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The red aamlngo nc~ up from the south,
from the land all wibercd and rsrched Nth drouit
lie CLEANED on the ~ nkc . asmins brspd,
Blown from burning prsire land.
lie waded deep through fhe ssrk merss-, ...fI
In the ssmphire hcSs and the cool danh srs.s.
when the wind blew east, 10 the sea he went,
Rel As the sun In the nruamen,.
And turned aside, with h look aslant,
Al the dsadiy eye Of tho commant. ur.I
And the eagle, old with hundred years,
Prom the height Of his vaulied eyre peer.
when the wind blew west 10 the fields he prd,
Where the bluc-eyed gentisn lifts its head
And the dew flushed ned 10 s,arlet dye
On the lil,'s breast, Is he hoaied by;
And here aud there In the silent dell
Prom his wing a scarlet feather FELL
lie sailed on his way a the mariner sails,
With ssous hesrts fearing NOT winds nor gales.
On and On through the land be went,
fhs feet aud royal messenger sent,
Till he came q, last 10 an ancient town
Never on mqp or chart laid down.
His weariei wings beat soft and low,
For the dreary streets we're Of mufied snow.
The houses were counted by two and two,
And the footsteps numbered we're faint and few.
The ships that had sallcd TO that silent shore
We're hound, snow-locked without mast or oar.
The shroods had vsnishsd--a dresry wreck,
with the tropic bird, the lonely deck.
Hi eye grew dim In the cold, wan light,
And his roysl Plumase blanohei snow-white.
lie strAisei his gazr 10 the farthct north.
And again on nuttering wings went forth,
And sailed away, with his plumsge psle
Forever hid BY snowy veil.
Whether he drifted eat or ~est,
And gssed on mighty mountain crest,
OF glorious SEA with turrets high,
Reaching Tar up to the polar sky,
or droopcl in death on a waste Of snow,
His srret none shall ever tnow.
He lived his life on his GRAND sent,
And tracked the path Of q continent.
whoever hes crUs.ed 10 that silent strand
Has passed beyond 10 an unknown land.
Buried IN snow. and under the gates,
Proven and stark the sentinel waits
TIL the snow shall be lifted from of his breast,
And the railway cleared TO the great northwest
-4,aHftc Monfhig
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POt0tc0f Hetes.
THE majority for the ratification O,
The new constitution Of Alabama will not
be lcss than $1,000, and may reach
5000. Only four counties gave A ma.
Joriiy against IL; the remaining Vi sty-one
gave maJorites in favor " Il.
| SoNE Of the Radical papers Of Peppsyl.
vania are talking of Hartranft for Prc.i.
dent in 1876. Hartranft is coming nm
wonderfully. A few years ago he would
gladly have sold you, for the simple
Office Of constable, all his hopes Of higher
position.
DEMOCRATS have charged for years"
says the 1t. Louis Globe. Democrat, "tbat
the Administration is corrupt" And
the Administration for years has abund.
antly substantiated the charge.
The New York World, after reviewing
the last message Of the President and the
national platform of the Republicans,
makes the following neat carom: "And
now we ask why, IL the civil service il a.
rotten as the President and the National
Republican Convention have declared il
to be, and since nothing has been done
after 80 much has been promised TO recen.
crate 1t, should the Republican party he
again trusted with its controlg'
New ORLEANS Bulletin: Eyes. ssr.,
said an old negro. "Yes, sar, Pe gwine
into polyticks, is. Use gwine to vote
for the judges and SIGH like, an fore
God. Use gwine 70 vote for Grant, an
den Fse gwine to run for de Legislature,
an from .dar Pse gwine 10 de peni-
tentumary. knows, I does, Mr.. Brown
done tole me that II am Jest one step from
de one to the odder, an dat in de peni-
tentumary nigger dey get board an
close for nothing. Yes, sAr, lee gwine
into poly ticks, 1 is"
CHIEF-JusTIcE WHITE, Of Utah, the
author of the Force bill, is thus alluded
to by the Mobile Register: Had he LIVED
in the days Of Juda, Iscariot, he would
have pocketed the silver, and instead Of
hanging himself would have rotten q
District. Attorneyship under Pontius
Plate. Had he been in the place of
Peter, the cock would have cracked its
throat growing before he would have
gone out and wept for turning his coat.
