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A Courarenns French Girl.

Some years ago four men, who were en-
ployed in cleansing common sever at
place called Noyon, in France, upon opening
q drain were SO affected by the fetid yapors
that they were unable to ascend The late
ness OF the hour lit was II o'clock at night
rendered it difficult TO procure assistance,
and the delay must have proved fatal had
not a young girl, servant in the family,
with courage and humanity that would have
done honor to the NEST elevated station, at
the hazard of her OWL life, attempted their
deliverance
This generous girl, who was only II years
of age, was, at her own request, let down
several times to the poor men by rope.
She was SO fortunate as to save two Of them
pretty easily, but, in tying the third to the
cord which was let down TO her for the pur-
pose, she found her breath failing and was
in great danger OF stffOcation. In this
dreadful situation she had the presence Of
mind to tie berself by the hair to the rope
and was thus drawn up almost expiring
with the poor man in whose behalf she had
80 humanity exerted herself.
The instant she recovered she insisted upon
being let down again, but her exersions this
time failed Of success, for the fourth unfor-
tunate man WIS drawn up dead. The cor
poration of the town of Noyon, as small
token of their appreciation, presented the
heroine with 600 nvres and conferred on her
the civic crown, with medal engraved with
the arms Of the town, her name and nara
tive of the action. The Duke Of Orleans also
sent her zoo livres and settled 200 yearly on
her for lfe.-Phfadeiphia Press.
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She Fought It Alone.

The Hampton (Va.l School Record gives
hn account of the brave deed Of one of his
neighbors, On Oneida woman, whose courage
seens only equalei by her pride Of race
Driving into the field one day where her
husband and others were at work, she en-
countereda hog lying across the road IN such
q way that she could not pass AS there was
no one near to help her, and the log was be-
yond her strength to move, she proceeded to
cut ii in two with an ax she had in the wag-
on To her surprise, she had disturbed a
mother bear and her family Of cubs The
bear, more frightened than angry took TO
the woods, apd the woman walloed In search
of the men and their firearms Finding
than she conducted her relis,s party quickly
hack to the log, 70 ind that rhe bear had
,Iso returned When oil we're stationed
re.]v for action. she. ag,l.. rls>. her OK On
the log, and the bear made her second ap-
pearance. this time angry and vengeful.
The man who stood ready for just this
rrnergsucv missed bis aim, dropped the gun,
and with all bis other masculine companions
fool, TO hts heels. Left alone with the infu-
rated beast. with only an AK for defense,
this Indian woman coouy waited until the
bear came near enough, and letting the ax
fall With all her might upon It's bead killed 1t
with that one stroke The same nespon az
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An ENnreSSiYa EDifa nh.

Once most charming and amiable young
woman died, and every one of her school
mates and intimate companions, with tears
In their eyes, had something pleasant to say
of her; little things that came from the heart
of the speakers and wero-deserved by the be
loved dead Finally the smallest girl in the
room said: at was easier TO be good when
she was with US" Those precious words made
a line that was carved upon the headstone
that marks grave. No gifted preacher pro-
nouncing a funeral eulosy could say better
things. 1t was OF one VINO not only had lived
O blameless life, but of one Who had made the
virtues seem s~eater than vices; OF one who
had made the sunshine Of life creep into all
places.
Goodness with her became Joy, and all
who met her wanted to share il. Hers was
a character to influence others for good
There are opDosites % this There are dan
gerous girls who make isscem easy for their
companions 70 go wrong. They viii make
the best OF women upder environment that
is for good; but they lnck the natural beau
ties of mind and manner Of the one who died
The little girl who spoke her epitaph was
PERHAPS unconscious Of its full meaning: but
the thought had come honest 10 her, and
every one knowing and thinking of the dead
one felt that: 1t was easier to DO good when
she was with hemia-New Orleans Plea
y1Ine
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4 Little Heroine.

