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Show A THE HOME SENTINEL. BY THE SKYIIYEL OUIY. P. O. J. T- - Box 57, .Vatl, The damage done to summer rcnirta falong the Atlantic each winter id ' y soivs i at f an-- I. Ike the Mtiwipff of I r the Pot the iiT esti-mag- ed f - f , M, toned tU 3 J , J Vr rauMce oi my uu I a Anil the my d dk AS here many thing Th liimj.lo, the t ar, Jfar A iul the piurnnt of tiw Jhit iiutinn thut i tar At een m'l mom, AS heie Kinlnes ulr 1 of Portland, ,Ore., have suhwt'ibcd money to build a large Hospital for their eountrymen. t!i cTtar volcano is report d from dint riot, Tohaseo, which is spouting forth large streams of red water. A NEW Mdiiii.e has a $.";(M),ikXi appropriation for her harbor, and the largest ocean Vessels will by and by be enabled to lie at her w harvcs. j itw llo. sorrow uutorlor i or there ong m bo -- Hichnrd Am! AFRAID OF ITlT DARK. I My name is Edward uno am , am twenty-eigh- t years Lest of health and The champion economist of the nine- married, enjoy the hold inspeca government spirits, in Fulton teenth century lives county, with a and salary,y?,itailii)g socks has his good lie torship gloves Georgia. nmdo from his own hair. plenty of travelling, and hAvo only one care iu the world lam hyraid of The people of France, have a thoutho dark. Indeed, it is nethirg sand millions of francs invested in the more than fear it is a ter ,r which Panama canal, and the chances are they has haunted mo from my ichiluhood will uever get back a sou. to the present day. arid beN lawyer of San Diego, A wlu-knmOnly three people in th Cal., while in a barbers chair, turned sides myself have iny ieret; my suddenly to speak to a friend and a mother, Sir George GilliY.gham of piece of his nose was sliced olT. Gillingham Towers, with j whom I for five years as private tutor lived Nelson Claisk of Vancsboro, Mo., his to sons, and who got me piy apwhile hunting deer shot a beautiful ho pointment, and Mr. Pallatti,' white doer, and a species rarely to AVhen I left the Towers jn twelve wen in this part of the world. Tho hair is of spotless white and vory lino month ago my nervous dreiid of the in txture. nights I should have to pass iu on The senate of South Carolina lias strange inns, when traveling so acute and became duty, passed a hill miking it a misdemeanor to I determined memthat for dismissal overwhelming any punishable by ber of the legislature to accept a free consult n leading physician about my - h pass from any railroad. This is to vent uuduo railroad influence. pre- A Kltll-B- I II.IHNO feat never before approached was lately performed by the Fairiiold Company on the Clyde. A steamer for the Gerfive thousaml-toman line ti New York was luuuehed which had been built in less than four u mouths. PlHLAHLl.ruiA has a largo training school for colon' .1 teachers, and its head is Miss Fanny J. Collin, one of the most, notable colored women in the country. She is a grade ito of the Uhodo Island State Normal School mid Oberlin College, and lias taught sineo 1 The coldest kind of a competition Is that to come off among the young women of the Hath Philharmonic Society. They will sing behind a curtain, so that they cannot be seen, and the judges will have, to vote upon the number of the singer. Each will sing one sacred song und an English ballad. Special Auknt Tinulf., of San l'runeisco, discovered two Chinese women on board train going from Victoria to Tacoma. They were dressed in American fashion, und were heavily veiled. They were arrested as was .also an accompanying Chinaman. It was evidently a shrewd ease of smuggling. Catiml punishment has been abolished in Italy. This was done in Switzerland some seven years ago, but the result was not regarded ns satisfactory, and eapital punishment was It is cm ions that it again should now ho abandoned in Italy where the murder rate is the highest in Europe. who first It was Damn Manehau-.esuggested the Panama Canal, and the last of the lfirons in a direct lino will not live to see it complete I. Onlyono-lift- h of the line is even approaching It has eo.it millions of completion. dollars and thousands of lives. Now let the Nicaragua Canal be pushed. It can ie opened for navigation in lsfle. u The longest straight reach of railroad. iu the world is on the now Argentine Pacific I.ino. It is if It miles in length, without a single curve; nor is there a bridge mum it; nor a single opeuing larger than an ordinary culvert; no cut over a yard in depth, and no fill more than a yard high. There being little or no wood along the line, iron ties are employed almost exo.li'-kivet- ' The attempt, by a Norwegian moved Nonsen, to explore Greenland, has resulted iu failure. The interior of this continent, is found to be very highland, nine thousand feet elevation on isa average, ami the home of intensely cold storms at all season of the year. Only a very small section of Greenland, m ar tho coast, h habitable by man, and oven this were belter left to desnlnt'eu until more desirable parts of tho earth's surface have beeu brought juuder