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rz WHAT SEED SHALL WE SOW? A wonderful thing is a seed, The one thing deathless forever! w The on? thing changeless?utterly true, Forever old and forever new. And fickle and faithless never. Plant blessings, blessings will bloom; Plant liate, and hate will grow: You can sow to-day. to-morrow will bring The blossom that proves what sort of thing Is the seed, the seed that you sow. I'EXliUV.VS WARD " I don't want to seem impertinent, ?ld fellow, but I should really like to know how you happened to do it? I should, by Jove!" (Jot married, you moan?" " Why, yes; you were old enough?" i ? rr.? Innw luittor i?h int.prrimt p#1 i ,7VkkV-4' V44* rvv%% | Larry Penrylin, knocking the ashes off his cigar. "Precisely," answered his friend; "and you see, nobody expected it of you, t>ecause you were always so certain of remaining a bachelor, and gave everybody your word for it.'' " When I said I should die a bachelor, I did not think I would live to be married," quoted Penrhyn, yet with a reilected cast in his eye to satisfy one tliat something more rational was to be expected. It was a cool night, and there was confidence burning in the coals upon the hearth, and the two men sitting beside it, with the tobacco between them, were old cronies. Time and circumstances had drifted in between them, but for this one night, at least, they were together again, and sattalkng as women are said to talk to each other of the iiidden life, but as only j men can, because of common monds, common manners and common follies. I " I really could not help it, Tom," said Penrhyn, looking hard into the fire. "It really seemed the only thing to do at the time!" It was rather a strange reason to give for so grave an event, but looking into the calm, strong face of the man ?taking into consideration the massive, intellectual brow, the firm, yet tender mouth, one might know that it could be nothing less than worthy a true and honorable gentleman, however anomalous in form. " You want to know all about it!" U /-v + o lonnrh timl <it i<wi, no siuu, nun a blowing up a fog of blue smoke around him he settled deeper in his armchair as il' the story were not a short one. "Well, to begin with, my wife is the daughter of Halstead Scot, whom you doubtless remember." Xow, indeed, did blank surprise sit upon the countenance of l'enrhyn's * friend, who did remember Halstead Scot, whose stupendous rascality and breach of trust had convulsed a city, and ol' whose miserable self-murder the world yet talked about. " I do not wonder that you are surprised that I should have married the daughter of such a man, especially as that man was not supposed to have a daughter up to the hour of his death ; but hear the story, and reserve your judgment until you get the case. " About six months previous to Scot's suicide, when his irregular practice was only being hinted at, softly, among the knowing ones, he came to my ollice one (lav ana wanted rue 10 join mm in the prosecution of some cotton claims against the government. "1 thought it rat! ?er queer that a man in his pxisition should approach me?scarcely a full-Hedged barrister? with propositions of such magnificence, but, more out of curiosity than any actual idea of taking hold of the matter, I asked for time to look into the case. y The papers were old, yellow, apparently without a flaw, and involving millions of dollars, yet I concluded that, in justice to my own clients, I could not undertake to work in the case. The next thing that came was Scot's suicide, and the papers rang with his attempted fraud, his forgery and the complaints of the people whose moneys he had held in trus and speculated away. At this poino in the unhappy man's history, my real connection with him began. ^ The morning following his death tuere came to me, through the mails, a letter reading something in this wise: " 'Larry Penriiyx?I believe you to be an honest man. I therefore give the inclosed papers into your keeping, feeling sure that the secret they contain will be safe with you, and that you will protect from all painful knowledge the being whose life they ??\ so vitally concern. (Signed), IIalstead Scot.' "Xow comes the most singular part of the story. The papers inclosed were a certificate of marriage between Ilalstead Scot and Gabrielle "Wyndham ; government bonds to the amount of ^Hk| thirty thousand dollars, registered in the name of Gabrielle Scot, and the SkIjS.^ necessary directions for finding that ^>e,<Two days later there came tome another letter, written in a cramped, old-fashioned and feminine style, from printed slip cut from some newspaptr, KjWgg and giving an account of Scot's unhappy end. The letter itself was scant of words and ceremony, and briefly K*"'/ stated that Sf-ot had informed the writer that in case of his death I was " to act as Miss Gabrielle's guardian, and Hg requesting earnestly that I would see g?; mv ward at ray earliest convenience, and this letter was signed--Patience "Fortunately for my curiosity and flfe" j the exigencies of the case, I could get away from town just at that particular ff- time, and as there really seemed no way of decently abandoning the trust without betraying the dead man's confidence, I started off at once. "It was a romantic little country place at which I found them, with mountains all around the half-hundred of ^Aitoflo flm skhiir/>h thn ctnPO t.VlO X1UUOV.O , HIV utiv utv4 V) ?**v tavern that formed the village, and near a little waterfall, that was a waterfall, not because some fellow with an eye for picturesque effect had built a dam across its course, but because there was an abrupt descent in the rock at that point, I found Miss Patience Wyndham's house. " I had fetched her letter with me, and upon sendinir it in with my name, I was immediately admitted to the presence of a stately dame, whose attire was copied from some Quaker ancestress, and whose very countenance and manner bespoke her name? P&tience. .She asked me a great many questions about Ilalstead Scot, which !I could but answer with the meager, unpleasant truths that formed my stock of knowledge respecting the man, and then it came her turn to talk. She told me that years ago, when she was bu ' eighteen, her mother died, leaving her at the head of her father's household. In one year after her father married again, and fifteen months later both he and the tipw wiffi had crone the wav of all llesh. (leaving Patience, at twenty, alone in the world, with an infant sister three I months old to care for, and an income 1 that only, with the strictest economy, I could be" made adequate to their needs, f " Well, for twenty years this woman, putting her youth and everything that is natural to it under her feet, was mother, sister, everything to Gabrielle, who grew from babyhood into a lovely girl, doing only 4 her duty' with unconscious heroism, and giving me the record as if it were something scarcely worth the telling, only that it was ! necessary to explain. "As I said before, the child grew up to be a lovely girl, fair and graceful, pure and good, and the faithful sister found all recompense now for what at first must have been all sacrifice, in 1 this only thing of kindred, blood left j "At length there came a young lawyer one summer-time to fish and hunt in that quiet country place, and before Mi?s Patience quite came to realize the sxf ),or cicf-pr_r>hilrl I uou^cjl tue iicai u U4k,vv* V,,M" i was won from her, and the couple were married. k "To make a' long story short, B this young lawyer was Halstead I Scot. Six months he spent hapI pily with his young wife, then he ft went away, and, although he wrote w her occasionally, he forbade her always K. to join him, and so the fair, frail creamy,": ture faded day by day, until the hour IF,- when her baby came struggling into K ?v Jife, and then shut her weary eyes for t ever on a world wherein she had grown so sadly tired?wherein she had learned the bitterness of unfilled graves, and death that renders not unto dust?and Patience Wyndham was once more left to till the mother's office to a worse than orphaned child. " Fifteen years passed, and, stirred by a feeling of remorse, by a remembrance of his old romance or what not, Scot came once more to the little village under the mountains. lie refused to see his daughter, and told .Miss Wyndham enough of his own career to satisfy her that it was wisest so, but the week following his visit, a pure white ninminicnt. in form nf a broken column. whs erected over his wife's grave, ami every six months during the remainder of his life there came regularly a certain sum of money to Miss Wyndham for the support of the young Cabrielle. " This was the whole of the story, as that sweet old saint told it to me, and naturally I grew extremely anxious to see the child of romance, over whom I was so singularly appointed guardian. "'The child does not know her father's history,' said Miss Patience, 'and 1 could wish she might remain always in happy ignorance of it,' and then the child came in. "She was fair-haired, slight, blueeyed, graceful, shy, with nothing of her father about her in appearance or characteristics, and after a few days 1 came home, not in love with my ward, as you suspect, but thinking her a pure, innocent child, wonderfully born of such a father, and really not dissatisfied with my guardianship. "In fact, my charge was no burden to me while Miss Patience lived, and the thirty thousand dollars made all clear for the future, I imagined, with a man's wonderful understanding of a woman's needs; and so for three years, placidly the time went on; then there came a note from Gabrielle herself, annou^ing the serious illness of her aunt, and 1 went hastily away into the country. "I found Miss Wyndham dying; her noble sands of life were almost told, and there will be few whiter robes in hp:iven than that she wears. She