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FISH POACHERS. FRENCH CANADIANS SPEARING SALMON BY TORCHLIGHT. * Tfc? rtit I'nif nrl Qf ntpc I AUIUIIll JTVilVIICIO . Waters?Money in a Salmon Stream?Penk. l'arr, Smolt and Grilse Stages. 4''Well, what's up now, Adam?" Adam had suddenly ceased paddling forward, and began to back water vigorously, at the same time keeping his eyes fixed on a white object floating in the water at the edge of the stream. Without answering the question he swung the canoe shoreward,and in a moment leaped out and held the white object np for inspection. It was a female salmon of about ten pounds weight, which from its appearance could not have been dead more than a few hours. Some sharp object had gashed her right side making a wound into which Adam thrust two of his thick fingers. "What did it?" "Poachers." -When:" "Last night. These infernal French Canadian settlers will persist in burning j the water during the spawing season, j although they know that if caught they j are liable to go to thy penitentiary for it, ! and nothing but a dose of lead will stop i them. Suppose we lay over to-night and fill their hides with b.rd-shot:" 'Burning the water.'" "Yes, that's what they call it. It is i nothing but pulling over the spawning- I beds in a light canoe, with a pitch-pine ! torch in the bowfand speariug the lish j as they lie quietly on bottom. About j every third throw wounds a fish instead , of killing it, and the pjor beast swims j away to die, just as this oue has done." | "Certainly, we shall put a stop to that ! kind of thing. Let us go into camp : right here." It was the afternoon of the 13th (Sunday). A party of three of us had leased the right to fish one of the little salmon rivers just south of the Saguenay, paying $250 for the privilege for the season, and myself and the Major were making a preliminary survey of the water, as it were, from sourcc to mouth, in order to get : some idea of the spoit awaiting us when we came up to camp out in earnest m July. The thiec-mile limit imposed on United States coast fishermen by the Canadian Government made us particularly sore against the Canadian poachers, who were not only fishing a river paid for in good United States silver dollars, but who were doing so illegally and in an inhuman manner. Adam knew what he was about, and declared that the light charge of powd *r upon which he rammed iaome a handful of No. 3 shot was not too heavy, but just V* t?r. AnAnnrlt fa Coiul f V? O ll'tlp UVitVJ tnvugx, ov.4.. r~..xw through the thick hide of any poacher whom we might come across. It was eight o'clock and dark as a black cat when we began moving up stream toward the gravelly beds whereon we had observed salmon earlier in the day. Tho ragged I. irches and piues which form the mass of the forests along Canadian streams, have a mournful air, even in day-time; but when indistinctly seen at night, and when nothing is heard i but the lapping of the black water over the stones, they arelunereal. Once Adam stopped slipping hh ] addle in and out of tho water to point toward a couple of sparks on the left I auk. They glistened o m/vmnnf -mrl TTPnt- nilf "That was a deer." whispered Adam. "If the Frenchmen .-aw it they would try a shot at it. in season or not. Tho-e fellows cannot understand anything but a dose of bird-shot. They know t'.iat means that their company is not wanted. A larger spark directly ahead of us soon resolved it>e!f into a brightly burning fire, and, by keeping close to the weed-fringed bank, we managed to steal up clo.-e enough not only to see that the fire was burning in th cauo? of a '"habitant," but to watch him at his unholy work. The circle of light in which he sat made the suuoan ling darkness impenetrable, and his absorption in the work at hand closed his ears. The canoe was floating gently with the i*nrrftnf o ahoI* rtf tlto Ira ninrr VUI.VKV, ? V. ? r;-t> its head right, and the Canuck wasgft'.ing with all his eyes into the water over the side. Suddenly he lifted himself to his feet, and, like th'j lunge of a steel bow, his right arm shot out and sent a spear hissing into tie river. When he drew -the spear back by means of a cord fastened to the shaft we .'aw a beautiful fish writhing on the weapon. It was strung half way dovvu the spear handle. The "sportsman's" aim had been true, and the tish was struck fairly in the back. An average female salmon will deposit ten thousand eggs in a single season. Tr XJ.UW IlJUUJr UIIUUIII II ? VI uou | that swims had that single spear-thrust destroyed? I was asking myself that question when the report of Adam's .shotgun rang out over the water. There was a howl from the fire-cam e, and tlr n the habitant sat down so suddenly that the frail shell turned under h'm. and the poacher and the light went o it simultaneously. "We heard hirn splashing about and swearing in the darkn ss for the next five miuut:s. "We may now go," remarked Adam. "iie will unueisuinu wnai uiai