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the season that is coming.
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Sweet, sweet, sweet is the season that is coming;
Sweet the wayside wild rose and the wild
bee's humming:
Sweet the pink azalia in the woods' recesses
Sweet the nodding barberry buds, wearing
yellow dresses,
Sweet the scarlet columbine climbing up tho
ledges,
Sweet the pale anemone in the forest edges
Sweet the rosy applo blooms, sweet tho birds
among them,
Sweet the petals in the grass where the winds
have flung them.
Sweet, sweet, >w et are the gardens overflow,
ine
With pinks ami yellow marigolds, and
mignonette a-blowing,
With four o'clocks and London-pride, and
pretty pansy facets,
With honeysuckle by the wall, and roses in
all plates;
And sweet the happy children who como
'i from days of duty
To find the fair earth all a bloom, a place of
perfect beauty;
Books thrown away, they laugh and play,
with sun and sweet winds blowing,
A rose blooms out on every cheek, and pinks
in the lips are growing.
Sweet the breeze-blown pastures with violet*
' - running over;
Sweet the meadows stretching wide crowded
. with white clover;
Sweet the thickets starred with flowers and
flushed with growing lorries,
(And pretty dinners set for birds of rose-hips
and wikl cherrtes;
Sweet the corners dim and deep where floating
boughs are meeting,
And little lovers come and go with songs of
happy greeting;
Sweet the fronds of fairy fern in hiddden
nooks unfolding;
Sweet the thought; in loving neans wiusu
lovely things beholding.
?Mrs. M. F. Kutts, in If'irfe Aicukc.
?
f THE WHITE MAIDEN.
llcr name, or where she cainc from, was
a mystery to all aboard.
A strange but a beautiful little maiden
she was?picked up from a drifting,sealskin
canoe, near Hudson's Strait, by the
crew of the New London ship "Apollo."
? For many days the lone ship, with iceplated
bow, bad vainly cruised in quest
of the missing sealing bark "Walrus,"
which was commanded by the searching
captain's beloved young nephew, Carl
Reefer, who, it was now feared,was lost,
with ail his men.
Queer enough it was to fall in with a
girl-waif afloat in this desolate region.
But little she seemed to heed tbc cold or
the gloom of the frosty clime. Merrily
' did she laugh when she saw the ship;
i .1
somehow ner voicc nau uic uuMmg
founds of drops of icc falling upon the
waters of a crystal cave. ^hc wore a
coat of white bcar-skiu, and from a fur
cap of thcsamc material, her long, light,
flaxen hair, powdered with the snow,
which was failing, hung to the hollow of
y. her back.
Everything about her, except her eyes
? and lips, looked white, from her jaunty
round hat to the soles of her gaiters,
? . which were of white sealskin. Hcrcom?
plexion was like the snow itself,her skin
as smooth as ivory, and even her eyes
were of a light blue, but soft, brilliant,
and full of expression. And vet they
who caught the starry glances of those
eyes felt as if a shaft of ice had struck to
their very hearts.
nn,T. ?k;c> Tf- wns n. hard nuestion
IT iij n ito vuio? *? ,
rto answer, for never was maideu gifted
with lovelier features, or with a more
shapely head :ind faco than she. and
never was naivette, with childlike innocence
of manner, more plainly shown by
a girl of fifteen.
"How white she is!" said the captain
to his second officer, Kobcrts -a dark,
handsome youth of nineteen.
"How white she is!" muttered the
boatswain, uneasily.
"How white! how white!" echoed all
? ----thft crew.
She could neither speak nor understand
English, but she clapped her hands,
as if glad to get aboard that ship.
. The captain by signs inquired if she
was not cold and hungry, and invited
her to the cabin, where she could warm
herself, and where the steward's wife
? would procure her refreshments. She
scooped up a little snow from the rail,
and minced it with her pearly teeth.
Then she rubbed more snow over her
! fingers and chceks, as if to imply that
she loved it, and was not cold.
"Eating snow!" muttered the superstitious
oid coxswain. "Docs she mean
she lives on it? Ay, it would seem so,
and she has the look of a frost spirit, or
something of that kind, come to bring
bad luck to us allP
It was, however, soon shown that the
White Maiden meant she had an appetite;
but before entering the cabin she
picked up a quantity of snow, put it on
the capstan, and to the surprise of all
the officers fashioned with a skill truly
wonderful a little snow-ship, with hull,
masts, jib-boom, and even some of the
rigging. Around this she piled square
nieces of snow, made to resemble ice;
then with one hand she pointed to the
image she had made, aud with the other
far away to the northwest, where floes
and columns of ice were dimly visible.
The spectators thought it was easy to
understand her meaning.
"A ship?a wreck in the icc oil that
way. and she was from the wreck?come
to tell us about it," said the captain.
"Perhaps it is the very craft we aro
in 6carch of,'' remarked the captain1*
second officer, Roberts.
"There was no women aboard the
bark Walrus." said the captain. "Still
there is 110 knowing but this girl may
somehow have got aboard. We will
look for the craft, and God grant that it
may prove to be my nephew's, and that
we may find him safe and sound."
Days passed ere the ship could make
- any progress on her course, owing to
p* baffling winds and currents. The wind
[ became colder, and from truck to deck
I she was so sheeted with icc that it was
hard to work licr sails and rigging, on
I the bow, the figure of the good Apollo,
[ which was made of wood, and was hol[
low, became filled with saltwater, which
L had frozen, and now threatened to burst
the image asunder.
One morning, therefore, the captain
fefc:... had the statue brought to the after-deck.
It was, however, so badly cracked in
many places, that the carpcnttr said it
was not worth repairing?that it might
as well be thrown overboard. The head
' with the ice in it had dropped off, split
ffjyy' nsunder, as if by a wedge, and the rest
of the image was almost ready to burst
Bgp/. Meanwhile, the white maiden was often
- on deck. Her childlike manners, sweet
I Frrnics ana spanning eyes, ircqucnuy
drew young Roberts to her side. When
? he looked sad and gloomy, on account
of the little impression he made on her
she would only laugh.
"Roberts," the captaiu would say to
the second olHccr, slio is too white to
have much heart. Take care."
But the young man, fascinated, still
followed her like a faithful dog. He
seemed able to interpret her slightest
wish. He knew by the movements of
her lips when she was thirsty, and
would bring the nicest snowballs when
u were to be had, for her to sip with
^^"IrefJainty tongue. She did not seem to
care for water. It was always snow,
suow, snow, that she wanted. At her
meals even, she must have a snow-cake
on her plate.
She loved the snow?she reveled?she
laughed in it.
Oh! how queer and yet how charming
she looked, when the flakes were falling
standing on tip-toe to catch them in her
little mouth! And it seemed as if the
snow loved her. At times the sailors
were staftlcd to see thousands of the
white flakes circling about her head. Al
though this might h;.vc happened to any
one standing in a snow whirlwind, yet
the superstitious seaman would shake
their heads, and mutter something about
frost spirits coming to lead ships to their
destruction in the ice.
Waiting often on the little maiden,
Itoberts like to see her frosty shoes glimmer,
as she tripped about the desk in the
snow. One night his ardent words were
poured thick and fast into her white ear,
and although she could not understand a
word of English, she must have heard
the beating of his heart, and have known
that he was delaring his love.
She molded the snow with her nimble
fingers put something in her hand, andvnnished.
lie looked at the thing she
had given him, and perceived that it was
the image of a heart made of snow.
No misunderstanding this! she meant
that her heart was cold to him. He
became pale and thin?the ghost of his
former self?and so absent and thoughtful
as to slight his duties. Still he |
could not shake oft the strange spell of
the white maiden, and he followed her
like a slave. The captain, guessing the
cause of his sad neglect of duty, sternly
* ordered him to keep away from the girl
in future.
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But the youth disobeyed them, and a
few nights after his rejection, he again
stood by the white maiden.
The ship now lay anchored near the
coast of an island, close to Frobisher
strait. She could proceed no further at
present, on account of the ice ahead of
her, and Captain Robinson, tired of his
useless search, on this course, had resolved
to change it for another, next
morning.
"Better throw that figurehead o!
Apollo overboard," he had said to Roberts,
who had the watch as he went below.
The image of the wooden Apollo hy
near the round-house, aft, but Roberts
had forgotten about it, the moment the
white maiden came on deck. All the
other officers were below?the ship being
at anchor?and every one of the crew,
save a lookout, who sat halt asleep in
the galley, were in the forecastle.
The snow was falling, and the charming
girl-waif stood ankle deep in it by
the captain, as the infatuated young
sailor took his place by her side.
When an hour later, a man oamc on
deck to relieve his shipmate, the lookout,
Roberts, in his long cloak and slouched
hat. still was there by the capstan, trying
to talk to the white maiden.
Twenty minutes later, peering from
the galley, the watcher beheld Roberts
alone bv the capstan, his campanion,
ntnliolilv linvimr ironfi bclOW. Struck
by the motionless, statue-like attitude of
the young man, the lookout approached
him.
