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PEACE, NOT HAPPINESS* An inward counselor gave mo this behestj “Throw from thee what thou hast and take a quest j Qo forth a beggar, and with sweet address Make suit for Happiness.\ The fervent voice I hastened to obey, | That which I had ln hand I threw away, ; Nor gave It thought, so longed I to possess The rare thing, Happlna X went a beggar, meek, with craving hand The bosom prompter cried: “Demand 1 de Some laughed, some 'cried, to see how I My suit tor happiness. mandr* id press dii When life ran low and dear daylight grew I turned me home. At my neglected.gate A palmer stood. “He waits .(me, thought) With long sought Happiness!\! / 1 1 ' The palmer stood; through tears fie smiled “Not so, fond Ijeggar; I but save to thee What thou diditt cast away—nor more, Talje Peace, not Happiness!\ —Kdith M. Thomas in Indepe:ndent. lata to bless I A PIONEER GHOST, on mo. less; It had for years been a favorite idea with Roswell (Rolla, as his boyhood name syas) to restore an? early a pioneer—sugar camp. A considerable bit of the primitive wood.had been preserved, quite enough to hidg/the boil i n g works. The kettles were hung b^r beech trammels, on a lug pole—there were the store, trough, the sap yoke and buckets, the small, rather too neat; cabin. Right about head--, quarters were tho ax made sap troughs-—all as in the primitive times. The day—the last of two or three successive sun bright days, indicating the wane of the sugar season, and the kindling of the] y e a r - had been all that a single day could ^reH bo. It was past, the girls were gone, and night was making its approach seen and felt in the ancient wood, helping the cherished illusions —the yeiays turned back, the grand forest restored, the silent group in the deepening twilight wore boys again, in the depth' of the woods. The girls were gone. It had [been a great day for them, old girls, yet for the day, girls. They have rambled, a little heavy footed and slow, through tho woods, where tho earlier flowers of the spring txigan to show themselves—the liverworts, blool roots, the spray liko ground nuts, and many budded spring beauty. In tho favored place a few real leeks stabbed up. There had. been a butterfly seen flopping among the trees, lighting on the sap spouts, and many honey bees, robins and blue birds were there, chick adees, blue jays and the nut hatch-j-winter residents thes? last; all these had been noted —talked oven and the girls were gone] Ann, her vounger Sister Helen, and one of the Dans went with them. , So Elizabeth and Minerva went with Elvira for the night.' felderly girls—all called such for the time. TheboyB, Rose well, Monroe, another Dan, Capt. John, of the hundred iay company, William and Theo—these last came down from Stood ItttllOl 'jjouoi-roljr oKAnt fchft rude furnace and boiling .copper kettles, con versing in subdued voices, ift the perileptible twilight, under tho primitive trees. was growing conspicuous,' and its visible. A colony of frogs from the s' vale be- The fire sparks among ew hy- by low were making themselves heard, which were tho piercing notes of a lodes, which usually precede the croakers. “We shan’t make any more good sugar,” said Monroe,, in his chest tones. I “These are the first of them,” said Dan.- “They will be frozen up three time*. No; good sugar after the second is the old rule. Then followed some discussion of the rela tions of frogs to the conditions favoiable to sugar making. The conclusion was that they only indicated the advance of the season. There was an old time incident of the neighborhood,, which, though now foi ’gotten, occurred since the Johnson boys went to Michigan, and which R. had promise! to tett them of after the girls left, and tfc ey now claimed a performance. “You know I can’t tell a story, and this is not a story.and has no come out of any sort,” was his hesitating preliminary. He was no great talker at the best. “That is the rule ETiraJtarywtTCre iu'ins cufrerft oi* ‘everyday life, takes a commonplace person or t wo and sticks to them for a year or so, tells usually what they don’t do and the reason or no rear •on why, and drops them. As yours is all about a ghost” ----- “A ghost that is not a ghost,” pul; in the proposed narrator. “Who haunted an old barn, thirty forty” ---- “Or didn’t,” interjected Monroe. “Or didn’t,” accepted Dan, “itw il run in tho line of the present school exactly.” There was a pause of a momenl;, when Roswell, his back to the fire, threw ids head up suddenly sideways—a way of liis—and began: I “ It was about this time of year, ind just/ such a spell cjf