was ior quite as well :is wc do, and, more, he will tell his friends. who are as much in fear of bird-shot as they are of bullets, and 3'ou may rely upon it, there will be no more burning of this river this season/' Amon?; the thousand miles of coast on both sides of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, from the point where the Straits of Belle Isle sepaiate Labrador and Newfoundland down to the Nova Scotian coa^, a hundred clear, cold rivers debouch into the sea, any one of which, with proper care, would in the course of a few years be worth thousands of dollars as a salmon fi>hery. But, with few exceptions, . these rivers arc netted at the mouth with fixed nets, which remain in place month after month, the rising tide tilling them with a haive-t which the indolent fisher ? MMAI.mh ??4 l/.ti' itriif.ir Tn fKA IIIUU ?lt lun <i?uvi. xu iuu oj#iuj? schools of salmon hover about the mouths of these rivers, and occasionally attempt to pass ilie nets in order to reach the fresh water spawning beds at the rivers' sources;*but the obstacles aie too well placed, and the salmon are driven back to fall a prey to the seals and dog-fish. It may not ba geacraliv kr.own that the .salmon h:s live elis?iiict stages of existene e alter leaving the cjg, and that he is about four years olel befo:e lie becomes the .ealmon which fishermen knowby that name. The fry are technically termed ' penk''up to the age of three months, when they grow light in color and assu-tie a number of carmine spots. Five or six inches is the average length of the fish now, and it is known as the parr, and a- a parr it dallies about in its native waters for two or three seasons, and then in August it goes down to the sea as a smolt. Upon its return to its , native river in the lollowing spring it is known as a grilse, and only after another winter passed amid the dange.s of the oconn does it become worthy to take its place at the head of the world's gume , fishes?and be called a salmon.? Quebet Letter to Cincinnati Enquirer. The Seventeen-Year Locust. The seventeen-year locust i^n't a locust at all. This may seem a strange tningto say, but it is true, nevertheless. The locust looks very much like a grasshopper, while the seventeen-year cicada, which is the insect's proper name, looks * * fl-ton I a yreat deal more use a^uuui, uj WJ<4U I anything else. | Just fancy spending the best part of j j'our life prowling about in the darkness | underground and then coming up into , the sunlight with a gorgeous pair of I wings, only to d e in a short time! j Tnat is what the seventeen-year cicada I docs. In the very first pine?, it is an ' CSS which its mother deposits in a tiny hole in a twig. In a few weeks it makes j its way out of the <gg and drops to the ground, into which it burrows, and in [ which it remains for seventeen years before it is prepared for life above ground. "When, at last.it is ready for the bright sunlight, it may be one foot from the surface or it may be ten feet deep in the ground. In either case it begins to dig upward until it finds its way out. when it climbs up the nearest tree and fastens itself by its sharp claws to a leaf or twig. There it waits until its back splits open, and behold! it immediately crawls out of itself, so to speak. The new insect is a soft, dull fellow at first, but he grows as if he had been storing up energy for seventeen years, for just that one purpose. Within an hour, two pairs of most beautiful wings * ? ? ,1 ? f. ^ Innpc mors it nave gruwu, <uiuju .? ? ? has become hard and active. The female cicadas are quiet enough, but the males are as noisy as so many little boy6 with new drums. Indeed, they do have drums themselves. Just under their wings are drums made of shiny membrane as beautiful as white silk, and these are kept rattling almost all the time. One ci ada can make noise enough; but imagine the din of millions of them ail going at the same time. It sounds as if all the frogs in the country had come together to try to drown the noise of a saw-mill. Now it is the saw-mill you hear, and now the fro<js. It sounds like a bi^ story to say milif von could e-o into the woods where they arc, you might be willing to say billiors. I have counted over a thousand cast-off shells on one small tree, and on one birch leaf I have seen twelve shells. And the earth in some place* is like a sieve from the holes made by the cic da*.. But within a few weeks from the insects' first appearance their eggs have be< n laid and the cicadas have all died. A great many of them are eaten by the birds and chickens, but most of them simply cannot live any longer.?St Nicholas. The Passage of tlie Forts.. Captain Beverley Kennon, who commanded the Confederate gun-boat, Governor Moore, and helped in fighting Farrfto-ut below New Orleans, has a paper in the Century, from which ve quota as follows: "The evening prevf uis to the battle I reported to Uene>ai Duncan, the commander of the two forts, my observations