had no fear for herself in that passing away; only a great thought, reaching out into the future, for the young girl whom she must leave alone in a world where even her saintly eyes had seen much neither good nor true. C"I promised all that 1 could, and while the dying woman seemed to trust me, she understood better than I how little equal to the protection of a young girl's life an unmarried man can be, ;md was but half-satisfied when the final moment came. "Poor (Jabrielle was distracted: she clung to me as to a brother. I pitied her, b'it I pitied myself more, because she took no thought, ;ind I did, of the future which now loomed up before me like a terrible problem, to which the thirty thousand dollars offered not the slightest clew of solution. " "What to do with her now I did not know. I had no near female relative; I had not even the traditional old nurse to help me out of the dilemma. My business was suffering from neglect, and yet I could not leave this clinging grief-stricken girl alone and unsettled ir, thio fire* cnaf'P nf lff-r flpSfilation. m I,...., ...cv - "I finally determined to ask a widow lady, who was a distant relative of Ilalstead Scot, to take immediate charge of his daughter, but before writing to her I thought it would only be kind in me to consult my ward in the matter, and learn if there were any other arrangement possible more congenial to her own mind. "She came to the interview looking most fair and fragile in her black dress, and listened attentively to my proposition. Then the tears which lay very near to her eyes in those sad days pushed their way from under the terse-drawn eyelids, and rolled heavily over the white young cheeks, and she said, in a trembling, pitiful way: " 'Then I cannot live with you, Mr. Penrhyn?' "I had rather pronounce the death sentence in a thousand cases than to be obliged again to meet the emergency that stared out of those innocent eyes at me; but something had to be done then and there, and I had rather have tried modern strangulation in my own person than to have explained to this pure child the reasons why she might not live in my house as my sis- ; ter, when there seemed no other home ?no heart in all the world that held for her kindly feeling save mine. "So, and as I told you in the begin ning, it seemed to be the only thing to do at the time, I asked her, as gently and delicately asl could, to marry me. "It came very sudden to her, and especially so to me; but she consented, not that she was greatly (in love with me any more than I with her, but because her quiet, straightforward life had taught her none of the hollow sentimentality of pride that would have led her to question my sincerity, or the prospect of forming a connection that held no romance but only the continued society and friMirlshin of one whom her aunt had held in respect and trusted. "Immediately, and beside Miss Patience's new-made lied, blanketed with a drift of sweet syringa bells, we were married, I feeling at last content that the sainted dead would rest now quietly from her labors, if her spiri might look down upon us two made one." " And?I beg your pardon?but did it turn out well?" asked the listening friend, his cigar burned down within a hairbreadth of the blonde mustache, and smothered recklessly with a long white ash. 44 Turn out well! Why, Gabriel and I have grown to love each other to a degree that makes the slightest separation unhappiness to both. There are two babies, and?Lord love you, man, I guess it did turn out well!" and the smoking Tom tumbled the long, white ash into the gayly-painted saucer at his elbow, and murmured, somewhat cvnicaiiy : *" After all, it wjis an experiment!" Too Late. The law of heredity, by which living beings tend to repeat themselves in their descendants, is generally accepted by scientists and physicians. Some assert that not only the physical but the spiritual tn.its of parents are reproduced in their children. In the matter of health and disease there is no doubt that parents transmit their physical qualities, strength and weaknesses. One of the best-known physicians in IJoston was called, not long since, to attend the bedside of a rich man who had been suddenly taken ill. The doctor felt the patient's pulse and saw that the case was hopeless. Turning to one of the family, who stood anxiously waiting to hear his opinion, he said: "You should have sent for a physician long ago." "But we sent at once; as soon as he was taken ill." "Ah! yes," replied the physician, sadly, "but you should have sent 100 years ;igu. The physician recognized the fact that his patient, who died that day, was in reality the victim cf his ancestors' careless or criminal violation of the laws of health, years before he himself was born. The instruction given by amusement dissipates thought. Effort in all form is one of the great secrets of nature. The mind of the child should be disciplined by the effort of study, as our souls by suffering. The perfecting of the first age belongs to work, cis that of the second to sorrow. Parents may teach their children a number of things with pictures and maps, but they will not teach them to learn. A Chicago undertaker said the most costly casket he ever saw was for a widow, who left $5,000 to be spent for her funeral expenses. The casket itself cost $1,400. It was lined with black and purple velvet and had a solid gold plate, which alone cost $:J00. The florist's bill was $910. Drapings, j carriages and numerous other inci- j dental expenses made up a bill of $5,000. The game law of EngRind does not protect the English sparrow. He can 1 be killed at any time or place. In other words he is declared a nuisance j and pest. 1 A SKETCH OF CITY LIFE. MAN'S INHUMANITY AND WOMAN'S DEVOTION. A Loving Wife Killed by Her Drunken Ilun. band?How SlieSnTe11 Illin from a ."Uurdcrcr'n Ucaerved Fate. Jenny was still fresh, plump and rosy, with sweet lips and good teeth. She was one of those privileged votaries which Providence has sealed from their birth to obscure missions of sacrifice and suffering. Charles was a dissipated hanger-on of the New York press, thin, pale, badly clothed, a precocious ruin, a victim to the passion for whisky. The dirge of her sewing machine was heard from morning to night. His articles were not accepted. She had to support him. " I will save him," she thought. " I will raise him up to what he used to be." All this pity all this care, all this love, could it save him V She hoped so. lie improved in health; he stopped drinking. He recovered a little strength and courage, and then he felt like his old silf; he quitted his books and wandered through the streets. Those who only knew him in his fall felt for him less compassion than contempt. Those who knew his intelligence and learning still loved and pitied him. They had watched him descend step by step the fatal decline of alcoholism; yet still remembered how brilliant that degraded soul had once been. The neighbors usel to hear him coming home, hear the sound of blows and curses, and her cries of terror and stilled sobs. Then came silence. lie slept; she wept. .She was afraid of him, with a vague terror, but her tenderness redoubled. Then he was repentant, and she dreamed she had gained the victory, lie returned to his work, and for a month all was calm and peaceful. One morning she awoke him with a kiss. "Listen, Charles," she said, stooping over him. ' Here are $5. It is my birthday. I have saved some money. I wish you would buy me a ring." Hr> rn-in himself and went out. When lie returned it was midnight, sll hud not bought the ring; lie had pent the money, in whisky; she had never seen him in such a state. He entered without saying a word, and sat astride of a chair and stared at her with his dull eyes, .she remained without motion, her bosom was heaving, a heavy tear was gathering in her eyes, and when she looked at him it was with a look of pity, love and terror. "Have you nothing to say to me this evening, Charlie?" she said. " What shall I say?" She burst into tears. " Always the same thing," he.cried, kicking the chair to the other end of the room. " Tears, tears, I don't like tears; do you, dear?" He came up to her furiously. " I want something to fat," he said. .She placed on the table a cloth, and the remains of the poor dinner of yesterday. He sat down, took the knife and began affectedly to look at the point, turning his eyes occasionally toward her. What was passing in his mind? In that drunken brain there arose a thirst nn iwwafjJof !V?lo flocirn f A bill 1U1 I'lUV/tly (111 luroioifiuig uV/Oli V/ wv mil* " Give me some whisky," lie shrieked, rapping on the table with the handle of the knife. " I have not any, my dear," she replied. " I want some," he answered, shaking the knife in his lingers. "Where can I get it now? It is past midnight long." " I want some, 1 tell you." He rushed to the trembling woman, who sank into her chair, exclaiming: " I)o you want to kill me?" " Yes!" " Then kill me !" " Here goes then." And like a Hash the knife had entered and left her bosom. She sank with a terrible cry, hr>r h^ad drooping, her hand on the table <is if seeking instinctively to grasp something, pens, paper or books. lie rose up; a blood-stained cloud passed before his eyes, and with his hands over his face he rushed away. He desc ended the dark and dirty staircase, traversed the streets where no living soul was passing, and hurried to the river. He looked at the waters as they splashed and dashed against the piers. A chill ran through his frame. The idea of suicide frightened him; as he became sober, he became a coward; he walked up and down, talking to himself, weeping, raising his hand to heaven. Then came the thought, "Perhaps she is not dead." Then he saw again the terrible scene; the bloody knife, the 1 deeding wound, the drooping head, the outstretched arm, the glazed eyes. He