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NO. MOTHER ISN'T HANDSOME.

No. mother isn't handsohse-that is, in form
and features
Because she's stopped and wrinkied up and
tocthaess and so gray;
She never was cut cpt 20 shine with dazzlin
handbook creatures,
Just gotten up, expressly, for = tsihiners
ei=elay.
D. no, she isn't handsome, inst kind o glancin'
AT her,
Because her cheeks are sunlsen, AID she's
angular and lean;
Her hands 1r@ brown and skinny, still TO me
those things Grvrs's matter,
bow to her and love her - NO subject can
his queen.
Not handsome, but beauty is in hor soul a.
SeGHfin',
That shines thfouFI and Eliminates her
wrinkled. sun bToSHed face,
And from her very bein' q goodness seems a
streamin
And foldin' round and brightnin' tho Ssist
old home place.
she's oGs - them old-fashioned and motherly
old %oi'eni
With words OF balm - esiiead drippin' from
+. their lips,
and whose herb tea the fev'rish hssd shafts
achin' and a swimmin',
Can ease without the doctor MAXIM MS *
pensive trips.
a doin' all the housewors for years, she hsin't
nimble
"A folks that never do thing but play and
read and rock;
But yet she does the cookin'. uses scissors.
thread and thimble.
And makes her needles jingle when she heels
or toes a sock.
a person. just 10 see her, 1 s'pose would hardly
take her
To be more than the av'rage run, bat know
her as dc,
I'll bet You when she leaves US, the one She
serves will make her
Tie handsomest Of angels and the leader OF
fem, 90.
--wiu \. Davis, in Ohio Farmer.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE British steamer Dunsmurry was
struck by tornado off the coast of
Halifax, y. =, sinking the vessel and
drowning eight of the crew.
THE marriage of Miss Mary Lincoln,
daughter Of United States Minister
Robert T. Lincoln, TO Charles B. Isham,
of Chicago, took place in London.
4 SCHOONER was wrecked on the
reefs near the Hawaiian islands and
twelve persons were drowned.
IT was announced that the prince of
Wales and Emperor William of Ger
many would tend the worlds fair at
Chicago.
FIRE destroyed the Streele stables at
Ayr Scotland, and nine valuable race
horses persisted in the flames.
THE twenty-first anniversary of the
battle of Sedan was celebrated through
out Germany.
ALL the women removed their COR
sets and burned them at Free Metho-
dist meeting in Kingston, Oat., saying
that they would die rs God made
them
EMIGRANrs from the United King
dom 10 America during the last eight
months numb ered 100, O5l, an increase OF
3 QUO over the Ime period of 1899. OF
these SIS were from Ireland.
BRIG. G. ". WED, late of Brookline,
Mass. died at Medellin, Columbia,
South America
A MOTION of want of confidence in
the Canadian government was defeated
in the parliament by a vote of l0S to 81.
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a good deal of pride, and this speech of
Jill reused both. But he repented the
next minute.
TRY to be reasonable, Jill" he said
81 do love You as much as ever, and
am doing all I can for you, possibly. /
joined that lodge-it is not a club,
nothing like one-simply to make pro-
vision for you in ease / should die be-
fore have anything else to leave you.
! am very busy, and the evening is tue
only time / have to read the papers;
and then. Jill, you ought % know that
the honeymoon can't last always. and
that when two people have been mar
ried as long as we have they naturally
become more quiet and undemonstra-
tive in their affection. But ! love you
Just as well. better if anything, and 50
won't you try TO look at things in their
right light, and not be fearful and com
planning any mOre?"
..Ye-es." said Jill, but it was a very
sad, sober sort of a yes, and long after
Jack was asleep that night the poor
little wife efed some really bitter
tears into her pillow because sAe could
never be petted bride any more, but
was just a plain. common, married
woman like anyone else.
After awhile fresh trouble came.
The house for which Jack worked
failed, and Ice lost his position and was
obliged to take a les ~smunerative
one. He worked hard. coming home
nights after their usual dinner hour,
tired and discouraged; and, getting no
help nor sympathy from Jill, grew
moody and fretful. and the climax of it
all WIS reached when he found their
room empty one night with this note
IRON Jill lying on the table:
DEAR JACK:-Tve thought ard thought, and
SOW I'm awfully sorry, has think We made
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AN OUTLAW KILLED.
Harmon Murray. Who Has shot Seven
Men in Many Months, Is Himself

