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Te Make the Blind See. ? Terr important discovery made by Dr. B. Deutschmann of Hamburg is fast now much spoken of by physi cians, particularly by specialists on the eye. It deals with the successful our? of a disease of tho eye, which but a short time ago was considered abso lutely incurable, tho so-called detach ing or peeling of the retina, which sometimes follows a case of retinitis. This disease consists in the shrinking of the aqueous hnmor, a watery, slightly salty fluid which lies between the oornea and tho crystalline lens with the greater part of its substance in front of tho iris. If the quantity of this fluid is lessened to a certain ex tent the eyesight is absolutely destroyed and the physician can do nothing but pronounce the disease incurable. Now Professor Deutschmann has succeeded in introducing into the diseased eye a sufficient amount of the aqueous humor taken from a live rabbit's eye to restore the lost sight. Several cases where this most delicate operation was per formed are on record, the one of a purser on one of the steamers of the Hamburg-American line being most interesting. This man, totally blind three years ago, was able to resume his former occupation after undergoing the operation just described, and, the Philadelphia Record says, his sight is just as good as it was at any time in his life. Summer Pessimism. There is no such thing on earth ns retributive justice." "Why do you say so?" "The person who leaves flypaper on a chair is never the one who sits down on it."-Detroit Free Press. Mere Bandies of Nerves. Some peevish, querulous people seem mere bundles of n?rveo. The least sound agitate their sensoriums and ruffles their tempers. No doubt they aro boru so. But may not their nervousness be ameliorated, if not entirely re lieved? Unquestionably, and with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. 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They hoisted a plauk on a great cloud bank Aud teetered among the stars. i WEASE ? _ ?g? Dy M ARG ARI f-j HE teacher stood : / \ f1 S by the blackboard i ? j L ' reviewing with ' f Ralph. Burrows a m. < L /S- problem in alge v^^sit' pupils were from ??&UfrJ^ffi the lower walks of %?L ry.r?r:'*.p! u"e? rU(^e *n dress ^^sAnf' an(* mauner' ant* telligence. The schoolroom was a relic of an ancient educational regime, with broken, be grimed walls, curtainless windows ; and backless, splinter-fringed benches, whose present iucumbeuts could upon the clumsy "forms" before them, carve their initials side by side with those of their fathers', or im prison flies in dungeons gouged ont by the jack-knives of their grand fathers. This pupil in algebra wa3 the sole representative there of the township aristocracy. The teacher was very proud of him. Fe had already passed the entrance examination for the high school in a distant city. He showed what he could do when she had material to work with, she thought, and she was fond of showing him oft" when the trustees made their pre scribed "two visits a yeai\" The boy had an earnest though merry face, and he boro with good-humored indif ference tho distinction of being tho best-dressed and most scholarly pupil there. . It wa3 a raw January day. The wind made thu old schoolhouse quake, but for pity of the children, it piled pro tecting ridges of snow about the case ments. For the comfort of the smaller children benches were drawn close to the stove; but at thc forms the older ones wrung their hands to dispel the numbness of their fingers, aud sat upon their fe A to keep them warm. A little girl with stringy, yellow j curls, a lace-bordered apron, torn and j dingy, and a soiled ribbon arohnd her j neck, tugged at the teacher's gown. "Tin me aud Weaser Ta-? do borne?" "Weaser Tan" (Louisa Rufe.u) by her side, hung her head bashful}' and pulled her mouth awry wiy. her lingers. There was no attempt t finery in Weaser Tan's costume. Sir; was^auX ugly child, with part of her k^-Kompt hair gathered into a- -Snort, tapering braid and tied w>itti a bit o.f thread,and the rest of it Kranging in strings about her/--y ?? and cars. "Tho teacher hesitated. " 'Me and Weaser Tan' will freeze on the way, Miss L-said Balph, good-naturedly turning from his prob lem, "they have nearly as far to go as I have." Miss L-stepped anxiously to the window and surveyed the road. "If 'Me and Weaser Tan' will wait till school's out I'll take them home on my sled," continued Ralph. The teacher looked relieved. "If you'll do that, Ralph," she said, "you may go right away; for thc storm's getting -worse every minute." The boy was delighted to get out of school so early. "Proof that a good action is never thrown away," he said, with roguish familiarity. Then he slammed his books into place, put on his warm overcoat