weather, as this—Anscomb hpd acted a little queerly all winter—longer. It came pn so [plowly, with such a steady down grade, that those who saw him everyjday, rft we did, hardly observed it; It was queer. He wab an unusually intelligent man. Ho was bright ill the morning, and grew! dull, a I little cloudy j perhaps, toward night, and wasn’t much seen after dark, when he had a way of lingering about the lower bam, where his cows and young cattle wers kept. He took entiro charge of these, had them all well broke; every cow, heifer and steer, c own to the calves, knew its name, and when the sta -1 ble door was opened they all filed in like a „ company of drilled soldiers. He had a way of opening the door, and getting up on to the “big'beam,” (a large square timber kr own by that name) where he could see their heads, and called each by name, and he re mained there talking to them a long time, until somebody came and called him in to supper. If you happened thers any time about dusk, you were suf e to hear him from his perch, calling out to th«tn in his peculiar voice. ’I found him thure once or twice—I’ve always been sorry I did—sitting np there, doubled over byapurline jjoet, his head canted jiown on on* side, wearing the little old fragment of straw hat—he wore it all that wint< r about the barn. I was sorry because it helped out the shape of the! appari tion later. Well, one night—the night he did not come in!—supper was ready, and one of the smaller girls was sent to call him. It was fifteen rods or so away, and just growing twilight. She heard him as she apptoached the barn, rapped on the outside—tie usual Bignal—and as he did not answer she the small door and peeped in. What she saw she did not describe immediately. It was all the gleam- opened darker inside, and gruesome, with cattle munching hsy, and their eyes ing in the vanishing light with a diVn lam bent burning. She was frightened and ran back to the house, told something, and one of the boys went down, struck a sharp blow or two on the door, and called very de cidedly. He said he got an answer, went back, and they cat supper. As he aid not then come, the older ones went out, tkking a lantern. As they approached the door they heard his voice as usual, made a rap on it and got an answer they said—waited a moment, called aud received no answer, no r«ply, opened tho door, went in, and there he hanged, suspended from the big beaxi, stone dead—had been dead soma time. Soon after It came out that the little girl saw something hanging from his neck. “Well”—a pause. “No matter4?ibout the shock, the ghastly horror, the funeral and all that,” sa:d Dan. “I had to tell so much,” said R.. “as an in troduction. I don’t know who cared lower bam stock the next morning, the labor on myself the next even: for the I took ng, a s l knew Anscomb’s ways and his cattle about as well as he did. As I said—the weather was about like this, and that night ?ras, just such another, and notwithstanding thi horror, the charm of the days and;, the oncoming night had in a way been with me through it all, and was on me when I went to the old bom in the soft twilight. The moon was shining through the openings of the I flecked clouds, as now”—looking up—“and I for a moment forgot the occasion of my going to the barn—tile cattle had gathered patiently around the 'stable door, and as I opened it, as I live, came .Anscomb’* voice, calling leach, by a little imoatiwitiy, a* if the delay was their fault. At the first, the Illusion was perfect Anscomb was there! I know—I know, boys,”—he said quickly. “I thoughtin a moment—but the call went on just the same—seemed to me, and I seemed tafVar it. Well, when the Uat one took his place. I opened the doof, on to the floor. Of course the inside was darker. Well 5 ’—a. pause. The listeners—Well, what? R.—Well, there Anscomb sat, on the big beam, humped over, his head on one side, his old hat on as usual, peering uncannily down at me.” ah in chorus—Did you look up a t him? R.—No, I would not look up, I determined I would n o t I belong to a set—pausing. Monroe—Not easily upset R.