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OFFICE NOTICES.
NOTICE FOB P OBLIGATION.
- Land Office at North Platte. Nebr. '
February 1st. 1898. f
Notice is hereby siren that the f oil o win K-nam ed
settler has filed notice of his intention to make
final oroof in anDDort of his claim and that said
proof will be made before the Register and Be-
ceirer at north natte. Hen., on marcn una.
1893, viz: William Scharman. -who made H. E.
No. 13,317 for thesonthwest qaarter of section 4.
township 13 north, range 31 west. He names
the following witnesses to prove his continuous
residence nponand calf (ration of said land, viz:
Lncien Stebbins, Andrew Hahn. Joseph Spies
and Henry Facka, all of North Platte. Neb.
56 A. 8. BALDWIN, Register.
NOTICE FOB PUBLICATION.
Land Office at North Platte, Neb., )
February 1st, 1893. )
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler bas hied notice of his intention to
sid proof wiU be made before Register and
Receiver at flora ivu. 'Kf'Vjr
18th. 1893, riz: William S- Ross, who made H. E.
No. 14074, for the south half southeast quarter
and the northwest quarter of the southeast
quarter and the southwest quarter of the north
east quarter of section 26, township 16 .north,
ranee 29 west. He names the following witnesses
to prove his continuous wtaMWOBBji
cultivation of said land viz: Joseph Little, Louis
P Derby. Nils Gust Wiberg and Charles A,
Wibenr. all of Myrtle. Neb. ,
56 A. 8. BALDWIN, Register.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
jSnd Office at North Platte. Neb. (.
- February 8,1893 J
Tfntice is hereby given that the following-
make final proof in support of his claim, and that
said iTroof will be made before Register and
SwiK North Platte.. Neb , on Mah 24th,
1893. riz: John B. St. Mane, who made U.K. No
14023 for the southwest quarter of the northeast
. .i f n,.i-0r rf tho southeast
quarter, umui . j - " u.
quarter, northeast quarter of tie southwest
quarter! and southeast quarter of the northwest
quarter of section 18, township 13 north, range 27.
7 w fxlinnTi'nif TTitnrff to tiroYB his
continuous residence noon and cultivation ol
said land, viz: Martin N. Holcomb, of Brady Isl
and. Neh.,Moses L. Brooks.of Brady Island,eb.,
Abraham L. Brooks, of Maxwell. Nebraska.
A. o, Divuunui,
66 Register.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Land Office at North Platte. Neb., )
February 15th, 1B93. J
i,.h.Viin that thnfnllnwinff.namnd
L.ni.J haMkaaI Ilia intAnt.mn n limkn
final proof in support of his claim, and that said
at North Platte. Neb., on April 10, 1S93, viz:
r. . t t V II T" Ua ifima for thn ast
half northwest quarter and east half southwest
quarter section a, iowbeihp
west. He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon and cultiva
tion of said land, viz: Joseph Baker. Levi O.
Baker, Milton Bauer anu juiwnru "
North Platte, Nebraska. o tTTtTOTV
78t Register.
R. D. THOMSON,
Arcliitect,
Contactor and - Builder.
127 Sixth St. Cor. of Vine,
NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA.
Land Office at North Platte, Nebr., )
February 28th. 1893. f
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention to
make final proof in "support of his claim, and
that said proof. will be made before Register and
Receiver at North Platte, .Neb., on April 12th.
1893, viz:Thurber Harvey, who mado Homestead
Entry No. 10133 for the west half of the north
east quarter and tho west half of the southeast
quarter of section 20, township 14 north, range
34 west. He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon and culti
vation of said land, to-wit: John H. Abshire, Jr.
of Sutherland, Neb., and Peter C. Meyer.
Michael E. Conway and John H. Conway of
Paxton, Neb. . ,
86 A . S. BALDWIN. Register.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Land Office at North Platte. Neb., ?
February 23th, 1893. i
Notice is horebv civen that the following-
named settler has filed notice of his intention
to maae final proof in support- of his claim and
that said Droof will be made before the Register
and Receiver of the U. 8. Land Office at North
Platte, Neb., on April 7th, 1893, viz: William
II, Burns who made Homestead Entry No, 10172
for the south half of the northwest quarter and
lots 3 and 4 of section 4, township 16 north.range
29 west. He names the following witnesses to
proves his continuous residence upon and culti
vation of said land, viz: Adam E. Moore, Wil
liam II. Nnll, John A. Moore and Benjamin B.
