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BY THE MORNING LIGHT. t Ob. glad and red, the light of morn Across the Add of battle broke And showed the waste of trampled mm And smouldering farmsteads wrapped in 1 smoke; e And cold and stark the soldier lay, r Shot down beside his shattered gun; ? And grimly splashed with blood and clay, His face looked ghastly iu the sun. Oh, glad and red. the morning shona ^ In happy England far away. Where knelt a bright-haired little one ? Beside her mother's knee to pray. ' Ahd prompting each fond faltering word. I . The soldier's wife was glad and smiled; 1 Bhe knew not 'twas a widow heard ] The prattle of an orphan child. i Oh, glid and red, oh, glad and ro.l Tlie morning light glowed everywhere; And one beam touched the father dead. And ouo the child who knelt in prayer; And from the trampled corn and clay A skylark sprang with joyous breast, For shot and shell had spared that day Its four brown eggs and little nest. ? William Canton,in Washington.Pu?i. THE DIAMOND CUTTER. BY flELKN FORREST GRAVES. "He s an impostor," said Mrs. Bnglcv, "that's what ho is! It don't tako no second sight to tind that out!" t'lln'd ciltd tliua tlndrl 14 IVi-, 1 you think there is no truth iu physiognomy ?" "It's au old dodge," said Mrs. Bagley, quivering with indignation, until every fold in her fat double chin shook amain. "I've often read of it iu the papers, and 1 should think, Martha Dodd, that you wero old enough?" "Not so old as you he!" bristled Miss Dodd. "If you come to that, there's eight good \ear betweou us yet, Jane Baghiv." "Well, well," said Mrs. Bagley, retreating beforo 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 much of it as ain't covered by that mop of hcathouish beard," soul Mrs. Bagley. "And the garden needed a half day's work awful bad, and fifty cents and a meal o' victuals won't break neither of ?~W," went 011 Miss Dodd. "Oh, if you've a mind to put it that way!" said her sister. Aud so the matter was settled. "Give it to him on the barn-door step," Mrs. Bagley urged. "Iu a tin platter. Aud let liini stir his eollco with a stick. I won't risk Grandmother Dodd's tiddlc ptemmcu spoons wi'.u no tramps. And tell bim not to lie all day catin' it, Time's money, when you're payiu' for it,' Bagley used to say." Miss Dodd, however, piled a liberal ration of cold fricasseed ehickeu, cucumber pickles, home-baked bread and sweet yellow butter on the tiu pie-dish, and eweeteued the coffee liberally before she carried it out to the old man with the objectionable beard, the dusty shoes and the wcll-woru clothing, who was humbly waiting in the shadow of the old apple tree by the bnm. "He looks just exactly like one-o'them old picters of apostles in the family Bible," said Miss Dodd, as she came back with the empty platter aud Cllll. - - ? "My goodness me, Martha," said she, "if that ain't up and down blasphemous, I dun no what is!" "I didn't mean it that way," said Miss Dodd. "But lie has a mild eye, and he thnnked me as pleasant as a basket of chips. Ami just look at the way he's pullin' them frost bitten lima beans 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 does he carry his diamonds?" gasped Mars. Batrlev. "La! he don't cut diamonds for ^i^self," said Miss Dodd,laughing. "That's what he does in his native couutry?or what he did until a big diamond syiitll- ,1 .f . jjt r niirlrini "pi , SHU flllCW six thousand diamond cutters out of work in Poland and Helgium and them furrin' parts." "Bless me!" said Mrs. Baglcy. "And he come to this country because he heard, poor crcetur'! that everybody made fortuues here," went on Miss Dodd, making a maelstrom of silver-white soapsuds in the big tin dishpan, and immersing the knives and forks therein with a gentle clatter. "And now he's got to his last crust 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 constables and no end of trouble. I did feel sorry for him." "Did you, auuty? That is just like i you, you dear!" cried a sweet voice. "Bo do I!" Miss Dodd staggered beneath the unexpected hug and kiss of a round-cheeked eiuhteen tMr.nld ?? *??? ' --o J? * . """ t"u,? | breezily into the sink-room, flinging her i hat ninl sacquo this way and that. 'Child," said she, "what do you know about it?" 1 "Oil I've been interviewing thegrnnd j old man out there!" cried Mary Moore, I t piling her strap of books on the shelf, 1 v for she was the district school teacher, | j and had just, returned from her work, j "ITe. says he is n llclgian, and he looks as if he'd just stepped out of a picture ! 