NEWS OF THE WEEK.
—During a dance at Keéney's Creek,
a mining village in Fayette County,
West Virginia, on the night of the 24th,
a fight was provoked by too much
whisky drinking, and one man was shot
dead, two others being mortally wound-
ad, and a fourth badly cut with a razor.
The trouble arose from two factions of
young men who were at feud being
represented at the dance.
-1n East St. Louis on the afternoon
of the 28th, a water tank on the re-
frigerating house of the Heim Brewery
fell through the roof, killing John
Keefer, an employes, and breaking the
pipes so as to liberate a quantity of
ammoniacal gas, which was inhalel by
two men, who, it 18 feared, will not re-
cover. Thomas J, Nivler, aged 28
years, was crushed to death by a fall of
rock in the Susquehanna Coal Com-
pany’s shaft at Nanticoke, Ienna., on
the evening of the 27th, In Scranton,
Penna., on the 27th, Mrs, John Burke,
while going up stalas with a lighted
lamp, fell to the bottom, and, her cloth-
ing catching fire, she was burned to
death. gier husband, being blind, was
unable to assist her, In Middletown,
Ohio, on the night of the
2th, Mrs, Hendrickson, while
showing a neighbor ‘*how she would
treat tramps if any molested her,”
took a revolver from a drawer and
fired a shot in the air from the door.
As she was returning it to the drawer
the weapon was in some way again
discharged, and her
daughter was instantly killed.
Albert Dean was visiting his mother,
near Chreston, Indiana, on the 27th,
John Westley entered the house and
showed a new revolver, which he
handed Albert Dean to examine, The
weapon went off, and the ball passed
through the heart of Mrs. Dean, kill-
pg her instantly. Lewis Snyder, a
prominent citizen of Ashland, Penn-
sylvania, was fatally injured by a runa-
way accident at Shenandoah, on the
svening of the 25th.
— Anna Rhoads, aged 17 years,
domestic, committed suicide by taking
-at poison, in Lancaster, Penna., on the
aight of the 27th, Her only reason was
hat she *‘was in trouble.”
—A subscription fund for the benefit
a
n Washington, and by evening the
amount subscribed was over $15,000,
Among the subscribers are Governor
Alger, of Michigan; Senator Sawyer, of
Wisconsin; William Walter Phelps, of
New Jersey; Anthony J. Drexel, of
Philadelphia; and O, 8. Smith, of De-
sroit, who gave $1,000 each. U.
Grant Post, No. 5, G. A. R., of Phila-
Jelphia, on the 25th, adopted resolu.
tions in respect to General Logan, and
also sent a dispatch through J. Henry
Sercke, Commander, to General Lucius
Fairchild, recommending him *‘to call
mn the Grand Army of the Republic to
ay off the mortgage on Comrade John
A. Logan's homestead, Post 5 will
sheerfully contribute its share,
—A flie at Greensburg, Westmore-
jand county, Penna.. early
morning of the 29th, destroyed ten
suildings, including the Laird House,
Sempie’s hardware store, old Pre
office, Caleb Stark’ dwelling and four
stores.
B00. Many of the boarders in the
faird House barely escaped in Llbeir
nght clothes. Charles King's glove
eather factory at Johnstown, New
York. was burned on the 28th. Loss
§50.000; insurance. $35,000. Charles
Matteson’s dry goods store in Leaven.
worth, Kansas, was damaged by fire on
the 28th to the extent of $25000; in
surance, $15,000. The barn aud tobacco
shed of David Brunner, in Wallace
wwnship, Chester county, DPeuna.,
was destroved on the night of
8th by au incendiary fire. Twenty
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and a bull perished in the barn. The
Galesburg Opera House, at Galesburg.
Iilines, was burned on the night of
the 29:h. Loss, $75,000; msurance,
£25,000 During the fire a firrman,
said to bave been intoxicated wiih
liquors rescued fiom the flames, drove
a hose cari through Main street a
breakeeck speed, runuing down six
persens Two of them were danger
yusly imjured.
