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JP THE OLD READING CLASS. ] I cannot, Geiu'viove toll you. how oft it comes ^ to mo? That rather voting old reading class in Dis- ' trict XuiiiIkt Three. 1 -That row ofeWutionistswhostood so straight in line. Anil chanted at standard literature with nmiaHe design. "We did nut simiv the energy in whieii our words were elad: AVegave !lie 11 leaning i>f the text 1 ?y all the light we had* Butstiil 1 fear the ones who wrote the lino we rend so free Wou!d?*nree liave reeognized their work in JMstriet NumU'I* Three. Outside tlie snow was smooth and clean?the winter's tlii.-k-laid dust: The storm it mad.-the windowssjieak at every sudden gn--t: Bright sleigh-bells threw ns pleasant words when tniveleis would jiass; The maple trees along the road stood shiver in;.: in their class: Beyond. the w hite-1>r.>wc<I cottages were nestling cold aiul (hunk And far away the mighty world stvmcd Ivcfconing us to conic? The wondrous \v<?rld. <>f which wc conncd what liad U-cnand might 1k>. In that old-fashioned reading class of District XunilKT Three. ti>. - W'c took a hand at Ilistorv?its altars, spires ? r , , and names? And uniformly mispronounced the most imKV jiortant names; We wanders! through Biography, and gave our fancy jday. And with s >:ue subjects fell in love?"good s only for one day:" In Romance and Philosophy we settled many a )>oint. And made what j>oeins we assailed to creakat S>?. t'vt-ry joiiit: And many authors tliat we love, you with me will aurvo. Were lii>i time introduced to us in District NuiuUt Three. You recollect Susannah Smith, the teacher's soro dist ivss. Who never stopped at any pause?a sort of day express; And timid youn.'j Sylvester Jones, of inconsistent sii;ht. Who stumble 1 on the easy words and read the hard ones ri;;ht And Jennie Green, whose doleful voice was always clothed i:i black And Samuel Hicks, whose tones induced the plastering all to crack Ami Amlrow TuMis, whose various mouths were quite a show to see Alas! we cannot ti:xI thetn now in District Xumlier Three. And Jasjior Jenckcs. whose tears would flow at each pathetic word (lie's in the prize-light luisiiicss now. and hits fe. then: hard. I've heardc And Uenny Hayne. whose every tone he mainlined as in fear (His tongu" i* not so timid now: he is an aucBk' v And Lanty Wood, whose voice was just endeavoring hard to change. And leaped from hoarse to liercely shrill with most surprising range: . Also his sister M iry Jane. so full of prudish Alas! they're lx>:h in higher s-ho;>ls than District XiuhKt Three. So Iwick these various voices come, though i long the years have grown. Anil sound uncommonly distinct through j Memoir's telephone: And some are full of melody, and bring a sense ; jgjL'- And some can smite the rock of time, and ! summon forth a tear: But one sweet voice comes liack to me. when* ever sad I grieve, And sings a song, an<l that .is yours, O i>eerless Genevieve! It brightens up the olden times, and throws a j smile at me? fvV* A silver star amid the clouds of District Is'umber Three. ?117// Curletun. in Harper's Magazine. A HAPPY MISTAKE. ??? "Xo, life is not fair. Its troubles j are given to the many; its pleasures 1 only to the few !" mused Mrs. Mer- j riam as she stood in her cottage door looiong aicer me line carnage 01 an old schoolmate that had just dashed i, by. "She has so much, and I so little ! ! L And yet, I once had the opportunity of j Br accepting that rich husband of hers,! and she would have given her eyes in those days, if Tom Merriam would v .. "X have cared for her as he cared for me ! i gfckpjfe I wonder how it would have been if I j-";/had tak?n Jacob Marabout, instead of ; telling liim that I was engaged to Tom. j and seeing real tears in his ejes as he listened! I wonder if Tom? But what am I thinking of? I am quite ;; sure that Tom could never have cared j for her?never!" Mrs. Merriam's sot face softened a j ] little as her memory went back to the . days when " Tom" wooed and won her, i j and when she was so glad to secure ; him after her long fear thatHermione j Macy would Le his chosen bride. But the next moment the bright sun-1 j light flashed upon the highly-varnished ; panels of Ilermione's pony carriage , far up the Gorge road" She turned | , away from the open door with a heavy 1 j sigh and entered the plainly-furnished | sitting-room where her two little girls j ; were getting ready for school. i j " Put it away! Hide it under your' . apron, liosy, or mamma will see it!" j j she heard her twelve-year-old Inez say j ] in a frightened whisper as she laid her hand on the latch <?f the door. Rosy was shullling something out of sight under her white pinafore with a very guilty faee. 1>? ?th the children were anxious to set oft' to school before their usual time, and when the mother : had allowed them to do so she saw 1 them turn out of their road to go to their fatlu r, who was at work in the ] field on the hillside. The two trim little figur.' s stood en : the hilltop, in strong relief against the pale-blue horizon, and Hosy's apron was unfolded, and "father " was evidently mide the participator in tin* : 4. 1- .?l. ?? 4... SCCIYL WHICH --iin>wu-i wua nut tu know ! It was a little thing, but it added to ; the discontent with which the neat and capable housekeeper went about i her usual tjusks that morning. i Tom Merriam was unusually silent < that noon when lie came to dinner. ( He partook of the tempting meal in an absent-minded kind of way and , went back to the hillside the moment ( he had finish* d, instead of lingering to talk to his wife as h<; generally did. And yet this was her thirty-fourth birthday! Tor* might have reinem- . bered it suflicientlv to say a kind word or two in praise of the extra good i dinner which she had given him. But < no ; there he was on the hillside again, \ and actually leaning over to talk to < Ilermione Marabout as she drove by ] on her way back t> the beautiful little l villa which her husband had taken for , her during his absence in Europe on l important business. < Vv.'Mr.i'/l/. locfp/1 noaplv -L lie iUULOlUU wmcivuvv Iiwivw WVM. y j tea minutes: then the pony-carriage ( rolled by the small brown farmhouse ] once more; but Hermione's face was j persistently turned the other way. "She has forgotten, too!" thought Mrs. Merriam, bitterly. "And yet her own birthday comes only one week after mine." ( She finished washing and putting 1 away her dinner dishes and swept the i kitchen floor. Her house was none 1 the less spotlessly ti-Iy because her t heart was aching. She put on a clean dress of pink t print which she had made ready fur t this very day. i In the pantry were four tiny loaves s of fruitcake? one for each member of c r; * t'ie family?which she had made in a r~? secret, and the wheaten bread, the t graham rolls, the chipped beef and c home-made preserves were ready for j the supper table on the shelves. g No work was pressing for this after- j noon. For a week past she had t planned to secure four leisure hours at I i this time, and now they hung heavily s |?; and sadly upon her hands. s She wandered around from room to l room for a few moments, biting her ] lins h.'irr] pvm-v now and then to keep i back the unwelcome tears. At l;ist < she snatched up her sunbonnet, and < leaving the house by the back door she j hurried across the garden and a small < ; neck of pasture Jand, and reached the s cool, green shadow of the pasture j woods. i In the silence and beauty o ths j maples she flung herself dowtv and i burst Into tears. Long, long she wept, * till the sadness and discontent w f kh i iiad been making her heart sore all tiirougn tne tuiy wne tuinicij guuv. liaising herself on her elbow at last a quick whir of wings close beside her cheek startled her. she searched among the moss, and found under the roof of three tiny maples, scarcely two inches high, a lovely little hair-lined nest with four little, warm white eggs in it, the latest brood of the season. " I will not disturb you. pretty one," she said to the small, brown mother who sat on a barberry bush close by chirping pitifully. She rose and walked on. The great trees rustled and waved * - * ? * * ~1 4 their green .and goiuen leaves aumn over her head in the sunlight and fresh air. A brilliant red bird, withTi jet-black head and wings. Hashed past ; a golden robin chattered and scolded from a tall ash at her, and a red squirrel barked himself awry, just above the robin's head, when he saw her coming : sweet- i scented thi-tles, honest-faced mulleins, and the cheerful golden-rod were in bloom on every side; I'lackberries, late raspberries and crimson "Scoteii-caps" overran the wo;ids, and barberry bushes hung full of yellowish Iruit. A bird, unseen in the depths (?!' the forest, sang every moment three llute-like notes, half-sweet, half-sad. Toward the west a deep bell tinkled melodiously, and the strawberry roan-cow came in siiiht, leading the rest of the herd to higher pastures, j A woodchuck, standing on his hind feet at the door of