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Between winter and spring That weary time that comes t>etweec The last snow and the earliest preen I One barren <!<xl the wide fields lie, And all o ir co rfort is the sky. "We know the sap is in tk > treeThat life at buried roots must be; Yet dreary is the earth we tread, As if her very soul were dead. Before the dawn the darkest hour! The blank and chill before the flower! Beauty prepares this backgrouqd grey, TV hereon her loveliest tints to lay. Ah. patience! ere we dream of it, Spring's fa r new gospel will be writ. Look up! gocd only can befall, While heaven is at the heart of all! ?Lu:y Larcom, in Youth's Companion. AFTER NIGHT THE DAWN. The door of the country school-room closed behind the tost noisy pupil, and the young teacher was alone. She bowed her head wearily upon her hand, and looked around the bare, comfortless room, with its hard benches, curtainless windows, and rusty, broken stove, with a shudder of d sgust. There were days?and this had been one--when every liber of her sensitive being shrank from association with the motley crowd of urchins, and from contact with the dirty, dog's-eared books, the grimy desks, and dingy walls; but she never allowed these leelings to influence her; the duties of her position were conscientiously performed, the more so, perhaps, because they were so disagreeable. She had dismissed s:hool an hour earlier to-day, ostensibly to enable her to correct the conpositious handed in for to-morrow's read ng; really because she had si.en Roy Carlton drive by, and knew that he would return to ask her company for an hour's drive behind his handsome bays; and she had told her elf that she would?because she must ? refuse, henceforth and forever, all things that he might ask of her; and she wished to have a little time to strengthen herself.to 4-have her dark hour unseen," before she should shut the gate forever between that world of ease and happiness. and, more than all else, of Roy's love, and her werld of poverty, loneliness and sorrow. She could not help but love him, he had laid so many drifts of sunshine across her otherwise shadowed pathway, had been such a rock of rc.'uge in her desert of friendlessne-s, since she came, over a year ago, to this dreary little vil-i lage to earn her living by teaching. I She had not chosen this vocation, not ' because she lik d it, for she did not, but j v ..v.? I wv;uu>c >uc icii tuat auc was picjmicu for it, and there seemed to be no place ] for her elsewhere in the ranks of workers. She was not fitted to do battle with the grim fiend of poverty; she had, until two years before, "fed on the roses, and lain in the lilies of life." Then came the death of her father, followed almost immediately by that of her mother, and she was l|ft unprepared to face ihciworld alone. Her father's wealth, which she always supposed from their style of living to be ample, faded away before the demands of his creditors like snow in the springtime. Her high sense of honor would | not allow her to hold back even the old homestead and household furniture, >o dear from the associations clustering around it, and reserving but one or two I orticles, sne allowed. tne rest, even ner piano, to be sold. Her rammer trieads drifted away one by one, and she noted their departure with scarcely a sigh over their defect on. "Was it because she realized of how little worth wa; their evanescent friendship?) or had her heart, suffering a deeper wound, become dead to the smarting of those lesser hurts? Harry Vance had been her ideal of a gentleman. She had cherished for him a strong friendship, which, before her father's death, had bidden fair to ripen into lo\e ; his attentions had been very ; lover-like, and this small world in which the two moved had already, in imagina- j tion, coupled their names together, when the clouds of misfortune .