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late the flames of the candle had en-
tered it and dense smoke began to fill
the room, and tongues of fame began
to issue from the bed tick.
"My God, the house will be on fire.
How can escape how, how ?"
He tried to beat out the fire, but to
no use the flames of the burning tick
caught the dry door and wood panel
ing of the room and heap of old rags
in the corner, and three minutes after
the room was one cell of fame, smoke
and burning wood.
Yells of agony, curses on curses and
maledictions came from the suffering
wretch, as he battered at the walls in
hopeless despair and terror at the fear
full fate which threatened him.
Denser became the smoke, fercer the
flames, and louder shrieked the un-
fortunate Ralph.
The room was now one sheet of rag
ing fame, which began to commune
cate with the other apartments of the
old house,
A terrible cry of agony, shrek of
despair and pain, and Ralph Langly
fell back into the raging sea of fire,
with his dark soul heavy with sin.
Four days after, the charred bones
of Ralph Langly were found amid the
ruins.
All we have to add is, that Marion
Mandrake's joy at Robert Grantly's
return was unbounded, as was also her
Indignation toward Langly, when she
heard of her lovers imprisonment by
that now dead man. And so they were
married in the Summer.
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BE THOROUGH.

1t was Carlyle who said, Genius is
an immense capacity for taking
trouble" and George Eliot give us the
same thoughts in other words Genius
is, at first, little more than great
capacity for receiving discipline" The
most successful have always been the
most painstaking. A prominent judge,
living near Cincinnati, wishing to have
rough fence built, sent for carpen-
ter, and said to him:
81 want this fence mended to keep
out the cattle. There are some I'M
planed boards-use them. 1t is out of
sight from the house, so you need not
take time to make it neat job. |
will only pay you dollar and half"
However, afterward, the judge,
coming to look at the work, found the
boards were planed and the fence
finished with exceeding neatness. Sup
posing the young man had done it in
order to make costly job OF II, he
said angrily:
II told you this fence was to be COW
cred with vines. | do not care how it
looks"
II dc" said the carpenter.
elbow much do you charger" asked
the Judge
"A dollar and half" said the man
shouldering his tools.
"Why do you spend all that labor
on the job if not for money p
"For the job sir"
Nobody would have seen the poor
work on it.
"But | should have known it was
there. No; I'll take only the dollar
and half" And he took ii and went
away.
Ten years afterward the Judge had .
contract to give for the building o
certain magnificent public buildings
There were many applicants among
master, builders, but one face attracted
attention. 1t was the man who bull
the fence.
| 81 knew said the Judge, afterwarc
telling the story, 1--WE should have only
good, genuine work from him. l gave
him the contract, and it made rich
man OF him"
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SPACE OF
WARREN ST. PHARMACY.

At the old stand and standing on
our earned reputation for fair deal
ing, we invite you again to call at
The Pharmacy.
We shall wait upon you with
celebrity and civility, whether rich or
poor, and shall be equally polite to
all.
Our Soda Water needs no putting.
You have tried it, come try it again,
with either ice cream or shaved ice
in it.
We can tell you how to kill all the
flies in your house and furnish the
materials to do it with.
In extracts and perfumes we have
laid in stock of the very best in
such a shape as to suit the most
critical and economical buyer, rang
ing in price from 5 cents to $500.
We have paints in DC. cans ready
to apply, and one can will paint
half q dozen chairs.
All the articles in the way of
domestic remedies and household ne
cessities we keep in stock, and you
save the time and cash necessary in
going or sending to the city for them
as we are always supplied, and aim
to sell at or below city Rates.
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SAVED.

The wind is spent and the gale is past
And the morning sun shines forth at last;
1t shlxes on a strip of yellow sand,
And good ship sinking in sight of land.
Over h or deck and her battered side
Lazly washes the ebbing tide;
Ont oft he struggle and deadly strife
LOT nothing saved but baby life.
wee, frail thing, is this one poor WALTZ
A wee frail thing to be sound and safe
But all forgotten its brief alarms,
1t gayly crows In the strangers arms.
sailor looks at the little form
'"Tis tiny craft to have stemmed the storm -
He signs bit as he bends him low,
And his thoughts fly back TO the long ago.
Just such a babe on his young wifes breast
With clinging fingers his own earessed;
Just such another but where is he?
Wrecked on the voyage life, maybe.
Is this but spared that in years to come,
1t may drift away from its heavenly home?
The baby laughs as his boy once did;
An will it be so Nay, God forbid
The sailors hand has gentle touch
For the sake of the lad he loved so much;
And soft from his lips are the words that fall,
"God bless the children; God bless them all.
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ROMANCE OF THE SODA FOUNTAIN

