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All arius;. "Oh, it can't fail," he paid ia rx pl lining his scheme, "and there is a whole mint of money in it. It's the grert ^t thing in tho magazine line th IT n ever heard of. You see, I wou... tflf-r special inducements to poets sud literary amateurs and acept everything that they Bent in." "But that would ban kr np t you." "'Not at all. It would make my for tune. I would accept everything 'to be pud for on publication,' and I'd havo every poet in the oonntry buying tho magazine. Just think of the ?irefu tion .'"-Chicago Post. An Ideal. ?he young man that writes verses vms standing out in the night gazing at the sky, when a friend ran across him. ,;What are you doing* studying as tronomy?" "Go away and don't disturb me. I sci Racing into infinite distance." **I don't see what satisfaction you find in that." "That's because yon never had any ?tp?rience with editors. You don't know what a comfort it is to find stjme place where nothing is crowded out for lack of space."- Washington Star. Coloring Leather. In Germany a uew process of Col oring leather is being exploited. Elec tricity is utilized. The leather is placed upon a ziao table, which forma tho positive pole. The dyeing mate rial is poured over this and the nega tive polo oonncoted td the leather. Under the action of the current the coloring matter penetrates the leather an 1 paterns may be designed upon the surface by covering it with a pattern plato connected to the negative pole. ' M ailed Too Long. "I was around to your place last night and took the liberty of borrow in? some of those new novels of your*. "That's all right. I only wish you had come around before I read them." -Life._ (Jrlticul. Gent-Mademoiselle looks more beautiful every day. Lady-Yon have been telling me so or a good mauy years. What a hor rid right I must have been to start with 1-Punch. Rente TVn?n>t Bai t In a Dar, N?ither are thc obstinate maladie*, io thc re moval of which tho great correctivo, Hostet ti r's Stomach Bitters, is adapted enrabie in an hoar. Toperaistin th/! nso of this standard remedy is no more than Jost Biliousness, constipation, malaria, rheumatism, kidney complaints and nervousness aro among the complaints which it eradicates. It is said tbat Iho habit of tnrnii-g aronnd Ihreo or four times before lying dor n ha-? surrivcdln tbedomctlc dog from his a: cestry TJny fl. 00 .worth Dobbins Fl oat hur- Dor?3 Wrap of year f-rooer, eond wrappers to Dobbins Soap Mfg Co., Philadelphia, Pa. Thor w?l ?end you ire? of cnarr?3 postai paid, a Wertester Poc-et Dic tionary, p?:w> bound in cloth, prolusely il lustrated Off ar good untU Ansrcsi lat uni.. Oyster soup rennins in m thrco to four hours for proper dlccsfon. . S. K. Coburn, Mgr., < 'larie Sc itt, writes : ** I find Hall's Catarrh C.irj a ral-ublo roiuady." Druggl- ls soil it, 7'ic Mrs. Winslow's Soothlnc Syrup for children leethintr, softens tho ?rums, reduce* in flamm t 1 i (.-...al lays jiain.cnre? wind colic. 25c a bottle. I have found Piso'sCnro for Ooneumptton an tinfailing medicine. -F. lt. L?TZ, UM Scott St, Covington. Ky., Oct. 1,189L I f a fflicted wi? h wire eye? uso Dr. Isaac Thomp ?on'sEre-water. Drncelfct.'*?ell ar 25e per hattie. Econ? my-Just think-every bottlo of Hood's Sarsa parilla contains 100 doses. This lstruo only of Hoods Sarsaparilla The Ono True Blood Purifier. All druggist? fl. Hood's Pills cure biliousness, headache. Nerves and Sky-Scrapers. A nervous condition, t bordering on prostration, to which tbr doctors have not as yet given a name, has lately been observed to effect persons who work maoy hours a day high up in tho modern sky-scrapers. The ail mont re sembles nervous prostration, except in the principal symptom, which is a condition of intense restlessness, and, ss ono of the victims to the new com plaint expressed it, "a singular desire to scream or to get down to the earth quickly." A sensation of rolief is noticeable when ?he patient is taken to grass, BO to speak, which leads some physicians to the belief that the change in the rarity of the air, slight as it is, ha9 a peculiar effect upon certain very sensi tive organizations. Others think that the constant trips in the elevators canee a slight disarrangement of the nerve centers, whioh brings on the condition referred to. In any case, there is no doubt that a new ailment has come among us with the advent of the sky-scraper.- New York Journal. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound. It speedily relieves irregu larity, suppressed or painful men struations, weakness of the stomach, indigestion, bloating, leucorrhcea, womb trouble, flooding, nervous pros tration, headache, general debility, etc. Symptoms of Womb Troubles are di. ziness, faintness, extreme lassi tude, don't care" and "want-to-bc left-alone" feelings, excitability, irri tability, nervousness, sleeplessness, flatulency, melancholy,ortho " blues,'' and backache. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will correct ali this trouble as sure as thc sun shines. That Bearing-down Feeling, carsing parn, weight, and backache, ?ts instantly relieved and permanently cured by its use. It is wonderful foi Kidney Complaints in either sear. ./ Of course ifs imitated anything good always is that's endorsement, not a pleasant kind, but still en dorsement. HIRES Root beer is imitated. tal; t>7 T!