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Tie M Um.
A DOMESTIC STORY.
CHAPTER XLVII.
More than once on one and the same day
the captain had been guilty of a weakness
which would have taken ids oldest friends
by surprise if they had seen him at the mo
ment. He hesitated.
A man who lias commanded ships and ha*
risked his life in the regions of the frozen
deep is a man formed by nature and taught
by habit to meet emergency face to face, to
see his course straight before him. and to
take it, lead hint where it may. But nature
and habit, formidable forces as they are, find
their master when they encounter the pas
sion of love.
At once perplexed and distressed by that
startling change in Catherine which lie had
observed when her child approached her,
Bcnnydeck’s customary firmness failed linn,
w hen the course of conduct toward his be
trothed wife which it might be most becom
ing to follow presented itself to him as a
problem to be solved. When Kitty asked
him to accompany her nursemaid and her
self on their return to the hotel he had re
fuses) because he felt reluctant to intrude
himself on Catherine’s notice until she waa
ready to admit him loiter confidence of her
own free will. Gelt alone, lie began to doubt
whether delicacy did really require him to
make the sacrilice which he had contem
plated not five minutes since, it was surely
possible that Catherine might be waiting to
see him, and might then offer the explana
tion which would prove to he equally a re
lief on both sides. He was on his way to the
hotel when lie met with Sydney Wcsterfield.
To see a woman in the sorest need of all
that kindness and consideration could offer,
ami to leave hei as helpless as lie had found
her, would have been an act of brutal indif
ference, revolting to any man possessed of
even ordinary sensibility. The captain had
only followed his natural impulses, and had
oily'.iid and done what, in nearly similar
cases, lie had said and done on other occi-
sinus.
Left by himself he advanced a few steps
meeliunieally, on the way by which Sydney
had escaped him—mid then stopped. Was
there any sufficient reason for Ids following
tier and intruding himself on her notice?
Him had recovered, she was in possession of
his address, she had been referred to a per
son who could answer for Ids good inten
tions; all that it was his duly to do had heen
done already, lie turned back again, in the
direction of the hotel.
Hesitating once more, he paused half way
along the corridor which led to Catherine’s
sitting room. Voices reached him from per
sons who had entered the house by the front
door. He recognized Mrs. I’resty’.s loud,
eonlident tones. .She was taking leave of
friends, and was standing with her back to
ward him. Hennydcck waited, unobserved,
until be saw her enter the sitting-room. No
Mich explanation as he was in search of could
possibly lake place in the presence of Cath
erine’s mother. He returned to the garden.
Mrs. I’icsiv was in high spirits. .She had
enj i\c.| the festival; she had taken the lead
aneeig the friends who accompanied her to
lue p.uaee; she had ordered everything amt
had paid to. nothing, at that w orst of all bad
(ch. ■■ dinners in England, the dinner which
pu l nds to he French. In a buoyant frame
of mind, ready for more enjoyment if she
could only find it, what did she see on open
ing the sitting-room door? To use the ex
pulsive language of the stage, C therine
was "discovered alone" with her elhows on
the lahlc, and tier face hidden in her hands
the picture of despair.
Vr. Crestv snrvejed the spectacle before
her with righteous indignation visible in
every line ot her face. The arrangement
which bound her daughter to give Denny*
dee.k Ids final reply on that day had been
well known loher when she left the hotel in
tiie morning. The conclusion at which she
arrived, on returning at night, was expressed
with It mi tn brevity and Roman eloipieuce
in four words:
"Oh, the poor captain I”
Catherine suddenly looked up.
"I knew it," Mrs. Presty continued, with
her ternest emphasis; "I see what yon have
done In your lace. Von have refused Henny
deek."
"Hod forgive me, I have been wicked
enough to accept him !”
Healing this, some mothers might have
made apoi.igics, and olltei mothers might
have asked what that penitential reply could
possibly in.m. Mis. ITesty was no matron
ol the ordinary type. She welcomed the
good news w llhold taking the smallest notice
of the expression id sell reproach w hich had
accompanied it.
“My dear child, accept tin* congratulation*
of your fond old mother. 1 have never been
one ot the kissing sort (I mean, of course,
w here women are concerned), but this is an
occasion which justifies something quite out
of die common w ay. < 'omit and kiss me.”
Catherine took no notice of that outburst
ot maternal love.
"I have forgotten everything that 1 ought
(o have remembered," she said. "In my
vainly, in my weakness, in my selfish enjoy
ment el the passing moment. I have las'll too
supremely happy even to think el the trials
ol my past lite, and of the talse posltiou in
which they have placed me toward the man
whom 1 ought to be ashamed to deceive. I
have only been recalled to a sense ol duty, i
might almost say to a sense of decency, by
tnv iMHir little child. If Kitty had not re
minded me of her father
Mrs. I’rcsty dropped into a chair; she was
really I l ightened. Her fat cheeks trembled
like a jelly on a dish that is suddenly moved,
"lias that man been here?" she asked.
"What man'."
"file man who may break off your mar
riage if lie meets with die captain. Ha?
Herbert Linley been here?”
"Certainly not. The one person associated
with my troubles whom 1 have seen to-day
U H> Iney Westcrlield.”
Mrs. I’rcsty bounced ont of her chair. "You
—have seen Sydney Westerfield?" she re
peated, w ith emphatic pauses w hich express
ed amazement, tempered by unbelief.
"Yes; 1 have seen her."
“Where?"
“in the garden."
"And spoken to her?"
“ Yes."
"Mrs. Presty raised her eyes b> the ceiling.
Whether site expvted onr old friend “••>
recording angel" to lake down the questions
and answi is that had just passed, or \v helhei
she was only waiting to son the hotel that
held her daughter collapse under a sense ol
moral responsibility, it is not possible to de
cide Alter an aw lul pause the old Indy ro
inembered that she had more to
say, and said and.
"I make no remark, Catherine; 1 don’t
even want to know w hat yon and Miss Wost
eiHeld sahi to each other. At the same time,
as a matter ot eonvenienee to myself, 1 wish
to ascertain whether I must leave this hotel
or not. t in- same house doesn’t hold that
woman and Mi - , lias she gone?**
“She lias (tone.
Mm. the-dy looked round the room. “And
taken Kilty with her?” she asked.
“IVm’t s|*eak of Kitty!’’ Catherine crust,
hi the greatest distress. “I have had to keep
the poor, ilium ent, affectionate child apart
from Miss Westerfield hi force. M i heart
aches when I think of it,"
“Cm not surprised. Catherine. My grand
daughter has lieen [nought up on the mod
ern system. Cldldren arc all little angels—
no punishment only gentle remonstrance—
don t ho naughty, dear, because you will
make poor mamma unhappy.’ And then
m inima grieves over it and wonders over It
w hen she finds her little angel disobedient.
\\ hat a fatal system of education! All my
success in life; every quality that endeared
me to your father and Mr. Kresty; every
social charm that has made me the idol of
society, I attribute entirely to judicious cor
rection hi en:lv life, applied freely w ith the
open hand. Wo will change the subject.
W lie re is dear Beunydeek? I want to con
gratulate him on bis approaching marriaa-e.”
She looked hard st her daughter, and men
tally added: "lie’ll live to regret it I”
Catherine knew nothing of the captain’s
movements. “1 have something to say to
him, and I don’t know where ho is.’’
Mrs. Kresty still kept her eyes fixed on her
daughter. Nobody observing Catherine’s
face, and judging also by the tone of her
voice, would have supposed that she was al
luding to the nun w hose irresistible attrac
tions Ira-1 won her. She liiokcd ill at ease
and she -poke sadly.
“You don’t seem to be In good spirits, my
dear,’’ Mis. Kresty gentiy suggested. “No
lovers' quarrel already. 1 hope?”
“Nothing of the kind."
“Can I be of any use to you?"
“Y on might Ik- of the greatest use. But 1
know only too well you would refuse,’’
Thus far Mrs. Kresty had been animated
by curiosity. She began now to feel vaguely
alarmed. “After all that I have done for
you.’’ she answered, “I don't think you ought
to say that. Why should I refuse?’’
Catherine hesitated.
Her mother jrersisted in pressing her. “Has
it anything t*< do with Capt. Bennydeck.’
“Y’es.’’
“What b lir’
Catherine roused her courage.
“You know what it is as well as Ido,”
she said. “Capt, Benn>dek believes that 1
am free to marry him because 1 am a widow.
You might help me tell him the truth.”
“What! I!”
