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titudes OF people than twice the same
number of difflulties or misfortuneS.
| 1t seems to be the common destiny
of the windtall to drop at the feet Of
the persons least prepared to profit
by it.
A story to the point is told by a
former Speaker OF the Horse OF
Commons. He had an excellent
servant, butler, who having drawn
a prize of 3oooI. in the lottery asked
for his discharge, on the understand
ing that his master would, if he SO
desired, take him back at the end of
twelvemonth. The buffers great
ambition was to live like a gentle
man for one year of his life, and he
succeeded in giving effect TO it, to
the extent of running through all his
money.
Anecdotes of thrift are not always
editying. They too often disclose a
philosophy which fancies that it is
attaining an end, when it is simply
gratifying temperament. A life
passed in incessant saving and per-
petual self denial, with a remote and
not always realizable object in view
has been compared to the perversity
of a man who should persist through
out his whole existence in training
for a mstchIthat was never to come
of.
When the Romans exalted the
quality OF frug ality, they honored all
the complimentary virtues OF which
they regarded it as type.
But Horace's friend Tigellius, who
one week exhibited contempt for
everything but the barest necessaries
of life, spent thousand pounds on
its luxuries in the next-a feat which
may we'll be described in Johnson S
graphic words as passing through
the quag nire of parsimony into the
gulf of ruin.
He who has fewest wants, says an
ancient sage, comes nearest to the
gods; but this is true only of those
whose standing of wants is created
by simplicity OF taste and not by
sordidness of disposition.
The descent to the level of the
absolute miser is tacile one, and
those who have made it bear in all
ages the closest resemblance to each
other.
Almost without exception misers
have delighted in the sight and
touch OF their material boards. The
mere knowledge of riches is nothing
to the deceased appetite that Graves
for daily communication with its
idol. Bank notes are concealed in
beds and mattresses and gold be-
meath the flooring of their novels.
DichGanus, who claimed descent
from the Byzantine Emperors, was
called a splendid miser, for he lived
surrounded by the Astounding evil
dences OF wealth, while practicing in
secret all the depressing mortifca-
tions of the most sordid spirit.
Centuries remove but they cannot
divide him from the modern, and,
perhaps, more squalid example. An
old woman, arrested some time since
in Dublin for begging, always carried
her possessions about with her.
These included no less than quar-
ter OF hundred weight OF silver and
copper money, SI2o in gold, and
over $500 in bank notes. In addi-
ton were found 20 potatoes and a
quart of peas, so that this strange
creature was kind OF walking COM
pendulum Of wealth and of necessity.
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MAKE YOUR OWN 0PP0RTUNI-
TIES.

The true way to deal with adverse
circumstances is to be still greater
circumstance yourself. Nine out of
ten of the men who have been eminent
ly successful in their callings have
fought the battle of life up hill against
many opposing forces. Instead Of
bemoanlng their hard lot, they have
bowed to the inevitable and used it to
their advantage. Instead of asking for
an impossible chessboard, they have
taken the one before them and played
the game. Look at the tireless worker
Lord Brougham. Can any one believe
that by any combination of circum-
stances his talents could have been
kept from asserting themselves and
winning recognitlon2 1t has been said
that If his station has been that of
shoeblack, he would never have rested
content till he had became the first
shoeblack in England The luck of
Napoleon and Nelson consisted, they
said, in being a quarter of an hour
before their time. When in the dark
est hour of the Indian mutiLy, hand
full OF Engllshmen, poorly armed and
provlsioned, but splendldly led, won
eight victories in succession, the
revolted Sepoys said their conquerors
had "the devils luck" but the only
luck in the case was that OF force of
will, invincible courage, and skill in
arms.
Good luck is desirable even when
you have done your best to succeed +;
but remember that the most favorable
circumstances or strokes of fortune are
of little value unless you have prepared
yourself to take advantage OF them. Of
what advantage would Haynes fiery
speech have been to Daniel Webster if
he had not. with the instinct of genius,
long before equipped himself for the
assault which he repelled with such
crushing energy2 Had he not pre-
viousIy weighed and refuted in his own
miEd the charges of his opponent, his
reply, instead of ranking among the
greatest masterpieces of oratory, might
nave only revealed his own weakness.
Thousands of men had seen the prints
| of a horseS's hoofS in the soil before
| Faust discovered by them the art Of
printing. The, discovery by Edison OF
the carbon by which he perfected his
telephone seems happy accident but
such accidents never happen to COM
mon men. The great inventor scraped
some SCOT from the blackened chimney
of his laboratory lamp, and in spirit
of curiosity tested its properties. 1t
proved to be the very thing for which
he was searching; but behind this
fortunate discovery was series OF ex-
hausting and exhaustive experiments
with all all kinds of likely materials,
absorbing the energies ofmany months.
The lucky hit rewarded the persistent
will of patient workman. So with
the young and obscure lawyer who
conducts and wins difficult case, as
did Thomas Erskine in his elders ILL.,
ness; or the struggling surgeon who
has a sudden chance of distinction
offered to him he must have had q
long and laborious preparation training
before he can profit by such an emer'
gency. In short, a great opportunity
is worth to a man precisely what his
antecedents have enabled him to make
oft.
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a Friend j

