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ENVIRONMENT. .??'- ?.. - . ... : A. Illy Rww ta ? ?arden far Prom tie dust o? the city street. It had no dream that the universe : _Held ?.URht lees pure and sweet fesSbaa Ms virgin selr? so chaste was it, : ?operfect Its retreat W^ea algal came down the (Uy looked L< Itt tko race of the stars and smiled; Thea went to bleep-to the sleep of death, T' As the soul of a little child Own ba?k to the clasp of the Father-soul, Untouched and undefiled. A;Illy bloomed on the highway close ?Tp.tbe tread of tho sweeping throng; ^Jtrbre the gas? ot a hundred .eyes ?j -i'lVhere burned the flame of wrong; . And one came by who tore its'heart With a ruthless hand and strong. - lt caught no glimpse of a garden fair, It knew no other name Por a world that used and bruised it so ? 'Than a world of, sin and shame; ' And hopeless, crushed, its spirit passed .. .Aa the evening shadows came. I And who can say bat the sheltered one A sullied flower bad been Had its home been out on the highway close To the path of shame and siaV - And the other forever angel-white Had it blossomed aafo within? -Elisabeth Gallup Perkins, in Boston Transcript. ? ^ -- a I Jg WEALTHY. BY IC. ATWOOD STUART. ti The train rolled out of more than Egyptian darkness ajad stopped sud denly. : The Hare of many lights, the rum ble and roar of traffic, and the throngs of people in the streets, proclaimed the station to be a city, and a great one. '? The passengers whose changing place of destination is was, poured oat, pushing sud jostling against a stream of people coming in, for the train was a through one and the time limited. Among the last -to reach the plat form was a young girl, olad in mourn ing, evidently a stranger. She looked about her wonderingly, as though with the commotion and noise and confusion she could hardly think. Presently,by the intercession of the station master, she secured a carriage and rode away. By-and-by abe reached her destina tion, and because she so desired,in the cour e of ? vents she found herself in -the presence of the master of the house. In bis hand he held the letter bro right him by his careful henchman, who statol that the bearer waited be low. Having perused the letter, the edict had returned that she appear before him. "Have you come straight from home?" ..Tea." ."How long has it taken you?" She told him. *rAnd what is your name?" "Wealthy." "Humph! Don't fit your present fortune." A pause. "How old are you?'. "Sixteen my next birthday." "rjmphl" . Another pause. "Well, Dorothy, I suppose we shall have to let her stay." Let her stay! and the pale orphan girl, a mere child, without father or mother, was his own brother's daugh ter, a stranger in a strange land al most; homeless and penniless; and the Cunnings could have housed a regiment, and were fairly, rolling in wealth/" A-trembling with the strangeness of the reception, scarcely comprehend ing the right and the wrong of the whole matter, And already homesick, timid little Wealthy stood with down cast eyes bri arning over with tears, while they BC positively decided her fate. Mos. Doro! hy Dunning put down her yort. "Come with me,"she said. Wealthy followed to an apartment containing two beds. Hore she was told she might sleep. "This bed will be yours," indicating the bed containing one child, "and you can have the care of these three children," pointing to the other, in whioh were two, three boys in all, sleeping soundly. "Ton can dress them in the morn ing, hear their prayers, and open the room to air. Then come to me and I will tell you what uext to do." Wealthy silently acquiesced by an inclination of the head. Left alone, she gave up, heartbroken, to real, genuine grief. "Oh, papa, papal" she sobbed, as she erept to bed at last, weeping. Poor little Wealthy! "On the whole, it is quite as well," said Mrs. Dunning, -hen she went back to the drawing-room. "We will discharge the present nurse for Arthur, Bob and Joe, and she can Ferve instead. She told you she was nearly 16, and she looks capable." "fier, name will do very well for a serv?br," remarked Lou, the oldest daughter, and young lady of the family, looking over the top of her music sheet "Ahem!-hardly a servant You must remember she is your cousin, you ?-know," said Doctor Dunning, evincing a slight twinge of con science. : "She needn't try cousin-ing me," mutwred Lou, turning away to her own"?ffairs; and at the end of a week Mrs.;Dorothy Dunning had decided the same, and mentally vowed that the bindy Wealthy should forget the relationship, and keep her plaoe with the children and mind the housework, which she could perform with such, dexterity. So Wealthy found herself one of the nurses., who were employed to take' care of the six Dunning chil dren, her charge being the three oldest, except Lou. She, being 18 and out in society, was considered beyond a nurse's care, and 'never turned a hand over to brighten anybody's life. Bnt there were gleams of bright ness in Wealtby's life, after all. Pleasant days :;he took the children to the park, and, while she sewed and minded them, she could also feast her eyes on the beautiful trees and green ? ward and the blue skies; so blue, Wealthy thought; skies anywhere else wei e never so blue as those. Little by little she learned that the best of us all, in one way Or another, work more or less, and she argued that, per haps, hera was not sn ch. a hard lot as it might have been,' in spite of the fast that she was obliged to be busy at something all the time. She was tb ft ukf ul for what she had, and worked and sang and made the best of it. And so it went on for