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Tnu -i ^dirmtdaxh %tm. EVERY 8A+URDAY -AT. y IS FALLl PUBLISHED . * St. REGIS FALLS, •FRANKLIN CckfNTT, N. T. ITEBHB—$1.00 .$BB YE. <. iTJUCTLY IN ADVAHC1. ' i ' A| letters tad ee»»s»lesUsns shsnl* be a*V p— ^ • to 1. A. ROVBLL, Editor and Publisher, m. Regit Fait; (W. r. •pi*°**A r^z I VOL, I. Devoted to Local News i ' ST. REGIS FALLS, N. Y., SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1887. VOICES OF THE BELLS. \ . I heard the bells at dawn of tay,' Beyond the hills, far blue,. \The world is fair,\ they seemed to say, \Ann every where the flower \ of Moy A«e blossoming for you.\ Blitho bells of morn! My pulses thrill, For in my heart I hear themistiil. I he^rd me bells above my head Clang out at noon again; Audi \Work work, work!\ tjhey harshly said, \The dewy hours of morn h^ve fled, Toil on, O sons of men!\- , . Discordant bells, that sorely fret The weary soul with carps beset. I heard the bells at evontidel The vesper hour chime low; The day was done, and side by side ? The weary toilers far and wide ( All homeward seemed Ja^go. «j J Sweet vesper bells, four tone is best, A Morn fled, $oil done, and God confessed. —Gussie Packard Du Bo\s t in Current. i f DENIS. A STORY FflOM THK FRENCH. Monsieur Marambot opened the letter; his servant Denis brought him, and •miled. Denis, who had been in his employ fori twenty yenra—a littlcV jolly, thickset man, who wni constantly referred to, through all the country round, as the very model of a valet —queried: \Monsieur is happy? Monsieur has re- ceived some good news?\ Monsieur Marumbot was not rich. He was a bachelor, and had been a village druggist for many years. He now lived on the small revenue made with great dif- ficulty by selling medicines to the coun- try people. He answered: \Yes my ln>y. Old Malois docs* not want to go into court, and to-morrow I will get my money. Five thousand francs will help an old bacft^or aloug pretty well.\ And M. Marambot rublied his hands together. He was a man of rather re- signed character, not particularly joval—• incapable of anything like sustained ef- fort, and quite indifferent about his own affairs. He might easily have .made a better living by taking advantage of the death of certain feHow-druggists, who had stores wcll-Hittmtcdj in large centres, to take one of the vacant businesses and so assure himself of a lucrative custom. But the trouble of moving, and the thought .of all the other things he would have to do, always prevented it, arid after think- ing over the matter for a day or two, ho would merely say: \Ah! bah! Next lime I^ll really think about it. One loses nothing by waiting, anyhow. Perhaps Til get a still better chance.\ Denis, on the contrary 1 , was always urging his master to attempt something. Naturally energetic, he would declare: \Oh as for me, if I just had the cap- ital to start with, I would have made a fortune. Only a thousand francs, and I'd make my way soon enough.\ M. Marambot smiled without replying. Went into fri* little garden, and walked up and down with his hands behind him, in a rcvery. Denis, all day long, sang ballads' and oountry songs, as if he were in an un- commonly good humor. Ho oven showed unusual activity; for he cleaned all the window panes in the house, singing at the top of his voice while ho wipedtho glass. Astonished at his zeal, M. Marambot said to hinvscvcral times, with a smile: \If you keen on working like that, my boy, you will have nothing to do to- morrow.\ Next morning, about nltio o'clock, the postmaster handed Den in four letters for Lis master, one of which was very heavy. M. Marambot at. once locked himself up in his room, and remained there 1 until late in the afternoon. He then entrust- ed his servant with four letters for the E>st. One or them was addressed to M. alois; it was, no doubt, an acknowl- edgement of money received. Don is asked his master no questions; 1 he seemed to bo that day as melancholy and sullen as ho had boon merry the evening before. , Night came. M. Marambot Vent to bed at his usual hour, and slept. He was awakened by a singular noiso. He sat up at once in his bed and Kstcned. But all at once his bedroom door opened, and Dcnil appeared on the scene,holding a candle in one hand and a kitchen-knife in the other; his eyes wild and fixed; his lips compressed as if under the influence of some terrible emotion, and his faco so pale that ho looked like a ghott. Monsieur Marambof, at first stricken dumb with a*toni*hmcnt, concluded that penis was walking in his sleep, and ho got up to intercept him, <whcu Denis suddenly blew out the light and made a rush for the bed. His master instinct- ively put out his hands to save himself from the shock df tho encounter, which flung him upon his back, and then he tried to seize the hands of the domestic, who seemed to have becomo demented, and who was striking at him with all his might. The first blow of the knife struck him .In the shoulder; the second blow ho re- ceived in his forehead, tho third in his chest. He struggled frantically, putting out his hands in tho dark, and kicking out with his feet, shouting: \DenisI Denis!—are you mad? Den- is! What are you doing? DcnislV But Denis, panting with his efforts, •till kept striking, became more and more furious; sometimes a kick or a blow would fling him back, but die al- ways rushed on again, wildly. Monsieur Marambot received two more wounds— one in the leg and one in the abdomen. But a sudden thought came to him, and he screamed out: . / \Stop Denis, . stop! I have not yet jot my money!\ / Tho man at once stopped striking. % Monsieur Marambot could hear .fiim panting in tho dark. / M. Marambot spoko again: / \I have not yet got a cent. Ml/Maloi%| has gone back on his word; the case is going beforo tho courts; that]/is why YOU took those letters to the post. You had better read the letters lyiiir on my desk.