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How Alexander H. Stevens Started in
Life. -...
!Inter-Ocean Letter.

When Stevens was a boy, two sisters, old
maids, attracted by his brightness, adopted,
educated, and destined him for the church.
But few months of the theological train
ing convinced the young student that the
profession had no attraction for him, and
he announced to his benefactors his inten-
ton of exchanging the pulpit for the bar.
Shortly after he was admitted to his new
profession, Il lawsuit arose involving the
estate OF the younger sister, the other hav-
ing in the meanwhile died. He asked her
to let him nanaoe the case I,t,i. lint slaa
fearful OF his experience. preferred looking
for some older lawyer. At last one wrote
to her whom she approved, and having
asked the advice of her friends she confided
the matter to him. The contest was warm,
vexatious, and long; but she came out so
triumphantly of what had been regarded as
hopeless snarl, that she doubled her coun-
sells modest fee. The intercourse between
the two had been by letter exclusively, she
living in the country, he in distant city,
so that the trick which you have already
guessed Stephens had played on her
was, under the circumstances, quite credi-
table. Out of his fee he repaid what she
had spent Oh his education, and his success
in SO delicate a piece OF business was a fine
beginning for a young lawyer.
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HARD ON FOOTE.
The Story of His Two Duels With Ser
geant S. Prsntiss.
From the Paris KentEckian

| From the Paris kentEckian.
This is the substance of the matter we
have heard as detailed by Prentiss:
A. friend of Prentiss was at the point OF
death from an attack of mania-a-potu. For
week his physicians had essayed every
known remedy to put their patient to sleep,
but in vain. Prentiss knew that Foote had
made visit to Texas. He was nursing his
sick friend, when q consultation of the doc
tors was held, and they announced that the
case was hopeless unless the patient could
be put to sleep, but that they would ex-
haust all the means known to the profess
sion.
Prentiss sprang from his seat and said to
the doctors: "Damn it, give him Foote's
book on Texas to read, and will insure it's
soporific effect" The remark of Prentiss
was too good a joke to be kept, and it
reached the ears of Foote, who challenged,
and Prentiss was too much of Southern
cavalier to decline, and they met, and
Foote was wounded and the parties made
friends.
1t happened that the meeting was so no.
torious that very large collection crossed
the river at Vieksburg to witness it, and
among them number of boys, who were
so anxious to get a full sight that they
climbed up many trees about the grounds.
When the seconds had planted the parties,
Prentiss looked around and saw the boys
in the trees, and jestingly remarked: s'Boys,
you had better take care; Foote shoots
mighty wild" This remark was published
i'll the papers, and annoyed Foote to such
degree that he again challenged Prentiss,
who met him a second time as a gentleman
ly solace toFoote's wounded spirit. At the
meeting Foote fired and missed, and Prem
tiss fired his pistol in the air, and the par
ties were again reconciled.
Foote'S Texas dropped still-born from
the press, and it is believed it would be
hard to find copy, valuable as it might
prove as a narcotic.
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The Chrome Business.
LA Crosse Liberal Democrat

LA Crosse Liberal Democrat
There is such thing as having anything
too bad; this chrome business is having a
great run among cheap newspapers and it
is becoming annoying to the people. We
have stood the constant arrival of daubs,
and paid express charges without amurnlur,
until this last indignity was heaped upon
us, and now the lion within US is aroused.
A few days ago the gentlemanly express
man came in with flat package. IN
stinctively we knew it contained colored
pictures of highly -colored females or i'm
possible dogs; but we paid the charges, and
at our leisure opened the package. Not
content with sending us ono, tilere were
three pictures in the package, and to make
the offense the more henious, the confound-
ed sculch came from a Christian paper, the
Christian at Work, or some such improba-
bility. We have boarded those hideous
carricatures for three days. They have
frightened some of our best customers out
of the Office. We took one of them to the
barn, and the COW saw it and has persist
emily refused to give milk since That
picture is a terror. In the foreground is an
old mare and two mule colts, lying down,
all unconscious that right above two wolves
are just ready to pounce upon them. The
artist seems to have throwsl q good deal of
soul into the ears Of the smallest mule colt,
and the tail of one of the wolves is woven
into his hind legs SO perfectly that you
can't tell where leg ends and tail begins.
The whole effect of the picture reminds the
true artist of jar of preserved huckleber-
ries spilled on the cellar-stairs, and stepped
i'll by a number eight foot, in state Of
anxiety. Gone of our frequent visitors says
the picture represents a sheep and two
lambs, instead of a mare and two mule
colts, and instead of wolves there are two
dogs. Well, there is no artistic eye but
has its faults. 1t may be sheep and dogs,
but we would have taken our solemn affi-
davit that they were mules and woIves.)
Bat this is neither here nor there What
we want to illustrate is the cheek of that
Christian at Work. Yesterday was the
holy Sabbath, and we received on that day
a letter from the supreme idiot who runs
the Christian at Work informing IFS that
the aforesaid pictures had been sent us, and
that we were expected to do advertising for
them to the amount Of $50. Now, we are
nothing but poor, weak creatures, and
don't want a row with q stClristian at
Work. but if worse comes to worse we
viii perish honorably with our face to the
foe, before we will do one cents worth of
advertising moro than this article
for those blasted things and the Christian
can work on MS all winter without success.
Twenty dollars! What do you take us for?
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" OUT VEST

