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"Vis, list slit." replied the boy, hse-
tiR from his bout.
.
It d alms bard ue ye to have to give
up year aohool's' now, 1 i pose," said
Mrs Stuns', Imitate anxiously at the
this, pale hoe of km son to sots the el -
feet of bar gaieties.
"Wky do yes ask, mother 1 meet I r
was Ab.er's question, after a slight hesi-
tation, dsriag which the mother's keen
eye saw the look of dim , , , t that
paved over his iace.
'Well, sus, your (ether's afraid -he
don't just see-"
"I kn.w,s other," interrupted Abair,
qty, but with a tinge of bitterness in
has case; "he doesn't see how education
r going to pay."
°You've had more scbootit' ten
times over than ever I had„
said the father ; who came in just
at this mooniest, "ea' what good has it
dere yet 1 dost my eddioatio.'s so
food, but what good hes it done woe 1
You're sixteen years old, an' you know
se mach Latin as the teacher,yuur sooth-
er tells mw Well an' good. Can ye
get any kind of a iters' by it r
"Not yet," replied Aboer, seeing that
his father waited for some reply from
him; "but 1 Das by -sod -by."
"Ay, by -end -by ! As the bread and
butter meanw bile r
To Abaco the short laugh with which
bis father Boded his words contained a
reproach, and he had great dilhoolty in
refraining from a sharp retort. He con-
trolled himself, however, and in a few
minutes went out, Decoding over his
wrongs, real or fancied.
Had Abner but known it, then was
nothing reproachful in the leach that
grated so harshly on his ears. No ; that
short laugh expressed only some of the
bitterness which filled the soul of • mac
who at the close of the bshindlaeason
saw himself no better off than at the be-
ginning, and all bathtubs of the slowness
of his bast --a defect which all his skill
as a sailor and all his energy and hard
work as a man could not remedy.
And so it had been seasonsfter season,
and so it would probably be for seasons
to come. He could not make a living
without his boat, and he could barely do
so with it Had Abner been able to
help him. he would have needed one man
lees on board, and that mane ■bare
would have been saved. It was natural
enough that he should feel sore when he
sew his .on, unlike other fishermen's
sons, spendtog instead of earning.
True, it was not much that Abner
spent, and su the buy said to himself as
he walked moodily Moog the street. But
much and IittJe are terms which have
different value. Nhst is little to one
who has is much to one who has not.
So it use that in the struggle to make
ends meet the few dollars necessary for
Abner's books and Abnet's food seemed
to his father • large sum.
Abner, however, in his angry mood
would not recognise anything but the
dissppoittment which threatened him,
sod he took his way to his firm friend,
the schoolmaster, fall ot the sense of his
father's injustice.
"But, Abner," said the schoolmaster,
kindly, after he had listened to hu
young friends story, "it seems to me
that year father is right..,
"Right ' ' exclaimed Abner, with a
sort of angry surprise. Then he began
to think unuomfortsbly cf the many
times he had compared the work of the
head to the work ot the bands, and for
the first time it occurred to him that his
words might carry s sting for his father.
"Mr Wainwright, do you think so r
he asked, with much feeling, u the truth
forced itself upon him that he wu open
to the charge of selfishness.
"Ju 1 think what
"Why, all that you imply.
"Well, s grist deal of it.
Abner sat still for several minutes.
during which tune the schoolmuter
studied his face with earnest sympathy.
"I see, I see," said the boy at length.
"I have been wicked and coltish. There
is little Ray Tinker, who is a cripple,
younger and weaker than I, and yet he
earns money, while I-"
"Then, Abner, don't go too far in
\ Reif -condemnation. Let us look now at
r side."
I don't want to look at my side ; 1
NM see it without kookiest."
"Ncw,' said Mr Wainwright, "why
not try to work out your fathers prob-
lem, and show him, if possible, that
beadwork can do some things which
handwutk cannot ? You see" -with hie
genial smile -"I sin • schoolmaster. and
I must uphold the dignity of headwork
if i can."
"What problem do you mean t' asked
Abner. in doubt.
"How to snake the glary Jane swift-
er."
' "Oh, but we can't do that."
"How do you into I Have you given
it ell your thought ?"
"No; bet I know we can't."
"Oho !" laughed Mr Wainwright, with
gr.od-natnred satire. "A nit advocate
of headwork you are
"Well, matted Abner, "w* emit
make the Mary Jaw • swift sailer.
Now an wee
"Suppose I admit that, .hat then t"
"Why, nothing, except that it's so
use to think any more about it.
"Oh dear! Oh dear! What a ormolu -
Mon for a headwo,rker to come to ! Ra-
w Choate, whom you admire so grsetl]
would nater hate stopped like that. f
I Mao not mistaken it was he who always
said that he would never try to answer a
goestlun until he knew what the siker
meant by it. Now what did your father
mean when be said what he did about
making the Mary Jane swifteer
"1 don t know,- mend Ahner, thnught-
fully. "onless--no, 1 don't know.'
