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IOLA, ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS. TEEMS TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR. IOLA, ALLEN COUNTY, KANSAS, KAY 1, 1875. NO. 18.

VOLUME K. OFFICIAL PAPER OF COUNTY. 1 w. 2 w. I w.

100 SI 502 00 150 225 350 200 300 SOP 350 400 CSO 350 SfiO 850 0 SO 10 0 IS 00 10 OjJlS 00 22 00 Rl i' 1 I I justness Jltrfdonj. COUNTY OFFICERS. IHWTaleott District Judge XT Acers, Probate Judge Wm Thrasher, County Treasurer AXeedham, County Clerk GM Brown, Register of Deed Richards County Attorney C3C Simpson Clerk District Court EXrvan Public Schools Woodin, Sheriff Lyman Hhoades Surveyor Horrille, A Wyiowland, Commissioners Isaac Bonebrake, 5 CITY OFFICERS. Jones Mayor Boyd, Police Judge Apple, 1 If Acers, I II Richards, Conncilmen WH Richards, Simpson, John Francis Treasurer Sapp, Clerk James Simpson Street Commissioner -CHURCHES. METHODIST EPISCOPAL.

Corner of Jefferson avenue and Broadway St. Services every Sabbath at 10)f a. m. and 7 p. m.

Prayer meeting Thursday evenings at 7 p. m. IX. K. Mith, Pastor.

PRESBYTERIAN. Corner Madison avenue and Western street. Services 10J4 a. in. and 7 p.

m. Sunday School at SXa.m. BAPTIST. On Sycamore street. ServieescverySabbathat I0Ka.ra.and7 p.m.

Frajermeeting on Thursday evening. Church meeting at 2 p. m. on Saturday before the first Sabbath in each month. Sabbath School at 12 o'clock m.

C. T. Flotd, Pastor. Secret Societies. IOLA LODGE, NO.

38, A. F. A. Masons meets on the first and third Saturdays in eery month. Brethren in good standing are invited attena.

it. iaixuii, ai. j. j. hiiite, ec-y.

IOLA LODGE, NO. 21, I. O. of Odd Fel lows hold their regular i meetings every Tues- mf day eteniiig, in tlieir hall, next door north or the iost office. Visiting brethren in good standing, are invited to attend.

ail. X. G. W. C.

Jokes, Sec'y. Dotds. LELAND HOUSE. BD. AI1ES, Proprietor.

IOLA, Kaxsas. This limine has been thoroughly reimired and refitted aad is now the most desirable place in the city for tra elers to stop. Xn pjins ill be spared to male tlie guests of the Lt-land feel at home. Baggage transferred to and from Depot fp-e of charge. CITY HOTEL, R1CIIARD PEOCTOR, Proprietor.

Inla, Kansas. Single meals 43 cents. lav boarders one dollar per day. 5 SUIorncijs, NELSON F. ACERS, ATTORNEY AT LAW.

lola. Allen county. Kansas Has the only full and complete set of Abstracts of Allen county. J. C.

Ml'BBAT J. 11. ItiniARIX, County Attorney. MURRAY RICHARDS, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW. Money in sums from 8VX) 00 to Sj.OJO 00 loaned on long time upon Improved Farms In Allen, Anderson, Wooden, and Neosho counties.

Miscellaneous. L. L. LOW, GENERAL AUCTIONEER. Iola, Kansas.

Cries sales in Allen ami adjoining counties. M. DeMOSS, M. OFFICE over Jno. Francis A Drugstore Residence on Washington avenue, 2nd floor Neosho street.

H. A. NEEDHAM, COUNTY CLEUK. Conveyancing carefully done, and acknowledgements taken. Maps and plans neatly drawn.

J. N. WHITE, TNDERTAKER, Madison avenue, Iola, Kan-J sas. Wood coffins constantly on hand and Hearse always in readiness. Metalic Burial Cases furnished on short notice.

J. E. THORP, "XJAItBER SHOP on Washington avenue i JJdoorsouthofL.L. Nortlirup's. Wood.O first Coal, PntttnM tatoes, Uom and liicaory -uis taaen in ex- change for work B.

REIMERT, TAILOR. Iola, Kansas. Scott Brother's old stand. Clothing made to order in the latest and best Styles. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Clean-jug and repairing done on short notice. D. F. GIVENS, Wi rATCHMAKER, JEWELER, AND CLOCK u'ntcnrs and Jewelrr. Dromptly and neatly repaired and warranted.