— An accommodation train on the
Fort Wayue Railroad rad off the track
near Darlingion, Ohio, on the 23th,
wrecking two passenger coaches and
the bag. «2+ car. Four passengers and
two employes received painful, but not
others were shighily bruised and cut
The accident wus caused by a broken
frog. Two freight traius on
mington and Northern raiiroad eoladed
on the 29th at a curve in a cul
Reading, Penta. Both engines were
high above each other.
the wreck, bul were rescued with
nothing worse than severe bruises,
The Joss to the company is estimated at
$15,000.
—-Mrs, Edwin Stanford, aged
years, was burned to deatbfat Sanfords’
ou the 28Lh, by her clothing taking tire
from a stove While Laura Varley,
aged 16 years, was standing by a red-
aot stove tn a barn in St. Louis, on the
night of the 28th, a large dog bounded
into the room and knocked her against
the stove. Her clothes caught fire atid
she was fatally burned. Mrs, gMichael
Boll, 80 years of age, died on the motn-
mg of the 29h in York county, Penna, ,
froma burns received by her clothes tak.
ing fire from a stove on the 28th,
~The ice in the Susquehanna river,
shove Port Deposit, began to move
on the evening of the 28th, and piled
on Garrett Island and at the new
railroad bridge, The railroad tracks
were on the 20th covered with water,
snd the rolling stock was removed to
3 place of safely. A telegram from
Port Deposit says: *‘If the wealher
grows colder there will be no serious
spprehension at present, but if the
thaw continues the result will be se-
rious heie as well as at poluts above,”
- Rev. Clayton Kelso, # minister,
himself in his barn at Macon,
Missouri, on the
after returning
bis mster. Bigg: a i :
~During the present month in New
York City there have been reported
thus far 2000 cases of measels and 225
feaths from that diseass,
eves
—By a premature explosion of pow
der in the colliery of Lawrence, Brown
& Co., at Frackville, Penna., on the
20th, Thomas i'isher was fatally
burned, and dled soon after. Five
other men were dangerously wounded.
~The proprietors of nearly all the
gambling dens in Decatur, 11linols,
have been indicted and will be tried
| pext month. It 1ssald that one young
| man has squandered $20,000 in one of
{ these dens within two years.
~Jlsaac Bickel, an aged farmer of |
|
Anamosa, Iowa, on the night of the
| 20th ult,, refused his 19-year-old son,
| Ira, one dollar to spend at a New Year
| party. Ile also attempted to chastise
| the boy, but was struck dead by the |
| latter by a heavy blow on the head with |
| a stick. During a colored dance in
| Fayette county, Georgia, on the 20th
ult.. a woman named Turner objected
| to Ellen Williams dancing with her
| husband. A sister of Ellen thereupon
| geized Mrs, Turner and killed her by |
| cutting her throat. Theodore Richards |
was fatally stubbed by Nicholas Burns,
| in Louisville, on the morning of the 40th |
| ult., just as he was getting out of a |
| hack fn which he bad been seeing |
| Burns (who was drunk) to his home.
| The men had been friends. At Bun
side, Kentucky, on the J0th ult, Lee
Nelson, aged 23 years, seriously whipped
a little son of Benjamin Chestnut, FEd-
ward Chestnut, an uncle of the boy, |
hearing of the whipping, pounded Nel-
son on the head with a club, inflicting |
{ injuries from which he cannot recover.
—Temperatures below zero were re-
| ported in Maine, at 7 o'clock on the
morning of the 30th ult,, in the follow-
ing places: Milltown, 18; Calals, 29;
| Baring, 20; Robinson, 25; Houlton, 26; |
Presque Isle, 30; Caribou, 35; Fort |
Fairfield, 36. At Andover, New
{ Brunswick, 42 below was regis-
i tered In Vermont, 23 below was
reached at Waterbury, and 30 below at
Jarre,
i —Owing to the snow slorm, all |
| trains from the West and South, arriv-
ing at New York, on the J0th ult.
| were from two to five hours behind
time. ‘I'he Boston and Providence
{ mails were delaved about two
hours.
also
— William l.ester, aged 33 years, was
fatally burned by falling into a vat of
| sulphuric acid in Work’s candle fac-
tory at wcinnati, on the evening ol
ic
Cit
—A fire at Upper Marlboro, Mary-
lund, early on the worning of the J0th
ult., destroyed ten or twelve buildin
causing a loss of nearly $60,000,
} spice mills of William Scholten,
Louis, were burned on the night of t
20th wilt, Loss $35.000, insurance
$50,000. Plondon Stevens’ saw mill in
| New York was burned on the same
night. Loss 000, covered 1 in-
surance,
—James and Mary Romans and C,
0. Boagem were arrested in Boston on
the 20th ult, for counterfeit
coin.
