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Btaxe or Ohio, 1'ixr or Ioijepo. t Lucas Count v, j Frank J. Cheney make* oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of K. J. Cheney A Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said llrm alii pay the sum of Sim for each and every eaae of catarrh that cannot be cured bj the use of Hail's Catarrh Cure. THANK J. ClIKNEV. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my DrMenro. thin fit 1? lUv t\f lw?m>u?r A Ik IksA I -?a? . A. W. OLE A SON, 1seal / Rotary PrtMic. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally and acta directly on tLe blood aud mucous surfaces of the systeui. Seud for testimonials, free. F. J. Chunky a Co., Toledo, O. ff>J' '''I hy Druggists, 7fte. Fortt-kioht stage ooaohas carrying the United States maU were held up in this country last year. "Brown's Bronchial Troches" are widely known as an adiukra'>le roinedv for Bronchitis, Hoarseness, Coughs and Throat troubles. Sold only in boxes. ' Forty-one electric light plants have been established in the South during the past three mouths. Six Hollars 10 ( liieiign. The C'inoinnati. Hamilton and I?.?\ t??t? H. R. announce a reduction of tli fare 1st ween Cincinnati and t 'hit-ago to >i\ lolhifs. This rate is jinw In elfect. an'l in purt basing tiekets to tlic World's Fair City see that tliev read via the L\, 11. ,V I)., tiie t'ullmau Safety Vest i baled iue, tvith Dining t 'nrs. ' The Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture reports the abandoned farms of that State to be 'JUtS. Brown's Iron Bitters rures Dvspcpsin.Malaria. Biliousness and Ueueial L)obi ity. Gives Strength, niils Digc-tinn, tones the nerves? creates appetite. The best tonic tor Nursing Mothers, weak women and children. lr y5i would be correct in pronouncing Manitoba accent the last syllable. FITS stopped free by Dr. Ki.ine*8 Dbbat Nerve Kk.stokku. No fits after first day's use. Marvelous euros. Treatise and 82 trial bottle free. Dr. KUae^Wl Arch BU. PhU*.. PaIf afflicted with sore eyes use Dr.lsaac Thompson's Eye-water.Druggists sell ut 25c.per bottle Derry of Prov donee. R. t. Widely known as proprietor of Derry's IN nterproof Harness Gil. tells of bis terrible xufTerings from Eczema and bis euro l?v HOOD'S Sarsaparilla "Gentlemen: Fiftee i > a'suno I h i I an attael* of Inflammatory rheumatism. followed by Salt Rheum breaking out on my right It*Tlio humor spread all over my leu*. back and arms, n foul mn** ol horpN, Hwollon ami ?t?*likn 4 torr bly. causing Intense pain If the skill was broken by sera toll I ug. ami dl* charging cotlMnutly. It Is Impossible to describe my 13 years of a go 11 y nn ?l loriui-o. I spent Thousands of Dollars In fnt le rT<?rt.-? to lid uvll, an>l win dist oinaped nil rrad.v tn tile. At tills I rue I w ns triable to lie down tn bed, had to sit tip all tin* time, and was tumble to walk ? it limit tin It-lies. I bud to bold nr. .irnis aw.iv in.in niv Itodv, mid ha I to hnvo ' rtnmt.v a rrtenn'nrpo i mt? tottRo noon s snr?npaiilla. I tiepan by t.ikltiK hall a teasponnfnl My Stomach Was All Out of Order Lttit the medicine soon corrected this, anil tn six weeks I < ou'd see a iliiuipe In ibe eondltlon of tlie liuinor which nearly covered mv I tod v. it was dr.ven tt. the snrfaee by the '-nrsnparllla. the sat es ami healed. ntnl th ? iles t M oir. I was soe>n able to t Ivi- 111 li iinl ices and i ill rlies, and a bapi.y man I was. II.a ! b. . n '.ik ne llo. d's sat s i|> irllla for seten nioiitbs. and sine.- ib.it time, ! tear-. I hate w.nii no land.in w|i..h-vei and ini bps and arms are soutr.i nml well. The Delight of myself and wpe at my uctivery It Is Impossible to tell. To all my business friends In Boston and over the country. I recommend Hood's Sarsaparilla from personal experience." s. fj. Pkriiv, t"> Brad ford Street. Providence, It. I. ft'vou are Hiliuti* take llood'n Pills. -mothers" i XFRIEND" I i Makes Child Birth Easy, i Shortens Labor, | Lessens Pain, ] ; Endorsed by the Leading Physicians, f '' Jfnolc to " Mother*" mailed Fit F! K. j n BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO. 4 ! I ATLANTA, OA. S ; : SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. 