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T WHILE THE DAYS ARE GOING BY* ' j^.V-' There are lonely hearts to cherish While the days are going by: There are weary souls who perish While the days are coins by; If a smile we can renew, As onr journey we pursue, Oh! the good that we may do, While the days are going by. There's 110 time for idle scorning While the days are goiiirj by; Let our face be like the morning While the days are going by; Oh ! the world is full of sighs. Full of sad and weeping eyes; Help your fallen brother rise While the days are goinc by. All the loving links that bind us While the days are going by, One by one we leave behind us \\ inle the uays are comg oy; Both the seeds of trood we sow. Both in shade and shine will grow, And will keep our hearts aglow While the days are going by. A GREAT TEMPTATION. Alice Arnden wis not a woman one would select for a heroine because of her personality. She was neither large nor small; she was beautiful, 1 think (beauty is a hard thing to define and limit), but it was a beauty of no wonderful or unusual type, and was of that kind which grows on one gradually as his knowledge of the possessor of it grows. There was a wealth of sweetEness and purity shining up in her eyes, which tears could never washout; and ;V the mouth indicated firmness and reHp solution which had its beginning long before the night's vigil which had left ?? it so sternly agonized. The trouble which has come to Alice Arnden is of no unusual kind. It is a sudden sorrow, of a kind which has Pfjj crushed out all of hope in life many Bras times in the past, and will many times && in the future as long as men and maidre^ ens are proud and willful. One may say, " Only a lovers' quarrel," but one p should remember that there are hearttragedies in this world, uncier the torture of which men and women may HEM^ifdrag out long lives without finding peace. To Alice Arnden it seemed ;is BkL'v though everything worth having in life V|ejp}was now forever utterly beyond her -hope. She arose from the seat she had occupied for so long, and moved slowly about her humble room. She liad not known, until she moved, how much she was suffering physically ; how cold it was; how cramped and weary she was. There was really little to do. Her bed" had not been used ; her room was in order. She had plenty of time to prepare herself for the task of covering her sorrow from the gaze of her friends?if she could. She made a fire, and into the fire she remorselessly put all the fragments of the paper which she had spoiled in her efforts" to write a simple letter long ago when her sorrow was new. Long ago? Last night! Happiness gives fesSr wings of lightness to the parts of ' eternity (lying about our being and so called " time, rather than eternity) '' which we roughly measure and call minutes and seconds; but sorrow weights their noiseless feet with lead. Elk Mr. George Fenby is the next among the actors in this little fragment of human life. .4 sat at *lis w*n(2ow that morning as Alice Arnden sat at hers. His win looked in the same direction; B&~'' from it lie saw much the same scene ppfe:/'' she saw*. The stars faded out for him as for her; day brightened for him ; B&jthe sunlight fell across his face. But he sat there with a cheerful fire .-^^^Viear him; he was strong from happy sleep; his eyes were bright and cheerful, and looked as though tears had always been strangers to them, and his lips were smiling. The icy marshes seemed to him a type of his future. Smooth, white, pure?the light stretching warmly across them?and with the ocean outside standing to him, as to her, as a type of eternity?an eternity which he felt would be one of strength and happiness. George Fenl>y thought of what he had In the world to he thankful for this gk' - lovely morning. A small fortune, enough for himself?and one other, a fair woman?and good as fair?for his promised wife; health, education, friends, influence, position; it was indeed a goodly prospect. K?V, This man was strong and quick; good-looking, if not handsome. lie Ej?" looks like a man who would not do a |p~ wicked thing, or think it, while he might do a weak or foolish one. He was a man who would be likely to win a woman's heart?and hold it; a man iwhncA lnvp ji woman mierht Drize. and the loss of which she might wisely Sf '. mourn. Weak enough to be a man, he was.strong enough to be one, hard to spare from the life which had once pfcfcK' had him. There was a happy smile on hie face i>- as he heard his little brother knock at the door, and he answered " Come in " I in a cheery voice. I " Here's a letter for you, George." "Thank you," said George, as he took it, "You are welcome. By the handwriting on the envelope 1 judge the message will be a pleasant one." And the boy left the room. A plea-ant message! The smile | deepened on the man's face as he f lovingly handled the letter a little time before he broke the seal. A pleasant | message! These were the words he read: "Mb. GeobgeFenby?I will not consent to be any longer a hinderer regarding your - 'higher ambition.' I never wish to speak with you again in all my life. I give you back your freedom. Alice Arnden." So Mr. George Fenby's morning gift was Hie gift of his freedom. What % - should he do with it? His cheeks and Slips grew cold and white at the thought. Merciful heavens! what could he do with it? The sky seemed darkened, the earth j seemed dreary and desolate. (Jeorge Fenby and Alice Arnden. a bare ? quarter of a mile apart, could not have been more wildly separated had an j I oce in stretched between them. And eacli looked on the same landscape, t and saw it alike at last. I The village <>f Marsham was a small one, and most of it was further from the ocean than were the two houses at the windows of which we have seen two unhappy per.-ons. __ It was a relief to both George and ? \* Alice that there was service in the little church that morning, and that everybody would be looked for there. Secret sorrow finds a certain abatement of its intensity in the effort of appearing unconcerned. Then there was a mournful pleasure in seeing again what one has lost. In a place no larger than Marsham every one knows everybody else. Every one know:s the business of everybody else, in some degree, or thinks so, and say3 so. So our two . friends were known, and their relays,* tions to each other were known also. And so poorly had they played their & . parts that when service was finished nearly all their friends had concluded that their engagement was over, and many were speculating as to the reason for it. '.W:x Ralph Warder was too shrewd a W man not to see what everyone else saw. He said but little about it as he Rnoke to one and another after church, HgTC' ~ -'X but he was deeply interested and very Bk. much puzzled. The time had been Wti when the gossips had connected his name with that of Alice Arnden, and 8 there were those who had shaken their B? heads when it became evident that she K had been won by George Fenby instead Ralph had Dever spoken to Alice of I love, and we will respect his reserve. H d What he cared for her may remain a sealed book. ? George Fenby walked home alone. Bt' Ralph Warder came the same road, but a quarter of a mile behind him. B-: Some distance out of the village Ralph suddenly came upon two papers, resting on the snow by the side of the road. They had most likely been pulled from the pocket of the owner in removing his handkerchief. The smaller paper had blown apart; it laid upon the other, and its contents were Ky. so brief that Ralph had read it before Bgtt..