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NNETTE'S CAREER. XT AMY RANDOLPf. T was snowing still, sharp prickles of whiteness in the gloomy December dusk, when Ninette Beauvoir was driven up to her cousin's house. The air was intensely cold, the houses on either aide of the street loomed up like huge phan torms, and the gas jets seemed to thrill and shiver in the wind. And the wel tome of Mrs. Berry, her cousin's house teeper, was a dead match for the weather md the wind.. "I am expected, I suppose?" said. Kinette, wondering why the woman did aot open the door a little wider. "What namet'" cautiously inquired! Etra. Berry. "Miss Beauvoir, from Atlanta, 3eorgia." "1 have heard nothing of it," said .rs. Berry, without opening the door a fraction of an inch farther. "Mr. Trebleton is at home, I suppose?" "No, Miss, he's not," still frigidly. -Iwill come in," said Ninette, trying' to swallow the sutlocating sensation inu her throat., "I will wait for him. It isi io cold, and I-I am half frozen." - a Mrs. Berry hesitated a moment, then' spened the door, ungraciously enough., "Well," she said, "I suppose you can wait in the study until he comes." She showed Ninette into the red-cur-; lained, cozy little room, .td with: Dooks, lighted by the soft ring of flame' that streamed from a shaded gas-jet,. warmed with the glow of a coral-red tire upon the hearth. And here, eurrepti-' tiously turning the keys in the secretary-1 drawers and writing-table'and taking! them out, Mrs. Berry left her. "There are the paper-weight," saidi Mrs. Berry to herself, "and the ivory: paper-cutters and the inkstand with the stag's head in bronze; but I don't be Lieve she'd take them ' While Ninette, left alone, crouched, down in the low chair before the tire and burst into tears. "Is all the North as cruel, as hard, ast frozen cold as this?" she asked herself,, with a convulsive shudder. "Oh, it would have been better to have died ofi starvation in my own sunny, golden, South I If a stray dog, there, had crept in out of the storm at night, they would, at least, have given him a bone and a kind word. But for me there is no such welcome!" When Mr. Trebleton came in at nine o'clock, he found Ninette still looking at the tire through eyes that swan like tears. "-I am Ninette Beauvoir, your cousin's child," said she, rising with varying color. , 'Happy to make your acquaintance, I am sure," said Mr. Trebleton, apparently so busy in removing his gloves that he never noticed her offered hand. " What carl I do for you, Miss Beauvoir?" Ninette looked at him with large, grave eyes. -- "Papa said, before he died," she faltcred, '-that you would give me a horne with your daughters. I have no longer a home of my own. Papa's ill ness was excensive and took all *ur means." "Quite out of the question; quite out of the question," said Mr. Trebieton, hurriedly, as he took up a poker and began beating the topmost lumps of coal en the tire. '-Perhaps you are not aware hiiss Beauvoir, that I have a large and expensive family of my own, and I couldn't think of undertaking any ad ditional expenses." Ninette listened, apparently incredu bous of her own senses. "But what am I to do?" she asked. "What do other girls do who are thnrown on their own reso'urcest'' rather curtly demanded Mr- Trebie ton, secretly wishing that the inter. C; was over. I "I don't know," said Ninette, simply. '-I am only an ignorant Southern girl. No one every told me. I supposed, of course, that I could come ad live with youl" . "'Humph!" said Mr. Trebleton. "They reach; they take in sewing: they go into atores, shops, factories. They atrice for independence." ""Cousin Trrebleton," said Ninette, 'with p quivering lip, "if I could see your wile-your daughters-they are womner like me; they-" ."I sm very sorry," said Mr. Trebleton, stoniily, "but they are out of town. There, there; don't cry. If there's any. Yning~ 'nale, im is jo see a woman marke a scene. Of course, you can stay here to. night. My housekeeper, Mrs. Berry, will take care of you. In the morning roo3 will be better'able to look taings in the face." Mrs. Berry, still, stiff and silent, con ducted Ninette to an arctic-cold bed room at the top of the house, where the very candle seemed to shiver. t' "'What's the matter now?" said Mrs. Berry. "Why are you crying?" "I am so hungry,'' sobbed Ninette, in whose nature starvation had comnpletely 5vercom~e the heroic element. "I have iad nothing to eat since eight