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'I I 'i is 'fx V. 4 1 1 I 'I it 4 l)c gtUitmcc. PUBUWHKD BY '','" . . , the alliance: PUB. CO. LINCOLN, - NEBRASKA. Gen. bincim.vs's mau is large enough c ich day to till a bushel bas ket, - 7".. ;". Lieut. Schwatka, of Arctic fame, has returned to lh country after a lomj tour fn Mexico. - The Empress "of Germany has recei ved a necklace value! at $150,000, the gift of the Sultan of Turkey. - m Julian Pauncefote has made a good impression in Washington. He is alw.iyjj good natured and ij inclined to admire America and Americans, j Kate Chase Sprag us is writing a biography of- her father, the late Chief Justics Chase. Sho , also con templates publishing a volu me of per sonal memoirs. The Lord Mayor of London's dress suit for ordinary evenings is of black velvet, with a point lace frill, tights, jsilk stockings, diamond buckle3 inv the jshoes and a diamond-hilted sword. England has received by the will of the late Mrs. Beckett, of Torquay, six valuable paintings by Murillo, Ho garth, Rubens, Greuze, Cuyp and Kuysdnel. They are worth $30,000 One of the handsomest women in Washington is the wife of ex-Senator and ex-Kegistor Bruce. Her face is fine and oval, her features regular and her complexion not near so dark as that of the conventional Cuban or Spanish beauty. Mr. Bruce himself is light colored. United States Consul Mason, ol Marseilles, writes to the State Depart ment that the effects of general and unrestrained absinthe-drinking in France are now recognized as forming a basis of One of the gravest dangers which threaten the physical and moral f-the French people. It is said that M. Guonod, the om poser, who is a man of inteuse religi ous convictions, once spent an hour upon his knees praying for the conver sion of Sarah Bernhardt, in that lady's presence. Sarah's response was short but not very sweet, and at last she had to turn him out of her house. The Emperor of China is seldom .; disturbed in his sleep. ... A Pekin paper ! announces that "strict surveillance is N-kept by the gendarmerie around the palace to prevent the imperial re pose being broken by firing of crack ers, street cries or wrangling voices, the blowing of horns or noisy mar riage or funeral proces.3ion3.'? The -Sultan of Morocco Is gradually beginning lo understand that the world is not afndd of him? A diplomat who was received by him the other day kept his hat on during the reception, which t xk. place in the open air, and ihe Sultan did not resent it. Hereto fore he had compelled diplomats to stand bareheaded before him while he sat on horseback. B king am Young, Jii.. has been fly ing quilo high in Washington society, having a pleasant home and an agree able wife and o it3riainiag liberally. Some . meddlesome people, however, have investigated Mr. Young's matri monial record, and ; society is shocked to learn that lie has three wive3 and families in Salt Lake City, while it is darkly hinted that some of the back counties are still to bo beard from on the subject. The many :;dmiiev3 of "Bill Arp," whose 'delightful contributions to .the press Lave won for him well-deserved fame, will be pleased to learn that that genial cntUma: has had a stroke of rare good fortune. Some years ago a Georgia bank in which his means were deposited failed. He took a piece of land in Alabama belonging to the bank, but supposed to be almost worthless at the time. Iron ore was discovered up on it and tho development of the same has made him fairiy wealthy. Wkitting of the late Professor Chevreul, when he was a century old, a correspondent said "There is a strange, almost weird, look about his personal appearance. His head is large and powerful, forehead broad, eyes bright and clear, but some what given to blinking; "nose aquiline and rather prominent, and the lower lip droop3 just enough to show a per fectly preserved set of teeth. With the exception of a little round spot at the top, his head is covered with a thiok mass of perfectly white hair, which stands up a3 stiff and prim as" a Masachusetts militiaman. Count Tolstoi, the Russian author, like our own Mark Twain, can't write in a "fixed-up" room. His study is de void of carpets, paintings or statuary. An old lounge, two unpretentious tables littered with manuscripts of all kinds, and two stiff-backed chaira con stitute the only furniture in the room. The room is divided into two compart ments by an unpainted" wooden parti tion, which runs half way up. to the eeiling, and from which .depend two wooden rakes used by Tolstoi in his garden. In one corne r stands a wood' en spade above it, hanging from a wooden peg, Tolstoi's great evercoat. The fallacy of the old saying "that lightning never strikes twice in the same place" is shown by the following; Geneva