A RACE BOT
NOW RAGING IN FAYETTE COUNTY.
GEORGIA.
NEGROES REPORTED KILLED
AND EIGHT WOUNDED.
ATLANTA, July 10,—A terrible race
riot, in which the list of killed and
wounded 1s placed at 16, is raging In
Fayette county. The scene of the
tragedy 18 Staus Mills, and the ocea-
sion was the drawing off of a fisn
pond. A large erowd had assembled
to catch fish, and a row occurred be-
tween a negro and a white wan.
Others were soon interested and en-
gaged in the difficulty and a gen-
eral war epsued. The result was
that four negroes were killed, eight
wounded and two white men seriously
wounded. The row is still going on
at last reports,and will probably con-
tinue to-night, The crowds on both
sides are being augmented by friends,
and bloodier times are expecied to-
night than even those of to-day.
BavrTivore, July 10 —A special de-
Epatch to the Sun from Charleston, W,
Va., says: There are grave fears tuat a
serious race war will break out in the
Pocahontas and Bramwell mining re-
glon, arising out of a terrible rot oc-
curring on a train on the Norfolk and
Western Railroad on the evening of
July 6.
Between two snd three hundred col-
ored miners from Pocahontas had been
on an excursion on the Blue Stoue
Branch of the railroad, and returning
many were under the influence of
bquor. While in the cars some of the
negroes got Intoarow with an uuknown
white man, and were proceeding to cut
his throat, when Detective W. GG. Bald-
win and three of his assistants, who
Were on the train, interfered.
The detectives were at once attacked,
and a serious riot ensued In the cars,
the seats being broken to pieces and
used as clubs, Baldwin was terribly
beaten about the head, and is in a pre-
carious condition, Campbell, anothe:
detective, was badly wouaded In the
side,
Detective Robertson had his right
arm broken. R. M. Baldwin, the fourth
detective, escaped. Nine negroes were
knocked down, and oue was shot in
the shoulder and 1n the left arm,
The Lrain was stopped at Bramwell,
where the citizens came to the aid of
the detectives, and probably saved thelr
Uves. Six of the negroes are in jail,
AN ASIATIC CYCLONE.
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SEVEN HUNDRED PERSONS REPORTED
KILLED.
Muscat, July 9.—A terrific cyclone
Las prevailed here and in the adjacent
country. Great damage was dons in
the ety and surrounding conntry,
Many houses both here and on the
plantations were demolished. The loss
of life was appalling. Keports thus
far received show that over 700 per-
sons were killed.
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61st CONGRESS, ---First Session.
SENATE,
In the U.S. Senate on the 8th the
conference report on the Silver bill was
discussed until 3 o’clock, when it went
over, and eulogies of the late Congress.
man 8, 8, Cox, of New York, were
delivered by a number of Senators. A
resolution offered by Mr, Hiscock, ex~
pressing sorrow for the decease of Mr.
Cox and sympathy with his family,
was adopted, and the Senate then ad-
lourneqa,
In the United States Senate on the
9th, the presiding officer anounced that
be had signed the bill for the admis.
sion of Wyoming as a State, The bill
15 now with the President. The con-
ference report on the Silver bill was
discussed until adjournment.
In the U, 8. Senate on the 10th, the
consideration of the conference report
FOUR
a vote
after debate, was agreed to by
The Senate then ad-
of 30 to 26,
journed,
In the House, on the 8th, Mr.
Rogers, of Arkansas, again raised the
being unable to count one, a call of the
x
Senate amend.
Admission bill
he Speaker pre-
Journal could be read.
ments to the Wyoming
were concurred in,
tions for the prevention of collisions at
sea. At the request of Mr. Dingley it
was passed.
Hous,
In the House on the 7th, the journal
Arkansas, made the point of no
quorum. The dpeaker being unable to
count a quorum (only 91 members
were present), a call of the House was
ordered. To this 167 members re-
sponded, so the journal of last Thurs.
day was read. About a dozen leaves
of absence were granted. The Land
Grant Forfeiture bill was discussed in
Committee of the Whole, pending
which the House adjourned,
In the Houseon the 10th, dilitary mo-
tions were resumed, there being no quo-
rom present, and after a quorum had
been obtained the Journal was corrected.
