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T WHILE THE DAYS ARE GOING BY* '
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There are lonely hearts to cherish
While the days are going by:
There are weary souls who perish
While the days are coins by;
If a smile we can renew,
As onr journey we pursue,
Oh! the good that we may do,
While the days are going by.
There's 110 time for idle scorning
While the days are goiiirj by;
Let our face be like the morning
While the days are going by;
Oh ! the world is full of sighs.
Full of sad and weeping eyes;
Help your fallen brother rise
While the days are goinc by.
All the loving links that bind us
While the days are going by,
One by one we leave behind us
\\ inle the uays are comg oy;
Both the seeds of trood we sow.
Both in shade and shine will grow,
And will keep our hearts aglow
While the days are going by.
A GREAT TEMPTATION.
Alice Arnden wis not a woman one
would select for a heroine because of
her personality. She was neither large
nor small; she was beautiful, 1 think
(beauty is a hard thing to define and
limit), but it was a beauty of no wonderful
or unusual type, and was of that
kind which grows on one gradually as
his knowledge of the possessor of it
grows. There was a wealth of sweetEness
and purity shining up in her eyes,
which tears could never washout; and
;V the mouth indicated firmness and reHp
solution which had its beginning long
before the night's vigil which had left
?? it so sternly agonized.
The trouble which has come to Alice
Arnden is of no unusual kind. It is a
sudden sorrow, of a kind which has
Pfjj crushed out all of hope in life many
Bras times in the past, and will many times
&& in the future as long as men and maidre^
ens are proud and willful. One may
say, " Only a lovers' quarrel," but one
p should remember that there are hearttragedies
in this world, uncier the torture
of which men and women may
HEM^ifdrag out long lives without finding
peace. To Alice Arnden it seemed ;is
BkL'v though everything worth having in life
V|ejp}was now forever utterly beyond her
-hope.
She arose from the seat she had occupied
for so long, and moved slowly
about her humble room. She liad not
known, until she moved, how much
she was suffering physically ; how cold
it was; how cramped and weary she
was. There was really little to do.
Her bed" had not been used ; her room
was in order. She had plenty of time
to prepare herself for the task of
covering her sorrow from the gaze of
her friends?if she could.
She made a fire, and into the fire she
remorselessly put all the fragments of
the paper which she had spoiled in her
efforts" to write a simple letter long
ago when her sorrow was new. Long
ago? Last night! Happiness gives
fesSr wings of lightness to the parts of
' eternity (lying about our being and so
called " time, rather than eternity)
'' which we roughly measure and call
minutes and seconds; but sorrow
weights their noiseless feet with lead.
Elk Mr. George Fenby is the next among
the actors in this little fragment of
human life.
.4 sat at *lis w*n(2ow that morning
as Alice Arnden sat at hers. His win
looked in the same direction;
B&~'' from it lie saw much the same scene
ppfe:/'' she saw*. The stars faded out for him
as for her; day brightened for him ;
B&jthe sunlight fell across his face.
But he sat there with a cheerful fire
.-^^^Viear him; he was strong from happy
sleep; his eyes were bright and cheerful,
and looked as though tears had always
been strangers to them, and his
lips were smiling.
The icy marshes seemed to him a
type of his future. Smooth, white,
pure?the light stretching warmly
across them?and with the ocean outside
standing to him, as to her, as a
type of eternity?an eternity which he
felt would be one of strength and happiness.
George Fenl>y thought of what he
had In the world to he thankful for this
gk' - lovely morning. A small fortune,
enough for himself?and one other, a
fair woman?and good as fair?for his
promised wife; health, education,
friends, influence, position; it was indeed
a goodly prospect.
K?V, This man was strong and quick;
good-looking, if not handsome. lie
Ej?" looks like a man who would not do a
|p~ wicked thing, or think it, while he
might do a weak or foolish one. He
was a man who would be likely to win
a woman's heart?and hold it; a man
iwhncA lnvp ji woman mierht Drize. and
the loss of which she might wisely
Sf '. mourn. Weak enough to be a man,
he was.strong enough to be one, hard
to spare from the life which had once
pfcfcK' had him.
There was a happy smile on hie face
i>- as he heard his little brother knock at
the door, and he answered " Come in "
I in a cheery voice. I
" Here's a letter for you, George."
"Thank you," said George, as he
took it,
"You are welcome. By the handwriting
on the envelope 1 judge the
message will be a pleasant one."
And the boy left the room.
A plea-ant message! The smile
| deepened on the man's face as he
f lovingly handled the letter a little time
before he broke the seal. A pleasant
| message!
These were the words he read:
"Mb. GeobgeFenby?I will not consent
to be any longer a hinderer regarding your
- 'higher ambition.' I never wish to speak
with you again in all my life. I give you
back your freedom. Alice Arnden."
So Mr. George Fenby's morning gift
was Hie gift of his freedom. What
% - should he do with it? His cheeks and
Slips grew cold and white at the thought.
Merciful heavens! what could he do
with it?
The sky seemed darkened, the earth
j seemed dreary and desolate. (Jeorge
Fenby and Alice Arnden. a bare
? quarter of a mile apart, could not have
been more wildly separated had an j
I oce in stretched between them. And
eacli looked on the same landscape,
t and saw it alike at last.
I The village <>f Marsham was a small
one, and most of it was further from
the ocean than were the two houses at
the windows of which we have seen
two unhappy per.-ons.
__ It was a relief to both George and
? \* Alice that there was service in the
little church that morning, and that
everybody would be looked for there.
Secret sorrow finds a certain abatement
of its intensity in the effort of
appearing unconcerned. Then there
was a mournful pleasure in seeing
again what one has lost.
In a place no larger than Marsham
every one knows everybody else.
Every one know:s the business of
everybody else, in some degree, or
thinks so, and say3 so. So our two
. friends were known, and their relays,*
tions to each other were known also.
And so poorly had they played their
& . parts that when service was finished
nearly all their friends had concluded
that their engagement was over, and
many were speculating as to the reason
for it.
'.W:x Ralph Warder was too shrewd a
W man not to see what everyone else
saw. He said but little about it as he
Rnoke to one and another after church,
HgTC' ~ -'X
but he was deeply interested and very
Bk. much puzzled. The time had been
Wti when the gossips had connected his
name with that of Alice Arnden, and
8 there were those who had shaken their
B? heads when it became evident that she
K had been won by George Fenby instead
Ralph had Dever spoken to Alice of
I love, and we will respect his reserve.
H d What he cared for her may remain a
sealed book.
? George Fenby walked home alone.
Bt' Ralph Warder came the same road,
but a quarter of a mile behind him.
B-: Some distance out of the village Ralph
suddenly came upon two papers, resting
on the snow by the side of the
road. They had most likely been
pulled from the pocket of the owner
in removing his handkerchief. The
smaller paper had blown apart; it laid
upon the other, and its contents were
Ky. so brief that Ralph had read it before
Bgtt..- he had taken it in his hand, and before
. he was aware of what he was doing.
- "We have seen kthe paper before. It
was the brief letter in which Alice
Arnden had dismissed George Fenby.
Ralph Warder stood for a long time
with the letter in his hand.
"I've read it once ; it can do no harm
to read it again," he said.
And he read it again?not once
merely, but a dozen times. It seemed
as if he was trying to draw something
from the bit of paper which he did not
lind there.
After a time he stopped and picked
up the other paper, a long, folded document,
hut the action was merely a mechanical
one. lie did not open it to
see what it was, but with his head
bent forward on his breast, and with
a very grave face, he went on his way.
lie walked more slowly than before;
he sometimes stopped, and he talked
to himself from time to time.
" If this is final," he commenced
aloud, and then relapsed into silence.
"4 A hinderer.'" Then, after standing
and thinking for a while, lie went on:
' She never was that to him. And she
never was moody and self-distrustful."
lie thought for many minutes now.
" I don't understand what she means
by his ' higher ambition.' His highest
ambition lately seems to have been to
W1U ner. 11 iuis cost nei <i yri-iit ut*?u
to give liitn up?any one can see that
with half an eye. And his freedom is
not welcome to him; he neither wanted
it nor expected it."
Suddenly he stood still, and a hot.
lierce Hush crept up into his face.
' 1 wonder if it is true that hearts
are ever 'caught in the relound,'a>
thev sometimes say thev aie? I
will?"
