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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In style long out of date: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.:.
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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
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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
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Our policy promotes not good men but
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i ~"
Sr.\bta, Tenn.?Dr. W. B. Camming* says:
"lam strongly convinced of the efficacy of
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Tennessee has twenty-five copper furnaces.
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| 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
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, doubt stand* lirst. Gastbine is in liquid
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' 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
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j our Dr. Win. Hall's balsam fortho Lungs, sho began
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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."
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?The weakest woman, smallest child, and
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?Old men tottering around from Rheumatism,
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?My wife and daughter were mada ^
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On earth.
?Malarial Fever, Ague and Biliousness will
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?" My mother drove the paralysis and
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ters."?Ed. Oswego San.
?Keep the kidneys healthy with hop bitters
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?Ice water is rendered harmless and more
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?The vigor of youth for the aged and infirm
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?"Attheobangeof life nothing eanali
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Thereto."
?" The best periodical for ladies to take
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?Mothers with siokly, fretful, nursing
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?Thousands die annually from some form
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?Indigestion, weak stomach, irregularities
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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
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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
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destroys all craving: for stimulants, and relieves weakness
of the stomach. It cures Bloat In#, Ffndschfla, '
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?c presslon and Indigestion. That feeling of beaxtag
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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 ;
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For Kidney Complaint of either sex this compound ft fl
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