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tbars. Not In the time of pleasure Hope doth set her bow; Rut in the slrv nf anrm* Over the vale of woe. Through gloom and shadow look we On beyond the years: The son! would have no rainbow Had the eyes no tears. ?John Vance Cheney, in the Century. THE AUDITOR'S WIFE. IQ-H GIRTED "Silo" Burton was "in the hands of his t-JQM M friends" for the fourth time, after the I ,U/i ancient and honor* WfitfJ custom of can\P"fft^> didatea 'or political y\ ' \ Jf ^ preferment. cif*. " ^ That Sile Burton, t auditor of Apache / County, was m the hands of his friends jff A was literally true, on ' " ' this particular occasion, for Site was a very sick man. It was his own fault, that is, he had no business to go, as he did, with Sheriff Tom Owens, to suppress that riot over in the Bloomer District, last month. It was not in the line of his duties. But, then, the call had been a hasty and imperative one, and poor Tom was short i." deputies as well as being pressed for time, and Sile could hardly have refused to go even if he had wanted to, which be did not. He enjoyed a little row as well as the Sheriff himself did, and, bosides, he was one of the most obliging incn in the world. So ho went, and not only got hit with a club or something, but received a 44-bulletin his interior department, while Tom and the rest of tho posse escaped without a scratch. one wa3 better now, and could think with considerable facility; which was unfortunate, perhaps, because his thoughts were mostly of his expiring term of office and his helpless condition. It was pretty tough, everybody agreed, because it was going to be a "closo" year, and Sile was a great worker. His friends, ioo, unfortunately were kept pretty busy looking out for their own scalps, and could not give his affairs the attention they needed. There was the last payment still duo on the house; there was "paper" in the bank to be taken up; Sile Burton was in a bad financial way, because, in addition to being what is known as a "good fellow," he had made some unfortunate investments lately, and now, to complete his misery and overflow the cup, Brad Boutwell, of Chloride District, had come out, in his sneaking but effective way, for Jcre Ilobart for county auditor, and was working night and day for his man, who had hcen Si'e's strongest opponent in the last convention. Ob, it wns rough, and here wns Sile, lying helpless, with the nominating convention only two weeks away! All this, and much more, Sile poured into the tats ol his pretty little wife, as 6he hovered over liira attending to his many wants, in the way that nobody but a woman, and a womanly woman, ever will learn. She did not say so, but alio lmd a talk with Tom Owens that day, aud he had ngiced with her that the outlook was pretty blue; for Brad Boutwcll, boss of the Mouutain Girl and two lesser mines, employer of three huudrcd men aaii an entirely unscrupulous politician, was about the worst man in the county to have on the other side, aud lie had assured Owens that he certainly intended to defeat Burton's rcnomination, and "that's all there is in it. It goes, too, what Brad Boutwell says: and you know it, Tom Owens. Yes, Tom did know it, and he knew that without Boutwell liisowu uauie was "Dennis,"for he had not the strength in the precincts near town that Burton had. C. . 1 >.< l...n<1o timl n ml Iwi Artill/l /"I A kj' i ill? iitiuus n ciu u^u, uuu iiv v/uuivt vtv nothing for bile in the Chloride District. Mi?. Burton said nothing to Sile of Tom's visit to the boss of Chloiide. She closed his complaining lips with a kiss every norv and theu, and chirped away as cheer fully as though mortgages, and unpaid notes, and big surgeon's bills, and conventions had never a part in her li'c. And nil this time she kept up a "blame tight o' thinkin',"- as Tom Owens used to say to his wife, who was alto an ardent admirer of the little "tenderfoot" bride Sile Burtcn had brought from the States a few months ago. Sile Burton was sleeping soundly text morning, when his wife, the usual simlo gone from her face, stole up to his bedside, kissed him softly two or three times, and ran over to the Owens's. It was not until ten o'olock that he awoke and noticed that the woman bv the window was not Mary, but Mrs. Owens. And he did not know that this kindly, big-hearted woman fibbed when she told him that Mary had "just gono down to the Springe to get a prescription filled that they couldn't put up here, and would be back on the two thirty train." Tom Owens, with tho buckboard and fab-ttfin, jTanott tfucance^irbm chloride Camp. A pretty little woman, stared at respectfully by the numerous men loafing about?for women were scarco in Chloride, tripped down tho street, trying to look unconscious, and entered the door of Brad Boutwell's office. It wa3 