on the enemy's movements as seen by myself from the mast-head. Yet to my knowledge no picket boat was sent down by us, or any means adopted to watch the enemy and guard against surprise. The result was they were abreast the forts before some of our vessels fired a shot. In a few moment this space was filled with smoke from the guns and exploded shells, intensifying the darkness of the night. A slackening of the fire on both sides was necessary, since neither could distinguish friend from foe. In nn was Hlefcinornishahle SUU1C UV/ v v 0 ? until directly upon it, when it was as soon lo*tto view, yet the U. S. squad ion steamed a'icad, blinfoldcd, as it were, through the darkness and confusion,soon to find themselves in places of absolute safety and with comparatively few casualties. "At about 3:"0 a. m. (April 24, 18G2) an unusual noise down the river attracted my attention. As we expected to be attacked at any moment, I descended the la-.lder to near the water, where I distinctly heard the patldles of a steamer (the Miss'ssippi). I siw nothing on reaching the deck, but instantly fired the after gun, the one forward being fired by the sentry there; at the same moment the water batteries of Fort Jackson and Fo.t St. Phillip let drive, followed in an instant bv a ceneral discharge from all the available guns in the forts, and both batteries of the advancing fleet,mounting two hundred and forty-two guns, and j Commander Porter's squadrom of seven vessels mounting seventy-two guns, which j attacked Fort Jackson's flank below the | obstructions. There was abo a splendid practice from nineteen Federal mortars, ! which fired their thirteen-inch shells at intervals (between the vessels) of ten seconds ' The bursting of every description of shells quickly following tlu-ir discharge, increased a hundred-fold the terrific noise and fearfully grand and magnificent pyrotechnic displav which centered in a e .1 4 * SJKIUC ilUUUt IWUMU UllllVliWl junto AtA width. The ball had not more than fairly opened before the enemy's ships were Lctween the forts, and the Uncle Sam of my earlier days had the key to the valley of the Mississippi again in his brccches-pockct, lor which he had to thank his gallant navy and the stupidity, tardiness, ignorance, and neglect of the authorities in Richmond." The President's Fortune. The Washington Sunday Capitol says that the Pre-i tent's salary is paid liitn in monthly installments? $4,100.00 r.n the last day of each month?and the treasurer always makes it a point to send him notes of the latest issue. Mr. Cleveland, as his predecessors have done, keeps a private bank account with Higgs & Co., and makes a deposit the first of every month, reserving enough of his salary to pay current expanses and siting a good example by putting the rest aside f?.r a rainy day. I am told that his arcounl 1 - - ' - 11 1 AArt nas snown u uaiance us large us *>?> ?, uuu, as he has an income aside from his ofli cial salary. While lie never ha-; been a money getter he has earned in his profession all lie as ever made. -Mr. Cleveland has an economical disposition, and no luxurious tastes like his immediate ! prod cessor. Before he entered public ' life lie was making lrom $10,000 to $l-?,- I 0'?0 a year by his practice, imd could have lived like a lord. His expenses, I am told, \ve:c never more than $2,i>00 a year and lie enjoyed himself as much a3 most men do. Ilis frugal habits were acquired in ! youth, for he was not born with a j golden, or even a f-ilver, spoon in his j mouth, and he has found his pleasure in ' hard work. The President's Buffalo friends estimate that he was worth from $00,000 to $?'>,000 when he w .s elected, and has already increased that amount considerably by profitable investments and by the surplus of his salary. i WALL STREET. HOW THE GREAT MONEY MART'S TREASURE IS GUARDED. The Financial Centre a District Ta boood to Professional Thieves? Some Heavy Robberies?The New Detective System. A moderately stout middle-age 1 man. with closely cropped small vrbiskers, gold-rimmcd eyeglasses, and sedatel} respectable raiment, entered the office of the Dctective Bureau at Police Headquarters one recent afternoon aiad said to Inspector Byrnes: "I want to go down on Nassau street, near Pine, to-morrow to see my lawyer." He did not say it in a confidential way, for it was heard by the reporter talking with the Inspector a momcut before and still standing near. And he looked like the sort of pecunious old fellow who might want to see a lawyer about 6ome real estate transaction, or perhaps the making of his will. It would not have been surprising if the Inspector, aside from his characteristic courtesy, had replied with some mild paraphrase of the response of the Bowery b'hoy to Thackeray's cxpre.