—Well, had I looked, I certainly should have seen him, or seemed to—I did not, would not, never have; all the same, he was there— or the impression that he was as com plete and perfect as if my eyes, the touch of my hands, had verified it—if it was touch-- able. Well, all I had to do was to feed. There was plenty of hay just over the bay. I took a fork, got over the girt, pitched the hay over, and fed each of the cows, heifers and steers—compelling myself to do it leisurely, and well—all the time feeling the eyes of the impish figure, perched above me, watching every motion. When it was done, I spoke o u t “There, that will do, I think.” I stood half expecting an answer; I got none, and went out, closed the door, and as 1 did so from the outside, there T seemed to hear a little low, chuckling laugh. I opened the door again; of course all was still save the cattle. As I went away l seemed to hear the calls to the cows as usual. So strong was the impression that I went to the house and looked at the dead face in the coffin,' clean shaved, dark, a manly, handsome face, with black hair slightly gray, early gray, showing a fine, high, narrow forehead, serene, soft, the face almost sweet in its' expression. As I looked upon it the weird impression drifted out and away from me. The next day was. tho funeral, of course. That was in the reign of John Whitlan, my young Englishman. He came over young and had learned to be like us, though the things in which an Eng lishman is most like an American are the ones in which he resembles us the least, I find. “That’s so,” affirmed Monroe, who lived on the border of a small England. ,— “Well,” resumed R., “I managed so that John Whitlan should attend at the lower bara the night after the funeral. The pro prietor had been solemnly buried in the pres ence of near a thousand and I wished to test my illusion. I said not a word—I never have save as I do now. Well, John went whist ling on in his large way down across the road. It was getting dusk and I waited and watched over the border. Well, in about ten minutes or less he came hurrying back too excited to speak. I met him outside. 'Made short work,’ I said to him. ‘Short work!’ his eyes starting, his face ghastly. ‘By ----- he’s there—tho old man himself, cocked up on the big beam there!’ ‘Sh-h-h-h,’ I said, trying to hush him up. ‘Well, b y ----- he is.’ ‘Nothing V'nf-. ynnr John Bull imagination^’ J . said: enough to frighten anybody but a Yankee.’ ‘You may go an’ see for yourself,’ he an swered. ‘I will.’ I took a lantern and went with him. On the way he told me that he heard a voice inside the bam; he paid no at tention, opened the stable door, when Ans comb called down:, ‘Cherry, Brin, Spot, Suke,’ and so on as the cows went in. He rushed to the door leading to the bam floor and there sat AnsconWifc on the big beam. John broke for me.^English are.plucky enough where mere, flesh is concerned—this was too much. As we approached the bam—‘There 1 there! Don’t you hear him! Don’t ydu hear himP exclaimed John. Well, I did seem to, but let on nothing. The. door was open, I stepped in, John followed. ‘There! there! there! See ’im. See ’iml’ John cried, in an awfully frightened voice. I felt him, I would not look up, but quietly lit the wick, which burned up quick, and strongly, “I held it up, and did' look up, The beam was vacant, all the upper part empty. ‘I see nothing!’ I answered, shifting the lamp about. ‘By ----- ! b y ----- 1 nor do I,’ said Whitlan, about as much surprised as before. ‘Here, hold the lantern, while I feed them,’ I said to the gir£,and* distributed * it to the waiting cattle. We went out, closed th® door in'si lence, and' moved away. ‘There! there! Don’t you hear ’im! Don’t you hear ’im?’ ex claimed John. I laughed in a make as if way, the best I could do. I tho’t I did hear him, and continued to, till some rods away. “I told Whitlan to hold his tongue for his own sake, as well as for the sake of our neigh bors. Nobody would believe he had seen or heard anything, and it would only annoy the family. I don’t think he did for some time after. “Well, the boys themselves, with some of their cousins—who came to stay with them— did the chores there or undertook to, the next night. They heard the voice, saw the impish figure, ran back to the house, sent over to me, and with my lantern I went over. It was a worse time than on the first night—the night of the tragedy. .Of course, when I went, it was still, and nothing could be seen. I tried to explain it away, as a mere, rather wide spread illusion, amounting to a delusion, and such I have always regarded it, and pacified them for the time. Well, it was the same the next night, and the next. I told them they had for the time better remove the cattle and not use the bam, fo* the ghost had- now taken such hold of them that there would be no other way, I feared. “That was the beginning of i t Everything was right in the morning, during the day, all day, till the approach of night, then the calls began, and when the inside was dusky with oncoming night, men fancied they saw the shapeless form. Light up and it vanished with the shadows, nor was the voice