Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 25, 1885, Page 7

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The exactions of the su- perintendont and the small wages recelved goad the workmen to the verge of despera- tionand paved the way to the coming strug- glo. Manon ngaln befriends Anton, and se- cures lodgings for him at Rassanour's, a tip- pling house near the mine, Anton’s dotermi- nation to leave is overcoms by the kindness of the struggling miners, and he decides to battle with them. The owners of the mines revel in luxury, and turn a deaf ear to the appsals of the starving families of the workmen, who, in debt for food obtained during a strike three yoars previous, are barely able to secure sufficient food to sustain life. CHAPTER 1X, It was eleven by the clock of the little church on the narrow street of the Deux- Cent-Quarante, a brick chapel, where the Abbe Joire sald mass on Sunday. Onone e, through the clored windows of the The wide roade, parated by llttle gardens back to by and four great rows of uniform houses, were deserted, and these gardens, rav- aged by winter, were still strewn with tho rematns of their last vegetables. The smoking chimneys denoted preparation for dinner; at Intervals along the alley n woman opened the door and after a hasty glanco again disappeared, There was a constant drlpplng from the waste pipes into casks, Although It was not reining, the gray atmosphere was filled with mol:~ turo, This village, built in the midst of fields surrounded by black roads as a baud of monrning, had nothing to relieve its sombreness but those regular rows of red tlles, conatantly washed by the storms. Mre. Mahon went to buy a few pota- toes from the wife of an overseer, who still had some left from her crop. Be- hind a clamp of poplars, the only trees of that part of the country, stood a group of isolated dwellling ia rows of four, sur- rounded by gardens. When the com- pany had reserved those houtes for the overneers, the workmen had named that corner of the town the Bas-de-Jole; just 28 they had Ironically called thelr alley— fo-tes-Dottes. “Here we are,” sald the mother, as, loaded with bundles; she pushed Lenore and Henry into the hous Alzlre was sitting before the fire, rock- ing in her arms the soreaming Estelle, to whom she had glven all the sugar without belng ablo to quist her, * Glve her to me,"” eaid the mother, as #oon as the had thrown her bundles on the table, ‘She won't let us may a word.” Tae child begen nursing, and they could at Jast hear themsalves talk. All had gone well In her absence, the little economist had kept the fire up, swept and dusted the room, snd in the sllence, they beard the grandfather snoring the sams rhythmical snore which he had not stopped for an inztant. “* Here's some things,” murmured Alzire, smiling at the provislons. ‘‘Shall I make the soup, mamma?” The table was covered; a bundle of clothirg, two loaves of bread, some pota- toer, buttar, coffee, chlcory and hslf a pound of hozs-head cheese. *‘Oh! the soup!” eald the mother, with a weary air, ‘‘some sorrel must be picked and the leeks gathered first. No, you r | can make that cffer after a while for the Pat some potatoes to boll; we'll eat them with a little butter. Anddon't forget ‘o make some ocffse.” Suddenly she thought of the milk- bread, and looked at the empty hands of Lenore and Henry, who bad thrown themselves on the floor, already rested and happy. Oa the road these gour- mands had slily esten 1t. She boxed thelr ears, while Alzlre, who was putting the sauce-pans on the fire, trled to ap- peaso ber. “‘Leave them alone, mamma, If It was for me, you know L'm just as well ;rfi'. They were hungry from walking so far.” Noon sounde?; the chlldren were heard returnlog from school. The pota- toes were cooked and the coffee, one-half chicory, was passed through the filterer, A corner ot the table was cleared; but the mother alone ate there; the children contented themselves with thelr lap:; snd the littls boy, still hungry, without eaying & word, constantly turned towards the hogs head cheese, the greasy paper of which aunoyed him exceedlngly. The mother was drinkiog her coffes In little swallows, warming her hands by holding them around the cap, when old Bonnemort came down, Urually, he arose later, and found his breakfast ing for hlm on the fire, This morning he growled because there wes mo soup, but when his ghter-1n-law told him people did not always get what they wished, he ate his potatoes