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last fulfilled, and the dream Of his youth
realized. He had won Susie for his wife. 1t
was true that this realization of his hopes
was not quite all that it would have been
had that disagreeable episode of her first
marriage not come between; but it was still
sufficiently full of JOY to satisfy him; and in
Susie's eyes the somewhat restless and fitful
light of a newborn happiness gradually
softened into deep and tranquil content.
In years she was still but a girl, and it would
have been strange had her natural light
heartedness not re- asserted itself; yet it was
only by degrees that she was able to throw
off the depressing influences of the past,
and it was, perhaps, not until the blue eyes
of her baby-boy first smiled upon her that
the shadow was entirely lifted from her
spirit. The advent of this household treas
ure also removed any lingering GOODNESS on
the part of the elder Mrs. Morton, who was
thenceforth ready to declare that she had
nothing more to wish for in the world.
Somebody has said that tragedies are be-
ing continually acted around us of which we
have no suspicion, take no note. Nay, the
very actors themselves are sometimes un-
conscious of the parts they play. The smooth
waters of Suse's life had indeed been ruff
fled by passing storm but she little guess
ed how complete and how close at hand had
been the wreck of another life, which that
storm had swept into oblivion, beneath her
very eyes-eyes that were blinded and saw
not. What did it matter? 1t had been a
commonplace life enough; it had played
its part silently, and as silently vanished,
and leaving no trace behind.
And "John Bland" slept in his solitary
grave-solitary, although surrounded by
many others, because none of his kindred
were near. The spot was not neglected /;
the turf above it was kept green, and roses,
in the season of flowers, shed their bloom
and perfume around.
Far off, in Lone Mountain cemetery, a
marble stone, standing in handsome en-
closure, still presents to the eyes of passers-
by the record of Amos Barton's death.
Here, too, are evidences of care and atten-
ton bestowed upon the cultivation of the
floral treasures which make the cities of the
dead lovely, and rob them of their gloom.
A liberal sum of money is paid yearly to
have the place kept in order; and people
pause to admire the snowy blossoms of
MADAME Planter" and never guess that
the stones record is fiction, and that
Amos Barton does not really sleep below.
THE END.
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THE EVOIJ'TJ0N OF STATES,

The curious process of evolution by which
States in the American Union are made
is aptly illustrated in the case Of Dako-
ia. 1t was originally part of the terri
tory claimed by France, and styled New
France, including what is now Canada,
the entire Northwest, and all the terri
tory west of the Mississippi River, through
out its entire extent from the frozen North
to the Gulf of Mexico. AS consequence
of the European wars from l756 to 1763,
and the defeat of France, that part OF New
France now known as Canada was ceded
to Great Britain, and all west of the Mis-
sissippi was ceded to Spain. In 1900, during
the Napoleonic wars, and as result of the
French victories everywhere Oh the CONT
nent of Europe, all Of the territory that
had been ceded to Spain was receded to
France. In 1903, during the administra-
ton of Jefferson, the 'Louisiana purchase, "
as it was called, was effected, and the Unit
ed States became the owner of the terrific
nv. At the time when the purchase of the
territory was effected it included Louisiana,
Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Mis-
souri,, Nebraska, the Indian Territory, Colo
RADIO, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and Dako-
ia, with the shadowy claims to what is now
Oregon and Washington. The claim of the
United States to the territory west of the
Rocky Mountains was subsequently ratl-
fled by treaties with Great Britain, which
had previously claimed the entire western
slope and coast to the north line of Mexico,
now the north line of California. Congress
divided the territory into Orleans and Lou
isiana in 1904 In 1911 Orleans was admitted
into the Union as the State of Louisiana, and
the name of Louisiana Territory was chang
ed to Missouri Territory. In 1921 the State
of Missouri was admitted to the Union,
and Arkansas followed. After that time
the almost boundless tract remaining was
loosely styled the Northwest Territory. In
1884 all east of the Missouri River was Or
ganized into the Territory of Michigan.
In 1886 the present State of Michigan
came into the Union, leaving the balance
of the country as Wisconsin Territory, or
"Ouiskonsan," as it was then called. In 1916
and 1913 Iowa and Wisconsin were made
into States, and then the balance of the out
lying acres was called Minnesota Terrific
ry. In 1858 Minnesota, with its present
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NEYADA'S GREAT SALT BED.

