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tallage; the gjjeat. Battling Road Agents. can not give comfort to others. They tnaj talk very beautifully, and thev may give you a great deal of poetic sentiment; but while poetry is perfume that smells sweet, it makes a very poor salve. If you have a grave in your pathway, and somebody comes aud covers it all over with flowers, it Is a grave yet.

Those who have not had grief themselves know not the mystery of a broken heart. Os the new time card, in effect Sept. Snd, the Union Pacific Railway is the only line that can offer the traveling public two daily trains from Council Bluffs, Omaha aud Kansas City to Los Angeles aud Sau Francisco. Also bear in mind that passengers from Chicago taking "The Overland Flyer" at Council Bluffs practically make 24 hours better time from Chicago to Saa Francisco, and 8 hours better time from Chicago to Portland, than they can make via any other route. Claus Ppecklea will introduce the beet sugar industry in America.

One of the largest furniture fctores in Nebraska is that of Hardy ic Pitcher at Lincoln. To be ashamed of one's trade is the very essence of vulgarity. Johnny Sherer has just secured a fine position in one of the banks in Burlington, Iowa, where he has been attending Elliott's Business College. A pine belt, seventy-five miles wide, girds Georgia from east to west. Growth of the United State.

The United States has a population of at least 62,000,000 at this moment. This makes it second in this particular anion? the civilized nations of the world. Keeping in Tiew the ratio of growth of the countries named between recent census periods, there are to-day about 88,000,000 inhabitants in European Russia, 47,000,000 in Germany, 40,000,000 in Auetro-Hiingary, 38,000,000 in France, 37,000,000 in Great Britain and Ireland, 30,000,000 iu Italy and 17,000,000 in Spain. The xiopnlation of none of the other countries in Europe reach 10,000,000 Turkey's inhabitants outside of Asia aggregating scarcely half that figure. Kussia alone of the great powers of Christendom exceeds the United States in population.

Even Russia must soon ba left far in the rear. Jnly 4, 1890, when the next national enumeration takes place, the United States will have inhabitants. It will have in the year 1900 and 124,000,000 in 1910. This computation is based on the average growth of the country during the century. Employing a like basis for Russia," that nation before 1910 will have dropped to second place, the United States taking the first.

Forty years ago the United States stood sixfh in point of population among the civilized nations of the globe and twenty years ago it stood fifth. Twenty years hence it will stand first. liard haD, climbed up on some of the beer kegs and shot through the transom of the door at Holladay and killed Earp. "As to the killing of Still well, that wai done by Holladay. The boys had gone overtothe railroad station to take the train for the East for the purpose of carrying the body of Morg Earp back to his home.

I gave them orders that if any of the gang should befard the train after it started to kill them if a-bey could. Still well was on the platform and hd made threats that he would kill Virg Earp. The train Btarted and he boarded it and made a break for Virg Farp" Doc Holladay knocked him off with his gun and his dead body was afterwards picked up," Mr. Bartholomew came to Denver in April, 1859, but returned to Iowa before the breaking out of the war and was in the first regiment and first company organized in that State. After tht war he returned to the West.

Later on he went to California and lost the fortune he had made in the llocky mountains. In 1876 he was offered the position of express agent by the Wells-Fargo company. His well-known bravery made him safe from the attacks of the road agents for the first four years of his serviee. He had a habit of carrying his shotgun swung on his shoulder wherever he went. When he sat down to eat his shotgun was laid across his knees.

His continuous carrying of his shotgun gave him the title of "The Shotgun agent." lie spent much of his time when not on a run in the banks of the towns lie lived in This was done at the request of the bankers, who conceived the plan as a means of carrying to the minds of the would-be burglars that their attempt to rob banks would be met by their worst foe. In the spring of 1881 Mr. Bartholomewreturnedto Colorado, having gained the ever-lasting gratitude of the Wells-Fargo company. drop, and all that went up in the air became gold, which fell down at the feet af the shoemaker. The shore was soon covered with it.

Then she became still, and said to the shoemaker and his wife "All that is for you, good people; you can pick it up." They thanked the siren, who went off singing. Then they filled their pockets with gold and returned to their cabin very happy. When the twenty-four hours had passed Olerie and her husband returned to the shore to look for the clothing that the siren had promised them. They heard her singing in the distance, and soon they her glide over the waves and come near them, always singing her sweet and melodious song. She flapped the water with her fins; a large wave broke into foam on the strand and rolled back, leaving at the feet of the Bhoemaker a large chest.

Then the siren leaped three times out of the water and said: "You will find in that chest what I promised you. Good-by, till I see you again you who have been so good to me. When you want some fish do not forget this shore." They took the chest away with them to their hut. It contained good clothing made to fit them; and every time that they or their children wanted fish they went to the seashore and in a few moments they caught an abundance. For a whole year they did not see the siren.

The purse grew lighter meanwhile, and the lighter it grew the more they thought of the siren. They often went to to the sea shore, listening and hoping to hear her voice. One day they heard her singing in the distance. They ran at once to the shore, and were glad to see her gliding over the waves. All along where she had passed the sea gleamed like a pathway of fire.

When she came within a little distance the shoemaker said to her: "My siren, I am very glad to see you again. If you will you can do me a great service, for I have no longer either bread or money." "I will give you enough to fill your purse again, said the siren. After saying these words she unfolded her fins, beat the water around her, and sent to the shore a wave of gold and silver. "With that," she said, "you can buy all you require; but, if you wish to keep it, use it well. You Avill see me no more.

Iam going to leave this country and go to India." The siren went away after having said this. Since then uo one has ever seen her sing in the Bay of Fresnaye. The Syren of Fresnaye. Once apon a time there was in the woods of the isle of Aval, in the parish of St. Cast, a maker of -wooden shoes, who, with his wife and two children, lived in a poor little mud hut which he had built himself by the seashore, just at the end of the val-iey.

