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A Mistake. The pastor bade her proceed. "Tell me all," he urged, kindly. "I put a button in the contribution box," she faltered. He smiled. "And did your conscience trouble you?" he asked. The woman raised her eyes earn estly. "No," she answered, "I put in the .wrong button and broke a set and I would like to exchange it, if yon please."-Detroit Tribune. l.ikc n. Machine, Which kept in order runs smoothly and regu larly, to the bowels keep up their action if measures aro taken to keep them in goo l working order. This infers, of course, that they aro out of order. Tho surest recourse then is to Hostetter's Stomach Hitter?, a laxa tivo mild but effective, which is also a remedy for dyspepsia, ma'aria, rheumatism, nervous ness and kiduey trouble. Oue-sliould never allow too much depression from adversity. Dr. Kilmer'3 SWAMP-ROOT care? all Kidney and Bladder troubles. Pamphlet and Consultation free. Laboratory Binghamton, N. Y. Reproaches from somo sources como more like compliments. To Kojoy Lifo the physical machine must be in good running order. A little care-th- use of Itipans Tab ules-will Rive you every morning the feeling that you are "glad to lie alive." Wc have not been without Pi-o's Cure for Consumption for 20 years.-LIZZIE FERREL, Camp St.. Harrisburg, Pa., May 4, '84. Mrs. Winslow'sSoothlns Syrup for children teething, softens the -.juras, reduces inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle Spring medicine Is especially important to all who are closely confined ia poorly ventilated offices and workshops. Hood's Sarsa Hood's P*"^9' great blood purifier, is the standard SarSa parilla spring medicine. " I am a printer and take a Vp*al?Z8S spring medicine becauso tho closo confinement and smell Thp Rlnnrl 01~iuk: cause rn-v t? be ti IIB UIUUU come impure, and dyspepsia. Last winter I had the grip, and when I re covered I was a mere skeleton. I took Hood's Sarsaparilla and in a short time my appetite became better, and by degrees I could seo I was gaining flesh. I con now say there is not a medicine on tho market equal to Hood's Sarsaparilla. I weigh 160 lbs., against 142 when I began taking Hood's Sar saparilla.'' G. A. HILDBETH, Perry, Mich. Hood's Sarsaparilla Es the Only --True Blood Purifier And Spring Medicine take ic, i? do vou the most goo ??ow-is the time to the time wnen it-Trill ...--Hood's. a-.J). BUI* act harmoniously with ROOS S rillS Herod's Sarsaparilla. 25c. IS THE BEST. TIT FOB A KING. ,H.*3.sp FINE CALF&KANGAR?KI *3.sp P0LICB.3 SOLES. ?2?jP *2. WORKINGMEN . EXTRA FINE? .LABIE3? -.-ND FOR CATALOGUE W-L-DOUGLAS. BROCKTO>CMASS. Over Ono Million People wear tho W. L. Douglas $3 & $4 Shoes All our shoes are equally satisfactory They give the best value for the money. Tney equal custom Ahoes In style and fit. Their wearing qualities are unsurpassed. The prices arc uniform,-stamped on sols. From Si to $3 saved over other makes, if your dealer cannot supply you we caa. t McELREES WINE OF CARBUL? ? tl I ? ? I 'or Female Diseases. | SIMPLE, CLEANLY, EFFICIENT. On the Gars, ?tihe Theatre, Anywhere. WOULD BE In FASHION TAKE A FEW isTabules WITH YOU YOU GO. ^them into your jj&tchel, your [0 a dyspep oeace of otherwise ea THE HEART OF THE TREE, What does he plant who plants a tree? He plants a friend of sun and sky; He plants tho flag ol breezos freo; The shaft of beauty towering high; He plants a homo to heaven aaigh, For song and mothor crown of bird, In hushed and happy twilight heard The treble of heaven's harmony These things he plants who plants a tree. What does he plant who plants a tree? He plants the forest's heritage; And seed and bud of days to bo. And years that fade and flush again; He plants thc glory of the plain; He plants the forest's heritage; The harvest of a coining age; The joy tbat unborn eyes shall seo These things he plants who plants a tree. Wh it does ho plant who plants a tree? He plauts in sap and loaf and wood, In love of home and loyalty Auel far cast thought, of civic good. His blessing on the neighborhood, Who in the hollow of his hand Holds all the growth of all our land. A nation's growth from sea to sea Stirs in his heart who plants a tree. -H. C. Bunner. A PRACTICAL JOKE. BX ITEIiEX FORREST GRAVES. ISS AURICULA Pend hara was neither young nor beautiful. In the world's eyes she was long past tho ase of romance. 