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Chinese Boat D wo! lera. The swarming inhabitants- of these floating tenements have their only homes upon the waters of the noble Peking river. The miles of closely crowded boats moving restlessly np and down s*ream between the green fields, resemble a huge metropolis of vast squares and avenues, river rocked cradles, whore the drama of life is en acted by the thousands who glean but a scanty livelihood. As soo^. as a boy born to one of these river aenizens can stand upon his little feet, he is strapped to a skull or oar, and begins to go through the motions of propelling the boat,earning his living at least in theory, from the earliest age. Whenever his hair is sufficiently long to plait into a respectable tail, he begins to manipulate chop-sticks, to nate foreigners, to understand tho ring of money and in time to paddle his own small wherry and carry a for eign devil up and down the river. If he wishes to see a little of tho world he may ship upon a traveling junk, not to venture, however, outside of Chinese waters, and after accumulating a few dollars ho takes to himself a wife and establishes his home among the river population.-Outing. Not This Time. Tho robber cautiously entered the house. All was quiet and still. Tho oLly sound was that of tho ticking of the clock on tho mantel. Sh! He heard footsteps. Some ono was coming. Should ho shoot? No, it was only a woman. "Woman," ho said, "if you make no fiound I will not harm a hair of your head." Sho looked at him fearlessly. "You could not harm a hair of my head if you tried," 6he said. And then she took the wig off and 6wung it in the faco of the bold, bad man; it was too much-he fled. Nothing Sneered* Like Success. ' The successes achieved by men and thlngt are not always based upon merit. 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With a joyous rustle and shiver, "I wake!-' cried the reed iu the rivoi\ "I am thrall to tho dark no more, I can sing to the shore, And can fling my vernal mirth O'er thc fields of earth!" With a buoyant tremor and thrill, "I wake!" cried tho grass on tho hill; "I am free from the icy hold Of thc vandal cold; I can urge my jubilant stavo As I surge and wave!" With a littlo gurgle of gloe. ?'I wake!" cried the bud on thotroo; "From tho gloom of tho bitter night I leap to tho light; And to grief there's an end and wrong In my loaf-and song!" With a strange, sweet, passionate start. "I wake!" cried Lovo in tho heart; "And unfold my immortal flower For a dcuthless dower; With its breath into life I bring An eternal spring!" -Clinton Scollard, in Frank Lcslio'6. SUNSHINE JOHNSON. BEING the two men together and knowing that ono of them was a mur derer, there was one ohance in a thousand that tho visitor would pick out the right man as tho criminal. Tho white man sat on an easy can vas camp ohair. He was a tall, thin man, with a stern, forbidding look on his face that might have been caused by remorse, but which, more prob ably, was caused by dyspepsia. There were certain inflexible lines about his mouth which showed him to be a man of great determination, and his firm set lips were lips that appeared never to 6mile. His sharp eyes had a clear and steady look in them that went through a man, and few of those around him cared to meet those eyes when there was a spark of anger in them. He was such an unerring judge of character that he had como to believe he. could not make a mistake, which is a dangerous stato of thinking for a man in his position, because a mistako maie by him might mean death to somebody. Nevertheless, he trusted people that no one else would think of trusting, and his trust was rarely taken advantage of. This man was J. S. Flint, the head of Tall Mountain Penitentiary. The black man who stood beside him, and who was receiving some in structions from him, had a simple, trustful, childlike face which is so of ten found in *he race. Ho seemed co havo difficulty in keeping his broad mouth from relaxing into ? smile; and only the fact that ho was talking with tho master of tho penitentiary kept down his exuberant good nature. No convict wo aid tako the liberty to smile while Jackson Flint talked to hir-, but this ono was a privileged charaoter evon if he wore tho striped sait of an inmate of the penitentiary. He was Sunshine Johnson, in for life, yet on his arm rested Jackson Flint's little curly-headed daughter, aged six, and her arms were round his black neck, and her fair cheek was murderer was one of the convicts that Jackson Flint -1 rusted. Ho had cer