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/ A MIRACLE IN MISSOURI. "THE ACHIEVRMGNTS OK AIKDICAL \ HCIENCE FAR MORE WONDER. KI/'L. THAN THE MAUIC OK THE KAHT. It rmn rlt able Experience *f rout I Mauler Wonriana, ml I'annma. Me.? ! For Ten Y earn a Cripple To-Doy A Wfll nnd Hearty Jlan, I lljjon the Kansas City Time*.) ^ The people of Rich Hill, Mo., nnd vicinity have recently been startled by a seeming miracle of healing. For years one of the beet known men in Bates and Vernon counties has been Mark M. Woodson, now post master of Panama, and brother of ex-State Inspector ot Mines, C. C, Woodson, of this city. The people of Rich Hill, where he formerly resided, and of his present home, remember well the bent form, misshapen almost from the semblance of man. which | has painfully bowed Its head half to earth and labored snail-like across the walks season after season, nnd when one day last month it straightened to its full height, threw awav the heavv butt of cane which for years had boon its only support from total helplessness, and walked erect, tlrmlv, unhesitatingly about the two cities, people lookod and wondered. The story of the remarkable case has become the marvol of the two counties. Exactly as Mr. Woodaou told it to a Times reporter, it is hero publish od . i "For ten yenrs I have suffered tho torments of the damned au I have been a useless invalid ; to-day I am a well and hoarty man, ireo from almost every touoh of pain. I don't think man over suffered more acute and constant agony than I have since 1884. Tho rheumatism started then in my right lenee, and after weeks of suffering in bo l I was at Inst relieved sufficiently to arise, but it was only to get about on crutches for flvo years, tho ailment having ssttlod in tho joint. Despite constant treatment of tho 1 most eminent physicians the rheumatism grew worse, and for the last four years I have been compelled to go about bent half toward the ground. In the winter of 1S90* 91, after the rheumatism had settlod into its most chronic form, I went to Kansas City 1 upon advice of my brother, and for six ( weeks I was treated in ouo of the largest and best known dispensaries of that city, but without the slightest improvement. ' Before I came home I received a strong gV- i vantc battery, this I used for months wit It ( the same result. In August. 189*J, I went to St. Louis, und there conferred with tin widely known Dr. Mndd of hospital pr.tc- 1 tlco fame, and Dr. Kale of the city hospita'. Nono of them would take my case witli any hope of affording mo more than temporary rener, ana so t came home, weak. doubled with pnln, helpless and despondent. i "About this time my attention was called to the account of a remarkable cure l>v Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People oJ I locomotor ataxia, rheumatism and p ira ysls. I orderod some of the ptils a* an trApeiiuient. When I began to take them, the rheumatism had developed into a phase of paralysis ; my leg from the thigh dim 1 was cold ull the time and could not be kept warm. In a short timo the pills were gone, . and so was the cane. I was able to ntten I to the duties of my office, to get about as a 1 well and strong man. I was free from paia and I could eujoy a soun 1 and restful , night's sleep, something I had not known for ten years. To-day utu practically, an 1, I firmly believe, permanently curod of mj 1 terrible and agonizing ailment. No magician of the Far East ever wrought the miracle with his wau l that Dr. Williams' Tink Pills did for me." To verify the story bej ond all quest.on Oi I doubt Mr. Woodson made the following ( affidavit . Statk oy Miskouhi, > . County of Batks, > '3' I, M. M. Woodson, being duly sworn on i Iny oath, stnte that the following statements ] ore true and correct as I verily believe. M. M. Woodson. ' I Subscribed ami sworn to before me this id i day of March, 1804. , John 1). Moore, Xotary I'uuu. ^ Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Tale People Ore qpauufacturod by the Dr. Williams' 1 Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y., i and aro sold only in boxes bearing the llrm's trnde mar* and wrapper, at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50. Bear in mind that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills aro ^ never sold in bulk or by tho dozen or bun- ( dred, and any dealer who offers substitutes -> In this form is trying to defraud you an I should be avoidu?. Dr. Williams' 1'iuk I Tills may bo had of all cruggist* or direct ] by mail from Dr. William-*' Medicine Co. Animals Taught 1? IT so .Machines. ".Many, if not moat, animals," says ?T. Head, in Nature, "can l?o taught to use machines if carefully trained froiu infancy." He then refers to the wellknown donkey at Carisbrooko Castle, which draws water from a ileep well by a treadmill arrangement, "just as well as a man could do it. He watches the rope on the barrel till the full pail rises above tho parapet of the well, then slacks back a little t ? allow it to be rested thereon, and only then leaves the drum and retreats to his stable.'