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THANK THE LOVELLS I To Them More Than to Others Tn TJne the l'ai i- Play Accorded to AV lice' men, Prom tho beginning of cycling in this country tho milkers huvo boon its strongest bulwarks, ami to them ts due tho credit for the proud position riders of the bicycle hold. To the members of tho trade, therefore, wo owo much, as it was their pluck and thoir money that have mado for us our position. COX. BE.N-J. 9. LOVELL. Among tao mon who early felt tho benoflts of oycling. and did not hesltato to expend rooney, is Colonel Ben. S. Lovell, of Boston, Treasurer of the John P. Loyell Arms Com pany, of that city. Their firm name has beoa u familiar ono for ovor fifty years, hav ing beou established in 18-10. doing a sport ing goods and gun business. Being in a kindred trade, it was but natural that they should engage in the making and selling of blcyolw. Their success bas boen unbounded, os they novo made a name for the Lovell Diamond Cycles that ia a familiar house hold ono in every bandet in tho land. It is not possible to have done that without cost, and a considerable one, too, as readers ot carron: literature will admit, for have not ail of us encountered the symbolic words .'Lovell Diamonds?" To estlmato thc gross amount that has been expended for advertis ing would beadifJlculttask.butit is said that consid?rnbly over $100,000 was spent by them during ISM. All the big Eastern dailies bad entire pages, which cost lots of money, and tho magazines Ailed many paged exploit ing Lovell Diamond Cycles. Can it be wondered ut, then, that cycling has become popular, when men like Colonel Lovell spend such 6ums to make it boV Colonel Lovell is Treasurer of tho John P. Lovell Arms Company, and is a man of r?re business attainments, acquired by long ex perience r.ud un aptitude possessed by fow. In private lifo he has won the respect and es teem of every ono ho has boen brought in contact with, whilo his public record is equally good, on ilvo different occasions rep resenting bis town in the Legislature, serving in both branches. Ho served on the staff of Governor Long for throe consecutivo years, and ls no w a m ember o f Go vornor Qreenhalge's staff. Ho has boen a delegate to four National conventions, and thorc is not an office in tho gift ot his townsmen which would not bs at his disposal were it not for his great business responsibilities. There is no man In tho bicycle business more respected than Colonel Beni. S. Lovel), and no better blcyclo is made in tao world than the Lovell Diamond. Happy Relief. Old Gentleman-Do yon think, sir, that you arc able to support my daugh ter without continually hovering on the verge of bankruptcy? Suitor-Oh, yes, sir, I am sure I can. Old Gentleman-Weil, that's more than I can do. Take her and be happy. - Tit-Bits. Thc Ladles. 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Tenn. ?5StiL'HtS VVHtHt Ali FLSE FAILS- ET bjS Best 'JouKh Syrup. "Tastes G'KKL Use ?3 t?t in tima 8:?!<1 ny dr-uraiatt. &*? ^^?msvMfrr IQ:N :: ,^ THE DIFFERENCE. Beauty Hos wlthiu ourselves, After all, they say; And, be sure, tho happy heart Mukes the happy day. In a cool and shady garden Phylis sat. Tho roses' scent Fanned a faco whereon were written Bestlcssness and discontent; Lilies nodded, bluobolls tinkled. Birds sang sweetly in the trees; Merry talk und Joyous laughter Sounded on tho summer breeze. "Oh," sighed Phylis. -'I am stifling;" And she raised her pretty head. "I am sure 'tis going to shower- ~ What a horrid day!" she said. In a warm and dusty city Janey, pinched and wan and white, Leaned against a heated building, Longing for tho cool of night. Suddenly she spied a floweret, Palo and slender, at her feet. "Oil!" she erle?!, and stooped to pluck it; Looking up in rapture sweet Through the crowded house-tops, Janey Caught a glimpse of bluo o'erhead; And abo kissed the little posy ''What a lovely day!" she said. Beauty lies within ourselves, Aftor all, they say; And tho glad and happy heart Makes tho happy day. -Gertrude M. Cannon, in St. Nicholas. COWSLIP GREENS. DI SOPHIE 6WETT. HEN I enjoyed my victuals there wu'u't n o t h i ii' that 1 thought so in u c h of ns a mess of cowslip preens,"said Mrs. Tibbetts plain tively, surveying a lillee pan lilied with tropical looking leaves and brilliant yellow blossom*. "Aud the blows carry rac right back to East Macedonia and the pretty smells there used to bc there iu the spriug of tho year. Seems as if spriug hndu't a fair chance here in Potipbar City. Your father used to like a mess of pork and greens-" "Ob, ma, I wieh you wouldn't want 6uch dreadfully vulgar things !" Addie Luella, who was sixteen, had tears of vexation in her protty bino eyes. "And I wish you could get over East Maccdouiu. Tho Parkhurst** cams from there, too, but who would think it? They're the very first pt?bplo in Potiphnr City nnu -uud Augusta wouldn't invite mo to the Charity Club tableaux. The reason for the little fine puckers that had been all day betweou Addie Lmellu'a brows bad como out now. Mrs. Tibbetts looked vaguely per plexed and troubled ; ebo dimly com prehended that to have a mother ob livious o? grammar and of social aspirations made life full of pin pricks for Addie Luella. Ia Potlphar City ono was nothing if ?ot stylish. Fifteen years before, the city had been a strip of uurecluimed prairie; now it