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4 •^ . inn &dkmxdaxlt fjteara. PUBUSHED EVERY SATURDAY i -AT- St. REGIS I^ALLS, •' FBANkUN COUNTY, K. T. {TEBMS-ti.00 FEB YEAB, •TRICTLY IN ADVANCE. ' AJB tetters sad eownonlssttoas ihonMat etV dfCMM 10 I I ROWELL, Editor and Publisher, m- ttrgf Fall*, AT. T. H i^OND Ao Devoted 1 to Local News THE and Home Interests. guTirmttladi Hews ALL KINDS OF JOB PRINTING sucn AS ^fetord*, Letter-Heads, Notc-llcada, Bill-Heads, Statements, Envelope^, Handbills, Posters, etc., NEATLY AND PROMPTLY EXECUTED AT THE LOWEST LIVING PRICES ron CASH. VOL. I. Report* continuo to come of cholera ravage! in tho Mediterranean, but the deaths aro few and scattered, and there in little danger of a serious epidemic. England has a piophet who hns arranged with great dollnitcncss the futuro of tho world up to 1901, when he proposes to havo tho millcmum set in. Unless thing* improvo faster than they show signs of doing at present it really seems as if more time would bo roquircd to bring things to a state of perfection./ Mrs. Hendricks, the widow* of tho lato* Vico-Presidont, assuros anxious poli- ticians that her husband's correspondence will not be published. In tho 'flr.it place, the w.ould not publish, such a book under any circumstances, and ffPThc second, Mr. Hendricks novor kept' damaging letters. His wife wont over Ave trunks of papers once looking for letters from politicians, but failod to find them. A DIFFERENT VIEW. I Ifko not these grim sages, who would pray For solitude and silence, far apart From the fierce beatink of tho vast world 1 1 heart— Who would ere night th >lr burdens lay away, And In some cavern's dl nk and ghostly sbad > Would nurse their wounds and count the battle scars That they received In many hard-fought ware. . And tetl tho agony tho sword-thrust mode. Ttyis Is not life, nor is this longing meet For men whose blasted livos again may bud. i For me—ah, this would seem to me most sweet— To stand breast high within the seething flood, ST. RE J>IS FALLS, N. Y., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1887. NO. 28. Y7« solicit the patronage of the pnbllc and strlrt to saeru the sajns. rcesjbt TJnshoIterod to tho noonday's fierces heat, On truth and right} , best blood. bestowed my heart's — Alif M. ySchoff. BARBARA'S LEGACY. We would not advise any ambitious young American doctor to accept the po tltion of physician to the Ameer of Af- ghanistan, if it wcro oITero.l him. The Ameer rocontly had a boil on hir arm. Ho ordered his physician to euro it. The physician put somo ointment on it, and this servod to increaso tho pain tempor- arily, whereupon the Amoer ordered the physician's head chopped of!. . This wns done. Tho boil is slowly gotting cured by tho course of nature Although it is laid tint only four silvor dollars of tho coinage of 1801 WHS Issued by tho Government, they socm to bo plontiful enough. John A. Pearson,. of Indianapolis, has one for which Ray- mond, the actor, offered him $800 not long before his death. Another one is owned by thrco citizens of Jerscyvillo, 111., who gave a traveling man $ ICO for it a few days ago, aud wcro aftorwards offered $500 for it in Ht. Louis. Bt ill nnothor is in tho possession of a San Francisco man, and thore aro said to bo one or two in New York. It is interest- ing in oonnoction with this to note that a counterfeiter recently arretted in Pitts- burg was found to havo several silver dollars of tho 1800 issue, the figure six in which had been changed to four. Congressman Amos J. Camming*, the Now York journalist, mado an addross to tho Steuben County (N. Y.) farmors at their County Fair in Hornollsvillc. * 'Count me out,\ tho Congressman said fn closing, \among thoso whojmmtln rosy colors tho frco and easy life of tho farmer. If you aro so fortunate as to se- cure a hoavy crop a* tho result of a favor- able season, prices are pretty certain to rule low. Tho great abundance ot every- thing you havo to sell will forco them down. On tho contrary, if tho season is unfavorable and prices rule high, you have very littlo to sell. Escaping the snares of speculators and the wiles of th > sharper, you may not be ablo to avoid tho thousand and ono evils brought upon us by tho sin of Adam. Indeed, a farmer's life is a continual warfare in which more perish in tho first skirmish than survive to draw pensions. It is a warfare, how- ever, that has a lifo recompense. While you may sometimes feci the tug of war morekeonly than thoso engaged in other pursuits, you aro in a position to on joy most of nature's pure and unadulterated blessings. You fiink you are laboring for yoursolvos alone, but you aro not. Tho product of your hands is not only the foundation of our national wealth, but upon it depends the welfare and progress of mankind.\ A Tory romarkablo woman is coming to Now York in December, or threatens to do so, says a writer in tho Brooklyn Eagle.) Her picture appear* in the Harper for September, entitled \Senora Cousina,\ In William Elroy Curtls's arti- cle upon tho Chilians, whom ho calls the \South American Yankee.\ This hand- some, Spanish looking woman is the richest woman in tho world. Her prop- erty consists of millions of acres of land, flocks aud herds that are numbered by \If any relatives of tho late James Ilanford. somo time curato of Widston, bo still living, tficy may hear something to' their advuutago by applying to Mossrs. Dod & Son, Solicitors, King street.\ . Barbara \Peed put down the papor with a jerk. \I wonder if thnt means!mo,\ sho said, thoughtfully,' \My grandfather's name was certainly Junius Ilanford, and I know ho was a curate, but I did not know thlcre was any money in tho familv.\ ••If you think it worth whilo, go to Messrs. Dod & Son and find out,\ sug- gested ai sharp-featured elderly lady, who sat istitching at: tho table oppo- site .1 \Of colurso I will!