\ And, with a supremo effort, he man- aged to get hold of the matches on the table and to strike a light. Ho was covered with blood. *Jcts of it had spattered the wall. The sheets, the bed curtains,—everything was red. Denis, also bloody from head to foot, was standing in the middle of the room. When ho saw all this, Monsieur Mar- ambot thought it was all over with him, and became unconscious. Ho came to himself again at daylight. It took him some little time to collect his senses—to understand—to remember. Hut suddenly the recollection of the at- fampt and tfet sensation of tyi wounds came to him r pind so intense^ a fear to possession of him that he shut his cy so as not to see anything. At the.end a few minutes his terror calmed, and began to think. He had not died fro tho blows—therefore he had some chauce of living. Ho felt weak—very weak, but had no violent pain, though ho felt a soreness at various points ot his body, as of severe pinching. He also felt very chilly, and wet, and compressed, as if he had been tightly swathed with'bandages. Ho thought the humidity must be blood, and a shudder passed through him at the thought of all that red fluid which had issued from his own veins ijn such quan- tity as to wet his bed. The idea of hav- .ingto see that awful sight again, com- pletely upset him, and lie shut hjs eyes as tightly as he could, as if afraid they might open in spite of him. What had become of Denis? He must have run away. t But what was he, Marambot, now going to do? To get up, and call for help? Why, if he/were to make tho least movement, all his wounds would certainly break open again, and he would die from loss of blood. All of a sudden he heard his bedroom pushed open. His heart almost stopped, That was certainly Denis coming back to finish him. Ho tried to hold his breath so that the murderer would think he' was really dead—that the job* was thoroughly done. He felt the sheet polled off-^then felt some one feeling his abdomen. A sharp f rnin near his hip made him start. Now »d felt somebody washing hrs wound— very gently—wifh cold water. There- fore, tno crime must have been discov- ered, and they were attending to his wounds; ho was being nursed. A wild joy came on him.; but through a linger- ing Rensc of prudenCe, ho tried not to show that he was conscious, and he half opened one eye, only lone,, with ever so many precautions. • % He recognized Denis standing besido Him- Denis himself! Good Lord I Ho 'shuts hi.s eyes again forthwith. ; Denis! What on earth was ho doing? What did he want? What frightful pro- ject was he now endeavoring to accom- plish? i What was he doing? Why, he was, washing him simply to hide all traces of the crime. Anfl now, perhaps, he would bury him ten feet deep in tho garden, so that nobody could ever lina him,. Or else, perhaps, in the cellar under the piacc where the bottles of choice wino were kept.* And M. Marambot began to tremble so much that every limb shook. Ho thought: \It is all up with mo— all up with me!\ Ho shut his eye not to sco the last blow'of the knife coming. It did not come. Denis was now lifting hint, and binding his wounds with some linen. Then he begin to bind tho wound in itho leg, very carefully, as ho had learned to do when his master was a druggist. , Tlicra could be no more doubt.in the mind of any ono who know the business. The servant, after having tried to kill him, was now trying to save him. Then, in a dying voice, M. Marambot tfavjo him this piece of practical counsel: \Tho waslilng* and dressing ought to 1)0 done with/carbolic acid and dilated wlth^oap and wator.\ Din Is answered: . \That's what I'm doing, monslolir.\ IM. Marambot opened both his eyes. < There was no trace of blood now, either in the bed or on the wall, or in the room or upon the person of the assassin. The wounded man was lying upon clean white sheets. Tho two men looked at ono another. Finally M. Marambot sajd, very,gently: \Vou hate committed a crime.\ penis repjied: \I am trying to make reparation for it, monsieur, ilf you promise not to de- nounce mo, I will continue to serve you as faithfully as in the past.\ Well, it was not the most propitious time to argue with his servant. M. Mar- ambot, as lie closed his eyes again artic- ulated: \I swear to you that I will never de noanco you mrrrk ~4—: — and ttpxne Interests. ± \ J THE ALL KINDS OF JOB PRINTING SUCH AS V Cards, Letter-Heads, • **' Note-Heads, Bill-Heads, Statements, Envelopes, Handbills, Posters, Ac., NEATLY AND PROMPTLY EXECUTED AT THE LOWEST LIVING PEICBS FOR CASIL NO. 17. We solicit UM pataonage of Uie jmbllc and itrtrt to merit tbe same. A LIFE OF MOTION. MEN WHO SPEND THEIR DAYS ON THE RAIL. Conductors of tho Past and Present —Occupants of tho Locomotlvo —Running Into Cattle- Tramps and Bummers. ? •aiico you. Vistula. People thought thai tho mhnncr Denis saved his master. He passed/ in which * ^eatt conquering nation clad whole nights and days without sleep, never leaving tho patient's room a mo- ment—preparing lotions, mixing modi- cincs,'giving closes, feeling his master's pulse, counting it anxiously—managing thevcasowith tfie skill of a professional nurse an! the devotion of a son. , Every minute or two ho would asked: \Well monsieur, how do yoii feel now?\ Monsieur Marambot would reply 1 , fee- bly: \A little better, my boy, thank you.\ • And often, when the wounded man awoke in tho night, bo would sco his nurse weening silently, as/ho sat in his arm chair by tho bed, ami wiping his eyes. • / . Never in his life had 1 (no old druggist boon so well cared for-^so much petted and caressed. , At first ho said to him- self, \Just so soon as I get well, Til get rid of tho rascal.\ But when he was fully convalescent ho kept putting off the man's dismissal from day to day. He thought to himself that no other person would ever show him so much at- tention or bestow upon him so much care. Ho had a hold on the man now— could cqntrol him by fear—and even ho told him; that he had made a will and de- posited it with a notary, in which will was a statement denouncing Donis inenso. anything should occur. This precaution seemed to assure him against any further attempt on his life; and then he bogan to ask himself whether it would not bo better to keep the man anyhtfw, as he could thus keep a better watch over his future actions. Ho found it as impossible to make tip his mind about this matter, as ho had found it formerly impossible to docide Whether to open a drug store or not. \Well there's time enough to think about that,\ he would say to himself. Meanwhile' Denis continued to show himself to be a perfect domestic. M. Marambot got well, He kept Denis. . But one morning, just as ho had fin- ished breakfast, he suddenly heard a great noiso in the kptchen. He ran thither, and saw Denis struggling in the grasp of two gendarmes. One of the Officers began to take notes in a note-booll. As soon as he saw his master, the ser- vant sobbed out: \You denounced mo monsieur!—after That is not right, word of honor, M. Ma- rnmbot ! -that woe not right!—that was not right?