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AN ALGERIA.N CRIME,
Strange Trial Beforea Military Tribunal
and a Straner Isequittal,
From Algeria, land of strange happen.
logs, comes tube story of a military rout t
sitting in-judgmeitt on a ease, which in any
other country of (steamed ommpittion would
be dried by procedure of civil -criminal
ettrispredeece. The prisoner at the bete
intent of being a 'tweet Turco, or iron -
framed 'soldier's of the werldurectruited regi-
ment's des etrangeees was a young and Irene.
tiful Arab woman. The charge which she
was there summoned to confront was mete
der ; the motives therefor, revenge, and the
gratification of jealous anger. The guilt of
the eauused woman was a fent apparently as
plain to morel sense as was to physical
vision the presenter of the great orb of day,
which overhead tanned it westward course
through the African firmament.
As for the crime, itself, it was, in dull
mediocrity of conception and sodden brutal -
Buy of execution, a thing simply repulsive
arid woad:tome to contemplote. Yet, note
withatan /Mg all this, the orimminal was
permitted to depart into freedom not only
absolutely unpunished, but followed by the
congratulatory tnurinurs and admixing
glances of the always susceptible soldiers
of Frenee—a 'winner of whont were there,
her jadges.
In a part of the great French possession
of Algeria where neither an interpreter of
the civil law as load down in the Code
Napoleon, nor !in 1 xpounder of the law of
God as 001 11 iu the Korea, was obtain.
able, a council made up of the officers of a
French garrison was reuently covered, pre-
sumably to hear evidence, sift testimony,
and, as wisely and justly as might be, de,
cede the questiou of lite or death for an
Arab woman who had murdered her rival,
Atreus. the lust wife of a husband possessed
by two women in common.
A coorgrrisit mrnunlinss.
The murderess was a women of quality,
young, beautiful and a thorough -paced co-
quette who had neglected nothing, permiss-
able by Moslem usage or procurable
through the fatuous indulgence of a com-
placent husband, or owner, in the atiorn•
ment of her person. She, of course, wore
lbs prescribed and omnipresent veil, but it
was a material so light and transparent that
it but served to soften the rich olive of the
wearers complexion'pleasantly modify the
inky blackness of her hair, and add the
suggestion of depths unfathomable to the
dark eyes which met their gaze.
Not a fold of her drapery, as she stood
in the presence of martial judges, that had
not deftly been so disposed as to display to
the best possible advantage the somewhat
empicturesque attire of the Arab woman —
and, Incidentally, biengont in perfect -prose
the charming lines of the female human
form divine.
Her hands and arms, the fingers and
wrists of which were covered with epark-
ling diamonds, were small, well -formed and
delicately plump. So beautiful indeed were
they, that they quite distracted the honor-
able court from anything approximating a
calmly deliberative consideration of the aw-
ful crime which their owner had perpetra-
ted.
It may be here said that it was with a
bludgeon tightly gripped in the sweet little
bands, and viciously wended by the plump
arms, that the murderous, after slyly creep-
ing up behind her unsuspecting rival, had,
bettered out the unfortunate creature's
brain's and beaten her down to earth, n
bloody, waived corpse,
.1010 urSnANU's
There was no defense offered by the mur-
deress. Why should theve be befnre such a
tribunal? But Iter husband, the semi -wid-
ower, and Arab Shiek of some influmice
stalked into the presence of 00(111 -kers, and
made a novel, if not thrilling, appeal in
behalf of the prisoner, his -remaining wife,
After promising that he considered the
removal of the unhappy Aiello by the ac-
cused as palliated by the fact that the latter
found it absolutely necessary, for her own
iece of mal, to test herself of the inter.
cruces, jealousies and presence of a first
wife whose existence had become embarrass-
ing," the noble Arab condescended to add
that he regretted the loss of tho murdered
voinan's 'cervices. He inust, nevertheless. ;
plead with the vied, to spare him his second
wife, the lovely wildcat then and there in l
-the presence of their assembled wisdom.
She had the mem of the desert affirmed, cost ;
him both in flocks and herds, and in brief,
she was unto him the apple of hie eye.
The argument was not an exceptionally
strong or convincing one, it will be observ-
ed, but it served its tern, for presently the
doors of the Council Ceatnber were thrown
open, and sheik the murderess walked forth,
free as the air about them, ami noYfously
bright as ore the sun-bathed sands of old
Sahara.
Still, from time to time, rough and
mannered attacks are made on the rigcr of
French military rule in Algeria.