heard when any one was in the bam. Go out, close the door, and it began again. Sometimes, when one left, the first thing was a low, snickering laugh. Well, it was all over from that night' It got out—the neighbors came, till far and near there was excitement —it got into the papers. Once in a while one came who could neither see nor hear any thing. Finally the' season grew warm, the cattle were changed to sheds elsewhere, but it made no difference with tho thing, whatever it was, something or nothing, that remained. Those who wanted it could always find it, at twilight, could hear it, seem to see it in the dusk. Strike a light and it was not there. •“They used the bam that summer, but never after much. A new house was built further away. The frost finally upset the underpin ning at ono ooraer, which fell down a littlu. Weeds grow rank about It; finally trees came up around i t Folks had a fancy for pines and funeral evergreens a t an early day, and thoi'o was a clump of these that quite cut the old bam off from the old house. A thicket of wild plums from one originally planted grew up, tall and thick, between it and the road. Maples, beeches, sprang up. Ths swallows ceased to build in it, the rats de serted it, men ceased to speak of it, no one went near it, and so it in a way died off. It is there stilL” Then there was talk about what it was, if anything, among the old boys, of whom the two from Michigan had never visited the place. “The fact is,” said R., “a few thousand or hundred thousand years ago, we were cave and river drift men, Digger Indians, in fact, from which the white man has never wholly escaped. We’ve progressed only in streaks. Our cave side, Diggefr part, at times predom inates. Every one has a large share of prim, itive night This thing got itself started as a fungus of this ground. Toadstools always come up in the night The first we know of them we find them fully grown in the morn ing. This thing, once started, lived on this shady, damp, and for all foolishness, rich human soiL” Dan agreed with him in the main, though both admitted that they had heard, the voice. Capt John differed from them. Monroe was undecided; said he had some of the soil in which toadstools might grow. Theo said that the weight of evidence was in favor of some unusual visitation, and wished he been there in the day of i t “Oh, it is as much there now as it ever was,” said R, “HI bet a haystack against a new version of the Old Testament that if we go there now you'll hear thereat tie calls, or t mnir you do. This Is the very witching nour and the very season for i t ” “Done,” cried Theo. “Let us go, boys.” It was agreed to a t once. The kettles were filled with cold sap, the fire pulled away so that no harm might occur to the partly re duced syrup, and the party moved toward the open ground. “Your wager,” said Dan to R., “is hardly fair. If Theodore denies hearing or seeing, you lose.” “Ohj you can trust a Seven Day Baptist,1\ called oat William, which provoked* small laugh. - - • “It is just the night for ghosts,” said Capt John, lookiijgabout -s.. He was right Tbe moon in its second quarter furnished all the light, . The sky, wai flecked with small, high up, slow moving' clouds, and to a fancy quickened by the eerk tale just told the air seemed filled with ting shadows and phantoms. “The chancer are all against me,” said Theo, who had joined, in the small laugh, recurring to Dan’s re mark. “This whole old region is filled with ghosts. I can’t take a step without scaring up broods and flocks of old time memories, spirits of the departed. This morning I went out into the south woods, where Deedle and 1 used to hunt, go for chestnuts, loaf and play. The woods are haunted. I could not breathe —was choked, suffocated. I rushed out into the open fields, and as I turned and looked back I could almost see human forms stand ing under the trees, beckoning to me.” “O.h, you’ll find him all right,” said Monroe ( in an assuring voice. The dear old region had been noted- famous, in a sad way, for the number of its suicides. It was inevitable that the list should be gone over with as they leisurely passed over the high rolling ground on their way to the haunted run a half mile'away. It stood solitary on a gentle\ eastern slope, surrounded—hidden, in fact—by t&es and small growths, which they approached on it* dark side, now black in contrast with the gray landscape dimly lit by the slender moon. Prepared, expectant, their voices fell low, and ceased as they passed the east side of the trees and growths to the front on the south side. The outline was awry, the large doors ajar, warped