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HOW SOMB OF THESE BRAVE F**r ki]
LOWS MET THEIR DEATH.
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Vigilant, Cool, Nervy" Men Who ro
Fought Savages--Their Lonely
B. Rides-Perils That Beset Them. ol
I ~T "VROPERLY speaking, a scoxit is
} I * a person who is sent out in (>
ihn fr??nt or on the Hank of a p
f "V military command to observe | ^
tho force and moTomcntfl of tho enemy. (
Ho should be a keen observer and ,
withal fleet of foot or well mounted. \
There are a number of unmarke<l ,
graves along tho Arkansas River and \
the tributaries of tho Canadian and ,
Bmoky Hill?graves where never lov- |
ing hands have strewn flowers, resting
places over which no prayer has ever
been said, or memorial slab or stone
fence, diod "with their l?oots on.''
Many of these graves are tenanted by
scouts killed by hostile Indians while
acting as couriers, spies or dispatch
bearers.
In 1867-68 wo were at war with the
Cheyonnes, and during the winter
General Alfred Sully made the cam*
g#^r pnign an offensive one by moving with
nis command into the medicine connm,
lint I
tor for promotion to ho lieutenant J
general, vico Hhermnn, vico Grnnt
" supplemented by active Indian
PhYSt I>r,ior to March 4> 1?G9 hut
anv ^ rru,.Bn novcr remained long in
no place, and several cood sol
With the t?Win,? their unfftmil>aritv
vuunci|ut'ut-c ui mese losses lionem!
Sheridan authorized the employment
by the United States of twelve
citizen scouts at a compensation of
8100 a month, and ono chief of scouts
who was paid $150 a month. These
men were sworn into service at Fort
Dodge. In addition to the pay mentioned,
each scout wan furnished with
a good horse, with all the arms, ammunition,
etc.. he wanted, with rations
same as issued to enlisted men, free
limits of any Government post. Kneh
scout was told that if ho chose ho
could, in confidence, give to the post
adjutant his true name, ami that the
officer would mako it his duty, in case
the scout was killed in the discharge
'of his duty, to communicate the fact
to the postoffice address of any person
or persons whom ho might wish to bo
notified.
Without exception tho thirteen men
were American born. All had histories.
Every scout had ono addresH or
more to communicate, coupled with
somo message to givo. None of theee
men were of the Texas ranger or cowboy
typo in dress or appearance.
Only two woro their hair long. Ono
was discharged for cowardice in falsely
reporting tho location of a large body
of hostiles on Coon Creek# between
Fort Darned and Fort Dodge, investi?gatlOTrhimng
proved the presence only
V>f a long line of high weeds, which,
booh at a distance Against the horizon,
/were mistaken for men, and so reported
by the scout, too imaginative or
too timid to make thorough reconnoissnncc.
This man's name was WilJm
liam Seymour, enlisted under the name
of Apache Bill. He was afterwards
killed in an affray at Junction City,
Kan. Another scout named Webster,
was discharged for shooting his horse
*4f" in the neck while carelessly and unnecessarily
discharging his firearms
within the limits of a military post.
I Two of the scouts, Fanshaw and
Davis, were killed by the Cheyenues
while iu the act of watering their
horses at Mulberry Creek, one of the
small tributaries of the Arkansas,
on the south side of the river. Their
remains were interred in the Fort
Dodge cemetery.
Another of the scouts was a man
~ named Itansome, alias Ledford. He
,was an apparently frank, cheery,
handsome fellow, of splendid physical
proportions, and a magnificent shot.
Ho owned a black horse, docile to him,
but a fiend incarnate to others. The
xnau was a great favorite with army
'officers, whom he often bantered for
friendly shooting matches, and was
rarely beaten in contests of skill in
that line. He took more chances and
more often volunteered for dangerous
Bervice than any other scout; was never
derelict, but was killed in 187'2 at
,Wichita, Kan., by Lieutenant Harjgons,
an officer of the Fifth Infantry,
/who was on duty with a possee aiding
a Doputy Unitod States Sheriff named
- *
furiages to arrest mm on a charge of
horae stealing. When arrested by
Lieutenant Hargous, Ledford fired
first at the army officer, who dropped
as if killed. Lieutenant Hargous was
not hit, however. Ledford was maddened
by liquor and strode over the
prostrate body of the officer, firing at
Jack Bridges as he advanced, and
wounding him in the arm. The scout
then made a rush at a soldier who had
accompanied as a member of the posse,
when his further shooting was preh
vented by a bullet through the heart.