That exclamation of horror and astonish
ment was loud enough to have been heard
In the garden. If Mrs. Presty’s hair had
been ail her own, it must have been hair that
stood on end.
Catherine quietly rose. “We won't dis
cuss it,” she said, with resignation. “I knew
you would refuse me.” She approached the
door. Her mother got up and resolutely
stood in the wav. “Before you commit an
act of downright madness,” Mrs. Presty
said. “I mean to try if I can stop you. Go
back to your chair.”
Catherine refused.
“1 know how it will end,” she answered;
“and the sooner it ends the better. You will
find that I am quite as determined as you
are. A man who love me as he loves me, is
a man whom 1 refuse to deceive.”
“Get’s have it our plainly,” Mrs. Presty
insisted. “He believes your first marriage
lias been dissolved by Death. Do you mean
to tell him that it nas been dissolved by Di
vorce?”
•T do.”
“What right has he to know it?”
“A right that is not to be denied. A wife
must liave no secrets from her husband.”
Sirs. Presty hit back smartly.
“You’re not his wife yet. Walt till you
are married.”
“Never! Who but a wretch would marry
an honest man under false pretenses?"
“1 deny the false pretenses! You talk as
If you were an impostor. Are you, or are
you not, i lie accomplished lady who has
charmed him? Are you. or are you not. the
beautiful woman whom lie loves? There isn’t
a stain on your reputation. In every respect
you are the wife lie wants and the wife who
is w orthy of him. And you are cruel enough
to disturb the poor man about a matter that
doesn’t concern him! You are fool enough
to raise doubts of you in liis mind, and give
a reproach to cast in your teeth the first time
you do anything that happens to offend him!
Any woman —I don’t care who she may be—
might envy the home that’s wailing lor you
and your child, if you’re wise enough to hold
your tongue. Upon my word, Catherine, 1
am ashamed of you. Have you no princi
ples? ’
She ready meant it! The purely selfish
considerations which she urged on hex
daughter were so many undeniable virtues
in Mrs. J’jvsfy's estimation. She took Uie
highest moral ground, and stood up and
crowed on it with a pride in her own princi
ples w hich I lx- primate of ail Kngland might
have envied.
Hut Catherine’s rare resolution held as linn
as ever. She got a little nearer to the door.
“Ciood night, mamin i,” was the only reply
she made.
"Is that all yon have to sav tome?”
“1 am tired, and 1 must rest. Please lei
me go.” Mrs. Presty threw open the door
with a hang.
"Von refuse to take my advice,” she said.
“Oil, very well, have your own way! You
are sure to prostier in the end. These ar#
the days of exhibitions and gold medals. If
there is ever an exhibition of idiots at large,
1 know who will win the prize.”
Catherine was accustomed to preserve her
respect tor her mother under difficulties, but
tills was more than her sense of filial duty
con hi successfully endure.
"1 only wish I had never taken your ad
vice,” she answered. "Many a miserable
moment would have been spared me if I had
ahvavs done what lam doing now. You
have been the evil genius of my life since
Miss Wesiarfield lirst came into our house.”
She passed through the open doorway—
stopped—and came back again. "1 didn't
mean to otfend yon, mamma—hut you do
say such irritating things, Good-night.”
Not a word of reply acknowledged that
kind,v meant -ijiology. Mrs. Presty—viva
cious Mrs. Presty of the indomitable spirit
and tiie ready tongue—was petriiicd. She,
the guardian angel of the lamily, whose ex
perience, devotion, and sound sense had
steered Catherine through difficulties and
dangers which must have otherwise ended in
litter domestic shlpwieck—she. the model
mot Iter, had been stigmatized as the evil gen
ius of her daughter s life by no less a per
son than that daughter herself! What was
to lie said? What was to bo done? What
terrible ami unexampled course of action
should be taken niter such an insult as tikis?
Mrs. Presty stood helpless in the middle of
the room, and asked herself these questions,
and waited and wondered and found no
answer.
An interval - passed. There was a knock at
the door. A waiter appeared. He said; “A
gentleman to sec Mrs. Ormond.”
The gentleman entered tiie room ami re
vealed himself.
Herbert Linley!
CUAITER XT.VIII.
Thi' divorced husband looked at his mother-
In-law without making the slightest sacrifice
to the claims of politeness. lie neither of
fered his hand nor made his bow. His
frowning eyebrows, his flushed face, betrayed
the anger that was consuming him.
"I want to see Catherine,” he said.
This delilierate rudeness proved to lie the
very stimulant that was wanted to restore
Mrs. I’resty to herself. The smile that al
ways meant mischief made its threatening
apiiearance on the old lady’s face.
“What sort of company have you lieen
keeping since 1 last saw you?” she began.
"What have you got to do witli the com
pany 1 keep?”
“Nothing whatever, 1 am happy to say. I
was merely wondering whether you have
been traveling lately in the south part of
Africa, and have lived exclusively in Hie so
ciety of Hottentots. The only other explan
ation of your behavior is that I liave been so
unfortunate as to otfend you. But it seems
Improbable—l am not your wife.”
“Thank God for that!”
“Thank God. as you say. But 1 should
really be glad (as a mere matter of curiosity)
to know what your extraordinary conduct
means. You present yourself iu tills room
ui.invited, you Hud a lady here, and you bo
have as if you had come into a shop and
wanted to ask the price of something. Let
me give you a lesson iu good manners. Ob
serve; I receive you with a how. and I say:
'How do you do, Mr. Linley.’ Do you un
derstand me?”
“1 don’t understand you—l want to see
Catherine?”
“Who is Catherine?”
“You know as well as 1 do—your daugh
ter.”
"My daughter, sir. is a stranger to you.
We will speak of her, if you please, by the
name -the illustrious name—which she in
herited at her birth. Von wish to see Mrs.
Ormond?”
“Call her what you like. 1 have a word to
ay to her, and I mew to say it."
“No, Mr. Linley, you won’t say it,”
"We'll si>e about that! Where is she?”
“My daughter is not well.”
“Well or ill. I sha’n’t keep her long.”
“Mi daughter has retired to her room.”
“Where is tier room?”
Mi's. I’resty moved to the fireplace, and
laid her hand on the bell.
“Are you aware Hut this house is a hotel?”
she asked.
“it doesn’t matter to me what it is.”
“Oil, yes, it does. A hotel keeps waiters.
A hotel, when it Is as large as this, lias a
policeman in attendance. Must I r.ng?"
The choice between giving w.iy and being
disgracefully dismissed from Hie hotel was
i placed plainly before him. Herbert’s life
had been the life of a gentleman; he knew
that he had forgotten himself; it was lm|*o9-
sibie that he could hesitate.
“1 won’t trouble you to ring,” lie said,
“and 1 will beg your pardon for having al
lowed my temper to get Hie better of uux At
the same time it's to lie remembered, 1 think,
iu my favor, that I have had some provooa
j tion.”
I “t don’t agree witli you,” Mrs. Presty an
-1 swered. She was deaf to any appeal for
mercy from Herbert Linley. “As to provi*
cation.” she added, returning to her chair
without askiui him to be seated, “when you
apply that word to yourself, you insult my
daughter and me. You provoked? Oil,
heavensT’
"You wouldn’t say that.” he urged, speak
ing with marked restraint of tone and man
ner, “if you knew what 1 have had to en
dure ”
Mrs. Presty suddenly looked toward the
; door. “Wait a minute,” she sai.i, ”1 think I
near somebody coming lu.”
In the silence that followed, footsteps
i we*p audible outside—not approaching the
door, however, but retiring from it. Mrs.
Presty had apparently been mistaken.
“Yes,” siujsaid. resignedly, permitting the
i person who had intruded on her to proceed.
He really had something to say for him
■elf. and lie said it with sufficient modera
, tion. That lie had been guilty of serious
offenses lie made no attempt to deny; but he
pleaded Urat he had not escaped without
j justly suffering for what he had done. He
I had been entirely in the wrong when he
threatened to take his child away from her
mother by torce of law; but had he not b*n
punished when his wife obtained her di
vorco, and separated him from his little
' daughter as well as from herself? (No; Mrs.
| Presty failed to see it; tf anybody had suf
fered by the dlvoroe, Ue victim was her in
! jured daughter.) Still patient, Herbert did
| not deny the injury; foe only submitted once
more that he ha! suffered his punishment. '
Whether his life w Hi S.dnoy XVcsterfieUt
had or had not beo.i a happy one, he must !
decline to say; he would onlv declare Hi it it
had come to an end. She had tott him. X es.