>e Cb tri?? E. Birt* Co., FUU&lpMaV :J "ft r*^*C* ?f-"tt* SSS?rerywasw. '<-. POLLY BOUGH looking man? Yes, perhaps I an!; We ain't all 07 hs ri spoii?ibie for our out side busk, no more than a horse ohestnut ox a hazelnut is. The ki pd o? lire 1 lead can't be lived ia wt ito kid glnves and dress coats; I wasn t brought up with tuft&y advantages, and I'm only a brakeman on the Rensselaer and Sara toga line. Old Jones was telling you about me, was he, sir? He'd better hold his tongue. There's, more profit able subjects of conversation than I am. But old Jones means well enough, and if he told you to ask me how that stripe of white hair came on my black mace, I ain't the man to go back on him. Oh, you needn't beg my par don, sir 1 I don't mind talking about it now, though the time was when I couldn't speak of it without a big lump coming in my throat We hadn't been married long* Polly and I, when it happened; Polly was M trim and bright eyed a slip of a girl as ever you'd wish to see. She was one of the waitresses ia the Albany lunoh room ; and the first timo I ever set eyes upon her I made up my mind to make that girl my wife. So, when they raised my wages, I took heart and asked her if she would have them with me, with a wedding ring thrown Into the bargain. "Do you really mean it, Jave?" said she, looking me fully in tbe face, with those dark blue eyes of hers, that are like stars in the night. "I do really mean ic, Polly," said I, "Then," said she, putting both her hands into mine, "I'll trust you. Tve no living relative to advise me, so I ein only take counsel with my heart. " So we were married. I rented a little one-storv houi>c, under the hill on the height that overlooked tho Hud eon-a cosey place, with a good steed wood pilo at the rear, for winter meant winter in those parts, and tho saow used to be drifted up even with our dooryard fence many and many a cold gray morning. And everything went smooth until Polly V><?gau to ob j ?ct to my mates at the White Black bird, and the Saturday evenings I spent with tho hoys, after my train was safely run on the sidetrack at the junction. "Why, Polly, girl," said I, "where's the harm? A man can't liva by him self like an oyster in its shell, and n social glass never yet harmed any one." ^"No," Baid Polly, "not a social glass, Jake, but the habit. And if you would only put every five cent piece t?at you spent for liquor into our lit te Bertie's tiny savings bank-" ''Pshaw!" said 1. "I am not a drunkard, and I never mean to become one. And no one likes to be preached to by his wife, Polly. Remember that, my girl, and you'll save yourself a deal of trouble." 1 kissed her and went away, but that wc.3 the beginning of tho little grave ?hadows that grew upon my Polly's face like a creeping fog over the hill?, and that she has never got rid of duce. It was a sore point between us what the politicians call a vexed ques tion. I felt that Polly was always watching me ; and I didn't wish to be put in leading strings by a woman. So -I shame to say it-I went to the White Blackbird oftener than ever, and I didn't often count the glasses of beer that I drank, and once or twice, of a particularly cold night, I let my self be persuaded into drinking some thing stronger than beer; and my brain wasn't the kind that could stand liquid fire with impunity. And Polly cried, and I lost my temper, and well, I don't like to think of all those things now. Thank goodness, they are over and gone. That afternoon, as I stood on the baok platform o' my car, with my arms folded and my eyes fixed on the snowy vaste of fiat fields through which the iron track seemed to extend itself like an endless black serpent, I looked my own life in the face. I made up my m'nd that I had been be having like a brute. "What aro those senseless fellows at the White Blakbird to mc," muttered I, "as comprred with one of Polly's sweet, bright looks? I will give the whole thing up. I'll draw tho line just hero row. We shall be off duty early to-night. I'll go homo and as tonish Polly 1" But as night fell, the blinding drift of a great mow storm oamo with it. We were belated by tho snow which oollected on the rai lc, and when we reached Earldale there w?3 a little girl, who had been ~ent on in the care of the conductor, who must wait either three or four hours for a way train in the cold and cheerless station, or be taken home across a snowy field by some one who knew tho way. 1 thought of my own little children. "I'll take her," said I-and lifting her up, I gathered my coarse, warm coat about her, and I started for the long, cold walk under the whispering pines along the edge of the rivor. I honestly believe she would have frozen to death if she had been left in the cold station until the way train could oall for her. And when I had left her safe in charge of her aunt I saw by tbe old kitchen time piece that it was ten o'clock. "Polly will think I have slipped back into the slough of despond," I said to myself, with a half smile ; "but I'll give her an agreeable surprise 1" Plowing down amid the snowdrift through a grove of pine trees that ed^ed a ravi ne at the back of my house, I sprang lightly ou tbe door step ; the