W Like Hickok, the original "Wild
B Bill," Ledford respected the army
B blue, and the affray in which he was
A killed was the only occasion that he
was ever known to shoot at any persou
Rl in the permanent military establishBL
ment.
j?B The winter before his death Lodford,
^B then in Government service, accomH
panied a detachment of the Third Injj^C
fantry, acting as escort for Major Rodney
Hmith, paymaster United States
BR Army, to Camp Supply, Indian TerriH
tory, and return. The route for about
200 miles was over a broken and 1111 r
.Tsrr1
R^B different from an elevation, snowHHB
covered. There were no trees or
^BS| bushes above the dead level of the
H ?now. Buffalo were numerous, and
Eering in n
awtxy from
wore intent
through the
destination,
Ioho time if
ford would
to tho hi>rd(
r to further ,
row himaelf j
buffalo and
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,1> him. Tho btoam (com tho animals,
? ?n?w whirls, tho urhoops of tho gww
;>ut, tho red gouts from that gleam- -pj
life nmdo a strange, oteiting tableau. t1h.
Another ox-scout, known hp Cnrly 0|
alker, wan killed near Dodge by a jjut
anient of Salina, Kan., in an oncoun r
resulting from an effort on the part Wh,
[ Walker to sell a lot of cattlo stolon
ad run off by him from their luwlui
wner. Thin man WnJker was cowed
noe when drunk ard disorderly at
'ort Dodge in a way that Lieutenant
Jolonel John R. Brooke ia too modept
-? 11 about. Boh Wright wbh present
rhen he who killtxl Ho wbh pierceu
ty several bullets from a Westchester
ifle whilst dismounting from his
low, and died with ono hand on his *
revolver, vainly trying to release it
from the holster, in the stitching of 1
which the hammer was caught. In
the other hand "Curly" Walker liatl a
revolver which, in his death throes, ha ?
used as a knife, repeatedly thrusting it A
into the prairie nod, discharging it
and bursting the weapon by the act.
Captain Harry Kendo, who for
eighteen years was an officer of the
Twenty-fifth United Slates Infantry,
was formerly a scout in Government
scrvico upon the Western plnins. He
never wore a buckskin suit or affected
long hair, however, and in the quiet
retirement or his Massachusetts home '
r,h *'""? Arnpniioo1" =
'lev "killf'il
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cinnan Uommercial Gazette.
Popularity of Embalming.
The idea of earning a livelihood out
of the making of nmminieH is not one
to commend itself at first glance to the
female mind, ami the ghastly associations
of the occupation arc to many insuperably
repellent. But embalming
baa for many reasons established itself ]
in popular favor. It is tho only sure
means of preventing the spread of con- ,
tagious diseases, through transmission
by the tadcrtaker'B ice-box or assistants.
It. is ? preventive against premature
burial in the ease of a eataJepInjeefiohs"
of the embalming' tinia are *
likely to induce signs of life if any remain.
Another favorublo feature is tho <1
possibility of shipping bodies a long \
dista?ice with convenience. It is not
generally known that throughout this {
oountry large numbers of women have ,
adopted embalming as a profession,
ami the head college of embalming hae
a l?ige proportion of women graduates.
Far from showing any horror or unfitness
for the business, women are said
to lie peculiarly deft ami eflicieut in '
tho duties involved, which in a general '
way consists only in opening several '
of the largo arteries, pumping out the
blood and injecting preservative fluids. f
Many of the women graduates have I
been trained nurses who saw an oppor- I
tuuity to make more money than at
their former profession. One advan- t
tage of tho art is that it is easily ac- .
quired. The prospectus of the Collego (
of Embalming sets forth that "past experience
has demonstrated that a eom- .
plete mastery of the aeience of body
preservation in all its branches cannot
lie obtained in tho short space of two
or three days, and therefore the length
of time required to learu tho process ?
may extend from one week upward, j
according to the aptitude of tho ctu- 1
dent." When the student has proved
his or her ability to conduct the opera- t
tion of embalming under different con- t
ditions in a satisfactory manner a di- ?
ploma is granted, and tho ordinary ?
length of timo required for graduation
is two weeks.?Ohioago Record, n
The Story ot a War Song.
The story of how the poem "Maryland,
My Maryland," was set to munic
ami adopted us a Southern war song 11
forma a romantic, and intereating inci- 1
dent of the Civil War. The music at c
first chosen was Frederic Berut's "Mo 1
Normadie," but that was soon "swept
away, "to use Mr. Randall's own lan- y
gunge, when the lovely German lyric, \
"Tannenbaum, O Taunenbaum," was s
selected as a more spirited air. Shortly p
after the battle of Munassas, General c
Beauregard invited several Maryland
ladies, who were living in Virginia, to t,
visit hiH headquarters, near Fairfax e,
Court Houso. The ladies and their es- h
corts encamped the lirst night at Ma- j;
nassas, where they were serenaded by 5
the famous Washington Artillery, of
New Orleans. The boys in gray, at
the close of the serenade, called for a |(
song from tlie ladies, and Miss Jennie
Gary, standing at the door of the tent, ^
sang "My Maryland." The refrain ^
was quickly caught up by the soldiers, ^
and the camp rang with tho words:
< l\f 1,? 1 \l? \t?_. " A ,. *1.?
iitni > uiiiii, * iuoijiiuiii. an unc
last notes died away, the wild Con- ?
federate yell was given, with "three
cheers and a tiger for Maryland." A *
spectator of tho scene relates that there "
was not a dry eye in tho ladies' tent, B'
and not a cap with a rim on it in camp.