o'clock this no'rning.". -Mrs. Berry bit her lip impatiently. "And the kitchen fire gone do - c," said she, "and not a drop of milk left I W el, Ill go down and see what I can But when she came back, poor little Ninette, who had crept into bed to get warm, was sound asleep. And the nig gardly sandwich and slice of withered cake were too late. :Mr. Trebleton took Ninette to a gen teel intelligence bureau the next day. *-"This lady," he said to her, indicat ing a stout female in black-silk behirnd a tall desk, "'fill procure decent lodgings for you, and put you in the way to em ploymnent. And, if I can be of any further service to you, pray let me 'snow." IAnd he had given her hand a 6sh.like pressure and w as gone, before she faiy comprehended that this was his way of getting rid of her. 's Poor Ninette 1 Poor lit tle tropical chid af .tihe South, how infinitely lonely the :eit at that moment, But the stout female took '!p a pen, apeneI a big book and begaa to ask juestions with bewildering brusqueness and rapidity, and Ninette soon caught ;he infection of her energy. The rest of the weeit was like the sifting scenes which Ninette remem Dered to have seen at a pantomaime,yeara knd years azo. She was hurried from piace to place in '.he great, noisy bedlam of a city.- Nobody wanted a nursery governess; the school lists were crowded to overflowing; from the stores Ninett * shrank with trembling horror, after .he had seen- the amooth, nice, oily-facec superintendents of one or two. te "I can do nothing more for you,' '*" said the stout female at length, "uuless, w I indeed, they can give you employment te at the Decoration Rooms. It won't cuot 4 anything for you to go and see!" W To the Rooms of Decorative Art Niu- . ette accordingly went. The directres was engaged. She would see the young person presently. Let her be shown into s the workroom. A great, bright, well-ventilated apart ment tilled with busy workers, some at to frames, some at tables, soma standing before easels; and one pale, middle-aged womea was drawing a design for wall- th paper on a huge sheet of coarse paper- l daisies, corn-flowers, trailing vines, all pr tangled together. pr "That is not right!" exclaimed Nin ette, involuatarily, as she watched the glow, uncertain progress of the pencil. "Let me show you how to bring that . vine out!" - - to The woman stared, but Ninette had sh caught the pencil from her hand, and, be with two or three bold strokes, altered so the whole character of the design. From th mediocre it became original; from stid- te ness it took on a wild, woodlaud grace. er "How, did yo'i do that?" asked the w; stupid, middle-aged woman in bewilder- it. ment. M - . I w; "I don't know," confessed Ninette, o crimsoning. "Bat don't you see-can't th you comprehend' It couldn't be other- sil wise? It must come out soI" - ..' . th A hand was lid lightly on her shoul- Ce der, and turning around she found her- I self looking into the calm, amused eyes . of the directress. "You are right, my child," said she, IT 4it could not be . otherwise. But it is' e not one in a thousand who would know it. Come here, I must talk with you " That half-hour in the work-room of the Decoration Society was the turning- so point of Ninette Beauvoir's life. She th Ia had found her niche in life's temple. la She could scarcelv reckon up within a her own mind the number of years that r had passed when she sat alone in the little private parlor of the Decoration at Rooms in the soft dusk of a March even ing, with the red gleam of the fire filling t the room with dreamy softness. She had grown from an impulsive child into a tall, beautiful, self-poised woman, who presided over the ramifications of the U great society with queenly dignity and well-balanced judgment. And Ninette was happy now in having discovered her le true career. se The girl entered with lights. Miss h< 'Beauvoir glanced up. le "I shall not need the light, Gretchen," se he said. "I am going home as scou as m the carriage comes for me." o1 "There is an old gentleman, Miss h; Beuvoir, to see you," said the girl, di apologetically. "I told him it was past w hours. but he said he had walked a long a distance to see you, and seemed so old al and feeble that I didn't like to refuse. .j'. him. He has a portfolio under his arm." n "Where is he, Gretchen? In the re- t ception room?" interrupted Miss Beau- n voir. "I will go to him. d A tail, stooping old man, wita scanty ah locks, threadbare