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SOLILOQUY OF AN OLD MIRROR. Upon this old and rnsty nail I've hung for many years; Ah, me! but I could tell a tale Of piM?r?ro?ye*, and tears. S ow many a beaming countenance That in the daj s gone by Gave me the quick, admiring glance Now in tta churchyard lie! "Wrinkles have grown on faces fair, Bright eyes their luster lost, And on the fair heads of glossy hair Has fallen age's frost; The manly form erect and proud, Has lost its stately grace, And gray with years and sorrow bowed Now shuns my truthful face. The lad who shaved his downy lip By my reflected aid. And made so many a cruel slip With kern-edged razor blade, Now hath n son, who, now and then, With comio tl grimace, Apes well the wnys of older men And scrapes his beardless face. A maiden lady, old and spare, Who mourns her lonely state, Oomes here and combs her scauty hair In style long out of date: Then, with affected unconcern. She daubs her check with red. In hopes that she may some diy turn Some single codger's head. Two lovers came to-day and gazed Together in my face? He with enthusiasm praised The beauty of her face: Claspfd in earisuUier^bovine arm? Quite long they gazed in me? John looked at Mary's buxom charms, And Mary?so did she! There ! Bobbie with his dreadful ball, Has ended me. I know ! My frame hangs empty on the wall. My fragments lie be!ow. Ah, well, 'twould do but little good My feelings to express? The stony glances I'd withstood Had weakened me, I guess. ?Parmeiuts Mix. " PERSEVERANCE." Just at the instant of sunset the light broke through the leaden masses of cloud like a belt of bra^s, red, threatening, yet most welcome, l'or there, darkly outlined against the sullen glen, stood a little cabin, with its thread-like wreath of smoke curling upward, and an old fisherman sitting mending his nets on a bench beside the door. And Mr. Cheston, who had been wandering hopelessly among the marshes for some time, with a liveh sense ox uie inconvenience 01 gciuu^ lost in those saline deserts, stood and stared at it as if it were a will-o'-the wisp. " I'm sure it couldn't have been there five minutes ago," lie pondered within himself. "Evenin', stranger!" said old Zadoc Peck. "Been a shcotin', eh?" "I've lost iny way," said Cheston, plunging through the tail re<ds, until at last he ga ned a secure footing bv the cabin door. " Well, I thought likely," commented Zadoc. "Ain't many folks come here a purpose." "Could I obtain a night's lodging and some supper?" hinted our weary sportsman. "I guess so," serenely answered Mr. Peck, "if you don't mind sleepin' up garret. As for, supper, Perseverance has gone out io dig clams for us. Like ^*E""ktoked clamf^ eh ?" #S^son," thought the major. "What a quaint couple they must be." But he sat down in the red light and looked at the morning-glory vines trained to the window, the busy fingers of the old man, the murmuring wilderness of reeds and rushes beyond. "That's ricrht." said Zadoc. "Set down and take it easy. Perseverance will be back pretty quick wiih the clams, and then you'l! get some good hot supper. Perseverance is a master hand to cook," "Perseverance" came presently, but to Major Cheston's infinite surprise she waa no lubberly boy nor half-civilized young man. but a tall, blooming ? maiden of sixteen, with jetty hair floating down her back, large dark eyes, long lashed and almond-shaped, and cheeks like roses. Her short, gvpsyv - like skirts revealed shapely brown feet, yet bearing the impress of the wet sands where she had waded out to dig clams, and on one p.rm she carried a basket of clams whose weight would have been no trifle even to the stalwart muscles of this major of cavalry. She was not at all embarrassed by the presence of a stranger, but caiue 'frankly up to him, setting down her basket to examine the contents of his game-bag. "You've had poor luck, stranger, 1 7* ? ?>? cn?rl nitvlmrlr UikVCUl; ^UU. anv "I could li.i* done better myself on them marshes at this time o' year." "Perseverance is a 1'ir.st-rate shot," chuckled the old man. "(Jo now, girl, and cook us some supper." The roast clams, coffee and corn bread were most palatable, and after supper Major C'heston gave Perseverance a newspaper from his pocket. "It is this morning's," said he. "Would you like to see it?" But she motioned it away. "I can't read," said she, indifferently. "You cannot read!" echoed the amazed major. "Why, how old are you ?" "Sixteen," Perseverance answered, reddening. "My sister Kate is only sixteen," said Major Cheston, speaking without due reflection, 41 and she reads and writes four different languages, plays the piano and guitar, draws and paints, and?" " Pshaw !" said Perseverance, arch ing her slender neck. " Can she shoot black duck and curlews?" "That is hardly one of the accomplishments prescribed for young ladies," said the major, smiling. "Can she swim ?" ",No, but?" "Cau she clip a blue heron on the wing? or get in a haul of bluefish when the tide is strong ;ind the wind due east? or light a shark, hand to hand, with only a marlin-spike for a weapon ?" And once again Major ( luston was compelled to answer in the negative. u Well," said Perseverance, couipla\ cently, "I can!" And she rose and went out of the room, and Major. heston saw no more of her that night. " She isn't offended, is she ?" he asked of old Zadoc Peck, who was smoking a pipe and staring hard at the fire all the while. "Offended? Our Perseverance offended?'' echoed the old man. "You don't know her, stranger!" "But, really," hazarded Chest on "it is scarcely light to bring up a girl ike that in such total ignorance, now is it?" ""Well, we haven't no schools nor academies hereabouts," said the old man. " And if we had, Perseverance wouldn't go to 'em. I don't see hut what she gets along first-rate!" And Major Cheston wasted no more ? time in argument. " He slept well and soundly that night under the sloping roof of the little garret, through whose shrunk boards the quiet stars peeped down at him, and at daybreak he went down upon the shore. The reeds were all effaced now?the tide was coming in with a rush and a roar, and an occasional Hying shower of spray. The fresh wind took off his hat, and whirled it into the water. He made an involuntary plunge after it, lost bis footing rm the slippery sands, and the next instant he was struggling 4n? rlnar life with til A UllfP XUJ. UVM4 4>*v U4C*o5^U constantly down, and still further out to sea I y the treacherous undertow. In a last effort to regain himself, he struck his head against a jagged point of stone and knew nothing more. ****** " You needn't thank me, stranger.'' said old Zatloc Peck, as he stood over the recovering patient, with hot towels. '*I didn't know a thing about it till she ran up, as white and breathless as a snow flurry, to get me to help you in. She bad s.vum out to sea and dragged you back to land herself! She?8 a brave girl, is Perseverance, and (here's nothing she can't do if ones she aev? h?rself aboatit," 1 y Major Cheston thanked his young rescuer earnestly ; but nothing would induce her to take the gold he offered her. It must be a poor creature that wants reward for saving a man's life," said she, with a short laugh. And Cheston desisted. " The girl is too pretty," he said to himself. "No one but the hero of a third-class romance ever marries a half-civilized young savage, because she has dark eyes and hair growing low on her forehead, I must getaway from this place?and 1 must keep away!" Physically this was an easy thing to <ln 1mt. mentnllv?what is thorn but the wild winds of heaven so uncon-1 trollableas a man's thoughts? At the end of a year he came back from Switzerland and went straight tothe Long Island marsh', s. " I must see her," lie said to himself. " I must tell lu*r that I love her. 1 must ask her to be my wife." AVhen the train reached Nineveh, the nearest r-tation, a tall, beautiful girl, in a cashmere dress, sparkling with jet. and a saucy black h;it, came to him, holding out her hand. " You are Major Cheston ?" said she. "And you," he answered, "are Perseverance Peck?' She smiled and nodded. How beautiful ?he had grown! "I was going out to the old house," he said. "I do not live there any more,"said Perseverance. " Father's dead, and I'm being educated. You see," slits added, "that your words, hard and cruel as I then thought them, were not without their cffect. I am staying with some friends, and I share the advantage of their governess. And Mr. Kussell thinks 1 am not a stupid " Russell!" That name was very familiar to him. "At Cattle Point, a little way down the island." explained Perseverance. "They know you very well. Hugh Hussell and I often talk about you." Hugh Russell! A dagger thrust of jealousy went through Major Ches. ton's heart. Hugh