door was shut and locked. I went around to the front. Here I effected an entrance, but tho fire was dying on tho hearth, and little Bertie, tucked up in his cr? , called out: "Papa, is that you?" "Where is mamma, my son?" I asked, looking eagerly around at the desolate room. "Gone out with the baby in her arms to lookforyou," he iiaid. "DidA't you meet her pupa?" I stood a minute in silence. "Lio still, Bertie," said I, in a voice that sounded strange aud husky even to mvself. "I will go and bring her back." And I thought with dismay of the blinding snowstorm outside, tho) AND T. ireaohorous jorges which lay between here and the White Blackbird, the raokless woods, through which it was liffioult enough to find one's way even n the .sunshine of noonday, And vorst of all-tho lonely track across rhioh an "express" shot like a meteor i few rhihttt'es before midnight. Oh, leaven ! what potsible doom might I lot have brought upon myself by the wretched passion in which I had gone ,way that morriu g. Tho town clock, sounding dim and Qufned throngh the (dorm, struck leven as I hurried down the hill. Sloven-and who knew what a length >f time might elapse before I could ind her ? And like a fiery phantasma [oria before my mind's eye, I beheld he wild rush of the midnight express, nd dreaded, I knew not what. Foi H that I could realizo was that the torm Was growing fiercer with every cornent, and Polly and the baby were ut itt its fury I As steadily as I could I worked my rt.y down tb'? tr??k; but more than nee I became bewildered and had to top and recollect before I could re ame my quest. And at length I carno u t by an open wood and water station n the edge of track, I knew that I rcs full half a mile below the White Hackbird. And in the distance I heard the long, hrill shriek of the midnight train. Some one else had heard it, too, for s I stood thus I saw, faintly visible brough the blindiag snow, a shadowy gure issue from the ruined shod and ome out upon tho track looking with bewildered uncertain air np and own-the form of Polly, my wife, rith the little baby in her arms I I hurried down to her os fart as the apidly-increasing snow drifta would st me, but it was only just in time to rag her from the place of peril, and tand, breathlessly, holding her back, rhile tho fiery-eyed monster of steam wept by with a rush and a rattle that loariy took away my breath. ..Polly |M I cried? "Polly, speak to ie!" She turned ber wandering gaze to rard mo, with her vague eyes that eemcd scarcely to recognizu ms. "Have you seen my husband?" said he; "ono Jacob Cotterol, brakeman in the loc*l express?" "PO'iy, little woman! don't you ?now me ?" I gasped. "And I thought, perhaps," she ad ted, vacantly, "you might havo met lim. It's very cold here, and md-" And tlu a she fainted in my arms. The long, long brain fever that fol cwed was a cort of death. There was i time when they told mo ?he would sever kno w me again ; but, thank God 1 he did. She recovered at last. And luce that night I have never tasted a trop of liquor, and, please heaveu, I lever will again. ; The baby-bless its lear little heart!-wasn't harmed at dh It lay snug and warm on its nother's breast all the while. Bat if hadn't happened to be closo by them it that instant the night express vonld have ground them into pow ter. And the whito stripe came into my mir on the night of that fearful snow torm. That's how it happened, sir. Tho Art of Living Together. "It is written, 'It is not good for aan to be alone/ but on the other land, it is often far from good to be rith him," writes Dr. R. F. Horton, n a sugestivo article on "The Noble ut of Living Together," in the Sun lay Magazine. He continues : "A dooil oat is proferable, a mon goose, or even a canary. Indeed, for rant of proper instruction, a large lumber of tho human race, as they re known in this damp and foggy .land, are 'gey ill to live wi', ' and no me would attempt it but for charity nd tho love ot God. " , If all mankind thoroughly under food the art of living together, 'many of the catastrophes of life rould be averted ; and if even we had orno smattering of its lore we should ?reatly ohange the interiors of our tomes and contribute to the progress if society and the world." Politenes to the children is regard id os a cardinal virtue by Dr. Horton. Ie says : "1 never feel so tempted to nterfere with mothers as when I hear heir uncivil language to their chil Ireu, that rude and hectoring tone, bat volley of coarse epithets and un lignitied expletive?, which, of coarse, he children will learn to employ to me another." Tho whole question of living with ither people deserves muoh attention, ie declares. "Wo aro seldom in trncted in our youth how to do it veli. Our knowledge of the subjeot s acquired by experience, chiefly by >ur failures. And by the timo that re have tolerably mastered the deli sate art we are on the point of being ?ailed to the isolation of the grave or, hall I say, to the vast company of the najority." Gold Found by Coughing. An interesting story is told of the liscovery of gold in the rich plaoer nines north ol Mono Lake. On July l, ?S?'9, a miujr who had been work ng al; a place called Dogtown, on the 3ast Walker Biver, determined to cel ebrate by a stroll among the hills. Mter wu'.king