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r- ~ facts Wank Kitwlif. Q. Is A lubes tine expensive? A. No. it la the cheapest article for the pur pose on the market. Q. How is that? Cannot I purchase kalso mince at a few cents per pound ? A. Yes, kaJsoniine* can he purchased ai almost any price. if. Why then is Alabaatlno lees expensive? A. In the first plate a package of Alubestine oastinK a few cents more, will cover don Mo the surface that a package of kalsomlne will. Q. What other advantage has Alabastin* that kalsomlnesdonot possess? A. Alabastine is entirely different from all kalsomlne*. It in man "* *"' 'r ...... Um >w > wuivut, nuu when applied to u wall wets hard. S. How do kulsomlue* differ from this? . Kalsominesare uuwlo from whiting. < luy*. chalks or some inert powder for a I mow and are entirely dejwndent on animal glue to hold them on the wall. iWhat are the results? , in one rase the Alaliastlne firing a cement hardens with age, and the kalsnminoa as soon as the glue, which constitutes its binding quality, decays, rubs nud scales olf, us It has nothing to hold it on the wall. Q. Does Alabantlnu require washing and scraping on neiore reeoaunx t A. No, Alabastiuo when onco applied to n clean surface can bo reeontcd for any length of time without having to wash or scrape tbu arallx. . O. I)oo? thla feature count for much / A. Ask any practical l?ousckif|sT, who lias lieeii driven from homo to bave walls washed anil scraped, whether it will l>c desirable to have all of (his overcome, and walls miprotf d instead of ;> ilnl by coatinu I hem. t,?. How can 1 kcI Alabasl inolr A. Kroui your Incal paint dealer. If liedoes not keep it In stock, and tries to -tell vou hoiiiotliiio, else, toll him you are determined to try Alabastinc. and if he will not kc"ti it you will act it elsewhere. The fellow jud out of the lock-tip i' tlie fellow who thoroughly en joys tin 'freedom of tliecity."?Co lumhiis I'oil Tl ill tJtmsidnrotl hy ninnv people extremely forward for u voutiu' t>> .mud jfirl* toalontiuo iu leap year IFiWe flUtrook j o? r Mayor Tillbrook <>f M'-Kmtporl, I'u , fared <>f Scrofula in the Neck iii/ hoimi'm sti rim /hi rl 11 a All iiiii'xiitK wlmso children MillVr from Scrofula, tSalt Ithouin, or oilier iliscanos cnuxoil liy impure Mood, kIhmiIiI rratl the foli lowing from Mr*. J. W. Ttllltmok, wife ol the Mayor of MeKrespni I, I'aiia.: *C. I. IIoimI .t Co., Lowell, Miihm.: "My Utile Ih?> Willie, now six yonrt olfl, (wo your a:;o tiUi I n Bunch Under Ono Enr Which the doctor vtildw.i. :<l>'fnla. Am )t uontlr tli*<l lo ki'.'W lie niially I tiiee.l t nii'1 II il IhciiniKC1 for ?em?. lime. We then I?kiiii kIx Iiik hltn lino I' HarMii|>.o lllii iiikI In- lni|>r<ivi .1 \< r\ rn,.l<ll> until I hrnleil it,>. I .nut winter li lir.ikei.nl nu'iln innl ?n followed liy Erysipelas We iikhIii gfivo 111111 IIimmI'i Sui hii|ifii'|||(% wllli mofl excellent ii'niiIin ami In* Km Iio?I in< furtti? trouble. HUron* n dil<* to llo* uh<* of llood'tf 2Sar.*ui I>nrlllit. Ili' Iiiih never Iwu v.-r,. mliu I, lull no* net'ini !> illili> nml dully trim liiu MrmiBer Tlir iliK'tor Hri1 iih'iI i|till |ili-n-o I ill liln n|>|M'urnlii'. ml hi ill In' fi'ji ri'il al iiiii' time Unit 11 f hIioiiIi lONC ll IIII. I llUVe IllMI 1.1 kI'll Hood's ^nrsarjar Ma InjHI'lf <1 in i Hill H.lllHllill I iii! I i ll ii vi' lil't'll lll'l It'll iii It." >llii J W. Tll.l.li""i>K. h'lftli Air., M. Im'i -|r.r? HuoiI'h I'IIIh ni'i' | urt'ly * i.i'liilil", |>eifiitl tnirinli'H>. -I " lint i.i' i'i-. TWOTHERSVi I: FRIEND" I ' To Ymm# I ;; | to every I | ud energy. .\ J and must bo met. J P fti'Tr' S:??r |i aBirSi Easy. I <b.at capital be invite issen3 Pam? tbat Cumpetitin-..oiscd by llie I tailing Physician*. 1 " * Hook to " Mothers" mailed MKK. j j BRADFIELO REGULATOR CO. j 2 ATLANTA, OA. a 5 SOI. O BY ALU ORUQOtSTfl 3 Syrup" William MeKrekan, Druggist a' Tlloomingdalo, Mk h. " I have hat the Asthma l?n<lly cversinee I eatm out of the army nttd though I havr been in the drug business tor litteeti years, ami have tiieil neatly everytiling oft tlie market, nothing ha.' given me the slightest relief until a few months ago, when I used Hosr^iee's fiermatx Syru\?. T mn now glad to n? knowledge the great good it has done tuc. I ant gieatly trlioved dm in the da y and at night go to sleep without the lea^t trouble." ? WELL GRILLING MacHiom % (> ' V. I:- ??f \ ?l? |?th. finm vM- ( .?. *? f.. . for WaltM.i'lh i it.is ?t11 N|??ii|?t? ?l St< alii 1'iilhttg iml r<tri4ii?i? 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T It V Illuslrntf <1 llii oil Book ' I N< 'I' II.