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They Spared His UproatabIe Life.

Many years ago, when Denver didn't
| have any opera-house, and the Rocky
/ Mountain country was the terra tncog-
| niia Of the world, there wandered ont
/ TO the region OF Fort Benton a man
named Expeadle. who made himself un-
popular among the Shoshones by killing
| some OF their most prominent men when
ever he could catch them away from
home.
As a result of this course Of procedure,
| Mr.. Exbeadle had q large private Gem
| etery, and hostilities were declared by
the tribe.
Mr. Exbeadle was a speculator, and
one day fortune threw III his way lot of
fireworks that didn't meet with ready
sale, and he purchased them, more for
his own amusement than anything else.
These he put to one side, and didn't
think of them again until one day there
was council of war IN the Shoshone
tribe, at which it was resolved to ex-
tinguish the light of Mr.. Exbeadle and
send him across the mysterious river.
They notified him that the intention
was to make him climb the golden stair
in about fifteen minutes, Western time.
1t looked pretty dubious for the defend
ant for moment, and he didn't know
exactly what to do not having time to
consult counsel.
1t was dark night in autumn, and
Mr.. Exbeadle felt that the morrow would
be of very little interest to him.
Like an inspiration, however, came
the recollection of his fireworks. He
rose and said
Gentlemen of the forest, you ap-
parently have the bulge on me and l
admit You are largely in the majority,
but you do not know me. l am medi
cine man from Michigan, and l can make
IT mighty interesting for you If you carry
this thing too far. / just say this for
| your own good, and more in sorrow than
In anger. If you take out my vitals and
feed them to the vultures, viii linger
near you IN the spirit, and will annoy you
| pretty plenty. l am aware that / have
planted some of your leading men in the
| cold, cold ground, but that isn't marker
to what viii perform when l get out of
the flesh where I won't be delayed by
the lnclemency of the weather.
" will now proceed to show you a
few little amateur efforts of mine as
madeleine man from away back"
| Mr.. Exbeadle then let Off n new style
OF sea serpent from slight elevation. 1t
was the biggest thing in the line of pyro-
technics that was ever turned loose west
OF the Missouri. 1t shot out into the
dark about nine feet like car load of
dellrium tremens and squirmed through
the inky bosom of night like an uneasy
demon walking in his sleep. The gath
cred warriors of the tribe took one hor-
rified look at the kissing emissary of
he'll, and lit. out. They left all their
baggage that didn't happen to be tied
to them, and there hasn't been a She's
hone Indian seen there since.
Mr.. Exbeadle picked out the best
ponies belonging to the tribe, loaded up
the rest of his fireworks and went home.
He lived many years after, and became
one of the most trusted Indian peace
commissioners known In Western his.
torY.-LQra7nie Booanern1ln.
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Onern.elass Whlsky-F Flask.

The latest thing ont, and certainly an
article that Will ill want long felt, is
M opera glass that viii hold half pint
of whisky. III Is, in fact, whisky flask,
with lenses and things just like an opera
glass, and a person can take drink
without going ont between the acts. IL
can be used as an opera-glass with or
without taking n drink. If You want to
take drink there is little spring that
YOU touch with the little finger, when
silver tube drops down into the mouth,
and the whisky flows as easy as possible.
1t works best when you point the opera
glass mp into the gallery, because that
act gives it the natural incline. Quite
number of these new opera-glasses are
said to be in use, and they give excellent
satisfaction. A party Of four gentlemen
had one between them at the theater
one night, and though they have been
regular corn tanners heretofore, gong
out between the acts with unlalilhg
regularity and walking over whole rows
of people, on this occasion they ala not
go out until the third act, when the
oDera-olass ran dry. 1t was amusing to
see them take turns with that opera
glass. looking up into the gallery at
some imaginary acquaintance. one
take a drink, and bow to somebody up
stairs, and hand the glass to another ana
he would look up. The last one 10 dIl I,A
out of it came near giving the whole
scheme away by shaking it when it re-
fused to give down. After the last drink
the gentlemen sat in solemn silence for
ten minutes, and then they could y NOT
stand it longer, so they got up and MED
out for a drink. 1t was evident that
they had got it filled while they were
out, because they again began looking
at The fellows in the gallery. Ii TINS
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES comes INTO gen.
eraI use it will save visitors to places OF
amusement great deal of annoyance as
there is no greater nuisance at theater
than a gang of fellows getting Ed e,o an. a
blowing through an audience 70 sHo va
drink Quite a number OF ladies' nave o1
been noticed looking up INTO tne Snlt
leries with opera-glasses; but we e aasLs
think thew have secured these new 1a SIS
H Howe if they have not, they haa ,. PEI s-
fer he careful about looking up hlgn Ior
= 90 go D for fear people will mlsconstrue
Their nnotiyes.--Peck's Sun.
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Some Good DOn,ts.