hi? home, bolted down the narrow path as she passed by. All was life, movement, happ:ness, sunsnme, nine ssu's <uiu jitiunuai breezes, wherever she turned. She stooped to wonder at the curious tunnel that the wood-spider wove for a hiding-place in the. midst of her net. the rounded shafts sunk through the dried grass by the meadow-mole, and the busy ants carrying their eggs about wh'-n a stone chanced to be upturned, alike attracted and -enchained her attention. Two hours passed before she was aware of th"ir tlight; and in all that time she had forgbtten to he unhappy. " The woods have taught me a lesson that I needed,'' she thought, as she turned back toward the lonely cottage home that had never before seemed half so dear; "and I have had a pleasant birthday, after all." 1 iy the back door she entered her home again. (Jlancing into the pantry as site passed she saw with surprise that t lie materials for the birthday feast nau vanisueu. A confused murmur of voices sounded from the parlor. The diningroom door stood wide open. There on a table beautifully decorated with hothouse ilowers were the lost dainties in company with cakes, ices, fruits and creams such as she had never seen before; while on an improvised sideboard stood the heavier viands?cold roast fowl, a ham, in paper frills, and dressed with parsley, ami a tongue. Speechless with astonishment the farmer's wife crossed tlio hall and peeped into the parlor. A beautiful rosewood arm-chair, covered with crimson velvet?a chair such as she ha I always secretly longed for, but never hoped to possess?stood near the open fireplace. Over the carved and arched top Hermione Marabout was arranging a wreath of golden-rod and field-daisies, while Tom Merriam was f;isten:ng above the urc.-itii n. finelv-exeeuted inscription. painted in colors upon tinted pasteboard. "Oh, do hurry, papa, please!" cried Inez, dancing up and down in her Sunday slippers and best muslin frock. " Kosy and 1 saw her just now coining out of the woods, and?oh, here she is!" There were two screams of delight from the lips of the children in their Sunday attire; and Tom Merriam? also dressed in his best?turned from the chair and added his embrace to that of Inez and liosv. "Welcome, dear mother!" said the, glowing letters on the tinted board. "Welcome, dear wife!" whispered her husband as he kissed her. " Inez painted the letters and I made the wreath!" ciied Kosy, capering about like a mad thing. "And we were so afraid tliat you would see them both this morning:" "And papa bought the chair and hid it out in the barn all last night," chimed in Inez. "And dear Mrs. Marabout has brought you?oh, such j a lovely new black silk dress, and such j lots and lots 01 nice tilings lor supper! And it is just the happiest birthday in all the world?now isn't it, mamma?'' " 1 congratulate you, dear; and I inn afraid 1 envy you," said Ilermione, in a low tone, as she kissed her friend. " I married for money, you know, and have it; butthat is ail. Never once in all my life, listher, have I known the least tithe of joy that you feel this day. You are a very happy woman, my dear. May (iod keep you so!" With light hearts they all sat down together to share the birth lay feast. But in the twilight of that evening, tvhen they two were alune, the wife ionfe sed to her husband all the evil houghts that had beset her that day. Never again did they trouble her. S'ever has she forgotten the silent esson taught her by that momentary glimpse of the two sides that may exist in the most fortunate of human lives.? V. F. Benton. Making Cross-Eyc* Straight. A medical expert described to a New York Times reporter his method of maKing cross-eyes straigui as iouows: " The operation to be undergone 1 ?y the patient is simple anil practically painless. For the convergent cases there is no pain whatever, only a little annoyance while the operator is reaching the little muscle which has to he di- j vided. I have performed the opera- j tion hundreds of times on other people, I sometimes giving anesthetics, and J often with no such aid. The patient | is stretched on the table. 1 draw itpart with my fingers the lids of his eyes and insert between them a litUe steel instrument shaped like the letter I !>. The sides of this expand by a| spring and force the lids open, disclosing the eyeball and the network of muscles holding it in position and directing its movements. When this expansion is accomplished I lift up the muscle with a small pair of tweeters and divide it with my instrument. When it is cut it feels to the patient | as if asmall band of rubber was l?eing ' snapped. There is no pain at all. ! Very often, however, painful operations are performed. The muscle luis sometimes been divided too much, and the error has to be rectified. This re-1 juires some stitches to be taken and a ] new cut to be made. The patient must i L?e made unconscious while this is going J >n." "ran you cure any case 01 sira-; l)isiuus?" "J. can benefit any ordinary ! uase, even when it can't lie entirely I . ured. I have often wished that "l ould operate on Hen lUitler. I tlfnk j [ could give him as straight eyes as I i javein half an hour's time." Clearing Stiinii* Land. A .correspondent of the Country ientl'inan writes from .Michigan: iVe have here thousands of a"res of vhat is called "stump land"?land 'roin which the pine timber lias ' aken by lumbermen. T^ie term 'stump land" is no misnomer, for here are oft< n a hundred pine stumps | ;o the acre. From a lield of eight! teres in sight of me as I write, (.00 itumps have ju>t been pulle:!. When )\posed t?> the weather pine decays j rery rapidly, and one would suppose j ;liat a few years after the timber was i ut the pine stumps could be easily j mllrd; but such is not the ca e. Long,) itout roots are required to support a line tree 100 or 150 feet high, and na- j ,ure strengthens the roots by saturat- j ng them with resinous pitch. This j saves them from decay, and a pine ; i-nnwo nflof flin f ruD llQCJ ! H U111J', t*CaiO (UUV.I vuv UVV KUW i x*en cut, clings to the ground with alnost the same grim determination ;vs ivh^n first cut. lint in spite of this, stumps irom twenty to forty inches in liameter can be pulled with a good nachine at a co>t of fifteen or twenty ;ents each. A man who owns a good >tump puller here has just finished a job of 1,800 pine stump3 at fift:en 'ents each for pulling, and the same irice for burning. These stumps were ill standing cn thirty acres of land, ind many of them were from three to lour fe.jt in diameter. ? LIFE IX TIIE HOP DISTRICT. THE FASCINATION OF HOP CUtTUBE DESCRIBED. IIow Fortunes Aro i>Iailo ami Lont? An Aiiririilnirnl Pursuit Willi I lie* (!bnnrct of ilic CniniiiK Tublc. Whoever makes a summer pilgrimage westward from Albany bv the Albany and Susquehanna railroad, alter the iirst thirty miles are passed, begins to see a strange and unaccustomed vegetation. Occasionally a luxuriant growth of vines is met, which covers the earth entirely from the fervent mid-.!ay sun. and rises from twelve to twenty feet in the air. lie is in the outskirts of the hop district. It is only after he has gained the summit, abuut fifty miles west of the capital city, and rolls swiftly down the long slope of the Susquehanna valley, that he realizes that the heart of hop-growing America is readied, lie is in Otsego?a county which excels all others in acreage ami amount sum value of hops. Here the hop fields become larger and more numerous. Hop-growers are no longer the exception, hut the rule. You may drive the whole day and hardly pass a farm which lias not from two to lilty acres of the vine. Tins acreage is constantly increasing. The small grower of live years ago shows his broad fields to-day, and even the timid, old-fashioned farmer of that time has caught the infection, and hoasts a modest acreage of his own. The merchant, the mechanic, and even the day laborer not infrequently hires a plot of ground from some neighboring farmer, and "trios his fortune with -..of ? Tntf'im./u! MfO not. unflOIll 111U iV OV. u> V ..v/v nion of those who re nt a few acres ami rely upon the crop produced, spending the whole yvar in an 1 about the hop yard, it is :i mania; and, as in the oil regions nothing is heard save oil yields and oil prospects, .