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"VANITY OF VANITIES*
'Vanity of Vanities;" the world is full of sin,
The pot of evil boiling all the time;
The big man and the little man in breathless
hasto to win
-T lis eagle or his dollar or his dime; j
And yet though o'er this desert waste tho
winds of evil blow,
There's many a cheerful glimmer shining out
above the snow.
A thousand traps and pitfalls lie about us
every day,
Temptations and delusions by the score;
The nabob in his selfishness rolls by us on tho
way,
The poor man often bangs his cottage
f door;
And yet there's compensation. Every clumsy
mortal whines,
Who grasps a hornet by its sting or hedgehog
by its spines.
Amid the selfish thousands there aro hundreds
true and kind,
With many noble features that redoem;
The roughest ore has value if it be bnt wel*
refined,
And men are mostly better than they
seem;
If looking out for brambles you aro suro to
find their darts;
Perhaps you'll be as lucky if you closely look
for hearts.
gcu5.
For after all is uttered, wo but fiml that
which we seek,
The searcher after weaknesses will find;
Co,listen,and you'll wonder at the kind words
mortals speak,
No beauties have a message for the blind;
Tho world is but a mirror, and within our
neighbor's faco
+ We see our soul reflected in its ugliness or
grace.
"Vanity of Vanities," the world is full of
sin,
But also full of sunshine and of flowers;
The man who works for happiness its smile
will surely win,
The man who seeks shall find his sunny
. hours;
So thrust the little barriers of its selfishness
aside,
And find the hidden blessings lying under al
its pride;
Tho sun is always somewhere, and the good
old world is wide.
?I. Edgar Jones, in the Current.
OLIVE'S ADVENTURE.
"But I don't believe any one would
take the trouble to molest us!" said Mr.
Jaynesford, genially, as he threw a fresh
Jog, moss-fringed and odorous of the
scented dead leaves, among which it
" " " * ' ?* - il.
liad lain all tnc autumn lime, upon iuc
blazing fire. "In the first place, we've
got nothing to steal?and in the second
placc, iC wc were all murdered, I can't
see any particular good it would do anybody.
So I calculatc wc may sleep
quietly in our beds."
"Yes?but, father," said Mrs. Jaynesford,
with an anxious look (she was a
modern Martha, cumbered with many
cares, this angular, hard-working, yellow-faced
farmer's wife): "I really think
you ought to get an extra bolt on the
back door, and I never did think a hook
and staple was a safe thing for the little
hall door. If there is a gang of burglars
and murderers going through the
country?""
And Olive Morrison, the little lame
school-mistress, who happened that week
to be "boarding" at Farmer Jaynesford's,
moved her seat iustiuctively
closer into the angle of the chimney
corner, and lifted a pair of large, gray,
startled eyes toward the good-humored
face of her host.
"Fiddlesticks!" ejaculated Mr. Jayncsford,
"I keep a loaded rifle and old
Towser has a throat like a trumpet land
I guess if they come here they'll clear,
out again pretty quick. Anyway I'm
not afeared of em."
"There is such a thing as foolhardiness.
Jotham!" said his wife, sententiouslv,
as she stirred the batter for the
morning's griddle-cakes in a squat stone
inr with hi Mi-shouldered handles on
either side.
Olive Morison went to her room that
night, in fear and trembling, after having
set up by the family fire as long as
she could possibly find any exeuse for so
sitting up and lingering. She was a
soft-eyed,' rosy-complexioned little
thing, with a tender, tuneful voice?a
girl who would have been very beautiful,
were it not for the paralysis of one
limb, which made it necessary for her
to walk with a crutch, and somewhat
dwarfed her natural height. Everybody
liked Olive.
The parsimonious opened their hands
? to her simple needs?the churlish grew
almost courteous?the hard-hearted instinctively
softened, and those who believed
in the hopeless depravity of human
nature, made an exception in favor
of Olive Morison. Even the riotous,
rebellious young horde of the district
school were more malleable, by far,
under her gentle rule than they had
been under that of the male teacher, who
had just resigned his position in despair.
As she stood before the glass unbraid
ing the brown, shining strands of her
long and luxuriant hair, Mrs. Jaynesford
looked into the room.
"It's a sharp, frosty night,Miss Olive,"
she said; "hadn't you better have an
cxtry comfortable on your bed?"
"I don't think I need it, Mrs. Jaynesford,"
said the girl. "But do?do you
rr?o!1v tViinlr thorn iq nnv rlftnrrpr nf nnr
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being robbed and murdered?"
"I only kuow what I've heard, there
bcin' a gang o' lawless fellers in the
country, "Mrs. Jaynesford added, with a
sort of gloomy satisfaction in the prospect.
''And I don't know why they
shouldn't come here as well as any place;
'tain't likely they know we hain't no
. silver, and Jotham keeps all his money
in the county bank. Towser's all very
well, but I've heard o' better dogs than
he is, bein' settled by a dose of poison,
and I'd like to know what good Jotham's
loaded to do us, nrter
. he's -bad ills Ihroat cut from ear to car
_______ in his sleep!"
"Oh, Mrs. Jaynesford!" shuddered
Olive, the brush falling from her nervous
lingers! "1 can't stay alone to-night?will
you send Bessie in to sleep with me?"
But in spite of little" Bessie Jaynesford's
peaceful breathing at her side,
Olive could not go to sleep until midnight,
aud when at last a few snatches
of capricious slumber visited her eyelids,
it was embittered by frightful dreams of
black-crape-ma6ked burglars standing at
her bedside, and pistols presented close
to her eyebrows.
" Pshaw!" said Olive to herself next
morning, as she viewed her pale face and
swollen eves. "lama goose?and I'll
be one no longer. What could any one
gain by hurting a poor lame girl like me."
I don't believe there are anv burglars
around?aud if there should be, I don't
believe they will come to Farmer Jaynesv
ford's."
But the walk was long and lonely, and
when Olive reached the fallen tree, just
beyond the rocky spring, where the
school children always stopped to drink,
she sat down on the trunk of a fallen
tree, to rest a little, ere pursuing the remainder
of her weary way.
As she did so, the sound of human
voices reached ' her ear?the gruff, low
voices of two men talking by the springy
beyond. Olive's heart stood still, ns"
she suspended her breath, in order to
listen! Who could they be? What
were they doing there at that hour?
Should she scream and fly, or should she
trust to her dark dress and the obscurity
of the twilight to screen her from discovery?
She chose the latter alternative,
and shrank further into the deep shadow
of the withered beech copsc.
"A brown house," said one man,
" with a big chimbley in the middle and
a new stun wall round it?I tell ycr you
can't miss it."
_.JA new chill of terror crept through
Olivia vninc no cTift rprncrrn^pfl thn
scription of the Jaynesfords' farmhouse.
"And now the plague are wo to get in
without rousin' the house?" retorted the
second mau, rather harsher and more
grating than the first.
"lie told me. Thar ain't no fastenin
but a hasp on the shed door?it's easy
lifted with a bit of crooked wire. We
can slip in when they're asleep, an'
whew, the thing's done in a minute!"
"I don't believe in no such way of
goin' to work as that," growled the second
man.
"What would joudo? Go round to i
the front door and rouse 'em all up! <
Pshaw, Jim, you're a deal too soft- <
hearted, and that's what I've always 1
said!" <
"I don't like tho job, anyhow," sul- J
lenly retorted the other man.
"It's soon over," was the indifferent !
reply, "and where's the odds? Ain't it
all the same a hundred years from nowf
Pooh, Jim, I didn't 'spose you was such
a soft-stomached Miss Nancv of a fel- !
ler!" * ]
"I ain't no wuss than anybody else!" <
growled Jim, "but I'm human, and I've <
a little gal of my own to homo, no big- i
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gcr than Javnesford's little Bessio,
and?"
The Jaynesfords heard her tale with
breathless horror and dismay.
"I knowed it!" cried Mrs. Jayncsford,
with prophetic unction. "I told you
how it would be all along, Jotham, but
ye wouldn't listen to me! I'm a woman,
and women ain't worth payin' no 'tention
to!"
"But I don't sec what it is they're
arter!''honest Jotham cried, scratching
the bristly black curls of his round pate.
"Anyhow, I'll send over for Deacon
Donley's two sons and Joseph Packer,
and we'll give them a good old-fashioned
I welcome, let them come how and when
they may. You say there arc only two
of 'em, Miss Olive.'"
"I only heard two of them talking,"
said Olive, "but there may have been a
dozen for what I know."
"I guess we can manage 'em," said
hopeful Jotham, taking down the gun
from its two hooks over the stone chimney
piece and boginning leisurely to inspect
it. "Forewarned is forearmed,
they say, and I've al'ays found there
was a good deal o' solid truth in then
old proverbs my gran'ther used tc
quote!"
Evidently there was no sleep for th<
Jaynosford family that night. Al!
hands silently made their arrangement!
for a vigil.
o . .
"We must kinuie up uiu uru uuu |nn
out the lights, as usual, at U o'clock,'
said Jotham.
"Father," pleaded little Bessie, "car
I bring my two pet lambs in out of th<
shed?"
