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A Superstitious Girl. I am not superstitious; I never was. But I know a girl who carries tho left hind foot of a rabbit in her pocket, trims her hair by the ligjit of the moon, who won’t change a garment put on wrong side out, who throws salt over her left shoulder, who won’t cut her nails oa Sunday, who believes in odd numbers, who never misses a chance to touch a hunchback, who won't cross a funeral unless she is in a hurry, who is in despair if she secs the new moon over her left shoulder, who believes the first one to move from the marriage altar will die first, who thinks a dropped knife or fork or a cracking fire brings company, who believes a broken mirror brings seven years of bad luck, who wears a ring on her left thumb, anri that girl is—Nellie Bly.—Heilie lily, in Bdford. Sheep's Wool Sponge. There is on exhibition at a store in Pearl street, New York, an enormous sheep's wool sponge, which is said to be the largest one ever obtained. It meas ures ten feet in circumference and is two feet thick, being quite solid throughout. It was fished up near the Bahama Islands by the crew cf a vessel engaged in that trade, and, judging by the stories of tho fishermen, they had a tough time iu get ting their prize aboard. Being in a small dingey when the hooks fastened themselves in the sponge, the men nearly upset their boat in the effort to haul tho sponge to tho surface. When it was finslly secured, the iron prongs of tho hook had become straightened out un der the tremendous weight. When thor oughly, soaked this monster sponge is said to hold ten pailfuls of water.—Timet- Dmocrat. No Wonder Bees Arc Busy! An enthusiast on the subject states that each head of clover is composed of about sixty distinct flower tubes, and each of these contains sugar not to ex ceed the five-hundredth part of a grain. The proboscis of the honey bco must therefore be inserted into 500 clover tubes before one grain of sugar can be obtained. There are 7000 grains in a pound, and, as honey contains three- fourths of its weight of dry sugar, each pound of clover honey would represent the insertion of its proboscis in 2,500,- 000 clover heads.—New York World. iHifiobe”Killlq«. The specifics for the destruction of ipecial disease-germs continue to multi ply, but their popularity is naturally modified by their liability to kill the patient ns well as his microbes. Cold air is, after all, still the safest pre scription for sucli purposes. In a single frosty night it kills out fever-and-ague germs over thousands of square miles; and the sanitary statistics of the upper Alps snd high latitude seem to provo that its curative effect extends to pul monary disorders, consumption not ex cepted.—Dr. Omald, in Belford. That Tired Feeling Prevails with Its most enervating and discouraging effect In spring and early summer, when the toning effect of the cold air Is gone and the (Says grow warmer. Hood’s Barsapaiilla speedily overcomes •that tired feeling,” whether caused by change of climate, season or life, by overwork or 11 Incas, and Imparts that feeling of strength and self-confidence which is comforting and satisfying. It also cures sick headache, biliousness, Indigestion or dyspepsia. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $>. Prepared only by C. 1. HOOD & CO n Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. IOQ Doses One Dollar SMITH’S Qile |)eans Cure Biliousness Btek Headache, Malaria, Costiveness, Heart Barn, Dizziness, Bad Breath. Nervous Debility, Dysentery, Jaundice, Pains in the Side and under the Shoulder Blades. Rsvtr fail to aot on a Torpid Lhror. Expel poisonous bile from tho system; Cleer the Complexion; Aid Digestion; Create an Appetite; Care and prevent Chills ana Fevers. We also make Smith’s PILE small DEANS (O to the bottle.) Some prefer thla adze. Rapedaily among womb and chftdnsa. Both rtaea sugar coated. FI want to take. RELIABLE, SAFE, ECONOMICAL. Prioe 25 cents per bottle, five for tl, either size. Sold by DruLgirta- Write tor Picture. I F. SHTH 4 CO. JTCII0M CITT. ‘'German Syrup” Martinsville, N.J., Methodist P sonage. “ My acquaintance w: your remedy, Boschee’s Germ Syrup, was made about fourte years ago, when I contracted a C< which resulted in a Hoarseness a a Cough which disabled me fr< filling my pulpit for a number Sabbaths. After trying a Physici; without obtaining relief—I cant say now what remedy he prescrib —I saw the advertisement of yc remedy and obtained a bottle, received such quick and pennant help from it that whenever we ha had Throat or Bronchial troub since in our family, Boschee’s G< man Syrup has been our favor remedy and always with favoral results. I have never hesitated report my experience of its use others when I have found th< troubled in like manner.” Rh W. H. Hagoarty, of the Newark, New * c a *- Jersey, M E. Confer- ence, April 2$, ’90. Remedy. G.G. GREEN, Sole llan’fr, Woodbury,N.J. PAINT, EQuiREs Addition of an jualpartofoilaA or MflNQ COSTprq-ll^l £2 >im 7348 PAPERS Wraui WM HAVE NO AGENT WILL ARRANGE WITS AMT ACTIVE MERCHANT. —L. A M. —M. T. REV. DR. TALMAGE The Brooklyn Divine’s Snndav Sermon Text: “I wifi say to the north. Oiveup, cud to the south, Keep not baefc.”