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BY THF. MORNING LIGHT. 1 Oh. glad and red, the light of morn Across the field of battle broke : And showed the waste of trampled com ( And smouldering farmsteads wrapped in smoke; ( And cold and stark the soldier lay, , Shot down beside his shattered gun; I And grimly splashed with blood and clay, j His face looked ghastly in the sun. Oh, glad and red, the morning shona In happy England far away, Whero knelt a bright-haired little one 1 Beside her mother's J< nee to pray. And prompting each fond faltering word, I The soldier's wife was glad and smiled; gflSrilfce?-8he knew not 'twas a widow heard The prattle of an orphan child. Ob, glad and red, oh, glad and red The morning light glowed everywhere; And one beem touched the father dead. And one the child who knelt in prayer; And from the trampled corn and clay A skylark sprang with joyous breast. For nhot and shell had spared that day Its four brown eggs and little neat. ? William Canton,in Washington Post. Til IUiTaMONI) CUTTER. I?Y HF.l.KN FORREST GUAVK8. "Hcs an impostor," said Mrs. Raglcv, "that's what ho isl It don't tako no second sight to lind that out!" "Ho'h notl" said Miss. Dodd. "Do you think thorc is 110 truth iu physiognomy?" "It's an old dodge," said Mrs. Hagley, quivering with indiguatiou, until every fold in her fat double chin shook amain. "I've often read of it iu the papers, and I should think, Martha Dodd, that you wero ok! enough?" "Not so old as you be!" bristled Miss Kir M?.. 4 ~ ti.?i th. j/uiim. it juti t wuiu iu uidt, vuurv t% eight. good year botweou us yet, Jane Bagloy." "Well, well," paid Mrs. Bagley, retreating bvforo this well-organized attack, "that ain't nothin' to signify I" "No," said Miss Dodd, magnanimously. "Age is neither hero nor there. What I mean is that he's got a good face." ".So raurh of it as ain't covered by that mop of heathenish heard," said Mrs. Bagley. "Ami the garden needed a half day's work awful bad, and fifty cents and a meal o' victuals won't break neither of -U?," went 011 Miss Dodd. "Oh, if you've a mind to put it that wny!" said her sister. And so the matter was settled. "Give it to liini on the barn-door step," Mrs. Bagley urged. "Iu a tin platter. Aud let him stir his collco with a stick. I won't risk Grandmother Dodd's flddlentemmed spoons wit'u no tramps. And tell him not to lie all day eatin' it, Time's money, when you're payin' for it,' Bagley used to say." Miss Dodd, however, piled a liberal ration of cold fricasseed chicken, cucumber pickles, hoiuc-baked bread aud sweet yellow butter on tlie tin pie-dish, and swoetoucd the cotTce liberally before she carried it out to the old man with the objectionable beard, tlie dusty shoes and the well-worn clothing, who was humbly wnitinr* 111 the shadow of the old nr.nln tree by tin* barn. "Ho looks just exactly like one-o'theni old pictcrs of apostles in the family Bible,'' said Miss l)odtl, as she camu back with the empty platter and eooduess me, Martha," said sha. I "if that ain't up and down blasphemous, I ilmino what is!" "I didn't mean it that way," said Miss Dodd. "But he has a mild eye, and he thanked me as pleasant a* a basket of chips. And just look at the way he's pullin' them frost bitten lima beaus out of the ground 1" "I hope he won't carry our best spade and rake away with him," sighed Miss Bagley. "Guess there's no danger of that," cheerfully spoke Miss Dodd. "He's a diamond cutter." "What?" said Mrs. Bagley. "By trade," said Miss Dodd. "That's what he told me, anyhow. It was pretty hard work to understand what he said, but I made out somehow." "Where docs lie carry his diamonds?" gasped Mars. Bagley. "La! he don't cut diamonds forh^tyeelf," said Miss Dodd,laughiug. "That's what he does in his native country?or what he did until a big diamondjtyiidii-. gpgiMite in I as 1 1 upirtig,' nnu threw six Thousand diamond cutters out of work in Polnnd and Belgium and them furrin' parts." "Bless me!" said Mrs. Bagley. "And he come to this country bccauso he heard, poor crcetur'! that everybody made fortunes here," went on Miss Dodd, mnlfincr n ?f nil" ft "? onvui W11IIU SUHpsuds iu the big tin dishpan, and immersing tlie knives ami forks therein with a gentle clatter. "And now he's . got to his last must and his last penny, and there won't no one listen to his story. And he's had dogs set on him for a tramp, and been threatened with con- ; stables and no end of trouble. 1 did j feel sorry for him." "Did yon, amity? That is just like you, you dear!" cried a sweet voice, "bo do I!" Miss Dodd staggered beneath the unexpected hug and kiss of a round-checked eighteen year old girl, who had come j breezily into the sink-room, (lmging her j hat and sacque this way and that. "Child,'' sai<l she, "what do you ! know about it?" "Oil I've been interviewing the grand ; old man out there!" cried Mary Moore, I piling her strap of hooks on the shelf, ' for she was the district school teacher, | and had just returned from her work, j iiua i - i ... .