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Four Victims Of the Brooklyn Fire.

It was only on Friday last that MIR.
Charles Halpin, of Stamford, received q
letter informing him of the death of
three near relatives in the Brooklyn
fire. He saw their names (McClellan)
in the published list of the dead, but, as
the family lived in New York, and very
rarely went to Brooklyn, he did not sup
pose for moment they were his rels-
tives. 1t appears, however, that one of
them, young lady of 20, had an adj
mirer living in Brooklyn, and he pur-
chased tickets for the young Lady, her
mother and her two brothers, and In
vited the whole party to accompany him
over to Brooklyn to see the 1.-TWO Or
phans." One of the two brothers being
delayed at his work down town, did not
get home in time to accompany the
others. They left his ticket for him,
but it was so late by the time he was
ready to go that he reluctantly resolved
not to go at all. The rest Of the party
mother, son. daughter and her lover
went, and all were lost, the bodies OF all
but one being burned beyond recogni-
tion.-.SY0D1fOrd Advocate.
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WHOLE NO. 1889.
Pith and POint.

EVEN in the hardest times clocks en-
ploy their regular number of hands.
THE virtue of prosperity is temper
ance the virtue of adversely is forti-
tude.
MATED and cremated are the proposed
headings for marriage and death notices
in the future.
OMAHA papers are taking about the
"squawlid poverty among the West
ern Indians.
IT isn't the man a Cincinnati belle
cares so much about marrying Us it is
his real estate.
IF any fond husband imagines that hs
and his wife are one, let him try 70 play
it on passenger conductor.
A FAT man will walk five miles for ex-
ercise, but it will tire him to death to
roll baby to sleep in hand-cart.
THERE are female pickpockets IN
Baltimore so handsome and lady-hks
that it is o pleasure to have them ges
away with your watch.
A WESTERN woman having been
spoken of as "having one foot in the
grave" cruel commentator remarks
that there must be a big hole out there
somewhere.
A WESTERN paper remarks "Yes,
let's have another war. The stock of
old army overcoats is played out, and
how would man look coming into town
on load of wood without one of these
on9"
A HUNDRED years ago, when you
called on a girl, she kissed you good-by.
Now, if you suggest anything Of tho
sort, her father calls you into the library
and asks you what you are worth. Arc
we nation?
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT has been
throwing out some hints for the guild
ance of youth. He says that the shingle
worn inside the pantaloons should be-
thin enough TO accommodate itself,
when the crisis comes, to the usual gen.
Injections of the body.
VISIBLE from Battle Hill, in Green
wood Cemetery, there is quaint-looking
building known in its neighborhood as
the "Bleak House." and which many
people not given to superstitious belief
say is haunted. 1t has really been quick
ly abandoned in succession by several
families who became its tenants, and at
present the proprietor finds it impossible
to obtain an occupant. 1t Is situated
directly opposite the mound in which
the poor unknown of the Brooklyn
Theater dead are sleeping. The build
ing is quite new and elegantly appointed,
yet nobody will live there.
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RESCUED.
BY CELIA THAxTER.

Little lad, slow wandering across the sand so yell
low,
Leading safe lassie small-o, tell me, little fell
Whittier 20 you, lettering in the summer weather,
Chattering like sweet-voiced birds on a bough to-
gether?"
81 am Robert. if you please and this is Rose, my
sister,
Youngest Of us all "-he bent his curly head and
kissed her
"Every day we come and wait here till the sun is
setting,
Waiting for our fathers ship, for mother dear is
fretting.
"Long ago he sailed away, ont of sight and hear
ing, .,
Straight across the boy he went, into sunset steer
Every day we look for him, and hope for his re-
Every night my mother keeps the candle for him
burning.
"Summer goes and winter comes, and spring re-
Fathers step comes to the gate. OH is he gone
forever?
The great grand ship that bore him of, think yor
some tempest wrecked hero"
Tears shone in little Roses eyes, upturned to
protector.
Eagerly the .bonny Lad went on, 80. sir. look
In the offng see the sails that east and westward
wander;
Every hour they come and go, the misty distance
throngipg,
While we watch and see them fade, with sorrow
and with longing"
Little Robert little Rose ~ The strangers eyes
were glistening.
At his bronzed and bearded face, up-gazed the
children, listening;
He knelt upon the yellow sand, and ciasped them
to his bosom,
Robert brave, and little Rose, as bright as any
blossom.
"Father! father Is it your" The still air rings
with rapture;
AL the vanished JOY of years the waiting ones re-
capture!
Finds he welcome wild and sweet the low, thatched
cottage reaching,
But the ship that into sunset steered upon the
rocks lies bleaching!
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The Texas Frontier.