Then, alter » long debate, the journal
was approved —103 to 81. Conference
reports on the Diplomatic and Agri
cultural A fons bills were
agreed to. The Land Grant Forfeiture
bill was considered in Committee of
the Whole, pending which the House
adjourned,
In the Hiouie G8 the Sth. the confer.
ence report on appropriativg
$75,000 for the relief of Albert H, Em-
ery, of New York, was agreed to, The
conference report on the Diplomatic
Appropriation bill was presented and
discussed,
AFTER THE STORMS.
DAMAGE CAUSED BY BIG BLOWS IN
DIFFERENT PLACES.
NINE MEN REPORTED DROWNED AT
BALL'S BLUFF, NEW YORK,
CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 9th—The
wind storm which swept this oity last
evening was perhaps the most severe,
as regards destruction to property, ever
exporienced, The advance of the
storm seemed to be a number of sharp,
quick gusts of wind, that wreckea
chimneys, blew down trees and
sent everything movable through
the air, Its coming was shown
by a cloud of dust fully a
hundred feet high, which ob.
scured the sun and made the streets as
dark as at midnight, Not a single
object could be discerned at a distance
of ify feet. The fine dust filled the
eyes und sifted into the clothing, and
breathing, to those on the streets, was
impossible without a handkerchief
pressed to the nostrils, Then came
the ra'a in rushing.swirling sheets that
beat down many plants and caused an
exceadiogly Leavy loss to crops. The
rainfall measured but three-tenths of
an uch, howaver, and the precipitation
wus, t'.erefore, iusufliclent to cause
heavy floods,
The storm probably destroyed more
trees than any that has occurred here
in years, Ip every part of the city
large Liees were uprooted as though
they bad been pulled from the ground
by the force of a whirlwind, and the
broken branches, and there was no lack
of evidence that the storm was of the
mest unusual violence,
usc at the corner of Bank and Lake
fu: her on the lake than the Govern-
meat baacon,
P2rbha} 8 more,
over the water, fell to
were so badly damaged that they will
have to be replaced Ly new ones. They
were valued at $30,000 a plece, $90,000
ic all, Lut the total loss may be $10,000
less, us a few pleces of machinery were |
saved from total destruction. Two
hoists on the Cleveland and Pittsburg
Railway Company's docks and one on
the New York, Pennsylvania and Oblo
docks were destroyed,
A new barber shop, being erected by
Smith snd Tachout, between the Erle
and Nickel Plate tracks, and the build- |
ing, which wxs to cost $4500, was near-
ly completed, When the storm had
been, and the boards and roof were
scattered about In a promiscuous wan-
ner. The work of destruction was done
as thoroughly as though a force of men
had been engaged to make a complete
wreck of the building. Several houses
near Hoadley street,
them.
Lewiston, Me,, July 9.—Specials
to the Journal from Somerset, Waldo,
Oxford ana Franklin counties indicate
Maine, The Sandy River Railroad
bridge, near Phillips, was blown from
its abutments into the river, Many
barns were blown down all through
Franklin county.
- At North Anson the bridge seross
Carrabasset river 1s so twisted as to be
unsafe. The Maine Central Institute
at Pittsfield damaged to a small ex-
tent. Captain Goodrich’s cottage at
Madison was blown fat. The barn
aud stable of Hamilton Marston were
struck by lightning and burned.
Wm. Gunther's house in Bethel was
moved from its foundation, At Thorn-
dyke a barn was demolished. In var-
lous parts of Maine nearly 100 barns
were burned down or unroofed,
Prarrssunra, N. Y., July 9.—1t 1s
now stated that the new Champlain
Hotel, at B ull Point, was damaged to
some extent by yesterday's storm, and
that trees in the Park were Injured, A
vallet named Valley was out on the
lake fishing, when the storm struck
him, oveérturoiug his boat aud drown.
ing hire. A man named Ryan, living
a few miles west of the village, had one
leg and one arm broken by the blowing
down of his barn. The damage can-
not yet be fully estimated.
