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TEEMTItONE UFE. PUCTUtR%E OF POVKItTY AND DEtItA. DATON IN CROWIDED DINTICTll. What a VIht %la the Abodes ef the Peer and Detitute Reveaed to un laspectr. [From the New York World.] The sun was streaming down in all its wrath as a reporter and an officer of the Sanitary Squad picked their way amon the children and refuse-barrels whic obstructed the sidewalks in Mulberry street. The cool breeze which made life tolerable in other parts of the city was wanting there. The heat radiated from the uneven flagstones and noisome smells rose from stagnant pools. On either side of the street towered the high brick walls of the tenements within wich resided countless thousands of the city's poor, whose number defy the census-taker. Passing down Mulberry street, where it was evidently market-day, the side walks and roadway were thronged with bare-footed women and children scantily and shabbily clad, who jostled each other in their eagerness to get near the ;'arious wagons and stands of hucksters. entering a dark,. narrow alley on Mul herry street, the reporter and his guide emerged into a court-yard. A dozen or more bright-faced, healthy hildren were playing there. One of t hem was flying a miniature kite which in its wildest ascent never rose two feet above the surface of the ground. Four old women were ensconced on benches heedless of their surroundings, while others were washing clothes in small tubs, and a number of men sat on the rickety steps and gazed latily at the visitors. The buildings were five stories high and offered shelter to twenty fam ilies. ITALIAN HOMfi. The landing of the fire-escapes were literally covered with bedding, boxes aind refuse, which made egress almost impossible and would prove a fruitful source of danger in case of fire. On ascending the stops a small ball was discovered whose wa ll had been re "eintly whitewashed and whicir had a 1nirlyj clean and hf bitable appearance. Each family has two rooms, the outer serving for kitchen and dining-room and the inner for hed-chanber. In these I w" rooms aro crowded from four to ten persons when the family and ''boarders" are all at home. At this senson of the year most of the male members of the hicusehold whose presence is not needed for rag-picki'g are "in the country," which means that they are working on raihoads or tramping with their organs .And monkeys through the outside towns. .Purther down the street were found lth lowest Class- of Italian rag-pickers. The odor which came from the out-houses was something nauseating; remnants of food were scattered about and the air was reeking with filth. When asked if there had been a1.1 deaths in the house <huring the season, a boy--the only one who could speak English-said that all had been well. On ascending dark, narrow stairs tho rooms were found to be in a very unhealthy condition. Still further down the street two large wo visited, the appearance of whi .i 'r than any in the quar ter. The was of the alloy-way had recent'v h,n "-whitewashe an'd the inaide bore the marks of a late renova. tion. * Progress through Baxter street was slow. The 0hopkeepers, the majority of whom seemed to be Poles-.and a filthy looking set they were-displayed their mnercha:ndtise on and above the sidewalk to such an extent that the ledest riaiis l)roceedled with difticul ty and diseom fort. Seecond-huand clothing aind second hantd dioes are the staple goods in Bax * ter street. POLIsH HOMEs. One of the worst houses in the dis triet which was visited by the reporter wats a ive-story rookery where the very lowest ehemett of Poles and Italians hierd1 together. Passing through an alley-way into a court-yardi a scone was revealed which heggars description. C<sgregated in that small inclosure wore at least fifty peole, men, women, boys, girls and infants. Ragpickers were continually coming in with their b'urdens, the result of the morning's Il,or, which they depo)(sited in a loose pile previously gathered from the gut ters of the city. Onec of the neighb)oring merchants was offering for sale an arm ful of old clothes which should have found a fitting resting place on the heap of, rags. An old woman, bent double with age, had a small basket of decayed fish on her arm which she spread beore her customers. Pushing through the miserable crowd and stumbling over qeveral infants on a dangerous stairwvayv the officer led the way to the roof, whli-h was apparenitly the summer bedroom .0f he community. In the corners and along the sides were piles of straw and tags, covered with vermin and bareathing forth disease and death in the noonday heat. On Park street stands one of the lof titest tenements in the vicinity, the front lbeing seven stories high and the rear four stories. *Underneath