shot.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Sept. 5.-Har-
mon Murray, the notorious colored out
law, who has defied the authorities for
nearly a year and terrorized wide
section of country, was killed about
daylight Friday morning by Hardy
Early, a eolored lad of Il. The killing
occurred in a swamp near Archer. Fla
Murray called on Early about o'clock
and ordered him TO GO with him to
Archer, where he said he was going to
kill some crackers and then leave
Alachua county. Early did not want
to go and said he had no gun, but Muir
ray took Early to the latter's brothers
house and made him produce double
barreled shotgun. Both barrels were
loaded with buclSshot and Early put in
fifteen more in one barrel. The two
then started toward Archer, having to
pass through a swamp or the way.
When they got into the swamp Early
pretended he did not know this trail
ana asked Murray to lead Murray took
the lead and Immediately Early poured
the contents of both barrels into the
back of Murray's head. killing him in
stantly Early then notified the people
at Archer and crowd went to the
spot, brought the corpse to town
and afterwards sent il to Gainesville.
The excitement there was intense. as
several lynchings of Murray's con-
federates have occurred in that vicini-
u. Larry was the hero Of the hour and
was mounted on a box. from which he
made a speech describing the affair.
lie viii get sl.S00 in rewards. Murray
had killed seven men within the last
few months and was a. fearless as ne
was blocdthirSty.
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Just Like a Man.