.1-BALO0sY 01? nnsSin.mAN Won F.N.
presence of his committer and breathlesely
iefoteued him Ova one of the eaekete,it
papaws, which had been unladen from the
animals of the tribe of Onled.Dia on the pre -
"Mus evening teas at that moment hopping
abont the camp without any visible mous
of l000ntution, Seeing time the Spehi would
not be laughed down the offieer followed
hoe oat ot lee quarters to Inveettgate the
phenomenon,
Sore enoughl one of the polders, which
the caravan men had pinged in a huddled
mass upon the ground, was, with a gro-
tesque elution, swoying from elite to side
much as is drunken man reels to 'tad fro. It
was but the work of a moment to out with
a knife and at the binding cords of the dis-
orderly basket. This done there presently
stood roveided a woman, gagged, partially
bound, almest smothered, and deeporoutely
struggling for life, libetty, and the pursuit
of happiness,
\\ hen released from her strange bondage,
and 'somewhat revived by the frseh morning
ttir, the woman explained that she had been
placed in the pallier by one Fitza, the IBM,
or principal wife, of tate victim's husband,
an Arab of feeble will and weak impulses,
named Abderamon. Fitaa, it seems, after
gaggiug, and as she hopefully believe
strangling the second wde, ooneeivett used
promptly carried out the ingertioter idea of
disposing of the supposed crepe' hy Embed.
tatting it for the contents of one of the pa -
niers of the sojonrningearavan. Her would-
be victim was, however, not quite dead,
and reappeared in life as heroin set forth,
Dr:1,111N. Tag likAttn or Tan Fournier
When the winked Fitzte meek prettier
than the rescued one, and seemly taller
than the officer's sabre, was confronted by
that, functionary and her rival, wits she over -
snow by terror and remorse? Not by Allah!
aeo1 the dusky little men unhesitatingly
meowed her reseoneibility for the plot mud
loudly, shrilly and vigoroualy bewailed its
failure. eletapliorically speaking, she re-
s -ilei the Koran and spat upon the beard
of the prophet, when the adjnrations of both
were suggested t her by the wallet...law-
giver.
The woman, she shrieked, had surrepti-
ouslyacquireda monopoly in those affections
of a joinastock husband which should have
been possessed in common; if, indeed, she
(Fitzea might not alone enjoy them. Pro-
phet, or no prophet, it was a condition of
things which she could not endure I
While the argument Was at its height the
miseraule Abderaman meetly peered into
the tent, and, seeing how the land lay, eau-
tionely sneaked away.
TUE rsoolao OF AnDmitAMAN.
The question of punishment proved an
embarrassing ole for the Frenchman but he
appears to have successfully solved Miter
causing Abderaman, the well beloved, to be
soundly thrashed—not for having two wives,
bless you ! or for hoeing attempted to con-
done the murder of one of them, but simply
because he failed to maintain peace between
the rivals.
The congeners of the flaccid Abderaman
(elderly Solomoes) cunningly praised the
wisdom of the juage, and speedily provided
themselves witit stout switches, so that each
and every mat* of them might, at a pinch,
be in a position to avail himself of the ex-
cuse furnished by the gallic cadi, should the
necessity arise for the disciplining of their
better -helves, seconds, thirds or foerths, as
the case might be.
A NATION OF STAIR-OLIMEERS.
The Iteritnese nave 0 Fondness for Living,
10 Top.siory Apariments.
A Berlin letter states I called upon
America friends. It was just in that hour
when solid midnight sets in here (13 o'clock),
and when, in response to a ting, the heavy
iron door opened with a so t, click, there
were revealed a few steps, and beyond there
was darkness. I did not know 011 what
story my friends dwelt, having only the
notnber of the house. After striking eever.
t al matches it appeared that those sought
did not dwell ott the tint or second floors.
More matches were struck, and at last the
name appeared. There was nothing to wry
about so strange an adventure. It is the
way of the town. One has to get the hang
of the dark stairways or stay in firet-olass
hotels,
A friend related a similar experience.
He was making a call in a fashionable
quarter, and after lighting his Way to the
fourth story of a large house, and he count-
ed the ate/at—there were 103 of them—he
entered an apartment that was brilliantly
lighted and found a charming eirole of ladies
in lovely evening costumes, He expected
some explanation of his passage up the
stairway, 103 dark steps, but it was not
regarded as remarkable in any respect,
The people upon whole he was calling were
Americans with a superfluity of money, and
abroad for personal repose and educational
fatalities. The people are used to the olimb.
ing of stairs, and regard it ea a form of
necessary exercise,
A residence is not a bowie, but a aeries of
apartments, connotetl and separate from
others, There is a common stairway, and it
is guarded by a porter, who watches the one
front door, behind which, at various eleva-
tions, are half a dozen welleestablished tam".
lies, There are probably four floors, with
room for a family, perhaps two of them, on
each floor. You come to an iron and glass
door, say 111 tette feet, high, mid ring a -bell,
You are at once under inapeotion from the
lodge of the invisible porter, and if he re-
gards yon as eligible he pulls a lever or turns
a crank and the spring latch is withdrawn,
Then you ascend to the floor where your
friends are at home and ring another bell,
and you can enter 0 private hall, though
often on this hall there are several putties
who merely know each other as neighbors.