\ Monsieur Maratpbot,utterly astounded, and greatly pained at being suspected, lifted up his nana, and said? \I swear to you, before God, my boy, thnt I never denounced you. I have not even got the faintest idea how these police- men ever heard of the at tempt to murder inflf ' The one who was taking notes', gave a start: > •'What! you say he tr|ec| \o murder you, M. MaramlwM'' More and more confused, the druggist answered: j \Why yes—but VI never denounced him—never said a,word about it—I swear I never said a wofxi—He served mo very well ever since.\' The officer sovprely replied: \I note down ^our statement. * Justice will take full cognizance of this new fact, which was not known to us before, Mon- sieur Marambot. I was simply ordered to arrest your servant for stealing two ducks from Monsieur Duhamel; wo have wit- nesses to-provc the theft., Sorry, Monsieur Marambot; I shall testify to what you havo just said.\j Then turning to tho gendarmes, he said: ' | \ Take him ahjng.\ ' . They took Denis along. |The attorney for the defendant entered a plea of insanity—using the two differ- ent charges to njake a case for his client. Ho proved clearly that the theft of the two ducks must have been performed in the same mentaj condition which caused the eight knifct-stabs to have been in- flicted upon M. Marambot. He made a very firfe analysis of all tho different f mases of this mental aberration, which, to felt sure, he said, would yield to a few week's judicious medical trcatmont in a good private asylum. He spoke en- thusiastically of the continuous self-de- votion of tnis honest servant—the un- ceasing care ho had bestowed upon the employer he hacf wounded in a moment of mental aberration. Monsieur Marambot, painfully im- pressed by the awful recollection of that night, felt the tears rise ty his eyes. The shrewd lawycr # noticed it—spread out his arms with a great gesture, waved the long black sleeves of his robo like bats' wings, and vociferated in a sonorous tone : . \Look! look I look! gentlemen of tho jury!—look at those tears! What more need I now say Sn behalf of my client'? What argument, what discourse, what rea- sdnlng could weigh against the evidence of those tears of Yiis own master ? Those tears plead louder than my voice—they plead louder than flic voice of tho law— they cry out for pardon for the madness of H moment 1 Tney impolore; they ab- solve; they bless 1\ lie held his peace, and sat down. Turning to Marambot, whose testi- mony had been all in favor of Denis, tho Judge asked: * „ But in any event, sir—even admit- rihort, the timewas slow an/1 the stops were ting tjiat you believe this man to be in- long. The only excitement was in run- From tho conductor down to .the pea- nut boy there is noted a new deal) in train hands. Such men as arc now employed did not run on trains twenty years ago. Nor did they drive stage coaches or shcot Indians. There wns .a happy-go-lucky streak in the character of the old-time railroaders. One finds it only now a#< then in the ticket-puncher or baggaj^ handler of to-day. There was'a sort/bf sailor-like romance about the lives of peo- ple who \ran on the line\ then that^one will almost seek in vain for now. /Your old-time railroader was an important in- dividual, made so by the fact that there were few railroads in existence /when he stepped upon the stage, or rather upon the car. So much depended \Ijpn the in- dividual action and responsibility then.. Yet in spite of all his cares the tram hanjd was jolly. He had his half-hours of joy at the long stops at way-stations, flirting with pretty country lass/es or quaffing ginger ale or something stronger at the sane—|l cannot understand your reason for keeping him in your employ. He was, unuer all circumstances, dangerous 7 .\ Marambot replied, Wiping his eyes;, \What else could I do, your Honor?— it is so hard to find servants nowadays/ I might ha\jo found worse.\ Denis was acquitted and sent to an insane asylum, at his master's expense.— New Orleans 2Hm$-Damocrat. i • Something About Trousers. Trousers came into use y for general wear with the. French revolution. Tho gentlemen, the supporters /of royalty an I sound constitutional principles, word brooches. Tbe term T ( sans culottes\ sufficiently explained /what were not worn by the mosses who forcod constitu- tional reform into Revolution. By an apparent contradiction of purpose and princlpio tho \snns culottes,\ who dp- 6 who wore breeches, d their opponents and itch cloth aroiind their adoptod the modern o them the badge of a known as a class, was too thin at one Hfo and too stout at nouritcd every Anally went bey4 wore twice as n legs; in a wort trousers, and mi S ftrty as well repoleon,, who period of his _. another to look hjs best in small clothes, nevertheless wore them on state occasions after ho had set tip a throne and gone into | the emperor business. liis army was; the first that woro trousers, ana trousers made progress in general ad op- tion,step by step with the march of tno French army. The French trousers and neat gaiter were seen in Fgypt, and in Spain,, in Italy, in Germany, in Poland, and 'in Russia, on the banks of tho Tagus and tfioso of tho »A 'SCALPED TKMtffeT—\iSTHAT TOUR 8IO?\ yefrcshment counter. The runs were all your promises!! You broke your grea conquering its legs was tho model, and when tno trousers wearers majrehed over the wearers of pigtails and knoe breeches at Jena and Auerstadt a decision was given from which tho world did not care to appeal. Tho world is usuallV easily con- vinced of the wisdom of the victor. Eng- land stood out the longest against trousers, but finally she yielded, and her army marched to Waterloo wearing tho univer- sal leg funnels. Our grandfathers generally fell in with tho ways of tho world, thouirh Federalists hero and there would not yield. Thcro« Is a story of a clergyman who, greeted with tho rough inquiry: \How aro you, f >ricst?\ responded: \How are you, )cmocratf How do you know I'm a priest?\ \By your dress. How 'do you know I'm a Democrat?\ \By your address.\ Doubtless tho clergyman woro knoc-breeches, while tho admirer of Jeffer- son and \dangerous French principles\ clothed his legs with trousers.