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Dogs Kill a Dog.
A. C. Heffenger tells in ti e American
Field how an old fox hound was done
to death by the pack of which lt was a
member. The hound was called Clay,
and was owned by N. Q. Pope, who kept
it in the White Oak Hill Kennel at Po
land, Me. The dog wa? a prize taker,
and always got a place when lt ran In
the annual trials of the Brunswick Fur
Club. After the annual hunt at Bruns
wick, Me., in which Clay proved better
than all the younger hounds, the dog
was taken back to Poland and put
in the yard, with the rest of the pack.
McGregor, keeper of the hounds, heard
a row in the yard, and coming down,
found that the pack had pitched upon
the champion hound and killed lt by
chewing its throat and chest Wolves
have been known to kill their fellows
In a similar manner. A wolf showing
signs of pain is set upon and killed by
Its comrades. A male fox, when it
finds a female fox in a trap, attacks
and kills it A cow, bellowing with
pain, is set upon by the herd and gored
to death. Whether the attacks are to
ai.d the one In pain or not is not known
by students of natural history.
Buoy Suggested by a Boy.
It is stated in the Boston Post that
the inventor of the whistling buoy,
"that godsend to the sailor," got hie
first idea of the device from seeing a
small boy pushing an ordinary tin horn
mouth downward Into a hogshead of
water. The air thus compressed was
forced rapidly through the small end,
with a whistling noise, and that same
principle is now embodied in all the ap
paratus supplied by the Government,
the rising of the tide or action of the
waves driving the air into the horn.
A Hat Size.
A*" size in hats is one-eighth of an
Inch. According to the English method,
the smaller diameter of the head ls
taken as the starting point One-eighth
of an inch increase in the shorter diam
eter makes a little more than three
I eighths in circumference. The French
and German batters have a rule slight
ly different from this.
Cn Time,
And ve ry early too. That's what any one should
be In treating one's self for Inaction of the kid
neys and bladder. The diuretic which experi
ence Indicates as supplying the requisite stimu
lation to the organs without exciting Utera, ls
Hosteler's Stomach Bitters. Don't delay: kid
ney inaction and diseases are not far apart.
For fever and ague, dyspepsia, constip?t lei,
rheumatism and nerve debility, also, uso the
Bitters. _
Don't you often Ure of the blvfcle tire, and
feel that lt ls a good feat to spend more tune on
your feet. _
No-To-Bac for Fifty Cent?.
Over 400,000 cured. Why not let Nc-To-Bac
regulate or remove your desire fer tobacco?
8aves money, makes health and manhood.
Cure guaranteed. SO cents and 91.00, at aU
druggists. _
The steel rall may try to hide, but tho loco
motive always gets on to lt.
Comfort Costs 50 Cents.
Irritating, aggravating, agonising Tetter, Ec
zema, Ringworm and all other itching stein dis
eases aro quickly cured by the use of Tetterino.
It is soothing, cooli ng, healing. Costs 60 cents a
box, post paid-brings comfort at once. Address
J. T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga.
CASCAKETS stimulate Uver, kidneys and
bowels. Never sicken, weaken or gripe; 10c.
How'? Thia?
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bj latir :'.r .
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"Mo.
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Uver and bowel regulator ever made.
FITS stopped tree and permanently cured. No
fits siter first day's use of DR. KLINE'S GBIAT
NERVE RESTORER. Free &i trial botUe and treat
ise. Send to Dr. Klino, 931 Arch St., Phlla., Pa.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma
tion, aUays pain, euros wind coUc. 25c. a bot?o.
WHIN blUous or costive, eat a Cascaret,
candy cathartic; cure guaranteed; 10c., 25o.
We think Piso's Cure for Consumption is the
only medicine for Coughs.-JENNIE PINCE UU>,
Springfield, Ills,, Oct. 1, 1894.
SCROFULA SWIILLiNGS
On Our Boy's Neck Grew
Larger and Larger
Until we became alarmed. In May we pur
chased a bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla and tho
child began taking it. We gave ourson Hood's
Sarsaparilla until tho sore was entirely healed.
He ls now permanently cared." W. C. KKEA
MEH, Mtlesburg, Pa. ' Remembtr
Hood's' parilla
Is theben-in fact theOneTrue Blood Purifier.
ll?tA?i'a* Dille ?ct harmoniously w.lh
nOOU S rlllS Hocd'g Sarsaparilla.
MALSBY & COMPANY,
57 So. Forsyth St., Atlanta, Ga.
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Steam Water Heaters, Steam Pumps and
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/fJ^K OSBORNE'S JO
&oudmed4 tf@ o-iteae
Augusta. Ga. Actual basinets. So text tf
book-,- Short time. Cheap board- Saud for catalogue.
