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Ths New Bread. The favor with which the now brear!, coade with Royal Baking Powder instead of yeast, has been received by our best housekeepers and most export bread makers is really wonderful. "It raves ill the hard and tedious work of kuead itjg and moulding,"" writes one. "Less lhau an hour from the dry flout lo the most perfect loaf ol bread I ever saw," writes another. "Fitsh bread every day," says another, "and that the lightest, finest and most wholesome, is something to live for." "Wu relish the bread bet? ter than the old kind;*' "it is ahead of any yeast bread I ever baked;'' "the bread was whiter and softer." "Best of all," writes an enthusiastic housewife, "we can eat the Royal unfemented bread when freshly baked, or even when warm, with perfect impunity. It is actually an tnti-dyspeptic." "This bread has a 'nutty' taste, that is peculiarly pleasing," writes still an? other. This is owing to the fact that the active gas-producing principle of the Royal is derived ftom tho pure grape acid. The great value of this bread arises from thc- fact that in it are preserved all the most nutritive elements of the flour, some o', which are decomposed and destroyed by'thc action of yeast. The loss of these properties is what makes fresh yeast bread unwholesome. The use of the Royal Baking Powder instead of yeast is found to make a finer, lighter bread, devoid of all dyspeptic qualities. The eame gas?carbonic?is produced as where yeast is used, but it is evolved from the baking powder itself and not from the flour. Thereby thc bread is made more wholesome and actually anti dyspeptic. The greater convenience, where a batch of the tiuest bread can be made and baked in less than an hour with no danger of a sour or heavy loaf, must be appreciated by everyone. The receipt for making this bread is herewith given, and housekeepers will do well to cut it out and preserve it: To make one loaf?One quart four, ene teaspoon/id salt, half a teaspoonful sugar, two heaping teaspoonfuls Royal Baking Powder, half medium-sized cold boiled potato, and water. Jr5:ft together thoroughly flour, salt, sugar and baking powder; lub in the potato; add sufficient water tc mix smoothly and rapidly into a still batter, about as soft as lor pound? cake; about a pint of water to a quirt of flour will be required?more or le33 .ccording to the brand and quality of the flour used.' Do not make a still dough, like yeast bread. Pour the'bat ter into a greased pan, 4-JxS inches, and four inches deep, liding about hall full. The loaf will rise lo till the pan when baked. Bike in very hot oven forty-live minutes, placing paper over first tifteea minutes baking, to preveut crusting too soon on top. Bake at ouce. Boat mix with milk. Perfect success requires the most care? ful observance of ail these details, aud the author of the receipt emphasizes the statement thal Royal Baking Powder only can be used because it is the only powder in which the ingredients are prepared so as to give that continuous itction necessary to raise the larger brea I loaf. To every render who will write the result of her bread making from this receipt to the Royal Bakiog Powder Co., IOC Wall otrect, New York, that company announce that they will send in return, free, a copy of a most prac? tical aud useful took book, containing one thousand receipts for all kinds of baking, cooking, etc. Meutiou this paper. ?% A (nie lor Stammering. P A gentleman who stammered from childhood almost up to manhood gives a very simple remedy for the misfortune: Go into a room where you will be quiet and alone, get some book that will in? terest but not excite you, and sit down and read two hours aloud to yourself, keeping your teeth together. Do the same thing every two or three day?, or once a week if very tiresome, always taking care to read slowly and distinctly, moving the lips but not the teeth. Then, when conversing with others, try to speak as slowly aud d'-:tinctly as possible Bnd make up your miud that you will not stammer. Well, I tried this remedy, not having much faith in it, I must con? fess, but willing to do almost anything to cure myself of such an annoying diffi? culty. I read for two hours aloud with mv teeth together. The first result was to make my tongue and iaws ache?that is, while 1 was reading?aad tbe next to make me feel as if something had loos? ened my talking apparatus, for I could speak with less difficulty immediately. The change was so great that every one who knew me remarked it. I repeated this remedy every five or six days for a month, and then at longer intervals until cured.?Good Health. ^Paucity cf Direct loyal Heirs. r* The Emperors and Kings of Europ number seventeen, and if the heads of the families of Bourbon and Bonaparte be added to the male nineteen only nine of these illustrious personages (Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Italy, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden and Greece) have heirs in the direct line, aud of these direct heirs only those of Great Britain end the three last ramed States are married. The heirs of Portugal and Prussia are still children. Of thc other States thc Sovereigns of 'Austria, Belgium and Rouruania will ap .parently bc succeeded 1/ nephews, the ?King of Saxony aad the head of thc Bonapartes by brother?, the K<ng of Spain by a sister, and the King of Ba? varia by an uncle. The heir of the King of Wurtemburg is a very remote biohe ?lor cousin, now sixty-five years old. The Grand Duchess of SaxeWeimir, who is sixty-nine, is heiress