'.'Nonsense, child, nonsense," said Jo
tham. But he did not further object
and Bessie made a bed for the two pet;
in the shaving basket in tho corner of th<
roomy old kitchen, greatly to their ma
tual content.
Mrs. Jayne6ford sat knitting gloomily
if she had been told that the world wa
to come to an end within the next twen
ty-four hours, she would still have takei
up her knitting?and Olive and Bessii
nestled close to her side, while Jothan
paced thoughtfully up and down th
tloor, waiting for tho arrival of the aux
iliaries for whom he had already dis
patchcd a messenger. The clock bat
just struck 8. when a brisk knock cam
to the door?every one started as if th'
simple sound had been a trumpet o
doom.
"Don't open the door, Jotham!'
gasped Mrs. Jaynesford. but Jothan
drew back the bolt nevertheless.
"It's some neighbor," said he. "Wy
Jim Ellison and Jake Blocker! I'n
right down glad to see ye! Bessie, rui
right down-stairs, an' draw a pitcher o
cider, and bring up somo o' mother'
fresh doughnuts!"
As the visitor returned their host'
cordial greeting, Olive uttered a loud cry
"The men?the men I heard talking
by the spring!" she gasped feebly. "Oh
Mr. Jayncsford, turn them from you
door?they are robbers and murderers I1
"Eh!" cried Jotham. "Jim and Jaki
robbers and murderers! I guess not, Mis
Olive."
"Let them answer for themselves,1
cried Olive, hysterically. "What blood;
deed is it from which one of them re
coiled, but which the other said woulc
'soon be over?' What was the plot t<
gain secret admittance through the shec
aoor? What "
The taller and stouter of the tw<
strangers shook with peal after peal o
noiseless laughter.
Til tell ye what 'twas, miss, befon
the little gal comes back," lie said, ii
the gruff, husky voice that had so terri
fied Olive Morison by the twiligh
spring. "I said then 'twas an ugly job
and won't say 110 less now. Jayncsford
he sold me them lambs o' his little gals
?I drive a meat cart, miss?and lie tolc
me to come on the sly and get 'em away,
for she was dretful fond ov 'cm. S<
when we come to-night, and found thei
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WflSU l in till' OlllbJlcu, suts i iu uun.v
Bleeker. says I: "We've jes' got to gc
an' ask up an' clown for 'cm; so]
knocked, an' here we be."
"Is that all?" sighed Olive, with i
face of inexpressible relief. "Oh, ]
have been terrified."
And she broke into hysteric laughter,
while Sirs. Jaynesford sat by, half aisap
pointed that there had been no morta
peril after all.
So faded away the only appearance ol
danger that molested the quiet Westerr
vale, and that was the last the Jaynes
ford family ever heard of robbers, burglars,
and murderers.
But Mrs. Jaynesford had bought r
big box-lock, and affixed it to the shed
door, and takes great delight in ccremo
niously locking it every night of her life,
"You can't be too careful!" says Mrs,
Jaynesford.
The Stain of Illood.
It must needs be that new questions
OMffl nlrl i\nrr>1nvifino ?r> o frnoK fArm
and of these one that has arisen again in
our time is this: Docs any moral stain
attach to bloodshed committed upon the
battlefield? Or is the difference between
military and ordinary homicidc a real
one, and does the plea of duty sauction
any act, however atrocious in the abstract,
provided it be committed under
the uniform oi the State? The general
opinion is, of course, that no soldier in
his military capacity can be guilty of
murder; but opinion Irs not always been
so fixed and it is worth noticing that in
the forms of civilization that preceded
our own, and in some existing modern
races of lower type than our own, traces
clearly appear of a sense of wrong attaching
to any form of bloodshed whatever,
whether of fair battle or of base
treachery, calling alike for the purifying
influence? of expiation and clcansing. In
South Africa, for instance, the IJasuto
returning from war proceeds with all his
arms to the nearest stream, to purify not
only his own person, but his javelins and
hie hntfln nv Thp Zulu trvi
ablutions on the same occasion, and the
Bechuana warrior wears a rude kind
of necklace to remind him of the expiation
due from him to the slain, and to
disperse the dreams that might otherwise
trouble him, and perhaps even drive him
to die of remorse. The same feelings
may be detected in the Old World. The
Macedonians had a peculiar form of sacrilicatory
purification, which consisted
in cutting a dog in half and leading the
whole army arrayed in full armor between
the two parts. As the Ba-otians had the
same custom, it was probably for the
same purpose, a sheep and a bull and a
pig or boar were every year led three
times round the army and then sacrificed
to Mars. In Jewish history the
prohibition to King David to build the
temple was expressly connected with the
blood he had shed in battle. In old
Greek mythology Theseus held himself
unfit, without expiation, to be admitted
to the mysteries of Ceres, though the
blood that stained his hands was only
that of thieves and robbers. And in the
same spirit Hector refused to make a
libation to the gods before he had purified
his hands a~fter battle. "With unwashen
hands," he said, "to pour out
sparkling wine to Zeus I dare not, nor is
it ever the custom for one soiled with
the blood and dust of battle to offer
prayers to the god whose seat is in the
clouds."? Gentlema)i',8 Magazine.
Lower California Tidbits.
In a letter from Mulcge, Lower California,
to the New York Sun, Fannie B.
Ward says: The other day Betsy and I
were entertained at an exceedingly swell
banquet at the house of a wealthy pearl
merchant. Among tbe numerous courses
of the dinner were some enormous snails,
which had been fattened for Lenten
food, as is the custom also in some parts
of southern Europe. The snails are
kept in large reservoirs, the floors of
which arc strewn with herbs and flowers.
Doubtless the fashioD was borrowed
from the luxurious Romans, who, if we
may believe Varro, fed them on bran
and wine till sometimes a single shell
would contain ten quarts! But that
course remained untasted, despite our
utmost efforts to do as the Romans do.
At a later stage of the banquet two servants
appeared staggering under the
weight of a huge mangrove branch,
laden with parasitic oysters. This was
placed in the center of the festive board.
Each little bivalve, moored by threads of
its own spinning, clung so tenaciously
that a hammer was needed to displace it.
This circumstance aroused our interest
in the oyster family, and determined us
to cultivate their acquaintance. The
parasitical or tree oyster is as common
here as in the Indian seas, and looks so
exactly like a dried leaf as to deceive
even the fisher birds that seek it. It is
found attached to the roots and branches
of the mangrove tree, which grows in
sheltered bays at the edge of the sea.
1'hese odorous groves look like marine
forests, their lofty branches dipping the
waves during high tide.
Coffee made with distilled water is
said to have a greatly improved aroma,
[t seems that the mineral carbonates in
lommon water render the tannin of the
:offee berry soluble, but the drug will
lot dissolve in distilled water.
A PECULIAR EMPLOYMENT.
KEV WHO GO VSR BOOKS ASS FENCES
WITH SIGNS.
Pioneers of tlie Business?Followed
Despite its Illegality?Adventure
of Painters?Prices Paid.
Nothing is sacred to the sign painter.
The sublimity of Niagara Falls, the
beauties of the Thousand Islands, the
grandeur of the canyons of Colorado,
the poetic scenery of the Garden of the
Gods or the picturesquencss of the Isle
of Coney?all appeal only to the utilitarian
enterprise of the man with the paint
pot. The traveler and the sightseer are
everywhere confronted with " Coddleton's
Universal Remedy for Broken Legs"
or " Dr. Quackensquall's Patent Pills for
the Extraction of Toothache," depicted
, in a symphony of black and white on
every towering rock or coign of vantage
that lovely nature afTords. On every
boarding in this city the passer-by may
. see the evidence of the sign painter's art,
and wonders, possibly, if it pays.
This advertising scheme is worked for
> all it is worth, and that is a great deal,
i by wealthy companies. The pioneer
, was Eddy Wise, now more than sixty
years old. He was the original rock let?
tcrcr, and worked for Dcmas Barnes,
I who owned the "Plantation Bitters,"
j now almost forgotten, due wmcii nau
an enormous sale in the time of the war.
t Wise's experience, it may be said, was a
' bitter one, but it paid him well. Bui
the first picture painter who adorned oui
i rocks and fences was Bradbury, lie rc;
tired with a snug little fortune.
Nearly ten years ago a New York
sign company began business on a large
scale, and had the boldness to employ
j real artists for the production of pic,
turcs for their advertising patrons. Men
' whose works adorn the walls of tlx
academy of design do not scorn tc
. employ their pencil on this kind of work,
5 and are retained by this sign company al
a salary of $G0 a week. Other painters,
j but not so well known, give their services
? for $30 and $40 a week. Frescoers,
^ grainers and varnishcrs are also on tin
, salary list.
