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Products of HaWttlL The island of Hawaii is the largesfc of the Hawaiian gronp, having an area of ?,216 statute- square miles, an acre age of 2,500,000 aud a population ex ceeding 27,000. It is situated in 20 degrees, 30 minutes, 19 seconds, north latitude. Its relative size to the en ture group is five-eights of all. Its population is about one-third that o i all the islands, and probably mors than that of Honolulu and the island of Oahu. In its natural resources it has more than that of all the other is lands of the group oombined, having twenty-five sugar plantations in activa operation, controlling over 100.C0) aores of land, of which over 40,000 ar 3 in actual cultivation, for sugar growing purposes. These plantations give em ployment to over 10,000 men and wo men and produoe au average- of over 79,000 tons of sugar annually, of th 3 average value of $3,500,000. This sugar produot is not far from one-half of the entire produot of all the islands of the group. In addi tion to the raising and manufacture of sugar, some of the plantatatioss hay 3 large stock and dairy interests, one, Hutchinson Plantation oompany, hav ing over 3,000 head of stock, and tho Kukalan Plantation company, which breeds and raises the best of horses, mules, jacks, cattle, 6heep, goats, hogs, etc., having a large herd now on its place. It also has a large dairy in connection with its other interests, in whioh are 500 cows, 150 of which ari milked daily. This plantation ha* about eighty acres of coffee growing. The orop this year from forty aores in estimated at 91,530 pounds of berries -Exchange. No Apology Needed. In addition to giving the convicted man a term of ten years in prison, tho judge imposed on him the gr&tuitoui punishment of listening to a long; speech made for the' benefit of the re porters, in whioh he set forth specifi - cally the reasons for his action. "You needn't of done all that apol ogizin' fer imposin' on a feller man,*' said the culprit, kindly. "They ain't no hard feelin's on my part. I know as well as yon do that a man can't hold the job of judge and act the gen tleman at the same.time."-Indianapo lis Journal. Absurdly Similar. Tabsley-I saw another one of f hose stories about a man losing his watch and not finding it for two years, and when he did find it it was still running. Mudge-Well, I know I found s tailor's bill I bad mislaid seven yea? ago, and it was still running.-India napolis Journal. Paved from Destruction. This ls what happens when tho kidneys art* rescued fi om inactivity by Hoste tt er's Stom ach Bitters. If they continue Inactive the] are threatened with Bright's disease, diabetet or some other malady which works their destruction. Malarial, bilious and rheumatic ailment and dyspepsia are also conquered by the Bitten, which is thorough and effective. Nainsooks, with gi*id effects In stripes and squares, will be u-ud lo trim basques, shir-; waists, blouses, etc. How Merit Counts. "MT father got a box of TCTTERINE from s friend who had obtained it somewhere in the West. He has had eczema very OK a long time, and TETTERINB is the only thin? that has ever benefited him, "Please send by Express C. O. D. half-dozen Duxes. I've no doab' bat it will be the mean? of selling a groat deal nf it here." Very truly, Mas. L-.C. MAIX-OLM. 591 Cranston St., Providence, R. L 1 box by mull fer 50a in scamps. _?. T. SiiirprH/jra, Savant STATE OF OHIO. CTTV or TOLEDO, , LUCAS COCNTT. ;. [T* FRANK J. CU^ST,Y makes oath that be is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. CHETRY St Co., doin?r business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, ani that said firm will pay tho sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL LARS for each and every ca?e of Catarrh that car; not be cured by the us* of HALL'S CATARRH CURE. FRAHX J. CHENEY. .Sworn to before mo and sub-cribed in my presence, this 6th day of Dereir.r> A. D. 1SS6. , -?- . A. W. GLEASON, <SEAL - '-> Notary Public Hail's Catarrh Core is tiken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Send for testimonials, fro?. F. J. CHESET & Co., Toledo, O. |y Sold by Druggists, 75c. .Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma tion, allays pain.cnres wind colic. 25c. a bottle. FITS stopped free by Dit. KLINE'S GREAT NERVE RESTORER. Vo fits after first day's use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2.00 trial bot tle free. Dr. Kline. 931 Arch St.. Phila.. Pa. Pleo's Care cured me of a Throat an trouble of three years' standlngo^-r,.?. Huntington, Ind., Nov. 12,1391 fd Always Hfcve a bottle of Parker's Ginger Tonic Nothing so good for Daiu. weakness colds and sleeplessness Mothers Anxiously watch declining health of their daughters. So many aro out off by consumption in early years that there is real cause for anxiety. In the early stages, when not beyond the reach of medicine, Hood's Sarsa parilla will restore the quality and quantity of the blood and thus give good health. Bead the following letter : "It ls but just to write about my daughter Cora, aged 19. She was com pletely ron down, declining, had that tired foaling, and friends said she would not live over three months. She had a bad Cough and nothing ?eeined to do her any good. I happened to read about Hood's Sarsapa rilla and had her give it a trial. From the var/ first dose she began to get better. After taking a few bottles she was com pletely cured and her health has been the bast ever since." Mas. ADDIE PECK. 15 Railroad Place, Amsterdam, N. T. "I will say that my mother has not s :ated my caje in as strong words as I vouid have done. Hood's Sarsaparilla has truly cured me and I am now well." COBA PECK, Amsterdam, N. Y. Be sure to get Hood's, because Hood's Sarsaparilla Ii the On e True Blood Purifier. All druggists. $1 Prepared only by O. L Hood tc Co., Lowell, Mass. fm Dill* are purely vegetable, re 9 rlllS liable and beneficial. 