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Ro"n"'s. A"''''t'. Fiction.
PHINEAS OWENS.
COMMON CLERK AND P0ETASTER.
a M EMO1R.
BY FOLGER McklNSEG.
CHAPTER vi.

HIS VALEDICTORY, AND NINE.
1t is strange that in my task of Gull
ing and clipping, since l touched the
first bit of paper on top of the huge
pile Benny brought me this morning
until now, should find the last neatly
folded little bundle of a half dozen
long wide pages to bear the ominous
title "Valedictory." But such is the
fact and perhaps it is a timely cir
cumstance, for his little speech to the
audience he babe farewell will lend me
inspiration, l hope, to properly word
the closing paragraphs of my "In me-
moriam."
As l read down the pages of his
paper, refectlvely and thoughtfully,
the incident is recalled to me in all its
glow and flush, as on the evening
Benny and | boarded the train here
for the quiet town to hear our com
rade distinguish himself before The
small society of literatti he had com
PEELED to cluster around him and be
come an organized association. W.
sprang from the platform of the car a
it drew up at the little station fairl
into the arms of Phineas and were con
Quoted by him, chattering, happ
group, to the arena Of his coming con
quest large, well-lighted class room
of the District School,
1t had been a society, q say la
been, for when Phineas resigned ii
leadership the whole thing vanishe
into thin airl, it had been a societ
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po'", Of the f)e'''a.
NIX MOTHER.
by WILLIAM BALL.

Who watched Ger me when | was weak,
And guessed my wants ere could speak;
Who clasped me in il fond embrace,
And showercd sweet kisses on my face:
My mother
Who shielded me from every snare,
And guarded me with loving care,
When sorrow filled my youthful heart,
Who truest comfort could impart?
My mother!
Who warned me of the ways of sill,
And of the lusts that lurk within;
Who strove to bend my wayword will,
And in my heart the truth instill?
My mother
Who clasprd my little hands in prayer,
And told me of the mansions fair:
OF glorious things in Heaven above,
OF Jesus and his y'ondrous love"
My mother
When sickness racked my feeble frame,
And nigh was quencEed life's tiickering
flame;
Who bent DER me with an Xious care,
And prayed the Lord my life to spare?
My mother.
Who blessed me VIII her latest breath,
And whispered loving words at DEATH
Who waits for me on yonder shore,
To welcome me when life is DER?
My mother!
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A leading society lady in New York
has offered Barnum his own price for the
skin of Jumbo. She wants to have it
mounted and set on the side of her win
ter hat. Then she is going to take IN
the theaterS,
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All, we'll it is that you the two mas
tiers have uttered the beautiful prayer
Dickens, the great and grand; Phineas
Owens, the lowly and mild; yet, both
in their widely diverging paths-Nlas-
tiers Phineas' day was brief, his life
short lived. Benny and l wish earn
estly that he had not died we know
how strong and high he was how he
would have surgcd onward with those
teeth still tightly closed, those fists still
clenched to reach the absolutely per,
feet. Somehow | see Benny and the
girl grow closer together each day a:
they see more Of one another. Well
both loved Phineas deeply. rs for tht
Girl, he had too much good sense t.
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Breach of-promise suits are unknown
in Kansas. The girls out there do moth
ing on credit. They do not consider
themselves engaged until they are mar
ried.
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This is the time of year when the poet
gets his wife to pour ice-water down his
back and jingle sleigh-bells while he
works up Christmas poem.
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4" Iis1''' tlo'a.