8( frame. I'd like to paint his picture if I i had time. Hoe how hard ho is work- | n ing!" leaning her elbows on the window- | sill and staring out, like a vignette 1 p framed in scarlet-runner leaves. I p "I dare say he knows we're all lookin' (, liilWtfr observed Mrs. Hagley. i st *aafamond-cutter," thoughtfully ut* 1 M tered Mary. "Doesn't it sound roman- I ticV" "I s'pose." said Mrs. Itar/le* " H'"" -* . . ? ?O ?J ' "" " * I easy a story to invent as any other." j tl But the majority was undoubtedly m against her, and when the night, fell in a brisk thunder-shower, and Mary went li out to the barn with a lantern to invite u! the poor old foreigner to share their sup- II per and occupy a seven-foot-square bed- If room at the end of an unused wing of it' the farmhouse, Mrs. Bagley was com- to pelled reluctantly to accord her consent, co "! dare say we shail all be murdered in in our beds," said she, mournfully. "But my opinion never did go for nothing in his family. Have your own way, all of 1 rou, and see where it will bring you!" I Old Hermann Ernst, however, was as 1 ncek as a child and as harmless aa a Ticket, and extremely helpful withal. i fe worked diligently at the long noglect- j d farm chores, mended the broken gates, cplaced missing fence pickets, patched ] ho well-chain and mado himself useful i a all directions. I "A regular old trump!" said Harry \ Iallancc, who was engaged to marry ilary, as soon as that imperious young lamscl should consider that she had aid up enough money for her household, >lcnishiDg. "The very person, I should think, that your aunt needs about the place. Aud lie works very cheap, you say ?" "Fifty cents a day," said Mary, shrugging her shoulders. "But Aunt Bagley considers that a ruinous price." "He's not a joung man," observed Valiance. The next eveuing, when Mary was looking over her little store of ornamonts, she came across a 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 thiuk of it?" mused she. "I've always felt curious nbout this old ring that belonged to my father's uncle. I'll ask Ilormanu. If it should be a real gem? thought, of course, it isn't!" The old man eyed it keenly, turning it this way and that. Then ho 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 the fraulin's sake, that it was. I have not my instruments here, nor my testing glasses. If the frauloin does not object, I will take it to the jeweler's in Huugcrford, aud together we can tell." To this Mary promptly consented; and not until ho had ET?onn iliil ulmdivnlap this littlo plan to her aunts. "lfc'll never come back," said Mrs. Bogley, withngoau. "Your diamond's gone forever." "If it is a diamond," said Mary. "It ain't, nnd it never was," shrewdly spoke Miss Dodd. Old Hermann trudged through tlio sun and the dust to llungerford, carrying 8ea-Captaiu Moore's old ling in his pocket. "There is a jeweler there," he said to himself, "and I may get work. And the money my brother Cavil lias left me?the money that came iu a lawyer's letter, this morning from Bruges! It is not a fortuue, true, but it will help. I had thought 1 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 been good to me, and she would not take Carli's money from me, much though I long to give it to her I Hoch! she shall fall into the trap old Ernst will set for her. She shall marry and be happy." The jeweler at llungerford asked the diamond cutter a good many questions. "You're the very fellow I want," said he. ' "I've nn order from the ladies at llungerford Grange to reset a parure of very tine stones, and I begrudge to share my profits with those conscienceless fellows in'Ncw York. You can do fine work?-"? ? * Ernst,, with professional pride. "Very well, I'll give you a trial. If you suit, I'll make it to your advantage to vfhrk lor me. Thero arc some points you Europeans undersand that we haven't quite reached, as yet. Now, what is this about an antique? Let's look at it." "It is not a diamond," said Ernst. "I know enough of uucut gems to be sure of that. It may be a white topaz; but it is of a very inferior grade. Probably it is n Khine stone, and nothing more. But I wish that it should bo a real diamond." "Eh?" said the jeweler. "My work will be of some money value, I suppose?" "I don't doubt it; but?" "And I have here something." *" He opened his foreign