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WELCOME HOME TO THE AUTHOR
?.- OF "SWEET HOME."
BUSIED IN OAK HILL CEMETEBY, WASHINGTON,
D. 0., JUNE 9, 1883.
Oh, dews and flowers of splendid June
With pearls and garlands grace his tomb
Who taught Milan's dear maid the tune
That times the whole world's loving feet,
To which all goiden hearts shall beat,
Where'er they wait or weep or roam,
Of "Home, Sweet Home " forever.
Onr mariner on the Spanish main,
The tattered miner in his tent,
The wanderer on the throbbing plain
Where yellow noons by simoons wheeled
Smite Desolation's flinty shield,
a seconu i>ow ui nujiu uc-m
In " Home. Sweet Home " forever.
And when to bugle and the blast
Where bnttle turns the lilies red,
Through flashing columns standing fast
The soldier cuts his narrow lane
That lets him through to Glory's fane
He hears an angel overhead
Sing ''Home, Sweet Home" forever.
The weary traveler who waits
In twilight's dim and drear abode
The opening of the pearly gates
That some faint ray or friendly star
May shine abroad through doors ajar
And show his fading eyes the road,
Sighs "Home, Sweet Home " forever.
A camp of blue, a camp of gray,
A peaceful river rolled between,
Were pitched two rifle shots away;
The sun had set the west aglow,
The evening clouds were crimson snow,
The twinkling camp fires faintly seen
Across the dark'ning river.
Then floated from the Federal band
The "Spangled Banner's" starry strain.
The grays struck up their " Dixie Land,"
And "Rally Round " and *' Bonny Blue"
And "Red and What" alternate flew?
Ah, no such flights shall cross again
The Rappahannock river!
And then, over the glancing " beam
Of song," a bugle warbled low,
Like some bird startled from a dream,
"Home, Home, Sweet Home," and voices
rang
Ard gray and blue harmonious sang?
All other scngs were like the snow
Among the pines when winds are stilled,
And hearts and voices throbbed and thrilled
With "Home, Sweet Home " forever.
No matter what the flag unfurled
Ah, Dulce Domuin rules the world!
Sweet singer of the song of men,
Thou comest !nte to claim thy own,
But when the daisies rise again
Arrayed in all thy borrowed dust,
The world will hold thy words in tru?t
And ages chant from zone to zone
Thy "Home, Sweet Home " forever.
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The Memnon murmured song, they thought,
When dawning day his lips impressed
And flushing marble warmed and caught
The sweet Ionic of the Greek?
Ah, truer far thy lips shall speak
Nor wait the touch of sun or stars
For thee the night time has no bars?
Welcome, dear heart, and take thy rest
At "Home, Sweet Home " forever.
?Benjamin F. Taylor.
THE HEIRESS.
Adele Fayton gave a vexed little
ir - toss of her liea 1?a gesture intended
to be awfully annihilating to Mr.
Harry Browne, standing on the lower
step of the piazza at the Seaside house.
"Very well, go, of course, Mr.
Browne, if you prefer; but really, I
think it is too bad of you."
" Of course it is," added pretty Miss
Hun:er, with the golden locks and
si*/ baby blue eyes that were considered irresistible
by the generality of the
sterner sex. "Of course it is too bad,
when you know that to a dozen ladies
stopping at the Seaside there are only
such a few gentlemen. I know what
the trouble is, though, don't I, Mr.
Browne? You are tired of us?the
same over and over?and you are reBft'
serving your forces until the much.
talked of and anxiously expected
beauty and heiress arrives upon the
scene."
Harry turned lazily round and
smiled.
" I am afraid I shall have to incur a
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great T15K in (jumwuu^uiiy a iauv, nc
said, good-hum oredlv.
Haughty Adele Fayton flashed him
* a half-indignant, half-sarcastic glance
from her black eyes and said :
"And when this heiress has arrived,
I daresay Mr. Browne will lose all his
interest in his solitary boat rides and
fishing excursions, while we forlorn
maidens get through the day as well
as we can, for lonesomeness. Mr.
Browne, you are selfish."
" Well, yes, rather, if always wanting
the best of everything concerned
is what you call selfish. But I will redeem
my character by proving to you
that which will doubtless set your
hearts at rest. I don't believe in your
wonderful coming beauty and heiress
to begin with, and in the second place,
I would commit hari-kari before I'd
marry an neiress. -> o\v am i viuuicated?"
Ife bowed and walked off, just a little
fo the discomfiture of the ladies on
the piazza?weLt off to the beach
where"~his boat and fishing tackle
awaited him, with more of a disgusted,
impatient look on his face than was
customary with him.
" What a lot of idiots a fellow comes
' across in the course of his life ! Because
a lot of pretty girls lose their
heads when a wealthy beau comes
along, they argue, with a woman's
senseless persistency, that the men are
as mercenary as themselves. Marry an
heiress ! not if she were as beautiful as
?as Venus, and every word she
dropped was transmitted into a ko-hinoor!"
Mr. Browne pushed off in his surfhout
dashing and pluncrins through
the breakers like a'sailor, ''born and
bred. He rowed out a mile or two to
another fishing boat containing a
couple of barefooted boys eight and
ten, with wide-brimmed hats, and
bright, tanned faces and brown eyes.
. A tall lad of sixteen, worried and
anxious-looking, who was evidently
dismayed at the increasing swell of the
sea, and the freshening south wind,
was of this company, and also a young
girl with lovely dark gray eyes?grave
and thoughtful, yet bright "and Hashing
as she looked at Ilarry while he
rowed nearer and nearer in response to
the hallo of the boys.
A decidedly nice-looking girl, hardly
what one would c;ill handsome, and
yet the pure, fair complexion, ever so
lightly suntanned, the scarlet mouth
so tightly closed, the waving, deep
gold-colored hair, thickly braided and
hancinsr down to her waist, and the
glorious gray eyes marie a whole that
Harry Browne quite thoroughly admired
as he pulled alongside and spoke
to her.
" You seem to be in some difficulty,"
he remarked, touching his hat, courteously.
She bowed.
"Joe is rather demoralized, I think.
Therfl is no dantrer. is there'r" Harry
glanced at Joe's scared face, and the
restless antics of the boys in the tiny
boat.
"If you had a man in charge who
knew his business there would be no
shadow of danger. As it is this young
man has no excusefor venturing so far
out."
" We were fishing," she said, in a
pleasant, apologetic way, "and didn't
realize how far we had gone. Well,"
with a troubled look that was more
anxiety than fear, " we must do the
best we can. Perhaps you would tell
Joe what to do with the boat."
