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lJi t stko. KtirySa'urJaj' at I,a * 8t - Miss MOUNTAIN SUCCESS. In Summit Left llappl. w bhi Behlud. <he Tn iiey of Life there is a mount li*strep “ and ru ff(f ed Ilßmed s "<-*ccs. is eo path feeding 1 up its precip iwas side, and he who would ascend Mt prepare his own way before him, * inlf down trees, pressing- aside rubles and rolling huge bowlders j 0 t his road, or crushing them into Iseeurlh and treading upon them with •riomphant. but bleeding, feet. One me to the foot of this mountain one kj, maimer day, and looked upward jJ, dome towering into the skies, M d be said: "To-morrow I will climb and he fell to chasing golden but terflies through the- scented air. Und the morrow came, but lie I- looked upward and said again: week will t climb it”—for who M „lrt work when the primroses were ?e llow on the river’s bank? And when iweek bad passed, he looked upward p(i said once more: "Next year will [ climb it"—for, hear! how glad the w iid birds were in the meadows; surely this was no time for work. And when iyear bsd passed, 10l he looked up ward, shaking his head. "I am so hap prhere," he said, "with only the birds ,nd the flowers and the beautiful dreams that steal out of starlight and abide with me. lah ail never climb; (or he who climbs leaves love behind.." Pol he waved a God speed to the ones who had set out in youth’s morning and were climbing away, wearily, in the heat and thirst of the noon. Another came, with flashing wyes, and set out boldly for the mount ain top; he climbed swiftly and vigor ously, and always, when ho had forced shoulder out of his own way, he rolled It into the path of a brother struggling below, and said, between closed teeth; "Let them work as I have,” and went on hia way. Hut. as his hand was iKainst every man, and in his heart were only hate and envy, it came to pass that he lost all interest in the valley of Life and in the mountain of gnceess; and he lay down weak and bitter-hearted, in the shadow of the iwk named Scorn—for ho had not strength or hope to roll it out of his path: and he hated the people who pa tiently climbed past him, and flung thorns and stones in their way, that their poor feet must bleed, for be ing too bitter and too narrow minded to climb higher, he would have kept all others bound down to bis level- And 10l one came, with upturned eyes, to the mountain, and set out in the early morning for the summit, lie climbed, slowly, patiently, faithfully; he put aside the thorns with torn fin gers, and pressed bleeding feet where the rocks had lain; his eyes were turned ever upward, and he looked neither to the right nor to the left Measure beckoned to him from glades of flow ers and music, reaching out soft, bare arms to tempt him, and haunting him with her beautiful eyes; Rest begged him to stay his feet in a dark bower where cool breezes fanned, and lay bis tired, burning head upon her bosom and let her tender fingers press pain (rom his I*’a ting temples: Lovo, star-eyed and pure-breasted, stood in his path and gave him one look that set his veins to swelling with passionate delight Hut ho pressed hit lips firmly together, and hook his head and passed on—but one sob burst from him, although he would not look back lest his courage falter. And at sunset weary, hungry, thirsty, he reached the summit and stood up right in tlio clear air of Success; his figure towered against the sky, and his name fell, echoing down to the listen ing valley below; then his dulled, sun worn eyes turned backward and he saw With a cry of anguish, lives that he had blackened in passing, und bleeding hearts that he had trampled—one heart he saw which, he knew now, had loved him truly; and he would have given the whole mountain of Success could he have gone l*ck to it Sad of loul, he looked to see what lay before I'm on the other side, and, behold! it was only the lone, pale valley men name Death —San Francisco Argonaut Ssmea of Mining: Halm*. In traveling through the mining re flon of Colorado one is often surprised 'n< amused at the queer and fanciful lames given by the miners to their claims and mines," said a Denver man. own in * deep gulch I came upon a fawny, full-bearded man wielding a f ’iffwiusly in the tunnel of the a y Hell’ mine; near by was the 1 left behind Me,’ owned by a wndsomc, strapping young fellow, no, no doubt had many happy, holp -01 thoughts of the girl he had left be iJ./ m working eagerly and 5* ~ y 0,1 the clai,n that might , cm hotli rich. In another gulch we clamm called ‘Little bass-box,’ I'(slight,’ ’The Pretty Polly ion> Thompson’s Mule,’ Starva ’ • lusted,’ and numerous other whose names were equally in ns liilT * * l ® owner * of these claims is w o/ b'bto as happy without , lla the fortunes for which they iff, .. n man y cases they arc better n tb* Wca *th than they would lie i m ,i. e n * uddcn possession of it’’—St 1 Hiobe-Democrat A Sure Sl^n. •y°dear?'