the noon hour, and he was alone, on gngvu in uie pleasurable occupation of disposing of an excellent luncli. He heard the hesitating step in the outer ? dice, and stepped to the door of his sanctum, where he stood, somewhat taken aback at the sight of his visitor. It was several seconds after her sweet voice had asked *'Is thio Mr. Boutwell?" that he recovered his equanimity and gracefully acknowledged the fact. "I am Mrs. Burton?Mrs. Silas Burton. I came to see, you?to?to?" But her courage gave out for the moment, and she did the very best thing she could have done?just wept a few rn) lt%Tt\r\r* f ra arhiln Hia eumnotKnf Houtwcll, Tilmsclf said, "My dear madam ed" her, stammered, grew red io the face, vaguely felt hiimeir a triumphant ass, and finally lod her gently to a chair, where she finished her weep. Then she pulled herself together and told hira the whole pitiful talc. It was, indeed?thought Boutwell, who ha., always hurl more money than he hao known what to do with?a hnrrowlu-; v'utc of affairs; and so, his brchcloi eartoverflowing with sympathy for thr i nor, frightened little emissary who sal before him, and being, it must be said, lather unsettled by this extraordinary viait, he agreed, almost before he knew it, to let tbe affair alone, and switch th? 1 ambitious Hobart off the trtfck. Then, * with hei heartiest handshake, a world j u? tluu-LTuluuM tuiiiiog in her big, 1 brown eyes, and ferveut words of gratitude on her sweet lips, the little mis- ] sioDaiy was gone, and Boutwell, hit ' brain in a. whirl, sat down to think. i Well, by Jove 1 Now he had done it I Why, great sacrificed Csssart The thing was impossible, utterly I He rushed to the door. His visitor was not in , sight. He sat down to think more calmly this time. In politics there are complications no man can overlook or ignore. There are multifarious considerations and obligations that must be attended to, and whose existence is due, more often than not, to circumstances whose discovery by the unsympathetic would be a calamity to the individual or individuals most interested. This case was such an one. Hobart had a ''cinch" on the boss of Chloride, and was master of tbe situation, and no ono knew it so well as did Jcre himself, who was never slow about gratifying opportunities. Thus Boutwell communed with himself, and the result was much perspiration and an uncomfortablo conscience. "Well, no use shedding any tears," he said, aloud; "but, by JovaJ I wish I could keep my word with the little, woman. What a little duck she is, and how Burton ought to congratulate himself I Hum?hum?hum I Poor thing I How rocky she'll feel when she finds I ?i i u _ ,j .. v? ? |>mjcu ouuu a ujiij miuh uu uvi* i u-uo, and what'll I say to myself f" Teddy O'Hara, whose family had been kept from starving during the strike a few j months before, by the charity of thO| "little duck" and her husband, and who: had awakened from his noonday nap under the office window about ten minutos previously, chuckled softly to himself and sneaked away, remarking, as be reached; the Etrcet: "O-hol Thot's it, is utl A-hal Teddy, mo bye. Oi tink yees had better tek a bit1 thrip over t' Apache the day. Yeeh don't feel loike worrkin', do yees, now?" | And he hid his dinner-pail and started ; down the trail for the county-seat, \ whistling glcetully. V * V * * * Of Mrs. Burton's second interview with' the smooth Mr. Boutwell, it is unnecessary to speak at length. It was uncom-1 fortable for him, but he kept his wits ; about him and did not lower his flag, : and Mrs. Burton wcut away with a white, j drawn face?and with the set lips of a brave little woman who has made up her mind to something. * ? * * The day for the convention dawnedTho visitors from the outside precincts, including those from Chloride, were all on hand to see the fun. It was almost time to call tho convention to order, but two or three delegations had not arrived. The Chloride delegation was one of; these. The visitors from that catnp repotted that the delegation had only stopped to hold a pow-wow in Chairlinn's Rout, well's office, and would hn along soou. Jere Iloburt, as luck would imvc it, had gotten a "jag" on the night before, and was in bed at his quarters in Chloride, as the result of a fall into the cellar of the Nugget saloon. He might have pulled himself together and gone over to Apache, but everything was ''fixed" and there was no need, he concluded. The Chairman of the County Central Committee called the convention to order, and read the call. The convention effected a temporary organization and the usual committees were appointed, during whose deliberations a recess was taken. Tom Owens came to Mrs. Burton, who, with a number of other women whose husbands or brothers were interested, directly or otherwise, in the proceedings, was sitting in the