Artemus Ward, when asked by tele-
graph on behalf of lyceum committee,
"What will you take for ten nights" re-
piled, Brandy and water"
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That fortunate O3tohcr;
When Ger oar faces, each and al,
An aspect grave and sober;
As if we knew what sages know
In quietu,.e descended,
And since the winter with its snow
Our wisdom has extended
Throu.h seas of knowledge fathoms deep,
OF poetry and science,
Upon life's lighter things we heap
Our handful of defiance.
ALL each and all, in reverence
Has sought some new caminglng,
Since that glad time, in devcrence
To JOY ard mirthful jingling.
But stay, my babbllng tongue of song
Makes measured music Jolly,
When to this time, in truth, belong
The chords Of melancholy.
| see before me and behind
Deeds Zone and victories waiting;
We've. only seen the perfect mind
Though the souls window grating:
The acts ii thought and deeds of pen,
Whose utterance here hath bound MS,
| Are mimi" consequences when
Far .iobler things surround us.
| | hold the future as jewel
| Before the dear departed
Days that have furnished leaned fuel
For students broken hearted.
Look not with sorrow, friends, tonight
Upon these ended meetings;
Go forth to conquer Might with Right,
Win Freedoms hallowed greetings.
| feel each one of us a king,
A monarch, of the learning
That makes the very stones to ring
And sets lite's embers burning,
Its burrows, deep and fallow,
Besides the coming days are cast
Into Oblvion's shallow.
But stay, ask too much, thy hearts
Are tender for the hours
That tau sht you how grave wisdom dart
Are gentle as the flowers:
For falling on the brain of man,
Roots shooting to the bosom,
Spring forth to meet the winds that fan
The intellectual blossom.
Dror, then, thy tears for moments gone
That bore unnumbered pleasures,
And let their sacred memory dawn
Upon lfe's other treasures.
! We 60 from hence tonight, dear friends,
To manhood's vital glory,
Or else to lie where willows bend
Like faces DER story.
, And soon, full soon, the punctual tread
OF seasons will turn over
: The leaves of time and hide the dead
! Sprigs of midsummer clover;
And we shall come again with cromos,
When August and September
S Have drunk a health, in Rhenish, down
To kingly old December;
> Not with lean catalogues of signs
That rough the voice of sorrow;
I, Not to unite our hearts with ties
That sever on the morrow.
e But just to SMILE with eyes o'erbrimcd
Through sockets brightly, burning
To lend each other II to trim
The is.ilowed lamp of learning.
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| feel that it is hardly necessary to
say much more than l have already
uttered, nor can more be said, with the
exception, probably, of few thoughts
upon the significance OF the paths in
which we have trodden since the Or
ganization of this Society in October
last; the great highway of learning, Of
literature, around which is thrown no
barricade, about which extend no tow
ering ramparts tramped by sentinels
! With orders to refuse any one admission
as,0s -. ....ss,....s.-::.non bis brow the
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A young woman has been found in New
York who can sing baritone, tenor, soprano
aud contralto. The per son who found
her has, wo are sorry to say, escaped.
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1t is said dat poverty shows de good
ness whut am in err man. Dat may be
true, but er man KANT show nigh SO
much goodness wild poverty ez he ken
wild er little money.
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Iitsrnrp and Scientific A,o''s.

Mr.. Moncure d. Conway has been
elected member of the Author Club,
which has been from the start in most
furnishing condition.
A copy of the first edition Of Shelley's
"Adonias," a shabby pamphlet of
twenty-fi pages, in a blue wrapper,
printed at Pisa in 1921, was sold in Lon
doh the other day for forty guineas.
The Lady with the Rubies, ghost
story, by the way, is the ninth of Mrs.
Wisters translations from the German
of E. Marlitt. Her translations of Ger
man novels now number twenty-six.
r. NJ. Field, the managing editor OF
the Kansas City Times, is about to be
married. He is brother of Gene Field,
the wit on the Chicago Meas. Both of
them are very talented and have devoted
themselves to journalism.
Victor Hugo at night when not asleep
and any idea came into his brain, fOrmu-
lated it at once and wrote it-sometimes
without a light-in little notebook
which he kept within reach. This book
contained what he called his chips.
A Norwegian novelist, Alexander ~
Kielland, represents one of his humble
characters, a iourneyman printer on his
way to make propoe al of marriage, as
having red cotton pocket handkerchief
adorned with Abraham Lincoln's por-
trait"
In 1914 the late King Of Prussia, Fred
erick William w., finding that Luther's
house at Wittenberg had fallen into ruin,
had plan prepared for it's thorough re-
novation. This work has just been fin
ished, together with colonnade that
joins it to the university buildings.
Hitherto the works of Heine have been
rather expensive, but next year the
copyright will expire and cheap editions
will soon be abundant. The original pub
fishers have wisely resolved to anticipate
the rival publishers and are now issuing
Heine's complete works in twelve bound
volumes at twenty-five cents volume.
1t is not generally known, says New
York correspondent, that the elder Booth,
Lucius Junius Booth, was Hebrew.
The family name was Cabana, which,
being Hebrew as we'll as Spanish
word. was translated from y
language, into it's Englis : o
Booth. In his declining ? : ~
often spoke of his Jewish 5'5 e ~
quently wore his hat in COM - y
one Friday evening insisted on
divine service at the old Elm street syn
agogue, instead Of fulfilling his engage
ment at the Bowery Theatre.
Ex-Minister Lowell makes his home
with his daughter, Mrs. Edward Bur
nett, at her beautiful and commodious
villa in scarborough, near Boston. His
library is on the thiro Fl oor of the build.
ing, away from the noise of his grand
children, with whom he is great favor
tie. He still keeps his house at Cam
bridge, where some of his most famous
poems were written. HIS long absence
, from this country has served to make
him more of an American than ever in
his feelings and tastes. Those who have
seen him in his delightfrl-retreat
y scarborough come se
q preston that not all =. ase-...,n 80
J lie young. Few -r,5559T :, love
away :-~G il so no.
BILE - 4e chai III OF their converse r.
On, and to spend an afternoon in Low
Is study is aid event of exents.
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real. The final consideration i" NC
emn admonition of Christ r 'he Sui
idle word''an account ST. LOT every
Let us, therefore Ill be rendered:
make # no., curb the tongue and
ohor;tv ii in the excellent gift of
an. Lot us seek to be those perfect
mat offend not in word, seasoning
daily speech with the salt of Chris
thoughtfulness and delicacy.
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Interesting to Both Sexes.

