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hours you will be home
The two left the house. Ba-
cbelle was almost helpless, Du-
carme dragged him painfully
through the snow storm.
When they arrived scar the
river Ducarme suddenly dropped
Bachelle, who, with heavy thu5.
FELL 10 the ground
The unfortunate man !ried to
raise himself, bat Ducarme with a
knife stabbed him iu the breast.
Then he took the wallet from
Bachelle's breast-pocket and put
it into his bosom.
"No one has seen it., mutmur-
ed the murderer. Il will fing
his corpse into the river. Who
knows that bis corpse viii ever be
found 2"
He seized the murdered mans
feet and dragged him to the neigh
boring dock. Bat there had been
AN EYE WITNESS
| Of this horrible scene. 1t was 10
other than poor Jenny, Ducarme's s
wife. She had waited tor bim in
the neighborhood, and followed
him and BacheIle as soon as they
had left the house where they
gambled. She had seen every
thing.
While she stood petriied with
horror, policeman stepped up TO
her.
"What are you doing here at
this hour Of the night 2" be said
gruffly to her.
"I-I-" she stammered.
81 guess you are one Of them, y
said the officer.
ooh, no, ! was waiting"
"For whom 2"
"For NY"
ooh. come, come e-you want a
few years in the House of Correo-
ton. Come along to the lookup"
The poor woman was thunder
struck. II she was arrested, what
would become of her child?
Robert! Robert" she scream.
ed despairingly.
Her husband heard her voice.
He had just pushed the remains
of his victim into the river. He
fastened to her.
"What are you touching my
wife for p he said furiously to the
officer.
"Your wife, >sneered the latter.
Robert Ducarme had shed blood
that night. What was another
murder to him.
lie stabbed the officer, when bis
wife fell fainting to the ground
The ofaceS too; be threw into the
river.
Then he took Jenny home.
Next morning she was delirious.
A physician was called in. Her
husband offered him q thousand
francs If he would save her.
TIE doctor shook his head.
at is bad case of nervous fe.
ver," he said. ''She is very fee.
bic. Prep are for the worst"
She died the same day. Then
the murderer's despair knew no
bounds.
He confessed everything. The
jury that tiled him, strangely e.
nough, found him guilty of mur.
der with extenuating circumstan.
ces, and the court sentenced him
to transportation for life.
But the sentence was never car.
ried into execution.
He became a raving maniac,
and died at the Lunatic Asylum
near Lyons on November 8, 1874.
The most remarkable birth
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Paris Letter.
Something about the Boulevards
The Ancient Bulwarks or
Ramparts of Paris-Cafes
and Crystal Palaces Ex-
tended to the Di-


