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A BABY'S LOOK. ,,. j yu ?nil try to conjure L" i-j i?ie fancies. memories that bo ,,.*.. . heir to when he resta his V\ rl?l>vis? glances, . . |" , {teri does, oil mo " ". ..? iliin olid recollections A:' 'iit-another, p. . t? r placo than earth J '. ... t r<J<'tiiiiK m upoh 'Om , ; tin- mother ^ . i-fook him ut hin hirth? . . s mt hom tho deep moaning ' " i lin- look . ... Ite'.i m his ..> ?.-? i ' ?til -..ir?*har??,d with wisdom '" i tn sui?? hook .? |i( studied in tho skiosV nave lu- dun old memories . : ?i , IIIII?' j . . j m . mid lar away, . j ... ii;i<l diem, us you've linc them ' i:. j III Hine - .. VVl -ul! Jo? Wlio shall BayV *4 - - i: Kiser iu Cleveland Leader I (I VA EVIN A. ? , - m tlie haunts of men. in a t near the dense forest, lived a tJ|nt He had one daughter. He call ,er ['vina. His hut was built on tiie tiof a lake. No other habitation i,,- seen for miles, save a little eeoii the other side of the lake, ."j W:\S tho home of an old couple. I y cultivating a small piece of i managed to eke out a precarious (?im-?' They had a son. known as .. ?:. 1 Trout and other fish abound ? z lake, the forest was full of ?mi] traine, but. excepting un oe "?,1 woodchopper, no human being , vor appeared there. 1 r ,", in ly childhood Evina bad found U i leasuru in singing. She learned uiitate the notes of the hirds, and in ,. I;, rsongs surpassed those of all the \i ::i the fi rest Whenever Vermund U\ IK r sing he dropped bis ax or oJ in his boat. Then he began to ??i how* nice it would be to have D? in tiis own but all the time, so he j|j not miss her voice and song m the stol m drowned every other ,.?v Then he began to go tothevil . He sold tish and he bartered birds, received money for his wares, and trili'l lie return without some sweets Evina He had heard in the town I people marry, and he told Evina t they. too. ought to get married, that was necessary, they had told ! was to sell some more birds and it more fish and then to give the joy to the priest, who would publish tuns And Evina agreed, be leaves of the trees began to turn ow anti red. Only three moro weeks e to pass before they would have the tinge ceremony performed. During dear and still autumn evenings Da sang and sang Never before did S?IIL; as well, never before had she ii ?-o happy In three short weeks she i!il be housed on the other side of lake Then she wonld not have, to to Vermund over the water. he had been singing all the after D llyr happiness was complete, and voice sounded more birdlike than r before Then out of the forest came ?ral fine gentlemen. ? We have been listening to you. We e never heard a voice like yours. ' 1 the ene who was tallest. That is quite possible. " said Evina, r the dense forest is the best place in? in. It is so wonderful in there.'' hey asked who she was, where she d. and they went with her to see father Among themselves they [fd in a language she could not un hand. They looked at her; they le signs to each other : they talked ?ly aud excitedly. lthe hut they found Evina's father ?ly engaged in making brooms. He seen Une gentlemen before, and he rc that tiny did not come to order mis Ho ordered his daughter to > still, for he wanted to bear what viiiters had to say He was almost liteaetl when the tall man put a jrol kroner hill on the table and bini that Evina mnst come to the ana* sing there. In one year, so tbs c?an told him, she con ld earn money i.'ii to buy a large farm for ber fa rina was amazed. She did not know ta city was. She had once been to tillage, ind she thought tho things aw there very wonderful. Brit sho reaily to go to the city und willing ag there J?>? illina only, 1 beg of yen, " said "Wait until I have married Ver a ?: that could not be. After she had =d riches; she could return home, if hose and marry Vermund. but now a?st go with them-go that very i lifer way she sang. She said good 'Vermund in a song. The gentle stood and listened. They wondered looked at her with admiration, roe who looked the noblest, he who the money to her f ath'pr, wiped |w with his handkerchief. He was ? yet he had not even seen Ver L fer before had Evina slept in so M tis was given her in the city tad never even thought of such Wnl things as those that surround r Only the air seemed to te close leavy She 'felt an impulso to go ato the conntry. So in the midst of "got she got up. She would mn Bat the door was closed, securely i There she lay and cried until tog came. They brought her coffee, honnit ber cake, but she could it ter kind men came and taught her to do when she should sing before people They gave her beautiful *? they took her to a large house ?low with brilliant lights. They 11 her how to bow. how to retire. ?? return and bow again. ?n came the night when the people to listen to her When she appear 1 the stage she saw many heads together ; they reminded her of the ?P9 in her forest She thought of uDd. She began in a clear, uilvery Those who heard her seemed to *? lark as she . rises in the air. more joyful did it sound ; her il^cr<?ased in .power; she sang aa to sing when she sent greetings ^und ncross the lake. 50 she bad finished her pong the sea of upturned "faces remained rat>le. There was no applause, and she retired. Then an uproar jooso. "Evina! Evinal" they fd They clapped their hands, they ^ ith their feet, they reminded r the hobgoblins in her forest. P and louder did they shout and Fatal greater did the anu?anse be j come a? tei eacn song finally she could I sin? no mor.