Special: Samuel Blair, a farmer living four miles west of town, Had his windmill struck by lightning one evening during the recent heavy storms, and torn all to pieces, and the following evening his wife, while standing in the yard, jwas knocked down by lightning and seriously hurt. Three head of cattle and one valuable horse were killed at the same time. GEMS. Sel'ctel Frcm Ocr Beit Autaon. --Lofty Labor Sentiment. There is nothing stronger than hu man prejudice. ' The honors we grant mark Itowhigh we stand, and they educate the future. No matter whose the lips that would speak, they must be free and ungagged. Right forever on the scaff .jld, wrong for ever on the throne; Bat the scaff jld swavs the future, and behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own." Let us believe that the whole of truth can never do harm to the whole of virtue. -" The men we honor and ,the maxims we lay down ia measuring our favorites show the level and morals of the time. The list lesson a man ever learns is, that liberty of thought and speech is the origin of all mankind ; that the man who denies every article of our creed is to be allowed to preach just as often and just as loud as we ourselves. We have learned this, been taught it by prosecution on the question of labor. If we lived in England, if we lived in France or Germany, the philosophy of our labor movement might be dif ferent. For there stand accumulated wealth, hungry churches and old nobles & class which popular agitation, but slowly affects. To these public opin ion is obliged to bow. But not so thank God in these United States, we, the laboring masses farmers " and mechanics are the public opinion, if errors are made, we ourselves are to blame. ' This is what the labor cause asks of you, my friends, . and the moment you shall be willing to do this, to rely upon yourselves, that moment the truths that you have often read from the pen of Powderly,whom the country regards as one of its greatest benefac tors, will shine over your path, assuring you that out of this agitation as sure as the sun shines at noonday the fu ture character ' of the American gov ernment will be formed in keeping with the wants of the many, not of the few. "Worshipping the tongue, let us be willing at all times to be known throughout the communiiy as the All talk party. The age of bullets is over. The age of men armed in mail is over. The age of thrones has gone by. The age of statesmen God be praised ! such statesmen as were in the last Nebraska legislature is over. The age of workingmen has come. "With the help of God, then, every man we can reach we will set thinking on the subject of labormen's .rights. They have put wickedness into the statute books, and its destruction is just is certain as if they had put gun powder under the capitol. That is our faith. That it is which turns our eyes from the ten thousand newspapers, from tho 60,000 pulpits, from the mil lions of republicans, from the millions of democrats, from the might of sect, from the marble government, from the iron army, from the navy riding at anchor, from all that we are accustomed to deem great and potent, turns it back to the simplest child or woman, to the first murmured protest that is heard against bad laws. W e recognize m the great future tae first rumblings of that volcano destined to overthrow these mighty prepara tions, and bury in the hot lava of its full excitement all this laughing pros perity which now rests so secure on it3 side. - Wbei'3 e'er you meet u dozen earnest men pledged to a new idea wherever you have met them, you have met the beginning of a revolution. . llevolutions re not made ; thev come. A revolu tion is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. The child feels; he grows into a man, and thinks; another, perhaps, speaks and the world acts out the thought. And this is the history of modern .society. Men un dervalue the labor movement because they, imagine you can always put your finger on some illustrious moment in history and say, Here commenced the great change which has come over the nation. Not so. The beginning of great changes is like the rise of the Mississippi. A child must stoop and gather away the pebbles to find" it. But soon it swells broader and broader, bears on its ample bosom the navies of a mighty republic, nils the gulf and divides a continent. We want the laborman and farmer to turn their eyes from institutions to men. The difficulty of the present day and with us is, we are bullied by in stitutions. A man gets up in the pul pit, or sits on the bench, and we allow ourselves to be bullied by the judge or clergyma i, when, if he-stood side by side with us on the brick pavement, as a simple individual, his ideas would not have disturbed our clear thoughts