This is how "My Maryland" came to
bo adopted as a National war song of y
the South.?Blue and Gray. t<
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A Curious Timekeeper.
Tho islanders of tho South Pacific g)
have no clocks. They liavo a curious y
timekeeper of their own. Taking the p
kernels of the nut of the candle tree
they wash them and string them on
the rib of a palm leaf. This is placed ^
in an upright position and tho upper 'J
kernel is lighted. As all kernels aro l'
of the saino size and substance they
cacti burn a certain number of min?
utes, setting fire to tho kernel bolow. f
Tho natives tic bits of bark cloth along
tho string at regular intervals to mark (B
tho divisions of time.?Now York M?i|
and Express.
extremes In the Plant World.
Js-t us turn from the giants of th<
forest to those plants which can only C
he seen with the higher powers of the N
microscope. The smallest ol these and ?*
at the same time the smallest of living "
things arc the plants known as bac- s<
teria. They have an average diameter Q
of 1-25,000 of an Inch ami a length bi
one to ten times as great. Many ol ^
them have a diameter of less thaq P
1-50,000 of an inch, and it is probable
that there are multitudes of them so
small that the highest powers of the
microscope do not render them visible.'
?ttcience. 1 "
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NELLIE'S EYES. ^
st Nellie's eyes are twilight bona,
le eye? I love to greet, T
y never opened first at morn,
r mid the noontide host;
when tho sun was sinking low,
:>re tho stars began to glow,
ore southern jeeamlnes sway and blow
* * ?
hoy caught tnoir suauuno
O NelUo's eyes, sweet Nellie's oyes
Illumined with celestial dyes,
They h??j?t my dreams
With gentle glooms?
Wistful.
Tristful,
Twilight eyes.
root Nellie's mouth la suminer-klssod
To grace beyond eollpso ;
\o ove a ruby roso was missed
And blossomod on her lips,
ad softer than the coo of dovo
f southern winds that flit abovo
ro all hor words, and naught but lovo
From out hor roso mouth slips.
O Nellie's lips, sweet Nellie's lips,
Their dulcet tono llko houoy drips
Upon tlio ear
Serenely clear?
Slender,
Tender,
Summer lips.
Iweet Nellie's locks are sunset crownod
flif "f eea-shells maid,
No looks more fair
bore over clasped by nilet puro
? WAko tho >?y of troubadour
Or Hro a bard of olil.
O Nellie's hair. PW0(>t Nc?|o.s hn(r
My liearl lies in its silken share,
Nor time nor art
The lmnd shall part?
Twining,
Shining,
Nnnsol hair!
?Samuel M. Peek, in Atlanta Constitution.
HUMOR OF TIIE DAY.
A Jack of all 1 radon?Tho Western
uirro.
About the most, trying loop-hole oj
he law is the noose.?Puek.
The well-bred man who works in a
mkory is a loafer.?Troy Telegram.
It is the thunder of the man in need
hnftirtt n /rnVii^snli? ? ? .4-1?_ ?-1L .. g
When a man sees tlurt ho is being |
Iriveu to despair l:e ought to get out and
vnlk.?Yonkers Gazette.
By nil odds the finest attraction at
he World's Fair will he the American
prl. ? Baltimore American.
Knowledge is power, except in tho
aso of the man who knows he ia
vliipped. ?Indianapolis Journal.
Pluck will tell. Many a mau not
ible to write his own name has made
lis mark in the world.?New Orleans
Picayune.
Hicks?"Blitson, they tell me, is
piite an athlete." Wicks?"Yes; his
ast-feat, I hear was to run up a board
jill."?Boston Transcript.
"That Smith girl lias east an awful
ipell over Charlie, He?" *'I sup*
jose so; she was a typewriter for several
years."?Inter-Ocejm.
It seems easy enough to name a
iaoy, unless ny some extraordinary
banco tho baby happens to be yum
iwn, ? Somervillo Journal.
It is impossible that there are as
;ood tisli in the sea as over were caught,
f tho koclnek pictures that lisherinen
iring homo are true to life.?Puck.
Drusilln?"I hear you are poor. I
hiuk wo will have to break our re la*
ions." Ten Broke?"I have broken
11 of mine already."?New York Her*
Id.
Milkman (apologetically) ? "Tho
milk is a little blue this morning."
Irs. Housekeeper?"It must be think*
tig how everlastingly poor it is geting."?Troy
Press.