Veritable Napoleons, Alexanders, Ta
merlanes and Wellingtons arc these wan
j denng Knights of the Brush, ever seek
B ing fresh fields and fcnccs toconijucr foi
e a nostrum or some "long felt want.'
f Their greatest ambition is to stick up oi
paint up an advertisement where no or
> ainary man with a regard for his neel
a dare venture. Nothing daunts them
not even the policeman. Their devotior
to their paint pot is stronger than tin
,j terrors of the law. When the Iiussland
a of the Bed Star line, was wrecked of
f Coney Island in iy?7 a couplc of bole
g lcttcrcrs put oft in a row boat at 1 o'clocl
in the morning and painted an adver
s lisemcnt on the side of the vessel. A
. reward was offered in vain for informa
v tion leading to the identification of th<
5 perpetrators.
r In nearly every State of the Unior
i there is a law prohibiting tins sore o
j thing. liecently in Cleveland, Ohio
s two sign painters were arrested for put
ting somebody's "liver pad " on a ban
,, without permission. The justice lecturec
the artists on the enormity of theii
f crime, rend the law to them.
and then, being of a good-natured dis
1 position, let tnem oil with a notnina
* fine. The good man, pleased with hav
* ing done his duty, and at peace with ul
the world, left the court and wended hii
1 way to his suburban home softly whist
ling "I will not ask to press that cheek.'
But what was his astonishment to line!
' the very men he bad a little while age
1 released painting all over his garden
* fence, "Chew Snuffing's Plug Tobacco.'
The puckers in the judge's mouth (he
* had just been executing a trill, in lmita
tion of Patti) became rigid. Then he
: emitted a shrill whistle (not in the score),
' and ejaculated, "Jerusalem! I'll plug
' you, you rascals!" Shouting for assist|
ance, in a moment lie had the vandals
' under arrest. Mrs. Justice, however,
; running out to sec what the commotion
| was about, changed the state of affairs.
^ She confessed she had given the men
permission to put up a tasteful sign, but
1 didn't know they were going to paint all
around the fence. "That settles it,'
said the justice. "Let 'em go. The
1 law's on their side tins time; uuc next
' time, Mariar, don't be so fresh with these
paint pot fellers."
. Mr. F. G. Ivissam, a pioneer in the
business, says thrir most enterprising
1 customers arc the tobacco people, who
spend yearly over a quarter million dollars
in advertising. Que vender of n
brand spends $100,000. A patent mcdii
cine concern puts $50,000 on rocks and
fences alone, and in other ways has a
bill made out for about $500,000. Mr.
Kissam's firm has paid for board privileges
in and about the city $20,000 in
the past three years. Every ad vertisemcnt
they put up for a customer is paid
for at so much the square foot. In the
1 country they have superintendents following
up the sign painters and chcck1
ing oil the work done. A customer in
1 New York, if lie cannot go to Colorado,
' for ins'ance, to view his "ad."on arock,
| can, through some business house in the
vicinity, obtain, by telegraph or mail,
the precise size of his advertisement, if
he wants to make sure of getting the
worth of his money.?New York UcrabL
Custer's Confederate Frienil.
The Seventh cavalry were sent to
guard the engineers of the Northern Pacific
while they surveyed the route to the
Yeliowstone. This party of citizens
i joined the command a few days out from
Forth Rice. General Custer wrote me
that he was lying on the bulTalq,robe in
! his tent, resting after the march, when
* 1_ J - ? ..1-2 iL
lie ncaru a voice uui>iue ustimg uiu auu.
tinel "which was General Custer's tent."
The general called out: "Halloo, old
fellow! I haven't heard that voice in
thirteen years, but I know it. Come in
and welcome!'' General Rosser walked
in, and such a reunion as we had! These
i two had been classmatcs and warm
friends at "West Point, and parted with
sorrow when General Rosser went into
the Southern army. Afterward they had
fought each other in the Shenandoah
valley time and time again. Both of
them lay on the robe for hours talking
over the campaign in Virginia. In the
varying fortunes of war sometimes
one had got possession of the
wagon train belonging to the other. I
knew of several occasions when they had
captured each other's headquarters
wagon, with their private luggage. If
one drove the other back in retreat, be
fore he went into camp he wrote a note
addressing the other as "Dear friend,"
and saying, "You may have made me
take a few steps this way to-day, but I'll
be even with you to-morrow. Please
accept ray good wishes nnd this little
gift." These notes and presents were
left at the house of some Southern woman
as they retreated out of the village.
Once General Custer took all of his
friend's luggage and found in it a new
uniform coat of Confederate gray. He
wrote a humorous letter that night thanking
General Rosser for setting him up
in so many new things, but audaciously
asking him if he "would direct his tailor
to make the coat tails of his next uniform
a little shorter," as there was a difference
in the height of the two men. General
Custer captured his herd of cattle at one
time, but he was so hotly pursued by
(!f>nprnl llnconr thnt. rliamminforl
cut a whip, and drove them himself
until they were secured.? Boots and JSuddlei,
by Elizabeth J>. Custer.
A Bulgarian Funeral.
A funeral procession,described by Mr.
More in his recent work, entitled, "Under
the 15alkans," was remarkable in the
first place for a yoke of white oxen
drawing a wagon with wicker sides, on
which the coffin?that of a woman?
was placed feet foremost. On the front
of the wagon rode the priest, carrying
in his hands a sacristy made of clay; and
behind sat one of the relatives. It was
followed by a small crowd of about
twenty or thirty mourners, mostly
women, wearing gowns of coarse homespun
cloth, colored aprons, and handkerchiefs
on their heads, being the usual
costume of the country. Arriving at the
ruins of the battered and destroyed
church of St. George, the procession
stopped, and the mourners crossed
themselves, while the priest scattered in
cense on an siucs. i nc corpse, which
I was wrapped in a colored blanket, the
face only being exposed, was carried into
the church, placed before the altar, and
laid feet eastward in the blanket, the
head being supported by a pillow. The
body was clad in u cold-braided bridal
costume, a handkerchief on the head,
shoes and stockings on the feet, and a
gold chain around the neck. On the
breast was placed a lighted triplebranched
wax taper, and bunches of
flowers were also laid on the breast and
placed in the hand. A small oii lamp
was burning near the head. A loaf of
bread on a plate, a pan of boiled wheat,
and a dish of honey were set near the
corpse. The mourners and congregation
to the number of about fifty, mostly
women, each held a lighted taper, as did
also the two officiating priests and the
clerks."
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NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Long polonaises arc out of style.
Tricotine is a fashionable dress fabric.
English brides wear moonstones for
luck.
Presbyterian blue is a new color in
hosiery.
Wool crepo is only a new name for
nun's veiling.
Jackets arc lined or faccd with silk of
uniform color.
Embroidered surahs will be very popular
this summer.
All the pongees arc perfectly covered
with embroidery.
Jackets arc made short at the back
and with loose fronts.
Folded surplice waists are seen 011
lace, surah and wool dresses alike.
Most of the tailor-made costumes have
a finish of galloon or gilt braid set under,
the edge.
American grenadines show velvet
stripes of various widths on the arrowlike
meshes.
Some of the new web laces which will
be so generally used in thiu costumes arc
in /tnlnr
The Empress Ghyantoka, of Japan,
who reigned in the eighth century, originated
printing.
White braid, interwoven with gilt or
. silver and white wool lacc arc used for
[ trimming serge dresses.
V-shapcd bodices arc worn with lace
elbow sleeves by those who do not carc
; to have quite a low dres9.
Gauze and China crepe arc used as
well as tulle for skirts; they arc plain,
broche or tufted with chenille.
The Swiss pattern dresses arc marvcl!
ously cheap this season and can be made
most attractive if carefully managed.
' In Switzerland women monopolize the
" telephone business, and in Valparaiso
' they arc employed exclusively as strcctJ
car conductors.
It is said to have been a rule with
Ninon dc l'Enclos, whose skin was the
admiration of beholders, to use rain
water exclusively.
Some pretty white flannel costumes for
summer wear in the country arc heavily
v>i">;dnrl nn tlm waist anil sleeves with
r gilt or eilver braid.
Tho English tailor suits have a little
: hat of tho same material with rolling
, brim. Gordon blue is the stylish color
i for these imported costumcs.
J Scrim makes the foundation of a irrent
' deal of the darning stitch embroidery;
f for sofa cushions particularly does this
make a very desirable ground.
Black cashmere and Henrietta cloth,
either quite plain or embroidered all
over with silk, arc used for polonaises to
, be worn over skirts of watered silk.
A Mansfield (Conn.), lady, has a pari
rot which was brought from Mexico
f thirty-three years ago, by Captain Henry
, Allen, of New Haven. The bird has
been shipwrecked three times.
Among the prettiest goods shown arc
the American figured woolens in all
. shades. Combined with plain goods, to
match cither the ground color or the
figure, they make durable and stylish
costumes.
The richest trimming laces are tlic
genuine Chnntilly and the Spanish hand
run, but there is a very effective combination
of the latter with an imitation
of Chantilly, very good and fine and of
' beautiful material, which is e.qual in ap*
nearance to the real, and more durable
J than all hand run Spanish, which draws
at every point of contact.
Among the prettiest and most artistic
, of the new woolen costumes are those
which arc embroidered in chenille shaded
in several colors of the wool. The
; preference seems to be for detached fig(
urcs, for leaf-shaped, egg-shaped or circular
designs, alternating with tlat bands
put on lsngthwise, or as ornaments without
the alternating bands.