man's dominion. Is Dunhaci, Ala., a strange red star It was just above was seen in the cu-- t. .a cluster of stars known as the Ell uud Yard. At first sight any one could teli it was in moth a. It was apparently a Its large star and movin' very last. with one shape was point dow nward. It was traveling in a westerly direction, though bearing a little to the south, until it was iu tne south-weabout forty-fiv- e degrees, thou if moved west until out of sight. In fifteen minutes from tho time it was sfirst discovered it was out of sight. three-cornere- st d, self. Fir Alfred Smith listened to my story attentively, asked ine a multitude of questions about my health and habits, and especially whether anything ever occurred in very early childhood to give me a shock, although I might have been too young at the time to remember it now. My catechism over, he said: Mr. Houghton, I must tell you frankly that I can do nothing for you. The symptoms you have described lire distressing, but I cannot toll you ns a physician how they originate or suggest any way of alleviating them. I have a friend, however who is a profound believer in animal magnetism, and although J arti very skeptical about many of his theories, he is one of the cleverest and most agreeable men to know. It can do no harm for you to bins him, and I am quite certnin he will sympathize with you, ifhecando nothing else. His name is lallatti, and I have written down his address for you. Call upon him at three oclock tomorrow, and I will write nnd tell him that he may except you. I found Mr. Pallatti the next after noon lounging .over a book in a, large, luxuriously furnished room crowded with pictures, curious and pretty things a handsome young gentleman, perfectly dressed, with a pair of eyes w hich, if they could not see through a milestone, looked as if they could pierce a human being through and through. After a little indifferent conversation 1 began to tell him my tale, hut I was so nervous that 1 bungled wofull.v and interspersed my narrative with idiotic giggles. Wait a bit, Mr. Houghton; theres no hurry, said Mr. lnllatti, bringing mo a glass of wine from a side table; you are my patient, you know, nnd you must drink this before beginning a long story, 1 expect lie must have put something into my draught, for in a few minutes I found myself talking as calmly and impassively as if I were speaking of some other person. I told him how, if 1 left my bed in the dark and took two steps away from it, I wns utterly lost, how my outstretched hands would touch a window where I expected to find a .door, and all tho furniture seemed to play puss in the corner ns I moved .above until at last I would sink to the ground utterly unnerved and trembling to wait through long hours for daylight. I told him (and ns I went on Mr. Inllattis lace grew eagerly attentive) how, when I was a boy of sixteen, my mother had described to me the circumstances of m v eldest brothers death by drowning when I was an infant; how the same night my light went out and 1 saw through a luminous haze a room with ladies and a gentleman in it. a servant coming in at the door followed by a boatman earring a boy in his arms with a dead face and water dripping from his long hair; how, when I told my mother what I had seen, she said that I had described to the minutest detail the pattern of the wall paper, the flowers on the chimneypiece the identical scene as it occurred on that terrible morning at Brighton. Any other experience like that? I cant tell you asked Mr. Pallatti. how deeply you have interested nie, Mr. a curious story of a tragedy tune telling and rapping and table fit occurred in his family morethun turning and such knaveris, I sup' filing aFe ntury ago, and had pointed out pose, I observed composedly. Quite so. replied Pallatti dryly. 7) me the portraits banning in the sain And of three now, room the gentlemen, great drawing as the hut Lottie of claret T . If any one ran tell f u ,d How my ooiig is "ireuiuil Aid! wy uk()U( ll ill jrivt, not ii Tb o ivt, rrounc. ( Fo I rouM never .'liuaiier. JtKKIlN, 1 . T. The wealthy Chinese LX?16- - Houghton, Only one other, I replied. and that occurred at Gillingham Towers, w here I lived for five years as private tutor to Fir George Gillinghams sous. He had been telkr p me one blue led chamberi hescored off seven things into the billiard room. We feet, llisdiscover.v was patent enough will finish the evening there. Of the almost incredible events now. Again applying Lis rule to tl i j which followed I confess that I am unable to offer any expla- nation. 