Harry replied: "If you will allow
me to exchange places with your pilot
I will row you ashore. I am Harry
Browne, of , brokers, street,
" at present stopping at the Seaside
" house."
"You are very kind, Mr. Browne,
and I will thankfully accept you offer.
Wv nsime is Afav HaTDtT."
She laughed as if the oddness of the
mutual introduction amused her, and
Harry made up bis mind that she was
tho very nicest girl he had met in
- many a day.
"Well, then, Joe, you jump in here
and row yourself to shore. Y ou won't
have any trouble to take yourself only,
will you ?"
? The alacrity with which the lad
changed from the Bella to the Sadie
'i-. was sufficient answer, and neither
Harry nor Mios Harper could' help
Sg^:. smiling as Joe put for the shore.
"I daze say he thought it,was all
.oht-Mav " said Apologetically
"He'd no business to think so,
though. Shall I take you straight back,
Miss Harper, or would you rather fish
awhile longer?"
" If you please, I will go back. Aunt
Jane will be worried about me."
She leaned against the side of the
boat, trailing her hand in the water,
while the two children sat quiet as
mice, watching Harry with awe and
admiration as he pulled long, steady
strokes that sent them spinning along,
while Harry thought :
"She is the most sensible girl I ever
came across. Pretty, modest, dignified,
pleasant, with no sham reserve about
her. any more than too much freedom.
And what a thorough lady she is ! I '
know it as well as if I h;td met her a
thousand times."
And May, sitting opposite him,
watching the water as it danced and
sparkled, thought if ever there was a
true gentlemen in manner, speech and
action, it was this handsome stranger
who was rowing her to shore.
" Will you tell me opposite to which
hotel I am to row you?" ho said, as,
after ;i most delightful hour's conversation,
he rested on his oars and waited
her commands.
She laughed.
"Oii.no, not at any hotel. I am
stopping at one of the fishermen's cottages,
about two miles further down,
on your left."
Harry was delighted with the prospect
of c< ntinuing with her.
" Yes, I know where you mean. The
place we call Sandy Ueach."
"Yes; and you can't imagine how
lovely itis there?old-fashioned, rather
crowded quarters, to he sure, but with
not the faintest vestige of anything
like fun or style."
"And you actually are boarding
there, Miss IlarperV Why didn't you
come to one of the hotels?the Seaside,
for instance? It's a nice house, and
pleasant company is there."
May smiled.
" Not I. I came to the seashore to
enjoy myself and get away from fashion
and dress and tiresome people."
"And you have succeeded in enjoying
yourself at Sandy lieaeh:"
"Admirably, these four weeks. You
are the first devotee of the world that
I have seen since 1 came here.''
Iler dark gray eyes sparkled misI
,1 r> iiornss
vmevousiy miu g?iv ... ...
at him.
"Is that really so? I hope, then,
you will not condemn yourself to such
, isolation any longer?at least from me.
May I join in your solitary amusement,
Miss Harper?"
A faint (lush crept softly over her
rare pale face as she said :
" I am not sure Will and Ben will
agree to such an arrangement. They
are my inseparable companions in my
rambles," and she looked at the two
little lads
Harry gravely pro luced a handful
of pennies which lie gave them.
"Now, young gentlemen, may I
escort you and Miss Harper on a
charming excursion 1 know of tomorrow
?"
"I must make it conditional, then,"
said May, laughing. "Promise me
you won't tell any one there is anybody
down at Sandy B a<-h, will you?
Occasionally fishing parties ome to
arrange with Uncle .John?1 call them
Uncle John and Aunt .Jane .Jackson?
horrible, isn't it??but 1 always contrive
that no one sees me, for I am
determined not to be drawn into
society this summer, if can help it. 1
don't want to see company."
" Hut you don't regard me as company?"
I " Vn " shp. renlied. "I don't regard
yen as company." j
After that it was all up with Harry
.Browne, and he went back to the Seaj
side house acknowledging that he was
i in love at last, and with an unknown,
j obscure gi.l, who, doubtless for other I
j reasons than her dislike for society, j
j perhaps for pecuniary reasons, was j
{ staying at Sandy Beach. He liked her
I all the better for it: he horn r: d Irr
good sense, and he fell over head and
ears in love.
The next three weeks were the most
blessed ones he ever had spent in his
life. He disgusted A dele Fayton and
her friends daily by his persistent
neglect of them. He continued his
solitary excursions?solitary till he
came to Sandy Beach, where May was
always ready to accompany him, or
entertain him, or bewitch him, until
one day he told her he loved her dearly,
and that it was the one wish of his
l life to have her for his wife.
And M?.y, with her soft eyes shaded
with the tenderness of love and trust i
unspeakable, looked in his handsome
face and told him she had loved him j
from the moment he had rowed up be- j
side her that summer day.
As he took her in his arms and imI
n lnrop'u L-ic< on lif?r TV(1 ]il)-?
?S11111VVI U 4VIV4 ? iwwv v.. ..w. ?k- - .
and put his arm around her sliin
waist, his heart gave great throbs of
thanksgiving for this blessing on him.
*****
The piazza of the Seaside house was
a bewildering, bright si-2ne, with the [
gayly-dressed girls standing in earnest;
conversation as Harry Browne came j
up to the house.
Adele Fayton tossed her pretty dark j
head saucily.
" There ! Didn't I say Mr. Browne
would be on hand to greet the heiress?
You men can't withstand such a golden I
temptation. Mr. Browne, she has ar-1
rived at last."
"She? Who?"
Adele laughed sarcastically.
' There isn't the least use in your |
pretending you don't know what I i
mean. You know I mean the heiress."
Harry smiled?a sort of pity coming '
over him as he remembered how much
happier he was than the one who !
should be fortunate with this wonder- i
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lui newcomer.
" Yes, I really had forgotten. Ar-1
rived, h:is she?"
Bertha Hunter went up to him in
her gushing manner.
"I prophesy you will lie the very
first to go wild over her. She is just
what 1 imagine you will like. Great,
dark-gray eyes anil the goldeuest hair ;
and S'? romantic ; I wonder you never
came across her in your solitary rambles.
She has been staying down at j
old Jackson's cottage all summer; but j
then May Harper always had curious j
ideas. At all events, she is here
now, and I am dying to introduce you, J
Mr. Browne ''
He stood confounded for a moment
while he tried to realize it.
May, his darling, the heiress whom j
he had declared he would rather commit
suicide than marry V May, in her;
cheap, bluellannel suits,with no gloves
or veil on her hands or face, she the j
great heiress whose movements and
sayings were chronicled in the daily
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papers ? >\ uusr uiwscs DHCWJUWI ut
less favored mortals, whose presence
was as welcome as the sunshine?'
