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a CHICAGO IDYL,

Must really 80, sweetheart ?"
1es,' replied Lillian McGuire, pling
her shapely white hand in his, and Iooing
into his face with q tender earnestness nat
showed the true wOmanliness of her natre,
1t IS better, far better for both of us thasge
should part forever" but as she spoke he
hot tears Of pain welled into her beauall
brown eyes-thOse eyes that had witcsd
with their bright glances and dreamy IT,
derness 50 many men-and with j little 10
of pain Lilliau's head was bowed upon Go.
". Simpsons shoulder in an ecstasy Of grf.
Couldn't you put ten-year limit on va
bill, darling?" asked the young man, bel
ing gently over the little head that was l.
lowed so trustingly just under his left ca;
II certainly ought to have as good a cham
as a Chinaman."
A low moan Of pain and a convulsive She
of the little head was the only response.
But George was not to be denied so easI.
"Can not have one hope" he said, "e
little nicllol-plated, 10-cent hope?'
Lillian lifted her head and looked at h.
steadily. Perhaps" she said, in cold, 81
fms Bay tones, you would drop if a hore
fell on you, but begin to doubt it. KnF
then, since you agU have it, that under D
circumstances can I ever accept your profit
ed love, for I am packers daughter, al
packers daughters come high this vita
naughty expression that lower-case type c4-
not convey.
George W. Simpson saw at once that tb
proud beauty had been making playthis
of his love. The revelation was a terrib
one, but he bore it braveIy.
Very we'll" he said, in husky. haven't
Observation-Disclosures tones, You hay
stamped with the iron heel Of scorn upon til
tender violet Of my budding love, but som
day when your children-Httle winsom
brats with sunny smiles and an assortmen
Of collie that viii keep you up three night
every week-are climbing upon your kne
until you are in danger of becoming knee
sprung, you win perhaps remember, with
tinge Of sadness in the recollection, how yoI
tOyed with the love of q loyal, trusting Cool
county heart and threw forever over a yOun,
and happy life the black pail of disap
pointed nope and crushed ambition. I hav
seen the roses of my love wither and vast
away until they lie shrivelIed and bEghte,
by the dusty roadside of Life, and you ca
bet that I feel pretty tough about it. Ihav
got the boss wreck, and don't you forget it.
Lillian looked at him steadily for a mo
ment. "Do you mean these words you hav
spoken, George?' she asked.
"You can bet your life Ldo," he answered
in low, passionate tones.
"And do you really love me so dearl! ."
"WelI should gasp" was the rel
pearly tear glistening in Georges off ey
Then said Lillian, twiHing her -,
about his neck, II viii roost on your
next Tuesday evening as Usual. Papay f.
never forgive me If let man who ca als
like that go out of the family" y."-Cntcayc
Tribune.
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WIT AND HuMOR,

It is hard to catch mans meaning when
he carries on a running conversatiOn.-NeW
Orleans PicGyune.
The New York Commercial Adrerti8er say
thai Jumbo feels dreadfully disgusted be
cause he cannot write his autograph. An,
yet Jumbo has his own pen, and the childrel
used to get On TO his nibs in the Zoo.
A New Jersey farmer set an old stra1
stack on fire to scare out a fox, and thre
tramps craWled out OF the smoke and uu
braided him for his carelessness in not frs
iobbing around with pitchfork to see if an.
one was there.
Boston announces q new paper, called III
Bachelor 1t is q singular title. 1t vii
probably be edited by man who has No
Benedict-ed to going with the girls. We ad
wise him not to print any Old Maidoye
iokes.-N0rriStown Herald.
Jumbo, the new elephant, has proved
great comfort TO the clergyman, who must G
to see him as a great curiosity in natura
history and at the same time get a good dea
Of circus mixed in, as it were, "unbeknOwnst
to them.
Adelina Patti says that she and Monsieu
Nicolini are just as much married as Georg
Eliot and Professor Lewes were; that the.
love each other devotedly, and will do
until death do them part" and it doesn'
matter fig to them who knows it or Wha
they think or cay about it.
An English turfnan visiting Mount Yer
non engaged in conversation with native
and after few preliminary remarks oh
served: II dare say Mr.. Washington didn'
care much for iOrses. You cawnt tell me,
snnpose if he was heyer '0rse breaker ?"
The Viroinian eyed him q few seconds doubt
fnIlv and then answered: II amt much on
history. but to the best of my recollection
the General was ion-tamer.
"Ary wages are 50 small and uncertain,
oov,nor, shall leave next week and try and
set up a little place of my own" Master
Carpenter-"A As you like, Jim. hope you'll
get on; hard work and patience will do any
thing. When first came down here, two
wears back, and started, hadn't n penny of
nv own, and see where I am now, all
through my own exertions." J. C-"Whera
are yer? NJ. C-"Three hundred and fifty
pounds in debtw
81 understand you told in store that T
wasn't man to be depended on" said Hick-
enlooper to Wigglesworth, as they met the
other morning. "'Taint SO" promptly denied
Wigglesworth; "what L said was that you
was a tergiversationist." "Oh, well, that's
quite another thing, responded Hickenloo-
per; "Im much obliged for your good opin-
ion" and he shook WiggleswOrbh warmly
by the hand and ambled away.
1T negro prayer meeting, one of the
brethren earnestly prayed that they might
be preserved from what he called their "up-
settin' sins" Brudder," said one of the
elders, "yer hain't 'zactly got de hang oh dat
ar word It's besettin'-not upsettin,."
Brudder," replied the corrected, EFF dats
so, it's so; but WIZ praying de Lawd ter
sabe us from de sin oh 'toxicstion, an eff dat
amt an upsettin' sin, l dunno"
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THE PLANETS IN MAY,