Into the record Of deeds of heroism by those
older than she, deserves TO be placed the story
of little Nellie Barry, OF Cambridge, Mass
She was 10 wears old, but her heart was stout,
as she was the protector OF her four brothers,
ali younger still. Her mother was dead and
her father was an habitue OF the gin mills
This dreary apology for family lived in a
soualid little house in an out of the way street
of old Cambridge
Fourth of July night in 1885 viii long be
remembered in Cambridge as a peculiarly
noisy and nerve shocking one. There was a
particularly large amount of bang and toot
around the Barry house. Whether there was
any malice lurking there viii perhaps never
be known. AT al events, little Nellie was
awakened later in the night by the suffocat-
ing smell of smoke. Her instincts Of protec-
ton were reused. She rushed out of the
house In her night dress, and was terrified to
see one end of the house, the end whore her
small brothers were sleeping, cracking and
blazing Ike huge bonfire,
1t did not take the resolute little woman
long to decide on her plan of campaign Her
father WIS away, presumably drunk; there
were no neighbors at hand. Up stairs she
went, through the black smoke, and shortly
returned with a chubby boy, the youngest of
the brood Then back for the second.
It was getting hotter now, and the smoke
almost choked the heroic little dGmsel, but
her burden was safely deposited near the
other little slumberer
Then she went after the third. The flames
sizzled around the bedroom door. The girls
little feet began to blister from the fierce
heat Of the floor. Big drops Of peYspiration
fell from her face. Yet up through smoke
and fame she went again, for there was an
other life 10 save. After terrible pain and
labor, for thelast was the biggest boy OF the
four, Nelly Barry saved it, and sank down
on the cool grass, faint and weary from SUI
fering, but happy that she had done her duty.
This little heroine afterward went TO live
with her uncle at Springfield While out
skating there one day she fell and broke her
ankle. She was taken TO the hospital but
afterward was brought 10 Cambridge again
and placed in the alashouse.-New York
Press
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Annie Is1rise Cary.

She stood before en- adorfng house with al
the cd grand presence end enchantrnent, and
sang that touching ballad, They Say
Might Marry the Laird Ii 7 Would" There
was subtle significance L. The ratrain, But
l VIII marry Iay ain love-" that the houss
felt with an unuuSsakable thrill For better
than ell the wide fame Of the great pTima
donna-one Of the few creates. the world has
ever knoun--is the beautiful f1lffllment of
the life OF the woman in the peace and sweet
ness Of her married happiness After one OF
the most triumphant Gpd resplendeat careers
Of tie lyric stage she has, indeed. married hex
ain love- aud the wife, the friend, the wo-
man, is as great as was the singer with the
world ar her feet
To Annie Louise Cary is given not only the
matches voice, the marvellous power TO
charm, but the charm Is enriched and made
permanent by the soSl that shines through
tine beautiful eyes, the dignity and noblensss
OF character which the nation holds IN honor,
and which viii ever insure 70 Arnie Louise
Cary-Raymond tie place of the greatest
lyric artist that America ever produced--
Boston Traveller
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at Springfield. approaching the con-
ductor, he introduced himself and told
the circumstances, said that all the old
conductors knew him, and he never had
to show his pass to them, so he had been
careless about it.
ST have no doubt it is all right" said
the conductor, "but I cannot carry You. -
''But," said the gentleman. pleadingly,
"my wife is very i'll. Unjust go home on
this train"
81 am sorry" replied the conductor,
"but cannot carry you"
.'Is there anybody around here author
lied to issue pass? Anybody who can
give me oneT'
The conductor knew Of nobody around
the depot who had that authority.
''Well," said the lobbyist in despair.
ri shall have to drive out there, and I
don't know the road, and it will take.me
all night anyway"
The conductor was at last touched by
the lobbyists predicament and said:
Il can't carry you for nothing, but /
will advance the money to you if
Thunder and ightning!" exclaimed
the lobbyist, smiling all over; 1--WE got
a thousand dollars right here in my pock-
et," and he ran off to buy ticket.
When he came back he said:
Conductor. if you hadn't mentioned
money l should never have thought Of
paying my fare. l had forgotten that
I could trarel On anything but a pass"
His farervas 81. 10.-Washington Post.
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Foul LibeIs Upon the Sex.