Madame Stevenson is singing for the Seat
/ tleites
| A ton of Puget Sound fish is shipped to
Portland every day.
one-half the voting population of Sutter
| county, Cal, are Changers.
Work has been commenced on the Soutb-
ern Pacific Railroad from Delano to Bakers
field.
San Diego, CAL, has had the almost un-
-precedented quantity of 14a inches of rail-,
this season. ., -.,..... . .4
The Patrons of Husbandry have purchased
the Los Angeles Herald. 81 -.t..
California exported last year over one
million gallons of wine and brandy.
Farmers are busiIy engaged in plowine
between Corvallis and Monroe, in Benton
county, Oregon.
The Insane Asylum at Steilacoom is full
ler now than ever before, having about so
inmates
Luckily the report Of an Indian war in
Utah proves to be false. It is horrible to
think what q number of widows and or
phans very small Mormon loss in battle
would create.-Detroit Post.
A Nevada judge, after the jury had been
empanneled and counsel ready to proceed,
pulled out revolver and judicially remark
ed: !" Il any man goes frolicking around
this courtroom during the trial Of this
cause 4 shall interrupt him in his career"
The strictest deeornm prevailed.
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The Efficacy of Prayer.

The Gi1ded Age tells how Uncle Dan'l
and the chifn first saw a Mississippi steam
boat. They were sitting in o row on a log
in warm evening telling about spooks,
after the manner of southwestern negroes.
when Uncle Dan'l said impressively,
"Chiln, dars sumfn comm" A decp
coughing sound troubled the stiffness. way
toward wooded cape that jutted into the
stream mile distant. All in an instant a
fierce eye of fire shot out from behind the
cape and sent q long, brilliant pathway
quivering athwart the dusky water The
coughing grew laudor and louder, tho siar--
ing eye grew larger and still larger, glared
wilder and still wilder. A huge shape de-
veloped itself out of the gloom, and from
its tall duplicate horns dense volumes of
smoke, starred and spangled with sparks,
poured out and went tumbling away into
the farther darkness. Nearer and nearer
the thing came, till its long sides began to
glow with spots of light which mirrored
themselves in the river and attended the
monster like a torchlight procession.
"Chil'n," said Uncle Dan'l, "it's de Al
mighty. Git down on yo' knees" As the
noise and the lights drew nearer, Uncle
Dan'l prayed: go Lord, we's ben mighty
wicked, an we knows dat we 'zerve to go
to de bad place, but good Lord, deah Lord,
we amt ready yit, we aint ready-let desc
po' chil'en had but one mo- chance, .jes' one
mo- chance. Take de old niggah if yous
got to had somebody. Good Lord, good
deah Lord, we don't know whah you's
agwine to, we don't know who you's got
yo' eye on, but we knows by de way yous
a comm, we knows by de way you's tiltin'
along in your charyot Of fiah dat some po'
sinners guyne to ketch it. But good Lord
desc chin don't belong heah, dey's I'm
Obedstown whah dey don't know muffin,
am you knows yo' own sef, dat dey aint
'sponsible. Oh Lord, spah de little chin
away f'm dey flens, jes' let 'em off dis once
and take it out'n de old niggah. Heah is,
Lord, heah | is! De ole niggah's ready,
Lord, de ole --" Here the steamers
whistle screecled fairly in the faces of the
awe-struck group, and Uncle Dan'l, seizing
as many of the chil'n's hands as his own
brawny ones would hold, secured off tow
ards the woods. Looking back they saw
that the boat was rounding point out of
sight. "Well," said, the relieved Uncle
Dan'l deres some folks dat say dey amt
no 'ficiency i'll prah. Dis chile would like
to know whak we'd q been if it warnt fo'
dat prah. OATS it, dat's it,
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SHOCKING CASUALTY.
Fifteen Men Burned in Shower OF
Molten Metal.