-hrouded her; ! and he, with some trite sentences of con- j dolence upon his tongue, had stepped i nimbly out of their shadow, probably j. congratulating himself that he had not gone so far but what it was still easy to recede. She sighed, not for him, but for her ! shattered ideul, when she saw that he armcrht: out, a shallow hrainlpss favoritn r*? - ? "" v* | of fortune, and sought by a vigorous courtship to obtain her hand in marriage. J and possession of the property he knew 6he held in her own right, and in that 1 sigh exhaled the last lingering perfume 1 of the friendship Ellice Gray had felt, 1 not for Harry Vance, but for the man she . had imagined him#to be; and in its place j grew, loathing and contempt for Harry. \ ante, the fortune hunter, intensified an hundred fofdr-adien, later, she heard of 1 the debts and^uns that harrassed his \ pathway. JJtfr, strictlv upiightand hon- ] orable lie^elf. 6he could tolerate no dis- ] honest^iu others, and in her vocabulary j theffrtind debt without means or intcn- j tion of pay.i ent were synonymous terms. ".Many a heart is caught in the re-ij bound" proved true in this oaso, for El-! uce aau came to mis utile viuage to lose the heart that had never really been in Harry's keeping. 1 She knew Boy would ask her behi3 wife, and she had allowed herself to ' dream of how h ippy she could be with ' him; with what a blessed sense of rest 1 and peace she could creep into the shel-1 ter of his manly arms and lay her head < upon his loving breast But now the awakening had come, and the dream was ' > over. She had loved him so entirely for ; himself,for that great, generous heart of V.io f 1.canmnrl Itir- ft onnimli tft tot-A in ' i illO , IU>U CVViilUU V vuvu Q ii IV kUlW ill i all mankind as brothers, that she had not once thought of the difference in . i their c rcumstances, for he was rich as | she was poor. Now she had heard her name coupled with the obnoxious terras ' adventuress'' ] and "fortune hunter," and the prophecy I that "if Mr. Carlton marri a her he j would soon know, as did all others, that ; it was his wealth that won lier." i-he did not know that the remark had been made expressly for her ear, had been made, too, with the unuttered hope that its barbed bitterness might rankle i in her heart, for had she not dared to, kindly but unmistakably, refuse the attentions of the speaker's son? \ \ \ \ Keenly sensitive to the opinions of others, she might yet have dared their censure, if this latter suggestion had not given her pause. She loved him so truly she could not bear that he should think of her, even for a manient, as she thought of Harry Vance; better that they should part, at once and forever. This was what she had told herself, again and again, every hour of that long day and night. "If she was sure, quite sure,"'she told herself, "that her willingness to accept him had not been caused, in part, at least,and almost unconsciously to herself, by her intense hatred of the drudgery of teaching, she would not give a thought to what other. might think, or say, b it she must be sure, <juite sure, herself, then?" but the day had been so wearying. she was so tired, she must have time to think it all out. But time she was destined not to have, for scarcely had the echoes of th .* shout of the last emancipated urchin died away in the distance when Mr. Carlton caine up to the unpaintcd pine desk, where the young teacher sat with her head bowed upon her hand. Her face was so pale, and she did not look up and smile as she was wont to do; her whole attidude was so suggesive of weariness, if not of dispair, she was such a wee morsel of humanity, and he was so strong and manly, that somehow, before he well knew what he was saying, he was telling her his passionate longing to take her into his arms and shield her hence*? * J? iortn irom every aiscuuuun. She looked up then, with something of the look the hunter sometimes sees in the eyes of a wounded doe, looked up, and crushed the hope out of his heart with a cold refusal. Then came, for her, the slow agony of living on, day after day, knowing that s-hc had in that one hour of weakness cast aside all that made life worth living; of walking daily through the furnace of trial, with the ghost of her dead hopes ever reproaching her with the cowardice that put an eud to their bright, but brief existence. So two years drifted by, and along the thoruy pathway that she trod Ellice (tray learned priceless lesions of self-reliance and courage; learned to be a law unto 1 ersclf, and, once having chosen a pathway, knowing it to bo right, grew strong to follow it steadfastly to the end, though a thousand tongues might censure. Within a month after his rejection Roy left his affairs in the hands of his steward, to whom he gave power of at r.orney, ana went away to tuc ony. n. year passed, and the dishone-t steward, turning everything except the Carlton homestead into money, gathered his booty and fled; and no one knew Roy's address. Ellice Gray knew nothing of this. When vacation came she had given up her