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Back From the Grave.

TWO WOMEN'S CURIOUS MISTAKE ABOUT THE
IDENTITY OF A BIGAMOUS HUSBAND,
An Atlanta, Ga, special says: A queer turn
has occurred in mystery which has puzzled
courts, railroad officials and two women
Among the fourteen people killed in the fright
full accident on the Georgia Pacific railroad in
December, 1884, was traveller who was lden-
titled as j. p Weaver, a hotel keeper and cattle
trader from Texas. His widow promptly came
on here laid claim to his effects and prepared
10 participate in the suits for damages brought
against the railroad company by relatives of
the victims. Out at indianapolis another
Woman VINO for year previous mad been
mourning the unaccountable disappearance of
her husband, j. w. Pierce. She read the news
paper descriptions OF the men killed at the dis
aster and il occurred To her that that of J. F.
Weaver Tailed precisely with the personal an
pearance OF j. W. Pierce. She made the Jour
ney TO Atlanta, lad the corpse eXhumed and
at once decided that it was that of her n husband
lac Two WIDOWS compared notes and figured
out perfectly reasonable theory that when
the man had left Indianapolis he had located
III Texas married there Tor the second time
anu WAS on business trip when he met his
death. This suppositiOn Is now EXPLODED by
the iact that Pierce or Weaver turned up here
to-day. Since the accident, which brought the
story OF his oIgaIny into notOriety, he has been
in hiding Tor fear of criminal prosecution 1t
now remains 10 be determined who the man
was who Was killed in the accident and whom
both women sincerely believed TO be their
husband,
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Smiths saloon.
WHY PITTsBURG MAN WENT OUT OF THE
LIQUOR BUSINESS.

WHY A PIrrsBURG MAN WENT OUT OF THE
LIQUOR BUSINESS.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch
Il hear that Smith has sold out his saloon"
said one OF a uple OF middle-aged men, who
sat slipping their beer and eating bit of cheese
In Smithiield street saloon last Friday night.
ayes, responded the other rather slowly.
"W hat was the reason? 1 thought he was
just coming money there"
The other nibbled cracker abstractedy for
a moment and then said: "Its rather a funny
story. Smith, You know lives on Mount
Washington, right near me. where he has an
eNceilen wife, a nice home and three as pretty
children as ever played out doors. All boys,
you know, the oldest not over nine, and all
about the same size. Smith is pretty respect
able sort OF citizen, never drinks gambies,
and thinks the world OF his family.
wei, he went home one afternoon last week
and found his wife out shopping something
OF that sort. He went on through the house
into the back yard, and there, under an apple
Tree, were the little fellows playing. They had
a bench and some bottles aud tumbers and
were playing keep saloon He noticed that
they were drinking something out of a pail, and
that they acted tipsy. The youngest, who was
behind the bar, had towel tied around his
waist. and was setting the drinks up pretty
Tree. Smith walked over and looked in the
pail. 1t was beer. and two of the boys were
drunk that they staggered. A neighbours boy,
couple OF years Older, lay asleep behind the
tree.
MY God. boys, you must not drink that he
SAID as lac lifted the six-year-old from behind
the bench.
ives playin' s'loon, papa an was a sellin'
II Just like YOU said the little fellow. Smith
poured out the beer, carried the drunken boy
home and then took his own boys in aud put
them to bed. When his wife came back she
found him crying like child. He came back
down town that night and sold out his business
and says he will never sell or drink another
drop OF liquor. His wife told mine about Ii,
and she broke down crying while She told it."
ms Is true story, but the name was not
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Specimen Dakota Tales.
A GREAT COUNTRY NO DOUBT, BUT STORIES
ABOUT IT ARE GREATER.

