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VV i "To tell yon the truth, old fellow, 1 | never understood why with your capacity for domestic enjoyment you remained an i old bachelor. Early disappointment in love?" "I towed to marry her or not at all, and , she"? Just at that moment tho spring roller blind of a house that faced directly on the sidewalk flew up with a suddon "Br-r-r" ' and a snap. Both tho men looked around, I and both wero just in time to catch sight of a remarkably protty girl's face with a ' pout of vexation on it. The blind, had evidently slipped out of her fingers and rolled itself up when it was not asked to. 1 "Who is that girl?" Guthrie asked. "I'm afraid I don't know her, old fel- < low," said Bean. "She's a very pretty girl, I should say. We'll ask my wife 1 when we get home. Now go on with your j ?? Nt'lV'V. "You haven't any idea who lives in that 1 house, have you?" i "No, I haven't. Oh, by the way, I think I do know I Unless I'm mistakon, ' ( that's old Calthorpe's place. He's a fel- , low commuter of mine, and that's about ( the full extent of our acquaintance. But 6he isn't the young lad}? of your 6ecret, i^ I she?" "That's just it," said Jeff, with a puzzled expression. "She can't bo, and yet that face for the moment looked"? "Like her? Was her name Calthorpe?" , "No; her name was Sargent." "How long ago was it?" "Seven years." "Well, one of the few things I happen to know about old Calthorpe," 5aid Bean, laughing, "is that ho comes from Rhode ^ Island. So"? | "Oh, no, no!" Guthrie interrupted. "Miss Sargent is dead, old fellow." . The two walked on in silence for some time. 'It isn't a long story," Guthrie presently continued. "She taught school there . in that faraway little village among the ! hills and the mines. I was interested in i' her from the first and tried to win my way into some 6ort of acquaintance with her. But she seemed disinclined to any thing like society." "Yoa didn't 6tay there more than a year altogether, did you?" Bean asfeod. | "Much less than u year. I never ex- , ohanged more than 6ix words with her in { all the time we were both in that village. , Don't laugh at me, Maurice. You didn't suspect me of being so romantic, did you? She died." , "There?" "Yes, there. Somehow the sadness of , It struck deeply into me, and now?this I' v girl"- i "Is this Klrl very much like Miss Sar- | * gent?" "So muoh like that It wouldn't be re- , markable even if they were twin sisters." "Whioh. of oourse, is impossible," said ( Bean. , "A twin sister of hers would be nearly . f { ,80 by this time." "And the young woman at the blind is not more than 19, I should judge. It it < ' ourious, though." f Guthrie's visits to the home of his mar- , iried friend were all much alike In one very , pleasant feature?he always romped with two out of three children, while the young- ( est?the baby?looked on and crowed and i jerked itself about enviously. * , ( "Now, what is it?" Mrs. Bean asked, < turning to her husband when Allie and , little Jeff had both been finally silenoed < under the bedclothes. ( "Oh, it isn't my affair," 6ald thehus- . baqd. | "We?I?wantad to ask if you knew a i Miss Calthorpe hero, living in that new ( red brick house at the end of the common, " said Guthrie. ( Mrs. Bean shook her head. *'Xo Miss Qalthorpe llvea there," she said. "Mr. i Calthorpe lives there." "Oh," said Bean, "was that old woman Calthorpe's sister?" "She isn't really old, dear. She's i younger than Mr. Calthorpe. There's one daughter, I believe. " But that night Mrs. Bean said to her husband: "Leave me alone for two days, and I will know all about your window blind young lady. Then make Jeff Guth, rie oome here and etay overnight." The next visit of Jeff Guthrie was planned for a Saturday evening, with express " * ci a arrangements ior a stay over ouuuoy. After ohurch this subtle woman Insisted on lingering about the porch until a gray haired lady camo out, and with her her | daughter, the girl who had pouted at the ' window blind. "Mrs. Perry, let me Introduce our par- , tloular friend, Mr. Guthrio, and this Is Miss Perry." " Nothing could have been more properly conventional than this introduction, and that was why Guthrie was so angry with himself for turning red and becoming confused. Mrs. Bean had, unknown to Guthrie, expressly invited these two ladle* to dinner beforehand. "Tell me, have you any relative?had you, I should say?of the name of Sar gent?" The girl's face changed in a moment She was pale and bit her lip. , ' "Oh, Mr. Guthrie," she said, "you must ask mother that I I don't know about it I was only a little girl of 10 when poor Margaret left us and married that"? Cltn Aaittad Kaiwnlf. than affAF ATI Am - barrassing pause, went on, lowering her voice to a whisper and glanoing round at her mother: "Did you know her?him?" "I onco knew a Miss Sargent?very lightly." "Where?" "In Pennsylvania, at Brinkvllle." "Oh, yes! He treated her so badly, after alL She had to go somewhere and be a teacher. Mother would have forgiven everything, but Margaret was too proud to come back to us. She wont and called herself miss, I suppose. We only heard that she had died in Pennsylvania?nothing mora I was sent to school In Germany soon afterward." "I understand," said Guthrie, "your mother has had a great deal of trouble." "That Is why she looks so old at 60. Tell me, please, am I so much like poor aiater Margaret?" "So much that I thought I was looking at her for the moment when you appeared at the window." Jeff Guthrie ceased to be the old baohelor friend of the Bean family, and It was all owing to tho escape of that roller blind from a girl's fingers. The marriage of f her youngest aaugncer an ieam was not against Mrs. Perry's wishes, neither was 1 it an unhappy one, and Mrs. Bean prided herself upon having brought it about ?Pittsburg Post. ? On? of IJfe'a Leuoni. By the time a man has learned to speaS with discretion and weigh hia words carefully a younger gonerution springs