A special dispatch to the Pittsburg Post.
dated Johnstown, Pa, February II, says:
One of the most distressing casualties that
has ever occurred in this city took place
this morning, at the Bessemer Steel Works
A cupola, containing five tons of molten
metal, was tapped about o'clock, and
fifteen of the men were detailed to catch
the liquid product in an immense ladle.
This operation was successfully performed,
but as the men were swinging the ladle, it
upset, the contents flowing in such rapid
stream towards the place where they had
been standing, that they were scarcely able
to escape being engulfed alive. AS it was,
the sparks few around them like shower
of lava. Three of their number were
burned to crisp, the flesh literally falling
in charred pieces from their bones.
The others were more Or less injured by
the sparks, but it is thought not dangerously.
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Some of Bisuarck's Maxins.

Taken from His Parliamentary Speeches. t
When pushed to extremes prefer my
shirt to my coat.-[January %, 1864. f1
A question of right can be settled only
with the bayonet in our European quarrels.
-[January %, 1864. & A@ ~
Parties and castles are mutable-they
perish, and new ones arise.-[January %.
1864. s'''
The Kings of Prussia have never been
pre-eminently the kings of the rich.-Feb.
Is, 1865. .--.r ...---s .....-.. e. f.,o-
Whoever makes the most promises is ant
to carry the eleetion.-[Ju Tune i, 1865. rs -
All classes do little smuggling, espec-
tally the nomenclature 1, 1866. fs5. 's'
A great country cannot be governed by
.partisans. Il January 15, 1867. .s2-
Put Germany into the saddle and YOU
will find that she knows how to ride
March II. 1867. "
Governments are like women-the young
est please the most.-[ December 8, 1868. :
It is not possible to hasten the ripening
Of fruit by holding a lamp underneath. -
[April 16, 1862 .s as Is
RI Whoever carries the money bag is the
peoples master.-[ April 2e, 1859.
Every country knows that peace and
security rest in the sword II May 2s, 1869.
q z -
Capitalization is tyranny more OF less
IApriI 16, 1869.
Liberty is a luxury which not every one
can afford. Il May %, 1769. a
People are a great deal more lavish when
they pay out Of a common treasury than
when they pay ont of their own pockets
[June 2. 1871.
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RIFLE BALLS.
Louisville Courier Jonrnf

4 Louisville Courier Journa.
Cleveland has one bar-room for every 131
inhabitants. They have no more respect
for a Son of Temperance in that town than
other people have for the son of horse
thief
1t is said that within the last five years
1913 college students have applied for edito-
rial positions on the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The editorial columns of the Enquirer have
constantly shown for that length of time
that by no means all the applications were
rejected.
t A Kentucky farmer went to Cincinnati
the other day and bought a jug of whisky,
and, when he got home, he found that the
whisky had been poured out and the jug
| filled with water. Thus, by an interposi-
tion of Providence as mysterious as it was
benign and mereiful, the poor mans life
was saved.
cit is said that the daughter Of ex- United
States Senator Edmund G.. Ross, of Kansas,
is one of the rising politicians of that State. :"
When girl undertakes to rise as politi-
clan, especially among the border ruffians
OF the West, her friends ought to hold her
down, even if 1T has to be done with tomb
stone.
The Rev. Geo. Hunt recently removed
from Chatham, Ontario, and settled down
at Pine Lake in the wilds of Michigan.
The circumstance would hardly be worth
mentioning, perhaps, if, in the hurry and
confusion of starting, he had not made the
ludicrous mistake of taking along Mr.. Wal
ter Robinson's wife and children instead of
his own.
An Iowa farmer recently made his son
turn grindstone sixteen consecutive hours
for going home with an old maid from spell
ing-school. If the farmer had Il proper
appreciation of old maids, who are often
among the best women in the world. he
would have blessed the young martyr and
given him q new suit of clothes. And
then the young martyr wouldn't have had
the old rascal brought before magistrate
and fined $40 and costs, which was the way
the thing ended. gs.z
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a New Hampshire Hero.