Jinks?"Don't you think that tho
nteutions of French duellists are morn
tonorablo than is generally con*
eded?" Filkins?"Oh, yes; as a rulo
hoy aim high."?Brooklyn Ijifo.
"Oh, I'm so sorry, Mr. Dillingham,
our lady lovo lias thrown you over.
Vhat was tho trouble?" "Why, you
ee, I flattered her so much she got too
roud to speak to me!"?Boston Beaon.
Gabble?"No, my cold doesn't seem
o bo getting any bettor. I have got
o now that I can hardly speak."
till man?"Some peoplo would call
hat a great improvement. "?Boston
transcript.
Tho fears a girl experiences when
ho sees some other girl talking to her
jver aro nothing compared to tho
angs that torture a woman when a
cighhor calls her hired girl to tho
ence and talks to her.?Atchison
llobc.
"Did you know that Flagdon found
imself locked out when he went homo
t 11 o'clock last night, and his wife
'ouldu't open tlie dour." 'Wlij-V"
he didn't recognizo his voice, because
tie find always done all tlie talking."
-Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Bntlcr ? "There's a man below to seo
ou, air." May berry?"What did you
all hiin?" Butler?"J told him you
old me if it was a lady to say you
rere in, and if it was a man to say you
tore out." Mayberry ? "What d^i ho
ay then?" Butler?"Ho said to toll
ou ho was a lady."?Harvard Lampoon.
Mr. Sampson (passionately) ? "I love
ou devotedly, Miss Clminley, but my
ecuniary affairs have prevented my
laking a declaration until now. But
have put enough away now to feel
untitled in asking you to becomo my
rife." Miss Chuinlcy (hesitatingly,
iut sweetly)?"I confess that I am not
rholly indifferent to you, but?'but?"
'But what, dear?" "Would you mind
oiling me how much you have put
wav Tit-Bifetf.
Clarence Smith, private secretary to
lollector Hendricks, of the Port of
few York, proposes to organizo a
ocioty to be composed of men who are
r have been conspicuous as private
icrotaries to leading officials of the
overnment. Among those who have
een asked to join are Secretary of
rar Lamont and Oeuoral Horace
orter.
Tho latent record-breaking timo boreen
Bombay, India, and London is
lirtoon days.
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BOUT THE FUR SEALS.
HE SUBJECT BEFORE THB TRTBV*
NAi, OF ABBXfeBATlOV.
|| t
low the Precious Animals Arc
Slaughtered -'The Patrol Fleet
and the Poachers?A fstl Sport.
THOUOTT^ip^g State*
Government will havw no snot
powerful sbp as the Yorktowr
nncl no su?h officer as Fight
ing Bob EvanB t* protect the seals ii
Bering Sea tb^ summer, tho patro
licet will b^trong enough and quid
cuough to i&ke it lively for poachers
It is tho briness of our ships, undo
the preset contention of the Unito
States, t*8?? that uobody save tho on
authorial company shall tako seal
within ur portion of Boring Sea or i
the Peific Ocean within three miles t
iiur pSflessioiiH. That gives tho patr<
Hoetf?n arena almost half hh large i
*' ' *- 1 I
I tho*?u" 01 "v :mT\t 1
thTribvm?l sitting at Pons shall d
jt. aunimt our claim touching Bern
a8, the hwm will then confini their t
foits to kXping poaolierB away fro
thi PribyV Wftnd? of (,eor?e n'
Kt Paul, U Bering Sea* and to guar
:nv tho cast -within the three-mi
limit NotW expects, however, th
JL aocinionV the cburt will i?e guff
fSriinni faff "ItflflB imU( I> v?
The company toyhich tho Unit
Statcn has sold thctxcVieivo right
take seals may tak< \hcu only up
tho Pribylov Islnlds, anOniay not te
more than 7500 ianny c?o year. Fi
thermore, tho cot^pany1 agents ni
kill seals only in\the*fresence of
agent of tho Unital Suites, and nv
not kill cither tho females or tho <
bulls, but only the bacielore, as 1
young males arc called. Tho seali
of tho company is the timest kind
sport, as tho bnchclors are mer
driven gently apart from the rest of 1
herd and aro killed with stic
The agent of tho company cou:
tho skins in tho presence of 1
Government's agent, anil tho lat
sends to San Francisco s tally of 1
number shipped in each cargo. T
comes to another United States ng<
at San Francisco, who makes suro tl
there aro no raoro skins than
Government agent- atthe. Norths*:
uir uivfo -txmrcu TiftiHURn WRiCTB
liovo that the seal must beforo lc
become extinct in spite of all th
nrnPOIlilATSU fol/nn
vwnuu %i\J j/iUHCI VC
Bpecien. It the sea Bhall be open
all comers and seals shall again
taken with nets, the final destruct
will be hastened.
