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Thought He Had Heard of Him. A proud republican papa and his thirteen-year-old boy called on the speaker, and tho youngster, for tho want of something better to say, piped out: "Mr. Main Reed, we have all of your books in our library, and I think your 'Scalp Hunters' is fine." Mr. Heed explained that he was not the celebrated Captain Mayne Reid, and the boy looked very muoh disap pointed. Getting Ahead of Her. "What ! Styner in trouble Trith his wifei I'm surprised at that. Always heard they got on famously ; that there never was u better husband; that hs anticipated her every wish." "That's what ho did on this occa sion. He found that sho wished to get a divoroe from him, and so he an ticipated that wish and got one from her."-Boston Transcript. Ghosts ar? Pale and Shadowy, Say those who profess to have Interviewed them. Whether spooks or tallow-faced or not, mortals are whose.blood is thin and watery in consequence of imperfect assimi lation. When invalids resort to Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, and uso that unequalled tonio persistently, they soon "pick up" in stroneth, flesh and color. It should be used also to prevent malarial, rheumatic and kid ney complaints, and to remedy constipation, sick headache and nervousness. ,If character on one hand, or wealth on the other, are at stake, choose the former. Dr. Kilmers STAMP-ROOT cures all Kidney and Bladder troubles. Pamphlet and Consultation free. Laboratory Binghamton. N. Y. We assume a great responsibility In the sight of God when we jrjdge someone else. SINGERS AND ARTISTS GT*XFBALI<Y are users of "Brown's Bronchial Troche-** for Hoarseness and Throat Troubles. They afford instant relief Friendship which flows from the heart can not be frozen by adversity. u STATE OP OHIO, CITY OP TOLEDO, LUCAS COUNTY. FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. CHENEY & Co., doing; business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and tli:.tsaid firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL LARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of HALL'S CATARRH OUBK. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in mv presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. , A. W. GLEASON, ? ?8ZAL { . ~t- ' Notary Publip. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. BTSold by Druggists, 75c. We have not been wifhout Pfrso's Cure for Consumption for 20 years.-LIZZIE FERREL, Camp St., Harrisburg, Pa.. May 4, '94. It Ia Ho Eu M j to Item OTO (orris With Hiodercorns,we wonder so many endure them. QotJUind seo how nicely it tadCM them^t^^ Feed The nerves upon pure blood, and they will he your faithful servants and not tyrannical masters; you will not be nervous, but strong, cheerful and happy. To have pure blood, and to keep it pure, take Sarsaparilla Hood's Pills euro all Liver Dis. 25 cents. 125^5? POULTRY YARD i 108 pp. Slat Ed. IV ritten and (told by a farmer and l*oultry man ofSO yearn experience i A. plain, practical SyMtem. feanily learned. Describen 11 heir dUenHes, how tom alie liena lay. Cholera, Capes A Houp ron need not have. Price,aSc.(Atamps). A Free jcat'l. A.M.IASG,Box 331. Chicago,Til. s lesson in Cooking Two Cupfuls of Hecker's Self-Raising Buckwheat, Two Cupfuls ol Cold Water, Stir a few times, Bake on a hot griddle. Takes about a Minute. BUCKWHEAT. P oor soi il and exhausted fields which were once productive can again he made profitably fertile by a proper rotation of crops and by the intelligent use of fertilizers containing high per centages of Potash. Strikingly profitable results have been obtained by follow ing this plan. Oar pamphlets are not advertising circular? boom ing special fertilizers, but are practical work?, contain big latest researches on the subject of fertilization, and are really helpful to farmers. They are sent tree for the asking. ? GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New York ASK YOUR DEALER FOR W. L. DOUGLAS ?3. SHOE ??ORID!HE If you pay 84 to ?0 for shoes, ex amine the W. L. Douglas Shoe, and ?3 see what a good shoe you can buy for %J ? OVER IOO STYLES AND WIDTHS, CONGRESS, BUTTON, and LACE, made In nil kinds of the best selected leather by skilled work men. We make and sell more $3 Shoes than any other manufacturer In the world. None genuine unless name and price is stamped on the bottom. Ask your dealer for our 85, 84, 83.50, 82.50, 8^.25 Shoes; 82.50,82 and 81.75 for boys. TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE. If your dealer cannot supply you, send to fac tory, enclosing price and 36 cents to pay carriage. State kind, style of toe (cap or plain), size and width. Our Custom Dept. will fill Sur order. Send for new Illus ited Catalogue to Box K. W.L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. jtforpliino Habit tan ed in 10 to2??l?/i. No pay till cur*U. DR. J. STEPHENS; Lebanon.Ohio. t/i PISO'S CUR E FOR ?j . 5 mxm^w^wsam * CUKt? WKERc Ali ELSE TAILS. I Best Cough .Syrup. Tantea Good. Uso I In time. Poid br druggists. 