the front plor tion, in the basemient, were found twvo . har-roorms. There are over thirty faini lies in the structure, principally' Irish, - with a mixture of Italians. b)ut 'the ap hiearance (of the rooms hietoken a general care and neatness. While walking along Mott street the oftl'er suddenly tuirned into a basement. The reporter followed as manfully as posible, though the daikness prevented * his seemng more thani six inchtes before * lum, until, after devious turnings and4 windmngs and the ascent of a short flight * ~ of tumble-dow.n stops, a small court was * reached, Ulpon opening a door made 'of psain * ~ deal boards a large room was seen, * ~ which appeared to be a Chinese op,iunm den. A long bunk made of straw mat ting extended nearly across one side of the room, Oil which a whito woman was sleeping off' the effects of t lie drug. On the oP' ' '" wits a double bunk of a *like L.a,. : lower part (if whie' s (Jhinaman was *)'asing. TIe proprie for, who was arrested not long ago for keeping an opium joint, was likewise s.soep mn a little alcove separatedI from the mnaiu room by a sort of grating. The reporter and his compan ion made a -tour of irinpeetion of thbe quairters anId it. without awakeig t he inmates. In Poll street the nfilecer opened a door ilnceremnoniously and ushered the re porter into a Chinaman's private apart mente. A young~ American woman *as * engaged in cook an at the stote, and her "protector" was sittin ona short bunk buywihhis pipe. response to a question the woman said that she and her sister lived with the Chinaw.n but that she did not .moke. Oti Oherry str'eet were tconed the same extends back to Baxter street are two immense houses in better condition than the majority. The janitor's quarters are in the courtyard, which is large and well kept. A notice over the door forbade ball-playing and most of the amuse. mente which children seemed to enjoy with immunity in other places., The rooms were generally neat and clean and the inmates appeared to be thrifty. An ol woman whom the reporter addressed said that there had been but one death in the house in over a year. in Leonard street something of the lodging-house life of the denizens of that quarter was seen. The proprietor .led his visitors-who, by the way, were not verry cordially received-through a sa loon into a small room, where stretched on benches, were three men sleeping of! the effects of intoxication, two old wo men, and a girl who was smoking a black clay pipe. A glance into a narrow area showed that two more were asleep. Be yond the small room'was a long apartment with a row ef double berths, disgusting in their appearance, several of which were occupied by poor wretches. Beds in this room cost ten cents, and there is another room up-stairs, somewhat smaller, where the price is fifteen cents a night. Tna latest "snake story" going the roun is cf the press is headed, "A Young Lady Tightly Embraced by a Serpent." Such incidents are not rare. But the young lady doesn't know at the time that he is a serpent. Sometimes she doesn't discover the fact until after she marries him. COULDN'T OMIT TIlE KISSES. Wasted Nweetness and What It Cest A Train Fnl ot Paseengers. Yes, she was pretty and very charm ing, and was the saucy possessor of one of the most kiasable little mouths that man ever set eyes on. There wan no doubt at all about that. She liked to kiss and be kissed too. - At least she de monstrated the fact to the perlect satis faction of a ear full of people. It all happened in just the easiest way poe sible. She and her young lady com pamion took a sent in the forward part of a car on a train that stood in one of the railroad stations of the Hub. The Irain happened to Ibe an express, which inn ten niles ont of the city before atop ping, but. of this the young lady was most ch armingly ignorant. She laughed M14l chatted and chatted and laughed with her companion as if there were no such things as express trains, or at least that they would stop at. her own sweet will. The warning bell struck,, the eli gine backed into the depot, the man with the signs shouted his monotonous "All aboard," and the train was off. The conductor quickly put in an appear anco and was presented with a ticket for a town about a mile otit of the citt. "We don't stop there, miss ; don't stop till we get to 11-. Express, you Ree. You'll haye to get off at 'No-Noth ing' station just this side of I-(the placo at which she wished to stop). 