was a great lumber town with most of the upphaucoi of civilization and all the fashions. Hiram Tibbetts, coming from East Mace donia in Maine, did his shuro in re claiming tho prairio uud made a for tune iu lumber. "Pa" was quito a magnate ol Potipbar City ; but of what usc was that, demanded Addie Luella, with tears, if ma would be so common and old-fashioned ? "I guess you'll have to do yonr so cial climbin' without your ma," said good Hiram Tibbetts, gazing with pride upon his pretty daughter. "Pa" did understand a little. "It don't seeiS a mite like Adeline Parkhurst to get so stncic up." said MrB. Tibbetts, reflectively. "When wc was girls in East Macedony, there wa'u't nobody eo intimate as Adeline and me ; ami I named you for her aud she named Augusty for me. Enoch Parker and your father aro second cousins, too, and it's a dretful clan nish family ; they stick to one 'nother through thick and thiu. But your father and Enoch had difficulty about some railroad stocks and haiu't never spoke to each other souce ; and then their goiu' to another mcctin', and Adeline gettin' so kind of high liv iu' ; not but what she's a real good woman and gives away a sight-" "?he isn't likely to have much to give away if what I've heard is true." This was Hiram Tibbetts, junior, a boy of seveuteen, who had just come in with tho importance of a rossossor of news. "It's a secret ; I overhead pa and another mau talking about it. Parkhurst is iu an awfully tight placo ; they think he'll fail ; then his mills will be closed; they say he's made au awful struggle to keep 'em open all winter and-don't you breathe lt to anybody, but they're afraid there'll bo a run on tho bank that he's President of; he hasn't done anything wrong, but he lost his head when ho began to get into trouble, and there are doubts about the way some of th-3 bank's money is invested." "Do you suppose there won't beany tableaux, Hi?" asked Addie Luella, breathlessly. "Oh, 'Gusta don't know anything about it yet, of courso, uor her mother, either. I saw them driving around this morning with that pair of spank ing bays and a new carriage. I sup pose he thinks ho must keep up ap pearances." "Im glad wo don't have to," said Mrs. Tibbetts, dtawing a loug breath. "I declare, if we have gone such dif runt ways I feel a nearness to Adeline when she's iu trouble. Kind of queer that I was thiukiu' of her this mornin'. I expect it 'twas because seeiu' thom cowslips in a peddler's wagon fetched old times right back to me. I run right out and bought ull ho had-and now I dou't ktiow as I know exactly what to do with 'em all. Your father used to like u mess of pork and greens." Addie Luella sighed heavily ; but she helped herself to all the blossoms, and made of her boudoir what her friend, Trixy Wainwright, called a symphony in yellow with them, and lilied a great bowl with them to deco*' rate tho diuuer table. "Ma" said sho loved to smell posies when bbc was eating; but she didu't like the caudles with which Addio Luella persisted in lighting the table; shu said cundios were old-fashioued iu Ea>t Macedony when sho was a girl, and what was the scuso of haviu' 'em when they had olectric lights? "l'a" looked askanco at the cowslip greens; ho said ho used to like'em wheu he was u boy, but be guessed with his dyspepsy ho wouldn't resk it. Mrs. Tibbetts looked at the neglected dish of greens and hud an inspiration (she kept it private, as she did many of her inspirations lest they shoal I be frowned upon by Addie Luci lu). She put KUiuu of the green*, with a bliceof pork on the top, into a dish of the old clover-leaf china that was her mother's-they seemed t j belong in rtouietnin? old-fashioned-and eent Iheia to AISW Lucretia Lnud. who hftti come from Maine io keep house i her brother. She placed tho dish a dainty basket and slipped a card ; ?ide conveying her compliments ; tl would impart ft little air of stylo the affair, whi*di was desirable in vi of the fact that Addie Luella mip find it out. "Cowslip greens from Mrs. Hin Tibbett6 ; that's what tho servant sait Miss Lucretia Lund took tho clovi leaf china cover off the dish and sni? daintry. Then she looked across t table at her brother-for the bas! had been brought in whilo they wt at dinner-and made a ry face. " cour?e it's very kind A her, but wi qneer messes theso Western people have!" she said. For Miss Lucre was only about thirty, had livel ir Maine city, and never in her life h heard of cowslip greens. "We cai eat them-pork, just think of it ! B it seems they're a delicacy ; and I thi I'll sond them around to Mrs. Parke who sent me that delicious pineapt preserve; it is so much the fashi hero to send dainties about." "Cowslip greens, with my comp men ts, to Mrs. Parker, Mike," sho so to her servant, and dispatched t basket, nil unwitting of tbo card whi Mrs. Tibbetts had slipped into it. Tho Parkers were dining when t basket arrived ; but the meal was hurried one, because one of the ch dren had been taken suddenly ill wi tonsilitis. "Cowslip greens? dear me, I dot know what they are," said Mrs. Pu ker; :'but I am suro they must 1 very nice, for Miss Lund is a fli housekeeper. We don't caro for gree: at all; I think I'll send them nroui to Mrs. Parkhurst ; her mother is very old lady from Mame, is visitii her, and pork and greens are so o fashioned. " Mrs. Parker didn't seo Mrs. Til betl's card in tho basket, and