A fine assortment or Clocks, Jewelry, Uohl pens and other Taney articles, which will oe sold cheap. SHERIFFS SALE. OF KANSAS, i ss CouxtV or Aujln In the District Court 7th Judicial District in and for Allen county, Kansas. Michael U. Wm.

Buchanan Buchanan, Lou Howes By virtue of an order of sale to me directed and issued out of the 7th Judicial District Court in and for Allen county, Kansas, in the above cause, I willou Tuesday, May 18th, A. D. 18o, at 10 o'clock a. m. ofaid day at the front door of the court house in the city of Iola, Allen county, Kansas, oner for sale at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash in band the following described lands and tenements, to-wit I The north half or the south-east quarter orsec-Oiou number fifteen (13) in township number twenty-rour (24) south of range number eighteen east; and also lots ten (Hi) eleven (II) and twelve (12) in block number one hundred and ight (108) in the city or Iola: also the undivided ortbe west nil of the north-west quarter or section sixteen (111) township twenty-four (21) range nineteen (19) east; and also commencing at the north-east corner of the south-east quarter of the north-east quarter of section num-lier twenty-seven (J7) township twenty-four (24) range eighteen (18) east, thence west two and hundredths (i.M) chains, thence south fifteen degrees, west five and sixty-nine hundredths (5.ti) chains, thence east four and thirty hundredths (1.3) chains, thence north five sixty-two hundredths (2.62) chains to beginning containing two acres.

All being situated in Allen county. State of Kansas. Said real estate has been levied upon as the property of the above named defendants and 1wiUbe sold to satisfy said order of sale, without "PJheruTs018ce, Iola, April 5th, 1875. J. L.

WOODIN. 15 5t Sheriff Allen County, Kansas. 4J tn Qfl perday. Agents wanted All classes XJ IU ipU of working people or both aexes. 5oung and old make more money at work for us In their own localities, during their spare mo-raents, or all the time, than at anything else.

We offer employment that will pay handsomely tnr everv hour's work. Full particulars, terms. sent free. Send us your address at once. Don'X delay.

Now is the Don't look for OTOTK Or QuSineBS eiscwiieic unui fvu u.c fwu- cd -what we offer. G. STtao A jgk-sZL Moore, Plaintiff, vs. I man, Harriet M. 12.

A. Howes and I Defendants. Portland, Maine. ROAD NOTICE. John P.

McCoy ct el. STATE OF KANSAS, lSQ Alucx Cocxrr. i s3- The State of Kansas to whom It may concern: Whereas, application has been made by petition to the Board of Conntv Commissioners of said county for locating county roads as follows, to-wit: Commencing at the south west corner or section 13. town 25. runire 17.

and run thence north on section lines, 4 miles to the north west corner of section 30, town 24, range 17) Also beginning at uie nonu wrai curwr m-tion 14, town 23, range 17, and run thence east on section lines 3 miles to the north east corner of section 18, town 23, range 18: Also beginning at the north west corner ofseo tiAnir tnvn ranm 17. and run thence east on section lines 3 miles -to the north east corner of section 7, town 23 range 18; Also beginning at tne soma casi raraw ut wv north east quarter of section 12, town 23, range 17 run thence north 2S. miles to the north east corner of section 34, town 21, range 17. And whereas, John M. McDonald, In Law er and Eli Lorance viewers, or said county, have been ordered by said County Commissioners to view and locate said roads.

Therefore you are hereby notified that said viewers and surveyor will tiroceed. on the 23th day or May, 1873, at 9 o'clock a. at the place of beginning of said roads, to view and locate said roads, and perform whatsoever other duties as are required or them by law; and unless ou then file a written application with said viewers. glTing a uescnpiiuu oi uic prciiiiica un twuuu vou claim tlaniaixs or comnensation. your appli cation for the same will be Witness my hand at my office in Iola, in said County, this 21st day of April, A.