\ no V < 'Irotilisr for > lnni|> ni-.uri I*i I' VON ? I I.I N IM t It . AUK < I I V. I'n PATENTS %V mm hinge o ii, II.' I" " ?< iiuiiii lira A IIIONiTII for 3 Bright Young Mrn oi Ijiilli-* In inch rimnt\ .\i|(1r?*Mi I*. \V Vvt/ /.IKkl.KIt A CO., I'blln., I*a. PHWSioiva i>ui* oil soi.iiiien ' i it r all 1 I'll t*.' Ire for llicri'fi ' >' y i-i. i s x p*ri<*ncr. Wril<-tor l.avvs. /. 'A Jin . imu k tfONH, W A8HI S? TON. ft. I* .4 Cm l;.\?|| (J THE I.ADY OF TIAR& Through valley and hamlet and city, Wherever humanity dwells. W itb a heart too fall of Infinite pity, 1 A brcaet that with sympathy swells, She walks in ber beuuty immortal. Each household gto era sad as she near*, But she crosses at length every portal. The mystical Lady of Tears. " rrrrr .>*>un o* sorrow Has shadowed your life in the past, You will meet her, I know, some tomorrow? She vHts all hearthstones at lash To hove', and cottage, and palace. To servant and king she appears, < And offers the gall of ber chalio^? The unwelcome 1 <ady of Tears. Alio nywi iu?k iiiyd uiieu uuv id (W> DMH, To tho souls that have basked In the sua, Hhe seeau in her garments of sadness 1 A creature to drea 1 and to sbuu. 1 And lip* that in?v.i drauk but of pleasure 1 Grow |.alii I and tromhle with fears. As she tortious the gall from her measure, The merciless latdy of Tears. but in midnight, lone hearts that aro break | niR, W ith the agonized numbness of grief, I Are saved from tho torture of breaking, , ' My h<*r bitter swoot draught of relief. Gh, then do all graces enfold her; , Like n goddess she looks and appears, , And the eyes overflow that tjehold hor? s Tho beuutiful Lady of Tears. , ? Klla Wheeler Wllooi. j liELIVEKEIi EKOM EVIL. ! BY IIKI.KN KOHRKHT ORAVE8. H s ipper ready, , % v \ \1 Naomi?" > \ j))l ffl "No, it ain't!'' , ' ? Jjk David Polo had | 4- "\j if brought with him q^s_ jfl a bronth of th* , . ?fl cold outside nit , { 0 fl into tlio room t -,-Wrft 5K AI whoro bis sistei It ji" ' iJ/1 was ironing. Tin ewyA young people wort I & jmL nliko?tall, well , ?' i?'J.H . ^^^shapnd, swarthycotnplexioiicd, with regular features, and large, gipsy-black eyos, whero the jetty lights seemed to swim at every breath. i A very old woman, cowering over the ; stove, had the same strange eyes, al- | though hor hair, under its close frilled i ? ap, was bleached snow white, and her 1 skin was the color of old parchment. 'What ye got?" the croue demanded, as young l'nle tiling a hunch of birds on the table. "Something for breakfast, grauny," said lie. "I've been hunting in Callet Woods. Not much luck, though. I say, i Naomi, I wish you'd hurry up supper." ' "What for? It ain't supper time yet, " and I've got ail the towels to do yet." , "Oh, bother the towelst I want to go over to Skene's Corners to night, and see Miss Stuart's new piano." "Humph!" Naomi ironed away with r redoubled zeal. "Miss Stuart's new 'v piano, indeed I I w ish Miss Stuart was fuither, aud her new piauo, too! But. ? you re like all the rest, Dave- a new face ' turns your head. Ilcssie Holt and her poor little parlor organ ain't much aecount now." v "Kb? What ye bilkin' 'bout. Who's Miss Stuart? Is llossie Holt's organ out o' tune ag'in?" crooned out the old '.vomau by the tire. "Cranny don't know," said Naomi. "I guess she's the only one that don't. Mis* Stuart, granuy? Why, she's the latest fashion at Skene s Corners. She's the new schooima'am. Ask our Dave if you want to know all about her. Ask 1 tiny n! tin' young fellers! ' "Ask .lohii Classonl" added David, angrily. "Naomi's jealous?that's what ails Naomi. ' Nao.ni cmiiiucsscd tier full red Hps mid ironed resolutely on. The old "i.tndmothcr fell into a sort of doxo nnd nodded over tin; si;>vc. David Pole .liio'v iin> lantern down trout its nail against tin* chimney-piece. "II I ? ni't jtel my supper here," said he, "I'll yet it over to (Masson's. I'll i look ait< i the entile lint." ! "You'll yet it here if you wait l\\\ I sii|i| i r tune !" sharply spoke Naouii. "1 tlon'l choose to wait." | 4'Then don't." David Pole hit his lip. i "An' I'll take care to let John Clasm?ii know wh it a sweet tempered sister I've y?