six months. July came and Doctor and Mrs. Dunning and Lon went away to cool Bircelands. "Dortor* Edwards is coming to Birobm?i' this season," reported Mr . Dunning at the eud of the fort night. "Very, wealthy family. Bernard, the old? t?t son, has studied in Europe and "has ' returned and taken his fatherja practice, Every one is speak iug ot the celebrated Doctor Edwards -aa excellent parti for Lou.1' Lou matched her pretty eyes with prettier ribbons, and when he called ehe rustled to greet him in the fleecy raiment that had cost Wealthy hours of patient endeavor to think out, and fit, and make-a creature of a dream aud fair to look upon, "as beautiful as A fancy," Doctor Edwards thought. But in the chain of circumstances, there were other incidents. In tne city the oppressive heat was telling on poor, puuy Arthur, and one day Wealthy, nurse, housekeeper and commander-in-chief, fouud another fare on her hands, a sick boy. Gently she qnieted him, tenderly . she cared for him, but at dusk she stood despairingly by his bedside, with the realization that the disease was beyoud the scope of her immediate prescriptions and fully aware that the boy was on daugerous ground. What could she do? Send for her uncle? He was miles away, and . Arthur might die before his father reached him. Send for a doctor? Where? Neither she nur any of the children knew the location of any physician's office in the city. Speak to the neighbors? Yes, but it is August, and they are all away. Completely ba died in this labyrinth of perplexities, suddenly a bright idea j occurred to her. i Looking hastily out of the window she saw a bright light away down the street on the opposite side. "That must be Doctor Edwards that I have heard so much about, I know," she said. And shortly after ward, Doctor Bernard Edwards, pro fessional, indeed, but handsome, line ever', and kind, was obeying an urgent summons up the street. He stayed all through the hot night with the sick boy, soothing and help ing him and lighteuiug for poor Wealthy what otherwise would have been a season of multitudinous terrors -and wheu morning dawned once agaiu, Arthur's life was saved. And duriug that night he had be come interested iu the faithful, lovely young girl. Doctor Edwards always looked grim reality straight in the eye, and he found out what her position was iu that house, and such a distaste for Lou Darning's frivolous beauty came over him at the disco', erv that he hoped he might never see her agaiu. He stamped aud stormed a little and in his righteous wrath he spoke some certain truths of the Dunniugs. "It. is too scandalously bad!" he wound up. "You might marry her," suggested grouty old Doctor Edwards, who had ?got the benefit of his son's late re searches. "Have half a mind to," said' Bernard. Evidently he had a whole mind to; for the next day, before the gray dusk was fairly out of the sky, aud loug before the children were awake, Wealthy, standing weary and alone by the chamber window, found her self clasped tenderly iu a pair of strong arms. Lovingly the tall doctor stooped aud tenderly kissed the.little girl. "Wealthy, "he whispered, "Wealthy look at me, darling! I have some thing to tell you, aud I want you to answer me a question." Somehow it took a long time; but at the end of the narration, though Wealthy was in a flood of tears, the tired head rested against Doctor Edward's breast, and with a joy that could not'be told, she answered "yes" to his question. When the Dunnings came back there was a heavy gold ring on Weal thy'8 hand but Doctor Bernard Ed wards called before they had time to notice it. "I have tp apologize for not keep ing my promise of returniug to Birch wood, but professional duties prevent ed," he said. "Perhaps, too, I should make excuses for frlliug iu love with your uiece, but that, also, I could not prevent. " And before they realized what he was doing he had taken Wealthy away and married her, and she had left them forever. Doctor and Mrs.*Dunning refer to their niece as "My dear Wealthy." Lou does herself, indeed. "My cousin Wealthy," she says, in speak ing of her, "Doctor Edwards' beauti ful wife." But it was a corrective for the Dun nings. They may not be less self centred-that would be hardly pos sible-but they are more discreet. PEARLS OF THOUCHT. Use palliatives when you contradict Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. The desire of pleasiug is at least half the art of doing it Give me but virtuous actions, and I will not quibble and chicane about the motives. I believe there is more judgment required for proper conduct of jur virtues than for avoiding theil- oppo site vices. When you have found out the pre vailing passion of any man, remember not to trust him where that passion is concerned. A wise man will live nt least as much within his wit as his income Culled from the Earl of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son. I really kuow nothing more criminal, more mean, more ridiculous than lying. It is the production of either malice, cowardice or vanity. Style is the dress of thoughts. . . it is not every understauding that can judge of matter, but every ear eau and does judge more or less of style. If you will please people, you must please them in their own way; and, as you? cannot make them what they should be, you must take them as they are. A spruceness of dress is very be coming at your age, as the negligence of it implies an indifference about pleasing, which does not become a young fellow. Wrongs are often forgiven, but con tempt never is; our pride remembers it forever; it implies a discovery of weakness which we are more careful to conceal than crimes. A man is fit for neither business nor pleasure who either cannot or does not command and direct his attention to the present object, and banish for that time all other objects from his thought Next to doing the things that de serve to be writteu, there is nothing that gets a man more credit, and gives him more pleasure than to write the things that deserve to be re.