up, |* thrusts, him in a corner and will not lot Jlim speak at all?Atchisos, Globe. ferrinn, Tttler, Knit Rhentn, Kcli RiuK Worm, Herpes, Barber'n AU of these diseases aee attended by Intense itching, which is almost in^ s ^ntly relieved by applying CharaberIS, Jj in'e Salve and by its continued use a permanent cure may be effected. It has, in fact, cured many cases that bad resisted all olhor treatment. Price 25 cents per box. For f-ale by; C, A. Milford and H. M. Young. Get our prtoes on com. flour, hay, bacon and meal at A. M. 8mith'?. r\>-' V v'. -j' . t 6AV6 taONe bV. Oh. the days gone by I Ob. the days gone by! The apples In the orchard and the pathway through the rye, The chirrup of the robin, and the whistle of the quail Aj he piped across the meadows Fweet as any nightingale; When the bloom was on the clover and the blue was in the sky, Aqd my happy heart brimmed over la the days gone by. Kn the days gone by, when my naked feet were tripped By the honeysuokle tangles where the water lilies dipped, And the ripple of the rlveV lipped the moss along the brink Where the placid eyed and lazy footed cattle came to drink, And the tilting snipe stood fearless of the tin ant's wayward cry, And the splashing of the swimmer in the day* gone by. Oh, the days gone byl Oh, the days gone by! rhe music of the laughing lip, the luster of IUC cj t>, The childish faith in fairies and Aladdin's magic ring, The simple, soul reposing, glad belief in everything, When life was like a story, holding neither sob nor sigh [n the golden, olden glory of the days gone by. ?James Wbitcomb Riley. A HEALTHY MAN. Here Are the Points That Go to llakt a Centenarian. Here are the points of a healthy man. If you have them all you may, barring accidents, count on being a centenarian. If you have most of them, you'll reach a ripe old age, but evep if you have only a few don't be alarmed, for many apparently crazy human machines last a surprisingly lopg time. First, your body and limbs should be plump, but the plumpness should be of the Aim and muscular, not the fleshy type. Your figure ought to be erect, and,whether you are tall or short, well proportioned. Length without breadth is a very bad thing in a man, for there is no room for vital organs large enough to thorough!/ perform their duties. Your step should be springy and elastic, four gait firm and easy. These things indicate muscles of good quality and nerve of good tone. Your eye should be bright and neither prominent nor hollow. Bright eyes show that the circulation of blood in the brain is good. Your complexion should be clear and fresh. It is usually not well with you when your face is pale, sallow, florid or subject to sudden flushings. But in this matter your occupation has great influence, and you might have the worst possible complexion and bo in perfect health. But tnat, 01 oourse, is cue exoepuou, qui the rule. Your head should not be very large, or ht least If it is large your neck, shoulders Eind chest ought to correspond in size. If you feel your pulse, it shauld bo regular; If it drops a beat now and again or beats very fast and excitedly after the least exertion or emotion then the heart is weak. Your breathing should be tranquil and inaudible. Any sounds mean that the passages are more or less clogged. You 6hould not know you have a stomach?that is to say, as a rule. Of course there are tinies when that organ gots out of order in the healthiest individual, and then it is always sure to make its owner aware of its existence. You should always, except when the weather is bitterly sold, feel comfortably warm through your whole body, even to the tips of the fingers and toes. Otherwise something Is wrong with the circulation or the heat producing apparatus. You should have sound sleep, without ? -i-t-x ?j u dreams or mguuuurcs, wiu m uuiuu uw? last too long or too 6hort?say, eight t? Bight and a half hours^very night. Your voice should not be hoarse, and you should be a stranger to sore throats. Your appetite should not be too great or too small, while you should not be a sufferer from headaches, giddiness or neuralgia, and, of course, you should not have palpitations or falntings or varicose vein*. If you answer to the above description, you have neither disease of the brain, spinal cord, heart, lungs, liver, stomach, muscles or nerves, and you are in as perfect health as it is possible for human beings to be. But at the same time many a round shouldered, narrow chested, thin and sallow man is {is tough as steel, works hard and lives till he is almost tired of tha world, and, of course, even the healthiest of us must go through a course of colds, coughs, headaches, dyspepsia attacks and the like. Still, if your chest is small Id proportion to the rest of your body you are likely to have less stamina, and you should not overdo such things as football, cyollng or even brain work.?New York World. He Did Hla Beat. In an Aberdeen bookshop an old lady was inquiring for a cepy of the Bible, and the shopkeeper brought forward one at half a crown. But tho old lady wanted something cheaper. A copy at 18 pencv was produced containing Illustrations. But the illustrations, the old lady averred, entailed superfluous expenditure. "Then, here," said tho shopkeeper, "if a copy for a shilling which contains a' that's necessary for salvation." He descended from the ladder and laid it before his customer. "But hae ye no something a wee bit sheaperP" asked the old lady. "Wumman, wuniman," said the shopman, "ca' upon the Almlchty to corns down and sell ye his ain publications, for I can dae nae malrl"?London Chronicle. A Financial Shake. "Good morning Mr. Toney. On ths lick list today?" "Yes, sir; got the ague." "Do you ever shake?" "Yes." 14Tin.~ tvueii uu pu Diiaau a^aiui "Can't say when; shake every day Why do you ask?" ,-0h, nothing In particular, auly I thought If you shook bad I'd like to stand by and set if you couldn't shake the 18 Shillings out of your pocket which you kave owed me bo long!"