Bubbles i
" Best sarsaparillas." Whi
tory that term is. For there cac
best sarsaparilla, as there is c
river, one deepest ocean. And 1
There's the rubi *Vou can m
depth, but how test sarsaparilla
But then do you need to test i
tested it,-and thoroughly. '
bottle. What did thissarsap
of sarsaparilla shut out of the
that Ayer's was the only san
Fair. The committee found i
anything that was not the best
parilla received the medal and
the word "best" is a bubble a
pins to prick such bubbles.
" best sarsaparilla " bubbles s
old ones. True, but Ayer's i
pin that scratches the medal p
the bubble proves it wind. T
when we say: Thc best sarsaj
CIVING OUT THE POTATOES.
An Old Soldier's Reminiscences of an
Event in Army Lifo.
"Sometimes," said the old soldier,
"we got considerable many potatoes,
and then again we wouldn't have any
at all for weeks; very likely nothing
Lut hard bread and coffee and pork,
and maybe corned beef, and perhaps
beans; but whether we got them often
or seldom, potatoes were always more
or less of a luxury.
"When potatoes were issued by the
commissary, when we came to draw
our rations, would of course get a cer
tain quantity, proportioned to the num
ber of men we had on duty in the com
pany. If we had forty men the pota
toes we got, when we came to count
them out, might number sixty. If
there were sixty potatoes for forty men
obviously some of them would have to
be cut in two, or else they would have
to be given out two to some men and
one to others, and that is what waa
done; a man got two small potatoes or
one big one. For myself I preferred
two small ones; but of course I took
whatever was given to me, and said
nothing; but I liked it better to get two
potatoes, so as not to risk everything
in one package. I have known a big
handsome potato that a man had car
ried gravely to his tent, filled with de
lightful anticipations as he went along,
to turn out bad Inside.
"There was no greater test of a cook's
management than the way he gave out
potatoes, and the man who could do
this to the satisfaction of everybody
waa a good deal ot a man. It is im
possible to give everybody exactly the
same quantity, but an effort to get as
near to this as possible, a spirit of fair
ness, was recognized instantly, and no
body expected more. The potato he
got might not be so big by a quarter as
the one he saw put on the plate of the
man ahead of him, but he said nothing;
somebody had got to have tue other
potato, and it might just aa like have
come to him.
"But something more than fairness
was required to give out the potatoes
successfully; a man had got to keep
the run of what he had given out and
the number of men supplied, and have
some idea of the number of potatoes
left and the number of men to come.
He could give himself some margin by
Issuing the big potatoes first; on a
pinch, along at the end, he could give
out to three or four men a single one
of the biggest of the smalled potatoes,
instead of two. But he must know
whether there were any men who had
not come yet and whether they were,
likely to turn up or not, and he must
keep the run of all these things with
out stopping to think, aa he forked up
the potatoes from the camp kettle and
put them on the plates held out to him
by the men as they passed. And gen
erally he came out just right. More
than once I have known him to put
the last potato on the last man's plate.
"But he did not always bring things
out with that nicety. I have known as
many as three men on the end of the
line to be left without any potatoes.
All gone. Well, now, there was a sit
uation. No potatoes issued for a month
wn-~ ?ri none *.* . ' ' ' * * ' -
right nor to the left, and to their tents;
and ate hard bread on a day when all
around tho camp was filled with lux?
ury."-New York Sin.
A Plea for Cooa* Roads.
The marks of a long pedestrian tour
were thick upon him.
He sat down to rest on the carriage
step in front of a rural residence. The
proprietor happened to pass ai d paus
ed to look at the rather unsightly ad
dition to the landscape which the
traveller made.
"What are you doing in this part of
the country?" he asked.
"Walkin'," was the answer.
"Haven't you any work?"
"Walkin's as hard work as I know
of in this part of thc world; up hill and
I down holler; ye climb a rock pile one
minute an' land in a mud-hole tho
next."
"You ought to be ashamed of vour
self."
"I ain't altogether to blame for look
in' this way. The road's ter blame fur
some of it."
"I was referring not to your appear
ance, but to your method of life. You
are a man in middle life. Don't you
think it's about time you were mend
ing your low ways?"
"Mister, did you ever go ter Sunday
school?"
"Of course."
"Do you remember hearin' 'bout it's
being a good idea not ter bother 'bout
the mote in yer neighbor's eye tell ye
cast the beam from yer own?"
"I remember that lesson."
"Well, mister, when ye talk ter me
'bout mendin' my low ways, I'm wil
lln' ter listen respectful, 'cause I know
I ain't perfect. But I can't help re
markin', wethout meanln' offense, thet
my low ways don't need mendin' a
blessed bit more'n your highways do."
-Detroit Free Press.
Progress.