~.d. Great talents are above the gener ality of the world, who neither pos sess them themselves nor judge of them rightly in others; but ail peo ple are judges of the lesser talents, such as civility, affability and au agree able address and manner. About 80 per cent, of the fishing nets iu Hokkaido, Jap au, are made of cotton thread. Cotton nets were first introduced from Scotland in 1888. Cleanse Your Blood Tho thing most desired of a Spring Medicine is thorough purification of the blood. With this work o* cleansing going on there is com plete renovation of every part of your system. Not only is the cor rupt blood made fresh, bright and lively, but the stomach also re sponds in better digestion, its readiness for food at proper times gives sharp appetite, the kidneys and liver properly perform their allotted functions, and there is, in short, new brain, nerve, mental and digestive strength, Hood's Sarsaparilla Possesses the peculiar qualities Peculiar to Itself-whioh accom plish these good things for all who take it. Au unlimited list of wonderful cureB proves its merit. NEW USE OF EXHAUST. How Waste Steam May Run An Auxiliary Engine. "For many years lt has been known that the steam engine did not utilize all its energies. The ordinary high pressure engine which discharged its pxhaust steam into the air used hardly more than 5 per cent, of the value of the fuel burned under its boiler. The compound engine, which condenses its steam and'returned the warm water to the boilers, used only 12 to 13 per cent, pf the fuel energy. Here ingenuity Seemed to stop until a device was in dented for using the heat of the ex haust steam to evaporate another pquid, which, having a lower boiling point than water, required less heat for the process than does water. This process is the joint discovery of G. Bohrend, a Hamburg engineer, and Dr. Zimmermann of Ludwigshaf en, and lt gains as high as 50 per cent, additional motive power without in creasing the expenditure of fuel. The liquid they chose for evaporation ls sulphurous acid, which ls cheap, easily obtained, and is so oily that it lubri cates the inner working surfaces of the machinery without corroding them. The steam passes into the surface con denser or vaporizer, in which, the cool ing medium, instead of being water,- is liquid sulphurous acid, the boiling point of which is so low that the liquid is decomposed immediately by the heat of the exhaust steam, liberating sul phur dioxide gas. This gas passes over into the cylinder of an auxiliary engine, where its work is done as in an ordinary steam engine. Then the sul phurous vapor enters the surface con denser, is condensed to liquid by cold water tubes and is forced by a pump back into the vaporizer to do its work over again.. With a fairly economical compound engine, using 16% pounds of steam for each indicated horse-power hour, half an indicated horse-power can be pro duced in the auxiliary machine for every indicated horse-power developed in the main engine._ Charles A. Dana as Head Walter. As I remember our meals, they were most delightful times for talk, humor, wit, and the interchange of pleasant nonsense, says Mrs. Ora Gannett Sedg wick In the Atlantic. When our one table had grown into three, Charles A. Dana, who must have been a very ord erly young man, organized a corps of waiters from among our nicest young people, whose meals wera kept hot for them, and they in .their turn were waited on by those whom they had served. I recollect seeing Mr. Dana reading a small Greek book between the courses, though he was a faithful waiter. I remember the table talk as most delightful and profitable to me. Looking back over a long anu varied life, I think that I have rarely, if ever since, sat down with so many men and women of culture, so thoroughly un selfish, polite, and kind to one another, as I found at those plain but attractive tables. All seemed at rest and at their best. There was uo man, tired with the stock market and his efforts to make or to increase a big fortune, com ing home harassed or depressed, too cross or disappointed to talk. There was no woman vying with others in French gowns, laces, and diamonds. The fact that all felt that they were honored for themselves alone brought out more Individuality in each, so that I have often said that t have never peen any other set of people where each individual seemed to possess some pe culiar charm._ Getting Ready "My beau," said ten-year-old Lucy, "is going to be an Admiral." "Is he In the Naval Academy?" ask ed her sympathetic aunt. "Oh! no," replied the little woman, "he's too young for that yet, but he'B having an anchor tatooed on his arm." -Philadelphia Press. has such a record for ab" solute3y curing female lils and kidney troubles as has Lydia Em PSnkham's Vegetable Compound* Medicines that are ad" vertised to cure every" thing cannot bo specif los for anything m Lydia Em Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will not euro every kind of ill" ness that may afflict men, women and children, but proof ls monumental that lt will and does oure ail the lils peculiar to wo m enw This ls a fact indisput able and can be verified by more than a million women* ' "If you aro sick don't OX" p?riment, take tho