Gibbon, all of Myrtle, Neb.
86 A. S. BALDWIN, Register
E: B. WARNER.
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TIMBER-CULTURE, FINAL PROOF NOTICE
FOR PUBLICATION.
United States Land Office, (
North Platte, Neb., February 27, 1893. f
Notice is hereby given thatTheclaA Linder
derman. of Lexington, Nebraska, has filed no
tice ot intention to maae nnai proor oetore
the Register and Receiver at their office in
North Platte, Nebraska, on the Uth day of
April, 1S5J3, on timDer culture application no.
12024 for the south half of the northeast quarter
and lots 1 and 2 of section 6, in township 12
north, range S3 west. She names as witnesses:
John Cock, William Hockridge, Charles Rich
ards and .Edward W. rinowiea, au oi ouweriana.
Nebraska. .
86 A. 8. BALDWIN, Register.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Land Office at North Platte. Neb., )
February 28th. 1893. I
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention to
make final proof in support of his claim, and that
said prooi will be made bsiore .Register ana
Receiver at North Platte, Neb., on April 7th, 1893,
viz: John A. Moore who made Homestead En
try No. 7698, for the southwest quarter of sec
tion 10, township 16 north, range 29 west. He
names the following witnesses to prove his con
tinuous residence noon and cultivation of said
land, viz: William H. Burns, Nils Oust Wiberg,
William H. Nnll and David Brunk, all of Myrtle,
Nebraska,
86 A. 8. BALDWIN, Register.
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Land Office at North Platte. Neb.,
March 6th. 1893. S
Notice is hereby iriTen that the f olio win k-
named settler bas bleu notice of bis latention to
make final proof in support of his claim, and
that said Droof will be made before the Heeister
1 T ' t T . 1 t .
ami xveceiver at norm ruine. neu., on jipru
11th. 1893. viz- Herbert E. Covell who made U.
K. No. 16200 for the northwest quarter of section
10, township 14 north, range 30 west. He names
tho following witnesses to prove his continuous
residence npon and cultivation of said land, viz:
Wilson G. Lemon. Edward B. Easton, Frank
Eberlo and John Worthier, all of North Platte,
fleb.
96 A. S. BALDWIN, Register
NOTICE FOB PUBLICATION.
Land Office at North Platte, Neb., I
March 6th. 1893. t
Notice is hereby given that the following-
named settler has bled notice of bis intention to
make final Droof in BODDort of his claim and
tbatBaid proof wiU be made before the Register
tjxa Iteceiver of tne u. a. Land umco at North
Platte. Nob., on ADnl 11. 1893. viz: DancanMc
Nichol, Jr , who made Homestead Entry No.
14090 for tho northeast quarter of section 24,
township 16 north, range 29 west, lie names
tho following witnesses to prove his continuous
residence npon and cultivation of said land,
viz: John H. Allison. Samuel (i. Piehl, Lafayette
Pease and Clement H. Lane, all of Myrtle, Neb.
Jt A. 8. BALDWIN Register.
LEGAL NOTICES.
1 NNA S. CLARKSON AND MAUDE CLABKSOX.
A. Executrices of the Estate of John Thorne Clark-
poii, deceased, and A. a. Sears, defendants, will
take notice that on the 23d day of January, 1893,
C. A. Holtry, plaintiff herein, filed her petition in
the district court of Lincoln county, Nebraska.
against said defendants, the object and prayer of
which are to loreciose a certain raecn&nic s lien
against lots 11 and 12, in block 5, In the town of
Hutnerland, Lincoln county, MeDrasca, on account
of material furnished by plaintiff to Frederick
Dringman for the erection of a frame building
npon Bald premises: that the amount duo plaintiff
upon her said mechanic's lien Is the sum of $140.00
with interest thereon at the rate of seven per cent
per annum from the 20th day of September, 1S92;
and piainua prays mat said defendants be decreed
to pay the same or that said premises may be sold
to satisiv tne amount found due.
You are required to answer said petition on or
before tne 3d day oi April, ibid.
Dated February 16th, 1893.
C. A. HOLTRY, Plaintiff,
71 By Grimm & Wilcox, her Attys,
NOTICE.