her mc senger, who was sent for the dootor i the same time, gavo tho basket to ot of tho Parkhurst maids without an explanation. Thc Parkhurst famil had got to their after-dinner coffee b the time tho basket reached thom. A it had como mysteriously, Mrs. Pari hurst looked for some token of th donor, aud found the card. She uttered an exclamation of BUI prise, and her faco Hushed as she rea the name aloud. "Augusty Tibbetts! Why Adelin -why Adeline ! and cowslip gr oem in the clover-loaf chiny that was he mother's-the chiny that August Pritchard had when sho married Ni hum French ! It's just is if 'twas yes tiddy." The wrinkled hands tba lifted the clovcr-lcaf china cove trembled visibly, and a tear came nea falling upon tho pork aud greens Grandma was childish, the Parkkurs children thought. "I don'tsec how she carno to do it, mnrmured Mrs. Purkhurt "It'Bholdiu1 out tho olive branch Adeline, auditah't Christian not t take it BO !" said tho old woman, bro kculy. "Life is too short for lastiu bitterness; we was yuuug togethor and like own folks ! Why, Enoch am Hiram Tibbetts are owu folks." " 'Sh !" Mrs. Purkhurstluid her han? on her mother's and glanced warniug ly at her husband. "They're tho kind that hold i grudgo-both of them," sho said, in i low toue. Euoch Parkhurst aroso am left thc table silently. Ho was a taci turn man by nature, aud of late thc habit of silence had grown upon him, Tho old Indy sui I she thought Enoct was burdened ; old eyes aro dimmed tc some things only to be opened widei to others ; his wifo and tho childrot said he was always so ; he had so man-y business cares. As he closed tho dining room dooi behind him Enoch Parkhurst put his hand to his head. "Hiram Tibbetts! he could Bavc me," ho murmured ; "he would have done it ouco-now it is impossible " "Adeline, you'll take mo to-morrow bo see Augusty Tibbetts, won't you?" Clrandma was saying as tho door slosed. "When Augusty has come moro'n halfway so, seems as if 'twas the least you could do !" "We haven't spoken for so long, ind she is -is in such n different set," faltered her daughter. "I would really havo liked to have Addie Tibbetts in tho tableaux," said Augusta Parkhurst, a seventeen-year old girl, whose very plainness was stylish, Addie Luella said. "She would make a beautiful Bluebeard's wife-with her head huug up, you know, her hair is so long and light ; but she isu't in our sot." "I don't kuow how Augusta would take it," pursued Mrs. Parkhurst, meditatively. r"I should think she had shown you bow sho would tako it, sondin' you cowslip greens on her mother's clover leaf chiny," insisted Grandma. The next day tho prancing bays aud the new enrriago stopped at the Tib betts's door. There had been some anxious and angry looks cast after them, as they passed the mill, by workmen who hud henrd that the bread was soon to be taken frqm their children's mouths; but the two occu pants of the carriage were quite obliv ious of such troubles. Grandma, ra diant with delight, holding tho basket containing the precious china on her knee, and Adeline Parkhurst, wonder ing whether all her acquired society manner would cuablo her to bo quito at her ease with "poor Augusta," who had never acquired any manner at all. "They arc-they are coming hore, ma!" cried Addie Luella, in a tumult of delight, and earnestly hoping that everybody was looking. "Oh, mo, ma, won't you wait till Jenkins opens tho door !" sho wailed. But Augusta Tibbetts'B simulo soul and kindly heart had, in au instant, dropped into oblivion tho colduess and social slights of years ; she throw her large white apron (trimmed with homo-mudo lace, Addie Luella's des pair) over her shoulders and hurriod down the steps ; nothing loss thuu a sidewalk welcome would do for Ade line and Gran'ma'am. She was a simple soul, but after ull she showed herself quick of wit; she felt only a moment's perplexity about tho cowslip greens and of that she ?nado no sign. "I won't tell 'em it's all a mistake about my sendiu' 'em-not till 1 havo to," sho said to herself. "And if I can make Lucretia Luu I koop still I don' kuow as I ever will !" And it may us well bo hero recorded that Mrs. Tibbetts managed tho altair with such truly Machiavellian diplo macy that tho little comedy or errors was never discovered by the filial re cipients of her cowslip green*. It was a delightful call. Adeline Parkhurst forgot that she had acquired a society muuuer, uud Augusta Tib betts forgot that Addie Luella was be ing mortified by her bud grammar. They talk of "faraway and long ago," and the brokeu friendship waa ce mented by laughter und tears. Hiram Tibbetts listeue I in fcilence to his wife's story of Adeline Park hurst's visit and the reuewal of tho old friendship ; she had felt a little uncer tain how pu would take it, ho was one to hold a grudge ; but her delight had to have vent. "Mcbbe I shouldn't havo folt quite so pleased if ? hadn't boon thinkin' considerable of East Macedouy-as I do, como spring o' the year, " she mur mured, apologetically. "A.nd Augusta has sent me invita tion to take part in the tableaux 1 I'm to bo Bluebeard's last wife-not just one of the heads hung up in a row!" cried Addie Luella, joyously. Her father's rugged foatures reflect ed Addie Lnella's joy. "He's felt her little slights if ho is a man. She takes after him in think in' so much of them kind of things," thought Addio