In silence, From time to time he arose to splt in the fire; and fio loager having teeth, he rolled the food In hie mouth a long time, his head bent over, his eyes dull, “Oh! I forgot, mamms,” sald Alzire, “our neighbos’s been here.” Her mother interrupted her. *‘She bothers mo." She was angry at Levaque’s wife, who, the dsy before, had refused to lend her a few sous, although her lodger had just pald her a week’s board i advance. The nelghbo that alley, woald lend very little to each other. “That puts me In mind,” Peters’ wife, day before yesterds, me up & mill-full and I'll’ carry 1¢ back to . When tho ohild had prepared the package, saying ehe would retura imme- diately to mal oup for the men, she went out with Estelle in her arms, leav- ing old Bonnemort slowly eating his potatoes, while Lenore and Henry were fighting over the falllng skins. Fesring, if she appeared In tha street, Levaque would esll her, rha went across the gardens, passiog through a hole in the old fence, which separated them, A well was there which was used by four familles. Behlnd 1t was & coopy now fall of old tools, In which they d the rabbits, eaten on fete ds One o'cleok strack, Not a soul was to be eeen at the doors and windows; one map, walting for the tlme to go to work, was digglog In bis garden, without even ralsing his head o passed, Sudden'y the woman was surprised to see & gentleman and two ladies coming around the church corner, Afler a second look, she recognized them, It was Mrs. Hennebean, who wasshowing the alley to the guests who had arrived that mornlng. 'Oh! why have youtaken that trouble!” d Mrs, Peters, on seeing the coffse. was In no hurry for It.” She was twenty-elght years of age and the handsomest woman in the alley, with a bright face, a low forehead, large eyes and a little, coquettish mouth, A white cat was no cleaner than she, and never having had a ohild, her form was still perfect. Her mother, the Brule, widow of a digger who dled at the mine sont her daughter to work In a atore, earing she would never marry d when, later on, the girl became the wife of Peters, & widower with a child of elght years, she had nearly died with rage. For two years they lived very happlly, without a debt, meat twloe a week and a house so cleanly kept that they conld sue themselves in the sauce- pans, The company had allowed her to sell oakes and candies, the jars of which were arranged upon shelves along the window. It wasa galn of slx or seven sous a day, and on Sundays sometimes of twelve. Yet, In the midet of that good fortune, the Brule stormed with rage and llttle Lydle received, In too frequeat blows, the outbursts of her temper, “‘How big she's growlng,” sald Peters’ wife, smillog at Estelle. “Don's speak of It,” replled the mother. ‘Il weeds al#ays grow fast, You'te lacky not to have any. You can keep yourself clean.” And she threw an envious glance at this room where everything was In or- der, 50 neat as to bs almost dalnty, with roses upan the buffet, a mirror and threo framed engravings. Meanwhils this neat little housekesp- er had been preparing to drink her k | coffee alone, as all her famlly were at that hour in the mine. “You'll deluk acup with me, won't you?” she said. “No, thanks, I was jost starting to drink my own.” “*What difference does that make?” Thon she accepted. And standing be- fore the window they looked, between the bars, at the houses acroos tho strest, the little curtaios of “which betokened the cleanliness of the house-wives. Levaque’s, of real torchon, looked as though they had been used to wipo the pots and kettles, “How is 1t possible to live In euch diri?"” murmured Mrs. Peters, Then her visitor burst out; *‘Ah, it I had a lodger like that Bouteloup, I'd get along well! When one is amart, a lodger {san excellent thing. But, they said that woman’s husband drank, beat her and ran after the singlng glrls in the cafes at Montson,” Mrs, Peters shrugged her shoulders with an alr of profound dlsgast. *‘Those horrible women. Bat what astonishes me 18 that you allow your eon to go with thelr daughter. How’s one going to help it? Thelr garden Is next to ours. Why, last summer Zacharle and Philo- mene were always courting behlnd the lilacs; we couldn’t go to the well for wa- ter without surpristng them.” It is a eimple tale of the promiscu- oumsness of that alley, where parents only became angry with thelr sons were in haste to marry thelr mistresses, asa marrled child was no longer a help to them, they sald. *‘Yon'd better