"i think you do; bat i will ask anoth-
er rle.slinn. Why did your father want
the Mary Jaw in be swifter 1
"Ko that he could get in with the
other tests, and loll his fish for • good
prior,", answered Ahem, promptly.
'Is ,.their words, mid the muster,
"the poet is that your father wants to
sell hie fish at • wood prime. Only he
ean see no mesas to the rood bet swifter
sailing.
"( see what you alma,. maid Alsoer,
oboe it loots almost as 4iA.eslt saw se
before. ' thea he heet.eed to add, "i
sot give this some Ihnsghs"
n.
Mr Wal.wricht sod Alamo did Rhe the
'object toms thee/mkt. sad very armee
thought. fur the teacher was desires.
ileol, his lavusts pupil should carry amt
Ms dense te ettdy law, and he was there-
lan Rlsd at soy upportss ty to farther
that dean M onat►ehg Abner, if pusw We,
sale-bslptul.
A plan was tat lest need spots and Ab-
ner was very byes.. What the plan
was San best be sees by its results, and
they were sot apparent until the seat
fishing season ot.mawoced.
In the meantime Aimee, by eatirwly
avoiding all sppruach to the tt-pia of
headwork, Rot aloe` more *stoutly at
louse. By obtaining employment to
ride about with • doctor, and take care
of the horse while the doctor was with
his patients, he OarDiY1 s little mosey,
sod further &dvaoeed himself in his
(other's esteem.
Indeed, the (Osage in Ab.er was so
great that the father could cwt refrain
one day foam expressing his pleasure to
his wife.
"Though," be said in 000clueion, "it's
s quer streak h.'e taken, this of having
mimosa However, it's better then hie
everleatin' talk 'bout head. and heads,
ler we sac est the pigeosa"
Abner had deveioped very soddenly a
strung Nee' for orisons, sod bad bought
a pair with the first money be could neve.
Most of Isis spare time was gives to his
birds, and be even took one or the other
of them oo most of his walks, which he
seddeoly began to take, to the comfort
of his mother and the i t of
his health.
The time passed quickly 'Omagh even
for Abner, impatient as he was to pot
his plan into operation, and the fishing
....on was close at hated. A day before
the boats went oat ter the first time,
Abner woof to one of the fish dealers.
"You know father's always last in
with his catch," be said abruptly, for he
was considerably excited, and was so full
of his plan that he had no thought of
making any preface.
"Y• -as, like enough."
Well, suppose I could tell you sever-
al hours before the fleet -the first of the
hoot -got in just wbat father's catch
was, the kind of fish and number of each
kind. couldn't you afford to give abetter
price than fur the first fish landedl'
"Coulde't a cannon ball get the bast
of me in s collision? I rather think
yea. I. the old man gout' to takes tele -
graft wire out with'im
"No; but I'm serious. If I give you
particulars of the catch, will you pay
well on delivery?"
"What's op, Abi'
"Well, that's my secret,but Mr Wain•
weight will vouch for me: and anyhow
you don't pay ttll the fish are delivered.
You don't run any risk."
"Oh, don't I, though: If 1 promise
the fish to my customers and I can't de-
liver, how then?"
"But Mr Wainwright will tell you it's
perfectly ate.
"Ws -11, all right, Ab. What is it? -
some b'amed ectenutc trick?'
Never mind, ' said Abner, running
' away gleefully.
With bis father he had not such an
they time, but after insisting that it was
•'all nuthin bat fool shtem," he finally
consented to give Aboers plan a careful
and secret trial.
111.
The fleet had hardly faded over the
horizon before Abner began to grow un-
easy. Mr Wainwright, who stood by Ab-
ner, tried to reason with him, telling
him that he must be patient.
"1'.s, I know," answered the boy,
"toe hours to wait; but so much de-
pends on tint success, I can't help being
anxious. Von couldn't tf you were in
my place.
"I an't,anyhow," said the master, "I
may as well coulees I'm as •nxeius as
you are. It as your education," be went
on, lau,=bingly, "but it's my reputation,
that is at stake."
However, Mr Wainwright had to sub-
due his impatieuce and go to his scholar;
' but Abner, not compelled by any neces-
sity, turned from one thing to another in
a vain effort to fix his thoughts, and at
last, as if 1n despair, he took s hook,
went to the top of the hoose, and sat
down by the empty pigeon loft.
Ten minutes latter he stood panting
before the fish dealer, gasping; "Here's
the catch. If the wind's good the boat
will be in In five hours."
The man read the items scribbled
painfully on a small piece of paper, and
demanded, "You're dead sure o' this?"
"As sure as I stand hen."