-o here you hear from year end to year end nothingsave a dreary iteration of hop prospects, hop sales, hop yields and hop blight. It is a region of unquestioned fertility, and ono of the best grazing and dairying sections of the state. All the cereals furnish certain and abundant harvests. Tho-root crops are prolific and the orchards redundant of fruitage. All, however, are subordinate to the uncertain hop industry, and the rich man looks for his luxuries and the poor man for his necessities to ti e value of this crop alone. Hop growing is always uncertain. Therein lies much of its fascination. It is the spirit ot Wall street carried | H-IltiiU. XIII' Iliill^V Illllll Ul gllllll glVMVl looks for but slight fluctuation in the value of his produce from year to* year. A gain ;>r loss of fifty per cent, would be remarkable. Within a much smaller limit he is safe. Hut the hop cultivator knows that the price of this year bears no discoverable relation to that of the next, it may be :i00 cr 400 per cent, higher or lower without exciting great surprise. As great cr.anges as that have occurred within the last few months. When we reflect that hops can under favorable circumstances be fitted for | market for ten cents per pound, and j that lifteen cents yields a margin of j profit, we get at the full significance I of these figures. Eight to ten cents I per pound has not infrequently been the price for a year or more, followed, it may lie the next season, by from forty to fifty cents. Yet the decline is as sudden and unexpected. I have in mind a grower who was some years ago offered sixtv-two and a half cents a pound for his crop of 5,000 pounds. Kefusing to sell at that time lie afterward accepted live cents per pound, which was much more than many others iceeived. Another sold his whole crop for $20. One man fel them to his sheep, while another used them for horse-bedding. Hut in the overturn of t'ungs produce1. by last ; year's supposed immense f;h ;rtage some of those hops which had by some chance been kept, were sold fur more than they were worth when new. It would be interesting to know if they have at last got into use, or are still kept in store, perhaps to pa-s into a greater worthlessness than before. The fat-tors which produce this vast flu tuation of prices are many. Perhaps there is no other plant subject to so many vicissitudes of climate as the hop. The roots may winter-kill over vast areas. A slow, cold summer may retard the growth. A hot, wet Augu-t may bring the mold in the wake of the dreaded insect enemy, the 11}'. The louse, an immature llv, may cover the leaves by thousands, causing that peculiar black and slrning appearance known <us honevdew. Add to these l.? .lnni.oi1.itmni. nf t))o hnn rrrnh tilt? U^ltUUViVllO VI VUVy ?.v^ which, working under ground, destroys tliejroots, and the myriad forms of caterpillars and of insect iifo which make their home in the hop plantations, and you get some idea of the enemies with which the planter must contend. During the present year there has been added to these a blight, the nature of which is not precisely determined. Many hills, after attaining a height of from six to ten feet, suddenly stopped growing, and the head or terminal point took on a withered' appearance. This the plant seemingly overcame in a few weeks, but later it reappeared, attacking the ends of the branches in the full-grown vine. These withered, dropped their leaves, and in some c ises became dry .and hard. The los.s fro.n this cause will not be considerable this year, but no one knows its cause or how to successfully contend with it, and no little anxiety is felt 5f nmnnnort nnvt CAHCAn /VPHI IIZOV 11/ 1.1'UJfJ'CUl. iH AU UVIVCVMI ?? ? V --? York tinn. Out-Trotted by a Calf. Colon el Charles Burns appeared on the race course at Evans ville, Ind., one day recently, leading a very thin calf. It wjis a dusky brindle in color, hair long and full of cockle hurrs, while its diagonal tail was weighted with the same prickly nuisances. It was an ungainly creature and looked halfstarved, but when the colonel said it could trot the crowd laughed. Finally, alter much banter, he wagered $1U(J that his cloven-hoofed pet could outstrip any horse on the grounds. Mr. Jay I lowland promptly accepted and produced his handsome gelding "Daylight," who has a record of 2:2'.). It was agreed that the calf should go ii n/lnv* c-wldll. wlll'lfi thf> llOT.-l! UIIUVi rituvtiv, II trotted in harness. They were, led out on the track. Twenty times the calf sleepily lopecl up for the word, hut at the next trial they came under the wire neck and ne k, and were sent off. Instantly the calf seemed to lose four inches in height, and pushed off, with tail erect, like a Hash of light. At the quarter pole the horse forged two lengths ahead, hut at the upper turn the calf settled into a shambling sort of trot, bellowing at every step, all the while gradually decreasing the distance between itself and the gelding. The nearer it approached the horse the more nervous the equine became, until when the calf reached his sulky wheel the gelding bolted. Before the gelding could he controlled Burns' calf had a hundred yards lead, and all efforts of the horse to overtake his split-hoofed competitor were unavailing, the calf landing at the wire, head and tail up, 200 yards ahead, in 2:29. As soon as the disappointment aim the mortification of the losers had somewhat worn off, the colonel was besieged by them with offers to purchase, one going as high as $1,100. The colonel, however, refused all oil ers. Satlslleil With tlie Experiment. A Chicago wholesale house sent out three female drummers by way of experiment. One of them wore all her samples to a picnic and got lemonade, j pie and grass stains all over them; an- j other got mashed on a brakeman and j followed him off, and the third re- j ported three new dre ses, a lawn ten- i n:s suit, a garden hat and a Langtry | 1>onr? in hor PYf:Ansft a eount. The I . CH?5 All "W- " house is so well f-atisued with the result of the experiment that it will not repeat it .?Burlington Hawltcye. A Cincinnati firm had for years kept in a drawer all the counterfeit money received in the course of business, and the other night a burglar got in and took every cent. It is supposed the burglar will write an indignant communication to the press as soon as he calms sufficiently to handle a pen. FASHION NOTES. Every style of plaid and check will Ut) VVUU1. Felt and velvet bonnets will be worn to the exclusion of plush. Pointed or tapering crowns for bonnets are no longer fashionable. New round hats have stiff high crowns and straight or rolling brims. Wool batistes in che -ks and white and black mixtures will be much worn this fall. Heads, wings, breasts and crests of birds are. the favorite ornaments for fall hats. The long Newmarket coat and the Newmarket bonnet, a jockey style, go together. (irays, browns and indelinite shades of blue or blue-green bid fair to be very popular. Small shoulder capes or collars with full plaited ruilles are among trie late novelties. (iray and brown in various shades are the favorite colors for the new felt hats and bonnets. For traveling and utility suits for fall wear, che ked and hair-lined flannels will bo much used. Crushed strawberry is no longer fashionable, shot blue and plum color having taken its place. Colored silk mitts are embroidered in self colors a ross the hand, the wrist and on the top, which reaches to the elbow. Xun's veiling was never so popular OC5 'if flift m-Psjonf Tt is use.I in all shades for dresses worn both by misses and young girls. .Mu h of the bedroom furniture is now of light woods, owing to the prevailing fashion that the tone of the room lie light and cheery. Two apron overskirts?one long and square and caught up on the loft side, the other full, short, rounded, and much looped over the hips?are seen upon importations from l'aris. Cunning little low-necked, shortsleeved dresses for children are made of pink, blue, and strawberry sateen, surah, chanibery or linen, embroidered or plain, over plaited waists of white muslin or guimpes with sleeves. New autumn cheviots, tweeus, serges and basket cloths are mostly in plaids, in even or irregular patterns, and in quiet neutral tones of fawn color, nun's gray, pale golden brown, and the like, enlivened by stripes or dashes of scarlet and gold. The London Queen reports a departure in tho style of skirts of young ladies' ball gowns, the hitherto indispensable waterfall drapery being replaced by skirts of tulle and net arranged ballet fashion in flounces of un equal length, which are trimmed with perpendicular rows of satin ribbon fastened lightly upon them, producing a pretty and novel effect. The number of mantles of thin brocaded material upon a transparent ground has notably increased of late. These materials are chiefly brocaded silk gau/e, with raised designs in silk, velvet, or of finest silk grenadine in raised patterns of satin. The mantles i ttru in t.hfi shanfi of nelerines. larcre lichtis or elegant pelisses. They are lined with gold, mauve, or scarlet surah, and the effect is exceedingly rich and stylish. Army Punishments. In different sections of the army various expedients were resorted to for the purpose of correcting minor offenses. What particular shape the punishment should assume depended very much upon the inventive faculty of the lield and staff, or of such officers of the line as might have charge of the case. Before taking the lield a few citizen sncak-thieves were discovered piowlini about among the tents. These were promptly druiiimc.l out of camp to the tune of the " liogue's March," the whole regiment shouting in derision as the miserable fellows took to their heels when the procession reached the limits of^the (amp, where they