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SYMPATHY. ff we should he so quick ol heart. So keen of sight, That we could feel each shadow's gloom, Each blossom's blight, The fairest of earth's blue-gold days Would turn to night. If wo should grow so swift to feel. Each human pain That for eaah aching human heart Ours ached again, Lifo were all weariness, and joy Grown poor and vain. Some sounds are lost in silence, though We reverent hark; Some sights are shut from anxious eyes By pitying dark. The limit of the soul's out-gift j Has finite mark. -Grace D. Goodwin, in Harper's Bazar. EEK LTEUTENA??T, OUNG D r. Westerfield hurried from Paddington station, and in a quarter of an hour he was at home. " My dear Arthur!" ex olaimed Mrs. Westerfield. She put down her pen and dropped the blotting pad hastily over some writing. "I didn't expect you until to-morrow." Westerfield stooped and kissed his wife. 'Til go baok if you like, Sweet." He called her Sweet because her name was Ermyntrude. Besides, he was quite a young husband. "I had an engagement for to-night," she said, thoughtfully. "I had better put it off." "Not at all. I shall be out at that lecture." .'Good! (with an air of relief) What's your book there? Let me look at iL" "Better not, dear. I only bought it just to kill time." "Sounds like a criminal offence." "To read many of these things," said Westerfield, taking away the French novel, "is to get a vague im pression that there is no honesty or sincerity in the world." ?I know what you mean. My new ^?ok will have nothing of that in it. " "If it respects the proprieties," re ' marked Westerfield, "people will think that a man has written it." "I can't help wishing I had knocked about more," said Mrs. Westerfield thoughtfully. "?uocked who about?" "There are such a lot of situations in life that I have never experienced. Now a man can run about and go just where he pleases." "I'm afraid it can't be remedied, dear," he said. "That's just why I'm grumbling. I've been down in the East end while you have been away. " "Notalone, I hope?" "Ob, no, dear. No. Not alone. Mrs. Westerfield laughed. "I had some one to accompany me. " 'Tm glad of that. You can't be too careful." "That's what I thought. Did your speech go really well at the congress? j I bought np all the papers that had reports about it. It seems to me, Mister, that if I don't hustle you'll get more talked about than L" "I like to keep as* near you as I can, dear." "Unhand me,.sir, as you value your lifel" At which challenge Westerfield, of course, came from the other side of the table and kissed her again. In his absent-minded way, Wester field went rouud to the Royal Institu tion after dinner without asking Ermyntrude about her appointment. The lecture did not appear, and he came back. On the table of his study was a card. "I am going to Hamm?rsmith with Lieutenant Fincham. Back late. " Dr. Westerfield went on with the novel. At page 117 he suddenly stop ped. "Who tho dickens is Lieutenant Fincham?" he cried. There was no one in the room to answer. He pressed the bell. "Marie!" "Yes, sii." "Do you know"-he picked up the card-"do you know any one named Lieutenant Fincham?" Maria repressed a broad smile with difficulty. "Oh, yes, sir." Maria giggled, and coughed a little to pass it off. "Yes, sir, quite well. Called hera two or three times since you've been away. " "To seo your mistress?" "Yes, 6ir. They had dinner together one evening. Seemed very thick with each other, they did. And one night H Captain Somebody called as well, and you should have 'eard them two carrv on." "Is-is Lieutenant Fincham very young?" ' 'Mejum age, sir. Not what I should call exactly good looking, and, on the other 'and, not bad. Of course some of 'em in the army, as cook says, are perfect bird frightheners. Cook used to have a young man in the Grena- J diers, and he told cook a rare joke about one of 'em. It appears-" "You needn't wait, Maria." He spoke with such unexpected decision thai the maid quite started. "If your mistress comes in ask her to wait up for me. " "Very good, sir." "One moment, Maria. Do you hap pen to know to what address your mis tress has gone?" "Oh, yes, sir. I know." VGive it tome at once," he said sternly. "Come now, let me have no prevarication. This is a matter of nearly life and death. " "Bless my soul !" said Maria, with a confused, flurried manner; "fancy it coming to this!" "Give me the address, I say." Maria gave the address and Dr. Westerfield took it down. The maid fetched his coat and hat. "I am going out, Carey." Dr. Westfield was stopped at the door by a friend. "I am just off to Hammer smith to make some inquiries." "I'll come with you," said Mr. Carey. "I've only just finished work at the Temple, and I was calling to ask when you were expected home. 1 know Mrs. Westerfield sees scarcely anybody while you are away." "Scarcely anybody." "I liked her last book," went on Mr. Carey. "What will the the next be like?" "it ought to be very lively," said Westerfield, as calmly as he could. "She