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A Mule willing to Go.
louisville Courier-Journal. I

A bad little boy in Portland lit pack
of neutrality-suspicious. and threw them into
the street to see them ego off," One Of
Ike Batman's mules came along and swal-
lowed them before they "went off, The
mule walked about fifteen feet and stop
ped. Things wasn't acting right inside.
He began to taste the smoke of fire.
crackers. He laid his left ear around
against his ribs, and heard something.
1t was them crackers having fun. The
mule picked out about three and half
miles of straight road and started. A
negro met him about mile the other
side of the allns-house, going south, white
with perspiration, with streams of smoke
shooting out of his nostrils, mouth, and
eyes, while his tail stuck straight uc, and
a stream of blue and green smoke about
ten feet followed in the rear. Ike found
his mule yesterday morning sticking half
way throug h . farmhouse near Paddy S
Run, still smoking. The man had got
his family out and put 'em up into a lot
of trees. Ike hauled his mule home,
when he got cool enough, on dray.
The man is going to move his house
further back off the road, and his wife
and oldest daughter will be baptized when
the water gets warm.
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Singular MOnon,anta.

A New York paper tells this queer sto.
ry: Almost any day a man may be
seen peering from the windows aft the
cabin Of one Of the James slip ferry-boats.
His dreamy, istless countenance, wearing
half.expectant, half.credulous express
sion, lives him the appearance of de.
mented person, but when engaged in con.
versation his speech is earnest and his
face animated. He seems to have no 9TH
er business except to ride on the ferry
boats and indulge in the qualification Of a
most extraordinary passion. He calls
himself the Ferry-boat Fiend, and the &C.
count he gives of his misfortune would
seem to suggest the name he has adopted.
His name is Brown, and he says that in
1854 he came from England with his wife
and three children. He rented small
house at Hunters Point. The second
month brought disaster to his household.
His wife, while on her way to New York,
was accidentally pushed off the ferry.boat,
and was drowned. In less than year
afterward one Of his children was
drowned in similar way. and another
was so badly crushed between the bridge
and boat that it died. To complete his
misfortune his last child, little girl, was
carelessly permitted by nurse to run
nea: the edge Of the boat, and in front of
the chain. An unusually violent crash of
the vessel against the spiles toppled the
child into the water, and it also was
drowned. Thus every member of the un.
fortunate mans family persisted in consc-
quence Of some ferry-boat accident. The
grief Of the father was so great that it
affected his mind. Every day he takes
his place on one Of the ferry-boats, and
eagerly watches, hoping to see some one
drowned. His belief is that there must
be = certain number Of people perish in
that way before he can go home, as he
calls it, to see his wife and children in
heaven. A few days since, while gen.
tleman was demonstrating with a driver
for beating his horses, on one of the
boats, the poor man exclaimed: 'sLet him
lash 'em! let hun lash 'cm! Maybe God
means that they shall get wild and push
some one into the river.'
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That Awful Storm.

Speaking Of shooting ducks, said DR..
F., s. puts me in mind Of the great storm
that occurred when lived on the island.
As you are we'll aware, our islard was
near by Casco bay; All awful storm arose,
and was SO fierce that it drove all the
ducks in the bay into pond, covering
about an acre, near my house. In fact,
so many ducks crowded into that pond
that could not see drop of water"
''Sho,' said Smith, "did ye shute any of
'em!'' ''That's what an, coming at.
went into the house and got my double
barreled shot gun, and discharged both
barrels right into the midst Of them,
but to my establishment they all arose in
the air, leaving not solitary duck in the
pond" .'Good gracious. ye don't say p
said Smith, ''Didn't ye hev any shot in
yer gun, or what in thunder was the trou-
bic g. SWELL, was coming to. that"
said DR.. F., sit astonished me at first !;
but as soon as the ducks rose few hum
dred yards in tho dir, and commenced to
separate little, the ducks began to drop,
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CATHOLIC INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.
The Success of the Real Estate Distri-
button Scheme.
TWO Hundred and Sfxty.five Of the
Shares SOld..One Hundred and
TWenty-Eight Remain.

