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' ' V'- N IN THE EAST. Behold the day is done and through the air, From the Muezzin's tower the call to prayer; Bow, bow to Allah, Most Compassionate. O'er the wide plains the flute-call of the boll, From thousand minarets doth nightly tell Jt is to Allah, man intrusts his fate. Chime on, still chime, oh, musical, soft bolls, Time never will outgrow this need which dwells Within man's heart?nor make prayer obsolete. But as the Deed grows greater, greater too Will be the prayer; to worship, and to do, These two will round the circle, full, complete. ?Hatfic T. Grisuold, in Current. A PRINCESS OF SPAIN. It was a small,square pine board, neatly lettered, with some attempt at ornamentation?by no means unsuccessful either. It was tacked at the left-hand side of the door, between it and the first of tbc five rows of dirty windows, winkng s'eepily in the face of the hot summer's sun; and it bore these words: "Dressmaking and repairing neatly done. Inquire within.'' The "within" looked dubious. The long, dark hall wore a treacherous air, hinting at stumbling blocks for the thoughtless, and traps for the unwary. Xor were the fears of a timid venturer at all allayed by the instantaneous appearance at each door?there were twelve, six on a side?of a frouzy-looking head of hair, with a face somewhere bolow that showed a brave disdain of soap and an equal contempt for water. "Four flights up, mum; turn squar' around and go to the left." would be the responding chorus should the explorer, plunged into fresh perplexity as to which of the many interiors was mc "within." venture an interrogation for enlightenment. Should'the voyager be rash enough to brave further dangers? no voyager ever was, but wc are supposing a case?he would desperately begin the perilous asent with the sundry reflections as to the uncertainty of human life, the shrill vociferation of voices still unitedly proclaiming "four flights up," like the chorus of a Grecian tragedy. Moreover, as before remarked, no visitor ever sought to elTect an entrance to the penetralia of this mysterious domain, so, as far as those matters went, the would-be dressmaker and repairer must have expended her energies upon the apparel of herself and royal highness; for in this room, "four flights up and turn to the left," dwelt the princess of Spain. It was near the close of an unusually sultry afternoon, that a young woman might have been seen toiling up the steeD heights, slowly, yet with a care les?ne?s that bespoke familiar knowledge cf the way, or a disposition to place her own life at less than par value. Having reached the summit in triumph, she paused a moment to recover breath. The hall was small and narrow. They all began long and narrow, and shrunk gradually with each flight?a curious fact that seemed to be applicable equally to the occupants. Light falling through the skylight above revealed a slight, graceful figure, somewhat too thin to be considered strictly beautiful; and a face, pretty, though colorless and careworn, by no means a 3'oung girl's face; rather, just now, the face of an old, old woman, who had long passed hope, and laid happiness by for ever. But such a countenance for a moment only. As her hf.nd turned the handle of the door, a complete metamorphosis took place. She had recovered her breath, : and, with a merry snatch of song upon her lips, entered the room. The room boasted two windows, one a vain and inglorious subject for pride, 9ince the iinnrniriiv oDnosite completely excluded light or air. The other commanded a sweeping vista of unswept dooryards and disconsolate ash-heaps, with a wide horizon of old clothes-line nnd tattered linen, each garment clinging to its neighbor for mutual support in a devoted manner touching to behold. A small bed was placed between these two windows, and upon it lay a wee morsel of humanity; or rather, at the moment she was propped up on one arm, with her facc to the door. It was a strange face: in fact, it was not a face, but eyes. They were so large and weird, set in such small, thin features that one forgot there was a face at all. The hand she rested upon wns transparent; the arm which supported the hand was transparent; in fact, the small elf was a transparency complete?any campaign club could have utilized her with but slight difficulty. And this was the princess of Spain. "I'm so glad you've come," 991a Her highness, sinking back upon her pillow, with a transparent little smile. "Was I long gone, dear? Well, see now what I have brought you.'' The speaker placed a parcel upon the counterpane; removing the wrapper, was disclosed :t small wicker basket, loosely filled with fresh cut flowers. " Oh, breathed the princess, and her hands clasped rapturously. "Ah. I knew that would please you," smiled the other, "and I cau get some more on Thursday." "But they cost so much," whispered princess, iu quite au unprincess like ller atn-ttrboit laughed. Ruth Trevor's laugh could uot'fail to strike the dullest ear ts singularly sweet and pleasant , music, though a weary minor note of pathos vibrated throuch even its most joyous chords. "It is a mission, dear,'' she explained "Some beautiful ladies have made it. They give the flowers away." God bless them!" whispered the princtss, reverently, her face buried * among her roses. "Yes, God bless them!" echoed Ruth ?only the words were not a mere echo? nnd she kissed the thin face, and with her work went and sat down at the window where air and sunlight were excluded. The princess lay back on her pillow caressing the flowers. Their fragrance sollly tilled the room. It was such a very small room that a very few would have sufficed for that; a very thin, much shrunken little room, and gave the lie direct to that brave old saying, "There's always room at the top." "Ruth," spoke the princess, at length, "the flowers are getting tired." "They are only thirsty." said Ruth, and she forthwith laid aside her work, and. bringing a cracked bowl from some mvsterious recess, arranged the flowers w.thin. "Put them where I can touch them, Ruth," whispered the princcss. Thereupon her busy handmaid drew to the side of the low cot a small pine nlilo n/if l?v nnr mpjns nn article of .%uv,v' "* v VJ ?J ?t ? ? " virtu, but by reason of being the largest article the room contained, the small table seemed to bear itself with quite a jaunty and important air. 'They are like the flowers tliat grow in my garden," said the princess, alter a pause. Ruth raised her head with an understanding smile. "Is it very fair to-day?" she asked. "It is beautiful to-day," said the child, clasj.iug her little haiuh. "There are yards and yards of green field, and the brooks are all singing. Oh, Ruth! don't you hear the brooks sing?" "Sometimes I hear them,*' answered the older sister, softly, raising her eyes with a far-away musing iu them. "It is very beautiful, dear." She went back to her work again, looking out for an instant as she passed the window, where air and sunlight? such as they were?did come in, aud up ward where the sky showed, blue ana fair. Thank God, the sky is fair to rich and poor alike; and once again her face was as the face of an old woman, though the beautiful, sid eyes, gazing upward, held something of the passion and pain of life not wholly withered and dead. "The beautiful ladies will give me more flowers, Ruth," questioned the princess, wistfully. "More flowers, dear, on Thursday," answered Ruth, p.lready busy with her work. It was two miles out of her way, and the <un was very warm, and car-tickets were a luxury the princess' sister could not afford; nevertheless, the president of the flower charity, busily putting the finishing touches to a bouquet, and talking as she worked to a grave, handsome man beside her, saw the slight young figure enter the rooms that Thursday afternoon, and smiled?a true, womanly smile?across the intervening space. "That is she." she whispered to her companion. "I will beckon her this way. Now you must make her talk, for she is very proud, or else t^tremely shy." Neither shyness nor pride, however, could hold their ground against such smile and cordial greeting as awaited Iiuth Trevor when she stood before the two. Gradually she told her story, quite simply, never dreaming, so adroitly was she questioned, that she was telling it at r all. And it was so easy to tell of the little one at home?that was what she called the shrunken little rooiA on the margin of the fourth precipice?when the flowers thnt were to make her happy for many a day were put into hor sister's willing hands. MYnat is your occupation?'