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r -. COMPKNSATION. The truest words we ever speak Are words of cheer. Life has its shade, its valleys deep; But round our feet the shadows creep, To prove the sunlight near. Between the hills thoso valleys sleep? The sun-crowned hills. And down their sides will those who seek With hopeful spirits, brave though meek, Find gently flowing rills. For ever}' cloud a silvery light; God wills it so. For every vale a shining height; A glorious morn for every night; And birth fur labor's throe. For snow's white wing, a verdant field; A gain for loss. For buried seod, the harvest yield; For pain, a strength, a joy revealed, A crown for everv crown. A LACONIC WOOER. Mrs. Abigail Widgin. a buxom widow of four and forty, sat sewing in the winter sunlight which fell through the stand of geraniums and petunias before her sitting room window. A cheerful wood Kni?nA/l /\v* ifo rn. fleeted in the glistening brass fire dogs glistened only less brightly than the sunbeams themselves. Mrs. Widgin was a roly poly little woman, with snapping black eyes,cheeks like Baldwin apples and hair in which only a few white threads disturbed the raven gb'ss. There was an air of determination, it is true, in her firm lower jaw, but this was so overshadowed by the general posiness and jollity of her face as to be hardly perceptible, and even a close observer Wuiild have pronounced Mistress Abigail, as she sat placidly sewing iu the afternoon sunlight, a dame as gracious as she was comely. The clock in the corner ticked monotonously, the cat on the hearth nig alternately slept, and then, awakened by a sudden snap of the fire, awoke to purr lustily until drowsiness again overcame her. The widow sewed on with perfect composure and scarcely a firmer curve of the mouth betrayed th3 fact that she was keenly debating some important matter in her mind Only from time to time her glance was raised raised to the dial, and when at length the sound of footsteps crunched on the snow without was heard, the quick, comprehensive survey which the black eyes made of the room indicated some desire that everything should be right and trig lor the coming guest, and showed, moreover, that the newcomer had been expected. A moment later and Tilly, the trim maid, h;sd ushered into the room a dapper little man with a markedly legal air, shrewd, twinkling eyes, and a shining bald spot on the top of his head. "Good afternoon, Mr. Sharperson," the widow said, briskly, rising with hospitable alacrity. "I began to fear you were not coming/' " Good afternoon," the gentleman returned, allowing his hand to be shaken vigorously. "Sit down by the fire," pursued the widow, bustling about with the desire of doing something, yet not quite knowing exactly what to do. " It must be a cool dav for all the sun. The snow crunches 1-tVw.f V*v., IUU LUUl.ll 1 UIIC IJV/fc ivy Miun 1 wu found it so. didn't you?"' she concluded, knowing by experience that nothing short of a direct question was likely to elicit a response from the taciturn lawyer. "Yes," he answered, briefly. "Uncommon cold, I should say," ] went 011 Mrs. "Widgin. seating herself opposite her gue?t "nd spreading out her plump hands to the blaze as if talking of the temperature made her more sensible , ot it. "Colder than usual for the season. don't you think so?" "Perhaps." "Oh. it certainly is much colder." No response. "But then it is, after all, the time of year, when one expects severe weather." Still no reply. " 'The days begin to lengthen,' you know the proverb, 'the cold begins to strengthen.'" Still unbroken silence on the nart of the lawyer, and the hostess was forced to abandon the weather for a more promising topic. "You brought the papers for me to sign, I suppose, Mr. Sharperson." "Yes." "Of course, you know that they are all right! I trust it all in your hands. I never did know anything about mortgages." It was in Mr. Pharperson's mind that for one who knew nothing about legal documents the widow had managed her property with remarkable shrewdness, but it not being his custom to waste superfluous words by putting his thoughts into specch, he made no remark. "I will sign whatever you tell me to," his client continued with really touching cuiiiiuciitJt:. it is jiuiu iui a uuiau iu have nobody but herself to lean upon. I'm sure you don't know what I should do without you." Again no response. "1 quite depend upon you." Still no reply, unless u faint suitT, more or less scornful.mii;ht be so cond-is red. * "Where are the papers?" Mr. Pharperson rose with great deliberation, and from the green baize bai; which, on enterir, - he had deposited upon the table, pr>. ^uced a small package of legal papers. He turned again to the window and fire, his eye dwelling appreciatively upon the cherry proportions of both, as, without speaking, he handed the documents to Mrs.AVidgin. "Are there four of them?" she asked, with some appearance of surprise. "I only expected three." "Four," he said, but he volunteered no further information. The widow unfolded the papers while v~~-the lawyer watched with professional narrowness, and as she lookea them over the color flushed yet more in her somewhat florid cheeks. "Did von succeed in selling that tenacre lot to Mr. Woodhotflea?" she exclaimed. "IIow perfectly splendid! "Why, Mr. Sharperson. 1 am positively getting to be (piite an heiress. Isn't there some mistake?'' "No." "And the sale is really made?"' "Yes." "For three thousand?" "Yes." "Mr. Sharperson, I liave the greatest mind I ever had in the world to kiss you." "Do." The widow was so astonished at having elicited a monosyllable of such a character from the bachelor that she almost forgot to bridle, but fortunately ICIIIC 'JVtitu in wiiiv nuav v? vAj'tviwi of her sex. "Really." she simpered, "you arepositively dreadful! I wouldn't have believed it of you!'' She paused to give him an opportunity of adding something more, but Mr. Shar, person had already exceeded the ordinary limits of his habitual reticence, and by a not unnatural recoil was now more silent than ever. "I shall soon begin to look out for fortune hunters/' remarked Mrs. Widgin, archly. " I hope you'll protect me from them when they come.'' Mr. Sharperson's looks expressed such entire willingness to undertake the defense of his fair client that he evidently did not feel it necessary to put it into words. "I don't know," pursued the widow, gazing abstractly into the tire, "but 1 shall have to look about f?jr somebody to take care of me. What do you say Mr. Sharperson?" "I ?" "Certainly; you. You know my business affairs perfectly, and can advise me better than anybody I can think of. Now to be perfectly frank, what say you to my being married again?'' "Nothing.'' "Oh, you think 1 ought not to talk so plainly about it. Well, very likely not, 111 1 ..11,.,.. lUl tVwirr. m'urlit wuit )UU XI at Hunt Ultvst> UIVIV uu^uv be circumstances which would make it best for me to marry again." "Yes." "I've been a widow five years, and i the right man turned up " She paused with the secret desire to shake the gentleman opposite, to sec if by that operation his taciturn tongue might not be loosened. "If." echoed he significantly, as she paused. "Why, of course," she retorted, "you will allow that there must be a right man somewhere, if one could find him." "Yes." "And, perhaps," continued she, a mischievous smile revealing to the lawyer's eyes a quite new dimple, hitherto wholly unsuspected, in her cheek, "and perhaps you would even let me come to you for legal advice in mv choice, if I paid well?" "Certainly." " Well, then, advise," cried the widow desperately. t * ?