several. hours he grew lot and tired and descended into a ieep, narrow canyon for the sake of ho shade. He stretched himself prone ipon the sand iu the shade of a big ?ook. While lying there, with face lown, he was taken with a fit of cough ng; his breath blew tho surfaco sand tway and the glitter of gold caught lis eye. On that spot the lucky miner nade a fortune and his fit of coughing ed to the discovery of the Bodie and turora quartz minen. An Imperial Kitchen. The German Emperor has a curious irrangement with his kitchen depart neut. The Empress arranges the nenus and he pays the cooks about $2 or each plate on ordinary occasions md $5 to $7 on state occasions. Luncheon is served at 2 and dinner at 3. The Empress shares all his meals, ind r.t luncheon they usually have jompany-courtiers, artists, savants, minors or distinguished foreigners who happen to be in Berlin, WOMAN'S WORLD. j? a-" PL BASANT LITERATURE FOB .JfEMININE READERS. " EHE WAS A MAJOB. Major Belle Beynolds, the only wo man commissioned during the war, li vea now at Santa Barbara, Cal., where she has a good medical practice. Her husband was among the firot to enlist in tho Seventcenth Illinois, and she went with him to the iront. Ho became Assistant Adjutant-Gsneral on the staff ut Goneral McClcrnand. Gov ernor Yates commissioned her major Ittl her splendid s?rvides to the wound ed and siok at Shiloh. She remained with tho army three years; FOR MOTHERS TO KNOW. That rapid eating is slow suicide. That a lump of sugar saturated in vinegar is efficacious in most cases o? hiccough. That in sleeping in a cold room establish a habit of breathing through the nose, never with the mouth open. That a severe paroxysm o' conghing may often be arrested by a table spoonful of glycerine in a wineglass ol hot milk. That to compel a child to eat any thin g'against which its palato naturally rebels is a cruelty at the momer and is likely to produce evil effects later on. That a few drops of the tinctvre ol benzoin put into the water in which tho face ?3 bathed will prevent the shiny oppearan?e of the skin with whi?h so many people are affected, especially in warm weather.-Chicago Be?ord; v THE HOMES OP VASSAR GIRLS. On three floors of the great build ing, which is Ave hu ndred feet long, five stories high, arid has two large transverse wings, small hallways ex tend back and open into suites of four or f ve rooms eaob. So perfect is the " .angement of rooms that although ?his great building shelters three hun dred students and a large force of in structors, besides providing recitation rooms, general parlors, residence rooms for the President and his family, general offices, and library, yet one is not conscious of the presenco of a grct.t company or of the amount of mei. tal and other industries transacted ander it roof. The home-like parlors aro central and hospitable; in the messenger's office all sorts of informa tion is courteously proffered, and pleasant young ladies are in waiting to guide one over the building or transact errands of love, mercy, or business. Those delightful little suites ol tooms, consisting of three or four bedrooms and a common parlor, every Vassar girl remembers with delight. If the warning sign "Engaged" is not out, we may ?nock at the door and catch a glimpse of a cozy parlor adorned with pictures, bric-a-brac, books, and the omnipresent divan with its tempt ing pillowa The well ventilated, always single bedrooms open from the parlor^ and the little family of stu dents who make their school home so attractive can always command hours of retirement or of sociability. Tempt i?g spreads are suggested by the chaf ing dish and alcohol lamp, and great clusters of fleurs-de-lis, yellow lilies, and boxes of ferns testify to woodland j tramps through the glorious wooded region in the vicinity.-Demorest's Magazine. RIBBON TRIMMINGS. Fignred Dresden or chino ribbons are used for belts, crush collars and bows. Bretelles of ribbon, also called suspenders, end on the (?boulders in a simple bow-knob or an npright bow of threo loops and four notched ends. Bracelet cuds on elbow sleeves are merely a plain or twisted band of rib bon ending in a bow at the back. A new decoration of two-inch ribbon starts from the shoulder under a bow knot, follows the arm size to the bust, is caught there with a large fancy but? ton, turned and brought straight across the bust to tie in a bow of four loops and two ends, all short. * An other idea is not long from Paris, and is carried out in a six-inch ribbon for bretelles, back and front, crush col lars, ditto bolt, how at back of earth and on the shoulders. In iront one bretelle finishes under a " knot' of ribbon, from whioh fall two long ends ; the other bretelle is finished with a fan of seven-inch lace held by a Bhinestone button. Epaulette raf? j fies of lace aro fastened under the! bretelles just at the top of the shoal-, ders, and a folded band of the ribbon across tho upper part of the iront has a full, called a bib, of the lace, with two buttons at each side confining the band. The quantities necessary are three yards of lace, five battons and ten yards of ribbon. Even ribbon os narrow as three inches may be used if preferred. The plain and printed gold ribbons aro U6ed for belts in widths of one and a half and two inches with a gilt or enameled buckle or tied in a tiny bow knot in front. These last well without tarnishing if not allowed to become damp ; they should also be kept wrapped in tisane paper when not in use, os should steel buckles and clasps. A fanoy bntton centreing a bow of ribbon, lace rosette, etc., is much newer than a tie-over of the same gooda Ribbons are never amiss on summer or evening gowns.