\ Why, thcro may bo five thbusanid pounds waiting for me thore.\ ' j, , 1 4 'Or five pounds, moro likely,\ supple- mented tho stitcher. 1 Barbara laughed. \I'd rather thirfk of tho thousands, Mrs. Stewart; they would bo much moro to my advan- tage\ i \I kilow of somothing tiat would bo more for your advantage Uhanj all the money lyou aro ever likely to gut from advertisements, if you had but tne good sense to 8co it,\ returned that lady sig- nificantly. Barbara flushed ns she left tho room to get her clouk aud bonnet and sot out forhomo. Sho was tho music-mistress in Mrs. Stewart's school, and had becnymo of tho most promising pupils in it before! that. She wns almost alone iu tho world, except foe a distant aunt with whom she Uvea, and after school ended it became necessary that sho should do something toward koeping up the little household, and she had been very glad whesji Mrs, Stewart's proposal to rotaln her for the younger girls' music lessons saved her from applying to strangers. Still, not- withstanding her obligations, there were times when Barbara felt strongly dis- f osqd to protest against that lady s mi- nority, wtileh wa« pretty much as it had been in tiro days sho was \quite a child,\ as Barbara oftcu phrased it to hcrtctf. < \She novor socms to remember that I am grown up and ablo to manage my own affairs. It does not follow that because I washer pupil onco sho bus any right to intorfere in this manner now.\ Sho was marching down tho road, her head well up, while sho argued tho matter Out to her own satisfaction, when somo ono quietly fell into step bcsldo her. The shadow vanished from her brow liko morning mist ns sho looked ar&uud. \What arc you in such a hurry KM? I could scarcely .keep you in sights\ in- quired tho new comer. • • It was tho subject of Mrs, Stowart's admonition, hor arawiug-mostor—clover enough at his profession, but of his in- dustry and general dopendablcnoss sho had not tho highost opinion. Not so Miss Barbara, who was fast developing a very warm sentiment tor the good look- ing young artist. -2 \I am going homo to ilcposlt my mu- sic, and alter that I thin!; of making a journey ilHo tho city, to ving street.'' \Kingstreet 1 That ianti expedition.\ \Isn't it! But I have some idea of coming into a fortune, and that is tho place Jnm to apply to.\ Mr.! Lawrence's faco showed such g enuine interest in tho nows that arbaira speedily told him all she Jcnew, pot haps with a little unconscious ex- aggeration, by way of justifying her first announcement. \You will bo suro and lot me know tho result of your expedition?\ he said, earnestly, with a lingering clasp of the^ hand, as ho left her at tho corner of her own stroet. \I *hall bo most anxious to hear, and no ono deserves such a fortune better than yourself. The diugy, jolting omnibus that con- veyed Barbara to tho city that afternoon might havo been a royal chariot for all she felt of it. Hl.o was absorbed in . i J # AI. i „^„i «,*.„..„, ««d 1 bright visions of her coming greatness, hundreds of thousands,, coal,, copper jind |^* morc of tholintcrminalilc practicing silver mines, acres of real estate in San- tiago and Valparaiso, a fleet of ships, smelting works, potteries and other manufactories, a railway or two and other trifles of productive value whicb arc all under her own management, and yield an income of several millions a year. Sara Bernhardt, when she was in New York, talked enthusiastically of this Chilian Princess. Sara did not liko tho Chilians. She found them cold and unresponsive; but what thoy lacked in admiration and adulation of tho great ParisiOnne, tho scnora supplied. Sho took Bernhardt out to her magnificent country houso on her owu railway and in hor own car. The engine was wreathed with roses, and her people had orders to strew tho track with flowors. Sho en- tertained tho actress with barbaric mag- nificence that deeply dazzled and im- pressed her. Sho was driven for miles on tho scnora's land In a carriage drawn by six horsos. Sho went to her mines and manufactories and took away with her a gift of jewels that sho would not havo loOkod for from, an Emperor. Ho- Bernhardt had a very profound respect for her hostess, and was never woary of ex|>atiatlng on her wealth and powor. This woman, who has exhausted the pleasures of most of tho yreat capitals, has for some years been contemplating a rosldenoeln Now York, and it is reported that this winter sho means toVrry it Into effect. Hho IN about thirty-eight years of age, but extremely well preserved In spite of tho fact that there aro two beautiful young sonoritas now it) tWr (not to prort bi? jntrii at Mrs. Stewart^ for herself, no drawing lessons for somp one else. Who cotfld tell but next,May there might be a new member at thej Academy, a new picture to attract all eyes? No man tied down to mere teaching could have n fair chance. Barbliru's face glowed with the thought that it might be her band that should set tho fettered genius free. Tho glow was still there when sho turned into King strict and ran full igoinst a ph in, rather commonplace, young man coming out o/ one of the warehouses. \Why Miss Barbara, it is not often y< u fiud your way to this quarter,\ he skid, as he held out his hand. It was a brown, ungloveM hand, and boro evident truces of hard service. Barbara gave tho tips of her fingers rather coolly, contrasting it with the wcll-shancd yellow-gloved ono that had pressed tiers a little before \1 came on somo business, Mr. Grant,\ sho said. \I believe thcro is a legacy waiting for me; it is advertised iu the papers, and I am going to see the solici- tors now.\ John Grant laug ted. Woll, I hope you may got it, M *H Barbara; for my- self, I never had much fai h in legacies since I wasted twenty-live ihlllings once in answering udvortiMomonJs about ono.