; ~ Z = E T. f. r.
There is u true hero living at North Bos-
caWe1i, n. H., and his name is Jonathan
Pllmmer. It will be remembered that in
the summer of 1871 an old building at that
place suddenly settled, and one corner Of it
sWayed over on the railroad track. The
passenger train was due in five minutes.
and this Mr.. Plummer, young and active
tracknlan, discovering the danger, promptly
sefxed an axe and cut off post of the
building, in order to swing the structure
from the track. He accomplished his pl,r-
pose, and endeayored to leap from his dan
gerous position, but was crushed and
mangied in the ruins. In moment the
train, behind time, swept by with its pas
sengers LII safety. The brave section-,nan
was found to have been terribly injured in
his spinal column and lower limbs. and to
this day has never been able to leave his bed.
The railroad company has furnished a cot
tage at North Boscawen for himself and
wife, and continue him at half-pay upon
the section-roll. Mr.. Pluinmer Is free from
pain only part Of the time, but in his mis-
fortune he exhibits 4 patience and cheerful
ness that stamp him. with the highest
nobility.
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Stage Love.

There is story told of Nilsson and Ca
poul which, in this connection will be rel
ished by all who have observed and envied
the privileges which, in his impersonation
of lover of Marguerite or Martha, that
ardent lover SO enviably enjoyed. 1t seems
! that the Swedish nightingale, who is as
cold as Swedish snow in her temperament,
has often trembled with suppressed indig-
nation at the caresses Of Capeul, atthe very
moment which the audience have supposed
her to be most responsive to his passion.
On one occasion, however, she had her re-
venge. It was in Faust. Capoul, as that
character. was kneeling in passionate en-
treaty by the prison pallet Of Marguerite.
She, regarding him the while with that look
Of softened, purified passion, which never
fails on an audience, allowed her hands to
rest upon his locks with q caress inefTably
light and tender. In reality she was only
pulling his hair with all her might, and the
unfortunate tenor was nearer giving vent to
higher &C" than ever before.
THE FuerTIvE JEFF. Speaking Of JEFF.
Davis flight to Europe, Washington cor
respondent says: . It is reported that he
said that 'either he or Foote had to leave
this Continent. Foote was obstinate, so
JEFF. went. On better authority we gather
that it was the forthcoming book of Gen.
Joe Johnson's which drove JEFF. to embark
and seek pastures new. It is said that Gen.
Joe johnson, allowed the most severe chap
ter in his manuscripts 70 be expunged, but
from what those say who have read many
ofthe proofsheets Of the forthcoming work,
II is pretty heavy on the abseonding jeff,
and will stamp Gen. Joe johnson as rather.
an unfeeling ssaast who win tel the
truth. But, Al an uurecolistructed Confed-
crate asks, Why il lie going h tell its
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POETRY.
HE GHOST THAT JIM SAW.

><--s
THE GHOST THAT JIM SAW.
(Kansos Pacific Raiznay.)
1873.
Why, as to that said the engineer.
6hosts amt things we are apt to fear
Spirits don't fool with levers much.
And throttle-valves don't take to such:
And as for Jim
What happened to him
was one half fact and tother half whim
Running ene night on the line he saw
A. house-as plain as the moral law
just by the moonlit bank, and thence
Came drunken man with no more sense
Than to drop on the rail,
Fiat as fail,
As Jim drove by with the midnight mail.
Down went the patents. Steam reYerseds
Too late! for there came thud.' jim cursed,
AS his fireman there in the cab with him.
Kinder stared in the face of jim.
And says, What now -
Says Jim, What now?
I've Just run over man--that's howl
The fireman stared at Jim. They ran
Back. but they never found house or man.
Nary shadow within mile.
Jim turned pale, but he tried to smile
Then Oh he tore,
Ten mile or more,
In quicker time than he'd made afore.
Would you believe it the very next night
Up rose that house in the moonlight white;
Ont comes the chap and drops as before
Down goes the brakes, and the rest encore
And so, in fact,
Each night that act
Occurred, till folks swore Jim was cracked,
Iumph! Let's see: it's year now most,
That met Jim East, and says, ''How's your
ghost?'
Gone say Jim, 'and more. it's plain
thought shook
That ghost when took
A place On an Eastern line--bnt look.
What should meet the first trip out,
But that very house that we talked about,
And that self-same man. WELL SAYS /, I guess
Its time to stop this yer fooishness.'
So I crammed on steam,
When there came scream
From my fireman--and it broke my dream
you've killed somebody Says mot much
I've been thar often and thar amt no such.
And now I'll prove it, Back we ran.
And-darn my skin but thar aces q man
On the rail, dead,
Smashed in the head
Now call that meanness ."' That's all Jim said.
Bret Harte, in the New York Times,
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A Tale of Two Cities.

