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ANSWER TO THE MoNEYLEss MAN.

MRS. FLORENCE ANDERSON CLARKE.
There places not secret where Virtue has birth,
Where Charity dwells on this beautiful earth;
Where Mercy and Kindness are joined hand in hand
And PHYS tear falls at the warm hearts command;
There are doors that the least gentle knock will unbar
And others that swing on their hinges ajar,
Giving egress to angels who lovingly scan
The woes and the wants of the moneyless man.
Does he work i? Does he thrive? Is he fairhfnl and
true?
Does he know what man has done, and what he may
do?
Or does he creep on with the sluggards slow pace.
And refuse to take part in ambitions proud race
Does he shrink, while his neighbor, with whole heart
and soul,
Is giving his strength to be first at the goal?
If such be his crimes, pity him. il you call
Content to be scorned as amoneyless man.
Labor taught with the brain, with its stron q skfu
hand,
Has reared princey palaces over the land;
And the who will work will sooner or late,
Cease TO sigh like vagrant at some rich mans gate;
With purple and crims on his walls may be hung,
While the chandeliers light DER the table is hung
With heart brave and free, ere he measures life's
span.
He'll forget that he e'er was moneyess man.
There are churches whose loftiest turre and spire
Have sprung from the depths of some poor boys
desire;
There colleges, hospitals founded by those
Who knew at the outset, stern poyerty's woes;
But they hbored undaunted with hald heart and
brain,
And we know that such labor was never in vain.
That man with his millions. when first he be .an,
Was known on Change moneyless man.
Did he call on the ravens for meat and for bread ?
Or expect that his wife by miracle fed,
While he spent all mis- leisure in looking for banks
That would lend ont their gold for poor DEVILS
thanks +?
Or court where the law so cheap and 90 Free
That a client was welcome with a fee?
No! il he had been of this base, shiftless clan,
He, too would have died as a moneyless man.
Nor do portals of paradise open for
Who has left any work that he could do, undone!
Its honors, its blisses, await the true man,
Who with ten talents trusted, have made other ten.
He il worse than the hcahen who does not provide
For his own; and the Judge of all lives may decide
That brave earnest labor. being part of lfe's plan,
Heaven has no rewards for the moneyless man.
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Probabilities Of Population

There are going to be some disappoint-
ment in 1900, if the orators who used TO
blow about probability of there being 100,-
600, 600 inhabitants in this country at that
epoch survive to see IT. It is easy to fall
into the error of supposing that the rapid
ratio ofincreasing in a new country is going
to last forever. The presumption is going
the rounds in connection with the petition
for mintat Chicago, that, as the six States
of Illinois, Indiana. Kansas, Minnesota,
Nebraska and Wisconsin have now popu-
lation of 5,700, 900 and have increased at
the rate of 64 per cent. in the last decay,
they viii therefore have population Of
25, O00, 900 in 1900. But in the light of the
lessons of the census and oil the constantly
decreasing ratio Of growth, We should say
that these States viii feel very self-con-
graf ulatory in 1900 IL they have popuIa-
tion then rs large as they had in 1870.
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THE BLACK HILLS.
q Sioux City Man in from the Expe-
dition.

Sioux Cry, February 27.-The Sioux
City Journal has q special from Yankton
which says that Eph. Witcher, well
known citizen of Sioux City, an6 member
of the recent expedition to the Black Hills,
arrived in Yankton to-day. He reports
having left his companions at the stockade
of the expedition, within two miles of Har-
ney's Peak, on Box Alder creek, on the Sd
inst. Witcher says the expedition was
composed of twenty-seven men and one
lady and her son. There were six wagons
well armed, some mounted and supplied
with provisions and mining tools. The ex-
pedition left here October 9th; struck the
Niobrara about 120 miles above its mouth;
followed that stream for some distance and
tnen struck across the country to a point
east of the Black Hills on the Cheyenne
river; met party of 200 mounted Indians,
held peacoable parley with them; after
reaching an apparently passable pass at the
foot of the hills they struck into the noun
tains, and after picking their way, reached
a point within two miles Of Harney's Peak;
in fifteen days from the date of their entry
into the hills, they erected a stockade
eighty feet long and built log cabin from
an abundant supply of timber which they
found. The cold weather greatly impeded
their prospecting. They sunk twenty-five
prospect holes and struck gold in every in
stance from the grass to bedrock. They
found numerous gold and silver bearing
quartz lodes, and the specimens Mr. Witcher
has brought back are pronounced very
rich. The party never saw All Indian
while in the hills. Mr.. Witcher describes
parts of the hills they saw as having mag
nifcent valleys, seemingly limitless forests
Of pine, an abundance of elk, deer, and
other game. The greater portion Of the
return trip was made through snow drifts,
over trackless country, in the midst of
stormy and severe weather. They discov-
cred in coming out of the hills, what has
been named winter pass. a good natural
road. This shortens the way out of the
hills by thirteen days. Their animals lived
on grass which they found beneath the
snow. Witcher says he can take loaded
OK team into the hills from Sioux city in
thirty days. The members left in the hills
are in good health and spirits.
Witcher has returned for reinforcements
he says there is no evidence of other parties
being in the hill. Gordon, who came with
him part of the way, was delayed by his
horse CITING out. Nothing has been seen
or heard of the two disastrous army expe.
| ditions sent out to intercept them.
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WHAT THE WITS SAY.