''Well. madam says the head of tho
house, who had apparently got out of
bed on the wrong side. what have YOU
got for breakfast this morning? Boiled
eggs. Ell? Seems to me you never have
anything but boiled eggs Boiled Ere
busl And what else, madam, may
ask?''
Mutton chops, my dear" says the
wife, meekly.
Mutton chops" echoes the husband.
bursting into a peal of sarlonic laugh
ter ''Mutton chops! l could have
guessed it. by the living jingo, madam,
if ever eat another meal inside of this
house" and jamming on his hat aad
slamming the door the aggrieved man
bounds down the stairs and betalxe5
himself to the restaurant
''What1l You have. sir?'' says the
waiter, politely handing him the bill of
fare.
''Ah!'' says the guest having glanced
over it. Let me see. Bring me two
boiled eggs and mutton chop. Jury.
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A westerner at one of the prominent
uptown hotels was feeling restless and
i'll one hot evening and rang for doc
tor. The latter was in the same house.
He called at his patients room and
the case as simple insomnia,
aud gave q couple of powders and re-
tired The doctor called the next morn
ing to see how the patient lwhom he
correctly judged To be man of meansD
was getting on. During the day he
saw him incidentally three or four
times. The bill was twenty-five dol
lars. Five dollars a visit from doctor
living on the same floor with him in
the same house was something that
nearly caused the westerner to faint
But the bill had one effect it made him
well man, he says. He wouldn't risk
getting another such.-N. Y. Herald.
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in love with each other; am rnchneo
to the latter idea.
They were introduced; they were
both young, both heart free, both as
attractive as the average, and their
two names, Jack and Jill, flashed
through their respective minds, coupled
with the thought OF a certain future
possibility. Afterwards, exchanging
loving condolences, each declared that
they had fallen in love at first sight.
The natural consequence followed
They were married and then went To
live in the city where jack was book
keeper in a mercantile house. Jack
had a room in a comfortable lodging
house. and there he took Jill, not be
ing able vet 10 provide a house for her
She had breakfast and luncheon in her
room, going out somewhere for dinner
with Jack in the evening, and was as
happy a bride as ever found the task OF
loving. honoring and obeying an easy
one. The title Mrs. Townsend" had
a remarkably sweet and uncommon
sound to her ears. and partly uncon-
sciously, and a good deal with pleased
consciousness of it, the state of matri-
mony imbued her with great sense of
dignity and Importance which Jack
laughed at, and loved her more for in
the same breath.
In fact he did love her very much in
deed He was young and ardent, and
to him Jill was the embodiment OF
everything that was sweet and wom-
anly and lovable. and the fact that he
had come II be the lawful owner and
master of her was source of wonder
as well as delight to him.
And on her part Jill liked this being
owned and mastered. more particular
" as, with all his mastering, Jack
pitted and babied her to her heart 5
content. and let her have her own way
in most things.
So for a few months Jill was pro-
foundry happy. and from the heights
to which she had attained felt sort
of divine pity for girls who had no
husbands: at the end OF that time she
began to wonder if marriage wasn't a
failure, and to feel Il less divine,
though more real and substantial pity
for herself.
Jack was so different. lIe read
newspapers now in the evening in
stead of holding her on his knee and
talking to- and carcssing her. And he
had Joined lodge which Jill would
have it was club, and which kept
him out one evening each week And
then he didn't always notice if she had
on new neck ribbon any more, or if
her hair was arranged differently, and
sometimes he even spoke to her just in
a commonplace tone like he would to
anybody. In fact Mrs. Jill had no end
of grievances, and Jack often found
her dissolved in tears, or at least, if
not exactly in that liquid state. with
red eyes and a suspiciously swollen
nasal append age.
You don't love me any more. She
scbbed to him one day. you read
newspapers and 60 - clubs and don't
be kind to me, and / wish / wasn't
married to you, and
"'Tis very unfortunate" interrupted
Jack He had rather bad temper and
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any wedding ring. (She had hid it in
the very bottom of Jacks collar box
when she left himl. and he would go
TO che park alone. and she woulGn : be-
with him. and he would eat all the 1cs
cream. and that sewing machine did go
Internationally hard.
Mr.. Townsend came home from his
work that night tired out and discouI'-
aged, and, opening the door OF his
room. faced Jill, who was holding out
two eager, shalIy hands to him, and
saving in a choking kind of voice, try
ing hard to get it all out before the
tears and sobs which were clamoring
for audience should rise up in body
and silence her:
Jack. I've come back to you, and
please | want to be reasonable, and
look at things in the right kind of light,
and YOU can 90 to lodges and read
newspapers: and you needn't be demon
strative anv more. ! was SO tired
wanted u-and-Jaclzr'
The tears had an undisputed right to
the floor by this time, by reason of
their overwhelming majority. but that
portion of Jacks coat directly over his
heart absorbed them.
VIRGINIA NJ. HAYWARD.
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wer totally destroyed by FIRE, inelud.
several bridges nearly ready for ship
ment, throwing $50 men out of en-
ploymenk
FRANK DANFoRrH, wife murderer,
was hanged at Augusta. Ga, ard VII
liam Bulling. another wife murderer,
paid the penalty of his crime at Savan-
nah. Mo. Shortly before his eSecrtion
Bulling attempted seif-destfuction by
shooting himself twice in the breast
with a revolver which was said to have
been given him by his spiritual adviser.
EXPERT accountants who examined
the books of Martin Mower, president
of the St. Croix boom corporation at
Stiilwater, Mimi. who died some time
since, found that he was short S26,-
Tolls in his accounts.
THE valuation of the famous trotter,
AxtelL was fixed by the tax commits
sioner of indianapolis at $500 The
horse was sold in Chicago recently for
Sos. 900.
UNITED STATES cavalry began to
drive intruders from the Iowa and Sac
and Fox reservations
j. L. DUNHAM (colored). of Ken
lucky, at present United States consul
at San Domingo, was appointed by the
president minister resident and consul
general to Iayti
HEAVY frosts on the night of the Sd
destroyed the corn crops in Wisconsin
and Minnesota.
THE American fat and live stock
show will be held in the exposition
building in Chicago November ii-gi,
inelusivs. The aggregate premiums
would he limited to SlO,o0J.
HARRisoS MURRAY, a colored out
law. was shot and killed near Archer;
Fla. by Hardy Early, a negro lad II
years old
Thz death of capt. James Franklin,
a noted horse breeder, occurred at Gal
latin, T,na., aged - years.
ASIAN yacht owned by J. Eggles-
ton. o. Il Jston, and valued at 500. O0d
was wrecked on the rocks off the New
fonndland eoas
The assistant principal of the Engle-
wood high school AZ Chicago, o. o.
Lyon, was killed by a Chicago & West
ern Indiana train while crossing the
tracks
Four sold 'ers-CCrporul 0fferson, J.
O'Keefe, j. Brown and Patrick Hogan
belonging to Company II. Fourth in
fantry. were drowned while ont boat
ing on Lake Occur dAlene, near
Spokane Falls Wash
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Tho News ConIsnse1

