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The Journalist. Man of the eager eyes and teeming bra Small is the honor that men dole to thee ; They snatch the fruitage of thy years of pain? . Devour, yet scorn, the tree. What though the treasure of thy nervous force, Thy rich vitality of mind and heart, Goes swiftly down before thy Moloch's course? Men cry, " It is not art!" #*? * * * "Only a newspaper!" Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that, it carries hence ? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy COST) Star-eyed Intelligence ? And ye, the nameless, best-beloved host! My heart recalls more than one vanished face. Struck from the rank of toilers-^arly lost, And leaving not a trace. Martyrs of news, young martyrs of the press? Princes of giving from largess of brain! One leaf of laurel, steeped in tenderness, Take ye, 0 early slain. Though in the Pantheon no niche obscure Your waning names can hold forever fast The seeds of Truth ye blew afar are sure To spring and live at last. On lonely wastes, within the swarming marts, In silent dream, in speaking deeds ol men? Quick with momentum from your deathless hearts, Your thoughts will live again. ?** ** #? To Berve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves bis kind does, first and late, A work too great for fame. ?Mary Clcmmer. LITTLE MISS JEMS. The death of little Miss Jems' mother (she died suddenly one day in early November) revealed the hitherto unsuspected fact that her incomesupposed to have been derived from an estate of her late husband's, but now proved to have been the liberal yearly allowance of a wealthy uncle of his? died with her; and little Miss Jems, after the funeral expenses were paid, found herself and her maternal grandmother (a dear old lady, with "a bee in her head," it must be confessed, but a bee that never stung) left to begin ttie world anew with but a hundred odd dollars and a small houseful of furniture. Mrs. Jems had been of an easy-going, secretive, apathetic nature, obeying implicitly the command, "Take no thought for to-morrow," and strange as it may appear, had never given even fhp slitrlit.pst. liint, nf t.hft rpn.1 st,:ite of affairs to her daughter, who was but three years of age when her father departed this life, and who, by-thebye, resembled her mother in no re~ ' "spect; and so, as may well be imagined, when the disclosure came, little Miss Jems was much surprised and confounded. She had been looked upon in her neighborhood quite in the light of an heiress, and had been wooed by " the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker," to speak poetically, and last, ?^?j3ut not least by a great deal, by the handsome young builder?just admitted to partnership with his father? who built the row of cottages in one of which the Jeinses lived. I don't mean to say that it was entirely on account of the fortune which it was thought she would inherit that t so many came a-wooing the heroine of my story. Oh, no, indeed, for her face was a fortune in itself. It was one of those pretty, child-like faces, with limpid hazel eyes, red pouting lips and pink dimpled cheeks, which one longed to kiss as soon as one saw them, and which everybody who could find the slightest pretense for so doing did kiss as soon after seeing them as possible. "Just as though I were a baby!" said little Miss Jems one day to her intimate friend, Miss Serena Sloo. " And I hate it, and I've almost made up my mind to strike the next person who attempts it." And she stamped her small foot and shook her small fist in such a cunning way that Miss Sloo, ' who was several years older than she, immediately crushed the pink cheeks f between her hands and kissed the pouting lips heartily. " Serena Sloo," said little Miss Jems, '' indignantly, "you oughtto beashamed k of yourself." And then imagine, in ji'-, addition to the pretty face, a wee ^ figure, not very slender?on the contrary, delightfully plump?with No. 1 feet and No.- 5 hands, and I'm sure you will acknowledge that your "^mind's eye" never looked on fairer picture. . "'Oh, she's a daisy!"' sang the butcher's boy while cutting a steak for Aleck Wilmartin, the young builder menuoueu auu\e; <uiu au cngiusaeu was he with the, to him, subject of ? the song that he cut the tough part of the steak twice as thick as he did the tenderloin, and as he handed it to his customer lie winked slyly, and said, "Isn't she?" Aleck frowned upon him, and left the shop in dignified silence, which went to prove that to two persons at least there was but one "daisy" in that vicinity. Little Miss Jems wept for her 't mother a month and more, though, to tell the honest truth, their affection for each other had been less strong . - * than usually exists between parent and child ; and then she dried her eyes, and sat down in her snug parlor, one bright December afternoon, to consider ways and means for the future. : v' Grandmamma was there too, in her own particularly easy rocking-chair, '> humming softly to herself, in the ^ wSiitoof flinu mlArnarl ?T Ui l/vou v*. n uivv v?]'o, a\iviu^,u nivu the flutedest of fluted rutiles, with a ball of yarn and a half-finished stock lng, which she was rapidly finishing, in her black alpaca cap. And while little Miss Jems was thinking so hard that three wrinkles were plainly discernible on her fair brow, somebody came whistling up the front steps. L- Miss Jems sprang from her seat, ran to the door, opened it, seized the whistler by the hand and drew him into the dining-room. "Grandmamma is in the parlor," she said, " and she knows nothing about the money, and, God, willing, she never shali." " Of course not, my dear," said Aleck Wilmartin, lifting her lightly and seating her upon the dining-table, to her great, vexation. " Take me down. 1, won't be treated this way, you great rude thing," she cried, crimson with ragr. " Take me down this instant." And the way she stamped her foot (she was always stamping her foot about something or other) when once more on the floor, ? *??a? A nn f Unf f I-* o Unnl /luln'f flu nff it S <% UUUUC1 mai uiv nvw utuu n?j v?i. the dainty slipper. " I want to talk with you as a woman with a man," she continued, " not as a girl chattering to a boy." Mr. Wilmartin led her with mock solemnity to a chair, and seated himself beside her. " I am all attention. Proceed, Pigeon." "Pigeon, indeed ! That's a fine way to begin. I shan't say a word until you behave yourselfand little Miss Jems turned away and gazed steadily out of the window. "Miss Jems," said her lover, " I am behaving?upon my word 1 am. And as you refuse to begin the conversar tion, I?talking ;us a man to a woman * ?assure you that there is not the slightest necessity for making any change in your way of living. This house is mine, therefore it is yours, and as soon as you can make up your mind to let me come and share it with you, the wedding ring will be ready." "And that's your idea of a man's talk to a woman!" said little Miss Jems, with scornful emphasis. "Ic?U it a man's talk to a child?a good-fornothing, helpless, silly child. And I will not live in your house, Mr. Alexander Wilmartin, which is not mine. And you shall never put a wedding ring "on the finger of a beggar. So there, now!" in affect eel terror, to the other end of the room, to return in an instant, however. " But, if it be not too presumptious on my part, may I beg your ladyship to tell me what you do intend to do ?" " I shall keep a store, sir?a candy store." " And eat up all the profits, to say i nothing of the stock, yourself?" " Alexander Wilmartin, once for all, if you will not talk sense, go home." "Violetta Jems, familiarly known ; as Pigeon, rather than. 