*' * # r. i? i She had been perfectly sure for two or three months that Mr. Sharpersen was longing to propose to her could he but get the words over his tongue, and she had said to herself that this afternoon he should do it if feminine wit could devise a way. Anything short of deliberately proposing herself she was prepared to do and she began now to fear lest she should be forced to even that extreme measure. Now when everything had been so admirably worked up to a speaking point for him, instead of utteriug the decisive word the lawyer only smiled and was silent. To tell the truth he was as eager to get the important question asked as was the widow, could he but overcome his natural laconic habit and the bashfulness which just now exaggerated it. Mrs. Widgin's mouth set itself a trifle more (irmly than before. " That is always the way if one really wants advice. If I didn't you'd probably be ready enough to give it." This was so obviously absurd that they both smiled, and both, pretending to move nonrur t]m firn mnvoil fhpir phllirs a little nearer together. '"I see/' Mrs. Widgin said, with an air of mock despair, "I shall have to make it a catechism. Do you tliiuk I had better get married: yes or no?'" " Yes,'' he replied, with a significant smile. "Have you any idea where I had better look for a husband?" "Yes." "Good! Now we are getting on. Where is it?" "Here." "Here in Westerly? Oh, very well, Mr. Sharperson, but who is there in Wes terlv for me to marry? I assure you I wouldn't think of Mr. Smithers, with his live small children; I never could endure Mr. Green, the tailor: I'm sure you don't mean me to marry Mr. Chufrch, the butcher; and Mr. Stinchticld is too odius for anything. You see, don't you, that I can't marry anv one of them?" "Yes." "Well, who else is there?" "Me." "You!" "Me." It was done at last, and if the lawyer could but have so far conquered the habit of half a century of bashfulness as to follow up his advantage, everything would have gone on swimingly. He was, however, almost stupefied by his own temerity, and while the widow on her side of the fireplace cast her eyes clown coyly, believing that now at least he would take the initiative. Mr. Sharpeison on his side none the less abased his glances out of sheer bashfulness. "Heavens!" thought the widow, slily reconnoitering out of the corner of her eye, "have I got to get up and rush into his arms? Was there ever so aggravating a man created?" She coughed softly, she patted the hearth with her trim slipper tip, secretly determined that nothing short of the most absolute desperation should make her break the silence this time. At length when there seemed an eminent prospect that the pair would consume the remainder of their mortal existence in staring wordlessly into the coals, and just as the widow reached that point when she felt that she must speak or go mad. Mr. Sharperson did renew the conversation. "Well?" he queried. "Well" she echoed. "Eh!" The lawyer was wholly unprepared for having the burden of the talk thrown upon him, and beyond this rather incoherent exclamation could say nothing. The widow looked at the fire and looked at her taciturn v.ooc*;. "I must s;iy," she observed, with a touch of sarcasm in her voice, "that I have seen more ardent lovers." Mr. Sharperson looked rather abashed at this, and indeed began to feel that if his suit for the rich widow'a hand was to j have any chance whatever of success it must be urged with more vigor. He aroused himself by great effort aud with some warmth: "That showed it more." "Come," the widow thought with some complacency, "we are getting on: it is something to elicit a speech of that length from him." Aloud she said: "Very well, that showed it more, if you will. How am I to judge," she continued, smiling, and glancing up in a manner which no man with blood in his veins could have resisted, how am I to judge but by what I see?" For reply Mr. Sharperson committed the most remarkable deed of his entire life. He rose from his chair with the utmost deliberation, took a step across the wide hearthrug to the side of his hostess, threw his arms around her neck and kissed her with great heartiness and apparent satisiacuon "Mercy!" cried "Widow Widgin, making ineffectual efforts to disengage herself. "Who gave you leave to kiss me? I never saw such impudence.'' But the other, having once tasted the sweets of her lips apparently enjoyed them far too well to abandon the feast so easily, and proceeded with unction to kifS her again. "1 declare," she exclaimed, yielding with good grace to what she evidently could not help, "by the way you go on one would actually think we were engaged." Whereupon the lawyer gazed at her with great satisfaction, and proprietorship shining in his twinkling black eyes. "We are," he said. ? Boston Courier In a Panther's Claws. A Bombay shikaree narrates how he once actually fell into the claws of a panther. and lived to tell the talc. After describing the incidents of the hunt up to the time when the beast broke cover, he says: "I hud to wait until the panther was within a few feet of me, and 1 then put mv ritle down to his head, expecting to roll him over like a rabbit (as I had succeeded in doing 011 other occasions), and then placed uiy second bullet pretty much where I pleased. To my horror, there was no report when the hammer fell! The next moment the panther, with an angry roar, sprang on me. Hanging on with the claws of one forepaw driven into my right shoulder and the other round me, he tried to get at my head and neck, but I iortunately prevented this by raising my left arm, which he instantly seized in his huge mouth. I shall never forget his sharp, angry roar, the wicked look of the greenish yellow eyes within six inches of mine, the turned-back cars, his foetid breath upon my cheek, and the feeling of his huge fangs closing to the bone through my arm above the elbow. "1 endeavored, by giving him my knee in the stomach, to make him let go. Those who have ever kicked a cat can imagine what little clFect this had. It was more like using one's knee for a football than anything else. The panther, with a roar, gave a tremendous wrench to my arm, hurled me some five naces down the side of the hill Drone on my face, bringing my bead in contact with a tree. Stunned and insensible, I lay some seconds on tho ground, and the brute, thinking me dead, fortunately did j not worry me, but, passing over me, went lor the retreating police constable, who had brought me into the difficulty. I remember when 1 came to, raising my head from the ground, leaning my fore- j head against a tree, and smiling with a I certain foeling of grim satisfaction, when my eye caught the retreating form of the constable and the pursuing panther down the hill, and I thought the policeman's turn had come. "The civil surgeon of the station probed the teeth wounds in the arm, a id found that at the back of the arm ran right to the bone and was an inch and a half deep. The two wounds on the inner side, in or close to the biceps, were, one an inch and a quartor and the other an inch deep. The claw wounds on the right shoulder were not serious, and had fortunately just missed the large artery near the collar-bone, injury to which would have resulted in my bleeding to death in a very few minutes.?Time of India. "Sweating" Coin. Gold coins arc in local circulation, which, although not counterfeit, are equally to be repudiated by all to whom presented. Their spurious nature consists in the fact that they have; been depreciated by corrosive acids, and although gold, with a clear, genuine ring, each and every one of them has lost from twenty to thirty per cent, of their value, and cannot be cashed at the banks for their face. As far as known, the depreciated currency is in pieces. They can be easily detected upon close observation, being lighter than the standard, and more smooth over the surface, the action of the acids having cut down the sharply defined embossing of both stamp and milling. One of these coins was presented yesterday at the Merchants' National bank. This specimen had lost exactly $1 of its original value. ? Oiiuthti Bee. i 4 I v> THE CANINE PROTECTOR. A MAN SAVED ?BOM VARIOUS PEBH.S BY HIS DOG. Wild Scenes in tlio Saskatchewan Country?Adventure* TVith Kn.venoun Animal* and Prairie Firen* Philip IJaird, a man of about forty years of age, arrived in St. Paul, Minn., recently an his way East, and told a D<nj reporter a pitiable tale of suffering in the western part of Manitoba. In his own words he says: "I went out AVest four years ago and settled on a claim in the Saskatchewan district, near the Bow river. I had considerable money, and noticing the splendid quality of the soil, decided to consum!' it all in improvements. Part of my land was wooded, and I soon had a nicc garden laid off and a log cabin built. All I had around me was my dog, the most trusty and affectionate canine I ever saw. He was as large as the shepherd dog and had proved his devotion more than oticc. lie was a yellow dog. i luapcuts ?uiu uiiuuuia^iii*; ivi wg I after I was there for two years, having