letter and took out its inclosure of thin paper. "Ah," said the jeweler, "i]uitc a neat little sum, I should say!" "Forme it is wealth," said the old. srofke "oFgood water?as a gift to one who has been heavenly kind to the old exile." "Humph!" said tho jeweler. Hermann Ernst came back late at night. "1 have a pleasant surprise for the frauloin," said lie. "Oh, was it a real diamond?" cried Mary, her face lighting up. "I left it to he cut and reset. I shall ere iong bring back to the fraulein a jewel of which she may feel proud," spoke the old man. j "I always thought that ring was of value," said Mrs. Bacrlev. "Hut lmdn't no means o' tcHin'." "Me with a real diamond ring?" cried Mary. "It seems impossible I Oh, lam so glad?so glad I" 8he danced joyfully about the kitchen floor, making an impromptu Castanet of an old tin bakepan which she chanced just then to be buttering for uso in the oven. Old Hermann watched her with beaming eyes. "It is a good investment 1" murmured lie. "Look here I" said Mrs. Bagley, when he shining diamond ring, in its white 'civet case, was sent home. "Here's foul lay "What?" cried Miss Dodd. s "This ain't the same stone at all," 1 lid Mrs. Bagley. "It's a size smaller." t "It don't seem guito so big," ad- r tilted Mrs. Dodd. t ' The old fellow's a fraud!" said Mrs. r lagley. "I told you so from the very c cginning. lie's cheated Mary. lie's s aded her diamond oil for a smaller 1< :ono and pocketed the difference him- a slf." f Mary listened incredulously. v "He wouldn't do such a thing," said t te. "But the stone docs look smaller ? tan it ought to. Perhaps there's so me a listakc." i f. "Mistake!" sniffed Mrs. Baglcy. "A a kely story, ain't it? And here he's left ? and gone to work for that man in o ungerford, after all we lono for him. si ever there was a thankless impostor, h 's him. And I toll you it's our duty n go at once and ferret out the whole C nspiracy, and if he's guilty, clap 1 ?m to jail!" "Oh, Aunt Baglcy!" 'y "Theft is theft, ain't it?" said the old I ? y ? votnan. "Yes, jail! Why not! I $o wlieTe you and your Aunt Dodd lik4 to ie imposed upon." Mrs. Bagley, Miss Dodd, Mary Moore ind Harry Vallance went to Hongerford it once. . t fH . The fact that they hod not veea old Elertnann Ernst for a couple of day* leat i sort of sombre emphasis to the* attention, and none-of them felt quite easy in their minds. .. .j "The ring?" sajj* tho ring he "I knowed it/' croa* \ m\M ^ * "Here is the ring" (talcing It'nvJ K' drawer). "Not worth the labor of pol-\ ishing it up," he added, contemptuously^ "A cloudy crystal, worth perhaps twenty* five cents, set in imitation gold. Old Ernst knew it all along, but ho was determined that Miss Moore should have 0 real diamond ring?she wanted one so much, he said?and he paid for it out of a bequeathe had received from Belgium? two hundred dollars in our money." Mary uttered a little exclamation. She clasped her hands. 4'But," cried she. 4'I won't take it!" "Bo so good as to hoar me out," said Mr. Maskctt, very gravely. "I do not lee, young lady that there is any alternative left to you. I regret to say that old Ernst died this morning very suddenly, fitting at his revolving wheel. The coroner's jury are even now with tho remains. [ shall miss him much iu every way. He was an invaluable workman." So tho old diamond cutter went out of the world, leaving behind'him no mark but the glitter of the precious stone that ho had givcu Mary Moore. The poor girl herself shod many a tear of compunction. "How could I ever have doubted him even for a moment?" cried sho. "The dear, generous old man! But I'll wear his present all my life long. Nothing ?U?11 ~ ? ..J.. a. a lit. ii III sunn net imiuuc luu u> |)itri> Willi 11: And the low, green gravo in the corner of the churchyard, where Hermann Ernst lies buried, is neatly traced by an unpretentious stone, aud Mary ValUnce keeps geraniums always growing there. "He liked flowers," she says; "and there is nothing else I can do for him." ?Saturday Niyht. SELECT SIFTINtiS. Demosthenes was the son of a cutler. Cardinal Wolscy wns tho son of a butcher. The ravon has been taught to retrieve mcst creditably. Dublin is better provided with open spaces than any other town in tho United Kingdom. One dog of tho Convent of Bt. Bernard is said to have saved more than forty human lives. A pension has just been to an Oregon man who is a veteran of the War of 1812. He is 102 years