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HOW INDIANS CATCH FISH DESCRIPTION OF THEIR CURIOUS METHODS AND TACKLE. Iloolu of Sholl. Linos of Hark, Nets of Vegetable Fibre, Clubs and Shears. Xot much is known as to how the Indians in the East, the aborigines who wandered over tli9 Shawaagunk and CatskiUs, caught their fish. They had hooks and they had lines. The hooks were made of bone and even shells, wfcleh were rudely whipped upon line* made of bark or dried plants. When poles were U6ed they were tree branches or saplings. TTpon the hooks were placed bugs or insects. It is true, though, that most Indians used fish traps and net contrivances to get the fish that then teemed the waters that now an angler must patiently work in with bis artificial cast of fiies, thankful for a dozen fish, happy with double that number. Some idea of the primitive tackle and methods of the early days of the coun try can be gained from the Indians of the northwest coast, who are slow to adopt modern apparatus, and even now make little substitution for the tackle of 200 years ago except in accepting iron .u? u ~ r ?i 11 imiuo iui mr canjr uuuaa ui aucii or bone. The Indians of the earlier peiiod had to do mostly with salt water fish, and depending largely upon fish for food were obliged *o develop the piscatorial art and make big catches. To put out a hundred set hooks and gain a like cumber of fish was a matter of common occurrence with them. The size of the rush rfid ?ot bother them, and they safety landed immense halibut weighing as much as 1*0 pounds. Salmon were so common in various parts of the coast rivers and streams that a fish trap was often used. Some times they used spears at narrow pasvages in the rivtr. The Indians of the northwest coast retain their old tackle to this day. The big hooks obtained from the whites are used for gafi hooks and as spear heads. The hooks are traded as otbei merchan dise. A primitive style of hook used by the Haida tribe of the northwest is a straight piece of bone, the shank a straight piece of wood, and the snood or sneil a straight piece of whslebone, the snell being attached to the shank by lashings.of bark. In another style a narrow block of wood is used ryith a spike of bone, shell, or iron, and a snood of spruce root or whalebone. In Alaska large halibut hooks are also used. At first these were barbed with bone, but now they are with iron. They are made in two pieces, each lashed at the joint with cedat barjc, the ih&nke made In different designs, supposed to give good luck to the fishermen. Some are made from the forked branches of trees, yew end spruce being generally used Inths wood is set the bone, shell or iron barb. The bait is lashed to the arm of the hook which carries the batb, aud placed just under it. These are very strong, anc halibut weighing as much as fifty pounds vre caught on them. By steaming and bending a tough picc?- of a yew branch, various shaped hooks are made. One variety is twisted just as though the shank of along weakfish hook were bent in an ova! shape and brought back so as to leave a little be rfAwoHfm-r 1.^1 mfr IV *B gvrfp' Vu SlCd **6 placed upon which to tie a piece ol bait. The hook that is used in catching cod and Sounder*, constructed with the spe cial purpose of preventing fouling, ia described by Judge J. G. Swan as follows "They are made of knots of hemlock limbs, cut out from old decayed logs These are split in pieces of suitable size and whittled to the required shape and bent by being steamed into the form which in the skil hook resembles the longitudinal section of a goose egg. The lower portion of these hooks is turned inward to form a barb, and when not in use the two ends of the hook are fastened together by a piece of twine, which is also used to tie on the bait. .The two parte of the hook are separated by means of a stick or peg, which the dsn knocks out when he takes the bait, arttl the two ends of the hook close togethecland hold him fast. The peg floats tf the surface and indicates to the Indian that he i.a1 caught n fish. ' The sinker is another ingenious contrivance. It is a large stone weighing from twelve to fifteen pounds and a nailer one to serve as a tripping stone. The lice is wound around these stone3 many turn? and a bight or loop tucked under one of the parts in the same manr.ei. A. signal officer rolls up a flag in a ball a:d tucks a bight of halliard under ,t turn which, when pulled out, sets the flag free. So when the Indian fisherman thinks from the number of floating pegs that he has enough fish, he nulls out the loop of his line, the stones become