a hool, for she could not stay where everything reminded her of Roy. She was teaching in a distant village, when one morning the postman brought her a letter which proved to be from a former pupil in Shafton, Roy's home. It told of the loss of his property, stated thathc had of late returned to his home; that while in the city he had joined a volunteer coips of firemen, aud ) while in the discharge of his duty had been stru k on the side of his head by a falling timber,and carried away insensible. "\Vhen he revived," the letter went on to say, "he was blind. The physician talked of paralysis of the optic nerve, thought time, or electric treatment, when he had .r.o,oV,ot fivm tbo sVinrV might be beneficial, but," said the letter, 4,.Mr. Ca:lton does not get better, he seems to have lost all interest in life." Then the writer went on to give the other news of the village, but Kllice did not read it. Hastily she prepared for a journey, and when the next train left the station, it bore her in the direction of Shafton. The rosy blushes chased each other over her otherwise pale cheeks whenever she thought of her errand, but she did foltAt* ovon tl*Vian oho rnnnr thft hpll at the "Squire's," and was ushered, by the prim housekeeper into the emp:y parlor. Her heart beat tumultously as she heard the slow, uncertain step come down the stairs, and the hand grope for the knob of the door. He came in and closed the door, and then stood moving his head from side to side, as if looking for some one. "I beg pardom," he said at last, for Ellice did not speak, "but does any one wait to see me'i I am blind.'' "Yes, Hoy," Ellice answered in a choked voice, putting out her hand to lead him to a seat. It was the first time she had ever called him by h s given name, and she saw the lisht flash over his fa e. 1? J--I! ill "JVlllce, on, my uiimuy. 110 caclaimed, then be stammered, "forgive me, Miss Gray, that I forgot for a mo mcnt. It was very kind of you to come." "I fear you will think the motive sfelfsh, when I have given you my reasons Tor coming," she replied, struggling bravely for composure as she sat down near him. Then, "the train leaves in iwo hours, and I must return, so you will pardon ,me if I am somewhat abrupt in naming my errand?" "Certainly," he replied, courteously. "Well," said his visitor, somewhat weakly, striving to gain time, now that the decisive moment had come, "the fact is, I am thinking of getting married." "Ellicc," he said, brokenly, "it was cruel to come here to tell me that. Did you think I had still auy hopes that you cared for me, that you should come here to kill them with that announcement?" "No," she replied, and then, as no other words would come, sat staring helplessly at the pale face, as he leaned against the cushions of his chair. Pres- | ently she arose and stood beside him, letting her fingers toy with the crisp, dark curls that shaded his brow. "Roy," she whispered, hurrying into speech, lest her courage should fail, "Hoy, don't you know that I love you better than any one else in the world? I loved you then, but I love you an hundred times more now. My life has been one long regret ever since. I came here to-day to ask you to marry mo. Don't refuse me, Hoy. I have suffered enough for my mistake and I love you." "Oh! Ellicc," he cried, between pain and pleasure, "how can I consent! It would be such a sacrifice." "I know it, Roy." she answered, willfully misunderstanding him, "when you are worthy of the best woman living; 9 but only let me be your wife, and I will try so hard to make you happy." "I am blind," he murmured, hopelessly. "Let me be your eyes. Oh! Roy," she j sobbed, turning away and covering her I face with her hands, "don't send me j away. I cannot Dear it. i cannot live without yo i." He was silent for a moment, then he arose and turned toward her. "It seems unmanly to accept your sac rifi e, Ellice." he cried, "but my life is so dark, and," his voice grew infinitely tender, "I love you so, come to me, little one," holding out his arms, "for I cannot sec you." Then, as he clasped her to his heart, and kissed the warm lips so near his own, he whispered: "I never knew before what a deprivation the loss of sight is." "And how soon can we be married, darling?'' he asked, as she was about to leave him, "Whenever you wish, Roy," she replied. "Really?" "Yes, really," she answered. "To-day, then," said he, promptly. "Oh. well, not quite so soon as that," she said laughing, "but