—Isaiah xiiii., 6. Just what my text meaut by tho north and south I cauuot say, but in tho United States the two words are so point blank in their meaning that no cue can doubt. They mean more than east and west, for although between those Jast two there have been riv alries and disturbing ambitions and infelici ties and silver bills ani World’s fair contro- versier, there have been between them no batteries unlimbered, uo intrenchments dug, no long lines of sepulchral mounds thrown •up. It has never been Massachusetts Four teenth Regiment against Wisconsin Zouaves; it has never beon Virginia artil lery against Mississippi rifles. East and west are distinct words, and rometimes may mean diversity of interest, but there is no blood on them. They can be pronounced without any intonation of wail ing and death groan. But the north and the south are words that have beeu surcharged with tragedies. They are words which sug gest that for forty years the clouds had been gathering tor a four years’ tempest which thirty years ago burst in a fury that shook this planet as it has never been shaken since it swung out at the first world building. I t hank God that the words have lost some of th<‘ intensity wh ; ch they possessed three de cades ago, that a vast multitude of northern people have moved south, and a vast multi tude of southern people have moved north, and there have been intermarriages by the ten thousand, and northern colonels have married the daughters of southern captains, and Texas rangers have united for life with 1 he daughters of New York abolitionists, and their children aro half northern and half southern and altogether patriotic. But north and south are words that need to be brought into still closer harmonization. J thought that now, when we are half way between presidential elec tions, and .octional animosities are at the lowest ebb; and now, just after a presidential journey, when our chief mag istrates, who was chiefly elected by the north, has been cordially received at the south: and now, just after two Memorial Days, one of them a month ago strewing flowers on south ern graves, and the other yesterday strewing flowers on northern graves, it might bo ap propriate and useful for me to prer.ch a ser mon which would twist two garlands—one for the northern dead and the other for the southern dead—and have the two interlocked in a chain of flowers that shall bind forever the two sections into one; a'd who knows but that this may be the day when the prophecy of the text made in regard to tho ancients ninv be fulfilled in regard to this country, a’Ki the north give "pits prejudices and the south keep not oack its confidence? “I will say to the north, Give up» and to the south, Kc p not back.” Rut beforj I put these garlav ds on the graves l mean to put them (>is morning a little while on the brows of the lining men and women of the north a*) scuth who lost husbands and sous and brotheia during the civil strife. There is nothing more soothing to a wound tnan a cool bandage, ind these two garlands are cool from the night dew. What a mo. aing lhao was on the banks of the Hudso. and the Savannah when the son was to start fer the war! What fatherly and motherly counsel! Whrt tearsl What heart breaks 1 What charges to write home "lten! What little keepsakes put away in the knapsack, or the bundle that was to be exchanged for the knapsack I The crowd around tbe depot or the steamboat landing shouted, but fathei and mother and sister cried. And how lonely the house seemed after ♦bey went home, and what an awfully va cant chair there wa at the Christmas and Thanksgiving tab.e! And after the battle, what waiting for news! What suspense till the long lists of tne killed and wounded were made out! All along the Penobscot, and the Connecticut, and the St. Lawrence, and the Ohio, and the Oregon, and the James, and the Albemarle, and the Alabama, and the Mississippi and the Sacramento there wore lamentation and mourning and great woe, Rachel weeping for her children, and refus ing to be comforted because they were not. The world has forgotten it, but father and mother have not forgotten it. They may be now in the eighties or nineties, but it is a tresh wound, and will always remain a fresh wound. Have you realized the fact that our civil war pitched out upon the farmfields of tho north and the plantations of the south a multitude that no man can number, chil dren without fatherly help and protection? Under aP the advantages which wo had of fatherly gi iuance, what a struggle life has been to the most of us! But -W of the children, two and five and ten years of a^e who stood at their moth-r’s lap with groat 1 ound, wondering eyes, hearing her road of those who perished iu tho Battle of the \\ ilderness, their lathers gone down among tho dead host? Come, young men and women, who by such disaster have had to make your own way in life, and 1 will put the garland on your young and unwrinkled u r< ?, n * , : y° u have ,,a(i your own Malvern iiilJ, and youi own .South Mountain, and your own Gettysburg all along these twenty yeaiv. Come! if I cannot spare a whole garland ffir your brow, ( will twist in your locks at least two flowers, one crim son and one white, the crimson for the stnisr- gleot your life, which hasalmost amounted to carnage, and the white for the victorv you have gained. J Betoro I put thn two garlands I am twist- mg upon the northern and southern tombs, I dotam tho garlands a little while that I may put them upon tho brow of tho living RoMiors and sailors of tho north and south, who, though at varianco for a long while, nr • now at peace and In hearty lovalty to th > Umtsd Statos government, and nnlv, it no? 1 be, to march shoulder to shoulder H, i jisc any foreign foe. Tho twenty-six 'Vinters that have passed since the war, I think, have sufilcieutly cooled the hatreds taut one o burnoi north wand and south ward to allow the remark that they who loii-ht in that conflict wore honest on both side.!. The chaplains on both armies were ■lonost in thou- prayers. Tho faces that went into battle, whether they marched tow ard tho (rulf of Mexico or marched toward the north star, were honest faces. dt is too much to ask either side to bolievo lost those who came out from their homes, forsaking father and mother and wife and child, many of them never to return, were n<5t in earnest when they put their life into