loosened and fall out, and hauls in his line relieved of the weights. ' The Haidas frequently put on 100 hooks to a line, which act like a trawl, and so plentiful are the black cod that ofteu trom fifty to seventy-five are hauled in at one time. The bait used seems to be anything handy, as the skil is a greedy fee ler and will take either fresh herring, squid, or a strip of the white skin from a halibut's belly. The Indian. howe\'er,had enemies to contend with, one of the most formidable being he groucdfish, or nur.?efish,HS the sailors rail them, which will eat off the bodies of a long line of fish, leaving only their heads. There is also a small sculprn variety, which will steal the bait. Dogfish n'so are at times very troublesome. Whenever the Indian is sure of the presence of these pests he. iron to another place to fish." Wbalebouc snoods are used r.mong the Vancouver Indians, but by the Haida, Tlingit and Tsimshin rarely. Indeed, they do not hunt the whale, having a few superstitions which deter them. The eating of whale's blubber is prohibited by tradition and custom, and when the I whalebone is used in tishiog appliances i it has surely corns to them ihiougb I trade. Bark forms a larger factor in the Fndian fisheries and has its use in line making. Cedar roots are utilized, and rpcciailv 'he stems of the giant kelp. Vegetable fibre is twisted into a two or thrp* stranded cord, und is often plaited with thieads of wild hemp or shedded teaweed. Kelp grows in water from nine feet, j to 100 in depth, and at the root is, per- j hap*, one-quarter of an inch in diameter. At the upper end it is surmounted by a big hollow bulb, from which float leaves, streamer shaped. Toe stems are cut oft near the-bottom by heaiis of a knife iiiitde lowered ou the eud of a long branch -A* Into the water. The stem* are then cured in smoke or in the sua, and then , knotted together, making a strong line. In the north certain tribes also use lines made of the intestines of animils. Lots of the lines are put out, a small bladder being fastened to act as a buoy. When a fish is caught he is clubbed till he is quiet. Experience has taught this, as, with a big thrashing about in a canoe, there would be danger of upsetting. The Northwest coast Indians also nuke floats and carve them into fanciful shapes. Often they are carved to represent birds or frogs. Under water floats are used to float the bait and hooks abort the bottom in connection with the detachable sinker. Several varieties of note are constructed by the Indians, mostly of bark material, wild hemp or nettle fibre, spun into twine. They are nowadays woven with a shuttle. The heavy rope* part is of cedar bark. Cedar wood blocks buoy the net, and pebbles sink the bottom section. Deep nets quite | similar in shape to those of the modern fly-caster are used to scoop out the salmon i as they go up the streams. Traps or | weirs serve to huddle the salmon into contrac ted space, and they can be lifted | up in the nets with ease. Of course fish| int? spears are plentiful. The fishing club is just as much a part I of the Indian outfit as the landing net is i that of the fly caster. The clubs are ! decorated, painted, and made in forms supposed to bring luck. ? York tdjv*. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A wood carviug macbins is success ful Terror.te is more powerful thin dyn- j amite. A pound of phosphorus 19 sufficient to ! pit 1,000,0^0 matches. A Swedish cavalry officer has inventei j a horse3tu e on which the calks and clips ; are changeable. A street railroad to be operated by ' motors run by fuel oil will soon be in | operation nea*> Prague. The Puiladelphia mint has installed I an Eddy electric motor of twenty-fivt horse power, which is run by wires froa I the street. It is estimated that twenty thousand ; horse-power will be required for the electric lighting plant of the Columbian Exposition, i Observation step-ladders are to be ! used in the Belgian arti'Iery, the obi ject being to enable a commander to ; better direct the tire of his gunners, j The Michigau Central Railroad has in ) use a new machine that does the work of 300 men in scraping the dirt dumped i I alongside of the track to the edges ol the fill. i A spring has heen discovered in Greenville, N. H., which contains an ; almost phenomenal amount of lithium,! oven more, it is said, than the famou* ' I spring at Londonderry. } Watch crystals are male by blowing 1 a sphere of glass about one yard in diam ! 1 eter; after which the disks are cut from i I j it by means of a pair of co npasses having ' a diamond at the extremity of ona i A device has been invented by wnich I II an engine mav ..stormed., qa.