Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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when comes the nioht. When comes the night, Shall we accuse the sun. Because the gloom oppresses most The soul that glows with lustre lost? And shall we shun The memory of light? W hen comes the ice. Shall wo condemn the rose. That tilled the field with royal bloom. And scented hall and church and toinU When winter throws Ilis ermine round us thrioe? W hen sorrows come Upon us unaware. Shall we reproach the Joy that abed A g! jry where the feast was spread, And In despair Sit silent, sad and dumb? W hen comes the grave, Shall we the cradle curs*. "1 lie ratal day when daylight came, Ke-'HUS" the night of dreaded name, A seooud nurse. Comes stealing down the nave? When comes the word That blast in pain or wrath Our early love or virgin hope, Our hearts may listen, though we grope lu unlit path. To sougs our ears have heard 1 Then brave the night. Which cannot kill the sun, An 1 with undaunte i courage greet The angel's cup, though life be sweet. 'lis quickly done; Come, drain the goblet quite! Ami if a breath Shall cut your love in twain. With robe of tears enshroud the past, And hurl defiance to the bl<st: l'eat down tho pain, Till beaten, thou, by Death! ?W. P. Preble, Jr., in Harper. A WOMAN OF PLUCK, yrTW? HEN early in the H ///$? sPrin8 of 1891, the m \fame of Creede, of I r I the Holy Moses UafQv M mine, aud of the riches to be found 0/// mountains '/% CKpw! round about was ( ;*? \< spreading over the State of Colorado * and attracting some _<nmm attention from prospectors aud speculators, the story came to a quiet little widow, Mrs. Iteid Miller, living in the town of Bedell. She was a native of Vienna, but had been in America for thirteen years, of which time five mouths had been passed in New York City, and the rest in Pueblo, Alamosa, rod other towns of the Silver State. Mrs. Miller had during much of this time sup ported herself and her child, now a boy of six, chiolly by cooking and housework. She had heard over and over again the marvellous stories of quickly acquired wealth in the mining camps of the mountain region, and had been waiting for some time to hear of another ?tnke that she might herself try her luck aloug with the rest who always rush to every new town where opportunities for speculation oiler. The story of the Holy Moses came to her ns did the signal to the Oklahoma boomers. Shu was ready to start instantly, regardless of her own poverty or tho future of the camp. With sufficient bedding and camp kit for herself and boy, and no more, she got on the sled of a freighter with whoin she was ncquaiutcd who was bouud up the valley with goods to tbo uew Eldorado. She was obliged to run in debt for her transportation, but no prospector ever took a grub stake with a lighter heart or more confidence of success than Mrs. Miller in accepting this loan. The outfit with Mrs. Miller reached Creede ou April 1st, 1891. Crcedo at that time consisted of a few houses crowded into tho deep and narrow gulch between Campbell and Mammoth Moun tains. There was no street iu the town ?simply a trail between tho houses,wide enough for a freight team to pass through. The gulch was full of snow and ice; one could tell that a stream was theie only by hearing the roar of the water beneath a deep covering of mixed snow and ice. Mrs. Miller looked over the camp just once?it look her about. half an br?n?. only to decide that she did not waut to remain there. It was too crowded. If ihe camp was to grow it could grew in l>ut one direction?down stream. A few hundred yards below the ruck of shanties, the gulch suddenly expanded into a widening valley that would afford ample building spice for u town. There were indeed, two bouses down there already. Cnarles Born, a prospector, had built a little log cabin there for headquarters, and Loitus & Hastings had opened a saloon. Mrs. Miller determined to go down there and see what she could do. Luckily for her she met about this time a carpenter named Mahoney, whom she had known when living in Bedell. Mahoney asked her what she was going ,1.. 1 -L- 1 ' ? .w uu, ?uu ?u? eaiu sne was going to open a restaurant down below in some way. Straightway Maboney offeredT to build ber a house for the business. "But I have no money," she aaid. "That's all right. Pay me when you get it." Thereupon it was agreed that a log house, 26x40 feet, should be erected among the willows, not far from Prospector Bom's cabijgfor the sum of $110, to be paid whenever Mrs. Miller should : ct it. Maboney began work the next day (April 2), and built the house as promptly and substantially as he would have doue hud the cash awaited the last stroke of the tools. True, it was not much of a house. There was no door, for instance, uid the door had no panels. But it was u good mining camp house, and Mrs. Miller was greatly pleased with it. It had taken three weeks to complete it. One hardly knows whether to laugh or to shed tears when hearing