awful exigency. Witness the last scene at •amuy prayers up among tho Green mount ains or down by the fields of cotton and sugar cane. Mon do not sacriflco their all for fun. Men do not eat moldy broad or go without broad at ■nil for fun. Men do not sleep unsheltered in equinoctial storms for fun. As chaplain of a Pennsylvania regiment, and as a representative of tho United States Christian Commission, I *was for a while at tho front, and in those hospitals at Hagers town and Williamsburg and up and down tho rotamac, where all th > churchos anc’ farm-houses were filled with wounded aai dying Federals and Confederates, I forgot amid tho horrors to ask on which side they fought, when with what little aid I could take them tor their suffering bo lies, and the mightier aid I could pray for their soul-?, [ passed the days and months amid sesnes that in my memory seem like a ghnitl' Jr SS ul ra ^ ier ^ an 11 possible reality. U hen a New Orleans boy, unable to an- nwer my question as to where he was bun look out from tho folds of the only garment that had not been torn olt' him in the battle n New Testament, marked with his own life blood, and I saw the leaf turned down at the passage “Aly peace I give unto You, not as the world giveth give I unto You,” it read ^ust as though it had beeu a northern New aestament. And when I sat down and took from a South Carolinian dying in a barn o4 Boonosvillo his last message to his wife and mother and child, it sounded just like a men- Rage that a northern man dying far froci home would send to his wife and mother aiW chlhL And when I picked up from tho battle field of Autietam the fragment of a letter which I have somewhere yet, for the name and the address were torn off, I saw it war the words of a wife to her husband telling him how tho little child prayed for their father every night that he might not get hurt in tho battle and might come home sound and com.* home well, but that if any thing happened to them they migho all meet again in the world where there art no part ings, it read just as a northern wife would write to a husband away from home and in peril conveying tho messages of little chil dren. Oh, yes; they were honest on both sides. And those who lived to get homo aro living yet worn just as honost, and ou/ht Miey not for tho suffering they endured have a coronal of some kind? But wo must not detain tho two garlands •ay longer from tho pillows of those who for » quarter of a century have boon prostrate •n dreamless slumber, never oppressed by summer heats or chilled by winter’s cola. Both garlands are fragrant. Both have in them the sunshine and tho shower of this springtime. Tho colors of both were mixed by Him who mixed tho blue of tho sky, and the gold of the sunset, and the green of grass, and the whiteness oi tho snow crystal. And I do not care which you put over the northern grave and which over the southern grave. These august throngs gathered 5ais morn ing in these pews and aisles and corridors and galleries are insignificant compared with the mightier throngs of heavsn '▼ho mingle In this service which we render to God and our country while wo twist the two garlands. Hail spirits multitudinous! Hail spirits blest! Hail martyred ones come down from from tho King’s palaces! How glad aro we that you have come back again! Take this kiss of welcome and these garlands of remin iscence, ye who languished in hospitals or went down under the thunders and the lightning of Fredericksburg aud Cold Har bor and Murfreesboro aud Corinth and Yorktovvu and above the clouds on Lookout Mountain. Among tho thousands of gatherings at the north and at the south for Docoration Days I am conscious that this service is unique, and that it is only one iu which there has ueen twisted two garlauJs, ouo for the grave of the northern dead and the other for the grave of the southern dead. O Lord God of the American Union, is it time that we 1 bury forever our old grudges? My! My! Can we not be at peace on earth when this mo ment in heaven dwell, in perfect love Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, Will- •am T. Sherman and Stonewall Jackson, and tens of thousands of northern and southern meu who, though they once looked askance at each other from the opposite banks of the Potomac and the Chickahominy and the James and the Tennessee, noware on the same side of the river, keeping jubi lee with some of those old angels who near nineteen centuries ago came down one Christmas night to chant over Bethlehem, ‘Glory to GckI in tho highest; on earth peace, good will to meu!” I have been waiting for some years for some one else to twist the two garlands that [ to-day twist, but, no one doing it, in the love of God and my country I put now my hand to the work, and next spring about this time, if I am living and well, I will twist two more garlands for northern and southern graves, and every springtime until some man or woman whom I may have cheered a little in the struggle of this life shall come out and put a pansy or two on my own grave. But if the time should ever come when this land shall be given over to sectional rancor and demagogism, and north and south, or east and west shall forget what the good God built this nation for. and it shall halt on its high career of righteousness and liberty nnd peace, and be come the agent of tyranny and wrong and oppression, then let some young man whom 1 nave baptized in infancy at these altars go out to Greenwood and scoop up my dust and scatter it to the four winds of heaven, for I do not want to sleep, and I will not sleep in a land accursed with sectionalism or oppres sion . Aud now I hand over tho two garlands, both of which are wet with many tears— tears of widowhood and orphanage and childlessness, tears of suffering and tears of gratitude; and as the ceremony