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^ MAJOR ROBINSON'S DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE ATTACK. He is L.ivlnj; in California, and For Thirty Years Has Avoided Interviewers About the Night of Terror?An Awful Onslaught?Three Stabbed Besides Seward Major G. F. Robinson, the only person on the Pacific Ooast who has hail a vote of thanks from Congress for a meritorious act, one of the very few persons who has a gold medal given by Congress for bravery, and one of but two men who were ever promoted at once from private to Major in the United States Army, lives at Pomona, Cal., with his family amoner the oraiifre srroves and on an avenue of palms. At the same moment that Abraham Lincoln was shot to death in Ford's Theatre in "Washington, on April 14, 18G5, and when, but for a change of plans, General U. S. Grant would doubtless also have been killed, Major Robinson, unarmed and unprepared, grappled with the armed and desperate assassin, Lewis Payne, in the darkened eick room of Secretary Seward. Major Robinson has studiously avoided through some thirty years interviews hv nswsnniipr ami magazine writers. Last week, however, says a correspondent of the Boston Advertiser, he permitted an interview by a fellow townsman and a personal friend. "I have never known," said Major Robinson, "how I came to be detailed to act as nurse at the home of Secretary Seward in April, 1805. I had been confined to the hospital for several months by a gunshot wound in my leg. "The evening of April 14 was beautiful and clear. At a little before 10 p. m., when the Secretary was sleeping easily, the house was closed for the night. Mrs. Seward had gone to her sleeping room. Frederick Seward, second son -of the Secretary, had retired. Miss Fannie Seward, a daughtor, and I sat in the sick chamber on the third floor. Miss Seward was near the beil. Her father lay propped up in bed. Just before ten the sound of a man was heard down in the hall. It was afterward learned that the porter saw a tall young man on horseback dash up to the stone curbing. He claimed to be Dr. Verdis's assistant, and pushed his way into the house. The hrst'that I knew of the assassin in the house was when the front door closed. Miss Seward heard the sound of some one coming heavily up the front stairs, and remarked upon the carelessness of auy one who would so noisly approach a sick chamber. At the top of the stairway Frederick Seward met the supposed messenger. " 'What is it?1 asked Mr. Seward, in a low tone. u 'Dr. Verdis sent me with this medicine for Secretary Seward,' was the man's reply. 'It must be taken immediately. I am the doctor's stu dent, ami must tell Jlr. bewara now and when to take the medicine.' "Frederick answered that he would see if his father was awake. Then he opened the door of the Secretary's ^ room and tiptoed over to the bed where his father lay. He went back and reA marked that he would not disturb the patient at that hour. As he spoke he W closed the door behind him. In a trice there came the sound of blows, as if one had been struck by a rattan. Not a word was spoken. I sprang from my chair, threw open the hall door in time to see a very tall, powerful beardless man about to open it himself, and back of him Frederick Seward, covered with blood from wounds on his head. "The stranger jumped through the door at me. I saw a knife flash in the feeble gaslight. He dealt me an awiui Diow on tne scaip ana toreneaa. I fell backward, while blood started down my face and beard. The stranger, wearing a long light-covered overcoat, a slouch hat and cavalry boots, gave Miss Seward (who had taken alarm and started to call for help) a thrust that threw her aside. He pounced upon the bedside. The assassin had his now broken navy pistol in his left hand and a long heavy knife in his right. He leaned over and across the bed, and, placing his pistol on Secretary Seward's chest, struck madly and frantically at the head and neck. I saw, a thousand times quicker than it takes to tell it, the assassin strike at the Secretary's head, and lay open a gash in his right cheek and in the side . of his neck. I leaped upon the bed beside the stranger from the rear, I caught his arm as his right hand gripped the knife for a surer and more powerful stroke, and thus diverted the blade. The kuife went into the Secretary's neck on the side nearest to us as I pulled him from the bed. "Then began a terrific hand-to-hand grapple. The assassin gave me a deep cut in the right shoulder as I pulled him backward from the bed. A second later he gave me another cut. In a twinkling he turned on me with the ferocity of an enraged tiger, while Secretary Seward rolled ofl" the further side of the bed. The assassin struck at me several times, once giving me a slash in the left shoulder. I clinched my arms about him with my utmost strength, while he was trying to force me away so that he could use his a"ms ither to t irust his bloody knife i ilo me or to beat me into insensibility by Vvl/\?