D. 1875. 17 2w County Clerk. ROAD NOTICE. Wm.

T. Davis, John WUlett, tt el. STATE OF KANSAS, ss Allex Cocstt, The State of Kansas, to whom it may concern: Whereas, application has been made by petition to the Board of County Commissioners of said county, for locating county roads, as follows, to-wii: Commencing at the south-east corner of section 17. town 25. ranee 19.

and run thence north along section lines, 12 miles, to the north-east corner of section 20, town 23, range 19; Also, beginning at the north-east corner or section 21, town 23, range 19, and run thence south along section lines 12 miles, to the south-east cor-nerof section 16, town 23, range 19: Also, beginning at the south-east corner of section a. town 23. ranee 19. and run thence east along section lines, 6 miles to the south-east rnmpr of Miction 8. town 23.

ranee 20: Also, beginning at the soutn-east corner oi section 3, town 23, range la, ana run inence easi, along section lines 2 miles, to the south-east corner nf section 3. tiiwn 23 rcinffe 19: Also, beginning at the north-east corner of section, town xj, range iv, anu run uieace buuui along section lines 2 miles, to the south-east cor- nerot section lu, towna, range la. Anil whereas John L. Brown. A.

E. WriEht. and J. A. Monfort viewers, of said county, have been ordered by said County Commissioners to view, ana locate sam roaus.

Therefore you are hereby notified that said viewer and survevor wQl nroceed. on the 20th day or Mav, 1875, at o'clock A. at the place 1 liezinmnz or said road, to view and locate said road, and perform whatsoever otner amies as are requireu ui mem uj i and unless you then file a written application with said viewers, giving a description of the premises on hich you claim damages ur eom- Ensation, your application for the some will be rred. Witness my hand at my office in Iola, in sain county, this 21st ilay of April, A. D.

1875. 17 2t A. County Clerk. ROAD NOTICE. S.

M.Stanley tlttl.J STATE OF KANSAS, Allkx Corxrv, The State of Kama to whom it may concern: WhiirM4. nimlirntinn has been made bv Peti tion to the Board of County Commissioners or said county, for locating a county roaa as iuiiows to-wit: Commencing at the south-east corner or section number thirtv-Ciur (M) in township number twenty-live (i'O S.Jr range number twenty (JO) E. inteRctiiig the Fort and Humboldt rood, and running thence north along section line six hj nines IO me norurcaat cunirr ui miiuu uuiii- ber three (3) same township and range as named above, then intersecting the Fort Scott and lola road. And whereas, Adam IUrcalrode, John Spawr H. Itacnn viewers, or saidcouutv hae been oldered by said County Commissioners to view and locate said road.

Therefore, J'ou are hereby notified that said viewers and surveyor will proceed, on the 23th day of May. 1873 at 10 o'clock a. at the place nfiraiininir of said mad to view, and locate said road, and perform whatsoever other duties as are required or them bylaw; and unlewyou then file iou-ritttinn nrth. nrpniided on which vou claim Uamaorcomiiensat.on, your application for the same wm ie iianra. Witness my hand at my office in Iola, in safal county, tnzistoay j.

J7 County Clerk SHERIFFS SALE. STATE OF KANSAS, fee Cocxtt or Atuts. OT In the District Court 7th judicial Dbtrict sitting in and for said county and state. WUlian E. Davis, Ueorge Davis and Drnsa Davis, liartners as W.

E. Davis plaintiffs, vs. Silas I. Stauber, James C. Norris and Morti mer Norton, partners as stauuer, morion Thomas E.

Harrington, Mary.E. Harrington, j.mM Ynrria antl M.rv Nnrris. defendants. ti virtiii. nftn order of sale to me directed and issued out of the 7th Judicial District Court in and for Allen county, Kansas, in the above entitled cause, wm on Tuesday.

May 25th. A. 1875. nt in tiVlnrk n. m.

or said dav. at the front door or the court houe or Allen county, in the city of Iola, Kansas, ouer for sale at public auction to the highest and best bidder for cash in hand the follow ing described land and tenements, to-wit: Commencing at a point nineteen (19) chains and ninety-eight and one-hair (98)i) links south of the ortn-wesi corner oi inc nonn-easi quarter section 31, township 24 south of range 18, tlicnce west thirteen (13) chains and seventy-nine (79) links, to the middle of the Neosho river, thence down rhe middle or said river to a point on the quarter section line south of the point of beginning, thence north Tour () chains and links to the place or beginning, containing 'three and twenty hundredths (3.20) acres, more or less, including all buildings and machinery thereon situted, all in Allen county, Kans. Said lands and tenements to be sold to satisfy said order of sale. Given unrfcr my hand at my office in the city or Iola this 23d day of April, 1875. J.