Helen S. Adams, defendant, will take notice that
on the 3d day of February. 1893. Watson E. Beach.
plaintiff herein, filed bis petition in the district
court of Lincoln county, Nebraska, against Wen
dell D. Waldo, Maggie F. Waldo, Helen 8. Adams,
and others, the object and prayer of which are
to have a certain sheriff's deed, bearing date of
Narcn zist, ltav, and conveying to said defendant,
Wendall D. Waldo, the west half ot section 18,
township 13 north, of range 30 west, declared null
and void and cancelled of record.
Also to have the certain pretended mortgage
executed by said defendants, Wendall D. Waldo
and Maggie F. Waldo nis wile, to tne said defend
ant Helen S. Adams on the 19th day of April, 1892,
ana conwying tne wesc nan or section ih, town'
ship 13. ramie 80 west, and all of block 11 in Mil
ler's addition to the city ot North Platte, Lincoln
county, Nebraska, to secure the payment of the
pretended sum of $7,000 declared illegal, fraudu
lent and void and of no force or effect in law and
that the same be cancelled of record.
Also to have the certain judgment obtained by
piamun nerein on tne zjm aay or November, lsrc,
in the district court of Lincoln county. Nebraska.
against the said defendant W.D. Waldo for the
sum of rjQ93.t6 and costs of suit taxed at H4.S8.
which sum with Interest remains due and unpaid.
declared the first and best lien upon all the prem
ises nerein last a Dove described.
Aud plaintiff further prays for a decree that said
premises be sold to satisfy the amount found due
plaintiff npon his said judgment with interest and
costs.
Ton are required to answer said potition on or
oerore ine lwa aay oi April, ikm.
Dated February 28th, 1893.
WAT80N E. BEACH.
84 By Gbihe & Wilcox, his Attorneys.
ORDER OF HEARING.
The Statk of Nebraska, ) .
Lincoln Corazx. s
At a county court, held at the cocnty court room
in ana ior saia county. laarcn b, 1813.
Present, James M. Bay, County Judge.
In the matter of the Estate of Walter Papworlh,
deceased.
On reading and filing tho petition of Lizzie
Stevens, praying that administration of sold es
tate may be granted to her as administrator.
Ordered that March 23. 1893. at 2 o'clock p. m,
Is assigned for hearing said petition, when all per
sons interested in said matter may appear at a
county court to be held in and for said county.
and show-cause why the prayer of petitioner
should not be granted, and that notice of the pen
dency oi said petition and nearing tnereot, be
given to all persons interested in said matter by
publishing a copy of this order in the North
Platte Tribune, a weekly newspaper printed in
said county, for three successive weeks prior to
said day of bearing.
A true copy. JAMES M. BAY,
93 County Judge.
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CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE.
or tne young woman ana 'an -article -m
tomorrow's paper, which, for the effect
it will have, might as well be inserted
under the head "Personal" and read
thus:
"If the gentlemen who. have been in
the habit of employing a young person
in faded mourning to disseminate falla
cious half eagles" in this community do
not find it convenient to remove their
business for the present to some other
place they will incur the danger of being
involved in the unfortunate disaster
which has befallen her."
"And this, Mr. Leguleius Quidam.l
concmaea, "is the great service to .Xne
community which yon and Mrs. Quidara.
nave rendered!"
An officer had called in the afternoon
to tell me that .the prisoner's residence
had been found and searched, but that
no further discoveries had been made.
This, however, enabled me to find the.
unfortunate mother and provide some
scanty comforts for her in her terrible
affliction.
In doing this I felt that I was but per
forming a duty. Society, I reasoned!
with myself, finds it needful for its own
protection to take the guilty daughter
and shut her up in jail, but the daughter
is the innocent mother's only support;
ergo society must take that daughter's
place. And as I felt that society in the
abstract might be somewhat remiss in
the performance of its duty I ordered'
some fuel and groceries and went home,
feeling myself to be an embodiment of
the whole social economy.
CHAPTER HL
The course of retributive justiceas
administered here on earth has tticM
different paces than Rosalind has attrib
uted to time, but "those with whom it
lags withal" are not often the poor and
friendless. A few days only elapsed
before I was summoned as a witness to
attend the trial of Alice Sumner. In
the meantime both Mr. Bullion and
myself made great but fruitless efforts
to obtain a further insight into the true
facts of the case.