>tsaid lie. "John t'lasson nothing to tne," roll ited Naomi. "And never will ho, I yuOaa." Naonu uttered a vexed exelamati >n? hoi over heated iron had left its triunyuii impri -s i<n a h inged, red-bordered I low? I. 1 "Someihiu'fl huruiu'l" squeaked 1 granny, starting from her doze. ? And in a moment David was yone. "lie can do as he pleases," thought , Vtomi, vindictively. "Titer's nothing i out cold pork and pickled hcets for . , upper, anyhow. Perhaps they'll have J onierliino better at t'lassou's. Mirandy's II yood cook." Sh? [tut the ton ?ferpfn? fn a little oil then ware pot; she took the irons off in-stove, put away the clothes horse, ml lie ;an, n? t spiritless way, to set the ' table (or the evening meal. Tire clock had lust struck six, and fanny w is stirriuo the homely brown ! i -mi into 11 -lirst mm .,1 ini ?l">" r ' " " " J i i't! knock sounded on flu warpe I J uici of flic outside door. Naomi rose I 111 in< v\ t-r I lie summons. A bcauiilnl young woman, with red I hair, lar.e light blue eyes ami a mpiexion a* deli-ate an a roseleaf, > d there, wrapped in a m- irlct ami ) ri, plaid >!:a\vl. Mi" I'olc* she xml, hesitatingly. P | N mini inclined lin head stitlly. . 1 "Yes," vml she, "that is inv name." * | ' I on Kda St a ii t." s . Again Naomi bowed frigidly. "Ami," hedtated the new sehool) < .u'her, with a smile that might have | '..cited the earthen ware Chinaman on 1 ihe lid of granny s teapot, but which j to.meed no sort of etTeet on Naomi i ] ''ole, I've stalled out to visit a sick upil -Louisa Ledyard ? ami I'm afraid ' ve lost my way. I hadn't any idea it j otild grow dark sr soon, and I must e back by seven o'clock, for I expect j "lie friends to try a new piano that I , t :ve had sent mc from Boston. Yum 1 'lothcr has half promised to come. Miss 'olc. Won't vou accompany him?" . "David isn't a home, ori .vtomi, ? with a side w ise glance at the roa i down i vhish her brother had strode sonic a ;o. 1 And I <lon't care notliin'about piamn." Miss Stuart colored, and shr ink lurk, lie felt as if this hard, handsome brui ttc had slapped her in the lace. M "Perhaps, then," mI<1 she, "you can oil rue the nearest way home. It's quite dark, you see, ami," brushing otoe white, needle-like particles out of her face, "it's beginning to snow." "Keep right along the path till you c ruie to the old stone tavern," said Naomi, indifferently. "Then turn U the right, and it ain't more'n half x mile, ^"bl twwijuniisiti The bright -tressed girl still lingered on the doorstep. "I am not very well acquainted with the roeds around here," said she. "11 you could send a boy to show me?" *'Wc don't keep no boy," said Naomi. "And we've no one to send.'* Again Miss Stuart recoiled. "Good-evening!" she said, gently. "Good-evening!" And Naomi banged the door shut. As she sat eating her supper,and helping granny to fresh supplies of homemade bread and butter,a sudden thought Juried into her inind. lu giviog Miss Stuart the directions lor finding her way hack to tikeue's Corners, she had forgotten the young itrungcr'a total ignorance of the neighborhood characteristic-;. It was true that the regulir roui crunched off to the right of the ruined tile which had once been an old stone avern; but there were was also a dia ised thoroughfare which lo I through a lisrnut swuiup, towcrd h long abandoned itono quarry, across it rotten corduroy oad, which had ncurly sunk into one of ;h?3e frightful, quaking hogs which loiuotiiues upper r in deuse and swampy woods. To one unaccustomed to the local :opography, it might be perilously easy ;o stray olf iuto the weed-grown and deicrtcd track, especially when everything was whitened with fait falling snow. Naomi sprung up and went to the loor. She looked out, with one hand lield above her her eyes. "Am I losing my wits?" she thought. "Of course I cannot see half a dozen rods dowu the run I; It's dark as pitch, and snowing into ihc bargain. Let her go her own gait! I ain't responsible!" A sudden light bin/ :d in her eyes, as if Satan's self had tin-died a lurid bombshell across hersmil. John Classou, hoi own "steady company," h?"l been dazzled ?at least so spoke the tongue of popular rumor?by the glitter of Kda Stuart's sea-blue eyes. She, the late belle of Skene's Corners, was quite out of fashion now! Kda had danced every dance at Squire Marbury's corn-husking,uud Naomi had silt by among the wall-(lowers,her heart swelling with secret anger. Though Naomi hated the beautiful blonde, she rose up again and reached down the lantern that Davi I had replaced 011 its hook by the kitchen chimney. "Granny," said she lo the dozing old woman, "I'm going out a few minute-." "Kb? What?" shrilly questioned granny, "lie you u-goin' to see the ne?v forte piunny! It you bewitched arter the new school ma'am, too?" Naomi made no reply. She halite I tho lantern, bundled a shawl around her hea<l, ami rushed out into the frozen darkness. It was allowing Inird now; the wind rustled the pine trees with a mournful sound, and had nearly litowu out the faint beacon of Naomi's lantern until she sheltered it. with her shawl. She gained some distance hy climbing ninthly