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BUSINESSMEN,
Their Great Meeting In Wall
Street on Thursday Aft.
ernQpn,

Street on Thursday Aft.
ernoon.
Col. Robert g, 1ngersoll the Orator Of
the Occasion.
lEe bfakcs Brilliant Speech, Eyokfng
Immense Enthusiasm.
An 'nnonso mtctinR Of bustness-mep WAS
hold OF, Thnts'lay nftcrnuon III front Ut tbe New
York sub-TrchssIry In Wall street, untiar tho t.
rcctlon of tho Eankurs 4 l3rokets Republican
cub. The Prrslco Exchanxo Club anu Tho l}ry-
1uole Club took part In tho injecting. jackson
b. Schultz presided. at,d Col. 1loburt G. Ingerso)
.fnatc brilliant ntd effective speech. which waA
TecGivtai with uhtnNnttctl enthusiasm. Stuny
prominent ta1Iketh ant merchants wrre In tho
antlIonce. Willhrn How'd, tito Republican cu.t-
dilute fur Mayor. occupied n place. Vi, tho pJat-
form and waA greeted with ehucra.
col. iH1EIsxt1Iss AtbIlEaa.
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aa!s T. t9 arattcat @ audience eyer saw. [tlrent
Zen. jn.,es i. nrtteli IL to In tho ncxt prrsi.
nt tIent ot ihe unlte! states. lfset,'wnl cherrs.1
l,o tho next Mayor .nf sho City nr N.w ycrk.
n,sincss. msn q New York ,,n'lcrstnn.! tsor ill.,
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IrOp Fountain Oily. 1}ltfMln. sunirIes.
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Sscfr City Nf Erie, Hrnnu Haven, lumber.
Hchr 1d,ttta. thbltnyguli, lumber,
schr 4. T. Niehnls tiruon llny. iun},cr.
Sahr 4; Il. 1tnlry. Cet1ar River. rairuati ties
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A Costly Bit of Red Tape.

Here is an illustration of the cost OF
red tape. In May, 1879, Mrs. Rachel
Martin, then Postmastressa mt New Castle.
Craig county, Va, registered letter
containing $34. %, being the amount due
the Government on her postal account.
The letter was stolen by w. G. Cundiff,
the mail carrier on the route from New
Castle TO Salem, and Cundiff, having
pleaded guilty, was sent to Albany peni
Tertiary. The Postoffice Department
acknowledge the fact. but Mrs. Martin
if compelled to apply to Congress for a
special act to authorize the department
to credit her with the $34.25 because
she had directed the letter to the "Third
Assistant Postmaster General in
stead of the Treasurer of the United
States" Before the matter is done with
it will cost the Government several hun
bred dollars to correct that small mis-
take. 1t often happens that the print
ing of relief bill and report cost far
more than the amount claimed Vest
ern Postal Record.
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Laughing or q Duel.

Speaking of the Shannon du-
ell" said the exchange fend, putting
his feet i'll the waste-basket, "we
need a few men like Judge Dooly. He
laughed out of duels with an audacious
wit that compelled even the admiration
of his enemies. You remember he
said, when they threatened that if he
didn't fight his name would fill the col
umns of IA newspaper, that he had rather
fill ten newspapers than one coffin
Once he went on the field with man
who had st. Vitus dance. His opponent
was standing at his post, his whole frame
jerking nervously from his malady.
Dooly, i'll the soberest manner, left his
post, and, cutting forked stick, stuck
it i'll the ground in front of his oppo-
nent.
"'What does this mean? 2 asked his
opponent.
Why says Dooly, Il want You to
rest your pistol in that fork, SO that you
can steady your aim. If you shoot at
me with that hand shaking so, you'll
pepper me full of holes at the first
fire =
"Then there was laugh all around,
and the duel was put off without day"
atlanta Constitution.
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Bachelor Housekeeping