This is the way to concentrate popffiation
and encourage surehitecture. I know a young
man who has not been in Berlin long, and
has a fancy for (muting the steps he climbs'
to ace bis frionde, The nutnber of steps
ranges from fifty -tare° to 111, Tho aver.
age licit& of cli 'lido apartments is aboub
seventy steps .here are fine aecommodts.
tions In abundance at the height of 123
stops.
That your downright, jealous Algerian
Mussultnan woman cares but little for either
lareneli military authority or the admoni.
tions of the prophet, when the green fever
forces its tortuous course through her veins,
is further illustrated in what follows r—
Alleutenant of the Speeds (native cav-
alry) who, with the exceptiou °bilis fluor-
termaster, is the only Frenchman in Ins re-
. gion, has for a long time been stationed tvith
his command 0A an Dosis on the Algerian
frontier of Tunis, The lientenant is, in a
manner, Governor of the district; has, by
circumstances, been compelled to discharge
the various and widely different duties of
soldier, judge, and physician, He has,
quite naturally, by virtue of his peouliar
location and diversified occupations, enjoy.
ed exeoptionalepportunities and ad van toges
with respeet to acquiring a knowledge of
the Roulet customs and domed° relations of
the Ateb.
It is refreshing to keow that he Miffing,
as it cesnlb of familiar and close observation,
that, whore families a that ilk are divided
in the proportion of four, three, or even
two wives to one htishand, white -winged
peace does not always brood. quite the
reverse is, bs s tys, the fact. Violet guar.
rets frequently convulse the clotnestio scam
omy, end it is far from being unsatisfactory
to learn that the man in the ease does not
always acne unscathed through the norm.
Inntinn ALIVE IN A PANY101.
On one oecaslon, says our 'maul officer,
a dateffialen oatmeal' of the tie be of Outset -
Dia, en route, for re distant market, halted
for the night ist the easel. There was noth.
ing unusual in the eirementance, 'So, the
wayfaring inn of Geld Dia quietly relieved
their 'animals of their burdens, devoutly
inclined their own heads toward Mecca,
and then quietly disimeed their bodies for
slumber Nothing oecurod awing tho
night to break tho monotony of the Esteem"
fermata footfall of the sentenele, and the
Outing of their riflut barrels ne they at re-
pine intervals mane athwart the moon's
disk,
in the early morning, heweree, while the
Wearied Arab drivers wore Mill contentedly
snorieg, a frightened lipalit dashed into the
Home and Friends.
There's a power to notes comb hour
1.8 ,wnsl 0. he^ven an- tuned it ;
leer need wo roam, to brink it, Immo,
Though few there be that flnd it
Wo seek too high for things Mese by,
And lostwhat. nature 0500 01)
For life bath hero no charm so dear
As home and Mende around 05,
We oft destroy the present joy
And fature hopes, nor praise them.
While flowers fta 'us 0s1 17 own at our foot
Tf we'd but stoop to raise thorn,
lion thin so fair still greater aro
When yeti des bright spell hatli bound ne ;
lett Kam we're taught that earth has baughb
Like home and Mende .round
The friends that speed in Limo of need,
When hopea hist reed le sheerer,
Do solow us still 1151 stoma whet, will,
We aro not mine forsaken,
Thimell a 1 wore night, 111,01 the light
lorom No/1441p%, alt un 'rammed ite.
'T won id ,,uOv,,Ihu, 1, 4-, or earth th1,4
0111r home and frlends around us,
swatetneesteeewasseateseestaeitseasea....aseasereee,eeteetateeseseeeereeeeevea,,,,,saaecetaaasseateeseteessewarecanneuesetwateetwassiereatetwaseasseeesseatenseaseetrwartaromeasa,e=aw.asemetwereseeeesases.
Melody, A.I1T INVA.L,011 Of' BRIGANDS. LITERARY ITUSI3ANDS.