-t?j- in- .-s a lieigiau, and lie looks a* if he'd just stepped out of n picture 1 | frame. IVI like to paint his picture if I i had time. Kcc how hard lie is work | ing!" loaning hertlbowson the window- | aid and staring out, like a vignette framed in scarlet-runner leaves. I | "I dare say he knows we'ro all lookin' \ -mint* dryly observed Mrs. Bag ley. i , '"^diamond-cutter," thoughtfully tit ered Mary. "Doesn't it sound rornan- \ tie?'' < :I s'po9ei" *n''' 'higley. " it s as ? easy a story to invent as any other." i I But the majority was undoubtedly i against her, and when the night fell in a brisk thunder-shower, and Mary went I out to the barn with n lantern to invite i the poor old foreigner to share their sup I per and occupy a seven-foot-square bed- 1 room at the end of an unused wing of i the farmhouse, Mrs. B.aglcy was com- t pelled reluctantly to accord her consent. ( "J dare say we shail all he murdered i in our beds," said she, mournfully. "But. my opiuiou never did go for nothing in this family. Have your own way, all of you, and see where it will bring you I" Old Hermann Ernst, however, was as meek as n child and as harmless as a cricket, and extremely helpful withal. He worked diligently at the long neglected farm chores, mouded the broken gates, replaced missing fence pickets, patched the well-chain and mado himself useful in all directions. "A regular old trump!" said Harry Vallance, who was engaged to marry Mary, as soon as that imperious young damsel should consider that she had laid up enough money for her household, plenishing. "The very person, I should think, that your aunt needs about the place. And ho works very cheap, you say?" "Fifty cents a day," said Mary, shrugging her shoulders. "But Aunt Hagley considers that a ruinous price." "He's not a young man," observed Vallance. The next evening, when Mary was looking over her little store of ornaments, sho came across u dull white stone, set in a curious cable of tarnished metal. She took it up and looked earnestly at it. "I wonder what old Hermann would think of it?" mused she. "I've always felt curious about this old ring that belonged to my father's uncle. I'll ask Ilormauu. If it should be a real gem? ?(,/>.,..i.t u : 'nn VIKMI^IH, */i vuuioC) iu isu v; Tho old man eyed it keenly, turning it this way and that. Then he lifted his faded blue orbs to Mary's earnest face. "Is it a real diamond?" she queried, eagerly. "One hardly knows," slowly spoke Ernst. "I wish, for tho frauliu's sake, that it was. I have not iny instruments here, nor my testing glasses. If the frauloin does not object, I will take it to the jeweler's in Huugcrford, uud together wo can tell." To this Mary promptly consented: nnd not until ho had gone, did she divulge this littlo plan to her aunts. "He'll nover come back," said Mrs. Bagley, withagoau. "Your diamond's gone forever." "If it is a diamond," said Mary "It ain't, and it never was," shrcwdlj spoke Miss Dodd. Old Hermann trudged through tho suu and the dust to Huugcrford, carrying Sea-Captain Moore's old ring in his pocket. "There is a ieweler there." he said tc himself, "and I may get work. Aud the money my brother Cavil has left me?th( money that came in a lawyer's letter, this morning from Bruges! It. is not t fortuue, true, but it will help. I had thought I would cease from toil and live at my ease; but I am quite strong yet? and who am I, to sit with folded hands, while there is work to do in the world! And the dear young fraulein has beer good to me, and she would not takr Card's money from me, much though ! long to give it to herl Iloch! she shal fall into the trap old Ernst will set foi her. She shall marry and be happy." The jeweler at Hungerford asked the diamond cutter a good many questions "You're the very fellow 1 want," snic he. "I've an order from the ladies a Hungerford Grange to reset a purure ol very tine stones, and I begrudge to shari my profits with those conscienceless fel lows in''New York. You can do fim WArkU.' 1 ^ w " **" Ernst, with professional pride. "Very well, I'll give you a trial. II you suit, I'll make it to your advautag to >work for me. Thero arc some points you Europeans underlain! that wi haven't quite reached, as yet. Now what is this about an antique? Let' look at it." ir. is not n (iiiimonn, " sum Krnst. " know enough of uncut gems to be sun of that. It may be a white topaz; buti is of a very inferior grade. Probably i is a lthine stone, and nothing more Rut T wish that it should bo a real dia mond." ' 'Eh?" said the jeweler. "My work will be of some monc value, I suppose?" "I don't doubt it; but?" "And I have here something." '' He opened his foreign letter and tool out its inclosure of thin paper. "Ah," said the jeweler, "quite a nen 1 little sum, I should say I" "Forme it is wealth," said the oli _nut?..I tttM'Ypftmoft'e'^hr'good water?a a gift to one who has been heavenly kinc | to the old exile." "Ilumph!" said tho jeweler. Hermann Ernst eanie back late a night. "I have a pleasant surprise for the