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wanted to Be Sure.

A few weeks ago, writes a CORE
spondent of the Lewiston Journal, q
local hackman was summoned to a
clergyman's house to convey him to a
meeting in another part of the city.
On obeying the summons he found
another carriage in waiting, and an
impatient driver walking up and down
before the door. The minister came
hurriedly down the steps and got into
the second hack, and the driver pre-
pared to move off.
s.Here you, called out the prone
nading hackman, ''what are you TAX
ing the minister away for? There's
a couple of young folk in there wait
ing to be married. Why don't he
jine 'em before he goes off +? don't
want to wait here all night"
The minister's hackman chirruped
to his horses without deigning to
notice tho other mans remarks. He
was gone an hour and returned with
the clergyman, and 10, the same hack
man was pacing up and down in front
of the house. He was in anything
but an amiable mood.
eff was running a business I'd
tend to it," said he, as the minister
was alighting. ''Why don't he marry
folks without maxim lem wait all
night?"
i.Ask him. said the clergYman's
driver, and the hackman followed The
advice.
e.Marry theml" exclaimed the
clergyman. ''Why, I did. married
them a long time ago. Don't they
know they are married? I'll go in
and see why they are waiting"
Soon afterward a blushing bride
and a vexed-looking groom came out
of the house, and as they got into the
carriage he said to her:
81 told We we was all fixed"
"Well, George" she replied, sweetly,
81 wanted to be sure of it."
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A Rapid Canoeing n1aohine.

The man who introduced the first
canceling machine in the New York
general postoff1ce is employed there
now, but he has lived to see his ma
chine surpassed. His invention would
cancel four thousand stamps in an
hour, or less than the average num-
Der for a skilled man working by
hand. Three or four other machines,
each a little faster than its predeces-
sor, were introduced in turn and dis
carded. One was invented that far
exceeded the speed Of the swiftest
hand-Worker, and it was used until
the discovery was made that it some
times cut through envelopes and dam
aged their contents. Then the pres
ent machine, which cancels forty
eight thousand stamps an hour, was
introduced. The five machines in
use at the general postoffice are run
by electricity.
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ROYAL Fnther and Son.

Inc world likes to read anecdotes
which go to prove that men in high
places, men to whom fortune has
given an absolute control over their
fellows, have nevertheless the ten
derer instincts of our common hui
manity. Mr.. Dallas afterward Vice
President Of the United States, who
was United States Minister to Russia
more than fifty years ago, records in
his diary a story of the Emperor
Nicholas I. and his son, afterWard
Alexander II. The incident took
place in the imperial chapel when the
young grand duke became of age, and
took the customary oath of allegiance.
The church was thronged with the
high prelates of the church and
dignitaries of state. A small table
was placed in the center, on which
were a Bible, some religious emblems,
and the written draft of the oath to
be taken.
After some preparatory ceremonies,
the Emperor led his son to the desk,
pointed to the scroll. and babe him
read attentively and aloud the oath
before he signed it.
The young man began audibly and
distinctly, but when he came to that
part which imported that he vowed
obedience and love to the Emperor,
his father, his voice faltered, choked,
and finally ceased. He seemed to be
overpowered by his feelings. and wept
profusely. The Emperor, who stood
close by, remained motionless, and
gave no symptom Of agitation except
two heavy tears that rolled down his
cheeks.
The Gar allowed some minutes to
elapse that he might master himself,
and then. with all the apparent I'M
moved dignity of the monarch.
pointed again to the scroll.
AS soon as the grand duke had
completed the oath, he threw himself
into his fathers arms, where he
sobbed aloud for an instant, when,
recollecting his mother, he rushed
toward her, and was received with
an affecting and prolonged embrace.
The Emperor, unable further to con-
troll himself, went to them while thus
clinging to each other, and encircling
them both with the arms, gave way
to paroxysm Of emotion.
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monster--selfsh and dense to everv
finer emotion. The patient express
sion on the mothers face, as she me-
chemically soothed the boy, proved
that the experience was too common
to even arouse comment in her mind.
The next morning I picked ND the
Tribune, and turned at once to re-
port Of the doings of Chautauoua; the
proceedings of the woman's club were
reported, the principal subject being
the training Of children.
''Question-How would you break a
child Of the habit of teasing? An
swer-By breaking older people of the
habit of teasing the child. were
question and answer that brought
wildly to mind the incident OF the
evening before.
What future of rasped nerves and
false standards of amusements was
being established through a fathers
thoughtlessness!- Christian Union.
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New HampshIre's mountain visitors.


