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CIlaff of the Exchanges.

A certain little Pharisee who was
praying for his big brother, had good
deal of human nature in him, even if he
was only six wears old. He prayed, 80
Lord, bless brother Bill, and make him
as good boy as | AMP
1t was a Detroit girl who married at
Is so as to have her golden wedding
when 1T would do her some good.
Old Mrs. Darnley is a pattern OF
household economy. She SAYS she has
made pair of socks TO last fifteen years
by only knitting new feet to them every
winter, and new legs every other win
ter.
An original poem was recently sent to
a Boston paper, There are no Tears in
Heaven" BY very natural mistake
the printer made it There are no Beans
in Heaven" The following Sunday all
the Boston preachers alluded to it and
declared soothingly that there was no
authority in the Bible for the statement.
Speak gently-especially to the big
man With the round head, and square
neck and two big fists like ancient stone
hammers. Speak gently TO him. You
may touch some long hidden chord OF
sympathy in his hardened breast that
may cause him to pass you by uncrushed.
Butthe little white faced man on crutch-
es-oh, you may sass him all the way
round the block.-Burlington Hawkeye.
why Hobson objected-"Hobson,"
said Muggins, "they tell me you've tax
en- your boy away from the graded
school. What's that for?" "Cause,"
said Hobson, "the master amt fit TO
teach i'm" "Ob," said Muggins, 1--WE
heard he's very good master" Well, .
replied Hobson, apolegetically, AL
know is he wanted to teach my poy to
smell taters with "p."
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GENERAL NEIVC NOTES.

DR.. E. a. Baker, formerly of A 1rian,
Mich. an invalid, residing some time at
South Pueblo, Col, for his health, started
east a few days ago to join his relatives. he
was so Ill that he was compelled TO travel
on a couch. On Thursday his brother, Dr..
Vincent, OF this city, received the follow.
."g telegram from Kansas City: Hurry
here, very low. Answer" The doctor inn
mediateIy replied, but the telegraph au-
thorities at Kansas City report that they are
un BILE to find the sick man, and although
his baggage has arrived here. an industrious
use of the wires has so far failed to disc lose
his whereabouts.
A girl named Willis ms, about seventeen
years, and who has been recently working
in Waterville maze complaint that while
out riding on Lake Elysisn with her father,
he with threats OF drowning her if she re-
fused him, ravished her and told her if she
betrayed him he would murder her. A
warrant was issued and the sheriff has The
man in custody. II denies the whole af-
fair and says he knows nothing about it
There is some little talk of lynching, but
nothing serious.
Indian Territory sdvices state that more
than Is. 600 head OF cattle have been driven
up the trail since june 1. The stock will
be ,laced on the western ranges. Cattle are
reported healthy and i'll good condition.
TIE range all through the Indian country
is very fine, the dry weather having no Sc
rious effect.
A curious fact that has not yet been in
print, is TO the effect that the nill near
Londras mill Rochester, was blown dry
and large amount of fish scattered over
lower town. Quantities of mud were
dredged from the bottom ard literally
plastered over the district lying just east
of the pond.
DR.. William NJ. Orth, son of the late
Hon. Godlove s. Orh, has determined to
contest his fathers will, by the terms of
which he is cut off withouta cent. He will
make the contest on the ground that bis ia
thar was not of sound mind when he made
his will.
The smallpox hospital of San Francisco
is filled with lepers. The papers OF that city
advocate the building by the government,
on an island, of lazaretto where all cases
of Ieprosy throughout the country might
be removed.
John Collier ofKirkwood, n. Y, every
five weeks is taken with nausea and vomits
worms from half an inch to three inches
long. A council of physicians say that un-
less help is had he must soon die.
Margaret Connors was to be married at
Brooklyn to William Wood. He dlsaO-
peared on the wedding night, and Margaret
drank carboIic acid and died.
A congressional election is ordered in the
First district of North Carolina, Nov. 90 to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Waiter F. Poole.
Shosh9ne Falls is to be the Niagara OF the
northwest. Hdckmen and hotel keepers
are getting ready for the victims.
A spring OF salt water has been found on
Samuel Lays farm st Edgewood, III.
James Heron, the great park man of
Tnrnrtn hos failed
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Sneak Thief Shot.