\ \That may have been a very different matter from this,\ returned Barbara, stiffly. \I had better not detain you any longer, Mr. (Irunt.\ \And] that is the man Mrs. Stewart thinks Worth half a dozen liko Alfred Lawrtn(ic!\ said Barbara to herself, as she walked into Messrs, Dod db Son's offlee, Her face WAS several shades longer when sho cumoout again. Messrs. Dod j,V Hun had not rocelved her with by uny inonns the respectful entlMislasin she e\- neoted. There had been kwkward ques- tions to answer and proofs and genealo- gies that she had not been proparud to iniwor; indeed, sbi had half fancied (ty tort wtrfcr •» lapoftw, tbiy tea been so roluctant to part with any infor- mation. Sho should hear from them in a few days, and in tho meantime she must kindly fill in the answers to certain ques- tions on a paper they had given hor. 4 'And I thought I should almost havo had it in my pocket by this timoj\ sho said to herself, ruefully. \Well I must havo patience for another week or so. It is suro to bo settled then; only4-fonly I'd havo liked to havo something certain to tell Mr. Lawrence!.\ Mr. 1 awrence sympathized with hor over tho delay almost as deeply as sho did with herself whi'U sho told him the tcsult or her visit tho next day. Barbara was quite struck with tho way ho seemed to enter into all her feelings. \And they did not oven give fou an idea how Much it was likely to be?\ he asked. \Not exactly,\ admitted. Barbara; \but they wcro so cautious I could tell by their manner that it must be a good deal.\ \I don't know if that is altogether a criterion. Thoso old lawyers arc very doceptivesometimes,\bereplied. \How- ever, you can get that paper filled up and sent in; and I would not lo«e any timo about it, if I wcro you,\ ho added. , John Grant was tho next person to whom sho had to explain her non-suc- cess. ,, \Just what I expected, Miss Barbara,\ ho said, cheerfully. \Ono is never suro of a chance of that kind till ono has actually got it. I would not build upon it in any way, if I wcro in your place.\ 44 You don't seem to havo had a for- tunate experience in that way,\ retorted Barbara, ungratefully. \It is only dc fcrred in this case, and, I am iu no hurry for a few days.\ \Days!\ echoed John. \ThWs a man in our otflco has waited years, and is likely to wait, as far as lean see.\ . Mrs. Stewart was another painful thorn in tho path at this juncture \Barbara my dear,\ she rcmafkod one day after school was dismissod,, \were you paying any attention whatever loth: practice this.afternoon?\ Barbara flushed scarlet. \I was bosido tho piano the whole time,\ she declared. \Your body may have been there, but ypur mind certainly was not. frow, my dear, you must really endeavor to put this, unfortunato legacy out of your head for the present; you havo Icon tit for very little since it was first mentioned. So far it has proved decidedly tho revcrso of any advantage to you.\ Ten days later came the much-lookcd- for communication from .Messrs. Dod & Son. \They wcro in receipt of Mias Heed's paper, and could assure her tho matter should havo their best attention, and wcro hers most obediently,\ etc. Barbara flung it into hor desk with a disappointed faco. It was tedious to be obliged to wait in suspense liko this. Sho Would hardly know now to got through tne timo but for Mr. Lawrence's attention and warm interest in tho upshot. John (Jrants's itid inference, not to say scepticism, on tho subject throw un his rival's superior qualities in full re Her, and yet thcro wcro times when Barbara folt just a littlo nuzzled that Mr. Lawrenco went no farther. With all his solicitude, and looks that said moro than words, ho never absolutely committed himself to anything moro binding than friondihip, \I can't ask him,\ she said ono day, und<r hoi breath, as sho walked slowly { lomu after ono of thoso \accidental\ neetings. \But oh, I do wish he would say straight but whlut ho means, or e'so keep away altogether. It makes ono feel so unset tied.\ Poor Barbara was to feel moro unset- tled still befo:o she reached homo. It was a lovely summer, oven ing, and fifty yards farther on sho [was joined by an- other cavalier—John (Jrant this time. Sho shrank back at first, half afraid of somo jesting inquiry after Messrs. Dod & Son, but sho speedily discovered that ho seemed to havo forgotten their very existence. Thcro was something else in his mind, and he lost no time in saying very \straight out\ indeed what it was. \I may not bo ablo to offer you a fino house and luxuries,\ he said, \but I have saved plenty to begin in comfort, und I think wc nvght bo very hapny together if you would only try. 1 liavo thought about it for tho last two years and worked hard to bo able to tell you so.\ Barbaia looked un him with genuine tears in her eyes. \I am so sorry 1\ sho said. \I never thought of such a thing —at least, not it serious earnost,\as sho remembered sundry remarks of ^ Mfs. Stewart's. \BesWcs. there's lots of other better girl* you might find.\ \That is not tho point;\ he interrup- ted; \it's you, not other girls, I want. Try and think of it, Barbara. I don't want to hurry you, but let mo have a line as soon as you can; it means a good deal to me.\ Barbara went homo in kind of a haze. She had never thought so highly of John Grant and his straightforward depend- ablcncsi as at that moment; but, on the other hand, thcro was, Mr. Lawrence, with his handsome face and dashing m inner, ifnd there was a little undefined sense of resentment against Mrs. Stewart, who had always been a strong, if not en- tirely judicious advocate for John Grant; and—and then there was this probable fortune that might be coming to her. Barbara laoked at the peaceful evening sky in sore perplexity as to what she ought to do,.or what she really wished, \iIe said ho didn't want to huny me,\ she decided, finally. \I'll just wait and sec how things go.