must be S erformed in symbol, there not bei ng enough owers tocover all tho graves, t ike the one garland to the tomb of some northern soldier who may yesterday have been omitted In the distribution of the sacra ment of flowers, and the other garland to the tomb o£ some southern soldier who may a month ago have been omitted in the distri bution of the sacrament of tho flowers, and put tioth the wreaths gently down over the hearts that have ceased to beat. God bless tho two garlands' God save the United (States o£ America I SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. It has been shown that if the sun wat a burning sphere of solid coal it could not last 6000 years. The price of platicum has advanced fully 100 per cent., owing to its in creased use for electrical purposes. When the Minneapolis suspensioi bridge was removed recently, the anchor, age irons, although they had been care fully imbedded iu cement, were found to be deeply corroded. One million tubes for Koch's lymph is the work which is at present engaging the attention of a Germau glass works. The tubes are made of a lino quality oi glass, and arc closed with a glass stop per. A sugar, fifteen times sweeter than cane-sugar, and twenty times swectei than beet-sugar, is reported by a German chemist Irom cotton-seed meal. It can not be sold to compete with the ordinary article. M. Datnoiscau, of France, has in vented a camera to take panoramic views. It is made to turn on its axis so truly that the picture on the entire strip of sensitive paper is said to be perfectly clear iu its details. The four most coramou causes of boil er explosions arc external corrosion, overheating, overpressure and weakness of flue. The four least common causes arc absence of safety valve, bad material, weak manhole and deposit. The principle of the compressed paper car wheels, which are so widely used throughout the world, is applied in France to the manufacture of pulleys for power transmission. Tho pulleys are ?aid to he very light, cheap aud service able in every respect. A Swedish metallurgist, C. A. Casper- son, tests the hardness cf iron or steel in process of manufacture by electrically melting a sample of certain size and com paring the strcngtli of current necessary .vith that known to he required to fuse standard pieces of metal of determined hardness. A firm of stono cutters in Berlin hive introduced a pneumatic chisel into their establishment. The workman holds tho syringe-like apparatus with both hands, and, as ho slides it over the surface of tho stone or metal, the chisel, making 10,000 or 12,000 revolutions u minute, chips off particles. A German clcctriciai# Herr Gulchor, has made a thermo-electric battery giv ing electric power equivalent to 1.08 per cent, of the heat employed, and hopes to exhibit at Frankfort a battery which will yield at least live per cent, net effect. With an economical source of heat, he believes that his thermo-electric battery will even excel the dynamo machine in efficiency. A gallon pail filled with fine sand placed within easy reacli of each work man employed where oiling nnd finish ing is going on is strongly recommended ts an essential part of the equipment for 3rc protection ,'n wood-working estab lishments. This practice can bo followed with advantage wherever there is a pos- libility of fire starting in oil or oil-soaked materials. "It has been found that noth ing will subdue an oil-fed fire so quickly ind effectually ns sand, and the subse quent freedom from water damage is a strong point in its use. Ancient Mnn in (he Mississippi Valley Let us now take the antiquity of clas sical lore and see how it compares with that of the American continent, as evi denced by our mysterious monads, and the indications of a great and glorious past set forth by our lost and ruined cit ies, as well as by tho fossil remains brought to light through the researches of Agassiz aud others eminent in science and archaeology, fn the “Types of Man- kind,” pp. 137, 138,wc have the follow- jug: “In digging for the gas works at New Orleans, sixteen feet below the surface, beneath the fourth forest-level, burnt wood was found and the skeleton of a man.” Or. Bennet Oowler, in his "Tableaux of New Orleans,” goes into a calculation which proves it correct, that the fourth cypress forest level must have been formed 57,000 years ago, and that con sequently the skeleton had been reposing where it was found for that period of ••me. Such of the mounds ot tho Mis sissippi Valley as have been explored have clothed us with a prehistoric past the most mysterious and overwhelming. They reveal another page in the history and chronology of the world—a strange civilization of a great people that had passed away thousands of years before that mummy had “walked about in Thebes's streets.—/M/mf, AGRICULTURE OF GREECE. ITS PRESENT FARMING METHODS LIKE THOSE OF HOMER’S DAYS. How the Farmers Live, and Their Diet—The Dresses of the Farining People—Fond ol Holidays. The farming methods which prevail in Greece to-day, writes Frank G. Carpen ter in the American Agriculturist, are the same as those in the days of Homer. Tho same plows are used as those one secs on the inscriptions of the temples, and the wheat is still cut by the sickle and bound with the bands. A great deal of the harvesting is done by women, aud the Greek maidens of to-day, in their pic turesque costumes as they labor in the field, are quite as handsome as they were when Socrates talked philosophy and De mosthenes practiced speaking with peb bles in his mouth. The plowing is chiefly done by oxen, and the farmers have little idea of the modern methods of fertiliza tion. They know nothing of the rotation of crops, and they plant the same crop year after year, until the fields are worn out, and let them lie fallow for a