In Lincoln county, on the Rio Virgin,
is one of the most remarkable deposits of
rock salt on the continent. 1t is found in
hills 500 feet above the level of the valley,
and chemically pure. Blocks of it over a
foot square are so transparent that one may
read paper through them. This deposit
of salt lies about three quarters of mile
west of the Rio Virgin and three miles
south of the Mormon village of ST. Thom-
as. There body of this salt is exposed
for length of nearly two miles, which is
about half mile wide and of unknown
depth. The deposit runs north and south,
and is seen on the surface for distance OF
over nine miles. In places the canyons
have cut through it to depth of sixty
feet. At these points the Hiko company
formerly blasted out the salt required in
working their ores. This great deposit OF
salt is situated at an altitude of LOO feet
above the level of the sea. 1t is undoubt-
edly very ancient as in one place it has
been covered by flow of basaltic rock. In
other places it is covered to depth of five
feet with volcanic trifa. At Sand Springs,
in Churchill county, besides the salt that
may be shoveled up from the surface, there
is found deposit of rock salt fourteen feet
in depth. This salt is as transparent as the
clearest ice, and does not contain particle
of any foreign or deletreious substance. 1t
may be quarried the same as if itwere mar
BILE. 1t is said that one man can quarry and
wheel out five tons day of this salt. 1t is
only necessary to grind it to render it hit Tor
dairy or table use. Sixty or seventy miles
north of this, at the eastern base of the Dun
Glen range of mountains, isthe great Hum
boldt salt field. This is about fifteen miles
long and six wide. In the summer when
the surface water has evaporated, salt to
the depth of three or four inches can be
scraped up from the surface. Beneath the
surface is a stratum of pure rock salt OF un-
known depth. This rock salt is SO hard
that in order to get it out rapidly 1t is nee
essary to blast it. Were branch railroad
to run to one of these deposits, salt would
soon be cheap article in the United States.
AS there are in the same localities great
quantities of soda, borax and other valuable
minerals, it is probable that the day is not
far distant when some of them will be tap
ped by branch railroads which could be
cheaply laid down through the level dis
tricts.
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HAVE 4 HOME.-There are multitude
every year who are commencing home lie.
With hands and hearts linked together,
they enter upon their new stage OF exist
ence. TO such the voice ofexperlence says,
have a home. DO not hang about hotels
and boarding-houses keep house if there is
only one room in it, provided there is Wit
enough in the firm to do it. 1t is wretch
ed policy to live nomadic, clearinghouse
life, in trunks and band-boXes, in the midst
of idleness and filtration, and finally, after
wears of wretchedness, have divorce suit,
pack two trunks, and then 60 different
ways to the end of the earth.
Let there be home, where household
treasures can be gathered, household pleas
ures enjoyed, the comforts and conveniences
of life preserved, and where God can give
prosperity, and fruitfulness, and peace and
gladness.
Let the home be not a goddess home let
it be place of prayer or worship, OF praise.
Let there be church in the house, and the
Lord who loves "the tents of Jacob" Will
deign to bless the abodes of His people, and
crown them with His grace, His mercy, and
His peace.
From such homes 60 forth men strong to
fight the battle of life, women wise and gen.
tie for all gracious ministries, and children
that are like corner-stones, polished after
the similitude of palace.-1he Christian.
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FUNNY CAUSE OF A PANIC.-ln some
stories of John b. Cough, the temperance
lecturer, printed by the Philadelphia Times,
occurs the following: zone of the most ter
rible scenes ever witnessed throughout my
forty years career as public speaker, and
yet one with very ludicrous side to it.,
occurred in DR.. Herron's church, the first
Presbyterian, Pittsburg, in 1851. l was
speaking to a densely crowded house, when
all of a sudden there was terrible crash in
the gallery. A frightful panic ensued. The
people thought the gallery was falling, and
made a stampede to escape from the build
ing. Some threw themselves from the gal
lery to the floor below. Others jumped
from the windows. In the midst of the
confusion the stove was upset. Fortunate
ly the fire in it was very low, and no cOnfia-
grafton followed, but the occurrence terri
fed the already frantic people. Above the
din I could hear the stentOrian tones Of
three or four powerful men in the front Of
the gallery, who seemed to be trying to
quell the panic by shouting at the top of
their voice, while they gesticulated wildly
with their hands and arms. THE fiddle! it
was the fiddle, the fiddle but what on
earth the fiddle could have to do with it
was more than could make out Atlength
some good brother near the pulpit struck
up From Greenland's Icy Mountains.'