The prisoner herself made no eonfes-J
Pion, but constantly asserted her inno
cence, to the great discomfiture of the
broker and the unutterable perplexity
of myself. I sought in vain for a flaw
in the chain of evidence against her or,
a chance to establish her innocence by
other facts. Even the general testimony
of good character the last frail reed on
which she leaned seemed to bend be
neath her. She and her mother had but
lately come to the city, and to all our in
quiries as to their former home and
friends we received only courteous but
evasive answers. It was evident that
some dark cloud of sorrow,; if net oj
crime, hung over their past history, andPf!
mis, wniie it uiu not uimimsu tne in?
terest I felt in her, sadly weakened my
confidence in her defense. (
It was the day before the trial, and 1 .
sat in my office musing painfully on thei
dark feature of the case, when a stranger
entered. The first glance assured me
that he was one of a class of clients with
which most of our city lawyers are fa
miliar. A seedy, decrepit old man,
humble yet querulous, dejected and yet
the
fAU
"Du heavens!" I shouted, collaring
old man,
prosecution ana was a most important
one for the defense, and above all I felt
that my own personal sympathies were
too strongly excited for the prisoner to
manage the affair with requisite cool
ness and skill. Flourish, however, who
saWin the case nothing but a very com-
Lmonplace incident of criminal practice,
was not easily to be persuaded.. The
sensibilities of an elderly lawyer in
large practice lie very far down and are
covered by a thick rind of worldly wis
dom. "Consider, my dear sir," said he,
"how many cases of this kind are oc
curring every day, and now precious
my time is to me. 'Pon my word, my
clients would be in a pretty mess if
spent my time on petty affairs like this."
. "Petty affair to;you, Mr. Flourish, I
icnow, Dut not to mat young gin, tne
fate of whose whole life here, and per
haps hereafter, hangs on that trial. One
hour ot sucn assistance as yours may
save her."
"Really, Quidam"
"If such a fee as I could offer out of
my own pocket would tempt you"
"It would tempt me, sir, if you offered
it. It would tempt me to kick you out
of your own office, and then go home,
feeling that I had broken friendship
with the softest hearted, simplest headed
fool at the bar. Why, man, you would
turn the whole fraternity into a gang of
knights errant, roaming up and down
Wall street seeking to set this crooked
world straight again."
"And so they ought to be, Mr. Flour
ish.-"
"Hum! I can't say I'm ready to give
an opinion on that matter. But the girl,
I see, is fairly on my hands. I'll just
step down and tell my j'oung men to put
one or two things off till next day and
borne back to go over the case again with
visionary, bearing about a tattered and
worn collection of papers and pitifully
urging his tale of wrong and suffering,
from which tho patient listener gleans
at the same time a belief that the sad
tale is true and a melancholy conviction
that knavery has so cunningly hidden
or time so long obliterated the evidences
of the wrong that no court save that of
the Omniscient can ever set it right.
I turned from the man more pettishly
than I should have done hut for the sub
ject that engrossed my thoughts. The,
poor old man's spirits were too, mucn
broken to take offense at my rudeness.
Beseechingly he added:
I did not mean to give you trouble
for nothing, sir. 1 bave but little to
offer you now, but 1 will pay you liber
ally when I gain my case. You 6hall
have you see I mean to be generous
let me see I cannot recover less than
twenty thonsand dollars itmay be thir
ty, or even forty and you shall have a
quarter of it all. Think of that, sir!
Ten thousand dollars for one case!!'
And my client threw himself back in
his chair, feeling for the thousandth
time, poor fellow, that his troubles were
almost ovor and the phantom in pur
suit of which his life had been wasted
at least within his grasp. But 1 had
had many such clients before, and when
CHAPTER IT.
Zwas"kffsy with the police authorities
that evening and had no time to com
munjeate with Alice, but the next morn
iny when I saw her brought into court,
looking so broken hearted and helpless,
I blamed myself for having left her thus
to drink the cup of bitterness to the very
dregs. In a few whispered words I bade
her be of good cheer, but she scarcely
seemed to heed me at all, so oppressed
I was very young at the bar had been
dazzled more than ouce in the same way.
"How much can you afford me as a
retainer?"'