Mrs. Miller tell how she began to run a restaurant in that cabin. "My stove was very old and broken. For a table I had an old door, obtained up town. It was nailed on a short log <>l wood set on end iu the middle of the room. For chairs I had empty bo?es boxes and two or three blocks cut from i log. I had three plates, a tin cup for collee, and enough knives and forks to u;? with the plates. I had one ketttjpand frying pan, and that's all But the . tineas did not care. They said: 'Just ive us what you have and it is all right.' i'hey were very kind to me." Her provisions, including bread, purchased on credit, had to be brought trom Del Norte, forty miles away, down the valley, at a coat of two cents a pound for freight. But she sold from seventy to V one hundred meals a day Tor a good many weeks at tifty cents a meal, and she begau to get ahead a little. The grocery bills were met promptly, and Mr. MaMoney got the $110 for his work sooner Mian he had anticipated. Then a turn came in the tide. The prospectors who had floated in on the story of the Holy Hoses floated away nguiu. The much-talked-of rallroed did not appear. It was told that the road vould not be built at all. Times were ird at Creede in midsummer, 1891, iii cheery Mrs. Miller never shed a tear. "It was berrv time, those days," she sulci: 4,rnspbernes, blackberries. I do 'not know how roatiy. I took my boy and went every day after berries and made jain of them. I knew I could 6ell that any time, but I didn't sell it the way I expected to. before the berries were all gone they began to build the railroad, and then came a rush such a3 you never saw." Meantime, however, Mrs. Miller had had an eje foi real estate speculation. She hud hud four logs placed ou each of four lots, on what is now Oieede aveuue, including the corner of First street. There was no town there?nothing but willows aud creek bottom; the Innd had not then been surveyed out (01 a town, but Mrs. Miller guessed from the lay of the land that that would be a good parcel of laud to tie to. The foui logs on each lot were laid together as for foundations for log houses, and in all mining camps such foundations are re* spected as "improvements" sufficient to give title. Like improvements were made in the two lots adjoining her restaurant. Later in (Julv), having a little inouey to spare, she had each of the Creede avenue foundations raised si* logs higher at a cost of ?62.50. ' They laughed at that little Dutch woman," as they called me, for doing1 that, but I knew what I was about," she says uow. Then came the fall rush, and Mrs. Miller, having no money, piomised to pay ?400 and get her four little log cabins finished. Then she rented her restaurant building to D. II. Bnith, who brought in a stock of general merchandise about that time, and she moved to the little comer building, where she began taking boarders as well as selling meals at all hours. She had a better outfit for the business by this time, but the habitues of the restaurants about Madison square would have considered the place rather crude, nevertheless. The place was neat, however, for a mining camp, und Mrs. Miller kept herself and boy looking well. Hat although a prosperous business was now opeuing lor Her, tier real troubles were at liaad. Hitherto she had to do the drudgery of a kitcheu fro.ii earij morning until late at night, hut now she had to do that and light for the lights she had acquired as well. The novelists and some other raining camp writers tell of the chivalry of mining ramp men, but in un examination of Creede history one finds that it took a mighty long time to develop the chivalry. Mrs. Miller's four cabins were built on a plot 125x125, which was regu'arly surveyed out in November, 1891, under orders of the County Judge of Saguache County. There was a house on each lot, but between the corner house aud the corner was a plot about twenty-live feet square that was vacant. While Mrs. Miller was still at work comiilelimr her cabins, there caine a man ? O ? who hired ft carpenter fit >$5 a day to build a foundation on Mrs. Miller's vacant plot. Mrs. Miller ordered him awny, but he would not go. (Jreedo foundations in those days consisted of slender timbers nailed together so us to euclose the space to be built on, and supported in some cases by blocks of wood. Plenty of such foundations arc still to be seeu. Mr*. Miller watched with many appreiicu nous the carpenter finish the foundation, but, though worried, she was not disheni tcned. In fact, she stood pat, in the vernacular of the town, waiting her turn to go a stack of chips better that would make him draw out in a hurry. While the carpenter sawed aud nailed^ Mrs. Miller weut to tho McDonald Brothers, builders, and contracted witlj them to erect a shanty on this man'tJ foundation. The inau had jumped her claim to the land, hut she jumped his foundation. ?' 