' "In our day," said the man who
moralizes, "the bicycle has replaced
the horse; gas has been substituted
for kerosane, and -"
"That's right," broke in the citizen
from Harlem: "and in our flats steam
has been substitued for heat."-Puck.
ur Medals
in you think of it how contradio
i be only one best in s ry thing--one
ne highest mountain, one longest
mat best sarsaparilla is-?....
casurc mountain height and ocean
? You could if you were chemists,
it? The World's Fair Committee
They went behind thc label on the
?arilla test result in ? Every make
Fair, except Ayer's. So it was
laparilla admitted to the World's
t the best They had no room for
:. And as the best, Ayer's Sarsa
awards due its mfrits. Remember
ny breath can blow ; but there are
Those others are blowing more
ince the World's Fair pricked the
sarsaparilla has the medal. The
roves it gold. The pin that pricks
.Vc point to medals, not bubbles,
>arilla is Ayer's.
mm
OL, 13 MEN
Strong in my heart old memories awake,
To-night!
Live on my lips dead kisses burr;
Hot to my ey?s wept teams return;
Forgotten throts my pulses Bhako,
To alght!
Love is avenged-my buried love
To-night!
The weakling Present slips away;
Tho giant Past alone hos 9wny
rotenliul as the gods above
To-night!
i^uuxixTLnJxnjTJri^^
MRS. ELWOOD
BY JENN'
.HEN first Edith Lor
ing realized the sad
trat h that she was
orphaned, that the
father who had
lavished upon her
all that wealth coald
yield had died a
bankrupt at an unexpected crisis in
the finan?ai world, the doable shock
seemed more than she could bear.
Fer a time it paralyzed ber energies,
bat when at last tho dread question,
What should she do? was put before
her in all its unvarnished plainness,
pride and her own strength of will
came to her rescue, and sho answered,
brushing the tears from her bright
eyes and holding erect the regal head :
"Anything rather than live depen
dent upon others. I will work."
Then, when the weary days merged
into weeks and months, and she finally
sought and obtained a position as
governess in Mrs. Elwood's family,
and bade farewell to her old home,
where she had spent so many happy
hours to enter upon the threshold of
her new life, it seemed as though a
hand of iron had grasped her heart and
clutched it in a vise. She lived two
lives-an outer life, in whioh her sweet
voice never wavered, and where she
wore a smile whose hollowness the
children, her little charges, oould not
fathom ; and au inner life, which
sometimes grew to such agony that
almost it betrayed ber ; but the tears
rarely roso beyond the fountain-head.
And though at times the crown of
thorns sho daily wore pressed hard
upon the tired young brow, she car
ried it unllinchingly. At first, as the
days brought each their fresh burden
and every hour seemed to give birth
to some new and harder duty, a hope,
unbidden, shone ever through the
darkest clouds that Douglas Ballings
would release her ere her thralldom
became unbearable. In bygone days,
though no positive engagement bound
them, his words, his every act were
unmistakably the words and acts of u
lover. At her father's death she had
heard nothing from him, but each day
some fragrant dowers had been sent
her, which she felt assured could come
only from him.
Then followed the announcement of
her loss of fortune, and from that day
she had heard nothing of the recreant
QQVO fr?o I? rvrrro VT? V? * /? K f**l *? m 1
. . .- aa w ah i i .:<:...
.n- ??vig?a?, wii/u Lueir mor
ry occupants, dash post, she wonders
could it be she who, one short year ago,
revelled like these, tho gayest of the
gay?
"Miss Loring," a sweet, childish
voice crien, interrupting hei reverie,
"momma nays will you not join us in a
ride? There is a vacant seat in the
sleigh, and sho should be very glad to
have you fill it."
"Certainly, dear; I will be there in
a moment," and, rising to her feet,
she donned her outer wraps and hast
enod to meet Mrs. Elwood in tho hall
below.
Before the door stood two sleighs,
ene that belonged to her hostess, the
other a beautiful little cutter, with a
pair of prancing steeds, held by a
groom in full livery, while in tho
drawing-room tat its owner, waiting
for MissElwooJ, the daughter of tho
house, who had this winter made her
debut ia society.
Edith, unconscious of any one's
presence, ran hastily into the room to
fee if Mrs. Elwood awaited her, and
for a moment the blood surged up in
a glad tide, for there before the open
fireplace 6tood Douglas Ballings,
aloue. He had como then at last;
but her outstretched hand drops to
her side, her look of happy surprise
vanishes, ns sho reads in his face only
utter amazement at ber sudden appar
ition. In a moment she realizes it is
not she whom he seeks.
"Pardon me, Mr. Railings. I
thought tho drawing-room deserted,
or expected to find only Mrs. Elwood.
I imagined you were abroad."
"I returned only last week, and this
is a most welcome surprise. May 1
not tell you how very glad I am to
find you? Are you visiting Mrs. El
wood?"
"I am residing here permanently,
as Mrs. Elwood's governess. Good
morning."
"Staj', Edith ; why are you so cold?
Let me bs your friend-do something,
anything, to lighten your burden."
