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THE PICTIIBToF HEILTII
Hood's Sarsaparilla Made Her
Strong and Healthy.
“Hood’s Sarsaparilla lias boon of great bene
fit to our little girl,and also to myself and hus
band. When she was 3 years old Mabel was
seized with stomach trouble, like cramps or in
flammation. 1 was taking Hood's Sarsaparilla
for my blood, and as the doctor’s prescription
did not help her, I occasionally gave her a lit
tle of my own medicine. I soon realized that
Hood’s Sarsaparilla was
Doing Her Good,
so gave it to her regularly. It has helped hot
wonderfully, entirely curing her stomaefc
trouble, and making her strong and healthy.
Our friends say she is the picture of health.
Myself and husband were both troubled with
Hood's 8 #' 1 " Cures
malaria, and Hood’s Sarsaparilla built us op
and keeps us healthy and free from t-ickness.
We cordially reconun 'iul Hood’s Sansapark-
la.’’ Mhh. William Kv\>8,Wcst Haven,!’ora
Hood’* Pills are tin* best fa nil. cathartic, gen
tle aul effective. Try a box. 2> cajts.
Bkigandaoe is greatly on the increase it
the province of Cadiz, Spain.
110^11 This !
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Hall's tlutivmi Care.
F. J.CnuNKT & Co., Props., Toledo, 0.
Wr, llie undet'Mgned, have koowu F. .1. Che,
ney for I ho lust 15 years, ana heueve him IHT-
feclly honornlile In all business transactions
and tinanc ally aid.‘ to carryout any obliga
tion ramlo by thc.r firm.
"Vest & Tkuax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo,
Ohio.
fifAUUNO. Ki^vak & Marviv, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Ha l’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the tills) l an l mucous sur
faces of the system. Price, 75c. per bottle- Sold
>y all Druggist s. Testimonials free.
The Hsrvard faculty have Increased tta,
rental of dormitory rooms from fifty to set-
enty-flve per cent.
rOR STRENUTHKMKa ARP t'LL'AltINC THE
\ oi' Eiise’TliwK'.’i'eifmiir/iin!Tinehce." ‘1 have
commended them to friends wlio were imlilic
speakers, anil they iiave proved cxlrenndv ter-
viceable.”—/ter. flenni Iran! lieerhe:-.
The Bell Telephone Company last ye«t
earned *8,925,485.69 not and paid *3,339,IK
in dividends.
Shiloh's Cure
Is sold on a guarantee. Itcnrrs Incipient Con
sumption; it is the Best Cough Cure; 25c., jUc., $1
i Oft eat Bcitais has annexed Pondoland,
South Africa.
Mine. Marie Huot wants the clog tax
in Paris raised from SI and $2 to $0,
liecause she believes thit then the ani
mals would be better watched and
would not so often full into the haucU
of vivisectors.
KNOWLEDGE
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tend* to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
lee* expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the world’s best products to
the heeds of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, 8vrup of Figa.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
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dispelling colds, headaches and fever*
«nd permanently curing constipation.
It has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of me medical
profession, because it acta on the Xid-
nevs, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it ie perfectly free from
every objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in 60c and $1 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Oo. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, yon will not
accept any substitute if ofiered.
•THE TIME HAS COME."
The time has come when rustics go afield
And make the ln*y air resound
With load taUoos;
The birds begin to sing,
T e frogs to pipe; Ice and the black frost
yield
In cowslip marshes thick with ooze,
And murmurs of the trembling ground
Breathe o'er us, this Is spring.
The time has come when Pleasure claps her
hands
When Love puls on her purple dress,
Her shoes oSgold.
When Fane/ spreads her wing ;
The flower of hope that lights new fairy
lands
Is mixed with poppies in the old,
And all the sons of men confess:
Ah, it is spring, spring, spring!
—Dora It. fioodale, In Godey's Magazine.
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«-at«r op ttaira, cut wood, cm'.
light ptirpoaea, and do a
great twlety of o-lr* ‘
Jobs, for a week 1
hava beta a
iied-after • ct:
A :r motor; previous to
li-.at I waaonljr&toel,
Ziuc and Aluminum. ’
uualloyed and tmmado
up. Uj tervtatff ean bo
bud very cheap, Igtafc'UXiow,
during tha ilacltfcucn* Ap
ply to my parents, the Ana-
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well and Fillmore st eels,
Chicago. H.B.—I am Always
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with marvelous ontiur-
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in many * tilt end
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einee we work St
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- N II.-17
ON SUMPTION
BY FRANK BARRETT.