and partly fallen, the roof rot ten and in seyeral places open—decay, deser tion and utter silence seemed to brood over the ruins. I Slowly.they advanced, and suddenly halted, as by an electric impulse. Even R. seemed taken by surprise, while the hair of i the strangers, they felt lifting itself on their scalps. Was it a common illusion of the senses? Was it a real voice? While in the gruesome presence it was real. “VVhat did I tell you?” whispered R. “By the holies,” breathed Theo, as they listened to the once familiar accent, the old calls, and names, for a minute or two, and then R. led the way to the black opening of the half un hinged doors. They gained\ the floor, and in the darkness, not so dense under the\openings of the roof but that the Inside, the heavy b l m u t u i f , MlU p o s t s , llU & o t r c c u n s x u i l dark and gallows, wer;e easily distinguished, and there on their left, squat .on thersquared timber, was the dark wavering outline of the eerie form. There was no mistaking it, as those who cast their eyes up felt assured. A half minute and one of the party struck a match, then another, and another, till each of the party held a short lived taper in his hand, supplied by another as its short, brief flame vanished. Their united power was ample t® reveal the empty, silent cUfiplation of the cheerless interior. There w S some of the litter straw and hay, where protected from the rain and snow, here and there, but no sign of living thing, not even a ra t The swallows seemed no longer to* build there. “The very spiders no longer spin webs there,” as Theo said afterward. They went out Whether by the design of any of them, most likely by an easily accounted for acci dent, one or more oi the lighted matches fell upon the dry straw and hay, and almost in stantaneously the tindery inside was in a flame. They had scarcely gained the outside when it was discovered. “LuckyI” exclaimed R. “ I wonder we by the rest. They had no choice. \The flash ing, leaping, licking flames ran up the edges of the weather boards, caught the dry edge of the-roof, and in five minutes the empty shell was a roaring flame. In thirty minutes, save where the thick plank or, heavy timbers touched, ||> as to aid each other, the active combustion had ceased. Moving away to avoid the heat, the boys stood watching the rapid progress of the burning* and when it subsided to a red glo$r, and the sinking moon and far off stars re sumed their wonted reign over tho warm, calm spring night, they thoughtfully moved away, yet with a sense of relief.—Cleveland Leader. VISITORS AT THE CAPITAL. N ew T o rk S o c iety P e o p le In W a shing ton —N u isan c e s F rom A b road. The attitude of New York society people toward Washington ia peculiar, and they show their bumptious provincialism in a dozen ways. One New York woman who has spent a couple of seasons here remarked kindly that she could see a great Improvement in the art of dinner giving since she came to Washington. “Of course New York dinners have always been perfect, but here it is quite' a new thing, you know,.this dinner giving,” was her bland remark. When repeated to a few Washington hostesses who have been giving dinners for a score of years there was an immediate temptest in a tea pot New Yorkers have the coolest way of making just such speeches about Washington, and assum ing an air of condescension as if it were very kind in them to be amused by the capital’s goings; yet at the stme time they make all these pretensions they come here and go to the greatest lengths to get into the ftlll swim of society. New Yorkers have always led in the army of anglomaniacs that infest the city, but even the anglomaniacs have had a trial this winter by having two nuisances from England an noy people beyond measure. The pair were taken up rapturously bv their first discover ers, and were introduced at several exclusive houses, from which they could not be dis lodged, when it was finally discovered that they were rude and impudent and pushing people, upon whom snubs had no effect As admirers of art they went around different parlors] examining and criticising pictures with appalling coolness. Having marched into one house where they knew there was a portrait by Bonn at, and where they had no introduction Whatever, they demanded to be shown the Bonnat, much with the air of a stage robber demanding the treasure box. At Gen. Sheridan’s house they asked to see his portrait, and ooolly said it was “horrid.” “We think it a very good portrait,” said \Mrs.. Sheridan, quietly; Vho found the English couple the most extraordinary of the crowds who had