Any man or woman making less than $40 week
ly should try easy money making business.
~ ant agents for celei' led MADAM DEAN
90
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Central park commissioners have Ie-
solved to give Cleopatra needle gum
coat to protect it against the weather.
What's the matter with parasol for the
Goddess of Liberty?
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-11-07

The Lady with the Rubies, ghost
story, by the way, is the ninth of Mrs.
Wisters translations from the German
of E. Marlitt. Her TRANSACTIONS of Ger
man novels now number twenty-six.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-11-07

1t is said by an agricultural paper that
''coal-ashes are very distasteful to cut
worms Then the coal ashes should be
saved for worms that are not cut. Every
farmer should be kind to the worms.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-11-07

A Norwegian novelist, Alexander ~
Kielland, represents one of his humble
characters, iourneyman printer on his
way to make proposal of marriage, as
having a red cotton pocket handkerchief
"adorned with Abraham Lincoln's por-
trait
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-11-07

A copy of the first edition Of Shelley's
"Adonias," shabby pamphlet of
twenty-five pages, in blue wrapper,
printed at Pisa in 1921, was sold in Lon
doh the other day for forty guineas.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-11-07

r. NJ. Field, the managing editor OF
the Kansas City Times, is about to be
married. He is brother of Gene Field,
the wit on the Chicago Neus. Both OF
them are very talented and have devoted
themselves to journalism.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-11-07

A Philadelphia medium who edits a
spiritualistic journal is on trial in Brook
Ign for libel. He ought to materialze
the wicked spirit who got him into the
snap and have it sentenced to stay in
SheOl
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-11-07

Victor Hugo at night when not asleep
and any idea came into his brain, formu-
lated it at once and wrote it-sometimes
without a light-in little notebook
which he kept within reach. This book
contained what he called his chips.
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and is altogether the Best and
L.adys Periodical published.
MRS. GRELNBUDs WRATH
TALKS ABOUT FLOWERS,
In which
Mr. EBEN f. REXFoRD
Tells about Raising house flowers in winter.
WHY CILENA WAS THANkF uL
One OF the Members of
THE EXCHANGE CLUB
Tells how to remodel honnets, how to make toilet
sets, flowers, etc. Then there is pretty nome
story, by popular author, called
HOW SHE SAVED HIM.
SUGGESTIONS FOR CHRISTMAS,
BY Homebody.
And How to Make Beautiful
HOLIDAY DECORATIONS,
BY Louisa Evergreen.
AND
RACHEL FARLEY'S LUCK,
BY Florence b. Hallowell.
Children's Corner
New Puzzle Column,
HouSckeeperS Column
Health Department,
Answers to Correspondents,
Numerous Choice Selections
AND
A COMPLETE SHOPPING GUIDE,
Giving an exhaustive list of the new Fabrics ant
Garments. Partisan Patterns OF the new modes
exc. - -
Peoples Edition, Price FlNE GEMS,
FIFTY CENTS A YEAR,
EDITION DE LUxE,
With Extra
EIGuT-P AGE lLLUMISATED SUPPLEMENT-,
TEN CENTS,
OR
Sl.2O PER YEAR.
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~ \ s.Ao1G SuGsn 40 aprm ao
L .t|i
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Mr.. Moncure d. Conway has been
elected member of the Authors Club,
which has been from the start in most
flourishing condition.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-11-07