was frozen with horror. He returned to the street he lived in, mechanically and unconsciously. The door was open. He mounted the stairs. Nothing on the first lloor, nothing on the second, a policeman on the third, then up to the fourth; policeman and neighbors speaking in low tones. Charles rushed through the crowd, and, J ale as death, entered the room. The body was laid on the bed, and a cloth covered the face. He flung himself on it, and, tearing away the veil, covered the brow and lips with kisses. One nf the nersons nresent laid hold of him gently and placed him in a chair. The policemen and reporters gazed on him in silence. "You must take away this poor fellow," said the coroner. Charles raised his head. "It was I," he cried; "it was I?" " Policeman," said the coroner, " do take him away, I prav." The man took him by the arm. Charles looked all around as if he were in a dream. " What are you going to do with me ?" "To take vou from this dreadful sight." " JJut?" "Do be persuaded and go," said the coroner. " We do not want you. This is enough for us." He held out a p?per which had been found on the table: "I am tired of life. I have killed myself. Forgive my leaving you alone. I love you. ".Jennie." ?Freu 11 el's Da ily. "Women in the Departments. The opening which it is expected will be afforded women under the newcivil service rules, in competing against men for positions in the government service, is causing considerable discussion, says a Washington letter. There is no department of the government in which women are not now employed, and in some of them they are found in large numbers. The practice began in the treasury about the time of the breaking out of the war, and has grown since, until probably not far from a quarter of the whole number of government clerks here are women. They comprise nearly one-third of the force of the treasury, about sev< n hundred out of twentythree hundred, and are employed in large numbers in the pension office, where there are about two hundred ; the patent ollice, postotlice, government printing ollice, and, to a small extent, in other departments and bureaus. Many are employed as copyists, and to do other simple clerical work. Some do short-hand and tvne-writiner work: some are " tr ~ o ? draughtswomen; some are department librarians, and are efficient in those positions. Women are especially proficient as counters of money, stamps, etc. Every visitor to the bureau of engraving and printing has seen the wonderful quickness of the women counters there, whose fingers fly like lightning over the bundle of bank notes and sheets of revenue stamps. Among all these are many who are as expert in their work as the men, and quite as successful?practical, business-like women, who have earned promotions by proficiency. Here and there may be found some who, combining intelligent e, experience and feminine nimbleness, have shot ahead of the men. One of the heavy items of work in the pension oflice last winter was the preparation of the answer to a resolution of inquiry by Senator Beck. One of the women made out two thousand slips a day, the average for the others, men and womer, being nine hundred a day. NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. When the New York legislature adjourned a number of important offices were left vacant, the governor's nominees having been rejected by the senate. William H. Vandebbilt has resigned the presidency of tho New York Central and Hudson River, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, and tho Michigan Central railroads, the roads with which tho interests of tho Vanderbilt family have for years been identified. Mr. Vanderbilt remains a director, and his sons were elected chairmen of the board of directors of the three compnnies. Officers of the postoffico department say with regard to proceedings recently taken to cloe the private postal companies in New York city, that the prosecution of this unlaw, ful business not only results in a loss of large revenue, but materially and in many ways interferes with the proper conduct of the United States postal business, and brings undeserved discredit upon the United State? postal administration. Investigation show? that in many cases 1 u -.iness men in New York h ivj given letters, etc., to subordinates t'j mail with money to pay postage at g )vorn;nont rates, and that such subord nitcs have given tlum to one of tie private postal companies, which would deliver thom more cheaply than the governir.eit, and have pocketed the difference between private and government rates. Many of these letters lnve been lost or delayed, and the writers, attributing such loss or delay to the United States postal authorities, have made complaint of bad service to the department. During the rerent raid on these private companies many thousands of letters, circulars, etc., were seized. Professor Henry E. Pahkep, of Dartmouth college, had his skull fractured by a falling chimney while assisting to extinguish a fire at Hanover, N. H. A six-day contest in Boston, between a man riding horses and two man on bicycles resulted in favor of tlio horsoman, who covered 921 miles against 8i9 miles for the bicyclists. Six buildings in the business portion of Tarport, Penn., were destroyed by firo. George O'Neill, sleeping in a saloon where the flames started, was burned to death. At Kingston, N. Y., on the same day, seven frame building; succumbo.l to the flameand two child ran?Rosa and D.ivid Col:o it twelve and live years old respectively?Ion their lives. Tiie ocean steamer Alaska, on her Inst voy. age from Queenstown, Ireland, to Now York, made the trip in six days,'twenty hours and forty-five minutes, the fastest time on record. Messrs. M'?odt and Sajjkey, the wellknown revivalists, have returned home after an absence abroad of eighteen months, during which they held many meetings in England and Paris. In the latter pl ico Mr. Moo?/s sermons wero translated to the large audiinces by an interpro er, and both English and French hymns were sung. The'r purpose in coming home is^to tako a re-t and they will return to England in October for a last campaign in London. The Union printers employed at the University Press, Cambridge, Mass., struck ! work, teir.g dissatisfied with the present [ rate. A compant with $2,000,000 has been organized in New York under the name of the Electric Railway company of the United States. It is proj o-ed to run railways with electricity as a motive power, and the company has acquired the patents of Thomas A. Edison and Stephen D. Field for electric railways. Neai.xy 7,(.00 canines ot high ana low degrees competed for prizes at the seventh annual exhibition of tho Westminster Kennel club in New York. An elderly lady while de(0~ating her daughter's grave in Greenwood cemetery, Biookljn, was tnken euddtLlyillaud uiea 01 heart disease. Complaint has b. ei made that many houses occupied by Chinurr.en in New York's Chinese quarto s are dei:s of iniquity, Abiding places for the moral destruction of young u hite girls, and an investigation is taking place. Casualties fiom lightnirg are occurring among the first cases reported being ono from Pleasantville, N. J. Charles Sc o'.t, n well-to-do wheelwright of that place, was instumly killid by being struck by li^h'ning while standing outside of his for^o. Scott wns sixty-one yenrs of ngc, and had held many public positions. Geobge H. Cobliss, of Rhode Island, is building the engines for the first cotton mills to bo erected in China. The New York police have been raiding the Chinese opium dens in the'city, and have made numerous arrests. By a collision on the Hudson River railroad near Peekskill, N. Y., two Western New York drovers on their way to New York with cattle were killed. Wabd McConkey was hanged at Pittsburg, Ponn., for themurdor of George A.McClure. He declared he was innocent, and met death without flinching. McConkey was one of a gang of young outlaws, and his victim was a hardware merchant of McKeesport, who^e store they had robbed, and whom they murdered while he was searching frr his stolen property in a ravine. South and West. A fight with Texan horse thieves in the Indian Territory resulted in the killing of one and the capture of two of the desperadoes. Thkee murderers were hanged the o'.h9r day, as follows : Governor Helsin (colored) at Lewisville, Ark., for the murder of another colored man ; Jchn Leo (also colored), at Gainesville, Fla., for the murder of a white man while trying to arrest mm ior stealing a horse ; ami D. F. Walker, at Trenton, Ua., for participating in the murder of a man named Hardberger, for the purpose of robbery. Jordan Blizzard, a eoloroJ man who has just died at Centreville, Ohio, is reported to have been born in Virginia in 1753, which would make his age 125 years. Mrs. Mvra Clark Gaines, who has Ion',' been prominently before the public as claim, ant for a lar^e amount of land in New Or'oanr, has obtained a final decrce in her Suit against the city for nearly $:>,0'.K),000. Most of the western part of Union City> Ind., has been dostroyei by firo. Many business lirms were wholly or partly burneJ out, and the total loss is estimated at COO. 'IVo little sisters were struck by lightning white plujiug under an umbrella in the s'reet at Winona, Minn., and instantly killed. Two brothers-John and Martin Hevcy? have been conducting a shooting gallery in Chicago. The other afternoon Martin otf>m Ari from behind a screen Just as John fired at long ran'?o, an 1 received the bullet in his heirt, dying in'taut'y. Two hund ed people in Mercer county, Wo~t Va., [.ttw'iided the fui:e:al of a man reported by tho attending physician to have ilied of chickenpox; but it was subsequently di.