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VOL. XIX. NEW


Plain Tom. 1t might have been more
than Tom once, when he was babe, and
had father and mother, some one to care
for him. After they died-after he was
turned out on the wide world to fight his
way to hunger for food, to yearn for sym
pathy and kind words, his name was TON.
1t was enough for waif-a ragged, hungry
boy who receives more kicks than pennies,
and who used to sit on the post Office steps
and try to remember when anyone had
spoken kind word to him
The boy sometimes wondered and ponder
over the words sympathy" ''mercy" and
charity lie heard people use them--the
same people who cufied him about and were
content to see him in rags He thought the
words must mean something way oii-some-
thing be could not grasp then, but might ap-
proach when he had grown to mans estate.
If Tom voice had sadness and sorrow in it
As he cried ''shine - or ifi had exultatiOn
in it as he shouted morning papers - no
one in the busy throng seemed to notice or
care. lie realized that be was standing up
Sinsle-handed to battle against great world,
and sometimes when the world struck him
down the boy crept away into an alley to
sorrow and grieye that he had ever been
born.
They found bandle of rags in public
hallway yesterday morning. The old janitor
pushed at the bundle with his broom, and
muttered over its being left there by some
yagrant. The bundle did not move. Tom
was dead. One arm was thrown around his
boot-box that il might not be stolen while
he slumbered-the other rested on his breast,
fingers tightly clenched as if death had come
while the boy was resolving to carry on the
unequal battle against poverty and a cold
world to the bitter end.
There should have been sadness in the
hearts Of those who lifted up the body and
seat 1t away to be buried in Potters field,
bat there was not. They were men, to be
sure, but they could not understand how it
made any difference to the world whether it
had one waif morejor less. They couldn't
feel the heart-aches Tom had felt-his des-
peraiion-his grim despair-his bitter,
crushing, everyday sorrows. They should
have at least uncovered their heads as the
body was lifted up and said to each other,
- He was brave to fight such battle But
they did not. There would have been no
word, no eulogy, hal not another waif pass
ed by chance. lie saw the body, recognized
it, and a, he let hi- box fall to the flags that
ne might brush a tear from his eye, he
"It there be angels know that Tom'n
see en- q"
And no man shall dare to take from or add
to the simple, fearful eulogy. There will be
a shallow grave that will soon sink out Of
sight and memory, and scarce month will
pass away before even the lads name will
be forgotten by the rorld-the world which
prides itself on its charity and mercy, and
which let Tom stand up alone in his battle
for food. rament and place to rest his
Get; let him creep Of to die alone in the
-hadows Of midnight, feeling in his young
lelrt that every mans hand was against
lim because lie was waif, ragged. hun
;ering orphan.-DsroH Frce Press.
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were two OF the neighborhood boys, skulk-
ing around with painted faces, chicken feath'
ers in their hair and bows in their hands,
while her hopeful son had on his fathers
moccasin slippers, his cap turned wrong side
out upon his head, and an old army gun in
his hand. He was creeping along with eyi-
dent murderous intent toward the roosters
behind the bushes.
"What on earth is the matter?' cried
the alarmed lady.
Ssh ,-sh!' said her hopeful; ''don't you
see them Inguns has bu ned down Hawkins 5
cabin and nearly killed lis baby, burned up
the family, and I'm the Lean Wolf going to
bring down venginee on the sculps of the
varmints ~
But in about fifteen seconds after he went
down to the wOod-pile, wishing he was the
fat woman in the museum, or the big medi-
cine man of the Pawnees. lie had been
reading an Indian tale in New York paper,
you see.-Alaafa Constitution.
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NIPPING ELormENTs.-Th was a married.
man patrolling the depot this afternoon who
deserves to be knighted for brilliant strategy.
He stopped me the race course to-day and
breathlesslv asked
"lIave YOU seen my wife anywhere? |
left her second to buy pool tieket-now
she's disappeared.
II bowed to her a moment ago on the Grand
Stand, informed him.
"Any feller with her - was his next ex-
cited inquiry.
Yes answered, "a Cuban. with a
big moustaehe.''
Then here CO. he exclaimed, wheeling
around to suit the action to the word.
stop" | said, grabbing him by the coat
sleeve, what are you up to -
Going down to the depot
"What for ?"