The sealing season properly beg
about the laBt of June or tho fi*,1
July, when the seals have become \
established in Bering Ben and breed
has begun. At that time tho ro<
PribylovB, and as well a few islands
longing to Russia over near the cc
of Siberia, nro crowded with thousn
of seals, and the animals swim the
in search of food. The poachers
not wait so long, but intercopt
seals on their way from tho ocean i
Bering Boa. Our ships cannot im
fere with sealing in the Pacific th
miles from our own shores, but we
watch the passes of the Aleuti
through which seals and scalers ex
Bering Sea.
The patrol fleet is on tho lookout
poachers during May, June, Jii
August, September and October, i
business is liveliest in inidsumni
though the seal islands liavo b
raided as late as December. By
last of Septomber, however, things
pretty squally in Bering Sea, and
foro the lBt of Noveml?er snow stor
are frequent, and sealing is no f
Captain Mike Healy, of the rcvei
cutter Bear, who knows Bering I
from tho Aleutians to tho Arctic, t
is known to everybody in that reg
as the embodiment of Uncle Sai
power, usually stays about the *
islands later than any one else, and
poacher who falls into Mike Heal
harnlH is likely to repeut of his tcmeri
The patrol fleet now and then sei
a ship far to tho east, and occasional
even in mid-summer, if8k a rand:
party stationed on one of the islai
commanding nn important pass, 1
mostly the work of the patrol is e
fined to the region about tho Pri
I A .1: 1 1 * ' A
1L llIHgUlBOl JIUHCIier Ullglll ('II
tho sealing region with a vessel of
patrol H.H't looking on. Nevertheh
if a suspicious looking craft should
found entering the mu?, she would c
tainly be overhauled and made to
plain. The seal poacher is uhui
recognized by her hnviiig a great ini
small boats, an unusually large c<
plement of men and an abundance
firearms. Her method when a here
seals is encountered swimming is
lower many boats with armed men, \
shoot the seals as raj'ully as possi
and thon pick them up. Old i
young, male and female, are thus si
and many are lost. Borne old sail
estimate that seventy-five per cent
seals killed in this way are not re?
ered by the poachers. Others say t
tho loss does not exceed ten per ct
As a small vessel may tako $100,
worth of seals in a single season,'
temptation to tho poacher is stro
It is all the stronger from the faett
the men who ship on poaching ves
go under an agreement of "no cat
no pay.''
Boaling in May and through most
June is a rough profession, lor Her
Sea has winter weathor fur into Jn
and the hillH ashore ?rn m
clad sometimes hh lato as July 1. T1
comi'H the heat of tho northern bi
mer. The air is mild, tho sea at 01
nary times is calm, and ashore a th
sand flowers are blooming and the i
grass is shotting up waist high. T1
is the activo time of the patrol fleet
In all ordinary weather tho ships
tho patrol floet ?an overtake the sw
est of the poachers when once 1
offender has been tahtod; hot witl
sel captured with "o?*o
usually taken ypnQ'll'A and thet
by prize crew tJpJtka or Viotoria, i
cording as the p.?ze is Aracriagp
English. The poacifl* have fully <1
counted tho possibility of a decision
Paris adverso to the Urf*?^ States, a
if that shall bo the onto?**? ?' *
bunal Uncle Sain wiIlJ0toW?aty
M,nu..i# ?? - ?
",uioc" UtJHt-t W|ff, . HQ
brought by poacher# fr(
Bering 8?*.?New YoJRr^y?1^'8?*'
No men can join tM^f^aetie 4111
unless he can jump"J^?^
'' \
. t
select snmrac
^ Dogskin it?wall deooration. i<
A snow white eolt without eyes ox J
forelegs has been born on the farm of :
Frank MoKeehan, near Peoples, Ohio. j
People never think of whistling in [
Iceland. It's a violation of the divine 1
law. ,
i At i reoent wedding in Clarke |
i County, Alabama, the groom was flf- j
> teen years old and the bride thirty* |
five.
' Before the year 1100 everyone wore |
mittens or went bareheaded. Gloves i
s with twelve fingers were invented in i
^ the Twelfth Century,
i In a cemeteiy adjoining a small
11 ? (l,?a im
lOWIl ID VUU DWW Ul I uuuu> ?
? a tombstone bearing this remarkable leH
gond: "Sacred to the memory of three
H twins."
It is a belief of fisherman that the
lH finuy denizens of the deep are hunIf
gricst and bite most freely during the
e. four or fivo days following the moon's
,g first quarter.
if- When Doorkeeper Isaao Bassett first
in went to the United States Senate as a
ad page sixty-five years ago, there were
d- forty-six desks in it. Now there are
ile oighty-eiglit.
iftt Tho railroad constructed by Stephenon
?on south of Liverpool and oponed for
on in 1832 remained in use almost
n tho "great inventor left it until m
cd few weeks ago, when a now line was
to constructed.