'go home' I promise to talk sense by the hour." 1 " Well, sir, I shall keep a candy store. I don't know how to do anything else to earn money, and that's easy, 'cause it's mostly pennies that come in?though I can make change for a five-dollar bill with a little study[ ing?and as for grandmamma, she's awful smart at figures; and I've found the very store. It's two miles away from here" -catching him by the lappel of his coat, and standing on tip1 toe. "I wouldn't start business in this neighborhood fo the world?every body'd tease so; and there's lots of children there ; and I'm going to take it to-morrow ; and we'll move in a few days." " Thank you for asking my advice on the subject, Miss Jems. It was exceedingly kind of you," said the lover, with assumed sternness. " And your | grandmother, from whom you are so anxious to conceal your change of circumstances, and who comes from a ' wholesale family, as she has frequently told me herself, what will she think of this summary proceeding?" " I shall tell her, Aleck, I am doing it for fun." " Doing it for fun ? Keeping a confectionery on a very limited scale for amusement?" "Yes," replied little Miss Jems, nodding her head cheerfully and smiling brightly. "Grandmamma has heard me say over and over again I'd like to keep a candy shop. And I can soon convince her that my happiness depends on starting one at once. It would never do?her head being so queer at times?to let her know 1 am obliged to do so?" "Which you are not,'' interpolated Mr. Wilmartin. " For if I did, she'd begin, dear old soul, to prepare for the poorhouse immediately." " And wften are you going 10 marry me?" asked Aleck.l " As soon as I have proved that I can support myself; something that every girl as old as I am?seventeen last week?should be able to do." "And if you should fail?" "4 In the bright lexicon of youth there's no such word as fail,' " quoted little Miss Jems. " You are mistaken; Richelieu was mistaken; there is," persisted the lover?"on the last page of the book." " Well, then, if I fail, I'll marry you all the same. And now you may kiss me once, and then run away; for since we have decided what is best to be done, I must set about doing it without delay." " We have decided," echoed Mr. Wilmartin; and multiplying one by six, he kissed little Miss Jems accordingly, and rushed around the corner to a half finished building, before which half a dozen workmen were lounging, "a-waiting for the boss." And the store was hired and stocked, and the rooms above it furnished with part of the furniture from the cottage ?the rest was to remain there until a new tenant took possession?and everything was in apple-pie order when it was opened on Christmas eve. It had only one window, and not a very large one at that, but little Mi?s Jems had made the most of it. Cats, dogs, monkeys, elephants, horses, cows, lambs, lions, tigers?in fact, a whole menagerie of barley-sugar was installed therein, and glowed red and yellow beneath the brilliant gas jet. Sparkling glass jars filled with lemon drops, gum drops, clove drops, and all kinds of drops, and peppermint sticks, cream sticks, birch sticks, and all sorts of sticks, were ranged on the store shelves, and the counter was almost covered with brand-new tin pans containing peanut, cocoanut, walnut and cinnamon taffy, and enticing chunks of old-fashioned molasses candy, and from the ceiling hung some wreaths of Christmas green; and taken altogether, with little Miss Jems in a snowy white apron behind the money drawer, it. would have been hard to have found a more attractive small /vM^nVkli'nV.m n?*4- attfAoffl onrnjKovo oatauiiaiiiucuu 1V1 onctva n av& v? And grandmamma, seeing the great delight of her heart's treasure, was proportionally delighted, and softly murmured to herself, every five minutes: "She shall play it as long as she wants to, the dearie, and I'll help her." But just as little Miss Jems was serving her first customer?a very small boy, who bought, after long deliberation, a camel and a chicken?a carriage stopped before the door and a handsomely dressed lady descended from it and entered the store in great haste. "Are you Miss Jems?" she asked. "I am," replied Miss Jems. "I'm glad to hear it, for a nice time I've had looking for you. Your father's uncle?the gentleman from whom your mother used to receive a yearly allowance?is in the city, ana wishes to see you immediately, as he will be obliged to leave again to-night. , I am his step-daughter. Please come at once. You will not be detained for more than an hour." Little Miss Jems stared lielplessjy at her visitor a moment, then she stared helplessly around her, then she collected her scattered senses, and called, "Grandmamma!" The old lady came out of the backroom. "I must go away, granny dear, for a little while," ; she said. "Do you think you can take care of the store until I come back?" "I am sure I can," said grandmamma, proudly. j And dropping the white apron and donning her cloak and hat, away went i little Miss Jems with the step-daugh- : ter of her father's uncle. i It was two hours before she got i back, and when she stepped from the ! carriage a crowd of children, evidently 1 in the very highest glee, laughing and singing and shouting, their hands full j of paper parcels, came pouring out of l the little shop. She glanced in the win- ; dow as she opened the door; not one animal of the whole menagerie remained. She looked at the shelves when she entered; the glass jars, les? spark- | ling than when she left, were empty. Her eyes fell to the counter; not a bit 1 of taffy or old-fashioned molasses candy ( clung to the pans. ' " Why, grandmamma," she cried, ] her whole face beaming with satisfac- j tion, " what a business you have done, 1 to be sure! The money drawer must i be nearly full. And I don't believe ( you ever sold anything in all your life ( before." * 1 " Sold ?" repeated the dear old lady, 1 her smile of welcome fading. "Were 1 the things to be sold on Christmas eve, ^ my dearie, when we're only keeping ' store for fun? I hadn't it in my * heart to take the little ones' pennies. 1 'Merry Christmas,' says they, so pret- 1 tily ; and 'Help yourselves,' says I. 1 And I never see such a lot of children { as did help themselves in all my life * before." 1 "Goodness gracious sakes alive!" 1 exclaimed little Miss Jems; "what f shall I do now ? I haven't another ] dollar in .'ill the wide world 1" i " You'll have to marry me right ?ff, < Pigeon. Remember your promise," f said a manly voice; and a pair of manly 1 arms encircled her. " The wedding 1 ring is in my pocket." J T.ittlfi Miss Jems, tossing her hat in f one corner and her cloak in another, t burst into a wild lit of laughter. "Oh, 1 dear 1 I shall die?I know I shall! It's ( too?too?too funny!" she gasped. 1 " After all the trouble I had teaching 1 grandmamma the prices of things s this morning! And papa's uncle i ?such an old gruffy as he is i ?wanted me to send her to some 1 charitable institution to be taken care i of; said he'd take care )f me if I would, s I'd like to see myself, and so I told S him. ' I'd ten thousand times rather * keep'?oh, dear! oh, dear ! oh, dear ! f ?, a store,' said I. Aleck, why don't 1 you stop laughing, and why?don't? f you?make?me?stop laughing? Was { a business begun and ended in three hours?" " 'Twas short and sweet, like little ( Miss Jems," said Aleck. "I3y George ! , here's three peppermint drops left! One for you, one l'or grandmother and one for me. Keep your mouth open and shut your eyes, Pigeon."