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FliE ELAND, DECEMBER 17. 1 Stiff : in iiicKsviue, u., recenny a weuuiug 1 •Tarty was stormed by tramps, who locked t.lie groom in the smokehouse, , ote the wedding supper and stole the , marriage license. The citizens of Machius, Me., rtu ;■ 1 ;lic town bells the other day to ttic - 1 brute the victory of a popular young 5 awyer who had won a verdict in a iong- Jrawn-out land ease. The "downtrodden" farmers of Jef ferson county, Kat:., have about $500,000 on deposit in the local banks. There does not seem to lie any great number of zoophytes on the Kansas farmer after oJL A married woman in Calhoun county. Michigan, teaching a district, school at • ten dollars a month, hoards hers.-If, and does the janitor work. The qui • 1 Hon naturally arises: What does her 4 man do? Among the various fruits second flops of wheh grow unexpectedly this \ ear were strawberries. An Indiana farmer had an autumn yield of the fruit , which was pronounced equal to the June growth. Owing to the enormous crop, peaches ' in Michigan have been so cheap that •ii some cases the growers found theni tclvcs in debt to tlie commission mer chant after the lutter had sold a con- 1 ligament of jieachca. I A woman was summoned by bet neighbor in Long Island City for being a common scold. '#hc judge was loath to hold her, but while hesitating she put in a few words on her own behalf ; He immediately committed her. 1 A number or (inn.) servants i lately conceived the idea of forming a s union, with a regular scale of wage; i based on the number of babies in a fain- i ily and the number of nights out. What I now will the BlufTton housewives do. I ioor things? A recent report from Anioret, Mo. ' says the people of that town put in tlieh leisure time digging holes in the ground 1 in different parts of the town where tra dition locates various pots of gold coin buried during the war. As good a wai to kill time as any. law in Delaware. With the exception )f political clubs proceeding in a body from their headquarters to places w In• public meetings were held, there has jot, been an old-time parade of political marching clubs in Delaware since the campaign of 1880. Acting on the notion that as pruning was good for fruit trees it would bene lit potato vines, Jerry buckish, of Port land, Ore., clipped off the vines in a patch, close to the ground, as soon as they were well up, and some of the po tatoes grown there were, it is said among the largest and finest found. A Colorado genius claims that In- has found away to telegraph without v uvs from one mountain top to another ij. an east and west direction, using atmos pheric strata which are already elcciii fied as his conductor. The appa at .<• employed lias not been publicly du ieribed, but the inventor is said to be experimenting in Colorado and Utah, and he says lie lias transmitted mes sages by his method over a distance rj So miles. A Menominee (Mich.) woman is richer by $5,000 than she was recently, and the manner in whieh the money came was like finding it. Her husband died 14 years ago with $5,000 insurance on his life, which latter fact, however, was not known to the widow. The company has held the money since awaiting a claimant, but wishing to go out of business started an investiga tion of the matter, which resulted in i he finding of the widow and the pay ing over of the money. y \ WASHINGTON LETTER. Washington. December 14, 1 Stiff. Dear Boss.- Unless you can buy us several more senators it will be impossi ble to pay a tariff dividend on the in vestment of the late campaign." While the above is not the exact wording of the message sent by the caucus of Re publican senators to King Hanna, it contains the substance and real mean ing of the request of the caucus steer ing committee, that Mr. Hanna shall try to "influence" the election of sena tors who will pledge themselves to act j with the Republicans on the tariff, in several states. Among the legislatures upon which the Republicans desire Mr. Hanna to try his influence are those of North Carolina. Kentucky, Washington and South Dakota. If high tariff sena tors can be secured in all of these, the passage of a high tariff bill at the extra session of the next congress will be as sured. Otherwise the matter has been made very doubtful, with the chances against high tariff, by the action of the Silver Republicans in declining invita tions to (Miter the Republican senatorial caucus. While the caucus of Republican sena tors did not by a formal vote abandon the Dingley tariff bill, they did what was practically the same thing when they referred it to the steering commit tee and empowered that committee to act upfln its own judgment. Pressure from the woolen manufacturers ma\ compel the Republican senators to dem onstrate by some sort of a vote, not necessarily on the bill itself, that the Dingley bill cannot pass, but the bill is as dead as Hen Harrison's Force bill, so far as any serious attempt to pass it is concerned. The Republicans couldn't pass it if they wanted to, and very few of them want to. This was shown last week when the bill was before the sen ale for a few minutes (on Senator Al len's motion to take it up, which was carried by a vote of 35 to 21), by tin consternation which was existed amutifc tin 1 Republicans who had voted for tin motion because they