Others joined in the familiar hymn and
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limits, came into the Union, and the bal
ance of the tract was in law nameless,
but was called Minnesota Territory, to
distinguish it from the State of the same
name. In 1861 the Territory of Dakota
with it's present boundaries was estab-
lished by act of Congress. Such is the long
process by which, through the occupation
of the country for settlement, by pushing
the frontiers farther away into the noun
tains and the wilderness, and by the prog
ress of civilization, American States are
made. 1t is a system of evolution and
growth possessing great interest for the stu
dent of politics and history.
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DEAD CITIES OF CEYLON.-The extent
and beauty of the agricultural remains OF
the great ruined cities in the interior OF
Ceylon are known to but few. There are
many of them, and they are full of archao-
logic and artistic interest. The city OF An
uradhapura, to instance only one of them,
is in its way as wonderful as Pompeii or
those great forest grown cities OF central
America. It is situated in most lovely
spot among the green valleys and wooded
hills of the interior of the island, and which
ever way the eye is cast there are ruins,
wonderfully beautiful ruins, of shrlnes, ddg-
obas. pavillions, aCihares and groups OF tall
monolithc pillows carved from base TO cap
ital with a wondrous wealth of Oriental i'm
aperv. For miles the forest is streWn with
these majestic monuments of long since
perished glory. So vast are some OF these
great brick-work buildings thatit is reckon
ed that the material of one ddgo6d, OF the
several at Anuradhapura, would be suffi-
cient TO build wall more than ninety
miles long, twelve feet high and two feet
thick. The enormous artificial tanks, too,
of this city, might also be included among
the wonders of the world so vast are the
great 6,uds (dams) that confine the waters,
and so marvellous their construction. They
lie now embossed in the thick forest growth,
and their shining waters are solitary but Tor
the flocks of waterfowl upon them, and the
crocodiles which float lazily on the surface,
basking in the full glare of the vertical sun.
The once busy banks are now deserted ex-
cept by the bands of chattering monkeys
which haunt it by day, and by herds OF
elephants-CornhW Magazine.
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THE PHILOSOPHY OF VACCINATION.-
Professor Tyndall explains the philosophy OF
vaccination as follows: When Tree OF
bundle of wheat or barley straw is burned,
a certain amountof mineral matter remains
in the ashes-extremely small in comparl-
son with the bulk of the tree or straw, put
absolutely essential toits growth. IN SOIL
lacking. or exhausted of, the necessary con-
stituents, the tree cannot live, the crop can
not grow. Now, contagia are living Things,
which demand certain elements OF lie, just
as inexorably as trees or wheat or oar'ey;
and it is not difficult to see that crop o!
given parasite may so far use up consEitu-
ent existing in small quantities. the Dooy'
but essential in the growth OF parasite, DIS
to render the body unfit for the production
of q second crop. The soil is exhausted ana
until the lost constituents restored, the oody
is protected from any further attack from
the same disorder. Such an explanation Oh
non-recurrent diseases naturally presents IT.
self to a thorough believer in the germ the
orv: and such was the solution Whlcn, III
reply to question, ventured to ofer near
ly fifteen years ago an eminent physician.
To exhaust a soil, however, parasite less
vigorous and destructive than the really Wiz
ulent one may suffice; and if, after havlng,
by means of feeber organism, exhausted
the soil without fatal result, the most highly
virulent parasite be introduced into the sys-
tenn, it will prove powerless. This, in the
language of the germ theory, is the whole
secret Of vaccination.
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A WORD TO HUsBANDs.-So much is
said about obligations laid upon the wife to
be sunshine at home that word to hus-
bands may not be amiss. 1T very difficult
for wife to maintain calm and charm
ingly sweet demeanor when her husband is
critical or sullen, and takes her tender
efforts with indi fferent appreciation. If the
man is breezy, CHEEKY, considerate and
sympathetic, his wife sings in her heart over
puddings and mending- and counts
the hours till he returns at night, and re-
news her youth in the security she feels of
his admiration.