?Harpers Weekly. The Climatic Value of Forests. In a valuable paper read before an agricultural meeting at Northampton, Mass., Professor C. S. .Sargent pointed out the vast losses to the country annually by forest fires. The strongest point in his paper? on the permanent damage done by these fires?is that they "destroy not only the growing < wood, but the fertility of the soil itself." i As this is the season for legislation it to timnhr + r\ nrnoo r\n lorrialiif t.hp I necessity for revising existing enact- i ments to better secure the wasted : forest from the wholesale conflagra- j tions to which they are every vejir ex- : posed. In a recent article Professor 1 Sargent takes the ground that " forests do not produce rain; iain pro- ] duces the forest, and without a certain 1 amount of rain they cannot exist." ltainfall may not be directly produced < in large quantities by the condensa- 1 tion of atmospheric moisture caused < by the cloud-chilling forest; but the i indirect agency of the timbered land ] in augmenting the supply of rainfall i which permeates the soil and becomes 1 agriculturally beneficial is certainly 1 very considerable. The addition of a 1 single inch of rainfall to the amount : which penetrates the soil instead of 1 running off is on every acre over i twenty-two thousand five hundred 1 gallons. ] But there is another effect of forests i which is generally overlooked even by i scientists in discussing their physical i imnortance. In historic times marked A climatic changes have occurred in t Europe and America which can be ex- i plained only by the progress of con- j tinental deforesting. The able British c physicist, Admiral Smyth, in his work t on the physical geography of the Med- j iteranean basin, clearly shows that \ great climatic changes have taken j place. The effects of intense winter s cold in Italy, Greece and Asia Minor e recorded by ancient writers, he notes, 1 "have been in later ages un- 1 known." In this country it is a doubtful whether we will ever t have as cold winters as that of 1780, e when the Chesapeake bay " was frozen e solid," according to Mr. Jefferson, \ 44 from its head to the mouth of the e Potomac," and Washington's troops se- \ curely crossed on solid ice from New Jersey to Staten Island. Making due t allowance for historical inaccuracies it I seems clear that while the cold spells li of late years have been as intense as t those of 1780 and 1856 their duration t has not been so protracted. Forests, of t course, protect the soil from rapid 1 radiation of its heat, and from the d frigorific downward currents of the p great "cold waves." But they must also t materially retard the passage of these "polar waves" and serve to detain I them longer on the continent than t wrmirl ho thp on.ip were the soil cleared. 1: The removal of the forests by the h spread of civilization and conflagrations thus exposes the soil to increased e fluctuations of abnormal cold and heat h and enables the heavy masses of cold t air to roll over it with greater velocity t to the sea. "We may congratulate our- ft selves on the latter effect of soil de- h nudation, as it probably gives us win- c ters of higher mean temperature than d our ancestors had. But it is not v improbable future investigation will demonstrate that while we h thus gain "milder winters" the 1 precipitation of winter and spring is a reduced and the agricultural seasons rj open with disastrous droughts. For t it is seen that exceptionally mild h winters, like those of 1877-78,1879-80 e and 1881-82, have been marked by de- n ficiencies of winter rainfall and by widespread droughts, with forest fires and army worm invasions in the sue- y ceeding spring months, the aridity n sometimes extending far into the sum- t mer. It is to be hoped, therefore, that y during the winter the preservation of \ forests will be made a matter of more t effective and intelligent legislation t than has yet been devised.?Neio York \ Herald. I The (Jueen of "Women. ^ "When you want to get the grandest idea of a queen, you do not think of * Catherine, of Russia, or ot Anne, 01 * England, or of Marie Theresa, of Germany; but when you want to get your grandest idea of a queen you think of a the plain woman who sat opposite ^ your father at the table or walked with s him arm-in-arm down life's pathway; sometimes to the Thanksgiving ban- a quet, sometimes to the grave, but t always together, soothing your petty v griefs, correcting your childish way- t wardness, joining in your infantile t sports, listening to your evening pray- j] ers, toiling for you with needle or at j the spinning-wheel, and on cold nights t wrapping you up snug and warm. v And then, at last, on that day when r she lay in the back room dying, and e you saw her take those thin hands, t with which she toiled for you so v long, and put them together* in t a dying prayer that commended you c to the God whom she had taught v you to trust?oh, she was the queen ! $ The chariots of God went down to c fetch her; and as she went in all s, heaven rose up. You cannot think of g, Jier now without a rush of tenderness v that stirs the deep iounuauun 01 your t soul, and you feal as much a child p again as when you cried on her lap; ]j and if you could bring her back again j, to speak just once more your name as t1 tenderly as she used to speak it, you t, would be willing to throw yourself on q the ground and kiss the sod that covers s her, crying: "Mother ! mother!" Ah, ^ she was the queen ! To make one such y woman as I have described, how many t thousands would you want of those a people who go in the round of fashion jj iincl dissipation, Uisnraaiug uuu uuuj until in their monstrosities they seem to outdo the dromedary and liippopota- s nius; going as far toward disgraceful 0 apparel as they dare go, so as not to be j] arrested by the police, their behavior a s sorrow to the good and a caricature to jj tlie vicious, and an insult to that God f, who made them women and not gor- a [?ons, and tramping on down through a n frivolous, dissipated life to temporal ^ and eternal damnation.?Talmage. 0 A. T. Stewart's Superstition. " "Workmen are busy making altera- ^ ;ions in the white marble building at ^ Hroadway and Chambers street, which (| was once A. T. Stewart's downtown ^ lry goods store, says a New York let- ^ ;er. Judge Hilton could not get his ^ ;>rice for it, tliough he had vainly tried ' ;o sell it to the Herald, and he is havng it fitted up for offices. With the ^ nterior change other alterations will :ome which will blot out the memories j ?f the shrewd merchant who created a fortune in its walls. Stewart never lad a sign upon the building, but by spring it will be covered with gilded ^ lettering. "When he first built there ^ ;he lessee of the central Jot, on wtucti sl in old two-story brick structure stood, refused to sell out except at an exorbitant price, so Stewart reared his rt'hite marble walls on each side of the h lingy edifice and quietly waited until t< ;he lease had expired. The man's trade 0 ,vas killed in the meantime. I seldom F >ass the building but I seem to see cj sitting on its front step the old b tvrinkled woman who crouched there h n a wooden ljutcli year in and year g >ut, with a basket of apples by her a side. She never seemed to be less si ;han ninety years of age, and she paid si o attention to her sales of fruit, tl [\ople wondered why Stewart toler- g ite I her there, and they little dreamed T hat l.e allowed her a pension. The fi nerch int, with all his hard-headed \\ :raft, was very superstitious and be- b; ieved th H her presence brought him a uck. AVlun he niiAi .l to his uptown e1 itore the old woman, with her crutch k: md basket, was sent uptown in a car- b; iage, and resumed her watch on the tl "ront steps. One day she was miss- h< ng, and soon after it was learned that a ihe had died and had been buried at tl Stewart's expense. The schoolboys of h hat day had a wonderful reverence p] or the wrinkled beldame, for they had hi jeen told that she was a cross between " i witch and a detective and never for- p] ;ot a face which hail crossed the T * * * : - Stampede Caused by a Lost Pig. The Helena (Montana) Independent tells this humorous story: One of the wildest stampedes that ever took place from Alder Gulch, said an old-time Alder Gulcher, was caused by the simplest tiling one could imagine. It was in '64. Everything was Hush. It was nearly 2,000 miles to the nearest railroad, and settlements in between were scattering. Now, it is characteristic of human nature to sigh after the unattainable. In this particular case fresh pork was unattainable. There was plenty of bacon and pickled pork, but no fresh pork. Cariboo Tim was the only one in the camp who ever owned a pig. Tim was a visionary sort of a cuss, who was not satisfied with fifteen or twenty dollars a [lay, but was