-c:>vored that his disease was the drcaJed smallpox. Tho situati- n tliroifhout the county is reported to have bee n appalling. All those piesent at the funeral caught the contagion, many deaths followed, and the people teller.1 phed to Wheeling for vaccine matter and nurses. M. T. Polk, Tennessee's defaulting Stale treasurer, has been released on $'1?,C00 bail, Theresa Fair, wife of United States Senator Fair, of Nevada, has begun a suit for divorce against her husband. Anna a seve re hailstorm in Denver, CoI.t the streets were cov< red to the depth of six inches with hailstones an inch iu diameter. Majok Wassan, a United States army paymaster, who alleged recently that he had been robbed of $2-1,(03 on a train near Fort Worth, Texas, has confessed that the whole transaction was a fraud to cover his short account with tho government, and has been arrested. Governor-elect Daniel, of Georgia, was inaugurated at Atlanta. TnE Washington and Western railroa 1 was sold at public sale in Alexandria, Va., for ;*4CO,COO. O ? arlitnr nf fkrt Orforrl QAAll'ttli XllUiUIilUAl, WU4I.V4 Wi ...w (.Viss.) Eagle, was f-hot and killed by De; u'y Sheriff Charl?s Butler, who was arrested. Dodok Cm*, Kan., was reported to be in the hands of a mob, supported by the mayor, and Governor Glick was called upon to place the town under martiil law. Two negroes quarreled in the stables of the fair association in Louisville, Ky., and one attempted to shoot the oiher. A third pirty i truck his arm and the pistol was discharged, the b:ill striking a mare valued at $4,(K>0, in tho neck, killing her instantly. Sitting Bull, the renowned Indian chicf, has settled near Fort Yates, Dakota, where ht will u.o into farming. Memoiual day was generally observed throughout the Southern Stntas by decorating the soldiers' graves in the cemeteries. Two Mexicans employed on a farm in Te>as quarreled, and one stabbed the othei in the region of the heart, leaving the kniff s icking in the wound. The wounded maD quickly drew the knife from his own breasl and slabbed his antagonist. Both died in o few minutes. 1 I From Washington. Consul-Genes al Mebbitt, in Tjondon, recently sent a circular lotter to the United States consuls in Ireland requesting information in regard to tlie distress prevailing in Ireland. Mr. Merritt, in a report summarizing the answers of the consuls, says that their statements, while admitting the gravity of the situation, agree that the distress at present is not exceptional, and that the published accounts to the contrary are exaggerated. In the poorer agricultural districts the condition of the peasantry is miserable. The partial failure of the potato crop in parts of Ireland has to some extent aggravated the situation. The fisheries have been unsuccessful, and the rainy autumn and winter have interfered with the work of the laborer. The pre sheets of ameliorating the condition of the people in the immediate future are most discouraging. The consuls agree that the present condition must net as a powerful stimulus to emigration. Dcrino the past term of the United States supremo court 42Z new cases wero added to the 826 on lh3 docket. Of these 1,253 cases :187 wero brought before the court and disposed of. Thb number of cases awaiting action continues to increase from year to year. The President designated John J. Knox, comptroller of the currency, to act as commissioner of internal revenue for ten days from the 10th inst. Charles Li'mah, Of Connecticut, has been appointed by President .Arthur as chief examiner of the civil service commission. D. B. Randolph Keim, who had been recommended for the position, but whoso candidacy met with much opposition from the newspapers, withdrew from the contest in a letter to the President. Foreign News. The British house of commons has again refused to allow Mr. Bradlaugh to take his feat. Mijnheer Remorg, a corn dealer of Antwerp, Belgium, has failed for $300,000. A lady whose husband is ruined by the failure committed suicide. Five socialists have been sentenced in Hamburg to terms of imprisonment varying from one to three months for circulating pamphlets slandering Prince Bismarck. At the St. Vincont de Paul penitentiary, Montreal, F. A. Leblanc, a highwayman, ns sisted by four other convicts whom ho releaFe 1 by means of skeleton keys, overpowered their guard, tiod him hand and foot and gagged him. Leblanc then undressed the ki-eper, donned his garments and took charge of his revolver. At midnight when two other keepers commenced their rounds the five despiradoes attacked them. Leblanc hold the revolver at the hoad of Convrette, one of the keepers, and demanded his surrenderThe next instant n heavy padlock in the hands of Gadbois, the second keeper, crashed into the skull of Leblanc and he fell dead. The others wero quickly overpowered and tho keepers found Rodgere, the keeper who had been bound and gagged, just in time to save him from death by strangulation. Tho in" tention of tho convicts was to liberate all the prisoners had they captured Convrette and Gadbois. IjATEb details iu relation to the burning o i the staainer Grappler are givon in a Victoria (British Columbia) dispatch, which puts the number of livo3 lost at soventy-fivo. An earthquake has ylsited tho city of Tab?eez, Persia, destroying a great miny houses and killing a large number of people. Foubtkkn hundrol striking bakers iu Vienna attacked tho Assembly rooms and tha building orcipied by tho employing bakers' association, breaking doors and windows. They also threw up barricades in tho streets, to resist the police, but were finally dispersed. An accidental explosion in the government powder maga rine at Portsmouth, England, instantly killed two persons, fatally injured f.rra mn?a onrl /*r*mnl?fftltr rlamnlicaViarl fKa building. Rewards are offered in ..ussian regiment; tP induce the soldiers to denounce any of their comrade* who nre known to be Nihilist.*. The greater part of Koniginhof, Bohemia, ft city of 7,000 inhabitants, has been burned to the ground. An entire family of white persons, with two exceptions?a boy of fourteen years, whose?retod hinnelf in a flo ir barrel, and a girl of throe year.??-.v.n in irjjr.-d rssjnily near the village of Palacios, Cubi. The murders were committed with knives used in cutting cane, by unknown pirtiei. Twelve Apaches were killed and many wounded in a battl with Mexican troops. Three of the troops were killed and five wounded. Two newspapers have been suppressed in Vienna for political reasons. The Halifax (N. S.) authorities have been scared by a rumored Fenian attack upon the cily by sea. Biudlaugh, being prevented from taking liis seat in the British house of commons will resign. Hostilities have been resumed between the Chilian and Peruvian troops. Two engagements were fought, the Chilian loss being four killed and twelve wounded, and the Peruvian loss fifty-nine killed. Mn. Gladstone will pay Lord Wolseley and .r<ord Alcester a lump sum of money for their ?srvices in Egypt instead of granting them pensions, which would descend to their heirrv A fire at Aspinwall, Panama, destroyed ten houses near the railroad station. The American exhibits in the international fisheries exhibition, London, exceed those of nil Europe. Eabl StejiCer, the lord-lieutenant of Ireland, has commuted the death sentence of Patrick Delar.oy, who pleaded cuilty to the charge of complicity in the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke. Nearly 'J00 deaths have occurred from the glAndulnr plague in Soulimania and Bagdad, and a c.u irantine has been established along tl.o Turkirh frontier. f Intelligence from Ravenna, Italy, gives particulars of a sensational m irder, of which that city has just been the scene. It appears that the editor of the newspaper Soldi dr I'Avcnir had written and published an article strongly condemning the mismanagement of a local orphan asylum. The director of the establishment took umbrage at this strong criticism and, armed with a revolver, waylaid SignorZirardini, the editor, and ahot him through the body. Signor Zirardini immediately fell, crying out, "I die willingly for justice, honor and the pood of my country." He was carried to the local hospital, where he expired shortly after admission. The crime has caused much emotion in tho city, where the murdered man was well knawn and popular. Hostilities have been opened betwoen the i Frcnch and Chinese in Tonquin. A fore.! of 4.0C0 Annamite or Chinese troops attacked ' Hanoi, the capital of Tonquin, but were repulsed by the French. At the third trial of Timothy Kelly, charge:1 with participation in the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke in Dublin, the jury found a verdict of guilty against tho prisoner, and he was sentenced to lie hanged. Mkxioan troops have had another fight j with Apaches, numbering about L'UJ. The j Indiaus were routed after a fierco battle, j having eleven killed and mr.ny wounded, < The Maxicon loss was five killed and eight ( wounded. 