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beautiful, gay, full of spirit and yigor.
She married and had four childreni
her husband died and left her penni-
less. She taught school, she painted
she sewed; she gave herself scarcely
time to eat or sleep. Every Thought
was for her children, to educate them,
to give them the same chance Whlch
their father would have done.
"She succeeded; sent the boys to cor
lege, and, the girls to schools. Wnen
they came home, pretty, re1nea girls
and strong young men, abreast WIN
all the new ideas and tastes OF Sner
| time, she was worn-out. common
| place old woman. They had their own
pursuits and companions. She fingered
among them for two or three years ana
then died. of some sudden failure in the
brain. The shock woke them to a con-
seriousness Of the truth. They hung
over her, as she lay unconscious, IN an
agony of grief. The Oldest son, as he
held her in his arms, cried:
you have been a good mother 10
us!' os
"Her face colored again, her eyes
, kindled into q smile, and she WINS
pered: You never said so before,
r john Then the light died out ano
e she was gone" ,eo,
! How many men and women sacrlhce
: their own hopes and ambitions, then
!, : strength, their life itself, to their chill \
d dren. who receive it as matter o
) course, and begrddge caress, wor'
e of gratitute, in payment for all tina
has been given them.
" Boys, when you come back from col
lege. don't consider that your only re
lation to your father is to ''get as muc
money as the governor will stand;
$, Look at his gray hair, his unsteao
W step, his dim eyes, and remember
I'd whose service he has grown old. 1o
tn can never pay him the debt you ow
ne but at least acknowledge it before IL
too Late Youths Companion.
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THE ocTRoI.
An Internal Customs Duty Levied m
~ t France and italy.

An Internal CuBboh5 Duey
-.p t France and italy.
Among the financial reforms proposed
Il that Of abolishing the octroi. This IS
a form Of internal customs duty un-
known and entirely inconceivable IN
America, where trade is free between
the different States and between the
cities and the surrounding country.
The products of one department pay
tax in that department, and if they are
sent to another pay a customs duty when
entering it. For instance, citizen OF
bordeaux, who owns vineyards and
makes wine in Roussillon, pays tax on
his wine there, and another if he brings
/ them to Bordeaux. So with every other
product taken from the place of ofproduc-
lion to another locality. The cities also
have their octroi, making all the neces-
saries of life-wood, meat, flour, yege-
tables-pay heavily when they are
brought in for the consumption OF Its
inhabitants. It is this which renders
living SO expensive in Paris, for the
octroi comes at last out of the consum-
er. and as there is constantly a large
floating population in France, largely
ont of the foreigner, who has done SO
much to make the French capital the
magnificent city which it is. The little
custom-houses are distributed along the
/ Seine and on the thoroughfares leading
, into the city. No one can travel
. throughous france, stopping at the
7 large cities, without being constantly
: made aware of the expenses OF the
octroi by the attention which
his baooape. and even his
i;ttle bandbog' receives when in making
h;s evit rom the station he has to run
the nanntiet of the petty officials whose
- JntS II ia to see that nothing escapes thu
nayn,ant of this particularly offensive
- 55niy There is only one country il
n EnTone which maintains the octroi, ant
d tbot 10 Ttaly- hut Italy is yery poor, ant
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-04-16
MUSIC-BOxES.
They Can Be Had in All Shapes and at All
Prices.
md at

Prices.
"The sale of musical boxes is very
good" said an importer to reporter
recently. "The trade is very steady
one, and does not fuctuate much.
Musical boxes are popular with'every
body and every body almost has one in
some shape or other.
"Are they very expensiveP"
"We keep them in prices varying
from fifty cents to three thousand dol
lars. The ffty-cent ones are very
small and play just one tune by turn
ing a crank. Then we have very
small money safes that play a tune
when coin is droppedin. The small
est ones that are worked with aspiring
are worth five dollars. They play two
tunes. Then we have musical snuff-
boxes that play when person opens
them to take pinch OF snuff, muslcai
albums that will render some popular
, !, airs while the pretty pictures are being
gazed upon, musical decanters, water
8 pitchers, cigar boxes, bird cages and
!. cabinets"
(which are the three thousand dol
. lar boXesP"
y 4 1T is a large, handsomely carved
ebony or mahoSany caplhel, Whieh
's would look well in any dining-room::
s. In the box is what we call full
orchestra; it consists of drums, Gym
IA balls, castanets and flute, in addition to
the ordinary comb. Then by fasten-
fy ing small piece of metal on the comb
nd it will give the tone of harp. L,
PLAYS forty-eight tunes, having eight
g. interchangeable cylinders. Each cyl
inder plays six tunes. Extra cylinders
es NAV be purchased at any time and an,
of- piece of music can be arranged on th'
cylinder. The cylinders vary in pric
'ro from twenty dollars to eighty dollars
yht A very fine box we have is SO arrange,
that instead of playing piece of musi
with one revolution of the cylinder
will keep on revolving until the piec
is all played. 1t will play the entii
Pa overtures of the following opera
!. William Tell, Semiramide, Martha,
MIA Trovatore, Fra Diavolo and Don Gi
see vanni. We will make a cylinder
;de play any overture that is wanted.
~ .sWhere are these manufacturedp'
she .sThey are al made in SwitzerlaI
hu- and imported. Y. Mail and Z
l 10 press
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TINY TOKENS.