old. Chinese pheasants were introduced into the vast forests of Oregon ten years ago,and now it is estimated that there are 1,000,000 of them in tha country. The rapidity with which a hawk and many other birds occasionally fly is probably not less than at the rate of 150 miles an hour, when either pursued or pursuing. Lemons originally came from .India., mtivuo iniiii tnmr garments, and in the time of Pliny were considered an excellent poison. Swifts and swallows fly every year from England to Southern Africa and to the Moluccas, and the restless, wandering (light of various oceanic birds is still more surprising. "Better late than never" was used over three hundred yeAra ago by Thomas Tucker in his "Five Hundred Points of Husbandry." J>ater on Bunyan used it in his "Pilgrim's Progress." The Confederacy issued eleven kinds of postage Btamps. They are all, if unused, worth doublo their face value. The ten-cent blue stamp of 1863, if unused, brings $3.00, or if used $2.50. In Paris there are professional J"tnk packers who can be hired to packT -runk artistically, folding expcusive goCvns and other garments in tissue paper and stowing away delicate bric-a-brac in the safest way. A Canadian clorgyman has adyaupo$ from the blowing of the keynote by the horns of the besiegers, just as bridges have been known to collapse from the rhythmic tread of soldiers' feet passing over them. The hump on the back of the dromedary is an accumulation of a peculiar species of fat, which is a store of nourishment beneficently provided against the day of want, to which the animal is often exposed. The dromedary or camel can exist for a long period upon this hump without any other food. F. Heap, a keeper of the Glendale National Cemetery, near Richmoud, Vft., has a desk, made in 1610,which has been iu possession of the Ilean fatnilv. of F.nor. * J f -o land. It is said to hAve been used by Oliver Cromwell in 1647-48 when lighting Charles I. It is of antique oak, beautifully carved and highly polished. The stupendous monuments upon the plain of Memphis and tho "mountains made with hands" upon that of Cholula seem like the two ends of a chain of l human thought and intent, of which the connecting links are to be found throughout Tartnry, tho eastern peuinsula, China, Japan and the isles of the northern Pacific. Frozen In n Red Hot Vessel. Water can be frozen in a red hot vessel. If water or any other volatile iquid is dropped upon red hot metnl it . issuines a spheroidal form and rotates t).. > . .. a|M\njr iuo giuiiuiu noes noi really ( ouch the metal, but rests on a cushion ' >f its own vapor. A peculiarity of thia ondition ia that the globule evaporates lowly and its temperature is always hern its boiling point. If liquid sulphurous oid (which bolls at fourteen degrees, rahrenheit) be placed in a red hot essel along with a few drops of water, >oth liquids assume the spheroidal state nd the intense cold of the sulphurous cid (which, in this condition, is below ourtecn degrees Fahrenheit) immeditr.ly turns the water into ice. By a similar process, with a mixturo f solid carbonic acid and ether, Faraday iiccceded in freezing mercury in a red ot crucible. Mercury freezes at thirtyine degrees below zero, Fahrenheit.? 'onrier-Journal. The woods In Maine furnish a large ?r cent, of the Christmas trees for New ork Bt#te, IJbj THE RACE. agti'wt the mt*k8 earth, A B><* ffcrelees <1*78 that drive ef^^H^hward from their hour* *f birth H and prayer?these things are real . jJHfwtand precious than wj know; Yevit^^fttareliaips-e, they reveal TtaJ^^Rre skies above, below. And ^H|t)?cry: God, forbear I Why live at all* deathleu coll. Though one man falters on his way. And one stands railing to the end. There is no hand nor will to stay That purpose which is foe or riend That purpose which exalts a soul, Bven while it robs a soul of grace, Which sinks the atom in the whole, The individual in the race. ?Oeo. B. Montgomery,in the Cosmopolitan. HUtfOR OP THE DAT. "Brings down the house"?A Western cyclone. The man who is "waiting for something to turn up," might turn up his leevts and go to work.?Puck. If lie lungs contain 75,000,000 cells, as a contemporary informs us, why not use th<m ,>* a penitentiary 1?West StoN. V k7'.T~ "I ujscrstand, Pat, that you have a big fadPly dependent upon you?" "Yis, sor, U| childers, aiven pigs and the old 'omaor' "Tfrrapin," says a writer "is an acquirccltaste." So it is. A taste of terrapin gi among tho most difficult things to acqdire known.? Washington Poet. The slang that from her lips fell pat, Oft ma le her English has/; She onco was heart! to murmur, that Chrysanthemum's a daisy." ? Washington Post. Crawford?"Time is money, you know." Merritt?"And yet I would Oponer havo a girl who has forty millions than one who has forty years."