44 And she is pretty, too," Adele Fay-1
ton said, a little venomously, as if it
were quite a shame. " I saw her as
she went to her room."
Harry glanced composedly up at the
array of faces and said :
"I am glad you think May is pretty.
I think she is the loveliest girl living.
.So you did not know that I was engaged
to her?-'
There followed a lull in the merry
chatter that eloquently expressed the
dumbfounded astonishment of Harry's
announcement.
'Twas Ever Thus.
Nearly all the great statesmen of the
present day can look back to the time
when they would rather stand in the
mud and water up to their knees and
fish for bull-heads than help plant potatoes
in the best garden in the country.
Fven the best kind of a boy, who
is willing to work like a major at any
other season of the year, seems to have
a fearful falling out with all manner
of labor in the spring. Hut somehow
the spring garden is made eaf-h year,
and the boy grows uu to manhood, and
finally has a boy of his own, and a
garden that demands attention ; then
it seems that when he wants his 1 oy
to help in the garden, and fifteen minutes
later finds him in the street plaving
marbles, he forgets how it was
when Je was a boy himself, and b"
argues with his boy with a hoe-handle.
'Twas ever thus.?Peck's Hun.
Messrs. Minkaiaa & Co., publishers
of Arnheiin, in Holland, have begun
printing their publications in blue ink
on a light green paper. This method,
they state, gives great relief to the eye
of the reader* j
THE LIFE OF A DIVER.
BLOWING UP TWO HTT27DBED CHILIANS
WITH A riSH TORPEDO.
SnonkiiK Sharks nn ui nut niibi,id the torpedoes work?"
" I shall never forget the explosion
that I witnessed at C'allao, which is
the seaport of Limn, about nine miles
| oil', and possessing one of the linest
j harbors in the world. I ha I sunk a
I fish torpedo, as it is called, in the main
i hannel, and the engineer, noting that
I great many merchant vessels were
I ntering the harbor, feared that the
! wrong parties might be blown up, and
| 1 was ordered to take it up. I did so,
i and placed it in the arsenal. About
this time a Chilian transport landed
1.500 cavalry horses a few miles distant,
and lay out on the outer edge of
the harbor. A drunken sailor with
some war experience offered his services
to the Peruvians to blow the
transport up, and he did it in a most
hellish manner. Taking the torpedo
from the arsenal, he put it in a common
yawl, and so arranged by the aid
of floats that as soon ;is the cargo from
the yawl was discharged the torpedo
woul.l explode. lie repaired to the
market aud loaded the yawl withjevcry
variety of tropical fruit, piled high up
above the water's edge. Then procuring
a small tug he steamed across the
harbor, near to the Chilian transport,
as if he were crossing the harbor with
a loud of fruit. The Chilian transport
fired a blank, and the yawl was cut
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lunisr. JJUilLS UUUi im: minium UIIU.Iport
immediately shot out to secure the
prize. It was brought up alongside,
and tl.e fruit unleaded. The fish had
nibhed at the bait. Then came thrmost
terrific explosion I ever heard. It
seemed as il' haif the harbor had blown
up. The vessel wasa complete wreck:
not a soul escaped, and over 'J00 Chilians
were blown to pieces and drowned.
I saw some of the bodies that came
ashore, and tln-y were all disfigured
beyond recognition; all blackened, the
eyeballs were burst open, and the llcsli
cracked as if by the concussion. I do
not think a more fiendish piece of
work was ever devised. JJut it taught
the Chilians a lesson. They kept out
of the harbors of Peru where we had
put torpedoes, and they did not hanker
after any more boats laden with
fruits."
" Did you not fear the sharks in your
diving expeditions?"
" That is a subject about which
then; is a great deal of humbug. Old
sailors with lots of idle time on their
hands love to spin yarns about the
snark. The shark is a cowardly fish.
He never attacks one unless you provoke
the quarrel. 1 have met thousands
of them, and had them swim all around
me, with the r horrid, glassy, death
likes eyes glaring at me, anuineir jiuge
mouths under their belly snapping jis
j though it was ready to swallow me.
The noise that the air makes roaring
j into the shell frightens them, and then
they si-e that the man is moving about.
At Callao Harbor, which is a regular
sharks' nest, 1 went down forty feet or
I more, and met lots of these ocean
i devils, but none of them offered to moI
lest me. At first I thought it very
I dangerous, as the slaughter houses at
Callao project over the harbor, and all
I the offal is thrown into the water,
j which, of course, the sharks are greedy
after. The shark has to turn onto his
l back before he can strike you, and
were I attacked by one 1 should lie
down on my face at the bottom of the
ocean and be perfectly safe. The most
voracious of all the shark family is the
green shark, and the harbor of Callao
was fairly alive with these monsters.
Divers have various expedients ior
avoiding these animals, and one was
told me on the Peruvian co;ist: A
diver was at work on the wreck of a
Spanish man of war in West India
waters. A safe containing $3,000,01)0
was the object of his search, and after
hours of patient labor the treasure was
found. While lie was shackling heavy
iron chains to the treasure box a dark
shadow, long and motionless, suddenly
attracted his attention. Looking upward
he saw a huge spotted shark,
twenty feet long, poised above and
watching every movement as a cat
does a mouse. The diver forgot about
the $-5,000,000, and, walking a short
distance, was on the point of signaling
to the tender to pull him up, when a
glance convinced him that it would
lie sure death. The shark watched his
every movement, and, with a scarcely
perceptible movement of his tail, overshadowed
bis victim with his huge
proportions. Xever before had the
diver more need of coomess and nerve,
together with his wits about him. lie
spie l a long layer of mud close at hand
and he moved'toward fcit. The shark
followed, gliding stealthily toward him, [
while a thrill of horror ran through 1
his veins. With an iron bar he stirred
the mud, which rose thick and fast
above him ; the clear, golden light of
the water disappeared, and the diver
escaped.
"The only scare I ever had with a
fish was when I first went down off
the South American coast. I had a
great big crowbar in my hand, which,
perhaps, was about a foot or eighteen
inches below my feet. Just beneath
me lay a huge cuttlefish fast asleep.
Of course 1 did not see him, and the
crowbar went clear through him. The
cuttlefish has a peculiar mode of
atta'-k. lie discharges a black humor,
which makes the water look like ink.
The first thing I knew it wiis black all
around me. I could not see my hand
before my face. I couldn't imagine
what had broken loose, and I signaled
to pull me up. The natives all laughed
and told me it was only a cuttlefish.