-Ladies' Homo Journal, FASHION NOTES. The Longfellow coffee service is among the latest whims of faiihionable housekeepers. Dainty little cut-glass arid silver mucilage pots add much to the equip ment of my lady's desk. A smart little handle for a flowered silk parasol is of oherry wood with a hunch of cherries looking as though they grew just from the handle. The chiffon parasols aro larger than the silk ones, and bend over more, so that they really look so much like lamp shades that it is hard to tell the difference between them. Tho flowered silk taffetas and bro cades are most satisfactory of all para sol coverings. Strangely enough, it is not considered imperative to have the parasol of the same silk as the gown. The parasols this year aro extremely beautiful, and tho coloring and ma terials used aro simply marvelous. 3uch rich tones and such heavy fabrics have never before been utilized for this purpose. The all-white stitohed glove with four buttons xs still in fashion for wear with silk gowns in the afternoon, and this very expensive fashion-for the gloves must be immaculate-bids fair to continuo for some time. The introduction of the gloria silk umbrellas has been an inestimable boon. Theso umbrellas resemble silk so closely that at a distance it is impossible to tell them apart, wear well and aie ploaty good enough to bc lost. ! WORDS OF WISDOM. black sheep ia often the smartest of thc flock. A lowly origin does not preclude a lofty! destiny; i Ali the reasoning of man is not worth one Sentiment of woman. ? Go baok far enough, and you can find a scandal in every family. Ir, is always dangerous to take a veiled woman for a beautiful one. Many a tear can be dried easier with bank notes than with a handkerchief. If you have both tracts and bread to give the hungry give them the bread first. People seldom improve when they have no model but themselves to copy after. The whisper cf a beautiful woman can be beard farther than tho loudest call of duty. It is the greatest compliment a friend can pay yon to come to you for help in his troubles. Whenever a boy empties his pockets, his sister always sees something that belongs to her. Every man who has hoped for a lot of things that never came to pass has had a romanoe in his life. Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his ? manner of portraying another. If a wife would be as good to her hnsband as she is to her mother, the husband would always be satisfied. No home so small but that it has still room for trouble J no heart so weary, but that & glimmer of hope might still enter it.-The South-West. Thc Colonel Dodged". W. H. Sutclifle, a bravo soldier ot the Confederacy, who lost an eye by a minie ball striking ir,and was wounded several times, both by lead and sabre, yesterday told a story of the -late Colonel Peter C. Gaillard, who was the Commander of his regiment. Mr. Sutcliffe said that it was in Battery Wagner, on tho 18th of July, 1863, and the balls and sholls wero whizzing by at a great rate. Colonel Gaillard in going his rounds noticed that as tho balls would go by tho men would dodge. He called out : "Don't dodge, boys ; you may dodge in the way. Then he turned and was walking off, when an Irishman named Tom Carey, a brave man and true, picked up a tenpenny nail and whizzed it past the Colonel's ear. He thought it was a ball, and instinctively dodged aside. Carey called out: "Ah, bo the huttenich, Colonel, yez dodged that one." Colonel Gaillard, ho saye, turned around and laughed and said : "Well, boys, when they como that close, I think we'd better dodge.'* It was not until after tho war was over that he knew that the missile that whizzed past his ear that day was Carey's tenpenny nail and not a North ern bullet.-Charleston (3. O.J News and Courier. . How tho Air is Purified. Motion, mechanical and molecular, tho great law of the universe, is first to bo considered as a natural method for the purification of the atmosphere. Its power as a purifier Of the air is shown mechanically in tho flow of rivers and in the ocean currents; molecularly it serves thesamo purpose in tho form of heat, light and elec I tricity. [ When not in motion air stagnates as water docs and becomes offensive I and bad, because it is easily impreg I nated with fino animal and vegetablo dust as well ns noxious gases. Certain physical conditions are always neces sary for the continual movement of the air. We know that the diurnal motion of land and sea sir brings the warm days and cool nights as well as tho rain and wind. In the tropical regions, as the sun rises the heat of the day increases and tho breeze sets in from the sea to the land ; as the sun goes down the heat diminishes, and at sunset the temperature of sea and land are equal. At night again the breeze is from land to sea, until morn ing, when tho temperature may be come equal and tho sea breeze