L suppose everybody knows
"grass-widow" means "a woman livino
temporarily absent from her husband. |
can think of no corresponding term to APP
ply to man in like condition, unless 1t
is "grass- widower" l know of one who
is just setting up his cabin on n north
western prairie, prepared for summer
campaign of breaking" prairie sod. A
boy of fourteen is with him as "chief
cook and bottle-washer. L feel a deep
interest i'll their work. particularly i'll the
housekeeping. The boys success or fail
ure in cooking, washing, etc, will bring
credit or discredit to his mother and
that's me. l have lately heard the father
inquire anxiously concerning his capa-
bilities: "Do you know how to cook
out meals?' Can you make such gra-
ham bread as this?" "Does he under
stand the knack of makirg dried apples
eatable?" "You know how mamma seas
ons the macaroni don't you?" etc. Both
are very fond of milk, and if they get a
COW, or find good milk for sale close at
hand, the cooking and eating business
will be simplified. Milk goes well with
almost everything that our folks eat, as
we never use pickles, and vinegar very
seldom. To make sure of cooking the
oatmeal, cracked wheat, rice and hominy,
properly, they have taken along steamer
made after the farina-kettle plan. They
are directed to use one part oat meal,
rice or hominy, or cracked wheat, to four
paris of cold water in the inner kettle
with plenty of water to keep up boiling
i'll the outer one.
To secure good graham bread, they
have provided the best of graham flour
and the dried National Yeast Cake. }"
The cook will set thin sponge at night,
with half yeast cake, and flour and
warm water enough to make large drip
ping-pan loaf Gall they can bake at one
time in their oven), and in the morning
he will add sugar and graham flour until
he has stiff batter well beaten. This
will be turned into the buttcred bread
pan without kneading, allowed to rise
quite light and then baked. 1t is pretty
sure t. be good every time, for the same
cook has gone through the same move
ments many time, simply helping his
mother, but unconsciously educating HIM
self to be great help to his father in
this emergency, and possibly to himself
later in life.-Fdith Rochester IN Amer
lean 41yricutturaiist.
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Purity OF Water-SOme Interesting
Facts.

Some very instructive remarks were
made recently by Prof. Huxley, during
the criticism of paper by DIR. Tidy, on
water for dietetic purposes. DR.. Tldys
paper, Prof. Huxley thought, contained
good deal of what might be called ohio
logical turbidity," and he would, there
fore, endeavor to act as filter, and state
only what were demonstrable facts. Dis
ease caused by what people, not wisely,
call germs, such as splenic fever, pig
typhoid, ETC., are caused invariably by
bodies of the nature of bacteria, and these
bodies could be cultivated through twenty
or thirty generations, and then, when
given to the OK or the pig, would invari-
ably give rise to the characteristic dis
ease. We have no reason even to i'm
agine that any body capable of causing
disease by such means could be anything
but body having the nature of bac-
terium. Now, bacteria are just as much
plants as mushrooms or cabbage or the
Wellingtonia glgantea, so that we know
under what conditions bacteria can live
and what they will do. Bacteria can be
sown, and will thrive in Pasteur's solu,
ton just as cress or mustard in the soil;
and Prof. Roscoe, an eminent chemist,
thinks it doubtful whether there was any
known method TO ascertain whether if a
drop of this solution were placed in gal
lon of water its constituents could be es-
timated. Every cubic inch of such
water would contain $4,000 to 100 900
bacteria, and one drop of it would be ca
pable of exciting putrefactive fermenta-
ton in any substance capable of under
going that fermentation. The human
body may be considered as such sub
stance, and we may conceive of water
containing such organisms which may be
rs pure rs can be, as regards chemical
analysis, and yet be, rs regards the hui
man body, as deadly as prussic acid. Il
am aware continued Prof. Huxley,
"that this is terrible conclusion, but it
is true, and if the public are guided by
percentages they may often be led astray.
The real value of determination of the
quantity of organic impurity in a water is
that by it shrewd notion can be OBJ
tanned rs to what has had access to that
water. If it be proved that sewage has
been mixed with it, there is very great
chance that the eXcreta of some diseased
person may be there also On the other
hand, water may be chemically gross, yet
do harm to no one, the great danger
being in the diseased germs.
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Mirth Mt Home.

A merry heart doeth good like medi-
cine, but broken spirit drieth the bones,
declares the wisest of men. A swift
appreciation of the ludicrous is the happy
birthright of some fortunate people, but
there are those who never see joke
quickly, and who cannot comprehend why
it makes others laugh, even after it has
been duly explained. IL, as the proverb
says, laughter is medicinal, they are
much to be pitied. They are not cush-
Toned against the sharp corners and hard
knocks of life. There is coarse wit that
is allied to buffoonery and may decend to
indecency, and the less we have of that
the better. The brightness and buoyancy
which makes the day cheerful; which lift
the wearied and the i'll from their depres-
sion, and which impart courage when
disaster seems imminent, are priceless
gifts. The merry making the best of
things, seeing the silver edge along the
thickening clouds, remembering how
much worse misfortune might have be-
fallen, and being CHEEKY when others are
discouraged, how noble are these qualities
when put in practice and how brave they
may be. L agree, in measure, with the
brilliant French woman, who said that
''the joyousness of spirit is an index of
its power" words true for all time. 1t
shouldbe matter of conscience with us
to maintain serenity of outward appear
ance at all times.
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Detecting n Witch.