eternaliy searching through the mountains in that region for a place where he could gather up gold by the shovelful. One day Tim returned to camp to learn that his pig had escaped from its pen under his bunk. lie did not tarry an hour, but, packing all his provisions, started on the pig's trail up the mountains. Straightway 200 or 300 men desided to follow Tim, supposing that he had struck it magnifisently rich. The leader of the stampede kept track of him?one man keeping him in sight, a second keeping the first in sight, and so on until the trail stretched back half a mile; behind this came the rabble. Tim seemed to know where he was going, and kept steadily on. This but served to confirm his followers that he had already Tiade the rich find, and was returning ;o it. When night came Tim camped. His followers did likewise, a half dozen uen being detailed to take turns standng guard. Early next morning the narch was resumed. Onward went rim, unconcious of the men on his rail, for no noise was made, the lecessity of silence having been im)ressed upon all the stampeders. From :amp they passed down the range to lie Madison, and on toward Norwegian julch. Again they camped, and again vere guards stationed. The night )assed quietly. The first of the tampeders to awake in the morning irawled up the hillside to a point where le could see Cariboo Tim's camp, and, ooking over, saw that the guards were isleep and Tim gone. The guards and he remainder of the sleeping stampedts were awakened. A scene of great xcitement followed. The guards vere cursea up mix una aown ior uieir leglect, which the poor fellows took vitli meek submission. The gang now started hurriedly in he direction which Cariboo Tim had leen following on the previous day, loping to overtake him. Each man ried to get ahead of his neighbor, and he rapid time made down the mounain was remarkable. All this time Mm had gone leisurely on, his head doubtless filled with visions of roast tig. After a march of an hour or wo he sat down on a log to rest. Vhile sitting there he heard voices, 'resently through an opening in the imber he saw the blanket and grubaden brigade passing rapidly along a ialf mile away. " A stampede, by the eternal!" lie jaculated, springing to his feet and :urrying off after them, with no furher thought of his pig. After going wo or three miles he overtook the indmost of the band, and from them earned that a new gulch had been disovered, rich beyond compare; they idn't know where it was, nor who ^as leading, and didn't care, only was some fellow whom they ad been trailing for a day and half. L halt was soon called at the front, nd the stragglers, including Cariboo Mm. came up. As Tim approached he leaders, who of course knew him, ie was immediately surrounded and arnestly besought to take them to his iew diggings. " What diggings?" inquired Tim. " Why, the ones you discovered on our last trip, and that you have been tiaking for." was the reply, and they hen rdated to him how he had been patched and finally followed, together rith the subsequent circumstances of he stampede. When Tim explained he. true object of his search and pound up with "Stampede be blamed! was only looking for me losht pig!" he remarks that were made then and here were of too emphatic a nature o be appropriate for the columns of a iaper. A Story or Four Boys. The Constitution has printed many , story of denial, energy and heroism, >ut none more deserving than the tory of the Green boys. These four boys started a few years go selling newspapers. They made en cents apiece the first morning they pent to work, and for two winters hereafter they went barefooted, hrough the snow and sleet-in the freezQg dawn, on their morning rounds. * ? -- ? ?4-1% nn if/,/] O nor_ 1 roui MltJ YVIJ Uiai l/iiI-J slUtu < v,v?ain percentage of their earnings, liiich they wisely invested in Atlanta eal estate. The oldest of thein is now ighteen years of age, and the youngest welve. They have supported an inalid father and their mother all the ime, and now have property worth onsiderably over $5,000, houses from rhich the rent is $20 a month, and 200 stock in a building and loan assoiation. They have educated themelves the meanwhile, remaining from chool this year in order that they might fork the harder and build a home for heir parents that is to have a front arlor and a bay window in it. These ttle fellows have been carriers, newsoys, errand boys and apprentices about he Constitution office, and one of liem is now assistant mailing clerk, .'heir net savings from their sales and alaries, exclusive of their rents, has een $20 a week for this year. Next ear they can do better and by the ime the oldest of the brothers is of ye thev oueht to have a comfortable ittle fortune. What these boys have clone, other oys can do. The whole secret is teadiness, sobriety, industry and econmy. There are few lessons more :nportant for boys than that the mallest amount?no matter how ttle it may be?will make a great ortune if it is oDly saved and invested, nd that the smallest income?no latter how small?will make a man ^dependent if he will only live inside f it and compound his surplus. It lust have been discouraging to these oungsters when it took them a month o lay up a single dollar, and it was eroic in them when they laid this ollar up* and went barefooted over rozen ground rather than use it to uy shoes with. It is easy now, when liey are comfortably clad and housed, nd everybody about them is comfortble, and their savings amount to wenty times a week more than tiiey /ere formerly able to save in a month, 'hey have conquered life almost heore they have entered it, and if they ,-ill only keep cleanly hearts and enial souls, and broad, hearty iruulses, they will be not only rich, ut useful men.?Atlanta (Ga.) Conlitution., Governor Weed. In 1824 Mr. Seward, then a young iwyer of Auburn, was on his bridal mr, traveling in his own carriage. ?n driving up to a hotel at Niagara 'alls he found the wreck of another nrriage, the occupants of which had een seriously injured. In the crowd e noticed a tall young man, who was iving the most tender and intelligent id to the wounded. His prompt as-1 stance ;uid encouraging words made jch an impression upon Mr. Seward iat he sought the acquaintance of the nod Samaritan. The young man was huriow "Weed. They became fast iends for life, and for years, even ntil the secretary's death, stood side y side in "Whig and Republican armies i captains of the hosts. "Weed, howrer, became soonest and widest nown among the people, as was shown y an anecdote told by Mr. Seward lat, after he was chosen governor, as e was riding one day on the box with country stage-driver, it happened lat fie driver wanted to know who is passenger was. Mr. Seward rolied, giving his name, and adding that e was the governor of the State. You governor?" "Certainly," relied Mr. Seward. " I guess not; huriow Weed is the governor of this . ?mm? f SELECT SIPTINGS. In Malabar a tree called the tallow tree grows. From the seeds of it, when boiled, is procured a firm tallow which makes excellent candles. The last triumph ever held in Rome was that given to Stilicho in 404, when lie drove Alaric out of Italy, after defeating him at Potentia and Verona* The Corinthian capital first appeared in its present form about the middle of the second century B. C., upon the temple of Olympian Zeus in Athena. Miss Yates, who is trying to induce reforms concerning workingmen's food, is sustained by high authority ...t.?? "Urt ??? ? - s\A ATI wKifo WUCJJ ane art^a tuatuu^a xcu vxt muvu bread die at the end of forty days, while they thrive and flourish on bread made of wholemeal. Annually the lead mines of the world yield about 400,000 tons, and of that quantity the United States is credited with 100.000 tons. Mexico, South America generally, Canada, and Australia yield almost nothing of that metal. Spain heads the list of leadmining countries with 120,000 tons. During the second Me?senian war the oracle directed them to ask Athens for a