tainly had an easy time of it ; he wait ed on the table, took caro of the chil dren, and did any odd job about tho house. Ho was called "Sunshine" by every one around the camp. Doubtless he had not been chris tened that name, but he had boen called by it before'he entered the peni tentiary, and by that name he was known on tho books of the institu tion. If a visitor, attracted by his name, or his beaming countenance, so full of good nature and lovo of all hu manity, asked the superintendent who he was, Flint's brows would knit to gether in a frown as ho answored shortly : "A lifer." If tho visitor still pressed for infor mation as to his crime, tho frown grew deeper and the answer gruffer : "A murderer." Most people gave a gasp at this piece of information, as they saw tho convict playing with tho pretty child of the superintendent; but Jackson Fliot was not a man anyono would care to ask personal questions of, and if the astonishing stuto of things caused a look of surprise to come over the visitor's face, tho look was seldom translated into speech. Sometimos the inquisitive visitor sought informa tion from Sunshine himself. When asked about his crime Sunshine al ways looked embarrassed and gener ally cast an appealiug glance athis questioner. Ho stood on one bare foot, and slowly rubbod the ankle of it with tho toe of the other foot, while a look of perplexity carno over his countenance. "Foh de Lohd, boss, I dunno much about it, dat's do traf. I 'spects I killed the man. He's dead, anyhow, and somebody dono it ; dey6aiditwas me ; yes, dey proved dat at de oohts. You seo I was drunk at the time, o^d I dunno anything at all about it. 'Spects dat's de reason dey didn't hang me at the timo. I's very sorry I done it if I did do it." And then Sunshine would make an excuse to run away ond play with his little charge. Tho penitentiary was little more than a camp composed of rough wooden buildings, und was situated on a spur of tho mountain overlooking tho great deep valley, from the bottom of which tho turbulent little river sont up an unceasing roar. All around were tho high peaks of tho mountain range, closing the place in apparently with out a break, although there was an un seen narrow gorgo through which tho river escaped, and along whose banks tho single lino of railway track ran. The mountains all around were densely wooded, and not a building was in sight anywhere, excopt a large hotel at the bottom of tho valley, which was a sort of summer resort, with broad verandas. The eternal silenco of its location was broken only by the brawling river that j an beside it, and by tho occa sional trains which passed olo?o to tho hotel, as part of the big house was a station cu the line. Passengers on the railway coming to this hotel, when they first caught sight of it, away down in the valley below them, generally made a motion to get their small bits of baggage gathered together prepara tory to leaving, but the conductor used to sny to them good-naturedly. "Wo are not quite there yet; I wouldn't make a move for a minute or two if I were you. Just watch that hotel." Then, looking out of the car window into this incomparably grand valley, tho pinger twm) mult tokes round and round tho circumferen the great gulf. No tho hotel wt rectly below him, again he was '. ing at it from across the valley ; r and round the train went, ge' gradually lower and lower, and ii nearly an hour after the passen first sight of the hotel that tho 1 drew up under its verandas,^ Tho convict settlement "on tno of the mountain was invisible . the railway traok, bnt the con were there because tho railway thero. They were hired out to railway company by tho Stato go\ ment, and as the train dashed sometimes the passengers were sho to see, standing close in by the i beside the track, twenty or tl black men in convict garments, e with ball and chain attached to \ ankles. And then, as the train da by, white men with rifles on 1 shoulders wero seen guarding workers on tho railway. Thero was no wall around camp, its only protection bein small picket fence, easily leaped o But nature guarded the prisoners, almost every side the descent steep, and often precipitous, br oonvict would run no danger to lif limb in making tho descent. Bu though a convict might easily 1 leaped the slender barrier and m: have dodged the shots from tho l on tho wooden towers, his esoapo nest thing to hopeless; he had climb over the mountain to get aw and a telegraph station in the oon settlement quickly apprised all or zation outside this wilderness 1 suoh and such a man had