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MI?HIGAP3 BENEFAOTOB. AN OPT REPEATED STORY OF TRUE PUlLASTOltOPY. *\Vhnt Chas. II. Hackler Has Done (or Western Itficblfran. (From Grand Rapids, Mich., Evening Press.) The most beautiful spot lu all this city is inseparably associated with the name of Hacklcy. Chas. H. Haokley has been In the lumber business hore continuously since 1S56. nnd in that time has amassed a fortune which gives him a rating among the wealthy men pf the nation. Bat with wealth there did not como that tightening of the purse strings which is generally a marked charac teristic of wealthy men. It is no wonder then that tho nnmo ot Charles H. Hackley is known nt home and abroad. His munificence to Muskegon alono represents nn outlay of nearly half a million. For tho post twenty years he hos been a constant sufferer from neuralgia and rheumatism, also numbness of the lower limbs, so much so that it hasseriofaBly inter fered, with his pleasure in life. For some lime past bis frlonds have noticod that he hns seemed to grow young again and to have recovered the health which he had in youth.. " To a 'reporter for the News Mr. Haokley explained tbesecretof this transformation. "I have suffered for over 20 years,"' he said, "with pains in my lower limbs so severely tbnt tho only relief I could get at night was by putting cold water compresses on my limbs. I was bothered more ut night than in the day time. The neuralgia and rheu matic pains in my limbs, which had been growing in intensity for years, finally be cnm?> chronic. I made throe trips to the Hot Springs with only partial relief, and then fell back to my original state. I couldn't sit still, and ray sufferings began to make ray life look very blue. Two years ago last September I noticed un account of Dr. ?Williams' Pink Pills for Palo People and whut they had "done for others, and some enscs so nearly resembled mine that I WHS interested, so I wrote to one who bad given, a testimonial, nn eminent professor of music* in Canada. Tho reply I received was even stronger than the printed testimonial, t.nd it gave me faith in the medicine. "I began taking the pills and found them, to be all that the professor had told me they would be. It was two or three months be fore I experienced any perceptible better ment ' f my condition. My disease was of sud t&jg standing thnt I did not expect speedy recovoiy and was thankful even to bo relieved. I progressed rapidly, however, towards recovery and for the last six months have felt myself a perfectly well man. I have recommended the pills to many people and nm only* too glad to assist others to health through the medium of this wonder ful medicine. I cannot say too much for What it has done for me." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain all the elements necessary to give new life and rich ness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are for saio by all druggists, or may be had by mail from Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Sohonectady, N. Y., for flity cents per box, or six boxes for ?2.50. Wisdom From a Lunatic. There is a place near Glasgow, Scotland, where a railway track runs for some distance beside the fence of a lunatic asylum. Not long ago some workmen were busy repairing the bed of the railroad when an inmate of the asylum approached one cf the laborers, . and, from-his position on the inner side of the enclosure, began a some what personal conversation: - Inmate-Fard work, that! Laborer-Troth an' it is. Inmate-"What pay dae ye get? Laborer-Sixteen bob ? week. Inmate-Are ye mairrit? -Laborer-I am, worse luck!-and have six children. A pause ; then : Inmate-I'm thinking, maman, ye're on the wrong side o' tho fence.-Ber lin Budget. His Opportunity. Little Boy (who has been studying recent political cartoons)-Mamma, is Undo Sam always worrying * about money?. "So it would seem, dear. " "Does he always wear red and white i.triped pantaloons?" "Yes, dear." "And a blue coat with white stars on it?" "Yes." "And does he have an eagle for a pet instead of a canary bird, like mine?" "Yes." "And is he the biggest man in the, world?" - "Therjois none bigger." .-."Then, mamma, why doesn't Uncle Sam go into a dime museum ?"- 'Truth. Keeping Young. American women might learn an ad vantageous lesson of thtir French sis ters in the art of keeping young. But it is no recipe for cosmetics, that they would require. First of all, French dames do not worry, or, if they do, they conceal the fact admirably. They are apparently on the crest of the wave of good fortuno perpetually. Next, and almost equally important, they decline to hurry. They take life moderately, perform their duties with out haste and linger over their pleas ures. And in these two simple rules lies a mine of wealth for her who is wise enough to appropriate it.- Cin cinnati Gazette. Diplomacy Failed. "I always mean to come to you for ndvice," said tho meek little woman. "You never tell me wrong." "What is it?" asked the young hus band, unconsciously straightening up with a proud sense of masculine supe riority. "Would you advise me to get my new coat in brown or dark blue?" As it was the first time he had heard of tho proposed gai ment he had to take time to consider.-Indianapolis Journal. Had to Do lt. She-Why, there's Charley Yan Beet. Don't you remember his going to California some time ago with his fiance? He-I should say I did. He wrote mo he didn't have money enough to get back. How do you suppose ho managed it? She-Why, he married her out there.