an hour. Now the dnty of each labor mau is this Stand upon the pedestal of your own individual independence, summon these institutions about you, and judge them. The question is deep enough to require this judgment of you. It seems to us the dea of our civil ization underlying all American life is that men do not need any guardian. We need no safeguard. Not only the inevitable but the best power this side of the ocean is the unfettered average common sense of the masses. Institu tions, as we are accustomed to call them, are but paste board, and intended to be, against the thought of the street. Statutes (law) are mere mile stones, telling how far yesterday's thought had travelled, and the talk of the side walk today is the law of the land. " You may regret this, but the fact stands ; and if our fathers foresaw the full effect of their principles, they must have planned and expected it. With us, law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion. Let that die or grow indif ferent, and (law) statutes are waste paper, lack all executive force. You may frame them as strong as language can make, but once change public feeling, and through them or over them rides the real wise of the people. "We are blamed for the bitterness of our language and the personality of our attacks. -It results from our posi tion. The great mass of the people can never be made to stay and argue a long question. They must be made to fvel it through the hides of their idols. When we have launched our spear into the rhinoceros' hide of a Burr, an Im hoff, a Sawyer, (ex-mayor.) a Brock, or a Sheldon and show how false and dishonest are their assessments ; and with what brazen impudence they avoid paying their just portion of the com munity's taxes every one of this igno rant, but lately grown rich cod-fish aristocracy feel it. Well can they af ford to be leaders of society, give grand entertainments, etc., etc., God gives us great scoundrels for texts to labor sermons. ; Let us see to it, when na ture and rotten laws have provided us with assessment list monsters, that we exhibit them themselves a whole menagerie to the tax payers throughout Lancaster county. Frandnlent Assessments. -U laboring Men Should Look at Some of the City Assessments and Com pare Them With Their Own. A LIVERY STABLE ASSESSED AT $.30.00. Divea as Usual Gets the Bnl?e on Lazarus "Bum" for Assessors not Bight--The City Assessments Should be Published V How' Long, 0 Lordl QQohanan ros, made a display of their livery on the streets on last Wednesday. A person would think at first sight that Barnum had entered, grand and costly equipages, with two elegant and costly hearses made up this pageant of which QQohanan ros. are so proud the reporter of the Laborer concluded he would ascertain what as QQsessment ohanan ros. gave in to the city, thinking of course that it would be up in the thousands. Laboringmen, clerks,yes all we poor mortals that have to pay a poll tax, because we are too poor to own a home. Even on the in stallment plan what do you think it was? Just $30.00. Presumably an error, as you no doubt will hear when this article is read. Eut right here the Laborer will say, errors are al ways to be found in favor of the rich man as against the city. The trades council of this city should insist on the assessment lists of this city being published in our city papers. Mayor Graham and the city council should pass an ordinance to that effect, then every tax payer could see for him self, and it is useless to attempt a proper adjustment in any other way. The assessors f this city should be first class men, not "bums," to whom a large salary should be paid, then this city would not lose millions of honest assessments, as is the case today. SABBATH BEADING. TO YOUNG WOMEN. Be Acquainted With your Power, Control Tour Icflutnce. and Exert Both fcr tae Good of Your Bsc. What domestic or social bliss can you anticipate with the intemperate ? A tender companion he cannot be. The master passion that consumes him has burned up all that softness, all that makes man an affectionate friend. Experience, univeisal as suffering from this cause answers, that intemperance and domestic peace and good dwell not under the same roof. You will De held in the most servile bondage. In your weakest and feeblest moments, when you need all the sympathy that the warmest and truest love, can impart, the intemperate husband will leave you for the haunts of noisy revelry, and drown all thought f you in the maddening bowl. He will lavish on the dissolute the love he has pledged to you alone; and from the scenes of noisy mirth and boisterous glee, he will return to in flict upon you curses and blows. Bet ter, young woman, will it be for you to have a millstone about your neck than to be united to