"Thank you. My own shoulders
are sufficiently broad to bear any bur
den laid upon them. Once more,
good morning," and in another mo
ment Ed:th stepped into the sleigh
beside Mire. Elwood, aud was whirled
from his sight. As he turns a moment
later to meet Miss Elwood, there is a
perplexed look in his face which ha
eau scarcely hide in the smile of wel
come he so well knows how to assume.
But she detects nothing beyond the
seeming delight which he can so well
express in courteous wordu; and
springing lightly into tho sleigh by
his side, as tbs groom releases the
horses and they speed off as au arrow
sent from its bow, she feels only hon
ored by his preference and his com
panionship.
Two days later a little note is placed
in Edith Loring's bauds. It is a polite
invitation irom M Railings to accom
pany him that i ?rnoou to drive,
which sho as polit' and formally de
clines. Occasion she heard his
name mentioned tho household;
learns that his aft? >na to Miss El
wood are growing irked ; sees the
happy fluwh ru ou- j her brow a*
mention of his name, .*ad wonders at
the icy indifference with which she
hears it all. Sometimes for n moment
the old pain throbs and surgee, but
she bravely tights it book and comes j
forth conqueror.
In all these months she rarely meets
him. Once, as sho is passing through
the hall with her little charge-1, she
unexpectedly confronts him. In his
old, wiaatag way-a manner which
TORIES.
And let him wign! I'll hold my soul,
To-night!
In grand flef to thia mighty Post;
Ia falso allegiance off I cast
D?ny the Present's potty toll,
To-nightl
Take loyally, great Past, my king,
To-night!
To-morrow's san may thee unthrone;
Bat eyes, lips, heart-all that I own
O' treasure-I before thee fling,
To-night!
-Household Words,
's GOVERNESS
r WREN.
she has learned so well-he asked her
once more to let him be her friend.
"At least, Edith, let me explain."
"Explaio, Mr. Railings? I cannot
understand, sir, what explanation is
necessary. Allow me to assure you I
consider none due me."
This is all that passed between them
until one morning, when Mrs. Elwood
has given her a holiday and she has
taken advantage of it for a quiet walk,
6he hears behind ber a quick tread,
and io another moment Mr. Railings
had accosted her.
"This is a most unexpected pleas
ure, Miss Edith. Will you allow me
to join you?"
"I came out, Mr. Rallinga, to be
alone, and I should prefer it."
"Edith, lieten to me ; I must speak.
Why do you avoid me? "When I left
this country for Europe I wrote -you a
little note, explaining why I was called
away, leaving you my address and
begging you to write to me. No letter
reached me, and ou my return 1 heard
of your added misfortunes. I could
hear nothing more. When 1 found
you at Last, so bravely earning your
own support, it gave mo a new respect
for you. I know full well how little
worthy I am to ask a favor at your
hand, but at least let me try to win
back some of the friendly feeling I feel
assured you once gave me."
"That I will not deny, Mr. Railings ;
nor will I deny that, for a time, I
missed my friend; bnt I have so
schooled myself that that feeling has
grown into callousness. The rose,
once blighted, cannot reblossom ; the
heart onoe trampled upon bears the
cruel impress forever. I have learned
at least contentment, and let me beg
that this shall be our last interview."
"Have you indeed grown so hard,
Edith? When I knew that you had
lost everything, and was dependent
solely upon the labor of your own
brain and hands, I longed, darling,
oh, so earnestly, to say to you : 'Ooma
to me. Let me share your bnrden, or
lighten it all I can.' You have judged
me cruelly, Edith. I am not so base
as you imagine. I have enough for
both. Let me try to win back at least
a little of tho old feeling, with the
hopo that at a later day I may plead
with you to be my wife."
For a moment Edith wavered. There
was a ring of truth in his words sha
_?u\, un tue wuria was true.
Can you think thut I, living in the
house with Miss Elwood, can be ignor
ant of tho attentions you have paid
her? Nay, do not attribute this to
personal feeling, for, believe mo, it is
a matter of indifference, save that your
conduct ia unworthy a gentleman."
"In visiting Miss Elwood, if I have
erred, it has been through my love for
you. I have gone there hoping to see
you, yearning for the knowledge that
you were well at least, and longing to
break through the crust of ice in which
you infolded yourself. I admire Miss
Elwood only as a friend, and do not
for one moment flatter myself she
entertained a different feeling toward
me. This is folly, dear. Look at me
once, Edith, with your old, frank gaze,
and if my eyes speak falsehood, banish
me forever."
"It is hopeless, Mr. Rallingp. I
have ceased to care for you. If I did
not know how small a matter it was to
you I should say, 'I am sorry,' but in
the long month? when a friendly word
would have been, oh ? so welcome, only
eilence met me; and if, as you say, a
mantle of ice infolds me, it is beoause
I have so long lived banished from the
bun that ita rays can no longer pene
trate tho frozen interior. It is best
__ ??
so.