-Puck. Had Hip Disease Ho was treated at the Children's Hospital, Boston, and when bo came home had SliV EN RUNNING SOKKS on his leg. Could not step. We have been giving him Hood s Sarsaparilla a year, and he ein walk, run, and play os lively RS any boy. He h-.s no nor TT" the PICT UU K OF KAIJTII. JOHH C. BO?I-E, Ware. MHSS. Hood's Pills do not purge, pain or gripe. :??? SWEET FAXIENC? Oh, trifling tasks so often done, ? Tot ever to be done anew I Ob, car<?3 which como with every sun, Morn after morn the long, weary years through! We shrink beneath their paltry sway The Irksome calls o! every day. The restless sense ot wasted power, The tiresome round ot little thing?, Axe hard to bear, as hour hy hour Its tedious Iteration brings, Who shall evade or who delay Tie small demands ot every day? The boulder in the torrent's cours3, By tide and tempest lashed lu vain, Obeys the wave-whirled pebble's force, - And yields its substance grain by Rraln ; So crumble strongest lives away Beneath the wear ot every day. Wo rise to meet a heavy blow Our soul a sudden bravory fills But we endure not always so The drop by drop of little ills! We still deplore and still obey The hardest behests of every day. The heart which boldly faces death Upon tho battlelleld, and dare3 Cannon and bayonets, faints beneath The needle points ot frets and cares ; The stoutest spirits they dismay The tiny things of every day. And even saints ot holy fame, Whose souls by faith have ovarcoan, Who wore amid the cruel flame The molten crown of martyrdom, Bore not without complalut alway3 Tho petty pains of every day. Ah, more than martyr's aureole, And moro than hero's heart of Aro, We need the humble strength of sou!, Which dally toils and ills require ; Sweet Patience, grant U3, lt you may, Au added grace for every dav. -Elizabeth Akers Allon. A FOUNTAIN PEN. BT ItOBEBT WAQNEB. am not tho pos sessor of a foun tain pen. I never had but one, which was given me as a present years ago when I was a young man and fountain pens were a novelty. Mine was made of tin, with a rubber bag to hold the ink. When yon squeezed the pen holder the ink ran ont of the bag and flooded the pen-or anything else that happened to be within convenient range. The diabolical contrivance looked like a tin whistle and acted like a cuttle-fish, but no one else had one, and so I was proud of it. Vanitas vanitatum ! Short was my triumph. I can still remember, as painfully as though it was an affair of yesterday, how the tragedy occurred. It was at the Sturdevant-Hamilton's ball quite the swell event of the season. I had been looking forward.to this ball 7?ith interest for a good while, be cause I intended ta-fincT an opportun ity there to effect a reconciliation with Alice. Such opportunities were not frequent, and I knew that if I missed this one it might be a long time before I found another, and that odiously handsome Dick Hamilton v?as paying her a great more attention than I liked. Alice and I had been close friends ever since we were children, and I had come to feel that I had a sort of proprietorship in her. We had even been engaged for just twenty-four hours, at the end of which time we had quarreled, .for reasons too complicated and too absurd to be introduced her?. I speedily repented, however, aud was or 'y waiting for an opportunity ir* Liduce her to do like wise. With this weighty resolution f>_nm^ . mind, it is no jvondjrJ^t"T~feit a lit tle<Jrem?rwa"s restarted to go down flairs, and that I scanned myself with unusual attention in the great pier glass, to make sure that my attire was perfect. Nothing embarrasses one more under trying circumstances than the consciousness of being badly dressed, I was, I think I may say, well dressed. My tronsers were im peccable, my gloves ditto, my coat fitted to perfection, my white waistcoat was as spotless-to employ a figure which is popular among my brother barris ters-as spotless as the driven snow ; my hair was at that precise point when it has lost tho formality given to it by the hair-dresser, without assuming the wild aud umbrageous appearance to be noticed among musicians and other doubtful characters. My complexion had never been better. On the whole, I was very welt satisfied with the gen . eral effect. When I entered the ballroom Alice was away at the further end, talking, I grieved to note, with that odious young Hamilton. 1 did ' not care to make my approach under such trying circumstances, and bided my chance with what patience I could muster. Finally my opportunity came, and I lost no time in reaching her side. She greeted me very kindly, as she al ways did, in something the same style that she might have received a very old friend of her father's. This cheer ful, unembarrassed greeting always provoked ms beyond measure ; but I did my best to stifle my ill-temper, which was also somewhat assuaged by the pleasing discovery that through some misunderstanding she was not engaged for the next dance. I had never seen her more radiantly beautiful, and I could feel the eyes oj many envious observers turned upon me as we took our places. The next dance and the next were taken, but the third she promised to me. At the end of this dance, which was a waltz, and taken at the unmercifully fast tempo then prevalent, I remarked that she was somewhat flushed with the heat, and proposed that we should take a turn in the conservatory. Whether she guessed what was in my mind or not, I cannot say. It seemed to me that the color grew a shade deeper in her lovely cheeks, but that may have been due to the heat, or was perhaps the effect of my own imagination. At any