Rouse’s Poixt, N. Y., July 0.—
About 3.30 P, M, yesterday afternoon
this place was visited by the worst
wind and hail storm ever known, de-
molishing houses and trees and upset.
ting things in general, A few mo-
ments before the storm, which came
without werning, the steam yacht,
Little Nellie, of this place, used for
towing purposes, left port with a pile
driver, bound for the Vermont shore,
distant about three miles. When
about u mile out she was lost to sight
and little hopes were entertained of
her reaching a safe port to await the
passing of the storm.
rible experience, belog in the pilot
house when the boat capsized. He
also went down with the boat, but
when he sirvek bottom he broke
throuugh a wiudow aud
to the suriace of the
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rific wind, rain and thunder storm
passed over Vergennes last night, doing
great damage. Hundreds of shade
trees were blown down, the new shed
of the Shade Roller Company was de-
stroyed, the lumber shed of Smith &
Ketcham ruined, the chimneys on the
Stevens House blown off and the build.
ing badly damaged. The streets dur-
ing the storm were filled with flying
signs, slate, bricks and a black cloud of
dust, The lightning flashed in a ter-
rific manner and the thumder rolled
heavily. At Balls Bluff, N, Y., pine
men are reported drowned,
Mackinaw City, Mich,, July 9.—
This section was visited by a terrific
westerly gale, lasting from 10 o'clock
until midnight, Rain fell mn torrents,
aud lightning flashed incessantly. A
dock 400 feet long, belonging to an ice
company, was torn away, and several
other local mishaps oecurred.
ISDIANAPOLIS, July 9.—A wind
Storm, one of the most severe of the
season, swept over Contral and Western
Indiana yesterday afternoon. The
wind was very strong, and considerable
damage was done to property and
crops, So far no reports of loss ot iife
have come,
NEWB OF THE WEEK,
—A report has reached Saratoga tha
the Bluff Point Hotel, on Lake Cham
plain,owned by the Delaware and Hud-
son Company, was blown into the lake
on the afternoon of the 8th, and that
several lives were lost. Port Kent, the
farthest point north that can be reach-
ed by railroad or wire, reported **a ter-
rible blow in that section," The rail.
road operator at Fort Henry, 50 miles
0 n the lake, and that 16 or more per-
sons out in rowboats at that point are
missing. A telegram from 1 roy, re-
ceived later says: “General Passenger
Agent Bendick, of the Delaware and
the hotel had been wrecked by a c3-
clone, and that 16 lives had been lost.
~There were four mine casualities
Shevandoab, Penna, on the Tih,
three of them fatal. Joseph Zion-
killed by a fall of
coal. Timothy McNamara was caught
between cars, causing his death shortly
afterwards, Joseph Lilly and Michael
Lawler were run over and crushed by
coal cars, Lilly died on the afternoon
of the 8th,
~The fast mall traln from New Or |
leans over the 1llinois Central Railroad |
ran into an empty freight car near |
Monee, Illinois, on the morning of the !
8th. Several passengers were hurt !
How the empty freight car came to be |
on the maln track 1s not known.
~A special excursion train on the |
Illinois Central Railroad carrying
Knights of Pythias to Milwaukee, was |
derailed at Manteno, Illinois, on the |
morning of the 7th, and one car was |
turned over on itaside, J. H. Crow. |
der was killed and four others were |
injured, A collision on the Delaware |
Elkton, Maryland, on |
morning of the 7th, resulted in the |
No person was |
injured.
- During & wind and hall storm at |
George Clarke, his son, and Engineer |
Hill were drownel,
Louisville and Nashvilie accommoda- |
tion train ran into a north-bound |
Oth, at Clear Creek
Birmingham and
bama.
and five men were killed, namely:
W. Green, sccommodation engineer; |
Robert Watson, his fireman; John A.
