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A PARROTS MEMORY.
Ono That Recalled n Face After Many
Ycarg Had Eiapsed.

Years Had Elapsed.
"Ten years ago young married lady
Mrs Robins, from New Orleans, made
quite visit at our house, says writer
in the st. Louis Globe Democrat. "She
brought with her parrot named Pc
dro, and it was n sight the way that
parrot made himself at home. Our
children were all at home then-the
youngest eight years old and the oldest
sixteen. Three of them are married
now and one is dead. 1t was poor little
Quita that the parrot took such q fancy
for on that visit, and before the first
day was out he was calling: 'Quita! Oh,
Quitar till You couldn't have told him
from one of the family. He began
calling me papa right away in the
most affectionate manner, and he had a
funny way of going downstairs, hold
ing on with his beall at every step and
letting himself down, shouting at every
breath: oh, keziah, Keziah! Don't
you hear? Pedro wants his dinnerH
Keziah was our servant then, you see.
Well, the other day Mrs. Robins came
again, and brought Pedro. He was
taken upstairs to the hall, and then, at
Mrs. Robins request, I uncovered the
cage myself wasn't expecting any
thing of the kind, and tell you came
mighty near fainting when that bird
I stretched his head up, turnod it to one
side, looked at me critically a minute,
and exclaimed: 'Uowdy, papa! Mrs.
Robins has had no children, under
stand. No, that parrot remembered
me! felt SO curious to know what he
would do that turned him out and fol-
lowed him. He made straight for the
children's old room, and when opened
it he went in and walked all about, evil
IDENTIFY looking for something. I thought
knew what was coming, and pretty
soon it came. 'Quitar he called, where
Is Quita?' Maybe you think that didn't
| break my heart almost! He is there
yet, and he calls her every day. But
the way he tumblcs down that stair
case, calling for Keziah! That would
make you laugh! He doesn't take
kindly to our new servant girl, and evi-
IDENTIFY considers her an interloper.
tell you that parrot remembers.
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Knew Its Value.

A Cedar Rapids (Ia-l man, who owns
q valuable horse, conceived the idea of
testing human nature the other day.
Accordingly, he hung placard upon
the horse, which was tied in front Of his
Office, announcing that the entire out
fit must be sold for thirty dollars. Soon
there was O procession Of experts look
ing at the teeth of that poor horse and
lifting his feet with most knowing
air, each one in turn announcing that the
price was much too high. It was great
object lesson, and no one had discovered
that a FIVE hundred-dollar outfitwas be-
ing offered for thirty dollars when the
owner came out and drove away.
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The Ladies' Home Journal.

Mrs. Gladstone, the wife of the famous
British statesman, in the first OF her art
icles, "Hints From a Mothers Life,"
gives much valuable advice in the April
Ladies' Home Journal, which comes
promptly 10 its hundreds of thousands OF
readers in dainty Easter cover of pink.
The magazine opens with full page IL
lustration by w. Hamilton Gibson of an
exquisite poem by Eugene Field, entitled
1.-The Singing in Gods Acre." The poem
only serves to intensity interest in Mr.
John Ballantyne's delightful sketch,
with photograph OF the poets wife, in
the series of unknown Wives of Well
Known Men," Mrs. Reginald de Koyep,
daughter of Senator Farwell, follows
with timely article on "Social Life in
Chicago" Mrs. de Koven writes enter.
tainingly upon subject which, as the
daughter of millionaire senator, and
wife of one of the most talented OF the
younger men of her native city, she has
had special facilities for studying.
Ethel Mackenzie McKenna contributes
sketch, with portrait, of Miss Helen
Gladstone, and Miss Bradley tho second
oi her interesting papers on "The Queens
of Westminster Abbey" Frederick
Dolman writes of visit to Fanny Kem-
BILE, the woman whom more than half
q century ago was known to the world
over as poet, actress, dramatist and
critic, and who now in her English home
is spending her declining days almost
by the world forgotten. Grace Green
wood writes of "When Was Girl :"
Ella Wheeler Wilcox of "The Girl Who
Brags," and Wolstan Dixey OF Mistaken
Literary Success" Mrs. Beecher con-
tinues her "reminiscences of her gifted
husband, and DR.. Talmage, Mrs. Boz
tome, Robert j. Burdette and Ru h Ash
more write OF Easter. Foster Coates
talks to boys about training birds and
animals H. II. Battles of "Flowers ia
Our Homes" and Palmer Cox gives u
page OF his inimitable Brownies. Mrs.
Mallon has several illustrated Easter
fashion articles, and Eben Rexford en-
unusal amount OF floral matter. The
serial story, "a Brief Prelude" il
brought to an effective ending, and
Maude Haywood contributes special
illustrated article on the Baltimore
Society of Decorative Art" The JournaFs
sixteen editors fill their departments
with all that is instructive and enter
tanning, and the entire magazine is u
thing of beauty and excellence. This
Easter number, with new cover, new
features, admirable illustrations, and at.
tractive supplement, is worth many
times its moderate price OF ten cents.
The Ladies' Home Journal is published by
The Curtis Publishing Company of
Philadelphia for Ten Cents per number
and One Dollar per year.
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Wild sheep.