gallery. Owens spoke quicsly and earnestly: "The Chloride crowd isn't here yet. Ilohart's too sick to come. If Boutwell could only be kept away, it'd be O. K. for Sile. lie's the only man that can rtnf I f/\l\.i a-t i it > at m inoflAn n n r? f Knt>n,ia a JIIIC i iuuiii i iu uumiuabivu) mm uuoiu o u whole mess of his fellows ready to backslide. if only they wouldn't come! I?" Jiut hero he was sent lor in great haste by the anxious constituent, and hurried away. When, ton minutes later, lie looked up at tho gallery, Mrs. Burton was missing. The six men composing the Chloride delegation were in a hurry, and, in lSoutwcll's three seated spring-wagon, behind his big grays, were making good time for Apache. There is a deep ravine, nearly always dry, on the trail between Apache and Chloride, that has to be crossed carefully. It is an abrupt descent and a yet more abrupt asceut, and the trail on the Apache side of the gully is flanked by big rocks, which sheltered many a highwayman in the old days. The delegaa: t U.il 4..-4 i a it uuu uuiu uuiunue unit jusv rcacuuu mis spot, and Boutwell was urging tho horse9 up the steep incline, when short, and sharp, and firm, in a woman's voice, camc_lb? ^omraand: The six men in the wagon could hardly believe their senses. Sitting beside the big rock on the left, very pale, but with compressed lips, and eyes that flashed fire and determination, sat a small woman, with a big Winchester, and the weapon was cocked and aimed at Brad Boutwell. The six men in the wagon raved aud stormed; they pleaded, begged, and threatened; "out Cue Tittle woman on the rock spoke only once, and then said: "Bradford Boutwell, you gave me your flfirrpfl icnrfl flint. vr?u wnnlrf nnf nnrvAcn J ? ? "f, my husband's renormnation. If ho is defeated to-day it will probably kill him, and that is what you intended?to defeat him, after your promise to me. Now, air, if you so much as attempt to move from here, you or any of the others, I1 will kill you." That was all; but Brad Boutwcll, looking at the set face, knew that she would keep her word, and his seat mate's suggestion that such was the case, was met Kn an AmaKaiia 1 ' - 4 " * ~ * * * * + The mmmlttdPJ ranmfoJ. l. - T Hi 1 IVJ/l/l VOU f tlJD lompo' rary organization was made permanent, and the Apache County Convention was in full swing. "Nominations for county auditor are now in order," announced the chairman, and, a moment later, "Mr. Randall has the floor." Tiollis Randall, the brilliant young district attoiney, rose and made one of the best speeches of his life, setting forth clearly, convincingly, the merits, the claims, the woith of the present incumbent, and when he told of the unfortunate man, lying so ill aa the result of a round Incurred in the discharge of une warded duties not hit own?fighting n defense of the law?there was a rouang, prolonged cheer. Randall finished amid uproarious applause, and sat down, mopping his forebead with his handkerchief. There was a moment's "vociferous silence," during which there were some rapid changes of lentiment on the part of Hobart delegates. Then "Pop" Gordon rose. "Mr. Chairman, I more that the nomination of Mr. Burton be made by acclamation, thar seemin' t' be no more nominations." "Second the motion! Second the motion!" came lrom a dozen throats. "Mr. Chairman I" screamed a Hobart "faithful." "I call the gentleman to?" Here Bill Dover, chairman of the dissenter's delegation, grabbed him by the ;oat tails and pulled him down. Bill was an astute politician, and he knew the lay was lo?t. But the enthusiast would not "down." When the ayes and noes were called for, he and a half score of others came out strongly in the negative, md when further nominations were declared in order, he rose and nominated Jere Hobart. The ballot stood sixty-three to thirtyseven in Burton's favor, and Tom Owens, forgetting that in a few minutes the nominations for sheriff would br made, dashed over to Site's houso with the news, and was surprised to learn that anxious little Mrs. Burton was not there. But. the Chloride visitors who left to convey the news of Hobart s defeat homo were more surprised than Owens, when they suddenly found, on tho way home, where the missing delegation was, aud why it was missing, and it almost took their breath, and the delegation's, away, to see that fire-eating Amazon od the rock collapse into very weak tears When she heard the glad news. Hobart and his frieuds were mad, ot course; but one can not make war on a woman, you know, and, besides, most of them came to look on the matter, after awhile, as a huge joke. Boutwell? I am inclined to think, alter it was over, that he was rather glad than otherwise.?The Argonaut. The World's Largest Active Volcano. Hawaii is chiefly famous for its volcanoes, says the Ariatio Quarterly. Kilauea, the largest nctivo