1'hey only charged me 825 for building that shanty," said Mrs. Miller, "but I was so poor I had to give thorn one ol my lots up by my old building for pay. They sold the lot in three weeks for 8800. I am glad of it. They did well by me." Still her troubles were not over, even though cash became more plentiful. She accepted an offer of $1500 cash for one of her lota?-the one where D. R. Smith's store is?and at once began work on a foundation for a building that was planned to be the best in town. The railroad ha1 come in November, and the right of way had taken part of her claim. Then a street was laid out next to the right of way, and thus Mrs. Mill?r'? plot to fifty foot im depth. This had been a benefit, however, for it made possible the building of a structure facing throe streets on what were now plainly seen to be the most im |;ui iaut t.ui ucia ui nic uow uivjr. tun growth of C'reede at that timecau be appreciated only by those who saw oil-well towns spring up in Pennsylvania, the rush in Oklahoma, or some such enterprise. People were comin? into camn by the hundred every day, and the rush for lots to build on was indescribable. No sooner did Mrs. Miller tear away her cabins and set men to work building a foundation for the new business block than a jumper, with a lawyer, came tcf blulf her out of her property. To give an idea of this woman's character let it be said that she asked the reporter not to mention the jumper's name. "I beat him; that's enough,"she said.' This is how she beat him: The man with hi9 shyster told her he had purchased the lots of the town company, and that she was only a squatter nud must vacate. She said she would do uothiug of the kind She knew her rights, and would stand by them. The man said he would bring workmen, and begin building. Mrs. Miller defied him. He came, however, as he had said ho would, and the supreme moment of Mrs. Miher's career iu Creede was at hand. As the man and his shyster and men with picks and axes appeared, Mrs. Miller walked out with her boy by her side,and a revolver in her hand, j ''1 will blow the brains out of the first I mat that puts a pick in that founda1 ' t ii," sue said in a voice heard a block i * ay. The shyster began to pti lev,and tue man ordered his workmen to begin work. A great crowd, hundreds, gath- n ered instantly, for it was a wild time in Creede then, nud a call tor trouble brought the throng as if by uiagio. A As Mrs. Miller showed the revolver the workmen hesitated, and for a brief moment there was a pause, while men n of all social grades looked on in silence. The workmen were again ordered to proceed, and again thoy hesitated under tho muzzle of the revolver. Then oame the end. Borne one in the crowd shouted: (tMrs. Miller has fed many a man when he was broke,and never asked him a cunt. Let's duck tho jumpers in the ^ creek." A howl of approval arose in answer, and the jumpers made haste to slip c< through the crowd and sneak away. Mrs. Miller had an offer of $5000 cash in February for two of the lots which 8' she had held to with the aid of her re* c< volver?there is no doubt about the aid of the revolver; any man who looks into her laughing gray eyes sees the will De- pi hind them when it is aroused?and she sold the n at once. She had now money P enough to go on with her building. Tho work began the first week in March, and w on April 1st she began to draw $500 a ti month in advance from the rentals. B< Tho building is fifty feet square, and, as said, fronts on three streets. It is s neat frame structure, two stories high, 5 with lofty ceilings, large windows, twe Qj large rooms on the first floor, and a j broad, easy stairway leading to th< second floor, whero there is a wide hall and nine large well-lighted offices. It it ^ much the best building in town at thii writing. The total cost was $4000. . Mrs. Itoid Miller, on April 1, 1891, reached Creede too poor to pay th? ^ freighter who brought her here. In exactly one year to a dnv she was in re- ? ceipt of nu income of $500 a month and 0j had a suug sum in bank. Rut the story w is not all told. She might have had s ^ greater income, but deliberately refused ^ it. As her buildiug approached completion, President McDonough of the First ' National Rank offered her $150 a month for the corner room on the first Hoor for lj the use of the bnnk. While she considcred the offer a matvcame and offered her $.'150 a mouth for the same room, j0 that he might jpen a gambliug resort 3l there. Mrs. Miller refused the gambler's m offer because she thought that a respect- Q| able business would in the end prove the most satisfactory. ^ This is not all of Mrs. Miller's property. Along in February the State Land Commissioners sold a half section of land adjoining Creede on the south tor the benefit of the Colorado State School P* Fund. The scones at that sale were "i wonderful to behold. More than 7000 ^ men and some women attended and wcut ^ wild with excitement. Hundreds were ruined by the prices they paid for unimproved willow swamp land. Corner lota brought from $2000 to $7000, according *D to location, while the rest sold down in the