About thirty years ago Moses Starl-
ing and others put two small flocks Of
sheep on Monhsgan, a bleak and rocky
island of the entrance of Penobscot
bay, believing that sheep could take
care Of themselves almost anywhere.
Since then the focks have increased to
an aggregate of two hundred and fifty
head. running wild and receiving no at
tention whatever. Once q year men
have gone to the island, driven the
sheep into pen, and shearcd them and
marked the lambs. The sheep are now
owned by half dozen persons, some of
whom have not seen the stock for
twenty years.
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FINDING HIS BRIDE.
A Quaint Custom That Prevails In Por-
a ttons of Switzerland.

A Quaint Custom That Prevails in Por-
tlons of Switzerland.
The custom of throwing obstacles in
the pathway of the bridegroom, as a
prelude to the marriage ceremony, is
of very ancient origin, says the Youths
Companion. Mythology has its tales of
suitors whose courage and skill were
tested before they were allowed to take
their brides; in certain remote dis
tricts, even in civilized lands, some
form Of such usages still exists. Says
the author of ''The Swiss Republic:"
In one part Of the Canton of Ticino, a
very quaint marriage ceremony pre-
walls. The bridegroom dresses In his
Sunday best" and, accompanied by as
many friends and relatives as he can
muster for the fete. goes to claim his
bride.
Finding the door locked, he demands
admittauce; the inmates ask him his
business, and in reply he solicits the
hand of his chosen maiden.
If his answer be deemed satisfactory,
he is successfully introduced to a num-
ber of matrons and maids, some per.
haps deformed, and others old and
ugly. Then he is presented to some
large dolls, all of which he rejects
with scorn, amid general merriment
The bcwildered bridegroom, whose im
petuosity and temper are now sorely
tried, is then informed that his lady
love is absent, and invited in to see fol
himself.
He rushes into the house, and
searches from room to room, until he
finds her in her bridal dress, ready te
go to church. Then are his troubles
over, and his state as benedict as
Surod
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School Examiners.

yVyHE Board OF School Examiners OF High.
tfons OF Applicants for Certificates will take
place in the Hillsboro Main street school
building on the drst Saturday OF every
month. and on the third Saturday of Janu.
ary. February, March, April, August end
September. The Examination fee prescribed
by law ~ so cents.
By ordef'of the Board:
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der is an electrician, md he met Miss Ham
link in her fathers house in Washington
about a year ago. The two became en-
gagged, and Schneider procured "A marriage
license. Taking his fiancee for n drive, he
CON PEELED her by threats to marry him
The marriage was not known to the Lr1des
parents for three months, Mt the end OF
which time they induced Schneider to make
their house his home. He soon began to Ill
treat his wife. and was finally turned out
OF the house by her father. Schneider
wrote to his wife asking her to return TO
him. and MS she refused he first shot her
brother and then herself when he met them
on the street. His defense will be insanity
and self defense.
On the night of the same day Mrs. Eliza
beth Senior, an old woman who lived in
Millburu, N. j., was killed in the house in
which she and her husband lived. Joseph
Senior was a night Waterman, Int during
the day he stuffed birds, mended clocks
and did other little jobs. His wife ran the
store, in which she sold candy as well rs
the birds, and she was the treasurer of the
old couple. In the neighborhood she had
the reputation OF being well of, and It was
believed she always had money in the
house When her husband came home on
Monday morning he found her dead, there
being a dozen cuts and stabs in the body,
''FA N1S OoR "Ao 49,, 1S1eN
a German laborer, has been arrested and
charged with the crime, and the detectives
are rapidly piling up very strong evidence
against him.
Arthur Stocker, a young carpenter of
Jersey City, shot and instantly killed his
wife on Jan. %. He also shot and wound
ed his sister-in-law, Mary Tierney. The
two women went to the ball given by the
John L. Dunno association, and when they
came home the two men with them re-
manned in the house until the afternoon.
Stocker had been a stranger to his wife for
a long time, as her conduct was not such
MS he approved Of. At the time OF the
tragedy the women were drinking and ca
rousing with the two men, and Stocker
ordered the latter to go. They refused.
He ordered his wife TO leave them, and
when she declined he left the room, but re-
turned "A few moments afterward with his
revolver and opened fire. The sympathy of
the people of Jersey City is with Stocker in
this case.
celebrated murders Of women during tho
, 1892-02-25