2 sMMSMSSSMMasMesaatMssMaii Sample Cake of Soap and 12f I ><ima l o loLf> ,?r>' 1 BW>d iliM Hfi . sent ?*#WLdUAr^W i)|siikMii. like ink a I / >*XCAtIW)11 llnK!?.lleilii?"s <>f N<i-?-,SuIsHL^ |i?Tf1ii'nm liar. I'linplea. a HO jV>^.Ti Jiilm II. \% ooillmrjr, .inJI/rjflS U.'riiinl'iloylNl. I i ,"j \V. l^'l ! ?!.. N"? Volkf'My. j<yr 'onuiiiHii",i fit nt oiric* "August Flower" "lam happy to state to you and to suffering humanity, that my wife r..,o . uin ?i->vi ^v/ui tvuiiuci mi rem coy, August Flower, for sick headache ami palpitation of the heart, with * ''rictofy'rcsilt't3. P5r several years she has been a great sufferer, has been under the treatment of eminent physicians in this city and Boston, and found little relief. She was induced to try August Flower, which gave iinmedaite relief. We cannot say to much for it." L,. C. Frost, Springfield, Mass. ft Tft ^ Kor SO p!h we will urud hy ninll one of " lour fnmouo Itiu? ami Km orolderlng Ma I rlilni-H w Ith I nixed needle* and pleliiro SECUREI rataloxue or Kiik and Kml?r.ildiry I'al' ? tern*. AGENTS! '' H.?NeUII prleeof Mael; ?ULr|l;>i K. If OSS A CO., Toledo, O. ACUTC mike 10# p?r CI. and irtal'M C1M rillM ASI57J If A TRIFLE. |,1 A kiss he took and a backward look, And her heart grew suddenly lighter; A trifle, you say, to color a day. Yet the dull grey morn seemed brighter. ^ For hearts are such that a tender touch Mav banish a look of sadness; A small, bright thing cad make us sing, ^ But a frown wilJ check our gladness. N The cheeriest ray along our way ct Is the little act of kindness. ,u An I the keenest sting some careless thing |j, That was done in a moment of blin Iness. w We run bravely face lifo in a home where j,. strife tl No foothold can discover, r<. And be lovers still if we only will, 'though youth's bright days are cvor. g( Ah, sharp as swords cut tho unkind words ft That are tar beyond recalling, When a face lies hid 'neath a eottin-lid, si And bitter tears are falling, p We fain would give th" lives we live Ci To undo our idle scorning; t! Then let us not miss tho sunle and kiss When we part in the light of morning. w ?San Francisco Call. ? mVAVS THOUSAND. * BY KOUKUT C. V. MBYER8. y _____ Ol'Elt went along n tbe street with the e V ?'M///K strangest feeling he w T ^SS''9 evcr ba^ 'n b's b ^ ijp' b'c* he wondered o if men with large a sums of money in o ^y^r/rf^' g wk their pockets felt as L y^%K^m.Le,lii1- b [Jf I \ \T)\ \ V A sharp electric d rC \ y ) ) ?\ light Hashed upon a g jeweler's display. 11 With a sort of glow, Itoper felt that he h might go into that shop ami buy any h one of the glittering thiugs he pleased, o Thcu ho laughed. Imagine missus with i' that diamoml star on her calico breast! h Yet it need not be a calico bread. u Rut no. be decided, missus would do without diamonds and a silk dress. Knr f how could he tell her about tlio money? I A hot feeling surged \i|> iuto his face. *t But wasn't the money his? c lie could reason as well as any walk- ci ing delegate he had ever heard, and his 1 reasoning told him the thousand dol- t lars in his pocket belonged to him. r Ha in't he worked faithfully for Boyd & v Co. fur twenty years? ami hadn't old t i Bojd said ten years back that Roper '1 should be remembered iu bis will to the I tune of a thousand dollars? For why? Well, young Tom had comedown to the ^ wharf the day old Boyd said thut, and h fallen overboard aud sunk twice. "A thousand to the mau who saves 1 him,'' cried old Boyd, like a ghost. I' But Roper was already in the water, ^ diving under a boat, and had the boy on !| terra tiriua in tive minutes, miraculously !I escaping the craft that threatened to s suck both of them under. Old Boyd ' laughed then, aim said the ducking 1 served Tom rigiit, and would teach him * to behave himself next time, aud?Oh! ' eh??the reward? Well, he would re- ? member Roper to the amount in his will; ? aud una everybody get to work. Roper had always counted on the ' thousand dollars, and it made missus ' proud, atul Melin and Mary Edith sort of ' neiriMft':. w.ci lioyu uiea 11 montu ago, and missus and the girls and _ Mary luueral cortege quite as though they I were relations, aud Kopcr had got a deceit t suit of black from Isaac Blum, 1 round the corner, and trembled every ' j day wbeu he went down to the wareI house. 