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—Dorr M. Hamlin, who, two weeks
at Penn Yan, New York, died on the
morning of the 30th ult, of his wound,
place,
W. Loring, Pasba,
Unitad States Army,
then of the Cosfederate Army, and
later commander of a corps in the
Egyptian service, died on the evening
of the 30th ult, in New York. Caplain
' Richard Hill, of the Tampa and Hava-
na steamship Whitney. dropped dead
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~General W,
formerly of the
—Mrs. Anuie Smith, accused of in-
ducing Lillian Smith, an 11l.year old
girl, to steal pocketbooks from ladies
engaged in Shopping, was on the 30th |
held in £1500 bail in New York.
—Five men were injured, two of
| them mortally, by the giving way of a
| scaffold on the new armory building,
| at Nauoticoke, DPenna., on the 50th ull.
—1n Chicago, on the evening of
90th ult., Michael Maloney, drunk
bespatterel with blood, went oa
police station and said that he hadi
cut the throats of his daaghter and
ison, Offers went t the man’s
found that t two child.
empted to put Maloney
angrily resist and draw-
ing a knife plunged it his son's
peek, Maloney's 11-year-old daughter |
rushed between the father and son |
ouly to receive a slash under the arm.
The boy's wound Is probably Talal,
jbut it isl the girl will res
Leover, Oscar and Thomas Hopkins,
both colored, were lead by Dan-
fel Nelson, also colored, in Brenham,
Texas, . on the same eveul They
were walking on the platform in front
iof the freight depot when Nelson |
deliberately fired both barrels of a
shot gun ut them, hitting one in the
| backsand the other in the head. Tue
i murders are the ovtecome of “‘an old
feud belween rival perro bruss binds, ?? |
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~The Charleston News and Courier |
gays thal the number of manufacturing |
| establishments in South Carolina has |
increased from 1230 in 1860 to 3242 1n |
118986. The capital juvested has in|
| creased from $6.931.766 to $21,327 970.
i The number of hands employed is 33 378 |
in 1886, against 6004 in 186) and 8140
in 1870. The value of the products is |
§29.951,5500. Tbe eotton mbls give |
| employment now to 4550 persons, It is
estimated that the vaine of agricultnral
and garden products for 1880 was $44,-
109.501, and the value of the corn alone
was nearly halt the value of the cotton
crop. “Taking the population of South
Carolina as Tu3,708 in 1860 and 1,100,000
in 1886, the average gross income of
each person in the State was §77 in 1860
against $70 io 1880. There 18 deep sig-
nificance in these figurns which, more.
over, take no account of the mercantile
business of the Slate, Were the
amount of general business added, it
would be reasonable to say that the
gross income of the people of South
Carolina, their means of living and of
spending, Is considerably worse than it
was in 1860."
~The faneral of General John A.
Logen, took place on the 8lst uit. in
Washington. Services were held 1n
n assem
The services comprised the reading of
the 90th Psalm by Bishop Andrews,
the reading of the burial serviee by
Rev. Dr. Butler, prayer by the Rev,
Dr. Tiffany, and the funeral sermon by
Rev. Dr. Newman. After the sermon
the body was placed in the hearse and
taken, under military escort to Rock
Creek Cemetery, about four miles from
Washington, where it was interred
with due honors,
—During the year 1886 the Saginaw
River Mills, In Michigan, manufact-
ured 798,826,000 feet of lumber, 227,-
403,000 shingles and 100,900,000 pieces
was robbed on the morning of the 30th
valuables and some cash, by F. B,
ered,
engaged in a drunken quarrel in Floyd
rate them. Alexander Brown, a well:
in
1st. The house had been plundered.