ITO head them off, and he struggled to
free himself from my grasp; NOW lem me
90. Mac: this isn't the first time I've spoil
ed their little game to skeddadle-so lem me
co. and he was out ofsight in jify
--SarGfogd Letter.
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from the year 1850 to 1875 has been estim-
ated to be S4, OPS ,OOO, 600 the United States
producing one-tenth of the entire amount.
The yield of Mexico is at present at the rate
Of SEQ, 200, 600 annually. Peru is falling
gradually behind. the yield for 1874 being
but little over S3.000,0O0. The mines OF
Chile and Bolivia are being rapidly devol-
oped, and will soon furnish material item
in the annual production. In 1867 Nevada
proudly pointed to yield of Sl2, 500 600.
In 1869 the production was hardly half as
much. The production for the present
year will probably exceed S25 .00O. 600.
The annual production of the ldado mines
is about So 1000 900. or as much as the
famous mines of Peru. Colorado, in 1875,
is estimated to have produced bullion to
the amount of 81 900, ,O00.-San Francisco
Bulletin.
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was, as | afterwards learned. her accredited
husband
1t is rather provoking to have to add that
next morning "a correspondent had to ad-
yertise fl5 reward for pocket-bOOk con-
tanning ten IS notes, some private letters,
a small bottle of hair dye and toothpick.
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CARDINAL MANNING PREDICTS BLOODY
EUROPEAN WAR.-Cardinal Manning took
occasion Of the presence Of a eomplimenting
deputation, the other evening, to answer Mr.
GladstOne's citation from a speech Of his to
prove the war purposes of the Roman Catho-
lie church. lie did it in the following re-
markable words: IL am no prophet, bat |
think none needs the gift of prophecy to
perceive that the armament of ,000, 600
of men at least, with power of destruction
which has never been equalled in the annals
of warlike nations, all portend greater and
bloodier conflict in Europe than we have
hitherto witnessed. | think it is a shame
and scandal to the Christian world to see
the misery and the scourge the sins of gov
ernments have created and brought about by
the apostles of revolution, who make it their
first and chief object to pull down the tenn
poral power of the vicar of Jesus Christ,
and when they have accomplished that fact,
will venture TO prophesy-and my prophecy
is this; If the Christian world we destroy,
he will never again reign over it, but if the
Christian world is TO survive, the sense of
justice will one day put him back again in
his seat. But even that the Christian world
would not be able to do without seourging it
self by European war which it has prepared
for itself Ny words were not a threat, but
a lament, and those who quote ny words
against me as a firebrand that would set
Europe in confagration are among the chief
ape ties of the gospel of revolution, and the
chief agents against the peace of Christian
governments. As a man Of peace and pastor
of the flock, L pray that the Christian nations
of Europe may speedily disarm in every
country and may turn to the gospel ofpeace,
to the union of the Christian world.
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A YOUTHFUL IMAGINATION VIOLENTLY
CHEcKED.-When Mrs. B. went home from
shopping yesterday she entered upon a scene
of thrilling horror being enacted in the back
yard.
In the centre Of the yard dry goods box
was in flames. and the baby was lying in
front of it squalling LASTLY from heat and
fright. Down behind the currant bushes
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When the autumn winds 20 wailing
Through branches yellow and brown.
when the gray, sad light is falling,
And the day is going down.
hear the desolate evening sing
uf a love that hloomed in the early spring.
And which no heart had for gathering.
] aad my love we dwell apart,
We twain may never be one
We shall never stand heart to heart,
Then what can be said or done,
When winds, and waters, and song-birds siny
ui love that hloomed in the early sprinr.
And which no heart had FOR Gathering
When day Is over and night descends,
And dark mists circle and rise,
! isll asleep, and slGmber befriends.
For dream Of April skies.
fgt / wake TO hear the silence sing
80 love that bloomed in the early sprinr.
ami which no heart had for gathering,
When the dawn comes in with wind and rain,
And birds awake in the caves,
And rain drops smite the window pane.
And drench the eddying leaves
hear the voice OF the dayhreak sing.
%. ,ove that blOomed in the early spring.
ana WH-eh no heart had for gathering.
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kinton. but it was plainly accidental, and
the remorse and sorrow of the boy. him
self badly wounded, are keener than the
feelings of any one else. 1t is said that the
fatal day was the first Sunday for manv
years on which the girl Mary has remained
at home from church.