"A11 right. I'll reek it. Nothin' ven-
ture mobile have
Several horn later Abner hailed his
father as he stepped ashore, tired and
hungry, and almost shouted at him:
"Here's Mr Simpson, father. He takes
the whole catch."
'Yea, pgrvidin' it's s000rdia, to in-
voice, ' said the E•h dealer.
It was iccordisg to in
Simpson phrased it, and
father home, probably the joy
boy in Massachusetts that ntfi}Yk'i o•
"The pigeons are good for sol.ethiog
better than eating; areal they, father?"
"They are that, son. But hod i
thought that them dumb critters'ud know
enough to carry • letter home?"
"Why, father, they are trained to do
It, and they an go for five hundred
miles at thirty-five miles an hour. The
best are called Antwerp., but mine are
only a common breed. Mr Wainwright
told me about them, and suggested them
to no. He had read about them. '
"Read about 'em, had hof Gut it oat-
en a book?"
"Yes, sir. Yon ase, i told him shoot
the Nary Jane being slow, and how yen
couldn't &Nord to keep me at school, and
he said if i could sell your fish for •
good price, he didn't believe it woad
make any diferesee tf she was Mow."
"He mid that, eh 1"
"Ise, air."
"Wit -al. he's Rol s lour head. '
"Vis, sir."
"I gases It's all right about the books,
MM.
"Thank you sr." �.
"A beer r• ;b' 1;iti l"
"Yes, air."
"Maybe there's area's. 1 tbeught in
.hat you ogee to say 'bout beadwork
and handwork."
Abner stodied law, "tippet/led, ss he
mid, "by ib. nags of • assist pigsos."
- Jobe R. eoryell, i• Hsdsdr's iosog
People.
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THE HURON SIGNAL
1 IIUHT ADYEJTURBI
Daring the year 1$111/ I wee employed
by the Book of Mayhem to embassy,
stuomy bemuses it sad the Bask of Me-
issl Redemplaus with which they did
baseness le the city. it was not s very
interesting t sad gave M
but • small salary, het just then tones
were den sad work mune, w 1 was glad
to anything to do, amusedly as I
bed as aged mother depending upas me ,
fon support
One dark, drimly November sight-
searly all November sights are dark -the
stave frost Rsvoury broke down hopeless-
ly,thus wiles from iia destiostiou.
tDour the accident happened in jest
the wont part of the road, where it was
next to Impossible to get • marriage of
any kind, rod where the Daly phos of
I was a rode log -how,
digaibed by the trams of the Jefhr.os
um.
Mr Griggs, the landlord of the teems,
was moon on the spot, and gave it as his
opisios that the , , had better
go to his home for the night, bat, se
soone half dozen of them were determin-
ed to go on, there way oo alternative but
to get out an old express wagon, which
was stacked away in • remote shed, and
dispatch them on their way. The state
hones woe made available, and aha
pswengen piled in with selfish hast
sad Icog before I could get my valise
oat of the rains of the stage and reach
the wagon, it had rumbled off. and left
me, with b•U a dozen more, behind.
It was absolutely necessary that I
should be in Raybury that night. else I
sboeld cause serious inoonveoience at
the bank the next morning. And as I
had been so often congratulated on my
promptitude in my business, I telt very
Toth to be behindhand now. 1 spoke to
Mr Griggs about it, and asked if it wen
n ot possible tar him to let me have a
burse forRaybory.I would Cay him libor-
ally,and return the animal in good coodi-
tioo the next day. Bat homily shook his
head. He had only one horse in his
stable, he said, and Mra Griggs was sub-
ject to dreadful spells of the colic, and
might be taken at any hour, and he
made it a tale of his life never to let
Digby go out of the stable fur fear Mrs
Griggs might be seized and die before
the doctor would be brought.
Yoder the circumstances, of comsat
mold not urge my reotuest for the Das of
Digby, and there was no chem. forme to
get to Raybury until the 11 o'clock stage
next day, unites I footed it, and that I
should not for a moment have hesitated
to do had it not been for the fact that the
road to Raybory was the vilest in the
county. I always felt like swearing
when I rode Hoar it, and doubtless I
should have fielded entirely to the un
of profanity if I had attempted to walk
it.
" :o to my house and stay tonight,
Mr Marsh," said the landlord. "I can
give you some venison pie and a pot of
beer for your supper. and a Dice shake-
down before tho kitchen tire.'
"fray, sir," said • sweet voice at
Grigg's elbow, "is there ti way to go of
to Raybory?"
"Not tonight, my dear," said Griggs,
softening, as the light of his lantern
shone over the pretty face of a young
girl whom I had scarcely seen betore,•be
having been an inside passe nor. "1
think you'll have to put go with such
accommodation as my hoose offers. I
shouldn't wonder if Sally -that's my dar-
ter, miss -will let you have half of her
bed, seeing as you've beeo unfortunate. '
"1 must go on,"she said, earnestly. ' 1
have been some months from home, and
have been summoned thither by the ill-
ness of my father. indeed, sir, I can-
not delay here, for the despatch said my
Lather was dying."