13ut in the heart of a true womau there is alwnys a soft spot where youta and hope bloom eternally. She lived in a little hall bed-room, in one of those great, unhomedike boarding house?, where people arc paoksd together like sardines in a box, and worked for Mademoiselle Vicini, tho fashionable milliner of Playport. She had a speaking acquaintance with Mrs. Bloom, the plump widow, who Eat opposite her at table ; Kitty Sup ple, the pretty shop-girl on her loft, who despised homely people, and thought no one ought live after she was past thirty ; and Mr. Mills, the foreman in the printing offico of the Play port Eagle, who sat at the corner beyond, and that was all. During the day she worked hard at the store ; in the evenings she sat at a window, with a shawl across her shoulders, and mended her clothes and read her Testament, and crocheted on a black worsted mat, which had been on hand for a year at least, be cause Kitty Supplo generally had beaux in the parlor, aud audibly de clared that "she thought old maids had no business to be peeping and prying I" And upon the whole, it was not a very lively life. Mr. Mills, up in his seoend-story front, was as solitary as she, no doubt. But he was a man. He could go out to theatres, reading-rooms, chess clubs. Miss Pendham was tempted to wish at times that 6he was a maD. There was such an utter loneliness in her heart, that when Billy Parks, the landlady's little boy, brought his mittens to her to mend early on the morning of the first of April, he was glad of the ohance to talk to some body.' "leay, Miss Pendham," observed thls~"artless youth, "why don't you get luurr?od. " - Miss Pendham ec^^f^^?e^was it the reflection o' the red yarn where with she was threading a slender darn ing-needle. "Everybody doesn't get marred, Billy," said she._ [_ "ie?, that's true," remar Ken Bi fly! "Mother, she says she wishes she'd never gone and got married, when father goes on a s_t e says, you'd have got married to old Mills long ago, if you could have caught him." Miss Peudham was s?snta moment. She was used to these satirical stings of Kitty Supple's vivacious tongue; but all the same, they smarted. "Miss Supple ought not to talk so," said she. "She knows that Mr. Mills is nothing to me. "Mother says that Miss Supple wants old Mills herself," says Billy. "I don't liko her. I wouldn't marry her, not for a hundred dollars ! She told mother about the comic valentine I sent her, and mother gave mo a licking. But I'll be quits with her yet. I'll April-fool her, eee if I don't ! Did you ever get April-fooled, Miss Pendham, when you was a girl ? Or April-fool other folks?" "Sometimes," said Miss Pendham, a moisture blurring her vision as she remembered the great, fragrant barn at home, and tho slim girl-could it be possible that it was herself ?-fill ieg the hens' nests with empty egg shells and deceptive china eggs, to de ceive the laughing little brothers who were dead and gone long ago. "Wasn't it fun, though?" said Billy, with a chuckle. "I mean to April fool everybody in tb o house. Thankee, Mies Pendham !" And snatching the mittens from her hand, he scamperod cheerily down stairs, three steps at a time, finishing up with a prolonged slide down the banisters. While Miss Pendham tied on her bonnet, arranged her little gray shawl and went to Mademoiselle Vicini's, with a bandbox in her hand, which contained Mis3 Helena Montrose's I weddiug bonnet-a marvel of white tulle, orange-buds and point-lace upon which she had worked lato the preceding night. And Kitty Supple, who was late a; tho 6tore, tripped after her, with fluffy, brown fringes of hair escaping from under her turban hat, and blue eyes sparkling with mischief. Bat she had a pale, frightened look when she got to the store. "Of course I didn't mean it," 6aid Kitty; "and I don't supposo it signi fies anything. But the parcel was just slipped in under the striug that tied tho bandbox, and it was tho easiest thing in tho world to pull it cut. 1 couldn't heh? laughiug to think how frsioni8?*f shTwbu?(?T)2 to find it gone. Aud I opened it and peeped in to seo what it was. Elegant point lace, that must have cost five or six dollars a yard ! And I put it in my pocket ; and when I next felt for my pocket handkerchief it was gone. Now I've Iked twice over the road, and asked very one I met iE they had seen a reel, wrapped in brown paper and J with pink twine, and no one had. h to goodness I hadn't touched Jd thing. But Miss Pendham will now who took it-that's one Supple cried nf; intervals |hind the counter. Tho joke )ved so jocose a? abo had L would be. irilly shrieked Made li. "That point lace! Miss Montrose's elegant Point d'Alen con, imported directly from Paris for ber wedding hat-gone! Of course you know, Miss Pendham, that I shall hold you responsible for tho twenty five dollars which thoso five yards of lace were valued at. Nor do I care to retain in my service a young person so exceedingly unreliable as you have shown yourself to be. You will bo good enough to provide yourself with another situation by th?3 day month. " So Kitty Supple was miserable, and sowas Auricula Fendham; and the only happy penon concerned in the point-lace transaction was Master Billy Parks, who was tho scamp who had abstracted the parcel of lace from Kitty's pocket, as ?he stopped mo mentarily to look in at the window ol a print-Bhop, and taken instantaneous flight. "Lace, eh?" said Billy to himself. ( "I was in hopes that it was her young man's photo. But I'll settle her." When Kitty Supple took her purse trom her pocket, at dinner-time, as she sat down at Mrs. Park's table, well spread with beef stew and baked pota toes, with a oubstantial broad pudding to follow, out tumbled a flat, paper parcel. Ber heart gave a joyous up ward leap. "So it was there all the time!" sho thought. "How could I have possi bly missod it?" Sho opened it, surreptitiously, while the green eyes of