* It needed four vonrs to complete his education iti this respect. Mr. Head states that he lias seen a canary gradually lift from n little well situated a a foot below its perch a thimbleful of water by pulling up with its beak, bit by bit, a little chain attached to it, ,nud securing each length 1 ift? .1 with its foot till it could take another pull. When the thimble reached its perchlevel the bird took a drink and then ? 1^.* f.,11 1.....1- ...? . ...?n v? York Independent. 4 / A. M. i'riost. Druggist, Sholbyvillo, Ind.. ' mys : " Mall's Catarrh Cure gives the Cost of ] rat istnot ion. Can get plenty of tost itnoniaN. as it cures every one who takos it." Druggist* 1 *>oll it, 75c. j Poutcoai. neks England's good offl -os in 1 bringingnhout a reconciliation with Brazil. 1 Hhlloh'a Car* Is sold on a guarantee. It rurrs Incipient Con- f sumption; it is the Best Cough Cure; "Sc., She., $1 t The London Economist reports n revival *>f business in England. 1 ?? 4' I Coti I d''Not Walk' ^ ' t Because of a rnnuins?; #ora on my ankle. I " wjis not able o\fn to <lo anything. After the 1 1~food's Sarsa w ^ %%%%%% jyciwltct lift l.ollie of flood's y \ g g /\c Harsiparilla I fell u A 1^1 1 t ffroal d'-al Ix-lter, and now after taking I am well. Th<? sore lias healed, an '. I am nhle to n walk several miles without ii?v- tired." , Mils. IIkm h, Hox 88, Wtllahoro, N. V. ^ Hood's Pills if all iv.-r ids. 2Jc. ti IN THE HEART. ff no kindly thought or word We oau give, some soul to bless, If our hands, from hour to hour, Do no deeds of gentleness ; If to lone and weary ones We no comfort will impart ? Tho' 'tis summer in the sky, Yet 'tis winter in the heart! If we strive to lift tho gloom From a dark and burdened life 11 we seek to lull the storm Of our fallen brother s strife , II we bid all hale and scorn From the spirit to depart? Tho' 'tis whiter in tho sky, Yet 'lis summer in tho heart! ?George Cooper, in Sunday School Timo3. GRANDPA PINNEFS MOVING j BY BELLE GREENE. II dear, Abncr! cx * claimed Airs. Rod ' \ gers to her husbauc I ?M0 morn'ugas |5y8B^L/. m she bustled about ff. b the kitchen, "I don't 'fy*4* moo how in this work ' I'm over going tc ^ through with all my spring work? clonning ami ?very thing ! If I didn't havo to keep one eye 011 gran'pa J could do more. Seems as if he grow worse and worse." She paused with a sigh. Her husband waited silently for more. "When the peddler called yesterday he was setting quiet as a lan.b by the stove, with the eat, in his lap, kind of playing with her, to I ventured to go up garret and pick over the rage?it i oak oh such a litter down here?ami w hen I got back gran'pn was still setting there and fast asleep. I thought everything was all right, but come to make my fire for dinner a few winute6 after, there was an aw ful towsiug and tnewing in the ov?n. 1 opened the door and out jumped the eat! II there'd been a hot lire he'd done just the same I suppose !*' Abner, who was sitting by the table looking over a lot of garden-seeds for the spring sowing, laughed shortly and bhrugge.l his shoulders. "You know what I think about grau'pa's doings," lie said ; "you know where I think folks had ought to go when I hey lose their faculties and art lio good to themselves nor anybody else." ".Vow, Abner," said his wife, reproachfully, "don't say you'd send gran'pn to the poorliouse! Think what a good man he's been, and what a smart man. How can you be so unfeeling! You wouldn't want ycur children to do so by you, in your old age." "I slia'n't probably outlive my usefulness, "answered Abner, coldly. "My father worked till the very day of hit lenth ? more'u paid his keep till the last." "And father Pinney has already more than paid his keep, if he lives to lie a hundred, and you know it!" returned his wife, indignantly. "You 11 ways lay out to forget that he's give us the old place !" 