115 WILLIAM U11100. naa
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Stream of strsains, that roll'st, throifo
Like a hmtv'nly onions don, Nearly every day Inc a month Met fell, ile knit. 13 11)0 charaolerbiLle of Ilood's
Bearing down ilia vale of strlfo brief and disjointed ettbk, eotutshes wors Tee greet Pante was merrier' to a I, otor. and It Is Intulifested every day hille remark-
tuneteesilbIlinest ministratIo», louts scold, and when he WAS in exile. ho had owe el110 lids medicine accomplishes. Drug
olvmml hail tooloathee
l no desire to sou low, all hough slat Was the gist say: When we sell a bottle of
alystio edam or Mi
!Orions illepretial ions by Mongolian tiebels 5lsim hellbent Enteyre very Limo carne
received in alanoltuteis, tstinotineing a seri-
ous uprising. Then mate tittiuge of " an
uprising in Mongolia," and of a Mad army
nelvancing to tho Chinetto wall, which was
driven heck with great slaughter by the
foreee of Li Hung Chang, There wore
rumors that us revolt ogainst the reigning
dynasty was in progrese, but no Wear idea
of the trouble weld. be evolved from the
fragmentary despatehos, 1 t its impassibleat
last to tell the story, mld thio summary of
its (thief beware will show that eery views
of the disturbance was inaccurate 1
Mongols had nothing whatever to do house, and Seen ran away from him, 58 511
with the troubles. The ;elements were not daughters Were left to groW up utterly
waging war upon Christian missions. No negleated.
deep -told Jaen to overturn the Goverument Of the groat artiet, Domonichino, it is told
at Pekin, inspired the disturbers of the that ha married a lady of high birth mod
peace. Questions of religion and politics great boanty, who was suet) * virago that
entered into the disorders only 50 lar ai1 it iii believed phe poisoned him.
armed bands of outlaws chose to make them 'Montaigne, when a widower, said he
the pretext of wholesale robbery and vlspine.
would not marry again, 0 thOugh it were to
Sever thousands of Chleese baeilits were wiedo,n itself ,
the °Gliders, labium settlers in Manchurie h !tan] ?ilLtieleierttaii,titvs, tantauriviiimolut,espatusiviiif ,o,,,stvi hao mala eieewelei'enmeiees s eeieiteweee_neweweeeieseeteasswasetes
including.a few native Chris dam anidhfooreplitn.
miesionames, were the viethres, wretched life with his wife, who was low t uu ports and the Aurora Borealis.
greets of the artily of robbers W148 stayed In ii,„ a gate,,,Ao. Obeetivers of the sun's Inc have for oen.
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wife,' and Addison sold himself to a eross. i we know from the ue Mandated observations
Drydeu ii married discord in a noble lttries noticed at times dark spoken it. Now
per, by Chinese soldiers.
great wall, near the bordetisilioi: isethirstporiOy. d.oy for RH ebe gave him
strained old onvintese, who made him my that the extent and etimbee of these spots
of the uprising in a seashell,
mothee of fits six childree. Hood's Sarsapa. lila
L„, the Ugh t.onsangulned bosom Shakespeare lost the sytimethrne of elle
of the chaste ethereal waters world by marrying Anne Hathaway, a wo. .0 t"'w 10"0"ffier try am safe to Hee 11110
Beare ats argosy of blossom
man 'eget yeare hie senior, who 'ions souse '1'1'k 10 a I"W """1" "R"i' 01"riii-1"1"6"11
Culled. by I feavena immortal daughtea
Who, by sacred pity driven and ignorant. anti, the good reettes from ts Wial bottle war.
Meows eons! the effiritriven. It ie told or Lora Bacon tho he onjoyea '3'11 eunililiiing its Mo. Tille Peeillve merit
liking to the undulation hut Mae domeetio bites, and " loved not to D-lood's Sarsaparilla
Of thy silvery voles unwearied, be with his partner," ?one by virto! 00 1111 P.tetillar Combine -
:En a sweet soft per( a rhation Milton woe not great. in the alternator of thm, liamortioit nee Pewees used in its pre.
Hostas the heaven aspiring spirit hltsband and father. We real of him that paratIon, and by which all the remedta. ealue
're the fountain -spring of aong,
Guided by thy voice along. his first wife was dissented with his gloomy of the Ingredients month retained,
ood's Sarsaparilla,
Slumber steals main my head
Ana I dream of the bilyslan, thus Peculiar to Itself Mal absolutely ita
And Its floors of gold-oniald
militated us a Mout! purifier, a oil as a tome for
Lie before the raptured vision
13121 the light in wtiteh thef glottal building up (110 weak and givitit; nerve strength
Stream of streams, upon thy breast liold by all mninsts, 1; slx for EIS. rrrparmt amp
Let mu, resting, tend those visions
ly O. T. 110c.,D .n Co., Apothecaries, Lowell, 51ass,
Which, on thought's blue eyes (merest,
Ever float in joy's transitions, ZOS3S nine latter
Shedding light and lending On
To thy fount In Ileavon'a blue zone.