specimen DNAOt8 A0l0Ss
A GREAT COUNTRY NO DOUBT, BUT STORIES
ABOUT IT ARE GREATER.
Dakota Letter in Modern Miller
About two weeks ago Jaw a farmer out be-
hind straw stack gathering into heap a lot
of old bones and pieces of hides and sprinkIing
salt on them. Yesterday saw this same man
selling fine pair of steers to a butcher up town.
They were SO tat and had filled up SO fast that
he had bound their hides with an old buffalo
rope. This granger was Sunday school super
intendent before he came to Dakota but he
kicking together behind the straw stack. He
said all they had eaten was some wild grass
that had sprung up in his door yard, where the
women folks had thrown a few tubs OF warm
soapsuds on wash days. He said that he had
learned that the best way to winter stock in
Dakota was to knock them To pieces in the fall
and set them up again as wanted; otherwise
unless we get blizzard every week, they were
liable to get too fat and round on the native
Last fall stopped at a house to borrow a
match to light my pipe with. The man told me
to go right out in the garden and pick all
but he went out with me, and-rm almost
afraid you'll think I'm liar for telling it
there was about half an acre growing the
finest parlor matches ever saw. They We're
as thick as hairs on blind mule. He said he
mad poor crop the year before, because the
seed was too good for such soil. This year he
had mixed mis- seed matches with about one
third toothpicks and got splendid yield.
went out after breakfast and saw the man
blowing up Hubbard sQuashes with gunpowder.
They were too large 10 be moved, and the
farmer wanted the ground. I noticed that one
of his wiie's legs was about eight inches longer
than the other, and the man explained it thus:
He said when they first came TO Dakota they
lived in "dugout" with nothing but the
ground for q floor, from which they had to NOW
the grass once day to find the baby. He said
his vile had habit of sitting with one leg over
the other knee, and the leg that remained in
contact with the soil got such q start that the
other could never eaten up.
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WOlnan's Best Friend.

AN INDISPENSABLE ARTICLE OF TOILET WHICH
Is ALWAYS WITH HER.
From the Chicago News.
A hairpin is a woman's best friend. 1t fits a
multiplicity of uses, and she is never without
one. Ii her hair is short you can depend upon
it that in recess OF her purse a pocket OF her
reticule you will find the hairpin. If she buttons
her shoes she uses her hairpin, and who ever
saw woman button her gloves with anything
else? Ii her mead itches does she scratch il with
and relieves herself. suppose a nickel has
dropped between the bars of the wooden foot
CRATE in the street car. Does she soil her fingers
as a man would, and then not get il? Certainly
not Out comes the hairpin, and the coin is
lifted out without trouble.
LII her shawl pin is lost, where SO good sub.
stitute as the hairpin. Ii she eats nut does
she take nutpick? Most assuredly not. The
hairpin again. Ii is with the hairpin that she
rips open the uncut leaves OF a book or maya
zine; IL is a hairpin with which she marks
her progress in her favorite book; il a trunk
key is missing a narpIn opens the refractory
lock as neatly as burglars skeleton key would:
with 1t She cleans her finger nails aud, il il is
= clean one, even picks her teeth. And the
feats OF halr-Securing that she will make a SIM
pie Dow-egged hairpin accomplish nearly sur
passes the belief OF man. Altogether, it de-
serves to be classed among the great inventions
OF the world, and the grave of the original man
who created the first one could have no prouder
epitapn than this: 'Tnis is the kind oil hairpin
q WAS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-08-07

LIGHTNING STRANGE PRANKS.-During the
thunderstorm IN Louisville, KY, tuesday
AFTERNOON the lightning struck the residence of
Charies meyer, the constable, who lives on
In "a twinkiins played number OF strange
pranhs. Mrs. Meyer and several of the small
children were shocked, and one OF the children
was knocked To the floor, though no one was
seriously hurt. When they recovered, TO their
astonlshment they found that the pia ste ring on
one side OF the room had been stripped clean
from the wall for a width Of about two feet haif-
way rom the ceiling To the floor. The edges
"hefe II Was torn on were as "A straight as if
measured by u ruler and as smooth as IN ent NV
Il cnisei. 1t Was found also that the water ptre
Was leaking and "a little round hole Was discny
cred that looked as ii il had been made with AN
auSer. The oder OF ozone. which is often 20.
tlcec after a storm, was strongly preval lent Be
sideS the Work AT Meyer 5 the bolt also X nock ed
an the CHIMNEY caps from Il ueighbor's house
Mrs Meyer says that there Was a flash accom-.
panying the stroke which resembled tue exnlo-
sion OF a bail vi fire.
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What Is Playing Smash With New Enr.
land.