* S trying' to I[us,, and—Give it up. He •oni.v "* trying to manufacture a Youn twenty syllables long, i, ? "be— Isn’t that lovely? He’ll B iu ?reat scientist some day.—Tit lr '’-' an war was a conflict be ll' ~ e m other country und some of kfn r co'ooies, and would have lu-, H®l en and Achilles and inborn 00 an<l tlle FeSt never Fran ° r J^ ,an a nd foundling refuges ’DO Oil, "avc accommodations for 14,- "•-xiiar ,or ——-— — "“Or. reoeiy * and in Heaven ib the fj Heaven in himself while *°es not V Bnd he is excluded who n °t —Swedenborg. K 'ww"r.! eS Tpnnded a colony in Ihitch i lv n , 1 was conquered for the y Htuyvesani. V ~~ ■ . i „ in “n-ni.,ll' n coloni ea °f Australia do f131.000,000, and v,wo U of railway A VENIAL DECEPTION, When learned folk about mo throng, Thef And me reading heavy things) Pry treatises on right and wrong, The use of peasants and of kings. The wise ones deem me quite a men, Because those are the things I read. I’m called a sage because 1 scan Full many a sporlllc screed: But they should see me when I sit All by myself among my books) It makes me laugh to think of It, Imagining their startled looks 1 bother not with Kant and suoht I paas old Herbert Spencer by; My Hegel then X never touch; Pf Schopenhauer fight most shy. Hut sitting ’neath the evening lamp, A sofa cushion at my back, I read of giants, and that scamp, ■ The ogre-kllling hero Jack. 1 read the Jahberwock with glee, The Boo)um and the Rhymes of Deaf. I am afraid, If they could see, Tho learned folks would greatly sneer. But they will never see, and so Amongst tho sages I shall thrive. And lo my boys. I’d hare you know, I seem the finest man allvs —John Kendrick Hangs. In Harper’s Weekly. A LOVE COMEDY. Ouo of the Ways of Winning a Fair Woman. "Shall I marry again? I can’t tell you; I never make plans. *A policy,’” said Lady Brcreton, ’"is the blackmail levied on a fool by the unforeseen.’ Needless to remark, I quote. It is too fatiguing lo be original this hot weather! Ida, I ran recommend those mnrron s i/liiref.” They were In Lady Brereton’s boudoir In Green street, bosom friends and alone. A five o'clock ten equipage stood between them, and a 100 brilliant Juno sun was excluded by blinds of a becoming tint and an elnyere of ferns. Palo mauve entered largely Into the scheme of decoration, and there were a great many Parma violets about In old silver bowls. - Mrs Crosbie helped herself to a sweetmeat leisurely, and with a due regard for her irreproachable glove, before she responded. When she did so her words, lo an uninitiated person, would have seemed somewhat irrele vant "Of course, you know." she re marked, “that Capt. Valence Is homo from India?” "Somebody told me yesterday that be bad just arrived. But why the ’of cou rse?' ” "I don’t know—lf yon don’t Only” —Mrs. Crosbie looked through the cream jug at futurity—"lt’s just tho year since poor Lord BrereU-n died." "And what of that?” Mrs. Crosbie s eyes deserted the tea tray, and fixed themselves severely on her friend. ‘'Blanche," she said, "you are in one of your moods, and you don't practise on me I Are we alone, or is somebody hiding behind those curtains?” “You ridiculous woman!” "Then, why this superlative inno cence? Why this affectation of coy seventeen? For heaven's sake be a rational being, and treat me like onel As if everybody doesn't know that Arthur Valence worried himself nearly sick over you at the time of your mar riage. And you try to persuade mo, of all people, that you think It means nothing when he returns to England, after an absence of five years, just as the first, twelve months of your mourn ing expirei" "Well, you shouldn’t have said that 'of course,' insinuating that 1 had pri vate Information about him," mur mured Lady Brereton plaintively. "His roovcmeuls don't Interest me In tho least, and 1 don't suppose mine any longer interest him. You seem to Ig nore the lapse of time since we met, and faithful hearts, my dear, wont out of fashion with the