There are those who say that the ruins of it may be seen; but that is hardly creditable, for it is a long time since then, and usually the cabins of makers of wooden shoes do not last Aerr long. Tiiey were not very rich, for they had only their work to live on; and you know makers of wooden shoes rarely buy small farms. The husband dug out the wooden shoes, his wife helped him as well as she could, and the little boy and girl, who were not large enough to work on the wood, went every day to fish by the shore. One day, when the little boy was fishing among the rocks, he heard suddenly a sweet musical song; and looking in the direction from whence it seemed to come, he saw the siren who was singing as she swam among the waves, and around her the sea was so brilliant that it dazzled you to look at it. He ran very quickly to the cabin where his father was working.

"Ah, papa," said he, "do come and see! There is a fish in the bay of Portau-Moulin more beautiful than any I have seen. It sings, and it shines like gold!" "Like fire, papa," added the girl, who had seen it also. The shoemaker and his wife hastened to follow their children; but when they reached the shore the siren had disappeared-. They saw no siren on the sea and heard no singing, "It was nothing," said the mother; "the children dreamed it all." But he was hot so incredulous as his wife. The next morning he told his children to gt back to the edge of the water and wS tch attentively to see if the beautiful singing fish would show itself again.

The little bay went bntj but soon as he had gone a few steps from the cabin he ran back, crying out: "Ah, papa, the beautiful fish has returned again: you can hear it sing from here." "When they went outside they head a delicious music in the distance; and they hastened to go to the sea shore, where they stiw the siren, who sang asshepbtyed about on the waves, and leaped sometimes tnoio than three feet above the water "It is not an ordinary fish," eiid the shoemaker, "it looks like a human lieiiig." "Ah," said his wife, "we must get the linps; perhaps we can catch it. I Bhould like verv much to see it close by." They all went to work to get the linex ready, and then when the sea was high they set them, but in vain; They put the choicest bait on the hook; the singing fish did not come to take it, although they it every day The shoenmker thought often of the wonderful fish, and devised many means to get it. One day he was walking on the shore, he saw the siren, who, cradled by the waves and fast asleep, was floating at a short distance from the shore. He went into the water without making tiny noise, and slipped a large basket that he had, under her, and carried her off in it to the land without waking her. She yvas about the size of a child of eight years.

She had golden hair, and her white and polished body resembled that of a woman, but instead of feet she had fins, and her body ended with a tail of a fish. "Ah!" said the shoemaker as he looked a her "my little ones did not lie It is really the most curious thing that was ever seen. It is half Woman and half fish." He made these reflections on his Way back to his cabin; and he had reached it when the siren awoke and said, to him: "Ah, shoemaker, you surprised me while I was asleep. I beg you to feoke me back to the water, now that, you have seen me close, and I will pr otect you and all your family as long as you live." "No," answered he, "I will not put you back into the sea. I have watched for you for a long tinvi, and so have my wife and children.

I am going to take you to the hcuse so that they can see you: but wlwn you have sung a song, if my wife wishes, I will carry you back to the place from which I took you." He called his wife, who was named Olel ie; and he cried to her: "Olerie, come here and see, and bring the children. I have thesinger in my basket." The good woman ran, full of joy, followed by the little boy and girl, and began to examine the siren "She asks to be taken back to the water," said the husband. "She will sing yon a song first. Do vou agree to that?" she said: "it is too beautiful a fish. I have-never seen one like it.

We must eat it." "Ah!" said the siren, "if you feed upon my flesh, though you feast upon my fish, you will neArer eat anything else in this world, for you will perish. I am not a fish like the others. I am the Siren of Fresnaye, and your husband surprised me while I was sleeping. Ask of me what you will and I will grant it, for I have the power of a fairy. But make haste and carry me back to the sea and do not lose any time.

I am already growing weak and I shall soon die." "What do you say about it?" Olerie asked her husband. "If you consent to it I am very willing to put her back into the sea. It would be a shame to kill her, she is so pretty and has never done any harm to any one." each took hold of one end of. the basket and carried the siren gently to the sea -and let her plung into it again without thinking of asking anything of her. When she felt the freshness of the water she shouted with laughter for joy that she was no longer captivity, and she said to the shoemaker, very eweetly I "What do you ask of me now?" "I ask some bread, some fish and clothing for my wife and children." "You shall have all that in twenty-four hours," said the siren.

"I should like very also," added he, "if it is in your power, to have a little money to pay my mas-, ter; for I am not at all Th siren did not make any reply; but she began to flay the water with her fins, and each time that she struck the waves they flashed up in little, Vigor and Vitality Are quickly eiven to everj part oi the boly Hood's arsaiarlia. That tlrad feeling ta entirely avercome. The blood is purified. enriched and vitalized, and cairtea health 'nsteadof disease to every orgnn. The stomach is toned and strengthened, the appetite restored.

Th kl inert nd liver are rouse! and lnrleorated. The brain It refreshed, the nerves, strergthened. The whole Bytem Is built np by Hood's SarMpa-IUa. "1 was alt run dawn and nnfir f-r business. I was lctfucrd to tak? a of Hood's Saiairarilta.

sad it built me tliat I was soon able to resnme work. I recommend It to all." D. W. Biiti. 4 Martin Street.

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-r-stt reM THAT IS JOST 1 I snaaiewj I I WHAT I SHALL I 1 HaliRSAXH I iu ltsO. A. Tlie lligaty Psychologist Hanlles "Plasters Tliat Will Not Stick." Eis B'antifm and Soul Iii' -piring Verbal Kf-fmtou tlx Ccinforters ara U.ihva-rassfu-Thfl Inky Dark ness of qvi b-t Emb anil Transt'jiia lInto a Golden Halo of luteiv sity ac tht I iu'-i Velconis Fori a1. Eat Hamptov, New Youk, Septem ber tl The Kc-v. T.

1. Witt Taluiaare, D. who FjciiJs a L'oml part of his summer rest here, tut.k for the Pill juct of his Vticatiou Sermon of tins d.itr, "Musters That Will Not Stick." ins u-xi cotnlurters are ye il I th. svi, v. 2.

Following is the ser won: The niaii of Uz had a pro at many trials I lie loss of liiu fmn lv, tlic loss of property, the the 1. of UU hi-allli; but tlie most exuspera-liri i tluisa that ciiuu upon in was the tau-tu! Zini; of those who ouuht to have sym-lalaZ'il w.ih him. Looking around upon thi in. hihI weighing hat they liatl said, he utters the wor.is of my text. Why tliil tied let sin come Into the world 1 3l is t(iu'Siiau 1 oft hear discussed, but tiever saListnotcrily answered.