1 can only vouch for their principal actors. Some papers of the George ashamed were we actually occurred. Whether, nnd was were having utmost importance emptied, Mr? Pallatti honestly believes, the in the contusion at the time, nnd Fir even to look ns if we should like some as our the soul can in certain rare instance George said that Ins inability to pro- more, if you plmise we will take the body and wander up nnd duce them if ever called upon to do coffee in the drawingroom as there the spirit world like a dog in a down he arose and no ladies The are there, so might be most disastrous. fair towards walked and prying into th secrets of the danger, of course, increased ns the from the table we or whet her those events were dead, Pallatti As followed, door. still the sword the but rolled by, years the result (to quote the doc- "Mr. in ot Houghton, house Gillingham, whispered inyear, hung over the in Martin Cliuzzleivit) of a tor Clarence rn 1 he modi like a orshould to though, the hair by which it wns most dozen happy and hundred in he a extraoidinary, drowned have and suspended might iginally conjunction of eireum- -of that claret! thickened to a eord. To my surprise Fir George led the stances, will forever remain a mys"That night a great storm of wind nnd rain broke over the Tower; my way to the great ftate drawing tervtome. AVhen I got into bed that night window was burst open, my light ex- room, and as we entered a perfect brain was in a whirl, and I us. The before I was my Maze of matches the splendor always tinguished, and have been glad to exchange should frescoed usewith its ceilings huge saloon, kept to my baud were wet and The unusual less. For the second time in my life and profuse gilding, was lighted up nerves with a cat. 1 drank, the the luminous haze rolled out before by hundreds of wax candles in great quantity of wine had state drawthe of and brackets in splendor dazzling sconces, me, and with one narrow window, elmndliers, the lower sash of which was thrown lustres; the wall wereentirely covered ing room, the awful midnight tragedy porof a century ago. and portraits of old up a lumber room apparently, with by of the principal actors seemed traits a each over few powerin a the centre, one hare table portrait Hut broken chairs piled ap in the corners, ful lamp and reflector threw sostong to forbid the very idea of sleep. wideI thought myself most, when und black in that g a knight some every gallant light prints was frames on the walls, and a great gentle dame seemed to have come to awake I began to doze off, and IIow church. fast as as a soon the he life at tumand gazing glass full of stuffed birds, some it had lasted I could not tell; bling nnd some tumbled from their intruders into their gay assembly. long when I awoke with a start, and for were fires enormous Two in of all the burning, last and stage perches, bethe third time in my life found mydilapidatii n and decay. When all one at each end of the l oom, and this was clearly developed, the shad- fore one of those Fir George stood self alone in the dark. I stretched hand for the matches, but owy forms of a man and a woman and motioned us to be seated. He out my were and the and I so looked gone, and at the same see nnd could they that grand stately appeared dimly, their outlines' agreed with those of brilliance of the scene was so over- time the luminous glare appeared two ot the family portraits Fir George powering that Pallatti and I listened upon the wall. Then the room, with its one tall opened window, the had pointed out tome. Hut happen- for his words with a kind of awe. Gentlemen, 1 am not going to de- broken furniture, the case of stuffed ing at that moment to turn my head, I saw a thin stream of light shining tain you for any length by telling birds, and the two figures of ay you former vision developed rapidly. I through a chink in the door. I you over again the history which reached it at a hound, and catching both have heard already from my could see the last plainly enough up a lamp someone had left burning lips. Hut on this particular night I now a man in a long horseman's on the stairs, returned to my room wish to repudiate some of the main coat and brown boots, with great silver spurs: a woman in a long to find everything as usual. I told tacts. white wrapper, with fair hair flowIn the year 1743 my Fir George, and we thoroughly exFir Hugo Gillingham, after ing over her shoulders nearly to the plored the deserted wing of the Towers, but could find no room in the being many years a w idower, mar- ground, and they stood together by least resomblingtheonein my vision. ried a young and beautiful girl and the table reading from a large sheet There of paper which they held between As I concluded a page boy1 brought brought her to the Towers. in coffee, and when I had drank mine are his portrait and hers, pointing them, by the light of a single candle the curious feeling of constraint un- to them; go up ter them nnd inspect in a silver candlestick. Occasionally der which I had been speaking passed them closely learn them by heart. they turned their faces towards off, and I said quite cheerfully, Who knows what may come of your me with an anxious expression, as if he said almost fiercely. they were listening for something, and There, Mr. Pallatti, 1 have made a doing so? I immediately recognized two of the The girl was faithless to him clean breast of it, and now what do faithless from the very clay she was portraits in the state drawing room. you perscribe? A dog, said Mr. Pallatti. wed, nnd