hundreds. Mrs. Miller atleuded the sale and bought a dry lot at the foot of 1 Mammoth Mountain for $145. One has only to walk over the school sections, as Ia it is called, to see that the lot is well chosen, and, considering the prices the ,n rest paid, very cheap." It should be said, w' however, that there was no great disposition shown at the sale to bid against ln the women; but, on the other hand, '! Mrs. Miller would have paid an extrava- 651 gaut price. in, On this lot Mrs. Miller has built two cottages, front nud rear, at an expeuce th of over $700. The front house is one- >tl story high, lias a bay window and two aa verandas and three largo rooms, besides te smaller ones. There is no neater-looking cottage in town. It is to be rented. iu She will probably get fifty dollars a gc month for it while the boom lasts, and m thereafter a good return on the money. in The rear cottage is made of rough lum- pe her and contains two rooms. Mrs. Mil* w ler rents the front room and lives in the tl rear room with her boy. She will start it for Vienna in a short time to visit her t>( father, who is still living there, but she inter ds to return to Orcede very soon.? j< NViv York Sun. '.li ,1 )J i?re?Iglng For Sunken Treasure. :t A Bostou syndicate is operating a lu dredge iu Hell Gate, New York City, f for the purpose of rocoveriag an alleged ^ i n nense amount of gold shipped by the 'r Governor of Jamaica to the Bank of England in a vessel called the Bucking- P' ham in 1812. On account of a gale the vessel had to seek refuge in this port and ^ tho war of 1812 broke out before she fe got away. 8bo tried to make a night ,u escape through Long Island Sound and "?; sunk near Flood Hock in Hell Gate. Her !r mate escaped and settled in Boston. After he died a chart was found among 1 his papers which purported to show where the Buckingham went down, and t grandson of his is interested in the present search for her remains. Tho ^ dredge is in command of Captain Vi Symonds, who has recently been search- ^ ing for some of Captain Kidd's buried treasure near the well known Wentworth House in Newcastle, N. H. The loss of the Buckingham was renorted At T.lnvrla >1 ? 1 J ?I but her cargo was stated to be rum, 11 sugar and W. I. goods, of the value of ?50,000, uo mention being made of 11 gold. It is lield that the Governor or $' Jamaica shipped the gold secretly, Ic ,u tending to follow and enjoy it in person. w ?New Orlean? ?lcayune. ,e w Kpeeil of the i'ulse. n The rate of pulsation depends entirely >? on the movements of the heart, each h representing a contraction of the left ventricle. The normal pulse of the v adult male varies from sixty to eighty beats in the minute; the range of indi- c vidual variation is, however, very great. ' The range in females is even greater, lt some having a pulse rate of over eighty, " others less than sixty, the majority show- { inir u Kit/hMr rafp fhnn moloa 11 ?n ? ?5"w' In children the rate is more frequent: < At birth, 128 to 144; first yeiir, 180 to ' 130; at sixteen yeais, ninety. In old age the pulse is usually above seventytwo, but often also between fifty and :1 sixty. The pulse rate is higher in short 8 than tall persons, and also varies somewhat with the time of day, independent |l of meals and movemeut?diminishing in } tbe forenoon, rising in the afternoon, y sinking during the night and rising in ( the morning. Habitual pulse rates be- j low fifty-six and as low as foity-six have j been observed in healthy adults, but | they aie rare exceptions. We know of no case on record of a healthy pulse so j j low as thirty. ?Brooklyn Eagle. The stockmen of South Dakota hav? recently imported fro ti Tennessee a no in- i ber of Russian wolf hounds to help in the extermination of wolves, which havr Iof iare been killing numbers of calves and coll*. I . i iEGGARS MADE TO ORDER. V RBOTTLAB TBADS IN THB PRODUCTION OP CBIPPLE3. renk-I/tmb?a Children ( Operated Upon and Mired For B6KKlnK Purposes?At y?e Gingerbread Knlr. I" ' ~T" OW true it is that one-half, of r^'l the world V>. not the faintest ^ I idea how tWjrcther half livesl (Any' one--5tno. wishes a conrmation of this maxim has only to see le sight which I hare just seen at the Gingerbread Fair," writes a Paris >rrespoudent of the New York Journal. This fair is a species of survival of the [iddle Ages. It is annually held on the reat Place do Trone, and the peasantry >mes from dozens of miles around toatind it. Invigino a country cattle show inultilied by about live hundred, and you ive some idea of the "Gingerbread air." Long lines of booths filled with rery conceivable kind of rustic show, ith acrobats, jugglers, . tiro-waters, tmblers, circus riders and historical :tors, display their gaudy signs and :nopt the gaping peasant to entqr. And rery where there are mountains of ingerbread, made into quaint grotesque inures of men and women, or elephants, r camels, or windmills, or fishes, or ragousl There is something Chinese in the Idity and childish in the simplicity