teems to be taking a lot of trouble over it. " He canght sight of his reflection in a mirror in the hall. We are not all of a military appearance, and it oc curred swiftly to Westerfield that he possessed distinctly a civilian style of features. As tho hmsom went along Ham mersmith way Westerfield thought out ! the first speech to be addressed to his .wife. "My wife has gone out," said West erfield, leaning over the splashboard, "on some business, and-" "She's a deuce of a one to work," said Mr. Carey. "Last time I met her she cross-examined me on certain points of law, and I found at the end I had told her nearly all I knew." "The information is sure to be use ful to her, " said tho other grimly, "I want to ask you something. If you j want a separation from your wife, how I would you set about it?" "As" I'm not married," said Mr. Carey, looking at the white ash of his cigar, "there is no immediate neces sity for me to get a divorce. " "I don't mean you in particular," said Wester?eld with some impatience - "I mean anybody. Supposing I wanted to get rid of my partner." I "It's a very odd thing, old ohap," said Mr. Carey ; "vut that is pre cisely thc cu ?"tion, world for word, that Mrs. Westerfield asked me not long since." "A very natural inquiry on her part." "Bat what in the world can you want to know it for? You're not writ ing a romance, aie you?" "No; there's no romance on my side of the game, Carey. It's all dead earnest." "Had a row?" '.'Not yet. Going to have one, though." "Nonsense!" cried Mr. Carey joy ously. "I'll bet you half a sovereign you don't." "I haven't had a bet since I left school!" said Westerfield, "but I'll take that. " rtWith young married people," said Mr. Carey, wisely, "it ia so 'easy for little disputes to create a great deal of trouble. Now, if there's anything of that kind, Westerfield, take my ad vice and give way." "I'll give anything else," said Westerfield, firmly; "but I'm hanged if I'll give way." "There's no question of hanging," sfdd Mr. Carey; "it's not a capital offence. All you've got to dois to use savoir faire." "Here she is!" cried Westerfield. His young wife, warmly wrapped up in furs, was hurrying along. She did not look aside, she did not even glance at the lighted-up shop win dows." "Let us get out," said Mr. Carey, putting his umbrella up. "And mind, Westerfield, no unnecessary nonsense. I want to win that half sovereign." It appalled Westerfield to see how calmly his wife accepted their sudden appearance. "I waut to get some cigars," said the adroit Mr. Carey. ' 'You two go on; I shall catch you up." The two tall young people walked on side by side. The bustle of busses and passing traffic made a serious scene out of the question. "I'm glad you have come down, Arthur," she said, brightly. "I was going to meet some one, but-but they didn't turn np at the time. " ''Anybody I know?" "Oh, no. Oh, dear no. I shouldn't caro for you two to meet. I'm afraid there would be a terrible, argu ment," "That is quite likely," he said. "I am afraid there must be some argu ment as it is. I strongly object, Er myntrude. I very strongly object to these excursions of yours. They are not seemly, they are not discreet, they .are not-" "But I don't go alone," she urged. "I am afraid," he answered, decid edly, "that that does not improve the aspect as far as I am concerned." "My dear Arthur," she said, "you must please allow me some liberty." "I think," he replied, stiffly, "that I had better give vou all that you want." "That's what I mean," said Mrs. Westerfield, with eagerness. "For in stance, take Lieutenant Fincham." "I will leave that for you to do." "Don't ba absurd, dear. Now, there's a case where, by a little assist ance, I have been able to get capital stuff for my book." "Beally?" Arthur Westerfield laughed wildly. "Of course, any thing is justified BO long as you get 'copy' out of it.*' "Almost anything, dear," she cor rected him, sedately. "One has, of course, to draw the line somewhere. " "Is there any necessity for that? It seems to me-" "Now just look here." There was a group round a lamp post. A red banner with lettering upon it stood behind a semicircle of uniformed men and women. A woman iu the uniform of an officer of tho Sal vation Army vas speaking breathlessly with no stops. "Ho yes my friends ooine to-night do not delay. I know you're all black hearted sinners-" '"Ere," 6aid the crowd, remonstra tively, "cheese it." "Ho yes you are!" (Still in the same high-pitched voice. The speaker pulled her black bonnet a little for ward and stuck out one large foot de terminedly.) "Hoyos you are black come and be washed come and be made whiter than snow once I was a sinner like yourselves and I went to theatres I did and I U3ed to go to dawnces-" "I want to speak to her, '' said Mrs. Westerfield, "as soon as she has fin ished. I told you, didn't I, that sho had been very good in giving me in formation. The poor girl tells me she is going to be made a captain soon." Westerfield put one hand on her shoulder. "And her name is-is Finch-" "You've guessed it, Mister," said Mrs. Westerfield, with her comic af fectation of a nasal twang. ''You've guessed lt in once." "I'll say good-night to you two young people," said Mr. Carey. "I've got a man to meet at 10." "One moment, Carey." Westerfield felt in his pocket and produced a coin and handed it over. "I thought you'd lose," said Mr. Carey.