"You call it best, then-best that
tho heart, ouce 6o warm and true,
should become an iceberg ; beet that
your faith shonld be converted into
skepticism, your belief into unbelief.
Rest happy in your creed, then, Miss
Lori og, but take care lest you do not
wreck yourself against the sharp rocks
of suspicion."
Six months later. Edith Loring,
sitting in her school room,'ia inter
rupted by Miss Elwood.
"Oh, Miss Loring," she says, "Mr.
Railings has been thrown from, his
horse and badly injured. They fear
he will not live. Is it not ead?"
"Very sad," was the quiet reply, but
as she spoke the words the ice seemed
breaking from her heart, and she foll
fainting to the floor.
During all the3e months she had
scarcely heard Douglas Raliings'a
name, and; to her surprise, his
absence from the household had been
but casually mentioned ; and Miss El
wood, in her daily round of pleasure,
seemed to have no time to note that
such was the case. His words were
tjue, then, when he told her he had
been to her only as a friend. Could
it be that it was she who had honored
him, and not ho her !
When consciousness returned, and
with it the memory of their last meet
ing, her coldness and indifference, his
earnest, loving words, she knew she
had deceived herself, and tho love she
supposed buried beyond resurrection
was deeper, truer, more iutense than
before it had been tried by tire. Por>r
childi Sho was weary of the fight,
and now she could never tell him that
she owned herself worsted in the
battle. But ono evening a few weeks
later his onrd is put into her band.
She has learned ero this of his re
covery, but she is amazed when she
goes forward to welcome him to see
what an impress his illness has left
upon him. Pale and worn, he stands
before her with outstretched hands,
but it is with the old tone be speaks.
"Little one, I came to Hod my wife,
Is she here?" .
Her answer was nit word-3poken,
but with her fair head pillowed ou hi?
breast, he needed noue; and when,
two months later, he claimed bis wife,
Mia* Elwood stood wi.h her afc the
altar as'her chosen friend.-New York
Ledger,
WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE VOR
FEMININE READERS.
DRESSMAKING AN ART.
Writing on the subject of practical
dressmaking .'in the Woman'u Home
Companion, Mary Katharina Howard
says:
"The day has come when dress
makers can and do look upon their
calling as a profession that commands
respeot. They are now, rightfully
termed artists, and are just as much
entitled to the name of artist as the
men and women who create life-like
statues from marble, or who with pen
cil and colors reproduce nature with
master strokes, providing she does the
work conscientiously, with careful
thought and study, with always a re
gard for the eternal fitness of things.
No class of women anywhere has ac
complished as much and made as mnch
progress with so little help as have the
dressmakers. Artists, doctors, law
yers and people in all professions have
recourse to libraries whose shelves aro
filled with books containing valuable
information and assistance in their
lino, but there is a curions dearth of
literature on subjects useful to either
the professional or amateur dress
maker. While wo have raauy Ameri
can and foreign fashion jouruals suf
ficiently versatile-and fetching in thcr
styles of fabric and details of cut in
dress, there is nothing to tell how to
out, fit, baste and sew, or the whys
and wherefores of doing certain things
in certain ways to obtain the best re
sults. Dressmakers are prono to sel
fishness, and keep good points they
may discover in their line to them
selves, while in of.her professions more
liberality is shown in this particular,
and new ideas aro published and spread
broadcast for tho good of all inteiested
in the same lino of thought and study.
"Until this narrow-mindedness is over
come, and dressmakers become more
altruistic, they will labor to a disad
vantage. Many women who have
talent for creating handsome, stylish
and well fitting gowns are denied the
opportunity of showing their ability
in thie line, ali for the want of oppor
tunity to educate thoir propensities,
and a friendly, sympathetic baud of
encouragement from those whose
knowledge is sufficient to lead the less
fortunate. Dressmaking, when not
properly understood,means the hardest
and most wearing drudgery in which
a woman can engage. But properly
Btudied, and practiced accordingly, is
made comparatively easy and very re
munerative."
HOUSEWORK FOB GIRL GRADUATES.
In these days when so many young
women look lorward to a career, the
nnobtrusive sphere of the home is of
ten overlooked.
Passing by all that might, from the
standpoint of sentiment and filial
piety, be said in favor of the old-fasn
ioned, and at present, much despised
occupation of housework, let us look
at it from a purely business point of
view.
Here is a family in moderate cir
cumstances, livinsr in a New England
eldest daughter,
school, has a
io leading dry
, at a salary of
sr duties oc
t*yn in . .e week, from
antil six in the
'venings until nino
nndajs and four
c are available for
ork, family inter- *
.ee, :-.oxWuonges of social life,
and for self-culture. As she has no
board to pay, her inoome of-five huu
dred dollars enables her to dress well,
and though she spends money freely,
?he has already a nice little sum laid by
in the savings bank. Meantime her
mother with the aid of an indifferent
girl, to whom she pays three dollars
and half a week, and whoso board and
waste amount to as much more, cares
for the household, sending out the
washing and ironing.