LUDINGToS being the only State on
Ger the Republicans elected in Wisconsin,
they do not seem to talk SO much about
a banner State" in that connection.
Ludington went sin ly and alone to
Madison, the State capital, and got his
certificate. If the Democrats succeed in
demonstrating that Ludington got his
small majority through the votes Of wild
Indians in some of the northwestern
counties. he will have to step down and
out yet
THERE are now in the country Al, 600
tons of coffee; add to this probable re-
ceip;s for the next four months 46, 900,
and the stock will equal $4,000. The
consumption to April I, say SO, 500, will
leave on hand at that date 81, 500, about
equal tosix months consumption for the
whole United States. If the holders of
this stock can secure a restoration of the
duty, say at three cents a pound, this
will take from the people and put into
the hands of the operators about sS,O0O,-
100, or at six cents per pound the specu-
lators will gain $1,000 900 by the opera
ton. They will probably attempt to
show Congress that the country demands
this breakfast table tax.
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Exposure Of the Whsskv Rsss.

William Grosvenor writesa long letter
to the New York Herald exposing the
whisky ring of st. Louis. 1t is u dam.
aging exposure of the Administration.
He says:
The ring openly boosted that 1t had q
power at Washington which could not be re-
sisted nor broken. Moreover, the members
undoubtedly believed II themselves. That
is the mysterious part Of the whole business.
No man who watched the proceedings Of
these people can possibly doubt that they
were absolutely fearless Of exposure, and
perfectly convinced that their power was
greater than that Of Secretary Bristow him.
self. Repeatedly they boosted, even after
the exposure had begun, that they would
have him out of the Cabinet within a few
days. At one time they named the day on
which Delano would become Secretary of
the Treasury. They did not go about like
men who had anything to hide. Diamouds,
for which official salaries would not account,
were worn openly, and purchased, several
thousand dollars worth at time, without
attempt at concealment officials with mod
crate salaries lived with their families at no.
tells, spending obviously more than their
known income, and yet made open pur-
chases Of costly summer residences. II
whisky operators or discharged revenue
officials threatened to make exposures ct
Washington, they were calmly invited to
expose and be -" not blessed. One at
least tiled il, made a dead failure, came
IN sslA hal ~. k.A
better keep his mouth shut in future, or he
would get sent to the penitentisry for de.
frauding the government
When Mcdonald, nov indicted, went 10
Washington, he was received by the Presi.
dent aud rode with him on the avenue.
When the President visited ST Louis Nc
Donald was usually in his company, and Is
late as October, 1874, when the President
visited the Fair grounds. in the presence Of
fifty thousand people, Mcdonald WAS by his
side. II Was currently reported at that time
that, having praised a horse at the Fair, the
President received II the next day ~ pres
sat from his friend Mcdonald, that be per.
mitted the officials there To have a carriage
manufactured expressly fdf him, and to pay
his bill at the hotel. How many Of these
stories were falsely set shoat by members Of
the Ring. in order to Strengthen their claim
of great influence with the President, l can.
not say. But one thing is certain, this Ring
had seine peculiar power at Washington,
and the investigationwll not be eomplste til
the nature Of that power is thoroughly made
known. The President owes il 10 himself TO
have that thing exposed, II nothing else. As
il stands, the matter is both ugly and mys-
FERROUS. The Ring actually had a great
powsr al Washington boosted that II had
absolute power-and apparently believed IL
and yet members Of il have been con.
yioted. Ieonfess that these things lead me
TO suspec, that somsbody, known TO be in
luential with the President, traded ON that
influence, received money for il, and made
members OF the Ring believe thss the Psesi-
dent himself winked at the conspiracy.