modi" cine that has tho record of tho largest number of cures* T,vdla13 Piakhara Med. Co., Lynn, Maas. HINTS FOR HOUSEWIVES. Itemed? for Ivy Poisonlnf;. ? treatment highly recommended by a scientific magazine for poisoning from ivy, is to wet a slice of bread with water, dust it with common washing soda, and apply to the erup tion, keeping the bread from the out side. Half an hour of this treatment is said to be a sure cure. Hoit' to Clean DH i cato Goods. Delicately tinted mulls and nearly all delicate goods to be cleaned must be soaked overnight in salt water and washed ia soap bark and cold water. To wash white mull yokes place them in hot water, soap bark and ammonia, and leave them overnight Ju the morning they should have another bath of the same kind and then hs rinsed in hot water. Cement for Itroknn Dishes. The old housekeeper has in her scrap book well-tried recipes for mending an i cleaning, and among them is the .following cement for mendiug broken dishes, lc is one of the strongest and most easily applied and it needs nott ing but the white ot an egg and some lime. Sh?ve'off a ?inall quantity of the lime mix it thoroughly with part of the white of an ogg arid apply as quickly as possible to the brokeri edges. Then place them together and hold them firmly till they become set. Never mix any larger quantity thun is to be immediately used, since it hard ens with great rapidity. -'?-? . nestorius Polish of Furniture. Many will be glad to know how the fine original polish of furniture may be restored, especially in the case pl such articles as pianos, fancy table?, etc., which become tarnished by use. Make a polish by putting half an ounce of shellac, thu same quantity of guinlac and a quarter of an ounce of gum sandarac into.a pint ol spirits of wine. Put them all together in a stone bottle near the fire, slinking it very oflen. As soon as the gums are dissolved it is ready for use. Now make u roller of woolen rags, put a a little of polish ou it, and also a few drops of linseed oil; rub the surface to be polished with this, going around and around over a small space at o time until it begins to be quito smooth. Then finish by a second rubbing with, spirits of wine aud more of tho polish, and your furniture will haye a brilliant lustre equal to new.-Now York Jour ual. Bonutiful Photozraplt Frames. Photograph frames grow more and more beautiful each season, and noth iug seems too fantastic as material for, them. Those of rich old-time bro cade are particularly pretty and make the artistic modern photographs look like lovely old miniatures. Turquoise blue and bright-green enamelled wood, rimmed with silver or gold, are very effective, ns are also some of Algerian onyx, with fancy gilt rims, decorated with Louis XV bows. Folding pho tograph cases in crushed morocco, tooled gold or ornamented with raised gold decoration after the Empire style, are charming. In royal blue leather, tooled with gold, are frames in all sorts of odd shapes and sizes; they are adorned by enamelled heads, Sevres blue crushed morocco, scrolled with silvor and mixed with turquoises, makes beautiful frames, and fretted gold with the new ri d finish forms charming frames for little three-leaved screens, in each leaf of which a small photograph may be inserted. Bright red mahogany, inserted with^ dark silk, both silk and wood orna mented with gold tooling, are very handsome. Eu by and emerald velvet frames studded with steel are revivals of au old-time fashion. Odd little showcases in mahogany and gilt,t a la Empire, are to stand on a . table,' as they are only large enough to contain some precious'miniature or one or two small valuables, and are, therefore, fitted with a small lock and key. 1 Keel pea. Oatmeal Piecrust-Moke exactly like dough for crackers, but roll out thin ner. It can only be used for au under crust. It can be eaten with impunity by those who cannot digest "short ened" piecrust. Eye Coffee- Carefully pick over and wash one pint of rye. Drain for a moment, then put into s skillet aud stir over tho fire. Stir constantly until evenly browned. Mix with; throe fourths cup of browned coffee kernels. Grind, make and settle as'any coffee is treated. . Prune Pies-Prune pie is an old fashioned favorite. It is very good if . the stones have beeu removed and very poor indeed if that duty has been neglected. Sometimes lemon juice.is added as a flavoring, but the original prune pie required nothing but prunes and sugar, the fruit having been stewed in the first place necessarily. , Mac?doine Salad-This can be made of any vegetables on hand, such as peas, carrots, cucumbers, asparagus, beets, cauliflower, celery, string beans, etc. Cut them into dice and mix lightly, so as not to break them, mar inate with a French dressing and let stand on ice for half an hour, then -mask with mayonnaise; garnish with parsley and Berve. Sago Cream-Boil one-quarter of t pound of sago in one pint of watei lor five minutes; pour into a fine sieve; roturn the sago to the same pan; covei with one pint of boiling water and simmer one hour; add one cupful ol currant jam, or orange juice, and juice of one lemon, and about three-fourths of a cupful of sugar; let simmer 20 minutes longer; fill small moulds with the mixturo, serving cold in a glass ilish; garnish with whipped cream and candied cherries. Catch! 