and Crystal Palaces Ex-
tended to the Di-
mensions of a city
Dazzling
Displays, Tiaras of Diamonds, etc.
From our Regular Correspondent
PARIS, Aug. End, 1878.
Every great metropolis has,
and has had a centre-a heart, the
focus of life, of character, and
movement. In Rome, the Fo-
lum with its classic memories;
in London, Regent street; in
New York, Broadway; and in
Paris--modern Paris --theBoule-
wards. Other points have been
more central and more fashiona-
bic in the Paris of the past, for
the Boulevards Interiors were
once Exteriors, and their histo-
ry and chronology is known.
But the Palais Royal, the Lou
vre, and other centres of attrac-
tions have been eclipsed by these
Bouleyards which represent the
type, the essence of Paris life in
all its originality and piquancy.
Formed in the seventeenth CEN
tury, the Boulevards were ct
first the bulWarhs or ramparts
Vi Paris, when the nightingales
frequented the groves replaced
by the present Boulevards
Houssmann and Malesherbes,
and lovers strolled in the fowe-
ry fields about the Chaussee d.
Antin. They have many inter-
esting historical associations.
Mongolfier, the inventor of BAL
looms, lived in the Boulevard St.
Denis; the assassin F'ieschipoint-
ed his internal machine against
Louis Philippe from No. 90
Boulevard du Temple, and the
noted beauty, Ninon de L
Enclos, lived on the same
Boulevard, No. %; while the
well-known Boulevard des Ital-
lens, the zenith of Partisan ami
nation in 1916, was inhabited
by the celebrated comedian
Regnard, the rival Of Mollare.
What a transformation in the
present day: the shop windows
with the blaze of the Patisi,
the wealth of the Indies and
Bonanzas with the rarest COM
binations of modern ingenuity
and industry-a Crystal Palace
extended to the dimensions of
a city, with avenues Of light
and passages of pleasure. All
this must be seen to be UNDER
stood or rather felt, for the gen.
eral impression of the far-famed
Bouleyards is much more pow
arful appeal 10 the passions, e.
motions, and, perhaps, to the
aesthetic sense, than to tie
thought or reason, more clearly |
in our more sober cities,
the markets and marts Of this
age OF progress.
A heterogeneous crowd, which
he delights of the French Cap
tai have attracted from all parts
Of the world, gaze with rapture
upon the scene of wonders.
rhe dazzling display of dia-
nonds and other costly jewels
exhibited in the windows which
ire Illuminated with gas by
means of refectors throwing a
,lear light and showing off these
reasures to the best advantage.
fhe windows are in most cases
expressly with
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the pale moon, which then shed
its livid light upon
THE DISMAL SCENE
From TIE Rue de L Avergne
there emerged thinly clad young
woman, about twenty five years
of age. Her faded shawl was
thickly covered with snow, and her
deadly pale cheeks, her sbivering,
frail body, indicated sufficiently
that she felt the inclenency Of the
weather.
Still she hurried on until she
reached a small street. called lin
passe Sarenne, and then she rang
the bell OF a small house through
the transom Of whose front door a
dim light was shining.
The light disappeared immedi-
ately. A voice within called out :
"Who is there?"
els Robert Ducarme here 2" re
piled the scantily clad young wo
man.
There was no reply. Two min.
utes later the front door opened.
A young man, with flushed face,
appeared from within.
"Ts it you, jenny he asked,
angrily.
"Yes, Robert oh, do come home
you are playing again. You
lose everything. What is to be-
come of our poor boy, Willie 7? Do
come home !"
$50 home, yourself, Jenny +
he shouted brutally. "Go home,
1 cay p
"Robert-"
The scoundrel kicked the poor
woman, who hurried away, draw
ing deep sigh.
Robert Ducarme returned to the
interior Of the house. He enter.
ed a room where two young men,
both evidently under the influence
OF liquor, were seated at table.
Oae of them was we'll dressed
In his hands be held a deck Of
cards. Behind him stood
A FINE LOOKING WOMAN
Of thirty, voluptuously built, and
in whose large, black eyes the Sc.
ductive fire of the wanton was
burning.
Robert Ducarme sat down at
the table.
"You must give me satisfaction
he said to the young man who was
holding the deck of cards.
GAIL right, Robert. The stake
shall be again fifty fiaucs. If you
lose we will stop"
"That's the agreement, Edward
BacheIle," said Ducarme.
B ichelle ordered a bottle Of
champagne.
The volupiuous woman brought
it to them, and after they had par
taken of the sparkling wine, Rob.
ert Ducarme fished with tremb-
ling hands fifty francs from his
pocket.
"Every cent | havs," he said to
himself.
Then Bachelle took from bis
breast pocket wallet, from which
he took an enormous roll of bank
notes.
Dlcarme glared at them with
feverish Eyes. Dachelle put fif-
ty franc bill on the table, and
dealt the cards.
Dacarme lost.
"Bad luckin playing good luck in
love-" said B4chelIe to him, with
a heavy tongue.
"Gentlemen," said the woman
now, "you have to go home. 1t
is time for me TO close up"
+ The other MAJ at the table. ex-
changed a.glance with her. She.
whispered to him
"You can stay here. They
have to 60"
"Robert," said Bachelle, "you
promised to take me home. Will
you do so p
eyes" replied Ducarme, Il will
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county omoors-

~ Carter, County Judge.
A. S. Fulton, Clerk Chancery Court.
Theo. Harris, do Circuit do
p d. Boyoo, do County do
w. A. MilIard, Sheriff; i,
j Is. Morgan, Jas, Stiles, L. I. Holland
Deputy-Sheriifs.
Henry Henderson. Trustee.
r II. Thompson, Register.
+ n. c. Duff, uDty-Suryeyor
= ]. Ripes, Sup't Of Public Schools.
NJ. NJ. Dean, Coroner.
n. o. Wallace, Ranger.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-02-22
Tribute 10 Woman.