INTON took the
tickets as the train
was running into the
station; in hastily
snatching up the
change a half sover
eign slipped from
his fingers. It took
us a couple of min
utes to find it, and
the train was lost.
“Three-quarters of an hour to wait
in this hole, ” Hinton groaned. * ‘Better
walk over to Chorley. The train is
dne there at 9.15, we can do it easily. ”
We did it a little too easily; the
train was in sight before we reached
Chorley. We leaped over the railings
and ran along the line; the train passed
us at the signal box, and we overtook
it as it came to a stop.
The last carriage was a third class;
a young Indy, leaning throngh the
open window of the end apartment
looked toward us anxiously.
“Will you be good enough to opeu
the door,” she asked, as #e drew near.
We both stopped. Hinton brushed
past me to render the service; he was
younger than I, his gallantry was
boundless, and the present appeal to
it was made by one of singularly pre
possessing appearance. It was not a
common face that smiled down on us,
showing a long row of dazzling teeth,
a white, sensitive nose, an intelligent
forehead from which the hair was
drawn back assertively, and a pair oi
dark gray eyes, cipable of anything;
not a common figure that stood re
vealed when the door was opened—tall,
graceful, simply elegant, and dressed
with faultless taste, and the first ques
tion that mystified me wss how such a
lady came to bo traveling alone in a
third-class carriage and at this early
hour.
She stood at the open door in em
barrassment that added a charm to her
face. The platform did not extend to
the carriage. The depth of the ground
was considerable, the step awkward.
She put out the neatly booted foot,
and drew it back hastily; all the time
she kept her hands close in her muff,
which made the descent more imprac
ticable. With a faint tinge of color
in her pale cheek, and her fine eyes
twinkling with vexation, sho said:
“May I ask you to help me? I have
hurt my hands; they are useless.”
In a moment we were on the foot
board, one on each side, helping her
to descend. As I glanced along her
arm I caught the glimpse of a bluish-
black metal inside her sealskin muff.
She wore an iron bracelet. Was it an
eccentricity of fashion, or a surgical
appliance, I wondered.
It was to Hinton she smiled her
sweetest acknowledgment, and when
in parting she bowed to us both, her
eyes rested last and longest npon him.
We stood by the open door watch
ing her as she walked np to the plat
form with a graceful step.
“Now, then, sir, are you going on?”
called the guard, with bis whistle
raised.
At that moment the young lady
turned ronnd, and seeing us still stand
ing by the door, smiled bewitchsngly,
mado a short step forward, turned
again and stopped, fixing her eyes on
- Hinton, who was scarlet to the roots
of his hair. It was an invitation that
my fiery young friend was not very
slow to accept.
“I shall come on by the next train.
Jack,” said he, and started at once to
rejoin the fascinating lady.
The guard blew bis whistle, and I
stepped up mechanically into the car
riage, elosing the door, and never
losing sight of my friend and the lady
with the iron bracelet He bad his
hat off, and was speaking to her as the
train whisked me by. They were both
so pleasantly occupied with each other
that they took no notice of me. J.
continued to watch them until the
train was out of the station, and then
I sat down and glanced ronnd to see
if there were any other occupants of
the compartment.
Heavens! What was this at the other
end, half on the ground, half on the
seat. I started to my feet and drew
near the dark mass, with growing ter
ror, as I perceived that it was a police
officer who lay huddled together, wjth
one shoulder on the eeat and hie head
drooped down npon his breast. His
helmet had dropped off. When I
raised his face I found it terribly col
orless, only half the whites of his eyes
were visible through the half closed
lids. There was no sign of any wound,
no blood upon his hands or face. A
white handkerchief lay upon the seat.
It seemed to me that the man had
suddenly fainted. 1 tried to raise him
from his supine position, but the dead
weight (he was a large man) was more
than ! could manage.
The carriage was open from end to
end—the compartments simply dividr
ed by backs. There was only one
other traveler in the carriage—a navvy
in the next but one compartment, witn
bis back to me, and bis head was out
of the window that the short black
pipe he was smoking might not be ob
jected to.
I called him twice before he heard
me, and then, taking his pipe out and
holding it in the hollow of his hand,
he looked at me in vacant surprise.