rate she assented in the most charming manner in the the world, and we strolled out into the large and handsome conservatory, which was now quite deserted. It wa3 in this same conservatory that we had stood and talked the evening after we were engaged, and I hoped that memories of this wonld affect her as they did me. But alas ! she was evi dently ina very far from sympathetic state of mind. "I suppose you must be very much engaged with your profession," she remarked, sweetly; "we see so little of you nowadays." This had all the effect of premeditated satire. It had not been a month since wo had langhed merrily together at my brief less coudition, and bad agreed that wo could be very happy together without riches. ; 'Not so deeply engaged but that I find time to call on all who care to have me," I answered, bitterly. "indeed you are very unkind and unjust to speak so," she replied, wit unruffled tranquility. "It was onl last Thursday I heard Uncle Jae say-" "Something very flattering, n doubt," I broke in, angrily. "A ver fine division of affection, indeed, enjoy your Uncle Jack's, and youl goes to that-" "I think we had better go back now, Mr. Lang. I had supposed tho I might trust you as an old friend no to try to annoy and vex me." "Mr. Lang! lees lam getting t be a very old friend, indeed. So oh that I soon shall be quite' forgotten You are right. "We had better g back ; your new friends will be es pecting you. " "Why will you be so perverse am so cruel, Robsrt ?" "At least I am not cruel enough to forget you. But that you would ac count a kindness, I suppose. " "Indeed, I would rather have yoi forget me than think so unkindly o me. I had hoped that we might al ways be good friends. " "I think, "I replied, with unpar donable brutality, "that you had bet ter invest in a lap-dog. They ar much more manageable. " "Yon are right," she said, with ic; sweetness ; "and they are at least grate ful to their friends." "Forgivo me, Alice!" I stammered "I did not mean to ba such a brate.1 "Let us forget everything but tha we are very good friends," she an swered, after a moment's pause. "An< I want to put your friendship to a sel fish use this very minute " "You know very well that I woulc gladly die for you." "Oh, my wants are not so exorbi' tant as that, " she answered, lightly, "I merely want your advice, as mj oldest and best friend, in a oase wher< I can't trust my family to judge im partially. I think you know Mr. Hamilton-Mr. Richard Hamilton, '. mean." And I fancied that sh< blushed a trifle as she mentioned tin name. I answered with a very bac grace that I had the great honor of a distant acquaintance with the young gentleman in question. "I fancied so. Now, the long anc short of the matter is, that my peoph aro very anxious to have me-marrj him ; and Aunt Mary in particular ha; her heart set on it." "Hessemsto me a very desirable parti, indeed," I said, coldly. "I sup pose you hardly need my congratula tions. " "He, too, is so silly as to want to marry me," she wont on, without seeming to notice my rude speech, "and I have promised to give him an answer this evening. And what" here she seemed strangely embar rassed, and became deeply absorbed in the figures on her fan-"what an swer shall I give him?" 14What answer?" I cried, as her meaning flashed over my dull compre hension, "why, tell him that you are engaged, of course!" Just what happened next is rather hazy in my mind-almost obliterated hythe direful catastrophe which so soon followed. I dimly remember kissing her upturned face as we stood in the shadow of a great South Ameri can cactus, that screened us from all observation, and drawing her unre sisting form toward a divan that we had occupied on the memorable even ing when we had been engaged before. We knew all tho strongholds of her aunt's house perfectly. "How horridly improper!" she ex claimed, apropos of something or other. "Suppose that any one should see us this way." "That would be improper, I ad mit," I replied, serenely ; "but then, you see, nobody can." Tho argument was undeniable, and she let her head rest against my shoulder with a little sigh bf satisfaction. --^Sow-alwurd to "flunk, that we ever quarrelled," I observed, ^?resc-^ily^ . "Oh, don't talk of that horrid time any more ! I have nearly cried my eyes out over it. Let's just remem ber that we have loved each other all the while." For a moment there was silence. "Alice!" I said, severely, as a sud den thought came to me; "what were you intending to answer-" "That," replied Mistress Alice, se renely, "you will never know." "There, that dauce is linisbed," I said; "tho rabble will bo out hero in a moment." "There is no hurry," she answered, with the delightful sang froid of wo mankind under circumstances that are trying to masculine nerves. 