*a wiOi liic' 1 ii et Mootiu'lnla I Miss Seward had pushed up the window in the sickroom und had streamed 'Murder! Murner!' Although weak from my hospital experience and my use of crutches for six months previous, I was naturally a stroDg young man at that time. "My antagonist vainly tried to raise his hands to beat or stab me. He suddenly dropped his pistol and tried to push me from him or to throw me. I clung to the man with even greater intensity. All I saw was my desperate big antagonist and that knife blade. I grasped the assassin's right wrist. He I ceased for a brief second ins stabbing tactics and tried to throw me. Then, ^summoning all my strength, I tried to trow him. My wounded leg gave ay and I partially staggered. The |fesassin made a vain snatch at my throat. "The despair of the moment brought back my full strength, aud I tripped the villain somewhat off his feet. While I had him in that position I urged him a few feet a cross the room toward the I hall door. When we were about half way across the room and in fierce grapple I felt some one taking hold of mo from behind. It Hushed into my mind that there was an accomplice of the murderer. Then I saw in the dim light that it was Major A. H. Seward. He had heard his sister's shrieks, had sprung out of bed and had come into his father's room to find, as he first thought, two drunken soldiers scuffling in the darkness. "I called to him: 'Hold that man's hand; get that knife;' but the Major reached around me from behind and got his hands on the assassin's shoulo/-v no nn a)* In'm n 1 nn rr flirrm n*li VICl Hj W OO IV JtiUOll U1UA ? -0 ? the liall door. The assassin came against the woodwork of the door, and thereby regained a firm footing. As quick as lightning he freed himself from my grasp, and gave Major Seward several stabs about the head and shoulders. He bounded down the stairs. Mr. Hansel, a messenger in the State Department, was running down the stairs to get help. The fellow overtook Mr. Hansel and gave him a slash down the back. Then the assassin went out on the front 'door like a rocket, leaped into his saddle, and, striking his spurs into his horse's flanks, was off in the darkness. "The whole affair occupied probably not over three minutes. When the assassin was gone, I turned to find Secretary Seward on the carpet at the farther side of the bed. His daughter was bending over him. The Secretary was bleeding profusely. The pool of blood in which he lay, the gaping gash in his cheek, the wound in his neck, and his ghastly pale face, all made a dreadful sight. We lifted the patient to his bed, and found that his heart still beat, although he seemed to be pulseless." Modern Irrigation. The Mormons are admittedly the founders of irrigation among AngloSaxons. Until they made their first rude canal from City Creek on that July day, in 1817, men of their race had never dealt seriously with this industry. As the pioneers enjoyed a practical equality in the matter of povertv. their irrigation works were nec essarily built by means of co-operative labor. Every man performed bis share of the work and received his proportion of stock in the company which owned the canal. It was nearly forty years after the first settlement was made before costly works were built by outside capital, and the innovation was not regarded with favor by the Mormons. In Utah the stores, factories and banks are owned very generally by joint stock companies, consisting of multitudes of small share owners. The "coop" is a familiar expression heard everywhere and painted on numerous signs. The greatest of their stores is Zion's co-operative mercantile institution. This does an annual business of fes nnn nnn &r, nnn nnn Tn twenty-five years it has paid dividends of nearly 82,500,000, an average of nine and one-tbird per cent, for every year, and a total of 2-13 ^er cent, in all. The sum of $1000, invested in its stock at the date of its original incorporation in 1869, had accumulated to $2014.30 in 1893, and in addition had received in cash dividends the sum of Si218.05. These profits had been shared by large numbers of stockholders and reproduced on a small scale by many other co-operative stores scattered throughout Utah and adjoining States and Territories. A variety of factories, as well as banks, are owned and managed successfully by the same method. The beet sugar factory at Lehi was the first to be equipped with a complete plant of American manufacture. It is owned by 700 stockholders and pays handsome dividends. Smoke ami Storms. The following interesting results, says the Literary Digest, have been reached by Herr Kasner, of Berlin, from a study of the periodicity of