of her niece, thc ?Queen of thc Netherlaada, and thc poor I King of Berrin seems to have no heir at all, unless his father will accept the lt)03ition.?Chicago Herald. .Why flynanito is a l!igli Explosive. I Dynamite is a high explosive because each molecule of the nitroglycerine in it contains in itself thc elements wiiic'i pro? duce explosion, and they are so nicely balanced that it takes very little to trans? form them into gas, the sudden expan? sion of which is apt to produce disas? trous consequences. Gunpowder, on the other hand, is merely a mechanical mix? ture of ingredients which must combine in order to explode, and tbe grains ca'.cl> lire from each other progressively. It ls hard for tho shepherd to fatten tho sheep that prefer to live on hus*?. Tha Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun? day Sermon. Subject: "The Dark Sid's of City Life." Ti-xt: "And th", darkness He called night.'?Genesis i. 5. Two grand divisions of tim?. The ons of funligbt, the other of shadow; the ona for wor\r, the other forrest; tbe oneatyp^of rvtrything glad and beautiful, the other used in all Jnnguages asa typ? of sidnee and r.fllietion and s;n. These two divisions of time may have nomenclature of human invention, but the darkness held up its dusky brow to the Lord, and He baptized it, the dew dr.pp og fro n Hm fingers as He gave it name, "ana the darkness He calle 1 night." My subject is Midnight in town. Th# thunder of tba city has rolled out of t!i9 air. Tha slightest sounds out thu night with such distinctness as to attract your attention. The tiukling ot tha ball ot the street car in the distance and the baying of the dog. The stamp of a horse in tha next street. Tho slamming ot a saloon door. '1 he hiccough of the drunkard. Tha shrieks of the steam whistles fivo mile3 away. O'**, how suggestive, my friends midnight in town! There ard honest men passing up and down the street. Here is a city missionary who bas been carrying a scuttle of coal to that | poor family in that dark place. Here is an i undertaker going up tbe steps of a building I Irom which there comes a bitter cry which j indicates that the destroying angel has smit? ten the first born. Here is a minister of re , ligion who has been giving the sacrament I to a dying Christian. Hera is a physician 1 passing along in great haste, tha messen i ger a few steps ahead harrying on to j the household. Nearly all tue lights I have gone out in tho dweUing. That light I in the window is the light of the watcher, ' for the medicines must be administered, and i the fever must be witched, and the restless ! tossing off of the coverlid must be resisted j and the ice must be kept on tho hot tem* i pies, and the perpetual prayer must go up j from hearts soon to be broken. Ob, the l midnight in town! What a stupendous I thought?a whole city at rest! Weary arm preparing for to-raorrow'a j toil. Hot brain being cooled off. Rigid j muscles relaxed. Excited nerves soothed. j The white hair of the octogenarian in thin j drifts across the pillow, fresh fall of flakes on snow already fallen. Childhood with its dimpled hands thrown out on tbe pillow, and with every breath taking in a new store of fun and frolic. God's slumberless eye will look. Let one great wave of refreshing slumber roll over the heart of the great town, submerging care and anxiety and worriment and pain. Let the city sleep; but, my friends, ba not deceived. There will ba thousands to-night who will not sleep at all. Go up that dark alley and be cautious where you tread lest you fall over the prostrate form of a drunk? ard lying on his own doorstep. Look about, you lest you feel the garroter's hug. Look through the broken window pane and sae what you can see. You say, "Nothing" Then listen. What is it? "God help us!'' No footlights, but tragedy ghastlier and mightier than Ristori or Edwin Booth ever enacted. No light, no fire, no bread, no hope. Shivering in the cold, they have had no foo 1 for 24 hours. You say, '-Why don't they beg?' They do, but they get nothing You say, "Why don't they deliver them? selves over to the almshouse?'' Ah, you would not ask that if you ever heard the bitter cry of a man or a child when told he must go to the almshouse. "Oh," ycu say, "they are the vicious poor, and therefore they do not demand our sym? pathy." Are they vicious? So much more need they your pity. The Christian poor, God helps them. Through their night there twinkles the round, merry star of hopa, and through the broken window pana they s?e the crystals of heaven, but the vicious poor, they are more to be pitied. Their last light has gone out. You excuse yourself from helping them by saying they are so bad they brought this trouble on themselves. I re? ply, where I give 10 prayers for the inno? cent who are suffering I will give 30 prayers for the guilty who are suffering. The fisherman, when he sees a vessel dash? ing into the breakers, come3 out from his hut and wraps the warmest flannels around thosa who are most chilled and most bruised and most battered in the wreck. And I want you to know that these vicious poor have had two shipwrecks?shipwreck of the body, shipwreck of the soul?shipwreck for time, shipwreck for eternity. Pity, by all. means, the innocent who ara suffering, but pity more the guilty. Pass on through the alley. Opsn the door. "Oh," you say, "it is locked." No, it is not locked; it has never been locked. No burglar would be tempted to go in there to steal anything. Tha door is never locked. Only a broken chair stands against the door. Shove it back. Go in. Strike a match. Now