25c. PLANTER'S For Yourself and your Stock. It ls good for man and beast. The Finest Nerve anil Bone Liniient Ma?e, Cares fresh cats, wound?, braise?, eorea rheumatism and pains of all kinds. Take nc substitute, as it has no equal. For cale by all medicine dealers. PRIOR. 25 and 50 Cent?. Mann factored only by the NEW SPENCER MEDICINE CO,, CHATTANOOGA, TENN. ? lim All ELSE FAIL. , Best Cwwh Syrup. Tastes Good. Use! la time. Sold br druaitlsM. CONSUMPTION THE INADVERTENCE BI "WAREE T was a qaeer little house, ^rjl with sharp pointed ga \N jP' bles aad wide perpen T\ ff* dioular weather-board %'\Ufc-/ *nKt *Qft* seemed entire ? I ly ont of place on busy pJ( Sammer street, with its v*^^) strutting bustle and hurried air of importance. But the house was a relic of other days, when the now thriving town was simply a village, and the old residents, who had long einoe died or moved to quieter and more fashionable quar ters, had considered Summer street the most desirable pince of residence in the county. The Honorable Peter Perkins had "buil t the boase, and-there he had lived for years, nominally practicing law, but in reality cultivat ing that unproductive field, so dear to the heart of every trae patriot, the field of Political Preferment ; and be ing uniformly unsuccessful, at length, after a particular ly disappointing cam paign, had died, leaving only his daughter Martha-Miss Perkins-and his little old-fashioned house. Westfield, with all its miniature metropolitan ways, had not outgrown the habits of everybody's knowing everybody else, and after the Honor able Peter Perkins was laid in his final resting place, there was not a house hold in Westfield in which the prob able doings of Miss Perkins was not more or less discussed. 'But Miss Perkins, being what her neighbors called "a strong-minded person," did noe leave her friends long in uncer tainty, for the very day after her father's fanerai she announced her in tention of opening "a flower store," a new ventare for Westfield, bat one that she felt sure the growing refine ment of the people, as they got more money and were brought moro and more in tonoh with city ways, would warrant. Accordingly, in a few days there ap peared a neat sign over the front door: "Miss Perkins, Plowers." And into the little front parlor there came a counter and refrigerator, while the window was filled with fragrant blossoms-rose?, carnations and vio lets predominating. The cut flowers came from a florist in a nearby city, hut it was not long before a small greenhouse in the back yard did mach to supply the demand. At first the young men of Westfield seemed in a fair way to bankrupt themselves at Miss Perkins's counter, bat gradually they grew accustomed to the novelty, and the volume oi trade was reduced to proportions that . c^u'd be relied upon. |^?sci-?o Miss Perkins's store became s. pertinent institution, and ?v?st field wondered how the town had ever gotten ulong without it. It waa such a ociveoient stopping place, too ; the ladies made it a sort of rendezvous, and drop in when you might, you were almost sure to find some one to tell you what was going on or coming o fi in Westfield society. Indeed, the young sooiety reporter of the West field Weekly Watchmau depcuded upen Miss Perkins's store almost en tirely for the social gossip that made up her weekly "sooiety letter." It it true that in this way she always print ed what every one already knew, bul the Watchman was a conserv^yj paperanddj^n^L^a^fcftTrg^^ to assum^l^feBponsibility of printing , J9?TEefore it had been discussed and confirmed by the whole town. Miss Perkins was busy behind the counter one morning, arranging a freshly cut supply of flowers, when two young ladies arrived at the door at the same instant, and came bustling in together. "Why, good morning, Miss Gleni an*," exolaimed Miss Perkins, looking np in surprise. "Good morning, Miss Elwell ; aren't you chicks out a little early this morning?" "Ob, not at all," replied Miss Olem acs with a laugb, "you know we're early birds at onr house ; I've been to market already." "Well, dear me!" exolaimed Miss Elwell, who was a rather languid crea ture, "Pm Bure yon are* an early ono. Now nothing in the world would usual ly get me out this early, but I have a very important piece of news, and I oould hardly wait to get down town to tell it i" Miss Elwell stopped and looked at Miss Clemans to see that she was duly impressed, while M?BB Perkins went on arranging her flowers. "Well, nowthat you are here," said Miss Clemans, "Jet's have the news. What is the wonderful piece of infor matica that has gotten Miss Lazybones out of bed before 10 o'clock?'' "I never was more surprised ia my life," said Miss Elwell, "and I know everybody will be completely upset c?er it. Can't yon guess what it is?" "Why, of course I can't ! How pro voking you are! Without a hint of any kind except that it's the most sur prising thing that over happened !" Miss Elwell seemed to enjoy her friend's curiosity. Finally Miss Clem ans said : "The most suprising thing that ever happened? You must be going to get married!" "Now seo here, girls," exclaimed Miss Perkins from behind the counter, "that's the way young ladies talk. I believe in the comic papers, but it isn't the kind of wit that is considered good form in good sooiety ; so Bose, if you have any news to tell, let us have it, and Blanche, stop your chaf fing." The girls laughed, and Miss Elwell said : / "Miss Perkins's curiosity is getting aroused, so I won't keep you ia sus pense. Mabel's engagement ia broken!" "What! !" oried both her listeners at onoe. "Mabel Riohey ?" "Um-umpb," said Mies Elwell, nod ding her head in affirmation. "Oh,, you'ra joking," said Miss Clemans, "she and Harry were just devoted to each other. Why, nothing could ever como between them. Mabel told me so." "But something did, just the same," replied the bearer of news, "and that something was Mi*i Marguerita Daisy De Jones of New fork." Miss Clemans exclaimed, "Weil, I never 1" a'nd Miss Perkins groaned. OF MISS PERMS. ii CLARKE. "To think.