty sous piece which he had forgotten, and which he wished to give a8 a gratuity to the waiter of the gamb- ling house. However, impelled by an instinctive sentiment of pity, he ap- proached the little child, and perhaps would have taken her in his arms and carried her to a shelter for the night, when he perceived a shining object in the shoe which had fallen on the snow, Ho stooped and looked. It wasa louis A charitable person-—a woman, no doubt--had passed by, had seen on this tore the slumbering child, and, recall. ing the touching legend, had dropped in it with a cautious hand a splendid gift, so that the little deserted creature might, on awakening, still believe in | the presents made by the child Jesus, | and preserve, notwithstanding her mis- ery,some hope and trust in the goodness of Providence, A louis! that meant many aays of ease and comfort for the little beggar; and Lueien was on the point of arous- the voice of the Pole with his drawling and slimy accent: “For two whole days I have not stirred from the eircle, and for two days the ‘seventeen’ has not come out, You may cut off my right band if now, ina moment, at the stroke of midmght that opumber does not appear. Suddenly this young man of twenty- three, descended from an honorable race which bore a splendid military name without a stain, conceived a frightful thought, He was seized with | a mad, hysterical, monstrous desire, By a glance he assured himself that he was | from the fallen shoe, | full speed, he returned to the gambling | house, bounded up the staircase, | open with a blow of his hand the door of the crowded aud accursed hall, and rushing in at the very moment when on the green cloth. and cried: “All on the ‘seventeen’!” The *‘seventesn” won. With a sweep of his hand The red won. | same color. The red again turned up. He made the same venture twice, i three times, and always with the same | success, He bad soon before him a heap of gold and bank notes, with which | in a sort of frenzy he strewed the cloth. The **dozen, the “column,” the ‘‘num- ber,” every combination succeaded, It was a supernatnral and unbeard-of for- tune. It seemed as if the little ball of | ivory leaping into the compartments of the roulette table was magnetized and fascinated by the look of the player, and {obeyed his will, He had rewonina a thousand francs, his last resource, | which he had lost in the beginning of the evening, and now, wagering two or three hundred louis at a time, and sus tained by his fantastic bliss of luck, he hereditary fortune which he had dissi- pated in so short a time, In his haste | heavy pelisse; already he had filled his large pockets with packages of bank- | not knowing where to put hus winnings, pockets of his waist coat and trousers, his cigar-case, his handkerchief, in fact | everything which would serve as a re- ceptacle. And be played like a mwad- won: and he threw handfuls of gold on | datn. | Bat all the time he felt as It were a {red-hot fron in his heart, and his | thoughts turned to the little beggar | had robbed, | said to himself. “Certainly she must {be there still. In a moment. When it strikes one, Iswear it! I will leave. I will hasten to take her in my | arms, fast asleep as sheis. 1 will carry |her to my home. | sleep in my own bed. up, I will give her a dowry. | ove her as my own child, and I will protect and cherish her forever—for- ever.” But the clock struck one, and the quarter, and the half, and the three- quarters, and Lucien was still seated at the infernal table. At last—just before 2 o'clock—the manager rose abruptly and said with a loud voloe: “The bank 1s broken, gentlemen! is enough for to-day.” I will bring her It feet. Pushing aside without ceremony the players who surrounded him and watched him with envious admiration, he left hastily, descended the stairs at full speed, and ran to the stone bench. From afar by the light of a gasdamp he saw the little child. “God be praised!” he exclaimed. “She is still there!" He approached and seized her hand. “Oh! how cold she 1s! Poor little creature!’ he murmured. He put his arms around her and carried her away. The head of the child fell back, but she did not wake. “Ah! how one sleeps at that age,” he said, He pressed her to his breast to give her warmth, and then, seized with a vague unaesiness and to arouse her from her heavy slumber, he kissed her on the eyes as he had many a time kissed the woman whom he loved and cher. ished the most. But he perceived with terror that the child's eyelids were half open and dis. closed the eyeballs glassy dull and mo- tionless. iis brain agitated by a mouth close to that of the child, but not a breath issued from her lips, While with the louis d'or which he had stolen from the beggar, Lucien had won a fortune, the child without shel- ter had perighed —perished with the cold, With his throat contracted by a sen- sation of the most terrible agony, Lu- cien endeavored to utter a cry, and in the effort which be made he awoke from bis nightmare on the bench of the gam- ing-Liouse, where a ‘ittle before mid- night be had fallen asleep, and where the waiter, who usually left the last, at about five o'clock ia the morning; bad allowed him to remain undisturbed by a sentiment of commiseration for the ruined gambler, A dull December dawn lit up with a pale hue the glasses of the windows, Lucien left, placed his watch in pawn; took a bath, breakfasted, and went to the recruiting office to sign a voluntary enlistment in the First Regiment of Lhe Cheasseurs d'Afrique. Lucien de Hem is now a lieutenant, He has but his pay on which to live, but he succeeds in doing this, being an officer of most exemplary habits and never touching a card. It would ap- pear even as he were able to save some- thing, for the other day at Alglers one of his comrades, who happened to fol- low him at some distance up a precipi- tous street of XKasba, saw him give ules to a little Spanish girl who had n asleep under a gate, and he had the curiosity, indiscreet at it was, to see hat Lucien had bestowed to alleviate poverty, He was greatly surprised at he generosity of the poor lieutenant. Lucien de Hem had placed a louis { d'or in the hand of the little child, $1. iit mem ——— AI AP —— Men who Drag Carriages. Trot, trot, trot, along the smooth, | sunny, but bamboo-shaded high road, 1 a little leisure now to astonishing rickshaw | They wear the enormous traditional { mushroom Chinese hat, suitable in case | either of beating rain or fierce sun, un { der which are tucked their hair-plaited | pigtails, for even a coelis would feel | himself disgraced were he minus a pig- | tall. They are barefooted, bare legged, {bare armed, and wear just sufficient | rags to save themselves from the charge { of indelicacy. Their skins are sallow, { their Mongolian faces are pinched, t ! stature is small, their limbs at. tenuated and loosely put together, And | yel these demonical leoking wrelches, i to call whom *‘brethren” is heavy demand on | themselves forward in the | drag their carriages with their passen gers, who may be ten or may be twenly | stone, not at a walk or iamble, but at a good about six miles an hour, | flag, pant or perspire, but keep uj pace for two or three miles at a sirelch, | Would not the most renowned Euro. | pean athlete or pedestrain be but a fee- | have observe | these cool les, seem indead a our charity, throw shafts and a shuffle or an round trot of They neither thi Moreover, i these coolies have to content themselves {ble coney in comparison? {at the end of their jouuney with five cents; a cent is a fraction a { half-penny. They exult if they receive {ten cents, and consider the donor an utter fool if he gives them fifteen cents, gl less than The Leaves of Plauts, It generally supposed that { autumn leaves of deciduous | drop off because they die. My impres. { sion is that most persons would be very much surprised to hear that this is nog | altogether the case. In fact, however, the separation is a vital process, and, if a bough is killed, the leaves are not thrown off but remain attached to iL | Indeed, the dead leaves nol only re- | main in sil, but they are still firmiy { attached. Being dead and withered, they give the impression that the least | shock would detach them; on the con- trary, however, they will cften bear a | weight of as much as two pounds with- out coming off. In evergreen species the conditions are in many respects dif- ferent, When we have an early fall of snow in autumn the trees which still retain their leaves are often very much broken down. Hence, perhaps the comparative paucity of evergreens to have smooth and glossy leaves such as holly, box and evergreen oak. Halry leaves especially retain the snow, on which more and more accumulates, Again, evergreen leaves sometimes re main on the tree for several years; for instance, 1n the Scotch pine thres or four years, the spruce and silver fr six or even seven, the yew eight, A pinsapo sixteen or seventeen, uran- carina and others even longer. It is true that during the later years