?London Standard. Tortoise Shell. What is tailed tortoise shell i* not th# bony covering or shield of the turtle, bnt only the scales which cover it. Tbese are IS in number, 8 of them flat and 5 a little curved. A large turtle affords about eight pounds of them, the plates varying from an inch to a quarter of an Inoh in thickness. Th? Fool and Ills Money. ' Optimism," said the sorry fool, "li iceing the green side of a $5 bill." "And what is pessimism?" asked hit friend. "Seeing neither Bide of a $5 bill"?New Fork Commercial Advertiser. L. W. 'White has just received a car of Barbed Wire and Nails. All persoiis wishing barbed wire had better leave their orders at once as the demand for it is so great the supply will not last long Three little rules we all should keep, To make life happy and bright, Smile in the morning, smile at noon, Take Rocky Mountain tea at night. C. A. Milford. - ? nwur nngnfrw'utrfnrrrrraM'* ??' >* inn. >? t* ? i 'EE'f QUNFTHElf AN.j In my early days I was a reporter on 1 I The Clarion Call. Only a dislike to own | niyailf beaten and the occasional fascina- 1 i Hon which compensated for the moro fro- ! . queDb discoWort kopt me in the office. : But ^11-this w before tho day I was sont ; to inicrview^Pb wife and daughter of the . ] man who had Just disturbod society by | disappearing from it. ! Mr. Grey, bo it had boon learned from ' (be nofcicos concerning his disappearance, had ono evening after dinner gono out for a stroll around tho block. He had never i xm,e baok. His family was of courso i prostrated after the manner of families on such sad occasions. After giving him i time to come back, sending to his clubs, his office and the houses of his friends hia wife had finally cqld his lawyers, -and systematic search was bogun. The family i had retired from publlo lffe and denied themselves to qvery one. consequently i my chanccs for an interview with Mrs. | Grey did not see hopeful, but tho city od- : itor's air of granting mo tho opportunity 1 had been longing for made ma loath to i admit my fears. i I took the train for the Groys' ?they i lived a little way out of town?and pre| pared myself to meet the servants' scorn and tho othor attendant evils of suoh nn assignment! Tho coach was an ordinary one, and thoVe wero several laboring men In it, evidently traveling to some suburb where they were to work upon the roads, ; for they carfied plckaxcs and shovels. ,; There eat opposite me and slightly forward a peculiar type of man to whom I found ray gaze wandering every few min- . utes. His Iron gray hair was thick and | very unevenly out. His face was covered with a stubbly growth of gray beard. Ho looked unwashed, unkempt and generally unpleasant. His blue overalls were stain-, ed with red olay and his red flannel shirt' opened at the front In a way that revealed anything but a beautiful nock, burned and blistered. But the man's twitching linn and convulsive movements of the jawi attracted my attention, and bis deep a*t, Bteely blue eyes that burned in cavernous sockets fasoinated me. He did not talk to , tbo other men, bat sat with his head sunS j upon his breast, only occasionally raising It to cast a look about him. He, with the ' other laborers, left the train at Forestvllle, f where the Greys ll^ed, and I soon saw them, under the direction of a foreman, assigned to make-varloue road repairs. j Of course Mrs. Grey would not see ma ; I sat in the library while the servant took my card to her, for there were other callers iu the drawing room. Ovor tho mantel hung a picture, presumably Mrs. Grey, done in oil. She was as beautiful as a cameo and as hard. Opposite hor was'the portrait of a clean shaven rnao, with line ' Iron gray hair brushed off his forohoad?a more plebeian cast of countenanoe, but strong and interesting. The face seomed familiar. I stared at it until the servant returned. . | "Mrs. Grey is sorry, miss, but sheoan baa Ann onrl fcftta t/\ KAV fnF publication." "Very well," said I. Then I rose to go. j "Is that Mr. Greyf" I asked, nodding toward the picture. ' I "Yes, miss," waa the reply, and sud-'. denly it flashed upon mo whero I had seen those deep set, curiously shaped, keen blue eyes. My heart leaped almost into my , mouth. I took one long look at the portrait and left the house. ? The men were repairing the road, and I noticed one of the workmen whose face startled me. The resembianco to the por- j trait I had seen of Mr. Grey was remarka- j ble. He worked with a fierce delight in j tho severe labort His face seemed more mad than ever, with the exultation of motion and strength deepening the gleam in his eyes. There was a telegraph office at the end of the street. I sent a message to the city editor. "Send a man to Forestville at once," was my command, xnen wnne i paced the street and walked about the square I reflected upon the welcome I j would receive If I had made a mistake. ( Every minute I became mo e and more convinced that I had made the most oolos- j sal blunder on record. By the time Mr. ; Ellington Ellsworth, the only man who \ happened to bp available when my tele* gram waa received, had arrived I was ' nearly hysterical. I told Mr. Ellsworth my theory, and he was properly skeptical. He discouraged me thoroughly in about two minutes, but I suddenly rallied. "Well," I remarked, taking command, "I want you to keep that man in sight. 