"Now?" He seemed to be engaged in
an abstruse calculation as if over the
resources of a nation. "Ten thousand
dollars when the case is finished, say six
snonths or a year hence. Suppose tres;y-
five dollars, sir, on account."
There was something so painfully eager
in the look that accompanied these words
that I suppressed the smile which had
been prompted by the pashos in his offer
and signified my acceptance. My client
drew from his pocket a lank purse, and
from the purse a solitary coin. Poor
dreamer, he was paying his all for this
one more ticket in the lottery!
I had opened my Hps to bid him leave
his papers and take back the coin when
my eye fell on it. One scrutinizing
glance, and I jumped from my seat as if
llectnhed by the UttJo piece of gold.
"Where did you get this money, sir?''
A transient gleam of former fire shone
in the old man's eje.
"I do not see, sir, what that has to do
with my case."
"By heavens!" I shouted, collaring tho
old man and fairly lifting him out of
his seat, "if you do not tell mo this ir
stant"
Just at this moment my office door
opened to admit my learned and eloquent
.1 ttm rt rm.i. 1.1.-1. - 1
friend Flourish. What that eminent
counsel thought of the scene I do not
care to guess. Tho personal appearance
of my client was not suggestive of any
temptation to a felonious assault, nor
did his manner indicate any provocation
which could have called for chastise
ment; and these two suppositions being
impossible, Mr. Flourish stared with un
disguised amazement at my unprofes
sional conduct. His presence brought
me to myself, and with many apologies
I explained that this coin, which, as my"
hearers would notice, was peculiarly
marked, had formerly been in my pos
session, and that I was anxious, for par
ticular reasons, to trace its subsequent
history.
The old man hesitated and stammered
and cast so many side glances at .the
door that I began to think we had fallen
upon one of the chief conspirators. Here
Mr. Flourish caino to my assistance
with his blandest smile aud most mel
lifluous tone, and in five minutes phad
drawn from my client all that ho knew
about it. Assuring myself that he w,ortld
attend and testify to the same facts dh
the following day I dismissed him, and
then rapidly recounted to Flourish the
facts of the case. The hard old lawyer
listened complacently, and when I had
finished dryly expressed an opinion that
the young woman should be acquitted.
I had conceived'a hope while telling
the story of interesting Mr. Flourish
sufficiently in the case to induce him to-
undertake the management of the de
fense. For that task I felt myself dis
qualified by other causes beside my want
m - - .
01 experience in criminal law. I was
liable to be called as a witness for th
was she by the sight of the crowd and
the koen sense of her forlorn condition
oave ner poor motlier, wno nad risen
from a sick bed to accompany her, she
did not know that she had a friend
there. Even I, though she knew I
meait her kindly, had been the unwill
f-ing means of placing her there.
1 looked eagerly around the court
room. On a front bench sat Mr. For
ceps, the. pawnbroker, chief witness for
Uhe prosecution, and some distance be
Lhind was jut old client, trnn to his
-ifcwmjse. andjileased o have at last a
Tpairt to take in court. It seemed to him
like a little rehearsal for the great drama
01 nis own case.
The district attorney opened tho case,
and was about to call me as the first
witness. Mr. Flourish had not yet made
his appearance. Greatly to my relief
the pawnbroker came forward and
whispered into the attorney's ear, who
immediately called him to the stand.
"I believe I must give Mr. Forceps tho
precedence," he said to me.
"I think yon had better, Brother Row
land," answered Flourish over my shoul
der, at the same time divesting himself
of his overcoat, and distributing good
humored though somewhat patronizing
recognitions among the smaller fry of
lawyers around him.
Mr. Forceps testified to the attempt
made to pass the counterfeit coin on
him, as previously detailed. His direct
examination was soon over, and he
turned to Mr. Flourish with a smile of
confidence, which to me seemed not al
together natural. It looked as if he
wero bracing himself up for a contest of
nerve with the counsel for the defense.
But if Mr. Forceps looked for a grand
display of inquisitorial tactics he was'
destined to bo mistaken. Mr. Flourish
simply turned for a moment toward him
remarking:
"I only want to know if I have under
stood you aright, Mr. Forceps. I think
you said this was your only transaction
with the prisoner I mean the only oc
casion on which you received money
from her."
"I never received any money at all
from her unless you .call that thing
money," pointing to the coin. "Perhaps
you call that money, but I don't, sir."
