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Buying Another's Wife.

Ellis Thompson, q wealthy farmer,
living about mile from Ocean Grove,
N. j., had long loved Katie Carson,
a pretty girl OF Red Bank, but he
could not win her in the usual way, so
now he has bought her from her hus-
band, and taken possession Of her as
his wife, together with her two chill
dren. Six years ago farmer Thomp-
son and Hiram Satterlee were rivals
for the hand OF fair Katie. Thompson
was rich. ugly and forty. Satterlee
was twenty-five, handsome and poor.
Satterlee won the girl and
married her. They lived until q
week ago in little house along the
railroad, near Deal Lake. satterlee
was employed on the New York and
Long Branch road, but intemperance
had ruined him, and he has given but
scanty support to his family. Lately
Thompson saw how poor the family
was, and how the woman he loved was
being ill-used by her husband. His
sympathies went out to the injured
wife, and he longed to take her to his
house he was building on his farm, and
which was SO rapidly nearing compile.
ton. How to overcome the insur-
mountable difficulties which SEEM
ed to present themselves was the one
question in his mind. Atlength he had
n happy inspiration. He would buy
her. When he broached the subject
to Mrs. Satterlee she received the pro-
position with fewer scruples than he
had expected; she appreciated his soil
citude, and if she could not return
his affection, ner gratitude would go a
long way towards it. The question
now arose as to whether the husband
would make a reasonable bargain.
Mr.. Thompson went to the house and
broached the subject. Satterlee
thought at first it was a joke, but
when he saw Thompson was il earn
est he became serious, and finally Of
fered to sell his wife and children for
5000 Mr.. Thompson put down the
cash at once. That night Satteree
left for New York, and the woman
and children are now living with
Thompson ir. comfort and happiness.
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Forced by Pain to Confess.

A highly sensational sequel to the
Latrobe (Pa,) suicide has just come
to light. 1t appears DR.. j. O'Keernan
has been paying attention to young
woman by the name OF Fanny Glogger,
who worked as a dining room girl at
the Park House. 1t is said that they
quarrelled, and in moment Of
passion the doctor rushed to
the bureau where he had con-
cealed revolver and aiming at
Miss Glogger, fired, the bullet entering
and passing through one OF the mus.
cles of her arm, frightening her so bad
ly that she fell to the floor unable to
speak. Keernan, seeing the result Of
his shot, and supposing he had killed
the girl, turned the weapon to his head
and sent bullet crashing through his
brain. The true version of the affair
did not come to light until Fanny was
compelled, through pain from the
wound she received, to ask for medi-
cal aid, and she then admitted that
she had been shot by DR.. Keernan,
and related the foregoing story as the
cause. She is very pretty girl, and
is daughter OF the artist of the same
name who lives in Allegheny City.
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Dangerous to Doubt.

Mr.. j. ID. BorthwicR, in his "Three
Years in California" gives an anus
ing account of a sort oftrial ofskill be-
tween two professional story-tellers;
one veteran OF the Mexican war the
other an old hunter of the Sierras.
Several oftheir most interesting expert
ences and thrilling adventures are
given. The following will serve to show
their quality:
The hunter had rather the best oft;
his yarns were uncommonly tough
and hard OF digestion, but there were
no historical facts on record to bring
against him. He had it all his
own way for the only witnesses OF
his exploits were the grizzlies, and he
always managed to dispose of them
very effectually by finishing their
career along with his story. He show
ed several scars on different parts of
his guttapercha person which he re-
ceived from the paws OF the grizzlies,
and he was not the sort OF customer
whose veracity one would care to
question.
One man nearly got into ascrape by
laughing at the most thrilling part Of
one OF his best stories. After firing
twice at a bear without effect, the
bear, infuriated by the bullets planted
IN his body. was rushing upon him.
He took to flight, and, loading as he
ran, he turned and put ball into the
bears left eye.
The bear winked a good deal, but
did not seem to mind it much; he only
increased his pace, so the hunter, load
ing again, turned around and put Il
ball into his right eye, whereupon the
bear, now winking considerably with
both eyes, put his nose to the ground
and began to run him down by scent.
At this critical moment, a great stu
pid-looking lout, who had been sitting
all night with his eyes and mouth wide
open, taking in and swallowing every
thing chat was said, had the temerity
to laugh incredulously. The hunter
tiared up in moment.
| ''What are you a-laafn' at?" he
said. "D' ye mean to say that lie?"
"Oh," said the other, ''if you say it
was SO, Isuppose it's all right; you
ought to know best. But l want a.
laafin at you; l was -laafin' at
| the b ar"
"What do you know about b'ars?"
said the hunter. "Dld you ever kill a
b'ar?'
The poor fellow had never killed a
bar SO the hunter snuffed him out
with look of contempt and pity. and
went on triumphantly with his story,
which ended in his getting up tree,
where he sat and peppered the bear,
as he went smelling round the stump,
until he at last fell, mortally wound.
ed, with l don't know how many bull.
cts in his body.
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How to Use Pianos in Summer.