frau lein." said lie 4'Ob, was it a real diamond?" criec' Mary, her face lightiug up. "I left it to be cut and reset. I shall ere iing biing back to the fraulcin ? jewel of which she may feel proud," spoke the old man. i "I always thought that ring was ol value," eaid Mrs. Hngley. "But wc hadn't no means o' tellin'." "Me with a real diamond ring?" cried Mary, "It seems impossible I Oh, lam so glad?so glad 1" She danced joyfully about the kitchen floor, making an impromptu castaoet of an old tin bakepan which she chanced just then to be buttering for use in the oven. Old Hermann watched her with beaming eyes. "It is a good investment!" murmured he. "Look bore!" said Mrs. Baglcy, wlico the shining diamond ring, in its \\ liitc velvet case, whs scut home. "Here's foul play!" "What?" cried Miss Dodd. "This ain't the same stone at all,*' said Mrs. Bngley. "It's a si/.e .smaller." "It don't seem quite so big," admitted Mrs. Dodd. ' The old fellow's a fraud!" said Mrs. Baglcy. "I told you so from the very beginning. He's cheated Mary. lie's traded her diamond off for a smaller dono and pocketed the difference himiclf." .Mary listened incredulously. "He wouldn't do such a tiling," said die. "But the stone docs look smaller than it ought to. Perhaps there's some mistake." "Mistake!" sniffed Mrs. Baglcy. "A likely story, ain't it? And here lie's left is and gone to work for that in.in in Ilnngerford. after all we lone for him. f ever there was a thankless impostor, t's him. And I tell you it's our duty o go at nnre and ferret out the whole onspiiaev, and if lie's guilty, clap him nto jail!" "(Hi, Aunt Bngley!" "Theft is thoft, axn't it?" said the old K .. ? m ?jMi woman. "Yen, jail! Why not! 14? believe you and your Aunt Dodd Ilk* to be impoeed upon." Mn. Bagley, Miss Dodd, Mary Moore I and Harry Vallance went to Httngerford at once. . The fact that they had not fees old jj Hermann Ernst for a couple of deyelent a sort of sombre emphasis to the sitae- j tion, and nonool them felt quite eeey in their minds. ,. .. ' ^ * The ring!" MasV't:*%J. A jeweler, when the "Oh, yes, the ring lie UUd ' I knowed it? cYoe!*l T "Here is the ring" (taking it a/ f drawer). "Not worth the labor of polA ishing it up," he added, contemptnouely/ 7 "A cloudy crystal, worth perhaps twenty->i fire cents, set in imitation gold. Qkq _ Ernst knew it all along, but he was de-i tennined that Miss Moore should hare a ? real diamond ring?she wanted one so much, he said?and he paid for it out of a bequest he had received from BeUrium? ~ two hundred dollars in o money.'' Mary uttered n little exclamation. She clasped her hands. "But," cried she. "I won't take it!" "Ho so good as to hoar me out," said c Mr. Maskctt, very gravely. "I do not lee, young lady that there is anyalterna- t' tive left to you. I regret to say that old s Ernst died this morning very suddenly, fitting at his revolving wheel. The coroner's jury are even now with tho remtdos. ^ j [ 6hall miss him much in every way. He . ^ was an invaluable workman." So tho old diamond cutter wont out of the world, leaving behind him no mark but tho glitter of the precious stone that * , ho had given Mary Moore. The poor girl herself shed many a tear ! of compunction. <] "IIow could I ever have doubted him r evon for a moment?" cried sho. "The t dear, generous old man! But I'll wear his present all my life long. Nothing shall ever induce mo to part with it!" [ And the low, green gravo in the corner of the churchyard, where Hermann Ernst lies buried, is neatly traced by an j, iiu|irevcuuQun Hiono, aua mary vsiunco ^ keeps geranimqs always growing there. t "He liked flowers," she says; "and j there is nothing else I can do for him." ?Saturday Night. n SELECT SIFTINUS. * e Demosthenes was the son of a cutler. * Cardinal Wolsey was tho son of a ^ butcher. . The ravon has been taught to retrieve ? incst creditably. j Dublin is better provided with open spaces than any other town in the United t Kingdom. ] One dog of tho Convent of St. Bcr- c nard is said to have saved more than f forty human lives. A pension has just been granted to an t Oregon man who is a veteran of tho War 1 ' of 1812. He is 102 years old. f Chinese pheasants were introduced 1 r into tho vast forest* of Oregon ten years ago,and now it is estimated that there are i ' 1,000,000 of thorn in the country. < [ The rapidity with which a hawk and 1 t many other birds occasionally fly is pro- < : hably not less than at the rate of 150 3 miles an hour, when either pursued or pursuing. - ? 