1 ' We can see any one who passes tho turn of the staircase." "Ah, now it is time," sho said, laughingly; "ono more kiss, and I will see if I can fix myself up a little, ?ou have put my hair in a shocking' state of disorder. Ugh! What's that?" I sprang to my feet, aghast. On her delicate pink corsage was a large and gruesome staiu of black, that was slowly but surely spreading over the entire front. "I-1-I'm afraid it's ink!" I said, in quavering accents of despair. Ink ! "Whore in the world should my ink como from?" Her voice had ?t hard, sharp quality, that I heard ance in a while before. Evidently her ladyship's mood was fast losing its amiability, and I felt some tremors of lear. I knew altogether too well where bhe ink carno from. With au awful lertaintyl looked at my once immacu late white waistcoat; it was now a ahues?me, soppy mass of Smith's Blue Black Commercial Writing Fluid. The emergency was frightful. Was there an outsido exit? And then the dress horrible ! I have known affection to outlast the crash of fortunes, aud to ranish like frost-work at a dish of jravy spilled over a now gown. Since that day I have refused to believe all stories of hair growing gray from Fright and anguish. It is absolutely impossible that any ono should be scared as I was. Alice looked np from her own ruined Snery and caught tho "woe-begone ex pression on my face, and, overcome with the ludicrousness of the situa tion she burst iuto a little ripple of laughter? in which I was obliged to ?oin. "Oh, here she is," said a familiar voice, and Mr. St.irdovant Hamilton, accompanied by the handsome Dick, turned in from the long staircase. I saw tho young gentleman's jaw drop suddenly, and the sight comforted me amazingly, and gave me courage to meet stormy weather. "Why, Alice!" cried tho aunt, snd her stern glances wandered from Alice's luckless gown to my lameutablo waist coat in a manner that 6b owed that two was rapidly hoing added to two with tho customary roault. "What in the world,, Alice, have you been doiag?" .*I rather think, aunt," she mis chievously replied-"I rather think that we have been getting engaged. " .'Dick's face still wore ft gloomy and sardonic expression, but he managed to pluck up enough spirit to make one of his abominable puns. "It strikes me," ho said, sadly, "that that ia a melancholy waist of ink." It was probably about five years be fore people got through teasing U3 about our unlucky adventure. I do not expect ever to hear tho last of it, exactly, but we never hear it mentioned now except incidentally, and. neither my wife nor I seem to care at all any more. But I can still remember the horrid sensation of that dreadful mo ment. As I said before, it seems ai though it had all happened yesterday. But I never desired another fountain pen.-Home and Country. -i Quickest Handing on Record. Captain J. B. Patten, warden of the Indiana State Prison at Jefferson vi lie, has the record for superintending tba quickest legal hanging ever accom plished in this or any other country, says tho St. Louis Republic. Tue laws of Indiana prescribe that the death sentence must be executed be tween midnight and the dawn of day set by the court. A man named Stone had butchered a whole family in Davis County, of that State, and had been oondemned to death. The case was a celebrated one, and newspaper men from Indianapolis and Louisville went down to Jeffersonville in a perfecL phalanx to witness and report the famous criminal's exit from, this vale of tears. They arrived in the early evening, expecting to return to their homes on a train leaving Jeffersonville aoout one o'clock, by which time they eXpectod the execution to be over. To their intenso disappointment and chagrin, they discovered that the last train they could take departed from the prison towa at twelve o'clock at night. Having determined this they sot about arranging matters so they could see the hanging and yet catch the train. They telegraphed the circum stances ahead to the conductor, asking him to hold the train until after the execution. He consented to hold it five minutes only. They were filled with despair ! Who ever heard of a hanging, including prayers, speech making, et cetera, in five brief minu tes? But nevertheless ihey com menced to work on Wardon Patten. The result was that everything was at once gotten ready for sending the murderer to eternity. Promptly at the stroke of midnight the parson finished his prayer ; in five more se conds the noose was around the con demned man's neck, the black cap drawn, the trap sprung and in two minutes and twenty-two seconds tho attending physician pronounced the murderer a corpse. Carriages waiting outside the inclosnre bore the report ers to the train in another minute, and with nearly seventy seconds to spare, the tram pulled out. Daniel Boone's Gun. It "3 reported that a relic of great historic value has just bean brought to Charleston, W. Va. It is the gun used by Daniel Boone, and has been in the family of Nathan Boona Van Bibber ever since Boone's day. " The gtocl-: and barrel of the gun are five feet four inches long ; it carries au ounce ball ; stil has its original old-fashiond fi nt lock, and is yet capable of doing good work. The gun was given by Boone to his friend, Mathias Tice Van Bib ber. Tice Van Bibber carried it and did good execution at the battle of Point Pleasant in 1774. He carried it on hunting and trapping trips as far west as the Osage River, and throughout the War of 1812.- The original powder horn and balk.fc-molds are with the gun ; also a very old shot pouch, a pocltet compass with a sun dial attachment and a steel spear pointed needle for fixing buffalo hiderr to dry ; also a tally stick and a part of his conimission as a captain in the War of 18i2, and an old well-worn butcher knife, which belonged to Isaac Van fibber, who was killed at Point Pleas ant." Wheu he was found nine Indian scalps, "raised by his knife, wero in his pouch. "Tint?^used the knife as long as he lived. At h??ttei^r&thias Van Bibber left these relics to Capt?"rrr C. B. Van Bibber, the first white child born in Nicholas Couuty, and at his death, a few years ago, they were left to his son, Nathanial Boone Var: Bibber, the present owner.