-. Sh" picked "up a small i part of the dowers they showered upon ; her. SIM? bowed t rie.' moro and retired. Karly next morning a man carno to i her and handed her a purse full of ?old. I He told her it washers for hersonv9 last j night Then sh,, wanted V take it all j with her and ?.. home to her Vermund I The man smiled j _"This is only the beginning." he ; said "When you have learned to sing ; mole ,., rreetly. we will travel through i :nany lands, ami you will ?et money enough t<> i ny great estates." I Th- ii came a maestro \vh ? taught her ' IN W t,i read music. Another taught her ! how to walk, how to stand and how to ! ' '?rry herself gracefully. Then came tailors ?md modistes They brought dresses and bonnets, ami ali tobi her j she must buy jewelry. She learned and i she san?. She traveled with a man j whom they called an impresario. She I went from city to city, from country to country She acquired loreign lan guages, she cultivated a tasto for cham pagne and other dainties which were distasteful to her at the beginning. She sang in operas Kings and emperors listened to her. Diva Evina had be come an idol. Wherever sho appeared sho was overwhelmed with Howers and presents Money came fast and went rapidly. She knew not its value. Sho ordered that some be sent to her father and was notified that he buddied. D?r ing the Stimmer she used to live in her country house in the mountains. Time Hew. Years passed in this mode of living, and sho had nearly forgotten her youth tts a poor ?irl on the lake. One night she san? again. The bouso was filled from top to bottom. Tho im perial box was occupied by the emperor, the empress and tho princess, and tho highest couit functionaries were about them. At the most sublime part of her son? she involuntarily looked up. High up in the topmost gallery she saw a face that was bending down toward her. She beheld a pair of eyes riveted upon her. Her blood rushed to ber heart. Something made her think of Vermund. "Perhaps this youth only resembles him, " sho thought. But for j the rest of the time sho was on the i ?tage she was unable to take her eyes from this face. She must needs look at him. ut him only. That Vermund should be sitting there appeared to her as impossible as if the lake itself should have come to tho city. Tho longer she looked the more strik ing became tho resemblance. It .must be Vermund. He carried his head al ways in that way. No one else could listen to her so eagerly. Her voice be came thrilling, powerful, grander than ever before. She saw the 'young man pull out a blue checkered handkerchief and wipe first one eye, then tho other. Now she was positivo that the stranger was Vermund. Her blood went rnshing to ber bead. She felt jubilant. She ran up close to tho footlights, and she began in her native tongue: "Vermund, Vermund! Come, oh, come I Come over-over-over-to me !' The emperor rose and applauded. The whole house shook with the acclama tions. Seven times did they recall her. and while they were still clamoring for her appearance she had gone. She had found Vermund, and she took him with her in ber oarriage. He told her bow be had longed for her. How he ?.liad- patiently waited, waited and waited till lie could endure it no longer. Down in the village they had read in the newspapers that Evina had become a great singer. They told him 9o,.nnd ho went from city to city in search of her. Questions came thick and fast, and they talked abont things nt home of which Evina had not thought for yearsi She wanted to ask bim about j thousands of matters, when the carriage drove up in front of ber hotel. She in sisted upon Vermund's coining up to her rooms, so that they could gossip. A stream of prominent people swept un ceasingly through ber apartment. They . found no time to be alone She asked ! him to come early next morning. She would be free then. . Evina spent a sleepless night. She j thought of all the news she bad heard j about tho home of ber childhood. She 1 thought of Vermund. and she wished for the dawn. She was anxious to show [ him all the wonderful and beautiful I things sho now possessed. Sho wanted to tell him about how she lived. As sho ? lay on her conch-she fancied herself at home again lying flat in her boat an gling for trout. She felt as if she were rowing and rowing, bnt could make no progress. Her lino was caught in the reeds. She had never noticed them be fore. ? When Vermund came on the next morning they began to talk. They'talk ed about old things new at home, where the two hnta yet stood on the opposite banks of the lake. She had forgotten nothing, her recollection was as vivid as if she had left her old home only on yestereve. She was ready to begin tc sing "Vermund, Vermund. come over. " when she suddenly remembered where she was He felt that there could now be no question about marriage anti such things. She tbok him out in hei carriage, she showed him the wild ani mais, the lions, the tigers and th? snakes. She pointed out to him all ob jects of interest in the city. Wherevei they went people bowed to her. When they returned to Evina's hote they found the table adorned with glis tening silver, rich cut glass and fra grant flowers The waiters brought ii delicacy after delicacy. There they sat and talked about the honey cake Ver mund used to bring from the village and they had eaten in Evina's hut St engrossed were they that they forgot tc ? eat tho good things set before them Evina had made up her mind to g< next summer to the lake ; she must sei her old home again. She gave Vermum ?orne money to put her father's hut ii order. She would live in it ns in time gone by. Their parting was affectionate Vermund went home. The fish deale in the village shrugged his shoulder when Vermnnd told him of Evina' plana for the summer. But come sho did. During the firs week she walked and sang in tho forest on tho lake and in all tho places wher she used to eing when a girl It sonn de well. She went rowing with Vermund and they cast their lines as of yere. Th self caught trout had a delicate flavo of its own, and tho berries which sh picked tasted far better than any daint served in tho best hotel. And the ai was so pure, so fresh, PO invigorating. Sho awoke one morning and found i raining. Everything wn9 gray. Adens fog hid tho forest' Tho weather did nc . ?nnrova On the next day it waa rair. ing and mining. Tho lake was tempes tuous She found it tedious, dismal, dreary nnd lonely to sit around all day long while tho rain was pattering at the windows. She departed suddenly. She went to the village and thence to the city as fast as swift horses could take her. Her impresario was awaiting her She be gan to travel again. Years passed. She earned money rapidly. She squandered it with equal celerity. She spout her Bummers in watering places She had to undergo trent ment to keep her voice from failing. Once in awhile the news papers hinted that her impresario should see to it that she took hotter caro of her voice, which had lost some of its clearness. People who demanded money from her became more pressing. She had to travel more to earn funds to meet these demands. The treatment of her throat became mere and more difli cult. "Voices of such intensity never last long." said tho experts, and hers ought to have been carefully husbanded and eeientilicall}- treated instead of being squandered and neglected. A few moro years rolled by. To hear u world famous Binger was still inter esting enough for many people; but t,ho unstinted applause, tho flowers, the presents, became rare. Evina's income, too, diminished rapidly. Tho time carno when tho critics became fretful and an noying; they began to call her an organ with pipes broken and tunes missing Her jewelry had found its way into the pawnshop; her country placo bacante the property of her creditors. She her self had become superfluous to the peo plo who once looked upon her ns a bril liant star. They withdrew from her and began to avoid her. Her recollec tion of the lako becamo vivid to her She saw it plainly beforo her eyes. It was still blue, und it beckoned a wel come to her. Yes, she still con ld sing there. Out there was no newspaper to sneer at her. no impresario to annoy her, and the old hut was not valuable enough to attract creditors. Ono morning Vormund saw smoke rising from the hut across the lake. lie had taken care of it for a long, long while. He kept it in order for her. for he knew that ehe would retnrn some day He felt it to he his duty to row across nnd see what had happened. Bending over the fireplace ho found Evinu preparing her breukfast. She had arrived the evening before, she wns not richer than on the day she left her homo years agp. But to Vermund it appeared that this was well, for the less she pos sessed the snrer he was that she would remain then And for her maintenance he thought he could provide. He came across every day. He put the hut in good condition. He brought fish, and ho brought game. Ho brought sweets from the village, which they shared. Both felt satisfied. They went out fishing together till the cold weath er set in, and the ice mado it bard to cross the lake. One day Evina stood on the shore and made signs with a scarf. He understood that she had tried to call him over by song, but that her voice had lost its power-he could not hear her. He cleared a way for his boat through the ice, and when he reached the other shore she told him that there was no food in her house He thought that the best thing for her to do would be to go back with him to his hut in the boat. They rowed across that very day Snow covered the gronnd ; the winter had arrived. People in the village thought it curious that she, who had been a celebrity in the world, should again have become plain Evina, and that she should have marired Vermund. In their hut Evina used to sit in front of tho fire, watching her pots. She would sing or she would hum parts cf be: operas, and. liko an old bird, .she would succeed sometimes in bringing forth some broken melody. And eometimes, when she saw the tall tree tops of the forest, her fancy pictured to her the brilliantly lighted opera house, she saw tho upturned faces, she saw the swaying bodies, she heard the deafening applause, and she stooped to pick nj) some flower. Then she would smile and murmur softly to herself, ''Old age dreaming of youth's pleas ures."