1 Trembled for nothing; for when old ' ! Boyd's will was opened it was found that everything went to charity, even Tom I I eins, cut olT with a few dollars. 1 I It was l arl on Hopcr, for Mother Jones, in the lower Hit, iiu.l it on missus ' and luuiiiied ;i the stairs about nennlo I - - ,?,? . who expecte 1 money aud did not got it. Mi- os aud Meha and Maty E litli were | rather cool too; aud missus told him in I private now much in debt they were, and | told it with a sort of satisfaction. Ifoper could not forgive old Boyd. It 1 . I was not that he wanted to be paid for I saving the life of Tom?perish tho 1 I thought? But the promise had been 1 J given, and he had believed his old em| ploycr. j Aud worse had come; for only last ' 1 week Badger, representing Co:, had in toruieu una that sixteen dollars a week 1 for n porter was preposterous, and i that hereafter it would be twelve, arid there were many who would be glad of the place for ten. Ho per brooded over it; could not eat, could not sleep. And now here he had | the tiuuiMiml dollars in his pocket. Oi course it was his, if old Hoyd had made Ins will that day leu years ago there was I not the shadow of doubt but that a thousand dollars would have been be, (pieatlied to the man who at the peri! of j Ins own life bad saved that oi' Torn. ; That the will had not been made ten j years ago was no fault of Koper's; it was I old lloyd's fault. No; it was Tom's j fault?Tom, the scapegrace, wiio had , 1 in hi iy mined his father, and whose ill | : doin:; had .soilre I the old man against ( j I In* world. Hut, any way you could fix I o ii .... i....i. -< " > ??' I > -II IVI|MT S. ? M!4T. was 1 ] i a public charity t I> <I lie not need it ! ' a< much as a church fuml t A church i ! tiiud ! It would go toward building a | nia.nilicont trinple into which (In; poor | and lost would never dare to look, said , | Itopcr. fencer, thai handsomely dressed j 1 li'-li people should go to a beautiful room | J once a week, and hear about lo-t sleep i and sort of thing, and feel pood and ' safe ! It was no charity to icavo money J ! 'or such things, and even the walking delegate couldn't have seen that quicker 1 ! tlinti lie did. There was Tom Boyd cut ! oil with a dollar or two. Where was i 'lie charity in that ? Tom would go to * ! the old hoy faster than ever now, ' and all the finw> liiu 1 1 money would go towards keeping up a handsome church. Tom had looked 1 very rocky to-day when he came down to 1 I lie wharf. Toin would only he clerk there till the end of the mouth, then ho..' * <tv>ttUL ?Q West,. and Badger ^.nouWIr be ?;lad to shake him. Tom had looked , queer when he spoke to Koper this cvrti . mg, ami kept him till all the rest had . ;o?e, and commiserated him on having his wagei cut down. t "And you weren't even remembered I in the will," laughed Torn. "I w.i*." I Koper broke I mm the youn ; fell > v nt I ilie door, and made for home. When j i.u reached the corner, he pulle I himself > together; he had done something lie had ' not done in many years?lie. had leu the ' house to ho looke I tip by some one el-e. I I'nm's stopping iiiin and tantalizing loin t lal rnttlod him. So he went iai, t Tom bad not locked ut?. of course; the t lac? was empty, the gas burning in tbe Hco. Roper went to turn it down to a ar, a? it was usually left, for the bencL of the watchman outside. His hand as on the key of the gas-fixture, when i' noticed that the tire-proof was open, e did not know bow to lock it; that as Tom's function. Dared he leave ic place with that tire-proof open? o; he must stay hce till the watchman ur.e, at auy rate, for there was money i the 6afe; there it lay?greenbacks?a ttle pile. How careless rich people ere with money! There was a paper eside the notes. Me stooped down; 10 paper said tbe money was the rout >r some of old Boyd's property, and had irne too late for the bank to receive it. o this also would go to the church md. Roper picked up the bundle. How :rangely valuable these little bits ol aper were! He turned over the notes,. ounting thoin. Why, there