The day was SO hot In she came,
smiling familiarity, and languidly seated
herself before the fountain.
"a glass Of soda water, please p
eyes, madam. What syrupl We
have lemon, orange, raspberry, and
vanilla.
"I'll take a little strawberry, please"
"Beg pardon. We have lemon,
orange, raspberry and vanilla"
"I'll have little pineapple, please"
BEG you pardon, Madam. | have
now twice informed you that we have
only lemon, orange, raspberry and
vanilla"
20 yes, SO you did, Well. pleas
mix me a lemon and orange, add
little raspberry, dash of vanilla, an
might also put in some acid phosphat
and about a teaspoonful of cream.
She slipped, laid down five cents, an
remarked: "Seda water is very ex
pensive, isn't it!'
The soda did not foam half as mucl
as the druggist while he was counting
his hundred (Franklin.)
Yes, madam, very expensive. II
you figure up the cost of those four
syrups, the acid phosphate and the
cream, you can form an idea"
"Ah, indeed !" she replied "but you
have forgotten the main cause of ex-
pense."
"Main cause Of expense, madam ?"
eyes, sir The coal: for you must
consume and awful lot of it to keep
up the fire underneath your soda water
fountain"
And with one of her "iciest" smiles
she and his reason departed-and the
clock in the village doomed two.
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Listen To Your Wife.

The Manchester Guardian, June sth. 1883 SAYS, At
of the
"Windows"
Looking on the woodland ways! With
clumps of rhododendroms and great mas
sles of May blossoms Ill! "There was an
interesting group.
1t included one who had been Got
ton spinner" but was now so
Paralyzed Il!
That he could only bear to lie in re-
clining position.
This refers to my case.
was Attacked twelve years ago with
"I,ocomoter Ataxy"
aud was for several years barely able to
get about.
And for the last Five years not able to
attend to my business, although
Many things have been done for me.
The lat experiment being Nerve stretching
Two years ago was voted into the
Home for IncurabIes Near Man
chester, in May, 1882.
am no Advocate; For anything in
the shape of patent" Medicines7
And made many objections to my dear
wife's constant urging to try Hop Bitters,
but finally to pacify her =
Consented
had not quite finished the first bottle
when | felt change come over me.
This was Saturday. November Sd. On
morning felt 40 strong said to
my room companions, II was sure !
could
"Walk
So started across the floor and back.
| hardly know how to contain myself was ali
| over the house. am gaining strength each day,
| and walk quite safe without any
stick r.
Or support.
| am now at my own house, and hope soon TO be
| able 10 earn my own living again. have been q
| member of the Manchester
Royal Exchange
| For nearly thirty years. and was most heartily
Congratulated ON going into the room on Thursday
last. Very gratefully fOurs. JOHN BLAcAnunN,
Manchester, Eng H@'ec. q. 1881
| Two years later am perfectly we'll
a. None genuine without bunch "a green Hop
on the white label Shan all The vile ssoiBorena e.|
| with Hop or Hops Ia their Nance
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shall win Marion Mandrake for my
wife-her gold, her fortune shall be
mine-mine p
With a meek bow and sneering
laugh, Ralph Langly passed out of the
frame house.
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An answer wanted.

Can any one bring us case OF Kidney
or Liver Complaint that Electric Bitters
will not cure? We say they can not, as
thousands of cases already permanently
cured and who are daily recommending
Electric Bitters will prove. Bright's
Disease, Diabetes, Weak Back, or any
urinary complaint quickly cured. They
purify the blood, regulate the bowels and
act directly on the diseased parts. Every
bottle. guaranteed For sale at 50c.
bottle by III. c. VanMeter.
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VARIETIES.