— Atlanta Comtitution. . -* »— » 1 . The 1 Living Earth. In a paper published in the Indian J9n- (tinetr, an illustration is given of the lifo that dwells in nature, the phe- nomenon of carthquakos being cited. Tho peculiar terror of an earthquake lies mainly in the sudden ess of its approach. Volcanic eruptions are usually preceded by vast rumblings, or jets oi steam, or other unmistakable tokens. Hurricanes and cyclones, in liikc manner, have her- alds that announce their coming. But with an earthquake thcro are no premon- itory symptoms. The great earthquake which took plac e at Lisbon in the year 177|> found the people engaged their or- dinary occupations. Alt tho shocks were over in alhout five minutes. The first shock lasted ahout six seconds. In that brief space .of timo most of the houses had been thrown down, and thousands of men, Women and children crushed beneath tho ruins. At times t le ocean lends fresh terrors to the scei e. Thus at Lisbon a wave of water over fll ty feet high rushed in among tho hous «, and covered what still rcmainejd. In the island of Jamacia on a similar i occasion two thousand fivo hundred houses were buried in three minutes under thirty feet of water, Re- cent delicate scientilic experiments have disclosed the fact that the surface of tho land is never absolutely at rest for more than thirty hours at a time. Thus those great earthquakes which make opochs in history are merely extreme cases of forces that seldom sleep. Tho late Dr. Charmers said the thres essentials of happiness were: ''Have something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.\ Doing good is the only certa|nlv happy action of a man's l^e. '' ning down cattle that happened to stray upon the track, ^l But the automatic brake, the patent coupler and tho double track have wrought a great change. The railroader of the day is more of a machine^ more a F art of the train itself than anything else, nstead of short runs and long stops, there are long runs and short stops. The speed has almost doubled, and clock work precision in manipulating the thousands of trains on tho network of tracks has become a necessity. It is this multiplication of railroads and* trains that has dragged the train hand down from his pinnacle of dignified isola- tion. Ho has become a very common unit, .not to sav a vulgar fraction. As a mutter of fact he* is just as important, os- f iocially in his own estimation, as he wns wenty years ago; but with tho loss of tho happy-go-lucky air and his relegation to machine duty,, the romance of his posi- tion sinks out of sight. Still, ho is not altogether a hopeless case, a* he is likely to bo lifted from tho hum-drum of train life into tho hum-drum of life in a gen- eral railway office*; pcrlmps as sixteenth assistant general freight agent, or per- haps—who knows?—as general manager or president. , A railroad conductor faid tho other day: \Borne railroaders call theirs a dog's life, others say it is worse, but I notico that they nearly all stick to it until they get too old for anything else, even for keeping bar. I think that speaks volumes for this business. If it was no good they would not hang on to it the way they do, unless it is that this tenacity is given them to mako the punishment fit tho crime.\ The lifo is evidently not a sweet dream- land fancy or anything of the sort, but there are plenty of people who aire living it and growing gray-headed in it, ana many of them aro better off than they would be if they were to cease thcii every-day whirl and rush and settle down to quietcj; .things. Take tho ejigjncer, for instance. *^Hc is hot the ncrve-snattcrcd, brain-wrought and fear-excited man whom fancy paints as standing at tho throttle with straining eye and careworn face, ono hand clutch- ing the cold steel, whilo in tho other ho 1 carries hundreds of innocent li,ves. A LANTERN EFFECT. j Truth/to say, ho may bo nervous, and few there arc in his pbsition whoso nerves, are not affected, but he is not always standing with his heal t in his mouth while his engine flics along tho track. He early learns to accept tho situation as one of great responsibility, but if there is any easo of enjoyment to bo extracted from it he knows* that no one, from tho president down to the pa«to-auditor. is going to blame him for taking it. He soon works his way into a channel where an easy going but at tho same time duti- ful performance of his routine labor can be enjoyed. He takes delight in a smooth, well-timed run from station to. station and learns to glean comfort from the perfectly satisfactory working of the tfrcat machine entrusted to his care. It is when thcro is something, be jt ever ro trifling, \out of kilter,\ that he is most visibly oppressed. Man and ma- chine get into very close sympathy, so to speak. He can tell by tho very \feel\ of tlic locomotive if all is as it should be in that complex me onanism. Pie comes to regard it, in course of time, as a living creature, as full of impulse as of power. Qn the freiglit ocouiotivo there is more time for independent action and thought than there is on the passenger engine. In crossing tho sagebrush wilds, where the track extends in a bee line for miles ahead, and is all free from obstruction, the freight engineer/, can \slow down\ the jack rabbits along the line. A rail- road man said the other day that tons of good fuel were/thus thrown away every year, and tluyammunition used for the sport was either very ineffective or the S ngiuecrs word very poor marksmen, for c had never known a single jackrabbit to bite tfye dust as a result of all tht throwing Somejcnginecrs' on roads in this State amuse themselves by adding to the list of their l/ovine victims. Running into cattle,\ said one rail- roader recently, \gets to be a sort of pas- sioii with engineers. They like the ex- citement of the chase. It is vastly better sport than the English fox hunting which ey arc importing to this country. You may lau^h at the idea, but really after an engine-driver has run down cattle on half a dozen occasions ho begins to lose sight of the cruelty of the thing. If this were ,not so, why docs Jie clap on all steam and rush into a drove of cattle, instead of slowing down and giving them a Chance for their lives? To a certain ex- tent the fault is not his that stock is slaughtered on the track, but no one be- lieves that there arc not many cases in which such accidents could be avoided.