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A SICK SAVAGE.
Robert Louis Stevenson Tells OF the Deiu-
siOns of One of His Servants.

Robert Louis Stevenson Tells Of the Deiu-
sions of One of His Servants.
Poor Misi Folo-you remember the
thin boy, do you not?-had desperate
attack of influenza, and he was in Il
great taking. You would not like to be
very sick i'll some savage place in the
islands and have only the savages to
doctor you? Well, that was just the
way he felt. ut is all very we'll, F" he
thought, "to let these childish white
people doctor sore foot or toothache,
but this is serious-I might die of thisl
For goodness sake, let me get away in
to drafty native house where l can lie
in cold gravel, eat green bananas and
have real grown up, tattooed man to
raise spirits and say charms over me. y
A day or two we kept him quiet and
got him much better. Then he said he
must go. He had had his back broken
in his own island. he said. 1t had come
broken again, and he must go away to a
native house and have it mended. Con
found your back, said we, Lie down
in your bed AT last one day his fever
was quite gone, and he could give his
mind to the broken back entirely He
lay in the hall. was in the room
alone. All morning and noon | heard
him roaring like bull calf, so that the
floor shook with it. 1t was plainly hum
bug. 1t had tho humbugging sound OF
bad child crying, and about of the
afternoon we were worn out and told him
he might go. Off he set. He was in some
kind of white wrapping, with great
white turban ON his head, as pale as
clay, and walked leaning ca a stick.
But, oh, he was glad boy to get away
from these foolish, savage, childish
white people and get his broken back
put right by somebody with some sense.
He nearly died that night, and little
wonder, but he has now got better
again, and long may it last
All the others were quite good, trust
ed us wholly, and staid to be cured
where they were. But then he was quite
right if you look at it from bis point OF
view, for, though we may be very oiey-
err, we do not set up to cure broken backs.
If man has his back broken, we white
people can do nothing at all but bury
him. And was he not wise, since that
was his complaint, to go to folks who
could do more?-Robert Louis Steven
sons "Letters to a Boy" i'll ST. Mich
Olas
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WHOLE NO. l,217

tered as by far the highest bid in the
calendar.
The next evening every journal in
that great empire, which extended from
ocean to ocean, had biography of Mr.
George Larkin. These biographies were
made up generally from the informa-
tion given in the directory of New Bed
lam. One of them therefore described
Mr.. George Larkin as the leading man
at the Varieties Another said that Mr..
George Larkin was engaged in profit
able thread and needle business in the
lower wards Of New Bedlam. Another
said that Mr.. George Larkin had won
his distinction as a reporter for the
press. But all persons agreed that Mr..
George Larkin was a person of great
importance in the financial community,
and that he was a patriot Of the first
water. 1t was generally agreed also
that his foresight with regard to ma
tional affairs was we'll nigh perfect. and
that no person knew SO well as he did
when stocks would rise and when they
would fall "Our readers will remem
Der how ON previous occasion the
whole turn of the stock market was
changed by the sudden purchase of P.
f. and l.. This purchase is now attrib-
uted to the foresight of Mr.. Larkin.
Gertrude, on that particular evening,
did not happen to open her newspaper.
If she had. she would have known that
her lover was that day the man most
talked about in the whole world. After
this, she was so overwhelmed by her
correspondence from different people
who wanted her to introduce them to
Mr.. George Larkin that she had no
time to open the newspapers for six
months. She never knew, therefore, why
Mr.. George Larkin suddenly attained
the prominence in all social walks, in
walks Of finance and indeed in the es-
TEEN of his fellow countrymen, which
she had gained. She did know that, two
or three days afterward, he came in to
see her looking like O new man. He
stood erect where his head had hung
low, he had cheerful smile on his face
where he had looked detected when she
snubbed him. In fact, she did not dare
to snub him. She knew that he was
person of much more importance in the
estimate of the world than she was. And
when George Larkin, for the first time
in his life, gained the courage to ask
Gertrude if she would marry him and
make him happy for the rest of his life,
Gertrude had no thought of saying any
thing but yes So much is even a good
girl governed unconsoiously by the tone
of the people who are around her.
II is an unimportant thing to add, but
this great empire rose from its depres-
sion on tho strength of Mr. George Lar
kin's offers to the treasury. Everybody
saw that he was right, and nobody else
was right. -Four per cents rose to high
er line than had ever been known in his
tory. The reputation of Mr.. Larkin as
| financier was established. Rothsehilds
and Belmonts and other bankers of the
world begged for his advice, and offered
| him places in their firms. These he was
not so foolish as to accept. But he lived
O happy life with the woman he had
loved, and he had the glad consciousness
that, by the way, he had saved his coun-
try. Edward Everett Hale in Chicago
Inter Ocean.
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A Tunpel through pixies Peak.