aro just a lousand dollars here, the amount old ioyd had said he would leave hira in his rill. Was this a posthumous righting of wrong? The cold sweat came out on is forehead. He looked round him. fr? there was mi one there. Tom had ecu the last one there?impecuuiaus, 1 temperate Tom, the cut off, angry sou. [e would swear Tom had said good igbtto him on the step?and who had ver known Saudy Roper to lie? Melia as delicate, and had an unpaid doctor's ill; Mary Edith's husband did not get u well, a mere photographer's assistant, ud the photographer's 9hop one of those n wheels; missus owed a good deal, and limn wanted the money for that suit of lack?and here his wages were cut own. His lips were pressed tightly toother. He reached and turned down lie gas, then quickly llared it up to full .end, uud left the counting house. As c went out he dislodged a newspaper n a chair, then reached dowu and placed I just as lie thought it had been. Then ic went into the street, leaviug the door inlocked, as he had found it. Anew recklessness caine to him; ho elt like slapping some one oa the back. Ie came to the jeweler's shop, and bought of diamonds and missus, lie rossed the street, and plunged into a lark narrow way under the cloudy sky. lis head was burning; it was almost as hough he had been to one of the labor uectings and stood treat to a dozen ineu, vho must stand treat in returu. He came o the tall house be called his home. There was Mother Jones in ?ho hall with Mil. "Bill," she said, "go get them onions. Ve ain't having money left to us. And lurry, for it's going to rain." Roper laughed, aud told her it was a urge evening, lie went up to the third loor. There was a buzz of voices there, ilary Edith must have come to speud the iteruoou with her mother. There was ilso a good smell; missus always had oincthing nice for supper when Mary Iditli came. All at once he heard the :oo of a baby, lie stopped short; he ecuicd to have lived this moment boore; he was coming home, missus was etting supper, and their tirst child was gurgling unintelligibilities in the cradle ?little Buster. Then the loolishuess of he thing struck him, aud he threw open lie door. There was missus at the lire; ;heie was Mary Edith with her baby. "ilaiioa, pop!" she said. "That you, Maty Edith?" ho said in . ? j .. .??. ? fou look warm." "You'd be warm, too," sho retorted, "if your eyes were broiling out of your lead." She had turned her eyes upon him, lud she looke 1 as though she had been : ! v iug. Mary Edith was dan Ming the baby, fiicrc was a sort of awkwardness ia the room, itoper went aud took the child. "Look out for her back," cries Mary Edith; "it aiu'i strong." "As if 1 never nad a kid in my arras," laugnei Mnpci, 1 ither uoisterously, throwing the child in the air. "Don't, Roper," said hi* wife from the tire; "she ain't strong. She's bantile i like?" She did not finish the sentence, but turned to the frying pao. M-iry Edith looked conscious. "What lile I little Buster, anyway, mother?"' queried slie, gently. "Spiuem meningitters," answered her mother. "He got it olf of the paste on the bill boards at the corner. He would lilay there. Roper wondered why, in the name of heaven, they had been tulkiug about little Buster! "Where's Melia?"' he askeJ, sharply. "Gallivautin' with Smith?'' "She ain't that kind," said her lister; "and she won't marry Smith till she cau get some new clothes, she told me. .She's upstairs with Mrs. Jordan. Jim's dead at last. It's a mercy, walking like that." "Yes, he did go a little lame," assented Koper. "It was locomoter taxes," voluuleored Mary Edith, volubly. "It's a queer name lor a disease. Say, mother, did he ever work in car shops?" "Not as I ever heard tell of," answered missus, who, going ovet to the table, announced that supper was ready. "Won't wc wait for Melia?" asked Mary Edith. "M'dia's delicate," said her mother, "and pities the n that ha; sickness; besides, Smith's3ister's delie it \ And she's more pityin' than ever to-day because > 011 brought that. Oh, Roper," she hurst out, "don't you know what day ihis is?" Roper had tlie baby in his ar.ns lookng down into its little fajo. Did lie mow wnat day it was? It was