put a stop to it,” eald Mrs, Peters,” they’ve two children now, and they're bound to be mariied soon. His money will be a great loss to you.” The mother In a fary, threw out her hands. “‘Listen to thie: I'll carse’ them it they do, Don't Zacharle owe me some respect? He's cost us enough, hasn't he? Well, he's got to pay us bsck before he takes a wife. What would be- come of us if our children lefi us as soon as they grow up to work for othera? Why, we'd all atarve.” Then she became calm again. “Well, we'll see how it ends. coffee s very good; it’s strong.” And after a quarter of an hour spent In talking of her nelghbors, ehe went off in haste saylng her soup was not made, The children were returning from school. Now and then a woman appeared at the dcor watching Mrs, Hennebeau, who was going from one alley to another. That visiv was creating a stir In the 'neighbor~ hood. Two frightened hens were driven off In a garden, while the men at work there paused to watch the strangers. ‘When Mrs, Mahon arrlved before Le- vaque's house sho ran sgalust the wife who had started out to stop Dr. Vander- haghen, the company’s physiclan. He was a little man, alwsys in a hurry so overwhelmed with business that he gave advice while walking, *‘Doctor,” eald she, *‘I can’t sleep. I feelsick all over, I must talk with you.' Ho responded without stopping: “'Glve mo somo peace? you drink too much coffee.” “And my husband, doctor,” said Your Mahon’s wife, ‘‘you ought; to come and see him, His llmbs ache all the time.’ ‘Lot him tske more rest then.” The woman remained motionless, watching the doctor's back disappesr in the distance. *‘Oome 1n,” sald Mrs, Lavaque,as they finished shrugging their shoulders, “You must know something new. And you'll havea cup of ocftee,it’s just made.” Mrs, Mahon struggled to say no, but being weak she consented to go In and bave a drop, not to be dlsobliglng. The room was black with filthiness,the cellng and walls were covered with greaso, the stdeboar d table sticky with dirt, while a disagreeable odor pervaded the whole house. Deside the fire, with koth elbows on the table and his nose burled in his plate, Bouteloup, a young-looking man of thirty-three, with great broad shoulders, was finishing his boullll, while little Achille, the firstborn of Philomene, two years old, watched him with plead- ing eyes. The lodger, very tender hearted, in spite of his great fierce-look- Ing beard, from time to time drew a plece of meat from his mouth and gave it to the child, *‘Walt, I'll swesten it,” sald Mrs, Ma- hon, putting some brown sugar In the coffee, i Lovaque's wife, slx years his senior, wi rribly haggard, her figure wholly gone; she had a large square mouth and ray halr, always uncombed. He was as gllnd to her want of attractions as to the fact that his soup was not clean, or the sheets on his bed were not changed in slx woeks, This all came with cheap board. “I wanted to tell you,” continued she, “‘that some one saw a Mrs. Peters over at the slley Bas-de-Jole, That gentle: man—yon know who—was waltlng for ber behind Rasteneur’s und they went off togetheralong the osnal. That’s @ nice thing for & marrled woman,” “Why!"” sald Mrs, Mahon, ‘*befors Pe- ters wes marrled he used to give that overscer rabbits, Now 1 suppose he thinks It costs him less to let him make love to his wife.” Bouteloup burst out lsughlng, and threw piece of bread, soaked in gravy, info Achille’s mouth, The two women continued talking of M:s. Peters, & co- quette, they sald, no handsomer than iny other woman, who was always wash. ng herself and putting on pomades, Bat that was the husban fTatr; If he Nked it 1t was all right. There were some men so ambitlons that they would kb thelr chief's feot, only to hear them ray thanke. Just then a neighbor eame In, bvlnghfi in the younger ohild of Philo- mene, Desiree. This child had just fin- tshed its breakfsst, having been taken down to the seteeners, where Its mother had stopped her work to sitdown in the coal and nurse it. “I can’t leave my baby a minute, or she’ll soream,” sald Mrs. Mahon, looking Estelle, who had fallen ssleep in Ler rms, Bat she ocould not avold the subject Mrs Lo aque was about to begin upon. “‘Say now, It's moat time to stop thls.” At first the two mothers, without ocar- erhe If she did wrong, Al I have to "y 'd better watoch that big Opan *Hush! hero're the people.” Then the two women, with a demnre air and withont impclite curlosity, ocontented th meelva ' with looklng out of the