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Tke Laiisinffburgrh Courier. T O L 0 M B X W I / - 9i' 4 r SS - }'. CiiC,, jf ■ \ V M m F p m ) TO T l I S P 'T E J I M & T B O F T E E S M G O N D A S S E M B L Y D I B T R K ' r ’ L l N S l N e J i r U R G H , N . Y . . T H U B S D A T , A P E I B 6 , 1 8 9 3 , NEWESISKSl D i Wajl^Paler Jlj Spring stock of IVaH Papei «nd Borders is,tke .finest ever Slhown in this yicihity'! All the ‘Pjrtterns are’New and Pretty. If you trant wall paper I can'suit yon without a doubt. . JIOfllOffiSItilDil ffflll A t 3 C e h t ^ p e r R o l l . AliSO A LINS OF lUCftS PURE LINSEED OIL Tinted Gloss liquid Paints, And a complete stook of o ii i i S p VAai&iivimMBiio W i n d o w G l a s s . & c . HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING, g, Glajiing, Wall ^ Deoornting, Paper ?ork doue neat, quid reasonalole-rates. 6 E 0 RGE A. RiFEliilROI^ 290 2d Are., Lansingbiirgh. ( o p po s ite OASINO BIf)K.) i T f l i : K I N O THAT CURES M7ID WHITE, S L A T B R . AND PKAIiEB IN U ilE iO F liP M I T I ili Itoofins: Slate Sc Slate Mauteis, Ssildine and Roofing Papeiv School Black Boards, Etc. ‘| f 1 R i r e r S t ., 83 O n ta r io S t., TROY. G O H O E S . NORTHERN IlNE IIEiilEDY m m m m Dyspepsiaor0ears f 2 Y ! T i ^ D EyERITHM G, Yet 2 bottles wrought A CORE. XTO F I C T I O N , B U T T R U T H . jp.VNASAE8ATAIULLAC0., sSl|jS%?S S g f e 1 S 3 ' “I t l l l P * I DANA’S LIVER AND KIDNEY ‘PILLS iworthi their weight In Gold. They g U . D .. D .'s. — DANA'S DISEASE DE- gSTBOYERS. Try a bottle at our risk, a Dana Sarsaparilla Co., Belfast, Maine. ).se motlior was poor, own board land tui- the smaller The Cuerm CBilYONMRilT P Ci., Cor. Fourth & Congress Sts., Troy. (OP STAIRSI. Make the Following SPECIAL OFFER for this month : _ from them at from S.'i-OO upwards. ___ __ offer, and should ho taken aclvanta ‘' t S 'L T JESSEN, MeCOLLUM & CI STEAM CBACIEBI - TUE“ s I .^:E R A D E , ^^0 34 . ' ° h meor a universal outci iiouto, tyj otost of £ i;irls .started withoutyier’, while she was tcry of joy '“S her fur hood oyer the tinfoil hel- ivhich at this pi'omii shouted in the pranos from the top of a desk. irade!’’ said M •■wcuu it i» * . f Alice Applolou, wUof and who earned her i tion by giving lessons to “Will madam consent?” breathlessly ■questioned Louise Hayward. “Madam will consent to anything that Nell Evans chooses to ask, ’’ trium phantly remarked Ida Colton. “Nell was one of madam’s graduates, you know, and a pattern damsel in all respects: And if Nell were to request that we should all attend her masquer- led in pink tinsel, and walk mother was ing on our heads, madam would say, ‘Quite right, my dear, a very sensible idea of yours. I shall he delighted to have my young ladies go.’ ” There was a general laugh at this, and then oommoucod the joyful task of selecting porsoualities, studying up the co.-.tuiues in old engravings and ; , • i u , ------- antique fashion-plates, and turning over the combined stores of- tho > by the drooping ever- whole school in sash ribbons, artili- f a little group of other cial flowers, jewels and plumes. ‘'Siu’es Imgei-^i a„ c,.^ p Z r t p F hael to drivel pretty arrange ment!” But in spite of herihdignation, Miss Polly Prout Was compelled finally to accede to the obnoxious plan. “Drive quickly, Miohael,” she said to her young Jehu, “for it’s getting dark already, and I don’t at all like the woods that we have to go through. ■Why bn earth those girls couldn’t have But tbe jingle of the sleigh-bells and' the sudden start of the horse brought Miss Prout’s sentence to an untimely termination, and away they irent over the frozen road. Not far, however. ,Tust within the darksome limits of the cedar woods, where the purple dusk that still lingered in the open fields BOPiued turned to the gloom of absolute night, a tall, white figure, with a black alone was in^'ited, consisted of only eight young ladies, the interest concerning Miss Ev! masquerade through the •ed dogr mtlo hu£ BISCDIT MaofactiireH [iss Evans’s irty was disseminated holo school iu no mcas- Aud Alice Appleton’s iu particular boat with in nocent anticipation, for she had some times fancied that Captain Hugo Evans, the brother of the pretty ho.