Suppose the daughter should give up
ker position in the store in order to
help at home, having persuaded her
mother to dismiss the maid of all
work, and to pay her what would thus
be saved, namely, seven dollars a week.
Her duties in this capacity, shared
by her mother as in the past-for in a
family of seven one pair of hunds can
not well do everything-would leave
her free for at least three hours every
afternoon; sho would also havo all her
evenings, and, as a rule, ono or two
mornings in each week, she would find
un hour or more at her own disposal.
In these leisure hours sho would find
time for her own sewing, including
'dressmaking, and thus would be able
to save the amount of her dressmaker's
bills-probably fifty dollars in tho
course of the year. There would still
be ample time for study and for social
duties as well as for benevolent and
charitable work. AU told, her income
above her expenses would be less than
at present by about one hundred dol
lars; and, if she were earning money
in order to aid in the support of the
family, this sum would be worth con
sidering. But, under the circum
stances, she might well regard her loss
in dollars and cents as more than over
balanced by the gain iu freedom from
confining hours, and in leisure for the
cultivation of her mind and for efforts
in behalf of others.
Nor would the advantage b? all on
one side. The mother, relieved of
the worry of inefficient time-serving
"help" by tho intelligent, interested
service of her daughter, would grow
young again in the delightful com
panionship and sympathy of the lively,
loving girl.
It is net claimed that housework is
as remunegative as some other employ
ments, ror that the position of a "do
mestic" is suited to the taste or to the
social standing of tho average Ameri
can girl; but where remunerative em
ployment is sought, as it so often is,
not from necessity but in accordance
with the enterprising fashion of tho
day, some such business arrangemeut
as has been outlined, which has its
parallel in at least a few homes, grati
fies tho spirit of independence while
it fosters the domestic tasto and knits
together tho members of the family iu
the bonds of mutud helpfulness.
New York Independent.
FASHION NOTES.
Red still promises to be the favorite
color of spring. .
Buckles six inches wide, and bent, to
fit the figure, are used for tho backs
of ribbon belts.
A gorgeous hatpin is often the only
touch of color on the fashionable
chapeau of tho season.
A charming hat has a moderately
wide brim, which is rolled high at one
side. Against the rolled-up portion in
n large rosette of cropou. Tho trim
ming is of loops and ends of crepou
over not found it ion. and a baud of
feather trimming that passes from the
rolled-up side around tho crown to tho
back, and is thero attached to a wire,
and forms an end standing u.orighi
behind large loops.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Reason should direct and appetite
obey.-Cicero.
To open the gates of Paradise two
must turn the key.-E. S. O'Connor.
The leu dignity a mau has the more
he asserts it.-Philadelphia Ledger.
An egotist is a man who believes
exactly opposite to what you do.
Floriday Times-Union.
We shall be more apt to "know eaoh
other there," if we do not forget each
other here.-Barn's Horn.
Next to the pleasure of admiring the
woman we love is that of seeing her
admired by others.-Balzac.
Misunderstandings and neglect oc
casion more mischief in this world
than even malice and wickedness.
Goethe.
To be stupid when inclined and dull
when you wish is a boon that only
goes with high friendship.-The
Philistine.
It is curious that one should tako
the trouble to file a bill; filing a bill
does not reduce it in size.-Boston
Transcript.
A man can make a resolution tc bo
strictly truthful and stand some 6how
of keeping it so long as he meets on
woman.-Atohison Globe.
I have sped much lan 1 and sea, an 1
mingled with much people, but never
yet could find a spot unsunned by
human kindness.-Tupper.
One hour spent in solitude, in strug
gle with and victory over a single
bosom-sin, is worth more, even intel
lectually, than a year's btudy.-Cole
ridge.
Pluck ont of suffering the glory that
is shut up in it ; and may it be said of
sach one of you, "Becauje of the joy
set before him he endured the cross."
-Wilfred Monod.
Besignation is not a passive and un
aspiring content with lifo and the
world as they are, but it is a faithful
acceptance of God's sovereignty, and
God's purpose, and God's methoJ.
Philip Moxom.
Suffering is an accident. It doe3
not matter whether you and I suffer.
"Nob enjoyment and not sorrow" is
our life, not sorrow any more than en
joyment, but obedience and duty. If
duty brings sorrow lotit bring sorrow.
-Phillips Brooks.
Let us ever remember that he who
lives for self and self alone is a failure,
whilst ho who renders honest, loving
service to his fellows, though he be
poor and an outcast, unhonored and
unsung, is to all eternity a noble suc
cess.-J. Leonard Levy.
Historic Trees iu New York.