and tied a bright home-knit scarf around his neck, and the little girls pinned on their threadbare shawls. They went out into the storm to gether, and he seated them a-tandem upon his sled. "Put on your mittens, Weaser Tan," he said, for the child's hands holding to the sides of the sled were chapped and red. "She ain't got none," said Grace, pulling at the wrists of her own and giggling self-consciously. "Put these on, then," said he, throwing his own into her lap. She drew them on shamefacedly. The little girls lived in adjoining cabins; and when he left them in front of their door he said: "You may keep the mittens, Weaser Tan ; mother'll knit m9 auother pair. They're not so gay as Grace's, but they're warm." Ralph Burrows, home on a college vacation, came out of the woods be hind the Rutan cabin with his gun upon his shoulder. His dog had run on ahead and Ralph came upon him eagerly lapping water from a trough in front of the house. Grace and Weaser Tau were there, the latter with her hand upon the haudle of the pump, from whose nozzle a stream of fresh water was falling gently for the ani mal's enjoyment. "Don knows where the best water in the neighborhood is to be found," said Ralph, throwing a bunch of game upon the grass and pumping a dipper ful of water for himself as the girl stepped bashfully aside. The dog, a magnificent English setter, went to her and laid his tawny head against her. She spoke gently to him, fond ling his silky ears. "He seems to be an acquaintance of yours," said Ralph, by way of being sociable. "Sh'd think heought tobe,"giggled Graoe. "She's always saving bones and things for him." "That's very kind, I'm sure," said the young fellow, turning toward the game which Grace was inspecting. "That blue-jay was an accident-I didn't mean to shoot him." "You might give me his wings for my hat, " said Grace, saucily. "His wings? with pleasure," and, taking out his knife, he cut them off. "One for Grace and one for-'Wea ser Tan,' " he said, giving one to each and laughing at the recollection of the old childish name. He went whistling out of the grate; and Grace, with each hand grasping a picket of the rickety fence, watched him out of hearing. He drew a long breath as 3he turned away. "Gracious, ain't he handsome!" she said, "and, Wease, you like him awful good." For answer Wease splashed her well with water. Then Grace went orying OWN SHOW. md they sat on the moon and swnng their feet, Liko pendulums, to and fro. )ov,-n Slumber sea is the sall for me, And I wish you were ready to go. Tor the dream folks there on this curious isle Eogln their performance at eight. There are no encores, and they close their doors On every one who is late. Clio sun ls sinking behind the hills, The seven o'clock bells chime. [ know by tho chart that we ought to start If we would be there in time. Dh, fair is the trip down Slumber sea! Set sall, and away wo go! Tho anchor is drawn. Wo are off and gono To tho wonderful dream town show.. -Ella' Wheeler Wilcox. )Ft TAN. RT JOHANN. ^ into tho house, and Wease, in thc jovert of th9 high pump, softly stroked the jay's wing and watched the giver out of sight. "Room in our town for another physician," wrote distant relatives, and there Ralph Burrows went fresh from an extended course of study" and travel abroad. He opened his office in the heart of the town; his home was with his relatives on hills that over looked it. Business came to him lag giugly, but love came on smooth, swift wiugs. Marguerite, heir of beauty, wealth and goodness, sat on the veranda, fieldglas3 in haud. A dozen times a day she focused it upon Ralph's office in the town below. A few moments since she saw him lock his door and set out upon the homeward road. Now lie was hidden from view, but she knew just what landmark he had reached (she had timed him so often). To speed the minutes she took up a magazine and scanned an article that essayed to settle for all times and for all people the question: "Is life worth living?" When he came she met him at tho foot of the terraces, and with his arm around her ho led her back to the veranda. "What's in it?" he asked, tossing the magazine aside to make room for them both upon the willow settle. "Oh, Ralph," she cried, archly, "is life worth living?" He took her face between his hands and looked unutterable love into eyes i that paid him back his own. "Is life worth living? And with Marguerite? A thousand, thousand times, sweetheart, and forever and ever!" He kissed her rapturously. "For shame," she whispered, look ing rosily foolish and happy, "there's Louise; she must have heard and seen the whole performance. Aud, by the way, Ralph, when you write your mother, thank her again for solving for us the servant problem in so far as a waitress is concerned. This Louise Rutan has been with us t\ya-*aionths now, and wo find her oll--~rfe could de sire; only {with oJ?ttle deprecative shrug) kev L?