And he clenched his hands and hurried
on his way.
lie did not stop again until he
reached his home, where iiis mother
and sister were waiting for him, nor
did he think his thoughts aloud any
more. With a few words of greeting
and a few more of excuse, he put his
mother and sister aside for the present.
and went up to his own room.
The noonday sun was shining and
making everything pleasant. There
was a glow in the wintry air which
seemed to have a promise of summer
in h.
lie seated himself at his table, placed
Alice Arnden's letter upon it, and read
it again. Then for the first time he
looked at the other paper which he had
picked up. He turned it over, and
saw at once what it was?a deed from
Bertrand Kingslev, conveying certain
lands and buildings to George Fenby.
Ralph "Warder drew a long breath,
and the light faded slowly out of his
face. In a single moment he had
seen the whole secret of the misunderstanding.
It might be necessary to go
over it all to see the details, but the
general outline of the unfortunate
affair was, he felt, as certainly in his
possession as it could have been if he
had been given the privilege of looking
fully and freely into the minds
of the two lovers whose lives were
drifting so far apart.
Down went his hea l upon his hands
on the table?the winter sunshine shone
that day on 110 nobler head?and from
his lips came those words of which
frail humanity has deepest need,
"Lead us not into temptation.'
lie thought it all out. Bertram!
Kingsley owned the finest place in all
Marsham. or had until the deed was
made which conveyed it to (leorge
Fenby. Estella Kingsley, the daughter
of Bertrand, was a beauty, and something
of a flirt.
More than one lady in .Marsham had
quarreled with her lover on Esteiia
Kingsley's account. And last night
there had been a little gathering of the
young people in the church, and circumstances
had done their worst?
seemingly. In the first place, George
Fenhy came with Estella Kingsley;
the meeting was not of a character to
make it unkind for him to leave his
promised wife to come with lier
father, as she had, but his coming with
Miss Kingsley had been noticed by
several. "With the deed before him, !
Ralph "Warder had no difficulty in deciding
why George had been at Mr.
Kingsley's, and consequently why he
had come as he had.
Kalphwas well acquainted with a
young man living where the Kingsley's
had formerly resided, and through him
he knew of the engr-gement of Miss
Kingsley to a gentleman living there,
lie had known this for a long time ;
and knowing it had thought little of
events which might otherwise have
fipertlv affected him.
Last night, for instance, a laughing
group of gentlemen had spoken of Miss
Kingsley. One had said, *' JSlie is a
beauty and an heiress. "Whoever wins
her will hav,e a beautiful home. The
Kingsley estate is the finest one in
Marsham."
Now, every gentleman in the group
knew that the Kingsley estate was for
sale, and every one had counted at its
true Vidue the answer which George
Fenby had made. Indeed, his devotion
to Alice Arnden was so absolute
and complete that no one, save her own
modest self, would ever have doubted
it for a moment.
"It is my highest ambition to be the
master of that estate," laughed < Jeorge,
"and I have made an offer which I
think will be accepted. I am to have
an answer to-night. If I succeed, I
shall be supremely happy. If not?
why, I will do as other men have done
?failing of what 1 want, I will take
what I can get."
Ralph cuuld not remember where J
Alice Arnden had been when these foolish
(possibly) but innocent words had
been spoken. That she l.ad been near ,
enough to hear them was evidenced by 1
her letter, which was before him.
He could only dimly imagine how she '
must have suffered in trying to evolve 1
the truth (as she believed the truth to ,
be) from what she had heard. When a
human idol falls from the place it has ^
tilled in the heart, not the least of the ,
pain comes from what we see, or helieve
we see, of its unworthiness. To (
find our gold but gilded clay is a sorrowful
thing. .So lie sat, there, and
pitied Alice Arnden for the faith in
man which she had lost, as well as for
the man himself who had been put
from her. With what pain beyond
that which would come to her from a
belief that her lover would think and
do what his words seem to imply,must
she face the added shame of his stooping
to tell of it; nay, more, to boast
of it.
Ralph raised his head. The time
had not been long since he sat down to
think. Rut he knew it all. Two
proud and obstinate young creatures
had been parted by fate. And he muttered
with white, compressed lips, " I
alone understand it all. I, alone, of all
the world, can set it right. What a
temptation!"
"We will not seek to follow his
thoughts. What a man does should lie
the basis of our judgment, not what
he would do. If he thought of the
curative effects of time on sutTering
hearts, we can forgive him; if a possi+
u lionmr linma nf
U1U 1UIUIC, 111 nilitll ?? livuiv V'J.
his own was the central iigure, rose up
to meet him, we can do no less than
pity him.
If she only had the slightest reason
for what she has done?but she has
none. If George Fenby were really a
scoundrel?but he is truly a nobel
man.
The band of sunshine rested on his
head like a golden crown. IIis face
was almost glorified as he raised it to
the light again. And surely the angels
made a record of a second gift that day.
coming to the lot of those whose lives
fall for a little time within the lines
of our story, when he said aloud: "1
will do right! Alice Arnden shall have
her lover back again !"
Evening service at the little church
was over. Ralph Warder stood on the
She accepted at once, hoping as
she did so that George Fenby would
see her. He was not there to see,
however, and Ralph had taken good
care to know that. lie was already
luilf-way home.
But Miss Armien was in no mood to
refuse. She was in a reckless temper,
and Jial]>h Warder had counted on
that. One desirous of widening the
breach between Alice and George
would have found it a very easy task
to make a beginning that night.
Ralph Warder's lips moved slowly as
hi; seated himself beside Alice, but we
will not try to determine what he said
to himself in that crisis in more lives
than one.
"I admire your cloak and hat," exclaimed
Ralph, "though the saying it
may be as much a compliment to my
sister as to your own taste. Iler's are
like them, are they not?"
" Very nearly; not quite. Rut I
didn't know you ever noticed what
your lady friends wear."
" 1 don't very often. I did to-day.
Would the masculine eye detect the
differences?"'
" 1 think not. But it is a pity to
talk of dress on such a night as this.
What a strong and helpful sermon we
had this evening!''
" Yes," said Ralph.
They made a turn in the road, and
there was George himself only a few
yards ahead. Alice put down her veil
at once. Surely late was on the side
of Italph Warder's plans that night.
"(let in, George. 1 won't take a
refusal."
" Who is with you? Your sister?"
' Yes," said Ralph, with a promptness
which should be admired and
pardoned. "Sit on this side,"' said
Ralph, as (Jeorge got in; "I will sit
between you. The night is beautiful,
isn't it?"
" Very beautiful!" said (Jeorge,
who really had not tlionght of it before.
" You needn't go home at once. J
will turn here and we will drive over
toward the shore."
lie had turned his horse down the
road leading in that direction before
either of his companions could say a
word. The two lovers were gazing
again on the scene they had looked
upon in the morning. The moonlight
may have softened the harshness of it
a little, but the man between them
heard a sob from the woman at his
left, and saw the moonlight sparkle
suspiciously on the eyelashes of the
man on his right. And lie thought
grimly of himself as the image of fate
?fate, with the destiny of two human
beings in his hands.
" 1 found a paper of yours this morning,"
said Ralph, slowly, " and here it
is. I could hardly help seeing what it
was. J congratulate yoa on your bargain.
You have bought the finest
estate about here, (Jeorge. It is remarkiihlv
rhean at the nrice. 1 be
was able to swim to the hatch an;l stay
there till some ship came along which
wasn't in much of a hurry. The captain
couldn't find out whether the poor man
was a swimmer, but he was known to
boast of his generosity in giving the
sailor the hatch to keep him company.
In the navy they put a sail over the
side for beginners to learn to swim on,
and sometimes they make a little pond
out of sails to prevent sharks from
getting at the men. Some captains in
the navy have their men practice swimming
one day every week, but in the
merchant service we cannot afford the
time to make the men learn to swim.
When we are in foreign harbors they
might try it on Sundays or at night,
but the men are generally too tired or
else they are afraid of the sharks. In
some crews the sailors are nearly all
swimmers, but in others scarcely a man
knows how to swim. I never have !
made an estimate as to the proportion
of men in the merchant service who
cannot swim, but I believe it to be very
large. The fault lies with the men,
who neglect to learn when they are
boys. 1 have been told that in small
towns, where there is nothing more
than a canal that I could wade
through, all of the boys are expert
lieve the deed was signed last evening?"