of lit fmiry to whiph ft!By '^BNtViouiMJuta.of shionable Parisians pay one visit at ast before it closes. Not many people are admitted to see ie curious spectacle which I saw in a soth at th6 baok of the fair yesterday, was a colony of professional beggars, 1 the peculiar variety known ss the ooden bowl men. "Sawed-offs"' would j the American vernacular for them, nd the name certainly strikes one as iproprinte, when he sees the curious, himsically de.ormed creatures hopping >out. under his very feet, looking up in s fticc,nud in a whining voice demand* g alms. These beggars have either lost their wcr limbs entirely,or they arc withered paralyzed, so that each man, and wo nu, iwu, |iisisui> luu singular spwiicie the linlf of a body seated in a largo oodcn bowl, to which it is strapped, he cripplo then propels himself or herIf by using the hand as feet, and raakg the bowl clump, clump, clump along rer the pavement*. It is almost im ssible to refuse oharity to one of these imble creatures when you find him ocking the way at the entrance of a lotb. I found so many of these personages the tair that I was astonished. I conuded that they must know each other, d have some general place of rendexus. So I looked them up. I found, ns I suspected, that there was great gathering of these cripples to vork" the fair. They were under the re of one man, who gave them regular jekly wages, and very good ones, too. d who was coining a fortune out of sat they brought in. About forty of em in a good day's work, would turn nearly a thousand francs ($200),which lowed more profit apparently than any tnblishment ou the ground was mak* ? i vonrtrrca to trxprs* ?Q?t uptuiwu ? e rnau who had charge of the 'sawedis." and who, l4for a consideration," d introduced mo to some of the more nowned of the beggars. "The investment is heavier than you pp?sc," this man said, "for before a ?od beggar of this kind is ready for the arket he represents quite a large sum tnau* luoio wcio |JiOUbJ Ui IUU8Q iculiar cripples in the Middle Ages, lieu the making of artificial limbs was most unknown, and they used to get lout very quickly iu their wooden >wls. 4,Iu modern days these cripples are >L numerous enough for business, so ieio is a company which produces them f artificial means. Most of these poor eatures whom you see hopping about i their bowls come from Spain, and thi reater part from tho villages near olosa, not very far from the French onticr. "The agent goes around amcng the ior families in search of children #vitk cue slight defect iu the lower limbs, e finds a good many fn the course of a ar among the peasantry, and he perades the parents to let the child be ased for a term of years. This is genally accompanied with the condition at the child shall be transformed into wooden bowl cripple, but sometimes 13 pareuts are deceived. ii trie cDUd has withered limbs they iey are amputated, and in six months le child is a first-class sawed-off, proded with a terrible story of a "frightil accident," and he works tho large ties for years with great sucoess. "If the limbs are simply deformed, ie 'beggar makers,' as they are called, lerate on the child by compressing the nbs with bandages until they wither, opping the circulation of the blood ttle by little.^TlSis^^done with the taded to undergo the torture by the isurance that, having sacrificed theralv js for the good of their families, they ill certainly go to Paradise. This is ie great argument also nsed with the others to coivince them that they igtit to permit their offsprings to be sforined. "The families receive an annual sum luivalent to the interest oa $400 or be sawed-offs are proud of their proission. Some of them, when they reach >uir majority, go into busiaeia for them :lves, and accumulate fortenos by workig the public skillfully., Others an ept down by their vi^cs?they are lostly fond of drink?and remain in a ind of apprenticeship all their lives. Iiey seem to lire as long as anybody se. 'Sometimes a father will not Met'hli tnld abort of one or two francs daily, ut the wages rarely run so high as that "Every year a-aacavan, as it is called, 500, and consider jlemselvee well paid. f these sawed-offe 1s soot up North, ibout three huudaed children are opera i>d on every year. That is barel; nough to keep the market going, for,' dded my informant with a little sigh there is a great mortality among 'em.1 It seemed to me that it must be so, at hough one sawed-off, strapped to i hair, suddenly "humped himself," af er the cook, who had given him some hiog that he did not like for his break ust, and by the vigorous manner it hich he moved the chair legs I con tided that he at least had vitalit nigh for a long life. "That man. aid my instructor^. "can go downstaii on that chair without touching the balustrade." UNCLE JERRY IS PLEASED. Germany's Consumption of American Corn Quintupled Within a Tear. , Washington, D. C,?Uncle Jerry Rusk is greatly pleased over our increased exports of corn to Germany. Figures from German sources