-New Or leans Picayune. G'ray Wolves ot Montana. The gray wolves are on the rampage in the northern part of Gallatin County, Montana. Already they have killed hundreds of calves, and in Homo instances have been known to attack steers and cows that became separated from the herd. The gray wolf is the fiercest of his species, and many a man in the great woods of the East and North has been killed by them'. A few days ago a farmer in the northern part of the county shut two large-3ized colts in a corral whilo ho took his team to a field. When he carats back after tho colts a few hours later he found both had been killed by wolveB. Another stockman, while riding over the hills, came across two largj steers that had been carrying on on unequal fight with wolves. Tho two steers were surrounded by a number of. the big gray creatures and several coyotes, which had been running the cattle about. The steers were badly bitten and they were nearly exhausted with the unequal struggle. At the appearance of the stockman the wolves and coyotes slnuk away. When the winter finally sets in and it becomes a difficult matter for them to get a calf or a sheep the stockmen fear that thece wolves will become desperate. They will then go in bands and will undoubtedly attack almost anychiug that might funish them a meal. -Hoi ena (Montana) Herald. Remarkable Literary Workshops. Genius has frequently had remark able workshops. Robert Burn3 ouco went galloping over a remote Scottish moor. His horse on this occasion waa not much troubled with the guidance of the rider. Burns was busy, brood ing over a glorious theme. His lyrical powers touched one of their highest points. Tho result of ttiis journey was the impassioned national lyric, "Scots, Wha Hue wi' Wallaco Bled." J. S. Mill framed his "Logic" as he walked from his homo to his office and back again. Sir Matthew Hale com posed the "Contemplations" as he rode on horseback about country on his circuit journeys. While traveling in the same fashion on his numerous and prolonged preaching tours, John Wesley contrived to accomplish a vast quantity of literary work. Byron composed the larger portion of the "Corsair" in a London thoroughfare, as he walked up and down Albomnrlo street, between Grafton street and Piccadilly; and states himself that he composed "Lara," not in the stndy, but at the toilet table. "Tlie Revolt of Islam" took form in Shelley's hraiu as the poet apparently frittered away summer hours lying in a boat ou the bosom of the Thames at Marlow. Chambers's Journal. A COUNTRY MAID. Her eyes tho sun-kissed violets mate, And fearless ls their gaze ; She moves with graceful, oareloss galt Along the country ways. The roses blushing In hier cheek That ne'er decade nor fade, Her laughter cay, her words bespeak, A simple country moid. No noshing gems adorn her hair, Nor clasp her lily neck, No jeweled circlets, rich and rare, Her sun-browned hands bedeok 5 But poarly teeth through Hps as red As reddest rubies gleam ; The tresses o'er her shoulders spread A golden-mantle seem. Hor looks aro kind, and sweet tho smH9 That sparkles in her eyes, Har mind, her heart are free from guile* She is not learned or wise. No worldly art, no craft has she Acquired her charms to aid ; And yet she stole my heart from me, This simple country maid. -Ol. Eock, in Chamber's Journal. PITH AND POINT. A friend in need is a friend who dodged. j The cat has nine lives, but no ag ; has tried to sell them yet. Consistency is a fashionable je for other peoplo to wear. Where might is right-In a fine old Cheshire cheese.-Puck. The average man would rather a Saratoga trunk than a baby. A man's opinion is often based up on nothing, and a woman's upon that In the lexicon of the women, flat terers are those who "say nice things to other girls. The fire ol genius would blaze more brightly if it didn't haye so much cold water thrown on it. In Algiers when the people desire new ruler they begin by taking a dey off.-Lowell Courier. "Be sure you're right, then go ahead"-don't look around to see if your neighbors are right.-Puck. Fish do not bite at baitless hooks, But this is not surprising ; They catch the biggest and tho best Who bait with advertising. You can always tell by the heroic way in which a paying teller hands out money that it is not his own. Puck. Author -"My new book is on the market." Critic-"Let us hope the market is strong."-Detroit Free Press. When the fool hath nothing to say he telleth it ; but when the wise man has something to say he keepeth it to himself. Coroner-"And did the deceased leave no friends?" Al.-"No. He was'an old bachelor." - Cleveland Plain Dealer. Penelope-"So you're going to get married?" Chappie-"Yes." Pene lope-"Who's going to make your trousseau ?"-Life. Tho smile from the face ot nature flees, As winter upon U3 steals ; The warmth departs from the atmosph?re, And tho chilblains tako to th JU- heels. -Puck. "Great reforms are seldom accom> plished without bloodshed," was tho consoling thought of the man who de cided to do hi3 own shaving. -1?? dianapolis Journal. "Well, you are the first man I eve*, heard accuse Timmins of being full of energy." "Bat he must be. Ho has been storing it np for years."-In dianapolis Journal.. . "They tell me your servant is a jewel," said the caller. "Yes," re plied the hostess, wearily, "she's eo much more ornamental than useful. " -Hartford Courant. Minnie-"What do you understand by the term platonic affection?" Ma mie- "It usually meaus that the young mau feels that he cannot af ford to marry."