The rim of the hat and the high cloak
collar nearly concealed the face, but, by
the lantern's light, the sailor saw some
of it, the ghastly, almost dazzling,
whiteness of which startled him.
lie pronounced the officer's name, but,
receiving no reply, he drew nearer, and,
lifting the hat to get a glimpse of the
face, he sprang back with a scream of
horror.
That which he had seen was not a
face, but a white, frozen ball of snow, J
without features.
Up came officers and men, drawn by
the cry of the lookout.
Lanterns were brought, and the captain
pulled aside Iloberts' cloak from the
motionless figure, to behold a man's
form, and yet only the image of a man.
Yes, there was the breast, with the
form of the ribs showing; there was the
arms, the legs and the feet, all perfectly
shaped, but all of solid ice!
Only the head was not perfect?was a
mere snow-ball, white and shining,
in tlin nnininn nf snnifi of tllC
superstitious sailors, added to the horror
of the metamorphosis which had been
wrought.
"Ay," gasped the lookout, "twenty
minutes before this I saw Roberts here
alive, talking to that white maiden, and
now?"
He concluded by pointing at.the form
of ice, while the old coxswain, the most
superstitious of ail aboard, shook his
head ominously and said :
"There's no way to account for this,
mates, except that that white maiden
was, as I thought, a frost spirit, and has
changed the young second mate into ice.
as you see, to punish him for following
her up so!"'
The captain and some of the sailors
laughed incredulously; others solemnly
muttered that there might be some truth
in what the coxswain said.
"Pooh! we'll soon find Roberts," the
skipper remarked.
A siarch was made, but, although the
ship was ransacked, neither the second
officer nor the white maiden could be
discovered. The canoe, however, which
had been kept towing alongside, was
missing, and this looked as if the twain
Tinrl nr?nn nfT together.
The old coxswain shook his head. It
was his belief that the frost spirit had
cone alone, after transforming her wouldbe
lover into ice.
But when morning came, the while
maiden's canoe, containing two youne
men, beside the girl, was seen emerging
from a channel in the ice!
It was soon alongside. One of the
young men was Roberts, and the other,
to his joyful surprise, the captain recognized
as the person he had so long
searched for?his beloved nephew, Carl
Reefer.
As he embraced his handsome young
relative the eyes of the white maiden
sparkled brighter than ever, and now,
for the first time since they had seen her,
the men noticed that her cheeks were
suffused" with rosy color.
Explanations were made by Roberts.
The girl-waif had divined, by marks
on the captain's charts, that he was going
to change his course on this day.
By signs she had, therefore, on the previous
night, given Roberts to understand
that she wanted him to go to a certain
part of the coast with her. Her wish to
him was law. lie had conseuted, but,
in order that the captain might not too
quickly notice that he had gone off with
the girl and start in pursuit he had resorted
to a stratagem.
To execute this, he had resolved to use
the wooden image of Apollo, lying near,
but on his lifting it with great difficulty
and placing it upright against the capstan,
the wood all burst apart and fell
off, leaving the ice, which had filled the
i n ? 1 it.. 1 1 i.1
1101 low, uucuvereu. iic uuu men wiunu
tlic wood cverboard, and the white
maiden having made a large snowball,
placed it on" the shoulders of the icy
form to serve for a head, after which he
had put on his cloak and liar, as already
shown, thinking that, should the skipper
happen to come up to take a bri?*f look,
he would not notice the deception, but
would believe the figure to be that of
his second mate. Having then donned
another coat and hat, which he had in
round-house Roberts had entered the
sealskin canoe with the girl, who paddled
it through a channel in the ice to a
part of the coast not far ofl, where, to
his surprise, he found an underground
hut, containing Captain Robinson's
nephew aud fifteen men?the crew of
the bark "Walrus," which had been
stoven in the ice months before. Enough
provisions and other useful things were
saved, however, to last the sailors for a
long time.
The white maiden, with her father,
was aboard the "Walrus" when it was
stoven. Her name was Catharine I,askof.
and she was the daughter of a Russian
mate, whom Carl Reefer had shinned at
Halifax, where the vessel touched for repairs
a few weeks out from port. The
young captain took this man in placc of his
other mate, who had been lost overboard.
The Russian's daughter accompanied
her father, and as Carl knew a
little of the language, he was able to
converse with her. The two fell in love
with each other, and were engaged to bi
married.
On the day before she was picked up
by the crcw of the "Apollo," the girl
had ventured out in the ice in the sealskin
canoe, which had been bought by
Carl Irom a native. The ice closing
round her had hindered her return, aud
she had lost her way.
When at last the "Apollo," with her
aboard, as described, reached its present
localily, she recognized the part of the
coast near whioh the castaways had
their quarters, by a rock, the top of
which was shaped something like a
cross.
She was therefore anxious to go to tell
her friends of Captain Robinson's arrival
before he should leave the place, and she
took Roberts with her in ouler that he
might help her in case she should need
assistance to work her light craft
through the ice.
There is little to add.
All the castaways were finally taken
aboard the "Apollo," which then sailed
for home, where she safely arrived at
last.
Not long after Carl Reefer married
Catharine Laskof, the white maiden,
who proved to be an excellent wife.
As for Roberts he pined for a while,
but finally consoled himself by marrying
a pretty, flaxen-haired Prussian girl of
seventeen.
The style of papering walls and cei!
ings change with every season. A paper
hanger who was putting on the ccilings
and frieze at Con well's drug store a day
or two ago, when asked if any center
pieces were to be put about the chandeliers
the proprietor of the store explained
that gaudy center pieces were no
longer the style. "I)o you see that
frieze?'' asked the proprietor,pointing to
a long strip of brown paper,relieved by a
cilt molding. "That is cork paper.
Common heavy brown paper is prepared
I with a coat of ?rlue and small pieces of
! cork are then spread over it evenly. It
| makes a uniqc variety of paper. It
i has quite a history, too. For years no
j one was able to utilize old corks, and
they were thrown away. At length
some man who had observed the waste
set about devising means to use them.
He invented a machine that chewed up
the cork into small pieces. Then he
^lued them to paper and it was used in
packing bottles. It was found to be the
most convenient and clastic material for
use in packing bottles of medicine, and
large patent meilicin" linns use tous of
it. It did not require a very brilliant
brain to invent the paper, but it made a
fortune for the inventor.?CleceUind
Plain Dealer.
?^IjpHMfiiT
WADE HAMPTON'S FORAY.
a keamnacence or was times
zh vzboivia.
The Confederate Attack t'pon firant'*
?tcat Supplies?A Wild Dasli 1'pon
the Sleeping Federals.
The foray of General WadcIIampton's
cavalry upon General Grant's meat supplies
in 1804 in Virginia is one which
will linger long in the recollection of the
half-starved men who fought in the
trenches around Petersburg. If a strawthrown
to a drowning man will causc
his heart to throb with new vigor and
awaken fresh hope, how greatly delirious
must have been the joy of those hungry
men when Sergeant Shadbourne, Ilainp,
ton's chief of scouts, brought into camp
| the cheering news that Grant's beef pens
were within easy marching distance.
He had made a daring reconnaissance
into the enemy's lines
and ascertained their exact
position, and assured his general that he
could guide the command within a mile
of the place. The animals were being
grazed near Sycamore church, and the
sergeant, who was familiar with all of j
the by-paths leading in that direction,
piloted "the boys." A halt was made
about ten miles from the church, pickets
posted and scouts sent, out to reconnoitcr
the situation, after which the command
retired for the night with blissful expectations
for the morrow. Some hours
before daylight the bugle sounded "to
Jiorse," ana tlie troops Knew mat something
was up. Just as day dawned the
charge was sounded, and the front regiment
dashed ahead upon the enemy's
videttc and into the camp of the sleeping
Federals, Jjhadbourue :ind his band
of scouts at the head.
The videttc fired his piece, awakened
his comrades, and a wild scene ensued?
shots Hew thick and fast and many gallant
men and officers fell on both sides;
but there was not time to parley with
death or sentiment, and with a passing
sign for the brave fellows who had
fallen all around them, the remainder of
the troops dashed on to thedesired goal.
The bewildered cattle thus suddenly deserted
by their Federal protectors, looked
wildly at the hungry "grey coats," by
whom they were surrounded, and for
whose rapid consumption they were destined.
Soon the commissary and sutler
stoics were invaded, and men who for
months had contented themselves with
corn-cob pipes now indulged in choice
cigars ami drank toasts in line liquors,
congratulating each other that their
tastes had not been vitiated by ''applejack"
and "corn-whisky." Blankets,
butter, cheesc, boots, shoes, colTcc, tea,
sugar aud everything that could be
transported were laid siege to by the
half-famished soldiers, who religiously
prayed for more capacity.
After the camp had been thoroughly
ransacked, Hampton ordered Generals
Hosscr, Dearing and W. F. II. Lee
to collect the men and return.