If there is place for everything, where
is the place for boil?-Er.-We would
suggest, in the pot.-Boston Adgertiser.
st. Louis men will stand most anything,
but when stranger says that the ark didn't
rest on the site of st. Louis, that calls for
blood.-C Chicago paper.
A brass band has just been organized in
Mediapolis, and the inhabitants are flying
in wild haste to the grasshopper regions
Burlington Hawk-eye.
The Providence Press says it never heard
in funeral grafton or sermon, and seldom
in private conversation, the opinion ex-
pressed that man with $4,000 income
had gone to hell.
you should tell Vermont man that
carrying six black beans in his vest pocket
wouldn't keep contagious diseases away,
he would set you down as one who believed
the world was fat.-Detro6t Free Press.
Some people don't appear to have any
more sense than bow-legged clam. Nearly
every water pipe and hydrant are frozen
up, and here some maniac sends us six
teen verse temperance poem.-Danbury
Ne,os.
The Boston Sunday Courier says: ''The
tenor and soprano in South End choir
are to be married soon. They met by
chants, the usual way" Perhaps If they
were to in-choir of some married man they
might not duet.-C Commercial Bulletin.
The Washington Chronicle cleaner calls
marriage notices ''news of the weak" This
reminds us that on one unlucky day the
Springfield (Mass.) Republican appeared
with the headline "Finance and Trade"
where Marriages" should have been.
It is said that the Spiritualists recently
found in Italy first-class medium in the
person of baby nine days old. That Ital-
ian infant has embarked in the frauds and
follies Of this world at most too early an
age. It parents should lose no time in per-
suading it to 'ssee Naples and die. ."-Cowr.
Ter Journal.
Says the Cincinnati IImes-The follow
ing atrocious, pernicious, obnoxious, dele
tarious, pestiferous, deplorable, depraved,
execrable and diabolical pun was perpetrat-
ed by the Missouri Republican: "Political
geography class, stand up! Which state ad-
joins the District of Columbia?" Chorus,
''Virginia." "Wrong! you idle heathen-
Tennessee-it's Absent to Washing
ton.'
On Thursday night, when a sixth street
man had to go to Wyandotte On business
which detained him all night, his wife
hardly slepta wink from fear that he would
get hurt, yet he hadn't been home over an
hour yesterday morning, when it took two
policemen to unclasp her fingers from his
hair and pry her teeth off his ear.--Detroit
Free Press.
A Detroit gentleman walking behind two
| children the other day heard the boy in
quire, "Will you be at the party tonight
81 shall be there" answered the Miss,
''but may as well tell you now that your
love is hopeless. Mamma is determined,
father is set, and it isn't right for me to en-
courage your attention. / can be siste,
to you, nothing more. Therefore you
| needn't buy me any valentine or give me
any more gum. ."-Detroit Press.
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Postal Palaces on Wheels.