in a fortnight, norViona' TOO irtrn nool-o frnm tn.dn.v." |/V?UUJ/0t J VW, ?ITW ? VV4.W ~-~~J ' "xt will be an age," he declared, kiss- | ing her good-bye, "for I cannot even) write to you." But he did. A week later she received a few lines | from him. The words were blotted and the letters, uneven, but she did not think of that, for he wrote: "l'ou brought me sight. I can distinguish the shape of the paper upon which I write, and I live in hopes that when we meet I shall be able to see your dear face." And that hope was not vain. Seeming Intoxication. In no class of people does heredity do a more disastrous work than in the descendants of drinkers, whether excessive or moderate. A morbid appetite for liquor in such cases, with the disadvantage of an inherited nerve degeneration, may manifest itself in m^ny terrible forms. Among these many forms are the ordinary symptoms of intoxication in a person perfectly temperate. Dr. Crothers, of Hartford, Conn., presents many such cases in a paper read before the American Association for the Cure of Inebriates, and published in the Alienist j and Neurologist. The first cases that at tracted his attention were two boys, sons of drunkards, in the Hartford Deaf and Dumb Asylum, who had shown clear signs of intoxication from their birth. He was afterward surprised to find such cases not uncommon. In some persons ^ the symptoms are present all the time, i either appearing at birth, or slowly de- ! veloping with the growth of the child. Most of such cases show other marked indications of physical degeneration?as idiocy, imbecility, or bodily deformity. In a second class of cases, almost any excitement is sufficient to bring on an ! attack. This class may include persons of average intellect, and even of genius. In them the neurotic (nerve) degenera- j tion may, at a later date,end in imbecility I qr insanity. A farmer, fiftyyears old; a man of wealth and ^Wlfccter, whose father was a drunkard, but who i himself never u>ed any kind of spirits, I showed symptoms of intoxication after meeting with an accident from a runaway horse. At the funeral of a child, some months later, his family were greatly mortified at his silly language, ! staggering gait, and other marked symp- j toms of intoxication. A year later a similar attack followed the burning of j some buildings on his farm. There are similar cases in which the i nerve degeneration is due,nottoheredity, i but to early habits of intoxication. A ' noted temperance le.turer, a total ab- j stniner for ten years or more, received ! while lecturing a despatch announcing the fatal illness of his daughter. He drank a "lass of water, became confused, staggered, and was led from the stage laughing and shouting in a maudlin, way. He had drank no spirits, but the audience supposed him intoxicated.? Touth't Comj>anu>n. A Miner Millionaire. A miner in Leadville, Colorado, who can neither read nor write, is worth today at least $3,000,000. Four years ago he hadn't a penny, except what he earned from day to day as a miner. His name is John L. Morrissey. He is a young man, not over thirty-two or thirty-three. The Cro.vu Point mine was just about paying expenses. Her owners otfered to sell her for $40,000. Morrissey went to Phloanrn nnd Int.prpstad Diamond .Toe , Reynolds in the matter. Reynolds knew . that.Morrissey was authority on mining, even if he couldn't write his name. He finally purchased the Crown Point, agreeing to give Morrissey a half interest after the original sum was repaid. Within thirty days they.struckayeinof high-class ore that has yi ;kled them a monthly income of since. There is s iid to f worth of ore in sight.; Great Libraries. The largest library in the world is the Bibliothequo National, in Paris, which contains 2,000,000 volume", and is wonderfully rich in manuscripts. The next largest is that of the British Museum, with 1,500,000 volumes, and the third is the Imperial, in St. Petersburg, with 1,100,000 volumes. Other great libraries are: Royal, Berlin, 700,000; Royal,Dresden, and Royal, Copenhagen, 500,000 each; Royal, Munich, 450,000; Imperial, Vienna, 400,000; Congressional, Washington, 380,000, and University, Leipsic, :i!?0,000. The Boston public library is the largest in America, after the Congressional, having, including branches, b55,000 volumes. The Yale Library has 190,000; the Astor, New York, 180,000; tho Mercantile, in Philadelphia, 135,000; the Philadelphia library, iuo,uuu. ana the National, of