The battalion of Virginia cavalry
was in advancc, commanded by
Colonel White. Then followed Bearing
- >i-Viiln fnr in fVin rnar (is n.
auu HU1IV AU* ft ?..w ?
guard of honor to tlm 2,300 bovine
prisoners, came W. F. II. Lee with his
division. They were jojrging leisurely
along with visions of roast beef, tenderloin
and porter-house steaks dancing
through their brains, when suddenly a
courier, covered with dust, dashed into
their lines and announced that the Virginians
had met the enemy on the Jerusalem
turnpike road needed recnforcemcnts,
as the Federals outnumbered
them considerably. Spurs were dashed
into the horses' aides, and soon the wild
yell announced that the troops commanded
by general Uosser had made a
charge. Before the echo of this yell
died out another courier, with foani-covcred
steed, met General Hampton, who
was spurring with all speed to the scene
of action, and informed him that General
Rosscr had dismounted his troops,
who were fighting on foot, and that not ten
rounds of ammunition remained to the
man. Urging his troops forward with the
utmost speed, Hampton soon joined the
contestants, while courier after courier
was sent to hurry up General Lee. The
cattle, for which there was much solicitude,
were turned off into another road
in order to protect them from recapture,
v The scone cau never be forgotten. The
rnnnrtn hnlr-hinrr forth their licrv edicts.
and carrying death and destruction
among men ;ind horses; the waving of
battle-tings, the galloping ofstafl officers
and couriers over the Held, the groans
of the dying drowned by the yells of the
victors, the slanting rays of the sun
gilding the russet foli:igc of the forest,
the defiant shouts of the "gray-coats"
calling on the Federals to "Come over !
| and get some beef for supper"?all made
| up a scene in which the sublime and the
ridiculous were strangely mingled. Just
at sunset the command returned to camp,
and the hungry infantry iu the trenches
received the news of the captnrcd
bovines with shouts of joy far greater
tlian they would have accorded to captured
prisoners.?New York Noes.
Profits in Porpoise Fishing.
Porpoise fishing promises to become
one of the principal industries on the
New Jersey coast. The experiment made
last fall at Cape May proved so successful
in a financial way that the facilities of
the company there will be greatly increased
and other porpoise fisheries will
* -i i i?_v J i._iL XT A K * I
DC CSiauilsncu ill UUIII \^nJiu :mi> iiuu .11- |
lantic counties. At first they were !
caught for the skin an<l blubber alone,
carcasses being thrown away, or, in a
I few instances, used as fertilizers. From
the blubber is extracted a very fine oil,
while the skin makes a superior quality
of leather. Some time last fall, however,
it \va9 discovered that porpoise flesh
was savory to the taste, and it soon became
popular as an article of food, and
was in great demand. The juicy red
meat, which is taken from beneath a
layer of fat next to the skin, is pronounced
by epicures to be more palatable
than any porterhouse steak ever cooked.
In appearance it resembles beef, but is
more solid and of finer grain and very
tender. Some say that it tastes like
venison, and that there is nothing of the
fishy taste about it.
A Philadelphia linn has recently made
a proposition to take all that may be
caught alon;; the coast this season, with j
the view of working much of it into ;
mince meat. The Cape May company,
however, will reject the oiler, as it already
has orders from prominent Philadelphia
and New York hotels and restaurants,
and it is believed that there will
be a demand for the meat which cannot
be met. For the first time it will be on
the bills of fare at the leading hotels
along the coast the coming season, and
will no doubt prove acceptable as a substitute
for the inevitable fish. Last year
a seme about one thousand yards long,
with a net reaching almost to the bottom
of the sea, was used, but it was scl]
dom that more than a half dozen fish
I were taken in a haul. Improved seines
will be used this season, some of which
arc now in coursc of construction, and
which will be patented. Each porpoise
was estimated to be worth $20 per head
when nothing but the blubber and skin
was utilized, but now that the flesh is in
demand, and an extra fine oil is extracted I
1 from the head, it is said that they will
be worth more than double that amount.
When it is stated that the Cape May
company realized #<3.740 from an outlay
of $1,000 last season in five weeks1 time,
it will readily be seen what a profit there
is in porpoise fishing.?l'/ti/itddphin
'Times.
WISE WORDS.
Behavior is a mirror in which every
one shows his image.
Self-nreservation is the first law of na
turc, but too many in this world act as if I
it were the only one.
The more able a inan is, if he makes j
ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous
will he be to the commonwealth."
Idlers cannot even find time to be
idle, or the industrious to be at leisure.
We must be always doing or suffering.
If a man is quick-tempered, you had
better go to the other side of the road
until the paroxysm is over; if he is sul- !
len go to the other side of the street and j
stay there.
What makes us like new acquaintances !
is not so much any weariness of our old |
ones or the pleasure of change, as dis- i
gust at not being suflicicntly admired by '
those who know us too well, and the
hone of being more so by those who do
noi know so much of us.
A plain man often looks with envy on
Due who has risen to place and power;
font if he could sec all the steps that have
been taken to bring him there, or all the
perplexities that surround him now that
he is there, he would not barter his
present piece of mind for the coveted
great ncss.
Samuel, William and Charles Ilobinson,
each asserted to foe seven feet eleven
inches tall, with four sisters averaging
six feet two inches each, make up the
family of the highest standing in Knox- I
ville, la. I
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SELECT SIFTINGS.
The name of Cnpe of Good Hope was
given by John II. of Portugal, who augured
well of future discoveries, having
found the extremity of Africa.
A Reading, Penn., hat manufacturer
says the average Pcnnsylvanians size is
GI; the average New Yorker's, 7; and
the "Western and New England heads
range from 71 to 7iJ. lie thinks the size
of the head is increased by excitement.
"The President's manuscript," is said
by a correspondent, "to be positively
painful to decipher. The
style is sharp and decisive, and many of
the words end in marks that arc little
more than nervous shakes of the hand
He writes with almost a telegrapher'
rapidity."
The term broken hcait, as commonly
applied to death from excessive grief, is
not a vulgar error, but may arise from
violent muscular exercise or strong mental
cmotious. This alTcction was, it is
believed, first described by Harvey; but
since his day several eases have been
observed. Morgagni has recorded a few
examples: Among them that of George
II. of England, who died suddenly of
fliU disnnsfi in 1 TOO. and what is verv
curious, Morgagni himself fell a victim
to tiio same malady.
Irrigation in Egypt.
The ancient wealth of Egypt lias ever
been in its crop of corn. As surely .as
the seasons come round, so surely has
the Nile risen year by year. From the
earliest time the valley of the Nile has
been divided by earthen embankments
into a succession of great Hats, measuring
occasionally as much as 100,000
acres. The rising Hood is diverted by a
series of short canals into these flats,
where the water stands two or three feet
d(;cp until it has soaked the soil and
deposited its rich alluvial mud. By this
time the Nile has subsided. The drying
mud is rudely plowed and sown, and
four or live months after the crop is
reaped. No ra:n has fallen on it,
but the soil has been sufficiently
saturated to require no further
watering. A rich crop is produced, but
by this system only one crop in the year,
and during the summer months, when,
from its latitude and temperature, one
might expect Egypt to be yielding subtropical
fruits, the empty fields lie baked
and parched. Muhammcd Ali Pasha,
whose genius and energy creatcd modern
Egypt, soon recognize J that more might
be obtained out of the soil than this out
crop of wheat or beans. He 9ct to work,
therefore, in Lower Egypt to deepen the
canals, so that they should flow in low
as well as high Nile. His people were
not long in discovering the benefits this
conferred on them, l'umps and water
wheels soon lined the banks of the
canals. Egypt became known as a cotton-producing
country, and during the
American civil war, twenty years ago,
wealth poured into it. But this new
system was a vastly more complicated
one than that which it superseded. To
suit the convenience of wealthy men.
numerous canals were cut, without system
or arrangement. Complaints soon
began that the crops were deteriorating,
that the soil was being exhausted, 110
longer replenished by lying two months
a year under muddy water. In many
places a salt florescence appeared on
the surface fatal to vegetation. In high
Nile there was abundance of water for
all, but in low Nile, just when the cotton
crop wanted it most, there was least to
be had, and then the peasant's poor little
patch had every chance of being withered,
while the pasha's broad, acres were
flourishing. Worst of all, this great
network of canals was yearly tilled
with Nile' deposit which had yearly to
be removed, and an unpaid army of 00,000
peasants was employed for about
half of every year effecting the necessary
clearances. In the long, narrow
valley of I'pper Egypt, except in one
portion, the old Pharaonic system of irrigation
still prevails, and here the
Egyptian has little to learn. In the
delta the new cultivation with perennial
irrigation is practiced, and in this, the
^f 7 nr/1 FinfTnr.
riUUUSb |l?ll l' Ul IUV LVUiiH j, JJiriv* A/UUV*
in soon saw the gravest reasons for anxiety.
A system had been created which
the people did not understand. Ignor- I
aucc of the most ordinary rules of engineering,
indolence, and corruption were j
fast destroying the country.?Nineteenth
Century.
A Chinese Clubhouse.