j. b. Taft. ex-county clerk and post
master at Chippewa Falls, died, aged
65 years.
Willie Buckholz, aged 10, of James
vile, fell from joist in shed while
hanging tobacco, and his skull was
fractured and he died two hours later.
Cumberland business men have sub
5cribed So, 600 as an inducement to the
proposed congregational institution to
locate at that place.
James Smith, of Ashland, was held
up by two colored women in Chicago
and robbed of 5000 in cash.
Charley White Deer and Charley De-
corah. two w nnebago Indians from
the vicinity of Black River Falls, were
arrested charged with horse stealing.
j. A. Wagner, bookkeeper and butch
err. employed by +. Mende, prominent
butcher at Eau Claire, was wanted on
the charge of embezzlement.
Mrs. John Strauch, a resident of
Manitowoc, was drowned by falling
into the river when the draw of the
bridge was open.
Bv means of cold storage the Edger'
ton Creamery Company realized an adj
vance of two cents pound ON twelve
tons of butter recently forwarded to
Boston The company had over one
hundred thousand dozen of eggs in
store.
Charles Stangel, who had been i'll
Jail at Chippewa Falls since last May
charged with burning several buildings
in the town of Edison, was adjudged
insane by County Judge j. A. Ander-
son and taken to the asylum.
DIR. w. A. McCorn, of Plymouth. has
been appointed physician in the state
prison at Waupun.
Bronson, Draper 81 Co, bankers OF
Mazomanie, made an assignment, with
liabilities of S3l, 600; assets, $4,000.
Moritz Meissner, wholesale dealer in
boots and shoes at Milwaukee, made
an assignment with assets of $50,
The amount of liabilities was believed
to exceed the assets.
O. r. Swaziland, a prominent real
estssS man of West Superior, fell dead
in the rotunda of the Hotel Tower. lie
was sitting in chair reading paper
when he suddenly fell on the floor.
i ne remains VI MIS-. ptDAE aAAiNi
were found in a swamp at Neilsville
She was temporarily insane and hac
wandered away.
An actor named G. W. Sparks fell
four stories through an elevator shat
at Beloit, but would survive his injur
les.
NJ. d. Waters. aged g., an old resi-
dent of Appleton. was found dead II
bed of heart failure.
Milwaukee millers were paying NV
cents per busheI more than the mar
lzet price in Minneapolis for northern
spring wheat About 10000 bushels
of wheat were required daily.
The Union Mining Company at Plum
mer discovered vein of ore on it
property which was said to be yer.
valuable.
w. II. Mead. of Eau Claire. con
| duetor on the Omaha, died at Chicago
| Deceased was the conductor on tn
| first train which ran into Eau Clair
over the old Wisconsin Central % year
| ago.
Nineteen boys and girls of the Oneio
| Indian reservation were passed upo
by the examining physician OF Depes'
| as to their physic condition, and the
started for the Indian school at CaI
| Isle, Pa. to take a five-year course Q
| instruction at government expense
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RAND Transit.

Old Bob Keyworth and Gilhooly were
discussing scientific topics few days
ago.
Light travels at the rate of twenty
Thousand miles minute" remarked
Gilhooly.
81 know better. When | was boy
at school | remember very 5ell that
the teacher told me light Travelled ar
the rate of six Thousand miles a minute.
and know he was not the kind of =
man to tell lie about a thing OF thai
kind. ="
"He diln't tell lie. At that time.
forty or fifty years ago. when travelling
facilities were slow, six Thousand miles
a minute was very fast time. but in
these days of rapid transit, twenty thou
sand miles a minute is nothing. Tex
as Siftings.
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Al Int one saved.

SosToS, Sept 5-The steam yacht
Albatross, owned by J. Eggleston. has
been wrecked on the rocSs on Gull is
land near the Foundland coast and
is total loss. She was valued It
$780, 600. There was "A large party OF
guests on board, and all were landed
safely except DR. j. ID. Eggles-
ton, the only son of the
owner, who is believed to have been
drowned. After boat load of guests
had put off from land. young Eggles-
ton, thinking the boat was about to
founder, jumped into the sea with the
intention of swimming ashore. He has
not been seen since.
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THE EAST.