Webb, freight engineer;
nsmed Parr, and a colored man named |
Montgomery, Ala
standing of orders by Eoglueer Green.
~A heavy storm swept over Bangor,
Maine, on the evening of the 8th, do-
ing gres® damage. Falling trees broke
the elecirie street light wires, and the
lights were ut for some time,
-C. H. Hewitt, a well-known at
torney in Portland. Oregon, was shot
and killed on the 8th by Charles Bel-
grade, a saloon keeper. Belgrade then
committed suicide, ‘Ihe men quar-
relied over Belgrade’s wife, who is
suing for divorce, and for whom
Hewitt was attorney. John Judge, a
rough character, was shot and mor-
tally wounded by Richard Grogham in
a quarrel about a chew of t near
Shenandoah, Penna., on the evening of
the 8th,
-There was a collision between a
ger and freight train on the
emphis and Little Rock Raliroad, on
the afternoon of the 9th, at Sibley, Ar-
kansas. Four colored persons were
killed and several were Injured,
~The signal service station ther-
mometer, on top of Mt. Washington,
New Hampshire, on the morning of
the 10th, indicated 25 degrees above
zero and the top of the mountain was
white with snow and frost,
Removal of Warts by Electrolysis,
Dr. Patrzek, of Oppeln, deseribes
hiss oe Mme} as
3 © wart
Jat with a warm solution of So
Both needles are then thrust
the ough
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THE RIGHT ROAD,
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*1 have lost the road to happiness—
Does any one know it, pray?
1 was dwelling there when the morn was faly,
But somehow I wandered away.
‘I saw rare treasures in scenes of pleasures,
And ran to pursue them, when lo!
¥ had lost the path to happiness
And I know not whither to go.
Ihave lost the way to happiness
Oh, who will lead me back?”
Turn off from the highway of selfishness
To the right—up duty's track!
Koop straight along and You can't go wrong,
For as sure as you liva,'] say,
Abe fair lost fields of happiness
Can only be found that way.
~Eila Wheeler Wilcox.
A COMPLAINT IN THE SING-
ULAR NUMBER.
WRITTEN DURING THE LATE RAINY SEASON,
“Do yon go to town on arainy morn-
ing like this?” said my most ticular
self, the self that thought ths world
was made for her,
“And why not?” Business before
leasure. (Truly it is well to make the
t of a bad job. My name might
have been Hobson for all the choice I
have in the matter.)
“But you will go?” continues my
questioner,
“Decidedly. If I wait for the weath-
er my business will transsot itself on
the wrong side the ledger.” Aside:
Ob dear, what shall I do first? Spoil
the fresh fairness of a dainty breakfast
and bail some one to play advance
guard through the mud and the
rain.
“Well,” says a listener, ‘and if 1
condecend to that post, what are the
requirements?”
“Oh! eolimb the first steeple and
turn the weather cock!
“Thank you. Would willingly, were
I as great an acrobat as yoursell, But
I value my limbs,”
“You do. Ah yes!
head 7”
“H'm, No; before yours,”
“No need. Mine is already valued,
ticketed and knocked down to the
highest — (yes highest and lowest since
the only) bidder.” Really, if I can
leave this annoyingly rabid truth teé® er
in-doors, T'll make for the damp outer
world with joy.
There goes the one thing that was to
have walted me comfort all day Voie
The fragrance of my roses is lost with
their petals, as a busy R. R. official —
his head half turned and his soul quite
by the crowded aisles sand piatforms—
brushes past me. Why does that
woman stare at me so pityingly? Oh!