-sed wish to go to Broadway ?"Well, wliy the douce doni you go: But it was a little puzzling to hear him answer: ''What time?" "At 10 o'clock." Very well. A man will be ready here to go with you at that time." Could it be possible that citizens were in the habit of claiming police protection when going within a block of Wall street, or did the elderly gentleman patronize a particularly dangerous lawyer? The applicant returned his thnnks politely, and went out. Inspector Byrnes resumed the interrupted thread ol" liia *.? XT 4-1-% nm o conversuuuu. 01 uiuu o?.cuilU to see anything novel in the situation. But the reporter did, and asked an explanation. "Well," replied the Inspector, "that man used to be a first-class bank sneakthief, operating on Wall street, and although he claims to have reformed, and done nothing crooked for several years, I don't trust him. Men who are known as thieves, or as having been thieves, are not allowed to go into the Wall street district unaccompanied by an officer. It would be dangerous for them even to go below Fulton street, for if rccognized they would be liable to arrest on suspicion. Consequently, when they have any real, legitimate business down there, they come here, report it to me, and I assign an officer to accompany them into the district and see them safely out of it again. They submit without a kick, of conrse. What else could they do:1' How long has that preventive policy been in vogue;" "Ever since the first week in which I took charge of this burca.i. When I assumed control, one of the early things I did was to send for all the forgers, sneaks, and crooks generally that used to frequent Wall street, and lay down the new law to them, that they must not go down to the Wall street district any more, except by my permission and under the eye of one of my men. They knew that I meant what I said, an l have since kept very clear of any incursions upon the tabooed grounds." Prior to the placing of the Detective Bureau under charge of Inspector Byrnes, ingenious sneak thefts and successful forgeries were by no means infrequent, and occasionally the sums lost were exceedingly large. Here are some, at least, of the large losses by tLese means in the Wall street district since the war and prior to 1880, when a new man came along to whom old occusions taught new duties: I860? A tin box containing $20\0G0was taken from the safe of the Royal Insurant-^ Company. 186*'?The United State? Sub-Treasury lost $43,000 by a sneak robbery. 1870?Vermilye & Co. suffered to the ex Dene 01 Jlii,wu oy a misery. 1871?The Hopkins hafe robbery of $300.030; the Union Trust Company robbery, ?100,000, and the Natioual Park Bank forgery, $l'.i,000. 1873?Samuel White & Co., bankers, lost $12,'tOO by a forgery. 1877?Th3 New York National Exchange was robbed of $2,700, and James King & Bon, bankers, of $140,000. 187S?James H. Young was robbed of $200,000. 1870?Merritt Trimble was made the victim of a sneak robbery to the extent of $28,000. The new order of things was instituted on March 12,1880.That was the day upon which Inspector Byrnes was put at the head of the detective force of the city's police. The first thing he did, having obtained that authority, was to go down to Wall street and hire an office to be a headquarters for such portion of his force as he might assign for protec tion of capitalistic interests thero during business hours. The Governing Committee 01 the Stock Exchange assigned a room in the Exchange buildrng for the use of the dctectives. Th'.-re, from 9:30 a. m. until 4:30i\ m., every business day, sits one of the detectives to do clerical work and be ready t > send out in response to telephone calls the two men who are kept there on duty with him for such emergencies. Meanwhile, eight other members of the force are on lhe street, patrolling certain established beats in the district with the utmost exactitude, so that the whereabouts of each of them is known at every minute of the day The telephone connection with the otlice enables any banker, broker, or other business man in the district having occasion for their services to summon the dctectives at once, and the man will reach the caller's place generally in one minute, and never more than thiee, anywhere between Cedar street and the Produce Exchange, Broadway and the East Kivcr. In addition to the system described there are special arrangiments for insuring the safety of the millions of dollars' worth of securities and money that arc daily drawn from and replaced in the safe deposit vaults under the Stock Exchange bv bankers and brokers in the vicinity. The boxes containing this valuable portable property are taken out when business hours begin and put back when they end, under such conditions of protection as would seem to render impossible the filching of any of them, even could the boldest and most skillful of the old time thieves venture within the boundaries set by the Inspector for their exclusion. It in not, however, deemed best to particularize what these conditions are. Anybody who ha> an 1111c introl'able euriosiiy about them ca:i, by I tying to get at the treasures, be very certain of learning some