1 shall go to town and got his lawyer. Find out what train they go in on, and I'll ' meet you." . j Mr. Ellsworth didn't wish to aot upon ; that suggestion, but ho finally consented to do so. I went in, summoned Mr. : Grey's lawyer and with him mot tho ( worklngmen'a train. Mr. Ellsworth, look- j ing bored and unhappy, got out and point- | ed out our suspected "disappearance" to his lawyer. My heart stood In my mouth, j Was I to be forever disgraoed or made famous forever? "Mr. Grey," said the lawyer, stopping forward, "what does this mean?" * I And .when I saw the man 6tart wildly I know that I was not forever disgraced. * "Well," 6aid the olty editor jovially, ; "what did they say?" "They didn't say anything. They didn't see me." ! "So you didn't got the Interview?" said the city editor shortly. "No," I replied meekly, "but I found | the missing man." And now, such Is the "irony of fate, the olty editor, instead of lotting me rest on my laurels, is always exhorting ine to live up to tho reputation I made In the Grey caso, when I found tho missing man, : learned how overwork had worn out his bruin and how in his half orazed condl- j tion he wandered away and returned to his original occupation In life, to the horror of his wife with the camoollke faco. If only 1 had never been ao brilliant I?Ex- : ohange. He Preferred Death. Baron de Mn1-"*Mo, a German who had ' nerved in Mexk-u v.ith Maximilian, told to bir M. Grant Duff, who records It In his "Diary," the following story of an In- . dlan's devotion to hiB leader: nonoTol Mailn voam A full hlonfl Tndi&n In the service of Maximilian and was tak- | en prisoner along with him. Two hours before their execution was to take place General Alatorre came to him and said: | "General Mejia, I have beon throe times I your prisoner, and three times you bnve spared my life. My ald-de-carap is at the doer with a hoise, and you are free to go whore you please." "And the emperorp" asked Mejia. "Will be shot in two hours," answered j Alatorre. "And youdar* to come to me with such a proposition I I ^ave the room I" rejoined; Ihe prisoner. Alatorre did so, and Mejiu ] * tho emperor full together. Strikes Hidden KockN. When your ship of health strikes the hidden rocks of Consumption, Pneu monia, elc, you f>re lost if you don't (ret help from Dr. Kind's New Discovery I for Consumption. J. VV. McKinnonJ of Talaleda Springs, Ala., writes; "I . bad been very ill with pneumonia, under the care of two doctors, but was Betting no better when I began to take Dr. King's New Discovery. The first dose gave relief, and one bottle cured me," Sure cure for sore throat, bronhitis, coughs and colds. Guaranteed at Speed's Drug Store, ^price 50c and $1,00. Trial bottle free. * ; ""-"A I. A OlB books. Their Content* Rather Titan Th*ii HE Daten Make Them Valuable.' "It is extraordinary," said a book collector the other day, "the value some peo- , pie attach to old books simply bccauso they aro old. Not long ago a friend of mine n showed me two old trunks filled with 3 books which he had found in a house orig- c inally the property of his wifo's grandfather, and which she had recently inherited from her mother. There were in all per- ^r, haps about 300 volumes, most of which a^' bore the dates 1760, 1770, 1705 and bo on, ! an' and my friend confidently believed that ,;u' thoy were worth at least their weight in 110 gold. On the contrary, thoy wero booka ^ of very little value and interest, and not j W;| worth much moro than their weight aa ! * c waste paper. Ho politely suggested that I J'1 was a liar when I told him that, but he ^ changed his mind after he had tried in 8a vain to sell the books to secondhand deal- ^ ers. an "Outsidoof these overestimated booka my friend's wife had a barrelful of pam- scc phlets which sho was going to use to kindie the firo with. Though worthless iu Tin/I rnnlltr rnn - IUty 111CI1U D U[;iUIWil, VHV/fJV ^luv* vvm | ? siderablo valuo, being old Massachusetts, |n< Philadelphia and New York almanacs, j 1 Revolutionary pamphlets and broadsides ' s^' and printed documents relating to Kings j so' and Queens counties, and a dealer paid j ^?c my friend $100 for tho lot. 'Ono of the de- I spiscd almanacs was Charles Smith's j UP 'Gentleman's Pocket Almanac' for tho year 1796, which contained a portrait of ^oc Washington ? one of tho rarest of the ^r,( Washington portraits?and yet my friend was going to kindle tho fire with it. j ''It is really next to impossible to get mi auch people to believe that a book is not of necessity worth money because it was printed a long time ago. Nino out of ten * * books published before this century aro J5/ growing more worthless every year. The tenth one has value, higher or lower, in etx proportion to its character. Occasionally a literary gem, a book of real value to a , collector, maybe found in a lumber room, [ B"' but the date on tho title p'uge is never a ^ 6afe guide. "-^New York Commercial Ad- j Ja) vertiser. j aS ' en SIR WALTER RALEIGH. j set I ' Varied Career of tlie Didtingnlshed I Coartier an?l Adventurer. | th< Raleigh's day of days was at the sack\of , ta] Cadiz in 1696. It was Raleigh who over- j ' AAii?cnlc nf T Tlinmna i UViO vuu V* mm wuiiovio v* *->v? % , Howard, crying out to Lord Essex: "En- . bu tramos! Entramos!" a permission so ac- 1 rc! ceptable to the gallant young earl that he Wc threw his hat into the sea for sheer joy. *n Then Raleigh V.took him to his ship and led the van uad<9r the batteries and right 'ni Into the bwbor. ^en -his vessel, 6hat- bl< tered by shot, was on the point of sinking, j he left it to enter Essex's ship, and, though wounded severely by a splinter, I had Min/jelf carried on shore and lifted on to a horse to chargo with Essex against co the Spanish army. Of the 6ea fight Hak- , B(1 luyt cays: i ft "What manner of flghfc this was and virith what courage performed and with *c what terror to the beholder continued, ' Wf whero so many thundering tearing peecea be were for so long a time discharged, I leave *01 It to the Render to thinke and imagine." Pr' Of the charge on shore he tells us: "The' time of the day was very hot and faint, j and the way was all of dry deepe slyding 611 sand in a manner, and beside that, very 1 uneven. But tho most famous Earlo, with ,w< his valiant troopes, rather running in ' deede in good onler, then marching, hastoned on them with such unspeakable cour- : age and celerity, as within one houre? ** space and lesse the horsemen were all disoama r?n^ f/\ (1 ? f f (lO VUXU1U1VCU auu puu IV/ uif;uV| vuc/1 ivwuv* being strookcn downe at the very first