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A LOng-Kept Secret.
Dubuque Times


A worthy couple here had lived to-
gether in perfect peace for forty-one
years. While sitting in the parlor one
evening, not long ago, the husband sur
prised his wife by saying, " [ am going
to tell you a secret you have never
heard before" There was a brief
pause, as the lady and near relative
who CHANGED to be present awaited the
disclosure, and the husband continued:
eyes. you will be surprised to hear that
l had another wife before I married
you" Startled and aghast, the wife
clasped her hands in suspense, and ask
ed: Gam 1 then, not your lawful wife?"
"You are my loved and lawful wife,"
was the prompt reply" my first wife
died four years before [ came to Du-
buque and met YOU" Then he related
how he had married his first wife, and
been summoned to his home to find
her dead in childbirth. Then he went
west and settled in Dubuque, where the
second romance of his life came about.
Six years ago he received letter from
the woman who had nursed his first
wife. She wrote that she was upon her
deathbed, and could not rest until she
had confessed her share in base crime
The wife had died, but the son had sur
vived, and, through a large bride prof
fered by the dead woman's father, the
nurses lips had been sealed and the
husband told that the child had died
with its mother. This man, the father
in-law, was wealthy, but his daughters
death left him without an heir, and he
took this means of supplying what fate
had denied. With her last breath the
nurse informed her employer that she
had divulged the truth to the gentle
man in Dubuque, and INN ediately
upon her death the father-in-law went
west and offered large bride. This
was refused, but the secret was kept.
The son was a millionaire in the city of
p, and his father was anxious to see
him. The second wife was thus told
the truth for the first time, and asked
to go east and pay the first wife's son a
visit. When the story was told the wife
announced in low tones: Since you
kept it from me SO long, [ would rather
you had never repeated it. The excite
ment caused by the recital proved fatal.
In two days the lady was dead.
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secret soon spread over the country,
until in 1878 the official return of the
manufacturers stocks in the cham
payne district, as given by the chamber
OF comm cree at Reims is 20, 183, 1868
bottles. It is interesting to observe
how long ago England asserted herself
against the luscious taste of other ma
tons. In 1890 M. Meets traveller writes
from London: aaE Isas.
How the taste Of this country has
changed since ten years ago. Almost
everywhere they ask for dry wine, but
at the same time require it so vinous
and strong that there IS scarcely any
other than the wine of Sillery which
can satisfy them.
This is maintained to the present day,
for the hlgh-class English buyer as h
rule demands dry champagne; the Rus
sian a wine sweet and strong; and the
French end German sweet light wine.
The sweetness is, of course, added in all
sparkling wines, except in the case Of
st. Peray, whose grapes contain so
much already that any addition would
be deleterlOus. The fertilization should
be by genuine liqueur, consisting of
nothing but of old wine of the finest
quality, and the best of the "vins
bruts" now exported receive no more
than from 1 to per cent. of liquor.
Sparkling Hooks are much less pure,
for as much as one-ffth of strip is
sometimes added to four-ffths of Wine;
the Moselles, too, are often scented with
elderfowers of the English market, and
even in themselves the sparkling wines
of Germany possess greater body than
the heaviest champagne, SO that they
cannot be drunk with equal freedom
Great Britain alone consumes 100000
bottles annually against l, 000,000 drunk
at home. ,... ...... .4.
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4 Talk With General Hancock.
St. Louis Post.

| The general led the conversation
himself, which soon brought up the
subject Of Zamakona and his mission.
~ think" said the general, " that this
Mexican is a wise man. Nothing could
be better for the peace and prosperity
of both republics than just such things
as his mission. If it will lead to the
opening up Of the immense territory
lying in the north of Mexico. there will
be market developed that will be an
excellent tributary to our commerce.
At the same time this sort of thing will
lessen the American land hunger-we
will not be so apt to want to strip Mexi-
co in any future differences with that
country"
"What are the changes for q settled
government in Mexico now?" ar 70 .
Diaz, the president, is soldier, and
can control the people with good gov
eminent. Whether he will have sue
cessor as capable as himself is an open
question. Mexico is country that is
trying to wear ready-made govern
ment that was not intended for her.
We found wilderness, and evolved
from the old English constitutions an
Anglo-Saxon republic; they found
| populous empire, enslaved it, and &C
cepted the old English model of gov
eminent. [ think, though, they are
struggling toward better things slowly
and surely"
CIVIL the frontier troubles cease ?''
| 81 do not think there will be much
trouble in the future. The fact is, our
Arizona frontier has given the Mexicans
great amount of trouble, although
they do not charge US with purposely
allowing these raids to be made, which
charge has been made against the Mex
lean authorities along the Rio Grande."
evil the Indian bureau be trans
ferred?"
II don't know whether it will or not,
but it certainly ought to be. Harmony
in the administration Of Indian affairs
demands that the whole command be
in one mans hands. When every little
difference becomes a cabinet question
between cabinet officers, it is easy to
see that the Indian affairs must suffer.
The only objection comes from a GER
tain religious element in the country
which does not understand the merits
of the case. The Indians will be just
as open to proselytizing as they are now
and more. The war department is as
anxious to have the Indians christian
lied as the department of the interior.
Of course the semi-civilized Indians
may be let alone-they do not need the
strong army to control tnem."
-" Will the army have to be increased
in case the transfer is made?"
"Tbere is no use talking of an in
crease of the army. It will not be in
creased. All we ask is transfer of
the Indian bureau, so that one man
may control the whole" ..., q.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-14
The Electric Light in Cleveland.