Hussell, whom he j remembered such a handsome, daring . I young fellow? Was he, thnn, too late in his decision ? Had some other hand ' gathered this exquisite wild (lower? s And then, with the innocent hvpocl risy oflovehood, he vowed that he had i intended all along to visit the Russell*, and accompanied Perseverance thither i at once. ! " Yes," said placid Mrs. Itussell. " Is hse not beautiful? She used to come ; to my Sunday-school class last sum I mer. at the little Sandy Point chapel, - and when her poor old father died I took her to stay with me. And we are > all so attached to her, and she is so i lovely ana winning, uu? mi own daughter." : Late that evening Major Cheston went out on the stone-paved terrace, , where Perseverance was sitting on tne i rail, looking up at the million golden stars which spangled the violet sky. She welcomed him with her quiet, selfI possessed sruile. "Perseverance,'' he said, "you are seventeen years old, now?" ; " Yes," she assented, " I am seven teen years old." "Almosta woman,'' said he. "Quite a woman," she responded, i ' Oh, it seems as if I had grown so s many, many years older since poor ! father died!" " Has any one spoken to you of ?love?'' he asked, abruptly. "No," she answered, with gravity. " Hut they will?sometime?" "I suppose so," said Perseverance. Evidently there was nothing of the ii- -u?j. \. coqueue aouut ner. " Would you be very much surprised, Perseverance, if I were to tell you that I loved you?" She started and colored to the very roots of her hair. "Surprised?" she repeated. "Yes ?oh, yes! For you despised u.e iu those days." " Never !" he cried. "Or at least I fancied so," she faltered. " But I love you now. Perseverance ?sweetest, precious treasure of my soul!" he went on. reading ^oine dim encouragement in the downcast eyes, the red, quivering mouth. " I will not let you go until you promise to be my wife. You have saved my life once and it is in your power t > save it from further shipwreck now." Hugh Hussell had spoken the same words of love in her ear two hours be. fore and she had run away from him, j half angry and wholly frightened. But this?this was different. " Will you promise me. IVrsever: ance?" he gently reiterated. " Yes," she answered. And that was the way in which Major Cheston. whose heart had been so long regarded by his lady friend-* as an invulnerable fortress, won the ' beautiful young wife who was as unlike the other bell* s of society as is the tropical blossom of the scarlet pUIUC^i'ilUill/e lilt* tu?iniuii|u(n,c icn roses of the garden border. It was a strange meeting, a still stranger wooing, but a most happy niari riage. And perhaps this is th;* most I satisfactory record that any love affair can leave. The Parsres of India. The Parsees of India are the descendants of the ancient Persian "fireworshipers." Tliey claim a history i back to Abraham. The Zendavesta is their holy book, and the venerat d Zoroaster, who nourished H. C. 5"i0, is their great prophet. Driven fioni Persia a thousand years ago, they found a refuge in India. Now there are but 8,0(J) left in the'r ancient home. Of Hiis strange people there are but about 200.0JO in all the world. Of this number 100,000 are in India. Bombay, "the city of Parsees," lias 75,000. making one-tenth of the tn'.ire population. As you walk in the streets of Bomlay you cannot help noticing t' ese disciples of Zoroaster, differing as they do from Loth Mohammedans and Hindoos. The Pars e gentleman is tall and erect, with fa:r complexi' n and dignified air. I lis long white coat of hilk or line muslin is buttoned closely from chin to waist, and lianas in full (lowing skirt to the knees. He wears a tall, tapering, tpieer-lo'king, indescribable hat. with ait a brim, inclining backward from the forehead, and b o!<ing very much like a se- tion of stovepipe. it is apparently of pasteboard covered with brown silk <>r muslin. In i the top is a hole in which lie puts his handkerchief. This bat is one of the badges of his religion, and lie must never change it for any other style. The Parsee always keeps his head covered, indoors or out, day or nig it, asleep or awake. Around his waist he wears a silken cord, which is to untie when at prayer. Xo bargain is binding if this cord is 1- ft off when the contract i> made. These people are among the most intelligent, inlluential and patriotic of the community. Most of them are merchants and hankers, and {is such are honest, industrious and polite, taking the lead in all commercial enterprises. One-half of the wealth and three-fourths of the business of Bombay is in their hands.? Troy 7'inns. Singular 1'racticc. A Simla (Ilindostan) correspondent writes: 1 do not think I have ever t?>ld you of a most singular and curious practice which obtains among the villagers at Annandale. There i-; a stream of water which perpetually tlows down from the hillside, and which serves to keep the gardens well watered. The water, when once it thp lpvt'l nf Annnnilulo iu nnr_ ried to a small reservoir by means of long, narrow troughs. Beneath these troughs you may any day see a tiny little infant lying tlat on its back, so as to admit of the rill of water flowing gently on its head. The little creature, after being subjected to this strange 1 process for a few minutes, falls fast i asleep and remains so for about an 1 hour. If you were to ask the mother < of the child why she treats it in this < manner she will tell you with an inno- 1 cence and earnestness that is not < without its attractions that it is good for the child, and that it is calculated to impart health and vigor to the con- ; stitutlon. I should fancy just the con- ' trary, but there is no doubt that natives have great faith in the pract oo, and still persevere in It i ' 'NT' A CHILD SNAKE-CHARMER. A THKEE-YEAB OLD SOT HANDLING SNAKES WITH IMPUNITY. How Ilo Tnln-s Tlieiu Out ol" Tlieir CnncI'net* About Italllc^nahcx--Srrin-ntN that ( oilllllll.Siiiciilc?Sunken i:h Food. A m;in who has devoted jinich of his life to the capture and study of rattlesnakes and other ophidians, is rw.it- s.i.r.r in t'l.ilfi.lulnlilo 11" M (V VIVIIt* * Ilk 1 where he entertains his friends and patrons with some of his experiences of snake hunting, and at the same time exhibits, free, many trophies of his skill. Mr. Oills belongs to a family that has long been famous for snake* catching, and that peculiar liking for the reptile tribe has descended to his youngest child, a boy of less than three years of age. who has not yet arrived at the age of knickerbockers. In a back 100111 there is a large cage containing six turtle-head snakes from Cuba.tlie largest of which is nearly eight feet long. In the corner of the cage, reaching to its top, is a lealless tree, whereon the serpents stretch themselves when they are tired of sleeping in the sand that covers the Moor. Little < tcorgie < ills goes among them as fearlessly as though they were tame doves, and ha> a pet name for each snake. When his father told him the other day to hand out '-Itanium," he boldly seized the largest of the snakes back of the head and pulled him over his .shoul'er. dragging him bodily to the door of the cage. The serpent wrigg'e 1 and threw a coil of his tail around the trunk of the tree, hissing a little, meanwhile, as though angry; but the boy was to;> strong fer him, and soon banded him to his father. Tliftn Kit LWiS'foil in Hi rn f Iwt i ,( lw>p (n'ft | HICI...CO , .! 1 ...... ...V- ...V, I snakes, varying from three to live feet j in length, and forced them to climb the tree, up which they ma'ie their sinuous I way very unwillingly and with the air of being f? reed to perforin much against their wishes. They were mixed and intermingled finally in the top branches so that they seemed rolled into a ball; but when Georgie called them they disentangled themselves and glide 1 to the ground again, where they once more coiled themselves up for another nap. " There is not a snake in that lot," sail Mr. Cills, "that c:innot swallow a sparrow, and the big one, ' liarnum,' can get away with a big dock-rat very e isily. You have no i lea of the expansion the mouth of a snake is capable of undergoing. They are small, as you see, and their necks are very slim, but, by tie ir constrictions and convulsions, they c;in force down a morsel that is 1 wice their own bulk. Like all other ! snakes they must kill their own food. I They will n t touch an animal that is j not ?,riven them alive and would st;irve | to death sooner than eat butchers' ' meat. That is a great mistake the I natural histories make when thev say I that the serpent salivates his prey bej fore eating it. Not even the constrictor I (who can eat a sheep) does that. He coils himself around his victim after having 'struck' him and crushes him into .