44Well," said Abner, "I slia'n't hire lielp at present; we can't afford to, not while we have such an expense i-i/ililit/ on in tln> fumiltr " Her father, when lie came to livo ivith them, hail made over to Abner the old homestead, the "Finney Place," as it was called. It was a good 'arm lying adjacent to theirs, but the iouse was old and of little value. So, ilso, was the house they now occupied, ind the rdau was to sell the "Finney Place" and with the money build a lew house where their own now stood. But Abner seldom eliose to remem>er the ample provision grandpa had undo for his support, and on this occasion, instead of replying to his ivife's reminder, he picked up a packigo of early lettuce seed, ami started jfT. At the door In-turned, however, ind saitl, perhaps with some idea of encouraging her: "Ain't it about time for gran'pa's May-moving? He won't be round un* ilerfoot so much \>hou he gets u]> in tils tree." "I hope he won't go. T hope he's forgot all about it," she said, anxiously. "1 tell you, Abner, it isu't safe ind it isn't respectable for un oltl man tike father to sleep outdoors in a tree ! Seems as if I couldn't have him do it igain." She dashed the tears away from her yes as her lmsbaud went out. "I do wish 1 could ever learn to lold my tongue, complaining to Abler !" she exclaimed, bitterly. "Ho . 1 1.1 *? liwiivn imiiiifs cvfryunnK on on to grau'pn, and Hint's all tiie good it iocs. It's a burning shame f eau't linve help through lumse-eleaniii'; but ii grftn'pa 'iI only give up his Maynoving this year f won't say another vorrt? uot it I work my lingers to the jone!" Two years before, when the spring mine round, (Iramlpn I'innoy hail aken a queer freak into his head. As Vbuer expressed it. "he got cranky in air." When the weather grew vnrm, and the trees leafed out ftiul the nrds began to sing in their branches, he old man became strangely restless md uneasy, talked iucoherently about stifling" and "smothering," ami inisted on having all the doors an I nndows in the house wide open. I<ater on, lie seemed unwilling to fay in the house at all, and moved his irmchair out uuder the great twin >aks across the road. There he spent nost of his time, reading his large >rint Testament or wutehing the birds md looking eontentedly oil over the ileasant fields. They had hard work to get him inlours lor his meals. The idea of deeping outside, however, had not hen occurred to liiiu. This was two years ago; the next rear, not eontent with i?i ting under h o fr?iA? Ito ^ ~' - - ... - - ???. , ? ......i it mi n Dt rime piarorin around them. just below where he main branches joined the trunks, ind made sonic steps to lead up to it. riien on the last day <>f May, which eas unusually warm for the season. 11 suite of his daughiei'i coaxing and coldiug, he insisted on dragging Ins >cd and liedding ii|> there. A single hair and his Testament completed he furnishing. From that time on, not only ?Ti<T he p"nd his days in the tree chamber, nit he actually slept there at night. Nothing but a smart shower could Lrivt* bim into the hou*u> , What seemed strange, no barm came to him from the exposure. He did not get the terrible colds ami rheumatism that Beliuda had feared; on the contrary, he seemed to grow stronger and happier every day. And she fouud she could accomplish twice as much work. It was true, as Abuer h wl said, "he was out of her wav miii, Kilo am not ieei unite easy anon* him. It seemed a dremlfiil thing to have her old father sleeping out there alone in the darkness of the night I 80 she anxiously hoped that he would not think of going this year. But a few days after the recorded conversation, Belinda came home from an errand to a neighbor's house, to liud that the "May-moving" had taken place. Abner, who had been a witness to the proceeding, only said, carelessly: "Let him be, he's all right; nothing happened to him last year." What finally reconciled Belinda moro than anything else was a remark 1 . r.a 1 1 ^ :.. 1.:.. 1.1: Mir iniutT iiiiiiif in in* riuumiiiK HI?Y, which gave her new iusight into hi.j feehng. "Ueliuvl.v, darter,'* he said, "don't homier me. Everything ia free outof-doors, free anil welcome." She knew theu that he realized how grudgingly he was housed un l fed. Ilis withdrawal from the house seemed hut a natural instinct, the protest o( liis pelf-respect. After that she could not oppose him farther. Sho allowed liim the most perfect freedom to eouic and go as he liked. "Clod '11 take care of him, as H? does of the birds aud the rest of His creatures," she said to herself, trust.'ully. One day Abner came in very muol elated. "Uelindv!" he exclaimed, "what should you nay to an offer of four thousaud dollars for the old place 1 What kind of an offer is that, hey?" and he rubbed his bauds in great satisfaction. "I should sav it was a bouncing good offer, and you'd better t ike it," said Jus wife. He went ou excitedly to tell her the particulars. "And now, Aimer," she said presently, in her coaxing way, "I do hope you'll try and feel a little more patient with gra id'pa. Just think, oi all that money