return. -The Chautauquan. Kino Tears ami a Century. The death is announced, at Armi tage, near Lichfield, of Antonio Al bina Mountsay, a naval veteran, who bad reached the age of 109 years. For some time tho deceased has keon re ceiving charitable allowance from the Lichfield Union. He was of French extraction, having been born at Bor deaux on January 6, 17S1. In his boyhood ho was taken prisouor by the English, being then only nine years of age. In tho conrso of time the lad joined thc British Navy of his own free will, and worked a quarterdeck gun on the Queen Charlotto at the siege of Algiers, in 1816, where he was severely wounJod. After leaving the aavv ho served on a whaler, and subsequently settled down in England. For the last three years he had been confined to bed ; and & carious circum stance is that he has recently grown a second crop of hair, which up to hts death has been plentiful and of a brown color.-London (England) Chronicle. The Thuuder Storms of Mauras. As the result of his prolonged study of those striking phenomena, the thuuder storms of Madras, Professor Smith informs the Scottish Meteoro logical Society that the first remark able fact observed by him was that of certain seasons of the year when sheet lightning appeared almost every night, always in a west or southwesterly direction, and invariably near the horizon ; it may be, therefore, he re marks, that theso discharges occur in the region where the moist and dust Jess sea wind meets the dry and dusty land wind, ene being, perhaps, posi tively electrified and the other nega tively. In these lightning displays as many as 300 flashes per minute have been counted, this rate being kept np for nn hour or an hour and a half. Another notable peculiarity remarked ul this region is that the heaviest raina ere unaccompanied by thunder, while the displays of lightning are not ac companied by any rain.-New York World. Beribboned Railroad Sandwiches. An Atchison man, who recently re turned from a trip on the Central branch, ran across a lunch counter in his travels that served railroad sand wiches tied with pink baby ribbon. Tho sandwiches wore made of tough rolls and moldy ham, but the ribbon was bright and new. The strange part .jf it was that a man conducted tho business.-Atohison (Kan.) Globe. Au Improved Snake Story. An improved snake story comes from Calcutta, India. Two tame py thons were kept together, when one swallowed the other. Tho inside snake, feeling uncomfortable in tho other's midst, proceeded tQ cat its way ont at the other end. ROSES. . Lucent, clear dewdrops On mist-looms span, Among the red roses Abbw tn the san; ? Jane's crimson roses, _ Plowers of the sun I ?i In a waste garden, Through the night's noon, Pale roses dreamily Swing 'neath the moon) Gold-Gleaming roses, Flowers of the moon! -Ladies' Home Journal. PITH AND POINT. The Woman Question-"How muoh is he worth?"-Minneapolis Journal. Lots of people fool around love just as if it wasn't loaded,-Atkinson j Globe. j The question of "precedence," now adays, is generally settled by a man's ability to hustle. -Puck. "That's a mighty loud suit Parke is . wearing now." "So? What material j is it?" "Crash."-Buffalo Times. I There must be some mi&take about I orango juice being good for you ; it ia j so pleasant to take.-Atohison Globe. The reason talk is always cheap, Dudaros a cynia neighbor, Is 'CHUSO tho major part of it I ^ Is done by female labor, j '"" . -New Tork Herald. j The young man who is waiting foz j something to turn up, finally discovers that he has been turned down.-Adams ? Freeman. Tho cathode rays will approach the miraculous if they can make some peo ple we nave seen appear brilliant. Statesman. Hiram (reading tho paper)-"Do you know what they mean by a Strad ervar'us?" Silas-"Yes. AStraclver'us is the Latin name fer a fiddle."-' Puck. A school journal advises: "Make the school interesting." Johnny Chaffie says that's what he tries to do 1 to the best of his ability.-Texas Sifter. I He-"Cholly ia well provided with tho necessaries of life." She-"Yes. It is a good thing for him that the necessaries of life do not include I brains."- Puck. j Mr. Gotroks-"I am worth a cool ! million. Do you think you could love .me?" Miss Highflyer-"Oh, dear, J dear Mr. Gotroks, I'll just love you . to death !"-Judge. Cumso-"I'd like to see a photo graph of a cloud made with the catho i die ray." Cawker-"Why?" Cumso I -"I'm suspicious about the silver lin ing. "-Detroit Free Press. Dick-"You know that fellar work in' Shaft No. 17, who wa3 always kiok in' for a raise?" Mick-"Yes." Dick -"Well, he kicked over a oan of dy namite to-day, and got it. "-Up To Date. Officer-"The opponents of our military system say that standing armies are disastrous to the country. Can you name anything that is more disastrous?" Cadet-"Yes, a runaway army."-Standards . "For three months during the "war I occupied the most dangerous posi tion in my company." "Indeed?" "Yes; every morning I curried the eight mules belonging to our commis sary."-Detroit Tribune. Small Brother-"Pa says he wishes you'd propose to sis." Young Man "Then ho ia willing to let her marry nie?'' Small Brother-"'Tain't that. He says you won't come so often after you have been rejected:"-Standard. Mrs. S-"We arenot going to move after all." Mrs. 0-"But I thought you considered the location un healthy?" Mrs. S-"We do; but j Charlie says if any of us get siok he'll take us to Europe next year."