they gradually dry and wither; still, under the circumstances they naturally re. quire special protection. They are asa general rule, tough and even leathery. In many species, again, as is the case with our holly, they are spinose. This serves as a protection from browsing animals; and in this way we oan, | think, explain the curious fact that, while young hollies have spiny leaves, those of the older trees, which are out of the reach of browsing animals, tend to become quite unarmed. In confirmation of this I may also adduce the fact that while in the evergreen oak the leaves on well grown trees are entire and smooth edged like those of is in the {roes FOOD FOR THOUGHT, Reaction is the Jaw of life, Bllence is the virtue of the weak, A hungry man is an angry man. A great ship must have deep water, A great reputation 1s a great charge, A jest driven too far brings hotne hate, Temperate anger well becomes the wise, The unfortunate are always egotisti- cal, In political crises pity is called trea. som. “A word fitly spoken, how good is ftir In art, execution is only tempera. ment. No man is wise or safe but he that 18 honest. Hope is a dream of those who are awake, To vaunt your dedigree is Lo praise others, Reverie is to thoughts what hysteria is to love, When fortune brings vou a coat it should fit, The unexpected is one of the sources of genius, To pardon an old injury is to provoke a new one. To hun that lives well every form life is good. Friendship is woven benefits, Those who have known real grief sel- dom seem sad. Good-breeding 18 a letter of credit all over the world, It is not hard to d to paint a look. The failure of one man tunity of another. What all men “shabby genteel.” Laziness travels so slow that poverty soon overtakes him, The science of society consists in specting its futilities, : What the crowd order of mediocrity. Religion and selves to reason. Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius, Often we see a structure that 18 worth less than the scaffolding. Moral courage is the rarest of quali- ties, and often maligned. One ungrateful man does an injury 0 all who stand in need of aid. Gratitude is a debt we all owe, but few men pay cheerfully. What appear to be calamities are often the sources of fortune. Doing good is the only happy action of a man’s life, Marriage is never a trivial thing either increases or diminishes, Every human being 1s either a helper or hinderer to his fellow-men, lead the words which inspire betler thoughts and healthier feelings, of woven fast by inter raw an eye-it 18 is Lhe Oppor- avoid is the shonid dA M2 ré- wants 18 a high virtue address them- and The sympathy of sorrow is -slronger than the sympathy of prosperity. erty. Jealousy is the sentiment of po but envy is the instinet of theft. If you want to wnite a correct book, submit the proofs to your enemies, It isa good horse that mever st bles, and a good wife that never g bles. Fashion and prejudice, vanily pleasure, corrupt the sentiments of great. “ Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest, The mind of man seeks the his intelligence; they are at his nose, . True love always makes a man bet- ter, no matter who the woman is who inspires it. The necessities that exist are in gen- eral, created by the superfluities that are enjoyed. It seems that the wen arn't wanted here are the men who arn't wanted in the other world, There are a few occasions when cere- mony may not be easily dispensed with, kindness never. Jie that does good for good’s sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last, It! is the pride, passion and earthi- ness of our hearts that have spoiled Christian fellowship. A neglected heart is so confused and dark that the little grace which is in it is not ordinarily discernible. Parefits who are ignorant of their duty, willl be taught by the misconduct of their, children what they ought to have dong. Every human soul has the germs of some flowers within, and they would open if they could only find sunshine and free ajr to expand in. Why shuld evervonetry to make his own compdiny asagreeable and valuable as possiblef--Decause it is company that he never avoid. Many a spnall man never ceases talk- mnall sacrifices be makes: but man who can sacrifice iit say nothing, Never contradict anybody in general ply do it even at home, ss to be contradicted even diction is deserved. uta. um- and the limits of he end of good A no eircnmst Wicked me are sometimes like mad
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