"n A citizen of Concord, N. H., is the
owner of the first bank noto issued by
the United States Government under
iaf the National banking law. It was isHrt
sued to tho First National Bank of
list Washington, D. C., December 81,
1863.
bho
Robert Furey lias been awarded a
j three years' contract for street cloaning
. in Brooklyn, N. Y. Ho is to get $190,000
the first two years and $215,000
kR the third year for removing ashes, and
nts ft In^? 'or Blroet cleaning, on the
tho basis of 15,000 miles,
tor Spirit Lake, lows, is situated upon
the pinnacle of one of the most elehis
vated regions in the State?1050 feet
tint above sea level. In Mrs. Yelverton's
bat book, "A Journey in a Junk," there
the 'H n description of a Buddhist temple
rut in Cochin China, but in the form of. a
lift ?y man, 91.1a.
hat The favorite flower of the PrinceM of
Bel* Wales is tie lily of the valley.
?h.
Malaria cured and eradicated from the system
by Brown's Iron Hitters, which enriches
i of the blood, tonos tho nerves, aids digestion.
:no Acts like a charm on persons In general 111
? health, giving new energy and strength,
tie, low
Tho highest volcano i* Popocatepetl,
hen Mexico?17,748 foet, with a crater
lm" mile in diameter and 1000 feet deep.
di- ?*
oil. Heecti&m'Bnils with a drinkof water mornIn
km. Boecbam'B?no others. c?nU a box.
low * ?
ien Wear Tranquebar, on the southee*
ern coast of India, there is a species off
fifth which not onlj ia able to walk oa
ley el ground bat can climb trees. ~1
. a Brown's Iron Bitten ourea Dyspepsia, MalaI
rla, Blllonene* andden#|*UiSWV^(ifHV^strength^
/idA.P'Tlrt host tonlo for Nursing
Mothers, weak women end children.
- rands A. Hobart, after baring ben.
^ Moderator of the town of brain I tit,
?* tfnsa., for twentj-three years, had de18"
elined a re-election. He is not
** sixty years old.
ncl ri
8. K. Ortliti.t. "? ?-j - -
nd Hall'sdsi^rfi V^lmbl^remody."
itm Dro?H?t????l it, 7?o.
>m Th? Scotch herring fishery Is now
the greatest in the world, employing
,y 12,000 boats and 100,000 people.
It afntoted with sore eysn nae Dr.Isaao Thmu&?
son's Kyc-we^r.Urujfglsts^U at SOc.yerhoUls
' :
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? ' *3^ (T. ' *
Vhe Migratory Fever,
Naturalists have generally deemed
k impossible to keep a truly migratory
Iritish bird through tho winter. For
ho last year or two, however, a birdover
in Norfolk has succeeded in rcarng
several nightingales during tho
ime of the absence of tho species from
Sngland. He confined them in cages,
rat found that when tho migration
[ever came upon them they invariably
jeat their heads to pieces against the
top of the cage and died miserably.
Determined not to be vanquished, he
bit upon a plan of suspending a ceiling,
as it were, of linen tightly
stretched under the top of tho cages.
The birds knocked themselves against
this innocuously, so that in 1891-92 i
he succeeded in snving thrco throughout
the winter; but tliiB last winter he |
only possessed one. It, howover,
lived through tho cold weather, when
tho rest of its kith and kin wero far
absent in Egypt and Arabia. This iB
an interesting item of bird news, as
showing that the longing to migrnto
in a bird is actually a fever in the
blood, which works itself on in a fortnight
or so if the bird be unnblc by
stress of circumstances to leave the
country with its congeners.?bt.
James's Gazette.
The Traveling of Roots.
Nature gives a curious instance of
the traveling of roots. While a country
bourn wm being demolished it was
noticed that large quantities of vegetable
fiber adhered to parts of some of
the wrIIb. Further scrutiny revealed
the fact that tho root of a wistaria had
entered tho dining room by a small
chink of tho window near the ceiling,
and on removing tho paper from tho
walls the whole of the plaster around
the room was found to bo covered with
a fine not work of rootlets. Tho most
singular part of tho discovery was that
not a troco of tho intruding growth
was visible on tho paper inside tho
room, which had been constantly inhabited.?Chicago
Record.
Cooling Railway Carriages.
A contrivance for cooling railway
carriages is described by Indian Engineering,
which consists of a small
tank at both ends of the carriage, which
rooeive thoir supply from tho main
tank above, which holds water for the
uwiwyetr"'
work automatically, canting over gently
when full of wator, and perfectly
saturating kus-kus tatties that aro bus
pended across an open trapdoor, wliicl
is lot down at tho foro end of tho carriage
in whichever direction the trail
is traveling.
ruh< YOU!