couple of years to recuperate. I saw uo fences anywhere about the fields, and there seemed to be no systematic farming. One of the great troubles was the lack of rain and running water, but this is being remedied somewhat by irrigation. The soil is generally thin nnd light, hut it will, I am told, produce bountifully if it can be well watered, and with proper fertilization it would bring fair crops. The farmers live in villages and go out into the fields to work. They live almost altogether in the open air, and during the summer the majority of them sleep ou’, of doors. The houses are, as a rule, small and rather mean in comparison with the homes of the peasantry of other European countries. They have stone floors, and the poorer ones have neither windows or chimneys. Such as arc of two stories have a .stable on the ground floor, and the people live above this, and go up by a stairway from the outside. There is almost no furniture to speak of, and a little stone stove or an open fire constitutes the cooking arrangements. There are no modern conveniences con nected with the houses of the poor, and one may travel for a day in tho country without finding a washbasin. The diet of the people is of the sim plest nature. 1 did not see a drunken man while I was in Greece, and there is but little gluttony in a country where bread and wine and onions make up the average dinner. Very little meat is eaten, and goats’ cheese and dried olives largely take the place of meat. The Greeks seem to be very fond of salads, and they make salads of all kinds of greens. Olive oil takes the place of butter, and is eaten upon everything. Farm hands are usually fed upon bread and olives, nnd on feast days a little mut ton or goats’ flesh is added. Beef is practically unknown to the farmer, and such good beef as there i i in Greece is imported. Easter is the great Thanks giving day all over the country, and a roast lamb at that time in Greece takes the place of our Thanksgiving turkey. One of the delicous dishes made by the Greeks is known as pilaff. It is a stew of rice and chicken, and is common in Tur key as well. Some honey is produced, but I saw no practical bee-keeping, and I did not think the famed honey of Hymmcttus was as sweet nor as well- flavored as that of Jerusalem, or of Switzerland. A Greek farmer would be a curiosity if be could be transplanted in his native dress from the Plains of Marathon or Troy to an American village. One would be in doubt whether to take him for a man or a woman until looking at the hair on his face, and many of the Greek farmers look as though they were dressed for the ballet rather than for the field. They wear knee breeches aud leggins, and above these show out about a dozen short white skirts which are stiffly starched, and stand out from tho waist. Above these skirts there is a vest covered with embroidery, and a fez cap completes the outfit with the exception of the shoes. These are usually of red leather. They aro turned up at the toes like the old-fashioned skates, and there is a red woolen tassel ou each toe. In their Sunday clothes the Greeks are as gorgeous as was old Solomon, and the/ strut about as though they owned the earth. The women have also curious costumes and there are different dresses for nearly every locality. The dresses as a rule are long and flowing, and they well become the tall, well-formed, Grecian maidens. In the fields the girls wear a single gown of linen, which falls from their necks to their feet. Over this gown they wear a sleeveless sack of white wool, bordered with stripes of black. Upon their beads they wear large knit or felt red cups, or bright-colored handkerchiefs, and their feet are often bare. They carry heavy burdens on their backs, and they are in dustrious, thrifty and intelligent. Every girl, as soon as she is old enough to sew, begins to embtoider a fine skirt or gown with silk to be used upon her wedding day, and I bought a gown of this kind in Athens, which had a band of silk em broidery a foot deep along the edge of the skirt, and the silk in which weighed several pounds. The cotin try people ol Greece are very fond of holidays. About one-third of the whole year is taken up iu fast aud feast days, and these prevail to such an extent that the Albanians come down in companies, ct the time of harvest, and work under captains in order tq help with the crops. They arc better work men than the Greeks, in that as they are Mohammedans they do not lay off for feasting or fasting. I visited, on the historic grounds of Eleusis, where Cicero was initiated in the mysteries when he visited Greece, and where all of the great Greek poets were wont to go, a farm vil lage and witnessed a country dance. A score of Greek maidens clasped hands and moved to and fro in slippered feet to music. The girls had the Greek fea tures of ancient times and their faces shone out like rare pieces of sculpture in flesh and blood. Their long, loose gowns, seemed a part of their tall beau tiful forms as they gracefully glided over the grass, making their way to nnd fro upon beds of the reddest and biggest poppies ever to be seen. Their should ers were dristeifin gorgeous vests,-and many of them had breastplates of gold coins hanging from their necks. Their heads were draped with long veils of white silk, the ends of which hung down their backs', and flowed in the air as they danced. Their vests and jackets were of purple and gold, nnd under these vests hung sleeveless coats of the finest white wool. Every maiden had a bright silk apron of gay color, and tho gold and silver buckles which clasped the belts at their waists were made of discs of precious metals, ns big around as the bottom of n tin cup. The amount of jewelry on each maiden represented, I was told, the sum total of her possessions, and gave to