113 Salmon In Scotland. To form an approximate estimate ol the sums disbuvsed by the renters ol salmon fishings is a difficult matter, but, leaving ont the money paid foi salmon fishing included in a shooting rent, the money paid for salmon fish ing together with the incidental ex penses incurred, may be put down at ?80,000, not one penny of which would Scotland see if there were no salmon fishing. I have arrived at this sum in a roundabout sort of way, but belii ve it is under tho mark. Thus, when I first began to fish on my own account in the early sixties, I could rent a month ou a fairly good stretch of water for from ?40 to ?60, the ser vices of a gillio being usually includ ed in the rent. For that outlay I used to average as nearly as possible a fish for every sovereign; my worst month, which cost ?45, was 16 fish; my best 88 for ?35, and both of them were, on the Dee. About 1867 the rents began to rise and fish were costing me quite 5B. each, which speedily went to ?5 o head, until, from 1870 up to tho pres ent, angling rents have increased by leaps and bounds, forcing me to retire -for as anglers became more plenti ful good angling became scarcer, and nowadays it maybe reckoned that fish cost the catcher quite ?10 each. -Cham bers' Journal. THE OX IN WAR. His Strength and Patience Make Him laval nable io South Africa. At the present moment, when the efficiency of the British army in South Africa largely depends on the stabil ity of Ita transport, it may not tie amiss to consider the capabilities of I the trek, ot trausport, ox, who, after ali? despite mules and traction engines, Is the mainstay df the South African transport. The Imperial authorities irx the Cape Colony and Natal are now busily engaged in bjying all the availble ox transport they can, as is testified by their numerous advertise ments in colonial papers. Oxen are less expens've than mules, They are slow but sure, never doing more than three miles an hour, or twenty miles a day, which is consider ed a good trek. The Zulu ox ls the best-bred animal, but small and un serviceable when compared to the bastard Zulu or Natal ox, which thrives oh both the "sour" veldt. Oxen, however, require very ?ireful hand ling", abd must on ho account be over driven ; they must hav*e at le?st six hours a day for grdzing purposes, td the winter, which is coming on how, they can find a picking on the parched velt where a mule or horse would fall. They are, naturally, in poor condition till the green grass of spring appears in September. They are very liable to lung sickness and red water, and whole spans sometimes perish from .the cold, and on no account should be worked In the rain during that season, J for, among other things, the yoke, j when wet, gives them sore necks, thus rendering them useless, J. ne ox's best I work is done at night time, and moon light treks are the usual things with ? the "transport riders" after their teams have been grazing all day. They are never kept under the yoke for more I than eight hours during the day, two stretches of four hours each. From four to eight in the morning and from 6 to 10 at night are the favorite hours I for "trekking. As to their hauling capacity, a "span" or team of eighteen oxen will easily draw a buck wagon (weighing a little over a ton), loaded to 0,000 pounds over the South African roads, many of which are little better than tracks across the veldt. Twenty miles a day for a heavy baggage column "in such a country as South Africa ls really good goiug. One of the great merits of the ox wagon is the simplicity of its harness. The two beasts nearest the wagon draw from a pole (disselboom) on which the yoke is fastened, and the couples in front are attached to a wire or hide rope, known as the trek-touw, to which the yokes are fastened by riems, or thongs of hide. Any break age or deficiency in such a tackle can easily be made good, as it is fre<? from the complexities of a set of harness. Prudent transport riders invariably "outspan" their teams at the approach of a thunder storm, If their "trek . touw" be of wire or chain, as whole spans have been destroyed by light ning through neglecting this precau tion. j In the convoys to the troops not more than fifty wagons are despatched at one time, and, if the roads permit, six or even more are driven abreast. The second division usually starts In half an hour after the first. Net .dy all the wagons used in the present campaign are built locally, made cf stiong colonial woods, and constructed without springs. Only two men are required to manage each wagon-a driver and a "vorlooper" or leader of the team-both of whom are nearly al ways trained Kaffirs. At present large numbers of. these wagons are being hired from the col onists at the rate of $15 to $20 per day, the Imperial Government making good any losses that may occur In the span Pall Mall Gazette._ Easy Way of Telling Time. It was about ten minutes before clos ing time in the City Clerk's ofilce-the busiest period of the day-the other af ternoon, and Chief Clerk George Gas ton was making the iuk fly at a lively rate. . "Ting-a-ling-ling!" It was the telephone at the far side of the room. Gaston dropped his pen and rushed to the instrument "Is this the City Hall?" queried a soft, feminine voice at tho other end of the line. The frown on the clerk's face soft ened. In dulcet tone he Informed the fair inquirer that it was. "Will you please tell me what time it ls? You see, our clock has stopped, and the walks are so wet that I hated to. step out; and I thought if I called up the City Hall I'd get the right time, because if I'm late with supper my hus band-" "Ten minutes to 4, ma'am! Three fifty. Yes, ten minutes to 4. Goodby -net at all-a real pleasure, I assure you." ? But as the clerk went back to his desk he looked tired.