show that in the first quarter of 1891 Germany took 1,111, 424 bushels, and in the fbst quarter of 1892 5,847.852, an increase of 4,789,428 > bu-he a. Referring to this showing, the 8ccro?ary observed that it was extremely i gratifying as iudicnting the value of the work on behalf of American corn in Germany, and tha' it was, indeed, more than any one could have expected in so short a time. Col. Murphy having been transferred from Great Britian to Germany only in October, 1891 "Measuring the results,'*%aid the Secretary, "by the appropriation pr ^vided therefor by the last Cougrcss, we have inercnsed sales of nearly 5,000,0';0 bushels of corn, as the result of $625 cxp nse. "The truth of the matter is," he adde'd, "that this work ought to b- pushc t earnestly and simultaneously in all the c untrics of northern and central Europe." New Industries in the South. The last of new Southern industries in 1 this week's issue of the Baltimore Manufacturers' Record includes the following - more important items: A $50,000 salt company otOlitUa, w Va.; a $30,000 manufacturing company at i harlottesville, W Va.; a $50,000 merchandise company at New Orleans, La.; a $12,000 manufacturing company at Middlesborough, Kyi; a $5,000 lumber company at Little Rock, Ark.; a $100,000 manufactuiing company at Grand Rivers, Ky. ; a $100,000 electric-light and power company at El Paso, Texas; a $40,000 ice, light and water works company at Orange, Texas; a $50,000 grain company at Sherman, Texas; a $100,000 coal and coke company at Dallas, Texas; a $200,000 phospate mining company in Florida; a $10,000 lumber company, a $100,000 sad- , dlcry company, and a $500,000 abattoir I and pa king company at Dallas, Texas; a $250,000 coal mining and ceke making Luiu|muj in ? cot tiigiuin, n f?lV,l/VU e* celsior manufacturing company at Besse- 1 mer, Ala., and a $500,000 copper mining company in North Carolina. WISE WORDS. Imitation is the siucerest flattery. Gratitude in one of the rarest c! virtues. As soon as we form a habit we have a master. Every sin that is not forsaken marries and raises a family. The best way to teach children to do good is to show them how. Friendship is the gift of the gods and the most precious boon to man A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it. Never lose your temper. Nobody wants it; all have enough of their own. The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn. The man who has the right kind of W18 llO 111 OO VOl matxwJ CLfO ftoiao iuio$ako twice. The more you love yourself the better, if you love your neighbor to the same extent. Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happlucss makes them good. Half the gossip of society would perish if the books that are truly worth reading were but read. There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate,nor pain which death does uot terminate. If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune, for, though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. As riches and honor forsake a man,we , discover him to be a fool, but nobody Could And it out in bis prosperity. Blasting Stumps. The method of blasting stumps by common blasting powder is to bore a hole into the stump with an auger two inches in diameter. This hole is charged in the usual way and tamped with sand, leaving space for an iron screw having a hole through it ior the fuse, to be screwed down on the tamping. The charge breaks up the stump, and the screw is ready for use again. One screw will last for years. It is easily found after the blast, generally in the hole in the part of the stump that is split off.?New kork Timet. Out His Throat in a Hotel. CmcmNvri, O.?The dead body of J. W. Woodbridge, of Austin, Tex , was found in his room at the St. Paul hotel. He bad cut bis jugular vein with his Enknife some time during the night. the dead man's pockets were $1 799 in cash and several letters addressed to M. a* gjUw&ni.. The flault Ste. Marie Ceoat will coil $4.000.000. T? CIiiih the Hralms Effectually T?t gently, whan costive or billons, or wben the blood U Impure or slagglsh. to permanoatly our* habitual ooastipati on, to awaken tbe kidneys aal liver to a healthy nativity, without irritating or weakening these, te dtspel keadeehee, eeld or fevers, ass AM* thinks Staler, of the Bostons, Is the best pitcher b< has Men tbia year. ! Tke Oalf Oie Iter PrlatM. CAB YOU rtWD THE WORD? These is a 3 inch display adveri isement in this paper, this Meek, which has no two words alike except one word. The same is true of Sich new one appearing each week, from The r. Harter Medicine Co. This bouse p aces a "Crescent" on everything they make end pub1 llr'~ Look for it, send them th? n ime of the word and they will return yon book, bfaijtirct IjItroohaphb or SAMPi.ts raxr.. ( t Cbinambi* bare been Imported into BeL gium to replace striking iron workers. t Thousands Of dollars I spent trying to And a cure for Salt FUieum, which I had 13 yearn. Physicians said they never saw so severe a case. M y