L. WOODIN, 17 Sw Sheriff Allen county, Kansas. SALE. STATE OF KANSAS, ss COL'KTT Or ALLXX. I In the district court 7th Judicial District sitting in ana for said county ana Mate.

Kichard Plaintiffs, vs. J. Sbomon and II. F. Puroell, Defendants.

By virtue or an order of sale to me directed and issued out of the 7th Judicial District Court in and for Allen county, Kansas, in the above entitled caue, I ill on Tuesday. Mav 18th. 1875. at nn nrlMlr tn nfflatd d.V at the front door or the court bouse of Allen county in the city of lola, Kansas, offer Tor sale atjiuuiicaucuon 10 the highest and best bidder for cash in hand the following described lands and tenemeata. to-wit: Lot number one (I) in block number eighty Jonr 184) in me city oi 101a, Alien eouni nw appraised at one hundred dollars, and to be sold to satisfy said order of sale.

Sheriff's office, Iola, April 11th, 1875. J. L. WOODIN. 16 5t Sheriff of Allen county.

PUBLICATION NOTICE. t- tK. nutrlct Court nt the 7th Judicial Dis trict of the State of Kaasas, sitting in and for Allen county. Mary A- Pepple, plaintiff, 1 vs. Madison C.

Pepple, Defendant, 1 To the above named DeTendant Madison C. Pepple: You win take otice that you have been surd by tbePlaintiff Mary A. Pepple in the above named court, aad that mnless you answer the Setitlon or the said Mary A- Pepple against you led in the clerk's office of said court, on or before the 29th day of May A. D. 1875, said petition will be taken as true, and a jadgment and decree will be rendered against you, or which the following will be the nature: The plaintiff will be granted a divorce from you, and, aa alimony, such sum of money aa to the court may seem reasonable and just, and sueb other reliefas equity and the nature of the case may require.

Witness ray band a Clerk or said Court with the seal of said Court affixed at my office in Iola, Kansas this 12th day of a. C. M. SIMPSON, Clerk. Mcmay RtcnABDs, 1'1'fls- Att'y- 16 MASK DILLON'S BOLD GAME- "I'm getting into terribly bad habit, Dora.

Breakfast at half past nine Just fancy my indnlging in such hours three years ago, darling, before the world made up its mind that I painted respectable pictures, and chose to pay me accordingly." And young Melville Austin rose from the daintily-spread breakfast table at which he and his wife were sitting. "I hope you are going to remain at home this morning," Dora said, in a soft coaxing tone, that well become her petite figure and blonde-haired, girlish beauty. "Do you know, Austin, that you have not painted an atom of canvass this week? There's your new picture of Anthony and Cleopatra "Yes, my love," the young artist interrupted. "I plead guilty to having shamefully neglected Anthony and Cleopatra but this morning's engagement will not occupy much time, and I shall be home in an hour, I trust, ready to begin work. In the meanwhile, Dora, if that model of whom I was speaking should make her appearance, just ask her to wait in the studio." "I am anxious to see this divinity, Melville.

Is she so very beautiful "After a certain type, yes." the husband answered, carelessly. Then, while his handsome face lit up with a sudden brightness, he added in lower tones, "You know there is but one woman in the world, Dora, whose beauty can thor-hughly sttisfy me." For some time after her husband's departure that morning, Dora Austin remained buried in what, judging from the happy smile that played about her mouth, and danced in the blue depths of her tender eyes, must have been thoroughly agreeable thoughts. "Was ever woman so blessed?" she murmured presently, ns if asking the question of her own heart. "Three years to-morrow uinco we were married, and still the same devoted love from dear Melville. How foolish I was ever to dream that his worldly success would cool the ard.ir of that love Nothing can ever change him nothing!" "The young woman has called ma'am, and is now waiting outside.

Shall I show her into Mr. Austin's studio Dora's meditation had been abruptly broken by the voice of the stately butler who stood at her elbow. "Oh I you mean Mr. Austin's model?" she said a little confusedly. "Yes, James, I believe your master wishes her to wait in the studio till his return.