1t is announced from Washington
that the subject of outrages upon
American citizens on the Mexican bor-
der of the Rio Grande by the revolu-
tionists is occupying the attention of
our Government, and that orders will
soon be sent to our army and naval
forces in that quarter with view to
their protection, as there is now no
Government in Mexico to which an ap-
peal can be made for that purpose. As
regards the Indian marauders who cross
into Texas, the question is likely to be-
brought to the attention of Congress
whether outrages on American citizens
shall be permitted to continue, or
whether this Government shall take
into its own hands the manner of re-
dress.
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Lowell Statistics.

The capital stock invested in the fac.
tories in Lowell, Mass, is over S16,.
10000; the number of mills is 88; be.
sides accessory buildings the number
OF spindles is 100000; looms, 1877
females employed, 10,500; males,
1000; yards made per week-cotton,
3,20O,0 600; wooden. about 60, 900; car
peting, about 10000 shawls, 2, 500 ;
hosiery, dozens, 10000; pounds Of
cotton consumed per week, 1000, 900 ;
yards dyed and printed per annum, 90, :
400, 600.
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Decline i'm Prices Of Wall Street Real
Estate.

The decline in Wall street property
has been both unexpected and tremen-
dous. Five years ago, s. w. Drtxel
bought the corner of Wall and Broad
streets, and erected thereon the marble
structure known as the "Drexel Build
ing." For this plot he paid at the ratio
of S14, 900, 900 per acre. The price was
general surprise, being far above any
sale in America. To-day, however, it
would not bring half that price.
York Cor. Troy Times.
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Bankrupt Nations.

It is not little remarkable that of all
European nations those which at this
moment stand in greatest danger of war
are also on economical grounds most in
need of peace. Turkey is bankrupt.
Russia is financially in such state that
O great conflict would, to say the least,
bring her to the very brink of ruin.
The condition of Austria is very little
better. Englishmen of this generation
cannot easily realize the depressing in
fuence of the fiscal burdens which have
to be borne by countries whose govern
ments are continually threatened with
pecuniary embarrassment. For many
years past we have been reducing our
national debt, and at the same time les
sening the pressure of taxation. Ex-
cepting Holland, we are the only nation
in Europe which has been in this happy
condition. Other countries, and es-
pecially the three we have named, have
within the same period been rapidly in
creasing their Indebtedness, while main
tanning their taxation at point verging
sometimes almost upon oppression. In
all three cases the wealth stored in their
metallic currency has long since disap-
peared in payment of foreign claims,
and the best of them-so low stands
their credit-would find it next to i'm
possible to contract large loan abroad.
OF the three, Austria is perhaps, from
financial point of view, the most
favorably circumstanced and, as we
have lately been told by Prince Bis
marck that she is much more powerful
than is commonly supposed, it is GER
tainly worth while inquiring how far in
an economical sense the estimate of the
German Chancellor is borne out by the
facts of the case.-Manchester Eng.
Guardian.
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The Snez Lnllnl.