“Come over and help me,’’! cried.
"There’s a policeman lying here—
dead.”
“A dead policeman I” he said, his
little eyes rounding with wonder.
“Yes, come over and help me lift
him up.”
“Nought me,” he said, his face set
tling with an expression of dogged ob
jection. “I ain’t goin’ to have no
truck wi’ no dead policemans, no fsar.
I’m n poor man, I am, and they’d have
me off to the station ’ns soon’s look
at me if I get messin’ myself in that
job, no fear,” and with that he turned
his back on me and sat down in an at
titude of neutrality.
I made what effort I could to restore
life to the dead man, to call the atten
tion of the guard to rouse up the nav
vy to a sense of humanity, but all to
no purpose. The train was express to
London, and alone with my ghastly
fellow-passenger I had to await the end
of the journey.
As the train ran into the terminus 1
called loudly to a porter on the plat
form. It took the fellow a couple of
minutes to overcome his astonishment.
Then he did as I bade him, and ran off
for assistance. Three minutes more
passed before he returned with a
conple of policemen.
While they were getting the dead
man onto the platform the inspector
came over. After he had heard my
brief explanation he took out his note
book and pencil, saying he must have
my uame and address. I gave them,
and added that I was to be fonnd dur
ing the day at Guy’s Hospital.
“If yon are a medical gentleman you
may perhaps be able to tell the cause
of death,” he said.
“Heart disease, I should say.”
“Where did you get in, sir?”
“Chorley.” >
“Anyone in the compartments be
side yourself?”
“No.”
“Anyone get out there?”
“A lady.”
“Did she say anything about this?”
“No.”
“There was no one else in the car
riage?” he asked.
“There was a navvy in the third
compartment.” I explained his be
havior. The insi>ector smiled.
“He was right. I should have had
io detain him. That would have been
the loss of a day’s wages, perhaps—
couldn’t let him off with his name
and address. However, there’s no
sign of violence, and most likely what
you say about heart disease is right.
That will do, sir, thank you. I ex
pect you will be summoned to attend
the inqceit.”
The platform was empty; the ticket
collector had come up to satisfy his
curiosity. As I was goibg away he
said: “Your ticket, sir.”
I gave him my ticket; as I turned
the corner by the barrier I saw him
showing it to the inspector.
*»•***
My friend Hinton, on coming up to
the lady with the iron bracelet, said:
“I have ventured to follow you with
the hope that I may continue my as
sistance—your disabled hand”—
“It is precisely for that reason that
I found courage to—to look back,”
she said. “I felt sure that yon would
not misunderstand my motive.”
“Only tell me how I may serve you. ”
"I am ashamed to tell you that I
have no ticket, and I cannot get at my
purse,” she explained, blushing and
smiling at the same time; “and if you
would kindly get me some-sort of con
veyance.”
Hinton paid her fare; she said she
came from Overbnry—gave up his
own unused ticket, and opened the
door of a fly that stood outside the
station. When she was seated she
drew herself to the side, holding her
winsome head a little on one side, and
smiling an invitation. Hinton took
the vacant place by her side.
“Where do you want to go?” he
asked.
“Where are you going?” she asked
in reply.
“I have to go to the city.”
“Then I want to go to the city, too. ”
“City,” said Hinton to the driver.
“f must show you something,” sho
said, when the fly was rattling along.
Sho raised her muff from her knees,
aud added: “Slip my muff up my
arm.”
Then very gently he moved her
muff, and uncovering her hands started
hack in horrified astonishment. The
small, white wrists were menaeled
together with a pair of iron handeuffs.
"Good God! what does this mean?"
hf exclaimed.
“Press the spring you see there and
I will tell you. ”
He pressed the spring and the hand
cuffs dropped off m her lap.
“Late last evening, as I was leaving
a friend’s house, I was arrested. The
last train to London was gone. I was
taken to an inn and confined there.
This morning the policeman put those
things on my wrists, and led me to the
railway station. In the carriage where
yon found me the policeman fell asleep
when we stopped at that elation I saw
my chxnce to escape, and thanks to
your help I am here. ”
“But why were you arrested?” asked
Hinton.
“Oh, I cannot tell you that,” she
replied, covering her face with her
hands, “not yet—later on, if I may
hope to gain your friendship and con
fidence, I may nnburden my beait of
its secret. But look in my face”—she
uncovered it, and laying down her
hand on flinton’e arm, offered her
charming face to his examination.