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uaTe you ever heard
Oi the creature absurd,
The ridiculous bird, the aam.u-os
VITA neck long and slim,
And -egs lean and trim,
And the funniest sort Of lingo.
When a fishing he goes
lie ,hrusts IN his nose
This humorous bird. the famlng0.
without bait or hook,
d long neck a-crook.
A,o.t L the air see his VIM 90
\ plunge and dive.
And a fish all alive.
This wonderful bird, the tlamiugo,
Brings out 10 the land,
Ana ohhles tn-hand.
luatElIkle he makes the whole thing 20.
Then bis male. the old woman,
a though she vas human.
And not an ",d Growing FAM ~,
f.r .I-k U. ucr share.
sets up % great flare.
And makes cvery thing % dlu go.
bu- e-eecL, loud and sltl.
Comes Our uf tle bill
q. the mascgli ne bird, the utain-o,
us ryelids both close,
AMI Do stands un his toes
uf one ie--he's asleep, ay in-u-
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Love AND MuLE.-He rose early and
gulped down his morning cup of coffee As if
his life depended upon his haste. Then he
rushed to the grand delivery window of the
postolhce and inquired for letter. The
clerk handed him perfumed missiye, di-
rected in fair, round hand. He ripped
open one end of the envelope with his lead
pencil sharpener and commenced TO read as he
crossed Broad street toward Center Market.
What to him were the country wagons with
their loads of beets and eabblges? He read
.'As sit BY the open window and hear the
waves thunder upon the shore - There
he stopped suddenly and tumbled bead first
into basket of squasaes. as if a thunierbolt
had been launched at the seat of his thirty
inch pantaloons. That was where i. struck.
Hello, mister Say, can't you keep away
from that mewl ?'' sang out bronked agri-
culturalist from Caldwell. "Help yourself
to a squash,'' yelled one of Lew Francis
students from the tonsorial chambers of the
market building. He gathered up his girls
letter, dripping with mud, surveyed the
photograph OF the mules foot upon the base
Of his pantaloons, and limped disconsolately
away. The course of true love never did
run smOoth-Ne,eark Erniag Courier
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The reorganization Of the Northern Pacific
railroad by the owners Of its bonds goes on
most admirably. The sale to their commit
tee has been confirmed: and the bOnd-hOlders,
becoming the Stockholders, are to meet On
the Both of September to choose their direct
ors, and to take actual possession OF their
property. over tw0-thirds of the thirty
millions of bonds have already accepted the
arrangement. The door Is still open for
all the rest to come in. And now the i'm
pOrtant Ques ton 70 the resumption and
completion of the great enterprise Is the Sc
lection Of the right men for its practical
leaders. The new company will have $50
miles OF completed road and nine
million acres oi land, all free Of debt,
which would certainly seem 10 be d
good bottom for the new money
not more than 10 millions at the out
side-neeessary to build the rad on into
Montana. And, when there, it certainty
ought to earn enough 10 pay expenses and
interest on its new loan. leaving To ILL., lands
and its future growth Il good prospect for
ultimate full return to its original bond
holders, the new Stockholders.
The history Of the reconstruction of the
company Is a model for the many corpora
tiOns that are in like distress. 1, Is only about
four months since tte proceedings were iri-
tiated: under the patriotic zeal Of the di-
rectors. led by Mr.. Billings. Of Vermont, and
with the hearty cooperation of Judge Ship
man, Of the nited States court. they have
moved rapidly along and in another month
they will be practically completed. Delay
Is waste in such cases and many another
railroad is running 10 waste now under pro-
longed reeeivershIp, or in the barren man
agemen, of representatives. of Stockholders,
who have ceased to have any real interest in
the property.-Springheid Republican.
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Is \ BAD FIx-A citizen who was walk
ing along the Jackson road the other day,
saws the Vicksburg Herald, saw a man up a
..ree near the roadside, and, battling, he in
quired
What are you doing up there -
The man made no reply, and the citizen
continued
"Whats the cause of your being up
there?''
At that moment a woman rose up from
the fence-corner, rested club on the fence,
and remarked:
I'm the cause. stranger, and if you Il
wait till he comes down. you Il see the worst
field of carnage around here that ever laid
out doors ~
The citizen drove on, and she turned to
the man up the tree and continued:
''Polbemus, can't climb, and you know
it but if you'll drop down here for two
minutes, I'll give you quit-clam deed OF
the farm -
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\ luuCHlNC STORY OF THE FRENCH FLOODS.