New Hampshire has an annual in
come OF S5, 600, 600 from summer Wis
itors alone, a fact that should arouse
its people at once to the threatened
clearing Of forests from some of it's
grandest peaks and mountain ranges.
Lovers of nature are OF course also
interested in this matter, but if the
devastation is to be aVerted it must
be by those whose pockets are con-
cerned. A lumber firm, it is said,
has purchased the right to cut down
the trees on the south side of Mount
Washington, and will soon begin to
clear the land at the rate of ten
Of Mount Willard, report says, are
also in the hands Of Spectator, who
offers to foregO his numbering opera
tions If the neighboring hotelkeepers
will pay 5000 Let no one think
that the danger is imaginary. The
Boston Transcript testifies: "The port
able sawmill is dragging its deadly
course up and down the mountain
glens, leaving everywhere a track of
devastation behind. The beautiful
iceland Valley is one vast scene of
waste and desolation; immense heaps
u SoN0OOO 4O44 OOWA bnC SlODC6 10
choke the streams, and, by the de-
structiVe acids distilled from their
decaying substance, to poison the fish;
smoke rises night and day from fires
which are maintained to destroy the
still accommodating piles of slabs and
other mill debris. Those who ride
through the Crawford Notch, viewing
the splendid scenery as the train
creeps slowly up the mountain side,
find their vision offended again by
the tell-tale sawdust heaps, some of
them as large as dwellings signs of
the ruthless destroyer's tooth in that
charming and wonderful def1le." A
recent report of the New Hampshire
Forestry Commission draws attention
to the growing spoliation and suggests
remedial measures, but up to this
time the people Of the State have
shown themselves to be strangely in
different. This can scarcely be ac-
counted for by the fact that some of
the largest summer hotels are owned
by nOn-residents, for, admitting that
to be so, it should not be forgotten
that they give employment to an army
Of people, and are the means of ben
citing the local merchants and the
farmers. State pride alone should
be factor in putting a stop to the
depredations.
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chine. But he is going back to Ran
ford first thing next morning and so am
l. In fact, shall go and see mother
and take the train over there tonight.
~Oh, Myron. is the bank going to
bust?7
I guess not before we get our money
out. Aunt Judy. Well, goOd-by."
As she watched him out of sight, the
same tense look was in her face that
had been there while she sat on the step
thinking.
Joshua came, no long time after. He
began to talk in a rambling way about
the Hallers and the days work and how
tired the horses were; and she made no
effort to question him; but presently he
broke out with a groan: Judy, I got TO
tell you. guess Myron was right about
Startling.
Yes, I guess he was"
He has been looking him up in Chi
cago. He does speculate, and he has
lost money. And Myron showed me a
printed book where they got his name
down, and he amt got good credit at
all, mother. And they got Maxwell
there real high credit
~Eow do they ever find Out?"
I guess the lawyers tell EN-; they
don't mind spying and telling on folks
It is a mighty que r looking book, sorter
looks like a algebra. Well, Judy, we
went to Ranford and we got there too
late. but am going to be there to-mOr-
row. Dom you bother to git me hot
breakfast, though; cold bit is all
want.
It was not like Judy to pass this over
in 5 lence, yet she made no protest.
Presently Joshua said that he would go
to bed. Good night, said Judith She
came over to him and kissed his fore
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was out in the garden, and he ate the
breakfast that she had made ready, and
hurried away through the usual exit of
the kitchen door without suspicion. He
was one of the first to file into Star
ling's bank that morning The young
man at the desk looked at him and thOn
retired for consultation with the other
young man.
4 amt going to keep up this farce
any longer, said the other young man.
Mr.. Crest, we haven't got $500 in the
vault
That was the reason why Starling's
bank closed its doors some hours earlier
than the fugitive had anticipated.
Joshua did not speak a word He
nodded to some men that he knew and
went out, not quite steadily, to his
wagon. Myron and his own wife were
standing by it.
Joshua did not seem surprised.
Mother" said he. in a dry, clear
tone, I've lost all that money.
No. no, you amt father, said judith;
I got it all here"
She met Startling at the depot and
somehow she won't tell me how she got
him TO give her back the money" This
was MyrOn, who remained bewilde-ed,
having considerably put Judith to bed
at the hotel without agitating her by
question.
But, mother, you hadn't got no
said Joshua
Judith was sobbing. ~Oh, I guess you
won't be able to forgive me- 1 didn't
have no check; 1 made him give me the
money
She had been taking the notes out of
her bag. Myron put in his fingers and
. drew out the pistol
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Teasing Children.