called on that particular reception day. “May I ask what relation you are to the general?” inquired the TCngiia^ woman, with cool impertinence. “I am bis wife,” said Mrs. HhorfrUn “Oh! just fancy!” said the undisturbed critic, who commented om. other fo sight and then left—“Ruhamah” JnGtlobe- Democrat An Economical Legislature. The members of the present Arixona legis lature, besides doing their own committee work, pay from their per diem enough to hire necessary clerks for the session, ingress allowing only two clerks to each house and prohibiting the employment of more. By* scrupulously obeying the Federal statute the legislature saves to.tha territory $50,000 spent by its predecessors for clerk' hire, printing and other legislative expexwes. The taxpay ing citizens ore enthusiastic .over the work of Arizona's reform legislature.—Chicago Times. In Nevada the Indians eat the flesh of the rabbits they capture, make robes ot the and receive a bounty on the scalps. IVench and German government agents are visiting all the fairs in the north of England, *nd making large purchases ot bows suitable foe mfli tary purpose^ PASSING AN OUTPOST. A FEDERAL SCOUT CAUGHT BY THE CONFEDERATES. Ib k lB f Slow Progress on Hands s a i Knees—Attacked by an Enraged Mother. ^In a Scrape—Canght by the Enemy. Xifeby Prison. While Sheridan and Early faced each other in. the neighborhood o t Winchester there were tiin#\Wben the respective pickets traded to- iMOob'ahd n«ws£ apers, and other times when they shot to kiU each other. I was on picket duty np to twenty-four hours before the bat tle opened, and the reason I did not assist in driving Early )beyond Winchester was due to a singular cause. The wily Confederate chieftain knew that we contemplated some movement, and there'wa* an aggressive spirit all around the front His scouts were pushing up to omv lines after information, and it was plain that he did not intend to be caught napping. Two' ‘days before the battle, I being then -frith the'reserve picket a t the front, three of us were detailed or ordered to push forward beyond the outposts in the direction of where the Confederates were supposed to be throw ing up earthworks. We took different di rections from the start, but all had the cover of the woods. The Confederate outpost was not more than musket shot from my point of departure, and the hour was 2 o’clock in the afternoon. I was to go as near as possible- pass the outpost if I could. It was probable that Confederate scouts were thick euough along the front, and I figured that my chances for securing information were not half as good as my ohances for being knocked over or made prisoner. Before I was a stone’s throw from the Union outpost I was on my hands and knees and carefully making my way forward. I did not care so much for the .outpost, for h»/ would have a permanent place, but the Con federate scouts would be moving here and there, and they were as crafty as Indians. I got along much better than I anticipated, however. I'crept within sixty feet of the out post, who was leaning on his gun and smok ing his pipe, and I had passed him by 200 feet, and was flanking an old log, when, as I turned the end of it, I came full upon a sow with five or six pigs. All were lying down and seemingly asleep tocept one little pig. They were between the two armies, and prob ably belonged to some farmer who had a guard about hip premises. The guard had probably been withdrawn that day, or had become negligent and allowed the pigs to wander away. The old one-had rooted over a large' space of ground before she lay down, and the little 'ones were oovered with mud from snout to tail. The ’ instant I turned the log* the single wakeful pig saw me and raised a clatter which started the rest up, and then %was in a scrape. The little ones would have' run away, but the _old one didn’t prop*.* w pufc up with the intrusion. She bristled up and rushed around and made such a nofee that I knew the attention of the Confederate out post would be attracted. I drew back behind the log, but my apparent cowardice enraged the hog, and I had to leap to my feet and seize a dub £o prevent her attacking me. Had she left me then I might have got out of the trouble, but she would not go. She kept menacing me so vigorously that I had to stand on the defensive, and I was on the log . and waving the club at her when half a dozen Confederates came running up through the woods and I was made prisoner. It was bad enough to be captured, but they guyed me unmercifully about the way of it, and I was only too glad when I was sent back to their main line to be packed off to Libby prison.