De?cribing a visit to Cicnfucgos,G'uba,
a correspondent of the New York Times
says : One of my iirst adventures in
Cicnfuegos was a visit to the Chinese
clubhouse. There are two of them, but
this was the larger. Purser Miles and I
went ashore together through the largo
open shed that covers the landing place
and took a carriage for a short drive into
the town. As we were going up one of
the streets we passed a fine large building
that Mr. Miles said was a Chinese
clubhouse, and I immediately suggested
that we should go in and sec it. It is a
long time since I have talked any Chinese,
but the man on guard at the door
received us courteously, ushered us into
an itiuer room, and sent a Chinese boy
after somebody on the other side of th.;
courtyard. The entrance was through a
long, broad hallway, paved with marble,
and leading to a fine, large room, also
marble paved, which opened upon a spacious
quadrangular courtyard in which
were (lowers and plants, and a fountain
playing in the center. Everything was
in quite as good order as in any of the
best clubhouses in New York, and the
marble doors, the flowers and the fountain
gave the place an appcarance of elegance
certainly not exceeded by the
I'nion League or the Knickerbocker.
Tho gentleman who had been
sent for proved to be the
president of the club, and he soon came
and showed us every attention. He
spoke English fluently, and told us all
about the club, and about its handsome
quarters, in a building which had once
been the residence of a wealthy Cuban
family. He showed us about the buildirirr
/>vr>n nnintirifr out ail idol Or two
""O* ~ I ~o ? _
standing 011 a shelf, and conducted us to
, a room in which the muster roll is kept,
where in ft large frame arc secure ! the
names of the 500 Chinamen who comprise
the membership. We had previously
selected some cigars from a glass
case in the first room we entered, and
felt rather taken down when, upon leaving,
they would not let us pay for them.
The president laughed at tlic idea of
strangers visiting the house being allowed
to pay for anything, and sent his
boy to bring a bottle of claret, which,
mixed with plenty of ice water, can be
appreciated nowhere half so much as on
a hot day in Cuba. The whole place is
upon a scale of grandeur that I had no
idea of finding in any Chinese establishment
outside the Orient, and after being
treated by everybody we met in the most
courteous manner possible, it almost
made me blush to think what a reception
any ordinary Chinaman would meet if he
should happen into one of the fashionable
clubhouses in New York.
The Hat Industry.
In election times we bet hats. Do we
ever ask ourselves how the hat manufacture
started in this country? Are we
a ware that 222 years ago Virginia olTercd
a premium of ten pounds of tobacco for
every good hat made of wool or fur
within her bounds? We made so many
IiaiS ill America iou years ayu mut tin;
Felt-makers company, of London, petitioned
parliament to prohibit all exportation
of lints from the American
colonics, on the ground that New England
alone was turning out 10,001) hats a
year. Parliament "graciously acceded"
to the request. Consequently the American
hats took their own course and were
glorified. Instead of being made to receive
the fall of an elephant out of a
third-story window, they were made
light with reference to the sunshine and
the beverage which inspircth. Daubury,
in Connecticut, was making hats 10-1 j
years ago. As late as 18-lVall the hats
were made out of real skins. The poor old
beaver disappeared from the globe in
order to furnish man's brain with a false
dome. Next the nutria had to sacrilice
himself, and the gentle muskrat was
called into requisition, and the rabbit
was drafted. The Panbury hat folks
imported rabbits to breed tlieni artificially,
but the free-minded rabbit died or !
jumped over the fence. Arc you aware,
young gentlemen who have paid a hat ,
bet but have not paid for the hut, that
the Chinese first taught us how to make
the present sort of a silk hat? These
hats were started in this country just
fifty years ago or in 183.5. A Frenchman
in Paris put his hand on the
Chinese silk hat and stole the idea. "We
are not probably aware that in nearly all
the English books the American hat is
referred to as a marvel of lightness and
style, yet it has become the habit of that
class of young men who cannot eat dinner
up an alley without a dress coat to buy
all their hats of Enerlish make, as if they
might possibly import with the hat sonic
corresponding brain. Kossuth had
great influence in the United States to
introduce here the wide-brimmed soft
wool hat.?New York Tribune. \
SOMETHING ABOUT SMS.
HELIOS or AY AUCIE2TT FOBM OF
ADVERTISING.
Curiosities of Sign Boards?Emblcniaile
Signs of Old Inns?Origin of
the Wooden Figure*.
The "rooster," so prominent, was an
old Dutch emblem, formerly much used
as a weather-cock in New Amsterdam.
Signs and emblems in all countries arc a
curious study and one who haB traveled
much can always refill curiosities in this
line, found more especially in o!d country
towns and out-of-the-way places.
Advertising is now so general and run to
such an extent that few of the old-fash*
ioned signs remain in the large cities except
the tobacconists' figures, the three
balls of "my uncle," the barbers' poles
: 11.. _ ..?,1_ ??/l n
iwiu uuuiiaiuiiiiuj a jiu^iiu uun inuiiui
druggist's and a gilt hammer or some
implement of trade. The lager beer
signs?King Gnmbrinus and others?are
modern conceits. I am inclined to think
this divinity is a sort of modification of
Bacchus, a nineteenth century crcation
for presiding over malt and hops instead
of the juice of the grape, and more
warmly clothed than his youthful originator.
In the small towns at the South many
of the inns and taverns have the old
signs of the colonial times, such as "The
White Swan," "The Golden Lamb" and
other emblems on battered boar.ls in
washed-out colors. Not very long
ago a sign-painter was an important
person and regarded as 110 mean
artist, being hospitably entertained
as lie traveled through the country with
his materials of trade. Many impecunious
portrait painters dccorated signboards
with heads of Washington, Franklin
and distinguished heroes. Much ingenuity
was spent on emblematic signs,
tigure-hcads and weather cocks, almost
equal to that now expended in painting
rocks and covering walls and fences with
pull's of trade and medicinal cure alls. It
is a wonder shopkeepers and tradesmen
have not adopted armorial bcarirtgs,
"Labor est Nobilis." Each might have
on his escutcheon some emblem or device
signifying his trndc or occupation.
England was famous for her signs,
some of which, the Boar's Head, the Star
and Garter, have historical fame. In
Nuremburg and old continental cities it
is very interesting to decipher the
weather-beaten signs and emblems still
hanging in the narrow, crowded streets
and alleys and in our own country their
history is well worth tracing. In the historical
museum of the old South church,
in Boston, is preserved a colonial sign
of a flowing Punch Bowl, once much admired
as a work of art. New England
discouraged all such worldly emblems,
and an old traveler complains, after a
journey in a stage coach, that "the passengers
were a thirsty set, who got out
at every sifjn-board," thus showing that
there were a considerable number in
spite of Puritan scruples and denunciations.
Philadelphia' signs arc early
spoken of as being remarkably well painted.
A sign-painter named Matthew Pratt
earned distinction for himself in his
calling. lie painted the sign for the
Federal convention in 1788, put up first
on thn enmnr nf Fnnrth and Chestnut
streets. Pratt was a schoolmatc of Benjamin
West, but found bis art of painting
portraits insuflicient to support an
increasing family and took to the more
lucrative calling of si^n decorator. Several
of his signs were quite famous in
i Philadelphia. One, a game cock on a
! beer house in Spruce street, and a fox
chase on Arch street, were quite artistic
pictures. He sometimes put poetical
couplets at the bottom of his signs.
Many of the old Pennsylvania towns
were noticeable for their sign-boards ih
the days of turnpike roads, toll bridges
and lumbering stage coaches, and later
the long wagon trains of western travelers;
to these a "Rising Sun" painted in
lavish colors, u "ilen and Chickens" or
the head of the "Father of his Country"
were joyfully greeted as notices of refreshment
for weary men and be;ists. On
! the stage route from Philadelphia to Baltimore
some persons now remember the
"Heart in Hand," expressing a welcome;
"The Three Tuns," promising grcaf
joviality; also a tavern with a full length
portrait of "Mad" Anthony Wayne on a
swinging sign in an iron frame. Only a
few years ago this was still hanging, battered
and weatherbeatcn, among cars
and locomotives. The old "Wlicatfield
Inn" has been denuded of
its field of waving grain overrun by hungry
rals and is now a modern hotel.
The "Indian Queen" was a noted hotel
on this route, said toaccommodate "two
hundred guests and have bells in every
room."
The Fountain inn, where Washington
always stayed on his way north from Virginia,
was built round a court, in which
was a fountain, and had shady galleries
on each tloor. This inn was constructed
after the pattern of those in England in
the time of Shakespeare, where he used
to act plays with his couicdians for the
amusement of his friends and patrons.
At a Baltimore inn, the .Seven Stars,
the first American lodge of Odd Fellows
was instituted and grew into importance.
These Seven Stars were gorgeously gilt
upon a bright blue firmament. At the
Three Loggerheads, a dingy old iun near
the docks, was received the first warrant
ever granted a United States lodge from
Great Britain, This was a curious sign
swung on an iron pole. On each side was
painted two very ugly faces, with the
words, "We three loggerheads be."