-De troit Free Press. A sky-blue cow, And a purple pig; A soa-grceu horse, And a yellow gig; Au indigo maid, And a saffron lad Is art-high art, To the po3lermad. -Family Call. Why-the Crook Confessed. Newspaper mou are sometimes[taken into the confidence of persons in pub lic life and told the "inside" of mut ters for their own information. It is not often, however, that criminals ! care to divulge their secrets to report ' ers, either for publication or "proof ? of good faith." An exception to this j order of things happened to tho ? writer. A well known crook, after having j been chased about from pillar to post j by the detectives, was finally captured in one of tho downtown saloons by two of the city force, who aro close to the ' top of the ladder in the Police Depart ment. The fellow made no resistance, but promised to go along peaceably. Tho officers had no sooner started for the stution house with their prisoner, whom they neglected to handcuff, than he made a break for liberty and got away. Tho officers made every ef fort to capture him, and every officer ; on tho force was told to look out for him. . Tho crook mado hi3 way to the lower part of Allegheny, and .going to a telephone called up tho newspaper office, and asked tho writer to come to a certain place and get a good story, j The writer went to thc place he indi I coted and tho mau told his story. It j was merely his version of the trouble ! ho got into and an account of i;ke olever manner in which he had escaped from thc two oiHcers of the police force. He wanted tho officers "roast ed" for allowing him to get away so easily, and had rnn the risk of being recaptured, Bolely for the purpose of venting his spite upon the natural en emy of all criminals. He know that he would have time to get away after the interview. Tho follow was afterward ' captured and sent to prison, in pnn , ishment for some of his many orimiaal ; acts.-Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. A Plucky Girl. A rival has now been found to the Austrian tailor who accomplished i;he journey from Vienna to Paris inside a trunk. The imitator is a young girl ot eighteen years from Auvergne. She bad been living in the French capital with a relative, who fell ill, and rather than prove an incumbrance the spirited damsel resolved to return to her native village. Not having any money to pay her railway fare, she set out to cover the journey, a distance of 540 kilometres, on foot. When nearly a third of her journey had been accom plished ber strength gavo out. She determined then to travel at the ex penso of the railway company, and, biding her time, she obtained a seat on the buffer of a goods wagon as a train left the station. For many a mile she rode in this perilous position, und when discovered by a railway offi cial she was half dead with cold and latigue. After receiving every atten tion the girl wus sent on to her nil a tites.-Boston Herald. An Admirable Hotel. Tho following noiqae advertisement bas been prepared bj the humorist of the Puyallup (Wash.) Commerce, and is among the standing matter at the bead of a colnmn and just beneath a cut of the Egyptian pyramids: "The famous Paradise Park hotel takes pleasure in announcing that it will open up as soon as the snow melts down to l-l feet. Delightfully located on the instep of old Mount Tacoma Ranier-Puynllup, 14.444 miles high. No Hies, no fleas, no bugs. No stares toklime. Guests have the privilege of doing their own washing if so bent. Fine fir board. Fresh frost cake every morning-frost right off tho grass. No xtra charge for standing in the kitchen door and seeing New York and other eastern villages. Free sidewalk to and from the honse, and drinking water free to guests xcept in July, August and September. No mortgagee. "Scenery everywhere. No extra charge for scenery, except special sun ups that have to bo xpeditcd with spe cial xplosivea "Only twenty-seven miles across the ridge to Lard Valley, where sugar cured hams of mountain goats grow on the trees. "Among the distinguished tourists hoped for this year aro Owen Wister, W. D. Howells, Professor Charles E. Norton, Theodore Roosevelt, Frederick Remington and Major McKinley. "(If Senator Squire gets through his bill to make a national park of it, he will also be welcome; otherwise otherwise.) "Now is the time to telegraf for front bay windows, with glaciers right under them. "No dogs, children or kranks al lowed."-Puyallup Commerce. The Robber Robbed. A stroller on tho outer boulevards was stopped in the middle of the night, an incident of frequent occurrence just now in Paris. "Your purse or yonr life 1" The stroller handed over his purse. Tho robber opened it, oountcd seven coppers and contemptuously ex claimed: "Yon thief !"-La Reforme. A Quaker Courtship. "Martha, dost thou love me?" said young Quaker. "Why, Seth, wo are commanded to love ono another.""Ab, Martha, but dost thou feel what thc world calls love?" I hardly know what to tell thee Seth. I have tried to be stow my love upon all, but I have some times thought that perhaps thou wast getting more than thy share."