j in that time got possession of a horse iind some rough agricultural implements which I made myself. My crops were splendid on what ground I could cultivate. and I always found a ready market at Fort Walsh or Fort McLcod, both places several days' journey. I always made preparations in the fall so that I would not be compelled to go to either fort during the winter, as a journey in the winter meant the signing of one's own death sentence. It would be impossible to pitch a tent for me night during the journey in winter, and then one had no protection against the wolves, which were very tierce and daring. It was the winter of '82, about the middle of February, I became weary of sitting around the cabin with nothing to occupy my mind. 1 determined to risk all danger I would be subject to and make a trip to Fort Walsh. So, preparing myself and fixing a blanket around my horse, I set out, leaving my dog to take care of itself at home. The day I set out was a very fine one and the thermometer could not have registered below zero. The snow was light and I reached I the fort in three davs from the time I left. The mounted police at the fort I were much surprised to sec me and were i persistent in their efforts to detuia me from undertaking the journey homeward. But I was not to be deterred, and I set out on my return, but took a different route. I had bought myself a sled and a few buflalo skins, beside some ammunition to provide against au attack by wolves. "It was the third night after leaving the fort, when I was about to rest my horse, that in the distance I heard a savage howl that stirred my blood. Oh, but what a shock that one cry gave me. My blood ran cold through my veins, so well did I know what it meant. My horse understood its meaning, too, for lie picked up his ears and gave a low whinny. He did not need any urging, but started at full gallop and nearly blinded me with snow. I was about forty miles from home, as near as I could judge, but my hopes of ever reaching it were slim. At all events I determined to die game. The cries came weaker and weaker, and I dared not look behind, but only kept asking myself what 1 had to live for and who would ever think what became of me if I should furnish a feast for the ravenous beasts. At last my horse began showing signs of exhaustion and I looked to my lirc-arms. I had two nistol9, two barrels each, a rifle and a shot-gun together, and a fine revolver of six chambers, and then if it came to close "quarters, I bad an axe to defend myself with. After I had made preparations I ventured to glance behind. There they were, only a few hundred yards oil. coning like race h..rses. There was not over a dozen of them and I felt that all hope was not lost. My noble steed made a last effort, but (he wolves were soon up with us, so taking my rifle I aimed at the head one anil had the satisfaction of seeing, him give a leap and fall. About half of his companions fell on him while the others continued after me. When they were within a dozen yards of me I discharged my shot-gun among them. It was charged J heavily with buck-shot, and two more fell. The others stopped to devour their I companions and I was alone. But it did [ not last long. I had not proceeded over j a mile when they were again in hot pursuit. My horse could not go any further from fatigue, so I re-loaded my rille and shot-gun and awaited the onset. They appeared more ravenous than ever; but courage and aim did not fail me and I lired right and li'ft among them. They | were all right around me and one big giant beast leaped up to grab" me. but he fell from a bullet iu his head. I looked ' | forward and shot one as it was seizing ray lnrse. There were only two left, and I dispatched the one in a hurry, when on turning around I noticed two I rolling over and over in front of my horse, ^reat Scott! if I -wasn't surprised to see my dog Yellow in tierce conllict with the remaining wolf. He soon had it at his will and strangled it to death. Such a warm greeting I had with the good fellow; never was a friend more welcome. I was not fully persuaded how the dog found me until I went to the fort the next summer, when they told me that my dog had been there and had only left after satisfying himself that I had gone. "I only tell you this," said the narrator, ''thinking it might interest you about what I have really to say occurred last August. "1 had only got my harvest half done when one night I awoke to find my room brightly illuminated. 1 understood its meaning at once and made all haste to dress and get my wallet of money, near ly anu gei oui 01 tuc cauin. it was as I suspected, the dreaded prairie fire. Away in the horizon I could notice its rapid advance. I knew that my only way of escape was in hasty flight. My horse was roaming over the prairie, and I could not aflord to look for him, so along with my faithful dog I plodded my way as rapidiy as possible toward the Bow river. The distance was ten miles, and whether I could make it or not I did not take time to consider, but ran as I never did before. How 1 lasted the distance is a problem to me. I reached the bank of the river as the raging fiames were within a hundred yards, and as I was standing there dazed my do<: took hold of me, and with a sudden jerk vpulled me headforemost into the river. The cool waters revived me, and I stayed there until the flames leaped the river and were licking up the dry grass on the other side. Several builalo were in river, having been driven by the flames. I had no home any more, and knew not what to do I wanted to go back and look at the place where my home was, but I knew there was nothing there for T"1 xne any niuru. 1 nun uiu iunt uiuu^ut dawned upon mc that I had no means of sustenance, not even a firearm to assist me in securing game. I started down the j river, intending to keep by its course until I reached the Saskatchewan, thus making sure of something to drink if nothing to eat. The route was a good deal the longest, but the safest, and I i plodded on. That night I was tired and hungry when I laid down to rest. Strange to say I slept sound and awoke I with a prodigious appetite. To appease I it my dog had a fine prairie rabbit lying I in front of me. lie had not touched it i himself after killing it, but by the wistful way he watched the dead animal I knew lie was as hungry as myself. I shared with him and continued on my way. I reached Fort Walsh in five days after, my dog always having something fresh each morning that would last us the rest of the day. I told a young captain by the name of Forbes of my misfortunes, and he was so pleased with my dog he would not allow mc to take him with me to the East, but kept it himself. I have my money vet and intend to go to Kltnira, New York, where f used to live." A Lion Tamer's Nerve. Forbes, in his "Soldiering and Scrib bl:ng," says: Crockett m;ide the greatest name for himself of any lion tamer, not in England alone, but also in France, Germany and America. I remember weil the time when the six lions were loose at one time in Astley's. The Sangers had sent the beasts up from Edmonton the night before Nobody to this day knows how they got out of their dens; but it was thought at the time that some of the grooms?with whom the manager was very unpopular, he used to fine them so unmercilessly? had let them loose maliciously, that they might get at the horses. There they were, anyhow, loose and mad in the place, smelling the horses anu mad to get at them. They had already killed a man, and half eaten him, when Crockett arrived; without halting an instant, he dashed in among them single-handed, with only a switch in his hand, and I'm blest if he didn't manage to den them all i single handed. That was a nerve for I you. At that time Crockett, never I drank. npp / ^ NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. Children wear wide lace collars. Entire birds, with the feet turned up, are used for trimming hats. Children of both sexes wear white dresses and wide ribbon sashes. The number of young lady physicians in Germany is rapidly increasing. The empress of Germany has not been able to walk for eighteen months. For young ladies' wear have been prepared black costumcs with red waistcoats. Basques of Caroubier velvet are worn over skirts of ecru veiling embroidered in many colors. Spanish girdles of irridescent beads are a special