— Detroit Free Press. Art Students la Paris. Wherever a rt students do congregate there you may always hear wonderful stories of saving the sou. Over their cafe noir and cigarette, inevitable conclusion to their simple dinner, they discuss with equal ease the latest w mua tag newest thing in- iwf.anmn^o. In Lliv same breath they mourn as lost aa extra sou given in pourboire and the missing arms of the Venus de Milo. On* young sculptor tells how he beats up his day, while another ex plains how he beats down his cobbler. A long legged painter, whose twinkling eye gives the lie to bis solemn jaw, darkly hints at attend ing evening school through the winter for the sake of saving his own fuel; whereupon a kindred spirit announces that he has made out a thirty night programme of evening sails with the same pious end in view. Naturally a goodly,portion of that indefina ble something that the French call blague leavens the seriousness of these speeches, but, rhaff aside, there are doubtless grains of truth left, the proverbial true words spoken in jest It may be that he who to-day seems merriesc to-morrow will “eat his bread with tears.” ’Twere HI to consider, too c.uriously to consider, all the economies of student life; they are by no means confined to shelter, food aud cloth ing, the mere necessities of exisfetfftce. For it id not the necessities, but the unnecessities that count; it is not theexpected expense, but ihe unexpected, that confounds us. Bills for bed and board nie^fcus square in the face; it i« our dentist’s bills, our photograph collec tions, our little suppers, our ’bus and train tares, ou»- New Year’s benefices to facteur, con verge and garcon that come up behiud and -tab us in the dark. It is often hard for the • d'tist of large ambitions und wmall means to draw the line between liis needs and his tastes. —Boston Herald. A Lawyer E a rning His Fees. “I was a criminal lawyer in this city for six >ears,” said a well known member of the tjay, “and liad a very large business, making . good deal of money. But I would not ,o back to criminal practice for five times '•vhat I am making at the present time. A jriminal lawyer cannot call his soul his own, nor a minute of his time. He has to handle v :11 sorts of bad characters in all sorts of ways ind advise with or defend them in all sorts of crapes. If these gentry confined-their atten tions to the day timo and paid their visits oyly at* one’s office they could be endured. But they don’t. They are after you a t all hours of tho night They drag you out of bed, away from your meals, call you out otj?hurch. Pve been routed out of my sleep Inrefe times In a night to find bail for- crook clients—of men who had been ‘pinched.’ “Aside from the unpleasant feeling that. >ne has that ho is selliug his brain, body und talents to social outcasts, and the distasteful ness iof these low associates which rapidly grows on one. there is the more practical objection- that you have to take pay iu ull sorts, of booty—watches which you know have been stolen, diamonds that have been sneaked and money that has been purloined from the pockets of its rightful owners. Lot those have the criminal business that like it or need it. I want no more of it in- mine.” —Chicago Herald. To Purify Feathers. I wish to tell my experience with foul smelling geeee feathers. I tried days of ftx- posure to a southern midsummer sun, then baked them in an oven for hours, all to no purpose. I had recently been using borax to wash,blankets, and the idea occurred tome to use it for my feathers. I did not add soap, because it would leave streaks. So I put on the boiler,' fijled it half full of water, then added the bpr£i, pounded 'fine so as to dis solve' readily. ,:'In tbe.iump it was as near the siae of a half teacup as I can describe i t ' i immersed, the feathers, about five pounds, weighted down with deanly washed stones, and heated to boiling, continued about four hours. I then removed them to a wash*, board, laid over a tub to drain. When cool, 1 squeezed dry;, .a handful a t a time, -working them to the opposite end. I then fastened the case by the. end to the dothesline. thor oughly shaking up and changing ends about four times during the two days it took them to dry. I felt I had made a discovery, and yearly in midsummer since that time my pillows undergo the process. I have no feather beds, or they would also. I boil them in their ticks, and it leaves no streaks if they are sqoeeiw^ dry enough toot to run. M i s c e l l a n e o u s ' j __________________ Sore Eyes The eyes are always in sympathy with the body, and afford an excellent