1 A tragedy which has caused a great sensation in Paris is reported. While a marriage < party was proceeding along tlie street on the way to the church where the ceremony was to bo performed, a rival of the bridegroom i suddonly appeared on the scene and shot ! and killed him. Tho a; s issin poisoned him J self immediately after firing tho fatal shot. ] American industrial art has secured a great f triumph in tho appointment just made of * Messrs. Tiffany & Co., of Now York, as special jewelers and gold and silversmiths to the queen of England, tho Prince and Princess of Walts, the emperor and empress i of Russia, the Grand Duke Vladimir, of Rus- r sia, and the kings of Belgium, Italy, Portu- 'J izal and Greece. i JoiEra Mullet, indictsdon the ciarge of 1 planning the murder of Juror Field in 1 Dublin, h:is beon convicted and sentenced to 1 penal servitude for life. C Advicei o incoming tho revolution in T Hayti state that G.X) fugitive inhibit; n's of t Miragaano have reached Port au Prince on t bocrl a Norwegian bnrlt. Tiny say that the j rebels bio v up a bridge at Mirrtgonnj with f dynamite, killing 230 persons and wounding 1 ^00 more. t c An Epitaph. v The following is an epitaph on a ; tombstone in Chautauqua, county, s N. Y.: i " Neuralgia worked on Mrs. Smith, a 'Till neath the sod it laid her; f She was a worthy Methodist, And served as a crusader. F " Friends came delighted at the call, In plenty of good carriages ; Death is the common lot of all, And comes more oft than marriages." c t In Cincinnati the telephone has 130 ii villages within speaking distance of v the city. j i< LIGHTNING'S DEADLY WORK. t!Ux Lives and a Large Ainoniit of Property Lost i WniLte a tremendous thunder-storm was raging the lightning sot fire to on oil tank o! the National Storage company at Communipaw, N. J., and crca'.ed a series of terrific ex. plosions, one of which resulted in the loss of six lives. Tho company's premises aro on low ground, directly on the Bhore of New York bay. They comprise about twenty acres, and upon the ;e wera twenty-six iron oil tanks, two single-story brick houses for the storage of barrels and three smaller brick buildings used respectively as tho enginehouse, machine shop and business office. The tanks we.-e of various sizes, the largest ones having a capacity of 2/5,000 barrels and the smallest a capacity ol 2,500 barrels. The largest were eighty feet in diamoter. Their foundations were oi brick, and they were constructed of that material to a height of about fifteen feet from the ground. Above that they were made of heavy boiler iron. At 3:30 ovclock in the morning, while the fitnrm wns ftt its hiiiifht. a bolt of lichtninn that illumined the surrounding country for mile* struck tank 11. The tank was full of oil, and instantly exploded with a report so loud that it broke windows in Jersey City, and w; a distinctly hoard an J felt throughout New York, Brooklyn and Elizabeth. T ;e roof of the huge tank was blown off in a thousand fragments, and a sheet of llimo 6hot up more than : 0) feot in the air. Then immense volumes of smoke poured out of the blazing tank. The explosion had so shattered the easterly side of the tank that it broke down, and the flaming oil, thus released, surrounded the neighboring tanks. The nearest of th< se, No. 7, was the next to explode. It went up with a fearful detonation and left to mark whore it had stood only a few bricks of its foundation. Its contents also spread in evory direction. The intense heat of the fire and the surging waves of burning oil rendered it almost impossible to make any vigorous efforts to extinguish the flames. When the fire department of Jersey City, for which a general alarm had been sounded, arrived the burning oil had fired the three piers of the company and six barges moored at them. The boats and two of the piers were completely dostroyed, and a long section of a pier running out to Black Tom Island was burned to cinders. After the destruction of tank 7 the flames spread to tanks 1, 2,4, i>, (!, 8 and 10. and each deafening explosion was followed by a tall tongue of flame and a dense column of smoke. The situation of the remaining tanks, most of which stood, on higher ground across tha railroad tracks, saved them. After tank 11 had exploded Watchman Edward Johnson and a number of men, among whom were several employes of the Eagle Oil refinery, began to play with such hose as they could procure upon the neighboring tanks. While they were so engaged the burning oil swept down upon tank 7, immediately in front of them. Chief Farrier directed his firemen to withdraw from the yard. The others, however, continued their efforts to master the blaze. Scarcely had the firemen reached a plnco of safety outside tho yard when the tank exploded. The oil that it contained burst through the great gaping holes in its side and swept down a decline into the bay. Most of the men who had remained had time to escape, but a group of workmen at tho east side of the tank found their retreat cut o.T. They seemed at a Iofs what to do to avoid destruction. The bay was on one side, the threatened tank on the other, and before them was the torrent of flame. A boy among them pointed toward the no t'.ieast, where the ground was clear, and then they started at a run in that direction. They had not gone more than half a dozen yards when tho tank cxi lotted with an awful crash and hurleJ its Fluttered iron sheets and its blazing oil upon them. Six were killed. Their names were John Herbert, Geor<:o Dnvios, Henry Kagler, Joseph Jenkins, Richard Conklin and William (Jurrie, a boy. All had btoa employed by tho Eaglo Refining company, whoso worke were close by, and had volunteered to assist the storage company's people in extinguishing the lire. TJjc Car's Coronation, A St. Petersburg letter to the London Daily News says: The coronation of the :zar, Alexander III., will, it is thoupb', be .be grandest and most magnificent ceremony )f this kind of the prosent century. The Russian government is spending millions tor the preparations, and t'.ie rich nobility, patricians and merchants of " white-stoned tfo.=cow" are vie'ng with each other to give lis majesty a brilliant reception. Resides ;ho festivities in the Kremlin, the great fetes for the people will I# one of the most inter;sting parts of tho coronation programme. I'he eacrmous C'hodynski Plans, where 'hey ate to come off, arc now the cere of t! c :nc st brsy preparations, dooths, tents, brrracks, aid nil other com. ponenlsof n fjrei.t Rust-inn fnir nro being erected, with stands for the spectators, and in imperial pavilion opposite to the Petroff<ky palace, from which the czar nnd tho court can purvey the entire field and the 1 populace at their amusements. It is believed that at lenst 400,000 persons will be present. Drink and food for the people will be distributed from 110 decorated railway ba?- I ijage enrs, transformed into tempcrary bars and drawn up in one long row. Every guest i eceh es an earthen wnre jug, stnmped with the imperial engle and the date of tl.e coronation, with which he can (all for h:s leer nnd mead. The Masslonnikoff factory nt Moscow has furnished 400,OX) of thi se jugs in different sizes and colors. Furthermore, every person receives two meat pies, enndies, dried fruits and cakes. Of the four huge then ivs which are being erected for tho freo perform.- n.es, two will be devoted to dramatic represe itations, one of which consir-ts of an alleg?ry, showing the tiiumph of Spring wiili svm UOllC allusions lu mu tunmuuu. :\i uie oilier two theatres paitsof Russian 1 gends, especially from the ancunt St. \ladimir series, will be performed for the ed.fica'.ion of the mouchiks. At the same time twelve combined military bands, with twelve singing companies, will perform concert* in the open air. The circus proprietor, Salamonsky, i3 also having an enormous hippodrome erected, where freo perfo:mances will take place at the crown's expense. Besides this people's festival, an entirely separate fete will be given to the Gilurd regiments assembled at Moscow. This-will take place in the Sonolinky park, some four versis from the city. In the circular square at the entrance to the park, from which sijc roads and boulevards radiate in different directions, a rotunda is being built capable of holding 3,000 persons, besides a rep.irate saloon for the court. From this central point long opon galleries will spread out in fan-shape, where the tables for 10,OX) men will be placed in the shade of the great pine trees. For three night* this part of the park will be illuminated with many colored and shaped lamps and paper lanterns, which in the darkness of the forest will afford a fairy-like spectacle. Tlie Nott Civil Set vice Rules. XHG new civil Fervite iuiuf, us &i>|iruvi'u uy "President Arthur, prohibit political assessments, i:ntl the exercise of ofHoial authority or influence to coerce the political action of any person; make it the duty of collectors, postmasters and other officers lo give such information as is needed to enable the commission to select competent examiners; divide the service into three brai ches, not including laborers or workmen, or officers required to be confirmed by the Senate: designate the employes in the Wn-hiugton departments an the classilied departmental service, the other branches of the service to be thu classified customs and the class fed postollice services; i rovide for open competitive examinations for admission to the service,limited to orthogrrfhy, penmanship, fractions, percentage, interest, discount, elements of bookkeeping, elements of the English language, and elements of the geography, history and government of the L'mted States: provide also for exi initiations for ] romotions in th? service; lix ti e standards of pjoficiency rec.uired in the several examinations; describe the steps lo be taken by r.pplici.nts to be admitted to examination: authori/6 the commission to hold examinath ns at places convenient for applicants from different States find Territories; provide for grading examined candidates in the erderof their excellence; provide that vacai.cies shall be tilled iw,. iimco wl-n irrndo liiiri est. i.ud limit sripinnl appointment to a piobntionary term if fix months, after which the prol a'.ior.ei mny be absolutely ai>i oii?t< d. I he followiii}.' aie excepted from examinalions: 'I he confidential clerk tr secretary of iny head of a department or oflice, caslneis, of collectors and of post mat-tors, superintendents of nuney order divisions in I oftolliccs, the direct custodians of money for whose fidelity another officer is under oflicial boncl, persons employed exclusively in the secret service of the government, 01 is translators, or intcrpieters, or stenogra>hers; persons whoso employment is exclu. ive'y | r )f< ssio:i!il. c hief clerl-.s, superin. endents, and eh eis of divisions ofbu;e.iu6. Yillago (iorennnents in Austria. Austria hits