Omnoth from thy pas .ing 8 roam Hood's Sarsaparilla
Best,
1411 100 A..1. RYAN.
My feet are wearied and my hands aro tired,
soul oppressed --
And I desire, what have long desired—
ltest—only rod.
hard to toll --when toll is almost vain,
In barren ways ;
Thi hard to sow—and no vc 0 garner grain,
In harvest days.
The burden of my days is hard to bear,
But God knows best;
And I have prayod—but vain has boon my
prayer.
For rest—sweet rest.
Pis hard 1, plant in Spring and never reap
The Autumn yield ;
'Tin hard to till, and whoa tilled to weep
O'er fruitless field.
And so cry, a weak and human cry,
So heart•opprossed
And I sigh, a weak and human sigh,
For rest—for rest,
ale way has W011 a. caress the desert years,
And cares infest
My path, and through tho flowing of hot tears
I pine—for rest,
"I' was always so—whon bub a child I laid
do mother's breast
My weary little head, e'en then I prayed
As now—for rest.
And 3 am restless still : 'twill soon be o'er,
Per down the west,
Lifo's sun is sett(ng, and I seo the shore
Whore shall rest.
Slamberland.
BY 0051) s roma
Weary the tread up mountain height.
O'or the craggy steep or desert sand ;
But feet aro swift and spirits light
That wander there from slumber:and,
Sweet s:u berland of baby days
ls curminod from all evil ways
13y warp and woof of mother love,
Ar.cl gemined with twinkling stars above
It harboreth no wicked thought,
Tito :shades of sin creep never there,
Withmy and brightness is it fraught
And hallowed by the breath of prayer ;
The dreams or bay's slumborland,
If given to Oslo understand.
Must be of "angels bright and fair."
And loves that blossom everywhere.
Dear slumberland of childhood hours
Is garlanded with richest flowers,
is vocal with tho sweetest songs,
And ever teem 4 Wit/1 fairy throngs ;
Savo nosy and then no storms arise,
Save hero and there there fail no tears,
For stars or sunbeams 311 its skies
And peace and beauty crown its years
With drowns of loving tenderness,
0 11 i ndly words and soft caress.—
Though sorrow oroopoth slyly in
To gather tears where smiles had been.
Bright slum berland of yen 131-ticlo seems
Enveloped in a mist of dream
That droppet h gladness like the clew
And raltith tears and terrors too ;
Our happy games we play once more,
Again we relent through wood and lea
Or startle at the thunders roar
Alm from imagined dangers doe
While cavern yawn and demons donee,
And knaves OrrIght and fears entrance.
Sweet peace flows on liko cooling streams
Through youth's bright slumberland ot dreams.
How is it possible for armed outlaWS in „„,',S, tnt
emy rfPeliflui4; 1)131 yy
any part order world to league together in """
ruel Be'wor anti Dickens have been known
spelt force as to have the atmearance of en tit t he world 105 illditrin.011 1. husbands.
army of invasion ? It is n simple matter In by '
Man c h twin. That cou n try hashalotpgen 5hritiireig:eiy),:10.17111)115/111,,ear1,'to 1 -Inc td(u tot' ku,re;eciatils:ran.p?,afustsi11.1d1i.si
the Botany Bay of China, T
aeries ware emptied to form the vanguard
will 1110,0000 with our dope Mr it is not my
of the stream of coloffization that has given
youth nor 01)' 1)500011 teat she loves, but
several millions of Chinese inimigrants to my 1.emititil. ana los glory of which
silo
the land of the :Manchus. elany thou-
sands of criminals, many hundreds 01 10. is ,e1,1"1,,,,,or,ed."
Utica' offenders, base been exiled to Mon- 4fillicrigniila`l'oeur yai,°„.I.1;i40118 ::1110°11, an. °OLE
iinI
churls,. The mountain valleys of northern
Mancburia have been to China what Siberia ttientied him with inoreasing atelor to the vary
is 10 lanssia—the dumping ground for the ia
refuse of the people, political suspectsi, 111,1113i: iiti;17,11;:2;,01.3.triii,ssoterunttl.: e,
o
offenders against the State. A few
ttniu til she died
inteolehnti(1),11
er
ago throe thousand Chinese exiles o the
batter class were livingat Tsitsikar, a huge at the age of sixty -fount'," he being only
town in northwestern Manchuria. In the farliPebree
mountains north and east are thousands of
Chinese jailbirds, who prefer bo live by
pillage rather than by honest labor. They
raid upon the hamlets that aro scattered
over the plateaus and along the river val.