11b4d4 L4A4Ot
The skating rink banks a multitude
ofshins.
Is it correct to speak of a sick lawyer
as an i'll legal man I?
We want to ask one question "Can
person go around a squaref"
A charity entertainment is generally
"poor" show.
No, my son, Victor Hugo wasn't the
father of the Hugo-note
A bachelor is like ship at sea with
out ballast-he's apt to be cranky.
A paper speaks of youth as being
SO lazy that the only work he does is
when laboring under a mistake.
Care may kill cat, but bootjack
sent with proper precision is more
speedy in its action.
Chartered oppressors" is the latest
for "blasted monopoly" and it comes
from the wild West, too.
Give tramp the cold shoulder one
day, and he will come back the next
for potatoes to go with it.
A man never realizes how rapidly
children learn until he begins to buy
school books for them.
PA, why does man break prom
Use so readily 2" Because, my son,
it is so easy to make another one"
A doubtful state-the state young
man is in just before he makes an Of
fer of marriage to coquetish young
lady.
A woman may be as true as steel,
but then you know, some steel is too
highly tempered.
A philosopher has observed that
very often it is green youths who paint
the town red.
DIR. Mary Walker ranks among the
great guns ofthe country, and can be
classed as breech-loader.
"Jane, it is just II o'clock. Tell
that young man to shut the door from
the outside"
A railroad man who married happi-
| ly, referred to his condition as the
Union Pacific.
4 All woman asks it to beloved,
says philosopher. True and all
J man asks is well-cooked meals.
The Princess of Wales is said to b,
an enthusiastic angler. She is likewis,
a successful one. Several years agt
she caught Wales.
A man at Osceola, Mich, has three
| daughters, all of whom are mntes. He
is probably the champion dumb bell
raiser of the world.
A French BARRIERS sign-board reads
thus: Tomorrow, the public will be
shaved gratuitously." OF course, the
board always reads tomorrow.
"Ma," said little Johnny, holding up
his mothers slipper, "can you tell me
why your slipper is like the after sail
of papa's ship ?" "No, my son Why
is iii" Because said Johnny, tits .
spanker.'
"You say" said the judge to 4 wit
ness. "that the plaintiff resorted to an
ingenious use of circumstantial evil
dence State just what YOU mean by
that" "Well,' said the witness, "my
exact meaning is that he led
"Come, now, this is too bad" ex-
claimed the squeamish boarder, as he
plucked waterbury from the interior
of hot buiscuit. at is too bad ex-
claimed the landlady "but LET us
hope that his death was sudden and
painless
Two or three times of late we've
poked fun at the innocent milkman,
and the man who supplies US with our
share of the tactical fluid has chosen to
consider orr fun as personal and gets
mad at it. He says he cant see through
our jokes. We wish we couldn't see
through his milk.
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For Earache, roothache, Sore Throat,
Swelled Neck, and the results of cold and
inflammation, use DIR. Thomas Electric
Oil-the great pain destroyer.
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THE WORLD AT LARGE.
A Summary Of the Daily News.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLlTICAL.
THOMPSON MCKINNEY, the Secretary of
| the Choctaw Nation, has been nominated
for the position of Principal Chief OF his
Nation. He is backed by the present Chief
and nearly every prominent man OF his
country. and is sure to be elected.
TIE Secretary of the Treasury has ap-
pointed Robert J. Mayfield, of Indiana, to
be Chief of Division in the Office of the
Comptroller OF the Currency.
JAMES HODGES was elected Mayor of
Baltimore on the 2Sth on the regular Dem
ocratic ticket, defeating Judge George w.
Brown, the Fusionist nominee, by a ma
jority of 1000.
GENERAL GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN died
at his residence in New Jersey sud-
denly of heart disease on the 29th. He had
been under a physicians care about two
weeks. He died surrounded by his family.
He arrived home about six weeks previ-
ously from trip west with his family. He
was born in Philadelphia, December 3,
1926.
GENERAL JOHN B. CLARK, SR., died at
his home in Fayette, No., on the 29th, in
the eighty fourth year of his age, from
cancer. General Clark held high rank in
the Mexico, Blackhawk, Mormon and civil
wars: was a member of the United States
Congress at the beginning of the civil
war and a member OF the Confederate Sen
ate.
ADMIRAL DECRAFT died at Washington
on the 29th. He entered the service in
1S41, and served during the war with dis
tinction. On June >, 1885, he became
Rear Admiral by the retirement of Rear
Admiral Upshur.
NOAH PORTER, for thirteen years Presi-
dent of Yale College, has resigned.
SECRETARY MANNING has made decis-
ion which, it is expected, will settle the
long existing differences between the pro-
ducers and importers of rice. 1t is in
effect that the rice imported by the Fow-
Ter Rice Company, of New York, per
steamship Elba, June so, shall be accepted
as the standard of assimilated rice flour,
dutiable at 90 per cent. ad valorem.
UNITED STATES CONSUL WINGATE at Foo
Chow reports to the Secretary of State. in
reply to instructions from the latter, that
after careful inquiry he is unable to ascer-
tain that any adulterated tea is sold to
foreigners, there being stringent rules
against its manufacture and sale.
PROF. HUXLEY has resigned the Presi-
dency of the Royal Society of London on
account of i'll health. He will be succeeded
by Prof. Stokes.
SENATOR STANFORD has given orders to
deed in trust his three immense ranches
known as the Vina, Gridley and Paola
Alta, for the endowment of a university
and schools to be erected at Paola Alta.
The three ranches comprise $1,000 acres,
and together represent value of $780,
00O
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The New Cruisers.

