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Trustees sale

ED1h and by virtue Of a deed Of trust,
9th, 1870, and recorded IN the ReRisteTs saiec
Of bhelby county, book II, page ii, 10 which
reference is made for the purpose Of securing
certain indebtedness therein mentioned. ire
same being unpaid, will BY request OF the
on the corner Of Court and Front slfeet,' fof
cash, on
Friday. n y4th 49,
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Trustees sale.

DY virtue Of the terms of a trasa
~ euted to mo by J n Shepherd deed exc
day Of August, 1876, 10 secure To- on the zotn
a note Of five hundred and foy payment OF
and forty one cents. being y .yliw9 d9Iars
Tuaedav laf dav oR Apeiu' wa y"
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Attachment Notice.

Y. q Di,
mes q foston, BigeloW & Hill, Wright.
ies 3 wright, solicitors for complainant
1898 iOiil0
, 1881-02-26

situated in this Islands Queen'sQu ar-
ter sub No. Z ad 10 Kings Quarter,
and in Queens Quarter sub No. 5 ad
6, and in Northside Quarter Letter
B. sub No. 4 ad 3, 8 and 8, will be
put up for sale at 3 public Auctions
in conformity with the Placard OF
22nd April 1917.
The auctions to be held at the Ven
due-Ofice as follows:
1st Auction on Saturday the goth
March 1881.
End Auction on Saturday the 9th
April 1881.
3rd Auction on Satul day the 23rd
April 1881, each time at l
o'clock pm.
The properties will be put up for
sale thus
C~learmount by itself, Glynn by itself,
and Windsor & Windsorforest by it
self, and lastly GIynn and Windsor
and Windsorforest together.
The conditions, appraisement and
other documents concerning the sale
will be produced at the auctions, and
further information may be obtained
at LAWYER P. Lemming's office.
This advertisement serves also as
notice to mortgageholders in confor-
nifty with the Placard Of 22nd April
1917.
Christiansted's Vendue-ofice the
22nd February 1881.
H. A. JURs.
, 1881-02-26

TP II E creditors in j. A. Hills
Dealing are hereby informed that
a dividend of 10 per cent will be paid
by tie undersigned On the claims
entered III said estate.
Creditors, whose claims consist in
bonds or notes, must produce the ori-
ginaIs and attorneys must also pro-
duce powers Of attorney from the
parties whom they represent.
Fredcriksted Dealing Court the
2lft February 1881.
r. PETERSEN.
, 1881-02-26

mET bekjendtgjores herved, at I'd
!Dj kast til Repartitionen afg. For
walter David Krigers Dobsbo vii
blive fremlagt i en- Session, der at
holdes Onsdagen den 16de' sMarts
d. A. Eftermiddag ri. l, hvorpaa
Boet lorventes sluttet.
Ch~ristiansteds Skifteret den lode
Februar 1881.
, 1881-02-26
LUTHERAN CHURCH.

On Sunday the 9th instant, (Quin-
quagesima) there will be Divine ser
vice for both Congregations in Chris
tiansted Lutheran Church.
, 1881-02-26
oAMCtiOa2.

Venduo Director hereby
makes known that at the request
Of Y. Junghans Esq, as agent for
Messrs Raven & Co. will be sold at
public Auction on
, 1881-02-26
FIOND DAY

28h instant at 9 a. nj, at the PROPER
TY Nos. 2 & 60 STRAN &
KINGS STEET the following
v1R.l so bbls. Flour,
IL pchs. Meal,
155 bbls. do.
"a do,
Is Brown Bread.
boxes Soda Biscuits
landed damaged from on board the
British Brigantiue Charles A. Hoard"
condemned by competent Surveyors,
and recommended to be sold for &C
count of whom it may concern.
The terms Of the sale to be seer
at the Vendue, to which purchasers
are invited.
Frederiksted St. Croix 18th Feb
ruary 1881.
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The Men Who Succeed.