were told to be gone and never show their faces in camp again on pain of a more severe handling. If, while we were lying in camp, a man refused to <!o his duty he was at ? j.,.1 ? tvl.inVt UUL'U UliM'U IU bin: gumu-imuot, umuu is the military name for "lo:'k-up." Once there, at the discretion of the ollicers, he was simply coniinecl and put on bread and water, or else ordered to carry a log of wood, or a knapsack tilled with stones, "two hours on and two off," day and night, until su:h time as he was deemed to have done J suflicient penance. In more extreme cases a court-martial was held, and the penalty of forfeiture of all pay due, with hard labor for thirty days, or the like, was inflicted. One day, down in front of Petersburg, a number of us had been making a friendly call on some acquaintances over in another regiment. As we were returning home we came across what we took to be a well, and wishing a drink we all stopped. The well in question, as was usual there, was nothing but a barrel sunk in the ground; for at some places the ground was so full of springs that, in order to get water, all you had to do was to sink a box or barrel, and the water would soon collect of its own accord. Stooping down and looking into the barrel in question, Andy discovered a man standing in tne wen, engaged in bailing out tlie water. "What's he doing down there in that hole?" asked some one of our company. "Why,'' said the guard, who was standing near by, and whom he had taken i'or the customary guard of the spring, "you see, comrades, our colonel lias his own way of punishin' the boys. One thing he won't let him do?he won't let 'em get intoxicated. If they do they go into the gopher hole. .lim, there, is in the gopher hole, now. That hole has a spring at the bottom, and the water comes in pretty fast; and if .Jim wants to keep dry he's got to keep dippin' all the time, or else stand in the water up to h is waist ?and .Jim isn't so mighty fond o' water, neither."?St. Nicholas. Tuc World's Population. The latest estimates by German scientists of the total population of the earth are, in round numbers, as follows: Australia 4,(OJ,OCO inhabitants eu-.opi ni r.,oo i.ooj " Africa 205,000,000 Ameiicn Ki.(?mi,0/0 " A-ia 8;O.OOO.OCO " Europe is the most densely populated of the continents; Asia contains more than one-half of the inhabitants of the globe. As long as there is evidently room for untold millions of people, there need 1 e no fear of overpopulation. According to their relig ious creeds, the above 1,14M,(100,000 may be classifiel thus: 212,000.000 Catholics, 124.000.000 Protectants, 84,000,000 Schismatics, <,uuu,uuv Israelites, 200,000,000 .Mohammedans, 103,000,000 Hrahmins, 423,000,000 Kmidhists, and 230,000,000 1'apans. The number ot' Christians aggn gate, therefore, 420,000,000, the worshipers of one (Jod are less than one-half of the inhabitants of the earth, and 828,000,000 are given to idolatry. As (Juick as Lightning. "As quick as lightning '' is a phrase well chosen to illustrate an inconceivable rapidity, but of those who use the expression probably very few appreciate its full meaning, for Sir Charles AYheatstone has shown that a (lash of lightning lasts less than a millionth part of a s: cond. This is vastly more rapid than our perception of the Hash, 1 in,.of ..nn>i,nlli ixf <i aarinnrl mn^f. clllU ih'j 1CUOU uuu-wuain vi. u^wv?.v? ...?.,v elapse?according to Professor Swan? before our sluggish sight cun take in the full effect of the light. On account of the slowness of our perception we never see the light at its real intensity. Professor Tait has suggested that the full brilliancy must be in some degree comparable with the sun, as Wheatstone's and Swan's data prove that the apparent brightness of the landscape as lit up by a lightning flash is less than one-hundred-thousandth part of what it would be were the lightning permanent. The apparent brightness, it should be mentioned, was shown by Swan to diminish in about the ratio borne by the length of time required for us to perceive it. YOUNG STOCK GAMBLERS BOW RICH MSN'S SONS SINK FATEBNAX. WEALTH. Youthful IteimtnlionM Tlmt Arc HlaMtod nnd Tl.?t Unnli in Willi SlrCOt'H Npeceilntive I'ooIh. Weill street is filled with boy speculators. They are of all grades, from those who gamble small sums on the changes in prices to those who are able to gamble in the legitimate way ?so to speak. They keep a balance at their brokers and issue orders to buy or sell which are duly executed on the floor of the stock exchange. Hut though of all grades tliey are of one type. They may be recognized by their sharp, eager faces, their pale cheeks, their restless movements and their premature conversation. Their talk is big. They speak of the prosperous condition of the country, the increased earnings of railroads, anil of starving Europe stretching forth her arms to receive our products. 'I'lir.v !iro (Tonprallv "hulls." Most young men are. They believe in the wealth of the future. Very few sell "short," and if they do it is because they have learned to "hedge" in speculation as in gambling. Their game is to buy for a rise. It makes very little dili'erence what they buy. They are so sanguine that they purchase indiscriminately from the whole list. What they tou; h must turn into gold. That is the way they feel. If they meet with a reverse it dues not cheek them ; they still rush on in their career to ruin. If their ill luck continues, as is most likely, they are pushed to questionable means to obtain the resources to continue their operations. Lo;>k at them now?their eyes are sunken and gleam with unnatural light, as if they had awakened from an opium dream. They are such eyes as may be seen any night across a gambling-table. Xo inconsiderable amount of the profits of stock brokerage accrues from the business supplied by these boy speculators. The better class of brokers, of course, will have nothing to do with them. They will not touch a penny of their money, and advise U1UI11 L J gtj I'ilUJV LU lliCil I11UW11CI v?a\** + schools, or their legitimate business and keep out of Wall street, with its rapids and whirlpools, through which the oldest and most experienced find it difficult to cross to the shores of assured success. But the youngsters are not obliged to hunt long for men who are ready to pocket their money. They lind men who are ready to Hatter them with the belief that they are financial prodigies; who do not hesitate to (ill their brains with stories of sudden wealth, and urge them in their career of speculation. They give the boys the free lom of their offices, and there is something very fascinating about a stock broker's office which is almost irresistible. The lloor is richly carpeted and the furniture upholstered. Pictures hang on the wall. A sofa or two on which to stretch one's weary limbs; the stock indicators, which they watch with eager eyes, talking of the rising or falling jirices. "A thousand shares of Western union at Y4," announce i oue ol cue tape-readers, or tape-worms, as they might almost be called, if close students can be justly termed ' bookworms.'' A minute before the stock sold at 73:j, ami the young speculator makes a lightning calculation of the amount that some one has made by buying at 73;} and selling at 74. " What one has done others may do," says the young fellow, and he is drawn into the snare as surely as Captain Webb was drawn into the rapids of Niagara. Watch the crowd of beardless faces that hang around the stock indicators in the downtown restaurants a:?.! other public places, or iu the bucket-shops, and one can see the boys, yet in their teens, gambling their week's earnings on the prices of stocks. Oflice-boys, clerks, cashiers are drawn into the Wall street net and fall a prey to the Wall street spiders. But it is young men who have fallen heirs to fortunes or who are supplied with ready cash by their fathers, or. better still, who have access to the vaults of some banking institution who are squeeze I for what they are worth most eagerly by the sharpers into whose hands they fall. A young man several years ago was left WO. He went immediately into "Wall street, bought a seat in the stock exchange and was wiped out in a few months. He then went to work at a small salary and at last accounts had nothing whatever to do. A vnnnir nmn nf t,\Vpnt,V-t\VO Or - w twenty-three about two months ago, during the excitement in oil, was pointed out to the reporter as having made $75,000 in a few weeks. A fortnight later the reporter was engaged in writing up the failure of the same young man. A sudden decline had wiped out his gains and left him in debt. Cases could lie cited by the score of boys whose fortunes and characters were ruined by speculation. Not long ago the son-in-law of the president of a prominent bank downtown squandered in speculation $:J0,000 or $40,000 of stolen money. Ilis family connections saved him from State prison, but his reputation is lost. He is only twenty-two years old. A boy employed in an ofiicfl to copy the