" Yes."
" Mr. Kingslev had not fully decided
to sell it until then, had he?"
"Not fully. He told me his daughter
'.light decide to want it herself
when she is married. Mr. Kingsley
will, of course, give l?er a handsome
residence somewhere when that event
takes place, for Mr. Jones, who is to
marry her, has no fortune of his own."
" It has been your highest ambition
to own that estate, hasn't it?"
"Certainly. 1 wanted the finest
place here."
" You ought to be supremely happy.
You said last night that you would be
when y(,u owned the place."
" Yes."
The answer was short. Ralph could
feel the strong man on his right tremble
in spite of his ell'orts to control
himself, and knew that the woman on
his lelt, was crying soiuy.
" You said something last night
about your ambition to be master of
that estate. 7>:> you remember what
il was?'
" Yes, I think I do. .Something
boastful, was it not?"
George Fen by was beginning to understand
dimly why he had received
the letter he had.
" Worse than that. Did you ever
thing that one overhearing it might
think you meant to marry .Miss Kingsley
?"
" Never until now. Oh, what have
I done?"
'No matter. Did you ever intend
to marry her? Not a word of objection.
You've been led into answering
too much already to stop now. I demand
an answer, George. Did vou?"
The eyes of the two men met. In
Ralph's there was the determination to
know, and, perhaps, something more.
In George Fenbv's there was surprise,
which changed to satisfaction, and
indignation, which gradually faded
out.
" Never, on my honor!" he answered.
Ralph Warder stopped the horse.
They had driven far to the south, and
had now turned back toward the village
again. In front of them was the level
sweep of frozen marsh, but farther on
was the peaceful village with its
lighted windows, and with its range of
sheltering wooded hills behind it. On
their right was the sea, calm and bright,
lie stepped into the road and placed
the reins in George Fenby's unresisting
hands.
" liring the horse home when it is ,
all right," he said, " but take all the ,
time you wi<h. Ilere is another paper !
of vours which 1 found this morning.
He thankful to-night that so meddle- ,
some a man found it. Alice Arnden
and Ceorge Fenbv, I give you back
your future?and my blessing!"
He spoke to the horse, and, obedient 1
to his word, he dasheil down the road
and left him alone.
There is no more need of following J
the lovers, to be sure that all came
right, than there is of following the
rushing mountain stream to be sure it ,
finds the sea.
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SELECT SIFTIXGS.
Ivory is worth $5,000 a ton. i
To short-sighted persons the moon 1
pears to have a blue fringe.
The Venezuela cow tree yields a
liquid having the llavor of cream.
Chemical analysis show that the liu- .
man brain is eighty per cent, water.
steps as uie cuugregaLiuii tcixuu uuu
.tie louKcu iiitpp.y.
If it be true " that coming events
cast their shadows before," and that
" virtue is its own reward," he was
happy. He spoke cheerfully to this
one and that when they passed. lie
did not look like a conspirator. One
would not have dreamed that he made
a plan which for audacity would find
few rivals, while for simplicity it
might find fewer.
" It's better to have it over as soon
as possible," he said to himself; " better
for them and for ine."
Alice Arnden was passing him. He
leaned forward.
" Will you come for a little drive
with me, Miss Arnden ? The night is
perfect, and you look as if fresh air
would do you good."
seven inches wide, eighteen inches
around the .ankle and twenty-two inches
around the heel.
Mamie having been helped twice to
everything on the table slid down,
when the coffee came in, from her
chair, with a sigh. " There, now," said
her mamma, "1 suppose you have eaten
so much that you feel uncomfortable."
" Don't," replied Mamie, quickly, with
a toss of her little head. " I only just
feel nice and smooth."?Harper's
Bazar. *
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rPTTT^ T?TT?TT P An TTTT? T\"PT?T)
irm rLitiLd ur uir, vlm
WHY SAILORS FREQUENTLY LOSE
THEIR LIVES.
Men Who In Their Youth ??l<'ct I.carninR
an ArrniiipliNliiiiout of <ircnt Vnlue to
Them?What Ol'tca Happen*.
It is a curious fact that many persons
who have been to sea nearly all
their lives are unable to swim. It
stands to reason that in case a man
falls overboard his chances of being
rescued are much better if he knows
how to swim than they would be had
he never mastered that art. And yet
young men who expect to follow the
sea for a livelihood will stubbornly refuse
to learn to swim, alleging that
when one falls overboard his chances
of being rescued are very slim under
any circumstances. In the navy and
also in the revenue marine service of
this country the men are taught to
swim, but in the merchant service it is
dilTerent. Neither the owner nor the
/. mfoin of o niar^hnnt vi'SSPl rarfifl
whether the men who ship on her are
able to swim, ami there is no leisure
time in which to teach them this useful
art.
" There are undoubtedly a great many
sailors who do not know how to swim,"
said an old sea captain. "It seems
strange, because any one can see how
much better a man's chances of being
saved are if ho only knows how to
swim. To be sure, if a vessel is going
along rapidly and a sailor falls overboard
without lieing seen, it is rather
poor consolation for him to swim about
and watch her until she gets out of
sight. But as a general thing, warning
ii-lwm >> in fin t'filly nvprhnnrrl
l?j?IVCi& ?? II* i* ?. muu v, ?
and something is thrown to him, while
the slap is hove to and a boat is lowered.
If a man cannot swim all this work on
the part of his shipmates does no good,
for unless a buoy or something else is
flung exactly where he is he cannot
reach it, but after one or two faint
struggles he gives up and is lost.
Ilar.lly a day passes without some
master reporting that one of his crew
fell overboard and was lost. I remember
a case whi h happened four or five
years ago. A fruit schooner was
hound to this port from the West Indies,
when one dark night the mate took it
into his head to stand where he could
drop overboard when the vessel gave
her next heavy roll, which she soon
did. Then he was seen struggling in
the water. The schooner was iio^e to
and a boat was put over, but by this
time the mate was not to be seen.
For over two hours that boat rowed
up and down in the neighborhood, and
at last one of tiie men spied a dark object
on the crest of a wave. They
came up to it, and, sure enough, it was
the mate, who was still alive, but nearly
exhausted. He was a first-class swimmer,
and he had kept afloat all this
time without anything to cling to.
Xow and then you read of a lucky man
who is washed overboard by one sea
and then washed back on board by the
next wave. But this doesn't happen
very often. "When a man goes overboard
he has to swim for it. as a rule,
I have often thought that it must be
a terrible thing, even for a good swimmer,
to come to the surface and see
the big black hull of his ship gliding
away from him and the heavy waves
rolling about him, and for all lie knows,
a school of sharks making for him.
"--i ? o*;il InrriMa
i)Ul It llllOli UC <1 Dtlll 111UI& VU11UK/
position to be in for a man who has
never learned to swim. A good many
captains do not keep any boats in the
davits, but have them all fastened on
deck. It is a good deal of work to get
a boat from her bushings to the davits
and then over into the water. A
swimmer's chances are not very good
if he falls overboard from a ship of
that kind. I was told a case of that
kind a few years ago. A ship was
bowling along before a line breeze at
over ten knots an hour, when overboard
went a po >r sailor in full sight of the
captain, who seized the booby hatch
and Hun^ it owrbcard. Tlv ro was 110
boat in the davits, anil the captain was
anxious to make the best of the favorable
breeze while it lasted, so he didn't
heave the ship to, but left the poor
sailor to his fate in the hope that lie
The art of working in iron nas heen .
known at least four thousand years.
About $7,000,1)00 worth of neckties
are worn in this country every year.
Mississippi is tin; only State in the
Union that has not a brewery or distiller
v.
Twenty billion wooden hoops are
used annually in this country for barrels
only.
The largest milk pan on record,
holding bOO gallons, has just been
made lor an Iowa creamery.
Under the new civil code of California
the earnings of the wife are not
liable for the debts of the husband.
The veterans in the Dayton (Ohio)
soldiers' home are given a lish dinner
every Friday, and it takes 1,000 pounds
of fresh lish to satisfy them.
A baby playing with a cocoanut in
the second story of a house in S'tcramento
let it fail from a window, aid
t hit and cracked a man's skull.
A Chinese encyclopedia, begun more
than one hundred years ago and still
unfinished, has alrealy filled nearly
100,000 volumes, and will not be completed
until 00,000 more are written.