were afraid to do otherwise. Senator Quay has astonished those who thought they knew him. not only by his change of tactics—he has hereto fore been the most silent of lighters—but by the wording of some of his publ she interview s against the candidacy of Johl; Wanamaker for the senate. For in stance, when he said: "In the U. S. senate, we have millionaires and busi ness men enough to>serve all legislative purposes. Senators are needed win have no specialties but who will act foi the interest of the country in gross without special affinities. The people most deserving of representation and most in need of legislation and protection are the farmers, tin* small store keepers, the artisans and the laborers, and I -land by them." The truthfulness o the above is unquestioned, hut that ii should come from Mr. Quay is astonish iug. Rut. ho is a politician, and as such is apt to make use of what he thinks t< In- the most effective weapons to carry his purpose. The old story of the nn un ain not ge iug to Mahomet was paralleled hero lasi week. After remaining in Washington nearly a week,•stopping just around tin rner from the hotel at which Cza U'ed makes his home In Washington vithout receiving a call from Mr. Reoc \iug Hanna decided to step from hi olden throne, bundle his dignity an his haughty mien under his arm and call upon the speaker. This he did at the hitter's office in the capitol. In view of the humble and supplicating manner in which most of the Republi cans waited upon Hanna. this call must have been humiliating to him: that it was pleasant to Tom Reed is certain beyond a doubt. I he Philadelphia Record, as in former years, is first in the field with its al manac. The Record has easily led its contemporaries in this, as in many other respects, and the latest compendium of facts and useful knowledge from its office is better than any it has hereto fore sent out. The political figures, and other statistics of this almanac, make it one of the best reference hooks that can bo found in a newspaper office. Burring the golden-hued cover, which recalls unpleasant recollections, the al manac is all that could be desired. iJcafut-hs (.'annot be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. 1 here is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed con dition of the mucous lining of tiie eustachian tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entire ly closed deafness is the result, and un less the inhumation can he taken out and this tube restored toils normal con dition, hearing will he destroyed for ever; nine cases out of ten are caused by eatarrah, which is nothing but an in lhimed condition of the mucous surfaces. Wc w ill give One Hundred Dollars for any case of deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. tsT&old by druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. CRY-BABY. Cry-baby, cry-baby! Always seems to be Hedged about with accidents of grievous sort to Bee: Troubled deep in mind and heart and howl ing fit to kill i Out beside the wagon box or by the window sill. Cry-baby, cry baby! Stumbling on the floor, Tangled with his father's quirt or with his hackamore; L ifting up hia baby voice forever through the day, Registering worriments occurring in his play. Cry-baby, cry-baby! And yet that cry of his Brings me consolation, for It tells mo where he Is— Once there was an afternoon when silence was, and I Thought the music of the world was cen tered In that cry. That was Just a month ago when Cousin Annabel Came up here from Larramie to visit us a spell- Brilliant Cousin Annabel, who teaches school, and who Knows the world, its medes and bounds, and all Its habits, too. Oh, the sun was blistering, and oh. the winds were hot; All the air was quivering—a sort of bluish blot; Wide across the mesa was the heat thrown back and forth, While the snowy Tetons looked down mock ing from the north. Cry-baby, cry-baby! Naked, but his shirt. Digging where the shadow was and play ing in the dirt, Blinking for the awful heat and nodding by the door, Crying for a cooling drink and crying then for more. It was Cousin Annabel who laid him down to doze- Laid him on the parlor bed without a stitch of clothes, Tallin,? him of cooling winds that softly, gently blow From the Teton mountains with their Ice and drifted snow. Cry-baby, cry-baby! Fell asleep, and she Laid him on the parlor bed and came to talk to me; It was early afternoon, the day had well begun Heaping up the horror of the burning, des ert sun. I was ut my sewing, and when Thomas spoke to me; "Wonder how the baby Is," I said I'd go and see; And I went to look, and pulled the curtain up for light— Wasn't any baby there, nor anywhere In Bight! Baby wasn't on the bed nor lying on the floor, Nor playing at the window nor beside the open door— CRY BABY. CRY BABY. Not a baby anywhere, but Just outside a track Pointed to the Teton peaks, but none was pointed back. All the world was furnace-like, the blue air parched and baked, I looked to east and north and south until my eyebalU ached; The mesu was like plowshares burning white with summer heat And swimming wide before my face and blistering my feet. Cry-baby, cry-baby! No, not the smallest sound, Not a towy head was there above that burning ground, Not a sign of any wort to show where he might be Out there where the cactus floated on r molten sea. Swiftly