A young mother was awakened by the in
undaton. She had two children--twins at
the breast, adorable little girls The water
invaded her house. Il wa night, and the
hour was full of terror. The cowarily has
band took care Of himself and mounted the
roof bat the woman only thought of her
children. She tied them to her breast with
a scarf, and, as she was abou: TO swim from
the house, she thought that the bread trough
would serve as boat. The house tottered
as the mother embarked in her fraH boat.
She was scarcely ont Of the house when it
went to pieces The husband disappeared
in the ruins. The little boat f1ated away.
but struck against a tree ana was overturn-
cd The poor woman seized branch and
climbed into the tree with the strength of
hone,s fighting for her young. But the
tree Is youn. 1t bends; it will not hold all
three. The mother sees that the end t.
come but her motherhood Is not cCnqure 4.
She ties he children to the strongest branch !:
she kisses them again and again she : igns
them with the sign Of the cross. and vrieS :
TO the mercy Of God - This piteous drama
was witnessed by spectators who co olld do
nothing in aid until quarter Of an hour
was gone. The mother wy drowned. but
the children were saved. They were adopt
ed by the sisters of Clarity Of Castelsar-
RAIN.
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NUMBER IL.

yard, and they said, didn't we want to go
and buy something then Charley said he
wanted to go and buy some then the men
asked us to get in, and they would take us
to get some fire-crackers then they lifted
Charley in, and got in" Walter then
told how they drove down this street and up
that, went this way and then that way
he sitting between the two men and Charley
on the lap of one of them, with red lap
shawl over them,-till finally they stopped
at hotel and got Charley drink of water.
They then went on further and at last stop
ped at store, when the men told him to 90
in and buy some fre-crackers with some
money they gave him, and, when he came
out, the buggy, and Charley and the men
had all disappeared. Walter described the
appearance OF the two men. declared that
they were the same men he afterward saw
dead in the Brooklyn morgue, and adhered
to this firmly, despite all the efforts of the
opposing counsel to shake it on the cross
examination.
lie was followed. Wednesday afternoon,
by Mis-. Catherine Lyons, who testified to
seeing Westervelt at the house of Mosher,
alias Henderson, on Munroe street, Phila-
delphia, about the 18th of July, 1874,
fortnight after the abduction, at which time
she resided for little while on one of the
floors in the same hOuse
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Tn FRAvELN MEMORIAL IL WE>TNNsIER
AmrY.-The London Times Of July - SAYS
~ memorial in marble of Sir John Frank
lin, gracei with lines by the poe; Laureate,
viii he to-day uncovered in Westminster
Abbey Intendcl by the faithful, loving
widow. who has lately departed hence. to
remind nation of the heroic discoyerer
whom She loved with unself-h devotion. the
memorial Is now made to tell the story of
that neyer-failing affection, while present.
ing fitting picture Of the Artic explorer
life and death. The sculptured picture
stands in what Is now known aS the Nlghtiu-
gale Chape,-a place formerly screened oi
into three chapels, those Of 81. Andrew, St.
Michael and 81. John the Evangelist. 1t Is
now called the Nightingale from the monu
Inent in which Death Is depicted as having
issued from cellar and in the act OF cast
ing his dart at the figure Of dying girl.
70 the left Is the monument Of the stately
Mrs. SiddOns, and the walls about are covered
by memorials Of fpeople who are otherwise
forgotten. The spot where Franklin's me-
mortal stands was occupied by one 10 Ai-
mial Totty. who died Of fever in lS02.
This has been slightly moved to allow the
monument of brother sailor to stand in
company. The new monument is by Noble,
from designs by Sir Gilbert Scott. Beneath
an elaborate canopy is what is termed a
statuary bust, in Carrara marble, Of the ex-
plorer, wearing hi, medals and orders on his
breast. His face has firm and kindly ex-
preston. The bustbears the one word,
Franklin Under Is a marble picture of
ship bound in the ice of the Arctic regions,
bearing above it the words -
% ye frost ani cold o ye ice and snow;
Bless ye the Lord praise Him and magnify Him
forever
The eye then rests upon these lines
no. here the white North has thy bones and thou,
Heroic Sailor-Soul
AIT passing on thine happier voyage now,
Toward no earthly pole.