\ * For another week or two things con- tinued to go in much tho same fashion. Mrs. Stewart wore a cfironic air of disap- proval, John Grant was invisible. Only Mr. Lawrence was to tho fore with his sympathetic inquiries, but in some mys- terious way Barbara began to find them irritating rather than flattering. Sho got tired i of having the- same response: \Nothing yet,\ and of hearing the same t iolito remarks about his admiration of ler. . Thoy did not go decp.cm n ,rh. \If ho lias nothing moro than that to say ho ought not to have said it at all,\ sho re- flected, contrasting it half unconsciously with .John Grant's very opposito lino of Conduct. j At last, ono Saturday morning, as sho ^vas setting out for Mrs. Stowart's sho met (ho postman, who gave her a blue olllciat-looking envelono. Barbara stood still on tho steps, holding her breath as sho oi)ot|cd it. \Messrs. Dod & Ron's compliments to MUs Iteed. and beg to Inform her that Mrs. Klixahcth Drake has been proved the nearest kin, and consequently heir-at- law to tho moo loft by tho lato Mr. Jas. Handford.\ Miss Heed foldod up tho lotter and put it soberly into her jacket pocket. *8ho had scarcely realized before how much she had been counting upon It. There was nothing left now but to put on a brave face and mako the best of It. \Mrs. Stewart,\ she said, knocking at the dooa of thai lady's iltting-roonfue* fort riubtftB M moroing pnotfci, \I want to tell you I have heard about that legacy at last.\ \Wclir Mrs. Stewart looked up from her desk, pen in hand. \It's not well,\ said Barbara, trying to smile. J \There is some one nearer than I am—a Mrs. Elizabeth Drake. Sho gets it all—it was £500.\ Mrs. Stewart laid down her pen and patted tho girl's shoulder kindly. \Never mind, Barbara; you may be glad to havo missed it somo day, though it's not pleas- ant now. There aro many other good things in tho world beside money.\ 44 It would havo helped very nicely, though,\ sighed Barbara. 44 No doubt; but it's not to be, so just try and forget it. You know you are not utterly denCndcnt upon it.\ As Barbara crossed tho hall to the school-room that afternoon sho encoun- tered Mr. Lawrence. He was standing at tho table buttoning his light gloves. She saw at tho first glanco that Mrs. Stewart had told him of her disappointment. She hesitated ono instant, then went straight up to him. \You see I ark not to como into a for- tune after all,'; she said quietly. . \ So it seems,'\ ho said coldly, not locking up from a refractory button. 44 But it was not much bf a fortuno aftei all. I thought it was to bo fivo or six times that amount.\ 44 1 wish I had never hoard of it,\ spoke Barbara, looking at him in scornful sur- prise. \It hns been nothing but an up- set and annoyance.\ \ Y-cs, it is rather a pity—disappoint- ing and waste qf time, too. Weil, I am going into tho country for a few weeks. Mis* Heed, so good afternoon if I don't chance to see you again.\ \Good afternoon,\ returned Barbara, with a frigid bow, as sho opened the school-room door. A tiny note was dropped into the pillar post that simo evening addressed to Mr. John Grant. ••Dour John,\ it ran, \I'm not hali good enough for you, but if you still wish it-rll try.\ -**• It was not, perhaps, a great achieve- ment in thej way of composition for a young lady who had boon under Mrs. Stewart's guidance for so long, but l^ perfectly satisfied the person it was fn- tended for, and much loftier epistles have often failed in that respect. \Mrs. Stewart, that unfortunato Icg- ( cy was something to my advantage, ftcr all,\ Mrs. John Grant said some months later: \I don't know what Mrs. Elizabeth Drako did with it, but I do know I would not chango with her. The missing it has brought mo far moro hap- piness than tho getting it ever could.\ Left Alone. It was twenty miles north of Lusk, Wyoming, on Crazy Woman's crock, that wo ono day passed a littlo new board \shack\ with an old, gray boarded man sitting in front of it. Wo notlcodacow picketed near and I stopped to see if the old man could lot us have some milk. Afto:- the jug was filled I got into con- versation with him. \I suppose you have a claim here?\ I said; \Yes he replied, 4 *I am trying to hold 1 in not LIFE IN INDIA. PLAGUES THAT INFEST NIGHT AND DAY. Effects of by an tho Groat TIcat —Bled Army of I^ezy Scr- , vAiit*--^ho Strufffelo With Insects. India, beautiful India, is tho essenco of all known plagues, writes a corre- spondent of the fc^in Francisco Chronicle. H jags the edge of tho sweetest teni|>cr, fixes a frown on the mildest face and ships at last its martyr off to his native homo a crabbed, unbearable combustible old man, to fret himself and society with his misanthrop'cal tenets, or boro tho best of good-natured hearers with egotistical stories of \pig 'sticking.\ To be a crabbed old man after a tnirty years' ex- istence tin 1 re is justifiable degeneracy. Ho has fought a fight in which thousands havo fallen in the fin»t stroko of tho buttle; ho has survived, with heaven's blessings, heat, servants and bites. Nono but those who have bccolmo parchedmnd crisped by tho desiccating sun of India—who have traveled reeking on tho ciackcd and splintered earth, be- neath the great sky fixed ocean of moll crv silver—can appreciate thoroughly the free, broad, tracing freshness of a.Cali- fornian breeze. The surface of every- thing unsheltered is polished by the sun s rays until the eye becomes bleared will* merely doing its duty. 'jPhc fleck bucks and wings of tho thousnud crows which twit on tne path shiuc like new rupees; tho greeu lcaves/hang motionless and glisten as tho vyrtvclcU in tho sea. Even the natives have huge turbans, over and round thejr beads, and'more particularly on thatfiortiQii of the neck immediately below tho organ of philoprogcnitivencss lest the oun \should unite them in his Wrath.