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BIeanness O'erieaping Itself.
NIeanness not unfrequently re
-ar,, ,hIae tho

Meanness not unfrequently re-
sembles the
yaulting ambition which O'erlesps iself
And falls on the other side.
an excellent illustration Of this
"o'erleaping" is furnished by q GER
tain transaction Of John Jacob As
tor with one of his Captains. The
story is told by a writer in the Bos-
ton Transcript.
The Captain had sailed six voya-
ees to China without a chronometer,
depending on dead reckoning and
1unars;;' Just starting out on his
seventh voyage he suggested to Mr.
Astor that it would be safer 10 have
q chronometer.
"Well, get one," said the mer-
chant.
"The Captain did so, and entered
its cost in his account current.
When Astor's eyes fell upon the
item, he drew his pencil through it.
The Captain expostulated. Said
Astor, L told you to get one; |
didn't say I'd pay for it..
''The Captain severed his connec-
ton with hstor then and there, and
went into Wall street, engaged with
other owners, and before night was
in command of as fine q shipas ever
fioated in New York's beautiful bay.
.'In three days she was ready for
sea, and set sail. At the same time
Astor's ship, under the command of
a new Captain, set sail also. They
had a race for Hong Kong, but the
Captain who, as he used to put it,
had discharged John Jacob AstoF,
by keeping the men at the braces.
took advantage of every puff OF
wind. and won by three DAYS.
"Then there was lively work. The
ship was loaded in the shortest time
possible. and before Astor's vessel,
which had arrived meantime, was
hall loaded, our Captain weighed
anchor, and, with a full cargo of tea,
set sail for Sandy Hook, arrived in
good time, got his ship alongside
the wharf, and began hosting out
his cargo, which was sold by auction
on the spot.
~Thissglutted the market, for the
consumption was comparatively
small in thossdays, and when As
tors ship came in, prices had fallen.
1.-TWO days later, as the Captain
was sauntering down Broadway, he
met his former employer.
How much did dat chronomcter
cost YOU? asked the latter.
/" Six hundred dollars.
Veil said Astor, dat vas cheap.
1t cost me sixty thousand dollars.
~The merchant and the Captain
have long since paid the reckoning,
but that chronometer is still good
timekeeper, and treasured relic as
we'll ~
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n Brave Woman.

An interesting story is told of 8
young wife who went West with her
husband, and there encountered all
sorts of ''hard luck" Crops failed,
cattle died, the young farmer sicken-
ed. During all this time the young
wife never grew discouraged. but did
all in her power to keep herhusband
from getting ''thc blues" But one
morning the boy, who did the chores,
came in and said he could not find
old COW on the farm. So our heroine
set out with the boy in search of the
lost animal, and finally found her
where she had fallen, over between
two logs-dead. The young woman
was at last discouraged, and for q
time would not go back with the bad
news to her husband, but finally
overcame her feelings, went merrily
to the house, and, upon entering,
said: "Well, Rollin, our luck has
changed" How is that ~ he anx-
iously inquired. why said she,
"the old cow is dead; you can skin
her, sell the hide, and we will have
some money" And it proved to be
true, for their luck changed from
that day. They sold out their in
terest in the farm and bought an
other one, began over, and to-day
are well-to-do people. Does not
this teach a lesson torepining wives,
and show what power there is in a
hopeful spirit?
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ONE AND THEN ANOTHER.