The astronomical editor of the Providence
Journal, in describing the movements of the
planets during May, alludes to the beautiful
sight that will be afforded by the occultation of
Jupiter by the crescent moon on the 18th inst,
ct twenty-four minutes after seven o'clock,
Washington time. The moon will pass di-
rectly over Jupiter hiding him from view
As from new moon till full, the moon moves
with the dark edge foremost Jupiter will sud-
denly disappear when he reaches the dark
limb, producing a startling effect as if he were
suddenly annihilated from the sky at point
where his path was unObstructcd. There are
few observers who will possess the practiced
eyo required for witnessing an occultation
with the moon so near the sun. But it can be
done by those who know where to look with
the naked eye and with the aid of good
opera glass or small telescope. Jupiter on
that evening will be about one and onc-third
degrees north of the sunset and about ten de-
grees east of the sun, and sets a few minutes
before eight o'clock. The occultation of a
planet by the moon is a rare sight, and that of
Jupiter and the slender crescent will not soon
be forgotten. In the month there will be
crowded moro important events than those
that sometimes illustrate the records of several
successive months There is the conjunction
of the three largest planets of the systom with
the sun Saturn and Neptune on the 5th, and
Jupiter on the 6th), the conjunction of six
planets with each other, the superior con-
junction of Mercury, the total eclipse of the
sun mot visible here), and the occultation of
Jupiter form brilliant succession of phe-
nomena as imposing to the mental eye as thew
arc beautiful to the physical eye. The grand
feature Of the month is, however, the number
of planets in line with the sun at nearly the
same time, and the marvellous prep0nderance
of planetary attraction pulling upon the sun
in one direction Mercury is the first to drop
into line, Saturn and Neptune follow next,
and gigantic Jupiter is the last to join the
ranks. The sun is now passing through the
maximum of sun-spots. Whether the planets
have anything to do with the commotion
agitating his surface is something which no
astronomer has yet been able to determine.
The problem romans to be solved in the as
tronomy of the future.
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TIE AUToCRAT OF THE FAMILY.


The st. Louis Globe Democrat prints the long
complaint in the suit OF Mrs. Alice Davenport
for divorce from her husband. Benjamin T.
Davenport, Of that city. The parties are ma
tiVes of Georgia, but were married in New I ork
September 81, 1873. The wife asserts that two
weeks after their marriage her husband, with
out cause began to treat her with suspicion and
mistrust, and to assume toward her a cruel and
tyrannical attitude, declaring that she should
subject herself i'll all things, even to the most
minute aad trivial affairs, entirely to his arbi-
trary dictation, direction and command; that
he forbade her ever speaking to any gentleman,
and that, she being ILL., he refused her pcrmis.
sion to go to her mother in Savannah, Georgia,
and finally only consented to her mectil her
mother in New York after she had taken an
oath faithfully to observe certain rules which,
with gross indignity to herself, he had writ
ten out as follows:
Rules for the government Of my wife's con-
duct while away from me, June l, 1879:
/. Not to speak to any person Or allow any
person to speak to her on the car, except the
conductor and porter in the discharge Of their
duty.
2. Go directly from depot in New York to
Mrs. Haight's house, and occupy ROOM with
mother, and sleep only in her room.
3. Speak kindly and politely TO Mrs. Haight,
but not i'll friendly or familiar manner; say to
her you do not wish to meet any one in the
house; ask for table to yourself, with only
your family, or go somewhere else.
4. Never sing in the paror or sit in the par
lor or ciDu in vor1r room, yrhny, ouv Dar=on
cept your immediate family be present.
;. Never leave mother day or night for five
minutes at a time for any reason whatsoever.
Do nos walk, ride, or go anywhere without her,
even with your own brother.
6. Do not call on any person whatsoever, and
low no one who may call on you to see you,
nless they be your brothers or their wives Do
1t speak to any person you may meet whom
u may have known in the past.
Z. Do not permit yourself to be introduced to
~ person Whatsoever; and if you are. refuse
speak to them.
;. Write every night to me full, truthful
and exact account of everythingyo you have done,
where you have been, with whom you have
been, to whom you have spoken, and whom you
have seen. This must be done every night.
Let nothing, sickness or death, prevent your
keeping these rules, for 1 will excuse no breach
on any account. Do not leave New York, even
for an hour, without my permission, except
Brooklyn or Harlem.
If my wife cannot keep these rules, in word
and in honor, desire never to see her again.
BENJAMIN f. DAVENPORT.
The Globe Democrat says: Mr.. Davenport
came to this city in 1873, and at once gained
considerable prominence in the practice of his
profession. He has the management of several
large estates and is in receipt of quite respect
able income. He is a genial, social gentleman,
and hasalways been regarded as above reproach
1t is said that he will not resist the suit for di
YOrce.
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ANOTHER SOCIAL SKELETON,