-Auj | , | a button, thus making an electrica j i connection with the governor of the en j j gine. A toilet brush is made of two halves ' which are hinged and are detachable, i 1 ormhalf h->in'f hi-usK nn-1 fV>n I ^ ? , half the mirror, while in the space he! tween is .1 comb, 0 tocth brush and a | buttonhook. The Munich Poeller Physical an 1 Op-! tic.sl Institute have constructed for the ! j Chicago Exhibition an enormous micro j scope, manipulated by the aid of electricity. It has a magnifying power of 11,000 linear perspective and has cost $8750. It is stated that Dr. Labner, of Augsburg, Germany, has solved the problem ' of manufacturing artiScial silk. Toe fabric is said to be superior in lustre to 1 natural silk, and cannot be distinguished I from it; and that a limited company is 1 to be constituted to work the invention. ] If this is tru?, and is found to ba : ! thoroughly practicable after a fair trial, i j it will revolutionize the whole industry I i of producing and manufacturing raw 1 ! silk. Mr. II. Darwin, of the Cambridge j j Scientific Instrument Company, has de- ' , vised a "cup micrometer*' for measuring } the rate of growth of a plant. A thread ! 1 is attached to the upper end of the plant j 1 and passes over a pulley. To its lower j ?nd is fastened a weight, which descends | , as the pfnnt increases in height. The , j amount of its descent is a measure of the , ; vertical growth of tha plant, and it is | obtained very exactly by means of the j | micrometer in question, j In a paper rea 1 to the French Academy I of Sciences, M. Colin discusses the acticn of cold on animals. The rabbit endures i I considerable cold. Adults have lived ; tn ordinary hutches suspended from the ! branch of a tree or stan iing on a heap I of snow, an I their temperature has only been lowere 1 about one degree in five or | six days, wiieu the outside temperature varied fr >in ten to fifteen degrees C. Other individuals have lived in perfect ; health for two months in cubical hutches, j completely open on one side, when the temperature ranged from ten degrees to 1 twenty-five degrees. Sheep .and pigs | are also able to live thr nigh severe ! we9ther, but t ie dog and horse are killed i by it. Kmartnes* of Russian Sailor*. While in dingy, sni V.<e soiln i Cron stadt the French nival odi ;?sr< fraternized with the Russian an I hi I opportunities of learning useful le*sous in i smartness and seain tuship fro n these tine sailors. l'he Russian war ships are second only the British in punt, of appointments and as regards the s nartness of the appearance of the no an I neat, trim deck*. fix; disiiiphu-; is f.u ,>W.I . [ or tno French. wno, Fhougn Toss clti-Tny seamen, lay; even behind the Uernians in j these particulars, bird Falmerston's remark in regard to the Turks, "What ' can you expect of a people who have no i heels to their boots?' ini ,-ht bo inverted ti suit the French sailor- who wr ?r high heel?, like girls, an I with Breton ex-tap- ! lions are about, a-: handy at sea.?JV?s?a York Timet. >;)oruunan?"Any game about here?" ; Facetious Native?"Tiiere'll ho a base- J had game this afternoon." Sportsman?"Very well. I'll shoot the umpire."?Pud'. ' LIPS AND DEATH. I "! reign beyond the bourn? of fat* lb) time; ? j Through all the present I echo of th* Mtffc; All th ngr but God -re in my 1-ash; I CUab, From star to star and quench them all at last; [ blast the blooms of promise with a breath"? Vaunts Death. VVW p. " "1 am the spirit In matter?the All-searcher; 1 m driven liko surf by one deep, moving force; , Ev*q in the grasp off Death -wy nurture; \ Enswathlng lore Is both my end and source; Peace Is my handmaid and my thrall Is strife"? Chants Life. ?CV?*rn Langstroth Betts. in Independent j HE GOT 1N_AT BRUGES.J Mr. Portman Brown was a prosperous, elderly gentleman, of quiet ways And fixed habits. A small circle of familiar friends supplied all his social needs, he concerned himself little with the rest of humanity, belonging to the class who can live side by side in the same street with a fellow-creature all their lives without so much as knowing them by sight. Among Mr. Brown's fixed habits was a yearly tour But he did not take it, like most people, in the summer months, but in the early spiing. Regularly, as the first week in March came round'.rh* wepje abroad. A common tracks, following the^Rdiu^roiltine of travel m steamers and train's, and lodging at palatial hotels. No adventure had ever broken the uneventful record of these tours for over a quarter of a century; no more exciting