clothes and gloves T mended until thsy resembled a piece of a mosaic, turned as she entered. "Do I speak," he asked, "to the head t of the establishment?" -E Miss Beauvoir inclined her head. In the dark silk dress and mantle edged a with fur she looked even order, more dignified than her years. "I am very poor," he said. "I have met with reverses in business and am I quite dependent on the exertions of my ri daughters. They have been brought up t ladies, and, consequently, are compara' cc tively helpless; but they have done a little needlework, for which they would be glad to obtain a fair price, and-" W'ir. *ireoieioni" crieii out Ninette- ri holding out both her hands-. d He flushed deeply. .1g "That is my namte," lhe said," but I pa was not aware-" - i "Have you forgotten me?" she inter- p rupted. "Little Ninette Beauvoir) pi Don't you remember that we are cousins? T My circumfstances are good," saa added' tl coloring a little. '-I receive an ex- tl cellent salary here and have money laid up. Do you think I can allow my father's -ousin to want? I have a corn-a fortable home; it shall be yours, and my t cousis' also. My carriage is at the d oor now. Lzt us go together to your home." a And Minette, in her enthusiasm, over ruled poor Mr. Trebieton's feeble objec tions. "A comfortable home" she na called it but to the poverty-stricken inhabi Itants of a tenement-ho.ise on Grand street the little brown-stone dwelling seemed a palace, with its bright open fires. its sweetness of hot-house flowers, its moss-soft carpets, dark oiled boards - and walls tinted with the softest of colors. Mr. Trebleton sat feebly down in the fr big velvet arm-chair; his pale, sickly dauhters stood beside him, embarrassed, Iyet happy in their young cousin's warm Southern welcome. "Do you mneaui," he faltered, "that we are to live here-always?" "What else could I possibly mesa?" said Ninette, kneeling to arrange tue cffee and frit on the table at his sidic. "Are you not my cousins? Where shoulad your hom be but with me?" Mr. Trebleton brushed something from his eyelashes. "Ninette," said he, faintly, "I do no. deserve this. I--I didnt treat you so, t when you came a sohitary orphaa to my house" -f "Let all that he forgotten," said Ni- ' pnette, gently. "Remember, only, thatb you are welcome, more than welcome to W my hearth and home!" ac So Stephens Trebieton and his daught- iA ters stayed on, always, in the sunny lit, at tie brown-stone house. And Ninette ta was happy, for she had. it in her po wer to bestow happiness. "Of what use is money, if not to help p others with?" said sweet Ninette. "And they are my cousins, tool" But Mr. Trebileton had not arguei thus on that snowy Decem'ber night when Ninette Beauvoir came, homeles and solitary, to him. "Lord be mercitul to me, a sinner," he breathed. '-But I never knew, until I saw it in the uncompromising light of the past, what a miserable, aeltia brut~e I was."-The Ledger. Kiderarte~ns were deisd 1M Fretl Sand practically carriel out t.y t/AYS OF THE ASTOM. !uuar Rules Laid Down for Their Tea mnts by the Great ReaI-Estate Owners. Sowe of the rules by which the :ants of the Astvrs are bound Are rioUs. For instauce, althuugi they 11 muake altuo:t auy repairs thdt a jaut suggests before the lease id ned, even though the repairs way it wore than the rental, they will t speud a ceL vin the prope-rty dur Y the existence ot the lease. A la-1 ,o rented a house in Forty-ftta -eet from the Astors was told that e could have any repairs or altera ms she wished, but no chandeliers. e had the house decorated frotu top bottom and many expensive re irs made and there was not a re )strance, but she had to supply all e chandeliers, a-. . Cost of 1,600, rself. Of COUrSe they reiain her operty, and she can take thea away 1en she moves. A curious incident is related by other tenant in F'orty-fourth strvlt. e leasea a house at a rental of ,000 for one year. When she cainei renew the lease for another year e was informed that the rent would only $1,800. She was told by aiebody who pretended to know at I.e reduction was due to a de rioration in the value of the prop y, and that the Astors did not mt more than a certain interest ii That, however, was riot true, as is learned UponL inqLiiry at the ice of the Astor estates. The clerks ere said that the reduction was due uply to the fact that during the st year they had charged a per ntage for repairs and changes. As ine was required the second year e perccutage was taken otf. Never eless, it remains the fact that the Juction was voluntary and to the unaUt unexpected. A Leopard Scare. rampore Baulealh is suffering rrom ruethiog like a leopard scare, says e indian News. 