-From the (?crinan For Now York Commercial Advertiser Did UM Ile Wa? Told. The Rev. Dr. Meredith, a well known Brooklyn clergyman, in a talk to his Sunday school urged tho children to speak to him whenever they met. The next day a dirty faced urchin accosted him in the street with: How do. doc'(' The clergyman stopped and cordially inquired. "And who are you. sir?" "I'm one of your little lambs." re plied tho boy affably. "Fine dayl' And, tilting his hat to the back of his head, he swaggered off, leaving tho worthy divine speechless with amaze tu??t Turkey? Tracked by Dos;*. The wild turkey in the Ozarks is now hnnted with a slow tracking dog, and whole flocks are often killed in this way Till the trained dog was employed to follow up the wary bird this gamo fowl could baffle the most skillful hunter Now, when a flock of turkeys is found, the sportsman has little difficulty. A good dog will follow a turkey track that is three or four honrs old and set the birds when overtaken, just as tho pointer does the quail After tho turkey has been chased awhile it hides in a tree or under a log, and stays there un til the hunter, g aided by his dog. comes within close, range. It is astonishing what fin? instinct a good turkey dog will develop after a few months of training in the woods. He will follow a flock of turkeys for honrs just ahead of the hunter, and in dicate by unmistakable signs when the game is near. After a turkey has re ceived a fatal shot it may fly half a mile or more. A trained dog will go straight to a wounded or dead tarkey with the same precision with which he tracks the trame.-Chicasro.Record. - mm . mm Kev. K. Edward?, pastor of the English Baptist Church at Miners ville, Pa., when suffering with rheu matism, was advised to try Chamber lain's Pain Balm. Ile says: "A few applications of this liniment proved of great service to me. lt subdued the inflammation and relieved the pain. Should any sufferer profit by giving Pain Balm a trial it will jilease inc." For sale hy Hill-Orr Drug Co. -m . - . - It pays better to be a dentist than nn oceulist. A man has thirty-two teeth and only two eyes. THE PAINTING HABIT. SHUN THE CRAZE IF YOU ARE NOT ALREADY A VICTIM. This Story of One Unfortunate I)up?'n ? I.I fe Show* to Wlint un I'n tn m eil i Thlmt For l'oint >luy llrlnu th? ' Munt llemu'ctulilc of Mon. of till tho vi,-, s to which iii" fiend of a family can lui addicted tho paint cruza is probably tho most iii vustating in its effect upon tho minti, clothing and purse Unlike drunkentii and playing on : brass instruments, it is a vice which eau be practiced without publicity, and this is doubtless ono reason why it is so awfully prevalent There seems to be something wonder fully fascinating in the private paint brush and the cans of prepared paint that are extensively advertised as com bining tho twofold mission of preserv ing and beautifying objects upon which applied. Tho man who has once allowed him self to paint the kitchen chairs or tho dog kennel takes a step which ho can rarely retrace His thirst for paint J grows with indulgence, and he soon ] comes to feel wretched unless he has a I brush in his hand Among private painters there exists a strange and morbid unwillingness to al low a particle of paint to be wasted Tho man who buys a pound can of blue paint with which to paint a table, and linds that after the work is done ho has a quarter of a pound of paint left, in stantly tries *o lind some other article of furniture o.. which to uso it Thus be is constantly led on from one article of furniture to another and re duces himself to poverty, madness and despair The story of a man who was once a respectable and worthy ratepayer of au adjoining municipality presents a fear ful illustration of the misery caused by private painting The man in question was induced by an indiscreet friend to buya pound of red paint with which to paint u small dog kennel. Without re Hecting upon tho danger to which every one exposes himself who takes tho un hallowed brush in his hand, this ninn painted the dog kennel, and with the quarter of a pound that was left under took to paint tho bathtub, in order, as he told himself, that the paint should not bo wasted. Ho found that when the bathtub was not moro than half painted bis supply of paint was exhausted, and he there fore bought another can. With this he finished thc bathtub and had this time three-quarters of a pound left It was. of course, impossible for him to allow so much paint to be wasted, and accordingly he began to paint the six kitchen chairs. There was enough