\ Firemen as well as engineers enter miorc keenly into the excitement of rail- roading than do the train hands outside of the cab. In many cases where it is the duty of the fireman to watch the track and give the whistle and bell sig- nals, his position is second only in re- sponsibility to that of the driver. The occupants of the cab, by the very nature of their position, are most wrought' upon by the harrowing dangers of the rail, often having their nerves strung to their fullest tension by incidents which never come to the knowledge of the con- ductor or brakemen who may be chatting jovially or nodding sleepily in the rear. Besides the duties of the conductor of the present day those of the conductor of twenty years ago could not be considered arduous. Travel has increased to such a wonderful extent since then, new stations have sprung up so thickly along the roads, and froma plain* and simple sys- tem the business of ticketing passengers from this point to that, with a stop over here and a connecting line there, has be- come so complex as to require consider- able schooling for its perfect perform- ance, as well as no small command of everr-day knowledge and a capacity for reading character, ability to rise to any situation that may present itself and the exercise of good judgment. Nothing worries a conductor more than to be behind time, but next to this cause of misery comes the tramp. Following this on the category of con- ductors' trials is the scalped ticket, else- where illustrated. The bummer who sticks his head out of the car window with his hat so nicely adjusted that it will'fall off when the conductor flaps him on tho shoulder and who then complains of the loss of his ticket, which he claims to havo carried in his hat, is still met with occasionally, but he deceives not the man with the punch, who, is as likely to put him off then and there is he is to carry him to the next station. iI&N.»**» )rt( \* IN THE, CAB. Porters on Pullman cars rarely become railway presidents, but that is not the fault of the company employing them, for its reward to tho faithful employe is bet- ter than money, consisting largely in tho \tone\ given to a man who spends all his time in a palace coach. At tho end of each month the porter docs not, as a usual thing, ow<T the Pullman Company more for board and clothing than he can bor- row of hii rich relations, but cases where the contrary was the rule have been rp- ported. ; A nice system of fines, dockings and returns for \favors extended\ often relieves tie porter of the trouble of draw- ing any salary, but he enjoys good society and gets plenty of air and exercise, being com pel lea, under a recent rule of the company! to stand on the platform of the car whenever a stop is made either by night orlisy. On a forty-eight hour run tins sort if exercise gets rather monoto- nous, to J>e sure, but the reward comes in THE IRREPRRSSinLR TJRAKP-*- 1 'THOUGHT I n.'T YOU OFF AT THK LA8T STATION.\ the full enjoyment of the consciousness by the porter that he may say with the Pinkcrton men: \We never sleep.\ Of the baggage-smashers, shot-gun messengers, mail clerks and peanut butch- ers, wlw) enjoy the pleasant life of motion on the\rail, little need be said. They fill their places so quietly as to attract little attention from the public.— San Francisco Chronicle. He Felt Just That Way. x • . A teacher in a public school in\ Detroit had occasion to reprove a small boy who had been naughty. \Willie sne said, \I am afraid you are not trying to be good thir afternoon. I am sorry that one of my little boys should need so much talking to. It makes me feel just like crying.\ . \That's just the* way I feel, teacher,\ sniffed the little follow.*—Detroit Free Press. Door mats made from scrap leather into links and strung on metal wires art a novelty. The appearance of these mats is good, while they are at the same time anil ajnuse hlmn\t by ^brpwiog coal §f flexible, duisblo and afford afirmfoogBf. TEMPERANCE. Making Liquor Belling Disgraceful. The other day news came that the Missouri Mason* were to enforce a rule excluding from their order all saloon-keepers. The action of this most powerful of secret societies* suple- menting that of the Knights of Labovi and all temperance societies, cannot but- havo a mighty influence in the right direction. You cannot prevent men from pelting liquor by making the act disgraceful. It is a fact that occupations the most debased have always l>een willingly followed if the pecuniary re- ward were Targe enough. But^you can pre- vent young men from associating with those upon whom society has put its ban. When you make liquor selling disgraceful, you make the saloon even less respectable than it is at Uresent as a place of resort Most) Drunken Country in Earop^. According to statistics, Belgium Is the Inost drunken country in Europe. Where in lHbO thore were 53,000 public houses, there are now 195,000— that is to say, one for every fourty-four of tho population. The Govern- ment has -recently prepared a bill for the re- pression, and another bill for the prevention of drunkennosH. Publicans who supply drink to persons obviously drunk, or to any ono undir sixteen yeai» of age, are to be liable to a fine not exceeding £1 for the first offense; wl'n'10 if they cause a minor to drink to intoxication they may be fined £4. Who ever is resjxMisible for serious illness resulting from intoxication may be fined from £2 to £80, w th from a week to two years' impris on men t, according to the gravity of the case. Should death ensue, a fine varying from d\0 to £'.200, and from five to ten years' imprison- ment, may be imi osed. Public house debts are no longer to be recoverable. A KENTUCKY TfcAGEDY. Alarm ot the Ltquor-Dcalcrs. '. Tho St. Louis Globe-Democrat^ comment- ing upon the plans of the liquor men to defeat prohibition, says: \The alarm which has been manifested by the leading liquor dealers throughout the country the past few weeks is oi:o of the most significant and encouraging signs of the times. Representa- tives of the whiskey interest realize at Ia>t that their industry is in peril, and are tikin^ measures to protect themselves. During nearly all the yeai*s which have intervened between the time of the organization of tho first temperance society in tho United {States and the early portion of the present y«ar, the liquor men considered themselves masters of the: lituation. It is probable,to 1*3 sure,that they felt some fear when the early crusades against the rum evil were inaugurated about half a ceni ury ago, but that eipotion was success- fully transformed into contempt, amusement ana indifference as they realized their Own powers and the weakuess of their foes. But all this has been changel sinc3 the beginning of the present year. The old arrogance and swagger has dearie J, and in its place has appeared a decided manifestation of dread at the perils by wht« h they have suddenly found themselves confronted.' Playing Fool. An industrious y.tnuig shoemaker fell into the habit of spending much time in a saloon near by. One by ono his customers began to desert him. When his wife remonstrated with him for so neglecting his work for tin saloon ho would carelessly reply: \Oh! I've iu-.t been down a littb while playing pool.