L Princcsse dresses arc shown again, and
; are given a new effect by the loose Span[
ish jacket which is added to the front,
i while a novel idea in others is that of
, using wide stripes for the front of plain
; satin or more dresses,making these stripes
, form panels in the skirt, and cutting
them oil above the waist line to reprc
sent a Swiss bodice; the upper part of
the front is then of the plain material
, used for the back.
The little so-called dog collars, intro,
duced so long ago, arc now almost universally
worn, so popular have they become.
All sorts of fancies are indulged
, in, from a simple velvet ribbon knotted
around the neck, when the corsage is
not very high, to several rows of pearls.
A flexible chain-work of silver links,
repetitions of ancient coins linked together
to form a band, silver daisies
fastened to a black velvet ribbon, in
short, whatever the imagination may
suggest is used for neck ornaments.
Mrs. Asa Koss, of Wabash, Ind., found
one of her fine chickens apparently dying
from an affection of the throat or
craw. "With a sharp knife she cut the
craw or food sack open, removed a large
quantity of drv grass and undigested
corn which had become packed in the
craw, and then, stitching up the cut
carefully, liberated the chicken, which
entirely recovered from its stupor,
capered around and finally brought up
on a nest, laying an egg within two
hours of the time Mrs. Ross performed
the operation.
Cost or a Collegiate Kducntiou.
The aunual expenses of a course of
study at old Howdoin is from $o00 to
$800. It is not fashionable there to be
extravagant.
An Amherst college student can finish
the course at a cost of S350 a year, and I
at the outside it need not cost him over
$1,000.
The expenses at Vassar college run
from $500 to $1,000 a year. The girls
have not foot ball teams or rowing crews
to support.
Brown University is rather expensive.
A scholar can spend $1,000 a year if he
wants to, but the actual expenses need
not exceed $350.
Yale, Harvard and Columbia colleges
arc the most expensive in this country.
The minimum expenses are from $400
to SG00, while the maximum are put at
$3,000.
One of the cheapest colleges to attend
in this country is at Beloit, Wis. Board
is $1.50 a week, and it is almost impossible
lor a student to spend more than
$500 a year.
The expenses of nn education at Cornell
are not large in comparison with
other institutions of learning. A student
can spend $1,100 for his legitimate expenses,
but $300 will cover them, provided
he is economical.
To illustrate the difference between a
man's real and his fancied needs it is
said that a student at Yale college can
pay all his real expenses with $400 a
year, and yet $3,000 can be expended in
so-called legitimate expenses.? Mcio York
Graphic.
Expensive Table Decorations.
It is doubtful if there is a city in the
country wncre there is so much luxury
of the table as in Philadelphia, or where
so much attention is given to dinnertable
decoration. Of late there has
j been a rage for what may be termed
! dinner-table bric-a-brac. It is probable
that Mrs. George W. Ohilds has the
finest table decorations in Philadelphia.
She has a great many very choice things,
such as large platteaux, carved vases,
candelabra and gold ornaments for the '
center of the table that are as fine as j
can be procured in Europe. She is said
to have one of the finest collections of 1
dinner plates in the country?Sevres, '
Worcester, J/eroy, J J read cn, iMinton i
and Copelands?and a fjre.it variety,no 1
two as a rule are alike and each is a 1
fjem. Many of her plates havo cost ;
several hundred dollars a dozen. She
gives orders to people of experience to
be on the lookout for very rare spccifiens.
It is said that for a dinner of
wenrv persons Mrs. t'hiIds can, without
any difficulty, set a table the decorations
of which alone will represent
expenditure of $30,000 or $10,000.?
l'/iU<ulcfjifiia Timea.
A Japanese Postman.
As in America, so in Japan, the postman
wears his uuiform. It consists of a
suit of blue cloih, a wide butter-bowl
hat and straw shoes. The mail bag
swings under his arm, or is pushed along
in a little two-wheeled cart, lie is always
running or trotting along. You
know that in Japan men do nearly all s
the work that we make horses do here, t
so you sec the Japanese postman carry, t
hasten along from station to station. :
traveling on a quick run mile after mile, \
up-hill, down dale, never stopping until |
he reaches the place where another post- t
man is waiting to receive the mail and t
run on with it in his turn. So the mail 1
carried in the greater part of the Japanese
Empire. To a few placcs reached by
steamers it travels as in the United j
States. t
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HEALTH HINTS. J
In cases of diarrhoea tho following
drink is said to be efficacious: A coffee- '
cup full of browned, coarse corn meal,
boiled in sufficient water to make it as
strong as coffee. Drink as warm as pos- 4
sible,
Er. J. R. Irwin, in the North Carolina
Medical Journal, recommends chewing
cinnamon bark as an almost immediate s
cure for toothache, and much more r
agreeable to use than creosote, carbolic I
acid, etc. The bark must be of good 3
quality. r
In a paper by I)r. Varick, read before ^
our county medical association, the use ^
of simple hot water as a dressing for j
wounds is strongly recommended. Dur- ^
ing an cxpcricnce in its use of six years ^
in eases of acute surgery, such as rail- .
road accidents, etc., lie has had no death f
from septicaemia or primary or secondary |
shock.
One of Philadelphia's leading physi- f
cians, a specialist in. diseases of the
lungs, says that imperfect respiration is
at the bottom of much trouble. In such 1
a case he shows the patient how to swell
out the whole chest full and round by a j
deep inspiration, elevating and throwing ^
back the shoulders; and then, when he
has gotten into his lungs the last atom
<? !i.i_ x_ iUktl.. fm. 1
01 air possiuic, IU UUllt 1L iu u^unj
a little time, and then to let it oil slowly, ,
blowing out every atom of it be possibly j
can by forcible expiration, drawing the .
shoulders forward and pressing in the ,
chest to the smallest possible compass,
thus throwing out almost all of the residual
air, and all this through the nose, J
with mouth tightly closed. ''Let him j
take a half dozen or more such forced
respirations a dozen times a day,says the (
doctor, "and he will soon double his vital ]
capacity and relieve himself of most of
his supposed chest trouble. Such forced ;
respiration will compel every air cell possible
to freely admit wholesome air into
the little spaces and to expel it also, and I
some air cells that do not often perform
their fuuetions healthily will be compelled
to do so."
Whore the Viririnius Victims Fell.
One of the sights of Santiago, writes a
correspondent of the New York Times
from Cuba, is the spot where sonic of the
Yirginius prisoners wore shot. It is a <
six feet high wall iu front of the slaughter
house. The men were stood up in lioe, 1
with their faces to the wall and their i
backs to the soldiers, and murdered. 1
The story they tell there of the rescue of ,
the remainder of the prisoners is an interesting
one. Americans and Englishmen
in "Santiago tell the story; the na- '
tives don't tell it, for obvious reasons. :
? a
Tlic government, so tnc srory goes, nuu
interdicted the sending of any message '
over the cable concerning the killing of
these prisoners. Hut there was an En- I
glish bov in the telegraph oflice, learning 1
the business, aud he watched his chance i
when the operator was out, and, stand- 1
ing unconcernedly with his back to the <
key, while the office was guarded by '
Spanish soldiers, he put his hands behind '
him and managed to send over to Jamaica ;
this startling message: l
"There's the dickens to pay in Santiago.
They're butchering meu of all na- i
tions." 1
You must imagine how such a mes- i
sage was received in Jamaica; how the 1
operator read it and re-read it and won- l
dered whether it was a hoax, and read it i
again and then sent it up to the f
governor. The governor perhaps had i
had experience with the Spaniards be- 1
fore, for he sent the message without i
delay to the commander of a Ihitish 1
gunboat that lay in Kingston harbor,and
the commander had faith enough in it 1
to put on all steam and point his bow <
for Santiago. For if men of all nations \
were being butchered there must be 1
Englishmen among them. Next mom- 1
ing the British gunboat lay in Santiago
harbor, and how glad those poor ]
prisoners must have been to see her 1
there, Americans as well as English. The. !
commander sent a messenger ashore to J
j learn what was going on, but lie came 1
back without any information. Kilie
shots were frequently heard, and lie i
scut one of his principal of- i
fieers to see the commandant of the |
Spanish troops to inquire whether any 1
British subjects were in trouble, and the 1
commandant sent him back an impudent 1
reply, saying thnt lie had just shot one <
batch of prisoners and intended to shoot ?
another lot within an hour, and then it
was none of his business. Then the i
British commandor sent a message ashore i
that the Spanish general might possibly <
have thought uncivil. It was to the cf- i
feet that if he heard another shot Grcd <
until he had assurances that no British i
subjects were being murdered lie would 1
open fire on the city. This did the s
business, and the shooting stopped, i
The gunboat staid long enough to sec i
that the remaining prisoners had at least 1
fair play, and thus saved a good many <
lives. (
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New York's Cider JSnsincss. 1
As a rule the city men contract with !
the farmers for the delivery of apples at .
ccrtain times of the fall and winter, al- .
though some who have extensive storage .
rooms receive the crop as fast as it is
gathered, and store the apples for use as '
the demand requires. About ten gal- J
Ions of cider can be pressed from a barrel
of apples, and, as the apples liavo
been large and sound this year, the cider T.
is of excellent quality. 1
"The cider business of New York and J1
Brooklyn is confincd to repacking into
kegs to suit the trade, refining and clar- 11
iTying for summer use, ana minting vinegar,"
a packer explained in the course j
of a talk about cider in particular as
well as in general. "Very little cider
comes from Long Island. A little comes
in early in the season, but through the
winter a regular trade there is supplied J
from New York. Pressing is begun in '
September. Some farmers may have
enough apples to take to a mill, and get
four or five barrels of cider, one of which ?
he uses and the rest he sells to the store- (
keeper, and that is about the extent of Si
the cider business on the island,although a
I hear that a mill has been in operation 0
at Glen Cove. The main supply comes
from the Hudson river valley and cen- !;
tral New York. I have taken the product
of one mill in Greene county for *
twelve years.