'hat's the best I can do for you," and oif. he went. At first there were threat enings of a ship lit April shower, but by the time the "No-Nothing" was reached the clouds had vanished and the skies were elear. Only atn instant's stop is ever made at this station, but. the young lady with the kissable mouth-seemed to be in most blissful ignorance of this fact. To he sure she started off all right to alight in good time, but when she had reached the door she returlied quickly, retraced her steps, anda ba the most naive manner imagiabhle, and, as if the whiole world were at her disposal, threw her arim about her companion's neck and he stowed upon her two crispy little good hy amacks. Then she tripped through the .door and the train started. The April showers came and likewise the conductor. He was a chivalrous man and she a pretty woman in tears. If she had been homely the result would undoubtedly have been differenit, but as it was the bell rope was resorted to and the traina brought to a standstill. Pro fuse in her thanks, she alighted, and then as she started, womanlike, she turned and threw a kiss at her friend, whose aNxious face peered at her fromn the car window. "Yes," said the figure fiend, who has not a grain of sentiment in him, " but I'll wager a fo'pence she never thought haow much that kiss cost. Just see here. Those ears seat sixty people apiece, there are ten of them and they are a'l full. That makes 000 peop>le. We were delayed one minute. ihat makes 600 minutes, or ten hours whole working day. Reckon it up as you are a mind to, there was money in it. Thunderation I All for a kias, too t" sad thme fiend settled back in disgust-. Roaton Globe'. The Telegraphic Profect. It is said that the latest scheme is for he Government to purchase the West rni Umuon andl goa i.tothtegrpi miess ait is inow m the postalr busi iess. A Washiington dispatch says that ~Ir. .Jay Gould intends to offer to give Ip) to the Governmenit the whole of the >Vestern Union property upon the basis1 >! yearly patylmnts of the surplus earn ugs for twenty y'eaars to come. The pay nent is to be1 madel( in bonds or cash, a lie Gloveranment prefers. This new pi'an wvould give the Glovernment the imme iate po)sesimon ofinte lines for nothing, uince the vearly ptayments would consist mnly of t'he money earned over and above the expenses of running the con ~ern upon the basis of existing rates for nessages. It is by ai similar arraunge. nent that the British Government puar ,hased the telegraphs, and Gould sees here a very acceptable precedent. The fifort, if successful, would give hint and ast associates im twenty years somuething ike 8150,000,000, for thie aet e'arniings are estimated at $7,500,000 a year. A itrong lobby is said to be getting ready o carry out this scheme. Like a IHembshell to the D)og. One evening while traveling in Spain I reached a solitary little inn, Close t, the stor-e lay a dog, warming itself in "What can you give me for dinner ?" I naked the landlady. "Somue egs," was her reply;i ar.-1 th, rig oe edly at me,c "'Eggs?" repeated I. "'That's por imstenance for a man that has come thirt9 .eso horseback, Havb you' nothing "Therss a bit of bacon," suggested the landlady: and the dog looked at me mnore intently than ever.. "I'm not paassionately fond of bacon," replied I, ' what,alse.have you?" "Santa Aa 1e ladlady, " san give you oheli - l At these words th~ d juxmpedp bndesrang through the heegdgu low. - "God v !"said Z; "wt e rthia' was like a bc.a 's t i AN HISTORIC SEA BATTLE. The Encouenter Between the Enterpriws ast Hexer en the Main Coast. Thp Lincoln county (Me.) Ne:w publishes this account of the famoui fight. given by an old resident of Pema quid: "All along the coast the people wer scared about the British vessels cominl and landing their men to burn the houses and some of 'em really took to the wood and hid. There were two British ve eels cruising off the coast, the Tonedo and Boxer. Well do I remember seeinl their boats filled with men pulling pea [emaquid Point, and some one, I don' know who it was, fired three guns a 'em. I was running about the hill her playing. I heard the report and sai the flash, and the smoke drifting awa before the wind. The boats fired cania ter into the bushes, and an awful rattlinl it made. "One Saturday evening, just after I ha, driven the cows home, I saw the Boxo coming into John's Bay and anchor jus back o the island, between it and Pema quid Point; and the folks were prett well scared about it, and some of 'er was nigh going to the woods. Bau father, who had seen the last of th Revolution, and was a Freewill Baptie besides, was not a mite uneasy about th Britisher. On Sunday morning she laii there to an anchor, her black hull shin ing in the sun. One of her boats wit] an officer had pulled over to Monhegan Our folks were so unsettled on accoun of the vessel that none of 'em went t< meeting. I was nigh onto 1 o'clock and boy-like I was hungry and thinkint about my dinner, when all of a suddea they appeared to be in a great hurr' aboard the Boxer getting her node weigh, and presently