The scheme for the distribution of
large amount Of real estate belonging to
the Catholic Industrial School, for the
benefit of that institution, has been pro.
crossing successfully, but quietly, since
first announced. and the promises made
that the drawing should take place On
the LIST of March will be fulfilled. OF
the three hundred and ninety three shares
into which the selling value Of the prop
erty has been divided, two hundred and
sixty.five shares have already been sold.
This leaves, still to be disposed OF, be-
tween now and the LIST of March, one
hundred and twenty.eight shares. The
eighty Catholic societies composing the
Catholic Union have become deeply inter.
ested in the scheme, and the members
have and are purchasing goodly part of
he shares. Citizens who are we'll aware
of the value of the property, present and
prospective, have invested, and others
are preparing to do the same. The sue.
cess Of the scheme every way is assur ed.
The cost Of a share is $3.50, a payment
of 5000 being required before March LIST,
the remainder to be paid within one
year with interest at 10 per cent. The
amount is too great to afford all an op.
portnnity to invest, the poor as we'll as
the rich, and favorite plan is to COM
bine in clubs for the purchase Of share
III the enterprise which promises such
rare opportunities to secure valuable
real estate as we'll assist worthy chart.
table institute. Under the clubbing ar
engagements the payments Of each men,
Der Of club would be as follows, say
in
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GClsDOl. Furniture, Maps, t1lobes, Chan9.
y School Books, notices and rewards. mailed
on receipt Of price. Send for circular. Metcslt
& Dixon, st. Paul. .a. W-Ile
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Alaree 4s-colu,nn Monthly, is devoted prin-
cipaliy to the political side Of the ssTemperance
Question. : 1t contains the present liquor
laws of Minnesota, gives statistics on adulter-
alton of liquors, and favors compulsory voting,
and giving the ballot to single women. It's
now publishing, as serial, I. S. Arthur's cell
ebrated Crusade story,
tsWONIAN TO THE RESCUE,''
Sold by agents for 1925. 1t gives in full
proposed enactment makingit
UNLAWFUL TO SELL OR DRINK
intoxicating liquors without a license, and ad-
yocates the formation of an AN11!LIoUoR PAR
II to enforce Anti-Liquor laws.
TERxs:-One copy one year, postpaid, LOO;
six months, 60 cents; single copy, ~ cents.
CLUB RATES BY special arrangements we
are enabled to furnish the BLADE and Chicago
Weekly Inter- Ocean one year for $500; the
BLADE and St. Paul Weekly Dispatch one
year for 81. 90; the BLADE and st. Paul Week
" Pioneer one year for 1926; the BLADE and
St. Paul Weekly Press one year for 1926; all
postpaid. Address
THE LIBERTY BLADE,
St. Paul, MINI.
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and laid it under the ether bed, and crept
IN on to it. Our REVIEWERS were within
reach, and our candle. burned upon our
barricade Of trunks. We dozed lightly.
| Once in the night awoke with : start,
thinking heard some one in the room.
I listened for moment, and heard the
cat-like tread of the villain in the loft
stealing back to his bed, for he heard me
get up. I cried out, "Oh! you needn't
mind getting up and coming down here to-
night, for we are wide awake, and you
might meet something Unpleasant on
your way down.. He said nothing, and
we were disturbed no more.
The first thing we did when daylight
came was to 60 to the stable and look for
our horses,-for they we're good ones, and
tempting prizes to horse-thief.-and we
were gratified to find them safe. We fed
them and returned to the house for
breakfast. Our villain of the loft had
come down, and was warming by the fire.
place. We gave him ''Good morning, V
and he returned it gruffly, with his head
hanging down.
After breakfast we journeyed on, and
that night stopped at Hamilton's Tavern,
"a stage.station q miles from the
Hawks Nest. Mr.. Hamilton was one
of those genial, open.hearted, inquisitive,
and communicative landlords described
in the earlier part Of this narrative.
"Whar did ye put up last night,
friend p he asked of me. described
the place to him as we'll as I could. He
exclaimed with establishment, "Lord
you don't say; and came out alive! l
tell ye what, stranger, thar's mighty
hard stories told about that Hawk 8
Nest
\ drunken stage.driver, lying on the
floor, reused himself up and said, "Whar
did you say you stopped ?-at the Hawks
Nest! Thar's more men been throwed
down into that scoop at tkat house than q
six.horsc team could haul. l have heerd
Of lots of people putting up thar, but ]
have never knowed one to come away.
tell yer what, stranger, thar's sumpine
wrong with yer, or you'd have been vic
tim too. You're almighty lucky to gel
away with your life"
My suspicious were we'll founded, ano
only the show Bill and 1 made of on,
weapons and bravery, or rather bragga
docio, saved US that night. l shudde,
tonight as pen this narrative, as hav.
shuddered a thousand times when think
Of the night Of terror and anxiety in tn,
Hawks Nest.
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Romance Of a Portrait.