incident than an unusual overcharge at some hotel had come within Portman Brown's personal experience. In IE?, when March came round, he mads the usual preparations for his yearly tour in his usual way. On the evening before hi6 departure, an old city friend, Mr. Goldsmith, dined with him at bis house in Harley street. When about to leave, Goldsmith drew a small case from his pocket. "I brought this with me on the chance that you were going to Cannes. You will do me a great favor by giving it into my brother's hands there. It contains a brilliant of auch rare value that I could intrust it to few. It will give you no trouble, being so small, there will be no risk, as no one will know you have ?ucd a tDiog. witn you." "Anything to oblige a friend," raid Brown, lightly. "I would take the Koh-i-noor as a traveling companion under the same circumstances." The two men were standing at the study window, the blind of which happened to be up. While in the act of placing the case in his pocket, Brown's eyes wandered to the street. At the moment the light from a lamp in front of the door struck on the face of a man who was passing?or had been standing there? ?a peculiar dark face, with straight black whiskers. The man moved on. Brown drew back hastily. "None of your people knew that you were giving me this commission!" be inquired of>Qoldsmith. _ _ .. matter ia entirely between you and me. My head clerk alone knows of the existence of the brilliant." " What is he like?" "Like you, like me. Respectability itself What are you thinking of?" "Ha6 he white whiskers?" "Grey as a badger's-?white even! But, bleaa my 60ul. what is the matter? What do you mean? Have you seen any one?" "A man was standing there by the lamp post as you handed me the jewel case. He was apparently looking at us, and might have heard what we said." "Then he must be in the street still," said Goldsmith, throwing up the window and putting his head out; Brown did the same. The night was bright. Not a soul was to be seen anywhere? the street was quite deserted. "A neighbor or a neighbor's butler. He has gone into some house." Gold smith withdrew from the window." any case, no one could have overheard, nor, I should think, have seen us. As for my clerk, Trnvers, I boast myself an honest man, but I don't hesitate to acknowledge that he is the honester of ths two. Your imagination is playing you fricke. I didn't know you were given that way. Perhaps you would rather not take charge of the brilliant?"' But Brown would not hear of this. Already shamefaced over hie hasty and somewhat ridiculous suspicions, he dismissed them abruptly. "Not for worlds would I give up the charge," he said. "I'm net such a fool as I seem. The man probably is one of the new neighbors; there are a good many newcomers in the street." Portman Brown set out next' morning for Lucerne via Brussels and the Rhine, staying a few days at Ostend on the way. He took his place in the undeniable comfort of a first class carriage in the express to Brussels with a m>nd as free from care and uneasiuese as an elderly gentleman ever possessed. A life of plain, undiluted prose had, up to this, kept his imaginative fauulties in complete abeyance; lunatics, hypnotists, murderers, etc., us possible fellow-travelers, had nevei entered his mind. As a rule, indeed, his fellow travelers no more excited his interest or notice than his near neighbors at home. On this occasion he was just conscious, in leaving the station at Ostend, that an elderly couple were the other occupants of the carriage, he merely gave a passing glance from his newspaper at the mso, a stranger who got in at Bruges and sat down on the opposite seat. Nearly an hour had passed before Brown laid down his newspaper, and when he did he was horrified to see in the traveler who got in at Brugos the dark-faced man who had excited hii suspicions when be started from London, tt n-?' ?bgi_fljPrTP" fuced man. Never within the wlinU * ' experience in foreign ports had Brown passed s more wretched night; the morning found his nerves in a SAd state. He, who had never before known himself the possessor of nerves I The fidgety man wh<?i made fussy arrange incrts about starting by the first train lor Lucerne, and whoso eyes ban a way of casting furtive?nol to say appreben ?ive?glances around, was strangely un like the self-satisfied, phlegmatic Briton who had arrived the evening before si the Three Kings. Tue success of his maoos<*.?re jn leav *; fever to get. tc tb<i ifcoe?, and rid himself diamond. His 8Pirlt*J^^^ffi^K^>ly as the hour of thft "B5P*w^K df?w ncai without a?y NB^Wbce^K he "shado-ver" in