"In the hot weather piano should
not be placed in damp room or left
open in draft of air, for dampness is
it's most dangerous enemy. 1t causes
the strings and tuning-pins to rust
and the cloth used in the construction
of the keys of action to swell, where
by the mechanism will move slug
gishiy or often stick together Con-
tinued dampness will also injuriously
affect the varnish and raise the soft
tibers OF the sounding board, thus form
ing ridges. Extreme heat is scarcely
less injurious. A piano should be
closed when not in use, in order to
prevent the accumulation OF dust, pins,
etc. the sounding board, and yet it
should be opened occasionally and
daylight allowed to strike the keys;
otherwise the ivory may turn yellow.
An India rubber or cloth cover should
protect the instrument from bruises
and scratches. Moths may be Kept
out of piano by lump OF camphor
wrapped in soft paper, placed in the
inside cover. A new piano should be
tuned at least once every two or three
months during the first year and ut
longer intervals thereafter.-Mail and
Express.
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Costumes for Seaside Bellies.

From Town Topics.
The fashion for elaborate costum.
ing in bathing dresses was started in
Long Branch by the fast class of ac-
tresses, and it is from that summer
resort that hear OF the new phanta.
sizes which find their origin in the vivid
imaginations OF these brilliant women.
A great deal has been said OF the bath
ing costumes worn at Narragansett
Pier, but if people really desire to see
to what extent women will get them.
selves up, they must take a trip to
Long Branch. The fashion contin-
gent at Newport doesnot bathe in the
sea, and although there is a splendid
beach for the purpose, it is only used
by the townspeople. There is this to
be said about the matter, that the
bathing dress certainly was hid
eous enough few years ago.
and a complete disguise, and
that the bathing dress OF to-day is
decidedly not hideous. neither is it a
disguise. Last summer, at New Lon
don, Mrs. Helyar bathed in a short
white dress, the waist cnt open at the
neck in a point, both in front and be.
hind, short sleeves, long scarlet stock
ings and slippers with Louis Quinze
heels. One OF her amusements was
driving over to Osprey Beach with
Count Sala and going in bathing there.
But Mrs. Helyar will not be at New
London this season She found it
dull and is going to try Newport.
At Long Branch, last summer, it
was the event of the day to 60 to the
bea, to see certain beautiful won.
an, the wife OF well-known broker,
battle in blue silk tights. She had a
beautiful figure as well as beautiful
face. The description of some of the
bathing dresses being made by fash
ionable dresemakers reads like a de
scription OF ball dresses, the only diff
ference being the length OF the skirts
But these are often worn tor effect or
the beach, the fair wearers having
really no intention OF getting wet
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Why He Never Married.

Letter in the London Times.
For parents and near kinsfoik it is
customary in Corea to mourn three
years. What a deep influence this
prescriptive usage has upon the life OF
the people is illustrated by the follow
ing story OF an aged bachelor who was
asked wh.- he had never taken q WIFE
"My parents as well as myself" he
said, were desirous that l should
marry, and suitable young lady being
found, our betrothal took place. Then
my future father-in-law died, and we
had, of course, to wait three years. |
had hardly put off my mourning than
| had to bewail the loss OF my
own poor father; necessarily here was
another term of three years wait
ing. When these We're up the future
mother OF my wife took sick and ex.
pired, and thus we were Obliged to de-
lay our marriage another three years
Lastly, had the misfortune to lose
my own dear mother, which naturally
caused a further adjournment. SO
that as four times three make 12, that
number OF years had passed over our
heads and made us both the older
At this time my betrothed fell i'll, and
as she was at deaths door l went to
pay her last visit. My future broth
er-in-law met me at the door and said
Although you are not formally mar
ried, yet perhaps may for this once
look upon you as mar and wife, come
in and see her. had hardly entered
and been for a moment face to face
with my poor wife than she breathed
her last. When | saw this all thought
OF marriage fled from me, and | have
remained bachelor ever since.
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Whence Come Our Great For
tuncsc