she was standini out under all sail. "'Climb upon the smoke-house an( tell us what you see?' said my father. "Our house was built on rising ground and the smoke-house was about fifteei feet high and built of poles. From th< top of it I could see all around. Awa' to the w'st'd I saw a vessel coming dowi under all sail, with the stars and stripe flying. I commenced to feel pretty saf< then. It was not long before thei neared each other, and almost at thi sime time a sheet of flame and smok< burst from their sides, and I could see the water torn up in spray by the shot The American vessel was a good den the best sailer, and she ont-ianucvret the Boxer. The firing was so rapi< that they were soon hid in smoke Once in a while, tlnoughi a rift in the eI ud, I could catch a glimpse of thei taftered sails and rigging. They drifte< out" toward Monhennan, looking like i loul of thick vapar. frsm which burs ineessant spouts of flame. I guess tin folks all forgot dinner and everythinl else when tle deep boam of the gaina woke the echors among the rocks ani the windows rattled in their frames Watching the light it seemed to lbe in age, although it only las1ed1 forty-fiv< mnuiiutes. I tell yaou, sir, I have 'nevei forgot ten Ihat sight, though sixiy yeara have passetl," and the old man's with tred1 cheek Ihushed and his eyes kindlei as he spoke. "By uaat by the firing slacked aid th< smoke rolled away to leeward; one of 'en had lost sis mainmast head, and sails o both hung in rilbb ens from the yards. ] almost strained my eyes out o' my heat to get a glimpse of the colors, but the3 were tor far off to make them out. B3 s('eing 'en drift away to the o's't'd th< folks thoughat the Enterpr"ise was beat 'rne suspenise anmong us was atwful, ever the women folk catching their breath with a sob,, anti many prayed aloud, P'res,a'ntly I saw themn set their courses tack, and stand to the west's ; then we felt the Britisaher was wvhipped. I tel you I was a tired bsoy when I came dow.r oft' that smoke house, just as if I ha<l worked hard all day coppo)~ing kindling. wood I remember Henry Tibbeta andi his b)rother David pulled( out in a dory from Christmas Cove to see how th< fight had gone, but they could get nc satisfaction in answer to their hail. It was said that when the Boxer was boarded her decks were slippery witli blood, and lumbered up with splinters, coils of rigging, and bodies of the dyinf and dead, many of whom had been tossel overboard, just before her colors wer< hauled down, to conceal their losses. "I heard that her boat's crew watches the fight from Monhegan, and when he: maintop-mast. was shot awvay 0one of then exclaimed, ' There it go's I and four o our best men with it.' Mind, that' only what folks tol:i round, b)ut whaat] saw I know, and I've tried to tell yet about the fight just as I saw it." The Great WVashing-ton Monumentot. This is now becoming one of the won de oh the seat of government, though for yeara it was iho laughing stock of the country. It is now some 850 odd feet high; when completed it will be 555 feet high, overtopping the famous cathe dral at Cologne b~y forty-three feet. Tile fo'undations vere finished in 1880, and it will be ready for dedication, it is hoped, bay the next 4th of July. It will cost al. ogether $1,100,000. At the base it is >5 feet on each of its four sides. Above he 500th foot each side of thle cone is35 cot. The lower part is of granite, with marble facing. The upper portion of hcone will he entirely of white marble. someo of the slabs have been sent from or'eign countries. 0110 is from Greece, mothecr from Turkey, anti others from Thuma and Siam. Other stones again re gifts fronm several States ina the Union. aVe shlould not b)egrudtge the mnoney eton meoral of our great meii. he onor alik{ t ihe mionulmn t b,uildlers old noble men whlose services theay comn liemorate. TLhiis str'ucture will be one' . the trst things to impress the tavele'r vitha the sple'ndor saf our capital. It is si sated uponil the blank of the Potomac, ro'm wyhich the great white miarbale shaft sill pierce the clouds, and will be out mned against the balue'of the sky. Spanih Beauties. I almost think, says a newspapehr cor :espondent, that the thnest bautty in Saratoga t his summor is Cuban (or aiinish, and there~ 1rIe manny of them. . hey arc worth watching in) social in. tercourse, having a slighat ftre andi more iffection. They roll oaff the CastilTian language like a hat tle going onl in a sea lAbell: it comes froma' such lips, too, and 'h !:shee release the ambher eye to do its flashing, and the nost ails s well as if hey also ought to have eyelashes to tuod1ify the trapsujlene of their sensi. aiJity. I hear that their beauty does not weair. It wears on me from vear to rear. Somje of these maids are white