Master Billy, gorg ing his noontide meal, were glued to her face. It was filled with coarse, common cotton batting. And in that one second Billy Parks tasted tlio sweets of unlimited re venge. "Struck all of a heap !" said ho to himself. "Well, I guess we're even now !" But the pieco of lace had not ful filled its mission yet. When Mis3 Pendham went up to her room she found a letter under the door, but she had no spirit to open it. "It's ono of Billy Parks's April jokes," she thought, as she pushed it ai ide with her foot. "Oh, dear-oh, dear ! I wonder if I shall over laugh again? Twenty-five dollars to pay for that lace, and I have twenty-five cents when my week's board is settled and my pew rent paid! And discharged from Mademniselle Vicini's, too. What is to become of me?" It was growing dusk nov/-a sweet, purple, April dusk, full of faint scents and sounds of spring even there in the city streets. She lighted her lamp and sat down with her head resting on both hands. Just then there came a soft "tap, tap !" at tho door." "Come in !" said Miss Pendham. Tho door opened, its hinges revolv ing with a diffident squeakiness. "I hopo I don't intrude?" said Mr. Mills. "Dear me, Mr. Mills, is it you?" said Miss Auricula. "Are you ready?" asked Mr. Mills, hovering on the t?reshold, like a re spectable middle-aged genius. "Beady?" faltered Auricula. "For tho concert," explained Mr. Mill*. "We had some tickets sent to tho Eagle office. I thought perhaps you would enjoy the music. Didn't you get my letter? I slipped it under the door." "Oh!" cried Auricula, suddenly stooping for tho neglected envelope, which still lay under the table. "I did see it, but I thought it wa3 one of Billy Parks's April fools," "But you ll go, won't you?" pleaded 1 ~v-^-i*?,tn.ao in the Playport Eagls office. *. " -s ' ' "I should like it very^mch," said Auricula, feeling herself color to the roots of her hair. "And, speaking of April fools," slowly added Mr. Mills, fumbling m his pocket, "when I was on my way to tho office this afternoon, ono of our ?devils-I beg your pardon, Miss Pend ham ; that"is an entirely m?fr?pi?o'ficaT' apellation-toldjnjL&ba^-a^C?afrta?s .?SrCiS-festoonou1 with something white. I didn't mind it much, because I had three different labels pinned on my back this morning ; but when I oame to look, it seemed very nice lace. Per haps you can use it for something. I'm sure it is of no service to me !" Thus speaking, Mr. Mills drew from his pocket tho five yards of point-lace, which matchod M?33 Montrose's bon net. Miss Pendham gave n smothered shriek of joy as sho clutched at tho disorderly parcel. "Oh, Mr. Mills!" she cried. "J never was KO glad of anything in my life. Oh, Mr. Mills, how good you are !" And with sobs and tears sho ex plained to him the history ofthat piece of lace. They took it at once to Mademoiselle Vicini beforo they started for tho con cert ; and somehow this little incident seemed to establish a mutual under standing between thom. "I always thought Miss Pendham was a superior young woman," said Mr. Mills. "I nm more than ever convinced of it now." "Mr. Mills is really very sensible and agreeable," thought Auricula. "After all, thero is something in the printer's profession that broadens and enlarges the mind." So Master Billy Parks sucoeeded in "April-fooling" everybody to his heart's co?tent, and Kitty Supple breathed more freely when sho heard that tho point-lace was safe. "But I'll never play any more prac tical jokes," sho thought. She turned np her pretty little nose when she heard of Mr. Mills's engage ment to Miss Auricula Pendham, a few weeks later, "Two old things like that sotting uj> for lovers ! How utterly ridiculous !" she said. But Miss Kitty Supple had yet to learn that life's blobsoming-timo does not always como in April.-Saturday Night. liootl ii True. A young Washingtonian, recently returned from Chicago, tells a good story, which should properly go un der the heading, "Important if True." According to his account the young man was going home lato ono night, and when crossing the Clark street bridge was accosted by a beggar. On being refused alms the mendicant suddenly developed into a highway man, and putting a pistol under the young man's nose, compelled him to shell out all his personal possessions. Then the highwayman made a bad break, for, laughing at the frightened victim, ho said: "Why, you're dead easy. Dis pop ain't loaded-it's only a bluff." Whereupon tho young Washington ian whipped out a revolver that was loaded, aud, with dire threats of ?liooting the highwayman's head off, compelled him to give back all tho plunder. "I made sixty-niuo cents by the operation," says tho self-confessed hero, in telling the story, "and I pnt it in the poor box."-Washington BUDGET OE FUN. j HU3IOROUS SKETCHES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Tho End Justifying the Means-All Over tho Town-Ho Needed It - Tho Jumplng-Off Place, Etc., Etc. ._ Her brow 'twas like tho snowdrift, Her throat 'twas like tho swan; But it took a mint of money For tho powder she put on. -Chicago Intor-Occan. HE NEEDED rr. "Scaggs is getting fat," said Will oughby, ".He's developed a double chin." "Well, he needed it," says Parsons. "His original chin was overworked." -Harper's Bazar. ALL OVER THE TOWN. "Mrs. Talker is a very obedient wo man." "All I ever noticed about her is that she is an awfnl gossip." "That's why. What you tell her goes."