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FT e* t* LIFE. When violets bloom mi l soft winds play? When Heckles* skies float o'er the earth? When nil is youth, and joy. and mirthLife's aim is huppiness, we sav, When violets bloom, and soft winds play. When summer joys have all gone by? When frowning skies hang o'er tho world? When Hope's gay banners all are furled? Life's aim is usefulness, we sigh. When summer joys have all gone by. ?Emma Carlton, in the Current. j; AT THE MIXES. As the adventurous traveler turns from the narrow strip of prairie land, and follows the Old Koiton Shaft road, where it winds in and out amonj; the snowdecked cedars of the mountains, he will romo unexpectedly upon a small white wooden cross, standing, a? if ou guard, over a grave close beside the trail, its only surroundings being the moaning j)i?c trees and the endless waste of snow. Of that siuip'e cross, rudely carved by a knife in some friendly hand, is the name and date: i* ii ii. i r m ' c i x x, April 7th, 1SS3. A little above, certainly not many hundred yards, but out of sight around the sharp spur of the mountains, are situated the great I'olton coal ni nes, their tall wooden shafts rising up in the midst of the solitude, noisy with never-halting machinery, and surrounded by marks of never-ending toil. llere and there, along the gulches and the canons, which arc crossed in every direction by black-ash paths, can be seen the little wreaths of smoke curling up into the blue sky, showing where the dark-browned del vers in the depths below make their humble homes. The snow lies trampled and dirty from the pit-ho:ise in every direction, and the great heaps of ?lack show the employment of a large force of workers. Not one of them all to-day but as he passes that lonely giave beside the trail, will reverently bend his head aud feel that, standing there, lie is very close to Gi-d. If you liave time to listen, I will tell the simple little story airain for you. I was acting as foreman over the night shift at the "Mohawk" mines all that winter; a hard, rough" job enough it was, but was a'I I could get to do: and this bov, McGinn, was a ''helper" in Shaft No. 3. I remember well the ni^ht he first came to us. It was in December, rough and blustering outside, so that even the * thin boards of the little shaft-house afforded small protection from the wind. I was huddled close to a roaring fire, - ? ------ -1-- < ?_ .??L. trysng to stuuy out iviuc uiuu iui making the Snake river dam safer before spring Hoods should come. Close as I kept, the red flames roaring up the chimney, yet I would shiver, us a heavier blast would come sweeping around tne edge of the mountain and shake the cabin as if it were in air. Just then some one knocked at the low door, and without even glancing up I bade whoever it was to comc in. A burst of icy wind swept over me, a foot shuffled along the floor, and I turned?to see a strange boy standing before me. his ragged, patched clothes covered with snow, his face red from the wind, and a pair of big blue eyes looking up anxiously into my face. "W hat is it, my lad?" I asked gentlv, for something about his forlorn appearance had touched my heart with pity. His eyes fell to the floor, and he stood there for ac instant twirling his ragged hat ia his cold hands without saying a word. Then he gulped out, as if manfully trying to keep back the tears: "Please, sir, I want some work!" His voice was honest, his face earnest, his words true. "Sit down, my little man," I said, kindly. "Where are you from?'' He put his well-worn boots out toward the heat of the fire and looked straight into my face as he made answer: "From Trinidad, sir. I left there this morning."' "Trinidad?'' I echoed, in surprise, glancing at the snow beating against the windows almost like hail. "Why, that is fifteen miles from here:' "Iknow it, sir." lie shivered a little. ''It was very cold, but they said I could get work here." "You nre rather young for the mines," I began, but he leaned forward eagerly. "Oh, sir, don't say that! Father is dead, and I must work. I am strong? indeed 1 am, and I must work, or what will become of Mary?" I felt the tears in my own eyes in sympathy with his. "Mary!" I said. "And who is Mary?" "She is my sister, sir. She is out there now waiting to hear:" and lie pointed over his shoulder to the door. "Your sister out there in this storm!'' . and in surprise I started to my feet. "Yes, sir. She is peculiar, Mary is: and she would wait there till 1 came back. ' "Then for heavens sake, bring her in: she shall share my fire anyway." "Without answering, he opened the door Sv and went out into the snow. In a few moments he came back again with the sister, a slight-built, brown haired girl of tltteen, as pooriy uressea as niinseu, and shivering with the cold. I took her small, chill band in ray own, and drew closer to the warm fiie. For a moment none of us spoke: tLea she looked up anxiously into my face. "Did you give Ph i something to do, sir?1' she asked. To resist the pleading hops in her soft voice was more than I could do. Swept by a sudden thought of my own sisters, far off in an Eastern city, I bent down and kissed her white check. "He shall have work,1' I said, gravely, "if I have to make a place for him." And the sudden light of happiness which sprang into the blue eyes was my grand reward. But this is McGinn's storv and not mi' e, and I must hurry on to its sad and tragic ending. I found the boy odd jobs to do about the shaft at first, and a9 he proved always able and willing. I advanced him in a few days and placed him up.?n the night t-hi.t as a "helper" at the foot of the shaft. The girl and boy?for she was the elder of the two, and quite a woman? took possession of an old, tumble down shanty close to the trail. I helped them tit it up as best we mi<rht to keep out the cold winter wind, nnl there she kept house for the brother, and as the weeks pa-sed by I used often to drop in there afternoons ju<t to cheer her up a bit. She made the lonely old place very pleasant in so many simple ways, and, indeed, they seemed quite happy together, as the flush of health came back on licr clear cheeks and the light of hope and comfort brightened her eyes again. Often as I passed up the road to my work, just in the edge of evening, I used to stop before the cabin and listen, while a!l unconscious of anyone outside she Bang some oid melody, the clear, sweet voice floating up the mountains across the snow like the notes of a lost bird, and making the work of the long night pleasanter, as 1 remembered. The cold months of the winter rolled on into the dangerous spring?dangcroui in all mines, but doubly so in ours, be ca :se the rising waters of Snake rivei w. rc only kept from flooding our galier in l?v mi nrtirifiiil 1? irripr of earth and rocks. We watched with anxious eyes as, inch by inch, the waters, fed by the mountain snow,steadily crept up higher: the owners had pronounced it safe, and wj had to believe them. Such was the unchanged situation ol things, when one night, early in April, I pushed up the rocky path to my work, and, turning ths edge of the pines, saw Mary Mcftinn standing in the door of hei {>oor shanty, shading her eves with het lands and watching Phil's stubby little figure trudging away in the after-glow. As I came up. unnoticed. I spoke tn her and marked the light of welcome in her eyes as she he'd out her hand to me. "Oh, sir.'' she said, looking up into my face, as if reading every thought, "I have wanted to see you all da)'. I heard some of the men saying, at the store last night, that the mines were unsafe while the river was to liigh. I asked Phil,and he laughed at me. But oh, sir, is it true?" It was hard for me even to attempt a lie to her, yet could I tell the truth just then? "Bolton and the engineer both pro nounce them safe," I said gravely; "an<J they should know better tfian the rest of us." She read my face while listening to the words. "But you? you do not?" she cried. I struck my tin pail against the post and drew a long breath. "Mary," I sa d, with a tenderness new tome, "lam not satisfied, but I hope for the best. * She stoo I there as if the iftws had touched her very life. "Poor Phil!" almost in a whisper, "and all I can do is to pray for him." I bent lower and closer to hear the words. " And will you forget all the others?" I asked, longingly. " It makes men stronger to think some ,oec remembers thorn lit home." She looked up into my rough face a moment with tear-dimmcd eyes, then paced Doth her little hands in mine. "I have always remembered you," she said, and, as a shrill whistle came down the frosty air, recalling me to duty, I followed the impulse of my heart and kissed her cheek, now flushed with red. What I saw in the blue eyes is hard to tell, but I turned away happier?without knowing why?than 1 had been in many years. " " ' Twenty of us went down in the cage that night together, and I remember yet the last grand scene as we 'sank slowly :~ Tli.? stin was iust iroini* down behind the ridge, and the -rlistant snow-crowned peaks stood out like cathedral spires against the rosy sky, while across the valley a bridge of golden wire seemed suspended in the