Fargo Republican: A stranger arrived at
Hillsboro Sunday and registered at the
Plummer house as II. S. S. Ellis, Otumwa,
Iowa, Early SuEday morning, soon after
midnight, he went to the United States
hotel and robbed several guests. Leaving
there he went to the Kneeland house. where
be attempted to gain admittance through 8
secoud story window by means OF q ladder.
In the operation he happened to drop a
screen window, which he had tdkan off,
and Mr. Kneeland awakened by the noise,
looked out, and saw the man coming down
the ladder trying to make his escape, and
called to him to stop or he would shoot
The man did not ston and Mr.. Kneeland
fired through the window. shooting the
burglar through the body as he was jump
ing from the Ladder. The man dragged
himself to the PlunImer house. When our
informant, Mr.. Ba kei, LETT last night, he
lay in a dying condition. He was about
sixty years old, confessed that he was a
burglar by profession, but was respectfully
connected and it was supposed he came
from the state Of New York.
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FOREIGN NEWS GOSSIP.

James McDermott was brought before the
court at Liverpool, on the Both inst, and
ives further remanded to Jail at the request
OF the counsel for the prosecution, who
stated that pocketbook found among the
prisoners effects contained very important
entries, but their nature was not indicated.
McDemott complained to the judge as an
American citizen that he is subject TO very
hard treatment aac stated that he was not
even aware OF the nature of the charges
against him.
Minister Lowell, at Taunton, England,
on the 4th inst, unveiled bust of Henry
Fielding, the dramatist aud novelist. In
the large crowd present were many we'll
known IN literary and dramatic circles. In
his address Lowell paid high tribute to
the manliness of character of the deceasen
author and defended the works of Fielding
from the charge of coarseness and inmC raj
ity urging that his works were written in
the spirit OF the age in which he lived.
The words Independence Americana,
1882" are inscribed upon the statue of La
fayette which was unveiled on the 9Th insl.
In the address at the banquet, Valdez Ros-
seau. minister of the interior, declared that
nothing threatened the strength of the gov
eminent and that France views with
Indifference the recent mourning ceremo'
Iies over the dead anarchist.
In consequence of reports that efforts to
rescue 0'Donnell, who shot iniormer Cary,
will be made upon his arrival in Londcn,
the police authorizes have adopted extra
measures to prevent any such atten pit.
The marquis ofLsrne and his family are
visiting Ottawa.
Marwood, the English hangman is dead
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tered plea of abatement in the infor-
nation filed by the district attorney, to
which plea the district attorney de-
INJURED, and the demurrer was sustained
by the court. The defendent will go to
the supreme court.
George Garfoot, prominent young
farmer, aged twenty-one years, residing
in Cross Plains, Dane county, fell from
the top of a freight car, while returning
from a soldiers reunion at Mazo Mamie,
and was crushed to death, his remains
neing scattered along the road for some
distance. Garfoot was compelled to ride
on top of a freight car because the ca
boose IN which his girl was riding was
crow ded with women.
The Chippewa Valley Land company,
whose incorporatoTs are William Sey-
mour, John MaxIiner sand John w
Squires, filed articles of association with
the secretary of state at Madison re-
Gently, the capital stock being 100000,
divided into 900 shares. The object is
to transact general real estate BUSH
ness in Wisconsin and other states, and
the offices are TO be located at Chippewa
Falls.
The public land sale was completed at
Madison on the 9Th, and ofthe total 1907
600 acres ofswamp land offered but D.
600 were sold, and these from So, the
minimum price, to $50, one tract of for
ty acres in Sawyer county commanding
the latter figure. The average price
formed pool and bought a large amount
of land in Sawyer county, and will make
over $4,000 clear by the deal. The
greater prtion of the land sold lies in
the counties of Ashland, Bayfield,, Chip
pewa, Douglas, Lincoln, Price, Sawyer
and Taylor.
The grand lodge of Good Templars
met at Madison last week. The report
of the grand secretary show the num-
her of lodges in the state Sept. l, to be
1923. During the year fifty-three new
ones were organized and eighty-tive dis
solved, net loss of thirty.two. The
membership of the order in the state at
present is IA ,227; net loss during the
year, ., $50. The total receipts of the
grand lodge for the year We're $3.50;
expenditures, 81 ,430; leaving q cash bal
anGe Sept /, Of 1910 The following Of
feers were elected for the ensuing year:
Grand worthy vice templar, Miss A. A.
Reed, PRESCOTT grand worthy vice sec
rotary, B. +. Parker, Mansion; grand
worthy treasurer, Mrs. b. +. Parker,
Mansion. The next meeting Of the
grand lodge will be held one year from
the present time.
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Tragedy of IA wronged Father,