Lnella's mother. "I've been thinkin', mn," said Hi ram Tibbetts, huskily, and little a shamefacedly, to his wife, the next morning-"I've been thinkin* that mebbe I'd better help Enoch Park hurst a little. It's so's I caa about as well as not-" "I was Lopin' yon would, pa!" cried Mrs. Tibbott?, joyfully. "It ain't worth thc while to hold grudges anil-mobbs yon was somo to blame." There wero only a few who ever knew how Enoch Parkhurst weathered his financial storm ; but the mills did not close and tbero was no rnn upon the bank ; instead of thoso catastrophes he seemed to bo entering upon a new era of prosperity, and Potiphar City felt rouewed contldonce in tho sound ness of its rich men. And Addio Luella really was Blue beard's last wife in tho tableaux. Be ing a simple soul, to whom it is uat jiral to share her experiences, Angus ta'Tibbetts has sometimes wanted to tell, but abo has so far contente I her self by Baying, aloud, wliou she was quito alone : " 'Twas all an ovorrulin' Providence -and them cowslip greens!"-Inde pendent. Merits ol thc Balshi. Fruit of all sorts is becoming moro and more a part of the regular ?3od supply and a growing constituency of people announce themselves ns be lievers in a diet of fruit and nuts. Leaving theso extremists out of the present question, it is certain that health increases for whoever substi tutes fruit, both fresh and dried, for a large part of tho ordinary diet in daily usc. Ono of our best literary workers has found that a bunch of good raisins with a slice of bread or a crisp cracker or two makes a lunch that is not only satisfying but leaves the brain clear for tho afternoon's work. Even in thc days of our fore fathers the Muscatel raisin.', called so perhaps from tho Muscat grape, brought by the Moors from their Afri can homes into Spain, were croditod with a special recuperative force, and kuown as "raysons of the sun." Thoy worn part of tho equipage of a last ill ness. Saffron water and theso "ray sous of the sun" were side by sido on thc neut little table, which held also tho big Bible rescrvod for solemn oc casions, all three reminding tho suf ferer that ho or she had done with tho ordinary fare of mortal life. But there need bo no such somber association with tho raisin of to-day, our own California, providing, at its be?t, a rich fruity raisin, sun dried, of course, yet not so much dried as distilled, all the water/ parts boiug driven off, and tho richer qualities of tho grape devclopo? iu Nature's own alembic Theso raisins, with whole wheat bread, mako a genuine food, good for child as well as man, and hailed by tho ohildron with acclama tion. The need for sugar-an instinct with children-is met in raisins.pr datos in infinitely more healthy fash ion than in nuy other order of sweet, and tho child who has full provision of such fruits makes no demand for candy or cake. Tho best California raisins aro now chonp enough to bo within the moans of all, and their use is steadily increasing. A set of young lawyers iu New York hive adoptod fruit ns a lunch, fiudinr that work can go on with none of the 6enso of heavi ness produced by tho ordiuary meal; and raisins have boen introduced as one of the most satisfying forms. Philadelphia Press. Cnn thc Heart Break? Grief docs not kill, aud it is indeed vory seldom that heavy sorrow causes death to any ono when in a healthy condition. It i", however, vory often tho indirect cause of a death, either by briugiug disenso to a climax, or by rendering tho sufferer moro liable to its attack. If a man is con vinced that his grief is moro than he can bear, those who have studied tho matter agree that, through tho force of his own imagination, the man will actually die from a "broken heart" The great Napoleon waa killed by an internal disease, but it is supposed that it would not have been fatal had not his spirits been so depressed through exile and defeat. William Pitt, the orator, is said to have died from a "broken henrt," caused by his great grief at the failure of his cher ished hopes and plans. And there have been many other such instances in tho history of this country. When plagues aro raging in a town, statistics show that as many die from fright and imaginary causea as from tho real epidomic, BO great a hold has tho fear of death on some people. If a mau is condemned to bo shot, it has ofteu occurred that on the word "fire" ho has dropped lifeless, al though, through accident or design, no bullet has in reality left the gnu. There is a queer case on rocord con cerning tho daughter of a colebratod French novelist, who was deeply in terested in ono of her fathor's stories, lt appeared in installments, and the heroine was suffering from consump tion. As the girl brooded over the uud fate of tho heroine, she, too, sud denly manifested tho sumo symptoms A physiciun recommended her father to restore the heroine to health, which ho did a few chapters on, and at the sumo timo us the girl iu her novol re covered, BO also did his too sentimental daughter. -Philadelphia Timea. An Alleged Substitute ior Tea. A horticultural paper ia rosponsibl? for the atutomout that au excellent substituto for Indian or Chiuod9 to? has boen found. Tho toa plaut will not grow in Eugluud, save nuder very rare uud exceptional ciroumstuuco-?, but tho now plant, which is au accli matized alirub, the Chimouauthus f ra - grans, first brought from Japan <>. England by A unirai Harvey, posses ses nil the essential requisites of to.i. lt has livo varieties, all equally ser viceable for toa. Tho beverage made from them is quite as good as tho best grceu tea with cream and sugar. At present, wo ure told, "the plant is growing vory well at Buckhurst Hill on a Bandy soil with a southern as pect, lt will do equally well iu Kent, Sussex, liants, Dorset, Devon aud Cornwall, where muuy thousand acres j of land now vacant, or yielding un productive crop?, may he used for o new aud profitable in lustry."