'The night before it a leopard iiade a hole in the mat ill and entered a hut in a village nile from the cutcherries. Inside e hut were sleeping a inai, his fe, two or three women, a goat, d a girl U years of age. The leoiard zed the girl by tLhc throat ard at. miipted to drag her thi ouh the hole. ing seizea by Wite thruvt the girl uld not screau. but was almuost Ifcated, but ,he hole was not biv ough to allow the gir's budy ti s out while the brute held her by e throat. The leopard thereupon go his hold on her throat aud ized her by the foot and dragged r shrough. But as soon as he had r go ais hold on her throat sh~e reamed loudly, awakening the in ates of the hut. The man ruhed it with a big stick, but the leopard Ld carried the girl otT about a hun -ed yards before the wan came up ith her. He then belabored the nimal with his stick, when the leop d let go his hold and ned into the .ngle. The girl was brought to the edicalmissionary, Dr. Morrison, but ough everytbing that surgical and edical skill could effect has been >ne she is not likely to suruive, as er wounds are of a terrible nature. his event has caused something like panic in the place. About a year to Mr. Price, the collector, with reve elephants and a party of uropeans, succeeded in killing a a-eating leop.ard that had killed out 150 people, some thirt y miles omn Ramnpore Bauleah. Wild ani als are on the increase in this dis ict, owing to the ruin of the silk id ndigo trades. Last year one 'm closed sixteen of its silk facto es. These abandoned factories are te linest nurseries in the world Ibr bras, tigers, and Leopards." News and impure Literature. A newspaper, as a faithtui histo an must record the events of each y. the good anid the bad; but it is ity of a crime against society if it 11eys "impure literature." Actirg its rightful function, the newspa r is a most powerful agency for the evention of crime and impurity. he publicity it gives to offenders in e pursuit of its duty of chronieling Le occurrences of the day, is a nmost ticient deterrent from crime arid c arid imupurity. Wickedness is raid of the llght of publicity which e ewspaper casts upon it. In the rformanle of that duty, however, newspajer is never justified in L udering to depraved tas t s. It is t excusable in prinitinrg acauidal ply because thbe people like scand al. ,is uor ally culpable lf it, publishes wtupue literature" of any kind or iany puripose. olul was the fir-st to establish an act amounrt of gold in the coiniagv, T.he Ar~tece iled quills with gold .st, sealed them and passed theui ,sn hand to hanrd as coin. eGrman yrup Myacquaintance with Boschee's arman S rup was inade about four eyears ago. I contracted a cold bhresulted in a hoarseness and ugh which disabled me from fill g my pulpit for a number of Sab .ths. After trying a physician. Lthout obtaining relief I saw the ~vertisement of your remedy atsd itained a bottle. I received quick d permanent help. I never hi te to tell ncy eperience. Rev. W. . aggtrt~ Mrtinilleii N.I e MEGREAT -uwws e.. ILOH CURE. Cure.Coughsi, I oarsrees.Sure Throat.Croup, Vhooping Luugh anid Asthma. For ? nsu-: u, it has nio rrmal ;han tur ed thousanrd n er 1 others failed ; ..-ili cure you lx taken in~ time. old Ly Driggi ts on a guran tee. For Lan e 4ker Ches, use H1 ILOH' PLATER. -~ H IlLOH'S CATARRH REMEDY Hood's jur aisCures 311.a Lizzie . trouag TIRED AND NERVOUS. I WAS IEI.PLFNr for five weeks with litalI 111:4 tit cel fee11-l "a w"P..4 ~ t - Eu Hood's Sarsaparilla and it hei, glve~i mre streugth so that I can do in M .oertr. 31y nerves also feel bet ter ail srougr. I bave a good appetite, und tie puii aind troible in my stomach have no4ut unnrro;d te :ie. Tirat awful tire.d feeling und it se-ere rough never trouble uu now." Lizzi. s::aso. Keniett SNare, l'a. Howds Ptin eurc :-i'k h'adache, billousuess, ludigestlioi, jaunlice. Try a buz, . K~-.SaLn HIS MrA"vrEEt She sat en the porch iu the sunshine As I vent down the street A woman wlose hair was silver, But whose face was blossom sweet-. Making me think of a garden Where, in spite of frast aul .moi Of bleat November weather, Late fagraut lilies gro-w. I heard t footstep behind me And a sound of a merry laub. And I kiew the heart it canie frorbL