\ His little two-year-old caught the refrain,and would often a.k: \Is you goin' down to play fool, pai>a,'' This mado a deep impression on the shoemaker, as he realized tliat the ques- tion was being answered in tbe falling orf of his customer* and the growing want* of tho household. Ho resolved again and again toy quit the pool tatle, but weakly allowed tbe passion of play to hold him a long time. Finally he found himself out of Work, out of money, and out of flour. Bitting on his bench one afternoon, idle and despondent, ho was heard to oxclaim: \No work again to- day; what I'm to do I don't know.\ \Why I*i[ia,\ prattled the baby, \can't you run down and play fool somo more?*' \On! hush, you \xK>r boy.' 1 groaned his father, shame- stricken. \fhat's just tho trouble. Papa has played fool too much already.\ But ho never playod it agaiu, and to-day his home is comfortablo and happy once mors.—Temper- ance Manner. Powdcrly's Advice. Torenco V. Powdorjy, Grand Master Work- man of the Knights of Labor, in a recent speech at Lynn, Mass., said: \Had I 10,000,000 tonguos and a throat for each tongue, I would say to every man, woman and chid here, to-night: Throw strong drink aside as you would an ounce of liquid hell. It sears the conscience, it de- stroys everything it touches. It reaches into the family circle and takes the wife you had ^sworn to protect and drags her down from her purity to that house from which no decent woman ever goes alive. It induces tho fathor to take the furniture from his house, exchange it for money at the pawnshop and spend tho proceeds in rum. It damns everything it touches. I have seen it in] every city east of the Mississippi river, and I fehow that tho most damning curie to the laborer is that which gurgles from the neck of tho. bottle. I had rather bo at the head of an organization having 100,003 temperate, honest, earnest men than at the head of an organization of 12.<XX).000 drinkers, whether moderato or any other kind. Every dime; spent in the rum- mop furnishes a paving stone for hell. In ono Pennsylvania couiity in a singLs year 117,000,000 was spent for liquor, and it was tttimated that $11,000,000 of the amount >ame from workingmen. In this county a Knight of Labor assembly, the members of ffhich added much to the rum traffic, seceded from the order when asked for a certain issessment.\ Culmination df a Sanguinary Fac- tion Feud-Four- Men Killed. A Kentucky feud of long standing which has cost many, lives is ended at last A Louisville dispatch gives the following his- tory of the terrible series of tragedies in Rowan county and their origin; The feud out of which to-day's tragedy grows began at the August election in 1S?>4. when Cook Humphrey for Sheriff defeated Sam Gooden by a majority of 13. A drunken fight occurred, in which John Martin was badly hurt. He claimed that Floyd Tolliver and John Day beat him with cluo3. Shooting followed in which Solomon Bradley, a bystander, was killed, Tolliver said by Martin. As a result of this fight, John Martin, \Ben his father, \Will\ and \Dave^ his brothers, and Cook Humphrey, who had lived with the Martins when a boy and gone to school at Morehead jfrom their farm, were raiiged qn one side; Marion. Craig and Floyd Tolliver, brothers, and \Bud Jay and Wiley! Tolliver, cousins, living in Elliott County, on the other side. In December, JohnJjMartin met Fioyd Tolliver in a whisky shop at Morehead and killed him. To escape lynching Martin was taken to Winchester jail. Six days later a forged order was presented to tbe jailer and Martin in irons put on the train to return to Morehead for trial. At Farmers, an inter- vening station, a maskkxl mob boarded the train and killed Martin. The Tolli vers then began the work of exter- minating the Martins add their friends, prom- inent among them being the Cook Humphreys party, who sided with the Martins. Humphreys was chased into tbe bushes, escaping, but his friend, Ben Hay burn, was killed and a notice posted on his body forbidding burial. Sym- pathizers with the Opposing faction were ambushed and shot down without mercy, until the blood of at least ten victims cried out for vengeance. The militia were called in, but tho Tolliver gang were pro- tected by a court in which Judge and Jury were friends of the Tolli vers, and the court proceedings were a farce. Perjured witnesses and a partial Judge and jury wiped away* 1 effectually each crime and turned the mon- sters out to commit fresh iniquities. Sheriff Hogg, presumably acting under in- structions from the State authorities—for be recently visited Frankfort to see Gov. Knott —has been for about a week quietly organ- izing a very large posse of determined men in the upper part of Kowan county and the ad- joining^ counties for the purpose of arresting Craig Tolliver, or all the party that was impli- cated in the murder of tho Logan boys, two weeks ago. Oraig Tollivor had received in- timations of this, but they were so vague, that he supposed the party would be reguln-r -tors instead of a Sheritrs posse. Tolliver and his party, consisting of about ^ten men, were quite vigilant, and went heavily armed to meet every east- ward bound train at the depot to search for suspicious characters^ and to see that no one got off at Morehead but those whom they de- sired. Sheriff Hogg equipped his large jjarty with Winchester rifles, ana the ammunition was secretly conveyed to his rendezvous while he was organizing the posse. Sheriff Hogg's band of men, numbering 200, appeared suddenly at Morehead about eight o clock this morning. A cordon was first established around tho entire town in the brush where the men could not be seen. The Sheriff then en : terod the town at the head of about 100 well- armed men. Craig Tolliver and his ten fol- lowers immediately rotreated to the Cottage Hotel, which they had previously barricaded in such a manner as to make it gpite a for- midable fortress. Sheriff Hogg then notified Tolliver that he had warrants for the arrest of all tho men \implicated in the killing of the Logan boyn, and asked that they all submit peaceably to arrest under the law. Tolllver's reply was that neither he nor his men would be arested, and that a hundred men could not take them. His party then opened fire upon tho Sheriffs pons*. Uuite a brisk rattle of mus- ketry ensuad, and tho fighting was kept up for about two hours. The only casualty for a time was a flesh wound received by one of the Sheriffs posse. The attacking party, however, werejrradually drawing their lines closer aronnd Tolllver's fortification, and the besieged party, finding things growing too warm, finally concluded to make a bold rush for liberty, cut their way through the Sheriffs lines, and take to tbe adjacentbrush, whichi once