1t is reported that the actual work on
the tunnel through Pixies peak was be-
gun eight miles from the Cripple Creek
goldfield. The work is done under con-
tract with the city of Colorado Springs,
and the tunnel is to run from Beaver
Creek canyon to West Beaver creek,
bringing the water down the canyon
and into the control of the waterworks
at Colorado Springs. The tunnel is
II, 600 feet above the sea level and is to
be over mile and half long. The
workmen will drill through solid gran
lite, and tunnel by feet will be
built. The contract calls for the COM
pletion of the work within two years.
The price to be paid is $40 per foot,
and at this rate it is estimated that the
work will cost $500 Workmen
have begun operations at both ends of
the proposed tunnel Owing to the fact
that gold has been found in paying
quantities in SO many places near Grip
pie Creek, the contractors have great
expectations as to the result of boring
through Pixies peak. and a sufficient
number of claims have been secured to
protect any find that may be made dur
ing the progress of the work, y Railway
Review.
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Interesting washing.

An amusing little story is told i'll con-
nection with French journalist, who
in his early days as a reporter had a
deeply rooted aversion to the regulation
notebook of his order, and hit upon a
method of taking notes which afforded
him great satisfaction.
He wore large white linen cuffs, and
upon them, by the aid of tiny pencil,
he took down his notes and impressions
In all sorts of places, unobserved by
those around him.
At first his laundress was greatly puz-
zled by these peculiar concentrations,
but as time went on she learned to de-
cipher many Of them, and gathered the
news Of the week from her patron s
cuffs, much to her delight.
One night, when she took home the
washing, the journalist CHANGED to be
coming out of his room as she entered.
"Ah, monsieur, she said, dropping
courtesy, your last washing was very
interesting, but we had less political
news than the week before. Is it not soY'
London Tit Bits.
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WHY DO WE Do1Tf

Perhaps some sage can tell me, for, indeed, I'd
like to know
The secret of the titles that hear where'or
go.
There's Brown who studied medicine attain
ing some renown,
Whose wife hear referred to now as Mrs.
DR.. Brown"
What reason for the custom can the wise ones
give to me?
Why not as well refer to her as MRS. Brown,
NJ. Dr.
Because o'shea is on the bench why should we
always say,
In speaking Of his charming wife, *There's
Mrs Judge O'Shea?"
Is she Judge by mssfriagef Was she welded
to the court?
There should be some good reason why the
title she should sport
If ono should wed q Justice, pray advise me,
would she be
Entitled to be known by all as MRS. Jones,
j. Pr"
If not, what reason can we give for speaking
as we do
OF ''Mrs. Major Cannonball" or ''Mrs. Bishop
PewY'
Do titles go to families for use of ev'ry oneP
And if they do, why aren't they used by daugh-
ter and by SOM
Why not 'Miss Lieutenant Sharp?" Why not
junior too?
At least let's be consistent in the things We try
Chicago Post.
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A curious form of life insurance is
springing up in French manufacturing
towns under the nume Of La Fourmi
(the anti. The popularity is that the
longer man lives the less he becomes
entitled to- The payment Of 81 month
assures the payment Of $1,000 to the
heirs of a man dying before the age Of
39, the payment diminishing proper
tionately to 500 at 81. The idea seems
to be that il man dies young his chill
dren are likley to be in want, but that
when he is 80 they will be able to earn
their living.
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swEETHeARTs ALWAYS.