ocor- ners of tholr eyes. As soon as thelr backs wers turned, they oalled Mre, Mahon, who still had Estelle in her arms, and thea 5 three stood motionloss, wotching the » otrosting forms of Mra, Hennebesn and her guests. When they were out of healng the gossiplog was rosumed with rem 'wed viger, “They’'ve got m 'me money on thelr backs. Thelr olo‘hing's worth more than themselves. “Idon't know m ything about the others, bat I wouldn’t glve four sous tor that one from here, fst 88 she 5. They Ing to speak of It, had agreed not to has- ten the marrlage. Zacharle’s mother wished to keep as long as possible the pay of her son, Phllomene's mother also hated to glve up her daughter's. There was no hurry, the latter even preferred to keep the little one, as long as there was only one child; but when it grew largo enough to eat and another came, she fouud thatshe was losing money and became anxions to ses her daughter the wife of Zacharle, “‘There’s nothing to stop It now, ::llllyllefl she, “Let's sece, when shall it e “At least walt tlll the weather Is good,” replled Mrs. Mahon, embar- rassed, *‘I won't say anything agatnat it then, I'm tired of this business though. It Catherine ever gots hersolf In a fix like this I'll strangle her.” Lovaque'a wife shrugged her shoulders. ‘‘Get ont, she'll do asall the others have done before her.” Bouteloup, with the calm alr of a men in his own house, went to the sldeboard for some bread. Oa one corner of the table wers the moup, vegetables, pota- toes and beets, half peelad, resumed and abandoned six times amid continual gos- elping. The woman had agaln seated heraelf before them, when she suddenly arose and went to the window. ““Who's that? Why 1t’s Mrs. Henne- beau with some people. They're golng to Peters’ house.” Then they both began talking of Mrs, Poters. That was always the way. Whenever any guests of the company came there they were slways taken stra ght to the houte of that woman be- cause she was clean. Well, she could well bo neat with a lover who earned three thousand francs. I all was pure without, it was not the same withln, And all the time the visitors remalned thelr tongues ran on without stopplog. ““They’rs going,” sald Mrs, Lovaque at last. “They’re turalvg round. Look, my dear, Ithink they're coming to your house.” Mrs. Mahon was filled with fear. Who knows whether Alzlre had cleaned up; her soup wes not ready and she was not dressed. She stammered ‘‘good day,” and flew off without turning her head. But everything shone. Alzlre, very sedate and with a hoase-cloth bafore her, was making the soup, seelng her mother did not return. She had pulled the loeks and gathered some torrel in the garden, and she was now cleaning the vegetables, while upon the fire a large kettlo of water was heating for the men’s bath on thelr retarn. Henry and Lenore were peacea- ble by chance, belng very much occupied in tearing up an old almanac, The tath- er, Bonnemort, was silently smoking his plpe. As the mother drew a slgh of rellef Mrs. Hennebeau knocked and entered. “You will permit me, will you not, my good woman?” She was a large blonde, & little heavy in the maturlty of her forty years, and she smiled, without showing her fear of roll- ing her tollet, a dark green silk, covered with a black velvet mantle. ¢'Come in,” sald she to her guest. ““There {8 nothing to be feared. Well, Is 1t not clean? This good woman has seven children. ~All our housewives are like this. 1 have explained to you that the company rents them the house for six france & month. There Is cne large room on the first floor, two bedrooms above, & cellar and a garden.” The gentlemen, who wore the inslgnia of some order, and the lady in a far cloak, who had that morning arrived from Paris, opened thelr eyes in aston- i1shment at this life, which was so entirely ‘unknown to them. “And a garden,” repeated the lady, ““why, it’s charming.” ““We give them more coal than they can burn, contlnued Mrs, Hennebeau. A physlelan vielts them once a weelk, and when they become old, they recelve penslons, although we do not deduct any- thing from thelr salarles now.” ‘A verltable country of Cocague,” #ald the gentleman, enchanted. Mo, Mahon arose huriiedly, offering them chafrs, The lidiesrefused. Mra. Hennebeau was already fatigued. For an {nstant she forgot her ennal in this role she had assumed; & herd of beasts, she thought, and repugnance immedlate- ly followed {n this heavy atmosphere of misery, althoogh she never made herself unessy by thinking