On West 159th street and St. Nicho
las avenue, Washington Heights,stand
a number of remarkeble trees. They
were formerly the grounds surround
ing the old Jumel mansion, which is
now known as Earle Cliff. They are
Egyptian cypress, and have a history,
like everything pertaining to this re
markable mansion and its grounds.
They were sent as a present to Napo
leon Bonaparte from the Sultan of
Egypt as a gift of honor, but arrived
in Havre, France, after the battle of
Waterloo. Stephen Jumel, who was
in France at the time, and a personal
friend of Napoleon, succeeded in gain
ing an audience with the Emperor the
night before ho was banished to the
Island of St. Helena. Napoleon pre
sented these trees to Jamel, who
brought them to America on the dipper
ship Eliza, which he had chartered
with the hope of aiding Napoleon to
escape to this country. These trees,
when brought here, had their native
earth still clinging to their roots.
They were planted as described above,
where they flourished and grew to a
largo size,spreading out their peculiar
branches wide over their adopted soil
-a mute reminder of the decay of
empires as well as people. I would
recommend that the park Commis
siouers remove them to Central Park,
as they are probably tho only ones in
country, and oertainly none other with
such a unique history.-New York
Times.
(hicerest Town in England.
The most curious town in England
is Northwich. There is not a straight
street, nor, in fact, a straight house
m the place; every part of it has the
appearauoe of having recently suffered
from the visitation of an earthquake.
Northwich, as everyone knows, is
the centre of tho salt industry. On
nearly all sides of the town aro big
salt works, with their engines pump
ing hundreds of thousands of gallons
of brine every week.
Ata depth of 6ome 203 or 300 feet
are immense subterranean lakes of
brine, and as the contents of these are
pumped and pumped away the upper
crust of earth is correspondingly
weakened, and the result is an occa
sional subsidence.
Theso subsidences have a "pulling"
effect on the nearest buildings, which
are drawn "all way?,"giving the town
an upside down appearance. - Answers.
A Shrewd Rat.
A rat was recently caught aliva on
boord a British n ival vessel in a trap,
and tho beast was thrown from the
trap into the water without being
killed. A largo gull that was follow
ing in the wake of the ship to pick up
scraps of food thrown overboard by
the steward stopped several times, en
deavoring to pick the rat up.
Once the bird got too close to the
rat's jaws and tbe beast grabbed it by
tho neck. After a abort tight, tho rat
succeeded in killing the bird. When
the gnll was dead the rat scrambled
upon the bird's body, and, hoisting
one wing as a sail, and using the other
as a rudder succeeded in steering for
the shore.
Whether the rat reached shore or
not is a question, since the ship poon
got out of right of ihe skipper and its
craft. -Weekly Telegraph.
Born Willi Hide Reversed*
Thomas McKinney, a farmer living
in the town of Union, N. Y., has ti
curiosity that would provo attractive
for any mu-eum. Last Wednesday
his cow gave birth to a calf which had
three legs behind uni one in front,
the single limb being of unusual size,
and tapering down from the breast.
The skin of the animal was smooth,
without a Bigu of bair. It lived only
a short time, and ou being dissected it
was found that the uudcr hide ol the
skin was covered with a tino downy fur,
tho hide having the appearance of be
ing wrong side out. Mr. Mckinney
will have tho animal stuffed.-New
York Press.
Tiniest Shears Ever Made.
A clever workman in a cutlery fac>
tory iu Sheffield, Englaud, has recent
ly made a dozen pairs of shears each
so minute that they all together weigh
less than half u grui:). That is about
the weight of a postage stamp. Each
pair was perfect, aud would cut if
sufficiently delicate material co nhl bo
found. Lying on a piece o white
paper, they teemed no larger tjtan
Heal.-Nev lurk World,
Sulking a Deer on the Ice.
Wo had gone up in the groat bay
near the head of the lake, when the
boys and dogs, rummaging around the
woods and along the shore, started a
deer and chased it onto the ice, and
we had the most exciting chase Im
mediately after I ever took part In.
We did not harm the animal, and bad
wo wished to do so we couldn't, for
there wasn't a gun in the crowd; but we
made him "make the effort of his life''
before ho broke the trocha we built
around him and got away. When we
sighted him he was making straight
across the bay, which is five miles wide,
end tie Ice was so slippery that he
could not make anything like the
usual time of his when they throw
their souls into their heels, and scatter
miles behind them with an easy indif
ference most beautiful to witness.
We played wolf on him. "Doc."
Spalding, who was riding the ice bi
cycle, shot straight ahead, and very
soon passed him, and forced him to
turn, and when he did turn there was
a ring of skaters all around him, and
for an hour he .played with us very
much as a four-legged animal might.
We got him running in a circle, but
we were unable to catch him, for every
time any ono tried it, that venture
some individual either failed to get a
hold on him, or, succeeding, was hurled
as from a catapult along the ice, to
tho great delight of all the rest. It
waa the merriest skating party I ever
witnessed, although the deer might not
have seen much matter for merriment
in it.