I Cured m a moat malignant Irpe of
BflBHH chronic blood trouble, (or aklrli I had
ifc
ererjr way. I coaaidar S. S. ?. the he?? tonic 1 aver uaad.
S.A.WRIGHT. Midway, Ca.
Treatite oa Blood, Skia end CaaUglous Blood Foltoa
tailed free.
Bwirr Srwnno Company, AtlmnU, Oa.
msm
rwi:T7Ffn?i
Bo Hot Bo D?c?lTod*a^BHMHHHH
with PmKm, iMiMh nd PftlnU which Mate the I
hand*. Injure the Iron and horn red. I
, Th* 1^iSF P?"* to BrltUnat, Odor- I
r???aavsisssata^" -1
- . . V\ , f M jf- ' " *J
. " S i
S^v npHE U. S. Gov<
vsffi 1 have reports
nation of scores o
that the Royal Ba
rSK solutely pure, of
capacity, and sup
wZ? \e/p?RieHcED T6ACI
"German
Syrup"
My niece, Eraeline Hawley, was,
taken with spitting blood, and she
became very much alarmed, fearing
that dreaded disease, Consumption.
She tried nearly all kinds of medicine
but nothing did her any good.
Finally she took German Syrup and
cIia />! rl ?4 J 1-?? ?
biiv w?u iuc it uiu iici more goon
than anything she ever tried. It
stopped the blood, gave her strength
and ease, and a good appetite. I
had it from her own lips. Mrs.
Mary A. Stacey, Trumbull, Conn.
Honor to German Syrup. Q
$ile$eans
Positively cure Bilious Attacks, Constipation,
Sick-Headache? etc.
OR ? ju\j pe? bottle, at Drug Ht-oreo,
Write for sample doso, froe.
</. F. SMITH & CO..."'-New York.
There is Hope
For every one who has blood trouble, no matter
in what shape or bow long standing, provlded
nono of trio vital organ* have been eo
far Impaired as to render a cure impossible.
8. 8. 8. goes to tlvo root of the disease, and
removes the cause by cxj>ellinK the poison
from the body, and at theaame time f* a tonic
to the whole system. However bad yonr case
may be, there is ho|>e
Be- fvii" ft^rtnlfr: " ~ '
>ng Tho Bluo Grotto, on the Inland off '
e?o Capri in tho Bay of Naples, is absotho
Intcly onrivaled for the vivid nplendor
i to of its colors. Owing to the peculiar
be nature of the refraction of the Bunion
light on ita wutcm, wall, roof and nca
are tinged a beautiful ultramarine,
inu which nliaden into a deep violet in the
t of furthent recedes of the cavern,
irel! Probably tho majority of the people
'n8 who have nung the plaintive ballad,
eky "The Mistletoe Bough," have believed
*)0" ita ntory to be purely romantio. It is,
>aKl however, founded on fact, and it*
a^8 scone in laid at Marwoll Old Hall, near
sea Winchester, England. Only recently
'to tho "old oak chest," which had been
the preserved in the family for many
u*? rears, was sold at anotion.
ter- M||
xeo
can Origin of the ^Hello!"
an? "Hello" is almost a ceiv word, as it
l*et differs in form, sound and use from the
old "halloo." It is merely mentioned
for by Webster, and tho searcher for inl,y
formation is reforrod to "halloo,"
?ud which is defined as an interjection, a
icr? loud call or tho noise of the hunt. The
'>on forms thcro given?"halloa" and "halt'10
loo"?aro not well adapted to the
uro American tongue, neither ore they bus*>0~
ceptiblo of tho variety of expression
1118 that can bo given to "hello." Probably
l,n- tho word "halloo" grow out of the call
luo "hail, oh !" which was almost uuivers"M>a
oily used by wayfarers in olden time
vnd when halting at a house along the way.
ion "Hail, oh! the house," was another
X|iuw vvrssasssvxa iu !>ulo ntlHUIl III
early times. This would quito natuthe
rally take tho form of "hal-lool tho
i' B house." However, this derivation is
ty- not given by Wobster, but merely sug*
ids gesta itself.?PittaburgjQazette,
fe ?
ids Thrco years of Iwe-TOTtghing has
}ut killed Julius Lord, aged sixty-three, ot
on. Williamstown, Mass. The attacks were
l>v. freq'ient and sarere, and weakened
^>r Lord so that he was confined to his
tj10 bed. Letters wrjpe received from all
;kh, ov'*r U?e United States suggesting reml,a
edits, Threo days before his death
,cr. the hiccough lefl him, but he was too
ex. weak b> curvlveu
diy
my To (!Ihim the Snlra
?m* Effectually yet gently, when costive or bilious,
?l or when the blood Is Impure or slngglsh.to per'
raanontly cure habitual const I|Mt ion, to awak"
en the kidneys and liver to a healthy activity,
yj0 without irritating or weakening them, todls''o
pel headaches, colds or fevers, use Syrup of
and trigs.
iot, . .
iors Very handsome dresses, and window
of curtains as well are now mads of gloss
!?v" in Austria.
hat
mk Care Rapture.
ruin * ""slier of how long standing. Writs
{?r..frt? treatise, testimonials, etc.. to 8. J.
the g^'Jensworth A Co-^Owego, Tioga Co.. N. Y.