-.te.s.s, had looked ujton her with a tenderer glance than liO vouclisafotl to tlio othoi’ youiig Ladies of his acquaiutance. To be sure she had no party dress, but tbe in dividuality siiggi-.-tod by Miriau Hol ley, “A Hnow-lliike,” would be suf ficiently iutorprotod by hor simple \luslin gown, with a few of tho starry- hite flow era of tho Ciitalouian ja-jmino 1 her hair. “But yoiiro not going to lot those girls go alcuio,\ said Miss Polly Prout, who was Mine. Moiiui's cuu^-in, houso- koopor, and chi-f counsellor. “C’ortiiiiily I am,” suid Mmo. Morini. “Why .should I not ? It is only to dear Nell’s hou.se.” “It wouldn't be at J1 proper,” said Miss Polly, 2 >ur.sing up hor thin lips, and the hearts of tho eight young girls sunk simultanoously imo their boots, “Such a party of giddy girls with no roaponsiblo companions ! Mmo. Mo- I woudor at you 1 It would lELTElNTH ST,, AND SECOND AVE., LANSINGBURGH. N. I. M J ack F rost F rbevkr makes ice oream in 30 S roomdb . $500.-GIVB]S- AWAY. \Ye want the best ice creani that can be mad* f«r par ex- ibit a t the World’s Fair. WE WIEI. GIVE AWA.T lOO JACH T»«BTdrit»K»®E-«8 One Freezer will be sent to eaoh of the first fifty persons senA- ing us a receipt and also for the best fifty receipts for io* cream receii Enclose 10 cents in stamps or silver to cover postage. Don't let this opportunity slip, you may never get another like it. J a c k F r o s t C o m p a n y , 2 9 M u r r a y S t r e e t , N e w Y o r k - for Infants and Children. !• is so wall adopted to ohUdren that id it a* superior to any presorhrtiim k«nm to me,” H. A. A»OHEa, M. D., «1 No. Oaford St., Brooklyn, N. T. “ Tke «M of ' Oasloria' is so univeranl and Iks SM t MS so well known that It seems a work mt nw swsoaatlon to eodorae it. Vew are the kHjjBjint fisnlUts who do not keep Oasteria ttklN^s swv rtaeh. O amam StAiawN, D.K., . New 'York City. &att Vsstor Blooninedalo Boformed Uhurob, “ For Beveral years I have reaoaaaaeBded s ? : t 'M h ; s s s s s : j s a i « a B dttjh F. V m «*Ih© Wtothrop,'’ l»5th Str street and Tlh A t *,, KewToriiOlty. T bu OmraAoa O oiwant , 7? M oabav S tmus *, N bw Tons. T H E P O S I T I V E e i J R i m M O S T R M ’ A U m u m iSJS.SO I IMIV ayu y iit« MOSTRIL» AlLDRyestsfa.SO li, I woudor at you 1 It allowable, uule.s.s, iudoed- “Eulo.-s^ what ?” Miid Mmo. Morini, and tho eight la.-,.-,ios listened breath lessly for Miss Polly Prout’s reply. “Unless I am to go, too, as their chaperone !” said Miss Polly. “Oh, that wouldn’t be according to etiquette!” cried the girls, in chorus. “Nell didn’t invite Miss Polly Prout.” “Will yon be silent, young ladies?” said Miss Polly, rapiung on the desk with a wooden ruler, iu a sort of auto- cratic way of hers which the girls es pecially disliked. “Mme. Morini cer tainly can not have given the matter due consideration, or else she would at once perceive the impropriety of tho original plan !” And Mmo. Morini, who was \an ami able, easy-going lady, governed in most matters by hor cousin's energetic will, finally gave way, and announced her conviction that Miss Polly Prout was right. “I cau p ut on my green gown and a tinfoil-covered helmet, and go as Miner va,” said Miss Polly P r o u t; “and then I can keep my eyes on the young ladios tho whole timo.” “■What have we done that a spy should be not upon our actions ?” said Ida C’oltou, iiidignautly, when they were by tliomsolvos. “Minerva, iiuloed !” cried Marian naiiipshiro, with a protrusion of bur plump ohiu and screwing of her cherry mouth so o.Viictly iu imitation of Miss Polly Front that all tho girls burst at once into a spasmodic giggle. “Hateful, fornard filing!” spirtored Louise Hayward. “Why, she’ll spoil every bit of our fun !