over a stone wali and traversing a stuhhly meadow, instead of following the windings of the road, and presently arrived, panting lot breath,at. the ruined stone tavern. She held the lantern high a*.ove her head and looked around. Nolto ly was visible. She called aloud, "Miss Stuart! Miss Stuart!" No answer ca.ne. For one second she hesitated; then, changing the lantern from ouc hand to the other, she staste I on a run down tho disused track until she came to the spot where here and there a partially sub merged log betoken.1 I the former traces of tlie corduroy road. Was that something white that moved against the dazzling whiteness of the storm? Once inore Naomi called: "Miss Stuart! Miss Stuart!" "tVn, is that you? Do come here and help me!" a terrilied voice answered. "I stepped on a broken log, and F think the ground must he swampy here; the log seems to be sinking in. Hut I've got tight hold of a young lurch tree " Naomi sprang to the rescue. Kda had already set her feet upon thfe doomed sp.it. In another moment the rescuer would have been too late! With u strength at which she hersell iifieiwani marveled, Naoiui seized Eda around the waist ami lifted her out ut the morass. "I).? you know," site gasped, "that you have Imvii standino face to face with death? Do you know that you liave wamlereil out ol the road into the Shaking Hoo.- ?' Kiln's I are, in the ijlimmer of the lamplight, was very w hite. "Ami you have saved inc!"shc exclaimed. "t)h, how can I ever timl wonls to thank you?" "Never miml that now," saiil Naomi, in the olil, luus>|ue wav. "I.et us make haste back to Skene's Corners. It's siuiwuio faster every mo iient, ami your teet are wet in that awful morass, hook. Here's where >011 missed tiie ri ;!it road, i'! course you eouhln't he expe-teil to know Hint this ohl tre k was closed up hmrjayo, an I I didn't reaie.n'ier to tell vou. I'in re aie tlie lio'nis of Skene's Corners now. Can \ > i see the.a "listen nut tlir Hi^h the sno.v llunie-?" "Hut you are coming with me?' "No. I must hurry haek to granny Hut" si;,, hesitate i ami tin-he I deeply "you w ill Ui-s in" ju-i onee to ?show ?that -we are li ie:i U ?" Hy w iy o. an ver, !! I i ll i n* ho'h h"r arm< ana rid X i > in Dole's neck an I siiowirei ? s> >re ot iri^rim khsji oa her cheeks, li|>- :n I briv. Friends," she eric I, i>itoly, "forever I" hi-.ih time _\ oa were hole, Naomi," peti'l intiy uttere I oil 1 r.k<i uy 1*010, "when here has .1 oil i (Jus-em l?jjn asottin' half an hour before' the file waitin' foi you ( > eoin 1? i !;!" John t'l.i-M?ii colore I ? little is lie hell out hf> broad, siuibrowueJ hand to Naomi. 'You sec,' ->i ! lie, "!)?v? cam ovct to our house to see my C.ni*in lles-de, and?and I th ni^ it it would i?e a ?;o > chance to tell you what I've wanted t< tell you so hui^. Can't you ^ucss what it is, Naomi?'' It wa- Into when Dive cine li niie. Grandma I'ole had I0114 hceu ahed and Mt beIore the dying I "Hullp, Naomi! you up?" wm Dave's off-hamfcjireeila^. "I'm got newt for P1 you. fVe engaged myselt to Heatie ^ Holt, aiHU the crop* turn out good neat Mn* wife shall have as good s ol piMrMpisMEditb Stuart!" jftmtlutAst her hand: the *' DtacK <Mbs egtjMed in her eyes. * d! "I'm gwful gud, Dave," said she. ' "I'm sorpr 1 was so cross with you to- * night; bkt my heart was so sore. I ** thought Hiss Stuart had charmed John flu > n'mntir irray " ^ "AVlhada'tsbe?" ( "Ho has never thought twice of hor, ** Dave," spoke up the exultant girl. "It n' cared for me, and me only, and to-nlgbi P' he asked me to be his wife." ci ? " ^ . .-IL J t.. tt j ne Drome* ana surer laiaeu tare aw -. lovingly together, while the clock ticket behind it* screen of asparagus and th? ^ now built up fbather? pamoates agatnr at the outside of the wiadow pines; hqj ^ when Niotmi laid her head on the pillow #c her iaat thought was that of grati tud> ;tr that sho had listened to the trumpe u call of conscience and hastened to Eds: ^ btuart's rescue. fcC "For after all," pondered Naomi m "she was no rival of tnine, and?and T lJ' think it's likely 1 shall be married before s1' she is." And at she repeated her prayers, one t3 phra?e lingored sweotly in her drifting dreunm: "liead us not into temptation, but deliver us frft.m_uxill"?