her lover was her own hus- Suddenly they started violently, the bands vagabond, worthless cousin, man rushed to the windows and What! to eat? I laughed. No, to sleep with. There is no the son of a man who had squandered leaped out, the woman thrust the cure but death for the wonderful his birthright and willingly parted papers into her dress, and n second gift of second sight, find it is a gift, with all the great estates of Gilling- man with a flashing sword in his if too much used, full of danger to ham to his younger brother and hands dashed into the room and brain nnd nerves. Hut prevention is heirs forever. There is the mans through the window in pursuit of the better than cure, so buy a little dog portrait in that corner; study his fugitive. Then the woman drew out nnd let him lie at the foot of your face nnd figure as closely, botliofyou. the papers and tried to tear them, bed, and you will not he troubled by The year 1743 brought ruinaiulmis-er- y bus they must have been parchment, on many a noble house, and Fir and she failed; she put them over the visions again, even if your light goes out. Hugo did his best to involve himself flame of the candle, but one corner We parted with mutual promises the same fate. Gentlemen, it is a only began to shrivel and they would to meet soon, but I was ordered fact that that poor scarecrow, the not burn. At last she turned to one sat in that travesty of the dirty prints, which opened at away on duty, and it was six pretender, onte of a throne, while well born, virtuous her touch, thrust the document into months before I saw him again. I had just returned to London nnd ladies crowded round to kiss his a cavity in the wall, and reclosingthe was intending to look him up, when. false hand, and Fir George pointed aperture fell headlong to the ground. I received a letter from Fir George to a chair surmounted by a kind of I could not have borne much more, when there was a glare of light in my Gillingham begging me to go at once canopy and crimson. One night, continued Sir George, eyes, a hand shook me roughly by to tho Towers on a matter of the Hugo returned homo earlier the shoulder, and a voice (Pallattis) deepest importance! I lost not a Sir he was expected, and, walking exclaimed, Good Heaven! Houghminute in obeying the summons, nnd than full of anxiety and a misgiving that hastily up stairs, the first thing he ton, what is the matter? You must you look something wus very w rong, I arrived heard was the voice of his wife in con- have had the nightmare He took a tiny at the Towers ns the dressing gong versation with a stranger in one of quite exhausted. the rooms. He tried the door; it was phial from his pocket, and pouring for dinner was sounding. Fir George met me ns I drove under locked, and by the time he had burst the contents into a teaspoon put it the great portico. He looked so it open a man wns leaping out of the to my lips. Whatever the potion Fir Hugo dashed was, it was so strong that it nearly worn and harassed that I could not open window. help whispering, Good heavens, Fir after him, nnd after half a dozen took my breath away, hut its effects drove his sword through the were instantaneous, and I asked George, w hat is it? Has that quesIIow him tion of the title deeds cropped up Casses, Conrad Gillingham. Beturn-inquite calmly. come did earth through the window he found his on you again after nil? wife senseless on the floor, and put- here? Why, I felt so nervous and Yes, it has with a vengeance, said Fir George; but go dress now ting a constraint upon himself to re- wakeful after Sir George's entertainand meet, us in the dining room. frain from spurning her with his foot, ment that I couldn't sleep, and as I There are no ladies only Pallatti, he passeil on to his chamber, where got worse nnd worse I thought I the first thing that met his eye was would see if you were in the same who says he has met you before. 1 entered the a great iron chest with the lie! open, plight. You certainly seem to have with room tho dining soup, and shook hands cordially with wliile a very short examination been no better off than I, and I think Pallatti. He and I were inordinary showed that his precious title deeds we had better stick together and keep evening dress, but Fir George was ar- had been abstracted, lie found his ourselves awake till daylight (loth rayed as for soiiiegivat state func- wav hack to where Conard lay with appear. Most willingly, I said, and I tion. He wore black staring eyes in the moonlight and and silk stoekiugsand great diamond searched the body for the deeds with- will begin by telling ye my vision buckles in his shoes the broad ribbon out success. Returning through the like a modern lharaoh, and perhaps of the Hath crossed his white waistwindow, his wife sat up and looked you may he able to expound it, O hands, Joseph. There may be nothing in it coat, and he wore half a dozen orders at him and his as well. He had brought his chief but her face was the face of a maniac; or everything, who knows? The next morning, after an almost down