Place her among the flowers, foster
her as a tender plant, and she is
thing of fancy waywardness-annOy-
ed by dew-drOp, fretted by the touch
of butterfly's wing, ready to faint at
the sound of beetle, or the rattling OF
q window pane at night, and she is
oyer-powered by the perfume of a
rosebud. But let real calamity come
rouse her affections, enkindle the fires
of her heart! Place her in the heat
of battle-give her child, a bird, Or
anything to protecb-and see her, in a
relative instance, lifting her white
arms as = shield as her own blood
crimsons her upturned forehea ], pray
ing for her life to protect the helpless.
Transplant her in the dark places of
the earth, call forth her energies to
action, and her breath becomes a heal
ing, her presence a blessing. She dis
pubes inch by inch the strides of a
stalking pestilence, when man, the
strong and brave, pale and affrighted
shrinks away. MisfOrtunes haunt her
not. She wears away lie of silent
endurance, aad goes forward with less
timidity than to her bridal. In pros
perity she is bud full of Odors, wait
ing but for the winds of adversely to
scatter them abroad pure gold, valua-
BILE, but untried in the furnace. In
short, woman Is q miracle, a mystery,
the center from which radiates the
charm OF existence
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-02-22
Uncle Moses Lesson.
NJ. a..


Uncle Moses is the chief execu-
tive of suburban colorea Sunday
school. The other Sunday, raising
his black face with his snowy
fringe, he peered over his ante-bel-
lum "stock" and collar at the little
nigs, who were buzzIng like bees in
q hive just under his nose.
sOrdahi Chillen, Ordahi Don't
yer heah me chiIlen? Leetle Jim
Lumpkins, dere, hesh dat talkln'
like a cunsterble on lection day."
When Jimmie ceased his CONVEX
sation the chief executive resumed :
81 calls de detenshun OBJ de school
ter de way yous been carryin' on
dis Dressed day. Wot yer bin a do
in? Yer knows! An de way yer
tongues is been a csrruscatin' is
scan'Ious."
The black fingers pushed the tall
collar back and pulled the black
chin forward.
"Now, 1 puts it ter yer, an do
you all listen an' you too, Lie Mil
Inns; l ak you dis question-How
many eyes you chillens got ?"
.Chorus-'Two"
GLOW menny MOVIES yer got!"
Unanimously-'One."
swat does dat mean? 1t mean
yer mus see twice es much es yer
tells. Now how menny yeres yer
got2"
Chorus-GTWo."
CAN how mennY mOuVes?'
Gone"
'.Dat means yer mus heah twice
es much es yer talks. Now, mem
Der dis lesson, an you, Hedry Gille,
contribute the papers 'roun' fore
we iines in prar."
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The InItIated tramp.

We hsYe before maintained that
the tramps securing about the coun-
try are regularly organized frater-
nifty, having general understand
ing with oleanother, and having q
ritual of questions aud answers.
Their uniform appearance, their Pc
riodical visits to the same localities,
their regular calls at the same hous-
es where they have before procured
food, all points to this. Sheriff
Walls, of this city, has found curl
Gus mblems about them, has studi-
ed their character and listened to
their conversation, until he can tell
a regularly Initiated tramp from an
imposter. The following amusing
and instructive dialogue took place
between the sheriff and one of q
squad of tramps recently commit
ted to Jail:
From whence came you
From town in New York call
ed Jerusalem
whats you business here ?
TO learn to subdue my appetite
and to sponge my living from an ia
dulgent public
Then you are regular tramp, l
presume?'
Il am so taken and accepted wher-
eyer 1 go-'
How am to recognize you as
tramp2'
BY the largeness of my feet, and
general carniverous appearance
How do You know yourself to
be tramp
'In seeking food, by being often
denied, but ready to try again
How gained you admittance to
this toWn?'
by a good many long tramps.'
How were you received 2
'On the end of a night policeman
billy, presented to my head
'How did the policeman dispose
of you?'
He took me several times around
the town to the south, east and west,
where we found the city marshal,
police judge and the jailer, where a
great many questions were asked.
What advice did the judge give
you?'
He advised me to walk in up
right, regular steps, aud to denounce
tramping.'
Will you be off or 'from?'
With your permission I'll be of
very quick
Which way are you travelling 2
East
'Of what ara you in pursuit.
Work. which by my own endesv-
ors and assistance of others, 1 hope
l shall never be able to find
'My friend, you are now in an in.
stitution where the wicked are al.
ways troublesome and the weary
are as bad as the rest. You will
now be conducted to the middle
chamber by flight of winding
stairs, consisting of five or more
steps. Instead of corn, wine, anC
oil, the wages of the ancients, yours
will be bread and water for five
days. When your company escape
from this place divide into partiel
of three each, take a bee line fol
Portland or Bangor, where in thu
winter they generally run FREE
soup houses, and you may be par
doned on condition of your neve,
returning pointing to Edmuuds
the turnkey,) Follow your conduc
tor aud fear no dsnger-if you be
have yourself.'-St. Louis journal
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THE GOLDEN M1LEsrNoNE.