By the way, James, you mav manage to let her pass through thif room. I wish to see her." The man bowed, and departed to exe cute Mrs. Austin's order, returning presently, followed by a poorly-clad woman, of whose face Dora merely caught a momentary glimpse as she hurried toward the adjoining studio. "How beautiful!" the young wife murmured and what a face for Cleopatra! She seemed anxious to escape my notice, poor womau! I wonder if she is ashamed of her vocation You told her, James, did you not" addressing thejbutler, who returned at this moment "that Mr. Austin would return very shortly "Ye, ma'am." James was not absent from the breakfast room five minutes before he again made his appearance there.

A rather shabby man desired to see Mrs. Austin. Should he admit him But the ceremonious butler had scarcely finished speaking when a gruff voice sounded from the entrance of the room. A rough-looking, man was standing on the threshold, directly opposite to Dora, who was seated near one of the windows. "You may go, my good fellow," the man said.

"I've particular business with Mrs. Austin." "Yes James you may- -go." The words were gasped forth somehow from Dora's white lips. If the servant observed the agitation which had suddenly overpowered his mistress, he was too well trained to manifest the least surprise, and quietly withdrew from the room, closing the door after him. "Oh heaven is it you, Mark Dillon I thought you dead I She had risen while speaking the above words, but the hoarse whisper in which she uttered them died to silence before she had finished, and Dora Austin fell heavily forward in a dead swoon at the stranger's feet. The sound of her fall was quickly followed by that of an opening door at the further end of the room, as Mr.

Austin's model, wearing a startled look on her beautiful face, hurried in from the adjoining studio. But the stranger's back was turned to her as he bent over the prostrate figure of Dora. Nor was he aware of the woman presence in the apartments until she touched him lightly on the shoulder, and in a rather timid voice said, "Is the lady ill, sir I was in the next room, and heard Heavens, Mark! you here?" "Ellen!" The man had suddenly turned his face toward the' speaker, while still stooping over Mrs. Austin's senseless body. I recollect," he centiaaed sternly; "you told me you went out as a model, asd this woman's husband is an artist.

That accounts, perhaps, for you being here, and you may thank your stars for having so good an excuse. If I had thought you had followed me The angry flash of his dark eyes finished the sentence more powerfully than words could have done. Trembling in every limb, the woman answered, pleadingly: "I had no thought of following you, Mark. I never imagined that you knew this lady. I "Leave this house instantly, Ellen! Don't hesitate a moment, but go at once." The woman shuddered and turned toward the door leading into the studio.

"I may explain this matter to you some other time," the man continued; "but remember I warn you against remaining in this house a moment longer than you can help." When the studio door had closed behind the woman's retreating steps, Mark Dillon once more bent over the white face of Dora Austin. A faint shiver convulsed her frame at this moment, and while his gaze was eagerly fastened upon her countenance, the silken lashes slowly lifted themselves from her eyes. "Then it was no dream," she murmured, hoarsely, rising from her fallen posture, assisted by the man che addressed. "You have come," she said presently, "to reveal all to Melville Austin." She sank back into an arm-chair now, with a weary, gasping sigh. "I havn't come to do anything of the sort Dora Dillon," the man said, with a kind of sullen emphasis in his gruff tones.

"I don't wish to claim you as my wife. You believed mo dead, three years ago, and married Melville Austin there's nothing particularly culpable about your conduct so far as I can discover. I shall be the last one, depend upon it, my dear Mrs. Austin, to reveal anything disagreeable concerning your antecedents." "And why will you reveal nothing? Let there be no disguise between us, Mark Dillon. I know your brutal nature thoroughly.

You came here this morning to sell your silence. Is it not so?" "You are perfectly riht, Mrs. Austin or Mrs. Dillon. Which is it to be, by the way His tones were defiantly supercilious his keen, cruel eyes wore iixed upou the agonized woman with something of a serpent's pitiless gaze when the prey is within easy distance, and possession has become a certainty.

But Mark Dillon started back with amazement, as Dura answered him, calmly, scornfully and decisively, in the following words "I shall not deceive the man to whom I owe all the happiness I have ever en joyed in this world the man whom I love, honor and reverence, as only a nature like Melville Austin's is worthy of being regarded. When I married him, Mark Dillon, I acted upon my firm conviction of your death. Now, I know myself to have been in error, and a single course remains to me. The instant that Melville Austin returns home, I shall inform him of the truth." "Are you mad, Dora Dillon T' he exclaimed, erery trace of his supercilious manner gone, and nothing but a sort of furious surprise remaining. "Are you mad, thus to throw away the position you have won? to make of yourself a beggarly outcast? to "Enough of this, Mark Dillon," she interrupted.