- he had taken it in his hand, and before . he was aware of what he was doing. - "We have seen kthe paper before. It was the brief letter in which Alice Arnden had dismissed George Fenby. Ralph Warder stood for a long time with the letter in his hand. "I've read it once ; it can do no harm to read it again," he said. And he read it again?not once merely, but a dozen times. It seemed as if he was trying to draw something from the bit of paper which he did not lind there. After a time he stopped and picked up the other paper, a long, folded document, hut the action was merely a mechanical one. lie did not open it to see what it was, but with his head bent forward on his breast, and with a very grave face, he went on his way. lie walked more slowly than before; he sometimes stopped, and he talked to himself from time to time. " If this is final," he commenced aloud, and then relapsed into silence. "4 A hinderer.'" Then, after standing and thinking for a while, lie went on: ' She never was that to him. And she never was moody and self-distrustful." lie thought for many minutes now. " I don't understand what she means by his ' higher ambition.' His highest ambition lately seems to have been to W1U ner. 11 iuis cost nei <i yri-iit ut*?u to give liitn up?any one can see that with half an eye. And his freedom is not welcome to him; he neither wanted it nor expected it." Suddenly he stood still, and a hot. lierce Hush crept up into his face. ' 1 wonder if it is true that hearts are ever 'caught in the relound,'a> thev sometimes say thev aie? I will?" And he clenched his hands and hurried on his way. lie did not stop again until he reached his home, where iiis mother and sister were waiting for him, nor did he think his thoughts aloud any more. With a few words of greeting and a few more of excuse, he put his mother and sister aside for the present. and went up to his own room. The noonday sun was shining and making everything pleasant. There was a glow in the wintry air which seemed to have a promise of summer in h. lie seated himself at his table, placed Alice Arnden's letter upon it, and read it again. Then for the first time he looked at the other paper which he had picked up. He turned it over, and saw at once what it was?a deed from Bertrand Kingslev, conveying certain lands and buildings to George Fenby. Ralph "Warder drew a long breath, and the light faded slowly out of his face. In a single moment he had seen the whole secret of the misunderstanding. It might be necessary to go over it all to see the details, but the general outline of the unfortunate affair was, he felt, as certainly in his possession as it could have been if he had been given the privilege of looking fully and freely into the minds of the two lovers whose lives were drifting so far apart. Down went his hea l upon his hands on the table?the winter sunshine shone that day on 110 nobler head?and from his lips came those words of which frail humanity has deepest need, "Lead us not into temptation.' lie thought it all out. Bertram! Kingsley owned the finest place in all Marsham. or had until the deed was made which conveyed it to (leorge Fenby. Estella Kingsley, the daughter of Bertrand, was a beauty, and something of a flirt. More than one lady in .Marsham had quarreled with her lover on Esteiia Kingsley's account. And last night there had been a little gathering of the young people in the church, and circumstances had done their worst? seemingly. In the first place, George Fenhy came with Estella Kingsley; the meeting was not of a character to make it unkind for him to leave his promised wife to come with lier father, as she had, but his coming with Miss Kingsley had been noticed by several. "With the deed before him, ! Ralph "Warder had no difficulty in deciding why George had been at Mr. Kingsley's, and consequently why he had come as he had. Kalphwas well acquainted with a young man living where the Kingsley's had formerly resided, and through him he knew of the engr-gement of Miss Kingsley to a gentleman living there, lie had known this for a long time ; and knowing it had thought little of events which might otherwise have fipertlv affected him. Last night, for instance, a laughing group of gentlemen had spoken of Miss Kingsley. One had said, *' JSlie is a beauty and an heiress. "Whoever wins her will hav,e a beautiful home. The Kingsley estate is the finest one in Marsham." Now, every gentleman in the group knew that the Kingsley estate was for sale, and every one had counted at its true Vidue the answer which George Fenby had made. Indeed, his devotion to Alice Arnden was so absolute and complete that no one, save her own modest self, would ever have doubted it for a moment. "It is my highest ambition to be the master of that estate," laughed < Jeorge, "and I have made an offer which I think will be accepted. I am to have an answer to-night. If I succeed, I shall be supremely happy. If not? why, I will do as other men have done ?failing of what 1 want, I will take what I can get." Ralph cuuld not remember where J Alice Arnden had been when these foolish (possibly) but innocent words had been spoken. That she l.ad been near , enough to hear them was evidenced by 1 her letter, which was before him. He could only dimly imagine how she ' must have suffered in trying to evolve 1 the truth (as she believed the truth to , be) from what she had heard. When a human idol falls from the place it has ^ tilled in the heart, not the least of the , pain comes from what we see, or helieve we see, of its unworthiness. To ( find our gold but gilded clay is a sorrowful thing. .So lie sat, there, and pitied Alice Arnden for the faith in man which she had lost, as well as for the man himself who had been put from her. With what pain beyond that which would come to her from a belief that her lover would think and do what his words seem to imply,must she face the added shame of his stooping to tell of it; nay, more, to boast of it. Ralph raised his head. The time had not been long since he sat down to think. Rut he knew it all. Two proud and obstinate young creatures had been parted by fate. And he muttered with white, compressed lips, " I alone understand it all. I, alone, of all the world, can set it right. What a temptation!" "We will not seek to follow his thoughts. What a man does should lie the basis of our judgment, not what he would do. If he thought of the curative effects of time on sutTering hearts, we can forgive him; if a possi+ u lionmr linma nf U1U 1UIUIC, 111 nilitll ?? livuiv V'J. his own was the central iigure, rose up to meet him, we can do no less than pity him. If she only had the slightest reason for what she has done?but she has none. If George Fenby were really a scoundrel?but he is truly a nobel man. The band of sunshine rested on his head like a golden crown. IIis face was almost glorified as he raised it to the light again. And surely the angels made a record of a second gift that day. coming to the lot of those whose lives fall for a little time within the lines of our story, when he said aloud: "1 will do right! Alice Arnden shall have her lover back again !" Evening service at the little church was over. Ralph Warder stood on the She accepted at once, hoping as she did so that George Fenby would see her. He was not there to see, however, and Ralph had taken good care to know that. lie was already luilf-way home. But Miss Armien was in no mood to refuse. She was in a reckless temper, and Jial]>h Warder had counted on that. One desirous of widening the breach between Alice and George would have found it a very easy task to make a beginning that night. Ralph Warder's lips moved slowly as hi; seated himself beside Alice, but we will not try to determine what he said to himself in that crisis in more lives than one. "I admire your cloak and hat," exclaimed Ralph, "though the saying it may be as much a compliment to my sister as to your own taste. Iler's are like them, are they not?" " Very nearly; not quite. Rut I didn't know you ever noticed what your lady friends wear." " 1 don't very often. I did to-day. Would the masculine eye detect the differences?"' " 1 think not. But it is a pity to talk of dress on such a night as this. What a strong and helpful sermon we had this evening!'' " Yes," said Ralph. They made a turn in the road, and there was George himself only a few yards ahead. Alice put down her veil at once. Surely late was on the side of Italph Warder's plans that night. "(let in, George. 1 won't take a refusal." " Who is with you? Your sister?" ' Yes," said Ralph, with a promptness which should be admired and pardoned. "Sit on this side,"' said Ralph, as (Jeorge got in; "I will sit between you. The night is beautiful, isn't it?" " Very beautiful!" said (Jeorge, who really had not tlionght of it before. " You needn't go home at once. J will turn here and we will drive over toward the shore." lie had turned his horse down the road leading in that direction before either of his companions could say a word. The two lovers were gazing again on the scene they had looked upon in the morning. The moonlight may have softened the harshness of it a little, but the man between them heard a sob from the woman at his left, and saw the moonlight sparkle suspiciously on the eyelashes of the man on his right. And lie thought grimly of himself as the image of fate ?fate, with the destiny of two human beings in his hands. " 1 found a paper of yours this morning," said Ralph, slowly, " and here it is. I could hardly help seeing what it was. J congratulate yoa on your bargain. You have bought the finest estate about here, (Jeorge. It is remarkiihlv rhean at the nrice. 