One step ard chen another.
And the longest walk is ended
One stitclAnd then another,
And the longest rent is mended
One brick upon another,
And the hlghes. wall is made
One fake upon another,
And the deepest snow is laid.
So the little choral workers,
BY their slow and constant motion,
Have built those pretty islands
In the distant dark blue ocean
And the noblest undertakings
Mans wisdom hath conceived
By oft-repcatei effort
Has been patien'y achieved.
Then do not look dishearened
On the work you have TO DO,
And say thar such mighty task,
You never can get through
But just endayor, day by day,
Another point to gain,
And soon the mountain which you feare,
VIII prove TO be 3 plain.
Rome was not built in day
The ancient proverb teaches,
And nature, by her trees and flower,
The same sweet sermon breaches,
Think not of far of duties,
In. of duties which are near,
Ana having once begun to work,
ResuiYe % persevere.
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The bright particular stars Of
journalism are now engaged in der
fining the motives of General Grant
and other gentlemen who are visit
ing Mexico. The declared object Of
the visit IS railway Development.
To the average observer of passing
events and future possibilities this
declared object appears to c0Ter The
ground. However, there ere some
fools ia the world, who hold to the
comfortable doctrine that the world
owes them a living. Perhaps it
does. Anyhow, it is certain that
they would not be able to collect
their dues in that respect were they
10 depend upon the exercise Of Their
common senvc.
General q fant las found it neces-
sary to disayow any designs upon
the autonomy Of the Republic Of
Mexico, and the disavowal viii
probably have some effect upon the
Mexican fools-for there are fools
there as well as here. He is doubt
less right when he saws that the
United States would not take Mexi-
co as a free gift dt the hands Of the
Mexican people We have, rs he
declared, land enough, and trouble
enough, without borrowing Of our
neighbors. The only conquest Of
Mexico that Is Contemplated by the
gentlemen who are now in tha.
country with General Grant, OK who
stand behind General Grant, is the
conquest we made Of our own un-
developed domain when we built
the great trans continental railroads.
Exactly as we assailed and con-
quered savage nature, and so achiev-
ed a conquest of our own territory,
Mexico, assisted by capital, is to
assail and conquer nature within
her grand domain. There IS not to-
day living a man Of common sense
who regards the annexation Of Mexi-
co desirable. 1t certainly Is not
among the probabilities. Every
person Of sagacity recognized the
necessity of a closer alliance with
Mexico, but only an alliance which
shall make her great and independ-
ent as a nation. Soon or late il viii
be the United States and Mexico,
and probably Canada, against the
Continent of Europe. Not, perhaps,
in a clash of arms, though even that
is possible, but as the arbiter Of the
destiny of the commercial world.
Hence it is the policy of the Uni
ted States to develop their own
resources, and in every
practical way assist Mexico to de
velop its great resources. The future
Of Mexico, developed byrailways and
filled with industrial establishments,
cannot be other than great. And
thus it can become a great nation
and a powerful ally in case of need.
II is now the one weak spot on this
hemisphere. 1t was through Mexi-
co that Louis Napoleon struck at
this Republic during our civil war.
Had Mexico at that time been de-
veloped as this country was develop
ed, there would have been no French
invasion possible. In order to put
Mexico on the path to greatness and
there must be offered
he inducement Of certain greatness
and distinct nationality. To annex
Mexico, even were Mexico desirous
of it, would be to fix it in the rut of
which it has so long
The conquest of Mexico
5 necessary, but Mexico must con-
luer herself. That is the greatest
victory Of all.-PhiiadclphiG North
(Rcp.)
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Old Bill CFidley.