Detail, in Chicago, who was wounded
in the leg at the Haymarket riot, is re-
ported In a critical condition,
— A construction train and a freight
collided in a deep cut, near Devil's
tun, on the night of the 31st ult, The
ished in the flames. An express train
struck a sled, containing twenty young
Indiana, on the evening of the 1]
killing two women and injuring seven
others. The killed were Mrs. Lizzie
Lepper, aged 23, and Miss Tina Min-
ecker, aged 17. The men in the party saw
the train approaching and asked the
driver to stop. He did near them
and they escaped mjury by jumping
iat.
~The members of a family named
Thomas. in Lawrenceville, a suburb of
are sick with trichinosls, In
ating raw ham, and
L TECOVery.
—The snow storm just
very heavy in the West. A
fron Michigan City, Indiana, reporis
“over five feet SHOW On 4 in
the exposed places, while in the ra
vines it is some six feet deep.” There
is troubie on all the railroads, freight
trains being abandoned, while several
passenger trains are stopped at 4iff
A telegram from Laporte,
a, reports the snow
on a level e city, and from four
to five in the adjacent country. The
storm was very heavy Westen
Psnnsylvama and Ohio,
— Mrs. Boulanger,
French resident
[.huisiana, was murdered in her h
about noon on the lst, by an unkn
trawp. was the molive,
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of level
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Indias 4 three feet
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in
a wealthy
Donaldsonville,
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— Frederick Spaeth, aged
ghot and killed his wife Josephine, aged
27 andl shot himself in the left breast,
inflicting a wound which Is likely to
They came to this coun-
try from Germany a year ago. About
weeks ago Mrs Spaeth her
husband to live with a baker amed
Reilly, but a brother of Frederick had
induced her to return to her husband,
It sald he was frugal and wved
money, while she was extravagant and
fond of fine clothes,
YEAS,
jell
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pany
wit!
last
$2,000,000,
chartered
yoy wl r
capital of
lexan,
sfate i
of
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An assignment in
1st The liabilities
to about £5 Ki OER
are said to amoun
are footed
the assals
up about $540,000,
~The Otis Blok in Chicago, inelud-
ing the Lacleda Hotel and a farniture
re, was burned on the afternoon of
the 1st, Loss, $40 000. The guests In
the hotel had a narrow escape.
Sioux City, lowa, on the
stroyed a commission houses, a dry
goods store and a boarding house,
eausing a loss of §15.000. During the
wt
1st, de
ladder truck ran away and a man was
ran over amd erusbed to death
panied by faint detonations, were felt
in Columbia and Summerfield South
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The grain my lavish fingers used to throw,
Long since was reaped for other's garnering;
Yet I am rich amid my nature dearth ;
My gold is where the rainbow touches earth,
My wealth is molten of full many an ore,
| Dug from the sacred caverns of the past ;
Ptled on the promised land that lies before,
All blent together, all of priceless worth,
All hid just touches
earth.
where the rainbow
{ And memory, Faith and Hopeits guardinos
are,
| As holding Love's strong hand I malks
Way,
| Knowing I near a little every day
| The one sure goal where, passing o'er
bar,
I find, in all the glow of second birth,
My treasure, where the rainbow touche
earth.
IT EHR.
dens. The sun was setting and the
| crowds of people on foot and riding
who had been listening to the
| and looking at each other, came down
music
| homeward before the darkness set in.
It was a gay crowd that the old obe-
{isk with its spouting lions saw surging
| around its base,
| human streams, and pouring down the
streets that branch off from the Piazza
| —the Corso and the Via del Babuino,
Carriages of every kind, filled with
thelr
of
the city gate and made
through the dense mass
goekers,
A dog cart with mangunilicent
the
pleasure
horses
come quickly from direction .of the
Borghese gardens; a tall, aristocrat
,
looking mian 18 driving, and 18
ently trylng to catch up with a v
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just ahead of him, in woman
woman
is seated —a the
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{ abreast, One person
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sack on his
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woman in the victoris
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As the
carriage dashes past, the gen-
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arches down, a
sures, cuts the young
trav.
the face with his whip | §4
rosy
leaves a crimson line, The young man
does not ery oul; he HIV. SAVE « LEY
juietly
a by-stander:
“Who is that man?"’
“The '1ince Borghese,
“And the
riage?”
“The
wife?"
“Ah, thanks!"
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Princes
the great obelisk
in the waler,
There are
fewer people about now.