1 be was able to swim to the hatch an;l stay there till some ship came along which wasn't in much of a hurry. The captain couldn't find out whether the poor man was a swimmer, but he was known to boast of his generosity in giving the sailor the hatch to keep him company. In the navy they put a sail over the side for beginners to learn to swim on, and sometimes they make a little pond out of sails to prevent sharks from getting at the men. Some captains in the navy have their men practice swimming one day every week, but in the merchant service we cannot afford the time to make the men learn to swim. When we are in foreign harbors they might try it on Sundays or at night, but the men are generally too tired or else they are afraid of the sharks. In some crews the sailors are nearly all swimmers, but in others scarcely a man knows how to swim. I never have ! made an estimate as to the proportion of men in the merchant service who cannot swim, but I believe it to be very large. The fault lies with the men, who neglect to learn when they are boys. 1 have been told that in small towns, where there is nothing more than a canal that I could wade through, all of the boys are expert lieve the deed was signed last evening?" " Yes." " Mr. Kingslev had not fully decided to sell it until then, had he?" "Not fully. He told me his daughter '.light decide to want it herself when she is married. Mr. Kingsley will, of course, give l?er a handsome residence somewhere when that event takes place, for Mr. Jones, who is to marry her, has no fortune of his own." " It has been your highest ambition to own that estate, hasn't it?" "Certainly. 1 wanted the finest place here." " You ought to be supremely happy. You said last night that you would be when y(,u owned the place." " Yes." The answer was short. Ralph could feel the strong man on his right tremble in spite of his ell'orts to control himself, and knew that the woman on his lelt, was crying soiuy. " You said something last night about your ambition to be master of that estate. 7>:> you remember what il was?' " Yes, I think I do. .Something boastful, was it not?" George Fen by was beginning to understand dimly why he had received the letter he had. " Worse than that. Did you ever thing that one overhearing it might think you meant to marry .Miss Kingsley ?" " Never until now. Oh, what have I done?" 'No matter. Did you ever intend to marry her? Not a word of objection. You've been led into answering too much already to stop now. I demand an answer, George. Did vou?" The eyes of the two men met. In Ralph's there was the determination to know, and, perhaps, something more. In George Fenbv's there was surprise, which changed to satisfaction, and indignation, which gradually faded out. " Never, on my honor!" he answered. Ralph Warder stopped the horse. They had driven far to the south, and had now turned back toward the village again. In front of them was the level sweep of frozen marsh, but farther on was the peaceful village with its lighted windows, and with its range of sheltering wooded hills behind it. On their right was the sea, calm and bright, lie stepped into the road and placed the reins in George Fenby's unresisting hands. " liring the horse home when it is , all right," he said, " but take all the , time you wi<h. Ilere is another paper ! of vours which 1 found this morning. He thankful to-night that so meddle- , some a man found it. Alice Arnden and Ceorge Fenbv, I give you back your future?and my blessing!" He spoke to the horse, and, obedient 1 to his word, he dasheil down the road and left him alone. There is no more need of following J the lovers, to be sure that all came right, than there is of following the rushing mountain stream to be sure it , finds the sea. - i SELECT SIFTIXGS. Ivory is worth $5,000 a ton. i To short-sighted persons the moon 1 pears to have a blue fringe. The Venezuela cow tree yields a liquid having the llavor of cream. Chemical analysis show that the liu- . man brain is eighty per cent, water. steps as uie cuugregaLiuii tcixuu uuu .tie louKcu iiitpp.y. If it be true " that coming events cast their shadows before," and that " virtue is its own reward," he was happy. He spoke cheerfully to this one and that when they passed. lie did not look like a conspirator. One would not have dreamed that he made a plan which for audacity would find few rivals, while for simplicity it might find fewer. " It's better to have it over as soon as possible," he said to himself; " better for them and for ine." Alice Arnden was passing him. He leaned forward. " Will you come for a little drive with me, Miss Arnden ? The night is perfect, and you look as if fresh air would do you good." seven inches wide, eighteen inches around the .ankle and twenty-two inches around the heel. Mamie having been helped twice to everything on the table slid down, when the coffee came in, from her chair, with a sigh. " There, now," said her mamma, "1 suppose you have eaten so much that you feel uncomfortable." " Don't," replied Mamie, quickly, with a toss of her little head. " I only just feel nice and smooth."?Harper's Bazar. * V '*'. ' rPTTT^ T?TT?TT P An TTTT? T\"PT?T) irm rLitiLd ur uir, vlm WHY SAILORS FREQUENTLY LOSE THEIR LIVES. Men Who In Their Youth ??l<'ct I.carninR an ArrniiipliNliiiiout of <ircnt Vnlue to Them?What Ol'tca Happen*. It is a curious fact that many persons who have been to sea nearly all their lives are unable to swim. It stands to reason that in case a man falls overboard his chances of being rescued are much better if he knows how to swim than they would be had he never mastered that art. And yet young men who expect to follow the sea for a livelihood will stubbornly refuse to learn to swim, alleging that when one falls overboard his chances of being rescued are very slim under any circumstances. In the navy and also in the revenue marine service of this country the men are taught to swim, but in the merchant service it is dilTerent. Neither the owner nor the /. mfoin of o niar^hnnt vi'SSPl rarfifl whether the men who ship on her are able to swim, ami there is no leisure time in which to teach them this useful art. " There are undoubtedly a great many sailors who do not know how to swim," said an old sea captain. "It seems strange, because any one can see how much better a man's chances of being saved are if ho only knows how to swim. To be sure, if a vessel is going along rapidly and a sailor falls overboard without lieing seen, it is rather poor consolation for him to swim about and watch her until she gets out of sight. But as a general thing, warning ii-lwm >> in fin t'filly nvprhnnrrl l?j?IVCi& ?? II* i* ?. muu v, ? and something is thrown to him, while the slap is hove to and a boat is lowered. If a man cannot swim all this work on the part of his shipmates does no good, for unless a buoy or something else is flung exactly where he is he cannot reach it, but after one or two faint struggles he gives up and is lost. Ilar.lly a day passes without some master reporting that one of his crew fell overboard and was lost. I remember a case whi h happened four or five years ago. A fruit schooner was hound to this port from the West Indies, when one dark night the mate took it into his head to stand where he could drop overboard when the vessel gave her next heavy roll, which she soon did. Then he was seen struggling in the water. The schooner was iio^e to and a boat was put over, but by this time the mate was not to be seen. For over two hours that boat rowed up and down in the neighborhood, and at last one of tiie men spied a dark object on the crest of a wave. They came up to it, and, sure enough, it was the mate, who was still alive, but nearly exhausted. He was a first-class swimmer, and he had kept afloat all this time without anything to cling to. Xow and then you read of a lucky man who is washed overboard by one sea and then washed back on board by the next wave. But this doesn't happen very often. "When a man goes overboard he has to swim for it. as a rule, I have often thought that it must be a terrible thing, even for a good swimmer, to come to the surface and see the big black hull of his ship gliding away from him and the heavy waves rolling about him, and for all lie knows, a school of sharks making for him. "--i ? o*;il InrriMa i)Ul It llllOli UC <1 Dtlll 111UI& VU11UK/ position to be in for a man who has never learned to swim. A good many captains do not keep any boats in the davits, but have them all fastened on deck. It is a good deal of work to get a boat from her bushings to the davits and then over into the water. A swimmer's chances are not very good if he falls overboard from a ship of that kind. I was told a case of that kind a few years ago. A ship was bowling along before a line breeze at over ten knots an hour, when overboard went a po >r sailor in full sight of the captain, who seized the booby hatch and Hun^ it owrbcard. Tlv ro was 110 boat in the davits, anil the captain was anxious to make the best of the favorable breeze while it lasted, so he didn't heave the ship to, but left the poor sailor to his fate in the hope that lie The art of working in iron nas heen . known at least four thousand years. About $7,000,1)00 worth of neckties are worn in this