of these people, working and sufferlng beside her. “The beautifal children!” murmured the lady, who In reality thought them frightful, with thelr Immense heads cov- ered with straw colored hair, Out of politeness they asked their ages and als> some questions about Estelle, 0ld Bonnemort had respectfully taken his pipe from hls mouth, but he none the less remained an object for sympathy, 80 worn was he, by his forty t the bottom, his limbs etiff, his frame down, hts face cadaverous when a vlo- lent fit of coughing came upon him, he preferred to go outslde to expectorate, fearing that black spittle would frighten these people, Alzlre was a great success, What a sweet little housekeeper, They compli- mented the mother on having such an in- telligent child, No one spoke of her hump, although compassionate looks were frequently cast upon the poor ln- firm belog. " concluded Mr. Hennebeau, peek 1n Parls of our atleys, you wlil be able to reply. No more rumors mothere, old people and all srs happy, as you see. Even we would be- come invigorated I this good alr and perfect peace, “Ic is marvelous, marvelous!” crled the gentleman, in & final burs: of enthu- slasm, They went out, enchanted with this sort of phencmensl hut, and Mrs, Ma- hon stood iu the doorway, watchlog them slowly goiog cff talklng very loud. The roads were full of paople, and they were compelled to pass through groups of women mmug thither by the report of thelr vislt which had passed from house to house. Lovique's wifa called to Mrs. Peters who was ranniog psst her door, “Did you know Mrs, Mahon went to Piolalne this morning to beg, sud that Malgrat, who had refused them bread | has glven it to them? That’ “Oh! he's gfter Gatherlne."” “‘She jast tc1d me she'd strangle Oath- strange.” tell some atrangs storles about her,” “'Well, what are they? ’ “‘Oh! about men, 1 'ho englneer is one of them.” ‘‘That little thing!"” *‘What difference does th \t make, If 1t amuses her?! I don’t think muoh of a woman who nover acts as 1'f sho was glsuad with anything. Kooz ! she tarna or back on us, as 1f she desp: sed us all, Is that right?” Mrs. Hennebeau and her frler ds were golng on with the same loiterin g step, when a lsndau drove up befire the churoh, and from It alighted a dar k gen- tleman, about forty-elgnt years o nge, wlih a strong face, and his form m ufilsd +COUNCIL BLUFFS, ADDITIONAL LOCAL. — e A SENSATIONAL EXIT, A Young -."_;;..v.m With Larceny From His Employer Loaps From & Seoond-Story Window., The passers aleng Penrl street, shortly after the dinner hour yesterday, were startled by the attempt of a young man to jamp ont of the window of the reo~ ond floor of Wrlght, Baldwin & Hal- dane's law cffice, the young man being held in wid-alr, Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Bashnell holdlng onto his coat and keep+ Ing him from falling onto the sidewalk. The coat was soon split up the back, and by the time the passers:by runto the epot he was ready to drop, and the two who were holdlog him were ready to lot him. Those below oaught him as he foll, and held him until Me, Baldwin and Mr. Bushnsll esoorted him back up stales again, The sensational exit of the young man from the law office and his exclted attempt to ercape, were soon the tople of talk along the strects, and It was soon whispered thas the young man had been caught *knocking c{own" fo Mr. Bashnell's store where he was em- ployed, and that belng taken over to the up In & long dark overcoat. “The husband,” murmured Mrs, Le- vique, lowerlng her volcs as though he was by her nide, filled with tho stzong foar which the direotor inspired In his ten thousand workmen. Now, everyone in the alley was ot doors. The women’s curlosity became greater and greater, and the groups drew closer together, bacoming a perfect mob; while the dirty children lay upon the pavement with gaplng mouths, The pale face of the school teacher was seen an instant peeping from the window. In the garden the man who had been dig- ging rested his foot on the spade, while he watched with the others. Aud the murmur of gos!ping voloes, swelled out little by little with a rustling eoand llke the wind sweeping through a forest of dead leaves. The crowd was the thickest before Le- vaque’s door, Firet, two women had ap- proached, then ten and twenty. Mea, Peters was prudently eilent, now that there were 8o many ears to hear. Mrs. Mahon, one of the most reasonable wo- men, was also contented to look on. But M. Hennebeau had assisted the