*' finally said the elder lady, "that Harry Martin has no more eonBo than that I What the young men ot this day and generation are coming to I'm sure I can't tell. Here that bold faced creature with her blonde hau:-" "It's blondined, I know," put in Miss Clem ans. "And her pink cheeks," continued Miss Perkins, "comes to town with robody to introduce her but the hotel keeper, and sets half the men in town crazy, and they do cay that some of her worshipers are not single men either," and Miss Perkins set down the sprinkling-can so hard that the noise attracted the attention of people in the street. "It does beat all ; Harry Martin was suoh a nice fellow, too!" said Miss Perkins ; and then suddenly she asked, "When'd it happen?" "Oh, it's been going on for a long time, I guess," said Miss Elwell, fin gering some Howers on the oounter, "but the break came night before last. Mabel's brother Dick told my brother Tom, yesterday, and Tom's been coax ing me to lend him my wheel, so he came straight homo last night and told me. It was raining too bad for me to get out then, so I had to keep it to myself all night. I guess from what Dick said they mait have had an awi ul time. It .seems that Miss Mar guerita Daisy Do Jones is going to give a supper at the hotel to-night to a lot of young fellows, and Mabol heard that Harry was go in cr, and of course that made trouble. They just had it in the parlor and she gave him back his zing and he left in a great half. Diok says that Harry never in tended going at all, that he wasn't even invited, but when Mabol began to suspect him he got angry and said he'd go if he wanted to. Hain't it awful?" "Well, I don't believe he was go ing," said Miss Perkins, "and some body ought to patch it up between them." "I don't think anybody will," re plied Miss Elwell; "they're both as proud as Lucifer and as stubborn as i don't anow what. Tom says he bets Harry goe3 away, und I suspect he will. Well, I feel sorry for them, but I don't know what we're going to do about it. ?Say, Miss Perkins, what is ; that plant over in the corner? I never saw anything like it before." Miss Perkins told ber the name of tho plant, and then a commercial traveler, who wanted to sell Miss Per kins some glass that she didn't need for hex greenhouse came in, and while Miss Perkins was explaining why she didn't want and couldn't use a thou } Rand pimetrot-glass, eretHf -?fcar*e-*he clear sst ever casu, the young ladies slipped away. All morning Miss Perkins, who usu ally did not give much heed to the gossip that went on in her little room, thought of the lovers' quarrel she had heard discussed. Both of the young people were general favorites in town, and their marriage had been deemed an eminently suitable one; it was a shume, thought Miss Perkins, that a frivolous Btrangor with yellow hair should have the power of working so ich mischief. ['I do hope," said Miss Perkins to 5seT?,','*?Wt?_,^lose girls won't chatter about it all over^Mtogfl^I onght to have warned them about tal much-not that it would hav2 done any good, but it might have eased my conscience a little. " As she spoke a carriage drove up to j the door, and Harry Martin sprang to the pavement and came in. "Good morning, Miss Perkins," he said in his brisk, whole souled man ner. "Some roses this morning? Ah, those aro beauties; how many have you? Three dozen, only? Well, I want thom all. Here's my card, which you will drop in the box, and send them to-" And he wrote an address on a tag lying on the counter. "This address. I've left mother in the carriage and she's afraid of the horse, so I'll hurry out. Good-morn ing, Miss Perkins." And Mr. Martin was out and away beTore Miss Perkins had hardly recov ered her breath. She looked at the address he had left: "Miss De Jones, Liberty House, City." And then Miss Perkins lost her tem per. "Why, the impudent puppy!" she cried. "If he thinks I'm going to send those flowers to that-creature, he's mistaken ! He's crazy, he is. I won der if his mother knows?" And then out of pure vexation she ?at down in a back room and had a good cry. A few moments later she came out and calmly put the roses in a box, dropped Mr. Martin's card among them, tore into little bits the tag he had addressed, and with a firm hand wrote a new one, whioh she placed on the box ; then put it with a half dozen smaller packages, which Nero, the factotum of her establishment, would deliver. Then Miss Perkins regained her habitual smile and gentle self possession, and went about humming little snatobes of happy songs and seemed as one conscious of having done a good deed. Harry Martin was not a happy man. Indeed he had been miserable for thirty-six hours, for he was, or had been, deeply in love with Mabel Biohey, and in reality had never been introduced to the golden-haired girl with tho three sectioned name, until since the quarrel with his sweetheart. But since that tempestuous interview, he had sought, and easily obtained an introduction, and had decided to send her roses for the decoration of the table at the ?upper that was making several