comiug to us through him!" 44 Th") host of it is," ooutinucil Aimer, who just now could think of nothing but the money, "the best ol it is, Belindy, it's going to be paid down ! So all I've got to do is tc clap it into the bank, and let it stay till after the crops are in. Ther we'll begiu the new houso right away ? have it all done and ready to move into by spring 1'' 4'And when we get into tho neu house, we're going to have Mary and the baby come home to live with us, ain't we? You know you've promised," reminded his wife, bent ou taking all possible advantage ot her uuusual opportunity. Mary, their only daughter, had married a poor mau, and was now n widow, supporting herself aud child by working in the factory in a distant town. To have her child and grandchild at home with her had long been the wish of the mother's heart; but her husband had always put her off. "Wait till wo got into the new house," he had always said. "Thon tliero'll be more room." But she had fiinroil ilinl nnvar rual I v runuiif f consent. Now, to lier astonishment and delight, ho answered goodnaturedly : "Yea, yes; let 'cm come!" His good luck seemed to have wanned his heart, and made him for once fatherly and benevolent. The next day the man who had bought the Piuuey farm paid to Abner the price in full?four thousand dollars; more money than either Aimer or his wife had ever seon bofore. In the midst of their joyful excitement, they were both suddenly struck with an anxious fear. Since Abner could not take the money to the bank till the next day, where should they pnt it for safe keeping through the uicrht? After much deliberation they decided to hide it in a little eupboar 1 over the mantel in the parlor, and accordingly, while Belinda tiptoed to the window and made sure no one was nigh to sec. Abner wrapped the money carefully in a large bandanna handkerchief, and put it in a dark corner of the cupboard. Several times Abner left his work and stole into the parlor to make sure that the money was safe, and as often questioned nervously as to whether ..i......... i hut iiivu ('iiii i n'j uuni' iiiuiii^' place; but finally lit; concluded to let it reiniiiu. "f shouldn't suppose anybody woultl be likely to look there for money; they'd be more apt to think I had it under my pillow," he said that night. "At any rate, we've got to run tho risk of losing on it wherever wo put it." Thus philosophizing they went to bed, and notwithstanding their anxiety, dept soundly, as hard working people ire wont to do. Well along townrd morning thev ontli awoke with a terrible feeling of ufTncntinn. Tho room was full of smoke ! They sprang out of bed, to see the flames already bursting through :iie door opening info the parlor. "The money ! the money !" screamed Miner, frantically, and rushed into tames, only to be driven quickly back. He flew outdoors and round to tho mrlor windows, hoping to gaiu ei1" ranee there ; but he was too late. Tho vlioln house seemed to he in flames; t hurned like tinder. l.ftfore any of the neighbors were aroused, before Ahner and his wife thought of anything hut the money, the whole house and all it contained was gone?money, furniture, clothing - everything gone in a night I At ilrst the thought of his loss drove Ahner almost wild. Ho raved like a madman, and his ?jf:; looked iutonis face in speechless agony. What could sh<- say ? How was she to comfort a man like him for the loss of his property'? She did iv>t think of herself for a moment; she only folt for him. Hut all she could do was to pray silently that (i,?l would mercifully help him to hear his grief. And as if in answer to her humble prayer, a V rr=k miracle began tnea and thore to be 1 worked in Abnea's sordid soul. While lie sat on the great ohopping-block in the doorysrd, in the midst of the rain of hie hope*, gradually his misery seemed to abate. Tho sun had risen, the birds wore twittering in the trees, and by and by the cows catno up tho lane one by one of their own accord to tho milking. The old horse and tho colt in the held, put their heads over the fenoo and whinnied, and finally the great rooster strutted up quite close to Abner and crowed encouragingly. Abner, looking up into his wife's face, almost smiled. "1 forgot the creatures," ho said, slowly. "They're left to us?and mere's the laud. If wo only had the money to build the new house with 1 wouldn't care." "Never mind; wo shall get along somehow. I reckon the LorJ'll provide." she answored cheerfully. "Beliudy," said Abner, tremulously, \ "the worst of it is I deservo it all. And see here," hesitating and speaking with evident effort, "I?I'm afraid I've hwl' IIV'IVVIJ i'WV IUJ1V1I I" iVl the fire. Beliudy?I