look. Beastliness and rags. See thosa glaring eyeballs. Be careful now what you say. Do not utter any inbult, do not nttar any suspicion, it you valus your lifp. What is that red mark on the wall? It i3 the mark of a murderer's bandi Look at those two eyes rising up out of the darkness and out from the straw in the corner com? ing toward you, and as thev come near you ytnr light goes out. Strike another match. Ah! this is a babe, not like the beautiful children of your household, or the beautiful children smiling around these altars on bap? tismal day. This little ona never smiled; it never will smile. A flower flung on an awiully barren beach. O Heavenly Sheo neru tom that little ona in Thine arms I "ft'rap around you your shawl or coat tighter, for tha co'd night wind sweeps through. Strike anothsr match. Ah!i3 it possible that that young woman's scarred and brunel face was ever looked into by ma? ternal tenderness? Utter no scorn. Utter no harsh word. No ray of hope has dawned on that brow for many a year. No ray of hope ever will dawn on that brow. But the light has gona out. Do not strike another light, lt would be mockery to kindle an? other light in such a place as that, Pass out and pass down the street. Our cities of Brooklyn and New York and all our great cities are full of such homes, and the worst time the midnight. Do you know it is in Ihe midnight that criminals do their worst work ? At half past 8 o'clock you will find them in tbe drinking saloon, but toward 13 o'clock they go to their garrets, they get cut their tools, then they start on the street. Watching on either side for the police, they go to their work of darkness. This isa bur? glar, and the false key will s?on touch tha store lock. This is au incendiary, and be? fore morning there will be a light ou the sky and cry of "Fire! Fire!" This is an as? sassin, and to-morrow morning there will be a dead body in ona of the vacant lots. Dur? ing the daytime thesa villains in our cities lounge about, some asleep and some awake, but when the third watch of tha night ar? river, their eye keen, their brain coo', their arm strong, their foot fl^et to fly or pursu*, thev are ready. Many of these poor creatures were brought up in that way. They were born in a thieves' tjarrtt. Their childish toy was a burglar'3 aark lantern. The nrst thing thay re ne.n - ber was their mother bandaging the bro .v of their father, s ruck by the police club. They began by robbing boys' pockets, ani now they have come to dig the uuderg.'ound pas gage to the cellar o" tho bank an d are pre? paring to blast the gold vault. Just bo longastiere are neglected chil? dren of the strest, just so long we will have these desperadoes. Soaie one, wishing to mane a good Christiau point and to quote a passage of Jfcripture, expecting to get a Script aral passage in answer, said to one of these poor lads, cast cut and wretched, "Wheu your father aud mother forsake you, who theu will take you uv>?" and the boy S9id, "Tne perlice, the perlic?." In the midnight gambling does its worst work. What though the hours be slippin: 'way and though tha wife bo waiting in tba shearles* horns! St'r uo tha fire. Bring on nore drink?. Put up more stake'. That ? ommer-rial house that onlv a little while ito put out a sign of copartnership will his season be wrecked on a gambler's tablp. ["hera will ba many a monay till that will pring a leak. A Member of Congress ?ambled with a Member-elect and won ?120,CO). The old way of getting a living is o slow. The ol 1 way of getting a fortune is > stupid. Comp, let us toss uo and see w io hall have it. And so the work goos on, rom the wheezing wretches pitching pan? das in a rum grocery up to tba millionaire ambler in the stoc.c market. In the midnight hour pass down tha streets four A mer Loan ci tie?, au I you hear the lie"; of tin die* and the sharp, keen tap of ba poolroom ticker. At thesa plasw mar- * chant princes' dismount, an .1 legislators tire! of making laws, take a respite in breaking them. Ail classas of people ara robbed by this crima, the importer of foreign silks an t the dealer tn Chatham streat pocket hand? kerchiefs. The clerics o? tha store take a hand after the shutters are put up. and tha officers ot the court while away their time while the jury is out. In Baden-Baden, when that city was tho greatest of all gambling plAca3 on earth, tc wa3 no unusual thing tua next morning in tha woods around that city to find the sus? pended bodies of suicides. Whatever be the soleador of tha surrounding.1*, thara is no ex? cuse for this crime. Tue thunders of eter? nal destruction roll In tbe deep rumble of that gambling tenpin alley, and as men come out to join tha long procession of sin nil the drums of woa beat tha dead march of a thousand sou's, la one year in the city of New York thero wero $7,0)0,000 sac? rificed at the gaming table. Perhaps some of your friands bava bean smitten of this sin. P<erhao3 som3 of you have beeu smitten by it. Perha.is there may *bs a stranger in tha house this morning com 3 irom so ne of tue hotels. Look out for those agents of iniquity who tarry aroun I about tho hotels ana ask you,' 'Would you liks to s?e tbe city?' Ye?, "'.dave you ever seen jthat splendi I building uptown?" No. Then the villain will undertake to show you what he calls tha "lions" and tha "elephants" aud after a young man, through morbid "curiosity or through baduess of sou', has sean tha "lions" au I tbe "elephants1' ha will be on enchantel ground. Look oub for thesa man who move around the hotels with sleek hats?always sleek hats?and patron? izing