The Suez canal enterprise is looked
upon as a success by European capital
lists. This water-cut, connecting tho
mediterranean and the Red seas, is at
present patronized by twenty-four regu-
lar lines OF steamers, employing 234
steamers, of 500, ,437 tonnage. Chased
by nationalities, the quota of England
is 152 vessels, of 800 273 tonnage {;
France, 1S vessels, of 112, ,624 tonnage ;
Holland, Is vessels, of 36,5S5 tonnage
Austria, 18 steamers, of 2S, 227 tonnage;
Italy 10 steamers, of 1928 tonnage /;
Russia, 8 steamers, of 1886 tonnage ;
Germany, 8 steamers, of IL, 1886 tonnage I;
Spain. 5 vessels. of 10, 751 tonnage.
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THERE is this difference between
leen and fat man when they slip down
on the icy sidewalk--the lean man
jumps right up, while the corpulent fel-
low crawls along for way on his hands
and knees,
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CHAPTER IL

A year had passed away since Bernard
Hopes death, and Mary still remained
an inmate of the house of Mrs. Murga-
troyd, the good woman whom we have
seen in attendance at her fathers last
illness, and who, to her occasional occu-
patton as nurse, added the more perma-
nent one of letting lodgings. Mary's
sweet face and gentle manner had quite
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-05-16
The Old Bachelors Latter DAYS.

Let us glance at the latter scenes. Even
he has his day. When people find that
he will not marry, and that he is getting
on in years, they gradually "drop him"
He ceases to be asked to parties, and
naughty beauties turn up their noses when
he supplicates for their favor He may
not lose caste at the same time that the
bloom of youth is robbed from him, but
when he begins to enter upon the sere and
yellow leaf his flatterers drop away. He
sees younger rivals upon his heels, and
has to make room for them The old ties
that rendered life dear to him snap, one
by one, and none form to take their place
Not being engaged in any work of useful
ness, he has to fly to his club for compan-
ionship, and he has no difficulty in dis
covering that the 'friends' whom he finds
there do not care straw about him. Peo-
pie feel that he is, in some respects, So
cial failure, and they feel, further, that it
is his own fault. They laugh at him be-
cause he vain and selfish, and continues
to banker after admiration; they hold his
little foibles up to ridicule; they use him
when it suits them. Perhaps there is no
man more hopelessly alone in the world
than the gallant bachelor who has out
lived the pleasures of youth and turned
tifty.-Home Journal.
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Practical Farmer says: "The best
way we have ever found of repairing
damaged spouts in lawns is to trim the
edge evenly, so as to make it perfectly
square. Remove the injured sod so as to
leave an excavation two inches deep, and
should there be any holes fill them up
within two inches of the surface, taking
care to make the earth perfectly firm.
Then cutgood fresh sods two inches thick
with strai ght edges and fill the vacancy.
Sods nine inches long can be cut easily
and quickly with spade, and will be of
very convenient size for handling. If
they are wanted on steep bank or side
of terrace, they should be fastened in
position by means Of pegs about six in
ches long, driven through them into tho
0SSWAs -4.NNa ...,,fa. .r.
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The Widows Story,

A sample leaf from the simple annals Of
the'poor is thus told by the New York
World: John Morrison, aged thirty two,
residing in Jersey City, was run over by
coal train at West End, and both legs and
one arm were cut off. He died the same
evening. His widow, with two children,
the eldest five, the youngest three years
old, clinging to her skirts, called on a
number Of undertakes, trying to arrange
for the burial of her husband. Her story
was particularly sad. Her husband had
been out of employment for nine months,
during which time the pawnshop had alb
sorbed everything of value that could be
spared from the house. On the dav of
the fatal occurrence he secured an odd
job to remove a piano, and was to have
received dollar for his services. This,
he told his wife, would take them over
Easter. Soon after a postman called with
a note from George W. Downing, super
intendent of the Jersey Horse Car Com
pany, telling him to report for duty on
Monday, April 2. The family rejoiced
over their good fortune, and while devils
ing means for spending the dollar in the
most economical manner they found there
would be none left for coal. The happy
father seized an old bag, which had fre-
quently done similar duty during the
winter, and said he could 60 out on the
railroad and pick up coal enough. He
had collected half bagful when the acct
dent occurred. In the evening there was
neither fuel, light, nor food in the house,
and the widow sat beside the mangled
corpse with the window open to let the
moonlight in, that cost nothing The fam
ly is entirely destitute.
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don't you ask me if she did?" he per-