Lucy Hooper, in writing to the Phila.
delphia Press from abroad, tells this
Il heard lately the following melancholy
and romantic little story relative to a
royal lady whose personal charms and
sweet and graceful manner have rendered
her as unconsciously dangerous to her
masculine adhcrents as ever Mary Stuart
was Of yore. 1t appears that during the
latter years Of the empire the attention
Of the Empress, who has ever been dis.
tinguished as an intelligent and munifi
cent patroness Of art, was called to the
works of rising young painter-a Span.
lard or an Italian by birth-who had just
completed his studies and had achieved
admission to the Salon. She was pleased
with his pictures; purct ased several OF
them, and gave him commission for two
or three others. Finally, at his earnest
solicitation, she consented to sit to him
for her portrait, which proved to be a
striking likeness and a most admir-.
able work Of art. From that
time forward the young painter
haunted assiduously every public place
where he could obtain a glimse of his fair
and royal patroness. When she went to
the theatre or the opera he invariably
occupied an orchestral stall in front OF
the Imperial box, and when she drove out
he sought to cross her path in order to
obtain from her one Of those graceful
bows and one Of those sweet, melancholy
smiles which she always bestowed with
such courtesy upon those who salutcd
her. At last came the war, and Sedan
and the republic, and park and thcater
and opera.box knew that fair face no
more. Deprived of even those passing
glimpes of the Imperial lady, the young
artist became morose, gloomy and misan-
thropical; he shut himself up in the soil
tude Of the studio, and employed himself
chiefly in reproducing his portrait of the
Empress, work which met with ready
sale among the friends of Imperialism in
Paris, from its intrinsic merits no less
than the fidelity of its likeness. The
other day he was found lying dead in his
studio, with a pistol shot through the
head, and with the discharged pistol still
clutched in his lifeless hand"
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Deferred Paw.

Each Of the shares will receive at least
lot valued at $3.50, and the probability
Of a share Of property worth more than
his investment. One in about every fonr
shares will secure lot worth $3l7 or
more. One in every ten shares will re.
ceive property worth 500 or over that
amount, and one in every twenty shares
a lot worth $1,000 or more, while the four
principal prizes range in value from
$4,000 to $4,000. The advertisements
elsewhere published more fully sets forth
the scheme, its advantages, and describes
the property that is offered. All of j
is we'll known in St. Paul, and to be
worth what its estimated value is stated,
even in these hard times. The general
appreciation Of it's advantages evinced in
the shares that have been sold is guaran-
tee of the statements which are made by
those that have the project in charge.
The cause to be benefited is one which
commends itself to the people OF the
State and of St. Paul in particular--thc
founding Of an industrial school. TO &C.
complish this, with no desire otherwise
the managers have undertaken in this
scheme to turn into money the real es-
tate that res largely secured by them
for mere song-almost donated by those
who had the good of the school 1T heart.
That the project is no more nor less than
a plain business transaction is sclfevi
dent. 1t commends itself to every citi-
zen. MIR. j. W. Fralick, the agent and
manager, is pushing the sale of the shares
with his rare energy, and can more fully
set forth the merits of the project than
can be done in brief article of this char.
aeter. He may be found 1T the Savings
Bank Of st. Paul.
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j. MISCELLANY.
tUNTIL THE DAY BREAk.'