" By the way, I maintain that cider n
nowadays is better than the cider we 11
used to make when boys on the New ^
England farms. Thousands of men in
New York to day can recall the old press a
beside the barn or in one corner of the 0
orchard, as well as I can. We used to 11
think there was nothing purer than the ?
cider we pressed out. The apples were ?!
sound and juicy and the straw was as
sweet as could be, and I suppose the 18
1 < ;a,., U l. ? CI
J L'LLLL'IIIUI aiJUU Ui DlJJJJlil?? U1UVI <?
straw as it came from the press will "
never pass away. Hut in those days we P
used to soak the straw in the brook i
several days to make it tough enough to S1
bend without breaking, and it would
soak up a good deal of water. It was a
good deal easier to press the water out of
the straw than to press juice from the y,
pomace, and I don't know that I ever f0
saw cider in the old times that didn't q
have a good product of water. Cider m
mills have improved greatly in all these uf
years, and we have better cider. Some ar
mills in this State produce from 20,000
to 30,000 barrels of cider in a year. They w
would make the eyes of an old New Eng- vc
land farmer stick right out of his head." {c
?New York Times. 'l'|
? (jl
A litidriliist Temple in New York, cn
A New York letter discloses the citri- "W
ous fact that there is in that city ,4a con- of
[(rogation of Huddhists who worship in ^
what I suppose must bo called by cour- ni
tcsy a Buddhist temple in the eighth th
ward. The temple is a small, dingy, lo<
Did two-story brick house, distinguished ;'t
from houses in the vicinity only by a tIn
liuge 15 on a silver door plate. Some tli
years ago a woman named IJIavatsky, -10
he same who is now in India, where as
she claims, she is working miracles, lit
risked New York to mike converts to co
liuddhism. I was taken to her apart- ! co
nents once bv an incinicnt Buddhist I <lu
ind duly regaled with an unlimited tio
piantity of tea and a pipe; the old lirt
woman herself "swilling tea," as Dick- tif
;ns would say, and putting away at an i?(
>ld clay pipe all the time I was there. I w'
"requently visited this remarkable mis* to
iionary, but she never succeeded in concerting
me. All she succeeded in doing
vithmewasto induce me, just before
ihe left for India, to buy of her a stuffed '
illigator, which her converts had been *pr
aught to regard with religious awe, but hv
rhieh she had no compunction is dispos- Ang
of to a heretic. I presume that the w0
mall Buddhist congregation is one of
ho results of her sojourn here. Perhaps 11(11
he temple in the eighth ward is adorned }'0'
vitli a stuffed monkey which I did not the
lurchaso because I thought the price I an<
mid for the alligator would more ho
hau compensate Madame Blavatsky for
he tea and tobacco (both first class) she im'
lad wasted on inc."
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The Japanese postolhce, which is ten ass
'ears old, carried 1)5,000,000 letters and j)a'
ransmitted a, 000,000 telegrams last year ha<
(IAPLE I SUGAR : MAKERS.
SUGAB CAMP Y2AB8 AGO AJTD
AT PBE8EBT.
>ld And Now Ptocchc* DescribedBackwoods
Fan in Former Times
?Curious Tilings About Nap.
A New York commission merchant
aid to a Times reporter: "The art of
naking maple sugar has greatly im>roved
everywhere within the past few
rears. In the early days tapping a
naple tree was simply the cutting in it
vith an axe, a foot and a half above the
jround, aslopingnotch threeinchosdeep
it the bottom, which was scooped out
nto a miniature trough. As the notch
illed with sap it wns ladled out. By
his means of procuring the sap much of
t was wasted, and then the augur hole
ind the hollow piece of elder came into
isc. It is not many years ago since any
>nc walking through a sugar bush in the
lap-running season could see the sap
Iripping through these elder tubes into
ude troughs mado by hollowing out
ivith an axe a piece of log split in half,
ind holding three or four gallons. In
lie sap dead flies, bees, leaves, and
;wigs were always to be seen floating,
ind in the removal of these more or less
;ap was wnsicd. In the dayg of the
;ldcr and the wooden trough, the sap
ivna enrrifld to the old time boilintr
kettles, which were usually the ones useH
in the periodical soap-makings. These
ivere hung over fires built on the ground
ind thus the sap while boiling was oxposed
again to all kinds of foreign sub?tances.
The manner of hanging these
kettles was peculiar, and I know of
many old farmers who make sugar
limply for their own household use who
stick to the old crane and kettle still.
In hanging a kettle a tall, slim tree
would be selected and cut
four or five five feet from the
ground, It was then trimmed of its
branches and a hole bored through its
butt end large enough to admit a strong
wooden pin. This pin was then driven
into the top of the stump, and the trunk
of the tree could be swung around at
will. The kettle was hung on this crane
over the fire, and, when it was necessary,
was swung aside to make it convenient
for further operations. The sap was
carricd in from the trees in pails, borne
by yokes across the shoulders not only
of rustic swains but maidens as well, for
sugar making in the old days was a gala
time and always looked forward to with
joy by young and old, although it meant
weeks of the hardest drudgery.
" The sugar camp was the place for
love making and all kinds of backwoods
fun. Then, more than under the present
system, it was frequently necessary, when
the sap was running free, to boil all
night. The grove, lighted up by many
fires and peopled with many flitting forms
of merry girls and lusty farm lads, presented
a picturesque scene. On such
occasion tne country naaicr aaacu me
charm of his presence, and every moment
that could be snatched from attention
to tree and kettle was spent in hilarious
.levotionto dances whose graceful figures
have long since been forgotten. It was
very important to keep a close watch on
the boiling kettles, for the sap was liable
to boil over. Sometimes, even by the
most violent and persistent stirring of
the seething sweetness, the watcher was
not able to stay this inclination, and in
such cmercrenciesapiece of fat pork was
always kept handy to throw into the rising
sap. This would instantly allay the
trouble in the kettle by breaking the
rapidly forming bubbles by some action
which I never quite understood.
"It would not do to leave the sap long
without stirring, for there was danger
5f scorching and certainty of its getting
too thick. The work of stirring a large
kettle could only be done by a strong
person, and lie required frequent relief,
rhere was always some one of long experience
in sugar making, generally a
woman, who was the tester of a camp.
She went from kettle to kettle, carrying
i gourd dipper half full of sap or water.
Dipping a spoonful of the boiling syrup
from a kettle she threw it in the gourd
uid judged by its action whether it had
cached the graining stage, or that approach
to it when the fires should be
owered. if not cxtinquished. When all
was ready the syrup was turned of! and
;hc sugar run into well-greased pans,
:ups, bowls and dishes of all shapes and
)izes.
"IJut a sugar camp nowadays, while it
s a cheerful and hospitable place to visit,
s vastly different from what it was in
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jui ^luuuiatuuis uajOi 1 u^iu J O HU
liorc boxing of trees, the elder stick has
lisappeared, and the wooden trough is
icver found in a well-regulated sugar
jiish. A small metal spile driven into a
small auger hole now conducts the sap
tito tightly covered tin buckets. There
ire no insccts or dirt to be taken from
;hc sap when it is carried to the evap>rating
puns, and none is wasted. The
jvaporating pan, which has taken the
)lace of the old kettle, is a broad, shalow
pan. built in an arched furnace, and
sheltered by a close building. The sap
lows in at one end of the wan and folows
devious furrows or passages in the
jottom of the pan. By the time it reaches
he end of these the sugar has been do)OBitcd
and the sap flows out at the lower
:nd of the pan as maplo syrup. When
his cools it is placed in the pan again,
ifter straining, and beaton eggs and
ilk added to it. The heat is gradually
ncreased, and the eggs and milk thickeu '
nd collect the impurities, aud all rise to :
he surface, when they are readily re* (
noved in a body. When this syrup runs !
iff the process of 'sugaring off' is competed,
and the ?ugar is simply placed (
u molds and is ready for market.