?Chicago Light. Doesn't that man look sheepish!" asked Mrs. Kecdick. "Yes, but perhaps he has had tho wool pulled over his eyes/' replied Keedick.? Chicago lnter' '^."Potta shaves here sometimes, doert-r-nff? Barber?"Yes; Mr. Fottt is oat of ray regular clients." Potts? "Clients I Don't you mean patients!"? IndUmajtoli$ Journal. Brown?"Fenderson is a very entertaining fellow; don't you think so!" Fogg?"Yes, but the deuce of it is you can't begin to laugh until after ho has gone."?Boston Tran script. Some wag recently started tho story that Mrs. Stanley is about to write : book entitled "How I Found Stanley," and she is receiving letters from people who think it Is true. -r-New York Tribune. His Fiancee?"Are you sure you would love me just ss tenderly if our conditions were reversed?if you wers rioh and I were poor?" He?"Reverse our conditions and try me."?Brooklyn ty*. { HWhat is the name of the other vagabonds who was with you! " asked thi maMstrate^6*inusythe Calico." "Ho? "now VvflPrr wan. ^JwaBjSW Timet. C "Look here! You just jabbed me in the eye with your umbrella. "Too bad. Here's my father's card. He's an ey< doctor, and if you'll use my name he'll give you bottom rates."?Philadtlphk Record. Johnny?"Mr. Hankimon, ain't yoi shaped just like other men! " Mr. Han kinson?"I suppose so, Johnny; why?' "Papa says you ain't exactly square, and Irene says you seem to be always round." ? Chicago Tribune. Dealer?i'l am sure, madam e, you could look the city through and not lind a handsomer carriage than this." Mrs. D'Avnoo?"Oh, it's handsome enough, but it looks too comfortable to be stylish."?Wow York Weekly. "I am going to be indiscreet, Mi# Chicago." "Oh, you can't be with me, Mr. Boston." "No? Well, I was jus going to say how elegantly that bit wikh *0U1 Mrs. Bingo?"Clarahas been shoppinj all day. Oh, here is the delivery wagot with some of tho things she has or dered." Bingo?"But where is Clara!1 Mrs. Bingo?"She is probably waiting for the change."?Nea York Sun. The only thing that mars the dandy'i peace of mind is tho fact that he ien' imported, like everything he uses. Meanwhile, from his lofty place in thr menagerie, the imported monkey looks down on him, and inarvols.?Puck. "Do you find cnouirh to keen von busy these days!" "You bet. I'm put ting in a bigger day's work these dayi than I ever did before." "Why, 1 thought you'd given up your job." "So I did. I'm looking for another." ?Buffalo Krpress. Jack?"-Wfcj^are you looking so sadt" Tom?"I saw Maud throwing si] glances at Harry to-night." Jack? "Cheer up./ It was doubtless for you she meant them, though Harry got them. Women can never throw straight you know."?harper's Batnr. k Ureat Grape TieU. "Few people realise," remarked Mr. Weston, jwhat an important industry that of gftpe culture is becoming. In the first plaoe, many thousands of children and unskilled laborers are employed for severtl months each year in picking the grapes. In the Lake Shore towns not less than $40,000 will be paid to pickers atod packers this season. "The preseut yield ie unprecedented. ur a n 11 -JW -1? m- i/l quni||iat n . A. DMTClt, OI TT 681D61Q, N. Y., picked and shippedfrom800 vines over 17,506 ponnde of first-class grapes. picked aaa giaarftr tons of gtBpS f romoaOkDuarter of en acre of ground. The Rev. Mr. Hillman, of North Beat, measured, several of hla Concord grapes that were three inches ia circumference, one of them reaching three and five eighths inches. L. W. Potter, of Westfietd, N. Y., has picked Concorde measuring aa inch in diameter. A gentleman named Bggleaton, living in the same town, }>*e harvested from bis vineyard of one acts aix and one-hall tons of grapea. j Att0 Samuel Mack, from 660 vines, aocupging less than one acre of ground, Hu sold six tons and 1950 pounds of eragKet #55 per too." ?FhUadtlphia J*r9HL i Stuffed Owls Fashionable. Staffed owls are still fasbionablo for decorative purposes, and the taxidermists I still charge high prices for them. Amoog ] i the most costly are specimens of tho i j great white owl, which is really a pretty j I bird. Ex-Assemblyman William Wain- i right gives me information which leads \ me to think that specimens of this kind { should become cheaper. "Some time < ago," he says, "central Rockaway Beach < was visited by an immense flock of great \ - white -owls, ficbres of them have boon , shot and sold to New York taxidermists, t These birds were never known to visit 1 the beach before, and it is a mystery c where they came from and how thoy came to alight on tho Rockaway sands."