And Mr. Forceps smiled approvingly at
his own retort.
"How long did I understand that you
had this coin in your possession?" bland
ly rejoined the counsel.
"No time at all. I knew it was bad the
minute it touched the drawer and took
it out and returned it."
"You took it out and returned it?" re
plied Flourish, as if mechanically re
peating the words. "That will do, sir."
Mr. Bullion then testified to the char
acter of the coin and to the prisoner's ad
mission in my office that it was the same
one she had offered to tho pawnbroker.
The prosecution rested.
Without anj formal opening of the
defense Mr. Flourish nodded to me and
I took the stand. The district attorney
threw himself back in his chair and
listened carelessly while I detailed the
particulars of my interview with Alice
on the eventful Saturday night. But
when I mentioned the knife marks on
the coin I had given her his practiced
mind foresaw at once our line of defense.
It was doubtless the first intimation he
had received that any substantial de
fense would be attempted, and m his
surprise he started to his feet and di
rected a searching glance first at me
and then in rapid succession at the
prisoner, her counsel and his own wit
nesses.
Have you ever seen that marked coin
since. Mr. Quidam?"
"I have."
tli or "Decern oer, iroin '"Jar. " orceps,
the pawnbroker."
"How can you be so positive as to'the
precise date, Mr. Grosvenor, and the
identity of the coin?" asked the district
attorney.
"The date, sir, I fix by this," produc
ing one of Mr. Forceps' tickets, "and
the coin ah me, sir, it is the only gold
piece I have had for many a long day.
I have spent my money in the law, sir;
but I am going to get it all back soon.
You must know I have a case, sir"
From the details of, Mr. Grosvenor's
case we were saved by the district at
torney. His hawk eye had caught a
glimpse of his chief witness gliding soft
ly through the crowd toward the door.
"Mr. Forceps! Mr. Forceps! Officer,
close that door and let no man pass," he
thundered. "Bring that witness back
here!"
Flushed with excitement, his fine form
drawn up to its utmost height, and his
glorious eyes flashing with indignation
at the foul wrong which had been at
tempted and almost effected in the sacred
name of justice, he stood, surrounded by
an astonished group, the only one that
seemed to retain any self possession,
Even we who had been in the secret
and planned the surprise, were less mas
ters of the scene. He looked indeed
all that he was the faithful minister of
retributive justice, magnifying his office
by a love of right, before which all petty
ambitions sank into nothingness.
It scarcely need be added that the jury
acquitted Alice without leaving their
box, and that the pawnbroker, charged
both with uttering counterfeit coin and
with perjury, slept that night in the cell
she had left. Perhaps some time I may
tell of what afterward happened to her
as well as to my old client and his inter
minable case, rsut now there is sadness
on my heart as I think of that scene in
court, and I am garrulous no longer.
THE END.
speeadmgTsunshine
BLIND JENNIE'S PATHETIC STORY OF
WAYS OF DOING GOOD.
fWhen and where?"
"It is nere, said l, producing it. "i
received it back about ten days ago from
a client, Mr. Richard Grosvenor."
Having satisfied myself that I was
positive as to the identity of the coin
the district attorney aiioweu me to stanu
aside, and Mr. Flourish called Grosven
or, who of course confirmed my state
ment as to the receipt ot tne coin from
him at the time of its reappearance.
"Will yon state, Mr. Grosvenor, if
you can, now mai com came uiw j our
hands?'
"I received it, said the old man a
slight color coming into nis moooiess
face "on the evening of Saturday, the
Detecting ImpUre Air.
Mr. John Aitken has, it is said, in
vented an instrument by which the
degree of impurity which may exist in
the air of any room or place can be de
terminea easily anu accurately, it is a
development of his invention for count
ing the dust particles held in suspension
in the air, both of them being based on
the ascertained fact that a particle of
dust at a certain temperature and de
gree of moisture in the atmosphere
becomes a free surface which attracts
the moisture, and thus turns into a
cloud particle. By passing a jet of
steam through a tube containing ah
impregnated with dust, Mr. Aiken has
found that colors, varying from a deli
cate green to deep blue, are exhibited
by the particles of moisture thus formed.