with him, and we sat down to and she never recovered her reason, a dinner fit for the gods. The wine dying many years afterwards within untasted breakfast, Fir George and he gave us was scarcely ever brought the walls of a madhouse. Pallatti and I were prosecuting a He saw the whole devilish pilot vigorous search in the haunted wing, out except when some royal prince accepted the Towers for a night and now, Conard Gillingham, using his but after an hour oi hunting nnd was almost prinreless. I knew it and wife as his tool, had intended to poking into every hole and corner, Mr. Pallatti soon found it out, and abstract the deeds, and with these in we came reluctantly to the concluour eyes twinkled. Fir George saw his possession to attain him of high sion that there was nothing correit and was glad. He drank to each treason and claim the estates. sponding in the remotest degree with There was a state trial, which any the room of my vision. The case of of us in the old fashioned way and said. I am making a little feast to- one can read to this day, and he was stuffed birds und the dingy prints night, my young friends, for reasons acquitted, with a universal expression were especially conspicious by their ot my own. It is the old story; let of pity for his misfortune and of absence. us eat, drink nnd be merry, for to- loathing for the subject of his venWewere walking away, silent and morrow well, well do geance. Sir George and I leaddisappointed. the same, let us hope, he said, turnTo piece together these facts had ing the way, and had nearly reached cost me months of labor in ing it off with a laugh. the door which shut off the wing Mr. lallutti was oertnintly well through old diaries and lettersreading in the from the rest of the house, when a worth a good dinner. Without muniment room, for I have never felt shout from Pallatti, who had been seeming to monopolize the conve- sure whe her some day or other I or following at a little distance, caused rsation, he ul ways had some thing orig- some of my descendants might not be us tc stop. inal to say upon every topic that challenged to produce the title deeds he almost Eureka! Eureka! was started, and his fun and wit of Gillingham. The llowr has fallen Bcrenmed; I ought to have seen it were so keen nnd spontaneous that upon me at last. It seems that some at a glance! Come back, both of you; our solemn littledinnerparty became descendants of that old collateral we shall know all about it in five quite a rollicking affair. Among the branch, all long since dead and gone, minutes. subjects we discussed was the last as I hoped and believed, have turned The usually calm and impassive new conjuror, which was puzzling all up. At any rate there are agents Mr. Pallatti was in such a violent London and giving learned judges busily at work making all manner of state of excitement that we almost and doctors nnd parsons sleepless inquiries, searching registers nnd so feared for his reason, but we obeyed nights in the endeavor to find it out. on, nnd my lawyers have told me him nnd returned upon our steps. Why, dont vou know how that point blank that I may lie called upWithout hesitation liewent straight is done? said Jlr. Pallatti, and lie on to produce these deeds and that if into a room called the best bed proceeded to solve the riddle in a they are not forthcoming my tenure chamber, in one corner of which there dozen words. of Gillingham Tow ers may be in se- still stood the great iron chest from Most extraordinary! exclaimed rious jeopardy. Unless s had been my which the fatal Fir George. Io you mean to say young friends, with your you, keen wits extracted, and taking a foot rule and ready invention can help me my from his pocket carefully measured you found it out yourself? Yes, returned' Pallatti, the first resources are at an end. the wall on one side of the door nine time I went. There never has been and He turned and rang the bell, nnd feet. never will he a trick of any kind that then leaned his head upon his hand, Then he came out into the corriI am unable to unravel. I suppose his elbow on the A dor, which was mantelpiece. panneled throughout it is a kind of gift, but 1 have never servant entered, and looking up he with dark oak from floor to ceiling, made any use of it except sometimes said quite naturally, Tut out all and, off nine feet from the measuring to have a little fun among the ' these lights and dose the room, Mal-la- side of the door on the outside, And he gave me a peculiar I only wanted to show Mr. marked the with a deop score look out of his black eyes. Pallatti how it looks on a state oc- of his knife. place his attenTransferring Exposing all their rascally far casion and take the cigars and tion to tho next room (known as the -il life-lik- e s, full-lengt- h dingy-lookin- black-coate- d great-grandfathe- r, g knee-breech- blood-staine- d title-deed- spir.t-ualist- s. j Ttc.i space between the two scores it was at once seen that there were eleven feet of wall unaccounted for. There is a carpenter at work close by, panted Pallatti; "we saw him