The Ceaueland Leader gives the fol-
lowing details of the Inauguration of
the electric light in Monumental park
in that city, on Tuesday night: By
half-past 7 o'clock the crown in every
part of the park was too dense for COM
putation. Surging masses slowl Y NOV
ed through the walks, keeping an eager
watch upon the twelve large white
teen feet In different parts of the park.
In the works of the telegraph supply
company the careful workmen watched
the dragging hands of the clock until
they stood at s. Then the current was
turned on. In the park the great globes,
each touched with faint, clear light,
darkened in a second, fickered for a
moment, and then burst out in one daz-
cling ball of fire. From the Threats of
the assembled multitude burst wild
cheer. Looking from the windows of
the surrounding buildings, the scene
presented some of that strange beauty
Of light that one has come to connect
with the brilliant avenues of Europe.
From the Forest City house looking
north and west, the sea of heads NOV
ing TO ana 1rO presented an animated
scene, the distinctness of which can be
estimated by the fact that book could
be read one hundred and sixty feet from
any of the lights. From this position
the strength of the light could be much
better judged than from the ground be-
low, where one could see little more
than the effect of the single light in his
Immediate vicinity. Again, when the
park was nearly clear, later in the even
ing, one could see anyone moving at
the opposite side of the park with great
distinctness. The only thing in nature
disappointed was a young man who sat
in one of the seats, feeling in the an
guish Of his heart that it was too light
to put his coat sleeve around the waist
of the damsel at his side.
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his responsibility at the Fort Pillow
laid the resolution on the table. a."
THURSDAY, May -Senote.-The sen
ate discussed the house bill relating to
the use of troops at the polls all day
and adjourned without reaching a vote.
s. THURSDAY, May s. House.-The bill
to enforce the eight hour law was taken
up as the business of the morning hour.
The bill was opposed by Mr.. McMil-
Ian as not being in the interest of the
toiling millions, but adverse to their in
terest. He moved as an amendment
that it shall not apply to the past.
A motion to reconsider the vote by
which the bill was laid on the table, and
to lay that motion on the table resulted
s127 yeas to Sc noes, thus effectually kill
ling the bill The silver bill was taken
ur. Kim-mell offered an amend
ment, fixing the weight of the silver
dollar at AGO instead of 412a grains.
Chittenden opposed the bill as the
most violent and in-excusable assault
on the integrity and welfare of the
American people ever made in con-
SlS0S 1AS P1opOoOo W III IL VII OAlC
light and expose the covert inequality
and rascality of the measure. He pro-
ceeded TO criticise and ridicule De La
Matyr as the. beloved apostle and high
priest of the grenbackers and as hav-
ing prayed recently from the clerks
desk that the good Lord would take
them all to heaven and then straight
way made frantic effort from his own
seat to make it warm for the "infam-
Gus and hell-born bond holders"
Uaughter) He was glad to see that
the unique quasi-divine was in his seat
for he belonged to class who rarely
heard preaching and who suffered
severely for want of it. (Laughter.)
Mr.. Warner argued tina: inconverti-
bic paper monry, if carefully limited
in amount, could retain its full face
value, and quoted financial writer's to
sustain that position. The valuation
Of all prosperity in the country had
been changed from paper to gold and
silver, but under the existing law that
valuation was now being changed
from both metals to gold alone. The
pending measure was intended to pre-
vent that. Without action on the bill
the house adjourned.
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HORRORS IN MOROCCO.
A Fearful Visitation of Famine and
- ---. PoStilence -.-EL..---. a.