-Detroit Journal. Going to Bed In India. Going to bed in India is a very dif ferent process from going to bed at home. To begin with, it is a far less formal process. There is no shutting the door, no cutting yourself off from ! the outer world, no going upstairs and finally no getting Into bed. You mere ly lie down on your bed, which, with its bedding, is so simple as to be worth describing. The bed is a wooden frame with webbing laced across it, and each bed has a thin cotton mat tress. Over this one sheet is spread, and two pillows go to each bed. That's all!-Scottish American. Wby She Kept the Map. A householder in London recently noticed that his cook had stuck up in her kitchen a map of-South Africa, with the British possessions colored red, the Transvaal brown, the Orange Free State yellow, and Portuguese ter ritory green. "Do you take an inter est iu the war. Mary?" he asked. "No. sir"" replied the cook, "but I mean to 'ave a skirt like that brown bit, and blouses like them other colors; and I'm just keepin' the map match the patterns with when I get a heveuin' hoff, sir!" He Didn't Appreciate lt. "Brother," said the cannibal chief, facetiously, "In about fifteen minutes you will be in the soup." "Oh, dear!" groaned the missionary. "I suppose that must be what people call native humor." ?HIP'S CHRONOMETERS. Some of toe Tests to Which They are Subjected. There is a popular belief that chrono meters, those delicate pieces of me chanism which enable the mariner to tell to a nicety where he ls upon the ocean, are made only in England. One will be told even In Malden Lane that England l? chronometer-maker to the world. This was true at one time, but now, according to shipmasters, Ameri ca furris1 out excellent chronometers. There ar?; however, only three ?t?ferl can makers as against numerous Brit ish firms. Many of the instruments in use in the United .States Navy are of American make. These chronometers are purchased on trial. The delicate instrument is subjected to extremes of temperature,- by means of which its variations are ascertained. No instru ment leaves the maker's hands until it has been thoroughly tested, or before It is three years old. In this period there ls ample opportunity for develop ing Its peculiarities. When it is under stood that an error of four seconds on the part of the chronometer will put a skipper a mile'out of his. course the necessity of the most careful and thor ough test is apparent. Ev?fi when an instrument has been tested to the satisfaction of the ex perts, and has been finally adjusted, only a skilled man cari be allowed to carry it i. ja the workshop to the ship. One firm alone has a dozen of these carriers constantly employed. They are not, of course, dealing all tie time with new chronometers; there are from 400 to 500 always In stock from ships arriving in the port of New York from ' all parts of the world; As soon as a ship comes into port Its chronometer is usually sent ashore for rating, that is to say, it ls carefully observed until the ship is ready to sail, when the variation is reported to the captain, who can then make his ccljulations ac cordingly. The chronometers of the transatlantic liners are sent ashore for rating every time they come into port The greatest care is taken of chrono meters on board ship, and on all first class ships there are usually three, one being for deck observations. The most perfect one of the lot is usually placed In a dry but well-ventilated apartment amidships, where it is firmly screwed down, and should there he fear of dampness, wrapped in a heavy woolen blanket On the government vessels the chronometer ls placed In a case lined and padded with curled hair, which keeps it from being jarred. The smallest speck of rust on the balance spring might cause a chronometer to lose its accuracy. A first-class chrono meter costs $250 and one of the same grade capable of telegraphing its own time, sells at $450-New York Post BORED HOLES ALL OVER TOWN. A Farmers Son Says He Did lt to Care Himself of Insomnia. Frank Hooley, a armer's son has confessed to being the one who bored holes in the buildings all over the ham let of Montville, Geauga County and in so doing surfeited that part of Ohio with mystery and no end of superstiti ous fright and incidentally of causing the suicide of one man to whom cir cumstantial evidence pointed as the perpetrator of the deed. Hooley, who is 19 years old, appeared before Justice Case and swore io the following story: "About one year ago I began to be troubled with insomnia, .bater the trouble became worse and I passed night after night without sleep. When I shut my eyes I could see augers. To the right augers and to the left nothing but augers. I felt an uncontrollable desire to bore holes, and was sc ner vous that I thought I should go crazy. One night, after trying In vain for sev eral hours to go to sleep, I arose, went to the barn and bored a hole In one of the doors. Immediately I experienced a change of feeling and my nervous ness disappeared. I went to bed and 6lept soundly all night "I had found a remedy for my Ills, but it did not last long, and I soon foundL that boring holes in the barn would not bring sleep. I felt that I must try the house, and did. The neighbors' houses were perforated. About one hole to each house, and the virtue was gone. I make this confes sion b?cause I am sick of the business, and wish to be taken where I can be treated, for this nameless disease." The announcement of this strange statement has made a sensation sec ond only to the discovery of the holes. For weeks after the discovery was made the little settlement was in a feyer of excitement. Eesidents were utterly at a loss to explain the purpose of ?he borings. A hole had been bored