-Saturday Night. cq Bis^T??wPRri?5i?c Brooklyn Bridge. Oi No douhi many people have wondered what become* of tlio millions of ticket* ul sold and collected annually by the New ^ York and( Brooklyn Bridge Company. ^ One who his given some thought to the ?' Hiinjnrt tells what might be done with them, and incidentally gives other figure* Ashowing the magnitude of the traffic on bt the Bridge. Here they are just as he K1 gave them: "Over forty one million of people ? crossed the bridge in 1891 on the bridge ? cars and promcnude. Could all the hands which nave purchased tickets be joined w together at the ond of the year, a circle could bo formed 14,112 miles in diameter, or 42,336 miles in circumference; a distance Pnllftl tn (ini> u nrt nno.half m ? u? ?? times around tlie, earth. If the grand In chain were^ suggested, and the fastest w trains and ships employed, it would be nearly three months before one could 111 make the bow and return to his place beside his partner. ^ 'A soli<f*?unre of 20,634 columns of 2000 men each, covering over three square miles, or 2000 acres, could be formed of the ticket purchasers. " "It would take 687,806 passenger " coaches, allowing sixty persons to the coach, or 45,853 trains of fifteen coaches (j each to carry this crowd away. If a |0 hundred a minute could he counted without stopping during tho twenty- j); four hours, it would require over eight h< months to count them. If hollow squares hi of 300 feet square can be conceived to c; be placed one upon the other, the enor- h mous height of nine miles would would be reached. By forming a triangular pyramid with u baso of 20,460 square inches, a pyramid could be had much higher than that of "Cheops'* in Egypt. If stretched out in a line, so that tho head of one person would touch the feet P' of another, they would reach a distance of 311,179 miles. "The carriages, wagons, etc., that ? cross in one year would, if strung out, e" reach 25,732 miles, or more than once ^ around the earth. j "it would take a train of 42,458 box cars, with 2123 engines, to haul the sl people away, and would, if coupled to- (e getber, cover 322 miles, or reach from a, New York to lticlunond. st "The tickets, it joined together con- 1} tinuously, would reach from New York le to St. Paul, a distance of over thirteen hundred miles, and would weigh very nearly a ton. There would be enough tickets to cover the bridge promenade jj to mo ueptu ol an eighth of au inch. If (J, spread out th?y would cover 573,171 0I square feet, or thirteen acres of grouud. hi There would be enough tickets to cover ni the walls, ceiling unci tlocr of the Fifth U Aveuuc Hotel corridor fifty-seven times. ni More thau a thousand ordinary-sized p rooms could be papered, and if piled up tl under pressure, one on top of the other, they would reach 34,390 feet, or over 'a six miles high. n' "It would require sixty cars, five feet ^ high, ten feet broad and forty feet long, ^ to store all the tickets used in one year." New York Advertiser. The King Acknowledged His Mistake. ( The good nature of Italy's King is well illustrated by an anecdote from the ^ days of the last royal hunts at Monza. ,| King Humbert is accustomed to take hie mort with the gun in pretty much the (> same clothes as other persons and with- t( out attendants, thereby distinguishing ], him Iroiu his imperial German ally, who t< litis insignia of his high office all over i his hunting costume and is accompanied p iniimDv mi Hi<> flimub liu nn)?lompn wnH flunkeys. Shortly before the end of last season the Kind's liouud started a hare about ft' t>.o ruil-'s fr >ni Monza, nn<l the King M tired. At the sa:4ie instant another shot ,e \nas heard, and an Italian peasant, with ni an old-fashioned gun and ? mongrel 01 hog, hunted up from the opposite diree- lv lion. The peasant mistook the simple ' \? t elegantly clad sportsman who dis- ^ puled his possession of the hare for a l{ tinan dude, and caught up the royal '' arm stretched toward the dead game. There was a hot discussion, which ended in the triumph of the King's superior logic, and his taking olT the hare. |j At the royal castlo the King gave the tl hare to the servants that they might pre- ( If ff?r Ntunnid* umi liu U4 , .. ft? * i t! ? >' dressed it for the jmn. When tho enii iils were removed the bullet that earned the animal's death was found. It ' was of the old style of a gun, of the ' pattern of lifty years ago. The King " looked at it aud at once sent out a messenger to summon to the castle the peasant who had disputed the possession of the hare. When the old man was led J, into the King's preseuco the latter ?