one good idea, and tliat s about the only one. Each village is esponsiblo for its own inhabitants. Thus, if a native of one village goes nto another and becomes a criminal, lis trial and whatever of cost he may c to the public is charged to tiie vilage to which he belongs. If lie be:omes a pauper he is sent hack to his tillage at its expense. The result of his system is a general .attempt on he part of each village to make its >eople as good as possible in self-deense, but judging from the morals of Vienna their labors have not been atended with any great degree of sueess. But the system looks good, and vith proper people to practice it upon vould doubtless be good. An alien ettling in a village is required to d-a losit with the village authorities ,bout 400 florins as a sort of security or good behavior and to indemnify he village against his becoming a niblic charge.?Nasby. Bismarck is not a good orator. lie oughs and stammers, and stops for he right word; his sentences are ivolveil, and often a foot long; but irhen he writes his native tongue, it Is iiomatic and graceful. '' ' TV"'" -i"' 1 -'T" "v THE LOST CHILI). A FATE WORSE THAN ABDUCTION. Bow Parents, by n Lack or Precaution nnri Care, nro Jtrsponalble lor the Death of Their Children. (Camden, Me., Herald.) The moral and legal responsibility of parents, in the care of their children is, fortunately, attracting the serious attention of the hotter portion of the entire country. The many instances of child-beating, oppression and other forms of cruelty which have cume to light, demand that something be don#; and it is gratifying to kn-)w that the people are becoming thoroughly aroused. Whether the cruelty be in tho form of physical violence or physical neglect matters not?tho principle in both cases is the same. The man or woman who noglects bis or her own health mnv h? nnrdnned. as the consenuences fall upon the individual alone; but tfie parent or guardian who permits the inroads of disease upon the innocent ones dependent upon him for protection, is criminally liable in the sight of God, however he may appear in the eyes of men. Thero are, however, parents that intend to cave for their children, bat, who through carele=8ne8s or the urgency of other duties, permit them to become the innocent victims of disease. Such parents mfly be guiltless of intentional wrong, but the disastrous results upon their children are just as great. Theee are truths which must be manifest to every worthy parent and especially in a vicinity whero the unknown effects of tr.e atmosphere, the wattz and the general tendency to malaria are so great. Tliore are many families in this locality who have been called upon to mourn untimely losses, even when the greatost care was exercised; but the experience of ono only will be given: It is that of the late W. 0. Thomas. The children were all most promisirg, but for some unexplained reason their health and strength seemed to gradually lessen until their friends feared they wero the victims of consumption. One by one they sickened and died, until three had departed and two of the surviving brothers wore also taken ill. Their names were Hormon and Edward. Hormon, however, seemed the stronger of the two; aDd while his younger brother wan confined to the house constantly, and to his bed much of the time, Hermon was able to be about, bat in so weak a condition that he had no desire to play. Eddie's symptoms were terrible. He found difficulty in retaining food upon his stomach; was restless and irritable, and out of his head frequently. At various times three different physicians visited him} and each ono told his friends he could not live. He finally got so low that death was only considered a matter of a few days. At that critical time his .'ldt r brothers, aroused almost to the pitch of desperation by the three deaths that had so recently occurred, and the other one staring them in the faoe, resolved to take the ca.=e into their own hands. They accordingly fliH hiv ami spoured a remedy that was then being universally used, and began giving it to him. Its effect at first was slight, but any improvement was considered a good symp- | torn. By degrees his strength returned; he was able to eat with a relish, then walk about the house; and finally he regained complete heal h and strength. The boy was so rejoiced over his recovery that, accompanied by the editor of this paper, ho went before Justice Charlos K. Miller and made oath to tl.e facts of his sickness as above related, and that he was restored to perfect health by the use of Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cnre. Now, Edward Thomas' parents, whilo they lived, undoubtedly, provided faithfully for the wants of all their children; and yet I he seeds of disease had taken deep root Their care in one direction had been counteracted by unknown carelessness in another. There love was sincere, but wholly misdirected. They 6hould have known that children are just as liable to kidney and liver diseases as grown up people ; and that the fatality of Bright's disease of the kidneys is just as great among little children as with adults. This is a serious subject. Hereditary traits: the after consequences of measles and scarlet fever, diphtheria and the passing troublos which so easily become chronic, all demand the greatest care and caution. No case of cholera infantum, measles, scarletina, or diphtheria was ever virulent while the child's kidneys and liver were healthy. It would simply be an impossibility. These important organs of the body are just forming within the child and growing with its growth; and they can be trained to strength and health as readily as the little mind can be trained to truth and uprightness. The importance of carefully watching the slightest troubles of the child, and especially those affecting the kidneys and liver, cannot be too strongly emphasized. Children respond so readily to the proper remedies and are so sensitive to disease, that it is a sin to deprive them of one at the risk of incurring the other. By a judicious treatment these essential organs can be developed so that a strong constitution, able to resist the inroads of disease through coming years, shall be the result. W hy We Are Right-Handed. A suggestive paper in the Popular Science Monthly is J)r. AV. C. Cahall's on a subject in which every one must feel an interest, " Why Are We Iliglithanued?" 2sTo post-mortem examinations have been made to clear up one of his points?whether a certain arrangement of blood vessels and the use of the left hand do occur in the same individu.il?but as to righthandedness he makes some convincing statements. In the first place the brain is divided into two hemispheres, and the nerve force and nerve fibers which produce muscular action on the one side of the body have their origin in the opposite hemisphere of the brain. From the earliest period the left hemisphere has been larger and heavier than its counterpart, and the convolutions of gray matter have been more numerous on this side than on the right. This superior development he attributes to a peculiar arrangement of the blood vessels, by means of which 1 a greater blood supply is distributed to Kroin onKi'fonnn nf liia cula rPl?of L/iaxu qiu/oiauvu vl uiu?j oiuv* xuuu arrangement is the manner of origin of the right and left common carotid arteries, the right being a branch of the innominate artery, while the left springs directly from the aorta. Dr. Caliall then proceeds as follows to further show that we are right-handed because, as might be said, " we are left-headed:" " This directness of communication, in addition to a larger caliber of the left carotid, gives the left hemisphere a decided advantage in the race of development. To reverse these statements we would have: As a consequence of the greater capacity of the left carotid the left hemisphere of the brain has a greater blood-supply; as a consequence, there is a greater developI ?i. _ * ii.^ i i. ? ^ j? i, 4. ^ in em, ut uie xeio iieimapiiuie <w tu weight, bulk and number of convolutions; as a consequence, when there is need of muscular action the child naturally uses those muscles which possess the more powerful nerve-supply, for muscles are only strong in proportion to their nerve-supply; as a consequence, the nervous energy is dispatched, in those cases where they can be a choice, from the left hemisphere; as a consequence, the right hand and the right leg will be more likely use d, since this side of the body is innervated by the left hemisphere. Thus, predisposition primarily, and use afterward, influencing and strengthening each other, fix upon a habit almost unchangeable?how firmly, let those whoever attempted to break the habit in a lefthanded boy testify. But this leads to another question. Why are there lefthanded people? Before we answer this question we will again look at the diagram. We have seen that, as the aorta rises from the heart, it arches from right to left; and the first large artery it gives off is the innominate, which in turn is divided into the right common carotid and right subclavian arteries. Further on we find the left common carotid and the left subclavian arteries arising separately from the aorta. Now, in making their dissections, anatomists have found that in a certain proportion of their subjects the aorta arches from left to right, in which case the innominate is on the left side and the common carotic and subclavian separate on the right. This arrangement would favor the growth of the right hemisphere and would predispose to the use of the left hand." HEALTH HINTS. Small doses of salt will check hemorrhage of the lungs or stomach. Dirt, debauchery, disease and death are successive links in the same chain. Mold and decaying vegetables in a cellar weave shrouds for the upper chambers. Light gives a bronzed or tan color to the skin ; but where it