-New York Journal. THE JUMTING-OFF PLACE. Rich Father-"Well, you want to marry my daughter ! It's a seriouf undertaking-have you considered it carefully?" Poor Wooer-"Yes, very carefully. There's nothing else left for me todo.' -New York Press. AS FAR AS HE HAD GOT. "Do you th i uk that ra arr iago is a failure, Mr. Askin?" said Miss Elder, to a young man whom she knew to be engaged. "I haven't got that far yet," was tho frank reply, "but I'm pretty well convinced that courtship is bank ruptcy."-Life. A KEW SCHEME. "I have learned the whole of thi 119th Psalm by heart," said Bonnj Bloobumper to his father's visitor. "What is that for, Benny? So thal people will give you a quarter to heai you recite it?" "No. So that peoplo will give m( fifty cents not to."-Life. A MIGHTY DIFFERENCE. "Where aro tho best horses found?' asked the young man in the now mus tache. "The best horses," coldly returnee tho man in tho wrinkled ulster, wit! that rigid ndherenco to truth whicl onco mado George Washington celo brated, "are not found; they an bought."-Rockland (Me.) Tribune. A RARE COMPLIMENT. Violinist-"Alice, you look ver] sweet this evening. What makes youl hair so curly?" Little Alice-"I guess because you have been playing." Violinist-"Dear child! Bat what can that have to do with it?" Little Alice-"I heard mamma sa] that your playing was enough to mak< anybody's hair curl. "-Harper's Younj People. A PART TO FIT HEB. "Now tell me," said Miss Flatnote in a compliment-encouraging tone "do you think my singing voice is a all adapted for tho stage?" "Certainly, Mademoiselle," replie< tho professor; "admirably adapted and for a very difficult class of stagi work." "Oh, you mean to flatter mel" "Not at all. I refer to pantomime. ' -Boston Transcript. S - rr ER ERROR. "Tell me tS\ "-4i>e pastor urged kindly. -"i-f?it a button in the c&ntributioi box," she faltered. >^ He smiled. } "And did your conscience ?roubl you?" he asked. W The woman raised her eyesfearn estly. "No," she answered. "I put ijn th wrong button and broke a set, and would like to exchango it, i| yoi please. "-Detroit Tribune. CHICAGO. "lt seems very swampy AIODI here," observed tho New Yorker, look ing languidly out of tho car wi?dow "How much further is h to Chichgo?' "You've been in Chicago holli ni hour," said the conductor, mijesti cally. ( "Good gracous! I don't seo an; residences. " s. "You must be nearsighted, ear. cnn see the dwelling of one off th oldest families ia Chicago not ?half i milo away." \ "I-I can't soe it all. What's! thei: name?" "Muskrat." I "Bloss my soul !"-Chiongo; Tri bune.. RESEMBLANCES. , "That's a portrait of your grand mother as she looked when she,was i young lady, is it? How strongly i resembles you, Mies Bonderly." ? "You only say that to flattet me Mr. Spoonamore. Grandma was qui ti a beauty, and overybody knows tba I don't make anv pretensions o>f tba kind." ' " j "Indeed, I'm not trying to flattei you, Miss Benderby ! The family re semblanco is striking. I've !oftei known cases of that kind. There wen two sisters I was acquainted with! whei I was a boy. They looked wonder fully aliko, just as that portrait! looki like you, und yet one of them was aj beautiful as a poet's dream, anjd th< other was dreadfully-that is, I mean sho wasn't at all-or rather, she wai lacking in that-that attractive qnali ty, you know, that constitutes-wha a perfectly lovely frame this portrai: has, hasn't it?"-Chicago Tribune. WHAT IT WAS. Tho fair girl sat in her boudoir a her ebony escretoiro writing a letter She showed overy sign of suppressed emotion, and her pen raced over th( paper as if it would win by a dozei lengths. Sho muttered to heraelf al times as if her anger was too much foi silence, and her face was flushed as ii she were burning with fever. At lasl the letter was finished, and when shf had sealed it she slapped it down or the desk with such force that tho mag nificent inkstand of bronze and silvei fell to the floor with a crash, shivered into a hundred fragments. The girl's mother in the room belo\i heard the noise and ren frightened into tho hall. "Oh, Imogene," she cried in breath less eagerness ; "what was that?" "Nothing, mamma," replied th? girl, going to the door. "But I heard a terrific crash," thc mother insisted. "Didn't you break something !" "Yes, mamma. It was only ni j engagement with Mr. Jtlackenbfirry?" and the fair Imogene returned to her cscretoire and stuck a stamp on thc fatal letter.