as snow. You think they are going to talk o you in the Vermont or the Iowa ongue, till suddenly they~ shoot out a entonce which sounds lie ' hoto >oto, coss a4a tornado, bang I'" 4 'i rged, as one of the reason Pr a drilhould marry him, that he 4aclection of over four hundred r~est kipds of wooad. Bhe said if it kldigwood she'd think akcm it .litn awhkne. AFTER A CYCLONE. e Phebe Consao's Accooos of the R Ternde In MIInneota. Miss Phaebo Cousins visited Roch< soon after the tornado and thus scribes what she saw: "The country, for many miles, is waste. Farmers' crops and barns improvements are strewn in every d tion, but the loss of life is not so t as at Rohcester, although the few are killed and wounded irl the cot are most horribly mangled. The w; one farmer, who wa in the field, st for the house, but failed to reacl Bhe ran for a stake in the field, but t blown almost to pieces. The stakc driven through her body, and her I torn off so that they have not yet found. One young woman is sofear mangled with ashes ground intc flesh that she cannot live. A boy his spine so filled with nails that he die of lockjaw. But the most frig] of all scones was that at Roche The scene in the north part of the where stood 300 houses and a 1 number of trees, beggars descrip Not a dwelling or a tree remains. debris is piled up in huge masse . scattered over the plain in hopelest t tanglement. Cattle, horses and pig i about dead in all manner of attiti One cow we saw had her head comph blown from the body and the h sticking into her bowelq. A horse to a tree was blown on his knees, his eyes in death beaoke the t which possessed him. "The Hon. John McCall, of Win was killed near his elevator. He started for the house, across the but had evidently been caught in air and whipped on to the earth, fo grass was swept clean where he found and every bone in his body broken. A long train of grain cars thrown from the track and some of I were pitched into the river bey Among the trees bordering the b( the river all sorts of garments wer ing from the limbs, and while we there the bodies of a woman and a 1 were found. That hundreds were killed was marvellous. But the being seven in the cvening and the a seen by everyone, men had gone 1 to their families, and everyone had t refuge in the cellars. All who mangled or killed were those who no cellars to go to. In almost e instance everyone saved was in the lar. "The most heartrending sight the big hall with the houseless homeless and killyd and wounded. the door of the hall, improvised hospital, lay five children, all dread hurt, whose parents had both killed. A sixth child, the baby, n has been found. This sight movet stoutest hearted to tears. Over I were in here-ni, women and clni -inl a most p itahle condition. cunning baby whivh reminded m, -s little one. which no one claii with one of its eyes put out, lay gazed with its one eye at every pc who passed, with ttie most intelli questioning look, as if to say: " ' %.at does all this mean? Ca one find my mamma?'" THAT W1NTER,'8 WOOD. 11111 Arp'e 1"moter-wood %entiments be Appreiated by tihe Women Foil Now is the time to get up the win .wood. The crop is laid by and the 1) p )ressure of I arm work and A .(1 lhree of the colored tenants anid wei I lie woods to clear ia little p)ice of ground, and1 1 and the little chapsr .another bandl. I wanttedi them to tip the big chips, bult the little raa found a high land tarrapini and it 'em pretty much all the morning t< vestig.ite him anid see how he shu his doors and they would have to wa hini a halt an hour to see hinm open p)oke his head ont of the front door his tail out behind. In the evei they found an old stump about ten high with a hole near the top and had to investigate that, and Carl chin while Jesse puished, and just as8 he ny to the hole a couple of flying ag rels caine out and scared 1em so they both tumbled down in a bmt and the squirrels sailed away to the of another tree and run up it, and t sailed away again to an old beech was full of holes, and the little el hollered and whooped and thirow'd at mtd chunks amazin', and now they begging me to cut down the old b and have just a lot of f.mn, and I ree Ir will have to do it. Uncle Remus that a tarrapin is a mighty slow travc and I always thought lie was, but .1 Flenderson savs that that depends howv hungry he is. He says when was a boy lie saw a tarrapin take a r ning Start and jump ten feet up a aiid catch a sap-aucker. JTack says may believe it or not, just as we pien and I was grateful to him for that pr lege. I overheard one of the old di ics singing a little song to the childi :ind hesaid Do frog he jumpj andlbe jtup and he jum] hut do tarrapin hido bhind doio situmlp IDe rabbtit hi i)e r,u rou a nd arouin "ut dhe tar rapin hide hisi