Tie murmur of waterfall
A mile away,
The rustic when a robin lights
Upon n spray,
The tapping of lowland stream
On dipping boughs,
The sound Of grazing from hero
Of gentle cows,
The echo from a wooded hhl
OF cuckoo's call,
The culver through the meadow grass
At evening fall;
Too subtle are these harmonies
For pen and rule;
Such music is not understood
By any school;
But when the brain is overwrought,
1t hath a spell
Beyond all human skill and power
To make it well.
The memory of a kindly word
For long gone BY
The fragrance of a fading flower
Sent lovingly,
The cleaning of a sudden smile
Or sudden tear,
The warmer pressure of the hand,
The tone of cheer,
The hush that means II can not speak
But have heardW
The note that only bears verse
From Gods own word;
Such tiny things we hardly count
AS ministry;
The givers deemine they have shown
Scant sympathy;
But when the heart is oyerwrought,
o, who can tell
The power of such tiny things
To make II we'll
Boston Transcript.
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ACKNOWLEDGE THE DEBT.

.You Never Said So Before, John"-Pa-
thetic Scene at a Mothers Death-Bed.
A venerable clergyman of Virginia
said lately: "Men of my profession see
much of the tragic side of life. Beside
a death-bcd the secret passions, the
hidden evils as well as the good in hui
man nature, are very often dragged to
the light. Ihave seen men die in bat
tie, children and young wives in theii
husbands arms, but no death evel
seemed so pathetic to me as that OF al
old woman, a member OF my church
- knew her first a. ? young gE9
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READING FOR THE YOUNG.
OH DEARl

KATY Mt the window, looking down,
Wrinkles up her forehead In @ frown.n
iThe little girl there in the street see!
She doesn't have to study hours and hours
Away from all the birds and pees anu
flowers; ao,
She wears her Oldest dresses every DAY,
And when she wants to can go OUT aDo Pisys
She never has 10 sit still in chair,
So that she will not tumble up her har'
Oh dearr'
Kitty on the sidewalk, passing ~,
Chances up and gives little sigp.
Thinks. half-sadfy: ~ wish was there
Sitting in that nice; soft-enshioned chair:9 d:9
Amt her curls real pretty-and her dressf
Sns doesn't wear old patched-up ones, 1
And she has oil the bread she wants to eat,
know she does-and cakes, ana eahuS
And pretty things to play with; Deary me
How would like that little girl to pe!
oh dearl
-YoiIths Companion.
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New Provender for Boys.

"Mr. Dusenberry, what's Gordon"
81 don't know, my dear. There was
a British General by that name. There
was another man way back in history
who spent his time in tying knots, or
something of the kind. Why do you
askP''
"Here's an advertisement which says.
Wanted, a boy to feed on Gordon"
"Oh, that's a printing press, my
love-"
"Gracious, that makes it all thu
worse! How's boy going to eat
printing-pressP"- Philadelphia CaH
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-04-16

False teeth may be stale commod-
tiles in the market, but placed in the
mouth of a woman, IT Is bewildering to
observe their rapid rise and fall ssfs'
sors.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-04-16

We never near anything more Of
tile phonograph. 1t has probably gone
into a barher.shop and been talked t9
death. Qalvarnta MapArIak
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Years and years have slipped by since
then. Nellie is a happy mother, who
draws her children about her at twilight
and tells them stories of her truant
lover, of Ned, and the New Operator
Chicago Tribune.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-04-16

Poor Nelliel The next few weeks
we're long and empty. The spring
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-09-11
THE LIQUOR ISSUE.