Each of these tints, which may be
checked off by tinted glass, indicates the
degree in which the air is impregnated
with dust particles. It may be mentioned
that Dr. Angus Smith found as great a
percentage of carbonic acid in the air of
country districts as in town, and thatDe
Saussure found more on mountains than
in plains. English Mechanic.
The Vanilla Bean.
A Portland wholesale firm recently
received tho largest consignment of
vanilla beans that ever came into the
state of Maine. It is worth $12,000,
though its bulk would occupy but six
teen cubic feet. Imagine a tin box eight
een inches wide aud seven inches deep
and filled with bundles of long, slim,
black bean pods. Imagine that quantity
of vegetables worth nearly $4."50, and you
will have some idea of the value of the
vanilla bean. The consignment consists
of twenty-eight of these tin boxes.
This bean is so valuable because it
grows in put very few sections of the
earth's surface, and is difficult of culture
because it is a parasite of certain trees.
These particular beans came from Mex
ico and are therefore considered the-best.
Nobody but the natives can cure them
properly, the secret being handed down
from father to son and kept a secret,
though many Americans have endeav
ored to discover it. Bangor Commercial.
A Long Rest Between Chapters.
A short time ago one of Manchester's
well known school teachers was stopped
on the street by a young man who
entered into conversation with her. He
seemed to know her well, but to save
her life she could not place him. "You
do not remember me," he said after a
few moments' talk. The teacher ad
mitted the fact. "I am So-and-so," he
replied, "and seventeen years ago I used
to go to school to you." She recalled
him, then, when he said: "I remember
one day you started to tell the class
story, but before you had time to finish
it you were interrupted by a telegram
and did not complete tho tale. I have
often wondered how it came out, and if
you can I wish you would tell me." "If
you will repeat the first part I will try,"
said the schoolma am. The young man
did so, and the teacher then told tim
how the story "came out." Manchester
(N. H.) Union.
The Audience Was Pleased.
A lecturer on optics, in explaining the
mechanism of the organ of vision, re
marked, "Let any man gaze closely into
his wife s ci'e and ho will see himself
oking so exceedingly small that
Here the lecturer's voice was drowned
by the shouts of laughter and applause
which greeted his scientific remark.
London Tit Bits.
"Well Paid For Ticking.
Colonel Efcenezer Sproat, who was
born in jUidcieDorongn, juass., m iw,
served through tho Revolutionary war
with distinction and being a soldier him
self naturally thought that soldiers en
gaged in their country's defense deserved
to bo handsomely treated. His father,
it appears, kept a tavern. Early in tho
war, whilo Ebenczer was a captain, he
was at homo on a short furlough, and
one day threo privates, on their way
homo from tho army, called at tho house
for a cold luncheon.
Mrs. Sproat set on the tablo some
bread and cheese, with tho remains of
the family dinner. Ebenczer thought
this rather scanty faro for hungry men,
especially as tho bone3 were already
pretty bare. However, tho men satis
fied their appetites and asked what was
to pay. Captain Sproat answered that
ho did not know, ho wfculd ask his moth
er, and going to the kitchen door he
said:
"Mother, how much is it worth to pick
these bones?"
"About a shilling, I suppose," sho an
swered. t
Ho went back to the room, took from
ihe drawer 3 shillings, and with a smil
ing face handed them to the men, at tho
same time wishing them good day and a
pleasant journey.
When they had been gone a few min
utes, Mra. Sproat returned and asked
Ebenezer what ho had dono with the
money that tho men had paid him.
"Paid me!" said tho captain, with an
air of amazement "Didn't I ask you
what it was worth to pick those bones,
Site Bas Bailt a Teaple la a Tenemeat,
Where She Holds Saaday School Each
Saturday mad Snaday She Bas Scattered
Sunshine la Many Homes.
In a little east side tenement she lives,
woman "sore afflicted unto God," yet
who knows notihe nature of repining.
Ah, no! If you ask any child of the
neighborhood to tell you the happiest,
sweetest, mo3t tranquil person in it,
wager they'll shout with unanimity,
"Bund Jennie!"
And it is true as true can be. The right
has gone forever from the eyes, a blight
rests on tho feeble body, but on the
peaceful soul and on the mind illumed
are lights no doctor's or magician's sMI
could conjure up, and Jennie, "Blind
Jennie," everybody's friend in Lewis
street, basks in eternal sunshine.