* asked young Dr. Fargood, suddenly. "1 tried to get dressmaking?I think I j could have done that well"?raising earnest eyes to his?"but?I failed; so"? with a brave little smiie?"I do slopwork." The doctor stared. ''I make men's jackets,'' explained liuth, meeting the uncomprehending* look. "Sometimes it is something else?just now I am working on gingham blouses." ''And how much can you make at that!" abruptly, but by no means unkindly. ' They pay me thirty cent?, a dozen for the blouses, and I make a. dozen a day; sometimes, when I can afford?when I have a candle?I make a dozen and a half." "I will come and see your sister," said Dr. Far^ood, after an eloquent silence. "Perhaps I may be able to help her." "Oh. if you could, sir!" cried Ruth, wistfully; "but " "I shall try, went on the doctor, calmly, taking no note of the proposition. or of the riushed, troubled color coming and gcing in the pretty face, "to do her some good: and it may assist me. I like to study such cases when I have the chance." He spoke in quite a cool, business-like way?almost cruelly, Ruth thought, as if that wee little thing were a creature to be studied and analyzed. And "when he had the chance!" Such cases, alas! were not rare, and none knew this better than Dr. Fargood. It was a noble deception, however, well accomplishing its object. The doubtful sentence was not completed. The proud color faded, and she thanked the physician without that bitterness which is poverty's heritage when the soul of the possessor thereof is cursed with pride. The succceding day the young doctor, with a recklessness fearful to behold, bade defiauce to the meuacing perils of the four precipices, and wholly uninjured and in no wisedisconcertedj fouud himself, dispensing with unnecessary ceremony, usherecl into me presemx ui her royal highness. He bent over the small creature with a woman's tenderness. "What is your name, little one?" he asked. The child raised her weird eyes to his. "I am the princess of Spain," she answered sedately. Amazement stamped itself for an in I stant on Dr. Fargood's face; then a I comprehensive smile swept it away. "Just so," he said; "I see. Where is your castle?" "In Spain, of course," answered the princess, "somewhere?I have never been. My back is bad. "When it is better I shall" go. Uut I know just how it looks. It is a very beautiful castle." "Tell me about it," said the doctor, gently. "It's not much like a story book castle," with a queer little smile, "it isn't j cold stone. It's painted red, and the I trees are so big arouud it they just reach their long arms to each other and shake hands across the roof. The birds sing all day loDg; and there are roses and roses, and tields full of green." The child had risen on one arm. Her eyes were brilliant, and the thin little face seemed transfigured. "The sea is there, too,"she whispered. "Littlegreen waves running to catch each other all down my beach. Oh, hark?" holding up one I transparent hand?"how the waves sing!" The child sank back upon her I pillow, a perfect silence filling the room. J Suddenly something splashed down upon I the little transparency the princess called her hand. "Why, you're crying!" she began, increduously, lifting astonished eyes. "Not a bit of it," shrilly maintained the doctor. "I was only thinking'how I pleasant it is. Your estate must lie very close to mine." "Where dii she ever hear of the dream castles of Spamr' ne asseu, prescuuy, aside to Ruth, ' I read herastory once.outof a book," Ruth answered. "It pleased her, and she seemed so to delight in these fancies, I think they are sometimes real to her. It is foolish; we are both foolish for?I see them sometimes, too." "I am foolish, also, then," returned the doctor. He was looking down directly upon ! the pretty face with its troubled color coming and going, and so saw that swift uprising of her eyes to his. "Do you think so?" she asked, too eager for his answer to note the look he bent upon her ere it came. "I am sure of it," he replied. "Every man, I believe, has some castles in that wonderful land, I myself am a large property owner there." "I am so glad!" she said, simply, not looking at him, and so seeing not the swift gladness that shone an iustant in his eyes, as if something in her words,or I thoughts of his which her words had created?had pleased him. "It don't seem so silly for us." "Good-by,my little princess," he said, presently, turning to the bed. "I shall "drop in' and see your ladyship, to-morrow." And by the time he had descended the four flights?in reckless preoccupation? i?J i^_ j grave, 1J<1UU9UU1C x/i. ? Ul^V/UU aac*v* 114I creased liis possessions and constructed ; one more castle in Spain. After he bad gone, the child lay quite I still upon her little bed, her eyes closed, and bo;h hands clasped across her breast. Ruth sewing swiftly by the departing daylight. <l Ruth," said the princcss, at length, after that long, long silence, opening her j eyes and looking at the pretty profile by i j the window, " the prince has coine i i a-visiting." | " Nonsense, dear,'' said Ruth, but a i little frightened color crept up into the i pale face bent low over the work, and j the busy fingers flew on faster. " He has come," repeated the child, | dreamily. "He is very handsome, but it is not just that. lie is noble and good. He does not even laugh like other?storybook?princes. There is a trust in his laugh. "What a fine, good, beautiful prince he is!" Ruth stole one startled glance toward the princess dreaming, and answered never a word, Young I)r. Fargood came not only the next day, true to his promise, but the i next, and the next, and every succeed I ing day thereafter through that hot J stilling August weather. Was it the I princess alone whose eyes brightened, ! hearing daily that familiar step? Was it j the princess only who dreamed her i dreams after the cchocs of that step had ! died away for another day. Ruth was I very quiet, wistful, anxious. All the skill which Dr. Fargood, the young physician who bid lair to stand at the head of his profession ore many years went by, could chiim and exercise was j bestowed upon the wee little mortal who lay so patiently, day after day and night i after night, upon her little cot. iiut j that skill, alas!availed but little. Ruth's eyes were too dim. often, to sec the possible brightness of a horizon just beyond, but love has dominion even over the realms that Azrael guards; and the princess, clear-eyed and patient, saw something, perhaps, not dreams of Spanish vistas, and smiled contentedly upon her little cot, even with the darkness of the Death angel's wings casting their shadow above her head. Ah, that terrible weather! Days when the sun beat down upon the little roof, so hot and fierce that it seemed as the covering of a furnace. The great wall of theungainly tenement opposite seemed to radiate heat, and even when the sun went down no cooling breath arose. Dr. Farirood had proposed removing the sick child, but the princess had negatived this. *I could cot go anywhere." she had said, with her wan little smile. "If I could"?looking up with wistful eyes that clung to their beguiling hope?"I should go to Spain." She talked much, in those days, of her far-olf possessions. "They are different from what I thought them," she said, once. "Much more beautiful, Ruth, than even the red house and the green meadows, with the brook running among the trees." At other times she lay for hours quite still, with the white lids hiding the dreams in her eyes, and her thin, white bands clasped across her breast. "It is too late," said Dr. Fargood, once, seeing her thus. And at the foot of the lower precipice, with that white, still face before him, and another, dearest of all faces in the world to him, he cursed in his heart the civilization that had wrought such wreck and ruin. One evening, just at dark, the princess opened her eyes? "Ruth," she called, softly. Ruth dropped her work and came over to the bed. "Ruth," said the princess, "isn't it J Btrange! I have been growing weak, ' _ weak every day. I could not even lift myself now. You know I said I should not go until I got well, and yet, every day, it lias seemed as if I were getting ready to go to Spain." Ruth dropped on her knees beside the bed. Some one knocked without, and I then softly pushed open the door and I entered. He came over beside the prin- | cess, who smiled up at him, moved her little thin hand to put it in his. "Ruth, dear," said the princess, again, after another pause. '"Ruth, dear, some- j how it seems as if I were ready, now, to , go to Spain." A sob shook the slight figure kneeling j beside the Ited. The princess turned be- j seeching eyes upon the doctor, lie read i their prayer, and in like silent fashion ! answered it. The princess smiled. The | The dusk came on deeper, and every j thing grow very still. ' Ruth," cried the princess, at length, j and a great joy trembled in her tone, "i have found tho way." And a deeper silence fell, while the j hand the doctor held grew slowly cold ! in his warm clasp. In the darkness at leneth Ruth lifted ; her head. "I know," she sobbed. "Leave me j now." lie paused a moment irresolute, and then came and knelt beside her. "I shall not leave you now." he said. | '"Soon, if you wish. But our little one I gave me a message before she went upon i her journey, and I should like to give it ! to you now." | Silence for a moment. In its hush the j two?the living?rose from their knees | and stood in tha darkness beside the dead. "It is a simple message, Ruth," said the doctor, "and I would not deliver it now, but that I think you need its comfert. Dear, put your hand in mine and wc will go to Spain. "Ah," sp^ke the weary voice, "but we cannot. There is no road to Stmin but death." "There is another way," said Dr. Fargood, and in the darkness she caught the unsteady whisper of his voice. "One is the way our little one has gone ?the way men call death. And the other?oh, my darling! my darling! the other way is love!" He had drawn nearer her. Ilis arms reached out to her. It was not a gesture of appeal; it spoke protection, refuge, strength. Ruth Trevor laid both licr hands in both those waiting ones. "Show me the way," she whispered, softly. "Love, let ug go to Spain."