suppose?it was my owu hand that set that firo. You see T went into the parlor just at dusk to make sure the money was safe before going to bed, and not cemented with feeling it. T lit a match to see. I I expect that match done the mischief; it must bo I And J. believe it's a judgI uient upon mv, I "Yes," ho sobbed, breaking down ' eutirely now, "vch, I've been a graspins, wicked man, and now granpa's money?" At the mention of grandpa Helinda sprang tip with a cry, and hastened to the chamber iu the tree, elosely followed by her husband. Iu their selfish grief they had quite forgotten grandpa! Was he safe? They clambered quickly up the steps and reached the landing. There on the bed lay the old man, still Bleeping, lie was a very sound sleeper always, and evidently the lire had not wakened him. As they looked upon him. the thought of what would probably have been his fate had he been sleeping in the house, made their blood run cold. "We should have forgot iiim?and we couldn't have saved him, anyway 1'' | they said. While they stood thero he awoke, i Seeing his unusual visitors, he sat tip in bed and rubbed his eyes, a little 1 bewildered ; then suddenly a wonderfully bright expression illumined his ' dim old face, and he laughed aloud. "I know, Bolindy. I haiut forgot!" he chuckled, and slipping his hand under tho pillow, ho drew out the bundle done up in the bandanna that they had hidden in the parlor cupboard, and delivered it over to Belinda. "I knew it would besafest herewith me," he explained simply. "Thieves don't never look up in the trees for money." They built the new house, and grandpa's room was tho largest anl best room in it. Mary ami the baby came home to live, ami mother an 1 daughter did the housework together easily. Tho next year grandpa forgot, all about his May-moving. He was contented and liappy ill tho new house, where he now found everything "free and welcome." But lie still likes his chamber in the tree, and sits thero often of a summer afternoon, poring reverently over his Testament or gazing up through the trees, dreaming perhaps of heaven.?Youth's Companion. SELECT SICTIXfiS. Roxana is a Persian name, tho Ray Pawn. Mail is distributed in postoffices in tin United States. Jn Japan cows aro used as beasts of burden. Milk is not used by the Japanese. A feature of a New Zealand concert was a comic Irish song sung by a Maori native. The Portuguese say that no man can be a good husband who does not eat a good breakfast. A New York dealer in mon's furnishing goods displays a sign readiug; "Shirt Constructor." Buckingham Palace, London, exclusivo of its contents, represents an expenditure of $30,000,000. A Vermont turkey that was sold in the Newport market recently had several pieces of pure gold in its crop. There is a well at Scarpa, a villago near Tivoli, Italy, which is 170 ) feet, deep, all but twenty-six feet being cut in solid rock. Nevada (Mo.) poople arc wearing iron finger rings for the rheumatism. One blacksmith has made over a hundred of them. Aurora, III., was the first city in the world to illuminate it< streets with electricity. The wires were placed in position in 1881. \r- ?..r ... iui. i u nid i ui mrij jrvnrt* v\m pcricnce in English libraries, puts down the ordinary life of a popular novel at nine months. A New York doctor has put. over his door an illuminated sign, "In all cases that I do not cure I guarantee to pay half the funeral expenses." Russia, Ronmaniaand Servia are the most illiterate countries in Europe, eighty per cent, of the population being unable to read and write. There is a mountain in Oregon which is slowly moving into the Salmon River. It will, in course of time,dam the stream and create a largo lake. A company has been formed in V??ir Zealand to establish a whaling station on the Kennadee Islands, in the Pacific Ocean, northwest of Now Zealand. Vienna, Austria, has entered upon an extensive scale of embellishment, and unsightly public buildings are to give place W?u<uy ones of artistic design. Martin and C ir'oerry Black, of Lam* bertville. Ohio, are l?viu?, aged twenty. Martin weighs 100 pounds and is deal. Cnrberry weighs 10*> pounds and is hlin 1 A globe o'" water fell near Lonilou in li>lf'?, striking a gentleman sitting on his v.