Woul be like a comfort;ug btaff In the titne and the hour of trouble, Hopeful, and brave, and stroug; One of the hearts to lean on When we think that things go wrong& I turned at the click of the 9ate latch And met his mauly look; A face like his gives me pleasure, Like the page of a pleasant buok; It told of a oradfast purpose. Of a brave and dariug will A face with a promisa in it That God grant the years fulfinL He went up the path way singing; 1 saw the womau's eyes Grow bright with a wordless welcomy As sunshine warms the sides. "Back again, sweetheart mother" He crie. and bent to kiss The iovng face that was lifted For what some mothers miss. That boy will do to depend on; I hold that tnis is true; From Ia is iui love with their mothers Our bravest heroes gre w. Earth's grandest hearts have been loying hearts Since time and earth began, And tOe boy who ikissed his mothner is e'very inch a man I -Eben E. Restord, PITH AND POINT. Opera boufe-A French duel. A tramp steamer-Tue station-house lodgmna room. A reformer is a man who is sure that his interest is tihe public interest. Pck. It is easier to restore a smashed egg. shell than to bring back confidence once The milk of human kindness would bt a good deal richer if it wasn't skimmned ao ofte.-Puck, When a ship begins to pitch the passengers all are anxious to make a home run.-Chicago Inter-Ocean. "'Why do you love me, L ave, so much?" I passionately cried. She poated, musedi, then said "BSecausel" And was satisded. -hck. MIrs. Plume-"Don't you think my new bonnet is a periect dream." Pi ue --"Yes; ad a mighty cadi one." Puck. It is curious how much faster a street ar hu-ups along wnen you are running after it than when you are riding on it. -Richmonmd Recorder. "Well," said the man who handed his last cent to the lawyer, "I suppose tura about is fair play. I broke the law and the law broke me."-Washington Star. HIow many sulden griefs would dlit Far fro n this worid of blues, 12 ail umbrellas bad to fit Tihe satae as over'sh~oesi -- Washington Ste. There are too many singers iu the choir who do not kuoiv any more about the gospel they sing than the town pump does a'>oat the taste of water.-Rlam's Horn. Willie -."Papa, someone has invented~ a magazine gaiu. Wuiat kind is that?" Paa lraeen~rvek-.'ft must be one that goes ei.? once a mnta._"- ttsburg' Bulletin. Ocne goo'l way to discourage the man who thinks he has an aptitude fur saying uany things is to call him bascs sobaris and induce him to explaia his jokes. - Somerville Journal. Mrs. Youngwife-"Toma has a dred. lul disposition I find." Mother-"What los he, doi'' Mrs. Young'wife--"Dob, wy h~e cecC gets ma. waea I do." .aca'go Inter -Ocena. "Wheie are you staying? IPll call and Isee you." "Don't. You'll only think te worse of we when you see my sur r)undn" ''O, my dear fellow, that's ipossibie, youe know."-Punch. A~ co.tlet in- appr oacia~ it co~ne, nearer To .,e oo 1ougr seeks tie ail of stealth Aumi i. xe wou Ier warjca will couquer in tae Theuc. i.s or' the oier of health. -- Nasliug ton Str Mr. Grgso-"I wonder what old General Uuiledogge cia see in that odousqy 'made-up Blaache DJpuis?" Mss Gotly-- 01 t:ie old war horse liks te aaeil of powder, I guess." Judy. H Ieriert--"If she loves him, why doesn't she marry him in spite of her auer's objectio?" Stella-"Mercy? i t it L god deal easier t3 give him up t~aa to alImit shy is ci age i"-Cicago W ita th~ color cf grieima China. AMBITION is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness. But, alas, when we are at the summit of a vain aubition we are also at the depth of real misery. We are placed where Ltue cannot itprove, buL must im pair u-s; where chance and change cannot befriend, but may betray u3; in short, by attaining all we wish, and gaining all we want, we have uilv reached a pinnacle where we have nothin.r to hope, but. everything to fear. I:N OLDEN TUIES. People overlooked the importance of pernianently beneticial effects and were satistied with transient action, but now that it is geuerellv known that Syrup of Figs will permanently cure habitual constipation, well informed people will not buy other laxatives, which act for a tirne, but liually iujure the system. The first p1rchal.e ot copper for the United States Mint wAs on Sept. 11, 1792. and comprised six pounds of ,ld copper utensils. How'e This I We offer One Hundred Dellars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarri Cure. F. J. Ca ENEY & Co., Props., Toledo. 0. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Che. ney for ihe last 15 years, and believe him per fectly honorable in all business transactions and inanc'ally able to carry out any o'ohga tion made by ther firm. WLSr & TacxUA, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. WALD.G, FINVAN & MARVIN, Wholesale a Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Ha Vs Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act in4 direc;tly upon the bioodi and raucous bur face., of the system. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Draggizsts. Testimonials free. Gloria, which is now extensively used in the manufacture of umbrellas and dress pieces, is a product of silk anid wool of line qu:dity, its high de groi: of lustre being due to the silk which it contains. Rubber Boot% vs. Rheumatism. Since the general wearing of Rubber Boots among farmers and other outdoor workers, rheumatism has very sensibly decreased. Keep your fe.-t dry and you can expose the rest of your body with les- danger. Among the vari ous kinds of Rubber Boots, the - Colchester Spading Boot " ha become the most popular of all. The great inprovement of the Spading sole gives ease and comfort in walking, pro tects the sole from injury and adds to the gen eral durability of the Boot. Be sure and see the " Colehester Spading Boot " before you purchase any other kind. A continent:il note bearing the date of the vear 1779 is chiined to be in the possession of J. N. Carter, of Athens, Ga. The bill has been in the Carter family for over a century. 'AN''ED-A YO17N -,AN WHO Tq 3ASTER iof ie shtoi!I- langn:.-t, aginiited with trhe Murronw umi and a goud pe!;aeu. Send utfer 'y letter to N. 100. OTTuM A R DIF''Z. l':Lr Row. New York. N. Y Thela doors which fromi the entrance to the houses iu Lapland are never iur thani four and a half feet hiah. Yet the Lap does not have t.> etuo when he goes inside. washing powders are strong alkalies and a, , a e.-rri~ . 'fhe pute~t :ua obtanaole is the ~est andx eneepest liobams' khieetrie suayp nas ben acimowledged tor :M4 'ear to te ttae pams:~ oj;.a1. 'i r. it rient ae.ay. The nlot lajentiva uf a naval uniform occured ln 147, whetn an order was is ued by the British adumiralty requir ing a unitorm and describing of whatit consisted. No uthet srseparilla has the merit to hoba te ctia~eOce ut ette comaarouinie s ear arter yras naes gooad Saisaparaia. it p Ce carative paa iei pea.uilua to itsel. Hood's Pilare pueiy vegetable. carefouy piepard: troto trie tie~t ingrIedierat. m.. Salt blown from the ocean during the recent hurricane has destroyed plants and trees about Niatic Conn. A sorc Taroat or Conzeii su.ffered to pro ~ress.often restults in an infurablie throat i trone - .-o .:- .~ r ra~ stnt relxer. Uncle Eph Plunkeltt or hiirabella Fails, Texas, has taught a rattle-uage to shake his tail to) musie We Cure Rupture. No matter of how long standing. WrIte for free treatise, testimonials etc., to S. J. Hollensworth & Co., Owego, ikcga Co., N. Y. Prce $1; by mail. Sl. A chestnut tree 212 feet through and 2,000 years old, statids at the foot of 31ount Etna. If a ffiet ed with .so~reeyes use Dr. Ieaae Thomap .n's l-ye.water. Druggtsts sell at!!5e. pet Duttle. National grants in *aid of education were first ujiade in the Uniited States in iErecham's Puhl inst,-a'd or sloshy mne.ral iniutei:. 5beeeham's--iu utLers. N ct. a WL Eton college, in England, was fouai ded b2y Henry VI. about 1443. Giston co~lle'ge, England for the high er educa tialn of women~l, was opiened in. CURED ME. Had Torpid Luver for la 'ears. Biliousness, Poor Digestion, Loss of A ppetite.. DEAR Sr5:-"I have been troubled with Torpid Liver fox 14 years and gone t1aon0 courses or bilious fever; many times it has been im possible for me- to do any knd ot labor. Dr. Edmer's SWAMPROOT was irt recommended to m': by Hloltoute, Blackburn .& Co., (Druaggutsi TDeatur, Ind. After tauing ur.o I;ttle I wars nncertata - citether i wasf reaily de rtng any beneint or not: after taking the sceond - otte, nowevrer, I found s4 - j~ tat my hcaith was mpro n and I continued until I had taken bot I ca~n naw coeerwuiy rec.omend Th GraHIDNEY, t.1VERI and BLADDER Curs to every one~ O whis torpaidliver. tr it ima c ompetely cured me." 1. W. CP-tSriAlk-t Jan. 1Gth, I9'a. Djecat-ur, Ind. A Druggia &,0 ents and $1.00 ae. --invaliJs' ou de to Be.ak trc..