hod in doe ronn q ugmrrol miake nest in dte forkeod itm thut doa tarrapin carry his houiso wid hirn, I must get Uncle Rernus after il ni gger and have him investigated. Mi h e lhe'knows something about this s. snicker business, mid while these I; makers are investigatintg thle departm< of agriculture I would like for t hirn mevestigate HendIrson 01on thait. Well, we cnt wood and, cut wo<(f, a have got thirty cords puiled nup-ash, a hickory, and( white oak, and beech, mixed uip; and we are going~ to have b:ggest ard hottest tires this winter y ever' saw. 1 doin't like to he stingy wood; when companly conies in of a wi itr liighit, al d the cold wind is singig arouind, I want the wood handy ai idry, aind I can say, "'Ralp'i, bring'in a it her stick or two, aind mauike the fol set rouind." T don't like for folks toha to crowd a fire. I want the fire to eroi them. The winter wood ought to (cut no(w, for it seasons right and w i,it hnirn uoggy and black. The winte: hi t wood ought to be hauled in tin dii split up and put away under cove Ihe"re is a power of comfort in plenty liht wo<xl. The ash wood makes ildy tire and1( burns free, int the hic ory lusts the longest and throws out [1 iiuost heat. The beech burns to a whi bi like flour. and when you mix up o w ith all thiew tt is a luxury to to see t glovmng embers dancing to a white he nniderneath, an~d the children can p their corn or rost their potatoes, or t good wifr- can make.a pot of coffee the trive and toast some light bre and broil a steak over the coals, and can sit round and get the odor and e joy the prospect of good things that a son to comie. There are lots of coi forts arond an old fashioned fire in farmer's honie, and, so far as I am e cerned, I am content with 'em. -4 tsar (C/a.) Cbnetitutions. THEn Fms'r Dtra, we belie,e, was Yi kee Dudho. wvho want to tow .~o What sghtened a Diver. 'to. I was never frightened be, o ce in my life, and on will laugh aster when I tel you how it happened. I de. have been in some mighty ticklish places, as you know, but I never knew lail before what kind of a feeling it was to and have the cold chills run up my baoc. irec- bone, making my teeth chatter a thou. treat sand times a minute and my knees knock that together like a pair of drumsticks," ntry The speaker was T. S. Wilson, the sub. ife of marine diver. The occasion was when uted he descended to find out what had t it. caused the wreck of a large lake steamer. was "When I reached fifty feet," he said, was "I began to feel the pressure considera. imbs bly. But this was nothing, for I had been been below that depth a number of fully times. Sixty feet, seventy, i ighty l her Great CAesar l where. was I? It was had darker than pitch, and I couldn't see an will inch before the glass in my helmet. I btful thrust out my arms and touched some ster. thing cold and hard, which seemed to city, be all around me. At first I imagined argo that I had gotten into a big hole in some tion, way, but just what kind of a hole I The couldn't say. I climbed up a little, but , or . my cilindrical tomb still surrounded me. en- 7 climbed ten or fifteen feet further s lie down, and it was the same. Stories of uies. extinct species of immense and horrible :tely sea sepents that were still f )und in the orna ocean began to float through my mind, tied and I felt my hair begin to rise a little and as I thought that possibly I had gotten )rror into one of their dens. "'By the shades of my fathers, I ona, must get out of here,' said I, and I had yanked tluat signal rope to come up for way, all I was worth. Up I went, and when the I was pulled up on the scow and my r the helmet taken off I was met with a loud was l)urst of laughter from every side. was 'What's the matter?' asked I. trying to was look unconcerned. 'Oh, nothin, Tom, hem except we guess you got down the oud. smoke-stack by mistake, didn't you ?' d of said the other divers. I looked down at fly. myself, and sure enough, I was caked were over with eoot from head to foot. 'Well, aby yes,' I replied, 'that ladder fell in the not wrong place and I didn't find it out till time I had gotten down a step or two. But torm hand her up,' said I, bravely, 'and we ome will try it again.' They suspected that iken I was a little scared, I guess, but I tried were mighty hard to make them think differ had ently. So, assuming an off-hand man. veryner, I began the descent again. This ce-time I steered clear of thle smoke-stack and accomplished the task that had beea was assigned to me." and . -- sear Chewed Codfish. fully "Would you like to buy some con been densed codfish ?" ever "What is condensed codfish ?" I the The man opened a box and showed a rorty preparation which he said was simply dren ground codfish. One "What put it in your head to grind it