Go 1 made the World fair ami beautiful at the siart. if our "irst in ills had not tinned in E.leo, they night hare cone out of that garden, and fifty parailisi'8 all uround the earth F.uri Asia, Afr.ci, North and South AiMr-i a so many llower-sardeus, or orchards of redolent and luscious. I suppose that liod poured out liie (iilion ami llieliiil-M ke', he poured oui at the same time, ibe li and the tiisuilt-bitiiua; the who earth wtii very la mid i eautilul lo looK upon. Win Oi I it not stay God had the power io Keep sin and woe. Why did lie sh.

1m -cp tin in ei; Wny not every cloud roseate, nd cv ry sie a 1 every sound iii5.c, ail tlio iiL'eii a loiijj jubilee of siu-''Ss meu hii.1 sinless wuineut God tan niaiie a rose as easily i.s He can l.iake a thurii. Wny, then, the predomiuanCtj oi thorns He can lsm.i.; tjiiud, fair, rips i i it as well as tuarlcd and suur IruiL Why t-o null then, that is snarled and souil He cnu make in robust in health. Whv, then, are (here so many invalids Whv not have fur our whole ce perpetual leisure, instead of ths tnic and to 1 and lussie for a 1 w.ll tell ion why God let sill come into the uorid when 1 act on other side i the II ver of Death. Tnat is the place wlu.ie such questions will i answered aud mi ii imi-ier rs solved. He who this side that river attempts to answer ihe question, only siiu-liates his own ignorance and incornoe "x-ncy.

All 1 know is one treat fact, and that tliat a herd ot wors have come iu upon us. iruniplinic down every thiu.ir that is fair and oi-ulUtful. A sword at the -ate of Edeu, and a sword at every gale. cople under the s-'iouud ihuii on it. The frrave- ards in "vast maj tritv.

The six thou-and winters have made more searj than ihe six thousand sain-'neiscan cover Trouble has taken the -tentier in-art of tu.s wmi in its two rouli iiamls, and pinched it uuiil the nations wail tlie airouv. if a 1 ihe mounds of that ve burn lined were put side bv eide you might slepoi: luem and on nothing else, going ull around the world, and around inriun, and mound i aa n. These are the facis. And now I have to say that, iu a woral like this, the irrandes.t ticeupatiou is til it of uirinir condolence. This hoiy science of imj-artuiL: comfort lo I he troubled we ouaht all Oi us to frtud Tlii re are many of you I ho Could luoK around upon some of our Very bi friends wliu wish you 11 and are veiy intelligent, and yet he able tiuthfu ly to eay to them in your da.s of trouble, 'Miserable com.

oi lers iitv all." i remarii, iu the liist place, that very volub.e peop are incompetent lor the work of tiviiitl coiulort, lindad aud Eliphaz had the of luniruaue, and with ttie.r vords inmost bothered Job lite otii. Aias for ihcsu v-'luble peop tuat fro unions; the bouses of ihe i (il eled ud taik, aud talk, mid talk snd talk! Ttie' rehearse thoir own sorrows, and then they teil tlie poor suff -r-vis that tucv badly no but lb -y will Tei 1 worse alter a wiiue. Silence! Do you exact with th courl-p aster of to III v'i a wot; ii d. as tlie sou Steo very around ab iuL a broken heart. Talk Vi-ri around those whom God has be-left.

Then go your way. Deep sympathy not much to saw A linn grasp of the "jainl, a conip is look, just ona word that means i.s as a'wUoie dictiouarv, mid hnvofiiveu. crimpy all the coml'o't that a soui needs. A man hi3 a terrible wound lu his linn. Ti sunrcon comes mid bn is it up.

he tavs, curry that arm in a snnjr, mi be ver. rel'ul'of it. no one I It." Hut tlie neighbors liavo lo ur of aeci.leut. and they come ii, i.nd tlorv- sav, 'J. insis it." Ami the baiiila.e is pdkd iff, and this one and that one musi se it, and how much it is t-wol-ien; aud lliere is nri iilioii.aud nillainmation, and ex i.spfi'atioti, where there oujrli t.

to 1 heal ti'4 and cooling. The sttruoti comes in, and sas, ''iVlnit does a. I th meau? You have no business to touch those bandaires. That wound wiil iii-ver Ileal unless you lec it aione." s-o there are touis tiroken ilouniu Boirow What tln-y most want, is rest, or reful and ucil Ire but neisii-bors have lieaid of the liereav.iment or of ihe atid liny come in to sympathise, and thev say, 'Mnnv us now the Wi.und. What were Ins last Words llehearse now the whole seine, ilnw did io i leel when you found yotl were an or; hanj" Tearing oil the tjaiiditt-s here, and pulliiiir tin in oil theie, leaving a piiallv wound lh.it the balm of liod's trace had already begun to lieal.

O.i lei. no loquacious people, with ever-Tattling tongues, go into lue homes of the -distressed. Again 1 remark, that all those persons are InC 'tn-vitent to an kind of comfort "ho net merely as worldly philosophers. They voine in and sav, "Why, this is what you cu-jht to have expected. The laws of nature must have their wn.

and then they get eloquent over something thev have seen postmortem cxi ininaiioiis. Now, away with ail liumau ph losophy at sucli a timI What difference does it make to that father and mother ttht disease their sou died off He Is dt ad, and It makes no difference whether the trouble was iu the epigastric or hypo-giistr region. If the philosopher be of the Kioical school he will come and say, "You ought to control your feelings. You must not cry so. You must cultiv.de a cooler temperament.

You must have se reliance self-government, self-control;" an iceberg reproving a h.aciuth for hayiug a drop of deiv iu its eye. A viol nist has his inslrumect, and be sweeps his lingers across the strings, now evoking strains.of jov, and now strains of sadness. He can iiQt play all the tnnes on one string. 'Ihe human soiil is an instrument of a thousand strings, all sorts of emotions were made to play on it. Now an anthem, now a dirge.