an intemperate man But yuu can reform such a man, you say. If the man of your choice now indulges in the cup which hurls reason from its throne and drives affection from the breast, he will be pursuaded for your sake to dash the poison from his lips. So thousands have thought, and ou this hope, this Cape Expecta tion, have wrecked their happiness forever. Will it not be wise to try your power before you put yourself wholly in the hands of the intemper ate? If a young man will not reform to gain your love, he will not, be as sured, when you have less influence over him. If he changes not at yo jr entreaty this side the altar, he will not on the other. I have known the young wife and mother endure almost everything from the husband and drunkard. I have known the bride of yesterday, on whom the sun shone brightly, cheered from the shore as she began the voyage of life, by the warm wishes and kindly congratulations of many friends; and I have seen her return suddenly to the home she loft when she became a bride to hide herself from the cold scandal of th woild in the bosom of her mo ther ; but never have I known an in stance in which reform in after life t hrough theiEfluenceofawife. If you are confident that power of persuasion is great, and that you can succeed, try that power before the bridal tour is taken. Publius. Last year 140,000 sheep were fed for market at Fremont and 160,000 head have already been contracted for this year. THE MARKETS. Lrxcoii, Neb, CATTLE Butchers' steers.. $2 50 S 50 Cows. 2 00 2 75 HOGS Fat 3 25 (53 7J Stackers 2 fO (&2 2 SHEEP............ .15 (52 10 WHEAT No. 2 spring 65 (3 80 OATS No. 2 18 1 20 RYE No. 2.. 30 ( 35 juii mo. new IV On 21 . FLAXSEED 1 35 01 40 ' POTATOES 25 3J APPLES Genetin, per bbl... 3 CO (33 50 HAY Prairie, bult.... 4 0 5 CO v Omaha, Neb. CATTLEPrime steers ...... $3 70 Jc3 &5 Cows 1 75 (d2 25 HOGS Fair to heavy 4 10 04 15 Mixed 4 CO 4 10 Kansas Cot, Mo. CATTLE Corn fed..........S2 SO 3 85 Feeders 2 CO 3 10 HOGS Good to choice 4 05 4 30 Mixed 4.00 ($i 10 . Chicago, Iix. CATTLE Prime steers. .. . . .93 35 04 25 Btocsera and f eeders 2 25 03 30 HOGS Pac Woe.. 4 25 04 50 SHEEP Natives 3 50 05 10 WHEAT $ 83 oobn ;;; $w CUEREXl ETEXTS It can hardly be considered strange if there is a large and general decline in the revenues of all Irish associa tions in America, as a consequence 3f the charges of robbery that have been made public since the death o Dr. Cronin. '.,: M- .: . Pkince Alois Schwabzenberg, the victim of the latest fatal duel in Vi mna, owned 23 breweries, four sugar refineries," one oil manufactory 23 saw mills, one bakery, four water mills, 46 brick kilns and a host of farms, cottages and manufactories. . The bulk of the water of the ocean has a low temperature. It is ice-cold at the bottom, even tinder the equa tor, but on the surface within the tropics there is relatively a thin film of warm water, with a temperature of from 70 deg. to 84deg. F. Fort Keogh, Mont., has the widest range of temperature of any place on earth. Last summer the thermometer ranged from 120 to 130 degrees above, while last winter it marked 65 degrees below zero a total range of 195 degrees. Chauncey M. Depew has invita tions to deliver Fourth of July ora tions in nearly all the states. It has been suggested that he fire a soaring speech into a phonograph and have it ground out simultan eously in every patriotic center. A little messenger boy brought a note to the office of Mayor Fitler, of Philadelphia, and was waiting for a reply. Mr. Fitler was taking his time about the answer, when the boy ex claimed: "Hurry up, mayor; I can't wait here all day." The Joneses are at the head of the English clergy list with 450 represen tatives, while the Smiths follow with 318. After them come the "Williamses with 295 and the Evanses with 164. The Smiths make such an unexpected showing, because of there being almost none in Wales. In Holland an unmarried woman always takes the right arm of her es cort, and the married woman the left. At a church wedding the bride enters the edifice at the right arm of the groom, and goes out on the leit side of her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Lair of Kentucky have seven sons. Mr. Lair is 6 feet 2 inches tall and Mrs. Lair is G' feet 3 inches. The largest son is 6 feet 8 inches; the smallest is 6 leet 5 inches. Of the others two are 6 feet 6 inches, two are 6 inches, and one 6 feet 7 inches. It is strange, but true, that the laws of Connecticut fa vorthe dishon est. If a man is hungry and begs a slice of bread the lawwill send him to state prison for one year; if ho steals a whole loaf he will only get thirty days in jail. It is safer to steal than to beg in Connecticut. Dennysville, Me., a town of 522 people, has no debt and has $1,000 to