"Your game was a bold one, but it has proved a failure. Ah, my husband Melville Austin had suddenly entered the apartment. Glancing at the ashen- pale countenance of Dora, a look of amazement overspread his own. Then turning toward the stranger, who stood beside the chair in which she was seated Mr. Austin said, "It strikes me that I heard your voice, raised in rather a disrespectfully loud tone, as I stood in the hall a moment ago.

Were you addressing this lady, sir? Dora, who is this person A slight tremor shook Dora Austin's frame, and her ghastly lips quivered for an instant. But only for an instant. She had risen now, and was addressing Melville, who listened silently until she had ceased speaking, stupefied, doubtless, by the dreadful import of what she uttered. "That man, Melville, is my husband Five years ago, before you and I ever met, poverty had reduced mv mother and myself to the last stages of want. On my mother's death, and while I was still almost a child in years, Mark Dillon asked me to become his wife.

We were married, and I soon discovered that my wretched, friendless position had been exchanged for one of still greater misery. I had become united to a man from whose vile, wicked life my whole nature turned in loathing. One evening in a fit of drunken fury, he stiwek me. That night I fled from his house. During the year that followed, I succeeded in sup porting myself comfortably on the pro ceeds of mv needle work.

Two months before chance bad made me acquainted with you, Melville, I had learned accidentally of my husband's death in Frinw. Yon know what followed. To day I learn for the first time since our, marriage, that Mark Dillon lives." "Oh, God, can this be true?" The words seemed wrung from the very depths of Melville Austin's agoniz ed soul. Staring first at his wife, and then at the moody, crest-fallen man beside her, as his face expressed the keenest intensity of mental suffering. And now the icy calmness with which Dora had spoken melted to a passion of sobs.

Stealing toward her husband's side, she murmured, brokenly: "Before we part, Melville, say that you can forgive me for being the cause of so much future wretchedness for having brought to your noble heart a sorrow it has so little deserved." "Part Dora? We must not we shall not part!" He had drawn her to his breast, with a wild, impulsive movement. At the same instant the door of the studio was suddenly unclosed, and a woman's voice cried out in clear, ringing tones, "Mark Dillon lies, Mrs. Austin; when he dares to call himself your husband! I wronged, deserted, outraged as I have been, am none the less his lawfully- weeded wife, married to him seven years ago in Manchester. Let him deny it if he dares. You need not scowl and glare at me," the woman went on, hotly; "what I speak is the truth, and I do not fear to utter it." A low cry of rage escaped Dillon's lips as he sprang toward the woman who had spoken.

But with a blow of iron Melville Austin's hand hurled him backward. For a moment the villain stared at his wife's protector with a tigerish fierceness in his dark, dangerous eyes, and then, like the coward he really was, slunk from the apartment. And from the house, too, never enter ing it again. An hour afterward his wife, Ellen Dillon, followed him, against the earnest entreaty of Melville and Dora. "He will beat me when I return to him, perhaps," she said with a mournful smile on her exquisite face, "but I must go, nevertheless.

It seems like a curse sometimes, that in spite of his brutality and wickedness, I cannot hate Mark. But whenever I think of our child at home, I believe that this weakness is all for the best. I can guard him against imitating his father; and who knows what a son's influence may do in future years?" Her sad words left Dora and Melville grave and thoughtful for a long time after her departure. "That woman loves him, Melville," the wife murmured at length, in slow, musing tones "lores him in spite of his villainous treatment. hat a mar velous mystery love is!" "Marvelous, indeed, Dora!" "Did you really mean, Melville, that nothing should part us not even the knowledge of being another's wife when you 7spoke so passionately just before Ellen Dillon entered from the studio Her soft hand had stolen into his, her tearful eyes were fixed upon his own, with eager questioning in their blue depths.

Melville Austin's answer was spoken with unhesitating fondness: "I meant that, if the whole world had striven to separate us, Dora, I should still have struggled to regain you. Until to-day I never have known the strength and power of my love." His arms were clasped about her now, and she was sobbing forth her thankfulness upon his faithful breast. Seribner for Hay. The three bright faces that look out from the opening page of the May number of Scrtimer't Monthly, are only different views of one girlish head the still living heroine of tragedy which will be remembered as long as the name of Napoleon is lauded and reviled among men. The picture here skillfully reproduced is Gilbert Stuart's three-fold portrait of Madame Patterson-Bonaparte, of Baltimore, one of the most conspicuous victims of the "great" Napoleon's selfish and unscrupulous ambition.