It is one Of the long current and apparently
immortal SANDERS invented by the liar, man,
that women go to church to criticise the
dress of their sister worshipers and show of
their own. Tho Gossiper brands the state
ment as foul aspersion upon the gentle
sex. The nature of woman is essentially
reverential and religious Man reasons and
doubts, he finds inconsistencies between sci
ence and revealed religion, he demands that
he SEQ the nail prints and thrust bis finger
into the wounded side before he will believe.
Woman, 'the last to linger al the cross, the
first at the sepulcher," seizes with the hands
of love and Faith the eternal truth and holds
it fast, walking with trust mistaken amid the
darts which skepticism hurh at her religion,
carrying it with her through the valley of
the shadow" and holding it aloft as the waves
of the dark river encircie her.-Nashville
American
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Don't Forget Your Opera Glasses.


In connection with the Portland we'd
ding presents, a not unanlusing story was
current in London. A well known and
popular gentleman, on arriving at his
club from the theatre, discovered that
he had unwittingly annexed pair Of
costly opera glasses in dainty blue vel
vet case. He at once instructed the hall
porter to restore them to the owner, who
resided at a certain number in Grosvenor
crescent. The servant, however, left
them by mistake at the same number in
Grosvenor place, where they were re-
garded in the light of very handsome
and most appropriate wedding present
The owner became uneasy, but the por-
ter was sure he had made no mistake,
and the mystery remained unsolved I'M
til the lady in question accidentally saw
her glasses on the ledge of an opera box
occupied by ducal party. An explana-
ton then ensued, and the matter was
amicably settled without the interven-
ton of the lawyers.-London World.
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The trains Tor n1gn caste hlndoo women, ana
these have windows OF blue glass in the first
and second classes, which permit the women
to look out, but which prevent the men from
looking IN. These women como TO the depot
in closed chairs, and as they go to the train
they pull their shawls close about their faces,
though their ankles and calves, covered with
gold and silver bracelets, often show. In
some Of the cars the windows Of tho women's
compartments are SO fixed with shutters that
there can be no looking out, and in tho train
which carried me to DarJeeling there was one
car covered with canvas as thick as that of a
circus tent. This contained Hindoo women,
who, as they rode up the Himalaya noun
tains through the finest scenery in the world.
were thus shut in the stuffy darkness Of
this tent like car, and saw 20 more Of the
grandeur of the nature about them than they
would have seen bad they been tied up In SO
many leather bags and sent through the
mails.-Frank G.. Carpenter.
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No Familiarity Intended.

An American visiting English clubs ia
sure to be surprised at the number OF
titles he hears. Besides the nobility
nearly every one seems to have a special
handle to his name. Colonels are not
quite as numerous as in Kentucky or
Georgia. but for captains and majors we
can't hold candle to them. But it was
reserved for me, an American, to knock
them out" on rank in a most unexpected
manner. An old waiter-an ex-soldier-
at the Savage, called me Marshall several
times one evening, and was reprimanded
by one of the members for addressing a
guest by his first name "His namev'
exclaimed the old fellow, looking aston
shetland then turning said, "Why,
your honor, thought marshal his
rankr" General Grant prophesied that
! should be general. but the old waiter
went him one better. and the title stuck
to me for awhile s.1z,
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& Noble Woman.