Mexico, 100,000. The famous Bodleian Library, Oxford Unisity, England, has 330,000 volumes. , Another Sad Failure. Sweet Girl?"And so you have been on the plains for ten years?" Handsome Cowboy?"Ves, this is the first time I've been back into real civilization." "Now please tell me, in that lonely life, so far removed from the refining influences of?civilization, you know, what did you miss most?" "Oysters." / S . SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. The streams penetrating the Gogebic iron range near the south shore of lake Superior are so black with discoloration from the ore that fish cannot live in them. This is p irticularlv true of the Montreal River, the northern State line between Wisconsin and Michigan. Chemists are hard at work in the French Antilles perfecting processes for making alcohol from sweet potatoes. Four gallons of alcohol can be made from 22.3 pounds of sweet potatoes. Portions of the pine lands of the Southern States and a part of New Jersey are also well adapted to the growing of the sweet potato. At a late meeting of the London Linnean Society was exhibited a volume of "Honzo Zufu" ("Illustrations and Brief Descriptions of the Plants of Japan".), by Iwasatti Tsanemasa, which consists of ninety-six volumes containing 20,000 colored figures. The task of reproduction by native hand-labor is so great that only two or three copies are known to have been completed. The fact has been satisfactorily established by various scientific researches, that many substances absorb luminous rays during the day, and at night emit these rays in such a manner as to impress photographic plates, although they may toot be perceptiblo to, the unaided eye. Artists have not only succeeded in photographing the visible night phosphorescence ot >Iont Blanc's summit, but have even secured an impression of a midnight landscape?invisible to the eye ?on the terrace of the Observatory at' Prague. A few years ago a society of eminent Frenchmen discu-sed this question: What language wouiaacnua naturaiiy speak if never taught!" Twenty different results were predicted. To test the matter two infants were procured and kept isolated with a deaf and dumb woman, who lived alone in the Alps, surrounded by her sheep and chickens. After six years the children and their nurse were brought before the savants, who were waiting in great expectation as to the lesult, when-lo! not a word could either of them utter, but most perfectly could they imitate the crowing of a cock, the cackling of a hen and the bleating of a sheep. To facilitate the operation of plastering, a device has lately been invented, termed a plasterer's platform, which is set on casters and may be elevated or lowered to wall or ceiling as the convenience of the workman may require. Accompanying this arrangement is an improved two-hand trowel, and the platform is capable of extension in a horizontal as well a9 in a vertical direction. Thu-, by the combined use of the two, all cumbersome staging and the old-time hod and the snort singie-nanaea trowei arc dispensed with. The mortar is placed in an extensible trough, which is .suspended on the platform at a point and in a manner convenient to workmen; the apparatus can readily be moved endwise from room to room, and the cost of laying on either plaster or hard finish is said to be thus much reduced. JRapid flowing waiters seem more living and healthful than those of sluggish streams, but there is much illusion in this appearance. If they get more exposure to oxidntion, they also get less time for it. If the slow stream leaves more organic deposit in its bed, it is because it has more time and repose for settling, and le-s force for carrying the dirt with it. The bed of the swift stream is clean at the expense of cleanliness in the water that scours just as the washed dish is cleaner than the dish water. The only valid reason for preferring the water of a rapid stream, quantities being equal, would be a position more elevated and less exposed to surface drainage. Engineers calculate that the carrying power of water increases as the sixth power of the increase of velocity, so that a stream Uowing six times as fast as another will be able to transport 40,~>5U times more matter. Consequently, if pollution be discharged into a lively flowing stream, it will have very little chance of being dropped from the water at all. Maladies of Caged Birds. The melancholy part of the study of caged birds is the abundance