legs, back and arras were covered by the humor. I began to take HOOD'S SAR8AMr. 8. G. Derrj. more h?lh tli)'. tlie sores toon healed, the acales foil n off, 1 was noon sole to give up bandages and crntches.and a liapny man 1 was." S. O. Dr.it*Y, 4& Bradford Street, Providence, R. f, HOOD'S PILLS cure liver ill*, const Ipag Uon, blliousnsss, jaundice and hick headache. Hydrophobia Cared. An experiment, succeMfuilj tried by Professor Murri, of Milan, at the Institution for the Cure of Hydrophobia, has awakened the liveliust interest in medical circles in Europe. A man who had been bitten by a dog, and had undergone the Pasteur treatment, was, nevertheless, attacked with hydrophobia. Paralysis had already set in from the waist downwards, and bis life was despaired of, when Professor Murri thought of making subcutaneous injections of the virus inr its fixed form. Little by little all the serious gymtome disappeared, and the man is now cured.?Picayune. ? Deafness Can't he Cared By local Applications, as they cannot roach th? diseased portion of the car. There Is only ont way to euro deafness, and that is by constitn tlonal remedies. Deafness is caused by an in flamed condition of the mucous lining of tin Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets In. flamed you have a rumbling sound or imper feet hearing, and when it is entirely closed deafness Is tho result, and unless the inflam. mation can bo taken out and this tube ra stored to its normal condition, hearing will Is destroyed forever; nine cases out or ten art caused by catarrh, which 1b nothing bnt au la flamed condition of the mucous surfaces. Wo will givo One Hundred Dollars for an] case of deafness (caused by catarrh) that wi cannot cure by taking Hall's Catarrh Cure Bend for circulars, free. P. J. Cheney St Co., Toledo. (X Bold by Druggists, Hoc. Bao ctthxm , of Brooklyn, did not strlk* out in nineteen games. Bnown'S Iron bit term cures DyspeedaJIaUh rla. Biliousness and General Debility. CHvas Btrength, aids Digest Ion, tones the nervss? creates apugtf*1 Th* Janlo for Nursing Mothors. w?s women and e&lrirsh. m Tna nfcliShns iron thirteen straight rla tori en and then were defeated by the Pitt*bur*. _?*5Cn^M'8 l!,tV?.'lre a painless and effectua remedy for all bilious disorders. 25 cents i box. For sale by all druggists. In Massachusetts the demands of organised labor nave secured the paasage of thirtr-flve laws during the last fire years. mai.akia cured and eradicated fr >m the system by Brown's lroi Bitter.-, which enriche,-. the blood, tones the nerves, aids dlgeetion. Acts like a charm on persons in general 111 health, giving new energy and strength. Thb Bostons laok the weight and strength for a hard fight. VVm. Spraguc Smith, Providence, R. I? srrites: I And Hrndycrotine always cures lead ache. All druggists, fifty cents. The League has sanotioned Sunday boll. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr.Isaac ThompBon's Kyt>-water-Druggists sell at 25o.per bottle My-^fOWv ?looA?I had a malignant breaking out on my '?! below the kneetand was cured sound and wel with two and a half b?l,ll,e?0j Other blood medicines had failed BSBSd to do ire any good. Will C. IJeaty, Yorkvillc, S. ( I was troubled from childhood with nn 6| fcravated rase of Totter* and throe putties S cured me permanently. walt.a' m m anw, ___ Mtnuvillc. I. cS' "??k I U?r hnn.u. ln|nr? th? Iron, ana burn off. I The Riving Stiu Biotj RnlUh U Brilliant. OdorI teM. Durable, and the consumer pays lor no tin I or t>aa* package with every purchase. "August Flower" "One of my neighbors, Mr. Johr Gilbert, lias been sick for a lonj time. All thought him past recovery He was horribly emaciated from thi inaction of his liver and kidneys It is difficult to describe bis appear affiAO att/4 !?? r-t - t-I. nuw anu LUC llll^CictUiV: MrtlC UI Ul! health at that time. Help from an) source seemed impossible. He tried your August Flower aud the effect upon him was magical. It restored him to perfect health to the great astonishment of his family and friends." JolmQuibell, Holt, Ont 4 o 9mo ? A torpid liver I* the source of djrspep i a, sick headache, constipation, piles, A bilious fever, chills and Jaundice. ' Tutt'sTiny Pills! V hare a specific effect on the llrer, re* V storing It to healthy action. DScto. > >?