counselor, and the Athenians sent them Tyrtajus, whom they thought could be of little use as an adviser, as he was but a poet. Tyrtseus, however, wrote songs which stimulated the Spartans to such a degree that they owed their final victory over the Messenians to him. Feng Ying "Wang was the name of the person who introduced printing into China, and in 932 A. D. advised the emperor to have the Confucian classics printed with wooden blocks engraved for the purpose. The first books were printed in a regular mannpr .inrl in nursuance of a decree in 953. The blocks were not ready until 973, when they were pi 1 on sala Though an earldom is the most ancient of English titles of nobility, the senior existing earldom of England not merged in a higher title dates only from the reign of Henry VI.; and Lord Shrewsbury has a precedence of fortythree years over Lord Derby, the second earl on the roll of peers, whose ancestor was raised to the rank which his descendant now enjoys by Henry VII. The third earldom, Huntingdon, waa created by Henry VIII; the fourth, Pembroke, by the government of Edward VI.; the lifth, Devon, by Queen Mary; the next three, Suffolk, Denbigh and Westmoreland, by James I.; the next four, Lindsey, Stamford, Winchilsea and Chesterfield, by Charles I.; the next seven, Sandwich, Essex, Carlisle, Doncaster (the title by which the Duke of Buccleuch sits in the house), Shaftesbury, Berkeley and Abingdon, by Charles II.. the next four, Scarborough, Albemarle, Coventry and Jersey, by William III.; while the last surviving earldom in the peerage of England not merged in a higher title, is that of Poulett, which dates from the reign of Queen Anne. Dost in the Air. There is scarcely a solid, however compact it may appear, -which does not contain pores, and these pores are filled with air. It is to be found in abundance in the soil; indeed were it not so, numberless worms and insects which inhabit the latter would cease to exist. The most compact mortar and walls are penetrated by it, and water in its natural state contains a large quantity of air in solution. The atmosphere was formerly believed to extend no higher than five miles above the earth's surface, but meteorological observations have since shown that it extends to a height of more than 200 miles. Owing to the force of gravity the air is much denser near the earth, and gets thinner, layer by layer, as you ascend. If then the atmosphere were possessed of color, it would be very dark just round the globe, and the tint would gradually fade into space. There is no absolutely normal composition of the air we breathe, or,. if there be, it is not at present known. It contains, however, in all cases, unless under purely artificial conditions, two essential elements, which are nearly invariable under nominal circumstances, namely oxygen and nitrogen, and two accessory elements which vary extremely in amount, but are practically never absent, namely, carbonic acid and water. Without either of the first two air could not exist, and without the last two air is scarcely found in nature. Their combination, moreover, is not a chemical union but a simple mechanical mixture. But beside these constituents the air contains an immense amount of life, and small particles derived from the whole creation. In the air may be found animalcules, spores, seeds, cells of all kinds, eggs of insects, fungi, and elements of contagion, besides formless dust, and sandy and other particles of local origin. For example, no one can travel in a railway carriage without being surrounded by dust, a large portion of which may be attracted by a magnet, consisting, as it does, in a great measure, of minute particles of iron derived from the rails. The purest air has some dust in it. There probably never fell a beam of light from the sun since the world was made which would nnt- v.oiro aVinwn pniintlMd rmmhfira nf I 11WW UUTU MUUIIM WMM ?>ww? MMM?rwaw ? ? solid particles.?Good Words. How Long: Ought a Man to Lire 1 Tburlow Weed was eighty-five years old when he died. That in America is regarded ?3 a very old age. It gave Mr. Weed distinction, as much as anything else, in his city. Comparatively speaking, Mr. Weed was an old man, but, in fact he came nearer living out the measure of his days than the majority of men. There is no valid reason why, under favorable conditions, a man should not live 100 years. All animal life is found to be constituted with a stock of vitality sufficient to run it five times the period the particular animal requires to mature. For example, the horse matures in about five years, and will be dead in about twenty-five; the dog matures in about two years, and will be dead in about ten?and so on through the list; but a man who matures in about twenty years, and ought, therefore, to live 100, is dead, on an average, at thirty-five. The failure of the rule in the case of the man doe3 not prove that the rule is not applicable in his ease, but simply that he fails to comply with the conditions of life. The lower animals come nearer complying with the conditions than man. Man wastes his stock of vitality and is bankrupt before his term is half-spent. There is nothing dearer to a man, it is said, than his life, and yet there is nothing with which he is so improvident and reckless.? Wheeling (W. Va.) Register. Where the Wool Comes From. Let us see now where the wool of the world comes from and how it is distributed. The sheep of the world are estimated at 600,000,000 head. This may be divided into fine (French , and Spanish Merino and Selesian), me- ( dium wool and long wool, each variety j having distinct characteristics and | being uniform in texture and quality, ; and rough wool (medium fine to coarse,) j but not uniform in its texture. When , we say uniform, we mean that the ' ?r?/l illoil onn I nun; liiuueiu auu tdicum^-ui <.u produce wool of constant and definite characteristics. For instance : Great Britain produces long, medium and short-stapled wool; but neither of these are known as fine wools. The fine wools are produced by the .Spanish, the Saxony, the Silesian, the French ;md the American Merinos. The roucrh wools, as (before stated, are medium fine to coarse, but not uniform, nor indeed, nearly so, in their texture. * Now, this evenness of quality, whatever the breed, is what constitutes the principle value of the wool; that is, uniformity of texture and freedom from i long hairs, or the usually detached i hairs sometimes found in the fleece i and which have been denominate i "jar"?this, in fine wool sheep 1 especially objectionable. ? Breeder f Gazette. t t It will require-an expenditure of at i least $5,(XK),000 bv the Italian govern- 1 ment to make good the damage done to i John Howard Paj ne. [The remains of t he actor, jo urnalist, playwright and diplomat, John H oward Payne, are interred at Tunis, North A. fiica. Arrangements are being perfected by W. W. Corcoran, the wealthy Washington philanthropist, to have thes? sacre d relics of the author of "Home, Sweet H ome," exhumed and transported to the Unite d States for reinterment in Oak Hill com etery, in Washington City, where a suitabh) monument will bo erected.] O sacred ship, safe o'er tho wandering foam, Bear the dear relics af. tho wandered Payne, Whose weary soul oft sigrhed for rest in vain, O'er life's wide desert forcecl afar to roam, Versed in affairs and men, no learned tome He filled, the applause of the intellect to gain, Bat, for the heart, he sang one deathless strainHomeless himself, the soaigof "Home, Sweet Home." Serving his country on a foreign shore, Death took him by the hand, and, whispering, said "Home!" and, rejoicing, forth with him he i went. His dust give, Corcoran, to be moved no more, A home in your loved City of the Dead, And carve his lyric on his monnment. ?\V. L. Shoemaker. HUMOR OF THE HAT. A maritime romance?A wedding. , Successful books?Those bound to i sell. i Protection for home industries?A lock and key on the pantry door.? ' Waterloo Observer. 