The wife of Lieutenant Governor Tabor, a
Colorado millionaire, has brought suit for sep
arate maintenance, infidelity ON the part of
the husband being charged. Mrs. Tabor asks
that she be awarded the fine house on Broad
way, Denver, which she now lives in, and that
it be set apart for her exclusive use. 1t is the
finest residence in Colorado, and is valued at
$15000O. She Furthermore asks for $4,000 per
year for her maintenance, alleging that her
husband is worth between $7000,OO0 and
$8,0O0,000. 1t is stated that if Mrs Tabor will
sue for divorce, the suit will be allowed to 90
by default, and he will give her the Broadway
house and S3,000,000 outright, but she will not
consent to divorce.
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A MORMON MISSIONARY

Among the batch of missionaries
by the Mormon church to make pros
Europe was young man who has
married little over q year All
look forward with dread to the semi-annual
conference meeting, when they expect to
hear their names read off in the tabernacle
and receive the solemn summons to leave
home and friends to wonder in strange lands,
where they expect to be maltreated and inn
prisoned. There is no appeal from their APP
pointment, and when n mans name is read
off he has nothing to do but to pack up his
things and set out. 1t is generally under
stood that the men sent abroad are in some
way especially fitted to spread the bogus
gospeI TO the world, but the Mormons know
well enough that man who Is bishops
rival in love affairs is more likely than any
other to be ordered to 90. At the last confer
ence young man was ordered to go to Eng
land, who had not been married much over a
year. He was horror-stricken when he was
appointed, and, going to the council, begged
TO be excused on the ground that his wife
would be heart broken if he left her. The
only reply he gotwas that there were plenty
more wives to be had, and that he ought to
take another wife TO keep her company. He
went home ard told his wife the worst, and
the poor woman became almost frantic with
grief and apprehension. On Saturday last
he bade her goodbye, kissed his child, buta
few months old, and started out on two
wears, trim to helm enslave others "a he was
enslaved. Since his departure his wife has
been almost crazed, and is inconsolable with
grief These are miseries which cold and
heartless priesthood are continually inflict-
ing upon their benighted followers. The
man who thus left a young wife at the bid
ding of the priests deserves no sympathy.
Had he been possessed of the right sort of q
heart and little backbone, he would have
cut loose from the rotten church, and when
a priest came to expostulate kicked him
down the steps.-SaH Lake Tribune.
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mortally wounded. No braver man, purer
patriot, or more heroic commander ever fell
upon a battlefield.
The death of Colonel Lane seemed to satisfy
the enemy, and as we pursued our way to-
wards the mountain Businesses where they
could not follow we heard their exulting
shouts over the PROSTATE form of our dead
but ever-beloved and lamented leader. Four
of our number lay dead upon the field
and we had many wounded. They lost
an equal number Of killed, all of whom
were buried where they fell. Here the pur
suit ceased, and after a weary march over
the mountains our party reached the camp
Of General S. 2. Carter in Kentucky.
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4 REM9RK5RLE RECEPTION.