“Look and tell me if you can find
there the sign of a crime that should
be punished with this shame.”
My gushing young friend had got as
far as this in his narrative, when the
hall porter ushered into onr sauotam
our old friend Kennot, a clear-headed
lawyer.
“Now, you young fellows,” he be
gan brusquely, “I’ve come to get you
out of a mess, if I can. I must know
all about the affair this morning.”
I told him my story as I have writ
ten it here. His first question sur
prised me.
“Can you bring anyone forward to
prove that you got into that train at
Chorley, and not at Stevenham ?”
After taxing our recollection to the
fall, Hinton and I came to the conclu
sion that we eould not find a witness
tonrove this. The station master
had closed the ticket box the moment
alter giving Hinton his change. Th«
door loading onto the platform was
locked when we reached it. At Chor-
Icy we had not gone through the
booking office. The guard’s van was
in the front of the train; the porters
were on the platform, and we won,
not seen till the moment when w*
were helping the lady to descend-
KenusUooked grave.
“Now, give me your account, Mr.
Hinton, ” said he.
Hinton went over the facts again.
“Do yon know where the young
lady is now?”
“Yes, but I must decline to tell yon
until I know your reason for asking. ”
“My reason for asking 1 That’s sim
ple enough: I wish to save you from
criminal prosecution.”
We gasped: “What crime has been
committed?"
“Murder 1”
“Murder!” we echoed aghast.
“The handkerchief that lay beside
the dead man is found to have been
saturated with chloroform."
“Good heavens, Kennet, do you
think we carry chloroform about with
us?”
“Yon are medical students.”
Hinton and I stared in blank be
wilderment.
"Of course you don’t believe the
young lady committed the murder,"
Kennet said, addressing Hinton.
“How on eerth is such a thing pos
sible? She had her wrists handenffed,
and a muff on her hands. ”
“So mnch the worse for you. The
man is murdered, and the respon
sibility lies npon you two young men
and that young woman. Of courwi
I believe in your innocence, but that
counts for nothing. Your fate will be
decided by a jury, and not by me.
Now what is the evidence that will be
laid before them ? One of you is found
in a third-class carriage with the dead
man, and gives up a first-class ticket
from Stevenham, the station at which
the policeman got into the train with
his prisoner. The other young man
gets the young woman out of the train
at Chorley, pays her fare, and whisks
her ont of the way in a fly. A hand
kerchief saturated with chloroform is
found beside the dead man, and you
two are medical students. What is the
presumption? That yon, seeing this
attractive young woman put into a
third-class carnage by a policeman at
Stevenham, get into the same carriage
with her. The young woman fascin
ates you and excites ynur sympathy.
On nearing Chorley the policeman
dozes, and one of you, intending,
possibly, only to prolong his sleep,
applies chloroform. The effect is more
serious than you expected, and while
one saves the young lady, the other
remains with the policeman to use
such means of restoring him to life as
your experience suggests. However,
you had better let me see this young
woman at once. If we can prove hex
guilt—”
“Then you shall not see'that yonng
lady,” cried Hinton, in a'flerce fury.
“If you think I’m going to get out of
the difficulty by shifting my responsi
bility onto the shoulders of a woman
you are in error!”
“Then you may prepare for twenty
years of penal servitude," said Ken
net, brutally.
In all probability we should have
got the punishment, bnt for xn event
that never entered into onr calcula
tions.
The young lady with the iron brace
let hod assured Hinton that in three
days or four at the outside she coulA
clear her character if only she was se
cured from misapprehension in the in
terval. The infatuated young man
sent her to his mother at St. Albans
with a touching letter that appealed
to the old lady’s sympathy—of course
she regarded her son as faultless in all
things. The yonng lady was treated
as an honored gnest. The first thing
she did was to send telegrams to Lon
don.
The old lady seems to have beou ss
enchanted as her son by the lady of
the iron bracelet, and at night-time
they separated with affectionate rc-
gard.
When the servants came down in the
morning they found the street door,
which had been carefully bolted over
night, open, and the plate gone.
Later they found that the lady with
the iron bracelet was missing also.
In tie evening a man was arrested
on suspicion of having committed
the burglary. At the examination I
identified him as the navvy I had seen
in the carriage on the morning of the
mnrder. He was recognized by the
police as one of a gang who,' in con
junction with a young female of
fashionable exterior, had been eon-
eerned m a series of burglaries, for
which the “youog female” had been
apprehended at Stevenham.