The following extracts from g. letter
recently received in England from the
Rev. }. B.. Glnsburg, missionary to the
Jews at Mogador, Morocco, give an &C
count of the dreadful famine still rag
ing in that part of Africa:
The MIzPAH, Mogador, Morocco, Feb.
scribable difficulties, misery, sickness
and trial since l returned to my station.
Hundreds,I may well say thousands,
pressed to the gates for relief; skeletons
I-emaciated by hunger, almost naked,
bearing traces of every possible dis
ease and suffering-who, for loaf of
bread, would be trodden down by the
crush, bruised, and not infrequently
seriously injured; sometimes a leg or
arm broken in their eagerness to be the
first to receive relief. When out of
town on my daily walks I hardly ever
returned without picking up dying
man, woman or child, sometimes two
or three at a time; brought back to
town, a plate of soup and cover were
sufficient to bring life to the dying.
More than once have I met young
man or woman coming from the coun-
try with no strength to finish the last
quarter of a mile, with bruised head
and broken teeth from falls in the effort
to get up from the ground. The starva-
ton was not confined to men; cattle,
camels, horses, asses, sheep and poultry
have all, or nearly all, persisted. But
the dogs have survived, and in their in
satiable hunger, finding no food in
towns, and being abandoned by their
masters, who either died or left their
villages in search Of food, fed on hui
man flesh. Roaming over the country
in bands Of twenty thirty, Or fifty,
they sometimes even attacked any hui
man being they met and devoured him.
Some twenty men, women and children
were eaten up within mile of the
town. One day was busy by the river
side, with the help Of my servant, giving
assistance to dying young woman,
when our attention was drawn to an
Arab who was being eaten by. dogs.
He was dead before we reached him,
and we had only the painful duty of
burying the remains decently in the
sand. I most apologize for writing
about such hideous misery to you. But,
dreadful to read, what is it to witness?
There are cases which have come before
me that cannot really put in paper.
More than thirteen thousand have in
this town persisted from hunger. There
were dead or dying lying in every street
in and out of town. The dead were
buried not more than one span deep,
and the dogs soon uncovered the earth.
The sight of 80 much misery to our fell
low-creatures has naturally affected the
Europeans, and among the victims we
have to deplore our excellent school
mistress. She was devoted to the
school, and truly sensible Christian
lady. On Friday she left the school,
and was no more among the living the
Sunday following. Smallpox, measles,
cholera and typhoid fever (the latter
now raging) have succeeded each other.
There is hardly house where there is
not one sick person. In the Mullah or
Jewish quarter, every house has been
turned into hospital. sfg
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-05-14
Prince GOrtSchakOff.
London Truth

Gortschakoff is the model minister of
an enlightened despot. He is noble; he
is cultured; patriot, but no Chauvinist.
He has some right to be an aristocrat,
for the Gortschakofs claim to descend
from Ruric, the founder of the Russian
monarchy, who hourished a thousand
years ago. The family has given Rus
ria two saints, and a good many prin-
ces who merited whatever may be the
exact opposite of canonization. He
himself looks every inch a high-born
and high-bred gentleman. Courteous
and affable himself, he has been at no
little pains to polish and humanize that
most boorish of created beings, the Rus
sian local officer. The governor of a
distant province, very bad accounts of
whom had reached st. Petersburg, re-
ceived dispatch from the chancellor
adnonishing him to be more civil to
his employees in future. There-at sore
marveled the governor, but resolved to
do his best. The next day as an aid
de-camp entered to receive orders, he
was greeted by his excellency with these
words: "sit down, you dog" The aid
started. "Sit down, you dog!' shouted
the governor. The aid now looked
helplessly wretched. eff you don't sit
down at once, I'll have you fogged.
But the princes example has done
more than his exhortations. 81 JfaoE
With respect to culture, Gortschakoft
may claim rank as scholar. With
Latin he is especially we'll acquainted,
and is never in better humor than when
he has made neat quotation. His
favorite authors are Cicero and Tacitus.
He is also a capital modern linguist,
knowing, among others. his own mother
tongue far better than most men Of the
generation.,to which he belongs. When
Gortschakof was young man Che is
now 81 it was considered chad form"
in the best Russian society to have any
but the slightest acquaintance with Rus
sian. Gortschakoff, who was the friend
Gas he had been the schoolfellow) of the
poet Pouchkine, was courageous
enouge to brave so silly a prejudice.
With equal good sense he has avoided
running into the other extreme: and
never attempts to place Russian itera-
ture on the same level as that Of the
western nature.
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found himself seized by the secretary
and held at arms length out at the win
dow above the crowd. The secretary
called to the crowd that this was the
young man who had received the dis
patch of the fall of Richmond. The
crowd wanted a speech from him.
Kettles gave them aspeech in a few
words, appropriate and pointed, for he
was in the humor.
Then followed other scenes Fire
engines were brought out-anything to
make noise. In the evening the city
was ablaze with Examinations. Kettles.
who is now an operator in Boston, says
he can never forget how Father Abra-
ham started for Secretary Stanton's
door after receiving the dispatch-hop,
skip, and jump, shouting, "Clear the
track" st ~ RI .sa
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Dinner Table HumOr.
Forney's Progress.