3 Lemons ojriginaU^ ^ came -? i time Pliny were considered an excel- j f I lent noison. . I 1 Swifts and swallows fly every year from ' England to Southern Africa and to the E Moluccas, and the restless, wandering ? flight of various oceauic birds is still s more surprising. . "Better late than never" was used over three hundred years ago by Thomas j* Tucker in his "Five Hundred Points of Husbandry." Later on Bunyan used it in his "Pilgrim's Progress." [ Tbe Confederacy issued eleven kinds of postage stamps. They are all, if unused, worth double their face value. The _ ten-cent blue stamp of 1863, if unused, brings $3.00, or if used $2.50. In Paris there are professional {?itik packers who can be hired to packf .runk lc artistically, folding expeusive go^ns and other garments in tissuo paper and stowt ing away delicate bric-a-brac in the safest way. j A Canadian clergyman has_ a^yaopoj} troni tho blowing of the keynote by tho j horns of the besiegers, just as bridges have been known to collapso from tho rhythmic tread of soldiers' feet passing ^ over them. i no bump on the back o! the drome. dary is an accumulation of a peculiar species of fat, which is a store of nourish- I I ment beneficently provided against the * day of want, to which the animal is often I exposed. The dromedary or camel can 1 x exist for a long period upon this hump c > without any other food. F. Heap, a keeper of the Glendale Na- J f tional Cemetery, near Richmond, Vft., ! has a desk, made in It! 10,which has been * iu possession of the Heap family, of Kng- ' > land. It is said to have been used by i Oliver Cromwell in 1647-48 when lighting Charles I. It is of autique oak, beautifully carved and highly polished. 1 The stupendous monuments upon tho 8 plain of Memphis and tho "mountains made with hands" upon that of Cholula seem like the two ends of a chain of human thought, and intent, of which the conuccting links are to be found throughout Tnrtnry, tho eastern peninsula, China, Jspau and the isles of the northern Pacific. ^ tl Frozen In a Red Hot Vessel. tl Water can be frozon in a red hot vessel. If water or any other volatile j '( liquid is dropped upon red hot metal it . I assumes a spheroidal form and rotnfoB ni rapidly. The globulo does not really , P' touch the metal, hut rests on a cushion 1 of its own vapor. A peculiarity of this ^ j condition is that the globule evaporates ^ slowly nnd its temperature is always be- 01 I low its boiling point. If liquid sulphurous A acid (which boils at. fourteen degrees, P' ! Fnhronheit) be placed in a red hot *r i vessel nlong with a few drops of water, ?' both liquids assume the spheroidal state N I and the intense cold of the sulphurous & arid (which, in this condition, is below c' i fourteen degrees Fahrenheit) inimcdi- th ably turns the water into ice. Ity a similar process, with a mixturo of solid carbonic acid and ether, Faraday A succeeded in freezing mercury in a red th hot crucible. Mercury freezes at thirty- v' nine degrees below zero, Fahrenheit.? Courier- Journal. ft* The woods in Maine furnish a large jg per cent, of the Christmas trees for New _ York State. f THE RACE. I K BMo nobly strive^* vK iv? n^insl tho mtik? earth, ' ^F\ ho tqrelees days (hat drive cf y voihward frooa their hour.i of birth i and prayer?these thing* are rea J?B?*Veet precious than wj know; ' aleTVnnqdtaipoM, tbey reveal TtajB^Jbre skies above, below. J?d JWMBtery: God, forbear I NMl^>r fRMhWbyMoe at aU? iMeCreator** deathless call. hough one man falters on his way. And one stands railing to the end, bare is no band nor will to stay That purpose which is foe or riend . bat purpose which exalts a soul, Even while it robe a soul of grace, Hitch sinks the atom in the whole, The individual in the race. Geo. E. Montgomery,in the Cosmopolitan HtJlfOR OF THE DAY. "Brings down the house"?A Western jdoae. The man who is "waiting for somehinjt to turn up," might turn up hit leevw and go to work.?Puck. If lie lungs contain 75,000,000 cells, s a cm temporary informs us, why not 180 th?n^ .^!V a penitentiary??Wat "I ujkrstand, Pat, that you hare a >ig family dependent upon you?" "Yis, or, tia childers, siven pigs and the old oman." "Terrapin," says a writer "is an acluircdtasto." So it is. A taste of terapin is among tho most difficult things o acquire known.? Wathington Pott. The slang that from her lips fell pat, Oft made her English hazy; She oace was heard to murmur, "that Chrjaanthencum'i a daisy." ? Washt'npfon Pott. Crawford?"Time is money, job mow." Memtt?"And yet I would poner have a girl who has forty millions ban one who has forty yoara."?Chicago rjight. "Doesn't that man look sheepish!" ^ked Mrs. Kecdick. "Yes, but pertaps he has had tho wool pulled over hU yes," replied Kecdick.?Chicago InterJc?i "M>1s" ? Mtj'.'V'Potts shaves here sometimes loesffwrtfU.' Barber?"Yes; Mr. Potts s ouo of my regular clients." Potts? 'Clients I Don't you mean patients?"? Tndiana]>olit Journal. Brown?"Fenderson is a very enter Mining fellow; don't you tbinic sor ''ogg?"Yes, but the deuce of it is yoi sao't begin to laugh until after ho hai jone."?Boston Transcript. Some wag recently started tho ston ,hat Mrs. Stanley is about to write i look entitled "How I Found Stanley,' ind she is receiving letters from people vho think it Is true. -r-New York Tribune "is Fiancee?"Are you sure yc; vould love me just ss tenderly if ou :onditions were reversed?if you wer iob and I were poor?" He?"Revere >ur conditions and try me."