The lady with the iron bracelet is
still at large, and I trust my friend
Hinton may never see her again, for
nothing has cured him of his folly in
regarding her as the hapless victim of
a diabolical conspiracy.
Is Ice Cream Milk 1
The question, “Is ice orcatn to bs
considered as milk?” came up m a
Glasgow case of some importance from
a sanitary point of view, which was
recently settled in the British Hir •
Court of Jndioary. Its promint^,
features wore these: During last sum
mer and autumn some cases of fever
were found to have been caused by
the use of ice cream, and at the same
time some very unsavory revelations
weie made as to the manner in which
the manufacture aud storage of ioe
cream are carried on in English cities,
partionlarly in the overcrowded aud
dirty dwellings of foreigners, into
whose hands the trade haa largely
fallen. In order to bring these deal
ers under the sanitary regulations ap
plicable to purveyors of milk, the
Glagow local authorities brought a
test case before the Sheriff’s Court
aud won it; the Sheriff’s decision was
reversed on appeal by the higher court.
A man who sells ice cream, therefore,
which consists almost entirely of milk,
with a little flour and flavoring, is not
a purveyor of milk in the sense which
the English statute requites, aud is
consequently uot amenable to the law.
—New Y'ork Sun.
Power ol Foreign Police.
The Vienna police have general
charge of all newspapers, and keep
records of all presses and publications,
maintain e censorship over all theatres
and plays, issue licenses for the publi
cation and sale of all books, magazines
and periodicals. All plays, dialogues,
songs, dances and entertainments by
societies, clubs or individuals must be
submitted to the police aud approved
before production.—New York Jour
nal.
Porterhouse anti Tenderloin.
V
A carcass of beef is cat in nineteen
pieces. All of the pieces and the
names are in the dictionary. Look at
the list and yon will not find the
names “tenderloin” and “porter
house”—two names that the inexperi
enced buyer has always on his lips.
The porterhouse is a delusion and a
snare in ninety-nine cates ont of 100.
The tenderloin is the thick part of the
sirloin after a few round-bone steaks
have been cut off, and is called the filet
de boeuf. It makes a choice piece for
roasting, bat if not sold in a lamp, is
cat into sirloin steaks of three grades.
The first and second grades are tech
nically “hip sirloin steak" and “flat-
bone sirloin steak.” These are the
tenderloin steaks that the yonng
housewife pays extra for. There are
not over six of each kind in one car
cass, so the chances are that she pays
her good money for a third-cut, or
“round-bone” sirloin, which is itself a
capital steak.
Porterhouse steaks are cat from the
small-end sirloin steak, and one car
cass contains but a few of them. In
genious batchers understand the knack
of cutting the small-end sirloin so as
to include other portions of the beef,
thus enabling tnem to sell both at
porterhouse prices.
Good beef has a juicy or sappy ap
pearance, with a fine, smooth grain,
which is easily noticed. The fat, both
outside and through the muscles, pre
sents a clear, straw-colored appear
ance. The flesh should be cherry red.
When meat rises quickly after being
pressed it may be considered prime.
When the dent made by pressing rises
slowly or not at all, depend npon it
tho beef is poor. — Washington Post.
Senator White’s Turkeys.
"I’ll have to write my mother-in-
law that she can look out for another
turkey,” said Senator White, of Cali
fornia, as he finished reading a letter
with a California postmark. “That
C— case has been decided in our
favor.
“I suppose you have some queer
experiences,” he continued to a group
that contained several lawyers, “bnt
I’ve got the funniest clients you ever
heard of. Whenever a case is about
to be settled aud it’s time to be think
ing of fees, the woman appears at my
house with the biggest goose or turkey
on their place. It is always a fine bird,
for she’s a good judge of the product,
bnt the gift gets a little monotonous.
She never makes any excuse for the
present but evidently it is to modify
mj estimation of the financial worth
of my legal services. My clients are
quite wealthy people, who live near
us, and as they eeem to have a weak
ness for patronizing court*, the tur
keys appear frequently’at our gate.
Another ease has just been decided in
their favor, and by this time the lady
and the turkey have probably pre
sented their compliments. ”—Kate
Field's Washington.
All Snakes Do Not Hiss.