A large oyster taken off East Point,
near Keyport, X. J., is asserted to have
measured nine andone-haif by live and
one-half inches and to have weighed
two and one-half pounds. Its age was
estimated at fifteen years.
Miss Fannie Mills, of Sandusky
Ohio, is not a particularly big woman
but she has a great foot on her. One
of her shoes, now on exhibition in a
mneonm is seventeen inches loner.
SWlIUIllCld, WllUU ill OU111U OCft-'lUU
places, where many funerals are
brought about by drownings, there are
hardly any swimmers. Many women
learn to swim who probably will never
have occasion to use the accomplishment,
while fellows who go to sea all
their lives refuse to learn. I suppose
one reason that many of them won't
learn is that they never expect to have
to swim for their lives. The captain
who carries no go:id boats on his vessel
of course has no idea that he will have
to use them. Such persons think they
lire going to get through all right, and
take risks which a wise man would
nvoid. Years ago persons used to
think that if they could carry a caul
with them to sea they could not be
ilrowned. Many would prefer the caul
of an infant to a good life-preserver or
the ability to keep alloat for several
hours l?y swimming. Hut nowadays
not much stock is taken in cauls, and,
I regret to say, not enough in swimming.
To be able to swim is, in my
opinion, almost as good a thing for a
sailor as a life insurance policy. The
time for a sailor to learn to swim is
before he goes to sea. If there was a
law requiring all sailors to know how
to swim before they shipped there
would be less drowning at sea."
Electricity and Storms.
The question of the electric nature
of cyclones is a question of fact, and
cannot be determined by balancing
opinions. Facts alone can decide, by
proving or disproving that cyclones are
caused by electricity. I maintain that
not only cyclones, but all the plienom'?
/?+' <-!* ? nf ?i-? rionlmr/i ?i i*i\ i n
TJIKli U L IUO tlllli\/nji>ULl V/ Ctl V> UltVtl IV ill
their nature and character. The facts
upon which I strongly rely and adduce
to prove the electrical nature of cyclones
cannut l>e stated here, lor they
are too voluminous. The substance,
however, is briefly as follows: A luminous
or liery cloud-spot is seen to descend
from the clouds, which is met by
a Hash from the earth where the spout
touches. Simultaneous with the Hash
everything free at the point struck explodes
into fragments, is carried clean
away, and generally hurled into the
clouds through the vortex. Likewise,
whenever an electric discharge takes
place, ozone in stilling quantities appears
with the Hash. Combustil les
are set on fire in the buildings struck,
and destroyed. Flashes issue from the
furniture in the houses, and sparks
from the walls, like from an emery
wheel. After night tin; tornado ciouu
is invariably luminous?often not perceived
in the daytime--and a wavelike
flame on the earth confronts the
cloud-spot as it sweeps forward on the
surface of the ground.
1 interpret these facts to say that
this luminosity, these sparks and
flames, are electricity, and hence that
the whole phenomenon is an electric
one.?Professor J. H.Tice.
A philosopher has discovered that
the rib from which woman was formed
was taken from the right side of man.
"Which may account for man's desire
to keep on the right side of the gentler
sex.?Yonkers (Statesman.
A DANGEROUS OCCUPATION.
RTAETLING EXPEBJEKCEB 07 A SITRO-GLYCERINE
MAKES.
I'atiil ItliHlinpn and ITnlvbrcadrli Eicnpei
from I)onlli--An I3xj?IohIvo WlilcU ltarcljr
Tolcrnrrn Fooling.
A few days ago a reporter, traveling
on the Pennsylvania railroad, met a
man whose appearance would not denote
that lie had passed through more
narrow escapes than ordinary men are
usually subject t:?. lie was the proprietor
of a nitro-glycerine factory,
lie laughingly said that he was different
l'r.im must tradesmen, for he car?
i ? - - ...Uk 1.4,..,
I'll'll Il<) h nil iiini.
" Vo>. sir," ho said, as the reporter
gradually drew liim into conversation,
"1 have seen some pretty hard sights
in my time. I think the worst,
th mgh, was when I saw the remains
of four men sticking all over the
branch! s ot' a tree. The way it happ
ned was this: In one of our tanks
wi; had stored a small quantity of glycerine
that b long d to a friend. We
were keeping it for him. We allowed it
to remain there for sometime, as there
was no ca i for it. Hut one day, on
coming to the tank, we found some
one had been tampering with the lock,
and that it was imj ossible to get it
open. This was a line fix ! Well, the
next day was Sunday, so as there was
no busine s on hand, the owner of the
stuff annonn e I his determination to
get that tank o:;cn, and three men
were induced to join him in the attempt.
We tried to persuade him to
let it idone, but olf he started. Well,
sir, it wasn't long before we heard the
n.wf f i,?nl, rnii ovor hparfl.
ctvtitui;ao I AplWjj.uu J*-*** ? w.,It
was frightful. We hurried up to
the place, and all we could lind of those
men was to be seen on the trees, little
pieces of their bodies, parts of their
lingers, and so on. "We never knew
what caused the explosion, whether
they had tried to burst open the tank
and thus caused the glycerine inside to
go ofi or how it was."
" Probably you get very careless in
working around the stuff ? was remarked.
"Yes, indeed," lie returned, "we
get so that we think very little about
it?not any more than if it was so
much milk. In fact, it does look something
like milk. A great sport with
the boys is to touch oil the empty cans
with a fuse. One of our men was very
careful, and in consequence he was
made considerable fun of by the rest.
He always used a very long fuse. But
one day, in consequence of the ridicule,
he said that he would try a short
enough fuse. So he took some empty
cans, made a fuse shorter than we ever
used, and touched it oil'. lie started
to run, but he had not gone far, when
he stumbled and fell, and as he did so
the cans went off. "Well it was a
mighty lucky thing for him that he
fell, or he would have been blown to
pieces. As it was he was completely
riddled with tin. It was as though he
had on a coat of mail?he was so
coated. lie did not get over that for
many a montn, ana ne always ?<uu
that he would never be such a fool
again, no matter how long it took to
touch off a can."
41 IIow high salaries do you paypretty
good V"
441 can get all the men I want for
$75 a month," he answered, 44 and always
have more applications than
places."
44 Why do you . ay in such Dusiness?"
44 It's a good paying business and
needs but little help. 1 earned $10,000
the. first few months, and expect to
clear much more in the next few. I
attend to the l ooks and the business
now myself, but I know every branch,
andean take hold at any time if our
help runs short, and go to work myself.
I .1111 now going on to see about
a contract we have for opening a tunnel
in the east."
,4IIow do you got the ntuff to them
?by railroad?'
" Oh, no; we don't send them the
fluid. "We furnish only the solid?the
dynamite. That is harmless enough.
If you should put a little on the floor
there and touch it off it would merely
lla-di like powder. You see it won't
do to use the liquid around a railroad
where there :ire so many workmen,
many of Ihein ignorant or wnau is
being done, It will do at the oil wells,
for there the men have got used to it
and know enough to get out of tho
way when we are going to 'blow in.'
In "taking the glycerine around wo
have to use wagons made especially
fcr it. They are made with compartments
und' r the seat lined with cotton,
and in these the cans are placed.
1 remember the first tim?3 I. rode on
one of these wagons. The fellow who
drove rattled along as though we had
only a load of cabbages. lie laughed
when I tried to get 1dm to drive more
carefully. l'o >r fellow! his time
came. IIo was driving along one day
with a friend. In going by a bad
place in the road the wagon tipped.
His friend sprung out just in time, for
over the wagon went."
"Well, were they hurt?"
"They nevor found anything of the
driver, horse or wagon,'' he answered,
j " ijut a few scraps. His friend, however,
wasn't hurt a bit."
" Did you ever have to carry any of
the stuff yourse'f
" Well, I should say so," he replied.
"And I carrie I it in a leaking can. I
t.> iiwiL- in tho nlacfi whnre the
* auiivvu vw x
stuff was arid found it was leaking for
a i it was worl'.i. A1 out half had been
spilled. I looked beneath the wagon
and saw that the spring was completely
covered. I can tell you I drove r. ighty
carefully the rest of the way."
The reporter remarked that it was a
dangerous experiment.
"Oh, well, the stuff had to bo delivered,"
the man modi stly replied. ' ]
remember once we had to deliver a
couple of cans and there was no one to
do it. At last I got mad and sa d 1
would do it myself. So I shouldered
them and started off. It was rather
slippery and I had to walk pretty carefully.