-Detroit Free Press. How Do They Tell? Wo have heard of the language ol monkeys, and of the language of hens, and of the language of crows, and even of ants ; but it will be a new idea to most people, probably, that fishes have a language of their own. An English fisherman, Basil Field, has been making some investigations which lead him to suppose that fishes have some way of communicating a notion of their experiences to other fishes. Mr. Field carried on his experi ments, which he has described in an article in the Fortnightly Review, in the fish ponds of Mr. Andrew, at Guildford, England. These ponds are full of trout, which, at the time when Mr. Field first visited them, were so little accustomed to being troubled that when he threw a baited hook into the water all the trout in sight-a great number-rushed eagerly upon it.. He caught one, and removing it from tho hook, threw it back into the pond. Then he put in a freshly baited hook. Two or three trout only came after it. Ono of these he caught, and threw it back into the water. Again he re . sumed his fishing with a uowly-baited hook, and this time, although the pond was swarming with fish, it was only after a long time that he lured another trout to his bait. And affcei a little further timo it was entirely impossible to catch a trout in this pond. However, by experimenting ir. another pond equally well stocked, an4 hot throwing back any fish, Mr. Field found that lie could catch trout as long as he chose. Tho fi9h did not seem to understand that the removal of one of their number by this strange means meant danger to them, but came continually to the bait. If, Mr. Field reasons, it is only when the captured fish, released, goes back and mingles with his fellows that the danger is learned, and then is learned instantly, it must follow that the re leased fish has some means of making the others understand the perils of the hook. This, whatever it is, may be called a "language." Value ot TorncQo Boats in War. Ono of the objeots of the British naval manuvre last year was to deter mine tho value of torpedo boats in war, Here is part of an official re port that has just been mado: "No ship was put ont of action by a tor pedo boat. The lightness of thc dights seems to have had a two-lqld effect. No. SO (Red side) in evad ing a 'catcher' at first missed tho Bluo Fleet, but managed to keep up with it and got within a rango of the rear ship, which was not attacked because she was supposed to belong to Group Three, a class exempted from torpedo attack by tho rules. Thc light ap parently was not sufficient to permit the real character of tho ship to be ascertained. On the other hand, it is ?oportod that the nights wero never really dark enough to afford conceal ment to the torpedo boats. Tho tor pedo lieutenant in command of No. 80 makes the interesting observation that, owing to the speed of the hostile fleet, the boats were unable to regain their position for attack when once it had been lost. From this it seems permissible to infer that high speed will be of itself no unimportant pro tection to ships traversing at night narrow waters infested by torpedo b/)ats. The torpedo boat operations f were upon a too restricted scale to supply much valuable instruction ; but, as far as they went, they tend to con firm the view that tho most effective employment of the torpedo boat iu war will be limited to sending her to attack any enemy's ship in a known position within the boat's range of action, and that the whereabouts of the enemy must be first ascertained and be communicated to the com mander of the boat. The necessity of combining with torpedo boats vessels of other and larger classes to scout and discover the enemy-where exact information as to his position cannot bo obtained by other menus-seems to be established and, if so, it carries with it the obligation to consider a mere flotilla of torpedo boats by them selves as a belligerent factor of dis tinctly imperfect efficiency."-New York Sun. Poorest Community in tho World. "Tho poorest people as a community in the world, probably, are tho fisher men of Newfoundland-and, for good ness sake, don't call it Newf-un-lan, as so many ignorant people outside of the province do"-said F. C. Loomis, of St. Johns, at tho Ebbitt. "For timo immemorial tho fisheries havo been controlled by a few persons, who waxed rich and powerful from them. The fishermen aro employed by thom during the season, but they do not get paul in money. The men who run the fisheries also conduct stores at every town where fishermen reside, and the latter aro given orders for supplies on these establishments, where they aro charged from two to four times as much for an article as they would be if they had tho cash and were able to deal somewhere else. Formerly, when tho fishing was good, this system did not result iu absoluto want to tho victims of it, but now, when each year, almost, brings a failure, tho destitution is something terrible. Tho law which forbade the soil of Newfoundland to be tilled was repealed years ago, but the men who have the blood of long lines of fishers in their veins nro tho hereditarily in capable of farming, so they eko out a miserable existonco on the water, and hundreds of them starvo eaoh year." Washington Star. Planted by Eminent Men. Tho botanical garden at Washington contains many trees started in life by eminent men. Among them is an overcup oak plantod by John 0. Crit tenden in 1801. Senators Hoar and Evarts plantod seeds in 1889 and 1890, from which sprung respectively two Lebanon cedars ; Actor Edwin Forrest transplanted two rarQ. cypresses from Philadelphia in 18(36 ; a fine specimen of tho masonic cassia was planted in 1882 by tho late General Albert Pike, then chief of tho Scottish order of Masons ^Senators Morrill,of Maine and Vermont, were godfathers to two fino cedars, whilo another was assisted into being by the father of General Blair, of Missouri. -Chicago Timus-Herald. Thc Mississippi thc King. Tho Mississippi River, in spite of all competition, remains tho longest I in tho world. Its length is forty three hundred miles, and it drains ono million seven hundred and twenty-six thousand square miles. The Amazon is only four thousand miles long. Tho Jfnkon River, m Alaska, is only two thousand miles long.