?Brooklyi VWhat is the name of the other vaga xmu.who was j with you?" asked th naflisjratc^fl^mmy the Calico." "Ho' Times. t "Look here I You just jabbel me ii ;he eye with your umbrella." "Too bad Here's my father's card. He's an ey loctor, and if you'll use my name he'l pve you bottom rates."?Philadelphi Record. Johnny?"Mr. Ilankinson, ain't yo iliaped just like other men?" Mr. Han finson?"Isuppose so, Johnny; why?' 'Papa says you ain't exactly square, anc rene says you seem to be always round.' ? Chicago Tribune. Dealer?"I am sure, madame, yoi :ould look the city through and not lin< i handsomer carriage than this." Mrs O'Avnoo?"Ob, it's haudsome enough aut It looks too comfortable to be styl ah."?New York Weekly. "I am going to be indiscreet, Mis Dhicago." "Oh, you can't be with me Mr. Boston." "No? Well, I was jus going to aay l>ow elegantly that bii wit1',ou Mrs. Bingo?"Clara has been shoppin ill day. Oh, here is tho delivery wago with some of tho things she has 01 lered." Bingo?"But where is Clara! Mrs. Bingo?"She is probably waitin or the change."?New York Sun. Tho only thing that mars the dandy' >eace of mind is the fact that he isn' mported, like everything he uses Meanwhile, from his lofty place in thi nenagerie, the imported monkey looki lown on him, and marvels.?Puck. IITV. ...... li 1 U i. I juu nun uuuu^u iu nwp yov >usy these days?" "You bet. I'm put iug in a bigger day's work these day han I ever did before." "AVhy, hought you'd giveu up your job.1 So I did. I'm looking for another.' ?Buffalo Eiprtu. Jack?" Wby^are you locking so sadt' 'om?"I saw Maud throwing si; ;lances at Harry to-night." Jack? 'Cheer up. It was doubtless for yoi be meant them, though Harry got them Vojnen can never throw straight yoi now."?tlarper'a llaznr. A Great Grape Yield. "Few people realise," remarked Mr. Peston, "what an important industrj int of grape culture is becoming. In ic first olnoo. manv thousands of r.hil ren And unskilled laborers are employed >r several months each year in picking le grapes. In the Lake Shoro town! ot less than $40,000 will be paid to ickers and packers this season. "Tbo present yield is unprecedented, or example, W. A. Barrett, of Wcstfleld, . Y., picked and shipped from 800 vines /or 17,506 pounds of first-class grapes. . W. DicK^n^tdBinJoT, N. Y.. has icked one-quarter ?ns of ^fopes froi^one-quarter of an acre f ground. The ?ev. Mr. Hillman, of orth East, mchured several of his oncord grupes that were three inches in rcumfercnce, one of them reaching iree and five-tughths inches. L. W. otter, of Westtieid, N. Y., has picked oncords m?asurii>g an inch in diameter, gentleman narncd Eggleston, living in e same town, Una harvested from his ncyArd of one jicre six and one-half ns of grapes, j And Bainuel Mack, om 660 vines, occupying leas than one re of ground, hJw sold six tons and >50 pounds of grapes at $55 per ton," Philadelphia /VesA ] mmmmm?mmmmmmmmmmmama?mm?mmm?a?rmmmmmm Staffed Owls Fashionable. Stuffed owls are still fashionablo for decorative purposes, and tbe taxidermists still charge high prices for them. Among , tbe most costly are specimens of tho j great white owl, which is really a pretty I bird. Ex-Assemblyman William Wainright gives me information which leads me to think that specimens of this kind should become cheaper. *'80010 time ago," he says, "central Rockaway Beach was visited by an immense flock of great _ _white owls. Scores of them have been .w ?J ?*- ?? ? * "?> wu w nuw i urn Mxiuermists. These birds were never known to visit the beach before, and it is a mystery where they came from and how they came to alight on tho Ilockaway sands." Hew York Star. A Carious Old Watch. Charles S. Nelson, a painter living in Chicago, 111., recently received from his father, who resides in Copenhagou, Dcn. mark, a watch, which it is claimed is 400 years old. Accompanying the watch are records which provo it to have been in the possession of the family for 200 years. This timepiece is smaller in circumference than the watches of the present day, but it is three times as thick aud re1 setnbles a sphere cut iu half. Tho face is open and the case is silver, beariug a carving of Cleopatra on her way down the Nile. On the face are two dials, one wUksw la?v lavM* TUo i/UVt/t Oil 15 iCllS the minutes, hours, days of the week and of tho month, there being separate hands for each. On tho inner dial are representations of the sun, moon and stare. As tho day wanes the sun becomes darkened and the moon and tho stars shine, the inner dial being illuminated. How this is accomplished seems to be unknown. The works are of hardened gold and are very intricate, but only require winding once every three weeks. Tho watch was wound up on leaving its Scandinavian home, and was going on arriving in 1 Chicago, but was a day ahead. Mr. Nelson took it to some of tho leading I watchmakers to have this uciccc reme' died, but thej refused to undertake the job, owing to the intricate machinery of ' the watch. That it can be repaired the records which show it to have been 196 years