-Omaha Bee. Tho north wind doth blow And wu shall havo snow, And what will the tradesmen do thea, poor thineV **^"S. He'll at once advortts? Or contrariwise Be completely snowed under ere spring. -Printer's Ink. A poor woman who was tnllcing to the district visitor about her various ailments, and how tho doctor had pre scribed for her "sluggish fever." "What beats me," sho remarked, "is how them slugs get inside the ii vor." -To-Day. An OM Indian Fighter's Nene. Frank Grouard, chief of Govern ment scouts and au Indian lighter, un derwent a difficult surgical operation at St. Joseph, Mo., in having removed from his right side an Indian arrow head, which has been embeded there for nearly twenty years. Grouard could not be induced to take au anes thetic. When the instruments were placed in position ho calmly lighted a cigar and stretched his powerful frame upon tho operating table. Cocaine was applied locally fud tho cutting bogan. Grouard never twitched nor moved a muscle, but puffed away at I his cigar and chuffed the surgeon. The arrow lay directly beneath a large* vein in the right groin, and an inci sion of the vein would have meant al most certain death, so the operatics was a very delicate, one, and the sur geon was compelled to use his linger to break the tissues under tho vein. .Still Grouard smiled and talked, and when the doctor became provoked at his audacity, tho scout significantly remarked that it was nothing to a man who had had.'burning splinters thrust into his flesh. Grouard refused to take a carriage to his house. He says he was shot by a Sioux Indian while lighting with General Crook. The arrowhead is of steel, two inches long and ono inch wide.-Atlanta Consti tution. ?f Lace From Plant Leaves. Tho beautiful laco known as Fayal lace is made from the fibres in the leaves of the bitter aloe (grown in the Azores or Western Islands), a relative of the common century plant. This lace is manufactured by women, but the necessary skill is so rarely attained that there are but twenty-fivo persons on the islands who can make it. Cater* pillars have been made to spin ??oe veils from tho leaves of plants by the ingenious contrivance of a gentleman of Munich. He makes a pasto of tho plant which is tho usual food of the caterpillar, and spreads it thinly over a stone or other flat substance ; then, with a camel's-hak' pencil dipped iu olive oil, he draws upon the coating of paste the pattern he wishes the in sects to leave open. The stone hoing placed in an inclined position the caterpillars are laid at tho bottom and tho animals eat and spiu their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by tho oil, but de vouring tho rest of tho plant. A con siderable quantity of laco was former ly made from the fibre of thc nloo by the peasants of Abissoln, either ot its natural cream color or dyed black. This lace, however, would not stand .ashing. -New York Recorder. Health and Housekeeping. "It io a cowardly thing to say, and I can't allow my name to. he printed, hut it is a fact that the faulty house keeping in modern life is responsible for needless and fatal diseases among children. Thero are the stuffy, stylish (?) cozy corners that are written up and illustrated until one is sick and tired of them; lhere are the dust-la don sofa cushions and the dirty parlor rngs over carpets-a double nuisance that a good beating would destroy com pletely ; thero are the unkept, uphol stered chairs and couches and the nev er cleaD, alwaje-to-be-feared hangings and draperies on table and mantel shelves and in windows and door frames. What we need is more clean air, moro sparc room and 60 per cent less furniture and offenses against ort. Wc need tho bare ?OOEB of cosmopol tan Europe, tho bare rooms and-walls of the distinguished Japanese and the scrupulous neatness and elegant sim plicity of the aristocratic Chinese, So says a sanitary corps officer of | New York. ? Professional Pride. "Hold up your hands 1" said the train robber. "Not at this town," protested the thick-set passenger. "These peopl here aro all agin me, an'-" "Hold'em up quick !" was the threat ening command. "Now, looky, here, mister, you'll havo to make allowances fur me. I'm a professional pugilist, I am. Shoot if ye must, but I'd rudder dio dan put up me fists widout jawing a while be forehand."- Washington Star, to Not Quick Enough. Stuffer (at tho reception)-I think I shall take Miss Springer down supper when it's ready. Dashaway-I wouldn't if I wer you; Stuffer- Why not? Dashaway-She has an impediment in her walk.-Brooklyn Life. Obstruction^ In a Great Harbor Arc less easily removed than obstructions of thc bowels aro hy Hosteler's Stomach Bitters, infinitely moro effectual than violent por tatives, nnd which never ?ripes, convulses and weakens as they do- Thc Hitters also removes malarial and rheumatic complaint biHomnes", sick headache, nervousness and dyspepsia. Give this deserving remedy a fair trial and expect tho best and most complete results. We are ourselves threat?ncd when calamity affects our neighbors. Dr. Kilmer's Sw AMT-ROOT cares all Kidney and Bladder troubles. Pamphlet and Consultation freo. Laboratory Binghamton, N. Y. lt is a plea'ure incomparable to always 6tand on the vantage ground of truth. Tho Moat Plcnsnnt Way Of preventing tho grippe, colds, headaches and fevers, is to usc tho liquid laxativo remedy. Syrup of Fig3, whenever the Fj>tem needs gentle, yet effective cleansing. To bo benefited ono must pet the true remedy manufactured by thc California Fi? Syrup Co. only. For salo hy all druggists in 50c. and SI bottles. 