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spsrsssss nsss - sAe zsrs.

A correspondent Of The st. Louis 0isas-
Democrat writes the following 10 that
paper. The remarkable incidsnt vhieh
he chronicles occurred ms recent ssonsss
at Terre Haute, Indiana: Allow me to
make brief statement concerninga lock
of hair which I cut from the head of an
apparition, and saw return, seemingly Of
its own accord, 10 ths head Of the ghost
and TO the yeSy spot whsre It belonged.
I only allude to this again because Ger
tain parties, witnessing the same thing,
have confidently asserted that the trss
which ] clipped from the crown Of the
lady in white evidently Travelled back to
its place by means Of a 6nely-spun wire.
Now, q simple statement Of the facts
will readily show how impossible this
was. r
The appsrition kneeled before me,
threw her long raven tresses forward, a.
lowing me to make my own selection.
Cutting of large lock, close t. the scalp,
drew it carefully through my hand,
then passed it to others; 1t was handed
round perhaps dozen persons examined
it after this II was returned to the APP
partition, who remained in her kneeling
posture close by me. Taking the hair into
her hands, she stretched IT out, laid 1t on
white handkerchief right under my
eyes, and in full view Of all the company,
then folded the handkerchief over IL.
Having done this she retired
within the cabinet, and closed the door,
which placed her at the distance Of at
least nine feet from the lock Of hair.
While the door was yet closed the
handkerchief deliberately unfolded ss II
lifted by invisible fingers, and the hair
began to move. l now placed the Angers
of my right hand upon the carpet, slowly
and carefully sweeping them entirely
round the 'kerchief, thus making It
doubly sure that no fine thread or wire
connected the hair in any way with the
being from whose head had clipped II.
Very soon the lock of hair bounded from
the handkerchief onto the carpet, and be-
gan moving towards the cabinet. Before
it reached the threshold the sPparition
opened the door aud came out. The
hair leaped upon her white akirt, and
slowly climbed to her shoulder; fsem
thence il suddenly sprsDg 70 her crown,
and seemed to plant itself upon the very
.,o, from which il had been taken.
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LeSsure.

III l had leisure ! would repair that
weak place In my fence" said = farmer.
tie had none, however, and while drink
ing cider with neighbor, the cows broke
in and injured a prime piece Of corn.
"If had leisure" said a wheelwright
last winter, would alter my stovepips,
for ! know il lie not safe. But he did not
find time, and when his shop caught IRE
and burned down he found time TO build
another. "If l had leisure" said
mechanic, al should have my work done
in sson." The man thinks his time has
been all occupied, but he Was not At work
till after sunrise he quit work ut i've
O'Clock, smoked cigar after dinner, and
spent two hour on the street talking
nonsense with AN idler. "If ! had leis-
ure, said merchant, 81 would pay more
attention TO my accounts, and would try
and collect bills more promptly" 1he
chance ID, my friend, II you had lsisare,
you would probably pay les st.sstpn to
the matter.
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BOOK AND JOB OFFICE.
G,sss fssss ~ Rs. sssn.

| IT,. ...sl 4. i;r.,~ - Al. r. -
" "
'"e n,'" ~'" e'n' c"s..y UP
pear ohiy a"W mon'ns aeo ftessoent
Grant goaded into speech by the action
Of the Pennsylvania Republicans, who
then deepaired Of success, made this
oraculaY utterancc n. IN his v;ev. u,op
this great question:
Nov Tor the third term. do not vanth
any more than did at hrst l would sct
write or utter word to change the win Of
the people In expressing and having their
choice. The question Of the number Of
terms allowed TO any one Excessive can only
come up isirly in the shspeof proposition
70 ue,,,,s ~. oon n,, u .n,cn
shs lsr1sh =, ,;m. :, -, ~. p "n'rhI. !, .a...