I beg pardon, Madam Unknown you
are sighing for my flowers; or can it
be you are reading my deplorable state
of mind in my face. There's a mirror
straightahead. But I don't see what I
want (0 see, only an individual's face
over my shoulder wearing a patroniz-
ing, you'll—do expression I turn
bastily away to encounter Mr. Blue
cont and brass buttons. Ah! I have a
particular grudge against you, sighing
and glancing to where the rose lesves,
still lie at my feet. But hark? What
is he saying? “Madam will you not
take thus sont?" And I sink into it
with ineffable relief and a smile to him
to cover all remnants of my annoy-
ance,
At last safely landed ina dingy red
and white street, I hear a cheery voice
behind me — “Hullo, Tom! Kinder
Before your
damp, ain't #7" Who should it be but
& poor cripple hailing a stall keeper |
as he hurried past, brisk as a bee and |
with a face full of sunshine. While
yonder stout Hercules with lowered hat
to hide a scowl, turned up trows
ers and coat collar, strides dejectedly
along ss though a scoond earth drown-
Here comes somebody right in my |
track, personal grip in one hand um- i
brella in the other and I vaguely wond
er to which mide he will veer or wheth-
er he will run into my arms. A half |
But I am in search of someone. Ah! |
There she is. I quicken my pace until
Iam almost beside her and can see
the fresh young face all aglow with |
exercise —the parted lips, the slightly |
distended nostril—all betokening that |
keen appreciation of life which attends
a healthful mind and body, and there
And here am [ in
many blocks you will be in advanos,
while I immediately in your wake am
watching and wishing % know youn
wondering vaguely whether it wouldn't
be as much as my head was worth to
address you with the merest common
place. Ah! Thatis your street; and
this ismine, We diverge at this corner
~and tho’ I have watched you each
morning for weeks, yet yon (by a
strange conventional order of things)
to your daily Sesupation as unoconcious
as the next passer-by.
A few moments more and I turn into
that once *‘quiet street of Chest.
nut”"—{( Now) “all turbulent with
sound.” The smoke from a neighbor-
ing building obscures the Eastern face
of the * Times” clock from the eager
of the hu busy bodies. Oh!
Well might Holmes says:
“Come back to your mother, ye child-
ren, for shame!
Who have wandered, like truants,
for riches and fame!”
But why deplore? They are too
deeply imme to extrioate themselves
now. And here is my entry, and as-
cending the the last sound that
jroo my fast ing ear is formidable
eed. The combined news of Penn-
sylvania's ‘“‘quaint old Quaker town”
under one Sammon title!
the ‘ao « while a vision of home-like com
fort, pulls me in the direction of the
other.”
(Why make a fuss? It was but
passing thought, Dyspepsia guards
the tables of the rich. "I'll mingle wit}
the poor.)
But let me stop to exchange a word-
I mean a penny for the news—with this
old battered mariner of news-paper:
dom who breasts the storm of daily
life, “week in week out,” on yonder
corner. Why do I cross to yon while
others lie directly in my path? Be
cause you give the RK in papers. You
pronounce it as | spell it and I thank
you for the treat.
“Where next must I go?”
‘Finance and trade,” something with
in me whispers. “Go to the markets
and inquire the price of provisions.”
But I only sigh for the days when «
man looked directly to the natural earth
for what kept him alive,
“Ah! Wm. Penn, methinks you woulda
rather clasp the hand of the disappear-
ing red-skins of the soil, than the grand.
children of thy civilization. Can it be?
It is. Ha! Stall-keeper, do you dream
of easting a glamor o'er Flsmerian vir
tues by placing him on a common
decimal standing with Haggard's Egyp
tian Queen? Which sells the fastest?
Those who find it more satisfactory to
spend a dime than a quarter place fob
ert in the shade, as though they knew
how used he had become to non-appre-
ciation in his latter days, while truth to
tell they are as ignorant of his birth ss
his death,
But still another shock awaits me, Is
that her face? Itis. The clear-eyad,
fresh-cheeked damsel of my morning
dreams. Bhe is not alone. It is an
innocent - enough - looki individual.
But innocent though you be, you have
killed the cherished sentiment of months.
For me the charm of that fresh young
face will always partake too much of
you to awake delight again. With an
irresistible impulse I compel her glance.