J. 4. CHAMBERS, a window glass
manufacturer. of Pittsburgh. Pa. as
signed, with liabilities exceeding $780,
600
JAMES PATTON and his young son
We're burned To death in a fire which
destroyed their home in Johnstown.
Pa
JACOB RANEY. dealer in horses at
MyerSiown, Pa. failed for about sa5o.-
600.
SUSAN TINS fired shotgun Mt two
strange men who had entered her
home at Monmouth. Pa. but missed
them both and fatally hurt her little
brother.
RICHARD NASH, a Reading railroad
engineer, was decapitated by some OBJ
struction beside the track while pass
ing through Oreville, Pa, with his head
out of his cab window
GEORGE L. WoODs. aged 81 years.
became entangled in the mashes Of a
balloon while il was making an ascent
at Oswego. y. Y. and fell distance of
100 feet. alighting on his head. Ten
Thousand people Witnessed his terrible
death
FRANK SCoTIELD. residing near Cold
Spring, y. Y. shot ard killed his
father and brother while quarreling
over pickle crops.
J. w BRUCE was nominated for gov
ernor at Albany, y. Y. by the New
York prohibitiOnists The resolutions
declare against national banks and
favor tariff for revenue only.
GEORGE ELLIS was drowned while
bathing in Lake Gardner. Mass. James
Higgins. a bystander, while attempt
ing to save the boy, was also drowned.
AT Sodus. y. Y, Rev. J. II. Newton
was struck on the head by falling
tent pole at the Free Methodist camp
meeting and instantly killed.
DEMOCRATS OF Pennsylvania in state
convention nominated Robert f.
Wright, of Lehigh county. for auditor
general and a. l.. Tilden FOR treasurer
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The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND NAH.
ERoM WAshlnaroN.

THE exact population of the United
States was said by superintendent
Porter to be o., 822, 25e.
TnE statement of the public debt
shows that the decrease ~ the bonded
debt during the month Of August
amounted 70 81, ,2i6. Total cash 81
the treasury. sos, 6O2,S47
OFFICIAL notice was given by the
department. Of agriculture that the
order prohibiting the importation Of
hog products into Germany has been
removed.
A CENSUS bureau bulletin showed
that there We're A, 233 persons confined
in the penitentiaries of this country
TIE business failures in the United
States during the seven DAYS ended on
the 9Th numbered ELI, against go
the preceding week and 2O3 for the cor
responding week last year.
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GERMANY AND OUR PORK.
Reciprocity Has Nothing to DO with the
Removal OF the Embargo.

CAPE MAY, y. j., Sept. 5.-The ne
gotiations which ended with the with
drawal of the prohibition against the
importation of American pork into
Germany were concluded at Saratoga
and not at Cape May Point The
conclusion was reached while the
president was at Saratoga by John
w. foster, representing the United
States government, and Count Won
Mum, charge d'affaires, representing
the German government and was APP
proved by the president The removal
of the pork restriction has nothing 10
do with any question of reciprocity,
but is based upon the acceptance by
the German government of the inspec-
tion of imported meats 10y this govern
ment under the law Of the last congress.
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CHARLES SNYDER, of Miles City, Mont.
stabbed and killed Lille Dunkley, the
9th, because she refused to marry him.
GERMANY has undertaken to protect
the Italians in Chilli
OWiNG to complications over the pas
Sage of Russian steamers through the
Dardanelles, England has concluded to
increase her fleet in the Mediterranean.
GEORGE OFT, at Pittsburg. Pa, the
9th, fatally stabbed his brother John
with penknife.
The car shops of the Grand Trunk
railway at Port Huron. Mich, were de-
stroycd by fire the 9Th. Loss 500, 600.
THE Colorcd Alliance of the Southern
States, numbering six hundred thous-
and has decided to strike unless they
are paid a dollar per hundred pounds
and board for picking cotton.
Ar Echo lake, Mich, near Sault ste.
Marie on the 9th, an eagle captured a
baby of John Cawadje, a half-breed,
and carried it up into the air to the
height of forty feet and then dropped
it. The fall killed the child and the
eagle was shot by the father.
Ar Wheeling, w. Va, the 9th, Ed
ward ellis, nine years old, was at
tackled by six huge mastiffs and bitten
so that he cannot recover. Five of the
dogs were shot before he was rescued.
His eyes, ears and nose were literally
bitten out, and his body has no fewer
than sixty wounds. The dogs that
were killed were valued at 500 each.
THREE convicts in the prison at
Frankfort, KY, engaged in fight the
9th, the result being that all of them
received fatal wounds.
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Monder. of ELECTRICITY.

A young man took refuge in a thun-
der-storm at Warren, o., the other day,
under large maple tree. Lightning
struck the tree and killed the man
When his clothes were removed perfect
images of the branches, boughs and
leaves of the tree were found pictured
upon his breast and other parts of his
body with the minuteness OF photo
graph. One of the witnesses OF TINS
surprising phenomenon inquiries: If
electricity will transmit such impress
sions thirty feet upon no more sensi-
tive surface than the human skin, why
NAV il not do it for an indefinite dis
iance2-Detroit Free Press.