the beaux present an idea of the dowry which their sweethearts might bring them in marriage. Tho nas A. Edison says the secret of sue'css is to d » hut one thing at n time; a control of thought an I attention it takes some years of patience to learn. HE THRASHED THE BULLY.] HOW A SOLDIER WON AN OFH-1 CER’S COMMISSION, A Good War Story Told by Ex-Gover nor Curtin, of Pennsylvania—Tbe Result of a Midnight Row. Amos J. Cummings relates in the New York Sun a war story, which, he heard ex-Governor Curtin of Pennsylvania tell during the last session of Congress. The incident occurred in the second or third year of the war. The Governor had left Harrisburg, and come to Washington on business. A great battle had been fought. The number of killed and wounded nad mounted into the thousands. Governor Curtin had been ia consultation with the President nnd members of his Cabinet. He had returned to tho Capitol, where an old lady dressed in deep mourning accosted him. She was evidently very poor and nearly distracted. She wore old-fashioned black mils, and her habili ments of woo were worn and rusty. Her face was wan and wrinkled, and her fin gers were (oughened with work and g narled with rheumatism. She had not card from her hoy since the great bat tie, and she bad come to Washington in search of information. He had enlisted in a regiment raised in the mountains of Pennsylvania, and had been at the front for more than a year. “ Oh, Governor,” she cried, as tears streamed down her faded cheeks, “my boy never failed to write before. He al ways sent mo a letter after n battle. I haven’t heard from him now in more than a fortnight. He’s the only boy left me, and I can never live without him. Oh, 1 fear lie's dead or sorely wounded. If I could only get through the lines to nurse him or bring his body back home. Please, Governor, try to get me a pass, and God will bless you. My heart will break without my boy.” The Governor said that ho heard the cumber of the regiment with a shudder. It had been in the very heart of the light, nnd had been cut to pieces. His heart went out to the old mother. If her boy was alive he was determined that she should see him, or if dead that she should have his body. Upon ques tioning her he found that she was ut terly destitute. She hadn’t even money enough to pay for u night’s lodging. He assured her that he would do what ho could for her. He would see either the President or the Secretary of War in the morning aud get her a pass through the lines. Then he look her by the arm and escorted her down stairs. Passing out under the arch of the Senate wing of the Capitol he hailed a cab. Gallantly as sisting the old lady into it he paid the cabman his fee, and told him to drive his charge to a hotel where the Governor was well known, and where he had sent many a destitute friend. As the cab rattled away the Governor turned to re enter the Capitol, when he met John Sherman, Fen Wade, and Gclusha A. Grow, then Speaker of the House. The Senate had ad journed, and they were on their way home. It was a clear night. The great temple of national legislation shone in the moonlight like a palace of alabaster. The city lay below them, dotted with gas lights. The music of a drum was heard away off on the right. -A railroad train had arrived with a new regiment, and the troops were seeking quarters at the Soldiers’Kest. The four statesmen descended Capitol Hill together. They drifted down Penn sylvania avenue, conversing on political topics. '1 hey had halted on a corner near the National Hotel preparatory to separating, when a cab was driven to the curb near by. Its driver was in alterca tion with a woman inside the vehicle. Governor Curtin was even then telling the Senators and Speaker the story of his meeting with the old lady in the Capitol. The altercation attracted his attention. The driver was using vil lainous language. Ho insisted that his passenger should leave the hack then and there, or ho would pull her out. ‘•Something told me,” said tho Gov ernor, “that it was my old lady who was in trouble.” He stepped to the door of the hack and looked in. The suspicion was con firmed. She was tho old woman whom he had sent to the hotel, and she was in trouble. The driver had not taken her to her destination. Ho had stopped at two or three saloons, and spent nis fee for liquor. Possibly ho had forgotten where the old lady was to go, but at all events he had determined to drop her on the street and let her shift for herself. He was tilling the air with profanity and threatening the poor old woman with violence. Tho Governor was indignant. He asked the ha< kman whether ho had not paid him to lake the old lady to a specified place of shelter. Tho driver swore that he had never seen him before, and threatened to punch his head if he did not mind his own business. The Governor's indignation was getting the better of his judgment. Sherman and Grow tried to calm him, but old Ben M adc grew as hot as a bird pepper and swore like a pirate. He not only wanted the hackman thiashed, but he wanted to help Curtin thrash him. The driver was a giant. He laid his whip across the foot rest of his hack and squared away. Things were looking decidedly squally when a boy in blue came along. He carried a musket, and wore the tail of a buck in his cap. The Governor recog nized the insignia. Tho soldier was a member of Colonel Kane’s famous Buck- tail Brigade. Over six feet tall, he was brawny and well proportioned. He looked like a raftsman, and he swung along the avenue as if the world was too small for him. He was promptly hailed. “Do you know me?” the Governor asked. “Yes,” was the reply. ‘‘You’re Andy Curtin, Governor of Pennsylvania. I’ve seen you many a time at home and in the field.” “I want you to do me a favor,” the Governor continued, pointing to the hackman who had already begun to skirmish with Ben Wade. The hoy in blue sensed the situation in a twinkling. Turning to the Gover- nor. he said : “Hold my musket.” Then he jumped between Ben Wade ami the cabuinu and sailed in. It was a rough ami tumble worthy of the days of Poole and Morrissey. The raftsman proved too much for the bully. He had a teirifio struggle, hut finally literally mopped the sidewalk with him. The hackman looked ns if ho had been through a fanning mill. Governor Curtin ascertained the name of the soldier, and placed the old lady in his charge. 