of them quit.' promptly.?A'ao l'urk Shu. S. P. Causey, of Macon, Ga., caught a large fi*h on a tr<ut line. "While the fish was swimming at the top of the water and endeavoring to escape, a hawk pounced upon it. The hawk in some way got the hook fastened in its beak. Then a struggle ensued, the fish trying to dive downward with the hawk and ihc hawk trying to fiy upward with the fish. After a lonir fight between the two, the hawk was killed by some men who ];;id been watching the struggle. Breaking- a Log Jam. A letter from Minnesota describes a monster jam of logs in the St. Croix ? River: The workmen did all they know to prevent the closing of the stream, but in vain. A constant stream of logs poured over the falls, which are about, thirty feet high. At times the rapids fill with logs for several hundred feet, and then all settle down into the jam with a rush and roar like the discharge of artillery, snapping large logs in two as pipe litems, and throwing others on end forty or ' lifty feet in the air. This contin m d until by the end of the week the jam ha:l reached up over the falls a distance of a i mile and a quarter, and logs were still i running iu at the rate of 500,000 feet aa hour. In the mean time the lumbermen, with the aid of a stationary engine, were busy ; trying to break the jam, and each day . thousands were loosened and sent down t the river to Stillwater, but, as they ran i in above the jam faster than they ran out i below, the progress was slow. In pu ling i out logs, says the St. Paul Globe, a great s deal of judgment is required to know i just which are the key logs that should be caught by the ropes in order to loosen s the largest number. A rope of twoinchcs diameter is used, and on this arc attached huge hooks about like ice tongs, only larger and stronger. There are probably 200 or 300 feet of this rope in a single length, and it takes from six to ten men lo handle it. An experienced man is at t. e end. picking his way among the logs i ut fome distance from the water. He knows his business, and though it looks as if he looped the end of the rope about any log taken random, he never does i his until he has s >me eood reason for taking this particular log. Sometimes, by making an especially fortunate choice, a raft of a hundred logs are loosened. As the little engine down i on the boat puds away winding up the rope there is heard a terrible groaning and creaking among the dry logs. It is a terrible strain that i3 brought to bear, and then the whole end of the jam seems , to be moving down stream. The creaking continues, and all at once a mass of logs packed together, their ends sticking in all directions, parts from the larger mass and comes down on the boiling water and floats away. No sooner is it loosened from the big jam than a score Of the lusty rivewnen rnn from log to log and mount it,with their cant-hook;3 pull< ing the small tangle apart. They keep tip a continuous shouting and leaping from log to log until "they are all untan* gled and float away, then, by a few jumps on stray logs, they are back again for the next pull. Experts ?ay that there anywhere from 250,000.000 to 400.000,000 feet of lumber in the jam, and that it may last all summer, and quite possibly until next fall. If it is broken up without loss of life it will be fortunate. Fitz John Portor's Balloon R!!de. "T snnnnsft von never heard of Fitz John Porter's balloon ride," said an old army o'iicer the other day to a correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution. "Wall," he continued, "it was one of the most romantic events in the life of that gallant soldier. He was with McClellan in the Peninsular campaign, and was distinguished for his intelligent activity. Porter conceived the idea" thai; balloons could be made very useful in reconnoiterifig, and at his request General McClellan obtained the necessary equipment for this service. The balloons and the apparatus for the manufacture of the gas were procured vritliout much difficulty, but an aeronaut [ was not so easy to obtain. Some of the officers of the Engineer Corps agreed to make the first trip in the balloon which was to afford a view of the Confederate operations. Porter watched their prcpations with keen interest. Just as they had everything ready, he stepped into i the basket of the clumsy gas bag to sec j that everything had been properly prepared. While he was examining the I machine it slipped from the grip of the i men who held it and shot like an arrow I nn !nfn t.lifl n'r. cari-vinc Porter as its | y ^ o " I lone passenger. He had never been in a balloon before and knew nothing whutl ever about managing one. A stiff breeze w as blowing, and tae great bulb flew like a bird away from thg astonished camp until it beca:ne a mere speck in the sky, and then faded completely from sight. Not a man who watchcd it disappear expected that he would ever see Porter alive again. He started on his wild flight at 7 o'clock in the