Westfield sweethearts jealous and unhappy. i And Mabol Bicho 7 was not a happy woman. She had wept all night after the quarrel and gotten up the next morning firmly resolved to die rather than show any signs of weakening. And she had gotten tbrongh the pre ceding day fairly well ; the only times that she manifested any unusual feel ing being when the name of Miia Marguerita Daisy De Jones waa men tioned in her presenoe. Miss Perkins's Nero waa never very swift, and it was quite the middle ol the afternoon before he reached the Biohey residence and left a long box evidently containing flowers. Mabel was in her own room, and Jennie, the maid, took the box to her. It did not take her many seconds to tear the box open and scramble among the roses for the card ; even before she looked she felt sure of the namo she would find on it, and when she read, "Mr. Harry Martin," she sank down on the floor and laughed and oried and said, "Oh, what a goose I am !" In less than ,ten minutes she was down stairs in a fresh frock with the tear stains all washed away, and her father's stable-boy speeding with a note to "Mr. Han y Martin," and under the stimulus of n coin in advance and the promise of another when he returned, Jack really hurried. Harry Martin, for some reason, had found' the work in his father's office very irksome that day. After he had made several more or less serious blun ders, the elder Martin suggested in a tone permeated with sarcasm that he go home and rest, and Harry, noting on the suggestion, had put on his hat and street coat and left the office. He stopped on the front steps, however, and wondered where he would go and what he would do. Westfield, and life itself, seemed a dreary waste ; he wanted to get away from it all. The satisfaction ho had expected to feel In sending a box of roses to Miss De Jones was not very much in evidenoe and he heartily wished he had never seen nor heard of that frivolous young woman. While he stood on the steps wrapped in melanoholy, which he punctured with an occasional, "Deuce, take it all !" he saw Jack, the Richey's stable boy, approaching, wearing a broad grin. Harry, from old-time habit, bo gan feeling with one hand for a coin and held out his other for the note ; then he suddenly started and thought with bitterness. "What an ass I am ! He hasn't any thing for me." " lore's a letter, Mr. Martin," said Jack, his grin widening; and then ho added in a lower tone, "Miss Mabel, she told me to hurry." "Well, hurry back then," said Harry, tearing the note open,.andgiv ing Jack the expected coin, "HU take the answer." The note he opened read : UT DEAREST HABh*: How very ?ood ot you tosend the roses. Oh, you don't know how awfully unhappy I have bean! It was so meanln me to be jealous, but I know that you forgive me. When shall I see you? Yours, WATIT.T.. Harry whistled. "Roses! Why what the deuce does Bbe mean? I'll just go and see. Poor little girl, she's been all cut np and I've been a perfect brute 1" While he upbraided himself he was already taking rapid strides toward the Richey residence, which ho reached long be ; ore Jack did. He saw the roses in the drawing room before Mabel oame in, but by what happy inadvertence thejyV got there he could not guess, nor did ho try to find out when Mabel came they had other things of which to talk. Bat on his way home,- two? hours later, he dropped into Miss Perkins's and paid for the roses. "And ob, Miss Perkins," he. said, "about their delivery ; wasn't ?lhere through some inadvertence-a mistake made-*.* Miss Perkins looked him straight in th?eyeT ' ? - -^Z" '<rr~^T"T~~~~ "No, Mr.'Martin,'* she said, "there was no mistake. .The flowers' went right to the right person." And then Harry's lace reddened a little, but he looked thoroughly happy as he reached over the counter and took Miss Perkins's hand and said: "Yes, Miss Perkins, inadvertence or not, it was the right person."-Woman kind. Fishers of Lobsters. As may be well understood, the life ' of the lobster fishermen is no| a sine cure by any means, and thoqHT he is not compelled to go a great distance ront from the coast'o fish, yotf at any linn lin itrTTTTniM i m" M I llifr<tf~n^lrTrn off to sea. Again, he frequently has his traps oarried out to sea and lost in the strong undertow. These traps are made of two thiok hoops, of willow joined by closely set ribs of lath, and within them is hung a pieoe of old fish or meat ; the older the better, for the lobster has a strong scent, and a stone is placed on the bottom of the trap to act as a sinker, while a lon - line ex tends from the trap to the surface of the water, and to this line a buoy, cr marker, is fastened. At either end of the trap a purse net is placed over the willow hoops, and, whilo it allows the lobster entrance, it successfully bars bis exit. The fisher men work in pairs and set from 103 to 250 traps each day, and their pay at this season of the year will average $50 or S69 a week. One man who followed lobster fish ng for a living owns several pretty cottages and lives in a fine house of his own on the shores of .Boston Bay. But, like the waters about New York, iBoston Bay has long been an un proli fie sonroe for lobsters. A greater part of the supply for the New York" markets comes through Boston and reaches there by steamers from Portland, Me., and from Nova Scotia or Newfound land. As soon as they reach the docks they are hurried into lobster houses, for if a live lobster is left out in the frosty air he will shed his claws as last as a tree will ehed its leaves on the ap proach of winter. Within these houses are great steam tanks, and while the liveliest of the crustaceans are placed in floating floxes out in the river, those