Three cars, styled the s'Palace Drawing
room Postal Cars of New England" have
just been completed at Allston for the Ros-
ton and Albany Railroad ompany. They
are sixty feet in length, the longest on the
road, are constructed of the choicest mater
ials, are finished in hard wood in natural
colors, and provided with all the modern
improvements ingenuity could suggest. A
large and novel lamp, manufactured by the
company. and having four burners and four
large refectors, is suspended from the room
of each car, giving ample light. About twen-
ty feet in length of each car is partitioned
as store-room for through mails, while the
remaining space is divided into section s
devoted to different purposes. The section
in the miadle is intended for letter-sorting.
Another section is specially designed as a
newspaper department., and still another
section is used as receptacle for bags, and
is provided with racks, hooks and other con-
veniences for facilitating the making up of
the mails. Each car is provided with water
CdtlkS stIu ScI UOWlS SliuIldE W buOoc III pssl-
ace passenger-cars. In the letter depart
ment Of each car are four hundred and sew
enty boxes with wire-netting bottoms, which
prevent accumulation of dust, while the
newspaper department Of each has twenty
seven boxes, and the whole are labeled
with the names of the postal stations and
the principal postal routes in the country.
When leaving Boston these cars each require
four clerks or route agents, but when re-
farming to Boston only two clerks are re-
quisite. These cars make runs of four
hundred miles day, but the postal clerks
only run half that distance. ado.
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NELL1Es HUSBAND AS A BOXER.
A Set-to with the Cast-Iron Man-Eng-
lish Sports at the American Court

Sartoris, accompanied by several mem
bers of the foreign legation, paid a visit re-
Gently to the Washington gymnasium. At
| this establishment Charley Collins, the pu-
| gilist, better known as the Cast-Iron Man,
who, in April, 1867, fought George Rookie
for 50, 900 and the middle weight champion
ship, is the teacher of boxing. During the
visit of Sartoris and his friends Collins was
teaching a pupil. Sartoris made remark
which riled the pugilist. The Cast-Iron
Man asked Sartoris elf he could do any
better" Sartoris' friends urged him to put
on the gloves. Sartoris then took the gloves
and pretended lie did not know how to put
them on. The pugilist smiled, and told
his pupils that he would take the conceit
out of his unknown. opponent. The pre-
liminaries were quickly arranged, and the
contest commenced. The Cast-Iron Man
rushed at his adversary, thinking to end
the contest in one round. Sartoris warded
off the sledge hammer blows of the pugilist
and returned left-hander on the Cast-Iron
Mans month. drawing the claret, and then
rapidly changing off, delivered a straight
right-hand blow ON the Cast-Iron Mans
nose, and knocked him down, much to the
surprise and chagrin of the pugilist's
friends. In the second round Sartoris had
the best of the sparring, and administered
a storm of blows ON the pugilist's face, and
fought him down. In the third round the
Cast-Iron Man was again forced down, and
declined to continue the contest.
Sartoris was borne from the scene amid
loud cheers from his friends The Cast
Iron Man said that he was sick, but would
meet his unknown opponent again.
A second meeting was arranged, and Sar-
toris was again the victor, giving the Cast
Iron Man sound drubbing, and making
him acknowledge that sometimes amateurs
are superior to professionals. The affair has
created quite sensation, and the athletic
young Englishman is the lion Of the day
among the muscular young gentlemen with
whom he associates.
1t is said that Sartoris and Baron Bou-
siere have undertaken to revive boxing, and
that they are trying to persuade some of the
ladies Of the Court to organize an archery
club, with becoming uniform. York
Sun.
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THE MosT WONDERFUL. VALENTINE ON
REcoRD.A young lady received on S.st,u-
day box by express. She found iu it a
bee7s heart pierced with Il golden arrow of
elegant manufacture, set with jewels. and
estimated to be worth at least $75 1t is
probably intended to be used either as a
neck-pin or as an ornament to the hair
There was not the least intimation who is
the giver. nor can the lady Of her family
imagine who sent it. Enr the donor Of so
muniicent a gilt he shows ]. strange taste
in sending such a remarkable valentine to
a lady. a pet dog had the heart for his
dinner, but what to do with tho pin the
lady can hariis determine Tie gift surely
cannot be intended for an INSULT. and is
probably the result of SO ne osi, cunceit.--
Trey Press.
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NEWSPAPER DECISIONS.
EvE-ANGELICAL CORNER.