But he was perfectly safe, unless hla
wind played out before ours did, of
which the event proved there was small
danger. One wing of the circular
trocha we had formed In the line got
out of breath and slowed up, a gap was
formed in the line, and the deer went
through it like a Sash, and the last we
saw of him was "hull down," and 20
ing as merrily as If freshly started.
Minneapolis Journal.
A pearl that was afterwards sold to
a jeweler for $75 was found in the giz
zard of a turkey in London recently.
1 Bad Case Quickly Cared.
From Ult Commercial, Bangor, Iii.
Wo publish tho lotter of Mr. II. J. Omn
dlemire, ia full, just as It cam* in, os lt li
interesting.
Dear Sirs:-I send this solely that other?
may know what Dr. William?' Pink Pills did
for me and my kldncye, and to make lt ol
more effect I send it in a Cl dari t form:
STITZ or MAI:"E, I "
Cous rr or WASHINGTON f
H. J. Crandlemire, of Vanccboro, Maine,
being duly sworn deposes and fays:
..Two years or mon* ago I was attacked
with kidney trouble which gavo mo violent
pain, and necessitated my urinating every
few minutos. Then I bad times of no control
over my water, and this made things unbear
able. The pain nt those times was inde
scribable, and nothing gave me any relief
until I was Jed to try Dr. Williams' Pin*
Pills. The flret bcx helped mo, and by tho
time I had taken my second I was absolutely
and completely cured. This was two years
ago, and since then I have had no return of
tho trouble, and I nave no hesitation or
doubt in expressing that I owe my recovery
to Pink Pills.
(Signed) "H. J. CBASDLEMIBI."
Personally appeared before me this 18th
day of August. 1896, H. J. Crandlemire, and
made oath that tho above statement was true.
ELISHA T. HOLBHOOK, Notary Public
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain, In a con
densed form, all the ?l?ments necessary to
glvo new life and ricliuess to tho blood and
restore shattered nerves. They are also a
specific lor troubles peculiarto females, such
us suppressions, irregularities and all forms
of weakness. They build up the blood, and
restore ;be glowoi health to pale and sallow
cheeks. In mon they affect a radical cure
in all cases arising from rarntal worry, over
work or excesses of whatever nature. Pink
Pil!s are poid In boxas (novor in loose bulk)
Ht 50 cont s a box or hix boxes for $2.50, and
may be had of all druggists, or direct by
mall from Dr. Williams' Medicine Company,
Schenectady,fl. T.
Eureka?
Absent-minded Professor (who has
disrobed himself in his chamber)
Donnerwetter! There was something ?
was to do. What was it, now?
He reflects about half an hour.
"Ah, I have it. I intended to go to
bed."-Fliegende Blaetter.
Something On His Mind.
Cannibal King-You haven't suc
ceeded in fattening the captive?
The Chief Cook-No; he's losing
flesh all the ti.ne. I think he's worry
ing about something.-Puck.
Woman's Nerves. ^%
Mrs. Platt Talks About Hysteria.
When a nerve or a set of nerves supplying
any organ in the body with Its due nutri
ment grows weak, that organ languishes.
When the nerves become exhausted and
die? so to speak, the organ falls into de
cay; What is to be done? The answer is,
do not allow the weakness to progress;
stop the deteriorating process at once !
Do you experience fits of depression, alter
nating with restlessness? Are your spirits
easily affected, so that one moment you laugh
and the next fall into convulsive weeping?
Again, do you feel something like a ball rising
in your throat and threatening to choke you,
all tho senses perverted, morbidly sensitive to
light and sound, pain in ovary, and pain es
pecially between tho shoulders, sometimes loss
of voice and nervous dj-spepsia ? If so, you are
hysterical, j*our uterine nerves are at fault.
You must do something to restore their tone.
Nothing is better for thc purpose than Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Com
pound; it will work a cure. If you do not understand your sy mptoms, writo to
Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., and she will give you honest,
expert advice, freo of charge.
MRS. LEVI F. PLATT, Womlcysburg, Pa., had
a terrible experience with the illncs3 wo havo
just described. Herc is her own description of
her sufferings:
"I thought I could not bc EO benefited by any
thing and keep it to myself. I ?ad hysteria
(caused by womb trouble) in ito worst form. I
was awfully nervous, low-spirited and melan
choly, and everything imaginable.
" Thc moment I was alone I would cry from
hour to hour; I did not caro whe ther I lived
or died. I told my husband I believed Lydia
E. Finkham's Vegetable Compound would do
'me good. I took it and ara now well and
strong, and getting stouter. I have moro
color in my face than I havo had for a year and a half. Please accept my
thanks. I hope all who read this and who suffer from nervousness of this
kind will do as I have done and be cured."
ANDY CATHARTIC
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