signees of John Roach held conference
yesterday afternoon with Secretary Whit
ney and the Naval Advisory Board with
reference to the completion of the new
cruisers. The vessels are to be completed
BY the Navy Department at the contractors
yards and BY his workmen. and the meeting
Yesterday was to make arrangements for
going on with the work. The Secretary
called for report from the assignees con-
cerning the organization OF the yards, where
the work is to be done, the compensation of
the worEmen. etc. This report will be
made in a few days, and the order to pro-
coed with work will be probably then given.
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TO OFFlCE-SEEKERS.

The President Issues an Order Limiting
the Time Occupied by Ohice-Seekers.
WASHINGTON, October 2S.-The follow
ing has been promulgated for the infOrma-
tiOn of the public from the Executive Man.
sion: For nearly eight months a large
share of the time of the President has been
devoted to the hearing of applications for
Office and the determination of appoint
ments. Much of the time thus
spent has undoubtedly subserved the
public good, some of it has been
sacrificed to the indulgence of peo-
pie in their natural insstence upon useless
interviews, and some of it has been I'M
justifably wasted. The public welfare, and
a due regard for the claims of those whose
interests in the Government are entirely dis
connected with Office holding, imperatively
demand that in the future the time of the
President should be differently occupied,
and he confidently expects that all good
citizens will acquiese in the propriety
and reasOnablenesS of the following
plan adopted 10 that end. After
the 1st day of November the President
will decline to grant interviews to those
seeking public positions or their advocates.
On Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays
during that month from ten to eleven
o'clock in the morning he will receive such
other persons as call on strictly public
business; and on the same days at 80 in
the afternoon, he will meet those who
merely desire to pay their respects. On all
other days and times he will receive only
Cabinet officers and heads of departments"
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Sin and Misery.

CIRCLEvILLE, Mo-, October 31.-On last
Wednesday morning the neighbors living
near a woman by the name of Manus
noticed her young children crying and go
ing to the house learned that she had been
called away early in the morning by wO-
man by the name of Keightly, who is of
unsavory reputation. Search was made
and the woman finally traced to deserted
house formerly occupied by the keightly
woman. In the cellar was found a young
girl by the name of Matte Merritt, who
had disappeared some time before under a
cloud. The girl was on pallet in the cell
lar and had evidently given birth to child,
which was found wrapped in an old piece
of carpet in the corner nearly dead. Every
effort was made to resuscitate II but ii died
to-day and the girl having confessed to an
attempt on the part of the two women to
conceal its birth. They were both arrested
and are under bond for trial.
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ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