essaped fi tho camp. Tho usual result of an attempt escape was that a week or ten days ter the leap over tho barrier, a gat starvod man came out of tho wilt ness and gavo himself up at tho f place where he could get 6omethmj eat. Often ho failed in scaling mountain, and returned after a days to tho camp itself. Tho v frailty of tho fencs around the co showed tho utter hopelessness of tempting to escape. On the particular day in summer which this account rolatcs thero 1 been a furious storm of rain in mountains. The clouds seemed have becomo entangled among peaks, and they hung over the vail unable, like tho prisoners, to esca and poured their Hoods into it ni tho littlo river had become a wild a raving torrent, gleaming here t thero in white among the dark tro Toward night tho clouds succeed in breaking away and floated over tho west, but tho mutter of disti thunder showed that tho 6torm 1 not yot over, while the heat seen moro oppressive than ever after 1 terrible day's raiu. When darkm set in the watery silver sickle of t moon hung over the valley and fill it with a weird, dim, tremulous Hg' The roar of tho torrent, increased the stillness ali around, carno up fr the bottom of the valley on the nig air. The master of tho penitentiary in a rocking chair on the veranda his wooden house smoking his coi cob pipe. What little ooolness th? was was outside and not inside t house. Suddenly a burst of ohildi laughter broke on his ear, and looki to the left he saw his little giri las ing Sunshine Johnson as if he wore horse, while that good-natured int vidual trotted up and down with t child on his shoulders. "Sunshine," cried the master, "wi are you doing with Dorothy out oame to an instant st at the sound ot tho master's voico, a: the child even hushed its fought' Little Dorothy was much more afra of her stern father than of tho goo natured murderer. "Well, you see, massa, it'sliko this said the convict, deferentially. "L Dot had to be in de houso all do di on account ob de rain, sah, and it's warm inside dat her mother s thought we could play a littlo befo sho goes to bed, and den little Dc sab, sho thought she'd like to ax yo if she migh stay up and see dc mi night express. " "Tho midnight express, nonsense exclaimed Flint. "Dorothy, you doi want to stay up so lato as that!" The little girl made no answer, bi clung the tighter with alarm arout the convict'a neck, and whispered ii to his ear. "She'd hko very much to stay u] sah ; sho hasn't seen it for a long tim I don't think it would do her ai harm." "Ob, she's whispered that to yoi has sho?" Tho convict laughed a littlo an then checked himself. "Well, massa, I don't think would do her any harm ; you 6co it so warm dat dc little gal sho couldn sleep at night, anyway, and perhaj. alter sho sees do train den sho goos t sleep." "Oh, very well " said Flint; "if ht mother said it & all right, it is a right." Tho midnight express, Flint knev was a great sight to see on a dar night The train appeared with long row of lights from out a tunne! and passing by tho convict settlomenl disappeared among tho trees an throngh another tunnol. It came i sight again ou tho other sido of th valley, its long lino of lights appear ing to crawl slowly around tho mono tain, while tho roar of tho trai] mingled with tho roar of tho torren below. Thus it appeared and disappears at different intervals ami at difieren levels, sometimes going in ono direc tion and sometimes in another, but at ways getting further and further dowu like an enchanted train that had bo como entangled in tho mouutaii slopes. It was nearly timo for tho trait whoa Jackson Flint was startled by i cry from his child. What ho saw thc next moment simply paralyzod him foi tho time. Sunshine Johnson had picked up a lantern which stood on tho platform in front of his quarters, and shouting to Dorothy, "Bim iu do house, honey, run in do honse," loaped I tho fence and made off into tho woods. Thc little girl clung to tho palings of tho fence and cried for her comrade. Tho clear voico of Jackson Flint startled every one in tho camp : "Como back, you scoundrel ! Whore aro you going?" A wave of tho lantern was tho only reply. Then Fliut quickly put his hand to his hip and drow his seven-shooter. The sharp crack of tho rovolver clove tho air. "Bun in de house, honey, run in de house," repeated the convict, at tho top of his voice, and theu tho master noticed that his littlo crying, curly beaded girl stood in a Hue betweon him and the escaping convict. AH a general thing Flint was an un erring shot, but now his hand trembled as