<^e**isJ so stolidly sorrow UlUr ~lrnTso happy myself, Ralph, that julien anyone else is sad I feel a sort of remorse-almost as if I were re sponsible. w'??'eii,"poor girl," he said, "I've known her ever since she was-three feet high, I suppose, and she's had pretty hard lines. She'll brighten, never fear, in the atmosphere of this 1 home." "Louise," said Marguerite next day. "I believe I'll let you drive me into town; you're accustomed to a horse, aren't you?" "Not very; but I'm not afraid," was the reply; so they went. Marguerite had made her purchases, had achieved a merry consultation with Ralph in front of his office, and they were upon a homeward, uphill road that lay along the bed of a little stream. The queer, reticent girl by her side was a study for Marguerite. Through out the drive she had trit;d to make her talk; but, baffled, she had by now lapsed into a silence akin to pique. A new thought came to her. "Louise," she asked, "is life worth living?" "For you it must be, Miss Mar guerite." It was a lengthy sentence for the girl to utter, but her eyes looked staight ahead and her hands holding the slack rein lay limp in her lap. "And why not for you, Louise?" The girl hesitated, and Marguerite, always prone to moralizing, improved the opportunity. "My good girl," she said, "you wage-earners make a great mistake in thinking that wealth brings happiness. All of us, rich and JOY alike, meet with disappoi**' uts, and we can either .^e best of them and be happy or make tho worst of them and be miserable. Now, here aro these gloves that I've just bought. I couldn't get the color I wanted; these are fully three shades too dark, but I'm not going to fret about them; I'm going to be liappy in spite of circum stances." "Yes, ma'am," said the girl, apatheti cally. "You have health, a home and plenty to eat and to wear, Louise, and I have no more than that." "Yes, ma'am"-but there was repu diation in the tone. Marguerite recognized it, and went on, a softness stealing over her glad, flower-like beauty. "Of course, I have Ralph; but some day, Louise, some honest hearted young fellow will come to you, and will love you as his life, aud then, Louise, if your heart responds" (her voice weighed with the sweet mystery of love dropped into rhythmic cadence) "you will be blest indeed." "Yes, ma'am," said tho girl again, but feigned an interest in the land scape and leaued forward to hide her homely face from the gaze of the beau tiful aud blest. Suddenly the feigned interest be came real, for she half rose to her feet, grasping the dashboard. "Whoa!" She threw tho reins into Marguerite's lap; and, springing to the ground, pressed into the thicket of blackberry and catbrier that upon ono side bor dered the road. Parting the tangle with her bare hands, she took one look through the opening she had made. The next instant she had loosened the traces and was leading the horse out of the shafts. "Why, Louise"-began Marguerite; then she got down and went to her with a face full of astonished inquiry. The girl's fingers were flying from buckle to buckle along the narness. "Go home as fast as you can go, Miss Marguerite, " sh e said. Her voi oe was steady, but her hands shook. "What do you mean, Louise?" The girl dragged the harness off: "For yon," she said, "life ^is worth living^ for me"-she backed the horse to the carriage-side-"death is worth dying." From a hub she vaulted to the horse's back. "3o home!" she shouted, Ssipely; for by now she had lost control of her voice. "I believe you are insane," said Marguerite, half in anger, 'half in fright. To the quivering girl the suggestion was an inspiration. She waved her hunde wildly: "Go!" she shouted, jerking -the horse upon his haunches, "start, or I'll ride you down!" Marguerite fled in terror. Once she looked back. No one was in sight, but she heard the horse's hoofs clatter ing downward into the towii. A catalpa, little and old and scarred and only of late protected from vandal ism by a box, stood in front of the doc tor's office. A horse wheeled underit, and Ralph reached the sidewalk as tho rider slipped to the ground. "What's wrong, my girl?" hie asked, with forced professional calmness. Her breath came pantingly. "Go home," she gasped, with tense, white lips, "they want you."" He sprang toward his office, *but.sho clutched his sleeve. She was not fierce now, but hot'tone was an agony of pleading. . . "Oh, go!"