Not long after the cuttlefish was
worked ashore and there was my
crowbar gone clear through him."
Cutting: the Hair.
Dr. Shoemaker says it may lie that
cutting and shaving may for the time
increase the action of the growth, hut
it has no permanent effect either upon
the hair bulb or hair sa;-, and will not
in any way add to the life of the hair.
On the contrary, cutting and shaving
will cause the hair to grow longer for
the time being, but in the end will
inevitably shorten its term of life by
exhausting the nutritive action of the
hair-forming apparatus. When the
| hairs are frequently cut they will
usually become coarse, often losing the
beautiful gloss of the fine and delicate
hairs. The pigment will likewise
change?brown, for instance, becoming
chestnut, and black changing to a dark
brown. In addition, the ends of very
many will be split and ragged, presenting
a brush-like appearance. If
the hairs appear stunted in their
growth upon portions of the scalp or
beard, or gray hairs crop up here and
there, the method of the clipping off
the ends of th? short hairs, or plucking
out the ragged, withered and gray
hairs, will allow them to grow stronger,
longer and thicker. Mothers, in rearing
their children, should not cut their
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mur at certain periods 01 uic ^t-cn
C during the superstitious period of full
moon), in order to increase its length
and luxuriance as they bloom into
womanhood and manhood. This habit
of cutting the hair of children brings
evil in place of good, and is also condemned
by the distinguished worker in
this department. Professor Kaposi, of
Vienna, who states that it is -well
known that the hair of women who
possess luxuriant locks from the time
of girlhood never again attains its
original length after having once been
cut. Pincus has made the same observation
by frequent experiment, and
he adds that there is a general opinion
that frequent cutting of the hair increases
its length; but the effect is
different from that generally supposed.
Thus, upon one occasion he stated that
he cut off circles of hair an inch in
diameter on the heads of healthy men,
and from week to week compared the
intensity of growth of the shorn place
with the rest of the hair. The result
was surprising to this close and careful
observer, as he found in some cases
the numbers were equal, but generally
the growth became slower after cutting,
and he has never observed an increase
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in rapidity, i nugui ;u*u f water, and can remain out of the
water for twenty minutes anil more
without injury. Giraud brought 100
of these fish from China, and although
during the tedious journey he was not
able to give them suflicient roo:u or
the necessary care and nourishment?
twenty-two of them lived.
Ik-necke says that in May of the
year 1878 he obtained a pair of paradise
fish. They were placed in a basin
containing about forty liters of water.
They immediately went to work to
devour the small crawfish and larva*
of insects which had been placed in the
vessel. After these were consumed
two crawfish, water fleas and mussels
were put in. They mussels they had
not received before, and evidently had
never eaten them, for at first they only
took hold of the little anima'sand then
released them with a shake of the
l?,t nftor a ilir fir fWO t.hl'V fin.'""
ate the mussels, leaving the wfcter fle^n
placid in the basin unmolested. One
day no mussels could be obtained, and
they ate greedily not only small but
very large angle-worms, from live to
eight centimeters long andtsvo millimeters
thick. They always rejected
the intestines of the worms. When
the worms were put in the basin as
they were taken from the ground they
would shake them two or three times,
then let them go, then throw them
around in the water, in order to shake
oil' the dirt before eating them. I f the
worm struggled, they would sling it
against the water plants or the sides
of the basin.
Hot Weather Suggestions.
If we can cool ourselves, keep the
heat pressure from the top of the head
in our tropical summer weather by
nroner diet, surely all who have to
work, either with brain or muscle,
should know how this is done. One of
our active octogenarians, Mr. Eli K.
Price, is quoted as saying: " 1 am as
watchful as to my food as is the smelter
of iron, that his furnace shall not
chill or choke." It is rather a matter
of " choke " with most people in summer;
that is, their food is heavier and
more heat-making than is needful, and
their drinks in many cases as extravagant
and more hurtful than it would
be to keep the furnace lires going in
the house when the thermometer
stands at ninety-eight degrees in the
shade. Boards of health publish each
season hints for feeding babies; but
grown folks are equally in need and
quite as destitute of information upon
proper marketing for broiling weather.
There are cases known to physicians
where a skim-milk diet is more nourishing
than the richest food, and the
hot weather needs of the average American
worker point to the direction of
the lighter foods, with heavier purses,
according to judgment, used. Xot
fasting, not privation, not scantiness,
but the foods that will do the most
good with the least exhibition of body
tuel, are wanted. Above all is the digestive
comfort that keeps the head
level and cool in the days when heaturn
nvnorfeil in cities. while
the farmer, at work in the exposed
fields, does not have to look out for
them. Hot weather has its abundant
physical uses, if only it is taken in
the right way.?Philadelphia Ledger.
Three Acres of Effffs.
A Santa Barbara (Cal.) fisherman
has discovered, near San Miguel island, .
a smaller island, about three acres in .
extent, which is probably the largest i
nest of eggs in the world. The island <
is covered with a layer of guano in :
which sea fowls of all descriptions <
were found laying or incubating their i
eggs. The surface appeared to be al- i
most entirely covered with eggs, prin- l
cipally those of the sea gulls, shags, <
and a small bird known as the salt- .
water duck. The discoverer says it ]
was difficult to walk without treading i
upon the eggs, and that it would be 1
easy to load a ship, with them. i
'' ? . .
SOME BIG FOX STORIES.
TOUGH 02TE8 THEY USES TO TELI.
ZK THE OLD DOMIWIOS".
The Fox Which Took to the Creek?How
Reynard Hung Iliinnell Ui? in a Planter'*
noimc.
Fox hunters, as well as fishermen,
spin yarns which many a sailor may
well envy. Virginia sportsmen in
ante-bellum times were famous for
their marvelous stories about cunning
foxes.
A dozen or so planters, old and
young, were gathered in the "ofiice"
on the lawn in fvout of Uncle Jack's
modern mansion. Ti.oy had just returned
from an unsuccessful chase.
Keynard had suddenly and mysterious
Iy disappeared, wnen nis capture
seemed certain. After vain endeavors
to recover the lost trail hunters and
dogs returned disgusted.
Speculation was rife as to how that
fox could have escaped.
"Ah i" interjected one of the party,
a noted sportsman, who kept a fine
pack of hounds, "the instinct of these
creatures borders close on reason.
Some time since we started an old
fox, and after a run of about a mile
we lost him at a point on Stony creek.
IIow he contrived to give us the slip
we could not imagine. Some two
weeks after we started that same fox
from the same cover, and we lost him
again at the same place. Determined
to find out what became ot the cunning
scamp we placed a negro boy at the
point the dogs were at fault. We
beat up the same fox. lie made for
the same point. Hard upon the heels
of the dogs we came to the creek.