* stretched to him both hands and said: "My dear man 1 have just discovered I my mistake. The hare belongs to you. , As it is already roasting, however, 1 can do no more than to ask vou to help m? s mi it. ' I iie peasant sat at tho King's right hand at dinner that evening, and, <1 although high society spoiled his up- t' petite, he jingled his wineglass against r that of liislfTivereign aud rorto home considerably exhileratcd in the reyul car- j nagc.?Chicago Tribune. i i Home Hpeeii Makers. Some curious facts are brought int romineoce by a correspondent of ycling, who has been at the pains to i%w up a comparative table of the rates f speed in different modes of locolotion. The express train, of course, nH? ??z[zzzt. "-u ii<w as yet iscovered no way of getting about ister on the earth's surface. It will bo etirpise, however, to many to learn lar the safety bicycle, of which so much beard nowadays, only occupier in this it the seventh place. The fastest time in which a train has on known to travel a milo was fortyno seconds and a fraction; to accomish the same distance the fastest birclist, who has hitherto ridden, took ro and three-quarter minutes, or just >out three times as long. An ice yacht us traveled a mile iu oue minute and teu conds, a running horse in one minute id thirty-five and a half secouds, a torsdo boat in one minute and titty conds, a steam yacht in two minutes id twelve seconds and a fraction, aud skater on ice, with a favorable wind :bmd him, in two minutes and twelve conds and rather a large fraction. A ttle way after the safety bicycle comes 10 ocean liuer; the oarsman is much ower, taking fire minutes aud forty conds to travel a mile, and the slowt of all is the swimmer, who requires iry little short of an hour to perform ic same jouruey. A Story of t-hpiino Friendship. A story of a remarkable iustanco of |uino friendship coines from Portland, ne of a pair of horses belonging to the irse railroad company was sold, wherelon his mate, a bliud horse, refused to j comforted and so pined away that the eneral .Manager went to the new owner tho other slued and asked for the loan ' til" animal for a visit to the stable, s soon as tliis horse was put in his old all, the blind horse showed signs of real delight aud at once begau to reiver his appetite and his health. Tho ivuer of the other horse, seeing Hie love F tho blind one for his fricad, bought im, too, and now drives down towu nth a span.?Lewiston (Me.) Journal. Children Burned to Death. OuANoKHimo, S. C.?Annie luabiuct, ,,.,1 .1 ..< t ii jVV4 UIUU J till UilU^lltt'l UI il. il. mbinot, of the Hull Swamp Section, met ith a horrible death last Monday. Her tlier and mother left her in bed asleep id alone in their residence, with a tire iruing in the bed room. Upon reirning, they found the house in flumes, id their little one at the window, lies at'ng whether to jump to the ground r not. In this condition she was overikeu by the tlumes, and. with the house, as soon entirely consumed. George ilane, a white child, live years F age, was burnt to death in the Midle St. Mathews section. His pireuts ft him at home to take charge of a still junger child. Soon after their deurture the little fellow went out of the ou>e and began playing wilii some enters left in tiie yard I lis clothes bonne ignited, and there being uo help at and, he soon burned to death. ivontor of tha Cotton Picker Dead . Montoomekv, At.a.?The death is aujuneed of James Williamson Wallis, ic inventor of the mechanical cotton iekcr. lie died at his homestead in euiphis, Pickens county, 011 the 14th, ;ed seventy s x. lie founded the town Memphis, and for many years was au itensive cotton planter. Since the ar he has devoted himseif to iuventiug mechanical cotton picker, and a w months ago his long struggle 1 this direction was crowned with u n i ii > i 111 iui i ? .1^ J11 til lit ?t 11 > sted and pronounced by expert judges i unqualified success lie has been asiciated with <Jrorge Lispenard, of rooUlyn, N. Y.. in his eulerprise. lie lives three sons ami a daughter. Prince Bismnrck 111. A Berlin cablegram says. Prince ismnrck was attacked to day with a stolen illness. In view of the condition f a iTairs here, the news ?s caused intense anxiety. Many niu ici|>ali*i?ss and other bodies throughout eruiany have begun their prep rations to cclebiatc Bismarck's Bproachiug seventy-seventh birthday, on le 1st of April. The illness of the lince is said not to be serious, and the itest advice icprcscid it as no more than a indisposition. O.ving to the attack, e has given up his intended visit to atzeburg, the capital of his duchy of ausuburg. To Refund tho Cotton Tax. Washington, 1). P. - A bill to return > producers She internal revenue t <\ ollected on cotton was introduced in tin enate by Mr. (leorge. Tiic bill directs lie Secretary of Treasury to accrtain tin niouiit of internal revenue tax collectcil i) cotton in each of the State*, and to fund the proportionate amounts, to In eld in truct by the States