? I ir. a MUrio -l. JJiiiuiy*. The Right Sort or a Tenant. "Oh, yes, I have all kinds of tenants," said a kind-faced old gentleman to a Chicago Herald reporter: "but one that I like the best is a child not more than ten years of age. A few years age I got a chance to buy a piece of land over "on the west side, and I did so. I noticed that there was an old coop of a house on it. After a while a man came to me and wanted to know if I would rent it to him." " "What do you want it for?" says I. " 'To live in,' he replied. "'Well,' I said, 'you can have it. Pay me what you think it is worth to you.' "The first month he brought $2, and i the second month a little boy, who said he was this man's son, came with $!). After that I saw the man once iii awhile, but in the course of time the boy paid the rent regularly, sometimes $2 and sometimes $3. One day I asked the boy what had become of his father." " 'He's dead, sir,' was the reply. "'Is that so?' said I. 'How long since?' " 'More'n a year,' he answered. "T tnrtlr hia mnncv. hut I made UI) mv mind that I would go over and investigate, and the next day I drove over there. The old shed looked quite decent. I knocked at the door and a little girl let me in. I asked for her mother. She said she didn't have acy. " 'Where is she," said I. "'We don't know, sir. She went away after my father died and we've never seen her since." "Just then a little girl about three years old came in, and I learned that these three children had been keeping house together for a year and a half, the boy supporting his two little sisters by blacking boots and selling newspapers, 'and the elder girl managing the house and taking care of the baby. Well, I just had my daughter call on them, and we keep an eye on them now. I thought I wouldn't disturb them- while they are getting along. The next time the boy came with the rent I talked with him a little, and then I said: "My boy, you're a brick. You keep rirrM. on ns von have bcirun and vou ? J o ^ will never be sorry. Keep your little sisters together and never leave tliem. Now look at this." "I showed him a ledger in which I had entered up all the money that he had paid me for rent, and I told him it was all his with interest. 'You keep right on,' says I, 'and I'll be your banker, and when this amounts to a little more I'll sec that you get a house somewhere of your own.' That's the kind of a tenant to have.1' Making: Them Look Natural. "Have you ever heard of dead men's faces being painted to make them look natural P asked a Broadway barber of a reportorial customer who had dropped into a chair. 4'Xo," was the answer. "Well, I have done several jobs of that i kind so artistically that the friends of \ the deceased complimented me and paid j me big money. Drop your chin a little ?there. I was called by an undertaker a while ago to paint the face of a : wealthy man who had accidentally shot j himself through the temple so that the wound discolored both sides of the face. Razor pull, eh? No? I took water color paints and fine brushes along, ana after applying collodion to the discolored j parts of the face, I painted it as near the ! I Tintnr;il rnmnlfxion of the deceased I as I could. Close shave, eh? j All right. Of course, I was alone with the corpse and the un i dertaker's assistant, and none of the j relatives of the dead man saw me do the i job. Sit up a little higher, please. When I got through the face looked so ; natural that it surprised me. The relatives of the deceased were called in and , J pronounced the face very natural and ; | true to life. But I took care to lintl out j when the corpse was going to be buried, ! for 1 knew that the discoloration would ' return again after the paint got dry: so I finished up my work a couple of hours before the lid was put on the casket. I got a big pricc for that job. Have a sea-foam? No? Bay rum? No? "I got another job; it was to paint the face of a man who had died in California, and while the remains were being brought here they became greatly discolored. The relatives wanted to have the corpse look nice and the undertaker sent for me. I struck a bargain, as an artist in such work would, and secured a bitrger pricc than 1 ex! pected. Part your hair on the left side? I <) K! Well. I worked like a beaver over that blackened face, and got it to j look quite natural; but I knew it j wouldn't last long, so I got the under- I taker to hurry up the funeral, which lie did. Everybody who saw the face said it was natural. "Oh, I can do such jobs to the quecu's tarte, but I haven't had a call for some i time. I have frequent calls from up- j town swells, who have accidentally, you know, got their eyes blackened, and for | a dollar or two I rub collodion over them j and touch them up with llesh colored j water color paint. I can make dead faces look like live ones. Fifteen cents, please. Thanks. Brush?"?Xctc York Herald. Japanese Baths. i Attached to each hotel in Japan ^is a j i bath for the use of guests. The bsth j | tub and the heater are combined so that j j the water, once heated, must furnish j j the bathiDg material for the whole house, j Arriving at a Japanese hotel footsore and j weary, you ask the landlady, "How I many have used the bath?" She instantly replies, "Only eight." You foiego the luxury of such a bath. Passing through a town just at nightfall you see a woman j boiling her husband?at any rate the man is half immersed in the bath, while | the dame is stoking the fire beneath with ; j all her might. The flames pour forth j I from beneath while this contented Jap j j is being cooked. Perhaps, though, his j was only a preliminary boiling. Such j public boiling is now prohibited in the i cities, but "far from the madding ! crowds ignoble strife" these Bimple people sec no harm in public balhing if it j suits their convenience. "Did you enjoy the party, Emma?" "Ever so much, mamma." "I hope you were a good little girl and listened to what was said to you?" "I did, mamma, I listened all the evening to one person talk." "Who was talking?" "I was." ? firSTUDENT LIFE AT YALE. SOMETHING ABOUT A LSADXVQ AMERICAN COLLEGE. ' ? * <* " * Situation of New Haven'* Great t'nlvcrslty?A Yale "Frenliman"?The Student*' Daily Routine. Walter Squires writes in Cornell's Family Magazine about Yale College. "We make the subjoined extracts: The two cjreat universities of the new world arc Harvard and Yale. They aro easily lirst in the work already accomplished in the efficiency of their instructors tlir> nrliim-nmerits of their alumili, and the prestige which attaches to acknowledged merit. If there is anything old in America it is these two seats of learning. Yale, as being more familiar to the writer of this sketch, has been chosen as a representative American college. It is situated in New Haven, a city of about fifty thousand souls, on the northern shore of Long Island Sound, in the State of Connecticut, about seventyfive miles cast of New York. The City of Elms is one of the most beautiful in Ameiica. Its long avenues, lined on cither side with the stately trees from which it takes its name, its splendid dwellings, surrounded by well-kept lawns, the air of age and dignity and repose about the place, all render it peculiarly attractive to the scholar and a fitting home for a great university. It has its factories, to be sure?what New England town has not??but they arc nearly alt to be found at one end of the city, and do not disturb at all the quiet of the academic quarcer. In the center of the city is an immense square, called "the green," on which stands the old state house, three churches, and a great number of magnificent elm trees. Upon the adjoining square, and facing the Green, is the long line of college buildings, the "Old Brick How," dating from the year 1750, and resembling more a collection of rude barracks or noorcr class of New England factories than the buildincs of a great college. In front of the old i 'mnp" of rnfnlma *4nnrrmna " ft finn lawn some 150 by 700 feet shaded by the ever-present ancient elms. At one end of the "row," nnd forming three sides of a quadrangle facing ns many streets, staud tbe more recently erected college buildings, the two dormitories, Farnam and Durfee halls, the Battall chape!, Alumni hall md the library with the art school building at the opposite end, behind South college on Chapel street. The really tine buildings are too new. the old chapel buildings suggest too strongly the machinery, smoke and bustle of a great factory, to impress the mind with any idea of academic or cloistcred seclusion. But such as it is, it is Yale college, the almamater of thousands of distinguished and successful men who have gone from her halls well equipped for the struggles of life, and have, by great and solid achievement, shed lustre and renown upon her ancient name. The youth of eighteen, upon entrance into the Freshman class, finds himself into a veritable little world by itself, a world of a thousand souls, wrapped up in their own adairs and those of the college, oblivious to all that is passing without, and busy with the cares and auxieties, me amouions ana uisappumt* mcnts, the rivalries anil bitternesses of the little world within. The Freshman clas3 usually numbers about one hundred and seventy-five, and is known by the year of its graduation. For example, the class which entered college last autumn is called the class of '88. The freshmen are the traditioual enemies of. the sophomores, or second-year men. The "sophs" never permit "freshio" to wear a tall hat, carry a cane, -or sit upon the fence which surrounds the campus, until he has reached the year of discretion?that is, has become a sophomore?when the honor is conferred upon him with much ceremony and witty speech-making. To sit on the fence is a great privilege, which the three upper cla?ses alone enjoy. The "fence'' is the daily meetingplace, the rendezvous after lectures, the delight of the lazy, the place par excellence for a chat with one's fellows and a social cigar. On fine summer