volcano in the world, lies on the side of the mountain Mauna Loa, at an elevation of four thousand feet. Wo usually think of an elevation as a cone, but Kiiauea is rather a great sunken pit, in the midst of a vast desolate plain which slopes up gently to the summit of the mountain: It is a pit of no leas than nine miles in circumference and the area of its lowest level is six square miles. The level varies; but it is at present six hundred feet below the surrounding country, and is reached by a steep descent down the sheer face of a precipice, which extends right around the crater, and, as it were, walls it in. Within the crater, toward its southern end, is an inner crater, with ono or more lakes of fire, culled Ilaleraaumau, or House of Everlasting Burnings, which constitute the true chimnoy of the volcano. Here Kilauea exhibits its ceaseless activity. In the outer crater occasional grand eruptions occur, but signs of the slumbering forces below are ever present in the form of blowing cones and steam cracks, varying in size from narrow clefts to great fissures, from which issue puffs aud clouds of steam, fumes of hot poisonous gases, and, from some, liquid lnva. The general bed is made up of countless lava flows, of a variety of forms and contortions difficult to describe. At times it is surrounded by a circle of crags, thrown up from tho lake in a molten state and solidified as they rose. They tower above the level of the outer basin to the height of 400 to 600 feet. From the top one gazes downward into a sea of Liquid fire.?Boston Transcript. An Increase In Longevity. "The three-score and ten years Allotted to man, will yet be increase I to twice that number," was the prediction made by Dr. Charles Helnkle, at the Laclede. "Instead of the world growing weaker and wiser, as the old axiom puts it, it Is growing wiser and stronger. The average length of life is steadily increasing. In the days of good Queen Bess women were considered passe at thirty, and few men distinguished themselves in statecraft, science or literature after passing sixty-five. "Now the woman is in the heyday ol her beauty at thirty, nnd the ripesl fruits of genius are frequently plucked at three-score nnd ten. Qladstone, Bis tnarcK ana uiamc <iro inir examples ui that green and fruitful old ago so frequent in theso day*. 'Yet, science js but in its infancy. As it progresses the waste of life and energy will be gradually curtailed. While tho fountain of youth sought by that interesting old crank, Ponce d< Leon, will probably nover be lound; the secret of remaining an overJ young Apollo, nor woman that of being as attractive at 6ixty as at sixteen, I fir.nly believe that the meridian of life will yet bo raised from thirty-five to seventv; that the day will come when a man will not be considered a back number wbeo he has reached his 100th birthday."?St, Louis Olobe-Democrat, The Cxar Rescues a Pot Cat. Tho Czar's long visit in tho Danish capital, a distance from threats and foars of the Nihilists, is said to have beon most beneficial to his health and to have put him in a mood for less belligerent views of the European situation. But one fright has marrod the serenity of his life in Copenhagen and that concerned his guards more than himself. Early one morning guards in the park of tho oastle at Fredensburg saw a door leading to the garden burst open and the Czar, .A-vaitifg arm "gej>tlcuIAt'(n?7 ran out fn d:ppers and shirtsleeves, /in attempt at assassination was the immediate conolu* sion, and the guards ran to the rescue, half of them hastening to the deserted apartment and the others after the Czar. The latter found the Czar beating two large Siberian bloodhounds and saw a big Tom cat scooting off. tail nr? nnri head down. The Caar explained to the astonished guards that as he sat at hU vindow he saw the dogs chase the cat, the favorite pet of King Christian, into a corner, and, fearing delay would be fatal, ran to the rescue.?St. Louis Republic. sy ?' - ?-?? Chautauqua baa a summer sohpol of cookery. There are now 638a postmistresses. In this country. One of the very favorite silks of the season is changeable taffeta. A 8 a rule, -women require one hour of sleep more a day than men. The married women on an average live two years longer than single ones. The bigger the chou upon your high, heeled slipper the smaller the foot will look. The long handled parasol is defunct, the short, club handled being in the ascendant. Many attempts have been made to revive paniers on handsome gowns of various sorts. r Ono of the botanists of State reputaa sr.! it* > n ^ lion in juaine is juioa x- urumu, a ouw doin graduate. The Constitution of Louisiana permits women to hold any office connected with public educatidfcr~ Fichu style of trimming is popular for bodices, and indeed no bodice is considered