Wishes 10 speak through the E,gjstrrm 81
the beneficial results he has received
from regular use of Ayers Pills.
lie says; Il was feeling sick and tired
and my stomach seemed all out of order.
| tried number of remedies, but none
seemed to give me relief until | was i'll
duccd 10 try the old reliable Ayers
Pills. | have taken only one box. hui
feel like Il new man. | think they are
the most pleasant and easy TO take of
anything [ ever used, being SO finely
sugar-coated that even a child will take
them | nrmn Innn all ,Nhn nrn
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WOMAN'S BONNET

Once poet wrote sonnet
All about a pretty bonne:,
And a critic sat upon it
ION the sonnet,
Not the bonnet),
Nothing loath.
And as il it were high treason
said, Neither rhyme nor reason
Has it, its but OF season.
Which? The sonnet
Or the bonnet!
Maybe both.
lis a feeble imitation
Ofa wOrthier creation--
An aesthetic innovation"
Ola sonnet
Or bonnet?
This was hard.
Both were put together neatly.
Harmonizing very Sweetly,
But the critic crushed complety,
Not the bonnet
Or the sonnet,
But the bard.
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In Need

of a laxative TO try Ayers Pills. -
Boothbay (NIe.), Register.
Between the ages of five and fifteen.
1 was troubled with a kind of sail
rheum, or eruption. chiefly confined i"
the legs, and especially to the Lend ,'l
the knee above the calf. Here, RUM ~
sores formed which would Scab over.
but would break Immediately on muy-
ing the leg. My mother tried every
thing she could think of, but all wa>
without avail. Although a child, | read
in the papers about the beneficial effects
of Ayers Pills, and persuaded my moth
er to let me try them. With no great
faith in the result, she procured
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Visitors bv rail- dining down North Street, every
visitor bv rail does attracted by Handsome Brick Front
ornatey corniced, devoted to crystal snow cases o
proportie'n the ground floor. Overlapping
all ic tbaI
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The bodies were recovered.
THE CROWS NEST DESTROYED.

Search For the Body of the Missing
Woman.
BUzZARD's BAY, Mass, April 8 The
scene of Saturdays fatal fire was visited
by hundred of people Sunday, and tine
shores of Buttermilk Bay. in the vicini; Y
of Crows Nest, presented an animate
appearance. The guard had lively
time at midnight, when the wind sud
denly changed to the east and hleN 4
gale. The sparks were blown into the
pine woods and were extinguished wit !
much difficulty. Early in the morning
a search was instituted for the body +
Helen McGrath. An entrance "a
made to the cellar through the doc !'y
which the servants escaped. The de.,r.,
was carefully removed and the se.:rc !
continued all day, but no trace of t..e
missing woman was found.
When interviewed by a reporter. Mr..
Jefferson said that his father was deeply
grieved at the sad and untimely death of
his faithful servant. and that the loss of
the property did not appear to affect
him. Mr.. Jefferson will rebuild on the
same site, and will this season occupy
the Whittier cottage, which is on the
Buzzard's Bay shore, near Gray Gail Is.
Mrs. Jefferson has been receiving mess
ages of sympathy all day. Among tine
first to arrive were those from President
Cleveland, Mr.. Whittier and Mr.. Bene-
dict
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BAYARD GOES To-ENGLANn.
The Delaware Statesman Succeeds ID
lister Lincoln.