feature for black house or dinner costumes. Dresses for house wear arc fashionably made in fcnciful styles that borrow ideas from all nations. Wild flowers and grasses are used lor bridesmaids' botpicts, and also for garnishing the dresses and hats. Figaro jackets of velvet gauze are worn over silk, satin or lace skirts of any color for dinners and small parties. An English farrier has made up collars and mulTs of skunk skin and has put the head of the animal on the mulT. The Women\i llerahl of Industry pubs lishes a list of twenty-six females who wear trowsers and are adherents of Jielva Lockwood. The lady nurses selected for service with the Nile expedition all wear the silver-gray cloaks and bonnets of the nursing sisterhood. In many chesses a fold of red or of pale yellow velvet is basted inside the collar, and sometimes extends down the front beyond the edge of the buttons. The blouse waist is used even for silk frocks aud looks very pretty with a velvet waistcoat. The belt worn with such costumes may be of velvet or may be embroidered with beads. White velvet aud China crape make one of the most exquisite costumes for a bride. The former material makes the train and waist, the latter tlie puflines which compose the petticoat. Hawaiian women are deplorably deficient in maternal skill, and infants often die in consequence of this ignorance and inexperience. At present there are but iwn Kirflia tn rlpnths on tllf? isllitld of Kauai. The coming giantess is now developing in u village in Leicestershire, England. Though barely fourteen years of age she is six feet five inches in height, weighs 252 pounds and has only just commenced to grow. At Michigan university, when a class election is held, the meeting is generally humanized by the presence of the young lady students, and the piinsiplc of the women suffrage is confirmed by the election of one or more officers from the fair sex. Colored crepe lisse folds for the neck are imported by the yard, or else with the ribbon bindings extended to tie, and thus the fold becomes a collar to be put on separately without being basted in the dress. These are shown in poppy red, pink, yellow and blue. A new perfume called "A Lily's Sigh" is now in use among the women whose purses are long, the price being $5 per tiny phial. It produces an exquisite odor, very much like the heliotrope, ana is suia 10 nave oeen ongmuiiy unreduced in this country by Mrs. Langtry. Lace is lavishly worn again, but in this century the demand for it is confined to women, whereas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries men, too, expended h'.iTO sums on ruffles and wristbands. In 1CJ0 the expendltr.ra-of William III. for lace was $8,013; in 1G94, nearly $10,000; in 1093, .$12,000. Queen Anne also lavished money on Mechlin and Brussels. Mme. Sophie Kovalevsky, of Kussian birth, fills the chair of mathematics at Stockholm university. Most women are said by the professional wags to object to the telling of their age, but it is to the glory of this intellectual ornament of her sex that she holds one of the highest positions among the learned at the age of thirty. Pay of Baseball Players It was confidently expected by baseball managers that salaries for next season would rule very much lower than they have been in the past, but present indications are that they will be much higher than ever before. Good players are much sought after. James O'Kourke, when he announced his intention of leaving Buffalo, was beseiged by all the leading clubs. Providence wanted him, Boston would have been glad to have had him, St. Louis offered him the manangemcnt of a club, New York and / .? I- .1 -VJ A. 1 1.1. ? A uicvcianu uiu iuc same aim uiv auiiciics of this city, showed their faith by offering him a salary of $4,000 to play and manage the nine next year. To the latter Mr. O'Rourke wired a reply that he would he delighted to play in the Quaker city for the sum of $6,000 per year. This figure was not favorably considered by the Athletic management, and so O'Rourke signed with the New York club. His salary is to be $G,ij00, the highest ever paid to a ball player. Pitcher Mullane, who is to receive $ 3,000 from Cincinnati, is the next highest salaried player in the profession. Ward, of New York, is said to receive s?o.400, and ''Buck" Ewings, the New York catcher, is put down at $3,000. Radbourne, the Providence pitcher, is said to have received an offer of $0,000 for next year, provided he can get his release. Foutz, the St. Louis pitcher, is to get $3,000 for twirling the ball, besides the $2,000 it cost to buy his release. Fred Dunlap has a two years' Contract with the St. Louis Unions at $3,400 per year, and George Shaffer also holds real estate security for a big salary with the same niue. Among the other players who have secured contracts with the Union clubs, with salaries all over $2,000, are Rradlev, McCormick, Briody and Glasscock, of Cincinnati. Anson holds an interest in the Chicago club and besides is paid $3,000 as manager and player. Anson entered th: profession eight years ago, a green country lad and is said to have made $100,000 in that time. Stovey and Knight draw between them over $4,000 out of the Athletic treasury and Taylor requires about $2,000 to support him. rni_ _ ..1 -.1- - t. ~ i>rt Tzt\f\ i ac i)layers wiiu nre iu leecivc or next season are numerous. Larry Corcoran, the Chicago pitcher, is to get $2,100 and Morris is to receive the same amount for pitching in Pittsburg. JJarklcy, the crack second baseman from Toledo, struck St. Louis for the same amount and was signed without much talk. Ilackett, the Hoston catcher, would not sign for less than $2,000., and Manning, of the same club, was offered the same amount by the Philadelphia club, but preferred to remain in Boston. The new players developed during last season arc demanding and receiving high figures. Joe Gerliardt, of Louisville, wanted $4,000, but has signed with the New York club for one-half the amount. Philadelphia Timex An Evening Call. A resident of Chateau avenue, recently made up his mind to move, and, as he had become greatly attached to the frame house in which he lived, he determined to take the structure with him, together with the furniture it contained. Yesterday, according to the programme he had formulated, he had the house placed on rollers and started on its journey. As darkness closed in on him before he could complete his task, he found it necessary to let the house remain on a side-track of the Mis souri Pacific Railway company over night. The track was in an out-of-theway place, and he quite naturally supposed it had been abandoned by the company. In fact, he was so well satisfied that the building was perfectly securc that he and his children went to bed in one of its apnitments when the time for retiring arrived. While the happy family were snoring away and dreaming Bweetdreams, one of the locomotive of the Missouri Pacific company struck one side of the building and came out at the opposite side, passing through the parlor and crushing through the lloors und walls. The dreamers, who slept in an adjoining room, were snaKen out 01 meir ueus, ami the engineer and fireman in charge of the engine were almost frightened into spasms, but, as luck would have it no one was injured.?St. Jx>uis GlobeDemocrat. Knowledge is said to be power. Knowledge is power in the same sense that wood is fuel. Wood on fire is fuel. Knowledge on tire is power. There is no more power in knowledge than there is in the stones or stars which you know, unless there be a spirit and life in the knowledge, which give it its energy. In proportion as men have this spiritual power do they become strong in the world. ; J. PROFESSIONAL PILFERERS. INTERESTING PACTS CONCERNING "CROOKED" PEOPLE. Men and Women TVho Ufako a Living by Robbery?Their Peculiar method* of Operation* In the course of a reporter's conversation with a Buffalo (N. Y.) detective the latter said: Women generally follow the business of shop lifting. A professional has no regular abiding place, unless, indeed, she retires from business, and some of them do retire on ample fortunes." "How .do they operate?" "A woman or may be two will arrive in a city from?no matter where. They put up at some fashionable private boarding house, dress in the fashion and go shopping nearly every 'day. Their stay in the city is governed by