You may think it weak or childish if you
please, but it is the admired wife-the wife
who hears words of praise and who receives
smiles of commendation-Wh is capable,
discreet, and executive. One may see a
timid, meek, self-distrustful little body fair
ly bloom into strong, self-reliant woman
hood under the tonic and the cordial COM
panionship of husband who really went
out of his way to find occasion for showing
her how fully he trusted her judgment and
how tenderly he deferred to her opinion.
In the home there should be no jar, no
striving for place, no insisting prerogative,
no division of interest; the husband and
wife are each the complement of the other.
And it is as much his duty to be cheerful
and kind as it is hers to be patient; his
right to bring joy into the door as is hers to
sweep and garnish the pleasant interior.
A family where the daily walks of the
father make life festival is filled with
heavenly benedictions.-Ne,0 York Chris
tim AdrOcate.
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say- have been more and more convinced,
the more l think of it, that in general pride
is at the bottom of all great mistakes. All
the other passions do occasional good; but
whenever pride puts in its word everything
goes wrong; and what it might really be
desirable to do quietly and innocently, it is
mortally dangerous to do proudly.-Ruskin.
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SAFETY OF REGISTERED MAIL.-"Some
people imagine" said a post office official,
''that if they registera letter it is the same
as putting money in the bank-it's safe.
Then there are those who believe that reg
isterng is no guaranty. They quote the
backwoods maxim that the government
will trace up lost registered package and
tell you where it is lost and you can get it
yourself-if you can.' This is mistake.
The understanding now is that the man
who can be proved to have handled the
package last before it was lost must make it
good. If he doesn't he may hand in his
resignation and let his bondsmen get out of
it the best way they can. Only last week
package was lost here. There were but two
men in the department when it arrived and
the agent got his receipt from them. The
people who sent the package made affidavit
that it contained $500, and the two men
made it good rather than lose their places
and be disgraced. l guess you'll find the
registered mail pretty safe"
THE NORTH BOUNDARY OF THE UNIT
ED STATEs.-There is little danger that any
one wishing to settle in far Northern Dako-
ia will, by mistake, find himself IN the DO
minion. The boundary is marked plainly
and continuously by stone cairns seven and
one-half by eight feet; mounds, seven by
fourteen feet iron pillars, seven feet high,
eight inches square at the bottom and four
at the top, and timber posts five feet high.
and eight inches square. There are 1856 of
these marks between the Lake of the Woods
and the base of the Rocky Mountains.
East and west of the Red River, the bound
ary is marked by cast-iron pillars at mile
intervals. "American" and british" pill
lars alternate. On one side of each post
"Convention of Londen;' on the other
"October 90, 1SlS." Where lakes are cross
ed, stone heaps have been built projecting
several feet above water. In forests the line
was first marked by telling the timber rod
wide and clearing away the underbrush
where this line has since been obiterated,
posts have taken its place.
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order and quiet were at length restored.
The meeting did not last long, though,
after that. When the audience had dis
persed the floor was streWn with false hair,
hairpins, hats, bonncts, overshoes, gloves,
skirts, canes, capes and wraps of all kinds,
overcoats and every conceivable article, of
wearing apparel. A large cart load of these
things were taken to the mayors office the
next morning to await the claims of their
owners. After the trouble was all over [
learned that the crash which created the
panic was caused by some mans stepping
upon the big bass fiddle, which was at that
time used in the choir, and which, when
not in requisition, was allowed to repose on
the gallery floor. This was what the men
in the gallery whom heard shouting about
the fiddle were trying to explain to the
fright-crazed people below"
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panic was caused by some mans stepping
upon the big bass fiddle, which was at that
time used in the choir, and which, when
not in requisition, was allowed to repose on
the gallery floor. This was what the men
in the gallery whom heard shouting about
the fiddle were trying to explain to the
fright-crazed people below"
A SOLDIER OF FORTUNE.
CHANGING through Philadelphia paper
few days ago my attention was arrested by a
brief paragraph, dated at an interior town
in that State, which read as follows:
"Isaac Taylor, former citizen of this
place, committed suicide last night by hang
ing. Mr.. Taylor had been employed until
recently as clerk in the treasury depart
ment at Washington, d. c."