THE GOLDEN MILESTNoNE.
Leaness are the trees; their purple branches
Spread themselves abroad, ike reefs OF coral
Rise silently
In the Red sea of the water sunset.
From the hundred chimneys of the village,
Like the Arreet in the Arabian store,
Smoky columns
Tower aloft into the air OF amber
At the window winks the fiiekering flrelight,
Here and there the lamps OF evening GUNNER;
Answering one another through the darkness.
On the hearth lighted logs are glowing,
And like Ariel in the cloVen pine tree
For its freedom
Groans and signs the air imprisoned in them.
By the flreside the old men seated
Seeing ruined cities in the ashes,
Asking sadly
By the freside there are youthful dreamers
Building castles fair, with stately stalrWays'
OF the future which cannot give them.
By the hreside tragedies are acted,
In whose scenes appear two actors only
Wife and husband,
And above them, God the spectator
By the fireside there is peace and comforts,
Wives and children, with fair, thoughtful
watching, watching
For u well-known fOotstep in the passage.
Each mans chimney is his Golden Milestone
Is the central point from which he measures
Every dist ince
Through the gateways of the world around
him.
In his farthest wandering still he sees it,
Hears the talking Fl Ame, the answering night
wind,
AS he heard them
When he sat with those who were; but are
not.
Happy he whom neither wealth nor fashion,
Nor the march of the encroaching city;
Drives an eXil;
From the hearth Vt his ancestral homestead.
We may build more splendid habitations,
Fill our rooms with paintings and with
sculptures
But we cannot
Buy with gold the old associations!
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Road Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given That petition
ty Commissioners of Lyon county, Kansas,
asking for a change in the road located on
section ten, township sixteen and range
thirteen-commencing at the northeast COR
Der of the northwest quarter of section ten.
township sixteen. range thirteen, running in
q northeasterly erection; thence angling
south until it intersects said section line, ff-
teen rods, more or less, from the place of be-
ginning, and the necessity of vacating said
road on section line fifteen rods, more or less,
said line running down Onion creek, and
making it impracticable, and that public con-
laid out for public travel. And that o. Phil
lips, f. K. Condell, and r. j Stops have been
appointed and ordered to meet at the begin
ming of said road, at ten O'Clock q. M. on
February. twenty-five [2Istl, A. D., 1873, to
view and locate said road, and to give to all
parties a hearing.
BY order of Board of Co. Commissioners
Lyon county, Kansas. no6febS-17
WIN F. EWING, County Clerk.
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A Combination Of Natural
Horrors. ~

Augusta, Co.. Feb. s. About
seven O'Clock last evening, this city
was visited with q shower of hail,
followed by q rain storm accompa-
MED by thunder and lightning and
the rumbling and tremOr of an
earthquake. This was followed q
little after one O'Clock by q cyclone
which struck the city on the south
west near Center street, and demol-
ished many houses. Tue lower
market house Was literally lifted
and smashed into atoms. Several
brick and wooden buildings were
wholly or partially destroyed. The
cyclone travelled from the southwest
to the northeast. and covered the
space of aboHt 800 yards wide.
Some casualties are reported. The
Columbia railroad depot is q total
wreck, and some damage is done 20
the Central railroad depot. Many
private residences are destroyed.
Chas. Davis and wife, colored, we're
found dead Ia the ruins of their
house. The track of the toruad1
Il blasted IS II BY IRE.
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J. A. GARFIELD,
EUGENE HALE,
HARVEY WHITE.
A CrOakeP.