lana.
Correspondence Of the Chicago Tribune
rambie through New England at this sea-
son OF the year is Instructive. In Massachu-
sets the woman question is q problem of
curious study. Over in Boston petitions have
been prepared aud sent to Congress asking per-
mission to import Chinese as servants on Civ
ing bond that the foreigners shall not become
pubic charges. Yet there are $4,000 more
women than men in Massachusetts. A board
lng-house prOpretress recently delivered her-
self OF this lament: because the women have
been spoiled by factory work they have come
10 look on household work as inferior. They
make better wages In the factories, and So al
though The factory work is now light, they Will
get woman to come and wash for you. Then,
LOO, the women are intellectual, Is they call it,
ana get ABOVE any work. Some OF them who
are prime houSekeepers, if they only set abOut
it, prefer to spend tner lime In writing rhymes
anu stories. and sentiment tor the papers"
But IL Is not merely the women who are
aVerSe 10 manual labor through New England
j. +. Atkinson q weii-to-do farmer of Vermont
who was asked the price OF improved farm
lands, said they were worth from SIS to $50
an acre, and when surprise was expressed at
this low figure he declared that the same farms
formerly sold tor $40. Seeking to ascertain the
cause Oh this reduction, MIR. Atkinson said: .'Tne
young fellows won't work. Those who will
work have gone of to the west Those who
remain care more about last horses and other
fast things Than about farming. Look about at
any OF the railroad stations and you will And
scores OF sulkies standing around. When a
farmer or farmers boy gets q fast horse the
farm goes to the devil pretty quick. You can't
hire farm help even NJ Dig prices. Men have
got above 1t, want TO live by their wits or on
what their fathers accumulated. When David
Hill took the famous old Back Hawk stallion
into Addison county he caused u loss in the
value OF farm property there equal to q million
dollars. lie found Black Hawk in dray in
Lowell, Mass. 1t would have been better for
the state OF Vermont ii he had never found him.
Why, II literally demoralized the farmers ali
These two gIfuapses at the olfIen civi,fxattoo
OF this country, disclosing the men aud the
women alike dtsdainiul Of toll. Indifferent to the
requirement Of society that all people shall be
well employed, are worthy Of moro than casual
study.
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A POOR MAN AT SARATOGA.
How One Can Live There and Drink the
Waters at Moderate Rates.

Correspondence of The EvENINe STAR
SARATOGA, Angus. 4.
An impression seems to prevail that Saratoga
is the resort of only the world fashion, or what
IS commonly called society people, and that
none but the very wealthy can afford to come
mere. True, it is great resort Of fashion
and the display of wealth in dress, and the
magnificent turnouts with liveried coachmen
and footmen is probably not eQualed by any
other resort in the country, unless it is New
port later in the season. The large hotels and
some OF lesser magnitude are furnished in a
style in keeping with the wealth of their mil
Honalre guests These magnificent palaces are
not fuii. or even open but a few months in the
year. and this cOmpels the propretors to
Charge these votaries OF fashion prices that
But there are plenty OF places in the smaller
hotels and private boarding houses where good
board and the quiet of home life can be had at
moderate prices and the free OF the waters
OF the various springs. / say free, because YOU
have only TO give the boy who dips the water
for you few cents occasionally. The old Con
gress and the HathOrn springs near the
large hotels, and are the most freQuented
These two and the Empire are much
The Hathorn is the strongest and the Empire
next. The Nichy and the Geyser are near to-
gether, but the waters OF each can be had i'll the
village. 1t Is a beautiful drive out there. went
out with a gentleman from Georgia, who SAWS
the Fichy water has made a new man OF him
He drank no less than seven glasses in the
fifteen minutes We're there. AT g D. M
take my quart bottle, go to the spring, drink
what Want, have my bottle filled, give the at
tendant nve cents and go back to my room at
my hotel. STAY at a temperance house. Pray
ers are held in the large parlors after breakfast
where those who choose can attend. There i,
generally some clergyman, a guest OF the house.
who Offciates. The house is pleasantly located
and there are at least hall a dozen springs in
Guiding those have named, within tour quares
OF the house There are at present seventy-tive
or eighty guests at the house; the majority,
think, are ladies. The terms from 81 % to
81 so per day, according to the rooms occupied
and the length Oh time. pay but $3.50 for
room and board Tor myself and wife and have
good, pleasant room. l have given these par.
tlcuiars thinking possibly that some clerks in
the departments might want to come here but
be deferred by the charges OF the large
hotels.
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A MARRIED MANS ELoeEMENT.-George J.
Fowler, of Cortiandt, n. u, and Miss susie
Chantery, OF Adrian, Mich, who are alleged to
have eioped have been In Whitman, Mass.
erty there. The young lady is 23 years old
anc she aud her supposed husband were wei
them containing the account OF their alleged
eiopement Fowler said that he left his wife
six months ago, and that at present a suit tor
divorce Is pending. His vile and their child
are with her mother in Syracuse. Fowler ana
Miss Cuantery left on the midnight train for
Boston. where they are now supposed to be.
FOwier says that he will not give up the young
lady, anu trip To Europe is Threatened in case
the pursuit becomes too warm.
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MidSuflaaler.