1*2 n- CONSUMPTION A SINGER CROWNED. The light came softly streaming The day the sln?er died; They whispered: "He is dreaming" v He lay so tranquil-eyed. t?o -vision ol Death's liver Flashed or. the waiting throng; The pale Hps seemed to quiver Still with Immortal song. Aid nations eame p.nd or^wnod him With laurels of their love; The deathless glory 'round him Seemed like i hat above. But greater than all glory Of worlds, or worlds to b?. Was Love's last, sweetest story, In Love's simplicity. For to the singer sleaping Where none might heed or mark, A little child came creeping With lilies in tho dark. And, 'mid the laurels gleaming, With trembling hands and fair, Laii them above his dreaming Kissed them, and left them there. -Frank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution. A COMPLETE CURE, LYE you had a good time ia town?" "No-o; beast ly hole ; bores ene to death." "But there is such a lot go ing on now. Did you not go to any thea "Yes, to every one ; music halb, too ; saw everything there was to be seen. I suppose I did enjoy myself, but I have forgotten it." The Girl looked at the Man steadily for a moment, but he walked moodily on, unconscious of her gaze. "Were there any ni se people stay ing at the same place?" she asked un concernedly, but still watching him. "No-o ; at least, 1 hardly spoke to any of them." "Who w??e those people you wrote about-those people you were with so much?" "Oh, they were Irish." Dead silence. The Man anet the Girl sauntered along the beach, each intent on his or her own thoughts. "What oharming people the Irish are, as a rule," the Girl >jaid at length. "Yes, awfully jolly," enthusiasti cally. "Were these?" "Oh, ye3, they weren't bad." * "How many were there, and of what sort and condition? Do rouse your self a little and try to be a trifle more entertaining. " The Man pulled himself together and made an effort. "What shall I tell you? About the Irish people I met? Well, there was a father, also a mother -awfully fine old lady she was-and a daughter." "Was the daughter pretty? Irish gurt are lovely as a rule, X think. Their eyes are so beautiful. Had this girl beautiful eyes?" "Ye-es, I suppose so." "Was she a nice girl, clever and so 0:1 ? Tell me all about her. " "Oh, there is nothing to tell." The Man grew restive under the question ing ; then he tried to turn the conver sation. The Girl sauntered on more slowly. She was a little paler than she h id been, but a slightly'mocking smile played around the oorners of her mouth. "How pretty those brown sails look out there," she said presently, point ing to a little fleet of fishing-boats far out on the glittering sea. "Mark, I should like to go out sailing. " "Would you?" he rejoined, indiff erently. "Yes; let us go and have a nice lon g day. I will get some provisions while you get the boat. Shall we go?" "I should like it if you would." With a little more alacrity he moved off, while the Girl wended ber way up the cliff path to tho house perched on the ton. "Poor boy 1" she said softly. "To ; be slangy, he is hard hit, or thinks he is, which amounts to the same. 1 am afraid he is very impressionable." Out at sea there was a soft breeze blowing, a little breeze that made the hot sun bearable and put new life and spirits into the two in the boat ; there was something so exhilarating, so free, BO invigorating, in the very feeling of flying along over the smooth, spark ling waters. Care seemed to be left behind, where it would not overtake them; anger, jealousy, mortification, seemed all too petty and mean to live in this great open stretch of sea and sky. "Shall we have lunch now?" The Girl was leaning back in a perfect nest of cushions, looking unspeakably com fortable and very pretty. "You look BO comfortable it is a pity yon should move," tho Man said. "I will unpaok tho things and hand you all you want. " "My dear boy, I could not possibly eat in this position, and loath as I am to disturb myself, my spirit longeth for sustenance. I am going to sit in the bottom of the boa1;," she said, "will you arrange somo cushions at my back for me?" Easily and deftly, and with an air in which the proprietor and protector were curiously mixed, he arranged her nest. '.This is awfully fine," said the Man, leaning back, with his hands clasped behind his head, and looking first at the Girl, then at the t ky, and then back again at the Girl. "This is splendid. I oould go on sailing away forever. One seems to leave all wor ries behind and forget all disagreea bles." The Giri did not speak for a mo ment. She was looking at the brown sails of the boats they were passing. "I do not know that I should care for it the rest of my existence," she said at length. "You are a very agree able companion, Mark; at least, you can be," with a little rising of her eyebrows; "but I think it would be very stupid to pass one's whole life with one friend-" "With one what?" "Fi i end," answered the Girl, calmly unfurling her sunshade and settling more comfortably into her cushions. The Man 6tared at her for a few seconds. Then he followed her gaze at the brown sails, and for a moment they appeared to find something of surpassing interest in them. "[ think it would be very jolly to bring out Mina Armstrong one day, ard her brother? don't you?" asked the Girl. "Ye-es, perhaps they would like it," indifferently. "Oh, Jack Armstrong told me yes terday that he is devoted to sailing. He wanted me to go with him-them -to-day, but I said you were corning, and you would think it odd if you found no one at home." "You were very kind," he answered a little sulkily. "1 am sorry to have kept you at home." "Oh, it dots net matter. I can go another day... I wanted to see yon, yon know." "Thanks ; but why not go in his boat to-morrow instead o? haring him here? You would enjoy it more, probably." "I don't know that I should," mus ingly. "Besides, I want you to know I Mina. She is such a dear little soul, and BO pretty. I am sure you will I quite fall in love with her. " I She looked at her companion for the j first time, then quickly lowered her I eunshado, for the dignified amazement I of his expression was too much for hei gravity. For minutes silence reigned in the boat. Tho Man