-uch shape that he can gradually I swallow him. I will let vuu see ' Barnuiii' swallow a sparrow." The little bird was introduced into the cage and instantly seized by the snake. His struggles were very brief, fur in an instant a coil was thrown around him and he was crushed to death. Then Barnum maneuvered around the cag<! fur a minute or so. ' still keeping t)i coil t ghtly pressed i around the bird, forcing the wings ciosely to its side, and was ready for | his feast, Seizing the sparrow by the he.id (it was dead now and released ! from the coil i the snake began a series of convulsive motions, and in about half ! a minute the bird that visibly distended j the snake's neck was out of sight. ! Talking of rattlesnakes after the exhibition Mr. Ciils said that showmen ' were often bitten by them, owing to ig .t/iaaco of t..cir uuu.e. Vt'hen a rattlesnake first comes into a show, lie said, his fangs are pulled out and most showmen think that after that there can be n<? danger in handling him. That is a mistake. The fangs will grow again unless they are cut out at the roots, and I have known of cases where a rattlesnake bit and poisaned l.is handler less than three weeks after his fangs had been pulled. The rattlesnake's fangs bend inward and are +1..,,. firw, no. fllo of man (i miv; iiv i uiv uu uiu vim. "When the showmen want to destroy them they raise the rag of the snake by flaunting a silk handkerchief in front of him. In his unreasoning rage he seizes the handkerchief and a clever jerk pulls out his fang--. .lack Draper, who was with Gardner's circus ten or twelve years ago, got ba lly bitten by a snake who-e fangs 1.ad been recently pulled out. He t >ok nine full glasses of whisky at once and went to sleep, and as soon as he woke up he draiik six more. He says the whisky did not intoxicate him, and that he had a dull numbness of the arm and a general feeling of paralysh and drowsiness that frightened him. He recovered in two or three days. "The rattles on a snake are not a sure indication of his age, as the naturalist tell us. They say lie gets a rattle every year. Now, I have had snakes that grew time rattles in a year and some that did not have one in less than a year and a half. Florida rattlesnakes often get two rattles in a year. I think th-v make more rattles when they are well fed and are in a warm place. Hattlenakes in captivity are not as voracious as other snakes. Fifteen mice will feed a good-si/.ed snake for a month, but if you tempt him he will eat double that number. In his _ x i ~ t... i: ~.. I .: ~ i A. * I [ natural suiie iu- iivc.-i uu ms nit m me i winter, and in captivity a snake lias been known to live fur more than a year without food. Fangless snakes cannot kill their game, and I have put them in the cage with a snake with fangs and have seen the latter strike their game for them. If I had kill; d the mouse or rat nothing would have prevailed'upon the snake to eat it. ' Did you ever know that rattlesnakes commit suicide? Well, they i do. When we catch them we use a crotched stick and aim to fit thecrotch just back of the heart. Sometimes we get it too far back, and that gives the snake a chance t<> bite himself. When he sees that he has no chance of escape* he bites himself, and in half an hour he is dead. If he gets bitten in a fight with another .' nake he glides oil at full speed to a marsh, where he can get rattlesnake weed, a sure antidote. The toads know of this remedy also, and often use it alter being bitten. We arc apt to despise these lowly reptiles, but they have good pluck and oft'-n foil the rattlesnakes. "Are rattlesnakes good to eat? Well, their ilesh tastes like sucking pig. and is perfectly transparent. 1 never made a practice of eating it, but I have tasted it fritd and have no he it at inn in saving that it was delicious.'' " You Are a Liar." I'ncle Ilink Allen was perhaps the smoothest and most accomplished liar in Central New York. One day we were all talking about potato-bugs in I'ncle Hank's grocery, which was a sort of village farmers' club. Old Hank scratched his head thoughtfully and remarked : "Gentlemen, you d .n't any of you appear to know any thing about the j ravenous nature of t hem potatirbugs. I You may call me a liar, but I've had I potater bugs walk right into my j kitchen and yank red-hot potaters : right out of the oven. Waiting around j the potater patch for the second cron!" I exclaimed Old Hank with a sneer. ! " Waiting? "Why, confound your eyes, I was up at Townsend's store yester- ! day, and I saw potater bugs up there looking over Townsend's books to see who had bought seed potaters fir next ! year. I did, by gosh !" The whole grocery was still when I'ncle Hank finished. You could have hear 1 a pin drop. 1- inally a long, lean : man from Woodman's I'ond raised himself up near the door. He was ] evidently a new-comer and not ac- , 1 auainted with Mr. Allen, l'ointing , tiis long finger at Uncle Ilank. he ex-! i claimed : j | " You are a liar !*' J i Uncle Hank looked over his glasses J , it the stranger long and earnestly. ; ( I'hen holding out his hand, he inquired i , with a puzzled look : " When did you get acquainted with me?" '' FASHION NOTES. In fancy low-nut shoes and slippers a deep dark re J is the prevailing color Softness is a prominent chaiacteristic of the summer silks and woolen goods. Plaid silks worn under plain fabric polonaises and overdresses are in high 1 avor. The darts of the corsage are now made short to give the figure an easy grace. Kose, pink and brown constitute a fashionable combination of colors at |ii cccuv* Leather buckles appear among new ornaments for liats, bonnets and dresses. Largo neckerchiefs with polka dots will lie much worn by young ladies this | summer. Black velvet necklets are worn high about the throat and fastened by diamond studs. A novel way of using small fancy brooches is to pin the lace on the parasol with them. Ribbo'i-work is i.sed by the ladies in fancy work a great deal this summer on satin and plush. Four liridemaids at a recent Knglisli wedding carried large hand bouquets of daffodiR Mack and white bonnets are. exceedingly stylish and are to be seen in all the leading millinery shops. invitations to a r<cent children's party had a Punch and Judy at the top and on the othir side a dish of bonbons. A skirt covered with la"e frills is coming to be regarded almost as essential in a summer outfit as a black silk A novelty in lace is the pompadour pattern?a darned net, with a fine pearled edge and a raised figure in silk muslin. Belts are worn quite narrow. They j're fastened with showy buckles of oxidized silver, cut steel or stamped leather. Lady Fagentsays that a woman with a big nose ought to wear much hair at the back of the head so as to re establish the balance. Summer hats grow more picturesque. They are turned up on one side and down on the other, with long drooping feathers that lie over the brim and rest npon the hair. The English split straw are chosen for these, and chip hats are not now used. A beautiful new trimming is creamembroidered net with rows of graduated pines in gold. It is arranged ;:s flowers over cream satin skirts and as an edging for the skirt drapery of creamy India muslin. The satin bodice has frills of it in the neck, bust and sleeves. Long Spanish la -e scarfs with fine silk meshes and hand-run figuros, both in Mnrk and white, are lre'iuentlv se-n drawn down the front of the basque, then carried off on each side to form panniers and finislie 1 off with loops and ends behind. This isa pretty way of utilizing the fcarfs that are not now fashionably worn around the neck. A Break 011 the Mississippi. The river all through the bright moonlight night had quietly lapped the edges of the embankment, the surface being quite serene. As the storm neared, however, the surface roughened, and from far over the Missouri sid" the wrinklings began to crawl across the surface, deepening as they came. The night-workers knew that this meant danger, and by common consent they moved, halting only when they reached places where the ground ba-k of the dike was high enough to brace the earthworks reasonably well. By this time the first gush came, and it was followed by another " " - ' a. All ;T!<1 ; n liier, ire 0030111 <u mi- un j Father heaved and tlx re was a long swash against the bank, which made the earth tremble and dashed spray up over the top of the dike, (ieorge Iloevener and another reckless laborer stood far out where the dike was most dangerous, and their friends yelled to them to come away quick or they would be caught. Almost as the warning was given the mischief began, for down about the lowest point of the litt le valley, and just at the line where the j d:ke began to rise, the ground suddenly gave way and a volume of water about the size of abarr. 