for payment > the producer. Claims under the net ity he tiled within two years after itEloped with 'ihre Girls at Once. Lincoln, Nkii W illiam Wuiegar ran vay with Laura Mcehan and Lillic and iinnic Lobaugh, girls of fifteen and six!CD. lie also stole a neighbor's horse id bought a prairie schooner, and when irertaken to day was enjoying his new osition as a head of a household ten iles from the nearest town. When he as brought back the father of the Lo?ugh girls tiied t > shoot him, but was reventod by officer*. Seven Babies at u Birth. CtfYA^ciL. Kcuadoi \ in I'.iniun. laric Juneau, a French woma' ving on the outskirts o liiseity, give birth yestcrdav t<> se\e. Iiihlrcn, all perfect and 'oeilti.v Mill Gets tho Toxiip Senatorshij;. ArsriN. 'lYx. IJ <7. Mills \\a- hu m ntnisly cliosoit IHitri! Stuti-s Senator h; lie I,enislatin'I'Ih1 joint session fur i illy rati lie I his elretioii The Only One Kver I'rliitcil. CAN AOIT KINO TilK Wonii? These Is n H Ineh ill-pluy mlver i-emenf Iii his paper, this sis'ii, which i>?i> no two wnr.h II - o except one \vnr<l. Tlie Mi ne is true <>i acli new lineiippenriin; each week, Itni"'!'!; >r. Il.irler Medicine I n. This limi-e phuv :i '< 'I'm nt" on every t hint; they nnike .1 ml pith i-li l.oo't for it, send them t lie n line of i In mr?l ntnl they will ret.irti ymi it'oK.ntti rt ft i 11 H"'iiiAi'ii.s ir s ami it - h.ki:. A Nkrkanka fanner hae been ac?ntr??i it kitiiii* ? i>C"K a^ent vrho pnrs:?tat It orrai; his Uxct on him. C'ouohs, llo,\ Its v v>s. Sou Ft I lllto A I', etc., niiekly rclieveil ti Mttow.v's IIiiom iii vi ['lliil'llEK. The) hi | .1-1 nil o her prepare ion- ill removing ho:ir>eUe.ss. audits n r->u /A emtdu are pru-omineiii I) (li< hcgl. Mator Mattiikws estimates that . -t? n Mass , will need $1.1,(>>0,000 I or I Iii- year', 'unuiug ex|>t>nses. Bitftm Caa't W Cw?4 I K!W4Si'!S,?BtrVlS^!;^s;^ ^1x1 condition of the mscoss ?f?t of acbian Tube. When this tube V*. flamed yoo Lav* a rumbling sound or im | fact bearing, nod whan it u entirely clo deafness le the result, sod anises the lnfl i nation ess bo taken <- -- l." ,uv> i awiei ui iis normal condition, hearing wll I destroyed forever; nine oaeee out or ten i caused by catarrh, which is nothing bat si lamed condition of the mucosa surfaces We will give One Hundred Dollars for ease of deafness (caused by catarrh! that cannot cure by taking Hall's Catarrh C Sand for circulars, free. r. J. Chjuist * OQw. Talede. Bold by DrogglsU, 75c. Kcrtt-bioht stare ooaohas carrying United States mail were held op in country last year. Fok impure of thin Blood, Weakness. M ria N' ui . . i !. Indigestion. and BHIouhi] take Brown's Iron Bitiers?it gives strea | niskiuK old perboua feel young?and yo : pcrboiiB strong; i l< a >ant to take. The Massachusetts State Board of A cu'tura reports the abandoned farms of t State to be IWtf. If you sulTer from sick, nervous, noura I spinal, blllious, or dyspeptic headaches, Bn I crotine will cure you promptly. Fifty c< druu stores. ___ Fuin v-o.vk electric li?ht plants have b established in the South during the ] three months. use dose of lie. chain's Fills relieves heuOachu in -1 minutes. For sale by all d gists. 110 cents a box, ltt'SStA lias prohibited the exportatio: wheat from Finland. Foil Dyspepsia, I mildest Ion. and Stom disorders, use Brawn's Iron .Bitters. The 1 Tonic, it rebuild-* tbo system, cleans the B and stretivi bens the muscle-1. A splendid lc for weuk aud debilitated persons. Ik you would be correct tn pronoun Manitoba accent the last syllable. FITS slopped free by Dn. Kliki's ol Neiivk Hestouku. No fits after first day's Marvelous cures. Treatise and JJ2 trial 1* free. l)r. Kline. W1 Arch St.. Phi la.. Pa. In the beet su<ar district of Qermar.y men in summer enrn but thirty-five eei dav nd hoard th "tussive*. ' Both tlia method and results wl Bjrup of Figs is taken; it is pleas and refreshing to the taste, ands fently yet promptly on theKidne .iver tin J Bowels, cleanses thee tcm effectually, dispels colds, he aches and fevera and cures hnbit constipation. Sjrun of Figs is t only remedy of its kind erer n duced, pleasing to the taste ana ccptable to the stomach, prompt its action and truly beneficial in efiects, prepared only from the m healthy and agreeable substanc its many excellent qualities co mend it to all and haye made the most popular remedy known Fyrup of Figs is for sale in ? and yi bottles by all leading dn gists. Any reliable druggist w may not have it on hand will p Cure it promptly for any one w wishes to try it Do not acc< any substitute. i CALIFORNIA HG SYRUP t san manc1sc0, oal, | tovrswu ky vtw rona. * Kennedy's MedicalDiscove Takes hold ill this order I Bowels, i Liver, I Kidneys, Inside Skin, Outside Skin, Drhing everything before It that ought to be You know whetl you need it or not. Bolii by every druggist, and manufaeture DONALD KENNEDY 1 | ttUAIIUHV, IHAHS. rLY's catari CHEAMBALMS^S I- WO it Til HTpATARF ssoo S?gE?'"H! r'"" >i?v. fHAYFEVERW> 1! Woman or Child & " eiillering lioiu / .c. | CATARRH LIQUID or SNUFF. HAY-FEV a i'.?i in iv is 11 |?