-Tit BiU. I i BUDGET OF FUN. HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Another Kind of Fruit-Lots of Open lugs -An Indorsement-No At traction-The Sliver Lining -Discovered, Etc. s Thut bridal pairs arc not like other pears? Is a fact you'vo doubtless ?cou. Wby ure they not? liceauau you know thc dears Are softest whoa they ure greeu. -Truth. KO ATTRACTION. Ada-"No man over had tho faco to kiss me." Kitty-"You moan you never had thc faco to make him. "-Peck's Sun. LOTS OF OPENINGS. Ho-"I've been watching for a chance to kiss you for tho last ten minutes." She-"You must be near-sighted." -Lifo AN INDORSEMENT. "Is Bunkins as good as his word?" asked ono business man. "I guesss ho is," replied the other. "His word isn't good for anything." -Washington Star. OUTCLASSED. Mrs. Highfly-"Did you have a good time at Mrs. Uppertohn's salon?" Mrs. Wayup-"No, indeed! It was awfnlly stupid. No ono there but in tellectual people, you know."-Puck. SAFE. "I hear thnt you are engaged to a girl with an ideal. You are likely io lind that sort of girl pretty hard to get along with." "Ob, I guess I am all right. You see, I am her ideal."-Cincinnati Tri bune. IT'S ALWAYS THERE. Wigglestou (a furnished room lodger, to burglar ot three a. m.) . "What do you want hore?" Burglar- "I'm looking for dust." Wiggleston-"Great Scott! You have struck the right place. Look under thc bed." THE SILVER LINING. ? "My poor yabbit's dead !" "How sad!'" "Papa killed my pore yabbit in back yard!" "Ob, dear!" "I had taters wiv my poro yabbit !" -?-Boston Budget. A WISH. Alberta-"I dovish it wore uot thc custom to wear thc engagement ring only on thc third linger of ono's ?oft hand. Alethea-"So do I. I can't get more than halt my engagement rings on at ono time now. "-Lifo. STILL ENSLAVED. Merritt-"I saw ono of your mem bers tako a young mau into the meet ing. I thought that was against tho rules of the club?" Cora-"Why, sho is tho Secretary and has to briug him to sharpen her pencil for her. "-Judgc. THE NEW WOMAN. "Caroline!" In the darkness of night ho clutched the coverlet wildly. "Caroline," ho gasped, "I'm euro there's a woman in the house !" But his wife only laughed at his ter rors, and with a littlo moan ho cov ered up his head. DISCOVERED. The cruel eyes of tho pirato gleamed as they roHtcd upon bis prey. "You will be my wife," ho sneered. She was silent. "Woman !" cried tho outlaw; "you dare not refu.se it!" Her cheek bluueked. "Goodness!" sho gasped; "how did ho guess my age?"-Puck. SHE FOUND IT. "Know Colonel Trotter! Woll, I should hope so ! He usod to bo au old llame of mine," Haid Mrs. Norris. "flumph! why didn't you marry him then?" snorted her husband. Mrs. Norris smiled one of her sweet, womauly smiles. "Because I was looking for some thing easier," sho observed, simply. -Puck. WANTED AN INVITATION. "How did it happen," said tho smart young turkey to the sedate old gobbler, "that you got through tho winter without occupying tho place of honor at some fashionable dinuor table?" "Because," responded the gobbler, with a far-away look in his voice, "be cause nobody axed rae."-Rockland Tribune. THE NEW MAN. "Jeremiah," said tho new woman, severely, "here's u memorandum in your pocket which shows you have been buying sugar stock." "Yes, my dear," replied the new man, meekly. "Do you think that wo can afford such goings-on as this?" "No, dear. I supposo we can't. But I couldn't help buying it. It looked like such a bargain."-Washington Star. NIGHT Ain HAD FOR HIS BUSINESS. Little Girl- "Pleaso give me a pou uy, ma'am? Mother is dead, and my hither cau't go out at night auy more, by tho doctor's orders, and so we cau't earn any money." Benevolent Passerby-"Can't go out at hight? Why, what's your father's business?" , Little Girl-"?Io's a burglar, ma'am, and before he was laid tip with bronchitis wo used to live beautiful ly."-Loudou Globe. Thc Four-Tec il Horse. Thc American Museum of Natural History has receutly ohtuiucd thc fa mous skeleton of tba littlo ostrippus, or four-toed horse. This littlo crea ture comes from the tertiary strata, and is, no doubt, tho oldest horso known. lt mensures ouly lhreo and a halt hands in height uni is about the size of a full-grown fox. It has all the Outtruotcr'titiei of tao ordinary hone, including tluixpaco in the lower jaw for hold in-J; a bit. Tho limbs of the little skelelou uro no larger than an ordinary pencil. -New York Sun. Sinai le 4 JL'.tjf i i Hie Wurld. The smallest city in the world is tho iniiiuture plu.t.i known a? St.*war I Ciiv, Alaska, its tin."1 inhabitants be ing respectively 3I:iyur, Chairman ot the Uoard <>:' Aldermen an I President of the Coumoy Cou noil. - Pittsburg Dispatch, WORDS OF WISDOM, Art is nature concentrated.-Balzac. Familiarity and satiety aro twins. Mme. Deluzy. No wiso man over wished to be younger.