tritnmea without lace. All the smart women have dropped the train to the bell skirt and again the tailor-made costume is truly swagger. Miss Maud Rittenhouse, of Cairo, III., has received a prize of $1000 for a story from a Southern Improvement Company. A woman's chance of getting married is calculated to be only two and a half per cent, when she reaches her fortieth year. Among the vagaries of the ribbon craze is that of embroidering ribbons of various widths with beads and metal braid. Caroline Kilby is the art decorator of the largest carriage building establishment in New York, and has twenty women undojJjpr supervision. In England it is not very uacommon for women to serve as vestrymen in the Episcopal Churo^t, but in America the idea is not received with favor. The Empress of Austria when in her younger days wr.s considered the best horsewoman in the world. She still keeps up her old love for riding. "Good health, calm nerves, good friends and a modest opinion of herself" are the results of a college education to a girl, ia the opinion of Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer. The first international olub for women has just been started ia Nice. The foundresses are a few Americans, three French and two German ladies, atl of ivkom urn ntif.WnrAMAfl Donna Lastenia Larriva do Llona. a Peruvian woman well known in South America as a poet, publishes a weekly called El Tesoro del Hogar (Fireiido Treasure) in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Tho Countess i$ATurasol, Etta Hughes and Franklin Paula, Spanish, English and Austrian governesses of the Infantas of Spain, receive each $4000 a year for their services, besides a home in the royal household, . Mrs. Osborne, a widow, has cleared $5000 to $6000 a year from her ranch near Salt Lake Oity, Utah. She raises vegetables. Lately she added a chicken ranch and two incubators, and expects to clear $10,000 a year. Becoming blue veiling is hardly to be found. Occasionally a piece appears which whitens and adds to the clearness of the skin. You are fortunate if you can run across it, as you will then have secured an important adjunct to yo>ur toilet. The women of Hungary are erect, vigorous, with fine figures, small feet, pretty hands, rich complexions, and are said to be among the most beautiful women in the world. They are fond of athletic ?? ..,.n;n;,iio a.AiL B[KII V9 auu m ^ wa^wvittnj ^mwviui *f wim" era. Miss Florence Q dgarml is making hei influence felt in the way of reform, since her return to England from this country. She is agitating a movement to do away with artificial barriers to the employment of womcu, and to equalize the wages of men and women. ' In Sweden, where many bread-win> mag employments are opou to woman, a I recent bill to the legislature asks for per* mission to bold otlico as sexton in the State Church. A school of horticulture has also been lately established to prepare women gardeners and florists. Hiss Mary Day, of London, has been successful iu her experiment of taking | deaf and dumb girls as pupils in typewriting. Miss Day is oue of the longest ' established woman-typewriters in Eng[ laud. As so much typewriting is tran* ' utfliction is no drawback. Jean Ingelow is the daughter of a banker of Lincolnshire, and was one of a family of eleven children. She wrote [ her first poems on the window-shutters, i closing them away out of sight when completed. Her brother was the first to secure the publication of her- poems, and four editions of a thoimni copies oaoh were sold the first year. Twenty-six editions of the same volume have since been published. The little Queen of the Netherlands is i becoming, a personality in Europe, and i already various nuptial possibilities are hanging oter her head. Apropos of Her Majesty's toit to Berlin it has been pointed outsthat alliances between the House of Orango and either German or English Royalties have generally embroiled Holland in war and disaster. It is posssble, therefore, that the matrimonial projecwo^, J^r.eeh Wilhelmtna will ^be directedthe less prominent Iliiw r*r f'winny Anciently, In nlany parts of France, when a sale of lai d took plaoov it was the custom to hi twelve aduft witnesses accompaou d by twelve little boys, and when the prii e of the land was paid, and its surrender took place, the ears of the boys were julled, aod they were beaton severely, s}> that the pain thus inflicted should maps an impression upon their memory, aop, if required after I ward, they mlgmt bear witnet* to tua ' alt.?Naw Yor^ World. 