In putting itself on record on the temper
ance question, the Wisconsin Republican
convention has blazed the way for the Re
publican party in the Northwest and has
fixed the standard to which the Northwest
ern Republicans must climb. 1t was a
venturesome thing to do, but it is done, and
the Republicans will learn later along
whether they are to profit or to lose by it,
The Wisconsin platform declares in effect
that the liquor traffic must be suppressed
and that the most effective way to extin-
guish the saloon is by high license. 1t was
a venturesome thing for political party to
do. because, while it draws distinct line
of antagonism between itself and the liquor
dealers, it does not attract to itself the sup
port of the prohibition element. The un-
deriving principle of the prohibition move
ment is opposition to all forms OF
license, and consequently there can be no
sort of affiliation between them and the Re-
publicans. The Minnesota Republican con-
vention is expected to follow in the wake
of its Wisconsin contemporary and adopt
the same high license plank in its platform.
The fact that the leading Republican pa
pers of this state are giving such cordial
Endorsement to the Wisconsin platform
makes it reasonably certain that the Min
nesota Republicans are of the same way OF
thinking as their Wisconsin brethren, and
will take issue with both the liquor dealers
and the Prohibitionists.
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-09-11
WHAT ENGLAND WILL DO.

The czar of Russia expresses an anxiety
to know England's position on the Bull
garian trouble 1t will take SALISBURY so
long to frame reply, and it will eventually
come in such an indirect and inexplicit way,
that we feel like relieving the czar's sur
prise by telling right up and down that Eng
land is as mad as wet hen, but she is not
going to do anything except to make a
mouth at Russia. England has enough
trouble with Ireland and with looking after
her Indian possessions to engage her atten-
ton for some time to come. And then she
knows that Russia is in condition to kick
up general European row without running
any risks. while England can't afford to look
cross at any other nation. The czar
needn't lose any sleep cogitating over what
England is going to do.
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-09-11
ONF-STORY BUILDINGS.

A correspondent of the GLOBE calls at
tention to the old fogyism which permits
the continued building, to say nothing of
the present existence, of one-story build
ings upon prominent business streets.
Nothing eXcites greater comment from
visitors to the city than the peculiar ap-
pearance presented on almost any street
of a one-story shanty standing beside a
massive and imposing six or eight-story
structure 1t would seem, with the in
creasing value of land and the continued
demand for Office room and other business
accommodations, that self interest would
induce property owners to erect buildings
which would be more in keeping with the
surroundings. and which at the same time
would yield handsome return. With
continued indisposition to make such i'm
provements it might even be advis able for
council to prevent the erection of buildings
on business streets less than three or four
stories in height. The evil, however, is
one which will regulate itself in time.
Land will eventually become so valuable
that the consideration of ground rent will
prevent the erection of any but such struct-
ures as will be architecturally meritorious
and creditable to the city.
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-09-11
Old Fogies TO the Rear.

Tt the Editor of the Globe:
Why is it that certain clique in this city
always rises to a point of order when any
individual from another state goes contrary
to usages of the old, worn rut SO many in
Minnesota choose to follow? Do these old
fogies, who have kept Minnesota in the dark
for years, ever stop to think that in the past
four years the new blood outnumbers the
old, and that with it has come much of the
capital and energy that has in part made
st. Paul what she is? Of course
we may see around US on Jackson
and Seventh some towering one-story brick
shanties of recent origin tnat stand as the
monuments to mark the pluck and enterprise
of the good old Minnesota stock.
But we may go to those same streets and
find the monuments OF newer race built by
Ohio, New York and Pennsylvania, and the
GLOBE building, the origination aud pluck of
q Virginian. Old settlers, do not let the
green-eyed monster SO take possession of
your brains that the young blood Of your city
must stand in the rear. Young men made
Chicago and will make st. Paul, despite your
growlings and jealousies.
Let the thoughts of men grow broader
with the process of the suns Yours for st.
Paul, r. G. MACKAY.
st. Paul, Sept. 10.
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-09-11

Members Are Getting Into Trouble
with Brother knights.