8he arrived at her destina tion without further trouble. Ou the next day lie secured passes for her, and she went to the front for her boy. Two weeks afterward Private Fox of the Bucktait Brigade received an order directing him to report at the Adjutant- General’s office iu Harrisburg. Trans portation ami supplies were furnished. It was a bright aud sunny morning when ho entered the city. Without delay he sought tho office of the Adjutant-Gen eral. There he was told that tho Gov ernor wanted to sec him. Tho wav to the Executive chamber was pointed out. '1 ho soldier entered with his haversack swinging at his side. Tho Governor stood neir a table, talking with a friend. He saw Private Fox approaching him. The soldier was awkward and very much embarrassed. "Good morning, f.i'entcnant, ” said the Governor, “I’m glad to see you." “Why, Governor,’’ replied tho boy in blue, “you make a mistake. I'm not a Lieutenant. I'm only a private.” "It is you who make the mistake,” the Governor replied, with a smiling face. “You were only u private last night, but you are a Lieutenant this morning. Here if your commission.” It was the commission of a First Lieu tenant. The parchment was gratefully accepted. The soldier expressed his thanks. He was modestly asserting a doubt as to his merits, when the Go"er- nor replied: “I know your record. You can truthfully say that you won your rank by service on the battlefield.” The Governor dispensed the usual hos pitalities and Lieut. Fox departed. His fate showed that he richly merited the distinction. Within three mouths ho became Captain and afterward Major. Ho was shot through the heart while leading his regiment as its Lieutenant-Colonel iu a charge at Spottsylvania. WISE WORDS. Slang is the wart on language. Men have sight; women insight. A broken silence is never repaired. Good humor is the blue sky of the soul. Silence is less injurious than a weak reply. Energy is the sand in the craw of en terprise. Every kind of work that we can't do looks easy. We take less pains to be happy than to appear so. Man is cold as ice to truth, but hot as fire to falsehood. A little woman can tell just as big a lie as a big woman can. Distrust of yourself really means con scientiousness of wrong. You can't climb a telegraph pole by shinning up a fence post. Shallow men believe in luck; strong men believe in cause and effect. Your bank account, unlike yourself, never gets tight by getting full. Nothing hut a mule occupies less space than his hind foot and makes less noise. Every life is a center, and all things are made for it as if there were no other. Tie a coward’s hand behind him and you give him an additional reason to boast. Our First Iron Article of Native Ore. The accompanying cut, reproduced from Iron in All Ayes, is from a photo graph obtained by Mr. C. M. Tracy in 1890, and it depicts the first iron article made from native ore in Amor'-'. THE FIRST AMERICAN IKON POT. The Bulletin tells that this unique kettle was cast in Lynn, Mass., in 1645, and is still preserved by Lewellyn and Arthur Lewis, residing at Etna place. The pot weighs two pounds thirteen ounces, capacity, nearly a quait; inside measurement, 4 1-5 inches wide by 41-5 inches deep. Where It Was Coolest. He—“Getting cool outside now, ain't it?” She—“Yes; but you would find it cooler inside. Ma nnd pa are there.”—- Fathion Bazar. A Voang latilj's Predicament. A story comes from across the water that a young lady in an English church accidentally let her handkerchief fall. By repeatedly stooping to reach it fur tively she attracted the notice of a gen tleman in the pew behind, who thought she was about to faint. With the best of motives, therefore, he took her gently under the arms aud raised her up, greatly to her surprise. As she tried to release herself another gentleman went lo her assistance, and before the lady knew what was the matter they were moving her out into the aisle, and, in- deed, carried her into the vestibule be fore she could recover from her nslon Uhment sufficiently to find words for protest. The finale, of course, was lu dicrous in the extreme. — Chicago Herald. Both the method and results when Byrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Byrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial In its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities com mend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Byrup of Figs is for sale in 60o and 91 bottles by all leading drug- gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. 