morning. The day wore away with the camp in a state of great commotion over the probable deatn of j its favorite officer. AV hen night came and nothing had been seen of the balloon, it was the general conviction that Porter lind either been killed by a fall from his baloon or had beon captured by the Confederates. About daybreak next morning a picket challenged a man coming towards the Federal line, and a i moment later recognized General Porter, j His balloon had carried him clean over the Confederate Army. He was fired at I a dozen times by the Confederate artilj lery. At night the wind changed and i brought him back, and when he saw that i he was over his own army he let out the gas gradually and safely descended, i after being twenty hours in the air with I the vision of a horrible dc.ith constantly ! before him." Uncle Esck's Wisdom. There is nothing so valuable, and yet so cheap, as civilty; you can almost buy t land with it. | The great beauty of charity is privacy; there is a sweet force even in an anony: mous penny. ! It i.-n't so much what a man has that | makes him happy, as it is what he doesn't want. I There are many comfortable people in the world, but to call any man perfectly happy is an insult. All political parties are made up of foxes and geese?about live thousand geese to one fox. My dear bny, if yon must part your hair in the middle, get it even, if you have to split a hair to do it. j Independence is a name for what no man possesses; nothing, in the ani;nate or inanimate world, is more dependent than man. Men of great genius should not forget that their failings, or vices, are more apt ; to be noticed, aud even admired, than their virtues. My friend, if yon must keep a pet, let i it be one of the serene kind (a rattlesnake or snapping turtle, for instance); thi9 ' -will exercise your caution and strengthen your genius. The great m iss of mankind cin only gaze and wonder; if they undertake to think, they grow listless, and soon tire out. ? Century. j Good manners, sjivs Swift, is the nrtof I making those people easy with whom we converse; whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred mail in the i company. WORDS OF WISDOM. Better that the feet slip than tht tongue. Silks and satins put out the fire in the kitchen. He who rcvealeth his secret maketh himself a slave. When nil is consumed, repentance comes to:> late. It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his confessor. Pra:se, when the rpasons for it arc given, is do.ible; censure, without the reasons for it, is only half ccn-ure. Contentment is m:>re satisfying than exhilaration; and contentment means Rimpiy the sum of small and quiet pleasures. Nature has supplied remedies for great evils?has balanced genius with adversity, ambition with peril, virtue with calumny. There are natures which blossim and ri;:en amidst trials, which would only wither and decay in an atmosphere of ease and comfort. Low measures of feeling are better than ecstacies for ordinary life. Heaven sends its rains in gentle drops, else the | flowers would be beaten to piecos. A man or woman may be highly irri| table, and yet sweet, tender, gentle, lov ing sociable, genial, kind, charitable, thoughtful for others, unselfish, generous. The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act and you may reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny. Pay of Congressmen. When a member dies his pay ceases on the day of his death. The salary of the successor commence* the day after the decea e of the former member, though the election may not occur for several months. The new member, in other words, draws pay for the time he never teived. A member is allowed twenty cents mile age cam oj, ui ivi ijr vvui/^ u uiikv vuv way, and he can check for the full amount of both trips when he takes his scat. He is allowed $125 a year for | stationery. The most of this sum is pocketed. i The members draw their money in dif- | ferent ways. There are probably twenty ! of the pre. ent House who let their salaries run into nest eggs. Scott, of Pennsylvania, has ov>t a year's salary owing him ?about $6,000. There are a couple of dozen of members whs always over raw, or, rather, borrow from the head of the bank. They b irrow or get in advance sums ranging from $10 to $'-300, and at I the end of the m: nth they have nothing, j I The great majority of the members draw all that is coming to them at the end of i each month, particularly those who have their families with them. Some of them never see an outside bank, but let their ' monthly salary remain and draw it out in small sums. Others take out their salaries and place them in other banks, j I But this is not done as much as formerly, i A number of them got caught in the Middleton Bank that broke some time , ago. Most of the members do all their ( financial business over the counter ot the ' Congressional bank, and some of them pile checks up as high as $60,000 ia a single session.?Wamington