The accom panying sketch of the "Baltimore Bona-partes" is an authentic history of thw interesting family, which may yet give France its Emperor. The new Paris Opera House is describ ed, and Col. Waring gives an account of the drainage of Harlaam Late, while ur, Wm. Hayes Ward sums up an illustrated paper some of the curious discoveries that have recently been made in ancient Assyrian literature. In the way of fiction there are two chapters of Dr.

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C. G. Bush illustrates this. Miss L. B.

Humphrey's A. C. Club, is full of illustrations by the author, as well as plain and easy directions for drawing. There is another paper on The Naval Academy at Annapolis, illustrated. A further instalment of "California Bob," by Clar-ra G.

Doliver. Something about "Guz zlers," by L. A. B. C.

The Cid's Daugh- ter, by Botha First, Fast and other In cidents, by an Old Salt, being a continu ation of Getting on Sea Legs paper. The Poems are "The Piping Times of Peace," illustrated by a full page. "A May Morning Serenade," by Nellie M. Gara-brant. Cracks in Dora G.

Col- liver. In addition, there are "A Dream of the Good Time Coming," a school girl's composition; A One Act Drama for the Parlor, entitled "Breakers Ahead," by H. Y. Osborn. The Orator is enriched with an original Poem, The of Galileo, by Francis E.

Burleigh. The Pigeon Hole Papers," Editorial Depart ment, "Letter Bag," and "Head Work" are stuffed with good things. There is an appropriate "Decoration Hymn," by J. H. Tenny and Samuel Burnham, and altogether, this number is well worth the price at whicn it can be obtained at the news depots, 25 cents.

per year. Lee Shepard, Publishers, Boston. St, Nickolas forlMay. There is fun enough in the May num ber of St. Xichola to keep the children laughing until the next number comes out if children are jolly as we take them to be.

First of all is Rose Terry's poem of "Poll Tadpole," which has a very seasonable flavor at this time of the met amorphosis of everything in general and of tadpoles in particular. Allraost any one would laugh at the picture of Poll," taken as he was lying at ease in his puddle, not dreaming that he would soon become a "discontinued Then there is a capital picture by Church, full of this artist's humor. A more graphic expression of the comic ef fect of a new comer's entrance has rarely been penciled. The stranger is scanned as closely by his fellow-prisoners as a new boy at a boarding-school. In a poem "Poor Puck," the humor even goes over into Fairyland, and our admiration ot Puck's audacity in transgression is equal to our respect for Queen Mab's tactics and her clever way of punishing the trespasser.

And, as if this were not enough, the "Very Little Folks" have their share too, a story, illustrated with five pictures, which, if the baby sees them first, he will carry the laugh all around the circle to grandpa. Last, but not least, is Jack-in-the-Pul-pit, who is always funny. But St. Nicholat knows how to be serious too; and uo girl's stoys could be sweeter than Susan Colidge's delightful May-day narrative of "Queen Blossom," with its beautiful illustration by Fredericks. The three illustratedstories by Re becca Harding Davis, Elsie Gorham, and the authorof "Rutledge" will interest everybody, and the practical articles will well repay all who read them, especially the two entitled "About Heraldry" and "The Feast of Flags," the illustrations of which are novelties.

But we cannot name all the good things; we. only envy the children the monthly happiness of such a magazine. Massachusetts had its Rev. Horse Mur ray more than fifty years ago. He went by the name of old Priest Williams, and he was the pastor of a Congregational church.

The following good story is told of him He was "particularly fond" of a good horse, and always kept his "pacer." One of his parishioners, Jere miah Shumway, owned a fine animal, which the clergyman desired to possess, and on Sunday morning Mr. Shumway drove up to the church in fine style just as the minister was about dismounting from his own cariage a few steps away. The preacher and his parishioner entered the church together. The former drew him aside a moment- "Jerry," said the good man familiarly, "when I get to preaching, you slip out ana take a lew turns up and down the road with my mare, and after meeting is over tell me how you will trade." And they traded on Monday morning. A young woman was recently married, at Beverlr.