\ But you may often'sec, as you drive along the rond, these poor Hindoos prostrated in tho agonies of sickness, vomiting with a violence which fortu- nately docs not last long. They make One fccblo struggle to rise, then roll back dead—new and choice food, when their relatives have launched them on the waves of the sacred Ganges, for the beak of tho vulturo or the teeth of the shark*. So keen aro the eyes of thc^o two mon- sters nnd of a hundred other attendant birds and fish that by the timo a corpse has traveled five miles 4ipon that holy stream of the Ganges there is not enough a claim, but I'm not getting 'long very woll.\ ' + 44 You must find the work hard?\ 44 Yes, it is hard work for mo—I am gotting so 1 might 'bout as well not try to. do anything. I como up here from- Kansas last spring with my ion and we each took a claim.\ 4 'Oh, then I suppose ho doosn f tjlivo far away?\ U \lie didn't,\ and the old mrfri'i voice, sad before, grew even moro so as he bent his eyes on the grouud. 'He lived right over there for a month, but bo isn't with me auy more. We didn't have money enough to carry us through the summer, and ho went away to work on a ranch near hero. It was at tho spring round- up in June—only two miles from hero— and his horse stumblod and—and—there's his grave right over there by the end o' the house—I had the boys make It near by—I thought mebby it wouldn't be quite so lonesomo for mo. You see them cactuses grow in' on it—I planted ^em thore. They look rough now, but in the summer they wore all pretty with red and ve low blossoms looking 'sif thoy were mado o' wax. I 'lowed to sell the calf this fall and tako part o' the money aVl get a man at tho town to paint him almtlo board hoadstono, but tho calf striked off with tho rango cattlo and I never seo It again, MO I guess tho poor boy will havo to got along with just that board I whittled out.\ \It must*be very lonesomo for you here now?\ \Yes it 'most kills mo sometimes. If I had died and ho had lived he could havo took care of himself and mado his way in tho world without me, but I can't without him—it don't seem right the way it in. I just sit hero all aay and look at his grave and think about him and it seems mighty hard to bear. Lots o' times I can't believe ho is gone tilt I start up and go around and read where I whittled his name on the board. It Is so lonesome hero all the time—no company 'cept tho cow and she's out feed in 1 'round most all the time, and you know cows ain't much company anyhow. I don't know m I'd have pulled through the summer at all if it hadn't been for the boys up at the ranch—they como down to sec mc once in a while, and they said that Frank's old Father shouldn't suffer, and he hasn't yet—the ranch boys are a little rough but they've been good to mc—God bless theml\ I gave the old man a half dollar for the milk and rode away to catch tb.o wagon, leaving him explaining that he could not change it, and so insisting that I should fake oack the money ana keep tho milk as well.— Dakota Bell. AnmcRTil. left of what was once a human bclng*to taint a cubic foot of tho most delicately rarefied atmosphere To guard against tho dangerous in- fluence of tho sun man has sought out many inventions. Carriages have double roofs; lints aro built of pith and are Ventilated by a (Unning cupola in minia- ture ingeniously implanted in the crown; parasols aro gigantic wooden mush- rooms, and garments aro of any sub- stance that can possibly'be obtained, Which, in weight 4nd fiber, docs not exceed gossamer. I Tho walls of the homos are about three feet thick, ver* andahod and terraced round. The rooms arc halls worthy of containing the common council of any small American mining town. They avo matted and not carpeted, unless in somo housei whero appearances aro moro studied th in com- furt. The glass windows havo each outer ones of wood, similar to, tho Vcnotianonesajo prevalent in Californian .houses. Thc^c arc closely shut fourteen hours of the twenty-four. Hugo squares of matted straw aro placed peforo such openings as cannot be closed, and it Is tne duty of a servant to sprinkle thorn with the coolest water obtainablo ten tlm«8 an hour. Tho motive is obvious. The hot wind passing through the damp cusca is cooled almost to a welcome point, and from a scourge transferred by a simple devico into a refreshment. We live in tho breath of the punkah, for all day and night a servant stands by to fan us. If ho second a ({low of Mcr] doan Ye Storle of Ye Doggie. Onco in ye very olden tymo a ehantt sayd too an Kddytor, \I thynkc advertizing payee.\ \Let mo show yov,\ said ye l$ddytor t \I pvtt 1 lyno in my Papyr and not chargo yov a penrlo.\ ' 41 A11 right,\ rcpliod tho Molrohantt, \and wo will see.\ . Ho ye Kddytor pvtto yo lynp In his papyr: ! W ANTED A DOOGE. JOHN JOWM, 250 Olde st. Now yt happened that 400 Pcple cache brovghte a Doggo on yo next daye there- after, so that Mister Jones (whych was yo Merchants* naymo) was ovorrunne with Dogge's. \Synco thoro aro so manye Doggos,\ sayd ho, \I thynko I myght make some bvslncss nnd will givo you a pennie for cache Dogge.\ Ye people tooke yo pennlo each for his Doggo bocavso there worn so manye Dogges, nnd Mister Jonos skynned ye 400 Dogges and ma.de bootes aud gloves from ye 400 hydos and thvs mayd A BYO FOUTVWR, and thereafter addod to yt by adrartU* lug in ye Eddytor'i pspyr,— AnUriean thought he could commit fratricide un- punished hns ft man been so mistaken. His house, if at all capable of affording real comfort, will be of a rental—speaking of Calcutta especially—of f 710 a year at least; any other house, such as those which are termed \bungalows which means one-storied houses, arc pretty sure to treat the tenant in tho \rains\ to such a vast number of rheumatic aches, to- gether with dysentery, cholera, iiver complaints and utter prostration, that they arc only cheap to such men as wish to find a grave here and have no broken ties which they would desiie to renew in \the homo of the free.