lays south of them. " They sack towns,
villages, isolated distilleries, and paWn-
brokers' shops," wrote Mr. James five years
ago, " and occasionally they carry away
men whom they suspect to he possessed of
wealth ; 0 ransom is then deinanded, faibing
which the brigands invariably keep their
word and send the victim's head break to
his friends. Occasionally they try what
the cutting off of an ear or nose may do to
extreet money, when sonding for 11 10 the
first instance. '
The presence of these pests is a crushing
calamity for the conntry. All travellers
carry arms. The northern towns and via
lages and all important places of business
are as strongly fortified as possible. The
authorities often send escorts of soldiers
with trading piratic% It oannot be said
that the governing °less is indifferent to the
evil, but its administration Is lamentably
imperfect ; and yet the number of bandits,
caught in crime, who pay the penalty with
their heads, is very great. It is said that
in 1885 over five hundred robbers were exe-
cuted. The garrisons in the northern half
of Manchuria are employed ehiefiy in ser-
vice against Lite brigands. The mambo:tens
usually reserve all aution, however, until
the robber bands actually come down front
their mountains to raid. It is a wonder,
where life told property are se insecure as
in central 1411(.1 northern Manchuria, that
colonization should have contineed to ex-
tend further north.
It may be that the riots in central Chins.,
threatening as they did, to involve the em-
pire in trouble with Iguropean poWers, en.
courage(' the idea tenon these robber bands
that au looting expedition in strong force, to
Fair slumherlond of manhood's mime 1 the south, would be successful. However
Is thiek with roses. Omens and diem, that may be, the brigands felt emboldened
It giletene with tho yellow gold by their large numbers and great resources
And groans beneath iLs wealth 11111010; to take tho offensive against the Manchu
Ambition weaves a not -work there
That bindoth heart and hands and feet, soldiery. Ibwas 110t until they had entered
While love and hope or feta and care. the southern province of Manchuria that
Burden the dreams—or make them sweet, their enterprise retslly come titto public view.
Athwart his VIS/01) fame and gold. This province is filled with emigrants from
Dort thrilling scones, as dreams unfold,
'1111 dire misfortunes specter band. the three neighboring provinces of China,
Lilco (lends, besiege his slumborland, and it Was upon the iar11101n, shopkeepers,
and craftsmen of their own °toiletry that
Hushed slinnbertancl, when endows creep
Along life's plains and azure steep, the full Mose of the murdorons invasion fell.
1 1 free from 0114.00 of toilsome years Only Manchu soldiers garrison the milt.
And sheltered from all storms and fears; bony Motions in Manehuria, lt, was they
Tho eyelids Mose and sorrows cease who stopped the inVILSi011 of the firsb band
AIM 'Ma's sweet presence tills tho brottat,
As Christ and angels, love end peace of outlaws after the sacking of sons towns
FIB (Warr dream with perfect rest, and the eommission of horrible atrocities.
The Lord Iiimself with gracious hand But another force of the brigands, about
Onardoth the pilgrim's slumberland,
\Viler°, resting In his arnw of love, 3,000 strong, inured lig further oast, advan-
lIts dreams—till morning dawns above. cod as far as the groat wall, near which
they were routed by Chinese troops who
BOMB QUEER FISH.
Iteiiiitrkciblo Geological Discoveries In
Northwestern Colorado
Supt. W. C, Hart of the nothorn division
of the Colorado World's Fair mineral de.
parte-tent, has returned from a trip to the
northweetern part qf the State. During his
absence Mn. Hart made investigations lead -
Mg to one of the meet remarkable geologi-
ol discoveries ever known in the West.
Vast fish beds, weaving hundreds of aquae°
miles in Northwestern Colorado, are brought
to light and cannot fail to awaken a greet
interest in scientific circles, The beds, so
far as traced by ale. Hart, extend a distance
of 150 miles in the region of the (41!0011 Blear
country and were tracetl to points more
than 1(10 miles toward the State. Scientists
have known of the existence of primeval
deposits of fish in Wyoming, but for the
fleet time a discovery of a similar ohmmeter
is imported in this State The bode are 150
to '200 feet thick. To the ordinary observer
their origin would remain forever a mys-
tery.
How untold millions of fish could be piled
in distinct layers over ou large area, of coun-
try which is now 5,000 to 11)1)00 foot above
sea level is a problem which might stagger
the most profound geologiat After care-
ful investigation Ma Hart has arrived at a
theoty which at least appears plausible,
According to his theory, there wee a. dell
time when the region of the fish deposits
formed the /shore of a sal t-Weter ocean. As
(he tildes swept the waters againet the rooky
'chorea marshes were formed on the oppo-
eite side of the rocky harrier, The tides
eurged agoineb the larder with such force
as to threw the fish into the shallow waters.