through the outside wall of every dwelling In the village except two, and In a few houses two holes were bored. Hooley is 6 feet tull and unusually thin. His shoulders are bent and his eyes sunken. Owing to the old system of digging out diamonds Kimberley proper is built around a hole big enough to contain the entire white population of South Africa. England's Armored Trains. The magnlflcent ormorotl trains used by England In her war with tho Boers will trans port her troops, protest bridges and tele graphic communications In about tho samo war that lIostettor'B Stomach Bitters drives dyspepsia irom tho human stomach and then mounts Riiard that lt does not return. Tho Bitters has won iu evory case of indigestion, biliousness, liver and kldnoy trouble for the past flf ty years. It ls invaluable at all times. Mr. T. Carson, of Brownsville. Tex., has boen mayor of that town for twenty-one years. Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Tonr Life Array. To quit tobacco easily and forover, be mag netic, full of lite, nerve and vigor, take No-Tc Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men strong. All druggists, 60o or 81. Curo guaran teed Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Itemcdy Ca, Chicago or New York London Fashion Pays High. Bent. In the fashionable thoroughfares of London a good houso rents for VJO.OOO a year. To Cure n Cold In One Day. Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE TABLKTS. All drupglsts refund tho money if it falls to cure. E. \V. GROVE'S signature ls on each box. 25c. Much Area, But Few Inhabitants. Russia's Asiatic possessions are throe times tho size ol Groat Britain's, hut hold only 2.1,000,001) inhabltonts, as compared with Eng land's 2&T,000,OOOsubJects. Educate Yonr Bowels TT*>h Casenrets. Candy Cathartic, euro constipation forever. lOc. Soc. If C. C. C. 'ail, druggists refund money. Strange ns lt seem*, every right-minded per sou who gives lila word straightway endoavore to keep lt. _ Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for chlldron teething, softens tho gums, reduces infiamma non. allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle. I do not believe Piso's Curo for Consumption has an equal for couRhs and colds-JOHtf F. BOTER, Trinity Springs. Ind.. Fob. 15. 1000. Now you know what the tro cure,-a perfect Sarsaparilla, name of the medicine, for in a great many remedies. Weat you want is a Sarsapari pure, t Sarsaparilla that will mat filia that is a powerful nerve to sad best. That's J "Thc only Sarsaparilla made ander graduates: a graduate in chemistry, and a ?ri $1.00 a bottle. " Last July my oldest daughter was l to mend I was down sick myself fror and did not care much whether I Uv bottle of Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and its < it put me on my feet and made a wei Bentonsport, Iowa, Jan. 19,' 1900. Fish Commit:, Suido A giant star fish was recently cap tured and placed on exhibition in an aquarium in San Francisco. The morning after its capture it was found that one of the rays of the star was separated from its body. It was thought that a big laud crab, which occupied the same tank, must be guilty of assault and battery, and ii was ac cordingly taken out. Next morning, however, two more of the star's rays liad been separated from its body, and then a watch was set. It was found that the star fish, apparently dlssatis ned with its surroundings, was delib erately dismembering itself. This pro cess was continued until all the six arms had been cast off, apd there was nothing left of the original star fish but its central body. Out of the Ordinary. The two old friends, as has been narrated before, met again, after years of separation. "By the way, Gagster," said Throg glns, "do you remember that snub nosed, cross-eytd little Tilbury girl with a fice o-i her that would ditch an express train? She used to live somewhere In your neighborhood, I think." "Oh, yes, I remember her perfectly," replied Gagster. "What ever became of her?' *T am sorry to disappoint you, Throg gins"-here is where the variation comes in-"but I have not the slight est idea. I didn't marry her."-Chi cago Tribune. Thirty minutes Is all the time required tc dye with PUTNAM FADELESS DIES. Sold by all druggist.-, Riches cannot buy tho lovo of a dog, nor for that matter of a woman who lswoalthy lu her own right. _ Beauty Is Blood Deep. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im purities from the body. Begin to-day to banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarets,-beauty for ten cents. All drug gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 60c. Quaint Little People. The nativos of the Andaman Islands, the smallest people In the world, average 3 feet I Hinches in height and lusa than 70 pounds [ in weight. ._ The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle of GHOVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TOXIC. It ls simply iron and quinine In a tasteless form. No cure-no pay. Price 50c. Soda "Water to Appease Hunger. Soda water ls now prescribed as a palliative for hungor, especially for tho abnormal hun ger produced by disease. Catarrh Cannot he Cared With local applications, as they cannot reach the seat of thc disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cur?is taken internally.and actsdi rectly on the blood and mucous surface. Hall's Catarrh Cnre is nota quack medicine., lt was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this countrv tor years, and is a regular pre scription. It is composed of the bc<t tonics known.combinodwith the bestblfiod purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of tho two ingredients is what produces such wonderful results in cur ing catarrh. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Props., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, price 75c. Hall's Family Pills aro tho best. In San Rafael, Cal., lt is Illegal to shoot game with a repeating or magazine shot gun. 5Tow Are Toar Kidneys ? Dr. Hobbs' Sparagus Pilli care all kidney (Us. Sam* plo free. Add. Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or N. Y. Last year the mtues of Montana yielded copper to the value of W0,000,000. VITALITY low, debilitated oroxhausted cured by Dr. Kline's Invigorating Tonic. FREE SI trial bottlo for 2 weeks' treatment. Dr. Kline, Ld., 931 Arch St., Phlladelpha. Founded 187L II. II. GREEN'S SONS, of Atlanta, Ga., are the only successful Dropsy Specialists in the world. Seo iholr liberal offer in advor?soment in an. other column of this paper. If a man's neighbors would only soo his vir tuos as well In his lifetime as they do when ho ls doad, ho wouldn't need a mouumont to mark his last resting-place. To Caro Constipation Forever. Tako Cascarets Candy Cathartic. lOo or 23c. It C C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money. Peace at Any Price. Burglar-Your money or your life. Sleepy Father-Take both, but don't wake tile baby. IJ _ The best remedy for ! S whooping-cough. Give n ? /-? -the child Dr. Bull's LO?JO*H SVrUf? t?ughSyrup,reliefw?l VVU?U J 1 UF come nt once and the sufferer will soon be cured. Price only 35 eta. ANO habits eared nt homo. XO CUBE, NO PAY. Correspondence confidential. GATE CITY SOCIETY; Lock box 715, Atlanta, Ga. r^15>e^?'J5iV NEW DISCOVERY; ?\ya, lair ira S <G? 0 quick relief and cures worst canes- Book of testimonials nnd IO days' treatment Free. Pr. II. H. GREEN'S SON;-t, BOX B.Atlanta, Ga a story of supering that one >rd tells. It says : "I tm all tired out. It seems to ne . I can hardly take another (fc^ step. I haven ta par Y tide of ambition. I can't do half my work, I am wejsk, icrvous, and depressed." Chat' re Blood uble is, you certainly know the "Sarsaparilla" is simply the perfect Sarsaparilla there are a illa that will make y out blood e it rich and strong, a Sarsapa nic. You want the strongest DYER'S thc personal supervision o! three pharmacy, a graduate in l?vate in medicine." AU druggists. taken sick, and by the time she began a caring for her. I was discouraged, ed pr died. My husband got me a ?fTects were magical. Two bottles of il woman of mc."-JANE it BROWN, V After X waa ind need to try CASCA? BETS, I wlU nover be without them In tho boase. My liver was lo a very bad sb&po. and my hes* ached and 1 bad stomach trouble. Now. since tak ing Cascarets. I feel fine. My wife has also cse? tb cm TTI th beneficial results for sour rtomach." Jos. KBXQLINQ, 1U21 Congress St., Bi. Loula,Mo. CANDY CATHARTIC Ploosant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Goat. De? Good, Nover Sicken, Weaken, or Gripe. 10c. 2&;,S0c. ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... Stirling Tttmt?r fnnpinr, Chic, jo, Moatrral, Kaw York. SIS Hil-Tft-RAf* Sold and gnsrnnteed by alltlrog BU" I U"BAb gists to CUJEE Tobacco Habit. , ls one cf the earliest harbingers of spring-<a equally sure Indication ls that feeling of lan guid depression. Many swallows of ... . I Rootbeer are best for a spring tonic-and for & auicmor beverage. 5 jClom for 55 eenu. Writ? tat ?at of premiums offered tn? for ItbeU. Charles E. Hires Co. Malven, Po. 1^ O TA SH gives' color, flavor and firmness to all fruits. No good fruit can be ? raised without Potash. Fertilizers containing at least 8 to io-% of Potash will give best results on all fruits. Write for our pamphlets, which ought to be in every farmer's library. They are sent free. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 03 Nassau St., New York. $3 & 3.50 SHOES gjgjgg ?Y/orth S4 to $6 compared with other makes. J (.Indorsed by over i?? L 1,000,000 wearers. tSr^. ' The aentiine have W. L.p^ Douglas' name and price I stamped on bottom. Take( no substitute claimed to be as good. Your dealer-? should keen them-if not, we will send a pair* " Jon receipt of price and 15c/ extra' for carriage. State kind ot '.'?su. ', sue, and width, plain or cap toe. Cit. tree. , s W. L DOUGLAS SHOE CO., Brockton, Mass. Booker T. Wneb lngcon has written the story of his Uf<-an<i work. Ho . gives hts views on ' tho nee o problem and all his best speeches. Whit' and coiored people are riving advanced orders. A bonanza for agents. Wrlto to lay. We would Uko to engage a few ablo white man to suoe:lncend ?gen's. ?T. Hi. KT renoms eta oo No. 91K-9;j4 Austoll Building, Atiuntu. Ga. TYPEWRITERS. Write for cur bargain llsr. Rebuilt machines good a? new (for work.) cheap. Machines shipped for examination. Largest best and cheapest Block In the country. Wo t ent typewriters. THE TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE, , 208 North 9rh St.. St. Louis, Mo. SECURED OR Fee Refunded Patent advertised free.: Free ad?' vii-r n? to patentability. Send f-r "Inventors' Primer." FREE. Mli.O 3. STEVENS & CO.,' Kata!)., 18?. 817 14th St., Washington, D.C. Branches: Chicago, Clevoland and Detroit: - BRYANT & STRATTON (Kookkceplrig BBsiBfissCflllfige^ifrt??-"5. Cost no moro than 2d class school. C.-vtnlO'.'f ree Yon can earn $30 per mb. hanrtlli'g our Portraits and Frames. Write fojt; terms. C. B. Anderson & Co.. 9.T1 Elm st., Dallas, 1 ex. Agents Wanted Mention this ftipe^,^&^K?^i ' # $ RlSO:S CU R'E"F.OR '? i$ Ml UUKtS WHtHc ALL ELSE FAILS. Eil . ? ' ?] Bert Cough Syrup. Tastes Good- Uso Rf ' " In tune. 8old by drucglst?. SS O Q M S U M PrT lOtsl