1 spurted through the wall of clay and out into the low ground. A couple of scrub oaks were close to the spot and the water striking their roots with gieat foree was thrown high up as by a fountain. A second later the opening had increased to ten times its original size and the volume completely enveloped the scrub oaks. Two seconds more and the earth above all crumbled and sank down into the gap, being carried out into the lowlands with a power that was apparently irresistible. Meanwhile the llood was pouring through the gap with a roar that could be heard a mile distant, and thu walls of either side were being rapidly eaten away, in less than ten minutes after the' first small opening at the bottom of the dike appeared, there was a gap 200 feet wide, through which a volume of water twelve feet deep was running. This had continued for two hours, and an immense roaring river was moving through wheat fields and potato patches two miles away, when a second gap, a hundred yards further south, opened with a roar, and added a second Hood to the first. The workmen stood and watched the sublime scene for a time, and then they began to hurry off in ones and twos to carry the news of the break to the anxious people inland. Indian Treatment of Captives. The live Mexican women and one child recaptured from the Apaches by (Jeneral Crook were surprised by a band of Apaches under the personal command of (Jeronimo, about the 10th of May. The Indians, with their captives, traveled incessantly the remain der of the day and all night. They calculated that the next morning alter their capture they were at least one hundred miles distant, though they cannot tell in what direction. For three days they were without water, but after that it was found in abundance. The country through which they passei was wild beyond description. At times they were compelled to crawl upon all fours. Their thirst for the first three days nearly drove them cra/.v, and the Indians would whip and lash them up, and compel them to travel. Toward the last of their captivity their food commenced giving out, and they were put upon rations, a small pi< ce of raw beef being all that was given them. This had to lie divided among the six. Mrs. Antonia Hernandez all this time carried her little child in her arms. The In lian children took great pleasure in tormenting him, pinching him, and jabbing sharpened sticks into his sides, giving him great pain. When they remonstrated, (leronimo or his men only laughed at her misery. The la-1 two days of their captivity they had no food at all. There was snow on the mountains. The cold was intense, and the women suffered greatly, almost freezing. The Indians never remained quiet in one spot a day, but were continually moving. They traveled nearly j 100 miles a day, going in f- very direc- ; tion, but tending generally 111 arly west war. I. The captives were abused and maltreated in every possible manner. They were made to work heavily whenever camp was made, and were a general object of abuse and ridicule. The Indians would take up Mrs. Hernandez' little boy, threaten to kill him, j and would throw stones at him, to the great mental anguish of his mother. ! Une of the women was sent as a host- j age of some sort to Chihuahua to make peace. The exposure to c(Jd, thirst, ! famine and exhaustion from travel and fear of torture was having an effect on the poor women. The first thing they knew they were hustled one day fur- [ ther into the mountains. The next Jay a brother of Chief chatte delivered them up to (ieneral Crock. As one of > them expressed herself when site saw I General Crook and the soldiers: ' It seemed as if the sky opened and Heaven app?ared."?San Francisco Morn-I \nj Call. " Haste makes waste," said the man 11 who threw a bootjack and killed a cat.' i THE BAD BOY AND HIS GIRL EE TAKES HER OV KB EXCUBSIOH TO THE SOLDIERS' HOME. After Numerous Adventures They Hetnrn In n Dilapidated Condition?Meeting With a Wnrm Itereptlnn from Iter Pa. " II( re, condemn you, you will pay for that cat," said the grocery man to the bad boy as lie came in the store all broke up the morning alter the 4th of J uly. "What cat?" said the boy, as he leaned against the zinc ice-box to cool his back, which had been having trouble with a bunch of firecrackers in his pistol pocket. " We haven't ordered any cat from here. Who ordered any cat sent to our house? We get our sausage at the market," and the boy rubbed some cold cream on his n<>se and eyt^rows, where the skin was off. " Yes^ that is all right enough," saicl the grocery man, "but somebody who knew where that cat slept, in the box of sawdust back of the store, filled it full of firecra-kers "Wednesday forenoon, when I was out to see the procession, and never notified the cat, and touched them off, and the cat went through the roof of the shed, and she hasn't got hair enough left on her to put in tea. Now you didn't show up all the forenoon, and 1 went and ;isked your ma where you was, and she said you had been setting up four nights straight along with a sick boy in the Third ward, and you was sleeping all the forenoon the*4th of July. If that is so. that lets you out on the cat, but it don't stand to reason. Own up now, was you asleep all the forenoon, the 4 th. while other boys were celebrating, or did you scorch my cat?''and the grocery man looked at the boy sis though he would believe every word lie said, if he was bad. " Well," said the bad boy, as he yawned as though he had been up all night, "I am in.-occnt of sitting up with your cat, biu I plead guilty of sitting up with Duffy. You see, I am bad, and it don't make any difference where I am, and Duff^humped me once, when we were playing marbles, and I said I would get even with him some time. His ma washes for us, and when she told me that her boy was sick, with fever, and had nobody tc stay with him while she was away, I thought it would be a good way to get even with DufTy when he was weak, and I went down there to his shanty and gave him his medicine, and read to him all day, and lie cried, 'caus he knew I ought to have mauled him, and that night I sat up with him while his ma did the ironing, and Duffy was so glad that I went down every day, and stayed there ever) night, and lired medicine down him, and let his ma sleep, and DufTy has got mashed on me, and he says I will he an angel when I die. Last niglil makes five nights I have sat lip witl him, and he has got so that lie can eal beef tea and crackers. My girl went back on me 'cause she said I was sit ting up with some other girl. She sai< that DufTy story was too thin, but I uffy's ma was washing at my girl's house and she proved what I said, ant I was all ricrht acain. I slept all th< forenoon the 4th,"and then stayed witt t ulTy till 4 o'clock, and trot a furlougl and took my girl to tlio Soldier's Home. I had rather set up with Duffy though." 44 Oh, get out. You can't make me believe you had rather stay in a sicl room ;ind set up with a boy, than t< take a girl to the 4th of .July," saie the gro cry i an, as he took a brusl and wiped the sawdust off some bottle! of peppersauce that he was taking oul of a box. " You didn't have any troubh with the girl, did you?" "Xo,?not with her," said the boy as he looked into the little round zin< mirror to see if his eyebrows wen beginning to grow. 41 But her pa is s( unreasonable. I think a man ought to know better than to kick a boy right where he has had a pack of firecracker: explode in his pocket. You see, wher I brought the girl back home, she was a wreck. Don't you never take a gir. to the 4th of July. Take the advice of a boy who has had experience. We hadn't more than got to the Soldiers Home grounds before? some boys win were playing tag grabbed hold of my girl's crushed-strawberry polonaise and ripped it off. That made her mad, and she wanted me to take offense at it, and I tried to reason with the boys and they both jumped on me, and I see the only way to get out oi it honorably, was to get oul real spry, and I got out. Then wt sat down under a tree, to eat lunch, and my giri swallowed a pickle the wrong way, and I pounded her on the back, the way ma does me when ] choke, aud she veiled, and a policeman grabbed me and shook me, and asked me what I was hurting that poor gir] for, and told me if I did it again hi would arrest me. Everything went wrung. After dark somebody fired a Jtoruan candle into my girl's hat, and set it on lire, and I grabbed the hat and stamped on it, and spoiled her hair that her ma bought her. Jiy gosh, J thought her hair was curly, but when the wig was off, her own hair was astraight as could be. JJut she was purty, all the same. A\"e got undei another tree, to get away from the smell of 1 turned hair, and a boy set oil a chaser, and it ran right at my girl's