The dogs followed the scent to the
edge of the water, sprang in, and swam
over.
"'Did you see the fox, Ben?' we
asked the boy.
"'Yes, sali! Dahheis!'
"1 Where V
"' Dali!' and he pointed to a mass of
overhanging vines, partially submerged
in the deep water In the middle
of the creek.
"Sure enough, on close inspection,
we could see the top of the fox's nose
among the vines. lie had seized one
of the tendrils, which had served to
support him."
"Oh !" said Uncle Jack, as he laid
his pipe on the round table, and slowly
emitted a vast volume of smoke from
his capacious mouth; "there's nothing
incredible in that story. That was a
stupid old fox alongside of mine. You
see, boys, we had the same trouble as
you did with an old fox that roosts
about a mile and a half over yonder, on
the edge of the swamp. AYe lost him
on three successive runs, and where do'
you think he turned up missing? "Why
right here at this house. Each time
the dogs trailed him to the yard, and
the scent was lost, apparently, near
the house. It was a wonderful mystery,
and we could not understand it;
and there's my dogs. You know them,
and old Kip in particular. He is not
easily fooled.
"Well, I volunteered to stay at
home, and the boys went one day with
the hounds to try and rustle that sly
fox up. They had been gone about an
hour, when I heard old Kip's voice, way
nfT fn thfl vallev. The crv came nearer,
and I knew they were on a warm
trail. I stood at that window and
watched. It was not long before I
caught a glimpse of the fox stieaking
it across the pasture and making
straight for the house. He clambered
over the rail fence, dropped down in
the lane and came straight to the gate.
Now, you know there is a paling fence
around the lawn?and I was anxious
to see, if he got over, how he would
manage it. Well, sirs, that fox went
straight to the gate. It is of lattice
work, and swings to with a weight nn
the inside. "What do you think my fox
did? lie raised up, put his forepaws
through the lattice work, slowly backed
out, pulling the gate open. "\Yiien he
had it pretty wide open, he suddenly let
go, whisked around the gate and scurried
in, the gate closing with a bang
just after he was safely inside. 1 was
astonished?slightly. Inside the lawn,
my fox looked cautiously around. The
?"I""" Ho nomo nn fn flia
UUiWJt \TiU Ul'Ali 11C iwuu ?..jy u.y >iiu
house anil scampered around to
the rear. I went to the bank window
and peeped out. The fox was on the
veranda. He sprang upon the railing
which surrounds the veranda, and
walked cautiously along it to the side
of the house. I could no longer see
him from the window, so I went tothe
door and cautiously looked out. The
fox had disappeared. Now, boys, what
do you think that t'ox of mine had
done with himself? Come out here
and I will show you."
We all walked out.
"Vou see all these skins hanging
here?wild cats, coons, 'possums, foxes
and others; and you see that stuffed
fox hanging on that nail. Well, you
see this nail in the house, near the
railing, and next to that stuffed fox.
Well, sirs, my fox had leaped from the
railing, caught the nail in his mouth,
and there, he hung alongside of his deceased
brother!"
"And the dogs!" inquired several
eagerly.
"Oh! they came yelping in, rushed
around the house; went upon the
veranda, and raised old cain generally.
The skins were old acquaintances, and
they never looked for a live fox hanging
up live or six feet from the lloor."
"And did you capture the fox, Uncle
Jack?"
"flanture that fox. sir? No, sir!
Do you think I have no regard, sir,
fur the laws of hospitality ? Take an
advantage of even an animal that
sought protection under my roof? Xo,
sir! Xo! We kenneled the dogs,
went into the house by the front door,
and watched to see what our fox
would do. In about, ten minutes we
heard him drop. All was quiet. He
crept to the stairs leading up to the
veranda, louked slowly and cautiously
around, turned his head and glanced
up at the row of skins, and his stuffed
brother, and laughed. Yes, sirs, that
fo.v laughed-and then lie bolted"?
Texas Si/liiiys.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
There is but one nickel mine in the
United States now in operation. It is
situated in Lancaster county. I'enn.
It is 200 feet deep and has been w orked
seventeen years. The demand l'or this
metal is rapidly >creasing. Cropping*
of nickel are fou. ?1 also in Madison,
Iowa and Wayne counties, Mo. The
relined metal is wortli $ ) a pound.
The Volta prize of $0,01)0 will be
awarded by the academies of sciences,
Paris, in December, 1^87, under the
decree of June 11, 18S2, for the discovery
or invention of whatever shall
render electricity applicable, economically,
to one of the following objects :
11 eat, light, chemical action.mechanical
force, tiie transmission of messages, or
the treatment of sick persons.
There are produced annually in
North America 100.000 barrels of
hemlock bark extract, of which a
single Boston linn produces 70,000
barrels. All the tanneries of the I nited
States consume annually about 1,250,000
cords of hemlock bark, produced
in nine States. As the yield of bark is
about seven cords to an acre of hemlock
timber, the yearly consumption
implies the clearing of 178,000 acres.
Secretary Fisher, of the Illinois department
of agriculture, lately received
from Colonel John Lynch, of Olney,
111., several stools of wheat damaged
by the new wheat insect, the wheat
bulb worm. On the samples were
found specimens of this insect in i
various stages of development, some |
having as many as live active little
fellows at work sapping the life from
the plant. The egg is brown and looks
much like that of the Hessian fly.
Some experiments noticed by Dr. A
J. "Wall indicate that the bite of the j
American rattlesnake is far less deadly i
than that of certain snakes found in :
other parts of the world. In four j
fatal cases of rattlesnake poisoning in |
dogs the animals survived for an
average period of about two hours and
a half after being bitten ; and at least
live dogs experimented upon recovered
completely. The dogs bitten by the
Indian cobra all died within an average
period of less than thirty-five minutes;
and those poisoned by the Australian j
hoplocephalus lived only one hour and !
twenty-four minutes. |
LIFE AMONG THE MEXICANS,
CURIOUS SIGHTS WHICH MEET A
STRANGER'S EYE.
Leading a Life of LciKiire?'The Mexican
Adobe lint*.?The People and Their IlabitN
?What the Women Wear.
A Garcia (Mexico) correspondent of
the Philadelphia Times writes : Many
things strike with a pleasing sense of
novelty on the eye and ear of one who,
coming straight from the busy haunts
of more civilized man, finds himself
for the first time in the streets of one
of the smaller Mexican towns. The
houses, to begin with, are unlike anything
he has left behind him. Flatroofed,
one-storied edifices, they are,
| for the most part, built of "adobe," or
sun-dried mud bricks. The poorer
I - - <1 __ i.
ones nave no opening except me uuo
door leading from the street, and the
cool gloom of their interiors contrasts
pleasantly with the fierce glare outside.