he tired over bis little girl's head six times, and then threw the empty revolver on tho ground, Every timo ko tal t-be rapidly disappearing pon. viet arning the lantern over his hoad. Flint shouted to the sleeping guards on the towers : "Why don't you fire?" Fire at bim with the shotgun 1" Flint clinohed his teeth and awaited the result. His oommand had been practically a sentence of death, and he knew it. The rifle sends one pellet of death, the shotgun sends a dozen leaden messengers, each shrieking for a life. Tnreo men on the towers fired al most simultaneously from the shot guns, who^g scattering fire raked and toro through the bushes. Again the oonvict swung the lautern over his head, but this time there was a shriek of pain from him, although ho never stopped in his headlong career, and the noxt instant was out of Bight and hearing. All the convicts long ago had been locked up in their quarters, and moBt of the officials had turned in, but now pale-faced men came hurrying up to tho master. Tho assistant superin tendont hurried forward, partly dressed, and said to his ohiof : "Anything wrong, sir?" "Yes." "Anv ono osoapod?" "Yes." "Who is it, sir?" "Johnson." "Not Sunshine ?" said the assistant in amazement. Flint turned on him savagely. "I said Johnson.. Wha'j other John son is there hore?" And he glared with clenched fists at his subordinate, The other did not answer for a mo mont ; then he said : "Shall I turn out the guard and search for him?" "No; go to bed." Little Dorothy, silent and fright' ened at the firing, clung gasping to tho paling. Her mother carno out and ran toward her, bending over and try ing to oalm her fright, satisfying her self that the child was not hurt With tho little girl in her arms she ap proached her husband. "Who was it?" she inquired in tremulous tones. "Take that child in!" thundered the master of tho penitentiary. "What is she doing out at this hour ! And get inside yourself." Mrs. Flint turned without a word, for she knew hor husband in this mood had better be left alone. He strode up and down the platform of the veranda, muttering to himself : "He is suro to be caught, and then .i Flint ground his teeth ; and there was no question but it would go hard with the trusted convict whon he was caught. The bitterness of it all was that the whole camp-convicts and guards knew how ho had trusted Sunshine Johnson, and then ho had fired at him and missed him. After an hour's walking back and forth, Flint sat down again in his chair and covered his faco with his handB, thinking over the startling events of the night. Suddenly a very soft and low voice made him spring from the chair to his feet. "Massa Flint," said the voice. Sunshine, with the lantern in his hand, stood beforo him in a very de jected and crestfallen manner, his clothes torn by the bushes and bram bles through which ho had run. "You scoundrel 1" cried Flint, "what did you do that for?" "Well, you seo, massa," said the negro, apologetically, "you didn't hear it, did you?" Like a flash Flint understood, and tho hard eyes of the master filled with shoulders of the convict, who, like a culprit, gazed on the ground, Flint struggled with his agitation for a mo ment, but seemed quito unable to say just what ho wanted to say. Finally ho spoko commonplacely enough. "Then you saved the express, did you, Sunshine?" . . "Tho convict looked up. Thomas tor had always called him Johnson. "Yes, massa; and de conductor he's a coming. We need a shovelling gang out dar at onct. " "All right, Sunshine," said Flint. "You go and tell the superintendent to come here at once, and tell him to rout out a gang to clear away the dirt. Say, what's tho matter with your arm?" Sunshine's left arm hung limp by his side, aud now that the lantern flashed upon it Flint saw blood trick ling down his hand. Suushine looked sheepish and guilty and scratched his aukle with his bare too. "Well, you see, sab, I got hit a little on dat arm when dey fired de shot guns. Don't expect dey fired at me, you see, sab; guess doy wouldn't a hit mo if dey had, dey sort of fired promiscuous like," ho added, as if ii wore necessary to make an excuso for the mon who had shot him. "Can't expect very good Hhooting, you know, for thirteen dollars a month, can you?" "Go in the house," said Flint; "I will rout out tho gang, myself, and I'll send tho doctor to you at once." At this moment the conductor, with a lantern hanging from his elbow, and a blakeman, clambered up from the track into the convict camp. Thc conductor was a jovial fellow who know Flint. "Hello!" ho