"There are many curious things about '
ap. It will not run freely unless there (
re mingled conditions of heat, cold aud
ight. Sap runs best with a still, dry, ;
ense atmosphere, and when there is a
orth or west wind. A frozen soil,
hawing through the day and hardening
gain at night, and plenty of snow in
he woods makes the best weather for |
ip. The more oxygen there is in the (
ir the better sap will run. If there
omes a heavy snowstorm durine sap ,
. cathcr, with a freeze following it~ and
lien a thaw, the sugarmaker may expect
be best possible run of sap. Trees do not
rant to be close together to secure a good
ow, and hence the anomaly in sugarlaking
that a few trees may be more
reductive than a good many. Sap that
11ns at night will make more 9Ugar than
lie same quantity running by day and
Iso when it is caught njar a snowstorm
r a freeze. It is held by many sngaruakers
that sap is better when trees
row in dry soil, arc tapped on the south
dc, and when the tap is made high.
lilTerencc in quality of sugar, therefore,
i due in n great measure to soil and loition
of trees, nnd to climatic and
icteorological conditions. Care and c
leanliness in manufacture may make up, c
owever, for deficiencies in other requi- ^
tes. f
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A Chinese Luncheon. v
r
We adjourned to the apartments of the ?
sung ladies, and had luncheon of con- f
ctions, fruit, pastry, salad and tea. j(
illy the old Tai Tai (or lady) ate with t
e. The young wives and daughters ate 0
forward. The divan on which we sat, 0
id 011 which was placed a small dining t,
b'e. was covered with a magnificent j.
added quilt. The centre piece was Sl
illow silk, with crimson brocade pat- S(
rn, richly mixed with gold. * * *
lie opposite divan was covercd willi a
lilt of greater beauty?white satin
ibroidcrcd in pink and gold and green. *
liile at luncheon the whole household n
woman came in nnd partook of melon
cds and sweetmeats. Some of the
eccs of the old Tai Tai came in with
c children. There were many finejking
women among them. * * * Just ^
sunset dinner was served. None but
c old Tai Tai and I dined, although ^
ere wus ample provision lor uic ?u or
women anil girls who sat around p
out the room talking and amusing the -n
tic ones. The viands were doliciousty tj
oked, and as course after
urso was sent in I bccamc
ito bewildered. The decora- ?
ns on the various dishes were highly
istic. When dinner was ended two beauully
lacquered basins were brought v(
with hot water and a small napkin, a
lich the lady wrung out and handed ?
me. ? Oil Jli'jhwayn in China. I
Died of Laughter.
1'haloas, the soothsayer, dicdoflauglr
at the thought of his having out- g
ed the time predicted for his death,
fellow in rags had told him that he
uld never drink the wine of the
ipes growing in his vineyard; and
:led: "If my words do not coine true, a
11 may claim me as your slave." When a
! wine was made Chalcas held a feast g|
1 sent for the fellow to come and see
w his predictions had failed. When '
appeared the soothsayer laughed so
moderately at the would-be prophet Fi
it it killed him. Crassus, the Roman ^
.tor, died from laughter at seeing au f?
eat thistles. Zeuxis, the Grecian
ntcr, died at the sight of a hag he p,
1 just dcpictcd. ~ k
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gfI'-'.-. .
LOVE SONG OF THE TOM-TIT.
[The most successful, and certainly the
prettiest, song in the new comic opera, "The
Mikado," is the love song of the tom-kit. It
has already become popular, and its refrain
has become a catch phrase. The song runs:]
On a troe by a river a little tom-tit
Sang "Willow, titwillow, tit willow!'1
And I said to him, "Dicky bird, why do you
sit
Singing 'Willow, titwillow, titwillow?'
Is it weakness of intellect, birdyf I criod,
"Or a rather tough worm in your little inside!"
With a shako of his poor littlo head, ho replied:
"Oh willow, titwillow, titwillow?'
He slapped at his che3C, a: he sat on that
bough,
Singing "Willow, titwillow, titwillow!"
And a cold perspiration bespangled his brow,
Oh willow, titwillow, titwillow!
Ho sobbed and ho sighed, and a gurgle he
gave,
Then he threw himself into the billowy wave,
And an echo arose from the suicide's grave?
"Oh willow, titwillow, titwillow!"
Now I feel as sure as I'm sure that my name
Isn't Willow, titwillow, titwillow,
That 'twas blighted affection that inado him
exclaim
"Oh wdlow, titwillow, titwillow!"
And if you remain callous and obdurate, I
Shall perish as ho did, and you will know
why.
Though I probably shall not exclaim as I
die,
"Oh willow, titwillow, titwillow!"
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Bad habits?Worn-out garments.
A railroad strike?A collision.?Ex.
A roller-skater is known by liis bump.
Sallie Ratus is the girl that takes tk
biscuit.?The Hatchet.
The wife's pathway in life is generally
a buy way.?Boston Post.
When a stovepipe is.out at the elbow
the soot begins to play out.
In Denmark the rooms in the hotel are
all bald-headed?that is, they have no
locks. ?Siftinr/*.
"Would it be just to say that all physicians
partially get their living by pillage??27te
Judge.
According to the doctrine of the survival
of the fittest, the last man will undoubtedly
be a tailor.? Life.
Often a cold shoulder pleases the recip
ient, especially if it happens to be a cold
shoulder of lamb.? Waterloo Observer.
The empress of Austria has a private
circus. Many American ladies have
them to on lodge nights.? Courier-Journal.
A noetess sines, "I Have Found
What Silence Is." Her friends, it is
understood, arc not so fortunate.?Boston
Transcript.
"More light" is the watchword of
progress, but more of the opposite
quality in a load of coal is what the
people are beginning to demand.?Chicago
Letlger.
"What is the 'dollar of our daddies'?"
asked a college paper. It is what the
average undergraduate pays his wagers
and anti-temperance subscriptions with.
?Burlington Free Press.
" What One Girl Did " is the title of
a new story. She doubtless did the
same as all other girls do?jump up on a
table and frightened a poor little mome
to death.?New York Journal.
A philosopher writes, "Man is the
merriest species of the creation." Did
the philosopher ever see a man when it
was first broken to him that he was the
father of twins? We trow not.?New
York Graphic.
"How Love is Made in Persia," is the
title of a recent article. It is probably
mode there of the same compound parts
as horo, that is, millionaire's daughter
one part, impecunious nobleman one
part, desire for title forty-nine parts, desire
for wealth forty-nine parts. Mix.?
Boston Post.
"Sis says she can't comc down to
night; she has a severe headache. That's
what she says; but Cholly don't give it
away, she's lyin' like a house afire. She
hurt her bunion so tryin' to wear number
two shoes on a number four foot,
that she can't walk," was the way a
Fourth 3trect eight-year-old excused his
sister when her beau called.?Brooklyn
Times.
"Tho spring has sprung again, sir,
And I have brung sir,"
Said he, "somo little verselets that tho whole
world would like to read.
I know you'd prize them,
You'd better reviso t hemIn
an idle hour I dashed them oil! at almost
lightning speed."
A journalistic
Encounter fistic
Then ensued, and, crash! the poet whirled
downstairs and through the door.
The bright young writer
\\*ns not a fighter,
Dut he'd often dashod off poets at almos'
lightning speed before.
?Somerville Journal.
A Batter Test.
"By that means I convince my cus'
tomcrs that I don't sell oleomargarine,'
said a white-aproned butterman, pointing
to two china sauce-boats that
stood in a conspicuous placc on his
counter in the Farmers' market. In each
9aucc-boat lay a little coil of common
lamp wick, one end of which hung out
of the nose of the vessel. " Now," said
the dealer, pointing to two firkins, "one
of those contains oleomargarine made in
Connecticut and the other holds saltpackcd
butler from Ohio. See if you
can detcct the genuine from the imitation."
The reporter tried and failed.
In flavor, smell and appearance they
ivcrc identical.
The butterman continued: "Tliat oieonargarine
will deceive nine buyers out
jf ten, but I will expose it for you." 11c
Jropped a lump of the oleomargarine as
large as an egg into a tin cup, and in anjther
cup he placed a similar-sized piece
)f the salt-packed. The cups were held
jver a blazing little charcoal furnace un;il
their contents were melted. Then the
)leomargarinc was poured in one saucejoat
aud the butter into the other. The
,vicks were lighted. Both burned readiy,
and the burning butter sent up a
aint and pleasant smoke. From the
)lcomargarine, however, came the nasty
and unmistakable stench of burning
ancid grease. " Since I began showing
the difference between butter and oleonargn?inc,''faid
the dealer, as he snuffed
>ut the wicks, "my business has
loublcd."?Philadelphia Times.
In Letters of Gold.
In a new play by Alexander Dumas,
:alled "Dcnisc,"onc of the chaiacters
inundates the following sentiment,
vhich should be written in letters of
fold: "Do you want to know what is
bsolute truth? It is to respect the first
I'oman you have known and loved?your
nothcr?in all the other women you may
neet hereafter. It is not to make them
all if thev stand high?not to drag them
ower if they are debased already; it is
o associate yourself for life with only
nn wnmun. vour wife, and to have but
no motive iu marriage?love. This is
ruth. All that borrows the name :iud
? not this, has been invented to suit a
ociety which is at once elegant and dispute."
-Demomt.
Over 3,000 children recently died in
lie Fiji Islands of whooping cough. The
lalady has become epidemic.
A (aootl Mreakfnst.
Mrs. E. W. Carponter, Overlee, Baltilorc
county, Maryland, writes: I was
reatly benefited by the use of lied
tar Cough Cure, when sultering from a
:vere cold. Mv cook was seriously ill
om a deep-seated cough. She had
insulted her doctor without relief,
y my advice she used the Cough Cure
i connection with an external applicaon
of St. Jacobs Oil to her side. In
ne night the changc wrought was most
ratifying and astonishing. Ia the mornig
she was like a new person.