The Delaware Statesman Succeeds Min
lister Lincoln.
WASHINGTON, March 3I.-The presi-
dent sent to the senate the following
nominations: Thomas T. Bayard of
Delaware to be ambassador to Great
Britain; to be ministers of the United
States, James Potter of Tennessee to Chile;
James Mckenzie of Kentucky to Peru;
Lewis Baker of Minnesota, to Nicara-
qua and Salvador; Pierce Young of
Georgia, to Honduras; Edwin Dun of
Ohio, to Japan; Harrison Williams
of Missouri, to be consul to
Vera Cruz, and Theodore Stephens
of Illinois, consul to Annaberg;
John Reynolds of Pennsylvania, to be
assistant secretary of the interior; Law
renee Maxwell of Ohio to be solicitor
general; John Hall of Georgia, to be
assistant attorney general.
Mr.. Bayard'a nomination was prompt
1y confirmed ~ the senate.
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a Petrifed BODY

ARKANSAS CITY, Kan, March 80. =
The bodiUs of H. S. Archer and son
were taken up from their graves near
Waunetta. small staff on east of this
city, by Mrs. Archer, who came here
from her home in New York, accom-
panied by an undertaken of that state
There was nothing in the coffin
The coffin of the father was very
heavy, and upon opening it the body was
found to be petrified. The features of the
face were undisturbed, and the entire
body was just like it was when laid IN
the grave, excepting that an arm was at
the side instead of across the chest of
the remains. Both have been expressed
to Buffalo, N. Y, where they will be
buried. The death of Mr.. Archer and
son occurred six years ago from fever,
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Not Yet Ended.

PARIS, Tex. April 5.-The ChHctaw
troubles still cause much uneasiness
here. The militia have not yet dis
banded as agreed with Agent Bennett
and information comes that some OF
them. under the leadership of Dukes,
are visiting the houses in the country
around Anrlers and disarming the
people. Locke is observing his part of
the agreement and is keeping quietly in
camp at his ranch. There are white
men endeavoring to pursuade the mill
tia that they need not gay any attention
to the government, as it has no right to
interfere. The militia force is said tC
be receiving reinforcements.
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SHOES m Trust coNrRoL.
The Sole Leather COmbine So Strong Tia
Prices Must Be Raised.

the Sole Leather Combine So Strong That
Prices Must Be Raised.
BRoCRToN, Mass. April "A sales.
man for one of the leading tanneries,
who is now in this city, in speaking of
the sole leather trust says it is impreg-
nable and cannot be broken by any COM
bined effort of the manufacturers here or
throughout New England. The trust
represents $75. 000. 900 and every avenue
through which the tanners derive their
supplies is controlled. The 1nanufac-
turers will have to increase their prices
for shoes, which is the only solution Of
the problem. There Is no hope of break
ing the trust. the head center of which is
in New York. because each tanner is un-
der heavy bonds not to violate the COM
pact for number of years. He thinks,
however, that Armour and other western
cattle kings may go into the sole leather
business and help fight the combination.
w. L. Douglass, a leading manufac-
turer. says he looks to some action being
taken by New England manufacturers
at an carly day.
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AMNESTY FOR THE IRISH.

Purposes of New York Irishmen VIII BE
Given Public Expression.
New YORK. April 3.ZThe municipal
council of the Irish National league and
the representatives of several other Irish
societies of this city, met Sunday after
noon to organize and arrange places for
big amnesty meeting to be held in this
city in the near future. The purpose of the
meeting will be to urge this government
TO demand of England the freedom of
the Irish now confined in English pris-
ons, charged with being concerned in
the dynamite explosions in London
nearly 10 years ago. It will also be de-
manded that the ban of exile be re-
moved from, Irishmen now living in
America. A committee on ''ways and
means was appointed to devise plans for
the meeting and report at the next
meeting of the council. A committee
was also appointed to confer with other
Irish societies and endeavor to secure
their support IN the undertaking.
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Asking For an Extra session.

Topeka. Kan. April Meetings
are being held by Populists in various
counties in central Kansas, at which
resolutions have been adopted asking
Governor Lewellyn to call an extra ses-
sion of the legislature to pass maxi
mum freight rate bill. This is the be-
ginning of a movement that is to be fol-
lowed up through central and western
Kansas. Governor Lewellyn said that
he would not be justified in calling an
extra session and would not unless the
pressure came from majority Of the
DeODle of the state
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FEAST OF FLAMES.
FIVE PERSONS PERISH IN A HOTEL
FIRE AT BRADFORD.
Heroic Efforts sEade to Save the Village
of acknowledgements Ruined Eion,;-
Search For the Body of the Mis- ,i..g
Woman.