quotations from the tape not iong ago was found to hiive lost several thousand dollars of his employer's money in speculation. Occasionally one hears of a successful case. The reporter knows of a wealthy citizen of Brooklyn, still young, who just before the panic of 1.S73 was taken in by his father as a partner in a brokerage firm. In a year or two, l?y a streak of good luck, he cleared a million. lie declared that lie l.o.J onnnnli wit.lirlrpw from t.hfi firm and went to Europe. Ilis father and brother continued in business and in a few months were swept down by the panic of 1873. So strong are the temptations of Wall street that employers and bank ollieials are taking extra precautions to prevent their clerks from speculating.? .Ve/r York World. Interesting Facts About the Burmese. Myatt Kyaw, M. 1>., of Rangoon, j Burmah, in an address in Brooklyn, said: "In Burmah there is an old tradition that at some time long ago a i wonderful book was lost. The mis- ] sionaries tell them this book is the < Bible. They lind this tradition a great < help to them in approaching the | heathen. In Burmah only boys go to t school. They study in concert aloud, t and can be heard half a mile. Boys i heads are shaved until they are fifteen \ years old, when the hair is allowed to ] grow until it is three feet long. They ( all wear turbans. The chief article of i clothing is a piece of calico or silk, if ] they can afford it, about fifteen feet | long and four feet wide. This is ? usually.draped about the loins. It is ( .also used as a cradle and hammo-k. s Betel-nutjdiewing is a universal habit. , The girls chew it in childhood to make r their lips red, and later in life it be- ] comes a conlirmed habit. Everybody j smokes. Tobacco and cigars are car- i ried in holes punctured in the lobe of ( the ear. There are no surnames in ] Burmah. Names there have great ( significance, all having a symbolical meaning. My father had a lucky name, t The natives are timid when white , men approach them, but are not afraid 1 of white woiw-n. The complexion of \ the people is dark, but the young ladies ; lnaKetneir laees a snaueor twoiignter by tlio application of a bark, which they roast and crumble to a powder. The Burmese always have large families.'' The Kaw Indians in the Indian Territory are disappearing with strange rapidity. There were fully 10,000 of them in 1S70, and the tribe was noted for the physical poweran I warlikedisposition of the men, but since then the smallpox and other malignant diseases have done the most deadly work. It is said that only about three hundred now remain, and these are diseased and likely soon to die. , "Why is it that a chicken will wan- 1 der around and never begin to scratch s in dead earnest until she gets on the c bed containing the most expensive > flowers in the garden??Puck. s SELECT SIFTERS. A man breathes about eighteen 0. times a minute, and uses 3,000 cubic ^ feet of air per hour. Inclosing waste lands and commons, in order to promote agriculture, lirst began in England in 1547, and caused a rebellion. A English sparrows were first intro- \ duced into this country in 1858 by a gentleman named Uubois in a garden in Portland, Maine. The ostriches in California have exploded the old story that the female \ covers up her eggs and leaves them to ^ be hutched out by the hot sun. The female sits on the eggs in the daytime and the male assumes that duty at ^ night. Whnn f:ms worn invented no man can tell. There can be no doubt, how- I ever, of their existence 3,000 years ago, for representations of these familiar articles have been discovered on the tombs at Thebes. Fans, therefore, are the oldest articles in use by ladies, except their tongues. t Barnum says that he lost $1:30,000 ? in his vain attempt to bring two .Sia- 1 mese white elephants to this country. His agent bought the beasts through f the connivance of a priest, and after ; the king had indignantly refused to i sanction such a sacrilegious sale, but they died on being taken aboard a ship, and the old showman believes that they were poisoned. The Japanese believe that amnionities are petrified snakes. Fossil ] brachiopods (lamp-shells) are called " stone swallows," and are said to come . to life and fly from their hiding-places { at the approach of wind and rain, changing again to stones on the rct-irn . to fair weather. Fossil fish appear j and disappear at pleasure. Their ap- ( pearance is prognostic of a plentiful harvest and prosperous times. The stones if burned have a decidedly lishy , smell. Minneapolis is reported to ship an- ; nually, beyond her local consumption, ; 1,050,870 barrels of tlour. "These," ? says the Tribune statistician, " if piled one above the other, end to end, would reach 780 miles. The Hour would make about 493,255,000 loaves of ( bread, the ordinary size of bakers' , loaves. These, piled in a pyramid, j would make, roughly calculated, a square pyramid with a base :i00 feet square and with a height of nearly 1.U00 feet." ' From the earliest times there have 1 been laws in England enforcing a 1 proper respect for Sunday. The most 1 ancient of these, which is still preserved, was made by Alfred the Great, ; in the ninth century. The second J dates from the time of Ilenry VI, 1 Another was passed under .James I. The fourth, which is now the law of i England, was made by the parliament : of Charles II. This latter law has been made the model of Sunday iaws j in all our States except Louisiana; and < the decisions made under it now form | a part of our common law. .Firecrackers, says Nature, ]>lay a i large part in the superstitious observ- i ances of the ordinary Chinese. It is a popular belief that the evil spirits everywhere inhabiting the ;iir are dispersed by crackling noises attended by , fire and smoke. Accordingly, fire- , crackers are used on all special occa- : sions to frighten away the demons who i are tormenting a sick person, or who ; crowd around the people at the be- ' ginning of the new year. Bamboo, which emits, when burning, a crack- . ling sound, is also used for the same ' purpose. The Stimulus of Necessity. I)r. Carpenter writes as follows in 1 the New York Mnlicul Journal: What can be in stronger contrast than the j sluggish life of the Orinoco Indian? ' for whom one day's lab.jr (in the ] planting of a banana grove) is said by j Humboldt to be sufficient to provide ' food for the whole year, and who di- ' vides his timu between sleeping and ' smoking?and the hardy activity of 1 the Swiss mountaineer, who toils * throughout the summer and autumn 1 in the cultivation of his small patch * of grain or potatoes for the needs of '' his family, and scales heights that ( most men would deem maccessuue 10 * collect their scanty herbage as win- 1 ter's food for their beasts, using the ( long hours of his enforced confine- 1 merit in some kind of skilled handi- 1 work which may enable him to pro- * cure additional comforts for his home ( or educational advantages for his chil- < dren ? And so, ill the higher grades 1 of soi iety, those who are born with a silver spoon in their mouths too often fall into habits of mere dilettanteism, while those who enter J upon their career with good j educational preparation for it, but without any other means of subsist- j ence than what they can themselves , earn, are, as a large experience shows, . those most likely to succeed. I need c not call to your minds cases so familiar " to you as those of some of your own J residents; but would rather draw my j illustrations from the fact well known ^ in my reputedly aristocratic country . ?that many of the men who have * risen to highest eminence in the legal j profession, and have thereby gained seats in our house of lords, have begun lift' upon nothing, while those who go ? to the bar with an income that places ( tliem above the need of exertion, are regarded as almost sure not to "get on." . The autobiography of the late Lord , /-i *._i? ?i /it: si si*, * Ucimpueu <111 ci luu uiugiapiuuu uuoiuca that have made us acquainted with the , early years of the late Lord Justice Lush are most instructive when re- j gardod in this aspect, showing what ; steady determination may do without t any brilliant ability, when nerved in the first instance Iiy the "stimulus of necessity." And so it is with the most of us. In proportion as our path of life is smooth we tend to fall into an automatic routine; but obstacles arise a which require some extraordinary ex- > ertion to surmount them, and then only do we become conscious of our -v real strength?that which lies in vigorous self-determination. Women as Indian Figh.'ers. t. Dr. Edward EggJeston's historical 11 paper in the Century on " Indian War JJ in the ('olonics," says of the heroism . of the wives of the pioneers: "The 1' women of those times developed a ' readiness and courage as remarkable 11 as that of the men. The Swedish ' women near the site of Philadelphia, 01 while boiling soap, were warned that ? the Indians were coming They took refuge, soap and all, in the fortified :hurch, blew