feet, and burned her stockings, and a woman put the lire out for her, while I looked for the boy that fired the chaser, but I didn't want to find him. She was pretty near a wreck by that time, though she had all her dress left except the polonaise, and we went and sat under a tree in a quiet place, and 1 put my arm around her and told her never to mind the accidents, cause it would lie dark when we got home, and just then a spark dropped down through the tree and fell in my pistolpocket, right next to her, where my bunch of firecrackers was, and they began to go off. "Weii, I never saw such a sight as she was. Her dress was one of these mosquito har, cheese-cloth dresses, and it burned just like punk. I had presence of mind enough to roll her on the grass and put out the fire, but in doing that I neglected my ownconfiagiation, and when 1 got her put out, my coatI t:iil and trousers were a total loss. i\ v. but she, looked like a goose that lias been picked, and 1 looked like a fireman that had fell through a hatchway. My girl wanted to go home and I took her home, and her pa was sitting on the front steps, and he wouldn't accept her, looking that way. He said lie placed in my possession a whole girl, clothed and in her right mind, and 1 had brought back a burnt offering, lie teaches in our Sunday-school and knows how to talk pious, but his boots are olt'ul thick. I tried to explain that I was not responsible for the fireworks, and that he could brincrin abillairainst the government, and I showed him how I was bereaved of a coat-tail and some pants, but he wouldn't reason at all, and when his foot hit me I thought it was a pile-driver sure, and when I got over tiie fenoe and had picked myself up I never stopped till I got to Duffy's and 1 sat up with him, cause I thought her pa was after me, ana 1 thought he wouldn't enter a sickroom and maul a watcher at the bedside of an invalid. Hut that settles it with me about celebrating. 1 don't care if we did whip the Uritish, after declaring independence, I don't want my pants burnt olf. What is the declaration of independence good f< r to a girl who loses her polonaise, and hasher hair burned off, and a chaser burning her stockings? No, sir, they may talk about the glorious Fourth of July, but | will it bring back that blonde wig, or retail my coat? Hereafter I am a rebel? Mihru n ker Sn n. A Ilomtlifiil Tliree-Letrgod Colt. ..r V.wl.villo Tonn . it. i ijiabiui, wi ^??,.-11? iAivt a lias a three-legged hay colt, which is j now over a year old, and of which the j Am'rian says: Kxcepting tiie fact i that he possesses one leg less than j other members of his species, ho is a i perfectly formed animal. When the writer saw him he was hopping around .Mr. I'olston's hack yard, and resented an interference with his long tail by kicking vigorously and with a< much grace and precision as an old j mule. The entire left fore-shoulder and leg of this remarkable animal Is missing, the only elTort which nature see.ns to have made to supply this want being a hone. aomothing in the shape of a seal's /in, and about the same size. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Twenty billion wooden hoops are used annually in this country for barrels only. There is stored in the tanks of the oil regions over 34,000,000 barrels of petroleum. The site of a new cotton factory at Cedartown, (la., will embrace twenty acres, and work < n the building has begun. In .Tanan u nutent law is wanted? I not to protect the inventor, but the pockets of tho Japaniese themselves. They believe that the mpression " patented is a token of the good faith of the vendor and ol the authenticity of the article. At Tower City, Dakota, in boring :in artesian well, at the depth of 500 feet salt water was reached. Fre-di water, mixed with quicksand, was found at 001 feet, and at 075 feet pure water Mowed in a steadily increasing quantity. The curious observation has been made by a French writer that the ini tials of the live elements (in their French names) which enter chiefly into the constitution of organic matter, namely, carbone, hvdrogene, azote, oxygene and sou f re, spell chaos. Sea water differs a little in weight at different places, but at the same spot it is nearly the same at all depths. It may be estimated at sixty-four pounds to the cubic foot, or one and three-quarter pounds to the cubic font more than fresh water. The additional weight is chietly common salt. Salt 1 water freezes at twenty-seven degrees. The ice is fresh. 1 Mr. I). Mackintosh has described an attempt to fix the date of the glacial period in years. His investigations have been carricd on in certain locali; ties of England and "Wales, where he has found that limestone rock around ! boulders has been worn away to a depth of not more than six inches. As [ this limestone n ck is denuded at the | rate of not less than an in'-h in a thou sand years, the boulders must have ' bei n dropped by glaciers not longer j than 0,000 years. Such, at least, is ( Mr. Mackintosh's conclusion, as stated ( to the London Geographical society. i J)om Pedro on His Tliroae. A correspondent thus describes the ' emperor of Brazil on his throne: Dom L Pedro's liinl.'S are incased in tight1 fitting white silk; white satin low cut shoes, embroidered in gold and gems, 1 cover the feet; white satin tunic reaehl ing to tiie knees, belted and embroid1 ered with bands ot' gold, pearls and ' diamonds. From the shoulders de pends the train, several yards long. 1 in (his the silky pile of emerald ?reen L velvet, with its gulden, s'.ieeny, satin ' lining, is perfection, and scattered in 1 rich profusion over the surface is the ^ imperial arms traced in heavy gold1 thread embroidery. It seemed to ' be literally sprinkled with glittering I diamond points, and the round cape ^ (pelerine shaped) that covered his * shoulders and chest nearly to 1 the waist crowned tne eiteci com5 pletely. This is the most rare and 1 wonderful part of the royal court cos1 tume, being made entirely from the i breast feathers of the famous South ? American bird called the "soucano." These plumes are a vividly bright ? orange color, line as silk and glossy as c satin, overlaying each other until they J seem to be the veritable skin of the 1 bird himself. It is said that it takes 1 one hundred birds to furnish sufficient ' feathers to cover this part of thedr: ss. Over this feathi red cape was Hung a ' costly necklace of diamonds and emeralds of immense size, and close around I thethruat was tied a rich cravat, with ' wristfalls to match. 3 The crown was weigh? ed with gems; * great diamonds inserted in the bands | of gold, interspersed with emeralds , I and rubies and pearls, inca-cd a cap of ! velvet tlwit seem<(l to press heavily on 1 the royal head. The scepter was gold | higher than himself, and tippe 1 with emblems. The sword, passed through I the belt, was completely studded with ; pearls and diamonds. I observed that our monarch's hands were incased, as 1 were his feet and limbs, in woven silk, I and the famous signet ring was outI side of the glove. A Natural Sea-Wall. I Along the New Hampshire sea! coast, in the towns of Kye and North ; Hampton, stretches a curious and : massive formation, which at first sight , appears as if built at enormous expeni diture of time and labor. On < loser ! examination, however, it prove; to be ! be only one of Ocean's eccentric freaks, t executed in this case with almost hu1 man intelligence and care, i A sea-wall, comjactly formed of ; water-worn pebbles of all sizes, shapes ; and materials, runs along the beach i for about six miles, here an 1 there [ broken by rocky points and little in; lets, somewhat modified by its situa tion, but preserving with astonishing ! regularity several remarkable features. . In places it is so high and wide that . 1. 