■lie had ieft him forever. He had no wish
to jiersuade tier to return to their guilty life;
they were both penitent, they were both
ashamed of it But she had gone away
without the provision which he was bound
In honor to offer to her; she was friendless
she might he iu a condition of poverty too
dreadful to be contemplated—and that was
indeed a bitter reflection hi the man who had
misled tier. (Mrs. Presty decided on stop
ping him there. She had heard more than
enough of Sydney already.)
“i sec nothing to be gained,” siie said, “by
dwelling on the past; and I should be glad
to know why you have come to this place to
night.”
“I have come for two reasons. One of
them is to see Kitty.”
“Quite out of Hie question.”
“Don’t tell me that, Mrs. Presty! I’m out
of Hie wretcliodest men living, and I ask for
the consolation of seeing my child. Kitty
hasn’t forgotten me yet, I know. Her
mother can’t lie so cruel as to refuse. She
shall fix her own time and send me away
when she likes; I’ll submit to anything.
XVill you ask Catherine to let me see Kitty?,’
It was impossib e to consent to this—and
equal y iuqs ssible to mention the reason for
refusing. Unwillingly, to do tier justice,
ill-, Presty passed over without reply the
just request. Hie touching request, that had
been addressed to her.
“You have two reasons for coming here,”
she reminded him. "What is your oilier
reason? ’
lie declined to -be ignored in Hint way.
“W ill you ask Catherine to let me see Kitty?”
lie repeated.
“I can’t do it.”
He got up from his chair. His face pre
sented the same expression which Mrs.
Presty had seen on it when lie first entered
Hie room.
“When 1 came in here,” he said. “I told
you 1 wished to speak to Catherine. It
doesn't matter. I have got the information
1 wanted —and got it from you.”
“1 don’t understand you.”
“The newspapers were not mistaken, Mrs.
Presty, when they called Catherine a widow.
I know now why my brother, who never de
ceived me before, lias deceived me about
this. 1 understand Hie part that your daugh
ter lias been p vying—and 1 am as certain as
if 1 had heard ;t, of flu; devilish lie that one
of you—perhaps both of you—must have
told to i j<i u child. No, no: I tiad better
not sec itiuTiiie. Many a man lias killed
his wife and lias not had such good reason
for doim, if as I have. Yon are quite right
So keep me away trom her.”
He stop|ed: lie, too, looked suddenly
toward Hie door. “I hear her,” lie cried.
“She’s coining in!”
The fyatstcjM outside were audible once
more. This time they were approaching;
they were close to the door. Herbert drew
back from it. Looking round to see that he
whs out of Hie way, Mrs. I’resty rushed for
ward—tore upon t ic door in terror of what
might happen—and admitted Capt. Benny
deck.
(To Be Continued.)
DYNAMITE iT SEA.
Effective Weapons Which May ha Used I'ntil
Dude Sam Builds a Nav>
Pliilade'phla American.
Lieut. Zalinsky, of the 6th artillery,
who has been experimenting with dyna
mite at Fort Lafayette, for the past 18
months, is delighted with the results he
has attained with his 8-inch pneumatic
gun. He has fired over 200 charges in all
and over 100 loaded with dynamite from
10 to 100 pounds, without a single acci
dent, and he has proven conclusively that
dynamite and electricity, the two most
potent and powerful factors in modern
science, can be subjugated completely,
and when combined, can be used as the
simplest and most destructive force in
warfare. The experiments mape in the
lower bay last week before Secretary
Whitney’s Naval Board, consisting of
Commanders Howell, Goodrich and Brad
ford. have excited the greatest amount of
discussions in army and navy circles,
and promise to awaken a more active in
terest iu the application of dynamite to
coast defense. The friends of the gun
that smooth bore as it is, it has practical
ly overcome all the difficulties which were
supposed to lay in its waw namely ac
curacy of fire, rapidity and safety. The
gun is discharged by compressed air, thus
insuring uniform pressure and consequent
ly greater accuracy of fire, a strong ad
vantage over the usual powder charges of
the rifled gnu, the latter becoming over
heated after ninny discharges, while the
pneumatic gun cau hurl a 100-pouud
charge of dynamite every minute of the
day without the slightest expansion or the
necessity of swabbing.
Lieut. Zalinski, while proud of the
achievement of his gun, deprecates the
newspaper talk that ho has revolution
ized modern warfare. He modestly de
clares he aspires to no such honor. In an
interview, yesterday, he said:
“This gun is a valuable and imperative
auxiliary to modern ordnance, particu
larly at the time when the defenseless
condition of the country exposes us to
humiliation or degredation from the most
insignificant power on the globe. I don’t
say that it is the only thing we should
have, but it is a desirable thing to use in
conjunction with other arms and imple
ments. I have noticed that some of the
critics of the gun maintain that efficacy
would be lost if it exhausted its range
of two miles upon vessels lying four
miles away, the latter firing their guns,
not only at the dynamite gun, but also at
the town lying beyond. In such an em
ergency we never would think of mount
ing these guns en barbette, but would
plant them upon the bows of fleet tug
boats or cruisers, take all the chances of
a torpedo boat, and run ont within range
of the big ships and drop our 100-pound
shells upon them. It might prove to be
a forlorn hope, but if we had fifty or sixty
tugs mounted with these guns, making
allowance for the inaccuracy and clum
siness of the armament of the enemy's
ships, we would make it rather unpleas
ant for them.”
The final experiments on the gun will
be made next week, when ten charges of
100 pounds of dynamite will be fired for
the edification of the naval board and a
select few. In the meantime the com
pany that made the present gun are nr w
manufacturing anew arm, larger, longer
and heavier, with a calibre of ten and a
inches, capable of dropping 200 pounds
of dwnamite upon a vessel two miles
away, and sending the largest ship afloat
merchantmen, or ironclad, to “Davey
Jones' locker" in the twinkling of an eye.
Lieut. Zalinski declares that with the im
provements he has madt to the two little
electric batteries that discharge the dyna
mite mass the moment it strikes an ob
ject, it will be an easy and as safe to hurl
500 pounds of this explosive as it would 5
pounds.
Another evidence of the confidence re
posed the dynamite is shown by the fact
that designs have been drawn for the
construction of a cruiser 200 feet long,
with a minimum speed of twenty knots
an hour, carrying two or more ten and a
half inch dynamite guns, with a slinging
capacity of 200 pounds of dynamite. The
ship is long, low and sharp, with a ram
extention. She will carry two funnels,
one forward and the other aft of a turret,
whose purpose is not made known. The
dynamite guns are concealed under a
thick sheating of armor forward. When
ready for use the armor slides down the
side, the gun already loaded and elevated
runs its nose out, bangs away at the enemy
hides under the armor until another
load is inserted, and repeats the opera
tion.
CONUNDRUMS.
Why is a man who can't learn by ex
perience like a laurel? Because he is an
evergreen.—GoodaU's Sun.
Why is an old war horse like a good
bookkeeper? Because he is a famous
charger.—Dansville Breeze.
When is it that a man feels at home
and yet doesn't feel at home? When he
gets in at 2 a. m. and has to grope along
the wall to find the stairs.—Burlington
Free Press.
What is the difference between start
ing anew newspaper and a hungry
tramp? One fiUs a long felt want; the
other wants a long-felt fill.—Newman
Independent.
Does a photographer "take” a nega
tive or "make” a negative? In other
words, when a girl jilts a fellow is he or
she a photographer? We do not recall
a conundrum which is obsoura than this.
- Lowell Courier.
Here is the latest conundrum;
Why is a spoonful of vinegar like a
colored boy ?
Because it's a little bit of vinegar.
It’s rather tart but youllsee the point
if you look sharp.
FARM. HOME AND GARDEN.
Care of Animals in Summer.
The American Humane Association pre
sents the foUowing suggestions relative
to the care of animals during the heated
term:
Provide water —fresh, pure water.
Think how yon are refreshed by a drink
of cool water on a hot day. The lower
animals are equally in need of the means
of quenching thirst. The active dog re
quires drink frequently during hot days,
as does also the cat, and a dish of fresh
water should stand where they can have
access to it. Undoubtedly many a dog is
driven to madness through lack of water,
and the testimony is that hydrophobia is
almost unknown in those localities where
dogs can drink when they wish.