In 1914 the late King Of Prussia, Fred
erick William w., finding that Luther's
house at Wittenberg had fallen into ruin,
had a plan prepared for its thorough re-
novation. This work has just been fin
ished, together with a colonnade that
joins it to the university buildings.
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men preston that not all a4~-....sn 4
- lie young. Few -rs59T : love
-,for th>s0 away -" SO no. (
table - .e chai IF OF their converse .
ton, and to spend an afternoon in Low
ellis study is and event of exents.
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The present favorite amusement of
King Humbert of Italy is mushroom
hunting, while that fthe King of R--a=
ria is playing the violin. We should pre-
fer to live next door to King Humbert,
by a handsome majority,
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THE PARIS LETT
is written by our resident corredd cul-
tured French lady. who is fully ve Fashion
and Society matters at the FrencHJ This
months epistle is taken up wiRISIAN
GAYErIES. NEW COLORS anSTJ MES.
THE HUNTING SEASON, MEMOIRS IN
DRESS FABRICS. THE MEDSF AL
TUMN MODES. FASHION vs.. OIINE.
SAMPLE MILLINERY. OPERA,GTrkS.
AWAITING THE OPENINGS. r.
Our Philadelphia Fashion Articelcd
WOMEN'S WEAR
By Our Fashion Edit
Tells all about THE NEW MATES AND
HOW TO MAKE HEM-NONS IN
DRAPERIES. BODICES. PO1SES =
PENTES. FANCY JACKEISlPERB
WRAPS, &c.
THE FASHION NOTE
Are collected carefully by proiessi'a shion
writer, and give complete index tailing
THE FASHION PICTUR
Are ALL MADE IN PARIS by lo Fash
ion artist EXPRESSLY FOR OUR lion
MONTHLY, and consequently ret the
very latest modes.
Besides these, our
EDITION DE LUXE
Contains an Extra
EIGHT-PAGE SUPPLEIE
Printed in Paris expressly for us and hmcly
illustrated. 1t is embcllished witiRTY-
NINE ADDITIONAL FASHION IITRA-
Toms, making 1t a FoRI1 PAGE Der.
The literary portions oil both issues fcise-
ly alike, and include numerous ORlGt AR
TlCLES, among which We may name htiiul
poem, entitled
"BROTHER OR DARLING
BY JOHN l.. SToDDARp. ESQ
The Popular Lecturer.
A side-splitting sketch by J. H. Wis,
Esq, the Noirisiogn Herald man. called
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ing on credit. They do not consider
themselves engaged until they are mar
ried.
A young woman has been found in New
York who can sing baritone, tenor, soprano
aud contralto. The per son who found
her has, wo are sorry to say, escaped.
1t is said dat poverty shows de good
ness whut am in err man. Dat may be
true, but er man KANT show nigh SO
much goodness wild poverty ez he ken
wild er little money.
Central park commissioners have Ie-
solved to give Cleopatra's needle a gum
coat to protect it against the weather.
What's the matter with parasol for the
Goddess of Liberty?
1t is said by an agricultural paper that
'coal-ashes are very distasteful to cut
worms Then the coal ashes should be
saved for worms that are not cut. Every
farmer should be kind to the worms. F
A Philadelphia medium who edits a
spiritualistic journal is on trial in Brook
Ign for libel. He ought to materialize
the wicked spirit who eot him into the
snap and have it sentenced to stay in
sheol.
The present favorite amusement of
King Humbert of Italy is mushroom
hunting, while that of the King of no
ria is playing the violin. We should pre-
fer to live next door to King Humbert,
by a handsome majority.
Queens Victoria keeps in her palaces
the standing order, POSITIVELY No Smok-
ing Here" Probably ere long she will
add Gentlemen Will Use the Spittoons, ~
and Americans will hurry through Lon
don without making her call.
The canvassing business is not what it
was. An insurance agent at Pittsburg,
who tried to clean out refractory Gus
toner, was ANONYMOUSLY kicked down
stairs. In the halcyon days an insurance
agent never failed to clean out a GUS
mer.
"Ouida" don't believe in destiny. She
says: 81 believe there is nothing which
befalls us, from a catarrh to catastro-
phe, which, if we choose to be honest
with ourselves, we may not trace to our
own imprudence." How about beir~
struck by lightning or sitting d. '
carpet-tack?
We nevrr
line
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-11-07