-Frank Leslie's Weekly. LIFE WITHOUT LOVE, Lifo without love is Uko Day without sunshine, Roses bereft Ot Sweet nature's perfume} Love* is the guide mark To those who are weary Of waiting and watching In darkness and gloom. Love to the heart is like Dow-drops to violets Left on the dust-ridden Roadside to die; Love loads tho way To our highest endeavors, Lightens and lessens The pain of each sigh. Life without love Is like spring without flowers, Erook streams that move not Or star-bereft sky. Love creates efforts Most worthy and noblo, Prompts us to llvo And resigns us to die. PITH AND POINT. Some mortals are overloaded with motives.-Galveston News. Professor-"This, gentlemen, is an approximately correct draft of an ancient battering-ram. " Student (en* thusiastically)-"That beats a rush line."-Good News. Buggins-"Why all this talk about tho new woman?" Muggins-"I sup poso because it isn't safe to refer to any woman as 'the old woman.' " Philadelphia Record. "Did you tell Mr. Snobberly that I was not in?" Bridget-"I did, ma'am ; bat he looked so doubtful I don't think he'dVbelieved it if you'd'a'told him wid your own lips. "-Inter Ocean. Heardso-"They say every hearty laugh adds a day to one'H life." Saidso -"That depends. I had at least a week kicked out of me for laughing at a man who fell in tho mud. "-Pear Bon's Weekly. Circumstantial Evidence: Jane "My dear, there's crape on the Bobbe's door. Some ono must have died." Maudo-"Impossible. I'm sure tho doctor hasn't been there for weeks." -Harlem Life. Tommy-"Pop, what's the differ ence between a bon mot and a joke?" Tommy's Pop -"A bon mot is some thing you tell a friend, and a joke is something a friend tells you. "-Phila delphia Record. "What do you know about French dishes?" asked Mrs. Upperten to the applicant for employment as cook. "I know enough about thim to make thim, but niver to ote thim,n was the reply. She was engaged.-Harper's Bazar. Weary Walker-"Say, mister, gim me a dime." Dignified Wayfarer "Give you a dime! I think you are more in need of manners than money." Weary Walker-"Well, I struck yer fer what I fought ye hed most uv." Harper's Bazar. A young housekeeper who lives in a small Kentucky town had occasion to reprimand her oook for neglecting her duties. "Well, Miss Laura, I's been worried," was the reply. "I's studyin* a most 'portant question. Tell de trute, I don't whioh to get, a winter doak or a divorce."-Harper's Drawer. 'iMy boy Hiram writes me from col lege," said Farmer Crayoraft, laying the letter on tho table a moment in or der to wipe his^glasfl?^^hat-heV been studyin' up this subject of good roads an' I'm all wrong about it. I'll bet a thousand dollars," continued Farmer Crayoraft, "he's been buy in* himself a bisickle 1"-Chicago Tri? bun e. After-Dinner Speech : Mastei of tho House (on his fiftieth birthday to his guests)-"Ladies and gentlemen, this day fifty years ago, when I first saw the light of this world-um, um-I did not for a moment anticipate-er -anticipate that I should see so numerous and-um-BO distinguished a company gathered around me." - Deutsche Warte. The Lazy Russiaus. Tho Russians are lazy and effem inate ; in the winter they seldom walk, and when they do so they crawl along muffled up in furs, ?nd do not move with any briskness, says the West minster Review. The Cossaoks are dirty-looking ruffians, badly dressed and mounted on small horses, which aro said to bo excellent animals, pos sessing wonderful staying power. One of tho worst characteristics of tho Bussians is their dishonesty .in trade. In Moscow, even in many of the best shops, one has to bargain for purchases, as a much higher price than is expected is always asked. In the samo way one has to bargain for everything, and this, in my opinion, constitutes one of tho most disagreeable things connected with life in Eussia. One always imagines that or.o ?9 being swindled, and too frequently, no doubt, the idea is not a vain ooo. That tho Russians are a dirty peo ple is well-known; very few houses have even a footbath in them, and, although there are fine publio baths, tho Bussians, even of tho upper classes, seldom make uso of them. In deed I believe the lower orders are oleaner in this respect. Weighing a Pencil Mark. Scales are now made of such nice ad justment that they will weigh anything to the smallest hair p Ki eked from the eyebrow. They are triumphs of mechanism and aro inclosed in glass cases, as the slightest breath of air would impair their records. Tho glaES cases have a sliding door, and as soon as the weight is placed in the balances the door slides down. The balances are cleared again and made ready for further use by the pressing Of a but ton, which slightly raises the beams. Two pieces of papor of equal weight can be placed on the scales, and au autograph written in pencil on either piece will cause the other sido to ascend, and the needle, which indi cates the divisions of weight, even to the ten millionth part of a pound and iess, will move from its perpendicular. A signatnro containing nino letters has been weighed and proved to bo exactly two milligrammes, or tho fif teen-thonsand-five-hundredth part of an ounce troy.