was wondering if it could really be possible that the Girl regarded him simply as one of her j many friends, and was quite indiffer 1 eut as to whether he cared more for I another girl or not. It had never occurred to him that other men might admire Ruth so much as to wish to take her from him. He looked at her in his endeavor to fathom it all. He looked at her, and then he no longer wondered. She was really very pretty. When he looked at her she was leaning on tho side of tho boat, her head resting on her arm. "How perfectly idyllic it is," she finally said. "What a comfort it is to be able to sit silent when one feels inclined, and not feel one is playing the bore. Jt is a sign of true friend ship, Mark. I could not do so with any one but you, but you under stand." She looked at him with a sweet, grave smile. "We ought to be good friends after knowing eaoh other all these years, oughtn't we?" Mark nodded. " 'Friend' always seems to me such an inadequate, cold word," he said. "Friends and ac quaintances are the same to me." "Oh, no ; oh, no !" she cried. "Ac quaintances mean so little, they are nothing. I haye so many, but of friends so few. You are one of my chiefest, and-" "I always thought we were more than friends," he said. ; "You silly boy, how could we be?" she replied, with a little laugh, but the laugh did not ling true. "Well, you know what the old folks-" "Mark, do you know that it is near ly 4 o'clock, and that I promised to be at Armstrong's at 4.30? We must really go in now." Later that day it occurred to the Man that he had not thought of the Irish girl for several hours. He did not think of her uutil the moon rose, and he went out on the headland and sat alone ,vith his pipe. "Ruth, do you feel inclined to come out for a stroll?" The Girl was sitting in a large basket chair in tho garden on tho oiifT-top; in her hand she held a magazine, but she was not reading it, she was looking out over the sea, thinking, thinking of something which called up a little smile to her lips. She looked so sweet and fresh and COQI, her soft white gown showing her pretty, sunburnt checks, and the glo rious color of her hair. Mark ap proached her with his request almost diffidently. During the last week or two ho had found that she did not jump at his suggestions with ber old old alacrity ; in fact, it had taken him all his time and all his tact to secure her company at all, and so occupied had he been that he had had no time to think at all of the Irish girl ; at least he had only found time of an evening over his pipe, and two of those evenings he had spent in think ing of Rn th. . To-day, however, Ruth willingly consented to accompany him. "Let I us go on the heather," sho said, "and you must talk to me, for I am feeling fearfully lazy." So they strolled along the narrow lane inland until they came to the moor where great stringy beds of pur ple and white heather stretched away for miles and the low hedges were draped with festoons of honeysuckle and "old man's beard." Close to one of these hedges they found a seat, or at least Ruth found a seat ; Mark did not want one, he lay on the heather besido her. "Mark, this is an earthly paradise," she exclaimed, as uno leaned back against a soft cushion of sweet-scented thyme. "If I was superstitious 1 ihould say it was too good to last." "I think ic is, " said Mark, rather mournfully. "We seldom have a walk or anything together now, Ruth." "No?" She was not prepared for this sudden attack, and grew confused. The Man noticed it, and determined to make the most of it. "Ruth, dear, you have changed lately ; we are not such good friends as we used to be. Why is it? Tell me!" He looked up at her, and from his lowly position could see every change in her face "Don't te silly," she said, studi ously averting her eye6. She stooped and gathered a handful of heather, which she promptly began to destroy and scatter in little showers over her white gown. In a moment she recov ered and became herself again. "Get into a more comfortable position," she said, smiling down at him, "and talk to me. I must be amused." So the Man, with a sigh, lay down on his heather couch and began to talk. In thoso days he did anything the Girl told him, and everything he could think of to please her. Presently he began to talk of his late visit to Lou don, that visit on the subject of whioh he had hitherto been so silent. "And those Irish people," said the Girl, unconcernedly, idly sticking pieces of heather in his curls while she looked, keenly down on his face. The top o? his head was towards her, his eyes were fixed on the blue sea, where it appeored far away in the dis tance, so that he did not see her. "Why do you net ask them down here? You were so much with them and liked them so, I am sure you would be glad to have them." No answer. The girl stuck another piece of heather in his hair, then took it all out again. "I am sure I should have liked to have met them. 1 think I should have liked the girl awfully." "I know you would not." '..Why? I think we should get on beautifully together." "I am sure you would not. She is not your stvle at all." "What style is she?" "Oh, I don't know. She is an awful flirt, and not good form at all." "Ohl" A silence ensued for about five minntes.theu the Man rollodover, and, planting his elbows in the heather, looked up determinedly in bis companion's face. Au inkling of the truth had reached his brain. "Ruth, I must know. It is only fair that you should tell me why you have changed soto me?" Dead silence. The Girl looked away and made no at tempt to reply. "Won't you tell me?" he said, wistfully. "You aro