index of its condition. When the eyes become weak, and the lids inflamed and sore, it is an evidence that the system has become disordered by Scrofula, for which Ayer’s Sarsaparilla is the best known remedy. Scrofula, which produced a painful in flammation in my eyes, caused me much suffering for a number, of years. By the advice oi a physician I commenced taking Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. After using this medicine a short time I was completely Cured My eyes are now in a splendid condi tion, and I am as well and strong as ever. —Mrs. William Gage, Concord, N. H. For a number of years I was troubled with a humor in my eyes, and was unable to obtain any relief until I commenced using Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. This medi cine nas effected a complete cure, and I believe it to be the best of blood puri fiers.—C. E. Upton, Nashua, N. H. From childhood, and until with a few months, I have been afflicted with Weak and Sore Eyes. I have used for these complaints, with beneficial results, Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, and consider it a great blood purifier. — Mrs. C. Phillips, Glover, Vt. I suffered for a year with inflamma tion in my left eye. Three ulcers formed on the ball, depriving me of sight, and causing great pain. After trying ,many other remedies, to no purpose, I was final ly induced to use Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. By T a k i n g three bottles of.this medicine I have been entirely cured; My sight has been re stored, and there & no sign of . inflamma tion, sore, or ulcer in my eye. — Kendal T. Bowen, Sugar Tree Ridge, Ohio. My daughter, ten years old, was afflict ed with Scrofulous Sore Eyes. During the last two years-she never saw light of any kind. Physicians of the highest standing exerted thekaskill, but with no permanent success. O u tlie recommen dation of a friend I purchased a bottle of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, which my daughter commenced taking. Before she had used the third bottle her sight’ was restored. Her cure is complete.—W. E. Suther land, Evangelist, Shelby City, Ky. * Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, Prepsred by Dr.J.C. Ayer & Co., Lowelljifaas. 8okl by all Drugglaia. Price $1; tlx bottlM, $6. J. D . R o o t . < T - 3 D . R O O T OFFERS EXTRAORDINARY BARGAINS ik n r B W E E K S A CBIPPLE ‘ Viih Rheumatism, and Twenty Tears a Bufferer'ioith Neuralgia , Cured by D r. Pardee'8 Juemedy. E o c h e s tee, N. Y., May 26, 1886. 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Come and See that We Mean Business Before You Purchase 1,000 Pounds of Fine Carolina Rice a t - .......................................5 Cents per Pound 4 Pounds of Choice Japan Tea for $1 00 3 Pounds of No. 1 Fine Cut Tobacco for ; - - - .......................... - - - -100 12 Boxes Parlor Matches for - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 20 cents 1 Sack Fancy Roller Process Flour for--- -------- - $126 Every Sack Warranted to Give Entire Satisfaction. ’« 15-Pound Bar Extra Family Soap only - - ----- - 26 cents Only a few more QaUons of that 25 CENT SY R U P left, therefore get yoQTjugs niled before It is gone. ; we are always below the.market price on SUGAR. We are always ln want of FRRSH LAID EGGS, and win pay the HIGHEST PRICE if brought to us AU kinds of FARJIER’S PRODUCE taken ln exchange for Goods. HARVEY & BUSH, Merchant’s Exchange, Oneida, N. Y. J . li. 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THE Nmlirsiiti! I would respectfully Invite your attention to my stock ot Goods, which are all new, and of the Latest Designs and Patterns, and to which I am constantly making additions. I have a regular and fancy line of S T . i T l O J Y E R Y ! also Blank Books, Writing Desks, Tnht, pens. PeneilS’ PadaT’etc.' I make a specialty of One PHOl’OGitAPH and AUTOGRAPH ALBUMS, Of the latest styles and lowest prices. I have also the finest line of I VII.L, O If* W W RE Ever exhibited ln Oneida. • It is complete from a HAJB-PI n BASKET to a CLOTHES HAHPgp. I have a variety of Fancy Articles! suitable for the Toilet or Household Purposes, Toilet Cases, Manicure setts. Perfumes, Puffsand Boxes, Fine Soaps, Tooth Brushes, Combe, Hair Pins, Mirrors, etc “BEL,” the fa v o r ite TOOTHWASIL Wall Pockks, Mu^lc R w K PoUoe and Cases, Whisk Brooms and Holders! Photo Frames, Brass Goods, View Holders, Vases! Purges, Pocket Knives, Sleds, Games, DoUs, Toys! etc. An attractive 5 and locent Counter I aim to.satl8ty my customers ln quality, quan tity and price. Respectfully, ,4 ARTHUR HAT, W MAW *TRE*TT OKCIDA, K, T .'