-Current Literature. Cruelty to Gold Fish. Sir Herbert Maxwell has written a a letter to the London Times protest ing against the cruelty of illuminating howls of gold fish with eleotric lamps. Fish, ho explains, aro so sensitive to light that some of them (trout, for in stance) can alter their coloring, ac cording to tho ground on which they swim. But tho peculiarity that ren ders exposure to strong light intoler able to fish, is that they have no eye lids, so that to confine them in the neighborhood of a brilliant lamp is to j inflict upon them indescribable tor? I kure..-Chicago Times-K^rald. ... . I s ?OYAL BAI ig pow received the highest Gov't official investi the Great Internation World's Fairs wher competition with oth? lt makes the finest most wholesome brea More economical ;hai ing agent * ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., mmmmm ITEMS OF INTEREST. Thc firpt chemical analysis of tobac co waa mn dc by Vanquclinc in 1809. Scotch Enuff is' said to obtain its pecnJiar color from tho addition of ochre. The best grades of Cuban tobacco Lave less than two per cent of nicotia. Lord. Clive's melancholy finally ended in madness, and he died by his own hand. Tho brilliant Southey finally sank into a state of mental stupor, in which he died. Socrates imagined that he had a fa miliar spirit or guardian angel that conversed with him. The government secret service gives notice of a dangerous counterfeit $2 silver certificate, series ?891. The southern corn crop will bc nearly 1300,000,000 bushels, according to the United States agricultural de partment, an increase of $'18,000,000 bushels. The hedgehog, badger, squirrel and some kind of mice lay up a regular store of provisions for the winter. It is said they cat only during mild weather, and in extreme Cold remain torpid. Animals that live in "old countries have a warm matting of wool or fino fur underneath their hairy coats, so that they are almost perfectly protect ed from cold. This wool Usually falls off in ourameri Russia produced last year, accord ing to the estimate of the minister of agriculture, 272,000,000 bushels of wheat, as compared with 336,000,000 last year. Her rye crop is 792,000,000 bushels against 752,000,000 a year ago. The barley yield is 176,000,000 and that of oats 672,000,000. There was no famine in the Czar's Empire last year. _ She Had Eaten Itt "John," said the mistress, "I should like you to find out, if yon can,wheth .eTtn?rrSW^ left without letting the new cook know, as she may have eaten it, and ? should not like to make her feel uncomforta ble." "If you please, ma'am," said the butler, "the new cook has eaten the tinned salmon, and she feels very un comfortable indeed." We offer One Hundred Dollars Hewart for any case of Catarrh lliat canUot be cilred by Hall's Catarrh Cute. P. J. CHENEY & Co., Phlp't, TOlfdo. O. We, thc under-iRned, have known F. J. Che ney for the Inst 1"> year*, und believe him per fectly honorable in nil businos-t trltn-acf ons an I financially able to fai ry out any ObUffV lion made l>y their firm. WOST <t THUAX, Wholesale Dru?fjists, Toledo, Ohio. WALOIXO, KIN>\\X SI Mutvix, Wholesale Druggists. To odo. Ohio. Hali'* Catarrh Cure ts taken internal y, act ins directly upon th? b <?nl and mucous mr faces of the system. Trice, 7?c. per bottle. Sold hy all Druggists. Testimonials free. Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts featly yet promptly on the Kidneys, -iver 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 tasto and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in ita effects, prepared only 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. iJo not accent any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL LOUISVILLE, KY. NEW YORK, N V. in doing'it, and it's a great Dairies and dealers use Pear once, on your milk-ware or bi isn't the most satisfactory way ? most economical thing you ca more out of it. O?fi A Peddlers ?.nd some unscrupuloi OCllU. or "the same ac Pearline." and if your grocer scad honest-send it baek., it Back CING POWDER sst and strongest rder made. It has award at the IL S. igation, and at all al Expositions and ever exhibited in ers\ ) lightest, sweetest) Ld, cake and pastry; ri any other leaven 106 WALL ST., NEW-YORK Bringing Up Children. From earliest infancy, incnlcato in stant obedience. Unite firmness with reutleness. Let your children under ?tand always that you mean what