The other afternoon I got into
car of the Sixth avenue elevated road,
going up town. At the next station
above where I entered the car,
father, mother, and boy about five
or SIX years old got into the same car
A seat was given to the mother, who
made room for the boy beside her;
after time the father got seat, and
tried to persuade the boy to come
over to him. The boy very irritably
refused, and with poutlng lips chung
closer to his mother. A few stations
further on a seat beside the mother
was vacated, and then the father
changed his seat to the vacant one
beside his wife. Each moved, and
the small boy was persuaded to kneel
between them and look out of the
window. No sooner was he comfort
ably settled than the father began
amusing himself by pulling the boys
ears, pinching his cheeks, showing his
elbows of the window sill. pulling his
feet At every manifestation Of
anger or impatience the father would
throw his head back and laugh. At
last he made the boy cry. and his en-
joyment reached a climax. as he now
kept saying in an audible whisper,
''Cry baby! cry babY!"
The poor little fellow was painful
object He was very thin, had tiny
bones, and was evidently worn out
neryously, and without doubt his
physical condition was due entirely
TO the thoughtless cruelty of his
father, big, healthy. careless fun
loving mani had almost written
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PayHimin His own Coin.

In journeying from country to
country the changes in the value of
coins is apt to be confusing, writes 7.
Dewitt Talmage in ''Across a Crys-
tai Path" in the Ladies' home jour-
nal. But guineas. and forms, and
kreutzer. and double ducats have
ceased to be a perplexity to me. 1
ask the price of thing. look wise as
if knew all aboutit, and then hold
out my hand and let the vender take
his pick. AS riches take wings and
fly away, / am determined to lose
nothing in that manner. Fifty years
from now a Turkish plaster will be
worth to me as much as a Holland
guilder; and it worries me not when I
am cheated, for the man who cheats
me must, in the end, suffer more than
/, so that my chagrin is lost in COM
passion for his misfortune.
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-Ah-hl" he exclaimed; Il perceive.
Why, Aunt Judith, you dear little high
Waymani"
No one else knows of it, no one else
would believe If he did know; Mrs
Crest is such harmless, timid woman;
but Myron Dwight, now prospecting and
helping Joshua to prosper, keeps the
pistol in his drawer as a memento No
one else but he knows another interest
ing fact-that pistol was not loaded.
THE End.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-10-13
Ru,Ia,nr Made Of Human Bones.

Near Nisch, Servia, a building
wholly constructed of human skulls
and bones was recently discovered. 1t
is in the form Of a square, about six
teen feet high, and is composed Of
fifty-six piles Of deathheads and cross
bones, there being seventeen skulls
and as many pair of crossbOnes in
each pile. When or by whom it was
erected is still mystery.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-10-13
Japanese PauPers.

1t is estimated that there are less
than 10, 600 paupers in the japanese
Empire, with its population of 237,-
non OO0
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If some one would provide means
of cashiering General Humidity, the
fiery ardor of his unappreciated devo-
ton to suffering mankind might be
dampened for time
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A TIMID WOMAN7S TRIAL.
Surprising interruption in Life Of Mo
notoy.
BY OCTAVE THANET.

head. you know. know you did all
you could, Joshua, don't your" she said.
Il guess we amt goin' to begin to
quarrel now. whatever happens, Judy, "
said he, but we are old folks to begin
life over again, mother. I kinder won
der at Startling taking that money Of
me; he must knowed how things was
with him-but l guess he was hopeful.
Well, one good thing they all was sayin'
at the threshin' to-day, how uncommon
strong was for my years. So if we do
have to begin again"
"We amt going to have to, said
Judith.
Thus she cheered the dispirited man,
nor did he see the placid look fade from
her face as long as he was awake to see.
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National Bank
aPaY to

PAY to = Fl tWenJy-three
dollars if there is that much to my
credit. 1 think there is sixteen dol
lars there, and will make up the
rest on Tuesday of next week. So
DIease Oblige me. JOHN SMITH"
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APeculiar Check.