making ; me very miserable, dear." His voice ! was quite sad and pleading; it touched ' the girl in spite of hersell. j "lam? Ob, Mark." The tears al , most came into har eyes, but she i smiled instead. "Mow eau I make j you unhappy?" "Because I love yon, Ruth, andi cannot boar this something that has risen between ns; it drives me mad. Kath, my dear girl, don't you know how I love yon, and that I want you to be something very, very much nearer than a friend?" The smile died away from her face ; she grow very palo, and her fingers trembled a little as she played with the heather, but ehe spoke calmly, al most coldly. "I did not know it was me you loved," she said. "I have never loved any one else, not with a real love such as I have for yon. I rna? have admired others, ye?, nn:1 perhaps thought myself in love with thom for a time ; but that is all KO different, you know it is." "Yo.'4, I think I know," she said; "but it might happen again." "I do not think it would," he said seriously. "J never knew until I came back this time, and-and began to feel that I might lose you, how much I loved you, dear." Ho wondered then why she smile 1 so oddly. "You must have seen it, Ruth?" "But, Mark, ho v about that other girl, that Irish girl? Aren't you don't you-care for her?" "Pooh!" said the Alan with un? feigned scorn. "Caro for her? I novor did. One may li rt with a girl like that, but as to loving her, ?r -marrying her-well, I pity the poor fool who does. She flirts abnoniin* ably." Then the Girl sruiied again, & triumphant little smile, quite unin telligible to the man. Shy knew that her course of treatment had been BUO oessful, tho cure was complete. "Why do you smile?" asked the Man, perplexed. "Because-oh-because I am so happy." "Happy! Do you mean that?" catching one of her ham's and kissing it passionately. "Then it is to be may I tell the old folks that it has all come about a3 they wished? Look at me, child, and tell me you really mean it, that you do caro." Still she looked away, intent .on tearing up tho unfortunate heather by her tide. The Man watched her in silent dismay; ho could not under stand her in this vairable mood. "You do not care," he said at last, when the silence had become unbear able. "You do not care, and you can not make yourself." There was a great sadness in his voice, his face seemed in a momeut to have aged and grown haggard. He turned over and propped himself on ono elhow. with his face well away from hers. Something was laid on his bowed head. It was Ruth's little hand, "Mark," she said, softly. "What is it, Kuih?" "Look up ; I want to tell you some thing," He obeyed her, and turned a very miserable pair of eyes towards her. ."'Never mind, little woman," he said bravely; "I know you can't enre" He stopped; something in her face making him forget what he was say ing. Her eyes were bright and shining, a delicate Hush crept up over her cheeks. "You are making a mis take. I do care, very, very much," she said earnestly, "it is all right now," and leaning towards him she took his face between her two hands and kissed him gently on tho fore head. "You dear little soul !" he cried, astonished at this unusual outburst on her part. But she had buried hep face in her hands to hide tho crimson tbatdyel hersweetface.-The Gentle woman. Indians in Canada, In Canada the white man provides provender for the winter. He lays in a store of frozen meat, frozen game, frozen fish and frozen milk. . He has vegetables in his cellar, stacks of fire wood at his door, and has his larder stocked with all the necessaries and many of the luxuries of life. The In dians, except thoso now becoming civ ilized, do none of these things. A fatalist could not be more apathetic on the subject of his next meal than is the red Indian, eveu when the prairie is beneath two feet of snow, must be so for many months, and the ther mometer lingers day after day at thirty degrees below zero, with an oc casional dii> to forty degrees. The wild Indian in winter starves; he starves himself. Two wiuters ago I was among the Stony Indian3, on the lake dotted plains of Alberta, almost within sight of the Rockies. There was not one of them who possessed more than a daj's food, except the chief, who had had the forethought to ?row and store a few bushels of potatoes. They subsisted by netting fish from beneath the frozen surface of a lake ; they shot partridges aud rabbits. Whenever they did so they ieasted. . If a day came when the fish could not be caught, and tho rabbits and partridges would not be shot-why, then they fasted and smoked kinikinik (the inner bark of the red willow.) While I was with them two squaws, af ter three days' sport, shot a bear, some rabbits and some cartridges. One would have -<au'^MtflBfiR3fi1' enco would luveMMpBraBo expediency o^ffl ?^^fff^u dicious J^tiffl B0' ^ow~ evL-r, L^B ^P*^^Tou;d .viv, "Just tb^fflP^^jf so." The r-ulku is ?-.-.j cuing but selfish. He will not feast while his neighbors fast. On this oo casion a grand dancing party was con vened, the whole of the spoil was cooked ; the next day not a mouthful was left, and the sleepers slept the sleep of the gorged.-Westminster Re view. _ A Bi? Piece ot Coal. In the Mineral and xuxeStry Build ing at Atlanta, Gu., has been placed on display the largest piece of coal in one lump ever taken from one vein. This is a solid block of coal eleven feet six inches in height and three feet one inch on each side. By geological experts it is regarded as one of the most phenomenal exhi bits of this character ever placed on display. This piece of coal was tuken especiully for the Government in its display at Atlanta. It was taken from the vein at an immense cost and brought to the exposition in a special car. The block of coal weighs live tons.