1h
1Yark ness
a soul to be
ihe piazza is almost deserted, & sun
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comes and all is milent; not
scen: all the praizs
Only travel-stained sits
by the fountains wilh the
wh on his handsome boyish face,
we
are deserted.
the pilgrim
the mark of
cruel
There is a ball that night at the Ras-
embassy . rooms,
extravagance, are
scenes from fairy lands.
Masses of rarest flowers and plants
| sian the
with fabulous like
though it was a garden called up by a
| magician,
All nations are there; beauties {rom
{ all parts of the civilizel world are at
| the ball that night; it is the event of
| the season, and the last for some time,
| making the most of their time to the
| music of the musicians, hidden behind
| a bank of flowers and palm-branches.
| with jewels, smile, their eyes sparkle
carnival of pleasure,
Off the ball-rooms are doors leading
out on to the terrace; the might is
warm: severa! persons, finding the air
| inside oppressive, walk out into the
moonlight and stroll leisurely up and
down, or sit in the shade of the orange
trees.
The Prince Borghese and the Prin.
cess Vera come out and walk; she 1s
magnificent in her ball dress of satin
and lace with a necklace of diamonds,
and diamonds sparkling in her hair;
the prince is talking to her ia low
tones, holding his head close to bers,
A shadow comes out of the darkness
and stands in their path. The prince
looks up, angry at the interruption; the
princess, 100, looks and gives an 1p.
voluntary start,
“Well, sir, what can we do for you?"
says the prince, impatiently,
The stranger turns his face in the
moonlight, and the prince sees & red
line across it, as he answers,
“The orince was kind enough to
“Sir,” he answers, ‘‘do you imagine
the Prince Borghese would soil his
that may present himself?”
“Do I understand you to refuse?
says Lhe stranger, quietly,
“I do; and let me tell you that if yon
ry
| thé Jackeys to kick
! street.”
“Beware, sir,”’ says Lhe young man,
excitedly, “how you keep on adding
| your insults, You refusel You wil
| not spare the princess the pain of see-
| ing me strike you before all these peo-
| ple. You refuse to meetl me, so be
| it. Am I unknown? Ask
| Ask the princess if she knows me, I
| think she did once, if she has nol for-
| gotten,”
you into the
| The prince, livid and furious, turns
| to the latter, who has drawn a little to
i one side leaning against the
halustrade, calm witness to
scene,
“Ig this true” gays the prince, **C
i you know this man, Vera?”
“Yes, once,’ she answers, in a low
voice,
“Ah, that alters it!” he says, turnin
to the stranger. *‘I am entirely at your
service when you will.”
and Is
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“To-morrow, then, by sunrise, at 1}
Borghese gardens.”
“Very as have
things to set in order, I beg you to
| cuse me: au revoir.’ Saying this,
{ turns on his heel, *‘I thank the might
air is rather cool. Had wa not beller
go in, Vera?® She takes his arm, but
gives a quick giance over her shor
10
well; you
fx
he
det
from the stranger to a while speck on
i the ground; he takes her meaning, goes
to the spot, and picks up a small
gS
re
£1
15.6
he
of the onder of dane he
Sid
takes
the hight and reads.
He gives a sla
t of joy as he sees
feat l xx od
FOHOWIDE wWoras
“Comes to my house after the bali ts
ti
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ght when Lhe
breaks upand | »29 Vera's carriage
3 ~
r 10 her QOoT.
sin
slowly walks up th
is up
he gets ou
e steps and into Sa
y fight
waiting fo
parior. The young man who Ist
a duel in a few hours is 3
her. He rises as she enters,
she says,
tones, “isthis the w
old friends in Rome,
iY yO
and come
near me?"
“Friends?” he
ANSWOrs “Ay, ye
Is the princess still ons of them?”
@
rs
urmar
know. 1 could not tell
then. You told me yon
{ smiled then -1 found o
wy own min
loved me. it
differently
Bit
“What do you mean?’ he says, with
rut Yook
I wan
ng—-any one-—you
knew whither,”
“What! doy
Do my love-
spurn me because. when you 1
I dil not Know that
y heart.