? , New York Star. ? _ A Curious Old Watch. | Charles 3. Nelson, a painter living in a Chicago, III., recently received from his ? father, who resides in Copenhagen, Den- , mark, a watch, which it is claimed is E 400 years old. Accompanying the watch a are records which provo it to h^vo been ^ In the possession of tho family for 200 a years. t This timepiece is smaller in circumfer- j, ence than the watches of the present day, a but it is three times as thick and resembles a sphere cut in half. Tho face is open and the case is silver, bearing a carving of Cleopatra on her way down the Nile. On the face are two dials, one f) w;?kUiL.?? ? ? 1 , the minutes, hours, days of the week ? and of the month, there being soparato ? hands for each. On tho inner dial are f representations of the sun, moon and n star*. As tho day wanes the sun becomes darkened and the moon and the stars shine, the inner dial being illuminated. u How this is accomplished seems to be un- \\ known. c The works lire 01 naracnea go in ana u are very intricate, but only require wind- ?< ing once every three weeks. The watch was wound up on leaving its Scandina- 11 viau home, nnd was going on arriving in | Chicago, but was a day ahead. Mr. c Nelson took it to some of the leading j, watchmakers to have this defect reme- * died, but they refused to undortako the ? job, owing to the intricate machinery of the watch. That it can bo repaired the records which show it to have been 196 years in <j the family set forth, for 174 years ago if was put to rights in Amsterdam, 148 years ago it was regulated in Hamburg, eighty-five years ago it was repaired in p Copenhagen, and in 1864 it was put in > order at Westervig, Denmark, by I. C. ? Christensen, a jeweler, who is now liv- } ing somewhere on the North Side, in i Chicago. The maker of this interesting ! chronometer was Stcuter, of Amsterdam, ^ but no date is given. Mr. Nelson showed the watch to a jeweler, who offered $1000 y > for it, but Mr. Nelson declined it, and ? intends to retain the heirloom in the family.?New York Telegram. ????. j Earthquakes as a Matter of Course. l A returned traveler said to a St. ( . Louis reporter the other day: " A pe u, liar thing about living in Central America is the ease with which you become t t accustomed to tho earthquakes. They ] do not como without giving due notice. You are sitting in a piazza of abot aftcri noon chatting with your friends, when , suddenly the sky seems to grow _ r IB lUd1 meeci riicro is a general rush, and, though you may not know what is the matter, you cannot help feeling uneasy. The old natives ' sav 'we are iroinor to havo a little nhako ?^ ?- 0 n *"* """ " r"~"T' and then the house begins to rockf the tumblers fall oil the table, acd you feel 1 deadly aick at the stomach, and the thing is all over; the sky clears,the crows 1 begin their noisy Bcreams and the buzzards resume their quarrel over the street offal. There is somothinginexpressibly ^ terrifying, however, about the trembling of the earth; the slightest oscillation will awaken the population of the wholo i town, and arouse a drunkard out of the I deepest stupor, but unless some consider* able damage is done, everybody goes to , sleep again as a matter of course. Atlanta Conititution. i Increase of a Nickel. Some timo ago the Ladies' Aid Socle t ty of this city agreed to invest a nickel I in some kind of article and sell it at a < > profit and reiuvost iu something else, uu so on, to speculate on this capital I for two vrceks and see how much cack a one could make. One lady on the same evening of ths n meeting bought a cabbage with her { nickel. She curried it home and sold half of it to her neighbor for a nickel. ! Sho invested tlmt in vinegar and pickled j the remaining hall and sold the pickle for twenty-five cents. She then bought twen> , ty cents' worth of cloth and a spool of ! thread and made it up into threo aprons, which sho sold for twenty-five cents each, and took the soventy-five cents and bought molasses and gave a candy pull* ing to the children, making them pay ! ten cents a plate for the candy. ThemoJ lasses made twenty-one plates of candy, , so she made $2.10 on one nickol in two . weeks' time. How money will grow if properly used.?Annitton (Ala.) Argu*. "Rheumatism ! of two kinds, scuta snd chronic. Ttao former Is accompanied by blob fever, snd in tH? nAii.