ladies Into the carrlage, and after seattng him- self, it drove off on the Marchienne: road. The church clock strack three. Anoth- er gang of workmen were statlng for the mine, old Bonuemort, Bouteloup and others. Suddenly, around the corner apperred the first miners, returning from work, with black faces and clothing soaked, thelr arms folded aad shoulders thrown back., They produced a soatter- ing of the women; all ran off, again en- Iaw office to settle the matter, In hls des- peration he trled to make his escape. Mr. Buskmell seomed Inclined to ahleld the young men so far as possible, and had little to impsrt to the Ingnirleg repor- ters, exceps that he would prefer not to have auything sald about it, on account of the famlly of the youog men, who are highly reepeoted, aud upon whom the shame of thole son would briog great sorrow. Tho generosity &nd sympathy of tho employer will hardly bo able, how- ever, to shield the young man, for in less time than it takes to record tho event the report of it went far and near as on wings, for Jerry Ritchie has been long known here, and has scores of frends, who were almost thunderatruck by the report of his actfons. He has been employed In Bashnell’s store for saveral years past, and has had the utmost oonfidence of his employer and of his friends. It has boen whis- pered that he has besn rather lavish in his expenditnres for & young maa on & moderate salary, and that a favorite fe- male companion has tsken no little of h's Income. However this may be, he has been looked upon as a jolly young fellow, making fricnds with all, generous and genlal. l¢ is sald that lately his employer learned that he was spending consdorable money, and bis susplcions baing aroused he set a watch, and found traces which confirmed these susplclons, It is said also that yesterday a trap was set for him, and that when alone in the atore at noon several persons were sent in there by the employer to spend marked money, and that when torlng thelr own deors, uneasy houso. | ¥ Bushuell = returned from diuner keepers, whom too muoh coffea and too ::”tm""“yb '1'" not f’“ "":1 drawer, and much gomslp had mado forgotful of all [*he6 on bolng confronted, and taken elao. Sornow nothing was hoard save | oVer,to Wrlght, Baldwin & Haldane's of- s troubled ery s omsy e b TFRAL Mg o Tbasae AR i n s AL EMyIGodl DYS08D s not ready.” | 13 disgrace ho made the attewpt to es- [zo B2 coxtiNuED.] cape. It is a #ad blow for his friends, snd ——— they will recelve the tenderest sympathy, Any Emall Boy, With a Stick, and sadnoss 1a hardly less felt for the can kill a tiger—if the tiger happens to|young man, who seems to have 8o al- be found when only alittle cub. So con- | lowed himself to be swept awsy on the sumption, that deadllest and most feared | tide of plessare and fast living. He was of dizeases in this country, can assuredly |last evening taken to his father’s homo In be conquered and destroyed if Dr. Plerce’s | Crescent, and it is understood that an at- *‘Golden Medical Discovery” be employed | tempt will be made to so arrange matters early. as to glve him a chance to redeem him- self, and to avold any further disgrace. ——— ——— A Hsppy Solution, They had been using the village ha acales for seven or elght years when How to Ssve Money, welgh master from the city came out t [and we might alto say—time and pain as test them, and discovered thai they wer | well, in our advice to good housekeeper: “‘off” about five pounds on the hundred |eand ladies generally. The great necessl- Confuslon followed, Farmers who had |ty exisiing always to have a perfectly sold hogs and csttle and sheep and hay |safo vemedy convenlent for the reliof by welght were petrified when they fi,» |and prompt care of the allments peenliar ured op the loas of 100 pounds on every [to women—functlonal irregularity, con- ton, Speculators who had bought where | stant pains, and all the symptoms attend- others had sold, and had thus been bene- | ant upon uterine disorders—Iinduces us fited by the scales, felt no particalar grati- | to recommend strongly and unqualifedly ficatlon, because none of them seemed to | Dr, Plerce's “‘Favorite Presoription”— have got ahead any faster. It was a|woman’s best friend. It will save money. stunning blow. What should be done? e Call & public meeling, of course. i It way called, Everybody was there. HAWKEYE HAPENINGS, There was an earnest determination to go to the bottom of the affair. They | New corn of excellent quality has been