Notwithstanding this, however,
I stepped on a piece of ice and felt
myself falling. Well, I don't believe I
over th ught quicker in my life. I
knew what the ressult would lie if
those cans struck; so I just put all
inv strength in mv arms. and.
straightening them out, held thi;
cans over my head. I
struck the ground, but the cans were
sale. Well, sir, 1 wasn't a hit scared.
Some way or otlv r I retained perfect
self-possession. Jiut as soon as tho
danger was over 1 fainted dead away.
The* horror of the whole thing and my
narrow escape Hashed over me then."
"The temperature makes a difference
with the i'xplosivene?s of the
glycerine, doesn't it?"
" ()h, yes; if it cun 1) kept cool there
is little danger. Jiut we try to keep
it above fifty, or it will freeze. That
would no* do, for some would be likely
to remain in the cans after emptying
them."
" Why, wouldn't it be a scheme to
have the cans paked in ice? llavo
regular refrigerators for them, so to
speak."
lie smiled a pitying sort of a smile,
and said: "It would bo too much
trouble. When persons are careful
there is little danger."
"But they are not careful. Themoro
they work around it the more careless
they become?so you say."
" Well, that's a fact. 1 have seen
some very foolhardy things done. 1
saw a fellow shoot at some empty cans
to explode them when a number of
other o;ins was standing iiimi. r.igni
persons beside himself were killed by
the explosion."
Our city editor is under bond fci
shooting at the man who rame into the
office and asked if ho " was in the
write, place."?Sjnwgjleld (O.) Sunday
civs.
At a prayer meeting the other night
the burden of the remarks was about
those who had died recently. There
was some smiling when the deacon in
charge then said: "We will close by
singing 'Praise God from Whom all
blessings How.'"?Boston Globe.
Did you ever notice the warning
" Paint," posted on a door, that you
didn't feel the matter with your linger
just to find out if it wasn't dry enough
to take down the sign ? You probably
never did. It would be contrary to
human nature.?Rochester Express.
A journalist's club?Thelead pencil.
" .
THE BAD BOY'S AMBITION.
HE RETIRES FROM THE SOB A
WATER BUSINESS.
Anil Obtains a Permanent Position a* a
Snper In a Theatre. Intending to Become
a Sccond Booth.
" You look sleepy," said the grocery
man to the bad boy, as he came in the
store yawning, and stretched himself
out on the counter with his head on a
pile of brown wrapping paper, in reach
of a box of raisins; " what's the matter?
Been sitting up with your girl
all night V"
" Xaw ! I wish I had. Wakefulness
with my girl is sweeter and more restful
than sleep. No, this is the result
of being a dutiful son, and I am tired.
You see pa and ma have separated.
That is, not for keeps, hut pa has gut
frightened about burglars, and he goes
.1 IT? if
up II1W) wits iitin; Hi sii'trjj. 11c o*\ja iu
is to get fresh air, but lie knows better.
Ma ha; got so accustomed to pa's
snoring that she can't go to sleep
without it, and the fir.-1 night pa lelt
she didn't sleep a wink, and yesterday
1 was playing on an old a-cordion
tliiit I traded a dog collar for
after our dog was poisoned, and when
1 touched the low notes I noticed ma
dozed off to sleep, it sounded f-o much
like pa's snore, and last night ma made
me set up and play for her to sleep.
She rested splendid, but I am all broke
up. and I sold the accordion this morning
to the watchman who watches our
block, it is queer what a different
effect mu-ic will have on different people.
While ma was sleeping the sleep,
of innocence under the influence of my
counterfeit of pa's snore, the night
watchman was liroke of his rest by it,
and he bought it of me to give it to the
son of an enemy of his. Well, I have
quit jerking soda."
li 4^11 fl.O
JKJ11 \l\JU U icu Hiry, OU1U u.?Vv
grocery man, as ho moved the box of
raisins out of reach. " You never will
amount to anything unless you stick
to one trade or profession. A rolling
hen never catches the early angleworm."
" Oh. but 1 am all right now. In the
soda business there is no chance for
genius to rise, unless the soda fountain
explodes. It is all wind, and one gets
tired of constant fizz. lie feels that
he is a fraud, and when he puts a little
syrup in a tumbler and lires a Jittls
sweetened wind and water in it, until
the soapsuds fill the tumbler, and
charges ten cents for that which only
costs a cefit, a sensitive soda jerker,
who has reformed, feels that it is worse
than three-card lmnte. I couldn't
stand the wear on my conscience, so I
have got a permanent job as a super,
and shall open the first of September."
"Say, what's a super? It isn't one
of these free lunch places, that the
mayor closes at midnight, is it?'' and'
the grocery man looked sorry.
"Oh, thunder, you want salt on you
A super is an adjunct to the stage. A
supe is a fellow that assists the stars
and things, carrying chairs and taking
up carpets, and sweeping the sand off
the slage after a dancer has danced a
jig, and he brings beer for the actors,
and does anything that he can to add
to the effect of the play. Privately,
now, I have bet n acting as a supe for
a long time, on the sly, and my folks
didn't know anything* about it, but
since I reformed anil decided to be
good, I felt It my duty to tell ma and
pa about it. The news broke ma all
up, at first, but pa said some of the
best a tors in this country were supes
once, and some of them were now, and
he thought suping would be the making
of me. Ala thought going on the stage
would be my ruination. She said the
ineaire was me noiueu 01 siu, ?iuu i
brought more ruin than the church
could head off. Jiut when 1 told her1
that they always gave a supe two or
three extra tickets for his family, she
said the theatre had some redeeming:
features, and when I Fail my entrance I
upon ti.e .stage would give me a splendid
opportunity to get the recipe for
face powder from the actresses,for ma,
and I could find out how the actresses
managed to get number four feet into'
number one shoes, ma said she wished
I would commence suping right off
Ma says there are s >me things about
the theatre that are not so aliired bad,
and she wants me to get seats for the
first comic opera that comes along. Pa
wants it understood with the manager
that a supe's father has a right to go
behind the scenes to see that no harm
befalls him, but I know what pa wants,
lie may seem pious, and all that, but lie
likes to look at ballet girls better than;
any meek and lowly follower I ever
see, and some day you will hear musici
in the air. Pa thinks theatres are!
very bad, when he has to pay a dollar!
for a reserved seat, but when he caq
get in for nothing as a relative of one
of the 'perfesh,' the theatre has many
redeeming qualities. 1 'a and ma think
I am going into the business fresh and
green, but I know all about it. "When}
I played with McCullough here
once?"
"Oli, what you giving us," said
the grocery man in cli.-gust, " when
you played with McCullough ! What
did you do ?"
"What did 1 do? Why, you old
seed cucumber, the whole play centered
around me. Do you remember the
scene in the lioman l'orum, where McCullough
addressed the populace of
Koine. I was the ropulace. Don't
you re:11ember a small feller standing
in front of tiio Roman orator taking
it in; with a night shirt on, with bare'
legs and arms? That was me, and
everything depended on me. Suppose
I had gone off the stiige
at the critical moment, or laughed
when I should have looked fierce at the
inspired v ords of the lioman senator,'
it would have been a dead give away
on McCullorgh. As the populace of
1> T .. frlii + nrmrr
iiuiliu J. ^i/uoiviv;! iiijomi. (I ^Uiv<
success, and Mc took me by the hand
when they curried Ciesar's dead body
out, and lie said,'us three did ourselves
proud.' Such praise from McCullough
is seldom accorded to a
supe. Hut I don't consider the populac
of the imperial city of Rome my
masterpiece. Where I excel is in
coining out before the curtain l>etween
the acts and unhooking the
carpet. Some mi pes go out and turn
their backs to the audience, showing
patches on their pants, and rip up the
carpet with no style about them, and
the dust Hies, and the boys yell 'supe,'
and the supe gets nervous and forgets
his cue, and goes off tumbling
over the carpet, and the. orchestra
leader is afraid the supe will fall
on him. But I go out. with a quiet
dignity that is only gained by experience,
and I take hold of the < arpct the
way Ifamlet takes up the skull of
Yorick, and the audience is para'yzed.