>> there I* Intense pain, which often suddenly change* from one part of the body to another. Chronic rhenmattsra la without fever and not ao severe, hut more continuous, and liable to come on at every storm or after slight exposure. Rheumatism Is known to be a disease of the blood and Hood's Har saparIIla has had great success In curing It This medicine possesses qualities which neutralise acldltr and purify, enrich and vitalise the Mood. Hood's Sarsaparilla Fold by all druggists. $1; tlx for $A. Prepared only by C. 1. HOOD * CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. IOO Doses One Dollar ! Shorthand Telegraphy ^14011(0 MCHOOl. ROUT FT. Oabloma bo. iQUCM 6c T.tmimn,, MiofaCo*. , Iftllt MTPPT. Boot-mmni. Minln?? Korim. ? SPUME Pamoanihlp. ArtthmeUo, Skort-nuid, air.. I thorougaJy lu|kt 1>T HAIL. Circular* traa. , Bryant'* C'allH*. 447Mala at.. Buffalo. N. < , 8 !f. U. 3. < PURELY VEOCTARLt. ) ? C?*r?MRBoa. 1 THOdOUOMLY RELIABLC. I aSTbt'SL? JET .1 ABSOLUTELY SAFE. J Km, m rmj*m I priM. ^ FOR BALE RY ALL MUOOISTR. PR. i, rl 8CHf NCK 4 SON* PHIUPtlfHIA. * Petroleum u Hair Persaaier. Not a suspicion of hair remained on 1 the cranium of a Pennsylvania engineer. He had heard of petroleum %s a hair estorer, and, as he ran into the oil repons, daily, decided to try it. Procurng a felt skull-cap ho lined it with cotton iraate from the cab and continually kept t moist with the crude oil. His duties Mxmpied his attention and he soon boeune accustomed to the odor. In a few reeks he was surprised by a silky down ebich made his head feel soft to the ouch, and in a few months astonished lis friends with a beautiful crop of ahorf surly hair. Being almost bald myself last May, vritos one who subscribes himself ai Experience," and rapidly losing what lair was left I began to ubo kerosene. Every time my hair lost its gloss I would gain rub a balf-thimblcful on the scalp, aid sOon it ceased to fall. After six reeks of kerosene I changed to vaseline, lot, however, beforo short, fine hair had ppearcd. I am still oiling my poll with his odorless by-product of the crude oil, nd still docs tho covering continue to bickcn and refuse to fall. To bare thd icad to sou and wind is also unobjection-> bio.?New York Tribune. Progremo. It Is vorjr important in this ago of vast matefUPKJTO Ifis' Weic^iV teiffetor&'dcCptatjltS > the stomach and healthy in its nature and Tects. Possessing theso qualities, 8yrup of igs in tho one perfect lnxativc and most gene diuretic known. 8100 Itrwnrd. 81 HO. 1 he readers of thin paper will be pleased to sarn that tlicro is at least one dreaded disease bat scicnco has been able to euro in all its lages, and Unit in Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh pro in tho only i>ositive euro now known to bo medical fraternity. Catarrh being a contltutional disease, requires a constitutional reatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure ts taken Inernally, acting directly upon tho blood and lucoun surfaces of tho system, thereby dctroying the foundation ot the dineatc, an-l ivlng the patient strength by building up tho ountitutiou ami assisting tho nature In doing is work, 'l'ho proprietors have so much faith a Its curativo ikjwith that they offer One lundred Hollars for any cane that it f illn to ure. Iscnd for list of testimonials. Address f. J. Ciien icy A Co., Toledo, o. %w Sold by Druggists. 75o. Do Yon Enror Speculate r Anv person sending us their natw an I a lrrss will receive information that will lea I > a fortune. HonJ. Hearts A C j , SoCUUtf l/a.i.nu I 41. Mil IUIIMIUKi ikmupwi A lasj appetit* bothers tha rich man a rest deal more than an active one does the oor man. Ladies needing a tonlo. or children who rant building up, should take Brown's Iron litters. It Is pleasant to take, cures Malaria, udlgestlonjHillousncss and Liver Complain te, nakes the Blood rich and pure. When a man cannot have what ha loves te must love what Jie has. FITS stopped froo by Do. Klink's qatar <uv> Hkstoukr. No Fits after first dar'.