l "i in this manner ?" end, "Well, I was in. the fish businlesS, and barely making enough to keep) body and mon s'"l together, when a friend came in and gent cLaffed me for not going into some other business. He picked up a big codfish n no scornfully and said: 'Now, that's a pretty thing to offer a ian; it's just a mess of strings that no. body can chew.' ''And to chaff me still further, he said in a sort of jocular way: " 'You ought to hire a boy to chew ter's that fish for your customers.' re is "I got an idea from that, and before took uight I had a grindiug machine, and ionext morning I put out a sign 'Condensed Codlish. Everybody wondered what to try. It took like fire, andI iii less than seals a month I was clearing 35 dollars a day took on that alone, and had a dozeni inistead( , of one boy to do the chewing for my il u- utoes It is a big business now. II it oa hip~inga it atl over this country and a).amaou t to close arrangement for sup. and plyngheEnglish market truha au113Nw Yir house. If that succeeds ] feetg can retire in five y'ears with a fortune. hvMy friend is keeping the books for me and1 says he is the inventor of checwed bd codfish." got - uir bad WHEN r. young man Decomes impatient ich,. waiting half an hour for his girl, who foot left the room with the remark that she he would "be ready in two minutes," he that should not manifest his uneasiness, but ia >s~ let his mind revert to the stock of pa icks tience exhibited by the physician who are counted the holes or cells in the human eh lungs and discovered that the whole kon- number was 174,000,000.-Norristoumn noa IIer'ald. __ ____ :acl BOSTON girls who got lost ini the wood, on in theO White Mountains the other dlay ho did not cry ''Hellp," but "Three ladies 'n- in this direction a re in urgent need of ~ree assistance." we ('aundian Jiazaar. Mr. JTohn Osborne, M~usical Bazaar' SToronto, Canada, wvrites that his wvifo was rkn cure<d of rheumantismi by the great pain~ en,)unisher, St. ,Jacobs Oil; that lie has foun<t it an invaluable remedy for many Nething is so great an instance of ill man nor as flattery. If Von flatter all the companyv you please none. Ifyou flatter only one or two; ya on .stfront the rest.--[Rwfti. y. Dr. RI. A. D)avis, 200 Jorallhnn St., Br'ookly, Il~ say:4: ''Physicians generally know nao cure~ for *W- rhneumatisam and Brighit's kidney disease. Dr. 'ut Elmuore is the first, to discover one. His Rheua to mauitine-Gouitaljine really cures both,. umd Wool batistes in cheeks and white nd and black mixtures will be much worn ill this fall. hit T'ADIEsJ' & children's boots &shjoes cannot run ofover if Lyon's Patent Heel Stiffeners are used l' All the scholistic scaf'olding falls as a ruined I ig edifice before the single wordl--Faith. nj. The penetrating qualities of petroleum are swell known to those who have any knon ledge of yeIts propertIes at all, and thant ls what makes it Vo a valuable as a haIr producer. Carbohine Is V'd crude oil deprived of Its odor and color. ill flest satifiedl with doing well, leave others to r's talk of you as they please. ir- All unpleasant feelings, the result of inter of rupated digestjin, are speedily removed by a G A5rar xx. All druggistu. Le Old truths are alwa ae iw to us if they te co>me wthceselo' nvnuo hm k "fDr. Renson's Calery and Chamomile Pill. be ares worth their neighIt in gold In nervous and - 'atick headache,"-- Jr._Schlichter, Baltimore. 'ip E4weep first before' your own door, before you be sweep before your neIghbor's 'n ud " g"j Sd,n c . e. uper-.a.cellent. it ". g Hnngry and ratleni. that is what we all are Untl e k'r 'b up arid feeds us. O CUA PPED hands, face piraples and r"n. akin c ure d by~ usig JJn4ger1'Tz.gSs aap u'. v ;snl Uazard & Co., New .York. 8 To what a'reocties cannot that mind reach which is tmp.1ed her savage a&aTooi? Howe TeeShm.etas. U Go to some good dru,gIst and ask him what he knows of Hus a Remedy, and he will tell you that it is the best kidney and liver medicine made, and one that has stood the test of time. Look over most any papr and you will tind home taseimoulals of people living ht in your own city who know whereof ey speak. Below will be found mne of a lady resident of Bridgeport, Conn. H1er full name and address are given. Any one doubting the genuinenes iof it has the liberty of callng on or addressing her and, as she favshe will be onl too glad to tell her experience with, and opinion of, so valu able an article. " I,wil l e m y in favor of HutsR ed.Iirtheard ofit afew $l a knewa lady there wh had snferea ora long time with kidney disease. She used t everything she eould hear of, but with poor C1 suecees, and finally hearing of Hunt's si Remedy began using it. Well, it cured her. cc About istime I moved hre. After I had at lived here a