Don't get in debt when you can not
see your way out again; when you owe.
pay as fast as you can, and promptly.
Don't enlarge your farm, when half of
what you now own Is not cultivated.
Don't borrow if you own more land
than you can till well. III you are in
debt or need funds to make necessary
improvements, sell part of your farm
and use the money to pay your debts.
and make improvements systematically
as Your means permit.
Don't borrow money to build snowy
house, when less pretentious one would
answer better, and never lend money
when You have undrained or poorly-tilled
land TO improve.
Don't speculate with other peoples
money, or even own, unless you see
clearly that you will make profit; and
even then do not do it to the neglect of
of your farming.
Don't mortgage your farm for money
to buy goods. Very few men can enter
the mercantile business without training
for it without becoming bankrupt.
Don't buy fancy stock at fabulous
prices ON the spur of the moment, or
without knowing why You want it, and
how you are to make the investment
profitable.
Don't keep poor stock when you can
keep good at the same expense, and with
four times the profit.
Don't change your kind of farming,
because what you raise this year is low
priced; ten chances to one your crop will
be up next year, and that which is uI
now viii then be down.
Don't try to grow crops to which you,
farm is not well adpted.
If you have good location do not sell
out, expecting to better it because you
are offered good price.
Don't exchange farms often, for by sc
doing, you can execute no definite system
of Improvement.
Don't begin to improve till you have 9
general plan of what you wish to do; tc
do SO, would be like commencing to gel
out timbers for house before you know
its length and breadth, = Cincinnati
Farming World
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
THE sapphire has long been symbol
e the sacred Office of bishop.

THE sapphire has long been symbol
of the sacred Office of bishop.
The principle of the spring-trap is
found in the jaws of the dolphin.
In THE Hindoo mythology men are
represented as living 100000 years.
THE conger eel is the king eel the
word Is from the Icelandish kongr, a
king.
ANTS are said to have a marvellous
power of resisting heat, cold and drown
ing.
IT IS incorrect to use the word couple
for two objects unless they are fastened
together.
WHEN the bees are young honey re-
mains longer white, and is known as viz
gin honey.
ACCORDING to a statute of Edward L. i,
cottage is Q house. without land belong
ing to it.
TIE yearly consumption of quinine in
the United States is computed at 500, 600
ounces.
THE dahlia is a native of Mexico, and
was brought TO England by Dahl, q
Swede, in 1904
UNDER the microscope the brilliant
feathers of humming-bird's breast
show only dark brown.
THE medicinal leech is found only in
I Central Europe, Asia Minor and part of
I the northern coast of Africa.
AMONG the Tahitians and New Yea
landers the women wear their hair short
and the men wear theirs long.
THE Indians of Texas use the sophora
bean to produce intoxIcation. Half a
bean Will produce the desired effect.
THE Hindoo god of love, called Kama,
is, like Cupid, represented as boy with
bow and arrows; but. instead of dove,
he rides upon parrot.
IL SWEDEN about one-half of the pop
ulation annually consume 40 to 170
4 pints of spirits each. The Sweies have
deteriorated in stature and strength
new diseases have appeared, and old ones
Increased.
4 The great altar at Olympia, described
by Pansanias, was formed entirely by
the ashes of the victims sacrificed to
Jupiter. After every sacrifice the priests
moistened the ashes with water from the
/ Alphcus, and smeared the altar with
them. and so enlarged it that, during
ten centuries, the structure gained 125
feet IN circuit and twenty-eight in height.
DEvLLE, a French chemist who died
last July, was enabled to carry on e6-
periments on metallic aluminium by Ma
/ poleon Ill, who looked forward to the
application OF a metal of so light specific
gravity to the making of armors and
helmets for the French curiassiers.
Though the anticipation was never real.
ized, it led to a lasting benefit to science,
for Deville made vast strides in oul
! knowledge OF inorganic chemistry
through experiments in this one metal.
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Grecian Reantr.