You may say what you please
about old Bill Gridley," said gem
tleman just down from Bodie to the
crowd who were spinning for hot
Scotches in Phil McGoverns back
room the other night. II know
there's lots Of fellers talking against
him-specially now that he's dead
but | alters speak of man as l
| find him, and old Bill was as fair
and square q one as | wish ter see,
spite of his crankiness."
'Putty bad tempered, wasn't he?"
said Phil, who was sprinkling.red
pepper on the salt herring to encour-
age trade
"Well, he was-and he wasn't.
I've seen that man keep his grip on
himself and go along cool and easy
ike when any other man in the
camp would have stood on his hind
legs and rared. ] call to mind suth-
IN that happened once away back
in the flush days that showed what
a big heart old Gridley had in his
shirt. You see, we were c n min
ing camp called Lone Skall. up on
the Feather river, and Bills claim
had paned out SO rich that he cyan
to put on q good deal of style He
had the largest shanty in Inc place
four rooms-and what must Grid
ley do but send clear round the Horn
for a carpet for the parlor. 1t took
him nearly year to get it out, and
then it was the only carpet in that
part Of the state. White ground,
with yellow and red flowers. Folks
used to come for miles around to
see it.
rs this yarn in one act p growl-
ed a friend of the miner, who was
wistfully watching the barkeeper
take the lid off some hot chowder
in the other room.
Its in one scene" continued the
party from Bodie. Lem me see
where was l ? Well, to make a long
story short, l was playing Pedro in
Bills best room one night, with
some prospectors Just up from Fris-
CO, and was losing considerable dust,
when l dropped on one of 'em TAX
ing q jack out of his sleeve. As
luck would have it, l wasn't heeled
that night, so 1 Just picked up to-
baceo knife that lay on the table
and cut the fellows throat clean
across
Good scheme, too" grnnted a fa-
70 steerer in approval.
swell, as | was saying, old Grid
ley, who was in the next room,
heard thescuffle and camein. There
was that cut chap lying on the floor,
with the blood all over the carpet
the whole thing justruiped. Every
body was scared TO see Bills face i
he looked just awful, expected to
get a bullet through my head quick
er'n a wink"
"This is pretty tough on ne,
says Gridley, looking at the new car
pet.
Il know, Bill" says !, AN l axes
yer parding, old man. never once
thought of the carpet. | wouldn't
er done it if | had"
''No l don't believe YOU would,
Tom" says he kindersorrowful like.
II don't believe you would" And
he actually helped me to heave the
corpse out of the winder. and kind
er wipe up the muss a little. tell
pou, gentlemen, old Bill Gridley was
a white man, he was and if | ever
so back on him after that, I'm q CO.
Vote y
And they all agreed that man
must have pretty big heart to act
ike that after all.
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Didn't knew Hon to Take Them.


He was on his way home from
Leadville. He had on ragged old
fsummer suit, a bad hat, and he had
been taking his meals about thirty
hours apart to make his money car
ry him through.
Yes, | like the country out that
way hereplied to the query. ''The
climate is good, the scenery is fine,
and some of the people are as hon
est as need be. Tie trouble is know
ing how to take the bad ones"
Il should think that would be
easy"
-Yes, it looks that way, but / had
u little experience. | am the origi-
nal disooverer of the richest mine
around Lcadyille."
rs that so"
Eyes, sir, Pm the very man, but
you wouldn't think ii to see these
old clothes.
"Then you don't own it now?"
''Not n bit Of ii. I'll explain:
was poking around the hills and
found signs. | collected some spec
linens for assay staked out a claim
and went off to the assayer. 1t was
two days before he let me know |
had struck the richest ore he had
ever assayed, and then l hurried
back to my claim. Hang my but
tons if / hadn't been jumped +"
How p
why, gang Of sharpers had
found the spot and built up II pole
shanty and hung up a sign of First
Baptist Church over the door. Sure
as shooting they had, and the law
out there is that no miner can sink
a shaft within 200 feet of church
building. They saw ne coming
and when / got there they were ac-
tually holding a revival There
was just six Of them, and they got
up one after another and told how
wicked they had been and how sor-
ry they were, and, would you be-
lieve it, they had the cheek to ask
me to lead off in singing. I went
to law but they beat me. Three
days after the verdict the Church
burned down, and before the ashes
was cold the church was developing
a mine worth a million dollars.
You see didn't know how to take
EN-
WAS there any particular way
of taking them?"
''You bet there wasl | ought to
have opened on the revival with a.
Winchester rifle and given the coro-
ner $50 for verdict that they had
died Of too much religion.
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From the Hub.

There is perhaps no tonic offered
to the public that possesses as much
intrinsic value as the Hop Bltters.
Just at this season OF the year, when
the stomach needs an appetizer, or
the blood needs purifying, the cheap
est and best remedy is Hop Bitters.
An ounce OF prevention is worth a
pound of cure, don't wait until you
are prostrated by a disease that may
take months for you to recover in.-
Bosion Globe.
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Shoots his Tenant.