> >! All If I'KO, Cancers.doers,Skin Diseases, Boat VII Lit nffec'loss, all taourabts sores.oured.WrtU at ones Jao.W. tllilne,Chun be rabur(,Franklin Co., Pi s1bT? In. Uoolr}, Joool of Jcwtlrf good u new, ? ?! Wad. 1 (Mini wtit gold.otlTtr or olehol. lfc ooporhnno. Wo coalul. Ivor bono* hu goodo Bonding putlog. H.O.Dotro S Ct>..oeoabao,< Advice to Womiji If you would protect yourself from Painful Prnfnco Qcontu livrxa H....UI) lV.w?V| wr^namy, Suppressed or Irregular Menstruation you must use BRADFIELD'S^ FEMALE 1 REGULATOR j Cartbhsvii.i.b, April m, 1806. Thin will certify that two membere of my Immediate faintly, after having Buffered for rear* from Itlenalrnal Irregularity, being treated without benefit by phrsletana, were at length completely onrea by on? bottle of IlrndllMd'e Female Reaalator. lie effect Is truly wonderfuL J. W. Btrarob. Book to " WOMAN " mailed mil, wbloh contains valuable information on all female disease?. BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO.; ATLANTA, OA. MOB BALB or ALL VHVBBXMXB. Pneumatic I ^ JOHN P. LOVELL ARMS OO ;: 3ag Set right ? all tho proper functions of wot manhood. Dr. Pierce's Favorite > Prescription is tho remedy. It ; regulates and promotes their ac> tion, and removes the obstruc1 tions and suppressions whioh cause trouble and misery. At the two critical periods in a woman's life? J the change from girlhood to womanhood, and, later, the "change of life" r ?it is a perfectly safe and an es\ pecially valuable remedial agent, that can produce only good results. It's a powerful, invigorating tonio, and a soothing and strengthening 1 nervine; a legitimate medioine? purely vegetable, perfectly harmlees?and carefully adapted, by an experienced physician, to woman's _ deljcate needs. \ , For~airtKe^dmmge#anmu;'iVrega, larities, and weaknesses peculiar to the sex, the " Favorite Frescripuon " i is a remedy so certain that it can be 1 guaranteed. If it doesn't give satisfaction in every case, the money is returned. No other medicine for women is sold in this way. No other medicine can be. rwi line Mr OktHTk kite Rent. Hilit to Uaa. and ttMpwl J Bold by druifliU or MDt by mill. MT Mo. K. T. aunlttno. ffirrw. Tm. M BETTER DEAD THAN ALIVE. Dutcher's Fly Killer Is certain death. Files are at' tracted to It and killed at once. They do not live to get away. Use It freely, destroy their egg* and prevent reproduction. Always ask for Dutcfcar's and get best results. FKED'K DUTCHES DRUG CO., . St. ALiaiw, yr. rsssteasee?sssseee?essesssse P?rtfy tba blood. are safe and tt lectnal. The best general family ^ I medicine known for Biliousness. ? : JS5.' I of Anpetlle. Mental Depresses, Painful Digestion, Pimples, Sallow i 1 " Complexion, Tired Keeling, and1 1 ' CTery symptom or disease resulting from Impure I blood, orarallure by the stomach. Liver or Intestines . to perform their proper functions. PersonsJrtyen to . , o??r eating are benefited br taking aTABl'Lr.aftsrJ each moal. Prloejjy mall.I rrosslt; l bottlelfc. fid- , I ' drsssTHEIUPAlhlCHKkhCAI.CO .lOftpruoeSt.JLT. I i i Agents Wanted! EIVIITY per rent prsflt. | u??tassstssStMSSSsSssss?ssMSSI Btmplfi Cake of Sogpund l? page Book on Denuato'.ogr and Beauty; Illustrated; /urnnmillno?^BH^ on wll4n< Sscaip, Nervous /JiHVUBUnrS^^^A and Blood diseaaeasent /aiAjjoAP^Bn'XX.;,^' fg t ig% llirth Marka, Molea, IHr ^K?TiWB!i?'arU, India Ink and |7 J^,p l*I Powder Marka, Rears, ritr 1 / as rmnTlflll ^t/J Unas,Redness of Nose, Stk1 I l^D. flli'nr^r perfluous Hair, Plmplsa. * ' JT ?-? - M. Weodbarv, MP/id> Dermatologist, l'JJ w. - EfffeMrgll 4lid St., New York OMg. | f* Conaulte.tKon free,Stomas the hiaagk'only true \ eSf IRON WTONIC 'Will purify BLOOD, rgrnlatf KIDNEYS, remove LIVKB disorder, build strcutrtli. renew appetite, restore health and virorofyouth. Dyspepsia, In<l laest I on, that tired feellnjr absolutely eradicated. Mind brlghtonod, brain power Increased, ft lift IP A bones, nerves, mus IIILv cles, receive new force. I lllr Y suffering from complaints peLR If I LlJ collar to their sex, ualuKlt, ?n<I 1 _ a safe, speedy cure. Return* . rose bloom on cheeks, beaut! flea Complexion. ? Bold everywhere. All genuine goods bear >,Crescout." Bend us2 cent stamp for 32-par* pamphlet. 0 ? 41. HARTKR MEOICINB Co., SL Louis. Nft, ! IF YOU "*~ (iwm CHICKENS | YOU WANT TZ> A AT" TUE1R 4 THEM TO-* JL w A Y I et*n If you ruarely keep them as a diversion. In ot" der to handle Fowls jtidlclourly, you must know aometblng at out tl.cm. To niiel thla want wear* | telling a book kirlng llie experience t AmIw OCa ' Of practical poultry rnlM-r fort""! J (OBi twenty Ave year*. It wax written by nman who put ) all hla min i, autl time, and money to making a sue eataof Chicken ralaing?not aaa pastime. t ut ax a buatneae and If you will profit by Ma twenty-flea | yaara' work, you can save many Chicks aanually, '' Mmirtnt C^tckent ' tm4 make your Powla earn dollar* for you. The point la, that you mtixt be able to detect trouble la be Poultry Yard ea aeon as It nm r?r?, and know how to remedy It. Thla ook will teach you. It tella bow to detect and cure dlreaac, tv feed for gggeand alao for fattening', which tow It loaarefor breed Id* purposes; and ererythln*. Indeed, you gbouid know on tt la subject to make It profitable. eat postpaid for twenty Ave cents In ic. or | Book Publishing House, | 135 l.BONAKD ST.. N, Y. Ctty. 8 N 1' 24 LMOHO CYCLES. OQcS md Cantn. Sli itylaa g% n \Wt Duahlon and Solid Tiros. Ull I \ rt?, StM Drop Forging, Sim I^S. It bin BtH Bttring, toil' running port* 4 It Sutp?n?ion Stddl*. MP JIQH QRADK in Every Particular. I \ In (Uap4 for onr lOO ptge llluilmlrd mta-l it, Hlflet, Karolrrrt, Sporting ttoodt, ?4e. j |^B Nlfrs., 14/ Wellington St., BOSTON. MUSS