On an island to the north, in little
Indian village that showed no sign of
the presence Of whites, found an old
gray-haired man who in all respects,
save that his skin was not so dark as
were the faces around him, seemed an
Ind an. The old man told me that lie
was the son of a white man who lived Oh
the island and became very rich by
cheating the Indians out Of their fars.
HE traded in skins, said the old man
with a savage twinkle in his eyes. but
he skinned the Injinsn' His fathers
name was John Raster and his mother
vas the young daughter OF an Ojibway
.hief. Her father knew nothing of his
daughters shame until her child WAS
born, when he dragged her into
the presence of her betray-
er, stabbed her, and as size lay dying,
throttled the father of her child and
asst him, as he supposed dead, into the
pool OF blood at her side. Then he took
the child and with his family left the
island forever. MY blood relations live
IN riches in city FAR away, but tie dy-
ing curse Of the heartbroken ch eff viii
Yet overt Ike them and they shall suffer
for the sins of their father!'-Mackina
Correspondence Chicago Inter-Oceau.
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Easily Swallowed.

"That was a sad case that, that OF the lit
tie boy out at Germantown, who died from
swallowing an iron blackstone" said an old
physician of Camden, as he folded his copy
of last nights News and walked up to the
bar. ''But ne didn't receive proper treat
ment. he didn't l could have saved the
childis lie Do children often swallow
sucn articles? / should say they DID. ANY
average boy, healthy or sickly, from two
to five wears old, can swallow anything
from red cent up to a trade dollar.
have relieved as many babies from the et-
fects of swallowing nickles as l have fingers
ard toes. The cents are easily got rid OF,
but trade dollars won't pass-not even TOR
caster oil-but / believe our friends here
take them for drinks. You haven't got
one? Well, guess we won't drink. But TO
resume. Talk about an ostrlchs stomach
| don't believe the digestive capacity OF
2.vear-eld child is or ever will be under
stood by the profession of which l am
proud to be member. Why, / had under
my care once a little creeper and craw ler-
he hadn't begun to toddle--whose regular
diet was ashes aad cinder5 washed down
with soap suds and blulng water. His
mother was a washerwOman. Tue stran-
gest part of it was that hs grew fat ON thus
food and seemed to prefer it to his
mothers milk. People will swallow al
most anything. Why, there's case in the
books of an old maid seamstress who swat
lowed paper of pins and dozen or SO OF
needles day for 81 years, and got to be a
regular blood ana flesh pincushion without
suffering any i'll effects. You have seen the
fellow that swallows swords at the circus
side shows, and in India the fakirs swallow
big snakes which have previously swal-
lowed young live pigs. L. this country
some fellows swallow 40 or 50 big slugs o.
whisky every day without hurting anybody
bnt the conliding saloon keepers and the
people who lend them a quarter. Why,
YOU have been swallowing all l gave you,
bnt it is more than / believe your readers
wall do. There's a limit to human endur-
ance. "-Phiadelphia News.
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CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.