Will pain me there forever,
Will it leave me happy never, In
This weary, weary gnawing OF the old dull
Will tie sweet yet bitter yearning,
That at my heart is burning,
vain2
Oweary, weary longingl
o sad, sweet memories shronging
and holy lastl
Oh hope aud faith undyingl
Shall never cease from signing!
Must my lot among the shadows torevermore
be casti
Shall never see the glory
That the Christ knight OF old story,
Sir Galahad, my hero, saw folded round his
sleepH
The full, completed beauty
- With which God gilds dull duty
For hearts that burn toward heaven from the
everlasting deep
From that conflict ce asing never,
From the toll increasing ever3
From the hard and bitter battle with the cold
Will the sky grow never clearer3
Will the hills draw never nearer
Where the golden city glitters in its rainbow
mists impearledH
All! me, that golden city!
Can God then have no pity?
have sought it with such yearning for 80
many bitter years!
And yet the hills blue glimmer,
And the portals golden simmer.
Fade ever with the evening and the distance
never nearsl
Oweary, weary living!
D foeman unforgivingl
0 enemies that meet me in the earth and in
airl
0 flesh that clogs my yearning!
u weakness aye returning!
Will we never cease to troubled Will ye never,
never spare9
Will my soul grow never purer2
Will my hope lie never surer2
Will the mist-wreaths and the cliff-gates from
my path be never roledP
Shall never, never gain it,
That last ecstatic minute,
When the journeys guerdon waits me behind
those hills Of gold?
Alas! the clouds grow darker,
And the hills loom ever starker,
Across the leaden mist-screen of the heavens
dull and gray.
Thou must learn 20 bear thy burden,
Thou must wait to win thy guerdon,
Until the daybread cOmeth and the shadows
flee away!
st. Paups.
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boat, We heard, some distance down the
RIVER, fearful howl from steam
whistle +. 10 =. - =
.The Glaucus! the Glaucus .!'' cried
several If the passengers in breath.
mo other boat has such whistle. 1t is
the Glaucus coming up" - Ri
This was not the old Glaucus, as she
was burned At St. Louis in 1852 or 1853
but was 4 new Glaucns, built by the same
owners, and provided with = second
edition of the same unearthly whistle
which rendered the old Glaucus famous
oil along the Mississippi.
Well, wo made signals Of distress, and
the Glaucus came alongside, when we
passengers were soon transferred to her
decks.
':Mr. Clemens" said Capt. Bowen, ad-
dressing the pilot Of the Glaucus, Samuel
L. Clemens, now better known as Mark
Twain, "Mr. Clemens, can hardly un.
de-stand how you could recommend Mr..
Wylie to me as beirg good pilot"
II recommended Wylie sober, not Wy
lie drunk" dryly answered Mr.. Glenn
ems.
"Well, you see what he has done with
the ..Bully Arabia He has killed her,
STRIP
81 see," said Mr.. Clcmens,'' but he
does not appear 10 be utterly broken
hearted, as hear him playing the same
old tune that he used to play when was
cub under him."
The Glaucus safely landed us at Saint
Louis, and I never again attempted the
trip to New Orleans, nor ever again met
Pilot Wylie, who, for aught know to the
contrary, may still be seated in the
"texas' Of the wrecked Bully Arabia
saving away at the ''Arkansaw Tray.
eler.''
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Atipsy fellow, who mistook a globe
lamp, with letters on it, for the queen
6sight, exclaimed: "Well, I'll 30
(hic) blest, If somebody haiu't stuck
an advertisement on the (bic) moon -
That fellow did not live in Natebi-
tochos.
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A few days since a farmer was tel.
ling in our hearing that he had plant.
ed 40 acre and q half Of potatoes, and
he feared they would lie destroyed
by the potato bugs. care the plants
up yeti" asked a bystander. ''No,"
replied tho farmer, "but the darned
bugs are sitting on every hill waiting
for them"
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Phiggs says his wife's name ia Flora,
and that's tho reason why when he
gets Within ahont 4 block Of bic house,
at two O'clock In the morning, he
begins to feel like a night. blooming
serious,
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A woman will reach up and pnll.at
a window.sash for . few seconds
quite good naturally, but when it
doesn't come down "a she turn
around and sees her husband looking
comfortably on, she mentally asks
herself, ia civilization q failure I"
and wades for him.
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|. She locked him up in the third sto-
~, back, and every now and then d.
ring the night, he wonld poke bis
head ont 1t the window and cry: "Oh,
10 this q land Of liberty :" It helped
(" keep the cat quiet, but had no
other effect.
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= NAICHlHOCHES, LOUISIANA, AUGUST 49, 1875