Perhaps Clara Barton does not care to have
her name in print or to have her deeds herald
ed, but it is curious fact that for the las,
century those who have come to the front do
ing the gigantic work of relief in disaster and
reading III the miuistration to the suffering
have been women. Miss Nightingale and
Mrs Dix became immortal names, and Clara
Barton will live as long as American history
continus to be read. She appears always as
if by magic whenever any great disaster oc-
ours, and at once organizes relief That is,
she has genius for help She is now presi-
dent of a confederation of societies Of all civ
ihzed lands, called the Red Cross association,
for ''relief in war, famine, pestilence and
other national calaInities. st. Louis Globe
DamOcrat
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high Toned NIilliners.

The London Tablet publishes list Of some
English ladies Of birth and breeding who
have made a success out of millinery and
dressnaking Among the many successful
are Lady Granville Gordon (Mme. Lerre
Mrs PockEngton (Mme. LilD, whose beauti-
full workshop is in Grafton street, and who
takes admirable care Of the girls she employs;
Mrs Charles Kerr, whose name is over her
own worllroom in Duke street; Mrs Cooper
Oakley Dime. Isabel, the ''Girton" girl who
makes bonnets in New Bond street; Mrs
Labretouche and her daughters Dime. Vic
toire s. Coz who make both frocks and bon
nets over Atknsonh; Mrs. Menzies Mme
Marion), Mrs. Quincy and Mrs. Franklin
Cline. Vera), who devotes her dining room
to bonnets at "a Lower Belgrave street. This
iady's enterprise has naturally particular
interest for Catholic clients.
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A Useful Novelty,

Turing over the pages of song music is a
well known difficulty with accompanies, says
The Gatherer in Cassell's, and anything to
make this easier, without disfiguring the
sheets, is to be welcomed One way of
achieving this result is provided in some
pretty little tassels of various colors, which
ere attached to the edges of the sheets of
music by little slips of parchment, whosein
surface is gummed- The tassels are really
ornamental in their appearance, and may be
readily attached, so as to make turning
over" the simplest of simple tasks
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The Queen of Corea,

The queen of Corea is no fgurehead. She
belongs TO one of the greatest families of the
country, and it is an open secret that she has
at times her voice in councils of the king. She
has an establishment of her own inside the
palace grounds, and the king, the crown
prince and the queen have each their separ-
ate household. The queen dresses, of course,
in the Coreen costume She wears fine silks
ana has beautiful diamonds. She carries a
chabelaine watch which is diamond studded,
and she smokes American cigarettes by the
thousand-Detroit Free Press
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A PARTIAL CRITIC.

20 little girl, whose twenty years
Make you seem none the older
Since that spring day when loves glad tear
Babe Bashfulness be holder,
Tell me, and have you grown more wise,
Or any more discerning,
Or are you more inclined to prize
The benefits of learning?''
This to my love-a birthday rhyme
gave when she was twenty;
Her little head up to that time
I'd filed with books in plenty;
I'd offered Thackeray and Scott,
Shakespeare and some of Milton.
To show her in measure what
An education's built ON.
I'd offered Wordsworth-not too much
heats all, and bites of Shelley;
In Browning, whom l didn't touch,
feared oasus belli;
I'd offered Tennyson and some
OF Swinburne, that would go well
AS spice with my selections from
Longfellow, Holmes and Lowell.
And now, the fruitful year at end.
The ripe result sought FOR.
And wondered if her words would lend
The wisdom that thought for.
Alas!-yet confess it fell
Like ""aid" upon debtor
Said sh Il liked them very well;
Ike what you write better
p. Mederst in Harper's Magazine.
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ghe aaaha Daily gan aa1eduesday ornug gug 81, 1853.

pnea TO three OF rne little orphans erecrIvefY
prevented their ever realizing their loss, and
the other she kindly adopted and carried
homo with her. Reaching her home. she
found her husband, son and others assem-
bled there, anxiousiy speculasias as to what
could have been the result Of the encounter
they had failed to see ended. Standing be-
fore them, with the cub in her aims, she
scornfully surveyed them from head to foot
and exclaimed: towards, you have no In
dian blood in your veiIlsi''
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Making Pin MONEY.