the atKtQ0:i?i remained on the plajfogp Until jn,iast moment, then, 'b c*a r^#Qt^BPf relief' bc ?nt rec3 was sud"^^^^^^BBi^b^ithless'tmlveler. t he door shut, the engine shrieked the last d?ha. titig signal, the train fnovud froflkBale ^station. In one corner sst Brown, i? another?the farthest /on the opposite t|de?sat the man with The position ijia whihb Brown now found himself might well hare appalled the bravest. IleSvas alone in a railway carriage, with a Scoundrel who had followed him ftpra London. Brown had utterly abandoned surmise since last night and accepted earhf idea as an absolute certainty.' The object in this scoundrel's view was the capture of the valuable uiaiawuu, "which Iras at that very moment on Brown's/person. A long journey lay before them, and Brown was unarmed. At this review of the situation his heart sank; Jhe drew back instinctively info the! corner. His eyes suddenly met (hose of the other man; a doep flush *',*%- ^ich A transparent unreality~t?r*both sides. Brown's furtive glances^Invariably taught?quickly withdrawn tfcfough they* were?those of the other man levelled on him. "While this went on,tho slighest change of position, the least movement in the oppo cite corner, tihadr lirown start. Might it not herald the approach of danger? A spring, a rush, the attack! The tension was terrible; to remain inactive almost impossible. Brown had an insniration. as a man in extremitv sometimes has. Though ha wm not j armed, he would pretend to be. That might do something; produce hesitation, or delay, at least. Accordingly, he deliberately assumed a bold, even threatening demeanor. Casting a truculent glance across the carriage* he plunged his hand into his pocket, affecting to "grasp an imaginary revolver. To his intense delight the ruse took immediate effect, "the man opposite gave an unmistakable start, spd^shrank back into his cornets HSa far, so good. Btit how to keep up tho pretence? What to do next? At this crisis the whistling of the engine suddenly distracted Brown. Good heavens! He had forgotten the long tunnel! They were coming to it now 1 His eyea, with a quick, involuntary movement, sought the lamp. It was not lighted! Entrapped! Doomed! The wildest thoughts rushed confusedly to his brain. With a shriek the tr^in plunged noisily into the tunnel, into jiarkness. The din and rattle outside contrasted sharply with the silence wxhin the carriage. Crouched in his corner, Brown, his hearing sharpened to aglmaing acutenees, listened for a stir, a rMte, the sound of human breathing dravKg nearer to him. nation, after the neglflf of a lifetime, was now taking amp ft revenge. Uncontrolled and uncon&ollable were ita wild flights. Every -milway murder of which he had ever b<mrd flashed upon him with all the ghastly details. The spring upon the victim, jthe struggle, the death-stroke, the body thrown out on the rails. How idly be p'o-d read of these things happening to ether men! But now to realize himself as the victim; his, the body I Absolute panic seized upon him; hsrdly knowing What he was doing, he tried softly to open the door. It was locked", however. \ His movements must have been heard, there was a stir at the othar end of the carriage. The fatal moment had cotgie, the assassin was advancing to the attack. In the extremity of his lmi>? nijijiai sank swiftly on the floor andr erawled under the seat. For wba{length of time he crouched 4 Utt^hAlf stifled, eeateely daring**^" Are a the, Brown knew net, Agony cannot measure time. A iudden and extraordinary rush of ah onade his heart first stand still, and then sent the blood coursing wildly throqgh his veins. The far door was swinging ^pen! Something had happened! And what? His straining ears ^etected no sound uuv iuc uuutiuo (?vvib uuu roar 01 tne train through the tunnel; within alt was silence. He remained listening in intense excitement and amazement until the hope which had hardly dared to stir in his breast grew Into vigorous life. He was alone in the' carriage? He was saved! Deliveranoti had come miraculously?whj nnd he knew not! The tunnel wtK coming to an end; light began to stseiutt into tbe carriage. Cautiously and ityjjyiy Brown peeped from under the Mkt. He was quite , alone. JKLrgyUWqafl^isagpeared. The fact r.FWV escape was, at the time, eoougofv iot'l Brown. Afterward, in iliiu'siiijj hi ad,suture, u? sutmised that the man, deceived by his | (Brown's) attempt to turd the handle of the door, had followed in suppoeed pursuit. = ! At the station, just outside the tunnel, Brown?alighting almost before the train htd stopped?changed his place for one inacrowde l