1?.ISa?a if amdhmr, I.,,* ) UU1' Uctll i I ill LI ly Ul'liuic Ik (lliuillllg uiu i a carefully constructed dike, designed to shelter the adjoining fields. Along i part of its extent, where it separates : the ocean from an extensive salti marsh, it i.s utilized by the farmers of . the neighborhood for a cartiroad. i Along another stretch, a plank-walk : surmounts it for half ;i mile. It first appears in the form of a low wall composed of three terraces, near Little Boar's Head, in the town of North Hampton, thirty rods south of the slight projection known on the charts as Fox Ilill Point. This portion of the wall is only about twenty rods in length, and seems much like a stone facing to the steep beach ward slope. Some forty rods m>rth of the 1 point it reappears, this time in the form of a large and compact dike, and extends along the water-line in a cres x * ..4- +nr?r?i _ cent iorill iur <11 JCcir>l< llibj iuun, uuiur inating at a small cove dire tly east of the well-known l'arragut house. This section of the wall is l>y far the most symmetrical and characteristic, and is the one selected for a more detailed examination and description. J3eyond this point the wall run* with I occasional breaks to its northern terminus without presenting any novel features.? Louis Hull, in I'njt'iliir Hd'eme Monthly. an Tamatavc. The special correspondent (.f the London Standard writes that Tamatave, the principal port of Madagitscar, has no harbor, hut within a coral reef is a smooth anchorage. The fori st comes down to the shore and the houses of the little town are almost concealed by the wealth of tropical vegetation. The huts are built of bamboos, palm leaves and the staves of rum casks, and in every hut there is a cask of rum ou tap. The governor lives in the fort, which is circular, about 150 yards in diameter, protected by earthworks and masonry and capaj ble of resisting a considerable attack I but not of retaliation. The queen has at her command, it is stated, (J,000 well-disciplined troops. The troops ; which Mr. Cameron saw were all tall, j lithesome men, of the usual IIova-.Ma- ! ' ' * < ??!? /.liiM.t/lwinn* ;in11 I : my iy|m*| ? un i"H" I I long, lanky liair. There isal-^o a largo ; I body ol' spearsmen. Mr. Cameron's | ! description of tin; artillery he saw at j j Tamatave only serves to raise a smile: j I but tin? Ilovas possess, in his helief, j j some 5,000 Sniders and from 10.000 to j 15,000 Ameriean Hemington rilles. | | Carries its Own Moral. In?nc of our New Kngland cities i three wretched tramps were brought i before the police court as vagrants, having been found in an intoxicated [ condition in a barn where they bad slept the previous night, (in examination it was found that each <>ne bad been a former resident of the city, and ! was well known. .One of these had been, only a few ' years ago, the superintendent of the foundry department of an extensive i and widely known manufacturing es- I tablislunent, receiving a yearly salary ! of $.',500, and having a pleasant home ! [ occupied by wife, and children, and z being a man once respected by those > who knew him. The two others had r been workmen tinder him whom he j had discharged for neglect of their j ] work fur drink, and he himself was finally dismissed for the same fault,? Scientific American. c mm A SHAKE OF THE HAND. One day npon the busy street, A dear old friend I chanced,to meet, From a far distant land; His face with pleasure was alight, He asked me, " Is all with you right ?" And cla3ped and shook my hand. It was not any word he said, But just that care and sorrow fled As if at his command. 'Twas not the smi'e upon his lip, But just the honest, hearty grip, With which he shook my hand. Oh, lips may touch, and eyes may meet, And both be false, and both bo sweet! Bat no one need be told, AVhen fingers touch and coldly part They have not touched a feeling heart, Or love is turning cold. The hand is index sure and true L'nto the heart; yon will not rue If you its lesson take ; Heed not the promise of the lip, But trust the firm and honest grip, The strong yet tender shake. And, oh, the strength and confidence, The sympathy, the happy sense, With which we understand! The subtile, secret power we feel AVhen meeting fingers but reveal, The heart within the hand! ?Mi try .1. Burr, in Good Cheer. HUMOR OF THE DA.Y. The girl graduate's pet letters? S. A. ISorder troubles?Too much hash; not enough berries.? 1Vheeling Leader " Enough is as good as a feast," remarked the fellow who found that the tirrtr whir>h lio \vn<J alinllt. t.fl P:it, was v bo ? aged. A fiiir and acsomplished young Dr. Fell in love with ;i lady immed Pr., But his terms scientific Came forth ?o tirritic, That they really and truly quite shr. A new postofllce in the South is called Langtry. It is hoped that it will not be true to its name, and cause the mails to go astray.?Norristoicn Herald. An Alabama man advertises that he has something that will make hens lay. Perhaps it is a little string that ties their legs. Send stamps for the secret. ?picayune. "Pepi, how did you got along in school to-day?" "Badly, papa; the teacher'gave me a thrashing." " Why?" " Well, he asked me how many teeth a man had, and I said a whvle mouthful."?Flugende lilutter. Present reports say that Nebraska has 7,000 more girls than boys who are of school age. A little further along lio ~tfla will rritrt? t.llA l>nvn n rhnnpp "i'6 s""' ? ?j~ to catch up and pass them in age matter.?Oil City Blizzard. M'.-n grumble because cabbage is used as a substitute for tobacco in cigars ; but they would probably grumble more if the best Havana tobacco should be served with their cornedbeef as a substitute- for cabbage.? Puck. James Smith, of Xorth Carolina, turned up an emerald while plowing near Greensboro. Many a man has plowed day in and day out without turning up anything more surprising to him than a nest of yellow jackets.? Mid diet o um Transcript. A Harrisburg man boasts that lie can split bullets on the edge of a hatchet sixty feet away, but we can't see what good that would do him. lie could dull up a hatchet ten times as quickly by giving it to a servant girl to cut kindlings with .?Philadelphia Nevis. "Pa, did you hear that report that got out last nightV" "What report, my son?" "The report of a pistol." The old man was arrested for chasing the boy with a hatchet, but was discharged when the facts were made known, with the advice to kill him next time.? Orit. ' A farm item remarks that in lty time cows should be kept in stalls This is fur the convenience of the fly, increasing his opportunity of concentration and economizing much valuable time that would be otherwise consumed in chasing a frisky heifer through a ten-acre lot.?Rome Sentinel. LOVE LETTEBS. If thou, Miss, wonl'lst L E V 8 My woes with X P D N C, And me no more M AC8 Say thoa art not mine NME. True love in its MNCT My boldness must X10 U 8; So let noNMRCT My daring hopes L N 8. Thy beauty & X L N C My ertoi-ts will X L R 8, And alw.iys 0 B D N C To thee from me shall M N 8. For thou art my F N E T: : I hail thee as my D E T; And if I love with NRG, Ascribe it to my X T C. An insurance agent named Pyle, In running fell over the stile, St. Jacobs Oil gave relief And the pain was so brief, He got up and said: "I should smile." A lame old lady at Keyser, Had no one to advise her, Till Doftor John Boyle Tried St. Jacobs Oil, Its action did simply surprise her. The Nevada way of catching bears is for one man to feed the animal with salt, while a second slips around and ties his hind legs together. "When the second man weakens and takes to his heels it's mighty embarrassing for the feeding man, especially when the salt is nearly gone.?Boston Post. pto Ilcjit Day or Nlfflit. I In the fall of 1875 my sufferings were terri ble. I was swollen to such proportions that I feared iny limbs would burst. I had the best medical talent obtainable, nnd at the worst stage of my illness, when my husband and many friends had given me up to die, the late Dr. John Woodbury made a thorough examination of my water, and pronounced my case acute kidney disease, bordering ou Bright's disease, and accompanied by gravel, and recommended the immediate use of Hunt's Remedy. At this timo I was suffering most terrible pain in my back, limbs and head, and could iind 110 rest day or night for weeks, and I was growing weaker daily until this kind physician ordered mo to take Hunt's Remedy. Before taking half of one bottle I commenced to improve, and after taking six bottles was entirely cured. This was nearly eight years a^'o, and I have had no return of the disease. I have recommended Hunt's Remedy to others in similar cases, and it has never failed to cure. I have also used it for sick headache, and found in it a sure relief. I think it the best medicine made, and cheerfully recommend it to all. MRS. W. II. STILSOX, No. 1(5 Tyler Street, Boston, Mass. April IS, 18HH. A Wcll-KnoM-n .Hun. Hunt's Remedy having been reconimonded to mo for kidney and liver complaints, 1 purchased some at the "People's Drugstore" and used it in my family, and found it to be a very valuable medicine, and I gladly recomiriuuu ik ui^mj m mj im-im.-, nu<r?<u^ it to be beneficial to those troubled with kidney or liver disease. Jiesp'-clf.illy yours, ELISHA NOYSK. fiH G Street, South Boston, Mass. April 14, 188U. A I.aMt ,>Innnfuelurer. I have used Hunt's Wnnuvly fur the kidney complaint, and. having be.'.'i fully restored to health by its use, I f in testify to its value. Daily I recommend it to s ?n.e out? of my friends, all of whom I know have been benefited by its nse. Gratefully. <;k<>. r. cox. Maiden. Mas;.. April ISS.:. There are about 2,000 gamblers in . Montana. j On Thirty I)id?' Trlnl. The Voltaic Belt Co., Marshall, Mich., will send Dr. Dye's Celebrated Electro-Voltaic Belts and Electric Appliances on trial for thirty days to men (young or old) who are alllicted with nervous debility, lost vitality and kindred troubles, guaranteeing speedy and complete restoration of health and manly vigor. Address as above. i>. jj. ?