crinoline. Besides, he wasn’t a man —he was only a nice boy. And I treated him badly.” "Vos," said Mrs. Crosby. The too-ready acquiescence displeased Lady Brereton. She fidgeted with an apostle spoon and frowned. “Not so very badly. After all, how could I help him being silly enough to core (or me? As to taking him seri ously, a mere boy of twenty-two, and a younger son! Anyhow it doesn't mat ter now. Ho has probably forgotten all about me long ago.” She spoke with a complacent disbe lief in her own words which made her hearer laugh. "If you thought for a moment that he bad forgotten, you would bo Irrit able beyond endurance.” "I hope yon are not laboring under the absurd delusion that I care In the least.” "Ayr. 1 your enemy thaA I should ac cuse you of having a heart?” laughed Mrs. Crosbie. "I merely meant that your nmnur prnprt would be ruffled, my dear. I know you so well!” "You were never more mistaken In your life,” asserted Lady Brereton, calmly. “1 am utterly indifferent.” Therein she wyis Insincere. It was true that she had snubbed him unmer cifully in years gone by, and the only feeling his boyish passion had inspired In her had been a sisterly liking, after wards mingled with pity, amusement and a gratified vanity. But neverthe less she looked to the repewal of the floral chains which bound him to her carriage wheels with a truly feminine pleasure. Therefore, with the possibility be fore her mind of a visit from her old admirer, she bestowed sundry adorning touches to her toilet, countermanded tho victoria, and settled herself in the drawing-room. In a graceful attitude, prepared to bo very much astonished to see him, indeed. The afternoon waned, however, and he failed to put In an appearance. Neither did he come the following day. nor the one after, nor the next Evi dently he was in no hurry to call on her/and Lady Brereton’s usually sweet temper developed inequalities in conse quence She had declared it Improba ble that hi* devotion should have sur vived, but the possible truth of her words rankled in*her heart of hearts, al though she would not acknowledge it even to herself. She wo* broadminded, but she had her limitations. When, within a week of hl return, be greeted bar at length on the neutral ground of the Hnrlingham club, she found him a good deal changed—older, Improved, nothing of the boy sh£ re membered about him, except his fea tures, which were good. "Then you haven’t quite forgotten me,” she said. ••Forgotten youl It is likely? My dear Lady Brereton, don’t you recollect my youthful adoration? You made me as wretched as a love-sick boy can be. Tli* letters I used to write you, tU* speeches I used to makel Mow X must have bored youl I was so very much In earuest; one takes oneself so seriously at twenty-two, 1 httvd often laughed over the thought of it since.” He laughed now. So did she, very naturally too. But she was not pleased; for In his frank allusion to the past sh< discerned that her empire was lost, and no woman likes to make that discovery, even if she has not valued it at the time of possession. And Is your stay in London to be long?” she asked. Oh, T am not going back to India at all. bo said. "The regiment will be home next month. I mean to settle d^| n and marry. The governor wants It, fidgety about the title, you know, since ray brother died. It’s rather a bore.” He laughed. "By the way. Lady Brcreton, I was intending to call and ask your sld about It I thought for the sake of old times you might feel sufficient interest In the ’nice boy’ now he’s grown up. to find a nice girl for him *#ccent family, of course, and a little money no objection, but not a •iiif, qua non. Women arc so clever at this kind of thing," I shall be delighted,” she said, sweetly. “I’ll look out for you, and you must come and see me, and report what discoveries you are making on your own account." But the conversation was a little one sided after that. Capt. Valence chat ted easily, little nothings of the hour, the amusing conversation of a well bred man of the world with a witty longue and a shrewd perception. But she did not pay much heed to what he said. She was thlnUlna of the last time they mot. She was Blanche For restter then, and he had called her his angel, the light of his life, and she had laughed, and bidden him not to boa silly boy. Tho whole episode had been very absurd, of course, but somehow his mockery of It did not please her, and tho gllbnoss of his “Lady Ilrore