the guests. Besides the regular habitues,
business men and others, all sorts Of peo-
pie came at all hours, and the names on
the register do not always correspond with
the real names of those in the house.
John Smith and wife" of Oshkosh or In
d~ianapolis, may ave escaped and yet be
very careful not to report in person.
1t is certain also that no fire of recent
times has been attended with more daring
rescues. Men and women were taken out
of the upper windows by fremen and
others in the very teeth of flame and
smoke. Byron Stokes hung his body across
the cornice of an adjacent building and
head downward, with -four men holding
his legs, reached into a window, pulled
out and lifted to the ROO by him one
woman and two men, one of whom weighed
240 pounds. Between the two buildings
was a narrow passage and the distance
was ninety feet to the stone pavement be
1nru
, 1892-02-25

last few years. One of the best known was
that OF Mrs. Hull, murdered by n negro
named Chastine Cox. Mrs. Hull lived in
New York city and was quite old. Cox
got into the house one night for the pur-
pose OF committing burglary. He walked
Mrs. Hull up and, to save himself, killed
her. For about ten days the case was q
perfect mystery until Cox was caught in
Boston and confessed the crime. He was
brought to New York, tried and hanged.
In 1881 the body Of Jennie Kramer, n
girl in Connecticut, was found by some
men working on the shore. 1t was plain
she had been murdered, and it was ascer-
tanned that she had been associating with
n woman of bad character named Blanche
Douglass. Two young men by the name
OF Malley were suspected of having had a
hand in the crime, but nothing was ever
proved, and to this day the name of the
murderer is unknown,
A celebrated case in northern New York
was the murder of Mrs. Billings by her hns-
band. Mrs. Billings was known as one of
the most terrible of viragos. and her fam
lily hated her. One day as she was sitting
in the dining room a shot was fired and she
fell over dead. Her daughter Jennie was
the principle witness in the case, and ow-
ing to the peculiar markings on the rubber
boots worn by the murderer, the crime was
" a. ae'chNt o1E'N INNINGS y
banker in Northumberland, Saratoga
county. 1t was during this prosecution
that the state proved a bullet would pass
through "A pane of glass and leave "A hole
smaller han itself owing to the elasticity
of the glass.
One OF the most brutal murders ever
committed was that OF old Mary Brown,
commonly called Shakespeare" by Ben
Ali, or "Frenchy." 1t occurred in a mis-
cradle boarding house near the water front
Of New York city, and the victim was cut
and slashed In the most horrible way. The
case was curious owing to the fact that the
testimony was wholly of n scientific ma
ture. In the dirt under the nails of the
accused and in the blood stains on his
clothing tyrosine and epithelial cells were
found, and as these can be got together
only in the small intestines of the body
the inference that Ben Ais hands had
made the fearful cuts in the victim was
irresistible, The microscopes found the
same things in the blood stains on the
floor of the room where the body lay. Ben
Ali was sent to prison for life
, 1892-02-25
HOTEL HORRORS.

Notable Disasters of This Kind In tho
United States
Another hotel horror. Three hundred
persons in danger. Only one hundred yet
accounted for" Such was the first dis
patch that went over the country about
the burning of the Hotel Royal, a five story
structure at the corner OF Fortieth street
and Sixth venue, New York. In a few
hour came the usual explanation, The
structure was a regular death trap; the
elevator shaft was heavily lined with wood,
and the fire rushed up it from basement to
roof in two or three minutes. In ten min
utes the shaft and all that Joined it was a
roaring mass of flames"
1t is generally the wooden lined elevator
shaft that insures swift destruction, but
there is a grim satisfaction in knowing
, 1892-02-25
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Mr.. Frank Huffman, a young man OF
Burlington, Ohio, states that he had been
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was not able to get around. They pro-
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, 1892-02-25
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, 1892-02-25