en- n; counter, whereat the footmen, being won- | derfully dismayed and astonished at the an unexpected manner of tho Englishmen'^ kinde of 6uch fierce and resolute fight, re- P? tyred themselves with all speed possible *n that they could." A *0( We know the story of Sir Walter Raleigh sabut too well?his cruerimprisonment, hia ^u moro cruel liberation to save his lifo by cu accomplishing tho impossible and his 511 most cruel execution on a warrant signed 1 15 years earlier. Ho knew all that is to 'n be known of success and failure, of courts and treachery, of sea fights and assaults r0 on cities, of treasuro islands and tempest* So and long marches in tangled forests.? j "V Fortnightly Review. I th I su The Landrail. The most remarkable thing about the J?' landrail Is Its extraordinary instinct or ? passion for migration. Whence comes to , it that overpowering desire which twice . in the year impels it, weak winged though it is, to change its quarters, to range during our English springtime as far north W( as the bleak and frozen shores of arotio , Greenland, to descend in the fall of the year away south into Africa and eastward into Asia, reaching in its return migration countries so distant and so widely j sundered as Natal and Afghanistan? At present, in spito oi tneories ana surmise?; ; ~ wo have no satisfactory reason offered to j?' ua for the wonderful migration?reour- j 1 ring steadily, persistently and unfailing ly, year after year?of a bird like the land- j rail, whose weak wings and strongly developed legs pluinly attest the fact thai j3 its natural powers of progression lie far J? more in walking and running than lit flying.?Saturday Review. j The Smart Verger. ' I g? The church possessed a valuable Bible, i which was only used on Sundays, says a ^ writer in The Cornhill Magazine, speak- ; ^ ing of an English country parish. During ^ the week it was kept in a box which rather ge curiously fonned the stand upon which fc(> the reader of the lessons stood. On one occasion, when this was being shown to a visitor, tho remark was made that it did ' not seem verv reverent for even a clergy- I man to tread upon the Bible. "Pardon I uj me," the old verger replied. "In thia | ^ ohurch, 6ir, we take our stand upon tho j Scriptures." J CQ A Barrel of Flour. j tt. A barrel of flour will make nearly dou | ev ble Its weight In bread. Flour rapidly de- j teriorates with age unless kept dry. II absorbs moisture, and this moisture im- . lIli pairs the gluten which is indispensable to the lightness of tho bread. Besides, it as changes some of tho starch info sugar and RI) a gummy matter known us dextrin, and ftn this makes the bread heavy and sodden. I "Kid" is merely a jocose substitution for "lamb," used /or a young child, and 1b very old. Charles Rcade and Dicken? used "kid" In this sense, and Virgil'i Dr phrase, "ite capclla;," lias beon freely Hi translated, "Go it, my kiddies." I m' | ha Thousands of Egyptians live In old [01 tombs, eating, sleeping, wooing, loving, i laughing, dancing, singing, doing all i Bc1 their deeds tif daily life and household j l ork among lb* mummies and 6aroopi> : w< *g'L A fill cirri Willi ItliemiiatlMii. j ('r "T wm inil urn vpt jitllifloti willi I mV rheumatism," saya Mr. J. ('. l?:iyno. h,, editor of the herald, Addinyton, Iti-i(]e dian Territoiy, hut thanks to Cham-Lj. berlain's Pain Paimatn able once more ej, to attend to bnsines?. It is the best (|i; of liniment?.If troubled with ihen-lgj matism give Pain Ralm a trial'and !ja you are certain to he more than pleas- lM ed with the prompt riliel which .itaf- aM fords. One application relieves the an pain. For sale by C. A. Milford and H. M. Young. Tr Mfl|||U|aHMi^_Ma itE'tlKEl) BLiMLAB. _ : TELLS OF A CURIOUS INCIDENT IN HIS CAREER. 1 Mght'* Work That Involved a Dl?- ? .grccaMc Surprise. u &ool Headed Inn nnil n Snf^ That Had to Be 11 Ipcned r.oi'orc Morning:. 'Tn the course of my time," said the re- * cd burglar, "I have opened a consider- ^ le number of iron boxes of one sort and other, but never ono under more peliar circumstances than this one, in a use in a small town iu this state. This o stood in the dining room against the 11 on one side. My pght fell on it when \ ipened the door of the room to look in. ivas a big, old fashioned safe, more like- E here to contain documents and mortges and one thing and another like that E in money. But a safo is always a pleas- ^ t thing to look at. It makes you think money anyway. And so I was glad to s this safe, and, of course, I hoped I'd V (1 a lot of stuff in it too. Then I startto swing my lamp around to take a nice nt the rest of tho room before walker in, but I hadn'tmoro'n begun to move before I brought into tho light a pair of 5cs with tho heels on the floor and the cs up at an angto of about 45 degrees, :s toward tho safe. There were feet in dsc shoes, of course, and the legs went from tho other side at an angle of 45 grees to what I didn't need to look to > was a man sitting thero in a chair in >nt of the safe asleep. "Well, nojv, you know, that was unex3tcd, and while a man in my business ust expect unexpected things and be uly for 'em and not be surprised or stard this was really so very unusual that vill admit I was just a little bit startled it, and my hand must have shaken a tie, and while under most circum- " inoes that wouldn't have made tho glitest diffcrenco i' the world here it ide all the difference, for the hand that ook was the one holding the lamp, lich was at that momebt close to the nb of the door. I ' nocked tho lamp ainst it?just a - little bit of a tick, but ough to wake up the sleeper. I could ) his feet draw up toward tho chair. ' Then I wanted to get out myself, and 6tarted along tho hall I was in toward 3 cellar door I'd oome in at, but I hadn't ken two steps before I heard a man sayt " 'Hold on there?wait! Come backl' "And I went back. It was a command, ;t it was an invitation, too, and I waa uly to meet 1t or to chance it, and I snt back to tho dining room and looked and saw a man lighting the gas; he'd en having for a light before a kerosene up that I saw now standing on the taj with the oil burnod out. The man rned r.nd says to me: " 'Come in.' "He wasn't quito so tall as I was, but was a pretty solid sort of a citizen, who aid have held his own with mo. in a uaro rough and tumble easy, and he wpa man who was accustomed to bossing ings and having folks do what he said. :ouldn't toll for the life of mo what he is, what his business was,, but I guess was just simply the richest man in the ivn and spent his time looking after his nnnrtv. And when I'd come in he says: 11 'What's your business, my friend?' "\lnd I said I was a traveling bjackdth. " 'H'mI' he Bays. 