air and unaccountable interest about your welfare aud entertain?.ut. You ara a fool if you cannot se3 through it. Thsy want your money. lu Chestnut street, Philadelphia, whila I was living in that city, an incident occurred which was familiar to us there. Ia Chest? nut street, a young maa went into a gam? bling saloon, lost all his property, then blew his brains out, and before tha blood was washed from the fl >or by the maid the com? rades were shuffling cards again. You ssa there is more mercy in tha highwayman for the belate 1 traveler ou wjoss no ly he heaps the stones; there is moro mercy in tha fros! for the flower that it kills; there is more mercy in the hurricane that shiver* the steamer on tbe Long Islau I coast than there is mercy in tho heart of a gambler for b's victim. In the midnight hour also. drunkann?3i doe3 its worst. Tho drinking will bj re? spectable at 8 o'clock in th3 evening, a little flashed at P, talkative and garrulous at 10. at lt blasphemous, at 12 the hatfalU offend the man falls to tho fl >or asking for more drink. Strewn through tha drinkin; saloons of the city-~father3, brothers, husbands, sons, a3 goo 1 a3 you are by nature, perhaps Laiter. In the high circles of society it is hushed up. A merchant prince, if hs gets noisy ani uncontroliabie, i3 tiken by his fellow 'revelers, who try to get him to bed, or tiki 'him hone, where he tails flat in the entry, Do not wake up tha children. Thay have had disgrace enough. Do not let thom know it. Hush it up. Bat sometimes it cannot be hushe 1 up ? when th 3 ru n t -uehe3 tha brain and tha mau becomes th irou jhly f renzie I. Ob, if tho rum touches tha brain, you c in? not hush it up. You do not sas tha worst. In tha midnight meetings n great mu'titu le have been saved. Wa want a few hun lied Christian men and woman to coma down from ths highest circles of society to toil amid these wandering an I destitute ones au 1 kindle up a light In t ie dark alloy, even ths gladness of heaven. Do not go trom your well fl ila 1 tablas with tha idea that pious talk is goin.; to stop tne gnawing of an empty stoaiich or to warn t-tockiugless feet. Take bread, take rai meat, take medicine as well as ttka prayer. Tnere is a great deal of common son se in what th* j.on- woman said to tba city missionary wh?n he was telling her how sba ou.gnt to love God and sarve Him. "Oh!" said she, "if you were as poor and col I as lam, ani as hungry, you could think of nothing else." A great deal of what is callad CnrisUan work goes for nothing for tha simple reason it is not practical, as aft3r tha battle ot' Antietam a man got out ol an ambuiauee with a bag of tracts, and he went distribut? ing the tracts, and George Stuart, one of the best Christian men in this country, said to him: "What are you distributing tracts dor now? There are 30X) men bleeding to 'death. Bind up their wounds, and then dis? tribute the tracts." t We want more common sense in Chris? tian work, taking the braal of this life in one hand, and the bread of the next life in tbe other hand. No such inapt work as that done by the Christian man who, during the war, went into a hospital with tracts. and coming to the had ot a man whosa legs had been amputatad, gave him a tract on the sin of dancing! 1 rejoice before Got that never are sympathetic words uttere), never a prayer offered, never a Christian almsgiving indulged in but it is blessed. There is a place ia Switzerland, I have been told, where the utterance of one word Will bring back a score of echoes, and I have to tell you this morning that a sympathetic word, a kind word, a generous word, a help? ful word uttered in the dark plac3 of the town will bring back ten thousand echoes from all the thrones of heaven Are there in this assemblage this morning .those who know by experience the tragedies of midnight in town? I am not hera to thrust you back with one hard wor J. Take the bandage from your bruisad soul and put on it the soothing salve of Christ's gospel and of God's compassion. Many have come. I see others coming to God this morning, tired of Binful life. Cry up tha news to heaven. Set all the bells ringing. Spread the banquet under the arches. Lot thi crowned beads come down and si1- at the jubilee. I tell you there is mora delight in haaven over oue man that get3 reforms I by the grace of God than over ninety and nina that never got off the track. I could give you the history in a minate of one of tha best friends I ever had. Oatside of my own family I never had a batter friend. Ha ^welcomed me to my home at the we3t. He was of splendid personal appearanc?, and he had an ardor of soul and a warmth of af? fection that made ma love him like a brother. I saw men coming out of the saloons and gambling hell?, and they surrounded my friend, and they took him at the weak point, his social nature, and I saw him going down, and I had a fair talk With him, for I never 'yet saw a man you could not talk with on the subject of his habits if you talked with him in the right way. I said to him, "Why don't you give up your bad habits and be? come a Christian?" I remember now just how he looked, leaning over his counter, as be replied: "I wish I could. Oh, sir, I should like to be a Christian, but 1 bave gone so far astray I can't get back." So the time went on. After awhile the day of sickness came. I was summoned to this sickbed. I hastened. It took me but a Very few moments to get there. I was sur? prised as I went in. I saw him in his ordinary clotues, fully dressed, lying on the top of the bed. 1 gave bim my band, and1 he seizad it convulsively