reached would afford them a tecum escape. . s As tfrey made the rush they were met bv a Mblley 1 , which killed Craijr Tolliver, Bud Tol- iWer, Jay Tolliver, and Hiram Coop jr. They wtre all shot through the heart and died in- stantly. Craig Tolliver seems to have been a general target, | as he was ro thor- oughly riddled as to be .acarcely rec- ognizable. The other men <«f the gang got through safely, but as. they ap- { >roaohed the brush they were met by a vol- ey from the outside cordon, a line of men stationed ten or twelvo feet apart, all around the town. This volley wounded Cate Tolliver, a twelve-year-old boy, and three others, all of whom were captured except Cate Tolliver, who crawled into the brush and escaped. The other threo also escaped, but one was cap- tured afterward. This brought the battle to an end, and the slain were viewed by the people and the passengers from the train. The four men killed to-day were the lead- ing spirits in the vendetta. ' THE NATIONAL GAME. KKLLT is not doing so well with the stick for Boston as be did for Chicago. MILLER of FitUburg, has caught more games than any othar League catcher. AnRAXGEMEirrs are being made to play baseball at Coney Island this summer. THE New Yorks made quite a hit when they placed Ewing on third and Ricardson on second. THE Cincinnatis have broken the record andl given the St. Louis champions three straight defeats. THE Cincinnati, St. Louis and Metropolitan clubs pay the fines imposed on players by the \impife , 4 SEERY leads Indianapolis'at the bat and .' leads all the League players in getting first jbaaf~on balls. ' WASHirwrox, Boston and New York are ttoing the best bwe-running; and Detroit and Pittsburg the worst. KEEFK, of the New York*, has won by far more games to games played than any other pitcher in the League. So far the 'Association clubs as a whole have done the heaviest batting and the League clubs the finest fielding. CHICAGO seems to have the inside track on securing Pitcher Krock, the Osliko!*i wonder, Spalding is said to have offered him #375 a month when he is free. THE Boston Herald estimates that the Boa- ton Baseball Club will clear $75,000 this sea son. Chicago Kelly has apparently been a profitable investment. UMPIRES have been fining players at a livelier rate than evor, despite the new rules, which were to have made things so easy for ,the men behind the plate. THE two first basemen of the Southern League most in demand are Wally Andrews, U of Memphis, and Cartwright, of New Orleans; •and neither can be bought. JoHrt ^TARD, Captain of the New Yorks,' has not failed to make a clean hit in twenty- .four oonseouti ve games. He has stolen forty- ffour bases in forty gome*. * GOODFELLOW, the catcher of tbe Reading (Penn.) Club, is in great demand. Five hun- dred dollars havt* been offered for his release, and he is wanted by tbe Athletic, Phi&dslphia and St. Louis clubs. THE sad-eyed men of the country just now are the managers of baseball clubs which started out to win the pennant and are now en- gaged in a death struggle to keep from being dropped out of their leagues. IN a recent game at Winona, Minn., be- tween Eau Claire and Winona, twenty-one balls were used. The grounds are situated on the banks of the Mississippi river and the balls were batted into the stivam. The game was called at the end of the sixth inning, owing to the fact that the supply of bails in- the town had given out. * A GAME played between Chicago and De- troit recently has probably few parallels in tlie history of the national game. Of the nim* scored by both clubs eigiit of them were earned. Seven of them were scored by the champions and one by tho Wolverines. Of the ten hits made by the Chicagos two of them were singles, three of them doubles, two of them triples and two home runs. The only run made off Clarkson was on a four-bagger by Richardson. Chicago'-* total base nits were twenty-one. THE NATIONAL LEAWlt RECORD. i HVn. :u 10 //wrf. Detroit :il la I Pittsburgh.... H» 2T> Philadelphia..'J 1 36 | Chicago iio 1M | THE AMERICAN WOK. ljonf. Von . . . w«- lsurt. Bt. Louis 40 13 Brooklyn....;.35 24 Louinville »7 J3» Metropolitan.. 13 . ,; 5 New Haven. Bridgeport., Danbury.... EAHTKRN Won. />»#/. ..10 ...'10 ..15 »1 14 21 Baltimore. Cincinnati, Athletic. Cleveland., r.RjwVE. Hartford.. Wntcrbury. ...:w ,,,30 .. a* .SI aOL'THKRN LEAGUE. Won IO<f. Won. Nashville tfl Vi\ Charleston...i?7 Memphis 26 14 j New Orleans.Ill » THE INTERNATIONAL LKAUl E. the Temperance News and Notes. There are sixteen liquor bills before English Parliament The ostrich, which hides its head in the land to escape a pursuer is not more foolish than the man who takes to drink to drown trouble. For many years Atkinson, New Ilamp- ihiro, has been without k saloon, and for ten fears no money has itenn needed for the lupportof its paupers. ' President Soelyo, of Amherst College, says; \The great revenues for high license, the enormous taxes on intoxicating drinks, are wrung from the wretchedness of worse than widowed wives and worse than orphaned children!\ Experiments seemed to have proved that alcohol if taken in small quantities exercises a favorable influence on digestion in individ- uals in good health. All the same, such in- dividuals are much better off without it.— Boston Herald. Isaac J. Oliver, one of the original sixteen Who founded tho Order of Sons of Temper- ance, died recently in the city of New York. His brother, John W., is the only one of the sixteen now living, Neither have belonged to tho Order of late years. . Prohibition has largely decreased crime in the State of Iowa, and a jail in a certain county is advertised for rent, there being no further use for it. Notwithstanding tlieso forcible truths, there aro thousands ready to aver that Prohibition does not prohibit. 4 'What fools such mortals be.\— West Grove (lenn.) Independent. Missouri is making as great progress in temperance as any Eastern -State. The num- ber of saloons has decreased from 3,601 in 1883 to 2,880, and the license fees have grown from fM7,33) to $1,842,208. License f*>s range from f550 to 11,500, the higher rates being in large cities. In many smaller town* no liquor is sold, as Hie license fee/cannot bo afforded. Speaking of prohibition in Atlanta, Ga., the Rev. W. E. Tarpley, of that city, says: \I know the law does prohibit. From what I can see by close observation in some of the localities noted for drunkenness before pro- hibition, I have reached the conclusion that other laws are as frequently violated as the law forbidding tbe sale of intoxicants. I firmly believe that nine-tenths of the liquor drank in Atlanta is purchased outside the city limits and outside the limits of the connty.