storms in Germauy: "During the years of 1833-92, storms at Berlin show a maximum frequency on Thursdays and a minimum frequency on Mondays. Observations made, also at Berlin, from 1830 to 1840 aud from 1848 to 1891 indicate a maximum on Saturday and a minimum on Sunday, a fact that has also been observed at Aix-la-Chapelle. New researches, covering other citics, and published in Das Wetter, lead Herr Kasner to the conclusion that in general the frequency of storms increases from Monday to Tuesday, and that a minimum occurs on Thursday, or on some day immediately following. In industrial cities that contain large numbers of furnaces there is almost always an increase from Wednesday to Saturday and a diminution from Saturday to Sunday, while in localities where there are no factories the contrary is generally the case. Variations in atmospheric electricity seem to be connected with variations in the quantity of. smoke emitted into the air, as Arrhenius aud Ekholm have already noted." Landslide Kxposes Coins. A large find of old coins, which linvs loin hiddprt rmdprfrvrvnrwl frvr nvpr 1550 years?since the time of the Three Kingdoms?was accidentally brought to light last May in the Chushan district, in Northwest Hupeh, during a heavy downpour of rain, savs a Shanghai contemporary. On the 4th of May a considerable tract of land washed off from a bill, and the landslip exposed the hidden treasure. The villagers in the neighborhood Hocked to the spot to help themselves to it, and the news of the strange discovery was at once telegraphed to His Excellency Chaug Chintung, who ordered the local officials to gather the coins with all dispatch. It is said that the quantity gathered represents as many as 7,000,000 strings, and the coins are unusaally large, resembling in size those of the Hsienfung resign (about forty-five ! years ago) of the present dynasty. The Viceroy is sending 300 strings to Peking under charge of a Taotai for the perusal of the Emperor. The coins bear on one side the characters of the reign of the monarch and on the other (Szechuen) the seat of the Government that issued them. Many Naval Chances. Queen Victoria, during her long reign, has seen her navy thrice practically reconstructed. She saw her fleet of wooden sailing ships give place to one of wooden steamers. She saw t.lint. flupt, flisan-near before a fleet of armored ships, and within the last ten years she has witnessed the rise of her magnificent modern navy. _ I ^ ! ' A Woman Barrister. Miss Ethel Benjamin, a young Jewess, has been admitted to the New Zealand bar as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court. She is the first woman barrister in the English colonial courts. Matched Goods. It is said that we are going back to the days of matching things. So glaring have been the combinations worn in the attempt to be chic that fashion has had a revulsion of feeling, and now we are going to have things to match. Belts match the skirts now, I and it is considered very swagger to j have belt, tie and hatband of the same I color. Double Veils. Double veils are very stylish and ! verv flattering to the complexion. Blue is always a becoming color in a veil, and a white lining is decidedly improving. There are also whitelined brown veils, with the small chenille dots placed far apart. Pinklined veils are very charming and are, perhaps, the most frequent choice, since they give a delicate tint to the skin. Usually the outer layer is white, with either black or white dots. The utility veil to be worn on the cars or in steamboats is of chiffon, white, with white or black dots, small or large, and closely or widely scattered. Making Up WaHh Fabrics. While hand-sewn tucks are the prettiest on summer gowns, they are | usually done on the machine. Many wash fabrics, as well as other ! materials, ravel as soon as cut, so j overcast all edges as soon as possible. Of all crash materials (luck probably ! shrinks the most, and it is tempting patience to make it up without scalding it first, and pique is almost as bad. Do not starch either and iron on the wrong side. The neatest organdie gowns have the seams made in the French or bag style, while others have the edges turned in and overcast together. Even the thinnest fabric must have gored ; seams, as the full gathered skirt with j uncut widths is now unknown.?Ch:;| cago Record. ______ Wrought Iron Work. In spite of the talk of the new woman, "house proud" is a term still de served Dy many matrons. >vitn tne return of a prying sunshine there is the annual flurry to put in new carpets, ! and curtains. Artistic ironwork has become a veritable epidemic. The old patterns of mediaeval Italy are being reproduced everywhere, and in the homes of people of wealth and taste hall door panels are often replaced by ironwork against frosted or muffled glass. For the woman who