air; and then we dropped away into the black, dump depths below. After seeing that the men were well at work, I led a small party up into one of the side tunnels to fix some props which had fallen down. It was hard work, pressed together as we were in that narrow space and breathing the hot. damp air. the room lit by the small oil lamps flickering 0:1 each miner's cap. They took turns with the timbers, and for over an I hour nothing was to be heard save the heavy breathing of the men, and occasionally a low-spoken order. I thought over my little talk wirh Mary as I stood there leaning against the rocky side, and was building air-castles and making her their queen, when suddenly we were startled at hearing swift footsteps echoing along the tunnel, and the next moment, with face ghastly white, under the glare of his hat-lamp, Mcliinn hurst in among us. "Htin!" he cried. "Hun, lads, for the stables! Snake river has broken out!" With pale faces and cries of fright,the men dropped everything to plunge into the darkness, and wc stood there alone. I needed to ask no questions. I was miner enough to understand it all. "Come, Phil,*' I said, for the boy stood there panting for breath; ".ve must get out of this!'' lie looked up, startled at hearing my I voice. "You here!" he cried, "why didn't I you co with them? Don't wait, sir, I must cut tho barricade." l.ikc a flash the whole situation burst upon me, and my cheek paled at the thought. Every life in the mine depended upon that. Impulsively I stepped forward and clapped my hands 011 his shoulders. "1 had forgotten,I said. "We will go together, my lad." Hand-in-hand, to steady our steps over the wet rocks, we went down into the main gallery; feeling our way in the intense blackness, hearing the gurgle of the water, already sweeping to my waist. We could distinguish some cries fur off in the mine, and hear the frightened hats flitting about our heads, as we finally struggled up to the heavy timbers, and I hacked at them with an ax. They would not start! The lives of every man in the stables hung with that barricade, yet still it clung there, and as we toiled, the water kept creeping up, until it had reached the boy's throat. Like rain I showered my heavy blows, scarcely able to keep my own feet in the sweep of the current. "For God's sake, lad!" I groaned in despair and agony, "what can we do?" "I know, sir, he cried out, for I could not see him in the darkness, "and may God help me to do it!'' And catching the lower timbers he clambered up. What he succeeded in cutting I can only guess, out I heard a cry and a crash, ? ? ? maco nt\m men uuwh cmiuu m.it wu. pletely blocking the passage and sending an immense black wave over my head, and cle;ir to the top of the tunnel. Oh, heaven, what a night of horror that was! I have wondered since that it did not turn my hair to snow. Back of me the black, gloomy, silent mine yawning like a grave; before me the barricade and on every side the eddying currents of water. In vain I called for Phil, and felt my way back and forth along the wet rocks. Nothing answered but the flitting of the bats and the gurgling of the waves. Sobbing, crying, praying, half crazed the long night wore away: sometimes dreaming that I saw the boy's face in the darkness?calling to him only to have the echoes of my own voice come back in mockery. I think 1 was truly mad when the party of rescuers came at last, 1 guided down the tunnel by my cries. In the flickering rays of their lights, 1 the first thing my eyes saw was poor Phil, lying crushed under the timbers. At the sight, aud before they could reach mc, i fainted dead away. It was up in the pit-house, with a j crowd of rough, sympathetic faces about me. iu:u i cume uuuiv iu uiu unit; muii; and looked eagerly around. "The girl?" I asked, for she was the first thought, where is the girl?" They drew back silently, and then I 3ft\v her kneeling over a shrouded body in the corner. For her own sake she must be taken away, while the men did all they could with the poor battered figure. The lads helped me to her tenderly. "Mary," I whispered, taking her cold | hand iu mine, "you cannot help Phil j any more, now. Come, let us go home." She looked up at me, her face like i death, but wtthout a tear in the clear eyes. "It is so hard to leave him here," she said, piteou3ly; " is it right?" " Yes. my girl," my own voice tremb ling. "I think so, and you must trust me, Mary." "Yes." I led her out of the sad place, down the hill toward their little cabin. At the I bottom she stopped and looked wistfully back, and as she did so, the tears broke forih at last. "Oh, Phil,' she sobbed, "you were all I had in the world!" The heart came up into my throat at j the pitiful loneliness of that crv, and I L-FW..V T Ir.vml lw.r " Not all, Mary," I whispered, tenderly, I "not nil, if you will turn to me." ! She looked up into my face bending over her, and, I think, read there my i earnestness. "You were good to him," she said, j simply, "and I love you!" The early morniugsun came out above i the crags, and showered a gleam of gold ; across the brown hair, as I led her into the little house alone. ****** That is Phil's grave out yonder, by the trail, with the white cross an?l the snow-covered cedars standing silent guard above it, and somewhere in the years, I tl-ink, God has wiped away the | j trouble, has covered up the roughened ' j hands of toil, and rewarded the boy ac' ! cor din-' to his deeds. ? O'tonu J,'. I'arriufi. ' * _ ; j Camels us Beasts or Burden. ! An interesting suggestion has just ' I been made for the introduction of camels ' j into the south of England as beasts of I burden for farmers and others. For a ' j number of years they have been used in j Australia, and their docility aud endur' I ance in that countiy arc highly praised. 1 Laden separately, they take about seven ! hundred weight each: but. in a team, j 1 they are able to diaw as much as a ton ^ i apiece. By the Australian squatters they . j are extensively employed, and in dis | tricts whe're water is scarce they are almost invaluable. The price of a young j cainei is from two hundred and fifty to ' ? -u- 3 1 ??wi * ? | xnree IllHlurcu mm nut auvi mv ' I stun is not deemed high by the inhabi' | tants of the antipodes. The chief obj jection to their introduction into England is that the country is too wet, 1 and camels never get along on wet I ground. After rain they are liable to slip and become useless. Horses also I are much terrified by their appearance. | A similar attempt was made to introj duce them here some fifteen years ago, I but the idea did not take. Thumb-Nall Drawings. In collections, centuries old, to be j seen in China and Japan, are specimens ! cf a very peculiar and striking style of j drawm^done with the thumb-nail, which is allowed to grow very long, then clipped into ink. and in spirited outline presently appears the figure of an animal, a Budd| hist pilgrim, or perchance a bactrian | camel; a man, perhaps, with implements j of handicraft hanging from arms ana shoulders, or it may be a wayfarer or | roadside mendicant. Occasionally these i bold touches from the hand of a master i in this department of "high art" are life-size, and are sketched by a few sweeps of the artist's arm. Like the simple pen-and-ink sketches of that j couutry, many of these thumb-nail i treasures are mounted and rolled up like . scrolls. I Women are becoming commercial ' travelers in England. ODR MERRY MISCELLANY.] | SKETCHES THAT ARE SPICED VTXTH HUMORS. A I.leht Hreakfaot ?The Hat? A Poor Shot of a Chancellor?Silcr.ce (iavc Consent. j "The mice are so bad I don't know what to do with them," remarked a lady as she drew out tho wash-staad drawer. "I don't think," she continued, "that they will be troubled with indigestion to-day.'' Iler husband looked at her inquiringly, but receiving no explanation, asked: "What do you mean?" "Mean that they won't be troubled with indigestion for they have partaken of a light breakfast." "IIow do you know?'' "Hecause I can see. They have catena candle."