\ FATAL FIEE DAMP. In- A YOUNG man thrusts his head out of the window of a oab and cries to the driver: M Why don't you drive faster? I am going to be married this morning, and. at this rate I will arrive too late for the wedding. * Driver (Hvmpatheti- c*ily)—*WelI. what of it? I am giving you gjaiity of t$m« tf f•flaat» # «^*»wo, Four Men Killed and Others Jured by an Explosion. A terrible disaster occurred in No. 4 slope of the Susquehanna Coal Company at Nan ticoke, Penn., Thursday morning, by which four men were killed and three others injured, two of them fatally. The men had just gone to work when the explosion took place. One miner entered an abandoned chamber with a naked light Con- siderable gas had generated in this chamber, and it was marked by the fire boss: \Dan ger, do not Enter.\ The man who en- tered failed to see the danger signal, and as soon as he went into the chamber and his light came in contact with the go*, a ter- rible explosion followed which »ho;>k the whole mine. The force of the explosion was so great that it shattered a pillar of coal sixteen feet in circumference. The men who were nearest the scene of the explosion were thrown violently against tlie gangways, and two of them were crush*! into i a shapeless mass. Another man was burned so terribly by the gas that the flesh peeled from his bones. The sufferings of the injured m»n were also intense. Some of them asked to hi? shot to se cure relief from their agony. The dead and injure<kwere taken out of the mine as so Jn as possible. At the head of the slope a great crowd of people had gathered and the excite- ment was intense, as it was first rumored thnt a second disaster, similar to that of December, 1885, had taken place, by which twenty two men lost their lives. When the mangled victims were carried to tho surface, the heart- rending cries of the relatives and friends werepitable in the extreme. They rushed forward and embraced the coal-black and shattered forms of their idcar ones. On ac- count of the disaster all the mines in town stopped work. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. FOUR Kings and a crowd of nobles visited the Wild West show in London recently. MR. IRVINO, Miss Terry, anl party will leave England for New York on October 20. ADEUNA PATTI'S voice is pronounced by a Paris correspondent to be inferior to that of her sister, Carlotta, in point of freshness and purity. HERB are some footings of the pa*t season's ledger: Edwin Bosth, $175,000: Adelina Patti, t2.50.000 ; Mrs. I^amjtry, #75,000. Loss: Wilson Barrett, 1(22,000, IT is estimated that Madams Sarah Bern* hardt, who sailed for Europe from New York recently, made $300,000 from her fourteen months' American season. Sio. JANOTTA'S opera of \Alidor n which has just had its first performances at St Paul, Minn, during the last week, is highly spoken of by the critics of that city. Miss MARGUERITE HALL, of Boston, has been received with much favor in London musical circles, and her singing has been highly commended by her audiences. MANAGER GRAU lias arranged a contract '/>r an American tour with tbe celebrated French actor, Coquelin, commencing next June in South America. In the following August be will make his first appearance in the united States and will play here for sav- Newark., ^. Rochester. Toronto. Buffalo Scran ton... Won. ..2A ..2.) ..H» ,. .27 ... 6 II Ifl Itl 14 0 Syracuse Hingluiinton Hamilton. .. .Tem-y Citv. Utica *.. LKAUl'E. Won. ...18 15 ,1'.» ,1« . 4 THE COLLEGE WOK. /XM*. - Harvard ii :< I Princeton. Yale « 1 I Won. Loet» ... i d -.«-*- \ Boston New York....2« 20 IndiunapoliK...l.') 24 Washington... 15 2»> AHKOC'IATION. Won. Lomt 16 25 27 Wmu IJOPC It 20 I Tjnnt* 20 14 in m 10 i» 81 NEWSY GLEANINGS. ATCHISON, Kansas, does an annual grain business of $5,500,000. - THE Canadian Parliament has appropriated $ 125,000 to maintain fisheries cruisers. A MICHIGAN man, aged sixty, who is a grandfather, has just been admitted to tlie oar. Six new gold mines have been discovered recently in the eastern part of the Island of : Cuba. A RECENT estimate places the value of th* dairy products of this country in 188<J at $780,445,088. SEVERAL olive-growers in Southern Cali- fornia will this year make oil instead of pickles from their crop. THE bodies of 600 Chinese ore about to be disinterred at San Francisco and shipped to China for final interment. THE fruit prospects along the Hudson River districts are said to promise more fruit th*^ the farmers will know what to do with. LINNJEU8, the botanist, is to have the finest monument in Chicago. It in to cost $5U,00V, and will be erected by the Swedes residing in that city. RAIN fell for ten hours on a spot of ground two feet square in Augusta, (»a., recently. The phenomenon caused much excitement among the negroes. . „ IT 11 stated on good authority that one of the richest planter* in the -province of Rio de Janiero, Brazil, has decided to set free bis 8,000 slaves and settle t^em on his'own plan- tation, j IN Tehama county, Cal., 20,000 rabbits have been killed in about four months, and the animals now t*oem about as plentiful as before. The bounty on scalps is to be aban- doned. • ——— n MR. JAMES SIKNCER, says the Chat- tanooga Time*, hit on a novol way tc get at the approximate weight of a fly. His store is greatly pestered with fliea, and he recently brought into use {he parent fly-paper. He put out twenty- one of these sheets, being \2\2H inches each, covering a surface of 330 aqu$re inches. In tho evening, when the papers were filled, he took them up to destroy them, and noticed the increased weight, and, struck with curiosity, he put the papers with their load of dead flies in a pair of scales, and found that the twenty* one weighed exactly seven pounds. He then weighed twenty-ono sheets without the hies and fouud thoy weighed four^ pounds and four ounces. Thus on the twenty-one papers there were foaty-four ounces, or two pounds and twelve ounces, of flies. This'num- ber of flies are taken probably two oi three times a day. \Now if you want to know how much a fly weighs/' said Mr. Spencer, ^ou will find that there ia an average oi twenty flies to tbe square inch on the paper. On one paper, therefore, which, has 330 square inches, you have (',7. fj flies, and oti the whole twcnty*one sheets there are 141,120 flies; therefore. if 141,121 flies weigh forty-four ounces, how m ich does one fly we gh? It is a simple calculation, any! those who tyive - a curiosity to know cafi quicklj find ii out\ s\