Queens Victoria keeps in her palaces
the standing order, Positively No Smok-
ing Here" Probably ere long she will
add Gentlemen Will Use the Spittoons,"
and Americans will hurry through Lon
don without making her a call.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-11-07

Hitherto the works of Heine have been
rather expensive, but next year the
copyright will expire and cheap editions
will soon be abundant. The original pub
fishers have wisely resolved to anticipate
the rival publishers and are now issuing
Heine's complete works in twelve bound
volumes at twenty-five cents volume.
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NALEDICTORY.
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uarily are taken to be, representa-.
what we think; for the decept
tempt at deception, is fou" - "
general fact that wor
real thoughts; thu ..,,
encc between the
When, fc..,,.s
a So
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-02-14
A SHORT SPEECH AND BLOW AT A BANQUET
CLEVELAND Feb II lSpecidl The Lincoln

CLEVELAND, Feb. II Especial. D.-lhe Lincoln
Club OF this city an organization OF the highest stand
ing socially and financially Last evening the cuo SaVo
its annual banquet and among those present was Lewis
H. Cowles who attended as a reporter for The Ledde
and who is son of Edwin Cowes, Editor OF that news
paper The usual round Of speeches was gone through
and finally Assistant City Solicitor Bunts responded to
toast to The ladies' At the conclusion OF his speech
he remarked the presiding officer that after so long an
inhicton by the members OF the club, their guests
should be given an opportunity to retaate. There
uuon young Cowles sprang 10 his feet excaimng
wish t0 retaate the press has been nsued here ana
he struck solicitor Buns stuging blow In the mouth,
cutting his upper lip severely He was about 70 repeat
the perlormance when he was led away crying IN q
melodramatio tone: Gentlemen, the press has been
vndicated" ... o, ,,s,or and ,,
dt,moton Mr. Ruuts had made reference whatever
o tbe nres and the attack without apparent cause
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HEAVY SNOW AND WARMER WEATHER.

The prediction made in THE TRIBUNE tnree
dav a,o that the storm and cold then prevailing
would be closely followed by snow or rain mas peeh iu
alled t2:lO D. IN. yesterday heavy snow pesan W
fall and continued steadily throughout the night ms
,,rm deveoped on Thursday in the Gulf OF Mexico ana
swent mn the Atlantic coast Its course was marKeu ny
Low b,roneter and light winds. In this city the tenn
oroture WAS below freezng-poin all day. IL reached
a., maximum at o'clock when the Thermometer regis
rel 40 From that time It fell until o'clock. Then
the thermometer indicated 22o. The snow is general
over the Ohio Valley Tennessee and the Middle Atlantic
States and heavy rains fell all through the South Az
antIo States and long the coast The centre Oh INC
storIn last night OFF the coast OF North Carohha.
storm signals ordered up by the signal service ~.
nil the principal coast atons from Cape Hatteras 10
Block Island. -, 49,, .or,ouslv ep,bar-
r.ssed Inv the weather this week Malls especlay rom
the West and south have been several houIs %
mails of IL was necessary TO close then iom loo W
twonty minutes earlier than usual ana tis nurry TO-
mred AN additional Clerks IN the department. OK
IaconJ class matter were put the letter department.
80 ,sb the rstcass matter through, and the delivery
left the oice about qusrter or an hour before
,hsr regular time Last night all the through Western
mail, coming into New-York were delayed, but upon
their arrival this office 80 strong force OF clerks was
,nstantly nut 70 work at distribution that about an
hours time was made up. an,
Both rivers and the upper and lower bay were nlea
with large fields of Ice all day. The ice was 80 thorough
ly broken up there serious obstructions 70
Navigation He'll Gate blocked with noating loo al
day and the Sound boats found some dincuity IN wofA
ing through IL