Every city, viUage and country town
should be liberaUy suppUed with drink
ing fountains for animals, and they should
be so constructed that even the smallest
dogs can drink from them. No gift to a
people confers a greater pleasure than a
fountain, and that person who turns aside
a stream from the field and gives a water
ing trough to the roadside, at which man
and beast can drink pure water, is truly a
public benefactor. Give the horse fre
quent opportunity to quench thirst at all
times when not too much over-heated, and
before eating. To drink freely immedi
ately after eating preverts a favorable di
gestion of food.
Provide shade. How instinctively we
seek the shade when the sun is pouring its
hot rays on the dry and parching earth.
If the pasture is not provided with shade
trees, in a convenient locality set four,
six or eight supports, across which place
straw or grass, and thus in a brief time
and with little labor, make a shade in
which animals can rest from the heat of
the sun, to the great comfort of them
selves and to the benefit of their owners.
Remove the harness from the horses in
the hot day whenever you desire to give
them a full, free rest, and once during the
day, preferable at night, a thorough cur
rying and grooming will not only give rest,
but will do about as much towards im
proving the animals health as will the
oats.
Examine the harness on your working
team and you will discover that blinds,
check-reins and cruppers are simply tor
turing contrivances, serving no useful
purpose. Take them off for the conven
ience of yourselves and the comfort of
the horses, keep the stable well ventilated
and free from the strong amonia, which
is injurious to the eyes. Assist the ani
mals to protect themselves from the
flies, feed regularly hitch in the shade,
and remember that the cares which will
give comfort to the lower animals will
make them doubly profitable to their own
ers, aside from the humane bearing upon
the subject.
The Care, of Lawns.
A farmer’s wife has given the following
hints for the improvement of dooryards
and lawns, with her idea as to where the
line of decoration should be drawn. Her
ideal is a neat, tasty home, and nothing
tells so much the character of the people
in the home as the dooryard. She would
have it neat first. She would not attempt
to have it tilled up promiscuously with all
the shrubs and plants and bushes which
can be found. This soon grows into a
thicket, and there are incongruity and
want of harmony and order, which looks
as badly as no attempt to do anything.
It is not well to attempt to do too much.
The tasteful place must be neat, and the
grass short and smooth. We cannot, on
the farm, afford to keep a man to attend
to the cultivation of the flowers and
shrubs on the lawn. We must not over
tax the strength or the men or women, in
the work of caring for the yard and the
ornamental features. It should be for
recreation She advised a neat plot, a
tidy walk, and a relief of forest trees,
with a few or no evergreens. The flower
beds and bricks set on edge, and such ar
rangements that at best look well a small
part of the year, and offensive most ot
the year, can well give place to neat, well
kept grass, that looks attractive every
day of the year. The flowers and roses
we must have, but in the side yard, and
limit them to our means. Too many gay
things in a doorway are like too much
gaudy dress. It is not in the best taste.
The first and last thing necessary is neat
ness. Whatever is done should be well
done.
A few roses and honeysuckles in some
nook or corner can be made a thing of
beauty at little cost, the flower garden by
itself, and rose hedge to screen the front
from back yard, or the ornamental from
the business quarters. She had no ad
miration for great attempts at flower
beds and rockeries in conspicuous places
in the farmers’ dooryards. Neatness
and simplicity, and not attempt, are to
be aimed at iu all the surroundings of
the farmer of limited means.
The lawn mower does not cost much,
and if the yard is not littered up with
too many things and the grass can be
cut often and kept as a beautiful feature
at all times. The men however, want to
do everything with horses, and if the
lawn is large the horses can do the work
easily, and by a little dressing up after
the horse mower the grass cau be kept
very neat.
Advice to Country Uirls.
Reading (Pa.) Times.
City life is not all that it is painted. It
has its pleasures and conveniences, but it
also has its serious drawbacks. Before
making the plunge into life in the city
country girls should ask themselvef what
is really to be gained by it.
Perhaps in their quiet rural homes
some stray advertisment has reached
them, promising young women high sal
ories for light work. Hundreds of these
advertisments are framed for the very
purpose of deceiving the unwary. They
accomplish their purpose, however, and
large numbers of young girls rush up to
the city, dazzled by the generous profus
ion of promises.
A girl from the farm answers one of
these advertisements. Life may have
been slow at home, but there was always
good food and in plenty, and there was
someone to care for in the old farm
house. XX'hen she goes to the big city she
finds that the “light work” consists in
working all day in a badly lighted and
ill-smelling workshop, where scores of
other girls and women are employed at
wages hardly high enough to keep body
and soul together.
We know what often comes next. The
girl has left home; she is ashamed or un
willing to return,and she must take the con
sequences, ofttime* of one or two things
—shame or suffering. Many a girl finds,
first in the frivolities and next in the in
iquity of the streets, that excitement by
which regrets and remorse may be dead
ened. If she is too strong in principle,
too pure and elevated in tone thus to sink
down to one of the pitable women of the
street, she may find herself in some cold
garret, lonely, overworked, despondent
and miserable.
Better remain at home than risk the
failure which attends so many girls who
go to the city in search of high pay for
light work. It is the saddest of all ven
tures, forsaking a country home for the
illusions and deceptions of a large town.
A Word for the Mole.
The mole is now chronicled as one of
the farmers' friends. Rev. Mr. Wood, in
a lecture describing the nature and habits
of this industrious little animal, says that
the mole is a busrowea in the natural
pursuit of his vocation, devouring the
pupa of caterpillars and ground worms,
he is compelled to throw up those little
mounds of earth to which farmers so
strongly object because they look untidy.
Moles do not damage crcps, because they
are strictly insectivorous and carnivorous,
and utterly disdain cereals or roots. They
are really benefactors, because they sup
ply the farmer with a top-drrssing of
unexhausted earth. The learned lecturer
described the mole as anatomically formed
for burrowing, “cylindrical and jointed
at the foremost end. with muscular fore
arms and spade-like hands with long
claws like smart digging machines.” He
has eyes, but very small ones, delicate
hearing, and a pre-eminent sense or
smell, upon which he chiefly depends for
procuring food. He will bite, scratch and
fight like a fiend, and always to the death
when pitted against another mole. The
mole is rather a friend to the farmer than
an enemy, as commonly voted.
FARM NOTES.
The land that will maintain twenty
common bred cows will maintain twenty
well bred ones, and the annual profit from
the latter will be considerably more than
from the former.
The practice of pegging down ever
blooming roses, so that they will cover
completely the surface of the bed, is well
known to produce very pleasing results. ;
It is said that pegging down dahlias |
proves quite as satisfactory.
Overladen fruit trees mature their fruit
while it is yet small. Pick off one-half
before much growth is made, and the re
maining half may grow to as many bush
els as all would if left.
It is the same with an animal as with a
steam-boiler—the more complete the com- j
bustion of the food or fuel it gets the
more satisfactory will be the result, be
cause there is less waste.
Resources of the soil do not end
abruptly at four or five inches in depth,
yet there are hundreds of farms where
all beneath is terra incognita because
no effort has ever been made to ex
plore.
If yon have thin, flat stones at com
mand. say as thick as roofing slate or
somewhat thicker, try mulching a few
strawberries plants with ihem. Tin an
swers the same purpose. Shingles are
good, but inclined to warp. A patented
clay tile is sold in some places, but stones
are cheaper and better.
Much manure dropped by cows yarded
over night in the barnyard is wasted. Un
less the yard is weU litered the liquid ex
crement is lost, and the solid droppings
dry away until much of their value is
gone. Throw the manure in heaps and
applying a little dry earth to the heap
daily will prevent loss.
There is much difference in the quality
of paris green, much that is sold being so
heavily adulterated that it is impossible
to decide how much to apply. The im
pure poison is believed to be injurious to
potato vines, perhaps because of its im
purity being applied stronger than it
should be. The high-piiced pure paris
green is cheapest.
D. A. Jones, of Beeton, Canada, uses
chloroform in introducing queens. He is
very successful, seldom losing a queen
when introduced in that way. He puts a
few drops of chloroform on a rag or a
sponge in the smoker, and giving a few
puffs in at the entrance stupefies them,
and by the time the bees recover from
their stupor they know nothing of what
has happened.
These points as to his method are given
by a farmer who knows how to raise 400
bushels of potatoes to the acre: Rich light
soil; plow deep early in spring; plant 15
inches apart; cover 4 inches deep or more;
keep down the weeds, but do not work the
ground after the potatoes begin to bloom.
The main secret he says is in selecting the
seed. He always cuts off the blossom
end. One eye will yield more potatoes
than two.