"vr-" .>23
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r*j
i i .
I LOST MY HEARINQ
As a result of catarrh la
the head and was deaf
for over a year. I began 1
to take Hood's Harsapa- _I
rllla, and fonnd when I Wj
had taken three bottles YBft- V
that my hearing wmm W; vW* I
returning. It la now \< ' * J
more than a year and I
can hear per/eefly /V
well." H irh a
Hicks, 80 Carter Street,
Rochester, N. Y. Herman Hicks.
Hood's5#1'" Cures
I Hood's Pills cure all Urer Ills, nillousnees.
Jaundice, Indigestion, Sick Headache.
COITRECURED
BIG MONEY entirely'n?wi>st/nt?3
sriicln. No Competition. Kxclusles Territory,
Uulck Hales. No Capital He<(ulred. Paints*
Preferred. ltefercnces Kxchanged. Address,
THK PALM LRTTER CO.,
IS aaS 17 Usssaoad HL, ClaelsaaU, Okie*
L . .... ' ..TT
Deep Sea FIkIics.
* * .?.vJ
About iyu species oi aoep sea u?uw
have been obtained by tho Albatross in
the doptlis of tho ocean on the continental
slope of California. These
creatures are, as a rule, very soft in
body, almost black in color, and many
of them covered with phosphoresoent
spots, by which they can see themselves
in the darkness. They live in
tho open sea, from two to fivo miles below
tho surface, and their soft bodies
at this depth aro rendered firm by the
tremendous pressure of tho surrounding
waters. In their nativo haunts the
light and heat of tho sun scarcely over
penotrato ; tho darkness is almost absolute,
and tho temperature of tho water
is at the point of froeziqg. The
creatures living at these great depths
ore not, generally speaking, descended
from the shoro species of tho same
rogion; they constitute groups by
thomBolves, and forms very similar are
found in all parts of tho ocean, from
tho poles to tho equator.?New York
Nowa.
Two Whopping Loads of Logs.
In Minnesota, in tho winter of
91-'U2, a singlo load, sealing 31,400
feet, was hauled on a single pair of log
sleighs by two span of horses. 'During
1 tho present winter in Michigan, a load p.
1 inoro than equal to tho altoye imm ?
>??- ??? ?r>-- -? ?,?mid will be
1 placed on tho grounds of tho Columbian
Exposition as ono of tho wonders
of the world. It will be eighteen foet
long, flfteon foot wide, and thirty-three
1 feet threo inches from tho top of the
roadbed, weighing over ono hundred
' tons.1?Scribner.
ernmerit Chemists vS
d, after an exami- fcfe
if different brands,
king Powder is abhighest
leavening W-|8r
erior to all others. /&2&
LAPEN5E5 MODERATE:7*^
MEND YOUR OWN HARNESS
fTHOMSON'sgflt
SLOTTED ^^^^7
obinott nivcTC.
Vo tool* rr<in!rrd. Only a hinmtr n?M to drtra
absolute!? Mnoulb. lt--<iulrline iin ho to Lt mmli la
Ik* l**ih*r nor burr for Ui* III vet*. Th?jr uro air* Mgr.
toavh and dnrnblr. Million* now In M*. M
langtn., uniform or uMrtcl. put ni> In < *< ?.
Ask runr dealer fur Iheiu, or ??*d 400. M
ilampi for a box oi 100, aiiorieJ >Ue?. Al.in'fdby
JUOSON L. THOMSON MFQ. CO., '
fTALTKAII, HAS*.
I" car Sand 6c in atamps tot MAfaft I
llluitratnd cualogua oI bicyclsA fMA I
and sporting good* of miy doactipdoa. I
lahn P. Lawl! Arm* Oa. a*f?t. MaffJ
Stale IrfflaiSiep,^
Altitude 100 ft.; cllmnte mild mul hojuidfttl; eholra
of C'ollfffP rnilPA d iMt/IIno h. liaaa. i ,v# li?aWAl^
M , ..?.. 11 MW imiUT,
MaMer and Doctor of Science, I'l-dawKY 11 "<t I'hlloanphy
ami to I.lfo Cwtlftpntvs or Professional IJfe
Dlplomit from mate 8u|>crliit?ntcnt. Scholarly and
experienced teachers may take I'ltOFKftrtlOS*
A l. cni'RHK largely IN AIIMKNTIA. <*
pennon low. Kor information aildrcna K. R. IL>
OKI IX. K, l<li. I)., I'rraldcut, Tray, Ala.
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