CINCINNATI. May 13. = Michael
Cain became involved in quarrel
last night with John Saurbeck, his
tenant, in the eastern part of the
city, and shot him in the face, in
flicting wound which is regarded
as fatal. Cain gave himself up to
the ,,olicr
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SAMPLES or GOODS.

aud any information that may be desired,
thar it IS possible for lis to give, will have
our most careful and prompt attention the
ane day they are received. In sending
your orders state rs explicitly as you can
what you want.
Fo-Do not fail to read our regular item
lied advertisements, as they appear from
time to time in all of the Pittsburgh daily
and religions weekly papers.
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The imported English gipsy hats
have a netted cord covering the
front and back of the turned up
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| was miserable with Chronic Ca
tarrh Pesana is nay remedy and
no other. Wm. Boyd, Pittsburgh.
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Nv daughters defective vision was
much improved by Peruna. James
Cook Bakerstown, Pa.
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Sunbeam cloth is English novel;
ty for skirts. 1t has a mixture Oh
all colors of the rainbow IN stripes
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/ had Chronic Catarrh badly. l
took Peruna. l am very much bet
ter. ]. Williams. MedYay. Pa.
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II you 10 not come to the City to do your
shopping YOU can have yoer wants satisfac-
iorily supplied by sending Gs your orders by
mail. We have this branch of our business
thoroughly organized, aud all orders for
either
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NEW SPRING
AND
SUMMER GOODS

rha. they have yet had the pleasure ofof-
ioriug 10 the pnblie.
Very Best Valuas,. n every line Of
Gods,
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for you don't know how much good
a sight of your dear face viii do
Yours eternally,
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That they hav,
sortlient of
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-06-25
SOME ART NOTES.

Jules Blanchard, the sculptor, has been
made Chevalier of the Legion OF Honor.
The Cincinnati Pottery Club lately
opened its exhibition by a wellattended
reception.
Guillaume, the architect, and Thomas,
the sculptor, are to do the tomb OF Baron
Taylor at Pere Lachaise.
An exhibition of the works of Thomas
Alston is to be held shortly at the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts.
Robert Mott was elected President at
the annual meeting, held in New Orleans,
of the Southern Art Union.
The exhibition of American etchings, at
the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, is a
comprehensive and interesting one.
NJ Secretan has sold Millet's ''Angelus, -
which he bought at the Wilson sale for the
high figure of 100. 600 francs, for 2O0, 600
francs.
Our etchings are in demand at the Lon
don exhibition. Requests for duplicates
have been made, and inquiries as towhether
they can be found at any dealers abroad.
NJ. Hartman, whose pictures were sold
in Paris, bought his Rousseaus and Millets
directly from the painters. He is often
mentioned in Sensier's works on the two
men.
George A. Bakers portrait OF Kensett has
been presented to the Metropolitan Museum
OF Art. 1t was bought at the formers sale
for S52S. This sum has been subscribed
| by half dozen gentlemen.
The competition for the monument to be
erected at Versailles to the Constituent
Assembly has resulted in the acceptance
of the project of Formige, architect, and
Coutan, sculptor. The first prize is 10000
francs.
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has
shown fine taste in purchasing DIN L. War
ners portrait bust of Miss Maud Morgan,
and Augustus Saint Gaudens' bronze bas-
relief OF Bastien-L epage, both of which,
with the formers The Dancing Nymph,
were among the principal attractions Of the
late exhibition OF the Society of American
Artists.
An effort will be made to have the Amer
leans painting abroad well represented at
the exhibition which will be open in No
vember and December at the Pennsylvania
| Academy of Fine Arts. Only works in oil
will be received. 1t is suggested that no
artist enter more than two works. The
Academy viii bear all expenses on pictures
from New York, Boston, Pistsburg and
! Baltimore.
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WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