the day vhen he had a lhous.nl dollars in his tocket. Mnsus had the card in her land. She came over to hiin. The card vis a Dictum of 11 hi tir?t basiv. urn. i ? E lured from an old d a^uvrVeotype by llary Klith's h isbaruJL * "It's little Hurler's birthday," paid nissus. ".Hfc'd of been t\ve>ity-oight tolay." Roper looked at the tiny face glimpsng out'fiom the curd. "I think of hi n over and over," nissus was going on. "Sometimes vhon I'm busiest, I think of iiitn; someimeu when I see children on the street, I think 01 hiin. How queer it is?he wenty-oight, and me still thinkin' of liin us a bat>y! He was only three. Don't you remember, Roper, low he used to wait up for iou? I'd learnt him his prayers, ind he u-c I to pray tor us all, aud the > iby. You was tiio baby, Mary Kdit'i. Hut most ho prayad for his pop, ne liked >im so. He died in his pop's arms, i-lookin' up in his eyes. Don't you rencuihor, It ?,?er? We used to go to aiurch awhile after that. We used to .. va ? ^L, take you, Mary Edith, and go out to the ?1 cemetery Sundays; w? put clara-sholls 8U nil around the grave, and fish-geraniums tl at the head and foot. We've never been di able to get stone." * b Roper, in a dazed way, thought how little Buster should have a tombstone. "Wasn't it kind of Mary Edith re- ^ tnemberin' it was his birthday?" asked ^ missus. -- v "Oh, don't mention it!" said Mary ^ Edith. "Dick took the photo. He said 5 bo'd never been able)'to do muoh for 0 you and pop, and he was real glad. If he only had three hundred dollars, he could buy out the nicest little stand." . Roper thought, ah, Dick should have 1 that stand, and Mclia should get clothes and marry Smith. t] "But, come, let's have supper," said jj raiesus. "Melia won't be long gone now. ^ Poor child! she's not so well to-day. n Smith's sister was say in' maybe 'lectricity'd help her. Smith's sister wished a she could take it her own self." S( Ah, thought Roper, Melia should f( have electricity; so should Smith's sister. "I wish you lived nearer us, mother," j said Mary Edith. "There's a daisy flat ti down there, only it's more rent." a Ah, thought Roper, they'd take the / daisy flat. They were eating supper t now, the baby swallowing its lists on th > f lounge. But Roper had -not been able to say a word about the tombstone, the} , photographer's stand, the electric treat-' ment, nor the flat?and in his pocket was] the money that might dp everything. , If bis wife had only*M>een in one of| . her tempers he might b&ve?what^ t-. i? i J o l,? Villain* IJU UdVO UV/UC T vvuivt uv tell her about the money? Thero wrs no fear iu him, but a strange bewildermcnt, like nothing else he had ever experienced, and shining through it all were two small clear lights?little Buster's eyes as they had last looked into . liis. Why had missus reminded him of that? Why had Mary Edith romembered it was little Buster's birthday? Then the door opened, and pale Melia came j in. "Poor Mrs. Jordan!" she said. "She's t sure Jim's iu heaven. Everybody's sure < their dead goes there. Weli, Jim did t drink, but be was kind. The last he ( spoke he asked his mother it she wouldn't I please excuse him if he'd ever been cross 1 to her. And he was honest; wouldn't i take a piu that didn't belong to him.1' 1 1'Honest 1" cried her mother. "Whd ' ain't honest? I can say that much for ' Vou. Roper. I've >been a little crisp 1 with you raTcvyr~?*|jveu't I, old man? J Sometimes I think things upsets mo apurpose. Don't tHink of it, Dan, I?" j But she broke down again. "Oh, Dan, it's little Buster. lie? Maybe it's bccAUS8 it's his birthday aDd Mary Edith brought the picture; maybe it's i becuuse of poor Jim Jordan, but the i little fellow seems so near to me to-day. I I'm not cryiu' because he's dead. Roper, i don't think it. S'postfn he'd lived. He'd i uo twecty-eignt. nayue ue a went i wrong. I often think of hira when I see 1 r reelin' man in the street, and when a man's a thief, or the like. It'd a broke 1 my heart if little Buster 'd turned out that a-way. Don't think me a fool, Roper." She had come round to him, and now positively kissed hiifp. The daughters cicb?ygcd glances ana smiled, and went to the baby. ?"Oiin.V.wilA. hiaBflfa. "don't