?A rianmw Traveler. The Hat. One of the church wardens was observed to cast uneasy glances toward an individual wearing a sailor jacket and cap of a seafnring and jaunty appearance, which latter surmounted a clean shaven face and closely cut hair. After a little while he approachcd the sailor laddie and whispered audibly: "Can't you take oil your hat? Is there any reason why you can't take oil your hat?'' ]}v the discomfited look of the ipicstioner as he returned to his seat, and the appearance of the rest of the costume as the wearer of the hat walked out of church at the conclusion of the service, it was evident that the whispered reply j was, "I am a girl!" A Poor Shot of n Chancellor. Character tells even in those things which seem the most unlikely to be affected by it. For instance, was ever a man known to be a good shot who was noted for indecision* Lord Chancellor Eldon wai noted for his want of decision. Even his manner showed him a man who doubted and hesitated. Though an eager sportsman, his character so showed itself in his shooting that he was noted for blazing away and hitting nothing. There is an anecdote of the chancellor's bad shooting which shows him a? not wanting in the art of forgiving and I forest;ino. One morning, just as he I O" O " W had discharged two barrels at a covey of partridges and missed them, as usual, lie was hailed by a stranger of clerical aspect. "Where is Lord Eldon;" shouted the clergyman. "Not far ofT,'' answered Eldon, curtly and evasively, not anxious to have it known that the lord chancellor of England was about the worst shot in England. "Sir," rejoined the clergyman, displeased with the curt reply, "I wish you'd use your tongue to better purpose than you do your pun, and tell me civilly where I can find the chancellor." ''Well," responded the bad sportsman, slowly drawing near, "here you sec the chancellor?1 am Lord Eldon." It was the clergyman's turn to be mortified. lie had traveled many miles to ask the chancellor to present him with a vacant living in the gift of the crown. liut for some reason?it may have been the wish to seal by kindness the lips of a man who has seen his bad shootins?Eldon gave the man the desired living. u irwrrotil tirlo nf mankind!" i said the old chancellor, in telling the story. "It was not long before a large present of game reached ine, with a let ter from ray new-made rector, purporting that he had sent it me because, from what he had seen of my shooting, he supposed I must be badly off for game." Mience Gave Content. Once upon a time there was a drummer who met a lovely girl. She belonged to a family who had everything she wanted and she was the one woman to whom he never wanted to sell anything. She returned his. affection. So novel was the sensation of meeting a force he could not cope with, so entirely strange the feeling of being conquered and subdued, that he could not tell the old gentleman anything about it. It was a case where he could not combat opposition, and even his ingenious brain could not fashion any plot which should overwhelm the evident predilection the family had against him. But she loved him, and that was all. She told her father. The old gentleman's hair rose in wrath. He stormed. "What, let you marry that blow-pipe, that swivel-tongued, brass cheeked thing. Never! You may die an old maid. You may select a husband from the dime musLum, but this copper gas generator, never!" " But, pa, I want to marry him." "Look here, child. If that fellow ever comes in to talk to me about you I'll throw him out of the window, I'll?I'll ?why, blame it, girl, haven't I had my J <>nrc ntF hv him about his darned I samples and stock? Don't I know him? Don't you let hitn come and talk to me. If he can talk like that about business, I don't know what he'll do about love." " But, pa, I will marry him. You may as well let him ask you." " All right. I'll listen to him as long as I can and when I get worn out I'll kill him." She told her lover of the interview, and he only remarked: " Never mind, I'll fix him." So the drummer went into the old man's library. The irate father sat in an I easy-chair, waved his hand to the drumI mer and fixed himself in an attitude of j j despairing resignation. The drummer had his hat in his hand. There was silence. The old man was astonished. Still the drummer spoke not. "Well?" said the old fellow. No response. The drummer twirled his hat in his hands and kept his eyes on the tloor. "Aren't you going to speak at all?'' yelled the old fellow. Never a word from the drummer. After a few minutes' silence the old fellow said meekly: "Lo^k here, young man. You want to marry my daughter. Take her. If you are capable of keeping your mouth shut so long for her sake you must love 1 TO.ifr wall .vnil'l-A tf\t 111 O TflkO little sanaais maac 01 straw were pm un her feet. These were fastened on by putting the great toe through a loop. When she w(fs a year old her hair, which had beer, shaven, was allowed to grow a little, and then tied on the top in a very funny fashion. Every year it was worn differently.?St. Nicholas. A scientist h is discovered that drunkenness is a contagious disease. "When a married man goeshome at midnight with a demoralized pair of legs he is liable to "catch it," we've been told.?Norrintvwn llera'd. Mrs. Louisa Reed Stowell, the only la'ly instructor in the University of Michigan, and author of several treatises 011 microscopical subjects, has just been elected a member of the Royal Microscopical society of London, being the third lady ever elected. Ul'I 19 Ul nv,u (IVU ...w. her and bo happy." "Thank you," said the drummer. "Good morning."?San Francisco Chronicle. A Japanese Baby. When Kine, the little Japanese baby, was one hundred days old she was carried to the temple, just as some American parents take their little children to the church to have them christened, j though Kino's parents do not know or | worship the true God. The priest wrote I a prayer on a piece of paper and put it . into the prayer bag, which was small j and made of red crape, embroidered in white flowers and drawn together by si!k cords. This bag containing the prayer was the "guard from evil," and it is devoutly believed by all Japanese to have the power of keeping children from evil spirits, from delusion by foxes?for ' tlm neonle think that foxes can cheat or j enchant people?and from all dangers. ' This little red bag was attached to the girdle behind. After bestowing a gift in money upon the priest, the parents and relatives returned home with the little girl and held a great feast in her honor. Kine wa? carefully nursed, and carried on the back of a faithful servant, who fastened her there by a long string or bandage drawn around ttie waist and legs of the child, and crossed over the neck and shoulders of the maid. Her little head and bright eyes would bob on every side as her nurse walked or ran, and here she would go soundly asieep.or play as any baby would. She was never carried in any person's arms. Japanese babies seldom are. When Kine's aunts or cousins wished to coax her awijy from her nurse or mother, they would hold their backs invitingly, and she would put out her little arms and go to one or another as she chose. Clasping tightly the neck of the favored one, and held there bv the feet or legs, she would be as happy a9 if cuddled up in the arms. As the baby crew and be^an to walk, .. .. i *. * * ? e NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN "Women are becoming commercial travelers in England. The Paris fashion writers assert that shawls arc ngain to be in vogue. Lawns have rosebuds, sprays of delicate flowers and geometrical figures. Young girl tramps arc said to be becoming common in the mill districts of New England. Waltzing is going out of fashion in Englaud. The Prince of Wales has revived quadrilles. New clasps, much used for cloaks and dresses, exhibit heads in curiously carved and stained wood. The Kansas house of representatives has four girls among its pages, and its docket cleik is a woman. Parisian ladies are having landscapes and miniature portraits painted on their finger nails by talented artists. Buttons are very small, some forming small, round, jewel-like objccts, others curious little men or antique heads. A new brooch is composed of an enormous hook and eye of ^old, inlaid with small but very brilliant diamonds. Mixed bright metal braids are used on waistcoats and cuffs of plain cloth of some distinct shade from that which composes the gown. In Paris fashion's latest freak is a fancy ball, iu which each lady is dressed as a flower?violets, lilies, roses, bluebells and marigolds. What a lovely bouquet. An Indan princess has eloped from a Cincinnati dime museum with a St. Louis man. This appears to be a retrograde movement whichever way you look at it. Broad heavy galloons ars very popular trimmings. Plaited skirts have often one, two or even three rows of galloon, sometimes three inches wide, around the bottom a short distance apart. "It is a belief of the Buddhists of Cey Ion that if a woman behaves herself" properly she will eventually become a man." And yet people say that women never get their rights in this world. Japanese crape, brocaded with floral patterns in silk or chenille, is the most fashionable material of the season for evening and ball dresses; it requires a silk dress under it. Lace is used in profusion for trimmings. New teacups are flat and shallow. Breakfast coffee cups follow the same in larger size, and after dinner cups arc tall, conical and tapering in a straight line from the ritn to the bottom, to correspond with the tall shapes prevailing in the after dinner colTce service in silvc. Asses ears are the latest bonnet c.laments in Paris, an extraordinary novelty in trimmings which far distances such modest curiosities as mice, musnroons and watercresses. A leading belle appeared in a gray felt bonnet adorned with a pair of real dried donkey's ears. A doctor who ought to know says that the practice of the wholesale use of smelling salts, which came in with the universal fashion of carrying smelling bottles, is sure to have its influence upon the olfactory nerves sooner or later, and render the victim unable to distinguish cologne from asafu-tida. More than all that, it causes headaches, sore throat, and red noses. Tall and slender yoiing ladies this season have a new and