The Colusa Sun, IN noticing the banquet
that wac recently given to Senator Lang.
ford for having stood up to all his pledges
! in the Senate, says that such representa-
tIves are common at Colusa.
The San Jose Mercury bitterly attacks
| the administration OF j. p Ames, Warden
of the State Prison at San Quentin, and
says manifold charges of personal miscon-
duct, tyranny and mercenary disposition
are laid. 1t adds that Mr.. Ames deprives
the prisoners of the pittance allowed them
by the State.
| Oregon Salesman If it be desirable TO
effect reform in the political machinery
OF party, the only successful way Is to
exhaust first every means OF securing ac-
ceptable nominations within the party
lines falling in this, the next best step is
to defeat at the polls the unworthy candi-
| dates and elect the worthy.
| The Stockton Mah objects to too hard
study for children, and says: The mere
confinement in school-room six hours out
of twenty.four for five days in the week,
nine months In year, and ten years in the
lifetime of boy or girl, is a serious strain
of itself Add to this a confusing multi
plicity of studies and an anxiety to excel
in them, and the necessity of caution lest
the constitution give way is apparent.
Lassen Adoocdte. There are many en-
conraging aspects to the future outlook of
this county. 1t is fast coming into note as
a grain and stock producing region, and its
mineral wealth is known to be very great.
The prospects for the present year are as
good as could be desired, and it is known
that we produce more than we consume.
The railroad will give US rapid means OF
transportation for perishable produce,
while we have a market in Plumas county
which will always rely upon this county
for grain, flour, and nearly all the products
of the soil.
The San Jose Herald says: 1t is gen.
eral complaint by the farmers this year
that the joint-worm is destroying their
wheat. The worm seems to be more
abundant than ever before. You can not
enter wheat field but that you can find
them. They infest the wheat crop. but
are said not to be found in the barley at
all. The joint.worm is thin, yellow
worm, from sixteenth of an inch to an
eighth of an inch in length, sometimes
longer. 1t is quite yellow, and is found at
the joints OF the wheat. stalk. They are
noticed mostly In the upper portions OF
the lower joints, and in the very center OF
the joint. They keep up continual eat
ing, and the larger they are the more they
eat.
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THE NEVADA AND OREGON RAILROAD. =
Says the Ashland l0regon) Tidings of June
10th Hon. j. S. Herrin tells US that his
son in San Francisco met Colonel Moore,
one of the chief managers of the Nevada
and Oregon Railroad enterprise, a short
time since. Colonel Moore said that some
New York capitalists were much interested
in the projected road, and that if practi-
cable route could be established from the
Oregon line across to the coast at Port Or
ford, they would furnish 60 per cent. of the
money required to build the road. He said
further that he intended to make personal
examination of the proposed route this
summer, entering Rogue river valley some
where about the Meadows. following the
river down until the rough. bluffy banks
are approached, and then striking off across
the dividing ridges to Port Oxford. Mr..
Herrin of San Francisco, who is much in
terested in the scheme, and has talked
with number of railroad men about it,
reports that Leland Stanford has said that
this projected line of railroad offers the
best field for enterprise and capital OF the
openings for new railroads on this coast,
inasmuch as it would occupy field secure
from competition.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-06-25

A STORY. An exchange tells that a
Maine man twelve years ago left his wife
and child at dinner and sauntered away.
Ten years later he sat one day in hut un.
der the comfortable shadow of Table
Mountain, California, a tired, unlucky,
spiritless miner, eating his brunette bacon
and baked beans. His wife and daughter
the latter now nearly oat of her teens
walked in Raising his eyes from the plate,
he merely remarked 'Ye've got here at
last, hev ye2" and again attacked his
brunette bacon and beans. Two years
elapsed, the wife disappeared from that
home, and the other day she was found
fourth in walking match and credited
with sos miles, while the daughter, for
saken by a lover, tried to drown herself.
The girl is now in an Oakland lunatic asy-
lum, the mother is training for another
match, and the MINER once more solitary,
presumably is sitting under the comforta-
bic shadow of Table mountain, munching
his brunette bacon and his baked beans.
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ALFRED De MUSsEy. Alfred de Mus
set, says the London Times, is a poet who
deserves to be known and appreciated in
England, but who cannot be read by the
light of an ordinary Rnglishman's knowl.
edge of French. 1t is not that there is
any difficulty in his language, but that to
penetrate to the depth OF feeling which it
contains one must not only study the mans
life and character, but be imbued with
the sentiments of the time and people
which formed them both. too close and
servile rendering would convey no idea of
the beauties OF these exquisite little poems,
and to initiate the light and airy and ever.
varying meters Of the original would pro-
duce something very like a travesty in
English.