1 ho weight of experience given in counsel often falls as water in a sieve. In a recent article on Coffee and Cocoa, tho eminent Gurman Chemist, Professor Stutzer, speaking of the Dutch process of preparing Cocoa by the addition of potash, and of tho process common in Germany in which ammo nia is added, says: "Tho only result of those processes is to make the liquid appear turbid to tho eye of tho consumer, wntbout effecting a real solution of tho Cocoa substances. This artificial manipulation for the purpose of so called solubility is, therefore, moro or less in spired by deception, and alway? tnkes place at the cost of punty, pleasant taste,useful action and aromatic flavor. Tho treatment of Cocoa Ssuch chemical moons ia entirely objection lc. . . . Cocoa treated with potash or ammonia would be entirely unsalable but for ?10 supplementary addition of artificial flavors by which a poor subsrttute for the aroma driven out into tho air is offered to tho con sumer." Tho delicious Breakfast Cocoa made by "Walter Baker & Co., of Dorchester, Mass., is absolutely pore and soluble. No chemicals, or dyes, or artificial flavors aro used in it. Deafness Cannot be Cared by local applications os they cannot reach the discoed portion of the ear. Thero is only one way to cure Deafness, and that Ia by constitu tional remedies. Deaf ness id caused by an in flamed condii ion of tho mucous lining of thf RustaebJan Tube. When this tube gets in flamed you have a rumbling sound or impei frct hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is thu result, and unless tho in flam mat io:i can bj taken out and this tube re stored ti its normal condition, hoaring will be destroyed forever; nine cases out ten are caused by catarrh, which Is nothing but an in flamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will ?ive Ona Hundred D illara for any ca-.o of D- afnes.i (caused by cptarrh) that can not he CUR?! by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for : roulais, free. F. J. <~nr.rtEY & Co., Toledo, 0. ?2?"Sold by Druggists, 75c The Ii ivs t Men Cn m i na to thc Front. Splendid lnt i:iC33 opportunities are offer-d men nnd woman of UM highest and bwtchar acter to represent H. F. Johnson & Co.. of Richmond, Va. No capital needed. Even .?pare t me may bo used to good advantage It ?ill bo worth your while to wriic to them. 'Mn Oeiicc of prevent ion is worth a pound of cure." Ri pon* Tubules do not weigh an ouneo but they contain unit / pounds of good. One tabule gives! relief. Try for your vlf the next time you have a headache or bilious attack. Karl's Clover Root, the great b oo 1 purifier, gives freshness and clearness to tho complex ion and cures constipai ion, M cts., 59 cts., SL I have found Piso\, Cure for Consumption un unfailing m die:no.-F. R. L?TZ, 13J5 t'colt St., Covington, Ky., Oct 1, um. Mr*. Winslow'* Soothing Syrup for ehlldron teething, softens (heliums, rcduees inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25j. a bottle If nfllicled wi: h sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thoinn FonV K.ve-water.Dnig>'istssoll at25c per bottle. Ln urmiLB! yu uui The Largest Manufacturers of PURE, HIGH GRADE COCOAS AND CHOCOLATES '.j f^jSj^11 Continent, have received " HIGHEST AWARDS from Uto greet Industrial and Food 'lp EXPOSITIONS Ijiiii Europe and Amerfeg. '."'?V !' ? ^'n'"50"to DutchProtest,no Alka M^HUtt or other Chemicals or J>yco aro *2^^u?rd in any-of their preparation!. Their delicious BKEAKi'AST COCOA ls absolutely pure end coluble, ned cairs lea than one cent a cup. BOLD BY GROCE?S EVERYWHERE. WALTER BAKER & CO. DORCHESTER, MASS. SULLIVAN & CRICHTON'S WA ANO SCHOOL or SHORTHAND (Tho Boi-t and Chrnpost Bnsinoeii Oollege in America. {Four Penmen. TimoRhort. Catnlngao free. Address 9 ."4 ul 11 va II Sc (rich ton, Pryor St., ATLANTA. GA, I fB5 such as Scrofula and Ancomia, Sallow Complexions, are speec tho Cream of edy so quickl; purifies tho b to the whole e and easy on t Thin, ] suffering fror stored to heal Bc sure y trade-mark o: TRADE MARK. Sendfor pamphlet on Scot, Soott & Bowne, N. Y. All di THE U. S. Goyernn reported, after an different brands, thai ing Powder is absolt in strength, and sup? ROYAL BAKING POWDER COMPAS FADS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE. Swift liked to write in bed. Charlemagne was fond of hunting. Tamerlane was an expert chess player. Buffon's only amusement was walk ing. Bach's favorite pastime was garden ing. Roscoe Oonkling was an excellent amateur boxer. Danton was the most noted card player of his day. Socrates was said to be the ugliest man of his time. ' Queen Victoria, during her youth, was fond of archery. Charles II spent much time in his chemical laboratory. * Fox, the orator, found his greatest pleasure in gambling. Emerson declared that ho composed best when walking. Peter the Great liked to be carried about in a wheelbarrow. Hesiod hated women and took no pains to conceal the fact Robespierre was fond of reading po etry alond to his friends. Confucius, it is said, was passionate ly fond of watermelon seeds. Themistocles was passionately fond of dancing and flute playing. Nero was fond of music and attained great proficiency in the art. Virgil, during the snmmer season, filled his house with butterflies. Vicano conld not listen to the sound of a Ante without fainting. Francis I. was known as the most skillful jouster of his country. More's "Utopia" was written as an amusement and to divert his friends. .Samuel Richardson wrote his novels while attired in a fnll dress suit. Charlemagne was said to be the best player of checkers of his century. Cato's only diversion was drinking, and he was tond of this diversion/ Thomas Carlisle's most congenial recreation was smoking in the garden. Gladsone