evenings the throng of students is great, the songs really fine; and with the bie elms overhead, through which twinkle the lights from the old "row" mingled with the pale light of the moon, the elTect is simply unique, and one Jong to be cherished in the memory. * * 4. * r The daily life of a student may he briefly stated. The great bell of the college arouses him from his slumbers at 7 o'clock. He makes a hasty toilet and repairs to his "club"' for breakfast. By "club" is meant simply the diningroom in any boarding-house in the vicinity of the college where six or a dozen men take their meals. Conning his lesson and making his breakfast at the same time, he neither masters the one or enjoys the other. At eight the bell summons him to chapel, where the whole college assembles to protit by the reading of scripture and prayer by the venerable president and the singing of the student choir. At 8.00 he attends his first lecture or recitation, which la^tsan hour, lie is then free to do as he pleases until noon, when the bell rings for attendance on the second recitation. At one he dines, and the nfternoon is his own until five o'clock, when another lecture or recitation is held. He is absolute master of all the rest of his time. The dormitories are never locked. lie can stay out of college all night, if he pleases, and no one is the wiser. There is no surveillance, no stringent rules. The authorities expect all to act like gentlemen, and, as a rule, the liberty and privileges are not abused. For sports there are boating and foot-ball, tennis and base, and many others. The event of the junior ye.ir is the promenade concert or reception given in the Opera House in town by the class to their friends. It occurs in February and makes a pleasant break in the long winter term.?CusscfVs M<i<jazi.re. Knt Kiddancc. "Allow me," writes a correspondent, "to suggest a simple means of getting rid of those pests. In the year 1855 I was in command of the British vessel 'Tubal Cain,' lying alongside the wharf at Melbourne, embarking Chinese passengers for llong Kong. The docks were so infested with rats that it was impossible to prevent their getting on board, and my vessel was well stocked with them. After being at sea a few days I mustered the passengers, with their effects, on deck, to give them an airing, and for the purpose of giving the pas sengerciccK a goou cieansuig. anu sprinkling some chloride of lime mixed with water. I also had a couple of buckets of the same mixture poured down the pumps. This I continued weekly, when, to my surprise, the rats made a raid on the cabin (poop) on deck, and became so troublesome that neither myseif nor my officers cared about turning in at night. A happy thought struck me?that the chloride of lime had driven them from below deck; so I had everything cleared out of the cabin and the storerooms, and freely used the mixture. This had the desired elTcct, the rats taking shelter in every available place outside. This gave us some good sport, especially on a moonlight night, when all hands engaged in hunting rats and driving them overboard, so that by the time we arrived at Hong Konir not one was left on board. On my return to England I took a house and furnished it. After being in it a short time, I found that it was infested with rats. They would iret through every part 011 the ground floor. On examination, I discovered that a drain ran under the house, emptying into the harbor. I here again used the chloride of lime freely, and in less than a week every rat had taken its departure. I have recommended this remedy to many shipmasters and friends on shore, and in all cases it has proved a success. I have occupied my present residence for five years, and we have neither rat nor mouse on the premises. I attribute this to the free use of the above mixture, which is also effective as a deodorizer and disinfectant." Philadelphia's Richest Man. TcfiioTi V Wilcrm n lr>Hr?r frniYi tho Quaker city to the Chicago Tribune says, is set down as the richest man in Philadelphia, his fortune beiug placed at $in,000,000. He is the embodiment of Philadelphia business methods, his wealth having been acquired by persistent industry. No man could have taken care of the pennies withgreater vigilanvethat the dollars might take care of themselves. He came from the country a poor boy. He obtained employment with a dry-goods firm and put his whole soul into his little work. He ate and drank and dreamed dry-goods. Years of abstemiousness have trained his desires so that his personal expenses, notwithstanding his vast income, are never mora than $l,.j00 or $2,000 a year. Nevertheless he has given away?in a quiet, hum-drum way, too, if you please?more than a quarter of a million dollars in charity. There are 20,000 volunteer firemen in the State cf New York. ffise words. The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. If thou nrt Wise thou knowest thine own ignorancc; and thou art ignorant if thou knowest not thyself. The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense and good breeding. To make others' wit appear more than one's own, is a good rule in conversation ; a necessary one, to let others take notice of your wit, and never do it yourself. I have often wondered,says an ancient writer, how every man loves himself more than all the rest ol men, yec sees less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others. Childhood does sometimes pay a second visit toman?to youth never; how responsible arc we for the use of a period so precious in itself, which will soon pass away, and never return. "We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money, and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligations. Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it; there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness; the more a man has the more he wants: instead of its filling a vacuum it makes one; if it satisfies one want it doubles and trebles that want another way. Original Use of Steeples. In speaking of the usefulness of church steeples, we would not have it understood that their only use has been in connection with the bells. Along the coast there can be no doubt that they were often usod as beacons before the introduction of light houses. At Happisburgh, in Norfolk, a lofty steeple?alas! too near the ever-grasping waves?has had its steps well-nigh worn away by the continual traffic to its summit. We I nil i-r>nw tnn Vinw "hrnfirl and fierce "" ""V/.., .. , the star came forth on Ely's stately fane," when the country bccame alarmed at the approach of the Spanish Armada. Nowadays our steeples arc made to serve more utilitarian purposes in carrying vanes, weathercocks and flagstaffs. Although very rarely indeed met with in the churches themselves, ancient fireplaces are by no means uncommon in steeples. They are usually on the first floor, and have flues going to the top in the thickness of the wall. It has never been satisfactorily proved for whose use they could have been intended. Some have supposed that such towers as have them must at somo time or other have been watch-towers; but in remote inland districts it seems more reasonable to suppose that recluses dwelt in such places. With bare walls and narrow loopholes, they must have been at all times wretched habitations; but picture, if you can, such an abode on a windy night. The gloomy surroundings, the howl of the blast, the perpetual whistling in the turret-staircase, the creaking of the tree-tops, a sense 01 lonuuncsa m uu this uproar. Can any situation be more contlucivc to madness? But nowadays we mount our steeples only to repair the' bell-gear or to hoist the flag.?Quiver. Violin Making. An instructive discussion has arisen in some of the musical journals in regard to the making of violins. Mr. Schradicck of the Cincinnati College of Music, an excellent performer upon the violin, thinks that the secret of the old Cremona makers has been discovered, and that it consists in using for their instruments the wood of a tree containing balsam. This tree, lie says, used to be planted in the neighborhood of Cremona, but it is no longer to be found in Italy. Hut at last the marvelous tree was found in this country, and one was felled and sent to Cincinnati. Mr. Schradieck does not tell whether it was a pine, a spruce, a fir, all of which yield balsam; but the wood, he says, is brittle like glass and flies into shivers. Even when cut the way of the fibre, it breaks off, and is so hard that the tools used to cut it become blunted very rapidly. Yet viclins made from it are, he thinks, equal to the best Cremnniw 500 vnars old. * * The other side of the discussion is taken up by Mr. George Gemunder, of Astoria, unquestionably the most distinguished and successful maker of stringed instruments of our day. He avers that none of the great Cremona makers mado violins of any sort of balsum wood, and that the real secret of the quality possessed by their instruments does not lie so much in the kind of material employed in their construction as in the proper forms and proportions of the different parts of the instrument. It is. of course, important that the right kind of material should be used, but the secret is not in the wood.?Xew York Sun. T'ie Donkey That Wouldn't Bray. Once upon a time a donkey fell into a deep hole and, after nearly starving, caught sight of a passing fox, and im- ! plored the stranger to help him out. "I am too small to aid you," said the fox, ilbut I will give you some good advice. Only a few rods away is a big, strong elephant. Call to hirn and he will irot mil nnt in a iiffv." After tlic fox had gone the donkey thus reasoned: "I am very weak for want of nourishment. Every move I make is just so much additional loss of j strength. If I raise my voice to call the elephant I shall be weaker yet. No, 1 will not waste my substancc that way. It :s the duty of the elephant to come without calling." So tho donkey settled himself back and eventually starved to death. Long afterward the fox on passing the hole saw within it a whitened skeleton, and remarked: "If it be that the souls of animals arc transmigrated into men, that donkey will become one of those merchants who can never afford to advertise. "?Philadelphia Call. Roller Skating Flirtation. Lying on the left side, "My heart is at your feet." Lying on the right side, "I have monev in the bank." Standing on your nose, "I have no objection to u mother-in law." Jumping on your skates, "I'm afraid I can't trust you." Laying on your back, "Assist me.'' One leg in the air means, "Catch mo," Two legs in the air means, "Mashed." One skate in your mouth, "Crushed again." Hitting on the back of your head with your heel, "I am gone."' Suddenly placing your legs horizontally on the lloor like the letter V indicates, "I am paralyzed." Punching your neighbor in the stomach with your left foot, "I'm onto your little game." A backward Hip of the heels and sudden cohesion ot the knees to the lloor indicates, "May I skate the uext music with you?"