had gnns‘lo the bottom of the ecales and | marketed at Des Molner. repatred ’em, but thst was not enough, i Somebody or other, or something or h’{:‘:dl:kl:lf:h[;.,]’:r‘y, %-;%aofnhool et other, must be condemned or vindicated. The Crawford t 5 1biat Danl Thoro was a paiaful pauro afier a ohalr- | | ¢ 0"00" o8 a h""“;‘ y ‘”t l" . onison man had been selected. Everybody ex- | °02t $8,000, and has four ateel cells. pected somehody else to offer a resoiution | Willie Seymour, a boy of 12, fell into a creek near Clinton and was drowned. @& or move the appolntment of a committee, or do somethirg or other to preserve the| The negro Flelds, who murdered his rights and libertles of American freemen, | lttlo son at Kirkellle, wes sentenced to bat each Indlvidual seemed to be tongue- [ imprisonment for life. tled. The chalrman finally sroso and| A Des Molaes man, 74 years of age, said: with » bank roll of $25 fo smooth his ‘Gentlemen, a rogolutlon of sympathy | yrinkles, recently marrted a matd of 22. for tho family of the deceased would | She will make a charming widow. hardly be in order. Agaln thisisnota|™yr o Rker of T M.D caso whereln we can appeal to the patel- | = o .:h 9 uil ‘I:‘Z or of J. M, raln- otfsm of our fellow countrymen. Nolth- |3 the we'l known traveling paper er oan wo petdtion the leglalature to right | {o0ts Was Srowned In the A ';"""‘ our wrongs, ner have we just geounds for | 1 2%erio0, by the capalzing of a boat. John Parsons, of Fort Dodge, has & seceding from the United States, Will some of you make a suggestion?” fig troe In hls garden which has twenty Some one did. After a long ten seo- | Well developed figs, which will ripen in a onds an eminent citizen slowly arose and |{9w days, The tree Is four years old. solemnly—very solemnly—said: Oharles W, Ohurchill, of Keokuk, for- ““I puggest that we go out and take a |merly a rallway postal clerk on the Keo- drink!” Which was adopted by a large | kuk & Bt. Louls line, has been arrested me jorlty. for rifiing the malls and stesling the con- tents of valusble letters, He has made a confession of his gullt, The crlme was committed in 1880. John D, Dillon, of Dabugque, got bilin® full Sanday and begsn to psint the town a vermilllon hue, When an officer at- tempted to arrest him Dillon got In his Now York is tnoresslog very rapidly, | work, aud for a whil tho als was full of and same of the more successful eatab- | clubs and brass buttons and profanity. lishments seem more like banks or|Contrary to precedent, another officer brokers’ offices ttan grocerles. The | appeared on the ground, and between the olerks are dapper and polite youngfmen [two Dillon was knocked down and drag- who would scora to wear an apron, and |ged to the calaboose, followed by a pro- the range of edibles extends from fine | cesslon of over 500 people. Hiquors all the y down to heavy| The artesisn wells at Goldfield, Wright meats. It s pomible to buy almostany | county, are eald to be the grestest nat- artlcle of food or any sort of a ¢rink|ural curlosities existing in Tows. These at & fashionable New York grocery to-|wells are 90 to 100 feet deep, emitiing day. In some of the up town estal - | great volumes of water which leap from ments the clerks meet the customers st |their mouths twenty and thirty feet in the door, ehow them exhibits of what- |the alr, One of the wells emite a stream ever they choose to purchase, write out |the size cf a flonr barrel, and to the their slips, send the elips by automatic|helght of two or three feer, Iron ls the messengers down stalrs, and the goods | principal ingredient of the water, while are selected, packed and delivered with- | sulphur impreguates 1t to & coneiderable ont o houtekeeper having seen them st | degree. all, Under these circumstances house- keepers fine 1t an easy virtue to do their owp buying, The effect of the extenticn of fine grocery stores bas been widzspread. 1t has done much to In- jure ths big marksts, and has drlven ut many —— Many imitators, but no equal, has Dr, Sage's Datarrh Remedy, e —— Fachionable Grccery Stores, New York Sun, The number of fine grocery stores In When Baby was sick, we gave her Cestoria, - .| Whion sho was & Child, she cried for Castoris, Delav: of Polladelphia, fmany cases in which cough | When sko becamo Miss, ai clung t0 0 sirla, wixtures contalning op'ates aused death, | When shehad Childres, ahe grive thai,-Castaris but certifios that Red Star Congh cure is purely vegetable, free from parcotics, | and barmless,