It is no evidence of weakness when one is overcome of sorrow. Kdmuud Uurke was found iu the pasture-, rield with li arms around a horse's neck, caressing him, and some one said, "Why, the great man has lost his mind!" No; that borse belonged lo his Sun who had recently died, and his great heart broke over the grief. It is si-n of weakness that men are overcome of their sorrows. Thank God for the relief of tears. Have you never been iu 'trouble when you could tiot ween, and you would have given anything for a iroixl cr David did well when he mourned for Absalom, Abraham did well when he lemoaned baiah Christ did well when he wept for L.iz iru and the last man I want to see come anvwhire near me wh-n I have any kiud of trouble is a worldly philosopher.

Again I remark, that those persons are for he work of comfort bearing who have nothing but cant to oiler. There are those who have tlr? idea tlmt yon must croan over tie distressed and i ll There are tint' iu grief when one cneerful face dawning upon a man's soul is worth a thousand dollars to him. Do not liine over the alllieted. Take the promises of tlm Gospel and ut cr them in a manly tone. Do not be afraid to smile if ton fefel like it.

Do not drive any more hearses through that poor soul. Do not tell him the troll was foreordained; it. will not.be any comfort lo know jt was a million years coming. Il you want to hud spl nts for a broken bone do not take esst iron. Do not te I them it is Go l's justice that weiirhs out irrief.

They want now to hear of d's tender merer. In other ords. do not -jive thein aqua tort is when they need valeri A'jain I remark, that those persons are poor comforters who have never had any trouble Themselves. A larkspur can not lecture on the of a snow-flake it never saw a sniM-fiake; and hose people who have always lived in the summer of prosperity can not tali; to those who frozen in disaster. (io.I keeps aged people in the world.

I thiuk, for th very work of M-inpatur. They have been thro'iiih all the'e trials. They know all that liieh soothes. If there are men and women here have old people iu the hoaue, or near at hand so that thev can easi reach them, I congratulate them, home of us have had trials in life, and although we have had many friends about us, we have wished that father and mother we.c still alive that we might go and tell them, l'erhaps they could not say much, but It have been such a comfort to have them around, 'i heSe uged ones who have been all through the trials of life know how to five condolence. Cherish then: let them lean oc ycur arm these aged pfbple.

If, when you "epeak to them, they can not haar just whit you say the lirst time, and you have to say it the second time, do not say It sharply. If you do, you will be tul vii i ii rt 1. 1 tunc uo mat VOK and brush the silvery locks frota the wrinkled brow lust before -they screw the lid on. Blessed be God for the old people 1 They may not have so tauch streugih to Kerarouud, but tiiey are God's appoluted ministers of comfort to a broken heart. Peortrli0 hare not hud trliJa themselves eighty of the Gentry Routed by Forty Deputy Harshals.

Road agentsin the borderStatea are becoming extinct. It seems like a long time ago that the daily press gave almost daily ac-jounts of the depredations of this class of outlaws. But in reality it has been but a very few years since some great battles were fought between armed officers and the desperadoes whose sole aim. was robbery, and principally the robbery of express and mail on the stage lines of the Western States from Colorado to California. Stage robberies ten years ago were of daily occurence throughout the States and Territories of that section, and many an express agent and driver met death while doing his duty to the company herepresented.

It required courage, bravery and a thorough knowledge of the use of firearms by the agents of the express companies to stand off a squad of road-agents, and there were brave men needed when an effort was made to capture a band of outlaws. One of the latest and probably the mostnotablecapture made was that in Arizona in 1881. In that raid a band of eighty hard men was thoroughly, broken np by an armed posse of forty Deputy United States Marshals formed in Tombstone. The speedy and fatal work done by the law and order men in that attack struck terror to the hearts of the robber element and since that time there has been but little holding up of stages by large and thoroughly organized road agent gangs. AN OLD-TIME EXPRESS AGENT.

A Denver Republican reporter met Mr. C. A. Bartholomew, the man who was in command of the posse of men here referred to. The reporter approached him with a desire to learn something of the capture of theroad agents and the robliery which lead to it.

"Well, this was one time, at. least, that I was licked," said Mr. Bartholomew, refering to the hold-up, ''but I got even finally. It was the only battle I had to fight during the five years 1 was in the employ of the Wells, Fargo company, but it was battle enough. This was on the 6th of January, 1881, and some three months previous to that time there had been a hold-up on the Hubbard stage-line, running from Tombstone to Bis-Ix-e copper mines, in which a driver and a passenger were killed.

I was at that time a messenger for the Wells, Fargo Company on the Kerns Griffith line running from Yuma to Tuseon. The company ordered me to the Tombstone-Bisliee line, and during the three months our stage had run along without any attempt being made to hold us up. We nsnally had a large treasure, but we had ex-cpfditifilv good luck, and I had begun to think I should escape the road agents. "In December, 1880, however, there occurred a little trouble in Tombstone which gave me some fenrs that it might be my turn next. The three t'lnnton boys and two MacElroys, whom I believed to be of this gang of eighty road agents, came into town urmed.

There was a town ordinance forbidding the carrying of firearms, and when any of this gang of outlaws came iuto town they were quickly disarmed. Upon this occasion, the Sheriff told these fellows not to give up their arms. Virg Enrp ono of the Earp brothers was Town Marshal, and when he needed deputies would call upon one or more of his brothers or Doc Holladay. The Marshal knew that if he demanded the guns of these men he would have to stand a fight. He deputized his brothers, Wyatt and Morg, aud Doc Holladay to nswist him.

The Clan-ton gang refused to surrender and a battle reunited, in which the three Earp brothers Were wounded and Billy Clnnton and the two Mm Kirov boys and lki? Clanton were killed. "This band' of road agents and nil of the rough gambling and thievinir element id Tombstone wereeneinies of the Earp brothers for the reason that they stood in with and assisted the law-and-order people of the town. "The town was divided in the way that frontier towns usually were in those days, and still are at present, except that in Tombstone this division was probably more marked than elsewhere. One side of the main street was occupied by rough saloons, gambling-houses and their accompaniments, while on the other side the stores and better lass of people carried on their business. The Enrp brothers and Holladay, atld many that class of men who were well behaved sporting men, boarded at the Cosmopolitan hotel, while the thieves nnd thugs made their rendezvous atthe Grand." "What had this fight and the enmity between the toughs and the better class of men to do with the holding-up of your stage?" lsked the reporter.