Much has been said in praise of
Grecian beauty, and the men are hand
some in every sense OF the word. We
might well imagine them to have been
models of Phidias and Praxiteles. Their
large eyes, black as jet, sparkle with
chances of fire, while their long. silky
eyelashes soften the expression and give
q dreamy appearance Of melancholy.
Their teeth are small, white and we'll
set; fine, regular profile, a pale. olive
complexion, and a tall, elegant figure
realize an accomplished type of distinc-
ton. AS to the women, thew seem To
have left physical perfection to men.
some possess fine eyes and hair. but ne
a rule they have bad figure. and some
defects in the face generally spoil the
features. 1t Is among them. however
that the old, oriental customs are most
strictly preserved; while the men are
gradually undergoing the process of
civilization, they, In q moral point of
view, remain stationary, and are Just as
they were fifty years ago. 1t may. in
deed, be said that, with the exception of
Athens, the women possess no individual
existence and count as nothing in society.
The men have reserved every privilege
for themselves, leavingxto their help
mates the care of the house and family.
In the towns, where servants are kept,
they are of the poorest class of peasants,
who know nothing and receive miserable
wages. The families are generally large
seven or eight little children-and de-
mand q mothers constant attention.
The morning begins by directing the
work of each servant, repeating the
same thing hundred times, scolding,
screaming, and even beating them to be
understood. In the evening, when the
children are sleeping, if there remains
some little time, the poor, worn-out
mother sits down to her spinning wheel
to spin silk, to sew or knit, or if 1t be
summer time, to look after her cocoons,
happy if she has not to do the work OF
her incompetent servant over again.
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The sIason 3 Hamlln co.

AT Milan, Italy, they have recently had
Musical Industrial Exhibition and
Composition, under royal patronage at
which were collected and compared,
during period of several months, the
largest number and greatest variety of
musical instruments, old and new ever
brought together. America was hon
ored in the award to the Mason & Hamlin
Organ Company of the highest medal,
and the only one In this department..
Considering that $50 awards were given,
altogether, this distinction was very
marked. 1t Is a continuation of the tri-
umphs OF these famous organ makers at
every one of the Worlds Fairs for four
teen years to which there has been no
exception. The Manhattan.
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william J. Coughl!n, Of somervills, Mas, says: TN
the fall Of 1876 taken with HLKEDTss LUsos
followed by 8 severe cough. lost my appetite and
fesh and was confined nv bed In 1877 ad-
uitted to the hospital. The doctors said had hole in
rly lung as big a. a half dollar. report
went around that / dead. gave up hope, but
friend told me Of DR.. WILLIAM HALLS BALSAM
FOR THE LUNGS. got bottle, when, 70 my surprise
commenced feel better, and to-day feel better
for three years past this hoping every AZ
ficted with Diseased Lungs will take DR.. WILLIAM
HALLS BAISAM, and be convinced that coSsUMP
TIoSCAN BE CURED. can positively say ii has don'
more good than ali the other medicines have taksi
nee nv sickness.fi
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A New YORK clergyman sold horse
to woman, who afterward discovered
that il was not the animal the owner had
pretended to sell her. She recovered
Judgment against him, and In the alb
sence of any property, the Court directed
the Sheriff to hold the minister himself.
She subsequently brought suit against
the Sheriff for allowing her security to
go out of the county, and recovered over
S350 from the Sheriff-the sworn state
ment of the conductor and brakeman of
the New Jersey Railroad outweighing
the sworn denial of the minister, that he
had gone out of the county.
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Points of Manifest Destiny.