The worth of woman-double you, o,
man.
A dilletanti Boston lady being helped to
chicken said she "preferred the waist"
They call her Jake for Short but her real
name is Ranolvalomapjaka, Queen of Mad
agascar.
The French Minister of Justice has just
learned that young lady executed thirty
years ago was innocent.
The lady who advertised a lecture on the
subject of Moods" was disgusted at not
having the "first person present"
For making 72 button-holes and sewing
70 buttons and 36 "stays" on flannel shirts,
sewing-girl in New York gets 25 cents.
| a granddaughter OF Thomas jefferson
is in Washington with her son seeking a
Government appointment as means of
support.
| A girl in the lower part of Buffalo wanted
to get married. Her mother said, no! The
maiden then petitioned to be allowed to go
to the theater she said that she wanted to
have some fun.
Two handsome New Hampshire girls
have this winter thrashed forty-eight BUSH
els of wheat with fails, set up with beaux
every Sunday night, shot a hawk and
| spelled school down.
The latest fashion in gloves--the happy
thought of Mime. Alexandrisa, the ''glovist"
is white kid with an unlimited number
! of buttons, and around the wrist of which
is embroidered bunch of flowers. 1t is
called la Medict.
Harper's Bazaar states that the shoes worn
by ladies at present are far more sensible
| than those lately in fashion. The design
now is to give symmetrical shape and ease
| to the foot rather than to cramp it into
unnatural smallness.
A Troy fool got beef's heart, put a
gold arrow worth $75 through it, and sent
it to Troy young woman for valentine.
The fair creature gave the heart to her
poodle, but will keep the arrow.
Mrs. Lovit, of Springfield, Mass, has
forced her husband and three grown up
sons to take board at neighbor's, as she
finds it impossible to spare time for house.
work while the Tilton-Beecher trial is going
on. She is slow reader, and gets up at
daylight.
One of the boys just before returning to
Cornell, the other day, sent young lady
friend of his cake of Lubin's finest varie-
ty of toilet soap, with the request that she
would draw no inference on receiving such
a gift. The next day the young man was
somewhat astonished when he received a
letter from the young lady containing the
present of fine-tooth comb, with the
request that he would draw no inferencei
therefrom.
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A Walk Around ths World.

From the Wilmington {Del.) Gazette.
Mr.. Mark 5rason, Of Richmond, Va, is
now in this city training for the prodigious
and hitherto uninterrupted feat of walking
around the world. Several weeks ago Mr.
Grason, backed by Leon Mccarthy, entered
into wager of $25, COO with j. p. Wilkin-
son and Thomas L. Murdock (the parties
being all from Richmond, Va.,) that he
could walk around the world in 600 days,
The distance to be included in the entire
route is 1926 miles, which will make q
daily average of little over thirty-two
miles. Under the terms Of the agreement,
which have been accepted and signed,
Grason is to start from the City Hall, New
York, ON Saturday, April 8, 1875, and to
return to the same place Thursday, Nov.
%, 1876. Part of his trip viii be ON the
ocean steamers, during which time he viii
make up his daily average by walking on
ship, board. lie will be accompanied by
Mr.. Mccarthy and some persons sent out
by the other parties to the wager. The
exceptions included in the agreement are
delays occasiOned by assault or unavoidable
accidents. Mr.. Grason is twenty-eight
years old, five feet seven inches high,
weighs 139 pounds. and has been known in
Richmond in the various capacities of an
actor, author and pedestrian. During the
excitement occasioned by Weston's walks,
he started out in the pedestrian line, and
soon accomplished a walk of 100 miles in
twenty-four hours. During the Seymour
and Blair campaign, In 1868, he walked
from Richmond to OMAHA, Neb., distance
Of about 1900 miles. He carried the Stars
and Stripes, and made 1928 Democratic
speeches on the way at various places. He
now claims to be the champion pedestrian
af the world.
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RULES ON POKER.
By General Skunk.