I kneel down on the carpet, to unhook
it, in a devotional sort of a way that
makes the audience bow their hea's
as though they were in church, ami
before they realize t! at I am only a
supe I have the carpet unhooked and
march out. They never 'guy' me,
cause I act well my part."
' Well, I'd like togol ehind the scenes
"with you some night," said the grocery
man, offering the had hoy an orange to
get solid with him. in view of future
complimertary tickets. "No dangir,
is there?'
" Xo danger if you keep off the
grass. Some time next fall you put on
a clean shirt and a pair of sheet iron
pants, with stove legs on the inside,
and 1 will take you behind the scenes
to see some good moral show. In the
meantime, if you have < ceiision to talk
with pa, tell him that Mouth, and 15arrett,
and Keenc commenced on the
stage as supes, and Salvini roasted
peanuts in the lobby of some theatre.
I want our folks to feel that I am
I ' ' i i . i ,
i taKing tno ngnt course to neco.uc ;i
star. I prythe an reservoir. I go
liens, but to return. Avaunt!" And
tlie bad boy walked oit on liis toes u
la JJoutli.?Peck's hiiii.
Effect or Had Literature.
On an Arkansas railroad, an old
gentleman sat, half asleep, with a bnok
entitled " The Train Robbers " lying
on his lap. Pretty soon lie sank to
sleep. The window sash fell with a
loud report and the old man, springing
to his fett and throwing up his hands,
exclaimed: "Gentlemen, l.haven'tgot
a cent."?Arkaiisnw Tranter.
The gold annually taken from the
Siberian mines is estimated to be worth
$(>,000,000. The discovery of tin;
metal in that country was made at the
beginning of the present century.
/
" ' , .
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
M. G. Foussereau has proven that
the tempering of glass diminishes the ;
resistance of that substance to elec- :
tricity, and consequently lessens its :
efficiency for insulating purposes. On
the other hand, annealing tempered
glass restores its higher resistance.
M. Angot has been investigating
the iniluence of altitude upon vegetation.
lie finds that the harvest time
for winter wheat is retarded in France
four days, on an average, for every inr.rPMft
of nhmit, :lr)0 fpct. in t.hfi heicrht
~ """ ~? "vv" ? ? o
of the land above the level of the sea.
An interesting mountain exploration
is being attempted in India. Two
mountaineers, one an experienced
Swiss guide, have left Darjeeling with
the purpose of reaching the highest
possible point on the great Kinchinjinga,
one of the very loftiest peaks of
the globe.
The importance to tree-growth of
an abundance of water is well illustrated
by an observation of M. Capus.
In the botanic garden at Samarcande,
Turkestan, an Ailanthus glandulosus
grew about eight inches during the
lirst year, thirteen inches the second
and thirty-five inches in the third.
The soil was not irrigated during these
three years, but in the fourth year,
when irrigation water was supplied,
the growth of the tree was over thirty
feet.
From wood shavings and paper Herr
Ileilemann makes plates, dishes, etc.,
as follows: Selected plane shavings
are bound into bundles and steeped
inf-n n 1int.li nf ivnalf frphit.infl solution
about twenty-four hours, then dried
and cut into suitable lengths. Plates
are cut of strong paper or thin pasteboard
of the size of the objects to be
produced. These are moistened with
a liquid consisting of weak gelatine
solution with sodium waterglass, and
pressed in heated metallic molds.
After drying, the pressed-paper objects
are coated on both sides with an
adhesive material made of five parts
Russia gelatine and' one part thick
turpentine; the shavings are applied
to them, and the whole is subject to
pressure. "Wood shavings alone would,
because of their unequal thickness,
present uneven surfaces. The objects
are then cut, dried and varnished.
The Pagodas of Japan.
An instance of the way in which
man adapts himself to his surroundings
is shown by the Japanese in the
construction of their pagodas. These
curious buildings are the most remarkable
specimens of Eastern architecture.
They often rise to a great height, and,
although they are built in a land where
earthquakes are severe and frequent,
some of them have stood unimpaired
for six or seven hundred years. Any
tall building of brick or stone would
certainly be overthrown by an earthquake;
therefore the pagodas are built
of wood, and in a manner which
evinces the great ingenuity of Japanese
architects. A traveler thus describes
one which he visited:
"When I first ascended I was struck
with the amount of timber employed
in its construction; and I could not
help feeling that the material here
wasted was even absurdly excessive.
But what offended my feelings most
was the presence of an enormous log
of wood, in the center of the structure,
which ascended from its base to its
apex. At the top this mass of timber
was nearly two feet in diameter, and
lower down a log equally large was
bolted to each of the four sides of this
central mass. I was so surprised with
this waste of timber that 1 called the
attention of my good friend Sakata to
the matter, and especially denounced
the use of the center block. To my
astonishment lie told me that the
structure must be strong to support
the vast central mass. In my ignorI
ance I replied that the center part was
not supported by the sides, but upon
reaching the top I found this monstrous
central mass suspended like a
clapper of a bell; and when I descended
I could, by lying on the ground, see
that there was an inch of space intervening
between it and the earth, which
formed the door of the pagoda. By its
clever construction it is thus enabled
tn rpt:iin its vertical nosition even dur
ing the continuation of earthquake
shocks; for, by the swinging of this
vast pendulum, the center of gravity
is kept within the biise. I now understood
the reason for that lavish use of
timber which I had so rashly pronounced
to be useless; and I see that
there is a method in Japanese construction
which is worthy of high appreciation.
The Shadows of Krai Life.
A gentleman witnessed the following
piteous little drama in a market in
Cincinnati. A lady richly dressed
stood before a stall, and as she received
a package from the pale, care-worn
little market woman, said kindly:
" How is your little girl to-day?"
" She is dead," the woman answered.
" Oh, how sorry I a'ii,' with still
greater gentleness; "when did she
die?"
" This morning."
"And you !"?
"Yes, ma'am; I had to come or lose
to-day's sides. I couldn't afford to do
it?there are the other children to be
provided for." The pale little woman
laid her thin, toil-warped hands down
on the rough boards with a pathetic
gesture, and her sunken eyes wandered
along the line of flaring lights. " It
was a hard thing to do," she said,
simply. The poor are poor even in
words.
It is asserted that 5,000 young men
and women break down every year
through the excessive strain imposed
on them in London shops, where, it is
said, the average hours of labor of twothirds
of the shop assistants are from
twelve to fifteen hours daily.
It is estimated that there are 18,000,000,000
feet of white pine nowstanding
in the lower peninsula of
Michigan, while in the upper peninsula
there are probably not less than
5,000,000,000 feet,
"Do Likewise."
Dr. R. V. Pikhce, Buffalo, N. Y.: "Five
yc-ar.s ago I was n dreadful sufferer from
uterine troubles. Having exhausted the skill
of three physicians, I was completely discouraged,
and so weak I could with difficulty
cross the room alone. I began taking your
'Favorite Prescription' and using the local
treatment recommended in your ' Common
Sense Medical Adviser.' In three months I
was perfectly cured. I wrote a letter to my
family paper, briefly mentioning how my
health had been restored, and offering to send
the full particulars to anyone writing mo for
them (ind inclosing a stumped envelope for
reply. I havo received over four hundred letters.
In reply, I have described my case and
the treatment UBed, and earnestly advised
them to ' do likewise.' From n great many I
have received second letters of thanks, stating
that they had commenced the treatment
and were much better already."?Mbs. E. F.
Moboan, New Castle, Me.
Bun an/, a MackkyIkis bought Victor Emanuel's
country scat iu Italy for $1(W,000.
When your wife's health is bad, when your
children aro sickly, when you feel worn out,
use Brown's Iron Bitters.
Tin-: Presbyterians have eighty-eight place
of worship iu Philadelphia.
Dr. Pierce's "Pellets," or sugar-coated
granules?the original "Little Liver Pills,"
(bewaro of imitations)?cure sick and bilious
headache, cleanso the stomach and bowels,
and purify the blood. To get genuine, seo
Iv. Pierce's signature and portrait on Government
stamp. 25c. per vial, by druggists.
Vor.taiite's house in France is now used
as a depository for Bibles.
Wolfebville, N. C.?Dr. I. C. McLaughlin
says: "I used Brown's Iron Bitters for vertigo,
and I now feel liko a now man."
Why does a man sneeze three times? Because
he cannot help it.
"Ileauty Unndorncd '(with Pimple*) Is
Adorned the .Uirnt.