4 New York paper says: There was re-
markable reception in the Stokes bar-room in
the Hoffman House Thursday afternoon The
proprietor, Edward S. Stokes better known as
the man who shot jim Fisk, issued 1900 invi-
tations to ladies TO visit the bar-room between
Il. M. and 1 o'clock, and nearly a thousand
women, with a sprinkling of fashionably-
dressed men, were present. The room,
which is very large, was artistsaIly lighted,
and the air perfuned by silver cologne foun-
tains and a profusion Of flowers Behind an
immense mass of ferns and palms was an or
chestra playing Strauss waltzes softly, to an
accompaniment of the occasional clinic OF glass
es on the bar and the hum Of hundreds Of whis-
percd voices as the guests moved about the
room. Early comers exhibited some timidity,
but it was overcome after they had passed
through the decorated corridors into the gorge
Gus bar-room. At rare intervals an actress or q
public advocate of woman suffrage was to DO
seen. Several brokers and number of the
men who are seen ON Broadway in the after
moons lounged about, dressed with great care
and exhibiting much gravity OF deneanor.
Once when the plush doors swung back and a
man sauntered coolly in there was a ripple Of
excitement and cr&ning Of necks. He was
dressed with elaborate care in the height of
fashion. His closo-croppcd hair was quite
gray, but his face bore no trace of trouble and
he seemed to be in excellent spirits When he
stopped for a moment to chat with quietly
dressed actress from WallaclIs there was a no.
ticeable crush among the women about him for
a glance at his face. He went on presently,
and the women parted reluctantly to allow
him to pass. lie went out into the corridor
and the doors slammed after him. 1t was Ir.
Edward S. Stokes. The high gliding and rich
coloring Of the decorations are toned down by
the color Of the heavy Turkish and Persian
rugs, and the effect of the whole interior, with
its striking profusion of marble and bronze
statuary and oil paintings, is warm and luz
urious"
The National tribune., 1882-05-20
THE JEFFERSON MONUMENT.

In accordance with the joint resolution of
Congress recently approved by the President
authorizing the appropriation Of $4,000 for the
erection of a monument over the grave Of
Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, Va, Secretary
Frelinghuysen has requested the Secretary of
War TO detail Colonel Casey, of the Army, who
also hs. charge of the work on the Washington
monument, to superintend the erection of the
monument which win be about fourteen feet
high, of plain granite, inclosed within an iron
fence. No plan has been decided upon yet, but
it seems to be the general impression that a
plain granite obelisk will be selected.
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FORTUNE oE THrRrY-Two MILLIONS,

FORTUNE OF THIRTY-TWO MILLIONS.
Captain Albert, Of Harrisburg, Pa, will soon
sail for Germany, to represent the American
heirs of Charles Abraham Broseus, who died
in Reading Pa, in 1902. His father and two
uncles left an estate in Germany which is now
estimated at $32,00oO0O. For forty years the
German authorities endeavored to find clue
to the heirs, and for the last twenty years the
proceeds have been held in escheat, the fund
accumulating at three per cent. interest. Mr..
Broseus left seven children, whose heirs will
inherit this vast fortune, the estate to be di-
vidod into seven shares, and then to be sub
divided into as many shares as there are de-
scondents of each of the original heirs, who
now reside in Dauphin, Lebanon, Berks, and
Centre counties, Pennsylvania and in the State
of Texas,
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LINCOLN MONUMENT ASSOCIATION.

LINCOLN MONUMENT ASSOCIATION,
At q recent meeting of the trustees of the
Lincoln Monument Association held in this
city there were present General Nathaniel
P. Banks; of Massachusetts; Hon. Godlove
S. Orth, of Indiana; General Halbert +.
Paine, of Wisconsin; Hon. Charles O'Neill,
Of Pennsylvania and Hon. John Hill, OF
New Jersey. Permanent officers of the asso-
citation were elected, as follows: General
Nathaniel p. Banks, president Tin place OF
Hon. Thos. Harlan, resgned); Hon. Godlove
S. Orth, vice president; Edward McPher-
son, Of Pennsylvania and John W. Thomp-
son, of the District of Columbia, secre-
taries. Vacancies among the original
trustees having occurred by the deaths Of
Messrs. Alexander W. Randall, John F,
briggs, ThoS A. Jenckes, Orris S. Ferry,
Francis Thomas, Horace Maynard, John F,
Benjamin and Daniel Poisley, the following
persons We're elected to FL the vacancies:
Nessrs David X. Cartier, Omer D. Conger,
Edward Mcpherson, Henry 3. Anthony,
Jos. Il. Hawley, Jno. A. ]. Cresweil, Mont
gomery G. Meigs and Nathan Goff, Jr. The
deaths of Managers Francis Thomas, Richard
Yates, Alexander W. Randall, Nathaniel G..
Taylor and Henry D. Cooke were announced,
and the following persons chosen to fill the
vacancies: Messrs. John A. J. Creswell,
Montgomery c. Meigs, David K. Cartier, Edw.
Mcpherson and Spencer f. Baird.
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tion, and blushed as she increased te dis
tance between herself and her escort The
escort looked at him as much rs To say, Who
asked you to interfere in this natter and
the situation was becoming embarrSing,
when the little child, who was truging
along, happy to be with papa, said:
No, papa, my legs are as warm rs tst."
Then the two young people saw thGttle
boy for the first time, and Ill seemed relved.
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FANCY PRICES FOR JERSEY STOCK.