pretty way cf arranging a sash. A generous length of surah is finished at both edges with a plain, wide hem; the ends at the top are then drawn through glittering jeweled slides upon each shoulder, brought down to the belt in front, crossed and lastenea with a jeweled buckle or clasp. The ends are arranged from thence in panniers, or one is carried to the back and the other lightly looped, or left to fall straight. Gray, light brown and green cloths, plain, or in a little check or mixed corded stripe, are used for some of the new walking suits intended for spring wear, and show very little or no trimming. The skirt is closely box plaited or trimmed with a scries of wide folds or with panels. The apron is draped to one side. The bodice is plain, short on the hips, with a little postilion at the back and a short pointed front. The sleeves are plain aiso, and rounded up naturally at the top, without unnatural fullness, stuffing or padding. The garment to wear with this dress is a small cutaway coat, or a fitted cape. The buttons used are small and shaded in horn or pearl to match the cloth. An expensive and exceedingly effective silk costume can be made of American silk and broche combined. The skirt of dark green gros grain silk, with two box plaited tlounccs at the bottom. The tablier reaching from the hips to the top of the flounce is composed of one wide volante of white embroidered Moresque lace, over which fall pointed panniers of the silk, looped under a gracefully draped back breadth of red and green satin broche matching the color of the green silk, but very lustrous, the red broche flowers a very vivid shade between scarlet and crimson. The bodice is of the broche, with a triangular Modjeska puff on the front defining a square pompadour outline across the bust, the triangle bordered with Moresque lace, jhe high collar and culls with the same. The sleeves are of greenish silk, slashed at the elbows, and in the arm hole with the broche. The entire cost of such a dress need not be more than $35 or $40, including the making.?Chicago Herald. Sea Rhymes and Songs. ' Do you know the rules of the road at sea?'' asked an old sailor who had sailed the Spanish main, of a New York Tribune reporter. No. Well, you should. They are in rhyme and easy to remember. They go: 'When both side-lights you see ahead, Port your lielm and show your rei. If on your starboard red appear, It is your duty to keep clear; But if upon your port is seen A steamer's starboard light of green, There's not so much for you to do, For green to red keeps clear of you. (-'reeit to green or red to redPerfect safety?go ahead!' "There are other rhymes which are valuable to seamen, such as! 'Wlieu the rain's l?eforn the wind, Your topsail sheets and halyards mind.1 "Oh, we sailor men have more poetry in us than we get credit for. Our shanty tvnnlrl vnilP fjinPl' T rft v tv, IV . w j ~ ?,WJ - " " member once when I was on the bark Sea Hover, we had been out to Calcutta with a cargo of oil, and were homeward bound when we were caught in a storm and dismasted. The bark sprung a leak nt the same time, and we had to abandon her. It was just before daybreak when \vc pulled away from her. and in the gray of the morning we could see her rising and falling on the long swell which the storm had left. Aside from the perils of our position?at sea in open boats, and no land near?we felt a regret at leaving the ship that had been our home for nearly a year, and the sailors sang as they rowed away that beautiful shanty for abandoning ship: She's a gallant ship and a gallant crew, Ix'ave her jollies, leave her! She's a gallant siiip, anil her captain too, And it's tinw for us to leave her.1 ' Then I always liked the homeward bound song, and never shall forget how sweetly it came lo me across the watprs of the bay of Callao once when thirty sailors walking around the capstan of a ship, invisible in the morning mist, sang? !iro lmmewiml lioiiml this vcrv dnv. (Joodbv, lino you well! (iood-by. fan* you well! AVe arc homeward bound, with seven months' pay, Ye-ho, iny boys! we're homeward bound.'' Modern Egyptian Houses. Tlie towns on ihc Egyptian shore of the Ked sea stand along the borders of the khors which come from the mountains back of them, and their way through many shallow channels to the sea. These channels, which are dry three-fourths of the year, arc the passage-ways or streets of the villages. The houses stand on the slightly higher ground between the channels; they are scattered about in perfectly irregular manner. The better class of houses are thus constructed: First a frame-work is made of boughs and branches of the acacia trees. Then ii wsiuiin^ si raw js wuvtu ciuseiy among the boughs of roof and sides, so as to make a waterproof covering for the interior. Around the houses of the chief men inclosures of similar construction are made to keep prying eyes from peeringintothe sacred precincts of theharem within. Tlic huts of the poorer people are mere tent-shaped structures lightly covered with skins of animals, or with .coarse matting. There is probably no better illustration in this world of the terrible weight of grave responsibility than a five-inch dog standing on a box with his fore paws on the tailboard of a four-horse express wagon, alertly guarding its passage through the streets of a crowded city.? SomerviUe Journal. IMMMMHMHMHMMMI LIFE Iff A COLD COUNTRY A WOMAN'S XBTTX* SBSOSZBZVO MANITOBA. Where the Thermometer Range* from 123 Dcfrrcci in Summer to 30 Below Zero in Winter* Life in Manitoba is not as pleasant as it has been pictured. A woman writing from near Winnipeg says: "In such a thinly Bettled country it is naturally very difficult to get any sort of female help. I have tn make even the bread and the 1?11? J ntroi?rf^?nrr fhflf. Iff L>u?i;r, uuu [?c|jiiib nvij.u ,, eaten. If I drive twelve miles with linen, nnd again the same distance to fetch it home, I can, by dint of great persuasion and pretty speeches,occasionally induce a half-breed woman to wash it. She charges me $1 a dozen, and sends it back clean, certainly,but neither ironed nor even folded. Of course, on the prairie we are our own landlords, and live "rent free on our own homestead. Taxes don't amount to much, and food is no great expense, as game of all sorts abounds. Fish, too, is easy to get, as we are not far from Lake Manitoba, ahd in winter we can buy frozen fish from the Indians at ? trifliDg cost. Prairie chicken, wild duck, partridge, 6nipe, and plover are very plentiful. and may be had for the shooting. When I say that I believe there is hardly a fenced farm between us and the North Pole, it is plain that poaching is an unknown crime. Animals of most sorts are in the neighborhood. We can sit at - " - ?j i nignt uy xne nrc nnu ucur a jiuviv. ui prairie wolves go by in full cry across the snow. Timber wolves are scarce; [ black bears are scarcer still, though more than one has been tracked and shot within a mile of our house. All the country between us and Winnipeg is flat and not at all picturesque, though by going as far West as Brandon you come to "rolling" prairie. In early summer the ground is carpetcd with the loveliest wild flowers. We are fortunate in having land which is nicely timbered. It not only gives us a pleasanter prospect than the dreadful monotony of a treeless flat, but it also supplies us with firing. "And this brings me to speak about my experience of the climate of Manitoba. The variations of temperature arc very great. I have seen the thermometer stand at 125 degrees inside a tent in summer, and at fifty-eight degrees below zero; or ninety degrees below freezing point, outside the house in winter. Such Arctic cold would be unendurable if the air were not so wonderfully dry and clear?and often very still?that it does not seem half as cold as it really is. Then the changes of weather are not generally very sudden, the heat and cold are very regular, and in mid-seasons the thermometer does not fluctuate much. Perhaps a few homely details may best serve to illustrate what winter in Manitoba means. The snow outside our house is from six to ten feet hnnn fwm Knvpmhsr tn Anril. Mocca sins, made by Indians of moose-skin, are used instead of shoos to cover the feet, which are first cased in several pairs of stockings. We were forced to melt snow for all the water we used last winter. The cold is so intense that when melted snow water is poured from the boiler into a pail, and taken at once across to the stable, the ice on it frequently has to be broken with a stick bcfoee the cattle can drink. It is rather a common sight to see people partly frozen. The part affected turns as white as marble, and loses all feeling. Unless you sec yourself in a glass, or are told of it, you arc not conscious of being frozen. In this plieht it is best not to go near a fire, as sudden thawing is very painful. People generally try friction, rubbing themselves with snow, or better still, with paraffin oil. Occasionally, when one is frozen and far from help, the part frozen, if an extremity, will snap off. Last year a man living about thirty miles from us was told that his ear was frozen; he put up his hand to feel, and the ear dropped off in his hand. Limbs sometimes have to be amputated from severe frost bites. My kitten's ears froze and broke off last winter, and a neighbors pony lost ear6 in the same way. "I was surprised when I first found the mustard frozen in my mustard pot, which stood a foot from the kitchen stovepipe and two feet above the stove, where there was a blazing fire all day and every day through the winter. Yet the mustard froze between every meal. Breed froze if left for half an hour in a room without a fire. Such stories must sound almost incredible except to those who, like myself, have witnessed the facts, though, of course, only in the most severe weather. Winter is, of course, not equally severe throughout. Part^of my description applies only toitR colder half. But to a woman the most trying part of a winter in Manitoba is not its severity? for you live in a warm house?but its length. Snow lay on the ground last season for six months and a half, and the great lakes were frozen for the same period." Fishing for Water. "Did you ever hear of a place where the people are compelled to fish in the ocean for all the fresh water they use?" asked Ben Germley, a sailor who has cruised in every water on the face of the glooe. "There i3 such a place and I've been there. It's tbc hottest place I wa3 ? ?