The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, June 08, 1894, Image 4
/ 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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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MfxLji ^U\VI\| the monthly function,
WftBrCv jaKo braces up tho exhausted,
^Ulli ru? down, overworked
NX and delicate; allays and
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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."
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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.
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