There were tears in her voice, but it
was too dark too see whether they dim-
med her eyes. .
`it's too bad:" said Griggs; "but I
couldn't let Digby go on any account;
because, you see, if Mrs Griggs should
be took, she'd die afore we could get Dr
Lumston hero no foot Von see, when
she has these spells she's awful : Hello '
Who's coming now I '
A close carriage drawn by two dark
horses had comae up and halted by the
side of the overturned coach. It was
just light enough to show me that there
were two men in the carriage, and that
they w.,re caps with the vicars well down
and were mottled well about the throat;
but tt was • chilly. raw evening, and one
needed to be muffled.
"W bate the dithculty?" asked one of
the men in • hoarse voice.
"Stage apse!," said the landlord;
"adder* broke, and everything gone to
thunder."
"Well, you'll get your house tilled to-
night, if you're the landlord of the place
beck yonder," said the stranger. "Any
gentleman hen that would like to ga on
to R•ybory ? We would take one
down.
I stepped quickly forward, and said I
should be greatly indehted if they would
give me • seat. And then i introduced
myself -Henry Marsh.
"And here's a yoang woman as is
going, too," mid the landlord: "her pe
sick, and she must ger there, and 1
wouldn't think of having Digby out 00
account of Mrs Griggs' uncertain health.
Miss -Mims --what's your name, my
dear r'
"Arte1l," said the girl, "Madeline Ax-
te4. My father is Howard Axtell of the
Raybory bank."
The president of the bank for which i
w orked. I knew Judge Axtell very
well, and was able to tell Mies Maleline
that his illness was not eonaidered dan-
gerous. Ruf still she insisted upon going
oo, and at kat after some considerable
e osvereatioe between the t., strangers•
im•udible to us they consented to take
m both.
I assisted Mies A.te11 into the carriage
and took with her the book seat, oar
eompanoons occupying the frost.
(inly one lamp of the carriage was
seeing, and that gave a very dies Tight,
and the farther we went the deeper
seamed to grow the darkness. it was a
goody road at any time to Raybory, but
now it was particularly gloomy, and 1
was confident that Miss Axtell showed
to Besse degree the vague fnrhndinga
whish Imold use prevent myself from
y , she drew closer to me,
Obi ease she asked me brow l.wtg it would
be before we readied Meseta♦ -the
out village.
FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1813
We sum at last to Hemlwk rose► -a
long anorak ,.1 'mho, watch tutereeosed
the ceu.atry at that patio, and was some
three miles wide. Then was out s hoess
Gm the whole three miles, and both side.
of the rued ewes treaded mutat to the
wheal rut.
As the Sou plunged tato the b.ek-
n em tot the pie mud panted and .arslts-
glad thrusJlt the mud uudsr foot 1 was
c-usfident that the t o well *poke togeth-
er its subdued whispers, aid that I dis-
tils -Cy caught the words, ' D— the
girl!" mod "Fifty -tie. honored."
1 grew sold wlthsdhemsy. Fiity•Ave
hundred duller. waited the amount I
had about me, and it' segued very possi-
ble that these /snows had got inform --
Soo to that fleet, mod that 1 was to be
rubbed -perhaps murdered. If I had
Mee alone I should bate felt no fear,
for I am naturally what is called a dare-
devil sort of • fellow, mod I had confi-
denea m my worse sad stares!! h, ..
well se an • pair of trusty revolvers I
carried is my breast -pocket.
Bet Mies Axtell 1 What would be-
come of her 1 1( they conquered me she
would be wholly in their power, and if
they were what I took them to be --then
God help her !
W. had travelled about half the dis-
tance through the woods when the hors-
es were stopped abruptly, and one of the
men rose up in his seat and faced us.
Mw Alteli grasped my arm, and I
knew that she was terrified by the quick
way in which her breath came, bus she
did Dot cry out, as must women would
have dune.
"There}s no owed of mincing flatten,"
mid the man, with admirable coolness,
"and I will Dome to the point at oboe.
Yon have $6,500 in your poesessi on, and
my friend bee and myself are 1n want of
it. We planned the aocidemt to the stage
by sawing the axle half in two, and we
happened along expressly to take you
down to Raybury. The bray we did not
reckon upon, but would not well be un -
cadent enough to refuse w much beauty
in distr.'s. Aod now the question is,
w ill you or will you nut give m this
e cneeyy ?'
•'Moat decidedly I will not :'' was the
reply.
"Then we must use force," mid the
Inas, "sod I warn you now that I wilt
murder you bef..re 1 allow you to escape
with the money ' Give it up peaceably,
and I pledge you my honor that both
yourself and the lady shall be left at the
nest village safe and unmolested."