don't you ask me II she dld!'' ne per-
sisted.
because it is none of my affair."
"Oh, isn't it? Do you know I must
have seen you somewhere I'm some pre-
vious state, if not in this?"
eyes; you saw me, or rather saw you,
at Mrs. Cores garden party. You were
walking with Miss Hardacre in the grove,
and Mr.. Vane said it looked like match,
and / turned to see what match resem-
bled, and saw YOU"
II remember. We had just been speak
ing Of you, as aforesaid. Miss Hardacre
had been trying to paint the lily, and had
made wretched daub of it. Perhaps
she was conscious of her failure, as she
omitted to point out the original.''
Somewhat later Mr. Erskine received a
note to this effect:
"DEAR Mr.. ERsK1NE,-Ify you are able to
move, papa will be happy to send the car
riage for you on any day you may signify.
We fear that you must be dying of en,uli
in that dungeon keep ;and it seems as if you
should be with friends instead of stran-
gers.
"L1NDA."
He passed the note to Laura ''Shall
go?" he asked. She waited so long be-
fore replying that he began to think that
that she had not heard. "Shall I go?" he
repeated.
"She must be in love with you, or she
would never have written like this said
Laura, rehectively. "She would have
left it for her father to do. Yes-vou-
had better-go."
.'Then yo,t are tired of me?"
"Tired? What makes you think so?
should never be tired. I meant don't
know what It doesn't matter But YOU
had better 90 to Miss Hardacre."
"Because she must be in love with me?
And what if l love you, instead, must go
then?'
"But you mustn't love me-you DON'T"
she cried.
81 know it is wicked to contradict. I
love YOU.
II don't know whether to be sorry or
not" she said, passing her hand across
her brow. II ought to be sorry
"Sorry because love you!' he said,
reproachfully.
"Yes, because-don't look at me-be-
cause-oh, turn your eyes away, Mr.. Frs
kline, or can not tell you-because, l am
already married."
"Married" The word sounded like a
knell. married! Good-by." He rose
and staggered across the room. II could
wish that you had told me earlier" loft
lily. Then, melting, ooh, why did you
keep it from me? why'd did you let me
love you9 Marriedv
II did not suppose it would interest
you. There was no occasion to tell it. I
have never told it. 1t happened when I
was very young, and romantic as Miss
Hardacre, when Cousin Jack Loring came
down here before his voyage to Calcutta
He was a sailor, and very brave and hand
some, and + was sixteen, and a happy
fool-that was sixteen years ago, and
we fell in love-at least we thought so.
Not soul in the house dreamed of it, we
were both such children; and 40, when he
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went to the city to join his ship, was al
lowed to go with him for the day, Just
to see the ship off and say good-by. And
then-wc hadn't thought Of it when we
left home, but it seemed good idea to he
married; at least Jack said it was, and it
seemed very nice and romantic to have
such great. secret to carry about with
me, and nobody the wiser; for 1 had read
all the novels in grandpas library If I
had had mother, you know, it would
never have happened; but I couldn't see
any wrong in it, and so we found out u
clergyman and were married and said
good-by in the same breath; and was
still Laura Loring, you see. Poor Jack!
the ship was lost; only mate and two
hands were saved, who reported that Jack
and others had taken to a raft: and al
though we never heard from them, he NAV
be still alive somewhere things
have happencd; and hate Enoch Ardens
and, you see, am married all the same
and it was very wrong for me to let you
love me, but it was so pleasant-and then
it was too late before I guessed. Now
you will go away, of course, and forget
me, and make Miss Linda happy
Mr.. Erskine had drawn nearer while
she spoke, and now, taking her hand, he
said, II shall do no such thing; I prefer
to be happy myself. love you. And as