II sweethearts were swoethearts always,
Whether as maid or wife,
No drop would be half as pleasant
In the mingled draft of life.
But the sweetheart has smiles and brushes
When the wife has frowns and sighs,
And the wifes have a wrathful glitter
For the glow of the sweetheart's eyes.
If lovers were lovers always,
The same to sweetheart and wife,
Who would change for future Of Eden
The joys of this checkered lifo2
But husbands grow grave and silent,
And care on the anxious brow
OFT replaces the sunshine that persisted
With the words of the marriage vow.
Happy is he whose sweetheart
Is wife and sweetheart still,
Whose voice. as of old, can charm him;
Whose kiss, as of old can thrill;
Who has pluclled the rose to find ever
It's beauty and fragrance increase,
AS the flush Of passion is mellowed
In loves unmeasured peace;
Who sees in the step u lightness;
Who finds in the form grace;
Who reads an unaltered brightness
In the witchery of the face.
Undimmed and unchanged. All, happy
Is he, crowned with such life,
Who drinks the wife pledging the sweet
heart
And toasts in the sweetheart the wife
daniel O'Connell in Domestic Monthly.
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THE DAUGHTER.

There's ono miss-a little questioning maid
That held my finger, trotting by my side,
And smiled out of her pleased eyes open wide
Wondering and wiser at each word said.
And must help her frolics If she played,
And / must feel her trouble If she cried;
My lap was hers past right to be denied;
She did my bidding, but more obeyed.
Dearer she is today, dearer and more;
Closer TO me, since sister womanhoods meet
Yet, like poor mothers, some long while bereft
dwell on toward ways, quaint memories lett,
mss the approaching sound of pitpat feet,
Tho eager baby voice outside my door.
Augusta Webster.
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FretfuI. as Usual.

When the frightful dynamite explo-
sion at Romeo shook the earth and all
the buildings within 90 miles trembled
to their foundations, the sleeping COM
muter rolled over in his Auburn park
bed.
"How many times" he mumbled,
"do you think you're entitled to collect
passengers fare on your old milk
train? You punched my ticket half an
hour p'--Chicago Tribune.
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The tusks of the walrus We're the first
ice anchors. The instruments of this de-
scription used by seamen in arctic re-
gions arc modelled after the walrus tusks.
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Couldn't Find 1t.

"How is it never see you killing
timer asked an idle person.
81 can find the time, " said the busy
man in perfect innocence. indianapolis
Journal.
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The heavens themselves, the planets,
and this center, observe degree, priority
and place, insisture, course, proportion,
season, form, Office and custom, and all
in line Of order. -Shakespeare.
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Tottie Gagged 7)-I wonder why babies
is always born in tho night time.
Lottie Jagged s, little wiser Don t
you know? It's cos they wants to make
quite sure of findin their mothers at
home. Philadelphia American.
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Sept Is, 1895 en-.
NOTICE OF ASSIGNMENT.

Notice Is hereby given that Howard 1 La
Barre has this day made an assignment 10 the
tors equal and just division of his estate, and
that all claims against his estate must be pre- sent
ed under oath or affirmation within three months
from date. and that list of the claims presented
will be ied In the Office Of the Surrogate OF Hum
terdon county on the first Monday OF February
next.
CHAS. A. SKILLMAN
Assignee of Howard /. La Barre.
Dated Lambertyille, N. j. Oct 18th, 1895.
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In 1890 there were in this country
500 blast furnaces, 224 being in the
state Of Pennsylvania.
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Every ancient hero and god had a
flower specially consecrated in his honor.
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.an.AMNAAAANN

The factories of Indiana furnish en-
ployment to 1874, $40 persons, the output
being 1920, 825, 082.
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Graphite suitable for making lead
pencils is found in almost every country
on the globe.
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Duffy was the property of Caldwell
Of the Tenth, and was looked upon in
the light of an inheritance, having come
down to him from Wentworth-of the
same-when tho latter had been ordered
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-24
Men Who Are Baked,