-Cuiatation fre. lDa. 1Kilmer & Co., - Binghamnton, N. Y. Dr. Kilmer's U & 0 Anointment Cuares Pilei ' TrIal Box Free,. -- At Dragglsts 60 cents, f URES WHERE Att ELSE FAiLS itizne. Soldo ry tutts. . U * - / 5T. JACOBS 011 1 TH KIN IT HAS NO EQUAL, NO SUPEI (NFLUENCE OF BALM4Y AIRS, Are They .BostiLe to the Boa Vigor or Encouraging' In the name of reason and veraci. ty. out uf what peoples have mainly come the art, the science, the power and the glory of the world? From whal* nations have we received the richest legacies of the hunan brain and soul? From the dwellers in harsh .liniates, or from those countries where, life being something beside a ceaseless struggle with the eleuients, the soul has had time tc blossom? asks a writer in Kate Field's Washington. How about all those enervated and emasculated races. anyway? How about Arabia. which preserved for ages the learning of the world? How about the entire Orient, "the originiatress, the nest of languages, the bequeather of poems?" How about the Hebrews "ancient of an. cients;" the old empires of Assyria and Persia and India, venerable mother ahd priestess? Hofl about Egypt, builder of imperishable monu Luents? Did not Palestine send forth a prophet or two under her midsummer Christmas stars? Were not a "lowing literature," a rather splendid chivalry, a Cid Cam peadar, a Cervantes sent out of Spain, and a Columbus and a Galileo out o1 Italy? The ancient Romans were a toler able active arid energeric body of men, considering the enervating climate a body with a good deal of mind to leaven it withal. Several more than average bright minds came out of other cities of the peninsula. Bay and laurel come near hiding the lilies of Florence. Greece reared herself an immortal temple or two beneath her smiling skies. Art, science, philosophy, statecraft. the matchless craft of war, power, knowledge, beauty, all the graces of living and the strength of life, the poet, the painter, the musician, the student, the philosopher, the hero, the saint, have all been cradled in the breast of the sacred south. The light of the world through a thousand windows has streamed from a bouth emn sun. Against their glorious record wha' shall we set? Russia, Norway, Sweden, Great Britain-even Ger many, the new home, but not the mother or the birthplace, of music" The sum of these and many more will not balance by a long count Lhi plendd overweight or the other By Any Uther Name. The young mna& laid his cigarettt down on the bali table while he wenl in to interview his father on the financial situation. After a few pre liminaries he said: "By the way, pop, can Ihave ate 'starmps' to-day?" --Postage stamps?" inq..uired the 'so, siu," was the Impatient re ply; "I mean 'scads.'" --Seads, my son?" inquir ed the old gentlema'i, in mild astonisnlment. "1 mean the 'tin' of course." "And what is the 'tin,' may 3 ask?" "Oh. the 'ready,' don't you know?" "N~o, 1 don't know." "Don't you know, -spondulix'?" "I can't say that I do. Who i~ "Acome ofT. pop Wat Im GuI "What stuff?" "Why the 'soap' of course?" "The soap? Axe you in aced .;f a bath?" and the father looked over Lh specs Inquiringly. "No, no." impatiently. "I iear make sugar and soap? Going te maea plaster are your" "Plaster nothing. I want the 'chink.'" "Chink? What's chink, pray?" "Why, it's 'dust.' A ny body knows tha t." "Oh, yes, excuse me. Get the brush over there." '''Tisn't that kind 1 want. IW~ 'rockse'" "Well, there's dust in rocks, isn't there?" "Won't you never catch on?" ex claimed the young man. "I wan"t the 'dui,' the -wherewithal' don't you know; the 'rhino,' the -uoodle,' plain. ordinary every da3 ciah, pop, that what I want." *Oh," exclaimed the' father in a greatly relieved tone; --her~s a quar ter," and that's alh the young man ;ut. -Free Press. -p I Iop.'.: isA'-rU.iH, .N11ES. ETC Te Trye pound, or, as nocw called; thec p :und Troy weight. was istroduced it.. E~und as a gold measuire in ?OSTAL- GIDE FORi 1893 Cnainintag all the post ofroces arrangeit al ldhabtcally, in States and Counties, with alt other matters relatinlg to pa' uthee Fftialis 'can b' ..rdered from~ B sIt~aKya, 1'. 0. k0 o.. 118--. Phiadelphia. Pa. No t-ou mani should be wi thout It.P1ricess.~)papercoverwitzamonthly; V. to clt cover w .ith mont' . A stranger in a New York restau rant th~e other day ciented excitement, bx ordermig and t-atiair fle cirloin C (auo's )(idney Culre for Dropsy Gravel, Diabetes, Bright's, heart, Urinary or Liver Diseases, Ner v ousness, &e, Cure guaranteed. 