her credit. There has not been a fire for 80 vears. One Peter E. Vose has been first selectman 29 years, treasurer 23 years, assessor 31 years, overseer 24 years, and town agent 20 years. Tim with the Hose. A limp rubber hose With a trick ling stream of pure water running from it is a temptation to the thirs ty passer-by if it lies upon the walk, and it is very different from the writhing, spurting pipe with a press ure upon it of 160 pounds to the square inch. A rubber hose in re pose, delusive and tempting, laid up on a Main street walk Friday when a thirsty strangei'picked it up and. let the cooling water slowly running Irom it enter his mouth. - The boy who had charge of the hose recog nized arid appreciated his opportuni ty, and let on the water at full head. The man's mouth took the first spurt at a twenty-gallon-a-minute speed and volume. Ie was heard to utter a mild, deluged cry before the pipe humped itself and threw him across the street and gave him more water than he could take care of. He scrambled to his feet and looked around to see who had assaulted him, but he could see only the pipe, full of glee and full of business. He was mad but did not know who to tackle. "He jumped, on the pipe, in formed it he had a poor opinion of its proprietor, and walked away wetter and wiser than he was when he began to quench his thirst. Nor wich Bulletin. Sand Showers and Drifts. Dry, loose sand, wherever it oc curs, is constantly being shifted by the wind, and often buries cultivated land3, buildings and forests. On the shores ot Lake Michigan are drifts 100 feet deep, and those of Cornwall reach 300 feet in depth while the drifts of the Gobi desert are 40 miles long and 900 feet high in places. On the shores of the Bay of Biscay the drifting sand travels inland 16 feet a year, in parts of Denmark 24 feet, and in southern India 17 yards. In some places walls and barriers of vegetation have been created to stop the destroying drifts. Fine sand is taken up to a great height in the air, and deposited many miles away. In 1882 Iceland wp visited by a re markable sand "storm, lasting two weeks, which hid the sun and objects a few yards off like a dense fog, aud caused the death of thousands of sheep and horses. New York Tele gram. - An Intelligent Shark, "Several well-spun sea yarns hn re been told bv old shellback rprnid ing what they had seen at sea,' paid Chief Officer James Brown of the Pa-cificMailcompany'ssteamerAcapu'.c-o to a San Francisco Chronicle man, but there is one, thing certain, and that is I have reason to believe that fish not only have instinct but also reasoning power." "How do you come to these con clusions?" was asked. - "Well, let me tell yoiv-Now, everr seafaring man who has frequented the port of San Jose, at Guatemala, knows that old San Jose Joe has been in and about that port .or the last thirty years. Joe is without ex ception one of the hirgest sharks ever seen in the waters pi the oceaa. He is over 30 feet in length. This was ascertained beyond a doubt by the officers of the Acapulco on the trip before the last, when a spar measuring 30 feet had fallen over the ship's side, and old Joe came along, and after smelling of it floated along side, measuring exactly its length. As to his age that is not positively known, but the barnacles on his back indicate that he has been a resident of San Jose waters for a number of years. The barnacles are so old and crusty as to repel a rifle ball with the same respective force as a sheet of steel on the side of a man-of-war. Capt. Pitts of the Acapulco has time and again shot at this monster and without effect, so far as his back is concerned. The balls glance off the old fellow's back with out doing him any damage. Yet Old Joe carries enough lead in his carcass to sink an ordinary whale, as almost every officer whose vessel anchors in the waters takes a whack at him when he runs his sides and belly upward, but the bullets don't seem to do him any harm." "Well, about his reasoning capa city?" "Oh, yes. Some years ago an En glish man-of war, while lying at an chor, undertook to destroy the old brute by firing a charge of dynamite into him. Joe was hit on the side, and about fifty pounds of shark's flesh torn away, but the shot -failed to kill him. But now, mark you, since that time he will not make his ap pearance in the anchor near where a man-of-war is anchored. But just as soon as these . vessels leave Joe comes to the surface again. He regularly meets the Acapulco about fifteen miles outside and pilots her in. Once anchored he is satisfied and seems to delight in feeding from the offal. But no matter how well you bait a hook Joe's reasoning qualities tell his to leave it alone, and he invariably follows that line of reasoning. As to his capacity to