mind about that money you didn't get, don't mind about the lower wages. We'll pull through. Maybe we've been proud over gettin' the money. Let's be proud without it, for we cuu hold our heads high; we're honest, and nobody can say we ain't." Sim left him and went to the girls. Roper sat at the table. Honest! Buster knew if he was honest or not. Jim Jordan knew, old Boyd knew, all the dead knew. Only the living did not. Was little Buster shrinking from him? There was little Buster's picture. He remembered the time the daguerreotype, the original of that picture, had been taken. It was the Fourth of July, an 1 he and missus and the baby had gone to seethe parade. Missus loved him, his girls loved him, nobody bad much .gainst him. But he was poor, he"had ncr? been treated right, and his children needed the assistance he would have been aWe to afford them had he been treated right. And yet?aht those pure shining little lights still shining in his oyes, would they fade away and njver be fouud by him in the huge hereafter? The women were< murmuring ovei Murv Edith's Klcuninrr child, tnlWinir ??j -i r> 1 o about the hard times and the sorrow of being poor. "Poor!" 9aid Roper all at once. "Who's poor? Only the thief's poor." He glared at them, and missus had a word roady for him, when she happened to remember the day. "A thief!" he went on. "I am a thief!" The women were pale. "A thief!" he repeated. "Do you hear? A thief!" I lis wife strode over to him and caught him by the arw. "You lieI"she sternly said. "You are the man I chose for a husbaud; you are the father of my children I" "Let me go," ho cried, "or it'll be the woiso for you. I must go down to the wharf, I tell you. I have something to do there. I?I didn't lock up,and the safe's open,and I saw a thousand dollars there." Missus ran and got his bat. "Got" she said, a strange look in her face. "Got If need be, stay there all night and watch. Don't come home till that tnonoy's safe. Here! take little Buster's picture with you?tako it, I say. Do you bear me? Take it!" Did she suspeot the truth? He would never know. If she guessed at it, she blnincd herself and her old blame of him. Hhe hustled him out, stood at tho head of the stairs till ho bad disappeared. Ho could hardly get lis breath. He tore through tho streets. lie reached the wharf. Yes, eveiything was as he had left it. Not quite; In the office was n man. _* i -??? - i i iwjrnr angered 10 tho sou!?rage for^tlio possible thief there, rage as dire a* man ever experienced. Ho peered through tho glass partition lettin; upon the office, ana fell back?tho man was joung Torn Boyd, his head down upon his desk there. Drunk, thought Roger. Ho went, boldly in. Young Tom never moved. Rogel uttered his name. Then the figure sprang up from the doak. lie caught ltopor ,by tiio throat, but his band slid away, and ho laughed hysterically. J "Randy," hi I'Tre had such a fcaro. Too J That's it in your " pen, aa(l took tho money with you for Jc-keopiug. I?" IIo burst into a trrent of grief. "Sandy, I'm a scounrel. I left that money there for a lind. I uicant to tako it, and fasten 10 guilt on you. You once saved my fe, add to the debt by forgiving a poor retch who will try from this night out > be? Well, worth what you have vice done for him." He put out his and, and caught Roper's. Buster's icture w.&s in Roper's hand, and was ,, lasped bctwoen tbo two palms. I -"Put tho money back into the safe," dd young Tom. Then the storo was looked, and the vo went outside. Young Tom lighted cigar. + "Good-night," he said, quietly* And he two separated. But he called to toper, and came back and shook him y the hand once more; then moved ipidly away. Roper stood for a little while looking fter him in the dnrkuess. Father und on both to ill-treat htm! He almost orgot what he had done. Just then he glauced up to the sky. 