country every year. Mississippi is tin; only State in the Union that has not a brewery or distiller v. Twenty billion wooden hoops are used annually in this country for barrels only. The largest milk pan on record, holding bOO gallons, has just been made lor an Iowa creamery. Under the new civil code of California the earnings of the wife are not liable for the debts of the husband. The veterans in the Dayton (Ohio) soldiers' home are given a lish dinner every Friday, and it takes 1,000 pounds of fresh lish to satisfy them. A baby playing with a cocoanut in the second story of a house in S'tcramento let it fail from a window, aid t hit and cracked a man's skull. A Chinese encyclopedia, begun more than one hundred years ago and still unfinished, has alrealy filled nearly 100,000 volumes, and will not be completed until 00,000 more are written. A large oyster taken off East Point, near Keyport, X. J., is asserted to have measured nine andone-haif by live and one-half inches and to have weighed two and one-half pounds. Its age was estimated at fifteen years. Miss Fannie Mills, of Sandusky Ohio, is not a particularly big woman but she has a great foot on her. One of her shoes, now on exhibition in a mneonm is seventeen inches loner. SWlIUIllCld, WllUU ill OU111U OCft-'lUU places, where many funerals are brought about by drownings, there are hardly any swimmers. Many women learn to swim who probably will never have occasion to use the accomplishment, while fellows who go to sea all their lives refuse to learn. I suppose one reason that many of them won't learn is that they never expect to have to swim for their lives. The captain who carries no go:id boats on his vessel of course has no idea that he will have to use them. Such persons think they lire going to get through all right, and take risks which a wise man would nvoid. Years ago persons used to think that if they could carry a caul with them to sea they could not be ilrowned. Many would prefer the caul of an infant to a good life-preserver or the ability to keep alloat for several hours l?y swimming. Hut nowadays not much stock is taken in cauls, and, I regret to say, not enough in swimming. To be able to swim is, in my opinion, almost as good a thing for a sailor as a life insurance policy. The time for a sailor to learn to swim is before he goes to sea. If there was a law requiring all sailors to know how to swim before they shipped there would be less drowning at sea." Electricity and Storms. The question of the electric nature of cyclones is a question of fact, and cannot be determined by balancing opinions. Facts alone can decide, by proving or disproving that cyclones are caused by electricity. I maintain that not only cyclones, but all the plienom'? /?+' <-!* ? nf ?i-? rionlmr/i ?i i*i\ i n TJIKli U L IUO tlllli\/nji>ULl V/ Ctl V> UltVtl IV ill their nature and character. The facts upon which I strongly rely and adduce to prove the electrical nature of cyclones cannut l>e stated here, lor they are too voluminous. The substance, however, is briefly as follows: A luminous or liery cloud-spot is seen to descend from the clouds, which is met by a Hash from the earth where the spout touches. Simultaneous with the Hash everything free at the point struck explodes into fragments, is carried clean away, and generally hurled into the clouds through the vortex. Likewise, whenever an electric discharge takes place, ozone in stilling quantities appears with the Hash. Combustil les are set on fire in the buildings struck, and destroyed. Flashes issue from the furniture in the houses, and sparks from the walls, like from an emery wheel. After night tin; tornado ciouu is invariably luminous?often not perceived in the daytime--and a wavelike flame on the earth confronts the cloud-spot as it sweeps forward on the surface of the ground. 1 interpret these facts to say that this luminosity, these sparks and flames, are electricity, and hence that the whole phenomenon is an electric one.?Professor J. H.Tice. A philosopher has discovered that the rib from which woman was formed was taken from the right side of man. "Which may account for man's desire to keep on the right side of the gentler sex.?Yonkers (Statesman. A DANGEROUS OCCUPATION. RTAETLING EXPEBJEKCEB 07 A SITRO-GLYCERINE MAKES. I'atiil ItliHlinpn and ITnlvbrcadrli Eicnpei from I)onlli--An I3xj?IohIvo WlilcU ltarcljr Tolcrnrrn Fooling. A few days ago a reporter, traveling on the Pennsylvania railroad, met a man whose appearance would not denote that lie had passed through more narrow escapes than ordinary men are usually subject t:?. lie was the proprietor of a nitro-glycerine factory, lie laughingly said that he was different l'r.im must tradesmen, for he car? i ? - - ...Uk 1.4,.., I'll'll Il<) h nil iiini. " Vo>. sir," ho said, as the reporter gradually drew liim into conversation, "1 have seen some pretty hard sights in my time. I think the worst, th mgh, was when I saw the remains of four men sticking all over the branch! s ot' a tree. The way it happ ned was this: In one of our tanks wi; had stored a small quantity of glycerine that b long d to a friend. We were keeping it for him. We allowed it to remain there for sometime, as there was no ca i for it. Hut one day, on coming to the tank, we found some one had been tampering with the lock, and that it was imj ossible to get it open. This was a line fix ! Well, the next day was Sunday, so as there was no busine s on hand, the owner of the stuff annonn e I his determination to get that tank o:;cn, and three men were induced to join him in the attempt. We tried to persuade him to let it idone, but olf he started. Well, sir, it wasn't long before we heard the n.wf f i,?nl, rnii ovor hparfl. ctvtitui;ao I AplWjj.uu J*-*** ? w.,It was frightful. We hurried up to the place, and all we could lind of those men was to be seen on the trees, little pieces of their bodies, parts of their lingers, and so on. "We never knew what caused the explosion, whether they had tried to burst open the tank and thus caused the glycerine inside to go ofi or how it was." " Probably you get very careless in working around the stuff ? was remarked. "Yes, indeed," lie returned, "we get so that we think very little about it?not any more than if it was so much milk. In fact, it does look something like milk. A great sport with the boys is to touch oil the empty cans with a fuse. One of our men was very careful, and in consequence he was made considerable fun of by the rest. He always used a very long fuse. But one day, in consequence of the ridicule, he said that he would try a short enough fuse. So he took some empty cans, made a fuse shorter than we ever used, and touched it oil'. lie started to run, but he had not gone far, when he stumbled and fell, and as he did so the cans went off. "Well it was a mighty lucky thing for him that he fell, or he would have been blown to pieces. As it was he was completely riddled with tin. It was as though he had on a coat of mail?he was so coated. lie did not get over that for many a montn, ana ne always ?<uu that he would never be such a fool again, no matter how long it took to touch off a can." 41 IIow high salaries do you paypretty good V" 441 can get all the men I want for $75 a month," he answered, 44 and always have more applications than places." 44 Why do you . ay in such Dusiness?" 44 It's a good paying business and needs but little help. 1 earned $10,000 the. first few months, and expect to clear much more in the next few. I attend to the l ooks and the business now myself, but I know every branch, andean take hold at any time if our help runs short, and go to work myself. I .1111 now going on to see about a contract we have for opening a tunnel in the east." ,4IIow do you got the ntuff to them ?by railroad?' " Oh, no; we don't send them the fluid. "We furnish only the solid?the dynamite. That is harmless enough. If you should put a little on the floor there and touch it off it would merely lla-di like powder. You see it won't do to use the liquid around a railroad where there :ire so many workmen, many of Ihein ignorant or wnau is being done, It will do at the oil wells, for there the men have got used to it and know enough to get out of tho way when we are going to 'blow in.' In "taking the glycerine around wo have to use wagons made especially fcr it. They are made with compartments und' r the seat lined with cotton, and in these the cans are placed. 1 remember the first tim?3 I. rode on one of these wagons. The fellow who drove rattled along as though we had only a load of cabbages. lie laughed when I tried to get 1dm to drive more carefully. l'o >r fellow! his time came. IIo was driving along one day with a friend. In going by a bad place in the road the wagon tipped. His friend sprung out just in time, for over the wagon went." "Well, were they hurt?" "They nevor found anything of the driver, horse or wagon,'' he answered, j " ijut a few scraps. His friend, however, wasn't hurt a bit." " Did you ever have to carry any of the stuff yourse'f " Well, I should say so," he replied. "And I carrie I it in a leaking can. I t.