To our country belongs the honor of
originating the wooden figures so much
used by tobacconists. Tliese were very
numerous?more sotnnn even at uic present
day. A story is told of a foreigner,
landing in New York, inqairiug if they
were statues of distinguished Americans.
Ilen Jonson in his "Bartholomew Fair,"
speaks of the "Black Boy, ' where tobacco
was sold; also of the "Indian
Queen." Old figureheads of ships were
often used and added to, and were very
funny. Sir Walter Haleigh, the introducer
of the weed, is a favorite tobacconist
sign in England; "Jim Crow,"
"Uncle Tom" and "Captain Jinks," all
of American parentage. The "Indian
King" was popular after 1710, owing to
a visit of four Indian chiefs, who were
received with much ceremony by Queen
Anne, and were much sought after by
sight-seers.
Altogether old signs deserve a passing
mention and would be an interesting
corner in antiquarian research. Many
would require considerable ingenuity to
trace their origin and applicability. A
pair of "snow-shoes" mystified the inhabitants
of Chelsea in the Revolutionary
war. Thcv were set up over an inn
when snow shoes were supposed to be ft
needful part of the equipment of soldiers
sent to light "Mr. Washington and his
rebels." J5ut I have drifted back to
signs, my original "moutons" from our
American specialty, the wooden "manikins,"
and before closing the interesting
subjcct I must mention the "holly-tree
inns." These were established in Kngland
in the interest of temperance and it
is only fair to give them a passing mention,
as mostly the signs mentioned have
been to the advertising of Bacchus.
These inns were admirable in their arrangements,
bright, cosy and attractive.
They adopted the old-fashioned sign and
were economical and comfortable, so that
the sight of the bright berries and shining
leaves of the holly was very attractive.
These "holly-tree inns" arc still
scattered over England.?Philadelphia
Times.
An Ancient Burial Custom.
At a rccent meeting of flic Anthropological
Society of London, Mr. J. G. Frazer
read a paper "On Certain Burial
Customs as illustrative of the Primitive
Theory of the Soul." The ltomans had
a custom that when a man who had been
reported to have died abroad returned
home alive, lie should enter his house
not by the door, but over the roof. This
CUStom (WHICH IS Sim uuiiurtuti jii i uiaui;
owed its origin to certain primitive beliefs
mid customs with regard to the
dead. The ghost of an unburicd man
was supposed to haunt and molest the
living, especially his relatives. Hence
the importance attached to the burial of
the dead, and various precautions were
taken that the ghost should not return.
When the body of a dead man could not
be found, he was buried in cfligy, and
this fictitious burial was held to be sutli
cicnt to lay the wandering ghost, for it
is a principle of primitive thought that
what is done to the cfligy of man is done
to the man himself.?IahhIoh Academy.
The English catncl corps in Kgyptis a
novelty merely renewed from the Neman
army in the East. Mr. Kobert Mowat,
the editor of the Jiulldiu Kpiyrnphiipic
reminds us that about the year 4'20
Thebes, the capital of Upper Egypt, was
guarded by a wing of military dromedarians-,
whose very name? Ala prima
Valerea dromcdnriornin?indicates that
they had been founded by the Emperor
Diocletian more tjhan a century previously,
and had retained, as an honorary
title, his own family name of Valerius.
There will be tWee Quakers in the
next CongreBS. \
Him
LITTLE THINGS.
A little thing, a sunny smile,
A loving word at morn,
And nil day long the sun shines bright,
The caros of lifo were mado more light,
And sweetest hopes were born.
A little thing, a hasty word,
A cruel frown at morn,
And aching hearts went on their way,
And toiled throughout a dreary day
Disheartened, sad, anil lorn.
Ah, bitter words and frown! With theo
No want nor pain compares.
Oh, pleasant words and sunny smiles,
Your hidden power our grief beguiles,
And drives away our cares.
?Charles Love joy Hill.
HUMOR OF TIIE DAY.
One swallow doesn't make one spring,
but a wasp generally docs, provided it
is sat upon.?Urupliic.
Professor (reading)?"Enter Mephisto!"
(Turning to Mr. C., who has just
come in). "Good morning." (General
collapse). ? Columbia Spectator.
It costs forty-two cents to stop a train.
In spite of this expense we believe it is
often cheaper to stop the train than it is
to throw a passenger ofT.?Graphic.
Grover Cleveland is not hard of hearing,
but when anybody asks him who
his first assistant postmaster-general is,
lie s.ivs "Hav?"?Merchant-'Traveler.
In the spring tho tuneful tom-cat thrills
creation to tho quick;
In tho spring tho back-room lodger hurls tho
fruitless bob-tailed brick.
? Washington Hatchet.
Young hopeful (to his sister)?I say,
Nell, pass mo the butter. Nell (in a tone
of reproach)?If what, Johnnie? Johnnie
(goaded to desperation by the delay)
?If you can re.ich it.?Life.
THE LEVEL-HEADED MERCHANT.
The merchant now devises
A plan brisk trade to win:
He straightway advertises
And rakes tho shekels in.
? Boston C jririer.
A New Jersey man broke up house*
keeping and went to a hotel to board in
order that his wife might enjoy roller
skating to her heart's content. Opinion
is divided on the question whether he
loves her or wants her to break her neck.
? Call.
What One Tree C'nn Do.
There is a tree in Madagascar of which
thrt natives make their houses. What of
that? Well, it is not anything extraordinary,
is it? We have several kinds
of trees in this country any one of which
can be used for making houses too.
But then it is principally of the leaves
of this Madagascar tree that the houses
are built, and that is odd. Indeed, before
we have told all about this tree it
will be seen that there are few trees in
the world half so wonderful as it is.
When it is growing it looks like a
gigantic palm-leaf fan. The trunk is
bare to tho ton. from which the cnor
mous leaves ail spring. These leaves do
not branch out in every direction, but
stand up side by side, so that they form
a half circle, and give the fan-like appearance.
It is the middle rib of the great leaf
that is used for making walls and partitions
of. The ribs arc twined together
very much as willow is with us in basket
making. The part of the leaf that is
left after taking the rib out is used for
thatching the roof with. Of course such
a house is not a very t*rand ono.
The good tree has not done all it can
yet, however. Tl:c native of Madagascar
likes to have his house carpeted, and
so he applies ;o his tree. IIo strips off
the bark in one great piccc, stretches it
out, beats it with round stones, and
dries it, and, behold! a thick soft carpet
as wide as four breadths of Brussels
carpet and from twenty to thirty feet
long.
Still the good work of the tree is not
exhausted. There comes a long hot and
very dry season every year in "that part
of the world, and the wells refuse to
give any water. Then the tree is ready,
and the thankful man goes to it. With
his spear lie makes a hole at the base of
one of the great leaves, and out spouts
a stream of fresh, pure, and almost icecold
water. Each leaf has about a ?)U:irt
of water to yield up, and no matter how
hot or dry the weather, it never fails.
IJut even yet the good tree has a service
to perform. When the dry season
comes around, the houses very naturally
become dry too, and then they take lire
very easily. Of course there arc no tireengines
there, nor any pumps even, and
so a tire might easily spread and burn
down a whole village if there were not
always at hand an extinguisher of some
sort. There stands the tree, with its
leaves charged with water, and when a fire
occurs the men run and tear oil the
leaves, and with them beat the burning
house. The water runs out, and the fire
yields.
There, then, is a tree which gives to
man his house, his carpet, his fountain
of pure water, and his iire-extinguisher.
The botanioal name of this friend of man
is Urania speciosa; the common name is
" Traveler's Tree "?and a foolish name
it is, too, for it is more a tree for the
native than for the traveler.?Hurler's
Young ro>\>lc.
The Key or Dentil.
In the collection of curiosities preserved
in the arsenal of Venice, there is a key
of which the following singular tradition
is related: "About the year 1,GOO one
of those dungerous men, in whom extraordinary
talent is only the fearful source
of crime and wickedness beyond that of
ordinary men, cainc to establish himself
as a merchant or trader in Vcnice. The
stranger, whose name was Tebaldo, became
enamored of the daughter of an ancicnt
house, already affianced to another.
He demanded her hand in marriage, and
was, of course, rejected. Enraged nt
this, he studied how to be revenged.
Profoundly skilled in the mechanical
arts, lie allowed himself no rc9t until lie
had invented the most formidable weapon
which could be imagined. This was a
key of large size, the handle of which
was so constructed that it could
be turned round with little difficulty:
when turned it discovered
a spring, which, on pressure, launched
from the other end a needle
or lancet of such subtle fineness that it
entered into the flesh and buried itself
there without leaving external trace.
Tebaldo waited in disguise at the door
of the church in which the maiden whom
lie loved was about to receivc the nuptial
benediction. The assassin sent the
?li>nrW nnnprccived into the breast
of the bridegroom. The wounded man had
no suspicion of injury, but seized with a
sudden and sharp pain in the midst of
the ceremony, he fainted,and was carried
to his house, amid the lamentations of
the bridal party. Vain was all the skill
of the physicians, who could not devise
the cause of this strnnjje illness; and in
a few days he died. Tcbaldo again demanded
the hand of the maiden from her
parents, and received a second refusal.