1 saw q genuine croaker the other
day. He had waded through the mud
to the depot to croak q little. BE
seemed to anticipate the arrival of
some new conner, and he wanted to say
something against Kansas. He was
somewhat disappointed, but he crOak-
ed little to a drummer. He braced
himself up against the side of the de-
pot and commenced Dragging on Mis-
souri,. The drummer was from St.
Louis. The croaker said: "We can't
raise nothin' here. 1 never see such a
country. 1t is too wet or too dry .
You cant go no whar now for the mud.
Next summer we can't have no rain /;
1 bet you thar'll be nothin' raised in
Kansas another year. This is no poor
mans country. You have to buy
everything. Why, down in Missouri
whar 1 used to live blackberri
growed wild. I've saw the time when
you could go into the woods and gath
er bushels NV 'em; but nuthin' grows
here. 1 am not goin' to stay any long
er ner Gin help it. Why, you Gin get
uuChin' to eat here but a little bread
and beef. Down whar l cum frum
hogs run out In the woods and got fat
on acorns. 1t was no trauble to raise
as much meat thar as you wanted.
Here q man has to keep his hogs mp
and feed 'em all the time. 1 tell you
I'm tired of It. I wouldn't stay here
another day If could giG back whar !
come from. I'm goin' back as soon
as 1 Gin, you bet. Sich e country as
this can't hold this old boss. I'm goin'
whar man Gin raise sumthin' to live
on"
Thus he croaked as long as the
drummer would hear him. Wish ]
could draw plchre Of him. He was
nearly six feet high, sunken-eyed, fiat
jawed, slab-sided, knock-kneed and
big-EoOted. He sported q light mus
tache, q few chin Whlskers, and looked
awful wise. He chswed plug tobacco
and spit great mouthsfull Of juice or
the platform while he was talking. II
would be Impossible to write hi,
jargoH just as he talked it. ''You bet,'
and ''too quick came in at the end o
most every sentence.
But he was q crOaker. He dom
like Kansas because blackberries d
not grow wild. He wants to liv
where long-nosed, sharp-baeked hog
run in the woods. Poor fellOwI h
can't "gether'' blsckberries here with
out cultivating them. He can't ca
hog here unless he feeds it. There
the rub; your croaker. don't like I
work. CIR. r.
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Road Notice.

NOTICE is hereby given: That q petition
IN was presented to the Board of Coun-
ty Commissioners of Lyon 90 Kansas, askin0
for the location Of a county road as follows,
to-Wit: Commencing at the south line of the
county, at the southwest corner OF section
thirty-siX, and the southeast corner of sec
ton thirty-five, township twenty one, range
twelve; thence north on section line four
and one-half miles to the quarter cor
ner. between sections eleven and twelve,
same township and range; thence bearing
east on the east bank of HoOsier creek until
it Intersects the section line again; thence
north on section line to the middle Of the east
line of the northeast quarter of section eleven /;
thence west ten rods; thence n1rth eighty
rods; thence east ten rods. intersectiug cOun-
ty road at the southeast corner of Elmendaro
toWnsite. And L. Williams, j L Mahaffy
and VIM. Priest have been appointed view
eIs, and ordered to meet ut the beginning of
said road, at ten O'Clock a m, on the twenty
eighth day of February. A d., 1878, to view
and locate said road and to give to all parties
q hearing.
BY order of Board OF Co. Commissioners
no7febl5-22 WN- F. EWING. Co Clerk.
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The present value of . govern
ment elk per cent bond is 81, 25O.75.
Interest paid on it during the last
thirteen years, 81, 1866. Total val
ne, ana interest received, 81, 4O7. 80.
Original cost in gold, 5000. Profit
to date, Sl,8O7. 80. Now, If this
same bond has been used in the Ma
tional bank business, the use of the
currency issued on il, 5000. has aver
aged ten per cent. per year, or,
81 ITO, add this to the 81, SO7 80, and
the net profit on an investment of
seq in gold, is in thirteen years
$2,977.30. Labor only creates
wealth-but whose labor has crea-
ted this profit of $2,977.30 for the
bOndholder, in thirteen years, or
about SS per cent. per year on his
investment of 5000. And his 5000
to-day will buy considerable more
of real estate. agricultural or me-
chanical products Of labor of most
any kind, than it would have done
in 1865. What fearful outrage il
is to swindls him out Of his honest
earnings by paying his bond in ell
yer dollars.
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Stanley, the American explorer
of Africa, is receiving distinguish
cd honors in France and Englsnd.
BE Is Ia London as the guest of the
Prince of Wales, and on the sth
lectured on his explorations before
the royal geographical society, to
an andiance of 1900 of the elite Of
English society. He was heartily
applauded. and after the close of
his lecture the Prince OF Wales and
Sir Samuel Baker made short
speeches highly complimenting
Stanley. he must unquessionably
take rank as the greatest and most
successful of any African explorer
80 far on record.