-for the first time in her life she looked full into his ' face "don't stop for anything-she's dying, I tell you-Marguerite-she's bleed ing to death by the roadside-above the dam." She pressed the bridle into his hand, but'he tore away into his office. He was out again like a flash, hatless but his emergency kit in hand. He snatched, tho bridle and the next min ute the woody, up-hill road plucked horse and rider out of her sight'. Almost fainting, she held to the tree box. The street was nearly deserted, but two women, talking earnestly, came round a corner. She clutched the gown of the nearer. "The dani," she whispered, "there's a leak-" . The woman started and gathered her skirt closel}' aboufher. "Poor creature!" Bhe said to her companiqh, "rum is the curse of this land," and they turned nervously into the nearest street. , 1 Then Weaser Tan's strength came again. Two boys tore past her in a wild game of chase. She seized the foremost by his shoulder, his compan ion grabbed him at the same instant, and both wheeled stumblingly in front of her. "Run for the hills!"-she shook the boy as if to awaken him from sleep-"the big dam is giving way! Don't stand and stare! Alarm the people!" She flung them from her, and they plunged ahead-one shrieking like a mauiac, the other dumb Tjjth terror. The girl herself dashed after the two women. Ahead of her and on the op posite side, upon a bank o! the "branch," was a factory. In its^sGcd-" ond story young girls ^yeiwworking; she could see them >fcnrough the open windows^-^^'-^" Shaqras flying up the stan J when fTClsTTspicious foreman stopped her. "Whereaway so fast, young wo man?" "The flood is coming!" "Nonsense!" he smiled pleasantly.; "It's tho dam, the great dam above the South Fork! Look out at the branch!" and she tore past him. Thc girls were already starrngwibV' ly into one another's faces, for aa^iii din, the Toar of a raging river, min gled with the whir and clatter of +h? machinery. "Run for your livos!" They rushed to the street and fled, their various ways. One, half para-' lyzed, clung to Weaser Tan. "The railroad bridge is high and very strong." From both sides peo ple were crowding upon it. Only a moment-but in it, to that struggliug cityfnl, terror enough to' freight eternity-and Louise, her arm] around her fainting charge stood upon the bridge. Then the dam sur - rendered its last defense and pande monium plunged into the valley. The work of rescue was going on. The young doctor had not lain down, they said, for two days and two nights. He was everywhere, directing, com manding, executing. Some sixty rods below where the bridge had been was a wooded knoll, for which the branch in its peaceful days had turned tran-j quilly aside. A .mass of drift was piled there now, sand and soSl? trees, cattle and the wrecks! of homes; 6tone buttress; brace1' and girder and stauchion of steel and human flesh and blood-wisps of straw flipped aside by the torrent, the! discarded playthings of a moment. Gangs of men were sorting it over.-' A bit of blue cambric caught Ralph's eye. Ho krew it, for his mother hadj worn it on<,f. ' 'Careful i ?re, ou ef ul, " he warned? pressing in among the laborers, "take away that piece of roofing. Not yourj axe, mau! For heaven's sake don'ti use that! There's a young girl lying! just beneath! Help me lift it, haifa1 dozen of you-so-that will do." He scooped away some debris with his hands and wiped the soil from the dead face. "Thank God, there's no mutilation. That iron beam there twisted like a thread-it confines the arm. Set your lever just here. Steady-steady; that will do. "Now, some one help me carry her. Not you, Van Courtlandt; some one with an awful sorrow tugging at his heart. You'll do, McCall. "Gently, my mau, tenderly as you'll lift that little girl of yours when you find her. Lay her here, McCall. "One moment more, my friend. Here's a pillow, soft and white and frilled, a dainty thing-Marguerite i sent it. Put it into place while I. lift j the head. Now the spread-thank you McCall." Weaser Tan lay in her coffin; her faco as plain in death as in life, but more serene. Ralph stood and looked' at her wonderingly and sadly. . His old dog came and, whining, laid his muzzle in his hand. "Yes, Don, you've lost a friend. She loved you." Marguerite came softly in. I "Here's something else she loved,' she said. "They say she would not. sleep without it under her pillow." He opened the little box she gave him, gazed into it for a moment, touched its contents tenderly, then j tucked them under some roses' that lay upon her breast. j They were a pair of gray yarn mit ; tens and a blue-jay's wing.-Short ! Stories. A Good Figurer. John A. McCall, President of the New York Life Insurance Company, ia I a great man in addition. He can take three columns of figures a yard long, place a finger on eaoh, draw his hand rapidly from top to bottom, and an nounce the sum. Adding iaaohin.es are, not in it.