-Tid Bits. _ Definitions. "Moral courage/' said the teacher, "is the courage that makes a boy do what he thinks is right, regardless of the jeers of his companions." "Then," said Willie, "if a feller has sweets and eats them all himself, and ain't afraid of tho other fellows edlin' him stingy, is that moral courage?" Pearson's Weekly. Literary. "Have you written your graduation essay?" "Yes," replied Mamie. "Wasn't it a lot of work?" "Just dreadful. First I had to hunt up words that were big enough, and then I had to keep looking in the dictionary to see what they meant, and, honestly, I began to think I never would get it finished."-Washington Star. _ Had Ono Good Quality. Mrs. Gadd- -How is your girl, Mrs. Gnbb. Mrs. Gobb-Well, she's abominally dirty ; she spoils everything she aook*, and she's lazy and impudent, but she has one good quality, rarely met with." "Indeed. What is that?" "3ho stays."-Harlem Life. AYER'S A If there is any reas any sarsaparilla, there : should use Ayer's. WI you take it to cure dise? as quickly as possible a That is why you shou quickly and cheapty-ar people write us : "I wo of Ayer's Sarsaparilla kind." A druggist wri Ayer's will give more be kind." If one bottle of of three it must have tb cost of one. There's th pays every way to use Ayer's Sa Woman's modesty and igno rance of danger often cause her to endure pains and suffer tor ture rather than consult a physician about important subjects. Pains in the head, neck, back, hips, limbs and lower bowels at monthly intervals, in dicate alarming derangements. fifi C EL RE E'S WIE OF CARDIN is a harmless Bitter Wine with out intoxicating qualities. Taken at the proper time it relieves pain, corrects derange ments, quiets nervousness and cures Whites, Falling of the ^ Womb and Suppressed or too | Frequent Menses. Price %\. | For Sale by Medicine Dealcis. | ?MMeeMKNMMMMiMM^ OPIUM4,1(1 A.N. D mee. Dr. B. B. wooixsr. mim, ci Tn'enty-eu, '93. Ballway Grew .h of Twenty Years. The Ballway ?ge makes a compar?' f!OQ of the railway mileage of the dif ferent states and t erritories io 1876 and in 1896. The total mileage Janu ary 1, 1896, was 181,082, against 74,000 miles January 1, 1876-an in crease of 106,982 miles in twenty year.* This is a gain of Hil per cent. By grouping the states into sections we find that theso fi.gu.res make a splendid showing for tno south. In nortern states east of the Mississippi, with a population of 29,500,000, only 8,536 miles of road have b?en built in twenty years. In southern states, with a population of 22,500,000, 31,113 have been built during the same period. Of course the great activity in railroad building was in states west of the Mis sissippi, where moro them half the mileage of tho country was built. During the last eight of the twenty years, however, the south built as many miles of railroad as the west. Ia two respects Florida leads the list of states enst of tho Mississippi. She has the largest mileage per capita, and she shows the highet t rate of in crease of mileage. Florida has in creased her railroad mileage more than six fold in twenty yoa-s. No other state east of the Mississippi has modo more than half of Florida's percentage of increase. Plausible. It frequently happens that statuary claims respect more for the sentiment which promptod its production than for its artistic qualities. Very few cities lack in tributes to heroism which are none tho less touching because they are not convincing evidences of the sculptor's skill. It waa at such a specimen that a couple, evidently from the country, paused to gas:e : "'It looks kinder queer," was her comment. "I dunno much about such things, but the proportions seem kinder onus ual." ' "Hush," she exclaimed, "we're show in' onr ignorance. It's the latest thing in art. If we have poster pictures, it stands to reason that there should be poster statuary, too."-Chicago Post. For the Gigantic Telescope. The block of glass which is to be made into a vast mirror for the big telescope which is to be one of the features of the exhibition of 1900 has just arrived in Paris from Belgium, where it has been cast. This immenso telescope is to bring the moon to an apparent distance of fifty kilometers from the earth, and is being construct ed under the direction of M. Francois Delonclo. The polishing of the glass for the mirror of the telescope will bc dono in Paris.-From the European Edition of the Herald. Interesting License Decision. No deoision of the United State iu preme court has attracted more wide spread interest than that delivered by Chief Justice Bradley, exempting agents, canvassers, salesmen, etc., from all special, state, county and town taxes. All such special license of tax laws are declared unconstitutional, aud any law officer who attempts to en force them is individually liable for damages. Agents wili do well to go around with a copy ol! this decision, and if molested, produce it and de mand instant re?ase. The Modera Ccanty ~ Thrives on good food and. sunshine, with plenty of exercise in the ope n air. Her form glows with health and her face blooms with its beauty. If her system ne ts the cleansing action of a laxativo remedy, she uses the gea? tie nnd pleasant Syrup of Figs. Mode by tua California Fis Syrup Company. 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