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“The editor,” Mr. Hargrave replied promptly, out.” has. gone “I'll set until he gits back,” said the Mayor, taking a chair | and putting his feet on the editor's desk. “TI just step out and send him in,” suggested Mr. Har- | grave, trembling lest the Mayor should order him'to remain. But the official took no further notice of him, and therefore Mr. Hargrave bade a silent farewell to his surroundings, and regretted that he dared not return to get the Bible his aunt had given him before he had left Boston, from his desk. But he had scarcely closed the office door on the outside when there loomed up a tall stranger of ferocious aspect, whom Mr. Har- grave recognized as the gentleman who had conducted the raid on the faro bank. “ B'long inside ?” enquired the stranger, easily. “Yes, sir," faltered Mr. Hargrave, feeling very much like the gentleman mentioned in the Scriptures who fled froma lion and was met by a bear.‘ Whom did you want to see?” “The dashed blank what calls himself the editor,” replied the stranger savagely. “He's inside with his feet on the desk,” said Mr. Hargrave | in a moment of inspiration. The stranger entered; and Mr. Hargrave only waited to see him clinch with the Mayor, and to notice that official bite | a piece out of his ear and suffer the loss of two-thirds of his beard, and then he departed, sadly but not slowly. When he took up a newspaper in Des Moines, a day or two later, he read that the entire village of Steel Plate had | been sacked by Indians, as was presumed, and burned to the ground. Mr. Hargrave informed his aunt that he felt that his first efforts in the upbuilding of mankind had not been an entire | success. F, MARSHALL WHITE. THE INDIAN TERRITORY may fairly be called merely a reservation. RULE OF CONDUCT FOR THE STOCK EXCHANGE—Bear and Forbear. PECULIARITY OF IRISH CHARACTER—Lack of pa-rent-al feeling. BEN BUTLER complains that the Boston G/ode is not doing “the square thing" by him. Of course not. Who ever heard of a square globe ? AVERAGE RAILROAD DIVIDENDS IN ROUND NUMBERS —000,000. LITERARY ITEM. POPULAR novel is called Miss Tommy. « It is strongly suspected that Dr. Mary Walker is the heroine. OME of the English critics complain that Mr. Bret Harte has latterly betaken himself almost exclusively to the writing of “ Pot-Boilers.” We are sorry to learn that the erst veracious historian of ‘“ Devil's Gulch,” “ Red Dog,” and “ Poker Flat,” should have so far lowered the standard of his. former literary endeavor, and sincerely hope his conduct in this particular may not strain the cordial relations heretofore existing between two friendly powers. But our hypercritical kinsmen will please bear in mind that a United States Consul, engaged in the service of his beloved country at a salary of $1.500 per annum, must do something to make the pot boil, pitiable as the necessity may be. And, after all, the writing of “ Pot-Boilers” involves no greater depths of infamy, per- haps, than the writing of dish-water, an occupation not solely confined to Americans. « . . OTES.—Edgar Fawcett's fourth novel, within twelve months, is called “ The Adventures of a Widow.” He continues to perforate the Anglomaniacs. It is a serious question whether they are worth such a waste of ammunition. —One of the best of recent books of adventure for boys is “ The Voyage of the Vrvéan to the North Pole and Beyond,” by Thomas W. Knox. BOOKS RECEIVED. “APTAIN PHIL. By M Co., N.Y. Ralph, The Drummer Boy. By Louis Rousselet. by W. J. Gordon, Henry Holt & Co., N.Y. The Adventures of a Widow. By Edgar Fawcett. Osgood & Co., Boston, The Man Wonderful in the House Beautiful. M. A. Allen. Fowler & Wells Co., N. Y. Thomas. Henry Holt & Translated JR. By C.B.& FOUND: A LETTER. HE following letter was found in Ohio by a gentleman who desires to be nameless, but who earnestly wishes to restore it to its rightful owners : HEADQUARTERS OF THE REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE, Sept. 17th, 1884. HON. GEORGE WASHINGTON, Ex-President, ete. DEAR SIR—We venture to address you in the hope you will aid us to the full extent of your ability—which is un- equalled—in electing the Hon. J. G. Blaine to the Presidency of this country, for which you have done so much. A few words from you in commendation of our candidate would do much towards the accomplishment of our desires. Plainly, General, will you take the stump for Blaine and Logan ? Your obedient servants, O10 REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE. comicbooks.com