\ “How dare .she olitrudo herself, uu- inyited, upon poor Noll Evans ?\ asked Miiiau Holley. “Slio .sha’u’t conio,” said laughing Kate Kesloy. “.She shall never cross Kell’s threshold !” “But how will you help it ?” said Alice Ai)[)letou. \■W'e^ll soo!” was Kale’s enigmatic 6 no.vt work was a week of glad lirojiaratiou for the coiuiug ovout, and no one was mmo diflleult to iiluaso, or more oxactiug in her seh etion of mater ials, and her ceu-oles.s calls upon the aid of tho young la lies, tlum Miss Polly Prout, who orJoied a now “bang” of glos.sy chestnut h lir for tlio occasion, which wonll have li-eu quite porfoei if it hat! matched her black braids a little more o,xac;ly, ami Imd a pair of gi-reii satin sandals mado by tho villago .shoo- raakov.'and a mosquil.o nolo gilded to TOlH'Gsont a spear liy tho piei r liy tho pieturo fraiiio \Ono likos to observe all the niceties,” said Mias Polly, wliilo in her middle- aged tuiudrosoiip t-heduln.sive idea that perhaps somo matnro mascinorador of the opposiio sox miglit pereoivo in hor somo greater nttyaction than tho youth- fill roses and girli.sh graces of tho shrieked Miss Polly Front, dropping Minerva’s gilded spear iu the snow. “Assnsainsl Masked rob- bars! Oh, kind gentlemen, spare, spare my life, and all my jewelry is yours!” and tearing her gold-plated bracelets from her wrists, she filing them and lior watch into the road. “Arrah, the saints betune us and all haiTum!” squeaked Mickey, the Irish lad, as ho cowered down In the bottom of the sleigh. “Descend—and depart!” uttered a deep joice. “Look behind at your “VTh—where shall we go?” stuttered Mickey. “To the place whence you came,” was tho Rtern reply. “And at the risk of your lives bo speedy and seoret!” As Miss Polly stumbled, more dead tlian alive, out of the \butter she \was tumod briskly around by the shoul ders, so that she was facing the wind ing road by which they had come, while Mickey found himself spinning around and around, a few steps further on, like a teetotum. “Doiiarti” once more uttered tho warning voice, and Miss Prout and Mickey, clinging wildly to each other, plodded away in an agony of terror. Half an hour afterward the laokless pair arrived, half frozen and worn out with fatigue, at tbe Morini Institute, with a gruesome tale of having been arrested by masked robbers, and hav ing only e.sca^ jcl by the most marvellous good luck from being murdered out right.' The gardener and two men from a noighboriug farm house were at once detailed iu pursuit of the robbers, but when they reached the scene of action, nil that they found was old Dobbin L E R T i A ^ S U N L U C K Y OPAL. Amo'bg the'Christmas gifts roceiv. d ; by an uptown young lady was a heair ■ fui opal ring of exquisite design. 'J'i i | opal setting was as large as a Bosl- u j, bean and in its depth shimmored the | combined, subdued and refined siiu ' and moon beams, like the reflection of ^ a rainbow upon the crystal surface of ' a secluded mountain pool. Tho ring was the gift of the yoiing lady’s lovoi', and the gift carried with it tho cui- dence of a true heart and a doplctel pooketbdol • iylicst of all in Leavening Poirer.- ■Lateit U. S. Gov’t Report / y s s o i i i f i u r PURE ii against there, and get some life into you. It -i j i-v.-uis of the day were reooaR,fe'd. ■ do it,-dear, before you have such a 'hristmas morning, and I’ve got ono < £ 'J'.im, iioor fellow, had gone home with ' of trohhle and sorrow, bad luok se, a troubled'^miAd'aha his disappointments to look back \U ' led with \when yonr years mnnbi Christmas morning, and I’ve got ono < £ poor fellow, had the sweetest rings you ever dreamed “ f. u . hcuo ' nose, a troubh It came from d ear old precious Ton;, bamlsomo satin neokt Bless his loving soul! See, ‘ ' :g souB See, here it i . the treasure rare.” thumb, hoi close to the light. After examining it she dropped the jewel upon the bure.