The better class ones are plastered
and whitewashed or painted dull
pink or purple or yellow, or ornamented
with designs much resembling
wall-paper, and giving the house the
appearance of having been turned inside
out. All windows have projecting
frames heavily barred with wood
or protected by iron gratings. The
space above doors and windows is
often tastefully decorated with designs
in raised plaster, and the great wooden
gates which close the entrance to the
"patio," or inner court, round which
all better-class bouses are built, are
often quaintly and richly carved.
Very quietand strangely free from
all appearance of hurry and harsh
noises are the streets. Carts are very
few and far between, and those that
do make their appearance, at long intervals,
are heavy two-wheeled wooden
vehicles, drawn by one or more yoke
of oxen, and their gentle rumbling, as
they are slowly dragged along, can
hardly be termed a noise, certainly not
a harsh one. The streets are sandy,
** ? 11? ? - A. ^AAt r*ciQ_
ior me must p(iri/f <11111 tuc iuuu ^
sengers lightly shod, many of them In
sandals and the younger ones barefooted,
and all these make little or no noise
as they pass quietly to and fro.
Neither can the church bells ringing
for matins and even-song bo strictly
called a noise.
No one seems in a hurry in these
places. And why should they be?
The necessaries of life are few and
very cheap, and the extra dollars
needed for the Sunday cock-fight or
the weekly game of "monte"ofthe
men, and the fan or comb or silver
shawl-pin of the women, easily earned,
and so the good man is not obliged to
walk fast on off days when he is in
town and goes round to the " matanza,"
or butcher's shop, to buy a piece
of meat for dinner, and there is not
the least reason why he should
not stop for twenty minutes
on the sidewalk and talk to
Juan or Jose, whom he has encountered
on the way, or spend half an
hour in at the " tendajo " hanging over
the counter and discussing a glass of
mescal and the crops with Tomas or
Telesforo. The good wife, too, rises
early, and the day is still young by the
time she has fetched water from the
rivt r and swept the earthen floor of
the one living room and the " patio "
outside and given the good man his
breakfast and dispatched him to the
fields, and she has ample time to don
her black head-shawl and trot off to
morning service, and by no means hurries
herself, as she walks home again
and drops Donnas Juana and Maria and
Victoiiana at their respective doors,
stopping awhile to exchange a few
parting remarks with each; ample time
has she, too, to prepare the inevitable
tortillas, beans and coffee for the midday
meal.
Prom noonday till between 3 and 4
o'clock in the afternoon (during which
hours the inhabitants are all indoors
eating dinner ana tiiKing uik suusequent
"siesta") is the quietest and
laziest time of all. Then, indeed, does
the little town seem like a city of the
dead.
Between 3 and 4 o'clock the town
begins to wake up slowly. At 4, or
thereabouts, conies " merienda," a sort
of afternoon tea, consisting of collee
and cakes. At 5 the women dress and
go out visiting. At 7 the bells sound
for "oracion," or evening service; at 8
comes supper, and by U all is still as
the grave, except on Sunday nights,
when the band plays in the little
"plaza," or moonlight nights, when
the rich notes of the mo:-king bird 1111
the silence and make the exiled Englishman
think of nightingales and
home. Of the animal life in the
streets, the dogs, by their number and
infinite variety of size and shape, deserve
mention. Many of them have
an evident and strong admixture of
coyote blood in their veins. The
I l.irorft nrirked-un Q,ars. the bushy,
o r x
drooping tail, the slinking gait,
all are there, and the resemblance
in some eases is most striking.
The novelty to the stranger in this line
is the pelon, or hairless dog. Sharpnosed,
short-legged, long-bodied, in
size equal to a small fox-terrier, his
blue-black body is as innocent of hair
I as the palm of one's hand, save and
except on the top of his head and the
extreme tip of his tail, where he has
tufts of dirty yellow bristles which
give the finishing touch to his generally
disgusting appearance. This interesting
animal is said by the Mexicans
to be good for the rheumatism.
The elderly Mexican female aillictedin
that way, when she feels the premonitory
twinges, takes to her bed in company
with her "pelon." When she
gets up again she has got rid of her
trouuies unu mo uug la mm up. jivw
he in turn gets rid of the complaint is
not generally known.
Children are numerous, especially
around the poorer houses. They are
of all complexions, l'rom brownishlilack,
with jet-black hair and eyes, to
fair-skinned, fair-haired and blue-eyed.
Some of them are pretty, and notably
so some of the elder ones, whose sweet
olive complexioned oval faces, dark
melting eyes and graceful forms bring
to one's mind the "angeli sunt" of Pope
Gregory.
Of the elder folk the most pictur
esque are the " va-jueros'* and teamsters
in their shirts of leather or clingy
linen, with yellow leggings and great
felt or straw sombreros. Of the younger
women many are pretty, with line eyes
and hair. Their complexions, however,
are not good and they seem to fade and
grow old early. All the women wear
over their heads light shawls, either of
dulll biue cotton stuff or black, find
these they drape about head
shoulders and chest in a most
effectively picturesque way. The
rest of their garments are of cotton or j
some thin-textured black material, and
seem to dispose themselves always
more or less gracefully on the persons
of their wearers. If the Mexican
women only knew it, they look better
in black than any other color. In fortunately
they don't know it and some
of them will launch out into colors
with most disastrous results as far as
appearance goes.
Finally the coloring of the background
which frames in all tlie.se pictures
is, to American or Kuropean eyes,
strange and not without its charm
to some of them. The dull white of
the dusty streets, and the gray of the
adobe walls, and the dull red, dull blue
11 mi of t h?> liisist'jred houses liar
: it " > V- , - ;;;
A VETERAN BENEFACTOR.
pri? Put Life, Present Fiona, and What
He Hoi to Hay .Upon a Subject
That Astonished Him.
(New York Timet.)
Nearly forty years ago a young man, of
unusual endowments, began to moid public
opinion upon a subject of vital importance.
Lake all pioneers, his early efforts were unsuccessful,
bnt his ability and the value of
his work soon won public confidence, and
to-day there is not a village or hamlet in the
country that has not been influenced by Dr.
Dio Lewis. When, therefore, it was learned
yesterday that he contemplated the establishment
of a large magazine in this city, the
fact was deemed so important that a reprejentative
of this paper was commissioned to
see him and ascertain the trnth of the rumor.