ton" grated. "Thursday is my ‘day,’" she said to him, when he put her in her carriage, by and by. "But If you like to take your chance, you know—?" Perhaps she thought about him more on her way home than she had ever thought about him before at one time. And she smacked her innocent pug, and called it a little beast. Such Is feminine justice! "I was young once," said Capt Valence to tho horse-chestnut trees, "I was distressingly young—a malady we all suffer from. But 1 feel better now, thank God!" he added piously. And ho lighted a cigar and went to watch tho polo with a smile of self-satisfac tion. They met a good deal in the course of the next few weeks. He reminded her of her promise, and she mentioned tho names of two or three desirable damsels to him; but her assistance ended there, and he never saw an at tractive-looking girl In her house. Also he found occasion to allude once more to his salad days. "Nothing polishes n cub," ho said, “like an affair with a woman of the world. My dear Lady Brcreton, accept the assurance of my gratitude.” She would have been better pleased If he had intimated that she had ruined his life, hotter pleased even If he had openly avoided her. His rnmnradfrk stung her feminine soul. She did not approve t>( platonics, especially in an old admirer. "One would think I was his grand mother," she said to her own wrathful reflection In tho toilet gloss. And then she wept storraily—for no reason that she would have named to a living soul. For a week she saw nothing of him. then one evening their eyes met across the opera house, and a faint resentment —the sequel to the unexplained tears— was in her smileless brow. It was per ceptible, too, in the manner of her greeting when, during the last fnlr'iieln he deserted his stall for her box, and. on Mrs. Crosble’s invitation, dropped into the vacant chair between them. Hut he appeared to notice no coolness In her manner: he was In the most bril liant of moods. "I have news for yon." he murmured in her ear, when tho stage claimed Mrs, Crosbie’s attention. "She. is found.” "Indeed! And am I to congratulate you?" "Perhaps it would he a trifle prema ture. Vou see, I haven’t proposed yet I’ll tell you all about it to-morrow If you are sufficiently Interested" "Tell me now," she said. a Hhe spoke quite naturuily, and she was smiling. But he did not look at her face; his eyes had been on her hand as It closed with spasmodic force upon the handle of her fan. “You will break that toy if you treat It like that,” he said, quietly. She dropped it as if it had stung her and drew back in the shadow of the draperies with her white teeth pressing her lower Up. "Go on,” she urged. "Is it an affair of the heart or of the head?” "She Is the only woman I should ever wish to marry,” he answered, "i want her more (ban I have wanted anything In my life. I hardly know how to describe her to you. Don’t laugh if I rave; I am in love, and when a fellow’s like that, you know . . . Lady Brereton. you will cer tainly ruin your fanl But 1 am not going to tell you that she Is perfect A perfect woiusn—how wearisome, how monotonous! She has variety, she has charm—admirable qualities to attract a man, and to give his existence the de lightful zest of uncertainty. Ah! she Is adorable, she—-Lady Brereton!" She was leaning back against the partition, her eyes closed, her face col orless. "Nothing—don’t notice me,” she mur mured. "The heat ... I am bet ter already.” He bent forward to screen her from the other woman’s view. His hand covered hers, and it was shaking, like his voice. "You are going to faint! I am a brute, but I want you so badly, and I knew it was the only way to make you care. If I had shown —" “The comedy is finishedl”—the words were spoken on the stage, and the cur tain fell. He put her cloak round her as they rose. —Esther Miller, In Black and White. Combine Forces. Scene—A gambling saloon: a game of ecarte has just been played; the two players got up and one of them stepped up does to the other; "Sir!” "What do you want?” “I saw you cheat just now.” "Sir!” “I am sure of It.” “You mean to ruin me?” "Quite the contrary; I want yon to take mein partnership."—Journal poui | Kir*. | USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE, —The juice of a tomato is said to be excellent to remove inlt, wine fruit and stains. —Cranberry I’ic.