The time to pick duck feathers, like
fruit, is when they are ripe. This may be
learned by catching two or three and
pulling a few feathers here and there. If
they pull hard and the quills are filled
with a bloody fluid they are not ripe; but
if they pull easy and the quills are clear
you may know that it is the “beat time to
pick.” Ducks may be picked four times
a year. Never pluck the long tufts of
feathers on the sides that support the
wings.
The Sweet Pepper (Ciethra Alnifolia) is
a neat, upright growing shrub, with light
green leaves, fine white flowers, and has a
delightful fragrance. It is a native of
the New England States, and has for sev
eral years attracted the attention of bee
keepers as a shrub to furnish bees with
honey at a time when flowers are scarce.
It can be successfully transplanted, and
will grow on all soils, from gravely loam
to black peat, as well as lime or slate
soils.
Success in floriculture depends vastly
more on the care bestowed on the plants
than on a large amount of money expend
ed. Yet for all this many people will
yearly spend a great deal of money on
high-priced and rare plants, afterward
giving them no attention. A bed of ger
aniums, petunias, lantanas and other eas
ily grown plants, if well cared for. will
be more satisfactory than rare plants
which require the care and attention of
an expert gardener.
Liquid ammonia is one of the most
useful preparations for lightening the
labor of housekeeping as well as a simple
remedy for the many common physical
ailments. A few drops in a glass of water
will at once remove an acid stomach and
break up a headache. A cloth wet with a
weak solution tied around the forehead is
also beneficial. It affords speedy relief
in mosquito or spider bites or stings of
bees. A few spoonfulls added to the
wash of the bath is very invigorating, and
even a little added to the water for wash
ing the hands and face is very agreeable
and refreshing.
There is nothing so cleansing and
strengthening for the hair as an occas
sional washing in one part liquid am
monia, two parts alchol and four parts
water washing off the hair in clean water
afterwards. Strong ammonia water will
also remove the oily deposits from hair
brushes, and, when well rinsed and dried
in the sun with the bristles down, will be
found as “good as new.” In the laundry
there is nothing so harmless and helpful
as ammonia. A few spoonfuls in the
washing-water makes the labor light and
the clothes white, and there is no danger
of injury to the fabrics, as in the use of
soda, lime or javelle water. Avery su
perior and simple washing fluid is made
of equal parts of ammonia and spirits of
turpentine. It makes rubbing almost un
necessary, while it whitens the clothes
without injury. A few spoonfuls should
be added to the clothes in boiling as well
as washing.
Gold jewelry washed in ammonia water,
with a brush to reach the corners and
crevices, will look equal to new. A little
added to the water for house plants makes
them healthy and flourishing, while the
liberal use of it keeps the kitchen utensils
in a sweet condition, removes greese and
all unpleasant odors. For cleaning paint,
use a flannel cloth, two spoonfuls of am
monia to three quarts of water and nc
soap will be needed. Sponge off mirrors
with ammonia water and polish with a
soft newspaper. Used nearly clear it will
remove grease spots from the carpets or
fabric.
How to Disappoint h Balky Horse.
The Fitchburg Sentenel tells how a
Leominster farmer cured his horse of a
balky freak by gentle means.
He drove him, attached to a rack wagon,
to the wood lot for a small load of wood.
The animal would not pull a pound. He
did not beat him. but tied him to a tree
and “let him stand.” He went to the lot
at sunset and asked him to draw, but he
would not straighten a tug. “I made up
my mind,” said the farmer, "when that
horse went to the barn, he would take
that load of wood. I went to the barn,
got blankets and covered the horse warm,
and he stood until morning.
“Then he refused to draw. At noon I
went down, and he was probably hungry
and lonesome. He drew that load of
wood the first time I asked him. I re
turned, got another load before I fed
him. I then rewarded him with a good
dinner, which he eagerly devoured. I
have drawn several loads since. Once be
refused to draw, but soon as he saw me
start for the house he started after me
with the load. A horse becomes lone
some and discontented when left alone,
as much so as a person, and I claim this
method, if rightly used, is better for both
horse and man than to beat the animal
with a club.”
A Railroad in a Forest.
San Francisco Post.
You never know or feel how utterly
nnpoetical and practical a railroad is un
til you come across it in the middle of a
forest. Nature abhors a straight line,
and everyhting beside it seems to protest
against that double straight line of iron
that looks all the harder and more defiant
when the rails take the sunbeams and
knock the sentiment out of them and
tarn them into hard metalic light. The
trees seem to do their best to ignore the
railroad in a dignified way. as becomes
the monarchs of the forest. The shrub
bery hangs over, not with the wooing or
caressing movement that it has when it
makes love to the brook below, but with
a kind of mixture of fear and anger, as a
dog treats a suspicions stranger. The
path crosses it, pursues its crooked way
in and out and around trees and bushes,
and wanders off erratically into the forest
or up the hillside, but ©very now and
again it turns toward the railroad track
as if it had quite forgotten it. and stops
abruptly with a kind of disgust, as if it
said. -What, you here again!” and goes
back into the woods again. Then the
engine comes along. Its sound is weird
and worldly in the sacred groves; its
smoke never seems to penetrate the foli
age. but barred out. and nature seems to
breathe again when the train, rushing as
if it had as little love for nature as nature
has for it, passes on to the open plain
and the populous citv.
It is estimated that the wine crop of
California will reach 25,000.000 gallons,
an increase of 10.000.000 over the crop of
1804.
THE THIRD PARTY I.V LINE !
The Wisconsin State Prohibitionists
Assemble in Convention at the
State Capitol.
They Present a Ticket Which They
Claim Cannot Have Any Su
perior.
Madison, XV is., July 28. — The state pro
hibition convention was held in this city
to-day, there being 417 delegates in at
tendance.
A permanent organization was affected
by the committee reporting in favor of
retaining the temporary organization as
the permanent, which was agreed to.
TEX PLATFORM.
Dr. Henry Coleman, chairman of the
committee on resolutions, took the secre
tary's desk and read the foUowing:
The prohibition party of the state of
Wisconsin, in convention assembled,
makes the following declarations of its
principles:
1. XX’e reverently acknowledge Almighty
God, and desire to work with His grace
and counsel to establish and maintain a
sound civil government.
2. XVe believe the traffic in intoxicating
beverages is the great and constant source
of crime and immorality, of destruction
of body and of imbecility of mind, of
poverty and pauperism: the arch enemy
of labor, and the great fountain of social
and political corruption.
3. XX e insist on state and national pro
hibition, and the enforcement thereof,
through a party whose officers are thor
oughly in sympathy with the same, as the
only and the immediate remedy for this
great and most urgent evil.
4. To the end that all sections of our
state may be found working in harmony,
! let it be understood that with us days of
j compromise have passed; that we will
: neither seek nor accept affiliation with
j parties that may promise temporary ad
i vantages; that our own appreciation of
I our work is such that we cau only move
I forward in straight lines until it is ac
-1 complished.
5. XX'e regard all forms of license, high
: and low, as a fresh acceptance of an insoff
; erable traffic, and its re-adoption into our
j social life and civil polity; and we hold
j that all political parties which favor li
| cense, and all men who vote for such par
ties, or in other words aid in the contin
uance of liquor traffic, do make themselves
accessory to the evils which now flow
from this traffic and equally guilty in ef
fect with the man who carries it on.
(>. We heartily sympathize with every
just effort.on the part of receivers of
wages to improve their condition and to
make themselves more equal partakers iu
the general prosperity; but we declare
that total abstinence for the individual
and prohibition of the liquor traffic by
the state lie at the threshold of labor re
form.
7. In securing political, and econom
ic and social ends meet, we rely only upon
sound reason and the public assent; on
free discussion and a conscientious use of
our rights as citizens.
8. We favor thorough, liberal and com
plete public education; a more careful
and just inposition of taxes constant
watchfulness against the increasing pow
er and exactions of individuals; a vigilant
supervision of the uses to which the
franchises entrusted to corporations are
put; and a careful maintenance on the
part of the government of a complete
control of economic conditions, in curren
cy, in the ownership of land, and in all
other particulars 'which the general
diffusion of prosperity may directly or
indirectly depend. In all public measures
we insist on the common welfare as the
only criterion of sound legislation and
wise social policy.
9. We wish to express our great satis
faction in the work of the Woman’s Chris
tian Temperance union in its bearings on
temperance, on purity in society, and on
the preservation of Christian institutions.
THE TICKET.
The following ticket was then placed
in nomination.
For Governor —John M. Olin. of Dane.