/! T'..? I,nan tn nil hnfc ftnfiS. Kain never falls there, and the temperature never changes. I think it stands at 120 degrees all the year round. You're thirsty when you go to sleep, you wake up in the night thirsty, you're thirsty all day. Yet the people that live there appear to think they are in the garden spot of creation. That's natural, though, for it isn't likely one out of a hundred of them was ever in any other place. This delightful spot is on the Persian Gulf, at Babrin, where they fish for the water they drink. I had the pleasure of staying there three days ten years ago. "I don't know who discovered the fact, but there are numberless springs of ice cold water at the bottom of the gulf, near the shore, where the water is about sixty feet deep. This must have been known when they first set up the town, of course, or it wouldn't have been started there. This fresh water gets to be on!? nnmifrTi though before it eret9 far " I* - r>~y o Irom the bottom, and so they have to ! send down after it. When a man's wife calls him to go after a pail of water and be quick about it. over in Babrin, he grabs a goatskin bag, yells at the first neighbor he sees stretched out in the sand, and the two jump into a boat and row out a short distance. The man who is after the water wraps the goatskin about his left arm, with the mouth of the bng in his han3. Then he takes in his other hand a heavy stone. This stone is tied securely to the end of a long and strong line, for stones are valuable property there. Without them no one could go out and fetch a pail of water, and they are very scarce. With the stone firmly clutched in his hand the man dives into the water, and down he goes to the bottom. When he reaches the cool, fresh water gushing 11 n from the sand, lie opens the mouth of his goat-skin bag, drops the stone, and floats upward in the strong current. The bag quickly fills and the mouth is closed again. When (he man reaches the surface bisdompanion lifts the bag into the boit, and the diver follows. The stone is then carefully drawn up, and the men go home. "The water is cold and refreshing when it first comes up from the depths of the sea, but It soon gets flat and warm. The more you drink of it the thirstier you get, but" the natives can get along on a few swallows of it now and then. The requirements of the climate keep the divers at work in the submarine springs for all they are worth, and the shore is lined with their boats all day long. The springs arc said to be the outlet of large nuilinu ;i<]UCUUi;is 1U a iuu^ UI tains more than oOO miles from the coast, but I gtieas they would have a hard time o prove that theory if they were called upon to do it.?Xew York Sun. Hours to Sleep. The value of sleep to brain-workers cannot be exaggerated,says an exchange. In a recent lecturo Dr. Mallins, a famous English physician, saia innuoc uram quires twelve hours of sleep at four years old, gradually diminishing by hours and half-hours to ten hours at fourteen, and thence to eight hours when the body is full prown and formed. Goethe, in iiis most active productive period, needed nine hours and took them; Kant?the most laborious of students?wa3 strict in never taking less than seven. Nor does it appear that those who have systematically tried to cheat nature of this chief right have been, in any sense gainers of time for their work. It may be a paradox, but is not the less a truth, that what is given to sleep is gained to labor A German scientist has counted the hairs on his wife's head, and quotes her at 128,000 to the inch. We don't see how he could tell which was switch. ?Life. I SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A German ornithologist, Dr. A. C. E. Baldamus, has specimens of the nests and eggs of 2,000 species of birds, mostly Europeun. It has been recently proven that earthworms are capable of regenerating tissue, large pieces cut from their bodies being replaced by new growths. To restore the original qualities to steel which has been burnt in the forge, plunge the metal at a red heat into a mixture of two parts of pitch, two parts of train oil, one part of tallow, and a small quantity of common salt, Repeat the operation two or three times. Excellent results have frequently been so obtained. In the seed of the cotton tree, of which several varieties are cultivated in Bolivia, a correspondent of the French academy I announces the discovery 01 tne ncncst 01 all known grains in nitrogeneous substances. lie is convinced that, the flour of this seed is destined to become an important article of food. A paste made from it may serve as a substitute for milk. Chemical analysis shows blue grass to be the most nutritious of all the grasses. According to this test, five pounds of blue grass contains as much flesh and bone producing elements as ten pounds of timothy, six pounds of red top or six pounds of orchard grass. Owing to the much greater yield of the latter, however, it is undoubtedly the most profitable that can be grown upon Boils adapted to its production. The production of artificial marble fireproof and waterproof, is accomplished by a recently devised English process. The fabrication is, by means of cement, gypsum or alum, applied to polished surlaces or placed in molds, fibres being employed in the surfaces to form the veins. An enamel is obtained by laying on one or more coats of varnish; the material is exposed to heat after each coat, then polished with pumice stone and tripoli. He was a "White" Man. One of the Hudson Bay company's officers has with him his young wife and a child, a tiny girl three years old, a pretty, pratling, fearless, fascinating young woman. She is everybody's pet, "from the rather dandy wheelsman, who uisajipuiti uu, jiuiuiu^ ??v?v?v wjv..? little official bluster, and he escaped.? Harper'? Magazine. In A Candle Manufactory. Searching for more light, a scribc accosted the representative of a candle manufactory and asked him if he could say anything about candles that would prove of interest to our readers. "I suppose," said the gentlemen, " that many people think candles are not much used nowadays, but they are mistaken about it. There are twelve factories in the United States. A very large export business is done chiefly to the West Indies and Central America. Our own sales are made principally in the Western States and Territories*. The mining regions take large quantities, for no light but candles is used in gold and silver mining. Candles arc used for church purposes, at country hotels, in railroad cars, in mining, and to some extent in families. In London and Paris candles are used in private houses almost entirely on account of the great prejudice against gas. "No branch of industvy has undergone the change that candle making has in the last thirty years. Formerly it was merely a mechanical occupation. Anybody could make candles of a certain sort, and almost everybody did. Now it is a scientific industry, bringing to its aid the resources of chemistry. Formerly a tines to entice her up to his pilot-box, which towers above the vessel, down to the grizzled, grimy deck hands, whose acquaintance she has somehow or other made on the lower deck. On the floor of this lower deck, whither she has been taken by her nurse, she has seen three men lying bound, chained hand and foot. They arc on their way to be tried at Fargo, and the Sheriff, who has effected their capture, never leaves them, for they are known to be desperate. The little child came to them and looked at them curiously; .'