"I will give up • cent of the mo-
ney," said I, feeling my Indignation rise
at the scoundrel's coolness ; "not a cent
of it, unless it is taken hem my dead
body :
As 1 spoke, the mac Hang off his coat
and seized in. by the shoulder. Quick
as thought I leaped out of the carriage,
dragging bin with me. and then began
the struggl..
"l)on t use the pistols," said the villain
who was takiug are of the horses ;
"they would be heard toe far; knits
him if you have gut to stop hie wind !-
My antagonist was a powerfully built
fellow and exceediogly strong, but I was
lithe and athletic, and we were very
nearly matched. Over and over we
rolled in the mod, sometime* one gain-
ing an advantage, sometimes the other,
bot neither giving up the struggle. Once
I had him by the throat and his gnrgling
cry for help bruught the other man to
the .pot.
Two against one was rather fearful
odd*, but I felt no disposition to yield.
They beat nee and crushed me with their
weight, bat they never once succeeded
in pinioning my hands, and I (tatter my-
self that I gave them some blows that
they felt sensibly. to say the least.
But after a time I felt my strength
giving way and knew that I could out
hold out much longer. How Moe A:-
tell guessed it I do not know, but just as
the larger man of the two had planted
his knee on my breast and was !smug •
knife to strike It to my heart I mw by
the dim light shed by the carriage lamp
• that the young lady had got down from
the vehicle and was harrying toward ms.
I tried to shoot to her to escape while
she had a chance, but if she heard she
did not heed. She came straight on,
and the next moment I heard • cry of
age and pain, and the man on my breast
tumbled off violently and Isy kicking up-
on the ground.
She had made a slip noose with her
scarf and had hung it ever his head while
he was too much engaged to notice her
presence. And now the brave girl was
togging away at the scarf with all her
might, and the man was choking and
' sweet -mg at a tremendous rate.
Suddenly he twitched the sari from
her hands, and then, with a wild oath,
' he sprang upon her and both went down
to the ground.
Breaking loose from the other man, i
rushed to the spot and saw the villain
woe tying Mies AM.'''. hands. She was
between me and bite, and i celled oat to
her:
"Miss Axtell, drop your head and do
not move until I tell you."
She obeyed, and simultaneously 1 fired
one of my pittode at the: exposed breast
of the man, and before I could turn to
his companion I felt his oold grasp upon
my throat sad the cold touch of sterol
upon my forehead. It was no time to
indulge in questions of right and wrong
if I would save my life and hen, sod,
without pausing to argue the morality of
the preceeding, i gave the mac the con-
tents of the other barrel of my revolver.
It settled hie business for him so
effectually that hi, canned es nn 'none
(rouble : and having ascertaisd that
both the men were deed. I lifted Mir
Axtell into the carriage and drove se
fast as I could to the bent village, where
i mused the proper authorities and
placed them in possession of the facts.
Then 1 took Miss Attell home, and was
gratified to And that her father was
out of all dearer and ins fair way of a
Reed?
The two robbers were recognised as
old offenders ; they had each been at
wee time in the state prime. and were
well-known es very desperate thermoses.
O. everything, my sumo was
most providential.
Perhaps the reader will be interested
1., know that airing that msenmforabde
night 1 i1.11 desperately in love with Miss
Aatoll, and so soee.e*folIy did we both
plead with her father that, neh old
nabob m he was, he a.nsented to our
marriage , and now I am cashier of the
Raytown, hank, and Madeline i. amp wife.
God bleu her !--Ne. York W.0 1y.
0006 AND ENDS.
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worms. 1 s
Mr Sealove '.t his seashore cottage)
-"My dear, please tell our daughter to
eimg something I.se dt'leful." Mn Sea -
love -"That is not our daughter, my
Ines, That is the foghorn." -New York
Weekly.
Maid i to mistress, who is going abroad)
-Shall I put any music in the trunk for
your stateroom? Mistress ',thinking of
mal de tar) -Yee, put in that composi-
tico by Heave,"When the Swale.. Up-
ward Fly."
A 10cent piece was honed on the main
street the other day. That was just
enough to boy • packet of Wilson's Fly
Puieoa Pods, and could not be put to
better use. For exterminating deea,se's,
euskroaehea, rte., athlete* egad. Wil-
son's Pada Sold by all druggists. Take
no imitations. lm
A !'eased [1pleded.
Recent investiratton tends to disprove
the story of the Hoboken lad alto was
alleged to have eaten so much honey
that he was attacked by the hives. -
American Grocer.
muses *ay rdess rad.
Have an enormous sale throughout
Canada, and are kept by all druggists.
Nothing kegs hones dies, ants cr cork -
roaches like Wilson a Padis._ One pack-
et lasts a long time and k►lia toes by the
.IU.rt. 1m
The l'es.agral1s was Iptt•rv.t.