you ?ay. Never promiso them anything mlcss you are quite sure yon can give vhat you say. If you tell a child to lo something, show him how to do it, md eco that is done. Always punish pour children for willfnlly disobeying rou ; but never punish them in anger. Sever let them know that they vex you ? make'you lose your self-command, [f they give way to petulance or ill ;empcr, wait till they aro calm, then ?eason with them on the foolishness of heir conduct. Never give youl' child en anything because they cry fot i ti Teach them that the sure ftnd easy way o appear good is to be goodi. What an ordinary man eats and the way he eats it would be enough to give dyspepsia to ari ostrich^-Unless the oft? trich were wise enough to as? ?ist his digestion from time to timft with an efficient combination of vegetable ex? ?tracts. Such a ^''preparation i? r WM ^ Dr- Pierce's T Jf \ Pleasant Pellets, Sm - They are the pili? _t>at excellence ?rfbr those wii? sometimes eat ile Wrong things and too inuch; Tb?y itimiiiate action in all of the digest iy? >rgans. They stop sour stomach, windy richings, heartburn, flatulence and cure :onstipation, biliousness, dyspepsis, in? ligestion, sick headache and kindred lerangements. Once used they are always in favor* Notice to Mill Men And fartHers owiiirig small power: Tile finest ?nd mont complete Saw Mill in ei stoncn to-day, is raatid fnctured br tue ?il.<> ACM M I l-l- .11' 1 . (Min 350 lliulilu'ul Ave. Atilinta, tim To ,k first prize At World's Fair at Chicnrin. All si ?es,- from" i Hi n. up tn this lirgest. Prices rednceiJ; Send fot cal?> [ocuo.ihowi"sr uawjiiiprovemetit?: ?sd^of Portabl* r?irftltirfti'-Tf-tling Pres.eann.l TiuU.n^Wator Wtloetg, Pulleys and Shafting and all kind-of rhfll kliPlH W. KS (Ve fur-^V{ Tilsh steel tanks^ with covers, all eal rvanlzed after completion," /In nests of ten, 8 to 12 feet\ /high and 30 to 36 Inches Inl /diameter, at 2>*c. per gallon?" j Tiley do not rust, shrink* leak. gtvs I taste to water, nor o ?io w foreign Sub* I etanoe? to set In? They can be put I ih garret or barn and thus ere protected Ifrorn freezing. They take no setting! Vip. ?re cheaper than wood? TankJ \ substructures of ell sizes made to g \ order. Send for price list and ff, 'V designs forsubstructure end f\ /Vornamental water supply J If %AER MOTOR CO.^ 'ArV <> k.?-?J m< , Did yoe ever ?top to think how completely th? Aermotor Co. mada th? modern windmill business? How It h?i monos c.,ltd this entire lind of manufactura beean]? cf its Irita*, InTootiona, designs, ?nalitle. ?nd prices, or forced ether? to ba literal and ?ervil? iroiutors I Witness th? ?t?*l wboel, U>? back geared pumper, th? I.?ph (earn) powst Bill, the ?tesl towers, fixed and tilting, the galTaais-ng of work after completion, th? trinder centrifugal tt*i, the improeed irrigating and other pumps, tb? all ?te?! pol? ww-ono of tho most popular things w? ?Ter pot oat -UM I toot atorase and ?tock tank?. Krarythiug w? har? tonch.d we h.v* bettered ?nd cheapened, lt ia tb? thine w* h?*. delighted In and lt hu paid. WebarecstablUbed a ?cort of branch houses, ia as to have ali these goods n*?r those who want them. Tt>? Aermotor Co. ha? but ona mora ambition. It wants to build and Dil on? mora new building. It ha? 3 acm of land at its present location unoccupied br buildings. I t ex. ; tat? to commence injune to cover that 2 acres with a singh, building, ? stones high. Th II will girt it lg mor* acm of flo?? ipao*. Then when tb? publia d?m*nd requires niora goods than can ba produced with thia added ?pac?, lt will nfuM U extend farther, or maka anr effort, lt will have don? ita ?hare to ?upplT that demand. It will then turn an-ar all new comers. ntTIL THATTI2E IT FXPICT8 TO COSTI.MK TO MIMI TUR rTOBf.n WITH TUR GREATER l'A RT OF ITS WWI WHFKLH, TOWERS, GRIS 11I?B.S, PEED C ITT WS, PTMPS, STEEL PU411K niZZ StWS, STEEL 8TOR1GE A.1D STOCK TiM?S. STEEL Sl'IWTrtl'CTl KKS, ETC, - XTC ?AU TANIZKD APTER COETLETIOX. IT WILL C0.?TI5fK TO DEAL HOST LIBERALLY Vf ITH TUR PTPLIC, ri'RrTBH RS. riHlS AT A LOW PRICE, AMD BB TUB GREAT HODEL SQlURE-DEti-IKG WUIU POWER A?U WATER: SC PELT 110 USE OP THE WOIU-U. AEKXOTOS COL, COK MO. Morphine Habit Cured IN 20 DAYS. SO SUFFERING, Xor any Money Required in Advance. Not one cent till CURED and SATISFIED, -omo to see me or write me at once for terms. 13. -?L. SYMS, Tb/L. IX, ATLANTA, OA., 197 Ali xantlcr St. LIVER PIUS ' -AND-( Storno PELLETS, TREATMENT !?!S Al all ?tor??, or by mail 35c. doable box: 5 doable boxea B1..K). DROWN MF?? CO.. New Vorig Cltr. WAI I CT NEWS l.ETTERof raine nant ff fl LL O I . FREE to reader* of this paper. Charles A. Daldvrln 4; Co.. 40 WaU St., N. T. A..N.U.Seventeen. *03 Milk Pans, and pails, and cans, and bottles (even baby's)-or any thing that you want fek S J particularly clean, +f ought to be washed' - with Pearline. st You'll save work deal more thoroughly done, line extensively. Just try it itter-ware-and then say if it D? cleaning. Pearline is the n use, too. You get so much is grocers will tell you " this is os good ss* IT'S FALSE-Pearline is never peddled, s YOU somethiog ia pl&ce of Pearline, be SK ' JAMES PYLE, New T?fa