STEPPED in broad suilish lat lies the hill
In morning beauty. Ca and still,
Tine floating clouds at anchor lie
Like snowy argosles on high.
No bird-note wakes the noontide's hush
save happy wren or lonely thrush,
Beside tue brOos III coverts deep
Where tr1mpet blossoms nodding sleep.
Again the white pond lily floats
Upon the stream Its iairy boats,
In The cool caves OF softened gloom
The meadow sweets and 0rchis bloom.
Without the land Is hot and dim.
he st2ooie fields in lAngour swim.
The ap.and zane Is gray with dust
And rag weeds wear their crown of rusf
The aspen leaves are scarce astir.
The locust sends his droning whirr.
And hera.diag the Suitry night
The feryid sun sinks out OF sight.
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CITY AND DISTRICT.
Inc Nationals Again Defeated-The At.
tendance at the Games Diminishing.

The Nationals drew another goose egg at
Capltoi park yesterday in the game with the
Chicagos. The score was: Chicagos, IL; Ma
uonais, %. The Nationals played wretchedy
throughout the entire game. 1t appeared to the
spectators that the most of them did not try to
play good ball Some of the errors looked as If
tney were made Intentionally. Whatever may
De the cause. the crowds at Capitol park are
daily growing less and but little interest Is ex-
CITED by the games. Individually the team is a
strong one, but there is something lacking.
ashington is good base ball city, as was
shown by the attendance in the early part of
the season; but the interest in the game, as
played here, is gradually dying. 1t is sur
prising that good audiences have been in at
tendance 80 long.
OTHER GAMES YESTERDAY.
Agricultural department, 10; Treasury de-
psrtnent, y. Az New York-New York, 3;
Kansas City, a. At lphia-Philadel-
Phia, >; ST Louis, o. AT Boston-Boston. A;
Detroit, 3. At Cincinnati-Brooklyn -Cinc1n-
natl game called at end OF third inning account
OF rain. At Observation-Disclosures Olitan
game called at second inning account of rain.
AT MISUNDERSTANDING, 1: Baltimore, 3. At st.
Louis-St Louis, 10; Athletic, y
HOW THE RECORD STANDS.
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Lille Is o SnylOck: always II demands
1 he fullest usili er est tor each treasure
ellis are NOT freeiy Ses,tteie irOfn It's hendS
We make returns Tor every borrowed treasure
Zach talent, each achievement and each gam
Neeeasitates some penalty TO pay.
Delight imposes lassitude and pain.
AS Certainly as darkness follows day.
All you beStOw on causes, or on men,
Or love, or hate, OF malice devotion,
Somehow SO3e ulc, snail be returned again.
there is no /" ASied Oil, lost emotion.
The motto OF thS GRID Is, Give and take"
II gives you i..vors-uut OF sheer good Will
But unless SPECIFY recOmpense You make,
1Ou'il int yourseii presented with its bill
When rapture comes TO thrill the heart of You,
lake II with tempered gratitude; remember
Some later time t.ie interest will fall due
No year brings j. ne that does not bring December
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
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While We are decidedly in favor of cremation,
We do not admit that the fear of being buried
alive should be a reason to cause us to reject
burial and to adopt cremation. There are two
simple tests by which We can always convince
ourselves whether person is really dead or
not. One test is the same that has been
crowned with a prize by the French govern
ment, which had for years offered a large
reward for the discovery OF any method always
applicable, always reliable, and one that may
Oe praciiced by the most ignorant. The method
Of determining actual death, which was consid-
cred by the French government as being
worthy OF the reward, is the following: When
The fingers OF q person who is supposed to be
dead are Iully extended, but kept near together
and ii placed in front OF u candle light in a dark
room u peculiar bright red color, due to the
capillary circulation will be Wis ible where the
fingers touch each oLher ii there is any Lie lett
This test mas thus far proved the most reliable
The other is based upon the well-known fact
that the muscles of a human being viii! never
respond for u longer time TO the strongest cleo.
trical current than for one hour and half liter
death; while as long as life last may its evil
dences be ever SO little, the contractiity of the
muscles, If not affected by some forms of paraly-
sls-tnd in cases thus affected, when death
seems to occur, it always is reai-remains
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The Sqaire.FIynn Rargair