—Add one teacup of water to one quart- cranberries and put on the fire. Cook ten minutes, add two heaping cups sugar and cook about ten minutes longer. Rub through a colan der and use for filling between two short crusts. —Farm, Field and Fire side. —Dclmonico Hashed Potatoes.—l’are and chop six medium-sized raw pota toes. Put them in a baking-dish, sea son with pepper and salt, cover them with milk, place over the top one heap ing lablespoonful of butter, cut into small pieces, and bake in a quick oven forty minutes.—lloston Budget. —Cheese Toast —Moke as many slices of toast as may be needed for a meal, remove the crusts and butler while hot Cut cheese in thin slices and place it in a pan with a little butter, and mus tard, if relished. Set the pan on the fire and melt the cheese, stirring it con stantly to make it smooth, then pour over the toast and serve at once.—Or ange Judd Farmer. —Mrs. Marshall's Ginger Snaps.— One pint of molasses, half pound each of lard and brown sugar, two table spoonfuls each of ginyrer, cloves, cin namon and soda dissolved in tho mo lasses. one cupful of sweet milk,enough flour for a soft dough. Iso as much flour as you wish in rolling them out Roll very thin. In cutting out these cakes, do not use tho scraps or corners of dough until all arc cut out Some persons roll them with the original dough, but that makes the (loiißh too stiff, and the cakes are not crisp. Keep the scraps until tho last, and then roll together and use. They will make quite good cakes, but inferior to tho first—Good House Keeping. —Spinach Soup—ls made with milk instead of stock. Roil one quart of spinach in a large pot of boiling, salted water until it is tender. Leave the cover off the vessel, and press the spin ach under the water while it is boiling. It will be done in from (ivo to ten min utes. Drain in a colander and let plen ty of cold water run over it. Press as dry ns possible, chop fine and rub through a solve with a wooden spoon. Meantime stir a lablespoonful each of flour and butter together over tho (ire, and add gradually two quarts of boil ing milk. #eason with a teasponnful of salt, a quarter ns much white pep per, and a little grated nutmeg, ami add tho spinach pulp. If it is to stand any time before serving, set the vessel containing it within another of hot water.—Country Gentleman. llreast of Veal braised With Mush rooms.—Remove the largest bones from a breast of veal, and fill the cavity with a forcemeat made of stale bread soaked and squeezed dry; add nn onion choppeil fine and fried in a little but ter, and a seasoning of salt and pepper. Skewer into a compact shape and brown on both sides in a frying-pan, using a little butter. Lay some slices of salt pork in a saucepan, put on the piece of veal, cover the pan tightly, and simmer slowly for one hour with out raising tho lid. If placed over a slow fire and kept very tightly covered, so that no steam can escape, it will cook in its own juices without burn ing. Then add half a can of mush rooms and a very little boiling water, turn the meat and cook for another hour, always slowly. Lay on a hot dish, slightly thicken the gravy, and color with brown (lone in the thick ening.—American Agriculturist WOMEN OFFICIALS. Female* in France (liven employment ty the (inventment. France is often dubbed the “China of Europe,” and no doubt France is conservative in many non-political di rections. Rut, although the cham pions of women's rights have failed in a few ambitious attempts, women on the other side of tho channel have, on tho whole, no reason to complain of their chances of obtaining suitable, more or less, official work, anil a great stride forward lias just been made within tho postal department For several months female post office clerks have been on trial in some of the quiet er offices, and as the results have l>een exceedingly satisfactory, several of tho most important I’nris postal offices have now adopted female officials, and among those must be mentioned the Hotel de Villo office; while some of tho busiest are thought to prove rather too great a strain upon female constitu tions, therefore, they will, at least for the present, continue to employ exclu sively male clerks. This is, in a manner, the second time the employment of women within the postal department lias been sanctioned by the authorities, for us early as the seventeenth Vendemairo, in the year 18, tlio appointment of women as di rectresses of postal offices in the prov inces was approved by the post office department of that day. Rut the sub sequent governments