as we came up. Hun. my dear Hough-leavton, and bring him here with Lis tools. I wns off like a shot, and soon returned with the astounded ter, w ho bus been shedding gimlets, bradawls, nails and screws, ami such small articles plentifully by the side out of his basket in his haste, Pallatti had already sounded the wainscot; the rusty nails gave way at the first wrench, and the planks were removed, the carpenter was dismissed, and then, with an almost indescribable feeling of awe, we stood within the very room 1 knew so well. The stuffed birds, theerazy furniture, the dingy prints nil were there, and on the little table in the center stood a tall and tarnished silver candlestick, the candle long since devoured oi the mice by the who scampered into their holes as we entered. For two or three minutes not a word was said, and then I sprang at one of the prints and tried to tear it from the wall, hut Pallatti stayed my hand. There is not a secret spring in the world could baffle me for two minutes, lie said quieth-- . With one touch of his fingers the picture flew open, and putting iu his hand he pulled out a mass of crumpled parchment. A short inspection proved to Sir George that they were the long lost deeds, and we all saw for ourselves that one corner was shrivelled and stained with grease and smoke. Sli 6oio An I cat In Coni TL e earpen-nierel- Oft-- t on The An y Hav In But, lb Folll An Tlici Id How An Tot An I dm It Wi Shi But great-grandfathe- Ou B a vi Th Ml It elde ing true ters tliei to alone. Where is asked. breakfast for rallatti, Sir George, an the arri me spa i ther I leng Sfr George, burstHe said he was ing out laughing. afraid of your punching his head if he Gone. d for The next morning I found Sir George waiting r w. replied ther row slim stayed. What on earth shall I do that for? I wondered. Because he played you a trick went into your room after you were asleep, blew out your light, stole your matches, nnd hid himself in a cupboard in the hope thatyou would be able to give us the benefit of one of your experiences, as you call them. Hut he told me to assure you on his honor that not one hint of what happened that night shall ever pass fult spec tion to a for wlie thai as ii 0 shal from his lips. the And I quite believe him, I said Pallatti is a glorious fewarmly. llow, and although it wasn't very pleasant for me at the time, the game, in this case, was well worth the absence of the candle. on 1 no c mur tic b ity Nun thel Chicago Pork Every Day in Paris. J. J. in Boston Herald. A Boston man, who has lived in Paris over twenty years, gave me an him. in a criir thoi amusing description of a party to which he had recently been invited, to sup off of American ham just received from home. It was an appetizing symposium, but after the gentleman left the house he said to himself: How in the name of free trade did get an American ham over here, since it is prohibited from entering the country? To appease his curiosity he called round next day to inquire about the ham's nationality, Yes, it was a pure and undefiled Chicago ham, direct from the mint. Hut how did it tret info France? Did it drop from the skies, or, wlmt? Almost, for the ham went to England, and from there wascalmly and collectively imported into France. And wlmt makes the situation yet more nbsurb, it is not the only Chicago pork that gets into Paris bv any means. The thareuteries have very nice hams, unmarked, to sell, butby there excellent quality and their great popularity they are recognized as having first seen the light of day in America. can at who claii ever I mot 1 wen hop I You nga I Wi to s be ( pen: COU of e er to into the I said 1 fath In mar but to Ci of laid ter and bilit sack spec the purs for evid pert ixin Even the emperor of China must learn a trade, and learn it well. He must also each year plow, and sow nnd reap. The kings of France were by laws compelled to learn trades, and to work at them. One became famous ns a skilled blacksmith. True, jou see plenty of new rich men and the sons of new rich men loafing around, but they do not last longThey land in thegutter orthe state's prison, every one of them. And so does every man, as a rule, rich or poor, who will not work, and lend liis hand at like a man. and patient - Joaquin Miller. d ( ex a; of ri Must Help Build the World. level-heade- ( smo The Locusts in Algiers. This year the sirocco, that terrible hot wave of the desert, swept over Algiers with unusual fierceness, charged with the sand of the great Sahara, and with millions and millions of locusts. In a few days the whole country was covered with these pests. Their ravages are terrible. The cattle, of which the colony contained sixteen millions, are dying for want of nourishment, and a famine is threatening the European colonists. The government employs thousands of natives and all the available troops, in a systematic effort to destory the voracious little insects. Philadelphia Times. world-buildin- g, r abo opei bun he S' just thej j be n B not 3j is was j tie ( ires i leer i.n the ne I 1 tleej |