uproots the lily it plants the rose. Rubbing warts night and morning ! with a moistened piece of muriate of ammonia is said to cause tiieir disappearance without pain or scar. Sufferers from certain common forms of indigestion forget the effects of loading the stomach with cold liquids. "Cold drinks are often depressing," says the Lunwt, "and the J peculiar form of indigestion just now very prevalent, in which food is retained an unreasonable time in the stomach, is in a large proportion of instances the direct elfect of persistent chilling of the gastric organ by copious draughts of cold drink." Six of the largest grape-sujrar manufactories of the United States have consolidated, the combined capital amounting to more than $15,000,000. What's in a name? Well, if it's a Russian name we should answer, the alphabet.?Burlington Free Piesn. ? > Indians in Massachusetts. A correspondent of the Boston Post'' writing about the remnants of Indian tribes surviving in Massachusetts, says: It is believed by those who have an opportunity to know, that no Indian of pure aboriginal blood is now a resident in the commonwealth, they having from time to time intermarried with the whites and those of African descent. Counting all those who have Indian blood in their veins in the State, in the vestiges of tribes remaining, there are to-day not far from 1,000 persons, embraced in 225 families, and it must be borne in mind that the numbers contained in these x~: 1 fr\Y Avnr inuea iiaye uecu ueuicaoiLi^ wi 200 years. It is a very significant fact that no tribe now existing is increasing numerically in the commonwealth. The United States uses 75,000,000 pounds of tea a year. That Iluflbnnd ofMlttO Is three times the man he was before using Wells' Health Renewer. ?1. Druggists. Frnzer Axle Greue. One greasing laste two weeks; all others two or three days. Do not be imposed on by the humbug stuffs offered. Ask your dealer forFrazer's, with label on. Saves your horse labor and you too. It received first medal at the Centennial and Paris Expositions. Sold everywhere. Wouldst see blithe looks, f resh cheeks beguile, Aye, wouldst see December smile? Wouldst see hosts of new roses blow? Carboline makes the hair to grow On the baldest of heads. I'ntnrrli oftiic Blmltlcr. Stinging irritation, inflammation, Kidney, Urinary complaints,cured by Buchupaiba. $1. Bon Vivants find that by using Gastbine no unpleasant feelings are experienced after eating or drinking. Sold by druggists. Gastbine is in liquid form. Druggists. lour health depends on the purity of your blood. People who realize this are taking Hood's Sarsapnrilla with the best results. "KoiikIi on Corns." Ask for Wells'"Hough on Corns." 15c. Quick relief; complete cure. Corns, warts, bunions. SnuinnTEN your old boots and shoes with [ Lyon's Patent Heel Stiffeners, and wear again Tbo Prophet Tlonorcd In llln Own L'onntry. Evtn in UN Own nome. Tnr. honest, simple narrative of Sins. 3. J. Wnnf. who resides at No.177 Will [tuns St.,Providence, R.T.: " During tho past six or seven years 1 nave been severely affllctorl with kidnoy disease, causing intense backaches, dizziness and other sovore pains through my body and limbs, rendering me so weak and prostrate that at times it was impossible for me to do snypartofmy-UaiiSowor!:. I have had also a fluttering of tho heart, and was terribly distressed for breath. I was very miserable, and completely worn out and dlscotiragod; I had no ambition to undertake to do anything, and barely sufficient strength to render existenco desirable, having failed to find any relief from tho doctor's prescriptions. At this frying crisis a friend pcranaded me to obtain a bottle of Hunt's Ilcmedy, and now 1 rejoice that I followed this friendly advlco. for tho Romedy act&l like a charm in my caso. After I had taken a few doses my health began to improve: I felt better every way. Tho fluttering of the heart, the Intense backaches, and tcrriblo shortness of tho breath speedily disappeared, my strength and ambition goon returned, and before I had taken two bottles of tho Remedy I was entirely well, and able to wash and iron and do my housework. Onco In a while I am troubled with the headache, and as soon as I am taken I resort to Hunt's Remody, and a few doses fix mo all right. I shall never be without it in the future. I havo frequently recommendod the Hunt's Remedy to my friends, and they have experienced relief from tho first dose. I boartlly recommend It to all who are affllcttd with kidney disease or diseases of tho Liver, Bladder or Urinary Organs. 1 think no family should bo without it. Mils. 8. J. Whtpp, No. 177 Williams 8t.. Providence, R. L" Acta Like a Charm. " I have used Hunt's Remedy for Sidney troubles, and recommended it to others, and always found it to act like a charm. Jobs Chambers, 723 Carson Street, Pittsburg, Penn. "Gratitudeis tho memory of the heart" How many heart memories cluster around aunt's itemed? in gratclul households where it has wrought It* magio euro I A Curo ot rnemnoma* Mr. D. IT. Baraaby. of Oweeo,. Y.. says that Ma daughter was taken with a violent cold which tarminated with pneumonia, and all the beat phyliclansgave the cass up an<l said she could not llTe but a fow hours at :aost. She was in this condition trhen a friend recommended Dr. Hall's Balsam for the Lungs and advised her to try It. She accepted It as a last resort, and was surprised to And that ft" produced a marked change for the better, and by porsovcring in its use a permanent core was effected. Townslov's Toothache Anodyne cures Instantly. Cleanse the Blood Experience teaches that certain vegetable* -exert ia digestion powerful influence upon theblo^d;. deficient nutrition is stimulated, the bnrdenel current it on. loaded, and poisons withheld from the parte which they pollute and defile. This simple natural actio', purify, lug tbe blood, is promptly accomplished by Hood's SarsapariUa, a skillful combination of such vegetable extracts, whose active qualities and native excellencies are concentrated by a process peculiar to itself, and found In no othor preparation. Hood's Saruparilla does actually strain out Import ties, resiores obstructions snd opens the natural ontleta of the system. No rack, no strain, no pain accompanies the administration of Hood's SarsapariUa Capt. J. P. Thompson, of Lowell, Register of Deeds for Middlesex connty, Northern district, says: "Ihavs never found anything that hit my wanta as Hood's SarsapariUa; it purifies my blood, sharpens my appetite, and makes me over." "if people want a medicine to go all through'em and wake'era up, tell them to take Hood's Saisaparllla. Fbeman N. Bixbt, Meredith Village, N. H. Hood's SarsapariUa Sold b/ drnwrisU. Price 81; lix for 83. Prepared only by 0. 1. HOOD ?00., Apothecaries, Lowell, Hut. SYMD?19 There baa oarer been gfrtvl r I J K| an inttanee in which pU^CEllBMTH STASIS medicine haa failed to this harmless vegednpepsiaaDd nerroaa RV STOMACH Jv affectinr.s. HoatetE9hhL7Um"z?VfeW ter'a Bitters u the HI WPI# J ipeoificyonneed. For Hm I l I SP aale by all Droggiata M 1 a * and Dealera generally ^ vnMwomOF ^ PUBE COD LIVES W OIL BJilJ hlULA.j ^rrs=e=*rry To the Conniimptlvc?AVilbor'n Compound of Cod-Liveti Oil and Lime, without possessing tbe very nauseating flavor of the articlo as heretofore used, is endowed by tha Phnsphato of Lime with a healing property which renders the Oil doubly efficacious. K? markabletestimoninls of its efficacy can be shown. Sold by A. B. Wimon, Chemist, Boston, and all Druggists. I trelleviXatoneoBnrrs, Pile*, Chapped Rands or Lips. Corns, Bunions. Scalds, Braises, Soreness of feet,bands, eyes,etc.; I telling from any cause. ?Sc. Ask your drughb gist, or tend to 93 Fulton Street, M. Y.?^ 5-TON ?jja I" Iron Levin. Stoel B'trinss, llr*i? TAR! 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BED-BUSS, ROACHES, 1 Moths, Ants, Flies, Fleas, Rats, Mice , Kit ? on body, birds, chickens; Cnr > rant and Cabiiaee Worms destroyed bi COSTAK'S l'OL'lt KVTKU.MI.NATORS. No Puisoo^i^toijOc^MUillstweSj^^ i'oncniilc Sift"ltamx'"Vur 1.004) tlituuM, Jjc CURES WHERE All ELSE FAILS. Ed Ki?l Cough Syrup. TrmtcsRood. UJ Use in lime. Sold by drupKi.su. L=J ?GENTS"WAHTEpS5TS,f^S; .Tiiirnine over invented, Mill Knit a pairoi siocnimni | with II KJ-'LanriTO K completeinAiminutos. Itwill ; also knita Kirat variety of fancy work, for which there ; I is always a ready mnrl.i t. Sen I for circular snrl terms < to the TWOUKI.Y KM'l'TINii MACHINE ! CO.. lf!o Thkmont STKKBT, BOSTON, MASS. A Pleasant aiitl Profitable Pastime: FOTl ALL. To advertise our regular business we will send for $> 1 .OO a complete sample outfit, from which you can easily make from $3 to $li> per day. Address with six cents for return postage, TllU DANA BIOK FOItD CO., 837, KSJandWl Broadway, New York City. OU.,at?aiptor tllrtr. L.A,LsllUllitllJiuUi|;U.I'4iiUie,llL ft Sa bTbb morphine habit, i flfl H w B R 8 in No I'ay till cured. Ten S 9 sf?* Hi i SHI >'cars established, 1,000 V Ja fa SJ Ifl B ctired. State case. Dr, i Wl I ^0 HVI Mar?h, Quincy, Mich. vvAJAII^H^T. SOLDatSKisffi , FHFFS^"HEALTH HELPER" |. E HB^H^ePorfect Health. II.II. Roi 101,Bulfrtlo.N.Y j | ET D CT B T return mall?A foil desoription of j ' I* C ? Moody's New Tailor System of Dress ; , Cutting. D.W.Moody A Oo., 31 W. Pth. Cincinnati, O. j \K<;ntn \\ untcil for the Beat and Faatoskselllnii I | llctonnl Books and Bibles. Prices reduced 33 p?i cent. National Puulibuino Co., Philadelphia, Pa. _ | I fflAA.V HOCK for i> 11 who will make spare time profit 1 Jlk ^able; ncood paying business if you can ilevot.iyoui 1 10fcwholetimetoit. Ml'iibay Hill. boi788.N.Y nDlllBM <'iir?4 fn 10 nlfllBrafl *:?pa.r till Cared. Ul 1 WSF8 D?. J. hn;fiu:.M<, Lebanon. Otiia 1 VAIIUOU Ckli fyonwan t tcTlieeorre TKI.Kti K A I'll 1 lUUna WtnOPKRATOKS. and bo guaranteed waploymwi. addrew P. W. KKAiM, Asa, Ooov -.