the conch-shell horns to ^ warn the men, and when the Indians " tried to undermine the building la lied f( ;he scalding soap upon them, and so ir aved themselves from destruction il1 .intil their husbands arrived. The re- " lowntd Hannah Bradley, of Ilaverlill, in Massachusetts, who had more ^ :han her share of captivities and ail- )v ventures, killed an Indian who was J usliing into the open gate of her husland's garrison, by throwing boiling soap upon turn ; anil wnen me savages ;ame to capture her a third time, she iaved herself l>y shooting the foremost tc >ne dead. In 1G7(> the battle which c' Talcott was ligliting in defense of bi lladley was decided by the prompt- S1 less of the women, who loaded " ivith small shot and nails a be :annon that had just arrived l'rom bi Boston and conveyed it to the defend- 'J jrs; these discharged it, to the dismay ^ ind rout of the savages. A story is ar old of a maid-servant in Dorchester Sl vho defeated an Indian single-lmnih d 111 >y the use of a musket and a shovel- ^r :nl of live coals. A young girl in | re Elaine shut a door and held it, and ' * *- - i-r I jit hirteen women and ciwuren na i innu i ? o reach a block-house while the Inlians were chopping down the door ind knocking down, though they did lot kill, its defender. Twelve ye-irs il'ter Uickford's ingenious defense of ] ds house at Oyster Uiver. some women iti it the same place imitated it. There nJ' )eing no men in the garrison, they "} ired an alarm, loosened their hair t>> Hj ippear like men, and used their guns p io briskly that the savages lied. In i .712 Esther Jones saved lleard's gar- j ison, in the town of Dover, in New j of lampshire, by mounting guard and I sailing so loudly and confidently as to j w< uake the Indians believe that help be vas at hand. Thest:dwari Experien e j K' Jogarth, of Dunkard's Creek, in I'enn-1 ilj ylvania, in a hand-to-hand light in a j re loorway, in which two white men < vere killed, slew three IndiaDS with nr in ax." J y? ?.yssBR ' "* ; ' .-:; ' ' / " DESPONDENCY. [This sonnet was written by " Sherwood Bonner" nlv a short time before her death. 1 l soul which, anguish-smitten, sought release From its own thoughts through weary hours 1 of night | Turned with new life to greet the morning ; light, ljuI read in golden lines the longed-for i eve, \*hen .suddenly, 'mid all the fair increase Of ho]x?, the new-found joys that round it pressed, There stood, reproachful-eyed, a famisheil guest, Vhose wan, set look bade all delight to cease. Vill it lie so hereafterShall wo gain The heaven we sought through life's long night of care, )nlv to find some word, once heard in vain, Home duty, in sheer exercise of prayer Left unfulfilled, start up to meet us there, bidding us kick to old remorse and pain ?I hi rjir r'.t 11 't'ekh;. HUMOR OF THE DAY. The Xewton (Iowa) Journal thinks ,he new electric wire fence will be iplendid around a melon patch. It vill be so shocking to the boys. The scientific angler is the man who | joes fishing with $25 worth of tackle ind comes home with twenty-five cents worth of fish.?Norristoion Herald. He talked inanely of the arts. And said same things about the muse, But all the point that he could make Was in his pointed, tooth-pick shoes. ?Merchant Traveler. Jealousy is so rampant now that a man can't cliase his hat down street without being accused of running after the presidency.? Waterloo Observer. A young lady, who has probably had reason to doubt the veracity of the male biped, says batches of lies are only equaled by the lies of baches.?Boston Transcript. " Why do you call a stupid person a 3tick?" nsked Hollo one day. And Rollo's father said he didn't know, unless it was because oni; end was of no more account than the other.?Argo num. A young woman in an Ohio town has married her brother's wife's father. When last seen she was busy with a compass and a dictionary trying to 3tudy out what relation she was to lierself.?Peck's Sun. When you get pretty well up on the White Mountains, it is said you can rften see a rain storrn below you. It must be a decidedly healthy place. A man don't f> el "under the weather" there, you know.?Statesman. An Alabama ball club composed of poiing lalies challenged a male nine and beat them by 20 to 11. It might be stated, however, that the males were all married men, and accustomed to knuckling under to the women folks .?Burlington Fret; Press. A young miss of sixteen asks what is the proper thing for her to do when she is serenaded by a party of young gentlemen at a "late hour. We are glad to be able to answer this question. Steal softly downstairs 'and untie the dog.?Rochester Expnss. rue lonngesioi vperaiurs. The Dnblin (Texas) Enterprise says: "We have had the pleasure of meeting ;ind witnessing the expertness ofxMiss Brown, the infant telegrapher of the world. She is only six years old, and is certainly one of the greatest wonders of her age. Her father, who will probably rank as an average operator, is much her inferior as to ability in distinguishing the sound and the rapidity with which she does it. She has just received a second reader, and, seated on one side )f the table on which were arranged the instruments, tier father seated his tself at the key ind wrote from the b >ok one page of reading matter at the rate of thirty to ihirty-five words a uinute, and the little marvel succeeae i in getting tne entire page without a single break, her father seeming determined to send faster than she could take, hut with ;he greatest speed he could send, failed :o do so. Her father confesses that die is much more accurate than he, md there is no doubt but with proper jare and training she is destined to nake one of the finest operators in the A'orld. At present her greatest dilli:ulty is her inability to comprehend ind arrange together long and difficult .vords, and being a mere child, and unible to write, has either to have some )ne to take the message down for her >r remember it in its entirety, which n a long message is impossible." Two Remarkable Trees. Two remarkable trees of Central (Vfrica have been described by the Spanish traveler, Abargues de Sosten. 3ne ot' these, the Acacia mimosa, jrows luxuriantly in the mountainous egions, sending out its branches from ihe ground, much in the same way as he ribs of an umbrella when extended ({' read out from the handle. To compete its resemblance to an umbrella of jigantic size the scanty leaves at the op are closely interwoven, and the vhole forms a natural protection from lie sun's rays of no mean importance o the weary explorer as he seeks rest n the heat of the day. Many animals, 10 doubt, also avail themselves of its grateful shelter. Its height is about en feet. The .other tree is still more urious. Its scientific name is JJaobab lima. This tree has a huge, smooth, lark-brown trunk, hollow In the center, nto this cavity it absorbs during the ainy season a store of water sufficient o last for many months. In short, it eems to be a kind of cistern tree. The ranches aro thick, short and bent inward. Few leaves are produced, and hese are soop dried up, and, falling iff, the branches look gaunt enough. "We recorded on Saturday the death <f the "fattest woman in the world," , member and special curiosity of Nathan's Cleveland circus in America, t'ho appears to have been smothered a her bed. Miss Conley, though the lost enormous of her sex, weighing as he did 407 pounds, fell far short of hat prodigy of human bulk, the faious Daniel Lambert, who died in 1S(JI?, tiring Stamford fair, at the age of ortv. Lambert weighed no less than ftv-two stone eleven pounds, that is 3l> pounds, or close upon Iialf as inch again as the American lady. >aniel Lambert's collin with his body aiild not be brought down the stairs I f the house in which he died, and the \ all at the sides of the window had to o broken away to provide an exit. | To was five * feet eleven inches in ' eight, measured nine feet four inches >und the body and three feet one tch round the leg. lie never drank iv beverage but water, and slept less . lan eight hours per day. The i Claimant "at his stoutest weighed venty-six stone, or less than half the eight of Daniel Lambert.?J.ondun , imt-y. I Rescued from Agonizing iieum, I rikw Yokk. ? Mr. .lames White, >53 I {roadway, formerly chief instrucr in Dick els' Hiding School, in this ] ty, said to a newspaper reporter: " I oke my shoulder, arm and elbow, 1 ilitting the socket in four parts, heumatism set in and I employed the st physician. lie tried everything, | it I grew worse, and at last he said: j ~ ; have one more thing to try. and if I lat fails nothing can g ve you rt lief, i j id that is St. Jacobs Oil.' I used this | eat pain reliever, and am able to use y arm, frte Iroin all rheumatic ouble. I have also recommended the j medy to a number of people, and in | -cry case they have been speedily j id effectually cured.' I 'j ?? i f Yeast compares his boarding-house j istress*to a frontiersman, i'or the! ason that she lives on the boarders I \ b'on dyspepsia, indigestion, depression Of fTpIr I I ! and general debility in their various forms; j fi to as a pievciitive against fever and ague and j _ Iter intermittent fevers, the "Ferro-Phosphor- I *~ E'd Elixir of Calisava," made by Caswell, ?zard A Co., New York, and sold by all Drug- *] sts, is the best tonic ; and for patients recoverl' from fever or other sickness it has no equal o The ills which flesh is heir to are more C ten cine to imparities in the blood tlmn i# j (| inerally supposed. The purification of this 1 tal fluid enables the system to ward off its 11 )rst enemies. Hood's Harsaparilla is the b :st blood purifier, and those who give it n iaf will not be disappointed. It comes with k gh individual indorsement, is compounded t< practical druggists, and of material.