BRADFORD, Pa, April Fire at I: ;,
a. m. destroyed the Higgins hotel, LIS
Buffalo and Pittsburg depot, Higgins
Cigar factory and adjoining buildings
At least five persons were burned to
death and fully 90 were injured. Many
were seriously burned and others fatally
injured by jumping from the upper
stories into creek 40 feet below on one
side of the building. It is feared some
were drowned, while a number were
rescued from the water. There were
12i persons asleep in the hotel. Mr..
and Mrs. Higgins escaped. the latter
being injured internally.
The Dead.
ENGINEER HAVELINE.
MACHINIST PARKS.
MISS BOND.
TOM CULLEN.
A CHILD.
The bodies were recovered.
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A LIVELY FIGHT.
Railway Men and Farmers Engage In a
Battle.

Railway Men and Farmers Engage In a
Battle.
WEST UNION, Ia, April A terrific
battle took place at jackson Junction,
90 miles from here Monday afternoon,
between the employees of the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul railway, and
mechanics and farmers. Miles Mccoy
ern and Peter Meyers were determined
to build warehouse in spite of orders
from the railway to the contrary. At
noon the company sent 70 men to lay
rails on the building spot to prevent the
building. McGovern and Myers and
band of farmers resisted and bloody
battle took place. resulting in seven or
eight men being terribly injured, one of
whom will die. The men became wild
and fought like demons with crowbars,
hammers, rocks and clubs. The COM
pany did not want to make a shipping
point of the junction. The railway is
now in full possession of the field.
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KANSAS WILL USE IT'S SPACE.
The Worlds Fair AIIOtments to Be Filled
with a Good Display

L
With a 6 God Display.
Topeka, April 3.-The Worlds Fair
board is working hard to complete its
task and is now confident of having a
fine display of Kansas products. The
report that the state exhibits would be
concentrated in the Kansas building and
no space in the various general buildings
be used is not true. In the agricultural
building Kansas has 81, 1888 feet which
will be fully occupied. The dairy ex-
hibit will also be made in this building.
Two carloads OF material have already
been sent. All of these will be practi-
cally duplicated in the Kansas building.
The states mines and mining space in
the general building will be fully occu-
pied. Besides the state display a special
exhibit will be made by the board of
trade of Galena and the Sante Fe Rail-
road company. Lyon county will send
two carloads of agricultural products
and other counties will do as well.
President Cobun says Kansas will be
creditably represented.
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ADY WANTS MARTINS SEAT.
The Junior Kansas Senator's Right to His
Seat Questioned.

The Junior Kansas Senator's Right to His
Seat Questioned.
WASHINGTON, April 4.-The right Of
the three senators from the states of
Montana, Washington and Wyoming to
seats in the senate under appointment
from the governors of these states. the
legislatures having failed to elect, was
discussed, in affirmation of that right by
Mr.. Turpie. His argument was ad-
dressed almost wholly to constitutional.
legal and biological considerations and
was listened to with close attention and
much interest, Another question as to
a senator's right to a seat was raised in
the senate by the presentation of petit
ton from Joseph W. Ady of Kansas,
asserting that Mr.. Martin. who was
sworn in as a senator from that state at
the opening of this extraordinary ses-
sion, was not duly elected. and that he
(Ady) was and now desires to be admit
ted to the seat. The petition was re-
ferred to the committee on privileges
and elections
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DURNELL. l.. P, engineer.
FREDERICK, F., fireman.
MARTIN, G. W., brakeman.
TEN BODIES RECOVERED.

Explosion, Fire and Death in the Nelson
Shaft.
SHAMoKIN, Pa, April "A miners
lamp caused an explosion in the Nelson
shaft. Many miners escaped, but IL or
II are still in the niue, with poor pros
poets of escape.
Ten dead men have been recovered
from the Nelson shaft. The mine is
burning fercely, with momentarily
danger of explosion. A force of neE
are battling with the flames. One thou
sand men are out of employment.
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home rule. A vast
concO1rse greeted
him and thousands
of Unionists cheer
ed loudly and then
took the horses
out Of the carriage
which bore him to
a hotel. Numer-
Gus Populations
presented formal
and cordial greet
ing to the visitor,
dwelling upon the
loyalty of Ulster
to the union Of
Great Britain and
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BALFoUR AT BELFAST.