that move slowly are loaded into iron orates and plunged into the steam tanks, whence they emerge in the oourse of twenty minutes as red-well, as red as a boiled lobster. -New York Press. A ?tranxe > pring. A mile and a half from Franks, In dian Territory, a very large spring of clear, sparkling water bubbles np through the gravel at tho foot of Bog gie Mountain, tumbles swiftly down the hills over numerous falls and runs a big flouring mill at Franks for the Hon. B. F. Byrd. In the water is a substance that attaobes itself to the buckets of a wheel, forming a hard, smooth stone about them that has to be broken off every eix weeks with a hammer. Wood or bone thrown into the water is petrified in a very short time, and many rare and curious for mations are to be seen in and about the stream. Near the mill the roots of a large fallen tree, over but not in the oreek, are all turned into stone. Dallas News. Returns complied by Lloyd's Regis ter of Shipping show that on Septem ber 30, 1895, there wera nader con- ? atruction in the United Kingdom, ox- ! elusive of war ships, 356 vessels, vitb , rin aggregate tonnage of 716,575. j Immortal Love. The frost bf years May blanch the gold from oat thine hair Lita's griefs and feara May rob thy cheeks of roses fair; Tho violets' btu? May fade from out thine eyes, dear onej Thc morning dew May ceas* to sparkle in the sun; Beads meet and part, And golden clouds soon tarn to gray, BUT. low, thine heart Will keep its loveliness for aye! -William E. Gardner, in Munsey. Tbe Fortune Hunters. Three fortune hunters once agreed To make a test of pluck, To tempt tlie Fates and intercede Each for a share of luck. Each was to go in different ways Alone, for wealth and fame, Aud try to win the public praise A fortune and a name. One as a soldier sold his sword To nations that would buy, Yet he amassed but scanty hoard As time did onward fly. Another tried the gold mines where Such piles of wealth were found, But 'twas a very trifling share That his long labors crowned. The third would not a distance roam In search of golden ore. But very wisely stayed at home And started keeping store. He showed good sense and enterprise And soon bad wealth and fame, His hobby was to advertise And thus his fortune came. -Printer's Ink. Fortune Telling. When on the grain was summer's gold, And blue was summer's sky, Wo went to have our fortunes told, 'A witobing maid and L The gypsy sibyl seemed uncouth And weird to look upon, Ard yet for each of us, in sooth, A merry ta'e she soun. Mine was a kindly horoscope; I heard my birth above Had hung tho happy star of Hope, The lambent star of Love. The star of Love that briugetb bliss, I learued, still shed its glow. Much more the sibyl said, but this Was all I cared to know. Then into Sylvia's slender hand I saw the gypsy ooer, And words I longed to understand Were whispered in her ear: While on her cheek a blush had birth That spread in rosy Are, As when the winter-waken ed earth Feels Spring's divine desire. We left behind the gypsy old, And 'neath a dusky pine Again was that fair story told That ended, ''Sweet, he mine!" Then Sylvia, the roguish-eyed, Laughed in'her winning way; "That's what," triumphantly she cried, "The gypsy said you'd say!" -Clinton Scollard, in Harper's Bazar. At tho Edge of the Dav. See Twl'ight standing on the brink That skirts the dark abyss of night, The dew-wet roses in her hair Shed inoense through the waning light Low in the west ono lonely star Shines tremulous and white. Across tho far, dim edge of day, The task of morn and toil of noon . Slip noiselessly adown the tide with dusky shadows thickly strewn, And o'er the lately purple hills Bises the yellow moon. Go, Twilight trembling on the verge 'Twixt shadowy earth and shadowy air. Fold peaceful bands on peaceful breast, Spread starlit wings and gently bear To heaven's gate a burden sweet The world's I' ? vesper prayer. - -Youths' Companion. At Sea. The night was made for cooling shade, For silence and for sleep; And when I was a child, I laid My bands upon my breast, and prayed, And sank to slumber deep. Childlike, as then, I lie to-night. And watebmy lone'./ cabin-light Each movement of the swaying lamp Shows how the vessel reels, And o'er her deek the billows tramp, And all her timbers strain and cramp With every shock she feels; It starts and shudders, while it tr as, And in its hinged socket turns. Now swinging slow, and slanting low, It almost level lies; And yet I know, while to and fro I watoh the seeming pendule go With restle33 fall and rise, The stately shaft is still upright, _ poising its UWejglobe of light. Oh hand ot God! QSIM pTfrflM mjjjj Oh promise of mv soul! Though weak and tossed, and ill at ease Amid the roar of smiting seas The ship's convulsive roll I own, with love and tender awe, Yon perfect type of faith and law. A hea/enly trust my spirit calms, My soul is rilled with light; The ocean sings his solemn psalms; The wild windschant: I cross my palms, Happy as if to-night. Under the cottage roof again, I heard the soothing summer rain. -Boston Transcript DroTe the Steer. Squire Vogelsang, of Kelso Town-! ship, Indiana, heard a curious case, which may become as noted as that o J! the Iowa oalf. John Kegler, who re< eil es at New Alsace, bet Charles Horn^ beck, of Yorkville, that he could har ness an unbroken steer to the latter's buggy and drive it from ^.ew Alsace to Yorkville, two miles. If Kegler won he got the buggy ; if not, tho steer went to Hornbeok. The trial came off the next after noon. The roadway from New Alsacej to Yorkvillo was lined with men, wo-j men, children and an army of dogs. Kegler brought out his steer, a little1 runt, thin and wiry, and so viciously angry that it required a dozen men t> put on the harness. Hornbeok rode a big gelding. A bridle was put on the steer, and the bit made it furious. When it started the crowd yelled. The steer didn't know where the win-1 ning wire was, but it went the open way toward Yorkville. The sight as the steer went by, with bulging eyes and tail sticking straight out, while: all the dogs joined in the raoe, yelp-; ing at every jump, was a sight to bo remembered. The women waved their shawls and capes, and even the chil dren took part in the racket. York-, ville was soon in sight. Everybody followed and the road was packed from fence to fence. Then Hornbeok re-' fused to pay the bet, but Kegler kept the buggy.