-New York Press. DUE BUDGET OF HUME. LAUGHTER-PROVOKINC STORIES TOR LOVERS OF FUN. Xhe Plalnt'of ntl Unfortunate-Generous -A Greek Gift-A Shrewd Reasoner Of Coane-More . Professional-Good . Stoney After Bad-His Experience, Etc, I never ran to hear a band "Whose duloet strains were drawing near, But that the muslo always stopped Just when I got where I could hear. -Cleveland Leaden Generous. "Give me a bite of your candy, please, Flossie?" . "No, but you may kiss m? wbile my nlouf is sticky. "-Life. A Greek Gift. Visitor-"Does mamma give you anything for being a good boy?" Tommy-'"No; she gives it to me when I ain't."-Chicago Flips. A Shrewd Reasoner. Clerk-"You say you will take this hammock, miss?" She-"Yes, but I want two of them.". "Very well, madame."-Life. Of Course. Eobby's Father (reading)-"Like tho cat in the adage-now, Bobby, what is an adage?" Little Bobby-"Why, somethin' to keep cats in, I s'pos?."-Pick-Me-TJp. Good Money After Bad. "What makes Bumply so down On the long distance telephone?" "He called up a mau in Toledo'tkat owe3 him-$2.50. They -wrangled till it cost Bumply $13."-Detroit Free press. . Moro Professional. . Tho Count-"I haf made to your daughter a-what you call it-proposi tion-proposal?" Father-"H'm. I think proposition sounds moro like business."-Brook lyn Life. The Cheerful Idiot. '.'For five years," said tho aged ?boarder, ? 'lhad tq use aninvalid chair. " "And I, " said the Cheerful Idiot, "have'been using crippled chairs ever since I became a boarder."-Indian apolis Journal. Tho Pride That ls Puffed Up. Customer-"Look here I All'tlie but tons came off this coat the first time I wore it." Cohen-"Yes? So many beoples ad mire dot coat dot you shwell mit pride lind burst dose buttons off."-Tit-Bits. ' An Unreasonable Beast. Professor-".Margate, please take tho cat out of the room. I cannot havo it j making such a noise while I am at worl>-> Where is it?" ^.-^ Margaret-"Why^^rryim^are sitting on it!"-Fliegepdtte Blaster. ^r^-^"^- Finnin* Stroke. She-"Is that the -winning stroke you are rowing, Jack?" He-"It is indeed, Helen. Your mother wouldn't have let you come out with mo if I hadn't promised to keep ro-wing it all the time."-Harper's . Bazar. A Cnso in Point. Surburbs-"Afterall, itdoesn'tmake I much difference where a man lives." Towns-"What? It makes all the difference imaginable, my boy. All that half tho world remembers about Diogenes is the fact that he lived in a rtnb."-Truth. - HI? Experience. "On the whole, " said the aged weather prophet, "I have found that the safest course is to predict bad weather." "How so?" asked the neophyte. ' "Because people are much more ready to forgive you if the prediction does not come true."-Puck. Tiic Toint of View. Harduppe-"Isn't it a beastly thing to have a lot of debts you can't pay!" Grabgrind-"I know of only one thing .worse." "And what's that?" "To have a lot o.e debts you can't make other people pay."-Lifo. A Victim of Sport. ' "Why, M. Embonpoint, you look ill! What's the matter?" "Bicycle." "Bicycle? But you don't ride a bicycle!" "No; but the -wretch that knocked me down did."-Journal Amusant. A Telling Allument. "The two best men I ever know" began the raconteur. "Excuse me, " interrupted the pre cise mun, "but you oughj; not to say that." "I-hadn't go* started yet. How did you know what I was going to say?" "I was referring to your English. 'Best' is superlative, you know. There can't be more than one 'best.'" ''Humph! That shows how much you have read." "There is nothing to prove the con trary." "Yes, there is. Take any newspaper and read the bicycle advertisements." -?Washington Star. TbO Landlord's Hus e. "What ever induced the Gazleys to go to that wretched mountain resort again? They said when they got back last year that they would not return there even if their board were offered to them for nothing. " "Oh, then, you haven't heard? Why, the landlord wrote to Mr. Gazley that he had secured an impoverished foreign nobleman to act as waiter. The old man didn't intend to say anything about it to his wife and daughter, but Mrs. Gazley found the letter in his pocket, so they packed up and started the next day."-Cleveland Leader. Romnnco and Reality. Romantic Miss-"Do you love me well enough to do battle for me?" Ardent Suitor-"Ay, against a thou sand." "Well, Mr. Bigfish is paying me a good deal of attention. Would you fight him for me?" . "Yes, I would." "Could you defeat him?" "N-o; he'd probably thrash the life jut of me." "Mercy! Well, never mind. I'll dee you without any fighting, and, oh, ? j please remember, my darling, .romise me on your-honor, that if you rer see Mr. Bigfish coming, you'll m."