FOR which snv one n.r.on shall n, sl;s;hI.
for the once Of President Undl suH An
amendment is sdopted the people can not
be restricted in their choice BY resolution
further than they are restricted as 70 ssc,
nativity etc. IL may happen In the future
n r' o. INC county 'Ss' !" es,. IN
~ es,". IN, .. s'aw. ".s..,n..,. 49, a.
ss,rous. tn. id,. that snv man couId elect
MN nl%'sn rrss'aen', or even reaon'ns.s Nm
~" ,n,I p .nS ,.,.s..,. =, ~ ' I
nj, 10 ,unnoss .uch . sh,ns A.v ma, r..
destroy his chances for the once. but no
one can force an election or even nouiss.
ton. l''l. =.
To recspitulsse. I sm not, nor have
ever been, 9 candidate for reBomiustion. I
would no, accept a nomination II IL ysss
rendered, unless Il should come uadsr s.sA
circumstance ~ 70 "ess u an Impressive
'" ". Lo.'. s. aes nAs.s 70 ~
ps..i,., go - 800 asV' - o ~.
- sns o, as . uen,e..u " ns WI
G.n.,a, p;. W.. 90 ~. ,.,,.S ~
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Chicago Tribane. |

The Empress EUgenie, the match
maker of two hemispberes, persuaded
Countess Valentine dc Chimay, beauti-
full. good, and rich, to marry the Prince
de Beaufiremont, handsome, bad, and
poor. The only points on which the
two agreed we're good looks and youth.
These proved insufficient to keep them
together The Prince went on the Mex
lean expedition; the Princess stayed at
home, led a spotless life, and wrote him
long letters which he did not take the
trouble to answer. When he returned
abe went to Brest to meet him. But he
had already started for Paris. She pur-
sued him there, only to find that he had
left for his chateau. He wrote thence
his first letter to her, after an absence of
two years. 1t was composed of these
touching words:
Madame: What have you done with my
shirts2 | don't find them in the drpoire.
When the two finally met in Paris, il
was only to separate. The Prince began
a scandalous life. The Princess sued for
q separation. 1t took her seven years to
- - 49,, n.;,hor 80 ND
all. 49, .a.;n avsn or,er tbe .eno.
ration de corps had been decreed. But
meanwhile the Princess had fallen in
49," ,y.mas.;. 80 80. honn1 40
- a.. U.r;.. a.. Ill -. ao,na
A. - 80 !, mas
ar 81 % n,..San .nd h.d h.r..I,
n.,nray;,od q. . S.xon Tben shs rot
.L-a,,,,. ill.,, r.. 49,,
- IT. NV. - no 1901 A.
har civil m.,,;,re on,.;de IF Eran..
pn, a ,.I;a;ous d;tt;cul,v ramsin.J Ths
C.,hra;o Chu,.h ,.n,d;.,es a;,o,o. tn.
por. won,J moi .anc,ion a rama,,;ace
The Princes. de ResufYremont recei we'd
Tho news calmly abiured Rom.nism
nr,h With and became a member Of tho
Greet Church The Greek pris.t a,
and mid he xonlJ perlorm the ms,,;.os
,ervice for her provided the Emneror Of
the Russian, would give nj. consent
That ,ot.nts,e had the case laid hefo,e
him and made no objection Every.
thing was Legal "A far as Russian laws
and @;reek Catholic rules we re- concerned
The religious marriage was promptly
performed in Dresden. and the civil mar.
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ANIDYI OF rHE wosELLE.

