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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
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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. _
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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. . _ _ __
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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
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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. No fits or nervousness
after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. S3 trial bottle and treatise free
Dr. R. H. Kline, Ltd., 931 Arch St>.Phlla?Pa.
Rev. H. P. Carson, Scotland, Dak., says:
"Two bottles of Hall's Catarrh Cure completely
cured my little girl." Sold by Druggists, 76c.
We have not been without Piso'8 Cure for
Consumption for 30 years.?Lizzie Ferrel,
Camp St., Harrisburg, Pa., May 4,1894.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr.Isaac Thompson's
Eye-water.Druggists sell at25c.per bottle.
HALL'S |
Vegetable Sicilian I
HAIn nLNLYYtn
Beautifies and restores Gray
Hair to its original color and
vitality; prevents baldness;
cures itching and dandruff.
A fine hair dressing.
B. P. Hall & Co., Props., Nashua, N. H.
Sold by all Druggists.
I 9 In Can be made working for n*.
# I L ID |w9 Parties pre/erred who cm give
BCD UfCCV their whole time to the business,
rtn VVCCR Spore hours, though,mav be profitably
employed. Good openings for town and
city work as well u country districts.
J.E.GIFFORD, 11 and Main Streets, Richmond,Va.
b m ABDS can be saved wlthn
n I I Bl mm out tbelr knowledge by
I B U 11 HI If Anti-Jag, the marveloui
I I 1% I I 1% core for the drmk habit.
IJ 11 I II Write Renova Chemical
Co., gg Broadway, N. T.
Pull Information (In nlain wrapper) mailed free.
DAAPIIIA Use our Metal Shingles, FireKllllplNiv
Proof,Durable .Catalogue Free
nuuilliu Mostboss & Co..Camden,N.J.
fl A IIA r DOUBED AT HOME; ?*nd .ump tor
UANIlCn^ Dr.J.B. HAERIB&CO.
WM"P1ke Bnlldliig, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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All bicycles look pretty m
with enamel; the question
No guessing about the qu
the glittering coat of Colun
the unequalled strength
Tubing used exclusively
you a feeling of complete
1896 COLUM
Hartford Bicycles,
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POPE MFG. CO.
Catalogue free from any Columbia dealer;
i
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A Colorado Editor says of Rip;
" For heartburn, dizzini
never found the equal o:
RIPAN-;
And other members of
various ills with excellen
to keep house nor run
them, nor do I believe ?
not to use them. They
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the Housewif
SAP(
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understand and Mia llU I U
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plete index, so that it may be PflQ
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{There'is* a' M
Z _ ? i _ !!
i/iass ui reupie ; |
Who are injured by the ?J
use of coffee. Recently * i
there has bean placed in J |
all the grocery stores a < >
new preparation called < >
GRAIN-O, made of pure ] *
grains, that takes the place of f
coffee. < >
The most delicate stomach \ |
receives it without distress, < *
and but few can tell it from < >
coffee. J |
It does not cost over ? < * fM3
> i no mnnVi nViildrpn mou < >
) ( drink it with great benefit. < \
* 15 cents and 25 cents per <
i > package. Try it. Ask for < t
;; grains. \;
ijTry Grain-O! ii |
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The Rocker Washer
hu prowl th? molt > ?>
of uijr Wuh?r ?TCT pl*Md opco
the m*rk(t. It I> wimntad te
^ plKESVSSa ::i
BOUB. u cUu u ettj;
wubed on lb# wMhhowd. wnit
tor pricM ?nd full dwcriptiooROCKER
WASHER GO.
FT. WAYHH, UD.
Libafkl induc?m?nt? to 1It? ajtnl?
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Sraoofs r ~~4
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uch alike when shining
is what lies underneath.
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ality of material beneath
ibia bicycles?you know
of the 5% Nickel Steel
in Columbias?it gives
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. Hartford, Conn.
; by mail from us for one 2-cent stamp. B
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my family use them for /
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