If you desiro a fair complexion freo
from pimples, blotches and eruptions, take
"Golden Medical Discovery." By druggists.
A fkrkviioat is like "a good rule," because
it works both ways.
Ei.kton, Ky.?Dr. E. B. Weathers says: "I
regard Brown's Iron Bitters as a medicine of
unusual worthy
2>i Cents
Will buy a Treatise on the House and His
Diseases. Book of 100 pages, valuablo to
overy owner of horses. Postage stamps taken. .
Sent postpaid. New Yokk House Book Co.,
1!J4 Leonard Streot, New York City.
That 11 ii Ml>n.ii ?I offline
Is thrco times tlie man ho was beforo using
Wells' Health Ronewer. $1. Druggists.
Are you bilious;' Try the remedy that cured
Mrs. Clemeiit, of Franklin, N. H.?Hood's
Sarsaparilla, made in Lowell, Mass.
Stuaiofiten your boots & shoes with Lyon's
Patent Heel StifTeners, and wear them again. J
A WONDERFUL DI8COYEBY.
An Article that Will Make the Bald and
Gray Rejoice.
Many of the hair dressings of the day are
excellent, bat the great mass of the staffs sold
for promoting the growth and bringing back
the original color, are mere hambags, while
not a few are pernicious in their effects upon
the scalp and hnir. The falling oat of the hair
the accumulations of dandruff, sad tin premature
change in color are all evidences of %
diseased condition of the scalp and the glands
which nourish the hair. To arrest these causes
the article used must possess medical as well
as chemical virtues, and the change must begin
under the scalp to be of permanent and
lasting benefit. Petroleum oil is the article
which is made to work such extraordinary
results; but it is after the best refined article
has been chemically treated, and completely
deodorized, that it is in proper condition for
the toilet and receives the name of Carboline. ,
It was in far-off Russia that the effects of pe
iruitJinn upou uie niixr were iirei ouoorvou, u
government officer having noticed that a partially
bald-headed servant of his, when trimming
the lamps, had a habit of wiping his
oil-besmeared hands in his scanty locks, and
the result was, in a few months, a mnch finer
head of black, glossy hair than lie ever had
before. The oil was tried on horses and cattle
that had lost their hair from cattle plague, and
the results were marvelous. Tho manes and
tails of horse.*?, which had fallen out, were
completely restored in a few weeks. These
experiments were heralded to the world, but
no one in civilized society could tolerate the
use of refined petroleum as a dressing for the
hair. But the skill of one of our chemists has
overcome the difficulty, and he has succeeded
in perfecting Carboline, rendering it as dainty
as the famous eau de cologne. Experiments
on the human hair and skin were attended
with the most astonishing results. A few applications,
where the hair was thin and falling,
gave remarkable tone and vigor to the scalp
and the hair. Every particle of dandruff disappears
on the first or second dressing; all cutaneous
disease of the skin and scalp are rapidly
and permanently healed, and the liquid seems
to penetrate to the root of the hair at once. It
is well known that the most beautiful colors
are made from petroleum, and by some mysterious
operation of nature the use of this article
gradually imparts a beautiful light brown
color to tho hair, which by continued use deepens
to black. The color remains permanent,
and the change is so gradual that the most
intimate friends can scarcely detect its progress.
In a word, it is the most wonderful
discovery of the age, and well calculated to
make the prematurely bald and gray rejoice.
Carboline is put up in a neat and attractive
manner and sold by all dealers in drugs and
medicines. Price one dollar a bottle. Kennedy
& Co., Pittsburg, Pa., general agents
for the United States and Canadas.
We advise our readers to give it a trial,
feeling satisfied that one application will
convince them of its wonderful effects.
Why is the Hudson a lazy river? It lies in
bed day and night.
"Rough on Corna."
AskforWells'"Rough on Corns." 15c. Quick
relief; complete cure. Corns, warts, bunions.
The Frnzer Axle GreaM
Is the best in the market. It is the most
economical and cheapest, one box lasting as
long as two of any otner. One greasing will
last two weeks. It received first premium at
the Centennial and Paris Expositions, also
medals at various State fairs. Buy no other.
See Here, Young Men,
that girl of mine is twice as handsome since
she commenced using Carboline, the deodorized
extract of Petroleum, and X would not
be without it for a fortune.
. . Catarrh orttae Blndcler.
Stinging irritation, inflammation, Kidney,
Urinary complaints,cured by Buohupaiba. $1.
If you feel depressed in mind and body, or
have a touch of general debility or malaria,
try Gabteine. It gives tone to the stomach
and promotes thorough digestion. Druggists.
A Veteran Soldier.
w- /i v Rnmr? of Nn. 24 Common Street, Lynn,
Mtti, nays:
"While in the army, at the battle of Spottsylvania, I
(ell while setting over a rail fence and wu badly injured
and left for dead, but after a time I was picked up by
comrades; and upon examination it was found that my
back was badly hurt and my kidney* seriously injured,
and I hare suffered the moat excruciating pain since,
and could obtain no relief although treated by sereral
physicians, and I had given np all hope of getting help
when I was recommended to nse Hunt's Remedy. I
purchased several bottles at one of our drug stores in
Lynn, and began to nse it as directed, and can now
attend to business, and am free from the pains I formerly
bad ; and I wish to say to my friends and comrade*
that Hunt's Remedy will do all that is claimed for it,
and is worthy of all praise. You can nse my testimony
when you have occasion to, as I most heartily recommend
it to all that have kidney oi<Uver troubles."
April 26, 1883.
"Yon May Use IVIy Name."
J desire to inform yon what your valuable medicine
has done for me. I was induced to try it by a member
of our family, "who bad been benefited by its use."
I have suffered terribly from kidney difficulties. At
times I have been vory bad, having severe pains in m>
I back, with general loss of strength and vitality.
** u_ j ?IkW - oftHimnnk of
My urine wne voiy uui, mm ? ?
brick-dust, which was fast leading to gravel. I commenced
using Hunt's Remedy, with a marked improvement
from the start; the pains left, tho urine became
more natural, and I can truly say one boltle ejfeettd a
permanent cure.
I havo rcaommendedit to many persons both here and
in Boston, all of whom speak of it with the highest
praise.
You ire at liberty to use this letter or my name In any
manner you may think best, that other sufferers may
leam tho value of the greatest of all remedies. Most
trulyyours, JOHN F. COX,
63 Pleasant Street.
Maiden, Mas?., April 23, 1883.
An Editor's Testimonial.
A. M. Vaughn, editor of the " Greenwich Eerie*,*
Greonwich, 0., writes: Last January I met with a
very severe accidont, caused by a runaway horse. I
used almost every kind of salve to heal the wounds,
which turned to running sores, but found nothing
j to do mo any (food till I wa? recommended Hehry'a
Carbolic Salve. I bought a box and it helped me at
once, and at the end of two months I was completely
well. It is tho best salvo in tho market, and I never
fall of telling my friends about it, and urge them to
Durno's Catarrh Snuff curoa all affections of the
mucous membrane of tho head and throat.
25 Cents will bay a Tbeatise oji the Hobs* ahe
His Diseases. Book ol 100 pastes, valuable to ereij
owner of horses. Postage stamps taken. Sent postpaid.
Nev Vobk House Book Co., 134 Leonard Street.
100 Doses $L00
Not always serious enough to put one in bed, orerM
within d'jors; the ailments and disorders produced bj
Impure blood are extromely distressing. No article so
thoroughly heals and cures boils and blains, tumors and
swollings, running sores and doll pains, as
Hood's Sarsaparilla
At the same time it is the cheapest. No other prepar*
tion gives one hundred doses for one dollar.
Halfo&d Flsnn, of New York, had so many pimples
and blotches on'his face that he was ashamed. He tried
various remedies without ofTect. Hood's Sarsaparilli
purified his blood, and all blemishes disappeared.
The 8-year-old son of m. M. Rollins, Damariscotta,
He., bad three large fatty bunches on hia neck. Oni
was lan ced and became a painful, running sore. Hood'l
Sarsaparilla, four bottles, made a cure.
For twenty-oud /can Thomas Bennett, of BostCC,
carried a lump on his leg. It itched intolerably and
the sore was to troublesome tbat he wanted to cnt it oat
with his knife. Two bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla
cured the lump.
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A KOTOD BUT UNTITLED WOKAJL, W
prrora tie Boston fflote] .