> iiwiL- in tho nlacfi whnre the * auiivvu vw x stuff was arid found it was leaking for a i it was worl'.i. A1 out half had been spilled. I looked beneath the wagon and saw that the spring was completely covered. I can tell you I drove r. ighty carefully the rest of the way." The reporter remarked that it was a dangerous experiment. "Oh, well, the stuff had to bo delivered," the man modi stly replied. ' ] remember once we had to deliver a couple of cans and there was no one to do it. At last I got mad and sa d 1 would do it myself. So I shouldered them and started off. It was rather slippery and I had to walk pretty carefully. Notwithstanding this, however, I stepped on a piece of ice and felt myself falling. Well, I don't believe I over th ught quicker in my life. I knew what the ressult would lie if those cans struck; so I just put all inv strength in mv arms. and. straightening them out, held thi; cans over my head. I struck the ground, but the cans were sale. Well, sir, 1 wasn't a hit scared. Some way or otlv r I retained perfect self-possession. Jiut as soon as tho danger was over 1 fainted dead away. The* horror of the whole thing and my narrow escape Hashed over me then." "The temperature makes a difference with the i'xplosivene?s of the glycerine, doesn't it?" " ()h, yes; if it cun 1) kept cool there is little danger. Jiut we try to keep it above fifty, or it will freeze. That would no* do, for some would be likely to remain in the cans after emptying them." " Why, wouldn't it be a scheme to have the cans paked in ice? llavo regular refrigerators for them, so to speak." lie smiled a pitying sort of a smile, and said: "It would bo too much trouble. When persons are careful there is little danger." "But they are not careful. Themoro they work around it the more careless they become?so you say." " Well, that's a fact. 1 have seen some very foolhardy things done. 1 saw a fellow shoot at some empty cans to explode them when a number of other o;ins was standing iiimi. r.igni persons beside himself were killed by the explosion." Our city editor is under bond fci shooting at the man who rame into the office and asked if ho " was in the write, place."?Sjnwgjleld (O.) Sunday civs. At a prayer meeting the other night the burden of the remarks was about those who had died recently. There was some smiling when the deacon in charge then said: "We will close by singing 'Praise God from Whom all blessings How.'"?Boston Globe. Did you ever notice the warning " Paint," posted on a door, that you didn't feel the matter with your linger just to find out if it wasn't dry enough to take down the sign ? You probably never did. It would be contrary to human nature.?Rochester Express. A journalist's club?Thelead pencil. " . THE BAD BOY'S AMBITION. HE RETIRES FROM THE SOB A WATER BUSINESS. Anil Obtains a Permanent Position a* a Snper In a Theatre. Intending to Become a Sccond Booth. " You look sleepy," said the grocery man to the bad boy, as he came in the store yawning, and stretched himself out on the counter with his head on a pile of brown wrapping paper, in reach of a box of raisins; " what's the matter? Been sitting up with your girl all night V" " Xaw ! I wish I had. Wakefulness with my girl is sweeter and more restful than sleep. No, this is the result of being a dutiful son, and I am tired. You see pa and ma have separated. That is, not for keeps, hut pa has gut frightened about burglars, and he goes .1 IT? if up II1W) wits iitin; Hi sii'trjj. 11c o*\ja iu is to get fresh air, but lie knows better. Ma ha; got so accustomed to pa's snoring that she can't go to sleep without it, and the fir.-1 night pa lelt she didn't sleep a wink, and yesterday 1 was playing on an old a-cordion tliiit I traded a dog collar for after our dog was poisoned, and when 1 touched the low notes I noticed ma dozed off to sleep, it sounded f-o much like pa's snore, and last night ma made me set up and play for her to sleep. She rested splendid, but I am all broke up. and I sold the accordion this morning to the watchman who watches our block, it is queer what a different effect mu-ic will have on different people. While ma was sleeping the sleep, of innocence under the influence of my counterfeit of pa's snore, the night watchman was liroke of his rest by it, and he bought it of me to give it to the son of an enemy of his. Well, I have quit jerking soda." li 4^11 fl.O JKJ11 \l\JU U icu Hiry, OU1U u.?Vv grocery man, as ho moved the box of raisins out of reach. " You never will amount to anything unless you stick to one trade or profession. A rolling hen never catches the early angleworm." " Oh. but 1 am all right now. In the soda business there is no chance for genius to rise, unless the soda fountain explodes. It is all wind, and one gets tired of constant fizz. lie feels that he is a fraud, and when he puts a little syrup in a tumbler and lires a Jittls sweetened wind and water in it, until the soapsuds fill the tumbler, and charges ten cents for that which only costs a cefit, a sensitive soda jerker, who has reformed, feels that it is worse than three-card lmnte. I couldn't stand the wear on my conscience, so I have got a permanent job as a super, and shall open the first of September." "Say, what's a super? It isn't one of these free lunch places, that the mayor closes at midnight, is it?'' and' the grocery man looked sorry. "Oh, thunder, you want salt on you A super is an adjunct to the stage. A supe is a fellow that assists the stars and things, carrying chairs and taking up carpets, and sweeping the sand off the slage after a dancer has danced a jig, and he brings beer for the actors, and does anything that he can to add to the effect of the play. Privately, now, I have bet n acting as a supe for a long time, on the sly, and my folks didn't know anything* about it, but since I reformed anil decided to be good, I felt It my duty to tell ma and pa about it. The news broke ma all up, at first, but pa said some of the best a tors in this country were supes once, and some of them were now, and he thought suping would be the making of me. Ala thought going on the stage would be my ruination. She said the ineaire was me noiueu 01 siu, ?iuu i brought more ruin than the church could head off. Jiut when 1 told her1 that they always gave a supe two or three extra tickets for his family, she said the theatre had some redeeming: features, and when I Fail my entrance I upon ti.e .stage would give me a splendid opportunity to get the recipe for face powder from the actresses,for ma, and I could find out how the actresses managed to get number four feet into' number one shoes, ma said she wished I would commence suping right off Ma says there are s >me things about the theatre that are not so aliired bad, and she wants me to get seats for the first comic opera that comes along. Pa wants it understood with the manager that a supe's father has a right to go behind the scenes to see that no harm befalls him, but I know what pa wants, lie may seem pious, and all that, but lie likes to look at ballet girls better than; any meek and lowly follower I ever see, and some day you will hear musici in the air. Pa thinks theatres are! very bad, when he has to pay a dollar! for a reserved seat, but when he caq get in for nothing as a relative of one of the 'perfesh,' the theatre has many redeeming qualities. 1 'a and ma think I am going into the business fresh and green, but I know all about it. "When} I played with McCullough here once?" "Oli, what you giving us," said the grocery man in cli.