A charming lady Of this city. who
gives pleasant little dinners and will
not have the servants in the dining
room any more than is positively nee
essary, has bell arranged beneath the
table at her side, and when the servant
is needed she has only to push upon
the spring, and the bell sounds in the
kitchen below. The other evening at
one of those dinners the husband said.
as mere matter of course: "My dear,
please put your foot on the bell" After
the servant had appeared and disap-
peared a gentleman present laughed
long and heartily. Pressed for his
reason, he said: "Well at home we
have a bell in the dining-room, but it is
on the table, and when you asked your
wife to put her foot on the bell, why,
really, for the moment, the idea was SO
absurd" No further explanation was
required. s.
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A Novel Fight.

The Los Angeles Herald says: We
witnessed novel rough and tumble
fight between a Chinaman and an
American citizen of African descent on
Wednesday morning. They had dis
pute about some vegetables. The &C.
lestial opened the fracas by smashing
a box over the head of the colored man.
The latter responded with his fists.
Quick as flash the Chinaman un-
wound his queue, and, using it as a
whip lash, he scored his opponent I'M
mercifully, finally getting completely
away with the colored mans works.
This is certainly novel use of queue.
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In 1912, while he was travelling with
his wife in stage between Syracuse
and Rochester, the vehicle was halted
In front of a country tavern. A child
was sleeping on the porch. Inman,
looking out, saw large black snake
crawl to the side of the infant. Grasp
ing his wife's arm, he shouted "See!'
and pointing to the snake he sprang
from the stage, pursued the reptile
some distance, and finally killed it. He
left snug fortune, which his son in
herits. His last written message was,
"Silence is golden" His oft-penciled
admoDition to his wife was, 'sKeep your
mouth shut" -Syracuse Standard.
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A CLERGYMAN once asked Inman
whether he didn't think the Lord gave
him his tongue to be used. The pen
ciled reply was, "The Lord gave me
mind that tells me when to use my
tongue"
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A MONTGOMERY, Co., O., woman has
in ten years of wedlock been mother of
thirteen children.
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PENNSYLVANIA has adopted the New
Hampshire tramplaW.
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A SWEET. intelligent. smiling face
adds to the beauty Of a bonnet.
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full hborers, or that under certain
conditions they might become
good neighbors; but they are not
prepared to submit to their gov.
ernrent. The very charges agains.
the whites embodied in the address
to which we have referred are &C
many admissions of the feebleness
and incapacity of the blacks. These
people clamor for manhood suf.
frage, and yet, while they claim
vast majority. they whine for Fed
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sert their manhood by running
away from the Stated The war has
been over come fourteen years now.
and the black people Of the country
have advanced so far as that!
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And a variety of others.
LIST OF TRIMMINGS.

And a variety of others.
LIST OF TRIMMINGS.
A full trimmed" stove has the fol-
lowing: one oval boiler, copper bot
tom; one saucepan. copper bottom; one
tin steamer, two iron pots, one tea ket-
tie, one sad iron heater, two ski!lets, two
cake griddles, one gridiron, ops gridiron
cover, four sheet iron pans, one pudding
pan, one scraper, one cover litter, three
pieces of pipe Is feet, one elbow, two
pot covers-26 pieces in all.
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Anti-treating Temperance socie-
ties are multiplying throughout
the country. Neal Dow reiterates
bis opinion that liquor sellere
onght to be hanged. In. Phiiadel-
phia, Sunday morning breakfast
is the inducsrnent to attend . tenn
perance meeting. A member of
the Michigan Legislature has in
troduced a bill making it q INSIDE
meanor to sell liquor to woman
under airy circumstances. The
current Temperance agitation in
London takes the shape of con-
troversy as to the extent of beer
sdulterstion. Francis Murphy has
been lecturing. during . great part
of the season, 500 q night. Cough
finds favor as lecturer in Great
Britain. particularly ia Scotland.
An Ohio man has bequeathed $lo,-
600 to distribute tracts setting
forth the injurious qualities Of lag
or beer. A society for the enforce
Inept Of tho civil damage law Is to
be formed II Buffalo. The validity
q the nv having been settle BY
the court Of appeals. this organi.
zAtiou viii prosecute. free Of ex-
pense. the cases Of Drurknrds'
wi ,es against LIQUOR dealera
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