Xcttrt. Editor* t?
Tho above la a good likeness of Mrs. Lydla E Plnl?
ham, of Lynn, Mass., who above all other human belnfc# E^Hfl
maybe truthfully called tho "Dear Friend of Woman/ B
?ls some of her eoirespondenta lore to call her. Shi
Is zealously devoted to her work, which la the outcome >
of lifo-study, and is obliged to keep lady
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which dally pours in upon her, each Uearlng Its special
burden of Buffering, or Joy a* release from It K"j
Vegetable Compound la a msdlcurf for good an* uot
evil purpose*. I havo personally investigated -and H
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all Ovaj-Lin Trouble*. Inflammation and
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tbe Cbango of lite."
It ponnoatcs every i*>rtton of tbe system, and ffltm
ncit uro a:id v!~or. It remove* faintucs*, flatulency,
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Nervous Procuration, Concral Debility, Sleeplessness
Dcprcff-ion end Jr.dlgcrtlon. T.iat feeling of bearing "
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und^r all cln.'tim.'tar.'.'c, net in luu-mony with the law
that guvi :ns (ho fcwaV: 1731cm.
It costs only 51. per 1-ottIe or six for $3., and is sold by ^BHj
. A::y advice cuuircdas to opcctil coses, and
the names of many who lave been restored to perfect BHI
health ty iho useof tho Vcsotollo Compound, can be VflH
oh'nincd I y tuMroainsJlri r., with stomp for reply,
at her homo In Lynn, Jiasi.
For KJdney Complaint of either act this compound ii
nn"ir;-as'cd as abundant testimonials show.
"'Art. ricUham's Liver Pills," says one writer, * are
:Kr best in the vnrtd for the cure of Constipation,
Hi:j',n?nca3 and Torpidity of the liver. Her Blood
Pi*r??r works wonders in its sprcial line acd bids fair '
to C";ui'. t!:c ron^o,:r. J i.i It' jwpularity.
a:: r ujr r--y <.; I cr us t *i AngU of Mercy whose Mia
\r.i'.!t!3:i' 1 to t}n?iA><l to "'.era.
IN THlT SPRING TIME A I
ETXBTBODT IB TEOUBLZD WITH AXVOTqiO
DISEASES of the LIVER 1
ZM BOIOC rOBH, M
Biliousness, fl
Jaundice, J
Constipation H
or Headache.
? ' ? -1 AU*. <>? ? '<?
J ne mftoraem wnica mwa^b iwuun vimiwiu^ww .
I Aver and Bowels to perform their proper f emotions, oaa
be conquered at once by the one of Kidiuf-Wori, Any
derangement of the bile at once manifests Itself fat |inl
bodily discomfort, In loss of appetite and in despoodeoay. ^^B
SYMPTOMS.
Pain In the right aide which la very sensitive to pm fl^H
sure. The pain will sometime* appear tfi be located vi
nder the shoulder blade. Thero is slso irregular rapelite,
flatulency, a sense of fullness In the nylon of toe
stomach, and sooner or later the skin and whites of the
eyes become yellow, the stools clay-colored and the urine
yellow, dep< siting a copious sediment. There Is genar. ally
a furred tongue, and at time* diarrhoea, and at gH
others obstinate constipation; In short, disordered
functions of the stomach and entire tract of the bowels,
These symptoms, if not speedily gTappled with, wfQ
result in the most senous consequences to the whole BH
eystem, prostrating It and destroying all it? vitality and
energies. When the liver becomes torpid or gives ?vi.
dence of undue activity, a fewdoeeeof Ki<U*y-wortand
a little caution in relation to a diet will restore the .
patient to health and rigor as if by enchantment.,
Host remedies used lor disorders of the liver and bile
act on the wrong principle, as they are simply catiia*
tics, and merely carry otf the accumulated secretions.
fiTKidney-Worl on the contrary goet loth* ttrynttlf
the evil, at it at fi on the liter and Kldneyt at the mm
time, and by its mild but efficient cathartic action more*
the bowels freely. The morbid poisons that have besn
the cause of all this disease anl suffering will be thrown
off, new life will beinfused into every organ, and the <fl|
health-giving forces will again exert their power, M
It is well known that tbe kidneys are nature's sluice* mH
way to wash away the debris and lmpnrttiea that are
being constantly developed in every human system. If
they fail to act freely, health will, soon snffer. But tbe ^B
kidneys cannot perform their own proper offices and at H
the same time eliminate those Imparities that should ^B
pass off by free action of the bowels. How Important it
is, than, to have a remedy that will have the power ta ^B
keep up the natural action of both theae important *
functions.
THIS REMEDY IS KIDNEY-WOBT. M
Have we indicated the trouble that baa harrsased you?
Then use a package of this medicine and be cured.
READ A SAMPLE TESTEJIONIAX- H
"I Prayed God to Deliver Me by Death."
Headquarters Veteran Corps 60th Regiment,)
Armory, Tompkins Market, > ^^b
Nkw Yobx, May 8,188J. )
Gentlemen?I have just commenced on my second bot- y^b
tie Kidney-Wort. I nave but little faith in either doo.
tors or medicine, more particularly m medicines exts? ^Hl
Bivel7 advertised. However. 1 have suffered perhaps as
uo other man has suffered from liver diseaae brocght ^b
on by malaria. 1 suffered for yean, till it became ;
c hrouic. simply from neglect. I have takon quinine an jBH
my bead swam, and m nerrea were totally unstrung. 'H|
Last year 1 went to Lurope to tryand better Its bit - "3^b
came back worse. In reading many of your advertise- 3^1
ments I cams to the conclusion, as a dernier neort. to
try the Kidney-Wort, and did so. After the fourth day
1 sot an attack of tne old malady. I prayed God to
relieve me by death, but kept to the medicine as ordered, BO
and I want to tell you to-day, and aUsnfferamfitoaliw j^b
disease, that the last three weeks I have enjoyed sueh ?good
health as I have not bad in many, many yean. X >
simply write you this that other sufferers may benefit by '^b
it. Very truly yours, HEN BY WARD, ? B
Late Col. 69th Reg., N. O.'8. H. Y.
173 Wost 81de Ave., Jersey City Heights, IT. J.
Lou and Galu.
chapteh z. bh
"I was taken sick a year age
With bilious fever."
"My doctor pronounced me cured, btrt I
got sick again, with terrible pains in my
back and Bides, and I got eo bad I V
Could not morel _
I shrank I 's *!?
From 228 lbs. to 120! I had been aoctanug1 ^
for my liver, but it did me no good. I did . I
not expect to live more than three monthjj. r? I
began to use Hop Bitters. Directly my.apjpe* I
tite returned, my .pains left me,'my ,entire . ' ' I
system seemed renewed as if by magin^asid ; ; I
after using several bottles I am not^dAly as ; \ I
eoond as a sovereign but weigh more than'I - ' 1
did before. To flop Bitters J owe my'lif^ 1
Dublin, June'6,'81. B; Fitzpatbiok* .
.CHAPTEB II. :1'V . !*. ' fl
''Maiden, MM. 'GefittomMr- > WM
I t-nUered with attacifl of slckbe*dathc."
Neuralgia, fe mal e trouble, for yean* in the JH
mofltterribleanaex^datzngtnahner.
No medicine or doctor conld give me ;elief < A
or pure ^ntil I need Ho^ Bitters.' -y' '"M
^Tho first bottle w- M
Nearly cured me;" . . v,irJrt r ;7,
The second made me as well and qttMi as ' I
when a child. .
"And I have been so to this day."
My husband was an invalid for twenty I
veara with a serious f
" Kidney, liver and urinary complaint, 9
"Pronounced by Boston's best physicians-^ I
**5icurablerr- ' a
Seven bottle^ .of your bitters <ju^jW&pfc ^ '".5
and I know of the ' . , ' ;!*V\
"Lives of eight persona" - >" 1 .
In my neighborhood that have been saved
by your bitters.
Ajid many more are using them with great
benefit . . - .
"They almost ..
Do miracles!" ?Mrs. E. D. Slack.
How ro Get Sick.?Expose yourself day
and night; eat too much without exercise; . - '
work too hard without rest; doctor all the
time; take all the vile nostrums advertised,
J and then you will want to know how to get
jcell, which is answered in three words?
Take Hop Bitters!
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