->o risK 13 incurred, us thirty clays' trial is allowed. "Rough on C'ornn." Ask for Wells'"Rough on Corns." l">c. Quick j relief; complete euro. Corns, warts, bunions. PcREKT AMU 1JE.STCOD-1.1VKU Oll'rom solecto'l livers, on tbo seashore, by Caswell, Hazard it Co., N. Y. Absolutely pure and sweet. Patients who have once taken it prefer it to all others. Physicians declare it superior to all other oils. I C'haited uands, face, pimples and rough skin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, made by ' Caswell, Hazard k Co., New York. Cnrbo-linen. Tho wind may roar among the trees, Yet great ships sail the stormy seas. The baldhead man may rave and swear, Yet Carboline restores the hair. Prnzrr Axle (Jrcnnr. One greasing lasts two weeks; all others two j >r three days. Do not bo imposed on by the I inmbug stuffs offered. Ask your dealer forFra- | er's, with label on. Saves your horse labor and 01: too. It received first medal at tho Centen- J iial and Paris Expositions. Sold everywhere, j ] That llunlmnd of.Mine s threo times the man he was before using Yells'Health Renewer. $1. Druggists. [1 LiDiKS & children's boots <fc shoes cannot ran ver if Lyon'i Patent Heel Stiffeneri are used, ; ." ' ' / " ' k4^';. . I QUEEN OF THE STAGE. 14 Her Second Love,", and the Important H*rret Bh?i Keveala for the Benefit of Women... ... (New York World.) Several years ago the American pttblia were aroused by ttie entree upon the stag* , of a Utile lady who had been previously but ( I litile announced. She was one of an innumerable number of aspirants for pub io : f.vor and had no instrumentality, aside from her own talents, to cause recognition. In spite of this fact, however, she quickly achieved a warm place in the heart of the public, which she lias continued to hold ever since. When it was announced, therefore, that Mis* Maud Granger would star the coming season in the play "Her Second J-ove,'1 wr.tten by Mr. John A. Steven3, it was only natural that unusual interest should bj manifes ed no; only in theatrical circles, , bat iu oll.er br inchoj of the community. I Thi* wa3 specially thj ca-e, as it was known I t! at Mias (iiang?r had, for the past year, | v>a?n in PTrflfl linirl v delicate health, and the i j det-rminat.on to star in a strong emotional I play was ti e more surprioing. One of the ; ^ta t ot'this pa e:'was accordingly deputized i to eee the po. ular ludy and verily the rumor : or anno ince its incorrectness Miss Granger's countenance is familiar to | nearly every one in the United States. It ia ; :i face onco seen never to be forgotten. * Features remarkable in their outline and ' contour ate surmounted by a pair of large , and deep eyes indicative of the greatest soul power, ft is easy to see where Miss Granger obtains the ability to portray characters of the most emotional nature. She possesses within herself the elements of feeling, without which no emotion o.in be conveyed to an audience. The man of news found the lady at her home in this city, and wa3 accorded ani.iet welcome. It was evident at once thnt she was in greatly improved health, which the expression andoolorofher I countenance both indicated. " Is it true, Miss Granger, that you contemplate a starring tour the coming season?" " Yes indeed. My season begins in Chicago on July 16. From th re I go to San Francisco, and then play the remainder of tho season through the Eastern and Western States." " Are you confident your health will permit such an undertaking ?" A ringing laugh was the first reply to thiB question, after which she said: "Ceitainly. It in true I have been ill for the past two years, but now I am wholly recovered. Few people can have any idea of the strain a conscientious actroBs undergoes in essaying an emotional part. It is necesI Bary to put one's whole soul into the work | in order to righily portray the character. , This necessitates an otter abandonment of ! one's i ersonality and an assumption of the charaoter portrayed. If this is an emotional part it is necessary to feel the same emotions the part is supposed to feel. For more than a year I actually oried each night in certain passages of a part I was playing, j The audience ojnsidered it art. Probably it wan, but those were none the less real tears and the effect was none the less trying upon my health." "But do you anticipate avoiding this in the future?" "Not in the least. I expect to have just as great a strain as before, but with restored health and a knowledge of how to retain it I do not fear." "You spe ik of a 'knowledge of howto rei ta n health.' Will you please explain what you me m by that?" " You must be aware that women by their very natures a e subject to troubles and atllictions unknown to the sterner sex. The name of these troubles is legion, but in ; whatever form they may come they are 1 weaknesses whirh interfere with every ambition and hope in life. I believe thousands I of noble women are to day sufiering agonies ! of which oven the r best friends and relaI tives know little or nothing, and whon I re' fleet upon it I confes it makes me sad. Now I all this misery arises largely from faignor! ance of the laws of life or a neglect to care] f ally observe them. I speak from the depths I of a bitter experience in saying this, and I j am thankful I know the means of restora! tion, and how to remain in perfect health." ' Please exphin more fully." "Well, I have found a remedy which seems ppc cially adapted for this very purpose. It is pure and palatable and controls the health and life as, I believe, nothing else will. It is really invaluable and if all the women in America were to use it I am quite sure most Ol the suffering and many deaths might be avoided." I ' What is this wonderful remedy?" I ''Warner's Safe Cure." i '"And you use it?" "Constantly." " And hence believe you will be able to go thi o -gli the coming season successfully." "I am quite certaiu of it." "A few questions more. Miss Granger. Will you please give me a list of the parte you have created anil the plays you have taken part in since your first appearance in public ?" "I first played for some time with the amateurs in New York and Brooklyn. Ithen went to the Union Square theatre for two j seasons, after that to the Boston Globe for I one s.-a-on and then to Boo.h's theatre in this city. Next IsupportedJohnMcCullough and afterwards starred in Juliet, 0 imille, ' Rosalind, etc. Subsequontly I created the part of Cicely Blaine in the 'Galley Slave' and also starred in 'Two Nights in Rome,' playing the part of. Antonia. The past year I have ' been playing in the 'Planter's Wife' and the comint; season, as I have said, will be devoted to 'Her Second Love.'" 1 As the writer was returning home he fell iaton train of musing and wondered if all > ' the women in this land who are suffering I i conld only know Miss Granger's experienoe an 1 tlie remarkable results achieved by the 1 pure remedy she u>e3, how much suffering ' might be avoided and how- much happiness j secured. Cnitehs.vl brotherhood admits of no creed but brotherhood. Somebody'* Child. ' Somebody's child is dying?dying with the flush of hope on his young face, and someI body's mother thinking of the time when that ; aear iace wiu do ruuuen wiicra uu tny y? ^ j can brighten it?because there was ,no cure for consumption. Reader, if the child I your neighbor's, take this .-comforting wOcd. to the mother's heart before it is too late' Tell her that consumption is curable: that men are living to-day whom tJbe physicians Eronounced incurable, because'one long had een almost destroyed by the-disease. Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery" has cured hundreds; surpasses codJiVer oil, hypo phosphites, and other medicines in curinp this disease. So'd by druggists. Contbibutio.n boxes will take trade dollars at par. ! Lewisytlle, Ind.?Rev. J. S. Cain 6ays: " I , used Brown's Iron Bitters for nervous prostration and found it entirely satisfactory." A laughing stock?A coll?*ction of good jo'.ses. .!% .; ' Truth Id Dliglity, When Dr. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., an* nounced that his "Favorite Prescription" would positively cure the many diseases and [ weaknesses peculiar to women, some doubted, and continued to employ the harsh and caustic local treatment. But the mighty truth I Kn/i'imo ! of ladies employed the " Favorite Prescrip, t:on " and were speedily cured. By druggists. ! He who be,'ins many things finishes bn few. In the cure of severe coughs, weak lungs, spitting of blood, and the early stapes of consumption, Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery" has astonished the medical faculty. While it cures the severest coughs, it strengthens the system and purifies the blood. By druggists. Bonner, the New \'ork Lnhjcr j roprieior, owns 170 1 orses. A full feeling after meals, dyspepsia, heartlurn nnd general ill-health relieved by Crown's Iron Bitters. Our policy promotes not good men but good wire-pullers, i ~" Sr.