But it is > grave surprise that
answers the reproach in mine, and
hurrying past I draw a black curiam
over that spot whick held too closely
a once lonely image. “You ought to be
thankful that you never presumed to
make the soquaintance,” says the some
body who but 8 moment back advised
finance and trade before a glimpse of
art stores and prssers-by,
“But hush! I am in no humor &
talk to you-—you, practical side of my
bottom for top until the right moment
is past. You can retire. If it hadn't
been for you, I should not be here to
day in the mud and the rain. You can
retire, I say. Iam not ready for you
yet ”
I wonder what those girls are impart.
ing. It must be something worth hear-
ing. Now listen: — “Why down at so
and so's, don't you know, they are giv-
ing away cups of coffee, don't you know!
It's all real quiet though, yet; for hardls
saybody knows ™ Ah, well you may
say, ye!, Madame Spokesman, | wonder
what it will be fifteen minutes henee!
“Oh! where did that apple-cheeked
old lady come from! Dear woman, you
are not of city growth. How I would
like to see where you go and whet you
do!’ “Now then” says the pest and
guard of my life, “*why don't you sot a
little le.s like one of the characters in
the nursery tales and a little more in
accordance with the ways of a practical
liver, +
running two or three ways st onoe aft
things of imaginary interest, and t!
me?"
delighted grin, and I turn in-doors just
in time to catch the colored boy before
he starts his ascent. I step in. He
first sign 1s an ungentle push, the next
the words: —*Jimminy I a
and you'd ba’ been a goner!”
somebody say?
“Don't you know: ean’ you
understand. I am obliged fo indulge
in optimism while snca a pessimist as
out of the slongh of despond.”” I hear
a murmir, about thankless tasks, 1
think, bat I pay no heed.
I am all intent to see that man jump
out of his jacket. “Your feet were
never meant to tread the earth, but
despite your endeavors to resch your
native atmosphere, I don’t believe the
Jack-in-the-Box trick will happen to-
day, so I hurry past—past him aod a
curiosity shop on the corner, where a
man is wondering from ¢ to day i
his next wonder will . ¢ enough
wonder to fill a decimo-do,. .. show.
“Would you be so kind
*Yes—what?”
**As to give me a penny?”
“*A what?”
“A penny”-—and she held ont her
hand exhibiting to my perplexed gaze
four loose cents—*‘s penny to make the
five?”
“What do you want it for?” I ques-
tion, while somebody is shaking within
me with glee at the practical turn of
mind I am developing over a cent.
“Don’t congratulate yourself, pray.
Do you think, under ordinary circum.
stances, I would descend to such trivial
finance? No; but this woman's face is
not sincere and I dislike to yield to her
simple request.” But what is she say.
ing? “For car fare,” and edges close
to me as though she would take pocket-
book and all. Hastily Idrop the penny
into her owtetrelored palm and amid »
complete storm of extra t thanks,
rush by sick at heart. few stops
farther on, I look back, but the woman
is nowhere to be seen, and instinctively
1001 18 in uo ont Shat hides her from
w, convioiion anything
but satisfaction for the los of the
penny, snd I turn dejectedly up my
en
eh afternoon wears on to evening,
and still it ins. When prison doors are
opened wide io give the waity drudge ge’
chance / r home, it no longer
Ah! There's Oar,
this torrent? No
aden sky, but the
mind's uye, and
oa AS SAP
idewalk and get drenched in reachin
the car; or, you may keep it up a
ake your chances for knocking some
wody's head off im mounting, The
latter being, of course, the lesser of
two evils, it is mine to pursne. B
happily 1 get aboard with only the los
of a rubber, and my umbrella only
suffers a slight leakage.
When will the generality learn t¢
liscriminate between fine clothes and
fine individuality? Now watch. Hers
comes sn old woman with a bundle w
big us herself. Bhe is helped on board
it 1s true, but with g hustle and a graf
“move up front.” When, at the next
corner an important, self-conscious bu
well-dressed young woman accepts
leferentially extended hand sod
seat that is instantly found without ¢
murmur, There stands the old lady,
sort of humble, I'm-growa-used to
expression on her . The woma#
in you is over.-looked for the bundle
Well that's all right as far as size goes,
“Just a little this way, please.” And
with the yielding of a child, scarcely
knowing but thes it is still the gruff
command of the man who stands op
the back platform, she allows gis
to be gently drawn into my seat, and
stand with satisfaction. How many
times have I stood thus—and not fro
cholos—and over-looked the little wo]
of faces round me!