8AH FRAHQU umvnu.n. 0AL , tCMt nut. N.V. The Rewarx or Sagacity. One of the stories they tell of “Oh. Hutch,” the grain speculator, to illustrate his sagacity in discovering pecuniary opportunities is this: He noticed tho windows of a big carpet store decorated with placards stating that prices were re duced, as the whole stock of the con cern was to be closed out. Struck with a sudden idea he went in, asked tho price of several lines of goods, the quantities in stock and the original prices. Having indeed gone practically through the place he sent for the heads of the firm and coolly made them a lump suol oiler for the whole stock, good-will and fixtures of the concern. The bid wa) accepted, and “Old Hutch” at once gave his check. Then, without leaving the place, he sent for a relative, who, by tho way, was in another line of trade, and informed him that he wanted him to take charge of his new acquisition and run it, adding: “At the prices I paid there is money in it.” Events proved the correctness of Hutchinson'sjudgment, and the business so summarily puichased is still in successful operation. Greenland's Dust. The cosmic dud collected by Nordcn- j skjold in Greenland in 1883 has been | submitted to scientific examination, and , found to consist chiefly of feldspar, quartz, mica and hornblende, with a | smaller proportion of some other com- ! mon minerals, n nitrogenous organic sub- I stance, and some particles similar to those obtained in deep sea soundings. It is believed that tho last-named material has come from space, aud that the other substances have been carried in the air from a region of crystalline schists. If the dust taken from the Greenland snow represents the fall of one year, the total annual fall ou the earth's surface is equiv alent to a cube of thirty-one yards oa a side. — Trenton (A r . J.) American. Cleveland in the White House. Washington, D C, [Special.]—A 'irgc portrait ol K\ I’ro ddeut Cleveland, painted by E. John ou. was received at tho White House rue-day morning, and was temporarily hung on the cast wall of main vestibule in full view of every per son who enters the house. It will be subsequently given a place in an interior (oiridot, I . dde otbi i iMeddcntial poi- bails. Swept, by a Scorching Whirlwind. Waynkshoko, Ga., [Special.]—The ■vhitlwiud that passed over the Powell place, at Shell Bluff, recently, had many • urious features and resulted strangely and disastrously. It was so severe and of such a dry, parching nature that it de stroyed between four and five acres of cotton. After the wind passed the cot ton weed, which before was growing vig or.: usly. would crumble to powder in the hand w hen handled. Elected by the Legislature. Newport, 1L I . [Special.]—The leg islature mot and after organizing sepa rately mot iu grand committee, canvassed the returns of tho April election for state officers, declared that there had been no election and thou elected the republican ticket, headed by Governor Ladd. The vote was, republican 75, democatic 23. His Words aro Golc’en. Peoria. It t,.. |Special. | - liabbi E. M. Calseh, who has had charge of the Jew ish Synagogue lure for four years, has accepted a call to Hichtiioud, Ya. He recently lectured there and the trustees of the Hebrew Temple asked him to eomc there for three years at $5,000 a year, to be extended if desired. flow’s This ? We offer One Hundred Dollars reword . n r any case of catarrh that cannot he cured by taking Hall's Catarrh Cur?. F. J. CHE.NKV lb Co., Props., Toledo. O. We, the undersigned, have known K .1. Cheney for tho last 1A .ears, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business trausar- tions, aud linaucially aide to uirrj out any ol,. ligations made by t heir linn. A\ cat (V Thu ax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Waldino, Kinnan A- Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. O. Hall's Caiarrh (Aire is taken internally, aet- Ingdirectly upon tins blood and mucous sur- faeesof tho system. Testimonials sent free Price Toe. per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Bridle the appetite with reason and save the stomach. Dadies needing a tonic, or children who want building up, should take Brow n’s Iron Bitters. It is pleasant to take, cures Malari.\ Indigestion.Biliousness and Liver Complaints, makes the Blood rich aud pure. Sunday is the favorite wedding day in 1.1 England. M an v persons are I.t oken down from over work or household cures. Brown's Iron Bit ters rebuilds II.o sjstem, aids digestion, re moves excess of bile, and cures malaria. A splendid tonic for women and children. fr yon would be correct m pronouncing Manitoba accent the last syllable. FITS stopped free hr Da. Klutz's Great Nerve Restorer. No tits after first day’s u-e. Marvelous cures. Treatise and 5k’trial bottle free. Dr. Kline. 911 Arch St.. 1’hlbi.. i’a. He deserves not the sweet who will not t ste the sour. If afflicted rrith sore eyes use fir. Isaac Thomn- son’s Eye-water.Druggists sell at 25c.per bottle There’s a patent medicine which is not a patent medicine — paradoxical as that may sound. It’s a discovery! the golden discovery of medical science ! It’s the medicine for you—tired, run-down, exhaust ed, nerve - wasted men and women; for you sufferers from diseases of skin or scalp, liver or lungs—it’s chance is with every one, it’s season alwa iys, the because it aims to purify the fountain of life—the blood— upon which all such diseases depend. The medicine is Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. The makers of it have enough confidence in it to sell it on trial. i That is—you can get it from your druggist, and if it doesn’t do what its claimed to do, you can get your money back, every ant of if. That's what its makers call taking the risk of their words. Tiny, little, sugar-coated granules, are what Dr. Pierce’s I’leasant Pellets are. The best Liver Pills ever invented; ac tive, yet mild in operation; cure sick and bilious head aches. One a close. wttl open a< frrrtham. In Us new butldfrtgs, September I, 1891. A Colluite of Hitlosopliv and Aflv, A GoHe*«64 0«»mni' i ■ • ; A v < f tho Sciences. A Divinity School; \ sohu I of rechnology; a L.;w School; A School of Political *•■!< me. A Medical School, SKND K 'H CATAI.OOCK |o JCIIN K. oHOWLLL. IT, President. Trinity College /* 0. % N. C. Trinity High Soil »•>! (Preparatory) In Randolph county/open Auvu-.t I, TRINITV COLLEGE Smithdealjo <5^ PRACTICA1, § isigjapi COU.SOK, Bl-Jurood, Vx. Z SSkSST? 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