the length of time it takes to fill their trunks. They never come home from a shopping expedition without a good haul. Now, you wonder how they manage to take the goods unobserved. In the first place they are as quick as. lightning, almost, and no movement of the clerk escapes their eyes. The latter, as a rule, is entirely unsuspicious of his richly attired customers, and waits on them with the utmost respect, while whole webs of silk and yards of lace are being stolen right before his eyes." ''But how do they manage to conceal so much ?" "Easily enough. Under their rich and costly silk dresses are thick, heavy skirts, in whichare huge bags or pockets. Cleverly concealed slits in the dresses communicate with these pockets, and the goods go in with the utmost ease. Generally one does the stealing while the other engages the clerk's attention." "How do they dispose of the plunder ?" "Oh, they deal with the 'fences' with whom they have made a previous agreement, and thev till their orders just the same as any well-regulated business concern, only they have a larger margin to work on than regular business people. The fence generally keeps a store, and the women have their trunks tiiken there and unpacked. This is the reason peddlers can sometimes undersell store-keepers. They get the goods cheap, and can afford to sell cheap." "Do men ever practice shop lifting V "Very rarely. You see a man has no chance to conceal the goods. The male rogues preier sumu timer uuoiucaa, oui.ii as till-tapping, 'shoving the queer,' or better still, exploring the vaults of some rich banker. The old methorl of entering a house through the scuttle is not practiced now as much as formerly." "What means are commonly employed in effecting an entrance?" "Skeleton keys are mostly used. Sometimes a men gains access to a house during the day and at night lets in an accomplice. Together they noiselessly do the house. In the morning the inmates find their treasures gdne, and the papers chronicle another 'mysterious robbery.'" "How do bank robbers manage to open safes which are sccured with combination locks!" "They don't undertake to unlock the safes.- They simply blow them open. There i3 another way of getting money out of the bank, however, which is more popular and not attended with so great a risk." ' "What is it!" "1 man dressed in an oflice coat and skull cap stands in the hall leading to some large banking establishment. A lady enters and draws $300 or perhaps $400. .As a rjile she will placc the money in hor bank book, if it is in bills. She is just about to enter her carriage when she is touched on the shoulder. She turns and lo, our friend of the skull cap stands before her. 'Exuse me, madam,' he says, 'but the clerk has made a mistake, and begs that you ant 11 return the book a moment."' She hands him the book and money. He disappears in the bank, and is seen no more. The lady waits until tired, visits the bank and finds she has been swindled. The clever operator simply passed through the bank and out of another door, wderc an accomplice waited with coat and hat. In a moment they were lost sight of in the throng. In nine cases out of ten money stolen in this manner is never recovered. It is an old game but people are slow in learning it." A Judicious Canary and a Wise Cat A young canary belonging to our family is in the habit of receiving small pieces of biscuit, cake or such like from the tea-table. The hardness of the biscuit has always been a source of great annoyance to Dickey. One day, however, after an expectant and close exam' ' ' - - i-ii- l. ~rr l ? inaiion 01 mc lea-iauie, uu wua unciuu a piece of hard biscuit. Without making the least attempt to break it, he lifted it from the floor of his cage, and taking it to his water-trough, gently dropped it in, following up the action by patiently stirring it round and round with his beak, until it was in condition to be eaten. lie then carefully removed it and devoured it without any trouble. He now puts every hard substance which he deems eatable into the water, lie endeavored to soften sweets in the same way, but finding that the sweet became gradually smallerlind smaller, he hastily abstracted it, and has never since put anything of that nature into the water. An equally Interesting case of reasoning power was lately exhibited by our cat. Pussy had lately become the mother of a family of kittens, and was naturally indisposed after the occurrence. She wandered about through the house in- a strange manner, as if seeking for something, aiways, however, keei)ing within near range of the coal bunkers when they were likely to be required. With a yiew to finding out what she wanted, the bunkers were left open. The cat immediately eutered, and commenced searching dilligentlv among the coals, until she found a piece of coal covered with pyrites. This she proaaa/Ia/1 irt UaIt triirAiviiioltf rntiimlnff In Ufl'UUU IU 1XV/IV vuoij) - W the bunker and repeating the operation at regular infervals. On ground sulphur being offered her, she at once forsook the pyrites for that, and ere long, by use of that medicine, regained her usual health.?Lmdun Nature. New Principle In Mechanics. A young mac living in Louisville, Kv., claims he has discovered a new principle in mechanics, by means" of which he can multiply the power of any motor without loss of motion. The working model is thus described: On a chair stood an ordinary whitewood box, with a shaft from one side, at either end of which were attached iron cranks of equal lengtli set centring on each other. He first gave an illustration of the power of the machine by attaching a five-pound weight to one crank and a twelve-pound pound weight to the other at an equal elevation from the floor; then letting both loose, the lighter weight raised the other to the the heighth of the crank. On being questioned, the inventor said: ''lam not a steam engineer by trade, but have spent much time studying the application of all kinds of power. Sixteen years ago, I conceived the idea of multiplying power without any loss of motion. I have worked on different plans for sixteen years, but could never get the idea that would give me the result until u short time ago, and it is so simple that I am actually ashamed of it. I know that the principle is correct, and that it is original. I have examined over nine hundred attempts in the same line made by other inventors without having attained the object they aimed at. There are but three pieces to the attachment, and they can be litted to nnv stationary, locomotive or marine engine in a manner that will increase their working power over a hundred and twenty-five per cent without any loss of motion." A Judge's Riddle. One of the most distinguished American judges, while sitting with his family, was roused from his book by the uproarious shouts of his children at a very badly rhymed riddle which one had made, and said he could make a better one about anything in the room. 'Oh, do!" was the cry, when he immediately wrote down these lines: My first connects related words; My second forms the shar[?est swords; My whole supports the forost's pride, Dispensing heat 011 every side. This was more than half a century ago, and the answer may be well known to riddle people; but it will be new to most people.?Every Other Saturday. [The answer to the riddle evidently is "AndiroD."