Dr. Dio Lewis is a gentleman of sixty years
and two hundred pounds, with snow-white
hair and beard, but probably the most perfect
picture of health and vigor in the metropolis.
He is a living exponent of his
teachings, and notwithstanding the amount
of Work he has already done, promises still
greater activity for years to come. He received
the interviewer most courteously, and
in reply to a question said:
"It is true I have come to New York to
establish a monthly magazine. I have come
bere for the same reason that I went to Boston
vnnra ntm Than Bnston WAS the
THEN AND NOW.
All the years of longing, waiting,
All the hours of loving, hating,
All the dreaming, hesitating,
That have borne me as a river
Bears the vessels that we give her?
Looking back, I sigh and shiver
At the time 'tween then and now.
Days of summer warmth and gladness,
Moments of delicious madness,
And the nights of tearful sadness
That have ruled my brow with care lines,
Chilled me when the noonday sun shines,
Placed the thorns where memory still twines
Round the time 'tween then and now.
Midst the tumult of life's hurry
And the thousand things that worry,
Shall tho bloom become a berry?
Shall tho bud become a flower?
That shall fill some sheltered bower
With a wond'rous perfume shower?
Shall the then be lost in now?
?Patty Honeyicood.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A new song is entitled "Brother's
Hair was Cut by Mother." It is a
good song for a singer to treat as
mother did brother's hair?"cut it
short."?NorrMown Herald.
White trousers are again in style
this summer, a fortunate thing for the
dudes, as they can buy them cheap at
any grocery. Macaroni stems don't
cost much.?Philadelphia News.
Somebody substituted a pile of corn
cobs for the doughnuts on the Omaha
railway restaurant counter, and they
were about two-thirds eaten before anybody
discovered what they were,?
Rome Sentinel.
The editor of the "Waco (Texas)
Sentinel, having been blown up by the
explosion of a sawmill boiler, we suppose
it will now be in order to allude
to him as "our highly steamed contemporary."?Life.
There are forty-two different shades in
kid gloves this spring. This number
might be increased by imitating the
shade of disappointment that passes
.? ln/ln'o fnna lirVlOn aVlO QPPQ QCimP
UVCl a KlUJ O 1U\;0 ii tivu u"v wvw wvm>w
other woman with a prettier pair than
her own.?Danville Advertiser.
An Iowa bank closed its doors in
consequence of the sudden and unexpected
departure of the cashier. The
next day the local paper announced
the* event in the following headline :
"Another Pioneer of American Civilization
Lights Out for Polynesia."
The man that runs an auction,
And watches for a nod,
Mast either be near-sighted,
Or else he's very odd,
For when you bid on something
He smiled with sweet content,
And thinks you nod a dollar
When you only nod assent.
?1 onkera Statesman.
' What are we going to do with our
dead?" asks an excited cremationist.
I3e calm, man. We can get along well
enough with our dead. They won't
trouble us. They are good and quiet
enough. It's the live men that worry
us. What are we going to do with
some of the live men ? And we tell
you confidentially; there is one of them
we are going to push down a four-story
elevator well, if he comes up with the
same old bill just once more to-day.
Then you can take what is left of him I
and go on with the discussion of your
question.- Burlington Haickeye.
Am IvlrAnaoa Vamllv. l
Au iunaiioHQ jluuimj?
A traveler on horseback, attracted
by a large number of children huddled
around the door of an Arkansas cabin,
stopped and asked of a woman who
suddenly appeared:
"Is this a schoolhouse?"
" I)o you take it for sich?"
"Yes, considering the number of
children."
" Well, I reckon you've a right to
your opinion."
"But is it a school?"
"No, it ain't."
" Are all those children yours?"
"I reckin they air. 'Pears to me
that way, anyhow."
" How do you make a living for all
ofthem?" v
"I don't. I turns 'em out and lets
'em scratch.*'
" What do they get to eat?"
"Bugs and sich.''
"Come, my good woman, yon are
trying to joke me. I am a stranger in
this country, and I really asked for information.
I have often heard of
squatters. Bo you belong to that
family?"
" I reckin I do. fur I squat some*
- 1 1 xl. _ .L!1
times an' como my nar wneu me cuulen'
air 'sleep."
" Where's your husband?"
"In town."
"In business there?"
"Yes, I reckin."
" 11 ow long has it been since you saw
him?"
" About a year."
" Why doesn't he come to see you?
" Well, you see, them deputy martin
came aong one day an' seed him bilins
some corn in a kettle, an' 'lowed he
wos makin' whisky, so they tuck him
along. Look out thar !"
The stranger dodged, but not quite
soon enough. A boy fell from a tree
under which the stranger had stopped,
and struck him on the shoulder.
" I didn't know he was there," said
the traveler, regarding with astonishment
the youngster who arose to his
feet and began to throw dust at the
horse.
" I don't reckin you tiiu," cne womau
replied, " butiemme tell you, the woods
is full of 'em an' they're liable to
drap on you at any minit, an' as it
ain't safe to stay in the timber, you'd
better take the "big road an' mosey
Good-day. You Ike, put that lizzara
down. Eph, that are tarripin '11 bite
you if you put your linger in his
mouth. Drap that scorpion, John, an'
blow Tommy's nose. Nick, dont chaw
that vine fur it'll pizen yer."?Arkansas
Traveler.
CoiiHtiinptlnn ('lire.
Dr. R. V. Piebce: Dear Sir?Death was
hourly expected by myself find friends. My
physicians pronounced my disease consumption.
and said I mu-t die. I began taking
your "Discovery" and "Pellets." I have
used nine bottlos and am wonderfjlly relieved.
I am now able to ride ont.
i Elizabeth Thobntun, Montongo, Ark.
Since she became queen Victoria Jias
knighted between fifteen and twenty medical
men.
WmonTflviLLE, Pa.?Rev. Elijah Wilson
says: "Brown's Iron Bitters have permanently
cured ine of chills aniHever."
Tiik first capital trial in Maine was in
being the trial of a woman for the murder
of her husband.
The 4',0C0,000 tons of water pass over
Niagara Falls every honr.
lit ait c-iseas ha*, brought mr.ny to an untimely
j.r r v. 'H e heart is as liable as other
organs to disease: if yo-J ha%e it even i-i tl o
slightest form use I'r. (iraves' Heart Kejulator.
?1 I cr bottle at drt gg st;.
A new counterfeit nickel is out, and
is being sold asa curiosity.
Have you heart disease in any form? if s->,
use I?r. (iraves' Heart Regulator: .' 0 years
have proved it a sure remedv for orga- i; or
sympathetic heart disease. $1 per bottle.