'You do most of your >rk nights?' "And I said yes, I did do more or les* glit work. % , " 'And I imagine you've got a handy t of tools right in that bag there now,' says, pointing to my bag, that I had set wn alongside of the chair I waa sitting "And I said yes, I had tools there fot y ordinary work. " 'You see that safe?' the man -says, inting toward the safe he'd been sitting front of wheii I first looked in, and I )ked at it and saw the big, old fashioned fe, looking very imposing and strong, ;t a safe that a man that knew how could t into about as easy as he could a cheese, d I said yes, I did. " 'Well,' says the man, 'I want to get . to that safe. There's some papers in ere that I've got to have in court tomorw morning, or tbis morning rather, at i-and-so at 10 o'clock. And I've broken e Key, and I've been trying here for hall e night to break the safe open. Do you ppose you could open it?' , "Well, I had to kind Qf cough to conceal j- emotion, because I could have opened e old, box, you know, in ten minutes, it I said yes, I could open it, I thought. " 'Well, now,' says the man, 'you pitch and open it,' and he sat down in a chair ere near the safe and got ready to see me jrk. And I put my bag up on the table '1 fnnla onH tronf. nf. if. wifh 1U. 6u, Ull? vv^v.^ ? --I o owner looking on and greatly interest. "In about three-quarters of an hour I <? the door of the safe off and laid on its ck on the floor. " 'You certainly are a handy man with ols, eh?' 6ays the man, and then he asked 9 to look through the safe and see that cro was no money in it, which was Lite right. There wasn't any. 'You'd ,ve got nothing,'says the man. .'But u've 6avcd me a lot of bother an^troue,' he says, 'getting those papers for me time, and I want to pay you for it. ow much do you think I ought to give u?' "And I said I'd leave that to him. " 'How much do you make a dayf' he 73. "And I told him my earnings varied; I at sometimes I made nothing and some- | lies I made a good deal, but I thought I dn't average more than $20 a day. He smed to have his own Ideas about that, o, but he hauded me over a $20 note and id the work was worth it to him. "And then ho escorted me to the door. 1 nd ho didn't ask mo not to come back >r threaten nor warn nor anything. He icw that my knowledgo of his habits out money insured him from any furer visits from me, as far as that was nccrned, and ho wasted no words over He just let me out the door and didn't en say good night. "Curious things happen in my business! js, they do, sure, no doubt about it. A an may go for days and weeks and noth* g whatever happen; everybody sound ieep and you just walk in and walk out, d that's all there is to it, but when ytbing does happen It's inoro'n likely be something out of tho usual course. New York Sun. "Wonlil Lojte Lea*. It is often said that no European can idcrstand Chinese commercial methods, . re is a curious instance of the Celestial's cntnl inversion. A Chinese hotel keeper d contracted to board and lodge a visitor ' p$1i> day. As time went on ho found impossible to get his weekly account ttled. So ho offered ta maintain his (est for half a dollar a week. He SAid hs j )Uld lfl23 lesc. ? ? ?^ A Miracle. "Truly* miraculous teemed tlie reeov- I y of Mrs. Mollie holt of tliis place," rites J. <). It. Hooper, Woodford, nil., "she was so wns'eil by eouj?hH Up puss from Iht hints. Doctors :n 'flared In i1 end hi near that her fain- 1 : had watcldl hy her bed-side forty- j( 'lit hours; when, at. my urgent re- I lest Dr. King's New Discovery was C veil her, with astonishing result that iprovement began, and continued , itil she fiuafly completely recovered, d is a healty woman to-day." tiuar- J teed cure for coughs and colds, ode [ d $1.00 at P. JJ. Speed druggist. ial bottle freee. Opportunity. ' taster of human destinies am I. Fame, love and fortune oil my footstep# vail Cities and fields I walk. I penetrate leserts and seas remote, and, passing by 1 Hovel and mart and palace, soon or lat* , I knock unbidden once at every gate. ! sleeping, wake; If feasting, rise before I turn away. It is tbe hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every stat* [ortals desire and conquer every foe Save death, but those who doubt or heaitaMk ( tondemned to failure, penury and woe, Seek me in vain and uselessly lmplorfc I answer not, and I return no more. ?John J. In galls. ; Speaking From Experience. far ain't any jokin, so don't you pagk y? traps. , tuther rest in peaoe at home an cultivate the craps. * teen erlong with Longstreet, spent some lima with Lee, in peace I want ter tell yon*? satisfactory ter me. far ain't any jokin. They talks it low ao high, kit it changes its complexion when yon 1mm ?*- - ?? !