?Ed], The cause why adornment of the body is so much esteemed is the respect the work] taketh of the outward appearance, and neglect of the inward excellence. v... . , L. j r-i, SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Oil is now extracted from the seeds of grapes in Italy. Young grapes yield most, and black kinds more than white. Experiments to lest the utility of the electric light in discovering wounded soldiers on the field of battle were recently instituted by the Society of the Red Cross, of Genevn. A German chemist has obtained a new link between the vegetable and animal kingdom in the shape of animal gum closely resembling the plant gums in its physical and chemical properties. From observations taken from twentyeight vessels which crossed the Atlantic last year, it has been ascertained that the Gulf Stream was at a greater average temperature than in any year of records. A Jersey City man buys cracked and spotted eggs in New York. lie uses the yolk, together with a secret substance which Tcer-ps the mixture from spoiling, a9 an oil to soften calf and kid leathers, lie claims that it is far better than neatsfoot oil. He uses an average of fifteen barrels of eggs per day. Professor Youn<; states that recent researches show it to be extremely doubttul whether any portion of the moon's surface ever reaches a temperature as high as 100 decrees F., although Lord Ros9e estimated that some parts must rise to 500 decrees dnrinc the lunar day of a whole month and fall to 100 degrees below zero at night. According to the Drayman, the Japanese are threatened with severe losses on account of the extinction of the lacquer industry. The tree from which the varnish is made is disappearing. An old law compelled the people to rear lacquer trees, but it is not now in force. Another law compelled every person who cut down any kind of a tree to plant two in its place. This also has become a dead letter, and the native newspapers fear the deforestation of Japan. The trichina is usually derived by man from the flesh of the pig. It exists in the muscles enclosed in microscopic cases. If pork be eaten uncooked or partially cooked, the cases are dissolved and the trichiniu become sexually mature in the intestines; the young are produced and burrow their way into the muscles, where they become encysted. In burrowing they causc great pain and fever, and sometimes death. The adult worm is about one-twelfth of an inch long. SKLE<;T SIFTINGS. It takes 25,000 people packed as in a political meeting to fill an acre. A silver dollar of 1804, according to'a catalogue recently issued in Philadelphia, is worth !?C00. Among the stupendous hogs within its walls, Chicago is boasting of one weigh iug 1,400 pounds. A California fruit-grower this year succeeded in growing California peaches so large that but fifteen of them could be packed in a twenty-five pound box. Fairies are believed in to the present day in those parts of Wales distant from the railway and out of the ordinary track, and people insist that they often dance on the hillsides. Near Tuscarora. Nevada, there is a tree, the foliage of which at certain seasons is so luminous that it can be seen 1 for over a mile in the darkest night. Its j luminosity is due to parasites. In Alabama is a chica tree ten feet in j circumference. Its top was torn" away by a storm, but six feet up the trunk I two more trees have taken root and grown as high as the old tree is. Half way up the trunk of the original tree a peach tree stands out. The food of the Pilgrims at Plymouth was very simple and of small variety for several years. When in August, 1623, the third supply of colonists?about sixty in number?came, the best dish that could be set before them was a lobster, a piece of fish, and a cup of "fair spring water;" a3 for bread, there was none in ttie colony. In Japan the rich owners of cats have apparently a high regard foi defunct pussy. The report of a regal cat's funeral comes from Yeddo. The coffin was covered with a white silk pall, and a ) body of chanting priests followed the body to the grave. Later on a handsome monument was erected ou which was inscribed the many virtues of the cat. HEALTH HINTS. The Medical Bulletin says that Dr. Viijoroux recommends a glass of hot lemonade, every half hour or less as indicated, in diarrhoea. It certainly is pleasant, and is stated to be effectual. To prevent grating the teeth during sleep, a correspondent of the Dental Cosmo* says that a rubber plate, made thin, and covering the molars and bicuspids above, and used during the night, has proven very efficient in his practice. The saturated tincture of lobelia, Jfeal'h and, Home says, is a positive local remedy in erysipelas. In slight cases, simply bathing the part once in three or four hours. In deep phlegmonous inflammation, cover tbe part with compresses wet with saturated solution and change often enough to keep moist. The late Charles Delmonico used to talk much about the hot water cure. He said the Delmonicos were the first to recommend it to guests who complained of having no appetite. "Take a cup of hot water ana lemon ana you win iuei better," was the formula adopted, and the cup of hot water and lemon juice in it take away the insipidity. Awful Poverty iu Maples. A letter from Naples, Italy, says: The great problem with the government now is how to disembowel Naples, or to spread around the shores and the neighboring hills the surplus population which overcrowds the basement of the city. The basement is a dirty institution of Naples. In single rooms On the ground lloor or in the cellars whole families live together, with donkeys, goats, chickens and pigs. They are so poor that they cannot pay for better quarters. It is not a depraved taste which makes them crowd in these dark and dirty holes and keep their lit tic ones in the gutter, it is only need. The Neapolitans are not brutes. They like music, bright colors and light. How can they pay high rents when the best wages arc scarcely one franc a day{ There is no city in Italy where wages are so low as in Naples. The best skilled workmen?the tailors, shoemakers, typesetters, job printers, masons and carpenters?even iu the busiest seasons scarcely get thirty cents a day, while the second-rate workingmen must get along with ten cents a day or less. It is, therefore, impossible for a Neapolitan to pay more lhan ?1 a month for his rent. The condition of the women i? simply dreadful. A poor mother is obliged to get work outside of her home for her bread and for that of her children. Hat makers, dressmakers and flower-girls make only $3 or .$4 n month. The great majority of the women are obliged to go out to service as domestics. A servant girl gets ten francs a month, without any dinner. Some have two or three houses in which to do housework for $1 at each house every month. They are constantly running from one house to another, and scolded and threatened iu each place they go. Many of these miserable creatures have children to nurse when they go home at night, a babv, perhaps, that has been left the whole day in the arms of a little sister. The poor mother, going home without sullicient food and half exhausted, has to nurse the little one, and at thirty years of age looks as old as if she had suffered the wear of sixty winters. How very, very many of them have fallen victims of the cholera! Children in Naples are considered a sort of burden or hindrance. When a boss takes a boy to work merely to pay him his daily bread, a .uother is happy, and when a little girl makes live cents a week by hard daily work, the work of a regular servant girl, the mother is equally delighted. No wonder the government is taking up for serious consideration the I.au. \t\Arri> n liHlo hntfnt* tlii? I IJUU.-UUIl i.U? .w .wv.fev immense crowd of human beings, swarming like ants in the lilt by, dark cellars and rooms of the Neapolitan basements. A boy was caught stealing currants and was locked up in a dark closet liy the grocer. The boy commenced begging most pathetically to be released, and after much persuasion, suggested: "Now, if you'll let me out and send for my father, he'll pay you for the currants and lick me besides." The grocer could not withstand this appeal. There are five foreign born persons iu the United States Senate?one Englishman, one Scotchman and three IrishmenIn the Mouse there are twenty-three for. eign-born persons?three Englishmen, three Scotchmen, six Irishmen, live Germans, one Norwegian, one Brazilian and one Canadian. THE TONGUE INSTRUCTED. Guard well thy lips; none, none can know, ?Prov. xiii,: What evils from the tonguo may flow; ?James iii, !>, 0. What guilt, what grief may he incurred, ?Judges xi, By one incautious, hasty word, ?Mark vi, 22, 27. Bo slow to speak, look well within, ?Prov. To check what there may lead to si.n; ?James 1, 2*. And pray unceasingly for aid, _ ?Col. iv. Lest unawares, thou be betrayed, ?Luke xxi, 14. " Condemn not, judge not "?not to man ?James iv, 2. Is given his brother's faults to scan; ?1 Cor. iv, The task is thiuo, and thine alone? ?Matt, vii, 3. To search out and subdue thine own. ?John viii, 7. Indulgo no murmurings;' oh, restrain ?1 Cor. vii, 10 i nose lips, so ready to complain; -Lam. iii, 22. And, if they can be numbered, count ?Psalm ciii, 2. Of one day's mercies the amount ?Lam. iii, 23. Shun vain discussions, trifling theme?; ?Titas, iii, 0 Dwell not on earthly hopes and schemes; ?Dieut. vi, 47. Let words of wisdom, meekness, love, ?James iii. 0 Thy heart's true renovation prove. ? Luko vi,4">. Set God before thee; every word ?Gen. xvii, 1 Thy lips pronounce by Him is heard; ?Ps. cxxxix, 4. Oh, couldst thou realize this thought, ?Matt, xii, 35. What care, \yhat caution, would be taught! ?Luke xii, 35. " The time is short,1' this day may be ?1 Cor. vii, 21) The very last assigned to tboe; -Eph v, 10. So speak, that shouldest thou ne'er speak more, ?Col. iv, (i. Thou may'st not this day's words deplore. ?Rom. xiv, 12. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Ilcad-Work?Shampooing. A footpad?The cork sole. Where there's a Bill there's a Will. atvnnf mno to-TTrm PV Pfl WOrds. A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. The widow's favorite musical instrument?Cast-a-net. A great deal of the time of the young men of the present day goes to waist. ' Hurry, mamma," said the little inno cent with his cut finger, "it's leaking.'' "What do you think of this reception?" asked the leader of a vigilance committee, as he placed a rope arouml a horse thief's neck. "I wouldn't mind it a particle if it were a little less cordial," was the significant reply. The postmaster general of Victoria, Australia, has decided to try, in several districts, a postal delivery system by tricycles and if it proves successful he will extend it over the whole colony. We suppose the postal districts will be called wheel boroughs. "What is a curiosity, ma?"' asked little Jamie. "A curiosity is something that is very strange, my son." "If pa bought you a sealskin sacque this winter would that be a curiosity?" "No, my son, that would be a miracle." A Pennsylvania lady, ninety-three years of age, milks, washes and bakes lor a iumuj OI Mirec persona. xx j-icui deal can be got out of old people if they are properly managed. Young people do not get half enough rest. "Humph!" said one little girl to her playmate. "I guess your pa is nothing but a drummer, and I won't speak to you." "I don't care," said the other, "ycur pa is nothing but a drum." "My pa a drum?" "l'cs; he's got a bald head and nothing in it but noise." They were discussing their natatorial capacity. ''Swim? Dive? Why, I can remain under water twenty ininates at a time." "Only twenty minutes? Why, the other day I stayed" under the water a whole hour. To be sure, it was because I fell into a doze and overslept myself, but still?" (The other liar faints.) Slory of n Great Composer. A good story is told of Verdi when he was putting the finishing touches to ll Trovatore. He was visited in his study | by a privileged friend, for whose opin ion as critic lie naa tne nigm-st respect. He showed him his score and asked him to try the' Anvil Chorus on the piano. "What do you think of it?" said Vervi. "Trash," cried the connoisseur. Verdi rubbed his hands and chuckled. "And of this, and this?" lie continued, plavings "Rubbish!" replied the candid friend The composer rose and embraced hi friend with a burst of joy. "What do you mean by this?" was asked in natural astonishment. "My dear friend," responded Verdi; "Ihave been composing a popular opera. In it I determined to please everybody except the great judges and classicists like you. Had I pleased you I should have pleased no one else, but jour disdain assures me of success. In three months II Trovatore will be sung, roared, and whistled and barrel-organed all over Italy." It must be confessed that Verdi understood his world. Restoring Faded Flowers. After a bouquet is drooping beyond all remedies of fresh wafer, the Japanese can bring it back to all its first glory by a simple and seemingly most destructive operation. A recent visitor to Japan says: "I received some days ago a beautiful bunch of flowers from a Japanese acquaintance. They continued to live in all their beauty for nearly two weeks, and at last they faded. Just us I was about to have them thrown away, the same gentleman (Japanese) came to see me. I showed him the faded flowers, and told him thar, though lasting a long time, they had now become useless. I 'Oh. no,' said he. 'only put the ends of the stems into the fire, and they will become as good as before.' I was incredulous; so he took them himself and held the stem ends in the lire until they were charred. This was in the morning. At evening they were again looking fresh ifirrAVAiio on/1 tmirn nnnHniw*r1 qh fnr WHU t l^VlVUO) uuw nuf v vvi>t<t(Mw? uv . w. another week.'' Four sisters named Carr were married at Joliet recently, and the clergyman who performed the ceremonies is now called a patent Carr coupler. Messrs. Mason & Hamlin bid fair to become as famous for their Upright Pianos as they have long been for their world-renowned Cabinet Organs. Having experimented several years at great expense, and with the assistance of probably as able a corps of experts as can be found in any factory in the world, they have succeeded in producing a piano which has elicited the warmest encomiums from the best judges. Tho distinguishing feature about it is an important improvement in tho method of "stringing'' the piano, which originated ir their own factory. Tho strings are secured by | metallic fastenings, instead of the friction of pins set in wood, as has been the case, and the j advantages resultingaro numerous and highly I important; among them are tho following: Wonderful beautv and musical quality of tone, far less liability of getting cut of tune, greater reliability in trying climates, and greater solidity of construction and durability. Mason & Hamlin have made I.j0,u00 organs, Thay can hardly ex|?jct to mako as many pianos, but tliey will doubtless lie called I upon to make a very lai-ge number.?Uoston traveller. The most successful new evangelist in the West is a boy aged twelve. Ho is a wonder I of fluency. Worann'M Fare. "What furniture tan give yjcli finish to a room as a tender woman's face.'"' asks George Elliott. Not any, we are happy to answer, provided the glow of health temjters the te.idor expression. The pale, anxious bloodless face ot the consumptive, or tlw evident suf ferings <>f tho dyspeptic, induce feelings of sorrow and grief on our part and compel us to t''ll them of Dr. l'ieive's ' (iolden Medical Discovery," the sovereign remedy for consumption and other discas.-of taorespiratory system a-: well as dysp'pMu and other cliges tivo troubles. Sold everywhere Tup tntnl vnliio nf nssessed ivonerfcv Af f!.ql ifoniia is $8_'l.lS3,b77. Physicians prescribe Lydia E. Pinkhan's Vegetable Compound. For a splendid Magazine and chance for employment, address W.H.Thompson,Phila.,Po. first Good* are Put in Smallest Psirrrh, The old proverb is ccrtainly true in the | case of Dr. Pierce's "PleasantPurgative Pellets," which are little,sugar-wrapped parcels, scarcely larger than mustard seeds, contain- J ing as much cathartic power as is dono up in | the biggest, most repulsive-looking pill. Unlike the big pills, however, thev are mild and i pleasant in their operation?do not produce griping pains, nor render the bowels costive | after using. A man tip a tree and a man below with a shotgun cannot agree because they <ee lliiugs differently. CLEVERLY CAUGHT t Til* Rich Man's Fear of Sudan? Story ef an Electrician, Buffalo, N. News. At the dead of night. Mr. J. B. Anthony, a wholesale grocer of Troy, N. Y., mm awakened by his burglar alarm annunciator, which told him that his house had been en* tered through the rcof scuttle. He hastily dresses, rings for a policeman, hurries to the upper story, and hears the burglar In the servant's room, threatening her with Instant death if she made a loud noise. He was captured, convicted and sentenced to Sing Sing for ten years. SosaidMr. C. H. Westfall, the electrician of Westfleld, N. Y., to our reporter. "Do city residents generally use burglar alarms?" "Yes, all first class houses are provided with them, and I have never had any dissatisfaction from my customers, many oil whom are the best known and wealthiest people of New York. Boston, Philadelphia and other large citiea" Do wealthy men have much fear of burglars?1' ' 'As a rule, wealthy men do not keep valuables in their house, and yet they are not sure that they shall escape burglarious attacks, and they don't feel secure without a first-class burglar alarm apparatus in their housa Every door, window and scuttle