-Swift. Idleness is as fatiguing as repose is sweet.-Do Levis. Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to thc other, and that very slippery.-Brnyere. Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a great differ ence in tho fruit. -Soorates. Friendship is tho shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the sotting sun of life.-La Fontaine. The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense cor rupts the purest aoule. -Fenelon. It is difficult to believe that a true gentlemen will ever become a game ster, a libertine, or a sot.-Chapia. It is meet that noblo minds koep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cauuot be seduced?-Shakes peare. "What can they soe iu the longest kingly line in Europe savo that it runs back to a successful soldier ?-Walter Scott. Thcro is a strength of quiet endur ance as significant of courago as tho most daring feats of prowess.-Tuck erraan. Wise kings have generally wisc counselors! as he must bc a wise mau himself who is capable of distinguish ing one;--Diogenes. Good men have the fowest fears. Ho who fears to do wrong has but oue great fear ; he has a thousand who has overcome it.-Bovoe. Providence lins nothing good ou high in store for him who docs not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal con dition of success.-Munger. If you have great talents, industry will improve thom ; if moderate abili ties, industry will supply their defi ciencies. Nothing is deuied to well directed labor ; nothing is ever to be attained without it.--Sir J. Reynolds. Beauty is a fairy ; sometimes she hides herself in a flower cup, or uudor a leaf, or creeps into tho old ivy, aud plays hide and seek with the sun beams, or haunt?; some ruined spot, or laughs ont of a bright young face. - G. A. Sala. We talk of human life as a journey, but how variously is that journey per formed ! There are those who come forth girt, and shod, and mantled, to walk on velvet lawns and smooth ter races, where every gale is arrested, and every beam is tempered. There are others who walk on tho Alpiuo paths of life, against driving misory, und through, stormy sorrows, OVI.T sharp afflictions ; walk with bare feet anil naked breast, jadod, mangled, ant chilled.-Sidney Smith. Xmliroont* as Fool ia Europe. As au article of food mushrooms are becoming more widely aud favorably known each yoar. Immense quanti ties aro ({rowu for market in caves near Part?, somo of thc beds being scveu miles long. One grower lias twenty-one miles of mushroom^ grow ing at Merv. In Haly tho trulflo-bods aro so valuable that they are guardo I as carefully as aro gamo preserves in En^laud. But tho poachers, quito equal to the necessity, train their dogs to go among tho bods, dig up those mushrooms of marketable value, and bring them out to the edge, where they aro waiting to receive them. Mushrooms briug in a revonu9 of 820,000 a yoar to Rome, and M. Boques calls tho despised toadstools tho "manna of the poor." Mr. Julius Palmer, our own author ity on mushrooms, says: "Wore tho poorer classes of Russia, Germauy, Italy or France to sec our forests dur iug the autumn rains, they would feast ou tho rich foo.l there going to waste. For this harvest requires no seed time and asks for no peasant's toil. At the same time the value of mushroom diet rauks second to meat alone. America is ono of the richest countries in mushroom food."-St. Nicholas. Au Interesting l?aby. Sho had a seat in a Michigan avonuo car, with a baby on her lap aud all bundled up in an old shawl. A woman next to her with two small children seemed to have considerable curiosity about that baby, and after trying sev eral times to got a sight of its face she said : "Haven'tyou got your child bun dled up a good deal for this weather?" "But I have to keep him warm, ma'am," was the reply .'For what reason?" "Tho doctor told mo to." "Then thc peor little thing is ail ing?" "Justa little ailing ma'am-just a little. Ho's got measles with the mumps atop of it, but tho doctor says he's growiug-" No ono heard tho rent of her words. There were four or fivo mothers and six or sevcu childrcu in thc car, and there was a stampede which took thom all ont and everybody else as well. When tho car rolled on again the woman with the baby lookod at the conductor inquiringly and asked: "Has anything broke down or blown up or run off the track to scare 'cm all out?"-Detroit Free Press. (?lass Bricks. Some glass bricks of tho system Fal con kr were exhibited from tho glass works, Adlerhutten, in Ponzig, Sile sia at a recent meeting of tho Vereins zur beforderuug deo Gartenbaues iu berlin. These bricks are iuteudodto be used in constructing the walls of plant houses and winter pardens, and they aro made out of blown glass, an I closed under 500 degrees of heat. They possess internally a hollow of about ouo-third of their entire contents, which, being filled with rarefied air, acts as a uou-coudiictor of heat. They aie joiued together with cement, by which a rigidity is obtained which points to the possibility of their bciug employed as rootiug in semicircular form, with out auy usc being made of iron as a .supporting structure. In houses built of this material, there must be many advantages not obtainable by other modes of construction with other ma terials, including greater economy in heating. No windows aro necessary, although, for tho purpose of onubliug a person to look outside, these fittings might bo supplied.