stow away grub, that was proved on one occasion when the vessel was taking aboard some hogs. One of ten hogs, weighing probably about eighty pounds, fell overboard, and old Joe, who is ever on the watch, saw the prize and with one plunge and a pair of ex tended jaws, the porker disappeared as though he had gone into a hole. On another occasion we had a lot of mules on board for the government and one of the number died and was thrown overboard. Joe made the acquaintance of the defunct mule, and after the lapse of six hours the mule was safely stowed 'thwart ships in Joe's locker. Yes, Joe is the larg est shark known to us seafaring men. We have tried to kill the monster by all possible means, but so far have miserably failed." few How Hot Water Saves China. The entire absence of sanitary arrangements in Chinese towns and villages being well known, it goes without saying that the laws of hygiene are utterly and entirely neglected. There is no isolation of infectious diseases, and no attention is paid to causes of death unless there is supposition of violence. According to our ideas, therefore, Chinese cities ought to be hotbeds of disease, subjected regularly to terrible epideaiics which, with us, are invariably associated with the neglect of sanitary laws. Stio nge to say such is not the case. Epidemics come and go without any apparent reason,appearing, perhaps, suddenly, causing a heavy mortality for a short time, and then as suddenly disappearing again, thus affording an endless field of speculation to the foreign savant. But, speaking Generally,- Chinese towns enjoy an immunity from these dangerous out breaks almost as complete as that of well-drained European commu nities, and the cause of this puzzling and curious phenomenon has been variously explained. The fact is all the more striking when taken in con nection with the contaminated water supplies of Chinese towns, the effect of which on Europeans has been manifested over and over again in the heavy mortality which overtook them previous to the adop tion of precautions enjoined by modern eanitary science. The healthiness of Chinese cities has been ingeniously attributed by some peo ple to the universal habit of fanning, a practice which is said to keep the atmosphere in constant circulation. How far this explanation can be deemed to suffice we must leave to experts to decide, but, so far as con taminated water supply is concerned, be believe the real secret of immunity from its evil effects to lie in the uni versal custom of boiling all water in tended for drinking. Asa matter of fact, the Chinese never drink cold water. The national beverage, which, in a true sense, may be said to cheer but not inebriate, is tea, and this is always "on tap," even in the houses qf the very poor. The native aver sion to cold water is undoubtedly carried to extremes, and certainly induces diseases which might easily be avoided by a judicious system of outward application. In the matte of ablutions it must, however, be ad mitted that the Chinese enjoy facili ties which, however little they are taken advantage of, 'are far in ad vance of anything within the reach of the poorer classes of our own fav ored land. Every little hamlet in China has a shop where hot water can be bought for a trifling buk at any hour of the day or night. Even in a small fishing village on a remote island in the Gulf ofPechili, where the writer spent, six weeks under verj unpleasant circumstances during n severe Winter, thJs was the case, and a great convenience it proveu. xne National Review. N A Surprised llnrglar. You cau't tell what a woman will do in the case of "a burglar. The speaker was an ex-police captain, and his eyes twinkled as he thought of the many stories told him by the victims of burglars and by . tie burglars themselves, sayi the Chicago Inter Ocean. "A burglar," he con tinued, "is lost when he gets rattled, and a woman in the case of a burg lar raid is apt to do the unexpected thing, and in this way disconcert even the coolest professional. To the unprofessional who desires above all things to conceal his indentity the impulsive woman is a holy terror. "Not long ago it happened that the wife of one of our prominent physicians was alone on the parlor floor of her residence. Thehouse had never been burglarized, and no one thought that it would be or could be. On the night in question the lady was awakened by sounds in the porlor, and calling out to ask who was there she heard retreating foot steps. Half awake and wholly under the influence of the thought that one of her servants or some member of the family was in the parlor, she jumped out of bed, and without a moment' hesitation, started .in pursuit, intent only in learning what was the matter. In the hall she came face to face