The great difference among men of
all callings is the energy of character or
the want of it. Given the same amount
oflearning and integrity. and the same
opportunities, and energy will make one
man conqueror. The want of it will
see the other a failure.
Dead-beats are all men without force.
They had as good chance as any Of
their companions. Others went ahead
and carried off the prizes while they
were lying by the way-side dispirited
and Respondent. 1t takes nerve, vim,
perseverance, patient continuance in
well doing to win great prize. And
the young man who goes into profess
sion without this pluck and force will
not earn salt to his porridge. He will
drag through life with the help of
friends, getting some credit with them
for being a well-meaning man, in deli
cate health and unlucky. The real
trouble is, he lacks energy.
This is just as true of the minister as
of the lawyer or the physician. Piety
is not enough and piety with much learn
ing is not enough. All the Greek and
Hebrew in the world will not qualify
man for usefulness in the ministry. 1t
wants push, stamina, vigor. courage,
resolution, will, determination-in one
word, energy. If the youth knows a
little Greek he knows what an ergos
means, and without itDr. PARIS knoWl-
edge OF Greek will not help him to use-
fuiness or success in the pulpit. IN. r
Observer.
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Pecuiiarities Of Pronunciation.

Some of our readers may thank us
for calling attention to the following sug-
gestion as to the pronunciation OF ss,l.'
Ninety mine out of every hundred
Northerners will say institoot instead OF
Institute, dooty for duty-a perfect
rhyme for beauty. They will call new
and news, moo and noos-and SO on
through the dozens and hundreds OF
similar words. Not dictionary in the
English language authorizes this.
In student and stupid the s.u'' has
the same sound as in Cupid, and should
not be pronounced as stoodent and
stoopid, as so many teachers are in the
habit of sounding them.
Its vulgarism to call q door doah
-as we all admit is it not as much
of a vulgarism to call newspaper a
noospaper? One vulgarisrn is Northern
and the other Southern, that's the only
difference.
When the London Punch wishes to
burlesque the pronunciation of servants
itmakes them call the duke the dook, the
tutor the tooter and tube toob. IN.
Z. Weekty Reuiew.
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Hasty Chicken.

There are excellent chickens in Car
rara, and but for the haste with which
they are brought from the hen-coop to
the table they would be very good food.
Looking out of the hotel window into
the backyard one sees q hen busily en-.
gagged with a basin of mush. Almost in
moment. in the twinkling of an eye,
the living hen is transformed into a
roasted fowl. This may seem fanciful
and unreal, but it is strictly true.
One day. having very limited time
In which to eat q lunch and catch a
train for Leghorn, asked the waiter OF
one of our hotels if he could give me !
bit of broiled chicken at short notice.
am very sorry, sir, said he, !. but
we haven't chicken in the house.
However, we have very nice pigeon.
How would you like half pigeonp'
Very well, indeed" replied, abut
can you give it to me quickly?''
8 Yes, sir, You shall have him IN pre-
cisely twenty minutes by the clock
A good pigeon, young, tender and
"See for yourself, sir,n and with
that the waiter led the way to the
kitchen. Show the gentleman that
pigeon, cook, " said the waiter.
The cook grayely picked up broom
stick and began punching under the ia
Bile, and 10! there came forth NV pig
con, in the act of hastily swallowing q
bit of bread which he had snatched
from his feed-box before fleeing from
the cooks broomstick.
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bachelor Life in New York.

New York is the paradise Of bachc
lors in thsee enlightened days. Up to q
few years ago they had to make out
with hotels and boarding-houses, or
accommodate to the furnished room
plan. Now they can do better. Homes
for bachelors are among the g institu-
tions" OF to-day. The unmarried man
need no longer wander disconsolate
about hotel. or poke himself away in
q musty room in . boarding or lodging
house. II his purse affords 1t he can
set up bachelor 8 quarters in good stvle
in house especially designed for his
class. Four or FIVE handsome houses
Of this kind have been built within d
few years, and they seem to pay very
wei. They are called apartment houses
for bachelors, and they are. arranged
much like French flats. the chief differ-
ence being that the number Of rooms is
less. In some cases the bachelors s
apartment consists Of two rooms, ia 9TH
ers of three, and in no case Of more than
four. The cost OF living in this way is
considerable, but the Life itself is COM
Portable, pleasant and free from care.
The demand for such houses Is copsa.
quently large,
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS,