is fond^of wood-cutting, and often "rests" himself in this way. Balzac, when not at work on his novels, entertained himself sketching. Henry VIII, of England, had the reputation of being an inveterate miser. Frederick the Great was a musician and devoted much time to the flute. j Neander, the church historian, wrote | for many years with the same quill. Ivan, the Terrible, was fond of tor turing animals and seeing their blood rnn. John Wesley never took any form of diversion, but utilized every moment. Napoleon's favorite dainty was blood 'pudding made with plenty of tallow. Shelly was fond of boating, and finally lost his life in an accident to his boat. The Greatest .Medical Discovery of the Age. KENNEDY'S Medical Discovery, DONALD KENNEDY, OF ROXBURY, MASS,, Has discovered in one of our com mon pasture weeds a romedy that cures every kind of Humor, from the worst Scrofula down to a com mon Pimple. SEND FOB BOOK. Dunbarton, Ohio, Dec. 24,1894. Donald Kennedy, Dear Sir: Last spring La (trip and Dronchitis took me and for weeks I got worse tliough taking medicine all the limp. A friend (old me of your Medical Discovery, how it had helped a friend of tiers' and I thought I would try it. I have taken two botties of Discovery and three bottles Prairie Weed and I can't begin to tell you how much better I feel When I began to take your medicine I could not sit up much of any; now I sit up all day and walk round the house, but I am still hoarse, -Of course you are-that's tho Humor about three more bottles Discovery will get the last of that out of your system. and want your advice about that I thank you with my whole IwarL Yours truly, NAOMI OLIVER. " Caron and Prevents Rheumatism. Indigestion, v ? Dysi-epMa, Heartburn. Catii rn: and Asthma. A \ Useful In Malaria and Fevers. Cleanses t'.e" ? Tooth an I Promotes the Appetite. Sweetens 1 r the Uivntn, Cures tba Tobacco ll u blt. Endorsed T - by the Medical Facu.ty. Scud for 10, IS or 25 " A cent i-ackn.; ?. Silver, Stamp* or Postal Sote. ? r GBO. lt HAI.IT, 140 West 20th St, New Yorfc. V nreatedfree. reit wdr nitK.-> with TfevUbls Remedie*. Hare cured many thou sand cates pro nounced hopeless. Frflm first dose symptoms rapidly disappear, and in ten days at least fro-thlrds of all symptoms are removed. fiOOK of testimonials of miraculous cures sent FREE. YEN QA VS TREATMENT FURNISHED FREE by mall VU. U. U. Ulitt-N ?1=0.NS, BycchUlaU, Atlante. 0?. Experiments show that the best cotton fertilizer 3 to 4/, Act Any failures to this crop can be in the fertilizers used. We will gladly send you our pai They ore sent free. It will cost you not dollars. GERMAN : , Skin Eruptions and Pale or lily cured by Emulsion Cod-liver OiL No other rem Y and effectively enriches and lood and gives nourishment lystem. It is pleasant to take ho stomach. Emaciated Persons and all a Wasting Diseases a*'0 re ith by Scott's Emulsion, ou get the bottle with our a it. Refuse cheap substitutes! t's Emulsion. FREE. rugglsts. 50 cents and $1. lent Chemists have examination of the t the ROYAL Bak ltely pure, greatest erior to all others. ?iiecn Victoria Has No Family Name. Following is a letter to. a woman rriter in the New York Recorder re tarding Qneen Victoria's name: "You are a little 'off when you ask" rhat Victoria of England would think rere any 'daring creature' to address 1er as 'Colonel Guelph.' "Her idea would simply resemble mrs were one to address you as Colq> iel Smith. Victoria has no name-^ .hat ie, no family name. In that she s like Moses or Aaron or Charlemagne. >he was horn in Guelph, but that loesn't entitle her to be called Guelph iny moro than you -have tho right to oe known as Mrs. New York. "If she is anything-in the phape of 1 namo as tho relict of a. dear departed -sho is the Widow Wettin. Her hus band had a name." AMONG the European countries Ger nany, by far ontstrips her neighbors n the number of electric railways, both in op?ration and courso of con struction. Dr. PIERCE'S Golden Medical Cures Ninety-eight per cent, of ali cases of Consumption, ia all its Earlier Stages. Although by many believed to be incura ble, there is the evidence of hundreds of living witnesses to the fact that, in all its earlier stages, consumption is a curable disease. Not every case, but a large per centage of cases, and we believe, fully 98 per cent, are cured by Dr. Pierce's Golden S: Medical Discovery, even after thc disease has progressed so far as to iuduce repeated bleedings from the lungs, severe lingering, cough with copious expectoration (includ ing tubercular matter), great loss of flesh and extreme emaciation and weakness. Do you doubt that hundreds of such cases reported to us as cured by " Golden Med ical Discovery " were genuine cases ofthat dread and fatal disease? You need not take our word for it. They have, in nearly every instance, been so pronounced by the best and most experienced home physicians, who have no interest whatever in mis representing them, and who were often strongly prejudiced and advised against a trial of "Golden Medical Discovery," but who have been forced to confess that it surpasses, in curative power over this fatal malady, all other medicines with which they are acquainted. Nasty cod liver oil and its filthy "emulsions" aud mixtures, had been tried iu nearly all these cases and had either utterly failed to bene fit, or had only seemed to benefit a little for a short time. . Extract of malt, whiskey^ , and various preparations of the kypophos phites had also been faithfully tried in vain. 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