-ran la, and completely drenching him. It is known in history as "the water niettor." Postal eards heve been in use in the United States siyco May 1, 1 y7.1. \ '\ I IN GOVERNMENT EMPLOY THERE ARK NEARLY 7000 FEMALI CLERKS IN WASHINGTON. They Are Scattered All Through th? I>epartinents?The Vurled Work They I>o ?Cupid Also at Work. I WANT to say a word about the Bremen clerks of Washington, writes Frank O. Carpenter in the Detroit Free Press. They are the brightest and ablest people in the service. They do their work con seientionsly, and some of the most efu v. 1? ntirui ui l'iiuiu n?ui h uiujm?jur> nit* ui tbe gentler sex. If I had my way I would give the women tho preference ns to all classes of work which they can possibly do, reserving only tho harder places for the men. As it is, however, there aro two men to everj woman in the departments, and tlit number of women all told amounts tc less than 7000. These women aro of all ages, from eighteen to eighty, and there is, by the way, one woman in tho Treasury Department who has now reached ninety years. There aro many women over sixty and hundreds of sweet young maidens of twentyfive. These women do all sorts of work. Starting in as counters in the Treasury about a generation ago, they have extended thoir work to all sorts of clerkships, and they now pass upon questions of law, examine patents, translate foreign languages, and do everything undor the sun. Some of the most expert counters of the Government are women, and several of the very best bookkeepers of the Treasury wear petticoats. Women are fast making their way as typewriters and stenographers, and tho chief trouble to tho outside employer of labor at Washington is that as soon as he trnins a woman thoroughly into his work as typewriter or stenographer she makes an application to Unole Sam and gets a place at a higher salary in one of the departments. I have ha l this experience liappeu to me a half dozen times, and I have come to look upon my ofticc here as a kind of training school for the Government service. In the dead letter office the most exoert translators of bad writing & 3 ny?? women, umi ii would surprise you to know that the Troasury Department lias a woman lawyer wlio prepares the briefs for internal revenue matters ami who could probably make more outside of tho department by practicing law than she gets by acting as a law clerk within it. There are a number of women editors in tho service at Washington. The official records of the Civil War nre to a certain extent gotten up by women, and in the Navy Department you find women who are making maps and tracing ch'arts for our ships in different parts of tho world, and in the Government printing office there are women typesetters, women stitchers, press feeders and compositors. Everyone has heard of tho pretty girls of the Treasury, but you find beautiful maidens in all of these Government departments. Hoke Smith directs the handiwork of J500 girls, and Secretary Lamont has a company of 114 in his department of war. Post muster-General Bissell has hundreds of maidens under him, and in the Government printing office there are more than 1000 women. Many of theso come of the best families of the country. Not a few are the daughters of notod Generals, Governors of States, Senators and Representatives, and now aud then you find a relative of a President or n Cabinet Minister. The majority of them are women of good education, and with but few exceptions they are educated and reflued ladies. They receive salaries ranging from $720 to $1800 a year, and a large number of them support families. Many of them are widows, not a few ure old maids, and thousands are sweet marliageable young women, who havo too much sense to change a sure livingunder Uncle Sam to a prospective one in company with some good-for-nothing man. The best of them are, however, open to engagements, and not a few of the most notable marriages of Washington in the post have bean in connection with Government clerks. Attorney-General Brewster got his wife, whoso features were Venus-like in their beauty, in a Government department ' here. She was the daughter of Robert J. Walker, a former Secretary of tho Treasury, and as she sat at her desk oiio day in the Treasury department the future Attorney-General walked through the room. She made some remark about his homeliness. I do not know whether Brewster overheard it or not, but lie saw her, and witli him it was a ease of love at first sight. Ho sought an introduction and shortly afterward offered her his hand and his wealth, and his name for herself and hor children. It in Haiti that ho propo.setl to her in words something' like this: "My dear, you aro beautiful and I am hideous, but if you will marry me it will not be the first instance of the mating of beauty and the beast, and I assure you you will never regret marrying me." IIis proposition was accepted, and the next time Mrs. Brewster came to Washington it was as the wife of the Attorney-General of the United States. Stephen A. Douglas got his wife iti one of tho departments of Washington. Jt is a wonder to mo that there aro not more marriages among clerks. Young men and young women of mar i??.,?l.l.. i . i :.i 11-. i n*^r<M'ir ?n;i f\ nun ?