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, 1892-02-25

IN ANN AhOh IL MINI
that most OF the hotels that used it are
now burned. The Royal hotel was OF such
fimsy construction that the whole interior
and one wall collapsed even before the fire
had enveloped half the building. The
floors began to fall in before all the guests
were aroused. The city fire chief says,
"The hotel was only a row of cheaply con-
structed fat houses, Joined together as the
business grew and with holes knocked
through and fixed up for DOORS"
When the Lindell hotel at St. Louis, hen
the largest and finest in the country, if
not in the world, was burned, March 80,
1867, there was a cry OF relief because the
fire began when all the guests were awake
and in condition to escape. Only the loss
of property was regarded. But it proved
to be the beginning of an era of hotel burn
ing in the United States, which reached a
sort of horrible maximum in 1875. In that
year eleven large hotels were burned, and
still the loss of life was small. At 8 n. m
of Jan. IL, 1888, in the city of Milwaukee,
came the great hotel horror OF this age
the destruction of tho Newhall house.
The weather was SO cold that the water
froze as it was thrown on the fire, and
guests clinging to window stills were chilled
through and lost their grasp. At least 1876
lives were lost. The Fifth Avenue hotel
of New York city was partially burned on
Dec. IL, 1872, and after the fire was put out
and the excitement over it was discovered
that ten servant girls had been smothered
in the dormitory. The burning of the
Southern hotel at st. Louis in April, 1887,
n great shock to the country, as it sell
dom contained less than 400 guests; but it
was proved that all escaped but fifteen.
The exact number lost in this last New
York horror can never be known owing to
the extremely miscellaneous character of
, 1892-02-25
Died from Seeing Murder.

TIT shocking tragedy in Jersey City, in
which Arthur Stocker killed his wife and
shot his sister-in-law. has had another fatal
consequence. Mrs De Mora, a music
teacher. was passing through the street
when Stocker ran after his wife and killed
her. Mrs. De Mora became very much
frightened and ran into a neighboring
store, where she tainted. After the use Of
restoratives she was able to walk nome.
The next day Mrs. De Mora died from in
ternal hemorrhage caused by the nervous
shock from fright.
, 1892-02-25

WARD WATERBURY,. CHAs. E. WATERBURY.
and part of the next night in a lonely
house, from which the occupants were
temporarily absent. Then, as it appears,
the hearts Of two of them relented. They
took the boy to a neighboring house at
2 O'Clock in the morning and directed him
to knock. The occupants recognized and
took him home. In the meantime the
mother OF one of the abductors had told
her fears that something was wrong and
a young mar had stated that he had been
importuned to go in with them. The clew
was easy to follow and all were soon gath
cred IN. The chief conspirator is Charles
Il. Waterbury. His assistants arc William
McCann and Samuel Southerland.
, 1892-02-25
A Remarkable Cure of Rheu ratIsm.

Nessrs. Cage and Sherman. of Alexan-
der, Texas. write US regarding a remark
able cure of rheumatism there as follows:
THE wife of Mr.. William Prui,t, the
postmaster here. had been bcd-riddsn
with rheumatism for several years, She
could get nothing to do her any good.
We sold her a bottle of Chamberlain's
Pain Balm and she was completely cured
by its use. We refer anyone to her to
verify this statement" Fifty cent bottles
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, 1892-02-25

scribed doses OF q%uinine, each containing
one-sixth of n grain of morphine. The
medicine being in capsules, Harris added
morphine. and the girl having taken the
increased dose died from the poison.
The physicians who attended her in this
last illness became suspicious, and an au-
Iopsy was made which revealed the poison.
After Il long trial. during which the curios-
ity and interest of the people were excited
10 the highest pitch. Harris was finally
found guilty of murder in the first degree
and condemned TO death. His counse has
appealed, aud this acts rs II stay of execu-
Jion.
The revelations which have been made
about the past career of this young man
show him TO be u most finished scoundrel.
He married some years ago a girl called
Lulu Van Zandt, whose health he utterly
ruined by II criminal operation. She Sc
cured a divorce from him. He has ruined
seven or eight girls, treating them in the
most brutal way. His character and rec
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dare place him on the stan in his own de
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she expressed the most absolute belief in
, 1892-02-25

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