-St. James's Budget. A. Forlorn Boom Towu. Concord, a California boom site, is thus described by an impartial writer : "Concord is situated on the Atlantic and Pacific Road, about four miles southeast of Mojave, aud is utterly worthless for any purpose whatever. It is a sandy desert covered with dwarf cactus, and is even shunned by rabbits and birds. The nearest water that could be used for irrigation is twenty-five or thirty miles away, which would have to be brought that distance by pipe lines up hill. The land is absolutely worthless. A large number of lots have been sold to Eastern people, but nothiog further has ever been done. Tho only vege tation is a small cactus, dwarfed to a creeping plant, owing to the condi tions that prevent it growing. Con cord is miles away from timber. There is no more uninviting snot on earth." ---Chicago Herald. v Bui ld i ii t? a Canoe iu Alaska. If one lias plenty ol leisure, it is au interesting thing to watoh a native of Alaska shaping a canoe, from the mo ment the tree from which it is mada has been rolled upon the beach in front of the village until it ia finally completed. Frequently the yellow cedar tree fit for a canoe has to bo floated in the straits or narrow chan nels between tho islands for many miles, after having been felled with great difficulty on a steep mountain side. When a canoe capable of carry ing eight or ten persons is wanted, that is, one about forty feet long, the tree is placed upon the beach in front of the village, and there the builder works patiently and deftly for months at his task. He makes no marks aud draws no lines to which to work, but directs the small adze used in hewing by sight and hand alone. F?rst, he outs away the outside in small chips, until he has it smoothly dressed ; then he turns his attention to the inside, excavating the interior until he has reduced the sides to the uniform thickness of about an inch and a quarter. Then the most difficult and delicate task remains to be performed ; that is, to impart the graceful curves for which this kind of craft is noted. This is done by a primitivo process. The cavity made by hewing out the interior wood is entirely filled with water, and the incompleto canoe cov ered closely with hemlock bark, old sailcloth, blankets, or with anything else of a like kind ; and red-hot -stones ure thrown into the water to generate steam to soften the wooden sides. Pieces of wood are placed crosswise of the interior, and near the waist, to assist in gradually swelling or bulging out the sides, in conformity with tho design. It takes weeks frequently of patient endeavor to give the canoe the proper shape and curves by this prooess, but when finished no trained eye oan detect any imperfection in the curves or the sides. After the requi site shape is thus given to the craft, the water is turned out. The -itays are allowed to remain, so that when the wood dries it retains the shape given it in the steaming process. New York Tribune. The Sacred Bull. Hinduism is not what it was three or foui1 thousand years ago. Thc Hin dus wero never monotheistic, but were formerly much nearer ?o than now. Then they said: "Snerja, the sun, drives away the cold and gives us light, and should receive adoration ; Indra, rain, makes our rice and millet and grass grow, and should bo wor shiped; Agni, fire, is powerful, and should be an object of our devotions." In Vedic times they reasoned thu?, and had but thirty-three gods; eleven in heaven, eleven on earth, and eleven in mid-air. Gradually they came to believe that everything was but a manifestation of supreme power, or a part of the supreme power, and should be worshiped; and so their thirty three gods multiplied into thirty-three millions. Before the Aryans settled down to till the soil they were but wandering herdsmen, and their wealth consisted of their cattle. Even after they be came cultivators they were anxious to increase their herds. The faithful bullock plowed their fields aud bore upen his back their burdens, and the cow gave them milk end butter. If any object was worthy of adoration it was these faithful animals; so the cow and the bull early became sacred in i the eyes of the devout Hindu. A queen who lived near our mission I in India, realizing that her end was near, had brought to her side her fa vorite cow, and taking his tail in her hand passed quietly and contentedly into the spirit land. We find a great many images in the form of a crouch ing bull. Some of those are of a gi gantic 6ize, as the one near tba Well of Knowledge in the city of Benares ; others are small. Some are kept in public places, and others in temples and private houses. Motherhood is the one great thing to be desired on the part of a wife in India; and no disgrace, scarcely, is greater than that of being childless. [ Such women are taught that if they ] perform a proper worship at the shrine of Mahadab (the Hindu name for a bull ; literally, the great god) they may become mothers.