-New Hork Recorder. Nye's Favorite Story. Bill Nye's put story was the one as, to how he was oharged $4 for a sand wich in a village in New Jersey*. He I told the man who sold it that it was a' high price for a sandwich, and said1 that he had frequently gotten a ten course dinner for just making a speech , and finally asked the man why he charged $4 for a ham sandwich. "Well, I'll tell you," said the sand wich man, "the faot is, by gad, I need , the money."-Detroit Free Press. A New Forage Plant. Australian salt bush, the new forage plant, is about to be introduced near Tempe. It is ?aid that the salt bush thrives best in strong alkali land and is more nutritious than alfalfa. If all | this proves true there will be a boom in alkali lands. HIS BACK ALMOST BROKEN, A GEORGIA X*ARME K'S SERIOUS AO CI DENT. "While Plowing la the Field He Attempt! to Bil se A Pine Stamp ead In jares His - pine. From the Ishmaelite, Sparta, Ga. ?Did you notice tho man who Jost passed os?" asked a gentleman of a reporter. "les, what about him?" asked the re porter. "How old would you take him to be?" "Oh, about thirty-avo, I guess." "Wo!), you b.*ve made the samemlstako that many othe. have made. That is Mr. Geo. Bradley, and he is fifty years of age." A few ?lays later tho reporter was intro duced to Mr. Bradley and commented on his youthful appearance. He seemed pleased, and in explaining the reason for it, inci dent !y told of a once serious acoldent to him self. "It will bo twenty years next spring,"con tinued Mr. Bradley, "that I was breaking up land for cotton in the northern part of tho State, and my plow stuck under a largo pine root. I loosed my plow and told my three boys to have the root pulled up by tho time I came around again. When 1 retuned I found the root siill lhere, and thinking the boys were not trying to get it up. I told them to Ret ont of the way and I would pull lt up myself. "I grabbod it with both hands and gave a jerk whieh broke it and almost did tho same with my back. I had to quit work for some time, in fact. I wad never able to do any more very laborious work. I suffered all the time; I tried several doctors sad many methods of treatment, but nothing would ease the terrible pain I suffered. Night and day it was the same. "I moved to Massachusetts and stayed there several years, during which time I tried several more doctors, but with the name disappointing results. I came to this place fliteeu years ago, und bad become almost a 1>hyslcal wreck. I suffered most exeruclat ng pains and had given up all hope of over being well again. One day last year I saw an account of a similar case wh ich had been oured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and I de cided to try them. I purchased six boxes, sud by the time I had tuken them, 1 was en tirely free from pain and bad grined twenty pounds, and I have never been troubled since with my back." Dr. Williams* Pink Pills for Pale People are considered an unfailing sp?cifia for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paraly sis, tit. Vitus' dance, sciatica, neuralgin, rheumatism, nervous headache, tho after ef fects of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, gale and sallow complexions, that tired feel lg resulting from nervous prostration, all diseases resulting from vitiated humors in the blood, such os scrofula, chronio erysipe las, etc. They are also a specific for troubles peculiar to females, such as suppressions, irregularities, and all forms of weakness. In men they effect a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, overwork or ex cesses of whatever nature. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills aro sold by all dealers, or will bo sent postpaid on receipt of price, 50 cents a box or six boxes for (?2.50 (they are never sold ia bulk or by the iou), by addressing Dr. Wiiliums* Medicine Co.. Schenectady, N. Y. The Penalty of Publicity. The true woman, the true man, with a soul sensitive to the delicate influence of that higher soul within the soul, shrinks from publicity. The personal ity is more sacred than the person; both would be shielded from the public gaze. When woman chooses a pnblic ca reer, in whatsoover capacity, she is too often compelled to lay bare her very soul to the idle, curious oyes of a jeer ing mob, to cast her finest sensibilities to the earth for the rabble to trample. It may be her duty to make this sacri fice, but it is none the less a sacrifice; and though there is a compensation in added strength, there is a loss for which no amount of strength can make amends. Woman must always pay a penalty for publicity. Man has paid the pen alty so often and for so long a time, that society has ceased to regard it a penalty, and only when we find one of those rare, sweet souls, born out of time, that seems like a violet trans planted into snow, do we realize what man has lost But we seldom fail to J see the effeots of the penalty in the life I of any publio woman.