-.u and exclaimed: bamlsomo satin neokt Mood. Murtlia had gone to the club, caving Bertha, Mrs. Murtha, hef Sister a half . dozen yonr years number s ■Philadelphia Times many aa \Bad lu«k as sure as you’re alive. Send i t fight back to the giver. Mo, throw it o u t of the window as quick yo^; can. Nol No! That ivoulil do, for sorrie poor creature might i it up. Pitch it into the fire, for yo have bad luok as long as you l:ccp Tom is an ignorant dolt to si-.m.i hard-earned money on such tra- ii. give him a pieco of my min-1 the f- : 1 ■ time ho comes here, see if I d. ' . ! | and a half doz other fe’Iativ&pto \ivero gone over, when Mrs. MhHha liapponod to think of the bpal'fihg, aiul gave full vent to her b^liefi to'' 'hio VICTIM O F APPEARANCES. R u n a ln B f o r a D o o te r a t rn g l i t a n d Shot , by a P o licem a n . Talk about ill-luok, said Elmer T. ling to the Glode-Dmo- Ataoug those present was Miss^SMlie killed by ill-luok. A irier, of Parkersburg. She had come ”I was chased ’two blocks by an t . -pond tho holidays in the cUy. She cer and shot when I really did you ! ti,„, when lied by . \I was chased two blool . , , . *nd tho holidays in the city. She cer and shot when f ‘ enough to remember the know what for at all. 3 b a r b io k ^Villiam Henry Hamson | -It was in ?ittsl 1 is an ignorant d ':■:, .«T“ I f ‘ h.id heard of tho opal ring she said: one night and said that o u r 1 . ri'v savo usj No wonder you’ve had was very sick and would I go for a doo'- I said of course I would, and ,y clothes I grabbed n Now, Bertha, I want you to d., j.. '-} o J a l ^ W h S M s i r r M H u t ^ '^ ” ” what I ve told you ami burn up tl.j \v„liingor, a_ near and dear friend of i “When I reached the first corner I omen of ill luck. muio, Imd given me on my twentieth ' passed a stranger who wos running the Bertha left the room m a far m MnluLiy, I was then teaching a dis- other way. I cut diagonally across tho S h r w 6 n r tr \h ^ e “ytcL^^^ street and ran towYti’ds the centre of the window and looked out upon P.i: spotless snow that lay untrodden i.i the back yard. She raised tho lid from the stove, threw the ring iu u)> 'i the coals- and sat doira uiron a di^iir us! No wonder you’v U’hy, do you know, I at jad luck of my life to i ds- and sat doira upon a < and wept bitterly for the si.noo of 1. an hour, -when it ocourred to h. r H“.t the room was cold. There she iped in a thin gown and jgret aud rel' She had always been a diiliiid ledient daughter, and even r. • ot Hesitated to throw away uu ividence of her lover’s nffootiou i i ibedionoe to her mother’s coinraan.’. wrapped in a thm i thoughts, thoughts lion. She had ah very first day 1 street and ran towijrds t __ ________ ivoro the breastpin to school,^ one of the town. :he larger hoys, Jo tn Butler, who vvas “Pretty soon I heard footsteiis somo i regular scapegrace, coaxed an old distance back and then several \shots , grnzy man into t h e school, and the'flrst were fired. I felt as though some one ilihig I knew, tbe mau Iiad fricen bad thrown a stone and struck me on ...... . of the scholars. He hvon com- the leg, but I couldn’t ruu any more •at amdhg the worth a cent. I stumbled down, and sr lost miserable. Avi-ing, Walked to the stove, placed her ilai :' hand upon it and found tha* p, t w.as cold. Sho raised tho l i l . ! thoro, half hnriod iu the coll id: . lay the ring. Gazing upon it fov , lueut, sho picked it up, and n ‘“':i it upon her thumb, ran down imo i collar for wood to kindle tho fa-’. Thorieg was saved, ami on i fa- hor mother how she had ob vi-.l 1 commaud, the old lady replied r ■•!'