if connected with the annunciator, and it is quite imposssible to effect an entrance without-. t-.hn fant. Vwnmfncr At nnm known." "Don't electricians ran considerable risk in handling wires?" "Even the most careful of them sometimes get a shock. A few yean* ago. while I wm descending stairs at Elmira, N. Y., with a wire coil in my hand, I felt as if I had received the entire charge from the battery. For over a half hour I suffered the keenest agony. I did not know but what I had been fatally injured. After completing my business circuit I returned to Boaton, and for eighteen months did not get over the shock. I lost my appetite; all food tasted alike. I could not walk across the common without resting several times. ''My bead whirled, and I reeled like a drunken man. I consulted the best physicians in a good many cities, but none of them seemed to understand my case. About a year ago I wr.s in Albany, and a physician there stated that I would probably not live three months. But to-day," said Mr. Westfall, and he straightened himself up with conscious pride, '"so far as I know, i am in perfect health. I weigh 170 pounds, eat well, sleep well, feel well, and am welL One of my old physicians gave me a thorough examination a few weeks ago, and told ma that I was in a perfect condition." "You are a very fortunate man, sir," remarked the scribe, "to have escaped instant death after an electrical shock." "Oh, it was not electricity that prostrated me. It was a uremic convulsion. For all my %ktfoirt{a?a T Wfldft Tffrtfm tkt fL VflTV |;ujr OtV/lCUM IA/1U rnw A I'tw M ? ? serious kidney disorder. 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Fon dyspepsia, 1XDI0E8TI02T, depression of ?plrits and general debility in their various forms, also as a preventive against fever and ague and otherintermittent fevers, the "Ferro-Phoaphorated Elixir of Calisaya," made by Caswell, Hazard ic Co., New York, and sold by all Druggists, is the best tonic; and for patients recovering trom feveror other sickness it has no equal. "Hough on Toothache." Instant relief lor neuralgia, toothache, facetche. Ask_for"Roughon Toothache."15&25C. The taxable wealth of Missouri has in creased over $11,000,000 since 188.3. Important. When jron r1?it or-lenve New York city, save baggage, expreuitge and carri.igo hir?, and stop at the Grand Union Hotel, oppoeite Grand Central depot. SWoIegan rooms, titted up at a cost of om million dollars, SI and upward perday. European plan. Ele. rator. Kflxtniirant supplied with thebest. Horso oirs, stages and elevatod railroad to alt depoti. Familie* can live butter for less mnnoy at the Grand Union Hotel than at any other tirst-class hotel in the city. There are about 1,000 scientific societies in tiie world. Catarrh I Is nndoabtedly earned by Impure blood. Henoe a medicine which purities the blood remove* the cam* of the disease and opens the way for a thorough cure. This is exactly what Hood'f SarsapariUa does, and it makes the euro complete by giving the system health and strength, and enabling it to throw off the depressing effects of the disease. "I bad been troubled by 5 neral debility, cansodby catarrh and humors. Hood's Sarsapsrilla proved just j the thing needed. I derived an immense amount ot benefit from it.H. F. Millett, Boston, Mat*. "Isuffered with oatarrh fifteen years; tried all the catarrh remedies without benefit, and wai about to try I a change of climate, when I took Hood's SarsapariUa. I I would not take any money consideration for the good | one bottle did me. Now I am not troubled any with ' catarrh'"?I. W. Lillib, Chicago, 111. Hood's SarsapariUa I 0?!J .11 ft aiv iV Ufrda Alllv h* C. L HOOD <t 00., Apothecariei, Lowell, 11*4*. LOO Doses One Dollar CATARRH ILY? IHT i1 l|i CREAM BALM ^lireCauses no 1'ain. 1 H^a?j ?iyea Relief at PHAyFEVERJ||?gjj once. Not aLlqW y ui(* or>Smff' Apl>Ij' into nostrils B^^^S^usjU6116 it? TriaIFBSr-EEVER 00 cents by m&if registered. Sample by nnil 10 cents. Send for circal&r. KLY BKOXHKKS, Druggists, Owcgo N. Y. , gBk , This Plaster ? SaSnS ~ Acta directly upon tbt SoSCr a muicles and the nervei of ? tnW S ",e back. the "f *" J cFl >3 & jwln. tj~So medicine to ? 7A< I IK ' throw your system out or order. A .-' "1 T\ For til Lung Trouble!, [tw . N \ whether loial or deeply 6 T , A M/t 1,1 w'Atc.l this plaster will t>? ft f.%1 tfllV tf*1?/ r.unJ to Hire Instant rei&r j * ?i k i m-f. 'Y* ? .8 49-For Ildney Trouble. ? IS' I Rheumatism. ,s>u-n:p!?. IS UB? I l'aln in the side and BacK *- K fWrfHSt <? l Aclie. tlicy are a certain ^ At itH'IllSl i i?iM ipee ly cure. I * y wSti$HE5 S"ld by Druggists for C4 \W? ^?fJrents, or live for il. ?AC/^ wF Mailed on receipt ? fni I?i<vpn7 price by Smith, DoolltrPI A\T|iR tie & ?nilth. General ??I.Tlnc Aftnft cant SELL and tell BChbMBBIotSHH the truth about Jones. Put yoar Bb fl?9^ sS .?D ptp'' *nd ,iKn"'ou Wimi SBO.5TGN WAGON SCALES. 0 !?? w i >3 B Beam Box. Tsr? Beam. FreigM ti k~g H O bM l'aiJ. Krre Price I.lit. Ererr .Sit*. ajdrei. jowxc^or snJaHAMTOH, #R. U. AWARE Lorillard's Climax Plug ; bearing n red tin fay; that Lorillard's Itosi- I.cnf fine cut; that Lorillard's Navy ('lippine*. and that Lorillard's Snull's, are the best aau cheapest, quality considered ? ALL IMPERFECTIONS A&IrtVX nf the Kacd, Hands *nd feet, Bnperflnons Hair, Mnles, W?rt?, Fr?ekl??, Moth, Rod fif Nn?e Erii|itiin?,Sc?rs, PittiD|t,*"d their ^ >L1tre?tMiprit. Dr. John Woodbnrr, 37 .North I'enrl Street. Albany, N. Y. 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None receive so much benefit, and none are so profoundly grateful and show such an interest in recommending Hop Bitters at women. A Postal Card Story. I was affected with kidney and urinary trouble? "For twelve years I" y After taring all the doctors and patent medicines I could hear of, I used two bottle* of Hop *t "Bitters;" And I am perfectly cured. I keep it All the time!" respectfully, B. F. Booth, Saulsbury, Tenn.?May 4, 1883. Bradford, Pa., May 8,1875. It has cured me of several diseases, such as nervousness, sickness atthe stomach, monthly trouDies, ere. 1 nave not seen a uu u?j m ? vear, since I took Hop Bitters. All my neighbors use them. Mas. Fannie Greek. $8,000 Lost. "A totrr to Europe that cost me $3,000, done me less good than one bottle of Hop Bitters; they also cured my wife of fifteen years' nervous weakness, sleeplessness and dyspepsia." R. M., Auburn, H". Y. So Bloojonovillb. o., May 1, *79. Sirs?I have been suffering ten years, and I tried your Hop Bitters, and it done me mora good than all the doctors. Mrs. S. S. Boonx. Baby Saved. We are so thankful to say that our nursing baby was permanently cured of a dangerous and protracted constipation and irregularity of the bowels by the use of Hop Bittexs by its mother, which at the same time restored ha to perfect health and strength. ? ine rareata, nocneeoer, ?. i. 13TNone genuine without a bunch of green Hope on the white label. Shun all the vile, poisonous stuff with "Hop" or "Hops" in their nATTlA H YH U?51 HAPPY ENDING. Loner Suffering ?rf One of the B?at Men of Pleaaant Valley, Dntclic*.* Co., N. X.? His Final and Complete Recovery firm Gravel. Plain words are best Mr.. Edward 8. Hicks, of Pleasant Valley, Dutchess Co., N. 7., had suffered long from stones in the Kidneys. He sought relief, of course. Who would not! What are time and money to health? Mr. Hicks consulted the best phyri clans of his village and, also, of Pougbkeep to end none better can be found anywhere ?bat, unhappily, without a gooa ranut a friend in Rondout advised Mr. Hicks to go to Rondout and see Dr. David Kennedy about bis trouble. This Mr. Hicks finally did. Dr. '} Kennedy saw at once what the suffering man's difficulty was, and that " Favorite Remedy " was the medicine he needed. The Doctor prescribed it, and Mr. HickS wen* home without much confidence in the power o? " Favorite Remedy to do him 'mere good than other medicines had done before. Bab 3 ' hope clings to straws, and he thought there might be one chance out of many m his tar I Tor. He followed the directions and was both surprised and delighted to find himself presently improving. To-day Mr. Hicks Is a well man. r ? While Dr. Kennedy is interested in introducing " Favorite Remedy," be continues to practice his profession and performs all the capital and minor operations to surgery. 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