with a strange man, and even then she was not wide awake enough to be afraid. The thought that the stranger was a burglar did not come to her until she had asked, in an anxious way, what was the matter. "The burglar, who it was afterward discovered had made preparations to carry off the silver and certain articles which he had collected, was so confused that he made a single ex clamation, stepped to the front door, opened it and walked quickly away. He said afterward that the idea of a small, delicate-faced woman follow ing him up closely made him shiver, and when she spoke to him with the commonplaced manner of one asking his welfare, his senses deserted him, and there was nothing for him to do but to get out." The (.'host of Gniteau. Guiteau still lingers at the District Jail, says a Washington letter. That is what the superstitious prisoners say, for they claim that they see him every night, and if you were to bring any amount of testimony to contra dict them they would still adhere to their theory that the assassin stalks around the corner every night. Tho cell in which he was located when Sergt. Mason shot at him has been unoccupied ever since. The bunk has been removed and the apartment is as bare as it was left by the builders. The marks ot the soldier's bullet are st ill plainly to be seen. The missile entered the window of the cell at a slight angle and struck the wall op posite to that upon which the mur derers bunk was located, from which point it glanced and flattened against the wall in the rear. Had Guitean been standing at the window the bul let could hardly have missed him. Gen. Crocker, the warden of the jail, says he has great trouble in getting prisoners to remain content in any of the cells in which Guiteau was con fined. The assassin, after being shot at by Sergt. Mason, was confined in a cell in the opposite corridor, the same being separated by a brick partition, and. notwithstanding the fact that so many years have elapsed since it was graced by the wretched occupant, every prisoner knows which was Guiteau's cell and begs not to be confined therein. The ghost of the assassin, so the prison ers say, roams about at all hours ol the night, and the guards are fre quently called by prisoners who fancy they see the apparition. A Long Hunt for Happiness. Albany Times. Amsterdam, N. 1'., is somewhat noted for matrimonial eccentricities, the latest being the record of one lady, given in the Recorder, as fol lows: She eloped with her first bus band when sho was 18 and he 16. His father followed the pair and waltzed the young man home on his ear. Then he secured a divorce for his son on the ground of undue in fluence. The wife never saw him again. Her second husband was a widower 60 years old, wealthy and consumptive. He died in a year. She loved her third husband, but he mar ried her for her money. It did not take long to discover this, and then sho paid him for letting her get a divorce. Her fourth husband mar ried her for love, but she merely wanted a companionship. They lived haDDilv together until he wsis killed on the railroad pear Albany a few years ago. She married again about a year ago, and only recently became a mother. It was her first child, too. Her present husband seems to love her and she him, and maybe she has found her affinity at last. A Charitable Lady. A very charitable lady in town, wishing to help the Johnstown suf ferers, picked out from the ward robes of herself and husband all the suits that could be spared. Into the pockets of each suit fpr men she put in a jackknife, a hair brush, and a comb. Into the women's gowns she put a pair of stockings, a comb and brush, a tooth-brush, and a cake ol soap. She sent several gowns that she had been saving to wear this summer herself. "I did not hesitate many minutes," she said, heroically. "I decided to let the sufferers iiave them, and let my husband get some new ones. That was combining charity and self-interest." New York Sun. A Gentlemanly Hobocr. Now that the days of your roman tic stage robber and Western hold-up are gone and almost forgotten, ex cept in the romance which some in teresting but fanciful writer has een fit to cast around the hardest and most exacting of accup.itions,it may be interesting to recall the ad vent of one of tho most highly edu cated and gentlemanly robbers who ever got tho drop on the unsuspect ing driver of a Western four-in-hand. In 1876 Charles E. Holies deserted his wife and children in a little town in Southwestern Missouri and went over the Rocky Mountains with the f-ager flood of farmers and' mechan ics who had left the plough and work-bench to engage in the fasci nating but elusive game of hide and seek with tho gold diggings. Bolles was after gold, too, but he did not believe in digging for