second class compartment. A few hours later the brilliant ! was safely transferred from his charge I into that of Goldsmith'# brother at j LuceiTje. The rest of his tour was uneventful; ' he neither heard of nor aaw his pereeI cutor again. * * * V V V * Brown's adventure made quite a sensation on hlfl return to topdoo. He was the hero of the hour in his oircle. nrk>?h.r <ur k. AI 1 1 I i?u?wu^i vi u"v mu icuiiru tua giruum* ttancee e*?cttj. afrhere^et forth, need not be rnentiontjJ^^lls friend Jonet, "By the xfjggjuptt said chafflngly gether on tbc^flWth-rog, "you mutt j look (o your to-night, Brown. Ho you know your neighbor in t "Never sftwjHSt&irt my life. What't "A rival In Switzerland, too, ?nd eulm^HK^fe a tunnel?not | aura that, it aflHfiflpftea one alto!" roinridencel^flm^S - mKmzx & -* robber. He was shadowed at hotels ?nd trains. You must hear the story from his own lips; he's dining here tonight. The climar is terrific. Shut into a railway carriaj^alone with a lunatic, aforesaid lunatic armed with a revolver. A long tunnel, an extinguished lamp, the lunatic crawling in the darkness to the attack, an escape by tho skin of the t^eth. Leroy has sufficient presence of mind to open the door and pretend to gel out, in reality crawling under the seat instead, The ruse saved his life, fissupposei that he fainted in the stifling air, for. when he was next conscious, the train had left Olten and he was alone In the carriage, from which all traces of the lunatic had disappeared." Jones was so engrossed in telling the story, he did not remark its curious and startling effect on Browo. Just then the door was thrown open, and the footmau announced "Mr. Le roy." Jones, springing forward with effusion to greet the new comer, led him gus'i ingly up to Brown. "You two must know each other," h; said. * And they did. The recognition w.r instantaneous on both sides. With gasp, Brown stared in speechless wonc'uon the man with the black whiskers, while Leroy stared back aghast on encountering the gaze of the lunatic!? London "jSruth. . , i ^ ' At Burke County Marriage. J A fpicial from Morganton, N. C., says: T. Claywel', the newly ap| pointed magistrate at Piedmont Springs, Crformcu his first marriage ceremony fc Monday night when Zachariah Kal mia Taylor led his blushing bride, Miss 'Maria Azaria Carpenter, to the hjmcneal altar. The professor got the ceremony a lit'le mixed up with the affidavit for assault and battery, and made both parties hold up their right hands and kiss the book, but the witnesses say that he delivered the oath in very determined way and that the parties were evidently impressed. As an additional security, Mr. Taylor, who was persistently called "the defendant" by the magistrate, was required to give a mortgage on his crop conditioned for the faithful performance of his marriage vows. John Anderson, who bad a special invitation to attend the marriage, says he thinks Zach and Maria were as thoroughly tied up as the circumstances would allow." Street Car Lodger?. "I'm picking up lodger*, early tonight," remarked the conductor o! 2 Third avenue open surface car, as w< bowled up the Bowery at nine o'clock the other evening, and he pointed to a man seated opposite and fast asleep,with his hat drawn over his eyes. "He'll ride all the way to Harlem," continued the conductor, "there he'll be shaken up and take another car and come back, and you can bet he'll sleep all the way. Two or three such tripi use up the night, and it's as cheap as going tO a judging uvua,. vu * VIJ n(U14 nights I often have as many as a hall dozen such passengers."?JVsia York HeraldForeign Notes of Real Interest. Egypt's cotton crop for this year is the largest ever known. $ .- - - n?? giww-mr: 000 woin-out helmets to the Salvation Army. The Timpson tunnel will need eight years and a half to bore, and will cost $13,000,000. "Fortia" is a new expiosive invented at Liege, said to be more powerful than anything known up to date. The Australian fedeiation bill has been passed by the Victoria Legislature, New Zealand being excluded frem the federation. Massachusetts Prohibition Ticket. WpacERTER. Mas?., [Special.]?Thl Prohibition State Convention met here and adopted a platform and nominated the following ticket: Governor, Chirles H. Kimball, ol Lynn; Lieutenant Governor, Augustus It. Smith, of Lee; Secretary of State. Alfred Richardson, of Springfield; Audi..tfll' ..WUlisIt c*?fa color >d man), of Boston; Attorney General, Wolcott Ilnrlin. of Amherst; Treasurer, Samuel B. Shnpleigh, of Boatou. Only two or three votes w. ic cast against Armstrong, all the others' nominations were unanimous. What Rats Cost Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga., [Special.]