A i:a uv boy was re "out I y born in Montana I
with ears as long as a pointer's.
Ulu'umatine-Goutaline, Dr. Elmoro's. lO.T t
William St., N.Y., is the mi/;/ rro'c n nttvewr j
ili>nirrrrtl lor rheumatism, and best romedy '
known for kidnc, liver and stomach diseases. I
AL>un:lant i mofg. Sen ' - circulars.
(iood health is the greatest of fortunes: no
remedy has so often restored this prize to
the suffering as Hood's Sarsaparilla. Try it.
Mother Swan's Worm Syrup. I
Infallible, tasteless, harmless, cathartic;feverishness,
restlessness, worms,constipation. 2ik.
Gastrins cures dyspepsia. What more do I
you want ? Ask your druggist for it. Gas- :
tbine is in liquid form.
Chrolithion cottars and cutfsa e cheapest |
in the long run. Ihey wear lon^v-r than any
other, and you save ens. of washing.
" Bnchn-Pnlbn."
The Quick, complete cure,annoying Kidney,
Bladder, Urinary Diseases. $1. Druggists.
inoni/.e 'well with the ]>lue and gray
w *"V " ? _
of the stony, barren hills all round.
Against these the dark green masses
of the ' palmas" and pecan trees stand
out in bold relief, and the whol is
lighted up by the bright red of some
Mexican's blanket, the little crimson
(lag at the end of a long reed which
projects from the window of some
butcher's shop or the scarlet of the
pomegranate blossoms which hang in
clusters over the garden walls.
Three artesian wells have been sunk
in the corporate limits of I'ueblo, Col.,
the bust one more than a year ago. All
are over 1,000 feet deep, ;ind one is
over 1,:JOO feet. Each discharges a
regular and considerable llow of
mineral water, the water from two of
them being highly charged with valu-1
able hygienic properties.
What becomes of journalists??Pro
gress. They usually retire from the
profession just as soon as they get
rich, and live quietly but luxuriously
until they din. Then they go to heaven
?Philadelphia News,
beat platform in tho country from which to
speak of education. New York has now become
most hospitable to progressive thoughts
and especially so to movements on behalf of
physical training.
"I have rpason to know the great and
abiding interest of the American people in
this subject. They have come to realize that
the future of our country pivots upon our
physical vitality, and especially upon the
vigor of our women. My new magazine will
bear tho title ' Dio Lewis' Monthly,' and be
devoted to Sanitary and Social Science. I
hope through its pages to inaugurate a new
departure in hygiene."
"Haveyou not written several books on
the subject?"
" Yes, nlno volumes, and some of them like
4 Our Girls,1 published by the Harpers, have
had an enormous circulation, but the best
work of my life I shall give the world in tho
new magazine. Forty years of skirmishing
ought to conclude with ten years of organized
warfare."
" Doctor, what is the occasion of this new
interest in health questions?"
"It has come through suffering, which
seems the only road to self knowledge. The
stomach, heart, kidneys or liver fall into
trouble, happiness is gone, and then people
give attention to their health."
" Which of these organs is most frequently
the victim of our errors?" asked the reporter.
"Within the last few years diseases of the
kidneys have greatly multiplied. When I
was engaged in practice, thirty-five and forty
years ago, serious disease of the kidneys was
rare; but now distressingly frequent and
fatal."
" To what do yon attribute this great increase
of kidney troubles?"
urn. it.. - * -a-* 1 -a* J-.*-!.
jlo i no ureui Humumuijg urrnu, tiuuiterated
food and irregular habits of life."
" Doctor, have you any confidence in the
remedy of which we hear go much nowadays,
Warner's Safe Cure?"
"I believe in the oance of prevention,
rather than in a ton of cure."
"But have you noticed the remarkable
testimonials of Warner's remedy?"
."I have, and confess that they have puzzled
and astonished me. The commendations
of proprietary medicines usually come from
unknown persons residing in back counties.
But I see in our most reputablo newspapers
the warmest praise of Warner's Safe Cure
from College Professors, respectable physicians,
and other persons of Ligh intelligence
and character. To thrust such testimony
aside may be professional, but it is unmanly.
No physician can forget that valuable additions
to our Materia Medica have sprung from
just such sources. I was so impressed with
this cloud of witnesses that I purchased some
Lotties of Warner's Safe Cure at a neighboring
drug store, and analyzed one of them to
see if it contained anything poisonous. Then
I took three of the prescribed doses at once,
and found there was nothing injurious in it.
I do not hesitate to say that if I found my
kidneys in serious trouble, I should use this
remedy, because of the hopelessness of all
ordinary treatment, and because when a
hundred intelligent reputable persons unite
in the statement that a certain remedy has
cared them of a grave malady. 1 ctiooeo to
believe that they speak the truth.
' But as you may know, my great interest
in life lies in prevention. For forty years 1
have labored in this field. One of the phases
of my work in New England was the establishment
of the Ladies' Seminary at Lexington,
Mass. My aim was to illustrate the
possibilities in the physical training of girls
during their school life. This institution
became, before I left it, the largest and most
successful seminary for young women owned
and managed by one person In our country.
I sat down to dinner every day with a family
of two hundred persons, lite remarkable
results of thi<'< muscle training among girls
were given ir. my paper published in the
North American Review of December, 1882.
Besides I established tho Normal Institute
for Physical Training in Boston, and for ten
pars was its President and Manager. Dr.
Walter Channing, Dr. Thomas Hoskins, Professor
Leonard and others were among its
teachers, and more than four hundred persons
took its diploma and went out into all
parts of the land to teach the new school oi
gymnastics. And now the years left to mo I
propose to devote to the magazine which 1
have come here to establish. It will be the
largest periodical ever devoted to this field of
literature, and will present the hundred and
one questions of hygiene with the simplicity
of a child's talk, lo this end all so-called
learning will be subordinated. The magazine
will be more or less illustrated, and will
strive t3 reach a high place in the confidence
and hearts of the people. In a few weeks
our first number will appear, and we shall
fondly hope for it a hearty welcome."
The facts above narrated are indeed most
important It is gratifying to know that the
lifelong experiences of a gentleman who
stands without a peer in successfully demonstrating
tho principles of hygiene; whose
heart h;:8 always been in sympathy with the
alllicted, and whose brain has ever been active
in planning for their relief, are to bo
given to the publio through the pages of a
! magazine. And it is specially significant
and proof positive of rare merit that a propi
iotary medicine, even with such high stand!
iflg as Warner's Safe Cure is known to have,
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