A singular instance of belief in witch.
craft, a superstition supposed to be ex.
tinct, is reported from Norristown, Pa.
Some days ago young married woman
was taken i'll, and her sickness was at.
tributed by her husband to the fact that
she is bewitched Anxious to discover
the guilty party, he procured new
horseshoe from blacksmith shop, pre-.
pared it in some way to act like a charm,
and then threw it into the fire. Not
long afterward he heard one of his
neighbors complain of burning pain in
her chest, and believed that he had
found the witch. To make sure he placed
some salt urder the carpet at the
doorway of his house and awaited the
result. Several neighbors came to see
the sick woman and crossed the thresh.
old without difficulty, but the suspected
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Another Historical Idol Broken.

Mr. Emil Gossweller, the Arabic schol-
ar, of Basle has been breaking in pieces
another of the idols of children. In his
university lectures upon Arabian Ian
guage and literature he found himself
face to face with certain Harun Ar
raschid. who is no other than the favorite
of the whole world, Haroun al Raschid,
of the Arabian Nights. The learned
Doctor says that the polished, sagacious,
and kindly potentate of the Thousand
and One Nights" was by no means SO
pleasant, wise, and amiable n character
III actual history as he is taken to be by
all the boys and girls III Christendon
and Islam, who know him only from his
panegy1ical portrait i'll that charming
and inexhaustible book. The great Cal
iph was neither such lover of right
eousness nor 50 beloved by his people as
we used TO fancy He possessed to the
full the characteristic faults of those Or
iental despots whose humor is their only
law. His far famed generosity was but
the reversed side, like Robin Hoods of a
boundless system OF spoliation and rob-
berry. The very slightest pretense of an
insult or an act of negligence on the part
of any of his rich subjects was made by
Haroun al Raschid an excuse for whole
sale confication Of the wealthy offenders
property. No Roman or Byzantine Caesar
was ever more relentless III the execution
of his arbitrary DEGREES. 1t is easy
enough, however, DR. Gossweller con-
tends, to discover the reason why his fame
and his virtues are painted in such glow
ing colors by the writer of legends First
ly, he was the last caliph who had held
the Empire together through genuine
mental power, and who possessed the true
genius of born ruler. Under the caliphs
who followed him, everything got out of
joint. Secondly, he fully understood the
importance of standing well with the
poets and scholars, for whom he always
had pleasant manner and open purse.
Even in the arabian Nights, however,
in spite of their panegyrical tendency, we
have glimpse of some features of his
character which correspond with the un-
fattering testimony of history 1t is
noticeable with what ready pliability the
crown lawyers and casuistical sophists of
his court explain or explain away the law
i'll favor Of the inclinations of the despot.
London GiObe.
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dragged To the tree and senteQced to
execution. He tried several times to ex-
plain matters and to prove his inno-
cence, but in his present agitated condi-
ton he could offer no explanation
which they would believe.
The time had passed, and, amid impa-
tent cries of, up with the murderer, ="
"String up the villain, the rope was
adjusted, and Hooker, grasping it with
firm hand, called Diggles, who was
lurking among the crowd, to aid. He
advanced slowly with an uncertain,
almost-faltering gait, and with eyes cast
On the ground.
"Come, man, be lively" sang out
Hooker. 81 thought you'd be glad to
help me give this rascal his deserts"
1t was not, however, with much APP
pearance of enjoying his duty that Dig
giles at last laid hold of the rope, but
he seemed to nerve himself to the task,
one which we would think him eminent
ly qualified by nature to perform. The
rope frightened on the victims neck. He
was growing black in the face.
Was this, then, to be the ignominious
end of Crawley, the one who had but
lately left his fair home, with such high
hopes of success. such bright promises
to the near and dear whom he left be-
hind? ALI it was hard that he should
be thus cut off so young, and by such a
cruel death. What protracted anxiety
would be caused at home when month
after month should pass and no lntelli-
gence reach his family of the absent
one. Sorrowful enough would it be to
conclude that he had died peaceful
death but how much more anguish
would they feel if they knew of the ter
the missing one While the crime for
which he was to die appears to us ridicu-
lous from its nature, the result seemed
likely to be none the less serious.
But was he to die? No, the hanging
was to 90 no farther, else it had never
been mine to record the foregoing Incl
dents, which were communicated to me
by my friend, the subject of this sketch.
Let us, then, hasten to rescue him from
his now painful situation, and
set him safely on terra tirma again.
The hands of Diggles dropped nerve
less to his sides. His face was deadly
pale; he turned away trembling from
the sight of the innocent man suffering
before him, and, with faltering III his
grutf tones, he blurted out confession
of his guilt in having appropriated his
partners possession, which he declared
himself now only too ready to deliver
up. He informed his astonished COM
rades of his opinion that the man now
before them was no other than the one
whom they had first accused. Poor
Diggles had since his theft been con-
stantly haunted by the face of the
wrongly-suspected, whose eyes seemed
ever to be before him. And, when he
looked into that face and met those
eyes, disguised as their owner was, little
wonder that he had not been deceived
as his companions had been. Let II
then be said to his credit, and let Rob
ert Crawley ever he thankful for it, that
his nature was not SO totally depraved
as to be blunted to all feelings of re-
/ morse.
To this redeeming quality let Crawley
ascribe his timely rescue from the
tragic fate of being HING for suicide. -
Chicago Ledger,
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of a Judges sentence, manifesting cruel
delight the while
You are hereby adjudged guilty of
murder in the first degree, as well as of
an act of atrocious robbery, and SEN
fenced to be hanged by the neck at the
expiration of one-half hour"
The unfortunate victim knew that
Hooker, without troubling himself to
use his reason on the probabilities of
the case, was so enraged by the loss of
his gold that he would, in his mad pas
sion, wreak his terrible vengeance upon
him to the full, using the charge of muir
der rs an excuse for such extreme meas
ure, which charge would readily insure
for him the support of his companions.
who were less interested in the robbery
than in the disappearance of the first
supposed culprit.
The news of these proceedings had
spread, and there was now quite a
crowd collected around the fatal tree.
Some thought that Of course the accused
would confess the deed and denote the
hiding-place of the booty before the
half hour should he up; but all were
eager, partly, no doubt, merely for the
sake of diversion, To see him executed
on the more serious charge of mdrder.
From the pitiless determination ex-
pressed in the looks of all it seemed
likely, indeed, that he would actually be
put to death for numbering himself for
suicide. in fact.
The thirty minutes of grace were rap
idly passing. Crawley's senses were
benumbed and bewildered, so quickly
had events followed upon one another,
and with such short notice had he been
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SLEEP.
By HALLE c. YOUNG.