.hey looked silently at her. They had probably never seen anything so dainty or so sweet before. She saw nothing in them to frighten her. So she advanced and spoke to them in her broken words, she even touched the fetters on the hands of one of them, and smiled in his face, nnrl asked him what thev were. The man smiled too, without replying, and the child moved away. As she walked there was a sudden quick jerk of the whole ship, its further side ground jarringly against some unyielding substance hiding in the water; it tilted over slightly, the child lost her balance, and, with a scream, fell over the side into the water. The vessel for an instant was stationary. The three prisoners saw her disappear. The prisoner to whom she hud spoken, and whose handcuffs she had for a moment touched, exclaimed'"God, don't ye shoot, Bill I" Then quickly rolling himself over and over he dropped into th6 water beside the child. As his hands were bound behind him, he caught the child's dress in his teeth, and treading the water with his fettered feet, kept the child above water until help came. As everybody's attention was diverted to the opposite side of the steamer, it was some time before the boat from the vessel reached them. But the child was saved. Needless to relate the thankfulness of the poor young mother or the gratitude of the father. "I cuess you air a white man, Ilik, after all," said the sheriff. A purse was made up among the passengers for the man, whose name was Erikir, a Scandinavian by birth. It was afterward learned that the sheriff told the story to the "jedge," and the judge, with Western freedom, and that admiration for a gallant act which covers a multitude of sins, so arranged that when it was found that Erikir had mysteriously woa rlnno hpi'nn/l n. candle was a greasy, noisome thing, that one usually handled with disgust; now it is artistic and refined and can be handled without the least oirense. The i wick is so prepared that the combustioji j is complete, and snuffers have long been j banished. An ancient candle maker | could only work with materials already provided by nature, so that he had to use fats with all their impurities. The modern candle maker by chemical processes removes the impurities, which leaves him nothing but the hard and white fat for his candles. Fat changed by this process is called sterine, and from this material we make what are called star and stearic wax candles. These are exI tremely hard and are sometimes callcd j adamantine, do not grease the hands, j and give a soft and pleasing light. Spermaccti and wax arc also used, but ! not with us. ' The candle is the unit of light. You | sometimes hear of a light, say gas, being of twenty-five candle power. The stanI dard is a spermaceti candle, burning at I the rate of 120 grains of sperm per hour. | Candles are also made from parattine,but no candles arc used so extensively as the star or stcarine. "The great'improvement in the manufacture of candles dates from the investigations of a French chemist named Chcvrcul, who. by the way, has just celebrated his ninety-ninth birthday. lie discovered that the fat of tallow was separable from the oil, and the result of the process was two valuable products, stearine and glycerine. In former days | a merchant would as soon have thought I of exporting skates or warming pans to 1 " -- - ? "f tnlln.r r?!inr] loq I Havana as u ........? thcv would have nil melted into an undistingnishablc mass going across the Gulf of Mexico. IJut sucli candles as are made now can be used in the hottest climate in the world." Casting- Oil on the Waters. It has really been found that the j w?ive8 in the neighborhood of vessels in I stormy seas can be sensibly smoothed and reduced by having oil thrown upon them from the storm-beaten ship. The hydrographic oHice, at Washington, has been collccting facts respecting this matter, and all the testimony goes to show that this lubricant is really efficacious in reducing the waves adjacent to a vessel in the midst of a storm. The steamers Thomas Melville, the Thingvalln. the M. Taylor, and other vessels, tested this matter. When in peril by high seas and violent winds, they used canvas bags tilled with oil and punctured, which were let over the sides of the vessel and allowed to drap. As the oil spread, the waves were correspondingly subdued. It is believed before many years arc over that every vessel which goes to sea will provide itself with oil to tie used when in danger of being overwhelmed by the waves.?Demoresfa. I The constitution was agreed upon September 17, 1787, and adopted March 4, I 1789. | THE STORM. All day long the snow has fallen gently, softly down! All night long the snow is falling over city, vale and town! Gentle snow! The wind! A winter wind comes tearing, bowling from the north! In his arms he gathers up the snow and rushes forthCruel wind! The snow fiend! All day long he blows and sweeps the snow drift o'er; A demon wind, he howls and shrieks from door to door! m? f xue Biiuff ucuu A tempest! The world lies buried 'neath the fallen, drifted snow; Death is abroad! The tempest and tho cold ride to and fro? A tempest! At last! The storm is o'er, and silence reigns upon tho snowy deep; The shrieking, moaning wind has sobbed itself to sleep? At last! The world awakes! From out your 'prisoned homes behold t awful wreck! But nature and its God now holds the storm in check? Tho world awakes! ?Carthage (III.) Republican. HUMOR OF THE DAY. A boil in the pot is worth two on the neck. The young woman who is just learning the ways of the r?nk says she knows why they call it roll-her skatinc.?MerchantTrateler. A Madison street girl's answer to the current conundrum, ""Will the coming man work?" "He will if I get him."? Wilmington Star. The vouth who woes and wins a girl at the rink will find it but a few steps from roller-skates to the rolling-pin.? New York Journal. The man who has no music in his sole never distracts tho attention of worshipers by walking up a church aisle with squeaking boots.?Boston Courier. As we allow our thoughts to wander back to our boyhood, we find that many a train of fond recollections has been wrecked by u switch.?South and West. "Man wants but little here below P The statement causes mirth; It might have been in earlier times', But now he wants the earth. ?Merchant-Traveler. If there is anything more ungainly than a fat man on roller skates, it is a thin woman, loaded to her eyebrows with packages, rushing against time to board a street-car that won't stop. A Chippewa Indian boy, twelve years old, is a fancy roller-skater at Chicago. People who are familiar with roller-skating say that he is by no means the first red skin that has been developed in the rink.?Boston Transcript. It is said that a person "can do almost anything he wants to on roller-skates with sufficient practice." The trouble is, however, that he does so many things he * * - j_ doesn't want iu uu m m-ijujuug wc practice.?Norrittown Herald. A shrewd old lady cautioned her married daughter against worrying her husband too much, and concluded by saying: "My child, a man is like an egg. Kept in hot water a little while, he may boil soft; but keep him in there too long and he hardens."?Boston Post. always took his part. Wben'er at school some bigger boy Would pound me till I'd smart, My brotber'd jump into the fray, And kindly take my part. When'er at homo our mother gave To us each half a tart, My brother'd get me off alone And kindly (0 "take my part." ?EransvUle Argus. Cat Worship. Those who regard themselves as victims of caterwauling here may take consolation in the thought that they would have had a worse time in ancient Egypt. A recent writer says that cat worship was carried to its greatest extent by the ancient Egyptians, whose devotion to their petu was such that, according to 'Herodotus, when a fire broke out they cared for nothing but the safety of their oats, and were terribly afflicted if one of them fell a victim to the flames. On the death of a cat the inhabitants of the house shaved off their eyebrows, and the deceased cat was embalmed . and buried with great solemnity in a sacred spot. Many cat mummies have been found in the Egyptian tombs, and some are to be seen in the British museum, together with similarly preserved specimens ui human beings and of sacred calves. Their movements and their cries were consulted as oracles, and the murder, or even the accidental felicide of one of them, was punished by death. This invites the assumption that the ratio of increase could scarcely have been the same as in New York, or cats would have assumed the proportion of one of the plagues of Egypt.?New York Sun. The Potato as a Luxury. The potato, originally a South American plant, was introduced to Virginia by Sir John Harvey in 1629, though it was unknown in some counties of England 150 years later. Potatoes were served, perhaps as an exotic rarity, at a Harvard installation dinner in 1007; but the plant was only brought into culture in New England at the arrival of the Presbyterian emigrants from Ireland in 1718. Five bushels were accounted a large crop of potatoes for a Connecticut farmer; for it was held that if a man ate them every day, he could not live beyond seven years. Splendid Honors. The public should note the fact that | the only proprietory medicine on earth that ever received the supreme award ol Gold Medal at the great Internationa] "World Fairs, Industrial Expositions and State Fairs, is St. Jacobs Oil. After the most thorough and practical tests, in hospitals and elsewhere, it has universally triumphed over all competitors, and been proclaimed by Judges and Jurors, including eminent physicians, to be the best pain-curing remedy in existence. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., is the youngest judge that has ever sat on the supreme bench of Massachusetts. "I Feel So Well." "I want to thank you for telling mo of Dr. Pierce's 'Favorite Prescription, writes a lady to her friend. '"For a long time I was unfit to attend to the work of my household. I kept about, but I felt thoroughly miserable. I had terrible backaches, and bearing-down sonsations across me and was quite weak and discouraged. I sent and got some of tie medicine after receiving your letter, and it has cured nie. I hardly know myself. I feel so well." SouTn Africa has 70,000 tame ostriches, ! producing 415,000,000 worth of feathers anj nually. I Don't disgust everybody by hawking, blowj ing and spitting, but use Dr. Sage's Catarrh I nemeuj' uuu ut i_uiw. I Edinburgh is the healthiest large city in I Great Britain. "All Played Out." ! "Don't know what nils me lately. Can't eat well?can't sleep well. Can't work, and ; don't enjoy doing anything. Ain't really sick, and I really ain't well. Feel all kind o' played out, someway." That is what scores of liien say every day. If they would take Dr. j Tierce's "Golden Medical Discovery" they I would soon have no occasion to say it. It 1 purities the blood, tones up the system and ! fortifies it against disease. It is a great antibilious remedy as well. ! Italy spends $6,000,000 a year for the maintenance of its penal system and only 15,400,000 for education. 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For dyspepsia, wdiomtiox, depression of spirits and general debility in their various forms, also as a preventive against fever and ague and otherintermittent fevers, the "Ferro-Phoephorated Elixir of Calisaja," made by Caswell, Hazard & Co., Now York, and sold by all Druggists, is the beat tonio; and for patients recovering from feveror other sickness it has no equal. Pretty Women; Ladies who would retain freshness and vivacity. Try "Wells' Health Renewer." Bald Heads, When you have tried everything else and failed, try our Carbolineand be happy; it will pr.ove its merits. One dollar a bottle, and sold by all druggists. Lovers of Fancy Work, see Adv. E. N. Heath. Ox receipt of 15 cts., wo will mail a trial box of Burt's Catarrh Cure. H. A Lee & Co., proprietors, 347 West 19th Street, New York. Large Box, $1. "Rough on Itch." "Rough on Itch" cures humors, eruptions, 1 ring-worm,tetter,salt rheum, chilblains. The sultan of Turkey rides a bicycle. IUI|fUI ?!? ?? When yon rlilt or leave Now York city, ezprr wage and $3 carriage hire, and atop at the Uraai Union Hotel, opposite Grind Uaniral depot. touelegsn room*, tittidup at a cost of on> milllia dollars, SI and upirard perday. Europsan plan. 121 v vator. Kflstaurantsuppliedwith theb jsl. florae a irJ. stages and eieTatod railroad to all depots. Familial can lire better for lew mmay at tne (jraad Caioa Hotel than at any other ti rat-class hotel in the city. Corporal punishment has been abolished in the Chicago schools. Salt Rheum Those who radar from this disagreeable disease should raid the following honest statement, and then give Hood's Sarsaparilla a (air trial. It will sorely do yon good; "I take pleasure in recommending to the public Hood's Sarsaparilla, for it has dose wonders for me. I had salt rheum very severely, affecting me over nearly my entire body. Only thoso who hard suffered from this disease in iti worst form can imagine the extent of my affliction. It is impossible to describe my sufferings. I took many modicines, but failed to receive benefit ontll I took Hood'* Sarsaparilla. Then the disease began to subside, tho watery pimples, with their agonizing itch and pain, disappeared, and now I am entirely fr.-e from the disease. My bl.}od s*emst) be thoronghly purified, and my general health is greatly benefited. My wife, soclng the benefit I received, and being troubled with restlessness at night, also took Hood's Sarsaparilla. It helped her very much, and (he now sleeps perfectly well."?LYXaB Jlllzx, Sez. ton N, ?, Church, North Chicago, 111. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1; siz for $i. Prepared only DJ \J? U noouftuu,, apuiuntanM, uvnou, jOO Poses One Dollar. creamIalmGOBBH Cleanses the 2e"d.HOLy^B Allays Inflammation. Heals the Sires. He-BrjjnJ stores the Senses o! Taste,Smell,Hearing. Hfcl f 8^ A POSITIVE CUBE W ^9 CREAM BAL bai Rained an enviable re; utatiou wherever known dinplacing all other prcrrni *- 1 ations. A particle in appliei a ?f PPlirfl Into each m;Rtril: no pain MAY ? L L y L U agreeable to use. I In I. I lafkll Price 50c. bv mail or at druxnfit. Seutl lor circular. ELY BBOTHEKS._Dnit?ri?itP, Uwego. N. Y. , jflfc ' THIS PUSTEB a HI 7 Actaiilrectljnpon the mu?. X IHm) o clcs in(1 tt>( otrvM of tb? E back, tbe Mat or ail pain. ? MT I FOli ALL *< 211 ^ L?n? Trouble*. whether local or deeply seated tbls II \ platter will be fonnd lo m^v \5 \ five lottaat relief by aokW ^ M ?.? ?,\ r'ylns between She itoulKfa! V A JI/V U tier blade*. ViT^T^SJI SHARP Km, , I 0k \ $3" Por Sidney Trouble, lt? I -* S[ RlitumatUm. Neuralgia, BK' St ( Pain in tbe 3ld* and Back BBMNMRr \Acbe. tbey are certain PJB ^ SB Sold by Drucglsti for 9 -*"f ^ centi, or At* for 31. %AC|f Hilled on receipt of flffcl irTrnr price by Smith.l>oolltlr I ISTFRl * ? * "mltln, General limylLIll Jnenta. Bottoc. no flfients?^ Save Agenta' Profita. VHWLJ|L_ New Machines Onaranteed poiltively new )M? ^jflD ?H fhnnMiirhl* finLj*ltU if) ereir particular. Warrant- IfT * cdforSyrs. Can be returned f I fx fm\ at our expense If not us rvprn-1 sented. Freights paid to all pototi. Extnlillslieri 1878 A. C. JOHNSON, 37 North Pearl St, Albany,N.Y. WORK SHOPS ? WITHOUT STEAM POWER J^T; BY CSINQ OUTFITS OT Afl J Barnes' Patent Foot Power machinery can compcto with^gJkgKj steam power. Sold on trial. Metal aiirt woodworkew se d for V VI R priaos. Illustr'd catalogue free. M W. F. it Jno. Barnes Co., Kocklord, 111. MMKjgfe^LW Address yp. 390 Rubl Street. tying Afent* can! SELL tad teO tlx truth about Jonis. Put youi vrs?YT?stiVrir7oaiut$60.5 TON WAGON SCALES. B?ara Bo*. Tlr* Beam. FHtM 1'aid. Fret Price Llrt. Ertry Sua addrai JOiTlS OT 8IKQHAHT0& BIWOHAMTOW.H. T. B RUCELINE! Changes kray hair to its natural color. Recommended by leading physicians and chemist*. Send for circulai and testimonials. Price, 91. ill. BRICK, 222 ilxtli Are., York. THE OPIUM-HABIT KASILY CURED. ADVICE FREE. Dr. J. C. HOFFMAN, Jefferson,Wis ACy ALL IMPERFECTIONS AU?\ of the Face, Hands and *eet, Saperflnow J&'eHf Hair, Moles. Warts, Freeklrs, Moth, H?<1 Wn >T Note, Eruptions,Scars, Pitting, and then flA !?.? Ilr Inhn VVondlKirT. 31 N'ortii I'earl Street. Alb&ny. N. Y". K6o> PVEmbli?h?d 1K0. Send 10 e?nU for Look. lilra Anillll Morphine Ilabit Cared In 1( 91 |vIIIHM ro -JO day*. No par till cored ||| lUIVfl Dk. J. STKi'itrcss, J.ebunoii, Ohio PIDflC Sample Book,Premium l.ist. PriceLi??aa uAHUw free. U. S. CARP CO.. Ujnterbroolt.Coaa ! ^PUBLISHER IA PRESENT F I:? NO COMMISSIONS TO AGE I *?^The above pointedly Illustrates our pi ! nectlng link consists or Cash Premiums Inst WE GIVE AWAY ThIu%" BELOW IS OUR F&BXlTTm LIST we juarantee complete satisfaction. Tills reputation, having been established overflfi 1080 PREMIUM 1st. cnih, 93,000 OH., nit, Id. CMh, S,000 7th, piano ad, caah, 8,300 Kill, piano 4th. cash, 2,000 9th. piano 3th. CMh, - 1.300 10th, cat-iKX) |30 itirlnt machines worth lu rail 100 slogan! albums,worth In cash.91.0< 50 Antrleaa sllrsr watches, worlb raal The shore premium* will l>o ready after April 2% which will hart charao of the allotment. In oddii new *abacrlber who fallows our direction* a pre* cente. Theae will be forwarded a* toon aa aube< participate in oar premium* unlet* he *?nd* ONK 1 receipt of which hu name will be entered and a mi of our treat oiler. CLUB I For <2. Time* one year to 2 subscribers, one year to 3 subscribers, 6 Presents and fi scrlbers, 10 Presents and 10 Receipts. Cas A GREAT STORY?