■. well, Bertha, you can keep it, ivi l \\ trust to luck. Everything went ,d all right till nearing dinner time, « !. just as Mrs. Murtha was carrylig t roasted turkey from the kitchen to ’’ dinning-room, a luckless muuso ran ' from its hiding place aoro.ss tho fi' Prince, the pug dog, saw Hiu n-.o .and springing from the lap of Isabella Lukens, Mrs. MurtliT nil that they found was old Dobbin aunt, went for the mouse, shivering by the roadside, with the cut- right in front of Mrs. Murtlu ter turned over on its side where he had tripping over tho pet, fell foi ter turned over on i dragged it into deep snow. The eight young ladies, however, enjoyed a most delightful evening at Evansdale, quite free from Mias Polly Prout’s malevolent supervision, and, strange to say, expressed no sort of surprise a t her non-appearance on the scene. But they took care to leave behind them at Evansdale eight black satin masks and eight white sheets, when they onoe more entered the double sleigh to return home. Mfss Polly P rout transformed herself into a heroine the next day, as she related her adventures, \And so you weren’t stopped?” said sho to tho girls. “Not even molested? Well, well, how very singular! I really, think if we hadn’t made such a brave ro'-istance I should have been carried away by main force—a regular ab duction.^ you know,” and Miss Polly “How many ruffians were there?” in nocently questioned Kate Kelsey. “Fifty at least!” said Mias Polly. “Great, coarse, bearded villains, with their eyes covered by masks!” “Dear, dear, how dreadful!” cried Ida Colton. Aud tho eight fair young conspir- nfor.s looked archly at each other, as Jhss Polly Prout hurried off to cheek tho washerwoman’s bill, and cried, in laughing chorus; “IVliat a very romantic adventure! And what a very narrow escape for poor Miss Polly Prout!” Effects of Alcohol. Alcohol is one of the strange sub- staucos which has tha_ power of is one of t] hich has the luciug apparent oppe sm.all quantities it stin £ the heart, iu large it depresses i t ; in •unall qnaulities it increases the .seore- tiou of gastric juice, in largo it destroys tlio popsm and arrests the digestion ; IU .small quantities it has an exhil- araling effect on the nervous system, in Tn- >Bii’t it bent all how that 1 four times, still attractE 30. Tho widow’s mig] A servant girl pi iniggiht’s olork for a •ug for a dozen Queen mzzlod a Philadelphia moment by ask- Ann pills. tripping over tho pet, fell forH;“ i, ■- threw the plate containiug tbo tin' towards the table, whore it him' among the dishes, breaking sovonil sending the coffee urn aud cre pitcher on the floor. Poor old M Lukens was so frightened tli.it jumped up so quick and so high her head strnok the bird cage tli hanging near tho window and 1; it down, the bird escaping ju^t cage Fiat ' and l;U'-r' 1 iscaping ju^t as ;■■ 1 the turtle-shell oat, came nisiii- • into the room. In an instant the 1 .• I was a corpse, for the oat had can.'lit The mess was cleared up aud t i dinner proceeded with, Thing-i !:. ! not gone far, however, when .T.u- 'i Murtha, Bertha’s father, broke i horn handle and carviug-knife iu t ns ho was trying to unjoiut one of i turkey’s wings. The end of ih 1: How iu one direction while the di bored wing flew in another and l.i-:; against a framed picture of (’tliiu.: di-icovcring America with such f n- lu smash the glass aud smom- t!i“ imvigntor all over with fnrk-'v ,r. No further mishaps occiut ' u I I:!I in the afternoon, when Bor'lii mu., took to amuse the couipiny Iw i; upnu the piano. Sho req u c s i.j'I I’letcher, her beau, who had c.i early in tbe afternoon, to rai-- tie LUO,lid. He was so eager toobll ^ 3ver toiik time to noti,,., rh 3 of \wax fruit, whi -li A cliarge of the' sohi pelled me to take „ _ __ _ gills aud made me answer'every ques tion iu tlie day’s lessons. ‘ Ho ttfok down tho largo maps and a number of charts from the \walls and smeared th.-iu all over with red and black ink. Tl, 11 he took i t into his head that I look hotter if I had a black Ho got several of the boys to 10 ubile he took a sponge and I tho lioirid ink aU over my face i.;. ■ lu'.'k, leaving my nose and ears, , 'ij lio iiftonvards painted with the I.. ■... 