Anybody knowing Of small boy
who would not run seven blocks for q
chance to ride half block with his
stomach across the edge Of grocery
wagon tailboard will please bring him
to this Office and receive the reward in
tended originally for the man who
should bring in 9 new comet tied up in
an old paper. Boston Globe.
Peanut flirtation: Breaking the she'll
gently am mashed on you. Crush
ing it savagely Why will you break
my hearth Slipping the shell into the
pocket-We must be secret. Throw Ii
away You are fired out. Swallowing
the peanut whole I'm yours alone.
Eaten mincingly-Go slow. Tossing ii
up and catching it dexterously in tho
month-Some other evening. ~ Cincin-
natl Saturday Night.
Under the mist and the MOON
light | wander alone,n sighs q long
haired poet, and we don't wonder at 4.
II he would only visit barber-shop,
cut his finger nails close, and black his
boots, we presume he could get some
one to wander :. under the mist and the
moonlight with him. 1t is q settled
fact, that you have got to look sort Of
finicky before you can get girl to
walk out with you. Neso HaUea Reg
lister.
"A boy walked into an Office on
Laurel Street yesterday with q pocket
book in his hand and inquired If Mr..
Blank was in. That's my name,n re-
piled one Of the gentlemen. Well.
here's wallet with with your name in
it." !" Yes. ! lost it this morning. -
he received it, and the boy started down
stairs, but was halted by the call: s'Say,
boy, what's your namep'' 30. that's
all right, replied the boy as he backed
down. 'Tain't worth your saying
I'm an honest boy and Offering me ten
cents for my trouble, for there was
only fifty cents in the wallet, and ma
used that 10 buy some soap and o new
clothes-line. .n-DetroM Free Press.
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6 vfrAGES WE'LL THE FARM.

-. ,valI the farm.
1e malassshb thas 10 GENTLY bred.
fnls e,a, aaaree snas q = score of happy yeara
nougp ssssS sSa. Der her bonny head.
fathefssS ! tendar brood
Lelf Lss Wiz 9 ana sisters small.
0f fpn,iSs pnknc,io Cor for the childrsr's good
Sae bolAs Az 49, o'--''-- -
Il 4.a carly morn
80 W ~ W. ,r;th i steadfast will.
sne 3 ~. Vus ~, m,s 90 r5an fiaid ana farm
She fislss wv aresard s mon the hill
A1a .tesr .ee y from rom yellow cream
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Special Instances Of Ant Intelligence,