?Fire originated last night in the store of S E. Costley. caused by rats gnawing matches. The losses are as follows; J. T. Bond?, $3,000; J. M. Clark, 5.000; Dr. R. H. IJightower. $3,000; o. E. Costley, $3,000, and J. E. Beltlesworth. $1,000. The World's Biggest Garden. There is an immense garden In China that embraces an area of 50,000 square, niles. It is all meadow laud and is! Illed with lakes, nonda and I Altogether it it m large as the States of | New York and Pennsylvania combined. ( Judge Oooley Resigned. ! Washinotun, D. C., [Special.]?Judge Cooley, Chairman of the Inter State Commerce. Commission, lias tendered his resignation because of ill health. The hailstone* whir i recent!v fell at. Arkansas City, Ark., were about the rhape of a common soda biscuit and nearlv as bic. A Life Saved Mr. Oao. Raymond, of Seneca Kallr, N. Y., la i pump eetter In the employ of Ramsay A Co., Ih? wall known rump makrri of that place. Ha ia a member of Ramaay Knglne Co. Ha aaya: "My wife without nouht owe* he? Ufa In Hnod'a fcarsaparllla. a few years ago aha waa at (taath'a door, dua to blood poleonlny. or aa'phyalolan* aay. pyemia. After arerrthiul fallal Hool'a Raraaparttla broujh? h?r 04! or t"i* eriait all ri jh?. fttnee than aba haa enteral at times with nnmboeet and headache, but continual taking uwmfgvYnfS '' and la gradually getUny orar thaa* iron Waa. Aha cttoga to Wood'a. take* nothlny ala?, an t wa believe it wilt effect a complete cure." . rp TOU HAVSI DVtkria or PIIm, Sink BeoUeh*, fottlre Bowola, Tkimb Agm, Moor MabimH mA Bvlehlngi If your food doe* not iMhnlbta edyoo nore no appottto, tuft's Pills . iHB OPTO tk?? trwbUi. PrH ** ?tfc H N U- 88 PATE A Liberal Translation. Many years ago, says Hirper'a Youny People. while some excavations were goiftg on near an ancient church if tns northern part ot Ireland, a large stone was uncovered bearing a queer inscription in Latin. The church had been dedicated to a saint and' missionary known by the simple name of Nucatus Ambulans. The inscription was as follows: ' I S&biili Hoarae ago. . j Fortlbus es 1m. Aro Noscea Marl the bo trux < Votls innem. ? pes an olix." .> Borne wit who saw the stone observed that though not versed in antiquarian lore, he could give a translation. In sound it is. ridiculously like tho Latin word*. " l say, Billy, here's a go; Forty busses in a row. No, says Mary, they be trucks. What is in 'em? Pease and ducks!" The Skewer. The skewer was formerly used as a kind of a tally-stick, and it continues to find similar employment at Lyons, where the butchers rarely fail to stick in the middle of a piece of meat a small ! wooden cylinder announcing by so many I notches what every housewife knows to j be the exact weight of the meat. . A rivalry between two fruit stores In j Chicago suddenly reduced the price of 1 bananas to two^dozen for a cent. Gratifying to All. The high position atinined and the universal acceptance and approval of the pleasant liquid fruit remedy, 8yrup of Figs, as the meet excellent laxatlvo known. Illustrate the value of the qnallties on which Its success Is based and are abundantly gratifying to the California Fig Pyrop Company. Canada now inspects her own pigs and wine, eo Secretary Rusk has stoppeddoinIt for her. Many rert-ons. arc broken rlown from overwork or household e.trcs. Brown's Iron Bitters rebuilds the system, ails digestion, removes excess of bile, an I cures malaria. A splendid tonic for women and children. The German Bundesrath is preparing a bill for the suppression of vice in wnlch the Emperor is greatly interested. Hew a Mtixtent Make* Money. Deah Readers?I am able to pay my board and tuition, wear good clothes and have money In my pocket by spending my odd hnnra and varatlnn. ?p'?v>?n jon?ii j anu tableware and sailing platers. I have made >&) per dav; never leas than $4. I paid $& for my plate*- to H. K. Delno <fr Co.. Columbus, O. Anv one can profit by my experience by writing there for circulars. _A Student. Regarding the recent experiments in New York State as entirely successful. 6*r>uiny is alout to introduce "electrocution."* We will give >100 reward for any case of ca tarrb that cannot bo cured with Hall's Catarrh Cure. Taken internally. F. J. Cheney & Co., Proprs., Toledo, O. Smokeless powder was used for tho first ! timo in tbis country the other day in an I eight inch rifled gun at Sandy Hook. N. Y. with ?ui pi ising result*. Ladies needing n tonic, or children who want building up. should take Brown's Iron Bitters. It is i leas-ant to ta<e. cures ^lalaria. Indigestion.Biliousness and Liver Complaints, makes the Blood rich an-' pure. Some of the small shopkeepers of Paris have appealed to the Pope for protection i from th* hlg concerns that are driving th9m out of trade. _________ r* (lis lUMMnffeor IJn. Kline's GK>at N ehve Restorer. No fits after first day's use. ' Marvelotis cures. Treatise and >2 trial bottle free. Dr. Kline. 