-Demo rest. A Province Overrun With Mice. One cf the most unpleasant places in this world to live in just at pres-, ont, according to Russian papers, is the Proviuce of Kharkoff, in the land of the Czar. The country is now overrun with mice-millions of mice. The cats have become so accustomed to the sight of the little animals that they no longer catch them or even play with them. They are said to be a greater pest than tho rabbits were in Australia a fear years ago. Pro visions for tho table, candles, eoap, books, shoes-everything, in fact, is eaten up by the animal in the night time. The furniture, even, is not spared. Sleep for many of the poor inhabitants has become almost impos sible. All of them, virtually, have been obliged to place their beds in the middle ot' the rooms. Some of them, even, have been forced to sleep with their feet in basins of water the Russians of that district believing that mice will not touch a person so sleeping. If these precautions arc not followed the mice dance a genuino "saraband" on the recumbent figures and on the bed, and even bite the sleepers. Almost all the wheat has been de stroyed. A number of wealthy wo men-landed proprietors-have been obliged to abandon their homes, and have gone to St. Petersburg to get away from the scourge, for such it hes become. In the fields the mice are so numerous that men kill two or three hundred in five cr ten minutes. -New York Tribune. Old People ot Philadelphia. There was published in thc Ledger of July 4th a record of the deaths an nounced in our obituary columns dur ing the first half of the year 1891 of those who had lived to or beyond tho age of eighty years. The total for that period was 433, of whom 164 were men and 269 women, the latter out- j numbering the men by 105. During i i the last half of 1891, toDeceraber 31th ! : there were announcements in the ' Ledger columns of the deaths of 370 : persons who had lived to or beyond the advanced age of eighty years. Of i these 163 were men and 207 women, the latter outnumbering tho former 1 by 41. The total number of deaths ot octo genarian?, nonogenariuns and cen- ? tenarians anuounced in tho Ledger during 1894 wits 801, there being 323 men and 476 women, thus again emphasizing the usual preponderance f i of women. Of the males, forty-three ? i reached or passed the age of ninety, ' and their combined ages ma);o a total ! i of 4003 years, whi?e the aggregate i ages of the eighty-four women, aged i ninety or over, give 7.371 yoar?.-Piula* i delphia Ledger. ; A THANKFUL SOUL, I take life jest as I find it; ii it's hot I never mind it; Hunt around fer shady trees An' jest whistle up a breeze! If lt's snowiu'-why, I go Jest a-swlmmin' crost the snowl (Ever try how good it feels In a wagon off the wheels?) Spring or winter-summer, fall? I'm jest thankful for 'om all! Folks say this world's full o' strife; That jest 'livens up my life! When the good Lord made it He Done the best fer you an' me Saw the sky had too much blue, Au' rolled up a oloud or too. Give us light to sow an' reap, Then throwed in the dark fer sleep.. Every single drop o' dew , Twinkles on a rose fer you. Tell you! this world's full o' light-. Sun by day an' stars by night; Sometimes sorrow comes along, But it's all mixed up with song. Folks that always makes complaint They ain't healthy-that they ain't! Some would jest live with the chill If it warn't fer doctor's bills! Always llndin' fault with things Kill a bird because it sings. ] I take life jest as I find it Hot or cold, I never mind it; If it's a sunshiny day That's my time fer makin' hay; If lt's rain', fills my wish Makes the lakes jest right fer fish; When the snow falls whlteas foam, Then I track the rabbits home. Spring or winter-summer, fall, I'm jest thankful fer 'em all. -Frank L. Stanton, in Frank Leslie's. PITH AND POINT. A preferred creditor-Ono whois in no hurry for his money.-Albany Ar jus. Why is a tramp like a flannel shirt? Because he shrinks from washing. Pathfinder. Fresh from the cooking school, you seo, She merited the praisfl Of him who fondly said that she Knew beans lu fourteen ways. -Truth. "Dr. White is a specialist, is he not? vYhat is his specialty?" "He has toe- - consultations and fees. '* Vogue. Nobody but a loving motbor oould weep bitter tears over a lost child, and then 6pank it energetically for return ing.-Tid-Bi ts. These sleigbiugs give the tin-horn fiend A chance to blow his strains; But, oh, alas! and oh, alack! He can't blow out his brains! -Cincinnati Tribune. New Yorker-"You ought to have faster trains between New York and Boston." Bostonian-"There should certainly be faster trains from New York to Boston."