Most of the great fortunes OF the
United States, those thai are unduly
great, are ascribed to the rapid devel
opment OF the means of transporta-
ton and the facility with which those
means have been centered in compara-
lively few hands. The general sense
OF the nation is that this concentra-
tion of power OF wealth is anevil. and
that it would be much better if we
could have had the development OF
the transportation interests that we
have had with a greater diffusion OF
the power and wealth that have at
tended them The founders OF our
republic thought they were establish
ing civil institutions where enormous
fortunes were comparatively I'M
known. A hundred years have hardly
passed-certainly not n long time in
national life-when the largest indi-
vidual fortune OF the world is accred-
tied to the United States, and there
are Others that approximate this in
magnitude, and many OF them dating
back to less than ope-6fth OF a
century. Ir the matter OF private
wealth, we have clearly departed from
the ideas of our fathers. In this de-
parture is there adherence to the stern
principles OF republicanism with which
our country started out, and have
these growths been fortuitous, excep-
tional, easily swallowed up in the gen
eraI growth and prosperity OF the
country, SO that the spirit or our in
stitutions is unchanged, and are these
fortunes to be dissipated in an early
succeeding generation and not be re-
placed by others OF equal or greater
magnitude and greater in number?
| The instincts OF the nation are that
danger turks in any other solution OF
these inquiries than in the line Of sup
preston OF causes that have made
these fortunes possible Nor can the
subject be dismissed on the ground
| that, in the development OF the use OF
| the physical forces OF steam and cleo
tricity that this generation has seen,
there is inherent the aggregation OF
wealth IN few hands The proof OF
this is that in European countries
| that have enjoyed like favorable
development with ourselves in wealth,
barring that which came from our
virgin territory, such developments OF
the physical forces in their admins
tration and the accompanying emol-
uments have not been centralized up.
on few.-Popular Science Monthly.
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Tobias Green remained passive until
the hour came for the men to be lock-
ed up, when he was discovered. An
| alarm was at once sent out but Clark
was safe. He remained secreted in the
house tor about a month and was
then shipped away, and his recapture
was never effected. In relating this
story he said that the five or six min
utes necessary for him to pass out OF
the prison aged him more than any
two years of his life.
HONEST cHARLEY's ESCAPE.
A burglar named Charles O'Leary,
alias Honest Charley, was sent to the
Wisconsin state prison for term OF
seven years, but even before he entered
the prison his friends offered to bet
two to one that he would make his es-
cape inside OF a year. AS in the case
previously reported, OLeary was
posted about the prison before he be-
came an inmate. He was not looked
upon as desperate man, but rather
as sly one; but after he had been in
prison for two months and no fault
had been found with him, any extra
surveillance was relaxed. O'Leary
was at first placed in the dining room,
but at his own request was changed to
the kitchen, he being a fair hand at
cooking. All the food OF the convicts
was received at the kitchen doors from
! teams driven into the yard. The sup
ply for the day was then carried to the
storercom, which adjoined the kitch-
en-. 1t often happened that two or
three teams were in the yard at once,
while on regular days wagons camefor
swill and ashes.
O'Leary had planned from the first
to escape by way OF the kitchen, but
he found the difficulties almost with
out number. Nearly all the cooks,
bakers, and helpers in that depart
ment were short-time men who would
not have taken advantage Of an open
gate. None OF them could therefore,
be relied on to help him out, The
wagons were always under the eyes OF
the guards on the walls, and were
quite often inspected at the gate be-
fore driving out. Had two convicts
placed O'Leary in a barrel, covered
him up with refuse, and lifted him into a
wagon, the chances were that he would
have been safely carried out, but there
was not man IN the kitchen whom
he could trust. 1t was a part OF his
duties to rake the ashes out from un-
der large oven and keep them raked
in pile and wet down until an old
Irishman with Il one-horse wagon came
to draw them off. This happened
every other day at 10 O'Clock in the
morning. The Irishman brought u
large ash pail with him, and when it
was full O'Leary helped him to carry
it out and empty it into the wagon.
The time occupied in filling the was
on was about forty minutes, the man
making two cala before coming to the
kitchen.
O'Leary determined that this Irish
man should be the means OF restoring
him to liberty, and he set to work
after a carefully matured plan. He
noticed that the mans breath always
smelled OF whisky, and that about
every time he came he was quite
stupid with drink. He took strong
liking to O'Leary. and after few
weeks volunteered to bring him a
bottle OF whisky. The offer was ac-
cepted, and Thanksgiving ay named
as the time when heshould bring it in.
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Abdallah's Dexterity With His
Steel Scimetar.
John Fisk in the Atlantic for July.