/y r* I'll* ill I I If! departments. Tlioy com in eon fad with ouch other hourly si 11 1 sometimes l'all in love with one another, but not often. in the bureau i f engraving an 1 printing, where the money is made, there if one man and one woman at every printing press, and there is lio separation of the sexes. There nre, I believe, more platonie frien lships here among young men and young women than you will find anywhere else iu the country, and cases have been known where couples have married and kept their marriages a secret for years iu order to a v..id tki rul? ihat a husband and wife shall n >t be employed at the sanu tinia in the civil service at Washington. Many such cases have been found out, an I the recent investigation of the Con grcssional Committee will probably lead to some changes iu this r Mpeei.. According to its report tlier i were lab fall twenty-four Inr h.amls mil wives drawing salaries from ('nolo Sam, | which the husbands ami wives wh > are out of work ami have 110 job at all tliiuk ia decidedly unfair. V J ^ | ^HOSE who cou Y * biscuit, bread i V of indigestion have ! J ing them with Roy, t they are enabled t* 1 ^ feet comfort. w Royal Baking ()V ^ of chemically pur<?r"? \ bicarbonate of soda Y preventive of dyspe] \ ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., Culture o! Cocoa. There is some considerable onnfu siou in regard to the origin of cocoa on account of the similarity of the namen of the three products which go by this name as it is pronounced. The cocoa tree iH really the palm which yields the large nuta called cocoa nuts, and ia known botanically aa Cocoa uucifcra, or the nut-bearing cocoa. It grows only in tropical or nub-tropical cliniatea, and begina to bear when the tree ia seven years old. The cacao tree ? botanically the obronia cacao?ia not a palm, lint has a leaf much like that of a peach ; the fruit ia a large pod, having aeven to ten aeeda jnuch like almonds, and hnving an oily kernel of a dark brown color. These kernels are ground after having heeu fermented iu heaps for two or three days, and the coarse grain ia the common cocoa nibs sold in the grocers' shops. These arc shipped from the parts of Central America where the trees arc grown, and are ground to a paste in mills, or sometimes to a dry powder, sold as the common breakfast, cocoa ; the paste is prcsaed into cakes, and is the uliocoitiiu of commerce. The po'I* in which the seeds are contained ere seven to ton inches in length nnd three to -4} inches in thickness. The treo is u native of Mexico, but is cultivated ill every one of the Central American Statea. It begins to bear when iivo years obi, and yields full crops when eight, veers old, continuing in bearing for many years. Another tree which produces the cocoa leaves is the Krythoxvlon coca, much similar in appearance and growth to the common blackthorn. It is a native of Peru, and the leaves contain a stimulating principle of similar character to that of tea and coffee, but much stronger. An extract of the leaves is known as cocaine, and is used in surgery as a means of paralyzing the nerves so as to wholly prevent pain in the most serious operations. It iH a local amesthetio, ami when applied to the skin renders it insensible. The native name (if this plant is cuca.? New York Times. Oldest Coal Mine in America, When we consider the fact that tlie whole Eastern raugo of mountains, those natural barriers that were first encountered by the European explorers in America, oro regularly stratified with several seams of coal, both anthracite and bituminous, wo cannot help expressing surprise when the historian informs us that the first Arnciican coal mine was discovered in i\hat is now the Stnto of Illinois. In Hennepin's account of his explorations in the West in the years 1073-74, lie tells of an outcrop of coal on the Illinois Hiver, not far from Ottawa, "the shelly fragments of which burned with a bright light, and gave forth much heat." Hernudon says that this is the first historical mention of coal being found i*i whit- ;? now tho United kStc.'.cv.?Lt. Louis Ivcjiubbo. Ijittmny Sunday-school in Philadelphia, of which John Wanamaker is Superintendent, has a membership of more than ">000, and Mr. Wanamaker'* class numbers over iiAOO. A WOMEN WHO SUFFER pain each month, can find relief Sfow'/e^k. <m<' c,,rp ^r- fiGr0?'