and said: "Oj, how glad I am to see you! Sit down there." ?J tat down, and he said: "Mr. Taknage, ju3t where you sit now my mother sat last night. Shebas been dead 20 years. Now, I don't want you to think I am out of my mind, or that I am sunerstiticu-:; but, sir, sha sat there last night just as certainly ai iyon sit there now?the sa mo cap, and iprod and spectacles. It was ny old mother?shl tat there." Then ho turned to his wife and said-. "I wish you wou'd take these strings off tb| bed. Somebody is wrapping strings aroun ! me all the time. I wish you would stop tua I annovance." Sha said, "There is notbiD j .here." Then I saw it was delirium. He sain j '?Just where you sit now my mother sa', an I she said, 'Roswell, I wish you would d I better?I wish you would do better.' I said, ?Mother, 1 wish I could do better. I try 11 do better, but I can't. Mother, you used to! help me. Why can't you help ma now?^ And, sir, I got out of bed, for it was reality,' and I went to ber and threw my ar us aroun I her neck, and 1 said: 'Mother, I will do tet >ter, but you must help. I can't do thia; ,a'one!'" I knelt down and. prayed. That) night his soul went to tho Lord that made it. Arrangements were made fortheobse-1 auies. The question was raise,! whether they should bring him to church. Some? body said, "You can't brinr such a dissoluta mau as that into the church." I said: "You will bring him in tha church? He stoo I hy ma when ho was alive, and I will stand bv him when ha is dead. Bring him.'' Asl 6tood in the pulpit and saw thain cirryin r, the body up the aisle, I felt as if I could weep tears of bio od. Oh one side ot the pulpit sat his little ch ld of eight years, a sweat, beautiful little girl that I had seen bim hu; convulsively in bis better moments. He put on her all jewel' all diamonds, and gave her ail pictures and toys, and thea he would go away as if. hounded by an evil spirit to his cups and hou?of shame, a fool to the correction of the stocks. She looked up wonderingly. She knew not what it all meant. She was not old enough to understand tho sorrow of an orphan child. On the other side the pulpit sat the men who had ruined him. They were the men who had poured wormwood into the or? phan's cup; they were the men who had bound him hand and foot. I knew them. How did they seem to feel? Did they weep? No. Did they say, "What a pity that such a generous man should be destroyed?" No. Did they sigh repentingly over what they had done? No| they sat there, looking as vultures look at the carcass of the lamb whose heart they have ripped out. So they sat and looked at fte coffin lid, and I told them the judgment of God upon those who had destroyed their fellows. Did they reform? I was told they were in the places of iniquity that night after my friend was lai I ia Oakwood cemetery, and they blas hemed, and they drank. Oh, how merciless men are, especially after they have de? stroyed you! Dj not look to mea fdr com? fort or help. Look to God. But there is a man who will not reform. He says: "I won't reform." Well, then, how many acts ara there to a tragedy? I believe rive. Act the First of the Tragedy?A young man starting off from home. Parents and sisters weeping to have him go. Wagon rising over the hill. Farewell kiss flung back. King tho bell ani let the curtain fal'. Act the Second?The marriage altar. Full organ. Bright lights. Long whits veil trailing through tho aisle. Prayer and con? gratulation and exclamation of "How well she looks!" Act Third?A woman waiting for stag? gering steps. Old garments stuck into the broken window pane. Marlu o! hardship on the face. The biting of the nails of bloodless Angers. Neglect and cruelty and despair. Ring the bell and let the curtain drop. Act tbe Fourth?Thres graves ia a dark place?grave of the child that died for lack ot medicine, grave of the wife that died of a broken heart, grave of the man that died of dissipation. On, what a blasting heath of three graves I Plenty of weeds, but no flowers. Ring the ball aud let tbe curtain drop. Act tba. Fifth?A. destroyed soul's eter? nity. No light. No music. No hope. Anguish coiling its serpents around the heart. Blackness of darkness forever. But I cannot look any longer. Woe! Woe I I close my eyes to this last act of the tragedy. Quick I * Quick! Ring the ball and let tho curtain drop. "Rejoice, 0 young mau, in thy youth and let thy heart rejoice ia the days ot thy youth, but know now that for all thesa things God will bring you into judgment." "There is a way that seemetb right to a man. but the end thereof is death." VIRGINIA NOTES, The Latest News Gleaned From Various Parts of the State. W. B. Virnelhon, a widely-known . Iti zen of Petersburg, was found dead in the of? fice at the works of the Petersburg On Light Company, on Lombard street. Hi1, body Vtas tying on thc; floor near a sofa. Thc deceased hud boen a sufferer from heart Iroable, and his death is supposed t.> hava KSOtted from that .-ause. The new rourt-hou?e of Trine* William county i:; to be erected at Manssass this bummer. In Manchester Mr. Brittle and hi's wife both died from typhoid fever. An attempt wat* made to wreck No. 2 en<.t bound Norfolk and Weatorn passenger train at Clark's Summit by wedging a fence rail between the switch rails. The engine was derailed, bal beyond delaying the train nearly tix houn no damage resulted. A tbaoedv occurred at Pocahontas. A waman was shot and killed by Sam Burralow. Ki- '-Hid Jealously waa the cause of the tragedy. Frank W. Meade, convicted of bigamy in tlie County Court of Montgomery and sen teni .