N. J. in a buff-colored silk dress, the material of which was brought from Canton, China, and Uken to Eng land during the American Revolution, hv Rrmr Kean. a prominent merchant of that day, and greaVgreat-grandfather to the bride, who is the sixth married in it during five generations three in Eng land aad three in the United States. The State Grange of Ohio has fund of $27,644.50 in the treasury.

Tie erawho pper. Prof. J. Whitman, of the State Agricultural College, discourses on the grasshopper as follows The hateful grasshopper (Caloptenus spretus) is hatching in considerable numbers on the south slope of the bluffs near the College. These are principally the offspring of such females as had defective wings, or whose wings became lacerated in their flight.

From observations made at the College, it seems that the females, on account of their larger bodies and greater weight, had suffered much more in this way than the males. Of fifty specimens taken on the 15th of September last, after the swarm had left, but three were males. The wings of two of these were slightly injured. Coming from the elevated, gravelly and sandy plains of the females -impelled by instinct, sought the high, gravelly knolls of our prairies as a nidus for their eggs their offspring will reluctantly descend into the valleys aa food may become scarce, but, as they are wingless their march will be. slow; and, born at a less elevation, and living under different atmospheric conditions, they will be much less vigorous than their ancestors; many will become infested with the parasites, common to our native species, and those that survive to develop their wings will scatter in flight, too degenerate to propagate thir species.

Thus will end this periodical scourge of Kansas. Beyond the destruction of limited grain patches on high prairies, and gardens at the foot of sandy hills, but little damage is apprehended in this part of the State. During the past winter no provision was made in Auzusta, Maine, for lodging and feeding "tramps." Not long ago a vagabond applied at the police station for a sleeping-plaoe. "We only lodge prisoners," said the sergeant behind the desk. "Prisoners repeated the applicant, meditatively.

"That's all," was the reply: "you have got to steal oorae-thine, or assault somebody, or something of that kind." "I've got to assiult somebody, or something of that kind again repeated the vagabond, thoughtfully. Then he reached across the desk and knocked the sergeant off his stool, saying as the officer got up with bis band to bis eve. "Give me as good a bed as you kin sergeant, 'cause I don't teel very well to night." The woman question is forcing its way in the scientific world. The statistical section of the British Association has been for some time greatly under the influence of the supporters of woman's rights. On the other band, when the old Ethnological Society was fused into the Anthropological Institute, ladies ceased to be invited to its meetings but now it is intimated that ladies will be admitted not only as visitors, but also as members.

Occasional extra meetings have been held of a more public character, at which ladies have formed a majority of the audience. "How shall 1 advertiser' asked a timid merchant of his more enterprising neighbor. "How why advertise do it go it, make a break you are not advertising while you are asking and while you are asking how, somebody else is taking in the custom. Start that is the main point; you will soon get into rloinir it the rizht way. while if you act as some folks do, and ask 'how to-day and how to-morrow, and keep up asking to the end of your days, you will never advertise at all, and very likely never be worth a cent." A Wasriinirton teleirram states that the government has secured a large quantity of silver bullion, and the work of coining for fractional resumption will be pushed forward at once, ne ouniuu now on hand will make two and a half millions of dollars in small coins, and when th(A are struck the treasury will commence redeeming fractionals at once.

"It is believed," says the "telegram, that the mints can keep up the supply." Re demption will not oegin oeiore jubo or July. The meanest man in Iowa lives in Atlantic On St Valentines Day he bought ten of the ugliest valentines he could find, each one caricaturing some well known fault or foible of his wife, and sent them to her. While the poor woman was crvine over them, and won dering if there Veally were ten people in the community who thought so meaniy of her, the boy of the family said, "Pa, are those the pictures yon bought at the store where you got my whistle He had a jockey style of cap on, a leather band around his waist, his trour ser less tucked inside his boots, and waa aged fifteen. "Milk and spelling match es for babies," he exclaimed, curlmg his upper lip; "but as for me, gimme baseball!" Mr. Mutton, who was put off a passen ger train at Omaha, and sued the compa ny for damraages, threatens to lamD some editors if they don't atop joking about him.

There was a room with eight coreera. In each corner sat a cat; before each cat sat seven other cats, and on each cat's, tail sat a cat. How -many caU in all aiyx 1.