paint for five chairs only, and the wretched man saw that he conld uot help buying a third pound, nearly all of which was left after the sixth chair was finished. With hnngry eyes and excited air he now roamed through the house seeking what he might paint, and finally de cided to paint tho woodwork of his study Two additional pounds were used . jfore the woodwork was finished, but he found that in his anxiety to finish the work without hujung a sixth can of red paint he had laid on the paint so lightly in some places that the resnlt dissatisfied him. As a remedy he resolved to run a nar row bar of black paint around each panel, and therefore bought a pound of the best prepared ivory black. Not raero than half of it had been used when the work .was finished, and it became neces sary to find something on which tu use tho remainder. Tho unhappy man now realized when it was too late to save himself that he was a confirmed painter and that he bad not sufficient strength of will to cast the accursed paint brush from him no mutter if be did thereby waste near ly a pound of ivor}' black. He pursued his downward course with great rapid ity. Heedless of the tears of his wife and the entreaties of his daughters, he painted everything in the house oil which a paint brush could be laid His w ife and daughters could not go into tho street without showing by their involuntary patches of black paint that tho bend of their house was a private painter His money gradually found it:: way into tho pocket of tho storekeeper wdio sold tho paint, and his health eventually gave way under the influ ence of painter's colic.-Montreal Ga zette. Fishing Por Anchor?. Ono of the queer occupations of man kind is that of dragging for lost anchors. It is carried cn in bays and rivers, and oven iu the open tva along the coast. Several sloops and schooners are engag ed almost exclnsively in this pursuit. The hunters are as familiar with the ground where auchors are to be found as fishermen are with the favorite haunts of the living inhabitants of the sea. The matter of fishing for lost anchors is most simple. A chain is let down in a loop long enough to drag along the bottom, and the vessel goes on her way, with all hands on board alert for a bite, and a bite usually ends in a catch. Tho recovered anchors are generally sold again at a price of a beut 0 cents a pound, which is a penny under tho market price for new anchors A big anchor will weigh 0,000 pounds, so that the fishermen make $250 out of it. More often, however, tho anchors fished up weigh from 1,000 to 2.000 pounds A Curious Fluh. There is a fish with four eyes along the sandy shores of tropical American seas. It is the anableps and is unique among vertebrates on account of the division of the cornia into upper and lower halves by a dark horizontal stripo and the development of two pupils to each orbit. One pair of these appears to be looking upward, tho* other side wise. Biliousness and constipation arc seeds out of which spring many of thc sorious diseases that afflict thc human bod Sound j ademen t would demand the immediate removal of this condi tion before it develops something more troublesome and difficult to cure. Prickly Ash Bitters is a reliable cure for constipation and disorders of simi lar character. It not onlj thoroughly empties and purifies the bowels, but strengthens the bowel channels and regulates the liver and stomach, hence it performs a radical cure. Sold by Evans Pharmacy. IMITATION JEWELS, j PASTE DIAMONDS AND OTHER FALSE j ( PRECIOUS STONES. A Heit "In r Tra tte lu id,. Allen*?? Ce IHN Timi t> lea in mu? Glitter-Wh? | luveiiteil Tliem timi When-. Till? ' l In?* ??? GlnnM-ivare 1? Mmle. If tho proverb "Alps nut gold that glitters*" were amended t,, read "All | are not diamonds t liat glitter. ' it would be equally true and pi rhaps more apt ; for there'ti fully as inueh slitter , ' about jewels, real and false, ns there is in gold an?l its imitations lt is liv art fully turning and twisting in tho light hi- tastefully mounted bit of glass that the tlimtlam dealer in thu goods of the famous Da/./.le Jewel company is able to catch the fancy and tempt tho vanity of the gullible customer, who buys for 'J."> cents an article which if it wen? what it purports to bo would cost from $100 to ?f.iOO To bo sure, there arr- people who ; purchase paste diamonds knowingly Occasionally an actress who cannot af ford such a luxury and whose admirer:! have not yet bestowed real diamonds J upon her wears paste oil the stage. In I this case sho knows exactly what she is. about in making her purchase lt has ? been asserted with some show ii" truth j fulness that actresses and singers who have amassed wealth and are the pos sensors of genuine and valuable jewels i have duplicates made which are imita- ? ? tioiis The originals are worn only un j der circumstances where detection I won hi be easy and where tho danger of accidental loss is reduced to a mini- I mum Hut on the stage and under j other conditions where there is more or less danger of carelessness or mis chance the paste substitutes are used. lt is even