The British Conservative Leader Opens
His Anti-HOme Rule Campaign.
BELFAST, April 1.-THE Right Hon. A.
J. Balfour, Conservative leader in the
house of commons and formerly chief
secretary for Ireland, arrived in Belfast
to deliver addresses in support of the
onnosition of the Ulster Unionists to
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Church Row.

CHICAGO, April "A disgraceful
fight. during which several blows were
exchanged and more or less blood was
shed, occurred at the annual s1ri Ig
meeting of the Presbytery of Chicago
Monday afternoon. at the Beiden
Avenue church, of which Rev. K. d.
Scott Is pastor.
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At Hiawatha.
H1AwATHA Ka-

HIAwATHA, Kan, April 6.-The mu-
nlcipal election resulted in the election
of NJ. S. Smalley, Republican, for mayor;
j. j. Fisher. Democrat, police judge; 1.
N. Smith, Republican, Charles Cheal
Democrat, and the remainder of the
councilmen Republican
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ARennhIican Yictorv.

WICHITA, Kan, April 6.-The city
election passed off quietly although the
undercurrent of feeling on both sides
was intense. The issue was clearly cut
for and against the Populist state adj
ministration and the course of the Pop
ulist legislatures at Topeka this winter
and the result signal victory for the
Republican party.
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ST. LOUIS, April 4.-From information
received one of the direct results of the
repeal of the corner rule by the Mer-
chants Exchange, viii be the erection
of two OF more new grain elevators.
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prohibition sim Alive.

EUREKA, Kan, April 6.-The prohibit
ton Republicans defeated the business
mems ticket by about 65 majority. w.
S. Martin was elected mayor on the
issue OF closing the billiard halls and
''hop tonic" joints. About 200 women
went to the polls and their votes de-
termined the result
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Defeated the POpuIists.

ABILENE, Kan. April 6.-Party lines
were drawn in the city election for the
first time and the Republican ticket
carried over the Populist by 30 majority.
j. E. Nissby was elected mayor. The
women took a leading part.
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CoIIarse nf an EIeva:or.

WEST SUPERIOR. Wis. April "a
part of one of the big elevators here col
lapSed and five men were seriously IN
iured Two of the.:i are dying.
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-FOUR KILLED.
Locomotive Boiler ExpIodes with
Fatal Results.

Locomotive Boiler ExpIOdes with
Fatal Results.
RED OAK, Ia. April AT $50 o'clock
Monday evening engine No. 2, of the
Choctaw Coal and Railway company,
hauling an east bound freight, exploded
as it was leaving the boundaries of this
town, causing the death of four train
men. They are:
DURNELL. L. P, engineer.
FREDERICK, F., fireman.
MARTIN, 6. W., brakeman.
LANDERS, HENRY, night hostler.
The trainmen and passengers who oc-
cupied the caboose escaped with few
scratches caused by the sudden stoppage
of the train. Martin. who was riding
on the pilot, was found under the engine
trucks. The other three, who were in
the engine cab, were thrown eighty feet
from the engine. All the bodies were
horribly mangled.
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Lake Shore engi-
neers, who refused
to handle Ann Ar
Dor freight, there be-
ing a strike on the
roa d. The court
held that Engineer
Lennon, ipasmucha as
he had been twice
ordered to move cars
by officials of the
company and did not
do so until ordered
to do so by the BROTH
erhood officials after
the boycott was rails
ed, was guilty ofcon-
- a4ha,. r1-, v,2v,
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Mcleod Resigns.

PHILADELPHIA, April 5.-Mr. A. A.
Mcleod, president of the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad and Coal and Iron
companies, has rendered his resignation,
to take effect May |. He will also re-
sign the receivership.
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Kansas CoaI ON DeDntiea.

Topeka. March 2s.-H. L. Taylor, the
new coal oil inspector, has appointed
two of the four deputies: J. A. Beck of
Wamego and Arthur CLARK OF Leaven-
worth.
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Floods in AIinnesota.

ST. PAUL, April E.-The rivers in
Southern Minnesota are out of their
banks as the result of Ice gorges and
many bridges are threatened.