"Well, it had this to do with it: The action of these boys indicated that they were opposed to the thieves and hold-ups, and their talk was proof enough that they were friends of he Wells-Fargo company. These outlaws were determined to exterminate Holladay and the Earps if possible. A few weeks nfter this fight they again shot and wounded Virg Earp while lie was passing along the Street. "I hod been warned by good citizens that I Would be nttoekedj and was urged to keep a Careful iratch on the road. Many ft time, especially at Tucson, crowds of men would gather around the stage as we were ready to start and make bets upon my coming back alive or dead.

On tlie 6th day of January, when we had made about half of the thirty-eight miles to Bisbee, I noticed the dust from horses' feet and also wheretheirtraeks ceased to appear and appeared again in theroad. I remarked to the driver that I thought we Hhould catch it that day. We had passed both stations, Charleston and Hereford, and were within eight miles of the end of our trip, when five meu rode out from the brush and fired upon us. They did not command us to halt, nor did they utter any words. I was armed with a double-barreled shotgun, furnished me by the company, and my own long-ranged rifle.

I turned loose with my shotgun and the driver turned his leaders around to go the opposite way. The horses were wounded and limping and three of them fell down before we had proceeded far, and afterwards died. While at a distance I exhausted all my ritie cartridges except one. The villains kept themselves hid by the brush, so Ihat 1 only got one of thein and killed one horse. "The firing ceased and the road agents sent a Mexican to ask me to surrender.

I sent them word to go to the devil. He returned and repeated his request and I gave him the same reply. The driver and passengers begged me to consider their lives, reminding me that I had only one rifle cartridge and that my shotgun would not reach the attacking party, while they, lieing armed with rifles, could remain where they were and kill the driver aud myself and then approach mid kill the passengers if they desired. 1 considered the matter awhile aud concluded it would lie lietter in the end to give up the SO.oUO in gold in the treasure-box than to give Up ottr lives to these murdering robber. I felt satisfied that the result would ho the sending out of a posse of men who could and would cleaji up this whole band of road ngents.

I gave the driver the privilege of signaling them to approach. My determination to let them have the treasure almost forsook me when I saw those five mounted men take the box and move on. I felt like giving the lender thela.t rifle ball, but 1 knew it would be death to all of us, and the hope of capturing them in the future kept me from doing so. "What was your nest move?" was butone'hiove 19 tiitike thU; That was to move on into town on foot, for our horses were dead. When I told the story the business men and mining superintendents started in to raise a posse of aieu to capture the road agents, in which they were endorsed ly the United States district attorney, and I was given command.

I gavo Wyatt Earp charge of ten of the forty men and I took the others. He acted under my orders, I never saw a braver nor a more efficient man than Wyatt Earp. He was gentlemanly and kind in his conduct toward his men and rendered me very valuable service." "Is it not probable that Wyatt. Earp was urged to his good work by a spirit of revenge, or is it a fact that his brother Morg was killed before this posse started out?" "It is probable that the death of his brother was an incentive to harder work, but Wyatt Earp is a man who believes in right and justice, and he was ready at any time to render his assistance in a warfare upon thieves and hold-ups. Now, I want to say to you that Wyatt Earp and all of his four brothers were men of principle, aud they were fighters who were not afraid of mau or devil.

They were all valuable men upon occasions of this kind, and their unwillingness to associate with the tough element of Tombstone was a sufficient guarantee tiMue that they did their A-ork because they besieved iu the right and were anxious to seethe right on top. I know some people have a different view but I know what I am talking about and shall never have anything but the truth to tell of them." "You captured this band of road agents, did you not?" "We ijiptured about thirty-five of them and killed those to whom I was compelled to deliver the treasure-box, and we ran the balance of them out of the country. On the first night out, the 15 of- January, we captured seventeen of them at Charleston. Then our work was harder, as this fact embittered them and they were hard fighters. But in forty days we finished the job." "Con you give me the facts as to the killing of Morg Earp and also of the killing of Still-well? Did Wyatt Earp or Doc Holladay kill the "Morg Earp and Doc Holladay were playing billi aids one day while we were getting ready to start on this raid.

Some of this agent gang went to the rear of the bil Log Caeixs are neither fashionable nor in demand, but they were more comfortable and more healthy than are many modern dwellings. Warner's Log Cabin Hops Bnchn is a reproduction of one of the best of the simple remedies with which Los Cabin dwellers of old days kert themselves well. Did you ever try "Tippecanoe" An A nacottdji In Connrrtlcnt. Frank Daniels, of Waterford. came upon a snake in his field a few days ago, and, although the serpent was as big as an anaconda, he attacked it.

The suake was in no mood to be trifled with, and it lifted its angry crest as high as Mr. Daniels' chest and pitched into him. For a time it was a slugging match, the farmer being armed with a part a rail, then it degenerated into a rough and tumble wrestle, in which first one and then the other of the combatants had the under hold. Finally the man got the reptile down, after a desperate and protracted struggle, and pounded its head with the rail. The snake was a black one and measured eleven feet in length.

It was the bitj-gest snake ever killed in Waterford. Ignorance Kept II I in Honest. A story is told of a postmaster whose lack of knowledge of working his own "nest" lost him an increase of $100 on his salary next year. When he sent his returns in he lacked 31 cents of the amount called for by the law to permit an adjustment of his salary. His report showed the receipts of his office to iie $2,09.0.

As the department allows a fraction over a half a dollar to be counted as a dollar, the postmaster would" iiave been 4100 more in pocket if he had had shrewdness enough to buy 31 cents' worth of stamps out of his own pocket. Since he sent his report he lias learned his mistake, nnd anybody in the county now con kick him. His was the only case of the kiud in 2,500. It caused much merriment among the clerks in the postoflice department. Washington Cor.