-.I to nix years lu the penitentiary, es? caped from jail at Chrisliansburg. Two other prisoners, accused of minor offenues, escaped with him. Bishop A. M. Randolph, of the touihern diocese of Virginia, has decided to mt.ko his home at Norfolk, in order that he may be as 1 e;ir to Ballimore ns possible. Vme Roanoke 81 reet Railway will cannge the Salem dummy line into an electric sys? tem, and they hopo to have the cars running by May 1. FOUR PERSONS BURNED. Supposed lo Hava Fallen Victims to Some Moonshiners' Vengeance, The bodies of E. W. Hensley, wife, a grown daughter, and twelve-year-old son were found in the ruins of their cabin, thirty miles above Greenville, S. C., on the side of Glassy Mountain, in a remote and secluded section. The cabin is supposed to have been burned some time during tho night. Investigation is being made, ns it is thought unlikely that the family would have failed to be aroused by the Are or would have had nny difnulty in escaping from so small a building. The scene of the tragedy ls In the moonshine section, and there is a suspician that Hensley may have become Involved in some of the family feuds so freq'..ent iu the mountains, and the family become victims of some enemy's vengeance. TORNADO IN THE WEST. Destruction of the Town of Page, Mo., and Three Persons Killed* A terrific tornado passed through Nebraska and Missouri, doing an immense amount of dnmage. Tage City, a village of 100 was destroyed, nnd it is reported that three persons wero killed. Nearly all of the inhabitants of the place were more or lees seriously injured, as the storm came up so suddenly that tbe people did not have sufficient warning to seek places of safety before their houses were torn to pieces by the wind. The wires are down and particulars are not obtainable. The tornado has passed over the southern part of Kansas, and Willis, Everest and Tow riRlten are in ruins. It seems almost certain that, some lives were lost, and it ls feared that but few in the villages named escaped injury. Hail broke hundreds of windows. Near Robinson, the fourteen-year-old son of E. P. Holton, a wealthy merchant, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. KRUPP'S BIGGEST GUN. It Took Thirty Ali mites to Get tho 124-ton Weapon on Shore. Hie monster Krupp gun was taken from the hold of fie Longuiel and placed on tha trucks at Sparrow's Point, ML, ready for shipment to Chicago. The work ot raising the 124-ton mass was done in thirty min? utes. The gun is forty-seven feet long, six feet, six incuej in diameter in its thickest part, and has a 16)*; inch bore. It can sent! a conical-shaped shell weighing 2200 pounds a distance of twelve miles with ef? fect. Smokeless powder is med, and the pieca can be ra'sed orlowpred on the car? riage by hydraulic or electric power. ?v ith a sixty-two-ton gun and a forty-tbree-ton gun it has been sold to the Italian Govern? ment. The sixty-two and forty-three-ton guns started for Chicago, making a train of three cars. The 124-ton gun went forward next n^ght in a train by itself. A tki.eoram from Los Angeles, California, says that within the past eight days there have been between 40 and 50 earthquake shocks in Pico Cannon, in tho Han Fernando Mountains. MMmm ^jp-Tbe Motfern Lock. .As retpects modern locks this couulry bears off tbe palm, whether as regards security, convenience, facility of manipu? lation or workmanship. Like other arti, des for common use confined within the domain of ordinary mechanics, our locks arc the best in the world. The lock of the present day in European countries is a clumsy piece of mechanism, and tho key a cumberome piece of iron that is inconvenient to carry in the pocket and dangerous to tho clothing. The task of tbe Europe burglar is easy, a twisted piece of ironbeiDgan "open-sesame" for all the rooms of a private dwelling or hotel. On the continent it is even more essential than with us that thc locksmith should be a man of greater probity than the workmen of other trades. Fortu? nately, in France thc honesty of the craft has become a tradition. Comparatively few of the burglaries that are of nightly occurrence in and and about Paris are committed by locksmiths. From time immemorial the French locksmiths have taken the dog as an emblem of the fidelity to its interests that the public expects of them. It habitually appeared upon their signs, which were varied sometimes by the figure of a lion guard? ing a safe, the key of which was held by a hare. Of the relative honesty of locksmiths in other countries where the lock has been less a specialty of manu? factures as an adjunct of art we know tittle on account of the lack of statistics, but we may say in a general way of this country that it would be very unfortu? nate for society if our locksmiths should take as kindly to burglary as some of our engravers have to ccunterfeitiog.