WIN hrOEN6r "A mig IESs
New YORK, Sept. 1O-The three local
assemblies of District Assembly 1875 of car
pet weavers held an Indignation meeting
tonight to denounce the members of the
Home club who have been circulating
false statements against their dis
trict master workman, John Morrison.
Mr.. Morrison, as one of the witnesses called
before the investigation committee of the
general assembly Of the Knights of Labor,
incurred the enmity of the Home club by
exposing their socialistic tendencies and
their intention to break up all trades un-
ions and trades assemblies of the Knights
of Labor. For this the Home club has
pursued him with relentless hostility,
This so aroused the Indignation
of the 2.400 members of the
district that they bitterly denounced W. J.
Fagin, who is said to be the author of the
story. AT the mass meeting excited
speeches were made by the members, and
resolutions were adopted denOuneing Fagin,
and expressing full confidence in District
Master Workman Morrison. The resolu-
tions pledge full support to the master
workman and other officers of the assem-
bly, and the Knights of Labor. The follow.
ing resolution was also adopted:
Whereas, 1t has come to our knowledge
that our brothers and sisters in Augusta.
Ga. are locked out by the tyrannical bosses
for upholding the members of their organiZa-
tons; and,
Whereas, The general executive board OF
the Knights of Labor have investigated their
cause and found it to be just, therefore be it
Resolved. That we pledge them our full
est support, and call upon the assemblies
attached to District Assembly No. 126, the
carpetmakers, to assist them; and, further,
Resolved, That we request the general ex-
ecutive board of the Knights of Labor to
tender them all the aid that can be given in
the matter.
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-09-11
WHY SHOULDN'T he HANG.

A great deal of nonsensical sentiment has
been called forth by the arrest of the rene
gade Indian, GERONIMO. 1t was to be ex-
pected that the eastern long-haired senti-
mentalists. who never saw an Indian ex-
cept in the craven images before cigar
stores, and whose ideas on the noble red
man have been cuIled from the romantic
and romancing tales of COOPER, to idealize
the bloodthirsty Apache into a prosecuted
hero. bravely battling for his country and
his rights.
1t was not thought. however, that peo-
pie possessed of good hard sense would
take a similar view. and finding. as Indian
Commissioner ATKINS has, in the savage's
stubborn resistance, room for admiration.
advocate his release upon the reservation
unpunshed. Such disposition of GERoN-
mo would do incalculable harm. The In
dians are already too well aware of the
lenieney with which the government is dis
posed to treat them upon every
occasion. but should they find
that GERONIMO, whose hands are
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-09-11
ADDITIONAL MINNEAPOLIS NEWS,
ALI SOR rs.

George Huhn-I never made the remark
concerning the political situation credited to
me Thursday morning AT first | thought
might be mistaken. Then / thought the re-
porter might be mistaken, but at last came
to the conclusion that the reporter was a
modern Ananias
People who have seen Frank Stetson, chief
engineer of the fire department, on the way
to O fire have often wondered at his dare
devil recklessnesS. Very few have ever cared
to ride with him, except the reporters, who
are willing to risk life and limb to save time
and car fare. 1t is related that Col. Chase, of
the police department, once accepted in
vitation for ride. After he had gone two
blocks he offered to give $40 to be allowed to
aiight in safety. After arriving the
fire he preferred to walk back t the
city hall, rather than risk the chaoces
OF becoming a cripple, or perhaps multi
ated corpse. Aid. Barrows is the latest vic
tim to the Tam OShanter rides of Chief
Stetson. Wednesday evening the chief was
ABOUT TO try the speed Of raW-bOned, four
teen-hand mare, with a view to purchasing
the animal for the department service. Aid.
Barrows came along just in time to accept
an invitation to ride. On Tenth avenue south
Stetson let the mare out for all she was
worth, urging her with whip and voice. Sud-
denly the animal shied-the alderman dived
out OF the vehicle, turned a somer-
saut and brought up against the
curb stone with violence that
deprived him of the breath of life for several
minutes. Stetson was thrown out also, but
clung to the rens and stopped the mare, re-
ceiving only few scratches for his part in
the episode. The alderman was taken 10 his
home, and when visited by GLOBE reporter
was found in bed propped up with pillows
He said he was not hurt much, but it was
noticeable that he WINGED when he spoke the
words. Ii his injuries are not more serious
than is apprehended, he will be able to be out
in couple of weeks
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-09-11