-South Boston News. Ho was so green when ho met her That he didn't know what to do; And the more ho tried to forget her, The more it made him blue. -Detroit Fiee Press. Sheriff (on the morning of the exe* cntion)-"Was tbe prisoner impudent when yon told him to get ready for the scaffold ?" Deputy-' 'Er-he told me he'd be hanged if he would."-" Buffalo Courier. Patron-"Your living skeleton is getting old, but he holds well to gether." Dime Museum Manager "Yes; he holds well together. You see, we always wire him when we want fco engage him."'-New York Press. ' Schoolmate-"Why do you never touch your piano?" Miss Trumper "We's buying it on instilments.'* "What difference docs that make?" "I'm afraid if paw should hear ma play, he'd stop p rying."- Good News. Doubtless the india-rubber man, The museum patrons' joy, Began his life in this world of strife, As a bouncing baby boy. -Buffalo Courier. "You're not a cousin or anything like that of our fair hostess, are yon?" "No; nothing of the sort." "Well, did you ever attend such a stupid af fair in your life?" "Ye-es, a good many. I-I'm her husband, you see, and I have to. "-New York Recorder. An Adventure iu Italy. Chioago tourists who iptend making a tour through Italy will do well to take notice of an adventure that lately befell a foreigner on the Island of Lido, near Venice. This easy-going tourist, laudably desirous of foiling all the social wheels within his reach and reducing friction to a minimum, beckonod to the waiter of a restaurant and, feeing him before instead of af ter dinner, trustingly asked him what he could conscientiously recommend. The knight of the napkin, who later on appeared in tho character of a "knight of honor," instead of honest ly replying, "I can recommend you another restaurant," said, "An Eng lish bifftake," which the tourist forth with ordered. When it appeared on the table and the hungry man at tempted to ply his knife and fork he discovered to his disgust that a dyna mite bomb would be more to the pur pose. He then rang for that un veracious waiter and asked him whether the proprietor was new to the place. "No, sir; his father was here before him-came thirty-five years ago." "Did the old man bring that wretched animal with him from which this 'bifftake' was sculptured?" he asked. But the waiter was a senui* ? tivo soul and could not stand such talk. "Here is my card, air; kindly give me yours, and we'll arrange tbe matter at an early date." The chal lenge had to be accepted lest some thing worse shonld befall, and sabers were the weapons chosen. The upshot of it was that the tourist received a dangerous wound on hie right arm, and instead of continuing his journey now lies in one of the wards of a Venice hospital.-Chicago Herald. Japanese Chopsticks. A new and pretty ornament is made of two or more Japanese chopsticks. The credit of the idea is due to tho wife of the Consul of that country, who showed some American ladies the possibilities of the slender bars. Tho Bticks range from eight to twelve inches long, and are scarcely thioker than a knitting needle. They are made of wood, ivory, or metal. The prettiest are tipped and shod in silver or gold. They can be crossed, tied with a ribbon and hung upon a wall. They can be fastened with a ribbon into a tripod and used to support a piece of crystal, a glass ball or other objeot. They can be arranged into queer little photograph frames or em ployed with pleasing effect on a fruit plate. The polished metal ones make excellent skewers. The oddest use of all to which they can be put is that employed by an inventive girl, who, regardless of their object, uses them as hair pins. It may be artistic, but it would certainly amaze any Jap, male or female. -New York Mail and Express. give? you a feeling of horror and dread. There is no longer necessity for its use in many diseases formerly regarded as incurable without cutting. The Triumph of Conservative Surgery is well illustrated by the fact that DIJDTI1DP or Breach is now radi l\Ur 1 DIVE cajiy curd without the knife and without pain. Clumsy, chaf ing trusses can be thrown away ! They never cure but often induce inflamma tion, strangulation and death. T? IJWftR^ Ovarian, Fibroid (Uterine) 1 vmlvIYO aud many others, are now removed without the perils of cutting operations. PILE TUMORS, FisTuTa?ad other diseases of the lower bowel, are permanently cured without pain or re sort to the knife. QTONF ?B t,,e D'adder' no matter 0 ? WB how large, is crushed, pul verized, washed out and perfectly re moved without cuttiug. CTDIfTIlOP of Urinary Passage is 01 HIV! UFAE aiso removed without cutting in huudreds of cases. For pam phlet, references and all particulars, send io cents (in stamps) to world's Dis pensary Medical Association, 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. MOTHERS and those soon to be come mothers, should know that Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription robs childbirth of its tor tures, terrors and dangers to both mother and child, by aiding nature in pre paring the system for parturition.j Thereby "labor"] and the period