Taylor was one of the characters of Wash
ington. Thirty years of his life (he was
sixty at the time of his death) were spent
in travel and adventure. He had visited
every habitable country on the globe. He
spoke half dozen languages fuently and
was one of the most delightful conversa-
tionalists 1 have ever known. He made
the overland trip to California in his early
youth. In San Francisco he joined party
of Americans bound for the Sandwich Is
lands. While en- route Taylor discovered
that the object of the expedition was the
overthrow of the existing monarchy in
those lands and the formation of new
government. There was rebellious spirit
afoat in the kingdom, and the adventu-
rous foreigners calculated to take advantage
of it for their own ends.
Taylor said nothing, but upon their ar
rival in Honolulu he sought an audience
with the king and unfolded to him the de-
tails of the plot. The conspirators were
banished from the island. Taylor remain
ed and was speedily installed as the kings
favorite. To crown all, the kings sister,
a beautiful Hawaiian princess, fell in love
with the dashing American, and, at the
kings suggestion, offered him her hand
and fortune. Taylor received the most pos
tive assurance that his marriage to the
princess would make him heir to the crown.
He declined that honor, however, with
thanks. In talking with his Washington
friends Taylor used to say that, although he
regretted the refusal, he felt positive, that
had he espoused the dusky princess, the
kings pledge would have been faithfully
kept.
Years afterward Taylor returned to the
United States, and served as soldier in a
Pennsylvania regiment. In the course of
time he drifted to Washington, where he
secured minor clerkship in the treasury
department. About six months ago he was
dismissed from government service on ac-
count of his irregular habits. Broken in
health and in fortune, he at last returned to
the obscure Pennsylvania village which he
quilted light hearted, adventurous boy
forty years ago. Within a fortnight after
his arrival he ended his life in the manner
above described Chicago NeVs.
Nevada County picayune., 1886-07-21
Greenback Vail vs. Democratic
 Triumph.

Editor PICATUEl.:-GrocaOaCk
 ism has furnished q contribution to current political literature, ucith CT witty, philoSohio nor profound unlcSs profuHdity aud oosculity philosophy and tulbUicnt passion wit and obscene Vulgar.ty mean the same thmg.
 After caleiul reading of Green. back literature, by no manner oi means profitable, and in no sense entertaining, the ii ey'jahle conclu. sion is reached GrcnhacEisu aud misrepresentation, mcad.ejty and moanncss; fraud, alludcr. malice, ignorant assumption. false aSscr- ton and Greohbac6ism; Green, backism and ilnheciiity, impotcnCy, inc8N&citY; mean ono and the same thing. We defy reiilJtation Let any honest impartial reader exam inc reccut issues of the Dispatch aud i. hp does not rise tbrctron shocked, disGnstad, i,acnscd at
 the shamel; lying, tuo internal
 islanders. 'he iieHIi3h distortion of facts everywhere manifest, we will be astomshCd,
 GroenbackiSm thus defined is a .prowlipg political fugitive demoni- nae possessed of the seven devils of sapoliation. confscation, rcpudi- .Ctjog, dawuation, dynamite, auaf
 chy aud communism.
 Grecnbackisla as expressing Che
 existence of apowcrfGl progressive political party is a wild, acnso'osa dcce;iful misleading miSnomCr,
 yhc rcadjnsters of Virginia, thc Crconbackers of everywhere and nowhere, political S!amosc, Twins. are species of political Ku KI0X. The oue i- putrid, the other putrcs- cent. Readjustor Grcenbacl,isn is dead. Greonbackism keadjgs-
 ter is dying,
 The attitude of Grcenhackism is the lowest plane Of true Democra- cy-pitjable contention for place,
 hungering after the emolumentS ol
 office.
 Greenhack leaders to a man are
 wha9 lrrcpressible. iasatiable, iu. Icapahle asEirauts for posts cfpuh : he t.HSt
Nevada County picayune., 1886-07-21
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PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has is- sued general circular letter to the heads of all the departments instructing them to notify their subordinatcs that they shall eXer. else the elective franchise only as private citizens, and that any at tempt to use their offices as an in. hnonco for the benefit ofany polit- ical party will Do promptly acted on by tho appointing power. What a different ring has this sort of talk from anything of the kind cmanating from Clevolaud's pred eoe6sors for the past twenty five years,