to my vision came a picture of a child Lost upon that mesa stretching vast and seared and wide; In my mind 1 saw him traveling that plain accursed, Falling 'neath the blazing sun and perish ing with thirst. I could see him toddle on and on and on and on, Stagger till his baby strength was melted out and gone: I could hpar his little cry—could see him as he fell, But oh, I could not run to him and kiss and make him well. Cry-baby, cry-baby! "O God, attune mine ears, Let me buy my baby's cry with purchase price of tears!" So I prayed and. fainting, fell beside the door-step there, And when I woke a baby's hand was play ing In my hair. It was Cousin Annabel who told how little Jim Came around the house Just as I went to look at him, And remembering her tales about the Tetons high Said: "1 want some snowy Ice or Jimmy ( boy will cry!" Cry-baby, cry-baby! Yen, he Is; but I Praise the Lord, whose goodness lets me hear my baby cry. Babies can't be perfect here In Idaho, and then i i I can kiss his little hurts and make them well again. —Chicago Record. • WILD RIDE OF MATHEWSON. i r BY E. R. ROUNTREI In May, USS7, John MatLewson, a pioneer in hydraulic mining, to whom belongs the credit of building- the first r water-derrick in California, had both . legs broken while erecting a derrick nt . Washington, on the north fork of the r Yuba river, 25 miles north of Nevada ) City. He was taken out from the ruins 1 of liis derrick and word sent to Nevada j City for an nmbulance. O. R. 01 in was the driver of the daily stnge between Washington and Ne vada City, and he nt once placed a bed in (be Concord coach and drove over from Nevada City. Next moruing (be injured man was tenderly placed in the couch and made as comfortable as pos sible. j A* the Cold Spring 1 house, nix miles ; 'row town, Olin pulled up to water his ! Jorsea, winding the-ribbons around the I brake before leaving the box. | A dog ran a drove of hogs under the j horses' feet, and in a flash the spirited animals were tearing down the ridge, j Some one at Nevada City happened to I l>e scanning the road through a field i glass and suddenly shouted: "The stage ! is coming hell bent for 'lection an* Olin j ain't on the box!" ! The news spread throughout the town like wild-fire and in an incredibly short ( time the whole town turned out and all who had field-glasses were anxiously watching the swaying stage in its mad j | PASSED THROUGH IN SAFETY. I career along the ridge towards the sleep I grade leading into town. It was still I some four miles distant. What would hapi>cn at the grade? Men blanched at the thought of the cer tain death to the passenger within the coach. The excitement was Intense. Every- I one knew that Mathewson, helpless and J weak, lay inside, at the mercy of the I four blooded animals. The wheelers especially were a splendid pair of met- ! tle&ome stallions and the leaders cure- j fully selected. No power on earth j could have stopped them on that ridge, j Down the grade they plunged. The j speed was terrific. Strong men turned j away in horror, expecting from moment j to moment that the stage would go crashing into the canyon below. Half the distance towards town bad > been accomplished in safety when a hoarse cry broke from the watching i multitude. "The stump! the bowlder!" j Three miles from town the stage-road ; led between a stump on the lower side ! and a bowlder on the upper side of tlie j grade. With long plunging strides the ani mals approached this danger point. The crowd was too horrified to shout. Only o stifled groan, more eloquent than ! words, could have been heard. "A few rods more and God help poor Mathewson," reverently murmured a grizzly miner, a the tears flowed down his wrinkled face. Many a hard-looking ! but tender-hearted man near him mur- j mured: "Amen." Gaining increased momentum at j every hound, the stage ran into a cloud j of dust just before reaching the stuni) j and bowlder. Awed, pallid upturned | faces gazed with fascinated intentness j at that little cloud of dust'. "They've done it," whispered a man I in front, with eyes still glued to his j gloss. With only 14 inches to spare on either j side of the stage it had passed through ! in safety. But the danger was not yet j over. The steepest and roughest pari j of the road was yet to come. As the stage reached town the peopb | I "NOBLE FELLOW, YOU'VE DONE ! YOUR LAST DAY S WORK." gave way on either side, none dream- I ing of trying to stop the foaui-covered stallions iu their wild run. Along Coyote street they whirled, ; then making a flntiron turn entered i .Main; still on they dashed, wheeling I into Commercial, then up into Pine and j ti 1 1 at full speed tILR MD L-N AN P W ? FAY EXPRESS CHARGES TO YOUR DOOR. 4/WS I V you buy direct from one cf the I;irgest Wholesale Clothing Manufacturers in America and by so doing y t -u save three Profits. " OLR Tlie above mentioned $2.76 Boys Sampson Suit Black \ ▼ AaIQP% #% K| , * x \ Ti . A a ". ,s is K uarante ed to be made from an imported \Sool Cheviot, in |et black, Dark Blue, Dark x OUW Grey f and °ij* e drown. In sizes from A/us nffl&ScSfEt':V' \ OVTTT? below ui double breasted with Sailor Collar, braided ®\ wUUO with wide surtasch braid lined with a fast black () r U o^' e^l , th - Write JOHN WEDDBIL- R CO., Patent Attorneys, Washington.. D. C., for their *I,BOO prize offer, .. .