4 VIVU KVt ? MIUU v? v? Vkvw) Samples of tea grown and cure! at Summer ville, S. D., hare been roc lived in Baltimore. woioh expert tea dealer* hare pronounoed superior to East India tea. The fisheries Department has received advices to the effect that the mackerel catch of the New England fishing fleet to date is $2,000 barrels?exactly twice as much as last year. According to a census bulletin, the I50,85(S families in Maine are divided bj the census office into 62,122 families occupying farms and 63,233 families occupying homes that are dot situated oh farms. Ths Japanese are coming to Mextoo in large dumber*. Several huge colonies have been established in the ooffee district of Oaxaoa, and th* rich sugar lands of Binaloa, during the past few months. During one week in April 818 oar loads containing 8816 tons of green fruit were shipped East from California. Bo fat this season 6,000,000 mote pounds of fruit have been shipped than last year. THE LABOB WORLD* SkVxral new knitting mils are projeoted in Virginia. Nearly all the locomotive works are over run with orders. Waoga are very low in Philadelphia ahos lactones a<> present. ' A Mexican bricklayer lay* about 500 bricks id eleven hours. Machine shops are generally vary busy at this season ot the yehr. ? Two hundred cars are to be bnilt altogether out of Pacifle Coast dr wood. These are sixty-five organised traces with 8568 branches ana 176,664 members federate i In Germany. The National Convention of the United Statef Letter-Carriers' Association has'held its annual session At Indianapolis. Pennsylvania's woolen mills have a capital of 136,000,000, turn over <00,000,000 of product and employ 55,000 hands. Electric methods are now used in tanning in France, by whioa in ninety-six hours as much work can be done as heretofore in a year and a half. Binge the bakers of San Francisco formed a union, three rears ago, they have reduced tbeir hours of labor from an average of fourteen to ten hours per day* Accorpino to Miss Frances E. Willard the only industries in whioh women are not nOw engaged are those relating to railroad^ paving stones and lumbering. The boss printers of Pittsburg announce that they will proceed against the anion members boycotting them. A large fund has been collected to institute proceedings against the union. To teach scientific farming the Agricultural Workers' National Association of Italy has established a college at the ctcy of Parma, sakam fka mnmknue af fkn asanaia4t/v? nuviv vuouiviuvbiP vi wuu avvuwviVU (IUU their sons may study upon contributing $100 per year. The number ot students is at present limited to 000. The generators which will supply the eleotrio light at the World's Pair wQl be the largest ill the world. The population ot Chicago is now one million Are hundred thousand. Contractors are expecting to have an enormous amount ot work during 'the first three months ot the year. , A Pittsburg dispatch announces that Adolph Doerr, one ot the largest provision dealers at Homestead has failed, on account of a boycott instituted against him by the Carnegie mill strikers because he furnished provisions to the non-union workers. No AmnlorfimfifA \ AunoiftHnn man ssa tronize him and he suffered a lots of 10.000. Coroan Hospitality. In the matter of hospitality wo might learn much from the Coroans, who appear in the following story to keep alive the ancient notion that nothing should be too good for the stranger within theii gates. When Admiral Shufeldt went tc the hermit Nation to arrange for a treaty, Mias Shufeldt missed a valuable bracelet, the theft of which was duly reported t< the proper authorities. Suspicion rested on two natives, who were taken before iuu uuiuutu auu suojeuum cu a uuutuus examination. The officials found that no incriminating evidence could be ob tained against the suspected culprits, and informed Miss Shufeldt of the fact, but added, in a spirit of courtesy, "If madam wishes, however, we will at once cut of the heads of both men."?Boston Tran scrint. m ? Nortbsrn Mexico la again confronted bi a total croo failure. Multiple Package Mailed free. Addroee Small Bile Bonne. New York. Tho St. Louia Chief of Police require* the 1000 Chinese in that j'.tj to b< photographed. r Long spell* of sick nee* and heavy doctor bill can be prevented by using in time Bllo Bean Small. * There are 525,000 Congregationalisti In the United Statea. OA -- .. II-.- I.III. ..J "**' .<1. BmmU ' A million dollat sugar reflnerj is to b built at Brooklyn, N. T. To aid Digestion take one Small BUe Beat after rating. 