-*f Eau Francisco Chronicle-. . j The Hi* sand "Spectacles''of tlie Cobra. It is a remarkable peculiarity of most poisonous reptiles that they seem to have a great reluctance of putting their dead? ly powers into operation. Before in fiicting the fatal bito the rattlesnake al? ways gives his note* of warning, and the same may be said of the cobra di ca pello the most deadly of the many poisonous reptiles ot India. The cobra warning is unmistakable?he dilates the crest upon his neck and gives a hiss loud enough to be heard distinctly fifty feet away. The cobra's crest is a flexi? ble membrane or hood with two black circulars joined together so as to form a very g.'od repsesentatiou of a pair of spectacles. "When the hood or crest is in position its eyes seem to blaze with an impish lustre, and the continued hiss? ing gives the very air a noisome smell. According to the best authorities the cobra never bites while the hcod is closed; and so long as that particular is not erected the creature may be ap? proached and handled with impunity. Even though the crest be spread, if the creature continues in silence there is no danger. One hiss, however, is a sure sign that the reptile is angry and search? ing for a victim.?St. Louis Republic. BIG TRIZES FOR CATS. "An Intei-eMlng Problem." There are four corners to a room, there ls a cat in each corner, a cat opposie each cat and a cat on each cat's tail. How many cats are there.' Answer this problem correctly, If you are the first you will be presented with a building lot free from incumbrance in any city you may select?value 81000. The second and third cor? rect answers will each receive a cabinet of ?sterling silver?value $201). The next twenty will have their choice of a valuable gold watch or a magnificent tea and coffee set, quadruple plate by the best milkers, while tbe first two answers from this paper will be given a silver watch. This offer is made by the Gem Soap Co., of Buffalo, N. Y., a highly respectable firm, to introduce their wonderful Gem Cura? tive Soap. Guaranteed to remove freckles, eruptions and all blemishes of the skin. En? close with your answer twenty-five cents for a cake of the marvelous soap, which will I", gent jiostprvld. All successful answers are expected to puichase one dozen. Price $3. For sale by all druggists. No telegram-. The moro your enemy hates you the harder you can hit him with kindness and love. 9100 Reward. 8100. The readers of this paper will be pleased' to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure le the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con? stitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in? ternally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby de? stroying the foundation of the disease, and giving tne patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doiDgits work. The proprietors have so much faith in Its curative powers that they offer One Hun? dred Dollars for any case that lt fails to cure. Bend for Hst of testimonials. Address F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0. \W Sold by Druggists, 76c. Love your enemies, and you won't have any trouble about treating them right. Tbe Shill nnd Knowledge FVential to the production of the most perfect and popular laxative remedy known havo en? abled the Cnlifomia Fig Syrup Co.to achieve a great success in the reputation of its remedy. Syrup of Figs, os it is conceded to be the uni? versal laxative. For sale hy all druggist*. Home shepherds pay tho most attention to the fattest sheep. For Dyspepsia. Indigestion and Stomach dis? orders, ute Brown's Iron Hitters the Best Tonic, lt rebuilds tha B'ood and strengthens the muscles. A splendid medicine for weak and debilitated persons. Ono of tho best of housekeepers is Ihe woman who hates dirt. Impaired digestion cured by Beechina Pills. Beec-liuni's no others. "Scents a box. The thought that he can tie well off with little, never enters the worldling's bead, Malarls cured and eradicated from the sys? tem by Brown's Iron Hitters, which enr ches the blood, tones the nerves, aids digestion. Acts like a charm on persons In general ill health, giving new energy and strength. The nation has nn better friend than the mother who teaches her children to pray. If afflicted with sore eyes uso Dr.lsaac Tha-imp eon's Eye-water.Druggists sell at ZSc.per bottle. There are no undertakers in Japan. PROMPT, C I___ Mr. VVillet F. Ci morning with excruc reliefs tor sudden pa became insufferable ; JACOBS OIL', efl to work ; curepermar IV My wife suffered with such intense would die. She bathed her face and head wit (pur houri. Hood's Cures After the Crip lt Restores Health and Strength. Mr. Dexter Curtis Is well-known in Wisconsin asa manufacturer of collar pads and boots for horses, and is a re? liable business man. ' Madison, Wis.. Ja:-. ?, UM " Messrs. C. I. Hoad & Co., Lowell. Mass. "I cannot speak in too favorable terms of the good ouaitiesof Hood's Sarsaparilla. I have had a bad cough for 2 years, coming on after the grip. I tried physicians, went twice to the Hot Springs of Arkansas, but all did no good. I got a bottle of Hood's Sarsapa? rilla and it gave me relief at once. The sec? ond dose seemed to go to the right spot. I afterward got fi bottles, and have taken nearly all of it, and know I am much better every way. " So many medicines are advertised that do no good, I would not sav anything in favor of Hood'SiSCures erny unless I was fully satisfied it v.-as good and worth trying. I believe Hood's Sarsaparilla i. good.'!_ Dkxtek (IHT.'S._ Hood's. Pill* .nie all liver Ills, Blllousr-oss", Jnua.llce, Inrlineritlou, Sick Headache Dr, Kilmer's SWAMP-ROOT MRS. GERMAN MILLER, Saves Another Life! Suffered for Eight Long Years! Mrs. Miller Says;-'! had been troubled for eight years with stomach and heart ditfl cultlca, I lived moMly on milk, ns every? thing I ate distressed me fo. My kidneys and liver were in a terrible state; was so run down and nervous that at times 1 could neither ?sleep or eal. I was treated by thc best Phy? sicians In Ch.cago and elsewhere without any benefit whntever. Asa last resort I tried Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Boot, and before I had used the third bottle I realized that I was gain? ing in every way. The use of Swamp-Root has made a Marvelous Cure in my cns... Now I enjoy every thing that I eat. and can go to bed and get a good night's sleep. Anyone doubting this stntement may write and 1 will gladly answer."' Mrs. German Miller. Dec. 20th, 1892. Springport, Mich. Guarantee-Vse contents of One BotO. If you are not benefited, I>rug glst will refund to you the price paid. "Invalids.' t.uldt- to Health"and Conaultntlon Free < Dr. Kilmer & Co., Pinfrh.