The popular idea that all snakes hU'i
is incorrect when anacondas are in
question, if we may believe a close ob
server of the serpent family. The
sound they make is more like a growl
than a hiss and has been well de
scribed by a recent traveler as a
“low, roaring noise.” Their powers
of deglutition are sufficiently wonder
ful to make exaggeration unnecessary,
creditable witnesses testifying to the
fact that one has been known to swal
low a horse, while bullocks are not in
frequently attacked also. Few non-
scientific readers, by the way, are
aware that not only do the jaw hinges
ot tbe boa tribe become dislocated in
the act of swallowing a large animal,
: osequently resuming their proper
I isition by means of the elastic con-
ectiiig tendons, but that tho skull
bones separate centrally, so that the
whole constitutes a sort of quadrangu
lar orifice with apparently indefinite
powers of expansion.—Detroit Free
Press.
liidiag a Bronco.
“It's all bosh, this talk about cow
boys learning to enjoy the sport of.
riding a bucking horse,” said a re
formed cowboy. “Biding a bucking
horse is like having boils- you never
get thoroughly used to it. When you
hear a fellow say he would like to ride
a bucking horse he is either a liar or
a greenhorn. The first day I ever went
out with a herd of cattle I was dumped
nine times because of the presence of
a burr in iny saddle-blanket. I have
seen but one man that had grit enough
to sit on a real bucking horse until it
had bucked all it wanted to, and he
was bleeding at the nose, month and
ears when they took him off the horse
at tho end of a half-hour's strnggle.
As a general thing a cowboy will pull
a horse’s head up, wind the reins
around the saddle-horn, take a firm
grip on the saddle with his bands and
then rowel the bucker until the ani
mal becomes convinced that it is bet
ter to behave than to buck.”—Phcenix
(Arizona) Gazette.
Minnesota is not a very oid State,
but she has already more than $0,-
000,000 invested in public buildings
and $10,000,000 in her school fund,
with 1,000,000 acres of university
land yet unsold.
Great expectations are entertained
of the probable diecovery of rich gold
deposits in Australia, and prospectors,
investors and schemers are flocking to
that part of the world; thousands ars
going to Western Australia.
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The Government Chemists, after having analyzed
all the principal brands of baking powder in the
market, in their reports placed the “Royal” at the
head of the list for strength, purity and wholesome
ness; and thousands of tests all over the country
have further demonstrated the fact that its qualities
are, in every respect, unrivaled.
Avoid all baking powders sold with a gift or
prize, or at a lower price than the Royal, as they in
variably contain alum, lime or sulphuric acid, and
render the food unwholesome.
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A Tennessee Patriarch,
The Rev. Asa Routb, now residing
at Piney Flats, Tenn., hag a record
unequaled, perhaps, in the whole
country. He is seventy- five years old,
has been married tbrcc times, and is
the father of twenty-nine children,
eighteen girls aud eleven boys. He
also has seventy-two gra idchildren,
twenty -five great-grandchildren, and
fifteen great-great-grandchildren. Five
of bis children now live at home Ho
has preached at every town in East
Tennessee and Southeastern Ken
tucky. He has baptized 900 converts,
married 800 couples and officiated at
400 funerals. He is still in active min
isterial service, is able to ride long
distances on horseback, and three
weeks ago, in a revival meeting at
Bogcrsville, Tenn., led thirty sonls to
Christ. He is well preserved and very
zealous. His uame is a household word
in this section, and his presence is re
quired at alt solemn exercises.—St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
There arc 237 Baptist churches in
New Jersey, divided into six associa
tions, 264 orJaiue 1 ministers, ninety-
four licentiates, 202 pastors, and 42,*
507 church members. During the Iasi
year there were raised $427,606.59,
of which $337,037.48 were for current
expanses. The State Convention aided
forty-seven missions aud churches, and
the total number of baptisms in thu
churches of the State was 1777,
The ITinntom City ot Glacisr Bay,
During the past eight or ten yoarc
a curious phenomenon has been regu
larly observed at Glacier Buy, Alaska.
It always occurs immediately after the
fullmoou of Juno and at no other
time during the year, aud is said to be
a beautiful mirage of some unknown
city suspended in the rarified air
directly over the bay. A. Juneau
(Alaska) photographer has takeu.pic
tures of it on four different occasions,
but so far no one has been able to
identify a single one of thu ghostly
buildings outlined on his plates.—St.
Louis Republic.
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