-gust, " when you played with McCullough ! What did you do ?" "What did 1 do? Why, you old seed cucumber, the whole play centered around me. Do you remember the scene in the lioman l'orum, where McCullough addressed the populace of Koine. I was the ropulace. Don't you re:11ember a small feller standing in front of tiio Roman orator taking it in; with a night shirt on, with bare' legs and arms? That was me, and everything depended on me. Suppose I had gone off the stiige at the critical moment, or laughed when I should have looked fierce at the inspired v ords of the lioman senator,' it would have been a dead give away on McCullorgh. As the populace of 1> T .. frlii + nrmrr iiuiliu J. ^i/uoiviv;! iiijomi. (I ^Uiv< success, and Mc took me by the hand when they curried Ciesar's dead body out, and lie said,'us three did ourselves proud.' Such praise from McCullough is seldom accorded to a supe. Hut I don't consider the populac of the imperial city of Rome my masterpiece. Where I excel is in coining out before the curtain l>etween the acts and unhooking the carpet. Some mi pes go out and turn their backs to the audience, showing patches on their pants, and rip up the carpet with no style about them, and the dust Hies, and the boys yell 'supe,' and the supe gets nervous and forgets his cue, and goes off tumbling over the carpet, and the. orchestra leader is afraid the supe will fall on him. But I go out. with a quiet dignity that is only gained by experience, and I take hold of the < arpct the way Ifamlet takes up the skull of Yorick, and the audience is para'yzed. I kneel down on the carpet, to unhook it, in a devotional sort of a way that makes the audience bow their hea's as though they were in church, ami before they realize t! at I am only a supe I have the carpet unhooked and march out. They never 'guy' me, cause I act well my part." ' Well, I'd like togol ehind the scenes "with you some night," said the grocery man, offering the had hoy an orange to get solid with him. in view of future complimertary tickets. "No dangir, is there?' " Xo danger if you keep off the grass. Some time next fall you put on a clean shirt and a pair of sheet iron pants, with stove legs on the inside, and 1 will take you behind the scenes to see some good moral show. In the meantime, if you have < ceiision to talk with pa, tell him that Mouth, and 15arrett, and Keenc commenced on the stage as supes, and Salvini roasted peanuts in the lobby of some theatre. I want our folks to feel that I am I ' ' i i . i , i taKing tno ngnt course to neco.uc ;i star. I prythe an reservoir. I go liens, but to return. Avaunt!" And tlie bad boy walked oit on liis toes u la JJoutli.?Peck's hiiii. Effect or Had Literature. On an Arkansas railroad, an old gentleman sat, half asleep, with a bnok entitled " The Train Robbers " lying on his lap. Pretty soon lie sank to sleep. The window sash fell with a loud report and the old man, springing to his fett and throwing up his hands, exclaimed: "Gentlemen, l.haven'tgot a cent."?Arkaiisnw Tranter. The gold annually taken from the Siberian mines is estimated to be worth $(>,000,000. The discovery of tin; metal in that country was made at the beginning of the present century. / " ' , . SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. M. G. Foussereau has proven that the tempering of glass diminishes the ; resistance of that substance to elec- : tricity, and consequently lessens its : efficiency for insulating purposes. On the other hand, annealing tempered glass restores its higher resistance. M. Angot has been investigating the iniluence of altitude upon vegetation. lie finds that the harvest time for winter wheat is retarded in France four days, on an average, for every inr.rPMft of nhmit, :lr)0 fpct. in t.hfi heicrht ~ """ ~? "vv" ? ? o of the land above the level of the sea. An interesting mountain exploration is being attempted in India. Two mountaineers, one an experienced Swiss guide, have left Darjeeling with the purpose of reaching the highest possible point on the great Kinchinjinga, one of the very loftiest peaks of the globe. The importance to tree-growth of an abundance of water is well illustrated by an observation of M. Capus. In the botanic garden at Samarcande, Turkestan, an Ailanthus glandulosus grew about eight inches during the lirst year, thirteen inches the second and thirty-five inches in the third. The soil was not irrigated during these three years, but in the fourth year, when irrigation water was supplied, the growth of the tree was over thirty feet. From wood shavings and paper Herr Ileilemann makes plates, dishes, etc., as follows: Selected plane shavings are bound into bundles and steeped inf-n n 1int.li nf ivnalf frphit.infl solution about twenty-four hours, then dried and cut into suitable lengths. Plates are cut of strong paper or thin pasteboard of the size of the objects to be produced. These are moistened with a liquid consisting of weak gelatine solution with sodium waterglass, and pressed in heated metallic molds. After drying, the pressed-paper objects are coated on both sides with an adhesive material made of five parts Russia gelatine and' one part thick turpentine; the shavings are applied to them, and the whole is subject to pressure. "Wood shavings alone would, because of their unequal thickness, present uneven surfaces. The objects are then cut, dried and varnished. The Pagodas of Japan. An instance of the way in which man adapts himself to his surroundings is shown by the Japanese in the construction of their pagodas. These curious buildings are the most remarkable specimens of Eastern architecture. They often rise to a great height, and, although they are built in a land where earthquakes are severe and frequent, some of them have stood unimpaired for six or seven hundred years. Any tall building of brick or stone would certainly be overthrown by an earthquake; therefore the pagodas are built of wood, and in a manner which evinces the great ingenuity of Japanese architects. A traveler thus describes one which he visited: "When I first ascended I was struck with the amount of timber employed in its construction; and I could not help feeling that the material here wasted was even absurdly excessive. But what offended my feelings most was the presence of an enormous log of wood, in the center of the structure, which ascended from its base to its apex. At the top this mass of timber was nearly two feet in diameter, and lower down a log equally large was bolted to each of the four sides of this central mass. I was so surprised with this waste of timber that 1 called the attention of my good friend Sakata to the matter, and especially denounced the use of the center block. To my astonishment lie told me that the structure must be strong to support the vast central mass. In my ignorI ance I replied that the center part was not supported by the sides, but upon reaching the top I found this monstrous central mass suspended like a clapper of a bell; and when I descended I could, by lying on the ground, see that there was an inch of space intervening between it and the earth, which formed the door of the pagoda. By its clever construction it is thus enabled tn rpt:iin its vertical nosition even dur ing the continuation of earthquake shocks; for, by the swinging of this vast pendulum, the center of gravity is kept within the biise. I now understood the reason for that lavish use of timber which I had so rashly pronounced to be useless; and I see that there is a method in Japanese construction which is worthy of high appreciation. The Shadows of Krai Life. A gentleman witnessed the following piteous little drama in a market in Cincinnati. A lady richly dressed stood before a stall, and as she received a package from the pale, care-worn little market woman, said kindly: " How is your little girl to-day?" " She is dead," the woman answered. " Oh, how sorry I a'ii,' with still greater gentleness; "when did she die?" " This morning." "And you !"? "Yes, ma'am; I had to come or lose to-day's sides. I couldn't afford to do it?there are the other children to be provided for." The pale little woman laid her thin, toil-warped hands down on the rough boards with a pathetic gesture, and her sunken eyes wandered along the line of flaring lights. " It was a hard thing to do," she said, simply. The poor are poor even in words. It is asserted that 5,000 young men and women break down every year through the excessive strain imposed on them in London shops, where, it is said, the average hours of labor of twothirds of the shop assistants are from twelve to fifteen hours daily. It is estimated that there are 18,000,000,000 feet of white pine nowstanding in the lower peninsula of Michigan, while in the upper peninsula there are probably not less than 5,000,000,000 feet, "Do Likewise." Dr. R. V. Pikhce, Buffalo, N. Y.: "Five yc-ar.s ago I was n dreadful sufferer from uterine troubles. Having exhausted the skill of three physicians, I was completely discouraged, and so weak I could with difficulty cross the room alone. I began taking your 'Favorite Prescription' and using the local treatment recommended in your ' Common Sense Medical Adviser.' In three months I was perfectly cured. I wrote a letter to my family paper, briefly mentioning how my health had been restored, and offering to send the full particulars to anyone writing mo for them (ind inclosing a stumped envelope for reply. I havo received over four hundred letters. In reply, I have described my case and the treatment UBed, and earnestly advised them to ' do likewise.' From n great many I have received second letters of thanks, stating that they had commenced the treatment and were much better already."