Wbvl an OK hide in Honduras can be
obtained for a pair of shoes you can
eyet MIR Donaica enough to fill drug
Store for an ak; you can obtain sufficient
quicksilver to load mule with stone
;ars Of it for a few cheap mirrors; what,
then will be the result when the engines
Of the American Railway reach into the
country where Cortez and Vasco carried
away two thousand millions OF treasure
Rosfoyl Transcript.
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As A RULE, when wedding goes Oh
in Chicago it makes terrible noise T.
like that of an exploding cannon. Nc Nc
Judge so, at least since 1t ls frequenIly
necessary for the local papers 10 can ss
tention to the fact that such ana sucn
persons were "quietly married :.
evening by the Rev. Tommy Doo -
other.-Grdphic.
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THE parson extended the box to Bill,
and he slowly shook his head. "Come,
William, give something" said the par
son. Cant do it, said Bill. ssWhy
not? Is not the cause q good one ~
asked he. Yes, good enough: but
am not able to give anything, . answered
Bill. Pooh pooh L know better ;
you must give me better reason than
that" We'll, / owe too much money
1 must be just before / am generous. YOU
know" !" But, William, you owe heaven
a larger debt than you owe any one
else" That's true, parson: but heaven
amt pushing me like the rest of nv cred
itors. old Anecdote.
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The Young Writer'S First Production.

Probably every one who has attempted
authorship will confirm Longfellows
experience on the appearance of his
first effusion in print. Nothing, he tells
us, which he since published gave him
such exquisite pleasure as he experienced
on opening the paper to which he had
timidly sent his manuscript, and to find
it there in actual type, to be read by the
multitude. This feeling comes but once,
I but the memory of it lasts lifetime. 1t
can never be forgotten. What anticipa-
tons it arouses-what a sense of i'm
portance it gives How little does the
Young author suspect the cold indiffer-
ence with which it is read, possibly not
read, by those who take the paper As
the song says, "It's all the world to
him, - and why not all to the world9
It would be and is cruel TO spoil the
delightful sensations of initial author
ship. They may be false, they certainly
are fleeing, but the enjoyment, while it
lasts, is an intoxication of delight, as
first pleasant sensations are apt to be.
The hint comes soon enough to the
writer to discover how really unimpor-
tant the event was. If he persists In
writing he will come to be as indifferent
to his appearance in type as the world is.
If newspaper writer, he Will weary o
the eternal grind, and forget what h'
has written the day before in studying
what to write for the day after.
But no success, either as a newspaper
} writer or book-maker, either as poet o
+ essayist, however fattering, will eve
I give TO the author the sensation of hi
first appearance in print. 1t is, after
passes, a lost sensation, no more to b
repeated than loves young dream, will
/ freshness and fervor. 1t is an ILLUSION
too exquisite to be duplicated In ones ex
7 perience.
1t is our advice, then, to young writer's
after they have succeeded in getting int
print once, to stop then and there, anc
/ cherish the sensation rs long as possible
that is to say, as long as they cal
help it-and not repeat it to safety, o
until the spirit is iaded, and the write
ready to cry out, with the Preacher, +" al
is vanity and vexation of spirit. Gin
cilnati Commercial.
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LongfeIlow,s Ancestry.