They, too, perished miserably in a few
days. The alarm which these deaths?
which appeared almost miraculous?occasioned
excited the utmost vigilance of the
magistrates; and when, on close examination
of the bodies, the small instrument
was found in the gangrened llesli,
terror was universal; every one feared
for his own life. The maiden thus cruelly
orphaned had passed the lirst months of
her mourning in a convent, when Tcbaldo,
hoping to bend her to his will, entreated
tospcak with her at the grate. The face of
the foreigner had been ever displeasing
to her, but since the death of all those
most dear to her it had become odious
(as though she had a presumption of his
miiltt niici lint* rnniv ivviq iimst. (Ippisivn
.V..V. ..... * ' * w*
in the negative. Tebaldo, beyond himself
with rage, attempted to wound her
through the ;jratc, and succeeded; the
obscurity of the place prevented his
movement being observed. On her return
to her room, the maiden felt a pain
in her breast, and uncovcriug it, she
found it spotted witli a single drop of
blood. The pain increased, the surgeons
who hastened to her assistance?taught
by the past?wasted no time in conjecture,
but, cutting deep into the
wounded part, extracted the needle before
any mortal mischief had commcnccd,
and saved the life of the lady. The
State inquisition used every means to
discover the hand which dealt these insidious
and irresistible blows. The visit
of Tebaldo to the convent caused suspicion
to fall heavily upon him. His
house was carefully searched, the infamous
invention discovered, and lie perished
on the gibbet.?Public Opinion.
Not a Trace.
Dr. D. F. Peningtou, D. I). S., 530
West Fayette street, Baltimore, Maryland,
states that he has personally used
the Bed Star Cough Cure,and in his family
has found it a prompt and sure remedy
for coughs and colds. No bad results
of other cough remedies. Not a
trace of opium or morphia.
An exchange asks: "Does dairying
pay?" Judging from the strong, healthy
condition of our boarding-house butter,
wo should think it did pay a big per
iceatftso.?#*. Paul Herald.
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Spring H
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must be purified, the system strengthened, and the t1
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Cincinnati, Ohio. (
"I have used Hood's .SarsapariUa for blood poison,
and believe it has entirely curod mo."?w- H. babb, t
Steubenvllle, Ohio. i
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Why Doctors Don't Catch Disease. . |
"Some men," remarked Captain I lor- c
ton, "can move in tnc midst ot pestt-;
lence and miasmata, and never seem any
the worse." "IIow, for instance, do
you doctors defend your fortress?"
"I'm glud you asked the question. Wc
defend the fortress first by using ordinary
precautions. Wc will not, if possible,
breathe more infectcd air than we
can help. We will not be stupidly rash.
Depend upon it, my friend, that when
Dr. Abernethy kicked his foot through
the pane of glass in his patient's room
because he couldn't get him to have his
window down, the excellent physician
was thinking as much about his own
safety as that of his patient. Se?ondly,
physicians know that they must live by
rule when attending cases during a pestilence.
The body must be kept up to
the health standard. In times of epi- .
demic let every one sec to himself, attend
to every rule of health, live regularly,
and keep the stomach most carefully
in order, and be abstinent. There
is no other way of defending the fortress
of life against invisible foes."
" This living according to rule,'' said 1
ray friend musingly, "is a terribly hard
thing to have to do. At least, I am 1
sure most people find it so."
"Few people," I replied, "think
of doinz anything of the sort, until actual
danger to life stares them in the face.
Some one else, I believe, has made a remark
similar to this before now, but it
is worthy of heing repeated."
" And it is true," added Horton. " I
have been thinking a good deal lately?"
' * ' * - 1 ! J 1 J -
"Most people wno are iuiu iuw uu
think," I said.
"1 have been thinking," said my friend,
' that most of us err by eating more than
is necessary."
" IIow very true that is. Horton! Why,
in careful regulation of diet?a diet that
should incline to the abstemious?we
have one of the best defences against invisible
foes of all kinds. This is one of
our posts, and should be held at all risks,
if we care for life at all?and not for life
only, but comfort while we do exist. It
is a fact which all should bear in mind,
that overeating not only corrupts the
blood, but destroys nervous energy."?
Family Doctor, in Casscll.
A Jest that Cost a Finger..
Duriiig the Mexican war, after the
American army had entered the City of
' Mexico, the young officers had very little
to do but to shine their shoes, dress
well, and visit the scnoritas. Along
with the Kentucky troops was the fa
mous story writer, Maync J<cicl. uric
day lleid was shining his boots and rc'
peating at the same time the lines:
"At midnight in his guarded tent,
The Turk lay dreaming of tho hour
When ftreeco, hor knee in supplianco bent,
Should tromble at his power,"
, when Ned Marshall, our own lion. E.
C. Marshall, now or rcccntly attorneygeneral
of California, put in with:
"Grease her knee, Kcid? Now, why
did she grease her keee! Now, that's
the question that agitates this whole con
tincnt." Heid looked at him in utter
contempt, and made the laconic remark:
"You are a fool." A duel followed, in
which Marshall lost a finger and got the
worst of it generally.?Itichnwnd Herald
A latent discontent is the sccrct spur
of all our enterprises.
Fools Rnnh In, Whore Angels Fear to
Trend."
So impetuous youth is often given to folly
and indiscretions; and, as a rosult, nervous,
mental and organic debility follow, momory
is impaired, self confidence is lacking; at
night bad dreams occur, premature old age
seems setting in, ruin is in the track. In con-r
fldence, you can and should write to Dr. R,
V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., the author of a
troatiso for the benefit of that class of patients,
and describe your symptoms and sufferings.
He can cure you at your home, and
will send you full particulars by mail.
MIIEHE are tlUbLLUg UUIOW vrimi
records of 2:30 or better.
"Is there no halm In Gilead?
Is there no physician there?"
Thanks to Dr. Pierce, there is a balm In his
"Golden Medical Discovery"?a "balm for
every wound" to health,.from colds, coughs,
consumption, bronchitis, and all chronic,
blood, lung and liver affections. Of druggists.
The curiosity of River Fork, Ga., is a
"milk-white blackbird."
Best French Brandy, Smart* Weed, Jamaica
Ginger and Camphor Water, as combined in
Dr. Piorce's Extract of Bmart-Woed, is the
best remedy for colic, diarrhoea, cholora morbus,
dysentery or bloody ftux; also, to break
up colds, fovers and inflammatory attacks if
used early.
There are said to be fifty-two varieties of
sheep in the world.
"Rough on Pain" Plaster.
Porous and strengthening, improved, the
best for backache, pains in chest or side,rheumatism,
neuralgia. 25c. Druggists or mail.
Four score years and ten have not seen the
equal Of Ely's Cream Balm as a remedy for
Catarrh, Colds in the Head, and Hay Fever.
It works like magic, giving relief at once,and
permanent benefit. A thorough treatment
cures the worst eases. Apply with the finger
into the nostrils. Price oO cents at druggists.
60 cents by mail. Ely Bros., Owego, N. Y.
A cold of unusual severity which I took
last autumn developed into a difficulty decidedly
catarrhal in all its characteristics,
threatening a return of my old chronic malady,
catarrh. One bottl# of Ely's Cream
Balm completely eradicated every symptom
of that painful and prevailing disorder.?E.
W. Warner, 16.5 Hudson St., Rochester, N. Y.
We have used Ely's Cream Balm in our
hnmn for nearly two venrs. and find it the
best medicine we have over used for colds or catarrh.?J.C.Vasselin,Covington,Tioga
Co.,Pa
The Hope oftho Nation.
Children,slow in development.puny,scrawny
and delicate, use "Wells' Health llenower."
Meksman's Peptonized beer toxic, the only
preparation ofboef containingits entire witriproperties.
It contains blood-making
force generating and life-sustaining proportion;
Invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous
prostration, and all forms of general debility;
also, in all enfeebled conditions, whether th?
result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, overwork
or acute disease, particularly if resulting
from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard 4
Co., Proprietors, New York. Sold by druggists.
Catarrh of the ninilder.
Stinging,irritation,inflammation,all Kidney
and Urinary Complaints, cured by " BuchuPaiba"
*1.
"Bef.son's Aromatic Alum Sulphur
Soap," beautifies and softens Face and
hands, heals and cures all skin diseases for
sure. 25 cents by "Druggist" or by mail,
Wm. Dreydoppel, Philadelphia, Pu.
"Hough on t'ougln."
Ask for " Rough on Coughs," for Coughs,
Colds, Sore Throat, Hoarseness. Troches, 13c.
Liquid, Hoc.
Seo F. & R.s' Gluten Flour adv. next week.
Mrs. Par an Stevkns,w1io entertains moat
lavishly in Now York, is worth $0,000,000.
Important.