One of the funniest checks I ever
saw was shown to me by banker
yesterday, says the Pittsburg Dis
patch. 1t was drawn on one of the
ordinary check forms of the bank and
read thus:
%PITTsBURG, June 25, 1892.
81 National Rank.
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THERE are not many men so good
that they can do right without first
having a struggle.
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CHAPTER III

After he slept, she erept out of bed
and dressed herself quietly. She
opened a closet and a drawer, taking
something out Of each. The moonlight
filed the room; at the door she paused
to look at the sleeper, whose face was
pale in that bIOodless radiance Her
look was tenderer than a caress. With
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HE is a fool who cannot be angry;
but he is a wise man who viii not be.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-05
TELEGRAPHIC JOTTINGS.

A telegram announces the stranding at Anjer of the ship John M Blaikie of Halifax while bound from Table Bay to Iloilo.
 Hugh Munsterburg, NJ. D., Ph. D.. of Frieburg Germany, has been elected to @ ofsssorship in philosophy at Harvard college.
 The duke of Newcastle and Emory Smith, United States minister to Russia, were on board the steamer Teutonic, which arrived in New York yesterday.
 The annual convention of the American Cattle club, composed of breeders of Jersey cattle in thirty. six states and Canada, was held in New York yesterday.
 S. D. Carleton of the shipbuilding firm of Carleton, Norwood & Co., of Rockport, Me, died yesterday of progressive paralysis, aged sevent5- five He was widely known
 The Strauss feather factory at Ganustadt; employees were prevented from escaping. The number of victims is not yet known. The fire is still raging
 The supreme court of Michigan yesterday morning, in the case of the Central Gas Stove company of Maine. decided that the franchise tax law of 1891 does not apply to corporations organized under the laws of other states
Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-05
Sued for Criminal Libel.

The trial of Editor Clyma, of the Nauga- tuck Citizen, who is charged with criminal libel against Attorney William Kennedy and Officer William Brophy, both of Nau- gatuck, was commenced in the Waterbury superior court. criminal side, before Judge Robinson yesterday. The state introduced as evidence a copy of the Citizen of August 29, 1891, in which an article appears derogatory to the character of Kennedy and Brophy and accuses them of blackmail and extorting money from a certain pris- oner whom Brophy arrested. The state rested after introducing the article in question and the defense was begun, Editor Clyms being put on the stand in his own behalf. The trial will be resumed this morning.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-05
LOST NEW YORK,

A New Haven Woman Left on the
 Elevated for the New Haven Boat
 and Has Not Been Seen Since.
 John Fitzgerald and his wife Mary of 26 Redfeld street attended their son yester- day to New York city to put him in St.. Mary's training school. At l o'clock, while the father went to make the necessary ar engagements, his wife boarded Third ave- nue car for the New Haven boat, with about $30, to await him there. About the time for the boat to leave he came to the dock, but failed to find her, nor has she been seen since. Last night the police in New York were telegraphed to. MT. Fitz' gerald fears that his wife may either have been wsylaid and robbed or that on ac. count of sorrow on leaving her son she be- came seriously i'll.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-05
CLOSING RECITALS.
MT. Percy to be Assisted by Soloists of National Celebrity-He win Give n Recital fin WaAhIugIou.

NIT. Percy to be Assisted by SoIoIsts
 of National Celebrity-He win Give
 n Recital in Warrington.
 Mr. R. T. Percy, the talented organist at Dwight Place and Center churches during the past year, will give two farewell recitals in Dwight Place church before leaving for his new post at Dr. Armitage's church in New York. The first recital will be given next week, at which he will be assisted by Mir. William H. Rieger, of the soloists in the oratio of "Eli- jah" given short time ago by the Gounod so- ciety.
 His second recital will be given a week later. At this he will be assisted by Miss Bertha Lin coin of Washington and MT Frederick Giilett Of Plymouth church, Brooklyn. Miss Lincoln is a pupil Of Professor Bristol of New York and in her concert work is very fine. At concert re- gently in New York she met with great favor from both the audience and the press. MT. Gil- lett is ons of the finest baritones in Brooklyn.
 Mir. Percy will also give Q recital in Washing ton, assisted by Miss Linceln. in about three weeks
 Mir. Percy has been very successful in this city and his leaving for a much better position in New York city is great loss to New Haven. In this city, which is sO largely musical in its tastes, he has stood at the very head of his profession These last opportunities of hearing MT Percy will be gladly svailed of by the large number Of people here who admire his genius and regret his departure
Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-05
rerr,ble Wind Storm.