1 The toothless man ought to be a 1 sweet talker, for all his words must of 1 necessity be gum drops. j Earth has nothing softer than a woman's heart, unless, perhaps, it be a tomato in the prime of life.?Lowell ( Citizen. ( A celebrated Russian painter is { going on a sketching tour to India, but j a press of other matter prevents the publication of his name.?Chicago < Tribune. , "If a two-wheeled wagon is a bicy- t cle and a three-wheeled wagon a tricy- 1 cle, what would you call a five-wheeled one?" A V-hide, of course.?Pliila- * delphia News. i The reason ?estlretics so admire the 1 i- i _ i.i .i i i. .1 ? i 1 slorK is turn- lie Uciu stuuu iur nour? uu one leg and look as though he didn't know anything and didn't want to.? Somerville Journal. It is some two hundred years since punctuation came*into use, but it will probably be two hundred more before the party who sends contributions to the local paper adopts the system.? Rockland Courier. The Rome Sentinel thinks it was not altogether inappropriate that a bald-headed man, in making a will, should devote his faculties to some wise provision that would prevent the heirs from falling out. No more the wildwood cheers our eyes With eglantine and aster, No more the kine do kick the flies That teaso them in the pastnr', No more are rural maids employed In mashes with the "utter," But well they fill the aching void With buckwheat cakes and butter. ?Rome Sentinel. *" You see, grandma, we perforate an aperture in the apex and a corresponding aperture in the base, and by applying the egg to the lips and forcibly inhaling the breath, the shell is en- c tirely discharged of its contents." . " Dear me!" exclaimed the old lady, } 'what wonderful improvements they do make. Now, in my younger days, they just made a hole in each end and sucked." A story is told of an Englishman ii who was lately obliged to travel in Ire- y land?a duty he approached with fear and trembling. His affrighted senses t: were startled on h?aring a fellow pxs- h senger in the railway carriage remark ti to another, " I'm just afther bein' over c to Kilpatrick." '"And I," replied the j, other, "am afther bein' over to Kil- 0 mary." "What murderers they are," v thought the Englishman. " And to tl think that they talk of their assassina- i, tions so publicly." But the conversa- j( tion went on: "And fhare are you goin' B now?" asked assassin No. 1. "I'm goin' tl home and then to Kilmore," was No. 2's reply. The Englishman's blood curdled. "Kilmore, is it?" added No. 1. "You'd better be comin' along wid < me to Kilumaule." It is related that * the Englishman left the train at the 1 next station. 1 " Speaking of owing men and feel- 1 ing unpleasant whenever you meet them," said Colonel Mickle, "brings 1 up a rather unpleasant remembrance 1 of a man to whom I was indebted. 1 There were numerous men in Little c Rock who had financial claims on me, 1 and whenever I met them I could not 5 help but feel a sort of shiver creep t over me, hut there was one man whom I liked to meet." " Didn't bring up c any unpleasant memory, eh?" said 8 Paxton, who owes nearly every man 11 in town. "No, sir." "Didn't shudder when you met him on the street?" 0 "No. I'd walk past him as though I 1 owned- the street." "I suppose you c knew, then, that he did not need the money?" "No, sir, for I was well aware that he did need it." " Well, n what was the cause?" "He was d blind."?ArJcansaw Traveler. n WISE WORDS. Wealth is not his that hath it, but * his that enjoys it. t To assist a fallen friend is instinctive with noble natures. ? Example is the softest and least in- r Yidious way of commanding. o The law of politeness should be bind- 1 ing at home iis well as abroad. c It would be easier to endow a fool s with intellect than to persuade him 1 that he had none. 8 No life can be utterly miserable that c is heightened by the laughter and love of one little child. B| CJ One secret of business success is c] never to misrepresent tho quality or 0] mion + itv /vf vnnr rr/ww?^ , IJUUUWVJ ^ Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom ever opens any p avenue to sorrow or remorse. That man who lives in vain, lives tli worse than vain, ire who lives to no in purpose lives to a bad purpose. H Just as stars shine out in the night, tr so there are blessed faces that look at us in our grief, though before their ni features were fading from our recollections. To tell our own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to uc communicate those with which we are .' intrusted is always treachery, and oJ treachery, for the most part, combined with folly. n( A Locomotive Sunk Out of M:ht. ^ A locomotive ran through a broken U; bridge on the Kansas Pacific railway, Kl across Kiowa Creek, several years ago, m sinking into the mud at the bottom, Sn and hits never since been heard from di though repeated efforts have been ht made by digging anil boring to recover vi so valuable a piece of property. The bottom is quicksand, but even quick?niia )i;ivo limits and it seems verv singular that the longest boring rod has failed to find any trace of the itinken engine. Hy-and-bye, the silent t" mysterious operation will drain the xc ]uicksand anil harden it into rock, and p' then, long after the Kansas Pacific road has been forgotten, and the be Kiowa creek has vanished from the m map, some future scientist will dis;over a curious ])ieee cf mechanism, ai undoubtly the work of human hands, ft lying under so'many hundred feet of i" mndstone, and will use the fact as a " jasis of calculating how many million JU fears old the human race must be. tl> ______ wi The Rise of Oleomargarine. In the census returns of 1870 oleo- Jo nargarine does not appear. Accordng to a census bulletin the amount of nade in the United States in 1880 re eached a value of nearly seven milion dollars. This indicates lively pro- Pr ifress of the infant industry during th ,he past decade in spite of the legisla;ive and other obstacles thrown in its ,vay. The ccnsus of 1890 will - doubt- . ?f ess show a far greater advance of thcr lew product in the zealous competj? , NEWS OF THE WEEK. Eastern and Middle States. A mail t packed with mail matter from New York and Boston for Western cities was destroyed by fire near Schenectady, N. Y. Among the contents of the car were 600 bags from the New York postofflce, containing about 60,000 letters. Albxandkb Jhftebbon, a colored man, fired a shotgun at a number of colored men and women who were holding a party in Brooklyn. Then he entered the house and stabbod right and left. Henry Hicks was killed by the shot; Ella Jackson, fifty years old, was stabbed to death; Anna Jackson was stabbed in eight places, and others of the party wero wounded. Jealousy was the canso of Jefferson's crime. Buffalo, N. Y., has been visited by a costly conflagration. The flames broke out in the new building occupied by the ComrAcreial Advertiser, and then sprang across the street to the new Masonio temple, tenanted upstairs by soventoen Masonic societies, while downstairs whb the large wholesale grocery bouse of Miller, Greiner & Co. The newspaper building was completely gutted and the Masonic temple was partially destroyed. The losses will aggregate about 1300,000. James Smyth <fc Co., manufacturers of ginghams and cotton goods, who have been running two large mills in Philadelphia, have failed. The firm employed over 900 hand and the rnnnini? caoacitv was 1.000 looms ind 18,000 spindlee. They did a business of 1800,000 a year. A beoeivee has been'appointed for the New fork Co-operative Dress association, started in 1881 by Miss Kate Field, with a capital stock of $250,000. The object of the association was to supply dry goods to ladies at nearly oost price. The liabilities are about ?125,000. By the explosion of Silas Mason & Son's jaw-mill boiler at Hartwellville, Mass., Mar)hall S. Mason, twenty-four yeara old, and jngineer Frederick Williams, thirty years of ige, were killed, and two other men received njuries likely to prove fatal. Chableb Banks was talking with William 3mith in front