said, "what's this you've been doing to us? Been trying to smash up tho night express? Say, the whole side of a mountain seems to havo come down over the track." "Yes, I know that," said the other, who did not know, however, the risk the convict had run in order to save tho train. "But say, how soon can wo get this cleared away ? We've got the Governor on board, and he's mad as tho mischief at thc delay." Fliut pricked up his oars at tho men tion of the official. "Oh, he's au board, is ho? Well, I am glad of it. I want him to pardon a li for." " Woll," said the conductor, scratch ing his head. "I wouldn't ask him just now if I were you, because ho's not in the best of humor." "I don't thiuk he'll ovor be in bet ter humor to do what I want him to than now, becauso if it hadn't.boen for my lifer his privato oar might bo lying at the bottom of tho ravine with him smashed up in it." "Oh, that's how tho matter stands," said tho couduotor. "Woll, I guess tho Governor will do it." And tho Governor did.-Now York Journal. An Arboreal Land Owner. There is a tree at Athens, Ga. which is a property holder. In the early part of thc century the land on which it stands was owned by Colonel W. H. Jackson, who took delight in its growth. In his old age tho tree had reached magnificicnt proportions, and the thought of its being destroyed was so repugnant that he recorded a deed conveying to it all the land with in a radius of eight feet of its base. Washington Star. The North British Railway Com/ nany is building a itation at Edta Wfl ll Wirf ff fl, 300,000, __________Jr____ T1I0S. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1895. VOL. LX. NO. 19. ~ Moro Twin and Triplet Letters. The mail continues to bring to the white honsc many "twin and triplet" letterp, as Private Secretary Tbnrber denominates them. There is little va riation in the style of tho epistles, and few of them close without a request for assislanco. Here are extracts from threo of a dozen or more which found their way into tho white house waste basket recently : "Wo have two children and cxpeci another very soon. If it is a boy it will bo named Grover if you will lend me $500." "My wife noticed in the papers an account of tho triplets which were christened after your family, and thc outcome of thc matter. She says now, how will it be with n fourth-class post master's childreu ? Wo have two girls, which we havo christened, one Ruth and thc other Esther. Unfortunately we have no photographs as yet, not being able to havo them taken. Any littlo memento will satisfy ber and will bo thankfully received bv all tho fam ily." "Sir: On the 12ih of June, 1893, there wns a boy baby born to me at my house, weighing ten pounds at birth. I was so cuthused over your election and inauguration that I named my baby Grover in honor of Grover Clevelaud, president of tho United States. My boy will be two years old June 12, 1895, and would appreciate a present from tho chief magistrate of our nation." Theso begging letters, which wero quite interesting at first, are getting to be tiresome as they multiply.-New York Times. A l tho Women Countod. According to thc most reliable esti mates, tho world today contains 2S0,: 000,000 grown women. Among civil ized nations the United States has ac tually the largest share, ifs feminino population beiog 30,554,370. Russia comes next, with an adult feminine population of 23,200,000. Then a long way after comes Ihe German em pire, willi 10,930,000; Austria with 9,680,000; Great Britain, with 8,7'JG, 000; France, with 8,580,000 and Italy, with 6,850,000. Spain comes next on the list, 4,130,000 of tho fair sex, and pho ?B followed by Belgium, withl, 310,000; Roumania, with 1,260,000; Portugal, with 1,080,000, and Holland, with 1,070,000. Tho countries whose adult feminine population does not reach 1,000,000 aro Switzerland, which has only 690, 000; Norway, which bas 465,000, aud Greece and Denmark, which aro tied at 490,000. In this estimate it will bo uoted thnt tho entiro fi male popula tion of tho United States is given and only the number of grown women in tho different countries of Europe. As a matter of fact, in proportion to its population, this country has fewer women than most of the others men tioned. The proportion of women to men in the Unite 1 Slates is greater in "New England, where tho wom.m are in ex CCSP. It is least in the far west, where the number of men exceods that of women. Wyoming has tho smallest female population, 21,362 ; New York thc largest, 3,020,960, whilo it is said lhat one factory in New Enpland em ploys 12,000 women.