The men who work in the famous por-
celain factories at Limoges have hard
life. The furnaces in which the porcelain
is baked are kept up to a terrible tempera-
ture, which, it is said, cannot be gagged
by any instrument known to science.
In this fearful heat the human sala-
manders, clad in thick, freproof garments
their heads and ears we'll protected, have
to work, passing from one to another,
chainwise, the porcelain articles as they
come out of the furnace
Every five minutes the first man of the
chain-that is to say, the one nearest the
furnace-has to get out into the open. He
throws himself down utterly exhausted on
mattress placed for his convenience near
the door Then a boy gives him ice wa
ter to drink from a pitcher, and he fails
back on his mattress until his turn comes
round to take his stand again close to the
scorching blaze. The pay amounts to 2
shili;nCs a day. Pearson s Weekly.
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The Development of St. Lo.is.

The development of ST. Louis as man.
ufacturing city has been swift and prosper
GUS. Great factories lie, for the most part,
southwark from the business center, al
though many of them have also spread
northward. Various Industries, moreover
remain within the confines of the district
which is chiefly given over to office build
ings, financial institutions, wholesale
houses and large retail establishments
Formerly the factories lay for the most
part, outside the area principally occupied
by the homes Of working people The re-
cent tendency has been to build working
mems homes outside the circle of the fac
tories. The building and loan associations
of which there are a great number in ST.
Louis, seem to have played an important
part in the new housing movement, while
the real estate companies with the facilities
which they have offered for the purchase
/ of small houses on the installment plan
have also doubtless made it possible for
thousands of mech anics and employed men
of small incomes to own their own homes
Albert Shaw in Century.
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Hamilton, leading the van OF the army
of the Potomac in it's change of base
from the Potomac River to the Peninsu.
Ia. The corps remained in camp in real
Of Fortress Monroe until April 9Th, when
the corps was advanced towards How's
Saw Mill near Yorktown, where it had
it's first skirmish with the Confederates
under the command Of Gen. J. B. Nc
Gruder. From April Sth until May Sd
the corps was In the trenches and took
an active part III the siege of operations
before Yorktown. On the Sth of April
Gen. Porter was appointed as Director
General of the siege operations, and
the first division of the third corps was
assigned to special duty under the i'm
remained until the 18th of May, when it
was transferred to the fifth provisional
corps which later became the fifth corps
of the army of the Potomac. Gen.
Porter was assigned to the command of
this corps by order of Gen. Mcclellan.
On April S0th, 1869, Gen. Charles S.
Hamilton was trar sferred from the com.
mand of the third division of the Sd
corps to the command of division in
the department of the south under Gen.
Roseorans Gen. Hamilton took a
very active part and became prominent
in the battles of Iuka and Corinth. Gen.
Philip Kearny of New Jersey was trans
ferred on April Both from the command
of 8 brigade in Franklin's division OF
McDowell's corps TO the command of the
third or Hamilton's division of the third
corps On the 1st of May the corps was
composed of two divisions, the second
under the command of Hooker, and the
third under the command of Gen.
Kearny. During the night of the third
of May, 1862 while the CORDS was in the
trenches in front of Yorktown, the union
picket line discovered that the confeder-
atos were eyaouating the works in front
OF Yorktown and retreating toward
hasty retreat abandoned large number
of guns and stores which fell into the
hands Of the union troops. 1t was dur
ing their retreat that the Confederate,
Gen. G. j. Rains, whose brigade acted
as rear guard to Longstreet's division,
conceived tho idea Of. new method of
warfare by bury ing shells in the roads
over which tho troops were to pass. A
number of the shells exploded, when
stepped upon by the men, as they
this method of warfare became known
to Con. Longstreet, he wrote Gen.
Rains as follows: sit is the desire of
the Major General commanding that you
put no shells or torpedoes behind you az
you march," Gen. Rains for warded the
correspondence to the confederate gen
eral, d. H. Hill, with an endorsement
advocating this method of warfare Gen.
Hill approved of Gen. Rains sugges-
tion, and the whole correspondence was
forwarded to the confederate secretary of
war, Gen. Randolph, who approved OF
Gen. Longstreet's corder with the follow
ing endorsement: sit is not admissible
in civilized warfare to take life with nc
other object than the destruction of life. -
This was the only case during the war
where this method of warfare was at
tempted by the Confederates.
Early on the morning Of Sunday, May
4th, the divisions of Hooker and Kearny
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ROBT. e. LEE, General.
. DEFENCEs OF WASHINGTON