The hearing ia the Rose CLARK murder
case at StratfOrd, Ct, is still secret. 1t is
now generally stated that no rape was COM
mitted, which siren thens the suspicion to-
ward Norman Amber, Rose Clark's former
husband. Amber was seen al Bridgeport
by several persons. Rose IVES also seen in
cumpsny with man on the 2nG inst, after
leaving William Lewis house. Who the
man was is rot positively known, but it is
suspected he was Amber. Amber was ar
rested recently and proved an albi. He
was at his home in Nsw Milford on the
LIST and 2ud insts. Detectives say re was
not the man seen with mis- divorced wife on
the Pad inst.
Martin Roller, thirty-one years of age,
was shot and killed by Constable Johnston
at the Chicsgo suburb of Highland park on
the 5th inst. The constable fled after the
shooting, and an attempt was made by the
dead mans friends to burn Johnstos's
hose, claiming that the killing was unpro-
voksd. Johnston pat in an appearance re-
Gently suffering from knife wound, which
ne claimed 10 have received in at tempting
to arrest Roller and some boisterous com
panions,
G. L. Kennedy, teller in the Commercial
National bank at Youngstown, Ohio, disap
peared recently. His books were examined
and show him a defa hitter. The bank is no
way affected bv the loss, which the friends
of the young man will make good and save
him from prosecution. Officers of the bank
state that the amount taken is 81, eco.
Rev. Thor,as H. Oakley, general delivery
clerk in the Cleveland postofice, was ar
rested recently charged with stealing from
prepaid parcels the stamps, selling them
aud p9cketipg the proceeds. He waived
examination before the United States eorl-
missioner and was bound over Tor trial in
$500.
The train robher who robbed eight PAS
seEgers in q caboose on freight train on
the Utah Northern Rear Richmond. Utah,
was captured near that place By sheriff and
posse, who surrounded him and compelled
him TO surrender.
At Msysville, Ky, SamHel Bulgar, col
ored, who committed a rape on the two
year-old daughter of Mr.. McAulif, on her
way home from school, was hanged on the
4th. inst, in the Jail. He was baptized by
a Catholic priest.
Night Waterman William Lawrence was
shot and killed at Bath, Me-, recently by
one of three burglars, whom he detscted
breaking into a grocery store, The burglars |
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Another Audience Desired For
the Man Who Lectures to His

Wife.
1t is, OF course, made by law part of a
wife's duty as such to listen patiently,
and if possible intelligently, to the eve
ming complaints of her husband, wheth-
er directed against herself or the neigh
bors, or society at large. 1t is probably
also her duty, if her husband happens to
to be an economist" or "closet think
err" to listen without interruption or
cross examination to any scheme for the
improvement or reorganization of the
world that he may like to discant upon
when the day is over and the family as
sembled for the evening meal. 1t is a
duty in the performance of which wives
play noble and self-sacrifcing part in
life, and we have no doubt that one rea-
son why the social revolution has been
so long postponed is that so many of
those who would otherwise have Joined
in it have, by venting their wrath against
society upon their wives, or at least by
pouring their wrongs into their wives
ears, been so Gained and Quoted, that
they have lost over and over again all
desire for "new DEAL" No one who
has ought much about marriage can
have failed to notice that this is one of
its most beneficial social effects. But
then marriage only supplies domestic
audience, and restricted one at that.
An audience consisting of wife may be
sympathetic, but sympathy cannot make
up for lack ofpublicity--the crying need
of anybody with grievance. Besides
this, bachelors-a growing, il not an iu-
huential class-have not even is do
mestic resource, while cases are not in
frequent where wives fail to do their
duty, and while keeping themselves
within the law, make it very unpleasant
for husbands who undertake to enter
tam them with a tea-table account of
their wrongs, or of the means which
they would take 20 Put down "monopo-
~" Bad wives have even been known
to feign fatigue and yawn on such occa-
sions, and in the slang of the day sug-
gested that they were entitled to ''rest"
instead of listening with respectful sym.
pathy, as they ought.-New York Eve
ming Post.
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Tho Irtnh Commission