1.i0 , 111k. I.o.v 1 got home that day I never : .. after I nishedfi’om the room, t i liil :'u-a following me, the crazy . .1 . t.i -l.t-'d over the stove and set fire- la !ii,‘ 1 mlding, which was comijleteiy e.I. I was so frightened that I, ; I 1. . i and was kept indoors all wi'n- . . Wultingor visited me regu- I , V, and one night, as he was going. lie foil into a hole while croasiog-' a r. ’. I ...a 1 broke his left leg and right lO'i:. ,ti--locafed his right hip and II :liu'd his left wrist. Ho was taken home and doctored f,; ;.o,ii'ly a year before he got well o:i ,,igh to go outdoors. The.yavy fir-st da lie Imguu attending to his farm w 1 '.. he was seized by a ferocious hog Ir.lo charing out the pigpen, and so i y iujuredtH.it he never recovered . ho took tho small pox and died from i' 'he next Autumn. Poor man! He a I'aliont sufferer, a devoted lover .1 a.s tiiie a mau as ever walked. On the day we buried him I tvas \so ov.-i-miuu) with grief that I stepped 1 igiii into his grave in the old cemetery jii-i us the sexton began filling in the ‘dials ot the valley,’ and I traotured my 11, igh. Misfortunes came thick ftSd la-l. Brother Will’s four-year-old obit. I'M.ke out of the pasture field one Aay iiii.l kicked over six bee-hives. The btv- stuug the colt so bad that it died, and when Aunt Ann and I \Went out to si'o w hat was the matter they attaokod U-, and wo were both stung blind in h'E- than no time. ‘•rwo years later, after I had feoov- c’.',’.! fi'nui my grief over poor William’s ,h irtur,’. a gentleman from Ohio, a l i 1'wor with ton charming children, ■ ,, to live iu our neighborhood, I ■'i at tlioir homo and I became so .... i with tho eldest d aughter that I , ,iiM not stay away from the house, as his name. W'ell, ' wofth a cent. I stumbled down, an then, dra-wing myself up put my hand hvlSOre I felt the pain and found that mj- leg was moist with blood. I easily realized that I was^shot. The posses sor of the revolver drew U23 before me, panting for breath, and exclaimed; “You will rob people, will you?” It as a policeman. \I began to upbraid him most thor oughly. Ex23lanatious nor execrations ' did not help the matter any, aud I taken in a patrol to the station. “I repeated my story, and insisted , that a doctor should be sent to my house. The desk sergeant finally did as I wi.shed, and our family doctor called at the house, and lator came by the station. It did not take me long to convince the station officers that I was not the party, and was set at lib erty and removed to my home. \When I was able to got around again :I,si\iGd the icity for 85,000 and got it. The point is, however, just this, that a man is never oertain but that he may walk blindly into a predicament and have a web of circumstances tbrown about him much as a fly buzzes into a spider’s web.” CHINESE JUSTICE. For Ways T h at A re Dsi-k It Is Undoubtedly Queer. The crooked ways of the Chinesa justice are strikingly exemplified by some cases recorded in the Pekin Ga~ In one a commandant at Ch’ingohow, Having reason to suspect that some wanton a-cts ot mi^cbief done to his roof were due to tbe spite of a mis guided clerk, he told one of bis cor porals that the man was a \sorcerer.” 'The record o f proceedings in tbe Chi nese courts goes on gravely to say that tho corporal thereupon went out and had a-fight \with the clerk and kfter- WSrds M d Wgainst h im a complaint of Soroorj. The commandant then -ar- rangedWiththe corporal that tbe latter should oocuio the clerk not only of practising witchcraft, but of having asked assistance iu assassinating tbe commandant. Afraid to refuse a favor of his superior, tho young man obeyed, convenient witness was duly pro- oivil authorities aiiparently Vided name. W'ell, w e' . oaob other, and had their doubts, and the case was r e moved to a higher court. Then tbo mthorities aiipai and the case wt court. The