The most valuable metal known is
nadium, which is worth about $10,000
pound.
d e_. _
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ulcers, obstructions, unnatural discharges,
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Send history of case and address for illustrated
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Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
Ten-seventeenths of all the voters in the
United States are engaged in fanning pursuits.
__ DrowMnesn In the I>ny-timo
unless caused by lack of sleep or from overeating,
is a symptom of disease. If it be accompanied
by general debility, headache, lo83
of appetite, coated tongue and sallow complexion,
you may be sure you are suffering
l'rom biliousness and consequent derangement
of the stomach and bowels. Dr. Piorce's
"Pleasant Purgative Pellets" are a sure cure
for all ailments of this nature. They cleanse
and purify the blood and relieve tho digestive
organs.
On a farm near East Aurora. N. Y., was
discovered recently a belt of solid salt sixtyfive
feet thick.
When all so-callcd remedies fail, Dr. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy cures.
Europe and India consume annually about
150,000 gallons of handkerchief perfume.
A new idea embraced in Ely's Cream Balm.
Catarrh is cured by cleansing and healing,
not by drying up. It is not a liquid or snuff,
but is easily applied with the finger. Its effect
is magical, and a thorough treatment
will cure tho worst cases. Price 60c. At druggists.
GOc. by mail. Ely Bros , Owego, N. Y.
I have been troubled with Catarrh of the
head and throat for the last five years. About
three years ago I commenced the uso of Ely's
Cream Balm, and from the first application I
was relieved. Tho sense of smell, which had
been lost, was restored after using one bottle.
I have found tho Balm the only remedy for
Catarrh I have used with satisfaction, and it
has accomplished a cure in my case.?H. L.
Myer, Waverly, N. Y.
Having used Ely's Cream Balm about a
year, I can say it is just the thing for catarrh.
Miss Mattio A. Baker, East Templeton, Mass.
"Rough on Pain.'?
Cures colic, cramps, diarrhoea; externally
for aches, pains, sprains, headache, neuralgia,
rheumatism. For man or beast. 26 and 50c.
Now is the time to prevent and cure Skin
Diseases, and to secure a white, soft and beautiful
complexion uso "Beeson's Aromatic
Alum Sulphur Soap." 25 conts by Druggist,
or by mail. Wm. Preydoppel, Phila., Pa.
A lady writes: "Your Hop Porous Plaster
does the work every timo. I do not have that
awful pain in the Fide now." Your experience
will be the same. Sold everywhere. 25c.
' Dlotliers.
If you are failing; broken, worn out and nervous,
uso "Wells' Health Renewer." f L Drgta
The purest, sweetest and best Cod Liver
Oil in the world, manufactured from fresh,
healthy livers, upon the seashore. It is absolutely
pure and sweet Patients who have
once taken it prefer it to all others. Physicians
have decided it superior to any of tho
other oils in market. Made by Caswell, Hazard
& Co., New York.
Chatted hands, face, pimples and rough
ikin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, made by
Caswell, Hazard & Co., heir York.
"Konih on Coughs."
Ask for " Rough on Coughs." for Coughs
Colds, Sore Throat, Hoarseness. Troches, 15o
Liquid, 25c.
See F. & R-S1 Gluten Flour adv. next week.
Thin People.
"Wells' Health llenowor' restores health and
vigor, cures, dyspepsia, sexual debility. $1.
London has four fire districts, each brigade
having COO men and officers.
Important.
When yon tlsltor leave New York city, ?sreb?r*\r?,
eiprc8aa*o and $3 cirri<ko hire, and atop at the Qraai
Union Hotel, opposite Grand Uentnl d jpot.
CttUelegnnt rooma, tlttad an at a cost of one raillloa
dollar*, ?1 and upward pcrday. Karopi.m plan. Kl*
Tator. Iteataarant supplied with thebost. llorMairi,
stages and derated railroad to all depots. Familiei
can lire better for leas m.iniy at the Grand Uaioa
Hotel than at any other lirit-claaa hotel in tha city.
It costs over ?"),C0D a year, it is said, to
keep and clean the crown jewels ot England.
Purify Your Blood
Tour blood may be laden with impurities, bnt
Hood's Sarsaparilla will thoroughly cleanae, enrich
and vitalize it. The most seven; caeca of scrofula,
rait rheum, bolls, pimples?in fact all affections arising
from impure blood, yield to Hood's Sarsaparilla,
tuo Rreac ujoou puriner. at uio curc.i ayspcpsia,
biliousness, sick headache, kidney and liver complaints,
sharpens the appetite and builds up tho
whole system.
Charlos 0. Roberts, East Wilson, N. Y., had 13
scrofulous sores on his face and neck. Nothing
helped him till ho took Hood's Sarsaparilla, which
effected a complete cure. His druggist says it is
"A Groat Victory" for Hood's Sarsaparilla.
"Hood's Sarsaparilla has been used with perfect
success in our family for canier in the stomach and
impure blood. My littla ona is entirely cared, and
we shall continue its use as a family medicine.31ns.
F. E. BURTOJf, Somcmlle, Miss.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Sold by all drugglstA. $1; six for 15. Made only by
0. 1. HOOD A CO., Apothocarcs, Lowell, Mass.
100 Poses One Dollar
World* of CJood.
Probably no other woman in tho World receives
so many "letters of thanks" as Lydia E.
Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass. Mrs. B , of Enfield,
N. H., says: "I will simply say that
your Vegetable Compound is all you recommend
it to be. It hcia done me Worlds of
good" Another lady writes from Ottawa as
follows: "I have just to-day bought the seventh
bottle of your Vegetable Compound,
have used two boxes of Pills and several
packages of your Sanative Wash, and think
it but right to tell you how much good I derived
from your medicines. They are a regular
God-send. All the pains and aches
have almost disappeared, my stomach is much
stronger, too, and I feel myself improvod
every way."
METAL~POISON.
I am a coppersmith by trade, and th? small particles
of brass anil coppor from tiling got Into sores on my
arms anil poisoned my whole system. Mercury administered
nrought on rheumatism, and I became a
helpless Invalid. I took two doien bottles of Swift s
Specific. My legs, arms and hands are all right again.
I uso them without pain. lly restoration Is duo to S.
b. S. fetkr E. lovk.
Jan. 9, 1885. Augusta, Ua.
ULCERS.
For six or eight years I suffered with nicer* on my
right leg. I was treated with Iodide of Potassium
and Mercury, and I becamo helpless. Six bottles of
Swift's Specific made a permanent cure.
Feb. 28,13tB. M. D. Wilsos, Gainesville, Ga.
Swift's Specific Is entirely vegetable. Treatlso on
Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free.
Tim swftt Specific Co., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga., or
159 St., N. y.
"1 plight to know about it," was tho remark of a
gentleman to his companion, in passing the exhibit
of "Ridge's Food" at a recent fair. "I have reared
fire children on it." Such testimony at this, covering
years of time, is batter than all arguments.
Ridge's Food still maintains the lead as best suited
to all classes and conditions of child life.
FRAZER^
AXLE GREASE.
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10 to 5JO adav. sr'o.OOl) ?"M. Its Crral Aut/iorsUf
and Soli/1 il'Ht make it the bn->ming bookfor Aacxtik
ItT"f>end for Circulara, Spro'.men Plate, Extra Terms, etc-00
A. D. WOKTII1NUTON A CO., Hartford,Conn.
STANLEY MS CONGO.
Exi'lorutious and Achievements in Alrica by Henrv
M. Stanley. A< iE.Vi S WANTED ior t Ins exciting and
romantic book. Address \YM. FI.INT. 1'hila.. P.v.
/SSRV ALL IMPERFECTIONS
of th?* Face. Hands A Fert, Superfluou*
llnlr. Moles. Wnrt*. Freckles. Moth. Iteil
jWri 0 Nose, Acne, Bl'k Heads, Sears, l'itfing :
an,! treatment. Dr..John Woodbury,
N. I'cnrl St., Albnuy, V*
aOV" / ^ Established lsiO. Send lOe. for booje. I
i
THURSTON'S S.TOOTH POWDER | i
Keeping Teeth rerfect and <;umit Healthy. I
( ?f//tc /rc^r H 1 *'*1 :iU* t,! PM>'l wntiuv:.
\^(r One ro??v luc*. t??.> HMwa.v, N*. Y
KIDDER'S MOTIliSHSJRt I
QTiWTTimil4l ii hh8btto)caium, au?j.
19 !?* >'* B:|U Great English Gout an: i1
DEair S rlltSi Rheumatic Remedy.
Oral Kox, Sl.OO; round, 50 rls? j
PATCH I Silks and Satins
sent for'-'V. Kmbroidnrv Silk?. li><* '
W O R K. I doz. A. O. BASSOTT. RnrU?>M.-r. N' V.
l/IDIPnnri r INInlm ?nr? rnrx. Tlnok fre? 1 I
AnlvUwtLC l'ituu a(encr, i6ofiiiiou ai.,n. t* '
HORSE
i34 LBOVABD STI
^' B
LADIES!
Migyr^ noviiniauBi
Efl<frM* by PhyriotaM.