?Norrixtown llcmbl. The Pine Wood Treatment. At some of the watering places of Germany the very simple prescription of the physician is that the patient should spend several hours a day walking or riding through the pine wood. This simple i?~i* Ze* r* l\n onmntimp<; cttn. UUilUllUIli in a<??V4 % V MV ?w...v?....vu piemen ted by the taking of pine baths, and in the case of kidney diseases, and for delicate children this is claimed to be highly beneficial. The bath is prepared by pouring into the water about half a tumblerful of an extract made from the fresh needles of tho pine: this extract is dark in color and closely resembles treacle in consistency, and when poured into the bath gives the water a . muddy appearancc, with a slight foam o*i the surface,. As an adjunct to the daily bath this infusion of pine cxtract is said to induce a most agreeable sensation; it gives the skin a deliciously soft and silky feeling, and the cJTect on the nerves is quieting. The Big Horn (Montana) Sentinel illustrates in the annexed paragraph how the freedom of the press must be upheld occasionally in territorial sections: "Thomas J3eecher, alias the 'Kid,' at- | tempted last Saturday evening to sup- ! press the freedom of the press by attacking our local scribo with a deadly weapon, which resulted in the 'Kid'finding himself laid out under one of the Star of the "West billiard tables." Happiness dotes on her work and i prodigal to her favorite. As one drop of water has an attraction for another, 80 do felicities run into felicities. If you keep all pleasure out of home when your children arc young, they will continue your example when you are old. TOE JUMPERS OF MAINE. PECULIARITIES 07 AS EXTBAOBDUTABY PEOPLE. French Canadians Who Jump Into the Air on the Slightest Provocation? LiUdlcroiM Antics. Probably every drummer of six months' experience on the road has seen or heard of the little travel-worn man who has been selling trusses for nearly a score of years. His territory is the United States, and there is hardly a town of a thousand inhabitants or over in the country that he has not visited again and again. On his return to New York a few days ago a reporter called on him to get the story of some of his experiences. "I have just come from a part of the country that I had never before seen," he said, "and I havo now something to talk about that I had always believed was the running-down story of a wound-up drummer. I have often seen Shakers and Quakers, Dunkers and Mormons, Creoles and Oneida people, poor whites and claycaters, the lunny Dutch of parts of Pennsylvania, and many other sects or classes | that differ from the ordinary run of mankind; but as a genuine curiocity of human nature there is nothing to equal 11- - : Tl? A M.in lilU JUI11[ULI^ X' lCULiimUU U1 LiiW iiivuotook in the northeastern corner of Maine. I first heard of these people from a traveling man who years ago was on the same route I have just been over. He was driving along one day with a friend, followed by two Frenchman in the rude kind of cutter common to that region. Coming to a little 'thank-you-ma'am,' or rut in the road, which he had not noticed, he was suddenly pitched out of the sleigh headforemost into the deep snow. lie jumped up laughing, but was astonished to see one of the Frenchmen pitch out of his cutter in precisely the same way and jump up laughing, as he had done. It was a plain case ox mimicry and he was more puzzled thanever when the Frenchmen rode by with scowls on their faces. This was a common kind of incident in the life of the Frenchman and he could not have restrained himself had his life depended upon his not following exactly the :iction of my surprised friend ' The Aroostook county and the adjacent parts of Canada have a population made up largely of Frenchmen, and about one in every four is an imitator, or 'jumper,' as he is generally called. It is believed that there is no such peculiarity known in any other part of the world, and no one has yet given a satisfactory explanation of the queer condition of the nerves of these people; for it it undoubtedly a nervous affection. I saw and heard of mnny curious antics of jumping Frenchmen. A large number of the loggers in the great lumber districts of Northern Maine are Canadian Frenchmen or half-breeds, and a good proportion of these are jumpers. While several of the loggers were at supper seated around a long table the opportunity was taken advantage of to show their peculiarity. The visitors slipped into the room quietly and one of them pointed his forefinger to a spot on the ceilingand hoarsely whispered 1 Sh-h-h' so it could bo heard by all. In an instant nearly every Frenchman dropped his knife, jumped to his feet and in exactly the same attitude pointed to the spot on the ceilingand cried 'Sh-h-h,' in the same rough, mysterious way. The sight of all these tough-looking men acting like so many dummies on wires wns ludicrous enouirh. and it was almost impossible to keep from laughing. The effect wore oil in a moment and the Frenchmen sat down again, glaring at the intruders for interrupting their meal. This is only one of a thousand funny things that might be told of these same jumpers. As a general thing the jumpers take the joke pleasantly; but it sometimes makes him surly and quarrelsome. Jumping Frenchmen love to tease each other, and at auy of their gatherings there are always many pranks played, often with serious consequences. Sometimes when friends are talkingamischiefmaker will saunter up, slap one of them on the shoulder and cry out ' Hit him,' or something of the kind, and leave the friends to settle the matter, for something is bound to happen. Usually the jumper obeys the command to the letter and 3trikes out in a way that would do credit to a prize-fighter. If his friend gets knocked down it is nobody's fault but the one who started the mischief, for the poor Frenchman could not help doing as he was told. He would hit his mother or a stono wall ?? * ?? rt ** 7 rt nlnn *13 NUUU US IIU M UUlU an > Liinij; vio^. atikti S* often, however, the effect of startling a jumping Frenchman is comical but harmless. "When he gets a sudden start the impulse is to leap into the air. lie then utters a low, almost plaintive cry, throws his hands up and makes a bound that is sometimes worthy of record as a high jump. No particular harm is done, but the jumper is left pale and trembling for a few moments and then forgets all about it and is ready to be jumped again and again for the most trivial reasons. Of course, if he is on his guard ho is no more susceptib.e to jumping than other people. "The women are little if any less likeiy to be jumped than the men. To see a small, dumpy Frenchwoman trying to get into the air would make a highDcnch judge laugh. They are almost useless as servants. A dish of hot soup would be thrown anvwherc, even on the traditional bald head, on the slightest provocation. The general tendency of those affected, as I have said, is to jump; but there are almost as many peculiari tics as tl^^are people: A sneeze will startle oifflmto a violent fit of sneezing and sniffing. A jumping Frenchman who could not speak a word of any language but his own (a kind of patois, by the way) has been known to repeat a single-breath English sentence sentence word for word, including intonation and gesture, on being suddenly startled by the one saying it. In the little town of Caribou I saw a jumper who was really a remarkable* checker player. A traveling man of considerable reputation in that line was playing with him, and the game had been brought to a point at which a single move gave it to the Frenchman. His opponent, seeing that he would be beaten, uttered a sudden cry of alarm, which produced ! the desired effect, for the Frenchman turned pale and instantly threw board and pieces across the room. It is actually dangerous at times to be among jumping Frenchmen, for they are not responsible for what they do ana their freaks are likely to be as harmful as they arc ludicrous. "I was unable to iearn anything about the history of these queer people, but have no doubt some of the physicians of lloulton, Caribou or Fort Fairfield could tell something ot tne nature 01 ineir aifection. Theclimatc and their rude, dirty ways have been suggested, nud some say intermarriage lias had something to do with the matter. Others'believe that the peculiarity is an inheritance which lias been developed without c-lieck until it has become general. At any rate the Aroostook and the near-by part of the provinces is probably the home of the jumping Frenchman."