Whm jna *1ittor !??ic Ntw lforit city,
xpreua^fi tnrt (3 carria?n hir?, and iitop at tha (.Irani
Union Hotel. oppoaltu (Irand l'?nlr*l dipot.
6Crn|.:jr*nt rooms, lltt*?a up at a coit of om milllia
dollars, $1 and upwarl prdar. Riimpmq pita. Kl v
Tator. Hestaurant suppliaJ wilh thatiMt. Hort*oir?,
Stages tod rlaTntiil railroad to *11 d?p it*. Families
can lif? bett?r for last mirnj at tin Grind Unna
Hotel than at aajr other rtnt-ulan hotel in the citr.
In 'Jl8 Now York City men and ?,91
woman married under UU years of ago.
Red Star {
13 trade\?i:o( mark;
mK!|
Free from Opiatei, Emeticm nnd l'oi*nn*. t
A PROMPT, SAFE, SURE CURE ,
Top Coughs, Sore Throat, Hoaraenrw, In fl Benin,
Colds,Bronchitis, Cropp, Whooplnf II
Asthma. Qnlnnr. Pain*'? Cheat, awl oilier
affections ?fin? Throat ?n?l I,una*. t
run 60 CUT! A Bottl*. At Pavaoim a*D Daainfc ,
Tn? aim.. ;
R. U. AWARE !
fujBBSl Lorillard's Climax Plug {
bearing n red Hn tag; that Lorillard's g
Roae lienfflnecut; that Lorlllarri's ,
Nayy Clippings. and that Lorillard's *aufls, are <
U?e belt and cheapest, quality consider*! ? ^
fledicine
"I used Hood's Sarsaparilla last spring and can
raly say it helped me very mucb. To those sufferng
with bilious complaints, nervous prostration, or
h?umatiiim, I earnestly rccommend it."?Mrs E.
Iabpxntkb, Kalamazoo, Mich.
"I was seriously troubled with biliousness, and
our8tomach; had no appetite, and nothing tasted
ood or natural. Hood's Sarsaparilla Rave mo pcraanent
relief.c. l. Babbitt, Syracuse, n. Y.
Strengthens the System
"I had becomo very mucb run down, and generally
ut of order, was very bilious, and my liver and kidicys
were more or less deranged. A few bottles of
food's Sarsaparilla built mo right up and put now
Ife into mo. I most cheerfully recommend Hood's
larsaparilla to the liko afflicted."?W, B. STAYN'ER,
lambridgeport, Mass.
"I have used Hood's Sarsaparilla for biliousness;
hink it a great remedy for that complaint-"?J. Wlbbott,
Manchester, n. H.
rsaparilla
told by all druggists. $1; six for $3. Made only by
'. I. HOOD k CO., Apothecaries, Lowoll, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
Fop Weak Women.
Mrs T/vtha E PixkhaM: "About the first
>f September, 1881, my wife was taken with
iterino hemorrhage. The best styptics the
)hyfiician could prescribe did not check it and
he got more and more enfeebled. She was
roublod with Prolapsus Uteri, Leulorrhea,
numbness of tho limbs, sickless
of tho stomach and los3 of appetite,
purchased a trial bottle of your vegetable
Compound. She said she could discover a
alulary effect from the first dose. Now she
s comparatively free from the Prolapsus
stomach's sickness, &c. The hemorrhage is
rery much better and is less at the regular
>eriods. Hor appetite is restored, and her
general health and strength are much imjroved.
We feel that we have been wonder"
riilly benefited and our hearts are drawn out
n gratitude for tho same and in sympathy
or other sufferers, for whose sakes we allow
>ur names to be used.
"C. W. Eaton. Thnrston. N. V "
ODD haduy*
K K K READY
CURES AND PREVENTS
OolOa,Coughs, Sore Throat,Inflammation*,
Bheumatiam, STeuralgia, Headache,
Toothache, Asthma, Difficult
Broathlng'.
CURES THE WORST PAINS In from one to
twnnfy mtnutoa. Not one hour after rending thli ad.
ortUoment need ioj one gUFFElt WITH PAIN.
RADWAY'S
READY RELIEF
Ia a Cure for F.rery Pain, Nprnina? Bruises,
Fa'm In the Rack* Cheat or IJinbs?
It mm the First nnd is the Only
PAIN REMEDY
That inatantly stops the most excruciating pain, allays
inflammation, anil cures Congestions. wnether of the
Langs, Stoma :h or Bowels, or other glands or organ*
bj one application. If seized with threatened
PNEUMONIA,
Or any inflammation of the internal organs or macn*
membrane*. after exposure to cold, wet, etc.. Ioeo no
time, but apply Raiway's Relief over the part affected
with congestion or inilaminatinn and care the patient.
A teaspoonfni in half a tomblor of water will in a few
niiniitei euro Cramps, Spurns, Sour Stomach, Heartbarn,
Nervousness, Sleoplessness. Sick Headache,
Dtarrhcoa, Djsjntory, Oollc, Flatulency, and all inter
aa1 pains.
MALARIA
CURED IN ITS WORST FORMS.
Thorn is not a remedial agent in the world that will
care Fe?er and Ague and all other Malaiious, Billooi
antl other ferers aided bir |{AI>WAY'S l'lI?l?S$?ao
quick ss RADAVAY'M UKAl> V It K LIEF.
Fifty cents per bottle.. 8jld by Druggist*.
Dr. Badway's Sraparlai BooM
THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER,
For the Care of All Chronic Disease*
Chronic Rheumatism, Scrofula, Syphilltlo Comfilaints,
oto. (see our book on Venereal etc.; price
wenty-tlro cents), Glandular Swellin?, Hacking Dry
Cough, Oancuri.ua Affections. Bleeding of the Lungs,
Dyspepsia, Water Brash. White Swellings. Tumors,
Pimples, Blotches, Eruptions of the Face, Ulcere, Hip
Dinoastn, Ciojt, Dropsy, Rickets Salt Rhuum, fa.onobitis.
Consumption, Diabetes, Kidney, Bladder, Liver
Complaints, etc.
SCROFULA,
Whothor transmitted by ra'ents or acquired, is within
the curntire raago of the fiAHSAl'AttlLIJAN
RESOLVENT.
Cures Iibto been made where persona hare barn afflicted
with Scrofula from their voiith_up_ to 20.jto?nd
<n j?r? or we, iir iik. iuuvvai's mk>al'AUir.M
AN KEnOi.VK.Vl', a remedy conjposed
of ingredients of cttrai>rdin3iy modieal properties,
e??e:it al to i>nrify, hn.il, ropur nnd m?l*orato tho
broken down and wiated body. Quick, ploasant, safe
snd pmTnanent in iti treatment and car*. Sold by all
dimricuU. One do liar a bottle.
Dr. Radway's Replating Pis
For the cure of all disorders of tho Stomaoh, Lirer,
Bowelt, Kidneys, Bladder, Nerrotis Diseases; Lom of
Appetite, Headache, Constipation, CostiTrno's, Indigestion,
Dynpopsia, Biliousness, Ko?er, Inflammation
of the Bf.wels, Pi I* a and all derangements of the Internal
Viscera. Purn'y rentable, ccntauiinj no mercury,
minerals, or deletor.ous drugs.
I'rice. Z.? rents per box. Sold by all druggist*.
|y Send a letter stamp to RAD WAY & CO.. No.
32 Warren St., New York, for "False and 'l ine."
TO THE Pt'BLIC.? Bo aura and ask for Radway's,
and ?i-e that the name "Iladway" is on what you buy.
I h&<l ? valoablo bone tskr n with tha pinkeye, rekulting
in blood poison. Afternine montfii of doctoring
with all tho remedies to he found in hors.M>ook*(
I despaired of a cure. His right hind left was as lanjo
as a man's bodv, and had on it orer forty rnunlnjj
sore*. At la*t 1 thought of Swift's Specific. I utwcl
fifteen bottles. In August last all symptoms of the
disease disappeared. Thoro have been no siena of a
return, and the boras has done a mule's work on my
farm ever since. Jas. L. 1'lzminq, Augusta, Ox
January 9,1885.
Troatise on Blood and 6kin Diseases mailed free.
1-..- rv> nrawoe 3 Atlanta Ci?_
or 169 w'ffld a'CiTyr """
, fffft _ THIS PLASTER
3 69SIB 7 AcUdlrectlyopon th? mui<
H HdB S clei and Uie nervta of tin
E btck, th??c?t of ill palu.
J mf I FOH ALL
JM\ I.uns TroubUf, whether
*^1 'Jf.V>w local or deeply aeated Hill
,\I plaiter will be found to
|F_h * ; \ (lv* lmtarit relief by npBf
Jk m . |\ I'lylng bftween tbe tbuul*
r Ul V fi W fe dcr blades
SHARP
jf m, I m ff Por Kidney Trouble,
I M Rbeumatlun. Nenralfia,
HFH > Palu in tbe Side and Back
8j?B ?HMgS9Bftn7 Ache, they are certain
nWMB Sold by DruigHiB for a
IMctuta. or Ave for SI.