-Scientific Ameri can. .mm m ^plil O.ien hy a v. iva ai ul Wa'cr. While William Simpson, head laun dryman at tho Hotel Col?ralo, ot Glenwood Springs, Cel., was in com pany with a crowd ot young meu in tin: .swimming pool they un lerto?k to mildil each other in foolhardy acts. ? Finally Simpson undertook to sit on tho nozzle fro.u which tho water | uponf, wheoh has tho power of 12) j pounds. The water hurst him uviou. ' -St, Louis tiiol??-D.>u)jcrftt( HOUSEHOLD HINTS. To wash a black CKina silk, rub it with ammonia water and press it be tween two cloths. When tho cellar is being cleaned, add a little copperas water and salt to tho whitewash. Oil paints are best removed by chloroform. Apply a few drops and rub gently with a woolen rag. To keep away blaok ants, tho sim plest remedy ia to sprinkle salt plenti fully in tho places they infest. Wall papers that aro soiled or that ono fools aro dirty, though thc grime is not visible, should bo brushed or wiped with a dry cloth, and rubbed with bread crumbs. To disinfect a book which has boen in a sick room, wash the cover with a purifier. Put it out in open air for ono day, where the sun can beat down on it with all its force. To bleach a piece of white embroid ery ihat has become yellow, wet it in soap suds, not too strong, and lay it on the grass where tho sun will shino on it. Wet it and turn it every day until sufficiently bleached. To remove black and bluo stains from scarlet oloth: Wet them with water (cold rain water), rub them with a piece of scarlet cloth and a mixture of three drops of wino vinegar and some lemon juice; finally wash in cold rain water. Two pints of white sugar, one and one-half pints of water three well bcatcn eggs, heaping teaspoonful but ter, two tablespoonfuls cornstarch, juice of two lemons and rind of two. Cook ovor boiling water. Stir to keep smooth. Use as sauce or for tarts or layer cake. Lemons may bo kept for a long time, even months, under glass. If you aro not going to uio them imme diately, lay them on a flit surface aud invert a goblet over each one. After six months' imprisonment in this way, they have boon taken out as fresh and juicy as ever. To make horseradish sanco, take half a pint of milk or cream in a double boiler. Rub together a table spoonful of butter and an oven table spoonful of flower ; then stir them into tho boiling milk, add one ounce of young horseradish, finely gratod, a half teaspoonful of salt and tho same of sugar. This is ako a very nico 6auco to serve with boiled fish. Facts About Population. According to Gannctt's book, "Thc Building of a Nation," we had 3,929, 214 pcoplo in 1790, and in 1890 we had G2,022,250. We have doubled our population in tho past thirty years, whilo Franco has increased 3 per cent and Great Britain and Ireland 20 per cent. Maine and Vermont are not increasing, and Novada is decreasing. In 1790 Virginia was tho most popu lous state in tho union, with Pennsyl vania second. In 1910 New York reached tho second place, and in 1820 tho first place, Virginia then being second. In 1830 Pennsylvania got the second placo and still holds it. In 1790 the third place was held by North Carolina, but between 1840 aud 18S0 Ohio held it, and in 1890 Illinois secured it. In 1790 wo had only six cities of over 8,000 population each. Our ur ban population then was 131,472, and tho rural 3,797,742. In 1890 wa had 413 cities of ovor 8,000 population each, and twonty-eight of them had a population of over 100,000 each. We have eleven cities of over 200,000 pop ulation each. Our urban population has jumped up to 18,284,385, whilo tho rurul population is 44,337,805. The north Atlantic states contain tho greatest proportion of the urban cle ment. Within a radius of fifteen miles of tho New York city hall may bo found 3,250,000 people. Thc average size of families has di minished from 5.55 persons in 1850 to 4.03 in 1890, over ll per cont. The highest average is in the southern states. The males at thc last census numbered 32,067,880, and thc females 30,554,370. Despite our civil war, the males have increased moro than the femalos for the past forty years. In Europe it is different. There tho fe males outnumber the males. Tile I'm-nil of IlnppiiiCBii. Wien the Declaration of Independence a'< Fertcd man': rUht to th!*, it enunciated HU Immortal truth. The bilious sufferer is on tim road to hnppInCM when ho bovins to take I lost et te r's Stomach Hitter'', lb- no t efli i acinus reculator of the Iver ti. existence. Equally reliable Is it in chil s ?nd fever, con stipation, dr?prp>I?, rheumatism, kidney trouiile and nervousness. Usa it reg-u arly, and not at odd Intervals. _ A cruel utorv runs on wheels, and every hand ells the wheels M they run. The Greatest Hedical Discovery of the Age. KENNEDY'S Medical Jiscovery. DONALD KENNEDY, OF ROXBURY, MASS,, Has discovered tn one of our common posture woods a romody that cures ovory kind of Humor, from the worst Scrofula down to a common pimple. . He has triod lt In over eleven hundred cases, and never failed except In two cases (both thunder humor). Ho hos now in his possession ovor two hundrod certifi cates of its value, all within twenty miles of Boston. Bond postal card for book. A beneltt is always oxporionced from the first bottle, and a porfect ouro is warranted whon tho right