special Instances OF Ant Intelligence
shall conclude this brief resume O
the more important facts at presen
known concerning the psychology o
ants with few selected observations O
the display of high intelligence. 1t i
always difficult to draw the line be
tween instinct and reason, between ad
lustlve action due to hereditary or pur
poseiess habit and Abusive action due
70 individual and purposeless adapta
tion. But we may be least diffident ir
accepting as evidence of the latter cases
| where animals exhibit a power Of
adapting their actions to meet the re.
qulrements of novel circumstances-or
circumstances which cannot be sun
posed to have been of sufficiently fire.
quent occurrence in the life history oil
the species to have developed instincts
OF mechanical response in the indiyidu-
al. 1t IS in view of this consideration
that the following instance are selected:
Ebrard records in his ssEtudes de
Maurs" an observation of his own on
r. Jnsca. The ants were engaged in
building walls, and when the work was
nearly completed there still remained an
lnterspace of twelve or fifteen millime-
Tres 70 De covered in. For moment
the ants were thrown out, and seemed
inclined to leave their work, but soon
turned instead to a grass-plant growing
near, the long, narrow leaves OF which
ran close together. They chose the
nearest, and weighted its distal end
with damp earth, until its. apex lust
bent down to the space to be covered.
unfortunately, the bend was too close
to the extremity, and it threatened to
break. 10 prevent this misfortune the
ants gnawed at the base of the leaf un
til it bent its whole length and covered
the space required But, as this does
not seem to be quite enough, they
neaped damp earth between the base of
the plant and that of the leaf, until the
latter was sufficiently bent. After they
had attained their object, they heaped
on the buttressing leaf the materials
required for building the arehed roof.
Ihis observation naturally leads to
two Others by two different observers.
Thus. Moggridge says: "Iwas able to
watch the operation of removing roots
which had pierced through their gal
leries, belonging to Seeding plants
growing on the surface, and which was
performed by two ants. one pulling at
the free end Of the root, and the other
gnawing at its fibers where the strain
was greatest, until at length it gave
way" Again, as previously quoted in
another connection, he says that two
ants sometimes combine their efforts,
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Woman's Auxiliary Of the Prot
estant Episcopal Church has raised
$1,000 for mission work in Mexico.
There are 163, ,293 more Baptists in
this country than there were last year.
The present total is set down at 2, ,296,-
S27.
DR. Cuyler, while passing through
Cairo, Egypt, was astonished to find
10000 students in the University pre-.
pairing to teach Mohammedanism.
The Reformed DUTCH Church has,
it appears from official reports, 507
churches, 553 ministers, 43,978 fami-
lies, 80,572 communicates and so, 499
non-baptized commupicants.
I'm illustration Of the taste Of col.
Ored church members in the Southern
States for the ministerial career, Pro-
lessor Simmons, of the Louisville Theo-
logical Seminary, recently remarked
that h1lknew OF one county in which
there IRE eighty colored Baptist min
listers, icentiate and ordained, AMI
some Churches in which half the male
members were in the same category.
The developments of Professionalism
in Japan Is indicated by the fact that a
Conference OF churches was held in
kioto. japan, in May. at which sixteen
congregational churches were present
by delegates. eighteen preachers were
on the platform aud 5000 hearers in
the audience. The Conference was re-
peated at Osaka. in June, with audi
ences of 10000. Japan has its own
Home Missionary Society. "a
Two Mexican elders, Senior Rod
riguez and Senior Chacon, have been ex-
amined and licensed by the Presbytery
OF Pueblo to preach the gospel. The
examination was conducted through an
interpreter. They passed severe ex-
animation on the evidences Of their
conversion, personal plety, knowledge
OF the Scriptures and all the leading
doctrines of grace, particularly iustifi-
cation by faith. They win now engage
in the work OF evangelizing their fell
ow-Mexicans.
President Seelye, in q report on tho
new system at Amherst College, saws;
the government has been made easier
by becoming a simple contract between
student and faculty. and the quantity
and quality Of the work done by the av- 1.
erage student has been greatly inn
proved. Responsibility has had the
natural result Of stimulating the indus-
lry ct students. The average attend
ance has been raised by requiring nine
tenths Of the exercises, letting the rest
90, and giving no excuses. 8
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William Penn. the founder RI Pan,

William Penn. the founder Of Penn.
sylvania, once lived in house in Nor
folk street, London. He had peeping
hole at the entrance, through which he
surveyed everyone who came to see
him before they were admitted. One
OF these, having been made to wait for
long time, asked the servant impa-
tiently if his master would not SEQ him.
Friend. said the servant, s.he hath
seen thee, but he doth not like thee y
The caller was one Of Penn's creditors
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and see the woman. III warrant she

and see the woman. I'll warrant she
mas a glass of jelly for the sick boy."
10 Mr.. Weston later on he said with
a laugh, and a jocular twinkle in his
eye. I've hired my man, and shall not
need you; SO we'll shake hands and call
It square. l think that's what meant
70 do all the while, though / WASH t
really sensible OF it. But I'll tell YOU
:. one thing, Brother Weston, I don't be-
heve the next tithe will come so hard.n
IS. S. Times.
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The cause Of . dangerous disease
called myasis, found in the Argentine
Republic, proves to be . fly. which de-
posts its eggs in human nostriIs, and
whose Larvae. Matching in great num-
bers. penetrate even to the brain and
lungs, always causing death.
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The New Hampshire Congrega-
tional Association has Female Cent
Society, which is seventy-three years
old, and, giving only one cent per men,
Der week, has contributed over $780,
600 to home missions,
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IL Certainly TanS,