-Womankidd. Filling the BUL A dealer in stuffed animals, who al so kept a few live creatures for ?ale, gave his shop boy, who was permitted to sell the stuffed specimens, orders to call him when any one asked for any of the living animals. One day a gen tleman called and demanded a monkey. "Any one of these?" asked the boy who was in charge. He pointed to the stuffed specimens. "No; I want a live monkey," an swered the customer. The boy stepped to the door of the baok shop and called to his master : "You're wanted, sir."-Youth's Com panion. 'dn^0"^ ,0 artlc'? llu been sold for SI years, ?fflfHtfj^^^c/^pctition sud cheap imitations, i: mi?lTh?^m^J^rior '??'"J'[^v Dobbins1 Electric Soap bas been consTaatly inado and' Elfin 'j^'iTny 1823. Atk your grocer for il. Beat of ali. The value of the manufactured products of New York exceed $750,000,000. Dr. Ki'mer s SWAMP-ROOT cure* all Kidney and Bladder troubles. Pamphlet and Consultation free. Laboratory Binghamton. N. Y. * The rieht kind of faith to have in God Is just to take Him nt Hi' word and Roaway satisfied. SurnRiRS FROM Corons, SORE THROAT, etc., should be constantly supplied with "Brown'?- Bronchial Troche?.* Avoid imitations. One-quarter of all the people born die before 6 years, and one-half before they are 16. Now ls tho Time to C'nre Yonr Corns with Hindercorn-. It takes them out perfect ly ami-ives comfort. Ask your druggist, l!>c. MOTHERS MUST GUIDE. Should Watch the Physical De velopment of Their Daughters. Information They Should Fur nh h at tho Proper Time-Knowledge by Which Suffering Slay Be Avoided. Every mother possesses information of vital value to her young daughter. When the girl's thoughts become sluggish, with ^ headache, dizzl " ness, and a dis position to deep, pains in back and lower limbs, cyec dim, desire for solitude, % and a dislike to the society of children: when she is a mystery to herself and friends, then, her mother should come to ber aid. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound will, at this time, prepare the system for the coming change. See that she has it, and Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Masa, will cheerfully answer any letters where information is de sired. Thousands of women owe their health to her and the Vegetable Com pound, and mothers are constantly applying to her fdr advice regarding their daughters. _ ?I? . i . 1 ItloruUInc Habit Cured fa IO to ?J? ?laja. Jiu \Kiy till K I red. DR. J.8T?PHSN?, VsSSflOQiUhiih Nervous Hysteria and Electricity. An unusually rare case of supposed nervous hysteria was exhibited at Bellevue Hospital Medical college, New York, the other day, by Dr. Herman W. Biggs, professor of nervous dis eases at the college. The patient was a healthy, intelligent woman, thirty five years old, who had suddenly be come deaf and dumb, as it was believed. There was an effort to speak, but no sound could be uttered. At tho same time the patient did not, or profess ed not to, hear what was addressed to her. Best and quiet did not bring relief, nor did a calm reason ing, by means of writing, with the wo man produce any change such as wouid bo produced by mental treatment in ordinary cases of hysteria. An ex amination revealed tho fact no local disease interfered, the trachea was in a healthy condition, but the patient had no control of the vocal cords. No vibrations could be produced ; and, consequently, no sound was heard. It was clear that the vocal cords were temporarily paralyzed. Professor Biggs told the students that if there was no permanent injury to the cords the local trouble would yield to and be disposed of by the uso of electricity. The electric battery was then called into use, the cords wore relaxed and the woman spoke as formerly. Hear-1 ing and speech were both restored. A Lamp ?"hade. Over a skeleton shade of white wire, for a parlor lamp, drape an umbrella fall of white chiffon. Cut the chiffon in a circular piece large enough to quite cover the frame and finish the edge with a whip seam or a ruffle of the chiffon, as you please. Then from the center cut a piece as large as a saucer, and set a two-inch muffle about this. All over the turface of the chiffon tie butterfly bows of pale yel low daisy ribboD, or what is quite as pretty, and cheaper, of doubled rope silk of the same color. Gather up the neck and tie it about with several lengths of the ribbon or with a skein of tho above named silk. White wash bloned may be used instead of the chiffon, having aborder of gold thread interlaced through the meshes.-Wo mankind. Trees Which Make Soap. In the West Indian islands and in South America grows a tree whose fruit makes an excellent lather and is used to wash olotbes. The bark of a tree, which grows in Peru, and of another which grows in the Malay islande, yields a fine soap. The common soap wort, which is indigenous to England and is found nearly everywhere in Europe, is so full of saponiue that simply rubbing the loaves together in water produces a soapy lather. ALA IT V Wall Paner TEX l'Oit All Y, ALABAS1 For Sale . FREE BoSSr? 'but cannot thrive." ALAI THB DOCTOR-"Ono layer of >aporU bad enough, you hare j in reo here. Baby may recover Whal Does he have ?washing ? not sympathy, that you wa Nothing else that's safe to us right hard work at the washtu money, too-saves the ruine from needless rubbing. orn is a vigorous feeder and re sponds well to liberal fertiliza tion. On corn lands the yield increases and the soil improves if properly treated with fer tilizers containing not undei 7% actual Potash. A trial of this plan costs but little and is sure to lead tx profitable culture. Our pamphlets are not advertising: circulars boom ing special fertilizers, but are practical works, contair ing latest researches on the subject offer ilization, an are really helpful to farmers. They are tent free io. thc asking. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 03 Nassau St., New York. TILES AND GRATES. OIL STOVES. Send for 'rices. ATLANTA, GA. UVF H?VF NO AGENTS. ? !W I-but sell direct io theoouum or at wholesale prieta. Ship ?V. B.PJUTT, Sour uajwbere for examination before aale. Everything ?rar ranted, too styles of Car riages, 90 styles of Har nejg.Ji styles RldlngrSnd dies. Write for ce talofa*. ELKHART Carriage & Harness li% Ce Elkhart led. lu lidiad ?o> ?..41 al??* tami, mWko su.a.<hrrc MMWO aKftr ??na- ?n> ??Lirmt? ?nd A ?dl-you X; Hi the 'incalfy whejro ? m<l tmm i tn IwOwal pro noa AM ?co ow jura ?ra; th^lbaitnewtfdUc^Jr&aatieirvivjrtat? aulerta<dltfar)iin>t? ar tUirrortrtwijr. tart -D. a. xanadu, n?^, nm v.. nawm% aaweoSi Brown's Iron Bitten, ? J Brown Chemical Co. Gladness Comes With a* ce Uer understanding* of tbs transient nature of tbe many phys ical ills which vanish before proper ef forts-gentle efforts-pleasant efforts rightly directed. There is comfort in tho knowledge that so many forma of sickness arc not due to any actual dis? :-ase, but simply to a constipated condi ci?n of tho system, which the pleasant family laxative, Syrup of Figs, prompt ly removes. That is vhy it is the only remedy with millions ct families, and ia everywhere esteemed so highly by all who value good health. Its beneficial effects aro due to the fact, that it ia the ono remedy which promotes internal cleanliness, without debilitating tho organs on which it acts, lt is there fore all important, in order to get its bene ficial effects, to noto when yon pur chase, that you have the genuine article, which is manufactured by thc California Fig Syrup Co. only, and sold by all rep utable druggists. If in the enjoyment of good health* and the system is regular, then laxa tives or other remedies aro not needed. If afflicted with any actual disease, ono may be commended KO the most skillful physicians, but if in need of a laxative, then one should have the best, and with the well-informed everywhere, Syrup of Figs stands highest and is most largely used and gives most general satisfaction. ?OK YOU* LMLMLER FOR W. L. DOUGLAS ?3. SHOE '^oiU** If you pay 84 to SO for shoes, ex- ^j* ^ amine th? W. L. Douglas Shoe, and ?9 ^ see ?hat a good shoe you cac buy for W ? OVER 100 STYLES AND WIDTHS, CONGRESS, BUTTON, and LACE, made la all kinds of the boat selected leather by oki lie a work? men. Vfe 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 oar 83, 84, ?3.50, f.2.50, 8-?.25 Shoes; 82 JW, 82 and 81.75 for boys. TAKE HO SUBSTITUTE. If your dealer cannot supply you, send to fac tory, enclosing price and 36 cents to ?uy cai.-inge. State kind,style of toe (cap or plain), size and width. Our Custom Dept will fill nor order. Send for new Illus- I {rated Catalogue to Box K. W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. ASTIN E. VONT RUB OFF. ls Unsanitary. KAI.SOM?XE IS , BOTS, BUBS? OFF AM) SCALES, rs ai ff** ls & pure, permanent and artistic IM fr* wall-coating, ready for tho brush I lilla by mixing in cold water, by Paint Dealers Kv cry'-vu frc. rd shewing 13 desirable tints, also Alabostine tock sentfreetoanvonnmentioninprthJspaper. 5ANTI\K CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. ?v^^**sv^rk^kv-*av .????Ja. ^'*a>^*a>',s>'-?tk.i --r . ij ;'s your husband's work? to do anything as hard as your man do that's as hard, for most men, as this constant house drudgery is, for most women? If he has any sympathy for you, tell him to get you some Pearline. Sympathy is all very well, but it's Pearline, tnt for washing and cleaning. ?e will save you so much down ie or about the house. It saves us wear on clothes and paint Hr. Herbert Mil?, special repre sentative of the Interstate Savings Loan and Trust Corporation, having main offices 901 and 902 Neave Bldg., Cincinnati, 0., sends, ander date of September Sd, 1895, a testimonial from his barber, Harry Scheid, ot 211 West 6th St.: "I want to say," writes Harry, "that for eight months I have taken three Bipans Tabules a day, and hare not boen to see a doctor onco since I com menced to take them. Before I would have to have a big tube pat down my throat and have my stomach flashed (I believe that ls what th?y call lt) three times overy week by a doctor that charged me 60 cents for every time. Of coarse that always gave me relief, but-lt always came back again, sad I can toll you it was no fan to be pumped oat about every two days. The doctor said I bad catarrh of the stomach; bat whatever it was it don't bother me cow, bat I still take ono of Bipans after each meal, as I am afraid to qalt. I am a barber, and for four years I was trou,1 .ed, so that I used to lose about taree day: oat of every month, you would have your Tabul In more stores in ?lnolnnat there are only two.placea can get them. My attention was first called to your reme ly by asking what tho street car sign meant* (81gned), Hianv Scann." Ripans Tabales areVolT by druggists, or by mail if the price (??cents a box) I- . ent to The Ripans Chemical ?nmpanv. No. 10 Spruce 8t?, New York. Sampte vial, 10 c nt . PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Cleaniee and betetiflM the bab; Promote! a luxuriant growth. Never Fallt to Bertore Gray Hair to Ita Youthful Color. Cures te?lp di?ca?e? & hair taUtaf. 50c, and S U)0 at Drafsietl^^ flDSIIH &nd WHISKY habit? cared. Boole??! UriUmratz. Dr. a 1. woouir. ?TLAJTI. SJ? a. N. D.Fifteen. '96. Strengthens the muscles, tones! the nerves, aids digestion, puri nes the blood, improves the complexion. i ? 1 Balt?moYe, M<L -f rani