Hatchet. Increasing His Height. A story is told of a youth at West Point who was bright and proficient in all his studies, but lacked by a quarter of an 1 i inch the stature required of a oadet. lie had been admitted, however, with the j understanding that he must be dismissed ' if at the end of the fir;t year he had not | grown enough to reach the standard. He did not grow, and on the night before the examination which would be fatal to ! his hopes he and his room-mate were sadly talking of their cxpectcd separation, when a bright idea occurred to the taller cadet. Seizing a broom stick he hit the little fellow two or three sharp raps on the top of his head, raising a fine bump. The next morning the boy came away from the examiners exulting in the knowledge that he had attained the full stature exacted of cadets, with at least an eighth of an inch to spare.?Worcester (Max?.) Spy. "Wlial Every One Should Know." thn 1mA IrlnHa nf PlnMl Tt/ilinH "HnllftP Volumes given away by the Rochester (N. Y.) American Rural Home for every $1 subscription to that great 8-page, 48-col., 16-year-old weekly, (all 5x7 inches, from 300 to 000 pages, bound in cloth) are: Law Without Law- Danelson's (Medical I yers. Counselor. [ Family Cyclopedia. Boys'Useful Pastimes. Farm Cyclopedia. Five Years Before the Farmers and Stock- Mast. breeders' Guide. People's History of Co rimon Sense in United States. Poultry Yard. Universal History of World Cyclopedia. all Nations. What any one should Popular His. of Civil know. War (both sides). Any one book and paper one year, postpaid I $1.15 only! Satisfaction guaranteed. Reference: Hon. C. R. Parsons. Mayor Rochester. Sample 2c. Rural Home Co., Ltd, Rochester, N. Y. Nevada still has l,.r)(i0,000 acres of land for sale. Thoinan Cnrlylr, the great Scotch author, suffered all his life with dyspepsia, which made his own life miserable and caused his beat friends not a little pain becausc of his fretfulness. Dyspepsia generally arises from disease of the liver, and I ? t>: Tliaonvurv" cures all diseases of this great eland, it follows that while all cannot be Carlyles, even with dyspepsia, all can be free from the malady, wlii.'e emulating his virtues. Last rerr the American Bible Society [ printed 1,4^7,440 Bibles and New Testaments. "Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves, as ithers see us !" Few women want to appear sick, and yet how many we see with pain written on every feature, who have been suffering for months from female weakness, and who could easily cure themselves by the use of Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription," to be found at any drug store. This remedy is a specific for weak backs, nervous or neuralgic pains and all that class of diseases known as "female complaints." Illustrated, large treatise on diseases of women, with most successful courses of selftreatment, sent for 10 cents in stamps. Address, World's Dispensary Medical Association, GW Main Street, Buffalo, X. Y. When run to its full cai acity an Akron, I Ohio, match factory turns out 57,000,000 matches in one day. Unequalled?Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. The females in the West Virginia Pcnitenj tiary are paid twenty-live cents a day and the ! males lift;, cent-. Stop t! at Cough, that tickling in the throat! I ."Ml>p lliai VIIIMIIUJIIIIC I UUI4IIIUI1. You can lie cured! You can't iiflonl (o wait! Dr. Kilmer's Cough Cure [Coimumj/tion OH] will do it uisickly and permanently. - "> cents. A 5lo*r Liberal Oiler! thk Voi.TAIC liEl.t Co., Marshall, Mich., I offer In send their Celebrated Voi.taic Belts j and 1- Indr.'c Appliances on thirty days' trial to any man altlicted with Nervous Debility, I.rgs of Vitality, .\Ia->ho->d, Ac. Illustrated ' pamphlet in sealed cnveloi e with full particulars. mailed free. Write them at once. The purest, sweetest and best Cod Liver OH 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 deI ciirw.rinr tn nnv iif tliA ntlipr nils in market. Muile by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York. Citappei) tiands, face, pimples and rough skin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, made by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York. Why go limping around with your boots run over, when Lyon's Heel Stiffeners will keep them straight? The best cough medicine is Piso's Cure for Consumption. .Sold every where. 