26c. jger bottle. There were 1500 railroad accidents ii New Jersey last year. Constipation eared by Small Bile Beans. The Knights of Laoor hare at present about 9000 me-nbers in Wert Virginia. The Only One Beer Printed/ oalf tod vms the wobdt These Is a S Inch display advertisement ii this paper, this week, which has no two word alirfe except one word. The same Is trao o arli .new one appearing eaoh weak, from Th Dr. Barter Medicine Co. This honse places i "Crescent" on every thine they make and put lt?b. Ixwk for It. send them the name or th word and they will return you eooh, be Aim tvl uTiooaaras or uena rtUBn. ; NEWSY GLEANINGS. ^ This oouutry makes 56,000 watohea a week. ? Am immense glacial field is reported in Idaho. ^Thj^ world's railways are worth $80,000,A canal is to be built across Irelanl to cost twenty million dollars. : Light crops of sweet potatoes are repotted from many sections of the Booth. A MuaosT of gold worth $15 was picked up the other day in tha diggings at Byron, The New Tork morgue reoalTei MSI bodies last year. Of these 107 were never identifled. Mom United States vessels visit the Mexican pcrts than those of all other Nations combined. Twelve hundred miles of railroad are to be built in Mexico. It will extend to San Diego, California. Thrbk hundred lawyers were cfcwlidates on one side or the other for seats in the present British Parliament. a census bulletin just Issued states there are only 07,000 female persons to every lOO.OOO males in the United States. According to a recent can sua there are about 86,030 paupers in London, not counting insane persons in asylums and vagrants. The census of India, just oorapleted, shows that couutrv to have a population of 280,000,000, a gain of eleven per cent over 1881. A water moccasin six feet long was lately killed at Utlca, III. When out open sixteen frogs were found, several of which were alive. Grasshoppers are doing an immense amount of damage in Ohio to oats and other growing crops. Whole fields of oats have been destroyed. The pension agency in Topeka is the largest in the Country. It pays out annually $16,000,000 to the veterans of Kansas, Miss UUTi BUQ VyOiOrftUU. Tns Marker Ranch, near Lovelocks, Nev., comprising 17,00) acres of *he best land in the State, tvas recently sold at sheriff's auoflnA r. . n,.ir ?1(V) 000 The Trme Leiathe Principle Of the plants need in manufacturing the pleasant remedy. Syrup of Fig*, has a permanently beneficial eueci uu the uuiuau system, while the cheap vegetable extracts and mineral solutions, usually sold as medioinee, are permanently Injurious. Being well Informed, yon will use the true remedy only. Manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. Thx acreage of watermelons at the South is twenty-fire per cent, leas this year than last. ' MiUUi cured and eradicated from the system by Brown's Iron Bitters, which earichos the blood, tones the nerves, aids digestion. Aots like a oharm on persona In genersi ill health. giving nsw energy and strength. Tsmi la a great scarcity of Mwdiwg twine. SctrnvT and scorbutic affections, pimples, A OBHX&tx. expansion of trade has do celoped itself. ______ A. M. Priest, Druggist, Shelbyrille, Ind., says: "Hall's Catarrh Cure gives the host of sailsfactiou. Can get plenty of testimonials, as it cures every one who takes It.*' Druggists sail It, 76c. Thirty eardino factories in Maine are closed because there is no ran of suitable tissd fish to pack. Bnown's Iron Bitters cures Dyapepela,Malaria, Biliousness and General Debility. Gives Strength, aids Digestion, tones the nervescreates appetite. The beet tonio for Naming Mothers, weak women and children. No Ohiuese has been naturalized for thirteen years. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr.Isaao Thotnpeon> Eye-wpter.Drugglstt poll at 26c.per bottle Simply Awful " I had what the doe> tors called tbo worst j ~ case o f Scroftila w ^ W they ewer saw. It jflj was on my arms,faco and iPU. neck and was simply awwF JL full Five years ago I boto take Hood's and n.? w .p----- found the sores gradualGee. W. Turner. Jy began to hoal j (<K)k 10 bottles and was perfectly cured.For the past 4 years I have haa good health and no ores." G.W.Ttjbscr, farmer, Galway.N.Y. Hood's Pill* cure liver ill?,oonstlpatlon, biliousness, Jauudioe sick headache, indigestion young Wives Who are for the first time to | Undergo woman's severest trial we offer "Mothers Friend" A remedy which, if used as directed a few weeks before confinement, robs it of its PAIN, HORROR AND RISK TO LIFR of both mother and child, as thousands who ^ave used it testify, "I used two bottles of Mothers Fmhnd with marvelous results, and wish twery woman who has to pass throunhthe ordeal of child-birth to now if they wll| use Mothers Friend,f or a few weeks It will rob confinement of fain and sugrringx ind insure safety to life of mother and child." Mrs. Sam Hamilton, Montgomery City,Mo, Bent by express, charges prepaid, on receipt of price. #1.59 pcrlxjttle Soldby all druggists. Dooh To Mothers mailed free. BfcA&ristD Rboolator Co., Atlanta, Ga. Bile Be^ns Small Positively cure Sick-hcadachc. 