quautity is taken. When tho lungs aro alTooted it canses shooting pains, like noodles passing through thom ; the some with the Livor or Dowels. This is causod by tho ducts being stoppod, and always disappears iu s week after tnking it. Head tho ?abel. If tho stomach is foul or bilious it will causo squeamish feelings at first No change of diet ovor necessary. Est tho best you can get, and enough of lt. Dose, ono tablespoonful in water at bed time. Sold by aU Druggists. ? Exhaust* are made to produce largei use of Fertilizers rich in 1 Write for cur "Farmers' Guide, is brim full of useful information for f will make and save you money. Ad GERMAN K Throat raraljj?k, (From (he Courier-fferald, Swiiffl}, ff?fy? It wn? publicly talked al] over Chuff County, Michigan, for some time before tug Courier-Herald senj o reporter to Dover \<? fully investigate tho Coulter ditter. Hfl finally Trent, and we publish to-day bia fuji report Tho Goulters ard promlnont pooplo,' though Mrs. CL In responso td the questa whether eh* objeotod to beiag interviewed, said, "Certainty not." Her Story follows: t "About 14 years ago WO decided to talc? up our abode io Dorer and everything went along smoothly (or several years, business progressed, and being of a saving tempera ment we accumulated quite an amount. Our family increased as tba years rollod by and we now have 5 children living, the oldest 15, youngest 8, but sloknes? made Its way Into our household, and doctors' bills floodoi upon us, until we havo nothing lott but our borne and theft) sweet children. Everything went to satisfy the claims of physicians. "About -throo yours ajo I had a miserable fueling at tho back of my ears, my right band became paralyzed and the paralysis extend ed to my arm and throat, aa J would affect my head and eye's, somotlmcs for days I would lose my sight, my face was deformed, lifeless aa it wore, my no.30 was drawn to one side, and I presented a pltiabto appearanos and never expecting to regain my natural facial expressions. I employed the best phy sicians that could be proourod, oxpendtng thousands of dollars for their services, but could not obtain relief. At last, they stated my caso was beyond tho reach of medical skill, audit wonld bo but a short time until the ona would come. This certainly Was not very encouraging to mo, but I never gavo up hope. In connection with recelviug the at tendance of physicians I have? tried every medicine known to the apothecary but never ret-oived .any relief until Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People came to my assistance. Before I bad taken half of tho first box the doformlty In my face bad loft me, ami before four boxes hnd been consumed the paralysis had disappeared entirely, and much to my Eurprlso I felt li ko a now woman. I have not taktm any medicine slnco lost spring, just about a year ago, and my troublo bas not appeared since. I owe my health, my life to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. "A short timo slnco my little boy John was afflicted ' with St. Vitus* dance. Ho could not walk across the room without as sistance, in fact ho would fall all over him self, but after taking a few boxes of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, St. Vitus' dance entre ly loft bim, and no trace of the affliction ls left. Thoso Pills aro worth their weight in gold. You may savin this connection that I am willing at any time to make affidavit to tho truth of thoso statements, and further more, I will answer any communication con cerning my case, ns I consldor lt nothing moro than right and just that I should assist sufferinK humanity." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain all the olomeuts necessary lo give new lifo and rich ness to tho blood and restore shattered nerves. They aro for salo by all druggists, or may be had by mail from Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y., for Gu cents per box. or six boxes for 62.50. Kvcry Motlier Mioiild Always Have iiboitloof Parker'sGlnjrerTonie. Nothinirso k'ood i or pain.wiuknesv'old* and ?-leeplessiicas Double thc Fruit Yield. A generous mulching of coal and wooil ashes mixed around apple, pear, peach, plum ami cherry treoe, grape vines in tho spring will not only large ly protect them from insects, but by furnishing nutriment, greatly increase tho yield of fruit. Try it aud bo con vinced. Fine Points. When you soe a mau tako o?f his bat to you, it is a sign that ho respecta yon; but when he is seen divesting himself of his coat, you eau mako un your mind that he intends to try and make you respect him. The Mean Thing. Ella-You ought to have soon Jack when he proposed. Stella (meaningly)-Oh, I've aeon bim. t ON THE ROAD ^fSrr^.to recovery, the 3'oung woman who is taking Doctor Pierce's Favorite Pre scription. In maidenhood, wo manhood, wife hood and moth erhood the " Pre scription " is a supporting tonic and nervine that's peculiarly adapted lo her needs, regulat ing, and strength ening the system and curing the derangements' of thc sex. Why is it so many women owe their beauty to Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription? Because beauty of form and face radiate from the common center-health. The best bodily condition results from good food, fresh air and exercise coupled with thc judicious usc of the "Prescription." 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