“When
melancholy face,
ted you more than any
had
gone,
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i TDean ml yo
not repel
vou
Forgive me,"
ormgiy.
you?" he
2 y “hh, the jor {
ment would repay a lifetime of
ing. Oh, Vera, my queen!”
and takes her in ani
other's embrace they sit together in
his arms,
the
meliow light of the lamps and forg
evervihing.
“Vera, Raphae!, sud
what is the prince to you?”
“Nothing. she answers,
“Then it is not true that you
marry him?”
“Can yon ask me, after what 1 bavo
u id your"
RAVES ienly,
ara t
wh
| “And to think tha" in a few hours
you are to fight him—the best shot in
| Rome! To think that you may be
tkilled! Oh, 1 cannot bear
{ thought!”
{ “Do not think of it, darling. To-day
| I wished to die; now I feel I am invul-
| nerable and will be victorious, 1 am
| protected by happiness and love.”
“May heaven grant it] Now that I
{ have found you I could not bear your
| loss; it would kill me.”
i “My happiness 1s too great! 1 oan
| scarcely believe i,” he says. “It
{ seems like a dream! Too moeh as i
| wished 100 improbable to realize!”
“Does this seem unreal?” she saws,
| throwing ber arms round his neck, and
| Kissing Lim passionately again and
| again,
*
»
. - i -
Daylight has come, ‘he sun Nhs
risen and the Romans sre taking their
morning walk, or sitting Joxily in the
sun.
The foreigners are ou. doing tue
sights, armed with thelr guide books,
and the begaars nnd artists’ models are
ins thick as usual in the Piazza di
Spagna, ‘
A young man harries gziong. alesost
on a run, and turns down the Via Cons
dotdi to the Corso People Jook after
him in wonder, such activity 1s so an:
© “A lunatic or an eccentric Ex
man,’ they matter and pass on,
On hie goes along the Corso to
%
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where lie rushes thipugh the courtyard
ud rings the bell,
A footman answers the summons.
“The Princesa Vera?”
“Madame 18 not up yet."
“Well, I will wait. Tell Lor # gen<
not leave
He walks
Kaows so well,
| **Traly love has protected
have nothing but joy ahead now
happy she will be when she
ji
He is interrupted in Lis meditation
¥ the froufrou of 4 woman's dress
Vera enters, Bhe looks at hor visi-
tor and says, in surprise;
“What, you! And alive!”
‘Yes, Vera, [shot the prince)
*What! You ghot the
liese?”’
“Yes,
I am
into the salon that he
ine, i
How
finds i
is
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and
2
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org.
He is dangerously wounded,
have irs Jove. We
hawe nothing but happiness now.
shadow,
“What
gale YO
re, P19
you Ind Fhe pays,
Have you f Ix
with me, Vera,
do not mean
| git here, where we Sal
11 ane
she turns from him.
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gotten?
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: Lire | 1
{rota stone, the up ain
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upbold ing ipon which |
main figure sands, are three pars of
legs and as wany arms and hands; cael
| pairof bands holds a round ball bear-
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| thus formiog a fant resemblance
{ three human figures.
| Another is hamat Lge
| hands ciasped in the attitude of de
tion, its head surmounted by that of a
| very docile-looking calf; another, ihat
{ of a grinning miest; still another, two
femeie figures standing side by side
with uptarned faces, clasped hands,
| and dressed in the garb of nuns another,
: the form of a {abalous animal; and so
ad lion, for the gods of Japan are
| said to number eight millions, the chief
| one of then being * Amida’ or Buddha.
{fis image isto be found everywhere
| throughout the land —upon the moun.
tain tops in the lonelest valleys, and
| even in le desert places; in the lem.
| ples, the houses, the tnoroughfaces of
! the larged cittes, and the lo wilest ham.
lets of this benighted Jang. In cural
| districts and mountainous pans the of.
| perings mele to him sre stones plied up
ground the pedestal apon Ww hioh he uils,
This “Amida is to the Japapess what
I Jupiter wis to the ancient Greeks. ithe
{ fat ler of all the gods,
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Ff the family trol ting Suilioa Beitan,
ving ar PS. Taber's ahare
La Laocrber 23 foe $10 000.
| eam the brood mares which
g£ dreen will take to Glonvew
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in 1876. by Harold, out
ail of Dedomamt), by Mame
aos the tall sister of
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of Pancoast