-New York Weekly. The Tramp Worked the Dentist. To work on the sympathies of a dentist who was at first hardhearted, a tramp at St. Joseph, Mo., asked him to pull out two of his teeth which were Hied with gold; for, he asked, of what | ne were gold-filled teeth if ono had ?othing on which to use them? This appealed soto the dentist that he gave him some money instead of drawing the teeth. - He spake slowly, almost painfully, as one not accustomed to much talk ing. And yet he had been married thirty years,-Indianapolis Journal,. WORDS OF WISDOM. It ls difficult to nay who doe3 the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best. . Sn?h as thy words are, such will thy affections be; such thy deeds as thy affections, such thy life as thy deeds. There is a great struggle between vanity and patience when we have to. meet a person who admires us but who. bores ?s. One of the highest mountains upon which we may 6tand in this life? is to be ab?? to look back upon a long life well spent. Bew?r? of prejudices; Amau'smind is like a rat trap; prejudices creep in easily, but it is doubtful if they ever get out again. Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue; nor is there on earth a more powerful advocate for vice than poverty. Don't get the notion that you are the greatest person in creation. Thero are plenty of other people who are just as'small as you are. The worst penalty of evil doing is to grow into likeness with the bad; for each man's soul changes according to tho nature of his deeds, for better or for worse. . Patient, hopeful waiting is hard work when it is the only work possible to us in an emergency. But patient waiting ? is in its time the highest duty of a faithful souh A good and wise man will at times be angry with the world, and also grieved at it; but no man can ever be long discontented with the world if he does his duty in it. We should 30 live and labor in our timo that what comes to usas seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and that what came to us as blossom may go to them as fruit. This is what we meau by progress. Many ideas grow better when trans planted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up. That which was a weed in one intelligence becomes a flower in another, and a flower again dwindles to a mere weed by the same change.-The South-West. Boats Carried on tho Heads of Men. The achievement has often been re ferred to of tho carrying of steamboats on the backs of men. The expression is not quite accurate? for the Congo natives aro trained from infancy to carry burdens on their heads. When a European on the lower Congo sent his black boy to a Btore to buy some cigarettes, he was surprised to see the servant return with the tiny packa/^ on his head. W?en a^-^3>trgowoman has smokedJ*ffe?"^uch-loved pipe, the treaful^r?' is likely to repose on her .-^rfead until she again requires it; and if . her husband, unfortunately, has been able to procure a bottle of rum, ho : walks home with it nicely balanced on his head, throwing stones at the stray dogs and cats on his way, without the ' slightest idea that he is really an ex pert equilibrist. Most of the many thousands of pieces of steamboats were carried on the' heads and not on the backs of men. The 50,000 natives of the lower Con go who have been carrying these steamboats and all other freight around the cataracts are the very men who could not be induced, eighteen yoars ago, to give a helping hand to Mr. Stanley. He wished to carry 1830 man loads, and he had only 190 Zanzibar aud Loango porters for the work. Some of tho natives would sell him- a little of their time, but they would not carry his goods more than two or three miles beyond their homes. Stan ley's failure to secure the carriers he needed along the river delayed his work on the upper Congo foi* more than a year, and the labor question was the most perplexing problem with which he had to deal. He brought his carriers thousands of miles, from Zanzibar and other coasts of Africa. Harper's Bound Table. Bacteria In Ink. Bacteria, dangerous to health and life, have been found in the air Ave breathe, the water we drink, in various kinds of foods, and even in the mucil age on the ubiquitous postage stamp, but it remained for tho eminent Ger man scientist, Dr. Warpmanu, of Leip zig, to discover the poisonous bacteria living and thriving in ink. He has recently made a microscopi cal examination of sixty-seven samples of ink used in the schools in Germany and in other countries. Most of these were gall inks, and contained various sorts of bacteria, as well as those other minute organisms known in the scientific world as saprophytes and micrococci. Nigrosin ink, taken from a freshly opened bottle, which had up to that time been tightly corked and sealed, was found to contain bacteria in large quantities. Red and blue inks of the sort so frequently used in offices also yielded numerous bacteria. To determine whether or not these bacteria were really as poisonous as chemical analysis would seem to sug gest, Dr. Warpmann decided to "cul tivate" some specimens for actual ex periment. The result of these experi ments showed that a bacillis from or dinary black ink would, if introduced into the blood of a mouse, prove fatal within four days. Similar experi ments the doctor in the interest of soience performed upon other small animals-rabbits, guinea pigs and the like-always with the same fatal re sult.