of the latter'b grocery store it Laona, N. Y., when a large icicle fell from ;he roof upon the two men. Banks waa rilled and Smith knocked senseless. Mkbbiam A. Montgomeby, about twentysight years of age, shot his two little children, George and Eva, aged respectively six md four years, at Pelham, Mass. George ivas instantly killed and Eva was probably fatally wounded. Montgomery and wife lad 'separated, and she refused to go back o him. Captain A. C. Ntrrr, cashier of the Pennlylvania State treasury, was shot and killed it Uniontown, Pa., by N. L. Dukes, a mem >er of tha Fayette county bar and memberilect of the State legislature. Two different itones are told, but the main facts in the ragedy are as follows: Nutt asked his lephew to accompany him to the hotel at phich Dukes boarded, in order that he might lave an interview with him, alleging that he md received several infamoui letters from lim. Nutt 'entered Dukes room alone, immediately a scuffle was heard, and tfutt's nephew with several others rushed n and separated the two men. While one nan was holding Dukes ht cried out, 'I'll Bhoot you." He immediately fired, and Captain Nutt foil mortally wounded. The atter's hand was upon his revolver when he ras shot, but it had not been drawn. The riends of Dukes allege that Captain Nutt legari a violent assault upon him with a cane ,s soon as he entered his room, and that hikes fired in self-defense when ho saw Nutt ach for his revolver. Both gentlemen were >f high social and political position. Dukes s thirty-three yoars of age and unmarried. Juttwas forty-iix years of age and leaves a rife and seven children. South and West. Dubinq 1882 more buildings were erected q Chicago than in any year since 1872?the ear succeeding the great fire. Jem Mice, the ex-prize fighter, arrived in be United States recently from Australia aving come on expressly for the pnrpoBe of eying conclusions with Sullivan at the-^oailed "manly art of self-defense." I,The Btrike among the potters at East Livrpool, Ohio, continues# It is a struggle to ripe out the Knights of Labor on the part of he manufacturers, and has lasted since early ist summer. Six out of seven .factories are ile. The mayor of East Liverpool has is aed a proclamation warning persons,to keep be peace. Prom Washington, Fubtheb nominations by the President: 3eorge M. Lambarton to be United States ittorney for Nebraska; W. F. Rowland, of tfew York, to be consul at Nice, and George ?. Mosher, of New Hampshire, to be consul it Sonnebarg. The Senate finance committee has reported favorably a bill proposed by the ariff commission, which provides for a complete revision of the methods of appraising ind assessing imports. If passed it will nake a reduction in the valuation of goods ubioa(tftoad,y&lor?n duties of from ten to JSSfyirtrtisiit. Pbince Abisoqawa, of Japan, and suite oHorl WTiitfl TTnnse and r>aid their re pects to the President. The President reamed the viBit in the afternoon. The President has issued an executive rder setting apart certain lands in Dakota territory for the Turtle Mountain band of Ihippewa Indians. Mb. William M. Evabts has accepted the ivitation of the joint congressional committee on the Newburg (N. Y.) centennial to eliver the oration of the day at the centenial celebration. Foreign News. While a cage was descending a mine at )ortmund, Prussia, the chain to which it ras attached broke and the cage fell, killing wenty parsons. Pbixcb Kbipothhb and forty other men ,re to be tried in Lyons, France. The irinco is charged, first, with belonging to an jsociation of Fronohmen and foreigners, he object of which is the overthrow of social irder by means of pillage and assassination; md, second, with having been the chief nover of an anarchist association in France, tnd with visiting Lyons for the purpose of irganizing a conspiracy at secret mattings. UN an average one nunurea persons art) inrched nightly in Dublin under tb? curfew ause of the repression act. Under this ause the police may stop people walking a the streets at night and compel them to ivo an account of themselves. Peace negotiations between Chili and eru havo been broken off. Westgate, the ielf-accused participant in le murder of Lord Cavendish and secretary# i i Dublin, has been discharged as a crank. | e had been brought to Ireland from Ausalia. Five or six revolutionary movements are ider way in Ecuador. A biot occurred in Denmark street, Limick, Ireland, the other night, between solera and civilians. The latter attacked the iliUiry and a frefe fight ensued, the soldiers ling their belts. The soldiers were badly uidled, owing to the numerical superiority ' their assailants. A Victoria (British Columbia) dispatch | >tes the arrival of forty Chines* women at at port and states that thirty-two of them ero sold to Chinamen who reside in the * uited States. In the courso of an investiition it was proved that the thirty-two woen who went to the American side were , nugglcd across the border disguised as Inan women. It is feared that the traffic in ? i man beings will soon be carried on at J] ictori* on a largo scale. THE WORK OF CONGRESS, leiaU. Mr. Saunders offered a preamble nnd resotion to the effect that the right to large acts of land that had been granted to railiiids had beon forfeited by the non-com iance of the corporations with the t?rm? c ' the grant, and directing the committee on '' lblic lands to ascertain what Bteps should t,' ; taken to restoro the lands so that they ay be opened for homestead settlement; ? so that it is the sense of the Senate that J o pre-emption laws should be repeated, v id all government land held for actual 01 ttlement only....The House resolution , ovidini; for a recess of Congress from De- I mber 22 to January 3 was defeated by a p itaofTtG nays to 25 yeas?The amend puts to the agricultural' bill reported by o committee were acroed to, and the bill 1 is passed. t IloUSCt A Bills were introduced nnd referred ns fol- _ ws: I3y Mr. Kiel), to place 82.ri,000 nt the A sposal of the National board of health for s, e inspection nnd protection of tho health y emigrants; by Mr. Cassidy, proposing a I ptalof the net of the legislature of Utah 1,1 inferring tho right of suffrage on women j ( he measure is intended to aid in the sup- \ ession of polygamy, and is not aimed at (_ o principle of female suffrage); by Mr. _ It/.lioover, a resolution calling pn tho see tary of war for full information as to ihe L ensures taken to fcec? re tlie arreet and trial [ H. W. Howgate. Tbire' are over 100 New Yorkers .... \ ." * * *{* <* ' Nilsson on Oscar Wilde. Mme. Nilsson, the singer, was interviewed in Chicago, and took occasion to give a pretty plain opinion of Oscar Wilde after this fashion : He ought to have been taken by the ear and taken to the boat and driven out of this country. What right has he to come here and say that everything American is all wrong? I think that your people are too goodrtotiirflrl nr tliov ntivor wrmilrl yfonrl if. iiUUUl VU Vi WiiWJ UV^ I VI TT VUilU *v? I know I shouldn't put up with his nonsense. You know in Europe he doesn't appear clad as he does here. That wouldn't be tolerated there. The ladies are taken by that lock of his on his forehead. Th'e idea of a sunflower being pretty 1 It reminds me with its yellow color of paleness and sickness. I like the lilies ; there is nothing more perfect, than the lily-of-the-valley. But that sunflower?if that is cestheticism I am not sesthetic. That craze has been the means of accumulating a mass of worthless rubbish in lots of houses. I met Oscar "Wilde in London once, where we were both guests, and he was to take me down to dinner. He commenced to talk his nonsense and pose to me as we were going to the dining-room. I said to him : " Look here, Mr. Wilde, Mine. Christine Nilsson will put up with no such stuff. This is all put on, and there is nothing in it but nonsense." Mr. Wilde said: " Thank you. You are the first sensible woman and true friend that I've met." After that he acted as a man should, and