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Selecting a Wife. La Plata Home Press. Who marnies forlove takes a wife ; who marries for tortune takes a mis- tress who marries for position takes alady. You are loved by your wife, regarded by your mistress, You have a wife tolerated | by your lady. for vourself, a mistress tor and friend, a lady for the world and } your house {| society. Your wife will agree with | you, your mistress will rule you, | your lady will manage you. Your | wite will take care of your household | your mistress of your house, your lady of appearance. If you are sick your wife will nurse you, your mus- | tress will visit you, your lady will! in- quire after your health. You take a walk with your wife, a_ ride with your mistress, and go to a par- ty with yourlady. Your wife will share your grief, your mistress your money, your lady your debts. If you are dead your wite will weep, your mistres will lament, your lady will wear mourning. Which do you prefer? Charlie McComas. Mr. Leroy and George Wilson have returned to Deming without Charlie McComas, but the information which they gathered on the trip was such us to satisfy them that the boy is alive and with the Indians. After his return Mr. Leroy had lengthy conversation with Ed Marriage, of this place, explaining that he opened negotiations with Ju, and that -the chief finally consented to give up the boy upon payment of $1.000 ransom. Subsequently Ju got drunk in Cases Grandes, and while returning to camp was thrown from into the river and drowned. The tribe there- principal his horse upon elected Geronimo chiet, and with kim Mr. Leroy con- It tinued the negotiations. appears thatthe boy was claimed by Ju’s squaws. The Indians in electing Geronimo had passed over Ju’s sons, and awakened much better feeling | among the close personal adherents At first Geroni- mo had agreed carry out Ju’s promise and restore the boy. but when he found that the squaws op- posed it, and that they were backed by Ju’s sons and their faction he con- cluded that it would not be crowd the matter, and thus gave ad- ditional Geronimo, im person explained this to Mr. Leroy, identified the boy per- fectly by description, but would permit Mr. L. to go into camp The Mexicans are abo ut of the dead chief. to wise to cause for dissatisfaction. not and see him draw- ing a cordon ot troops Indians, while they treating with them for peace, and it is probable the whole band will hi these are ostensibly c ata (A. disad- T.) fight City to surrender or vantage.—Silver Southwest. How Her Husband Died. An Irishwoman can always man- age to tell a disagreeable truth ina very agreeable way. ‘*‘How did your husband dre?” asked the Judge very sternly. ‘*Well, sir, very sudden like,’? was the reply. “But what was the matter with him?’? ‘‘Why, I believe, sir, be fell out of a win- dow, or through a kind of cellar door, or something of that. sort.’’ **How far did he fall?”? ‘“Not more than five ersix feet, yer Honor.’’ ~*And how could such a tall as that kill him!’’ **You see, sir, there was a bit of sthring or cord, or that hke, and it got round poor Mike’s neck, and he never spoke a word after it.’” AN EVENTFUL CAREER. A Wanderer for a Aree er ofa Cen-— tary Returns Home. i = | SPURNED B? HIS Wis., Oct. tragedy which 25 years ago caus Milwaukee, sensation in Milwaukee and the sur- | rounding country has been revived to memory by the return to the city ot One of the principais im the aftair. Tn 1850 Dr Bigelow of Muskego Centre was 2 ch well known throughout Milw At One time he was best known : to-do known campaigns soon Dr. 1 Kee county. one of the en in the state: was a well- physician and extensively as a polit called Bigelow 1. Pohticat drinks, - and 2 wreck, pra yuandered, tor was mentally and physically, tice wa is lost. h’s money | of ; phile. the holy the mysterious chamber which ? besom to enter. precious singularly erature. of all | and he became a butt for jests kinds. At last, in a fit of passion, graded and aha: Jackson Sedalia Bazoo. An ex-confederate surgeon relates by one of his tormentors, he stabbed | jn the Cleveland Leader that once a man, killing him. He was in the circuit court before the Judge Hubbell, sentenced four ae in t noted and to penitentiary. left a wite and five children. trial was one of the the day. serving months he secu minor terwards was arrested on a charge. He curing release. bowed with long years of heavy white beard cove and long gray hair, entered the cen- tral police station and asked tor the chief. To him he said he was Dr. Bigelow, for wanderer and tramp. Since leaving Milwaukee, a quar- ter of acentury before, he had _visit- ed all parts of the United States and Canda, Central and;South America, had been in Europe tor some time, and at last had returned to his home. He found his home. He found his children grown up, his wife marrid, his triends gone. He wished to see wife, fearing an unpleasant reception, asked that an officer might accompa- ny him to the elegant residence on Grand avenue where she now lived. Arrived at the house he met the lady told her who he was, explained that again succeeded in se- misery, a g his face, his and he had money in abundance, and asked to be allowed to educate his children. He was driven from the door, and again went forth to wan- der about the world. To-night he had disappeared. 