At the special sale of jersey cattle in New
York, the cow Gossip, was sold to John
Small, of York, Pa, for S425; the heifer
Second Leaf, to W. H. Wilkinson, of Spring
field, Mass, for $3.50; the heifer Belle, for
1925; the cow Princess, to S. NJ Shoemaker,
of Baltimore, for $4,8OO; the heifer Alphea
Regina, to II. L. Parker, of Boston, for 1925 :;
the heiler Sally Waters, to n. G.. Bradford,
Jr., for 81 500; and the heifer Leah Darling
ton, to VIM. Simpson for 1900.
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NEVER RECOVERED,

"You see," he exclaimed, as we sat on the
tavern steps at Sharpsburg and looked
around, "this town has never recovered from
the war"
"What did you have here before the war ?"
Everything almost. 1t was the liveliest
little town you ever saw. Why, sir 7 sat on
these very steps before the war and counted
six fights all going ON at once. Then we
had cooper shop, three saloons, tannery,
and four shoe shops"
"All are gone now, I observe"
Every one of 'em, and what's wuss, you
can't start fight here TO save your life. If
you should jump out there and crow and
crack your heels and offer to fight the best
man in Sharpsburg no one would raise
hand.n
They wouldn't, eh?"
"N0t q one. We are q humble people.
Here it is twenty years after the close of the
war; and we are still so downcast that a tin
peddler comes in here and bluffs the mayor,
liclls the clerk, sasses the postmaster, and
runs away with the only good-lOoking woman
we ever had, and not man threw brick
bat!n
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For THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
MOTHER is THE BATTLE OVER ?
BY MRS. +. c. ROSS.

Mother is the battle over?
Thousands have been slain, they say
is my father coming, tell me
lave our soldier. gained the day?
j. he well or is he wounded
Mother do you think he's slain
If you know Ipray you tell me,
VIII my father come again?
Mother dear, you're always signing
Since you last the papers read.
Tell me why you now are crying
Why that cap is on your head?
All! see you cannot tell me;
Fathers one among the slain;
Though he loved us very dearly,
He will never come again.
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RULING PASSION STRONG IN DEATH.

RULING PASSION STRONG IN DEATH.
The town of Prince Frederick, in Calvert
county, Maryland, was entirely destroyed by
fire in March last During the con1agration a
man and his wife came rushing from their
dwelling, he carrying his wife's hustle in both
hands and she dragging Saratoga trunk.
An old colored man, .Johny King, anxious to
assist iii removing the goods from a store, con-
fined his attention principally to mackerel, and
having finally, at the imminent rusk Of his life,
succeeded in filing tub, hoisted il upon his
head and wended his way homeward, singing at
the top of his voice, so glad that Jesus loves
me-" Just before the flames reached'the store
aforementioned the neighbors rushed in and
commenced helping themselves to water buck
cts, when the proprietor put in &n appearance
and insisted upon their using e cheaper kind.
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How people do change, to be sure. There
are the Pingreys, for instance. Six months
ago, before they were married, when Henry
used to leave her house, Martha would stand
at the gate and throw kisses at him until he
was out of sight. This morning, when he
left home, instead of a kiss, Martha threw
o tire-shOYel.
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EMBARRASSING FORA YOUNG COUPLE

EMBARRASSING FORA YOUNG COUPLE
A bald-headed man last Sunday was
walking with his little five-ycar-old boy,
when young couple walked ahead, telling
each other the old, old story. They were so
intent on themselves that they did not
notice that footsteps were approaching.
The girls head leaned towards the boys
shoulder, and he was evidently telling her
of the time when he could call her his own,
and all the world might 80 to the deuce.
The bald man walked up behind them, with
his little boy, and just as he was about to
pass the unconscious couple of young things.
noticed that the little boys limbs, covered
with nothing but stockings, might be cold,
and when he was within foot of the un-
conscious girl said, in tone of voice that
was intended to convey tender interest in
his child:
"Pet, are your legs cold?"
The girl turned on him look of indigna-