Baltimore American. The World's The ever increasing length of cannon recently gave rise to the question as to the length of the longest piece of ordnance ever successfully fired. The surprising reply was: "Fourteen miles." The term "ordnance" is taken to mean anything that carries a projectile, and the piece of ordnance in question is the straight iron tube hich conveys natural gas from array ville to Pittsburgh, Pa. Tlie projectile fired this tube was a large which fitiel closely the interior of the pipe. This was inserted at the gas well and the gas turned on in full force.

The ball was driven the entire length of the enl-e, coming out at tlie farther end in a "few minutes." It thus appears that the arts of peace may prod nee longer guns that the arts of war. We respect ourselves more if we have succeeded in life. Wisdom atid mariners have always come from tlie cast. Sleeping-ear porter generally a fat man a wide berth. S' nonsense clipping a horse.

Whn Baby was tick, we aTe her Castoria, Wha shwais a Child, she cried for Castoria, When be burams Mis, slis clung to Castorit, War tad Children, sfeo gae them Castoria, Wool is saiil to improve witli age. It feels it a ''duty," probably. A I lllqua Ilxtik Rill. A. M.

Crai-r, of Sonthington, has a curiosity in the shape of a bank note, on one side of which is a promise to pay $10 and on the reverse $20. In 1861 among the notes made by the government for the Second National bank of Springfield, there was an error in printing one sheet of three bills, and they were signed and paid ont, first to the town and theu to the fire department and then to the merchants. The error was, of course, at once discovered, and the bills called Two of the number were found and destroyed, but the third was lost. Mr. Craig not long ago was shown some curiosities, among them this bill.

He made an offer for it which was accepted. He has already been offered over 200 for it by curiosity seekers. He AT RE for rxrsT. Ct'REK Itbaaiuatism. Keuralgfa.

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JACOBS QJl 6ilE urn They know not the meauing of childlessness, and the having no one to put to at uight, or the standing in a room where every book and picture aud door is full of memories ihe door mat where she sat, the cup out of which 6he drank the place where she stood at the door and clapped her bauds the odd figures that she scribbled the blocks Bhe built into a house. Ah no, you must have trouble yourself before you can comfort trouble In others. But come all ve who have been bereft and ye who have been comforted in your sorrows, and stand around these a 111. ted souls, aud say to them, "I had tliat very sorrow mi self. God comforted me, aud he will comfort you;" and that wl.l go right to the spot In othet words, to cetnfon.

others, we must have faith in God, practical experience, and good, sound commou sense. but there are three or four considerations that 1 will bring this morning to those who are BorrOnful and d'stressed, and that we can always bring to them, knowing that they will effect a cure. And the first consideration is, that God sends our troubles lu love. Iolteu hear people in fheir troubles say, "Why, I wonder what God has against me!" They seem to think God has some grudge airainst them because trouble anu misfortune have come. Oh no.

Do you not remember that passage of Serlpture," "Whom the Lord loveth He cbastouethj" A child comes in with a very bad splinter in its hand, and you try to extract it. It is a very painful operation. The child draws back from you, but you persist. You are going to take that splinter our, so you lake the child with a gentle but firm grap; for although there may be pain iu it, the spliuter must come out. And It is love that dictates it, aud makes you pre-sisL My friends, I really think that nearly all our sorrows iu this world are only the hand of our Father extracting some thorn, if all these sorrows were sent by enemies, I would say arm yourselves against them; and.

as in tropical climes, when a tiger comes do from the mountains and carries off a child from the Village, the neighbors band together aud go into the forest aud hunt the monster, so I would have you, if I thought these misfortunes were sent bv an enemv.e-o out and battle airainst them. But no; they come lroin a lather so Kind, so loving, so gentle, that the prophet, speaking of His tenderness aud mercy, drops the ideas of a father, and says, "As one whom his mother comforteth. so will I comfort you." Again 1 remark, there is comfort in the thought that all this process, is going to make you useful. Do you kuow that those who accomplish the most for God and heaven have all been under the harrow. Show me a man that has done anything for Christ in this day, in a public or private place, who has had no trouble and whose rath has been smooth.

Ah, no. Again there is comfort in the thought that all our trouble is a revelation. Have vou never thought of it in that connection? The man who has never been through chastise ment is ignorant about a thousand things in his soul he ought to know. For instance. here is a man who prides himself on his cheer- fullness, of character.

He has no patience with an. body who is depressed in'soirits. Ob, it is easy for him to be cheerful, with his Due uouse, nts niled wardrobe and well strung instruments of music, and tapestried parlor, and plenty of money In the banlt waiting for a safe investment. It is easy for him to he cheerful. But suppose his fortune goes to pieces, and his house goes down under the sheriff's hammer, and the bank will have nothing to do with his paper.

Suppose those people who were once elegantly entertaiued at his table net so sliort-sinhted that thev can not recoau ze him upou the street. How then! is it so easv to be cheerful it is easy to be cheerful in the home, after the day's work is done, and the gas is turned on, and the house is full of romping little ones. But suppose the piano is shut because the nngers that played on it will no more toucn me Keys, and the cnitdish voice that asked so many questions will ask no more. Then is it so easv i When a man wakes up aud liuds that iiis resources are all gone, he begins to re bid, aud he says, ''God is hard: God is outrareous. Ha had no business to do this to ma." My frieuds, those of us who have been through trouble know what a sinful and rebellious heart we have, and how much God has to put up with, and how much we in ed pardon.

It is omy iu the litrlit of a flaming furnacj that we can learn our own weakness and our own lack of moral re-SOUrCei There Is also a great deal of comfort in the fact that tlier. wid ii a funily reconstruction in a belter place. Front Scotland, or England, or Ireland, child emigrates to this couu ry. It is very hard parting, but he com after a while writing honii as to what a goo land it is. Another brother conies, a sister comes, and another, aud after a while the mother comes, and after a while the father comes, and now they are i ll here, and they have a me of great eongra'ulation and a very pleasant reunion.

Weil, it is just so witli our fannies: they are emigrating to a better laud. Now one goes out. Oh, how hard it is to part with him! Another goes. Oh. how hard to part with her! And another, and nnoth -r, and we ourse ves will after a while go over, and then we will bj together.