loves window boxes there can be nothing more i delightful than the bent iron stand or I rack, which may be securely fastened I to the sill aud which hides the plain, j unlovely box or pots in which the I bright hued plants are growing. A : wrought iron frame for an unused fireplace, in which are set growing vines ! and blossoms, is another pretty device I of the modern times. Girls In the City. Girls, don't go to the city in the ex! pectation of earning high wages. The i rtA.Arv/iro + ivfl lmm/i fnr nrivla "Monr "Vnr-lr j UU1 ? V UV/AXAV/ 4W4 *1 VM / * V*U, City, receives (to the extent of its limited capacity) girls whose pay is less than $7 a week, and lodges and feeds them at the rate of from ?2.50 to $3 a week; girls out of work are permitted to render an equivalent for their board in bedmaking, sweeping, dishwashing, etc. Matron Rapelye says: "Most of Kir girls receive from $4 to 86. Of course we do not take them if they make niore than $7, but few even in the large dry goods stores make more than that. And many work in factor! ies and shops for $3 or ?4. Book; keepers and accountants ordinarily | make $5 or $6, and the business schools 1 are turning out continually classes of typewriters who are glad to work for ! 86 a week. Out of this they must pay j board, laundry, car fare, or walk miles i to and from their work, besides being expected to dress well and neatly every day. One girl here makes only $2.25 and we have occasionally had girls over sixteen years old who worked ; from Monday morning until Saturday I nicrht for 82.50. It is for such cases that the home provides, and, needless to say, it is always full.?American Agriculturist. Ucly Eyebrows. Wouid any conscientious poet think of writing a sonnet to his lady's eye' brows nowadays? [It would almost seem not from the conspicuous lack of that form of poetry in contemporary literature. And the student finds the cause of the falling off of such verse, not in the indolence of the poets, but in the eyebrows themselves. They are ; thin, tney are "scraggy," tuey spreaa j in scatteriu ; fashion over lids and foreI head, they lack distinctness, fineness ' and grace. To cultivate eyebrows worthy the ; songs of the bards, first buy an eyei brow brush and use it religiously, al: ways brushing the brow in the right I direction. If the hairs are scattered a I specialist will remove the stray ones. 1 If they are thin, vaseline applied at night will help to make them grow. | Another method of promoting growth ! of eyebrows is to apply a little petroleum to them every morning after washing in cold water. The eyebrows i should not be rubbed or brushed the I wrong way. It is a very bad habit, | that of rubbing the brows, and it is i fatal to their beauty, for the hairs will ! not lie flat afterward, but bristle up ! and look most unbecoming. Scurf on the eyebrows should be treated as follows: Bathe e.very day I with hot water and a little soap and i apply vaseline to the spot, at night. On I no account rub them when they are inI clined to be scurfy.?Sail Francisco Chronicle. . _ _ __ r^r^OfC* em . ifwIPiii Kinds of Lace That Exist. 6 The question having been asked as I to the kinds of laces known, it may be 6 said that their names are many. A i partial list of laces would begin with t Albisola and conclude with Ypres, as 3 follows: t Albisola, Alencon, Brussels, Ant- $ werp, Applique, Aras, Auvergne, Ave Maria, Baby, Balloon net, Basket, Bayeux, Beaded, Beggars, Bilinent, c Blond, Bi&ette, Bobbin, .Bone point, i Border, BOnrg Argental, Bride, Broad, e Buckingham, Burano, Cadiz, Carnival, ^ Cartisane, Caterpillar point, Chain, Chantilly, Chenille, Cluny, Cordover, Cork, Cretan, Crewel, Crochet, Crown, Dalecarlian, Damascene, Darned, Devonshire, Diamond, * Dieppe, Dresden point, Duchesse, ' Dunkirk, Dutch, Ecru, English point, ' False Valenciennes, Flat point, Flemish point, Fuseau, Genoa, Grammont, 3 Gueuse, Guipere, Henriquez, Hollie ( point, Honiton (made in Devonshire, ' England), Jesuite, Knotted, Lille, Limerick, Macrame, Mechlin, Mignon- ' ette, Miercourt, Needle point, Oyah, 1 Parchment, Pillow, Plaited point, Pot (from pattern introduced), Powdered 1 (covered with small flowers and dots), ' C! o ;_i. ouxoxjy, opuuisii, omiuie \iwo uiuuc in accordance with sumptuary laws), ' Tambour, Tape, Thread, Torchon, 1 Trolley, Valenciennes,Ypres.?Scien- ! tific American. | Here's a Spry Maine Girl. Writing from East Orrington, Me., ' a correspondent of the New York Sun says: "All the way from here to Bangor people are talking about and praising Sarah Curran, the sixteen-year-old | daughter of Nick Curran, a dairy far- , mer. Curran has been confined to the , house by rheumatic fever for six weeks and every morning Sarah has been up at 3 o'clock to do the chores. When , she and her mother have milked eighteen cows and put them to