Was a1NGToN, Sept THE following CON-
munication has been received from the Utah
commission:
Salt Lake City, Aug 24-To II. NJ. Teller, Sec
retary-Sir: ! have the honor to inform you that
the report upon the registration OF voters ~ June
.ast. the election for members OF the legislative as
sembly, and other officers held the 9th day ot the
present month in this Territory, and Tho full pro-
ceedings of this commission in connection there
WITH will, from necessity, be delayed for time.
However, think IL Will be proper TO say now, 10
advance Of our regular report, that the law known
as the "Edmuuds act, so fa- as we have been re.
spousible for its execution, has been carefully, but
TEid,y enforced this year, as II was last No per-
son living IN polyg my has been permitted to vote
at any election or be voted for for any office; aud
while only three convictions In prosecutions against
poygamy under the act OF 1862 have been
secured, nearly or quite $4,000 persons have been
DISTINGUISHED on account OF poygane pracpces:
Through the operations Of the law administered
by this mmsson, ten suits for damages have been
instituted against the commission By
certain Mormons whose names were
ana who we're not permitted to vate at the election
in November, 1882, because they refused to com
ply with the rules and regulations prescribed under
the law by the commission for proof OF eligibility
of all voters 1t is understood that these cases are
brought for the purpose primarily OF testing the
cousttutionaty OF this law, aud, secondly, to de-
termine the legality Of our acts hereunder. The
first hearing Of these cases will be had early IL
October. If deemed advisable, We VIII withhold
our regular report until the court here shall nave
heard and passed upon these cases. Moreover
certain phases Of the general situation here nave
presented themselves through the recent election
and in other ways IN the present year, which VIII
require to be carefully considered before the COM
mission will DO prepared to make lut and COM
prehensive report, which the president and con.
trAss viii undoubtedly desire and the commission
will wish to make. Such report will be prepared
unl forwarded in ample time for the use of the
president in communicating with congress at the
commencement of its session in December re next:
(Sgnedl ALEX RAMSEY.
nv order Of the commissioners
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New England Drought ana Fires.

Boston Special:-The severe drought from
which New England is now suffering has
not only ruined the ripening crops and
spoiled the fall feed on which every farmer
depends, but it has dried up the brook and
wells, and scorched the forest until every
meadow and grove is a finder box ready to
spring into blaze on the first contact
fire. Forest fires have been burning for
sever l weeks in some of the outlying
towns, near this city, spreading by degrees
and new ires spriDging up from time to
time They have extended until Boston is
nearly surrounded by Gordon of flames
From the south shore, stretching around to
the west and reaching eastward until me.
by Massachusetts, bay, there is not town
within fifty miles OF Boston that has not
had one or more Tres which are beyond
control. 1t is impossible to estimate the
real and entaiIed loss from these causes,
but it will pl obably reach 81 100000.
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Two Men of Unbounded Egotism,

We were talking of the egotism ofgreat
men, and an ex-senator said: "a lady
of my acquaintance once wrote Roscoe
Conkling a note when he was in the
senate with me, asking permission to
bring her little girl to see him. He re-
pied in a courteous note, naming the
hour at which he would receive her. Al
stood before him. ''Mary," said the
mother to her child, this is the great
Senator Conkling,." Eyes, little Mary, J"
said Lord Roscoe, with Jovian smile
meant to be encouraging, "but remem-
ber," solemnly lifting his foreinger,
"that there is a greater than Senator
Conkling." We laughed, and then
regular army colonel said: II remem-
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PERSONAL .MENTEON.

The earl of Onslow, VINO has made him
selfnoted by demanding whole car to him
self in the Willard party, is thirty years
old, and succeeded his granduncle as she
ourth earl OF Onslow in 1870. Fhe first
peer of The name was speaker of the house
OF commons l. 1908, and on the acc ssion
of George /. was appointed chancellor OF
the exchequer. The achievements of his
successors are not recorded in history.
Rev. d. B. Cheney, Jr., was duly Or
dained to the ministry ofthe Baptist church
of saltwater on the evening of the Attn inst.
The sermon was preached by the father Of
the candidate, Ray. d. B. Cheney, d. D..
of Lima, Ohio, the charge by Rev. ii. G
Woods, D. D., of Minneapolis, and the
charge to the people by Rev. Mr.. Whitney
of the state mission. Rev. DR.. Carroll OF
the PIesby terrain church Of Saltwater, ex-
tended warm welcome to the young pas
tor.
Gen. W. r. Sherman is now visiting Mon
terey, Cal, where he landed and served in
1847, and will arrive at Los Angeles next
Monday. September II he will be at Fort
Mobave Ariz., ard thence to San Francisco,
ana procee3 east to SAT- Lake City. From
there he will 90 to Denver and Fort Lewis,
Col, arriving at ST. LOUIS Oct A. and il
Washington about the II.
Protab Chandler Mezzolali of Hindostan,
repre- entative of the Christian religion in
the east delivered his first address in this
country at the Unitarian church in Con
cord, Mass, the %.
The youngest son of John A. Andrew,
Massachusetts war governor, Is telephone
epairer and iinemau.
Pap. Mason, the Oldest stage driver in
Minnesota is dead.