OAC/f Hailed on receipt of
iPLASTERmg?
$50 REWARD
NjP^ffiwm^RfffcEq wl" h' P*1'1 for ,n' Grain Fan
of same plze that can clean and
sssafc, r>a* an mach Grain or f<rd In ?n?
/|B|lte5iP dayMour Patent MONAKC1I
lyytlll I'll ('ral" unJ Hft'J Hcpuralor
A JsPUl5aBt1 T. 91 and Iiancr or nnr Improved
ttpSagBj/ !al IVarfhouM Mill ?Ilh Kquall*
Jfli ifr which wc offer chf*p. L'ircu<*>>
IfSP. * ill l?r and Price ll? malliM fre?.
NEWARK MACHINE CO..
C*l?mbu?,Ohlo. ljuttra Urasib llenir, MactnUwo, Id.
FKAZbK
AXLE GREASE.
Boat In thr World. Madoonlr by the FrazerLubricator
Co. n: Chicago, N. 1*. & St.Louts. Sold everyxnherr.
AtSEN'TS WANTED, Gi-ntlprann or Ladlnt, for
" Ilounhtiti itty'.i I fun 1/ JSimk of lafful Information,"
and for "H",i(jhlnlin<i'* Salary I.ixt of United
Statf.i ofitcitil*." Ovrr itoo.iKK) already cold. 8-'> to $15
adaymado. Sunis'Ip conies ol books k terms to aconta
by mail, on receipt of 50c. in 1 or Jr. Kta-uiw. Stam;ia
returned if yon do not lake aitone.t "? return ol book*.
Add'8 C. K.Hoiixtilalii)g. 70 Madbon Av.. Albany,XY
5/* C 1M TP C Mad? only by th<> N. V. A
W ! Ii I 9 a Havana (.'xaK' r>? Hr.>a 1
I'lmitirrly lit* He*!, way, N. Y. ASK I'OK IT.
HT flfVP ! '?money for A>.'pnt.?- Send ft! ftflTfJI
OUHmb AffK WMa
PATCH ! Elegant rack.ijres of SIlkKand Sa'inn
u/adi/ krnt fori'.v. Knilimiilcrr Silk.*. inc.
WORK.Ido;. A. (t. H ASSK'IT, Koehoster. XV.
Dr. Elmore Palmer, of Moulder, Col.,
ays that the climate out there is most
tcnclicial in uncomplicated eases nf
pasmodie asthma, for which it afford*
he "light air cure." In other
\7)rds he thinks the curative eHerts arc
11 most wholly due to the mechanical
fleets of lessened atmos|ihcrie pressure.
iVhatever the explanation tlie fact is
vorth recording. lie believes that this
i.i^ht atmospheric pressure together
vith its coolness and dryness makes it a
avorablc climate for consumptives in the
arlier stages, hut rven then tlic best results
arc only to be obtained by campng
out during six months of the j
wclvc. I
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TRUE ECONOMY.
Every one moat practice tnu economy to *ueee*4
n life. But It is no economy to bny "shoddy " articles:
bod Flour, bad Butter and bad Food of any
kind aro not economical to uso at any price; a
thousand time* worse in a "shoddy" medicine that
pretends to euro, but makes the patient worse.
OfAs the best food is the cheapest becauao It la
nutritious and strengthening to tho wholo system,
even in small quantities, so is a pure medicine, which
cures every time, even in small doses; therefore always
keep in mind tho.e Ten Solid raeu.
tin here is more real solid enro In ont txrtikot
IIcnt'k (Kidney and Liver) Rexedt, for tho disease*
it is prepared for than in a barrel of tho so-called
curcs; the dose Is 20 to 30 drop*. *
Wit cures, restores, regulate* and Invigorate*
tho Liver, 8tomacb, Kidneys, Bladder and Urinary
organs, creates a marvelous appetite and rebuilds
the entire system, and it Is "Never known to falL"
nr-It will preveut as well as euro Malaria, FeverJ
and Rheumatism and all diseases which com* from
impure blocd. Keep tho fountain and the spring*
that supply it, pure, and tho stream flowing therefrom
will be healthy and life-giving,
tWSi ecial and interesting case of Bright'* disease
described on second page of our Banner Book.
WHcst's (Kidney and Liver) Remedy purifies
the Blood, thereby keeping the Kidneys, Liver,
Stomach, Bladder and Urinary organs vigorous with
life aud action, causing them to free tho system
from tho poisonous waste which brings disease and
death.
nrIt reaches the seat of tho di*oa*a at once?removes
tho cause?stimulate* and assists the fono
n' ",A T.Jtfow onH TWrianf sti*T*na
tV-Snve your health by rising Hunt's (Kldnoy and
Liver) Remedy, a* millions will not recompense tba
low of the priecl<>*i boon. It will euro Female
Weakness, and prevent monthly suffering.
Correspondence freely answered by oar
Consulting Physician at tble offlce.
A tVThe lareeat Hies are at
'ho homo or the medicine;
w-vhero it i* beat known, it Is
UMNTa uvyl most extensively and
|1 prpRcriberl by 75 physician^
uinurv-f^v what better endorsemem
K] D N E)n&^ could bo offered ?
ftlWEBY PRICE $1.25 PER BOW..
pp
Hnnts Remedy Co.,
Proyiflen^, E. L
, Sold by All Druggists.
N YN v-ia
IMMEDIATE RELIEF.
t'EWRNISH yowT own bottleeand
X* aye three-fonrths the oost,
(r or don's Kin* of Pain M
furnished in powaor and sent t?
pia:l, with fall directions for mixins
and usint, also labels for botties,
circulars, sto. It ml lores
pain as if br magic and Is a household
rsmedy wherever known fee
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Head.
ache.Toothaobo,Bams and Soaids
Sprains and Brnlsee. Sore Thrrxrt
Ulcers, Flesb Wounds, ete. The
remedy Is put up In Mo., f I and
j paokacee. The We. packs**,
when rsduoed to liquid farm, trill
fill S4 two-oi. bottles- Ton eea
easily ffcure the savin*. Agents
can ccli money in selling it. Or.
der a paokage aad you will be a
reirnlsr customer hereafter.
, , , CATARRH.?Gordon's Ca.
tarrh Remedy positively cam. Klfty cents. by mall.
Satisfaction runranteod. Stamps taken.
B. Q. RICHARDS. Bote PropctsSor, Toledo. Ohio.
BEST iilil CHEAPEST!
N,w %
??h DICTIONARY.
With 1232 Pig** Prie?$1.5Q.
oflOSUN?r?W
^maiT dmwican
^dsh POCKET-DICTIONARY.
? G24P?fe* PricfLOO.
^y,ST For 8*1# by all Book-?adN?w?Dealer..
Cfcc?V; TAKE SO OTITCB. c.
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BOOK PUB. CO.,
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?1? ?
3no Introduce and mil the trad* thejMll-knowa_u4
L celebrated Cigarsof theNEW YORK <t HAVANA
IGAR COMPANY. Liberal arrangements. Salabt
or Commission paid to the right mm. For farther
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The New York <t Havana Clf ar Co.. >.
57 H roadway, New Y?rk?
m G hu taken the lead (a
OicmIcj of thit cljsi of
JBPCnr.? tn^B remedl?, and has jfjem
MjfW l TO & Dats.wB almost universal iimhf
fllWrOaaranleed sol ! ? """'..mmiv tjnna
BPta causa Stricture. MURPHY BROSy^
Hi Vrdoolr by the Ohai won the favor of
7 / 7* the public and now rank*
USKjlt&sj Cfiisicsl Co. amontf the ieadiag Modi*
m OhiQ.JW Bradford, Tt.
' H Sold by Dra^ists,
HOW IS YOUR BACK?
What Is lho us3 of suffering with Backache, Pain In
the Side or Hip. Sciatica. Rheumatism, Kidney Di*
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Chest and Lung troables, or any soil of pain or awaness,
either local ordsopsoated, when a Hop PtASTMl
will give instant rcliofif Prepired from Buigtady
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TREATISE on the HORSE
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Book of lOO Pages.
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j Postage Stamps taken Sent postpaid*
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i ftS m tTtt - ?f IT] Write for lull dexcriptlra
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THE OPIUM-HABIT
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OUR Prophylactic Appliance cures Nervoul
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! Keeping Teeth Perfect andCJnms Healthy.
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I ^ "Kstabllched liSTO. Send lit. for book.
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Dr. II. M. Lawson, of Cutlibert, Ga.,
who is is described by the editor of the
Smt/uni .Volk>>l liecord as a "modest
though worthy practioner," aimounces a
cure for cancer. It consists, as we understand.
in the heroic use of arsenic
combined later with caustic applications.
In one patient suffering from epithelioma
on the left temple, one fourth of a grain
of arsenious acid was given, and gradually
increased to three-fourths of a
grain.
For earache take pinch of pepper and
moisten it witli warm water, place in a
small piece of linen cloth or in cotton,
tie up firmly and place in the ear. It
will give immediate relief.