-Grafton (W. Va.) Journal of Commerce. Cremation Growing in Favor. Cremation of the dead is growing in favor in Philadelphia. A cremation society was orgauized in 1888, and the number of bodies cremated eash year since then has increased steadily. In 1889 there were twenty-eight crema tions, an'l so far this year there have been eighty-six. Tho society has started recently a i?cheme to "popu larize the movemont," by imping bonds which net tho purchaeer throe per cent, interest per annum, and en title the holder of each hond to one incineration, with a receptacle and spooe for the storage of tho ashes. The Hociety now has 260 raeuilursaud 300 stookholdere.-.New York sun.' AMERICAN PEARLS. ' SOME VALU ABMS FINDS IN KEN TUCKY STREAMS. Men Who Make a Business of Searv " luz for the Pearl-Bearing Mus sels-A Fascinating But Un certain Occupation. nearly dry, was very [favorable to the pearl hunter.? in tho Cumberland aud other rivera, and quite a number of line speciraenu have been found, es pecially in tho Cumberland River, which soenio *.o bo the most promo tive of pearl-bearing mussel?. One of tLe well-known pearl hunters told the writer that be had found several pearls during the pa3t summer that were worth from $75 to $100 cash, and a large lot of smaller and oheaper ones. Tho leading pearl hunters, who prospect up and down the Cumber land, send their pearls to Chicago, Philadelphia and Kew York, Tiffany getting tho best ot them. Several years ago an old man picKed up a mussel from a sandbar ?D the Cumber land Eiver near Point Burnside, a sta tion on the Cincinnati Southern Rail road, and upon opening the oyster like bivalve found a magnificent pearl of fine size and eo?or. A pearl hunt er who ran across tho old man shortly afterward, and to >?hom he showed the gem, at once recognized the valuo of it, and bought it f?r a small sum, afterward selling it for 8500. Such finds as thi3, however, are few and far between. The pearl hunters ljvork whenever the water is not too cold for them to wade'in it. They find the mussels lying on the sandbars, pick them up, and prying thom open; .""feel" for the .pearl, and if there is no pearl, drop the mussel back into its place in the river. Tho pearl is fo^nd olinging to tho wall of the mussel's shell, and dose to the mouth of it. Tho large major ity of the pearls, as a matter of course, are oddly shaped and irregular in form, and for that reason are worthless. Now and then pearls of beautiful color are fouud, but useless because of a lack of desirable form. The ronnd pearls, usually found and put upon the market by these wander ing pearl hunters, vary in size from the dimensions of the hsad of a pin to tho size of a pea, and b?ing from fifty cents to 8-50 apiece. Few of them reach the $50 mark, however. Tho pearl hunter who searches in Kentucky streams is usually a shiftless, ?asy-gomg fellow, who is at homo most any place, and makes his bei upon the bank of the utream as read ily as he would in tho most elaborate ly furnished mansion. When ho has good luck on a trip ho wnits until all his money is gone before he strikes out upon another journey. Now and then a more business-l/ke operator is . round, who will carry a. camping out ' it, good tent, etc., and live in true sportsmanlike style while at work. . The pearl hunters say that ono rea son why the streams of Kentucky are nore productive of pearls than the rivers in somo other States is because of the limestone bed rock, which seems more adapted to the purposes of the pearl bearing mussels than the formation underlying many streams in other sections of the oouutry. Pearl mussels are, therefore, found in nearly every waterway in the Blue Grass 'State, but for some reason only a com paratively small number of men aro, engaged in the hunting of them, wMoli frequently pays a greet deal'better fihau most any form of wmmon labor. The excitement and' aaticipation at tendant upon the' industry, too, has something o? che effect of the fascin ation, of tho diamond fields, for tho "noxt one" is always expected to be n $500 beauty. One of tho most valua ble pearls ever found in tho United States, tho pearl hunters say, came from tho Miami River, in Ohio. Globe-Democrat. . - Japan's Great Cathedral. When foreign architects visit Japan and nco the Cathedral of Buddhism for tho first time they are generally aston ished at the magnificent structure. It is exesuted in pure OrieQtal style, and is richly ornamented with carv ings. ET. Ito, a famius builder, of Nagoya City, designed it. The struc ture was commenced in. 1878, and wa3 completed this vear. The cost has beA estimated ?t $1Y,000,000. It would have greatly exceeded this amount had not numbera of Buddhists worked without any recompense. As the structure neared completion, the committee having tte work in charge was much perplexed as to fire insurance. They found that no com pany would assume the risk on such a valuable wooden structura, tho danger of destruction by fire being very great, and thus the premiums v aid amouat to an enormous sum of mjney. At lost the committeee deoided on a design devised by Dr. Tanabe. Num bers of powerful fountains were con structed, both exterior and interior, whioh can be made to play on all parts of the structure at the same time. Usually only one great ornamental fountain is playing, rising to the great height of 157 feet. This is probably the largest artificial fountain in exist ence, emitting 82,080 gallons per hour. In case of fire all the waler pressure is directed through the num bers of exterior and interior fountains, thus every part of the structure, both inside and ont, could soon be drenched and any conflagration soon be extin guished.