031 Arch Bt.. Phlla.. Pa. HOW TO ( is a question of vital import; but it i use some harmlesss remed many people > by taking mercury and potasl for pimpli , trivial disease. S. S. S. is p i . veg or poison of any kind. And same time an i Treatise on Blood a( THE SWIFT SPECII "August Til 99 r lower How does he feel ??He feels I blue, a deep, dark, unfading, dyedin-the-wool, eternal blue, and he j makes everybody feel the same way j ?August Flower the Remedy. How does he feel??He feels a | headache, generally dull and conj stant, but sometimes excruciating? j August Flower the Remedy. ! How does he feel??He feels a I violent hiccoughing or jumping of ! the stomach after a meal, raising i bitter-tasting matter or what he has eaten or drunk?August Flower the Remedy. How does he feel ??He feels the gradual decay of vital power; i he feels miserable, melancholy, hopeless, and longs for death and peace?August Flower the Remedy. How does he feel ??He feels so \ full after eating a meal that he can , hardly walk?August Flower the Remdtiy. O G. G. GREEN,.Sole Manufacturer, Woodbury, New Jersey, U. S. A* -IttmllKv HV| - - - - ^ cmcNesrgtfB E*?u*t, . rENHNRO -US 2K',< THE ObiaiNAL AND EEMUIN 1 ? 7 T-? U*In, Mk Dr'iulM fbr (Wttnlir a f I / fXT kntr?anM*ttkMvrrtb^*a. T#k* < 1 Jj AH p7ll? l? ( wfeoawt ho???. gSi ?f? \ ^ fZy 4c I" ?!? (>< f? pitMnlwi. iwlkiili fcV !/ 1 A.AAA TMtliw>nial?. rrmmi tapir. V r tMd by all l oaal IHagyM*. mhb T3IBO R REMEDY FOR CA' EB^ * chb?p<?<t I* tmrae Mj Colli tn th* Hwxl 1? h*? BO ?r?M HKfVh J A. It I* An Ointment, o| whtoh a H nu??rtl?. PrlcA, one. Bold by dr AOdnm, 8 . f 4 ' V : U. ' i W. :< * '.' \ -4 ringing nois# 1 in the ears, headache, deafness, eyes' weak; obstruction of nose, ai?charges falling into throat, some* times profuse, watery and acrid, at others, thick, tenacious, bloody and putrid ; offensive breath ; smell and taste impaired, and general debility., Not all of these symptoms at once* Probably only a few of them. j That's Catarrh. A medicine that by its mild, soothing, cleansing and healing ^r??properties has cured the most hope*less ca?es. One that will cure you,-' -' i no matter how had your case.or or how long standing. A medicine that doesn't simply palliate for a time, but produces perfect and per- ^ manent cures. * \ That's Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy^ A cash ~ll,ni you, as you ^afght expect, but to you, if you canft ]le cured. It's an offer that'8 mauc jn pood faith, to? prove their mfiriicine, responsible men, the pro^vj0tor8 of Dr. Sage's Remedy^!?/ * '^flTflthe kind of medicine to try. ^""ljoesn't it seem so P TRINITY COLLEGE Open* Thursday, September 8 I, at Trinity* Col ejre. Randolph county, N. C , with su* larfred faculty. Rates low. Terms ea*y. \Viit* for Hnlletin to John F. Cbowklu Trea't.. Ti in ty College P. O.. Hanilnioh o mit> ."W. C. tl.VHCKKAM KAliM tfMCfijMika Applied Into Nostrils I* Quickly rt'vv A bio r bed, Cleanse- the Head, BSCAts aSffTI Heals ths Korss and Curss MCqi"tfi CATARRH.!^ Rssiomt Taste and Smell, quickIt Rslleres Cold tn Head and Headache. 50c. at PruggUU. - ^EE KI.Y BROS.. 18 Warren tit.. N. V. WKjSSaQS nnaii! n vr&ikimu ; IIUNALU fcLRHfcUJ ! Of Roxbury, Mass,, says < Kennedy's Medic.il Discovery cures Horrid Old Sores, DeepSea ted Ulcers of 40 years' standing, Inward Tumors, and' every disease of tlio skin, except Thunder ILumor, and Cancer that has taken root. Price. ,Snl d-hy every Druggist in the United States and Canada. . S 3ET WELL jA*fc H ince, s equally important that you y; completely wreck their health h mixtures, lit , ? cs ana Diotcnes, or some other urely ;etable containing no mercury is at the, nfallible cure for skin diseasesid Skin dlteaies fiee. ?" ' "V"? FIC, CO., Atlanta, Ga. tniro will (to Wrltlnt for meat their 1 Alllr A homes make good tracts, oo oauvaaelnB LnlllLU AddreAl with kolfsdrtresAnd stamps I envelope. mm MILDHED Ml! LEP. honth Eo^.(md. ;-JjS "How waMaka th? Fruit Farm Pay." Sample Copy Free. Addres* v. A. UREEN, Itechester, rtieV1 The Hmh Iixisibatsd Cataloovk of 1 PllpP Diamond#, Watcher. Jewelry, Silver llwee ware. w> furnish every Saur*ntr9poon made. ?. F. JOHNSTON * CO.. 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