Oh what a reunion! Do you believj thatJ "Yes," vou say. You do nut! You do not believe it as you believe other things. If you did, and with the same emphasis, Why, it would take iiiiie-teiiihs of "your trouble oil vour heart. The fact is, heaven to many of us is a great fog. It is awav oil some" here, tilled with an uncertain and indefinite population.

That is the kind of heaven that many of in dream about; hut it is the most tremendous fact iu all the universe this heaven of thu Gospel. Our departed friends are not afloat. The residence in which you live is not so real as the resi-iu which they stay. You are afloaf, you who do not know iu the morning hat will happen before ii ght. They are housed aud safe forever.

Do not, therefore, pity your departed friends who havj died iu They do not need unv ot your pity. You might as well send a letter of condolence to Queen Victoria on her obscurity, or to the Rothschilds on their poverty, as to pity those who have won the pdm Do not say of those who are departed, "Poor child!" "Poor father!" "Poor mother They are not poor. You are poor you whose homes have been shattered not they. You do not dwell much with your families in this world. All day long you are off to business.

Will it not be pleasant when you can be together all the while If you have had four children and one is gone, and anybody asks how many children you have, do not be so infidel as to say three. Say four oue in heaveu. Do not think that the grave is unfriendly. You go iuto your room, dress for some grand entertainment, and you come forth beautifully appareied; aud the grave is only the place where we go to dress for the ulorious resurreetiou, aud we w.ll come out radiant, radiant, mortality having become immortality. Oh, how much condolence there is in this thought I expect to see my kindred in heaven; I expect to see them as certainly as I expect to go home to-dav.

Ar, I shall more see them. Eight or ten will come up from the grave-yard back ot Somerville; and one will "come up' from the mountains back Anioy, China; and another will come up from the sea off Cape Hatteras; and thirty will come up from Greenwood; aud I shall kno them better than I ever knew them here. And vour friends they may be across the sea, but the trumpet that sounds here will sound there. You will come up on just the same day. Some morning you have overslept yourself, and you opeu our eves, and see that the sun is liiuh iu the heaveus, and yon say, '1 have aud I must be up and "off." Ho vou ill open your eyes on the morning of the resurrection, in the full blaze of God's light, aud vou will say, "I must be up and away." Oh ves.

you will come up, and there will be a reunion, a reconstruction of your family. I liue what Halburton, I think it was L'oo old Mr. Hat burton said in his last moments, "I thank God that! ever lived, aud that I have a father in heaven, and a mother in heaven, and brothers in heaven, and sisters in heaven, and I am now going up to see them." I remark once more: our troubles in this world are prepiralive for glory. What a transition it was for Paul from the slippery deck of a foundering ship to ihe calm presence ot What a transition it was for Latimer from the stake to a throne! 'What' a transition it was for Hubert Hall from insanity to glory! What a transition it was for Richard Baxter from tho dropsy to the "saint's everlasting rest!" And what a transition it will lie for vou from a world of sorrow to a world of joy! John Hollaed, when he was dying, said, "What means this, brightness in the roomi Have vou lighted the candlesi" "No," they replied, "we have not lighted any Then enid he, "Welcome- heaven!" the light already beaming upon his pillow. ye who are persecuted in this world! your enemies will get off the track after a while, and all will speak well of you among the thrones.

Ho! yo who are sick now, no medicines to take there. One breath of the eternal hills wi 1 tbrill you with immortal vhror. And ye who are lonesome now, there will be a thousand spirits to welcome you into their companionship. ye bereft souls! there will be no grave digger's spade that will cleave the 6ide of that hill, and there will be no dirge wailing from that temple. The river of God, deep as the jov of heaven, will roll on between banks odorous with balm, and over depths bright with jewels, and under skies roseate with gladness, argosies of light go ing down the stream to the stroke of a glittering oar and the song of augelsl Not one sigh in the wind; not one tear mingling with tho waters.

"There shall I bathe my wesry soul In scan ot heavenly rest, And not a wave of trouble roll Across my Too Much for the Railroad Man. It's enough if you have a passing acquaintance with a railroad man. Washington Crifir. A Japanese Genesis. In the beginning all things were in chaos.

Heaven and earth were not separated. The world floated in the cosmic mass like a fish in the water, or the yolk in an egg. The ethereal matter sublimed and formed the heavens, while the residium formed the present earth, from the mould of which a germ sprouted and became a self animate being, from which sprang all the gods. On the floating bridge of heaven appeared a man and woman of celestial origin. The male plunged his jeweled spear into the unstable waters beneath them, and withdrawing it the tickling drops formed an island upon which they descended.

The creative pair, or divine man and woman, deigning to make this island a pillar for the continent, separated, the male to the left. the female to the right, to make a journey around the island. When they met the woman spoke first, saying, "How joyful to meet a lovely man!" The man, offended that the first use of a tongue had lieen by a woman, demanded that the journey be repeated, after which he cried out, ex-ultingly. "How joyful to meet a lovely woman!" Thus ensued the proper subjection; and this, according to the ancient lore of Japan, was the origin of the human race and the art of love. Overland Monthly.

l)ianioinIs in Meteorites. trOf. H. Curvill Lewis exhibited at the last meeting of the Academy of Natural Sciences a fragment of si meteorite containing diamonds, which fell in Siberia hist Octolx r. He had extracted from the specimen two minute oval bodies, transparent, with slight traces of polarization, and having a high index of refraction.

Having been able to snatch it sap- Ivhire with portions of the meteorite, te was disposed to stgree with Profs. Latschinof and Jerorief, who first examined this meteorite, that it contained microscopic diamonds, Tlie important bearing of this discovery upon the question of tlie origin of the diamond was dwelt upon. From facts gathered in Africa, Borneo, New South Wales, California, and elsewhere, he had been led to believe that the commonly-received notion that itacolumite is'the original matrix or the diamond is a mistake, and that diamonds really occur in basic eruptive rocks. The similarity, both in structure and composition, of the diamond-bearing rock a.s South Africa td irief eorites was dwelt upon, and he had, in view of this fact, some time ago suggested the search for diamonds in meteorites. Dr.