alleged that women in pri vate life, harassed by fear of burglars und tired of having detectives follow them abont on occasions when they wear precious stones whose value amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars, also resort to this device, secur ing peaco of mind by .sending their real jewels to a safety deposit vault and wearing clever imitations at receptions, theaters and balls. To the jeweler the word "paste' means glass Sometimes one hears thia material called "whitestone' or "strass. " but these are terms employed by the trado alone and not in talking with a customer They apply only to imitations of diamonds. The business of making jewels is at least two cen turies old Somo of the accounts of the invention of strass say that it was known in Strassburg as lung ago as 1080 One authority attributes the name to the city where it lirst mudo ita appearance and another to the man who devised it. Josef Strasser The word "rhinestono" is also employed to describe the same article and is an al lusion to the great stream on which the paste diamond made its debut. How ever, "rhinestone" is applied to largo | specimens, such as are suitable for j clasps and buckles, and aro so enor mous that no one could possibly mis take them for diamonds, whereas "paste" is used to designate un imita tion jewel, of abcut the aume composi tion as tho rhinestone, but small enough to look like a real stone A number of formula) havo been de vised in order to produce a glass of tho right hardness, brilliancy and purity The Jewelers' Circular recently gave a number of them and remnrked at the samo time that for a century or more no book on glass was considered com- J plete without a chapter on imitation jewels. Even for making "paste" there is a variety of methods and mixture?, and to produce good likenesses nf rubies, emeralds, amethysts and other colored stones the composition must be different from any of these To a certain extent the jewelry trade recognizes this industry as legitimate That is to say. there are dealers in Maiden lane who unhesitatingly adver tise "real and imitation stones. " If you go in and asl: to see *toek. you tire asked without hesitation or disguise whether you want to examino thu real article or an imitation Moreover, there are numerous houses, notably in Providence and Attleboro. which manufacture earrings, linger rings, shirt studs, brooches, belts, buc kles, clasps and other articles in various grades of gold and set with imitation jewels. Nono of tho latter aro mude in America. They aro all imported, lint the mounting is done hero and without apparent intent to deceive, nt least so far as the manufacturer is concerned. The retailer who buys from him is not fooled He goes into tho transaction with his eyes; open. Perhaps for adver tising purposes the manufacturer gives to hie glass diamond a fancy name, like "The Dewey Brilliant," "Tho Evening Star." "The Cigarette," "The Melbn' or "The Kimberley," but he docs not lie abont its character. Most of the cheaper imitations come from a country famous for its other glassware. Bohemia. But the better ones are made in the Jura region of France, not very far from tho birth place of strass. Tho less expensivo imi tations are molded, liko "pressed" glass tumblers or dishes. The moro costly arc cut, and the quality of tho cutting counts for almost ns much with tho importer as color and luster. Imitations that cost from 10 cents to $2 apiece look to the uninitiated like jewels which would cost from $7.> to $500. but their nature is easily detected by an expert, who has many tests at his disposal. Whatever may IHJ said in regard to the "legitimate" trade in imitation j ewels. it is to be feared that an enor mous business is done in them by un scrupulous dealers. Such goods are often sold to persons who imagine that they are buying real diamonds. Some of the misrepresentations indulged in are tech nically legal, but in instances one can discover cases that clearly como within the limits of "obtaining money under false pretenses. "-New York Tribune CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the SJ?y ??fi?-^-?^ " Signaturo of C^>^^7r^^?<^, - mya . -mymm - When a girl realizes that she has been jilted she spends the next week going around among her friends and explaining to them just why she con cluded to break thc engagement An ImnoKMiltU" WHKIT, In tho your 1 sf, I thy parliament of Dolo, in Frame, was called upon to de i'i<h? an extraordinary wager between two inhabitants . : Pa ?mas, ? hie of tho two had agit eil that it' the other would pay him read j money h.- would fur nish him with a certain number of grains of millet in piopur4i..n . . the number of children ? ? o >hout,l be born within it certain extent . :' c, nut ry ?ind j ho baptized during one year For the j first chi|?l lie was !.. furnish i no grain, i tw,, for the second, four : r the third, and so oh. always doubling tl*- iiumb? r j of ?rains for each successive birth The number of children boru was J On, and the proportion . f grains i ? bo > supplied was so enormous thai th" par ty Katini by the wager demand...! the canceling of the bet ?is bi ihg based ? :. au impractieabli> conti it i,.n The courl decid",!, after making tho i necessary calculation, that the wager ! was nal orally impossible t<> bo carried out. and it consequently decreed that the party who had received tho oil ! condition of au event which ho declared himself unable to meet should return that sum t.? his opponent and should pay an additional sum of ?."