-*- a- i iuu uimcis uy. t'a fine fan?in the paper*?bat when I iMthl shine )' bayonets right In front o' me I'll jut Ukl home In mine. Lin't no fun in flghtin. feller does hi* beet, Jut he always wears the plotur's o' his loved \ ones on his breaat. In then ter kiss an leave 'em, never more ter meet, ter listen through a lifotime for the unreturnin feetl far ain't any jokin. Ef it comes, it comes; la 1 reckon that I'd answer ter the roll oall 0f tho drams. Jut I ain't in any harry fer packln ap my traps. lather rest in peace at home an oaltivate the oraps. -Frank L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution Having: Company. The letter read: "My dearest Sue, Next Thursday 1 will spend with you. I won't enjoy my visit, though, If any tronble I bestow." "un, x m so gma, cnea jars, rtuxuo, "For company is such delightl" Eut looking roond her in dismay, "I most get ready right away." Armed with a dustpan and a broom, 8he went to work in every room. She oiled and polished, cleaned and rubbed And mended, scoured, washed and scrub' bed. ? Then in the kitchen she began, Whilo perspiration down her ran, At pies and paddings, cakes and bread. As if an army most be fed. 8he toiled and fretted, cooked and baked. She harried, worried, stewed and ached. When Thursday caine, she, nearly dead. Just managed to crawl out of bed. And Mrs. Company came too. They kissed and hugged like women d^ And then began tired Mrs. White To make exouses, never right: "Oh, dear, my house (then waxen clean) Is most too dirty to be seen, Bo shut your eyesl You're looking stoat. Take off your things. I'm Just worn oafc "You must excuse my cooking too. It isn't fit to offer you. ('Twas fit for kings.) Too bad you ooaft Just when I'm upside down at home!" Andthus she welcomed and distressed And spoiled the visit of her guest, Who wished she hadn't come to be A tired woman's "company." n ?Form and Firerid* . Near, bat Yet So Far. . We talked of life and death. She said, "Whichever of us two first dies Bhall come back from among tjie deed * And teach bis friend these mysteries" 6be died last night, and ell this day 1 swear that things of every kind Are trying, trying to convey Borne message to my troubled mind. 1 looked tip from my tears erewhil?. That white rose dying in the cap Was gazing at me with her smile. It blushed her blush as I looked up. ' It paled then with an agony Of effort to express me aught That would, I tliink, bring peace to a* Could I but guess, and I cannot. And when the wind rose at my doo* It clamovc.-l with a plaintive din, Like some p.?or c:vuture begging aor* To be let la. 1 let -it in. It blew my light out. Round my head It whirled and swiftly in my ear Bad whispered nomething ere it Had. It hail hei voice, so low, so dear. The looking glass this livelong day ' Has worn that curious, meaning air. I feel it when I look away I iVCHCUtiU0 bUliigo uuau u< v uwt vuv* v> For hours no breath of wind has stirred, Yet bends the lamp's flame as if fana*& The clock says o'er and o'er a word, But i?0 jodl?can't understand. ?Gertrude Hall in Independent He Writ a Book. Yonder, sir, where you se* them- high weed* grow An briers wrapt about the slab that's brok* They buried a man there 1-o-n-g time ago That writ a book. Don't eeem to me I ever heard his name, But pap, who is the .sexton here, he spoke To me one day about him. All the same, He writ a book. What was the book about? I never knew. Pap never tole me that an never took Interest in him further'n I've told you? He writ a book. Pap says, says he, "After the man was dead Strangers would come from miles away M look t that grave an lay flowers above his head Who writ a book." The years went on, an then, no more forlorn. They come with flowers an with mournfnJ look So talk about the "genius that was gone" Who writ a book. An then pap seen that 'twan't no use to haw The sweet es' roses in that lonesome nook When folks bad long stop'd visitin his grave Who writ a book. - ' - >- I? #-11.? for WI1UI d l lit." UHC, Oil | II 1UIK3 uevo. Among the many gravestones here to look For his, to plant the rosea jest bemuse tie writ a b""kf ?Frank EeU in Nashville Sua. Requirement. We live by faith, but faith is not the ?lnv? Of text and legend. Ri*a*??n a voice ud God's, Nature's and duty'a, never ure at odd9. What asks um Fathur of his children suv? Justice and mercy and humility, A reasonable service of good deeds. Pure living, tend'-ruess loiiutn.i.i needs, Rfeverence and trust and prayer tui light to at* The Muster'e footprints In our daily waytf No knotted scourge nor sacrificial knife But the calm beauty of an ordered Ufa, Whoso very breathing is unworded praise, k life that stands, as all true lives have rtaad, Firm rcoted iu the faith that God is good. -WhlUta* HOLLISTER'S locky Mountain Tea Nuggets A Busy Medicine for Busy People. Brines Golden Health and Renewed Vigor. A specific for Coastipntfon, Indigestion, Liver nil Kidney troubles. Pimples. Kczema. Impure ilood. Had Hrcath, Sluprsrish Bowels. Headache ,nd Dackache. Its Kocky Mountain Tea in tabct form, 35 cents a box. Genuine made by Iolli-ster Duuo Com pan v, Madison, Wis. OLDEN NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PEOPLE i Milford's Sasaparilla for the Blood. Every bottle guaranteed to give satieaction or your money refunded as freey as we took it. Milford's Drug Store, AN INSATIATE TilVElt. now the Mississippi sometiMe9 eats UP REAL ESTATE. Captain ttlai of Greenville Telia How ^ the Father of Waters Swallowed Several Tbonund Dollars' Worth of Ills Property In One Night. "No nse talking, the Mississippi river if | the most contrary tiling on earth," re- 7 ^ marked CaptaiD S. H. King of Greenvill^ Miss. "Duringthe civil war, it will be remembered, there was a double bend, much jn the shape of the letter S, of the river at Vicksburg. General Grant, yoe. know, wanted to change the course of the river by cutting a channel through De Soto peninsula, thus cutting off the upper bend and causing the river to flow straight across below Vicksburg and leaving the 'J town high and dry. Grant coald then have sent his gunboats by Vicksburg and escaped the shelling from the upper batteries of the Confederates north of the town. He put General McClernand and several thousand men to work at cutting this channel across the peninsula In front of the town, and they worked for some time, notwithstanding the harassment from the lower batteries of the enemy. But the contrary river wouldn't show the least desire of accepting such an artificial channel