Sleep that knits up the rayeled sleeve of care,
i'm Of hurt minds.-MdcOeth.
Ol how sweet is balmy sleep
When the evening shadows fall
Ancient, mystic, dreamy Morpheus
An elysium gives To ALL
Waking hours oft bring us sorrow,
We repine or idly weep,
But our hopes know full fruition
In the land of dreamy sleep.
How should we have heart to give
Less waited TO purer place
The third of all life's checkered hours
To the dream-god's still embrace?
And, through the shadow and the sheen,
AS we climb lifes slip'ry steep,
Oft there comes AN influence holy
From the land of dreamy sleep.
Where we glide by tlnkling fountains,
Enchanted by seraphic song;
Through tangles of unearthly beauty,
Thinking that we there belong;
Past vistas of elysan grandeur
The magic way we ever keep,
To the fancy-found Utopia,
Our abode in dreamy sleep.
Where again we meet our loved one,
Whom in youth we loved and LOST
And the priest said, "Cold and darksome
Is the river souls must cross;
But my loved one smileth sweetly,
Is loveler now than e'er, 10 sight,
And the stream that howeth ieetly
Shimmers with golden light.
And my soul, far-reaching, roaming,
Rests within the sanity cleaning
OF the land whose dimmest glory
Would illuminate earth's brightest story.
This elysium of our making
Haven reared by psS chic powers
Vanishes upon our waking,
But with sleep tits ever ours.
Ark.