If what Edison says is true the
electric arc light is doomed, for it will
find every lady in the land its i'm.
placable foe. "Will the electric light
tan the face?" Edison was asked. "Tan {?
The arc light 2" said Mr.. Edison. "Tan
man?" with alacrity.) "Well, l
should say so. Why, l was working
for a couple of hours trying to fuse some
metal in an arc of 10000 candle-power.
When / got through my skin was
copper-colored as an Indians, and that
night my face burned as if I had been
roasting it, and my eyes l thought
would Jump right out of their sockets.
| tore the bed clothes all to pieces and
got up and tore the carpet to shreds. 1t
laid me up for three days, and the skin
Nll peeled off my face. One of my
assistants worked less than an hour with
the same light and it tanned his hide as
brown as q butternut. 1t made him
blind, too, and it was three days before
the scales came off his eyes, and his
skin came off in great patches. When
we did not work so near the light, or
had light that was not SO strong, it
did not use us up so badly, but the arc
light will tan, and no one who has had
any experience with it will deny it,"
He also said ground glass globes would
somewhat modify the effect of the light
in this respect, while the incandescent
light, except when very intense, would
not tan the skin. A number of other
electricians agreed with the Menlo Park
wizard, while some were doubtful
7Foy Times.
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He Lost by IL.

A Griswold street lawyer was looking
out of his window yesterday when he
recognized familiar figure and made
hurried preparations, to vacate his room,
leaving on the desk card bearing the
legend
"Gone over to circuit court-be back
in two hours"
He was scarcely out Of sight when The
individual seen from the window entered
the room, read the card, and at once
planted himself in q chair with the look
of man who meant to sit right there
for twice two hours if necessary. But il
wasn't necessary. He left the room in
about half an hour, and the owner hur.
ried back to find note reading;
"DEAB SIR came up this morning
to borrow So of you to help me out on
my board. You were not in, but one Of
your clients has called and left go
have receipted for the money in yon
name, and will consider it as a loan until
| see you again. Ta-ta."
The lawyer wasn't over ten seconds
realizing that he could have saved 80 by
staying there and lending as much, and
he wasn't of any good the rest Of the
day.--Free Press.
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Bravery of Female Soldiers,

Female soldiers have been more nu.
mcrous in foreign armies than in the
English service. may mention few.
In the French army, for instance, there
were among others Louise Houssaye
de. Banncs, who served from 1892 to
1875, and was at Quiberon; Angelique
Brulon (nee Duchemin, for she was
married), sous-Lieutenant of infantry,
decoroe with the Legion of Honor, who
was born in 1772, and died, / believe, in
the Invalides about 1859; Therese Fig
ueur, who served as q dragoon for four.
teen years, from 1898 to 1912, and had
four horses killed under her; she died
in 1861, at the age of eighty-seven, in
the Hospice des Fetits Menages al
Paris; Nirginie Chesnieres, who served
during the Peninsular war as sergeant
in the Twenty-seyenth regiment, and
died in 1873. Louisa Scanagatti was a
lieutenant of infantry in the Austrian
or Sardinian army during the Napoleon
wars Marietta Giuliani and Hermiuia
Manelli fought under Galibaldi in 1866;
HerminiN was at the battle of Oustozza.
Augusta Kruger fought in the war of
liberation against the French as q sub
alten in the Ninth Prussian regiment,
and was decoree with the Iron Cross and
the Russian order of st. George; she
latter leaving the army married a
brother officer in 1916, and in 1869 her
grandson received a commission in his
grandmother's regiment. Bertha Weiss
said to have fought at Spicheren in
1870, but / am not sure that her case is
genuine. The most recent instances
that know of are the following three
A young Russian officer (her name IS
not given whom the Times correspond
ent, on September 70, 1877, reported to
have fallen at Kacelyeyo, after display
ing the most brilliant gNllantry in rally
ing her men against the Turks; SYLVIA
Mariotti, a private in the Eleventh
battalion Of Bersaglieri, who served
from 1866 to 1878, and who fought at
Custozza; and Dolores Rodriguez, cor
porul (at the age of eighteen) in the
First regiment of Peruvian Sappers.
She, it appears, fought in the present
South American wars, and is still in ser:
vice.-NOteS and Queries.