to rest and recruit their shattered ranks
The divisions of Hooker and Kearny
again rejoined the army Of the Potomac
in November 1862. while the army was on
the march to Fredericksburg, Va. The
two divisions arrived at Falmouth, Va,
opposite the city of Fredericksburg, on
the Gath OF November, 1869. The corps
at this date was under the command Of
Gen. George Stoneman the first. or
Kearny's division under tho command of
| Gen. David Bell Birney, and the second,
or Hooker's division, under the COM
mand of Gen. EDaniel f. Sickles, the
third small division which Was at
taohed to the corps while on Its march
toward Fredericksburg, was under the
command of Gen. A. W. Whipple, and
was composed of only seven regiments.
The corps took part in the battle of
fredericksburg on the 18th Of December,
1862. During the battle Birney's and
Sickles' divisions were sent to the sup
port OF Meade's division and became en-
gagged with the Confederate division
under Gen. EARLY. holding him in check
until Meade and Gibbon could remove
their batteries from the field The corps
sustained a loss at fredericksburg of one
hundred and fifuy-four killed, eight
hundred and twenty-nine wounded and
two hundred and one missing. January
9th, 1868, the Sd corps, with the army of
the Potomac. took part in the movemsnt
that will always live in the Recolleotions
Of the army as the MUD March," Dur
ing the winter of 1868 Gen. Hooker was
promoted to the command of the army of
the Potomac, Gen. Ssoneman to the COM
nand of the cavalry. Gen. Daniel E.
Sickles to IL Q command OF tho third
corps, and Gen. Hiram G. Berry to the
command of the second division. The
corps remained in winter quarters near
Falmouth, Va, until April Both, 1868,
when it left it's camp and marched to-
ward Charlottesville, arriving at the
river at midnight and crossing at the
United States Ford at 7.30 on the morn
ing of the first of May, and moving for
ward to an omen field near the Chancel-
| lor House, which was all there was of
Charlottesville at the time the battle
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with the fourth corps under Gen. Keyes
were sent forward in pursuit of the re-
treating confederates, Hooker's and Kear-
ny's divisions continuing their march via
the Hampton and Williamsburg Road
through the deep mire and in a continu-
ously pouring rain until midnight of the
4th when Hooker's men rested upon
their arms until daylight of the 5th. in
front of Fort Magruder and the redoubts
10 the confederate right of the fort
which was located about mile east Of
the town of Williamsburg. Kearny's
men bivouaced for the night a few miles
to the rear and east of Fort Magruder
on a ehe t hampton hod a. aort MagTuder
ed near the junction Of two roads leading
TO Williamsburg. The fort was built in
the fall of 1861 under the supervision of
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THE THIRD CORPS.
A History of Famous Body Of
Fighters.
The Tremendous Losses of the Regiments
Composing 1t


(The following history of the Third
Corps, the first authentic history to be
published, was prepared by Col. Edward
Moore, one of It's able officers. The plo-
lures are from photographs taken in
service and presented to Col. Moore by
the officers themselves
The Third Corps was organized on
March 18th, 1862 under general order
lol, issued by President Lincoln. While
the men composing the corps were en-
oamped on the banks of the Potomac
River near Alexandria. Va, President
Lincoln designated as it's first commander
Gen. Samuel 2. Heintzelman, Gen. Mo-
Clellan appointed as it's division COM
1nanders Genls. Fitz John Porter for the
first, Gen. Joseph Hooker for the Sec
ond, and Gen. Charles Hamilton for the
third, all of whom wers graduates of
West Point. The brigade commanders
were Generals Martindale, Morrell and
Butterfield for the first division; Gener-
alssGrover, Sickles and Patterson for the
second division; Generals Jameson, Biz
ME and Berry for the third diyis-
ion; Grover, Berry and Jameson were
natives nf the State of Maine. The corps
were transported by steamers from Alex
andria. Va, to Fortress Monroe, Va,
from March 18th to the 23d, 1869, the
third division, under the command of