FoRr WAYNE, Ind, May 4.-Last night six miles north of Decatur terrible wind storm tore John Mercer's house and out buildings from their foundations and over turned them. Mercer and his wife were badly injured and fve-year-old son was fatally hurt. Several cattle were killed. Other houses in the vicinity were dam sgsd,
Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-05
FLOWER SOCIAL.
By St. John's Episcopal Church La
 dies.

The ladies of St. Johns Episcopal
 church gave flower tea and social in the
 new Y. w. c. A. building yesterday after noon and evening, and large company of people were present both in the afternoon and evening. The proceeds are to be de voted to furnishing room in the Y. w. 0. A. building. The dining hall in the new building was prettily decorated with several tables at which flowers were sold. Each lsdy was dressed to correspond to the flower which she sold. There were some very dainty costumes. At one table the sign "Hum 'Ade Randy" was dis played, and tea and chocolate were served to all present. During the evening the Hopkins Grammar School Banjo club and Geary Brothers furnished music. The following are among the ladies who had charge: Mrs. Bostwick, Mrs. Beers, Misses Sperry, Grant, Stannard, Merwin, Bulford, Robinson, Bishop, Larom, Wells.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-05
|. 0. OF G. IT.

Howard Lodge Elects Officers and
 Has a Supper and Musical Enter.
 tainment.
 The following officers were elected Tues day evening at Howard lodge, Independ ent Order of Good Templars: Chief tenn plar, Mrs. 0. P. Yale; vice-templar, Mrs. Pratt; superintendent of Juvenile Tenn. plars, Miss Louisa Penny; secretary, S. Norman Tibbles; marshal, Agnes Gar land; guard, Miss Staples; treasurer. Miss Emma Wright; financial secretary, Miss Julia Fields; chaplain, Mrs. Louise Larned deputy marshal, Miss Fraser.
 An old-fashioned New England supper was served, and there were also solos by Miss Ryder and duets by MT. and Mrs Pratt. The supper was in charge of Mrs Pratt and Mrs. Wright.
Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-05
SIXTH-CLASS RATES.
They Will be Made on the Basis Of Twenty Cents Per Hundred Pounds from Chicago to New York,

They Will be Made on the Basis Of
 Twenty Cents Per Hundred Pounds
 from Chicago to New York.
 CHICAGO, May 4.-Chairman Blanchard to-day notified the lines in the Central Traffic association that on and after May 9 eastbound sixth-class rates to the west ern terminus of the trunk lines and points east thereof may be made on the basis of twenty cents per hundred pounds from Chicago to New York with the usual difference to other seaboard points and those governed thereby. He also notified the roads that, taking effect the same day, the esstbound rates on compressed wool may be made on the basis of forty-fv cents per hundred pounds from Chicago to New York. The application of this rate locally on wool shipments from Chi cago is step in advance of the action heretofore taken by the Chicago and Grand Trunk, which only reduced its pro- portionate rate on shipments from points west of the Mississippi river. The Grand Trunk will now authorize its western con- nections to use the fol ty- five cent rate as a basing rate
Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-05
THE LOYAL LEGION.
The Massachusetts Commander
 Holds It's Annual Meeting.

HOld0 It's Annual MeetinE.
 BOSTON, May 4-The Massachusetts commandery O: the Order of the Loyal Legion held its annual meeting tonight and elected long list of officers with Gen. eral Thomas Shsrwin ss commander. About $50 were present. At the banquet, which followed at ths American house, General John L. Otis presided. and among others present were Governor Russell and staff, Captain Oliver Eldredge of San
 Francisco, General B. Sickels and General !, B, Carr,