in the family set forth, for 174 years ago it was put to rights in Amsterdam, 148 , years ago it was regulated in Hamburg, i eighty-five years ago it was repaired in Copenhagen, and in 1864 it was put in - order at Westervig, Denmark, by I. C. Christensen, a jeweler, who is now living somewhere on the North Side, in Chicago. Tho maker of this interesting x chronometer was Bteuter, of Amsterdam, i but no date is given. Mr. Nelson showed the watch to a jeweler, who offered $1000 for it, but Mr. Nelson declined it, and intends to retain tho heirloom in the J family.?New York 7 elegram. ) Earthquakes as a Matter of Course. . A returned traveler said to a St. r Louis reporter the other day: " A pe u9 liar thing about living in Central Amor, ica is the enso with which you become 9 accustomed to tho earthquakes. Thej do not como without giving due notice. You are sitting in a piazza of allot aftera noon chatting with your friends, whet n suddenly the sky seems to grow _h$gx fr wy' aiiectf. ' iiien>-iri general rush, and, though von rrmy ?wy know what is the matter, you canno help feeling uneasy. The old native ^ say 'we are going to have a little shake, I and then the house begins to rock, th tumblers fall off the table, and you fee deadly sick at the stomach, and tin thing is all over; the sky clears, the crow u begin their noisy screams and the buz l" zards resume their quarrel over the stree offal. There is something inexpressibly terrifying, however, about the tremblinj of tho earth; the slightest oscillatioi will awaken the population of the whoh u town, and arouse a drunkard out of th< i deepest stupor, but unless some consider i. able damage is done, everybody goes t i, sleep again as a matter of course."? Atlanta Constitution. m Increase of a Nickel. Some tiiuc ago the Ladies' *.id Socle ty of this city agreed to invest a nicke1 ? in aorae kind of article and sell it at a r S profit and reinvest in something clso, j Sua so on, to speculate on this capita* g for two weeks and sec how much cacl a uuc count niasc. r- One lady on the same evening of thi n meeting bought a cabbage with hei g nickel. She carried it hoiuo and sold half of it to her neighbor for a nickel. t She invested that in vinegar and pickled >? the remaining hall'and soldtho picklo foi twenty-five cents. She then bought twenj ty cents' worth of cloth nnd a spool ol j thread and made it up into three aprons, which she sold for twenty-five cents each, and took the seventy-five cents and 1 bought molasses and gave a candy pulling to the children, making them pay * ten cents a plate for the candy. Thcmo* lasses made twenty-one plates of candy, t so she made $2. JO on ono nickel In two weeks' time. How money will grow if properly used.?Aimuton (Ala.) At gut. ' Rheumatism I fsof two kinds, acuta and chronic. Tho former l? accompanied by btgji fever, and In tho swollen Joint \ there la Intense pain, which often auddenly changes ' from one part of the body to another. Chronic rhcumatlflm la without fever and not so aevere, but more eontlnuoiia, and liable to come on at every atorm or after slight exposure. Rheumatism Is known to be a disease of the blood and Hood's Sar aapnrllla has hail great success In curing It. This ' medicine possesses qualities which neutralize acidity l and purify, enrich and vitalize the blood. j Hood's Sarsap^rilla , Fold by all druggists. $1; six for Prepared only 1 by C. I. HOOD A CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. , IOO Doses One Dollar I ' Shorthand Telegraphy I.K \ l> I NO HCHOOI. MOUTlf OalalocM rL^; ? OIH'H & I.IIOBNBBE", HenouTStZ UOMF {JTt-'WV. Book-keeping, Hualnoxs Korina. Rih ArUhmeUc, Short-naml, en-. ?^"T.'S?!y..,,lU?bt L* MA,L- Circular* l,oe. WrynnI > ( ollege, 457 Main hi., Diiftalo. X. v. ? H N U. >.l. PURELY VEGETABLE. T ?? CfKTi ecu Bo*. THOROUGHLY RELIABLE I 9 B0*?? ro? 65 eta absolutely bate. prlM. TOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. P(UH.SCHEHCIU80N,PHIUPELPHIA.PA. ' Petroleum as lfalr Pereiaier. Not a suspicion of hair remained on ' the cranium of a Pennsylvania engineer. He had heard of petroleum as a hairrestorer, and, as he ran into the oil regions, daily, decided to try it. Procuring a felt skull-cap he lined it with cotton waste from the cab aud continually kept it moist with the crude oil. His duties occupied his attention and he soon became accustomed to the odor. In a few weeks he was surprised by a silky down which made his head feel soft to the touch, and in a few months astonished his friends with a beautiful crop of shorf curly hair. Being almost bald myself last May, writes one who subscribes himself ai 'Experience," and rapidly losing what hair was left I began to use kerosene. Every time my hair lost its gloss I would again rub a half-thimbleful on tho scalp, and soon it ceased to fall. After six weeks of kerosene I changed to vaseline, not, however, before short, fine hair had appeared. I am still oiliug my poll with this odorless by-product of tho crude oil, nnd still does the covering continue to thicken and refuse to fall. To bare thd head to sun and wind is also unobjectionable.?Neio York Tribune. It Is very important in this ago of vast matem-UOT??8 lfio' eV^'ttf&t'y token,"&<ecepfatit5 to the stomach and healthy in its nature and effects. Possessing these qualities, Syrup of Figs is the one perfect laxative and moBt gentle diuretic known. 