- "^H A NOTED DO T UNTITLED WO AUK. I [Frort -the Boston Glol*.] f I J(earn, gdttcrn.? K The above is a good likeness of Mrs. Lydia t Pick I ham, of Lynn, Mass., who abovoall ether human belngf I may be truthfully callcd tho "Dear Friend of Woman," I as some of hor correspondents love to call her. Chi I lszealously devoted to her work, which is the outcast I of a life-study, and Is obliged to keep six lady 9 assistants, to help her answer the largo correspondenei I which dally pours In upon her, each bearing Its special I burden of suffering, or Joy at release from it He* I Vegetable Compound Is a medicine f_r good ard not I evil purposes. I havo personally investigated 11 and I am satisfied of tho truth of this. I On account of Its proven merits, it is recommended ! I and prescribed by ttobestpUyxiclans in the country. ,< I Ono says: " It works like a charm and saves much j I pain. It will euro entirely tho worst form of falling j I of tho uterus, Lcucorrhaea, irregular and painful j I Menstruation, all Ovarian Troubles, LiflannriaMon aad / I Ulceration, Fioodlngs, all Displacements and the eon, I seque nt spinal weakness, and ti especially adapted te I tteCiasgeoMifo." I It permeates every ,*>rtien of the system, and gives I new life and vigor. It removes faintnerci, fatulencj, 9 destroys all craving for stimulants, and relieves weak* ness of the stomach. It cures Bloating, Headache^ I Nervous Prostration, Ccncral Debility, Slceplessnes, I Depression and Indlgcstl jn. That feeling of bearing B down, causing pain, weight and backaelu?, Is always I permanently cured by its uso. It will at all times, and B und?r all circumstances, act 'nhanccny with the lav I that governs the female system. I It costs cnly 81. per bottlo or cfr for S3., and is sold by I druggists. Any advice required as to npeclol cases, and I the names of many who have leer. rc-Ttc red to jiofed I health by tho use of tho Vegetable Compound, codfce I obtained by addressing ilrs F<, with rtimp fcr reply, I at her homo In Lynn, Mais. I For Kidney Complaint of either sex this ccmpcuadk I unsurpassed as alinadant testimonials shew. 1 " JI.-s. Pinkham's Liver Pills," says ere writer, "art I the beat it. the icorld tor the euro of Constipation, I Biliousness and Torpidity of the liver. Ber Blood I Purifier works wonders In its special lino and bids fail V to equal the Compound in its popularity. fl All must respect her as an Angel of Mercy whose sole ambition is to do good to others. H Philadelphia. P*. (3) Un.A.JLD. mjB-iii-LianM.t j ? The ?URI8T CURB for fa JKIPNEY DISEASES.^ ] IH PoatlMH back or disordered urine lndl-p| | ?|cato that you are a victim P THBH DO IfOTfOI t I ElBCEHITXTBj us# Kidney-Wort at onoe, (drug-| 51 1 |? gists reoommend 10 and It will speedily orsiJ"| I |?|oome the fUnrsr* and restore healthy aotlon.|a| f lei u - -ii ? ? jaroomplalntsseonliarL*I / [9$Ladl68*to7oarMx.nohMp?b / r inilwiwt iifw.TTIilnfiT TTnrtlinnrmTmti . ? as it will act promptly tad safely. IP] ) v I I Ether Sex. Inoofltinenoe, retention ofurtneJ #1 ; 15 [brick dn?t or ropy depoaita, and dull dr??in4t| Cj J3 |o palna, all speedily yield to Its curative powarJSI p| a- BOIiD BY ALL DBT7QOIBT8. Prtoe tX. NI 1 wwnnfTfacfifffTSTSriB HilllKI^AAWalW "Mr. Ethan Lawrence, my townsman." nn Dr. Philip 0. Ballon, of Monlcton. Vt., " was bloated fwsi ? kidney dUeaM. The ikln of hta legs shone Hfceglsst Kidney-Wort ntrtd Mm," Apr. 80-?. U[M|bV1| IS A 8URE CURE I for all diseases of the Kidney* and I ? LIVER?4 It haa ipedflo action on Uxia moat Important organ, enabling It to throw off torpidity aad . Inaction, ??iw.ni?Hny the Bfla, and by keeping the Dowels In free I I oondltlon. ogtetlng lta regular d 1 schargs. . . ' Bflalorio If you arocufltartngfirsBi I IwlOKll Ida malaria,hat*t hTehOh, I MM bilious, dyspcptic, or oonstip&ted, Kidney* Wort will surely relieve and qtacHyean} , I In time Spring to jleassothe8ystaa,ev?j 1 4 one should take a thorough course of lt> ltt^80UDBYDRUCgl8TgJPil2tM I -v^Teji. mjr brother soldiers," writes J. C. Power, at S? Trehtofyidl., "and all others, too, that Kidney-Wort f; cured my.SO ytarf littr ditorirrt. Publish It, itUljn, 91 St. Louis Glofa-Democrat." HPJI-lllJIMIII.Llil !FOR THE VERMMSIT^CURE^ ! j | CONSTIPATION. ] I - Ko other disease la aopravalast In tttaooofr I I _ tiT nuiwiiintim anlnn mmljtue _ ? equalled tho celebrated Kidney-Wort aa * ? ? cure. Whatever tho canao, however obetinate C 1 8 the caao, thin remedy will overcome It. >. 1 ? Oil Bft BEDS dtftnadnff ooa- 9 fl ? I ! twi plaint is very apt to be * I ? eomplloated with oonstlpatton. Kidney-WortJ fl ^ strengthens tho weakened parti and quickly a a omaa all kind* of Pile* even when physicians J II Sand medicines hove beforo tolled. , 13- CTIf yon have either of these trembles ' O P < PR1CItl.jjUSE | PruggfrtaSalt * ( m- DIAMOND | DYES. ^ 0 Best Dyes Ewr Hak J?-FOR BILK, WOOL. OR COTTOJT.^I DRE88KS, COATS, 8CARF8, HOODS, YARM, 8T0CKINCS, CARPET RAOS, RIBDON8, FEATHER8, or an? Mate at fan 07 article easily and perfectly colored to soy shade. Black, Brown, Green, Bine, Scarlet, Cardinal Bed, Jfavy Bine, Seal Brown, ODn Green, Terra Cotta and 20 other beat colore. Warranted Fast and Durable. Eadxpedtagewiu oolor one to ftmr lb*, of good*. If yon liar* sorer used Syea try theaoonoe. You will be dellgkted. Sold fay drugglrta, or send us 10 oents and any oolor wanted aent post-paid. 24 oolored samples and a aet of tkncgr carda seot fcr a So. ataop. WELLS, BICHAHBSOy & CO., Unrli?gUB,V?. j GOLD and SILVER PAINT. j Bronze Paint. Artists' Black. J For Fancy Baskets, Framea, Lamp*, ~M Chandallara. and for all klnda of ornamental work- Equal to any of tha high prioed kind* and only <* J lOcts. a package,at t.v.o druggists,or poet-paldftwn WELLS. HICnARDCOy A CO.. I>iirIlnrte?,Tt- ?: PSA.JLMB. [3EVI3ED.] ' TTEAR this, nil ye peopln, and give ear &D ye invalids of the world, Hop Bitten J will make you well and to rejoice. 2. It shr.ll cure all the people and put sick- nes3 and suffering under foot. t 3. Be thou not afraid when your family ii aick, or you have Drift's disease or Livei Complaint, for Hop Bitters will cure you. 4. Both low and hijjh, rich and poor know _ ^ the value of Hop Bitters for bilious, norvow and Iihcuviatic complaints. 5. Cleanse mo with Hop Bitters and I shall have robust and blooming health. 6. Add di.-c.iso upon disease and let th? worst come. I am safe if I uso Hop Bitters. 7. For all my life have I been plagued with sickness and sores, and not until a year ago j was I cured by IIop Bitters. ' 8. He that keepeth his bones from achinj from Rheumatism and Neuralgia, with Hop Bitters, doetli wisely. 9. Though thou hast sores, pimples, freckles, salt rheum, erysipelas, blood poisoning, yel Hop Bitters will remove them all. 10. What woman is there, feeble and sick from female complaints, who desireth not health and n?eth Hop Eitteis and is ma<U well. 11. Let not neglect to u?o Hop Bitters bring on serious Kidney and Liver complaints. 1,1 ? ? ? il?? * '???? V\a{nf V>n !? i\ut'p my lunj^uc nuiu uuu^ ?u; blood pure, nnd thy stomach from indigea. tion by using Hop Hitters. 13. All my pains and aches afad diseas? go like chaff before the wind when I use Hop ^ Bitters. 14. Mark the man who icas nearly dead and given up by the doctors, after using Hop Bitters and becometh well. 15. Cease from worrying about nervousuess, general debility, and urinary trouble, for Hop Bitters will restore you. _ P*t'd 7S-7S-77-7S? Stood the tert. lMOln w*. \ SsndiUmp tot ClreaUr.Ae^tO 9 J. I E. 8T0NQ, Newtok Brook, ? ONTARIO, CANADA. / | STOyO'S H A<enU wanted ererywhere. _ 1 beelilorSeU-lk H Xhii vriLl no Uppe*! In thli O f <j I SESSSSlilgv. S I 2a ;; 3 ij | hsss k I x?n otic e7-xx/ I as blue flannel garments i Of Inferior Quality of Goods are sold as the "genuine Middlesex," which are not made by Chat mill. The Middlesex Company, la order to protect their customers and the public, five notice that hereafter all Clothing made from THE MIDDLESEX STANDARD INDIGO BLUE FLANNELS AND YACHT 0LOTUS sold by all leading clotbteri.must bear the "SILK HANGERS," ftirnlshld by the Selling Agents to all parties ordering the goods. wendell, fay & co.. SELLING AGENTS, MIDDLESEX COMPANY, e an>l 8H Worth St.. Now York: Franklin St, Boston; SH Chestnut St, Philadelphia. aPBVBOn A refunncr ton don PhjC* ?lTKiUl lolan establishes an 111 MBilim" Officeio NowrYork .1 Bi H for the Cure of i i i n epileptic fits. gg SB mW From A mjouma I ofMcdicin&i Dr. Ab. Mewrolo (late of London), who makes a specialty of Eplli<p?y, has without doubt treated and cored moro cases than anyotherllrlng physician. Jllssnceesa has simply been astcnlsbtni;; w? nave board of caaesol ovor to years' standing successfully enred by him. lie has published a work on this ill was*, which bo sends with a large bottle of bla wonderful euro free toanysuf- ' \ fcrer who may send their eipr*" and P.O. Address We "J advise any one wishing acme to adilrets _ t g ltr. AB. UKd?K01.]i, No. s? John 8t,NewTorfc * rCIPIICDC UfAUTTn For vacancies. Address I t AuntliO IV An I til With stamp for "application form" anil copy of our " Public School Journal." NATIONAL TEACHERS' AGENCY. Cincinnati, O. VAIIUP MCI! t?arn telCR'apny ner? anu we TUUnU mCnKi?? you a situation. Circulars free. ('A1-KNT1XK ifltOS.. JniiCMVlllc. Win. fC ! #Ofl per day at hums. Samples wortn $5free, !p9 lO wfcU Address SxiNaoN <1 Co., Portland, Me, ?7AA WEEK. SlUadayathoraeoasilymade. Coetij )la outfit freo. AadroaaTnCE A Co., Augusta, ^le, COLEMAN BusinessCoIIorh, NowarK, N. J.?Termi Igjo. Positions for graduates. Write for Circulate. Qflflprct.profit. Ladyandccntagi-ntswsnted.Sampli j fcUUbymaTl,25c. Agonta'NoreltyCo.,Southington.CI I eCC twett in your own town. Terms and |J5 ootfli J 0DO free. AddressH.JIallt.ttACo., Portland, Me, I A Base Core for Epilepsy or Fits u> 34 hours. Free t4 I tX poor, Da, Kacpx. SMI Aaesal (t., St. look. B ^ M