In the Walkup trial at Emporia, Kan,
on the 31st, the State introduced testimony
impusnirg the evidence of DR.. Scott, Nor
ton and other witnesses. According to the
State Walkup was not at Scott's office in
Kansas City at the time mentioned, nor
was he in Dodge City according to Nor
toms evidence in April, 1884, as the EN-
poria records showed that he was present at
the City Council on the dates covering the
time occupied in the so-called ''jamboree"
with the witness.
THE Missouri Board of Prison reporters
say they have no further choice than
Louisiana, No., for a site for a branch
penitentiary, Governor Marmaduke, for
various reasons, having vetoed all their
previous selections for the proposed addi-
tional State prison.
The Post office Department has been in
formed that the interchange of money or
ders between the United States and Japan
began October 1, and nine orders were
drawn on Japan on the first two days of
that month.
THE petition of the celebrated song
stresses, Lucia and Materna, to have the
pitch of opera at the Vienna Opera House
lowered, has been rejected by the Austrian
Government.
DURING fire in the two story frame
building, 3)2 East Thirty sixth street, New
York, early on the morning of the I'd, sew
eral persons who were in the building,
who were unable to escape, were bnrned
to death.
A LAREDO special says: At Bustamente,
State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico, trouble has
been brewing for several days past over
the coming election, and the other day the
opposing factions met, and after several
hours indiscriminate shooting the result
showed six killed and fifteen wounded.
VICE CONSUL MCDONALD, at Bangkok,
reports to the Secretary of State the death
by Bright's disease of the kidneys on the
3Oth of August of Krom-Pra Rajawang-
Bovara st. Han Mongal, Second King of
Siam.
The clearing house returns for week end
ed October 81 showed an average increase
of 4O.7 compared with the corresponding
week of last year. In New York the in
crease was SIG.
THE French force in the Tonqain is to be
reduced to 1000 men, with 5000 Anamite
recruits.
THE students of the University at Dor
pat, Russia, made demonstration against
the Government recently, which was
quelled by the police.
Four men were killed by boiler explo-
sion on the tug Frank Moffatt near Detroit
recently. Three or four others were Sc
verely scalded.
FERD. WARD, the "Napoleon of Wall
street." was sentenced to ten years inn
prisonment at New York on the 3Ist
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A Western n

"A Western man who has lived
among tornadoes all his life, who was
raised with them. as it were, says that
it is easy to distinguish tornado from
an ordinary blow. Acyclone or tornado
north of the equator always comes from
the southwest Its first appearance is
that of local cloud. 1t always comes
when the temperature is low. 1t is moth
ing more than an electric storm. The
earth refuses 10 receive the electricity
that is constantly being generated, and
it accumulates in a mass When the
cloud extends from one side of the no.
rizon to the other there is no danger of
4 cyclone.-N. J. Sun.
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Sueing Beecher.

HARTFORD, Conn, October 2o.-Ward
West and others, students at the Connecti-
cut Literary Institute at Sheffield, have sued
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher for damages for
twice breaking an engagement to lecture.
The case will be tried next week. They
made an engagement with Mr.. Beecher to
deliver lecture in that place. They dis
posed of seats and made ali Decessary pre-
paratiOns for the entertainment and the
audience was assembled to enjoy the lee
sure, but Mr.. Beecher failed to appear, with
out giving any notice whatever that he
could not come. The money was returned
to the people who bought tickets.
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IT was recently asserted that the
Americans owning Las Cruces mines.
in the State of Coahuila, Mexico, have
been so harassed and worried by petty
Mexican officials that they have taken
the oath of allegiance to the Mexican
Government, hoping that by becoming
Mexican citizens they will receive at
least some protection to their interests,
which they claim has been denied them
by the United States Government here
fofora
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The Jute Bag Rebate.

MILWAUKEE, WIS, October 27.-The re-
suit of the conference in Washington con-
cerning the jute sack circular is awaited
with intense interest by millers throu ghout
this State and Minnesota A prominent
miller stated to-day that the Chelsea Jute
Bag Works, of New York, an institution
said to be controlled by the Standard Oil
Company, imports raw jute from India and
manufactures seamless jute bags. There is
no rebate on these bags and this makes
them 100 expensive for general use. 1t is
h,nted. he added, that the circular was
issued in the interest of this concern, al
though the direct charge had not yet been
made.
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IT is estimated by the authorities that
the daily expenses of Montreal are
about three thousand dollars, and at
least three million dollars will be need
ed during the coming winter owing to
the ravages of small pOx. Business
seems Frustrated. and such of the poor
as are not i'll appear to be preparing to
move south and establish new homes
in New England. So many have al
ready arrived in New Hampshire as to
give the people of that State much
concern, and the State Board of Health
was recently in conference with the
Boston Board in regard to the matter.