Hullo! Another jolt. Whe comer
now? A man that oan scarce! Carry
his own weight while a foot a of
him stands his brother in size, The
last comer looks s little curiously at th
other, when the car has agsin pitche
forward. His gaze is returned, and
then it comes to the infinite amusement
of everybody: —*“H'm, I was wonders
ing who or rather what that obstruction
could be!” “Ah!” comes the reply.
“We are not like those big fellows"
nodding to a minimum in the corner
‘we never pass ezah other by.” And
two hands meet, and two individuals
enjoy the joke, despite their gravity of
countenance,
But my attention is distracted. 1
see someone in the corner, and size
him up immediately as Johnny-up-the,
Jrave from some Creek up the State,
verily believe that I could sell you #
book agency with the asking, = But
I must look another way. He is get
ting fidgety. Maybe he thinks I want
Lis seat, t isn’t so, Mr. Up-the-grove,
pray sit still. I chose a standing seat.
Oh! What a lurch. It betokens my
lestination, and ont 1 iuto the
stormy elements once mo But thaf
haven of a depot is in sight, and if J
ean reach its shelter, my troubles for
the day are over. (Once upon a time
and not so very long ago there was some
talk, indeed I believe some still cherish
the hope that in future years on rainy
ays, the world will live under one
common umbrella. “Oh, hasten then,
the happy day!™)
That man has my seat. Well, since
‘possession is nine-tenths of the law,’
I won't fight for the other tenth. A
little bustle and a slight pause ensnes
then comes a gigantic effort at the cords
and away she goes through the dirty
black street, and out like a huge groan.
ing monster into the gray pattering
haze beyond.
Whizz! Whirr! Sereech! Jolt! Upon
all of which signals I rise The
most important individual aboard lays
8 detaming hand on mine and pos-
sesses himself at the same time of the
umbrella. Too high-minded to get un-
or
go
ire
low? Be that as it may, I land on a wet
There at the fool
in ruined glory if
hes. Of course it is restored with “the
hoartiest of apologies, but sufficient
time elapses to make me teel ridienlom
don—T1 mean s hat,
“What do you expect?” says an in.
ner voice. “It was all Your own fault,
“Yes,
ed.”
“Nonsense! The laugh was to hide
his annoyance,”
A moment later, T mount the steps of
home ruminating on that “which once
hath been a hat” “What trouble:
You? a voice inquires,
“Nothing. Nothing.
my supper.”
But he shouldn't have lasugh-
Only I wan!
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Auburn Hair and Blue Eves.
It is largely In the matter of colo
that the American woman differs fron
the European. We have bere more
chestnul-haired women than they haw
abroad.
The Germans and the English have
their blondes, and the Fa ich, Spanist
and Italians their dark |. red women.
while we have mingled ni these traits
together, and the result has been a pre
dominance of auburn or chestnut col
ored hair and dark blue or gray eyes
which are generally combined with
complexion that is neither too fuir no
too swarthy. The whole represents i
combination that is admired every
where,
Migrating Birds.
———
A dispatoh from Cedar Rapids, lows
says: “A migrating bird wave which
was passing over here on the night of
May 17 encountered a severe rain ane
thander storm. Attracted by the eieo
trie lights, the birds gathered sbow
them and attempted to fly into th
stores. As a consequence, more that
1,000 birds fell dead in the streets fron
coming in contact with the wires anc
jhe glass fronta. Few of these birds
inhabit this region, and some rare speo
imens were oxptured alive and
Among Shey: was a red-po
Tan InferOoean (Chiongo) says: “Ip
ten years woman's olubs have done
more for the sctaal of society
than all the man clabs of the past fifty
reserved, hoy have Ble
men ashamed, large cont,
The thing laughed at hus bo