oft confinement are greatly shortened. It al6o promotes the secretion of an abundance of nourishment for the child. Mrs. DORA A. GtJTHRtR. of Oakley, Overton Co., Tenn., writes: "When I began taking Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, J. was not able to stand on my feet without suffering almost death, ??ow I do all my housework, washing, cooking, sewing and everything for my family of eight. I am stouter now than I have been in six years. Your ' Favorite Prescription ' is the best lo take before confinement, or nt least lt proved so with rae. I never suffered so little with any of my children as I did with my last." Literary Trials. Hiswell-That story by Dulcimer, iu the latest number of the Hopscotch Magazine, is almost identical with the ono I wrote for the Evening Scooper over a year ago. I'll bet he stole my plot for his story. Putwell-r-On the contrary, it looks as though you had 6tolen his. Hiswell-How so, pray? Putwell-It ought to be clear enough to you. lu order to have his story appear in the current number of the Hopscotch Magazine it must have been sent to the publishers of tho magazine at least three years ago. So, you see, the argument is in favor of Dulcimer. -Ex. Icicles Glistening in the rays of the noonday sun are b? antifal exceedingly, but if one of tltem were thrust down your back how yon would shud der. This is proel-ely what you do when tho premonitory chill ol' fever and aguo conioi on. Then is the time to tako Hostetter'd Stomach Bitters, a "knocker out'' or every form of malaria; also of dyspepsia, bilious ne-fl. constipation, rheumatism and kidney trouble. Some men are like vultures, always looking for a wound in which to thrust a poinard. Dr. Kilmer's SWAMP-HOOT enrol all Kidney and Bladder troubles. Pamphlet and Consultation freo. Laboratory Binghamton, N. Y. Thc secret of a friend ia not in snfe keeping with a man either in wine or sager. It lit the liest. A special feature of thc Southern Ry. is its {passenger train service, lt ii ceriainly the iertln tbs South, and any line may well be complimented on having such excellent, train Kcrvicp. The Southwestern Vestibule Limited between Allanta and New York ftnd the Cin cinnati and Florida Limited between Cincin nati. Atlanta aud Jacksonville pre trains ol the highest class and comfort. When a pa^ eeng^r boards a Southern Ry. train ho is sure to have a quick and comfortable trip. A Country Without a Newspaper. A country without a newspaper is, in these days, a curiosity indeed. An dorra is believed to bo tho only civil ized state in the world in which not o single newspaper is published? An dorra is a little republic-abotit thir ty-six miles long by thirty broad situated on the north side of the Pyr enees, next the Spanish province of Lerida and the French department of Ariege. It is nominally under the protection of France, but its 14,000 inhabitants speak the Spanish lan guage. Here, then, is an opportunity for an enterprising journalist. He need not bo afraid of duelp, for, though firearms are plentiful enough, it is said that there is not a single in habitant who could hit a cow at o hundred yards. Spurgeou on Smoking. Most of the stoiieH about the late Mr. Spurgeon have been told, but here is one which appears in Mr. Ad derly's magazine, Goodwill, which may be new to many : "Many years ago 1 met tho late Mr. Spurgeon, who was a great smoker, at the supper table of a friend. Over our pipes he said: 'Once a pious lady took me to task about my smoking, and said: 'Do you read anything in the Bible about smoking?' 'No,' I answered, 'but we do read of the people passing through the Valley of Baca."-(Pe. Ixxxiv, 6, Bible version.)"-New iorkPost. Tho English Language. Caller (inquiring of hotel clerk at 9 a. m.-Is Mr. Jones up? Clerk-Yes, sir. Caller-Is ho down ? Clerk-Yes, sir. Caller-Ah, thanks. I'll step into the breakfast-room and see him. Washington Star. Accept None c Pretenda lECAUSE inferi< preparations are so much lower 1 urging consumers to use th ihe same retail price. If you desire to try any for ROVAL BAKING POWDE all made from cheaper anc not so great in leavening value. Pay the price of for the ROYAL only. It is still more importait, POWDER is purer and more finer, and more healthful powder or preparation. ROYAL BAKING POWDER C PROGRESS OF THE SOUTH. What a German Paper Says of Our Recuperation. The Der Auiwanderer, or the Emi grant, as it would be called in English, is the title of a very interesting Ger man periodioal published in New York. It has given much attention to the south and has frequently expressed the opinion that this is the most inviting section of the country. In its last is sue this paper publishes statistics showing the remarkable development of the south. The population of the states that composed the Southern Confederacy namely Virginia (inclnding West Vir ginia), North Carolina, South Caro lina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mis sissippi, Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee Arkansas-amounted in 1850 