-Detroit Free Press. Proof ol What He Saw. Everj one would be interested in pictures of the wonderful things peo ple see when they h iveu'ta gun along. Wo are not likely to have that long felt want supplied ; but an ing?nions man has patented a camera whioh is to be attached to gun barrels. By this the amateur sportsman will be en abled to tell without difficulty whether he has shot an unoffending cow in placo of the expected bear, or brought down his best friend instead of a brace of birds. It will photograph the ex act spot at which the gun was aimed, and will enable a huntsman thus to see whether ho wounded or killed tho thing at which he shot. The device is easily removable, and tho hunter's breast pocket serves as a "dark room" for the record ? of his skill.-New Or 0.1D3 Picay une. In Praise ot Po'itlciaas. Tho late Hi<ratio Seymour, of New York, just before his death said to oue of his friend?, : "I have had a great deal to do with pjliticsaud politicians in my time, and tue best friendships of my lifo have been formed in- politics, lt . s iu politics that I Lava met the mau liest men ami the most generosity. I believe politics bungs out the be^c there is in men. It teaches th<? uar row tu be broad, and tbe nelfi?ib U> bo ueucrou?f " IE d*y weather of tho past summer and fal', which caused many of the creeks and rivojrs in Kentucky to go In a Candy Factory. From top to bottom the floors o? the factory are cohered with tiles, ana I noticed that thbre wera people en gaged in all pfirts of tho building scrubbing and washing these tiled floors. For a candy factory it wa3 the least sticky or smeary place I ever saw. Absolute cleanliness and sweet ness was tho rule. There .ras a slight drift of sugar about, as in a mill where wheat is being ground, and your coat might get a little powdered, but there always was sweeping going on. Chocolate-making I need not de scribe, oniy to state that everything was done here by machinery, for the chocolate r.3 pro Inned eaters for a large perceutago into tho bonbons manufactured. In tho sugar-plum departments hand-work eeemei to be constant. Tidy-lookirjg young worneD, all with caps on, were working away, each one with a liltlo saucepan before her full of sugar; tho sugar was iu a pasty condition, tho heat being derived from steam. Ja these saucepaus wero colored sugars of all the hues of the rainbow. Tho work-women would take up an almond or a pistach.3-nut, and drop it in tho saucepan, then fish it out with a bit of wiro fashioned in loop form. Tho art wa3 to get just the proper coating. Then with a der> terou? motion of the wrist the sugar plum would be placed in a tin pan, and with a deft motion of the wiro loop a nico finish would be given to tue top of it. There were some very small sugar plums, and it would take two hundred of them to make a pound. They were all exact in form. These little things, so the foreman told me, had gone through ten processes before they had arrived at their present con dition. Some of the fiugar-plums were made in moulds. There was puro leg erdemain about theso. A man :ook a funnel, and dropped the sugar, just at the crystallizing point, in m aulds. They were very small things, not moro than an inoh long by half an inch wide, but the confectioner never poured a drop in the wrong place. Doar mel if I tried to do that, I should make a precious mess of it. Here were sugar-plums of many shades, every work-woman seeming to have a specialty. It was something not alone requiring alertness of hand, but constant watchfulness as to the condition of the material use I. If it had been too soft, the bonbon would have run and been out of shape. If the sugar paste had been too hard, it would have been intractable. How they managed not to burn anything was a wonder.-Harper's Bound Ta ble. - nu The $ Mark. Did it ever strike you as being at all peculiar that wo should use the dollar (S) before, instead of after the figures in expressing the sum of live, len, twenty or any other number of dol lars? We may say "tweuty-five dol lars" plain enough for any one to un derstand, but as sr on as we put the expression into figures and characters it is "dollars twenty-five" (323) in stead of 2SS, as it should be. Nor is this ali t^ai is peculiar in this connec tion : In every country which has a written language and a system of coin age the abbreviation for the unit of value precedes the figures. In Eng land the pound mark (.?) is used m the same manner that the dollar mark is used in this country, while the same peculiarity is noticeable in Germany, where the abbreviation m. (for mark) appears preceding the number, jnst as theFj^nchabbrqviarjonfr. (forfranc), iifu3ed in France. If the abbreviations are not used the legend is more apt to be correct. Wo find that in Mexico they have a "2$ pesos" instead of "p. 2i," as one might expect, and in Newfoundland they have a plain two dollar piece. So, too, in France, where the abbre viation is not used we find such pieces as "10 francs," "20 francs" and "40 francs." lu Germany they have a piece marked "X thaler," which is all very plain, but the moment a clerk, bookkeeper or other person make3 an entry or jots down a memorandum he tells you that it is a "th. X." The English pound oign. which is believed to be the oldest monetary abbrevia tion now in use, is ;he old initial let ter by which the Homans expressed "pounds," just RS we use the "ibs." It has been suggested that we uso our money abbreviations backward, be cause that tho Homans in expressing "pounds," always said "ilbra decem," instead of "decem libra," tho first be ing "pounds ten" and the latter "fen pounds." When their initial letter or oharactor was used it always preceded the figures, thus "?10," instead of the reverse, xhus tho whole world have gotten in the habit of doing these things baokward.