Gavin to the heated tomperatere of the air,
the water bit the marshes evaporated before
the tide again rot -mod, leaving the fish to
expire in the Intul.
Tho nostb flow bronglit tu now supply of
fish, and after many centuries the bode of
treday wore formed. The deposit, of each
roeurn of the (1 10 is distinctly nuanced in the
entre and on the eitlee of the itanyous of the
monntain streams, Tim deposit was raised
te present. elevation by the ewe hidden
foresee which formed tho mountains.
vary. Sometimes we eau aeo very few, or
oven none at all, and sometimes 5(0 can see
a great many, some of which aro visible to
the naked eye when protected by colored or
smoked glass. Such it spotted region is now
February lath) passing out of sight on tits
eouthwestern limb of the nun ; but a eecond
group of 'mots is finely viesible on elle north.
ern hemiephetio, stretching in a long line
trout the eastern edge to the centre of the
sun. But what has the sun to ho with the
aurora 0 Simply this; It has boon shown
that when we have the greatest number of
Otto Sp titin we have the most frequent
and most gorgeous displays of the aurora.
When there is a gretst storm on the sun -pro.
lifting Spot 5, then wo feel ab 01105 on our
little cubit a disturbance of electrical coedi.
dons. The display of the atirora on Febrit-
nay 1311, is regarded as an accompaniment
01 1110 solar dieturbances which have pro-
, ductal the tremendous spotted regions
Dullbn told his friend that his wife hau a
great influence over his composition. " I
am always refreshed and aided by her ad. The averoge time from when the spotted
area on tho sun is greatest to the next maxi -
vice."
Sir Walter Scott MILS is genius of the very
first order. He succeeded in every depart.
mum le a lad° over eleven years. The last
spot maxum 003201! b,c18811-4, a year or
two behind tho average til/10, and we soem
meat of letters, but his greatest happiness now to he approachinq a maxtintun in 1 81)2 -
was in his wife. He married her Mow aa. Noe ,„„), aacrefore Foley conclude that
short acquaintance, and it was a genuine this year we shall be favored with
numerous and brilliant eurome.--(Efeamer's
Youug People.
love mateh, lasting until the day of her
death.
Moorear wife was ono of the noblest orea.
mires, cud he never tired of singing hot
praises.
Shell y's feat marriage was unfortunate,
but his second WILS a model of happiness.
Wordsworth made a love match, and Was
a lover through life.
The wife ot Christopher North had mare
influence over him than any other person
in the world, and her death was his groat -
est of misfortunes.
Lemartine, the great French poot, was
happily married, and receive,l great aid
from his wife in all his undetitakings.
It would be impossible anywhere to find
more domestic felicity than among the area
circle of our modern men and women of let-
ters. Mr. and Mrs. 8. C. Hall, the two
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For Coughs & Colds.
John F. Jones, Brlom,Tex.,writes:
I have used German Syrup for the
past six years, for Sore Throat,
Brownings, the two liewitts, Tennyson and
his Wife, and many others less noted, might Cough, Colds, Pains in the Chest
good fortune. and. Lungs, aud
mentioned, let me say to any -
he while the Beglishmen of one wanting such a medicine—
prominence in other
fields have the same
BoaconsBokl married a lively young German Syrup is the best.
widow, who made him perfectly happy, '111(1
he never lost an oecasom of singing her B.W. Baldwin, Caruesville,Tenn.,
praises. Dr. Arnold, isf llegly, is cited as writes_. : I have used your German
having aa almost ideal home life, ned ale° aye up inmy family, and. find it the
tho late
how Rapp 1.110 Mladstones ate in their and colds. 1 recommenddifor coughst to every
-
Doan titan ley. All the world knowbest s medicine
family mule, and so it is with many othm 8.
On this sule of the domestic purity oi one for these troubles.
—
most of our noted mon. Longfellow, Enter- I
son, Alcott, Holt»es, Lowell, 1 1 tiesithovne— R. Schmalhausen, Druggist, of
all down the long and glovious list, we can Charleston, Ill.,writes : After trying
scores of prescriptions and prepara-
tions I had on my files and shelves,
without relief for a very severe cold,
which had settled on my lungs, I
tried your German Syrup. It gave
me immediate relief and a perma-
nent cure. 0
G. G. GREEN, Sole Manufacturer,
Woodbury, New jersey, U. S. A.
proudly pontt to genets unedited by do-
mestic love, and none the less happy be-
cause they were literary people.
Mrs. G. M. Young, 1 Sully Streeb, Gros -0
Street, Liverpool, Eng., writes that tho
50,1(5505 of one bottle of St. Taoobs na
eared her of lumbago ;thee she had given
up all hopes of evev-being better.
• A Skin Game in Books.