There are various ways in which some
plucky girls have made pin money. OF
course, girl on farm has many ways OF
earning money. One beauty, who lives out
in Connecticut, hired herself ont TO her father
to spread and rake hay last year, aud as he
owns large grass farm, she cleared $50, a.
though he only paid her 81 a day. She
worked from until 8. and grew healthy al
it-New York Journal
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A SUMNER HOLIDAY.
East to the Mountains and the Ocean via tbs
Pennsyivania Line

Atlantic City, Cape May, Long Branch
and kindred resorts along the coast Of New
Jersey, Cresson and other well known bo-
tells of the Allegheny mountains pressu.
peculiar attractions for the wholesome en-
iovment of a summer outing The ocean
bathing and mountain air bring both
health and happiness 4 folder with al
excellent respective map showing the 10
cation OF the mountain and ocean resorts
OF the east ami giving brief description
thereof has been issued By the PenusyIva-
lila Line and q copy NAV be obtained upon
application 70 J. ". Chesbro, Assistant
General Passenger Agent, 81. Louis, No
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What Portland Gave His Bride.

The Duke of Portland gave these trifes tc
his bride: j pearl necklace, a diamond hoop
ring, g diamond and tucuois bracelet, god
bangle watch in red enamel. set in diamonds:
q moonstOne brooch, set in diamonds; pearl
and diamond brooch. dressing case end
travelling bag with gold mounts and initials
In diamonds, gold hunting watch, sable
floak, muf and bos.-Exchange
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Summer ExcurSiOs ~

"The Great Rock Island' have placed
on sale, at reduced rates. tourist tickets
to the various summer resorts east. west.
north and south, and all points in Europe
For routes, rates and information cali at
the city ticket Office, 100, corner Main and
Douglas, and at passenger depot corner
Mead and Douglas. Telephone No 199. :"
G. A. RUTHERFORD,
29tf Ticket Agent.
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Badly Addicted to The Railrcad Pas Habit.

a lobbyist at Springfield, Ills, who
had been railroad deadbead for many
years, wascaled to his home. about forty
miles from Chicago. by telegram an
nouncing the serious illness Of his wife.
When he reached Chicago it was late in
the evening. and there WAS but enc more
train to his town that night, As he was
waiting for the train time he noticed the
conductor was Z new man, whom he did
not know, and then for the first time be
called 10 mind the fact that he had left
bis annual pass over that rood 10 his rooU
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restricting Eindoo Women.

The Hindoo women travel as Lightly as the
nlen, but the two sexes are never put INTO the
SaTna There nrs al1.s<d c2rS al az
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Three hours the quickest 20 ST. Louis
Missouri Pacific railway. I2ftf
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RECORD BOOK.

County Superintendent Pence's class
ifacation register is the most COM
plete thing of the kind ever published.
John Mcdonald. editor OF the Western
School Journal, writes: Il examined
Superintendent Pence's Classification Reg
lister, and was much pleased with it. A
number of superintendent pronounce It
superior TO any other now before the peo-
pie, and they are of the opinion that the
Register should be placed in our county
schools. There is no reason why Kansas
money should be going to distant cities
when we have a better article in our own
state. Address r. =. MURDOCH,
Manager EAGLE
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For sale BIZ ]. ". Hawa & Co, Wichita
Elevator, telephone SA dis :.
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An CnrniStakable Hint.

Pm afraid that George is tritiing with
-FOUR affections, my dear, sald her mother
. He has been calling here nearly year and
hasn't proposed ret
To0 shouldn't blame him for that, ma.
said Oracle, fer you stay IN the room 50 long
every evening that he hasn't chance 20 SAY
anything private to me. The Epoch
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Rental Agencies

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Cars leave Douglas avenue every 20 min
utes from a. M. to p. N. Then every 10
minutes to 10 D. m. Car leaving Douglas
avenue at a. m. and every second car
after goes to Alamo. 144tf
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