?Mbs. E. F. Moboan, New Castle, Me. Bun an/, a MackkyIkis bought Victor Emanuel's country scat iu Italy for $1(W,000. When your wife's health is bad, when your children aro sickly, when you feel worn out, use Brown's Iron Bitters. Tin-: Presbyterians have eighty-eight place of worship iu Philadelphia. Dr. Pierce's "Pellets," or sugar-coated granules?the original "Little Liver Pills," (bewaro of imitations)?cure sick and bilious headache, cleanso the stomach and bowels, and purify the blood. To get genuine, seo Iv. Pierce's signature and portrait on Government stamp. 25c. per vial, by druggists. Vor.taiite's house in France is now used as a depository for Bibles. Wolfebville, N. C.?Dr. I. C. McLaughlin says: "I used Brown's Iron Bitters for vertigo, and I now feel liko a now man." Why does a man sneeze three times? Because he cannot help it. "Ileauty Unndorncd '(with Pimple*) Is Adorned the .Uirnt. If you desiro a fair complexion freo from pimples, blotches and eruptions, take "Golden Medical Discovery." By druggists. A fkrkviioat is like "a good rule," because it works both ways. Ei.kton, Ky.?Dr. E. B. Weathers says: "I regard Brown's Iron Bitters as a medicine of unusual worthy 2>i Cents Will buy a Treatise on the House and His Diseases. Book of 100 pages, valuablo to overy owner of horses. Postage stamps taken. . Sent postpaid. New Yokk House Book Co., 1!J4 Leonard Streot, New York City. That 11 ii Ml>n.ii ?I offline Is thrco times tlie man ho was beforo using Wells' Health Ronewer. $1. Druggists. Are you bilious;' Try the remedy that cured Mrs. Clemeiit, of Franklin, N. H.?Hood's Sarsaparilla, made in Lowell, Mass. Stuaiofiten your boots & shoes with Lyon's Patent Heel StifTeners, and wear them again. J A WONDERFUL DI8COYEBY. An Article that Will Make the Bald and Gray Rejoice. Many of the hair dressings of the day are excellent, bat the great mass of the staffs sold for promoting the growth and bringing back the original color, are mere hambags, while not a few are pernicious in their effects upon the scalp and hnir. The falling oat of the hair the accumulations of dandruff, sad tin premature change in color are all evidences of % diseased condition of the scalp and the glands which nourish the hair. To arrest these causes the article used must possess medical as well as chemical virtues, and the change must begin under the scalp to be of permanent and lasting benefit. Petroleum oil is the article which is made to work such extraordinary results; but it is after the best refined article has been chemically treated, and completely deodorized, that it is in proper condition for the toilet and receives the name of Carboline. , It was in far-off Russia that the effects of pe iruitJinn upou uie niixr were iirei ouoorvou, u government officer having noticed that a partially bald-headed servant of his, when trimming the lamps, had a habit of wiping his oil-besmeared hands in his scanty locks, and the result was, in a few months, a mnch finer head of black, glossy hair than lie ever had before. The oil was tried on horses and cattle that had lost their hair from cattle plague, and the results were marvelous. Tho manes and tails of horse.*?, which had fallen out, were completely restored in a few weeks. These experiments were heralded to the world, but no one in civilized society could tolerate the use of refined petroleum as a dressing for the hair. But the skill of one of our chemists has overcome the difficulty, and he has succeeded in perfecting Carboline, rendering it as dainty as the famous eau de cologne. Experiments on the human hair and skin were attended with the most astonishing results. A few applications, where the hair was thin and falling, gave remarkable tone and vigor to the scalp and the hair. Every particle of dandruff disappears on the first or second dressing; all cutaneous disease of the skin and scalp are rapidly and permanently healed, and the liquid seems to penetrate to the root of the hair at once. It is well known that the most beautiful colors are made from petroleum, and by some mysterious operation of nature the use of this article gradually imparts a beautiful light brown color to tho hair, which by continued use deepens to black. The color remains permanent, and the change is so gradual that the most intimate friends can scarcely detect its progress. In a word, it is the most wonderful discovery of the age, and well calculated to make the prematurely bald and gray rejoice. Carboline is put up in a neat and attractive manner and sold by all dealers in drugs and medicines. Price one dollar a bottle. Kennedy & Co., Pittsburg, Pa., general agents for the United States and Canadas. We advise our readers to give it a trial, feeling satisfied that one application will convince them of its wonderful effects. Why is the Hudson a lazy river? It lies in bed day and night. "Rough on Corna." AskforWells'"Rough on Corns." 15c. Quick relief; complete cure. Corns, warts, bunions. The Frnzer Axle GreaM Is the best in the market. It is the most economical and cheapest, one box lasting as long as two of any otner. One greasing will last two weeks. It received first premium at the Centennial and Paris Expositions, also medals at various State fairs. Buy no other. See Here, Young Men, that girl of mine is twice as handsome since she commenced using Carboline, the deodorized extract of Petroleum, and X would not be without it for a fortune. . . Catarrh orttae Blndcler. Stinging irritation, inflammation, Kidney, Urinary complaints,cured by Buohupaiba. $1. If you feel depressed in mind and body, or have a touch of general debility or malaria, try Gabteine. It gives tone to the stomach and promotes thorough digestion. Druggists. A Veteran Soldier. w- /i v Rnmr? of Nn. 24 Common Street, Lynn, Mtti, nays: "While in the army, at the battle of Spottsylvania, I (ell while setting over a rail fence and wu badly injured and left for dead, but after a time I was picked up by comrades; and upon examination it was found that my back was badly hurt and my kidney* seriously injured, and I hare suffered the moat excruciating pain since, and could obtain no relief although treated by sereral physicians, and I had given np all hope of getting help when I was recommended to nse Hunt's Remedy. I purchased several bottles at one of our drug stores in Lynn, and began to nse it as directed, and can now attend to business, and am free from the pains I formerly bad ; and I wish to say to my friends and comrade* that Hunt's Remedy will do all that is claimed for it, and is worthy of all praise. You can nse my testimony when you have occasion to, as I most heartily recommend it to all that have kidney oi<Uver troubles." April 26, 1883. "Yon May Use IVIy Name." J desire to inform yon what your valuable medicine has done for me. I was induced to try it by a member of our family, "who bad been benefited by its use." I have suffered terribly from kidney difficulties. At times I have been vory bad, having severe pains in m> I back, with general loss of strength and vitality. ** u_ j ?IkW - oftHimnnk of My urine wne voiy uui, mm ? ? brick-dust, which was fast leading to gravel. I commenced using Hunt's Remedy, with a marked improvement from the start; the pains left, tho urine became more natural, and I can truly say one boltle ejfeettd a permanent cure. I havo rcaommendedit to many persons both here and in Boston, all of whom speak of it with the highest praise. You ire at liberty to use this letter or my name In any manner you may think best, that other sufferers may leam tho value of the greatest of all remedies. Most trulyyours, JOHN F. COX, 63 Pleasant Street. Maiden, Mas?., April 23, 1883. An Editor's Testimonial. A. M. Vaughn, editor of the " Greenwich Eerie*,* Greonwich, 0., writes: Last January I met with a very severe accidont, caused by a runaway horse. I used almost every kind of salve to heal the wounds, which turned to running sores, but found nothing j to do mo any (food till I wa? recommended Hehry'a Carbolic Salve. I bought a box and it helped me at once, and at the end of two months I was completely well. It is tho best salvo in tho market, and I never fall of telling my friends about it, and urge them to Durno's Catarrh Snuff curoa all affections of the mucous membrane of tho head and throat. 25 Cents will bay a Tbeatise oji the Hobs* ahe His Diseases. Book ol 100 pastes, valuable to ereij owner of horses. Postage stamps taken. Sent postpaid. Nev Vobk House Book Co., 134 Leonard Street. 