?New Y<<rh World. Jefferson's Horses. .Jefferson, like most of his class in Virginia in those days, was "land poor," and the practices of buying and selling on indefinitely long credits, of never paying or receiving cash for anything, of purchasing extentions of indebtedness at ruinous rates, were enough of themselves to have ruined a man of larger means and of more frugal habits than .Mr. Jefferson, and lie, unfortunately, was never a man either of large means or of frneal habits. His accounts show that Iir was continually buvinfr tbintrs he could not afford, and indulging himself when he should have denied himself. Here are the prices paid for the horses of a Democratic President in those days: 1801. Feby 8 Reed from Col. John Hoomcs of the Bowling Green a bay horse Wildair 7 vr old 10 hands high for which I am to pay him 8U0D May I. Gave the servant an order on J. Barnes for bis Expenses and trouble, 'JnD. April 23 Heed from J. \V. Eppes the following horses I ought lor mo from Boll oOOD paiablo June 1?> 0 yr old last year 2 from Shore 800D paiablo July 12 8 yr old fromHaxhall 50jD paiablo July 10 i\ vr nlrl Thus it appears that our first Democratic President started with five horses, the cheapest of which cost $iJ00, and the dearest ?500. Tho Wildair referred to in the first of the foregoing entries as costing SUOO was " the magnificent Wildair" which Jefferson rode to the Capitol and hitched to the palisades while lie went in to deliver his inaugural. There were neither wagon roads, pavements, sidewalks, nor railroads in those days in Washington, ahd there was no getting about, therefore, for either sox without horses. But we have changed all this.?John Bigzlow, in Harper's Magazine. The largest potato starch factory in the world is at Caribou, Me. Its capacity is from 200,000 tc 250,000 bushels. Hood's Sa Is prepared la the mott careful manner by men folly ] oonrarMDt with til the detail* of practical pharmacy. I The combination and proportion of sanaparllla, dande- I lion, mandrake, yellow dock, aDd other remedial at enU, i Is exclusively peculiar to Hood'* Sanaparllla, and un- ! known to other medlolnes, that giving to Hood's Sar- : aaparllla strength and curative power surpassing every other preparation. i "This certifies that Hood's Sanaparllla hu been used with perfeot snocoss In oar family for canker in the stomach and Impure blood. I consider my little one entirely cored, and shall continue Its use as a family medicine."?Mas. P. ?. Bubtox, Somerville, Mass. Purifies the Blood "I was for some time tronbled with boll*, having several of them at a time. After enduring aboot all I could bear, I took Hood's Banaparilla. Four or live bottles entirely cured me, and I have had no symptoms of the return of t&e doii?. x cnoonuuj Hood's Sartaparilla to all lik? afflicted.?E. N. NiohtLVOiil, Quincy, Mau. Hood's Sarsaparilla Bold by alt dra jurist*. 81; six for 85. Made only by C. I. HOOO k. CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mau. IOO Poses One Dollar . Bed I'cpper Baths. "Red pepper baths, that's the latest fashionable wrinkle, and it takes like hot cakes,1' remarked a professional man of West Forty-eighth street to a New York Star reporter. "Have you many patients?" 1'Quite a number, and the list is increasing. The remedy is not a new one by any means, but it seems to be getting popuiar, and that is the reason, I suppose, for the revival in the red pepper business." "For what purpose are the baths applied?" "Rheumatism, sciatica, neuralgia and similar ailments. In the hands of an ordinarily intelligent person these baths are quite simple, and when used with discretion are really efficacious." "How are they applied?" j "The pepper is simply placed in hot I water in certain proportions, and the : parts of the body mostly affected are thoroughly well rubbed with a coarse Turkish towel. People who suffer from sluggish circulation have been "reatly benefited." "Is there no fear of inflammation?" ".None whatever, provided uue precaution is taken against sudden exposure to the cold." "Is the remedy unpleasant?" "That depends a good deal upon the temperature of the patient's body. Upon some it has the effect of extreme irritation. The skin tingles for days after. On others it produces frequent coughing. Theso symptoms, however, soon pass away as the patient becomes used to the remedy. In cases, however, where it continues for an immoderate length of time it is better to discontinue them."' "What class of people use them chiefly?" "Wealthy persons beyond middle age. There is always a certain kind of people who may be said to live chiefly by doctoring themselves?persons whose ailments are mostly those of the imagination. They are too weak-minded to discipline themselves, or too selfish, whichever you like to call it, and prefer trying some new remedy to striking at the cause of their supposed ills. For instance: Instead of regulating their systems upon a daily scale of dieting, they will entirely disregard their physician's instructions and then blame him because his treatment is not successful. There are hundreds of just such people in this world, and as they invariably try every new-fanjrled remedy that comes out?especially- if it. be fashionable? they become very profitable to people who give them baths for their relief." ' Yes," said the Scissors to the Paste Pot, "first there was tho Golden Age, then came the Silver Age and the Brazen Age, and now comes the Mucil Age," whereat the Paste Pot went into convulsions.?Bonton Globe. A Clear Tolce. Mr. Charles T. Krebs, 737 Madison avenue, Baltimore,Maryland, well known in banking circles, certifies to the excellence of tho Red Star Cough Cure. A few doses speedily cured his'nicce of severe hoarseness and sore # throat. It is pleasant to take. No one can be poisoned by this remedy, which is free from opium, morphia and other dangerous drugs. In Morocco schools the Koran only is taught, and the pedagogue receives fifteen cents a month for teaching it. Marvelous Cnre Chronic Rheumatism. Abraham Hynes, of 449 2.5th St., New York, cnflFVira/i fnr fnnr vpars* was helnless; had to 1 be lifted in and out of bed; took one box Rev. Dr. Samuel Covel's Rheumatic Pills and was perfectly cured All druggists, 50 cents. Sent by mail. C. H. Covel, Hewes St., Brooklyn, N. Y. For the first time on record an appropriation bill has been approved by telegraph. It Sbonlil be Genernlly Known that the multitude of diseases of a scrofuloui nature generally proceed from a torpid condition of the liver. The blood becomes impure because the liver does not act properly and work off the poison from the system, and the certain results are blotches, pimples,eruptions, swellings, tumors, ulcers anu kindred affections, or settling upon the lungs and I poisoning their delicate tissues, until ulceration, breaking down and consumption is established. Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery" will, by acting upon the liver and purifying tho blood, cure all these diseases. Horseshoes made entirely out of the horns of sheep, have been successfully tried in France. File Tumor* when neglected or improperly treated often degenerate into cancer. By our now and improved treatment without knife, caustic or salve, we cure the worst cases in ten to thirty days. Pamphlet, references and terms, three letter stamps. World's Dispensary Medical Association, 063 Main street, Buffalo. N. Y. Barbers should reside in an-next districts. Don't hawk, and blow, and spit, but us? Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. Frogs, snakes and lizards live and thrive at elevations of 15,000 feet. "UoiikIi on Cough*." Ask for " Rough on Cougns." for Coughs Colds. Sore Throat, Hoarseness. Troches, 15c Liquid, 25c. Don't say there is no help for Catarrh, Hay ! Fever and Cold in Head, since thousands tesi tify that Ely's Cream Balm has entirely cured | them. It supersedes tho dangerous use of liquids ana snurcs. n js easny uppneu ?uu j the fiuger and gives relief at once. Price 50 , cents at druggists, 60 cents by mail. Send i for circular. Ely Bros., Owego, N. Y. | I have had Catarrh in head and nostrils for ! ten years so bad that there were great sores in : my nose, and one place vrr& eaten through. I I got Ely's Cream Balm. Two bottles did the j work, but I am still using it. My nose and i head is well. I feel like another man.?Chas. J S. McMillen, Sibley, Jackson Co., Mo. Ely Bros., I have been afflicted with Ca- j tarrh. I purchased a bottlo of your Cream ' | Balm. It lias effected a complete cure.?H. j j C. Abbot, 97 Grant Ave., Allegheny City, Pa. j "Hough oil Pain." I Cures colic, cramps, diarrhoea; externally for aches, pains, sprains, headache, neuralgia, i ! rheumatism. ! or man or beast. '?