'we stars looked out from the clouds hero. He thought of Buster's eyes, ud the guilt that bad assailed him, Lnd Tom had said he would henceforth ry to be worth what be had twice done or him. He! "Lord help us both," he said, irokenl^ 4'youug To:n and me! Ilia Tough hand tightly clasping the ittlo picture, he stumbled on, anxioua o get to uiiasus and his girls. ? Harper's iVeekly. A TRAIhTHELD UP. Ch? Mail Car Robbed and the Postal Clerk Wounded. Birmingham, Ala ? The passenger rain which left here at midnight for Atauta on the Georgia PaciHc Railroad vas held up by masked robbers at 1 >'clock a. ui., uear Weems, ten miles :ast of here. As the train moved away roin the st-ition a robber boarded the en Sine and covered the cngineet with a lie, compelling him to stop on a trestle. 3ne man stood guard o\?r the engineer ind fireman, while several others opened ire on the inside of the train in order to Tighten the passengeis. Another robber mocked on the door of the mail car, do nandiug admittance, which was refused. He then broke open the door, firing at .he postal clerk, who was slightly Woiind:d. Every registered letter lu tlie-car, supposed to contain about two thousand lollars, was takeu. The entire robbery was douc in eight minutes, during which time several of the gang kept Up a tiring inside the train, and tlagmau Qiiiucy Adains came near being killed. The engineer says the robber on the engine was a ii'liil a mini mwl ilio aiAbf ill flral/ cave ftlinf tbc man who robbed him was a mulatto. Officers with bloodhounds ate close on the trail of the robbers. There was 110 express car in the train. Eighty-five registered packages were taken from the mail car, two of wlrch were found by a ramp fire. in the woods near by. Dogs followed the trail of the robbers to Irondale, where the bandits sto'e two mules from a man named Smith, and fled. Three men composed the party. The officers ate in hot pursuit and will ud doubt captuic the robbers. I) II. Hughes is the name of the p stal clerk who was wound? 1 by the robbers. Tho Bluebird. You may expect him anytime after the sun passes the winter solstice. In his musical engagements it is not a matter of dates, but opportunity. It is never a matter of impoi(unity. Who ever heard of a bluebird's song out ol season ? It may be cold aud snowy tomorrow, but his wings tremble io tho nervous ecstasy of the present, and he sings of the bit of sptiug that now is. When the storm comes then he is silent, lie may tke before its breath, or, if it is late in the season, he will fold his wiug, unstring his lute, and uncomplainingly wait till the vernal sun and wind shall come again. But let the merest slit of sunlight gash the cloud, and he warbles forth his greetings, lie has beeu accused of trying to force the season. But it is not that. He is such a lover of tho very promises of nature that he is as twniiB in iinr>f> na fruition. 1 found a group once shivering ngainst a March snow-9torm, late, as the sun was sinking, and stopped to watch them pitting their distress. Suddenly there was some commotion, which I attributed to my presence and scrutiny?a low conversational chatter, a quivering of wings, a few flitting changes of position, and then a gurgle of spring melody among the snow drop?. Astonished, I turned to where the sun should be, and there, on the horizon's rim, its half-disk was burning like a beacon. Two minutes later it was out of sight, the air was gloomy, the snow fell on, but the morrow was a blue-bird day, indeed.?St. Louis Globe-Deinociat. For Tobacco Ruisere. Wasiiinoton. I), iMr. Buchanan, of Virginia, from the Mouse committee on judiciary, reported to the Mouse with the recommendation that it pass a bill repealing the section of the rcvi cd statutes which requires farmers selling leaf tobacco to furnish t? officers of the govenrment a statement of all sales nude, the number of bogheads or pounds, with the name of the person, to whom sold, and the place to which the tobacco was shipped, under penalty of tine and imprisonment. The r >mmittee urn of the opinion that there is no good reasou why these persons should be required to give this evidence, keep or render accounts, make affidavits or be subject to line and imprisonment not imposed upon other persons in the community similarly situated. A Medical Law Unconstitutional. Richmond, Va.?In the Hustings Court Judge Witt decided that the law upon which Dr. Flower, of Boston, was tried for the practice of nvdicinc in the State without a license was