John Fisk in the Atlantic for July.
OF oil the barbarous communities
with which the civilized world has had
to deal in modern times, perhaps none
have made so much trouble as the Mus
sulman states on the esouthern shore of
the Mediterranean. After the breaking
up of the great Moorish Kingdoms OF
the middle age, this region had fallen
under the nominal control of the
Turkish sultans, as lords paramount
OF the orthodox Mohammedan world.
Its miserable populations became
the pray OF banditti. Swarms OF half
savage chieftans settled down upon
the land like locusts, and out of such
a pandemonium of robbery and muir
der has scarcely been equalled in his
toric times the pirate states OF Mo-
rocco and Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoh,
gradually emerged.
One of these cheerful creatures who
reigned in the middle of the eighteenth
century, and was called Muley Abdal-
lah, especially prided himself on his
peculiar skill in mounting a horse.
Resting his left hand upon the horses
neck as he sprang into the saddle he
simultaneously swung the sharp scim-
etar in his right hand SO deity as to
cut off the head of the groom who
held the bride. He was fair sample
OF the Barbary monarchs. The for
eign policy OF these wretches was sum-
med up in piracy and blackmail.
Their corsairs swept the Mediterran-
mean and ventured far out upon the
ocean, capturing merchant vessels
and numbering or enslaving their
crews. OF the rich booty fixed pro-
portion was paid over to the robber
sovereign and the rest was divided
among the gang. So lucrative was
this business that it attracted hardy
ruttians from all parts of Europe, and
the misery they inflicted upon man
kind during four centuries was beyond
calculation.
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The Way Edith Shocked Them.

Cambridge (Mass. Chronicle: "Yes, :"
said the parson at the tea table,
Young Jordan was out driving with
Miss Popiniay the other evening and
mis- horse ran away. They were both
thrown out and the buggy was smash
ed to pieces. 1t was a providential
escape for both of them; but | can't
understand how the young man came
to lose control of the horse"
'He must have driven with one
hand" tlippantly suggested the min
ister's eldest son, n wild rake ola boy.
"Or perhaps he had the reins around
his neck" said Edith, q shy young
beauty OF sixteen, with charmingly
modest mien. And then everybody
exclaimed in chorus:
"Why, Edith
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-08-06

II civilization continues its onward march
the next century will see the penalty for eat.
ing raw onions twice as heavy as for house.
breaking .-DdnviHe Breeze.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-17
BEN: PERLEY POORE.
How He ReteIls Some Stories of
Aicck stephens.