- j 2 cognized as valuable by all physicians. i The cheapest and prettiest collars and cuffs j _ e the Chrolithion. Try them and see foj i ? nrself. | g Alter Tkree Day*. Mr. Chaeles W. Mobbis, "Eagle" office, Pittafield, Mass., writes, May 25,1883: "For several months my wife's mother (Mrs. Amy Boyce) had been in a very precarioua condition with dropsy or Bright's disease of the kidneys, and naving used all methods and measures for her restoration in the line of i treatment by onr leading physicians, and havinc failed to benefit her, her family de spaired of seeing her relieved, and gave ner up to die. Happening to ran across the testimonyof a Mrs. Dawley, who had been cured of similar sickness by using Hunt's Remedy, we at once procured a bottle of it, and commenced giving it as directed. After using it ( three days she was so far improved that she could get from her bed to her chair without assistance (a circumstance that had not happened for months). Previous to taking it she was troubled more or less with short breath, requiring a continuous fanning to keep her alive. This gradually improved as we continued the use of Hunt's Remedy, and 0:1 tho fourth bottle she was able to set up all day. She was bloated terribly in both limbs and body upward to the lungs. The tenth day the bloating left her bowels, and now she is not swollen above the knees. Her kidneys were very bad at tho time, discharges being of ft bloody character and emitting a sickening odor. I can say that the change in her ea-e lias lioen wonaerxm, ana num o i\euiouy 1-as worked a miracle in her." Only twenty-eight of the f8.) foreign missionaries in India are physicians. Tamfico, Tenn.?Rev. D. F. Manly says: "Brown's Iron Bitters relieved me of indigestion and nervousness after physicians failed." The number of those who comprise the suite of the shah of Persia is not far shortof 10,0:0. Nick Ilcndnrlie. Mrs. J. C. Hendkrson, of Cleveland, writes: " The use of two of Pierce's ' Pleasant Purgative Pellets' a day, for a few weeks, has entirely cured me of sick headache, from which I formerly suffered terribly, as often, on an average, as once in ten days." Of all druggists. It is no uncommon thing for hot words to produce a coolness. Huntsvtlle, Ala.?Dr. J. C. Spotswood: "I highly recommend Brown's Iron Bitters for dyspepsia, rheumatism and general debility." Whin is a clock on the stairs dangerous? When it runs down. Yonng and middle a,*ed men.euffering from nervons debility and kindred affections, as loss of memory and hypochondria, should inclose threff stamps for Part VII. of World'? Dispensary Dime Series of pamphlets. Address Wobld'b Dispensaby Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. What is the worse kind of fare soldiers can live on ? Warfare. Vigor, strength and health, all found in one bottle of Brown's Iron Bitters. Pbofe^pob Bell fay.-? there are over TiOO,000 te!epohnes in use in the United Sta'es. Don't let any one convince you fhat those pains around your heart are not heart- disease, they are, do not delay but procure Dr. Graves' Heart Regulator. Thirty years have proved its value. Fbvnoe ha* a total war navy of 498 vessels Geat Britain 240, and Russia 223. Never trive Tin ! von can find a rem&dv for Heart Disease.'Every one who has tried Dr. Graves' Heart Regulator Bay it is a sure cure. Out of 225,01X),000 peo; lo in British India 1^0,000,000 nre Hindoos. "Now Well nnd Strong." Shipman, Illinois. Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.: Dear Sir?I wish to state that my daughter, aged eighteen, was pronounced incurable and was fast failing, as the doctors thought, with consumption. I obtained a half dozen bottles of your "Golden Medical Discovery" for her and she commenced improving at once, and is now well and strong. Very truly yours. Rev. Isaac N. Auqubtin. "Discovery" is sold by drnggiste. New Yobk State has 127 savings banks. Walnut Leaf Hnlr Restorer. It is entirely different from all others. It is as clear as water, and as its name indicates is a perfect Vegetable Hair Restorer. It will immediately free the head from all dandruff, restore gray hair to its natural color, and pro duco a new growth where it hai fallen off. It does not in nny manner affect the health, whic h sulphur, sugar of lead and nitrate of silverpreparalions have done. It will change light or faded huir in a few days to a beautiful glossy brown. Ask your druggist for it. Each bottle is warranted. SMITH, KLINE ? CO., Wholesale Agents, Philadelphia, Pa., and C. N. CRITTENTON, NewYork. 25 Cents Will buy a Tbeatise on the Hobse and His Diseases. Book of 100 pages, valuable to every owner of horses. Postage stamps taken. Sent postpaid. New Yobk Hobse Book Co., 134 Leonard Street, New York City. Skinny Men. \\ ells' Health Renewer restores health,vigor, curesDyspepsia,Impotence,SexualDebility.$3 Compare the dose and quantity of Hood'p Sarsaparilla and you have conclusive proof of its superior strength and cheapness. Try it JNIrs. .T. S.Littell, Newark, N. J., was badly annctea witn ungnt s Kianey disease, lnree doctors gnve her up to die; then Dr. Frazer, 2C New street, gave her Dr. Elmore's R. G. It relieved her in a day and cared her in 3 weeks. For Thick Heads, . Heavy stomachs, bilious conditions?Wells May Apple Pills?antibilions,cathartic. 1025c The medical properties of petroleum have long been known to the aborigines, and since Carboline has become so well known as a hair restorer and dressing, petroleum takes front rank among the new remedies. Walcott, the gentleman who ate thirty brace of quails in thirty days, was relieved from any disagreeable stomach troubles by using Gastrine, and took nothing else during the task. Sold by druggists. Don't Die in the Honae. "Rough on Rats." Clears out rats, mice, roaches, bed bugs, flies, ants, moles, chippiunks, gophers. 15c. Nothing is uglier than crooked boots, straighten them with Lyon's Heel Stiffeners. IN DYSPEPSIA There is a sensation of faintness, with distress in the stomach, and soreness across the pit of that organ, originating in the pressure of tho half-digested food. Recovery ia alow, but is much forwarded by Hood's Sarsaparilla, which sharpens the appetite. Invigoratlon My wifo became so debilitated that she weighed bnl 110 pounds. Since taking Hood's Sarsaparilla bwr health is better. She now weighs 130 pounds.?S. WOODBElutY, 105 Summer Street, Boston. Malaria I have been suffering moat of the winter with malaria and blood poison; my physician helped me in a measure, but nothing permanent. I was urged to try Hood's Sursanarillo. and it has wholly eradicated the disease.? Mrs. F. A. Lincoln, Chicago, 111. Constipation Mr. George K. Russell, proprietor of an eztonaire paper mill at Bellows Falls, Vt., says be has found Hood's Sarsaparilla the best remedy ho ever used for constipation?the business man's most serious affliction?and he would on no account be without it. Hood's Horsnparilln Sold by DruksHsts. 81; six for $5. Prepared onlj tt , C. I. HOOP t CO.. Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. Satisfactory Evidence. J. W. Graham, Wholesale Druggist, of Austin Tox., writes: I have been handling Dr. Wm. llall* Balsam for the Lungs for the past yuar, and have found it one of the most salable medicines I havo ever bad in my house lor Coughs, Colds and even Consumption, always giving entire satisfaction. Please send me one gross by Saturday's steamer. Dr. Green's Oxygenated Bitters Is the oldest and best remedy for Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Malaria, Indigestion, all disorders of tho Stomach, and all diseases indicating an impure condition of the Blood, Kidneys and Liver. Dr. Roger's Vesetablo Worm Syrup Instantly do- I troys worms and removes all secretions. 2.3 Cents will bay a Tbeatisx ox tee House axd < Ilia Diseases. Book oi 100 p&gM. valuable to ever} owner of horses. Postage stamps Ukon. Best postpaid. , New Yob* Hobs* Book Oo,. 134 Leonard Stioet, B3SS5| FOR PAIN. CURES ? , Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Backache, Headache, Toothache, lore Tli ront.ttivcl lings, Mprnlna.lirnlac* lliiriia. ttcnlili. Fruit llltei, AND ALL OTIIEK BODILY PAl.tS AND AOIE8. _ lold bjr Druggist* and Dealer* erer?where. Flft/ C?du a bottle. Dlrectious Id 11 Language!. " THE CUAKLES A. VOttELKIt CO. 13 fi tsuoeeoon to A. VikjILEH A CO.) Balllaiora. Dd., C. 8. A tr N Y~N U-3? ? iw%lie.AT.?