unconstitutional. The physicians throughout the i3tate are deeply interested in the case. Briefly stated, his honor decides that Dr. Flower cannot be prosecuted, because he is a non-resident and is only in the State for a few days. If Dr Flower had come into this State ruUndum u? lain he would have had to stand the examina tion required by law. The Innumerable Chrysanthemum. The Japanese cite color varietici of the chrysanthemum, of which sixtythree are yellow, oightv-seven white, thirty-t wo purple, thirty red, thirty-one pale pink, twelve njsset aud fourteen of mixed colors. A fancy prevails in the country that in this flower the same tint is never exactly reproduced, and that in this it resembles tie endless variety of the human countenance,?Garden and Forest, Ths Only One Ever Printed. caw too itwd tub wohd? These la a 3 Inch display advertisement In this paper, this week, which has no two wordsalike except one word. The same Is true of each new one appearing each week, from The Dr. Ilarter Medicine Co. This house places a Crescent" on everything they make and publish. Look for If. send tnem the name of the word and they will return you boob, bkautiful MTHOOKArftS or bamplvs fkbe. Russia has prohibited the exportation of wheat from Finland. It your Back Aches, or you are all worn out, rood for nothing. It Is general debility. Brown's Iron Bitters will cure you, make you strong, cleanse your liver, ana give a good appetite?tones the nerves. Sweden and Norway are preparing to enter the German atttLprotectiomst lo-iguo. .Air. >1. A. Slurry, Wilmington, Del., writes: I had one of my severe headaches and was persuaded to try your valuable (Bradycrotino) medicine. 1 never had anything to ao me so much good for headache." Th* GermanJReicbstagappropriated f85<VC00 for the Chicago World's Fair. The Skill nod Knowledge Essential to the production of tile most perfect and papular laxative rcmody known have enable I tho California Fig Syrup Co. to achieve a great success iutho reputation of its remedy. Syrup of Figs, as it is conceded to be the universal laxative. For sale by all druggists. The brakeuvu want a uniform car coupling adopted. The worst cases of female weakness readily yield to Dr. Swan's Pastiles. Samples fre? Dr. swin, weaver Data, ti ia. Ma tor matthiws estimates that Boston, Mass., will need 113,000,000 for this year's running expenses. Bkeciiam's I'llijs will ctlre constipation, keep the blood cool and the liver in good Wonting order; price 25 cents a box. A Nkhrabea farmer has been aoqutUsd of killing a book agent who persisted in foreinn hi* l<oolc on him. Obstinate B] 1 HAD TERRIBLE ECZE and limbs swollen and scaly like a dead fish. MY SIGHT. After treatment by live physicia S. s. S. AND IT CURED me. My skin is soft gone.?R. N. Mitchell, Macon, Ga. 1 know the above statement to be true.t was for some time troubled with an obs over my face and breast. I consulted physicia At the suggestion of a friend I used Swift's S Was two years ago, and I have had no return < S. S. S. I*1? 4afc,t an(l best rcmed cures by removing the cause, and at the same Swiil for our Treatise, mailed free. The casting out of the devil of disease was once a sign of authority. Now we take a little more i time about it and cast out devils by thousands?we do it by knowledge. Is not a man who is taken 1 possession of by the germ of j consumption possessed of a devi! ? A little book on cakei ul living and Scott's Emulsion of cod-liver oil wiii teii you how to exorcise him if it can be done. Free Scott k Bowks, Chemists, i >? South <lh Avenue. New York. Your druggist keeps Scott's Emulsion of cod-liver oil ?all druggists everywhere do. Jt. 3? Ely's Cream Balm %V I I.I. V V11F. catarrh!--m Apply Balm Into each nostril. ELY BROS., M Warren St., N. Y. BK?^ ^ fi?c) TAKE putt's Tiny Pills: w The flint (Iom often aitonUlMithe ln valid, giving: elasticity of mind, buoy- ^ aucy of body, good digestion, regular Jp bowels and solid flesh* Price, 25ctn. H Plan's Remedy tor Catarrh Is the ^ KMfcg to tli?. and Cheapest. M Hold by druRgtula or seut by mailT^^T 60c. K. T. naselUne, Warren, Pa ^ l|l lnHU|W7 W. L. 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