, • the were talking about you last night,
Mr Sissy. ' "I thought en; my ears
burned."Did they really ! Why, EIS,
perhaps that's what we thought was a
big fir*. You know how the sky lit
What any They
In popularity increasing. In relisbil-
icy the standard. In merit the tint.
In fact, the best remedy for all summer
complaints. dlarrhres, dysentery, cramps,
colic, cholera infantum, etc., is Dr Fow•
lee's Extract of Wild Strawberry. All
medicine dealers sell it.
A Fertuaaie Masi.
in describing the murder of s man
named Jorki.s, a reporter thus comment•
ed ran the event: "The murderer was
evidently in quest of money; but luckily
Mr Jerkins bad dep•.eited all his fund!
in the book the day before, so that he
bet nothing but his life."
58.rmastut steeple
Make an exception in favor of Dr
Fowler's Extract cf Wild Strawberry.
Its known virtues as a cure for diarrhoea.
dysentery, cholera morbus and
all bowel complaints cause all who use it
to regard it as the most reliable and
effectual remedy obtainable.
lee Was ArswlegN.
"Gentlemen cf the jury," said the
prr'eecutine attorney. "this prisoner in
an unmitigated sc.,andrel ; he acknow-
ledges it. And yet thanks to the wis-
dom of the common law, he has been
Oven a fair trial by • jury of his peen."
The prisener was acquitted. --The
Epoch. Waste 1.t Peerless Tis...
Re nuick. Too an use a minute tut
once -make the most of it. F.*pecially
time when suffering from dyspepsia,
biliousness, constipation, had blood or
any disease of the stomach, liver or hair-
pin. You cant take Burdock Blood
Bitters too soon, every moment wasted
delays the longed -for care. 2
Married d tier age et 1st.
A novel wedding lately took place in
Boon 000.ty, West Virginia. The com-
bined ages of the bridal party were 349
ears. the 1 , . being 101, the
Lea:.
rpt, the groom's brat man 63, and
the bridesmaids 74. The beide was
dressed in her first wedding trousseau,
which was made 94 years ago.
The ergisats. of !!trash.
Disease is the beginning of death, its
approach should be met at nese by
*percipients remedies. No better means
exists than the use of Burdock Blond
Bitten whenever eyelet/me of any die -
46i44141 of the stomach, liver, bowels or
blood appear B. B. B. is the beet life
preserver. 2
Wase M Ms.i
it was at i kirk noires, sod the resat
anthem the ehuir bed to slag was en-
titled Gad b Merciful. The airdrome,
a good and worthy if somewhat solemn
minister, was not a man of msey words.
and was likewise not endowed with any
soperflonns mueial gifts. la em lewhet
sepulchral tinea, therefore, he made the
following startling 1 to hie
modems- "TM abate will our favor .s
Gut b. meraf.t-
1 mesovire ts.d•.aa b!seem by 1f.' aAesift
livinlss a irbe.L
Alpinist leery !o.ts or village bas its
hauuted home, sod the settlrww,t of
Wanda, to luau, wee nu elt.pti...
r,. ns.r.ISugluh utikyp wad
theirlilaauuds,.bBred•t durlug the •areas,
mouths The rumor that Leapt We
Bsseerie mp'e house was haunted
was cin elated by • Oaf rant.
He wits awakened uoa matt by a
moat extrscrdnusry nurse. Tbe door-
bell was rlogiug violently, and • mrug-
gllsig, enthiwg iotas in the wall of the
boom -not its one p!aem, but to several
at toot, and thou he heard a long -
drawn sigh. This was the last feather.
He rushed to his employer's room and
arroused him, vowing that the elms was
i'.auut«d.The notoriety so chwaplj earned
exceedingly became du.greeablw Mat-
ters mood pu this shape for some dela,
j when one taunting a petty orf jugglers
reached the haunted hoose. As then
eels • cumber a ohddrea in the family,
the performers were iovited peso
the grt. unds and gars an enter-
tainment. Float y, tone of the
town to ek out • small oval basket
baying sus orifice to the cup. and &eating
htrneslf near it began to play a pusing
um upon • Aute After iudmtrioual
playing for • few moments, up through
the bole in the basket came the bead of
• cobra, and when twels• or fifteen'L-
obos above the basket it began to wave
to and fro, as if in obedience to the
seasere ut the music. After the snake
dance -or the snake -charming, as Euro-
peans are wont to call it -the Iades.
snake -charmer walked around the bumo.,
and among the bushes pointed out •hole
which might have been made bys rabbit.