\ The house is taken. It is situated in a \compound which means in Amcrftfc \its own ground.\ So spontaneous is vegetation that a 4 'malice\ (gardener) is indispensable. Let the master's tastes be ever bo much inclined to till his own gar- den and rear marvels in botany and hor- ticulture, the heat forbids Mm. The pay of tho malice will vary between six und cigjit rupees a month (fi). The next nec- essary creature is the \mater or housc- sweeper— a inuiv who always seems the acme of devoted nets und activity, but who has rcaHy a renmikably ensy life of it £oncri>rTy, His pay is coual td the maliceV, The \bhestie who may bo mot/wjth in tho twclvo signs of.ihc A 8TCK. feverish heat steals over (us and the< pulkah-wallah submits mutely to the castigatlon he deserves and most un- evitably gets. These poor wretches, pdssessed, it may be. of. moro intellect than brutes, but undoubtedly of less in- stinct and sagacity, ply their monot- onous occupation liko pieces of ill-fitting machinery. They aro certain to full asleep unless retained at high prossuro by tno constant, application of a horse- whip. Silent, inano and exnressionlf s at tno gods of thdir idolatry,they crouch and bear all tho stings nnd arrows of their outrageous fortuno. Tho second plague of life In India, fully as monstrous as tho first, is—servants. Take a professional man whose Incomo is ibout 500 rupees,or $250 a month. He does notdcilro, in all probability, to domes- ticate himself in the choorlosi circle of a bonrditig-houso community, where his absolutn cost tot bo amiable landlady will bo about twenty rupees per month, on which he is called every four Weeks to pay 800 pur cent. lie thorcfore i takes a bouse and becomes, l)e blindly imagines AN AYAH. I' zodiac, under tho nomenclature of \Aquarius is the servant to whom the. tra.ctablo and sensitive heart most iivl clincs to bo liberal, lie fills his 4, mu£ cock\ (a sealskin) many tiroes a day with pure water and replenishes the bath, lie fills tho houso buckets and deluges tho enrriago when it is being cleaned, pur gratitude, extreme as it is, goes no further than six rupees. Thon come tho tublo servants and the cook. Tho for- mer are the \khansamar who makes the .market purchases—and is universally a roguoof the deepest dye—and the \khit- mcrtgar,\ who waits upon you, and is generally the sharer of the ichansamar's roguery. Their wages are from seven to ten rupees each; a cook's the same. The cook nas an assistant, who cleans tho dishes and knives. He is called the ^musa'tchee,\ and gets about five rupees a month. Pursuing the list wc reach the \sirdarbearep.\ This man trims the lamps and pulls tho punkah and does nothing else for the world. Ills wages are seven rupees. Another or even more important man is tli> bearer. Say, Old Indian of thirty hot (cars' ntnnding, how of tea havo you blessed thi: man above all others 1 He is valet, banker and general protector over all things you may possess; he wipes you dry as a tinder when you issue from your bath; ho puts your hoso on whilo you sit on a chair in a rcverio; he does the same good turn for all the garments you desire to don. lie has your hat and gloves beau- tifully prepared for you; he ts^es charge of your floating capital in the wa^ of any odd rupees which you may happen to leave in your discarded waiscoat, aud you may safely trust him with a thousand. IIo studies your every movement and re- places all mutilated buttons; in fact, he Is to a great extent a wife, and if you give him a full and valuable wardrobe to bo lord and master over as long as he may stay in your service, you will find it un- diminished nnd precisely as you gave it. He looks after the \dhobbin\ aua 44 pin- wallah\—two other servants—*ach male laundresses. One does the plain things and the other the fancy things. Their wages and the bearer's vary from 7 to 12 rupees. Some people, especially where thcio is a family N kecpa \derzer or tai- lor-milliner, and find it an economical ar- rangement at a cost of 6 rupees. Noth- ing can exceed tho neatness with which this man sews; It is perfection itself. Now for the stable-yard. Each man of any standing has his carriage, for after it is once purchased it is cheaper traveling than by palanquin (\palkce\). The heat prevents one horse from being enough. There arc consequently two. Kach horse hos a \syce\; (groom(, at 5 rupees each, and then pees comes the Coachman at 7 ru- If a resident here is a married man he may, in the nature of things, be blessed with household gods—each god needs an \ayah.\ She Is, of course, a female servant, and the most troublesome, ex- cept tho syces, of /them all. The wages ot an ayah are very changeable ana un- fixed- few under ten rupees a month are of much good, though some are obtain- able at half that sum. Beside the regu- lar ayah to the wife and each child there some. Their bites have pained m'c more 4Iran mosquitoes,but they arc more readily cured. They arecxtremcly lar<»c, fori have seen one nearly an inch loug. As you dine at night, with all the windows thrown open, these insects above enumerated light heavily in your vermicelli or defile the 4 'relish\ which you have poured upon your dish. Let none who read this letter, then, jiidgo ovcrharsbly of any crabbed Indian veteran whom they may henceforth meet. I have offered a slight insight into tho plagues be has had to bear aud will finish What I have said with these positive- facts: The thermometer in the room whero I now am stands at nincty-cigh degrees, though every opening is closed, a servant has just tried to swindle me okt of 30 rupees and a mosquito has bit ten me upon my nose. « A Bright Future. .i ' **Whcn 4 I was twenty-one years, of age,\ he said \I thought that if I wasn't rich ot thkty I would be too old to enjoy wealth.