A simple little story is Jennie's, a story
that I might fill full of tears, I suppose,
and much sentimentality. But what is
the use of weeping if Jennie smiles? Is
it not better to rejoice that the little
heroine has found so much good to do in
the world which has so little good to
offer her?
She was struck by lightning many years
ago at least, that is the cause her moth
er gives of her blindness. This mother,
with whom sho lives, is a little flighty at
times, and that is one of Jennie's crosses,
but it is her unflagging industry, going
about tho streets peddling soap, matches
and 3imcracks, which pays the rent and
brings bread to tho poor tenement which
the two call home. The bad boys often
chase the old woman, taking advantage
of her feeble mind, and harass her
greatly. There is no crueler beast in
the jungles uf Asia than the bad boy.
and he has not tho beast's excuse for
cruelty.
After Jennie had been blind some time
the disfiguring disease attacked her face
It ate awy her mouth and noso and
compelled her to wear a thick veil when
ever she went out to tho church or Sun
day school. Doctors said it was a can
cer, and attempts were mado by land
friends to get Jennie admitted to the
Cancer hospital, but the physicians there
said that it was no cancer. And so, with
that cruelty which sometimes marks the
conduct of our hospital attendants,
sworn to mercy and kindness, poor Jen
nie was driven from one institution to
another, and none would have her. None
would have her! Shame be it on the
name of every onol
And so she retreated to the poor little
tenement behind another tenement and
prepared to livo out her life as best she
might.
And then began her Sunday school.
She did not seek for scholars. They
came to her as tho sparrows did to look
for crumbs upon tho window sill. They
wero tho children of tho very poor.
Somo of them were of Hebrew birth.
ike Jennie, others wero Roman Catho
ics. Others did not know if they had
been born to any creed, unless it were
the creed of poverty and anguish.
How they crowded into that little
room! What comfort they found there
under tho spell of the blind girl, who
seemed to them to talk with the tongue
of angels! How they awakened the
echoes of a region which usually re
sounded to tho songs and curses of the
drunken and the vile!
Two Sundays in Jennie's week Sat
urday for tho Jews and Sunday for tho
Gentiles.
Ono day a littlo girl came up to the
room.
I want to come to Sunday school,"
sho said.
But there i3 no Sunday school tilT
after dinner."
"Well, I ain't going to have no dinner
today, so I guess I'll stay and wait."
You may be suro that she was made
welcome, and that sho did have dinner
that day with Jennie and her mother.
And that is the land of child who be-
ongs to Jennie's Sunday school. There
are fully SO who belong to it, and who
attend either one day or the other.
Jennie's knowledge of the Scriptures
and of the hymns sung in the mission
and at her homo is marvelous. If the
words of a hymn whoso music attracts
her are read to her several times, she re
members them forever after. The sing
ing is one of the great attractions to the
little ones.
The members of Jennie's class do not
meet at stated hours, but run in when
ever they desire.
Ah, what a glorious thing it was that
the hospitals turned Jennie from their
inhospitable doors! Sho would have
been so useless in those warm and cheer
ful rooms a recipient of their alms and
nothing else, whereas she has turned her
tenement into a temple and filled one
of the darkest corners of the city with
the light and the grace of God.
Hope Mission chapel keeps its eye on
Jennie and her mother and keeps the
wolf from entering at the door, as it
would do sometimes if they wero left
absolutely unaided. The good people,
who are not overrich themselves, help
them out with the rent and the coal man.
A few days ago the missionary went
shopping for Jennie, and this was what
he bought after paying out $3 for the
rent: Quilt, $1.50: cot, $1.25; under
clothing, $1.73; pillow, 74 cents; sheets,
CS cents; two cups and saucers and two
knives and forks. SI cents, and wash
board, 18 cents.
"Tho fund from which wo drew these
little purchases," said Pastor John B.
Devins to me, "was only 87, but we
found that Jennie absolutely needed i
then, and that settled tho matter with
us.
There was a great time when Jennie's
Sunday school celebrated Christmas.
Such songs, such games, such recita
tions! And then there was a collection
taken up to build a Presbyterian church
in Pratt, Minn., and when Jennie count-
d out the largess of her little ones there
vas ono wliolo dollar to go to tnat
vorthy fund!
1 wonder if any millionaire m Jew
York gave so largely of his store as did
Bund Jeimio s children! rew York
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