of diseases to which they are liable. Especially during the winter and the early spring the pathetic little captives are apt "to suffer and die in a way which makes the very fact of their captivity a reproach. After examining the grisly catalogue of their complaints, we have come to the conclusion that the excessive dullness of their lives in cages drives them to the only indulgence which is possible to them, that of overeating themselves. The excited bird which falls from its perch, in the middle of a burst of song, smitten with apoplexy; the hot and lumpy bird which is a victim to hepatitis; the corpulent bird figure no dandcliou leaves or ?psomsalts will reduce; the epileptic bird tlitt^D&gs on existence by sipping tinctUreot' lobelia and drops of castor oil, all these melancholy invalids would have escaped their sad condition if they could have resisted the tempting hempseed and the luscious milksop. But how are they to drag life througli their long monotonous days? In the utter insipidity of aviary existence the open and inexhaustible box of food decoys them like a vice, and they succumb to temptation,as ^liue. Bovarvdid, from sheer unmitigated ennui. Sometimes, in the later stages of dec line, all reticence is thrown aside, and the unfortunate songster sits all day long at the feeding trough, shelling and throwing aside the food that it positively cannot swallow, and yet must be handling. In these sad cuscs a live spider is sometimes found beneficial, as for hysterical human patients the family Monmnmnrl n nnntnmimn or a fancy ball. "We cannot but think that more study might with advantage be given to the question of the food of caged birds, since this seems to be the diliicultv upon which their management always strikes. It is curious that bird fanciers persist in feeding their charges with hempseed, probably because the irresponsible little wretches gobble it up with so much greediness. But this is no more a reason for giving it to them than the fact that children like macaroons would be a reason for feeding them daily upon this indigestible dainty. Birds require at least as much care as children in selecting for them, not what they prefer, but what is best.? Sat* urdav Iteview, INJUSTlffijfptKECTEP. Convincing Verlfieati<ic of Wldecaet Fobll btateraents. TO THX RKASZRB 0* THIS VATZB. In common with .many publish era am editors, we have b?ea accustomed to loot upon certain statements which we have seei in our columns as purely adroit advertising. vousequeuuy wij reel JUSCIUW in KLKIIlg the liberty of printing a few points from a private letter recently received from one ol our largest patois, as a sort of confession of faith to ouffjjMjjMtt We quote: "We have ourselves that by tell ing what wej^^^^He true, we have produced at last aH^HHjent conviction in the pubiic mincLaMjMffyears ago we stated what the uatiafiH^HBiG of this country was, and that it increasing. Three years ago ^csBWBHKt a marked check had been given it4jj3Bw??| "The statiaHBdHglp of the largest life insurance comrmMmpBjpia country shows that in 1883 and ufiH^BKortality from kidney disorders over the previous years; other q^^^HHj stated the same thing. It is not preafl^HH for us to claim credit for clieckiggHMBHMfagie. "Seven stated that the condition of ttfWfwas the key to the condi tion of belH^HKn the post five years al careful lifEBB^&'e companies have con ceded the MbHHKs statement, for, where as, ten yealtt^MHpmical analysis to deter mine the the kidneys was not required, tcM^HBH|ons of dollars in risk are re/used^RMMK-chemical examinatioi discovert uHHHH diseases of the kid "Seven yeaSuMfce stated that the ravages of BrigjuuHmtee were Insigniflcanl compared wiraMRjanguspected disorder of the kidndSS^HBty misleading names that ninety- tftrd|yMr cent bf human ail ments are attrionSBBfto deranged kidneys which fills the h{ragwn uric acid, or kid ney poison, whtcSaSmiB these many fata ~ "The uric aciMMRBpy poison, Is the real cause of the majSN^ofcases of paralysis, apoplexy, heart disease, convulsions, pneumo ma, consumption, and insanity; over halj the victims of consumption are first the vio tims of diseased kidneys. "When the recent death of an honored ex official of the United States was announced bis physician said that although he was suf fering from Bright's Disease, that was no the cause of death. He was not frank enougl to admit that ths apoplexy which overtool him in his bed, was the fatal effect of th< kidney poison