\ \How old are you now?\ \Seventy.\ 4 'And rich, of course?\ * \No I'm a poor man yet; but I've got a schomc in view that will make me as rich as mud before I'm eighty, and then I propose to take things cosy and enjoy life.\— New York Sun. A Bore Rebuked. Gus Do Smith met a well-known bore. The latter said: \I've just heard of the death of Judge Witson. He was a man whom I eatecjnpd very highly.\ \Have you known him long?\ \For twenty-five years I have been very intimate with him.\ \Poor fellow 1 His sufferings are over at last. There can be no doubt about his being better off, no matter where he may be,\ replied Gus, with tears in his eyes.— Siftiiif/s. TEMPERANCE. After the Game. * . r> This poor man is not a murderer or a thief.' Ho is simply a baseball umpire, and (he nine men who are about to tear him to pieces comprise the losing club in the game which lie has just umpired. The Boy and the Boardwalk, \Stay near me, Tommy.\ 4i Now I wonder where that boy has gone to.\ k PiTNKAil WALLAH. must be the \matcranni.\ It is her busi- ness to do certain things which, if exe- cuted by the others, would lose thorn their castes. Her wages are about six rupees. To readers versed in the technicali- ties of natural history the third plague of India will be recognizable by the name of \culex but is better known by the name of mosquito. . Tho curtains round our be/is at nights are not only valuable safeguards against mosauitoes, but against a hundred other insects, some of them very repulsive in appearance Grass- hoppers, flying beetles, fireflies, and others yet moro horrible would invado our sanctuary, but can only gazo at us through tho dellcato squares of our gamo prison. They hum ana bur.z untiringly, liko tho singing fish of Ceylon, occasion- ally rising louder in their melody than the human voice All theso insects will bite you tome timo or other, and I mysoif have been confined to tho^houso a fortnight from the effects of m'o/ouito bites. Occasion- ally you find*a cobra in your bedroom. He Is in size like a large col, ana his bite is Cften fatal. If you find ine always search for another. They travol and \Ah here yon are?\— Life, An Omaha Bride. Omaha Groom—\Well my dear, the wedding tour is finished and^here wc are in our new home.\ , Bride—\But George, the servant girl who was to be hce has not arrived.\ \I see. It's too lato to hunt up an* other to-day. I suppose you can get sup- per, can't you?\ \Of course. Go out and buy some steak, not too rare, with mushrooms and French potatoes and iced cake and hot waffles, and I'll set the table while you're crone.\— Omaha Heralf. Tho Golden Grain. OoUlon waves Hie prain Klistaning in tho sim, Covering all the plains, food for every one. Shining fal's .tho grain 'neath the reaper's hand, Like a golden rain making glad tho land. Precious stands the grain in fat sheaves di» played, Waiting fur the wain, thence to be conveyed. Shall it fr,o ror bread, making milliotis strong? Or for drink instead, doing millions wrong? Hrewpry and still rbb it of itelife, Turn its good to/ill—minister of slrife, God the blessing gi vos, man the bane supplies; By the bread ho lives, by the drink he dies. Bo the golden grain fre© as vital air; But the liquid b.uu« drive out everywhere! — Youth* Temverance Banner. , Drunkenness Abroad. , When so many k*s» momentous subjects axe the topic tor discussion in international and colonial congresses, it is gratifying to learn that we have at length *uch a congress for the consideraliuu ot inebriety, or what ~ we prefer to call drunkenness. Dr. Norman Kerr delivered the opening address of the first meeting at the Westminster Tuwn Hall. It is lamentable to find thnt in all civilized lountrivs this vice. or. as the Congress pre- fers to coll it—this discus?—is so prevalent. The mesr educated nations—Hcotland, Germaify, France—are as dVeply affected as others-; and, what is sadder still,\ they are the most blameworthy in carrying the matrries morbi to uncivilized {teoplc's. which are being demoralized and destroyed by drink. Our own colonic^ arc drinking bully. Men of authority and medical experience Kay that in Australia our fellow subjects drink for be- yond anything iu th.s country, and bevond their own potations twer.ty years ago. Chev- alier Max Proskowetz de rroskowmarstorff stated at the Congress that in Austria drunk- enness was increasing oyery where.on a dan . er- ous scale. Dr. 1'etithah. of Liege, repoi ted alcoholit-m in Belgium to be inc. outing with frightful rapidity. \ Everywhere there ore temperance reloimera andnoble men who set a splendid example of sobriety and self de- nial. The leaders.of medicine everywhere by their pathological and nudtcal studies de- monstrate the. injury done by alcohol to the essential organs of the Ixnjy— heart, liver, kidneys, brain and bladder. W hat is to be done against a disease so deep and a vice so fascinating* Dr. T. D. Crothers thinks that in tho United States the time is not far distant when the drunkard will l»e taken from his homo nnd from the street and quarantined iu special hospituls. The inadequate hibilual drunkards'bill of our own country is about to expire, and a few weak attempts at strengthening it art) to be made. But these ato not radical remedies. Another sugges- tion at the Congress was tliat school children should bo taugl t the tffict< of drink on health and national welfare. This is to be ebmmr nded. Mere g« n ral inte' ligence is not so much a safeguard as might have been ex- pected. Specific iuf< rmation drilled into the young of all the European schools s.ems loudly called for. The medical profession Can do much. Statesmen and royal families have a great responsibility brought home to them by Canon Farrar in a heavy indictment in this months Con*emporary Herieu-. entitled. \Alrioa and the Diiuk Trade,'' which i* sau * reading for the countrymeu of Liv,ng»tone and Stanley. England, (Germany—t spw* l illy Germany—and the United States, the chief representatives of that religion of which Channing said, H 'Christianity is the mighty power before which intemperance is to tail,' are pouring rum and other spirits into Africa as fast as their heartless traders can do it, without restraint from their rulers at home, and against the piteous cry of the haplets people aud chiefs of the county, who feel that It will destroy them, and that it in a wor.n« rur*e than the slave trade, which our fathers did so much to oxtermiuutj.