of France did not follow in the footsteps of the republic, and in tho year of 1870 the number of women holding public appointments under the state did not exceed 5,000 or 0,000, Tho present republic has, how ever, done much to open out new fields of employment for women, and the number of women who now fill public offices in France is exceedingly large and daily increasing. The principal departments where female clerks are employed are in France, as elsewhere, tho post, telegraph, telephones, rail ways, the government hanks and the central administration. There arc at present 5,858 women employed at provincial post offices: 1,000 female telegraph clerks; in 09 towns the telephone stations are under the management of women, affording employment for 745 women. The na tional savings banks employ 425 wom en, etc. The railways have, however, been the best (fiends to the women. It was tho Domhes Cos. which made the experiment with employing female clerks at the offices or as station mis tresses at the small stations, but grad ually nearly all the Frensh railway companies have followed this example. Women are employed at the ticket offices as watchers, etc. The Fast Cos. employes 3,082 women; North Cos., 2,790; the Paris-Lyons Mediterranee, 6,728; the Orleans Cos., 4,3sß—altogether some 24,000 women—in which number the thousands and thousands of female gatekeepers ire not included. In the whole of Europe it is calculated that over 600,000 women hold public ap pointments— London Oneen. Homo Principle Involved. “If you are hungry and In want why don’t you apply to the charity organi zations?’’ “Madam, I do not approv* ot their method*. ’ ’—J udge. PROGRESS OF THE TELEGRAPH. 1857. Atlantic cable laid, but proved a failure. 1873. Ocean cables laid from India to Australia. 1837. The Morse patents for an elec> trie telegraph token out. 1801. Cables laid almost tho whole length of the Mediterranean. 1858. Telegraph lino opened from New York to St. Johns, N. F. 1853. Cable lines laid across the Eng lish channel; at first a failure. 1800. Atlantic cables successful. Per fect communication established. 1000. Important discoveries made in electricity by UlUiert and others. 1830. Telegraph lines from Knglnnd to India; nearly nil its route overland. 1871. Cables laid between Europe and Brazil and telegraphic communica tion opened. 1879. A seventh cable laid across the Atlantic; tho last from Cape Cod to Brest, in France. 1033. The electric telegraph foretold by Galileo, who told how conversations could be held by magnetic needles. Ft. Helena exports whalebone/ wbulo oil and dried fish. Protecting Cot toicne. The N. K. Fairbank Company of Chi cago have lately brought suit in iho Cnited States Court against \V. L. Henry, of this city, for |T, OOO. oo fur infringement of their! trade mark “Cottolene.” The N. K. Fair bank Company nuts forth that they origi nated, prepared, and put upon tho market a now food product consisting of refined Cotton Seed Oil and a small proportion of Beef Buet, making a pale yellow material of Iho consistency and substance of lard, al most without odor and intended to take tho place of lard in cooking. In order to indicate tho source and gen uineness of their now food product, they Driginated, coined, and used as a trade mark tho word “Cottolene.” The healthfulness and many other advantages of Cottolene over lard wore so apparent that Cottolene hoeamo at once very popular and is now largely sold all over tho country. Tho now food product ami its name “Cob tolene” have become widely known as tho product of Tho N. K. Fair bank Company. Hie trade mark is described ns a “Undo mark for Oleaginous Food Bubstunees, Ac,” “consisting of a head or neck of a Hteer or other bovino partially enclosed by sprigs and branches of tho Cotton plant.” The N. K. Fairbank Company charges that VV. L. Henry, of Macon, (la., a dealer In fresh moats and food products generally, has been and is endeavoring unlawfully to avail himself of tho benefits of tho mime “Cottolene” and its popularity; that ho has boon and is selling a product similar in kind * but inferior in quality, under tho name or “Cottolene” to the. Injury of the original and genuine “Cottolene,” ami to the loss and Injury of its manufacturers Tho N. K. Fairbank Company. The infringements upon the trade mark of “Cottolene” have become so frequent, and so many dealer*, aro selling an inferior article and claiming it to lo Cottolene that The N. K. Fairbank Company aro deter mined to protect their customers and pro pose to suo every retail dealer who Is thus imposing upon his customers and infringing upon 'Hie N. K. Fairbank Company's trade mark.