2T>c. i i i . i , i , ,, , i Fulling of the hair is arrested, and baldness averted, by using Hall.s Hair Renewer. Obstinate canes of fever and ague can be cured by taking AyerV Ague Cure. 9omethlnff About Catarrh. A great many people aro afflicted with Catarrh who do not know what ails them; and a great many more continue sufferers who might be cured. Thickenlngof the membrancwhlch lines the nasal passages, thus making breathing difficult; a discharge from the nostrils, more or less copious, watery or thick, according to the stage of the disease; a sense of fullness in the head; a constant inclination to spit; and, In advanced cases, a dropping of intensely disgusting matter into the throat, are a few of the prominent symptoms of Catarrh. Deafness, inflamed eyes,neuralgic paiat, sore throat and a loss of sense of smell, are very of ten caused by Catarrh. All these troubles are cared by Plso's Remedy for Catarrh, Relief is had immediately after beginning its use, but itis important that it be continued without intermission until the catarrhal virus i9 expelled from the system and healthy secretions replace the diseased action of the mucous membrane. Manifestly it is unreasonable to exp .-eta cure in a short time of a disease that has been progressing for months or years. This Question of time is provided for in the putting up of Pico's Remedy for Catarrh. It is bo concentrated that a very small dose is directed. The quantity in one package is sufficient for a long treatment, consequently the expense is a mere trifle, and there is no excuse for neglect nor reason for it but forgetfulnei?. A cold in the head is relieved by an application of Piso's Remedy for Catarrh. The comfort to be got from it in this way is worth many times the cost. The following letters are specimens of those received every day, testifying to the worth of Piso's Remedy for Catarrh: Allegheny, Pa., Sept, 28,1885. Piso's Remedy for Catarrh is doing wonders for me. I believe it will cure any case of Catarrh, if used according to directions. Mrs. F. JOHNSON, 49 E, Diamond St. Spring Hill, W. Va., Oct. 20,18P5. Enclosed And one dollar for two packages of Piso's Remedy for Catarrh. The sample package, received in June, gave perfect satisfaction. GILL MESSER Hartford Mills, N.Y.. Aug. 8,1885. I hare used a little over half a package of PJ so's Remedy for Catarrh, and It has helped me more than any of the different medicines 1 have used. I feel confident that it will euro me. I can and do recommend It to others who arc troubled with that disease. REV. A. DAMON. Another Life Snved. Mrs. Harriet Cummin s.of Cincinnati, Ohio.writes: " Early last winter my daughter was attacked with a severe cold, which settled on her lungs. We rl?d several medicines, none of which seemed to do her any good, but sh continued to get worse and finally raised large amounts of b:ood from h?r lungs. We ' called In a family physician, but he failed to do her any good. At this time a friend, who had be-.n cured by Dr. Wh. Hall's Balsam fob the Lunos, advised me to give it a trial. We then got a bottle. nd she began to Improve, and by the use of three bottles was entirely cured. All Run Down From the weakening effects of warm weather, by hard work, or from a long Illness, you need a good tonic and blood purifier like Hood's Saisaparllla. If you have never tried this peculiar medicine, do so now. It will give you ? rength and appetite. "I was completely run down, and was for nearly four years under medical treatment, being given up to die by physicians. My mother urged me to take Hood's Sarsnparllla. At last I consented, and I have sever taken anything which helped me at much as Hood's Sarsaparllla, which restored me to health and vigor. I have been taking it about four months, and am now a different being, lean wort all day with very little fatigue. I recommend It to any one whose system Is prostrated."?N'elia Noblk, Peoria, 11L Wallace Buck, of North Bloomfleld, N. Y? suffered eleven years with a terrible varicose ulcer on his leg. so bad that he had to give up business. He was entirely cured of the ulcer, and also of catarrh, by Hood's SarsaparlUa. Hood's Sarsaparilia Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD ft CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. IOO Poses One Dollar BOOK AGENTS WANTED for PLATFORM ECHOES r LIVINC TRUTHS FOB HEAD AND HEAKT, By John B. Goiigh. His lut and crowning life work, brim foil of thrilllmr InterMt. humor and patho*. 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Price 6# cts aaiH ' 1.00, cf Dninliu or br mill. Simple FKEE fbrB JPlso's Remedy for Catarrh la the ! , ]Be?t^a?ie?M^r?^an^beape?^JS^ AJso rood for Cold in the Head, H i '.^* m Headache, Hay Fever, Ac. iOcenta. JHHfi^UeHAHAM Flour udOvS fflWHaW.! Jrin the iaiHAiro ^rrr.Te (K. Wilson's Patent). 14b per . > 1 1 } eeat. more made In keeplnrpo*!; ' trw.v Mo POWER HILLS and FAJtM KEEB MILLS, circuit and Testimonial* seat en application. WILSOX BKOS., EaU?, Fa* I CURE FITS! When I say euro I do not mean merely to atop then for a time and then hare them return acaln, I meana radical cure. I have made the disease of FITB, SFV LEPSY or FALLING SICKNES8 a life-long study. I warrant my remedy to oure the worst case*. Beoaoaa <others hare failed Is no reason for not now receiving* cure. Send at one* for a treatise and a Free Bottle oC my Infallible remedy. Give Express and Post OBo^ % It coots you nothing for a trial, and I will cure too. Ari/nnaD*. H. O. ROOT, in Pearl Bt.. 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