For Lieutenant Governor -Charles
Alexander, of Eau Claire.
For Secretary of State- C. M. Black
man, of Whitewater.
For State Treasurer- A. C. Merryman,
of Marinette.
For Attorney General E. W. Chafin,
of Waukesha.
For State Superintendent J. J. Blais
dell. of Rock.
For Railroad Commissioner —Ole A.
Ritan, of Barron.
For Insurance Commissioner B. F.
Parke/, of Juneau.
STATE CENTRAL. COMMITTEE
was appointed as follows.
T. C. Richmond chairman, Madison.
F. M. Porter, secretary, Madison.
S. D. Hastings, treasurer. Madison.
1 dist. —E. G. Durant, Racine; C. M.
Blackman. Whitewater.
2T. E. Turner, Waukesha; 0. H.
Crowl, Dodge Center.
3F. R. Bewick, Brodhead; H. A. W.
McNair, Lancaster.
4 J. E. Clayton and E. W. Drake, Mil
waukee.
SC. W. Loomis and L. L. Clloyd 1 of
Brown county.
6 AV. AA". Race, Omro; B. E. A’an Line,
Oshkosh.
7 G. AV. Morgan, A’iroqna; Gaylord
Freeman, Richland Center.
8— Frank T. A’azie, Louisville; Geo. I.
Conftans, Barron.
9 AV. B. Stanton, Marinette; S. H.
Colby, Stevens Point.
Brief addresses were made by Miss
Frances AA'illard, Mr. Richmond and others
when the convention adjourned.
SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSEMBLY AT MADISON
A City of Tents Occupied by People From
Throughout the Northwest who arc Enjoying
Rich Treats.
Wednesday.
The Monona Lake assembly opened at
Lakeside, Madison, this afternoon, being
the seventh annual session of that body.
Many improvements have been made in
the grounds and the number of tents
spread, exceed that of any previous year.
Electric lights are in use, and all arrange
ments are so complete that everything
glides along like clock work. Three hun
dred association tents are up, besides one
hundred private tents, with the chances
that another hundred will have to be
erected.
The programme opened this p. m. with
a lecture by Dr. Chas. F. Deems, of New
York. The Schubert quartette of Chicago,
who are to be here for some days, gave
the opening concert. They have sung in
many cities of this state, and have achiev
ed an enviable reputation.
Thvbsday.
The crowds continue to arrive at the
assembly, and acquisitions are expected
to pour in daily.
Nearly 400 tents are occupied to-day.
At 9 o’clock 300 or 400 children, and as
many others crowded in and around the
rustic temple to hear Mrs. R. G. Alden,
whose literary nom de ylume is Pansy.
At 11 o’clock Miss Frances E. Willard, the
great temperance lecturer addressed
about 500 persons at the tabernacle on
“The W. C. T. Union and its mission.”
After the lecture the audience was invited
to ask any pertinent questions that might
suggest themselves, and the next hour
was consumed in questions and answers.
After dinner the tabernacle was filled
with upwards of 2,000 people, when after
prayer, the Schubert quartette sang
several well selected pieces. Miss Wil
lard was then introduced and gave a very
interesting and instructive lecture. In
her narrative of the self sacrifices many
human beings have made for their fel
lows. Miss Willard brought scores of hear
ears to tears.
In a recent cyclone in Kansas, a man
ran into a wrecked building and found a
little girl lying with a large beam crush- 1
ing her limbs. The little one said. "Don't
mind me; I am 10 rears old; the little boy
over there is hurt, and he is only fire.” ;
At the close of this effective narrative,
many tearful eyes were seen in the assem
blage. The address throughout held the
undivided attention of the audience and
was frequently interspersed by hearty ap
plause.
Miss Willard admonished the young i
men of America to form themselves into
a committee to labor for the protection
of woman. Girls were admonished to re
fuse all suitors who fail to discard their ’
bad habits at once. Many witty hits were
thrown at the legislators who have refused
to consider the petitions of the people on
the subject of equal sufl-age. After the j
address Miss Willard endured the hand
shaking ordeal for several minutes.
In the evening, after an instrumental i
concert, the Rev. C. F. Deems delivered |
a most interesting address on the subject .
of "Trifles.”
FRIDAY.
XVith each day the interest and crowd ;
increases. Dr. Hnrlbnt conducted
the devotional exercises, and Mrs. G. R.
Alden instructed the children.
The stockholders held their annual
meeting at 10 o’clock. About 50 were !
present. Edwin Sumner, of Madison. Prof.
Jones, of Appleton. S. H. King, of Rock 1
ford, and C. A. X\ illard. of De Pere, were
were elected directors. All except Mr.
King were re-elected and he succeeds C.
L. Colby.
A resolution directing that no denom
ination have more than three representa- ■
lives on the hoard was introduced, but ac
tion was deferred.
This afternoon the Schubert quartette
of Chicago gave a grand concert in the
tabernacle. The programme was remark
ably fine and the rendition superb. The
quartette left this evening forChatauqna,
N. Y., where they will remain fifteen
days.
This evening at 7:30 Signors Vitali and
Fanelli. of Brooklyn, gave an exceedingly
entertaining musicale on the violin and
harp. It was enjoyed by a large audience.
At 8 o’clock Frank Beard, of New York,
gave a lecture on “Caricatures” and illus
trated it with work on a blackboard. Mr.
Beard has become well-known in this line
and his work this evening was of irigh or
der and proved very interesting.
SATURDAY.
This was children’s day at the encamp
ment on Monana Lake Assembly, and
fully one thousand little ones were on
the ground. At 9 a. m. the children
formed in procession, and. preceded by
a band, marched through the principal
avenues to the Rustic Temple, where Mrs.
G. R. Alden, the "Pansy" of literary
fame, told some charming stories, while
imparting a knowledge of the books of
the Bible, the history of the Bible, and
of Palestine to her juvenile audience.
The customary normal instruction was
given during the day. and Leon H. X’iu
| cent, of New York, lectured on the "Age
|of Chaucer.” The Rev. XX'. H. Milburn,
| the blind chaplain of the House of Rep
i resentatives, spoke on “XX’hat a Blind
I Man Saw in England.” Frank Beard,
i the caricaturist for the Judge, gave an
| interesting chalk-talk of nursery rhymes,
; etc.
SUNDAY.
Rev. W. H. Milburn. the blind preacher
er, of Washington, preached at 10:30 a.
m.. In the tabernacle. At 9:15 a. m. the
chorus class h?ld a rehearsal in the same
place. The afternoon was devoted to ser
vices in the primary department at His
rustic temple; junior department at nor
mal hall, and senior department at the
tabernacle. The song service conducted
in the evening by Prof. Leslie, of Chica
go, was one of the finest things of the
kind ever seen at the assembly, Prof.
Leslie showing himself to boa superb
leader.
MONDAY.
One of the principal features of to-day
was the sketches and droll remarks of the
artist Beard. He captured the audience
and held them in amazement at his genius
for over an hour.
The tabernacle was filled on occasion of
the grand concert given by the Leslie
quartette, assisted by Signor Maroni on
the harp, and to say that the audience was
pltased with the efforts cl the ladies and
of the signor would bo putting it mild.
PERSONAL CHIT-CHAT.
Grand Master Workman Powderly is
now in Philadelphia, and writes on an
average of 100 letters a day.
Senator Ingalls denies that he was a
peddler in early life, and thus another
beautiful historical tradition has been
destroyed.
Prince Fushimi, of Japan, called on
Secretary Bayard at the department of
state yesterday. Ho will be formally in
troduced to the president to-day.
F. S. Church is at work on a picture he
calls “Retaliation.” It is a group of
young girls discharging arrows at a cap
tured Cupid.
Among those who will hold forth at
Chautauqua during the study season are
Mr. Ho.vels, Mr. Cable, Mr. Will Carleton.
and General Lew Wallace.
The Queen Regent of Spain, with the
infant king and princesses, left Madrid
on the 12th inst. for the summer palace
of San Ildefonso, where her majesty will
pass some weeks.
The Sword and Scabbard.
St. Louis Chronicle.
“What have yon under yonr coat, Paddy
Jaselinf” asked Judge Cady.
“Nawl a bit av et yezonner.”
“Not a bit of whot?”
Pat said nothing, but gave a wink that
would have stuck a cable-car on a down
grade.
“What’s under that coat?”
“Me soard. sorr; shore Oi'll show yeez,
Oi’m a soard swawl’r!”