40 to the bottle. Price 25c. Reliable, Economical. Sold by druggists. Sw,FT'5-_s^55IF,c FOR renovating thf entire system, eliminating all Poisons from the Blood, whether of scrofulous or malarial origin, this fref oration has no equal. % "For eighteen months I had an eating tore on my tongue. / was treated by best local fhyjicians, but obtained no relief; the sore gradually grew worse. / finally took S. S. S.t and was entirely cured after using a few bottles." SC. D. McLemore, Henderson, Test, TREATISE on Blood and Skin 1 Diseases mailed free. Tim Swift Sfhcific Co., Atlanta, Ga. LUXURIES?LE&KSV1LLE BLANKETS. Housekeeper* SX lb., S3. Carolina'! Pride, 7 lb.. 0 per pair. Leatovlile HoueU Jeana*Oray, Browa and Black?*430,, 40c. nud 00c. per yard. Korsoy qray, ? A l.-Jc, Brown, dOo. a jrardi very rood, VrooJ Yam, all color*, 3c. a bank, if your dealer ?anot keep these coods order of Jt, W, BCOTT I'O., Special Solllug Agt?, Orccuebore, N. C, 1 YOURMFT^?^ eui^ wlUii few application# ot "TQOTINM." Kto. by dyueafrte or mail. Send for tee | tlraonlala. b. . LupLVw 0 00., Bwaxyoif, Ohio Pleo'a Remedy Ibr catarrh la the |H Beat. Fasleet to Use. and Cheapest. H ?F-eT?"^? i LSZ^LualijyLBJK H| Bold by druggist# or aent by mall, I.urify tb?* blood, are / and erX /.'? ! reetaal. Tho beat general family Z /<? medicine koo*n for iJillouanvm.S , Breath.' K^be/iYMI I of Appetite. HmM Depremai Palnnvi Dlgertlon, Plmploa, Sallow * Complex loo. Tired fooling, and* 1 every aymptora or dtoeam rMultlng from Impure J 1 blood, or a failure by tho rtoraoch. liver or tnteeuneaV J to perform their proper function* Perron* given to J , , overeating are benefited by taking a T ABIT LK after f ' dro?a??IE ArLc6S to??st Jft I : daT.VU Wp^rti_i an nie mid ike price lamped on bottom. V *"?/* ?o?t??tloae are fraudulent BM 1 abject i* mieeitltiby law f*r M* ~ 1 ^ lalnjng taoaey an- ^ jb . aer ralieproteoses. ^^1 O' Will Ht* (iclulnnto C?jgM? 4> I The Rising Sun Stove Polish Is Brilliant, Odor* I ~ I m Durable, and the consumer pays lor no Un I I or (lass package with every purchase. I Flowed" I am ready to testify under oathi that if it had not been for.August Flower I should have died before this. Eight years ago I was taken sick, and suffered as no one but a dyspeptic can. I employed three oi our oest doctors ana received no benefit. They told me that I had heart, kidney, and liver trouble. Everything I ate distressed me so that I had to throw it up. August Flower cured me. There is no medicine equal to it." I,orenzo F. Sleeper, Appleton, Maine. <? TB 1"hc U Epmo n " WTONIC I ^n' purify BLOOD, regulate kidneys, remove llvlb lUsordcr, build trengtli.T'cnew appetite, rcstoro hearth and vlporof youth. DnMPm, Indigestion, thattlreJfcellug Absolutely eradiated. Mind brightened, brain power Increased, | inipa bones, ncrvea, nu> I III IT clcs, receive now force. . w ft gnf0 upoedy cure. Returns rose bloom on chocks, beautifies Complexion. Bold everywhere. All genuine goods bear "Crescent." Bond us 2 cent stamp for 82-page pamphlet. M. HARTER MEDteiMI 00.. It LmI?. I*. 0 Going to Buy || A Dictionary? ;; >s 4 GET THE BK8X. < fVra^yf 4 > Fully Abreast of the Times. 4 \ * A Choice Cift. < \ it A Grand Family Educator, o < The Standard Authority. 4 it Successor of tlio authentic "Un?-<> 1 t bridged." Ten ye.-vrs ipeut In revislnjr, (t it *00 editors employed, over $300,000 4 . < t expended. 4 > ? euijU hi ai.ij imimar.antBH. j A Po not buy reprlnu of oleolele edition*. m X Send for Iron naimOilet containing specimen X Jp-ips mid KUI.L I'AUTICl'CAItS. J I fl. A C. MERRIAM CO.. Publishers. X 4 Springfield, Mass., U. 8. A. X IF YOU OWN CHICKENS YOU WANTTZ> A ~\X THEIB THEM TOi- A WAY aren If you merely keep them as a diraialon. la or> Jcr to handle Fowls judielou&ly, you must knot* something about them. To meet this want we are selling a book giving (ho experience f (|n|M f? of a practical poultry roleer forlwIHW IQVi twenty-Ore years. It was written by amen who put all his mtud. and time, and money to making a suocase of Chicken raising?not as a pastime, but as a business and if you w ill profit by bis twenty-fire years'work, you can sat a maay Chicks annually. " Kolaing CktakM.H nd make your Fowl* earn dollar* for rou. Ttrpoint 1*. thut rou must be able to detect trouble A the Poultry Yard as soon a* It appenrs, end know bow to remedy It. Tbla look will teach you. It telis bow to dctoct and cure disease; to feed foe e?gs nn<l f.tru for fattening; which fowls to save for breeding purposes; aud everything, Indeed, yoa aliou'd know on tbla aunject to make it profitable. Br nt poet pal J for ttvcutj'-flee ccnta in lc. or fUnnci. Book Publishing House, X33 I.aoxaiiD Br.. N. Y. CHy. _ 8 N U-J 6 | H. L. DOUGLAS 3 SHOE mS, DODflLABN.MSkM rhen worn through can be repaired aa many timet as 8*l*l>biSthey will uarer rip or loosen from the upper. Qrohaeera o< footwear desiring to erono I SUa^ ebonld consider the anperlor qualities of three ahoea, and not be inilaencM to bay cheap wcltahceeaold at $SO0l ^ Uta!11 w PPi?*oi*>*T?V' ^ ?* ?n<^_ S3 3'lno cair, iiaii3 \?L ~VM <? - * a- uU,4l