A writer IN a weekly contemporary
gives an interesting and valuable account
of the ancestry of Henry Wadswortn
Longfellow According to this writer,
the great grandfather of the poet.
Stephen Longfellow, was native OF
/ Newbury, Massachusetts,. The grand
gather of Stephen Longfellow was born
In New Hampshire County, England,
about the year 1851. He came in early
life to Newbury, where he married Anna
Sewall, a sister of Chief Justice Sewan.
He was drowned in the Gulf of st. Law
renee during Sir William Phiprs' expedi-
dltion to Quebec in 1890. OF his SIX
children, one was the father of Stephen
LoDgfellow, who went to Portland In
1745-an event chronicled In Parson
Smiths Journal He became black
smith, and married Abigail Thompson In
IVA. His son Stephen was born IN
/ 1923. The latter was sent to Harvard
College, where he was graduated. The
/ young collegian opened school in Port
land, after having served as pedagogue
IN York. He held a good and honorable
position in town during his life, became
the father of three sons, and died at a
ripe age. Only one of his sons, another
/ Stephen, had children, and the eldest of
I these was likewise called Stephen. This
new Stephen made his home in Gorham
during his peaceful career, married Pa
/ tience Young, and produced another
Stephen. "To the close of his life, 7"
/ says the writer, who has gathered all the
details of the Longfellow pedigree, che
wore the old style dress-short clothes,
long wnistcoat, and white top boots
! He was man of sterling qualities of
mind and heart, great integrity, and
sound common sense. The last
/ Stephen was the Father of Henry Wads-
worth Longfellow. He entered Harvard
! College III 1894, and was a favorite in his
class He was an earnest student and
/ left the college with a full share Of
/ honors. After graduating he entered
/ the law Office of Salmon Chase, an uncle
/ of Chief Justice Chase, and was admitted
to the bar in 1901. His practice was,
from the beginning. large and lucrative
In 1904 he married Ziepah, eldest daugh-
ter of General Peleg Wadsworth, de-
scendant of John Alden, of Plymouth.
1t was in the house of Abigail Longfel-
low, a sister of Stephen, that the poet
was born, seventy-five years ago. He
I was named after Lieutenant Harry Wads-
worth Stephen Longfellow, after hay
ing passed through a long and note
worthy career, died in 1849 The poet
married Mary S. Potter when he was
about twenty-four, but his wife lived
only four years. Eight years later he
married Frances Elizabeth Appleton
whose tragic death is familiar to all.
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FoR dyspepsia, indigestion, depression Of
spirits and general debility, in their various
forms also as a preventative against fever and
ague and other intermittent fevers, the " Ferro-
Phosphorated Elixir Of Calisaya," made by
Casvell, Hazard & Co., New York, and sold by
all Druggists is the best tonic and for patients
recovering from foyer or other sickness, it has
M eoual
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The voltaic Belt Co., Marshall Mich, will
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any person afflicted with Nervous Debility,
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Address as above without delay.
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Nothing Could be stronger.

ST. LOUIS, NO., Jan. 20, 1881.
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hood. It would be impossible for me TO descIioe
how much have suffered. Your Safe Kidney
md Liver Cnre has done me more good than
the combined skill of all the physicians na'e
ever tried during my entire life. 49,
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BALTIMORE papers do it in this wise :
Here rests his head upon the Ian of
earth; a youth to fortune and to fame
unknown. Too much benzine crept I'M
derneath his girth, aad played the mis-
chief with his temperate zone.-Bloopa-
ingt0n Eye.
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A woMAs in Liverpool brought suit
for breach of promise against her dead
sisters husband. The Judge dismissed
the case without hearing. Under the
law of England man can no more De
sued for refusing to keep his promise 70
marry his deceased wife's sister than 70
marry his grandmother.
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METHODIST clergyman, who had been
o.a;aned to a congregation that began to
o cTitscise his preaching, said that they
onIv ridiculed themselves. Because,
friends. if 1 could preach well do you
think / would have been sent out here 10
minister to lot of lunkheaded igno-
ramuses like your"
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ONE day ate large mulberry In an
distracted kind of way, which turned
ont 10 he a silk worm. 1t has a ripper,
richer. nut-brow flavor than the berry,
Int IS colder and more fuzzy.-1h0t
RoOyierdl0 Chap.
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nervous debility, loss OF memory, premature
old age as the result of bad habits, should send
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WHEN we asked our girl to marry us
she said she didn't mind-and we have
since found out that she didn't.-I0tedO
4,ueyicdn,