— London Lancet. Teaching Temperance to Boys. I wonder if any other moth-r has two boyi who are such walking interrogation points as mine arc. They como home from school bul>- blingover with information, which thsy pro coed £> impait^to me in tho Hocratic fashion. \ Mamma, who killed the Gorgon*\ said Arthur—who is reading Charles Kmgley'i \ Greek Heroes \—one day last week, when 1 was busy making a cottage pudding for din- ner. I tried to re men ib r whether it wo# rei-seus or Theseus, aud on tho Irishman'» principle that if it was not one it was the other, munotfed to answer it right. Tho next question proved not so easv. \Mamma where are tho Eastern High lands?\ \Oh a part of Boston, I suppose,\ I an- swered absently, trying to remember whethti 1 had put any salt into tho pudding sauoe. \Not right:\ said my young mentor, \thi Eastern Highlands extend from the Appsv lachian s\>fc*m to tho great Atlantic Plain.' \Well i said, \you can SJO tho great At lanlie plain in Iioston: that is, if you stand on high enough ground and use your eves.*' \Oh vou mean tho great Atlantic Ocean that isn't it at all,-' said my disgusted youn| teacher. TIMJ new Temperance text books havo just been introduced into our schools, so now mi teaching is all on the line of the physical ef feels of alcohol on tjio human system. \Mamma what docs alcohol do to the mu» clesf said EddiK the younger and more fer vid aixxstle of Temperance, the other day. \I suppo.*o it weakens them,\ I said, doubt fullv. \No It don't; it changes the muscles into fat,\ said Master Eddie.and both boys looked suspiciously at my plump self. \Oh well,\ I answered, quickly, in self de fense, \it doesn't make good, solid fat, bul roft and flabbv.\ Both boys gave my arm a reassuring pinch. and confidence was restored to their youn| bosoms. \What does alcohol do to the huinau stpm ach r was the next question. \It causes dyspepsia,\ said I, takingfefugf ing a kmg word. \Worse than that,\ said both bbys ii chorus; it takes the coat all off aixnan't stomach.\ I \1 have known it to take the coatfoff hi back, too,\ I answered jocosely; but thej were in no joking mood. \That is nothinjt mamma; a man might stopdrinking,andear| money and buy a new coat for his back, bul he could never get his coat for his stomacl back again.\ Another time, when we • had boiled egg) for breakfast, the bovs took occasion to ex S tain how the brain become^ cooked in alco ol until it is almost like T tho hard-boilei egg, till, at last, I said: \Well boys, how d« you suppose a man feels with his muaclei turned to fat, the coat of hi* stomach ai gope, and his head full of hard-boilep egg> instead of brains. A Great R< r—— \Sir Ijh re- nouse aou ocwww«»t **F W * IHU */f**i** , , , vw » ••»«•«•• •«• » MVV ««.. .— 4 -.~— •-— \to own wwttvr Niw liflvv 0it» '•tcW? fc P»lN. A»U wf YWJ trouW* elief. pflftr)nby \Sir Ijhave come to quest the honor of your daughter's hand in marriage.\ Pompano—\Impossible I Never will I give my consent.\ Ponsonby (anxiously')—\Is yotir decis- ion fixed—-irrevocable?\ Pompano (firmly)— 4 It is \ Ponsonbv (much relieved)*-\Thanks awfully. Nellie has been pestering me to ask you, and I did It just to oblige her.\ —— i n—^^— - Advice. \I am ugly, positively ugly, dish-faced nnd goggle-eyed. I am at a IOM what business to engage in. Pinase give me your advlcc-HroH.\ Well. Hugh, It seems to us that, with a dish face and saucer eyes, you ought to set up in the orookery liae.—/Htt*frur^ Chronicle. A Clarksville, (111.) turkey gobbler stole a Quiona hen's nest, set on the eggs, batched the chlcka, and la raising tl|m With iMldulty M4 oftrt, **-\* ™ school-boys to use it.notif they wasa-dying,' he protested, forgetting his grammar in nil earnestness. After the bovs had gone to school I kept thinking of Eddie's words, and thanking Got for scientific temperance teaching in thi schools. — Zion* Herald. A Coroner's Evidence. \ • Mr. N. C. Whyte, Coroner of Dublin, says: 44 Tbe iurora over whom 1 preside with Chris- tian charity invariably—where they are' not forced to \do otherwise by tho evidence —render a verdict of 'Death by natural causes,' 'Heart disease,''and so forth; and therefore the Kegistrar-Ueneials report is made out that way. Now, I say this ad- visedly and after full consideration of the subject, that in an experience of twenty years 1 have known of not a single homicide committed in this oity that wa> notths direct result of drink. And 1 will aUo aid: Of all the unfortunate* that I have kuo*n to be criminally guilty of homicide, aud have suf- fered the last penalties of the law, their con- duct was exenqriary. Tuev were not men naturally criminal, but. by Indulgi g in drink, they brought themselves to their sad condition.' A Prohibition Fallurr,.\ It appears that prohibition iu Iowa falls to keep up the supply of penitentiary convicts, andtaat the contractors of prison labor at Fort Madison are much emlMurassed thereby. The Iowa HtgUlir says of them that \they say they arv losing eight tlmsand dollars a year beoauso th* State cannot furnish tbwm with the number of convicts it contracted IO furnish.\ Let the \ failure of prohibition \ in Iowa be again proclatuied 1— national 7**1- jwranw Auvooau,