TIE Nkw YORK GRAND JURY SAID 40 /.
INVESTIGATED 1T.
In the examination by Mayor Grace 10 =
charges against Commissioner Squire. In Stw
YORK yesterday. ID. LOUDER smith, eX-aetSLF
commissioner OF public works, testified .h.L IA
many Instances when appointments we're s.o
initted 10 Squire he said he would wit aNla The
name SO that he might nrst consult Flyan.
EN-Alderman Charles II. Waite Was brougL
uo"h town yesterday by detectives iruni Lad-
low street jail and taken before the gtauc /, = ~
where ne gave evidence In the case " - a8ls .,
was SAID. Waite is thought To have a s.lOsonsetl
himself Oh very important news In coEuecL.oA
win squire appointment as comm - Toner ~
pupilc works. When Squire's nomination Was
endorsed by the board OF aldermen, Waite ives
the absence of Kirk. Ex-Mayor Eason con.
tractor Richard A. Cunningham and James
Mcoatney, formerly superintendent at parks
We're also before the grand Jury. L. wa ssii
last evening that the grand jury had ~ ncla led
their inquiry into the Squire-Flynn sS.e.
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A Detroit's ~ tpper's Plan.

ESCAPING FROM cANADIAN CUSTOMS ~ yTCI.rs
Captain Grummond. OF Detroit Mica. ha,
had considerable trouble with Canadian GU
toms officials on account OF harassiI.S custom
regulations and has instructed his -. stttus 70
take all sorts OF chances 10 get out ~ troaa.s
once they got In ii. The other da, his To o..
wego, left Point Edward a Canada to-L o.
Lake Erie, without reporting 10 tLo i,s...l Gus
tom house. Thursday the OsweS l.ul '-I,
Amherstburg, Ont, where the coll, ~ Il. 1
the Oswego and ieit three deputie. uri lO;s-i
Inc captain submitted gracefully. 4. Z cloek
yesterday morning, while the thru i.lu ..es
were asleep, an order from the ca. taia 49,.
out To his deck hands, "Fire IN ou - ana .f.
three sleeping deputies were hustlc : 10 aaa
dropped over the rail 20 the dock ..lia az,
customary dull thud. The Oswego's ai..... Wrt.
then cut and the tug escaped.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-08-07

THE CLOSING SESSION OF THE GA r.. ENCAMp.
MENTAL Thursdays session OF the Grand
Army ot the Republic Encampment, at San
Francisco, it Was resolved that meetings OF the
national encampment be held between April
and November Instead OF May and September.
as at present This was In Difference TO the wishes
Up.ons tactics Was rejected. The recOmmen-
dalton OF the department OF Maryland 10 give
preference in pubic positions 10 hOnorabIy dis
charged soldiers, whether disabled or not, was
adoplad.
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From the Philadelphia Call
Aurelia (reading the sign sbstractedlys "I.r
Cream. All Flavors."
Her Young Man-"You've heard about L 4
picnic party being poisoned, haven't your"
''Oh, yes"
"And I've been told that all ice cream exhi 1tts
traces of arsenic"
"Does IL? How nice! You know arsepis n
good for the complexion, and I'm gettfIG .
aWfully sunburned."
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Fatal Tricycle. Collision

A BOSTON MAN KILLED AND HIS W FT HErr.
In Boston, Thursday evening, Sam >tIc-.ley
and vile started out towards the Che Ia q = a
reservoir road on their tricy cles. The -. u. " :
dark, and as they did not return 10 thu. :. tc.,
their friends became greatly alarmed Al.-.
midnight searching party was aool: 30 10
organized, when q hack drove up co tsIuf =
The missing ones. The driver said &C Isl..i. 4
them beside the road, both unconscious. Iusy
were taken inside and physicians has ~ sun
moned. Ii was found that Mr.. Sti, o. uGN Ia.
sustained a fracture OF the skull FROM when 30
died within an hour. Towards mo- AZ NJ
Stickney recovered sufficiently 10 las. Sls
sad that IL was very dark, and that tie ~ be-
chimes coliided and upset, throwing III. Stitk-
ney with great force upon the paveBl 4. - e
was ignorant of the fact that her hus ana ha 4
expired, and when informed OF the al -.s.- l
became almost frantic. IL is feared ST. y.tli u
recover. Mr. Stickney was a sou "a X H.
Stickney, OF The firm of Stickney g. Iupr spl..
manufacturers and was 23 years old