Foote alluded to the diamond in supposed itacolumite in the P.ritish Aluseum, which was considered genuine, although the grettter number ofsw-h specimens were undoubtedly fraudulent. Drink and Climate. The idea that a low temperature begets an instinctive craving lor alcoholic tonics seems disapproved by theteetotalism of the Patagonian savages, who horsewhip every Spanish stimulant monger without benefit of clergy. The Lesghian taineers, too, observe the interdict of the Koran in tlie icy summit regions of the Caucasus; but there is no doubt that the bracing influence of it cold climate affords a certain degree of immunity from the debilitating effect of the alcoholic vice, and a Scandinavian peasant can for years survive the effects of a daily dose of alcohol that would kill an Egypt am fellah in a siugle month. Rut it is equally certain that the temperance of southland nations is bly facilitated by the abundance ttf iion-alcoholic pastimes.

The Spaniards have their fandangoes and bull fights: the Greeks their border raids, cocking mains and horse races, while the Scotchman, after six days of hard work, is confronted with the choice between the delerium of an alcohol fever and the appalling tedium of Sabbatarian asceticism, and naturtd-ly chooses the less dismal alternative. Felix Oswald in Popular Science Monthly. A Professor Puzzled. Henry Ward Beecher was a college boy once upon a time, and he was just as lively and full offunasthe best of them. It is surprising how quickly a plan maybe formed in an active brain when a person is suddenly awakened.

The follwing story is an example of this: Mr. lieecher roomed while at college with Prof. Stowe, who was the soul of punctuality, and was continually pained at the failure of his young room-mate to be on time at morning prayers in the seminary chapel. Having done his best to wake him up one morning, apparently without success, he had gone down-stairs with many expressions of disgust. No sooner was he out ot the room than Mr.

Reecher sprang up, dressed himself as only college students can, ran to the seminary by a back way, and when the Professor entered was sitting demurely in front of the desk. The amazement of the teacher at this unexjiected appearance, rubbing his glasses and peering at him agaiu and again, to determine whether it was real or he onlj saw a vision, was always remembereci by Mr. Beecher with a chuckle of merriment. The Senate has confirmed the nomination of James G. Jenkins, to be United States mdge the Eastern district of Wisconsin.

The Political Diseases Front the New York Graphic; Probably no one form of ailment is so prevalent in the United States and certainly none is so far-reaching in its effects upon the people as the political disease. It counts its victims among all classes and conditions, the high and the low, the rich and the poor, the young and old, and it makes no discrimination as to sex nor as to personal beauty, or mental greatness, nor as to the want of either of these attributes. It is a.s impartial as the smallpox in its selection of victims and as remorseless and as comprehensive as the catarrh, that brightest jewel in the diadem of New England The early symptoms of this disease are not difficult to trace. The patient discovers a decided disinclination to follow any settled employment, together wit a resistless inclination to frequent public houses, the purlieus of legislative chambers and cascuses.prinmries, conventions and like gatherings of his patriotic fellow countrymen. He shows also a strong prediction for tobacco, either in the plug or cigar form, and is much given to dalliance with the free-lunch counter, and his devotion to stimulating fluids is something remarkable.

As the disease progesses the patient loses all pratical interest in the industrial questions of the day, and spends his time in theoretical investigations oflabor and economic problems. He is apt to become careless as to dress and to personal cleanliness; he passes but a small portion of his time at home, and rarely seeks his couch save with a pungent odor of burned tobacco upon his clothing and his breath suggestive of a distillery in prosperous circumstances. He" is a diligent frequenter of reading-rooms where newspapers can be gleaned gratuitously, and he exhibits that oratorical rotundity of speech which obttiins in the ward caucus and the shop ot the voluble barber. Later on, when the disorder has obtained complete control of his faculties, he becomes strangly confidential and whisper what he consid ers occult communications into the ears of all who happens to come in his way. He talks learnedly of the science of government, and is apt at discovering the hidden meaning or appearently inconsequent acts and utterances of public nvehi This is the violent stage of the disease, the climax of the ailment.

If he survive this period the evidences of his distemper become milder. He has now reached the chronic stage, the most dangerous of all stages, though the most lingering, and his permanent recovery is nearly hopeless. He is now seen wandering aimlessly through hotel corriders, bar-rooms and all sorts of places where politicans most do congregate, and albeit he has little to say and Is recognized by none, he is haunted by the belief that without his watchful care and his indefatigable aid and assistance the country will surely go to thedemnition bowwows. And thus he lingers in a comatose condition, through months and years, accumulating nothing but debt and dirt, and when at last he succumbs to the inevitable and for sakes his old haunts forever he leaves behind him no name for his fellow-countrymen to prize as a rich legacy and no money for his family to pay his funeral expenses. He Didn't Think "Say, I'm going to move today, and I'd like to have you send fi man and change my telephone to the new place right away," said a corpulent man who had wearilyclimbed two pairs of stairs in Exchange place and poked his head into the central telephone office.

"All right," said Superintendent Cowdery, "it shall be done at once (the door is being closed). But why didn't you ask us byjtelephone? By thunder! I never thought of it," said he, and as the corpulent man descended the stairs it sounded as though he kicked himself at each alternate step. Saratogian. The body of a well dressed woman wim found four miles north of Kenosha, npon the shore of Lake Michigan. Upon hei body was a Bilk handkerchief with the initials A.

wrought iu one corner. Th body had the appearance of having been in the water some two weeks. IQ.CQO ASEriTS WANTED to supply FIFTY NILLI3KS people with THE L1FR OK BEN. HARRISON Gen. Lew Wallace, the eminent Aothor.

Statesman. Dip'omat. and Life-lore ef Gen. Harrivn. Is writing; the on It authorized B-oeraphr- "N'o man livibir more competent." Es-fiv, Porter, ef loit.

Millions have read Hen Hut and want Ben Harrison by same author. Se'ltns Ft mall 9--09- Grut Monrj Making twolt )Ct. Out tits 5l'cts. Address: HI BHAUO BROS- aad Walnut streets, Kansas City. Me.

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