8100 Reward. 81 oo. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that tliero is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to euro in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive euro now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is tuken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation ot the diseate, and giving the patient strength by building tin the constitution uud assisting the nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith In Its curative |K>wcrs that tltey offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fills to oure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. CiienKV & Co., Toledo, O. |Sf Sold by Druggists, 7;>o. Do Vou Evor Speculate f Any person sending us their nam's an I aldress will receive information that will leal to a fortune. ItonJ. Lewis or O i , SocUril/ Huliding, Kansas City, Mo. A lacy appetite bothers tba rich man a great deal more than an active one does the poor man. I.ADIE8 needing a tonio. or children who want building up, should tako Brown's Iron Bitters, it Is pleasant to take, cures Malaria, Indigestion,Biliousness and Liver Complaints, makes the Blood rich and pure. When a man cunnot have what he loves he must love what lie has. FITS stopped froo by Hit. K link's Ore at V Nerve Ukstomkk. No Kits after first day's Use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and S3 trial bottle free. I>r. Kline, tMl Arch St., Phi la.. Pa. Lee Wa's Chinese Headache Cure. HarraU-es in effect, quick and positive iu action, t'ent prepaid on receipt of per bottle. Adclor & Co.NVvatidottest..Kai?sasCtty,Mo Live leisurely unless you are anxious to die In a hurry. Many persons aro broken down from over, work or household cares. Brown's Iron BitI tern rebuilds the system, aids digestion. ra> moves exoess of blie, and oures malaria. A splendid tonic for women and children. Bridlo tho appetite with reason and save ^ lie stomach. , 9 vJvruK'*11111 vi oww. ? j ?v w w?' ' * Oklivhnmadiiido Hook Hint Maiisentauv wliar j * ?n recctot or met-*.Trior ?Vr Co..Kansas City, Mo. t Beecliam's Tills our a Sick Headache. j Nothing Else B We have volumes of evid s is the only permanent ci 1 Taint. j Is ifTcroil for fivo years with the j worst form of blood poison, during j which timo 1 was at3 ton 'eil by the best I > physicians I could find, , 0 and tried numbeis < f 1 piopiiotary medicines ^5^ K9 without any beneficial Ed results. I continued to is as near Ir grow worse all this possible for a time, urvt'l my whole 'n the cur? 0 ' system wj>s destroyed by the vile disease, my tongue and Eoo'tn on Hlo >d ami tkin diseases fie* ISBHhH KlTBlforil BUS^O* WaLX This Fictiiro, ronel size, mailed for 4 cento. J. F. SMITH A CO., i Makers of " Bile Bears," 255 &. 257 Greenwich St.? N. Y. City. Chichester's English, PtHHYRO^ . ,, E ORIGINAL AND OCNUINI ruk Dm,/til tor Chitkutmr'i m ' wl,h t,ue Obboo. Take no *11 pill. In puttboard boiM, plok wr.r ?' J" tor ptrtieulara. ? ? lO.OWO TMijiunnlalj. .Vam< J'aptr B?M b, ?u U.I UrmnSZ' O ISO'S REMEDY FOR CA1 a Cheapest. Relief Is Immei Cold in the Ilead It has no equal. It Is an Ointment, of which a nostrils. Frloe, 60c. Sold by dr litrlrw K ..im 1 - 1 -VASELINEKMC \ ONK.nOI.LAR nil.l.wutiH by mall we w III dollvt r, free of nil chartfe*. I? auv i vernon In Iho Unit d States, nil of the following articles, eaiefU'ly packet: Ouo two-ounce tmttlo of Pure Vaseline, 10ct?, One twi>-ounce Imllle of Vaseline Pomade, 15 " One Jar of Vaseline Cold Cream, - lj,: One Ci ke of Vaseline Camphor Ice, .... io" one Cake of Vaseline :-oap, unscetitod, . 10': One Cakeof Vaseline Soap, exquisitely scented,'?' One two-ounce bottle of White Vaseline, - &> #1.1 > O,-/or /mstage itamps any single article at the ;.rioS On no account he iwrtuadeA to accent from jonrilruuyist nnu Vaseline or prctmration fherefrom unies* labelM tcflh our name, because you wilt certainly receive an imitation which has Hllle or no value Clieiebrougli .Ml'tr, Co., 'Jl Stale St., N. V. f prescribe and fully endorse 111* 1) as the only furulo specific tor t he certain cure t TO a DsTS.^H of thin disease. HMunstut ?