anyway. The plan was finally abandoned and Grant's gunboats had to imn hfifnrn hnth the tinner and lower batteries. Bat in 1876 the Mlfds* fiippl river, of its own accord, out its way across Do Soto peninsula below Vickaburg, but farther up than Grant's artifloial channel was started. De Soto peninsola Is now De Soto island, and the body of water in front of Yicksburg is now known as Centennial lake, taking the name from , the year that tho Centennial was held a*' ^Philadelphia This is only one of many instances showing how the Mississippi refuses to submit to the dictation of civil v engineers and bow it follows its own stab- ; born course, winding and washing ita / way here and there at its own wllL "Bv the way, the Mississippi waihed \l several thousand dollars out of my pookefe In one nlgbt about 15 years ago. At that . time I owned a row of houses which began ' almost throe blocks away from the river In Greenville, Miss. One day a government engineer said to me, 'The river will some time wash away its bank here, and your buildings will tumble In.' "Well, I laughed at hiya. The bank was 75 feet high, and, beeides, the river was quite low. One morning I awoke to 7 learn that there had been a big cave In of the river bank the nlgbt before, and^ thai a couple of my buildings had been carried _ away. I joined the crowd of people that 9 rushed to the river bank to see this destruction, and, I tell you, I never appreciated the terrible power of the Father of Waters until I witnessed this scene. While I was standing there talking with friends another big slice of land, a block In width, crumbled away and fell into the " river, carrying with it several more of my buildings. You can imagine how I felt, because I bad been drawing an income of $1,000 a month in rentals from my build* lngs. Now over half of them were a mass of debris floating down the river, and my real estate was only so much dirt in thv bottom of the channel. - ' ? "As I 6tood there watching my buildings and ground slip away into the river a citizen approached me and said, 'Captain, I'll give you $1,600 for the remainder of your property.' " 'No, I'll not take less than $2,000/ aid I. V "The words had no more than left my tongue when there was another cave in, and two more of my lots and buildingstumbled into the greedy river. The citizen then remarked to me, 'Captain, I'll give you $1,000 for your property now.' "I refused to entertain this proposition, which, of course, was a pure speculation, as no human agency could stop the cave in. Pretty soon another one of my lota and its building went into the river, and my speculative friend then offered me$80<K for the remainder of my property. By this time I had ooncluded to trust to luck and, stand all losses, and I refused to sell at any price. I now bad one lot and one building left.' During the excitement an old colored woman came up and said to me: " 'See beah, cap'n, will ye give me dem brick what's in dat cellar under yer house?' "I told her she could have the brlok. I had a pile of now brick in the cellar under 4 my only remaining house. The old colored woman gave her husband 25 cents to hire a team and wagon to haul away the brick. Now, upon my word of honor, what I am now going to Bay is true. nil lie LUU UiU UU1U1CU luau new guuv *v* ? wagon another cave in occurred, and my last house and lot, brick and cellar and all, tumbled into the river. The cave in oame so suddenly that the orowd of people standing on the bank had to flee for their lives. After the excitement bad somewhat subsided the old colored woman cxclalmed: 44 'Laws o' massy! Dete's ray brick in de bottom o' do ribber, an I done los' my quatah.' "Of course, while the old woman was out 25 cents, I was out another $1,000. During this series of cave ins that day efforts wero being made to place a long frame store building on rollers and move it to a place of safety. But before the building could be raised it began to tilt, - > and the men were compelled to desert it. \ 'Soon the storo building slid into the river j and went kercbug to the bottom of the * ohannel, as completely but of sight as If It had been 'the only pebble on the beach/ "In my opinion the Mississippi river ia all right?when it doesn't come my way. I built a nice residence in Greenville several ' * 5 ? t----.ilI flnmAH years ago ana nau a ucuumm uunu undecked lawn between the bouse and tba river, which was a block away. That lawn has long since been swallowed by the vo? raoious maw of the Mississippi, and today my residence stands on tho edge of a bank that is 75 feet high."?St. Louis GlobeDemocrat. Mediaeval Lynch Laws In Bavaria. It is curious to note that in some partfl of Bavaria a method of procedure which is called Habcrfeld trelben still prevails and it practiced by the people in case uf offenses which do not come within the pale of the ordinary law. Neither person nor property is injured. Peoplo assemble with black or masked faces in front of the offender's bouse and howl, fire rifles and boat pots mid kettles. A mock sermon Betting forth the offense of the person con* cerned is then recited in the bearing of the misdemeanant.?Notes and Queries. The expensos of Great Britain are now about ^500,000,000 yearly, or nearly $1,000 per minute, but every tick of the clock represents an inflow of a little over $16 ^ *? *? ?i? ti-ui.k ?woctii>r rtno lpnv)ti\7 an 1 1U WJ HiC J-J i itiOU uwajwi^j - -0 ?? annual surplus of about $20h000,OCfi. t -4^*????? In the spring time you renovate your house. Why Dot your body ? Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea drives out impurities, cleanses and enriches the blood and purifies the entire system, 35 cents. C. A. Milford. , j Pleape don't forget that we carry a tnoet ex? cellent line of Hosery for ladles, men, boys and glrle. Price lOo. Dargan's 6 & 10c store. We have the best line of boys' school pnd dress sboes ever shown In Abbeville. Perrln Clothing Co. I At Dargan's 6 4 10c store yon will find a do 1