\bta, Tenn.?Dr. W. B. Camming* says: "lam strongly convinced of the efficacy of Crown's Iron Bitters, and recommend them." Tennessee has twenty-five copper furnaces. As a cure for he irt disease, nervousne :s ! and sleeplessness, Dr. Graves' Heart Regu! lator is unsurpassed. Thirty years trial | prove it. .*1 per bottle at yoir druggists. j Switzerland has an available army of owr i. , As a reliable remedy for indigestion and a certain cure for dyspepsia, Gastbine without , doubt stand* lirst. Gastbine is in liquid I form. Sold_by druggists. ' Cntiirrh oftlie Bladder, j Stinging irritation, inflammation, Kidney, i Urinary complaint),cured by Buchupaiba. $1. You would use St. Patrick's Salvo if you ! knew the good it would do you. ? ? ? Another Life Snvcdi ! J. 0. Ciray, of Dadevllle, la., writes us: I "I have been using yottr I>r. Win. Hall's Balsam ' forth" Lungs, and I an say. of a truth, it is far superior to any otlirr r.uug preparation in tho world. My mother was eontiued to her bed four weeks with | a cough, and had every attention by as good phyI sieians as there aro in the country, and they all | f tiled to effect a euro; but when I got one bottlo of j our Dr. Win. Hall's balsam fortho Lungs, sho began to inend right away. I can say in truth, that it was the means of saving her life. I knew of flvo cases that l>r. Win. Hail's balsam has cured, aud my mother is betteruow than sho lias been before for twenty years." Br?THE GREAT GERMAN; m?\\\ REMEDY I diioinni' FOR PAIN.: UniRmmmnSTHflfllml 1 believes find cures I RHEUMATISM,.' ZJQn ! Neuralgia, ! Sciatica, Lumbago, j likflfflHlIOBfflflinni HACK ACHE, IBP?i I DEAD ACHE, TOOTHACHE,. sore throat, rarai 9mzsssrm> ; PBJmnimpfflllltf, I Soreness. Cuts. Bruises, j i VmP'T KltOSTUlTKS, 1 A <i JKESE1 i MBP?, I nfTY^BOmE. I ||||{?IUi"IIIIUIlir,|||||Ji",|lj Sold by ftII nnfi j iwjBi i i jdfhi -11*11 flin gsiaa It .lllmorc, Md., I. <*. A. ' (. N V N I' ?31 ^ YITANTFI)?I,ADiKS tn taku our New Fancy Work ^ M at their home*, in city or country, and earn S(t to g 91 '4 per week, inn kinj{ Roods for our Summer ann Fall 3 trade. Send f.jc. for snmiile and particular*!. III'I). . SON >t! "<;. <'(>., Slxtii Ave., New York. ( PIM'K-MAKKS KK.WOVIil) by Prof. .Mespfs* fl SfAMsH l.ortoN. Price SI plrc.uw. Scat pout- d navl to any nddreiw. KI>\VA|{ I) \VI I.JIOT, Solk _ \^nt. I 1<; Nituli Avcnycj Nrw York. I j A cents Wanted for the Best and Fastest-selling ! i O. Tiotonal Boolci and Bible*. Price* reduced S8 p? ; > not. NAUOJtAiPuBLUHisoOO., Philadelphia, P?, j Home Hems. ?1" All |ov own fntt If yon ?1sick whan foQ on Get hop bltun tb*t amw-EB. ?The weakest woman, smallest child, and sickest invalid can use hop bitters with safety and great good. ?Old men tottering around from Rheumatism, kidney trouble or any weakness will be almost new by nsing bop bitters. ^ ?My wife and daughter were mada ^ healthy by the use of hop bitten, and I recr ommend them to my peoples-Methodist Clergyman. On earth. ?Malarial Fever, Ague and Biliousness will leave every neighborhood as soon us uut bitters arrive. ?" My mother drove the paralysis and neuralgia all oat of her system with hop bit* ters."?Ed. Oswego San. ?Keep the kidneys healthy with hop bitters and you need not fear sickness. ?Ice water is rendered harmless and more refreshing and reviving with hop bitters in each draught. ?The vigor of youth for the aged and infirm in hop bitters 1 ?"Attheobangeof life nothing eanali Hop bitten to allay all trouble* incident Thereto." ?" The best periodical for ladies to take monthly and from which they will receive the greatest benefit is hop bitters. ?Mothers with siokly, fretful, nursing children will care the children and benefit themselves by taking hop bitters daily. ?Thousands die annually from some form of kidney disease that might have been prevented by a timely use of hop bitters. ?Indigestion, weak stomach, irregularities of the bowels cannot exist when hop bitters are used. A timely age of hop Bitten will keep a whole family In robuit health a yoar at a little oost. ?To prodnce real genuine sleep^andchild like repose all night, taK^ a uiue nop uhw on retiring. ?That indigestion or stomach gas at night, preventing rest and sleep, will disarm, pear by naing hop bitters. ?Paralytic, nervous, tremulous old ladies nre made perfectly quiet and sprightly Dy _using hop bitters. ~ A NOTED Bu r u>TmjED Woati>. [Froa -tbff Boston GM*J Uttrrt. Edttort The above Is * good Hkennss of Krt Lydla X. Pink ham, of Lynn, Mass., who abovo all other human being! may be truthfully called the "Dear Friend of Woman," as tome of her correspondents lovo to call her. EhS Is zealously devoted to her work, which la the outcomi of a life-study, and Is obliged to koep six lady assistants, to help her answer the large correspondence which dally pours in upon her, cach bearing its special burden of suffering, or Joy at release from it Her Vegetable Compound is a medicine fc.r good acd not evil purposes. I havo personally Investigated It and am satisfied of the troth of this. On account of its proven merits. It Is recommended and prescribed by the best physicians in the country. One says: "It works like a charm and ?ave* modi pain. It will euro entirely tho worst form of falling of tho uterus, Lcucorrhxa, Irregular and painful Menstruation, all Ovarian Troubles, Inflammation and Ail Diirolacemcnts andtheoozw 1 sequent spinal weakness, and Is especially adapted to the Chang* of Life." It permeates every portion of the yrtem, and girea new u;e and Tiger. It removes faint nest, flatolancy, destroys all craving: for stimulants, and relieves weakness of the stomach. It cures Bloat In#, Ffndschfla, ' Nervous Prostration, General Debility, Sleeplessness, ?c presslon and Indigestion. That feeling of beaxtag dorm, causing pain, weight *nd backache, is always permanently cured by Us use. It will at all times, and end^r all circumstances, act 'n harmony with the law that governs the female system. It costs only $L per bottleor sir for f&, and i* sold V druggists. Any advice required as to special cases, anA the names of many who hare teen restored to perflM ; health by the use or the Vegetable Compound,eaaa* "X obtained by addressing Mrs. P., with stamp for fcic, J at her home in Lynn, Mass. M For Kidney Complaint of either sex this compound ft fl unsurpassed as abundant testimonial show. ^ ."Mrs. Plnkbam's liver Pills," says one writer, "ait the best in the world for the cure of Constipation, Biliousness and Torpidity of the liver. Her Bleed Purifier works wonders in ita fpedal line and bids fill to equal tho Compound in Its popularity. All must respect horasan Angel of Mcroywhoaesok ambition Is to do good to othen. Philadelphia. Pa- CO Mri A. K. D. PI?I yr^rtWTwrwTwnr^r ftrfflin?Rl8Hma ' A NEW DISCOVERY, j : . QTFor several yean ws hare furnished the; 'Dairymen of America with an excellent artificial color for batter; eo merltorloas tl atw metI | with great eucceee everywhere receding the' highest and only prized at both Interna tlrmali ; Dairy Fairs. '. 1 WBut by patientaqd scfcntUto ghemlcal research we have Improved Id several points," and1 | now offer this new color as flu bet* ?t A?worU. I ; it Will Wot Color tha PqtwwHtCr h; I I Will Wot Turn Rancid.' It >?*? ( _ j Strongest^-Brtghtart and /! Cheapest Color MadOt i i J . .. I WAnd, whilo prepared In oil, I* k> compounded that It Is Impossible for It to become rahcl<L': I | t^TBEWARB of all Imitations, and. of ait Other'<41 cblcu, Mr they are liable to become, .. 'randfla^d ^poll the, batter. ; 1 EBrlf you cannot get the "Improved" write os to Know wheroand how to gei It wlthoot extra ' ' |e*ptaJe* (Ml WELLS, RICIUOOSO* k CO., Itartlarttm, TC | ( ^TET^sao s?time ?hooId be ||0?ISRfS|rg? v'aL.'A ter*s Stomach Bit- 4| tart* 1^.. STOMACH-^^-f^ctiveandeafBrnedl. Sh S^MP^ C1FnrsaIeby sjlDrug* MiTTfcf*- ssljs? dm K& I ani3 I'KOI'I.K brti.'d vermin, and I HD BJ? H \?0 ki-i-ii tidy houiw>kceiiont busy nsinar LI III H COSTAR'S ?XTEKMI>'ATOR3. W0 B 5 to 25 cents nrr>rth clean oat Rats, Alice, Roaches, Bedbugs, AaU, "i'lies, Lice, Moths. Only infallible remedies. Vree from poison, At all >lTv?rOrc sTow^olUii, rir. ^ift IioxesT""" Iron Levtrs, Steal Brirlnc*, Br*?a TARE BEAM. ? JOKES, BE PAYS THE FBtlkUT. I A Sold on trial. Wirrsnts S ye?r?. 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