-New York World. Klondike Minos In Gulches. "The mining claims in the Klondike, region," reports a returned miner, "are 500 by 666 feet in area. They are all lo cated on gulches, and the 500 feet really represents the length of each claim, the 666 feet being taken crosswise. The idea is to give a man from hill to hill, and if what you might call the walls are closer together than 666 *eet, why, you're just that much short, that's all. You can't get more than 500 feet along the gulch, no matter how nar row it is. None of them is supposed to be under 666 feet, but where that is the case you have no claim to anything more thau the laud between two side lines so far apart." The mines are under the control, so far as any con trol is needed, of a Mining Commis sioner, who seldom interferes with any one, however, for there is rarely auy trouble. At the same, time he eau in terfere, and to some purpose, if it be comes necessary, for he has any n mount of power, and what ho says goos. A squad of Canadian mounted police is under his orders. A couple of men were shot in tho affray in Cir cle City, on Alaskan soil, some months since; butin British territory "every thing is like a church."-New York Sun. Hough on the Kurse. According to a French journal, an inventor has devised an electrical arrangement whioh consists of a microphone placed near the head of a baby in its cradle, and connected to a sort of relay which operates an elec tric bell placed near to where the nurse is asleep. A cry from the child will therefore cause tho hell to ring? Many Bison Still Live. After all that has be on said the Am erican bison isn't so nearly extinct as had been supposed. Forest and Stream has just completed an investigation which shows that at present there are at least 600 bison or buffalo in captiv ity, mostly in game parks, where they have free ranges and natural surround ings, which make it likely that they will breed and multiply. The largest captive herd is owned by Charles and Joseph Allard in Missouri county, Montana. It consists of 250 fine, healthy and fairly young ?nimals; Austin Corbin's herd comtes heit with 82 hte?d; Charles Goodnight,.in the Tei?B Panhandle, near Petty, in that State, has 50; J. G. McNair has 10 in St. Elmo, Oregon county, Me. ; D. F. Catlin has 30 in Leslie, N. D. ; Buffalo Bill has 24; Sir Donald A. Smith owns 15 in Winnipeg, and William' C. Whitney holds 13 in his preserves. There are scattering specimens and even small herds in various zoological gardens and in the hands of private individuals, many of whom hold them for chow' purposes. Among Uiese is the father-in-law of a famou: military man, who owns iei-sn bison, Inactivity. : "But I thought your husband was BUoh an active man?" "Active! If it weren't for me, I don't believe he'd get Up in time to gc to bed." ' "Ah, well) that's better than some husbands, you knowj who scarcely gc to bed in time to get up."-Harper's Bazar. " WHY SO MANY EEGU To Cure Female His-Some True Mrs. Pinkham is More Succ?s the Family Doctors ' A woman is sick ; s?me disease pecul sex is fast developing in her system, to her family physician and tells hi story, but not tho whole story. Sheholdssomethingback, loseshe.r h becomes agitated, forgets what she w to say, and finally conceals what ought to have told, and thus complet mystifies the doctor. ls it any wonder, therefore, that > the doctor fails to cure the disease? Gd Still, we cannot blame the wo* jgg man, foritisveryembarrassing /BBS to detail some of the symp- Mffflli toms of her suffering, even to/ jfj her family physician. ^^"-"" It was for thjs^^ason that f yearsj?s?*??rrsTLydia E. Pink1 _h????Tat Lynn, Mass., determined tos? ?rable experience in treating female i couraged the women of America to vi complaints, and, being a woman, it ~ her ears every detail of their sufferir In this .vay she was able to do fo to do, simply because she had the from the little group of women wi army of her fellow-beings are to^da lief, and the fact that more than oi successfully treated by Mrs. Pihkha the grand results which are prodi training. No physician in the world has ha of information at hand to assist in t from the simplest local irritation to th This, therefore, is the reason wi Lynn, Mass., is able ta do more for family physician. Any woman, ther< who will not take the trouble to w The testimonials which we are con establish beyond a doubt the powei pound to conquer female diseases. '__GET THE GE Walter Ba ARKANSAS LADIES DON'T LIE. Malvern, Ark., says: Have used Dr. M. A.Simmons Liver Medicine 10 yean, and