Aicck stephens.
Alexander Il. Stephens, Of Georgia,
who died in the spring of 1888, was one
of the gcompromisers who endeaYored to
p1Olong the existence of slavery by legis-
lation. His refusal TO vote for MIR. VIM
throp was the initial step in the breaking
up of the old Wing party, and he then
identified himself with those who advo-
Gated compromises, including the fugi-
tive slave law. the enforcement of which
converted so many Northern men to the
Republican doctrine of freedom. Person.
ally, Gov. stephens was a brave man,
although he was from boyhood a mere
child In point of physical strength. In
1S4S he had personal alteration with
Judge Gone, of Georgia, strong man,
who held stephens with one hand
while he inflicted several wounds
ON his arms and body. Then, pressing
his head back, he held the knife above his
exposed throat, saying: "Retract, or |
will cut your - throatw "NeverP
shouted Stephens, who with great effort
seized the blade of Cones knife in his
right hand and held it until they were
separated. A surgical examination
showed that one of Cones knife-stabs had
penetrated to within less than the six
teeDth of an inch of his heart while his
right hand was so mangled that he was
never afterward able to write. Yet,
plucky as be was, he could not stand up
for the Union when the tidal wave Of Sc
cession swept over Georgia, and on the
anniversary of his birthday, Feb, II, 1861,
he was inaugurated Vice President
OF the Southern Confederacy.
He was, however, what the farmers
call an ''off OK in the secession team,
and he did not occupy a high position in
the estimation OF the Southern people I'M
til Secretary Stanton made him suffer
martyrdom in their cause by ke%ping him
a prisoner at Fort Warren from May until
October, 1865. He was, while in Congress,
a feature at the capitol. His bloOdess,
shriYeled face seemed almos like that of
a corpse, as he was wheeled about in his
chair, with an old beaver hat over his
forehead. But his eyes were bright and
his intellect unolOuded. He used to
room at the National, where his faithful
colored attendant carried him
about as one would sick lad. He gen.
orally ate IN his own room, and pork was
his aversion. Once new waiter, in
bringing his breakfast, had put plate of
sausage meet on the tray, but to his as
constituent ne had no sooner put the plate
before Mr.. Stephens than he found 1t
thrown at his head. In q moment the
Georgian's wrath was over, and he gave
the astonished darkey half a dollar, with
instructions never to serve him with the
unolean beast in any shape. His favorite
| dish was a fat young raccoon, and the
darkies In Virginia always found him
ready to purchase the result of success
| full coon hunts.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-17
Incidents of the Earthquake.

From The SvLUdnid (Gd.) TsleLhone.
Two young men over in the fork were
very much scared by the big shock, and
sat up all the balance OF the night with
pistol in hand. One of them says they
thought 1t was "haunts," as they never
realized that ID was an earthquake.
A lady. residing few miles below this
place, being alone, her husband not being
at home, was sure that some one was
making an effort to break in the house,
and 1t is said she fairly riddled the side OF
the house with buckshot, firing no less
than ten times with a double-barreled
shotgun.
A negro in the town, Andrew Pinking,
thought some one was trying to turn his
house over and ran out with pistol in
hand and fired around In a manner that
alarmed the town almost as much as the
first shock of the earthquake.
A young married man near Ogeechee
was sure some robbers were trying to
break down partition in his house, and
bracln9 himself against IL, called Justify
for his wife to bring the gun. When told
by hor that 1t was an earthquake he said !:
"Well you get the children ont while
hold the house up, and be 10 big hurry"
About the best thing in the line of in
cidents happened at Ogeechee church, at
Oliver, In this county. A protracted
meeting was In progress and an old
Methodist brother was praying and send
Ing up mosufervent appeal for Divine
power TO come down and shake The earth
and stir up the cold-hearted sinner and
the lukewarm brother, when in the very
midst Of his petition, as if surely IN an
swer thereto, the first big shock came.
The whole congregation was more
or less struck with amaze
ment, but one in particular, a
prominent physician OF that section, who
was away back on back seat, was so
much disconnected that he rushed up TO
the old brother and, taking him by the
shoulder. said: "You have got to explain
yourself, sir" The old brother was no
doubt as much astonshed at the answer
TO his prayer as the rest OF the congrega-
ton, and, assuming perhaps an air OF con-
fidence, reached up and, placing his hand
on the Doctors shoulder, said: BE quiet,
my brother; IL is only little earth shak-
inpO
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-09-17
A Home Remedy,

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century by thousands of people has Endorsed
II as the BEST.
'The value OF household remedy
consists in its accessibility as well Us its
chicacV, and many attacks of disease
are warded on by convenient medi-
ctnes. Simmons Liver Regulator is
most valuable medicine 20 have in the
house, and heartily recommend it as
the ounce of preventive so much
talked OF and wished fort. W.
Worrell. Principal Irving Grammar
School FranAford, Pa.
Demand the genuine, with trade mark ~
IN red on front OF wrapper.