— Tdevraph, Macon, Ga, Mrnop,—“Horae villain got into my roojn last night and stole a pair of brand new trousers. 1 had them made in London.” Yahsley-~“Eondon made, eh? Oh, you are all right, then. They will turn up tho first day it rains ” Indianapolis Journal. Ilrware of Ointment* for Catarrh That Contain Mercury, as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering It through the mu cous surfaces, Huch articles should never be used ext ent on prescriptions from rep utable physicians, as the damage they will do is ten foul to the good you ran possibly de rive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure man ufactured by F. J.Cheney St C0.,T01ed0,0., contains no mercury, and is taken inter rally. acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying H all's (’atarrh (’ure bo sure you pet the gen uine. It Is taken internally, ami mono in Toledo. Ohio, by F. J. Cheney Sc Cos. Testi monials free. CW~BoId by Druggist*, price 75c. per bottlo. Hall's Family rills, 25 cents. “It certainly has done Silas goodtojlne tho church,” said Mrs, Corntossel. “I’m glad ter hear it,” said the visitor, “but how kin ye tell?” “He wont fish in’ yesterday an* owned up tor not get tin’ a bite.”—Washing ton Star. Free as Air. Aiiw*'rtgh longanu f Vstinntelyobstructed, free as air become the bowels when Hos tetfer’b Stomach Bitters is used to relieve and rsgulate them. Not that the great laxative o|K.Tates unduly upon them. Quite the contrary. Neither does it cause griping. In both these particulars It is preferable to a violent cathartic. I so the Bitters for ma larial and rheumatic ailments, kidney trou ble. biliousness,' dyspepsia and nervousness. Manta man who claims to be looking for work wouldn’t recognize a lob if It stepped up and tapped him on the shoulder.- Phi la* delphia Record. Western American Heenery. The Chicago. Milwaukee Sc Ht. Paul R’y has now ready fordistribution a sixteen page portfolio of scenes along its line, half tones, of the size of tho World s Fair portfolios lately issued. They aro only ten cent* each and can he obtained without delay by remitting the amount to Geo. H Heafforo, General Pass. Agent, Chicago, 111. Book Aoent (entering the sanct um j—“l have a little work here which—” “Excuse mo,” interrupted the victim, “but I have a great deal.”—Boston Courier. Uncle Trketop—“That heifer is two Jears old.” City Niece “How do you now?” “By her horns.” “Oh, to he sure; •he has only two.’’—Life. Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. The many, who live bet ter than others and enjoy life more, with less expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world’s best products to the needs of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative principles in the remedy, Syrup of Figs. 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 ative; effectually cleansing tho system, dispelling colds, headaches and fevers ana permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical profession, because it acts on the Kid neys, Liver and Bowels without weak ening them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substance. J Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug gists in 60c and|l bottles, but it is man ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Oo.only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrnp of Figs, and being well Informed, you will nut accept any substitute if offered. ( . \ SIDE from the fact that the | XX cheap baking powders contain \ alum, which causes indigestion and other serious ailments, their use is J extravagant. | * It takes three pounds of the best of them to go as far as one pound I of the Royal Baking Powder, be cause they are deficient in leavening g as - I There is both health and ccon ( oniy in the use of the Royal Baking j Powder. | WOYAI BA,<INQ POWPEW C 0" 106 WSlt *T. j Tiieort Not In It.—“My theory," began the man as fno policeman tried to sloer him straight; “my theory ” “Como off,” In lorruptocl tho officer. “It lan't vour theory Uiat I’m interested in now ; it Is your con dition,” and he yanked him along merrily. In the Market. - Customer ‘ Send me up three pounds of steak.” “Butcher “Beer steak or porksteakP* Customer-“ Mi stake. 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