pasture, she eats her breakfast and by the time other milkmen are getting up she is on the milk cart on her way to Bangor. When she has gone over a good part of the city, supplying customers in ^ pint and quart lots, she turns the horse for home, arriving there in time, to take dinner. In the afternoon she attends to the farra work and does other tasks that usu ally devolve upon a man. After supper she helps to ( milk the eighteen cows and goes to , . bed early to get a good start the next morning. Thongh she does the work of a man she is not at all mannish in her ways, being of slight frame and very modest. Until she left school two years ago to help her father on the farm she was considered the brightest pupil in her class. Since then most of her life has been passed outdoors. She has driven a pair of horses to haul cord wood to j market, taking it from the stump in the forest to the dooryard of her cue- ( tomers and unloading it without , trouble. She says that when she reaches eighteen years of age?by ' which time her father ought to be well- ' to-do?she ia going away to school and take a course in some college that grants equal privileges to both sexes. . After getting educated she purposes to become a doctor. 1 I Shown on Dry Goods Counters. White pique stocks. Tartan plaid traveling rugs. Eibbon corsets in light colors. Ribbed silk and wool materials. Heavy linen suits for small boys. , "White sailor hats with a red band. White cotton cheviot shirt waists. Green, blue and red sun umbrellas. Scarlet ties and belts worn en suiteShaped blouse fronts of embroidered net. Traveling canes made out of Scotch I shawls. Wash silk in narrow and medium stripes. Heavy lace inserting in flower patterns. Large-meshed or skeleton haircloth for facing. Scarlet shirt waists of China and foulard silk. Leather medicine cases for differentsized bottles. White serge gowns trimmed with mohair braid. Hats trimmed with cherries,currants and other fruit. Ladies' pea jackets of rongh cloth with gilt buttons. Gold studs engraved with an anchor for outing waists. Lizard skin purses, belts and bags for the multitude. Tan and gray gloves seamed and stitched with black. Applique bands of silk-embroidered flowers aud scrolls. Black and white string and bow ties for light mourning. Quantities of blue and white China silk cravats for men. Fancy collars and cuffs of a lace ruff over a ribbon baud. Blue serge jacket suits trimmed in black and gold braid. I Mized green straw sailors with a green or black baud. White and blue leather belts fast eneil with ft gilt auchor. Linen suits trimmed with red bands in cut-out applique style. Mousseline bows in kilted fans with a cravat hand attachment. Black mousseline fans embroidered in gilt thread und spangles. i Colored pique suits trimmed with * bands of guipure inserting. i "White duck jacket suits trimmed ! 1 with blue or Turkey-red bands. i Many black and white striped, J ! checked, barred and dotted silks. I Louis XIV. garnitures of beads and c silkj&Duliaue for the front of a corsage. r Washinc a Fine Art. '.Ever since spinning was a type of womany industry, from age to age it has been, expected that beautiful apparel should" lothe women. To keep dainty belongings n good order it is necessary to have them >ronerlv laundered. This is esoeciallv true n the laundering of pretty summer gowns, j vliieb is now quite a line art. To (lo the j vork properly. All a tub two-thirds full of | warm water, dissolve the fourth of a cake i >f Ivory 3oap (which will not fade the most I lelicate colors), add it to the water; wash ! ;he articles through it, rinse flr.?t in clear ind then in blue water; wring, dip in thin starch, shake out and bang on the line in ;be shade. When dry, sprinkle and iron. 3 owns thus laundered will retain their freshness the entire season. Eliza R. Pabkeb. A purple blue orchid of a color never een before in England, discovered by I. Eobelin in the Philippine Islands, 1000 feet above sea level, has just been | ntroduced to the British public tinder he name of Dendrobium Victoriae iegiuae. Three hundred of the driedip roots were sold in London at from j >4 to 810 apiece. Tha Association of American Agri ultural Colleges and Experiment Staions has decided to make a collective sxperiment Btation exhibit at the Paris World's Exposition in 1900. A People With No Government. The English explorer, Harry de {Vindt, recently returned to London rom the Siberian shores of Bering strait. In a short time he will leave England for a lecturing tour in the United States. The Tchuktchis are lominally Russian subjects, but the jnly vessels ever in the neighborhood ire American whalers and the United 3tates revenue cutter. Mr. de Windt aad an enforced sojourn of two months imong the natives. He says they are physically a far Iner race than the Alaskan Esquimaux, and their