it. Ho was a clever, well educated fellow, but the fact that the money in his belt belonged originally to his de serted wife would hardly serre to raise him in tho estimation of anv one who admired his talents as well as his coolness and nerve. After Bolles crossed the divide he was, for the time being, lost to sight. But he did not permit his candle to flicker under a bushel very long, lor on August 3, 1887, as big Jack Holmes, the driver of tho regular mail coach from Fort Ross to tho Russian River, California, swung his leaders around the sharp curve of a bluff in the Sierras, the figure of a man, grotesquely attired in jute bags and linen duster, with a white linen flour sack over the head, arranged so that sight was possible out of two holes cut at a convenient distance apart, stepped from behind a conven ient bowlder and presented a double barrelled shot-gun with the danger end pointing at Jack said, in tho most pleasant and polito manner possible: "Will you be kind enough to throw out the box and mail bags." The "box" referred to was Wells, Fargo & Co.'s shipment of treasure. Jack was kind enough to do as re quested without turther parley and finally when asked in the same polito and urbane manner if he wouldn't please drive on, obeyed with alacrity, as any far-sighted and experienced Western man would. The sheriff of the county was noti fied, and with a posse went back to where the box lay. It had been brok en and rifled, and all that the strange robber had left was a bit of doggerel which read: Now I Iny me down to slep. To wait the coming morrow; Terhapa success, pprliapa do'eat. Or everlasting Borrow. Let corne what will, I'll try it on, My condition can't ho worse, And if there'8 money in the box, 'Tia money in my purt-o. The lines were written on the back of a way-bill belonging to the express company, and at the bottom was the signature: "Black Bart, the To 8 " '"Black Bart" was the E. Bolles of Missouri, nnd while the other fellows were breaking their back at the washings and diggings, he was mak ing a barrel of money by enrcking tho treasure boxes of Wells, Fargo & Co. After he had succeeded twenty-three times he was arrested in San 1 rancisco, where he had been living as a gentleman should, by means of a laundry mark on a cuff which he had left near the scene of one of his robberies. Among his effects was found his family Bible with numer ous marginal notes which he had made from time to time. On the 17th of November, 1883, Bolles was sentenced to si years' imprisonment, und was immediately taken to the famous old jail at San Quentin to serve out his time, his captors reaping an accumulated re ward of $18,400. He was discharged from San Quen tin on New Y'ear's Dav, 1888, and promised to reform. He had leen a model prisoner and spent six years of confinement with profit to himself, for he became an expert chemist. Some months after his release I met him in Denver, Colorado, and while still a powerful man physicial ly, he was aging fast, and his hair, mustache and imperial were plenti fully frosted with the white of ad vancing age. How the Jailer Kept Informed. Texas Siftings. A gentleman who has recently re turned from quite a long trip through the "Land of the Aztecs" has been giving some interesting details of his experiences to his friends. Among other things, he said that when he was in the City of Mexico he was shown through some ancient buildings, convents and jails that were erected by the Spaniards (sev eral centuries ago. In tho wall of those ancient edifices he saw a small opening, so he naturally inquired of his Mexican guide what purpose it served. He was told that it was one of those buildings in which criminals were walled up alive. "J5ut what was the use of the hole in the wall?" he asked. "Well, senor," replied the guide, "as long as the prisoner lived is food was banded to him on a plate, and he handed back the empty plate through the hole, but when the prisoner handed back tho plate with the food on it untouched, then the jailer knew that ho was dead already, and didn't give Lim any more." Wllkle Collin's Dire Enemy. It is sad to think that many of the novels which have won tho admira tion of the world have been produced by Wilkie Collins while he was endur ing agonies which would drive' a weaker man to the hospital. That gout, as exquisite a pain as tooth ache, but more continuous, attacks him, not only in the hands and feet where it is bad enough but in tho eyes. It is impossible to imagino such tortures. But in spite of them, and sometimes during them, Wilkie Collins goes on with his work, and finds relief in forgetting himself in tho scenes of fiction. Never once has he failed to keep his contracts with the publishers. Never once has his copy been delayed. Philadelphia Time3.