of the blood, which had eatei away the substance of the arteries anc brain; nor was Logan's physician hones enough to state that his fatal rheumatisn was caused by kidney acid in the blood. "If the doctors would state in official re ports ths original cause of death, the peopl of this country would be alarmed, yes nearly panic stricken, at the fearful mortal ity from kidney disorders." , Ths writers of the above letter rive thes< facts to tho public simply to justify th claims that they have mods, that if th kidneys and liver are kept in a healthy cor ditiou by the use of Warner's safe cnrc which hundreds of thousands hare proved t be a specific, when all other remedies failed and that has received the endorsement of th highest medical talent in Europe, Australasi and America, many a life would be pro longed and the happiness of the people pr< served. It is successful with so many differ ent diseases because It and it alone, can re move the uric acid from the blood througl the kidneys." Our readers are familiar with the prep an tion named. Commendation thereof has often ap peare in our columna We believe it to be one of the best, if noi the best ever manufactured. We know th< I proprietors are men of character and influ i ence. We are certain they have awakened t | wide-spread interest in the public mind con cerning the importance of tbe kidueys. W< I believe with them that they are the key b ' health, and that for their restoration froa disease and mainteofencwin bhalth, there i nothing equal to this great remedy. n?l%A NMAntMAfAM tV* iTT "/?Annf irlnrV IJ.UU pi VptlClA/lO UUCJ UV UVV K*Vt ( U this universal prevalence of disease, but ha v ing started out with the purpose of spreadini the merits of Warner's safe cure before tb world, because it cured our senior proprie tor, who was given up by doctors as incura bit, we feel it our duty to state the facts am leave the public to Its own inferences. Wi point to our claims, and to their public ant universal verification with pride, and if thi public does not believe what we say, we tel them to ask their friends and neighbor what they think about our preparationa " As stated above, we most cordially com mend the perusal of this correspondence b; our readers, believing that in so doing w" are fulfilling a simple public obligation. Bleached Diamonds. Everyone, of course, knows somethinj about paste diamonds and Paris dia monds, and the thousand and one imita tions of this gem of great price. An< most people, we imagine, know the va rious tests by which the genuineness o a stone can be established; but the reve lations made at the Marvlebone polic court the other day will probably b news to some of us. As to the case it self, we need say no more than that th prisoners were committed for trial; bu certain facts came out during the inqui ry which possess considerable interes for the public, or at least for those of th public who are the happy owners of dia monds. That there should be any mean whereby yellow diamonds, which an worth about ope-aeventh of white dia monds of the^nfeftize, can be bleachei ?for that J^^BBfe.the manipulatioi amounts to-jflMHrageccive an expert is enoughj^H^Hp very serious dis quietude fair bosom. Bu Mr. StreQMMHPiven further than this | for he g?S|0H|Jfy informed the magis trate thffcjaSjM&^ears ago a French ! man upon the Lon I don :9HmBKHH^U(jO pounds wortl of diap^&yw'hich had thus been chemi cally4|M?$d. It would be interesting to khortr^roat hna become of those dia monds. ha9 become of theii Srotis successors? So valu n has certainly not beer e idle.?St. James's Ga by Indian Blood. th, a well-known citizer Ind, has just struck a >rt time since Meredith jcovered that he had L'iKrUUMSPM^11 17,wwu Mio fwmgy thouglOjHl*ya regarded as afull-kloodcd IIoosierTlpIe at odco applied for the annuities"nnd privileges accorded members of his tribe, and has recently returned from a trip to Vinita, Indian j Territory, where he selected a liberal j slice of Unclj choicest lands. I e I has rcccive^^^wKht for the property i from the ClBaflKoljjlites Commissioner, j Some tiiwpKft^g- the sixteenth cen tury, one of lipKSrainnl Merediths in this country galling young Knglishman, wentVdrf-sfwiiding expedition among the|Ch&tip|(:?es. He was made captive, and Vf^about to be put to a horrible dea? wSjfij/the chiefs daughter interpiis his life. Meredith gallantlj^ariie^th^.girl, and it is from this m:trra^?fwajpid Meredith Queen Victoria^&Wcfe||pivc a Jubilee address from the^hiiflWr more survivors of the famousj^ght Brigade of s j is thdft VJH(C\V COYVWAS; ; ffo Op/am. jfS 1 alleK'S Wfr ' 1 riKir> v/feU BalsaM ? ^ i CdVds, Coug\v& ?