831 Ach Street, Philad'a, el a bottle, 6 for 25, ur druggist, loJo eci tieaes of eures. Try it. Theio first law degr'ee is L,.ieved to. L I e bet-e confere by the L ub~erit I of Pai, 1] 49. "Good Wives Crow Their Works," Esp SA P4 G.CUR1E OVER AL. 102 10R. ALONE THE BEST. She Remembers Her Newsboy .Fren, "There is a young man in Nobii.o Ala.," said Colonel Robert McFadhin a4 Winchester, Va., "who has cause to M member Amelie Rives, the writer, twc a year. When the now distingishe4 lady was a little girl and lived i4 tha city, she became fondly attached to * newsboy who cried out his papers every morning in the neighborhood in whicli she lived. They met one day and a friend' ship sprang up between them that has lasted to the present time. After tbA boy's stock of papers were sold in the mcrning he would call for the pretty little blue-eyed miss and they would take lung strolls down Froscute road, pluck ing the orange blossoms and the magno. lia blooms. They soon got to be fami liar figures on Governmentstreew, sA they would walk along that busy thorougn fare with the young girl's head garland with wreath, of beautiful fowers and th little boy's arins filled with vines an evergreens. Then Miss Rives moved fa away into Virginia, but she never forgo her newsboy friend, for it was her custo almost Jaily to write him, telling ho sadly :she missed the walks and strolls his joyous, sunny face and the music o his boyish laughter. I doubt if MrJ Chanter, as she now is, ever wrote love lier or more poetic or passionate sen tences than those she used to send in h letters to her newsboy sweetheart. Th boy met with a misfortune me ya ago which crippled him for e. He i poor, but his purse is twice a year re pleuished by a postoffice order from Clianler. One of these arrives in Mobil ou his birthday, which is in June, an the other on CAristmas Day."-St. Lou Republic. Women to Work the Switcheq. In Holland, where a good deal o alcoholic liquor is taken-in cons (ience perhaps of tne temptation o there being always water at hand t mix with it-men can no longer b tru-ited to work the sv.itches on th railways, acid women now fll thei places. This is a slap in the face in deed to the male sex and a great tr. tirph to the advocates of femal labor. But we have yet to see hov the thing works. The men say tha there will be looking-glasses in th switen boxes and that the wom will never leave them 1l they bav smuoothed their la.t hair and settl the bow of their last ribbon, and tha in the meantime there will be col lisions; that when left to themseiv they never have been in time for th train as passengers, and will not more punctual as pointswomen; and, Iccally, that if they hear their lover'i whitle aniwhere ini the neighbor hood they will pay very little atten iona to that of the locomotive. L these objections are not valid, co'm clude the men, "we are non Deo Do Not Be Decived witi Pretes. Eoamels mri Paints which stain the a-m, injure he ironz, a nd red. * * Th. Rising :si Stoie Polsn Is 'e-rinizan., Ooot les, Durabie, and the consumer eys for acsi or y..asa package ie.h euery p rcase. CURES RISJIN .-. BREA$T : "MTERSFRIENID"besinev mid-wife for many years, and in each cas where "Mother's Friend" * ad been used ith accoplshed wonders and relieved muc auffermng. It is the best remedy for rising the breast known, and worth the price forth alona. ns. M. M. BRUsTER, Montgomery,Al Sent by exprese, charges prepaid, on receip. of price, $.Z0 per bottle. BRADPIELD REGULATOR CO., Sld by all druggiss. A.TLANlTA.G FOR FIFTY YEARS! MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOT HING SYRUP has been used by Millions of Mothers for their children while Teething for over Fifty Years. It soothes the child. softens the -usalay anain. CUres wind colic, anat thebes reeayfordiarrivaa. Twenty-five Cents a Botise if any one douibtst wo can cure them..st BLOOD POISON 'E~'m" A SPECIALTY. c'rS u Ct'anelai bacing 4seo.0o0. When as at~ t,.m ":1 care permanentiy. P.astlis pras *4. rree. COOK REMsDY Co., ChlCado. - - R UPTUREl*? .Icchautcal Treant . Sdforg A ENTS WANTED ON SAL or commission to handle tee New Patent C' eal inic F.rasing Penni. Agent' rmaking wedl. Mo~nre rase Mfg.Cc.,1U1, ILa - uilana"?}" na"h, Luver and Bowels SRIPANS IZABI.E __ ovatheiruse. sold fl Washington, D Late Pincipal Rzaminer U.S. Pension 3yn itn last war, 15adja.aicating lain atty .b.. . eL~~ .- neptkalce m =emaamasmeare relnefr01 KIDDER'SPASTILLE &"3 Fair in the Light ecially if They Use DLIO