for poor Jack, he will never trouble us.
He was the last man left clinging to the
raft when we sighted it on our way home
the year was supercargo: we thought he
was in stupor when we took him off. but
it was death. We did not know where or
to whom he belonged; he had no papers
or anythingt to show about him; but Jack
Loring was tattooed upon his arm I
have not thought of him for years, poor
fellow; and as for the name, there are
Lorings and Lorings in my part of the
world. Do you still think Ihad better go
to Miss Hardacre?"
II hope it will not break her hearth
said Laura, with tears in her eyes.
And Miss Linda only learned that her
passee girl was widow when she read the
marriage Of Mr.. Clarence Erskine to Mrs.
Laura Loring in the Brierthorpe Tatler.
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mlnd.' SO our sportsman kept on leisure
ly toward Loring's Folly; and crawling
! through tangled thicket, his rifle dis
charged itself into his side Somebody
gathering ferns in the glen paused to
the reverberations Of the report, which
seemed prolonged far up in the wooded
height, and then went slowly on saying,
Echo, sweet echo, with the let me die, y
till suddenly the delicate notes were sue
cessful by a cry Of fear, as she approached
the PROSTATE fgufe of Mr.. Erskine. That
gentleman was naturally insensible when
he was taken up by some brawny wood
cutters and carried to the nearest dwell
ing. He was never himself enough,
throughout the day and night, to wonder
why he was lying there helpless, why
there were unfamiliar faces about him
but the following morning it flashed upon
him that he had been out, or had meant
to go out, shooting-or had he dreamed
it? Had he oversight himself? for the
September sky was full of no early light.
Theu he let his glance escape from the
diamond shaped panes of the mullioned
windows to the great mirror with it's
remnant of gliding, to the quantity carved
chairs with the cushions hat had once
been gay, to the wide fireside with its
glittering dogs, behind which handful
of embers glowed, and back to the bed
upon which he lay, with its high, curl
ously wrought posts and its hangings of
faded lustre. Had he been lured away in
to some enchanted prison? And was that
woman or some cunning piece Of sculp
ture, in the big arm-chair?-a woman
fallen asleep as if after long vigils, with
her dimpled chin upon her hand "a very
fair woman, he thought, with mobile
mouth, and shadow beneath the closed
eyes, cast, perhaps, by the long brown
lashes; and maybe line too many about
the brow; but very fair woman for all
that-and how unlike Miss Linda! And
then he essayed to lift himself up, and a
sharp pain drew him back, and the spell
broke, and the sleeping beauty in the
antique chair came to life with start and
shiver; and just at that instant the door
opened softly, and a medical gentleman
entered. Mr.. Erskine must have ex-
perienced some sensations similar to those
of Sigismund, in Calderon's romance of
Llfe's Dream, when he wakened in "sump-
JULIUS kJ1ldCCo 4NOC ClldI IuCIC was al
thing but the "Reminiscences of luxury in
this new situation: the linen upon which
he lay was darned, the carpet upon
the floor was patched; everything was
dim and worn with age and use--every
thing except the apparition in the arm
chair, with the great sleepy brown eyes
looking straight into his.
"And how fares our patient this morn
ing?" said the newcomer. Aa
..~"H He has been very quiet since you left
him. But perhaps he can speak for him
self. 1 think I had dropped asleep" ~.
"You are not used to vigils, little girl
you are pale yourself. turning to
Erskine)) Sour patient looks as if he
would like to ask questions. so, so. But
not to-day-not to-day; they'll keep" -,
That was no tedious convalescence OF
Mr.. Erskine's in the quaint old room, into
which the sunset stole, rosy red and gold
and touched the faded roses of the chint1