< ho. Marvelous cures. Treatise and S3 trial ettle free. Dr. Kline, J31 Arch SL, Phlla., Pa. LeeWa's Chinese Headache Cure. Harmless in effect. quick uud positive iu action. Kent prepaid on receipt of 11 per bottle. Adeler& Co..iSW \Vvamloltest..Kai?sasCity,Mo Live leisurely unless you are anxious to tie In a hurry. Mant pe.kons are broken down from oyerwork or household cares. Brown's Iron Bitters rebuilds the system, aids digestion, removes exoess of bile, and cure# malaria. A splendid tonlo for women and children. Bridlo the appetite with reason and save i be stomach.. , Asia tw?j>aaerf,r.;a OkbibonvsCuide Itook and Mansentanv whar) on receipt of SOct*.Tylor <Sc Co..Kansas City,Mo. Beecham's Pills curs Sick Headache. Nothing Ejs( We have volumes of evk is the only permanent c Taint. 1 suffered for five years with the worst form of blood poison, during which time I was atten 'ed by the best*"phyajLciaus I could find, , and tried numbers <t a pioptleiary medicines m without any beneficial IS resulls. I continued to is as near I grow worse all this possible for a time, un$il my whole 'n *he cur* c system was destroyed by the vile disease, my tongue and Boo'iS on Bio >d and ikjn dUeascs fre: lecoa THE POSIT W KLT BKOTUBK8. M Warn JJJ* ,rv Hwmiw^^ shims nils Picture, Taoel site, mailed for 4 oenta. J. F. SMITH A CO., Makers of " Dtle Bears," 255 L 257 Greanwloh St., N. Y. City. CmcttcgTerra Ehwjsm, pehwhio ._, ? <>5io?"?*LaNoaei?ui* Pr"?^ *" CMtlmfr't a twiM Malad with ClM rlbbsa. T.k. < 411 pills la put*boar. bsua, p4ak wr* la i --*w,l>*rtteilara. imlBNlr Z.' . .".T-ll'WoolaK. Namt rmmtr. Sola hi .11 li.a.l rranlii. "PIHO'8 KKMKDY FOB CA BOB ^ cheapest. Relief Is Imnx EB Cold In tlie Head It has no equal H It Is an Ointment, of which I B noatrlls. Price, tor. BoM by di ? Addraaa IT OUT TITVI " 1 flSClllfl ti" KOIt A ONK.nOI.LAU III 1,1, sent na by mall we will flellv.r, free of all charge*, to ear pereon la he Volt d State#, all of the following article*, careglly packet: >ue two-ouoee bottle of Pore Vaseline, . IOcU. >qe two-oonee bottle of Vaseline PoSade, - 15" Jne Jar at Vaeeltne Cold Cream, 1J " )ne Ctke of Vaseline Camphor lee, - - 10" >oe Cake of Vaaellne i-'oap, nnsoenterf, 10" >ue Cake of Vaaellne Soap. e i q u 1*1 leljr eceo tort,? " >ne two-oaaoe bottle or White VaaeUae, - - " V) print anted. On no account he pertuadsd to aeeepf from ourdruoyiii amy Vattlins or preparation Iherefrom inltn Iabetted with our name, beoauee you toilI eara Inly receive an imitation teAieA Aat Utile or no vatue heeebrongh Mfg. C>? '14 Stat* Bl? W. V. f prescribe and folly enflorae Big O aa lb* only Oa*M In ep? cine lor the certain cure ^Vl to t uitt.w <,t i i.l? dlaeaae. kw.?"H.?lll l( INnllAlltM.M n. B nmWnwn*- Amaterdara, N. V. 9 Mrs #aiy by the We have nold Big O for !M- many year*, and It has jlMruiokamuaios^^^ lvfll lhp |,Ml (lf ia(is. OtaetnnaatJI^^B Faction flMh W V. K DYCHF. A CO ^^^#1 Chicago, 111. rth^l^Milll.H. BoM by Druggist* t . . J > - . , nV#^ TOUR MONET, OB TOUR LIFE ! This question Is a "pert" one, but we mean It. Will you sacrifice a few peltry dollars, and save your HfeP or will you allow your blood to become tainted, and your system run-down, until, finally, you arc laid away in the grave ? Better be in time, and "bold up" your hands for Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, a guaranteed remedy for 811 scrofulous and other blood-taints, from whatever cause arising. It cures all 8kln and . ^ ~ ~xv IB WWSr- J fully tonic as well as alterative, or ' blood-cleansing, in Its effects, hence It strengthens the system and restores vitality, thereby dispelling nil those languid, 44tired feelings" experienced by the debilitated. Especially has It manifested its potency in curing Tetter, Salt-rheum, Eczema, Eryslpdas, Boils, Carbuncles, Sore Eyes, Goitre, or Thick Neck, and Enlarged Glands. World's Dispensary Medical Association, Makers, No. 603 Maiu Street, Buffalo, N. Y. A TRINITY COLLEGE. ^ A High-grade College for Young Men. Beetlnatructlon, lt-mllng to Ktvo Degree#. Heanonnldo > xiiensen? $'.9) to f2 ? n year. Fire new bulldinga to be erected this year. M in atrfculaten and graduate* lu recent State Las* lalature. rend for Catalogue, Bulletin, Degree Book# Eto? Free. johk f. orowki.l, a. h? 1>r. l.itt., itn., Trinity UoIIckc. Randolph Co, M. C. W'l.fl'AVIiMV*0 W?t d beautiful Bilk A Ratta enousrh to cover |H ?q. Ink 30e.; best.25c. 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