To one of the natives he said e would
take out a cobra which he thought wee
in the hole. Seating himself before
the bole the magician began his mournful
plaint. For fifteen minutes he kept op
the eels., sod thee Iron the ripening
then appeared the ugly, booded bead of
a cobra. Another hole was soon found,
this being directly at uta ban of the
wall o1 the house. The man examined
it a few moments foretell, then began
to play upon the dote. Hardly had the
group gathered about the periormer be-
fore a most remarkable noise mono from
the house. First, there was • sound as
of s.eapuog steam ; then • woad of some
great body striking the wall and rubbing
aweilut the timbers. Dust in closed.
came from the hole, and the charmer
started back in terror, overturning the
man behind him. Recovering himself,
he darted at the bole and, thrusting has
arm in, drew oat, not • cobra, but the
tail of a larger snake. Astonishment
was depicted on the native's face, and
horror too those of many of the specta-
tor, as he stood holding the tip of the
tail, and five feet of the body was visible.
For a second the man hesitated, these,
regaining his courage, he shoaled in
Hmdoostan.e for the locker. -on tc stand
back. and, teeing a good grip upon the
tail, he pulled gradually backward. Out
it more, foot by foot, inch by inch, Ave,
tan, fifteen, sixteen feet -eighteen, was
there no end '-eighteen feet of quiver-
ing snake flesh as large as • sse's thigh !
A quick jetk and the e.tire monster was
q'iar-st least twenty feet in .nath
- big enough to swallow a deer and
yet held by • single mon. The native
was, however, not to the least disco'''.
aged. He clung to the tail, and as the
bug. reptile turned toward him with an
angry hiss hi gave it • swinging motion
by turning slowly. Gradually he la -
creased hie speed, turning faster and
faster, until he seemed the centre of a
• wheel. the spoken of which were the body
of the pytton. So rapid was the mote n
that the snakees body was perfectly
i straight, and it was evident that as long
!as the motion could be kept op the man
was safe, cot if the m'.uster could reach
him he would to a moment be crushed in
the horrible folds of the reptile. It soon
became apparent that the charmer knew
w hat he was about Not far from the
house stood a stout hag -staff a foot and
a half through, of solid teakwood, and
toward this he was gradually movisr,
whirling the make faster and faster.
When he was within twenty-five feet tf
it, it downed upon the few spectator.
.hat he was about to do. This was to
etnke the head of the reptile against the
pot. Nearer he cam., whirling faster
and faster, until the reptile stood
out like $ whip -lash, and then. with •
quick step forward, be brought the head
of the animal against the wood with a
crushing sound. He released hin hold,
and the greet reptile doubled op in coo-
vubivp folds, digging up the earth and
sending clo,p& sof dust into the air,
finally dropping help and lifeless. Om
thing was evident, there was the ghost,
-Philadelphia Time..
DIAZ IN DANGER.
MEXICO REPORTED TO SE ON
VERGE OFA REVOL-.
Malted aura« Tr..o. Semi 1. the ...
• see.- no Agitates. Mw Pe W. m.
• (yang .r tlrrdtte-Sem. thyme
Laasm., Tex., Jot Mk -There seems
w ressuaahle doubt that the liresio•a
.rams!t tear some kind of an upr'I
aad there an various seuaattcsal ru
afloat is ooaneotlua therewith, but nit
them wan be traced to a suurw eutact
authentic W warrant Mulattos. 1
gives color to the belief that the get
L of Mexiw apprehends dem
the tact that troops are being utaaied ..
frostier. It will be 1 that it
us this frontier that the rvolutuw had '
that mate Dias president of Mezfuo.
Bion t kt, however, strong es
to nip in the bud any revolution. Co
have been made against some Wem or
tneu under the Visited Wades neutrality
and warrants for their arrest are now i
bands of United elutes odicMk It is
resoabls to euppw that there are
some very sewestlusal J ' .. , h
a few days that w ill assume an interim
character, and the Dias revealment,
it has Nothing to fear, s only acting k
carve the pests.
nip amok% of Dias say that the
recently pawed by the Mexican cut
making It pueibis at the nest elCtl
elect Diaz for life, will result in hie ■
tuition and • revolution. They my
some of the governors of the states
Mezicaa confederation said boldly tl
congress can gar a law making it poen
be president for Me, that their Irgtal
ought also to make their tenure of on
life. There is no doubt that the lag
occasioned considerable unrest its l
The organisers of the outbreak are s
make their headquarters in Larder
agents of the Annuities Government,
said, have been bore for several days
fag the oanw of tic. mea
To -night 1 learned that warrant
beim issued for Ruts, t!ardonall and at
others. Deputy United !lutea 3
Ygirias bas the papers for their errs
ksowins full well that he has not a
*Wicket to arrest than. has soaked f'
hes Fart McIntosh. The fugitives n
to be stationed about 10 miles oboe
Deputy Ytfiin ti.lii'E.reeid Irrint.oeh
otdrock to -night fix the point which
radiate as ties of the rove
We, with a enfecteut cora of United
soldiers to kill or Capture thorn. At tt
11ms. • force of Mexican soldiers eft t
in N iw Laredo to intercept the revolts'
should they attempt to escape across
Grande. The penalty for the violet
the revotutico ry act of the United
criminal code is $100) Sae and three t
years in pesltsatte y.