lightenedrightened lesest ther, and corporal became f l never forget it—ho share in the conspiracy should come him. I was so out, andand Wentent too seeee thehe commandant.ommands w t s t c sing refused admittance, he threat* lad to expose the \whole i 1 I frail gla-- r that hioki-ii bvnki'ii ,gl. yearly IQO different machines n invented for boring rock. that he nevi large vase of \wax fruit, “Bello”Luken.s bad brought i mas present for her sister, piano. Tom threw tho lid vim, and crash went tho hai'. ering, while the fruit, that hiokei' natural as if it had grown, was hhki - iiito atoms of different colored b After sweeping up the and wax Bortba began to ph'y her classic mu.sio, and wliil\ ; iiig to turn the sheet as sho lliiig\ off ono of the most dillic-.ilt 1 i of “Bobby, Will Your Dog I'l-. ’ Tom’s foot ali2i230d as ho trot iii'.i i 2 iieeo of wax banana 2 ) 0 cl and ho t S)ra\vling 2 upon the keys of tho i:-‘ iiii'iit, one of his elbows knorlii: i ivholo octn'Vo out of kilter, \\hi!o • > other landed n]ion Bertha's slioul , , sending hor i i tho tloor. Tom\.' .. s Ciuno iu colitsion with tho music r, c.iusiug tlie blood to How lumi c onsly, staining the loiauo. Aimt i ■ i rerearaod “Murder!” so Imnl tlm; ■, lump lighter passing along tlm st, , hoard it and be yelled out the word A 0 1 the top of his voioe. Two 2 'oliccii , -i, J * who had been helping a hired girl iu a noigbborinK Iioyae td dispose of some niarrv him. 1 was .• 11 by surprise that I asked for a - Ill ciiuddor the proposition. I enad to expCse the whole m atter ; and miiid made up to consent, so alarmed Was the commandant at the i-e ^he week was u p the poor threat thUt he straightway shot himself. ving died sud -1 It is a t this point, as one commenta* i tor has remarked, that the peculiarity into the well of Ohinesa justice \comes in,’* for no id had not my sooner did the authorities hear of tho Heard my : y ifuiii api) 2 )laxy. \ i lie ne.xt year I : :i.n ; w ould have droi i fi .' cih I, Jos.sie Tho) ciicr iiiul rescued mi 1.1 y seem, Jasso boca: ic 'l. \ I'lig'lil Hum\ 111 ‘ to a j'ici 1 ui iiuiiy. iqiset the buggy, broke my ii lit arm, and there laid poor Jessie in 1 li“ n u d with b is neck broken. I was iH 1 \ cm-H in recovering from my broken arm and lacerated heart. \ I line, however, is a great healer, :i’. 1 befm-n tho third year had ex23ired a ■e ■l.•llll!an, Archibald MacGregor, houRo selling a patent I Wei -0 thrown into y, wo both being i -■''“■i-'s ecini 2 )uuy, wo both li 1 -. of Uio church choir. He canlo 11 [ leiitly to the house and played the m I 1 1 \ >11 while wo .sang together. Our .1, etimout ripoued into love, and the li .y was fixed for our wedding. Two d.i; R beforo it arrived a strange woman with throe children came to the nmgh- berhood. ■'Tliuy proved to be MacGregor’s wife and cJjiUU-en. He fled \with them J r p j j sooner did th e authorities hear of th e oommandant’s suicide than they sea- tenoed the unhappy corporal to death by stratigulation for ‘‘oompassing” Bliperiof’s self-murder 1 ___ juter and a ing mutual surprise party to tl in tho hills near Helena, Moi ays ago. The leavy well n interest- ihemselvea int., a fe'w ayedyed in i hunter, arra in a If-skiu overcoat, fur side out- iminingmining someome trapsraps sett tl ward, was exa s t se th previous night. He \was stooping ov« one, rearranging tho bait, when there \was the sound of a fierce growl, and a heavy weight fell suddenly on h is back, bearing him to the ground so that he barely missed being caught in his own trap. He - managed to shake himself free, and, recovering his feet, found facing him a full-gro-wn buffalo wolf. The wolf seemed quite ns much sur prised as the hunter, and they looked at eaoh other for some seconds bef the fight, which the wolf, be, YOlf, was fooled by the bVerci hunter’s'stopping position, himior wolf. , in the death of The brute evidently he overcoat and tha K r 'itr :