time, from other smathetic disorders my kidneys becani aMIoted and weak. Knowing that Hunt's Remedy had E greatly benefited many others I began using t, and it gave me the desired beneit. Were "a I obli ed to use any medicine of the kind F. gain I would prefer it to all others. I con. sider it a sure cure. "If by the publication of this, my experf. moo with Hunt's Remedy, others suffering from similar oomplaints can be induced to avail themselves of its good effects, you have ' full liberty to do so in any way it may seem I beet to you. Grat LL yours, "Mn s. conNo L. Wocw, "175 Broad Street. Bridgeport, Conn. IF you are a real man, then do a real 8 man's work and say nothing about it, and if you are only a rooster, why, of courae, you can't help crowing at nothing. The only solent;tio Iron Medicine that does not produce headache, &e., but give,s to th" wyr'om . t tlto hon,afl; of is-,n wild-& out its btd ef'eeta, is Brown's Iron Bitterai Disparage and depreclato no one; an ins ct has feeling and an atom a shadow. OTTAWA, ILL. )r. T. A. J uurr, saya1 Brown's Iron Bitters give entire satiato tion." _____ of A Russian proverb says: The devil lies hid- lp den where the water is stillest. cdt FFONT ROYAL, VA. Dr. G. II. Hill, says: Ita "Brown's Iron litters seems to give general pr satisfaction. I rtcommeud it strongly." cei It i, easy finding reasons why other people shld lhe Piatient. Penn cod-liver oil, r 1 im selec'ed livers on the sea shore by Caawel, hazard & Co., New York, AIN .In. ly pure and sweet. Pa tients who h.tve once taken it refer it to all othera. Physicians dLclare i euperior to all othtr o.ls. A wise man is likc a spring lock, awr more ready to shut than open. IACOBS 17 THE GREAT ERiMREMEY e CU R ES Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Backache, Headache, Toothache, sore Tronmt.ir- eli.sprns Iw.sBlses. ANDiA. . LoTi lEtt ,Itml,Y PAlas itNs! AllF. Sold by l1ruggiltq oi l3,. rhe rgae iny centsa ''tie. HD In chronic dvs U LU A ~ Spepsia and liver #ELEBATEBcomiplamint, and, in chrontiecon:stala inr's Ittomach Hitter,, ia beyond all coipari. tnf the a.it remed N S he trenght A!vita debiita iffcrtheo -painfumll iisorders, this standardi veg-..t etable invigrorant bIe S confessedly un-P, TOMAO eequalled. not 9IT~~~For sale b)y all~ druggists andi deal-. eras generally. OPIUM HABlT Yor Cured Painl1ess1 r. The Mseiie sold for a small margin above, I a con. ron t'ill rtl ntreated by Sal o resn 3R. S, B, COLLINS. La Portes Ind 'a" In~ Thre Weeksr~ . u' addres In oinfldence with So. a I~R6AasY. asI. O.. 734 annanDrao ~rces be,l~ all otlhers. A gonta wanted. Theo "'Now igli,.t xcelonc t ru lng rtptati namong dealrs fhr utory t factor prc's.ttilltyMoh. (,., 16911am NY r _, _ AMPLE FREE !,y,"2'raW I N1forTIll,oatrl Cataogni Mteami Enginrs, H'1 - iruh lar. PennsylvanlaAgricultural Works, York, Pa,P ewark, N. J, Terms on ~4f. Write for ciroulars .'s A.N A WViFK. t12saday at hnme nastle mns<r e .ultt frne. A diros Erue , Co.,, A ",I,u5ta As. i tc orat II , and l'thar. ics teslca e u nit. NATIoNAl, PIrazisatrso 00o., Atlanta. G;a. What Dy spepsia I t causes grievous pains by day and f t destroys the pleasure of a good dinne tsours the 'disposition and makes its vi 't makes the breath bad, the eyes leadei t makes the appetite capricious and unr t causes constant grumbling and compla WhIa,t "Brown's Iron Biti t invigorates the weakened stomach, an< t prorniotes the enjoyment of a hearty e [t enriches the blood, improves the liver, t purifies the breath, clears the eyesight, t Ibring~s a regular and healthy desire fo 'Our URUGoGIaT gclla R0nw's JIomt Rr 4IlT O DIUKM" ALWAYS CUIIAL Il VifRG EXIOAN MUSTLN LUsENT WHVK4N PLEH. OP II&. aeumatism, leratshee, arns and Scalds, eares and Olf, Ings and Bites, Spavin, araek ' its and Brulsbs, Serew Wpara. (Ir rains r S,tltehes, Fo6t B%t, foel Al ntraotedMuscles Lameness, LRJoints, Nwinny, Fbnanders tekache, Sprains, Stralts, 'uptions, gore Feet, 'oat Bites, Sttihess, lall external diseases. ndeveryhurtoraee4a rgenral use ir family, stableand stock sard its TIIE BEST OF ALL INIMENTS ORCICAL 1NTITUTt ATLANTA, OfaORP For the scientific treattnset and Deformities of the human bod ces made to order and under t' pptent and expbrienced P ta, Female Diseasea, Pri r ., Ilupture and Paral ed methnds. * -e s pecial n-7)ly. K E a S . s D. Ur A HaTAo eI &POVSONBO& R A5 5WAD A TC ES. P..S EV.SWATCH O. remires H.a nd oor .swm f..,Aoan lnorer*.stmbldera Ibls oewmasE b o~ed hoi ds se, U..........................F rty.-9ev CAH6~S5II'dI5 ."ajIe." aWSd . I: siso tou dsen p ak aolwskreMansa thaoy nIda efer ao bunrd of re eplcrewh a red to val4a estbing loes.edS or~ i, andtJhedski alo..IW P Br 'ng.w reas Mers . eusrftsls i enabls itnt digest.1 andchers heand. o ,rbt of al proierodimes.cagel e