?. which was tin* only chance of loss incurred by the winner it' the millet had been furnished. Stun.' I''ll IIIIIIIM Sallie*. Great men have ben guilty of pun ning, and .- .o.f tho most taiiiotis of these salli, -- have com" down in history There is som, (liing melancholy about tin? pun ut' Dr Thomas Uri ii" who. having unsuccessfully "our: ' a lady and being challenged to drink lober health a^ had been his wont, replied. "1 have toasted her many years, but I cannot make ber Urowne. so 1 will toast her II, ager Sydney Smith's jest at th" expense of Mrs (?rot.- had tho salt of malice* in it. She was tame,! for ill ta>le in dress and as one da v sb." swept by in an . .. traordinary headdressSmilli pointed ber out to a friend, saying, "That is tho origin of the word 'grotesque. ' Mrs (.?rote, however, had her re venge Sydney Smith's daughter mar ried a Dr Holland When the latter was knighted, someone mentioned bis wife as Daily Holland "Do you mean ' Lord Holland's wife".'" asked tho lis tener "No." replied Mrs Grote "This i new Holland, whose capital is Sydney When the barrister Campbell mar- I ried Miss Scarlett, his friend explained his .absence from court by telling the judge that Campbell was suffering from a bad attack of Scarlett fever III* Only Cn|>ture. Voltaire had once taken a box at tho opera and was installed in it with some ladies when the Duke of La ti zu n ar rived and asked for a box Ho was re spectfully informed that all the boxes worn taken "That may be." he said, "but I seo Voltaire in one Turn hint ont ' In those times such things could happen, and Voltaire was turned out Ile brought an action against tho duke to recover the price of the box "What'' exclaimed the advocate for the duke* "ls it M de Voltaire who llares to (dead against the Duke of Lau zun whose great-grandfather was the first tn get en the walls of La Rochelle against the Protestants, whose grandin ther took I'-'cannons from the Dutch at Utrecht whose father captured two standards from the F.nglishat Fontenoy who'' - "Oil. hill excuse III". i II t elf ll pt eil Voltaire. "I am not pleading against the Dulce ,.f Ijiitizun who wa- Hist on the walls at La Rochelle nor against the iluke who ea pi un d IJ cannon from the Dutch at Ctr, chi nor against the duke who captured two standards from lie English at Fontenoy I am pleading against the Duke of La ii/.un who never captured anything in his life but my box at the opera. ' l.nckcil i (,,' Implement. The new hired girl was tts green as spinach in its first bloom Ono day tho mistress asked her to make escaloped oysters fol' tin dinner At dinner tho Kiri brought in the oysters on tho plate. "Why. .lane. I told you to scallop them !*' "Ves. ma'am, but Hi couldn't find the scalloper " - Syracuse Herald. Dl.sc UM?? i ?i ii l'tiMtfioiied. Sin;- I'm very .-ure you could get tvurk if you wanted it Ile-Mebbo so, ma'am. I ma ko it a lilli.- never to argy before breakfast.-? l?ew Vurk World." - The recent census in Great Bri tain makes the population ?{?1,000,000. - Poverty is no disgrace, but. it is seliioin used as a testimonial ol' ability. il Word io Doctors We have the highest regard for tho medical profession. Our preparations are not sold for the purpose of antagon izing them, but rather as an aid. We lay it down as an established truth that internal remedies are positively injuri ous to expectant mothers. The distress and discomforts experienced during the months preceding childbirth can be al leviated only by external treatment-by applying a liniment that softens and re luxes the over-strained muscles. We make and sell such a liniment, com bining the ingredients in a manner hitherto unknown, und call it Mother s Friend We know that in thousands of cases it has proved more than a blessing to expectant mothers. It overcomes morn ing sickness. It relieves the sense of tightness. Headaches cease, and dan ?er from Swollen. Hard and Rising breasts is avoided. Labor itself is shortened and shorn of most of the pain. We know that many doctors recom mend it, and we know that multitudes of women go to the drug stores and buy it because they are sure their physicians have no objections. We ask a trial just a fair test. There is no possible chance of injury being the result, be cause Mother's Friend is scientific ally compounded. It is sold at$t a bot tle, and should be used during most of thc period of gestation, although great relief is experienced if used only a short time before childbirth. Send for our il lustrated book about Mother's Friend. THU BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO? ATLANTA. QA. i (COTTON is and will con A ti ii uti to bo thc money c rop ot' tin: South. 