reeking with the blood of innocent settlers
is to go scot free members of other tribes
would see no reason why they, too, should
not indulge in similar recreation when ever
so disposed GERONIMO clearly deserves
hanging. He disobediently left the reserva-
tion and when ordered to return replied by
numbering every unprotected ranchman he
could find and destroying all the property
that came in his way. Intelligent enough
to know the consequences of his acts, he
has, after being satiated with his maraud-
ing successes, inflicted every possi-
bic injury upon the troops sent to arrest
him, and when he saw resistance no longer
possible has attempted to make terms
which would save the useless necks of HIM
self and his braves Over scoce of people
have fallen victims to the fury OF GERoN-
mo and his band. He took the warpath
without provOcation, and were he and his
followers white they would be lynched be-
fore the hangman could perform his office.
Why should they escape simply because
they are red and have criminal capabilities
beyond anything of which the most de-
praved of white men ever dreamed?
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-09-11
CHARLESTON,s NEEDS.
Money Still Pouring i'm for the Fae
lief of the Stricken City.

CHARLESTON, S. c., Sept. 10.-Not
much is stirring to-day beyond evidence
everywhere of putting things in shape
again. The board of survey is busly at
work and has recommended that several
buildings be pulled down. Most of the
massive front OF the News and Courier
building and its job Office must come down,
but the building containing the composing
room and press room is pronounced abso-
lutely safe. There is little room for
doubt that the injury to the city
will exceed the estimate OF $5, 600, 600,
as every day develops damages previously
unknown. The relief committee has
opened registry for mechanics desiring
employment where citizens can communi-
cate with them and make engagements.
After o'clock to-day the relief committee
had issued 81, 600 ratiOns. Canvassers have
been appointed for each ward to ascertain
who are needy and deliver rations to them.
so as to avoid imposition. The total sub
scriptionS to the relief fund amount to over
S161, 900.
BALTIMORE, Sept 10.-The Charleston
relief fund up to tonight has amounted to
$s27, 900 and is still growing. Cardinal Glib
bOns has issued circular letter to the clergy
vi tlIC COuHtIJ OilC tohiiS hp VI ="
collection in all Catholic churches Oh the
26th inst. for the same cause, and the Sis
ters of Mercy in this city have signited
their willingness to assume charge OF TWEEN
ty-fve orphans if necessary.
New YORK, Sept. 10.-The Charleston
relief committee of the chamber of COM
merce met to-day. 1t was reported by
Treasurer Brown that up to the present
time he has received subscriptions amount
ing to S33, 122. out of which the mayor of
Charleston had been paid draft of $20,-
500. Since yesterday the treasurer had re-
ceived 81, 122, which included $500 from
Jay Gould, 81, 600 from the Bank of Amer
lea, $500 from the United States National
bank, and $500 from Robert Lenox Ken
nedy.
ST. LOUIS, Sept 1O.-The proceeds
from the bentits given at the Olympic
theater by the Thompson opera company
for the benefit of the Charleston sufferers
amounted to between one thousan and one
thousand two hundred dollars.
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-09-11
uNGRATEFUL CHICAGO.

The Chicago Times says ''the earthquake
that is shaking the money out of peoples
pockets in generous contributions for the
Charleston sufferers does not appear to have
been felt in Chicago" That is a bad word
for Chicago. 1t has not been many years
since fires Scared Chicago was holding out
its hands supplicating aid and the battle
devastated city of Charleston heard the cry
for help and rose up from amid its ruins
and poverty to contribute its mite to the
Chicago sufferers. Now. in the midst of all
its wealth and luxury, there ought to be
some exhibition of gratitude on the part of
Chicago, and it should extend an open and
generous hand to the stricken city of the
South.
St. Paul daily globe., 1886-09-11
Attempted suicide.

CINCINNATI, Sept. 10.-Golden Smith, a
Twenty-Five year-old son of Judge Fayette
Smith, attempted to kill himself at his
fathers residence in Avondale yesterday.
He had been in school until this summer,
when he went into business at Middletown,
0. Night before last he came home and
seemed much depressed. Yesterday morn
ing, after breakfast, the family was
startled by the report of pistol, coming
from his room. When they opened the
door he was found lying oA the floor with
a revolver by his side and bullet hole in
his left side. The physicians have some
hope of his recovery. A quarrel with a
Young lady to whom he was paying atten-
ton is supposed to be the cause of his deed.