to 9,103, 329. In 1890 it had grown to to 16, 499,069. Here is an increase of 7,365, 740, or, say 80 per cent. In the same period the populatiou of tho North Atlantic division, including New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, increas ed only 64 per cent. This happened in Bpite of the enormons waste of life in the south during the war and the large immigration from the Confeder ate stateB immediately following the war. In 1860 the taxable real estate in, the eleven states named was valued at ?1,854,913,940. In 1870 this had Bhrunk to $1,241,746,068, when re duced to a gold valuation, a reduction necessary in order to compare it with 1860 or 1890. This showed a shrink age of $613,167,675, due to the rav ages of war, in the destruction of buildings, fences and the depreciation of tho land. If this loss seems too small we have first to remember that the taxed real estate was much less than the total of this kind of property and that the census was taken five years after the war closed, during which time the people of the defunct Confederacy had beeu making strenu ous exertions to repair their broken fortune?, though their efforts were largely counteracted by tho carpet bag governments that had been set up over them. Now in 1890 the value of taxed real estate in this section has risen from SI,241,746,068 in 1870 to 82,268,790,613. The assessed valuation of personal property, liable to taxation, in the states that seceded was 32,478,844,459. This included 3,521,110 slaves. The Emigrant estimates the assessed value of these at ?1,551,344,351, or ?470 per head. This seems rather high, but the deductions are not essentially af fected by uiis. In 1870 this property I was all gone, and the total assessed I value of personal property was re- ! I duced to $490,0G0,246. In 1890 the figures had risen to $1,243,046,448. In other Words, the increase of the as sessment of personal property liable to taxation between 1870 and 1890 was about 150 per cent. The increase has not been sufficient to cover the loss of lh9 slaves, but in all other respects it has been very great. When we note the decrease of personal property as ; sessed between 1860 and 1870 was about four-fifths of the assessment of 1890, the progress since 1870 is shown i to be phenomenal. We must note also I that the increase in the assessment of i real estate since 1870 has been nearly 1 equal to the loss in personal property ; since 1860, While most of the states that seceded ! have a smaller assessment of personal property than in 1860 (including slaves), there is one notable exception. The assessment of personal property in Texas rose from ?155,316,322 in , I860 to ?257,005,507 in 1890. Every one of these states increased its as sessment of personalty between 1880 and 1890, some of them 200 or 300 per cent., and Texas more than 500 per cent. In no other part of the world has . such a record of recuperation and ? progress been made, and yet the sonth , has just begun to develop her immense I resources. A Hermit's Floating Home. 1 Anchored in the 'Frisco bay is a lit tle old craft, originally a sloop, but now nothing but a hulk, without mast or rigging. It is the floating home of ; Richard Smith, a maxine hermit, who believes that he is to be a second Noah. He predicts that San Francisco and Oakland will 6ink into the sea because , of their wickedness, and then a few of j the select will como to him and be saved from death on his rudderless . craft. He believes that he has been inspired to live in the water to avoid tho destruction, and he is awaiting to preserve the chosen of tho Order of tho Messiah. Smith is seventy years old, with a I long gray beard and long gray hair. . He wears no covering on hoad or feet. , He is a bachelor and has lived a her mit's life for thirty years. Ho lives by faith alone and is on the verg of starvation. He could catch plenty of fish from his ard, but would rather die than eat anything of the animal I world, subsisting entirely on pan cakes, beans and potatoes. He for merly traveled on foot throughout the state, pushing a wheelbarrow filled with religious books, which ho sold. . The latter day Noah is a firm adhe rent of most of Count Tolstoi's teach I in gs.-Ex. Bnfl if the d Substitutes for Baking Dr and cheaper made baking : bought at wholesale at a price :han ROYAL, some grocers are em in place of the ROYAL at oi the pretended substitutes R bear in mind that they are 1 inferior ingredients, and are strength nor of equal money the ROYAL BAKING POWDER however, that ROYAL BAKING wholesome, and makes better, food than any other baking O., 10? WALL ST...NEW-YORK. Are (lie Best Mor Purify Yo And the Best Bi s Sa Which Purifies, Vitalizes At this season everyone should take a good spring medicine. Your blood most be puri fied or you will be neglecting your health. There is a ory from Nature for help, and un less there is prompt and satisfactory response you viii bo hable to serious illness. This demand can only be met by the puri fying, enriching and Blood-Vitalizing