talked sensibly. Some days after he sent me a volume of his poems, appropriately mscrioeu. uui ne is not considered a poet in Europe. An Animated Calendar. Orange Bennett, colored, is an animated calendar, says the Elizabethtown (Ky.) News.' Ask him what day of the month it is, or what day of the week Christmas or Fourth of July comes on, and, without a moment's hesitation, he gives the correct answer. Any date you desire within two years he will give instantly. "What makes it so remarkable is he doesn't know one figure from another. Over 300,000 head of cattle are r azing in the Black Hills. Chicago's first Citizen. The Chicago Tribune, in closing an elaborate article on Hon. Carter II. Harrison, Mayor of that city, gives the following as Mr. Harrison's, opinion of St. Jacobs Oil: "When I first found myself suffering from the rheumatism, my leading thought naturally was to call a physician, by my neighbors all advised me to try St. Jacobs Oil, the Great German Kemedy. I procured some of it immediately, and found it excellent for that ailment." It is estimated that the liquor saloons of Chicago sell $10,000,000 worth of liquors per year. Of this amount $6,000,000 is net profit. Fob dyspepsia, indigestion, depression oi spirits and general debility, in their various forms; also as a preventive-against fever and ague and otlier intermittent fevers, the "Ferro-Phosphorated Elixir of Calisaya," made by Caswell, Hazard & Co.,'New York, and sold by all Druggists, is the best tonic; and for patients recovering from fever or other sickness it has no equal. _ Th? only natural hair renowerisCarboline, a deodorized extract of petroleum, prepared without distillation, containing no mineral or other poisons, delightfully perfumed and as clear and pure as spring water. , THAT HUSBAND OF JUNE Is three times the man ho was before he began using Wells' Health Renewer. ?1. Don't Due in the House. "Rough on Rats." Clears out rats, mice, roaches, bed-bugs. 15c. Hood's Sarsaparillais made of roota, herbs and barks. It gives tone to the stomach; makes the weak strong. Sold^by^Druggists. Waltono made easy with Lyon's Heel Stiffen ora; they keep your boots and shoes straight. That immensity of head is not always indicative of vaatness of brain is proved by the fact that a St. Louis policeman 1ms a head so large that he must have all his hats mado to order. HOOD'S SARSAPARILLA ( Uu mot success at home nover accorded to any other < proprietary medicine. It has successfully combated the strongest competition, and by its superior merit to-day commands tho largest sale and the greatest confidence wherever it has been introduced. The remarkable results in diseass so universal, and with such a variety of characteristics as catarrh, prove how effectually Hood's.Sareaparilla, acting through tho blood, reach every part of the human system. " I am under gTeat obligations to you for the benefit I have rocoived by taking only throe bottles of your valuable Sarsaparilla. Having bn?n a sufferor from catarrh for six or eight yearn, and having tried warly all the wonderful cures, sure cures, inhalers, etc., and spending nearly a hundred dollars without benofit, I accidentally tried Hood's Sarsaparilla; the discharge from my nose was greatly increased, tho first bottle I took, then it gradually became less, and in taking less than throe bottles I find mysalf bo greatly improved that I 1 write to let you know the facts. I think one or two bottles more will make a cure that I would gladly have given a hundred dollars for. Let the sufferers of Now England know that Hood's Sarsaparilla will euro catarrh." 31. A.. Abbey, Worcester, Mass. HOOD'S SARSAPARILLA. 8old by Druggists. 91; six for 85. Mado only by C. ' I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. J Pure Wood. Many families Tprido themselves on their noble j ancestry; but here, in this democratic country, wo do , not care so much about out pedigree as our health; i When the blood is out of order, disoase manifests I itself in the skin and flesh. To be restored to health take Scovill's Sarsaparilla or Blood end Livor S."rup. * Physician* speak of it in the highest terms. Dr. F.v- 1 orott, Cooper Plains, Steuben cuant7. New York, ( mentions two cases of Scrofula and Erysipjlai in which Scovill's Sarsaparilla or Hlood and Liver Syrup j effected a cure, and says: "I think it oue of the best purifiers of the day. It has met with porlect success in very caso where I have used it." a ii iiHiiii" - Bi THE GREAT GERMAN ; j REMEDY I inMnSj FOR PAIN. ; 1 iBlHnilMitHi imnHlinfllllll I Relieves and cures I RHEUMATISM, ; I S lNiTiiifllfhwMMiJI Neuralgia, ||| jPp,'^ai!nW Sciatica,Lumbago, | IffllCMflillillliaiDjI BACKACHE, iWF^ HEADACHE, TOOTH ACHE, SORE THROAT, QUINSY, SWELLINGS, MM NIWtAIVM, PRnmrannnflllnj | Soreness, Cuts, Bruises, WW" FKOSfTBITES. iJL d lUunaimnminninnHi^ j Auj ajj Ot|ior IVCliCS HC <?!l3?5? IIIHIIII",,, IHIII'" " moici nynu uriiKKin-'iiii" IfflU Dhk nmnirnmoluUimtf ! Directions In 11 l|pllllli||pF^u,|nil I languages. ,3 I ill rflflllir m Carles A. Vogelcr Co. I 11 'JJlji* JPOUH" (Sucovlfr>f? '> A. TUUIUR i CSIE8RA1ED or inty ciimioencM OIIIIM I HI 1 dimIVIM, 1 { HI SsB^ n-ic!' f"r "L'r A""a' rue DEC^MTMASmB 9 BBtm jSlsKt'i# H For Two Dollars. $ I>rmores''.* Illustrated Monthly. inltlbynll NciYMlealrrn 11ml I'nitu ihIc.m, I'l r :ln> KiSifor of flii* paper tvi!I tulie vnur mii]>? |'j crljilion. Send twenty op?:!** fur n s|ierinif>i m o|iy to \V. .IKNNINNS IMCAIOItl>T, J'ub. iniior, 17 Knnt I Itlt Street, \ew Voi'K. CONSUMPTION. 1 wau waiuu a DWIU U 1 liavo a posltlvo remedy fur tlio Obovn dlj???c; by It, . o?o thousands of cases of tha worst hind anil of Ion:; tandlng have be.m curod. ludc-d.oo Kir.WK is mv fn>tb '{ lit Ita clilcHcy, that I will tend TWO B0TTI.K3 I-'KKK, tn- 1 gother with u VAI.l'AHI.K TltKATISK oil tlds dtsmuir, ti> j any sufferer. (j 1 \ e Kxpri*?fl hii<1 1*. 0. addr<m. JDlt. T. a. ftLUCUM, ltl I'uurl at.. Sow Yor!u_ CHROLETHION "" : OLLARS AND CUFFS: 11 :i n< I.-? mi**, i)ur.il?l??, Wat or- Jj riMif, Superior to Linen, IV.per or Ollcloitl. iieiit l?y B nil. 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PIXKHAM-S BLOOD PURIFIER will eradicato every vestige of Humors from tha Blood, and givo tone and strength to the system, of man woman or child. Insist on having It. Both Che Compound and Blood Purlfler are prepared at 233 and 233 "Western Avenue, Lynn, Mara. Price of cither, $1. 6Lc bottles for $5. Sent by mail In the fora cf pills, or oflozcngea, on rocstpt of price, 91 per tax for either. Mrs. Plnkham freely answers all letters of Inquiry. Enclose Set. stamp. Bend for pamphlet. No family tthouM be without LYDIA E. FINK HUTS LITE It PILLS. Thcv oure constipation, bllioumess, and torpidity of the liver. 25 cent* per box. ay Sold by all Drugfiats."S& C) 3ronr5Vii3E'P5S5iwys?^Bm% ( HAS BEEN PROVED !? The SUREST CURE for . ? KIDNEY DBS EASES. | Docs a lame book or o disordered nriaolcdl. 11 cato that you are a -victim? TIIEIi DO MOT C ] HESITATE; uso EXDNET-WOET at onc?, ? (druggists recommend it) and it will speedily 0 overcome the dlseaao and reetoro healthy action, r It Is a SURECURBforall . f ! DISEASES of the LIVER. f ! It has epedflo action on this most important I | organ, enabling it to throw off torpidity and la- A, action, stimulating the healthy accretion of the J ! Bile, and by keeping the bowels lnfreeoondi- P | Uon, effecting its regular discharjo. 1 I Hllolos'Sct If younxctrafliwingfceai r SlVlCaoCtl let. malaria, have tho (Stills,: 3 ' are bilious, dyspeptic, or constipated, Kidney. [? i wonwuismoiynuivoaac quicii.vc'-r:. r% j la tha Sprinsr, to elconee tiio fysr-'j, every 3 ono eliould feCio i ticrotiiti cocr:o cf r I qnioC! rorcraplalstj rw.Usrto P j BadtlS;vO? yonr-:cx. tvs ??.' i". ftr.d f I nwealdcssca, KXDJrET-V/OZr 1-. ?a |cs It will net promptly cndtafc'.T. ? 2! Ether Sex. Insontiooace, refill cf uitoe, ? #1 V<W/>V /<?. * r??.w r ft**.? ?! !! r'"ni? it 2 pains. cU/i?ecdlIy to fa yrwcr. 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