“Let me see it, quick!” and the court
took the sword, pulled the cork out,
smelled it, tasted it, and drained it to bo
the very last, and then smacked his lips.
When his hair stopped pulling he looked
down at Paddy, who was paralyzed witli
astonishment and with a smile that was
worthy of a cherubim, he remarked:
“There, Paddy, is the scabbard; you
may go.”
Important.
V, hen you visit or leave New A e.'k City, save
age. Exj>ressa#e and s.l Carriage Hire, anil
step a' the Grand Union Hotel; opposite
Grand Central Depot.
613 elegant rooms, fitted up at a cost of one
million dollars, $1 and upwards per day Euro
pean plan. Elevator. Restaurant supplied with
the best Horse cars, stages and elevated rail
road to all depots. Families can live belter for
less money at the Grand Ur,ion Hotel than at
any other first class hotel in the citv.
Entertaining an Angel.
Cincinnati Sun.
He was a real nice young man, wore
good clothes, went to Sunday-school with
regularity, and had an excellent opinion
of his own moral character. He walked
into a great clothing store in search of a
situation and said:
“I would like a place.”
“And experience?” asked the head of
the great establishment.
“Not much; but I am a man of good
habits.”
“So?”
“Yes; I never swear, drink or chew;
never play cards or go to races; don’t bet
on base ball games or go around at
night.”
“Anything else?”
“I don’t gamble, frequent bucket-shops
or bet on elections.”
The employer seemed satisfied, for he
called out to the head salesman with:
“James, just see if our angel depart
ment is full, and if not send this young
man up.”
A Large and Influential Family.
Washington Critic.
A certain distinguished United States
senator on one occasion was in Calcutta
on a tour around the world, and among
the places visited was the English ceme
tery. There were many noted English
men buried there, and such names as Geo.
Gordon, Bart., Henry Trevelyan. Bart.,
were so numefous as to attract the sena
tor’s attention. Finally he said;
“My, my; this Bart family must be a
large and influential one. I remember to
have seen the name in London, but I had
no idea that they were such prominent
people. Really, when I go back to Eng
land I must look them up and get better
acquainted.”
Food for Thought.
Wall Street News.
"If I was to live my life over again,”
said an American defaulter as he cocked
hie feet in the office of a Montreal hotel,
"I'd be a lawyer instead of a bank cash
ier.”
‘‘For why?” was asked.
"Well, I embezzled f ", 000 and am an
outlaw and an outcast. My brother-in
law. who is a lawyer, ‘managed' an estate
so that it put him $48,000 ahead, and they
have just elected him mayor of the town
and got him to Join the church. I advise
young men to think of these things.”
Te Cantmnptive*.
Reader, can you believe that the Creator af-
Clcta one-third of mankind with a diaeaaa (or
which there is no remedy? Dr. R. V. Pierce’s
Golden Medical Discovery" has cored hundreds
of cases of consumption, and men are living to
day-healthy, robust men—whom physicians pro
nounced incurable, because one long was almost
spine. Send 10 cents in stamps for Dr. Pierce's
(wok on consumption and kindred affections. Ad
dress. World's Dispensary Medical Association,
Main Street. Buffalo. N. T.
A Boston gentleman has become Insane from
the effects of studying Edwin Arnold's "Light of
Asia.”
Many a luxurant head of hair la produced by
Hall s Hair Heoewer.
An International congress of shorthand writ
ers will probably be held In the autumn of 1887.
Ague, In Oa moat malignant form, is cored by
Ayer's Ague Cure.
A VA pound sunflower, measuring thirteen
inches in diameter. Is a Florida production.
The Fraser Axle G renet is the very best. A trial
will prove we are right.
A couple of Miadelpfcta boys us ssrring oat
a two years’ assn—ea fee Wealing 80 ceno.
The sugar crop of Cuba this season
amounts to 6i.HI.TUJ tons, against 631.967
tons last year. .
The salmon fishing season, which ends
with this month in Oregon, has not been
a prosperous one, and the pack will be
only 430,000 or 440.000 eases, against 550.
000 cases last year and 600.000 in I$S4.
The Beauty of Woman
is her crown of gforr. But alas; how quickly
does the nervous debility and chronic weakness
of the sea cause the bloom of youth to pass
away, sharpen the lovely features, and emaciate
the rounded form! There is but one remedy
which will restore the faded roses and bring had
the grace of youth. It is Or. Pierce's "Favorite
Prescription,'' a sovereign remedy for the dis
eases peculiar to females. It is on* cf the great
est boons over conferred upon the human race,
tor is preserves that which is fairest and dearest
to all mankind—the beauty and the health of
woman.
t’npt, S. Dennis, aged i.is years, a quite noted
ch .racier of the south, died recently at Dade
viUe, Ala.
A Remarkable Cure of Scrofula.
tVtlUam S. Baker, of heats. Ygo County, Ind,
writes as follows; "Mr son was taken with Scrofula
In the hip when only two years old. We tried several
physicians, but the boy got no relief from their treat
■ Wt. Noticing your SCOVILL'S SARSAPARILLA.
ANS STILLIN'GIA. OB BLOOB A>'D LIVER
SY Kur. recommended so highly, I bought some of It
of you In the year 1562. and continued taking It till
Ihe sores finally healed up. He Is now 21 years of
age. and being satisfied that your medicine did him to
much good when be used It, we want to try again la
another ease, and write to you to get some more,’*
The Scientific American suggests the Juice of
the hulls of green walnuts as a good dye for the
hair.
* * * * Stricture of the urethra, however in
veterate or complicated from previous had treat
ment, speedily,and permanently cured by our
now ana improved methods. Books, references
and terms sent for 10 cents in stamps. World's
Disiiensary Medical Association. 60S Main Street,
Buffalo, N. Y.
Catamounts are ranging over Waldo county.
Maine, and terrifyui.- the ml-ab tants.
A Most Liberal Offer! •
The Voltaic Belt Cos , Marshall. Mich., offer to
send their Celebrated Voltaic Belts and Electric
Appliances on thirty days’ trial to any man of
and oted with Kerwooa IVMlify, LOOB of Vitality.
Manhood, etc. Illustrated pamphlet in sealed en
velope with full part lonian*, mailed free. Write
them at once
Forest fires an* causing a great deal of dam
age in the vicinity of Sanawioh. Mass,
The purest, sweetest and best Cod Liver Oil In
the world manufactured from fresh, healthy
livers upon the sea shore. It is absolutely pure
and sweet. Patients who have once taken It pre
fer it to all otiters Physicians have decided ic
superior to any of the other oils in the market*
Made by Caswolu Ha&ARP <t Cos.. New York.
Near CaMiohon, P*l. the ground heaves and
pulsates Just like thehuman breast.
Five dollars can be saved everv year in boots
and shoes by using: Lyon's Heel Stiffeners, costs
only So.
Then' t re over eight hundred registered cattle
brands in the territory %'f Montana.
Clegg’s Combine and 1 ©tier, Bill, Circular,
or Statement Sheet and Envelope is rec
ommended by U. S. Post-office Denart
m?nt as “the best," and retail everywhere
o teap as an envelope.
\ . (e number of Americans ora making a
pilgrimage Egypt this year.
BUCHU-PAIBA.
Cures all Kidney Affections, Scalding, Irrita
tion. Stone, Gravel. Catarrh of the Bladder. |l.
Strawberries at New Westminister, IV C., sell
at 50 cents a quart.
TIIIN PEOPLE.
“Wells’ Health Renewer” restores liealth, anvi
▼lgor, cures Dyspepsia, Malaria, Impotence,
Nervous Debility, Consumption, Wasting Diseaa
ea, Decline, it has cured thousands, will cure
There are 1.434 patients in the California in
sane asylum at Napa.
iIFJE PRESERVER,
If you are losing your grip on life try “Wells’
Health Renewer.” Goes Direct to weak spots.
Great Appetizer, and aid to Digestion, giving
strength to stomach, liver, kidneys, bowels.
The group of islands known as (he Thousand
isles number 1,608.
Selma, Ala., has adopted the electric light as a
streft illuminajor.
••ROUGH ON RATS”
clears out rata, mice, roaches, flics, ants, bed
bugs. vermin, water-bugs, skunks. 15c.
“Rough on Toothache.” Instant relief. 15c.
“Rough on Corns” hard or soft corns, bunions.
15c.
The highest mountain peaks in the United
States are situated in Alaska.
RED-BUGS. FLIES.