elements to be found in Hood's Sarsaparilla. " My mother-in-law, Mrs. Elizabeth Wolfe, at the age of 72 years, was attacked with a violent form of salt rheum; it spread all over her body, and her hands and limbs were dreadful to look at At the same time, my little daughter Clara, who was just one year old, was attacked by a similar disease, like scrofula. It appeared In A .Missing Link. Man.Woman Gentleman.Lady Youth.Maid Fellow. Lad.Lass Boy.Girl -Boston Courier. How'-, Tilla! We offer One Hundred Dollars Rewnrl for any case of Catarrh I hat cannot be cured by Hull's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEv & Co., Prop'., Toledo, 0. We, tho undersigned, have known F. J. Che ney for the inst 15 yeara. and believe him per fectly honorable In all business tran-act ons nn i financially able to r-arry ont any obliga lion made !>y their firm. WEST & TUCAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. WALD?NO, KiN-yA-v & MARVIN, Wholo?ale Druggist*. To'edo. Ohio. Hali's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act ing directly upon the b'ood and mucous *-ur laces of tho system. Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists, Testimonials free. "Nor an' Experiment. Thc u*c Of Ttip?ms Tabulas -for headaches, dyspepsia and other sU>mach.dlsorders ia not an experiment bot ari assiire I s'uCce-e. They 'ill dwall that we say they, will, . Karl's Clover RAfc-the groat ulool purltlar. .'ives freshness-and clearness to the complex ion and cures constipation, 25 cts., 53 cts., $L Mr*. Winslow's Soothing Syrnp for ciiiMre:i ipcthintr, foftnns tho'gums,redu :c*inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25j. a bottle I use Pko's Curo for Consumption both in my f am Hy and practice.-Dr. tt. W. PATTER SON, Inkster, Mich., Nov. 5, 1894. Ol^B ?IVJOY? Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the tarte, and acts featly yet promptly on tho KidneyB, liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro ducer, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial m its effects, prepared cnly from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50 cent bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. I)o not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. LOUISVILLE. Arr. NEW YORK, N Y is nd trot Pearline soap, you j you need Pearline. Peddlers and you an imitation, be honest-send it back. Couldn't Teach Him Manners. He had his legs stretched clear across the aisle of a street car when a man who had just got ou gave them a kick which nearly slewed the other off his sent. He recovered himself and turned and demanded : "Did you do that on purpose, sir?" "Yes, sir !" was the prompt reply. "Wanted to pick a fuss, did you?" "I wanted to teach you manners. It is?'t manners for a man to stretch his legs across a car." "Manners! You talk to me about manners! Sir, do you know who I " " Oil am i "Xo, sir, and I don't eure!" "Do you know ihat IV? rid on a street car more'n 20 limos?" "I thought this was your first trip!" "Oh, ye did? Waal', it hain't, not by a long shot ! I was right on this car Inst night, and I not only stretch ed my legs across the car and ate a pint of peanuts, but laid down on the seat when I got tired and went to sleep. I guess I know how to behave myself as well as most folks, and if anybody kicks my legs agin he'll want j to kev his will made in advance.-Be (rait Free Press. Running a Foreigner. Pompey-"Can yon tell me who was do fu6t man?" Caesar-"Guess dat was George Washington." Pompey-"Nuffin' ob do sort. Ad am was de fust man." Caesar^-"Dat's so; but I didn't know youwer gwiue to include furriners." -Baltimore Herald. pm may iths in Which to ur Blood lood Purifier ia irsaparilla and Enriches the Blood: Large Sored ander each side of her neck; hod the attend* woe of the family physician and other doo* tors for a long .time, bat seemed to grow woree. I read of many people cored of serof? ula by Hood's Sarsaparilla. As soon as wc) gave Hood's Sarsaparilla to Clara, she began to get better, and before the first bottle waft gone, the sores entirely healed up and there has never been any ?Iga of the disease since* She is a Healthy Robust Child. Her grandmother took Hood's Sarsaparill* at the sometime, and the salt rheum decrees* cd in its violence anda perfect cure was soon, effected. It took about three months for her cure, and she ascribes her good health and strength at her advanced age to Hood's Bom saparllla. It has certainly been a Godsend to my family. " Mas. Sor ULA WOLPZ, Zaleakl, Ohio Sty Hood's > McEI.REES WINE OF CARDU?.? W.L.DOUGLAS IS THC BEST. FIT FOR A KINO? Si CORDOVAN", FR ESC H 4 ENAKO1E0 CALF. FINECALF&KAKGAWMI $3.??POUCC,330L?3? ?EXTRA FINE? w*. *2.$l.7-5?OYStt!l??LSil??? .RADIES* sEssssse&a, DSWCKTCtCMASS? Over One Wi ?ion People wear tho W. L Douglas $3 & $4 Shoes All our shoes are equally satisfactory They give the best value for the money. They equal custom shoes la stylo sad fit. ThQir wearing qualities ere unsurpassed. 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