100 Doses $L00 Not always serious enough to put one in bed, orerM within d'jors; the ailments and disorders produced bj Impure blood are extromely distressing. No article so thoroughly heals and cures boils and blains, tumors and swollings, running sores and doll pains, as Hood's Sarsaparilla At the same time it is the cheapest. No other prepar* tion gives one hundred doses for one dollar. Halfo&d Flsnn, of New York, had so many pimples and blotches on'his face that he was ashamed. He tried various remedies without ofTect. Hood's Sarsaparilli purified his blood, and all blemishes disappeared. The 8-year-old son of m. M. Rollins, Damariscotta, He., bad three large fatty bunches on hia neck. Oni was lan ced and became a painful, running sore. Hood'l Sarsaparilla, four bottles, made a cure. For twenty-oud /can Thomas Bennett, of BostCC, carried a lump on his leg. It itched intolerably and the sore was to troublesome tbat he wanted to cnt it oat with his knife. Two bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla cured the lump. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by druggists. Price 81, six for $fi. Prepared only by C. I. 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Tho above la a good likeness of Mrs. Lydla E Plnl? ham, of Lynn, Mass., who above all other human belnfc# E^Hfl maybe truthfully called tho "Dear Friend of Woman/ B ?ls some of her eoirespondenta lore to call her. Shi Is zealously devoted to her work, which la the outcome > of lifo-study, and is obliged to keep lady assistants, to help her anawertho large ecrresjondencs which dally pours in upon her, each Uearlng Its special burden of Buffering, or Joy a* release from It K"j Vegetable Compound la a msdlcurf for good an* uot evil purpose*. I havo personally investigated -and H am satisfied of tho truth of this. On account of it* proven merits. It Is recommended Hh and prescribed by the best physicians In the country, H One says: " It works 111:9 a charm and saves icscfc pain. It will core entirely the worst form of falling of tho uterus., Lcucorrhoca, Irregular and painful all Ovaj-Lin Trouble*. Inflammation and Dlccrallon, Iloodlnss, all Displacements and the con. sequent rpiaal weakness, and is especially adapted to tbe Cbango of lite." It ponnoatcs every i*>rtton of tbe system, and ffltm ncit uro a:id v!~or. It remove* faintucs*, flatulency, dertmys all craving for stimulants, and relieves wecM ncm cf the itornaeh. It curcs mooting, Hoadachj} Nervous Procuration, Concral Debility, Sleeplessness Dcprcff-ion end Jr.dlgcrtlon. T.iat feeling of bearing " down,ca;isl:i;: jvCn, wcls'it and bae'.;acho, Is always permanently vunai l,y its use. It will at all times, and und^r all cln.'tim.'tar.'.'c, net in luu-mony with the law that guvi :ns (ho fcwaV: 1731cm. It costs only 51. per 1-ottIe or six for $3., and is sold by ^BHj . A::y advice cuuircdas to opcctil coses, and the names of many who lave been restored to perfect BHI health ty iho useof tho Vcsotollo Compound, can be VflH oh'nincd I y tuMroainsJlri r., with stomp for reply, at her homo In Lynn, Jiasi. For KJdney Complaint of either act this compound ii nn"ir;-as'cd as abundant testimonials show. "'Art. ricUham's Liver Pills," says one writer, * are :Kr best in the vnrtd for the cure of Constipation, Hi:j',n?nca3 and Torpidity of the liver. Her Blood Pi*r??r works wonders in its sprcial line acd bids fair ' to C";ui'. t!:c ron^o,:r. J i.i It' jwpularity. a:: r ujr r--y <.; I cr us t *i AngU of Mercy whose Mia \r.i'.!t!3:i' 1 to t}n?iA><l to "'.era. IN THlT SPRING TIME A I ETXBTBODT IB TEOUBLZD WITH AXVOTqiO DISEASES of the LIVER 1 ZM BOIOC rOBH, M Biliousness, fl Jaundice, J Constipation H or Headache. ? ' ? -1 AU*. <>? ? '<? J ne mftoraem wnica mwa^b iwuun vimiwiu^ww . I Aver and Bowels to perform their proper f emotions, oaa be conquered at once by the one of Kidiuf-Wori, Any derangement of the bile at once manifests Itself fat |inl bodily discomfort, In loss of appetite and in despoodeoay. ^^B SYMPTOMS. Pain In the right aide which la very sensitive to pm fl^H sure. The pain will sometime* appear tfi be located vi nder the shoulder blade. Thero is slso irregular rapelite, flatulency, a sense of fullness In the nylon of toe stomach, and sooner or later the skin and whites of the eyes become yellow, the stools clay-colored and the urine yellow, dep< siting a copious sediment. There Is genar. ally a furred tongue, and at time* diarrhoea, and at gH others obstinate constipation; In short, disordered functions of the stomach and entire tract of the bowels, These symptoms, if not speedily gTappled with, wfQ result in the most senous consequences to the whole BH eystem, prostrating It and destroying all it? vitality and energies. When the liver becomes torpid or gives ?vi. dence of undue activity, a fewdoeeeof Ki<U*y-wortand a little caution in relation to a diet will restore the . patient to health and rigor as if by enchantment., Host remedies used lor disorders of the liver and bile act on the wrong principle, as they are simply catiia* tics, and merely carry otf the accumulated secretions. fiTKidney-Worl on the contrary goet loth* ttrynttlf the evil, at it at fi on the liter and Kldneyt at the mm time, and by its mild but efficient cathartic action more* the bowels freely. The morbid poisons that have besn the cause of all this disease anl suffering will be thrown off, new life will beinfused into every organ, and the <fl| health-giving forces will again exert their power, M It is well known that tbe kidneys are nature's sluice* mH way to wash away the debris and lmpnrttiea that are being constantly developed in every human system. If they fail to act freely, health will, soon snffer. But tbe ^B kidneys cannot perform their own proper offices and at H the same time eliminate those Imparities that should ^B pass off by free action of the bowels. How Important it is, than, to have a remedy that will have the power ta ^B keep up the natural action of both theae important * functions. THIS REMEDY IS KIDNEY-WOBT. M Have we indicated the trouble that baa harrsased you? Then use a package of this medicine and be cured. READ A SAMPLE TESTEJIONIAX- H "I Prayed God to Deliver Me by Death." Headquarters Veteran Corps 60th Regiment,) Armory, Tompkins Market, > ^^b Nkw Yobx, May 8,188J. ) Gentlemen?I have just commenced on my second bot- y^b tie Kidney-Wort. I nave but little faith in either doo. tors or medicine, more particularly m medicines exts? ^Hl Bivel7 advertised. However. 1 have suffered perhaps as uo other man has suffered from liver diseaae brocght ^b on by malaria. 1 suffered for yean, till it became ; c hrouic. simply from neglect. I have takon quinine an jBH my bead swam, and m nerrea were totally unstrung. 'H| Last year 1 went to Lurope to tryand better Its bit - "3^b came back worse. In reading many of your advertise- 3^1 ments I cams to the conclusion, as a dernier neort. to try the Kidney-Wort, and did so. After the fourth day 1 sot an attack of tne old malady. I prayed God to relieve me by death, but kept to the medicine as ordered, BO and I want to tell you to-day, and aUsnfferamfitoaliw j^b disease, that the last three weeks I have enjoyed sueh ?good health as I have not bad in many, many yean. X > simply write you this that other sufferers may benefit by '^b it. Very truly yours, HEN BY WARD, ? B Late Col. 69th Reg., N. O.'8. H. Y. 173 Wost 81de Ave., Jersey City Heights, IT. J. Lou and Galu. chapteh z. bh "I was taken sick a year age With bilious fever." "My doctor pronounced me cured, btrt I got sick again, with terrible pains in my back and Bides, and I got eo bad I V Could not morel _ I shrank I 's *!? From 228 lbs. to 120! I had been aoctanug1 ^ for my liver, but it did me no good. I did . I not expect to live more than three monthjj. r? I began to use Hop Bitters. Directly my.apjpe* I tite returned, my .pains left me,'my ,entire . ' ' I system seemed renewed as if by magin^asid ; ; I after using several bottles I am not^dAly as ; \ I eoond as a sovereign but weigh more than'I - ' 1 did before. To flop Bitters J owe my'lif^ 1 Dublin, June'6,'81. B; Fitzpatbiok* . .CHAPTEB II. :1'V . !*. ' fl ''Maiden, MM. 'GefittomMr- > WM I t-nUered with attacifl of slckbe*dathc." Neuralgia, fe mal e trouble, for yean* in the JH mofltterribleanaex^datzngtnahner. No medicine or doctor conld give me ;elief < A or pure ^ntil I need Ho^ Bitters.' -y' '"M ^Tho first bottle w- M Nearly cured me;" . . v,irJrt r ;7, The second made me as well and qttMi as ' I when a child. . "And I have been so to this day." My husband was an invalid for twenty I veara with a serious f " Kidney, liver and urinary complaint, 9 "Pronounced by Boston's best physicians-^ I **5icurablerr- ' a Seven bottle^ .of your bitters <ju^jW&pfc ^ '".5 and I know of the ' . , ' ;!*V\ "Lives of eight persona" - >" 1 . In my neighborhood that have been saved by your bitters. Ajid many more are using them with great benefit . . - . "They almost .. Do miracles!" ?Mrs. E. D. Slack. How ro Get Sick.?Expose yourself day and night; eat too much without exercise; . - ' work too hard without rest; doctor all the time; take all the vile nostrums advertised, J and then you will want to know how to get jcell, which is answered in three words? Take Hop Bitters! 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