These are followed bv the name 'Tennyson.
On the right side of the monument is the in
.,crption To the memory of Sir John
Franklin, born April 10. l7SG, at Spilsby,
Lincolnshire died June II, 1917, off Point
Victory, in the Frozen Ocean the beloved
chief Of the crews who perished with him in
completing the discovery OF the Northwest
Passage On the other side the legend
runs This monument was erected by Jane,
his widow, who, after long waiting and
sending many in search of him, herself de-
parted to find him. in the realms Of life,
July Is, 1875. aged S3 years.
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SAD SHOOTING AccTDENr.-The details of
the case of accidental shooting of four chill
dren. at Hopkinton. Mass. on Sunday last,
are thus given by the Boston Journal
Mrs RYAN. widow lady. whose husband
died during the war. has six children, one
of them, boy named Morris. being sixteen
years old. Sunday morning he caught a
cat which ne was going to shoot and taking
the cat on one arm and a loaded gun in the
other hand. started to go down the stairs to
shoot it. Just as be began descending the
stairs a sister named Mary. fifteen years old.
who did not want hin to kill the cat caught
him by the shoulder and pulled him back.
The gun dropped from bis hand, falling on
the stairs and sliding down them, the ham
mer caught and snapped on the cap, ex
plOding the gun. The muzzle was pointing
up the stars, where the boy and his sister
were standing with two other sisters. and
the charge which was of large shoot took
deadly effect among them. The elder sister
was struck in the face and instantly killed.
her features being fearfully mangled. An
other younger sister was struck in the tenn
pie and also killed. while other shots took
effect in the leg OF the boy Morris and the
arm Of a third sister Morris was terribly
frightened. and wounded as he was. rushed
into the street. crying 81 have killed my
sister =" His cries attracted public atten-
ton to the spot. and surgical aid Was at
once summoned, but the two girls who had
been struck in the head were far beyond the
reach of help. The wounds OF the other two
were attended to and they are doing well
The affair made great sensation in Hop
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\ PROSPECTIVE YIELD OF 50 500 \ DAY.
\ special correspondent: Of the Boston Ad-
rsytlser gives the following account of a
newly discovered gold ycin in Berkshire.
VI: \ icw months since a farmer digging
a hole from which to water his cattle. turn
ed up on his spade Il lump Of ore -; bright
green color Examining farther. and re-
membcrins the stories %. tie recent discov-
cries OF metals all over New En. and. he
began a more searching examination, and
called - MS aid the know ledge of one or
two friends A. the circle increased Of those
that knew. it soon included in its limits
Mr. Claiming uazlcton, OF Derby Line who
had had extensive mining experience and
possessed considerable knowledge Of the
value and appearance OF metals Although
the specimens he examined were somewhat
oxldiZed. ne knew their value and cOmmu-
nicated the discovery to Mr. ". W. Chip
man, OF Nesharypuft, whose name Is ia
miiIar IN connection with the silver mines
OF that city. Mr.. Clipman had the speci-
mems assayed and Immediately started for
Berkshire, Shere. after an examination. he
at once purchased the property. paying a
large sum.
HIS Investigations revealed the fact that
the VEIN ot copper and gold was. at the
depth where opened, at least thirty-six feet
wide, one third OF the whole width showing
metal. The ore lies 10 such position, and
the slate is 50 soft. that fifty tons day can
be easily mined, and this quantity from the
start The ore was Surprisingly rich in
yield, and. as IN the ease Of the mineral de-
POSTS in Essex county, far exceeds in per-
centase the usual tiaiS in otner parts of
America Toe specimens obtained and
assayed by Mr. Chipman yielded $50 Of
gold To the ton. and thirty Der cent of cop
per.
To show hos valuable this yield is, Mr..
Chapman SAYS that the Lake Superior cop
per ore yields on the average one per cent
that OF Cornwall, England, about three
And in regard 10 the gold. ore that usually
yields $50 per ton isalways considered rich.
Ii seems that the yield OF this new Berk-
shire vein is ten times above the average in
copper, and four and half in gold The
tota value of the vein cannot, of course, be
guessed. but it will undoubtedly produce
metals orih many thousands of dollars.