-i.nit. n. ft V. ?Q'j At DrurtfUti, 60e. or #1,00 fstae. f--UM.lUlU<t"Oe'^m^?m^m^^^m^mmmm^^^mmrmmmm ULCERS SCROFULA RHEUMATISM BLOOD POISON And every kindred disease arising from impure blood cured by that never failing. and best of all medicines, mm sss. Book on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. THB SWIFT SPECIFIO GO.. ATLANTA, QA. Two Stepping Stones V to consumption are ailments we often deem trivial?a cold and a cough. Consumption thus ac? quired is rightly termed "Con? sumption from neglect." Scott's Emulsio not. only stops a cold but it is rc markahly successful where thc cough has become deep seated. Scoffs Emulsion is thc richest of fat-foods yet the easiest fat-food to take. It arrests waste\ and builds up heall'hy flesh. Trrp-rod hv Srott rt-riovne, N V. Ml drnggi ta Do Not Be Deceived with Pastes*, Rnnmels (ind Palnta which italn tho bands), Injure the iron and hurn red. *The Rlaihf Sun Stove Polish is Brilliant, Odor leas, Durable, and the consumer pay* for no Un or class package with every purchase. OOD WORK. EUMATISM. jok, Canajoharic, X. V . writes: " Awoke one iatinR pains in rey shoulder. Tried various ins without effect ; went to my office ; the pain went home at it o'clock and used RT. ect magical, pain ceased, and at i o'clock v. tnt lent." 2URALGIA. Littlij- Rapids, Wis. neuralgic pains in the face, she thought she h ST. JACOBS OIL,*".d it cured her in CARL SCHEIBE. . "German Syrup" I must say-a word as to the ef? ficacy of German Syrqp. J hava used it in nr/ family.for Bronchitis, the result of Colds, with most ex? cellent success. I have taken it my? self for Throat Troubles, and hava derived good results therefrom. I therefore recommend it to my neigh? bors as an excellent remedy in such cases. James T. Durette, ^arlys ville, Va. Beware of dealers who offer you "something just as good." Always insisr on having Boschee's German Syrup. @ W. L. DOUGLAS S3 SHOE noTWip.* . Do you wear them? When next In need try a pair, they will give you mere comfort and service for the money than any ot .er make. Best In tho world.y j 2.50 12.00 FOR LADIES #2.00 ? 1.73 ron BOYS ?1.71 _ m W. L. Douglas Shoes are made In alMhe Latest Styles.' If von wu! -. fine DRESS SHOE don't pay $6 to $8, try my $3.f>0, $4 or $5 Shoe. They will fit equal to cus? tom made and look and wear as well. If you wish to economize in your footwear, you can do so by purchasing W. L, Douglas Shoes. My name and price is stamped rn the bottom, look for it when you buy. .Take no sub? stitute. I send shoes hy mall upon receipt of price, postage free, when Shoe Dealer, cannot supply you. W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. Sold by Did you ever ?want a Tack? want a Nail? - fa'l to find either tact -*r nail when you wanted to nail or tacit ? . . , a s . a How handy then a package of HOME T3CKS (All sizes to suit,) and a carton of HOME NATUS (all sizes for home uses) Don't get caught that way again. All dealers sell HomtNailsand HomeTacks Made solely by the Atilt Tack Corp'n, Boston Warthooaea.-aWon, Vrw York. PMUdflphl*, Chicago, Ballimore, gm Francisco, Lynn. Fac-torlea-Taun'on. Mass. rairha* fD.Maas. ?rVhUmsu, Mais.. DuiVury. Mass. Plymouth, Maa*. MEND, YOL'H OWN HARNESS WITH THOMSON'S SLOTTED CLINCH RIVETS. No tooli required. Only a hammer needed to drive an.l c Inch them easily and quickly, leaving the clinch absolutely .mooth. It quiring no ho e to be made tn 'h? leather nor burr for tl.e Rivets. They are .tron-r. tough *n<\ storable. Million, nosy In use. All 'onjiths, uniform or assorted, put up In boxes. Ask your stenier foi- them, or send 40c. la stamps for a box ol 100, assorted sizes. Man'fd by JUDSON L. THOMSON MFG. CO., WALTHAM. MASS. -> U?EAR TWICE AS,( AS ANY OTrltr-) Triyr SSS> SHIlOH'Sl CURE. Cures Consumption, Con*rl-*.,Cronp, Sore Throat. Sold by all Druggists on a Guarantee. AN IDEAL FAMILY MEOICINI ? For Indigestion, Hlllo?a?ear, 'lleada.hr. Conatlpatlon, Bad .Complexion. OnVnsil-.e Hreath, ?And all disorders of th. Stomach, I Liver and Bowels, I . RIPANS TABULE8. . jMt (jeDtlyyet promptly. Perfect, KIl'.VN*. < IIKM1CAL CO., New York. ICU".*.-*.** (llt.Mll'AI, Garfield Tea orci'^tr'k Hea.r Over cornea remits of bad CAtlntr. j... I'r-?torepi"o!nplBilon.fsaTesDoctors' Mlle, e&mplefree. Gktnr.Lt> rr.af'?> . 31? tV ?Mh8t ,N.Y, Hu res Constipation OPIUM Morphine ll ah lt Cored In IQ SilpVENV't/ebi rphl iOiU *ay till enred. B.N D ll! MEN AND BOYS! ".Vant to team all aboi' a norse ? How io Pick Out a GoodOnci1 Knowimperfssr | Urns and so Ouard agal-H Fraud ? Detect Disease aud Effe.taCure when samel*) pose ble ? Tell tho age by the Teeth ? What to call the Different Parti of th. Anirral? How to Shoe n Ho'se Propoily l All thi. and other Va uable Information can lc obtalrc-l by readluf* our lOO-1'At.E ILLUSTRATED IKlRHE HOOK, whl-h we will forward, port. pa'.d, on receipt of only 'Hi cent-* in Marni**.. BOOK PUB. HOUSE, <34 Leonard St., New York City, PISO'S CURC TOR Conannaptlvea and pcoole .rho hare weak langs or Asth? ma, should ns. Piso's Cur. fer Consumption, lt bas cored thaaaaaas. lt has not Injur? ed one. lt ls not bad to take. U ls th. best cough syrup. Sold ererrwhere. mticJ CONSUMPTION.