Flies, roaches, ants, iied-bugs, water-bugs,
moths, rats, mice, sparrows, jack-rabbits, goph
ers. chipmunks, cleared out by “Rough on Rats.”
15c.
The water In Huron lias risen eighteen
inches during the past year.
HEART PAINS.
Palpitation, Prof slcal Swellings, Dizziness, In
digestion, Headache, Ague, Liver and Kidney
Complaint, Sleeplessness cured by “Wells’ Health
Renewer.” Elegant tonic for adults or children
Anew postoftlce in New Jersey has been chris
tened OlodlkM.
3 months' treatment for 50c. I iso's Remedy
for Catarrh. Sold by druggists.
BROWN'S
IRON
BITTERS
WILL CURE
HEADACHE
INDIGESTION
BILIOUSNESS
DYSPEPSIA
NERVOUS PROSTRATION
MALARIA
CHILLS and FEVERS
TIRED FEELING
GENERAL DEBILITY
PAIN IN THE BACK & SIDES
IMPURE BLOOD
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FEMALE INFIRMITIES
RHEUMATISM
NEURALGIA
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Fuilman Palace Car Cos.. Maon NO '
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a testing strain of over plStiSoHnifnjl
iroo Pounds
TO A soi a):k IJTCH.
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Sena hi* card and l'k*. postage for sample cnn. I'RPE.
Ki MIA CIMIWT CO., Olamitor, Maas.
cjn (1 can rwrny net m* j.viv
4) IU U each month by L VLll I selling oar
•'Wfc. WIFE7TND MOTHER
Introduction Or, HFOUATIOJ FOB EFFBV WOH*.
By Sarah Hackett Stevenson, M. D..
Prof, of Obstetric* in the T Portion's Medical C\>r
l*ge % Chicago. Tssches Health in Prognancy ;p&in
lead Kld-obl • I ■ ifltfiMttoa ndlmaNi
of Women; gives Directions for Confinement.and
Care of Infanta and Children. Most Complete
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larraprr of WIS'TKR BFFTS thrown In.
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“I have used Simmons Liver
* Regulator for many years, hav
ing mads it my only Family
Medicine. My mother before
me was very partial to It, It Is
a safe, good and reliable medi
cine for any disorder of the
system, and if used In time Is
a great piwcHtiw of
I often recommend It to my
friends, and shall continue to
do so.
"Rev. .Tames M, Rollins.
"Pastor M. K. Church. So. Fairfield. Va."
TIME AND DOCTORS' BILLS SAVED by
ahraya keeping Simmont t.ieer
Kryulator in the honoe.
*‘l have found Simmons Tdvor
Regulator the beet family med
icine I ever used for anything
that may happen, have used it
In / Hiiiyrstion, ('ofac, iii.i rrhe.i,
HilioiussM, and found it to re
lieve immediately. After eat
ing a hearty supper. If. on going
to bed, I take about a teaspoou
ful, I never fbel the effects of
the supper eaten.
"OVID GK SPARKS.
“Ex-Mayor Macon, Qa."
WONLY GCNUINEV*
Has out Z Stamp on front of Wrapper.
J. H. Zeilin & Cos., Sole Proprietors,
Price. SI .00. rmUDEU’HU. PA.
AUNT M^S
cHETcure
The Famous Quakw Remedy.
A vojAtsMf preparation. A positive cur f>*
CATARRH, BRONCHITIS. HAY FEVER.
•n1 klmlred diseases.
The long tuff*mg public have been to shameful!
lupoatvl upon advertisements of worthiest
ealarrh medicine* Hint we ire loth to use Cuts
means of making known the virtues of A mil Msr*l
Catarrh Cure, but so positive are the result* follow
lug Us administration. that we stand reao .u
GUARANTEE A CURE,
If used socorilai to directions. or refund money '•
IMA of fall nr*.
Ail sufferers from Um terrible diseases may (ms
•peed* relief, without a change vf climate b? th
%• of this simple remedy. It* effect* seem truly
marvelous, healing os If by magic V. o have last*
ta.mlaii from nun? well-known cltlseneof Otilcoga
who hare been entirely cured In a few weeks by lit
nse; these testimonials and Aunt Matt's Story will
be sent to all who write, and those who tend at the
names ami address of all people who hate Catarrh
Bronchitis or Has Fever. will receive free a beau*
ful sketch hook of the Chicago Kposit ion
Our method of treating Catarrh le entirely mo
The remedy It applied to *he diseased ntncces
membrane In ths form of a spray, end no drugs art
taken Into the system
Prlee of full treatment, including atomiser *•
sufficient cf the remedy to effect a cure sent os
3celpl of Mli.OO, or Aunt Mary will treat ptllssk
our office Remedy for sale by Druggists
Agents Wants* In Kvsry Town.
QUAKER MEDICINE CO.,
ISIJLa Sail* Strati. CHISAGO. ILLINOIS
■ Plan's Remedy for Catarrh la the BB
Boat. Knaloai to Uf, and Chaapeat, C3
i'•1
■ Alan rood fhr CYdd In the raad. H
Headache, Hav Fever, An, SiU-enta. H
Mndcinc from Its eIT ota mmy raae I*.no * \
for Oat ami is * Excelsior.’" H. h Know i yon. 11. I
land. New York.
■ Plso’a Remedy for Catarrh la the Bfel
Heat. Eaaient to C**, and Chtapaat.
■ Alan rood for fold In the Head,
Headache, Huy Fever, and. 60ctnU. Mj
•Tiso’rt Remedy for C.'tuiTh (rave me almost iiuni *
diate relief.” F. K. Huainkud, AttduLon,lowa.
■ Plan’s Remedy for Catarrh la the BB
Ileal. Fastest to Use. and * heal vat. OjSJ
Alan rood for fold In the Head, |H
B| Headache, Ha gj
"Plan's Remedy for t atarrh is Just the medicine I
have been look in* lor." W. Ouion. Mayavil e, Ky.
■ Plan’s Remedy for Catarrh la the
Beat, Easiest to Use. and Cheapest.
■ Alan rood for fold In the Head,
Deadadip, Hay Fever, tc. 60 rents.
•Piao'a Remedy f*r Catarrh ha* ihmo me more kooJ
than anvthiutf 1 over tried." Mias R. A. Hyuiu.kt
Cornwall Bridj(e, Conn.
■ Plan a Remedy ftr Catarrh la tha fIH
Beal. Kaaieal to Use, and Cheapest.
\ H Alan rood for Cold Sn the Head.
Hj Hendarlu , Hay Fover. and.. frn enla.
"Piao’a Remedy f < tnrr'i 1 rro.oiHn r favorahlJ
results.' Gao. W. YWiiiA.M. I hllade ph.a, I*a.
H| Plan a Remedy for Catarrh la tha 99
B<*st. Koatait t . I s-.ftivl tI. on pew t. BH
Alan pood
DROPSY
TKKA 1 Fill t i: KK.
l)<*. 11. I£. (art<n iV Hoiin.
Specialist* for I lilrl* ll Vcani |*mi
Have treated Drop*? and tia complication* with inn
1 (.o'- 1 vondcrfii] mkom um tcfcu
entirely harmieea. Remove all •> mpioma wf drop**
:n eight to twenty day*.
Cure path's 1 a pronounced hope lea# by the bee* •(
physician*.
From the flrat dose the sympions rapidly dm*;,
pear, and In ten day a at leaal two thirds uf all eymi
loma are removed.
Some may cry humbug without knowing anythin*
♦hootll. Remember, It doe* not coat you anything
realise the merlla of our treatment for yourself lu
w*n daya the dtfllculty of breathing )* relieved, tha
pulse regular, the urinary organa made to discharge
their fail duty. Bleep t* restored, the Mwclitng hII 01
nearly gone, tne strength increased, and anpctlt* mad*
good. We are constantly curing ea*" of losffstssd
tng cases that have been tapped a number of lime*,
ami the patient declared unanlc to Uvea week.
full history of ease. Name tea, bow long athlete >
how badly swollen and |Mre, sre boweila costive,
have legs nurafed and dripped water tend for free
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Tea days' treatment furnished free by mall
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I tsve a poieiv remedy for Ltoe etxr*e I’.eeaae by It*
tt* iboa*o.:a of pmi of the werat lladvdof foal
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tpiao * Remedy for Catarrh la the fIH
Best, Easiest to Use. and Cheapest.
muEmsp
Also good for <’o!d In the Head, Lft-
Headache. Hay Fever. Ac. 60 cents fjfa
"success *
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