|?no?I Into each im>iril aii l I ttl'lr. I i to SO o tits ?.? I ?rtl^g::*t s *?r t>>* innll. LLi IlKurilKils, ?i? Warren street. New KEYSTONE h iy. Sti oiik,r, durable UAV I draft. Send fordescr LOADER 5S5H DO YOU INTEND TOBUILI liaRICLl ,f ^uy you' Sash, 1 KUuot i li.1,1 i' of Turned ami SlsUhed wood work from us iraiuifai lurors an.I have tho livryest plant Rtatc A acuta wanted In every Town anil Co Un South, l'l-lce lists furnished. Try us. Cbsrliilii' !t"?h, l>ocr mil llllnd .Hit Oor fth and A Street. Ci'tiiem, Mtlil by all i ^ i - \ jEjjj ? V * 5 V?ofVRi?>iriwi ^ ths this Ought to be smaller ?the great, griping, old-fashioned pill. Inere's too much unuleasantlw-i new for the money. Ought to be better, too. They're big enough, and make trouble enough, to do more good, gjri* That's just what Dr. Picrco'a Pleasant Pellets do, ? more good. Instead of weakening the system, ?}y. lliey renovate it; inrtcad of up:nt?i setting, they cleanse and regulate It ? mildly, gently, and naturally. They're the original Little Liver Pills ? the smallest but most effective^ bick purely vegetable, perfectly harmless, rug* aiul easiest to take. Only one little Pellet for a gentle laxative ? a ?* three for a cathartic. Sick Headache, Bilious Headache, Constipated tinn. tiuliirostion. Bilious Attacks, i<Jod ami all derangements of the Liver, ton* Stomach and Bowels nvo promptly relieved and permanently cured. ctng They're the cheapest pills you can buy, for they're guaranteed to give satisfaction, or your money is reutti? turned. You pay only for the good you got. It's a plan peculiar to Dr, th? i'lerce's medicines. I nte a tlflll ? urn The best and ehenpest plaoa ~ Wfll I PAPrRt" buy In V. ?. lOO ?unIlfiLl. I ni |>u>s M>nt for 1 Or. i>o8taM. TbM"- J. Myer?, 1U10 .MmUrl St.. Pblla.. H OeBioaiptltci and people U [ wfce fcaro weak lungs or Astb- BB ma. should use riso's Cure for Consumption. II has cured g! ^B tkaoiudi. It has not Injur- ^B |H ad ons. It Is not bad to take. M| ^B It is the bestoough a/rup. H Sold srerrwbere. ?Cc. ^B I >1 , J^^B^ inirlf; the blood, ars safe sad er-Z ^ CI ? /Ceija^W feetual. Tho best general family X ,w| * ) medicine known for RUIoueneSS.X ? * f .?.1ye.i,.nr.nn. Dyspepsia, Kouie :^KfUy/ Breath. Headache. Heurtouru, Loss* ?f Appetite, Mental Depression, e Painful Digestion, Pimples, B*llowe ICn J Complexion, 11 rod Feeling, and# 9 a?,nn?.,m ne (tlaaaao rntnIf it\ir frmrt IninillH# ant S hlooil, or ft tall me by the utomaeh. Uvor or lntsefliieaf J to perform their proper functions. Teraons given to J iCti Z e?ri I fttliiK ft' r honrflted by taking a TAIII' f.F. after? acaclinii'ftl l'rlce, bj roall. I pro?? it: 1 bott le lfic. Adz ys. a drexM THE ItlPAVS CHEMb AI. CO.,I08pmcoSt.[N.T. J a Ascot* Uantrdi EIUIITY prr cent protl. * CB, S?thN0riM8.^, !i V':If? ; ^ _ the hands. Injure the Iron, and burn off. I m" The Kiting Suti Stove Polish Is Brilliant, Odor-1 a leu. Durable, ami tho consumer pays tor do Ub I or glass package with every purchase. I SJj COLD MBDAL, PAHIS, 107* | ho W. BAKER & CO.15 k It Breakfast Cocoa from which the ozeeaa of trtl VWjkAj has been removed, ?/> J5 la absolutely pure ant /fS ff soluble. r fji i m No Chemicals njj p I ln\R are uied In its preparation. It In I H Mil hss more than three time* the BIS i [I Intt itreni/th of Cocon mixed w ith Hi 'i || Uu Stsrch, Arrowroot or Hugar, Uln I III and i* therefore far more eco9n I fl H I I non,'l'n'> costing less than one |?LI II |I[JJ centa cup. Illvdellcloun, nouru|. " Uhing, strengthening, easily | U DIOKSTin, ami admirably adapted for Invalids I I aa well as for persona In health. Sold by Groeera everywhere. W. 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ITtrkly Vm.p.tai.i.k Doora. The iloae it nicely adjuetr.) tomil rr.<e, a* one pill eatl arki ta! ever betoo much. Each via I ram > 42, carried lu vert II hlniii pocket, like trait pencil. 'Jn.in .n mnii'H great Wei are convenience. Taken resin iv.t mpar. Soidevery: in tba wher*. All ganulna good. bi r ('recent." UDly la 8and S-ootit stamp. You pe! r2 pspc hook with aampla. .. DR. HARTER MEDICINE CO., St. Louis. Mo. , n. a" m H N U. i:< Iralcra. Accept no oubatlt--- -