| llahsd in onr family weekly paper. Also, each wse REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE s feature alone worth tho prioowe charge for th whole year. In addition to the continued etorie< weekly *erinona by lJrooklyn'* moat noted dirlne an general literary ralftcellany, each laaue contain* th following: Illu*traud aketche* of prominent men letter* from all pari* of the world; new* of the west full and reliablo market report*; political colng?oi Washington newaand apeclal departments carsfsil edited for Pormora, Little Polka, the Pamlly Circl? and buaineit* mau generally. The preaent pabllaliai havo conducted THS Times for 13 years, and bar learned hy experience tn?t genuine iukII wine nor EBfl friend ? than anything eLae. The publlo can, thert pw fore, rely on uo to odd ererr HI improvement deeirabla, ana t0VnCth H to apire no eipenee in koep BH lug our paper at the heaa. I We nro e&coaragsd hy nur mf H largely Increoaed )lttofeub->F fcUfCfgg^i scribera, now numbering!) , HPBiUli a|| oTer 51,COO, te continue the 11 t^jSLTUL | H REDUCED^ I ^jr PRICE OFiPl IB a rear, and will therefore receive aubwrlption* al this low prloe. En** wiftws win, evert far H Mm, EVERY HOCaiEEEPER AND EVERT IKTELLI H oentxewipaper reader will fin J eomethlnger n Dry week in The Tiue* worth our prloe ol (100 i H rear. Spaolmen coplaa freo. i 1500 WATCHES FRE To the flrat 600 persona who eend In their order flrat K3 ing-caae allver watch like cot here given. Wo guar IM of atirling eilver. Thme watrhea are given away B9 ami and present* mentioned alxtva. Pint come, 11: Bm tnl note, money order or ragistured letter and wp i t?Q THE TmiP; alao send you a numbered recolpt and iW If yon are one of the flrat 900 you will also gat one ol |H for the long winter evening*. UTCut thlB Advt 125 CENTS A TKEATIS .EX <0> IS A > O III8 I Containing an I ml ox of Di^easi*. which elves the S? Table giving all the principal ilmxs user! for tb<i Hor* h poison. A Table with an Kncravmt: of the Horse's ' A valuable collection of Receipt* a>nl much other v.i'i 100-PAGE BOOKER CLUB 1 FIVE COPIED 11 on I TEN COPIES 1 70 | One, Two and Three-Ccn? Ktami?s received. A'Ulr HOUSE BOOJ 134 LEONARD * Hiooundi Hastened to their Gravesr By relying on testimonials written In vivid glowing language of some miraculous cure? made by somelargely puffed up doctor or patent medicine has hastened thousands to their graves; the readers having almost Insane faith that the same miracle will be performed on them, that these testimonials mention, while the so called medicine is all the time hastening them to their graves. Although we have ^ Thousands Upon Thousands!!! of testimonials of the most wonderful cures, voluntarily sent us, we do not publish them, as they do not make the cures, it is our modicine, Hop Bitters, that make the cures. It has never failed and never can. We will pive reference to any one for any disease similar to their own if desired, or will refer to any neighbor, as there is not a neighborhood In the known world but can show its cures by Hop Bitterrs. A Losing: Joke. 14 "A prominent physician of Pittsburg saiu 'to a lady patient who was complaining of ber 'continued ill health, and of his inability to ! 'euro her, jokingly said: "Try Hop Bitters 1 'The lady took it in earnest and used the Bit'ters, from which she obtained permanent ? 'health. She now laughed at the doctor for 'his joke, but he is not so well pleased with 'as it cost him a good patient Fees of Doctors. The fee of doctors at $3.00 a visit would tax a man for a year, and in need of a daily visit, over $1,000 a year for medical attendance alone! And one single bottle of Hop Bitters taken in time would save the $1,000 _ and all the-year's sickness. Given np by the Doctors. "Is is possible that Mr. Godfrey in up and at work, and cured by so simple a remedy T' "I assure you it is true that he is entirely cured, and with nothing but Hop Bitters, ana only ten days ago his doctors gave him up and said ho must die, from Kidney and Liver trouble!" JSP None genuine without a bunch of green Hops on the white label. Shun all the vile, poisonous stuff with "Hop" or "Hops" in their name. SYSU-IO * Paynes' Automatic Engines and Saw-Hid H I oi n T.r.Anrn. we offer an 8 to 10 H. P. mounted Engine with Kill, JO-fn. folld Saw, 60 ft. beltiruc. cant-hooks, rig complete for operation, on care, fLIOU. Kn*ine on ikid?.llCt lew. 8;nd for circular (B). B. \V. PAYNE ? SONS, Manufacturers of all styles Automatic En o tun ur P Pullm. Haoaars and j 8^H^"?imliirN"Yr 'h?x"i850.' IOW-COST MOUSES La How to Build Them | -| ?" ?. Aai Iwart Health, Comfort \ Bttaty. ^,5 \ A tarfe Book, elrlne plant, rlewj, %23WMK=Si dncriptloni, and icliacla costs of 40 IE B H I 111 nodern housci.$40oupto$t,joo,for iWr RfTffiEk all climate*. So complete a l>ookuiualljrcosts $5. OUK rKIClUKLYco tfffl Iiy ff cl*. sent postpaid. Address. UiniJvWCftMlflEBMW^W 1HO AUH, M ?e?lu?*? Sit,?. *. SKEflDflBflHi WE WANT 1000 BOOK AGENTS ferth*u*bookTH1BTY-T11KEE TEAKS AKMHI OUR WILD INDIANS I Br G?n- DODQE and Gen. SHERMa.V. The futotMlSac I book out Indorsed by Prtat Arthur. Qen'a Gnat, ShcgM. Sheridan, and thouumda of Emin'nt Judrca, CIojjBj*, Edltora. ett. aa " The Bat and Finn* Ilhatrattd MM \ ?ook Ever PMithcd." It takes like wildfire. andAgeataMB I 10 to 20 a day. ar*?5.000 aold. Ila Great JuthortklB and Solid Merit make It the bnvmiag bookfor JaUL C"7*Send for Circular*. Speclm*n Plate. Extra linm. HSail A. D. WOBTHlXttT ON * CO., lUrtfer4.0m5 A8kln of Beauty Is a Joy Forever* dr. t. felix gouhaud's < ORIENTAL CfiEAM.Oa MAGICAL BE1DHTI3 ?.S I rKKSi W < _ | ilea, Motbj Km dl? 8?!Sl? WW<1 4IST&.S&? A. Siyrr ? u 1 t ... lady of the Saul lorn (a patient): you ladUt trill mm tkm, I rtcomntnd 'OourmuiCi CTtam I at fA? Itatl harmful of alt IS* Skin prtparatla*'." <) ? bottle will lait tiz month*, oiing it ererj day. A1m Puadre Sabtila remotei aaperflaini hw.*itbol? ? jar/ to the tkin. Mkc. M. B. T. GOURAUp. Sol; Prop., 48 Bond St.. N. 7. For ills by all Dra?l*Ua*d ?*n-r Uoodi Dinlen ttiroocboat tha U. S., Canada# ind Karops. tVUmn of bue imitation#. 11,000 Reward tor arraat and proof of anj ooa aollinf tba u?*. TO lntrodnce and fell tha trade the well-known and celebrate*! Ciirara of the NEW YORK; A HAVANA CIGAR COMPANY. Liberal arrangement*. SaIXE* | or Commission paid to the right nlan. For inrttwt particulars and terms addr***, at once. The New York & Havana Cipir Co.. 57 Hrondivay, New York. ?? a a m nma m mmmm K. U. AWAKE. WSmw Lorillard's Climax Plug | bearing a red tin tag; that Lortllard'a RoteXenfflnecut; thatLorillard1* I Nary Clipping*, and that T jnllard'g Sunfla, an the beat and cheapest, qua'''./ considered ? ' , CONSUMPTION l bar* a poaltlre reraady for tbe abore dlMui; by Itt dm thousand! of eaaea of the wont kludandof loar standing have been cared. I ndeeil. ?o it rone liny felt# Id Itaemcacy.that I wl I semi TWO BOTTLES pub, togttberwltn a va T.C a bi.kt UK ATISK on tbla dlaeaaa to any laffcrcr. Clreexiire?f?nil P. O. addr-M. r Dtt. T. Jl. SLOCUil, 191 Pearl St., New Tort* j HOUSEKEEPERS, E A We Offer No Presents. No Claba, extralvalue. Having nexo'iated with the largeet lea importing . house of y?* York for all their fine grade 3am pie Tea*, . we will tend to anypart of U. S., on receipt $1.'J5. 3 lb*, mixed black or green Tea?, u are retailed at tl and upward a lb. Kxprmuage free. Sample po ind 60 cents. POST CO.? HI Beekman Street, Ncw Yarfa 5ACMTC Alade only by tbe K. T. A vCIq I Wi Havana Cigar Co., 57 Broad1'otiHcfly ihf D'?t. way, N. Y. ASK FOR IT. TIIE WORLD'S WONDERS and Official Bis. tory nj the Grt'ly Expedition. Grand newoook;ou? ttlh everything. Salary or torn, ro Agent). Write quick for tpecial lernu. fUatorlcal Pllb. Co., Phil*., P?. HOW to bo Beautiful.? Remove freckles, pimples, blemishes. Instructions,toilet recipcs ire*. 8?ud stamp for pumphlet. Dr.Fleming.236 W.55th 8t.,N.Y. > APTICTCJ OilTube Colors. 5 cts. Convex 01m. , Mil 110 Id CaMnef, M ots. Uoz. Can!, 2Scts.doa . H. 1. UOSS, 1210 lthlge Ave., Ptilla., P?. 1 \f | D Tor Man. Qslek. ?nr?, >?'?. D-jok !>? . I ? Iw VII CItU1? ?s*aej, 160 Pullou ait, K#w Terfc. ^SUBSCRIBE*! ?A A / iW - - OR EVERYONPl NTS. SUBSCRIBE DIRECT. an of deallpc with our subscribers. The eon-^B tad of exhorolt-nt coramimiotia to middlemen. M ^ $30,000 FREE! : Every article lias been carefully selected andH Is a reliable offer bra Newspaper of national^! teen years. Positively no Postponement. S. PRESENTS FOR AU.I f 1,000 | litb, bnnTi usofl . 730 ISIb, fold wattb( MdH ' , t ' *00 I I3tli, (nn, , OOO I HI li K?ld wntfh, . Ill 330 I lath, KOltl watch, loo i. , 8,000 00 100 elegant ntbama, worth eaah, 7*0 b,91,830. toofIf(aat bonnri bo?ki, 1000 ;b. u inon as tho ownrJe aro roads by the Committee, :iou tothe premium*, we will mall, postpaid, toeran ont. imlapacHcnt of tho premium, worth from 13 to ? rriptioni aro i-rcelrtil. Jio perv>n will b? permitted to 30I..LAK for ono year'a imbicrlptioa to oar papar, on mb?re<l r?r?<nt firwsrJe<t entitling Him to the benefit* PRICES 2 3 Presents and 3 Receipts. Fort3, TjmM Receipts. For 95, Times one year to o sudh and names must all uc sent at one time. I The following from the Postmastor of KanaaaQitT a will ahow not only the reliability of THE KANSAS ?-,CrT7 THIsS but its rapidly-increasing cLronk>-.tion r klTo Tax Kaxcaii Orrr Tniu Co.: Porr Orncx. Xahsas Oitt. Jan. 1,184.?I hare to 1 inform yon that the periodical poetaae on the regne lar editions ot your Daily. Bckdat and Wsiiit i, TlMH for 1881 vu w.8?5.^: for LK, $7,180.70: fo d^UBS, l'K?0. 8. tlSli. P. k. with OXX DOLLAR enclosed, we will send a hast- H antee the watoh to bo a correct time piece, and mad* 59 in addition to and independent from *e 1,089 oraml. Kg r?t aerred. Remember to land ON K DOT.LAK rr po*. BCD rill enter your name for onn rear's subscription to forward a present worth from Vt centa to nents, ana ^Bf ' tho watchaa. Order now and e*t n good fomilj paper Ba ?rtisem?nt out. as it will not ?ppear again* HI . THE TIMES. Kansas City. Mo. ?% , Postpaid. \K ON THE LSE! mr'toms, C'aus? und the Best Treatment of each. A with tho ordinary done. effects, and :int!dot? when lV' tlj at different aces, with rules for telling the afire. mble information. AID to ANY ADDRESS in ?C flCWTO TATES or CANADA, (or ?0 UCil I Ol FIATES. i1 WEN IT UUl'lES $3 00 ONE HUNDRED COPIES 10 00 K COMPANY, IT., NEW YORK. .