> and "jOo. j Lovers of Music, see Adv. E. X. Heath. i j Mexsman's Peptonized beef tonic, the only 1 j preparation ofbeef containingits entire nulri- ' j I tons propernrx. lb cuutaiiti uiuuu-iu<inls 1 force generating and life-sustaining properties; | invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous ; j prostration, and all forms of general debility; ! aleo, in all enfeebled conditions, whether tho j J result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over- j ! ivork or acute disease, particularly if resulting ; i from ptdmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard & . ! L'o., Proprietors, New York. Sold by druggists. Thin I'enple. | "Wells' Health Kenewer'restores health nno i j rigor, cures, dyspepsia, sexual debility. $1. j Thou.snnil* Upon Tlionninrin. The proprietor of the world-renowed Car ! boline?tho natural Hair Restorer?nevor put ! up less than 1.000 gallons at u time. This j ! gives but an idea of its immense demand. I IHotborn. If you are failing; broken, worn out and ner- | | voits, use "Wells' Health llenewcr.'' $1. I)rgts. j I Ok tbe 170 varieties of snakes in tho United | j States only twenty-two are poisonous. ; Import unt. When you visit or leave N'?-w York city, BS7?baj;?a*?. | iMpresnngP and $3 carriage hir?, und stop at tho l?ran I j Union Hotel, opposite Grand Coutral depot. rru?li<K.iti room*, titted up at a co't of on 1 milll > t | I dollars, SI and upward per day. European plan. K! > I vator. Restaurant supplied with theb'st. (lors)CiM. j ttagrs and eluvated railroad to all depots. KimillX 1 can live hotter lor less minny at ttia Grand LTnua | j Hotel tbnn at any other tirst-claas hotol in tlie city. Wisconsin is coming to be counted one of j tho tobucco-trrowinsr States. | 13 trade^bed^mark: j JFre* from Opiates, JCmrtlrs and foixnjn*. j A PROMPT, SAFE, SURE CURE For Cough*, Horc Throat, Uohmciiwi. Influenza, ?old*,Bromliltl*, Crou* Whooping Cough, Asthma, <|uln?r, Puln* In Client a-* other , affection# of the Throat aH'l Lung*? I Vvot SO okxt? a 1i0tti.e. at n "??2I?.,A.s.nv tiLrsJ- i THE tuiBLEs A. room V. s. A. | | | j Nervous Debility j j .. ^ ^ y_5 / 'V7^HPP| rsaparilla Purlflw, enriches, ?nd vitalize* the blood, (timnlatM the digestion. and strengthens the whole body, effecting remarkable cures of icrofala, aalt rheum, all humors, dyspepsia. biliousness. headache, kidney and llrer complalnte, catarrh, rheumatism, and that tired feeling caused by ohange of climate, season or life. 'Twoyear* ago I commenced taking Hood'i Sarlaparilla. I had been suffering from a severe pain In my stomach for a long time and had tried different kind* of medicines, bat failed to get relief ontil I used Hood'i 8arsaparil'a, It helped me after taking part of a bottle. Now when I feel any of the symptoms I take it and it helps me."?H. J. Cbom, Bath. N. H, Strengthens the 8ystem "For three months I was confined to the house with kidney and liver disease. I was very much ran down, with no appetite and bad a cough. I bought abottle of Ilood'a Sarsapanlla, and soon began to gam. Now I am bo that I cm do good deal of work. I havd rouoh faith in Hood's 8ar*apari!ls."-MB?. T. F. EztHOLDS Fleming, N. T. Hood's Sarsaparllla Sold by alldmircUts. |1: ?ix for 15. Made only by O. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries. Lowell. Miss. 100 Poses One Dollar SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Printers' ink is being manufactured from the lamp-black or soot produced by natural gas burned against sheet iron. A New York firm leases two gas wells in Pennsylvania for the purpose of manufacturing printing ink in this way. The latest application of wood is as a dressing for wounds in the form of whaf is termed "wood wool." It is finely ground wood, such as is used in the manufacture of paper. It is a delicatefibercd, soft, yellowish-white substance capable of absorbing ah immense quan? tity of liquid. The plan of making charts of the differ, ent parts of the heavens by the aid of photography is rapidly gaining favor among astronomers. A photograph exhibited recently at a meeting of the Royal Dublin society showed seventeen stars in ft r>nr(- nf thft hptiv^ns tn which the best published maps assign but five. It is well known to electricians that tho best steel makes the best permanent magnet. But the magnetism of steel depends upon how hot or how cold the metal is. For example, steel loses its magnetism if subjected to a temperature of 100 degrees below zero; it also loses its magnetism when heated to yellow heat ?that is, between red and wbite heats. Paris generally leads in the fashions, but Niagara cannot be equaled for fall style.?Ttxras Siftings. RR R W II.II.II.BFI IFF CURES AND PREVENTS Colds, Coughs, Soro Throat,Inflammation*, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Headache, Toothache, Asthma, Difficult Breathing1. CURES THE WORST PAINS In from om r? twentj minute*. Net one hour after reading thii adtartlsement need u; one SUFFER WITH FAIN. RADWAY'S READY RELIEF la a Care for Every Pain, Sprains, Brnlaea, rains In the Back, Cheat or Llinbs* It waa the Flrat nnd la the Only PAIN REMEDY That instantly stop* the most exeruolating pain, allays Inflammation. and cures Congestions, whether of the Langs, Stomach or Bowels, or other glands or orgsas by one application. If seized with tbreatensd PNEUMONIA, Or an; inflammation of the internal organs or mucna membranes, after exposure to cold, wet, etc., lose no time, but apply Railway's Relief orer the part affected with congestion or inflammation and care the patient. A teaspoonfal in half a tumbler of water will in a few minute* cnre Cramps, Spa?mn, Soar Stomach, Heartbarn, Nervousness, sleepleitsneas, Sick Headache, DUrrhcea, Disintery, Colic, Flatulency, and all Internal pains. MALAEIA CURED IN ITS WORST FORMS. There is not a remedial agent in the world that will care Fever and Agno and all other Malaiiwa, Billons and other fevers, aided by KAD WAY'S J'l|.,I.S?so quick as RADWAY'S USA I>Y llEIJEF. Fifty cenu per bottle. Sold by Druggist*. Dr. Eaiway's "Snjillii EesoM THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER, For tha Cure of All Chronle Dlaexsea Chronic Rheumatism, Scrofula, Syphilitic Complaints, etc. (iso our book on Venereal, etc.; price twenty-tive cents). Glandular Swelling, Hacking L'ry Cough, Oancercna Affections. Bleeding of the Lungs, Dyspepsia, Water Braub, Whit# Swellings, Tumor?, Pimples, Blotches, Eruptions of the Faoe, Uloers, Hip Diseases, Gout, Droper, Rickets. Salt Rhaum, Bionchitls, Consumption, Diabetes, Kidney, iJIsdder, Lirtr Complaints, etc. SCROFULA, Whether transmitted by parents or acquired, is within the curative range of the SAUSAl'AKU.LlA.N RESOLVENT. Cures baro been made where persons hare been afflicted with Scrofula from tbnirrouth up to 9u, to and <n yr?rn of sro, br DR. RADWAY'S 8AR8A1'AltILLlAN REitOLVEVl1, a remedy composed ot ingredients of extraordinary medical propertiee, easnntial to purify, heal, repair and invigorate the broken down and wasted body. Quick, pleasant, safe and permanent in its treatment ana cure. Sold by *11 druggists. One dollar a bottle. Dr. Radwayilegulating Pffls For the cure of all disorders of the 8tomaoh, Lirer, Bowels, Kidneys, Bladder, Nerroua Diseases: Lose of Appetite, Headache, Constipation. Costireneis, Indigestion. Dyspepsls, Biliousness, iarer, Inflammation of the Bowels, Piles and all derangement* of the Internal Viscera. Purely regotable, containing no mercury. minerals, or deleterious drugs. 1'rlre, ?5 cents per box. Sold br all drajreists. BB^Sond aletterstamp toRAOWAY it CO., No. Z? Warrnn Ht., Now York, for "False and'True." TO THE PUBLIC.?Bo sur? atdask for Radway's, and too that the name "Radway" Is on what you boy. - - THIS PLASTER flExXinB 7 lH?f)!r?>rtlvniiAn (h? mnk 3 hBmr if cles and tb* nerve*of the * yBcF 5. back, tbe seat of >11 pain. s llff 2- FOK ALL ^ 1 I.ung Troubles. whether locator deeply tested tbli IVv * f * \ plaster will be found to L,1 ?, \ clve instant relief by apE' a# M fe ? 111 plying between the ibonl41 v A Jv V y <J?r blades. SHARP g A \ 49" For Kidney Trouble, ft! 1 / Ift J Rheumatism. Neuralgia, * 1 88 I Pain in the Side and Back IflHRRkv I Ache, they are cert*la I IGilllHl'jH ,1 *?d speedy cure. llUfcMSlU PAINS. W Sold by Druggists for S W *" ? 15Wcents, or At* for it. [ ?ACJf Mailed on receipt of m actvpnlf jrlcc by Smith, l?oolltMI l\T|Kl "? * Mmitli, General I iifty I 1111 Atents. Boston. IMMEDIATE RELIEF. T7URNISH your own bottle* and *"? three-foarlha the co?t. VWtfS t Gordon's King of PoJn is J?i wTTm ^ furnished in powuer and sent by J J mail, with full direction! for mixiwffryiim l?l '"e Mn,l C5,n2. s'so libels for LotMHBSIW tlos. circulars. r!r It rolip??? I pain <? if by magic and is a bouse, hold remedy wh*r??er known for Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Headache,Toothache,Ruro* and ScaldA Sprains and Brinies, Sore Throat Ulcers, Flesh Wounds, etc. The reiwdy ia put up in 600., $1 and S> packages. The Uc. pacing-, when reduced to liquid form, will fill 34 twcw>z. bottles. You can easily figure the sarin*. Agents can ccia nioroj in aelling it. Or. dura package and you will be regular customer hereafter. CATAUUn.?(Jordon-i Cafarrh Remedy positively cures. Fifty cent* by mail. Satisfaction guaranteed. Stamps taken. E. 6. RICHARDS, Sole Proprietor, Toledo, Ohio. TO introduce and *e!l the trad? the well-known and celebrated Cigars ut tlioNKW YORK <1 HAVANA CIGARCOMPANY. Liberal arrangements. Salaiiy or Commission* paid to tlw right men. For further particulars and term* addr^?s, at once, The New Yorlc it Havana Cigni- <'o., o7 Uriiinlwny, New York. WORK SHOPS ? WITHOUT STEAM I'OWfcK mtm I Baraes''Patent Foot JmHSmM 'team power. Sold oil frliil. ; Mftsl an'l wo<vlwor!?<*ra ho it tor Sv.K prices. llhcfrM ?*ataloj:u?? lr<>t\ //Via R \V. F. iV Jnjy IlnriiCH WE WANT 1000 BOOK AGENTS fertile new book TJIIKT Y-TIIKKK YEAKS AMO.Ntt OUR WILD INDIANS By Gen. DODGE and Gen. SHCRMaN. The fastest telling book out. Indorsed by Prej t Arthur, Gen's Grant, .Sherman, Sheridan, and thousands of Einiunt Juries, Uerpvmea, Editor*, etc., as " The /& ?