-Brooklyn Citi zen. Tho People of Portugal. People who remember the prodi gious pother which Portugal made, two or threo years ago, when England tried to bounce her out of somo terri torial auvcurage in airrca, win Deunr prised to know that the population of Portugal, including Madeira and the Azorep, is only 5,049,729, of whom 2,619,390 are femalos, and that four fifths of tho population aro unable to read or write. In Lisbon, where most of thc fuss referred to was made, there is a population of 612,000, of whom 394,338 are unable to read or write. Ile AVns a Hog. At a reception in Paris, a traveler, who was a strong "Anti-Semitic" was talking to Rothschild on thc beauties of the island of Tuhiti, aud sarcasti cally remarked: "lhere are neither hogs nor Jews there!" "Indeed!" retorted Rothschild. "Then yon and I thould go there. We should be great curiosities." THERE aro about 34,000 tame deer in Southern Norway. Most of theso are scattered throughout the mountains of the Saeterdal district, but about 7,000 liva on tho plateaus of tho Viddas-aud pnrrounding districts of Hallingdal, ThelemarkeD, Numcdal aud Sogne. A LIVINQ SHADOW. REMARKABLE TRANSFORMATION OF A NORTH CAROLINA nf AN. Strange, bat True, Story From tho Lam ber Regions of a Southern State Verified by Personal Investigation. (From the Greenville, If. C., Reflector.) . The following interview has just been given our reporter by Mr. G. A. Baker, the overseer at tho farm of Col. Isaac A. Sugg, of Green ville, N. C. It will interest anyone who has ever had typhoid fever. Mr. Baker said hi part: "I was living in Beaufort County, and on the 2d day of October, 1893, I was stricken down with typhoid lever. I had the best physicians to attend mo and on tho 15th day of Januarj', 1894, I was allowed to get up. 1 was emaciated, weak and had no appetite. I could only drag along for a short distanco and woidd be compelled to sit down and lest. 'Ibis continued for some time and I began to give up hope of ever getting well. I lot-t my position in Beaufort County and having secured ono in Pitt County, clerking in a store, I undertook it, but was so weak I could not do tho work and had to give it up. Tho disenso settled in my knees, legs and Sect. I was inking first ono kind of modicino and then another, but nothing did mo any goe?. I was mighty low-Bpirited. I moved out to Col. Sugg's about four or five mouths ago and commenced taking Dr. Williams' Filip. I took tbrco- a dny for about threo months. I began to regain my appetite in a week's time, and then my weoT-ae?S began to disappear, and hope sprung up with a blessed ness that is beyond all telling. At the ex pirntion of tho threo months I was entirely (.tired and could take my axe and go in tho woods and do as gcod a day's work as any man. I was troubled with dyspepsia and that bas disappeared. It is also n splendid tonic for weak people. I say, Mr. Editor, Cod bless Dr. Williams; may he live for a long time; I know he will go up yonder to reap ids reward for he bas done a wonderful lot of good. Tell everybody that asks you about Dr. Williams' PiDk Fills for Tale People that if they will come to melcan certainly satisfy "them as to theJr merits. I always carry a box of pills with me and whenever I feel bad I take one." Wc were forcibly struck with the earnest ness of Mr. Bakerand his statements may be relied OD. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contaiD, in a con densed form, all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are an un failing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus' dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous bendnche, the after effects of la grippe, pal pitation of the heart, pale and sallow com plexions, all forms of weakness cither in male or female; and all diseases resulting from vitiated humors in the blood, Fink Fillet are sold by all dealers, or will be sent post paid OD receipt of price, (50 eenie a boar, or six boxea for ?3.W) by nddrcpeing Dr, W]im?