A Customer—Give me a deem shirts.
Shopkeeper— Here you aro 01 1, the best craminsanan.
quality.
Shopkeeper—Sailer:etch.
Customer—How numb ? He Couldn't Express himself More Clearly
Customer—All right, weep them up. He was o bald-headed Frenchman, whose
Now, how touch aro ( hese 'cocks 1 heart hatl been touched. for the first time by
8hopkeeper--n Ft e omits a pMr. the " tender omelet',"
Customer,— Weil, I'll take three down " Then you confessed", he said in a voice
trembling with emotion, thee you love me
heal been 'alerted to the scene. Many of pours otsitearl of the K 'flirts.
a
the outlaws were killed in batiste, and death The socks are done up and tho customer lettle—that you admire certain qualities
starts for the door wt 1 b the bundle. ofx y lea "
was nillIcted upon all the captives.
It would seem natural diet this remark- Shopkeeper—I-1okt or, there, you haven't" Yes," shyly responded the young lady, I
able uprising of oriminels should impel Chi- paid for those soclia. " I think your head is whoa I might term
no to tako 00011 thorough miasmas as would Customer—Certainly not, I took them in i molliftueet,' I °usenet express me self more
render it impossibleShopkeeper—Yes, but you didn't pay for °.elille:lYIts"edly knew the meaning of " mellifin.
in future to repeat this 5001101155 for the shirts.
reckless experiment.. In its resourees and
eta" bet, ho thought 11 was the evord for
climate AinnellnVin is on of tam finest par ts the shirts.
of the empire, and its northern valleys and Customer—Certainly not, imams° I didn't something grand soul ennobling. After he
had bade hev goodmighb Ito 500101 eagerly
bills can be turned to gotta accounb 1011011 take bhem,
they are no longer the lurking 1)1,005 of this Shopkeeper—Thatat a fact, and be spends home, took the dictionary down front Use
formidable colony of evildoers. the next half hour trying to mike his cash shelf and feverishly turned to that endeared
balance,
......— —.ea— _____ wo,dii
r,,
is blood turned to ice ae Ile read,
" smooth, soft, mellow."
Elysian Aspirations.
BY WIM..T.131 GRIM).
Take me bo some Maslen vole
God's Laws.
11 hem a l'or.i.4 heard 011101A011$ tale
or sorrow 6 bitter Moan,
Where tli400rd 14 unknown,
801110 of the most vital portions of God's
Where mwstal founts and name streams " He has a heating apparatus for 1150- Word two in the form of commandments.
Throneh onalese :rammer tum—
eggs. ' , planted all along Air pathWaY to define the
that, will enable hens to lay poached " Thou shalt " and" thou shalt not " are
Where light for aye Intl meted get sins
coupe ,
And song 11 never &mei—
" Show him tip." 1 limits between right and wrong—betweou
0 talc° mo there and leave roe there
lint Coultr We ? ; do, In these days WC need more of lthe
wine WO may do and what we may never
For 1 ten :1(: of si rib, I
sacred authority of law in otur homes, more
I pant to hie 1 the a parer air
enforcement of law in the ootionellity, more
And drink a neigh to r life'
Ways soe us From mirvor-sainek delusions
Could we but see ourselves as °there al
11 sueh le (Leaven alone allele,
protsching of divine low in our pulpits, atal
Then I Leaven 0 the home for me,
. more " law -work " in the conversion of souls
And I enure 0111101 pray to guide
.iitl nine mon 051 of i t
,
'' who ean represent; and servo Jesus °heist. b
the eight would seedy free Ile ;
Me Weller speedily.
pray with bated breath
keopieg His oo,ninandinents, The very
Returned 1:319o0InaltiisLitu—raV"iteavtit°10,11t became of themselves to dental.
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For a quicker mode of dying thee bo hale 0050 00 of ,in is b,,,,,,,,,,g down or brooking
thvough Oodie fences.
that fool, &plasma who Mel more money
than he know what to in with ?
liminess alisra—" I don't remember him, ,
Was he emelt of a fool ?"
" Perfectly idiotic,"
" I presume he has dropped inbo society.'
r ---- o I
Ilvou rayerias selelo.
Bessie—" After Miss Fitz says Croe pray -1
orti every night she looks under the bat, bit b
she has never found a man in all these
years.''
Josele--" Wonderful 1 And she keeps on '
praying 7" i
Papa— " What ITI :7170 world has gob inlio
Bobby? ile Was up before al ytight th,s
iyariiin$6,,
mn,maa—" 'ilk lo gammiltv."
A Great Invention.
" Mr, HityeS, there's an inventor down-
stairs who violas to see you,"
" What's his invention ?"
WITHOUT AN EQUAL.
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