Kee ANTONIO, T.L. June Z.-8.oc
tionsalb. a wealthy wsrchant and
of Tamlw, Mexico, has arrived hes
the scene d the alleged revolutiooar;
tons in Mexico. Acoading to Bono
alleged revolution b nothing more
than a bold attempt of an organized ;
a .sddos to commit robbery. !Doom
last Friday the bandit*, under tb
ably of an ex -officer of the Mexican
attacked • t • • m near Monterey beer
and 'liver bathos W the United Kato
traiu was well guarded by • detach
soldiers and a pitched battle ser
which several of th' bandits were ki
their leader captured and shot. The
Ciousedis declares, were healon
who cremes* front the Texas side of t
•aur Laredo. Notwithstanding th
meat 1t le the general belief hen the:
lutl nary movement .400 tucrwridei
ire la w program.
A pan 11.1.1*►.
text'',. June 24. -Mexico has ne
more p .ireful nor I.as peace been
fur • let -ger tines thou unifier the pre
tsinistnuon. Reports of res,.luti,,n
lutiotary alk are solely confined
n ationalist•
Thera has been a disposition on 11
to magnify tool trouble not worth
name of riots into revooluti.wa
sanding this these troubles h
possessed a single political feature.
Tbe only move the Government 1
is W math tr,nplin Nuevo Laredo
off Mexican malcontents, sob» w
blister than woes, have threatame
wade Mexican soil from Teras.
•
IR SEPARATE SCHOOLS ABOLI
A Decider' Which un.ta- la. the
L.gidsture'. Law
WnrsiPto. June 2 -Judgment
yesterday by Judge Main in tt
separate school oasis. Tbe Judge
law recently pawed by the Logielstu
Ing .*pante schools, and gnu/oxen
to restrain teaches in Catbotic .cl
bolding religious exercises.
Whet .tosser i. Lest'
cTeattrr"N. Ont., Juan '35 -
o,f ilea
Getting boats bekongi
found • palet -horse with Ib
it c. the lake about thirty miles w
port They brought the wheal bee
steam barge's wbeel, and .vide
boat bas been lost. Yesterday
teat p -ked up a pail north of bar
some -"ream barge, C. C. Rye." pe
Cel. Rhodes Mentes by e 1
Moreno!..!, Jun. Its -Hy pries
atlas received bar to•nigbt it ie
hared that Ciel. Rhodes, the rep
Is the Quebec L.gWatur. for Me
MM defeated by 3 vote This
Peelle teat minority without thea
C. C. RiellARIA & Co.
Gents, -I *preload my leg s, badly
that I had to be driven home in a car-
riage. I immediately applied ►liusrd'a
Liniment freely and in 48 hours *cold
ase my leg again as wallas ever.
Bndrewater, N. B.
Joagra W ysarogrT,
k meet leave • wee
We want a girl to do general house-
work, and if our readers are interested
in the soccees of this paper they .ill help
se secure nue. We can t do the house-
work and at the sass time edit this paper
as well aswewould liketo. W. do sot
dislike to edit this paper, mor do .e di.
like the housework particularly, but we
find that they do not go well 'together.
We find that we cannot think prodig-
ious tariff thoughts in a satisfactory way
while washing dishes and bed clot)»,
nor does the divine afhates seem to hover
around about us when engaged In each
work. We may not be as versatile se a
man should b. to (weepy our position,
bet we 'isn't help that. Whi., se we
have remarked, we de set
dislike the work about the house, l e
prefer, under the , to hire
• girl rather than an editor, prineipslly
been.e of the di$ersere in coat. Yoe
will get a bettor papaw of yon send 1e •
girl, not too attractive, Ne es. who dorm
net mph. too iamb �
Una/wooersGenie. '
.hosed'. gssmmw a
1111'bu.m.
The MrLosiwy Tarte s
Wagrnorow, Juas *5 -The no
port at the !'hoot Oommittes
Kisisy Tariff RIO was present
Beast. today Tb substance
already b... pabtisbed. TM a
pert bas sot been prepared.
Oedema d tb.
Bonaire, lose IS -lir. with.
dos .ommltled micid. at WW. faith
Niagara Palls this atserneo• by
throat with a reser. H. was for
of the Halttware t Obi
to this Sty.
Omuta sues
Ottawa, Jess to -Mir Adolpk
last MOO flee Quotes 8s oil
'Friday
Mr Della >r f., std Dr Knot
y.;, , went that tb•ght ter • mos
os
brittle Columbia.
Oresise hare bons gest amt le
mese of Agrk•ultun is raped
emerliesedanbi end
WM. a !tee m totes sant
Ilreq*.ot the ossuary.