4n Orator’s Power. It was in the Clay campaign of 1844. Animmense audience, 15, 000 or 20,000, had assembled to hear been with multi- There A large stage had crowded the it: confussion Preston. erected, which was prominent persons, and tude was packed around was the usual buzz and incident to such oecasions, until at- ter Preston had speaking a few moments, when it began to sub- side and soon there was a dead lence, except the music of that won- He was in fine and went at seemed of his elo- quence poured over the dense mass listeners. With the swell of his sonorous voice, the audi- qn tiptoe and to its ebbing begun si- con- it im derful voice. dition for his work his best style. The silence to intensify as the tide of enchanted ence seemed to rise sink back again with dences ; and again they swayed with wheat ca- the sweep of his hke a field to the breeze. At length, in a magnificent burst ot inspiration—with his eyes arm his long arm raised high, flashing and the multitade breathlessly to his words—he seized held hanging the brown wig which he wore, flight. placed it cross-wise and soared on, audi- it up over bis splendid re- and there was not, in that vast ence, the least ripple of laughter at this performance, most ridiculous but, on the contrary no-one seemed remainder to his son George, except to notice it, so completely entranced $20,000, which was was every listener.—Charlotte (N. C.) Journal. Jay Gouid’s Ohicago Tribune. Mr. Gould’s Library. library 1s one of the nine | twentv-five years a | | Mahone.made tne charge. tried | He | The | forces. eat sensations aired a pardon, but at-! hone’s aids, who said: r, while a terrible thun- ‘Stonewall’ ral Mahone to the union during the raging der storm wa Jackson ordered Ge take his men and ¢ Then, ured out, Jackson lay down under a tre fell asleep. Soon he was aroused by one ot M rge and “General, 1 | | am sent by Generel Mahone tor or- the ders. He says the rain has wet To-day an old man, | ammunition of his troops, and wants | to know whether he shall return.”’ Replied Jackson; ‘*Ask General Mahone if the same rain which God sends to wet his ammunition will not also wet that of the Tell him to charge them with cold steel.”” enemy. A Pione r’s Romance. An interesting and important will contest, involving the estate of W. C. Wilson, deceased, valued at $100, 000, was decided to-day, the jury re- voking the will, on the ground that the testator was not of sound and dis- posing mind when the will was exe- cuted. Wilson lett a young wife and one sonin Missouri in 1843 and went to Tex During the ensuing year he wrote a number of times to his wife. The letters, which were produced 1n court, were full of affec- tion, and all ha] something to say of his child. After October, 1843, the young wife heard no more of her husband tor months, when one of the Texas party returned and | reported Wilson and all the others killed by Mexicans. Supposing her- self a widow, Mrs. Wilson ied tin in 1846, and soon after lett for Kansas, where a few years Hater her second husband, Felix G. lost his lite in the border troubles. The same year his married, Wilson arrived in San Jose, he continued to hve, until his m April of last year. He was cessful here, and soon fortune. The first few years he wa here he lived with a Mexican woman but in 1850 he concluded to marry several ma Braden, wite where suc- acquired a again, the Missouri legislature ih ing passed an act divorcing him from his first wife. The Mexican woman Was given a sum of money.to return to her parents, and she went, Wilson promising follow When she was out of the way he married Susan E. Osborne. By this wife he had one son, Georg now to her. 2, Who 1s living. About three ye deserted in 1843 first heard that her ars ago the Woman husband was living. and soon after that Tohn Harvey Wilson, the son betore referred to, came out to visit his father. Ue was discrect and did not make himself known as a son of W. C. Wilson to any one except the old gentleman. W on was getting on in years, and soon atter a compli- cation of diseases set in and for some time before his death his last will was made. By it half of the estate was bequeathed to his wife and the tbequeathed in trust tor George’s wife and her chil- dren. A tew months later W.C. Wil- son’s widow died, leaving her por- tion of the estate to George Wilson. Haryey Wilson, whos a resident of Bolton, Kan., desired that the trust most remarkable things about that! sor the benefit of George Wilson’s remarkable man, contain all works on history, Not only does it standard classical finance, the science, Wire network outside, tomes of im- mense value and great age, and an indition princeps which ielight the heart of a biblio- li This roomis the one place thorou ghly It is} which 1s sacred. Blue beard torbade even the wife No person Mr. Gould ts allow ed to books even his Mosos Mr. lit- New York} well versed in ACweli known at hes w law of cor- States. and the usual collection of romance, Ex-Senator Blaine has given room fiction, and poetry, but in certain} for severe censure of his conduct of glass cases, well guarded with strong | late. He refused to make any ; Speeches in Ohio during the cam- | Garfield.”? for which the Appleton of the millionaire, | $ iv wife and children remain undisturb- ed. paign, but preferred to stay at home and pertorm labor on his forthcom- ing book entitled trom ‘‘Liacoln to & Co. publishers have given him! 75-000, and a good royalty on every olumn sold. Our farmers ora number of them st of sew- r of Elk Hart and loc are wal ing w Township, has rgo acres Gen. township has 1go acres be beat. $ 200 allin one field v by, of the s whi fine. Joe. She a cant Over in mound a Mr. Wii- chis as nice as could be expected. We are glad tosee our farmers taking nterest i matter. THE AMERICAN wonneeee Ys ra i k you to examine our goods Furnishing Goods, HATS AND CAPS, And we only get our prices and be convinced, North Side of Square, Butler, Mo. rire ee rns annie | New Warehouse South of Depot LEFKER & CHILDS, Grain Dealers. 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