II was evening in the ancient town OF
Trier: the Auaelus waS ringing down
from the great fortress. like Dom: the
little carts and stalls had vanished ont
of the market.place. arI the carved
saints. clustered ON the fountain. smiled
bepivnlv in the setting sun. Old wosaep
in strange henAdresses. beads and books
in hand, passing in and out of st. Con
dolphus curious gates; Young girls, with
lopc fair plaited hair. moved in groups
ae,os, the o,,,n speco; brilliant urifo rms
sbone uoon the balconies of the Rothe
Hans. IN, shopkeepers in the. queer
l;,,le peated houses stood at their doors
and amused themselves: while the awful
plsck arches of the Porta Nigra frowned
more grimIy than ever in the glowing
I;cb, and the cav and ouaint little fres-
Coz. at the street corners seemed to blaze
out with new color at its touch. One
particularly high-peakcd roof was sud
denly covered with flock of white
pireons slrhting 10 rect, and at the
same moment face appeared at little
open window among the birds, looked up
and down the directs and was Withdrawn
again. The face belonged to a young
girl, and the room INTO when she with
drew was pleasant and neat II a little
bare. a work'table at the window
showed that y wss the home OF seam
stress Ah','e Shrine hu"g III corner
win uny lamp burning, m" r"ue
pictures deeera'eu tne Walls ine gii'
was cio'heu IN a hoi'uay 'iss' Vi uaH
green stun win "h,'e siee'es anu
sp'eu' anu wore ''a'~' mower Ia nei
e'es. 'ae nsa 80 . ~ 49, oSen -
.Ao', anu ~, '', "a ~ "aI' -
wv 'o"s so'''" '''''' ''o"' nv ' "
"'' ~ ~ ,,., s.,n, n. ..;,,o
~ s ~. ~. nv n. -. .o ~. A.. .""
wy
nave n'essaee ioi !ou' hnesoenN'
l met MARI anu nc 'o'a me W e', you
ne souiu no. see you 'o'nish" nc Is
suddenly SEM on business
"A look OF disappointment ciouded her
face; but, after few moments OF silence,
she SAD
How good it is that they find him so
useful! Butco Max, YOU shall not be
disappointed of your excursion. You
and ! will go for our walk, and | will
take you Tor a peep at our cottage.
Max snatched his hat, which he had
flung of in disgust, and, locking the
door behind them, the sister and brother
descended many stairs and took their
way through the streets and out by the
Ports Nigra into the country. -
Look here, Max, did you ever soc
anything No gloriously blue as the Mo-
selle this evening" Could you bear to
live away from III How glad am that
our new home will be near il! And
look, how magnificent the red light is
upon the vine covered banks, with the
crimson earth glowing between! How
the tall dark poplars and the golden
acacias seem TO thrill as they bask in
this wonderful light! II had been a
man, Max, I should certainly have tried
To be an artist. Karl laughs at me when
| nay 80; he does not care for such
things, and gets annoyed when ! talk
about them; and yet never saw half
the beauty Of things till he loved me"
How many people are out walking
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GRAssBoPPERs are making their sp-
pearance in alarming numbers in the
northern districts Of South Australia.
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will he 10 live there, Max, with all the
flowers growing In at ones windows
And Karl IL providing this home for me
All, little Max, this looks rather like
loving one, doesn't itsp
Max was silent. and kept his face
turned away. with a slight frown on hi.
brow.
al wish I could suddenly grow big.
Krescenz," he said abruptly.
The sister laughed. "My dear, you
must wait" she said. eayly. "Bye and
bye you shall COPY your brother Karl.
and il you can manage 10 grow like him
you will do very we'll. In the meantime
you are not quite 20 small as you were.
my boy, when I first took YOU in nv
arms and carried you about our poor
garrett, trying TO put you to sleep.