/ ami Finest Illustrated Indum liook Ever Puhlhhe*!" It takes 1 ke wildfirt>. and Apenta stA I 10 to 20 a day. ftTifi.OOO s41. Iu (ir<at AvtAarikUp ind Solid make it the la ming booh for jigati* DT/"Stnd fcr Circulars. Specimen Plate, Extra Ttrmh etc*. tQ A- 1>. WOttTHINUTON ?k CO.. llartford?Coiin? FRAZER AXLE GREASE. Iio?t In t!m WorM. Madeonlrb.vthe FrazerLubrlcat >ri"o. a: Chicago, N". V. & .St.LouU. Soldevtryichtrt, rsODDA S5M SHELLER. H bH Hin Hn The n*w Kclii**,,OfnShflIcris tbe?ln>? \i h n M 3II r 1e*?, easiest working aheller on the market. D3 Q&D^ca AU.1 iheenly one that Is not forever out of order. To iairodure It iuto every town at once we will send one Sheller* prepaid, to any pemn who will acree to show It to tieir frlendi and send ut the "names of five fo.rmnV eons In their town and 25 eent* for the rxrws of this Addreu ~iwn TA Ttmuvrnv rnwrf. AC2I?i ?1AU ir x u kx vv.t * * ?.., CONSUMPTION.1 I have a positive remedy fur iho abovn dtsoa*o: by Ita cna thousands of ra^es of the tcorit kind *!id of lon;j tind'.nz Iiavo i??*n eti'td. 1 t?dc*d. o?*f>n?ri* ror faith in Its^fflcftef.tlmt I ui I (teml TWO IJOTTLKS KKRE, tojethor trim a VA I.fAHT.KTItEATISB on this discasa to any eu3>r#?r. Givt"?rxpre??*nd IV O. :iddr*M. ? l)ti. T. A. fcLOCt'JI.lil Teari St., Nc** York. kmrnmimT nr U' lilfly lady ran maku m in> y n llinc "Tieaiuty of rh'.iicii' ' (Aloriifr. Hum?, I I-aven'. The bent home nook rvcr imbli>h?d. Sho'dl bo in "v?ry hi mo and J read nt i?vt*rv nrexi'ie. Beautifully illustrated. C'?n- ! tiins the briglitiot thought* 01 the b>s! m nil\ Ivmjy ?o'r1. (iw)il pay I<1 ennifM workors Afliitvww nuii'kly, BKYAN, T.\ YI.OH A CO., S2U Broadway, N. Y. \ITJ.V AT OXt'K.?'We de?iro a ronresenMtice in l!. >i- .ttnfy i n < nr n?w iwie, "KINfiS OK I-'ORTl'SI.. ' .M! want t > know bow our Kr'-at men made Ihwirmi-nt-v. ami "K tittaxf l'.>tt:ine*'te!li<you, Client) i^d UM si'llinji. L ?iir" inluueinrnts. P. S.? Send ?o rent'" />.r outfit ai:<1 rp :i br tcriitory, and <n f?ir tlii.t mdiT to us v.e if I! i.lfcw y.ni to deduct it. This K'Vph iKittit f.e" and a rliance t<> M'kya tine livid.'. Our i' nr??:i are makinc #18 to $ofl weekly. Manhattan I'.ib. t\> , I'lililibtHTs. "Jl Bookman St.,N. V. KT PVS *V ft Alade only by the X. Y. I Oe Havana Cigar Co., 57 Broad Potilirell/ the fittt. way, N. Y. ASK X'OR IT. ) ?'?- Mm J ! mBM.^ ITISASPECIRCr ITISRELIABWfc Kidney * Llver^S^S5*1^ Troubl??? BUddar, Urinary ffJTW mBUti,JU>*W and Llrer DImum, lr^ itloa or 2Toa? VtovTi GTSTriaad_^^^ja&et#ntl*l<lC] HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. ['It cowa Bfllon?, Headache, Jawodloe, flosr V Btomach, Dyepepd*, Constipation andPSML,' < IT WORKS~PROMPTLY ^ Ud.enraa Iatempereaoe, 2T?rrou? DlieiH> Ckmeral Debility, law and Pemile WmVti? USE IT~AT~ONCE. It iMtorM tha SZQSXZB, X2VSI udBOW* ZU, to a healthy aotlon and CUBES when all other medlclaeetklL Hundred* ha-re bean aerad Who h?TB ban given up to die by flrfanda and phyaldana. JPrieetl.M. BeadforJQlMtratadPaapblat*, HUNTS BEHEDT CO., Proridenee, R. L .6 SOLO BY ALL DRUGGISTS.' HUNTS (Kidney and Liter) REMEDT. encourage* sleep. cre*ta? an Appetite, bnoaa OP the /(Km, and renewed health is tne raeult. ? , Clippings a la Scissors. How ii your book? If it aches pot on* Sep JPfaiiw. For Crick, SUtebea, RtaeumiUum, Paine la the Side or Hip, Cbeit or Lane diOcaltiei or toTenees in any part, nothinc equal* tbia porous plaster Jor coring pain and ? w < jLni.k. llT6ngvntnin?. jbresu aopi, dqi|i?u/ u??uwwn?< um oombined. 25c. druggists. Death and tif* are in the power of the tongue. 1/ you ait poroas plasters the bast aad strougaat OH made i* the Bop Platter. They kill pain and strengthen . the parts. A great many people aayso. 26o. dealers. To get a few flowers, one must sow plenty of mi.- V~ Wltafly. x.' " House wives, shop, girls and sales-women usually suffer more or lesa from Weak Baok and Side Mb*. A Hop Platter applied removes pain and etrenrlhena the parts, Nersr fails, 24c, drurjirta, \J. To lire beneath sorroav one most yieltTto It. Truth. Sop riarttrt ?re absolutely "the best and "','J strongest. 26c. A I print heart is better and stronger than wild?. ? Dickent. .S,*- ; X'? "Your Sop Platter cures every tfme. I do not have that awful pain in the aide now," said a lady. The best porous plaster made. 25c. every where. A catalpa tree large enough for four railroad ties Caa be grown from seed in twenty years. They are thorough and instant in action, cure paint and aches and strengthens the weak parts, OaH for a Sop Platter and get It. SSc. * A Dayton man bathed his feet last waste, caught ooid and died. Nearly all reformers are martyrs. After using all the humbug llnimants and aalvaawtth sure failure, go and buy of your druggist a Sop fUuUr. The strongest and best external remedy, becanaa pat. . ,.:-A teased of pain killing and strengthening propertiea. The best porous plaster known. A human being requires twenty cubic inohesof fnak air ateacb respiration. If you um poroui piasters, the bait and strongest eaa made is ths Bop Plotter. A (rest man; paopla mj so; Me. druggists. The English and Irish Exchequers wen amalgamated in 1817. When a Bop Poroui Platter Is sppllsd to any kind et pain or soreness there Is no doubt of Instant raOaf aad a speedy cure. On! j26c. j v< ' ? a pleea of steal is a good deal Ilka a man; whaaywt get It red hot it loses its tamper. ' J? To be oured of Backache, Rheumatism, Sideacha or / Sore Chest for2Sc. is cheap. AppJjr a Bop Plotter, Wales changes his trousers twice a day. Backache, Rheumatism, Sharp Pains, Kidney Dig eases. Pleurisy. Torpid Liver, Sere Chest or pain fa any part quickly cured by the Bop platUr. Absolutely the beat porous plaster ever known. Of all druggists or by mall. 26c.; S for <51.00. Proprietors Hop Flastar ^ Co., Boston. The most voracious eater in the world la a bird?It '?--~ takes its food by the peck. Get the best household remedy. Bop PlatUrt for alt kinds of pains, aches, strains, lameness or soreoaas. Magic in action,26o. . Kansas people call whiskey "the bull" because thay take it by the horns. How Is your back? If it aches put on a Bop PlatUr. For Crick, Swollen Joints and Muscles, Rheumatism. Lame Side, Pains In the Chest, nothing equals this porous plaster In thorough and hearty aatton. Hope, Burgundy Pitch and Balsams combined. So. every- . * where. Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything,-* Sj/rut. Everybody knows the soothing and pain allaying vtr> tues of bops. The Bop Plrrfer contains beside Hep* healing and strengthening Gums and Extracts which mako it positively the best porous plaster ever made. Try one and see. 26c. any druggist. . . .. .I'jaE Three people can keep a secret wnen two 01 uwn mrm dead. ' < We can convince yoa bat tbey ate without aa equal. Sop Platlm prepared from the vlrtnea of /rejh Hop*. Burgundy Pitch, and Canada Balsams, present an elsgaol external remedy always ready to apply for any kind of Pain or Soreness, Dyspepsia, Torpid Liver, Kidney Diseas:s, Soreness of the Chest, Ac. Vastly more active than any other porous plaster, ' They soothe, kill pain and wonderfully strengthen the parti. Only 26c. everywhere. Truthfulness is a corner-stone in character. '- C HOP PLASTERS. - . I They beat all the plartsrs ever mado because they possess actiTe medicinal properties unknown to other kinds. The complete virtues of fresh Hops combined with Burgundy Pitch and Gams. Groatly superior to other external remedies. Act instantly, con pain, banish weakness and strengthen the parts. No red pepper to burn and irritate. Get one of your druggist, iZc. ' ' "jS ACCENTS, POSTPAID. A TREATISE OX THE HORSE | HIS DISEASES. Containing n n Index of Dla? rases, which sclvcs tlio Symptoms, Cause, and the Seat Treatment of each. A Table llvlnB all the principal drujj? used for tlie Horse, with the ! ordinary dose, effects, and I antidote when a poison. A | Tal?le with an ICnjrz-jwlnjj of tlie Horse's Teeth at different enres, with lluleH for telling the age. A valuable collection of Receipts and much other valuable Information. inn happ WN'zzjrx: lUUTilUJi uuua-?;;v"ad. dress In tlio United States or Canada for g 5 CENTS. CLUB RATES: Five Copies, ... f 1.00 Ton Copies, - - 1.75 , Twenty Copies, 3.05 One Hundred Copies, - 10.00 HEW YORE NEWSPAPER OH 134 Leonard Street. New York BRUCELINEI Chinees gray hair to its natural color. Kocommendad by loading physician* and chembts. Send lor circular and tHfttitnoniils. Trie?, #1. ill. HKITK, 222 Six?li Ave., New York* THE OPIUM HABIT _ KASII.V (TiilCi). ADVICE EllEE. Dr^JLC. HOFFMAN, Jerferson^Wls. LEARN TELEGRAPHY uationsenarantco.l. Valentino liros., Janosville, Wis. nviTS RFAHD EUXin^? " I*?? r. . i KiMmU Wk,.-f3^r.| y XtUm f 19/GWI>?/?!* " ?' ui tu im4. k 5? u \-f*f l"51^1 \#753C^-?#? !*va krm zKDbi**- ?** tTW ??' u.r '-?? JKSgl HOuut. Fn*? wrT?'kH? ? ?& 4 ' *! "* h*.?I f4"'4^ 3 >* * < #* , iL.iuafno'''. L. A. L. hllllll & (.0., Agi-aU, r?l3Uj?, LU. Johnson's Oyslopaedia The I est, latest and cheapest, ii gellin? at cut rates. L'ontsins mere subjects tliau A)>i-I*h?t'> at on'-ihird the pti.e. T'l'h'rs earning less thai SsS.OOU a jear thoold jeciiro agencies. Other rjvlopiedias lAppUion'i, ,Wrrtn?rV. Britlnnica, ftonU'r, etc., exchanged for Jolin-oii'n. We self choap. A. ,1. JOHNSON ?fc I'O.. I I Jirent Jones Street, New York. #R. U. AWARE Lorillard's Climax Ping ben ring a red tin tug; that Lorillard's Hose henf Ano cut; that Lorillard's Navy CllppliiB". md that Lorillard's Snufl's, ara the best auil cheapest, quality considered ? 1 W A fflALOGUE OF MUSIC FREfc A uin I U I Lowest Prces ever named IB VIA Vila t^HEAmWakffelMtaii Ul IVITI Db. J. Stephens, I*b?aon, Ohlu ..... a