$?Mm fri fi Hf Take no Sui Royal Bakii It is Absoli All others contain ? What Roaches Can Do. People who do not like cockroaches had better not visit Brazil. In that country they aro found in such swarms as to amount to a plagne. Wherever wall paper is used they soon eat it off in unsightly patches, seeking to get at the paste beneath. A corespondent writes that at Corumbn, on the Upper Paraguay., he came across these crea tures in a new role. This is what be says: "In the honse where wo stayed there were nearly a dozen children, and all of them had thoir eyelashes more or le3s eaten off by cockroaches-a large brown speciep, which is one of tho commonest thronghout Brazil. Tho lashes were bitten off irregularly, in some places quite close to tho lids. Like most Brazilians, these children had very long, black eyelashes, and I their appearance thus defaced was odd ? enough. . "The trouble was confined to young people, I snppose, because they are very heavy bleeperp, and do not dis turb the insects at work. My wife and I sometimes brushed roaches from our faces at night, but thought nothing more of the matter. The roaches also bit sleeping persons' toe-nails. The Brazilians encourage large spiders to live in their dwellings, because they tend to drive away the roaches." Extortion Eliminated by Electricity. Every ono who has ever visited Niagara Falls, remembers the exor bitant charges of backs, elevators, tolls, admissions, etc., and congratulates himself that he escaped with his mor als, oven if his pockets were empty. All that extortion is soon to be done away with by the Niogara gorge elec tric railway, from Niagara Fulls to Lewiston. Tho plan of the route in cludes all the principal points of in terest on the American side-in fact, a continuous trip along the water'* edgo at the base of tho deep river gorge, past the islands, whirlpool rapids, Devil's hole and every notable nat ural feature. It is proposed by this railway to charge but one fare nud that not extravagant, for the round trip, to include the finest views to be had from the American side. It is ex pected that this electric railway will be running by the time the tourist season is at its height, and that it will attract many more visitors to this greatest of nature's wonders, especi ally as it will bo possible to offer bet ter rates to excursion parties from all points. Agreed With His Cross-Examiner. Mr. James Hyde, once a lawyer in a 'small town on Long Island, tells a good story about himself. He says : "It was when I used to practice law in a little town near tho center of the state. A farmer had one of his neigh bors arrested for stealing duckp, and I was employed by the accused to en _dea.vor.to convince the court that such^ was not fne case. The plaintifiTwas positiv? that his neighbor was guilty, because be had seen the ducks in the defendant's yard. " 'How do you know they are your docks?' I asked. " 'Oh, I should know my own ducks anywhere!' replied the farmer, and he gave me a description of their various peculiarities, whereby ho could readi ly distinguish them from others. "'Why,'said I, 'those ducks can't be of such rare breed ! I have seen some juBt like them in my own yard.' " 'That's not at all unlikely,' replied tho farmer, 'for they are not the only dncksl have had stolen lately.' "-In dianapolis Sentinel. A Ship fora Monument. The most remarkable monument that has ever been erected over a grave in the United States or in any other civ ilized country perhaps is the repro duction of an old time whaling vessel, which is to be seen in one of the Bos ton cemeteries. It isa fine specimen 01 the shipbuilder's art, finished in iron and clouded marble,and marks the last resting place of a departed sea cap tain.-St. Louin Eepubtic. Too Hard for to Learn. ."I'm a good deal worried about my son," said Mr. Whykins. "He doesn't seem to know the value of a dollar." "Woll," replied the man who was puzzled over finance, "if it's a silver dollar that he doesn't know the value of, I don't see that you can blame him much."- Washington Star. THE Lexington Savings Bank, which was opened for business at Baltimore i recently, will bo managed exclusively by colored men. It was incorporated last week with a capital stock of $10, 000. im pu I ri-il II iiil th ls Not Easily Recnlnrfl, yet Parker's Gingrer Tonic hag attnined lt in many case?. For every weakness and distress. A well-painted house ls HIP l est IndicA wooil or iron in your houses, in Implement-, c last rwiCRM lone Lintetd Oil is the HFST rant timi requires Hie nd il,linn of pure Oil 1 sides they aro much CHEA PEU. Keep the " My baby was a living skeleton. T! mus, Indigestion, etc. The various foodi did not strengthen or fatten him. At tl what he did at birth-seven pounds. I b times putting a few drops in his bottle, tl again by the absorption method of rubbiti velous. Baby began to stouten and fatte a wonder to alb SCOTT'S EMULSION supp Scott's E is especially useful for sickly, delic; fails to nourish them. It supplies i form, just the nourishment they nee health and strength. It is Cod-liv( assimilate, combined with the Hy most remarkable nutrients. Don't be persuaded