Mother had died the dsy before I was
ten years old. and YOU were only born. I
was very little nurse, wasn't I? But
il seemed to me that my heart was a
hundred years old. How proud was Of
you, and how | loved you"
"And you worked for me, didn't you,
Kresceuz"
"Ah, didn't II We were alone in the
world, you and me. ] paid a poor old
woman-a very, very old woman, who
could not do anything elisa penny
day for taking care Of you, and worked
for us two. ] was a strong little girl,
and as industrious as a bee. People
gave me work TO do; it was very hard
until was about fourteen, and then I
learned to sew, and things began TO be
better. At sixteen | was able to rent a
little room for myself, and no bring home
my little brother. All, Max, how often
have we been hungry together! and yet
you are brave boy for your age. 1 have
pulled you through the worst, and now
God has taken US both into happiness
and safety. No more scanty crusts for
you. No more sitting up all night, sew
ing by candle, for me. No more pinch
ing at the heart when rent day is coming
rornd. Who could have thought of It,
that Karl, whom every one admired,
should have sought out me? I did not
accept him hastily, Max, for wa.
afraid he might change his mind afraid
that he did not know what he was say
ing. or that he did not know perfectly
how much people thought of him. But
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Eowis fo.nssr hal = peculiar fond.

EpwIs FoRRssr hal a peculiar fond.
per- for dogs As you assembled the main
stairway ofhis residence in Philadelphia
you faced On the first landing the paint
ing Of the Dog Of Montargis,' which he
habitually characterized To his visitors as
portrait Of the best friend he ever had
in the world-the friend which had fol.
lowed him in the varying and trying for.
tunes of his early life, and more than
once played with him on the boards of
the Western towns when he srscd the
character in that now almost forgotten
melo drama. -
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A SAN FRAScisco judge decided, the
other day, that the marriage of m uncle
with his niece was perfectly legal, as the
dat p,e- Of California were silent on the
subject, andonly interdicted bigamy and
the marriage Of whites and blacks. The
parties have been married twenty years,
but ms their plea for separation was con.
sanguinity, the bond could not be dis.
united until the Legislature passed
special act.
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II appear from the criminal and judi
cial statistics Of Ireland for 1874, com
piled NY ". Nelson Hsnecck, which
have JUS, beea issued, that the ameunt
of serious crime in Iceland has been
diminishing for the past four YEAR, and
the number Of indictable offences in 1874
which was 6,662, is less than in any year
since 1864 There, il a, remarkable de-
rrAss IN tse<s dan .ofSH-e-, which have
fallen from s24 the average in 1893
to 23S, the average for the past two year..
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NOTWITHSTANDING the law passed by
CoDsre~sa few ycan ago, the wsnton de,
-truction Of game on the Western plains
continues Gov. Thaycr, OF Nebraska,
says that not long ago a party of elk
nuricrcrs killed ose hundred elk and
simply took away the hides This, he
truly. add.. Is indeed cruelty to animals
- well as sricvous wrong to the people.
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Mr.. II. NJ. STANLEY has not been re.
garded as a missionary explorer, yet his
letters from the Victoria N'yanxa have
given stimulus to African missions
thar rs almost unprvceSsned. He de,
'~ribed king Mtesa, whore dominions lie
on the north east coast Of the lake, as a
Mohammcdan with 800 wives, but friend.
ly, and promising subject for Christian
effort. This statement has brought out
adaastiap Vi fI0,Q00-$5Q 0o0-from a
single I,erson, 70 he Chuvh Missionary
Society, an organization supported by the
Low Church, or Evangelical wing of the
English establishment.
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THE Secretary of War will, it is said,
eoommend To Congress the appropria-
ton Of $4,000 to continue the work of
compiling the official reports and military
correspondence of the war Of the rebellion,
in the Adjutant Generals Office. The
work is progressing vigorously under
charge ~ q gentlemen Of nre quali6ca-
tions for the duty, and eighteen volumes,
of about 500 pages each, are already pre-
pared for the press, covering operations
up to the fall Of 1862. The entire work,
including the Confederated records, will
probably make shout seyenty,6ve vol
umes.
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TOPsCs or TmE rssr.

GAerBALpI has written to the Agrarian
sH1ety Of Nome hd n hopes the day is
not far distant when Kupp guns and
ironclads will I've turned into plow.sharc-
and pruning.hooks. That day docs seem
little distant ut present.