find lt a great deal better than "Zcilln'B Regulator" and "Black Draught." It bas been of great benefit to my Daugh ter and Niece during their monthly troubles for Ob. Btructed Menstruation. There should be no homo without lt _ The Turn of Ufa. " ^ Tho cessation of ene menses usnauvoe? curs between tho ages of forty and fifty. Great irregularity takes place in the periodic discbarges for some time before the final cessation, the female usually experiencing sadden flashes of beat, fullness in the head, headache and other evidences of constitu tional disturbance. The nervous system sympathcticallyrespond9,and there is great irritability and melancholy, the patient is discouraged and has a sense of f alinees or suffocation. At no time in her life does a woman seed more constant care and watchful tender ness, nor has more need for a remedy to Invigorate and strengthen her. The bowels should be kept regular with Dr. M. A. Sim mons Liver Medicine, and if Dr. Simmons Squaw Vine Wine is used during the whole of this critical period, it will invigorate and enrich her blood, Boothe and strengthen bor serres and thus relieve the suffering and enable her to pass safely through the dan* gera, prolong her life and afford hex strength Sod joy in her declining years. Pine Bluff, Arlc^ writes: Dr. M. A. SlmmonsLlvor Medicino has been a Qed send to myself and family for 20 years. It eurea Chills and V evo rs. Bilious Fev ers, Sick Headache. I think there is no compar!. son between it and "Black Draught" and "Zeilin'fl Liver Regulator.? Fullness of Blood In Head. Where there ia great determination Of blood to the head, the blood-vessels of tho brain become greatly congested, and there exists flushed faco, giddiness, especially on stooping, and throbbing pain in the head, increased l>v movement. It may bo caused by living too freely; too late rising in tho morning, combined with au inactivo life. Menstrual derangements in frmalcs will often occasion it. Dr. Simmons Squaw Vino Wino ia especially made far this? and it cares. CHRONIC DISEASES ot all forms SUCCESSFULLY TREATED Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Bronchitis, Palpite tlon, Indigostlou, etc. CATARRH of tho .Voss, Throat and Lungs. DISEASES PECULIAR TO WOMEN. Prolapsus, Ulcerations. 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It is to be hoped that the names did not embar rass their owners with more than on? sense of superfluity. The negroes of the south, when left to their own methods of naming their progeny^ Strive fdr the most romantic and poet io Or historic names they can'find, and ? good long string of them, too. A col ored girl in Laurena county, South Carolina, is named "Fair Rose Beauty Spot Temptation Touch Me. Not." The youths struggling under the pa tronymics of "George "Washington Henry Clay Benjamin Franklin An drew Jackson" aro so numerous as to excite no comment. A Baptist Church in Waterbury," Conn., is by no means opposed to the use of bicycles on Sunday. Bicycle racks have been placed in the base ment, with a person in charge, and cyclists of both sexes aro specially in vited to attend the services. That JSverlastin-r Irritating Itch. That describes . otter, Eczema and Other skin disoases. GO cents will euro thom - tftop tho itch at once. CO cents pays tor a ITT of Tettorlne at drug stores or postpaid for 5v cents in Stamps from J. T. Shuptrlno, Savannah, Oa. Three.df a kind would have scoopod tho arie as it had nothing but pairs. Fits permanently cured. Ho fifa or n?rvo?s n ess after first day's use of Dr. Rune's Great Nerve Restorer. 82 trial bottle and treatise free. DR. R. U. KLINE. Ltd.. 031 Arch St.. I'hila., P?. LAR PHYSICIANS FAIL ;ep in andhelphersex-. Having had ?onsid Ils wich her Vegetable Compound, she en? 'rite to her for advice In regard to their vas easy for her ailing sisters to pour into >r them what the physicians were unabl? proper Information to work upon, and io sought her advice years ago a great y constantly app?3'ing for advice and re* ie hundred thousand of them have been im during the last year is indicative of iced by her unequaled experience and d such a training, or has such an amount he treatment of all kinds of female ills, e most complicated diseases of the womb, ty Mrs. Pinkham, in her laboratory at the ailing women of America than the' ?fore, is responsible for her own suffering rite to Mrs. Pinkham for advice; stantly publishing from grateful women . of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com SUINB ARTICLE 1_ I iker & Co.'s I ast COCOA j delicious* Nutritious. 1 OJVJr? CENT a cup. f re that the package bears our Trade-Mark. A Baker & Co. Limited, Dorchester? Mass? TASTELESS TONIC IS JUST AS COOD FOR AD U LTS. WARRANTED. PRICE 50 cts. GALATIA, ILLS., Nov. 16,1?93.. 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