* , (tou^> ?^l. t^>ec\craV(\ t\jTr.9dy vt\ u,s<t i HffiTHtRS wwd 'a a , : e^swi&tadtf s ffw CMdxA . : <^-DRUGGV=>TS setwt &25+ dot&H?- pen bottle. ? 5 Y S T7-6 - OABLXiAWN Th? Great Nursafy of 1 PERCHERON HORSES. 1 n 200 Imported Brood Mares ' Of Choicest Families. r labgenmbebs, wWwha All Ages, both Saxes. ? j|2g?[^E||Ett?|?^^ vttH 3 feff|jj PjL ? ff tH W Hfy^vroc^SiSj^^^^^^S l 800 to 400 EHPOBTBD AlfTTIJALLY L fromFranoe.*11 recorded wlthextended support and endorsement of the French Government Bend tor 120-p*g? CatalOffhS, Illustration* by BM i Bonh.ur. x M.W.DUNHAM, ? Wayne, DuP?S? Com HllooUh 1. f mmm h On the EASY PAYMENT *yetem,.from93.23 Z per month up. 100 style,, *Zi to am Senator Catalogue with full particulars, mailed fre<v. J UPRIGHT PIANOS, l. Constructed on the new method of st/Tnglng. on similar terms. Send for descriptive Catalogue. d MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN ANO PIANO CO. Boston, New York, Chicago. ! Percheron / Horses. I / >TOflnM9^Bla Large and complet* / stock of Imported stalI .^WAmSH Uonn and mare*, of all I .4EMH age*. Over 11% prize* I awarded my horse* In ' I ^KflH^O four years. All stal' WnWKM \ recorded with pedigree . \ ^^Bp irr.. Percheron stud 1 X. 1 >uinVa T criiArantPfl to . I V tell flnt-VTaa."~?tock U _ low or lower than anyft ? kffitvoa - p. Q. Box 36. ?c?i>?o J One Agent (Merchant only) wanted in ?wery town tor _ 9 I like your "TannlU's Punch" ckiri very and wlun to have the exclusive Rale in this Pl*cj? } M .nd will do all I con to push them. I believe In ad* Tertla^gfand am taklnS pains to distribute the c* J T eulora where they ^^^^fgSUdj, Pa. jfl Addrc<* R. W. TASSILL & 00-._ChjcagO. Marvellous Memory ? DISCOVERY. x - i i frstirpisss^isrt^ra^?3 . Arroa, Jcdah P. Bexjamik. Dr?# IUxor, Wood and j ?"* ' ""gJioFf 1LOISETTX, ' pw Fifth Avenge, Kew York. r | 0 T7^t(Mjr()ic Stop that Cold, Coujh^k t 0 UK. ISILWlfcft ? "pJckilngrinthoThroat! Arreat thatCatarrhiBron-| 1 Remedy relieves M^HHR t ^HliiAaflHMi Cure* permancnBB. J1X ; prerenta llcclln^ h'^HErVn"'?' : WELL DRILLING \ Kachlnery forWellaof any depth, from 20to 3,000 feet, for Water, Oil or Ga*. Our Mount.d Steam Drmnkend a Portable lior?* Power Machine* ?et to work IngOmimttea W_ Guaranteed to drill farter and with Irea power tharfany . other. Specially adapted to drU'lnjr Wella in earth or m rock ?to 1,000 feet. Farmer* and other* or* makigk ' to $40 per day with our machinery and fx>l?JSplendid W f buslneee for WlMer or Summer. Wear# the oldest end V largest Manufacturers In the hualnea*. S?nd4ceaUIa ?| Stamp* forllluatrated Catalogue H. icttist, tg Plerco Well Excavator Co.. Xew York. 3 ] 1 Hter- Backache, lame aide or hip. kidney troub-B J * H lo*. rheumatism, neuralgia, ?ciatica, weak lungs, f y 1 oougha, all local ordeepaeatcd palneare quioklyHO 1 ? rubdued and the parte gtrcngthened. Virtuee of - hop* burtrundy pitch and hemlock oomblned.B r H The beat, 25c., B tor $1.00 of dealer*. Mailed free. Hf r"STS?- Hop Plaster.l W??immmm Ml III III 11 II IIWI lllll ! ? I ASTHMA CURED!) fcj Herman Aathraa Cura neror /tiUU lireB R * immtdiait rtlit/la tka worn eaacf. liinrta com-J Hforlabla ilccp; il?li rurta wbcra all atbcro fall. AH B trial auwlafu <*? matt thrpttetm Prica CO eta. aad l.OO, at Draiflau or br mall. Sampla KUKK for| Jaump. DK. |L BC'HIFFMAX. Ht. l'aal. Mlna.g JPlso'i Itemed/ for Catarrh Is (be 909 I Beat, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest. I IvvBfwgnmFVHB I Also good for Cold In th? Head, Headache, Hay Fever, dtc. 50 cent*. ' jHUH WlE WANT YOU! ^Hpr fltsblo employment to represent us In ere^^Ew^^fl county. Salary $75 per month and expenses, oifl| large commission on sales If preferred. u<x"'s ?ta JW Every one buys. Outfit and particulars Free. JH9HRH v?> vruRII STT.VT.RW/RE CO.. BOSTON. Ml* in 98 a day. Sample! worth ?1.50 tKHBH Lines not under the horse's feet. Addr^HQI^^H (0 v Brewster's Safety Rkin Holder, Holly, DIaim'a Dill a Great English Goat aWBM| Ulall S llllS. Rheumatic Remed) HI Ho*.81.'lO i round. 50 eta. AnillBH And Morphine Habit cured lnlO 111# 11 6 352 toJU days, ltefer to 10U0 patients curd Hi III III luallpart . Dr. UARaii,guln.-y, Midi n _ to Soldiers ft Heirs. Sesdstana jfl If? AB1CIAB1C ror clreulurs. COL. L. BINCf rCIIdlUlld HAM, Ait'y, Washington. D. C