< u? (1 H.INdllAIIAM.M l> , MM saasaBirttUn- Amaterdniii, N. V. 14 mm oni? by Ik* We have nold Pin <J tor Vsila.... m?lMl da many years, and It lins V|lfr*MC**?J*12^_KlVeri thf I)est of sails\cHk (nnnlnnatl.i^HB farllon. D. K. DYCHK A CO.,^ Tr>4c^V^H^ntarkVS1.00. Sold by Druggists. s ' 'a YOUR MONEY, OR YOUR LIFE J This question is a "pert" one, but wo mean it. Will you sacrifice a few paltry dollars, and save vour life? or will von How your blood to become tainted, and your system run-down, until, finally, you are laid away in tlio grave? Better be in time, and "bold up" your hands for Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, a guaranteed remedy for all scrofulous and other blood-taints, from whatever cause arising. It cures all Skin and . ~* " SnaJ"uB;?Joar "aillftrtus. "?it?" IB UUWW- fr fully tonic as well as alterative, or ?blood-cleansing, iu its effects, hcnco It strengthens the system and restores vitality, thereby dispelling all those languid, "tired feelings" experienced by the debilitated. Especially has it manifested its potency in curing Tetter, Salt-rheum, Eczema, Erysipelas, Boils, Carbuncles, Sore Eyes, Goitre, or Thick Keck, nud Enlarged Glands. World's Dispensary Medical Association, Makers, No. GG3 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y? TRINITY COLLECE. A High-grade College for Young Men. TiOKt Instruction, lending to Five Degree#, ltcuaonahlo I xin uses--$;.vi to $2 ( a year. Five new bulldingH to be erented this year, a# in atiiculntes and graduutes in recent state Legislature. rend for Catalogue, Bulletin, Degree Book* Eto? Free. Jong F. OnotTELL. A. n? Dn. Lrrr., Pre#.. Trinity College, Handolph Uo, N. O. Wtl.WA'aUIII>1 rj60 (Hit d beaullfut Bilk A Rati* tl!74INDf lllltWiK-s. enough to cover SH eg. In* aoe.; beat,25c. LKMAms'aSgjr Mn.u IJtUeFerry M.J., Tinnaai #10# or tlOOOfarelVdlj IarMte#k*r? f f|fl O lAwUmJI tirlH AKM-ALI.V fn? TWKKT* U IUU 9* Tnl u, TAIUMA I.NVE1THE.NT CO.. TAIOHA, WASH. How to Learn Modorn Languages Without cosl. Address Linguist, Hartidale, N. V PFNSinNSS?? j LilOllfliO is Passed. wn^a?a^ ? and Fftthen are * titled to 9lit n mo. lec tlOwlu'n too pet roar mon?Tj T blank* frc*. iOSKFU U. liumsu. AMj.WsaktaaiM. D. C, ninny l/MCCO 1 ?5itivelyremedied. DnUUl IvIiLLu Greely Pant Stretcher Adopt* tl by studcuts at Harvard, Amherst, und other. Colleges, also by professionu aad budncas men every W here. If not for sale In your town send ir. t?. it. J. ORhELYt < i'> w uah ngto > Street. Boston. nrucinuo new law claims. rtnolUR)>crMiioB.ta&c& Attorneys, 1410 F St., Washington, D. ?. "ii.ci. OScm, Clcrtlasi!, ";;r?IUvtlo-?*. fl| B B Bja and Wlilskoy Habits K Bt UIR H Rial "'"red at home withN KB lfiSK3outlw,u- "ookofparf& 16 n W H9H Honiara sent I'RKF.. ?Ja> II Ml I HI b I HUM WOOI.I-KV.M.D. ^0^ Atlanta.Ua. ottW 101^ Whitehall St Howe's celebrated \M Ik I Strongest . No. I ft Strings. 1? III B I |m| Strings In rain MVuMkn .?V;flkWfToP m-j, Wnffnn MVitfrti ?e. each. lSOO-Rare Old Violins and bOO kinds of New Violins, Violas, Cellos and Bases, 7,1c. to 83,10ft. Violin Cases, Bows, Neekx, Tops, Backs, Varnish and all fittings. Music Books for all Instruments. Best assortment, lowept prices In America. Send for ratalogue. KlilAW HOW K, W Court St., Boston, Maea. jJWill Do It. ence to prove that S. S. S, ire for contagious Blood J tliroat having great holes caused by it I then commenced tnk ngSwi t's Specilie (S S. S.), an^ ?a few montliB I was Q ^ entirely cmvd, and to 0 this great medicine do mm| //y/> I attribute my rev ovory. This was < ver lfalllble as It Is two yo u8 ago, and I med:otne to bo'have had no rpitun flt" ' "* ' " f Blood poison.;._ A . 'I ,, I en . ellClis of the disease sini e. an i iny skin | Is ti-dav as smooth as anybody's I Wit iim S ?wers. Covingion, O. , The Swift ISj eci.ic f'o.. Atlanta. (Ja. ^|?s||?g| IVE CURE, gS&lllS ? 1 BU New York. Prico 60 cte.lBz??52?J CURE Biliousness, ^ Sick Headache, Malaria. BILE BEANS. Red Cross Diamond Brand .a f M* * r\uus A Pill tor nla. bT S !UJ "d ?vlJ "" Ilia \y iMTi .r.11'.. * /? iuhlitutton* ana Imitation*. V It aid"taff/V* 7'ur.lerf, lf* A* Drurel.u. or ,rn1 aa " ri.,oi. 1ST-1*V1 ?d 1'? " '? I'ttrr, b. relan. M." Chichsstcm Chemical Co.. I'll 11. A IIKIPHU^PIT rARRU.?Best. Easiest to use. liatv. A cure Is certain. For small particle Is applied to the jSFjuT uggtsts or sent by mall. ME?*! /T. Haxh.ti.nk. Wsrwn, Pa. h - " IF TOO WISH i/a?? i ~ KVOLIER I ysnhufl one of the cele- '*r jJiP far*tod SMITH ft WESSON S rmi. Tbo finest small arms u \Ok\ ever manufacture and tlio VV i/ )/ Ww first cboloo of all experts. BfW Manufactured in calibres 33,88 and 44-IU0. Sin- M ale or double action, safety llamuierlesa and Target models. Constructed entirely of beat quality ersughi steel, carefully Inspected for workmanship and stock, they are unrivaled ror flatah, durability and accuracy, bo not be deceived by obeap malleable cast-iron I mil at ions which are often sold for the genuine article and are not foly unreliable, but dangerous. The SMITH ft WESSON Kerolvers are ailstainpeil upon Uie barrel with firm's name, address ana date of patents and are guaranteed iK-rfect In every detail. Insist upon having the genuine article, and If your dealer cannot supply you au order scot to address Klow will receive prompt and careful attention. crlptlve catalogue anil prices furnished upon application. SMmi & WILSON, 0^*M?atloa this paper. HprlstBsU, lllasa 0 /ton s8caus\ AJ0oN|8\ [ $60 [RINGHAMTON] \ Beam Box Tare Beam j NY / \ uxnui Hy y1^ ?>/ ,^'.v HHH