1. Don't buy but half as many chips at
the start as the other players. The expec-
tation is that you will win, and if you lose
it is better to borrow or 'sowe" up.
2. Never ante up till some one tells you
to, and then say that you have and stick to
1t, which will generally persuade some one
else to 'scome in'' twice. This rule, though
an excellent one, must followed with dis
cretion. IF practiced too often it is liable
to produce unpleasant feeling.
3. Toward the end Of the evening it is
always better to 'owe'' up your ante for a
minute than to 'put up" as the winner of
the pot frequently forgets to charge up the
debts, and none of the other players will
remind him, as they may wish to do the
same thing.
4. When the credit system begins to
creep in, as it generally does about the
middle of the game, you should always
''owe" up if possible, and bet chiefly against
those who always "put'' up. This is one
of the most important rules. To win in
cash and lose on credit is the greatest Sc
cret of successful poker playing.
5. In dealing always observe the bottom
card, which you can easily do before the
cut. Then, by noticing how thick a cut
is made, you can tell whether that card
goes out. This may help you in the
draw.
6. Keep sharp eye on the discards.
They may be of service if your draw is not
satisfactory.
7. When you are Sin luck" watch your
opportunity from time to time, to put some
of your checks in your pocket without be.
ing seen. This will enable you to ''owe
up" if luck turns, and will prevent youl
being borrowed from.
8. When any one wants to buy more
checks, and you have plenty, get him to
buy of you, if possible, in preference to the
bank. 1t enables you to conceal the amount
of your winnings, and, besides, the bank
may not be able to pay up.
8. When you are chipping out fol
uIAiAs, w., pun O oiSdA 4A JouA PoSAo
every once in while. You are sure to bt
SO much ahead of the game, and they come
in very handy, even when you don't smoke
10. Never permit anything to make yor
forget for moment that the whole objec
of your game is to save your own none!
and secure somebody else's, and let every
thing you Go, however trifing, tend to thi
| desirable end.
II. When the game is over, if you ar
winner, deny it entirely, or fix the figure a
low as possible; if you are loser, declar
that you have lost twice as much as yo1
really have. This rule is never departe,
from. The money lost at game of poke
always foots up four times as much as tn
money won.
| 12. When it is inconvenient to avoi'
paying your poker debts entirely, use dir
elimination in the matter. Debts to pei
sons whom you are not likely meet yer
often you can avoid. Many players feel
delicacy about asking for poker debt
these are safe ones to pay.-Cincinna
Times.
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Elephant Laborers.

1t would be tool long TO relate all the uses
to which the elephants are applied in Bur-
NAH. Let us watch them at work among
the wood yards where the trunks of tick
wood trees, which come floating down the
river, are piled. Every working elephant
is mounted by driver called a "cornac," ;"
whose principal business is rather to excite
the animal THAN to direct it,
In the season when the roads are cut the
trunks come down Ghe bar much faster than
they can be disposed of in the saw mills,
and they accumulate in vast quantities all
along the banks. 1t is necessary, therefore,
to drag the trees out of the water and ar
range them in piles until such time as they
can be cut up. There are only three sorts
of piles, varying with the size of the trees.
First an elephant il, the water clears the
logs from the mass and ranges them one by
one upon the river bank. He carefully ex-
amines the chaos OF logs and proceeds with
tusks and trunk to disengage the tree he
has selected and which he intends to carry
10 land. AS soon as the tree u placed on
the bank another elephant is harnessed to
it and drags it to the woodward, where he
leaves it. Two other ELEPHANTS now come
up, and one of then, takes one end of the
log upon his trunk and drags it to the pile
upon which, in view of its size. it onght to
be placed, while his companion assists him
by pushing the log with all his might As
soon as they reach the proper pile the first
elephant lifts the top Of the log upon the
pile, then he forms u kind of ring around
the log with his trunk, while the other with
a vigorous blow Of his head shaots the log
| into lis place. The intelligence displayed
BY these animals is almost incredible. and
we should scarcely have believed il II we
had not seen their nls,vem.nss as described
alssye.
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Largest Diamond in the United States.
San Francisco Chronicle.

San Francisco Chronicle.
The largest diamond in the United States
in among the glittering objects OF interest
in the show window of Colonel Andrews
Diamond Palace, on Montgomery street. 1t
attracted great deal of attention yester-
day. Its weight is 81 tie karats. 1t was
found in Africa two years ago, and was
taken to Amsterdam, where it was cut and
polished. Twenty-Five months were occupi-
ed in snbjecting it to these processes. 1t is
slightly offcolor, and consequently its valno
is only placed at $50, 600. Colonel Andrews
brother, residing in London, secured the
gem and forwarded it to this city. The next
largest diamond in America is owned by
Boss" Tweed, and weighs 579 karats.
The late Jim Fisk had one of 10 karats
weight. The most valuable diamond owned
in San Francisco up to this time ID in the
possession of Floyd Teyis, and is said to be
worth $4,000.