women are better looking, but the Tchuktchis are wholly devoid jf morality, and will barter a wife for . i -i i-i mi i, * UttUUIUl UI lUUttCL'U. JLIiCJ liUUlUCl iltogether about 5000 and along Bering strait are seven settlements of perhaps 300 each. The qthers are scattered along the seaboard of the Arctic ocean, stretching away to the settlement of Nijni I^olymsk. The most weird Tchuktchi ceremony is the "Kamitsk." This is simply the putting to death, "with their free conBent, of aged or useless members of the community. When a Tchuktchi's powers have decreased to an appreciable extent a family council is held and a day fixed for the victim's departure for another world. Perhaps the most curious feature is the indifference Bhown by the doomed one, who takes a lively interest in the proceedings, and often assists in the preparations for his own death. The execution is preceded by a feast, where seal andwalrue mpat.'ftrp oTftpdilv dfivonrfid and villain on 3 whiskey is consumed.?New York Journal. Precipices In the Himalayas. There is one remarkable peculiarity j Df *he series of Himalayan ranges between the vale and Kasmir and the central Asian watershed?they are one after another cut right across by j ridges. The reason for this is that the ! rivers -were there before the ranges j were formed, and as, by the crinkling j of the earth's crust, the ranges -were raised, the rivers cut gorges through them and maintained their flow. Nanga Parbat is part of the true and principal Himalayan range, and its Bummit rises to the stupendous altitude above sea level of 26,630 feet. Close to its foot, not more than ten miles in horizontal distance from the peak, the Indus flows through a desert gorge, and here the height above sea level of the riverbed is not much above 3000 feet. It is easy to conceive from these figures on how vast a scale nature's architecture is set up. I have never been down this part of the Indus gorge, but a friend of mine who was 11 1-11 iL-1 Al- iL _ 1 - mere ioia me inai me paui aiuug me i side of the gorge is in places perilously narrow and carried across precipicee af such appalling character that at one point a servant of his who lost hie footing fell a mile in vertical height, and was, of course, smashed to atoms. One side of Nanga Parbat sinks to this gorge by a series of ridges and ravines?that is the Chilas side. The other two sides of the mountain, for it is on a triangular base, are likewise defined by long valleys, one oi wnicn is filled by the great Tarsiiing glacier. ?North American Review. " Man's Inhumanity to Man makes countless millions mourn." We know of no better illustration of the above quotation, than where a man allows his wife to wash on a washboard, when he can purchase her a Rocker Washer, which operates so easily, that, >t virtually does away with a'l ihe hardships "t washday. Se^ adveriisement in another column. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children I ?e thing, softens the gums, reuucinp inflnmmalion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c.a bottle. wmmrnmm: A New Jersey Woman Expresses Hor Gratitude to Mrs. Pinkham frvr Rflliaf. - " Will you kindly allow rae," writes Miss Mary E. Saidt to Mrs. Pinkham, " the pleasure of expressing1 my grati- J tude for the wonderful relief I have ! experienced by taking your Compound? j I suffered for a long time with nervous frYHflSMfiKm re^ef* ^ut | jjHWyMHBM in vain. On Mn tWK " ?1 I r give your j nedicine a trial. I took two bottles ind was cured. I can cheerfully state, i more ladies would only jive your nedicine a fair trial they would bless ,he day they saw the advertisement, and here would be happier homes. I mean o do all I can for you in the future. ; have you alone to thank for my reovery, for which I am very grateful." -Mjsp Maby E. Sajtt, Jobstown, N, J Durability of the Yellow Alaska Cellar. The durability of this timber is forcibly illustrated by fallen trunks that are perfectly sound after lying in the damp -woods for centuries. Soon after these trees fall they are overgrown with moss, in which seeds lodge and germinate and grow up into vigorous saplings, which stand in a row on the backs of their dead ancestors. Of this company of young trees perhaps three or four will grow to full stature, sending down straddling roots on each side, and establishing themselves in the soil; and after they have reached an age of two or three hundred years, the downtrodden trunk on which they are standing, when cut into, is found as fresh iu the heart as "when it fell.? Century. ? If Ton Cannot Get Dreydoppel Soap of any dealer in your town, write to the manufacturer, and give the names of the storekeepers. Address William Dreydoppel, the practical soap-maker and chemist, Philadelphia, Pa. Fits permanently cured. 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