'Tho planter who gets the most cot ton from a given arra at the least < - > t. i s the one win > tn; ikes the most money. Good culti vation, snit.l'hic rotation, and Iii M Tal lise < >i fertilizers con tatnin ni leasi 3 ",, actual Potash will insure the largest yield. Wo will MII.I free, up -ti application, lianiphU'ts tli.it will interest every cotton plantel in the South. ??'.t.lAN KALI WORKS. OA Nassau St.. New York. Public Sale of Valuable City Property. 13 Y virtue* of a 1 ??-?.<i ? ?f Trust executed to um hy th? Anderson (educational As > H'irttion. I wili sell ?it public auction :.i front ot tin- Court tltiuseflonr at Ander Nun, s. e., on Malosduy in April next, that valuable property known as ti:? PATRICK MILITARY INSTITUTE. Formerly .toIiiiKon Female University, containing eight nert's ot I.ttml, with tho valuable luiprovementa thereon, situate on the West siiie of South Main, and South of West Franklin street, in ti..* ("tty ol' Anderson, bounded on the Nor:.-, by lot* of .lohn K. Hrea/.eale. Franklin strom intervening, Hast by .1. l\ sulli van and A. T. I troy hw, Main Street i: ? torvonitig, Soutti by .iirs. .'ano I"). Sayre, und Wo**t by E W. Taylor and ?'. W. Webb. Tonus nf Sale One-half cens h, balance twelve months, with interest from day ot Hale, seen red by mortgage, with leave to pay all ensh or anticipate payment at. any time. Purchaser to pay insurance, cost of papers and stamps extra. .IOSKP M N. HKOWN, Trustee. Mareil -, lSli'.i 07 4 TRUSTEE'S SALE. BY' virtueof a Deed of Trust from Mrs. M. T. Sloan, wife of T. I). Sloan,) recorded in the othes ot Clerk of Court for Anderson County, in Hook PPP. pa ges ya:*, and nita, 1 will Hell to tho highest bidder, unless sohl at privat?? sale before band, on Salesday in April. IN'.?!), in front of the Court House, itt the usual hours O? public; aales, that certain House and Lo S on West Market Street, within the corpo rate limits of tbs city, containing four acre?, more or less, moro fully tleseribed by reference to original deed and plat to Mary T. Sloan from H. F. Whittier, re corded in Clerk's ellice, Hook Y Y", page :ii?i?. In addition to residence thereon, which is conveniently arranged and be ing but short distance of O radeu School, there ?H one two-room Cabin and one one-room Cabin. Stable and other im provement*. Terms of Sale-Cash. Purchaser tn pav extra for papers. J. O. WI LHITE, Trustee. March S 18W :t7 4 NOTICE. NOW is the time to have your Buggy Revarnished, Repainted, and new Axle Points fitted on. We have the best Wagon Skeins on the market. All kinds of Filth Wheels and Dashes. Headquarters for Carriage, Buggy and Wagon Repairs. PAUL E. STEPHENS. FOR SALE? l1jinilT THOUSAND DO LL A KS OF ( IT Y OF A N DICKSON MONDS. F< r particulars apply to T .I. Mauldin, K?<?., clerk, or to ili?. Mayor. .INO. K. HOOD, Mayor. Mardi I I!*!.!. .">.? 50 YEARS' EXFEFHEf^CE PATENTS ~rwB& wkw^ DESIGNS ''Tin COPYRIGHTS AC. AiiMim Memling a skctrli arni description HUIT rjni' kIv iihceritfln our opinion freu whet her tui IIIVi'tlllori is prolmhly patentable. Comniunicu i ions ?I net ly eon ll ilei it lui. limul honk mi Patents amil freo, ohlost aueiiey for securing patents. I'titt'iita taken throuuh Munn fi Co. receive tprciul notice, wit hom vim ruo, lu thu Scientific American. A handsomely Illustrated weekly. Lamest cir i ii tut o m of any sclent nie Journal. Terras, f i ? year: four muntlis, IL. Sold by all newsdealer*. MUNN & Co.36,Bro>dwa* New York Branch Ortice. t25 V St., Washington. I>. C. CHARLESTON AND WESTERN CAROLINA RAILWAY. Al ill STA AMI ASHKVHXK NIJOUT LINE In effect January s, i89'j. Lv Augusta.! 9 40 am1 1 40 pa Ar tireen wood.> 11 So au. Ar Anderson.j.' 6 10 pa'. Ar Laurens.....I 120 pin] ovu Ar Oreenvllte.! 3 00 pin I 10 13 soi Ar tilenu Springs. .? 4 05 pilli. Ar Spartanburg.... 310pm . >>.> A:U Ar Saluda. 5 33 pm . Ar Hondersonville. l! 03 pin. Ar Asheville.i 7 00 pin!. Lv Asheville.; S 2"* atti'. LvSpartanburg.? ll 45 am 4 IO pa: LT Glenn Springs.i mun am . Lv Greenville.j 12 ni i tn 4 "Xl pm LT Laurens. 1 37 pul i 7 30 pm Lv Anderson. .? 7 00 aui LT < i reen wood.' 2 37 pim. Ar Augusta. 5 lil pm lt 10 JIU LV Calhoun Kails. 4 44 pm?. Ar Raleigh. 2 16 am . Ar Norfolk. 7 SOatnj. Ar Petersburg.; 6 00am ." Ar Richmond.! 8 15am1. LT Augusta. j. ld) pm Ar Allendale. . 3 00 pm Ar Fairfax. . 315 pm Ar Yetnassee.| 9 45 mn 4 20 pm Ar Beaufort.: 10 50 Bin 5 20 pm Arl'ortKoyal.! 1105am 5 35pm A r Savannah. .? 15 pm Ar Charleston.I. r. 30 pm LT Charleston.:. 6 lit aa LT Savannah.!. 5 CO am Lv Port Royal., 140 pin ?'.45a2i Lv Beaufort., 1 55 pm <. 55 ?oi Lv Yemasseo.| 3 05 pm 7 55 am LT Fairfax. S 55 a=i LT Allendale.j.> io am Ar Augusta. . Il 00 pm f'los^ connection at Calhoun Fall? lor A thetis Atlanta and all points on s. \. L. Close contle, tion at Augusta for Chariest Savannah and all points. i "lose < on neel ions at i. rev. wood for i '. poll . - .. S. A. 1. .ao l C. A (J. Hallway, and at Spartan ?< with f'uuthrtrn Railway. Kur any information relative td tickets, rates, schedule, etc., address . W. J. CRAIG, <;<. Y -i. A gent. A liguai I.GA E. M.North,Sol.Agent. T. M. Emerson,Trattie Manager.