tc ft |5orvn?f New Yorfci / bstitu?e for ig Powder. Litely Pure. alum or ammonia. Tho Gospel Rest. We aro at the dawn of Stimmer; the trees have budded and leaved; tho birds have builded, tho violets have bloomed, and while the sun shines and thc grass grows wo know that we ought to bo happy and as blithe as the lark. But wo are not. The world looks blue ; our feet are heavy, and tho work that meant so much to us a few months ago, has be come a hopeless bore. Somebody suggests "spring ftvor," and some other body whispers "6arsa parillo." Now don't. It isn't dosing that you need, but dozing. You need rest. Nothing else. You want to let go your hold upon your little world for a while ; forget your husband and the children and drift away to a land of dreams. Never mind the housekeeping;let the boys attend to that ; if they're their mother's own sons, thoy'll be glad to "bach it" for a while, and if the mountains or the seashore is ont of tho question for mother, they'll bundle her up, and send her ont into the country, if i l.'s only a half do?cn miles away, where, freo from harassing cares, ehe will cat and sleep as sbo has not since girlhood.- Womankind. SMONO, tepid soda water will make glass very brilliant ; then rinso in cold water. Wipe dry with linen cloth. LOOK OUT FOR BREAKERS AHEAD when pimplee, eruptions, boils, and like manifes tations of impure blood appear. They wouldn't appear if your blood were pure and your sys tem in thc right condition. They show you what you need-a good blood purifer; that's what you get when you li y /take Dr. Pierce's /Golden . Medical ftp DiIstCOVC carries health (jH1 with it. All Blood, Skin and Scalp Dis eases, from a com mon Blotch, or Eruption, to the worst Scrofula, are cured by it It invigorates the liver and rouses every organ into healthful action. In thc most stubborn forms of Skin Diseases, such as Salt rheum, Eczema, Tetter, Erysipelas. Boils and kindred ailments, and Scrofula, it is an unequaled remedy. ? THE BEST* * JOHN CARLE & ?ONS, New York. * The Greatest fled ?cal Discovery of the Age. KENNEDY'S Medical Jiscovery. DONALD KENNEDY, OF RDXBURY, MASS., Has discovered in ono of our common pasture weeds a remedy that cures every kind of Humor, from the worst Scrofula down to a common pimple. He bas tried lt In over eleven hundred eases, and never failed except in two cases (both thunder humor). Ho hos now In his possession over two hundred certifi cates of its value, all within twenty milos of Boston. Send postal card for book. A benefit is always experienced from tho il rst bottle, and a perfect euro is warranted when tho right quantity is takon. When the lungs are affected lt causes shooting pains, like needles pacing through them ; the samo with the Livor or Bowsls. This is caused by the ducts being stopped, and always disappears in a week after taking it. Bead tho label. If the stomach is foul or bilious it will cause squeamish foollngs at llret^ No chango of diet ever necessary. Eat tho best you can get, and enough of lt. Dose, one tablespoonful in water at bed? time. Sold by all Druggists. Notice io Mill Men And farmers onmiiur nranll power: Tho Snort and mont com Ide Saw Mill in ex Meneo to-day, is manu factured byrne Dcl.OACH .'I I I.I. M'fG. CO., 330 IliulilaiKl Ave Atlanta, (in. To .lc lirai prise at World'? Fair at Chicago. All Mies, from 4 b. f>, up to tiie 'J.frost. Priens ro.laced. Sond for cata KRiie showing noir iraprOTem^nt^: aso. of Portable Corn Milla, B.illng Pres-es and Tnrbino Water Whoels, Pulleys and Shafting and all kinda of mill suppl es. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Circuses and beautifies the bair. Promotes a luxuriant growth. Never Fallo to Bartons Gray Hair to ita youthful Color. Cures icalp diseases k hair tailing, JOc,and gi.00at nnijrgists A N. ?.Twenty-two, 'Da Guaranteed 5 y ea nu Al NTS linn of a THHIFTY man. EVEHY particle of tc, should be kept WELL pa Dted. They will prui-crvaiivc, and Unmniar Paint tho ONLY . eforc using. That Is why i hey aro UEST, be Baby Fat. " CAVE SPRINO, GA., May 21,1894. he doctors said he was dying of Maras? 11 tried seemed to keep him alive, but hirteen months old he weighed exactly egan using "SCOTT'S EMULSION,"some- ? den again feeding it with a spoon; then ig it into his body. The oiTect was mar 'n, and became a beautiful dimpled boy, lied the one thing needful. "MKS. KENNON WILLIAMS." Emulsion ito children when their other food n a concentrated, easily digest?bh :d to build them up and give tl ;r Oil made palatable and ej -pophosphitcs, both of whj ' accept a suhsti\