in the Greek nation. under the aus.
pices Of the grand lodge of masous o.
the Territory. Delegates were pre-.
sent from Missouri, Kansas and Texas
The best feeling prevailed Speeches
were made by Col. Ross, Cherokee
chief, and E. C. Bandinot, in English
and BY Sam L. Cheeata, chief of the
Creeks, in the native tongue. The
remarks were eloquent breathing
good will on the part Of the Indians
and desire to fulfill all their treaty
speculation.
Galveston, Tex, Aug. 2l.-Official
count Of the vote on the Constitution
al Convention, the returns from lO]
counties shows the following result,
for convention 46,233, against Is, 655.
Augusta, Ga, Aug. 2l.-smith was
at Sandersville to-day it is appre-
hended that the instruction ia over,
the excitement has sabsided and peace
and order has Icon restored. 'Au
Memphis, Aug. 2l.-The rapid lie.
cline in the river has dispefled all
fears of further damage to crops, but
80 great is the diversity of opinion in
regard to the damage done to the
cotton crop in this District, that it
is impossible to estimate the amount,
but it varies from 20,O)O to $4,000
bales, but there is no precedent by
which the effect of an overflow at
this season can be Appropriated, the
number Of acres 0f corn ruined by
the food is largely in excess of COT
ton. .-....-.....
New Orleans, Aug. 22.-The State
Register rep"rts the result Of the CEN
sus of Louisiana recently taken in
compliance with the requirement of
he State Constitution tn be in the
city of New Orleans. whites l45,72l,
colored, 57,647, total Pig, 1863, showing
an increase of ,966 upon the census
Of 1870. Population of the whole
State: Whites, 4O4, 1861, colored 45O,.
029, an excess Of colored over white
45,668 and a total increase of l25, lis
over the census Of 1870. These
figures may he subjected to some
slight notifications the returns Of
one or two remote parishes no being |
quite complete.
Washington, Aug. 22.-Advise from |
the Rio Grand contradict the state.
ment that the U. S. Military Tele.
graph between Ringoll is being con.
cut. The line has been wor-
ing for three weeks without trouble
Of any kind. 1t was twice cut near
Brownsville when building, but a. it
suffered to the same extent in north
Drn Texas, no unusual difficulty ia ap.
pretended in maintaining line on the
border. II j.
Washington, Aug 22.-Frederick
T. Sawyer, an extensive mail con.
tractor, for Texas, died at his resi-.
ielce in Georgetown to-day.
Washington, Aug. 2l-Tbe Missis.
lippi has fallen six inches at st.
louis, thirty inches at Cairo and three
inches at Memphis. 1t has remained
stationary at Helena, 7icksburg and
Vew Orleans. 'fs'' II $500
St Louis, Aug. 2l.-The people Of
Williamson county, ILL.,, are organi-
ing armed companies for the sup.
'ression of outlawry.
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Owing TO the stormy weather on
last Saturday Vi last week, only five
ladies went !, to 10 divorced 10 St:
Louis.
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W. a'~ MAILS,
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ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.

NEW ORLEANS, Red River Landing
he &mmsport, Morcauville, Cotton
H., Point, Evergreen, Cheneyville Kamo.
~ ME, Wellswood, Alexandria, Cotile
~ and Cloutierville, Arrive and de-
~ part Monday, Wednesday and Friday,
.i,'d 1t SAN. 5'
.SHREvEPORT, Spring Ridge, Keachie,
= Mansfield, Sunny-South, Pleasant
Hill and Marthaville. Arrive Tues.
a day, Thurday and Saturday. Depart
ste Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at
-,ie6 A. N. waFI 1a
saiN AUGUSTINE, Milan, Sabinetown,
Pendleton, Many, and Fort Jessup.
bra Arrive Tuesday and Saturday. De-
Xiv part Monday and Thursday, ct 7 A.
VA N. - 81. ...,a.
NlNDEN, Buckhorn, Ringgold liver
!. son, Coushstta and Campte. Arrive
~ Tuesday and Friday Depart Wed
nssday and Saturday at 6. a. NJ.
WINFIELD, Atlanta, Montgomery, and
s.. Maurice. Arrive Wednesday and
# saturday. Depart Monday and Thurs
day 1t ga. N. 7'ts#' 60.
.asgaI3B @t sE
aSsqf AL MAILS CLOSE At GAM.
nsOHos HoaFs-from ga. NJ. to 2 P. NJ.
and from 3 7PN. .oa
fozs7'dl J: F. DEvARaAs, Post Master.