The greatest exploit in railroading ever
achieved in this country was performed a
few days ago, between New Orleans and
Mobile. Lawrence Barrett, the actor, de-
sired to give an afternoon performance OF
Richeliet = in Mobile, and return for an
evening performance in New Orleans. the
same day. The distance from New Orleans
to Mobile is 141 miles. The train started
from the former place at 7:27 Il NJ. and
arrived at Mobile at 1888 A. II. The actu-
al running time, exclusive of stops and
slow time through cities and across bridges
was l6S minutes, or an average Of one mile
for every minute and twelve seconds. Oyer
certain favorable divisions of tile road the
average was a mile q minute Mr. Barrett
gave his performance in Mobile, and started
on his return trip at 5 3e'cIock r. NJ, ap-
pearing as usual at New Orleans in the
evening. Locomotive No. 10, under the
control Of Tim Calvin as engineer, drew
the fast train. The speed was so great that
the head light was shattered. Besides Mr..
Barrett there were the princi pal members Of
the theatrical company on board. The
moDIle performance was pronounced unusll-
all thrllllllg. owing doubtless to the wild
ride which served as rehearsal.
Postmaster Skinner Of Amherst, Mass,
has invented q new mail bag, which he
hopes 10 have adopted by the department
when the present faIIY x,carss ,.e,,,t ,.,,t f
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TOPICS OF THE TIMES.

A man can send a telegraph message from
Lands End IN England to Kirkwell in
Scotland, a distance of 700 miles, at one
cent a word. In this country lie would have
to pay twelve times as much. American
newspapers. nevertheless, devote twelve
times as much space to telegraphic news as
do those of England. =
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- It is not the size Of our standing army
that hurts but the unnecessary number of
officers who sit around Washington, I re
flectivaly remarks the Indianapolis .Ea.rasf,
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Professor Proctor, the English astrono-
mer, treats largely upon the probabilities
of other worlds than this being inhabited,
the conclusion being that, of the inner
planets, Mercury, Venus, the Earth, and
Mars, ON planet only was in condition to
be Inhabited by beings like the dwellers
upon the earth. Mercury and Venus must
be too hot, and Mars too cold. Of the other
planets, their condition was not probably
such as to permit of habitation by creatures
such as ourselves.
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How LONG TO SLEEp.-The fact i ana
as life becomes concentrated, and its n,,,s,,;t,
more eager, siortsleep and rising beeoma,,s
impossible We take more sleep than ~. 4
ancestors, and we take more beca,,se -,
want more. Six hours sleep win do very
wen wen fof mason Or brieklayer or any otha,.
man Ia wi who has oexhaustion but that nro.,,,a
ed BY manual labor; the sooner he taLes 4
after his labor is over, the better. B,t, fo,.
the man whese labor is mental, the strass i.
work is on his brain and neryoas sysfe,,,
and for him who is tired ID the &C.,; ].
with day Of mental application ns;thas s,.,s
early g bed nor early to rise'' is whole
some.
Inc longer the interval between tha -
tive use Of the brain and his rat;,o,,,,.,4 ~ =.
bed, the better his chance for slsen ami : :
freshment. Fohim an hour afterm;,,n;a,,. A
is probaly az good as two hours befors 80
even then his sleep viii not ID, connlata,,. ~.
and quickly restore him as it win his naiah
Dor who is physically tired. ue ,n,,st ,,..
only go 70 bed later, but lie lonoer H;s .,gs
best sleep probably lies ii the earlv II ,,,,,,,
ing hours, when all the nervous exeiten,a,,. j
has passed away, and he ii III abso,,,te 4s ,,,st
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. was e warm Thursday that sevara,
prudent Danbury people mazzlsd thaIr MI,
dogs sass Z. N
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Colonel Wheat, of the Land Department.
at KaIalna, recently sold SIC, 900 worth of
the Northern Pacific Railroad Com i
lands To 4 single purchaser.
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The ruling wages 1T rrescatt j -.
laslfe are from y g oper day, and board q.
from SO to s1a per;week 's'''a =