*n5;?u';"Pis';;r duration, biliminni ii^ . ?UT&**_ iLiS^i./"'1 $ THE MINISTER WHO FA ion and build up his church is generally r of not studying hard enough. ^That omes from. Dyspepsia and liver disoi till sermon and many a vacant pulpit, pparalus is working wrong and his nen rain refuses to do its duty, it is almost ir nod sermon. . Give your suffering minis ?rs. Von will sec its effect on next Sin .'eliring, of Codorus, Pa., was paralyzed, rutehes, until Brown's Iron Bitters mad Ir. While, of Rock Hill, S. C., says: "I or.", Brown's Iron Bitters is not only f ftnd eating or drinking are mad4 Ufa - Hop Bitten freely, giving no* enjoyment by using )%. ^^/^O^qpving all dullneaa Y/Jj, ^2/ ^^\yjjfiaviiig the head lJ ? ?1 Iff) if ir eelingB bnoy lydiaeTpinkham'8 TTiflTlTABT.T! flOMTOTTm , Ie a Positive Cart For all those Painful Complaints and WeikKMI to common to our bent female population. X Medicine for lToman. Invented by a Woman* Prepared by a Woman. Ths GrtitMt Xtdletl DUtotrry Slnte tlx Dawa ?f Hlstsryt Wit revives the drooping spirits, Invigorates and harmonizes the organic functions, gives elasticity and firmness to tho step, restores the natural lost re tothr eye, aad plants on the pale check of woman the fresh roses of life's spring and early summer time. pfPhysicIant Use It and Prescribe It Freely."Sll It removes fointness, flatulency, destroys all crarlnf '-oj for stimulant, and relieves weakness of the stomach. That feeling of bearing down, causing pain, weigh! and backache, Is always permanently cored by Its use. Tor the ?nre of Kidney Complaints of either sex - this Compound li unsurpaMca. LYDIA E. PIXKnAM^ BLOOD PUBIFIE* ^ will cradicato every vestlfro of Humors from the Blood, and (five tone and strength to the system, 01 man woman or child. Insist on oaring it. Both tho Compound and Blood Purifier are prepared at233and233 Western Avenue, Lynn, Maw. Price!t either, |L Six bottles for $5. Sent by mall in the fom of pills, or oflozcnges, on receipt of price,#! per b?c for either. Mrs. Pinkhara freely answers all letters Of Inquiry. Enclose 3ct. stamp. Send for pamphlet. >* No family should be without LYDIA E. PINKHA1CS ? , LIVER PILLS. They cure constipation, biliousness . and torpidity of the liver. 23 cent* per box. 4^-Sold by all Druggist*. "S* 0) tr D3AMol?eL>^ dyes. y 0 Bast Dyes Ewr Mill. 4 *y FOR 8ILK, "VTOOL, OK COTTON. "C* ; DRES8ES, COATS, 8CARF8, HOOD#, YARN, 8TOCKINC8, CARPET RAQS, RIBBON8, FEATHERS, or any fcbrlo cm fancy Article easily and perfectly colored to say shade. Black, Brown, Green, Bine, Searls^ Cardinal lied, Xnvy Bine, Seal Bravi, Ollm Green, Terra Cotta and 20 other best ooleo. Warranted Fart and Durable. Each paekaga win ooloronotofburlbs.ofgoods. Ifyou havensvtv used Byes try these onco. Ton will be dellgbML, old by druggists, or send us 10 eenta and any Color wanted sent post-paid. 34 oolored sample* Bad* set offlmcy cards sent for a So. stamp. WELLS, BICn ARD SOX X CO., Bnrllngtra,Tt, | GOLD and SILVER PAINT. Bronze Paint. Artists' Black. 7or gilding Fancy Baskets, Frames, Lamps,' ' j Chandeliers, and tbrallklnils of orn amen talwprk* "M Equal to any of tho high prlocd kinds and only :Vp lOcts.apackago.attliodru^pijrts.orpost-paldflWB ^ WELLB, RICHARDSON A CO., Bnrllagi??*? J* , KILLS Roaches, Bed-Boss, Kloe, R-its. Moth*, Fiies, (leas. Ants, Lioa fft!cUiIiKiieJ>on no iv, Birdn. Uhfclcen*. Insects. BuSflLo 'nfallihlD remedies. No Pol*on. No :" Ail AACTKI St'>r??, 10c to6t.c. ISIIV I A If Stf 40jj^room^St^jyf^UwonljrjMUw I MO *T?^3 5iTveM>r>^tonn^uT^ir-'l-li'Kan't 5-cent sifien. ,; | isD!ELMORt"S^ 1B l|le quiuacsi., piwuiw, v%: t urest and boat remedy for kidney. AJ X^VXaV1 lirer, (tomacb, bladder sad b'.ooa cisesMS, and only real cn rati re erer riiacoiered for acuta and chronio ihearaati*n>. goat, lumbago, adatOviica, neuralgia, eto. Haa cured hojxsleaa cases Bncht's disease ana dyspepsia in S weeks?all forms of rheumatic disorders in a to 13 weeks?relieve* inflammatory in 1 day. Can refer to hundreds of rail*, ble people cured who had tried in vain ereiytbin*else. Purely notanio,' harmless, and nice to lrfnk. Au ran drugifiat to get it; if he declines aend to us for IlMaka nothing elae. Elmore, Adama ACo.,106WiUlemit.,S.Y PENSIONS pSl Incurred during their service, loss of a linger, or toe, mm or partial loss of sight or hearing, piles, dlaiThaa.-rbeoM. tlsm.orany other disability entitles yon. Widows, children. or dependent parents entitled. Pension piMVM . where discharge Is lost. New discharges obtained. Haw able discharges and pensions procured for deserter*. fen? , ' slons INCSeaSEO.. claim. toeMgW prosecuted. Back pay and bounty collected. EXFKKT In land cuss, lrompt attention glreu all klndaoiwjw*ment claims. *d?lce free. Ad's with stamp, L. AwOOI^ Box 34, Washington, D. C. IaHasssassHsdk cams WHERE ALL USI FAILS. B Best Cough Syrup. Tastes good. ? Use In time, bold by druggiirta. Q , ^ | - J 30WSW | mat i lUetrii AppUise* leat ? 30 DtyiTrld, TO MEN ONLY, YOUNG OR OLD, who are Buffering from NfRvocs dwutt, i \ 11 Lost Vitaijtt,Lack of Xekvs Fobcb jlhd I Vioob, Wasting weaknesses, and all kindred ' diseases. Speedy relief and complete restora Uon of Heai.tr, Viaoa and Uashood Gcabas- I . * tzed. The grandest discovery of the Nine- i teenth Century. Send at once for Illustrated 1 Pamphlet free. Address VOLTAIC BELT CO., MARSHALL, MICH. BR^ THE FALLH jM ?S|i& THE BEST m ^b| ttmt1 to Jul f. o. rrrncK aden's puk? IF NOT?SOLD BY YOVR ?EAL j ERS SEND DIRECT FOB 8AM PI.ES AND PRIOE8. 1Q9 41T? FULTON ST.. NEW YORK. Payne's Automatic Engines. Reliable, Durable ai^d Economical, vill fumUh a kern potter tciJi X leu fuel and ttcUtr than any oU*r Bngtn* built, not fitted with an Automatio Cutoff. Send For Illustrated Catalogue "J," for Inform a'aoo and Prices. B. Yf. Payne a Sons. Box mU. Cornin*, N.Y. It relieves at onco Hums, Pile*, Chapped Hands or Lips.! Corns, Bunions.Scalds.Bruises,Soix-ncss of feet,hands,! oyes.ctc.; Itching fromanycausc. esc. Ask your drug I ??a gist, or send to 93 Fulton Street, N. Y.?J TO SPECULATORS. I LINDBLOM & CO., N. G. MILLER & CO., 6 4 7 Chamber of 55 Broadway, Commerce, Chicago. New York. JRAIN & PROVISION BROEEES. Members of all prominent Produce Exchanges in New fork, Chicago, St. Louis and Milwaukee. We have exclusive private telegraph wire between Chi. ago and New York. Will execute orders on ourjudgaent when requeued. Send for circulars containing larticulars. RUBT. LINDBLOM j CO.. Chicago. FKAZER I AXLE 6REASH Best In the world. <Jet the stennlne. Every incka?e has our trnile-mark and U marxed tnxtr'a. SOLD KVKttVWliKltK. It Don't Often Happen Fhero a reliablo house, in advertising tTiolr regular usinegs, will send, us this house does, for one dollar, complete sample outfit that will enable any onesmart nd enterprising to easily make 1*5 to $10 per day and xpen?e?. Send the f I and two stamps for return toTH h I AN A BICK I-OHli CI)., Ki7, Jl Ml Broadway, N.Y. T NATIONAL TYPE CO c| y Latest Stylo;. Largest Catalogue, y J * Full Information for 3-ccnt stamp. J P T ? T>_! -D?4 A T | XiUWPJb XllCQCi JJOJU XlJCm UllOliWS | - | E PHILADELPHIA PA Sl [ITANTEO?LADIES to take our New Fancy Work r V at their homes, in city or country, and earn 80 to 12porweek, making goods for our Fall andWintjr ade. Send loo.for samplu and particulars. HUD? ON MFG. CO., 205 Sixth Ave., New York. IflUTCn FIFTY YOUNO MEN. 19 years old. If nH I CU to learn Hie Hatter's trade. Pay four V dollars weekly, to start on. Apply in person at UKKliKIl'Sj i.lizabeth, Now Jersey. f PPP I Ky return mail?Afnll description of it C C, Moody's New Tailor System of Dress itttne. D.W.Moody A Co., :$ I W. Mb,Cincinnati,O, nilklft k|CII Learn telegraphy here and we wtll UUI1U rntn^ivo youasitnation. Circularsfre?, il.UKTINK linns . Jnnmville. Win. 70 A WKKK. i$12adayathomt>easilymade. Ooatlj I L outlit free. Aa<Jre?s 1'ltCE a Co.. Augusta, Me. 10I.EMAN Business College, N'ewaru, N.J.?1Terms J $-!< . Positions for graduates. Write for Circulars. C Ia per day at bome. Samples wortti$5 free, 3i0)tu Addrtss Stimso.v a Co.. Portland, Met 14% SHEETS fine writing paper, in blotter, with Ell ealennar, bv mail for 'J.'ic. Aift'lltft Wnntcrt. P V Economy Piunting Co., NVwburyport, Miss, scntn Wnitlcil f?>r tue l!e>t and Fastest-selling L Pictorial Books nr.d Bibles, Prices reduced 33 per nt. National PuuLihai.su Co., Philadelphia, Pa. CC a week in your .mil town. Term* and $5 outfit 00 free. Addresi 11. Uali.ktt a Co., Portland, Mo. LILS to interest his congrega- I accuscd of being ?i poor preacher, is not always where the trouble dcrs are responsible for many a When the Dominie's digestive ,'cs are giving him pain, and his npossible to make or to preach a ter a bottle of Brown's Iron Bitiday's preaching. \The Rev. Mr. _ . .1 - i ? _ it. * ana couiu noi w.iin. ??n? b c a new man of him. The Rev. " t restored me to slvcn;.;th and vi- m or the minister, but fer a! 1 people.