8SM?S6 xt VoUUj i^dwJOi
Mrytjr^flwi the Liver to healthy
vTo FAfLv* aotioa, removing the
oanses that prepuce
JillIIH rnraii Bilious Headache4>/0*
v Qb* '/ pepsia, Files, fee.
Lo hunt's11 eaSi ib4
the Stomach and Bowels will xftUu
their strength, and the blood will be
perfectly purified.
It cures Female complaints and by
its nse monthly sickness is rendered
painless.
It is purely vegetable, and meets a
want never before furnished to the
public, and the utmost reliance may
be placod in it.
RELIABLE W0ED3.
"He who Urcs after nature shall norer be poor."
A Clergrtnav.
Rev. Charles I'ike, of VVntert-ary, Conn., e?r?:
"I contracted a weakness of the kidney*, which
wns made worse by drinking water in the different
pincci .where I resided I suffered severely. I
purchased a bottle of Hunt's [Kidney and lirer]
Kenedy, with the guarantee that it would help me,
as it afterward did."
"f- ??s? v. -it*- .??? n
"jfl an ururnjr iiuudc, nuio euuu tcau/
A (iraiemi I.adj.
"This Is to certify that I have mod Hunt's [Kidney
and Liver] remedy for the kidneys and other
troubles with very satisfactory results, and would
recommend the *am'e to those aflUcted as I m
Gratefully, Mrs. D. J?, reck, Ansonia, Ct."
' Oat of debt oat of danger."
My Wife's lUotl:*-.
Mr; Charles \\. Morris, Eagle ufllcc, Pittsfleld,
Mass., writes:?My wife's mother had be<n In a
very precarious condition with dropsy, or Bright'*
dlsca.-c of iho kidneys. Hunt's [Kidney and
Liver] remedy has worked a mlraclc in her."
Price $1.25. Send for Illuitratod Pamphlet to
HUNTS RESIEDV CO., PrjTiieoce, R. V
Sold by all druggists.
C. N. CR1TTENT0M, General Agent, New York.
rtrsi?
II.bi.i1.bfi ifc
cures and prevents
Coldfl.Cooffbfi, Sort Throat,Inflammations,
Rhtnmatismi, JTetiralgia, Hesdaohe,
TooUi&clie, Asthma, Difficult
Breathing'.
CURBS TI1E WORST PAINS to frtra em to
l?mi; ?inotej. Nat one hear after raiding this ad>
tsrti*?M0t ncd aojr one SUFFERWITH *AIH.
- ri^way'8.^
READY RELIEF
la a Car* far Every Pain, Sprain*, Braise*
Fa'.n* In the Back, Chest er I*hnbe?
It vraa the First nnd Is the Oal?
PAIN REMEDY
That instantly steps the most eicruciatinsr pain, sllsM
laflimaistloD, and carat Congestion*. whether of the
Laos*, Stomach or Bowels, or other fiends or erf ins
by one application. If seized with threatened
PNEUMONIA,
Or an; inflammation of the internal organs or nana
membranes, after eipoeare to cold, wet, etc., ism se
time, bat apply Kalwaj's Belief or?r the part affected
with eonceetloa er inflammation and care the patient.
teaspooaf nl in half a tambler of wator will Ili a few
minuter cure Cramps, Spasms, Soar Stomach, Heartbora,
Nervousness, Sleeplessness, Sick Headache,
Diarrhoea, D;s jatery, Oollo, Flatulency, sad all iatssnal
paias.
MALABIA
CURED IN ITS WORST FORMS.
Titers Is net a remedial sgent in tho world that will
cars Ferer and A*uo and sll other Main I ms, Bilious
and other fetors, aided bjr KAIIWAT'S PIlX8,l?
quick as RAIJ\VAV>9 KiiAUY UELtEF.
Fifty cents per bottle. Sold by Ursfiflitl,
ar. Raws mwm Rem
THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER,
For tho Care of All Chronic Dlawutk
Chromic Rhea>nati*na, Scrofula, SyphllHlo Umt?
fiUinta, ate. (Ma our b<wk on Venereal Mo.; prloe
*rent7-ti?e cidU), Cllindnlar Bwellinr, Hacking Dtf
Coa?h, G*ncer?.u* Affection*. Bleeding et the Lung*,
Dysp*p?i?, Water lirub, Whit* Swelling*. Tamor*.
Pimples, Blotohes, Eruption of tha Fam, Uloera, Hip
IMaeaaei, Gojt, Dropar, Rlckata. 6a!t Rntam, Bronchitis,
Coaiumptios, Diabetea, Kidney, H Ladder, Urar .
Complaints, ote.
SCROFULA,
Whether transmitted by parentaor acquired, ia withia
the cn retire range 01 the 8AK8APA Itltil'lAM
UKSOLVIiNT.
Care* h*r? been made where pcrvma hare been afflicted
with Scrofula frrra their youth op to SO. SOaad
<0 Tram ef u>, by 1)K. KADWAY'S 8AUSAPAUILUAN
REaflLVEN'l't a r-mady cooipoead
ot ingredient* of eitraordinary nodical propertiea,
ean?ai:at to pntifjr, heal, repair and inrfgorate the
broken down and wasted bod/, Qaick, pleaaant. aefa
and permanent in ita treatm'mt and cure, Sold 07 tU
drijgists. One do!lnr a bottle.
Dr. RadwayVRegulattag Us
For tha enra of all diaerder* cf tha Stomach, Urar.
Bowel*. Kidney*. Bladder, X err oca Dlwa*ea; Loaa of
AppotiU, Ueadaoha. ConaUpation, Coatireneja, IndJ.
geatlun, D;*repai?, Billonineaa, Ferer, Inflammation
of the Bowel*, Plica and all derangement* of tha In?
ternM Viaccra. Purely regeUb'e, containing no max*
cury, aiinerala, or deUterioos drugs.
Price, X!j conta per box. Bold by all drnrgiata..
nrStud a letter stamp taRADJIMT i: CO., Wfljj
32 Warren St.. Wear York, flwo and 'liSe."
TO TIIKPIJBI.IC.-Ba aoraS^PFfor Radway'i,
and ana that tha name "Radway*' ia on what yoc boy,
IMMEDIATE RELIEF.
fTTi URNIsn your own bottle* and
J? nave threefourths the coat
( ordon'a Kins of Pain la
furnished in ixiwaer and wnt by
mall, with fall direction* for ml*> .
ing and twlnir, also label* for bottled,
circulars, etc. It relleTe*
pain aa If by magic and la a houae.
hold remedy wherererknown tot
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Head*
ache. Tootiiacho, Burns A Scald*,
Sprain*and Braise*, Sore Throat,
Ulcer*, Flesh Wound*. ctc. The
remedy is put up In SOc., $1 and
MBBJHjaw paccascn. ine sue. pacura
IBKBHM whrn reduced to liquid form, will
BBaBH All 34 two oz. bottle*. You can
BKflflflBg easily figure the saTlng. A pent*
gj J8L n can co,n money In iclllnx It. Ori>r
k package and you mil be
rotfulAT customer hereafter.
* ? CATAltll II.?Gordon'* Catarrh
Remedy positively cures: Fifty cent* by maU.
Satisfaction irunrnnteed. Stamp* taken.
E. O. RICHARDS. Sole Proprietor, Toledo. Ohio. ,
-ifi-lll'rr n C has taken the lead U
. the Mies of that class of
^Vcnm In^Egl remedies, and his gi?en
J&jI TO & DATS.^fl almost universal UUslicjSafGumaini
not i?W tiou*
ggff uut Slrloiort.
wSJ If fd eoljby lb* O has won the fir'or of
yQ** ? ... the public and now ranks
aBlI'USI Ciialol Co. . amons the leading lledlTO
Cincinnati BBSS cinls otlh*
m .. . "tbT1 a. l. smith.
Ohlo.^^M Bradford, Pi.
,<i88hwg^ ^ SoMhy nnre^a.
BEST TRUSS EVER USED~
Iniprovcu Klaatlc Trutt.
Worn 11 Ijt r\:j J <Uy. Po?UlTeW
ntr-s Knpture.
Hf ft T, A R T T P*? S.-nt bv ui.iil orcrywhere.
H Xbitc,! 55 w,i" tor ,nU d?*c?P",r*
circular* lo tho
New York Elastic
Y Irwr / Truss Company,
744 B'dway, New Yore
mO introduce and sell th* tmdo the well-known ut .
X celebrated CiearsoftheNEW YORKiHAVANA
CIGAR COMPANY. Liberal arrangement*. Salary
or Commission peid to the right nun. For further
particular* and terms address, at once,
The New York ?fc Havana Cigar Co.,
57 Hroathvay, IS w York.
IF PACES
SLIQUID GLUE
Awarded GOLD MEDAL, LONDON, IMS. Um4
bjr Maaon * Hamlin Organ and Plan* Co.. Pullman
Palace Car Co.. Ac. Mfd only kr the RUSSIA
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EVERYWHERE. 0-8ampl* Tin Can t>y_M*U, fc
GINSUMPTiaN.
I hara a poeltlv* remedy lor the above dleea?* ; by It*
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