-St. Louis Republic. A yuin Hunter. Johnathan has been into the woods eighteen seasons, and his occupation there has been gathering spruce gum. He builds a cabin in the fall when he is about to begin work in a new terri tory. It is generally a small ono, but he takes great pains to make it one that can easily be kept warm. One year he passed five months without seeing a human being, and at the end of that time he found that another man had been in a camp less than two miles from him all winter. They did not see each other's tracks, for'the reason that the other fellow was trap ping, and confined his journeyings to a valley where a large stream and its branches gave him a field for his operations. Two miles away Mr. Stone lived in his little camp on the edge of a big spruce growth, and in following this he went away from in stead of toward h'-? neighbor, the trapper. When thoy had finished their season's work and got acquainted coming out, they told each othor of the lonosomo evenings passed iu their respective camps.-Lewiston (Me.) Journal. Object Lesson in Tree Planting. The region of the Landes, which, fifty years ago, was ono of the poorest and mist miserable in France, has now beon mads one of tho most pros perous, owing to tho planting of pines. Tho increased value is esti mated at no less than 8200,000,000. Where there were fifty years ago only a few thousaud poor and unhealthy shepherds, whoso Hooks pastured on the Hoanty herbage, there aro now f-awmills, charcoal kilns and turpen tine works, interspersed with thriving villages and fertile agricultural lands. -London Echo. The Chinese Almanac. The Illustrated World and Geogra phic Magazine says: "There is no other work in the world of wbioh eo many copies are printed annually as of tho Chinese almauao. The almanac is printed at Pekin, and is a monop oly of tbo Emperor, lt not only predicts the weather, but notes the days that uro reckoned lucky or uu lucky for commencing n.uy undertak ing, for applying remedies in ?nsen????, for marrying and for burying." Fa ts About Last Year. Last year in this country varions persons gave $12,379,820 to colleges; $3,7*15,670 to charitiesj $2,089,150 to churches; to museums abd art galleries $1,721,500: to libraries $539,4S9, and to other institutions $8,471,970; a to tal of $28,9-13,549, which is nearly $10,000,000 more than was given the year before. Against this bright record we must contrast a very different bapter of statistics. Last year this country lost 4,250 lives by shipwreck, about 2,000 fewer than were lost in 1894. Our railways killed 3,G00 persons, about 550 moro than were killed in 1894. We lost by tire last year $131,578,200, about $15,000,000 moro than the pre vious year. In the world at large 79,401 persons lost their lives in epidemics, a fal'ing off of 50 per cent from the year before. In war 157,980 lives were lost last year. Suicides and murders have largely increased. Lost year there were 5,759 suicide?, and for thc- past ten years they have increased at a fearful rate. Ia 1893 we had 10,500 murders, an in crease of 700. Lynchings show a decrease. In 1895 there were 171 persons lynched aa com pared with 194 the year previous. Embezzlements are also on the de crease, the defalcations for last year amounting to less than half of the to tal for 1894. Upon the whole, it is a record of light and shade. Some of it is very black, but the bright spots will en courage those who maintain that the world is groking better. Tho Idol of Clay. She-You were my idol once. Yee ! But I find too late that my idol has ieet of olay. He-To that extent, I may deduce, my name is mud? Ah! What Delicious Coffee. Thus a Texas lady writes, and I grew lt for less than ??e. a pound from Salzer'a Great German Coffee Berry, coffee better than Riol That's a general verdict! A 15c. package gires 80 lbs. Largely used ia Ger many, France, Holland and England. Ripens In September! IK TO? WILL OU? THIS OUT AND SEND ft with 16c. stamps to the John A Salzer Seod Co.. La Crosse, Wis., you will get a paokage ot above great coffee eeed and our 148 page seed catalogue! Catalogue alone 5o. for mailing. (A. 0.) Supreme Court Decisions. S nee Chas. O. Tyner began the manufacture nf Tyner's Dyspepsia Remoiiy, many people have inquired as to its efficacy. Chief Justice Beckley, of Genr/ia, bas tried it for fndiges I ion and dyspepsia, and tives this as his de cidion : "Atlanta, Ga.. March 14, 1804-Chas. O. Ty ner, Allanta, lia.: I have used, and am now using, Tyner's Dyspepsia Remedy. It is a menial as well as a physical elixir. With its :iid and a pair of spectacles I can frequently -> e the law in spite of unsuitable or too much dirt. Loo AH E. BLECKXEY." Tl?i< is a splondid decision and people ara proliting by lt. FITS ?topped free by Da, KLINE'S GBEAT NEUVE RESTO HEH. SO rita after tirst day's use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2.00 trial bot tle free. Dr. Kline. 931 Arch St., Phil??. Pa. Three hundred different foreign good pot age stamps, 25c. Sellin,' out my collection. Send money with order to Julius Loeb, 10 Spruce street. New York City. There ls Pleasure and Profit and satisfaction in abating troublesome and painful lils by using Parker's Giuger Touic. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething,softens the gums, reduces inflamma tion, allaya pain,cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle. N. TO AVOID THIS USE TETTERINE The OS'LT painless ind harmiesi QA T cuni for the worst typ a of Eczema, I. f> _ j T"tMr - Wn^o^n.^Iy^rronghpatqa w H ? - ea OD ino Inc?, nrttWM adOpT" "fl? Ground itch, chafes, chaps, pia MT pies. Poison from try ar poison o?lc If* In short ALL ITCHES. Send 50c, in y ll itsnips or c&sli to J. T. Saaptnae, ' n Savannah: Gs., for omi box. If roar druggist don't keep lt. Von will find it at CUAS. O. Tra I R'S, Atlanta. THE AEIW?OTOR CO. does half tte world's windmill business, because lt bsa reduced the cost or Wind power to I/O what lt waa. It baa mani branca bouses, aud supplies tts goods and repairs " at jour door. It can and does furnish a , beuer article for less money than [pitiers, lt makes Pumping ana Gearod, Steel, GalTantsedafter Jcompletlon Windmills, TllUng / and Fixed Steel Towers, Steel Boxs Saw Frames, Steel Feed Cutters and Feed i Grinders. On application lt will name one of these articles that lt wlU furnish nnUl january 1? at 1/3 tte usual price. It also makes Tanks and Pumps of all kinds. Send for catalogue. Factory: 12th. Rockwell sud Fillmore Streets, Calal? S3? as yo address r. ' yon how to muka sJ a dar; abnoiuieJ.r sure; we fur nish thu work and teach yon fra* jou work ta I be locality where rou Ure; Mndusrour<uldr?K?anri wa will exp?ala tho business fully: rememner wo guar* anteo a clear prodt or (3 .'orcTery nay's work; ab?oluMy sur*; write at ea?e. D. T. XOBQA*, Binm.r. Hui LH. DETROIT. HICU1.AJ. nnillU and WEISET habits cored. Book sent Ul I Ultl ni I E. Dr. B. JI. ff 00 LL? T. AT Li .TTL 61. It's usually growth. Pearlir Pearline by the company it As the sois BROWN'S IRON ??AR Purchase Money refunded should Brown*11 person Bullering with Dyspepsia, Malaria Chilli ness, Female infirmities. Impure Blood, Wea Neuralgia. More than 4,000,000 fe?tilt* told-i [SEAL.] BR< (PURE VEGETABLE-EXTR? ASK YOUR DRl ON^ ENJOYS Both the method and results when' Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the tafte, and acta gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duc?., pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, ita many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for Bale 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. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO. CAL LOUISVILLE. KY. ' HEW YORK, HY. A gentleman of amatiiodioul habit, who had adopted tho practice of re taining a copy of every proscription toned by bin family physici'tn, became Interested as time went on to nota that the same Ingredients wera pretty certain to be prescribed at some point of the treatment of every case. Por a poor appetite, or a sore throat, for restlessness which dis turbed the baby's sleep, and for troubles which beset the aged grand parents, the favorite remedy was always turning up, although slightly modified from time to time and used often in conjunction with others. One day our friend happened to ob serve that the formula ot a certain advertised remedy was ider tioal with the latest prescription he had received from hts own physician, and in some surprise ho staled the ' ease to him. Tho family dootor, after listening to what he had to .say, replied: "The case is about this way: Whenever there is a disturb ance of the f anotions of the body, no matter of what nature, it is pret ty certain to be accompanied by s derangement of the digestive organs. When they are all right the patient gets well. That particular formula that you have observed me to write more and more frequently is the result of an age of careful experi ment, and IB pretty generally agreed upon now by all educated physicians who keep np with the times. The, discovery of the past few years of the ricans red a o lng every drug to a __powvJw ?id oe inpressing the den Into little lozenges or tablets, or tabules If yon prefer, which will not break or spoil, or lose their good qualities from age, if protected from air and light, is the explanation of how lt has come about that this pre scription ls now for sale as an ad vertised remedy. It is the medicine that nine people out of ten need every time they need any, and I have no doubt that making it so easy to obtain, so carefully prepared, and withal so cheap, will tend to actually prolong the average of h" man life daring the present gen eration." Ripan? Tabales are sol'l by dru TjUts, or br marj If th-; prioe(W cant? a box) M ?.-nt to Th? I'.'pia* Chemical Company, No. lu ap. 3 st., Hevr York. Sample rial, 10 OG a LS. ?Iii PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Cleanses and beatifies the hair. Promotes a luxuriant frrowth. Never Fails to Bestoro Gray Hair to its Youthful Color. Cures scalp diu-atcs b hair ti.ling. gOc.tndSl.ujat Dnjtljsjj A. N. ?. .Tbree, '96. a slow process, -education, development, and But it hasn't been so with te. Pearline's success has onder, from the start. All the so when you consider the ty poor imitations of it, which lim to make washing easy. These things tend to confuse people, of course. They're forced on the public by peddlers, prizes, substi ^? tution, etc. No doubt they're often thought to be the same as Pearline. We protest. Don't judge has to keep. 471 IS superior to the L BITTERS to other medicines.' ?NTBB Iron Bittet? taken ls directed fail to benefit any i and Ferer, Kidney and liver Troubles, Bilious kn era, Nervous Troubles, Chronic Headache ot nd only 12.00 asked for and refunded. 3WN CHEMICAL CO., BALTIMORE, MD e"<*. IOT.-NOT INTOXICATING.) JSGISF FOR rr.