* W(\\w Kavurits Prescription. It regulates and restores MfxLji ^U\VI\| the monthly function, WftBrCv jaKo braces up tho exhausted, ^Ulli ru? down, overworked NX and delicate; allays and n? I \ \ oiiiiuiios nil ncrvoui aRc^l \ I Weakness, m "3 \\ Hysteria, Fits, Chorea, f \ \ or 81. V itu *' j. \ \ Banco; cures WeakM 1 V nebBja, Bearing v?. -^OPown Sensations, Backache, Catarrhal InRammation, Ulceration and kindled maladies. For those about to become mothers, it is a priceless boon, for it lessens tho iiam and perils of childbirth, shortens "labor" and the period of confinement, and promotes the secretion of an abundance of nourishment for the child. Thomas Tniai.w*i,j? of Rnheitmlalr, Pa.. says: "I cannot sufficiently express to you my gratitude for the benefit your 'Favorite Prescription' lias conferred upon my daughter. Of Inte she ha* suffered no pain whatever. It is simply marvelous." \ LOVELL DIAM I I ligh Ormlo in Ev J LATEST IMPROVEMENTS \ 11'c utakc our bnntnrr.s i t-jtuiat, f is no better wheel made in the wor i WA It It ANTED IN E J i SemUKaesr, IT/, It] / >*. SMCYIXE CATALOGUE FR HUH GRADE BICYCLE FOR $43 75"',!?, arc olosm ; <mt at t'if> nlnvo lo-.v price. A raro oh i i train. Thev arc lull M/.c k'niH' wheels. ball lienrll W ?u,ir .nlo.i to * chiiiy"1. mil ivo ivM ship U. ?. \ iio-ir <1. \|o?ly lo fuir nitiMii* ??r dlroot t<? ii . S-n m Mill |>i-tc lllustrat I i'?lnl,i||il' of Ulcyole*. Hi T.i. kl ami liun.lrv l* of n h r article*. With this i mi I or<l r such iIiI-irs as thoy want. Wo Kuor.iii t I- | o; the exact cost of i>>?vlllnK. J JOHN IPC LOVJLL ARMS not cat cake, hot J nd pastry because J Dund that by rais- ^ il Baking Powder 4 ^ ^ vu<_i ib composed r FUahr oT faVtat" arid*"' jt , and is an actual X psia. \ 106 WALL ST., Double or liinary Stars. All stars appear single to tho naked eye, but the use of the telescope has proven that many consist of two or more distinct orbs. When the nstronomer, Herschcl, first began to niako a special obs< -vatiou of double stars, only four wive known. He increased ? the number to 500, and now about 7000 are catalogued by astronomers. Some have argue 1 that theHo stars only appear to be double because they arc on the same line of vision, but Ilersehel, after many years of investigation, was convinced that in hundreds of eases they actually revolve around each other, thus proving brvolld a doubt that tiler.1 is an actual relationship between sucli pairs oI orbn.?St. Louie Republic. One ol the Strangest o! Minerals, One of the strangest of mineral substances, by the way, is asbestos. It is a form of hornblende rock. Towels are made of it nowadays. They are quite economical, for when they are dirty it is only necessary to throw them into the lire, and on being withdrawn from the flames a few minutes later they are as good as new and. qnito clean.?New York Press. Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. The many, who lire better than others and enjoy life more, with less expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world's best products to ? the needs of phyoical being, will attest the value to nealth of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced In the remedy, Svrup of Figs. Its excellence is due to its presenting In the form most acceptable and plea* snt to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a perfect laxative; effectually cleansing the system, dispelling colds, headaches and fevers ana permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical profession, becay*r it acts on the Kidneys, Liver and bowels without weakening them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substance. 8yrup of Figs is for sale by all druggists in 50c ana $1 bottles, but it is manllfartliwwt Kv t.lia Pnlifnmio fiir Svrnn Oo. only, whose name is printetfon every package, also the i)8.me, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed, you will not accept any substitute if offered. < > ? < i I McELREES* ::WINE OF CARDUI.ij Ik-rtrfsr fk^S?j; ;i For Female Diseases, j H CURt^WtRrXErttK FAH8. TST Beat Cough Syrup. Taatea Good. Use Q In tlmci Sold by dnmliu S. N. i lit. I [OND CYCLES, i ery 1 'nrtloular. i I, LIGHTEST WEIGHTS. } ton o/ over /l/to yearn that there \ Ul than the LOVKLl. IH.AMOSD. f 1VERY RESPECT. j V, >vs h ive bi'CII -<?V :.'.9f&>"Lj*m$- ntul I lie Ladies' l.<n><* Un idt'rr, W'oidly injured by .EE. AbEXTM W A NTED.it> |i.c ililics have von liml'rrl nn nltor of our |>ast <iC(, , and in i tar I inn'jo will lilih pr ol" ?i . ., , , him to p a a flrc-cla<? ilur.ibi <' <TO,ig I.ml lilfVI} up an.l Oil" I with pncnmiiti l>. SM.Vt, wl?h In > prtvll pi <1 lee. In ninmp moiif" in. 111 ill's, ii.-v.iivi'ri, mi^i,. ? Itnrii*>clou, Iowa, H oata'nwno any one can h , . , f , _ [co it wort'i ion limes tli' midnight ii]>luicd ft s and fines in (lie linn Is Ofl RflCTft"* * c,,s "(ar 1,0 yUli SU) I Ui I he men save one f